Chapter Summaries

Zhang Chen absorbed the Blood Demon and fused his flesh-and-blood and skeletal abilities into the S-rank Blood Bone Body, then went to help Fei Bai and the others. At the same time, Fei Bai’s barrier protecting Xiang Yun and Wang Yizhi collapsed, leaving them facing a zombie in the dark.

• Zhang Chen drained and devoured the Blood Demon, absorbing the torrent of blood until his body dissolved and reformed.
• Zhang Chen stabilized Chong Ying’s rampaging essence blood and settled Little Nirvana’s Blood Qi, then learned that his body had gained the Blood Bone Body ability.
• Zhang Chen inspected his new abilities and set out with Chong Ying and Little Nirvana to help Fei Bai and the others fight Tian Hua.
• At 9:30, Fei Bai’s finger clone crumbled and the barrier around the forty-first floor collapsed, exposing Xiang Yun and Wang Yizhi to the zombie-filled building.
• Xiang Yun offered Wang Yizhi her protective necklace, but a Green-faced Fanged zombie smashed open their door and approached them.

Wang Yizhi used her power to save Xiang Yun and erase the zombies on the office building’s forty-first floor, while Zhang Chen learned that Fei Bai had died and confronted Tian Hua’s monstrous transformation. As three energies erupted from Tian Hua’s flesh ball, powerful figures in Hengshan and the Imperial Capital City sensed the crisis and set out to respond.

• A zombie broke Xiang Yun’s peachwood sword and seized her, but Wang Yizhi swallowed it in darkness, restored Xiang Yun, and erased the zombies on the forty-first floor.
• Zhang Chen realized his Blood Demon Body and bone armor formed a unified Blood Bone Body, then received Lian Yuxin’s warning that Fei Bai was dead and Tian Hua was still a threat.
• Zhang Chen sent Little Nirvana and Chong Ying to retrieve Wang Yizhi and Xiang Yun and escape by yacht, while he hurried to join Lian Yuxin and Huang Ce.
• Zhang Chen found Lian Yuxin and Huang Ce beside a huge pit containing a flesh ball, and learned Tian Hua had begun transforming after killing Fei Bai.
• A heartbeat from the flesh ball warned Zhang Chen of mortal danger, and he urged Lian Yuxin and Huang Ce to flee just as the moon emerged and yin, ghost, and resentment energies erupted from the ball.
• The sect master in Hengshan left to investigate the Changsha crisis, and a white-haired old man in the Imperial Capital City sensed Lian Yuxin was in trouble and vanished.

Huang Ce stayed behind to delay Tian Hua, sacrificing himself so Zhang Chen and Lian Yuxin could escape. After Huang Ce died, Zhang Chen and Lian Yuxin split up, and Tian Hua pursued Zhang Chen as he unleashed his S-rank ability.

• Huang Ce sent Zhang Chen and Lian Yuxin away, then activated his Second Stage Soul Form and fired at Tian Hua.
• Tian Hua survived Huang Ce's gunfire, killed him with a finger flick, and was struck from behind by Huang Ce's final shot before lightning erased Huang Ce's body.
• Zhang Chen and Lian Yuxin fled toward the Imperial Capital until Zhang Chen ran out of spatial energy, then split up, with Zhang Chen heading toward Guangzhou.
• Tian Hua pursued Zhang Chen through the clouds as Zhang Chen activated his S-rank ability and doubled his speed.

Zhang Chen endured Tian Hua’s repeated attacks and escaped death by compressing the bones of millions of animals into a protective cube. After Tian Hua was taken into Ling’s realm, an old man rescued Zhang Chen and Lian Yuxin, and the arrival of the Heavenly Dragon revealed that two powerful figures were hiding in the city.

• Zhang Chen fled Tian Hua across the highway, but Tian Hua trapped him in an illusion where Wang Yizhi repeatedly appeared injured and begged for help before Zhang Chen was killed.
• After resisting the illusion seventeen times, Zhang Chen left Wang Yizhi behind on the eighteenth attempt, breaking Tian Hua’s control and returning to the real world, where Tian Hua pinned him down with 1,008 iron spikes.
• Zhang Chen compressed the bones of millions of animals into a cube around his Soul Stone, surviving Tian Hua’s hammer strike that obliterated the surrounding area.
• An old man descended, freed Lian Yuxin, and watched Zhang Chen regrow his body from the bone cube as Tian Hua departed through a fissure into Ling’s realm.
• The Heavenly Dragon arrived and told the old man that Zhang Chen’s escape had drawn him to two powerful figures hiding in the city.

