Chapter Summaries

Qin He hurriedly gathered his companions and belongings to set out for the Abyss in search of Immortality as Silent Dharma descended. The Corpse Burning Facility discovered Room Seven missing the next morning, while Xu Changshou bid Qin He a wistful farewell.

• Qin He rushed back to the Corpse Burning Facility and ordered Wang Tie Zhu, Hui Miqiu, and Ma Fei to leave for Seeking Immortality immediately.
• Qin He packed his possessions and swallowed the entire Corpse Burning Room No. 7 into his Armpit Space before they rode toward the Mass Grave.
• Wang Tie Zhu reminded Qin He that Little Sable was still in the river, so they went to retrieve it.
• Silent Dharma descended, triggering breakthroughs among cultivators before ending their chance to advance further.
• Corpse Burners found Room Seven gone and the Flying Fish Guard declared that a Supernatural Incident had occurred there.
• Xu Changshou stayed beside the pit and wished Qin He a wife, children, and a warm bed as Horse Bell chimed farewell.

After Qin He left for another world, Wei Wu raged at being abandoned, but Qin He opened a hole through space and called for him and Wei Yuanji to become immortal. Wei Yuanji went through first, and the hand pulled Wei Wu in by the crotch.

• Wei Wu learned that Qin He had taken the Corpse Burning Room and everything with him, then furiously complained that Qin He had left him behind.
• Wei Yuanji suggested that Wei Wu worship Qin He and ask to become immortal, but Wei Wu refused and insisted he did not care about the Immortal Realm.
• A black hole appeared in the room, and Qin He called for Wei Wu and Wei Yuanji to come through and become immortal.
• Wei Yuanji approached the hole, and Qin He's hand grabbed his ankle and pulled him inside.
• Wei Wu tried to cooperate with the searching hand, which finally grabbed him by the crotch and pulled him through the hole.

Qin He and his companions fell through the Abyss Well until they passed a cracked, bubble-like version of their former world. He used the ancient Corpse Kun's egg to pierce its barrier and began pulling Wei Wu and Wei Yuanji through before the opening healed.

• Qin He discovered through the Mysterious Little Notebook that many beings had prayed to be taken away, including the stranded Riffle Fish Spirit.
• The Abyss Well slowed beside Qin He's former world, which was divided by countless cracks into irregular bubbles.
• Qin He used the ancient Corpse Kun's egg to lick a hole through the world barrier, then put the egg away before it could eat more.
• Qin He reached through the hole and pulled Wei Yuanji out of a Flying Fish Guard room.
• Qin He grabbed Wei Wu and dragged him through sideways, leaving him clutching his crotch and gasping.

Qin He used a fishing rod to rescue the Riffle Fish Spirit from the Immortal Temple bubble, and the grateful spirit was pulled through the spatial opening. The next bubble revealed a vast pit surrounded by cultivators and familiar faces.

• Ma Fei mocked Wu after Wu grabbed a bird, and Qin He silenced Ma Fei with a Mute Spell.
• Hui Miqiu spotted the Riffle Fish Spirit inside a huge bubble around the Immortal Temple and urged Qin He to use a fishing rod.
• Qin He repeatedly cast his black-iron hook through the spatial opening until it landed near the Riffle Fish Spirit.
• The Riffle Fish Spirit put the hook in its mouth, and Qin He reeled it through the opening.
• Qin He saw the next bubble, which contained a gigantic pit ringed by cultivators and familiar faces.

Qin He fished cultivators into the Abyss Well as they explored the fallen Ancient Heavenly Court and searched for the Path to Immortality. After accidentally drawing a crowd onto the line, he pulled them all into the Abyss, where they plunged ahead into the darkness.

• Qin He spotted the Daoist and the Great Monk among the cultivators at the Ancient Heavenly Court and hooked the Daoist into the Abyss Well.
• Qin He hooked Bai Liuli and pulled him into the Abyss Well.
• Qin He hooked the Great Monk’s waistband, but the monk’s pants flew away while the monk stayed behind.
• Qin He’s later casts hooked several passersby and a thug, prompting cultivators to rush over and grab the Great Monk, fishing line, and hook.
• Qin He reeled in the crowded line, sending the Great Monk and a large group—including An Zhongjiu, Yuan Qing Qian Wuliang, and Feng Jingyu—plunging into the Abyss Well.

