Chapter Summaries

After the Defense Bureau sealed the nurse ghost, Fang Qing used Su Wan’s notebook to investigate the bureau, its ghost tamers, and the world’s supernatural threats. When Su Wan discovered strange writing appearing in the notebook, she declared an emergency, while Fang Qing considered using other supernatural items to gain influence over the mortal world and oppose Lord of Hidden Corpses.

• Su Wan and the Defense Bureau team sealed the nurse ghost in a Spirit-Sealing Bottle, and the fog over Dongli Hospital dispersed.
• Su Wan found her deceased younger sister’s notebook, while Fang Qing used it to inspect the Defense Bureau and read its records about the Veil and the world’s supernatural calamities.
• Fang Qing concluded that ghost tamers’ practices helped Lord of Hidden Corpses erode the world, and he sought a way to move freely in the mortal world.
• Su Wan opened the notebook and saw blood-red writing appear, so she sounded a Level One Alert and ordered the notebook contained and all distributed copies recalled.
• Fang Qing watched the bureau respond and considered using other supernatural items to tame ghosts, challenge Lord of Hidden Corpses, and help Sangji.

Fang Qing rode a skeletal winged horse through the Veil and heard a distant plea for help. In Atlantis, Li Wei’s Occult Society initiation became a bloody sacrifice, and an unknown being answered the ritual as the cultists tried to flee.

• Fang Qing watched a four-winged horse transform into a skeleton in the illusory river, then accepted He Xius’s offer to carry him through the Veil.
• Fang Qing heard a faint voice calling for help as he traveled through the Veil.
• Li Wei went with the Occult Society to an abandoned factory, where the students drew a blood ritual and named the Hidden Lord as its subject.
• The society president stabbed Li Wei as the offering, but crimson tendrils seized the cultists and drained their life force.
• John broke free with his Blade of the Unseen spell, then the ritual’s lines formed a watching eye and the older student urged everyone to run.

Li Wei survived a ritual sacrifice after an encounter with a being he called the Profound Lord, and gained a transformed occult tome, The Nine Chapters of the Profound Lord. As Fang Qing considered why great beings sought to cross the Veil, Su Wan’s Defense Bureau responded to a new supernatural incident in Clearwater Village.

• Fang Qing observed Li Wei’s prayer and used his skeletal horse’s presence to drive away spirits attracted to the ritual site.
• Li Wei recovered from his wound, found John’s secret tome, and learned about the Worm’s Pact and its Worm’s Metamorphosis spell.
• The tome changed into The Nine Chapters of the Profound Lord, and Li Wei decided to establish an Esoteric Sect devoted to the Profound Lord.
• Fang Qing reasoned that sacrifices could let powerful beings briefly cross the Veil, possibly to gain some greater benefit connected to the Myriad Beasts Immortal Lord.
• Su Wan watched footage of a Leviathan attack, then ordered Iron Hand and Water Child to investigate a supernatural incident in Clearwater Village.

Su Wan and Iron Hand investigated a supernatural disaster in Clearwater Village, where a ghost secretly controlled Water Child’s water ghost and flooded the area. From behind the Veil, Fang Qing watched as his enhanced ghost overwhelmed the Defense Bureau team and planned to use the calamity to draw out the Lord of Hidden Corpses.

• Su Wan, Iron Hand, and Water Child arrived at Clearwater Village and found a corpse hanging from a locust tree.
• Su Wan sent Water Child and little Li to search for survivors, but Iron Hand soon realized little Li was a ghost who had infiltrated their team.
• A muddy flood surged through the village, and Su Wan concluded that the Clearwater Village ghost had controlled Water Child’s water ghost.
• Su Wan and Iron Hand escaped onto an assault boat, but the ghost attacked them, disabled their communications, and dragged them beneath the floodwaters.
• Su Wan surfaced in a banyan tree while Iron Hand remained trapped underwater, and she recognized the incident as an S-class disaster.
• Fang Qing watched from behind the Veil and revealed that he had enhanced the village ghost to attract Ghost Tamers and cultivate a Ghost King.

Li Wei used his dock labor wages to make a silver Dream-Entry Talisman and began a ritual to advance as a Whisperer. Detectives Victor and his partner tracked the missing students to the abandoned factory, where they found Li Wei performing the ritual and froze when an overwhelming aura appeared.

