Recaps

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing fought the Thread-Pulling Worm after it attacked two merchant caravans, killing it before it could devour them. Chen Shi noticed the evil’s talisman-like markings and asked Li Tianqing to remember them for an experiment, then called for Black Pot.

• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing saw the Thread-Pulling Worm seize a merchant and warned the fleeing caravan members about its invisible threads.
• Chen Shi threw boulders onto the threads, weighing down the Thread-Pulling Worm until Li Tianqing could attack it with the Six Yin Jade Wheel.
• Chen Shi smashed the Thread-Pulling Worm’s legs and head while Li Tianqing cut into its body, and they killed it after Li Tianqing’s jade wheel pierced its skull.
• The Thread-Pulling Worm decayed into a foul puddle, and Chen Shi compared its markings and remains to Iron Brush Old Man’s talisman monster.
• Chen Shi asked Li Tianqing to recall the Thread-Pulling Worm’s markings for an experiment and called for Black Pot.

During the first two days of a demon transformation that turned food, trees, and people into porcelain, Chen Shi and Li Tianqing learned that the villagers could not escape the demon domain and that the demon had to be destroyed. As the village struggled to survive, Chen Shi and Li Tianqing brought food to households and carried porcelanized villagers back inside, while their grandpas remained missing.

• Chen Shi copied the thread-pulling worm’s patterns onto a talisman, causing a tiny worm to emerge from the burning paper before Black Pot killed it.
• A red curtain engulfed Ganyang Mountain, and Li Tianqing identified the phenomenon as a demon-grade cataclysm whose spreading domain would porcelanize ordinary people unless the demon was eliminated.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing returned to Huangpo Village, where Chen Shi stole a duck from Grandma Yuzhu to cook after discovering their rice and flour had turned to porcelain.
• On the second day, Chen Shi and Li Tianqing hunted game and found Liu Tianzhu and other villagers turning into porcelain; Chen Shi carried Liu and nearby porcelanized people back into the village.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing distributed game, including spiritual Xinxiang rats, among the villagers to help slow porcelanization, and Grandma Yuzhu told Yuzhu not to call Chen Shi a damned brat anymore.

Outside the demon domain, Xinxiang officials sealed it with the Heavenly Dragon Demon Locking Array and mourned Zhao Yanlong, while Chen Shi and Li Tianqing hunted for food inside. Chen Shi survived an attack by the Head-Breaking Dish, and Li Jindou, defeated in battle with the evil Bodhisattva, was taken by Prince Xiao to see Master Chen.

• Xinxiang Governor Zhao Tianbao and the officials activated the Heavenly Dragon Demon Locking Array, then planned a memorial for Zhao Yanlong and the Xuan Ying Mansion soldiers they believed had died inside.
• On the third day of demonization, Chen Shi and Li Tianqing hunted sluggish Xinxiang rats and wondered why Black Pot had not turned to porcelain.
• Chen Shi resisted the Head-Breaking Dish by swelling his neck with vital energy and warned Li Tianqing not to turn around.
• Li Jindou, badly injured after he, Granny Sha, Prince Xiao, and Jin Hongying failed to defeat the evil Bodhisattva, called after Li Tianqing but could not catch up.
• Prince Xiao arrived by carriage, helped Li Jindou aboard, and said he was taking him to see Master Chen.

Prince Xiao, Li Jindou, and Granny Sha sought Chen Yindu’s help against Evil Bodhisattva, but Chen Yindu demanded a powerful protector for Chen Shi and refused to act when Prince Xiao could not promise victory. On the fourth day of the demon transformation, Chen Shi and Li Tianqing encountered an organized group of cultivators on the mountain path.

