Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yiming activated the Gu Rearing System and discovered he could turn venomous creatures into obedient Gu insects inside a spatial box. After feeding his new insects, he realized they had unusually enormous appetites.

• Jiang Yiming activated the Gu Rearing System after encountering his thousandth venomous creature and received a Junior Gu Rearing Box.
• He captured a big-bellied spider, which evolved into a Big-Bellied Spider Gu that he could command.
• Jiang Yiming searched his room and captured eight more spiders and two centipedes, then practiced directing them.
• He recalled how Fatty Hu and the other factory workers bullied him and vowed to use his Gu insects to get revenge.
• Jiang Yiming bought pork belly and chicken carcasses to feed the hungry insects, which devoured everything in half an hour and kept gnawing at the bones.

Jiang Yiming’s Gu insects shed their shells, grew stronger, and hunted pests around his room, but one centipede wandered into Sun Qin’s apartment and frightened her. Seeing a chance to earn money, Jiang offered to exterminate her cockroaches for forty yuan and sent his insects into her kitchen, where they nearly cleared out the infestation.

• Jiang Yiming fed his Gu insects his remaining meat, and the spiders and centipedes shed their shells and grew larger.
• Jiang Yiming ordered the insects to find their own food, and they hunted pests throughout his room.
• Sun Qin called for help with a large centipede in her kitchen, and Jiang recognized it as one of his Gu insects.
• Jiang pretended the centipede was dead, then warned Sun Qin that cockroaches could attract more insects and offered to clear hers for forty yuan.
• Jiang released his Gu insects in Sun Qin’s kitchen and ordered them to stay inside while they devoured nearly all the cockroaches.

Jiang Yiming earned money by clearing bugs from the building and gathered more Spider Gu and Centipede Gu, but their relentless hunger forced him to buy a huge supply of chicken carcasses. The Gu insects devoured all two hundred jin in under an hour, leaving him to face the cost of feeding his growing swarm.

• Sun Qin inspected Jiang Yiming’s kitchen, found it completely cleared of pests, and promised to recommend him to her restaurant’s owner.
• Jiang Yiming learned that only spiders, centipedes, toads, scorpions, and snakes could be captured as Primordial Gu, and that unlocking the system shop required 20 taels of gold.
• Jiang Yiming cleaned homes throughout the building, earned more than eight hundred yuan, and collected many more Gu insects.
• When the Gu insects grew hungry again, Jiang Yiming ordered two hundred jin of chicken carcasses for five hundred yuan.
• Jiang Yiming released 64 Spider Gu and 18 Centipede Gu and commanded them to eat; they devoured all the chicken carcasses in less than an hour.

Jiang Yiming learned to identify Gu at a glance after his worms evolved, then sought work to pay for their food by offering cockroach removal. He left the restaurant with a signed deal to clear its cockroaches for 1,000 yuan, while agreeing to pay double if any appeared within a week.

• Jiang Yiming's spiders and centipedes molted into level-three Gu, and he gained the skill Identify Gu at a Glance.
• Jiang Yiming counted eight level-three centipedes and forty-two level-three spiders, then worried about the cost of feeding them.
• Jiang Yiming spent 250 yuan printing flyers advertising cockroach removal for 150 yuan and handed them out at the industrial park.
• Sun Qin brought Jiang Yiming to her boss's restaurant to inspect its cockroach problem, where the boss questioned his ability and treated him condescendingly.
• Jiang Yiming demanded 1,000 yuan to clear the restaurant's cockroaches, and the boss agreed on the condition that Jiang Yiming pay double if any cockroaches returned within a week.
• Jiang Yiming and the boss signed an agreement with Sun Qin as a witness, and the boss paid him 1,000 yuan.

Jiang Yiming used his Gu insects to exterminate cockroaches and spent the day earning money from new customers. After overhearing the restaurant boss’s plan to plant cockroaches and demand compensation, Jiang Yiming sent Centipede Gu into the kitchen drain to thwart him.

• Jiang Yiming cleared the restaurant’s cockroaches with Spider Gu and Centipede Gu while the staff waited outside.
• The boss dismissed Jiang Yiming, who soon received a stream of extermination calls and bought a bicycle to travel between jobs.
• Jiang Yiming worked until after ten at night, earning over two thousand yuan and collecting more than a hundred Gu insects.
• Passing the restaurant, Jiang Yiming overheard the boss tell his wife that he planned to plant cockroaches and claim compensation from Jiang Yiming.
• Jiang Yiming watched the boss release cockroaches into the kitchen drain, then ordered ten level-two Centipede Gu to eat them without being seen.