• Li Wei worked hauling sacks at the docks, then spent his wages on supplies for a ritual.
• Li Wei studied The Nine Chapters of the Profound Lord and learned that his strength and spirituality already met the basic requirements to become a Whisperer.
• Li Wei hammered a Silver Deer coin into a sheet, carved a Dream-Entry Talisman, and prepared a sacrifice to the Profound Lord.
• Victor used divination to lead his partner through the abandoned factory district while they searched for the missing students and their killer.
• Victor and his partner spotted Li Wei performing a ritual and questioned whether his simple offerings could work.
• An indescribable aura emerged during Li Wei's ritual, leaving Victor frozen in place.

Fang Qing successfully descended into the abandoned factory, where Li Wei and Victor encountered his overwhelming presence before Li Wei ended the ritual. Victor revealed the Violet Ring’s ability to steal occult knowledge and planned to seek an Enlightened One’s relic, while the ghostly flood at Clearwater Village breached the Defense Bureau’s supernatural barrier.

• Fang Qing used the Dream-Entry Talisman to descend a portion of his power into the factory, and Li Wei eventually extinguished the ritual candles and took the talisman.
• Victor carried the incapacitated Roland from the factory, while Li Wei recognized the talisman as a key to entering the Veil.
• Victor reflected on the Violet Ring, which had helped him become a Whisperer and could steal the knowledge and talents of the dead, and decided to seek an Enlightened One’s relic at an underground auction.
• The Defense Bureau’s reinforcements used an Erosion Domain to stop the floodwaters outside Clearwater Village, but transparent, turbid yellow water poured through the barrier.

Su Wan and the Eastern Dragon Four Heavenly Kings fought the ghost in Clearwater Village, believing they had banished it after overcoming its deadly rain. The ghost’s illusion deceived them, wiped out the team, and then reached the Defense Bureau headquarters, which fell beneath the flood.

• The ghost turned its murky water into corrosive rain, killing camp members and forcing Su Wan and the Heavenly Kings to fight back.
• Ghost Cave arrived and worked with Ghost Mist and Ghost Tomb to evaporate the water while the surviving ghost-users used paranormal items to expose the source ghost.
• Ghost Cave and the others tried to banish the corpse hanging from the locust tree, but the scene was an illusion and the ghost continued attacking Su Wan and the team.
• Defense Bureau headquarters discovered that three of its four trump cards were dead and ordered Immortal reinforcements and the Cursed Pocket Watch activated.
• The ghost emerged through a surveillance screen, killed the headquarters personnel, and flooded the Defense Bureau.

Li Wei killed Victor and took the Violet Ring, allowing Fang Qing to uncover part of the Myriad Beasts Immortal Lord’s inheritance and send Li Wei a vision of danger in Eastern Dragon Kingdom. Ghostfire used a cursed pocket watch to revive the dead Four Heavenly Kings, but the Defense Bureau headquarters remained lost to a powerful ghost, and Su Wan found a mysterious notebook offering help.

• Li Wei ambushed and killed Victor at the Black Truffle Detective Agency, then took the Violet Ring and prayed to Fang Qing.
• Fang Qing used the ring’s Causality to perceive the world’s Heavenly Dao and begin understanding the Myriad Beasts Immortal Lord’s inheritance.
• Fang Qing showed Li Wei a vision of a ghostly threat in Eastern Dragon Kingdom, and Li Wei interpreted it as a command to resolve the danger.
• Ghostfire used his pocket watch to reverse time and revive Su Wan and the others, but the watch shattered and their ghosts and supernatural abilities were lost.
• Ghostfire warned the revived group that the Defense Bureau headquarters had been breached and urged them to prepare for another fight; Su Wan agreed to help.
• Su Wan returned to her branch office and found a Strawberry Cat notebook that opened by itself and offered, in blood-written words, to help her.

Defense Bureau elites tried to seal the source ghost beneath a flooded region, but its compound curse killed Ghostfire and many teammates before Su Wan called on the Profound Lord. In the Star Federation, Li Wei used a Knower’s legacy to advance his occult abilities and then heard the Profound Lord speak to him.

