Chapter Summaries

Qiu Jinan briefed Governor Lü on the ghost disaster, and Lu Yang suggested the Great Yu cultivators were arranging a formation across Hanshui City. Formation masters confirmed his guess and began investigating how to break it, while Qiu Jinan asked to borrow the power of the nation's destiny.

• Governor Lü welcomed Qiu Jinan and his companions, then heard Qiu Jinan's account of the battle with Huang Ming and True Lord Meng Tian.
• Qiu Jinan warned that the ghost disaster likely involved accomplices, and Governor Lü suspected the Great Yu cultivators had another purpose beyond causing chaos.
• Lu Yang proposed that the scattered ghost disasters might mark a formation, and Governor Lü mapped their locations on a sand table.
• Lu Yang said he had studied under Yun Zhi of the Ask Dao Sect, and Governor Lü summoned formation masters to investigate the pattern.
• The formation masters confirmed that the Great Yu cultivators were setting up a lost formation, and Qiu Jinan asked Governor Lü for permission to borrow the power of the nation's destiny.

Qiu Jinan asked Governor Lü to use Great Xia’s national fortune to remove the curse afflicting him and Meng Jingzhou. Governor Lü washed them with it, dispelling the curse, and Meng Jingzhou immediately proposed celebrating at a brothel.

• Qiu Jinan explained that he and Meng Jingzhou had been cursed while fighting demonic cultivators and asked Governor Lü to use the power of national fortune on them.
• Governor Lü took Qiu Jinan and Meng Jingzhou to a sealed chamber, while Lu Yang, Man Gu, and Zhao Po waited behind and discussed Huang Ming and ancient cultivators who had restarted their cultivation.
• Lu Yang and the Undying Fairy watched Governor Lü use the Desolate Province seal to reveal the power of national fortune.
• Governor Lü directed a stream of national fortune over Qiu Jinan and Meng Jingzhou, absorbing and dissolving the pink mist of their curse.
• Qiu Jinan and Meng Jingzhou felt relieved after the curse vanished, and Meng Jingzhou asked Governor Lü where to find the best brothel in Hànshui City.

Lu Yang and the others learned that Meng Jingzhou’s curse had been lifted, then heard Qiu Jin'an explain the dispute over the formation’s Bagua arrangement. The Undying Fairy revealed that the ancient Bagua theory originally had four parts, though only two had survived to the present.

• The formation masters argued over whether the ghosts and buildings followed the Pre-Heaven or Post-Heaven Bagua, while Governor Lü came to check their progress.
• Meng Jingzhou confirmed that his curse was lifted, and the Undying Fairy complained that killing himself once would have been quicker.
• Qiu Jin'an told Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou that Yun Zhi had returned to Ask Dao Sect the day after they left and had gone to arrange Unspoken's release from prison.
• Qiu Jin'an explained that the Pre-Heaven and Post-Heaven Bagua debate stemmed from lost ancient knowledge and the two surviving parts of a larger theory.
• The Undying Fairy said the Time Immortal had devised the Bagua theory with her encouragement, and that it originally included Pre-Heaven, Today, Tomorrow, and Post-Heaven Bagua.

Lu Yang learned that the eight-trigram theory was a temporal art, while Provincial Governor Lü acted on the formation masters’ mistaken theories and sent investigators to likely formation eyes. At the Corpse-Driving Sect, Elder Gai began searching for Huang Ming’s traces, as a powerful figure learned that contact with Meng Tian and Huang Ming had been lost and prepared to strike first.

• Immortal Fairy explained how the Earlier Heaven, Today, Tomorrow, and Later Heaven trigrams related to time, and Lu Yang realized the formation masters had misunderstood the theory.
• Provincial Governor Lü heard the formation masters’ guesses about the formation and ordered Sect Master Qiu to investigate Hundred Blossoms Tavern, Elder Gai to search the Corpse-Driving Sect, and Anping to organize a wider ghost hunt.
• Provincial Governor Lü kept Lu Yang and his companions at his residence after refusing their offer to help fight ghosts.
• Elder Gai learned that Huang Ming was a Great Xia cultivator who had ruined his cultivation and started over, then ordered a thorough search of the Corpse-Driving Sect.
• A powerful figure discovered that contact with Meng Tian and Huang Ming had been lost and decided to strike first before the plan was exposed.

