Chapter Summaries

Dong Mengyao turned the Yue Family Cultivation Office challenge qualifiers into a profitable spectacle at her bar while Yue Wen battled the Dark Moon Scorpion King in the Demon-Locking Secret Realm. Yue Wen used a newly devised technique called Perfect Evasion to defeat the stronger demon and claim its golden vapor.

• Dong Mengyao hosted the qualifiers in a ticketed cage at her bar and planned to expand the seating after the first fights drew an enthusiastic crowd.
• Yue Wen confronted the Dark Moon Scorpion King, whose stinger wounded him and poisoned him despite his armor.
• Yue Wen used Shadow Talismans to evade the demon’s attacks and strike the crack in its shell, then developed a precise attack-and-escape method he called Perfect Evasion.
• As the poison spread and Yue Wen collapsed, he used the scorpion king’s attack to lure it toward a Shadow Talisman and vanished behind it.
• Yue Wen drove his sword through the demon’s shattered back armor, destroyed its organs, killed it, and absorbed its golden vapor.

Yue Wen killed the Dark Moon Scorpion King but died from its poison, astonishing the Control Room with his combat talent as he advanced to the Hanging-Lantern Celestial Beast trial. Meanwhile, Fang Qingcang broke through and left the Secret Realm, where he and the others watched Qi Dian, Zhao Xing'er, and Yue Wen use wildly unconventional methods to fight.

• Yue Wen killed the Dark Moon Scorpion King on his first attempt, then died as its poison and blood corroded his body.
• Perfected One Nagiko and the old supervisor praised Yue Wen’s combat insight and wondered whether he could defeat the Hanging-Lantern Celestial Beast.
• Fang Qingcang broke through to the Middle Astral Realm, killed the Eight-Armed Blade Mantis after forty-six deaths, and left after failing against the next trial’s Greenwood Dragon Bat.
• Fang Qingcang met Lan Zhi in the Control Room, where the staff explained that Qi Dian charged his Heavenly Thunder Supernatural Power between attacks and Zhao Xing'er grew stronger as she revived angrier.
• The Control Room watched Yue Wen approach the Hanging-Lantern Celestial Beast while showing it an illustrated guide to female Demon Beasts, prompting the supervisor to call the three contestants abnormal.

Yue Wen faced a late Fifth Realm Hanging Lantern Celestial Being Beast whose curse-poison light stripped away flesh and sealed his powers. After discovering that green mountain qi could briefly suppress the curse and that the beast became distracted by a Female Demon Beast Compendium on his phone, he attacked it with the Greatsword Art.

• Yue Wen read about the Henghe Undying Race and recognized the captured Hanging Lantern Celestial Being Beast as a dangerous opponent.
• The beast trapped Yue Wen in its curse-poison light, but he used green mountain qi to stop the curse briefly before charging in.
• The beast seized Yue Wen and crushed him, sending him back outside the inscription, and he considered how to exploit its apparent greed.
• Yue Wen played a Female Demon Beast Compendium video, distracting the beast from releasing its curse-poison light.
• Yue Wen launched his flying sword and struck the beast's head with the Greatsword Art.

Yue Wen repeatedly challenged the Hanging-Lantern Celestial Beast, learning its attacks as it grew stronger and killed him 105 times. Exhausted but convinced he had reached its limit, Yue Wen called for the Great Dragon to help him unleash his strongest move.

• Yue Wen lured the Hanging-Lantern Celestial Beast with the female Demon Beast encyclopedia and repeatedly attacked and dodged before it killed him.
• Through dozens of deaths, Yue Wen learned the beast’s green healing light and red heat light, while realizing its body was growing stronger.
• Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian arrived in the monitoring room after reaching their limits, and the observers discussed Yue Wen’s skill and the beast’s advancement toward the Sixth Realm.
• After Yue Wen died for the 105th time, the Senior Supervisor said he had broken the secret realm’s record, but Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian insisted he would keep improving.
• Yue Wen recognized that he had drawn out all of the beast’s moves and, instead of rushing back into the formation, called on the Great Dragon for aid.