• The Long-Lived One and Ghostfire began the attack on the source ghost, using enchanted artillery to expose the building beneath the lake so Defense Bureau elites could enter.
• The source ghost suppressed the team’s supernatural abilities and killed several members, while the Long-Lived One’s blessing helped the survivors keep fighting.
• Ghostfire tried to trap the source ghost in a golden Spirit-Sealing Bottle, but its collected ghosts and cursed objects resisted the pull and its compound curse struck back.
• The curse killed Ghostfire and more teammates, while the Long-Lived One survived her tombstone curse by chewing a half finger; Su Wan then prayed to the Profound Lord for help.
• Li Wei activated a brass medal containing Ailan Bruch’s legacy, gained occult knowledge and stronger talent, and heard the Profound Lord whisper to him.

Li Wei sacrificed an Immortal to become a Knower and intervened to save Su Wan, but his actions drew the Lord of Hidden Corpses into the mortal world. Fang Qing destroyed the avatar and used the Veil to strike at its source, leaving the supernatural incidents in the Eastern Dragon Kingdom resolved.

• Li Wei opened the Gate of the Great Void, reached the aircraft carrier, and sacrificed an Immortal to gain Knower-level spirituality.
• Li Wei purified the flooded Ghost Lake, but the Lord of Hidden Corpses descended and transformed the region as Su Wan watched in alarm.
• Fang Qing revealed that he had lured out the Lord of Hidden Corpses and destroyed its avatar with [Winnowing Basket Water].
• Fang Qing used the Primordial Dragon-Tiger World-Fusing Method to connect with the Veil and unleash heavenly punishment on the Lord of Hidden Corpses.
• Su Wan awoke beside the lake, and Eastern Dragon Command Center reported that ghosts and supernatural items had lost their powers and the country's supernatural problem was resolved.

Fang Qing considered how to reach the realm above the Water Virtue [Year Guardian] position, while Yuan Liansheng maneuvered to seize power in the Temple of All Living Beings Without Form. Yuan Liansheng won the title of Great Master and planned to take control when the three Dumus died, though Invincible remained an obstacle.

• Fang Qing returned his attention to the Breath-Nourishing Dao and considered manifesting a fifth water from the void rather than pursuing Lunar Yin.
• Moonlight White Tara, Empty Peacock Tara, and Medicine King Qing learned that Yuan Liansheng had arrived at the temple and suspected he coveted authority over its lineage.
• Yuan Liansheng presented a subdued Purple Mansion Great Demon as proof that he had completed the temple's task, then had his disciples demand the headship of the Scripture Transmission Hall and the title of Great Master.
• Yuan Liansheng defeated the three Dumus' resistance by displaying his mastery of the Wisdom King Who Subdues the Three Worlds method, and Moonlight White Tara agreed to grant him the title of Great Master.
• Yuan Liansheng told his disciples that he intended to inherit the temple after the three Dumus died and dismissed their concern that Invincible might interfere.

Moonlight White Tara met the awakened Sangji in the Eight Cold Forest Buddha Lands and received the temple master position and a powerful Buddhist treasure to subdue Yuan Liansheng. Fang Qing then taught Sangji an immortal art and considered how the weakened Golden Core True Lords and the Supreme Unity Arcane Sect might present opportunities.

• Moonlight White Tara entered the Eight Cold Forest Buddha Lands and found Sangji, who had become the Lord of the Charnel Forest's vessel.
• Sangji formally appointed Moonlight White Tara temple master and bestowed the Lord of the Charnel Forest Human-Skin Thangka upon her.
• Fang Qing appeared after Moonlight White Tara left, and Sangji explained that devouring the remains of the Lord of Hidden Corpses had awakened him.
• Fang Qing taught Sangji the Supreme Profound True-Inscription Golden Elixir Scripture, which could help him refine the Position Seal and claim Maiden Earth's Principal Position.
• Fang Qing told Sangji to watch the Temple of the Great Sun Wheel and methods of conversion and reincarnation, then considered exploiting the Supreme Unity Arcane Sect's diminished standing.

Moonlight White Tara refined the Lord of the Charnel Forest Human-Skin Thangka, defeated Yuan Liansheng’s witchcraft, and subdued him. In the Qi Refinement Way, Fang Qing discovered flaws in Primordial Beginning Heaven, sealed its ascension passage, and planned to create a hidden Grotto-Heaven for his cultivation and schemes.

