Recaps

After Cao Zhizhang’s arrest, Tao Wang shared the spoils with Qin Yan, who used a five-hundred-year-old White Jade Ginseng to strengthen himself. The case’s surviving conspirators later silenced Cao Zhizhang in prison, disguising his murder as suicide.

• Tao Wang and the Youshan Prefecture judicial commissioner arrested Cao Zhizhang and exposed members of Liu Polu’s faction through the victims’ testimony.
• Tao Wang gave Qin Yan 190,000 taels, a thirty-percent stake in an iron mine, and a five-hundred-year-old White Jade Ginseng from Cao Zhizhang’s treasury.
• Qin Yan told Hua Zhen that Cao Zhizhang had received the death penalty, and her lingering obsession vanished as her soul returned to heaven.
• Qin Yan swallowed the White Jade Ginseng and cultivated the Great Five-Viscera Immortal Abode, raising his strength to 757 and further improving his physique and magnetic-field control.
• Tao Wang reported that Cao Zhizhang had supposedly strangled himself in prison, and Qin Yan concluded that his higher-ups had killed him to silence him.

After Cao Zhizhang was captured for torment, Qin Yan received a new assignment to investigate a man-eating demon in Wuan County. He traveled there after claiming a fire-resistant martial robe and checking on his allies, and found signs of the demon’s attacks in Huang Family Village.

• Qin Yan seized Cao Zhizhang's soul and ordered the Zheshen Ghost to torment him until he revealed the locations of his private storehouse and iron mine.
• Qin Yan received court rewards, a residence, and a chance to choose a Grade B treasure, then accepted Zhao Zhen's assignment to deal with the man-eating demon in Wuan County.
• Elder Yang helped Qin Yan select the Blood Cloud Martial Robe, which was resistant to fire, water, grime, and wear.
• Qin Yan visited Qinghe Town, confirmed Zong Xiaoshan had reached the Qi Origin Realm and the Infinite Martial Arts School was expanding, then continued to Wuan County.
• Qin Yan saw refugees fleeing Wuan County and found human bones with small tooth marks in Huang Family Village, suspecting the huge man-eating mountain demon.

Qin Yan arrived at Wuan County and learned that a Shanxiao tribe had besieged the county after one of its members was wounded, causing many deaths. After meeting the injured Xu Hanwu, Qin Yan revealed that another dangerous evil entity might also be lurking nearby, leaving the county facing two threats.

• Qin Yan reached Wuan County, where Lei Gan told him that a horde of Shanxiao had attacked after Xu Hanwu wounded one of their kin.
• Lei Gan and Kou Jin led Qin Yan to the clinic, where Qin Yan learned the Shanxiao had killed hundreds and cut off the county's escape routes.
• Qin Yan met the one-armed Xu Hanwu, who warned that the Shanxiao tribe's enormous red-faced leader might defeat even Commandant Zhao.
• Qin Yan told Xu Hanwu that he had found evidence of another dangerous evil entity in Wuan County, deepening the group's alarm.

Qin Yan killed a walking corpse that had risen in broad daylight, then searched villages around Wuan County and rescued a mother and daughter. He found evidence that rats were exploiting Shanxiao’s attacks, while a watcher in the crowd slipped away.

• A constable told Lei Gan that a corpse had risen in the north of town, and Qin Yan hurried to deal with it.
• Qin Yan defeated the walking corpse with one punch and ordered Lei Gan to investigate who it had been in life.
• A figure in the crowd watched Qin Yan before disappearing among the people.
• Qin Yan searched a devastated village and found a mother and daughter hiding in a cellar after a small monster killed the woman’s husband.
• Qin Yan escorted the survivors to the county town and discovered that rats were hiding in the shadows and taking advantage of Shanxiao’s rampage.

Qin Yan brutally defeated four giant mandrills, using their strength to improve his Unlimited Combat proficiency. He left two half-dead mandrills hanging upside down from a tree, wailing in pain.

