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Chapter 17

## Chapter Guide

**We May Never Meet Again** (一生再难相见 *Yī Shēng Zài Nán Xiāng Jiàn*) is the seventeenth chapter of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*.

## Summary

While walking to school, Ye Yan walks past a television screen that is showing a news report on another recent case of sudden death that occurred in one of the city's Internet cafés. The report continues to detail that the male victim's surname is Wang and was born in 1990. Ye Yan notices that from the corpse's appearance that it did not die from sudden death, but from zombification. He wonders if it was caused by the two self-dismembering monsters from before, but notes that no zombie gas leaked from them after being crushed to death by Hundun, concluding that there must be another evil entity causing these deaths in the city. Ximen Guanren then appears behind him, asking if he is interested in corpses. Frightened, Ye Yan punches him across the face by reflex. While Ximen wonders why he keeps scaring people, Ye Yan remarks that he is surprised someone was able to scare him since he is usually the one who scares others, before noting that despite having no demonic aura and appearing to be a normal person, Ximen Guanren emanated an intense negative aura akin to a demon. Ye Yan then asks if Ximen had any business with him, who says that he recognized Ye Yan's student uniform and wanted to remind him that the time is currently 7:55 and Xiahou High School's gates close in five minutes. Realizing he is late to school, Ye Yan runs off, with Ximen Guanren chuckling to himself while mentioning that Ye Yan is "exceptionally excellent material".

As Ye Yan runs to school, he imagines being scolded by Huang Xiaoyan for being late. Instead, upon arriving at school, a melancholic Huang Xiaoyan greets him. She says that once the two of them report to the Department of Night, they will be dispatched to different places for their missions, and may never meet each other again. She then remarks that she will be too busy to scold Ye Yan, who retorts that he won't have to worry about being beaten by her anymore either. Huang Xiaoyan then says that she forgives Ye Yan for their previous conflicts and encourages him to do his best at serving the country. Ye Yan encourages her in return, but secretly feels reluctant in reporting to the Department. As the two push open the door to the student council's office, Wuren scolds the two for being late and tells them that the principal is temporarily unavailable before giving them a mission that the two of them must complete together.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Ye Yan
* Ximen Guanren
* Huang Xiaoyan
* Wuren
Guardians of Night (Anime)

**Guardians of Night** (王牌御史 *Wáng Pái Yù Shǐ*) is the animated adaptation of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*. It is an original net animation produced by Haoliners Animation League and premiered on June 27, 2014.

## Plot

In a world where yin and yang has lost its balance and day merged with night, humans and monsters learn to coexist. Our hardworking censorates do their best to fight the ‘untamed’ monsters in this joyful story.

## Staff

**Animation Studio**: Haoliners Animation League

**Director**: Li Haoling

**Executive Producer**: Li Xiaoting

**Art Direction**: Sun Meng

**Character Design**: ideolo

**Producer**: Zou Zhengyu

## Cast

* **Ye Yan**: Shen Dawei
* **Huang Xiaoyan**: Wen Xiaoyi
* **Ximen Guanren**: Xia Lei
* **Pu Wenshan**: Xia Lei
* **Wang Shengli**: Wang Yuhang
* **Yan Wen**: Feng Junhua
* **Gu Xiaohua**: Feng Junhua
* **Che Yongtai**: Gao Qichang
* **Xi Sha**: Du Qingqing
* **Wuren**: Xie Tiantian
* **Li Lingbiao**: Liu Yuxuan
* **Hong Hong**: Xin Yue
* **Bai Ning**: Fan Junhang
* **Cang Shui**: Xie Tiantian
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Tong Yao

**Tong Yao** (佟遥 *Tóng Yáo*) is a Chinese manhua artist best known for creating *Guardians of Night*.

## Appearance

Tong Yao's avatar, both on his Weibo account and his author account on Tencent Animation and Comics is a dazed-looking man with white hair, wearing a red scarf and a white shirt.