• Moonlight White Tara awakened with the refined Lord of the Charnel Forest Human-Skin Thangka and gained the title of Lantern Bearer.
• Moonlight White Tara used the Buddhist treasure to break Yuan Liansheng’s witchcraft and had him brought before her.
• Yuan Liansheng recognized Moonlight White Tara’s standing, prostrated himself, and agreed to serve her.
• Fang Qing inspected Peach Blossom Island, confirmed its inhabitants were safe, and considered how to cultivate Lunar Yin without attracting attention.
• Fang Qing used the Primordial Dragon-Tiger World-Fusing Method to identify and seal flaws in Primordial Beginning Heaven, including its ascension passage.
• Fang Qing decided to build a hidden Grotto-Heaven within Primordial Beginning Heaven as a secure base for his plans.

Fang Qing established a Lunar Yin lineage in the Qi Refinement Way, raised a moon through the Lunar Treasured Mirror, and built Primordial Central Heaven with the Palace of Vast Cold as its teaching ground. Meanwhile, Fang Daoling completed a Blessed Land for the Fang Family, giving them a place to retreat.

• Fang Qing fused the Lunar Treasured Mirror into Primordial Beginning Heaven and caused a bright moon to rise over the Qi Refinement Way.
• Fang Qing proclaimed the Lunar Yin lineage and urged cultivators to seek gold, gain Nature, and pursue immortality.
• Fang Qing planned to send Qin Ruxue and the others to reincarnate, train them in Lunar Yin, and recruit talented people to the Palace of Vast Cold.
• Fang Qing opened the Lunar Yin Grotto-Heaven called Primordial Central Heaven and attached the Palace of Vast Cold beneath it as a wandering Blessed Land.
• Fang Daoling opened a small Blessed Land in the Great Void and welcomed it as a refuge for the Fang Family.

Fang Xianyao and Fang Xianyuan pursued the devil cultivator Ding Changhai, whose alleged massacre of a county raised suspicions when he claimed the Fang Family had framed him. Just as Fang Xianyao moved to kill him, an unknown cultivator in an azure Dharma robe intervened.

• Fang Daoling named his newly opened blessed land Spirit-Ease Blessed Land and divined that someone was scheming against the Fang Family’s qilin child.
• Fang Xianyao met his cousin Fang Xianyuan at a roadside noodle stall and recruited him to help track down the devil cultivator Ding Changhai.
• The cousins found Ding Changhai in Demon Marsh Mountain, where Fang Xianyao fought him and Fang Xianyuan shot him down as he tried to flee.
• Ding Changhai claimed the Fang Family had ordered the slaughter of his home county and framed him, leaving Fang Xianyuan confused.
• Fang Xianyao attempted to kill Ding Changhai, but an azure Dharma pearl struck his sword aside as a robed cultivator arrived.

Song Qingzhou questioned Ding Changhai about Frost County and Frostglory Hall, while Fang Xianyuan learned that his second uncle, Zeng Erquan, had caused the massacre through the Yinshan Society. After Ding Changhai died, the cultivators set out to examine Frostglory Hall, as powerful figures in the Great Void debated the secret site and Blackwater Blessed Land.

• Song Qingzhou stopped Fang Xianyuan’s arrow and asked Ding Changhai about the matching halves of a jade token connected to Frostglory Hall.
• Ding Changhai revealed that he had learned the Yinshan Society slaughtered Frost County on orders from Zeng Erquan, a Dao Foundation cultivator connected to the Fang Family.
• Fang Xianyuan used a bronze mirror to contact Zeng Erquan, who admitted he had sought Frostglory Hall and that the Yinshan Society had slaughtered Frost County while trying to please him.
• Ding Changhai laughed at the senseless death of Frost County’s 38,672 residents and took his own life.
• Fang Xianyao retrieved the jade token, and the cultivators prepared to investigate Frostglory Hall.
• In the Great Void, Fang Daoling confronted Flood-Serpent Child over his scheme involving the juniors, and Flood-Serpent Child proposed joining forces to shake Blackwater Blessed Land.

