Chapter Summaries

Wu Liang and Uncle Nine destroyed Old Master Ren after he escaped as a zombie, then tracked Qiu Sheng to an abandoned house where he was meeting the ghost Dong Xiaoyu. Wu Liang explained that her presence would harm Qiu Sheng and left her asking whether they could ever be together.

• Wu Liang used the Lightning Rush Fist to destroy Old Master Ren after his talisman, Palm Thunder, and the Ink Line failed to stop the zombie.
• Master Ren thanked Wu Liang and Uncle Nine, paid their agreed fee, and rewarded Wu Liang for saving him.
• Back at Yizhuang, Uncle Nine asked Wu Liang about Qiu Sheng's listlessness, and Wu Liang revealed that Qiu Sheng had a ghostly aura and was likely with a female ghost.
• Wu Liang and Uncle Nine found Qiu Sheng flirting with Dong Xiaoyu in an abandoned house, waited until sunrise, and Uncle Nine knocked Qiu Sheng unconscious as he left.
• Wu Liang met Dong Xiaoyu and explained that her ghostly presence would harm Qiu Sheng despite her good intentions, leaving her to ask whether they could be together.

Wu Liang arranged for Xiao Yu to reveal her true face to Qiu Sheng, who accepted her despite her ghostly appearance. Queen Jingjue gave Qiu Sheng a protective talisman made with Wu Liang’s blood and healed Xiao Yu’s face, allowing the lovers to stay together safely.

• Wu Liang persuaded Xiao Yu to meet Qiu Sheng at Yizhuang and reveal her true appearance, while warning Uncle Nine that she might become a vicious ghost if rejected.
• Qiu Sheng insisted he loved Xiao Yu and would accept her even if she was ugly, then gently touched her scarred face when she revealed it.
• Xiao Yu tried to leave Qiu Sheng to protect him, but Queen Jingjue appeared and offered a way to prevent their yin and yang energies from harming each other.
• Queen Jingjue carved a protective formation on Qiu Sheng and empowered it with Wu Liang’s blood, then healed Xiao Yu’s damaged face with a pearl of yin energy.
• Uncle Nine confirmed that the talisman stopped their energies from harming each other, and he accepted that Qiu Sheng and Xiao Yu could remain together.

Wu Liang, Kanna, and Queen Jingjue traveled with Four-Eyed Taoist to his mountain home to escape the summer heat. After they arrived, Four-Eyed Taoist found Jiale still asleep, and Wu Liang sent Queen Jingjue to wake him.

• Queen Jingjue established a formation at Yizhuang that weakened ghosts and monsters and prevented their yin energy from leaving their bodies.
• Wu Liang and Kanna agreed to spend several months at Four-Eyed Taoist's home, and Uncle Nine gave them permission to go.
• Four-Eyed Taoist, Wu Liang, Kanna, and Queen Jingjue set off at night with the zombies and took several days' journey toward the mountains.
• Queen Jingjue warned the group of a fox spirit targeting the zombies, and Four-Eyed Taoist went ahead and killed it.
• Queen Jingjue carried Wu Liang and Kanna through the air, helping the group reach Four-Eyed Taoist's home by morning.
• Four-Eyed Taoist found Jiale sleeping through his return, and Wu Liang sent Queen Jingjue to wake him.

Wu Liang settled in with Four-Eyed Taoist and met Master Yixiu, Jingjing, and Thousand Crane Taoist as the events of Mr. Vampire Part 3 began to unfold. The chapter ended with Thousand Crane Taoist transporting a dangerous zombie in a golden coffin to the capital for the Emperor to decide its fate.

• Old Driver teased Jiale, then vanished into the Follower Space when Four-Eyed Taoist returned and explained that she was Wu Liang's zombie.
• Wu Liang settled into his house, met Master Yixiu and Jingjing, and Kanna began joining them on trips to gather herbs and hunt.
• Over the following two months, Jiale and Jingjing grew closer while Wu Liang, Jiale, and Kanna made regular trips to the pond.
• Thousand Crane Taoist arrived with four disciples and a Bronze-Cornered Golden Coffin containing a zombie that could not be burned because it belonged to the borderland royal family.
• Thousand Crane Taoist told Four-Eyed Taoist that he had to deliver the zombie to the capital and await the Emperor's decision.

