Chapter Summaries

Wei Wu recruited a crowd to travel west by promising You Wenqu a medicine that could restore his root, while concealing his real plans from Qian Wuliang. He prepared to lead the expedition ahead of Qin He, hoping to find Wei Yuanji and support Qin He against paranormal phenomena in the Western Regions.

• Wei Wu paid for a lavish feast and persuaded You Wenqu to join the westward journey by claiming the Western Regions held pills that could restore his root.
• You Wenqu rallied the crowd to travel west, and they began shouting about going west, bandits, and robbery.
• Qian Wuliang exposed Wei Wu's claims about the pills and refused to bet his Dual Corpse Sedan against him.
• Wei Wu reflected that he wanted to find his missing cousin Wei Yuanji and believed he was somewhere farther away, possibly in the Western Regions.
• Wei Wu reasoned that Qin He would eventually head west and that a large group could help him face paranormal phenomena, so he resolved to lead the expedition ahead of Qin He.

Lamborghini and Ma Fei confronted Wei Wu at a restaurant and questioned his plans to lead people west. Wei Wu claimed he was Blue Ox’s foremost disciple, and Lamborghini challenged his strength by saying Little Sable was stronger.

• Lamborghini and Ma Fei entered the restaurant, demanded wine and food, and frightened the shopkeeper into serving them.
• Lamborghini sat across from Wei Wu, while Ma Fei sent Qian Wuliang away.
• Wei Wu and Lamborghini traded insults and clashed over who was stronger.
• Lamborghini asked why Wei Wu was gathering people to head west, and Wei Wu said they had chosen to go willingly.
• Wei Wu claimed he was Blue Ox’s foremost disciple, but Lamborghini dismissed him and said Little Sable was stronger.

Wang Tie Zhu and Little Sable arrived as Wei Wu and Lamborghini argued about who ranked first among Blue Ox’s disciples. Wang Tie Zhu then negotiated with Wei Wu over joining his westward plans, insisting that the corpses be left behind.

• Wang Tie Zhu entered with Little Sable, whose Dao Palace Realm aura startled Wei Wu.
• Lamborghini pressured Wei Wu to name Blue Ox’s foremost disciple, and Wei Wu named Lamborghini to avoid offending him.
• Wang Tie Zhu accused Lamborghini of being used as a shield, and Lamborghini told Wei Wu to make such remarks in private.
• Wang Tie Zhu told Wei Wu he wanted to discuss the people Wei Wu planned to lure away from the Heaven Punishing Bureau.
• Wang Tie Zhu agreed to Wei Wu’s westward plans on the condition that he could keep the corpses, preferably intact, and Wei Wu accepted.

A strange black-and-white creature crawled into Corpse Burning Room No. 7 and repeatedly bounced back after Lamborghini stomped it flat. Lamborghini prepared to crush it again as the beasts watched in disbelief.

• A tiny black-and-white creature emerged from a hole outside Corpse Burning Room No. 7 and crawled toward the entrance.
• Lamborghini stepped on the creature at the doorway, then went back inside without noticing it was wedged between the stones.
• The creature slipped through the door and startled Ma Fei, drawing Wang Tie Zhu, Lamborghini, Ma Fei, and Old Ape around it.
• Ma Fei guessed the creature was a meat fungus, while Old Ape thought it resembled a toe.
• Lamborghini repeatedly stomped the creature flat, but it restored itself each time.
• Lamborghini leaped up and brought both hooves down toward the creature again.

Lamborghini and the others tried to destroy a small magical object that kept restoring itself, escalating from stomping it to attacking it with tools. The chapter ended with someone at the Domain Gate Palace choking Cui Yan and demanding to know where his missing toe had gone.

• Lamborghini stomped the small object flat, but it slowly restored itself.
• Lamborghini unleashed a barrage of stomps, flattening the object until Ma Fei blew it into the air and it recovered again.
• Wang Tie Zhu, Ma Fei, Old Ape, and Lamborghini attacked the object with a hammer, stool, and iron rod, but it kept restoring itself.
• The four beasts spent nearly half an hour trying increasingly desperate methods, including calling for a knife, boiling water, and lighting the furnace.
• At the Domain Gate Palace, the person who had lost a toe grabbed Cui Yan by the throat and demanded to know where it was.