Jiang Yiming fed his growing Gu insects, unlocked the Void Spiderweb skill when a spider reached level five, and decided to save money for the system shop. After a busy day exterminating cockroaches, he received a late-night call from a woman whose voice sounded familiar.

• Jiang Yiming ordered six hundred jin of chicken carcasses, and his Gu insects ate them all overnight.
• Jiang Yiming counted his spider Gu and centipede Gu and realized he still had not found snakes, toads, or scorpions.
• Jiang Yiming ordered another four hundred jin of chicken carcasses, then received the Void Spiderweb skill when a spider Gu reached level five.
• Jiang Yiming tested the invisible web by stopping a chair in midair and decided to save money to unlock the system shop.
• Jiang Yiming spent the day handling cockroach-extermination jobs, then answered a late call from a woman whose voice sounded familiar.

Jiang Yiming used his Void Spiderweb to save a man who fell from a shopping mall, then listened as the man explained how losing his wife and mall had left him determined to die. After the man revealed he had taken poison and gave Jiang Yiming his wallet to buy a funeral wreath, Jiang Yiming rode away and called emergency services.

• A woman invited Jiang Yiming to her home with an offer of wine, but he declined because he wanted to focus on earning money.
• While cycling home, Jiang Yiming tripped near Rainbow Shopping Mall and caught a falling man with his Void Spiderweb.
• The man told Jiang Yiming that Tu Ming had taken his mall, his wife had died from grief, and he no longer wanted to live.
• The man said he had swallowed poison and pressed his wallet on Jiang Yiming, asking him to buy a funeral wreath.
• Jiang Yiming left the man, then called 120 to get professional help.

After the man died from jumping off Rainbow Shopping Mall, Jiang Yiming used the money on his bank card to pay the hospital expenses and promised to avenge him by targeting Tu Ming. At the morgue, Tu Ming arrived offering to pay for the funeral, but Jiang Yiming rejected his help and left to handle the arrangements himself.

• After Jiang Yiming left, the middle-aged man returned to the roof and jumped to his death beside the arriving ambulance.
• The next morning, an ambulance worker told Jiang Yiming the man had died and asked him to pay 8,860 yuan in medical and transport fees.
• Jiang Yiming found 1.2 million yuan on the man's bank card, withdrew money, and promised to avenge him by going after Tu Ming.
• Jiang Yiming paid the hospital bill and went to the morgue, where a nurse explained the available funeral arrangements.
• Tu Ming arrived with a woman and two bodyguards, offered to cover the burial expenses, and claimed to have been the deceased man's friend.
• Jiang Yiming accused Tu Ming of stealing from the deceased, refused his offer, and left to arrange the funeral himself.

Jiang Yiming bought two fake gold bars from a small shop, then returned to buy more gold while planning to expose the sellers. The shop weighed out 5,000 grams of jewelry for him, and he told them to pack it up.

• After paying for his uncle’s arrangements, Jiang Yiming went to buy gold so he could unlock the system shop and grow strong enough to challenge Tu Ming.
• A woman lured Jiang Yiming from the mall to a small gold shop, where the system confirmed that two gold bars were genuine and weighed 1,005 grams together.
• Jiang Yiming paid over 430,000 yuan and left with the bars, but the system later detected that they were fake, revealing that the shop had switched them.
• Jiang Yiming returned to the shop, decided to seek justice himself, and pretended he wanted to buy more gold.
• Jiang Yiming had the woman place jewelry on the scale until it reached 5,000 grams, then told her to pack it up.

Jiang Yiming used the system to collect the real gold from five boxes at a crooked jewelry shop, then pretended to be a victim when the shop discovered the gold was gone. As the shop's men blocked him from leaving, Jiang Yiming finally fought back, but his punch struck the burly man’s shoulder like iron.

• Jiang Yiming used the system to collect 4,100 grams of real gold from the five boxes, leaving fake jewelry behind.
• When Xiao Zhang opened the boxes, Jiang Yiming acted shocked and accused the shop of switching the gold.
• The woman summoned five burly men, and the tank-top man knocked Jiang Yiming’s phone to the ground when he tried to call the police.
• The woman and Xiao Zhang reviewed the surveillance footage but found no evidence that Jiang Yiming had touched the boxes.
• The tank-top man blocked Jiang Yiming from leaving and threatened to search him, so Jiang Yiming shoved him and punched toward his chin.
• Jiang Yiming’s punch hit the man’s shoulder and felt like it had struck an iron plate.

