Chapter Summaries

Jia Changxu and Shen Xueqing watched Jieko Group’s horror film Bride in Wedding Dress, whose Hundred Ghosts 3D glasses made its ghostly horrors seem to spill into the theater. The audience applauded the film, while the post-credits scene introduced a world where evil ghosts had begun reviving, and Jia Changxu decided to recommend the movie to his fans.

• Jia Changxu saw black hair descend into the theater during a temple scene, while Shen Xueqing remained composed and explained that the glasses created the apparitions.
• The film revealed that the Wedding Dress Female Ghost was killing the students in revenge for their damaging antiques in her tomb, and Jia Changxu saw embroidered shoes and a pale arm appear on him.
• The Wedding Dress Female Ghost seemed to emerge from the screen, frightening Jia Changxu and most of the audience into removing their Hundred Ghosts 3D glasses; Shen Xueqing removed hers after seeing a face of black hair form on her cheek.
• The film ended with the female lead transformed into a black-haired statue, then showed the surviving male lead joining the Special Events Bureau as evil ghosts revived around the world.
• The audience applauded Bride in Wedding Dress, while the cinema’s backstage equipment collected their fear; Jia Changxu admitted he had been terrified and resolved to recommend the film.

Bride in Wedding Dress earned a global box-office hit for Jieko Group while secretly collecting fear energy to help Han Ruyan advance. In Tianyuan World, Han Ruyan became a Grade-Seven Vicious Ghost, survived her heavenly tribulation by trapping it in her Wedding Dress, and completed the Million Soul Banner.

• Bride in Wedding Dress earned 1.27 billion dollars worldwide, drew crowds to Nightmare Park, and prompted Jieko Group to announce new branches.
• Su Jie revealed that the Origin Spirit Pearls sent with the film had collected fear energy, while Soul Summoning Banners had accumulated souls from warfare and pig farms.
• Su Jie and Han Ruyan gathered the Origin Spirit Pearls and Soul Summoning Banners in a concealed valley outside Ghost Ridge Palace so Han Ruyan could advance and upgrade the Myriad Soul Banner.
• Han Ruyan absorbed the fear energy, ignited souls with her blood-colored flames, and advanced to Grade-Seven Vicious Ghost.
• Han Ruyan trapped the heavenly tribulation clouds inside her Wedding Dress and then wielded the completed Million Soul Banner, whose ghostly realm and million yin souls spread their cries across the region.

Su Jie displayed the Myriad Soul Banner’s Yellow Springs Bone Mountain Great Array and returned with Han Ruyan to Ghost Ridge Palace. He asked Sect Master Zhang Junwei for permission to leave and gather Fierce Ghosts from the Heavenly Soul Sect, despite the danger posed by the Righteous Dao Sects.

• Su Jie refined the Myriad Soul Banner and revealed its Yellow Springs Bone Mountain Great Array, which could swallow living beings and refine their souls.
• Han Ruyan’s training raised the Lantern Ghost and Mirror Woman to Sixth-Rank Fierce Ghosts, while she said she could defeat same-rank Seventh-Rank ghosts with one hand.
• Su Jie told Han Ruyan that he planned to gather Fierce Ghosts from the Heavenly Soul Sect to supply their five new Nightmare Parks.
• Su Jie and Han Ruyan arrived at Ghost Ridge Palace on the Thousand-Hand Centipede and met Sect Master Zhang Junwei.
• Su Jie asked Zhang Junwei to let him leave the sect, and Zhang warned that the Righteous Dao Sects might send Dao Platform Realm experts after him.

Su Jie prepared to visit the Heavenly Soul Sect to obtain powerful ghosts for Nightmare Park, and Zhang Junwei gave him a letter of introduction and a sect reward. The reward was Annual Ring Star Marrow for Thousand-Hand Centipede, and Su Jie left planning to wait until it advanced before setting out.

• Su Jie told Zhang Junwei he planned to visit the Heavenly Soul Sect, and Zhang Junwei warned him to remain cautious despite the sects’ alliance.
• Zhang Junwei presented the thousand-year-old Annual Ring Worm, Ghost Ridge Palace’s ancestral Gu worm, and explained its great power and long periods of sleep after fighting.
• Thousand-Hand Centipede conversed with the Annual Ring Worm, which praised its rapid growth and gave Su Jie a drop of Annual Ring Star Marrow.
• Zhang Junwei explained that the marrow could advance a Gu worm below Seven-refining, and Su Jie accepted it as his reward.
• Zhang Junwei advised Su Jie to let Thousand-Hand Centipede advance before traveling and gave him a letter for the Heavenly Soul Sect; Su Jie then left.