Wu Liang and his companions rushed to High Tree Forest, where a lightning-enhanced imperial zombie escaped its golden coffin, and Wu Liang destroyed it with the Thunder Control True Art. Afterward, he claimed the coffin’s gold and shared it with his companions, leaving them equipped with spatial rings to carry their shares.

• When rain began near High Tree Forest, Four-Eyed Taoist, Wu Liang, and Master Yixiu rushed to help Thousand Crane Taoist and found the imperial zombie escaping after absorbing heavenly lightning.
• Old Driver explained that the zombie had grown as strong as her, and Wu Liang learned that his Thunder Control True Art could still hurt it.
• Wu Liang struck the zombie with a Thunder Sword, and Southeast Northwest trapped it with an Ink Line Rope Formation so Wu Liang could purify it completely.
• Wu Liang stored the golden coffin in his Portable Space, told Steward Wu that it had been destroyed, and left with Thousand Crane Taoist and the others.
• Back home, Wu Liang showed the group the Kunlun Sacred Tree, divided and melted the golden coffin, and gave his companions spatial rings to carry their shares.

After Lin Jiu summoned his fellow Mount Mao disciples to help capture ghosts released by Wen Cai, Wu Liang returned to the Yizhuang with a group of allies. Shi Jian and his son arrived and agreed to the plan, while Wu Liang recalled that they might die in the coming events.

• Wu Liang, Four-Eyed Taoist, Thousand Crane Taoist, and their companions traveled to Lin Jiu's Yizhuang after receiving his flying-crane plea for help.
• Lin Jiu explained that Wen Cai had released many ghosts during an opera on the Ghost Festival, and the disciples planned to capture them with the Innate Eight Trigrams Formation.
• Shi Jian and Shi Shaojian arrived, and Wu Liang rebuked Shi Shaojian for mocking Wen Cai before Shi Jian recognized Wu Liang's strength.
• Shi Jian agreed to Lin Jiu's plan for Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai to lure the ghosts into the formation, then left for the Ren Residence.
• Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai went out at night with tofu to lure the ghosts, while Wu Liang recalled that Shi Jian and Shi Shaojian would likely die and that Lin Jiu might meet Xiao Li.

Wu Liang helped Uncle Nine and the Mount Mao disciples capture wandering souls, then accompanied Uncle Nine to Boss Qian’s Western restaurant, where they discussed its poor business and a feng shui job. Wu Liang yielded the job to Shi Jian, while Shi Shaojian secretly pursued Mary.

• Wu Liang and the Mount Mao disciples trapped and sealed the wandering souls, and Uncle Nine burned spirit money to settle his debt to the ghost constables.
• Uncle Nine brought Wu Liang and Kanna to Boss Qian’s restaurant, where Boss Qian asked for help with its poor business.
• Wu Liang explained that the restaurant’s failure came from its costly food and unsuitable location, then gave Uncle Nine a spatial ring containing his gold.
• Wu Liang stopped Uncle Nine from exposing Shi Shaojian after he plucked a strand of Mary’s hair.
• Boss Qian hired Shi Jian to inspect the restaurant’s feng shui after Uncle Nine yielded the job to him.

Wu Liang warned Wen Cai about his relationship with Xiao Li, then helped Uncle Nine retrieve Coffin Fungus from Coffin Mountain for Shi Jian. Xiao Li grew attracted to Uncle Nine and stayed at Yizhuang after he sealed her in a jar and Wu Liang released her.

• Wu Liang found Wen Cai meeting Xiao Li in the woods and warned them that her presence exposed Wen Cai to yin energy and could draw Shi Jian’s attention.
• Shi Jian asked Uncle Nine to retrieve Coffin Fungus so he could restore Shi Shaojian’s body, and Uncle Nine agreed to help.
• Wu Liang summoned Old Driver, who forced the Corpse King out of its coffin on Coffin Mountain, while Wen Cai retrieved the Coffin Fungus.
• Xiao Li carried the Coffin Fungus back and became interested in Uncle Nine, calling him “Young Master Lin” and kissing him to pass the fungus along.
• Uncle Nine sealed Xiao Li in a jar when she followed him to Yizhuang, but Wu Liang released her and told her to stay there and take things slowly.

