Chapter Summaries

Dai Changsheng mastered Sun Breathing’s thirteenth form and planned to help Tanjiro improve his physical fitness. In Gray Mist Space, the other Dai Changshengs welcomed a seventh newcomer, whose memories revealed his life as Uncle Nine’s underpowered disciple in the world of Mr. Vampire.

• Dai Changsheng learned all twelve Sun Breathing forms while instructing Tanjiro, then combined them into the thirteenth form.
• Dai Changsheng judged that his strength was still insufficient to defeat Muzan Kibutsuji and decided to postpone awakening the Demon Slayer Mark until he became a perfect life-form.
• Dai Changsheng told Tanjiro that his physique prevented him from performing the complete forms and promised him a demanding training plan.
• Ai Haibara achieved a twenty-four-percent survival rate in her APTX4869 experiment, and Dai Changsheng began disposing of the dead mice before Gray Mist Space summoned him.
• The other Dai Changshengs welcomed the seventh newcomer, who had transmigrated into Mr. Vampire, become Uncle Nine’s chief disciple, and reached only the middle stage of Refining Essence into Qi after more than twenty years of study.

After sharing powers with his counterparts, Dai Changsheng returned to Renjia Town and used his enhanced spiritual power to draw stronger talismans. When Man Choi and Qiu Sheng accidentally set Daoist Siyue’s zombies loose, Dai Changsheng helped subdue them, then left with Uncle Nine the next morning to visit Master Ren for foreign tea.

• Dai Changsheng returned to the mortuary with greatly increased physical strength, Psychic Power, and spiritual power, and drew a premium-grade Corpse Suppressing Talisman.
• Man Choi fled from a group of zombies, and Dai Changsheng accidentally kicked Qiu Sheng, who had been dressed as one of them.
• Dai Changsheng, Uncle Nine, and Daoist Siyue subdued the zombies, and Man Choi and Qiu Sheng helped restore them to the corpse storage room.
• Daoist Siyue left the mortuary before Dai Changsheng could ask him about corpse refining techniques.
• Uncle Nine invited Dai Changsheng to accompany him to Master Ren’s foreign tea gathering, and they set out the next morning.

Dai Changsheng accompanied Uncle Nine to meet Ren Fa and agreed to help relocate Old Master Ren’s grave, then prepared for the ceremony with his fellow disciples. At the graveyard, Ren Tingting and her cousin Captain Ah Wei arrived, and Uncle Nine explained that the burial site required a vertical burial.

• Dai Changsheng and Uncle Nine met Ren Fa and Ren Tingting at the Western restaurant, where Ren Fa arranged to exhume and rebury his father’s coffin three days later.
• Dai Changsheng returned to the funeral home and resumed drawing talismans and cultivating, while Man Choi and Qiu Sheng abandoned their curiosity about coffee.
• Dai Changsheng, Uncle Nine, Man Choi, and Qiu Sheng arrived at the graveyard, where Dai Changsheng stopped Man Choi and Qiu Sheng from ogling Ren Tingting.
• Ren Tingting approached Dai Changsheng and his junior brothers to escape Captain Ah Wei’s attention, but Ah Wei intervened when Man Choi and Qiu Sheng tried to greet her.
• Uncle Nine explained that Old Master Ren’s grave was at a Dragonfly Touching Water Cave and that the coffin had to be buried upright.

Dai Changsheng and Uncle Nine discovered that Ren Weiyong’s corpse had not decayed after twenty years, but Ren Fa refused to cremate him despite Uncle Nine’s warning. After a bad omen appeared in the Plum Blossom Incense Array, Dai Changsheng helped prepare the coffin against a possible zombie, while noticing the ghost Dong Xiaoyu at her grave.

• Uncle Nine deduced that the geomancer had sabotaged Ren Weiyong’s burial site after Ren Fa’s family took the land from him, and warned that the site could no longer be used.
• Workers opened Ren Weiyong’s coffin, and Uncle Nine found that the corpse had not decayed; he advised cremation, but Ren Fa refused and agreed to temporary storage and a new burial site instead.
• Uncle Nine told Dai Changsheng to arrange incense at the graves, where Dai Changsheng saw Dong Xiaoyu’s tomb and silently acknowledged her thanks.
• Man Choi found incense burned in the ominous pattern of two short sections and one long section, prompting Dai Changsheng and Uncle Nine to suspect danger for the Ren family.
• Uncle Nine prepared spiritual ink, and Dai Changsheng supervised Man Choi and Qiu Sheng as they covered Ren Weiyong’s coffin, including its underside, with an ink line to restrain a possible zombie.

