Chapter Summaries

Sun Xiaosheng searched the closed pet hospital for Su Zijun and found a hooded yokai threatening a dog yokai for information about her. He intervened and struck the attacker, while Su Zijun sensed something troubling as she left the club and hurried with Luo Pianxian toward the second seal.

• Sun Xiaosheng disguised himself outside the pet hospital but found no trace of Su Zijun or Long Xiruo.
• A hooded man threatened a dog yokai and demanded to know where Su Zijun had gone.
• Sun Xiaosheng stopped the man from attacking and revealed himself as the man identified him as Sun Xiaosheng.
• The man insulted Sun Xiaosheng, who declared he would beat up anyone he disliked and punched him into the concrete.
• Su Zijun felt sick as she left the club with Luo Pianxian, then hurried with her toward the second seal before dawn.

Luo Qiu and You Ye discovered that the underground spirit vein’s third seal could trigger a catastrophic explosion if opened incorrectly. Meanwhile, Sun Xiaosheng defeated a man in black, contained the corrosive purple mist, and tricked the Dog Yokai into believing he had been poisoned.

• Luo Qiu showed You Ye a map of the city’s underground and identified the three seals along the spirit vein.
• Luo Qiu and You Ye realized the third seal acted like a timed bomb that could make the spirit vein explode and cause a massive earthquake.
• Long Xiruo rested above the lava, wondered whether anything had happened, and dived back into the spirit vein to investigate its movement.
• Sun Xiaosheng noticed the man in black had not fought back, then dodged when the man’s body exploded into corrosive purple mist.
• Sun Xiaosheng pushed the mist together into a purple bead and swallowed it, then pretended to collapse and fooled the Dog Yokai before laughing at him.

Su Zijun brought Luo Pianxian to the second sealed spiritual vein and gave her a powerful demonic bead to refine while they waited for Xiangliu. Meanwhile, Gui Qianyi identified Xiangliu as the monster Sun Xiaosheng had encountered, and Sun Xiaosheng dismissed the threat.

• Su Zijun took Luo Pianxian underwater to the cave containing the second seal and explained they would wait there for Xiangliu and his accomplices.
• Luo Pianxian unpacked supplies, including Su Zijun’s blood rations, and Su Zijun ordered her to swallow a bead filled with demonic power.
• The bead’s power overwhelmed Luo Pianxian, so Su Zijun regulated it by controlling her blood until the two of them calmed down.
• At the bar, Ghost Infant served Yasha a drink and learned that his friends called him Erha.
• Gui Qianyi identified the purple-aura monster Sun Xiaosheng had encountered as Xiangliu, and Sun Xiaosheng scoffed at the idea that Xiangliu posed a serious threat.

Xiang Liu and Cook discussed their failing seal, the Club’s retreat, and their plans while a monstrous creature grew beneath the cave. Elsewhere, the gravely wounded Lizi lay alone and near death until an unknown presence brought her warmth and spoke nearby.

• Xiang Liu entered the first seal point with two weakened demons and ate one while Cook warned him against provoking Su Zijun and noted that Xiang Liu had been injured.
• Cook said the Club had ordered its members to halt operations and warned Xiang Liu that it would reclaim its investment if his unauthorized plans failed.
• Xiang Liu fed the remaining demon parts to a growing mass of flesh in a pit beneath the cave’s dimming incantations.
• Lizi recalled following a Rat Demon from the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and being wounded after intervening in a fight between two terrifying beings.
• As Lizi lay beneath a tree and accepted that she might die alone, she sensed a comforting warmth and heard someone speak.

Luo Qiu and You Ye visited the third seal point and discovered that the city's spiritual vein held the memories of the land and was developing a vast consciousness. Lizi woke healed and left the abandoned farmhouse, unaware that Luo Qiu had rescued her.

• Luo Qiu told You Ye to leave Lizi to recover and go with him to the third seal point beneath the city.
• Luo Qiu touched the spiritual vein and began to cry, but stopped You Ye from attacking it when she saw his distress.
• Luo Qiu guided You Ye to feel the spiritual vein's memories of the land and city, and she realized it was developing consciousness.
• Luo Qiu said an immense soul was gestating within the spiritual vein and invited You Ye to watch it with him.
• Lizi woke with her wounds healed, wondered who had saved her, and left the farmhouse near dawn.

Lizi returned to the newspaper office amid a citywide infestation and was sent to cover Feiyun Entertainment’s press conference, while the first seal failed and Xiangliu prepared to move against Su Zijun. At the third seal, Luo Qiu learned from the ley line’s newborn consciousness that something familiar yet unknown had recently appeared where he was: the club.