After falling into the Abyss, Qin He arrived in the Great Jing Dynasty and settled in Lin'an City, where he opened a corpse-burning business beside the Demon Suppression Division. He remained separated from his companions and hoped they would find their way to the capital.

• Qin He fell into a vast spatial bubble in the Abyss, and the people and beasts around him lost consciousness.
• A black-robed man emerged from the South Heaven Gate, sang a mysterious ballad, returned through the mirror, and vanished as the gate shattered.
• Months later, Qin He opened Qin's Corpse Burning House beside the Demon Suppression Division in Lin'an City.
• Qin He recalled that spatial travel had separated him from Wang Tie Zhu, Little Calf, and the others, while Little Sable and Ma Fei had arrived with him.
• Qin He explained that his journey to the capital had taken two months and brought three crises in a world where even ordinary cultivators were powerful and the Heavenly Dao suppressed him.
• Qin He planned to make a living burning corpses and sought access to the demons and monsters held by the Demon Suppression Division.

Qin He investigated the Demon Suppression Division and learned that power and strength ruled the world. When Huang Da and Huang Er demanded tribute and submission over his Corpse Burning Shop, Qin He defeated them and established his right to operate there.

• Qin He learned that the Demon Suppression Division supplied materials by slaying, suppressing, and breeding demons and devils.
• Huang Da and Huang Er confronted Qin He, demanding tribute and that he acknowledge Third Master Xing as his boss.
• Qin He blocked Huang Da's kick and threw him to the ground.
• Huang Da and Huang Er attacked together, but Qin He used Huang Da to batter his brother and then tossed them both aside.
• Qin He returned to lounging as Corpse Qi-soaked onlookers hurried away, leaving his Corpse Burning Room free to take root.

Qin He watched an armored convoy bring a disguised Illusion Butterfly into the city, then accepted a corpse for his new Corpse Burning Shop. When he uncovered it, he discovered the corpse was not human.

• Qin He saw a Demon Suppression Division convoy pass with a Spring Gushing Realm Illusion Butterfly concealed in the last iron cage.
• Qin He recognized that the Illusion Butterfly was hiding its strength and suspected it planned to cause trouble.
• A limping man brought Qin He a troublesome corpse, and Qin agreed to burn it for free at his new shop.
• Qin He uncovered the corpse and realized it was not human.

Qin He cut open a demonized corpse and subdued the Demonized Beast inside, then burned the body. Its shadow play revealed that the dead woman and the man who brought her corpse were strangers, leaving Qin He suspicious that someone had planted a conspiracy in his first delivery.

• Qin He examined the corpse and found a living Demonized Beast pulsing inside its swollen belly.
• Qin He pinned the corpse with a Corpse Suppressing Nail, cut open its abdomen, and restrained it with a painkilling needle.
• The Demonized Beast burst from the corpse and attacked Qin He, who knocked it onto the Corpse Purification Platform and sealed it with three Demon Sealing Seals.
• Qin He identified the beast as having formed when Demonic Energy eroded the woman's corpse, then packed it into a yellow cloth bag to sell.
• Qin He burned the corpse and discovered from its shadow play that the woman had lived in Liang City and had no connection to the man who brought her body.
• Qin He suspected someone had deliberately arranged the delivery as a conspiracy.

Qin He explored South Ward, found himself unable to afford its demon delicacies, and tried to sell a young Demon Monkey at Purple Thorn Acquisition House. The shopkeeper offered five hundred silver coins, but Qin He demanded five thousand and was told to get lost.

• A middle-aged man reported that someone had accepted a delivery, and the voice inside ordered him to retrieve the nearly mature Demon Monkey after it fed.
• Qin He wandered through South Ward, admired its bustling markets and restaurants, and discovered that demon dishes cost far more than his three silver coins could buy.
• Qin He brought the young Demon Monkey to Purple Thorn Acquisition House and asked whether the shopkeeper would buy it.
• The shopkeeper offered five hundred silver coins because the Demon Monkey had not reached maturity, and Qin He turned to leave.
• The shopkeeper called Qin He back and invited him to name his price, so Qin He asked for five thousand silver coins and the shopkeeper told him to get lost.

