Recaps

Shen Ye searched the battlefield for the owner of the Centurion's Faceplate and uncovered a hidden connection between his Nightfall Dagger and the Shadow Hand. The dagger was revealed to be a high-ranking Assassin's weapon, leaving Shen Ye equipped to pursue missions for the Brotherhood.

• Shen Ye used human soldier equipment from the Rhine Territory to disguise himself and entered the battlefield through the Secret Passage.
• Shen Ye questioned resurrected corpses with Dark Whisper until a Wolf Demon pointed him toward the remains of a centurion who had owned the faceplate.
• Shen Ye revived the centurion's severed hand, which pointed him to a boot containing a badge and a crumpled letter.
• Shen Ye's identification ability revealed that the Dark Night Shadow Badge could activate a specific weapon, and the badge fitted into the hilt of his Nightfall Dagger.
• Shen Ye learned that Nightfall was a Shadow Hand Assassin's dagger bearing a Shadow Blessing that identified its wielder and enabled access to the Brotherhood's missions.

Shen Ye learned that the undead had upgraded their cannons and staged an injury to get treated and enter the human camp. After proving his identity as a survivor of Rhine, he convinced the officer and his attendants to let him remain on the front lines.

• Shen Ye read an Assassin's mission letter and asked Big Skeleton for intelligence about the undead.
• Big Skeleton gave Shen Ye a crystal containing information about a new artillery component that strengthened the Undead Soulfire Cannon.
• Shen Ye crushed himself beneath the undead giant's Stone Hammer, then pretended to be gravely injured so human soldiers would carry him to their camp for treatment.
• An officer questioned Shen Ye about his identity, and Shen Ye presented Lawrence's plea for help from the Nightmare Crystal.
• Shen Ye said he wanted to stay and avenge Rhine's people, then used a newly gained trait and seven Attribute Points to demonstrate his speed.
• The officer's entourage argued over whether Shen Ye should stay at the front, and Shen Ye appealed to them as Rhine's young survivor.

After Prince Norton arranged for Shen Ye to be treated and taken to the Imperial Capital, Shen Ye entered a Shadow Hand tent to turn in a mission. Norton’s companions recognized Shen Ye’s Nightfall dagger and recommended him for a Medal of Valor.

• Eudria used Shen Ye’s Elven bracelets to contact Lanny, who confirmed that Shen Ye had exposed the Undead’s plot and earned the High Priest’s favor.
• Eudria recommended that Shen Ye study in the Imperial Capital, and Prince Norton ordered an identity document, medical care, and a record sent to the Imperial Military Academy.
• Shen Ye learned that Norton was the future Heir to the Throne, then received a prompt saying his growing renown might grant him the Self-Created Trait “Boy Who Survived.”
• After leaving the treatment area, Shen Ye spotted the Shadow Hand’s three-dagger tent and decided to claim his mission reward despite the risk of revealing his Assassin ties.
• Shen Ye gave the tent’s attendant a Crystal taken from an Undead Soulfire Cannon and asked what he could receive in exchange.
• Norton’s companions recognized Shen Ye’s Nightfall dagger as a high-ranking Shadow Hand token, and Norton applied for a Medal of Valor for him.

Shen Ye learned the Frostwind technique and the languages and scripts of the Four Races, then followed a mysterious voice’s instruction to acquire the Undead Race’s Shadow Clone Technique. After the voice urged him to seek the Beast King Race’s Thunder Palm, Shen Ye received a Medal of Valor and a letter of recommendation from Prince Norton.

• Shen Ye rejected the merchant’s disguise gear and sunglasses, then chose the Frostwind Nightmare Crystal after hearing guidance from the mysterious voice.
• Shen Ye learned Frostwind and the Four Races’ languages and scripts, then heard the voice tell him to obtain the Undead Race’s Shadow and the Beast King Race’s Thunder Palm.
• Shen Ye asked Big Skeleton for the Shadow Clone Technique, learned it from a Pale Nightmare Crystal, and allocated attribute points to meet its requirements.
• Shen Ye decided to seek Thunder Palm and considered how to prevent the unformed “Boy Who Survived” entry from taking hold.
• Two mounted knights found Shen Ye and presented him with a Medal of Valor and a letter of recommendation from Prince Norton.

