Chapter Summaries

Qi Miaoyi revealed that Emei had used Li Yingyun’s prophesied destiny to pursue ascension, but the attempt failed and the elders were afflicted by the Apocalypse Calamity. He passed Emei’s leadership to Li Yingyun, who began suppressing the transformed elders as the calamity spread through the sect.

• Qi Miaoyi told Li Yingyun that Emei had taken her in and shared her destiny to help the sect ascend, leaving her to bear its remaining karma.
• Li Yingyun rejected his claim that she was merely a sacrificial tool and declared that she would protect the mortal realm instead of seeking ascension.
• Qi Miaoyi revealed that Emei’s elders had sacrificed to let only part of the sect ascend, but he, Bitter Ascetic, and Tianhe True Person had become afflicted by the Apocalypse Calamity.
• Qi Miaoyi named Li Yingyun the new Emei Sect Master and gave her the Purple-Green Divine Talisman of Unified Qi so she could suppress and refine the afflicted Primordial Spirits.
• Qi Miaoyi exploded into translucent insects, and Li Yingyun used Emei’s grand formation to trap them before flying toward Bitter Ascetic and Tianhe True Person.
• Fang Jing and Daoist White Plum saw Tianhe True Person’s polluted Primordial Spirit spread across Emei as strange laughter sounded and disciples were devoured by invisible monsters.

Li Yingyun became Emei Sect’s new sect leader after Bitter Ascetic and two other elders fell to a cultivation tribulation, while Aaron learned the End of Dharma would arrive in a hundred years. When Immortal Lady Nine Truths was hunted for an immortal herb, Aaron intervened and saved her.

• Bitter Ascetic appeared as an evil Buddha, passed the Formless Sword to Yang Xumi, and was sealed by Li Yingyun’s Ice Soul Cold Light Sword.
• Li Yingyun announced that Tianhe True Person, Bitter Ascetic, and another elder were trapped by the Heavenly Awakening, then took command of Emei Sect and ordered their Primordial Spirits suppressed.
• Aaron calculated that Emei Sect’s attempted Ascension had failed and learned that the End of Dharma would arrive in a hundred years.
• Immortal Lady Nine Truths fled overseas Golden Core pursuers who wanted her Nine Realms Immortal Herb, which she hoped to use to cultivate an unorthodox Primordial Spirit.
• Aaron swallowed the Mysterious Female Pearl, struck down the pursuers with one sword, and revealed himself to Immortal Lady Nine Truths as Fang Yu.

As the End of Dharma drained the Earth Immortal World of primordial qi, Aaron watched Luo Fu Mountain decline and later went to Mount Emei to settle old grievances. He killed Yang Xumi and clashed with Li Yingyun, who recognized the blood-colored pearl he wielded.

• Immortal Lady Nine Truths refused to abandon her attempt to forge a heretical Primordial Spirit, later failed her breakthrough, and died.
• The End of Dharma arrived, draining the world’s primordial qi and causing Luo Fu Mountain’s formations and wonders to collapse; Aaron caught the mountain and set it down safely.
• Wu Mei died after the loss of spiritual treasures caused her realm to fall, and Aaron decided to settle Luo Fu’s karma with Mount Emei.
• Aaron arrived at Mount Emei, destroyed the Ten Thousand Buddhas Golden Summit, and killed Yang Xumi with a Formless Needle before claiming the Formless Sword.
• Li Yingyun confronted Aaron with the Purple-Green Sword, and their battle rose into the nine heavens, where she recognized his blood-colored pearl as Nine Nether Blood.

Aaron defeated Li Yingyun, destroyed Mount Emei, and seized its treasures and imprisoned monsters. He returned to Luo Fu Mountain and told Yuanyuanzi that Mount Emei had fallen and their revenge was complete.