Qin He sold the Demon Monkey for one thousand silver coins and spent it all on food, drink, a bath, and entertainment. After nightfall, he burned the cripple’s corpse and handed over the ashes, then invited him to bring more corpses.

• Qin He rejected the young shopkeeper’s offer of six hundred silver coins and sold the Demon Monkey elsewhere for one thousand.
• Qin He spent all one thousand silver coins on a lavish day of eating, drinking, bathing, and listening to music.
• Qin He returned to the Demon Suppression Division and found the cripple waiting outside the Corpse Burning Room.
• Qin He showed the cripple the corpse’s ashes and gave them to him.
• Qin He called after the cripple, offering to burn any other corpses for free, and the cripple nearly stumbled.

Qin He faced the Illusion Butterfly Demoness after she sneaked into his room, resisting her seduction while shamelessly admiring her from a distance. When she attacked in anger, he countered with sunflower seed shells wrapped in golden light that resembled the Light of Merit, leaving her alarmed by his true power.

• Qin He discovered the Illusion Butterfly Demoness in his room and bolted the door behind him.
• The Illusion Butterfly Demoness tried to lure Qin He closer, but he resisted while watching her and cracking sunflower seeds.
• The Illusion Butterfly Demoness grew furious at Qin He's behavior and transformed into a four-armed monster with butterfly wings.
• The Illusion Butterfly Demoness charged Qin He with four spikes, and he spat golden-lit sunflower seed shells at her.
• The Illusion Butterfly Demoness recognized the golden light as resembling the forbidden Light of Merit and realized Qin He was not an ordinary Mortal Body Realm cultivator.

Qin He trapped the Illusion Butterfly Demoness in the Corpse Burning Room and easily countered her illusions and attacks. After she ran out of moves, he offered her a choice between a quick death and entertaining him for her life.

• The Illusion Butterfly Demoness attacked Qin He, but his golden merit light repelled her spikes and revealed that he knew she was a demon in disguise.
• She tried to escape through the chimney, but Qin He's array bounced her back and exposed her illusion.
• Qin He explained that he had turned the Corpse Burning Room into a cave dwelling and could sense everything within a hundred li.
• The Illusion Butterfly Demoness attacked with dozens of illusions, but Qin He blocked her true body's strikes with fire tongs and repeatedly pinched her.
• The exhausted Illusion Butterfly Demoness retreated, and Qin He offered her a choice between dying on the Corpse Burning Furnace or singing and dancing for him.

After Qin He spared the Illusion Butterfly Demoness, he sold her to the Cuiqing Brothel. The next day, alchemist Xun Tianlu’s lesson went awry when he could not undo the seals on a Demon Monkey.

• The Illusion Butterfly Demoness submitted to Qin He and used her charms to stay alive through the night.
• At daybreak, Qin He spared the Illusion Butterfly Demoness and sold her to the madam of the Cuiqing Brothel for 4,800 silver coins.
• Xun Tianlu demonstrated pill refinement to apprentices at the Purple Thorn Merchant Guild using a sealed Demon Monkey.
• A pockmarked young man noticed the Demon Sealing Seals and pointed out that Xun Tianlu had never taught them about demon sealing.
• Xun Tianlu tried to undo the seals with True Essence, failed repeatedly, and angrily cursed whoever had sealed the Demon Monkey so tightly.

Qin He struggled to fund his appetite for demon meat and sold a Marrow Cleansing Pill to ease his money shortage. On his way back to the Corpse Burning Room, he spotted a mysterious black shadow heading toward the Demon Suppression Division.

• Qin He realized that lavish meals of demon meat were rapidly improving his strength but draining his silver coins.
• Qin He decided to sell a Marrow Cleansing Pill and visited Purple Thorn Acquisition House to ask the young shopkeeper for an offer.
• Qin He used the Truth Spell to make the young shopkeeper offer three thousand silver coins, then fled when the shopkeeper accused him of using a curse and called for backup.
• Qin He sold the pill for twenty-seven hundred silver coins after some trouble and returned to the Corpse Burning Room after dark.
• Qin He saw a silent black shadow heading toward the Demon Suppression Division and suspected it was not human.

