Chapter Summaries

Hao Shuai and Selena fought the newly resurrected Imhotep, repeatedly restoring him with cursed Japanese men so he could grow stronger. After Imhotep demanded to know what they wanted, Selena took him on while Hao Shuai watched.

• Imhotep emerged from his coffin and attacked Selena as a swarm of locusts descended, but Hao Shuai froze the insects while Selena shot Imhotep apart.
• Hao Shuai brought Imhotep two cursed Japanese men, and Imhotep drained them to restore his body and recover some of his power.
• Hao Shuai tested blue and purple corpse-subduing talismans on Imhotep before using Dragon Capture Hand to smash him into scattered bones.
• Hao Shuai brought Imhotep two more Japanese men, allowing him to regain more strength and ask Hao Shuai and Selena what they wanted.
• Selena chose to fight Imhotep with the Spear of Judgment while Hao Shuai watched.

After Imhotep regained his full strength by draining the last box opener, Hao Shuai tested his abilities with a brutal assault. Imhotep tried to escape as his body weakened, but Hao Shuai teleported above him and prepared to strike again.

• Hao Shuai stopped Selena from repeatedly killing Imhotep and fed Imhotep the last Japanese box opener.
• Imhotep regained his human form and restored his power as a High Priest with more than three thousand five hundred years of magical power.
• Hao Shuai caught Imhotep off guard and battered him with a barrage of Cloud Dispelling Palm attacks.
• Hao Shuai used purple talismans to burn Imhotep's soul, making him scream as his strength dwindled.
• Imhotep turned into sand and fled in a sandstorm, but Hao Shuai teleported above him and shouted Wind Rolls Through Ruined Towers.

Hao Shuai stripped Imhotep of his magic, killed him, and stored his body for later before leaving Hamunaptra with Selena. Back in Cairo, he debated whether to seek the Bracelet of Anubis while Selena was occupied.

• Hao Shuai summoned a chariot from the Sun Scripture to take Imhotep's soul and magic, then killed him and placed his body in a stone coffin.
• Hao Shuai decided to store Imhotep and possibly revive him alongside Anxuna later, rather than risk him causing trouble in the world.
• Hao Shuai said farewell to Evelyn, O'Connell, and Jonathan, then left Hamunaptra with Selena on camels.
• Hao Shuai and Selena vanished from the desert and traveled to a luxury hotel in Cairo.
• Hao Shuai wondered whether to search for the Bracelet of Anubis and asked Selena if she wanted it.

Hao Shuai rejected the Bracelet of Anubis and traveled to the Mummy World’s 1926 East, where he discovered that its history lacked the leaders who had saved the country in his own world. He decided to revive the First Emperor, then flew toward the Himalayas after confirming another hoped-for figure was absent.

• Hao Shuai learned that the Bracelet of Anubis could summon the dead, but Selena said she had no interest in it, so he sent her back to Paradise Space World.
• Hao Shuai arrived alone in Shanghai Bund and investigated the East’s history, finding the country in a warlord era with no Sun Dabao or Northern Expedition.
• Hao Shuai realized that the organization and leaders who had saved the East in his world did not exist in this one.
• Hao Shuai decided to bring the First Emperor back to life to restore the country and confront foreign powers.
• Hao Shuai searched Hubei Province and Shaoshan in Hunan Province, confirmed the sage he sought did not exist, and flew toward the Himalayas aboard the Cosmic Battleship.

Hao Shuai searched the Himalayas for Shangri-La, found its temple and the Eye of Shangri-La, then followed its light to the Fountain of Eternal Life. He confronted Ziyuan, defeated her with a single palm strike, and left her fate unresolved.

• Hao Shuai used the Cosmic Battleship to locate a snowbound temple and discovered the Eye of Shangri-La there.
• Three Himalayan snowmen attacked Hao Shuai, and the Heng Ha Two Generals killed them and drank their blood.
• Hao Shuai followed the Eye's light to a cave hidden behind an illusion and found the Fountain of Eternal Life and Ziyuan.
• Ziyuan mistook Hao Shuai for one of the First Emperor's followers and attacked him, but Hao Shuai struck her into a stone wall.
• Hao Shuai told the wounded Ziyuan to think of him as the First Emperor's man and considered that she might die by his hand or the Emperor's.

Hao Shuai overpowered Ziyuan and her daughter Guo Lin after dismissing Ziyuan’s magical abilities as meager. He discovered that Guo Lin had no cultivation talent and left both women in his hands.