Su Jie inspected the Puppet Hall’s expanding weapons projects, then fed the Thousand-Hand Centipede Annual Ring Star Marrow, triggering a violent breakthrough. As the centipede endured tribulation lightning and transformed into an upper-grade Seven-refining Gu worm, it surged into the clouds to absorb the heavenly energy.

• Su Jie visited the Puppet Hall, reviewed Lan Hai Yi Hao and other projects, and gave Chen Yun one hundred thousand spirit stones to manage its expenses.
• Su Jie returned to his residence and fed the Thousand-Hand Centipede the Annual Ring Star Marrow.
• The Thousand-Hand Centipede grew to a massive size, erupted in purple flames, and melted the ground into a lava lake, damaging Su Jie's residence.
• Tribulation clouds formed over Ghost Ridge Palace, and lightning struck the centipede as it advanced from middle-grade six-refining to upper-grade Seven-refining.
• Su Jie, Puppet Hall disciples, elders, and Tang Peiqing watched as the centipede's armor and body transformed and it grew beyond 200 meters.
• The Thousand-Hand Centipede burst from the lava lake and plunged into the tribulation clouds, absorbing their energy to speed its transformation.

The Thousand-Hand Centipede advanced to Upper-Grade Seven-Refining, and Su Jie broke through to the fourth layer of the Secret Treasure Realm. As Su Jie prepared to leave Ghost Ridge Palace, Ning Xinyue told him she was going to meet her powerful twin sister and gave him an address outside the Great Li Dynasty.

• The Thousand-Hand Centipede absorbed the tribulation and transformed, then demonstrated its new Heavenly Fire Breath by blasting apart a mountain.
• Su Jie used the centipede’s qi and blood to open the Inner God in his liver and advance to the fourth layer of the Secret Treasure Realm.
• Old Daoist Qiu and Tang Peiqing praised Su Jie’s progress and warned him to be careful when he left Ghost Ridge Palace.
• Ning Xinyue revealed she was at the second layer of the Secret Treasure Realm and said her twin sister had come to Qingzhou to take her home.
• Ning Xinyue gave Su Jie an address and asked him to visit if she managed to slip away from her sister; Su Jie realized the location was outside the Great Li Dynasty.

Su Jie and Han Ruyan arrived at Glow City, where refugees fleeing famine gathered outside its closed gates. As the Xu Family opened the gates to distribute porridge and recruit laborers, Su Jie sensed that disciples of the Tide Watching Pavilion were in the city.

• A messenger warned Glow City's soldiers that refugees were fleeing Jingzhou and ordered the city to prepare its defenses.
• Refugees begged to enter Glow City, but the soldiers kept the gates shut, and the city-gate commandant killed dozens who threatened to force their way in.
• Su Jie and Han Ruyan approached Glow City in a luxurious carriage, and Su Jie told Zhang Jun to enter and find an inn.
• Xu Liangpan opened the gates, distributed porridge to the refugees, and offered them paid work on the Xu Family's farms and medicinal fields.
• Xu Liangpan asked about Su Jie's carriage, while a young man beside him said he would investigate its occupants that night.
• Su Jie sensed that several young people in blue robes were disciples of the Tide Watching Pavilion.

Su Jie and Han Ruyan confronted Xu Qiu at an inn, then attacked the Xu Family after discovering its members were slaughtering refugees to make blood pills. Su Jie reached Xu Liangpan and Xu Juyi amid the estate’s destruction, carrying Xu Qiu’s head as he demanded hospitality.

• Xu Qiu visited Su Jie and Han Ruyan at the inn, offering to show them around Glow City while probing their identities.
• Su Jie revealed himself as the Corpse Hand Butcher, and Han Ruyan killed Xu Qiu’s two maidservants while Su Jie crushed Xu Qiu and took his head.
• Han Ruyan killed the innkeeper, and Su Jie flew to the Xu Family estate with Xu Qiu’s head.
• Xu Liangpan and Xu Juyi discussed blood pills made from slaughtered refugees and planned to send them to Flowing Cloud Villa for Elder Zhuang.
• Ghosts attacked the Xu Family estate, slaughtering its people as Xu Liangpan and Xu Juyi tried to escape.
• Su Jie appeared before Xu Liangpan and Xu Juyi with Xu Qiu’s head and demanded that Xu Liangpan serve him tea.