Yue Wen bought pills from Da Long to counter the Hanging-Lantern Celestial’s resilience and boost his cultivation. After 105 failed attempts, he used the pills and his practiced timing to overwhelm the beast with Void-Realm Dragon Flame and sword attacks.

• Yue Wen asked Da Long for a way to defeat the Henghe Undying Race opponent, and Da Long offered pills that could burn souls, resist curses, and convert stored dragon breath into astral qi.
• Yue Wen bought the Dragon Flame Soul-Burning Pill and Dragon Breath Qi-Transformation Pill, while Da Long explained the Dragon Clan’s failed plan to use the Henghe Realm against the Demon Race.
• Yue Wen swallowed his pills before facing the Hanging-Lantern Celestial again, raising his astral qi and charging into the formation after 105 failures.
• Yue Wen dodged the beast’s attacks and repeatedly wounded it, spreading Void-Realm Dragon Flame that thwarted its healing and made it panic.
• Yue Wen evaded the Hanging-Lantern Celestial’s strongest attacks, struck its back with the Light-Splitting Shadow-Sweeping Sword Art, and covered its body in dragon flame.
• The Hanging-Lantern Celestial fell to the ground in agony and asked how Yue Wen had become so strong, and Yue Wen answered that his hard work had paid off before launching another torrent of sword radiance.

Yue Wen stunned the Control Room by slaying the Hanging-Lantern Celestial Beast, then returned from the Demon-Locking Secret Realm exhausted but far ahead of the other trainees. After explaining that his drive to kill Evil Spirits came from their crimes and his missing parents, he learned Perfected One Nagiko had something to tell him about them.

• Zhao Xing'er, Qi Dian, and the others celebrated Yue Wen's victory, while Fang Qingcang and Lan Zhi resolved to learn from him and Fang Qingcang joined the Yue Wen Study Group.
• Yue Wen absorbed the final Evil-Suppressing Money, nearly collapsed from the medicines' effects, and left the secret realm rather than challenge a sixth-realm Demon Beast.
• Yue Wen returned to the Control Room after a week, where Perfected One Nagiko praised him and the group reviewed the trainees' results and gains.
• Yue Wen told Perfected One Nagiko that the Evil Spirits' crimes and the possibility that they had harmed his parents fueled his determination to kill them.
• Lan Zhi told the group chat about Yue Wen's difficult background, and Perfected One Nagiko pulled him aside to share information about his parents.

The author recapped February, discussed the end of volume two and plans to keep volume three focused on its competition storyline, and described struggles with insomnia and gradual growth in readership. The author also announced February's giveaway results and next month's prize rules.

• The author said volume two had ended and volume three had begun, with volume three planned to focus more tightly on the competition.
• The author described insomnia and poor health that made it difficult to work and develop plots.
• The author reported average chapter subscriptions had risen to around 9,400 and thanked readers for their monthly votes.
• The author apologized that some readers had trouble unlocking the monthly-vote bonus chapter after voting.
• The author announced the next month's giveaway prizes and posted February's winning ticket-ending digits, including the 9327 lucky winner.

Yue Wen learned that his parents had researched the Fall of the True Dragon before a Demon Race opened the Spatial Rift that took them, though the Supernatural Affairs Bureau had suspected his family might be involved with demons. After leaving the bureau, he discovered that his recent fame had brought a flood of messages and requests to become his disciple.

• Perfected One Nagiko told Yue Wen that his parents had investigated the Dragon Clan’s extinction and that the Demon Race had opened the Spatial Rift that caused their disappearance.
• Yue Wen considered whether his parents’ research was connected to Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb and learned the rift led to an uninhabited realm suspected to be a Demon Race powerhouse’s private secret realm.
• Perfected One Nagiko explained that the bureau had doubted Yue Wen’s parents’ allegiance and that the East Sea Dragon Hall had taken the case files and jurisdiction.
• After leaving the Demon-Locking Secret Realm, Yue Wen found more than a thousand missed calls, hundreds of texts, and a surge of requests to become his disciple and private messages from admirers.
• Yue Wen read messages from He Caihua, Chang Yunguan, and Dong Mengyao about his popularity, a drama promotion, and expanding an event venue.