• Prince Xiao brought Li Jindou and the injured Granny Sha to Great Serpent Xuan Shan, where Chen Yindu was playing chess with Xuan Shan.
• Granny Sha urged Chen Yindu to save the people threatened by Evil Bodhisattva, but he said he did not care about them and demanded a protector who could keep Chen Shi’s illness under control.
• Prince Xiao explained that he could not guarantee victory against Evil Bodhisattva or handle a calamity-grade threat, so he left with Li Jindou and Granny Sha.
• On the fourth day of the demon transformation, Chen Shi and Li Tianqing returned from foraging empty-handed while Black Pot remained unaffected by Evil Bodhisattva.
• Chen Shi, Li Tianqing, and Black Pot met a group of twelve cultivators whose maids took turns using their divine shrines to guard the party.
• The maids spotted Chen Shi, Li Tianqing, and Black Pot and told their young master they had encountered two children and a dog.

Zhao Ziyu and his maidservants slaughtered Ye Hongqiu and the Qiaowan Town schoolchildren to take their fire elephant rhinoceros meat. After finding the massacre, Chen Shi and Li Tianqing tracked the group, and Chen Shi charged at them despite Li Tianqing's warnings about Zhao Ziyu's Golden Core cultivation.

• Zhao Ziyu's maidservants feigned a request for food, then used the Zi Wu Zhan Xie Sword to kill Ye Hongqiu's students, while Zhao Ziyu crushed Ye Hongqiu with his golden core.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing found the students' bodies and identified the killers' techniques, including a Golden Core user's pressure and the Xinxiang Zhao Family's Flying Dragon Slaying Demon Art.
• Chen Shi picked up a short sword and followed Heizi's trail toward Zhao Ziyu's party, while Li Tianqing warned him that the group included Zhao Ziyu and eleven powerful maidservants.
• Li Tianqing tried to observe the party and plan an ambush, but Chen Shi seized their moment of lowered vigilance and charged down the hillside, telling Li Tianqing and Heizi to stay behind.

Chen Shi attacked the Zhao family encampment and killed Zhao Ziyu and all eleven of his maidservants before Li Tianqing could catch up. As Zhao family guards and another Golden Core expert pursued them, Chen Shi and Li Tianqing fled with Black Pot.

• Li Tianqing realized the Zhao family encampment held many guards and feared Chen Shi would be overwhelmed if he attacked Zhao Ziyu.
• Zhao Yanlong, Zhao Minrou, and Zhao Yanchu waited in the camp as Zhao Ziyu returned with eleven maidservants carrying spirit beast meat.
• Chen Shi ambushed Zhao Ziyu's party, killed the eleven maidservants, shattered Zhao Ziyu's Golden Bell Talisman, and stabbed him to death.
• Li Tianqing arrived after the fight and was stunned that Chen Shi had defeated eleven Divine Embryo cultivators and a Golden Core expert in moments.
• Chen Shi told Li Tianqing to run, and they fled as the Zhao family guards and another Golden Core expert charged after them.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing reached Black Pot and escaped up the slope.

Zhao Yanlong grieved over Zhao Ziyu’s death and learned that Chen Shi was responsible, while Chen Shi and Li Tianqing escaped Ganyang Mountain. They encountered the towering Evil Bodhisattva searching for survivors and realized that nowhere nearby was safe.

• Zhao Yanlong mourned Zhao Ziyu and swore revenge after Zhao Minrou identified Chen Shi as the killer.
• Chen Yindu praised Chen Shi to Xuan Shan but admitted he could never let go of his family affection.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing buried Mr. Ye and his students, then left Ganyang Mountain by its northern foothills.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing hid from a many-headed Sui near Shanyin Village and watched it turn away from the village.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing saw the Evil Bodhisattva approach, use its Heavenly Eye to search the forest, and porcelainize living things in its path.
• Chen Shi, Li Tianqing, and the black pot fled after the Evil Bodhisattva failed to find them and continued its search for survivors.

During the porcelain transformation, Chen Shi and Li Tianqing welcomed the wounded Jin Hongying into Huangpo Village, then prepared to leave with her as the Evil Bodhisattva drew near. The villagers let Chen Shi go, but Jin Hongying stopped at the Yellow Earth Slope, where stepping forward seemed to threaten her life.

• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing hunted a spirit camel, found nearby villages and Godmother turned into porcelain, and returned to Huangpo Village.
• Chen Shi recognized Jin Hongying at his doorstep, retreated inside with Li Tianqing and Black Pot, and discovered she had noticed their Hongyi Cannon and cannonballs.
• Jin Hongying explained that the Evil Bodhisattva had found her refuge in Fangdian Village and urged Chen Shi to leave Huangpo Village with her.
• Chen Shi cooked for Jin Hongying, then left a note for Grandpa and said farewell to the villagers before setting out with Jin Hongying, Li Tianqing, and Black Pot.
• At the Yellow Earth Slope, Jin Hongying found that attempting to climb it made the world spin and the sky seem to press down on her.

Chen Shi, Li Tianqing, Jin Hongying, and Black Dog left Huangpo Village after Evil Bodhisattva turned its people to porcelain, then headed toward Mirror Lake Villa to seek refuge and pursue Prince Xiao's West King's Jade Seal. They found a mountain village filled with porcelain people just as Evil Bodhisattva approached, and Chen Shi told everyone not to move.

• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing noticed the old willow tree had escaped porcelainification, and Jin Hongying refused to approach Chen Shi's godmother's slope.
• Jin Hongying hid Chen Shi and Li Tianqing when Evil Bodhisattva passed, but they later found every villager in Huangpo Village transformed into porcelain.
• Chen Shi used Black Dog's blood to draw and post protective talismans around the village before joining Jin Hongying and Li Tianqing on the road.
• Jin Hongying revealed that Prince Xiao had stolen the West King's Jade Seal, and the group decided to seek him at Mirror Lake Villa while avoiding Evil Bodhisattva.
• Jin Hongying's paper figures destroyed several floating skulls, and the group continued through the mountains to a village containing over a thousand porcelain people.
• Evil Bodhisattva appeared as Chen Shi realized someone had gathered the porcelain people there, and he ordered the others to freeze.

Chen Shi, Li Tianqing, Jin Hongying, and Black Pot hid among porcelain figures while the Evil Bodhisattva’s kiln worker gathered figures to repair its body. They escaped the village as the Evil Bodhisattva awakened, leaving the kiln worker and Jin Hongying’s paper dolls fighting inside its belly.

• Chen Shi and the others hid among the porcelain figures as the Evil Bodhisattva arrived and its kiln worker began collecting figures to melt down for repairs.
• The kiln worker counted the figures and nearly discovered Jin Hongying, but Chen Shi kept her still until it returned inside the Evil Bodhisattva.
• Chen Shi led the group toward the village outskirts while the kiln worker resumed its repairs, but one of the Evil Bodhisattva’s faces spotted them as they escaped.
• Jin Hongying sent her paper dolls to attack the kiln worker, which burned some of them with molten porcelain while the others severed its neck.
• The Evil Bodhisattva rose and unleashed true fire, but Chen Shi, Jin Hongying, Li Tianqing, and Black Pot fled beyond its field of vision and crossed the river.

Chen Shi, Li Tianqing, Jin Hongying, and Black Pot escaped the Evil Bodhisattva through a mountain cave and reached Mirror Lake Villa, where they reunited with Li Jindou, Prince Xiao, and Granny Sha. As the group gathered by Mirror Lake to discuss what to do next, Chen Shi realized their team of experts consisted of the old, weak, sick, and disabled.

• Chen Shi led Jin Hongying, Li Tianqing, and Black Pot through a maze-like cave to evade the pursuing Evil Bodhisattva.
• The group emerged in a secluded valley, cooked a meal, and Jin Hongying explained how the Li family and Zhao family were maneuvering around the True King's Tomb.
• Chen Shi and his companions reached Mirror Lake Villa, where Li Tianqing found Li Jindou alive and was scolded by his grandfather.
• Jin Hongying called Prince Xiao out of the villa, and Granny Sha also emerged from a coffin as one of the villa's original builders.
• Granny Sha led the group to the lakeshore, where Chen Shi noted that their companions were old, weak, sick, or disabled as they faced the Evil Bodhisattva.

