Chapter Summaries

Danxia fused the gathered malice into a sixth-realm-peak Malice Demon King to hunt the remaining players, but Yue Wen identified a way it could be killed. The players launched a coordinated attack and prepared to fight the Demon King.

• Danxia ordered the Super Malice to devour the gathered malice, transforming it into a six-tailed Malice Demon King that tracked the remaining players.
• The Demon King attacked Zhao Xing'er and Yue Wen, while Qi Dian intervened and drew its attention.
• Yue Wen reasoned that the gathered malice had lost its ability to reform elsewhere and now had a visible health bar, meaning it could be killed.
• Zhao Xing'er shot the Demon King with her sniper rifle, and Yue Wen struck it with a barrage of sword shadows.
• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian took pills and prepared to continue attacking the Demon King as Su Renxue watched.

Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian fought the fully formed Malice demon king, using their supernatural powers and teamwork to withstand its attacks. After Danxia forced the demon king into a second phase, Qi Dian interrupted its domain-wide assault and Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er struck together, cleaving it in two.

• Danxia ordered the Malice demon king to leave no players alive, and it charged Zhao Xing'er at heightened speed.
• Yue Wen used Giant Gate Sword Art to enlarge Zhao Xing'er and help her repel the demon king's punch.
• Yue Wen drew the demon king's aggro with rapid sword attacks while Zhao Xing'er fired at it and Qi Dian supported them.
• Danxia ordered the demon king to burn its divine fire, triggering tracking pillars of black light across the Demon Domain.
• Su Renxue failed to interrupt the attack and was eliminated, but Qi Dian stunned the demon king with his heavenly thunder power.
• Zhao Xing'er struck the demon king with her Fire Staff as Yue Wen used Giant Gate Sword Art to cleave it in two.

Yue Wen and his companions defeated the Malice, ending the Fox Demon Amusement Park and earning its top rewards. After returning, the others dealt with the aftermath while Yue Wen began exploring the Fox Demon Secret Realm he had won.

• Yue Wen’s group killed the Malice, and he gained 305 pieces of Evil-Suppressing Money as the hidden game-ending mechanism activated.
• The game awarded Yue Wen the Fox Demon Secret Realm, Zhao Xing'er a Companion Immortal Vine, and Qi Dian no reward but verbal praise before the amusement park collapsed.
• Back at the Hidden Dragon Pool, Ji Yang asked Su Renxue to keep quiet about being eliminated first, and she agreed.
• Hu Yunting told Hu Hanyi that Yue Wen had defeated him and a Fox Demon to win the Secret Realm, then vowed to face Yue Wen at the City Heroes' Battle.
• At Yue's Cultivation Agency, Yue Wen recovered from the spirit brew’s side effects and probed his new Secret Realm with his divine sense, finding a desolate landscape.

Yue Wen discovered a lush, spiritually rich hidden space inside the ruined fox demon Secret Realm and found a mysterious seven-colored flower. Meanwhile, Perfected One Nagiko confirmed that the Fox Demon Lady’s soul had been completely destroyed, leaving the Hu Family to face the end of the seal and the privileges it brought them.

• Yue Wen explored the barren Secret Realm, entered the hidden Immortal Dew Valley, and found an enormous flower bud filled with Spirituality that felt familiar to him.
• The Fox-Pressing Pagoda shook as Kunyu Ridge collapsed and seven-colored radiance emerged from beneath it.
• Perfected One Nagiko told Hu Hanyi and the others that the Fox Demon Lady had exhausted her cultivation and that her soul had been ground away by Kunyu Ridge.
• Hu Hanyi and the Hu Family Elders knelt to bid farewell to the Fox Demon Lady, while Hu Yunting hesitated before joining them.
• Perfected One Nagiko accused Hu Hanyi of pretending to mourn, then threatened that Hu Yunting might not graduate if Hu Hanyi was insincere.

Yue Wen met the Fox Demon Lady’s newly reborn soul in Immortal Dew Valley and learned how her centuries-long plan had made the valley’s master her karmic anchor. After realizing Yue Wen’s short human lifespan threatened her survival, she thought of a possible way to fix the problem.

