Chapter Summaries

Tu Shan Jun absorbed a divine-path artifact fragment into the City God Seal, provoking the lord of Great Black Mountain, while Jue Fa helped him defeat and deliver the ghosts at Lake Drum Mountain Market. The pair traveled on through heavy snow and stopped at an inn, where a woman who recognized Tu Shan Jun from the graves in Lower Cold Village brought him a jar of earth-scented wine.

• Tu Shan Jun fused the artifact fragment with the City God Seal, restoring it further and drawing an furious threat from the lord of Great Black Mountain.
• Jue Fa recovered his mana, used White Bone Contemplation to steady himself, and delivered the captured demon ghosts, receiving four black-gray stone fruits.
• Jue Fa and Tu Shan Jun left Lake Drum Mountain Market and entered a snowbound inn where soldiers and travelers were arguing.
• Tu Shan Jun ordered the innkeeper's Whole Pig Feast, while Jue Fa asked for vegetarian noodles and the cash-strapped soldiers stuck to flatbread.
• A woman in a snow-padded coat sat beside Tu Shan Jun, said she had seen the new graves in Lower Cold Village, and placed a small jar before him.

A snow demon sought Tu Shan Jun’s help, and he left after inspecting her jade message. While he was gone, Jue Fa intervened when Miao Sheng attacked Innkeeper Hu, and Miao Sheng recognized Jue Fa as the monk involved in the destruction of the Black Mountain shrine.

• A woman in a snow jacket froze a Thousand Troops Bandit who approached her and revealed herself as the snow demon, then gave Tu Shan Jun a piece of jade explaining her request.
• Tu Shan Jun inspected the jade, left to help the snow demon, and told Jue Fa to warm the wine for his return.
• Mountain-Seated Tiger and his bandits tried to leave without paying, but Innkeeper Hu immobilized them and ordered Stone to take them away as fertilizer.
• Miao Sheng, a ghost envoy serving the Lord of Great Black Mountain, confronted Innkeeper Hu and bound him with a talisman.
• Jue Fa stopped Miao Sheng from striking Innkeeper Hu, and Miao Sheng accused him of participating in the destruction of the Lord of Great Black Mountain’s shrine and the theft of an important treasure.
• Jue Fa admitted that he had been involved in the Lake Drum Mountain incident.

Tu Shan Jun destroyed a mountain stronghold that abducted children for the Revered King of Great Black Mountain, then encountered Snowland Flood Dragon Lü Bianjiao’s bandits outside a mysterious town. He entered the inn as a black-robed figure and a monk remained locked in a tense standoff.

• Tu Shan Jun arrived at Withered Dusk Mountain and killed its residents, turning their souls into fierce ghosts.
• The blue-skinned King revealed that he was a human transformed by a Demon Transformation Pill and that he had supplied children to the Revered King of Great Black Mountain.
• Tu Shan Jun killed the King, collected the fierce ghosts, destroyed the cave residence, and left.
• Lü Bianjiao sent Vajra and several bandits to investigate a town where Mountain-Seat Tiger had disappeared after entering.
• Tu Shan Jun warned Lü Bianjiao that Mountain-Seat Tiger was still alive but near death, then vanished toward the town.
• Tu Shan Jun entered the inn, where a black-robed figure threatened a meditating monk while holding a guest hostage.

Tu Shan Jun entered the inn, where Jue Fa let Miao Sheng escape and the ghostly martial wanderers confronted the Thousand Army Bandits. At Jue Fa’s request, Tu Shan Jun unleashed his demon ghosts, who devoured the Snowland Flood Dragon and his men, leaving no trace.

• Tu Shan Jun drank the inn’s spiritual wine, freed the fox shopkeeper, and said Jue Fa did not need his help against Miao Sheng.
• Jue Fa let Miao Sheng leave with his hostage, and Miao Sheng vanished across the rooftops.
• A fur-clad bandit recognized Mountain Tiger in the inn and brought Vajra and the other bandits inside.
• The murdered martial wanderers revealed themselves as ghosts, accused the Thousand Army Bandits of their crimes, and faded away after Jue Fa prayed for them.
• Jue Fa asked Tu Shan Jun to act, and Tu Shan Jun released his demon ghosts.
• The demon ghosts slaughtered the Snowland Flood Dragon and his bandits, then devoured their remains and the ghosts formed amid the killing.