Shi Jian restored Shi Shaojian as a corpse demon by feeding him the blood of yin-born victims, and Wu Liang helped expose him with Hundred-Treasure Soup. Shi Shaojian and Shi Jian died after a confrontation at the Ren Residence, leaving Uncle Nine to return home grieving.

• Shi Jian sent Shi Shaojian to drain bound victims so the Coffin Fungus could restore his ruined body, while Xiao Li told Uncle Nine she wanted to marry him and he rejected her advances.
• The inspection squad investigated the blood-drained victims, and Wu Liang convinced its captain to look into the Ren Residence after suspecting Shi Jian had made Shi Shaojian into a corpse demon.
• Uncle Nine prepared Hundred-Treasure Soup to expose Shi Shaojian, and Wu Liang later tricked Shi Shaojian into drinking it on a crowded street.
• Shi Shaojian's corpse-demon form was revealed, and he escaped the inspection squad before fleeing back to the Ren Residence.
• Uncle Nine pursued Shi Shaojian, who was already dead when Wu Liang and the captain arrived; Shi Jian attacked Uncle Nine and Wu Liang, but Wu Liang reflected his Lightning Rush Fist and the inspection squad shot him.
• The inspection squad carried away Shi Jian and Shi Shaojian's bodies, and Uncle Nine returned home after watching them leave.

After Xiao Li became pregnant and had to remain in the Follower Space for her safety, Ren Family Town’s villagers forced Uncle Nine and his companions to leave. The group departed with a merchant caravan for Qiu Sheng’s hometown, while Wen Cai headed north to visit his family.

• Xiao Li’s pregnancy destabilized her ghostly body, so Wu Liang sent her into the Follower Space, where Old Driver helped her recover.
• Uncle Nine told the gathered villagers that he and his companions would leave Ren Family Town after they demanded that the Taoist priests go.
• Qiu Sheng revealed that his formal name was Liu Xiao Hao and proposed that the group travel to his aunt’s hometown with a merchant caravan.
• Wen Cai chose to return to his own home, while Wu Liang, Kanna, Qiu Sheng, Uncle Nine, and Old Driver joined the caravan departing the next day.
• Wu Liang learned that the caravan traveled between Hong Kong and the interior, and that its head, Uncle Ma, knew Mao Xiao Fang of the Mount Mao lineage.

Wu Liang and Uncle Nine settled in a mansion in town, where Uncle Nine adopted the name One-Eyebrow Taoist and became a respected local priest. After two months of cultivation, Wu Liang went into the mountains with Old Driver and broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, just as thunderclouds gathered for his tribulation.

• Uncle Ma directed Wu Liang and Uncle Nine to a vacant mansion, which Wu Liang bought for one hundred Silver Dollars.
• Qiu Sheng's aunt hosted a housewarming feast and said Qiu Sheng would return to the family under the proper name Liu Xiao Hao.
• Wu Liang and the others moved into the mansion, and Uncle Nine set up protective formations and restored parts of it to resemble the old Yizhuang.
• Uncle Nine took the name One-Eyebrow Taoist and built a reputation in town for feng shui, fortune-telling, and handling ghosts and zombies.
• Wu Liang realized he was close to the Nascent Soul stage and went into the mountains with Old Driver to avoid endangering the townspeople.
• Wu Liang's Golden Core shattered, his Nascent Soul emerged, and thunderclouds gathered as his tribulation began.

Wu Liang survived his Nascent Soul tribulation, gained the ability to wield Sun Power, and revealed his advancement to Uncle Nine. A year later, Xiao Li gave birth to Lin Tianci, and Uncle Nine arranged for mother and son to recover in the Follower Space.

• Wu Liang absorbed the tribulation lightning into his Nascent Soul, which grew with each strike, and received a worldly energy baptism that let him wield Sun Power.
• Wu Liang returned home and showed Uncle Nine his Nascent Soul, explaining that he had reached the late Nascent Soul stage.
• Uncle Nine accepted Wu Liang's explanation about cultivation limits and said he could travel freely, while Wu Liang promised to stay close and visit if he left.
• A year later, Xiao Li gave birth to a boy in the Follower Space, and Uncle Nine named him Lin Tianci.
• Old Driver identified Lin Tianci as a half-human, half-ghost lifeform and planned to teach him Ghost Tribe cultivation arts; Uncle Nine kept Xiao Li and the baby in the Follower Space to recover.

