Chapter Summaries

Lu Xingshi discovered that the Huangfu Family was likely behind the Welfare Institute’s Human-to-Destiny-Ghost Conversion Experiment, then escaped the fire they set and captured a gunman sent to silence witnesses. He began experimenting on the anesthetized gunman, but the nearby deaths produced a bound Three Fire Life Ghost that he also intended to use as material.

• Lu Xingshi inferred that the Huangfu Family had conducted a secret Destiny Ghost experiment at the Welfare Institute and had failed to control its results.
• A group of arsonists burned down the Welfare Institute, and Lu Xingshi escaped the flames after they had left.
• A gunman fired at Lu Xingshi, who dodged the bullet, caught him, and discovered that he was a Death Warrior of the Huangfu Family.
• Lu Xingshi removed the gunman’s poison capsule and devices, then began preparing to convert him into a Destiny Ghost.
• Three newly dead figures rose as a bound Grievance-level Three Fire Life Ghost, which Lu Xingshi restrained and added to his experiment.

After Lu Xingshi left Lu Ming Pavilion, Huangfu Song learned that the Death Warrior involved in the Chen Bei Welfare Institute incident was missing and suspected Ling Zheng. Ling Zheng arrived at the burned-down institute and fought a human fused with a Destiny Ghost, uncovering the kind of experiment the Huangfu Family had concealed.

• Lu Xingshi told Huangfu Song that his conversion experiment had produced a half-human, half-ghost with a Destiny Ghost’s lifespan, then left after Huangfu arranged a car for him.
• Huangfu Song learned from his father that the matter at Chen Bei Welfare Institute had been resolved, but the Death Warrior was missing, and his father ordered him to find the man or his body.
• Huangfu Song suspected Ling Zheng had taken the evidence from the institute and decided the Huangfu Family would cripple him if it could not kill him.
• Ling Zheng arrived at the burned ruins of Chen Bei Welfare Institute and was attacked by a monster that looked like a near-Evil-level Destiny Ghost.
• Ling Zheng’s Ancient Federation Great Life Master identified the attacker as a human fused with a Destiny Ghost, while Ling Zheng fought it using his evolved Red-Clothed Dan.

Lu Xingshi examined his newly manifested Two-Faced Buddha and sought Fate Codices to improve it, while planning to use his Abandoned Village credit to obtain a complete Codex from the Huangfu Family. After learning the Huangfu Family had claimed his bounty credit, Ling Zheng decided to target Lu Xingshi, despite the Ancient Federation Great Life Master's warning.

• Lu Xingshi watched Ling Zheng defeat Experiment No. 1 and wondered why Ling Zheng's Fate Pattern had changed into a woman wearing a stage costume.
• Lu Xingshi manifested his Two-Faced Buddha and Star Sea Kun, found them far smaller than expected, and considered how Fate Patterns might evolve.
• Lu Xingshi spent his savings ordering Fate Codices and planned to trade his Abandoned Village credit with Huangfu Song for a complete Codex.
• Ling Zheng learned that Huangfu Song had received credit for Lu Xingshi's bounty and prepared to report the false attribution.
• The Ancient Federation Great Life Master stopped Ling Zheng from reporting it, and Ling Zheng instead resolved to use Lu Xingshi to investigate the Huangfu Family and settle their old enmity.
• The Ancient Federation Great Life Master warned Ling Zheng that Lu Xingshi was strange and best left unprovoked.

Lu Xingshi negotiated with Huangfu Song for access to Fate Codices and Life Destiny Techniques in exchange for taking on the Abandoned Village bounty, then learned Ling Zheng might target him over the Chen Bei Welfare Institute. When Ling Zheng confronted him and accused him of aiding the Huangfu Family, Lu Xingshi challenged his hypocrisy and attacked after Ling Zheng hesitated.

• Lu Xingshi demanded a complete choose-one-of-three Fate Codex from Huangfu Song, who refused but agreed to provide every Fate Codex and Life Destiny Technique on the Life Destiny Forum; they arranged to leave for the Abandoned Village the next morning.
• Huangfu Song warned Lu Xingshi that Ling Zheng might retaliate against him, and Ling Zheng appeared nearby after their call ended.
• Lu Xingshi's Two-Faced Buddha forced Ling Zheng out of hiding, and Ling Zheng accused Lu Xingshi of helping the Huangfu Family at the Chen Bei Welfare Institute.
• Lu Xingshi argued that Ling Zheng and the institutions behind the Huangfu Family shared responsibility for the experiments, then taunted him for seeking a pretext to kill.
• When Ling Zheng hesitated to attack, Lu Xingshi ordered the Two-Faced Buddha to strike him.