Fang Xianyao and Fang Xianyuan explored Frostglory Hall while Purple Mansion True Persons opened Blackwater Blessed Land and judged the cultivators’ spoils. After the Fang family earned a large share, Fang Daoling rescued his juniors and went to claim the Purple Mansion Magic Treasure [Cold Spring Unmoving Edge].

• Song Qingzhou and the Fang brothers joined their jade token halves to summon Frostglory Hall, then searched its palaces for treasures.
• Fang Xianyuan found the [Heavenly Spring Listening-to-Wind Screen], while Fang Xianyao found damaged artifacts and the Blackwater Dao Formula.
• Snake Flood-Dragon Child proposed that the Purple Mansion True Persons open Blackwater Blessed Land and divide its treasures according to their juniors’ performance.
• The cultivators entered the Blessed Land, and Snake Flood-Dragon Child awarded the Fang family forty percent of its spiritual treasures.
• Fang Daoling entered the Blessed Land, found Fang Xianyao and Fang Xianyuan safe, and headed for the [Cold Spring Unmoving Edge].

Zeng Qingshui escaped Snake Flood-Dragon Child’s trap in the Blackwater Blessed Land, while Fang Daoling gathered treasures and punished Fang Xianyuan for the trouble he had caused. As Fang Xianyuan began his confinement, he was summoned to the Palace of Vast Cold, where Xu the Immortal Official explained that he had been given a chance to cultivate there.

• Zeng Qingshui gathered treasures in the Blackwater Blessed Land, then escaped Snake Flood-Dragon Child’s formation with a powerful Divine Ability.
• Fang Daoling captured the Cold Spring Unmoving Edge sword pellet and other treasures before leading the Purple Mansion True Persons out of the Blessed Land.
• Fang Daoling confined Fang Xianyuan to the Spirit-Ease Blessed Land for three years and ordered the Zeng Clan to deliver Zeng Erquan’s head.
• Fang Xianyuan meditated during his confinement and suddenly awoke in the Palace of Vast Cold.
• Xu the Immortal Official told Fang Xianyuan that he had been summoned because of his affinity with the immortal palace and an old connection with his ancestors.

Fang Qing used an immortal medicine and the Simplicity-Holding Pure Soul Scripture to remake Fang Xianyuan’s cultivation, then began preparing Lunar Yin pills for future reincarnations. Fang Xianyuan returned to the Spirit-Ease Blessed Land, where Fang Daoling suspected that a powerful cultivator was cultivating him as a human pill.

• Xu the Immortal Official gave Fang Xianyuan Lunar Yin cultivation and Moon-Palace Golden Blossom Pure Radiance Primordial Essence, which transformed his foundation before sending him back to the lower world.
• Fang Qing ordered Xu the Immortal Official to handle future newcomers and considered the threat Rooftop Moon posed to the struggle over Water Virtue.
• Fang Qing planned for Qin Ruxue, Empty Peacock Tara, and others to reincarnate, then began refining Lunar Yin Golden Nature into pills for them.
• Fang Xianyuan found that his former magical power had become Lunar Azure Qi and that his cultivation had returned at the Fifth Layer of Qi Ingestion.
• Fang Xianyuan told Fang Daoling about the Palace of Vast Cold, and Fang Daoling ordered him to remain in the Blessed Land while privately fearing that a powerful cultivator intended to consume him as a great medicine.

Qin Ruxue sought Lunar Yin treasures and encountered a clash between Shang Yuanxin and Old Monster Xu Jin over a Lunar Osmanthus Treasure Tree. The Bright Moon Demon General killed Xu Jin, and Shang Yuanxin accepted an invitation to visit Peach Blossom Island.

• Qin Ruxue bought three Moon-Soul Spirit Herbs from Ma Yuanzi and asked him to reserve any more Lunar Yin treasures for her.
• Qin Ruxue encountered Old Monster Xu Jin attacking Shang Yuanxin and preparing to seize his Lunar Osmanthus Treasure Tree.
• The Bright Moon Demon General arrived with Zhong Lingxiu, recognized Shang Yuanxin as an acquaintance, and killed Old Monster Xu Jin.
• Shang Yuanxin told Zhong Lingxiu that the Shang Clan had declined and that Kong Zhen had died after his lightning-attribute cultivation dissipated.
• Qin Ruxue invited Shang Yuanxin to Peach Blossom Island, and he accepted.