Chapter Summaries

The Daoist, Confucian, and Buddhist sects argued over how to deal with the Blood Cloud Coffin, while Granny Jiang proposed using Xia Yitian to fill it. Mu Fengbai warned that the Ghost Sect and events belowground had been overlooked, just before an explosion erupted elsewhere in Dragon-Carrying Village.

• Li Mufan, Mu Fengbai, Granny Jiang, and Xia Ruize gathered and debated old rivalries and the plans of the three sects.
• Granny Jiang berated Xia Yitian and proposed using him to fill the Blood Cloud Coffin, prompting him to condemn the Xia family and turn away.
• Li Mufan advocated sealing the Blood Cloud Coffin, while Yuanci argued for dispelling its baleful energy.
• Mu Fengbai challenged the sects to use their own abilities and warned that the Ghost Sect and trouble belowground had been neglected.
• A violent explosion erupted across Dragon-Carrying Village, and Li Mufan cried that something was wrong.

Xia Yitian watched the Daoist Sect lose the Sealing Admonition Box, then saw Madam Jiang fight Mu Fengbai over whether Xia Ruize should capture him for the Xia Household. Yuanci warned that trouble was coming, and Xia Yitian discovered Quan Chanyu was part of the Demon Sect and Yuanci’s younger sister; the chapter ended as Li Poxiao launched an attack amid the confrontation.

• Li Mufan disappeared, and Cao Qing and the Daoist Sect rushed to search for the lost Sealing Admonition Box.
• Madam Jiang attacked Mu Fengbai after he argued that Xia Yitian should not be forced to fill the Blood Cloud Coffin, while Xia Ruize refused to capture his younger brother.
• Yuanci warned Xia Yitian that danger would soon reach him, and Senior Brother Hai sensed that Lin Zhengyi had arrived.
• Xia Yitian and Senior Brother Hai encountered Quan Chanyu escorted by Demon Sect members, and Quan Chanyu admitted she had belonged to the Demon Sect since childhood.
• Yuanci approached Quan Chanyu and revealed that she was his younger sister, but she rejected their sibling bond because he had become a Buddhist disciple.
• Li Poxiao arrived and used his sword technique, Return upon the Sword, as the confrontation threatened to erupt.

Quan Chanyu confronted Li Poxiao and Yuan Ci over her place in the Heavenly Venerable Dao as the narrator challenged the sects’ accusations and Qian Guohong tried to arrest the group. Grandma Meng arrived, killed Qian Guohong, and attacked Jiang Lan before turning on Xia Ruize, leaving the narrator desperate to stop her.

• Li Poxiao killed Quan Chanyu’s mid-stage Entering the Dao companion, then declared that he would punish her for belonging to the Heavenly Venerable Dao.
• Quan Chanyu defended her sect to Li Poxiao and Yuan Ci, while the narrator challenged them to kill her if they considered her a demon.
• Qian Guohong accused the Heavenly Venerable Dao of killing people and ordered the Mystic Constables to take its members into custody, but the narrator questioned his motives.
• Grandma Meng appeared, killed Qian Guohong, and demanded that the narrator take her to Jiang Lan.
• Grandma Meng charged at Jiang Lan, but Xia Ruize used a talisman to block her; she then attacked Xia Ruize, prompting the narrator to call for her to stop.

Granny Meng and Jiang-shi fought a devastating battle until Li Mufan intervened to challenge Granny Meng with the Heaven's Punishment Dao Sword. As the two powerful opponents prepared to clash again, Mu Fengbai attacked Quan Chanyu, who began transforming her hand into a claw.

• Granny Meng blasted Jiang-shi with the Bilu Huangquan, destroying her Azure Heavens Scroll and leaving her badly injured.
• Jiang-shi summoned a muscular figure through a cauldron and talisman to hold back Granny Meng's skeletal hands, while the narrator strengthened Granny Meng with a red talisman.
• Li Mufan arrived and struck Granny Meng with his sword, then declared that the Qian-Kun Dao would carry out the Heaven's Punishment Dao Sword.
• Granny Meng and Li Mufan gathered power for another attack as the factions faced off around them.
• Mu Fengbai accused Quan Chanyu of being suspicious and suddenly moved to capture her, while Quan Chanyu lowered her head and began turning her hand into a claw.