• Aaron trapped Li Yingyun in the Boundless Blood Sea, where she recognized Ding Xiadong as a Blood God Child before Aaron killed her.
• Aaron refined the Purple-Green Sword and used it to slaughter every living disciple on Mount Emei.
• Aaron spent nine days refining the Purple-Green Divine Talisman of Unified Qi, then collected three imprisoned Primordial Spirit monsters and looted Mount Emei’s treasures.
• Aaron rode the Formless Sword to Luo Fu Mountain, gave Yuanyuanzi another Formless Sword, and told the Luo Fu Patriarch’s grave that Mount Emei had been destroyed.

Aaron collected the South Sea Sect’s scriptures and treasures, then returned to Luo Fu Mountain and found Yuanyuanzi dead. Alone for centuries, he studied the world’s decline and ran experiments that led him to identify the Nine Luminaries Profound Secret Emperor as the force behind the Dharma-ending calamity.

• Aaron entered the South Sea Sect’s ruins, found its last sect master’s remains, and took the sect’s scriptures and treasures.
• Aaron searched the world and collected scriptures, relics, and magical treasures from famous sects and lineages.
• Aaron returned to Luo Fu Mountain, buried Yuanyuanzi with the Formless Sword, and remained alone as the mountain decayed.
• Aaron’s diary entries recorded his research into the dwindling spiritual energy, experiments on Bitter Ascetic and other test subjects, and attempts to reach the Immortal Realm.
• Aaron concluded that the Nine Luminaries Profound Secret Emperor had blocked the passage to the Immortal Realm and was using the Dharma-ending age to erode the world.

After spending centuries in a hidden Luofu Island, Aaron began preparing to introduce his New Arts to a modern, industrialized Great Yue. He gave a desperate woman the power of the Ghost Infant, and Zhang Yexin recognized her as a wanted criminal just as she unleashed her supernatural power.

• Aaron marked his fifteen-hundredth birthday on Luofu Island and reflected on how Great Yue had become the planet’s leading industrial and colonial power.
• Zhang Yexin learned he had missed the public-university cutoff, while Tian Bing was the only one in their group with decent results.
• Aaron lamented that few people believed in the supernatural and decided to use his New Arts to reveal extraordinary power to the world.
• Aaron encountered a desperate girl by a river and gave her the Ghost Infant, naming her Ghost Mother and urging her to take revenge.
• After learning that seventeen people had been killed at Emerald Mountain Estate, Zhang Yexin went out to hand out flyers and recognized the wanted woman in the street.
• As bystanders moved to seize the woman, she offered to show them true terror, and illusory children's hands began crawling from her body.

After surviving a supernatural attack, Zhang Yexin struggled to accept that demons and monsters were real. Meanwhile, Aaron began building Luofu Vocational Technical College and sent ghost infants to deliver magically teleporting admission notices.

• Zhang Yexin woke in a hospital and remembered the ghostly hands that had nearly killed him.
• Tian Bing showed Zhang Yexin a newspaper photograph of the Buddha Mother statue and asked whether the supernatural incident was real.
• Aaron returned to Luofu Island and used Alchemy and soul crystals to create intelligent clay golems.
• Aaron ordered the golems to build Luofu Vocational Technical College, planning to add True Person puppets as instructors.
• Aaron wrote admission notices and sent ghost infants to find suitable students and deliver them using his magnetic teleportation array.

Zhang Yexin received an admission notice to Luofu Vocational Technical College, and the Imperial City Directorate investigated the mysterious school as its students began disappearing. At eight o’clock on September 1st, Zhang and hundreds of others were transported to the college, where the dean of discipline, Nine Nether, welcomed them.

• Zhang Yexin received a Luofu Vocational Technical College admission notice after sensing the Ghost Mother’s chilling presence, and he wondered whether to attend.
• Zheng Mingyun ordered the Imperial City Directorate to investigate the notices and monitor recipients, but its efforts failed to prevent the mysterious disappearances.
• Zhang Yexin waited in his Blue Sky Vocational Technical College dormitory with his luggage, then vanished with it when the clock struck eight.
• Zheng Mingyun learned that letter recipients were disappearing while separated letters burned to ash, and that an agent holding a copied notice had not been transported.
• Several hundred students appeared in Luofu Vocational Technical College’s plaza, where Nine Nether frightened them into silence and announced the principal’s speech.

