Chapter Summaries

Chen Shi recovered a Hongyi Cannon, visited Huangyang Village, and resumed cultivating at the Mountain Lord Temple, where his body advanced toward the Saint Embryo Body. Meanwhile, Jin Hongying found Mirror Lake Villa and sent paper figures to attack Prince Xiao’s coffin, leaving the Bailao Sword facing a growing force.

• Chen Shi took a Hongyi Cannon and its projectiles from Thunder-Hit Mountain to Huangpo Village, then hid his savings from Black Pot and agreed to buy the dog meat in exchange for its silence and blood for talismans.
• Chen Shi bought Black Pot exotic beast meat and toys, reassured Huangyang Village that he would handle the Zhao family, and forgave Guanghao's wife after striking her twice.
• Chen Shi offered incense to the mountain spirits and fruit spirits, then cultivated at the Mountain Lord Temple until his divine shrine stabilized and his body neared the Saint Embryo Body.
• Jin Hongying tracked Prince Xiao to Mirror Lake Villa, suffered the villa’s pressure, and sent two paper figures inside to attack his coffin.
• The Bailao Sword defeated the two paper figures, but more than a dozen arrived with paper weapons and prepared to attack the villa.

Jin Hongying attacked Mirror Lake Villa but was driven away by Grandpa Chen, who then revealed to Prince Xiao that Chen Shi’s Azure Ghost Hand was consuming the souls of those he killed. Grandpa sought a godmother to suppress the threat, while Chen Shi advanced his cultivation and forged the Saint Embryo Body.

• Jin Hongying sent an army of paper figures into Mirror Lake Villa, but Grandpa Chen’s voice shattered her attack and forced her to flee.
• Grandpa Chen and Prince Xiao opened the coffins and found Prince Xiao awake; Grandpa explained that he had secretly followed Little Eleven to protect him.
• Grandpa told Prince Xiao that Chen Shi’s Azure Ghost Hand was growing stronger and that the souls of people Chen Shi killed had vanished.
• Grandpa admitted he feared Chen Shi could lose control and bring about a calamity, then asked Prince Xiao to become Chen Shi’s godmother, but Prince Xiao refused.
• Grandpa resolved to find someone powerful enough to protect Chen Shi, even as he struggled with the possibility of having to kill his grandson.
• Chen Shi cultivated the Five Viscera Complete Truth and completed the tempering of his true bones, realizing his physical body had become his Divine Embryo.

Chen Shi tested the power of his Sacred Embryo and welcomed Li Tianqing and his grandfather to Huangpo Village after they investigated Li Kefu’s death and deduced that the True King’s Tomb was nearby. The chapter ended with Chen Shi bringing the two guests to his home for the night.

• Chen Shi tested his Sacred Embryo’s combat power, but his divine shrine and true qi still began to fade without a genuine divine embryo.
• Chen Shi offered incense to stone tablet godmother and studied the Analects with Scholar Zhu while Li Tianqing and his grandfather searched near Yellow Earth Slope for clues about Li Kefu’s death.
• Li Tianqing identified kaolin on the slope and deduced that a nearby kiln and the True King’s Tomb had once been there; he also proposed asking the hanging scholars for information about Li Kefu’s killer.
• Li Tianqing’s grandfather tried to approach Yellow Earth Slope but retreated when an unseen force made the slope seem immense, then paid respects to Huangpo Village’s Godmother before entering.
• Chen Shi introduced himself to Li Tianqing and invited him and his grandfather to stay at his home, and his grandfather accepted.

Li Tianqing and Li Jindou stayed at Chen Shi’s home, where Li Jindou tested Chen Yindu’s mysterious power and was injured by it. Chen Shi led Li Tianqing and Li Jindou into the mountains, showing them the spirits he honored along the paths and explaining how they protected travelers.