Tu Shan Jun and Jue Fa left a spirit-filled town and encountered a woman seeking revenge, whom Tu Shan Jun gave a ghost-cultivation scripture. In Shangyang Village, they learned that the removal of a buried suppressing object had caused many deaths, and Tu Shan Jun revealed that a ghost in the ancestral hall was protecting the village.

• Tu Shan Jun and Jue Fa left the town after Tu Shan Jun defeated the threat there, and the old fox was unable to kneel and thank them.
• A woman in a snow-lined coat caught up with Tu Shan Jun, but he urged her to rely on herself and gave her jade containing a ghost-cultivation scripture reaching the Golden Core realm.
• Jue Fa praised Tu Shan Jun’s cultivation and asked about its demonic foundation, prompting Tu Shan Jun to point out the personal questions Jue Fa had never answered himself.
• Xun Ye brought Tu Shan Jun and Jue Fa to Shangyang Village to conduct funeral rites, and Tu Shan Jun performed them.
• Xun Ye explained that an officer from Longqing Prefecture had taken the object suppressing the village, after which forty or fifty villagers had died; Tu Shan Jun said the broken feng shui had invited Baleful Intent.
• Tu Shan Jun told Jue Fa that the ancestral hall’s protective object was a ghost.

A refined corpse attacked Tu Shan Jun and Juefa, leading them to identify its controller as Zheng Yuguang of the Corpse Demon Sect. Zheng Yuguang demanded that Juefa hand over Tu Shan Jun as compensation, and the chapter ended as Juefa prepared to fight him.

• A refined corpse smashed through the courtyard gate and attacked Juefa, who used his prayer beads to shield the villagers and suppressed it with a talisman.
• The corpse broke free, and Juefa recognized that a cultivator from the Corpse Demon Sect was controlling it.
• Zheng Yuguang revealed himself and said he had come to investigate the deaths of his people and the loss of his ghost soldiers in Huaifeng City.
• Zheng Yuguang demanded that Juefa surrender Tu Shan Jun as compensation, but Juefa refused and warned him to leave.
• Zheng Yuguang enlarged the coffin beside him and declared that he would seize Tu Shan Jun by force, so Juefa agreed to fight.

Jue Fa defeated Zheng Yuguang and his Corpse Fiend Sect zombies, but revealed a demonic heart that terrified Zheng into fleeing with his female corpse. Afterward, Tu Shan Jun harvested the defeated zombies, while a hidden onlooker stepped out and realized the rumors about Jue Fa had misled him.

• Tu Shan Jun honored Jue Fa’s request not to intervene as Zheng Yuguang summoned two ghost-infused zombies and attacked the monk.
• Jue Fa revealed his Great Glazed White Bone Bodhisattva Body, restrained the zombies with his kasaya, and advanced on Zheng Yuguang through the Corpse Yin Fierce Flame.
• Zheng Yuguang’s black stone coffin opened, and a female corpse near the peak of Foundation Establishment emerged to protect him.
• Jue Fa’s black demonic heart appeared beneath his golden body, prompting Zheng Yuguang to flee inside the coffin as the female corpse carried it away.
• Tu Shan Jun extracted the zombies’ Yin souls and refined their remains into blood baleful intent for the Soul Banner.
• A hunched scholar emerged from the shadows, regretting that rumors had led him to expect Jue Fa to be the only chivalrous man there.

Tu Shan Jun offered Xun Cheng a choice between restoring the village’s feng shui with an ordinary array or using an evil art to strengthen him as its guardian. Xun Cheng chose the evil art, and Tu Shan Jun began transforming him into a powerful ghost.