• Hao Shuai decided to hand Ziyuan over to the First Emperor rather than kill her himself.
• Ziyuan attacked Hao Shuai with ice arrows, but her magic failed to penetrate his protective barrier.
• Hao Shuai interrupted Ziyuan’s next spell and drained her magic power by grabbing her.
• Guo Lin attacked Hao Shuai with the dagger that had killed the First Emperor, but his barrier stopped the blade and he pulled her to him.
• Hao Shuai found that Guo Lin had no magic power or aptitude for cultivation.

Hao Shuai collected much of the Fountain of Eternal Life and soaked in it until his body grew stronger. He found Ziyuan’s Oracle Bone Script and decided to take her and Guo Lin to the First Emperor.

• Hao Shuai struck Ziyuan when she tried to stop him from taking the fountain, then collected nearly half its water in jade jars.
• Hao Shuai bathed in the fountain for seven days, absorbing its life energy and awakening power from the dragon’s blood.
• Hao Shuai questioned Ziyuan about the Oracle Bone Script and used Divine Thought to find its location, leaving her unconscious.
• Hao Shuai found the wooden slips and books in Ziyuan’s study, discovered the slips contained only rudimentary cultivation methods and ancient secrets, and stored the collection away.
• Hao Shuai decided to take Ziyuan and Guo Lin to the First Emperor.

Hao Shuai excavated the First Emperor’s tomb and revived Ying Zheng with the Spring of Eternal Life. After Hao Shuai gave him a history of China to read, Ying Zheng learned of the Qing Court’s rule and China’s decline, and his killing intent surged.

• Hao Shuai sent NS-5 robots to excavate the First Emperor’s tomb and entered it after Red Queen found the entrance.
• Hao Shuai navigated the tomb’s traps, activated a mechanism, and uncovered a bronze chariot carrying a coffin and a Terracotta Warrior.
• Hao Shuai poured the Spring of Eternal Life over the Terracotta Warrior, reviving Ying Zheng.
• Ying Zheng questioned Hao Shuai, then accepted his invitation to learn about the modern world.
• Hao Shuai gave Ying Zheng a history of China, and Ying Zheng’s killing intent rose as he read about the Qing Court and China’s decline.

Hao Shuai revived the First Emperor and gave him the Fountain of Eternal Life, helping him recover his strength and transform into a three-headed jiao. He then brought Ziyuan and Guo Lin before the emperor, where Ziyuan condemned them both and Hao Shuai threatened to kill her and her daughter.

• The First Emperor accused Hao Shuai of allowing China to fall into decline, and Hao Shuai explained that he had only recently appeared in the world and wanted the emperor to restore China.
• Hao Shuai gave the First Emperor a barrel of the Fountain of Eternal Life, which purged his curse and restored his power.
• The First Emperor transformed into a three-headed jiao before returning to his human form.
• Hao Shuai brought Ziyuan and Guo Lin to the First Emperor, who recognized Ziyuan as the woman who had helped destroy his empire.
• Ziyuan cursed the First Emperor and Hao Shuai, and Hao Shuai slapped her before threatening to kill her and Guo Lin.

Hao Shuai and the First Emperor executed Ziyuan and Guo Lin, then awakened the First Emperor’s terracotta army. The First Emperor rallied nearly a hundred thousand soldiers to rebuild the Great Qin Empire and conquer the lands beyond the Great Wall.

• Hao Shuai confirmed that Guo Lin was Guo Ming’s daughter, and the First Emperor ordered Ziyuan and Guo Lin killed.
• The First Emperor smashed their heads, and Hao Shuai used Corpse Dissolving Powder to destroy their bodies.
• The First Emperor emerged from the mausoleum, called out to awaken his army, and summoned nearly a hundred thousand Terracotta Warriors from underground.
• Generals Wang Jian, Wang Ben, Meng Tian, Meng Yi, and Li Xin greeted the First Emperor.
• The First Emperor vowed to restore Great Qin and lead his army against the barbarians, and the soldiers shouted their allegiance.

Hao Shuai stopped the First Emperor from marching across the Great Wall by demonstrating modern weapons and giving him an arsenal and Egyptian treasure to support his campaign. In return for the First Emperor’s promise, Hao Shuai asked for and received his Five Elements Technique and transformation arts.