Jiang Yiming killed two attackers with his Gu worms and struggled to cope with the deaths before opening the System Store. He bought a Gu Refining Plate and learned that five Gu worms could fight until one survived and advanced in rank.

• Jiang Yiming used his Gu worms to poison the burly man who had pinned him, killing him while the onlookers watched.
• When a short man attacked Jiang Yiming, he released five Gu worms that killed the man, then left as the others backed down.
• Jiang Yiming went home, felt sick over killing two people, and tried to wash away the smell of blood before finally calming down.
• Jiang Yiming opened the System Store, spent 1,000 grams of gold on a Gu Refining Plate, and learned how Gu refinement raised worms through five ranks.

Jiang Yiming began refining his level-five Primordial Gu, learning that failures turned the insects into Gu Essential Essence that opened his sea of qi, though he did not know how to refine it into Gu Essence. After many failed attempts, he obtained two Yellow Rank Gu insects: a Red Tail Centipede Gu and a Ghost Face Spider Gu.

• Jiang Yiming bought an inexpensive phone and ordered 2,000 jin of chicken carcasses to feed his Primordial Gu until they reached level five.
• He put five Gu insects into the Gu Refining Plate, where their strength was balanced and they were driven to fight; the surviving Centipede Gu burst apart during fusion, and he received five Gu Refining Points.
• A system notification told Jiang Yiming that the Gu Essential Essence from the failed refining had opened his dantian's sea of qi and begun his path of Gu cultivation.
• Jiang Yiming learned that Gu Essential Essence needed further refining into Gu Essence, but he had no manual to do so, and repeated attempts continued to fail.
• After waiting through more failures, Jiang Yiming successfully obtained a Yellow Rank Red Tail Centipede Gu, then refined a Yellow Rank Ghost Face Spider Gu.

Jiang Yiming bought Yellow Gu Lotus Platforms and Human-Gu Connection Water, tested his new vision link with Red Tail and Ghost Face, and learned that the restaurant boss wanted to see him the next day. After Sun Qin worried that Jiang Yiming might lose, he decided to investigate the boss's restaurant that night.

• Jiang Yiming learned that the system store offered Yellow Gu Lotus Platforms and Human-Gu Connection Water, but he lacked enough Gu Refining Points to buy them.
• Jiang Yiming exchanged gold for Gu Refining Points and bought two Yellow Gu Lotus Platforms and a bottle of Human-Gu Connection Water.
• Jiang Yiming used the liquid to share Red Tail and Ghost Face's vision, discovering the connection worked within fifty meters and also improved his eyesight.
• Sun Qin told Jiang Yiming that the restaurant boss wanted him to come over the next day and offered to share any compensation if he lost.
• Jiang Yiming rode to investigate the restaurant, but found the gold shop empty and its sign removed.

Jiang Yiming used Red Tail and Ghost Face to clear the restaurant kitchen of cockroaches and take its meat, but the Gu Rearing Box rejected a previously caught cobra. The next morning, he thwarted the owner's attempt to make him pay compensation by having Red Tail eat the cockroaches planted in the kitchen, then refused to come back at night.

• Jiang Yiming sent Red Tail and Ghost Face into the restaurant kitchen, where they killed the cockroaches and carried out the stored meat.
• Red Tail and Ghost Face found a cobra, but Jiang Yiming could not capture it because the Gu Rearing Box only accepted venomous creatures he had personally discovered and that had never been caught or captive-bred.
• Jiang Yiming searched a map for a place to catch gu and decided to visit a small mountain five kilometers away.
• Sun Qin accompanied Jiang Yiming to the restaurant the next morning, where the owner prepared to invoke their agreement and demand compensation if cockroaches appeared.
• Jiang Yiming secretly sent Red Tail into the kitchen to eat the cockroaches, leaving the room spotless when the owner opened the door.
• The owner and his wife suggested cockroaches might return at night, but Jiang Yiming said he was too busy to come back.

Jiang Yiming exposed the restaurant owner's scheme to plant cockroaches and proved the kitchen was clean, forcing the owner to honor their wager. The proprietress then retaliated against Sun Qin by inventing wage deductions, leaving Sun Qin owing the restaurant two hundred yuan, which the proprietress claimed she would forgive.

• The owner and proprietress planted cockroaches in a bag, but Jiang Yiming used Ghost Face's vision to discover their plan and took the bag from the owner's pocket.
• Jiang Yiming insisted they inspect the kitchen, where they found no cockroaches, and the owner could not refute his victory.
• The proprietress blamed the owner for wasting a thousand yuan and insulted Sun Qin, who angrily announced she was quitting.
• The proprietress listed dubious deductions from Sun Qin's wages until the accounting showed Sun Qin owed the restaurant two hundred yuan.
• The proprietress said she would waive Sun Qin's supposed debt, presenting herself as generous.