Qin He discovered that his right big toe had vanished and enlisted Cui Yan to figure out what happened. As Qin He put his shoe back on, his foot suddenly hurt because someone had stepped on the missing toe.

• Qin He confronted Cui Yan after finding that his right big toe had disappeared.
• Cui Yan explained that gods could not freely descend from the Divine Realm and had no clues about the missing toe.
• Qin He noticed that his last Shuttle Talisman was also gone, leading Cui Yan to suspect the toe had used it to escape.
• Qin He put his shoe back on and cried out when someone stepped on his missing toe.

Qin He felt his toe being attacked and tried to identify what was happening with Cui Yan’s help. He realized the attackers had boiled it and then exposed it to Southern Ming Li Fire.

• Qin He felt pain in his toe and asked Cui Yan to help identify what was hurting it.
• Qin He sensed a group using blunt and sharp weapons, along with bamboo and wood, to strike his toe.
• Qin He felt his toe being placed in water that gradually warmed and began to boil.
• Cui Yan concluded the toe was being white-poached, irritating Qin He with his cooking commentary.
• Qin He felt scorching heat after Cui Yan predicted fire-roasting and realized the attackers were using Southern Ming Li Fire.

Qin He caught four beasts trying to burn his severed toe in the furnace and punished them for their scheme. He named Lamborghini the chief culprit, Wang Tie Zhu second, and ordered both to stay in beast form and reflect on their mistakes.

• Qin He kicked open Corpse Burning Room No. 7 and found Old Ape, Ma Fei, Lamborghini, and Wang Tie Zhu stoking a furnace containing his severed toe.
• Qin He made the four beasts kneel and demanded to know who had started the scheme.
• Wang Tie Zhu blamed Lamborghini, and Qin He struck Lamborghini with a fire poker until it admitted some guilt.
• Lamborghini accused Wang Tie Zhu of proposing to cut off Qin He's toe and burn it, so Qin He struck Wang Tie Zhu as well.
• Qin He declared Lamborghini the chief culprit and Wang Tie Zhu second, then forbade both from taking human form and ordered them to reflect.

Wei Wu led a growing procession west through the mountains, with Divine Chariot Pillar helping rally former Heaven Punishing Bureau members. They reached the edge of the Western Regions and learned that the nearby Lingyu Kingdom had vanished from the Bureau’s records three hundred years earlier.

• More than a thousand people traveled west, clearing roads, building bridges, and driving away Demonic Beasts, Demons, and Monsters.
• Wei Wu reflected that the journey had drawn a growing crowd, including people who knew neither its destination nor its purpose.
• Wei Wu consulted an ancient map and learned from Divine Chariot Pillar that the procession was nearing the Lingyu Kingdom.
• Divine Chariot Pillar explained that the small kingdom had been founded by a beast-taming cultivator, but contact with it ceased after its wilderness road was cut off three hundred years earlier.

Wei Wu and Qian Wuliang wagered on whether Lingyu Kingdom still existed, with the Dual Corpse Sedan at stake. When scouts spotted a city beyond the mountain, Qian Wuliang suspected Wei Wu had tricked him, and the two corpses rushed ahead to investigate.

• Divine Chariot Pillar said the Western Regions held a secret of the Abyss Lower Realm and pointed to the sky when Wei Wu asked what it was.
• Qian Wuliang warned Wei Wu not to pry into the Western Regions’ mysteries.
• Wei Wu wagered that Lingyu Kingdom still existed, offering to return Qian Wuliang’s Dual Corpse Sedan if Qian Wuliang won and extending its borrowing period if he lost.
• Qian Wuliang bet that Lingyu Kingdom no longer existed, hoping to win back the sedan.
• Scouts spotted a city beyond the mountain, and Qian Wuliang accused Wei Wu of setting him up.
• Wei Wu ordered the two corpses to investigate, and Qian Wuliang hurried after them.