Lu Xingshi defeated Ling Zheng and captured the Red-Clothed Dan and the Ancient Federation Great Life Master Remnant Soul, while Ling Zheng escaped. The remnant soul refused to cooperate, and Lu Xingshi prepared to interrogate him with the Starving Ghost Curse.

• Lu Xingshi crushed Ling Zheng’s Red-Clothed Dan and overwhelmed Ling Zheng, who survived his attacks with help from the Ancient Federation Great Life Master Remnant Soul.
• The Great Life Master used the Fate Death technique to let the Red-Clothed Dan take Lu Xingshi’s blow, then held Lu Xingshi back so Ling Zheng could flee.
• Lu Xingshi trapped the remnant soul in a Starving Ghost Curse cage and seized the badly injured Red-Clothed Dan, preventing Ling Zheng from summoning it again.
• The Great Life Master offered Lu Xingshi a Fate Codex and its Fate Diagram in exchange for his and Ling Zheng’s freedom, then explained how Fate Diagrams helped Fate Patterns evolve.
• Lu Xingshi rejected the offer and threatened to cripple Ling Zheng and interrogate the remnant soul, who refused to cooperate.

Lu Xingshi refused Huangfu Song’s offer to take Ling Zheng’s Fate Pattern and Great Weapon unless the Huangfu Family paid five high-quality Fate Codices, then went with Huangfu Song to the Abandoned Village. Meanwhile, Ling Zheng and a powerful ally learned where Lu Xingshi had gone and headed there to confront him and Huangfu Song.

• Lu Xingshi told Huangfu Song that he had defeated Ling Zheng and confiscated his Fate Pattern and Great Weapon, then demanded five high-quality Fate Codices to hand them over.
• Huangfu Song declined Lu Xingshi’s price but kept their Abandoned Village plans intact, hoping the items would eventually return to Ling Zheng.
• Lu Xingshi suspected Heavenly Mandate was pushing the Huangfu Family to reclaim Ling Zheng’s Fate Pattern for him.
• Ling Zheng arrived at Lu Xingshi’s empty residence with a tall woman who was nearly a Great Life Master, and she used her faction’s connections to track Lu Xingshi.
• After learning Lu Xingshi and Huangfu Song were at the Abandoned Village, the tall woman took Ling Zheng there to confront them.

Lu Xingshi entered Forget-Worry Village, realizing the Fate Organization had concealed that it was the domain of a Baleful-Intent Rank Destiny Ghost. He resisted the village’s drowsy influence, spoke with a Banyan Tree about Forget-Worry Grass, and set out to find the village chief while keeping his own goal of devouring the ghost hidden.

• Huangfu Song offered to hold Lu Xingshi’s box, but Lu Xingshi refused and entered the Abandoned Village without receiving the Fate Organization’s intelligence.
• At the village entrance, Lu Xingshi recognized the name Forget-Worry Village and concluded its ghost had advanced beyond the reported Half-Malevolent level.
• Lu Xingshi questioned the Ancient Federation Great Life Master Remnant Soul about his Fate Codex and Fate Diagram, then covered and stored him in the box when he received no answer.
• Inside the village, Lu Xingshi resisted its languid aura with his Curse Power and dismissed the Banyan Tree’s questions about seeking Forget-Worry Grass.
• The Banyan Tree directed Lu Xingshi to the village chief, and Lu Xingshi produced a chainsaw after the tree’s features disappeared.

Lu Xingshi explored Forget-Worry Village, identified its humanoid plants as dead Fate Masters, and learned that a newly advanced Baleful-Intent Rank Destiny Ghost called Forget-Worry Grass had formed the Ghost Domain. He forced the Great Life Master Remnant Soul to reveal the secrets of Fate Codices and Fate Diagrams, then demanded more while pressing deeper into the village.

• Lu Xingshi cut down the Banyan Tree, uprooted a Human-Headed Sunflower, and concluded that the humanoid plants were Fate Masters who had died in Forget-Worry Village.
• The Great Life Master Remnant Soul warned Lu Xingshi that Forget-Worry Grass was a powerful Baleful-Intent Rank Destiny Ghost whose influence was growing stronger toward the village center.
• Lu Xingshi ignored the warning and threatened to take the Great Life Master Remnant Soul to the village center unless it gave him a Fate Codex and Fate Diagram.
• The Great Life Master Remnant Soul explained how Fate Codices and Fate Diagrams let Fate Masters advance and transform their Fate Patterns.
• Lu Xingshi demanded every other Fate Codex and Fate Diagram the Great Life Master Remnant Soul knew, and reinforced its cage with Curse Power to block the Ghost Domain's erosion.
• The Great Life Master Remnant Soul yielded and began reciting another Fate Codex and drawing its Fate Diagram for Lu Xingshi.

