Chapter Summaries

Bai Ye backed Kaisha’s rise as Angel King, and the feudal lords accepted her rule as the Angels reunited under Heavenly Palace. After her coronation, Kaisha questioned Bai Ye’s motives and sought a God Body, while he explained that he wanted energy and researchers to support his work.

• The feudal lords debated whether the Angels needed a king, and Kaisha declared that she would become Angel King with Bai Ye’s approval.
• The feudal lords agreed to Kaisha’s rule, and she promised not to repeat Huaye’s abuses as the Angels gathered under Heavenly Palace.
• After her coronation, Kaisha confronted Bai Ye in the laboratory and realized he had deliberately helped her take the throne.
• Kaisha asked Bai Ye for a Generation 0.5 God Body, but he revealed that he was already researching Generation 1 God Bodies and needed energy for his plans.
• Kaisha questioned why Bai Ye was helping the Angels, and she offered to recommend her younger sister, Liangbing, as a researcher.

Kaisha brought Liangbing to Bai Ye’s laboratory to keep watch on the powerful man she could not understand, while Hoffman urged Kaisha to consider a closer relationship with him instead. Elsewhere, Gilan’s scholars debated settling in the Angel Nebula, and Bai Ye began winning Liangbing over by claiming his constant criticism was meant to temper her.

• Kaisha assigned Liangbing to Bai Ye’s laboratory, and Bai Ye accepted her despite recognizing Kaisha’s intention to place someone inside his research institute.
• After Kaisha left, Hoffman questioned whether keeping Liangbing near Bai Ye was wise and suggested Kaisha might be better off joining with him; Kaisha considered changing her approach.
• Gilan and his gathered scholars debated whether to establish themselves in the Angel Nebula or the Deno System, then leaned toward trying the Angel Nebula.
• Liangbing grew frustrated that Bai Ye watched the research instead of participating and wanted to challenge him, but Bai Ye persuaded her that his criticism was meant to cultivate her calmness.
• Liangbing apologized and accepted Bai Ye’s explanation, leaving Harshee stunned by how easily he had talked her around.

Bai Ye reassured Liangbing that she did not need to suppress herself over her exile, easing her guilt and deepening her trust in him. After he jokingly admitted attraction to Kaisha, Harshee, and Liangbing, Liangbing told Kaisha she would stop spying on him, leaving Kaisha to weigh whether a relationship with Bai Ye could work.

• Bai Ye told Liangbing that her exile was not a reason to blame herself and urged her to be less restrained outside the laboratory.
• Harshee and Liangbing questioned whether Bai Ye had been tempted by Huaye’s offer of women, and Bai Ye said he might have been tempted by Kaisha, Harshee, and Liangbing.
• Liangbing ran from the laboratory after Bai Ye named her among the women he found attractive, then went to Kaisha and revealed that she would no longer spy on him.
• Hoffman suggested that Kaisha abandon her surveillance plan and get to know Bai Ye, while Liangbing agreed that ending the spying would be better.
• Kaisha considered whether she and Bai Ye could be together, but worried that her possessiveness would prevent him from having relationships with other women, and changed the subject to the scholars.

Kaisha consulted Bai Ye about the scholars seeking a place to research in the Angel Nebula, and he let her decide whether they could stay. Kaisha rejected them, and the chapter ended with her asking Bai Ye whether he truly liked her while Liangbing reacted jealously to the possibility of becoming his guardian Angel.

• Liangbing told Kaisha that Bai Ye’s laboratory was close to developing the Generation 1 God Body, and Kaisha decided to discuss the scholars with Bai Ye.
• Kaisha explained the scholars’ request to Bai Ye, who asked to meet them and learned that Gilan had gone to the Deno System.
• Kaisha rejected the scholars’ request to stay, and they decided to join Gilan in the Deno System.
• Bai Ye questioned Kaisha’s decision, and she said she had trusted him because he had respected her authority as the Angel King.
• Kaisha asked Bai Ye whether he had meant it when he said he liked her, while Liangbing wondered if she would have to become his guardian Angel and thought she had been there first.

Bai Ye reconciled with Kaisha, reassured Liangbing, and arranged research projects with his counterparts in the Chat Group. After discussing Dragon Veins and troubles in other worlds, he left the chat to welcome Xuehua at the Shenxiao Sect.

