Chapter Summaries

Lu Zheng sneaked into Chaos Corpse Pool and stole Bai Yuqing’s Flying Feather Riding Clouds Sword Control Scripture from beneath Du He’s nose. He returned to the Yang World with the scripture, shared it with Liu Qingyan, and began cultivating its Sword Qi.

• Lu Zheng investigated the three burial mounds, briefly emerged inside Du He’s chamber, then escaped underground when the Giant Corpse spotted him.
• Du He alerted the corpses throughout Chaos Corpse Pool and summoned a young ghost corpse, then sent him to check his burial chamber.
• The young ghost corpse discovered that Lu Zheng had stolen the Flying Feather Riding Clouds Sword Control Scripture.
• Lu Zheng returned to the Yang World and showed the embroidered scripture to Liu Qingyan, explaining that it belonged to Bai Yuqing.
• Lu Zheng used Light of Luck to cultivate Sword Qi, which coexisted with his Daoist True Qi and Martial Blood Qi.

Lu Zheng and Lin Wan attended Sanders's cocktail party, where they met local musicians and a foreign guest. After the stranger offered Lu Zheng a glass of wine, Lu Zheng spat it out and shouted that it was poisoned.

• Lu Zheng and Lin Wan arrived at the KASAMUVA restaurant and entered Sanders's cocktail party.
• Lu Zheng and Lin Wan met the Flamingo Band and chatted with its members about their music and work.
• Sanders welcomed the guests with a speech and introduced the Flamingo Band, while a young foreign man approached Lu Zheng and Lin Wan.
• The foreign man offered Lu Zheng a glass of red wine and toasted to music.
• Lu Zheng tasted the wine, spat it out, and shouted that it was poisoned.

At Sanders’s cocktail party, Lu Zheng recognized that his wine was poisoned, and Lin Wan chased down and subdued the waiter who had tried to flee. The police identified Tony as the likely target, and Lu Zheng and Lin Wan explained their actions at the City Bureau, where Lu Zheng attributed his discovery to a martial artist’s sixth sense.

• Lu Zheng detected poison in his wine and suspected the waiter, while Sanders confirmed he had prepared no 2003 bourbon.
• Lin Wan chased the fleeing waiter through the kitchen and staff break room, dodged his knife, and subdued him.
• Lu Zheng and Lin Wan learned that Tony, an Italian guest and heir to a family lineage, was likely the intended target; Li Jinglin arrived with a team to investigate.
• At the City Bureau, Huang Xiumin and Liang Yuandong questioned how Lu Zheng identified the poison, and he explained that his martial arts training gave him a sixth sense.

After Lu Zheng and Lin Wan saved Tony from an assassination attempt, he treated them to a late-night meal and prepared to return to Italy. The next day, Lin Wan confirmed Tony’s brother had ordered the attack, and Tony invited them to visit Italy for free, prompting the couple to swear off free travel.

• After finishing their statements, Lu Zheng and Lin Wan joined Tony for a late-night meal at his hotel, where he thanked them and explained that his brother had lost his chance to inherit the Lineage.
• Tony said he would return to Italy to take over the Lineage’s affairs, while his brother would likely be sent abroad as a minor manager.
• Lu Zheng and Lin Wan left the hotel and joked that Tony should have paid them more for saving his life.
• The next day, Lin Wan told Lu Zheng that the assassin had confessed that Tony’s brother ordered the attack and would be dealt with under local law.
• Tony messaged Lu Zheng to say goodbye and invited him and Lin Wan to visit Italy for National Day at his expense, leading Lin Wan to complain that free trips always came at a dangerous price.

Shen Ying discussed the Old Peach Tree’s growing spiritual power with Liu Qingyan and Lu Zheng before Huangfu Xu invited the Liu family to Huangfu Ning’s wedding. Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan traveled with the family to Wanfu County, where they joined the preparations to escort the bride from Qingyao County.

• Shen Ying said the Old Peach Tree was growing stronger and its next crop of peaches might gain greater powers.
• Lu Zheng told Shen Ying and Liu Qingyan that Monk Guang Yue had rebuilt Chicken Cry Temple as Great Sun Temple, while the senior from the karst cave still had not returned.
• Huangfu Xu invited Liu Qingyan’s family to attend Huangfu Ning’s wedding to a young woman from the fox family of Qingyao County.
• Lu Zheng and the Liu family traveled with Huangfu Xu to Wanfu County and met the Huangfu family, including the young foxes Huangfu Shuang and Huangfu Lu.
• The Huangfu family arranged to travel to Qingyao County to welcome the bride, and Liu Qingyan and Lu Zheng volunteered to join the procession.

