Recaps

Chen Shi arrived at the South Sea Bee Mansion, where he learned that his grandfather’s friend A Zhuo was a living Underworld Marshal. After recovering from the bees’ poison, Chen Shi met A Zhuo, who was delighted to hear about his grandfather and invited him to drink.

• The human-headed bees brought the paralyzed Chen Shi and Empress Shi Ji to the South Sea Bee Mansion, where the bee official recognized Chen Shi as A Zhuo’s nephew and ordered the bees to treat him gently.
• Chen Shi asked the bee official to spare Empress Shi Ji, and the official agreed to give her some detoxification pills without fully curing her.
• Feng Ling’er helped Chen Shi recover, bathe, and dress, and explained that A Zhuo was a living Underworld Marshal who governed insect-kind.
• Chen Shi entered A Zhuo’s study and met the broad-shouldered young man, who asked about Chen Yindu and learned that he had died over half a year earlier.
• A Zhuo was disappointed that Chen Yindu had not visited him, but cheered up when Chen Shi said his grandfather had spoken fondly of him and invited Chen Shi to drink.

Chen Shi accompanied A Zhuo to capture the fugitive Xue Daoren, while Granny Sha and the boat girl lost the Judge Dragon Whisker Brush to a mysterious expert. A Zhuo and Chen Shi found Xue Daoren disguised as a village Daoist, and Chen Shi reclaimed the brush as A Zhuo’s bee soldiers defeated him.

• A bee official told A Zhuo that Xue Daoren had evaded death for decades by stealing another person’s lifespan, and A Zhuo took Chen Shi along to capture him.
• On their way, Chen Shi saw Granny Sha and the boat girl fighting over the Judge Dragon Whisker Brush, but a mysterious hand from the Void Realm seized the transformed dragon and vanished.
• A Zhuo told Chen Shi about the Five Great Evils and brought him to a village on Lake Danan, where they sold honey while searching for Xue Daoren.
• A Zhuo and Chen Shi recognized that the village’s slovenly Daoist, Xue Daoren, had altered the villagers’ memories and planned to steal Chen Shi’s lifespan.
• Xue Daoren revealed the Judge Dragon Whisker Brush, but Chen Shi summoned it back to his hand, and A Zhuo’s bee soldiers poisoned Xue Daoren’s Primordial Spirit and knocked him down.

A Zhuo returned to his village and reunited with his wife and children while Chen Shi examined and refined the Judge Dragon Whisker Brush and Youquan Swimming Dragon Sword. When five Nascent Soul experts tracked Chen Shi down over the sword, he offered it back and learned they belonged to the Banshan Sect, prompting him to ask whether they served Young Master.

• A Zhuo ordered Daoist Xue taken to the Underworld and freed Shi Jingming’s family from their pig forms, but learned Shi Jingming’s father had already been sold as meat.
• A Zhuo brought Chen Shi to his home by Lake Danan, where he reunited with A Ying, Qiao Wei, and Qiao Hu.
• Chen Shi refined the Judge Dragon Whisker Brush and Youquan Swimming Dragon Sword, then considered whether either treasure could serve as a divine embryo.
• Five armed Nascent Soul experts showed Chen Shi portraits of himself and a demonic hound, and Qiao Wei and Qiao Hu denied having seen them.
• Chen Shi met the five experts at the bridge and offered to return the Youquan Swimming Dragon Sword, but the fortune teller demanded more than its return.
• After the fortune teller identified the group as the Banshan Sect, Chen Shi asked whether they were Young Master’s people.

Chen Shi killed four Banshan Sect cultivators with the Zi Wu Zhan Xie Sword and marked their surviving fortune-teller with a Nightmare Wood talisman. The fortune-teller reached the Banshan Sect’s branch, where the talisman erupted and began killing its members.