## History

In 1997, while studying as a sophomore in a technical secondary art school, Tong Yao submitted

## Works

* **Red Wanderer** (真红游侠 *Zhēn Hóng Yóu Xiá*) (2011) *COMICSHOW* 2011 vol.1 - vol. 6 (series)
* **Guardians of Night** (王牌御史 *Wáng Pái Yù Shǐ*) (2014) *Tencent Animation and Comics* 2014-01 - Ongoing (series)

## Staff

### Editors

* **Gu Xiang** (故乡 *Gù Xiāng*), Chief Editor
* **Lina**, Assistant (Chapter 4 to present)
* **Meng Jian Mao** (梦见猫 *Mèng Jiàn Māo*), Assistant (Chapter 11 - )
* **Shi Liu Ye Dai Xiao** (十六夜待宵 *Shí Liù Yè Dài Xiāo*), Assistant (Chapter 27 - Chapter 43)
* **Luo Da Gen** (萝大根 *Luó Dà Gēn*), Assistant (Chapter 41 - )
* **NO. 9**, Assistant (Chapter 44 - Chapter 160)
* **Jian Pan** (键盘 *Jiàn Pán*), Assistant (to present)
* **Da Meng** (大蒙 *Dà Méng*), Assistant (to present)

## Gallery

Red Wanderer (First Chapter Cover Page)Guardians of Night (First Chapter Cover Page)
Re:CREATORS

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Chapter 18

## Chapter Guide

**You're Involved With Zombies** (你和僵尸有关系 *Nǐ Hé Jiāng Shī Yǒu Guān Xì*) is the eighteenth chapter of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*.

## Summary

Ye Yan is seen wearing a hard hat. He laments that the mission he and Huang Xiaoyan are tasked to complete together is rebuilding the school. A flashback ensues of Wuren telling the two that their battle destroyed the southern part of campus, and that they must help the construction team reconstruct the buildings after school. Any other missions can only be assigned by Wang Shengli after he returns.

Back to the present, Ye Yan thinks that it seems he and Huang Xiaoyan will remain together for a while longer, before complaining that she will continue to mooch off of him. While expressing his complaint, Ye Yan touches the handle of the bucket he put down with his knuckles and jolts back in pain. Noticing that the skin on the back of his right hand is decaying, Ye Yan realizes that it has been zombified and wonders how it could have happened. Remembering that he punched Ximen Guanren, Ye Yan concludes that he is responsible. He then accidentally knocks over a nearby bucket filled with cement, causing it to fall onto someone below, who angrily asks who knocked it over. Looking over the edge, Ye Yan realizes the bucket fell on Huang Xiaoyan, who spots him as well. Ye Yan flees in fear while Huang Xiaoyan proclaims she will tear him limb from limb that evening. As Ye Yan runs past two students, one of them comments that the "couple" is arguing again, with the other adamantly denying that their "goddess" has anything to do with Ye Yan.

That night, Ye Yan is seen sitting at the edge of a building's roof. He mentions that he needs to find a place to spend the night since he fears what awaits him if he goes home, and notes that he will go home tomorrow once Huang Xiaoyan cools down. As he considers going to an Internet café, he spots Ximen Guanren wandering the streets. Hoping to capture and interrogate him, Ye Yan runs down the side of the building, only to be kneed in the face by Huang Xiaoyan, sending him crashing into the pavement. Huang Xiaoyan descends onto the ground and sarcastically asks if Ye Yan thought she couldn't find him if he didn't return home, while Ye Yan tells her to stop making trouble for him as he has proper business to take care of. He then gets up to chase after Ximen Guanren, only to be tripped over by Huang Xiaoyan. She tells him to stop trying to fool her and escape, while Ye Yan notices that the man has vanished. Huang Xiaoyan then sits on his back and demands a sincere apology from him, with Ye Yan angrily retorting if she knew what she has done.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Ye Yan
* Wuren
* Huang Xiaoyan
* Ximen Guanren
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Chapter 609

## Chapter Guide

**Grudge** (仇怨 *Chóu Yuàn*) is the six hundred and ninth chapter of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*.

