Recaps

Shen Ye and Big Skeleton traveled by Ghost Train toward Evernight City, crossing into the Undead Kingdom and boarding in business class. As the train prepared to pass through Hell and check passengers’ identities, Big Skeleton produced a soldier’s dog tag bearing the name Baxter.

• Shen Ye chose to travel with Big Skeleton by Ghost Train rather than use the prince’s method, then flew to an Undead border city with nearly all his Mental Power spent.
• Shen Ye boarded the Ghost Train in business class, paid eighteen Bone Coins, and declined a stiff corpse’s offer of a meal.
• Big Skeleton explained that the train could pass through specific locations on Hell’s first level, and the passengers were told to close the windows before it entered Hell.
• The train announced that it would check passengers’ identities, and Shen Ye asked Big Skeleton to avoid giving him an overly conspicuous identity.
• Big Skeleton produced a soldier’s dog tag engraved with the name Baxter.

Shen Ye and Big Skeleton traveled toward Evernight City, avoided being tricked into disembarking in Hell, and received help from fellow veterans. Shen Ye used Baxter’s identity to seek work at the Veterans’ Guild, where he hoped a job would legitimize his presence in the city.

• Shen Ye challenged an abomination that accused him of desertion, then realized its provocation was meant to keep him from leaving the Ghost Train in the First Layer of Hell.
• Shen Ye paid the Nightmare Wraith an additional fare and stayed aboard until the train reached Evernight City Station.
• An abomination veteran gave Shen Ye an Abomination Eyeball referral credential, and Shen Ye thanked the veterans before leaving the train.
• Shen Ye decided to operate in Evernight City as Baxter and went with Big Skeleton to the Veterans’ Guild.
• A Necromancer verified Shen Ye’s battlefield records and asked what kind of job he wanted, so Shen Ye requested suitable work for Vampires.

Shen Ye sought work in Evernight City and was recruited by Daisy into the Dark Night Rose Song and Dance Troupe as a Songstress. After activating a Nightmare Crystal, he received a Songstress skill, and Daisy expected his unusual soul to give him distinctive potential.

• The necromancer, impressed by Abomination's recommendation, brought Shen Ye to meet Daisy after learning he had no advanced vampire skills.
• Daisy tested Shen Ye's singing and dancing, and he used his Comprehension to copy her performance precisely.
• Daisy accepted Shen Ye into the Dark Night Rose Song and Dance Troupe, and Shen Ye chose to become a Songstress.
• Before leaving to settle his affairs, Shen Ye activated a Nightmare Crystal and received the Songstress skill within it.
• Daisy told the necromancer she expected Shen Ye to undergo Class Advancement and develop unusual professional potential.

Shen Ye chose the special Songstress trait and used a pink Nightmare Crystal to gain the class skill Spectacular Opening. He discovered that it could enhance his other skills with dramatic performance effects, including doubled lightning figures that boosted his attacks and movement.

• Shen Ye reviewed three traits—Veteran, Songstress, and Duck—and chose Songstress after the Gate revealed that the pink trait could create new opportunities for his ability.
• Shen Ye added 10 unallocated Attribute Points and crushed the pink Nightmare Crystal, absorbing memories of musical performances from his previous life.
• Shen Ye tested Songstress effects on Sudden Rain, causing missed Arrows to split and pursue their targets.
• Shen Ye used lightning figures to amplify Thunder Palm into a six-palm strike, then formed lightning wings that increased his movement speed.
• The Gate announced that Shen Ye had obtained the special Songstress class skill Spectacular Opening, which added grand performance effects to his other class skills.

Shen Ye learned that his Gate could gain the Astrological Shift ability if he obtained at least a blue appraisal Trait during his next passage between worlds. After evading a labor roundup and receiving a troupe badge, he prepared to visit Lady Daisy while remaining in Evernight City.

