Chapter Summaries

Old Striker encountered a Corpse in Burial Robes during his night patrol, and a masked man captured it before trying to kill him. Wei Wu intervened, drove off the masked man, and took the sack, but the Corpse in Burial Robes escaped and ran.

• Old Striker ran into a Corpse in Burial Robes in an alley and fled as it chased him.
• A masked man captured the Corpse in Burial Robes with a yellow cloth sack, then drew a blade and attacked Old Striker.
• Wei Wu struck the masked man, wounded him, and used Shape-Shifting to retrieve the sack before the masked man fled.
• Wei Wu claimed the sack, but an incantation split it open and released the Corpse in Burial Robes.
• Wei Wu called after the fleeing Corpse in Burial Robes, calling it his beloved consort.

Qin He captured the Corpse in Burial Robes and followed the masked man's aura, while a Great Monk and Wei Wu pursued the same trail. The chapter left Qin He racing toward the outskirts, with both groups chasing after him.

• The Great Monk arrived in the alley, mistook Old Striker's flight for a sign of danger, and used his tongue to trace the Corpse in Burial Robes's trail.
• Old Striker met Wei Wu and the Corpse Burning Hall, and Wei Wu set off after the Great Monk, believing him to be Great Immortal Green Ox.
• Qin He pinned the Corpse in Burial Robes to a wall with Corpse Suppressing Nails, examined its stitched-together body, and immobilized it with smaller nails.
• Qin He concealed the corpse beneath his armpit and used Qi Gazing Technique to spot an aura resembling the masked man's beyond the Imperial City.
• The Great Monk and Wei Wu arrived after Qin He had left and followed his trail.

Qin He used the Great Monk’s anger to turn him against Wei Wu and his men, then spotted a flaw in the monk’s Golden Bell Shield. The fight continued as Qin He urged Wei Wu’s side to attack the monk’s exposed backside.

• At a ruined temple, Lady Asha met Lord Zuoma to discuss winter preparations, rebuilding the Bayala squad, and investigating several deaths, while cries for help sounded outside.
• Qin He spotted the Great Monk and Wei Wu tracking him, so he taunted the monk and led him back toward Wei Wu’s group.
• Wei Wu and the Great Monk mistook each other for the Great Immortal Green Ox and charged into battle.
• The Great Monk’s Golden Bell Shield protected him as he fought Wei Wu and his men, while Qin He watched and ate melon seeds.
• Qin He used the Qi Gazing Technique to find that the monk’s backside stuck out beyond his shield and shouted for Wei Wu’s men to stab him there.

Wei Wu helped defeat the Great Monk while Qin He searched for the masked man, who was captured by the Flying Fish Guard. Escaping the guarded area with Shape-Shifting, Qin He appeared in a ruined temple before Liu Changan and four men wearing dogskin caps.

• Wei Wu struck the Great Monk with a Wolf Tooth Club carrying Corpse Qi, and Wei Wu’s men drove the wounded monk into flight.
• Qin He put away his sunflower seeds, picked up the Corpse in Burial Robes, and resumed searching for the masked man.
• The Flying Fish Guard swept through West City after a signal arrow, and Qin He used Shape-Shifting to escape an officer who mistook him for a thief.
• Qin He saw the masked man captured alive by two Flying Fish Thousand-Household Officers and avoided confronting a powerful presence lurking nearby.
• Qin He used Shape-Shifting several times to reach a ruined temple, where Liu Changan and four men in dogskin caps stared at him in surprise.

Qin He escaped a raid on the Di Barbarian spies and returned to the Corpse Burning Room with the Corpse in Burial Robes. After deciding to spare Big Turtle and treating its injury, he accidentally gave it a Soft-Body Pill, stretching its neck dramatically.

• Qin He flashed away from Liu Changan’s attack, leaving Duoling to be struck by four curved blades as a shout exposed the ruined temple and brought the Flying Fish Guard down on the gathering.
• Shen Lian, Yuwen Jing, and Ji Chenliang reviewed the captured criminals and spies, then ordered their interrogation while noting that Great Immortal Green Ox and the Corpse in Burial Robes had escaped.
• Qin He examined the Corpse in Burial Robes, placed it in the Corpse Burning Furnace, and worked the bellows to burn it.
• Big Turtle offered to help Qin He, and Qin He gave it a pill to heal its broken shell after deciding to spare it from the pot.
• Qin He realized he had given Big Turtle a Soft-Body Pill instead of a Golden Wound Pill, but the turtle’s neck had already stretched across the room.