Qiu Jin'an exposed a ghost trap at Hundred Flowers Restaurant while the Witch Corpse Sect attacked the Corpse-Driving Sect and an emperor-like Tribulation Transcendence cultivator appeared over Hanshui City. Lu Yang and his companions were left under a Rule that cut off information from the city as they faced another powerful threat.

• Qiu Jin'an revealed that Hundred Flowers Restaurant was an illusion concealing ghosts, including two ghost kings, an Expansion Ghost, and a Starving Ghost, as a little figure climbed onto his neck.
• Four antique-robed cultivators attacked four locations in the Yin Corpse Mountains, and Elder Gai recognized them as members of the Witch Corpse Sect.
• The Witch Corpse Sect cultivators released twenty ancient living corpses to surround the elders of the Corpse-Driving Sect.
• An emperor-like Tribulation Transcendence cultivator appeared above Hanshui City and established a Rule preventing information from leaving the city for one day.
• Lu Yang realized the Rule had cut off his connection to Senior Sister, while Old Ma, Man Gu, and Zhao Po reacted to the cultivator's arrival.

Wu Youdao attacked Hancheng to seize its national fortune, and Provincial Governor Lu fought him with the Great Wilderness Provincial Seal and the power of the national fortune. Though Wu Youdao pierced Lu’s chest, Lu healed and trapped Wu Youdao’s hand in his body, preparing to wear him down through sheer endurance.

• Great Yu cultivators and other forces blocked anyone from reaching the provincial governor’s residence as Wu Youdao attacked Hancheng with a massive palm.
• Provincial Governor Lu caught Wu Youdao’s palm, and Lu Yang identified Wu Youdao as the Sixth Yu Emperor and recounted his history.
• Wu Youdao summoned Five-Colored Dragon-Tiger Qi and demanded that Provincial Governor Lu surrender the national fortune.
• Provincial Governor Lu used the Great Wilderness Provincial Seal to summon the Mountain-Suppressing Guard, which blocked the dragon and tiger.
• Wu Youdao pierced Provincial Governor Lu’s chest with Palm Within the Universe, but Lu healed and trapped Wu Youdao’s right hand in his chest.
• Provincial Governor Lu laughed at Wu Youdao and vowed to trade injuries until the national fortune wore him down.

Governor Lü and Qiu Jinan fought Wu Youdao above Hanshui City while An Darens’s barrier protected the city from their battle. Qiu Jinan’s Red Lotus Karmic Fire badly burned Wu Youdao, but the fight was still underway.

• An Darens activated a barrier over Hanshui City as Governor Lü and Wu Youdao began fighting.
• Governor Lü used a fusion technique to restrict Wu Youdao, but Wu Youdao severed his trapped arm, healed, and struck Governor Lü with a devastating attack.
• Qiu Jinan rescued the injured Governor Lü, while the scene at Hundred Flowers Restaurant revealed that Qiu Jinan had already defeated Wu Youdao’s ghosts.
• Governor Lü sent arriving Body Integration Realm cultivators to help clear ghosts and maintain order as he and Qiu Jinan prepared to face Wu Youdao together.
• Qiu Jinan unleashed Red Lotus Karmic Fire, leaving Wu Youdao badly burned, then formed another fire lotus.

Qiu Jinan and the Governor of Lüzhou fought Wu Youdao in Hanshui City, but their combined strength could not defeat him. A white-paper-hatted man merged with hundreds of people and rose to half-step Tribulation Transcendence, then challenged Wu Youdao’s judgment of his qualifications.

• Qiu Jinan’s red lotus karmic fire failed to harm Wu Youdao, whose imperial aura shielded him from its effect.
• Qiu Jinan and the Governor of Lüzhou battled Wu Youdao with divine flames, Weak Water, Breath Soil, and other powerful techniques, but Wu Youdao endured their attacks.
• Wu Youdao injured Qiu Jinan and pressed his advantage, while Qiu Jinan admitted he needed another powerful fighter to win.
• A white-paper-hatted man rose from a house in Hanshui City as hundreds of people emerged and killed attacking evil ghosts.
• The hundreds of people merged with the white-paper-hatted man, raising his cultivation from Integrated Body Early Stage to half-step Tribulation Transcendence.
• The white-paper-hatted man faced Wu Youdao and asked whether he now had the qualifications to join the battle.