With the Evil Bodhisattva growing stronger and the survivors too injured to repeat their first attack, Prince Xiao and Granny Sha weighed their remaining options. Chen Shi left to find Chen Yindu, while Li Tianqing offered a way to study the Evil Bodhisattva’s talismans and Prince Xiao began taking an interest in him.

• Jin Hongying demanded Prince Xiao hand over the West King's Jade Seal, but he explained that only someone with imperial blood could use it to open the True King's Tomb.
• Chen Shi went to Great Serpent Xuan Shan to look for Chen Yindu, and Prince Xiao and Granny Sha discussed the danger of Chen Yindu being driven into demonic transformation if he fought.
• Granny Sha and Prince Xiao revealed that Chen Shi possessed the legendary Innate Dao Embryo, which had been stolen after he was killed as a child, and Jin Hongying connected the revelation to the massacre of Xijing’s three great battalions.
• Prince Xiao, Granny Sha, Jin Hongying, and Li Jindou agreed to fight the Evil Bodhisattva again, while Jin Hongying entered Granny Sha’s coffin to heal her injuries.
• Li Tianqing said he had memorized the Evil Bodhisattva’s talisman patterns and that Chen Shi could decipher them, giving the group a possible way to plan its defeat.
• Prince Xiao offered to help Li Tianqing improve his cultivation, prompting Granny Sha to warn Jin Hongying to come out and stop him.

Chen Shi reunited with Chen Yindu and learned that porcelainized people and other beings remained alive, while he and Li Tianqing mapped the Evil Bodhisattva’s talismans to help the experts fight it. After the adults set out to attack, Chen Shi and Li Tianqing considered using the Divine Machine Battalion’s cannons against the Zhao family’s encampment.

• Chen Shi found Chen Yindu beneath Great Serpent Xuan Shan and told him he could suppress the Ghost Hand Seal.
• Chen Yindu explained that porcelainized beings were still alive, moving so slowly that they could recover if the Evil Bodhisattva was destroyed within a hundred days.
• Chen Shi proposed escaping the demonic domain through the Underworld on a Great Gu, and agreed with Chen Yindu to wait two days before leaving with their family if the Evil Bodhisattva remained undefeated.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing copied and analyzed hundreds of the Evil Bodhisattva’s talismans, identifying ways to weaken its attacks.
• Prince Xiao, Granny Sha, Jin Hongying, and Li Jindou left to fight the Evil Bodhisattva, while Chen Shi suggested that he and Li Tianqing shell the Zhao family’s encampment with a Hongyi Cannon.

Prince Xiao, Jin Hongying, Li Jindou, and Granny Sha shattered the Evil Bodhisattva’s porcelain shell, but its bloodied body survived and began regenerating. As it threatened to consume them, Chen Yindu advanced toward it, chanting a golden-light incantation.

• The Evil Bodhisattva gathered life force in its demon domain and sensed that its metamorphosis was nearing completion.
• Prince Xiao, Jin Hongying, Li Jindou, and Granny Sha attacked using knowledge of the talismans, striking the creature’s weapons and breaking its porcelain body.
• The bloodied Evil Bodhisattva rose from the shards, seized the Fine Waist and Bailao swords, and overwhelmed the group with an illusion until Granny Sha drove it back.
• The Evil Bodhisattva regenerated its porcelain skin and declared that it would turn the four fighters into nourishment.
• Xuan Shan watched as Chen Yindu bowed farewell and walked toward the Evil Bodhisattva, chanting an incantation that surrounded him in golden light and talismans.