After joining the Human Martial Arts Group, Shen Ye returned to his dorm, reassured his mother, and invited Chen Haoyu to visit the group. While they rode the elevator, Shen Ye received surveillance footage that showed Chen Haoyu searching for him at school the previous morning, leaving him wondering why.

• Shen Ye accepted a pouch of coins and a letter from the knights, then used the Gate to return to his real-world dorm.
• Shen Ye told Zhao Xiaoshang about his allowance and transferred most of the gold he had exchanged into digital currency to help cover his family’s expenses.
• Shen Ye replied to classmates and invited Chen Haoyu to visit the Human Martial Arts Group, where Wenna escorted Chen Haoyu into the building.
• As Shen Ye and Chen Haoyu rode the elevator, Xiao Mengyu sent Shen Ye surveillance footage of Chen Haoyu searching the school building for him the previous morning.
• Shen Ye remembered that he had gone to the top floor and entered the Nightmare World, and wondered why Chen Haoyu had been looking for him.

Shen Ye uncovered an assassin disguised as Chen Haoyu and fought him in the Human Martial Arts Group building, but the assassin killed himself before revealing his motives. Meanwhile, Xiao Mengyu confronted Zhao Yibing after discovering her mysterious phone messages and threatened to disfigure her.

• Shen Ye realized that the fake Chen Haoyu had repeatedly tried to get him alone and exposed him as an impostor when the assassin attacked.
• Shen Ye used a newly formed move to evade the assassin and kicked him away, then Wenna and the other professionals arrived and surrounded him.
• The assassin claimed the real Chen Haoyu was dead, then killed himself before Shen Ye and Wenna could question him.
• Zhao Yibing received instructions to meet someone at Maple Grove Hotel that night and agreed after learning her guaranteed admission had been approved.
• Xiao Mengyu appeared, took Zhao Yibing's phone and SIM card, and threatened her with a knife while demanding to know whom she had contacted.

Shen Ye used Dark Whisper to force the dead assassin to reveal the plot against him and the identity of its leader. The assassin warned that Skinner was targeting a witness, and Xiao Mengyu set out to confront him.

• Qian Rushan explained that the assassins had targeted Shen Ye in secret because they feared the Shen Family’s reaction to a public killing.
• Shen Ye activated Dark Whisper, and a supernatural vision of endless torture compelled the assassin’s soul to confess.
• The assassin revealed that the Assassin Alliance had planned to kill Shen Ye and disguise it as an accident, after first killing Chen Haoyu and staging a calamity at the hospital.
• The assassin identified Skinner as the operation’s leader and said he had gone to kill the nurse who witnessed the Ten Thousand Ghosts Curse.
• The assassin revealed that Skinner was hiding near the Western Suburbs at the Maple Grove hotel and had a taste for eating people, and Xiao Mengyu said she would go meet him.

A cannibalistic Assassin accepted a job to kill Shen Ye after seeing Zhao Yibing’s photo, while Shen Ye received a high-tech motorcycle from Kunlun as a reward for his service at the police station. The chapter left Shen Ye wondering whether Xiao Mengyu had encountered the Assassin.

• A suited man received a message offering Zhao Yibing as payment for killing Shen Ye, and eagerly accepted the job.
• Qian Rushan showed Shen Ye a delivery from the World United Government’s Military Merit and Rank Management Department.
• Shen Ye activated the spherical device with his fingerprint and a phrase, and it unfolded into a motorcycle.
• Qian Rushan explained the motorcycle’s features, including flight, wireless charging, and AI-controlled driving.
• Shen Ye realized Kunlun had sent the motorcycle to help him escape danger and wondered whether Xiao Mengyu had encountered the Assassin.

