Chapter Summaries

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.

Shen Ye warned the boys about seductive tricks while explaining the Tower of Tarot's Newcomer Deck. He learned that 54 Official Cards guaranteed admission to the Three Great Academies, and discovered that Xiao Mengyu was a five-star Official Card.

• Shen Ye gathered the boys and taught them how to avoid being manipulated or exposed by girls, prompting them to share their own uneasy experiences.
• Shen Ye received a card identifying him as a provisional member of the Newcomer Deck and learned that it let him look up basic exam information.
• Shen Ye learned that the deck had 54 Official Cards, each guaranteeing admission to the Three Great Academies if its holder kept the status through the exam.
• Shen Ye discovered that 3,579 examinees were competing, while 1,603 Aristocratic Family children and 105 ordinary examinees had entered the deck as provisional cards.
• Shen Ye asked whether Xiao Mengyu was in the deck and learned she was a five-star Official Card and the undisputed top swordswoman among the examinees.

Shen Ye explored the Newcomer deck, met other examinees, and learned more about the candidates and the fallen heroes traveling with them. After practicing moves from Frost Moon Shakes Heaven, he earned one star and became a full member of the deck, though his card portrait remained ridiculous.

• Shen Ye added Xiao Mengyu as a friend, learned about the Tower of Tarot's benefits, and viewed the official rankings, where Nangong Sirui was the sole six-star and the undisputed top-ranked newcomer.
• Shen Ye met Zhang Xiaoyi and joined him, Guo Yunye, and other boys in playing cards while the supervisors let them enjoy their time before arrival.
• Qian Rushan and Yu Sihai discussed Shen Ye's potential, Yu Sihai's recovery, and the children of fallen heroes brought to the examination after an A-Class Calamity devastated the southeastern provinces.
• Shen Ye accepted Guo Yunye's friend request and, frustrated by his Provisional Card status, practiced the incomplete Frost Moon Shakes Heaven sequence in the bowling alley.
• The card recognized Shen Ye's moves as a potentially consequential lost legacy, advanced him to one star, and granted him the privilege to refuse one challenge per hour.

Shen Ye arrived at Cloud Mountain Port for the joint entrance exam and learned that the admission cards assigned dangerous tasks and ratings. His card identified him as a “Drowning Person” and ended by announcing a challenge he could not refuse.

• Shen Ye learned that becoming an official one-star Newcomer had already drawn attention to him.
• Qian Rushan brought Shen Ye to Cloud Mountain Port, where Shen Ye saw the sky ruins and learned about Jialan, Guixu, and Xirang High Schools.
• Shen Ye received an Admission Ticket that merged with his Newcomer card and assigned him an impossible-sounding task from the Tower of Tarot.
• Qian Rushan explained that examinees would receive ratings and assistance, while aristocratic students could target newcomers to raise their own ratings.
• Shen Ye saw Ayi injured after a fight with an aristocratic student and learned that killing an examinee meant disqualification and prison.
• Shen Ye's card declared that Xiao Mengyu had challenged him and that he could not refuse.

Shen Ye reunited with Xiao Mengyu, who had broken through after his healing, and learned that she was being pressured by Aristocratic Families to marry an older man. After she explained the danger surrounding Zhao Yibing and the Skinner, they discussed how she planned to escape her family’s control by entering one of the Three Great High Schools, while Shen Ye remained unsure which school to choose.

• Shen Ye met Xiao Mengyu at the port and learned that his healing had helped her break through.
• Xiao Mengyu protected Shen Ye from a four-star newcomer who tried to challenge him, then took him to a soundproof training hall.
• Xiao Mengyu told Shen Ye that Zhao Yibing was no longer human and that the Skinner’s remains had been taken by a dark shadow.
• Xiao Mengyu explained that someone had cut communications to cover for the Skinner’s killings and that several Aristocratic Families were pressuring her to marry a recently widowed man in his fifties.
• Xiao Mengyu said she was buying time until she could enter one of the Three Great High Schools, and Shen Ye admitted he did not know which school to choose.

Xiao Mengyu offered to teach Shen Ye several Luo Family techniques, and Shen Ye discovered that his newly increased Comprehension let him correct and perform Thunder Palm better than she could. He received her Thunder Palm Essentials booklet and learned the Comprehension required to master it.

• Xiao Mengyu demonstrated the Luo Family’s One-Character Thrusting Fist and offered to teach it to Shen Ye.
• Xiao Mengyu demonstrated her Wave-Treading Sword Technique, then offered to show Shen Ye several other techniques, including Thunder Palm.
• Shen Ye recognized Thunder Palm as the technique he still needed for the secret, assigned all 10 Attribute Points to Comprehension, and raised it to 11.
• After watching Xiao Mengyu perform Thunder Palm, Shen Ye identified a flaw and demonstrated a strike that produced a rumble of thunder.
• Xiao Mengyu gave Shen Ye the green-quality Thunder Palm Essentials booklet, and he read the Comprehension requirements for each level of mastery.

