Chapter Summaries

Gu Xi assigned the dangerous Thousand Thunder Peach Wood Sword to Death Avatar-Titan, who overcame its former owner's mark and gained power from its lightning. Gu Xi then offered the Ghost Copper Curse Bell to Death Avatar-Death God.

• Gu Xi realized he could deploy only two of his three Death Avatars at once and summoned Death Avatar-Death God and Death Avatar-Titan to choose who would take the sword.
• Death Avatar-Titan claimed the Thousand Thunder Peach Wood Sword and suppressed the Taoist phantom left by its previous owner's Blood Sacrifice.
• Death Avatar-Titan completed the Blood Sacrifice, darkening the sword and drawing lightning around himself as its power improved.
• Liu Baiwei remarked on Death Avatar-Titan's unusual transformation, and Gu Xi modestly said he had been lucky.
• Gu Xi examined the Ghost Copper Curse Bell, decided it did not suit his path, and offered it to Death Avatar-Death God.

Gu Xi learned from Liu Baiwei that reaching level 30 required focused specialization and Extensive Knowledge, and discovered that his journey to Qianfang City was caused by the imbalance of elemental energy within him. Liu Baiwei explained that a Flame Lord had likely used Gu Xi to lure out a Sea Giant, but Gu Xi’s choice to avoid the Teleportation Gate had spared him from a dangerous trap.

• Death Avatar-Death God picked up and equipped the Ghost Copper Curse Bell, while Gu Xi put away the Yin Wind Robe.
• Gu Xi showed Liu Baiwei his Champion Ring and revealed that he was his school’s top student.
• Liu Baiwei explained that breaking through to level 30 required specializing in one path and gaining Extensive Knowledge, and described how his own lack of knowledge had cost him.
• Gu Xi connected Liu Baiwei’s account of elemental imbalance to his strange arrival in Qianfang City after leaving an elemental world where Earth and Wind had died.
• Liu Baiwei examined Gu Xi and determined that a cup of Life Fire had disrupted his elemental balance, while the Flame Lord had likely arranged to use him to lure out a level 44 Sea Giant.
• Gu Xi understood that avoiding the Realm-Breaking Drill’s Teleportation Gate had saved him from the Flame Lord’s scheme, and recognized that reaching the Real World had already given him a major advantage.

Gu Xi learned from Liu Baiwei about Extensive Knowledge, the level 30 threshold, and the importance of building a city and developing specialty products. Liu Baiwei began suggesting popular products for a Necromancer, leaving Gu Xi with more to learn about supporting his future city.

• Gu Xi accepted that he could remain in the Real World for now and asked Liu Baiwei to explain Extensive Knowledge.
• Liu Baiwei explained that a balanced foundation mattered for advancing past level 30, and said Orange Equipment might be a goal beyond that threshold.
• Gu Xi asked Liu Baiwei about city-building, and Liu Baiwei described how players chose Game Worlds and placed cities at their cores.
• Liu Baiwei explained that specialty plants, crops, and animals could strengthen a city, and shared how his Earth-Born Lotus and Wind-Force Grass had served him.
• Liu Baiwei began listing specialty-product ideas popular among Necromancers.

Gu Xi helped Liu Baiwei arrange a journey to find Liu Yan and used the three-day wait to secure a route back to the Real World. With the Location Hearthstone installed and activated in Qianfang City and Aryadovi City, Qianfang City's Anchor Point was successfully located.

• The Old Man of Dongliu Cemetery arranged for Liu Baiwei to leave for Liu Yan's Game World, while Gu Xi agreed to help send him there.
• Liu Baiwei gave Gu Xi money and advised him to buy useful supplies and wash away the Life Fire's influence at the Sword Washing Pool.
• Gu Xi left Dongliu Cemetery and bought a Location Hearthstone before doing anything else.
• Gu Xi rented a room in Qianfang City and installed the Location Hearthstone there, while Luna placed its counterpart in Aryadovi City.
• Gu Xi and Luna activated the Hearthstones together, successfully locating Qianfang City's Anchor Point.

Gu Xi confirmed that the Location Hearthstone worked, collected quest funds, and bought books recommended by Liu Baiwei before visiting Qianfang City’s Black Market. After preparing against Mind Spells, he entered a shop selling saplings and encountered a strange Longan Tree.