Dai Changsheng prepared to ward off ghosts while Dong Xiaoyu secretly chose him as her intended husband. At the Ren residence, Qiu Sheng and Man Choi used a Body Synchronization Talisman to prank Ah Wei, whose lecherous behavior toward Ren Tingting ended with Dai Changsheng striking him and defending her.

• Dong Xiaoyu watched Dai Changsheng bathing and decided to make him her groom, but she retreated when he returned to his room.
• Dai Changsheng drew ghost-banishing and evil-warding talismans, then joined Uncle Nine in searching for new burial sites for Old Master Ren.
• At the Ren residence, Ah Wei tried to court Ren Tingting while Man Choi and Qiu Sheng plotted to prank him.
• Man Choi swallowed a Body Synchronization Talisman containing Ah Wei's hair, causing Ah Wei to mirror his physical actions.
• Ah Wei grabbed Ren Tingting and tried to lick her hand, so Dai Changsheng punched him and protected her.
• Ren Fa returned from discussing the grave relocation and found Ah Wei kneeling, while Ah Wei claimed he had tripped.

After Old Master Ren escaped his coffin and killed Ren Fa, Uncle Nine let Ah Wei arrest him so he could confront Ren Fa’s zombie at the station, while Dai Changsheng and Man Choi guarded Ren Tingting. When the zombie attacked the Ren residence, Dai Changsheng rushed to fight it, hoping to win Tingting’s favor by appearing to risk his life for her.

• Ah Wei left the Ren residence, and Uncle Nine led Dai Changsheng and the others away while Old Master Ren broke out of his coffin and hopped toward the Ren residence.
• The next morning, Uncle Nine learned Ren Fa had been killed and sent Dai Changsheng, Man Choi, and Qiu Sheng to check the funeral home, where they found two drained lambs and discovered Old Master Ren was gone.
• At the Ren residence, Ah Wei arrested Uncle Nine as a suspect in Ren Fa’s murder, and Uncle Nine told Qiu Sheng to bring equipment to the station while Dai Changsheng and Man Choi guarded Ren Tingting.
• After two in the morning, Old Master Ren smashed through the Ren residence gates and charged toward Ren Tingting as the servants fled.
• Dai Changsheng told Man Choi to protect Tingting, then charged Old Master Ren and kicked it in the chest.

Dai Changsheng and Uncle Nine fought off Old Master Ren when it attacked the Ren Residence, then brought Ren Tingting to the funeral home for safety. Ren Tingting grew devoted to Dai Changsheng, and the chapter ended with Uncle Nine discovering them kissing.

• Dai Changsheng fought Old Master Ren to protect Ren Tingting until Uncle Nine and Qiu Sheng arrived and drove the zombie away with an ink line.
• Old Master Ren fled from the Ren Residence after the security squad fired at it, and Uncle Nine warned everyone to use glutinous rice against zombie wounds.
• Uncle Nine brought Ren Tingting to the funeral home, where Dai Changsheng helped her settle into a room.
• Dai Changsheng kissed Ren Tingting while they cleaned her room, and Man Choi caught them together.
• Uncle Nine came looking for Dai Changsheng and Ren Tingting and interrupted their kiss.

Dai Changsheng captured Dong Xiaoyu after she tried to deceive him, then returned to the funeral home as Old Master Ren attacked. He immobilized the zombie with copper-coin ink lines, leaving Uncle Nine impressed by the technique.

• Dai Changsheng bought glutinous rice in a neighboring town after the shops in Renjia Town had sold out.
• Dai Changsheng exposed Dong Xiaoyu's attempt to frame Old Uncle Wang, sealed her inside a wine gourd, and gave Old Uncle Wang an Exorcism Talisman.
• Old Uncle Wang encountered Old Master Ren and fled, while Dai Changsheng returned to the funeral home and ate dinner with Ren Tingting.
• Old Master Ren smashed through the funeral home's gate as Man Choi and Qiu Sheng scattered glutinous rice.
• Qiu Sheng repelled Old Master Ren with glutinous rice, and Dai Changsheng restrained the zombie's legs and arms with copper-coin ink lines.

