Chapter Summaries

Wu De and Fahai molded a statue of Great Immortal Green Ox to demand the return of their stolen treasures. Fahai prayed sincerely and got his Demon Subduing Pestle back, while Wu De ended up kneeling too.

• Wu De beat dirt by the City Moat while Fahai ate sweet potatoes, then urged him to help mold a statue of Great Immortal Green Ox.
• Fahai quickly sculpted the statue and prayed for the return of his Demon Subduing Pestle.
• Wu De refused to kneel and angrily demanded that Great Immortal Green Ox return the Dust-Whipping Pearl.
• Fahai apologized for Wu De and prayed sincerely, then a black object fell from the sky and split Wu De's stick.
• Fahai recognized the object as his Demon Subduing Pestle, celebrated the Great Immortal's divine power, and knelt to kowtow.
• Wu De also knelt beside Fahai.

Wu De received a Thunder Spirit Pill after kneeling to Great Immortal Green Ox, while Qin He watched the demon songstress Xiao Yingniang perform at Sheng Hua Tower. The chapter ended when a sinister man who was actually a huge azure snake demanded that Xiao Yingniang sing again.

• Wu De denied saying he would rather die than kneel, and the Thunder Spirit Pill struck him on the head.
• Wu De recognized the pill, accepted it as a gift from Great Immortal Green Ox, and kowtowed in gratitude.
• Qin He attended Xiao Yingniang’s performance at Sheng Hua Tower and recognized her as a transformed oriole demon.
• A sinister stranger entered the tower, ordered Xiao Yingniang to sing another song, and Qin He recognized him as a huge azure snake demon.

Azure Snake confronted Huang Li in Sheng Hua Tower and attacked the steward and frightened the human patrons into fleeing. As he prepared to punish Huang Li for leaving the Demon Race, Green Snake King noticed a man quietly eating sunflower seeds whom he had somehow overlooked.

• Azure Snake recognized Huang Li and suppressed her, causing her pipa to fall and her to collapse.
• The Sheng Hua Tower steward tried to stop Azure Snake, but Azure Snake’s pressure sent him crashing through the tower’s walls.
• The terrified patrons fled Sheng Hua Tower, leaving Huang Li behind to beg Azure Snake for mercy.
• Huang Li explained that she had left Azure Snake City to pursue her musical talent among humans, while Azure Snake planned to punish her for betraying the Demon Race.
• Green Snake King heard someone cracking sunflower seeds and discovered a man in the corner whom he had failed to notice.

Qin He calmly faced the Green Snake King at the Hundred Flowers Pavilion, trading threats with him while protecting Huang Li from the Demon King's venom. After Qin He used Shifting Forms to save Huang Li, the Green Snake King realized he had underestimated him.

• The Green Snake King found Qin He sitting calmly while everyone else fled and questioned why he had not run.
• Qin He and the Green Snake King traded taunts about eating each other as prey.
• Huang Li began singing under the Green Snake King's threat but hit a wrong note.
• The Green Snake King spat venom at Huang Li, but Qin He used Shifting Forms to swap her position with an overturned table.
• The Green Snake King recognized Qin He as no ordinary man, and Qin He urged him not to be angered.

Qin He exposed the Green Snake King's complicated ties to the Bloodwing Bat King, then killed it with a single strike of his Big Black Shovel. He carried away the dead demon, leaving the Oriole Demon stunned in Sheng Hua Tower.

• Qin He recited the Green Snake King's background and its uneasy allegiance to the Bloodwing Bat King.
• The Green Snake King attacked Qin He with its poisonous tongue, believing it had pierced him.
• Qin He's afterimage vanished, and he struck the Green Snake King from behind with the Big Black Shovel, killing it.
• Qin He confirmed the Green Snake King was dead, slung its true form over his shoulder, and disappeared.
• The Oriole Demon watched in disbelief as the Green Snake King was gone.

The Illusion Butterfly Demoness returned to the reopened Gate of Hai and found golden fur that she recognized as belonging to the Ancestral Demon. Meanwhile, Qin He brought the Green Snake King's corpse to his disciples and ordered them to prepare it for sale, use, and a meal.