• Shen Ye discovered that his Gate had one chance to gain Astrological Shift if he obtained a blue-or-higher appraisal Trait during tomorrow's passage between worlds.
• Chief Kevin and his undead hellhound searched Shen Ye's room for laborers, but backed off after learning he was a Songstress guided by Lady Daisy and accepting his Bone Coins.
• Kevin warned Shen Ye that criminals were being hunted across Evernight City, but Shen Ye decided to stay rather than return to his world.
• Shen Ye visited the Veterans' Guild recruitment office and asked how to find Lady Daisy.
• The Undead Mage gave Shen Ye a Darknight Rose Song and Dance Troupe badge and directed him to the Grand Opera House.

Shen Ye visited the Dark Night Rose Song and Dance Troupe and watched its members use their skills to help a powerful man develop his dark green flame. After learning how Songstress skills were formed, he joined the troupe’s Reserve Troupe.

• Shen Ye arrived at the Evernight City Grand Opera House and watched Ms. Daisy lead a rehearsal with a dark green flame.
• A Dancer named Lily skillfully guided the flame into a red mist, inspiring the man who owned it to teleport away.
• Ms. Daisy recalled the flame, organized the troupe, and called Shen Ye onto the stage.
• Shen Ye asked Ms. Daisy whether Songstress skills differed, and she explained that skills arose from each person’s knowledge and experiences.
• Shen Ye agreed to join the Dark Night Rose Song and Dance Troupe, and Ms. Daisy welcomed him.

Lady Daisy tested Shen Ye’s newly awakened Songstress skill, Spectacular Opening, and discovered that it could turn borrowed class skills into a spectacular performance. Impressed by his talent, she accepted him into the Dark Night Rose Song and Dance Troupe as its new lead Songstress.

• Lady Daisy explained that Songstress and Dancer skills supported the troupe’s performances, then asked Shen Ye to demonstrate his Spectacular Opening skill.
• When Shen Ye touched Daisy’s borrowed wisp of flame, the Dharma Realm offered him temporary access to the Soul Hunter skill Venomous Ashen Flame and the option to advance into that class.
• Shen Ye used Spectacular Opening to transform the flame into a grand stage performance with a fiery curtain, flame-made dancers, and music.
• The performance ended when the flame ran out, and Shen Ye apologized, believing he had failed to master his skill.
• Lady Daisy concealed her amazement, declared Shen Ye qualified to join the troupe, and appointed him its new lead Songstress because the previous lead had died.

Shen Ye joined the Dark Night Rose Song and Dance Troupe and received a Pale Shadow Badge before going to the Royal Grand Auction House to buy materials for advancing Dark Whisper. Kevin intervened over the forbidden summoning materials, helped him split the purchases, and secretly ordered Shadow Assassins to watch him.

• Lady Daisy gave Shen Ye a Pale Shadow Badge and money, then invited him to a gathering at noon.
• Big Skeleton told Shen Ye to buy Nightmare Crystal materials at the Royal Grand Auction House to advance Dark Whisper.
• Kevin arrived with soldiers to seize Shen Ye over his materials, but recognized his badges and dismissed the troops.
• Kevin warned Shen Ye that large-scale summoning sacrifices were forbidden, accepted his money, and arranged for the materials to be bought in two batches.
• Kevin agreed to meet Shen Ye at the Manor that afternoon and secretly ordered Shadow Assassins to keep a close eye on him.

Shen Ye used his Gate ability to send two assassins following him into the Human Race position, where they were killed, then confronted Kevin over the surveillance. His bluff about the Baxter brothers began forming a new Self-Created Trait: Vampire Kid.

• Shen Ye bought the materials needed to advance Dark Whisper and noticed two Dark Soul Assassins following him.
• Shen Ye tricked the assassins into entering his room, linked its door to the Nightmare World, and had Big Skeleton hurl them through the Secret Passage into the Human Race position, where they were killed.
• Kevin appeared at the inn and questioned Shen Ye, then grabbed the Zombie Beauty and demanded to know what had happened.
• Shen Ye challenged Kevin and threatened him with the Baxter brothers, claiming they were stronger than he was and that he could kill Kevin.
• Shen Ye received a message that his actions might create a Self-Created Trait, and that the Vampire Kid Trait was beginning to sprout.