• Kaisha decided to try getting along with Bai Ye as a friend, and Hoffman left their relationship to them.
• Bai Ye tapped Liangbing's forehead instead of punishing her, then told her to keep studying until she was ready for a research project.
• Over-God Byakuya offered to study Biohazard Byakuya's viruses and possibly modify divine bodies while preparing to enter seclusion.
• Zombie Byakuya told the others that he and the righteous-path daoists were searching for nine Dragon Veins as Evil Path cultivators sought them too.
• Hong Kong-Integrated Byakuya reported that Ghosts had possessed people in the First Commandment world, while Zombie Byakuya signed off to meet Xuehua.
• Xuehua arrived at the Shenxiao Sect, where Ren Tingting, Ren Qingqing, and Ren Zhuzhu greeted her as their Shiniang, and Bai Ye welcomed her.

Xuehua arrived at the Shenxiao Sect to see Bai Ye, then joined him and his disciples as they set out for Yizhuang in Renjia Town. There, Bai Ye reunited with Uncle Jiu, who revealed that his cultivation had stalled as Spiritual Energy faded, and Bai Ye tied the problem to the damaged Dragon Vein.

• Xuehua told Bai Ye she had sneaked away from Miaojiang to see him, and Bai Ye warned her that it was dangerous to travel alone because Miaojiang had a traitor.
• Xuehua agreed to accompany Bai Ye and his disciples to meet Uncle Jiu instead of touring the Shenxiao Sect.
• At Yizhuang, Wencai and Ah Wei competed to impress Ren Tingting, while Uncle Jiu told them to behave when Bai Ye arrived.
• Bai Ye arrived with Xuehua and his disciples, and Uncle Jiu noticed that Bai Ye's cultivation had grown stronger.
• Uncle Jiu told Bai Ye that his cultivation had reached a bottleneck, and Bai Ye said reviving the Dragon Vein could help him break through.

Bai Ye met with Uncle Jiu at Yizhuang, where they discussed Tengteng Town’s sealed Dead Dragon Vein and the powerful Zombie King guarding it. They planned to leave the next day, and Uncle Jiu asked Bai Ye to watch over several Spirit Infants while they were away.

• Uncle Jiu scolded Wencai and Ah Wei for asking after Ren Tingting, and Bai Ye explained that she had gone to the Ren Residence with Xuehua.
• Bai Ye praised Qiusheng’s cultivation progress, delighting Uncle Jiu and encouraging Qiusheng to keep learning.
• Uncle Jiu told Bai Ye and Mama Di that a Dead Dragon Vein lay beneath Tengteng Town, sealed underground among many Jiangshi and guarded by a powerful Zombie King.
• Bai Ye, Uncle Jiu, Mama Di, and Qiusheng agreed to set out for Tengteng Town the next day, relying on Bai Ye’s Lightning and Fire Magic against the Jiangshi.
• Uncle Jiu asked Bai Ye to watch over the Spirit Infants at Yizhuang, including three particularly vicious Ghosts, while they were away.

Uncle Jiu asked Bai Ye to trap the Spirit Infants at Yizhuang, then agreed to help Lotus Sister after her sister Nianying arrived seeking Lin Fengjiao. As the group prepared to leave for Tengteng Town, Ah Wei changed his mind about staying behind when he learned Ren Tingting would be joining them.

• Uncle Jiu asked Bai Ye to set up an array to keep the Spirit Infants at Yizhuang, and Bai Ye agreed to respect Uncle Jiu’s plan to try to help them.
• Ah Wei and Wencai said they would stay at Yizhuang while Uncle Jiu, Bai Ye, and Mama Di prepared to travel to Tengteng Town.
• Nianying arrived looking for Lin Fengjiao, and Uncle Jiu revealed that Lin Fengjiao was his real name.
• Nianying explained that her sister, Mi Qilian, had sent her for help because her husband appeared to be turning into a jiangshi, and Uncle Jiu agreed to go with Bai Ye.
• Bai Ye said he needed to collect his disciples and Xuehua from the Ren Residence, and Ah Wei eagerly volunteered to join the trip after learning Ren Tingting was there.