• Gu Xi verified that he could return to the Real World, turned in his quest at City Hall, and bought the books he had set aside along with basic texts Liu Baiwei had recommended.
• Gu Xi decided to visit the Black Market and, after refusing to sell his Negative Energy, was escorted inside by a Black Robe Man.
• The Black Robe Man directed Gu Xi to a shop with saplings and another shop where he might find excavated corpses, explaining that Qianfang City rarely preserved bodies.
• Gu Xi headed to the yellow building seeking unusual tree or grain varieties, hoping to find items that other players undervalued.
• Gu Xi chose immunity to Mind Spells before entering the shop, where he saw an eye-covered sapling and heard a clerk ask whether he was interested in the Longan Tree.

Gu Xi bought bulk seeds, over a hundred Yin-attracting tree saplings, and other plants at the Black Market, then visited its grave-robbing vendors to find corpses for necromancy. He found a high-level preserved corpse in a basement full of ancient remains and asked the merchant its price.

• Gu Xi bought three hundred kilograms of mixed seeds and learned from the merchant where to find good saplings.
• Gu Xi purchased over a hundred locust, willow, pine, and cypress saplings, plus mushroom spores and other plant seeds.
• Gu Xi sent his purchases to Aryadovi City and had Luna plant them in the Demon Plant Zone.
• Gu Xi followed a Black Market merchant into a basement where countless animal corpses, mummies, and fossils were stored.
• Gu Xi examined the preserved remains, found one that caught his eye, and asked the merchant how much it cost.

Gu Xi bought several ancient monster remains from a Black Market merchant, including a level 34 Flood Dragon he planned to transform into an undead creature. Before leaving, he also bought a Pure Silver Outer Coffin that he thought could help upgrade his Evil Coffin.

• Gu Xi bargained with the Black Market merchant and bought the largely intact level 34 Flood Dragon corpse at a reasonable price.
• Gu Xi bought a level 25 giant Wild Boar, a level 27 mountain deer, and enormous dinosaur bones, while declining other excavated items and the merchant’s offer to retrieve humanoid corpses.
• Gu Xi inspected the remaining dismantled corpses and left without commissioning a costly, uncertain search for humanoid remains.
• Gu Xi bought a Pure Silver Outer Coffin decorated with images of angels and demons, hoping it could help his Evil Coffin level up.

Gu Xi visited Qianfang City's Sword Washing Pool to clear the excess heat from drinking Life Fire and remove the negative effects of his purple equipment. He learned that treatments could make those effects less dangerous, then settled into a pool room and ordered Dragon Slayer Tea.

• Gu Xi went to the Sword Washing Pool seeking help with the heat from Life Fire and the negative effects of his purple equipment.
• A staff member explained that the pool's water could disperse the excess heat and cleanse negative effects, and that treatments could limit how often equipment effects flared up.
• Gu Xi asked whether he could learn the enchantment formulas used to treat purple equipment, but the staff member said enchanters kept them secret.
• The staff member brought Gu Xi to a second-floor room where the water formed a bed and offered him a drink.
• Gu Xi chose a cup of Dragon Slayer Tea while waiting for someone to treat him.

After absorbing the Life Fire, Gu Xi strengthened his body and visited Qianfang City's library to research schools for his advancement path. He found that Yin Capital Underworld University had an Underworld Department that accepted his Netherworld-related profession, though applying would require meeting specific conditions.

• Gu Xi emerged from the Sword Washing Pool with his Bodybuilding Technique at Level 9, Strength above 20, and 5,850 life points.
• Gu Xi learned that transferring schools required paying tuition and buying out his student status, and that he would need to research undead universities through the library.
• Gu Xi asked the librarian for admissions brochures and learned that the library held materials from universities in Yin Capital, Ming City, and Ghost Eye City.
• Gu Xi chose to investigate Yin Capital and found that it had dozens of undead-related universities, including the prominent Yin Capital Underworld University.
• Gu Xi found the Underworld Department, which accepted Netherworld-related professions such as Lords of the Underworld, and learned that applicants above Level 5 needed a related profession.

After studying Underworld University, Gu Xi made its graduate program his goal and prepared to leave Qianfang City with Liu Baiwei. The Librarian reported Gu Xi to his organization, which sent two experts to kill him after he parted from Liu Baiwei, while powerful figures watched Dongliu Cemetery.

• Gu Xi found that Underworld University's Underworld Department could help graduate students break through the level 20 barrier, and decided to apply once he reached level 10.
• The Librarian secretly observed Gu Xi's research, reported him to his organization, and received orders for two experts to follow and kill Gu Xi after he separated from Ghost Liu Baiwei.
• Gu Xi spent the last of Liu Baiwei's money buying inexpensive supplies from Liu Baiwei's former friends before returning to Dongliu Cemetery.
• Gu Xi sensed powerful watchers from Qianfang City's landmark buildings but chose not to investigate and called to Liu Baiwei to ask when they would leave.