Shen Ye escaped Kevin’s attempt to arrest him when Lily invoked the Count’s summons, and Madam Daisy took them through the Dharma Realm to Demon Shadow Manor. There, Shen Ye joined the Count’s advisers and noticed an unusually powerful blue-quality battle-axe as an Orc delegation dined nearby.

• Shen Ye challenged Kevin’s accusation, and a cleaner confirmed that two Pale Assassins had requested room service before disappearing.
• Lily stopped Kevin from attacking Shen Ye by delivering the Count’s invitation, then used Dharma Realm traversal to take Shen Ye away.
• Madam Daisy escorted Shen Ye and Lily through the Dharma Realm toward the Count’s manor, where General Andrei warned her that the Count was angered by the Orc delegation.
• At Demon Shadow Manor, Shen Ye saw the Orc delegation eating in the Banquet Hall while the Count’s advisers studied a blue-quality battle-axe.
• Shen Ye inspected the battle-axe, Fire Roar, and wondered why an ordinary soldier’s weapon had been made so powerful.

Shen Ye learned that the Orcs had become a major military threat after adopting a 996 work schedule, and the Undead feared they might follow suit. Lady Daisy, Shen Ye, and Lily met the Count, who asked the Dark Night Rose Song and Dance Troupe to create an original water-based performance for an important diplomatic mission.

• The banshee explained that the Orcs had massively improved their weapons and armor by working 996 and producing thousands of battle-axes each day.
• The Undead worried that the Count might impose 996, and they urged Lady Daisy to talk him out of it.
• An attendant summoned Lady Daisy to the study, and Shen Ye and Lily followed her there.
• The Count described a diplomatic mission and invited Lady Daisy's troupe to compete for the chance to accompany him.
• The Count demonstrated water performances by the Grey Bone and Sealed Darkness troupes, then challenged the Dark Night Rose troupe to create something different.

Shen Ye, Daisy, and Lily presented the Count with an immersive performance that transformed his study into a frozen world and awakened his ambition to lead the undead. The Count was left comparing their epic spectacle with the other troupes’ acts and finding those performances pathetically weak.

• Daisy and Lily planned a performance, and Shen Ye asked the Count to provide a boundless Nightmare Magic Realm for it.
• Daisy imitated the Count’s water magic and passed its Elemental Fission skill to Shen Ye, who shaped the realm into a vast frozen landscape with music and song.
• The Count found Lily sleeping beneath the ice and took up a magical longsword as Shen Ye and Daisy’s performance shifted into a battle song praising his rule.
• Lily broke free as a Frost Dragon while an immense undead army appeared, and the Count imagined himself leading it to conquer the world.
• The performance ended, and the Count concluded that the other troupes’ acts were pathetically weak by comparison.

After the Count chose the Dark Night Rose Song and Dance Troupe to accompany his delegation to the Holy Violet Empire, he rewarded its members and gave Shen Ye a Count’s Emblem. Shen Ye signed a contract granting him access to manor guards, while the Count dismissed Kevin’s complaint and ordered Shen Ye’s Guardian Rank raised.

• The Count praised the troupe’s performance and announced that the Human Race had signed a Peace Treaty with the undead; he chose the troupe to perform at the King of the Holy Violet Empire’s birthday celebration.
• The Count gave Daisy Ghostly Jewelry, Lily a Dancer’s Mask, and Shen Ye a blood-red Emblem, then attendants led Lily and Shen Ye away.
• An attendant explained that Shen Ye could use the Emblem to summon a manor guard once per day, and Shen Ye signed the Guardian Contract.
• Kevin reported that Shen Ye had bought materials for a Grand Summoning Ritual, but the Count decided to lift the ban on such rituals and ordered Kevin to stop hounding him.
• The Count sent Kevin away with a revenue target and ordered an adviser to raise Shen Ye’s Guardian Rank.