Zhang Chen was attacked by Yuan Ding Tian while trying to return to Changsha, but Divine Marquis intervened and saved him. After a mysterious woman transported him, Little Nirvana, and Chong Ying away, Zhang Chen woke aboard a yacht and learned Wang Yizhi and Xiang Yun had survived in Xiangtan.

• Divine Marquis and Yuan Ding Tian signed a Primordial Spirit Contract and set out to pursue a target in Changsha, while Lian Yuxin headed for the capital.
• Zhang Chen ran toward Changsha to find his friends, but Yuan Ding Tian attacked him with a golden dragon and nearly destroyed his body before Divine Marquis intervened.
• Zhang Chen found Little Nirvana and Chong Ying near the office building, where they said Wang Yizhi and Xiang Yun were missing; a huge spatial fissure then opened in the south of the city.
• Yuan Ding Tian attacked Zhang Chen, Little Nirvana, and Chong Ying, but a darkness swallowed Little Nirvana and Chong Ying, and Zhang Chen lost consciousness as a shadowy woman appeared.
• Zhang Chen woke aboard a yacht with Little Nirvana and Chong Ying unharmed, then called Wang Yizhi and learned she and Xiang Yun were safe at Xiangtan University.

After surviving the crisis, Zhang Chen reunited with his friends and arranged to help Lian Yuxin and Fei Bai while planning a trip to Japan with Yui. He then set out with Xiang Yun to deal with the ghost in her old home, leaving Wang Yizhi and Chong Ying at the school.

• Zhang Chen called Lian Yuxin, who assured him that her master would keep his unusual condition secret and offered to help him break through his bottleneck.
• Lian Yuxin explained that Fei Bai and Huang Ce would return to the human world as souls for reincarnation, and Zhang Chen reflected on how Tian Hua had turned the incident to his advantage.
• Yui woke and asked Zhang Chen to take her to Japan in about a month; she briefly appeared in human form before Chong Ying walked in and caught them together.
• Zhang Chen's group reunited with Wang Yizhi and Xiang Yun at a hotel, where Wang Yizhi described how Fei Bai had helped them escape Changsha's zombie-filled streets.
• Zhang Chen told the group that he would deal with the ghost in Xiang Yun's old home, then left with Xiang Yun while Wang Yizhi and Chong Ying stayed behind.

Lian Yuxin faced the judgment over the Changsha disaster and secretly told Divine Marquis that Zhang Chen had killed the Blood Demon and False Nightmare himself. Zhang Chen and Xiang Yun reached her family’s apartment building, where a woman named Aunt He attacked Xiang Yun over her son’s death.

• Lian Yuxin testified about the failed mission, and the Chief Judge stripped five evaluators of their Jailer status while clearing Lian Yuxin of responsibility.
• Lian Yuxin privately told Divine Marquis that Zhang Chen had defeated the Blood Demon and False Nightmare alone, and Divine Marquis asked her to invite Zhang Chen to visit him.
• Zhang Chen and Xiang Yun took a taxi to Xiang Yun’s old apartment building, which was associated with many deaths and disappearances.
• Zhang Chen reassured the frightened Xiang Yun before they entered the building’s courtyard.
• Aunt He recognized Xiang Yun, then blamed her family for her son He Hengliang’s death and charged at her with red scissors.

Zhang Chen investigated the haunted building with Xiang Yun, uncovering the tragic fate of Aunt He's son and the ghosts haunting the rooms. They reached Xiang Yun's former home, where everything appeared exactly as it had when she left as a child.

• Zhang Chen knocked Aunt He unconscious before she could stab Xiang Yun, then carried her to her sealed, filthy apartment.
• Zhang Chen found the ghost of Aunt He's son beneath a bed and recovered memories showing that a woman in floral clothes had lured the boy to Xiang Yun's home, after which Aunt He strangled him.
• Zhang Chen swallowed the boy's resentful soul and altered Aunt He's memories, then warned Xiang Yun to leave the building after they settled her revenge.
• Zhang Chen and Xiang Yun climbed to the third floor and entered Xiang Yun's former home, finding it neat, powered, and unchanged since her childhood.

