Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiao fought the Vicious Ghost outside the Wooden House after its curse revealed an illusion of an old corpse returning to a coffin. He destroyed the ghost’s mask and drove back its female apparitions, but another sound from the Wooden Door interrupted the battle.

• Jiang Qiao approached the female ghost and saw an illusion of an old corpse entering a Wooden Door beside an open coffin.
• The corpse’s door-closing curse tried to invade Jiang Qiao’s mind, but his Paper People disrupted it and he transformed into lightning.
• Jiang Qiao struck the female ghost with lightning and shattered its mask, revealing a face fused from a woman and the emaciated old man.
• The female half summoned illusory women amid filthy water, and Jiang Qiao used talismans and lightning to destroy the apparitions.
• Another sound of the Wooden Door creaking interrupted Jiang Qiao as he fought the remaining apparitions.

Jiang Qiao resisted the Grudge Female Ghost’s curse and launched a powerful lightning attack against her. He briefly sealed her with talismans and struck her with nearly all his strength, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Grudge Female Ghost cursed Jiang Qiao by stripping away his life, but his Thunder Spirit avatar remained unharmed because it did not depend on life to function.
• Jiang Qiao explained that his Paper Person talismans had helped him withstand the ghost’s earlier attempt to erase his consciousness.
• Jiang Qiao formed a dark-red talisman, teleported to the Grudge Female Ghost, and stomped her with a massive surge of lightning.
• The impact split open the female ghost’s body, revealing a dark void as viscous black blood began to seep from the wound.
• Jiang Qiao pressed talismans onto the female ghost, briefly sealed her, and struck her with a lightning bolt containing nearly all his strength.

Jiang Qiao killed the female ghost with a talisman, then escaped the Wood House’s furious master by switching places with the talisman. He rested as Sister Lan, Qian Jia, and Gao Jie fled toward him with more Awakened arriving behind them.

• Jiang Qiao sealed and shattered the peak Fifth Order female ghost with a talisman, killing her in less than five minutes.
• A hand reached from the Wooden Door and dragged in the talisman, but Jiang Qiao had already switched places with it and escaped the Wood House’s attack.
• Jiang Qiao concluded that the old corpse inside the Wood House was the real master and had controlled the female ghost.
• Jiang Qiao considered the scarecrow and invisible ghost threatening the other Awakened, then saw Sister Lan, Qian Jia, and Gao Jie running toward him.
• Jiang Qiao noticed the ruined Youluo Umbrella and the figures pursuing the trio, and recognized that more Awakened had arrived, including people from the Luo Family of Southern Xinjiang.

Jiang Qiao watched Luo You use a mirror to create lifelike decoys that drew the Vicious Ghosts away from the Awakened. Suspecting the Luo Family had set a trap in the ruins, he warned Sister Lan and her companions before leaving, while they decided to stay wary of the family.

• Luo You used a palm-sized mirror to create lifelike shadows that distracted the Vicious Ghosts and helped the Awakened survive.
• Jiang Qiao suspected the Luo Family had engineered the ruins as a trap, based on their knowledge of the site and the lack of records about earlier expeditions.
• Jiang Qiao turned to leave after deciding the survivors could likely handle the scarecrow and the still Vicious Ghost.
• Sister Lan, Qian Jia, and Gao Jie encountered Jiang Qiao, who congratulated them and warned that the Luo Family might be using them as bait.
• Sister Lan told her companions to keep their distance from the Luo Family and leave as soon as they found something.

Jiang Qiao and the other Awakened traveled through a forest path filled with lethal supernatural hazards, and only about a third of the more than one thousand travelers survived to reach a misty grassland. As Sister Lan greeted Jiang Qiao near the outer region’s end, he warned that her continued presence was a problem, and chilling eyes began appearing in the forest.

• Travelers encountered deadly supernatural traps and entities along the road, including a corpse pool, possessed groups, and powerful Vicious Ghosts.
• Several Awakened found Supernatural Items, including a short hoe that could extract supernatural entities but rapidly aged its owner when used.
• Greed and fear led to infighting and deaths, leaving only about a third of the original group alive when they reached the grassland.
• Sister Lan and her two companions reached the end of the outer region, and Gao Jie compared a photograph of a map to the ruins.
• Sister Lan greeted Jiang Qiao, who told her that her still being there was a problem, just as icy eyes appeared in the surrounding forest.