Shen Ye rejected Emutu’s offer to join the orcs’ Heavenly Green Song and Dance Troupe after learning about their brutal 807 work schedule and deceptive pay. Emutu bribed Kevin to leave Shen Ye alone with him, and Shen Ye was left facing the threat of being taken captive.

• Shen Ye found Emutu, the orc Great Chieftain’s second son, waiting in his room and summoned Kevin for protection.
• Emutu invited Shen Ye to lead the Heavenly Green Song and Dance Troupe, explaining that the orcs had abandoned their shamans and wanted to change.
• Emutu offered Shen Ye a sack of gold but revealed that most of it was silver and the gold depended on completing tasks and passing performance assessments.
• Shen Ye refused to join the troupe after learning the orcs expected workers to work from eight in the morning until midnight every day.
• Emutu gave Kevin a money pouch and persuaded him to leave, then warned Shen Ye not to resist because he had no combat skills.

Shen Ye was abducted to Thunder Fortress by the Orc Chieftain, escaped back to the Main World, and learned the invitation’s effect would keep him there for three days. He then remembered the welcome party where he planned to meet Song Qingyun and Song Yinchen, and Xiao Mengyu offered him an outfit.

• Four Orcs used the Chieftain’s Divine Artifact to drag Shen Ye to Thunder Fortress, where the Chieftain demanded that he serve the Orcs as a Songstress.
• The Chieftain showed Shen Ye his disciplined, well-equipped army and praised 996 as a way to increase Orc strength, then ordered him to join the song and dance troupe.
• Orcs tried to brand Shen Ye as the Chieftain’s slave, but he knocked aside the iron rod and escaped through a gate to the Main World.
• Big Skeleton explained that the Great Chieftain’s Invitation would keep Shen Ye in the Main World for three days and that the Orcs were capturing Songstresses to support their society.
• Xiao Mengyu called Shen Ye about the evening’s welcome party, and he realized he would see Song Qingyun and possibly Song Yinchen; Xiao Mengyu offered him an outfit.

Shen Ye learned that Song Qingyun planned to explain herself at the Welcome Party, while Xiao Mengyu warned him about Song Qingyun’s status and possible power. The students were teleported to the Dharma Realm’s Central Province City for the party, where Shen Ye realized the Song Family had arranged the event and a screening had begun.

• Xiao Mengyu told Shen Ye that Song Qingyun had announced she would explain everything to him at the Welcome Party, and Shen Ye went to meet Xiao Mengyu in the cafeteria.
• Shen Ye discovered that the cafeteria treated him as an honored guest from the Huntian Gate and served him a lavish meal, which Xiao Mengyu shared.
• Xiao Mengyu showed Shen Ye information about Song Qingyun, explaining her prominence, the Song Family’s influence, and a prophecy connected to its Divine Artifact.
• Yang Yingzhen told the assembled students that they had to obtain invitations to attend the party on a Floating Island, then revealed that the event was in Central Province City, an Art belonging to the Jiangnan Song Family.
• Mages activated a Teleportation Array and sent the students away; afterward, Officer Wu asked Yang Yingzhen whether the screening had begun, and she confirmed it.

Shen Ye and his companions explored Central Province City, where students could earn mentors and appraisal traits by completing assigned tasks. After Shen Ye helped Nangong Sirui pursue his task, a mythic Trait called "Tool Person" appeared above Shen Ye, warning him to beware of being used.

• Nangong Sirui explained that mentors were watching the students and that successful tasks could earn them guidance and backing at school.
• Guo Yunye intervened when a drunk harassed two women, and Shen Ye saw the "Righteous Dog" trait above him but kept its details private.
• Zhang Xiaoyi received a task to run around the city, while Nangong Sirui and Shen Ye received tasks to experience genuine affection and take pleasure in helping others.
• Shen Ye bought roses for Nangong Sirui and gave them to him, allowing both to believe they were fulfilling their tasks.
• Five girls from Guixu High School appeared and photographed Shen Ye handing Nangong Sirui the flowers, and the mythic "Tool Person" trait appeared above Shen Ye.

