Chapter Summaries

Lu Bai entertained two middle schoolers with an extravagant tale of being the Heavenly Emperor before Guan Shen and Changhu led a force of Deathmatchers to surround his shop. With flight suppressed and Duck Neck made his anchor, Lu Bai met Changhu’s attack head-on and unleashed a supernatural storm.

• Lu Bai told Chicken Neck and Duck Neck that he was the ancient Heavenly Emperor and Old Ruler, prompting Duck Neck to beg him to become his disciple.
• Changhu, Guan Shen, and their allies arrived at the shop, and Guan Shen admitted he had orchestrated the campaign against Lu Bai and gathered nearly forty Deathmatchers to kill him.
• The Deathmatchers destroyed the shop and deployed a force that prevented Lu Bai from flying.
• Lu Bai transferred the anchor to Duck Neck when Five Immortals Sealing’s cooldown ended, and power surged through him.
• Changhu attacked Lu Bai with a massive bone axe, but Lu Bai blocked it with a blade and unleashed dark clouds and howling wind.

Lu Bai unleashed a display of overwhelming power above the old city district, throwing Jiangyu City into chaos and destroying buildings and deathmatchers with ease. As Changhu and the survivors struggled to respond, Lu Bai remained unharmed and continued attacking.

• Dark clouds gathered over the old city district, and panic spread through Jiangyu City as people feared the world was ending.
• Lu Bai climbed into the air on invisible steps, leaving the deathmatchers baffled by the failure of their flight restriction ability.
• Lu Bai swept away a three-story house and the buildings behind it with an invisible force.
• Lu Bai struck toward Guan Shen and Changhu, shattering the ground and killing several deathmatchers in a massive slash.
• Duck Neck cheered Lu Bai as the surviving deathmatchers despaired, while Changhu struggled upright with a broken leg.
• A bearded deathmatcher urged the survivors to use their abilities against Lu Bai, but Lu Bai appeared unaffected and kept swinging his blade.

Lu Bai devastated the Deathmatch battlefield with a barrage of slashes, leaving only a few survivors and taking first place. He confronted Changhu by revealing two more titles, while Yao Yi decided to go back toward the danger to help him.

• Yao Yi saw the enormous vortex and, despite Wang Ting's warning to leave the old district, insisted on going to check whether Lu Bai needed help.
• Er Xi told Guan Shen that his clone had been destroyed, and Guan Shen reassured him that their backup plan could still secure them a place in the top ten.
• Lu Bai unleashed dozens of energy slashes, devastated the area, and gained 56 points to reach 172 points and first place.
• Xing Chongyi escaped the ruins with two underlings, while Changhu survived by relying on the Parasitic Organism in his left hand.
• Changhu accused Lu Bai of deliberately sparing him, and Lu Bai revealed his titles, “Decapitation Butcher” and “Ultimate Murderer.”

Lu Bai eliminated Changhu, Xing Chongyi, and his remaining lackeys, then used his detection ability to locate the surviving contestants. He found Guan Shen and Er Xi preparing to kill themselves and confronted them in their living room.

• Lu Bai crushed Changhu with overwhelming force, then killed Xing Chongyi and the two lackeys with a Flying Slash, earning eight points and reaching 180 points.
• Lu Bai reassured Chu Ya Bo after the boy celebrated his victory and asked to train with him.
• Lu Bai scanned the area with his detection ability, found contestants hiding in the rubble, and noticed Yao Yi and two other contestants approaching.
• Guan Shen loaded his pistol while Er Xi held a gun to his temple, planning to act after Lu Bai eliminated two more contestants.
• Lu Bai appeared in Guan Shen and Er Xi's living room and advised Er Xi on how to shoot himself more reliably.

Lu Bai defeated Er Xi and Guan Shen, reunited with Yao Yi and the two middle schoolers, and helped restore order in the city. He then met Mayor Shi and six other parasitic organisms, who offered to serve him, and asked why they were not drinking milk.