Lu Yang recognized the white-paper-hatted man as the Nine Serenities Sect's sect master, who joined Qiu Jinan and Governor Lü in fighting Wu Youdao for control of the nation's fortune. As Venerable Cang Lei arrived to aid Wu Youdao, thunder signaled that Sect Master Lu was about to break through to Tribulation Transcendence.

• Lu Yang learned that the white-paper-hatted man had reached half-step Tribulation Transcendence by reuniting countless incarnations and was likely the Nine Serenities Sect's sect master.
• The white-paper-hatted man attacked Wu Youdao, and Qiu Jinan and Governor Lü joined him in forming the Three Powers Formation to fight Wu Youdao.
• The three repeatedly struck Wu Youdao, weakening him until he called for help, and Venerable Cang Lei appeared and demanded the nation's fortune.
• Thunder interrupted Venerable Cang Lei, and Governor Lü recognized it as a sign that Sect Master Lu was about to break through to Tribulation Transcendence.
• At the Corpse Driving Sect, Elder Gai defeated the Corpse Witch Sect using the Ask Dao Sect's improved corpse-driving arts, then heard the thunder and realized Sect Master Lu was about to break through.

Sect Master Lu endured the White Emperor's Dragon-Transformation Tribulation and appeared to become a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator, shifting the balance against the Great Yu cultivators. Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou recognized the mark of an ownerless living corpse on his wrist and concluded that a Great Yu Tribulation Transcendence cultivator had possessed his body.

• Elder Gai evacuated the Corpse-Driving Sect's disciples as Sect Master Lu's tribulation began, and both sides halted their fighting to avoid interfering.
• The Everlasting Immortal identified the lightning as the White Emperor's Dragon-Transformation Tribulation and explained that Sect Master Lu used a living corpse to absorb its first strike.
• Sect Master Lu faced the white Dragon Emperor head-on, suffered severe injuries, and was nearly burned to a charred shell before the tribulation ended.
• Sect Master Lu's wounds healed and his old skin peeled away, revealing that he had survived the tribulation and reached Tribulation Transcendence.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou spotted the Ghost mark on Sect Master Lu's wrist and realized it matched the mark on the ownerless living corpse they had encountered.
• Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou concluded that Sect Master Lu was already dead and that a Great Yu Tribulation Transcendence cultivator had possessed his body.

Venerable Wuji revealed himself after possessing Sect Master Lu and used the Soul-Scattering Talismans to strip Governor Lü of Great Yu’s power of national fortune. Just as Wu Youdao reached for it, a mysterious woman seized the power and introduced herself as the Bean Heavenly Venerable of the Heavenly Court Sect.

• Sect Master Lu announced that he had returned to Tribulation Transcendence, and Wu Youdao and Venerable Azure Thunder identified him as Venerable Wuji.
• Wu Youdao, Venerable Azure Thunder, and Venerable Wuji attacked Governor Lü, leaving him badly wounded beside Lu Yang.
• Venerable Wuji activated a formation linked through the Soul-Scattering Talismans, causing the power of national fortune to slip from Governor Lü.
• Qiu Jingan and the Netherworld Sect's leader tried to stop the three Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, but they were struck down.
• Wu Youdao reached for the drifting power of national fortune, but a mysterious woman absorbed it and knocked away his attack.
• The woman called herself the Bean Heavenly Venerable, Supreme Great Heavenly Venerable of the Heavenly Court Sect.

The Undying Fairy revealed herself as the Supreme Grand Celestial Venerable of the Heavenly Court Sect and borrowed Hancheng City’s power of the nation’s fortune to confront Wu Youdao. She shattered his Heaven and Earth in the Palm, leaving him gravely wounded and his rule over the city broken.

• The Undying Fairy identified herself, alarming Wu Youdao, Venerable Cang Lei, and Venerable Wu Ji, while the man in the white paper hat recognized her from Vice Sect Leader Shi’s message.
• Lu Yang checked on the injured Governor Lü and recalled the Undying Fairy’s promise to keep him safe in Barren Province.
• Wu Youdao dismissed the Undying Fairy as a mere thought and argued that she could not overcome him and the two venerables, but she scorned their abilities.
• Wu Youdao unleashed Heaven and Earth in the Palm, darkening Hancheng City with a gigantic hand containing pocket realms.
• The Undying Fairy summoned a finger larger than Wu Youdao’s hand and pierced through it, shattering his rule that no information could leave Hancheng City and gravely wounding him.