## Summary

Xi Sha finally meets the leader of Bloodstain. Xi Sha comments that the leader carelessly reserved the meeting password since they presumed she would die, though the latter retorts that they purposefully left the password. The leader then notes that they have exhausted all of their resources to attack Xi Sha, so they do not mind if their location is exposed, especially since the demon lord seems to be on the brink of death. Enraged, Xi Sha grabs the person's neck and attempts to kill them by crushing it. However, their head pops off instead, exposing strands of string connecting their head and neck. After realizing that the person before her is a puppet, Xi Sha quickly detects the presence of someone hiding underneath the puppet's dress and tears it apart.

A sickly little girl emerges from the dress. Xi Sha is dumbfounded by the fact that such a seemingly powerless and weak girl was the mastermind of Bloodstain. She then questions the girl's courage, as she chose to not manipulate her puppet from afar so she could meet the demon lord. The girl repeats her earlier statement, adding that she has nothing to lose anymore and would be able to rest in peace if Xi Sha were to die. The demon lord lifts the girl by her cloak and angrily interrogates her for the reason behind her wish to kill her. Instead of answering, the little girl tells Xi Sha that her imminent death is the price she pays for offending her.

Furious, Xi Sha throws the girl onto the ground and demands to know the grudge she holds against her. Spitting out blood, the girl insists that a cold-blooded demon lord would never understand her reason and continues to refuse to answer. In a fit of rage, Xi Sha bites into the girl's neck and tears out her throat.

Some time later, Xi Sha is seen eating the young girl's corpse with the intention of reading her memories. However, she suddenly discovers that the body also contained poison. Realizing that the girl was goading her into eating her to inflict damage, Xi Sha is utterly baffled as to what kind of grudge the girl held against her to the point where she'd willingly poison herself to hurt her. Upon reading her memories, Xi Sha sees the young girl, albeit properly dressed and cheerful.

## Chapter Notes

* The leader of Bloodstain is revealed to be a human girl.
* Xi Sha kills Bloodstain's leader.
* Xi Sha is poisoned as a result of eating the flesh of Bloodstain's leader.
Chapter 53

## Chapter Guide

**The Joyful Harmony in the Department of Night** (夜部其乐融融 *Yè Bù Qí Lè Róng Róng*) is the fifty-third chapter of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*.

## Summary

Wang Shengli informs Che Yongtai and Xi Sha that the reason guardians go to school instead of training in seclusion is so they could learn how to assimilate into society and live normally while being prepared to use their abilities at times of emergencies. Additionally, guardians are forbidden from causing social unrest. The two demon lords voice their understanding, and Wang Shengli admits them as guardians. Yan Wen warns the two to not cause trouble in the human world, who concur. Wang then introduces Che Yongtai to the other guardians as a demon lord from the Underworld. Ye Yan notes that he cannot sense demonic aura from the demon, who tells him that the demons have evolved. Huang Xiaoyan suddenly leaps forth and slashes Che Yongtai's head with her sword, causing him to bleed from the wound and fall over. She declares that justice and evil cannot coexist, and as an Untitled Sage she refuses to work with demons. Xi Sha then attempts to bite her for injuring her "servant" and stealing Ye Yan from her. As the two girls fight, Ye Yan attempts to defuse the battle but is suddenly punched in the face by Che Yongtai. Angrily asking why Che Yongtai is attacking him despite Huang Xiaoyan being responsible for his injury, Che tells Ye Yan that he is fine with being cut by his "goddess", and expresses his disdain for the Nightwatcher. As the four brawl while insulting each other, Yan Wen and Wang Shengli stop the fights and reprimand their subordinates, ordering them to get along within a week or face expulsion. Wang Shengli then orders them to sit in silence and reflect on their behavior for an hour before leaving the room.

Before they could walk far, Wang Shengli and Yan Wen begin to hear the four argue. Yan Wen attempts to return and discipline them again, but Wang stops him, remarking that the two cannot always watch over the guardians and that they must find their own way of coexisting. He then notes that they have improved, as they are only quarrelling instead of fighting. However, fighting immediately ensues, angering Wang Shengli. However, the room suddenly falls silent, alarming the two overseers.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Wang Shengli
* Che Yongtai
* Xi Sha
* Yan Wen
* Ye Yan
* Huang Xiaoyan
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Chapter 54

## Chapter Guide

**In the Home of Gods, a King Sings** (神的故乡，王在歌唱 *Shén De Gù Xiāng, Wáng Zài Gē Chàng*) is the fifty-fourth chapter of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*.