Wei Wu’s party reached the Lingyu Kingdom and found a settlement of starving, terrified people whose tongues had all been cut out. The chapter ended with the group confronting the brutal evidence, including infants who had not been spared.

• Wei Wu revealed a distant city, winning his bet with Qian Wuliang that the Lingyu Kingdom still existed.
• Divine Chariot Pillar led the party toward the city, and scouts reported finding citizens nearby.
• The group found roughly twenty gaunt people living in filthy straw huts and dressed in animal hides.
• The scouting leader explained that the people were not mute by nature and showed that their tongues had been cut out.
• Divine Chariot Pillar and the others learned that every person in the settlement, including infants, had lost their tongue.

Wei Wu tried to learn whether the boy from the savage tribe understood him, but the boy only accepted and shared his flatbread. As the procession moved on, the boy secretly warned Wei Wu to stay silent when darkness fell.

• Wei Wu learned that the savages used knotted cords instead of writing, and Qian Wuliang argued that this meant Lingyu Kingdom no longer existed.
• Wei Wu offered a little boy flatbread and tried asking whether he understood his words, but the boy showed no response.
• The boy took another flatbread, tore it into pieces, and shared it among the savages as Wei Wu’s procession continued onward.
• After the procession had gone some distance, the boy climbed a bare tree and gestured toward the sky, then signaled for Wei Wu to be quiet.
• Wei Wu told Qian Wuliang that the boy had warned them to stay silent when darkness fell.

Wei Wu and Qian Wuliang reached a strange, silent city surrounded by tongue-less savages, and Divine Chariot Pillar ordered the force to camp outside it for the night. Strange transformations began in the camp, and Qian Wuliang vanished after Wei Wu sent him to investigate a noise.

• Qian Wuliang complained to Wei Wu as they approached the city and saw starving, tongue-less savages living in crude huts.
• Divine Chariot Pillar ordered the force to camp outside the city, stay quiet, and keep watch until dawn.
• At midnight, a divine soldier woke to find a pig in his tent and discovered his companion Gao Fei was missing.
• A tiny horse ran from the tent and fell into a mud pit, with a pig following it.
• Wei Wu asked Qian Wuliang to investigate a noise and offered to halve his rental term when Qian refused.
• Qian Wuliang vanished in a flash, leaving a blade of wild grass where he had been sitting, and Wei Wu dropped his teacup in shock.

Wei Wu discovered that spoken words could transform people into objects and tried to stop the camp from speaking. The Divine Chariot Pillar declared that all speech was forbidden, but Qian Wuliang and several others had already been transformed.

• Wei Wu found that Qian Wuliang had vanished and a living blade of grass had grown in his place after Qian Wuliang said, "I grass."
• Wei Wu covered the grass with a box and rushed toward a commotion as pursuers chased a little pig and a miniature horse through the camp.
• A man turned into a soft-shelled turtle after someone mocked the miniature horse, and others became grass after saying, "I grass."
• Wei Wu shouted for everyone to shut up, and the crowd fell silent.
• The Divine Chariot Pillar arrived and declared that Words Become Law, forbidding everyone to speak under threat of execution.

After the Words Become Law curse threatened everyone in the camp, Wei Wu ordered them to stay silent until dawn and hurried back to his tent. Outside, two Supernatural Creatures harvested animals and grass before approaching a tent, where one last “blade of grass” remained.

• The camp fell silent as Wei Wu and Divine Chariot Pillar realized anyone might use Words Become Law against them.
• Wei Wu told everyone to return to their tents and make no sound until dawn.
• Wei Wu returned to his tent, sealed it, and called out to Qin He’s statue without kneeling or speaking normally.
• Two Supernatural Creatures emerged from the darkness and entered the camp.
• The creatures harvested a pig, a pony, a ground beetle, and wild grass, then headed toward a tent with one last “blade of grass.”