The Immortal Fairy overwhelmed Wu Youdao, Venerable Cang Lei, and Venerable Shaman Priest after they attacked her together. She sent all three crashing into the Yin Corpse Mountains and dismissed them as far weaker than the ancient immortals.

• Venerable Shaman Priest treated Wu Youdao and gave him a half-immortal-grade pill, but Wu Youdao admitted he could not defeat the Immortal Fairy alone.
• Venerable Cang Lei and Venerable Shaman Priest unleashed their strongest attacks, but the Immortal Fairy dispelled Cang Lei’s lightning with a decree and countered Shaman Priest’s Fist of Sacrifice.
• Wu Youdao, Venerable Cang Lei, and Venerable Shaman Priest joined forces, but the Immortal Fairy easily drove them backward and broke their formation.
• The Immortal Fairy knocked all three across Hànshuǐ City and embedded them in the Corpse Refining Sect’s Yin Corpse Mountains.

Immortal Fairy effortlessly defeated Wu Youdao, Venerable Cang Lei, and Venerable Wuji, even after they burned their lifespans and unleashed their strongest techniques. She left all three unable to rise, while Qiu Jinan and the white-hatted man watched in shock.

• Immortal Fairy broke through Wu Youdao’s spatial defenses and snapped his neck with a kick.
• The white-hatted man identified Immortal Fairy as Lord Dou, and Qiu Jinan learned that the name referred to beans.
• Wu Youdao, Venerable Cang Lei, and Venerable Wuji recalled their pasts and resolved to fight to the death.
• Wu Youdao empowered himself with dragon and tiger energies, Venerable Cang Lei burned his lifespan, and Venerable Wuji used the Wu Clan’s Heaven-Sacrificing Fist.
• Immortal Fairy used her Fairy Fist to strike all three, leaving them weakened and unable to rise.

The Undying Fairy defeated Wu Youdao, Venerable Canglei, and Venerable Wuji, who tried to flee, and captured their souls for the Ask Dao Sect. Sect Master Lu Baqian was revealed to have survived after Venerable Wuji possessed his body, and the chapter ended with the Undying Fairy explaining that Immortal Yingtian had taught her to maintain an impressive aura in public.

• Wu Youdao, Venerable Canglei, and Venerable Wuji abandoned their bodies and fled in three directions, but the Undying Fairy watched them go without pursuing them.
• The Governor of Lu reclaimed the ownerless power of national destiny, while Qiu Jinan noticed that the man in the white paper hat had disappeared.
• Elder Gai and the Corpse-Driving Sect mourned Sect Master Lu Baqian until he sat up alive and explained that Venerable Wuji had possessed his body while leaving his soul sealed but intact.
• Lu Baqian explained that his body had reached Tribulation Transcendence while his soul remained at its former realm, then argued with Qiu Jinan about whether that made him a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator.
• The Undying Fairy returned to Lu Yang's mental space with the captured souls of Wu Youdao, Venerable Canglei, and Venerable Wuji, intending to exchange them for Ask Dao Sect contribution points.
• The Undying Fairy told Lu Yang that Immortal Yingtian had taught her that maintaining an impressive aura in public was a skill every immortal had to master.

Lu Yang returned to the Ask Dao Sect after the Everlasting Immortal Fairy captured the souls of three Great Yu Tribulation Transcendence cultivators and imprisoned them in his mindscape. When he reported the news to the Grand Elder, the half-step Tribulation Transcendence cultivator spat out his tea in shock.

• The Everlasting Immortal Fairy lectured Wu Youdao and the other two captives in Lu Yang’s mindscape, while Lu Yang left them in her custody.
• Qiu Jinan invited Meng Jingzhou to the Five Elements Sect to learn a Five Elements spell, and Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and Man Gu departed Hanshui City for the Ask Dao Sect.
• A Tribulation Transcendence general arrived in Hanshui City with an army after the danger had already been dealt with.
• During the carriage ride, Lu Yang told Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu that the Everlasting Immortal Fairy had captured the three cultivators’ souls and locked them inside his head.
• Lu Yang went to the Mission Hall to report his trip to Senior Brother Dai, but Senior Sister Tang told him the Grand Elder was there instead.
• Lu Yang told the Grand Elder that he had caught the souls of three Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, making the Grand Elder spit out his tea.

