Recaps

Jiang Yiming refined a Single-Horned Wandering Snake Gu with a powerful attack skill, but its enormous size wrecked his room and left him trapped. After buying more Yellow Gu Lotus Platforms, he compared his Gu Worms’ cultivation rates and discovered the Three-Legged Golden Toad was the fastest.

• Jiang Yiming learned that any Yellow-Rank Gu Worm might become a divine Gu through repeated refinement, though he doubted the odds.
• Jiang Yiming identified the Three-Legged Golden Toad’s Mysterious Fate Coin talent, which bound its life to an unbroken coin, and complained that it seemed useless.
• Jiang Yiming refined his last Primordial Snake Gu into a Yellow-Rank Single-Horned Wandering Snake Gu with the powerful Poison Dragon Drill attack.
• Jiang Yiming released the huge snake, which wrecked his room and pinned him down; the system said a refined Gu Worm could not return to the Gu Refining Plate.
• Jiang Yiming used his Gu Refining Points to buy two Yellow Gu Lotus Platforms and stored the snake and the Three-Legged Golden Toad inside them.
• Jiang Yiming found that the Three-Legged Golden Toad absorbed ten strands of spiritual energy at a time, faster than the snake’s eight and Red Tail and Ghost Face’s two.

Jiang Yiming cultivated Gu Essence, learned that his attacks barely drew on it, and gathered venomous creatures in the mountains. After Red Tail disabled Rainbow Shopping Mall’s surveillance cameras, Jiang Yiming approached the mall, ready to act without being watched.

• Jiang Yiming cultivated the Essence Absorption and Qi Intake Art and realized he could not yet mobilize most of the Gu Essence in his sea of qi.
• Jiang Yiming learned that Fatty Hu’s pork processing plant had been shut down and decided it was time to keep his promise to avenge the uncle who had died.
• Jiang Yiming studied Rainbow Shopping Mall’s surveillance layout, then set duck-intestine bait on the mountain and caught hundreds of venomous creatures.
• Jiang Yiming decided he needed to move his Gu-gathering efforts to a larger mountain range.
• Jiang Yiming sent Red Tail underground to disable the mall’s cameras, then walked toward Rainbow Shopping Mall.

Jiang Yiming raided Rainbow Shopping Mall to feed his Gu worms and continued cultivating afterward. Tu Ming arrived to confront the general manager over the damage, but his anger disappeared when a beautiful girl appeared at his office door.

• Jiang Yiming broke into Rainbow Shopping Mall, incapacitated its guards, and let his Primordial Gu devour the food in the underground supermarket.
• Jiang Yiming returned to his rented room, cultivated through the night, and noted that less than seventy percent of his Gu Essential Essence remained.
• People discussed the mall break-in as Jiang Yiming went out to buy breakfast.
• Tu Ming berated the general manager and demanded results within three days for the supermarket damage and failed surveillance cameras.
• A girl arrived at Tu Ming's office, and Tu Ming immediately changed his furious expression to a gentle one.

Yulan visited Tu Ming’s mall while investigating a Gu Master, but found no clues and used an illusion to humiliate Tu Ming when he harassed her. Jiang Yiming secretly watched Yulan and discovered that the bell she dropped was actually a hallucinogenic Gu worm called Armor Bell Gu.

• Yulan asked Tu Ming whether his mall needed help, but he boasted about his wealth and loneliness instead.
• Yulan called Tu Ming an idiot and left, then used an illusion to make him strip in front of the mall’s patrons when he pursued her.
• Jiang Yiming watched Yulan from a milk tea shop and hid Red Tail underground when she sensed a Gu worm nearby.
• Yulan entered the shop, ordered milk tea, and dropped the bell from her waist as she left.
• Jiang Yiming recognized the dropped bell with Identify Gu at a Glance and learned it was an Armor Bell Gu, a hallucinogenic Gu worm.

Jiang Yiming mistook Yulan’s clumsy attempt to test him for a trap and left her Armor Bell Gu untouched, while she remained unsure whether he was a Gu master. After two days of refining Gu and catching fewer insects, he acquired an Iron-Backed Black Scorpion and decided he was ready to venture out, though he still lacked combat experience.