Shen Ye received a warning that he was in danger, then met Yun Ni, who told him he might not survive long enough for their wager and left him a map of Central Province City’s underground passages. He followed the maidservants to Song Qingyun’s Welcome Party, where Song Qingyun presented her frail younger sister as the person who had impersonated her and caused trouble for Shen Ye.

• Shen Ye’s trait warned him that a Tool Person was connected to the Human Race’s long history of survival and extinction, but he could not devour the trait.
• Yun Ni revealed that the wager might be interrupted and warned Shen Ye that he could be killed before it began; she left him a map showing a narrow underground route and advised him to act according to Song Qingyun’s wishes.
• Two maidservants summoned Shen Ye to the Welcome Party, but he rode his Ghostfire Motorcycle past them and arrived at the floating island ahead of them.
• Song Qingyun introduced her younger sister in a wheelchair and apologized, claiming her sister had impersonated her and that someone else had exploited the resulting video.
• Song Qingyun’s younger sister apologized to Shen Ye, while Song Qingyun insisted that she was an ordinary person who could not have killed anyone; Shen Ye was left conflicted.

Shen Ye recognized Song Qingyun as a Star-Catcher protected by an evil god and began to suspect she had used people, including him, to achieve a hidden goal. After Song Qingyun burned his childhood greeting card, Shen Ye spotted a clue on it and confronted her about why she had kept a card he had given to Song Yinchen.

• Shen Ye's Moonlit Divine Sight awakened, revealing the evil god behind Song Qingyun and identifying her Trait as Star-Catcher.
• Shen Ye accused Song Qingyun of being involved in the events against him, while the Song family head admitted Song Yinchen had been responsible and Zhongli Fengluo drew Shen Ye's anger.
• Song Qingyun displayed and burned Shen Ye's childhood greeting card, then said they should forget their childhood promises.
• Shen Ye realized the greeting card had once stirred enormous wish power and suspected Song Qingyun had used people as tools for her objective.
• Shen Ye snatched the burning card from Song Qingyun and asked why a card he had given to Song Yinchen had ended up in her hands.

Shen Ye discovered that Song Qingyun could alter people’s memories and that Song Yinchen’s Greeting Card could restore his own. After preserving a warning for Big Skeleton, he was found by two maidservants sent to bring him to the Song sisters.

• Shen Ye spoke to Song Yinchen about the Greeting Card, and Song Qingyun said “Rewind,” causing him to return to the alley with the underground map.
• Shen Ye found the burned Greeting Card in his pocket and used its memories to realize he had already met the Song family and experienced Song Qingyun’s rewind.
• The Greeting Card revealed itself as a Memory Beacon made by Song Yinchen, restoring Shen Ye’s memories of Song Qingyun altering them.
• Shen Ye told Big Skeleton that Song Qingyun could alter other people’s memories and sent him through a Gate to remember the warning.
• Two maidservants arrived and told Shen Ye that the Song sisters wanted to see him.

Shen Ye met Song Qingyun on the Floating Island and tested whether she was repeating the past while trying to learn what she wanted from him and his sister. Song Qingyun admitted she liked him and showed him Zhongli Fengluo’s corpse, claiming she had killed the man who ordered the attacks on Shen Ye.

• Shen Ye followed Song Qingyun’s attendants to the Floating Island, noting that his Ghostfire Motorcycle’s battery proved the events were not a true repetition of time.
• Song Qingyun took Shen Ye to meet her frail stepmother and recounted how the woman had arranged an evil hound attack on her and her sister.
• Song Qingyun said her sister could recover only by willingly contracting with a god, but her sister refused because she hated gods.
• Shen Ye blamed Song Qingyun for pressuring her sister, then asked about the video in which Song Qingyun had said she liked him.
• Song Qingyun admitted she had said she liked Shen Ye and named Zhongli Fengluo as the person behind the attacks on him.
• Song Qingyun led Shen Ye to a pavilion and showed him Zhongli Fengluo’s corpse, saying she had killed him as an apology.