Jiang Yiming helped Sun Qin recover her withheld wages by poisoning her former employers and pretending their pain was heaven’s punishment. He learned that Sun Qin was Miao and that her grandfather knew about raising gu, giving him a reason to visit Xiangxi and seek help improving his gu-refining skills.

• Jiang Yiming comforted Sun Qin and confronted the landlady for withholding her wages.
• Jiang Yiming secretly used Ghost-Faced Spider venom to make the landlady and her husband suffer chest pain, then persuaded them that paying Sun Qin would appease heaven.
• The owner paid Sun Qin all 3,250 yuan she was owed, and Jiang Yiming left with her.
• Jiang Yiming learned that Sun Qin was Miao from Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture and that her grandfather knew about raising gu.
• Sun Qin invited Jiang Yiming to visit her in Xiangxi, and he decided that meeting local gu masters might improve his refining success rate.

Jiang Yiming searched a small hill for Gu worms but found only an extraordinary old man named Old Liu, who invited him to visit the peach orchard. Old Liu reported Jiang Yiming’s unusual aura to his master, who could not explain why Jiang Yiming had no detectable Gu Essence.

• Jiang Yiming searched the hill for venomous creatures and Gu worms but found only spiders and mosquitoes.
• Jiang Yiming followed a powerful song to the hilltop and met Old Liu, a white-haired man with a youthful face.
• Old Liu said he had served his master for nearly a hundred years and invited Jiang Yiming to visit the peach orchard.
• Old Liu vanished into the woods with remarkable speed, and Jiang Yiming failed to catch up with him.
• At the courtyard, Old Liu told his master that Jiang Yiming had an opened qi sea and a faint Gu worm aura but no detectable Gu Essence.

Jiang Yiming searched the mountain at night for scorpions and collected more than eight hundred from a nest. On his way home, he survived a leopard attack with help from his gu insects and gained confidence after his first fight with a wild beast.

• Jiang Yiming searched the mountain at night and filled his Gu Rearing Box with venomous creatures, though he had not found any scorpions.
• Jiang Yiming found a large scorpion nest feeding on a dead hare and collected more than eight hundred scorpions.
• Jiang Yiming encountered a leopard on the mountain path and froze in fear when it pounced at him.
• Ghost Face disrupted the leopard’s attack, and Jiang Yiming trapped it in a Void Spiderweb and struck it with a branch.
• Red Tail bit the leopard’s ankle while Ghost Face entangled its hind legs, and the leopard died from the venom.
• Jiang Yiming reflected that overcoming his fear had made him more courageous and put away the Void Spiderweb.

Jiang Yiming killed an escaped zoo leopard and slipped away before a reporter could reveal his identity, but the story made local headlines. Elsewhere, Yulan set out to hunt a powerful Evil Gu Master in Qiuyang City despite Elder Shen's warnings, while Elder Shen revealed he had already made a move.

• Jiang Yiming told the police the leopard had killed itself by running into a tree, then avoided the reporter's attempts to photograph his face.
• Jiang Yiming returned home and fell asleep as a sensational news story about a teenage boy killing a leopard barehanded spread online.
• Yulan met Elder Shen and insisted she could handle the second-grade Evil Gu Master in Qiuyang City without relying on her sister.
• Yulan revealed a Mystic-Tier Gu Worm, but Old Liu warned that her First-Grade cultivation could not control its power safely.
• Yulan angrily left after Elder Shen and Old Liu repeatedly invoked her sister, and Elder Shen told Old Liu he had already made his move.

Jiang Yiming went to the factory to retrieve the Dragon Scale Cup his parents had left him, despite Fatty Hu’s attempts to keep him out. After using his Void Spiderweb to clear the gate and standing up to Fatty Hu, he headed for the changing room to get the cup.

• Fatty Hu called Jiang Yiming about returning to work and collecting his wages, and Jiang Yiming said he would come to the factory.
• Jiang Yiming went to the factory for the Dragon Scale Cup in his locker, which his grandmother said might help him find his parents.
• Fatty Hu and the security guard claimed the gate was broken and tried to make Jiang Yiming climb over it.
• Jiang Yiming used the reverse thrust of his Void Spiderweb to leap over the gate and enter the factory.
• Fatty Hu tried to block Jiang Yiming, but Jiang Yiming pushed past him, and Fatty Hu retreated after threatening to have someone attack him.