Chapter Summaries

After being driven back to the Flying Fish Guard, Wei Wu challenged the martial world to one-on-one fights to restore his pride. He won five battles in a row before his next major opponent, Cai Sandao, came into focus.

• After martial world experts led by Cai Sandao chased Wei Wu back to the Flying Fish Guard, he angrily demanded a fair fight against the crowd that had wronged him.
• The noble clans, guilds, gangs, and martial associations offered rewards for injuring or castrating Wei Wu and prepared to fight him again.
• Wei Wu called the martial world shameless and challenged its members to face him one-on-one.
• On the third day of the sixth month, Wei Wu defeated Hua Sanjia, the White-Browed Hero, Cao Xiongfei, an offering master of Kai Ping Prince's Estate, and Jiang Tianxiong in five consecutive fights.
• After his fifth victory, Wei Wu shouted, "Who else!!"

Wei Wu fought a series of daily duels, while Qin He’s group excavated the Mass Grave and uncovered the Wolf King’s past as a dog driven to hunt humans for survival. The chapter ended with the Wolf King barely escaping a government hunt that devastated its pack and killed many of its mates and pups.

• Wei Wu declared that he would fight one battle a day and defeated Gou Daozi and Guan Sanlie in successive duels.
• Wei Wu and Cai Sandao fought twice, each time striking at the other’s crotch and accusing the other of lacking martial virtue.
• Lamborghini, Wang Tie Zhu, and Hui Miqiu hauled a flatbed cart to the Mass Grave to dig up coffins, where Qin He’s discoveries had revealed a third hidden layer of secrets.
• The Wolf King’s Shadow Play recounted how the Wolf King, once a pet dog, began eating humans after escaping neighbors who tried to butcher it.
• The Wolf King built a large pack by hunting vulnerable refugees, but government troops ambushed the dogs and inflicted devastating casualties as the Wolf King escaped.

The Wolf King recounted its rise from a feral dog to ruler of the Mass Grave, its cultivation under the Lotus Sect, and the danger posed by the Yin Energy beneath its territory. Seeking help from the Rat Immortal, it was led into a disastrous meeting where Great Immortal Green Ox struck it down, leaving its fate uncertain.

• The Wolf King reclaimed leadership of a dog pack, fought for years in the Mass Grave, and awakened spiritual intelligence and a cultivation method under a full moon.
• The Wolf King grew powerful enough to rule the Mass Grave and joined the Lotus Sect in exchange for a Yin Energy cultivation method, guarding seven golden coffins and monitoring the area.
• The Wolf King learned that a possible fragment of the Ancient Heavenly Court lay beneath the Mass Grave, while surging Yin Energy threatened to turn it into a Nether Beast.
• The Wolf King realized the Lotus Sect had abandoned it and accepted the Rat Immortal's offer to help, despite suspecting it would be used.
• The Rat Immortal's meeting ended with Great Immortal Green Ox charging the Wolf King, and the Black Robed Man delivered a verdict as the Wolf King faced an uncertain fate.

Qin He taught the Ancestral Demon Technique to his three demon companions and investigated the Mass Grave, where he found a vast buried object and helped excavate an ominous Bronze Coffin. A beautiful woman in red emerged from the coffin, leaving Qin He and his companions facing a newly awakened threat.

• Qin He transmitted the Ancestral Demon Technique at Great Accomplishment to Little Sable, Wang Tie Zhu, and Lamborghini.
• Qin He used his Fire Control Technique to burn dog corpses as he surveyed the Mass Grave and sensed a colossal buried object extending toward the Capital City.
• Qin He struck the Bronze Coffin with heavenly lightning, breaking the Yin Energy anchoring it so Lamborghini could pull it from the pit.
• Qin He smashed open the Bronze Coffin and exposed a blood-red Wooden Coffin, which burst apart as Resentful Energy swept through the grave.
• A young woman in red emerged from the shattered coffin, and Qin He stared at her in amazement.

Qin He and his companions encountered a beautiful Red-Clothed Vengeful Ghost who had just emerged from her coffin and learned that her dynasty had fallen. After she attacked Qin He, he subdued and bound her, then loaded her onto the ox cart as they continued on.

• The Red-Clothed Vengeful Ghost awoke, declared her intent to destroy the Rong Tribe, and asked Qin He what year it was.
• Qin He told her it was the first year of Great Li’s Chongzheng Era, and she learned that her Great Song Dynasty had fallen and Hongwu was dead.
• Wang Tie Zhu identified their location as the Capital City, prompting the woman to call them traitors and try to leave.
• The woman broke free of the Spiritual Seal and attacked Qin He, who immobilized her with the Thirty-Six Spirit Suppressing Forms.
• Hui Miqiu tied up the woman and applied Spirit Suppressing Talismans, and Qin He put her on the ox cart before the group moved on.