• Jiang Yiming added Yulan on WeChat after noticing her Armor Bell Gu on the floor, and she refused the milk tea worker’s request to add her.
• Yulan pretended she had lost something and left the Armor Bell Gu behind; Jiang Yiming dropped five yuan beside it and left without picking it up.
• Jiang Yiming watched through his Red Tail Centipede as the ordinary milk tea worker failed to see the Armor Bell Gu, and concluded that Yulan had been testing him.
• Yulan wondered whether Jiang Yiming was a Gu master because she sensed only a faint Gu aura, unaware that his Gu were hidden in spatial treasures.
• Jiang Yiming spent the next two days refining Gu and catching insects, then acquired an Iron-Backed Black Scorpion whose skill let it transform into a shield.
• After spending over a hundred thousand yuan feeding his Gu and catching fewer insects, Jiang Yiming decided he needed a new place to forage and a real fight to test his abilities.

Jiang Yiming collected Gu worms on Sunless Mountain, then returned to Rainbow Shopping Mall to feed his Primordial Gu and was confronted by Yulan. Their fight began when Yulan’s Mystic-Tier Dual-Sound Cicada disrupted him, but his Gu worms helped him counter her attack.

• Jiang Yiming rode the Single-Horned Wandering Snake up Sunless Mountain and caught more than eight hundred Gu worms.
• Jiang Yiming returned to Rainbow Shopping Mall, where the Red Tail Centipede destroyed the cameras and Ghost Face knocked out a security guard while the Primordial Gu ate the restocked meat.
• Yulan confronted Jiang Yiming in the underground supermarket after sensing a strong Gu worm aura, and he chose to fight rather than flee.
• Yulan summoned her Mystic-Tier Dual-Sound Cicada and attacked Jiang Yiming, whose Ghost-Faced Spider disrupted her kick with a poisonous web.
• Jiang Yiming blocked Yulan’s next kick with the Iron-Backed Black Scorpion, and the two fighters stepped apart.

Jiang Yiming struggled against Yulan’s superior hand-to-hand skills, and the Agility Pills he bought left him too flexible to fight effectively. He escaped her pursuit using his Gu worms and the elevator, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Jiang Yiming and Yulan charged at each other again, and Yulan fought with her Ice Arrow Frog while demonstrating her superior Gu Essence and combat skills.
• Yulan criticized Jiang Yiming’s poor fundamentals, then overpowered him in a hand-to-hand exchange.
• Jiang Yiming spent 1,000 Gu Refining Points on ten Agility Pills, but their sudden effect made him lose control of his movements and take several blows.
• Jiang Yiming blocked Yulan’s punch with the Iron-Backed Black Scorpion transformed into a shield, then fled toward the stairs.
• Yulan caught up as Jiang Yiming ran upstairs, but his Single-Horned Wandering Snake blocked her path and destroyed an ice arrow with Poison Dragon Drill.
• Jiang Yiming summoned the Single-Horned Wandering Snake away, reached the elevator, and shut its doors before Yulan could catch him.

Jiang Yiming escaped Yulan with help from his Single-Horned Wandering Snake, then trained to adapt to the agility gained from ten Agility Pills. He discovered he could run at a speed that broke the human limit and believed he would become even faster once fully accustomed to his body.

• Yulan entered the elevator after the Armor Bell Gu’s illusion made Jiang Yiming reopen its doors, but Jiang Yiming escaped through the roof with the Single-Horned Wandering Snake.
• Yulan decided Jiang Yiming probably was not the Evil Gu Master she sought, though she marked him and resolved to investigate his secrets.
• Back home, Jiang Yiming assessed his shortcomings and began practicing to adjust to his body after taking ten Agility Pills.
• Jiang Yiming joined a morning run, realized the pills had strengthened his muscles and tendons as well as his joints, and sped ahead of the other runners.
• In the woods, Jiang Yiming timed himself running at least 200 meters in ten seconds and concluded that his speed had exceeded the human limit.

Jiang Yiming used his newly enhanced speed to evade Yulan, who tracked him with a Five-Colored Butterfly Gu. He washed away the tracking pollen at a bathhouse and escaped while the owner distracted her.