• The Fox Demon Lady awakened in Immortal Dew Valley and was surprised to find Yue Wen had become its master instead of the Red Fox she had chosen.
• She explained that Daoist Ye had helped her plan to shed her demon body, escape her karmic consequences, and be reborn in Immortal Dew Valley.
• The Fox Demon Lady revealed that Immortal Dew Valley’s first master would share her karma and fortune, and that Yue Wen had taken the place intended for Danxia after winning the Demon Domain.
• She despaired that Yue Wen’s human lifespan could cause her death when he died.
• The Fox Demon Lady suddenly thought there might be a way to fix their lifespan problem.

Yue Wen learned that Immortal Dew Valley was a fragment of an Azure Dragon’s grotto-heaven that could make spirit plants mature up to a hundred times faster. The rainbow fox made him the valley’s master and left to seek a body, while Yue Wen faced the daunting task of clearing the overgrown land.

• The rainbow fox suggested Yue Wen might eventually join the Demon Race to extend his lifespan, but Yue Wen rejected the idea of becoming a Demon-Blood Human.
• The rainbow fox revealed that Immortal Dew Valley and the Yang Wood Dao Marrow came from an Azure Dragon burial ground beneath River City, and explained that the valley produced vitality-rich Immortal Dew.
• Yue Wen learned that spirit plants could grow up to a hundred times faster in the valley, but the ancient vegetation would take years to clear and could not be burned.
• The rainbow fox refused to clear the land, warned Yue Wen to keep her existence secret, and gave him a leaf that made him master of Immortal Dew Valley.
• The rainbow fox left to find a body and separated Immortal Dew Valley from the fox demon secret realm, leaving Yue Wen to consider how to clear the valley.

After the Fox Demon Lady was destroyed, Yue Wen handed her Secret Realm over to the Supernatural Affairs Bureau to avoid attracting danger and asked for corpse puppets to support his undercover work. Hu Hanyi struck a deal with the Pudu Sect to develop Spiritual Energy Tanks, then learned that Yue Wen had entered the Bureau and abandoned his plan to seize the Secret Realm.

• Perfected One Nagiko returned to the Bureau, while Hu Yunting resolved to cultivate in seclusion before the City Heroes' Battle because he feared losing to Yue Wen again.
• Hu Hanyi rejected the Pudu Sect potion for Hu Yunting, then toured Institute 502 and agreed to partner with the Sect to promote Spiritual Energy Tanks and Medicine Dragons.
• Hu Hanyi ordered his people to watch Yue Wen and seize the Fox Demon's Secret Realm, but changed his mind when he learned Yue Wen had gone to the Supernatural Affairs Bureau.
• Yue Wen gave Perfected One Nagiko the Secret Realm's arcade token, saying it was barren and that handing it over would protect him from people seeking its supposed treasures.
• Yue Wen asked Perfected One Nagiko for the black-silver corpse puppets confiscated from the Northern Jiangsu Nightmare Wraith so he could better maintain his evil-cultivator cover.

Yue Wen traded the Fox Demon’s Secret Realm to the Supernatural Affairs Bureau for Black Silver Corpse Puppets, then put them to work clearing Immortal Dew Valley with Corpse-Driving Talismans. He arranged to seek a skilled Talisman Master and ordered tools for the puppets, while Xing'er forced Big White to train.

• Perfected One Nagiko accepted Yue Wen’s handover of the Secret Realm and considered the exchange beneficial to the Supernatural Affairs Bureau.
• Yue Wen used Corpse-Driving Talismans to make Black Silver Corpse Puppets clear vegetation in Immortal Dew Valley, and decided to equip them with tools and seek more talismans.
• Yue Wen asked Qi Dian about Talisman Masters, then contacted Dong Mengyao, who offered to ask a skilled but eccentric Jiangcheng City Talisman Master for him.
• Xing'er woke up, kicked Big White awake, and made it train while Big White tried to avoid her stronger blows.
• Yue Wen ordered fifteen axes and fifteen sickles made from superior materials from Diamond Granny, charging the order to the Flame Ghost Hall branch hall account.

Yue Wen met Chang Yunguan to commission corpse-driving talismans for his plan to pose as a Demonic Cultivator. Chang said he could reproduce them, but quoted a price close to a million for the first batch and hinted that he had another option.