Uncle Jiu, Bai Ye, and their companions set out toward Tengteng Town, stopping first at Marshal’s residence to deal with his Jiangshi bite. Bai Ye’s display of lightning frightened Marshal into treating him like an honored master.

• Ah Wei and Wencai changed their minds and asked to join the trip after learning Ren Tingting would be going, and Bai Ye agreed to take them along.
• Ren Tingting said goodbye to Master Ren, and Bai Ye promised to protect her as the group left Renjia Town with Ren Zhuzhu and Ren Qingqing.
• The group met Xuehua, who learned that some Taoist priests could marry, and her questions about Uncle Jiu’s former lover made him uncomfortable.
• At Marshal’s residence, Bai Ye explained that Marshal could be cured by grinding the Jiangshi fangs of his dead father into powder and drinking them.
• When Marshal insulted Bai Ye, Bai Ye struck the ground beside him with lightning, and Marshal immediately ordered his staff to honor Bai Ye and prepare a feast.

Bai Ye and Uncle Jiu helped the Marshal deal with his father’s jiangshi, giving Ren Tingting and the others a chance to test their cultivation. After they removed its fangs and Bai Ye destroyed it, the Marshal watched the jiangshi turn to ashes.

• Uncle Jiu examined the Marshal’s ancestral hall and explained that the fallen coffin had allowed his father to become a jiangshi.
• Bai Ye smashed open the coffin and assigned Ren Tingting and the others to restrain the jiangshi and remove its fangs.
• Ren Tingting, Ren Qingqing, and Ren Zhuzhu bound the jiangshi, while Ah Wei, Qiusheng, and Wencai helped pull out its fangs.
• Bai Ye asked the Marshal for permission to destroy his father’s jiangshi, and the Marshal readily agreed.
• Bai Ye told Ren Tingting to release the jiangshi, then destroyed it so quickly that it turned to ashes before it could attack the Marshal.

Bai Ye led Uncle Jiu and the others to Tengteng Town, where thousands of zombies and a Zombie King awaited them. As the zombies closed in, Bai Ye summoned a massive Thunder Ball from the storm clouds, leaving Uncle Jiu stunned by the Shenxiao Sect’s power.

• Bai Ye advised the Marshal on avoiding zombification and left the Marshal Residence with Uncle Jiu and the others.
• Uncle Jiu struggled with his feelings for Lotus Sister, while Bai Ye comforted him before the group set out for Tengteng Town.
• The Evil Path decided to send Ahao and a gaunt old man to Tengteng Town to kill Bai Ye and seize the Dead Dragon Vein.
• Bai Ye explained that the group would eliminate Tengteng Town’s zombies, and he and the others waited until night after preparing formations.
• The Zombie King emerged from its coffin and led the zombies toward the group, prompting Bai Ye to tell everyone to stay beside him.
• Bai Ye called down a huge Thunder Ball with his Thunder Welcome technique, astonishing Uncle Jiu and the others.

Bai Ye and Uncle Jiu entered Tengteng Town, where Bai Ye forced the Zombie King from its underground hiding place and burned it to ashes. They found the Dragon Vein sealed beneath the town, while a feng shui master and Ahao approached from behind.

• Uncle Jiu and Bai Ye led their disciples into Tengteng Town to search for surviving Jiangshi and the Dragon Vein.
• The feng shui master brought Ahao to Tengteng Town, intending to use him to kill Bai Ye and Ren Tingting.
• Bai Ye sensed two concealed pursuers but focused on the cave beneath the Zombie King's coffin, where the Dragon Vein was hidden.
• Bai Ye poured Samadhi True Fire into the cave, forcing the Zombie King out, and burned it to ashes.
• Bai Ye received a lottery draw for changing Zhe Gu's fate and then found the Dragon Vein sealed inside a Nine Cauldrons cauldron by Liu Bowen's Array Formation.

Bai Ye and Uncle Jiu discovered that the Dragon Vein’s resentment had to be cleansed before it could be revived, and Bai Ye accepted responsibility for it. They confronted Ahao and the feng shui master, who revealed Ahao’s betrayal and challenged Bai Ye over his revenge against the Ren Family; Bai Ye condemned the feng shui master and invoked his status as an Earth Master.