• Li Jindou noticed Chen Yindu’s name on a mourning tablet and sensed that the apparently living old man was becoming a malevolent Sui.
• When Li Jindou tested Chen Yindu by exchanging silver, a sudden gale swept through the sky, and Li Jindou later suffered a backlash that forced him to swallow a spiritual pill.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing prepared to fire the Hongyi Cannon, but Li Jindou stopped them and asked Chen Shi to lead the group to the kiln.
• Li Tianqing briefly forgot his investigation into Seventh Uncle’s disappearance as he chatted and laughed with Chen Shi on the way into the mountains.
• Chen Shi replaced red cloth strips and offered incense to mountain spirits, and Li Tianqing used a Heavenly Eye Talisman to see their faint forms.
• Chen Shi explained that the spirits protected mountain travelers from beasts, bandits, and malevolent Sui, recalling how a tree spirit once saved him.

Li Jindou entered the True King's Tomb kiln factory to investigate its ghost and god domain, while Li Tianqing confronted Chen Shi outside and revealed that he knew Chen Shi had killed Li Xiaoding. With his family’s survival at stake, Li Tianqing challenged Chen Shi to a duel, and Chen Shi showed him his newly strengthened body and footwork.

• Li Jindou recognized the kiln factory’s ghost and god domain, marked its boundaries, and entered alone after telling Li Tianqing how to protect his mother and himself if he failed to return.
• Inside the kiln factory, Li Jindou and his divine shrine and embryo rapidly turned into porcelain, while his Primordial Spirit continued investigating.
• Li Tianqing accused Chen Shi of killing Li Xiaoding and linked him and his grandfather to the disappearances near Huangpo Village, but said Chen Shi had been protecting the villagers from treasure seekers.
• Li Tianqing explained that he needed to earn credit to protect his mother and keep his place in the Li Family, then prepared to fight Chen Shi with the Six Yin Jade Wheel Art.
• Chen Shi revealed that he had forged the Saint Embryo Body and demonstrated his speed, strength, and Big Dipper footwork before inviting Li Tianqing to fight.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing fought fiercely with their respective techniques, then stopped before either could kill the other and became friends after sharing the truth about Li Xiaoding. Their conversation was interrupted when Li Jindou fled the kiln workshop in porcelain form, unable to resist the Ghost and God Domain's alienation, and pleaded to be taken back to the village.

• Chen Shi sensed and evaded Li Tianqing's Six Yin Jade Wheels, then used a fallen tree and flying splinters to press him with a deadly punch.
• Chen Shi realized Li Tianqing was trying to force him into the Ghost and God Domain, but Li Jindou pulled him back before the fight could end in death.
• Chen Shi explained why he had killed Li Xiaoding, and Li Tianqing promised not to expose Chen Shi's involvement in Li Kefu's death.
• Chen Shi invited Li Tianqing to help catch macaques, and the two made plans to work together.
• Li Jindou burst out of the kiln workshop pursued by three kiln workers, but his body began turning to porcelain again despite his primordial spirit's efforts.
• Li Jindou shouted for Chen Shi and Li Tianqing to take him back to the village, but they could not understand him.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing learned that a gigantic movable porcelain Bodhisattva was the source of the kiln workshop’s Ghost and God Domain, then followed an ancient road to a petrified ship that Li Tianqing identified as a Great Ming Treasure Ship. The ship connected their present world to the lost ancestral land of Great Ming, though its fate and any route home remained unknown.

• Li Jindou communicated that he had found the kiln workshop’s origin: a huge, movable porcelain statue of the Eight-Armed Mother Bodhisattva, and he slowly worked to reverse his porcelanization in Huangpo Village.
• Li Tianqing discovered an ancient road near the kiln workshop that he believed had once carried fired pottery to the True King’s Tomb, but Chen Shi said it did not lead there.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing followed the broken road down to a dried riverbed, where they found a massive petrified ship and fossilized aquatic creatures from the former course of the Dejiang River.
• Li Tianqing recognized the vessel as a Great Ming Treasure Ship and explained that Sanbao had led a fleet from Great Ming to settle the Western Ox Continent, whose people had lost contact with their ancestral land for over six thousand years.