• Niu Chengan reopened the Gate of Hai under orders from the Demon Suppression Division's upper ranks and began clearing its ruined interior.
• The Illusion Butterfly Demoness, disguised among the soldiers, searched the Gate of Hai for clues to the Ancestral Demon's whereabouts.
• The Illusion Butterfly Demoness found a shattered beast cage and recognized a strand of golden fur as the Ancestral Demon's.
• Qin He brought the Green Snake King's corpse to Corpse Burning Room No. 7 and ordered Wang Tie Zhu, Ma Fei, and Lamborghini to process it.
• Qin He told Wang Tie Zhu to call Little Sable back before they ate.

Wang Tie Zhu dismantled the Green Snake King's corpse for valuable materials, then restored it so it could be burned. Qin He delegated both tasks to Wang Tie Zhu, tended to his worshippers’ wishes, and sent Ma Fei to buy a donkey penis for Wu Hansan.

• Wang Tie Zhu used its tools to remove the Green Snake King's horn, hide, Inner Core, gallbladder, Poison Sac, tendons, and meat.
• Wang Tie Zhu restored the Green Snake King's corpse with a wooden horn and green paint, and Qin He entrusted it with Corpse Dismantling and Corpse Purification.
• Qin He checked the Mysterious Little Notebook and granted Jiao Hai He’s wish for miraculous pills and medicine by sending an Origin Energy Pill.
• Qin He saw Wu Hansan’s repeated wish for a longer penis and told Ma Fei to buy a donkey penis.

Qin He decided to grant Wu Hansan’s persistent wish and obtained two dark, foot-long whips with Ma Fei’s help. Meanwhile, Du Ziteng and Wu Hansan discussed their desperate circumstances and resolved to keep praying to Great Immortal Green Ox.

• Qin He decided that Wu Hansan’s frequent, sincere prayers deserved to have his wish granted.
• Ma Fei returned with two dark whips after a buy-one-get-one-free offer, and Qin He asked Wang Tie Zhu to come with him.
• At the Purple Thorn Merchant Guild’s tavern, Du Ziteng asked Wu Hansan about his repeated visits to the Immortal Temple.
• Du Ziteng explained that he could not afford to keep praying because his guild work and wages were poor.
• Wu Hansan said he would keep praying for as long as it took, and Du Ziteng agreed that they had nowhere else to turn.

Du Ziteng and Wu Hansan discussed their desperate circumstances and their hopes that Immortal Green Ox could help them. When a hunchback youth came searching for Wu Hansan, Wu fled through a window, and the youth pursued him.

• Du Ziteng’s ruined dantian and his mother’s mysterious death left him destitute and unable to escape his resentment.
• Wu Hansan explained that a Shrinking Body Curse was draining his vital essence and had nearly reached its deadly final stage.
• Wu Hansan resolved to keep worshipping at the crowded Immortal Green Ox Temple in hopes of being cured.
• A hunchback youth entered the tavern asking for Wu Hansan, who recognized the danger and leapt through a window.
• The hunchback youth dodged a flying tabletop and chased Wu Hansan through the window, leaving Du Ziteng fearing that his brother’s enemies had found them.

Qin He and Wang Tie Zhu discovered that Wu Hansan’s condition had been caused by a curse, which Qin He removed before they carried out Wu Hansan’s wish. Wang Tie Zhu stitched a donkey penis onto him and, deciding Qin He’s instructions allowed it, prepared to attach the other one too.

• Wang Tie Zhu brought the unconscious Wu Hansan to Qin He, who ordered him to fulfill Wu Hansan’s wish.
• Wang Tie Zhu and the others discovered that Wu Hansan’s condition was unusually severe and laughed at what they found.
• Qin He spotted gray qi around Wu Hansan, used Blessing Techniques to dispel it, and determined he had been cursed.
• Wang Tie Zhu cut off Wu Hansan’s penis and stitched on the donkey penis using Black Jade Marrow-Joining Paste.
• Wang Tie Zhu decided to use the second donkey penis as well, since Qin He had only said to make it grow.

Qin He watched the Green Snake King’s life through the Shadow Play Performance and saw how a series of lucky accidents brought the once-overlooked snake demon to prominence. The Green Snake King rose within the King Snake Clan, which began planning to marry him into the clan and keep him as a subordinate.