Chen Yindu’s golden Luo Tian Grand Ceremony nearly destroyed the Evil Bodhisattva, but its taunts stirred Chen Yindu’s demonic nature and the ceremony collapsed. Chen Yindu annihilated the Evil Bodhisattva, then Xuan Shan suppressed his expanding demonic domain and told him he could no longer remain in the mortal realm.

• The Evil Bodhisattva shattered Li Jindou’s jade wheels and porcelanized Li Jindou, Jin Hongying, and Granny Sha while twisting Prince Xiao through the Bailao Sword.
• A golden Luo Tian Grand Ceremony trapped and refined the Evil Bodhisattva, while it taunted Chen Yindu about his desires and his nature as a dead malefic entity.
• Chen Yindu’s deities turned sinister, the ceremony dissipated, and the Evil Bodhisattva recovered in miniature form beside him.
• When the Evil Bodhisattva urged Chen Yindu to kill his grandson, Chen Yindu stomped it into the underworld and annihilated it, but his dark demonic domain expanded and he turned toward Prince Xiao.
• Xuan Shan and his oil-paper umbrella suppressed Chen Yindu’s demonic nature, and Chen Yindu regained clarity as Xuan Shan told him he could no longer stay in the mortal realm.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing prepared a cannon while the Evil Bodhisattva’s domain collapsed and the porcelainized victims began to recover. They pursued the fleeing Zhao family and used black iron cannonballs to devastate the group, leaving Zhao Yanliang dead and the survivors running for their lives.

• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing prepared the Hongyi Cannon as Li Tianqing discussed the provincial examination and his possible plans to join the Divine Machine Battalion.
• Chen Yindu’s dark domain vanished, the Evil Bodhisattva’s domain dissolved, and porcelainized people and plants began to return to life.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing pursued the Zhao family scions and Imperial Guards as they fled Ganyang Mountain.
• Chen Shi hurled a black iron cannonball into the group, killing and maiming many Zhao family members and guards.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing detonated a second pair of cannonballs, shattering Zhao Yanliang’s golden core.
• Chen Shi caught up to Zhao Yanliang, broke his wrist, and killed him with a blow to the head.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing pursued the surviving Zhao family forces from Ganyang Mountain, where Zhao Yanlong regained enough strength to flee toward Governor Zhao Tianbao’s camp. Chen Shi reached the camp and killed Zhao Yanlong and Zhao Duofu in front of the governor and his officials, then walked away.

• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing drove the Zhao family disciples and Imperial Guard out of Ganyang Mountain, killing many as the survivors fled toward the provincial capital.
• Zhao Yanlong recovered from his porcelain state while fleeing with Zhao Duofu and learned that his sixth brother and second daughter had been killed.
• Zhao Yanlong and Zhao Duofu reached the Governor’s camp, while Chen Shi ignored Li Tianqing’s warning and pursued them alone with the remaining black iron pellets.
• Chen Shi destroyed Zhao Yanlong’s approaching primordial spirit with exploding pellets as Zhao Tianbao and the officials mistook Chen Shi for a promising Zhao family youth.
• Chen Shi killed Zhao Duofu and beat Zhao Yanlong to death before meeting Zhao Tianbao’s gaze and walking away.

Chen Shi escaped after killing Zhao Yanlong, while Chen Yindu intervened to stop the Zhao Family’s pursuit and killed Governor Zhao Tianbao. Chen Shi and Li Tianqing returned to Huangpo Village, where they found signs that Ganyang Mountain had survived its demonic transformation and reunited with their injured companions and Grandpa.

• The Zhao Family and provincial officials chased Chen Shi, but Chen Yindu’s influence pacified them and sent them back toward the provincial capital.
• Chen Yindu confronted Zhao Tianbao, killed him, and left behind a final testament warning the Zhao Family to flee and preserve its bloodline.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing escaped to Ganyang Mountain and saw fish swimming again as a strange beast roared from the forest.
• Chen Shi returned to Huangpo Village, where the sacred tree had recovered and offered him a sweet crimson fruit.
• Chen Shi found Li Jindou, Jin Hongying, Granny Sha, and Prince Xiao badly injured, then saw Grandpa return carrying a cyan rain umbrella.