Quan Chanyu’s demonic power erupted, and she fought Mu Fengbai before escaping into Little Yi Village with the Celestial Venerable Dao cultivators. As Granny Meng and Li Mufan continued their battle, Xia strengthened Granny Meng and faced Li Poxiao, who challenged him to fight.

• Xia sensed danger and fled with Senior Brother Hai as Quan Chanyu’s black qi struck the battlefield, injuring several Mysterious Inspectors.
• Quan Chanyu and Mu Fengbai unleashed powerful talisman arts against each other, and both were badly wounded.
• Quan Chanyu escaped toward Little Yi Village, while Mu Fengbai used a talisman to protect Yuan Ci from her demonic qi.
• Granny Meng and Li Mufan fought to a standstill, and Xia used Blood Garment to stabilize Granny Meng after their clash.
• Li Poxiao confronted Xia for helping Granny Meng, and both drew red talismans as they prepared to fight.

Xia Yitian battled Li Poxiao, using the Pursuing Immortal Locks and a Heaven-Swallowing Ghost to overwhelm him. Li Mufan and Yuan Ci saved Li Poxiao from the fatal blow, and Yuan Ci urged Xia Yitian to preserve a good karmic bond with his old enemy.

• Li Poxiao attacked Xia Yitian with Return upon the Sword, but Xia Yitian used Flying Step to gain distance and struck him with four Pursuing Immortal Locks.
• Li Poxiao used a phantom to escape the chains and summoned a thunder-wielding divine general with Heaven-Cutting Sword.
• Xia Yitian summoned a Heaven-Swallowing Ghost, which defeated the divine general and chased Li Poxiao while Xia Yitian's chains pursued him.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Ghost caught Li Poxiao, but Li Mufan's Sword Qi destroyed the ghost and Yuan Ci blocked its mace from striking Li Poxiao.
• Yuan Ci told Xia Yitian that Li Poxiao was meant to restrain him from falling into demonic madness, and asked him to preserve their karmic bond; Xia Yitian agreed to end the fight.

Yitian stopped the battle over the Blood Cloud Coffin and the rival sects agreed to pause and regroup. As he and the others prepared to discuss what to do next, the village’s formation broke and blood-red rain began to fall.

• Yitian restored Granny Meng with Blood Robe, and Dan Long attacked Li Mufan before retreating to Yitian’s side.
• Yitian urged the fighters to stop and focus on the Blood Cloud Coffin, and Mu Fengbai supported a temporary truce.
• Li Mufan accepted the pause, while Xia Ruize privately told Yitian he feared for both Grandma and Yitian if either side prevailed.
• The exhausted sects withdrew or settled near Dragon-Carrying Village, and Yitian went to a small inn with Senior Brother Hai.
• As Yitian and Mu Fengbai prepared to attend a meeting about the Blood Cloud Coffin, blood-red rain began falling and mournful singing swept through Little Yi Village after the formation broke.

Xia Yitian fled the Blood Cloud Coffin’s advance with Mu Fengbai, but a Ten Directions Sea army ambushed the survivors and surrounded them. As Mu Fengbai fought the Sea King and a Han-clad Ghost Emperor, King Mu Zheng Han attacked Xia Yitian, leaving the group trapped and outmatched.

• Li Mufan and Li Poxiao confronted the Blood Cloud Coffin while ghost kings attacked the Daoist sects and their allies.
• Xia Yitian escaped uphill with Mu Fengbai and the others, where two Xuan Police officers arrived by helicopter and headed toward the coffin.
• A ghost army led by the Sea King of the Ten Directions Sea attacked with a storm of yin-wood arrows, and Mu Fengbai fought the Han-clad Ghost Emperor.
• The Sea King joined the battle against Mu Fengbai, while Yang Suoyue urged King Mu Zheng Han to avenge his stolen wife by killing Xia Yitian.
• Pang Rujun engaged King Mu Zheng Han as Xia Yitian watched Mu Fengbai weaken under attack from both Ghost Emperors.