## Summary

Wondering why the room of rowdy guardians suddenly went quiet, Wang Shengli and Yan Wen slightly open the door and peek through. They see Huang Xiaoyan's sword cutting into Ximen Guanren's head, who entered the room through the back door with Wuren. Huang apologizes for accidentally injuring the president as he falls onto the ground with his head bloodied. Hearing her addressing him as the president confuses Che Yongtai and Xi Sha. As Ximen stands back up, Wuren introduces him to the two demon lords as the Student Council President, executive officer of the Department of Night, and the guardians' immediate superior. Recognizing Ximen Guanren as the Gravekeeper who was beaten by the demon lords, Yan Wen prepares to enter the room to defuse the situation. Wang Shengli stops her and tells her to watch them mediate by themselves, as Ximen was starting to emit his "aura". The matriarch looks in the room again and sees Ximen Guanren emitting a faint cyan aura.

A narration begins, expounding that gregarious organisms have two types of auras hidden in their genes. When the auras are stimulated appropriately, leaders and followers are created in a group, causing the establishment of hierarchical subordination and thus allowing the group to actively work together and increase survivability. Human kings, alpha wolves, dominant monkeys, and queen bees exemplify the organisms who possess the aura of a leader. When a leader releases their aura, surrounding creatures will automatically release their aura of subordination and feel heartfelt admiration and obedience towards the leader. A leader's aura could be the result of a powerful body, perfect charisma, or a deep sense of guilt directed to them.

The chapter then cuts back to the students. Ye Yan feels guilty as he remembers attacking the president with Hundun, Huang Xiaoyan feels ashamed for cutting him, and Che Yongtai and Xi Sha remember that they beat up the president for twenty minutes. Their collective guilty conscience causes them to prostrate themselves before Ximen Guanren and sincerely apologize. Yan Wen realizes that Ximen possesses the legendary King's Aura. Ximen Guanren then asks the guardians to get along with each other, causing them to pledge subservience. Yan Wen and Wang Shengli watch in amazement, with the former noting that even she feels like kneeling before the president.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Wang Shengli
* Yan Wen
* Ximen Guanren
* Wuren
* Huang Xiaoyan
* Che Yongtai
* Xi Sha

## References

*Guardians of Night* Manhua — Chapter 19 (p. 7).
*Guardians of Night* Manhua — Chapter 51 (p. 6).
Mimicking Worm Queen

The **Mimicking Worm Queen** (应声虫母 *Yìng Shēng Chóng Mǔ*) is an ancient monster who was sealed underground several decades ago.

## Synopsis

### History

The Mimicking Worm Queen is a monster who was sealed underground in Bozhou along with many other ancient monsters, all of whom once caused disastrous turmoil in the world. The seal was maintained by an orb that Wang Shengli stores within himself. When the seal was weakened due to Wang Shengli extracting the orb, the worm monster seized the opportunity to escape along with the Iridescent Spider Emperor, a monster who fell in love with her.

## Personality

The Mimicking Worm Queen has no qualms with seducing and subsequently murdering humans or fellow monsters to further her own ends.

## Appearance

The Mimicking Worm Queen's human disguise resembles a curvaceous woman with fair skin, and long black hair styled like an insect's carapace that covers the upper part of her face.

She wears a low-cut, reddish-brown robe that exposes her cleavage and shoulders and a red sash around her waist. While at less than eighty percent of her full power, her lower body resembles a large white worm's, with spikes protruding out of it. After gathering enough power, she can disguise her lower body into a pair of slender human legs.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: The Mimicking Worm Queen is one of the few monsters deemed dangerous enough to be sealed beneath Bozhou, indicating her level of power as extremely high. The worm queen easily incapacitated Ximen Guanren, an experienced Gravekeeper, using a variety of effects caused by her worms.