As Huangfu Ning’s wedding procession returned from Qingyao County, Daoist Priest Jiu Zhen stopped it while tracking a human-faced fox that could impersonate people. Lu Zheng learned the fox had hidden among the travelers, leaving him and the others to search the procession for the demon.

• The wedding party traveled to Qingyao County, where Huangfu Jing and Liu Qingyan helped welcome the bride from the Xu Family.
• After the procession set out for Wanfu County, Lu Zheng poured tea for Huangfu Jing and Liu Qingyan and learned the wedding ceremony awaited them at home.
• Daoist Priest Jiu Zhen and his young companion Liu Ning blocked the road near Wanfu County, and Lu Zheng identified himself as an outer disciple of White Cloud Temple.
• Jiu Zhen explained that he had pursued a human-faced fox from Luonan County, but it had hidden within the wedding procession.
• Jiu Zhen said the fox could kill people, devour their hearts, and take their identities through a transformation technique, not Skin Painting Art.

Lu Zheng and Daoist Priest Jiu Zhen discovered that a human-faced fox had infiltrated the wedding procession, and Lu Zheng exposed it with an Evil Expelling Spell. Jiu Zhen struck the fox with lightning and executed it, while Liu Qingyan quietly protected the bride, who had been revealed as a harmless fox.

• Lu Zheng learned that Jiu Zhen suspected a human-faced fox was hiding in the procession and decided to test the entertainers and sedan bearers.
• Jiu Zhen admitted he was not skilled at identifying demons, so Lu Zheng cast an Evil Expelling Spell on the first entertainer.
• The human-faced fox dropped its disguise and fled when Lu Zheng cast the spell, and Lu Zheng struck it down with a thunder technique.
• The lightning frightened the fox bride into revealing her true form, so Liu Qingyan concealed her and arranged for her to recover in the carriage.
• Jiu Zhen declared the human-faced fox deserved execution and killed it with Palm Thunder.

Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan attended the Huangfu Family wedding after helping defeat a human-faced fox, then toured Wanfu County, where Liu Qingyan encountered her old acquaintance Xiao Yuzhen. The chapter ended as Xiao Yuzhen introduced her future husband, Lin Zhidong, to Liu Qingyan and Lu Zheng.

• Lu Zheng invited Daoist Priest Jiu Zhen and Liu Ning to the Huangfu Family wedding, and Huangfu Jing welcomed them as honored guests.
• The procession returned to the Huangfu estate, where the wedding proceeded without incident and Daoist Priest Jiu Zhen and Liu Ning spent the night.
• Daoist Priest Jiu Zhen and Liu Ning departed the next day, while the Huangfu Family went to report the human-faced fox and the murdered sedan bearer to the authorities.
• Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan toured Wanfu County, and Liu Qingyan recalled that her father’s Renxin Hall had once stood where a clothing shop now stood.
• Xiao Yuzhen encountered Liu Qingyan and asked whether she had moved back to Wanfu County.
• Xiao Yuzhen introduced her future husband, Lin Zhidong of the Lin Family, to Liu Qingyan and Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan encountered Xiao Yuzhen and her fiancé Lin Zhidong, who tried to flaunt his wealth and scholarly rank. When Lin Zhidong ignored Lu Zheng’s request to leave them alone, Lu Zheng froze him with a gesture.

• Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan met Xiao Yuzhen and Lin Zhidong, who told them they were engaged and getting married that winter.
• Lin Zhidong and Xiao Yuzhen invited the couple to lunch, but Liu Qingyan declined and bought a braised chicken from Aunt Fu.
• Lin Zhidong asked about Lu Zheng’s scholarly rank and family business, then looked down on him when Lu Zheng said he had neither a rank nor more than a sugar shop.
• Lin Zhidong offered to connect Lu Zheng with the proprietor of Liu's Refined Sugar, but Lu Zheng refused and asked the pair to leave them alone.
• Lin Zhidong kept lecturing Lu Zheng, who pointed at him and made him freeze in place.

After Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan spent the day visiting Wanfu County, Xiao Yuzhen arrived with the Lin Family to plead for Lin Zhidong’s life. The chapter ended with her kneeling before Lu Zheng at the estate gate.

• Lu Zheng immobilized Lin Zhidong after he offended Liu Qingyan, then released him and left with Liu Qingyan.
• Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan returned to the estate, where Liu Qingquan and the Huangfu sisters eagerly shared their food and snacks.
• Lu Zheng secretly replenished the snacks in his carriage, and he and Liu Qingyan spent the night together.
• The next morning, Huangfu Ning told Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan that Lin Zhijing and Xiao Yuzhen had come with the Lin Family to beg for mercy.
• Xiao Yuzhen knelt before Lu Zheng and begged him to spare Lin Zhidong’s life.

