Chapter Summaries

Mo Yanyu exposed a flaw in Lu Baize’s array, earned an honorary elder position in the Array Pavilion, and proved herself a seventh-rank array master. Meanwhile, a spy identified Yueji in Cloud Thunder City, prompting Yun Xiaotian and Hao Jinghong to set out with Old Man Xingya’s help to seek revenge.

• Mo Yanyu’s array triggered the evil art within a trapped middle-aged man, and she knocked him unconscious with one slap.
• Lu Baize and Han Qingxia apologized to Mo Yanyu, and Mo Yanyu agreed to teach Lu Baize her array in exchange for his promised payment and an honorary elder position.
• Mo Yanyu declined an invitation for Qing Mo and his companions to visit the Array Pavilion, then joined it herself and passed its seventh-rank array master test.
• A spy spotted Yueji in Cloud Thunder City and reported her appearance to Yun Xiaotian through a voice transmission jade talisman.
• Yun Xiaotian and Hao Jinghong arranged to meet Old Man Xingya in Cloud Thunder City and left for a teleportation array to pursue Yueji and her companions.

Qing Mo's group caught and killed Xiao Tao, who had been following them for Yun Xiaotian and Hao Jinghong, then challenged the two men to meet them in Flower Moon City. Yun Xiaotian and Qing Mo signed a life-and-death contract and faced each other in the arena, where Qing Mo hinted that he knew the truth about Yun Xiaotian's parents.

• Qing Mo's group confronted Xiao Tao as he secretly contacted Yun Xiaotian and Hao Jinghong, and Qing Mo learned they had sent him to follow them.
• Qing Mo refused Hao Jinghong's offer of compensation, and Yueji killed Xiao Tao while Yun Xiaotian and Hao Jinghong listened through the transmission talisman.
• Qing Mo told Yun Xiaotian to meet him in Flower Moon City, then destroyed the talisman and continued on to obtain the Wanyue Ying Flower.
• Yun Xiaotian and Hao Jinghong confronted Qing Mo's maidservants in Flower Moon City, and Qing Mo appeared to accept Yun Xiaotian's challenge to the Life-and-Death Arena.
• Qing Mo and Yun Xiaotian signed the life-and-death contract and entered the arena, where Qing Mo said Yun Xiaotian could have met his biological parents before coming to die.
• Yun Xiaotian demanded to know who his parents were, and Qing Mo offered him the first move.

Yun Xiaotian challenged Qing Mo to avenge Uncle Fan, but Qing Mo effortlessly endured his attacks and brutally crippled him. When Old Man Xingya intervened to save Yun Xiaotian, Qing Mo revealed overwhelming power, forced the elder to kneel, and began beating him instead.

• Yun Xiaotian attacked Qing Mo with a high-grade spirit sword, but the blade snapped against Qing Mo's robe.
• Yun Xiaotian unleashed a furious series of punches and strikes that left Qing Mo and the ground beneath him unharmed.
• Qing Mo battered Yun Xiaotian, broke his arm, and ignored Hao Jinghong's plea for him to surrender.
• Old Man Xingya arrived and ordered Qing Mo to stop, but Qing Mo broke both of Yun Xiaotian's legs in front of him.
• Qing Mo released an overwhelming aura that forced Old Man Xingya to his knees, then dragged him across the arena and drove his head into the ground.

Qing Mo killed Old Man Xingya and Yun Xiaotian, then set out for Splendid Blossom City with Yun Xiaotian’s ashes and the maimed Hao Jinghong. In the Celestial Spirit Immortal Realm, Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan learned his son had died and began sending forces to investigate, while Ye Xinghe and Lin Manmu headed toward Mo Yanyu and Cang Lanyue.

• Qing Mo brutally tortured Old Man Xingya before killing him, then snapped Yun Xiaotian’s neck and destroyed his soul.
• Mo Yanyu, Cang Lanyue, and Yueji stopped Hao Jinghong from escaping, and Yueji later carved him into a human stick and dragged him away.
• Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan sensed Yun Xiaotian’s death, failed to divine the killer, and ordered his subordinates to investigate across the lower realms.
• Qing Mo carried Yun Xiaotian’s ashes toward Splendid Blossom City with his three maidservants on Da Bai, intending to keep his promise to deliver them to Yun Xiaotian’s parents.
• Ye Xinghe and Lin Manmu arrived on the Crimson Spirit Continent with their men and headed for Mo Yanyu and Cang Lanyue.