### Techniques

*Guardians of Night* Manhua — Chapter 692 (p. 2).
*Guardians of Night* Manhua — Chapter 692 (p. 4-8).
*Guardians of Night* Manhua — Chapter 695 (p. 11-16).
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Chapter 5

## Chapter Guide

**Are We Acquaintances?** (我们是熟人啦? *Wǒ Men Shì Shú Rén La?*) is the fifth chapter of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night.*

## Summary

Ye Yan's Flag Demons hear Pang Dali's screams of an Untitled Sage and discuss amongst themselves in fear, detailing the brutalities of Untitled Sages. As Pang Dali flees, Huang Xiaoyan notices Ye Yan standing in the bear's path and warns him to move out of the way. However, upon recognizing Ye Yan, Huang Xiaoyan becomes enraged, causing Ye Yan to flee despite his Flag Demons' attempts at goading him into protecting them from her. The Flag Demons return to their Demon Flags as Ye Yan runs away, who is then joined by Pang Dali who begs to be subjugated by him.

Huang Xiaoyan releases cutting air slashes with her sword that fly by the two. Pang Dali immediately swears allegiance to Ye Yan, noting he would rather live than die. As a "test of loyalty", Ye Yan throws the bear at Huang Xiaoyan in hopes of stopping her, but to no avail as she slams him into a wall to her side. Ye Yan quickly turns a corner, and Huang Xiaoyan follows but is then unable to find him. In a fit of anger, she kicks over a trash can to her left and claims that she will cut off Ye Yan's arms and legs when she finds him. Unbeknownst to her, Ye Yan was hiding in the trash can.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Pang Dali
* Huang Xiaoyan
* Ye Yan

## Trivia

* Following regulations and censorships regarding comic contents, Chapter 5 was redrawn. The cigarettes in this chapter were changed into potato fries.
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Chapter 69

## Chapter Guide

**A New Bloodstone** (新的血石 *Xīn De Xuè Shí*) is the sixty-ninth chapter of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*.

## Summary

As an unconscious Che Yongtai lies on the sand and bleeds from his nose, Yue Wushuang remarks that he must be an innocent virgin if he can be so easily knocked out from seeing a naked woman. She then takes out the chest wrap and skirt she prepared in Yue Wuer's shorts in case they needed to swap bodies. After changing, she telepathically asks Wuer about his situation, who frightfully responds that it is terrible while bleeding from several injuries inflicted by Xi Sha. Wuer tells her that if the attack continues, he will definitely die, with Wushuang responding that she will face the same fate even if she switches over. With no other option, Wuer proposes that they prematurely combine their cores without considering the yin-yang balance and asks Wushuang to quickly collect three more bloodstones.

At the same time, Che Yongtai wakes up, expressing his wonder about how Wuer seemingly transformed into a girl. Noticing Che and the high quality bloodstone he could yield, Yue Wushuang approaches him. She promptly kisses him, causing Che Yongtai to blush heavily. While Yue Wushuang proudly notes that she never uses her Erotic Eye when kissing others since it is much easier for a woman to seduce a man than vice versa, Che Yongtai embarrassingly tells her that that was his first kiss.

While stating how wonderful a kiss feels, Che Yongtai suddenly clutches his chest after experiencing extreme pain in his heart, before falling over. Yue Wushuang sinisterly laughs and explains that the moment they kissed, she absorbed all of his heart's essence, causing it to melt into blood.

## Chapter Notes

* Yue Wushuang absorbs Che Yongtai's heart, killing him.
Chapter 33

## Chapter Guide

**The Birth of Two Demons** (双魔降世 *Shuāng Mó Jiàng Shì*) is the thirty-third chapter of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*.

## Summary

Paralleling Wang Shengli's group of the new generation of guardians, Yan Wen plans to send the new generation of demon lords as the Underworld's representatives to seize the Heaven Crystal. As the nearby demons look on in fear as the two demon lords walk out of the Blood Pool and towards them, they begin to exposit their origins. The two ruthless demon lords once massacred the human world and Underworld, but due to their excessive slaughtering and supercilious attitudes, high-ranking individuals from both realms cooperated with each other to formulate a strategy to kill them. At the cost of countless powerful warriors, they barely managed to kill the two demon lords. With severely weakened souls, the demon lords nourished themselves for a century before finally reincarnating.