Aaron introduced Luofu Academy’s tuition, rules, and six disciplines to the freshmen, while Zhang Yexin and his classmates experienced the academy’s supernatural dormitory firsthand. The chapter ended with instructors demonstrating their fields as the students considered what to study.

• Aaron demanded ten million in annual tuition, and Nine Nether transformed a student who challenged the academy into a Demonic Beast before the freshmen signed loan agreements or paid.
• Aaron sent the students who withdrew back to Great Yue with five-million promissory notes, then had the remaining freshmen follow clay golems to their dormitories.
• Zhang Yexin shared his room with Hu Yue, met Sinan and other freshmen, and watched ghosts appear in the halls after the ten o’clock curfew.
• Aaron announced a month of general education followed by discipline selection, introducing martial arts, witchcraft, gu arts, esoteric teachings, potions, and alchemy.
• Li Yingyun demonstrated sword-light, Farrell conjured a fireball, and Fang Yuan, Bill, Harry, and Edward introduced their disciplines.

Zhang Yexin and the other students attended Aaron’s first lecture at the academy, where he introduced spectral energy and set a strict one-month deadline for learning its fundamentals. The students were left scrambling to study after Aaron ended the class and departed.

• Zhang Yexin considered the academy’s subjects and decided to attend the public lectures before choosing a field.
• Aaron announced that he would teach the first general-knowledge class and warned students away from restricted zones.
• Aaron explained spectral energy and ordered the students to study its prerequisites and gain an introductory grasp of Spectral Energy Refinement within a month or face expulsion.
• Sinan listened intently while Yuan Shiyan regretted lacking stationery, and Bai Qiudao lent him paper and a pen in exchange for a favor.
• Aaron ended the lecture and left, while the students complained about missing notes and the pace of the material.

Half a month into academy life, Zhang Yexin and his classmates discussed their preferred supernatural studies while struggling to learn psionic energy refinement. The group considered paying for tutoring and grew wary of the factions forming among students.

• Zhang Yexin shared a ham sausage with Hu Yue, Sinan, and Bai Qiudao while Yuan Shiyan talked about their lack of lucky encounters around the academy.
• Hu Yue chose potion-making, Zhang Yexin favored martial arts, Sinan chose alchemy, Bai Qiudao chose esoteric religion, and Yuan Shiyan chose witchcraft.
• Sinan warned the group that they had only half a month to avoid elimination, and the others admitted they were struggling to draw in psionic particles.
• Yuan Shiyan suggested hiring advanced students for costly private tutoring and pointed out Cang Xuefei, whom he claimed had tried to seduce a mentor.
• Sinan said students might be using false names, while Bai Qiudao warned that Western and Southern Continent students had formed hostile gangs.

Zhang Yexin succeeded in extracting nether energy by using a dormitory ghost as a source, passed the academy’s assessment, and chose martial arts. He began training under Li Yingyun, who introduced the Netherworld Art and an expensive flying-sword curriculum.

• Zhang Yexin left his dormitory after curfew and used the dorm matron’s nether energy to complete his first extraction, then Aaron punished him with a night hanging and three months of compulsory labor.
• Several students copied Zhang Yexin’s method, but they drew too many dorm matrons and froze to death; Hu Yue failed to extract nether energy and was expelled.
• Zhang Yexin passed the crystal-ball test, chose martial arts, and received an iron badge along with Aaron’s reminder about his nightly labor.
• Aaron announced that the academy’s courses lasted only one year, while Sinan worried about gathering knowledge across the six disciplines.
• Li Yingyun began teaching the Netherworld Art and Luofu Sword Art, and Zhang Yexin worried that the required flying-sword materials would be too expensive.

Zhang Yexin served his punishment by cleaning the Nine Nether Blood Sea and discovered that its discarded rust and soil could be valuable flying-sword materials. After Zhang Yexin left, Aaron revealed that he had recognized him as a reincarnated cultivator, possibly the former Supreme Unity Primordial Spirit, Luo Fu Patriarch.

