Chapter Summaries

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.