• A giant mandrill charged Qin Yan, but he incapacitated it with a Groin-Raking Kick and frightened it with his killing intent.
• When three mandrills approached, Qin Yan grabbed the first mandrill and hurled it into its companions, killing it and smashing another mandrill to pieces.
• Qin Yan fought the remaining two mandrills, killing one with the mangled corpse and breaking the other's arm and ribs.
• Qin Yan received a notification that defeating four giant mandrills had increased his Unlimited Combat proficiency by 1%.
• Qin Yan tied the two surviving mandrills up and hung them upside down from an ancient tree.

Qin Yan used Electric Current Propulsion to slaughter the Shanxiao tribe and free the civilians they had captured. He killed the Red-Faced Shanxiao after testing and refining his control over the power.

• Qin Yan rushed to the forest edge and used Electric Current Propulsion to kill several Shanxiao, discovering that magnetism deflected the blood from his body.
• Qin Yan followed a fleeing Shanxiao to the tribe’s mountain gorge, where he found captured civilians and the Red-Faced Shanxiao king.
• Qin Yan provoked the tribe and charged into the attacking Shanxiao, killing them with Mountain-Shaking Charge and Sonic Punch while the Red-Faced Shanxiao struggled to catch him.
• The Red-Faced Shanxiao grew larger and attacked Qin Yan, but Qin Yan used Electric Current Propulsion: Sonic Punch to blast him apart and destroy his inner core.

Qin Yan exterminated the Shanxiao, rescued captives, and used Magnetic Field Healing to restore Xu Hanwu and other patients. He warned Xu Hanwu about a corpse transformation and hidden evil cultivators, while beneath an ancient tree a figure fed on a Shanxiao corpse.

• Qin Yan killed the Shanxiao in the valley, captured three cubs, and rescued the people they had held captive.
• Qin Yan returned to Wuan County with the survivors and had Lei Gan arrange shelter for them.
• Qin Yan used Magnetic Field Healing to cure Xu Hanwu's injuries and stabilize other patients.
• Qin Yan told Xu Hanwu about the corpse transformation and suspected evil cultivators, and Xu Hanwu agreed to investigate.
• Beneath a centuries-old tree, a figure greedily fed a Shanxiao corpse to its grandson.

Qin Yan and Xu Hanwu investigated Hu Li’s family and were ambushed by eight powerful Green-Clothed Walking Corpses in the coffin shop. After defeating them, Qin Yan learned that the mandrill corpses had been eaten and suspected their enemy had been tracking their movements.

• Lei Gan told Qin Yan that the resurrected corpse was Hu Li, whose uncle Hu Weimin had worked as a corpse carrier.
• Qin Yan, Xu Hanwu, and Lei Gan entered Hu Li’s coffin shop and found two people dead, apparently frightened to death by an evil entity.
• Eight Green-Clothed Walking Corpses attacked Qin Yan and Xu Hanwu, and Qin Yan defeated them despite their unusually tough bodies.
• Qin Yan asked Xu Hanwu to inform the Demon-Suppressing Bureau and investigate Hu Weimin.
• Kou Jin reported that the mandrill corpses had vanished, leaving blood, scraps of flesh and bone, and footprints from a woman and a child.
• Qin Yan recognized the bone fragments as remains of the mandrills he had killed and concluded that the enemy had eaten them all.

Qin Yan investigated reports of a bride in red haunting the Xi Family in Chenfang Town and learned that the Xi Family's second young master had been involved in the death of a pregnant merchant's daughter. The case appeared connected to a corpse Qin Yan had encountered in Qinghe Town, but Shopkeeper Xu claimed his daughter had been buried long ago.

• Kou Jin told Qin Yan that the Xi Family had been plagued by a bride in red and that several people hired to deal with her had died.
• Qin Yan carried Kou Jin to Chenfang Town and asked Demon-Searching Guard Jiang Fan about the Xi Family.
• Jiang Fan said the Xi Family's second young master had allegedly gotten a merchant's daughter pregnant, and she had later drowned herself.
• Qin Yan revealed that he had encountered a pregnant corpse in red in Qinghe Town and suspected the Yinluo Way was involved.
• Qin Yan questioned Shopkeeper Xu, who said his daughter had been found and buried after her death.