Lu Xingshi tested the Life Ink on the Vine Serpent village chief, spreading the Starving Ghost Curse until the Forget-Worry Grass Destiny Ghost emerged. As Lu Xingshi fought it, a tall woman and Ling Zheng entered Forget-Worry Village, while Huangfu Song hinted that they had badly underestimated its danger.

• Lu Xingshi verified the Fate Codex and Fate Diagram from the Great Life Master Remnant Soul, sealed the remnant away, and headed for Forget-Worry Village to test the Life Ink.
• Lu Xingshi infected the Vine Serpent village chief with the Starving Ghost Curse, causing it and the village's humanoid plants to descend into chaos.
• Lu Xingshi unleashed the curse across the Ghost Domain, forcing the Forget-Worry Grass Destiny Ghost to appear and try to expel the infection.
• The Forget-Worry Grass Destiny Ghost raged over money, and Lu Xingshi struck it repeatedly but could not kill it within its Ghost Domain.
• A tall woman pinned Huangfu Song and entered Forget-Worry Village with Ling Zheng, dismissing the danger, while Huangfu Song noted that they had underestimated the Destiny Ghost's rank.

Lu Xingshi severed the Forget-Worry Grass Life Ghost from its Ghost Domain, studied and killed it, then uncovered evidence that Forget-Worry Village had been a Fate Organization experiment site. Ling Zheng and his arrogant Senior Apprentice Sister arrived at the ruins, planning to kill the Destiny Ghost and then confront Lu Xingshi.

• Lu Xingshi used the Starving Ghost Curse to sever the Forget-Worry Grass Life Ghost's connection to its Ghost Domain and dissected it while recording what its powerful obsession revealed about advancement.
• Lu Xingshi rejected the Ghost's request to spare it and wipe out the Fate Organization, then killed it after hearing its last words.
• Lu Xingshi found the village abandoned and its villagers' bones buried together, and concluded that the Fate Organization had experimented there before abandoning the site.
• Lu Xingshi converted the Forget-Worry Grass Life Ghost into Life Ink and sensed the Red-Clothed Dan become agitated inside the box on his back.
• Ling Zheng entered the ruins with his Senior Apprentice Sister, who dismissed the danger, and they decided to kill the Destiny Ghost before confronting Lu Xingshi.

Lu Xingshi killed Ling Zheng after Qiu Wen and Huangfu Song intervened, then reclaimed part of his Heavenly Mandate. With the Qiu and Huangfu Families and a Great Life Master likely to pursue him, he decided to lie low until he became a Great Life Master.

• Qiu Wen identified the Destiny Ghost Lu Xingshi had killed as Baleful-Intent Rank, but Lu Xingshi trapped her and Ling Zheng in a Curse Power cage.
• Qiu Wen's Black Armor Guard was corrupted by the cage and killed her.
• Huangfu Song arrived and threatened Lu Xingshi, but Lu Xingshi killed him with a curse arrow.
• Lu Xingshi killed Ling Zheng and absorbed the Heavenly Mandate that emerged from his body.
• Lu Xingshi realized the Qiu and Huangfu Families might hunt him down and resolved to lie low until he became a Great Life Master.

Lu Xingshi studied the Ancient Federation Great Life Master Remnant Soul while developing a new path to become a Great Life Master, and the remnant soul bargained for resurrection in exchange for a rare inheritance. Meanwhile, Zhuang Fang pressed the Huangfu Family to find Lu Xingshi, and its patriarch said a diviner should locate him within two days.

• Lu Xingshi studied Fate Diagrams and told the Ancient Federation Great Life Master Remnant Soul he could resurrect him, though doing so would cost him immortality.
• The Great Life Master Remnant Soul asked to be resurrected and offered his inheritance, the Earth God Subduing Demons Codex and the Heavenly God Vanquishing Devils Chart, which contained clues about a realm beyond Great Life Masters.
• Lu Xingshi said he would consider the bargain and promised to avoid destructive experiments while the remnant soul remained valuable.
• Zhuang Fang demanded that the Huangfu Family's patriarch give him a firm timeline for finding Lu Xingshi.
• The Huangfu Family's patriarch said he had hired a Great Life Master skilled in prophecy and divination and expected to locate Lu Xingshi within two days.