Yue Wen’s challenge qualifiers made him famous and brought crowds seeking apprentices to the Agency, while he returned to the Black-Gold Great Hall to ask Da Long about the true dragons and shop for a defensive artifact. Da Long hinted that the dragons’ deaths had a hidden cause, then presented the costly Golden Sacred Armor, whose supposed life-saving feature was scattering its gold ingots to distract pursuers.

• Yue Wen learned that the challenge qualifiers had made him a sensation, filled Dong Mengyao’s bar with spectators, and attracted crowds of would-be apprentices to the Agency.
• Yue Wen, Xing'er, and Qi Dian sneaked into the Agency, where Big White explained that it had driven off people trying to break in.
• Yue Wen changed his social media username to clarify that he was not taking apprentices, then returned to the Black-Gold Great Hall and told Da Long he had won.
• Yue Wen asked how the true dragons had died, and Da Long said he knew the real reason but could not reveal it yet.
• Yue Wen asked Da Long for a wearable defensive artifact, and Da Long demonstrated the Golden Sacred Armor, which scattered its gold ingots to distract enemies when overwhelmed.

Yue Wen bought the Lotus Blossom Treasure Garment from Da Long and began his bedtime cultivation routine. He unlocked Duan Mulei’s storage gourd and discovered a bottle of Soul-Bewildering, Spirit-Seizing Smoke.

• Da Long demonstrated three defensive treasure garments, and Yue Wen chose the self-repairing Lotus Blossom Treasure Garment despite its pink appearance.
• Da Long explained that the garments could greatly reduce damage from attacks by cultivators in Yue Wen’s realm.
• Yue Wen paid 199 Evil-Suppressing Money for the Lotus Blossom Treasure Garment, wore it beneath his clothes, and kept the rest of his money for future cultivation expenses.
• Yue Wen practiced the Dragon-Snake Evasion Method on Duan Mulei’s storage gourd and finally opened it.
• Yue Wen used his spiritual sense to inspect the gourd and found a porcelain bottle labeled Soul-Bewildering, Spirit-Seizing Smoke.

Yue Wen investigated a notebook of girls targeted by soul-stealing killers and discussed the case with Su Yun, who was seeking revenge for her original body. At the Cultivation Arena, he learned that the Body Tempering Sect had badly injured Xiao Chuxi and possessed several late Gang Realm disciples.

• Yue Wen found a soul-cultivation manual, money, and a notebook of girls in Duanmu Lei's Storage Artifact, then noticed that Wang Miaomiao and Shen Nana were listed.
• Yue Wen met Su Yun and explained that the notebook’s victims across Tianbei Prefecture had their souls devoured while their bodies remained intact; he suspected the Soul-Controlling Sect was involved.
• Su Yun told Yue Wen she was seeking a way to contact Jiangcheng City's Monster Club to investigate the murders.
• Yue Wen went to the Cultivation Arena to meet Dong Mengyao and Xiao Chubei before the Yue Family Cultivation Office Challenge Qualifier.
• Xiao Chubei told Yue Wen that the Body Tempering Sect had shattered Xiao Chuxi's meridians and bones and had at least three late Gang Realm disciples.

Yue Wen learned that three late Astral Realm Medicine Dragons tied to the Hu Family had entered the City Heroes' Battle through the Body Tempering Sect, and agreed to face them if he could. The chapter ended with Du Shuai of the Thunder Martial Arts School challenging Yue Wen and his agency after winning the first match.