As the demons express their horrified confusion as to why bloodthirsty beings like the two weren't killed off for good and question if it is necessary to release such indiscriminate killing machines, Che Yongtai compares the noisiness of the crowd to a horde of flies in annoyance, prompting the demons to silence themselves. He then orders the demons to kneel and lick his and his "follower"'s shoes, while at the same time Xi Sha commands them to kneel and greet her and her "servant". Taking offense at each other's title for the other, the two begin to childishly argue with each other, much to the chagrin of everyone else present. A random demon then explains that their reincarnations must have been "inferior in quality", causing their new forms to retain less than 10% of their original power. The other demons agree, noting that Che Yongtai and Xi Sha did not exhibit obvious demonic auras. Some even suggest that they probably have less than 1% of their original strength while the two continue to argue.

Two large demons, identified as the demon generals Crimson Blood and Black Water then appear, remarking that failed reincarnations do not deserve to represent the Undeworld. Crimson Blood then walks up to Che Yongtai and mockingly degrades him as an embarrassing and intellectually disabled weakling before attempting to test his ablities. He then attacks Che Yongtai with his signature technique Crimson Blood Demon Claw. An onlooking demon explains that the move reduces any organism it hits into a pool of blood which Crimson Blood then absorbs to augment his own power, and realizes that the demon general intends to kill the demon lord and absorb his powers. Upon contact, a large pool of blood splashes out from Che Yongtai's location, leading the surrounding crowd to assume he died.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Yan Wen
* Defender of the Right
* Che Yongtai
* Xi Sha
* Defender of the Left
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Chapter 50

## Chapter Guide

**Damn Hermaphrodite** (那啥阴阳人 *Nà Shá Yīn Yáng Rén*) is the fiftieth chapter of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*.

## Summary

On the streets, a furious Che Yongtai prepares to slaughter humans. He is then distracted by the sound of crying and sees a sobbing Xi Sha running towards him, who exclaims that the "bad woman from the human world" has forcibly stolen Ye Yan from her, and expresses her desire to kill and chew everything she hates into pieces. Seeing that their interests align, the two get ready to massacre the city together, and are suddenly joined by a human who also expresses his desire to slaughter people. A surprised Che Yongtai and Xi Sha ask him where he came from, and the man talks about how he can not live on after losing all his money to stocks.

Ximen Guanren then appears and approaches the man while asking him to calm down. However, the man strikes him down in rage and shouts at him to scram. Ximen then tells him that he could start over, but the man rejects his advice and reveals his true form, which is a horned demon. The demon angrily exclaims that he lost his house and car and is swamped in debt, and reveals his intentions to rampage and take everyone down with him. Ximen further implores him to not be hasty and attempts to counsel him. The demon strikes him down once again while calling him a "hermaphrodite", which is the most derogatory term used to refer to a Gravekeeper. Hearing this, Ximen Guanren begins to giggle, with Che Yongtai noticing that his mannerisms seems to have drastically changed compared to his weak attitude from earlier. Ximen then declares that he only tried to help the demon so he could pay his debts in the human world, before attacking him while mocking him for his arrogance despite being penniless. While screaming vulgarities, the student council president rips the demon to shreds, astonishing the two demon lords with his brutality. After destroying the demon, Ximen Guanren turns towards the duo and asks if they also planned on rampaging through the city.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Che Yongtai
* Xi Sha
* Ximen Guanren

## Trivia

* 阴阳人 literally translates to "yin-yang person". Its modern translation is "hermaphrodite" or "intersex". However, in the context of *Guardians of Night*, it is used to denote Gravekeepers for having qualities and characteristics of both humans and demons in a degrading fashion.
Arc 10

## **Prominent Characters**

1. Jian Tong
2. Gu Xiaohua
3. Ximen Guanren
4. Spinach

## Story Arcs

This **Transition Arc** (过度章 *Guò Dù Zhāng*), colloquially referred to as the **Ximen Assassination Arc**, is the tenth story arc of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*.