• Zhang Yexin visited the director of discipline's quarters, where Aaron ordered him to clean the bottom of the Sea of Blood.
• Zhang Yexin entered the Nine Nether Blood Sea and cautiously scrubbed rust from its Blood Sea Gods and Devils, one of which briefly opened its eyes.
• After three hours, Aaron complained that Zhang Yexin had cleaned only three of the one hundred and eight thousand Blood Sea Gods and Devils, then made him take out the trash.
• Zhang Yexin realized the discarded material might help him make a flying sword, though he was unsure whether it would be enough after refining.
• Aaron and the Nine Nether Blood Demon discussed Zhang Yexin's reincarnation, and Aaron identified him as the Luo Fu Patriarch.

During the Luofu Graduation Examination, Zhang Yexin and his companions fought their way through a monstrous forest and were attacked by rival gangs. A blood sea drove the gangs into a desperate escape, and the group returned to the academy grounds as the first to break the formation and graduate.

• Zhang Yexin, Yuan Shiyan, Sinan, Bai Qiudao, and Shi Meimei fought monsters while Bai Qiudao divined the route out of the forest.
• Bai Qiudao guided the group across a blood river, but James and a red-haired woman ambushed them near the exit.
• Zhang Yexin blocked the flying daggers, and James admitted that the Southern Continent Gang had joined forces with the Western Continent Gang to weaken Central Continent examinees.
• Honep arrived with dragon traits, Shi Meimei transformed into a werewolf, and the group prepared to fight James and the allied gangs.
• A sea of blood filled the forest, forcing all three gangs to flee while attacking and tripping one another.
• Zhang Yexin and the others returned to the academy grounds, where Aaron declared them the first to break the formation and graduate.

Zhang Yexin and the other graduates returned to the modern world after Luofu Vocational Technical College’s graduation ceremony. Sinan began negotiating with the government over extraordinary powers, while Zhang Yexin reunited with his parents and discovered they had started a new family.

• Aaron named Zhang Yexin the outstanding graduate and gave him a badge that allowed him to recommend one student for the academy’s next enrollment.
• Aaron sent Zhang Yexin back to the Blue Sky Technical College dormitory, where he summoned the Yuantu Sword and fled after a girl mistook him for a pervert.
• Yuan Shiyan returned to his estate, learned his family situation had changed, and called Sinan, who told him that 157 people worldwide had mastered extraordinary powers.
• Sinan met Zheng Mingyun and argued that the government should cooperate with extraordinary practitioners; Zheng offered him a team leader position in the new Spectral Energy Countermeasure Response Department.
• Zhang Yexin returned home and learned that Hu Yue had reassured his parents during his disappearance, and that his parents had used the money Hu Yue gave them to have another child.

Zhang Yexin reunited with Sinan and their former classmates, who had assembled as a team in Great Yue’s Spectral Energy Countermeasure Response Department. Sinan announced their first mission was to capture the Ghost Mother, though he intended to use the encounter to learn more about the forces behind her and Luofu Academy.

• Zhang Yexin searched online for Hu Yue and found news of his supernatural demonstrations, then concluded that supernatural incidents had become more frequent.
• Sinan called Zhang Yexin and explained that the Imperial City Directorate had protected Zhang’s family while keeping watch over them.
• At the Golden Butterfly Cafe, Sinan reunited Zhang Yexin with Yuan Shiyan, Shi Meimei, and Bai Qiudao, and asked him to join his official response team.
• Sinan announced the team’s first mission was to capture the Ghost Mother, whose ghost domain made conventional weapons ineffective.
• Bai Qiudao compared the Ghost Mother’s abilities to advanced witchcraft, while Shi Meimei refused to harm her and Sinan said he did not intend to arrest her.
• Sinan explained that Great Yue’s psychic-energy research lagged far behind the academy’s knowledge, and said he accepted the mission to make contact with the power behind the Ghost Mother.

Aaron and the Nine Nether Blood Demon discussed using Ghost Mother as an experiment in giving an ordinary human soul Primordial Spirit traits. Great Yue’s forces and the students cornered Ghost Mother, but after Bai Qiudao temporarily sealed her, her power began returning and Zhang Yexin struck her down.

