Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng prepared a ritual to deal with Master Yang’s dead son, then waited with the family for the ghost to appear. The ghost arrived at night, terrifying the household as it drifted into the hall.

• Chen Feng accepted Master Yang’s payment and asked to take the tree from his courtyard in return for helping him.
• Chen Feng had the Yang Family men place the corpse in a coffin, then prepared rooster blood, a talisman, incense, and willow leaves for his ritual.
• Chen Feng told Master Yang to stew the rooster with extra chili peppers, ate the meal, and waited for nightfall.
• A sinister wind swept through the hall, and Master Yang’s son called out from beyond the door.
• The pale ghost in white drifted into the hall, and one of Master Yang’s hired lackeys collapsed in terror.

Chen Feng confronted the ghost of Master Yang’s son, who accused his father of ruining his life and revealed the family secrets behind his death. The son began recounting how Master Yang’s long-held revenge had turned against him.

• Master Yang’s son appeared as a ghost and advanced on his father, while Master Yang begged for mercy.
• Chen Feng struck the ghost with his chicken-blood-stained Peachwood Sword, badly injuring it.
• Chen Feng offered to hear the ghost’s grievance and help lay it to rest, but warned he would destroy it if it refused.
• The ghost said he had been impotent since childhood and accused Master Yang of sleeping with his wife after sending him away.
• The ghost revealed that Master Yang knew his mother had conceived him with another man and had buried her alive.
• The ghost said Master Yang had arranged a feng shui curse and used his wife to enact revenge, then described how his father had forced him away and slept with her in front of him.

Chen Feng intervened when a furious young ghost tried to kill his wife after revealing Master Yang had forced him to witness their affair. He weakened the ghost with his Peachwood Sword and chicken blood, leaving him writhing on the ground.

• The young man described how Master Yang had forced him to watch his wife’s affair, while his wife blamed him for failing to satisfy her.
• The young man kicked his wife and lunged at her with sharp nails, but Chen Feng struck him with the Peachwood Sword.
• Chen Feng sent the wounded young man crashing into Master Yang, allowing the ghost to claw into his chest.
• The young man grabbed his wife by the throat, but Chen Feng drove a nail into the ghost and battered him with the sword.
• The young man fled, and Chen Feng threw chicken blood over him, causing his body to erupt as he fell to the ground in agony.

Chen Feng collected the young man's soul, completed the burial task, and used his reward to advance his Tai Chi Technique to the fifth level. After arranging care for Master Yang and his daughter-in-law, Chen Feng dug up the peach tree Master Yang had offered him, prompting Master Yang to angrily confront him.

• Chen Feng collected the young man's soul into his system inventory and learned that suppressing the ghost would earn him Demon Suppression Value each day.
• Chen Feng let the servants see him as having struggled to save Master Yang and his daughter-in-law, who were left infected with Ghost Qi.
• Master Yang buried his son, completing Chen Feng's task and earning him a Black Daoist Robe and three points of Demon Suppression Value.
• Chen Feng spent the three points to raise his Tai Chi Technique to level five, greatly increasing his strength.
• Chen Feng told the steward to find a doctor for Master Yang and his daughter-in-law, then dug up the peach tree and loaded it onto a rented handcart.
• Master Yang saw the tree on the handcart and angrily asked Chen Feng why he had dug it up.

Chen Feng tricked Master Yang into believing Ghost Qi was killing him so he could demand payment for saving him. Master Yang agreed to pay two hundred taels and give Chen Feng the tree.

• Master Yang refused to give Chen Feng the tree, claiming Chen Feng had not settled the matter because Master Yang was injured.
• Chen Feng warned Master Yang that Ghost Qi had entered his body and used a tampered talisman to make it appear true.
• Master Yang panicked and begged Chen Feng to save him.
• Chen Feng demanded two hundred taels and claimed the tree as well.
• Master Yang agreed to both demands and went to get the money.

