Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiao encountered a group sent by Mr. Meishan to capture him on Ma Dang Mountain. After the red-robed woman attacked with Blood-colored Ghost Shadows, Jiang Qiao destroyed them with a single stamp, leaving the group stunned.

• Jiang Qiao left Demon Port for Ma Dang Mountain, planning to explore the ruins and gain experience before a future voyage across the Nether Sea.
• Jiang Qiao found Ma Dang Mountain strewn with corpses, curses, and Vicious Ghosts.
• Jiang Qiao spotted a red-robed woman and a shadow-hidden man, then met Old Man Shu and a knife-wielding fat man at the mountain entrance.
• Old Man Shu said they had come on Mr. Meishan's orders to take Jiang Qiao back for killing his servant, but Jiang Qiao mocked them as house slaves.
• The red-robed woman unleashed Blood-colored Ghost Shadows, and Jiang Qiao disintegrated them with a light stamp, shocking her.

Jiang Qiao effortlessly killed the woman and exposed the Big Fatty’s strange abilities as the group attacked him together. He shattered Old Man Shu’s spatial confinement with a stomp and challenged him to say whether he could act without restraint in Demon Port.

• The woman unleashed a sea of blood, but Jiang Qiao dispelled it and shattered her body, consciousness, and bizarre entity with two stomps.
• Old Man Shu and the Big Fatty attacked Jiang Qiao, while Jiang Qiao explained that Vicious Ghosts stitched into the Big Fatty’s body supplied his supernatural power at the cost of his intelligence.
• The Big Fatty swung his cleaver as a human figure with a bone dagger crept behind Jiang Qiao and Old Man Shu compressed the surrounding space into a Supernatural Space.
• Jiang Qiao stomped harder, collapsing the Supernatural Space, tearing apart the shadow, and notching the Big Fatty’s cleaver.
• Jiang Qiao smiled at Old Man Shu and asked whether he still thought Jiang Qiao could not act without restraint in Demon Port.

Jiang Qiao effortlessly killed three attackers and forced Old Man Shu to take him to Mr. Meishan. At Fubo Mountain, Mr. Meishan hosted representatives of the Old Citizens and Blood Gu, who questioned Tianyu Ancient Village’s dangerous voyage as the chapter ended.

• Jiang Qiao killed the Shadow Figure, the fat man, and another attacker, leaving Old Man Shu alive.
• Jiang Qiao stopped Old Man Shu from fleeing, tied a rope to his foot, and floated with him toward Mr. Meishan’s home.
• At Fubo Mountain, Mr. Meishan welcomed He Zheng of the Old Citizens and Wichai of the Blood Gu.
• He Zheng criticized Tianyu Ancient Village’s plan to explore a site connected to the early Nether Era and asked Mr. Meishan whether the voyage might bring destruction upon Demon Port.

He Zheng and Wichai tried to pressure Mr. Meishan into cooperating against Tianyu Ancient Village, then moved to silence him when he refused. Just as Wichai prepared to kill the immobilized Meishan, an unseen person applauded and called the scene brilliant.

• He Zheng, Wichai, and Old Six warned Mr. Meishan that Tianyu Ancient Village’s arrival and the Ma Dang Mountain ruins posed a threat to Demon Port.
• Mr. Meishan denied that Tianyu had come for the ruins and refused to let the visitors use him to interfere in its plans.
• When Mr. Meishan tried to leave, Wichai revealed that he had sent the guards away, while Old Six sided with the visitors.
• Mr. Meishan rejected their demands and broke a flower vase to send an alarm to his allies and Zhenhai Mountain.
• He Zheng signaled Wichai to kill the immobilized Mr. Meishan, but an unseen person applauded and praised the scene.

Jiang Qiao arrived in Demon Port and startled the Old Citizens by revealing himself as the infamous fighter who had ambushed Venerable Yu. He explained that he had come for Mr. Meishan and asked whether he could act without restraint in Demon Port.

• Jiang Qiao appeared behind He Zheng, Wichai, Cai Wang, and the others with a Living Dead floating behind him, and told them to continue their fight without interference.
• He Zheng recognized Jiang Qiao, and Cai Wang recalled his ambush of Venerable Yu and the other feats that had made his name feared among the Supernatural Circle’s upper ranks.
• He Zheng apologized and cautiously asked why Jiang Qiao had come to Demon Port.
• Jiang Qiao pointed to the immobilized Mr. Meishan, called the balloon a gift for him, and asked whether he could act without restraint in Demon Port.