• Dong Mengyao told Yue Wen that Chang Yunguan had agreed to reproduce talismans and sent him the film-set address.
• Yue Wen found Chang directing a silent, absurdly tragic scene and followed him to a private office to discuss talismans.
• Yue Wen showed Chang a corpse-driving talisman and asked him to keep the commission confidential.
• Chang recognized the talisman as being within his expertise and revealed that he controlled his film crew by threatening them with Thunderbolt Talismans.
• Yue Wen asked about ordering a hundred talismans, and Chang quoted a price close to a million before offering another option.

Yue Wen agreed to invest eight million in Chang Yunguan’s film in exchange for a year of talismans, then returned to the Agency and gave a newspaper reporter a brief interview about his reputation and the City Heroes' Battle. He left Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian to fill in the details and entered the black-and-gold hall to ask Big Dragon for help.

• Chang Yunguan offered Yue Wen a year’s supply of talismans in return for an eight-million investment in his art film.
• Yue Wen accepted the deal and learned that Chang Yunguan planned to shoot a single-take film about a heroine who identified as a hellhound and a male lead who was a showerhead.
• Yue Wen returned to the Agency and met Lin Wanyue, a reporter from the Jiangcheng Cultivation News, who was interviewing him for a City Heroes' Battle preview.
• Yue Wen told Lin Wanyue that justice motivated him to slay evil, his progress came from hard work, and he hoped to show his full strength in the battle.
• Yue Wen left Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian to answer further questions, entered the black-and-gold hall, and asked Big Dragon for help.

Yue Wen bought Da Long’s Dragon Pool Carp-Pincering Art to assess and protect his fortune before a coming battle. After mastering it overnight, he tried to catch Fortune Beasts and found his first attempt empty-handed.

• Yue Wen asked Da Long whether accepting the Fox Demon Lady’s rewards had passed her evil karma onto him, and Da Long said the risk was small because her good deeds had offset most of her evil consequences.
• Da Long sold Yue Wen the Dragon Pool Carp-Pincering Art for 399 Evil-Suppressing Money coins, explaining that it could reveal his fortune and let him store Fortune Beasts to ward off calamity.
• Yue Wen studied the art and wondered whether Suishou’s absorption of the Fox Demon’s blood essence had greatly improved his comprehension.
• The next morning, Yue Wen opened a rift to the Dragon Pool Immortal Realm and used Dragon Breath to lure a Fortune Beast, but his first catch came up empty.

Yue Wen caught only one Fortune Koi, then discovered that a newspaper had portrayed him and the Yue Family Cultivation Office as declaring war on Immortal Sects and prestigious families. He also spotted the Pudu Sect offering a ten-million reward for information about a dark web account tied to Medicine Jar, and began considering contacting the Snake Mountain group again.

• Yue Wen caught one Golden Koi in four attempts and decided to prepare carefully for the night's mission with the Supernatural Affairs Bureau.
• Yue Wen read Lin Wanyue's article, which quoted the office assistants' exaggerated remarks and announced that the Yue Family Cultivation Office had declared war on Immortal Sects and prestigious families.
• Yue Wen blamed Xing'er and Qi Dian for the article, while Xing'er and Qi Dian each tried to shift responsibility onto the other.
• Yue Wen noticed the Pudu Sect's ten-million reward for information about a dark web account and recognized it as the account Medicine Jar had given him.
• Yue Wen reasoned that the Pudu Sect could not easily trace him and decided that the Snake Mountain group had waited long enough for him to contact them again.

Yue Wen used Fan Baiyan’s plan to target Dai Muhun’s Shuangling Body as a pretext to make Gongsun Yan pay for the operation, while secretly arranging for Supernatural Affairs Bureau experts to pose as hired muscle. Gongsun Yan’s sect master agreed to fund the supposed hires and revealed that the Dao Realm corpse puppet was tied to a mysterious hidden immortal realm.