Qin He and his companions dug up and subdued the six vicious corpses assigned to them, using his Great Shovel to suppress each one. With all six loaded onto the ox cart, they set off for the next location.

• Hui Miqiu asked Wang Tie Zhu whether Qin He liked burning corpses, and Wang Tie Zhu's warning confirmed its suspicion.
• Qin He opened the second coffin and knocked down the Withered Old Man after Wang Tie Zhu told him the Great Rong Khanate had been gone for hundreds of years.
• Qin He quickly subdued the Black-Robed Taoist, the Compound-Eyed Evil Cultivator, and the Male-Female Combined Corpse after Wang Tie Zhu repeated the date they all asked for.
• Qin He struck down the Demonic Bone Youth before it could finish speaking.
• Qin He and his companions collected all six coffin corpses and continued onward.

Qin He returned to the Corpse Burning Facility with six captives he called “firewood” and arranged to receive three more corpses. He introduced himself to the captives as Wei Wu and prepared to burn them, leaving them stunned when Wang Tie Zhu ignited Southern Ming Li Fire.

• Qin He returned to the facility with Wang Tie Zhu and Hui Miqiu, and Ling Zhonghai and Li Tie greeted him as Seventh Master.
• Ling Zhonghai offered Qin He three more corpses, and Qin He accepted, bringing his total to nine logs of firewood.
• Wang Tie Zhu sorted the corpses and prepared the furnaces while Qin He lifted the seals on his six captives.
• Qin He claimed to be Wei Wu, a four-cash Corpse Burning Official, and told the captives he planned to burn them.
• Demonic Bone Youth challenged Qin He to fight fairly, but Qin He refused and dismissed its threats.
• Wang Tie Zhu summoned Southern Ming Li Fire, and the six captives reacted with alarm as the flames surged through the room.

Qin He used the Southern Ming Li Fire to frighten six imprisoned fiends and threatened to burn one in the empty Corpse Burning Furnace. After choosing the Demonic Bone Youth, he left it raging and cursing him.

• Qin He refined the Southern Ming Li Fire and had Wang Tie Zhu burn three ordinary corpses, terrifying the six fiends.
• Qin He warned the fiends that he would choose one of them for the empty furnace, while Wang Tie Zhu prepared it.
• Qin He described the fiends’ atrocities and claimed his choice would serve justice.
• Qin He pointed back and forth over the Demonic Bone Youth and the Withered Old Man before selecting the Demonic Bone Youth.
• The Demonic Bone Youth screamed, cursed Qin He, and vowed revenge.

Qin He’s group beat the Demonic Bone Youth before burning him in the Corpse Burning Furnace. Qin He then selected the Withered Old Man for the next round, but changed the selection to a quiz, leaving him to answer how many stars there were.

• Wang Tie Zhu, Little Calf, and Hui Miqiu attacked the Demonic Bone Youth, while Little Sable cheered them on.
• At Qin He’s instruction, Wang Tie Zhu stopped the beating, put the Demonic Bone Youth into the furnace, and burned him with Southern Ming Li Fire.
• Wang Tie Zhu said the furnace could fit another corpse, and Qin He’s selection landed on the Withered Old Man.
• The Withered Old Man protested that he had already escaped selection once, so Qin He switched to a quiz in which anyone who failed an answer would enter the furnace.
• Qin He asked the Male-Female Combination, the Female Ghost, the Black-Robed Taoist, and the Compound-Eyed Evil Cultivator questions about the sun, moon, and stars, then asked the Withered Old Man how many stars there were.

Qin He tricked the Withered Old Man into giving an impossible answer about the number of stars, then had Wang Tie Zhu beat him and throw him into the Corpse Burning Furnace. The four remaining prisoners praised Qin He to avoid the same fate, but the Compound-Eyed Evil Cultivator’s insult toward Qiu Old Ghost caught Wang Tie Zhu’s attention.

• The Withered Old Man claimed there were nine hundred ninety million and seven stars, and Qin He refuted his answer by explaining that the number constantly changed.
• Qin He answered that there were “many~ many~” stars, and Wang Tie Zhu struck the Withered Old Man before tossing him into the Corpse Burning Furnace.
• The four remaining prisoners called Qin He fair and blamed the Withered Old Man for his own death.
• Qin He pretended to feel guilty, and the Compound-Eyed Evil Cultivator called Qiu Old Ghost an ungrateful turtle-bastard.
• Wang Tie Zhu stiffened and slowly turned toward the Compound-Eyed Evil Cultivator.

