Chapter Summaries

Gu Xi accepted Wang Datong’s Living Ghost Corpse Transfer Technique and let him join the group with the same treatment as Li Family Girl. While traveling, Gu Xi learned about plans for Aryadovi City and gained two new undead, leaving him more confident in his growing forces.

• Wang Datong offered Gu Xi the original Living Ghost Corpse Transfer Technique in exchange for a share of the lightning tribulation, and Gu Xi let him follow the group on the same terms as Li Family Girl.
• Gu Xi learned from Luna that the Corpse Dissolution Immortal Remains and a dinosaur skeleton had been buried beneath Aryadovi Tower, where they could eventually help spread purer Yin Energy through the districts.
• Gu Xi decided not to return to Aryadovi City yet, since the process of replacing Negative Energy could take years and he was no longer in a hurry.
• Li Family Girl killed the two players who had ambushed Gu Xi, and both kills were credited to Gu Xi.
• Gu Xi learned that two new undead had appeared in Aryadovi City: a level 25 Skeleton Soldier and a level 27 Ghost, both with Battle Auras.

Gu Xi kept the captured player soul and other materials in storage while he focused on the Li Family Girl and Wang Datong, whose practice let his Death Avatar-Titan test its sword. With some rare free time, he began preparing food and sent a porter to gather unusual herbs and mushrooms.

• Gu Xi left the captured player soul beneath the Summoning Tower and postponed dealing with it and the materials he had bought.
• The Death Avatar-Titan used the Thousand Thunder Peach Wood Sword against the Li Family Girl and Wang Datong, and Gu Xi was pleased with its growing strength.
• Gu Xi used his free time to prepare food after going hungry for much of his time in the Real World and Game World.
• Gu Xi ordered a porter to gather Dire Spirit Grass and mushrooms, and the Yellow Springs Dragon Robe Holder appeared to enforce his command.
• The Li Family Girl warned the porter to obey rather than risk being trapped in the Underworld Court, and the porter gathered Blue and Purple Quality ingredients for Gu Xi.

Gu Xi prepared Hundred Poisons Mushroom Soup from the Plague Cookbook while reading Wang Datong’s scroll. After a controlled subordinate tasted it and reported that it was unpleasant but swallowable, Gu Xi drank the soup himself.

• Gu Xi carefully boiled poisonous herbs and mushrooms with blood-fruit oil while reading Wang Datong’s scroll and watching the pot.
• After three or four hours, the soup turned purple and became a thick paste, completing a Blue-quality Hundred Poisons Mushroom Soup.
• Gu Xi hesitated to drink the poisonous-looking soup and ordered one of Wang Datong’s coffin bearers to taste a small portion.
• The taster said the soup tasted bitter and spicy but could be swallowed, and Gu Xi shut his eyes and drank it.

Gu Xi rested while the Li Family Girl, Wang Datong, and their companions trained against the Death Avatar-Titan, whose lightning abilities changed as it absorbed Yin Crystal Stones. After waking, Gu Xi prepared the group to travel at night and questioned Wang Datong about the people carrying Wang Dali's coffin.

• Gu Xi drank the Hundred Poisons Mushroom Soup, then poured the remainder over a Bone-Eating Mud and asked a Ghost Maid to wash the pot.
• Gu Xi rested under the protection of three Holders while the Li Family Girl, Wang Datong, and the others trained against the Death Avatar-Titan.
• The Death Avatar-Titan developed crystal-covered joints, fused with the Thousand Thunder Peach Wood Sword, and began wielding a lightning spear as it absorbed Yin Crystal Stones.
• Gu Xi woke, put away his Death Avatars, and told the group to prepare to travel before nightfall.
• Gu Xi examined Wang Dali's coffin and asked Wang Datong whether the filial sons carrying it were under his control.
• Wang Datong explained that he had raised the coffin bearers from childhood because their birth characters matched his, and his magic power stabilized their strength as they reached adulthood.

Gu Xi and the Li Family Girl’s wedding procession entered a Weird Domain after traveling through the night, leaving them isolated in an abandoned village. Gu Xi used the Mind Nether Lamp and Yellow Springs Dragon Robe to locate a threat at the village gate, and the Li Family Girl rushed to attack it.

• Wang Datong explained how he raised living subordinates and kept his coffin procession at a distance from the Li family's wedding procession.
• Gu Xi joined the Li Family Girl in her bridal sedan, and they continued traveling at high speed.
• After three or four hours, the sedan stopped in an abandoned village, where the porters, procession, and Wang Datong had disappeared.
• Gu Xi used the Mind Nether Lamp and Yellow Springs Dragon Robe to investigate the village and identified two lanterns near the gate as a threat.
• The Li Family Girl charged toward the lanterns, while the Abominations guarding the village gate prepared to stop her.