• Fan Baiyan told Yue Wen to hire two Forging Realm experts to keep Dai Muhun’s other Dharma Bodies away while he destroyed the Shuangling Body.
• Yue Wen realized Gongsun Yan had told Fan Baiyan about the River City Branch’s funds and called him to demand money for the operation.
• Yue Wen persuaded Gongsun Yan to contribute ten million by warning him he would have to answer to Fan Baiyan if the plan failed.
• Yue Wen told Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian that Supernatural Affairs Bureau experts, including Perfected One Nagiko, would pose as the hired muscle and help cover the branch’s missing funds.
• Gongsun Yan told the man in black that Yue Wen was hiring experts to target him, and the man agreed to provide the money and recruit additional people.
• The man in black told Gongsun Yan that the Dao Realm corpse puppet held a great secret connected to a mysterious hidden immortal realm.

Yue Wen brought Nagiko and Tongguang into Fan Baiyan’s plan to confront Dai Muhun, and the two Perfected Ones disguised themselves as silent corpse puppets. At the Unfinished Building, Fan Baiyan met Dai Muhun and heard his offer of a major partnership, presented as a sealed blue pill.

• Yue Wen told Nagiko and Tongguang about the planned negotiations, and they agreed to disguise themselves as corpse puppets and join him.
• Nagiko said she would consider taking Yue Wen as a true disciple after the Ascendant Dragon Assembly if he represented River City.
• Yue Wen met Fan Baiyan at the grove with the disguised Perfected Ones, and Fan Baiyan explained that they would help stop Dai Muhun’s other Dharma Bodies.
• Fan Baiyan and Yue Wen reached the Unfinished Building, where Gongsun Yan reported that Dai Muhun might know the Flame Ghost Hall’s hideout.
• Dai Muhun arrived and defended his past attack on Fan Baiyan, who said their old grudge was over and asked why Dai had come.
• Dai Muhun offered Fan Baiyan a major partnership and showed him a sealed deep-blue pill.

Dai Muhun proposed that the four great demonic sects of Northern Sky Province combine living Soul Pills with Corpse Puppets to create and sell obedient fighting puppets. He lured Fan Baiyan into a formation, and Yue Wen and the two Perfected Ones prepared to attack as the trap closed around them.

• Dai Muhun revealed that his Soul Pills were made by extracting intelligent souls from living people and proposed inserting them into Flame Ghost Hall Corpse Puppets.
• Fan Baiyan considered joining the scheme, and Dai Muhun invited Golden Spear Lang and Mountain-Perching Python to represent Darkflower Ridge and the Poison Snake Gang.
• Dai Muhun assigned the four sects roles in capturing people, refining Soul Pills and Corpse Puppets, and selling the finished puppets.
• Dai Muhun learned that Fan Baiyan no longer possessed Ahei Yan's Dao Realm Corpse Puppet and activated a formation hidden beneath the unfinished building.
• Fan Baiyan called for his disciples to attack, while Yue Wen and the two Perfected Ones prepared to strike; Dai Muhun claimed he already knew about Fan Baiyan's arrangements.

Yue Wen’s plan brought Dai Muhun’s forces and Fan Baiyan’s hired allies into a confrontation, but the two supposed Black Market fighters revealed overwhelming strength and swiftly defeated the enemy experts. Dai Muhun activated the array and called on the twelve fiends as the unfinished building was engulfed in light.

• Dai Muhun confronted Fan Baiyan with Golden Spear Lang and Mountain-Perching Python, while Yue Wen stood with two Corpse Puppets.
• Gongsun Yan revealed that he had betrayed Fan Baiyan’s plan to Dai Muhun, and Yue Wen realized his extortion had helped expose the scheme and bring in extra opponents.
• Dai Muhun explained that the soul pill was meant to let him reclaim the soul inside Fan Baiyan’s Dao Realm Corpse Puppet, then ordered his forces to attack.
• The Soul-Controlling Sect activated the Soul-Slaying Array, but Perfected One Nagiko knocked out Golden Spear Lang and Perfected One Tongguang subdued Mountain-Perching Python.
• Dai Muhun activated the array and ordered the twelve fiends to annihilate the three enemies’ souls.

Yue Wen was trapped with Fan Baiyan inside the Twelve Fiend Soul Realm, where Perfected One Tongguang and Perfected One Nagiko sent him Great Dao projections to fight the Soul-Controlling Sect. Empowered by Kunyu Ridge and Spirit-Nurturing Pivot, Yue Wen overwhelmed Dai Muhun’s giants, leaving Dai Muhun stunned by his disciple’s strength.