Wang Tie Zhu helped Qin He reduce the remaining evil cultivators to three, who plotted to escape as the Seal of Suppression weakened. Their attempted betrayal failed, leaving the Female Ghost captured while Wang Tie Zhu and the others beat the Black-Robed Taoist and the Male-Female Combined Corpse.

• Wang Tie Zhu placed the Compound-Eyed Evil Cultivator on a Corpse Burning Furnace, leaving only three captives.
• The Black-Robed Taoist, the Male-Female Combined Corpse, and the Female Ghost secretly prepared to attack Qin He as the Seal of Suppression weakened.
• The Black-Robed Taoist and the Male-Female Combined Corpse feigned resolve and retreated while the Female Ghost launched a jade-green hairpin at Qin He.
• Qin He caught and absorbed the hairpin, then mocked the Female Ghost for falling for the others' trick.
• Wang Tie Zhu, Little Yellow Ox, and the others caught and beat the Black-Robed Taoist and the Male-Female Combined Corpse beside the gate.

Qin He’s beasts defeated the Black-Robed Taoist and the Male-Female Combined Corpse, then turned toward the captured Female Ghost. Qin He stopped them and questioned her about her past, leaving her to explain why she had chosen the ghostly path.

• Wang Tie Zhu and Hui Miqiu battered the Male-Female Combined Corpse while Lamborghini stomped the Black-Robed Taoist.
• Little Sable brought Wang Tie Zhu a cleaver, and he split the Male-Female Combined Corpse at its weak point, killing it.
• Wang Tie Zhu and Lamborghini urged Qin He to burn the Female Ghost, fearing she would endanger them and use her beauty to bewitch their master.
• Qin He ordered the beasts to stop and told the Female Ghost that she carried Resentful Energy but no Malevolent Energy and had died by suicide.
• The Female Ghost asked how Qin He knew, and he demanded that she tell her story without lying.

Qin He forced the female ghost to explain how she came to enter the ghost path, and she revealed that she was Zhao Hongyu, the ninth daughter of the last Southern Song emperor. After spending over three hundred years in her coffin, she awoke to find the dynasty and the people she had sought revenge against long gone.

• Qin He pressured the wary female ghost to tell her story, and she finally agreed after Wang Tie Zhu threatened her.
• Zhao Hongyu explained that her father, Song Wanzong, promised her in marriage to the eldest son of Emperor Hongwu to secure an alliance against the Rong Tribe.
• After defeating the Rong Tribe, Emperor Hongwu turned against the Song court, and Zhao Hongyu's husband led the campaign that forced Song Wanzong to surrender.
• Zhao Hongyu watched Great Li slaughter hundreds of her relatives and fled, blaming herself for having urged her family to surrender.
• Zhao Hongyu abandoned her body and entered a coffin to gain the power to avenge her family, but she slept for more than three hundred years before awakening to a changed world.

Zhao Hongyu recounted the tragedy that turned her into a resentful ghost, but Qin He explained that her enemies and their era were long gone. When she attacked, Qin He delivered her from her resentment, and she agreed to reincarnate.

• Zhao Hongyu described how political intrigue and the slaughter of her clan left her consumed by hatred for three hundred years.
• Qin He told Zhao Hongyu that her husband’s line had died out and that the Great Li imperial family had millions of descendants, making revenge impossible.
• Zhao Hongyu erupted in anger and threatened to fight Qin He, insisting her family’s blood feud could not simply end.
• Qin He recited the Duo'e Dharma Scripture, dispersing Zhao Hongyu’s ghostly energy and resentment through deliverance.
• Zhao Hongyu shed her final Soul Tears, thanked Qin He, and vanished to reincarnate.

Qin He collected seven Soul Tears from Zhao Hongyu and harvested several cultivation arts as corpses burned away. The rewards strengthened his dragon bone and left him eager to explore how the Chaos Codex might interact with the wisp of Chaos Qi he already possessed.

• Qin He gathered Zhao Hongyu's seven Soul Tears, sealed them, and stored them in Armpit Space, ending her grudges and debts.
• The Demonic Bone Youth yielded the Bone Transformation Technique, which Qin He learned and used to awaken his dragon bone, briefly overwhelming Wang Tie Zhu and Hui Miqiu with his aura.
• The Withered Old Man yielded the Withered Wood Meets Spring Technique, the Compound-Eyed Evil Cultivator yielded Thousand-Mile Eyes, and the Black-Robed Taoist yielded Twelve Demon Sealing Styles.
• The Male-Female Combined Corpse yielded the Chaos Codex, which Qin He recognized as a possible match for the wisp of Chaos Qi he had stored in Armpit Space.