• Lizi arrived at the newspaper office and joined Ren Ziling’s efforts to fight the cockroaches, ants, and rats overrunning the building.
• Ren Ziling asked Lizi to accompany her to cover Feiyun Entertainment’s press conference, while Cheng Yun prepared to represent the company for Zhong Luochen.
• Cheng Yun and Zhong Luochen discussed the citywide rat infestation, which had also disrupted the Zhang Family and affected Zhong Luochen’s home.
• The first seal’s runes lost their power, and Xiangliu told Cook they should go to the second seal and bring the wrapped rod-like object.
• Su Zijun hid Luo Pianxian’s cocoon underground and prepared to face Xiangliu alone.
• At the third seal, Luo Qiu spoke with the ley line’s newborn consciousness, which sensed something recently arrived at the place where Luo Qiu was—the club.

A citywide surge of animal unrest accompanied Xiang Liu and Cook's search for the spirit vein beneath the river. They confronted Su Zijun in her cave, where Cook revealed the spear Gae Bulg and prepared to fight her while Xiang Liu targeted the seal.

• Officer Ma and Lin Feng learned that the station and other departments had been ordered to handle swarms of rats and cockroaches.
• Ren Ziling and Lizi saw rats flooding the traffic jam, and Ren Ziling kicked a rat from her shoulder and called for her baseball bat.
• Xiang Liu and Cook broke through a stone in the riverbed and entered the cave where Su Zijun was hiding.
• Su Zijun appeared and unleashed her true demonic power, while Cook stopped her from attacking Xiang Liu.
• Cook blocked Su Zijun as Xiang Liu moved to corrode the seal, then uncovered his crimson spear and called out Gae Bulg.

Su Zijun fought Kuke and Xiangliu as they tried to destroy the sealed cavern, and she invoked Jiuzhou Xuanyuan when Kuke’s spear nearly pierced her heart. At the Third Seal Point, Luo Qiu heard the ley line’s plea to protect the land and accepted its wish.

• Kuke attacked Su Zijun with the Thousand Thorn Spear, and they exchanged blows while Xiangliu slipped away to spit out a fleshly creature that began undoing the seal.
• Xiangliu joined the fight and damaged the cavern, forcing Su Zijun to divide her strength between resisting him and protecting the sealed place.
• Kuke used the spear’s Pierce ability to stab at Su Zijun’s heart, and Su Zijun shouted “Jiuzhou... Xuanyuan!” as multicolored light erupted.
• Long Xiruo sensed Su Zijun’s invocation and began using the True Dragon Secret Art, Vast Horizon, while warning that Su Zijun had called upon it in a Hanba’s body.
• At the Third Seal Point, Luo Qiu met the ley line’s childlike manifestation, heard its wish to save the living things on the land, and accepted its request.

Su Zijun summoned Kyushu Xuanyuan to stop Xiangliu and Cook, but the sword’s power threatened to destroy the sealed area and Luo Pianxian below. Long Xiruo arrived and helped suppress the sword, only for a fleshly mass to pierce her chest as the chapter ended.

• The eruption beneath the river swept fish and bystanders onto the riverbank while Xiangliu and Cook were trapped in the flooded second seal.
• Su Zijun summoned Kyushu Xuanyuan, forcing Cook to abandon his attack and flee with Xiangliu toward the third seal.
• Su Zijun redirected the sword’s power upward to protect Luo Pianxian, and Long Xiruo arrived to help restrain it.
• Long Xiruo covered Kyushu Xuanyuan with her blood while Su Zijun drove it into the earth, making the sword vanish and leaving both women exhausted.
• Su Zijun told Long Xiruo that Xiangliu had returned, then a massive ball of flesh pierced Long Xiruo’s chest with a branch-shaped projection.

Long Xiruo and Su Zijun escaped the flooded cave after Xiangliu ambushed Long Xiruo, while Xiangliu betrayed Cook and killed him. Cook’s body was later healed by a mysterious phantom, and he drifted away downstream as Xiangliu headed to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss bar to recover.

• Long Xiruo cut off the spike that had pierced her, and Su Zijun carried her out of the cave and fled along the riverbank.
• Cook recovered with a blue capsule, and he and Xiangliu discussed the vanished power of Kyushu Xuanyuan and their plan to reach the third sealing point.
• Xiangliu stabbed Cook through the chest, took the Thousand Thorn Spear, and revealed that he had used the spirit vein as bait to escape the Club.
• The Thousand Thorn Spear turned gray after Xiangliu crushed Cook’s skull, and Xiangliu threw Cook’s body into the river before leaving to recover by devouring demons.
• A phantom appeared underwater and healed Cook’s wounds, after which Cook briefly awoke and drifted downstream.