• Dai Muhun activated the Twelve Fiend Soul-Slaying Formation, trapping Yue Wen and Fan Baiyan in the Twelve Fiend Soul Realm while the two perfected ones explained the formation and their plan to help.
• Perfected One Tongguang and Perfected One Nagiko sent Great Dao projections into Yue Wen’s consciousness, giving him access to the powers of Kunyu Ridge and Spirit-Nurturing Pivot.
• Dai Muhun revealed that he had brought his Fetal Light body to kill Fan Baiyan, who unsuccessfully tried to persuade him to accept his surrender.
• Yue Wen stopped Fan Baiyan from fighting, seized Gongsun Yan’s banner, and killed him with a single thrust.
• Yue Wen grew to giant size, summoned Shousui as a saber, and used his Great Dao powers to resist the Soul-Controlling Sect’s attacks and drain the giants’ blood essence.
• Yue Wen slaughtered the giants as Fan Baiyan watched in astonishment, and Dai Muhun wondered whether Wen Yan was Flame Ghost Hall’s real big boss.

Yue Wen defeated Dai Muhun and the Soul-Controlling Sect inside the Twelve Fiends Soul Realm, freeing the tortured souls trapped in the Soul-Refining Umbrella. After returning to the unfinished building, Fan Baiyan recognized the two black-market enforcers as Perfected Tongguang and Perfected Nagi of the Jadefall Mystic Sect.

• Yue Wen fought through the Soul-Controlling Sect disciples, shrugging off their attacks and terrifying them with his blade.
• Dai Muhun unleashed the war souls from his Soul-Refining Umbrella, but Yue Wen suppressed the umbrella with Kunyu Ridge and turned the souls against their master.
• Yue Wen struck Dai Muhun with Shousui and killed him, freeing the war souls and leaving them to overwhelm the Soul-Controlling Sect disciples.
• The Twelve Fiends Soul-Slaying Grand Formation collapsed, and Yue Wen rescued Fan Baiyan as the war souls spared them.
• Yue Wen, Fan Baiyan, and Gongsun Yan returned to the unfinished building, where Perfected Tongguang and Perfected Nagi revealed their faces and Fan Baiyan recognized them as members of the Jadefall Mystic Sect.

After the Supernatural Affairs Bureau captured the demonic factions at the Unfinished Building, Yue Wen helped expose the operation and discussed the mysterious Dao Realm corpse puppet with Perfected One Nagiko and Perfected One Tongguang. Meanwhile, Dai Muhun’s surviving bodies planned to make Wen Yan Northern Sky’s common enemy while secretly searching Jiangcheng for the Azure Dragon’s burial ground.

• Fan Baiyan accused Gongsun Yan of being a Supernatural Affairs Bureau mole, but Yue Wen revealed himself as the mole instead.
• Perfected One Nagiko captured Fan Baiyan and Gongsun Yan, while Yue Wen and the perfected ones discussed the unknown Dao Realm corpse puppet and Flame Ghost Hall’s remaining recruits.
• Dai Muhun’s Youjing Body and Shuangling Body reviewed the loss of the Taiguang Body and concluded that Wen Yan had destroyed their operation.
• The Shuangling Body planned to issue an enormous underworld kill order against Wen Yan while secretly investigating the Azure Dragon’s burial ground in Jiangcheng.

Yue Wen arranged for Gongsun Yan’s newly recruited Flame Ghost Hall disciples to list their crimes under the guise of a mission selection. He left nearly forty of the most serious offenders in the custody of the Supernatural Affairs Bureau, where they were to face trial.

• Gongsun Yan summoned the Flame Ghost Hall’s new disciples to an unfinished building for a selection announced by Yue Wen.
• Yue Wen asked the recruits to document their crimes and provide evidence, claiming the most ruthless candidates would join an important mission.
• Gongsun Yan called out nearly forty recruits who had committed serious crimes, and they followed Yue Wen to a heavy armored vehicle.
• Yue Wen convinced the recruits to accept handcuffs and told them the vehicle and restraints were part of their disguise for the mission.
• The vehicle brought the recruits to a prison, where Yue Wen described their upcoming trials as the final procedure before the mission.