After the disaster, Chen Shi sold the ancient turtle shell to Shao Jing for a thousand taels and traveled with Grandpa to Xinxiang County City for medicine. Grandpa then took Chen Shi to a haunted courtyard in Youcai Village to meet his friends, while the Black-clothed Xuanshan watched from the fields.

• Chen Shi and Grandpa took the turtle shell to Qiaowan Town, where several cultivators tried to buy Black Pot along with it.
• Shao Jing identified the shell as belonging to a centuries-old temple turtle and bought it for a thousand taels of silver, warning Chen Shi about a would-be robber.
• Grandpa told Chen Shi the shell contained twenty-four luminous pearls and explained that Shao Jing had offered a fair price.
• Grandpa gave Chen Shi a medicinal formula to memorize, then took him to Xinxiang County City to buy herbs and onward to Youcai Village.
• Grandpa stopped at a haunted courtyard outside Youcai Village, and Chen Shi wondered whether Grandpa's friends were evil spirits as villagers warned them away.
• Chen Shi spotted the Black-clothed Xuanshan watching from a rapeseed field.

Chen Shi and Grandpa visited two old friends to ask them to become Chen Shi’s godmothers and protect him after Grandpa was gone. Both friends refused, but their reactions showed that they cared deeply about Grandpa and Chen Shi, and Grandpa continued toward another old friend.

• Grandpa asked Old Hu to become Chen Shi’s godmother, but Old Hu refused because he feared the consequences for the Fox Clan.
• After Grandpa and Chen Shi left, Old Hu revealed that Grandpa had built him a lavish man-made Ghost and God Domain, but he still refused the request out of fear of the infamy it would bring.
• Grandpa told Chen Shi that Old Hu would protect him after Grandpa was gone, and they traveled through the night with Black Pot guarding the cart.
• At dawn, Grandpa and Chen Shi reached a village and met Green Goat, who joked about sacrificing Chen Shi and making hotpot from Black Pot.
• Grandpa asked Green Goat to care for Chen Shi, but Green Goat refused and threatened them before retreating into the sacred tree.
• After Grandpa, Chen Shi, and Black Pot departed, Green Goat wept because Grandpa had told him he was going away.

Chen Shi’s grandfather departed for the underworld, leaving Chen Shi devastated and grieving with Black-pot. The chapter ended when Chen Shi used his grandfather’s talisman to contact his estranged father, Chen Tang, and told him that Grandpa had died.

• Grandpa told Chen Shi about friends who might help him and promised he would do everything to keep his grandson alive.
• Chen Shi prayed at the stone tablet godmother for Grandpa’s safety, but the tablet did not respond.
• Grandpa appeared to Chen Shi in a dream to say he was leaving, and Granny Sha woke Chen Shi to tell him Grandpa had truly gone to the underworld.
• Chen Shi used the Ram Horn Heavenly Spirit Lamp to light Grandpa’s path while Granny Sha sang him across, then mourned and kept vigil by the coffin.
• Chen Shi used Grandpa’s Thousand Mile Sound Talisman to contact Chen Tang and told him that Grandpa had left.

After learning that Chen Tang regarded him as a ghost rather than his son, Chen Shi discovered that Chen Yindu had descended alive in body to the Underworld and took comfort in believing his grandfather could be met again. As those around him departed, Chen Shi received the West King's Jade Seal without knowing its value, while Chen Yindu ventured deeper into the Underworld to prepare a realm for him.

