Chapter Summaries

Qin He savagely beat the Supernatural Soldier and its warhorse, then accepted a Jade Pendant from Cai Linglong in exchange for free visits to Cuiqing Brothel. He chased the horse into the mist, while Cai Linglong followed, and then realized he had forgotten to ask where Wei Wu had gone.

• Qin He beat the seemingly indestructible Supernatural Soldier and its warhorse with his shovel until the soldier begged for mercy.
• Qin He shoved the soldier's head into the warhorse's anus, and the horse ran off down the road into the mist with the soldier stuck there.
• Qin He confronted Cai Linglong about her earlier threat, and she claimed she had been crushing a bug before offering him free visits to Cuiqing Brothel.
• Cai Linglong gave Qin He a Jade Pendant as a token, and Qin He accepted it before chasing after the warhorse.
• Cai Linglong tried to follow Qin He into the mist but lost him, and Qin He realized he had forgotten to ask where Wei Wu went.

Unable to follow the marked warhorse through Ghost Domain City's shifting fog, Qin He wandered until he encountered several supernatural processions and attacked them after each one assaulted him. He continued through the city, beating even a group of supernatural children and leaving them crying for their mother.

• Qin He stopped chasing the warhorse when its direction and distance shifted unpredictably in the thickening fog, then searched the area for clues.
• Qin He encountered a Phantom Ghost sedan procession, was attacked, and beat its attendants before wrecking the gong and sedan chair.
• Qin He fought an Eight Immortals funeral procession, dismantled its bell, beat the mourners, and split open the coffin.
• Qin He dealt with a wedding procession and a civil official in state, damaging their headwear and robes and stuffing the official seal into the official's mouth.
• Qin He slapped a group of supernatural children and crushed their candy, making them run away crying for their mother.

Marquis of Purple Robes and his remaining guards witnessed several bizarre disruptions to the ghost soldier processions and suspected an expert had attacked them. Near what might be the Supernatural Core, Marquis of Purple Robes ordered a Signal Arrow fired, hoping to attract the expert.

• Marquis of Purple Robes and his guards saw a warhorse dragging a still-moving figure whose head had been forced into its rear.
• The group encountered a procession carrying a living, white-bearded old man on coffin poles instead of a coffin, and the older guard suspected a Dao Palace Realm expert had intervened.
• Marquis of Purple Robes recalled that two guards had died and his Lucky Doll had cracked during earlier encounters with the ghost soldier processions.
• The older guard warned that the gathering ghost soldiers might mark a critical node near the Supernatural Core.
• Marquis of Purple Robes ordered a guard to fire a Signal Arrow, which whistled into the mist-shrouded sky.

Qin He followed a Cloud-Piercing Arrow and met Marquis of Purple Robes and his guards in Ghost Domain City. After asking where the city's core was, he learned the marquis had an item that might help him, though the guards objected.

• Qin He heard a Cloud-Piercing Arrow and rushed to where it had fallen.
• Qin He found the arrow, spotted Marquis of Purple Robes and his three guards in hiding, and introduced himself as Hua An.
• Marquis of Purple Robes recognized Qin He's Nine-Toothed Rake and praised him, despite sensing that Qin He was only in the Mortal Body Realm.
• Qin He asked for the location of Ghost Domain City's core, but Marquis of Purple Robes could only say it was presumably nearby.
• Marquis of Purple Robes offered an item that might help Qin He, and all three guards tried to stop him.

Qin He accepted a Supernatural Doll from Marquis of Purple Robes and used it to locate the source of the eerie phenomenon. The doll led him to the City Moat, where he discovered that the phenomenon’s core lay within Lin'an City's Imperial City.

• Marquis of Purple Robes gave Qin He his precious Supernatural Doll despite his guards’ objections.
• Qin He revealed he already had another Supernatural Doll and tapped a talisman onto the doll Marquis of Purple Robes had given him.
• Qin He ordered the doll to find the Eerie Domain’s core, and it led him through folded ghost-domain space.
• Qin He followed the doll through increasingly clean streets until it stopped beside the City Moat.
• The Supernatural Doll pointed across the water to the Imperial City as the eerie phenomenon’s core.