Gu Xi guided the Li Family Girl to destroy the two lanterns sustaining the Abomination village, revealing the village’s victims and breaking its power to scatter intruders. As the Li Family Girl went to rescue her subordinates, Gu Xi focused on a still-vital area deep in the village but hesitated to investigate because he was only Level 8.

• Gu Xi identified the lanterns as the Abomination village’s eyes and ears and directed the Li Family Girl to destroy them.
• The Li Family Girl followed Gu Xi’s increasingly rapid instructions and smashed the second lantern, causing the village to reveal its corpses, trapped porters, and fallen Maids.
• The Li Family Girl declined Gu Xi’s offer of help and rushed off to rescue her subordinates, warning him to be careful.
• Gu Xi looked toward the village’s unassimilated Earth Vein, the only place that still held vitality, but decided not to investigate while he was so weak.

Gu Xi summoned Abomination-path Undead and opened the Steel City Gate as the Weird Village's Abominations attacked. His Ghost Squad emerged in overwhelming numbers, leaving even the summoned Ghost Messengers wondering who commanded them.

• The Weird Village stirred the corpses outside its houses, prompting Gu Xi to summon them as Abomination-path Undead before they could transform into enemies.
• Gu Xi summoned Ox-Head, Horse-Face, Black and White Impermanence through the Yellow Springs Edict, while the Li Family Girl continued rescuing her subordinates.
• Gu Xi's Undead broke into the houses, drawing out the humanoid Abominations and steering them toward the Ghost Gate.
• Death Avatar-Titan enlarged the Ghost Gate, while Death Avatar-Bone Dragon struck the charging Abominations with Death Dragon Breath.
• Gu Xi revealed the Steel City Gate behind the Ghost Gate, and more than sixty thousand White Impermanence poured out to surround the Abominations.
• Black Impermanence asked a nearby White Impermanence who commanded the Ghost Squad, but the White Impermanence warned him not to speculate about higher-ups.

Gu Xi summoned the Underworld Court’s forces, which swiftly captured the Abominations in Weird Village. A hidden enemy mistook Gu Xi for the Prefect Reincarnation before the village vanished, leaving Gu Xi and the Netherworld soldiers convinced his identity was far greater than he knew.

• Ox-Head, Horse-Face, and White Impermanence mistook Gu Xi for a great Underworld Court figure and summoned Netherworld soldiers to claim credit for capturing the Abominations.
• The Underworld Court’s forces overwhelmed the Abominations and dragged them through the Ghost Gate, clearing Weird Village in minutes.
• The Li Family Girl and Wang Datong saw Gu Xi’s forces and the Li Family Girl wondered whether Gu Xi was the sleeping Prefect.
• Gu Xi sent his Ghost Squad toward Weird Village’s only safe place, and a voice from underground addressed him as the Prefect before the buildings vanished.
• Ox-Head, Horse-Face, and White Impermanence bowed to Gu Xi after the hidden enemy’s words seemed to confirm their belief about his identity.

Gu Xi prepared to leave after his Death Lord powers transformed the area, but Li Family Girl asked to follow him. Mount Tai God appeared and enlisted Gu Xi to escort Li Family Girl and Wang Datong while providing an alibi, then helped Gu Xi accept Li Family Girl as a prospective companion.

• Gu Xi dismissed his Steel City Gate and told Li Family Girl he had to leave, but she asked to go with him and offered to serve at his side.
• Mount Tai God revealed that he had been watching Gu Xi and asked him to escort Li Family Girl and Wang Datong to the Alchemist while buying him fifteen days.
• Gu Xi agreed, and Mount Tai God promised to help him manage Li Family Girl and gave him an item to use when he reached level 30.
• After Mount Tai God vanished, Gu Xi told Li Family Girl she could stay with him only after becoming an Earth Immortal, and she vowed to achieve it even without Grass Return Pill.

Gu Xi received the first volume of the Mount Tai Prefect's Secret Records and learned that Li Yufang needed a Grass Return Pill to safely advance. After discovering that living ghosts could potentially arrange their own pill-refining, he learned that protecting the pills during their immovable refining process would be the main obstacle.

• Gu Xi found the Mount Tai Prefect's Secret Records in his hand and briefly revealed its level 45 aura to Li Yufang and Wang Datong.
• Gu Xi asked Li Yufang about her stalled cultivation, and she explained that she needed a Grass Return Pill to survive the lightning tribulation after advancing.
• Li Yufang and Wang Datong described how living ghosts sought Grass Return Pills and the difficulty of obtaining them.
• Gu Xi suggested that living ghosts gather materials and hire an Alchemist to refine a batch, sharing the extra pills as payment.
• Wang Datong warned Gu Xi that Grass Return Pills could not be moved while they were being refined and would be difficult for their group to protect.