Qin Yan and the others discovered that Xu Xing'e's corpse had escaped from a grave in a site that gathered Yin Sha, leaving a hole that might connect to the Underworld. They returned to Chenfang Town, where Qin Yan went with the Xi Family to question them about the matter.

• Qin Yan confirmed that Shopkeeper Xu's daughter, Xu Xing'e, was the red-clad corpse he had encountered, and Shopkeeper Xu led the group to her grave.
• Kou Jin identified the burial site as Four Yin Gathering Sha, and Qin Yan ordered the village head to have Xu Xing'e's grave opened.
• Qin Yan found Xu Xing'e's corpse missing and determined that a hole had been dug outward from inside the coffin.
• Qin Yan used the Qi-Reading Technique and concluded that the hole might lead to the Underworld, where Xu Xing'e's corpse had fallen.
• Qin Yan told Shopkeeper Xu that Xu Xing'e harbored immense resentment and would take revenge on those who wronged her, leaving Shopkeeper Xu devastated.
• Back in Chenfang Town, Xi Wen'an invited Qin Yan and the others to the Xi Family residence, and Qin Yan agreed, saying he had questions for the family.

Qin Yan and Kou Jin inspected the Xi Mansion and warned the Xi Family that a vengeful female corpse would attack that night. They discovered Xi Liangyu chained and mentally broken, and Qin Yan prepared to face the coming threat.

• Qin Yan used the Qi-Reading Technique and saw that the Xi Mansion's feng shui defenses had weakened under repeated attacks.
• Qin Yan and Kou Jin identified a cracked suppressing stone and warned Xi Wen'an that the Xi Mansion faced a bloody calamity if it broke.
• Qin Yan predicted that the red-robed female corpse would attack that night to avenge the Xu Family's young lady, and said Xi Liangyu would be her first target.
• Madam Feng tried to conceal Xi Liangyu's condition, but the Xi Family's eldest young master urged her to tell Qin Yan the truth.
• Xi Wen'an led Qin Yan and Kou Jin to a locked building, where they found Xi Liangyu chained, terrified, and muttering that someone was coming.
• Qin Yan noticed sickness Qi around Xi Liangyu and told the Xi Family to stay together while he handled the rest.

Qin Yan waited at the Xi Mansion for Xu Xing'e, the red-clad female corpse, and fought off her wedding procession when it arrived. He destroyed her apparition, but then wondered where her real corpse was.

• Qin Yan had Xi Liangyu tied up and stationed Kou Jin upstairs to guard Xi Wen'an and his family.
• Xu Xing'e arrived with a ghostly wedding procession, broke the mansion's feng shui formation, and demanded to see her husband.
• Xi Liangyu blamed his parents for keeping him apart from Xu Xing'e and begged her to spare him.
• Xu Xing'e turned her attention to Qin Yan, and her ghostly procession attacked him.
• Qin Yan's powerful Yang Qi burned the attacking Yin Souls, and he struck Xu Xing'e until her apparition began to dissipate.
• Qin Yan destroyed Xu Xing'e's apparition with a blood-red palm, then questioned where her corpse was.

After destroying the Red-Robed Sha Mother's soul, Qin Yan learned that her corpse remained in the Underworld and warned the Xi Family to seek a feng shui master. He traced the evil art used against Xi Liangyu to a spirit medium in West River Village and approached her hut, where he sensed a hidden ward.

• Qin Yan told the Xi Family that he had destroyed the Red-Robed Sha Mother's soul but that her corpse remained in the Underworld, and advised them to rearrange their residence.
• The spirit medium restored Xu Xing'e's remnant soul to a cloth doll, binding her more firmly to her control.
• Qin Yan sent a letter about the Mother-and-Child Corpse Sha to Red Star Daoist, then confronted Shopkeeper Xu about Xi Liangyu's affliction.
• Shopkeeper Xu admitted hiring a country spirit medium from West River Village to take revenge on Xi Liangyu, and Qin Yan set out to find her.
• An old man directed Qin Yan to Li Spirit Medium's house near the creek, and Qin Yan sensed a hidden ward as he approached the hut.