Qin He crossed the City Moat and entered the Nether Palace, using his Merit Golden Body and Spirit Crossing Sutra to overcome its supernatural forces. As he delivered the ghost soldiers, a far stronger presence within the palace threatened to stop him.

• The Supernatural Doll completed its mission, crumbled into ashes, and its Remnant Soul sank into the City Moat.
• Qin He crossed the bridge as his Tenth-grade Merit Golden Body destroyed the supernatural things attacking him.
• Qin He entered the Nether Palace and found himself surrounded by ghost soldiers led by a Black Armored General.
• Qin He chanted the Spirit Crossing Sutra, opening a Gate of Guidance that began delivering the ghost soldiers and weakening the Black Armored General.
• A powerful presence deep in the Imperial Palace roared at Qin He and threatened to keep him from leaving.

Qin He confronted the Azure Dragon Robe Ghost in the Imperial Palace and revealed that he had seen the Eighteen Layers of Hell, then identified the ghost as a former emperor of Great Jing. After provoking the ghost to create an opening, Qin He leapt skyward and turned his attack back down toward it.

• A gigantic clawed hand struck Qin He, but he evaded it with a movement technique while the Black Armored General was vaporized.
• The Azure Dragon Robe Ghost appeared with eight companions and offered Qin He a place in the palace, but Qin He refused its promise of eternal life.
• Qin He told the ghost that he had personally visited the Eighteen Layers of Hell and accused it of harming the Great Jing Empire, identifying it as a former emperor.
• The Azure Dragon Robe Ghost froze in shock and then erupted in fury, giving Qin He the chance to use Cloud Ascending Step and leap into the sky.
• The ghost tried to stop Qin He from escaping its Nether Domain, but Qin He turned his golden figure downward and pressed a palm toward it.

Qin He unleashed the Abyssal Buddhist Sect’s Buddha’s Palm against the Azure Dragon Robe Ghost, then empowered it with Buddha Kingdom in Palm. The combined strike overwhelmed the ghost’s defenses and began to tear through the Ghost Domain City.

• Qin He formed a massive Buddha’s Hand in the sky, and the Azure Dragon Robe Ghost sensed danger too late to stop him.
• The Azure Dragon Robe Ghost and eight Dao Palace Realm undead mounted a desperate defense with a Fanged Ghost Head Formation and a blood-colored net.
• Qin He activated Buddha Kingdom in Palm, filling the Buddha’s Hand with the radiance of a Buddha Kingdom.
• The combined Buddhist strike vaporized the ghostly defenses and threatened to punch through the Ghost Domain world.

The Four Great Dao Palaces watched a golden figure advance through the Netherwater and confront the Nether Palace's forces. The figure dissolved more than ten thousand yin soldiers and ferried them through the Gate of Guidance, leaving the four clan elders stunned.

• People across Replicated Lin City watched the golden light erupt as the Netherwater calmed and its yin spirits retreated.
• Yan Jingdan and Liang Hengshi wondered who the golden figure was, while Gu Tianlan and Hong Hao joined them atop the Martial Academy's tower.
• The four Dao Palace Realm elders debated whether the figure's merit light marked him as a threat or a visitor from the Western Regions.
• The Nether Palace gates opened, and more than ten thousand yin soldiers advanced in a killing formation against the golden figure.
• The golden figure joined his palms and chanted, causing the yin soldiers to melt away and pass through the Gate of Guidance.

Yan Jingdan recounted the Great Jing experts’ disastrous defeat in the Nether Palace a century earlier as the Yin Soldier Formation broke and revealed the Second Imperial Ancestor as the Lord of Supernatural Phenomena. The golden figure unleashed a colossal Buddhist hand that pierced through Ghost Domain City and shot into the Ninth Heaven.

• Yan Jingdan recalled how the Seventh Imperial Ancestor led six Dao Palace experts into the supernatural realm, where four died and two were gravely injured.
• The four experts saw eight Yin generals and an Azure Dragon Robe Ghost emerge, then recognized the ghost as the Second Imperial Ancestor of Great Jing.
• The golden figure leaped upward and struck down with a vast Buddhist hand containing the image of a Buddhist kingdom.
• The Buddhist hand shattered Nether Palace and Ghost Domain City, then pierced through the city and shot into the Ninth Heaven.