## Chapters

* Chapter 364: The Organization is Weird
* Chapter 365: Assassination Queen
* Chapter 366: Poison and Assassin
* Chapter 367: An Extraordinary Place...
* Chapter 368: Deadly Strike
* Chapter 369: Assassination Complete
* Chapter 370: Are You Surprised!?
* Chapter 371: The Correct Position to Push Down the President
* Chapter 372: Being With You
* Chapter 373: The Gravekeeper's Secret
* Chapter 374: Weakness
* Chapter 375: The Queen's Secret
* Chapter 376: Chicken Defense
* Chapter 377: Chicken Defense 2
* Chapter 378: So That's the Type of Chicken You Are
* Chapter 379: Xiaohua Breaks Out With the Chicken
* Chapter 380: Falling Incidents Occur Frequently On Rooftops...
* Chapter 381: Double Kill
* Chapter 382: Funeral?

## Characters Introduced

* Jian Tong
* Spinach

## References

1. ↑ Guardians of Night Navigation Page, (p. 4).
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Chapter 43

## Chapter Guide

**Don't Delay Me From Going to School!** (别耽误我上学! *Bié Dān Wù Wǒ Shàng Xué!*) is the forty-third chapter of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*.

## Summary

When Li Lingbiao asks why Che Yongtai cut out his kidney, a confused Che Yongtai responds that he thought they used kidneys to exchange for money. Li comments that only losers would sell their kidneys for money. Disliking the word "loser" and thinking it makes him worse than a "small fry", an enraged Che Yongtai swears to kill Ye Yan, who taught him to sell his kidney for money, and proceeds to destroy the furniture in the restaurant. While Li Lingbiao warns him that they would have to pay for the damages, the waiter reluctantly allows him the destruction, so long as Che Yongtai does not extort them for money.

The next morning, Che Yongtai heads to Xiahou High School. On his way there, he detects a familiar presence emanating from a steel door. Upon realizing that his Demon Lord Armor was melted into the door, a grieving Che Yongtai angrily demands to know who did this to his armor. Just then, Ye Yan appears to claim the finished door. Discovering that it is the man who tricked him into selling his kidneys and ruining his armor, a furious Che Yongtai attacks Ye Yan. Expressing his disbelief that Che Yongtai actually went and sold his kidneys and wondering how he found out about the door, Ye Yan then realizes that he needs to get to class soon. He releases his Flag Demons, who attack Che Yongtai and buy their master time to escape.

Some time later, the Flag Demons retreat after Ye Yan has fled far enough from Che Yongtai. The demon lord concludes that Ye Yan is not an ordinary person, and swears to rip him to shreds if they cross paths again before continuing his walk to Xiahou High School. Meanwhile, in his classroom at Xiahou High School, Ye Yan expresses his content for being in school.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Che Yongtai
* Li Lingbiao
* Ye Yan
Chapter 19

## Chapter Guide

**Right Honorable Ximen** (西门大官人 *Xī Mén Dà Guān Rén*) is the nineteenth chapter of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*.

## Summary

Ye Yan is seen contemplating the events that transpired the previous night in a spotlight with a roll of toilet paper next to him, remarking that something was not normal. A flashback of the previous night ensues.

In the flashback, while Huang Xiaoyan was arguing with Ye Yan, they heard someone scream that a person has died on the sidewalk. The two walk over and see the corpse of a woman with pale skin, hollowed cheeks, and whitened eyes. Ye Yan concludes that she suddenly died from zombification, with an acquaintance of the woman saying that the girl was fine and browsing the Internet in an Internet café earlier, only to die when she walked out to the sidewalk. Ye Yan realizes that Ximen Guanren appeared nearby earlier, and therefore must be involved with the death. Huang Xiaoyan then touches the corpse, with Ye Yan thinking that she might have discovered something.