Qin Yan confronted Li Spirit Medium and the corpse carrier to obtain the mother and son corpse sha, easily overpowering them and destroying the corpse carrier’s bronze coffin. The Sha Infant awakened and attacked Qin Yan, who met its charge with his hardened arm.

• Qin Yan crushed the evil spirit in Li Spirit Medium’s bronze mirror and demanded the mother and son corpse sha.
• Li Spirit Medium attacked Qin Yan with poisoned tea and silver needles, but he repelled them and broke both her legs.
• The corpse carrier arrived and trapped Qin Yan in his bronze coffin, but Qin Yan smashed his way out.
• The corpse carrier sicced the Sha Infant on Qin Yan, and the Sha Infant blocked Qin Yan’s punch before awakening its Sha Qi.
• The Sha Infant charged Qin Yan, who struck it with his blood-jade arm and sent it crashing into the ground.

Qin Yan, the spirit medium, and the corpse carrier were dragged into the Underworld by the clay jar. After Qin Yan saved the badly injured corpse carrier, they learned they needed to find a ritual implement to return to the world of the living and fled from a gathering of wandering souls.

• The corpse carrier activated a clay jar from the Immortal's Tomb, and its black hands pulled Qin Yan, the spirit medium, the corpse carrier, and the Sha Infant into the Underworld.
• Qin Yan stomped the Sha Infant into the ground and used a strange force to heal the corpse carrier enough to revive him.
• The corpse carrier explained that they could return through a ritual implement left by a mage who walked the Underworld, though they had lost the Corpse-Suppressing Bronze Coffin.
• The spirit medium spotted a stream of wandering souls, and the corpse carrier warned that their scent as living people would attract them.
• The spirit medium turned her robe inside out to reveal scarlet inscriptions, and the three left the river to avoid the wandering souls.

Qin Yan and his companions searched the Underworld for a way back to the Yang Realm while avoiding its powerful Yin Souls. After they set off by boat toward Mian County, a dark presence emerged in the fog and climbed aboard.

• Qin Yan questioned the corpse carrier about Xu Xing'e's corpse, and the shamaness warned that a powerful Yin Spirit had possessed it.
• At the Cypress Water River, Qin Yan and the others watched a gigantic, face-covered Yin Soul devour the spirits in the water and waited until it disappeared.
• The shamaness revealed that a Daoist in Mian County knew Yin-Walking, so Qin Yan and the corpse carrier agreed to seek him and return to the Yang Realm.
• Qin Yan, the corpse carrier, and the shamaness boarded a boat and drifted downstream toward Mian County.
• When fog covered the river, Qin Yan used his Qi-Reading Technique to spot a dark figure, warned the others not to look around, and felt something climb aboard.

Qin Yan and the corpse carrier survived an encounter with a deadly presence in the Underworld, but the spirit medium died. In Mian County, Qin Yan discovered that his Mind-Spirit Power could reach someone in the Yang Realm, and the pair waited for help.

• A mysterious presence boarded the boat and killed the spirit medium before the fog cleared and Qin Yan and the corpse carrier escaped.
• The corpse carrier suggested they search Mian County for a Daoist who could travel to the Underworld, with Qinghe Town and Youshan Prefecture as alternatives.
• In Mian County, the corpse carrier explained that the Underworld and Yang Realm sometimes overlapped, and Qin Yan spoke to Ma Daren across the boundary.
• Ma Daren mistook Qin Yan for dead, then promised to find someone to rescue him before the worlds separated again.
• The corpse carrier identified Qin Yan's ability as exceptionally strong Mind-Spirit Power and praised his potential, while Qin Yan refused to join the Yinluo Way.
• Qin Yan and the corpse carrier waited as Yin Souls gathered nearby, and the corpse carrier marveled that he could barely notice Qin Yan's presence.