Qin He helped Big Turtle retract its unnaturally stretched neck with Power Fruits, then discovered how far it could extend it. Meanwhile, Liu Changan escaped the city disguised in a manure cart and identified Qin He as the person who had thwarted him.

• Big Turtle struggled to breathe after its neck stretched out, so Qin He fed it a Power Fruit to help it retract.
• Qin He gave Big Turtle a second Power Fruit, then watched as it stretched its neck in loops around the Corpse Burning Room.
• Liu Laogen escorted Liu Changan out of the city hidden in a manure barrel while Lord Asha stayed behind to fight the Flying Fish Guard.
• After cleaning up and changing clothes, Liu Changan rode north and concluded that Qin He had exposed his disguise by his teeth and smell of coal.

Qin He used Big Turtle to tend the furnace, learned Odor Purification Technique, and cremated the Corpse in Burial Robes. Its past revealed Ji Wubing’s tragic transformation and revenge, and Qin He received a Horse Bell after the soul’s judgment.

• Qin He used Big Turtle to work the bellows and learned Odor Purification Technique from an ordinary Mutated Corpse.
• Qin He purified his own and Big Turtle’s odors, then finished cremating the Corpse in Burial Robes before dawn.
• The Shadow Play Performance revealed that Ji Wubing had been neglected by his family, studied in secret, and become a Tong Sheng while growing close to Gu Xiaoyue.
• Ji Tianlu arranged Ji Wubing’s murder, and an extraordinary person later transformed him through the Corpse Refining Technique.
• Ji Wubing returned to the Ji Family, saw Gu Xiaoyue married to Ji Tianlu, and killed all thirty-six members of the family when his feral nature erupted.
• The Black Robed Man judged Ji Wubing, and Qin He received a Horse Bell.

Qin He received the Horse Bell, a corpse-suppressing artifact, and buried Ji Wubing's ashes before heading to Zhaoyu Prison in disguise as Yuwen Jing. He reached the cell of a White Lotus Sect captive as guards whipped the prisoner inside.

• Qin He examined the Horse Bell, then ordered Big Turtle to burn Ji Wubing's corpse and keep the ashes separate.
• Qin He collected Ji Wubing's ashes and buried them beside Horse Butcher and Liu Chengji.
• Qin He saw Yuwen Jing ride out with an elite arrest squad, then entered Yuwen Residence and stole a Flying Fish Robe.
• Qin He went to Zhaoyu Prison, where Wei Wu told him that the White Lotus Sect demon was held in Room Ten of Cell Block A.
• Qin He found Room Ten and heard whips cracking inside.

Qin He took over the interrogation of the masked White Lotus Sect fiend and exposed how he had sealed away his sense of pain before capture. The fiend, shaken by Qin He's deductions, refused to betray the sect's secrets but agreed to answer questions that would not reveal anything core.

• Qin He entered the cell where Chang Wen and the Flying Fish Guard had tortured the masked fiend without getting him to speak.
• Qin He sent the others away and confronted the fiend, who recognized that he was not Yuwen Jing.
• Qin He deduced that the fiend had sealed off his pain before capture and explained how the net had hidden him from Yuwen Jing and Ji Chenliang.
• The masked fiend grew frightened, asked who Qin He was, and then asked what he wanted.
• Qin He demanded everything about the White Lotus Sect, but the fiend refused to reveal its core secrets.
• As Qin He turned to leave, the fiend stopped him and offered to answer questions about anything he could disclose without betraying the sect.

Qin He questioned Feng Jingyu about the Corpse Refining Gate, then learned the Charm Corpse would finish burning within days. When Laifu begged him to save the Liang Family from a monster, Qin He refused and returned to the Corpse Burning Room, where Big Turtle told him the intruder had come back.

• Qin He persuaded Feng Jingyu to reveal that corpse refiners belonged to the Corpse Refining Gate and that their seller performed corpse-refining rituals on full-moon nights.
• Qin He learned the Charm Corpse’s cremation would be complete within the next few days.
• Laifu begged Qin He to save the Liang Family after a monster killed more than twenty members of the household, but Qin He refused.
• Yang Baitu stopped Laifu from following Qin into the Corpse Burning Facility.
• Big Turtle told Qin He that the person who had rummaged through his belongings had returned, and Qin decided to deal with him that night.

Qin He learned that the West and Northern City Corpse Burning Facilities had suffered repeated deaths, while East City had remained peaceful until the Di Barbarians killed eight Corpse Burners. A sharp, thin Corpse Burner slapped Ling Zhonghai while killing a mosquito, and Ling ordered four dangerous corpses assigned to him.