• Jiang Yiming noticed a suspicious masked figure in a news photo behind Tu Ming and decided to watch out for him.
• Yulan tracked Jiang Yiming to the grove with a Five-Colored Butterfly Gu that could follow pollen, but Jiang Yiming outran her.
• Jiang Yiming realized Yulan was still tracking him and hurried to a bathhouse to wash off the pollen.
• Yulan waited outside the bathhouse while Jiang Yiming washed his body and clothes, then asked the owner to distract her.
• The owner told Yulan that Jiang Yiming was her boyfriend and urged her to trust him, leaving Yulan furious and embarrassed.

Jiang Yiming escaped Yulan’s pursuit, then cultivated until his qi sea expanded and he advanced to First-Grade Gu Master. The system rewarded him with Ten Thousand Gu Communication, whose description made his earlier Human-Gu Connection Potion seem nearly useless.

• Yulan failed to find Jiang Yiming and left after the shop owner told her he had gone.
• Jiang Yiming watched Yulan through Red Tail, spotted a black-clad stranger following her, and warned her by message.
• Yulan read Jiang Yiming’s warning but continued on without replying, while Jiang Yiming decided not to intervene further.
• At home, Jiang Yiming cultivated to refine his Gu Essential Essence, but his qi sea filled with Gu Essence and caused him intense pain.
• Jiang Yiming’s qi sea expanded, his Gu Essence turned liquid, and the system announced his advancement to First-Grade Gu Master with Ten Thousand Gu Communication as his reward.

Jiang Yiming tested his new Ten Thousand Gu Communication skill and then received a plea for help from Yulan, who had been locked in a moving car trunk. He raced after her location in a taxi and stopped when her signal halted nearby.

• Jiang Yiming discovered Ten Thousand Gu Communication shared a Gu insect’s five senses over long distances and could be upgraded for 100,000 Gu Refining Points.
• Jiang Yiming tested the skill on Red Tail and Ghost Face, sensing their surroundings and vibrations from a distance.
• Yulan messaged Jiang Yiming asking him to save her and offered him at least a million if he helped.
• Yulan shared her location and told Jiang Yiming she was trapped in a moving car trunk, so he set out to find her.
• Jiang Yiming tracked Yulan’s changing location, redirected a taxi toward Yubo Road, and stopped when her signal halted five hundred meters away.

Jiang Yiming broke into the villa where Yulan was being held and severed Tu Ming’s wrist when Tu Ming tried to force wine on her. He helped Yulan break her restraint, then faced the mysterious Gu Master in black.

• Jiang Yiming approached the villa, scouted it with his Gu worms, and discovered Yulan sitting with Tu Ming and the man in black.
• Tu Ming delayed giving the man in black the item he had promised and moved to make Yulan drink wine.
• Yulan warned Tu Ming and offered a hundred thousand yuan to anyone who would cut off his hand.
• Jiang Yiming burst into the room and severed Tu Ming’s wrist with a table knife.
• The man in black stopped Tu Ming’s bleeding and sent him to a hospital, while Jiang Yiming questioned him about his motives.
• Jiang Yiming passed Gu Essence to Yulan, who used it to break her restraint and stand up.

Yulan revealed that Lu Yan was an Evil Gu Master and explained how she had lured Jiang Yiming into supplying Gu Essence so she could fight him. The two began a duel, and after their initial exchange, both started using their Gu insects.

• Yulan identified the masked man as Lu Yan, a second-grade Gu Master from Lu Family Village, and showed him the notice declaring him an Evil Gu Master.
• Lu Yan removed his mask and challenged Yulan, who revealed that Jiang Yiming was not there to capture him and that she had deliberately used herself as bait to bring Jiang over.
• Yulan explained that Jiang’s Gu Essence had let her break Lu Yan’s restraints without exhausting her own, and Jiang realized he had been manipulated into helping her.
• Yulan attacked Lu Yan with her flexible sword, while he blocked with iron claws and knocked her back with a forceful palm strike.
• Jiang Yiming sent his three Gu insects across the ceiling and used Ten Thousand Gu Communication to observe the fight from every direction.
• Yulan and Lu Yan began using their Gu insects; Yulan fired an ice arrow from her sword, and Lu Yan dodged before charging at her as she turned her blade toward his head.