A Black Shadow hunted the streets near the Demon Suppression Division, swallowed a young peddler, and then went to spy on Cuiqing Brothel. The Sackcloth Youth ambushed it with his Great Iron Shovel, leaving it dazed as he appeared before it.

• A spiked Black Shadow circled the Demon Suppression Division, watching from a distance.
• The Black Shadow snared and swallowed a young peddler, leaving his clothes and shoes behind.
• The Sackcloth Youth passed the bloodied remains with his Great Shovel and continued down the street.
• The Black Shadow grew restless, called out, then rushed toward Cuiqing Brothel.
• The Sackcloth Youth struck the Black Shadow with his Great Iron Shovel, leaving it stunned by the sight of his young face.

Qin He killed a black creature and dragged its body away from Cuiqing Brothel. There, the captured Illusion Butterfly Demoness remained bound and refused Cai Linglong’s demand that she perform, while her hopes of rescue dwindled.

• Qin He struck the black creature three times with his Great Iron Shovel, killed it, and dragged it away, leaving a trail of green blood.
• The bound Illusion Butterfly Demoness cursed Corpse Burner for selling her to Cuiqing Brothel and vowed to destroy the brothel.
• The Illusion Butterfly Demoness heard a caw and tried to signal her reinforcements, but received no response.
• Cai Linglong entered with Little Wu and offered the hungry Illusion Butterfly Demoness food while asking her to perform until she earned her ransom.
• The Illusion Butterfly Demoness refused and threatened Cai Linglong with Butterfly Island’s retaliation, so Cai Linglong left and said she would return the next day.

Qin He harvested valuable materials from a Night Shadow Toad Demon, then burned its corpse and learned of its past through his techniques. The demon had served the Illusion Butterfly Demoness and died searching Lin'an City for her after she vanished.

• Qin He identified the Night Shadow Toad Demon and removed its Inner Core, sinews, and other potentially valuable materials.
• Qin He stitched the demon's corpse closed, washed it, and burned it after purifying it.
• Qin He saw that the Night Shadow Toad Demon had evolved intelligence and wandered beyond its home, where it preyed on humans and animals.
• The Night Shadow Toad Demon joined the Myriad Demon Kingdom and served under the Illusion Butterfly Demoness as a messenger and support demon.
• After the Illusion Butterfly Demoness disappeared, the Night Shadow Toad Demon entered Lin'an City to search for her and was killed.

Qin He used the Myriad Demon Compendium to identify the Night Shadow Toad Demon and sell its materials for a large sum, then spent the money on a feast while Little Sable neared a breakthrough. Meanwhile, the demon blood he had left near Cuiqing Brothel drew the attention of the Demon Suppression Division.

• Qin He received the Myriad Demon Compendium and learned about the Night Shadow Toad Demon and the uses of its materials.
• Qin He sold the demon's sinew, Inner Core, and kidneys to the young shopkeeper at Purple Thorn Acquisition House for fourteen thousand silver coins.
• Qin He celebrated by ordering a feast and realized Little Sable's Ancestral Demon Technique had reached the ninth level of the Mortal Body Realm.
• People found the Night Shadow Toad Demon's dried blood near Cuiqing Brothel, and the report reached the Demon Suppression Division.

Niu Chengan investigated a blood trail likely belonging to the Night Shadow Toad Demon and worried that the Illusion Butterfly Demoness’s disappearance could provoke a dangerous response. After ordering his men to conceal the evidence, he noticed a strange Corpse Burning Shop and went inside.

• Niu Chengan recalled that the Illusion Butterfly Demoness had disappeared after being handed over to the Demon Suppression Division and suspected the Night Shadow Toad Demon's blood trail was connected to her.
• Niu Chengan ordered his Captain to wash away the blood and told the men to say, ask, and know nothing.
• Niu Chengan followed the trail but found no further evidence, then headed back toward the Demon Suppression Division.
• Niu Chengan recognized a strange Corpse Burning Shop as the place where its Corpse Burner had watched the Illusion Butterfly Demoness without fleeing.
• Niu Chengan walked toward the Corpse Burning Shop.