Recaps

Jiang Nuo learned that the sleeping magic in the village came from a defective system that had devoured another world's Heavenly Dao. The team selected members for the mission to awaken the villagers and restore Feng Mountain's Dragon Vein, which was set to begin in five days.

• Si Mingde reported that the village's sleeping magic resembled advanced magic from Eagle Country and might not belong to this world, while 0732 revealed that a defective system had devoured that world's Heavenly Dao.
• Number One explained that the sleeping village case was connected to the damage to Feng Mountain's Dragon Vein and said the team had to resolve it before traveling through the village to the mountain.
• Si Mingde introduced Feimina, an Eagle Country Magic Association member who would help awaken the villagers but would not join the final restoration.
• Si Mingde said Zhou Ling's application had been approved and that the team could choose two more members; Jiang Nuo chose Zhang Quan and Shi Cheng, while Si Yan chose Tuoba Hong.
• Jiang Nuo warned Si Yan not to act recklessly if the mission turned out to be an instance, and Number One announced that the restoration would be livestreamed and begin in five days.

Jiang Nuo woke from another dream overwhelmed by a sense of loss, and Si Yan comforted him until he fell asleep again. Three days before they departed to repair the Dragon Vein, Zhang Quan returned to Jiang Nuo and admitted he had feelings for his assistant but feared their different natures made a relationship impossible.

• Jiang Nuo woke crying from a dream of an indistinct, familiar presence, and Si Yan held and soothed him.
• Jiang Nuo worried that his recurring nightmares might lead to dementia, and Si Yan promised to stay by his side.
• With three days left before their departure, Jiang Nuo summoned Zhang Quan after he finished filming his drama and prepared for the final Dragon Vein repair.
• Zhang Quan told Jiang Nuo that he liked his young assistant but believed a human and a Half-Corpse Soul could not be together.

Jiang Nuo promised to help Zhang Quan remove the harmful ghost qi from his soul after Feng Mountain, and Zhang Quan joined the upcoming adventure despite worrying Su Su. As the livestream’s final episode approached, the guests prepared for the trip while online chatter sparked jealousy and rumors about Zhang Quan’s feelings for Jiang Nuo.

• Jiang Nuo told Zhang Quan he would find a way to extract some ghost qi from his soul after they returned from Feng Mountain.
• Zhang Quan reassured Su Su that he would return safely, though he privately feared he might not come back.
• The show announced its Feng Mountain episode and revealed Zhang Quan as a guest alongside Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and the other guests.
• Online fans speculated that Zhang Quan was joining to pursue Jiang Nuo, so Zhang Quan sent Si Yan an explanation and Si Yan replied, “Read.”
• Zhang Quan discovered that Su Su was admiring Si Yan’s photos and felt jealous.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan prepared supplies for the trip, and Jiang Nuo planned to use his storage space to carry them.

Jiang Nuo learned that Si Yan had caused a flash flood on Feng Mountain when he was eighteen, and Si Yan asked for his comfort before they left for Sleeping Village. When the group entered the eerily quiet village, several guests suddenly became drowsy, while Tuoba Hong and Zhang Quan remained unaffected.

• Jiang Nuo questioned Si Yan about the large amount of disinfecting supplies, and Si Yan admitted that he had visited Feng Mountain as a teenager and accidentally caused a flash flood there.
• Jiang Nuo comforted Si Yan, and the two shared a kiss before departing for Sleeping Village.
• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and the other guests entered Sleeping Village as their livestream drew widespread attention.
• Si Yong mocked Si Yan, who warned him not to cause trouble, while the group’s strained family dynamics drew notice from viewers.
• Zhou Ling and Si Yan became unusually sleepy, followed by Feimina, Zhang Quan remained unaffected, and Si Yong began drifting off by a tree.

Jiang Nuo and his companions discovered that a strange sleep affecting the village was connected to the system from his world, and that villagers who lost themselves in their dreams were dying. They searched for a place to perform a large purification spell, but a silvery mist blocked the road to the village center.

• Zhou Ling used astrolabe magic and foresaw extreme danger beneath the village’s peaceful appearance, while the flowers’ fragrance made the group drowsy.
• The group found a dead woman and two sleeping children in a bamboo house; Jiang Nuo recognized the scene from the Illusion Instance and explained that people could die if they became immersed in their fantasies.
• Tuoba Hong discovered black threads filling a child’s mental sea, and Jiang Nuo sensed the presence of system 024 before Si Yan helped him regain control.
• 0732 revealed that system 024 was a high-ranking Lingduan 0-series system, and Jiang Nuo said he could damage it as he had before.
• Feimina said she needed a central location with flames, wood, and water to purify the villagers, so the group searched for a suitable place.
• Zhang Quan spotted a temple at the village center, but Zhou Ling noticed that a nearly invisible silvery mist covered the road ahead.