After Old Master Ren was destroyed, Dai Changsheng took control of the Ren household and then traveled to Suotuo City to acquire a Plank Crystal for making Dragon Beard Needles. He provoked Flender by insulting him, and Flender threatened him before learning Dai Changsheng claimed to have an imperial father.

• Dai Changsheng killed Old Master Ren, and Uncle Nine burned the corpse with a Yang Fire Talisman.
• Dai Changsheng stayed at the Ren residence with Ren Tingting, then reviewed the Ren family's accounts and planned to use Dong Xiaoyu to expose embezzling shopkeepers.
• After reaching level seventy, Dai Changsheng flew to Suotuo City to obtain the Plank Crystal needed to make Dragon Beard Needles.
• Dai Changsheng entered Flender's shop and offered one hundred Gold Soul Coins for the crystal, but Flender repeatedly raised the price and demanded ten thousand.
• Dai Changsheng insulted Flender, who revealed his seven soul rings and threatened him; Flender then questioned Dai Changsheng's claim that he had an imperial father.

Dai Changsheng killed Flender, then hunted the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for his seventh soul ring. After absorbing it, he gained a second External Soul Bone and an evolved Martial Soul, then searched the Star Dou Great Forest for the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor Brothers to advance his Soul Power further.

• Dai Changsheng revealed his identity to Flender and killed him with the Seven Injuries Fist, then enslaved his soul.
• Dai Changsheng rode to the Star Dou Great Forest and spent more than half a month searching for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger with his soul slaves.
• Dai Changsheng used Dragon Beard Needles to kill the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger after it slaughtered most of his soul slaves.
• Dai Changsheng absorbed the tiger's soul ring, evolved his White Tiger Martial Soul, and obtained his second External Soul Bone, which gave him powerful wings and a passive attribute boost.
• Dai Changsheng completed the absorption, reached level seventy-two, and began searching for the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor Brothers to strengthen his Tiger Soul Saber Martial Soul and raise his Soul Power.

Dai Changsheng failed to find the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor Brothers, but gained eight powerful soul slaves and two rare soul bones before returning to Spirit City. After planning a trip to Sea God Island, he rescued a village from Wolf Bandits and discovered a cyan soul bone among the dead.

• Dai Changsheng spent over a month searching for the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor Brothers, then enslaved eight powerful soul beasts and obtained two soul bones from them.
• Dai Changsheng gave Hu Liena the Seven-tailed Spirit Fox Left Leg Bone, and she let him rest his head on her lap in the Pope's Palace library.
• Dai Changsheng told Hu Liena he planned to travel out to sea for a soul ring, and Bibi Dong brought him a chart of the waters around Sea God Island.
• Dai Changsheng memorized the sea chart, then flew with the Four-winged Flying Dragon to a village in the Heaven Dou Empire and ordered it to kill the Wolf Bandits attacking the villagers.
• Dai Changsheng found a cyan right leg soul bone among the Wolf Bandits' remains and summoned the White Jade Deer to heal the surviving villagers.

Dai Changsheng healed and aided a village, then bought a ship and used the Life and Death Talisman to subdue its pirate crew and thousands of other pirates. He continued toward Sea God Island, intending to take the Sea God’s trial before hunting the powerful Sea Soul Beasts he had learned about.

• Dai Changsheng healed the village’s injured, gave its chief a thousand Gold Soul Coins, and took the orphans to an orphanage under his command.
• Dai Changsheng bought Whale Rubber at Vast Sea City’s auction house and found the Sea Demon, whose captain Haider was a pirate who preyed on passengers.
• Dai Changsheng boarded the Sea Demon alone, and Haider led the crew to attack him after drugging his dinner.
• Dai Changsheng repelled Haider and the crew, afflicted them with the Life and Death Talisman, and forced them to serve him.
• Dai Changsheng used the Sea Demon to reach pirate islands and subdued several thousand pirates over the next half month, learning where powerful Sea Soul Beasts could be found.
• Dai Changsheng continued toward Sea God Island to take the Sea God’s trial, hoping to receive a God-bestowed Soul Ring when he reached his next Soul Power bottleneck.

Dai Changsheng arrived at Sea God Island and triggered the legendary Sea God Nine Trials, marking him as a candidate to become the next Sea God. After Bo Saixi learned he was an eight-year-old Soul Sage, he asked her to help him hunt hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beasts.