Gao Jie, Sister Lan, and Qian Jia fought through Ancient Corpse slaves on the forest path while Jiang Qiao entered a silent, misty graveyard disguised as a grassland. As Jiang Qiao examined a grave with reversed birth and death dates, a sinister wind rose behind him and his killing intent dropped.

• Gao Jie identified the attacking Ancient Corpses as Third-Tier corpse slaves and warned that their corpse master had not appeared.
• Qian Jia and the others fought the corpse slaves as more powerful ones arrived, causing casualties to rise.
• Sister Lan urged the group to escape and noticed that the Luo Family and Jiang Qiao were missing.
• Jiang Qiao crossed onto the grassland, where a barrier muffled the battle behind him.
• Jiang Qiao found that the grassland was a graveyard and read a tombstone listing a birth date later than its death date.
• A sinister wind rose behind Jiang Qiao, and his killing intent plummeted.

Jiang Qiao fought off two hidden attackers in the grassland and found a fossilized skull concealed inside a stone statue. The chapter ended as battered Awakened arrived behind him, raising his suspicion that the Ancient Corpse had deliberately let them escape.

• Jiang Qiao tore apart a supernatural scarf made of human skin and suspected the Luo Family had sent it to test him.
• Jiang Qiao continued across the grassland and discovered a gigantic stone statue beside a winding river.
• Jiang Qiao struck a hidden attacker in the river, severed one of his arms, and suspected the man belonged to the Black Sheep Cult.
• Jiang Qiao found a black box inside the statue's cracked eye and took out a fossilized skull to examine later.
• A group of battered Awakened arrived, and Jiang Qiao wondered whether the Ancient Corpse had deliberately let them escape.

Jiang Qiao recognized that the Ancient Corpses were part of a trap and slipped away, while the survivors fled into a grassland filled with ominous tombs. After a tomb robber disturbed a grave, Burial Worms emerged and devoured him, forcing the others to run for the edge of the worms’ territory.

• Jiang Qiao inferred that a hidden enemy had driven the group into the grassland and quietly left under concealment talismans.
• Qian Jia and Gao Jie led the remaining survivors through the grassland as the Ancient Corpses pursued them and their numbers dwindled.
• Qian Jia attacked a tomb robber after he drove an iron spike into the ground beside a grave.
• Blood flowed from the spike, and Burial Worms erupted from the mound and devoured the tomb robber.
• Sister Lan identified the Burial Worms and warned Qian Jia, Gao Jie, and the others to flee beyond their territory.

Burial insects poured from a collapsed tomb and slaughtered many fleeing survivors, while Sister Lan explained their lethal nature and history. Jiang Qiao captured several insects and suspected the Luo Family of Southern Border was using the ruin for a larger scheme.

• Burial insects swarmed across the grassland, burrowed into people, and killed dozens as the survivors fled.
• Qian Jia spotted the insects emerging from a mucus-covered, honeycomb-like object inside the collapsed tomb.
• Sister Lan told Gao Jie that her ancestor had recorded burial insects after they killed one of five Fifth Tier Awakened returning from the Supernatural World.
• Jiang Qiao identified a burial insect from Durahan's records, restrained and sealed it, and collected more than a dozen for later use.
• Jiang Qiao suspected the grassland was a breeding ground and the ruin was part of a larger plan by the Luo Family of Southern Border.

Jiang Qiao was ambushed by three Fifth Tier attackers hiding among the wasteland graves, but he turned their coordinated strike against them and injured one. He identified the third attacker as an External Incarnation and charged the two visible enemies, expecting the shadow to ambush him again.

• Three Fifth Tier attackers burst from the graves and struck Jiang Qiao from three directions, wielding a scythe, a bone weapon, and a shadow.
• Jiang Qiao dodged the bone attack, pulled its wielder into the scythe’s path, and forced the scythe wielder to defend against his counterattack.
• The scythe struck the man with the Bone Club, while Jiang Qiao retreated and blocked the shadow’s pursuit with runes.
• Jiang Qiao realized the shadow was an External Incarnation hiding to support the other attackers.
• Jiang Qiao charged the two visible attackers and prepared for the shadow’s next ambush.