Yitian searched for Senior Mu’s backup formation while the battle spread across Dragon-Carrying Village and Little Yi Village. He activated the formation in the inn, but the Hanfu Ghost Emperor appeared outside as the water-ghost army closed in and Senior Mu and Shan Long vanished.

• The Hanfu Ghost Emperor killed a Daoist grand elder and attacked Pang Rujun, but Shan Long intervened and urged the survivors to retreat east.
• Yitian led Pang Rujun and a few elders toward the backup formation, while Bai Junning and Chen Haoyuan took others in a different direction.
• Yitian found Li Poxiao gravely wounded and left him in Senior Brother Hai’s care before continuing east.
• Yitian discovered formation marks and talismans in Senior Mu’s inn and restored them, causing the grand formation to activate.
• Sister-in-law stopped Yitian and the others from leaving the inn just before the pavilion outside collapsed, revealing the Hanfu Ghost Emperor and the gathered water-ghost army; Senior Mu and Shan Long were missing.

Xia and the others were cornered by Sea King’s army, but Dan Long and Li Mufan arrived to fight back. Li Mufan warned Xia that his grandmother had been trapped by the authorities, then rushed toward Sea King to save his disciple.

• Sea King killed the Taiqing Sect Grand Elder, seized his soul, and ordered Shi Cheng to attack Xia and the others.
• Dan Long broke through the ghost army and fought Sea King and Shi Cheng, then told Xia that Elder Mu had died after using Liberation by Violence.
• Xia used Heaven One Art to battle three Ghost Kings while Pang Rujun and the nun from the Su Arcane Sect were badly injured.
• Li Mufan’s sword killed the three Ghost Kings, and Zhou Xuan’s army attacked Sea King’s forces from behind.
• Li Mufan told Xia that the authorities had trapped his grandmother, then rushed to save his disciple, but Sea King blocked his path.

Zhou Xuan’s forces broke Sea King’s army with disciplined arrow volleys, but Sea King regrouped and pressed Ruan Qiushui’s smaller force into a renewed battle. Just as the armies clashed, an old woman appeared in an explosive burst, leaving the narrator stunned.

• Zhou Xuan’s arrows threw Sea King’s army into chaos, while Yang Suoyue’s complicated orders undermined Zheng Han’s attempt to steady the troops.
• Ruan Qiushui’s orderly volleys and advancing troops routed Sea King’s disorganized army, forcing Sea King to withdraw and rescue Yang Suoyue.
• Li Mufan rescued the bound elder ghosts, and the narrator sealed them in life tokens before returning to help Pang Rujun and the nun from the Arcane Sect.
• Sea King spotted the narrator and chased him, slicing open his shoulder bag before the narrator escaped with Swift Step and repaired the damage.
• The narrator reached Ruan Qiushui’s camp as Sea King’s army advanced, and both sides charged into battle.
• An explosive force halted the armies, and an old woman appeared, leaving the narrator frozen in shock.

Grandma emerged from the Blood Cloud Coffin and unleashed her terrifying power, killing Sea King and Shi Cheng as the survivors fled toward the underworld. She caught Yitian during their escape, and he awoke trapped inside the Blood Cloud Coffin beside her body.

• Grandma summoned powerful ghosts that slaughtered Sea King's forces, then extracted Sea King's soul marrow and destroyed him.
• Grandma killed Shi Cheng after Yitian called out to her, then stared toward the fleeing group.
• Yitian opened a path to the underworld and escaped with Ruan Qiushui, Shan Long, and the ghost generals, but Grandma seized him as they departed.
• Yitian awoke in the Blood Cloud Coffin beside Grandma's still body and heard her voice tell him he could not leave.
• Grandma grabbed Yitian's right hand when he identified himself.

Yitian reunited with Grandma inside the Blood Cloud Coffin and learned that she had entered it to guard the secret beneath Yinfeng Town. When the coffin tried to refine them, Yitian broke them out, but the Blood Cloud Coffin attacked as Grandma unleashed her power.