• Chen Shi used four basic sword techniques to kill the fortune-teller’s companions before threatening him with the Nightmare Wood talisman and sending him to find a talisman master.
• Chen Shi burned the bodies, gave A Zhuo’s family silver for the children’s schooling, and told a villager to report that he alone had killed the four men.
• The fortune-teller rushed to the Banshan Sect branch in Nian Du, where Saintess Xuan, Baili Mu, and the talisman masters learned about the sword attack and the talisman on his chest.
• A talisman master began trying to remove the Nightmare Wood, but the talisman burst from the fortune-teller’s body and pierced Banshan Sect members with branches and roots, trapping them in nightmares.

Chen Shi’s Nightmare Wood Talisman devastated the Banshan Sect’s Nian Du branch, killing more than a hundred cultivators before Baili Mu destroyed it. Gao Chang stopped Baili Mu from pursuing Chen Shi inside the city, but Chen Shi then entered Nian Du, leaving Saintess Xuan startled.

• Huo Shanting tried to undo Chen Shi’s Nightmare Wood Talisman, triggering it and becoming its second victim.
• The Nightmare Wood rampaged through the Banshan Sect branch, connecting and killing more than a hundred cultivators before Baili Mu shattered it.
• Baili Mu summoned Banshan Sect fighters to pursue Chen Shi, but Gao Chang arrived with prefectural troops and forbade the sect from seeking revenge within a hundred miles of Nian Du.
• Gao Chang told Saintess Xuan that Chen Shi was responsible for the Gongzhou demonic transformation and warned her against entering the struggle of taboos.
• A Banshan Sect disciple reported that Chen Shi had entered Nian Du and was coming toward the branch, startling Saintess Xuan.

Chen Shi entered Nian Du, where Gao Chang persuaded him to keep his feud with the Banshan Sect outside the city. While shopping for a canopy for his wooden cart, Chen Shi rejected Saintess Xuan’s attempt to reconcile him with Baili Mu and recruit him to the young master, then beat her for lobbying on the young master’s behalf.

• Baili Mu hesitated to pursue Chen Shi after Gao Chang threatened to destroy the Banshan Sect if it harmed him near Nian Du.
• Chen Shi explored Nian Du’s bustling carriage trade and searched for decorations for his wooden cart.
• Gao Chang introduced himself to Chen Shi, offered him a carriage, and asked him to settle his grievances beyond Nian Du’s hundred-li boundary.
• Saintess Xuan approached Chen Shi and tried to persuade him to reconcile with Baili Mu and return the Youquan Youlong Sword.
• Chen Shi bought a blank canopy, then attacked Saintess Xuan when she urged him to pledge allegiance to the young master.
• Chen Shi paid for the damaged canopy poles and left the shop, warning Saintess Xuan that he would have killed her if he had not promised Gao Chang to spare people inside the city.

Saintess Xuan recovered from Chen Shi’s beating and joined Baili Mu’s pursuit after Chen Shi left Nian Du. As a Banshan Sect candle-lighter trapped Chen Shi in a ghostly burial ground, Chen Shi revealed his canopy’s thousand-plus talismans and began the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony.

• Baili Mu brought the injured Saintess Xuan back to the Banshan Sect, where she learned Chen Shi had stopped her Nascent Soul from emerging and vowed to join the pursuit.
• After two days, Baili Mu told Saintess Xuan that Chen Shi had left Nian Du, and she traveled with the Banshan Sect toward Lake Danan while unable to fight herself.
• Saintess Xuan spotted talisman markings on Chen Shi’s canopy in a bronze mirror and warned Baili Mu, but the sect’s experts dismissed the canopy as an improperly made weapon.
• As Chen Shi approached the hundred-mile mark outside Nian Du, a Banshan Sect candle-lighter trapped him on a haunted post road and demanded the return of the Youquan Youlong Sword.
• Chen Shi unfurled his canopy, revealing 1,200 talismans, and began the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony to challenge the candle-lighter’s spellcraft.

Chen Shi used the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony to destroy the candle-lighter and break through the Banshan Sect and Hundred Refinements Hall’s massive trap. He left their forces trapped in chaos and continued toward Lake Danan, while Baili Mu arrived to find the nightmare wood waiting for him.

