Chapter Summaries

Jiang Nuo’s tender moment with Si Yan was interrupted by eager newcomers who wanted photos with their idol. As Si Yan sulked over the attention Jiang Nuo received, Jiang Nuo remembered an unresolved obsession tied to the Dragon Vein and the challenge worlds.

• Nearly ten newcomers barged into the lounge, and Jiang Nuo agreed to take photos with them after washing up.
• While showering, Jiang Nuo remembered an unfinished obsession and wondered whether the last Dragon Vein needing rescue was connected to the challenge worlds.
• At the training grounds, Si Yan watched as association members lined up to take photos and videos with Jiang Nuo.
• Si Yan posted unseen photos of himself, then liked a fan’s comment suggesting his caption sounded aggrieved.
• After taking a final group photo, Jiang Nuo returned to Si Yan, who complained that Jiang Nuo had forgotten he was there.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan searched Si Mingde’s archive for clues about the world from Jiang Nuo’s dream, but found Si Yong inside. After Si Yong escaped and threatened Si Yan, Jiang Nuo comforted him.

• Si Yan and Jiang Nuo decided to search his grandfather’s study and archive for clues based on 0732’s hint.
• Si Yan noticed someone had entered the study and opened the archive, where they found Si Yong.
• Si Yong claimed he had the right to enter the archive and threatened to kill Si Yan before vanishing.
• Jiang Nuo suspected Si Yong’s power had grown and reassured Si Yan, who felt weighed down by his grandfather’s reluctance to kill the man who had taken his father’s life.
• Jiang Nuo kissed Si Yan and gently told him not to be sad.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan uncovered a possible link between Feng Mountain, the last damaged dragon vein, and the year Jiang Nuo was born, prompting Jiang Nuo to return to the orphanage. There, he received a long-kept letter addressed to him, and he began to open it.

• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan found records linking Feng Mountain to a group of people who had returned from another world and died, and Si Yan suspected the mountain held the last damaged dragon vein.
• Jiang Nuo connected the records' date to his birth and felt overwhelmed by the sense that he had forgotten something important.
• Jiang Nuo asked to revisit the orphanage, and Si Yan went with him.
• At the orphanage, the security guard recognized Jiang Nuo's name and revealed that his father, Grandpa Daqiang, had left Jiang Nuo a letter to be given to him when he returned in person.
• Jiang Nuo read the faded envelope's message, then opened the letter with Si Yan beside him.

Jiang Nuo learned from Wang Qing’s letter that his human father, Jiang Daoran, died fighting the monster at Feng Mountain, while his anomaly parent, Gui Ci, sealed it and saved him. After revisiting the orphanage with Si Yan, Jiang Nuo learned that Gui Ci’s spirit had saved him during the Death Fantasy instance, and the story moved toward a meeting to plan the repair of Feng Mountain’s dragon vein.

• Jiang Nuo read Wang Qing’s letter explaining his parents’ past and the circumstances of his birth.
• 0732 told Jiang Nuo that Gui Ci’s spiritual consciousness had saved him during the Death Fantasy instance.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan toured the orphanage, shared a meal with the children, and Jiang Nuo left supplies for them.
• Si Yan received word that his grandfather had returned and that they had to attend a Supreme Bureau meeting about repairing Feng Mountain’s dragon vein.
• Jiang Nuo said the team should include people they both knew well, and Si Yan agreed.

Si Yan confronted Si Yong at a Supreme Bureau meeting and reluctantly agreed to bring him to Feng Mountain to repair the final Dragon Vein. The briefing revealed that villagers near the mountain had fallen into a deep sleep, and some died after wandering from their homes.

• Si Yan angrily challenged Si Mingde about Si Yong's presence and threw a potted plant at Si Yong when he spoke.
• Zhou Ling denied Si Yong tissues, and Number One left to give the group space to settle its internal affairs.
• Si Mingde pleaded with Si Yan to take Si Yong to Feng Mountain, and Si Yan agreed while warning that Si Yong might die there.
• Jiang Nuo comforted Si Yan as the meeting resumed, and Number One confirmed that Jiang Nuo would still help repair the Dragon Vein.
• The assistant showed footage of a remote village at the foot of Feng Mountain, where more than twenty households had fallen asleep and some residents wandered outside and died.

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.