After learning that Song Qingyun’s embrace could send him to an Evil God’s lair, Shen Ye tried to preserve the warning and then met Song Yinchen. He persuaded Song Qingyun to take them to Central Province City, and she agreed to go with him and her sister.

• Song Qingyun told Shen Ye she had killed Zhongli Fengluo, and he agreed that killing the chief culprit was enough.
• Shen Ye used Dark Whisper to ask Zhongli Fengluo how he died, and learned that Song Qingyun’s embrace could transport its target to an Evil God’s lair.
• Shen Ye sent Nangong Sirui the warning “An embrace will kill you,” then Song Qingyun brought Song Yinchen to meet him.
• Shen Ye hinted to Song Yinchen that he remembered what had happened and learned she wanted to visit Central Province City.
• Shen Ye challenged Song Qingyun about her plans for Song Yinchen, and Song Qingyun agreed that they would go together to Central Province City.

Shen Ye agreed to guard Song Yinchen as she entered the Song Family Divine Artifact’s inheritance trial at Red Tone Temple, after learning Song Qingyun had been trying to force her into breaking the family’s Divine Curse. Song Qingyun could not reach them through the temple’s barrier and revealed that her embrace had killed Zhongli Fengluo—and that Shen Ye had accepted it too.

• Song Qingyun warned Shen Ye that the Welcome Party would teleport new students into Central Province City’s underground passages, where instructors would choose their students.
• Song Yinchen secretly teleported herself and Shen Ye to Red Tone Temple, where her powers and Shen Ye’s Dharma Eye could not function.
• Song Yinchen explained that Song Qingyun was trying to make her attack first and escape the Divine Curse so she could claim the Song Family’s Divine Artifact.
• Shen Ye agreed to become Song Yinchen’s guardian, linked his life to her Longevity Lock, and promised to help her kill the Aristocratic Family children who had sent assassins after him.
• Song Yinchen entered the temple as Song Qingyun’s attacks failed to penetrate its barrier, and Song Qingyun told Shen Ye that her embrace was the Evil God Secret Art that killed Zhongli Fengluo.

Shen Ye discovered that the Song Qingyun beside him was actually Song Yinchen under a memory-altering Art, and he escaped the Pure Land with her. After learning Song Qingyun was pursuing the Song Family’s World-Suppressing Divine Artifact, Song Yinchen entered the inheritance trial while Shen Ye stayed behind as her Protector, where an unknown presence arrived.

• Song Qingyun threatened Shen Ye and began casting a Spell Art, but he recognized her true identity by the scent of candied hawthorn on her lips and fled with her on the Ghostfire Motorcycle.
• Shen Ye showed Song Yinchen a backup-phone recording that revealed Song Qingyun had stolen his original phone and taken Song Yinchen’s place in the shop.
• Outside the Pure Land, Song Yinchen explained that Song Qingyun had been altering her memories and intended to use the World-Suppressing Divine Artifact to give the Evil Gods new bodies.
• Song Yinchen decided to enter the inheritance trial at Red Tone Temple, and Shen Ye agreed to protect her by staying alive while she challenged it.
• After Song Yinchen rode a Red Koi into the darkness, Shen Ye sensed something approaching and ordered it to come out.

Shen Ye refused Yun Ni’s offer to claim his soul, then was teleported to another Evil God’s lair. He escaped the lair through a gate, but his attack sent the old man pursuing him flying toward Thunder Fortress.

• Yun Ni offered to protect and nurture Shen Ye in exchange for his soul, but Shen Ye refused and she left him a map and escape route.
• Shen Ye secretly recorded his conversation with Yun Ni before the Embrace of Xieluoduo Mo teleported him away.
• Shen Ye arrived in a cavern dressed in a dazzling disguise and attacked the old man waiting there, then escaped underground through a gate.
• The old man followed Shen Ye through the gate into a secret passage, where Shen Ye struck him with the Great Chieftain’s Invitation.
• The old man flew through the sky toward Thunder Fortress as Shen Ye read the move’s description.