• Qin He heard that the Northern and West City Corpse Burning Facilities had lost many Corpse Burners to nightly attacks, including several men he had known.
• Qin He saw the sharp, thin Corpse Burner with a scar approach Ling Zhonghai and ask whether it would rain tomorrow.
• The sharp, thin man distracted Ling Zhonghai, slapped him, and showed the group a dead mosquito in his palm.
• Li Tie and Gao Linkun restrained Ling Zhonghai as he drew his saber and tried to attack the man, who fled to Room Eighteen.
• Ling Zhonghai ordered four of the fiercest corpses assigned to the man, and Qin He looked around to check for more mosquitoes.

Qin He discovered that a gaunt man in Corpse Burning Room No. 18 had brought a chained Female Fierce Corpse there to feed on corpses. When the man revealed he planned to target Qin He for vital blood, Qin He confronted him and struck with his metal shovel.

• Ling Zhonghai sent four fierce corpses into Corpse Burning Room No. 18 and gave Qin He the night off because he had found no mosquito.
• The gaunt man placed Corpse Suppressing Talismans on the four corpses, released the chained Female Fierce Corpse from a yellow cloth bag, and fed her the black matter he dug from their hearts.
• The Female Fierce Corpse became agitated again, so the gaunt man said he had chosen someone in Room Seven to provide vital blood.
• Qin He entered through the smoke vent and confronted the gaunt man, who had planned to harm him but did not recognize him.
• The gaunt man stabbed at Qin He, but Qin He dodged and swung his metal shovel; the gaunt man blocked with his Green Corpse Ghost Hand, which went numb from the impact.

Qin He defeated a Corpse Refining Gate man who had entered the Corpse Burning Facility, then let him leave after hearing his plea. The man slowly headed for the southern facility, while Qin He tried to use Big Turtle to ambush him and missed.

• Qin He knocked off the sharp, thin man's Green Corpse Ghost Hand with his shovel and questioned him about his visit.
• The sharp, thin man claimed he needed corpse organs to treat his wife’s Corpse Poison, and Qin He forgave him after he denied killing Corpse Burners.
• Qin He told the sharp, thin man not to walk too fast, then returned to Room Seven and took Big Turtle out for a chance at real combat.
• The sharp, thin man walked slowly toward the southern city's Corpse Burning Facility and later encountered Qin He and Big Turtle in the woods.
• Qin He watched the sharp, thin man leave, then scolded Big Turtle for missing his target.

Qin He tested Big Turtle’s Meteor Turtle Hammer and used it to kill the sharp-faced, skinny man. He returned to Corpse Burning Room No. 18 with six corpses, eager to begin cremating them.

• Qin He named Big Turtle Wang Tiezhu and tested how accurately he could launch him at a distant target.
• Big Turtle missed the sharp-faced, skinny man from one li away, then struck him dead from a hundred paces.
• Qin He pinned the sharp-faced, skinny man with five Corpse Suppressing Nails and brought his corpse back to Corpse Burning Room No. 18.
• Qin He subdued the Female Fierce Corpse with a Rootless Corpse-Suppressing Nail.
• Qin He lined up six corpses and looked forward to cremating them for rewards.

Qin He cremated Wu Sanqu and Chang Qin'er, whose shadow play revealed Wu Sanqu's brutal rise and his forced transformation of Chang Qin'er into a corpse puppet. The Black Robed Man condemned Wu Sanqu to atone for seven sins in the Ninefold Netherworld, severing his path to reincarnation, while Qin He received two rewards.

• Qin He prepared six corpses, including Wu Sanqu and Chang Qin'er, and cremated them in two furnaces with Big Turtle's help.
• Qin He watched Wu Sanqu and Chang Qin'er's shadow play, then smashed Wu Sanqu's skull with a stick.
• Wu Sanqu's shadow play revealed how he poisoned five villagers as a child, later became a bully, and fled to Xingyang after killing a wealthy man's relative.
• Wu Sanqu became Chang Qin'er's attendant, violated her, and was tortured and left for dead by the Chang household before An Zhongjiu saved him and taught him corpse cultivation.
• Wu Sanqu returned years later, massacred the Chang household, and turned Chang Qin'er into a half-human, half-corpse puppet after she died by suicide.
• The Black Robed Man condemned Wu Sanqu to atone for seven sins in the Ninefold Netherworld, and Qin He received the Ninth Grade Qi Cultivation Art and Soundproofing Technique.

Qin He learned the Ninth Grade Qi Cultivation Art and broke through to Third Grade External Force, then used the Soundproofing Technique in Room Nineteen. Meanwhile, Shen Lian’s Flying Fish Guard examined a severed Green Corpse Ghost Hand and chose to stay out of East City as another conflict approached.