• Yitian found Grandma inside the Blood Cloud Coffin and was relieved to discover she was alive.
• Grandma explained that the false Grandma outside was an avatar-like being and that the Blood Cloud Coffin had grown powerful by consuming ghosts and people.
• Grandma revealed that the coffin guarded an enormous living formation beneath Yinfeng Town, and that Zhou Xuan was an exposed piece while Yitian was the king.
• The Blood Cloud Coffin flooded its interior with blood and tried to refine Yitian and Grandma, but Yitian used the Opening Coffin Talisman to escape with her.
• The Blood Cloud Coffin attacked them outside, and Grandma struck it with black energy while Yitian carried her fifty meters away using a Flying Step talisman.

After Xia Yitian apologized to Song Wanyi, Senior Brother Hai brought him home, formally inducted him into the School of Yin and Yang, and explained why Xia Yitian needed to cultivate his yang eyes. The chapter left Xia Yitian eager to see the wife-sister behind him, while Senior Brother Hai said he knew a method that might work.

• Xia Yitian realized Song Wanyi had also been wounded and apologized for blaming her, and she forgave him by biting and licking his hand.
• Senior Brother Hai brought Xia Yitian to his home and had him pay respects to their deceased Master, Gan Daozi, Qiu Cunzhi.
• Xia Yitian and Senior Brother Hai worshipped Donghuang Taiyi, and Senior Brother Hai said divine light had entered Xia Yitian and acknowledged him as a disciple.
• Senior Brother Hai explained that Xia Yitian could see yin souls but needed to cultivate yang eyes to perceive divine spells and understand how Li Poxiao had attacked.
• Xia Yitian asked whether Senior Brother Hai could see the wife-sister behind him, and Senior Brother Hai said he could not yet but knew a method that might let him see her.

The narrator and Grandma escaped the Blood Cloud Coffin into the village entrance, where Grandma fought back while the coffin sent ghosts after them. As the battle intensified, two surviving government agents arrived with an unfamiliar cache of treasures and told the narrator to leave.

• The narrator carried Grandma to the village entrance and took Senior Brother Hai's hiking pack and blue talismans before fleeing the Blood Cloud Coffin.
• Grandma climbed down, demanded water and food, and used a Ghost Path teleportation technique to evade the coffin's attacks.
• The Blood Cloud Coffin gathered power while the narrator prepared talismans, but female ghosts and funeral Ghost Kings surrounded him and tried to force him into the coffin.
• The narrator used Summon Ghosts and called forth the Heaven-Devouring Ghost to fight the attacking Ghost Kings.
• Golden pillars of light rose around the narrator and the coffin, and two surviving agents from the provincial Arcane Police Special Operations Group arrived with an aluminum case of treasures.

Yi and Zhou Ying escaped the Blood Cloud Coffin by entering the underworld, then traveled to Little Yi Village, where Zhou Ying subdued thousands of troops on the battlefield. The chapter ended with Yi recognizing Zhou Shan among two people slipping away into the woods.

• Zhou Ying battled the Blood Cloud Coffin while officials tried to petrify and capture it, then Yi carried her out of Dragon-Carrying Village.
• Yi and Zhou Ying borrowed the Yin-Yang path into the underworld and decided to go to Little Yi Village.
• Zhou Ying summoned a Swift-Traveling Ghost to carry them through the underworld, and Yi learned how to use the Dao art.
• At Little Yi Village, Yi and Zhou Ying emerged in the middle of a battle between armies, and Zhou Ying subdued thousands of ghosts and soldiers.
• Zhou Ying called Sister Meng over and restrained the two opponents who tried to flee, while Yi spotted Zhou Shan sneaking toward the woods with another person.

Grandma stopped Zhou Xuan from pursuing Zhou Shan, then gave Zhou Xuan the Sea King's Yin soldiers and took Yidan to their old home in Little Yi Village. After revealing a hidden gift for Yidan, Grandma and Yidan heard Quan Chanyu shouting outside.