The Lin Family brought gifts to Huangfu Manor and asked Lu Zheng to lift the spell they believed he had placed on Lin Zhidong. Lu Zheng denied harming him, accepted the gifts as a consultation fee, and went with Liu Qingyan and Huangfu Ning to examine Lin Zhidong, whose condition seemed to have an unusual cause.

• Lin Zhijing brought Xiao Yuzhen to Huangfu Manor and asked Lu Zheng to forgive Lin Zhidong and remove the supposed spell.
• Lu Zheng denied cursing Lin Zhidong, while Liu Qingyan suggested that a strange entity might have drained his vitality and Yang Energy.
• Lu Zheng accepted the Lin Family's gifts as a consultation fee and agreed to investigate Lin Zhidong's condition.
• Huangfu Ning joined Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan, and Lin Zhijing led them to the Lin residence.
• Lu Zheng examined the bedridden Lin Zhidong and noticed a faint stench.

Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan discovered that a ghost had drained Lin Zhidong’s life force and Yang Energy, while a hidden entity was also spoiling the Lin family’s food. At night, Wei Niang revealed that her child had attacked Lin Zhidong, and a savage corpse infant burst from the woodshed.

• Lu Zheng identified Corpse Qi in Lin Zhidong and asked Lin Kongzhu to find out whether anyone else had been attacked.
• Liu Qingyan used Silver Needles to purge the Corpse Qi from Lin Zhidong and warned the Lin family that his life force had been drained.
• Lin Kongzhu’s servants found that no one besides Lin Zhidong had suffered an attack, and Lu Zheng learned that the household’s stored food had been spoiling for two months.
• Lu Zheng led the others to the servants’ rear courtyard at night, where they found Wei Niang waiting.
• Wei Niang explained that her child had attacked Lin Zhidong after sensing true qi on him, and the corpse infant burst out of the woodshed.

Lu Zheng defeated the corpse infant and the hemp-clothed woman who had been hiding in the Lin residence. After the fight, Yan Hongxia of Ascending Cloud Mountain appeared and asked how he knew her sword-control technique.

• The hemp-clothed woman ordered the corpse infant to attack Lu Zheng, but he immobilized it with the Body Immobilization Spell.
• The woman tried to flee, but Lu Zheng used the Red Jade Sword to kill her with a hidden Flying Sword.
• Lu Zheng severed the corpse infant's head and gained a surge of Light of Luck.
• Xiao Yuzhen and the Lin family watched in shock as Lu Zheng revealed his strength.
• Yan Hongxia appeared on the wall and asked Lu Zheng how he knew the Flying Feather Riding Clouds Sword Control Scripture.

Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan met Yan Hongxia after defeating a corpse infant and exposing a fugitive at the Lin Family estate. Yan Hongxia joined them on their journey to Tonglin County, where the story left them heading for the Huangfu Estate.

• Lu Zheng told Yan Hongxia he was a White Cloud Temple disciple who had obtained the Flying Feather Riding Clouds Sword Control Scripture from a ghost corpse in the Netherworld.
• Lu Zheng instructed Lin Kongzhu to report the corpse infant and the hemp-clothed woman to the authorities, and Yan Hongxia explained that she had come to investigate the Corpse Qi.
• Yan Hongxia praised Lu Zheng for cultivating both Taoist arts and sword control, then described her travels slaying demons and monsters.
• Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan spent the night at the Lin Family estate, and Lu Zheng reassured Liu Qingyan that she could keep cultivating the sword-control scripture.
• Yan Hongxia accepted Liu Qingyan's invitation to visit Tonglin County, and Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan left the Lin Family with her for the Huangfu Estate.

On the journey back to Tonglin County, Yan Hongxia discussed sword cultivation with Liu Qingyan and described the powerful institutions and forces in Zhongjing. After returning to the modern world, Lu Zheng decided to shop for a car and went to a Dongfeng dealership, where he asked to see an SUV from the Fengxing or Aeolus lines.

• Yan Hongxia explained the Flying Feather Riding Clouds Sword Control Scripture to Liu Qingyan and assured her that Flying Feather Mountain would not object to her cultivation of it.
• Yan Hongxia told Lu Zheng and Liu Qingquan about Zhongjing's prosperity and the many powerful institutions and forces around the capital.
• Liu Qingyan invited Yan Hongxia to stay at her home in Tonglin County, while Lu Zheng returned to Peach Blossom Glade and rested with Shen Ying's Peach Blossom Brew and steamed cakes.
• Lu Zheng returned to the modern world and spoke with Lin Wan, who planned to visit a hot spring with coworkers and asked him to pick her up for dinner.
• Lu Zheng decided to shop for a car, went to an auto mall, and told a Dongfeng saleswoman that he wanted an SUV from the Dongfeng Fengxing or Aeolus lines.