• Aaron told the Nine Nether Blood Demon that Ghost Mother would lose to the students and Great Yue, making her a chance to test whether a mortal could acquire Primordial Spirit traits.
• Great Yue’s Nether Energy Department tracked Ghost Mother, and Sinan brought Zhang Yexin to join the attack with a nether energy firearm.
• Yuan Shiyan’s witchcraft and Sinan’s bullets weakened Ghost Mother, while Zhang Yexin cut down the Ghost Infants she released.
• Bai Qiudao completed a curse-binding ritual that dispelled Ghost Mother’s massive form and left a girl behind, but he collapsed after sealing the Ghost inside her.
• The girl said her power came from a great existence, and Zhang Yexin pierced her brow when her hair grew and the seal began to break.

After the female corpse became an immortal, rule-bound Weird, Aaron sent her back to Great Yue and continued experimenting with ways to create more aberrations. Zhang Yexin later stumbled into Aaron’s Catgirl Café, while Aaron and the Nine Nether Blood Demon kept building their strange urban-legend operation.

• The female corpse reanimated after Zhang Yexin killed her, strangled Yuan Shiyan, and vanished before the team could capture her.
• Aaron explained that the woman had fused with the Ghost Infant’s power and become an immortal Weird whose killing pattern targeted men who bullied women, then sent her back to Great Yue.
• Half a month later, Zhang Yexin visited the Catgirl Café, chose a leopard-print maid, and discovered that the customer leaving a private room was his father, Zhang Cunye.
• After closing, Aaron revealed that the leopard-print maid was an alchemical puppet wearing Li Yingyun’s face, then discussed creating more aberrations with the Nine Nether Blood Demon.
• Zhang Cunye returned to the café for an ear-cleaning service and complained about the soaring Radiation Ecological Park stock, while Aaron defended its future prospects.
• A timid girl came to ask for a job, and Aaron told her to call him Master as part of the café’s hiring test.

Xiao Rou joined Aaron’s café and used the Hell Official Website after Nine Nether gave her its address, hoping to escape the people extorting her. A week later, Black Gold Rose’s loan sharks had been killed, and Xiao Rou realized the website had answered her story; Aaron then prepared to use the café’s time-adjusting array for Zhang Yexin and his father.

• Aaron hired Xiao Rou at the café, and Nine Nether gave her a business card with the Hell Official Website address.
• Xiao Rou wrote about the people forcing her to hand over money on the website, then left the internet café.
• A week later, Xiao Rou heard that Black Gold Rose’s loan sharks had died and silently wept in the café’s changing room.
• Jiuyou questioned Aaron about giving Xiao Rou the website address, and Aaron said he wanted to protect his employee and test Ghost Mother.
• Zhang Yexin arrived at the café for coffee, and Aaron planned to use the Forward-Reverse Nine Palaces Grand Array to make him and his father leave their private rooms at the same time.

Nine years after Luofu College’s students returned to the mundane world, psionic technology had transformed society, while the college’s secret location and next admissions remained a source of controversy. Aaron prepared to hand the Catgirl Café to Red Sister, as a new Transcendent threat appeared over Zhang Yexin’s coveted recommendation slot.

• Zhang Cunye visited the Catgirl Café and discussed psionic technology’s rapid advances with Aaron, who remained skeptical of psionic energy.
• Zhang Yexin arrived as protests over Luofu College’s hidden location and admissions spread worldwide; he privately planned to save his recommendation slot for his younger sister, Zhang Fengwei.
• Zhang Yexin went to a private room with Xiao Rou, while Zhang Cunye reluctantly paid his son’s bill.
• Aaron announced that Red Sister would take over the café after his nine years of running it, and she assured Zhang Cunye that everything would stay the same.
• Aaron found Nine Nether Blood Demon bowling with a human victim and learned that another Transcendent had come because Zhang Yexin’s Outstanding Graduate badge was highly sought after.