• Chen Tang told Chen Shi that his son had died ten years earlier and rejected Chen Shi as a resurrected monster, while Chen Shi refused his offer of help.
• At Chen Yindu's funeral, Granny Sha explained that he had died months ago and gone to the Underworld as a Corpse-Liberated Immortal, but Chen Shi insisted that his grandfather was still alive there.
• Jin Hongying, Li Tianqing, Li Jindou, and Granny Sha said their farewells, and Li Tianqing gave Chen Shi the promised books before warning that the treasure ship was more dangerous than the kiln.
• Prince Xiao gave Chen Shi the Water-Fire Tempering Art and left a jade seal hanging from Scholar Zhu's willow tree; Chen Shi identified it as the Imperial Seal of Heaven's Mandate.
• Jin Hongying pursued Prince Xiao and demanded that he hand over the West King's Jade Seal as he fled in his carriage.
• Chen Yindu traveled deep into the Underworld to seek the source of Chen Shi's Ghost Hand Seal and vowed to forge a realm there for his grandson.

Chen Shi delivered the Water-Fire Tempering Art to Granny Sha and learned that a moon had appeared in daylight, an anomaly that could let evil spirits roam by day. As the strange events spread, Chen Shi answered a village’s call for help and confronted a giant gray rat spirit devouring a sleeping man.

• Chen Shi realized Grandpa had used the Water-Fire Tempering Art to preserve his corpse after his death and found that the jade seal made the mysterious stone box glow.
• Chen Shi gave Granny Sha a copy of the Water-Fire Tempering Art, and she accepted it despite recognizing Grandpa’s scheme to ensure she would protect him.
• Chen Shi and Granny Sha saw a crescent moon appear beside two suns, while Xuan Shan worried that the True Gods from Beyond the Heavens had begun to change.
• Chen Shi sold talismans as strange daytime disturbances spread, then agreed to help a village whose resident was being eaten by an unseen evil spirit.
• Chen Shi saw a tall gray rat spirit gnawing on the man’s arm, and the spirit turned to ask whether Chen Shi could see it.

Chen Shi killed a gray-robed mouse spirit and discovered its tail could put people to sleep, then hurried to Luwei Town to deal with two cultivators trapped inside a pregnant woman. He used talismans to induce Cui'e’s labor, and the chapter ended with the birth of twins.

• Chen Shi killed the gray-robed mouse with the thunderous force of his punch and found an invisibility talisman on its body.
• Chen Shi tested the mouse’s sleep-inducing tail on himself and Black Pot, then returned to selling talismans.
• A villager asked Chen Shi to help Cui'e, whose belly carried the voices of two adults, and Chen Shi rushed to Luwei Town in his talisman-powered cart.
• Chen Shi recognized the voices as a master and disciple whose Nascent Souls had been trapped in Cui'e’s womb.
• After collecting five taels of silver, Chen Shi pasted a fetus-calming talisman on Cui'e’s navel and a labor-inducing talisman on her lower back.
• Cui'e gave birth to a boy and a girl.

Chen Shi handled a series of evil-spirit incidents during the Moon Festival and learned that Grandma Black Mountain was a powerful temple deity seeking to take over Luwei Town. As Chen Shi returned to Huangpo Village, her rat spirits appeared on the road to threaten him, prompting him to plan how to strengthen himself.

• Chen Shi explained to Black Pot how he had saved two infants carrying the Nascent Souls of cultivators, realizing that he had become a capable Fu master.
• Chen Shi drove an evil spirit out of a butcher in Shilanzi Village, rescued a girl from an evil spirit, and killed grey-clothed rats that had eaten villagers.
• The little Taoist priest told Chen Shi that Grandma Black Mountain was worshipped at a temple, then returned beaten and warned that she planned to take over Luwei Town.
• Chen Shi sold thunder talismans through the rest of the Moon Festival and set out for Huangpo Village with Black Pot.
• Grey-clothed rat spirits confronted Chen Shi on the mountain road, delivered Grandma Black Mountain's threat, and vanished before he could fight them.
• Chen Shi decided to buy an iron hat and seek the complete Three Lights Righteous Qi Art so he could face Grandma Black Mountain.