• Qin He learned the Ninth Grade Qi Cultivation Art and projected his internal qi, reaching Third Grade External Force.
• Qin He tested his new power by blasting apart the room’s roof, while Big Turtle watched and accidentally set himself alight with lamp oil.
• Qin He learned Wu Sanqu’s Soundproofing Technique and placed a barrier around Room Nineteen.
• Old Striker found a severed Green Corpse Ghost Hand in West City, and the Flying Fish Guard delivered it to Shen Lian.
• Ji Chenliang found a dog hair on the hand and suspected the events were connected to East City and Great Immortal Green Ox.
• Shen Lian ordered the Flying Fish Guard to avoid East City and decided to watch the coming conflict unfold.

Qin He gained a Wood Carving Technique and buried Chang Qin'er after the Corpse Burner in Room Eighteen vanished during a supernatural incident. When Laifu offered to build Qin He a Living Shrine in exchange for resolving the Liang Family's crisis, Qin He saw a chance to gather merit in the Capital and approached him in disguise as Great Immortal Green Ox.

• Qin He received seven years of internal strength, two pills, and the Wood Carving Technique after cremating the corpses in Room Seven.
• Ling Zhonghai and the other constables found Room Eighteen's Corpse Burner missing, a hole in the roof, and the corpses cremated, then recorded the disappearance as a supernatural incident.
• Qin He dumped Wu Sanqu's ashes and buried Chang Qin'er beside Ji Wubing, choosing a grave site he judged to have good feng shui.
• Qin He watched street performances and executions, then heard Liu Kuizui tell an overlong story about Great Immortal Green Ox and the Bat Demon.
• Laifu offered Qin He half the Liang Family fortune and a Living Shrine if he resolved their crisis, prompting Qin He to consider building a temple in the Capital.
• Qin He disguised himself as Great Immortal Green Ox and told Laifu he would resolve the Liang Family's crisis.

Qin He tried to convince the Liang Family’s old steward that he was Great Immortal Green Ox and could solve the family’s crisis. After demonstrating his strength, he won the steward’s trust and returned with him to the Liang residence, where he found the ghostly aura had grown far stronger.

• Qin He introduced himself as Great Immortal Green Ox, but the old steward repeatedly denied being connected to the Liang Family and tried to leave.
• Qin He warned that more than twenty Liang Family members had died and claimed their earlier attempt to burn the corpses had not solved the cause.
• When the old steward asked where Qin He’s ox was, Qin He said it had gone home to eat grass, prompting the steward to flee.
• Qin He pursued the old steward and shattered a boulder and a tree with palm strikes from a distance.
• The old steward recognized Qin He as an External Force master, knelt, and begged him to save the Liang Family.
• The old steward escorted Qin He back to the Liang residence, where Qin He saw ghostly mist and Yin Energy far stronger than before.

The old steward told Qin He how a hidden demonic entity had trapped the Liang Family and killed many of its members, prompting him to accept their plea for help in exchange for a temple. Qin He rescued the survivors, then burned five corpses to provoke the unseen entity, which watched him from hiding as he fell asleep.

• The old steward described how Liang Shijie's descendants died, failed exorcists met grisly ends, and the Liang Family became trapped inside its estate.
• Qin He secured the Liang Family's promise to build him a temple in Eastern City, then entered the estate and saw through the demonic entity's illusion.
• Qin He found Liang Shijie and the remaining family members barricaded in the ancestral hall, identified himself as Great Immortal Green Ox, and led them safely outside.
• Qin He searched the estate but could not locate the source of its demonic, ghostly, resentful, and malevolent energies.
• Qin He found five unburied corpses showing signs of reanimation, prepared and burned them, then sensed an unseen presence watching him.
• Unable to spot the hidden entity, Qin He fueled the fire, lay down, and deliberately fell asleep to provoke it.

Qin He lured a vengeful yellow weasel into attacking him, then used a Spirit Suppressing Seal to subdue it. The weasel revealed that Liang Shijie had deceived it, and began explaining how their feud began when it sought investiture.

• Qin He waited for the hidden attacker, but an owl repeatedly scared it away with its warning cries.
• Qin He drove the owl off with a thrown stick, then exposed his neck to bait the attacker into striking.
• The attacker’s attack was repelled by Qin He’s Merit Golden Body, and Qin He sealed its cultivation with a Spirit Suppressing Seal.
• Qin He discovered the attacker was a yellow weasel that had cultivated for 127 years and was close to death.
• The yellow weasel said Liang Shijie had deceived it, and began recounting their grudge over its attempt to seek investiture.