Qing Mo destroyed the Hao Clan after bringing Hao Jinghong to Splendid Blossom City, then continued his journey with his companions. When Ye Xinghe and Lin Manmu’s group caught up and threatened them, Qing Mo used Words Become Law to force them all to their knees.

• Qing Mo confronted the Hao Clan, killed Hao Jinghong’s mother, and erased the clan and its estate with his divine sense.
• Ye Xinghe and Lin Manmu arrived in Splendid Blossom City, learned that Qing Mo’s group had been there, and searched until a Gong Family member found them.
• The Gong Family member attacked Mo Yanyu, who killed him with the Light Rain Sword before Ye Xinghe and Lin Manmu arrived and surrounded the group.
• Lin Manmu identified himself and Ye Xinghe as the fiancés of Yu Yaxuan and Gong Siqing and accused Cang Lanyue and Mo Yanyu of killing their loved ones.
• Qing Mo broke Gong Qianjue’s limbs and sealed his mouth, then declared that his Words Become Law could make his words real.
• Qing Mo ordered Ye Xinghe and the others to kneel, and his power forced the entire group down, cracking the ground beneath them.

Qing Mo punished Ye Xinghe, Lin Manmu, and their companions for seeking revenge on his maid, then captured their Immortal Venerable masters when they intervened. He forced the masters to surrender their treasures and promised to spare them if they destroyed the Ye and Lin families, before ordering his maids to deal with the kneeling disciples.

• Ye Xinghe, Lin Manmu, and the others knelt and begged Qing Mo for their lives, while Mo Yanyu and Cang Lanyue crippled Gong Qianjue and displayed him publicly.
• Qing Mo took the group's storage rings and revealed that he had waited for Ye Xinghe and Lin Manmu's masters to appear before ordering their execution.
• Immortal Venerable Liu Xi and Immortal Venerable Bai Ling arrived as phantoms, but Qing Mo shattered them and dragged their true bodies from the Xuanli Immortal Realm.
• Liu Xi and Bai Ling knelt before Qing Mo, disowned Ye Xinghe and Lin Manmu, surrendered their storage rings, and agreed to exterminate the disciples' families and allies.
• Qing Mo sent Liu Xi and Bai Ling back to the Xuanli Immortal Realm, where they began purging the Ye and Lin families, then told Mo Yanyu, Cang Lanyue, and Yueji to deal with Ye Xinghe and the others.

Qing Mo’s group reached Shallow Wind City, where Qing Mo agreed to travel to another world for the System while his maidservants attended an auction. He arrived in The Mummy’s world as a French soldier alongside O’Connell, fought off mounted attackers, and planned to plunder Hamunaptra’s treasures before pursuing his own goals.

• Mo Yanyu, Cang Lanyue, and the maidservants killed Ye Xinghe, Lin Manmu, and their companions after Qing Mo left.
• Immortal Venerable Liu Xi and Immortal Venerable Bai Ling destroyed the Ye and Lin Families and their allies under Qing Mo’s orders, then died when the Annihilation Power he had planted in them erupted.
• After two and a half years, Qing Mo’s group reached Shallow Wind City, where Yueji became eager to bid on a pill furnace and spirit flame at an upcoming auction.
• The System demanded that Qing Mo either pay for the maidservants’ new constitutions or travel to another world, so Qing Mo agreed to leave after one more night with them.
• Qing Mo entered the world of The Mummy and joined O’Connell’s French soldiers at Hamunaptra, where Beni fled as mounted attackers approached.
• Qing Mo and O’Connell fired on the attackers, and Qing Mo resolved to follow the film’s plot before claiming the treasures of the City of the Dead.

Qing Mo and O'Connell escaped the attack at Hamunaptra, then reunited in Cairo with Jonathan and Evelyn to assemble an expedition to the City of the Dead. After the group boarded a ship, they learned that another party had hired a guide who had also visited Hamunaptra.