Qin Yan waited in the Underworld for a Yin-Walking ritual while Eagle Daoist sent the corpse carrier back first. When a powerful evil spirit demanded the Sha Infant, Qin Yan fled with it and used the Little Jade Turtle's luck to seek escape.

• Red Star Daoist and Ma Daren arranged for Eagle Daoist to bring Qin Yan back from the Underworld.
• Qin Yan crippled the corpse carrier, then sent him into Eagle Daoist's coffin to return first.
• Qin Yan waited for his own ritual while keeping watch over the Sha Infant.
• A red-clad evil spirit appeared and demanded that Qin Yan hand over the Sha Infant.
• Qin Yan fled with the Sha Infant as the evil spirit pursued him, then used the Little Jade Turtle's luck and raced toward Qinghe Town.

Qin Yan fled through the Underworld while a powerful evil spirit pursued him, using his speed and the Little Jade Turtle to survive. He hunted Yin Souls to strengthen his abilities, then mastered Magnetic Field Rotation, greatly raising his speed limit.

• Qin Yan escaped the ancient corpses beneath the river and passed Qinghe Town, where Master Wuci's golden seal held back the Yin Souls at the mass grave.
• The evil spirit caught up with Qin Yan again, but an ancient corpse attacked it, allowing him to escape along the Cypress Water River.
• Qin Yan decided to kill weaker Yin Souls for good fortune and the Little Jade Turtle's growth, then raced through a village and assassinated seven of them.
• Qin Yan continued hunting Yin Souls while avoiding dangerous concentrations of black Qi, and his Dragon Wandering Step reached Mastered Level.
• Qin Yan rested in a dead tree hollow and realized he could increase his speed by rotating his magnetic field.
• Qin Yan mastered Magnetic Field Rotation, increasing his spirit limit by 178 and his speed limit by 172.

Qin Yan escaped the Underworld through a deadly rift and woke in Muyun Stronghold, where he met its leader, Li Muqing, and her brother Li Moyun. After learning that the stronghold opposed corrupt officials, he offered to help them plunder one.

• Qin Yan's strength and speed surged, allowing him to evade the evil spirit pursuing him.
• Qin Yan found a passage to the Yang Realm and risked entering its lethal rift, which badly injured him.
• Qin Yan awoke in Muyun Stronghold after being rescued from Divine Fish Lake and learned he had been in the Underworld for more than two months.
• Li Moyun introduced himself and explained that Muyun Stronghold's bandits claimed to rob the rich and punish corrupt officials.
• Qin Yan reassured Li Muqing and the stronghold's fighters that he meant no harm, then offered to plunder corrupt officials to repay them.

Qin Yan accompanied Li Muqing and Muyun Stronghold on an ambush against a corrupt county magistrate, but her reluctance to endanger civilians and poor judgment left her people outmatched. Qin Yan killed the three escorting experts, repaid his debt to Li Muqing, and left after warning her that her kindness would get everyone killed.

• Qin Yan learned that villagers respected Muyun Stronghold because Li Muqing and her people protected and helped them.
• At Black Rock Gorge, Qin Yan criticized Li Muqing’s ambush preparations and learned she had avoided setting traps because the magistrate’s party included civilians.
• Li Muqing ordered her people to attack the magistrate’s convoy, but the three escorting experts overwhelmed the stronghold’s fighters and wounded her.
• Qin Yan sent his dagger through the air and killed the Qi Origin Realm expert and the two Marrow-Washing Realm experts in an instant.
• Qiao Erniu led the stronghold members toward the carriage while Li Muqing confronted Qin Yan, who called her an unqualified chief, said he had repaid his favor, and left.