• Dai Changsheng crossed the Sea in the Sea with repeated teleports and reached the Seahorse Sacred Pillar.
• The Seahorse Sacred Pillar’s light turned red, and the Seven Sacred Pillars combined their light into a golden beam that gave Dai Changsheng the Sea God Nine Trials and a Golden Trident Mark.
• Bo Saixi appeared, recognized Dai Changsheng’s trial, and ordered Seahorse Douluo to treat him as Sea God Island’s most honored guest.
• Dai Changsheng summoned his Martial Souls and asked Bo Saixi to help him hunt several hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beasts for Soul Rings.
• Bo Saixi confirmed Dai Changsheng was truly eight years old, then he repeated his request for help hunting a hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast.

Dai Changsheng hunted the Deep Sea Giant Demon, absorbed its hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone, and advanced to level seventy-eight. At Butterfly Mansion, he used a medicine made from Nezuko’s blood to become a demon who could withstand sunlight, then began testing his new abilities.

• After Bo Saixi refused to help him hunt a hundred-thousand-year sea beast, Dai Changsheng flew to the Deep Sea Giant Demon’s territory and lured the beast out with his Ten Thousand Year Black Tortoise.
• Dai Changsheng used his Martial Soul Avatar and Phantom Clones to kill the Deep Sea Giant Demon, then absorbed its soul ring and soul bone, gaining new skills and reaching level seventy-eight.
• Dai Changsheng salvaged the Deep Sea Giant Demon’s remains to take back as nourishment for Zhu Zhuqing and the others.
• At Butterfly Mansion, Dai Changsheng used Nezuko’s blood to make demon-transformation medicine and injected it into his heart.
• Dai Changsheng discovered he could endure sunlight and had gained powerful regenerative abilities comparable to an Upper Rank Demon, which consumed stamina or mental energy.

Dai Changsheng used his new demon abilities to kill Muzan Kibutsuji and destroy the Infinity Castle. With the Upper Ranks and Nakime dead, he believed he had avenged his family.

• Dai Changsheng awakened Golden Lightning Blood Flame and a Demon Slayer Mark, then prepared to confront Muzan Kibutsuji.
• Dai Changsheng and Kagaya Ubuyashiki arranged for Nezuko’s resistance to sunlight to reach Muzan, who traveled to the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters seeking to capture her.
• Muzan sent the Hashira into the Infinity Castle, but Dai Changsheng avoided the trap and burned Muzan’s scattered flesh to ash.
• Dai Changsheng entered the Infinity Castle and killed Gyokko, Doma, Kokushibo, Hantengu, and Nakime.
• Nakime’s death caused the Infinity Castle to collapse, and Dai Changsheng thought his parents and Bao Bao and Bei Bei could rest in peace.

Dai Changsheng killed the Thunderclap Eel King, absorbed its hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone, and completed the first Sea God trial. He then absorbed a God-bestowed soul ring into his Double Pupil Martial Soul, gaining two powerful support skills, and prepared to begin the second trial.

• Dai Changsheng lured out and killed the Thunderclap Eel King after its lightning attack destroyed his Ten Thousand Year Black Tortoise and his Phantom Clones.
• Dai Changsheng absorbed the Thunderclap Eel King's hundred-thousand-year soul ring and right arm soul bone, gaining lightning-based skills and raising his soul power to level eighty.
• Dai Changsheng climbed to the three hundred and thirty-third step of Sea God Mountain, passed his first trial, and gained five percent Sea God affinity.
• Bo Saixi gave Dai Changsheng a God-bestowed Soul Ring, and she was shocked to discover that he had awakened a Three Lives Martial Soul.
• Dai Changsheng absorbed the God-bestowed Soul Ring into his Double Pupil Martial Soul, gaining Spirit Detection and Spirit Connection, while Bo Saixi reconsidered destroying him to avoid sacrificing herself.
• Dai Changsheng asked Bo Saixi whether he could proceed with the second trial.

Dai Changsheng passed the Sea God’s second trial and learned that his third trial was to help Xiao Bai kill the Evil Orca King. After recovering from his weakened state, he traveled with Xiao Bai to the Evil Spirit Orca territory, where he began fighting the pack and left its members bewildered by his summoned soul slaves.