• Qing Mo and O'Connell escaped the natives after Beni shut them out of the bunker, and they fled the ruins when the buried Imhotep stirred beneath the sand.
• Three years later in Cairo, Evelyn and Jonathan asked Qing Mo to guide them to Hamunaptra, and Qing Mo agreed on the condition that O'Connell join them.
• Qing Mo, Evelyn, and Jonathan arranged O'Connell's release from prison by promising the warden thirty percent of any treasure they found.
• Qing Mo and O'Connell met Evelyn, Jonathan, and the warden at Port Giza, and the expedition boarded a ship for Hamunaptra.
• Qing Mo and O'Connell learned that the Beautiful Country group had hired a guide who had also been to Hamunaptra, then squeezed Jonathan's shoulders for telling them about the expedition.

Qing Mo and O'Connell reunited with Beni aboard the ship, then fought off black-clad attackers and escaped with Evelyn and Jonathan. After buying camels and setting out across the desert, both groups reached Hamunaptra at sunrise and raced toward it.

• Qing Mo engineered a kiss between O'Connell and Evelyn, then he and O'Connell discovered Beni hiding aboard the ship and threw him into the river.
• When attackers set fire to Evelyn's room and stole the special key, Qing Mo and Jonathan fought them while O'Connell got Evelyn to safety.
• Qing Mo, O'Connell, Evelyn, Jonathan, and the plump warden escaped the burning ship by jumping into the river, while Beni and the Beautiful Country men reached the opposite bank with the supplies.
• The group bought camels at a local market and traveled toward Hamunaptra, with Evelyn riding beside O'Connell and Jonathan waking the snoring warden with a whip.
• At sunrise, Qing Mo's group and Beni's party spotted Hamunaptra and raced toward the ancient city.

Qing Mo, O'Connell, and Evelyn explored Hamunaptra while competing with the Beautiful Country expedition for treasure. After the group began digging in another chamber, the warden wandered off and was attacked by scarabs, and a stone coffin suddenly fell from above.

• Evelyn led the group into Hamunaptra, where she used mirrors to illuminate a secret chamber and explained its purpose as a place for preparing the dead.
• Qing Mo and O'Connell encountered the Beautiful Country men in a burial chamber, and Evelyn persuaded both groups to avoid a gunfight and dig elsewhere.
• Evelyn led the group to another chamber, where she explained how they could dig beneath the statue to find the hidden chamber.
• The warden wandered through the tomb, mistook scarab shells for blue gold, and was fatally attacked by a scarab that burrowed into his skull.
• As Qing Mo, O'Connell, and Evelyn rested while Jonathan played with a sledgehammer, a stone coffin dropped from above and startled everyone.

Qing Mo and the others uncovered Imhotep’s cursed coffin while a scarab killed the warden, and they fought off black-clad riders who attacked the camp. The next morning, the Beautiful Country group found the Book of the Dead and fell under its curse, while Qing Mo’s group opened Imhotep’s coffin and discovered a remarkably fresh-looking mummy.

• Evelyn identified the stone coffin’s inscription and used the strange key to unlock it as a scarab burrowed into the warden and killed him.
• Qing Mo, Evelyn, Jonathan, and O'Connell discussed the warden’s death before black-clad riders attacked the camps and set supplies ablaze.
• Qing Mo subdued the riders with dynamite, and they withdrew after ordering the group to leave.
• Qing Mo explained that the riders were guarding Imhotep, while the Beautiful Country group wrongly assumed they were protecting treasure.
• Evelyn and O'Connell grew closer that night as she asked him to teach her self-defense.
• The Beautiful Country group unearthed the Book of the Dead and became cursed, while Qing Mo’s group opened Imhotep’s coffin and found a fresh-looking mummy.

Evelyn discovered that Imhotep had been buried alive and opened the Book of the Dead, accidentally reciting the spell that resurrected him and unleashed the Ten Plagues. As the group fled a vast locust swarm, Qing Mo diverted most of it to Japan and sent it toward the country’s grain stores.