Gu Xi entered a level 25–45 world with Liu Baiwei, who was seeking an Immortal Pill to save someone. After Liu Baiwei left to search for her, Gu Xi prepared to return home but froze when he looked around.

• Gu Xi used his Game Number to bring himself and Liu Baiwei through the Teleportation Gate into the high-level world.
• A warning explained the danger of the world and described an Immortal Pill that could raise someone to level 45 but trap them there forever.
• Liu Baiwei believed the woman he sought had come for the Immortal Pill, and Gu Xi calmed him before he lost levels from crying.
• Liu Baiwei gave Gu Xi the Baiwei Totem Pole, a single-use item that could unleash his full-power wind or fire strike, then departed to search for his Goddess.
• Gu Xi decided to leave the dangerous world, but froze when he looked around.

Gu Xi discovered powerful Yin Energy in the graveyard, then was ambushed by two higher-level players. He turned the Li family’s ghostly wedding procession against his attackers, leaving them surrounded and under assault.

• Gu Xi used the Yellow Springs Dragon Robe to locate a dense source of Yin Energy at the center of the graveyard as a wedding procession emerged from it.
• Two players attacked Gu Xi from behind, but he evaded them and planted Liu Baiwei’s Baiwei Totem Pole to create a Wind Shield.
• Gu Xi made himself immune to wind and accused the players of trying to ruin the Li family’s wedding.
• Gu Xi summoned the Bone Dragon and Titans and attacked the players with Death Dragon Breath.
• Gu Xi’s Death Lord skill made the Li family ghosts see him as an ally, and they charged the two players and beat them mercilessly.

Gu Xi used the Mind Nether Lamp to turn two hostile Wind Swordsmen toward the Li family's Bridal Sedan, where the New Bride killed them. Death Avatar-Death God seized one player's soul while Death Avatar-Titan drove off the Medical Angel, leaving the dead player's family to seek it back.

• The two Wind Swordsmen unleashed Wind Wheel Slash against the ghosts and tried to escape on a gust of wind.
• The Mind Nether Lamp used Bewitch the Heart to redirect the players toward the Bridal Sedan.
• The New Bride killed the first player and a Medical Angel appeared to claim his soul and flesh.
• Gu Xi summoned Death Avatar-Death God and Death Avatar-Titan as the New Bride killed the second player.
• Death Avatar-Death God reaped the second player's soul, and Death Avatar-Titan struck the Medical Angel with lightning until it vanished.

Gu Xi encountered the Li Family Girl during her wedding procession, resisted her mind spell, and was pulled into her Bridal Sedan to help see her off. He realized she was a living ghost whose jade-like body kept her yang energy and vitality from escaping.

• Gu Xi activated Mind Spell immunity before approaching the Li Family Girl in her Bridal Sedan.
• The Li Family Girl flirted with Gu Xi, while the wedding procession's Old Ghosts gathered around and appeared to approve of their interaction.
• The Li Family Girl used a seductive spell on Gu Xi, but his Flame Core Protection kept him calm.
• The Li Family Girl pulled Gu Xi into the sedan and asked him to help see her off to her wedding.
• Gu Xi examined the Li Family Girl and identified her as a living ghost, then recognized her body as a shell that retained her yang energy and vitality.

The Li Family Girl explained that she was marrying to obtain a Grass Return Pill that could save her life, and asked Gu Xi to protect her from ghosts who might block her journey. Mistaking Gu Xi for a reincarnated Underworld Court powerhouse, she tried to persuade him to help and began offering him something valuable.

• The Li Family Girl told Gu Xi that the Grass Return Pill could transform her Yin Energy into Yang energy and preserve her chance to undergo lightning tribulation.
• The Li Family Girl revealed that she wanted Gu Xi to protect her from living ghosts who might try to stop her from reaching the pill.
• Gu Xi refused, saying he was not strong enough and did not want to risk getting involved.
• The Li Family Girl claimed that Gu Xi was a great power of the Underworld Court reincarnated for cultivation, citing the effect he had on ghosts and a Guardian's power to open the Underworld Court's gates.
• The Li Family Girl realized that her offer to accompany Gu Xi was not enough, then whispered that she had something good to offer if he helped her.

Gu Xi let the Li Family Girl test him with treasures while concealing his interest, until she offered the body of a Corpse Dissolution Immortal. He accepted the Bamboo Staff and stored it in the Weird Mirror Space, leaving the Li Family Girl hoping he would help her.