Yulan used the Mystic-Tier Dual-Sound Cicada to unsettle Lu Yan, repeatedly stopping him with Soul Capture despite her First-Grade status. Her apparent bluff gave her the upper hand, but Jiang Yiming wondered what she would use to defeat the stronger Lu Yan for good.

• The Iron-Armored Ladybug shielded Lu Yan's head as he struck Yulan, sending her crashing into a wine rack.
• Lu Yan attacked with Gu-assisted blows, while Yulan used Soul Capture to freeze him and cut at him with her flexible sword.
• Yulan used Soul Capture repeatedly, leaving Lu Yan confused and afraid to attack because he believed she could use the Mystic-Tier Gu without limit.
• Jiang Yiming realized Yulan had revealed her trump card early to make Lu Yan wary, but questioned how she would overcome his greater strength.

Yulan defeated Lu Yan with the Armor Bell Gu after using the Dual-Sound Cicada to weaken his defenses, but Lu Yan revived by feeding his heart to the Eight-Tailed Earthworm and attacked Jiang Yiming. Jiang Yiming struggled to defend himself and used the Void Spiderweb as Lu Yan's claw struck at him.

• Yulan used Penetration to make Lu Yan spit blood, then stunned him with the Armor Bell Gu and stabbed him through the heart.
• Jiang Yiming caught Yulan as she nearly collapsed, and Yulan explained how she had hidden her real strategy.
• Jiang Yiming noticed Lu Yan move and carried Yulan away just before Lu Yan blasted a hole where they had been sitting.
• Lu Yan revived after the Eight-Tailed Earthworm entered his heart, and he attacked Jiang Yiming with increased speed and strength.
• Jiang Yiming recalled the Iron-Backed Black Scorpion, Red Tail, and Ghost Face to defend himself, then released the Three-Legged Golden Toad to restore his view.
• As Lu Yan's claw came at him, Jiang Yiming hurriedly cast Void Spiderweb.

Jiang Yiming used the Three-Legged Golden Toad’s motion-based vision to counter Lu Yan, but Lu Yan transformed into a monster covered in corrosive Yellow Springs Water. Jiang Yiming fled with Yulan and began using primordial Gu to wear Lu Yan down.

• Jiang Yiming gained the Three-Legged Golden Toad’s vision and used it to block Lu Yan’s attacks before grabbing both his wrists and sending Red Tail and Ghost Face to bite him.
• Lu Yan released Yellow Springs Water, burning Jiang Yiming’s palms and corroding Red Tail and Ghost Face before revealing that he had surrendered his body to a Gu insect.
• Lu Yan’s skin fell away as Yellow Springs Water coated his exposed body, forcing Jiang Yiming to abandon direct attacks and dodge his assault.
• Jiang Yiming carried Yulan toward the exit, but Lu Yan broke through the floor and blocked their way, so Jiang Yiming used Spider Primordial Gu to block a glob of Yellow Springs Water.
• Jiang Yiming put Yulan on a sofa and threw two primordial centipede Gu into Lu Yan’s throat, where they gnawed at him before the Yellow Springs Water killed them.

Jiang Yiming used waves of Primordial Gu to drive the Eight-Tailed Earthworm out of Lu Yan, but Lu Yan detonated his remaining Gu Essence as the creature tried to escape. Yulan’s hidden Earth-Rank venomous bee shielded them, and Yulan explained how evil Gu could turn Gu Masters into Evil Gu Masters.

• Jiang Yiming sent Gu onto Lu Yan’s back and sacrificed more than 300 Primordial Gu to wound the Eight-Tailed Earthworm until it fled his body.
• Lu Yan pursued Jiang Yiming despite being dead, then exploded his remaining Gu Essence while Jiang Yiming carried Yulan away.
• A seven-colored venomous bee formed a shield that protected Jiang Yiming and Yulan from the blast, and Yulan said Elder Shen had likely hidden it on her.
• Yulan found that the Eight-Tailed Earthworm had been blown into pieces but could regenerate, and explained that it had used Lu Yan’s body to try to escape.
• Yulan explained that Gu Masters controlled by evil thoughts became Evil Gu Masters, and that Gu King and Gu Berserker were the next ranks above Gu Master and Evil Gu Master.