Jiang Qiao fought three Fifth-Tier enemies and used his talisman and lightning to expose and trap the lurking shadow. The sickle-wielder concluded that Jiang Qiao was likely a powerful figure’s clone, perhaps even beyond Sixth Tier, but did not know his identity.

• Jiang Qiao met the Bone Club wielder’s attack head-on and punched the sickle-wielding Mysterious Person away.
• Jiang Qiao revealed the hidden shadow with a talisman, struck it with lightning, and marked it with the character “Exterminate.”
• Jiang Qiao trapped the shadow inside a sphere of lightning and immobilized it with a strange triangular symbol.
• The sickle-wielding Cloaked Man realized Jiang Qiao’s combat awareness and strength seemed far beyond Fourth Order and suspected he was a mighty figure’s clone.
• The Cloaked Man wondered which faction Jiang Qiao belonged to and whether he might be a Seventh Tier.

Jiang Qiao used stacked talismans to summon a wisp of power from an ancient, mysterious existence, killing the shadow and its true body as well as the strong man holding white bones. The Cloaked Man escaped, leaving Jiang Qiao exhausted and unwilling to pursue him across the dangerous grassland.

• Jiang Qiao focused his attacks on the shadow while dodging strikes from Muscle Man and interrupting his curses.
• Jiang Qiao combined thunder and talismans to complete a summoning ritual that briefly connected with an unseen existence.
• The summoned power erased the shadow and its true body, while the resulting mental shock let Jiang Qiao kill the strong man holding white bones.
• The Cloaked Man fled as the ritual ended, becoming the only survivor of the three attackers.
• Jiang Qiao explained that the ritual was dangerous and draining, then decided not to chase the Cloaked Man.

Jiang Qiao refined his use of talismans while traveling through the supernatural grassland, and Gao Jie, Sister Lan, and Qian Jia realized the ruins were screening Awakened survivors. The chapter ended as they spotted a rain-soaked area crowded with powerful Vicious Ghosts.

• Jiang Qiao reflected on his precise control of Summoning Gods and considered trying the talisman art of Punishing Ghosts.
• Jiang Qiao crossed the grassland without further attacks and noted that his Main Body could sense everything his clone experienced.
• Gao Jie and the others escaped the Burial Insects, and Sister Lan concluded the ruins were driving survivors through a deadly selection process.
• Gao Jie agreed that earlier ruins might have served as bait to lure Awakened into the Grave Mountain ruins.
• Qian Jia spotted collapsed graves in a darkened area ahead, where blood-colored lightning revealed a crowd of powerful Vicious Ghosts moving through the rain.

Jiang Qiao crossed a rain-soaked grassland filled with graves and ruins, then discovered a vast horde of powerful Vicious Ghosts surrounding the survivors. As the ghosts began playing supernatural games with the Awakened, an old man carrying a red wooden box approached Jiang Qiao.

• Jiang Qiao found signs of earlier survivors who had died in mud pits and passed ruined graves and wooden houses in the torrential rain.
• Jiang Qiao discovered a huge horde of Vicious Ghosts, including Fifth and Sixth Tier entities, and circled around them while concealed.
• Jiang Qiao saw a mysterious blade flash kill a Peak Third Order Awakened before the attack vanished without explanation.
• Vicious Ghosts left the horde and began challenging nearby Awakened to supernatural games instead of killing them immediately.
• An old man in burial clothes carrying a bright-red wooden box approached Jiang Qiao.

Jiang Qiao faced a lethal candle curse from an old ghost demanding burial, while other people were killed or won supernatural power by succeeding in their ghost interactions. As the candle continued to burn, Jiang Qiao weighed a risky method against the old ghost, then looked up when blood-colored lightning struck across the sky.

• Jiang Qiao realized the old ghost wanted him to bury it, but refused to take on the dangerous task.
• A hair doll killed the person it was watching, and several other people who failed their interactions were also killed.
• A gambler won three rounds against a dice-holding ghost and stripped away some of its supernatural power.
• Jiang Qiao estimated that his incarnation could not defeat the late Sixth Tier old ghost and considered trying a method he had hoped to save for later.
• Blood-colored lightning tore across the Black Curtain, and Jiang Qiao looked up at the sky.

Jiang Qiao’s Thunder Spirit clone was drawn into a vast Sea of Thunder, where he discovered it could borrow the sea’s power. From above, he saw a huge force of powerful Vicious Ghosts gathered around an ancient stone tower, then entered a Black Hole to explore the supernatural space’s deeper core.