Qin He learned and cast the Farting Technique at the East City Corpse Burning Facility, causing a chaotic confrontation between Wang Tie Zhu and Lamborghini. At the Flying Fish Guard Office, Wei Wu discovered that his hemorrhoids had flared up, and Wei Yuanji offered to cut them off.

• Qin He learned the Farting Technique and tested it on Hui Miqiu, making him release a loud, foul fart.
• Wang Tie Zhu farted after Hui Miqiu, and Lamborghini accused him of eating beef and charged at him.
• Wei Wu, celebrated for his martial victories, became restless during a late-night meal with Wei Yuanji.
• Wei Wu checked himself in a mirror and confirmed that his hemorrhoids had flared up.
• Wei Yuanji suggested cutting off Wei Wu's hemorrhoids.

Wei Yuanji cut Wei Wu’s hemorrhoid, but his Self-Healing Technique kept growing it back, forcing repeated cuts. Meanwhile, guests gathered for Xu Changshou’s wedding to the pregnant Yang Qiao'er, where his relatives prepared to block the bride’s sedan at the gate.

• Wei Yuanji persuaded Wei Wu to have his hemorrhoid cut, and Wei Wu agreed after hearing they could stop the bleeding.
• Wei Wu’s hemorrhoid grew back after the cut because of his Self-Healing Technique, so Wei Yuanji said it would take eight more cuts.
• The Flying Fish Guard Office echoed with Wei Wu’s muffled howls as the cuts continued through the night.
• Guests gathered at Xu Residence for Xu Changshou’s wedding to Yang Qiao'er, whose pregnancy and status as an undeceased person prompted gossip and disapproval.
• Wang Tie Zhu warned Qin He that Xu Changshou’s relatives appeared ready to block the bridal sedan at the main gate.

The chapter introduced Xu Deye, Xu Changshou’s calculating uncle, and explained how he exploited his generous brother Xu Dehai and resented Yang Qiao’er. He feared that Changshou’s marriage to Yang Qiao’er would end his easy access to the household and hoped to claim Xu Dehai’s property for his own family.

• Xu Deye complained to the senior Xu elder that Xu Changshou had misled the family about his marriage to Yang Qiao’er.
• The chapter described how Xu Deye cheated customers and squeezed every possible advantage from his elder brother, Xu Dehai.
• Xu Deye resented Yang Qiao’er because she had refused to sell him fish and had nearly beaten him in the past.
• Xu Deye feared Yang Qiao’er would stop him from exploiting Xu Dehai’s household after marrying Xu Changshou.
• Xu Deye imagined that Xu Dehai could adopt one of his grandsons and that his family would inherit Xu Dehai’s property if Xu Changshou died on an official assignment.

Xu Deye stirred up the Xu Family against Yang Qiao'er, but Xu Zhangting ruled that she could enter only as a concubine. Xu Deye's hidden greed was exposed when he suddenly blurted out his plans in front of the crowd.

• Xu Deye recalled hoping Xu Changshou would die so he could inherit Xu Dehai's family property, and resented his return and marriage to Yang Qiao'er.
• Xu Deye urged Xu Zhangting and the gathered relatives to reject Yang Qiao'er and drive her away.
• Xu Zhangting forbade them from beating Yang Qiao'er back, but insisted she enter through the side door as a concubine.
• Xu Deye welcomed the ruling, believing Yang Qiao'er would be easier to control and that he could eventually claim his brother's property.
• Xu Zhangting questioned why Xu Deye was so pleased, and Xu Deye unexpectedly confessed his plans to exploit Xu Dehai and make Yang Qiao'er miscarry.

Xu Deye’s involuntary confessions exposed his schemes to provoke Yang Qiao’er into miscarrying and take his brother’s property, but he later denied everything and swore an oath. As the old man in scholarly robes began to believe him, a bolt of lightning struck Xu Deye.

• Xu Deye repeatedly blurted out that he wanted Yang Qiao’er to miscarry so he could claim his brother’s property, and admitted he had used the old man in scholarly robes as a weapon.
• The old man in scholarly robes collapsed in shock, then recovered and demanded that Xu Deye explain himself.
• Xu Deye covered his mouth until the crowd pulled his hands away, then discovered his tongue had stopped slipping.
• Xu Deye knelt, apologized, and denied coveting his brother’s property, claiming he had been drunk and speaking nonsense.
• Xu Deye swore that Heaven should strike him with lightning if he was lying, and lightning immediately hit him on the forehead.