Back to the present, Ye Yan reflects that Huang Xiaoyan's reaction was odd. He notes that for a person who claims to have high morals, she should have been more than eager to find the culprit. But instead, she simply left after looking at the corpse. While emphasizing the strangeness, it is revealed that Ye Yan is performing his performance art "Le Poopseur". He then receives a phone call from Sui Fenger that Ximen Guanren was spotted at the Internet café on Renmin Road.

Upon arriving at the road, Ye Yan quietly observes Ximen Guanren following two women from the roof of a building. He mentally commends his Flag Demons for being able to find Ximen Guanren in spite of the quality of the drawing he gave them. He then orders his Flag Demons to not act rashly and alert Ximen. Unbeknownst to him, Wuren is standing nearby, who wonders what Ye Yan was doing at the location. Sui Fenger then informs Ye Yan to look at Ximen's hand. Noticing the elongated fingers and nails, Ye Yan assumes that he is preparing to commit murder and stomps him into the ground with Hundun before he could attack. Believing he has saved someone from evil, Ye Yan praises himself. Wuren appears and demands to know why Ye Yan attacked the president, confusing him. He then lifts Hundun's leg off of Ximen Guanren and formally introduces him as the student council president and a guardian of the night.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Ye Yan
* Huang Xiaoyan
* Ximen Guanren
* Wuren
* Hundun

## Trivia

* The chapter's title references the honorary title Ximen Qing from the famous Chinese novel Water Margin is referred to as.
Chapter 624

## Chapter Guide

**The Easy One In Sight Vs. The Destined One With Potential** (『廉价的眼前VS可期的缘分』 *Lián Jià De Yǎn Qián VS Kě Qī De Yuán Fèn*) is the six hundred and twenty-fourth chapter of Tong Yao's *Guardians of Night*.

## Summary

At the Cloud Sword Sect, the master's assistant detects faint strength and wave-like sword aura remaining on her fallen students, concluding that Yinluan has learned **Signless Wave Sage Mentality**. She explains that users of the technique can transfer the shockwave caused by clashing swords and their sword aura to their opponent's body, allowing them to deal damage both physically and mentally, thus rendering all forms of defense useless against their sword strike. The master adds that if it weren't for her mercy, Yinluan could have slaughtered all of her students. She claims that receiving a sword slash from Shuangling Immortal will result in death if not readily prepared beforehand.

Meanwhile, Yinluan attacks Huang Xiaoyan with her **Signless Wave Blade** technique. However, before the attack can connect, she bleeds profusely from her nose and is knocked unconscious by Ye Yan kneeing her in the head, who has been watching the situation while painting the walls on the second floor of the building nearby. The two then get into argument, with Ye Yan insisting that Yinluan attempted to slash at Huang Xiaoyan while the latter defends her childhood friend. While wondering who Shuangling Immortal was trying to attack, Che Yongtai appears and explains that her attack was likely aimed at him. After telling the two about his previous encounter with the Untitled Sage, Ye Yan finds his explanation reasonable before being hit by Huang Xiaoyan for knocking her friend unconscious. The two argue and brawl, leaving Che alone with Yinluan.

Che decides to take Yinluan to the hospital, remembering a similar scenario in a show he watched that ended with the man and the woman starting a romantic relationship. As he is about to arrive at the hospital, Mingyue appears behind him, whose clothes are somewhat torn. She comments about how she survived Yinluan's Signless Wave Blade with her life-saving spell before noticing Che carrying her adversary. Since Che did not recognize her, Mingyue uses the **Changing Spell** to change into a maid uniform, causing Che to instantly recognize her. Mingyue then explains the Untitled Sage test to Che Yongtai and asks to form a team with him, promising him both the Heaven Crystal fragment and herself as the rewards for winning the competition before urging him to leave Yinluan.

Facing a dilemma, Che Yongtai briefly considers his choices before ultimately choosing Mingyue despite his better judgement, dropping Yinluan onto the pavement. At Mingyue's suggestion, he then throws Shuangling Immortal into a nearby dumpster.

## Chapter Notes

* Mingyue and Che Yongtai become cultivation companions for the Untitled Sage test.