Jiang Qiao killed Mr. Meishan and Old Six, then turned on Cai Wang and He Zheng after learning they had ties to Demon Port and had targeted Tianyu. He left Cai Wang’s fate hanging and declared that He Zheng would join his family below.

• Cai Wang recognized Jiang Qiao and ingratiated himself by condemning Mr. Meishan and praising Jiang.
• Mr. Meishan despaired after his call for help failed, and Jiang Qiao burst the Old Man Shu balloon above him, killing him and Old Six.
• Cai Wang praised Jiang Qiao’s killing as an act of mercy, then explained his origins and his membership among the Old Citizens.
• Jiang Qiao questioned Cai Wang about his bonds with the Old Citizens, then asked He Zheng whether Cai Wang’s claim was true.
• He Zheng tried to placate Jiang Qiao, but Jiang Qiao said He Zheng had targeted Tianyu and would join his family below.

Jiang Qiao killed He Zheng and Cai Wang after suppressing their supernatural powers, then learned that Disaster in a Painting had appeared on Ma Dang Mountain and threatened Demon Port. Yang Ling asked Jiang Qiao to inspect the disaster site with him before they departed for sea.

• Jiang Qiao suppressed He Zheng's supernatural power and killed him, then killed Cai Wang with another slap.
• Yang Ling's subordinates escorted Jiang Qiao by ghost-horse carriage to meet Yang Ling at the docks.
• Yang Ling told Jiang Qiao that Disaster in a Painting had swallowed the ancient ruin on Ma Dang Mountain and nearly wiped out the experts sent there.
• Yang Ling said the Myriad Spirits Palace suspected the Old Citizens were responsible and warned that the disaster could reach Demon Port before reinforcements arrived.
• Yang Ling explained the danger of confronting Disaster in a Painting and asked Jiang Qiao to inspect Ma Dang Mountain with him; Jiang Qiao agreed.

Yang Ling explained the origins of the painting disaster and revealed what he knew about the Green Lotus Sect’s utopia plan. He insisted that reaching the River of History’s shore to escape the supernatural was impossible and would kill those who tried.

• Yang Ling told Jiang Qiao that the painting disaster first appeared just over a hundred years ago and might have been created by an ancient organization such as the Green Lotus Sect.
• Yang Ling explained that the Green Lotus Sect sought to restore the Green Lotus Holy Mother, who had been dismembered by the Red Moon.
• Jiang Qiao asked Yang Ling about the Green Lotus Sect’s utopia plan, and Yang Ling identified it as a plan to reach the shore of the River of History.
• Yang Ling recounted that seven demigods once explored the River of History’s boundary, but only three returned.
• Yang Ling warned Jiang Qiao that the utopia plan was nonsense because traveling to the shore would be fatal for most people, even with a deity’s protection.

Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling arrived at Ma Dang Mountain and found the Painting Disaster transforming everything around the Ancient Ruins Site into a two-dimensional painting. After learning that it could not be stopped by ordinary means and would reach Demon Port within three days, they faced the need to find a solution.

• Jiang Qiao realized Green Lotus Holy Mother had deceived her believers to resurrect herself and that Red Moon had dismembered her.
• Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling reached the Ancient Ruins Site on Ma Dang Mountain and saw the Painting Disaster spreading across the surrounding area.
• Yang Ling explained that the disaster turned living beings, terrain, and curses into a painting, and that it eventually expanded to a radius of roughly five hundred kilometers before vanishing and leaving an enormous Abyss.
• Yang Ling told Jiang Qiao that fragments of the painting spread independently, that Ninth Tier Experts could not discover its source, and that only a fully unleashed Taboo Weapon or a Demigod could clear it.
• Yang Ling warned that the Painting Disaster would reach Demon Port within three days, leaving them unable to go to sea unless they found a solution.

Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling entered the painting calamity to investigate the ruins, where the supernatural effects weakened deeper inside. In a vast hall, they encountered a group led by a young woman who recognized Yang Ling, with Liu Yuanyuan among them.

• Yang Ling explained that Demon Port’s crisis forced them to choose between delaying their voyage or finding another ship, and Jiang Qiao decided to see what happened first.
• Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling entered the painting calamity and found that its strange, flattened landscape let them walk through the air.
• The two entered the ruins and discovered that the painting’s influence faded as they went deeper into the tunnels.
• Jiang Qiao told Yang Ling about his previous discoveries in the ruins, including a god statue and writing from the Nether Era.
• Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling reached a grand hall, where a young woman greeted Yang Ling and they spotted Liu Yuanyuan with her group.

Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling entered the ruins with Lin Jia and other survivors trapped by the painting disaster. Inside, Yang Ling identified the ruins as a Return Journey Research Institute training base and revealed that its failed Regenerated God project had created many dangerous Evil Spirits.

• Lin Jia asked Yang Ling and Jiang Qiao to rescue her group from the ruins, and Liu Yuanyuan described warning signs and how people had scattered inside.
• Yang Ling agreed to let Lin Jia and her companions follow them as they investigated the ruins.
• Jiang Qiao, Yang Ling, Liu Yuanyuan, Lin Jia, and the others passed through a mirror into a second main hall.
• Yang Ling identified the site as a training base where the Return Journey Research Institute cultivated Evil Spirits.
• Yang Ling explained that the Institute's Regenerated God project sought a path to godhood, failed after thousands of years, and ended with the God of Longevity destroying the Institute.

Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling explored deeper into the shifting ruins and discovered that an immensely powerful Evil Spirit had killed several of the outsiders who entered before them. They followed its supernatural trail into the next hall, where more bodies and a furious survivor awaited.

• Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling discussed whether their world might be a game or an illusion as they continued through halls that changed periodically.
• Lin Jia identified a dead outsider among the Evil Spirit corpses, and Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling determined that the man had been killed by an attack on his consciousness.
• Jiang Qiao used his Dual Pupils to trace the Evil Spirit through a small door and judged that it had ascended the Heavenly Ladder.
• Yang Ling led the group after the Evil Spirit, and they found two more corpses in the next hall as an angry, frightened voice sounded ahead.
• Jiang Qiao looked into the hall and exclaimed in surprise at what he saw.

Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling watched an old yellow-mud grave bury the consciousness of three Awakened, then explained how its ritual-like rule worked. The grave dragged Lin Jia’s consciousness into an illusory graveyard, where she faced a vicious ghost without her blade or access to her supernatural abilities.

• Lin Jia shattered the yellow mud attacking the group, while the female corpse’s laughter subdued it and revealed the old grave as the evil spirit’s true body.
• Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling identified the grave’s rule as burying consciousness and watched it pull the three trapped Awakened from their bodies and kill them.
• The old grave dragged Lin Jia and her companions into a graveyard; Lin Jia reasoned that her consciousness had been taken from the hall.
• A tall, red-robed vicious ghost appeared atop a grave, and Lin Jia found that her blade and supernatural powers were unavailable.

Lin Jia and her companions were trapped in separate illusions in the old grave, where Malevolent Ghosts reacted to movement and supernatural abilities could not be used. Meanwhile, Liu Yuanyuan joined Yang Ling and Jiang Qiao, who discovered that an old book sealing more than a hundred Malevolent Ghosts lay inside the grave.

• Lin Jia realized she was trapped in an illusion, then guessed that the Malevolent Ghost would not attack as long as she stayed still.
• One companion ran from a corpse that remained ten steps behind him as wrinkles spread across his skin, while another fled a Malevolent Ghost that drew close behind him.
• A third companion stopped moving, and the Female Corpse behind him stopped too as they stared at each other.
• Liu Yuanyuan avoided the old grave's attack by manifesting a Special Clone and retreating her Main Body behind it.
• Jiang Qiao saw an old book inside the grave that had sealed more than a hundred Malevolent Ghosts, and Yang Ling recognized it as a type of Supernatural Item used by the Return Journey Research Institute.
• Yang Ling praised Liu Yuanyuan for preserving techniques from her former body, and Liu Yuanyuan praised him as a living fossil who had survived across several eras.

Jiang Qiao destroyed the blood-seeping grave and recovered Notes that detailed several Vicious Ghosts and the rules binding them. After Lin Jia and Ding He survived the grave’s special space, the group reached a dead end, where an old-fashioned radio suddenly appeared and began calling out.

• Jiang Qiao collapsed the grave and retrieved the Notes hidden inside it.
• Jiang Qiao read the Notes’ account of Ghost Singing Poetry, while Yang Ling explained the Underworld’s history and the limits of the Hometown descendants’ inheritance.
• Jiang Qiao realized the Notes had transformed into the grave, which was controlled by another Evil Spirit, and identified the rule that kept the Vicious Ghosts inside from moving.
• Lin Jia and Ding He survived the special space after the grave was destroyed, and the group found no further entrance in the passageway.
• Liu Yuanyuan explained that explorers searched other passageways or waited for them to refresh, but Jiang Qiao noticed an old-fashioned radio appear and call out through static.