• Xiao Chubei explained that Xiao Chuxi had been seriously injured after trying to take a friend away from the Body Tempering Sect, where three late Astral Realm Medicine Dragons stopped them.
• Dong Mengyao revealed that the Body Tempering Sect was a shell linked to the Hu Family, which appeared to be helping the Pudu Sect enter Medicine Dragons in the competition.
• Yue Wen promised to give his all against the Medicine Dragons and said he would find out what they could do in the competition.
• Du Shuai won the first match of the day and shouted a challenge to Yue Wen and his agency.
• Dong Mengyao identified Du Shuai as the senior disciple of the Thunder Martial Arts School, whose three disciples had recently succeeded in Astral Refining.

Yue Wen returned to the Agency and watched Qi Dian and Xing'er unveil new Supernatural Powers before beginning to cultivate his soul with the Path of the Soul to Veneration. In the Visualization World, a Soulflame beast spotted him and charged, leaving him facing an unexpected threat.

• Yue Wen and Dong Mengyao agreed to split the competition's ticket sales and other revenue evenly.
• Qi Dian demonstrated Water Sword Concealing Thunder, a ranged water-sword attack carrying Heavenly Thunder Power, and said he could control three swords at once.
• Xing'er revealed the Halberd-Finger Pointing to the Heavens Art, a provocative gesture meant to anger her opponents and trigger her Martial Spirit Red Light.
• Yue Wen entered the Visualization World to cultivate his soul and observed Moonlight Essence Soul Molding, Soul Breath Harvesting, and Soul Seizure Refinement.
• A Soulflame beast devoured several souls, noticed Yue Wen, and leaped at him.

Yue Wen completed his first soul-shaping with Moonlight Essence, then checked on his Qilin Melon harvest in Immortal Dew Valley. The next day, he and Xing'er and Qi Dian arrived at the City Heroes' Battle, where an angry voice confronted Yue Wen.

• Yue Wen rejected harvesting or seizing other souls and used Moonlight Essence to shape his own soul, successfully forming a solid, pure deep-blue soul.
• Yue Wen discovered that nearly ten days had passed during his cultivation and replied to Dong Mengyao, who had handled the challenge preliminaries in his absence.
• Yue Wen entered Immortal Dew Valley, found his Black Silver Corpse Puppets frozen without replacement talismans, harvested his first Qilin Melon, and planted its seeds.
• Yue Wen, Xing'er, and Qi Dian left for the City Heroes' Battle as a cheering crowd gathered outside their Agency.
• Yue Wen parked at the venue and heard someone angrily accuse him of being shameless for showing up.

Yue Wen and the other contestants began the City Heroes' Battle Rankings Tournament, entering the secret realm of Nightmare Town. He arrived alone in a wooden house and learned from a newspaper about the town's tasks, dangers, and coming events.

• Du Shuai confronted Yue Wen over delaying the promised challenge, and Yue Wen agreed to fight the Thunderclap Martial Arts Hall trio if they met in the competition or afterward.
• Yue Wen and his companions entered the City Heroes' Battle venue, where they learned the tournament would begin with a secret-realm ranking round that shaped later matchups.
• Xiao Chuxi warned Yue Wen and the others to beware of the powerful Medicine Dragons who had injured him.
• The contestants entered Nightmare Town, where the rules required them to return home before nightfall and defeat a stronger Nightmare Wraith Creature each night.
• Yue Wen found a newspaper in his house announcing town jobs, a marriage ceremony, a welcoming ceremony, and the warning never to go outside after dark.

Jiangcheng City's Rankings Tournament began in Nightmare Town, where contestants had to earn daytime rewards while surviving nighttime threats. Yue Wen headed toward the dam after seeing the town's strict laws in action, then recognized Xing'er setting a shop on fire.

• Host Qian Yun and Elder Wei Ping introduced the Nightmare Town format, and Wei praised Hu Yunting while disparaging Yue Wen at the request of an unnamed patron.
• Yue Wen left his cabin and watched contestants overwhelm local residents until the town's security captain arrested one for harassment and warned the others about Nightmare Prison.
• Yue Wen avoided approaching residents and followed the newspaper's directions out of town toward the dam.
• A man was thrown from a burning shop, and Yue Wen recognized Xing'er inside as she smashed the store with a flaming silver staff.