• Uncle Jiu sensed the Dragon Vein’s overwhelming resentment, and Bai Ye said it had to be cleansed before the Dragon Veins could be revived.
• Uncle Jiu handed the Nine Cauldrons and the Dragon Vein matter to Bai Ye, who noticed two figures approaching the cave.
• The feng shui master revealed that Ahao had willingly joined the Evil Path and killed Aqiang, while Ahao blamed Mama Di and Bai Ye for expelling him and ruining his chance with Ren Zhuzhu.
• Mama Di told Ahao that expelling him had been the right decision, and the feng shui master interrupted their exchange to threaten the group.
• The feng shui master defended his revenge against the Ren Family and asked Bai Ye whether a cultivator was wrong to retaliate, but Bai Ye called him wrong and accused him of cowardice.

Bai Ye confronted the feng shui master and Ahao, defeating them with lightning and Samadhi True Fire after the master’s attempt to exploit the group’s supposed exhaustion failed. With the Dragon Vein now certain to draw the Evil Path’s attention, Uncle Jiu suggested leaving it in Maoshan, but Bai Ye chose to keep it himself.

• Wencai praised Bai Ye for backing his disciples, and Uncle Jiu promised to support his disciples as long as they were not at fault.
• Bai Ye questioned the feng shui master about the Evil Path organization and revealed that he had sensed the group near the Royal Zombie.
• The feng shui master assumed Bai Ye was exhausted from fighting the Jiangshi, but Bai Ye displayed lightning in one hand and Samadhi True Fire in the other.
• Bai Ye blocked the cave entrance with fire, burned Ahao to ash, and struck down the feng shui master with lightning before destroying his soul.
• Bai Ye gained substantial merit for killing the feng shui master and Ahao, while the feng shui master warned that collecting Dead Dragon Veins would make him an enemy of the Evil Path.
• Uncle Jiu proposed storing the Dragon Vein in Maoshan, but Bai Ye refused and decided to keep it himself.

After Bai Ye and Uncle Jiu cleared Tengteng Town, they headed for Jiuquan Town to investigate a sinister church. The Evil Path plotted to target Xuehua, while Shi Jian learned that Uncle Jiu had entrusted the Dragon Vein to Bai Ye and grew resentful.

• Bai Ye refused Uncle Jiu's offer to share the burden of purifying the Dragon Vein, and the group confirmed that no Jiangshi remained in Tengteng Town before leaving.
• Ren Tingting asked whether they would return to the mountain, but Bai Ye chose to continue investigating demons with Uncle Jiu.
• Mama Di told Bai Ye and Uncle Jiu about the sinister church in Jiuquan Town, and the group decided to go there.
• The Evil Path learned that Bai Ye had destroyed the Jiangshi and their monster in Tengteng Town, then decided to target Xuehua in Miaojiang to pressure him.
• Shi Shaojian told Shi Jian that Uncle Jiu had defeated the Jiangshi in Tengteng Town with Bai Ye's help and had given Bai Ye the Dragon Vein for safekeeping.
• Shi Jian warned Shi Shaojian to avoid his suspicious friends and resolved to take him down the mountain himself, resenting that Uncle Jiu had entrusted the Dragon Vein to Bai Ye.

Shi Jian confined Shi Shaojian on Maoshan to prepare him for the upcoming Daoist Sect Grand Tournament, while Bai Ye explained that the Dead Dragon Vein was still alive and needed revival. On the road, Bai Ye destroyed a Red Robe Fire Ghost and met Ao Tianlong and Ao Ningshuang, leaving the Daoists wondering whether a powerful demon had appeared.

• Shi Jian refused to let Shi Shaojian leave Maoshan to pursue the Dragon Vein and ordered him to train for the Daoist Sect Grand Tournament.
• Bai Ye told Uncle Jiu and the others that the Dead Dragon Vein was still alive, suppressed in nine pieces, and should be revived.
• Bai Ye sensed a ghost approaching, and the Red Robe Fire Ghost charged toward the group while Ao Tianlong and Ao Ningshuang pursued her.
• Bai Ye struck the Red Robe Fire Ghost with lightning and reduced her to ashes.
• Ao Tianlong introduced himself as a Maoshan disciple, while Bai Ye identified himself as the leader of the Shenxiao Sect and introduced his disciple.