• Chen Shi completed the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony canopy, which destroyed the candle-lighter’s ghosts and fiends and burned his body before a thunderbolt annihilated his Nascent Soul.
• Chen Shi realized the graveyard had lured him into an inescapable net array, while Gao Chang, Baili Mu, and Saintess Xuan watched and discussed the danger of his canopy.
• Saintess Xuan warned Baili Mu that Chen Shi’s canopy carried the Five Lakes Rogue Cultivator’s Luo Tian Grand Ceremony, but Baili Mu refused to withdraw his forces.
• Chen Shi used the canopy and Nether Spring Wandering Dragon Sword to kill cultivators within its range, then seized the Judge Dragon Whisker Brush and extracted Murong Yi’s Primordial Spirit.
• Chen Shi overturned the Mysterious Mechanism Myriad Changes Furnace, smashed a hole through the array, and escaped toward Lake Danan after trapping his pursuers with a Nightmare Wood Talisman.
• Baili Mu arrived to find the array destroyed and five Spirit Transformation Realm experts besieged by the nightmare wood, whose corpses welcomed him on Chen Shi’s behalf.

After Chen Shi annihilated the Banshan Sect and Hundred Refinements Hall forces, Baili Mu destroyed the Nightmare Wood and went after him across Lake Danan. Saintess Xuan became lost in the lake’s eerie Tongue-Pulling Hell, found Chen Shi, and was defeated by him just as a new danger stirred.

• Gao Chang recognized that Chen Shi himself, rather than the devils within him, was the real danger after seeing the carnage outside Nian Du.
• Baili Mu destroyed the Nightmare Wood with the Tathagata Treasure Seal and headed across Lake Danan to pursue Chen Shi.
• Saintess Xuan followed Baili Mu onto the lake, encountered a demonic double, ghostly boat crews, and an enormous landmass rising from the water, and gained insight from her skeletal reflection.
• Saintess Xuan heard Baili Mu searching for Chen Shi, then found Chen Shi on the strange landmass and was quickly beaten by him.
• Chen Shi admitted he feared Baili Mu and was trying to evade him, then told Saintess Xuan that lies in the Tongue-Pulling Hell brought punishment just as she sensed danger.

Chen Shi dismantled the Mysterious Mechanism Myriad Changes Furnace and turned its parts into tongues to bait Baili Mu, while Saintess Xuan remained bound and helpless. Baili Mu found her and approached, unaware that Chen Shi was waiting nearby to ambush him.

• Saintess Xuan tried to persuade Chen Shi to submit to the Young Master, but Chen Shi questioned whether the Young Master would tolerate a rival.
• Chen Shi learned that Baili Mu had received incomplete versions of the Dragon Shaking Scripture, Dragon Doubting Scripture, and Dragon Burial Method.
• Chen Shi dismantled the Mysterious Mechanism Myriad Changes Furnace and transformed its parts into toads that he identified as the tongues of liars in the Tongue-Pulling Hell.
• Chen Shi bound Saintess Xuan, stuffed a sock into her mouth to keep the tongues away, and transformed his canopy into a tongue as part of his ambush plan.
• Baili Mu approached Saintess Xuan, mistook her for someone ambushed by Chen Shi, and began taunting her as he drew near.

Baili Mu gave in to his desires and tried to force Saintess Xuan to help him find his tongue, while Chen Shi waited for the right moment to attack. Chen Shi and Saintess Xuan finally destroyed Baili Mu's body and Primordial Spirit, though the Mysterious Mechanism Myriad Changes Furnace was shattered in the fight.

• Baili Mu approached the bound Saintess Xuan, but the Tongue-Pulling Hell pulled out his tongue before he could act.
• Baili Mu searched among the tongues caught by swarms of toads, then seized Saintess Xuan and demanded that she help him find his tongue.
• Baili Mu found his bloody tongue in a toad's mouth, but it transformed into a magnificent canopy as Chen Shi attacked with the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony and Judge Dragon Whisker Brush.
• Chen Shi trapped Baili Mu's Primordial Spirit in the reassembled Mysterious Mechanism Myriad Changes Furnace and attacked it with the Youquan Youlong Sword, but Baili Mu burst out and charged at Chen Shi.
• Saintess Xuan struck Baili Mu's Primordial Spirit with the Tathagata Treasure Seal, driving the Youquan Youlong Sword through its forehead, and Chen Shi shattered it with the Judge Dragon Whisker Brush.