Lu Zheng bought a new car and picked up Lin Wan and Huang Xiumin from New World Plaza. He then surprised Lin Wan by revealing the newly renovated apartment he had bought during the New Year.

• Lu Zheng bought a black-and-gold Aeolus SUV and drove it to New World Plaza to pick up Lin Wan and Huang Xiumin.
• Lin Wan and Huang Xiumin were surprised by Lu Zheng’s new car, and the three of them drove Huang Xiumin home.
• After Huang Xiumin left, Lu Zheng brought Lin Wan to his residential complex and led her to an apartment on the thirty-second floor.
• Lu Zheng revealed that he had bought and renovated the five-bedroom apartment during the New Year, then showed Lin Wan around.

After moving into their new home with Lu Zheng, Lin Wan returned to work while Lu Zheng crossed into the ancient world and joined Liu Qingyan and Yan Hongxia for an outing at Peach Blossom Glade. The group enjoyed food and music with Shen Ying in the forest, where Lu Zheng played the Yao Zither.

• Lin Wan and Lu Zheng moved their belongings into their new home, and Lin Wan refused to hire housekeeping.
• Lu Zheng crossed into the ancient world and agreed to accompany Liu Qingyan and Yan Hongxia to Peach Blossom Glade.
• Lu Zheng, Liu Qingyan, and Yan Hongxia encountered an old monk begging for copper coins before leaving the city.
• Shen Ying welcomed the group at Peach Blossom Glade and prepared Peach Blossom Brew, pastries, and a Yao Zither.
• Lu Zheng played “White Snow in the Spring Sun” as Yan Hongxia and Xiao Cui ate the picnic food, then played “High Mountains and Flowing Water.”

Yan Hongxia planned to leave Tonglin County, but the group encountered a zombie and two dead grave robbers on the road. She decided to stay a few more days to see whether the zombie threatened anyone, and eagerly agreed to visit Jade Ling Garden with Liu Qingyan.

• Yan Hongxia told Liu Qingyan she planned to leave the next day, while asking for chocolate and milk candy to take with her.
• Lu Zheng sensed Nether Energy and Corpse Qi in the forest, and the three followed it to a zombie and two dead grave robbers.
• Yan Hongxia decapitated the zombie with Sword Qi and destroyed its true spirit, while Liu Qingyan identified the other bodies as victims of Corpse Poison.
• The group burned all three bodies and decided to return home, since they could not locate the zombie's tomb.
• Yan Hongxia chose to delay her departure and wait to see if the zombie caused trouble, then agreed to watch The Tale of Hong Ling with Liu Qingyan.

Lu Zheng brought news of a dangerous zombie to Shaotong Mountain, where Yuan Jing arrived wounded after encountering a powerful zombie in a tomb. After Daoist Priest Mingzhang treated Yuan Jing, he and Lu Zheng went to investigate and found a crowd gathered there, including Daoist Priest Jiu Zhen.

• Lu Zheng told Daoist Priest Mingzhang about zombie traces in Tonglin County, but Mingzhang initially judged the threat minor.
• Yuan Ning brought the wounded Yuan Jing into the courtyard, and Lu Zheng recognized the Corpse Qi poisoning him.
• Daoist Priest Mingzhang used true qi and twenty drops of Stalactite Essence Lu Zheng fetched to expel the hidden Corpse Qi from Yuan Jing.
• Yuan Jing explained that a zombie had attacked him in a tomb near Jiaotian Town, then fled past him and disappeared.
• Daoist Priest Mingzhang and Lu Zheng traveled to the tomb and found Liu Butou, constables, townspeople, and Daoist Priest Jiu Zhen gathered there.

Lu Zheng and the local cultivators searched for a powerful Previous Dynasty zombie but found no trace of it. When they returned home, Guang Yue asked Lu Zheng for help rescuing nine boys trapped inside Chicken Cry Temple’s Secret Realm.

• Priest Jiu Zhen and Daoist Priest Mingzhang joined Liu Butou and Li Zhubu at the zombie’s empty tomb, where Mingzhang failed to detect the creature’s aura.
• Lu Zheng explained how Yuan Jing had been injured, and Mingzhang advised Liu Butou to alert the Demon Suppression Division and deploy men across the county.
• Mingzhang, Jiu Zhen, Lu Zheng, and Yan Hongxia searched nearby towns and villages overnight but found no signs of the zombie.
• The group returned to White Cloud Temple and planned to wait several days, while Lu Zheng brought Liu Ning home.
• Guang Yue told Lu Zheng that a zombie had taken nine boys in Pingtan County and sealed itself inside Chicken Cry Temple’s Secret Realm, which he could not open.