• Blood-red lightning pulled Jiang Qiao’s Thunder Spirit clone into the Sea of Thunder, where he sensed its kinship with the lightning and found it could borrow some of its power.
• Jiang Qiao looked down and saw Vicious Ghosts stretching across dozens of kilometers, including three Eighth Tier Vicious Ghosts meditating around an ancient stone tower.
• Jiang Qiao concluded that the grassland and the Sea of Thunder were connected supernatural spaces, with the true core above the clouds.
• After checking that the candle below still had time to burn, Jiang Qiao entered the Black Hole above him.

Jiang Qiao followed the Thunder Spirit’s connection through the Black Hole and discovered visions of his homeland before emerging into what appeared to be the universe. As his manifested body began to break down in space, a nearby star’s gentle light protected him and drew him toward it.

• Jiang Qiao traveled upstream through the thunderwater and followed a faint connection deeper into the Black Hole.
• He saw an ancient army in Chinese-style studded armor charge through the darkness, then vanish, and wondered whether the being calling him was a fellow countryman.
• Jiang Qiao passed through fleeting visions of primitive people, ancient ceremonies, cities, mountains, and other scenes from his homeland, including Mount Tai.
• He emerged into a vast star-filled space and realized he was in the universe, where radiation, boiling bodily fluids, and pressure differences began destroying his Fourth Order body.
• A nearby star cast gentle white light over Jiang Qiao, halted his disintegration, and drew him toward it.

Jiang Qiao recovered in a desolate land beneath a star-filled sky and found a stone marked “Guanghan.” The name awakened an overwhelming desire to learn the truth about his origins, and he entered the passage beneath it.

• Jiang Qiao recovered under the gentle white light and looked up at the stars, sensing that they embodied powerful beings.
• Jiang Qiao crossed the cratered landscape and found the characters “Guanghan” carved on a huge stone above an underground pit.
• Jiang Qiao reflected on his ten years since crossing over to Blue Star and his lack of purpose or belonging.
• The sight of “Guanghan” stirred an intense desire in Jiang Qiao to discover where he came from, who he was, and where he was going.
• Jiang Qiao stepped into the passage marked “Guanghan.”

Jiang Qiao explored the ruins beneath Guanghan Palace, finding signs of death and destruction as strange spiritual impressions surrounded him. He reached the garden and discovered that the Osmanthus Tree was the source of his familiar guiding sensation.

• Jiang Qiao entered the underground space, examined a brittle tile inscribed with “Prolong Life,” and continued through its illuminated halls and jade-paved buildings.
• Jiang Qiao found a golden skull pierced at the brow and spotted scattered bones, keeping alert for dangers in the ruins.
• Jiang Qiao reached a field of primitive palace ruins and wondered why Guanghan Palace had been destroyed and who was summoning him.
• Jiang Qiao sensed ghostly music, palace maids, and guests as spiritual imprints, then avoided investigating them and hurried onward.
• Jiang Qiao crossed the ruins into a chaotic garden and found a blossoming Osmanthus Tree with a thunder-wreathed Great Seal hanging from its trunk.

Jiang Qiao explored the moon’s ruins and discovered that an ordinary-looking osmanthus tree possessed extraordinary powers intertwined with genuine life, while a nearby seal could command thunder. He suspected the seal had responded to his Thunder Spirit, but he could not tell why the tree had drawn him to it, and no one appeared to explain either treasure.

• Jiang Qiao reached the end of the ruins and found an osmanthus tree in the garden, its trunk marked with many scars.
• Jiang Qiao sensed that the tree had drawn him from outer space and healed his injuries, while a nearby Great Seal had produced the sea of thunder.
• Jiang Qiao examined the tree and found that it possessed powerful abilities alongside pure, newborn vitality, without any Supernatural Aura.
• Jiang Qiao read the Great Seal’s Bird Seal Script through his Thunder Spirit and understood that it meant “command the thunder.”
• Jiang Qiao recalled that the complete Thunder Art had been lost after the Black Tide and suspected the seal was a remnant of the Daoist tradition.
• Jiang Qiao wondered why the seal had responded to his Thunder Spirit and why the osmanthus tree had favored him.