Over the years, Xiao Tianshi grew up while Uncle Nine and his household settled into their lives, until a lunar eclipse brought a Banana Spirit out to prey on a man in the banana grove. Wu Liang and Uncle Nine trapped her, and the chapter ended with Wu Liang’s new Bieyun Sword frightening her into submission.

• Uncle Nine took Afang into his household, and over the next decade Xiao Tianshi grew slowly while the family and disciples advanced in cultivation.
• During a lunar eclipse, Old Driver and Xiao Tianshi absorbed moonlight until Lacking a Few Brain Cells rushed in to ask One-Eyebrow Taoist for help with his brother, who had been attacked in the banana grove.
• Uncle Nine treated Lacking a Few Brain Cells' brother and arranged for Afang to lure out the Banana Spirit, while Wu Liang and Uncle Nine hid nearby.
• The Banana Spirit followed the red cord into the hut, where Wu Liang and Uncle Nine trapped her inside a formation.
• Wu Liang drew his reforged Bieyun Sword, causing the Banana Spirit to collapse in fear, and asked Uncle Nine whether they should kill her.

Wu Liang spared the Banana Spirit and bound her to him with a Chu Ma Xian contract, making her his maid. The contract awakened her powerful Rakshasa Edict, and Wu Liang brought her home as Rakshasa Woman to help Xiao Yu with housework.

• The Banana Spirit pleaded for mercy, and Wu Liang proposed making her his Chu Ma Xian while Uncle Nine warned him about the cost of supporting a spirit guardian.
• Wu Liang formed a contract with the Banana Spirit that shared his cultivation with her, required her to obey his reasonable commands, and ended when he died.
• The contract raised the Banana Spirit's cultivation to the Demon King level and awakened her Rakshasa Edict, including elemental, barrier, and slaughter abilities.
• Uncle Nine reprimanded Afang for falling asleep, then left with Wu Liang and the others after learning the Banana Spirit had been contracted.
• Wu Liang named the Banana Spirit Rakshasa Woman and brought her to Xiao Yu, telling her to learn the household chores and help with cooking and laundry.

Wu Liang made Rakshasa Woman apologize and compensated Lacking a Few Brain Cells's family, while Uncle Nine investigated a neighboring village's disturbed water source and discovered bats in the stream. Wu Liang connected the bats to the Western Vampire and found the church reopened, where he saved Captain Awei from a falling cross.

• Wu Liang brought Rakshasa Woman, tonics, and one hundred Silver Dollars to Lacking a Few Brain Cells's home, where she apologized for injuring his younger brother.
• Uncle Nine examined the neighboring village's feng shui, found its dragon pearl cracked, and warned the villagers not to drink the water.
• Captain Awei discovered bats in the stream, and Uncle Nine ordered a search for their nest.
• Wu Liang remembered that the bats signaled the Western Vampire's arrival and went to the reopened church.
• Captain Awei confronted the nuns at the church, and Wu Liang kicked away a falling cross before it hit him.

Uncle Nine helped locate the town’s water source while Wu Liang sensed bats hiding nearby, then the group encountered a female ghost seeking justice for her murder. The next day, digging unearthed a powerful vampire corpse, and Wu Liang warned Captain Awei about the danger as Awei admitted he wanted its ruby artifact.

• Uncle Nine located the well site at the Dragon Waist, and the village representatives agreed to begin digging at noon the next day.
• A group of nuns invited Uncle Nine to help revitalize Catholicism, but Wu Liang and Uncle Nine sent them away after explaining that they lived with ghosts and spirits.
• Ahao and Afang returned drunk with a female ghost, and Uncle Nine learned that she had been assaulted and killed before promising to find her body and help her reincarnate.
• The well diggers unearthed a dried vampire corpse at a stake location secretly altered by bats, and Captain Awei had his men take it to the township office.
• Wu Liang warned Captain Awei that the corpse was a powerful zombie, but Awei revealed that he wanted its ruby artifact as an engagement gift for his cousin.