• Xun Cheng explained that he had died after someone else took his place in the county examination and had become an earthbound spirit tied to the ancestral hall.
• Xun Cheng asked Tu Shan Jun and Jue Fa to help restore the village’s damaged feng shui and find a replacement for its missing suppressing object.
• Tu Shan Jun offered to use the Living Foundation Stake and Nurturing Evil arts to strengthen Xun Cheng, while also describing an ordinary array as an alternative.
• Xun Cheng chose the evil method, and Tu Shan Jun placed five elemental objects around the ruins and inscribed an array on Xun Cheng’s back.
• Tu Shan Jun channeled Baleful Intent into Xun Cheng, restrained his violent transformation, and invoked the combined arts of “Birth Evil.”

Tu Shan Jun and Jue Fa completed the ritual that strengthened Xun Cheng and contained his Baleful Intent, then traveled to Northbound Mountain to enter its demon city. Jue Fa disguised himself to pass the city gate, but a guard stopped him after comparing him with a wanted portrait.

• Tu Shan Jun completed the formation and ritual, restoring Xun Cheng's appearance and strengthening him while binding the Baleful Intent.
• Xun Cheng told Xun Ye that the possession crisis had been resolved and that he would enter seclusion.
• Tu Shan Jun and Jue Fa surveyed Northbound Mountain, where demon aura filled the mountains and a demon city awaited the nightfall.
• Jue Fa disguised himself as a green-robed monk ghost and joined the line entering the demon city.
• A one-horned gate guard compared Jue Fa with a portrait of a monk and Daoist, called him back, and examined him closely.

Jue Fa was arrested and brought to the mountain city’s prison, where he and Tu Shan Jun discovered that demons were holding abducted children to send to Great Black Mountain. Enraged by the children’s captivity, Jue Fa prepared to attack their captors.

• A one-horned demon accused Jue Fa of being connected to a thief, and the guards arrested him despite Tu Shan Jun offering to help fight.
• As demons escorted Jue Fa through the city, he and Tu Shan Jun discussed the souls in the Soul Banner and how their experiences had changed Tu Shan Jun.
• The guards delivered Jue Fa to the crowded prison and locked him alone in a cell.
• Jue Fa heard children crying and used his divine sense to discover more than a dozen children imprisoned nearby with two adults watching them.
• A wolf demon warned the adults to keep the children alive until they could be sent to Great Black Mountain in spring.
• Jue Fa gripped his Buddhist beads, declared that he would rid the world of the beasts, and rose in anger.

Juefa broke out of the prison and slaughtered the demons guarding it, while Tu Shan Jun gathered their Baleful Intent and went to protect the imprisoned children. Tu Shan Jun reassured Doctor Song and the woman that he would keep them safe.

• Juefa shattered his cell and killed the demons that rushed to stop him, despite their recognition of him as a human cultivator.
• Juefa slew the toad demon and continued through the prison, while Tu Shan Jun praised his balance of teaching and punishment from within the Soul Banner.
• Juefa asked Tu Shan Jun to protect the children, then left the prison; Tu Shan Jun absorbed the corpses and blood into Baleful Intent.
• Doctor Song and the woman, alarmed by the sounds from the outer prison, prepared to investigate as the children woke.
• Tu Shan Jun appeared before Doctor Song and the woman, and promised that they and the children would be unharmed while he was there.

Tu Shan Jun’s incarnation rescued the imprisoned children while his true body accompanied Jue Fa through Northbound Mountain. As Jue Fa slaughtered the demons, his cultivation surged and demonic intent nearly overwhelmed him, but he recovered after Tu Shan Jun intervened.

• Tu Shan Jun sealed the prison array, soothed the crying children into sleep, and told Doctor Song they would wake once the danger passed.
• A bird demon reported to Mountain Lord that a living monk had killed the wolf-headed demon and was fighting demons in the market; Mountain Lord questioned whether the incident was connected to the Lake Drum Mountain market.
• Jue Fa advanced through Northbound Mountain, killing demons as Tu Shan Jun collected their Baleful Intent into the Soul Banner.
• Jue Fa’s cultivation surged toward a breakthrough as the demonic heart in his Bone Body awakened and clouded his mind.
• An old ape appeared in Jue Fa’s consciousness and jolted him back to clarity; his cultivation settled at mid Foundation Establishment, and he thanked Tu Shan Jun for helping him.