• Evelyn found claw marks inside Imhotep’s coffin and scarab remains that showed he had been eaten alive as punishment.
• Evelyn secretly took the Book of the Dead and used Jonathan’s key to open it, then read aloud the spell that revived Imhotep.
• A sinister wind swept through camp, Imhotep roared from the tomb, and a massive locust swarm descended on the camp.
• Qing Mo urged O’Connell, Evelyn, Jonathan, and the others to flee toward the tomb as the locusts overwhelmed several laborers.
• Qing Mo transferred most of the locust swarm to Japan and directed it toward Tokyo and the country’s grain stores.

Imhotep hunted the tomb intruders while Qing Mo, O'Connell, and Jonathan fought scarabs and reunited with Evelyn before escaping the tomb. Ardeth Bay warned them that worldly weapons could not kill Imhotep, who later cornered Beni as Beni prayed to a Guanyin pendant.

• A nearsighted Beautiful Country man became separated in the dark, and Imhotep caught him after Beni accidentally shattered his glasses.
• Qing Mo, O'Connell, Evelyn, and Jonathan fled a swarm of scarabs, and Evelyn disappeared through a hidden door.
• Evelyn encountered the mutilated Burns and Imhotep, then O'Connell and Qing Mo found her and shot Imhotep before fleeing with the others.
• Ardeth Bay confronted the escapees, warned that Imhotep could not be killed by worldly weapons, and led his clansmen back into the tomb.
• Beni got lost beneath the statue of the God of Death and begged a Guanyin pendant to protect him as Imhotep approached.

Qing Mo took a white cat that frightened Imhotep, then learned from the museum curator and Ardeth Bay that cats could ward off the mummy until its body was restored. With Imhotep seeking the people who had opened the chest and Evelyn chosen as a sacrifice, O’Connell locked Evelyn in a room while the others went to find the remaining archaeologist.

• Beni used the language of ancient slaves to become Imhotep’s subordinate, and Qing Mo’s group escaped Hamunaptra as skeletal hands rose from the sand behind them.
• In Cairo, O’Connell argued with Evelyn about leaving, while Qing Mo went to fetch a white cat as signs of Imhotep’s return spread through the city.
• Imhotep fled when the cat hissed at him, and Evelyn led the group to the museum, where the curator and Ardeth Bay explained the cat’s power and Imhotep’s need to kill the chest’s openers.
• The curator and Ardeth Bay revealed that Imhotep intended to sacrifice Evelyn to resurrect Anck-su-namun, while the coming solar eclipse left the group little time to stop him.
• After Evelyn identified the remaining chest opener as an archaeologist, O’Connell left to find him and locked Evelyn in a room with Qing Mo’s cat for protection.

Qing Mo and O'Connell confronted Beni, who admitted that Imhotep wanted the Book of the Dead, while Imhotep stole the book and spread his power through the city. As the group escaped the museum after learning where the Book of the Sun was hidden, Imhotep completed his resurrection and Qing Mo decided to save the curator.

• Qing Mo and O'Connell caught Beni searching the archaeologist's room, and Beni confessed that Imhotep had promised him gold for finding the Book of the Dead.
• Imhotep drained the archaeologist, took the Book of the Dead and a canopic jar, and released mosquitoes that Qing Mo teleported to Tokyo.
• Imhotep killed a guard at the hotel and fled Evelyn's room when he saw the white cat she held.
• Evelyn concluded that the Book of the Sun could kill Imhotep, and she found its location in the museum as Imhotep's controlled followers broke in.
• Jonathan drove Qing Mo, O'Connell, Evelyn, Ardeth Bay, and the curator through the pursuing crowd, while Imhotep drained a man dragged from the car and completed his resurrection.
• Qing Mo decided to save the curator as the group struggled to escape the controlled people.

Qing Mo and O’Connell’s group escaped Imhotep’s controlled crowd and raced by plane to Hamunaptra to rescue Evelyn. They reached the ruins after the plane crashed, but Jonathan was attacked by a scarab as they entered.