Xiao Mengyu confronted the killer Skinner at the Maple Grove Hotel after Zhao Yibing led her to him. After Skinner murdered Zhao Yibing and fought Xiao Mengyu, he agreed to reveal his employer in exchange for the chance to hunt Xiao Mengyu; their battle was about to begin.

• Qian Rushan told Shen Ye to remain inside the Human Martial Arts Group overnight and promised to take him to the examination site in the morning.
• Xiao Mengyu brought Zhao Yibing to the Maple Grove Hotel and offered her the choice to hide and testify or go inside to meet her online friend; Zhao Yibing chose the hotel.
• Skinner promised Zhao Yibing money and a recommendation to the Three Great High Schools, then killed her and preserved her headless corpse with steel wire.
• Xiao Mengyu attacked Skinner, who used steel wires to protect Zhao Yibing's body as they fought.
• Xiao Mengyu offered to let Skinner hunt her without involving the Luo Family if he named his employer, and Skinner accepted the deal despite risking the Assassin Alliance's pursuit.

Shen Ye learned that Xiao Mengyu was badly outmatched by the Assassin Skinner and resolved to rescue her. After discovering the Witness's daughter was waiting for him near the Maple Grove Hotel, he escaped the guarded tower by using his Gate to slow his fall and rode toward the Western Suburbs of the City.

• Shen Ye questioned the Assassin's corpse and learned that Skinner was a long-lived, undefeated killer who was far stronger than Xiao Mengyu.
• Shen Ye decided to save Xiao Mengyu, but Qian Rushan told him the tower floor would be sealed until morning.
• The Witness's daughter called Shen Ye from Star Fast Food and told him her mother had sent her there but was now unreachable.
• Shen Ye used his Gate as a series of uphill ramps to slow his fall from the tower and reach the ground safely.
• Shen Ye summoned the Ghostfire Motorcycle and rode toward the Maple Grove Hotel in the Western Suburbs of the City.

Shen Ye entered Maple Grove Hotel to find the little girl’s mother and discovered that everyone in the neighborhood had been killed. After rescuing the badly wounded Xiao Mengyu through a gate, he left her enemy believing they were playing hide-and-seek.

• Shen Ye sent the little girl to the Human World Martial Arts Tower and went to Maple Grove Hotel after hearing Xiao Mengyu fighting the Skinner.
• Shen Ye learned from the hotel’s dead employees that the master had killed everyone in the neighborhood and controlled their souls.
• Shen Ye found the little girl’s mother among the corpses in room 707, promised to avenge her and care for her daughter, and heard that the other rooms were also full of bodies.
• Shen Ye caught the wounded Xiao Mengyu as she fell from the hotel, knocked her unconscious to conceal his secret, and escaped with her through a gate.
• The Skinner reached the empty corridor, failed to see the gate disappear, and began counting down before searching for Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu.

Shen Ye rushed the gravely injured Xiao Mengyu to a Human Race medical camp, where the physicians healed and blessed her. Back at the Hotel, Xiao Mengyu confronted the pursuer while Shen Ye hid, and the fight began.

• Shen Ye carried Xiao Mengyu to the battlefield medical camp and paid for the physicians to heal her.
• The physicians secretly gave Xiao Mengyu a full set of blessings, and Shen Ye carried her away as the soldiers and doctors speculated about his generosity.
• At the Hotel, Xiao Mengyu woke with her injuries healed, drew her sword on Shen Ye, and said she already knew who was behind the attack.
• When the pursuer arrived, Shen Ye hid in a nearby room while Xiao Mengyu struck the man with a massive sword slash.
• The pursuer recovered from the grazing blow and taunted Xiao Mengyu as she prepared to fight him.

Xiao Mengyu fought Skinner as his Blood Demon Arts grew stronger, while Shen Ye used Dark Whisper to interrupt the corpses’ chanting. With Skinner’s summoning weakened, Xiao Mengyu gained the advantage, and Skinner’s ritual produced only a fleeing Blood Chihuahua.