After Chen Shi and Saintess Xuan escaped the Underworld, they parted ways on Lake Danan, with Chen Shi heading for Xijing and Saintess Xuan warning him against confronting the Young Master. Saintess Xuan then encountered Fuzheng Pavilion Assistant Officer Fang Tan, who revealed that he had tracked Chen Shi down and flew off to pursue him.

• Saintess Xuan helped Chen Shi kill Baili Mu, and Chen Shi collected the valuable fragments of the Mysterious Mechanism Myriad Changes Furnace while teasing her.
• Chen Shi told Saintess Xuan that Taiping Gate had trafficked abducted children and urged her to investigate the Young Master's enterprises, including the Tianmu Association.
• While they waited for dawn, Saintess Xuan spoke about her Bodhi Dojo training and her uncertainty about whether she liked the Young Master.
• At daybreak, Chen Shi and Saintess Xuan left Tongue-Pulling Hell and returned to Lake Danan, then parted ways after Chen Shi declared he would go to Xijing and challenge the Young Master.
• Saintess Xuan boarded a boat and met Fang Tan, the Fuzheng Pavilion Assistant Officer, who healed her injuries, said he had tracked Chen Shi, and flew off in the boat.

Fang Tan and Wei Xize tracked Chen Shi to Shuikou Village, where they joined Tang Boling, Dou Qi, and Sima Xi to confront him. As the Fuzheng Pavilion experts prepared to take Chen Shi away, A Zhuo revealed the terrifying power he had learned from Chen Yindu.

• Fang Tan and Saintess Xuan reached Shuikou Village, where they met Wei Xize, who had also tracked Chen Shi there.
• Chen Shi sent Qiao Hu and Qiao Wei home as Aunt A Ying and A Zhuo prepared to face the approaching Fuzheng Pavilion experts.
• Fang Tan and Wei Xize confronted Chen Shi, and Tang Boling and Dou Qi arrived to reinforce them.
• Dou Qi explained that killing Chen Shi could trigger the demon inside him, and Sima Xi arrived and proposed killing him in the Underworld.
• Chen Shi called on A Zhuo, who stepped forward and unleashed a powerful Void Realm, startling Sima Xi and the other experts.

A Zhuo revealed his overwhelming strength when Fuzheng Pavilion’s Xi Sima confronted him, and he defeated the old expert despite both being at the peak of the Void Returning stage. Xi Sima escaped with the others but lost both legs, which a boat girl later caught in her net.

• Xi Sima sensed A Zhuo’s power and realized the young countryman was a peak Void Returning expert with a chance of reaching Great Ascension.
• A Zhuo stepped forward and crushed the Fuzheng Pavilion members with pressure, while Xi Sima used his Void Realm to protect them.
• Xi Sima’s Void Realm clashed with A Zhuo’s, and their power split Shuikou Bridge and the river before A Zhuo’s second step shattered Xi Sima’s boat and fishing rod.
• Xi Sima fled with Dou Qi, Tang Boling, Fang Tan, Wei Xize, and Saintess Xuan, using a fishing line around Shuikou Village to threaten A Zhuo.
• A Zhuo flicked the line and severed Xi Sima’s legs at the knees, then let him escape while the injured Xi Sima claimed his legs were returning.
• A boat girl cast a net and caught Xi Sima’s severed legs, saying the group had offended the provincial top scorer.

Xi Sima fought off several Heavenly Court pursuers while escorting Dou Qi, Saintess Xuan, and the others, but the injuries and strain of forcing himself into the Great Ascension stage killed him. Saintess Xuan left the Five Dragons Cave Mansion wondering whether Chen Shi’s Heavenly Court could rival the Young Master’s faction and what she should do about her growing feelings.