• Zhou Shan and Zhou Feng escaped into the forest, and Grandma refused Yidan's offer to pursue them.
• Zhou Xuan mourned Yuanyi, argued with Yidan, and was told by Grandma to recruit the Sea King's roughly two thousand Yin soldiers and return to the Underworld.
• Granny Meng absorbed the soul marrow of both Ghost Emperors after Grandma gave her a Blood Garment.
• Grandma rejected Zhou Xuan's request to accompany her and invited Yidan to the Household in Little Yi Village.
• Grandma visited her ruined former home, confirmed Xijun was studying with Qiu Cunzhi, and revealed a hidden box as a gift for Yidan.
• Yidan ran outside after hearing a familiar woman's shouts and found Quan Chanyu.

Zhou Ying intervened when Lu Ying of the Arcane Sect fought Quan Chanyu over a treasure connected to the Yinfeng Coffin, then persuaded Quan Chanyu to leave the Celestial Venerable Dao. They reached Yinfeng Town, where Zhou Ying restored the boundary stone and carved a warning into it.

• Zhou Ying and Grandma recognized Quan Chanyu fighting Lu Ying, and Grandma drove Lu Ying off, while Granny Meng took his belongings and horsetail whisk.
• Zhou Ying combined the whisk with the fire-poker whisk, but Grandma explained that the resulting talismans needed a specialist to repair them.
• Grandma told Quan Chanyu that the Celestial Venerable Dao was exploiting her Three Spirits Returning to One constitution, and Quan Chanyu asked Grandma for guidance.
• Grandma, Zhou Ying, and Quan Chanyu traveled to the fallen boundary stone in Yinfeng Town.
• Grandma summoned the Heaven-Swallowing Ghost to reset the stone, restore its formation carvings, and inscribe a threat against anyone who broke the formation.

Yitian and Grandma restored Phoenix-Induction Town’s boundary markers and waited for the Blood Cloud Coffin, while Yitian consecrated a new horsetail whisk. Grandma confronted the Blood Cloud Coffin and trapped it in a prison, but it broke free until Yitian’s formation weakened it; a white-haired old man then appeared beside the prison.

• Grandma had the Heaven-Swallowing Ghost rebuild Phoenix-Induction Town’s damaged boundary markers and waited at the final opening for the Blood Cloud Coffin.
• Yitian consecrated a horsetail whisk as a Magical Artifact, then prepared control formations while he and Quan Chanyu waited with Grandma.
• Grandma sent Yitian and Quan Chanyu away, but Yitian stayed as Grandma summoned her green ghost body and challenged the Blood Cloud Coffin.
• Granny Meng moved Yitian and Quan Chanyu away from the fighting as Grandma’s ghosts battled the Blood Cloud Coffin’s ghosts.
• Grandma lured the Blood Cloud Coffin into a black prison and began sealing it, but the Blood Cloud Coffin broke free and blasted her backward.
• Yitian activated his Yin-Yang Reversal formation to turn yin energy into yang energy, and a tall, thin, white-haired old man appeared beside the prison.

Yi, Grandma Zhou Ying, and Qiu Cunzhih defeated the Blood Cloud Coffin’s main soul and restored the formation. With the danger temporarily contained, they set off for Dragon-Carrying Village to reunite with Senior Brother Hai and return his hiking pack.

• Qiu Cunzhih and Zhou Ying attacked the Blood Cloud Coffin, and Zhou Ying destroyed its main soul with her Purgatory Blood Trail technique.
• Qiu Cunzhih praised Yi for helping destroy the coffin’s soul, then insisted that the coffin itself be returned to the main formation before its soul regenerated.
• Zhou Ying told Yi that she had once tried to recruit Qiu Cunzhih as a ghost of the Household, but he had refused and escaped her.
• Qiu Cunzhih dragged the Blood Cloud Coffin into the barrier formation with hundreds of Immortal-Chasing Locks, and Zhou Ying activated the formation.
• Yi asked to return to Dragon-Carrying Village for Senior Brother Hai and his hiking pack, so Zhou Ying, Qiu Cunzhih, and Quan Chanyu accompanied him.
• Qiu Cunzhih explained that Single Dragon had found him and Ruan Qiushui had guided him to them, while their companions waited nearby.