• Hao Shuai showed the First Emperor a Thompson submachine gun and a rocket launcher, demonstrating how powerful modern weapons were.
• Hao Shuai warned the First Emperor that warlords would oppose his army and that massed modern weapons could destroy even an immortal force.
• Hao Shuai produced a large stockpile of World War II-era weapons and ammunition and gave them to the First Emperor.
• Hao Shuai presented the First Emperor with gold and jewelry from Hamunaptra, and the First Emperor promised to repay his kindness.
• Hao Shuai asked for the First Emperor’s Five Elements Technique and transformation arts, and the First Emperor gave him a jade slip containing them.

Hao Shuai equipped the First Emperor’s resurrected Qin army with modern weapons, then studied the Five Elements True Scripture and the First Emperor’s beast-transformation technique in Shangri-La. Nearly a year later, he learned that Great Qin had been founded and discovered that the First Emperor had spent months undercover gathering intelligence about the modern era.

• Hao Shuai stayed in the desert to train the Terracotta Warriors in modern weapons, and he supplied the First Emperor with guns, cannons, and tanks.
• The First Emperor led a hundred thousand Qin soldiers across the Great Wall, and Hao Shuai left after they crossed, confident that they could conquer the warlords.
• Hao Shuai studied the Five Elements True Scripture and the First Emperor’s transformation technique in Shangri-La, learning how the First Emperor had gained his Three-Headed Flood Dragon form.
• Hao Shuai spent eight or nine months mastering the Five Elements techniques, then heard that Great Qin had been founded.
• Hao Shuai tracked down the First Emperor and discovered that he had disguised himself as an ordinary person to gather intelligence inside a warlord’s ranks, then returned to Shangri-La to cultivate.

Hao Shuai congratulated the First Emperor on rebuilding the Great Qin Empire and left him a cache of industrial machinery and technical books before returning to the Zombie World. After learning that Uncle Jiu had become a Golden Core True Person and returned to Maoshan, Hao Shuai set off to find him, where he encountered an alluring woman at an inn.

• Hao Shuai visited the First Emperor's enthronement ceremony and congratulated him on rebuilding the Great Qin Empire.
• Hao Shuai left the First Emperor industrial machinery and books on steelmaking, rice cultivation, and atomic bomb principles as a gift.
• Hao Shuai returned to the Zombie World with Ren Tingting and learned that Uncle Jiu had gone to Maoshan after breaking through to the Core Formation stage.
• Hao Shuai decided to travel to Maoshan to see Uncle Jiu and meet the sect members as his future sect leader's senior disciple.
• At an inn on his way to Maoshan, Hao Shuai heard a woman's voice and looked up to see her.

Hao Shuai used a piece of lightning-struck peachwood to approach a Taoist woman he recognized as Beauty Li. He offered to give her the wood if she took him as her apprentice, leaving her bewildered by his proposal.

• Hao Shuai recognized the Taoist woman as Beauty Li and decided he wanted to get close to her.
• Hao Shuai placed a piece of lightning-struck peachwood on the table, and Beauty Li stopped to inspect it.
• Beauty Li offered Hao Shuai ten, then fifty, then one hundred Silver Dollars for the wood, but he refused to sell it.
• Hao Shuai invented a dying wish from his father and proposed that Beauty Li take him as her apprentice in exchange for the wood.
• Beauty Li was bewildered by Hao Shuai's proposal.

Hao Shuai tried to persuade Bai Rourou to take him as her disciple by offering five-hundred-year-old lightning-struck peachwood. When she offered to introduce him to her senior brother Zhuge Kongping instead, Hao Shuai recognized them as characters from Happy Ghost Family and decided he could outshine his rival.

• Hao Shuai told Bai Rourou that his father had sent him to find a cultivator who could recognize the lightning-struck wood.
• Bai Rourou hesitated to take Hao Shuai as her disciple because she doubted her ability to teach him, but Hao Shuai pretended he would leave for Mount Mao.
• Bai Rourou stopped Hao Shuai and offered to introduce him to her senior brother, Zhuge Kongping, as a disciple.
• Hao Shuai learned the woman's name was Bai Rourou and remembered that she and Zhuge Kongping were characters from Happy Ghost Family.
• Hao Shuai concluded that Zhuge Kongping was no threat and resolved to win Bai Rourou over.

Hao Shuai agreed to accompany Bai Rourou to visit her senior brother Zhuge Kongping after she praised his capture of a Bronze Armor Zombie. As they traveled, Hao Shuai decided to use his charm to make Bai Rourou see that her admiration for Zhuge Kongping was not love.