• The boat girl transformed into a Horse-Faced Underworld God and attacked Xi Sima’s group, but Xi Sima broke the Underworld illusion and led everyone to shore.
• Granny Sha and Black Pot attacked Xi Sima, who forced his body to fuse with his Void Realm and Primordial Spirit, briefly reaching the Great Ascension stage before driving them back.
• Xi Sima and his companions encountered the Heavenly Fox and the Green Goat, who tested Xi Sima’s strength and let him continue.
• Xi Sima brought the group to the Five Dragons Cave Mansion, named Zong Xuan as his successor, and died after explaining that he could no longer help the Young Master.
• Saintess Xuan performed the Rebirth Mantra and wondered whether Chen Shi’s Heavenly Court was a rival faction and how to handle her new feelings.

A Zhuo told Chen Shi how he became an Underworld marshal during the third descent with Chen Yindu, when their party entered a ghost-and-god battlefield while searching for Chen Shi. After returning to Lake Danan with Empress Shi Ji, Chen Shi learned that the supreme ghost and god from that battle was still active—and that its cyan palms matched the handprint over his heart.

• Aunt A Ying interrogated A Zhuo about his past while Chen Shi, Qiao Hu, and Qiao Wei waited outside.
• As A Zhuo and Chen Shi crossed Lake Danan, A Zhuo explained that he became an Underworld marshal after a dying ghost and god gave him a seal and his bees transformed.
• A Zhuo recounted how Chen Yindu led their six-person party into a battle between powerful ghosts and gods after claiming he had seen Chen Shi atop the supreme ghost and god's head.
• A Zhuo recalled that Green Goat later died from his battle wounds, and Chen Shi promised to repay the kindness Chen Yindu's friends had shown.
• A Zhuo freed Empress Shi Ji and sent Chen Shi back to Lake Danan, suggesting that he visit the ancient remnant at Suspended Cliff.
• A Zhuo warned Chen Shi that the supreme ghost and god had later hunted him and that its palms turned cyan, causing the handprint over Chen Shi's heart to tighten.

Chen Shi visited Xuan Yan with Granny Sha, explored its ancient temple, and awakened the first signs of a divine image for the Holy King of Kai Zhang. On the way back, he learned from Li Tianqing’s letter that spiritual fruits might extend a cultivator’s lifespan, giving him hope for Granny Sha.

• Chen Shi reunited with Granny Sha and Black Pot, then reassured Granny Sha that A Zhuo cared about her and had protected her while serving as a ghost commander.
• Chen Shi and Granny Sha climbed onto Xuan Yan, where Granny Sha explained that its villages worshipped the temple as their Godmother and that the temple concealed an ancient well beneath it.
• Chen Shi examined the empty shrine in the Hall of the Holy King of Kai Zhang and used the West King’s Jade Seal and incense; a faint divine image began to form, astonishing Granny Sha.
• Chen Shi and Granny Sha left Xuan Yan and received a letter from Li Tianqing describing how mediating a feud between spiritual herb spirits had earned him fruits that greatly increased his cultivation and lifespan.
• Chen Shi learned Granny Sha had only twenty-four years left to live and resolved to test whether Li Tianqing’s spiritual fruits could prolong her lifespan.

Chen Shi brought the ginseng grass dolls into his small temple, where their cultivation and the help of Granny Zhuang, Empress Shi Ji, and Black Pot expanded the temple and accelerated his progress. He discovered that their fruits could restore youth and greatly extend lifespan when one rejuvenated Granny Sha, while Lord Wuwang grew impatient waiting for the Judge Dragon Whisker Brush.

• A minor ghost repeatedly asked Sangyu whether Chen Shi had returned, but Chen Shi had Sangyu send it away while he worked on the canopy and tended to Black Pot.
• Chen Shi moved Granny Zhuang and the ginseng grass dolls into his small temple, where the dolls grew rapidly as Granny Zhuang and Empress Shi Ji helped regulate the righteous qi.
• The small temple expanded to gain a third divine shrine, and Black Pot joined the cultivation there while Granny Zhuang and Black Pot helped with Chen Shi's meals.
• Lord Wuwang dreamed that the Judge Dragon Whisker Brush had become a young woman who favored Chen Shi, then resolved to demand the brush in person.
• Chen Shi gave Granny Sha a ginseng grass fruit, and she regained her youthful appearance as her lifespan rose to five hundred years.