Chen Feng confronted Master Yang for refusing to give him the promised tree, then frightened him into believing he was doomed by Ghost Qi. Master Yang agreed to pay Chen Feng two hundred taels and hand over the tree.

• Master Yang claimed Chen Feng had failed to settle the matter and refused to give him the tree, though he let Chen keep the money already paid.
• Chen Feng warned that Ghost Qi had entered Master Yang's body and that he would die if it was not removed.
• Chen Feng gave Master Yang a tampered talisman, which burst into flames when Master Yang took it.
• Terrified by Chen Feng's prediction that he would die within two months, Master Yang begged him for help.
• Chen Feng demanded two hundred taels to save Master Yang and insisted that the tree was his as well.
• Master Yang agreed to both demands and went to fetch the money.

Chen Feng convinced Master Yang that Ghost Qi was killing him and demanded two hundred taels to save his life. Master Yang agreed to pay and surrendered the tree to Chen Feng.

• Master Yang refused to give Chen Feng the tree, arguing that Chen Feng had failed to settle the matter because Master Yang was injured.
• Chen Feng warned that Ghost Qi had entered Master Yang's body and demonstrated it with a talisman he had secretly tampered with.
• Master Yang became terrified when the talisman burned and Chen Feng predicted he would die within two months.
• Chen Feng demanded two hundred taels to save Master Yang, and Master Yang reluctantly agreed.
• Chen Feng claimed the tree as well, and Master Yang agreed before going to fetch the money.

Chen Feng took two hundred taels from Master Yang and gave him a false cure that would worsen his Ghost Qi. After spotting the Yin-filled Grave Mound, Chen Feng prepared coffins and talismans, then set out there at night with Xiao Li to catch ghosts.

• Master Yang paid Chen Feng two hundred taels, and Chen Feng told him to eat snakes every morning for a month to clear his Ghost Qi.
• Chen Feng left Master Yang and noticed a forest filled with Yin energy and scattered bones on his way home.
• Chen Feng chopped down the peach tree, made several small coffins, and prepared supplies for catching ghosts.
• Chen Feng told Xiao Li he was going to Grave Mound, and she insisted on accompanying him.
• Chen Feng and Xiao Li traveled by carriage to Grave Mound, where chilling winds and strange cries greeted them in the darkness.

Chen Feng and Xiao Li followed a woman’s cries into the forest and found a female ghost grieving beside a blank tombstone. The ghost explained how she died, but she could not remember her life before the age of ten.

• Chen Feng reassured Xiao Li as they traveled by carriage through the forest in search of ghosts.
• Chen Feng followed a woman’s crying and found a little girl in a white dress beside a tombstone.
• Chen Feng spoke to the girl and learned that the tombstone marked her grave.
• The girl told Chen Feng that she had jumped from a mountain to escape a young master who tried to force himself on her, and that her adoptive parents died soon afterward.
• The girl told Chen Feng that she had forgotten everything from before she was ten.

Chen Feng subdued a girl ghost who wanted revenge for her parents, then synthesized her with another ghost to strengthen her. He and Xiao Li continued searching for ghosts and encountered a black wild dog.

• The girl agreed to stay in Chen Feng's miniature coffin in exchange for his help getting revenge on the people who caused her death.
• Chen Feng synthesized the girl with the young man's ghost, creating a vicious ghost with ten years of cultivation, and learned the girl's name was Zhang Mi.
• Chen Feng locked Zhang Mi against future synthesis, named her Little Mi, and promised to avenge her parents if he found the culprits.
• Chen Feng sent Little Mi back into her coffin, and he and Xiao Li continued deeper into the area to search for ghosts.
• Xiao Li spotted a black wild dog beneath a tree, and Chen Feng turned to look at it.

Chen Feng encountered and captured a strange old man on the road through Grave Mound. He fused the captured creature with Little Mi, increasing her cultivation and daily Demon Suppression Value.