Jue Fa confronted Lord Chi, the Northern Land Mountain Lord, after the demon ruler assembled his forces in Northbound Mountain City. Jue Fa overwhelmed Lord Chi in close combat, but Lord Chi released a Yin Spirit vengeful ghost as a hidden attack.

• Jue Fa explained that his White Bone Original Vow Body-Crossing Sutra required breaking precepts to cultivate demonic intent, and Tu Shan Jun warned him about the technique’s dangers.
• Lord Chi arrived on a jade bed carried by monsters, recognized Jue Fa from a portrait, and summoned more than a thousand lesser demons.
• Jue Fa refused Lord Chi’s offer to let him leave, and Lord Chi ordered his army to kill the monk for a reward of five hundred Spirit Stones.
• Jue Fa dodged the demons’ rain of feather arrows and struck Lord Chi with a powerful palm, shattering the jade bed and sending him flying.
• Lord Chi transformed into a tiger and fought Jue Fa, but Jue Fa gained the upper hand in their close combat.
• Lord Chi opened his mouth and released a Yin Spirit vengeful ghost that became a sharp sword and shot toward Jue Fa.

Juefa pursued the fleeing Chi Tiger after the demon used a Sunset Mountain sword cultivator’s Yin God to delay him. The Chi Tiger returned to the temple for the Great Black Mountain King’s treasures while Yinsha Maiden and Snake Lady went to retrieve the imprisoned children, where they encountered a red-haired Daoist guarding the prison.

• The Chi Tiger’s Foundation Establishment ghost servant, a Sunset Mountain sword cultivator, fought Juefa before Tu Shan Jun bound the Yin God and Juefa continued the pursuit.
• The Chi Tiger ordered Yinsha Maiden and Snake Lady to rescue the imprisoned children, then flew to the temple to recover its treasures and suppressing objects.
• The Chi Tiger took a fragment from the Ghost King’s statue and stored the temple’s suppressing objects before Juefa confronted him at the gates.
• Yinsha Maiden and Snake Lady led demons into the prison, where a red-haired Daoist stood between them and the children.
• Yinsha Maiden’s seductive aura dazed Doctor Song and the lesser demons until the red-haired Daoist’s cold rebuke snapped Doctor Song back to his senses.

Tu Shan Jun defeated the monsters in the prison, subdued the Yin Sha Woman, and used her to test his charm resistance before feeding her a Yin Soul Pill. She fled to the temple compound, where she found Chi Hu near death and encountered another red-haired Daoist who looked just like the one she had escaped.

• Tu Shan Jun resisted the Yin Sha Woman’s charm, exposed her origins, and killed the attacking demons and Snake Maiden with his Spellbreaking Cone.
• The Yin Sha Woman entered Tu Shan Jun’s sea of consciousness but was overwhelmed by its pressure and forced out.
• Tu Shan Jun fed the Yin Sha Woman a Yin Soul Pill and let her flee while he stayed behind with Doctor Song.
• The Yin Sha Woman reached the temple compound and found Chi Hu badly wounded by a monk.
• A red-haired Foundation Establishment yin spirit appeared beside the monk, and the Yin Sha Woman recognized him as the Daoist she had just escaped.

Lingshan King explained the pressure and misunderstandings that followed the novel’s popularity, then announced a return to two updates every two days. The chapter ended with a playful invitation for readers to keep following the story.

• Lingshan congratulated the new Alliance Leader, keinamour, and said the bonus chapters would be posted on the 2nd and 3rd.
• Lingshan described how sudden popularity and readers confusing the characters with the author had caused intense pressure.
• Lingshan explained that characters such as Tu Shan Jun were distinct from the author and existed to enrich the fantasy world.
• Lingshan announced a return to two updates every two days, saying daily updates left too little room to develop the story.
• Lingshan invited readers to follow the novel and ended with a slogan about being brothers within the banner.