Wu Liang and Uncle Nine tried to burn the foreign vampire, but it escaped after Awei’s cousin damaged the Mithril Cross and accidentally fed it her blood. After Awei learned what she had done, he ended their engagement and asked Uncle Nine to take him as a disciple.

• Wu Liang used the Skyfire Curse to destroy the vampire’s summoned bats, but the vampire broke free of the burning woodpile and fled.
• Wu Liang discovered that someone had damaged the Mithril Cross and suspected the vampire had absorbed blood from an injured person in the township office.
• Wu Liang found Awei’s cousin with corpse poison in her hand and expelled it before it reached her heart.
• Wu Liang explained that Awei’s cousin had sawed the cross, weakening its seal and allowing the vampire to escape after it drank her blood.
• Awei rebuked his cousin, called off their marriage, and left her the ruby.
• Awei knelt before Uncle Nine and asked to become his disciple.

Wu Liang and Uncle Nine found and destroyed the Western vampire with Wu Liang’s Heavenly Thunder Spell, then helped the female ghost obtain justice and move on to reincarnation. Uncle Nine accepted Captain Awei as a registered disciple, and the chapter ended with the female ghost entering a Merit Golden Gate.

• Uncle Nine used the Kongming Lantern to lead Wu Liang, Qiu Sheng, Afang, and Ahao to the female ghost’s corpse on a barren mountain.
• Wu Liang and Uncle Nine found the Western vampire and his recently unearthed lover at an abandoned manor.
• Wu Liang’s Heavenly Thunder Spell reduced the vampire and his lover to ashes after Uncle Nine’s Corpse Sealing Talismans failed.
• Uncle Nine returned the female ghost’s true spirit to her, and Captain Awei later captured the murderer and his accomplices.
• Uncle Nine accepted Captain Awei as a registered disciple and sent the female ghost through a Merit Golden Gate to reincarnate.

Years after the town’s troubles, Uncle Nine underwent tribulation with Wu Liang’s help, while Wu Liang faced a Heavenly Dao punishment that advanced him to the Body Integration Stage. At the mountain’s foot, they met Uncle Nine’s identical twin, the genuine Lin Jiu, and discovered that both brothers had been living nearby without knowing it.

• Awei became Uncle Nine’s final disciple, while Afang and Ahao advanced in cultivation and Ahao took Acai as a concubine.
• Uncle Nine began his tribulation, and Wu Liang shielded him from lightning, helping him form a Nascent Soul.
• After Uncle Nine passed his tribulation, a Nine Luminary Black Lightning tribulation struck Wu Liang and fused his Nascent Soul with his body, advancing him to the Body Integration Stage.
• Wu Liang found two identical Uncle Nines and learned that his master was Lin Fengjiao, while the other man was his younger twin, Lin Jiu.
• Lin Fengjiao and Lin Jiu discovered that they lived in nearby towns, and Lin Fengjiao promised to bring his family to visit Lin Jiu.

Wu Liang and his companions traveled to Jiuquan Town to visit his master’s younger brother, Lin Jiu, after his master revealed his Nascent Soul breakthrough and the family celebrated. Wu Liang recognized the town’s church as the setting of another supernatural story, and the chapter ended with a young woman returning from abroad and greeting a young man at the inn.

• Wu Liang told his master that surviving the Nine Luminary Black Lightning had advanced him to Body Integration, then the two returned home and bought provisions for a celebration.
• His master announced his tribulation breakthrough to Xiao Li, who scolded him for risking his life without telling her, before he explained that he wanted the family to visit Lin Jiu in Jiuquan Town.
• Ahao revealed that his master’s real name was Lin Fengjiao and explained why he had used the name Lin Jiu, then his master scolded him for airing the family’s history.
• Wu Liang, his master, Xiao Li, Tianci, Kanna, and Old Driver traveled to Jiuquan Town, where Wu Liang located Lin Jiu’s Taoist temple opposite the church.
• Wu Liang recognized the church’s location as the Three Killings Position and suspected a vampire was inside, then he and Kanna returned to the inn to rest before visiting Lin Jiu.
• The next morning, a young woman entered the inn and embraced a young man who welcomed her home, while Wu Liang wondered whether the plot had begun before Uncle Nine appeared.