• Xiao Mengyu defended against Skinner’s crimson threads, revealed her Mother-and-Child Sword, and prepared the Luo Fu Sun-and-Moon Veil technique.
• Skinner intensified his Blood Demon Arts and began summoning a Two-Headed Serpent Demon to defeat Xiao Mengyu.
• Shen Ye searched the Hotel offices, found a microphone, and used Dark Whisper to make the dead answer his question.
• The corpses’ replies stopped Skinner’s chanting and weakened his summoning just as Xiao Mengyu charged.
• Skinner summoned a tiny Blood Chihuahua instead of the Two-Headed Serpent Demon, and the dog vanished in fear.

Shen Ye disrupted Skinner’s Blood Demon Curse by getting the Hotel’s corpses to sing, then escaped to the Secret Passage. He made a deal with Feren to restore Feren’s power so they could fight Skinner, and the Contract was established.

• Xiao Mengyu wounded Skinner, but he began preparing a powerful Blood Demon Curse with the corpses’ chanting.
• Shen Ye interrupted the chant by leading the corpses in singing, weakening Skinner’s ultimate technique.
• Skinner pursued Shen Ye, while Xiao Mengyu blocked him and bought Shen Ye time to escape through a guest-room Gate to the Secret Passage.
• Shen Ye proposed using the Hotel’s corpses to restore Feren’s power in exchange for Feren fighting Skinner.
• Feren accepted the deal, and the Contract named Skinner as their target.

Shen Ye used Big Skeleton’s incantation to awaken the Hotel’s tens of thousands of dead and complete a ritual that restored Big Skeleton’s strength. As the man pursued him, Shen Ye summoned a giant skeleton and declared he would kill him in front of the dead.

• Shen Ye recorded Big Skeleton’s incantation, then played it through the Hotel while Dark Whisper made the corpses chant along.
• Pale Soulfire spread through the Hotel as the dead’s chanting summoned flying unicorn skeletons, drawing the man away from his fight with Xiao Mengyu.
• Shen Ye evaded the man by escaping through the Nightmare World, then urged the dead to lend Big Skeleton their strength and help him take revenge.
• The dead poured their power into an inverted White Bone Altar, completing the ritual and causing a towering figure to descend upon it.
• The man caught up with Shen Ye and attacked with steel wires, but a giant flaming skeleton blocked them with its bone sword and knocked him into the lobby.
• Shen Ye stood on the giant skeleton and told the man he would kill him in front of the dead, and the man recognized it as a calamity.

Shen Ye and Big Skeleton defeated Skinner, but mysterious shadows intervened and escaped with his remains. After discovering that Xiao Mengyu had vanished and the nurse had no daughter, Shen Ye learned that Xiao Mengyu had made an agreement with Skinner and received information from him.

• Big Skeleton freed the hotel's dead, who overwhelmed Skinner, but dark shadows swept them away before he could summon a powerful being.
• Shen Ye and Big Skeleton killed Skinner, while Xiao Mengyu chased the shadows that carried off his remains.
• The Ghostfire Motorcycle reported that Xiao Mengyu had left it and disappeared, and Shen Ye realized someone else might be involved in the events at the hotel.
• Shen Ye questioned the nurse's corpse and learned that it had no daughter and that Xiao Mengyu had agreed not to use her family's power if Skinner revealed the culprit.
• The corpse said Skinner sent Xiao Mengyu information by phone, and Shen Ye found a message from her on his own phone.

Shen Ye learned that powerful family heirs had arranged an attack on him because Song Qingyun had once said she wanted a boyfriend like him. After Xiao Mengyu revealed the truth and left, Shen Ye concealed his anger while vowing to take revenge on those responsible.

• Shen Ye watched a video in which Song Qingyun named him as the kind of person she wanted to date, then heard the heirs order someone to teach him a lesson and make it look like an accident.
• The Hotel's corpses thanked Shen Ye for avenging them, and he promised to find and kill the person behind their deaths once he was strong enough.
• Xiao Mengyu returned and told Shen Ye that the attackers were children of powerful families, whose likely punishment would be minor despite the deaths they caused.
• Shen Ye asked whether Xiao Mengyu would kill the heirs if she had the power; she broke down, slashed the street, and left.
• Shen Ye told Big Skeleton he would pursue happiness by killing every heir responsible for the innocent deaths, then rode away on the Ghostfire Motorcycle.