Zhang Chen and Xiang Yun entered Xiang Yun’s childhood home, where a ghostly imitation separated them and trapped each in a different danger. Xiang Yun encountered a warm vision of her dead parents, and the chapter ended as they appeared before her with expressionless faces.

• A blood-drinking mother and her son saw Zhang Chen and Xiang Yun enter the house and prepared knives to attack them.
• Zhang Chen mistook a paper-umbrella ghost disguised as Xiang Yun for the real Xiang Yun, while the real Xiang Yun watched Yui tear apart his paper body outside.
• Yui explained that Zhang Chen was trapped elsewhere and hid as a ribbon on Xiang Yun’s wrist, urging her to draw out the ghost.
• Xiang Yun entered her childhood home with a consecrated peachwood sword and found a letter from her mother welcoming her home.
• Xiang Yun saw her parents waiting with dinner, but they vanished when the lights went out and then appeared before her with expressionless faces.

Xiang Yun confronted the spirit haunting her parents’ painting and overcame the grief surrounding their deaths. After she defeated a mother and son who attacked her, she thanked Zhang Chen and resolved to practice Daoist arts on her own.

• Xiang Yun faced a vision of her parents’ deaths, destroyed the paper umbrella with talismans, and entered the antique room despite her mother’s warning.
• Xiang Yun absorbed the room’s pink energy with the Heart Incense Incantation and destroyed the umbrella spirit with her peachwood sword.
• Zhang Chen restrained the colorful-clothed ghost while Yui consumed its soul marrow, leaving only a paper umbrella.
• Xiang Yun knocked unconscious a mother who tried to stab her and used a talisman to calm the bloodthirsty boy attacking her.
• Zhang Chen emerged from a spatial crack and pretended to arrive after the danger had passed; Xiang Yun let him preserve that pretense and thanked him on their taxi ride back to school.

Zhang Chen returned toward Tianfu City and spoke with Liu Nuo, who warned him to keep her situation secret and arranged to meet him. After arriving home, Zhang Chen went to Liu Nuo’s hidden residence, where he discovered her modest living conditions and extensive network equipment.

• On the train, Zhang Chen wondered whether the woman in black who had rescued him in Changsha resembled Wang Yizhi or Liu Nuo, then received Liu Nuo’s call.
• Zhang Chen told Liu Nuo about Lian Yuxin and Divine Marquis, and Liu Nuo explained Divine Marquis’s power and asked Zhang Chen to keep her extended leave secret.
• Wang Yizhi apologized for being harsh during their card game, and Zhang Chen promised they would take a honeymoon trip after returning home.
• Zhang Chen reached Tianfu City, sent Little Nirvana to escort Wang Yizhi and Chong Ying, and took a taxi to the address Liu Nuo had given him.
• Zhang Chen entered Liu Nuo’s run-down apartment after its strange effects vanished, and noticed cables and network wires leading into her bedroom.

Liu Nuo explained that she had joined Eternal by secretly replacing her Soul Stone, and revealed that the organization had taken control of Japan’s Jailers and was deceiving other countries. She warned Zhang Chen that Eternal had upgraded him to an A-rank target, prompting Yui to postpone their trip to Japan for two years.

• Zhang Chen waited for Liu Nuo to finish bathing, then brought her clothes from her wardrobe.
• Liu Nuo told Zhang Chen she had joined Eternal to continue her research and had replaced her Soul Stone to conceal that she was still a Jailer.
• Liu Nuo revealed that Eternal had absorbed Japan’s Jailers and forced them to send false reports to other countries’ Jailer Headquarters.
• Yui appeared, and Liu Nuo attacked her before Zhang Chen stopped her and explained that Yui could be trusted.
• Liu Nuo warned that Eternal had classified Zhang Chen as an A-rank target and could send high-level VIPs or a Nightmare after him.
• Yui agreed to delay their trip to Japan for two years, then left, while Liu Nuo urged Zhang Chen to avoid spending time in Tianfu City.