Lu Xingshi accepted the Great Life Master Remnant Soul’s inheritance and learned that the Fate Codex and Fate Diagram concerned the Heavenly Fate Master realm. After a Fate Master divined his location, Lu Xingshi prepared to flee and learned a technique that might help him evade pursuit, while Zhuang Fang and the Huangfu Family organized a move against him.

• Lu Xingshi agreed to revive the Great Life Master Remnant Soul in exchange for his inheritance and permission to erase the remnant’s memories after awakening.
• The Great Life Master Remnant Soul passed on the Earth God Subduing Demons Codex and Heavenly God Vanquishing Devils Chart, which revealed the Heavenly Fate Master realm and its connection to Heavenly Mandate.
• Lu Xingshi sensed someone using prophecy and divination to search for him, then decided to relocate rather than confront the Qiu Family, the Huangfu Family, and Qiu Wen’s teacher.
• The Great Life Master Remnant Soul taught Lu Xingshi the Death Substitute Fate Pattern Technique as Lu Xingshi packed to leave.
• The Huangfu Family gave Zhuang Fang Lu Xingshi’s location, and its Great Life Master ancestor pressured Zhuang Fang to let the family share in the action against Lu Xingshi.

Zhuang Fang followed a second prophetic divination to Lu Xingshi’s location, where a chain of landmines led him to suspect the Federation was manipulating events in Liu City. Meanwhile, Lu Xingshi realized another divination was targeting him and planned to redirect it onto his Two-Faced Buddha Fate Pattern.

• Zhuang Fang accused the Fate Master of making an error after the first divination led him to an empty location, then threatened him into performing another.
• The Fate Master gave Zhuang Fang a new address, but linked landmines exploded beneath him and destroyed his phone.
• Zhuang Fang concluded that Lu Xingshi’s access to a hundred or more landmines pointed to Federation involvement and decided to spread news of the attack to provoke the Qiu Family.
• Zhuang Fang connected Liu City’s strange events into a conspiracy involving the Federation, the families, and the Fate Organization, and hoped the Huangfu Family’s Great Life Master ancestor would fight back.
• Lu Xingshi sensed another prophetic divination and planned to modify the Substitute Death Life Destiny Technique so it would mislead the divination onto his Two-Faced Buddha.

Lu Xingshi used Two-Faced Buddha as a decoy to divert the Federation’s Prophetic Divination while preparing a laboratory to revive the Great Life Master Remnant Soul. The decoy’s transformation nearly killed Zhuang Fang, who turned to the Huangfu Family for help.

• Lu Xingshi sent Two-Faced Buddha away as a decoy and ran in the opposite direction, successfully redirecting the Federation’s Prophetic Divination to it.
• Lu Xingshi and the Great Life Master Remnant Soul discussed Prophetic Divination, the Fate Master World’s treatment of its people, and Lu Xingshi’s plans for the Remnant Soul’s revival.
• Lu Xingshi set up a laboratory and learned that the Great Life Master Remnant Soul had forgotten his identity and origins.
• Zhuang Fang discovered that the apparent target was a manifested Fate Pattern, but Two-Faced Buddha transformed into a monster and attacked him.
• Zhuang Fang escaped, rejected the caller’s demand to capture Two-Faced Buddha, and contacted the head of the Huangfu Family for help.

After Lu Xingshi proved impossible to track with prophecy and divination, the Huangfu Family head brought in Yao Tang, the Federation’s Criminal Investigation Goddess, under the pretense of solving the case. He revealed to Zhuang Fang that he meant to use her reputation to pin the blame on a Federation-approved culprit and shift the Qiu Family’s anger away from them.

• The Huangfu Family head told Zhuang Fang that prophecy and divination could not locate Lu Xingshi, so he had invited the Criminal Investigation Goddess, Yao Tang.
• Yao Tang objected to tracking a suspect without evidence and insisted that they investigate from the beginning at the crime scene in Forget-Worry Village.
• After Yao Tang departed, the Huangfu Family head explained that he intended to find a scapegoat recognized by the Federation and redirect the Qiu Family’s demands toward the Federation.
• The Huangfu Family head said Yao Tang’s reputation and connections would help draw powerful people into the scheme, while Zhuang Fang worried about the consequences.
• The Huangfu Family head and Zhuang Fang set out for Forget-Worry Village to join Yao Tang and begin their plan.