Gu Xi agreed to help Li Yufang find an Alchemist to refine the Grass Return Pill, while she asked to study and refine a Town Yin Pill herself. Their convoy traveled safely to the mountain where Li Yufang had previously sought the Grass Return Pill, leaving Gu Xi to inspect the forested slopes ahead.

• Gu Xi told Li Yufang to organize a search for the Alchemist and offered to provide a place to refine the Grass Return Pill if needed.
• Li Yufang dismantled the wedding decorations, put her Embroidered Shoes back on, and accompanied Gu Xi in the bridal sedan.
• Li Yufang asked Gu Xi for a Town Yin Pill, and he showed her its formula in the Mount Tai God Secret Scroll and told her to refine it herself.
• The convoy traveled safely as demons and ghosts avoided it, while Wang Datong watched over Gu Xi's party and handled supplies and camp duties.
• On the sixth day, Gu Xi and Li Yufang reached the lush mountain where she believed the Grass Return Pill was refined, and Gu Xi studied the forest ahead.

Gu Xi and Li Yufang arrived at the forest where Grass Return Pills were being refined, and Li Yufang returned her betrothal gifts and broke off her engagement with the Alchemist. As the gathered immortals secretly identified Gu Xi as the Prefect's reincarnation, Gu Xi asked to reserve the next batch of pills.

• Gu Xi used the Yellow Springs Dragon Robe Holder to inspect the forest and saw shifting Earth Veins and strange auras gathering around a great tree.
• Li Yufang returned her dowry and publicly broke off her engagement with the Alchemist in the forest.
• The Alchemist accused Li Yufang of seeking marriage to obtain a Grass Return Pill and threatened to deny her future pills.
• Li Yufang declared that she had chosen Gu Xi, while the gathered immortals secretly discussed Gu Xi's powers and the danger of awakening the Prefect.
• Gu Xi stepped forward and asked to reserve the next batch of Grass Return Pills.

Gu Xi failed to secure a Grass Return Pill from the Alchemist, but inferred that the pills came from a tree and considered ways to cultivate them for Li Yufang. Li Yufang chose to pursue the pill, and Gu Xi agreed to help her search for a way to grow it.

• The Alchemist told Gu Xi he could not provide the Grass Return Pill he wanted, and Gu Xi left the forest with Li Yuniang and her abandoned dowry.
• Gu Xi explained that he suspected Grass Return Pills grew on trees and proposed finding seeds and a cultivation method for a faster-growing variety.
• Gu Xi offered Li Yufang the choice between waiting for a Grass Return Pill and following a less certain path beyond her living-ghost identity.
• Gu Xi estimated that waiting for the pill had a fifty percent chance of success, while following him could lead to greater heights or leave her unchanged.
• Li Yufang chose to pursue the Grass Return Pill, and Gu Xi agreed to spend several days helping her find a way to grow it before she took responsibility for guarding the cultivation site.

Gu Xi studied the Mount Tai Prefect's Secret Records and decided he needed the Grass Return Pill formula before attempting to refine it. Li Yufang took him to a nearby Black Market, where they hoped to find an alchemist who could help them obtain the formula.

• Li Yufang agreed to protect the Grass Return Pill while Gu Xi studied the Mount Tai Prefect's Secret Records and learned about pills, cultivation, and equipment.
• Gu Xi decided to seek the Grass Return Pill formula at a Black Market before telling Li Yufang more about his plans.
• Li Yufang turned the bridal sedan around and hurried back toward a nearby Black Market, while Wang Datong stayed behind hoping to obtain a Grass Return Pill.
• After a journey that took three days, Li Yufang brought Gu Xi to the largest nearby Black Market and told him about an alchemist there who could refine every pill except the Grass Return Pill.
• Gu Xi suspected the alchemist might be willing to help them obtain the Grass Return Pill formula because the pill's current maker had likely suppressed him.

Gu Xi and Li Yufang visited Bitter Pill Master to obtain Grass Return Pill seeds and a cultivation formula. Bitter Pill Master handed them over, and Gu Xi left prepared to confront Clear Pill Master while Li Yufang arranged to pay with ten portions of beasts.

• Li Yufang told Bitter Pill Master that she and Gu Xi wanted to commission pills, and Gu Xi asked for Grass Return Pills.
• Bitter Pill Master explained that Clear Pill Master had defeated him in refining Grass Return Pills, but Gu Xi said he only needed the seeds and cultivation method.
• Gu Xi warned Bitter Pill Master not to raise the price and offered to deal with Clear Pill Master, prompting Bitter Pill Master to agree to spread news that Gu Xi had acquired the Grass Return Pills.
• Bitter Pill Master took Gu Xi and Li Yufang into his Pill Room and gave Gu Xi four Grass Return Pill seeds and the formula.
• Li Yufang offered Yin Crystal Stones and promised ten portions of beasts, while Gu Xi said he would confront Clear Pill Master.