A girl named Yinchen watched Shen Ye leave after secretly helping him, then ordered the traces of his battle erased. Elsewhere, a resurrected man learned that a hidden being had stopped his god from descending, and the god sent him to hunt a thousand souls as it began exploring the world.

• Yinchen revealed that she had helped Shen Ye during the battle and ordered the eyeballs to erase evidence of her presence and Shen Ye's fight.
• A resurrected man prayed to his deity, which beat him and explained that a hidden person had made its descent too dangerous.
• The deity possessed Zhao Yibing, announced that it wanted to discover how Shen Ye had defeated its cursed sculpture, and ordered the man to kill a thousand people for souls.
• The man left the hotel to hunt, decided to seek high-quality victims, and struck up a friendly conversation with a girl heading to a concert.

After learning that powerful families were behind the attempts on his life, Shen Ye rejected his uncle’s demand that he publicly apologize and refused an invitation to a late-night party. Determined to gain enough strength to protect himself, he entered the Gate at midnight to pursue a Hidden Ability.

• Shen Ye recalled that the scions targeting him were retaliating for something he had done as a child, and resolved to pass the Three Prestigious Schools entrance exam and gain more Attribute Points.
• Shen Shuopeng called Shen Ye and ordered him to apologize publicly to the children of powerful families, but Shen Ye challenged him and refused.
• Zhao Xiaoshang told Shen Ye that the Shen Family had rejected them when they asked for a Marrow-Replenishing Pill, and Shen Ye decided he would not return to the family.
• Yan Qiuling invited Shen Ye to a Midnight Party, but he declined and then switched off his phone after another woman called to scold him.
• Shen Ye decided to pursue the Hidden Ability, opened the Gate before midnight, and entered the forest once the clock chimed.

Shen Ye charged into the woods after Big Skeleton was attacked and found him surrounded by undead who believed he had abandoned a failed mission. Using a Medal of Valor, Prince Norton's recommendation letter, and a clever story, Shen Ye challenged their decision to punish Feren and left them questioning whether Feren had acted wisely.

• Big Skeleton bid Shen Ye farewell, but a powerful attack struck him moments after he entered the woods.
• A warning told Shen Ye that retreating would damage his evaluation and prevent him from obtaining the third “One of Us” trait, so he rushed toward the woods.
• Undead surrounded Shen Ye and the battered Big Skeleton, and Shen Ye learned they had come to punish Feren for abandoning an assassination mission against the elves.
• Shen Ye used his Medal of Valor to prove his identity as the Boy Who Survived-Prince Norton of the Holy Violet Empire, then showed the undead a genuine recommendation letter for the Imperial Capital Military Academy.
• Shen Ye argued that Feren had recognized the elves’ trap and saved himself and Shen Ye, while Feren confirmed that the Grand Elves Priest had been waiting to kill the assassins.
• Shen Ye claimed that the Human Race’s Military Camp knew him as the Boy Who Survived, leaving the undead unsure whether Feren deserved punishment.

Shen Ye convinced the Undead Chief that Feren was innocent, but the undead branded him the “Matchstick-Selling Little Boy” anyway. After they left him with Big Skeleton, human soldiers surrounded them and accused Shen Ye of treason, creating a critical moment for his third “One of Us” entry.

• Shen Ye explained that his brutal 996 and 007 work schedules had driven him to abandon humanity, and the Undead Chief sympathized with him.
• The undead scouts confirmed Feren’s innocence, so the Undead Chief awarded him a White Bone Medal and left him with Shen Ye.
• The Undead Chief named Shen Ye the “Matchstick-Selling Little Boy,” causing the new entry to begin sprouting.
• Shen Ye and Big Skeleton discussed his missing body and planned to improve his fish tank while the undead departed.
• A group of human soldiers surrounded Shen Ye and Big Skeleton, accused Shen Ye of secretly meeting with the undead, and triggered a key reminder about his third “One of Us” entry.