After escaping the Underworld, Qin Yan reached Tianlan Prefecture and demanded contact with the Demon-Suppressing Bureau, where he intimidated Deputy Commandant Zuo Qifeng into backing down. He settled in a Bureau residence and began cultivating, drawing enough primordial Qi to attract the attention of powerful figures across the city.

• Qin Yan arrived at Tianlan's prefectural city and presented his identity token at the Demon-Suppressing Bureau, asking to borrow a raven.
• Zuo Qifeng doubted Qin Yan's claim that he had survived over two months in the Underworld, but Qin Yan unleashed his killing intent and forced Zuo to apologize.
• Zuo Qifeng assigned Bai Yang to accompany Qin Yan, and Bai Yang explained that Zuo acted arrogantly because his sister had married Prince Jing as a secondary consort.
• Qin Yan settled in a residence near the Bureau and began cultivating, drawing primordial Qi from several thousand meters around him.
• A noble middle-aged man in a tower noticed Qin Yan's cultivation and ordered someone to investigate the new expert in the Demon-Suppressing Bureau.

Qin Yan resumed cultivating in Tianlan Prefecture, repelled a Primordial Spirit spy, and drew the attention of Prince Jing and local elites. He accepted Zuo Qifeng’s banquet invitation while planning to learn about the prefecture and see what happened to Zong Xiaoshan and the others.

• Qin Yan sensed a Primordial Spirit spying on his residence and struck back with his Blood Sha Hand Seal, driving off the onlookers and likely killing the intruder.
• Qin Yan cultivated through the night, raising his strength to 1031 and spirit to 1072, and considered how stronger mental power would improve Magnetic Field Rotation.
• Zuo Qifeng read Qin Yan’s records, regretted nearly offending him, and sent information about him to Prince Jing’s Estate.
• Prince Jing and Cong Wenxiu discussed recruiting Qin Yan and investigating why the Uncut Jade Monastery had suddenly closed.
• Zuo Qifeng apologized to Qin Yan and invited him to a banquet, which Qin Yan accepted; Zuo then turned away other visitors seeking meetings with him.

Qin Yan settled in Tianlan Prefecture while allies celebrated news that he had survived the Underworld, and Zong Xiaoshan refused to leave his post despite his master's plans for him. Qin Yan's cultivation grew stronger, but Daoists from Uncut Jade Monastery confronted him over their master's death, prompting Zuo Qifeng to defend him.

• Zuo Qifeng praised Prince Jing's development of Tianlan Prefecture, and Qin Yan suspected Zuo was lobbying for the prince and chose to keep his distance.
• Zhao Zhen and Red Star Daoist rejoiced after learning Qin Yan had survived the Underworld.
• Zong Xiaoshan broke through to Xiantian, then refused his master's offer to travel and train because he intended to protect Qin Yan's holdings until his boss returned.
• Qin Xiaoyi brought Zong Xiaoshan news that Qin Yan was alive and in Tianlan Prefecture, and Zong Xiaoshan celebrated while his master lamented his loyalty.
• After two days of secluded cultivation, Qin Yan emerged to face Daoists from Uncut Jade Monastery who accused him of killing their master.
• Zuo Qifeng arrived with Demon-Suppressing Bureau men, cursed the Daoists for confronting Qin Yan on their turf, and threatened to shut down Uncut Jade Monastery.

Qin Yan turned the Uncut Jade Monastery’s accusation into a charge of attempted assassination, then challenged its three Qi Refining Realm Daoists. He swiftly defeated them and slit Chensu’s and Chenzhai’s throats, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Zuo Qifeng defended Qin Yan as the Uncut Jade Monastery’s Daoists demanded an explanation for their master’s death.
• Qin Yan claimed someone had ambushed him and accused the monastery of attempting to assassinate an imperial official.
• When Chensu tried to leave, Qin Yan challenged him, Chenzhai, and Chenxi to fight him together.
• Qin Yan used his speed to cripple Chensu and Chenzhai, then struck Chenxi in the chest and sent him flying.
• Qin Yan slit Chensu’s and Chenzhai’s throats, shocking Zuo Qifeng and the onlookers.