Chen Shi and Li Tianqing discovered a petrified ship whose ghost and god domain briefly restored an ancient river, then escaped its reach. After Zhao Minrou returned to the Zhao Family and revealed the kiln, Zhao Yanlong sent Zhao Cunyi to kill Chen Shi and Chen Yindu, but Zhao Cunyi revealed that he was the legendary Ganyang Mountain Person and killed Zhao Yanlong with a simple fire talisman.

• Li Tianqing nearly touched the petrified ship, triggering its ghost and god domain, and Chen Shi carried him out of the spreading grass before it reached them.
• Li Tianqing said finding the ship would let him and his family report back to the Quanzhou Li Family, and Chen Shi warned him not to approach unknown things out of curiosity.
• Zhao Minrou survived a perilous journey to the provincial capital, where she told Zhao Yanlong about the kiln and its four-headed, eight-armed porcelain statue.
• Zhao Yanlong realized the statue might be the source of the ghost and god domain, then ordered Zhao Cunyi to kill Chen Shi and Chen Yindu.
• Zhao Cunyi arrived at the Chen residence and found Chen Yindu in the mourning hall, where he revealed that he was Ganyang Mountain Person and burned Zhao Yanlong to ashes with a fire talisman.
• Li Jindou watched from the west wing and recognized Grandpa as the author of Compendium of Talismans and creator of Heavenly Heart Righteous Qi Art.

Li Jindou realized Ganyang Mountain Person was the legendary creator of the Heavenly Heart Righteous Qi Art, while Chen Shi and Li Tianqing spent the day catching macaques and enjoying the market. At the kiln factory, Zhao Yanlong’s expedition awakened the Eight-Armed Mother Bodhisattva statue, unleashing a spreading demonic domain that porcelanized everything in its path.

• Li Jindou recognized the old man hosting him as Ganyang Mountain Person and wondered where Li Tianqing had gone.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing caught six macaques, sold them for three taels of silver, and spent the day eating in town with Black Dog.
• Zhao Yanlong led Xuan Ying Mansion’s disciples and Imperial Guards into the kiln factory, where they turned into porcelain dolls as they searched for the four-headed, eight-armed statue.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing encountered a blocked mountain road and discovered that fish in a stream were turning into porcelain.
• The Eight-Armed Mother Bodhisattva statue grew enormous, smashed Zhao Yanlong’s siblings, and sent a wave of porcelanization across the surrounding land.
• Zhao Yanlong fled the kiln factory as Li Jindou realized a demon sealed inside the statue was spreading its domain.

A demon-grade disaster erupted around Ganyang Mountain as the Evil Bodhisattva awakened and its domain began turning living things into porcelain. Prince Xiao, Jin Hongying, Granny Sha, and Li Jindou joined forces to attack it, while fleeing Zhao family survivors discovered the demon domain’s boundary looped them back inside.

• Li Jindou realized the kiln’s aura signaled a demon-grade disaster and hurried out to find help, while Prince Xiao, Granny Sha, and Jin Hongying also set out to confront the threat.
• Prince Xiao and Jin Hongying agreed to put aside their feud temporarily, and Granny Sha and Li Jindou joined them near the kiln.
• Zhao Cuns turned into a porcelain doll, Zhao Cunxiang was crushed by the Evil Bodhisattva’s pestle, and Zhao Cunping fled before an arrow pinned him to a mountain.
• The four fighters faced the blue-and-white Evil Bodhisattva and its kiln workers, then launched their attacks at the workers while Granny Sha searched for the demon soul.
• Zhao family guards tried to escape with porcelain-fied Zhao Yanlong, but the demon domain’s Corridor returned them inside and dropped many riders from the sky.

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.