• Bai Rourou told Hao Shuai that Zhuge Kongping had subdued a powerful Bronze Armor Zombie and invited him to visit her senior brother before deciding whether to become his disciple.
• Hao Shuai agreed to go with Bai Rourou, stayed overnight at an inn, and waited for her the next morning so they could eat breakfast together.
• Hao Shuai and Bai Rourou set out for Zhuge Kongping's town, and Bai Rourou talked enthusiastically about her senior brother along the way.
• Hao Shuai concluded that Bai Rourou admired Zhuge Kongping rather than loving him and planned to show her that someone could be taller, more handsome, and stronger.

Hao Shuai earned Bai Rourou’s trust by praising her feelings for Zhuge Kongping and entertaining her on their journey. They encountered First Mao fighting a zombie, and his remarks about Bai Rourou’s age and unrequited love angered her.

• Hao Shuai agreed with Bai Rourou’s praise of Zhuge Kongping and condemned his wife, making Bai Rourou trust him.
• Hao Shuai entertained Bai Rourou with riddles and jokes as they traveled together.
• Bai Rourou sensed corpse energy in a village and led Hao Shuai toward a fight, where First Mao trapped a zombie.
• First Mao mistook Hao Shuai for Bai Rourou’s new love interest, and Hao Shuai claimed he wanted her to take him as a disciple.
• First Mao mocked Bai Rourou’s age and reminded her that Zhuge Kongping had married someone else, provoking her anger.

Hao Shuai and Bai Rourou dealt with First Mao’s arrival, then hurried to warn Zhuge Kongping. First Mao attacked Zhuge Kongping and ultimately trapped him in a locked box.

• First Mao left after announcing he had come to congratulate Zhuge Kongping, and Bai Rourou warned Hao Shuai that he was a Maoshan artifact-forging heir who had come to cause trouble.
• Hao Shuai and Bai Rourou burned the Bronze Armor Zombie and then hurried toward the Zhuge family home.
• Zhuge Kongping and the Ghost Servant prepared to face First Mao by using the Human-Ghost Synthesis Technique.
• First Mao ambushed Zhuge Kongping at the courtyard gate, and the two rivals fought through a series of magical contests.
• First Mao’s Ghost Suppressing Talisman made Zhuge Kongping and the Ghost Servant pass out, and First Mao locked Zhuge Kongping in a box with a Vajra Lock.

First Mao released Zhuge Kongping’s thousand-year-old Bronze Armor Zombie and was overpowered when it escaped its restraints. Hao Shuai and Bai Rourou arrived at Zhuge Kongping’s damaged home, where Bai Rourou heard her senior brother in danger and rushed into the Ghost Sealing Vault.

• First Mao entered Zhuge Kongping’s Ghost Sealing Vault to inspect the Bronze Armor Zombie despite Zhuge Kongping’s warning.
• First Mao dismantled the zombie’s restraints and tried to carry it away, triggering its hidden corpse-subduing spikes and freeing it.
• The Bronze Armor Zombie threw First Mao around and resisted his shotgun, then chased him as he tried to flee.
• Bai Rourou led Hao Shuai to Zhuge Kongping’s home, where they found the front door open and the main hall wrecked.
• Hao Shuai pointed out the sounds of a fight coming from the Ghost Sealing Vault, and Bai Rourou rushed inside after warning him to stay back.

Hao Shuai and Bai Rourou reached the Ghost Sealing Vault, where they found Zhuge Kongping badly injured and First Mao dead after the Bronze Armor Zombie attacked them. Hao Shuai’s lightning-struck peachwood kept the zombie at bay for the moment, but he realized it was close to becoming a Silver Armor Zombie.

• Hao Shuai and Bai Rourou entered the Ghost Sealing Vault and found Zhuge Kongping bruised and swollen after his fight with the Bronze Armor Zombie.
• Bai Rourou explained that she had come to congratulate Zhuge Kongping and warn him about First Mao, but Hao Shuai had disrupted her Thousand Mile Transmission.
• Zhuge Kongping pointed out First Mao’s shriveled corpse, and Hao Shuai told him he hoped to become his apprentice.
• Hao Shuai showed Zhuge Kongping the five-hundred-year-old lightning-struck peachwood, and Zhuge Kongping realized it was keeping the Bronze Armor Zombie away.
• Hao Shuai judged that the strengthened Bronze Armor Zombie was nearly a Silver Armor Zombie and would attack once it adjusted to the wood’s aura.