Lu Yang brought Wu Youdao, Venerable Profound Thunder, and Venerable Witch Sacrifice to the Senior Sister after the Grand Elder refused to handle their case. The Senior Sister punished Venerable Witch Sacrifice by erasing his soul and threatened to turn the other two into spirit artifacts unless they told the truth.

• Lu Yang told the Grand Elder that Venerable Bean had helped him capture three Tribulation Transcendence experts, but the Grand Elder sent him to the Senior Sister.
• Lu Yang returned to Heaven Gate Peak, where Wu Youdao and the others realized the Senior Sister had restored the true stars and feared her power.
• The Senior Sister questioned Lu Yang about the three captives, and he recounted their encounters in the Desolate Province and the battle involving Sect Master Lu.
• After learning that Venerable Witch Sacrifice had possessed Sect Master Lu, the Senior Sister erased Venerable Witch Sacrifice's soul.
• The Senior Sister threatened to refine Wu Youdao and Venerable Profound Thunder into spirit artifacts if they concealed anything.

Two weeks after the zombie planet’s will contacted her, the narrator considered Earth’s claim that aliens had invaded through the zombie virus. Unsure which planetary will was telling the truth or which side she belonged to, she decided she needed a day to think.

• The doctor maintained order in the narrator’s safe zone and politely declined cooperation proposals from other safe zones as she had asked.
• The narrator recalled that Earth’s will had put her into a coma and claimed the zombie planet’s will was an alien invader.
• Earth’s will said the zombie planet spread by devouring resources and infecting life with a virus, and that the narrator was its first Earthling host who had retained her own will.
• The narrator remained uncertain whether either planetary will was telling the truth and feared a wrong choice could doom Earth.
• The narrator decided to take a day to consider her choice calmly.

Lu Yang and the eldest senior sister interrogated Wu Youdao, uncovering Great Yu’s plans to revive its dynasty and the strength of its awakened cultivators. The eldest senior sister took the captives and prepared to alert the imperial court, while the Immortal Fairy realized she had forgotten to claim contribution points.

• Lu Yang threatened to shape Wu Youdao’s historical reputation, and Wu Youdao agreed to reveal everything.
• Wu Youdao explained that the Imperial Preceptors planned to seize Desolate Province’s fortune and ally with the demon realm, the sea tribe, and the Demonic Sect to overthrow Great Xia.
• Wu Youdao revealed that thirty-two Great Yu cultivators had reached the Body Integration Realm and seven had reached Tribulation Transcendence, including powerful cultivators whose locations he did not know.
• Wu Youdao said Great Yu planned to use [Rules] to turn a randomly chosen city in Ji Province into a city of Great Yu subjects.
• The eldest senior sister confirmed Wu Youdao’s account with Venerable Profound Thunder, bound Venerable Shamanic Rite, and took the captives to Prison Peak before heading to the imperial capital.
• The Immortal Fairy realized she had forgotten to get contribution points.

Lu Yang delivered Venerable Witch Sacrifice’s soul to the Fifth Elder, then asked Li Haoran about Mu Baiyi, whom he had encountered in Desolate Province. Li Haoran identified Mu Baiyi as the Nine Nether Cult’s current leader and explained how his unusual past had begun.

• The childlike Grandmaster locked up Wu Youdao and Venerable Xuanlei after the Eldest Senior Sister brought him two Tribulation Transcendence souls.
• Lu Yang visited Hundred Refinements Peak, congratulated Qin Yanyan on forming her Cloudmist White Cloud Pill Golden Core, and gave Venerable Witch Sacrifice’s soul to the Fifth Elder.
• The Fifth Elder abandoned his automatic-cooking wok project and began preparing to refine a Tribulation Transcendence-grade treasure from the soul.
• Lu Yang showed Li Haoran an image of the man in the white paper hat, and Li Haoran recognized him as Mu Baiyi, the Nine Nether Cult’s current leader.
• Li Haoran explained that Mu Baiyi had learned cloning and transformation techniques to answer roll call for classmates, and that his former sect later disbanded after its students performed poorly.