• Chen Feng fed a piece of meat to a wild dog and continued toward Wang Village with Xiao Li and the black cat.
• The black cat reacted to the wild dog, leading Chen Feng to suspect that a strange creature had controlled it.
• Chen Feng met an old man carrying a lamp, who warned him about traveling at night and invited him to stay at his house.
• Chen Feng helped the old man onto the carriage, then forced him into a barrel of Black Dog Blood and sealed him inside a small coffin.
• Chen Feng used the strange creature as the secondary ingredient in a synthesis with Little Mi, raising her cultivation to about twelve years and granting her the ability to provide three Demon Suppression Value each day.

Chen Feng gained three Demon Suppression Value points from Little Mi and raised his Tai Chi Technique to level six. As he and Xiao Li prepared to leave, they encountered a powerful unborn boy spirit, whom Chen Feng destroyed with dog blood and a palm strike.

• At midnight, Chen Feng received three Demon Suppression Value points and upgraded his Tai Chi Technique from level five to level six.
• Chen Feng checked his panel, saw that he had one point remaining, and decided to take Xiao Li back.
• A bloodstained boy spirit appeared by a grave and repeatedly asked Chen Feng to play ball with him.
• The boy spirit grew larger and tried to twist off Chen Feng’s head, but Chen Feng struck him with a Tai Chi Palm.
• After the boy spirit reformed, Chen Feng splashed dog blood on him and struck him again, scattering his soul.

Chen Feng went with a worried woman to investigate why her husband, a tavern keeper, had grown gaunt and shut himself away. He found no trace of demons at the tavern, then encountered the husband as the man emerged from his room and barred them from entering.

• A woman knelt outside Chen Feng's shop and asked him to save her husband, who had wasted away over the past month.
• Chen Feng agreed to visit the woman's tavern, while Daoist Zhang watched them leave and wondered whether Chen Feng's skills were genuine.
• Chen Feng inspected the Drunken Immortal Tower but found no demonic or monstrous aura, and the woman led him to her husband's room.
• A thin, gloomy man emerged from the room, cursed his wife for bringing Chen Feng, and blocked them from entering.

Chen Feng discovered that a female ghost in a painting had been draining the innkeeper’s yang energy through seductive illusions. After breaking her spell, he prepared to subdue her, but she offered to let him leave if he stopped interfering with her plans.

• Chen Feng searched the innkeeper’s room and found a painting hidden above the bed.
• Chen Feng saw a woman in the painting turn toward him and draw him into its world.
• The female ghost used a seductive illusion to try to drain Chen Feng’s yang energy.
• Chen Feng circulated the Tai Chi Technique, broke the illusion, and exposed the ghost’s true appearance.
• Chen Feng prepared to suppress the ghost, but she offered to let him leave if he would not ruin her plans.

Chen Feng destroyed the painting, subdued the female ghost who had been draining the innkeeper’s Yang energy, and learned her history. After synthesizing her Ghost Qi and upgrading his Tai Chi Technique to level seven, he told the innkeeper’s wife the problem was solved and waited for payment.

• Chen Feng rejected the female ghost’s attempt to negotiate and stabbed the painting with his Peachwood Sword, forcing her out.
• Chen Feng cut off the ghost’s claw, pierced her brow, sealed her with a talisman, and stored her in a small coffin.
• Chen Feng learned from his panel that the ghost had killed people and used the painting to beguile men, including the innkeeper.
• Chen Feng synthesized the ghost, increasing Little Mi’s Ghost Qi cultivation by five years and raising its daily Demon Suppression Value to four points.
• Chen Feng spent Demon Suppression Value to advance his Tai Chi Technique to level seven, leaving one point.
• The innkeeper’s wife thanked Chen Feng, and he asked her for practical compensation after confirming the ghost had been dealt with.

After resolving the innkeeper's husband's ghostly trouble, Chen Feng traveled to Red Mountain Ridge to suppress more ghosts and improve his cultivation. Deep in the crimson woods, he encountered a powerful monk battling a mass of red mist.