Gu Xi studied the Grass Return Pill formula with Eve and Luna and learned how the tree grew, produced pills, and could be upgraded through sacrifices. He began weighing where to plant the seeds and who could guard the trees, then focused on the Five Elements conditions required for planting.

• Gu Xi had Li Yufang move the Bridal Sedan somewhere quiet and contacted Eve and Luna through the Special Mirror to help analyze the formula.
• Gu Xi learned that the Blue Quality Grass Return Pill tree took decades to produce pills for Treants and that upgrading it required sacrificing beings such as Ghost Brides and living humans.
• Gu Xi considered planting the four seeds in multiple worlds, including Aryadovi City, and weighed the need to keep a Treant guarding each planted tree.
• Gu Xi read that the tree required a Five Elements environment to grow, and that an entirely artificial environment would limit it to Blue Quality.

Gu Xi studied the demanding requirements for cultivating Grass Return Pill trees and consulted Eve and Grand Princess Anna about how to proceed. He left the planting arrangements to Eve and set out to find a suitable location, prioritizing the pills Li Yufang needed.

• Gu Xi learned that Grass Return Pill trees required rare Five Elements sites and yearly offerings of living Demon Beasts, and he decided that planting only one tree would not be enough.
• Eve warned Gu Xi that the formula concealed Abomination-related power and recommended planting trees in multiple locations, including undead-transformed test trees and a hidden tree grown by the original method.
• Grand Princess Anna asked to graft one tree onto the Church's Apple Tree, and Gu Xi told her he would consider it after securing Li Yufang's Grass Return Pills.
• Grand Princess Anna recommended using the level 27 Ghost in Aryadovi City, and Gu Xi ordered Eve to teach it how to refine Grass Return Pills.
• Gu Xi left to find a suitable planting location.

Gu Xi arranged for Li Yufang to guard a Grass Return Pill planting site in exchange for resources and service, then chose to investigate a nearby Burial Ground inhabited by ghosts. The bridal sedan arrived at the eerie grassland, where bones lay beneath the weeds.

• Gu Xi explained the Grass Return Pill’s upgrade requirements to Li Yufang and planned two planting locations, one visible and one concealed.
• Gu Xi demanded annual flesh and blood, resource gathering, and combat service from Li Yufang in return for his backing.
• Li Yufang identified the Burial Ground and Underground Pasture as possible sites, warning that the Burial Ground held several Ghost Immortals, including the Three Immortals Gathering.
• Gu Xi chose to visit the Burial Ground first, and Li Yufang led him there in her bridal sedan.
• The sedan stopped at a grassland where the wind exposed dry bones beneath the weeds.

Gu Xi investigated the Burial Ground and shifted his plan from taking it by force to seeking the ghosts’ cooperation in using its location for the Grass Return Pill tree. After learning that the Gathering Righteousness Three Immortals had cleared the nearby area of monsters, he sensed trouble ahead and heard an unseen speaker offer to join the coming fight.

• Gu Xi asked Li Yufang to draw ghosts out of the Burial Ground and learned that White Immortal and Red Immortal were there while Purple Immortal was away hunting.
• Gu Xi questioned the wandering souls and considered cooperating with them rather than conquering the Burial Ground, since Grass Return Pills were of little use to them.
• Gu Xi asked about dangers nearby, and a ghost said the Gathering Righteousness Three Immortals had cleared the surrounding area of threats.
• Gu Xi focused on a small hill east of the Burial Ground and warned that more monsters might come in the future.
• An unseen speaker overheard Gu Xi, offered to join the fight, and prompted Gu Xi to turn toward him.

Gu Xi negotiated with Purple Immortal and the other members of the Gathering Righteousness Three Immortals to refine Grass Return Pills near the Burial Ground, hoping to draw out his enemies. White Immortal recognized that Gu Xi’s plan would provoke Clear Pill Master, but the chapter ended before they settled the matter.

• Purple Immortal arrived after hearing Gu Xi could attract enemies and agreed to let him refine pills nearby, though he told Gu Xi to discuss the exact location with White Immortal.
• Gu Xi and Li Yufang entered the Burial Ground, and Gu Xi reassured her after she admitted she could not defeat Purple Immortal.
• Red Immortal and White Immortal emerged from the Burial Ground, and Gu Xi recognized their mastery of Death Avatar and Death City.
• White Immortal asked what Gu Xi planned to refine, and Gu Xi answered that he would make Grass Return Pills.
• White Immortal realized the plan would provoke Clear Pill Master and asked whether Gu Xi had used Clear Pill Master’s attack to gain Purple Immortal’s help.