Granny Sha rejuvenated after eating Ginseng Grass Fruit, while Chen Shi recruited Shao Jing as the Heavenly Court’s accountant. A letter from Li Tianqing then drew Chen Shi toward the haunted Temple of Emperor Guan, where a deity seemed to be awakening.

• Granny Sha ate another Ginseng Grass Fruit, confirmed her lifespan had reached its limit of 548 years, and warned Chen Shi to keep the temple’s life-extending herbs secret.
• Granny Sha explained that the fruit might work on Chen Shi’s grandfather, but stopped Chen Shi from attempting to enter the Underworld to deliver one.
• Chen Shi met Shao Jing at Gathering Immortals Tower and entrusted him with managing the Heavenly Court’s funds, recruiting him as its accountant.
• Chen Shi returned to Granny Sha, who had bought new clothes, and they headed back toward Gangzi Village.
• Li Tianqing sent Chen Shi an urgent letter describing ominous hauntings at the Temple of Emperor Guan and asking him to come before the new year.
• Chen Shi read that the temple’s deity was Lord Guan the Righteous and Brave and eagerly set out to visit it.

Chen Shi returned the Judge Dragon Whisker Brush to Lord Wuwang, whose test of its power opened the Underworld and drew pursuing ghosts and gods, forcing him to flee. Chen Shi warned Hu Feifei about the danger to Nannan and then hurried toward Qingzhou, where Li Tianqing was attacked by an unseen assailant before Chen Shi arrived.

• Chen Shi strengthened the wooden cart with talismans, then reconciled with Lord Wuwang and returned the Judge Dragon Whisker Brush.
• Lord Wuwang tested the brush outside Huangpo Village, opening the Underworld and drawing ghosts and gods toward him before he vanished into the Underworld.
• Chen Shi waited for Wuwang City to reappear, but neither it nor Lord Wuwang returned, so he worried about the judge's brush and the Benevolent Lord.
• Chen Shi told Hu Feifei and Nannan about Lord Wuwang's peril and discussed how to recover Nannan's memories, then left Ginseng Grass Fruits for Uncle Hu and headed toward Qingzhou.
• Chen Shi picked up Granny Zhuang and continued to Qingzhou, while Li Tianqing was attacked in the Temple of Emperor Guan by an unseen assailant.

Chen Shi reached Qingzhou and found a province ruled by brutal laws, then reunited with Li Tianqing at the God of Wealth Temple. That night, Li Tianqing rode out as a fearsome warrior and attacked Qingzhou City, where Chen Shi recognized him as the province’s notorious bandit leader.

• Chen Shi traveled by river to Qingzhou and saw arrest notices that branded petty offenses as capital crimes.
• Chen Shi met Li Tianqing at the God of Wealth Temple, where Sky Listeners secretly recorded their conversation.
• Chen Shi examined the temple and began carving a miniature version so Li Tianqing could carry it with him.
• At midnight, Li Tianqing mounted a Crimson Flame Warhorse and rode away, slashing down evil spirits along the road.
• Li Tianqing cleaved through Qingzhou City’s gates and its Myriad Souls Banner before charging into the city.
• Chen Shi saw an arrest notice naming Li Tianqing as Qingzhou’s top bandit leader and wondered who had been attacking him at the temple each night.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing discovered that a black-robed sorcerer was sending evil spirits to kill Li Tianqing, so they let Lord Guan’s divine will take control of Chen Shi and followed its nightly rampage. The chapter ended with Li Tianqing locating the sorcerer’s lair and preparing to investigate it with Chen Shi.