Su Jie wiped out the Xu Family and learned that Tide Watching Pavilion’s Grand Elder Zhuang Liangru was secretly receiving human blood pills through Flowing Cloud Villa. When he arrived at the villa, he found it massacred and was confronted by Ning Xinyue’s immensely powerful twin sister, who accused him of abducting her younger sister.

• Su Jie killed Xu Liangpan and tortured Xu Juyi until he revealed that Zhuang Liangru had ordered the Xu Family to make blood pills for his recovery at Flowing Cloud Villa.
• Xu Juyi said Flowing Cloud Villa and other powerful families secretly handled the blood-pill supply, and Su Jie killed him and collected the Xu Family’s spoils with Han Ruyan.
• Su Jie decided to target the gravely injured Zhuang Liangru, while surviving refugees found the Xu Family’s grain stores and took the food they needed.
• Three days later, Su Jie reached Flowing Cloud Villa and used his insects to discover that its inhabitants had been massacred and their bodies arranged before the ancestral hall.
• A Dao Platform Realm woman who resembled Ning Xinyue appeared before Su Jie, recognized him as her younger sister’s abductor, and was identified as Ning Xinyue’s twin sister.

Su Jie met Ning Yunying, who had slaughtered Flowing Cloud Villa to avenge her sister, Ning Xinyue, and learned that the poisoned Zhuang Liangru was hiding nearby. Su Jie tracked Zhuang Liangru down and prepared to kill him while he was weakened by Gu poison.

• Ning Yunying revealed that she had exterminated Flowing Cloud Villa for harming Ning Xinyue, then told Su Jie that Zhuang Liangru had fled northwest after she struck him.
• Ning Yunying explained that Zhuang Liangru was poisoned and pointed Su Jie toward his hiding place in the mountains before leaving.
• Su Jie used the Thousand-Hand Centipede's Pale Corpse Hands to search the mountain and found Zhuang Liangru hiding on a mountainside.
• Su Jie struck the mountainside with the Five Elements Demon Suppressing Great Hand Seal, forcing the gravely poisoned Zhuang Liangru into the open.
• Su Jie declared that he would take Zhuang Liangru's head in revenge for the bounty placed on him, and Zhuang Liangru angrily prepared to fight.

Su Jie and Han Ruyan fought Zhuang Liangru, whose strength was weakened by Gu poison, and overwhelmed him with their powers and ambushes. Zhuang Liangru fled, but Su Jie unleashed the Myriad Soul Banner to draw him into a terrifying formation.

• Zhuang Liangru summoned a magma flame giant with Heaven's Might, and Su Jie answered with a thunderous azure dragon that battled it across the mountain range.
• Han Ruyan blocked Zhuang Liangru's hidden-void attack and used Nether Burial and her ghosts to assault him, but Zhuang Liangru lured her away and launched a Golden Crow talisman at Su Jie.
• Su Jie's Ninth-grade Sacred Lotus slowed the Golden Crow, allowing him to counterattack with the Wind Thunder Fan and the Thousand-Hand Centipede, which tore Zhuang Liangru apart at the waist.
• Zhuang Liangru revealed that Gu poison had severely restricted him, then used a Divine Radiance Talisman to flee while promising to return after recovering.
• Su Jie mocked Zhuang Liangru and swung the Myriad Soul Banner, spreading a vast formation of bones, the Yellow Springs River, and vengeful souls that pulled Zhuang Liangru inside.

Su Jie killed Zhuang Liangru with the Myriad Soul Banner, then fought Zhao Junde, who broke into the array to avenge his fellow disciple. Su Jie and his allies escaped after his Dharma Aspect wounded Zhao Junde, but Ning Yunying appeared afterward and killed Zhao Junde with her Taotie aspect.

• Su Jie trapped Zhuang Liangru in the Myriad Soul Banner and killed him before Zhao Junde could rescue him.
• Zhao Junde breached the array and fought Su Jie, Han Ruyan, and the Thousand-Hand Centipede with the Evil Suppressing Golden Seal.
• Su Jie summoned the Chaos Dharma Aspect and severely damaged Zhao Junde's Primordial Spirit, then retreated with Han Ruyan and the Thousand-Hand Centipede.
• Ning Yunying confronted the wounded Zhao Junde, seized the Evil Suppressing Golden Seal, and smashed his body.
• Ning Yunying summoned her Taotie aspect and devoured Zhao Junde's fleeing Primordial Spirit.