• Gu Xi ignored the Li Family Girl's first offer to avoid revealing interest in ordinary items, while she took his composure as evidence of his status.
• The Li Family Girl opened a box containing a Buddha Bone Relic that could help an undead creature reach level 20, but Gu Xi barely glanced at it.
• The Li Family Girl presented a black box holding a fragrant jade-green Bamboo Staff, and Gu Xi recognized it as a corpse.
• The Li Family Girl explained that the Bamboo Staff was the body left behind by a Corpse Dissolution Immortal she had killed through Bingjie, and offered it in return for Gu Xi's help.
• Gu Xi brushed the Bamboo Staff and sent it into the Weird Mirror Space.

Gu Xi agreed to lend the Li Family Girl his influence in exchange for the Corpse Dissolution Immortal Remains, then traveled with her wedding procession. When two rival groups blocked the road, she identified their leaders and invoked Gu Xi’s Underworld Court standing to protect her claim to the Grass Return Pill.

• Gu Xi collected the Corpse Dissolution Immortal Remains and agreed to help the Li Family Girl using his influence, but not by acting on her behalf.
• Gu Xi summoned the Yellow Springs Dragon Robe Holder to accompany the wedding sedan, and the Li Family Girl thanked him with a kiss.
• The wedding procession stopped when a funeral procession and a corpse-herding group blocked the road.
• The Li Family Girl identified the leaders as Wang Datong and Liu Quanshi, who were also seeking the Grass Return Pill.
• The Li Family Girl refused to surrender the pill and presented Gu Xi as an important figure from the Underworld Court.

Gu Xi used his Death Avatar-Titan to turn the ground into Death Land and send Liu Quanshi’s corpses into the Underworld Court. As Li Family Girl fought Liu Quanshi to protect Gu Xi, he ordered Titan to banish everyone involved.

• Liu Quanshi mocked Gu Xi, but Wang Datong said ordinary dead people would not dare attack him unless he struck first.
• Gu Xi told Li Family Girl that he had only promised to lend her his influence, while Liu Quanshi ordered his corpses to attack.
• Gu Xi summoned Death Avatar-Death God and Death Avatar-Titan, who drove the Thousand Thunder Peach Wood Sword into the ground and created Death Land.
• Li Family Girl and Wang Datong recognized the Underworld Court’s aura, and White Impermanence dragged Liu Quanshi’s corpses into it.
• Liu Quanshi attacked Gu Xi, but Li Family Girl blocked his punch, and Gu Xi ordered Titan to send them all to the Underworld Court.

Gu Xi sent Liu Quanshi and Li Family Girl to the Underworld Court, then questioned Wang Datong about the Grass Return Pill before resuming the journey with Li Family Girl. Wang Datong followed them toward the pills, while Li Family Girl returned with Fairy Yi’s veil and continued to tease Gu Xi.

• At Gu Xi’s command, Death Avatar-Titan sent Liu Quanshi and Li Family Girl into the Underworld Court, where Liu Quanshi faced the authorities but Li Family Girl was free to return.
• Gu Xi questioned Wang Datong, who explained that Grass Return Pills could grant living ghosts the chance to become Ghost Immortals capable of surviving lightning tribulations.
• Gu Xi told Wang Datong he would not join the fight over the pills or promise to protect Li Family Girl.
• Li Family Girl returned with Fairy Yi’s veil, but Gu Xi ignored her attempt to discuss it and pushed her into the bridal sedan.
• Wang Datong asked to follow the procession and deal with anyone who blocked their way, and Gu Xi allowed him to come along.
• Gu Xi returned to the bridal sedan, where Li Family Girl complained that he had made her touch the ground despite her wedding-journey taboo.

Gu Xi stopped with Li Family Girl’s group to hide from the sun and summoned Death Avatar-Titan to help form a Ghost Domain. Li Family Girl discovered its lightning could help temper her body and asked Gu Xi to let her use it.

• Li Family Girl explained that the gathered ghosts could form a small Ghost Domain beneath the trees to avoid sunlight.
• Gu Xi summoned Death Avatar-Titan and gave it a Ghost Domain Battlefield that produced bolts of lightning.
• Li Family Girl touched the lightning and realized she wanted to use it to temper her body.
• Li Family Girl offered Yin Crystal Stones to Death Avatar-Titan and asked it to strike her with lightning, but it stayed still without Gu Xi’s command.
• Gu Xi understood Li Family Girl’s plan, and she asked him to help her experience the lightning in advance.