Jiang Nuo and the others discovered a glowing gate to a five-star instance in Slumber Village, where flowering vines spread sleep magic through the soil. As regenerating fleshy hands erupted from underground and resisted both physical and magical attacks, the group faced a new threat with no apparent way to defeat it.

• Zhou Ling entered the mist and reported that it was thickest near the ground, while Jiang Nuo stopped Si Yong from insulting Si Yan.
• A fierce wind scattered the petals and revealed a glowing instance gate, which Jiang Nuo recognized as the entrance to a five-star hell instance.
• Jiang Nuo cut a flowering vine and watched it rapidly regenerate, while Feimina sensed sleep magic coming from underground and suggested purifying the village center.
• Si Yan warned the group as enormous fleshy hands burst from the earth, and Jiang Nuo and Si Yan found that severing them did not stop them from growing back.
• Feimina confirmed that magic did not work on the monster either, leaving the group unable to harm the regenerating hands.

Jiang Nuo and the others destroyed the eye-controlled hands beneath Sleeping Village’s road, then went to the temple to investigate the flowers and a strange deity. After Jiang Nuo provoked the statue, it attacked the group, leaving every guest unconscious.

• Jiang Nuo discovered that eyes inside the fleshy hands controlled their attacks, and Zhang Quan and Zhou Ling destroyed the eyes, causing the hands to go limp and the flowers to wither.
• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Zhang Quan, and the others found that Sleeping Village’s villagers remained asleep and headed to the temple with Feimina to cast purification magic.
• Feimina translated the temple’s inscriptions, which described sacred wine, poisonous flowers, a Nine-Headed Mountain God called Sangyage, and an arrival in July.
• Jiang Nuo struck the deity’s statue with a stone, confirmed it was conscious, and slapped it with his red cord.
• The statue shook the temple, sent vines after Zhou Ling, shattered, and caused the entire guest group to collapse unconscious.

Jiang Nuo and the others entered Sleeping Village’s fantasy, where the sleeping villagers lived amid bizarre transformations and disturbing sights. A little girl led them to her brother, whose body sprouted flowers from his bleeding skin, then trapped the guests inside with him.

• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and the others arrived in Sleeping Village’s fantasy and found the sleeping villagers moving about as if awake.
• The guests saw a koi turn into a frog, a butterfly become candy, and a man hand out cotton candy from his machine wife.
• A little girl invited Jiang Nuo and the others to her house, where they found no corpse and an empty bedroom.
• The girl pointed out her brother, who was curled up on the roof and bleeding flowers through his stretched, translucent skin.
• The little girl told her brother to get along with the guests, and Zhang Quan failed to stop her from closing the door before he found himself back where he had started.

Jiang Nuo and the others faced a monstrous child in the instance, discovering that it calmed down when Si Yan gave it Spiritual Power. After Jiang Nuo killed the tentacled monster hiding the real child, blood-red doors appeared and Jiang Nuo identified what lay beyond them as hell.

• The boy attacked Jiang Nuo, who caught him and spanked him, while Si Yan cut off the tentacles wrapped around Jiang Nuo’s neck.
• The boy calmed when Si Yan touched him with Spiritual Power, and Jiang Nuo tested how he reacted to the others before repeatedly tormenting him and having Si Yan soothe him.
• The boy burrowed into the soil and transformed into a tentacled monster that spat out a child, whom Tuoba Hong caught.
• Jiang Nuo killed the monster, causing the blood-red doors to open slightly and release a terrifying presence.
• The apparition vanished after Feimina collapsed, and Jiang Nuo told Si Yong that the presence had been hell.

Jiang Nuo and the others discovered a woman buried beneath the flowers and suspected her daughter had killed her. When butterflies gathered and flew toward the village square, Jiang Nuo led the group after them.