After recovering from his battle with Zhuang Liangru, Su Jie claimed the Dao Platform cultivator’s vast fortune and traveled to Nanyang City to visit the Heaven Soul Sect. There, his clash with Chang Shiyang, the Holy Son of Blood Demon Cave, threatened to disrupt the Sect Master’s birthday celebration.

• Su Jie recovered from his injuries with the Ninth-grade Sacred Lotus and assessed the strength he had shown against Zhuang Liangru.
• Su Jie opened Zhuang Liangru’s storage bag, claimed its treasures, and strengthened the Thousand-Hand Centipede with spirit stones and Gu insects.
• Su Jie traveled to Nanyang City, where Heaven Soul Sect disciples recognized him and escorted him into the city for their Sect Master’s three-hundredth birthday celebration.
• Su Jie noticed the city’s frightened residents and visiting Devil Sect disciples, then learned from Li Chunhai that the Heaven Soul Sect had invited its allies to the banquet.
• When Chang Shiyang probed Su Jie with divine sense, Su Jie shattered it and struck back, damaging the restaurant where the Blood Demon Cave Holy Son was staying.
• Chang Shiyang emerged from the collapsed restaurant, and Li Chunhai recognized him as a young Secret Treasure Realm cultivator.

Su Jie and Han Ruyan crushed Chang Shiyang and Di Xiu after the Blood Demon Cave Holy Son challenged Su Jie in Nanyang City. Su Jie left Chang Shiyang badly injured and demanded five million spirit stones for his life after a Heavenly Soul Sect elder intervened.

• Chang Shiyang challenged Su Jie and attacked his carriage with his divine sense, but Han Ruyan emerged and swallowed the attack.
• Han Ruyan’s curse overwhelmed Chang Shiyang’s protective treasures, and she threatened him until Di Xiu arrived to defend the Holy Son.
• Su Jie used a giant hand made of corpse hands to crush Di Xiu’s lower body and send him crashing through buildings.
• Su Jie stepped out, slapped Chang Shiyang down, pinned him underfoot, and broke his chest while warning the crowd not to provoke Ghost Ridge Palace.
• Di Xiu and a Heavenly Soul Sect elder asked Su Jie to spare Chang Shiyang, so Su Jie demanded five million spirit stones for the Holy Son’s life.

Su Jie forced Chang Shiyang and Di Xiu to pay five million spirit stones after nearly extracting Chang Shiyang’s souls, then left them humiliated and injured. At the Heavenly Soul Sect’s guest residence, he asked Elder Xue to provide five hundred Fierce Ghosts, leaving Xue Xin trying to escape the costly request.

• Su Jie used his Spirit Merging-level Primordial Spirit to pull Chang Shiyang’s soul from his body and threatened to destroy it unless Di Xiu paid five million spirit stones.
• Di Xiu gathered the demanded wealth from his own and Chang Shiyang’s stores, and Su Jie returned the battered Primordial Spirit before leaving with Xue Xin.
• Chang Shiyang recovered enough to hear the spectators mock him, then left with Di Xiu while secretly carrying a dormant Seed of Spirit in his Primordial Spirit.
• Xue Xin escorted Su Jie and Han Ruyan to a prepared estate, where Su Jie asked to purchase Fierce Ghosts of at least Third-Rank.
• Su Jie clarified that he wanted five hundred Fierce Ghosts, and Xue Xin tried to slip away rather than provide them.

Su Jie arranged to buy large numbers of Fierce Ghosts from the Heavenly Soul Sect, while Han Ruyan sensed the sect’s stores of fear energy in Nanyang City. At the Blood Demon Cave residence, Chu Xuexin visited the injured Chang Shiyang, concealing her cold intentions behind a show of concern.

• Su Jie persuaded Xue Xin to seek approval for selling him hundreds of Third-Rank Fierce Ghosts and additional lower-ranked ghosts, and bribed him to support the request.
• Han Ruyan sensed the formation and fear energy maintained by the Heavenly Soul Sect in Nanyang City, but Su Jie stopped her from consuming it.
• Yu Wenxian arrived with Chu Xuexin at the Blood Demon Cave residence, where Di Xiu reported that Chang Shiyang was recovering from his spirit-soul injury.
• Chu Xuexin gave Chang Shiyang pills and consoled him as he blamed Su Jie for his defeat and confessed that he had willingly sought him out.
• Chang Shiyang embraced Chu Xuexin, then released her when she protested; unseen by him, she smiled sinisterly with cold eyes.

Chu Xuexin uncovered Su Jie's Devil Seed hidden in Chang Shiyang's Primordial Spirit, and the Myriad Desires Sect Saintess began plotting against Su Jie. Su Jie identified the sect as a new enemy and learned that Chu Xuexin was its representative in Nanyang City.