Two Supernatural Creatures attacked the camp, forcing Wei Wu’s Dual Corpse Sedan to flee with Qian Wuliang’s grass-covered wooden box as bait. After the creatures pursued it and the danger faded, Wei Wu and Divine Chariot Pillar considered what to do next.

• Divine Chariot Pillar attacked the Supernatural Creatures with twin axes, but they passed through the blows and drove him into hiding with their deadly gazes.
• The Supernatural Creatures headed for Wei Wu’s tent, but the Dual Corpse Sedan burst out and fled, shouting for Venerable Yuan Qing to run.
• The Supernatural Creatures chased the sedan, and the darkness around the camp gradually lifted.
• Wei Wu emerged holding Qin He’s idol and prayed that the sedan would survive, blaming Qian Wuliang for saying he was grass.
• Divine Chariot Pillar asked Wei Wu what the creatures were and what they should do, and Wei Wu raised the idol as a possible solution.

Qin He’s group traveled west in a floating ox cart, forcing Wang Tie Zhu and Lamborghini to clear the road and pull the cart as punishment. During a brief stop to cook, a sedan chair carrying Venerable Yuan Qing rushed past, followed by approaching scarlet lights.

• Qin He continued toward the Western Regions in a carriage he had taken from Zhū Tiān Fǔ.
• Wang Tie Zhu shoveled obstacles away while Lamborghini pulled the cart, both enduring Qin He’s punishment for striking his toe.
• Qin He agreed to stop for food until dawn, and Wang Tie Zhu had Ma Fei and Old Ape prepare a meal.
• A sedan chair carried by two people shot over the bonfire as its bearers cried for Venerable Yuan Qing to run.
• Scarlet lights approached, and Wang Tie Zhu shouted that ghosts were coming.

Qin He’s group narrowly avoided being killed by two Supernatural Creatures, which were destroyed by the Divine Shovel. After Ma Fei went to retrieve Qian Wuliang, Qin He decided to delay setting out toward Wei Wu until after the group had eaten.

• Ma Fei tried to scare off two Supernatural Creatures with a firewood stick, then fled behind Qin He when he saw them.
• Wang Tie Zhu struck at the creatures with heavenly lightning, drawing their attention and nearly getting hit by their concentrated red light.
• The Divine Shovel swept across the creatures and half the mountain, while the creatures escaped and Wang Tie Zhu collapsed in terror.
• Qin He told Ma Fei to retrieve Qian Wuliang, whom he identified as the potted grass carried by two corpse puppets.
• Qin He read Wei Wu’s note saying something had happened ahead and decided the group would eat before setting out.

As the Supernatural Creature trapped the camp in endless night, Lin Yun considered using Words Become Law to kill Divine Chariot Pillar and everyone who could identify him. When a rooster crow signaled dawn, Lin Yun seized his final chance and declared the camp’s people to be wild grass.

• The Supernatural Creature returned to the camp, and the sky stayed dark long after the fifth watch.
• Divine Chariot Pillar and his subordinates waited silently with Wei Wu, who continued insisting that Immortal Green Ox would arrive soon.
• Lin Yun recalled his rivalry with Divine Chariot Pillar and weighed killing him, his trusted subordinates, and the rest of the camp to secure his revenge and escape.
• A rooster crowed, and the sky began to brighten as dawn approached.
• Lin Yun shouted that everyone was wild grass, invoking Words Become Law.

Wu De and Fahai tracked the Journey to the West party to a camp surrounded by supernatural creatures. Wu De sent a magical rooster into the darkness, and its crow brought dawn as a creature roared.

• Wu De and Fahai followed the Journey to the West party’s trail, hoping to find the Daoist Immortal Lingyun through Great Immortal Green Ox.
• They reached the camp and saw supernatural creatures lurking beyond the dim firelight.
• Fahai warned that the party would be wiped out if the night continued and told Wu De to use the rooster.
• Wu De pulled a brightly feathered rooster from his crotch and kicked it toward the camp.
• The rooster crowed, bringing dawn and provoking a hysterical roar.