After Zhao Xing'er earned Yang Fire Seeds by wrecking a shop for a local man, Yue Wen learned that the seeds could help protect them from Nightmare Wraith Creatures at night. At the Dream River embankment, the group compared ways to earn more, but Yue Wen and Xing'er clashed over whether to open an agency or scam other contestants.

• Zhao Xing'er told Yue Wen she had accepted an old man's task to punish a general-store owner, then revealed that the old man had given her five Yang Fire Seeds.
• Yue Wen realized Yang Fire Seeds were Nightmare Town's currency and could weaken Nightmare Wraith Creatures when used in lamps.
• Yue Wen and Xing'er went to the Dream River embankment, where Qi Dian explained that hauling stones for ten hours earned only two Yang Fire Seeds.
• Yue Wen proposed opening an agency, while Xing'er proposed having Qi Dian impersonate a local and trick contestants into smashing shops.
• Qi Dian rejected Xing'er's scheme, and Yue Wen suggested a vote as Xing'er insisted her plan was better.

Hu Yunting joined Nightmare Town’s Public Security Team to gain backing and paid work, while Yue Wen, Zhao Xing’er, and Qi Dian opened the Zhao Cultivation Agency and accepted a commission to hunt a Blackflame Bear. The group found the enormous beast outside town, and Xing’er charged it as Yue Wen and Qi Dian prepared to join the fight.

• Hu Yunting persuaded the Public Security Team Captain to let him patrol one block for ten Yang Fire Seeds a day without an official position.
• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing’er, and Qi Dian spent their Yang Fire Seeds opening the Zhao Cultivation Agency, with Xing’er as its boss and Yue Wen handing out flyers.
• An old man hired the Agency to hunt a Blackflame Bear for ten Yang Fire Seeds and promised to seek more customers for them.
• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing’er, and Qi Dian followed the river downstream and found a gigantic Blackflame Bear in the forest.
• Zhao Xing’er drew her flaming silver staff and charged the bear, urging Yue Wen and Qi Dian to attack with her.

Yue Wen and Xing'er killed a Blackflame Bear for an old man, while Ji Yang was tricked into mining Yang Fire Ore and arrested. After the old man warned them not to go out after dark, Yue Wen stayed in and encountered a bloodied woman’s head beneath his bed.

• Xing'er struck the Blackflame Bear, and Yue Wen killed it with his Giant Gate Sword Art, claiming its Evil-Suppressing Money.
• Ji Yang mined Yang Fire Ore after a foreman promised him wages, but a local accused him of stealing and the Public Security Team captain arrested him.
• Yue Wen, Qi Dian, and Xing'er shared the bear meat with the old man, who invited them to the mayor’s daughter Xiao Li’s Matchmaking Ceremony.
• The old man warned the three outsiders not to leave their lodgings after dark, calling the danger Nightmare Town’s greatest secret.
• Yue Wen saved his Yang Fire Seeds and cultivated at home until a bloodied woman’s head emerged from beneath his bed.

Yue Wen killed a Nightmare Wraith Creature, while other contestants fought the first night’s attacks and the livestream hosts commented on their performances. In Nightmare Prison, Ji Yang and the three Medicine Dragons were confronted by a familiar Nightmare Wraith Creature: a math homeroom teacher demanding they complete test papers before dawn.

• Yue Wen avoided a Nightmare Wraith Creature’s feint and killed her with his Flying Sword, then began tidying his room.
• Li Flying Rosy Clouds destroyed a Child-Faced Wolf-Bodied Nightmare Wraith Creature with a beam from her eyes, while Hu Yunting killed a glutton ghost with his Liuli Flying Sword.
• Ji Yang shared a cramped cell with Big Ball, Second Ball, and Third Ball, who puzzled over why their local employer had gotten them arrested.
• A balding Nightmare Wraith Creature appeared at the cell window and ordered the prisoners to finish math test papers before dawn or die.
• Ji Yang recognized the Nightmare Wraith Creature as a math homeroom teacher as the test papers filled the cell.