• Si Yan caught the little girl, who claimed her mother was sleeping among the flowers, while her brother cried.
• Zhang Quan and Tuoba Hong dug up a corpse whose hand pointed toward the village square, and Jiang Nuo asked the girl if she had killed her mother.
• Jiang Nuo noticed blood in the flower-bed soil and suggested the butterflies were feeding on carrion.
• The boy curled up beside his mother's corpse as the flowers enclosed them both.
• When the butterflies flew toward the village square, Jiang Nuo took Si Yan's hand and led the group after them.
• A black butterfly entered Si Yong's mouth, while another burrowed into Feimina's ear, and both continued on as if nothing had happened.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan attended a village gathering beside the Immortal Lake, where the deity’s emissaries announced that a human believer would represent the villagers at the upcoming God-Descending Assembly. Jiang Nuo was chosen, and he was told to receive his attire and attend in three days.

• Jiang Nuo told Si Yan that the system was watching them, and Si Yan promised to support him if he lost control.
• The villagers gathered beside the lake and watched the deity’s winged emissaries appear before the enormous tree.
• Jiang Nuo learned that the emissaries were the deity’s lovers, while Si Yan noticed that villagers in apparent family groups often looked alike.
• The emissaries announced that the Immortal Lake passage would open during the Flower Market and that a human believer would be chosen to communicate with the deity.
• The boy emissary selected Jiang Nuo, and the female emissary ordered him to receive his attire and attend the God-Descending Assembly in three days.

Jiang Nuo provoked the divine envoys before the group followed a strange family to their home. There, they discovered the village’s bizarre family relationships and learned that Xiaodie was about to have a child.

• Jiang Nuo rejected the envoys’ clothes and had Si Yan take them instead, prompting the envoys to leave the gathering in a hurry.
• A family invited the group to stay, and Zhou Ling warned Feimina after the girl Xiaodie reacted to her comment about the village’s dark magic.
• The family led the guests to a room where a wrinkled baby-sized person and a child-faced adult unsettled everyone.
• Jiang Nuo questioned the mother about Xiaodie’s husband and little brother, and she said they were father and son.
• The mother and Xiaodie’s father declared that Xiaodie would have a child any moment.

Jiang Nuo and the guests analyzed the temple prophecy and suspected the Nine-Headed Mountain God was the area’s boss. Their discussion was interrupted when Xiaodie began giving birth to a monster, revealing how the village’s people imitated ordinary human behavior even amid horrifying events.

• Feimina repeated the temple prophecy, and Zhou Ling asked whether Sangyage referred to the twin envoys and Jiang Nuo was the chosen believer.
• Jiang Nuo warned that surviving and clearing the game area was its greatest reward, then threw a black blade at Si Yong after Si Yong challenged him.
• Zhang Quan stopped Si Yong from retaliating and ordered the guests out, but Xiaodie's mother immediately called for help because Xiaodie was giving birth.
• The guests watched sharp claws tear through Xiaodie's belly as her husband and father searched inside her for the baby, while her blood made flowers bloom through the bamboo house.
• Jiang Nuo explained to Zhou Ling that the villagers imitated ordinary people’s habits even when those actions had no practical purpose.

Jiang Nuo and the others faced Xiaodie’s newborn monster, and Si Yong revealed strange powers while fighting it. As Jiang Nuo realized Si Yong was no longer the same person, Feimina stabbed Si Yan with an ornate dagger.

• Xiaodie declared that everyone except the emissary’s chosen believer should feed her newborn monster, and Jiang Nuo pushed Si Yong toward it.
• Si Yong fled from the monster while warning the other guests that Jiang Nuo might abandon them too.
• Jiang Nuo suspected Si Yong was hiding his abilities, and Si Yan attacked the monster to test him.
• Si Yong summoned a dark purple scepter and used poison arrows against the monster, revealing power similar to the monster’s dark force.
• Jiang Nuo realized Si Yong was not who he used to be, while Feimina stabbed Si Yan in the abdomen and smiled with pitch-black eyes.

Si Yan subdued the possessed Feimina and drove the entity away, while Si Yong vanished after Jiang Nuo attacked him. Back in their room, Jiang Nuo healed Si Yan’s injuries as Si Yan asked him for comfort and wondered who their enemies were.

• Feimina’s magic dagger failed to pierce Si Yan, who caught its tip and fought off the entity possessing her while Jiang Nuo battled Si Yong.
• The entity escaped Feimina as black smoke and a phantom butterfly, and Si Yong vanished before Jiang Nuo’s final strike could hit him.
• Jiang Nuo dispelled the barrier and went with Si Yan, while Zhou Ling and Zhang Quan helped Feimina and Tuoba Hong leave.
• Jiang Nuo took Si Yan back to their room, where Si Yan showed him his burned hand and asked him for comfort.
• Jiang Nuo kissed Si Yan and healed his arm, though the dark-power burns remained, and Si Yan complained about their enemies’ lack of manners.