Lu Xingshi prepared the Great Life Master Remnant Soul for reincarnation after the Federation quietly closed the murder case and stopped pursuing him. Meanwhile, Zhuang Fang and the Huangfu Family’s Great Life Master agreed to avoid provoking Lu Xingshi or getting involved in the case again.

• Lu Xingshi discovered that the Federation had arrested and executed a supposed murderer, reclassified his bounty charge as fraud, and eased its pursuit of him.
• The Great Life Master Remnant Soul explained that the Qiu Family had accepted a face-saving resolution, and Lu Xingshi selected a family for its reincarnation.
• Lu Xingshi entered the couple’s home, knocked them unconscious, erased the remnant soul’s memories, removed its Destiny Ghost-related structures, and transformed it into a soul-fused Fate Pattern.
• Lu Xingshi implanted the remnant soul into the mother using a culture medium, completing its preparation for reincarnation.
• Zhuang Fang discussed the case with the Huangfu Family’s Great Life Master, who advised him to leave Lu Xingshi alone and avoid reigniting the conflict.
• Zhuang Fang decided to keep his distance and lie low.

Lu Xingshi refined his plans to grow stronger while living under a false identity in Ganzhou, where he discovered a vicious Destiny Ghost was hunting people. He left a reporter and cameraman to their fate, and the chapter ended with the ghost consuming them.

• Lu Xingshi reviewed his advancement plans and concluded that the Starving Ghost Curse and his Great Saint Body made it difficult to adapt the Fate Master system to himself.
• A reporter and cameraman arrived at Lu Xingshi’s door looking for local interview subjects, and he directed them farther uphill.
• Lu Xingshi found a recently stripped bovine skull containing a malicious presence and crushed it after the Destiny Ghost escaped.
• Lu Xingshi realized the Destiny Ghost had targeted the reporter and cameraman, but he chose not to intervene because rescuing them could expose him.
• The Destiny Ghost drained the reporter and cameraman of their flesh and strength, leaving them as skeleton-like remains.

Lu Xingshi drove off a gigantic Destiny Ghost called Yun Mu, then uncovered signs that Ganzhou’s Fate Organization branch had concealed the danger and claimed credit for resolving it. The branch’s leaders planned to find Lu Xingshi and either use him to destroy Yun Mu or sacrifice him to appease it.

• Lu Xingshi sensed invisible mouthparts dangling from the clouds and realized they belonged to an enormous Destiny Ghost targeting him.
• Lu Xingshi hurled Two-Faced Buddha into the swarm, damaging the mouthparts with an explosion and the Starving Ghost Curse, and forced the Destiny Ghost to retreat.
• Lu Xingshi read the Ganzhou Fate Organization branch’s statement taking credit for handling the incident and suspected the branch had deliberately kept the region short of Fate Masters.
• Lu Xingshi dissected a mouthpart and wondered whether the immense Destiny Ghost was Calamity-level, since it had not used a Ghost Domain against him.
• Tong You and Xing Han identified the Destiny Ghost as Yun Mu and discussed finding Lu Xingshi so they could use him against Yun Mu or offer him as food.

Lu Xingshi deduced that Ganzhou’s upper echelon was searching for him because his arrival had disrupted the balance between the local Lineages and a Baleful-Intent Rank Destiny Ghost. He completed the Eighteen Levels of Hell Diagram and planned to combine the Fate Master and Destiny Ghost paths, then waited for the Destiny Ghost’s return while questioning why Ganzhou had not used divination to find him.

• Lu Xingshi learned from a community worker that surveys were being conducted repeatedly and concluded that Ganzhou’s authorities were looking for an outsider Fate Master.
• Lu Xingshi theorized that a Baleful-Intent Rank Destiny Ghost had consumed the other Destiny Ghosts in Ganzhou and served as both a calamity and a protector for the local Lineages.
• Lu Xingshi completed the Eighteen Levels of Hell Diagram and decided to use an obsession about emptying hell as an anchor for combining the Fate Master and Destiny Ghost paths.
• Lu Xingshi considered using the wounded Baleful-Intent Rank Destiny Ghost and a Great Life Master as materials, but rejected boosting the ghost because the Starving Ghost Curse would cause a fatal overdraft.
• Lu Xingshi prepared to wait for the Destiny Ghost’s return and wondered why Ganzhou’s authorities had not used prophecy or divination to locate him.