• Chen Feng accepted five taels from the innkeeper's wife and left as she praised him to the people nearby.
• Chen Feng directed the carriage toward Red Mountain Ridge, sensing Ghost Qi and hoping to advance his Tai Chi Technique.
• The driver warned Chen Feng that Red Mountain Ridge was a dangerous place known as the Ten Thousand People Pit, then left him there.
• Chen Feng walked deeper into the ridge and found a white-bearded monk fighting a mass of red mist with a golden Buddhist staff.

Chen Feng witnessed Monk Fazhao lose to the Red Mountain Old Demon and flee, then encountered the wounded monk while exploring Red Mountain Ridge. Chen Feng claimed he would be able to kill the demon tomorrow, leaving Monk Fazhao puzzled and following him.

• Monk Fazhao fought the Red Mountain Old Demon but was badly wounded and fled when he realized he could not win.
• The Red Mountain Old Demon chose not to pursue Monk Fazhao and vanished, while Chen Feng cautiously ventured deeper into the ridge.
• Monk Fazhao rested by a river and treated his wounds before noticing Chen Feng approaching in a black Daoist robe.
• Monk Fazhao warned Chen Feng that Red Mountain Ridge's ghosts and monsters were powerful, but Chen Feng said he would kill the old demon tomorrow.
• Chen Feng continued down a path, and Monk Fazhao followed him after recovering a little.

Chen Feng strengthened his Tai Chi Technique by suppressing ghosts in Red Mountain Ridge, then encountered two sisters who said the Red Mountain Old Demon had trapped them there. A mournful instrumental sound approached through the woods as Chen Feng prepared to learn more.

• Chen Feng suppressed two minor ghosts, raised his Tai Chi Technique to level eight, and continued deeper into Red Mountain Ridge.
• Chen Feng found more ghosts, then followed the sound of a crying woman to a river and chased a fleeing female ghost.
• The female ghost ran to a dilapidated wooden house and called for her sister, who tried to stop Chen Feng with a white silk scarf.
• Chen Feng immobilized the younger ghost with a talisman, and the elder sister, Wang Su, identified herself and her younger sister as Wang Qing.
• Wang Su and Wang Qing told Chen Feng that the Red Mountain Old Demon had trapped them near the wooden house, and an instrumental sound began approaching through the woods.

Chen Feng hid from Red Mountain Old Demon's procession while the corpse-demon General ordered Wang Su to marry Red Mountain Old Demon in three days. The weasel detected a human scent in her cabin, and the General demanded to know whether Wang Su was hiding a man.

• Wang Su led Chen Feng into the cabin and hid him in a wooden tub as Red Mountain Old Demon's underlings approached with the General's coffin.
• The General ordered Wang Su to prepare for her wedding to Red Mountain Old Demon in three days and warned her not to refuse.
• After the procession began to leave, the weasel smelled a human and accused Wang Su of hiding a man in the cabin.
• The General asked Wang Su whether the weasel's accusation was true.

Wang Su and Wang Qing concealed Chen Feng from the Corpse Demon General’s inspection, narrowly avoiding discovery. After the demons left, Chen Feng emerged from his hiding place and considered targeting the Red Mountain Old Demon’s forces, though he knew he was not strong enough yet.

• The Weasel Spirit accused Wang Su of hiding a living person and tried to enter Wang Qing’s room, but Wang Su blocked him and eventually let him inspect it.
• The Weasel Spirit found no one, and Fox Immortal searched the room but failed to discover Chen Feng beneath the bathing tub.
• Wang Su claimed the scent came from belongings taken from living people, and Fox Immortal accepted her explanation before leaving with the Corpse Demon General.
• After the demons departed, Wang Qing climbed out of the tub and Chen Feng emerged from beneath it.
• Chen Feng learned that the Corpse Demon had come to force Wang Qing’s marriage and considered attacking the Red Mountain Old Demon’s territory, but judged himself too weak to do so.