Jiang Nuo and the guests identified the Nine-Headed Mountain God as the final BOSS and investigated Sleeping Village’s strange children and customs. On the third day of the Flower Fair, the villagers gathered at Immortal Lake for the God-Descending Assembly, with Jiang Nuo carried there by butterflies.

• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan suspected Si Yong had been replaced and wondered whether Si Mingde knew about it, but decided to clear the game before seeking answers.
• Zhou Ling and the guests found a black butterfly mark on Feimina’s ear, and Si Yan recalled a butterfly escaping from the monster that had possessed her.
• Jiang Nuo identified the Nine-Headed Mountain God as the final BOSS and said the guests still had to uncover Sleeping Village’s secret and piece together its history.
• Si Yan theorized that generations of close-relative marriages had caused the villagers’ children to become increasingly abnormal, while the village’s dreamlike life made most villagers unwilling to wake.
• On the final day of the Flower Fair, the villagers gathered at Immortal Lake for the God-Descending Assembly, and butterflies carried Jiang Nuo to the lakeside as Si Yan and the other guests watched nearby.

Jiang Nuo refused to kneel before the deity and threw the monstrous baby believer into the lake instead. The Twin Messengers then ordered him to water the giant tree’s flowers with a friend’s blood.

• A little girl brought Jiang Nuo a swaddled monster and told him to protect it as a believer.
• The Twin Messengers told Jiang Nuo to kneel before the giant tree and jump into the lake to summon the deity, but he refused.
• When the villagers condemned him, Jiang Nuo asked if any believer would do and hurled the baby monster into the lake, completing the stage.
• The Twin Messengers gave Jiang Nuo an empty wine jug and ordered him to use one of his friends’ blood to water the flowers beside the giant tree.

Jiang Nuo and his companions survived the Twin Messengers’ rituals as the Nine-Headed Mountain God descended at Immortal Lake. When the deity offered to grant any wish to those who worshipped him, Jiang Nuo refused and challenged him.

• Jiang Nuo chose Zhang Quan for the blood ritual, and Zhang Quan calmly filled the flask while replenishing himself with yin incense.
• The Twin Messengers completed the rituals and led the villagers in worship as a whirlpool formed in Immortal Lake.
• Butterflies plunged into the lake and dark clouds gathered before the Nine-Headed Mountain God appeared.
• Jiang Nuo mocked the deity’s monstrous appearance and refused to kneel when asked.
• The deity offered to grant any wish to worshippers, but Jiang Nuo said he would fight for what he wanted and called the deity a monster wearing a god’s skin.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan forced the deity to reveal the truth behind Life and Breath Village’s slumber, exposing how System 024 had turned the villagers into sleeping monsters. When the deity attacked, Jiang Nuo killed it and dispersed its dark power.

• Si Yan tricked the deity into admitting it could not answer every wish, prompting the villagers to question their faith and awaken.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan learned that inbreeding had caused deformed births, and the deity had put the villagers to sleep in a false utopia to feed System 024.
• Jiang Nuo suspected System 024’s true body was imprisoned, while the deity realized its plot had unraveled and abandoned its disguise to attack the players.
• Jiang Nuo fought the deity in Immortal Lake as Si Yan guarded the shore, Zhang Quan organized the others, and Feimina used purification magic on the villagers.
• Jiang Nuo defeated the deity, whose corpse surfaced before its believers as its remaining dark power dispersed.

Jiang Nuo and the guests rescued the little boy and cleared the trial grounds, then returned to reality and helped the villagers recover. Before heading up Feng Mountain, Jiang Nuo warned the others about the danger, but Tuoba Hong insisted on joining him to protect the Dragon Vein.

• Jiang Nuo realized the villagers' fantasy world was connected to reality through an awakened person, and the guests rushed to the little girl's house.
• Si Yan, Zhang Quan, and Jiang Nuo stopped the vine monster from swallowing the little boy, and Feimina healed him.
• The system announced that Jiang Nuo and Zhang Quan had cleared Life and Breath Village with 100% story completion and awarded Jiang Nuo a Return Gate.
• The guests returned to the real world, and Feimina dispelled the villagers' remaining witchcraft while the group helped them rebuild and prepare their wake ceremony.
• Jiang Nuo upgraded Zhang Quan to make him seem more human, then warned the others that Feng Mountain was dangerous and they could turn back.
• Tuoba Hong refused to retreat, saying he had to protect the Dragon Vein and investigate Feng Mountain's connection to the instance.