Gui Qianyi used Heavenly Sight Earthly Hearing to learn that Su Zijun was bringing the gravely injured Long Xiruo to the bar, while a mysterious shadow threatened the city. As the city's animals and tremors caused chaos, Luo Qiu and the spiritual vein's newly born will calmed them, leaving the city quiet again.

• Gui Qianyi sensed Kyushu Xuanyuan and used Heavenly Sight Earthly Hearing, seeing Su Zijun carry Long Xiruo after Xiangliu killed an unknown man.
• Gui Qianyi told Sun Xiaosheng to fetch Monkey Spirit Wine and clear the bar, then examined Long Xiruo's injuries when Su Zijun arrived.
• Animals ran wild and tremors shook the city, causing accidents, traffic jams, and panic among its residents.
• The spiritual vein's will told Luo Qiu that it considered the city's people its family, and Luo Qiu helped it calm the animals and stop the apparent shaking.
• You Ye relayed a message to Luo Qiu, who reached out to the spiritual vein's will and said, "Come."

A sudden earthquake and rat swarm ended, while Xiangliu attacked the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss bar and revealed a way to subdue its yokai. He left Ghost Infant and the others unconscious and puppet-like, with Su Zijun still upstairs.

• Piglet ate the rats he had caught as Blackwater kept the frightened partridge bird yokai close during the tremors.
• Ren Ziling stopped fighting rats after Lizi told her the earthquake and swarm had ended, then called Ma Houde and Luo Qiu to check on them.
• Ghost Infant ordered the drunken yokai to leave the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss bar, but Xiangliu smashed through its gate and entered.
• Su Zijun ordered Ghost Infant to kill Xiangliu, but Xiangliu regenerated after Ghost Infant cut him apart.
• Xiangliu caused Ghost Infant and the nearby yokai to collapse in pain, then rang a small bell that left them unconscious and puppet-like.

Xiangliu took control of the demons with Corpse Worms and confronted Su Zijun and Gui Qianyi, threatening to kill them and the unconscious Long Xiruo. When he attacked Luo Qiu and the spiritual vein will, You Ye appeared and severed one of Xiangliu’s serpent heads.

• Xiangliu used the bell to control the demons, then swallowed the Wild Boar Bartender and another demon to restore his vitality.
• Xiangliu confronted Su Zijun, Gui Qianyi, and the unconscious Long Xiruo, demanding that Su Zijun leave him to pursue his plans.
• Xiangliu revealed his true form and threatened to kill everyone unless Su Zijun surrendered.
• Luo Qiu arrived with the spiritual vein will, which pleaded with the demons to stop fighting.
• Xiangliu attacked Luo Qiu and the spiritual vein will, and You Ye appeared and cut off one of Xiangliu’s heads.

You Ye defeated Xiangliu while Luo Qiu shielded the industrial park and helped restore Long Xiruo and Su Zijun with the spiritual vein’s will. Long Xiruo awakened and prepared to face the disaster she had once set in motion.

• You Ye fought Xiangliu, severing one of its heads and cutting wounds into its body as it attacked her with corrosive liquid.
• Luo Qiu expanded a sphere around much of the industrial park, promising the spiritual vein’s will that the city would remain unaware of the battle.
• Luo Qiu led the spiritual vein’s will to Su Zijun and Gui Qianyi, then brought it to Long Xiruo and helped her awaken.
• The spiritual vein’s will restored Su Zijun’s demonic power and thanked Long Xiruo, who accepted its hand.
• Long Xiruo declared that she would bear the consequences of the disaster she had caused, while You Ye returned with Xiangliu defeated and stood behind Luo Qiu.

Luo Qiu honored the will of the spiritual vein’s request and imprisoned Xiangliu rather than killing him, while giving him the earth’s memories as a path toward redemption. After the spiritual vein healed the industrial park and its injured demons, Long Xiruo and Su Zijun realized that it had been born.

• Long Xiruo prepared to execute Xiangliu, but Luo Qiu stopped her to fulfill the will of the spiritual vein’s request.
• Su Zijun tried to kill Xiangliu when he began to self-destruct, but Luo Qiu restrained her and stopped him.
• Luo Qiu showed Xiangliu the earth’s memories and imprisoned him within the underground spiritual vein until he could sincerely smile at them.
• The will of the spiritual vein healed the surviving demons and repaired the industrial park after Luo Qiu and You Ye departed.
• Su Zijun asked Long Xiruo whether the spiritual vein had truly been born, and Long Xiruo confirmed that it had.