• Er Xi emptied his gun at Lu Bai, but Lu Bai stopped the bullets and collapsed the house with Er Xi and Guan Shen inside.
• Lu Bai returned to the former convenience store and found Yao Yi talking with Chu Yapeng and Chicken Neck.
• Lu Bai introduced Yao Yi to the two middle schoolers, sent all three toward the edge of the old district, and followed them.
• After order returned to the city, Lu Bai visited the municipal government building and met Mayor Shi and six other parasitic organisms.
• Mayor Shi offered for the seven parasitic organisms to become Lu Bai’s followers, and Lu Bai asked why they were not drinking milk.

Lu Bai eliminated the remaining Parasitic Organisms and Deathmatch contestants, ending the second Deathmatch Showdown as the last one standing. Back in the hall, he checked his rewards and found that he could permanently retain one ability from the showdown.

• Lu Bai killed seven Parasitic Organisms during a discussion about their surrender.
• Lu Bai found a couple of Deathmatch contestants at a mountain overlook and turned them to dust, earning enough points to finish in first place.
• Lu Bai left a defensive clump of energy inside Chu Yapeng before the Deathmatch Showdown ended.
• Lu Bai returned to the hall, where the Deathmatch System listed his rewards and the ability Flash Time.

Lu Bai reviewed his Deathmatch Showdown rewards, upgraded his titles, and kept Ink Dye rather than Five Immortals Sealing. At the school’s results announcement, the staff revealed that Lu Bai had ranked first, leaving Chen Li stunned and angry at Liang Fuzhong.

• Lu Bai replaced Decapitation Butcher with Frenzied Slaughter and combined titles to upgrade his equipped titles.
• Lu Bai chose to keep Ink Dye instead of Five Immortals Sealing and checked his updated personal interface.
• Staff members announced the students’ Deathmatch Showdown results while Chen Li and the counselors listened.
• A staff member announced that Class 05B’s Lu Bai had earned a title and ranked first, shocking the venue.
• Chen Li confronted Liang Fuzhong and said he would verify Lu Bai’s result himself.

Lu Bai claimed he had placed first in two Deathmatch Showdown rounds, but Chen Li and the counselors accused him of lying and threatened to expel him. The database confirmed Lu Bai’s claim, prompting the school’s leaders to prepare an apology while Lu Bai left the venue and approached a pair of siblings.

• Students and faculty crowded around Lu Bai after he ranked first in the third round, and Chen Li dismissed the result as unconfirmed.
• Lu Bai told Chen Li he had also placed first in the first round, but Chen Li and several counselors called him a liar and threatened to expel him.
• Lu Bai gave a staff member the arena numbers for both rounds, then left after Chen Li waved him away.
• A staff member checked the database and confirmed that Lu Bai had placed first in both rounds, leaving Chen Li stunned.
• Vice Principal Guan escorted Chen Li to the principal’s office and said the school would need to apologize to Lu Bai.
• Lu Bai quietly left the venue, passed the crowd at the campus gate, and headed toward a pair of siblings.

After Lu Bai won first place in the Deathmatch Showdown for three consecutive rounds, his counselor and Vice Principal Guan rushed to find him and persuade him to stay at Zudian Campus. Guan offered him two million Livability Coins, and the chapter ended with Principal Pu Xueli arriving to meet him.

• Lu Bai waited at the school gates with Lu Qingyan and Lu Ziyi, expecting school staff to bring him money.
• Counselor Liang Fuzhong found Lu Bai and brought him and his siblings to a reception room.
• Vice Principal Guan Yongxiao reassured Lu Bai that he could remain at Zudian Campus and promised the school would deal with Chen Li.
• Guan offered Lu Bai two million Livability Coins for his results, startling Lu Qingyan and Lu Ziyi.
• Principal Pu Xueli arrived with Chen Li and introduced himself to Lu Bai.

After Zudian Campus apologized and paid Lu Bai, he shared some of the money with Lu Ziyi and received offers from three stronger campuses. He declined them, then went to practice his breathing exercises, leaving Livability City after balking at an overpriced Coke.

• Principal Pu Xueli had Chen Li apologize to Lu Bai, and Lu Bai accepted while keeping up a cordial front.
• Lu Bai transferred a million to Lu Ziyi, and Zudian Campus paid him another two million.
• Lu Bai received enrollment offers from Chuzhong, Yuji, and Zhaoxiku, then politely declined them.
• Lu Bai shared a meal with Lu Ziyi and Lu Qingyan before heading out to practice breathing exercises.
• Lu Bai stopped at a high-end convenience store for Coke, but left when the cashier charged ten yuan for a bottle that cost three yuan elsewhere.