• Dai Changsheng crossed the Ring Sea without harming its Sea Soul Beasts, passed the second trial, and learned that his third trial was to help the Demon Soul Great White Sharks kill the Evil Orca King.
• Xiao Bai transformed into human form and warned Dai Changsheng about the strength of the Evil Orca King and its pack, but he convinced her that the two of them could undertake the hunt alone.
• Dai Changsheng told Xiao Bai he needed several days to recover from using Martial Soul Avatar, then set out with her once his strength had returned.
• Xiao Bai carried Dai Changsheng to the edge of the Evil Spirit Orca territory, where he flew ahead on his Four-winged Flying Dragon and drew the pack’s attention.
• Dai Changsheng killed eight Evil Spirit Orcas and used Aid and Abet to turn their soul rings into Evil Orca Soul Slaves, which harvested valuables from the corpses as the remaining pack arrived.

Dai Changsheng destroyed the Evil Spirit Orca pod, gained Sea God Affinity, and refined the Evil Orca King’s soul ring and skull before a new version of himself appeared in the Shared Heavens space. The newcomer, Mortal-Dai Changsheng, had found the Sky-Holding Bottle in the world of A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality and began sharing powers and memories with his other selves.

• Dai Changsheng used his soul skills and Evil Orca Soul Slaves to kill the Evil Orca King and wipe out the Evil Spirit Orca pod, earning twenty-five percent more Sea God Affinity.
• Dai Changsheng asked Xiao Bai to gather her clansmen to take the corpses, then refined the Evil Orca King’s hundred-thousand-year soul ring and skull, reaching true soul power level ninety-one.
• Dai Changsheng decided to rest on Sea God Island before returning to the mainland, but he was suddenly pulled into the Shared Heavens space.
• Mortal-Dai Changsheng joined the other Dai Changshengs and shared his memories, revealing that he had found the Sky-Holding Bottle after surviving a bandit raid and discovering an itinerant cultivator’s cave.
• Mortal-Dai Changsheng shared powers with his other selves, gaining a powerful physique and Demon Slayer abilities, while learning about Demon Slayer Dai Changsheng’s plans and Bio-Dai Changsheng’s control of Umbrella Corporation.

Dai Changsheng arrived at Divine Hand Valley and exposed Yu Zitong’s plan to seize Han Li’s body. After Doctor Mo attacked him, Dai Changsheng killed Doctor Mo and burned Yu Zitong’s primordial spirit, saving Han Li and Zhang Tie.

• Dai Changsheng rushed to Divine Hand Valley after resolving to repay Han Li for taking the Sky-Holding Bottle.
• Doctor Mo tested Zhang Tie and Han Li, discovered Han Li had cultivated spiritual power, and named him his personal disciple.
• Dai Changsheng confronted Doctor Mo and forced Yu Zitong to reveal that Doctor Mo had trained Han Li and Zhang Tie to prepare their bodies for seizure.
• Han Li and Zhang Tie learned that Doctor Mo intended to seize their bodies, while Yu Zitong offered Dai Changsheng a reward to help him seize Zhang Tie’s body.
• Doctor Mo struck Dai Changsheng with the Magic Silver Hand, but Dai Changsheng killed him with the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
• Dai Changsheng burned Yu Zitong’s primordial spirit before it could seize Han Li’s body.

Dai Changsheng accepted Han Li and Zhang Tie as disciples, tested their Spiritual Roots, and prepared to raise his cultivation while staying at the Seven Mysteries Sect. He then traveled to Golden Light Temple and killed Venerable Golden Light, leaving the maidservants alive but unconscious.

• Dai Changsheng accepted Han Li as his first personal disciple and gave him an annotated copy of the Evergreen Skill; he accepted Zhang Tie as his second after finding he had a three-attribute True Spiritual Root.
• Dai Changsheng taught Han Li and Zhang Tie the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, searched Doctor Mo's inheritance for pill formulas, and subdued Wang Juechu to secure a temporary base at the Seven Mysteries Sect.
• Dai Changsheng memorized the sect's martial arts manuals and left the Seven Mysteries Sect by flying on a sword, impressing Han Li and Zhang Tie.
• Dai Changsheng went to Golden Light Temple to eliminate Venerable Golden Light and claim his treasures, then infiltrated the temple while Venerable Golden Light entertained himself with maidservants.
• Dai Changsheng killed Venerable Golden Light with a silver-white streak and used Mental Power to knock the maidservants unconscious.