• Wang Tie Zhu told Qin He that Wu Hansan’s dantian had grown back, then carried Wu Hansan away.
• Qin He burned the Green Snake King’s bones and watched the Shadow Play Performance reveal its life.
• The Green Snake King swallowed Earth Milk and became a rising talent in the struggling Azure Snake Clan.
• The King Snake Clan invited the Green Snake King to study, but initially treated it as an unremarkable recruit.
• The Green Snake King found a dying ancient Old Black Snake, swallowed its corpse, and gained the Flood Dragon Scale.
• After absorbing the Flood Dragon Scale, the Green Snake King reached the Wheel Sea Realm, and the King Snake Clan planned to give it a wife and make it stay.

The Green Snake King’s rise from a fugitive to a Dao Palace Realm ruler was driven by the Flood Dragon Scale and its plunder of Bat King City. Seeking the Ancestor Demon Legacy in Lin’an, it encountered Qin He and suffered a disastrous defeat.

• The Green Snake King fled the King Snake Clan’s territory and joined the Bloodwing Bat King in Bat King City.
• After the Bloodwing Bat King entered troubled seclusion, the Green Snake King seized control of Bat King City’s resources and broke through to the Dao Palace Realm.
• The Green Snake King left Bat King City to establish Azure Snake City while secretly hoping to find the Ancestor Demon Legacy and learn the Bloodwing Bat King’s fate.
• The Bloodwing Bat King sent the Green Snake King to Lin’an to challenge the Great Jing Empire, giving it an excuse to investigate the capital.
• The Green Snake King encountered Qin He listening to opera and was defeated with a single shovel.

Qin He learned the Path-Unraveling Technique, which let him reclaim Dao methods he had transmitted, and used it to take back the Ox Riding Technique he had given Lamborghini. Wu Hansan returned to Du Ziteng with his curse lifted after encountering the Great Immortal Green Ox, leaving Du Ziteng determined to worship the immortal.

• Qin He learned the Path-Unraveling Technique and recognized it as a way to reverse methods he had taught.
• Qin He sent Lamborghini the Ox Riding Technique, then used the new technique to remove it from Lamborghini's mind.
• Du Ziteng worried that Wu Hansan had vanished while being pursued by his enemy and waited anxiously at the Purple Thorn Merchant Guild.
• Wu Hansan returned and told Du Ziteng that the Great Immortal Green Ox had manifested and lifted his curse.
• Du Ziteng resolved to worship the Great Immortal Green Ox the next day, and Wu Hansan urged him to be sincere.

Qin He invited the memory-lost Old Ape to eat with the group and recognized him as the Ancestral Demon of the ape lineage, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven. Old Ape remained confused and submissive, and the chapter ended with Wang Tie Zhu frightening him into swallowing fiercely spicy snake meat.

• Wang Tie Zhu served a lavish dinner of snake stew, grilled snake meat, and fish, and Qin He invited Old Ape to join the meal.
• Old Ape sat cautiously with the group and began eating after Qin He assured him there was plenty.
• Qin He reflected that Old Ape was the Ancestral Demon of the ape lineage, despite his decrepit state and lost memories.
• Qin He called Old Ape the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, but Old Ape showed no recognition, leaving the others uncertain.
• Wang Tie Zhu put intensely spicy snake meat in Old Ape's bowl and claimed Qin He burned anyone who rejected his favorite flavor, so Old Ape swallowed it and called it delicious.

Qin He visited the Purple Thorn Merchant Guild looking for Du Ziteng, but learned that Du had gone to worship immortals. Wu Hansan suggested Qin He visit the Immortal Temple, where Du’s first round would soon end.

• After breakfast, Qin He headed to the Purple Thorn Merchant Guild to visit Du Ziteng.
• Qin He slipped through the crowded guild hall and found Wu Hansan staffing Du’s counter.
• Wu Hansan told Qin He that Du had gone to worship immortals and was handling the business in his place.
• Qin He started to leave without leaving a message for Du.
• Wu Hansan called after Qin He, recommending that he go to the Immortal Temple and worship an immortal.

The Heaven Punishing Bureau condemned the Immortal Green Ox Temple and the Crown Prince of Great Jing for defying the divine edict, then sent a powerful force toward Great Jing. News of the approaching judgment raced toward Lin'an City as the kingdom faced the threat of collapse.