After placing first in two consecutive rounds of the Deathmatch Showdown, Lu Bai drew attention at school but remained wary of people trying to approach him. He returned to his routine and prepared for his third round, while Lu Ziyi and Lu Qingyan argued at home.

• Students whispered about Lu Bai's results and the near-expulsion, while school factions waited to learn more about him.
• At the combat training arena, a gaunt old man praised Lu Bai and hinted that someone wanted information about him; Lu Bai questioned him, and the old man left without reporting to anyone.
• The gaunt old man watered a plant and hoped his warning had made Lu Bai more cautious now that he was a hot commodity.
• Lu Bai resumed commuting between school and Livability City, and media interest faded after he and Lu Ziyi refused interviews.
• The night before Lu Bai's third Deathmatch Showdown round, Lu Ziyi told Lu Qingyan to go to bed, and Lu Qingyan teased her about buying bad meat until Lu Bai withdrew to the bathroom.

Lu Bai entered the third round of the Deathmatch Showdown and chose Late-stage Expert from the Ability Pool. After arriving in a dark forest arena, he encountered a strange black Snake coiled around an ancient tree.

• Students gathered at the venue, where they recognized Lu Bai as a two-time first-place contestant and gave him space.
• Deputy Director Liang Fuzhong delivered a speech, and the third round began.
• Lu Bai hid his secondary titles, reviewed the three abilities offered, and selected Late-stage Expert.
• Lu Bai explored the forest arena and heard an unexplained whisper.
• Lu Bai found a pitch-black Snake watching him with reddish-brown, slit-pupiled eyes.

Lu Bai escaped a hostile black-scaled great serpent in the forest and reached a wary village, where a young girl offered him lodging. Inside her bare house, he noticed a finely crafted miniature replica of the building beside an incense burner.

• The black-scaled great serpent attacked Lu Bai, but he used darkness and [Flash Time] to evade it until it retreated beneath a cloud of poison mist.
• Lu Bai left the forest and reached a shabby village, where the villagers grew frightened after learning he had come from Qinggang Forest.
• The village elder allowed Lu Bai to choose a household to stay in, and a dark-skinned young girl invited him into her home.
• Lu Bai entered the girl's house and examined a miniature replica of it standing beside a porcelain incense bowl.

Lu Bai learned from Xiao Li that supernatural powers were organized under the Four Great Sects and that people had recently disappeared after Grandmother Wang San vanished. That night, as the village grew quiet under the fog, a strange figure appeared on the stone path outside his room.

• Lu Bai calmed the frightened Xiao Li and asked about the miniature shrine called the God of Wealth Tower.
• Xiao Li explained the ranks of immortals and warned Lu Bai that people had gone missing and that traveling alone after dark was dangerous.
• Xiao Li cooked Lu Bai noodles and prepared a bed for him.
• Lu Bai considered how to find other Deathmatch Showdown participants, then noticed the nearby insects had fallen silent.
• Lu Bai saw a naked figure with unusually long arms standing on the mist-covered stone path.

Lu Bai confronted a Fox Immortal at Xiao Li's house and met Tao Gui, an Incense Officer investigating the village's disappearances. Tao Gui began tracking the immortal as villagers gathered, but the village elder arrived before the search concluded.

• Lu Bai resisted the Fox Immortal's bewitching sighs and approached it, but it escaped after a farmer and three youths arrived.
• The Fox Immortal left a male villager unconscious, and the farmer stopped his apprentice from touching him.
• Tao Gui used incense to detect that the immortal was still moving around the village, then introduced himself to Lu Bai as an Incense Officer under Lord Bai the Fourteenth.
• Lu Bai told Tao Gui that the Fox Immortal was connected to the recent disappearances, and Tao Gui resumed the search.
• Villagers gathered outside, and the village elder asked Tao Gui whether he had found the evil spirit.

Tao Gui gathered Liu Family Village’s residents to draw out the Fox Immortal, and his ritual revealed a gray fox among the crowd. When the farmwife launched a surprise attack on Tao Gui, Lu Bai kicked her to stop it.