Shen Ye and Big Skeleton convinced Prince Norton and his allies that Feren was a genuine undead informant who had defected after enduring exploitation. Norton named Shen Ye Peppa and had him swear an oath of loyalty to humanity, leaving him with the new title Saint Page.

• Shen Ye explained that Feren, a Skeleton Army quartermaster, traded information about the Undead Race with him under a Contract, and the white-haired elder confirmed Shen Ye was telling the truth.
• Big Skeleton described undead capitalists and his brutal 996 and 007 work schedules, then claimed Shen Ye had warmed him with matches and inspired him to rebel.
• The white-haired elder used Feren's White Bone Medal to reveal his identity and its award by Battle Formation General Terrence.
• Prince Norton offered to name Shen Ye, who rejected Har and Rolly before accepting Peppa, then swore never to betray humanity under a sacred oath.
• After the ceremony, Eudria and the others announced Shen Ye's new title: Saint Page.

Shen Ye received the hidden Gate ability Time Fluid after earning the One of Us evaluation for the third time, then returned to his dorm and increased his Attribute Points. After a sleepless night, Qian Rushan woke him at seven, saying they were about to leave.

• Shen Ye earned the One of Us evaluation for the third time and gained the Time Fluid ability, which could freeze time on one side of the Gate for three seconds once per week.
• Prince Norton gave Shen Ye a Magic Envelope and asked him to report any intelligence from his undead informant, while Eudria explained the legends behind the name Peppa.
• Shen Ye returned to his dorm with Big Skeleton, devoured One of Us, and raised his Attribute Points from seven to ten.
• Shen Ye fed calcium supplements and turtles to Big Skeleton, then struggled to fall asleep until seven in the morning.
• Qian Rushan knocked on Shen Ye's door and told him to hurry because they were about to leave.

On the Flying Shuttle, Shen Ye learned that Zhao Yibing was supposedly dead, received Xiao Mengyu’s warning not to meet her alone, and tried to avoid her messages. After dreaming about two girls he had saved as a child, Shen Ye ate with Qian Rushan and noticed a hungry boy asking about his leftover skewers.

• Shen Ye learned that Zhao Yibing had qualified for the Three Great High Schools' entrance exam, then Xiao Mengyu told him Zhao Yibing had died and warned him never to meet her alone.
• Qian Rushan told Shen Ye that Xiao Mengyu had made a swordsmanship breakthrough and explained how established families trained their children from childhood.
• Shen Ye ignored Zhao Yibing’s invitation by claiming he was visiting Southern Mountain Temple, but Zhao Yibing commented that she was there too.
• Shen Ye dreamed of protecting two little girls from a hunting dog and remembered that they had exchanged farewell cards before losing touch for ten years.
• Qian Rushan took Shen Ye to the Flying Shuttle’s dining room, where Shen Ye ordered a large meal and left several beef skewers uneaten.
• A skinny boy asked Shen Ye whether he could eat the leftover skewers, and Shen Ye realized the boy was asking for the food.

On the Flying Shuttle, Shen Ye learned that the Tower of Tarot’s Newcomers’ deck offered examinees benefits for completing missions. He completed the first mission by starting a jumping challenge, but his next task required him to gather twelve examinees for another activity.

• Shen Ye shared barbecue with Guo Yunye, who explained that he was completing a mission to join the Newcomers’ deck.
• Guo Yunye showed Shen Ye a card that assigned him two missions to recruit examinees for activities he hosted.
• Shen Ye challenged Guo Yunye to reach a high vent, drawing six junior high school students into the jumping contest.
• Shen Ye’s card confirmed he had completed the first mission and instructed him to attract at least twelve examinees to another activity.
• Shen Ye considered what activity could bring the examinees together.