• Chu Xuexin used the Blue Soul Dragon Jade to reveal the Devil Seed in Chang Shiyang's Primordial Spirit, and Su Jie's phantom emerged before disappearing after attacking her and the gathered disciples.
• Chu Xuexin advised Chang Shiyang and Di Xiu to relocate, and the Blood Demon Cave disciples evacuated their estate.
• Chu Xuexin ordered Yu Wenxian to spread rumors about Su Jie so Chongzhou's Devil Dao forces would target him, then drained several young men she had taken as Cauldrons.
• Su Jie recognized Yu Wenxian and inferred that the Myriad Desires Sect was behind the probing of Chang Shiyang; he asked Li Chunhai about the sect and learned its Saintess was Chu Xuexin.
• Su Jie recalled Chu Xuexin from the Devil Seed phantom and considered killing the Myriad Desires Sect Saintess.

Su Jie attended Lü Jingshi’s three-hundredth birthday and secured a heavily discounted purchase of two thousand Fierce Ghosts from the Heavenly Soul Sect. He agreed to carry Lü Jingshi’s appeal for an alliance to Zhang Junwei and sold the sect rocket launchers, leaving both sides with a profitable deal and a shared interest in opposing Tide Watching Pavilion.

• Su Jie arrived at the birthday celebration and exchanged hostile words with Chang Shiyang before Xue Xin and Di Xiu ushered them inside.
• Lü Jingshi offered Su Jie five hundred Third-Rank, five hundred Second-Rank, and one thousand First-Rank Fierce Ghosts at the disciples’ price with an additional thirty percent discount.
• Lü Jingshi asked Su Jie to urge Zhang Junwei to unite with the Heavenly Soul Sect against the orthodox sects, especially Tide Watching Pavilion, which blamed the Heavenly Soul Sect for the deaths of Zhuang Liangru and Zhao Junde.
• Su Jie agreed to pass on Lü Jingshi’s message, privately recognizing that the Heavenly Soul Sect had mistakenly taken the blame for his own actions.
• Su Jie offered the Heavenly Soul Sect rocket launchers and shells at a steep markup, and Lü Jingshi agreed to buy one thousand launchers and matching shells.

Su Jie confronted Chang Shiyang, Chu Xuexin, and Chi Hengshan at Lü Jingshi’s birthday banquet, while Lü Jingshi sided with Su Jie and punished Chi. After Chu Xuexin led the humiliated cultivators away, she used her charm to incite them to seek revenge on Su Jie after the celebration.

• Chang Shiyang, Chu Xuexin, and Chi Hengshan challenged Su Jie over his treatment of a guest and demanded that he come with them.
• Su Jie struck Chu Xuexin and warned Chi Hengshan, who threatened to arrest him in the Heavenly Soul Sect’s name.
• Lü Jingshi arrived, slapped Chi Hengshan, and punished him by crushing him to his knees and severing the tendons in his limbs.
• Lü Jingshi defended Su Jie and ordered Chang Shiyang, Chu Xuexin, and the other cultivators to stop causing trouble at the celebration.
• Chu Xuexin led the group away, then secretly used her charm to persuade them to confront Su Jie outside the Heavenly Soul Sect after the banquet.

Su Jie acquired two thousand ferocious ghosts from the Heavenly Soul Sect and used a rainstorm to hunt Illusory Tower cultivators near Nanyang City. He ambushed Chu Xuexin’s combined Devil Sect caravan with Han Ruyan’s Yellow Springs Bone Mountain Great Array, trapping its members as the Thousand-Hand Centipede swallowed Chu Xuexin and Chang Shiyang’s carriage.

• Han Ruyan subdued two thousand wild ghosts in the Heavenly Soul Sect’s Heavenly Soul Formation, and Su Jie paid Xue Xin for them.
• Su Jie used a rainstorm as a covert scouting network and had the Thousand-Hand Centipede kill an Illusory Tower cultivator who had followed Chu Xuexin.
• Chu Xuexin grew uneasy as her caravan traveled toward Nanyang City, while Chang Shiyang assured her that the group planned to ambush Su Jie.
• Su Jie appeared on the caravan’s route, and Han Ruyan activated the Yellow Springs Bone Mountain Great Array around the stone bridge.
• Chu Xuexin recognized the Million Soul Banner and tried to retreat, but Su Jie trapped the group and the Thousand-Hand Centipede swallowed her and Chang Shiyang’s carriage.