Jiang Yiming and Yulan cleaned up the remains of the earthworm Gu and found a stone that might contain a rune. After Yulan agreed to pay Jiang Yiming the promised million when she returned, they prepared to leave with the Gu fragments and rune stone.

• Yulan explained that children in the Gu World had their wills tested at ten before they were allowed to raise Gu, and warned Jiang Yiming that his Gu could be destroyed if he failed the test.
• Jiang Yiming and Yulan gathered the earthworm Gu fragments, and Jiang Yiming found a wooden box containing a black stone and a receipt for 2.5 million.
• Yulan identified the black stone as a possible rune stone and let Jiang Yiming keep it while she took the Gu fragments.
• Jiang Yiming hinted that he expected his promised payment, but Yulan misunderstood until he admitted that receiving the money would make him happy.
• Yulan agreed to bring Jiang Yiming the money after she returned.

After Yulan warned Jiang Yiming to stay true to himself, he returned home and continued cultivating, but worried that the difficulty of refining stronger Gu would make his progress painfully slow. He found new items in the System Store but lacked enough Gu Refining Points to buy them.

• Jiang Yiming and Yulan rode his Single-Horned Wandering Snake to the main road, where Yulan marveled at how his Gu Worms protected him and thanked him for sharing his belief in trust between a master and Gu Worms.
• Yulan recognized Jiang Yiming, and he removed his mask before she left by taxi, warning him not to follow Lu Yan onto the evil path.
• Jiang Yiming returned home, fed his remaining Primordial Gu until they reached level five, and refined them without success, earning over two hundred Gu Refining Points and some Gu Essential Essence.
• Jiang Yiming cultivated the Essence Absorption and Qi Intake Art, and his Three-Legged Golden Toad broke through to the Yellow Rank Middle Stage.
• Jiang Yiming worried about the slow cultivation and high failure rate required to refine stronger Gu, then discovered new items in the System Store that he could not afford.

Jiang Yiming used an invisibility talisman from a runestone, then met Yulan to collect two million in rewards and compensation. After drinking poisoned lotus seed soup and becoming trapped in a deadly hallucination, he used his last Gu Refining Points to buy a poison-expelling talisman and returned to the pavilion.

• Jiang Yiming discovered that the runestone contained a brief-use invisibility talisman and found talismans for sale in the System Store.
• Yulan invited Jiang Yiming to meet at a riverside pavilion and gave him a bankbook containing two million as a reward and compensation.
• Jiang Yiming drank the lotus seed soup Yulan had brought and soon suffered severe stomach pain as the pavilion and riverbank turned into a desert.
• Jiang Yiming realized he had been poisoned and spent his remaining Gu Refining Points on a poison-expelling talisman.
• The talisman removed the poison, and Jiang Yiming's surroundings returned to normal.

Jiang Yiming refused Yulan’s attempt to bring him to Fallen Flower Village and began a ten-day plan to search Sunless Mountain before leaving Qiuyang City. After catching thousands of Gu insects and arranging bulk meat deliveries, he raided Rainbow Shopping Mall again and realized the raids were costing Tu Ming while benefiting the freezer owners.

• Jiang Yiming woke after Yulan poisoned him, refused to take the Gu world’s willpower test, and walked away from her.
• Jiang Yiming rented a house near Sunless Mountain, divided the remaining search area into ten sections, and decided to deal with Tu Ming before leaving Qiuyang City.
• Jiang Yiming searched the first section overnight and caught more than 2,100 Gu insects, then arranged deliveries of cheap meat from five slaughterhouses.
• Jiang Yiming searched another section on the second night, caught over 2,000 more Gu insects, and raided Rainbow Shopping Mall before dawn.
• Jiang Yiming inferred that the freezer owners were profiting from the thefts through mall compensation, leaving Tu Ming to bear the losses.