Jiang Qiao and the others encountered a possessed radio that spoke for Station 3 and invited them into a painting for its boss. The host began telling a story called “Old Fen,” leaving the group facing an unexplained supernatural broadcast.

• An old radio appeared in the hall and called out to the group, and Jiang Qiao shook it until yellow fluid leaked from its seams.
• Yang Ling crushed the radio, spilling a mass of lips that continued broadcasting through static.
• The lips introduced their speaker as the host of Station 3 and said it was outside the ruins.
• The host said its boss liked painting seascapes and wanted to invite the group into a painting of the Nether Sea.
• The host announced that Station 3 told stories and began one called “Old Fen.”

The Station 3 radio told a story linking the ancient disaster at Changyang Mountain to strange objects that appeared in An City on Blue Star in 1988. It ended by suggesting that the Supernatural World and another world sometimes overlapped, leaving Jiang Qiao to consider the connection between them.

• Lin Jia worried that she and Ding He were the weakest people present and regretted entering the ruin, while Jiang Qiao focused on the radio’s story.
• The Station 3 host began a story about a three-year fire at Changyang Mountain and the strange objects left behind in Anyan City.
• The host connected those objects to 1988, when a green sky and falling fireballs preceded the appearance of a well, bungalow, water-seeping wall, and unfamiliar medicines in An City.
• Researchers identified the medicines’ writing as Mo Wen Script but could not explain their origins or properties.
• The radio host asked whether the Supernatural World overlapped with another world and suggested that strange figures might live in the same place across different worlds.

Jiang Qiao and his companions questioned Station 3’s Vicious Ghost host about its boss and learned that the boss was a Half-God Divine General under Great Emperor Water Official. The host threatened them for refusing the invitation, and Jiang Qiao responded by insulting it.

• Jiang Qiao asked whether the boss’s paintings each contained an entire world, while Yang Ling asked if the boss was connected to Great Emperor Water Official.
• The Vicious Ghost host admitted that its boss was a Divine General under Great Emperor Water Official and insisted they accept the invitation.
• Yang Ling identified the boss as a Half-God and said the source of the painting disaster was a Half-God.
• Liu Yuanyuan wondered why the host kept inviting them, and Jiang Qiao asked what would happen if they refused.
• The host threatened that they would suffer, and Jiang Qiao cursed and insulted it.

Jiang Qiao used his Dual Pupils to trace the supernatural invasion to a Divine General under Great Emperor Water Official. He summoned the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal, and its Giant Hand of thunder clashed with the approaching Demigod-Class Evil Entity.

• The hall rapidly decayed as an unseen supernatural force invaded the ancient ruin, and Liu Yuanyuan failed to get a response from Station 3’s Vicious Ghost host.
• Jiang Qiao pushed his Dual Pupils to their limit, frightening Liu Yuanyuan, Yang Ling, Lin Jia, and the others.
• Jiang Qiao followed a strange puppet string from the broken radio and saw countless Vicious Ghosts controlled across different spacetime continuums.
• Jiang Qiao identified the approaching figure in a tattered blue official’s robe as a Divine General under Great Emperor Water Official.
• Jiang Qiao summoned the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal, fused it with his Thunder Spirit, and sent a Giant Hand of thunder to collide with the Divine General.

Jiang Qiao and Yang Ling joined forces against the God General, who was invading through a Supernatural Tunnel. Their Daoist Taboo Weapons clashed with the Half-God’s power, leaving Jiang Qiao preparing to test his enhanced strength.

• The Divine Firmament Thunder Seal appeared, convincing Yang Ling that Jiang Qiao had gained the Daoist tradition’s recognition, and Yang Ling promised to help him slay the Half-God.
• Yang Ling summoned his Heavenly Palace, and its sacrificial chants began damaging the Supernatural Tunnel and pushing the God General farther away.
• The God General sent iron chains toward Yang Ling, but the chains shattered before reaching him on the Jade Steps.
• Jiang Qiao’s thunderwater attack was destroyed when the God General’s chains seized its underlying rules.
• Jiang Qiao transferred the Six Divinations and Six Beasts’ rules into the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal and prepared to test his increased strength without using Red Moon power.