Qin He destroyed Ghost Domain City and defeated Second Imperial Ancestor, who revealed that the black stone stele offered an alternative kind of immortality. Qin He sealed the stele and put it away, leaving its corrupting power unexplored.

• Ghost Domain City collapsed, freeing the trapped souls and purifying the dead spirits as the people of Lin City hailed Qin He as an immortal.
• Second Imperial Ancestor, reduced to a Remnant Soul by Qin He's attack, asked who had killed it, and Qin He identified himself as Great Immortal Green Ox.
• Second Imperial Ancestor said the black stone stele was the core of the supernatural and offered an alternative kind of immortality before its Remnant Soul scattered away.
• Qin He pondered whether the supernatural meant immortality or corruption, then sealed the stele with talismans and stored it in Armpit Space.

Qin He destroyed Ghost Domain City, then used a series of techniques to evade four Dao Palace experts who tracked him across Lin City. He returned to the Corpse Burning Room and discovered that the Illusion Butterfly Demoness, Wei Wu, and his physical body were missing.

• Qin He’s palm strike killed eight Wheel Sea Realm Yin generals and a Lord of Supernatural Phenomena as Ghost Domain City vanished.
• Qin He sensed four Dao Palace experts tracking him and fled across Lin City, but they repeatedly found his trail.
• Qin He used Phantom Image Technique, concealed his aura, and changed into several people and a dog to escape the pursuers.
• Yan Jingdan admitted that he had lost Qin He’s trail, and the four Dao Palace experts left after finding a little black dog.
• Qin He returned to the Corpse Burning Room and found the Illusion Butterfly Demoness, Wei Wu, and his physical body gone while Ma Fei remained in a birdcage.

Qin He searched for the body Ma Fei had sold but came back empty-handed, then built a booming corpse-burning business in Lin'an City after a disaster killed more than fifty thousand people. As his cultivation neared the True Essence Realm, Xing San approached him with a deal from the Demon Suppression Division.

• Qin He questioned Ma Fei about where he had sold the body, then searched through the night but returned at daybreak without finding it.
• After the Cold Departure Festival, Qin He’s No. 7 Corpse Burning Shop grew busy handling the many bodies left by the Supernatural Incident in Lin'an City.
• Huang Da and Huang Er managed the shop’s queue and tried to curry favor with Qin He, who ordered them to scram.
• After burning nearly two hundred and eighty corpses in ten days, Qin He came close to reaching the True Essence Realm and spent most of his accumulated silver coins.
• Xing San approached Qin He and revealed that he had a big deal from the Demon Suppression Division.

Qin He agreed to help Xing San’s corpse-burning team handle bodies inside the Demon Suppression Division after a demon riot. At the division’s entrance, Zhang Liang questioned Qin He about his name and his feud with Tang Bohu.

• Xing San explained that a Supernatural Incident had caused the demons inside the Demon Suppression Division to riot and asked Qin He to help dispose of the corpses.
• Qin He agreed to join Xing San’s team, rested during the day, and met the other Corpse Burners at Xing San’s shop that evening.
• Xing San led the Corpse Burners to the Demon Suppression Division, where Niu Chengan and Zhang Liang awaited them.
• Zhang Liang recognized Qin He as Hua An and asked whether Tang Bohu was his enemy.
• Qin He confirmed the feud and explained that his Corpse Burning Room bore the character seven because his courtesy name was Xiao Qi.

Qin He and the Corpse Burners entered the Demon Suppression Division after receiving temporary identity tokens and hearing its rules. Through the Gate of Hai, they found a demon prison devastated by a brutal battle, where their cleanup work awaited them.

• Zhang Liang clashed verbally with Qin He, whose irreverence frustrated him, before Xing San pulled Qin He to the back of the group.
• Niu Chengan laid out three rules for the mission, and Zhang Liang distributed black Jade Tablets for the Corpse Burners to activate with their blood.
• The Corpse Burners passed through the Demon Suppression Division's layered restrictions and guarded numbered gates, entering through the Gate of Hai.
• The group saw rows of demon cells, many destroyed in a battle, with bloodstains, corpses, and wreckage left for them to clear.