Jiang Yiming raised and refined a new batch of Primordial Gu, gaining Gu Refining Points, Gu Essential Essence, and a Plum Blossom Spider Gu with a powerful tracking ability. He bought defensive equipment and Moon-Treading Footwork, then used a Gu Strengthening Pill to raise the Single-Horned Wandering Snake to the Yellow Rank Late Stage.

• Jiang Yiming had sixty tons of meat dumped near Sunless Mountain, let the Gu worms eat some of it, and stored the rest in the Gu Rearing Box.
• After cultivating and letting the Primordial Gu feed, Jiang Yiming refined them and gained 4,260 Gu Refining Points and enough Gu Essential Essence to bring his qi sea close to full.
• Jiang Yiming identified the Plum Blossom Spider Gu's Thousand-Li Flower Seeking skill, which let him track anyone it bit for a month through a persistent plum blossom mark.
• Jiang Yiming bought five Yellow Gu Lotus Platforms, Snake Scale Gauntlets, and Moon-Treading Footwork from the System Store.
• Jiang Yiming fed a Gu Strengthening Pill to the Single-Horned Wandering Snake, raising it to the Yellow Rank Late Stage.

Jiang Yiming used Gu Strengthening Pills to plan how to refine a Mystic-Tier Gu Worm, then returned to Rainbow Shopping Mall and was ambushed by armed killers from Chrysanthemum Hall. He escaped their gunfire and sent his Gu Worms to kill the attackers as they pursued him.

• Jiang Yiming raised the Single-Horned Wandering Snake to Yellow Rank Late Stage with a Gu Strengthening Pill and realized the pills could help him quickly prepare Yellow-Rank Gu Worms for refinement.
• Jiang Yiming finished catching Gu on Sunless Mountain early and went to Rainbow Shopping Mall to pressure Tu Ming by eating the supermarket's restocked meat with the Primordial Gu Worm.
• Jiang Yiming discovered the mall doors had been shut and found himself targeted by infrared sights; he raised his hands while secretly releasing Red Tail to locate the ambushers.
• Jiang Yiming used the Three-Legged Golden Toad's senses and Moon-Treading Footwork to dodge the killers' bullets and leap to the fifth floor.
• The leader identified the group as Chrysanthemum Hall and tried to stall Jiang Yiming while his subordinates advanced, but Jiang Yiming sent Ghost-Faced Spider and Red Tail Centipede to poison the pursuing killers.

Jiang Yiming defeated a Chrysanthemum Hall killer boss and learned that the organization’s strongest fighters were in Groups One and Two. Yulan tried to stop him from killing the boss, but the boss attacked her, forcing Jiang Yiming to save her before killing him.

• Jiang Yiming revealed himself to the killer boss in the stairwell, where the Single-Horned Wandering Snake captured the man.
• The boss said Chrysanthemum Hall ranked second among killer organizations and warned that its Groups One and Two had powerful experts.
• Jiang Yiming ordered the snake to crush the boss, but Yulan intervened and argued that Gu Masters should not kill ordinary people.
• The boss grabbed his gun and shot at Yulan and Jiang Yiming; Jiang Yiming summoned the snake to block the bullets and kill the boss.
• Yulan saw the dead boss and reconsidered her belief that ordinary people were docile.

Yulan warned Jiang Yiming that Elder Shen, the Gu Warden of Qiuyang City, had taken an interest in him and explained the Gu World’s rules. Jiang Yiming refused to go with her to the mountain village for testing, so they agreed to settle the matter in a fight on Sunless Mountain in one week.

• Yulan explained that Gu Wardens monitored the outside world and controlled Gu Masters and Gu worms who had left the Gu World, and said Elder Shen was interested in Jiang Yiming.
• Jiang Yiming challenged the Gu World’s rule against killing civilians, while Yulan admitted the man he had killed deserved to die.
• Yulan asked Jiang Yiming to go to the mountain village for a test and warned that he could be killed by a Gu Warden without a credential, but he refused.
• Jiang Yiming proposed a fight in one week, with the winner deciding whether he had to go to the mountain village.
• Yulan and Jiang Yiming sealed their agreement and arranged to meet on the summit of Sunless Mountain.