Tu Shan Jun captured Chi Hu’s Yin God and used Chi Hu’s body, spiritual power, and a formation to help the Yinsha Woman complete her advancement to Foundation Establishment. The Yinsha Woman immediately launched a surprise attack on Tu Shan Jun, believing she had struck his heart.

• Chi Hu tried to flee by sending out his Yin God, but Jue Fa bound it with his prayer beads.
• Tu Shan Jun pulled Chi Hu’s Yin God into the Soul Banner before Jue Fa could send it into reincarnation.
• Tu Shan Jun stabilized the Yinsha Woman’s transformation and used a pill to supply mana as her body formed.
• When her advancement faltered, Tu Shan Jun made a sacrificial altar from Chi Hu’s demon body and used his divine-path artifact and stored incense and vow power to stabilize the process.
• After reaching Foundation Establishment, the Yinsha Woman attacked Tu Shan Jun and celebrated when her hand seemed to pierce his heart.

Tu Shan Jun captured Yin Sha Ji and obtained the Emotion Breaking Technique, then absorbed incense offerings while relying on his City God seal and soul banner to contain their corrupting influence. Meanwhile, the Great Chieftain’s gathered forces arrived at Northbound Mountain City to pursue their target.

• Tu Shan Jun trapped Yin Sha Ji inside the soul banner and used Soul Interrogation to extract the Emotion Breaking Technique.
• Tu Shan Jun explained how he had strengthened Yin Sha Ji to Foundation Establishment so her technique could affect divine consciousness and Yin Gods, and Jue Fa objected to his use of yin souls.
• Tu Shan Jun persuaded Jue Fa to spare Chi Tiger from reincarnation in exchange for a personal favor.
• Tu Shan Jun absorbed a fragment of a divine-path artifact into his City God seal, then drew in incense offerings while the seal and soul banner helped suppress their harmful effects.
• Demons, ghosts, and other creatures gathered at the ruins of Northbound Mountain City, and they saluted as the Great Chieftain arrived.

The Chief investigated the destruction of Great Black Mountain’s temples and ordered the demons and ghosts to pursue the monk and his companions together. The monk and the red-haired Daoist avoided a nearby town to keep it from being caught in the coming battle, then continued on toward safer ground.

• The Chief restored a vision of the ruined temple and identified the gray-robed monk as the one responsible for attacks at two sites under Great Black Mountain’s influence.
• The Chief concluded that at least three Foundation Establishment cultivators had taken part and decided the pursuers would stay together.
• Longbeak reported that his hawks had tracked the monk toward Great Black Mountain, and the Chief ordered the group to set out.
• The monk and the red-haired Daoist noticed hawks watching them near a lively town, and the red-haired Daoist smelled monkey-brewed wine there.
• The monk refused to enter the town because the pursuers would arrive soon and might bring disaster to its residents, so he turned away with the red-haired Daoist.

A-Meng waited in a tavern to face the monk and Daoist, while the tavern owner Uncle Sun questioned his motives and revealed his expertise. Tu Shan Jun and Juefa learned that demons were pursuing them, and when their enemies gathered at Azurewater Lake, the Great Chief attacked as Tu Shan Jun revealed a hidden formation.

• A-Meng drank Uncle Sun’s Heart-Questioning Wine to bolster his courage before the monk and Daoist left town.
• Tu Shan Jun and Juefa surveyed the ruins of Azurewater Lake, where they had killed the demons and ghosts and the monk had guided most of the dead onward.
• A scholar arrived, shared Tu Shan Jun’s spirit wine, warned that they faced a great calamity, and left a jade slip containing information about their pursuers.
• At dusk, packs of wolves and other demons and monsters gathered at Azurewater Lake, led by the Great Chief, who demanded that the pair hand over the item.
• Tu Shan Jun revealed a formation that had been set in advance, but the Great Chief attacked and punched through Juefa’s head.