The corpse burners were forced to burn Demon Corpses alone in locked Cages, and Qin He was assigned a mutated Ghost-headed Ape while Zhang Liang watched outside. Qin He secretly removed the valuable organs and replaced them with coal, leaving the corpse looking unchanged as he prepared to burn it.

• The Demon Suppression Division assigned each corpse burner one corpse and one locked Cage, leaving them unable to refuse their assigned work.
• Qin He chose a secluded Cage, and Zhang Liang delivered a green-furred gorilla corpse before settling outside to watch him.
• Qin He identified the corpse as a mutated Ghost-headed Ape and recognized its oversized organs as valuable.
• While Zhang Liang drank tea, Qin He removed the Ghost-headed Ape's organs, stuffed coal briquettes in their place, and sewed the hide shut.

Qin He burned the Ghost-headed Ape and secretly used Southern Ming Li Fire to speed the process, while Zhang Liang mistook the beast’s stillness for a failure. The Shadow Play Performance revealed how the lecherous ape had been captured and abused by the Demon Suppression Division.

• Qin He covered the finger wounds on the Ghost-headed Ape, burned its corpse, and suppressed it with a command when it stirred.
• Zhang Liang questioned his cross-eyed subordinate about the beast’s lack of movement and ordered another, fiercer one brought in.
• Qin He obscured Zhang Liang’s view with smoke and used Southern Ming Li Fire to burn the Ghost-headed Ape to ash in less than half an hour.
• Qin He saw through the Shadow Play Performance that the Ghost-headed Ape had been captured while attacking a merchant caravan and bought by the Demon Suppression Division.
• The Ghost-headed Ape’s memories showed that the Demon Suppression Division kept it tied up in a cage and repeatedly sent it to the Western Paradise to obtain scriptures.

The Ghost-headed Ape’s resentment over its life of torment led Qin He to receive the Immortal's Coffin Lid Technique. Qin He used it on Zhang Liang, whose family graveyard produced a newly awakened corpse.

• The Ghost-headed Ape recalled how the Demon Suppression Division had forced it into labor, then killed it just before it could reclaim its hobby.
• The Ghost-headed Ape’s resentful corpse reached Qin He, and the Soul-Snatching Shadow Lamp awarded him the Immortal's Coffin Lid Technique.
• Qin He decided the technique would clear dangerous graves, learned it, and cast it on Zhang Liang as he returned from outside the gate.
• A grave at Zhang Family Graveyard Mountain exploded, and an elderly corpse roared that it wished to ascend to heaven.

Qin He quickly burned a corpse and then processed a dangerous Blood Red Demon Spider, extracting its valuable materials before purifying and burning it. Zhang Liang and Ji Daye were left baffled that the supposedly vicious spider never rose.

• Zhang Liang felt a sudden chill outside the gate, then watched Qin He finish burning a corpse at remarkable speed.
• Qin He credited his speed to his strength, and Zhang Liang urged him to keep up the momentum.
• Ji Daye brought in a Blood Red Demon Spider, which Qin He casually swung onto the Corpse Purification Platform.
• While Zhang Liang and Ji Daye argued about whether the spider would rise, Qin He consulted the Myriad Demon Compendium and learned its Poison Sac and spider silk could be sold.
• Qin He extracted the Poison Sac and spider silk, stitched and purified the spider, then burned it without incident.
• Zhang Liang glared at Ji Daye, who fled to find another corpse.

Qin He burned the Blood Red Demon Spider’s corpse and received the Demon Spider Flying Blade, a nearly invisible, razor-sharp spider silk. As he prepared for another corpse, a wolf-headed demon’s corpse mutated and killed a Corpse Burner, drawing Niu Chengan and the others into battle.

• Qin He burned the Blood Red Demon Spider’s corpse, whose resentment had come from years of torture in the Demon Suppression Division after its race was exterminated.
• Qin He suppressed the spider’s Resentful Energy and received the Demon Spider Flying Blade as his reward.
• Qin He inspected the nearly weightless, transparent silk, stored it in his Armpit Space, and handed the bone ash to Zhang Liang.
• Two Corpse Burners screamed as a corpse mutation struck, and Niu Chengan shouted for the fiend to surrender.
• Zhang Liang rushed toward the commotion, while Qin He went to look and saw a two-headed wolf-headed demon holding a human head and fighting Niu Chengan and the others.