Liu Nuo explained that Zhang Chen would need to undergo Heart Tempering in the underworld to become an Underworld Officer, and warned him to conceal his unusual body in the capital. After Zhang Chen helped her recover from severe hunger and exhaustion, she learned that his ability was S-rank and planned to study his body after he advanced.

• Zhang Chen asked Liu Nuo about Yui’s Flying Fate Demon nature, and Liu Nuo explained that it was formed from countless resentful spirits and carried tangled memories and hatred.
• Liu Nuo told Zhang Chen that becoming an Underworld Officer required a Heart Tempering trial that stripped away his Underworld Envoy abilities and forced him to confront fear.
• Liu Nuo advised Zhang Chen to contact Lian Yuxin and use the Shen Hou Mansion’s protection in the capital so no one could inspect his body or discover his abilities.
• Liu Nuo, weakened by going without food or sleep, collapsed, and Zhang Chen carried her to a restaurant and helped her regain consciousness.
• After eating, Liu Nuo learned that Zhang Chen’s Blood Bone Body was an S-rank Full Body Transformation Ability and said she would leave the organization and perform major research on him after he became an Underworld Officer.

Zhang Chen discovered that Liu Nuo’s laboratory had been destroyed and learned she had been killed after powerful Ghostly Creatures attacked it. After reading Liu Nuo’s letter, he set out to kill Luo Mingbo immediately.

• Liu Nuo sent Zhang Chen to the stadium laboratory, where he found it in ruins and encountered the Puppet Mistress.
• Zhang Chen questioned the Puppet Mistress and learned that powerful Ghostly Creatures had taken the imprisoned creatures, while Liu Nuo had been killed and her body taken away.
• Zhang Chen realized Liu Nuo had been hinting that the organization used the bodies of captured Jailers to force them into service, and he killed the Puppet Mistress.
• Zhang Chen returned to Liu Nuo’s home and found a letter explaining that headquarters had failed to send help and identifying Luo Mingbo as a threat to Tianfu City.
• Zhang Chen vowed to kill Luo Mingbo without waiting to become a Jailer Officer and raced toward Tianfu Square.

Zhang Chen met Jia Xin in Tianfu City and learned that Luo Mingbo was tied to Liu Nuo’s death and Jia Xin’s sect-master trial. After recognizing that his anger and power might be distorting his judgment, Zhang Chen joined Jia Xin in heading to Jailer Headquarters.

• Luo Mingbo learned that Imperial Capital Headquarters had sealed information about Luohe Town and studied a photograph that appeared to show Zhang Chen, while hiding Liu Nuo’s death.
• Zhang Chen raced across the river and clashed with Jia Xin on Jiuyan Bridge, where his strike carved a massive scar through the riverbed.
• Zhang Chen injured a Level 3 Jailer watching them, then met Jia Xin at a café and realized his extreme anger might be linked to his S-rank ability.
• Jia Xin explained that his trial to become Qingyun Sect’s sect master was to kill Luo Mingbo and his allies, and Zhang Chen agreed to help.
• Zhang Chen and Jia Xin entered a concealed elevator at Tianfu Square after Zhang Chen erased Ou Pu’s Spiritual Body.

Zhang Chen and Jia Xin infiltrated Jailer Headquarters to confront Luo Mingbo, while Ou Pu secretly helped guide them. After Zhang Chen killed Lu Guang and other members of Luo Mingbo’s faction, he faced Luo Mingbo at headquarters, where Dan Mingqing returned from the Jailer Realm and challenged Luo Mingbo’s authority.

• Ou Pu warned Luo Mingbo that Zhang Chen had broken into headquarters, and Luo Mingbo ordered the defense squad to capture the intruders.
• Ou Pu offered to help Zhang Chen and Jia Xin evade the guards, revealing Luo Mingbo’s office location and guiding them through the building.
• Zhang Chen killed Lu Guang with his control over blood, flesh, and bones, then told Ou Pu to conceal Liu Nuo’s death and cut off communications from headquarters.
• Alarms reported a growing number of deaths among Luo Mingbo’s faction, and Luo Mingbo led the remaining Jailers to confront the intruder.
• Zhang Chen appeared before Luo Mingbo and declared his intention to kill him, while Dan Mingqing returned from the Jailer Realm and turned many Jailers against Luo Mingbo.