After mastering Thunder Palm and reaching Two-Star Newcomer status, Shen Ye went to the Human Martial Arts Group tower, where a sudden, mysterious illness left him near death. An icy aura and a strange Breathing Technique kept him alive, and he gradually gained control of it.

• Shen Ye attained minor mastery of Thunder Palm, and Xiao Mengyu told him that his resonance affinity made the technique unusually easy to learn.
• Shen Ye discovered that his card had made him a Two-Star Newcomer, but its new hairstyles, clothing, and slogans disappointed him.
• Shen Ye asked Xiao Mengyu to investigate the Skinner, and they suspected that Zhao Yibing and the Skinner had both returned to life.
• At the Human Martial Arts Group tower, Shen Ye practiced his techniques and considered why the system had led him to learn obscure moves from the Nightmare World.
• After touching his phone, Shen Ye suffered a sudden, agonizing collapse, but an icy aura repeatedly revived his consciousness and led him to survive through a strange Breathing Technique.
• Shen Ye continued breathing as visions of the universe, a riverbed rock, and the moon came to him, gradually gaining a steady grasp of the technique.

After mastering Moonlit Divine Sight, Shen Ye gained the ability to perceive the Dharma Realm and unlocked the complete Frost Moon Shakes Heaven technique. He discovered and dispelled an otherworldly spell attached to him, but learned its master could use it again.

• Shen Ye mastered Moonlit Divine Sight, increased his attributes and resonance, and received a hint about earning a True Person-rank evaluation tag.
• Shen Ye learned that Frostwind, Deer Walk Beneath the Moon, Thunder Palm, and Shadow Clone Technique formed the purple secret technique Frost Moon Shakes Heaven, whose power Moonlit Divine Sight tripled.
• Qian Rushan called Shen Ye, scheduled afternoon training and an evening welcome banquet with newcomers from the Three Great Institutions, and learned Shen Ye had been unconscious for a day.
• Shen Ye noticed that his new sight revealed explanations for his tags and exposed a blood-red thread around his neck.
• Shen Ye identified the thread as Otherworld God Spellcraft that let its master locate and teleport to him within five hundred li; the spellcraft vanished after he detected it, though its master could use it again.

Aristocratic scions plotted to make Shen Ye fail his exam at Cloud Mountain Port, while Gong Wu secretly revealed himself as Skinner and reported to Zhao Yibing. Zhao Yibing recruited him to hunt the scions for their flesh and souls, leaving their plans centered on the exam venue.

• A group of aristocratic scions decided to arrange Shen Ye's failure at the exam and let their families' chief retainer supervise the plan.
• Gong Wu appeared before the scions as the Assassin Alliance's leader and promised that no mission would fail again.
• After ending the call, Gong Wu revealed that he was Skinner and knelt before Zhao Yibing.
• Zhao Yibing ordered Skinner to accompany her to Cloud Mountain Port and retrieve the King of the Myriad-Fallen Evil Ghosts' curse power from the exam venue.
• Zhao Yibing agreed to join Skinner's hunt for the aristocratic scions, claiming their souls for herself and leaving their flesh and blood to him.

Shen Ye discovered that his awakened Moonlit Divine Sight had raised his strength rating to five stars, but he concealed it to avoid drawing attention from enemies. During training, Sun Biao explained the Three Great High Schools and resonance, then presented Shen Ye with techniques to learn.

• Shen Ye’s card rated him five stars because he had awakened a Dharma Eye, and he concealed three stars so he could appear as a two-star candidate.
• Xiao Mengyu and Qian Rushan warned Shen Ye to avoid challenges and save his strength for the examination.
• Sun Biao introduced the Three Great High Schools and explained that resonance let people gain recognition from the Dharma Realm and use inherited powers and techniques.
• Sun Biao gave Shen Ye several booklets, and Shen Ye noticed that Beidong Divine Fist was rated green while the other techniques were common.

Shen Ye chose Beidong Divine Fist for the upcoming exam, then encountered a powerful old man who tested his abilities and recognized his Dharma Eye. Elsewhere, the Luo Family patriarch rejected plans to retrieve his granddaughter and set off for the South Qiong Golden Coast, intrigued by Shen Ye’s rare talent.

• Shen Ye chose Beidong Divine Fist and wondered how he could break the Otherworld Deity Technique.
• Outside the gym, Shen Ye dodged the old man’s surprise attack and saw his fiery sword with Moonlit Divine Sight.
• Shen Ye and the old man exchanged blows, and the old man recognized that Shen Ye had opened his Dharma Eye before vanishing.
• The Luo Family patriarch killed a middle-aged man who urged him to retrieve his granddaughter and ordered the others to stop contacting the outside world.
• The Luo Family patriarch headed for the South Qiong Golden Coast and remarked that Shen Ye’s talent had not appeared in five hundred years.