• The Immortal Green Ox Temple and its spreading nursery rhyme drew worshippers and alarmed neighboring nations, which waited for the Heaven Punishing Bureau to respond.
• The Prefect of Beiliang Prefecture declared that Green Ox Pseudo-Immortal and his followers must die and ordered the Crown Prince of Great Jing brought in for judgment.
• A Golden Armored General and eleven bureau soldiers rode toward Great Jing, displaying strength that made the Northern Liang Capital tremble.
• Observers feared that the Four Great Clans might seize the Crown Prince and that Great Jing could fall before the bureau's force arrived.
• News of the Golden Armored General's departure raced toward Lin'an City.

Wei Wu learned that the Heaven Punishing Bureau had ordered him and everyone around Great Immortal Green Ox executed. He responded by ordering two more temples built for Great Immortal Green Ox and privately hoped Qin He would not flee.

• You Wenqu rushed into Wei Wu's bedchamber with an urgent secret message from a thunderbird.
• Wei Wu read the message and learned that the Heaven Punishing Bureau had ordered everyone around Great Immortal Green Ox executed and demanded that Great Immortal Green Ox be brought in.
• Wei Wu ordered two more Immortal Green Ox Temples built before nightfall and told You Wenqu to notify Corpse Burning Room No. 7.
• Wei Wu sent You Wenqu away and prayed that Qin He would stand his ground against the Heaven Punishing Bureau.

The Four Great Clans debated how to respond to the Heaven Punishing Bureau’s impending attack on Great Immortal Green Ox and Li Chenggang, but they could not judge which side was stronger. They decided to delay taking action and send the Golden Armored General a message explaining their caution, then learned that Li Chenggang had begun building two more False Immortal Temples.

• Hong Hao threatened to end the meeting until Yan Jingdan called the four clan leaders to discuss their choices.
• Yan Jingdan asked Liang Hengshi to assess Great Immortal Green Ox’s strength, but Liang admitted he did not know whether Green Ox would lose.
• Yan Jingdan proposed that the clans stay put and tell the Golden Armored General they would wait for his arrival before attacking the Green Ox Heretical Cult, and the others agreed.
• A Yan Clan member informed Yan Jingdan that Li Chenggang had begun building two more False Immortal Temples.
• Liang Hengshi suggested sending Great Immortal Green Ox a message of support, and the other three clan leaders agreed.

The Four Great Clans secretly warned Qin He that the other families planned to support the Heaven Punishing Bureau, while each claimed loyalty to him. Qin He tested their sincerity by demanding they worship the Immortal and join the Green Ox Disciples, then cursed Liang Hengshi with an obsession to spank the Golden Armored General.

• Liang Hengshi, Yan Jingdan, Gu Tianlan, and Hong Hao each sent secret envoys to warn Qin He about the other clans and deny their own support for the Heaven Punishing Bureau.
• Wei Wu’s envoy told Qin He that two more Immortal Green Ox Temples would be built and warned that the Heaven Punishing Bureau’s Golden Armored General was approaching.
• After hearing all five envoys’ conflicting claims, Qin He told Wang Tie Zhu and Ma Fei to demand that the four clans worship the Immortal and join the Green Ox Disciples.
• Liang Hengshi prayed for relief from a supernatural affliction and offered seventy percent of his family fortune.
• Qin He used the Obsession Technique on Liang Hengshi, making him obsessed with spanking the Golden Armored General when he saw him.

Qin He used the Obsession Technique to plant humiliating compulsions in the Four Great Clans’ patriarchs for when they met the Golden Armored General, then rewarded Wei Wu for building two Immortal Green Ox Temples. As the temples rose alongside the spreading Heaven Punishing Orders, Lin'an City remained strangely calm.

• Qin He sent Gu Tianlan, Hong Hao, and Yan Jingdan increasingly large numbers of Obsession Techniques, each compelling them to disgrace the Golden Armored General.
• Qin He sent Wei Wu two Sun Ascension Pills after remembering that he had built two new Immortal Green Ox Temples.
• Wei Wu took Qin He's reward as approval and sped up temple construction, using the City Guard and Demon Suppression Division to clear the selected sites.
• Several days later, two temples were rising in Lin'an City as the Heaven Punishing Orders spread, but the city showed no sign of unrest.