• Li Tianqing rode into Qingzhou City under Lord Guan’s control, killed the Salt Commissioner, and distributed the stolen wealth among nearby villages before returning to the temple.
• Chen Shi read the Sky Listeners’ records and witnessed a black-robed man summon evil spirits to attack the temple, then sent his sword after the man as he fled into Qingzhou City.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing concluded that a Southern School Talismans practitioner was raising evil spirits and plotting against Li Tianqing, so they agreed to see what happened when Lord Guan controlled Chen Shi.
• Lord Wuwang sought refuge in Chen Shi’s dream but fled when he encountered the demonic gods in Chen Shi’s Sea of Consciousness and saw Lord Guan drive them back.
• Lord Guan controlled Chen Shi, who rode into a county town, killed the magistrate, and distributed the stolen wealth; Li Tianqing later tracked the black-robed sorcerer with a housefly transformed from a hairpin.
• Li Tianqing told Chen Shi that he had found the sorcerer’s lair and proposed that they go investigate after breakfast.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing tracked Luan Disheng to Qingzhou’s powerful Wan family, where he revealed that he worked as a medicine farmer cultivating the Elixir of Immortality. He explained that Qingzhou was a pasture for wild evil spirits, which the Wan family’s farmers controlled and harvested as fertilizer for spiritual herbs.

• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing entered Qingzhou, where bailiffs recognized them as the top two wanted criminals but were too afraid to arrest them.
• The pair confronted Luan Disheng outside his home, and he agreed to lead them to his medicine fields after pleading for his family’s safety.
• Luan Disheng described the Wan family’s immense wealth and influence as he led Chen Shi and Li Tianqing past its charitable porridge stall and vast farmland.
• At the Wan family’s spiritual nurseries, Luan Disheng revealed that his fields grew the Elixir of Immortality and that he used evil spirits as medicine fertilizer.
• Luan Disheng explained that the Wan family taught him to control wild evil spirits and that medicine farmers herded them across Qingzhou, which served as their pasture.

Li Tianqing learned that the Wan family’s spiritual herb operation served all thirteen noble families, which used people and evil sui to extend their elders’ lives. After Thirteenth Uncle Li Xiaoguang ordered him to stay out of the affair, Li Tianqing defied the Quanzhou Li Family and joined Chen Shi, as the Hour of Zi approached.

• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing learned from Luan Disheng that the Wan family cultivated 542 sentient spiritual herbs with fertilizer refined from evil sui and ordinary people.
• Li Tianqing told Chen Shi that his family’s two-hundred-year-old ancestor was due to emerge from seclusion and asked Chen Shi to leave Qingzhou with the God of Wealth Temple.
• Chen Shi dismantled the God of Wealth Temple and departed with it, while Li Tianqing went to the Wan Manor to retrieve the elixir of immortality.
• Li Xiaoguang told Li Tianqing that all thirteen noble families owned the Qingzhou medicine fields and ordered him to leave the matter alone and remain in the Spring Attire Pavilion.
• Li Tianqing defied his uncle and left the pavilion to help Chen Shi, who arrived disguised as a pageboy carrying the miniature courtyard.
• As the Hour of Zi neared, Li Tianqing dreamed of the Underworld Bureau’s horse approaching and mounted it, calling for his blade.

At the Wan Manor’s New Year banquet, Li Tianqing rode in as the Red Horse Bandit and, with Lord Guan the Righteous and Brave guiding his blade, slaughtered the thirteen medicine envoys and Wan Shide. He left Quanzhou beneath the Red Hare Horse as the Wan family’s gold and silver flew after him to be distributed among the people.

• The thirteen medicine envoys toasted and condemned the Red Horse Bandit while waiting for the bandit to arrive at the Wan Manor.
• Wan Shide poured wine for Zhai Baobao, and a sudden blade strike killed him before he could use his Golden Pagoda.
• Li Tianqing charged into the banquet hall on the Red Hare Horse and beheaded his uncle Li Xiaoguang with a single strike.
• Lord Guan the Righteous and Brave fought through the Wan Manor, killing Jiang Tu, Fei Youying, Zhang Shouyi, Gu Xiaochuan, Gao Jian, Zhai Baobao, Yang Luohua, Ma Dingguo, Xu Fangzhi, Yan Yi, and Xia Jie.
• After the thirteen envoys were dead, the Wan family’s treasures rose into the air and followed Li Tianqing away as lamps lit across Quanzhou.