As Jiang Nuo and the others prepared to enter the mountain, they exchanged farewells with loved ones while the Dao Xuan Association uncovered a sealed record connected to Jiang Nuo's family. The chapter left the Grand Elder realizing Jiang Nuo was Jiang Daoran's son, and fearing the team might face the same fate as the failed Feng Mountain Dragon Vein restoration team.

• Zhou Ling and Feimina refused to leave, and Jiang Nuo welcomed them before suggesting they call their families.
• Zhang Quan promised Su Su he would return, while Su Su said he did not care whether Zhang Quan was human; Zhang Quan asked him to wait until his return to discuss it.
• Cui Ming urged Jiang Nuo and Si Yan to come back safely, and they promised they would.
• The Grand Elder ordered the secretary to retrieve the Dao Xuan Association's sealed files and wondered whether Si Mingde, Jiang Nuo, and the others would return safely.
• The Grand Elder found a report showing that Jiang Daoran's Feng Mountain team had disappeared for seven days and all members except Wang Qing had died, then recognized Jiang Nuo as Jiang Daoran's child.

Jiang Nuo and the temporary squad entered the world behind the illusory door, where Jiang Nuo reunited with Si Yan and welcomed him to his lair. After binding the squad to his team, Jiang Nuo discovered that he had fallen to second place.

• The system seized control of livestream terminals worldwide and invited viewers to witness the squad's fate as they climbed Feng Mountain.
• Jiang Nuo and the squad appeared in his lounge, where Tuoba Hong joked about Jiang Nuo's transformed appearance.
• Jiang Nuo showed Si Yan his outfit, accepted his affection, and gave him a ring that marked him as Jiang Nuo's partner.
• Jiang Nuo gave Feimina the Bloody Cloth and bound the squad members to his team, explaining that his level could conceal their newcomer identities.
• Jiang Nuo noticed that he had dropped to second place on the rankings.

Jiang Nuo returned to the instance lobby as players argued over his apparent death and Boduo’s rise to the top of the rankings. After maiming Da Qi for mocking him, Jiang Nuo greeted the lobby, where someone asked who the people behind him were.

• Da Qi and the Shengsheng Squad claimed Boduo was the rightful number one, while other players questioned why Jiang Nuo had only fallen to second place if he was dead.
• Jiang Nuo arrived, approached Da Qi and the Shengsheng Squad, and mocked Da Qi’s speech.
• Da Qi panicked and drew his poisoned sword as Boduo and the Shengsheng Squad braced themselves.
• Jiang Nuo sliced away half of Da Qi’s face, saying he was returning the favor, and the squad dared not object.
• Jiang Nuo greeted the players and wished them a pleasant mission experience, prompting someone to ask who was behind him.

Jiang Nuo entered a never-before-seen destruction-class six-star instance with Si Yan and their temporary team, drawing a roster packed with high-ranking players. The group reached a strangely familiar city and gathered outside a hotel, where a disturbing man asked whether they believed in fate.

• Jiang Nuo introduced Si Yan and the others as players he had chosen, and Si Yan acted frightened while clinging to him.
• Jiang Nuo led the team into the newly opened destruction-class six-star instance, and Boduo was assigned to the same instance.
• Jiang Nuo explained that high-level instances were illusory worlds where players could lose themselves and become NPCs.
• The group followed the instance's directions toward a hotel, and Jiang Nuo told them not to answer the beggar-like man asking about fate.
• Tuoba Hong crossed the intersection safely, and the group reached the hotel entrance, where Jiang Nuo noticed fifteen players had gathered.

Jiang Nuo and the players entered the destruction-class six-star Curse of Fate instance, where they learned that escaping the world was their mission. At the Fate Hotel, Jiang Nuo ignored the advice to stay alone and secured a shared room with Si Yan as the first inspection approached.

• A man at the entrance declared that fate controlled everyone, then killed himself with an axe as the system announced the Curse of Fate instance and its mission to escape the world.
• Jiang Nuo insulted the system, while An Tang questioned why he had brought unfamiliar people into the instance.
• The hotel manager welcomed the players and listed the Fate Hotel's rules, including room inspections, nighttime restrictions, and warnings about uniforms and trust.
• As the first inspection neared, players checked in separately after the receptionist advised them to stay alone.
• Jiang Nuo requested a couple's room with Si Yan, claimed Si Yan was his frail monster wife, and received the hotel's only special room key cards for one room.