Luo Qiu took the spirit vein’s will out to experience an ordinary night before accepting its wish to lose consciousness and remain beneath the earth. After it vanished in a burst of light that renewed the city, Luo Qiu found a seed and decided to plant it beside the Jewel Flower.

• Sun Xiaosheng returned with Monkey Spirit Wine, learned that Zijun had already left, and was told she liked his sense of honor.
• You Ye transformed the spirit vein’s will into a little girl, and Luo Qiu took it out to explore the city.
• The spirit vein’s will played games, ate ice cream, received a photograph, and rode a swing with Luo Qiu and You Ye.
• The spirit vein’s will returned to its original form and asked Luo Qiu to let it remain unconscious beneath the earth forever.
• Luo Qiu accepted the wish, and the spirit vein’s will vanished in a burst of light that brought renewed life and calm to the city.
• Luo Qiu found the spirit vein’s will’s photograph and a seed beside the swing, and decided to plant the seed beside the Jewel Flower.

Long Xiruo and Su Zijun learned that Luo Qiu had come to fulfill Xiang Liu’s final wish: preventing the spirit vein from developing another consciousness. After Luo Qiu completed the transaction and left, San'er rescued an unfamiliar man drifting in the river, and he awoke unable to identify her or his surroundings.

• Su Zijun told Long Xiruo she had repaired her share of the first seal point and left to restore the second.
• Luo Qiu told Long Xiruo and Su Zijun that Xiang Liu’s final wish was for the spirit vein never to give birth to another consciousness.
• Luo Qiu entered the spirit vein and fulfilled the transaction, while Long Xiruo asked him to guarantee its wish; he said he could not prevent another consciousness if a customer later paid for that possibility.
• Long Xiruo thanked Luo Qiu for giving Xiang Liu some memories, then left after You Ye suggested she learn more about physics.
• Luo Qiu collected underground river water to take home for watering plants, then departed with You Ye.
• San'er pulled a drifting man from the river and discovered he was alive; when he awoke, he asked who she was and where he was.

San'er rescued an amnesiac foreign man from the river, but he followed her after she left him at the police station. Meanwhile, Su Zijun brought Luo Qiu to her underwater tomb, where he casually observed deep-sea creatures.

• San'er pulled an amnesiac foreign man from the river and took him toward the police station, but left before entering because she wanted to keep her life unchanged.
• The man avoided the police station and followed San'er into the alley with Xiao Zhi.
• Gui Qianyi and the bartender mistook a strange, rusty object for a substitute pole-dancing pole at the bar.
• Su Zijun arrived alone and asked Luo Qiu to accompany her to her tomb, warning that the trip would take four or five days.
• Luo Qiu transported Su Zijun directly beneath the sea, where she sensed her tomb nearby and he watched an anglerfish.

Su Zijun led Luo Qiu through an underwater trench toward a tomb, where he discovered the intertwined bones of two sea monsters and their child. His detached perspective unsettled Su Zijun, and they continued on while he covered the remains again.

• Luo Qiu followed Su Zijun through the seabed as she explained that sea monsters had nearly vanished after a war seven hundred years earlier.
• At the bottom of the trench, Luo Qiu uncovered two sets of entwined sea-monster bones and found a smaller skeleton beneath them.
• Luo Qiu suggested the three skeletons were a family, while Su Zijun questioned whether the adults had truly loved one another.
• Su Zijun sensed something abyssal in Luo Qiu's detached gaze and urged him to move on.
• Luo Qiu covered the bones with silt, apologized for disturbing them, and followed Su Zijun.

Su Zijun brought Boss Luo to the tomb of the sea monsters’ Evil Souls and paid him to collect twenty-two thousand of them. She then asked whether he could open the legendary Penglai, learning that the price was three hundred billion Evil Souls.

• Su Zijun opened the hidden tomb, where thirty thousand Evil Souls from the ancient battle floated in a vast spherical space.
• Su Zijun explained that only she could open the tomb, while Luo Qiu recognized that its construction used technology resembling the club’s Gate of Criticality.
• Luo Qiu collected exactly twenty-two thousand Evil Souls, erasing the marks Su Zijun had used to control them.
• The remaining Evil Souls formed a raging tornado, but Su Zijun subdued them and restored them to their scattered state.
• Su Zijun asked Luo Qiu whether he could open the legendary Penglai, and he quoted a price of three hundred billion Evil Souls, leaving her furious.