Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yiming confronted Fatty Hu after finding his locker looted and the Dragon Scale Cup missing, then used his Gu to defeat Fatty Hu’s helpers and beat him until he promised to return it. Jiang Yiming secretly left Red Tail and Ghost Face to watch Fatty Hu, while the police declined to pursue the case until Fatty Hu obtained an injury assessment.

• Jiang Yiming found that someone had taken his work clothes, biscuits, and Dragon Scale Cup from his locker, and suspected Fatty Hu.
• Fatty Hu arrived at the factory with several helpers and admitted he had taken the cup, claiming he threw it away.
• Jiang Yiming let Fatty Hu’s men grab him, used his Gu to poison them unconscious, and caught Fatty Hu as he fled.
• Jiang Yiming beat Fatty Hu, demanded the cup back by the next day, and secretly left Red Tail behind to track him.
• Jiang Yiming waited outside the factory and released Ghost Face to help him monitor Fatty Hu from a distance.
• Fatty Hu called the police, but the officers left after telling him to get an injury assessment before they could open a case.

Jiang Yiming discovered that Fatty Hu’s pork processing plant was preparing to process and sell diseased pork, so he alerted the food regulatory authorities. Fatty Hu learned inspectors were coming and called Third Uncle, who began handling the matter, while Fatty Hu sent the plant’s employees home.

• Fatty Hu tried to smash Jiang Yiming’s Dragon Scale Cup, but it survived the impact and dented the concrete floor.
• Fatty Hu opened the back gate for a refrigerated truck carrying more than ten tons of pork from diseased pigs.
• Jiang Yiming overheard Fatty Hu and the driver discuss processing the diseased pork, then reported the plant to the food regulatory authorities.
• After the driver unloaded the pork, Fatty Hu learned inspectors were at the front gate and accused the driver of reporting them.
• Fatty Hu called Third Uncle, then ordered the employees to leave the plant.

Jiang Yiming secretly stole the Dragon Scale Cup from Fatty Hu’s office, then recorded Fatty Hu’s third uncle replacing diseased pork with certified meat to evade inspection. After securing evidence, Jiang Yiming sent his hungry Gu worms into the warehouse to feed on the meat.

• Fatty Hu cooperated with officers as they discovered the frozen meat from dead pigs and took samples for testing.
• Jiang Yiming evaded the factory’s surveillance, stole the Dragon Scale Cup, and learned through Ghost Face that Fatty Hu’s third uncle had arrived.
• Fatty Hu took the two officers away to eat while his third uncle brought in a refrigerated truck and workers to swap the diseased pork for certified meat.
• Jiang Yiming recorded the swap and heard Fatty Hu’s third uncle direct the driver to store the removed meat at Wanjia Cold Storage 102.
• Jiang Yiming released his hungry Gu worms into the warehouse to feed on the meat while avoiding the people inside.

Jiang Yiming raised more than thirteen hundred Primordial Gu to level five and upgraded his Spatial Gu Rearing Box. Meanwhile, a food inspector discovered video evidence linking Third Uncle to bribery and prepared to shut down the illegal factory and investigate corruption.

• Jiang Yiming fed the Gu worms, sent the rapidly growing Snake Gu into the Spatial Gu Rearing Box, and watched the other worms reach level five.
• Jiang Yiming spent 1,000 grams of gold to expand the Spatial Gu Rearing Box from ten to fifty cubic meters.
• The bearded food inspector returned to the warehouse, noticed the meat pallets had been moved, and questioned the guards before taking another sample.
• Jiang Yiming lured the bearded inspector into an office with music, where the inspector found Jiang Yiming's video of Third Uncle's conversation with the driver.
• The bearded inspector backed up the video and said he would have the police seal the factory and investigate bribery in the inspection department.

Big Beard exposed Third Uncle and Fatty Hu’s hollow-meat scheme, while Jiang Yiming fed the remaining meat to his Snake Gu and unlocked a cultivation manual. After repeated failed refinements, he successfully created a Yellow Rank Three-Legged Golden Toad, though he questioned its name.

• Big Beard showed Third Uncle and Fatty Hu a recording of their scheme, and police arrested them and pursued the dead-pig meat stored at Wanjia Cold Storage.
• Jiang Yiming fed the thawed meat to his six Snake Gu, which grew to level five and completed his collection of five kinds of level-five Primordial Gu.
• The system rewarded Jiang Yiming with the Essence Absorption and Qi Intake Art, which he learned instantly and used to begin refining Gu Essential Essence.
• Jiang Yiming repeatedly refined five Primordial Gu together, but the winning Snake Gu failed to fuse several times.
• A three-legged Toad Gu survived the fusion stage and became a Yellow Rank Three-Legged Golden Toad with the innate skill Mysterious Fate Coin.
• Jiang Yiming complained that his Three-Legged Golden Toad lacked the features he expected from its name.

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.