• Imhotep took Evelyn and ordered his controlled people to kill Qing Mo and the others, who escaped through a sewer while Qing Mo fought off the crowd.
• Qing Mo reunited with O’Connell and the others, and O’Connell recruited Winston to fly them to Hamunaptra.
• Imhotep raised a huge sand wall to swallow the plane, but Evelyn kissed him and disrupted his spell; the plane crashed, and Winston died in quicksand.
• O’Connell, Qing Mo, Jonathan, and Ardeth Bay entered Hamunaptra while Imhotep brought Evelyn and Beni to the altar.
• A scarab burrowed into Jonathan’s arm, and O’Connell cut it out before Qing Mo shot it dead.

Qing Mo, O'Connell, and their companions fought through Imhotep's mummies, found the Book of the Sun, and reached the altar where Evelyn was bound. Jonathan began reading the book's incantation as Qing Mo and O'Connell battled the summoned guards, leaving the group waiting for him to finish and take control of them.

• Imhotep summoned his priests, while Qing Mo, O'Connell, Ardeth Bay, and Jonathan discovered the treasure chamber and fought off waves of mummies as they retreated.
• Qing Mo and O'Connell found the Book of the Sun beneath the sun god statue, and Ardeth Bay stayed behind to hold back the mummies while the others escaped.
• Jonathan drew Imhotep away with the book while Qing Mo and O'Connell freed Evelyn from the altar and fought Imhotep's mummy servants.
• Anck-su-namun attacked Evelyn, but Qing Mo rescued O'Connell from the mummies and helped him back to his feet.
• Jonathan recited the Book of the Sun's incantation and summoned nearly fifty mummy guards, while Evelyn told him to finish reading so he could command them.

Qing Mo helped O'Connell and the others defeat Imhotep and escape the collapsing Hamunaptra, then left them to travel alone. He reclaimed cultural relics looted from the ancient Eastern nation and began his reckoning upon arriving there.

• Jonathan read the Book of the Sun's final passage, turning the mummy guards against Anck-su-namun, who was killed by their weapons.
• Evelyn recited the spell that stripped Imhotep of his magic, and Qing Mo and O'Connell wounded him before the black pool consumed him.
• Hamunaptra began collapsing after Beni triggered its self-destruct mechanism, and Qing Mo secretly took gold and sacred scarabs before leaving Beni to die among the scarabs.
• Qing Mo escaped with O'Connell, Evelyn, and Jonathan, then parted ways with them after they rode away from Hamunaptra.
• Qing Mo removed relics taken from the ancient Eastern nation from museums across several Western countries.
• Qing Mo arrived in the ancient Eastern nation, where he began his reckoning.

On September 18 in Fengtian, Qing Mo used the System to unleash a massive rocket barrage on the occupying forces and their facilities, then entered the devastated area to attack wounded survivors himself. He continued hunting through the ruins and spotted a badly injured officer crawling from a stairwell.

• Qing Mo arrived beside the railway in Fengtian and asked the System for 100,000 Type 107 rocket launchers, paying with the spirit stones in his storage ring.
• The System prepared the launchers, and Qing Mo ordered them to fire on barracks, hospitals, factories, stations, and other occupied sites.
• The rockets devastated the targets, while Qing Mo's barrier concealed the bombardment from forces outside the area.
• Qing Mo entered the ruins with a flamethrower and attacked wounded soldiers and medics with fire and Molotov cocktails.
• Qing Mo tortured a wounded soldier with a beating and concentrated sulfuric acid, then spotted an injured officer crawling out of a stairwell.

Qing Mo tortured the surviving invaders at Ascension City, burned the battlefield, and used a barrier and lightning to prevent the island nation from sending ships or planes. He then arrived in Shanglu and declared that he would begin his next campaign there, targeting the invaders’ nation and bloodline.

• Qing Mo mutilated the surviving beast soldiers and tortured their officer with scarabs before killing him with fire.
• Qing Mo tortured other surviving soldiers, then set fire to the corpse-strewn battlefield as dawn broke.
• The island nation’s ships were destroyed by Qing Mo’s barrier, and lightning struck down planes that tried to leave its airspace.
• Qing Mo left Ascension City and traveled to the great metropolis of Shanglu.
• Qing Mo stood at Shanglu’s river mouth and vowed to begin his campaign against the invaders there.