Zhang Chen defeated Luo Mingbo, saved Dan Mingqing, and helped secure a new leader for Jailer Headquarters in Sichuan Province. He left with Jia Xin after asking Dan Mingqing to keep Liu Nuo’s death quiet and arranging protection for his family and friends.

• Luo Mingbo transformed, absorbed six Level 2 Jailers, and split Dan Mingqing in two with a venomous bite and a strike from his snake tail.
• Zhang Chen used the Clown's Time Ability to seize and swallow Luo Mingbo’s main body, then tracked down and swallowed his last tiny clone, recovering the Soul Stone.
• Jia Xin confirmed that Luo Mingbo’s followers had been dealt with, and Zhang Chen absorbed the venom from Dan Mingqing’s wound, helping him recover.
• Dan Mingqing promised to restore order in Sichuan Province and conceal Zhang Chen’s involvement; Zhang Chen asked him to delay news of Liu Nuo’s death for three months.
• On the drive back to Jinxi County, Zhang Chen asked Jia Xin to protect his parents and Wang Yizhi, and Jia Xin agreed while inviting him to his wedding in four days.

Zhang Chen reunited with his family, traveled to Mount Emei with Wang Yizhi, and then joined Jia Xin and Shen Qiuxia’s wedding as best man. The wedding began as an awkward, sparsely attended affair, but Jia Xin’s master and nearly a thousand Qingyun Sect disciples arrived and transformed it into a spectacular celebration.

• Zhang Chen introduced his friends to his parents at a family dinner, where Jia Xin handed out wedding invitations and Mother Zhang pressed him about marrying Wang Yizhi.
• Zhang Chen and Wang Yizhi traveled to Mount Emei for three days, choosing the area because Jia Xin had said a secretive sect there could help keep them safe.
• Jia Xin asked Zhang Chen and Wang Yizhi to serve as best man and bridesmaid at his wedding to Shen Qiuxia, and they got ready with the couple.
• Several meteors approached Jinyu Grand Hotel as the wedding started, then Jia Xin’s master, Xiao Bai’s elder, and their followers entered the hall.
• Jia Xin’s master explained that he had come as Jia Xin’s father, and the Qingyun Sect disciples filled the thousand seats.
• Xiao Bai joined the guests, the wedding party appeared, and the elders opened the roof and cleared the clouds as the disciples congratulated Jia Xin and Shen Qiuxia.

At Jia Xin and Shen Qiuxia’s wedding, Zhang Chen received a warning and a request from Jia Xin’s master to help prevent conflict between cultivators and jailers during a coming operation near the Island Nation. After the wedding, Zhang Chen took Wang Yizhi home, where the two confessed their certainty about marrying and kissed.

• Shen Qiuxia received a blessing from Jia Xin’s master that Zhang Chen sensed could become an immortal seed.
• Jia Xin’s master showed Zhang Chen a supposed wanted notice, then admitted he had invented it and asked Zhang Chen to act as an intermediary between cultivators and jailers for an operation near the Island Nation.
• Zhang Chen agreed to help after his trip to the Imperial Capital, and Jia Xin’s master warned him about the danger posed by Tian Long and told him to conceal his identity.
• After the wedding, Zhang Chen took Wang Yizhi and Chong Ying home, then brought Wang Yizhi to his own apartment.
• Zhang Chen told Wang Yizhi he wanted them to marry, and she said she was sure before they kissed in the moonlit bedroom.

After spending the morning with Wang Yizhi, Zhang Chen left for the Imperial Capital. At the airport and aboard the plane, a gruesome incident involving a boy and a living doll led to a passenger’s death, and the cabin plunged into darkness.

• Zhang Chen cooked breakfast for Wang Yizhi, promised to return before school started, and left for the Imperial Capital.
• At Shuangliu Airport, Chen Qijin’s mother found blood in the men’s restroom and saw her son stitching his open body around a woven doll.
• The doll crawled out of Chen Qijin’s body and moved toward his mother.
• Chen Qijin and his mother boarded the plane just before departure and sat beside a fierce-looking middle-aged man.
• A doctor examined the middle-aged man, declared him dead, and helped move his body to the rear storage room.
• The cabin lights went out after the flight attendant announced the death, plunging the passengers into darkness.