Bai Ye and Uncle Jiu met Ao Tianlong and his daughter Ao Ningshuang, and their conversation revealed Bai Ye’s role in defeating the Jiangshi in Tengteng Town. Ao Tianlong and Ao Ningshuang parted ways with the group after deciding to attend the Daoist Sect Grand Tournament, while Ah Wei began fantasizing about a romance with Ao Ningshuang.

• Ao Ningshuang asked what the Shenxiao Sect was, and Ao Tianlong apologized for her ignorance before asking the group where they were headed.
• Ah Wei tried to impress Ao Ningshuang by claiming the group had defeated the Zombie King of Tengteng Town, but Uncle Jiu clarified that Bai Ye had done the fighting.
• Ao Tianlong was astonished by Bai Ye’s strength, and Bai Ye explained that his abilities happened to counter the Jiangshi.
• Uncle Jiu told Ao Tianlong about the Daoist Sect Grand Tournament, and Ao Ningshuang persuaded her father to attend after they visited their relatives.
• Ao Tianlong and Ao Ningshuang said farewell and went their separate way from Bai Ye’s group.
• Ah Wei asked Bai Ye whether he and Ao Ningshuang were a good match, describing their imagined romance as a love story between a security captain and an innocent country girl.

Uncle Jiu’s group investigated a church in Jiuquan Town and learned that a hybrid Chinese zombie and Western vampire was behind the deaths there. When Dragon Slayer arrived, he feared Uncle Jiu would discover his criminal dealings transporting powder with the town mayor’s help.

• Uncle Jiu whipped Ah Wei for neglecting cultivation until Bai Ye intervened, and the group continued to Jiuquan Town.
• At the reopened church, Uncle Jiu sensed Yin energy and warned Father Wu that the corpses could become zombies, but Father Wu refused to believe him.
• Bai Ye explained that a priest had become a zombie with both Chinese and Western traits, and that two different kinds of zombies had killed the victims.
• Uncle Jiu’s group argued over how to handle the corpses while Father Wu remained unconvinced.
• Dragon Slayer arrived with the town mayor and David, recognized Uncle Jiu, and worried his senior brother would expose his secret trade in powder using living people.

Bai Ye exposed Dragon Slayer’s human-smuggling operation, and Uncle Jiu restrained his former junior brother and planned to take him back to Maoshan for judgment. Bai Ye and Uncle Jiu then investigated the church basement, where Father Wu saw the resurrected priest Jiangshi with his own eyes.

• David leered at Ren Tingting and clashed with Ah Wei before Bai Ye criticized him as a fake foreigner.
• Bai Ye accused Dragon Slayer of smuggling living people with the town mayor and his son, and Uncle Jiu demanded that Dragon Slayer prove his innocence.
• Bai Ye summoned the people disguised as walking corpses, exposing Dragon Slayer’s connection to them, and Uncle Jiu sealed Dragon Slayer’s cultivation and detained him.
• The town mayor and David slipped away while Bai Ye, Uncle Jiu, and Father Wu headed to the basement beneath the church.
• The coffin opened when the group entered, revealing the previous priest as a Jiangshi, and Father Wu accepted that Jiangshi existed.

Bai Ye and Uncle Jiu burned the Western Zombie and decided the church had to close because of its dangerous feng shui. Before the group separated, Bai Ye arranged for the Marshal to investigate the town mayor and David, while Uncle Jiu took his disciples back to Maoshan and Mama Di resumed his corpse-driving work.

• Bai Ye said fire and lightning could kill the Western Zombie, and it burned to ash when they attacked it with fire.
• Bai Ye and Uncle Jiu warned Father Wu that the church's feng shui would cause more unnatural deaths, so Father Wu ordered the priests to prepare to leave.
• David and the town mayor planned to lie low until the group left, then replace Dragon Slayer and resume their business.
• Bai Ye told Ren Tingting that the Marshal could deal with the town mayor and David according to the law, and advised her to be flexible while still defending herself when necessary.
• Uncle Jiu prepared to take Ah Wei and Dragon Slayer to Maoshan, while Mama Di said farewell and left for a corpse-driving job.
• Wencai and Ah Wei lamented parting from Ren Tingting, and Uncle Jiu mocked them for their lovesick behavior.