• Tao Gui asked the village elder to gather the villagers after his apprentices failed to locate the Fox Immortal with incense.
• Tao Gui performed Gaze Incense healing, while Liu Sheng explained the incense methods to Lu Bai.
• Tao Gui and his apprentices trapped and exposed a gray fox spirit, which attacked the villagers with a storm of sand and stones.
• The farmwife suddenly attacked Tao Gui from behind, and Lu Bai kicked her before she could kill him.

Lu Bai protected Grandpa Tao while he summoned Lord Bai the Fourteenth to deal with two Fox Immortals. After defeating them, Lord Bai took an interest in Lu Bai and invited him to visit the next day.

• Lu Bai kept the Fox Immortal at bay while Grandpa Tao prepared to summon Lord Bai the Fourteenth.
• The woman tried to distract Lu Bai, but he held his ground until Grandpa Tao entered a trance.
• Lord Bai the Fourteenth warned the two Fox Immortals to leave, but they attacked him instead.
• Lord Bai used two hairs to kill the gray fox and pierce the white shadow fleeing from the woman.
• Lord Bai asked Lu Bai his name, then invited him and Grandpa Tao to visit the next day before leaving Grandpa Tao's body.

Lu Bai traveled with Grandpa Tao to Lord Bai the Fourteenth’s temple in the county seat, learning that the spirit wanted to meet him as a potential incense officer. The chapter ended with Lu Bai standing before Lord Bai’s portrait inside the temple.

• Grandpa Tao led Lu Bai and his three apprentices through the woods, using incense and a respectful greeting to ward off unseen spirits.
• Grandpa Tao explained that Lord Bai the Fourteenth had many incense officers and wanted to meet Lu Bai, while Lu Bai remained uneasy about being possessed.
• The group reached the county seat near dusk and went straight to Lord Bai the Fourteenth’s temple.
• Grandpa Tao explained the three steps of becoming an incense medium and warned Lu Bai that contact with immortals could trigger the separation stage.
• Grandpa Tao led Lu Bai into the temple’s main hall, where Lu Bai studied Lord Bai the Fourteenth’s portrait above the shrine.

Lu Bai agreed to become Lord Bai the Fourteenth’s Incense Officer, but Lord Bai’s attempt to perform Take Method was interrupted when Chang Shengtian claimed Lu Bai had already been chosen for his own ritual. The two immortals argued over Lu Bai and ended on Lord Bai’s proposal that Lu Bai offer incense to both the Bai and Liu sects.

• Lord Bai the Fourteenth asked Lu Bai to become his Incense Officer, and Lu Bai agreed.
• Lord Bai began Take Method, but the process hit a snag and he abruptly disappeared from the hall.
• Lord Bai confronted Chang Shengtian in the mansion’s back courtyard and demanded to know why he was on his territory.
• Chang Shengtian said he needed an Incense Officer and revealed that his ritual was nearly complete, with only Open Top remaining.
• Lord Bai argued that Lu Bai should serve both the Bai and Liu sects, while Chang Shengtian insisted Lord Bai had arrived later.

Lu Bai became the Incense Officer of both Lord Bai the Fourteenth and Chang Shengtian, then went with Grandpa Tao to stay at his county-town home. As Lu Bai weighed his next steps, he resolved to hunt Deathmatchers despite having no way to locate them yet.

• Lu Bai learned that Chang Shengtian had already performed the Take Method on him, and Lord Bai the Fourteenth completed the process so both immortals could possess him.
• After leaving Lord Bai the Fourteenth's residence, Lu Bai accepted Grandpa Tao's offer to stay at his home and revealed that he could already produce white mist as an Incense Officer.
• Grandpa Tao told Lu Bai that Lord Bai the Fourteenth might soon assign him a territory and warned him about trouble among Incense Leaders in nearby villages.
• Lu Bai asked Grandpa Tao to keep an eye on Liu Family Village, while Grandpa Tao mistakenly assumed he meant a girl from the village.
• Grandpa Tao drank with Lu Bai, warned him to stay in the county town for safety, and Lu Bai carried him to bed before considering how to find and kill Deathmatchers.