Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen planned to stop Spirit Cypress Immortal by separating an incarnation essence soul, disrupting the cypress tree, and seeking help from the Moon Goddess and Giant Spirit God. Xie Qingyi and Fan Rusong found the Fetal-Separation Pavilion Master, who agreed to help once Meng Po revealed the plot’s connection to the Wheel-Turning King and Spirit Cypress Immortal.

• Lu Chen outlined his plan to resolve Chang Residence’s resentment, sabotage Spirit Cypress Immortal’s cypress tree, and recruit divine allies.
• Lu Chen sent Xie Qingyi and Fan Rusong to ask the Fetal-Separation Pavilion Master for help, ordering them to keep his name and involvement secret.
• Lu Chen prepared to copy the Scripture of Resolving Grievances and Removing Sins and decided to use the Hearthfire Register to investigate Chang Residence.
• Xie Qingyi and Fan Rusong asked Meng Po to approach the Fetal-Separation Pavilion Master on their behalf.
• The Fetal-Separation Pavilion Master hesitated until Meng Po linked the matter to the Wheel-Turning King and Spirit Cypress Immortal, then agreed to help without payment and urged them to act as soon as possible.

Xie Qingyi and Fan Rusong secured the Fetal-Separation Pavilion Chief’s help with Meng Po’s support, while Lu Chen made summoning talismans with the Giant Spirit God’s divine power. With two of his four preparations complete, Lu Chen used the Hearthfire Register to enter the Chang residence and found Chang Suqing, the Lunar Star Lord’s incarnation.

• Meng Po explained why she had helped Xie Qingyi and Fan Rusong, then returned alone to the Bridge of Helplessness as the two women went to report to Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen persuaded the Giant Spirit God to sign a summoning document and crafted three Giant Spirit Summoning Talismans by drawing on the god’s divine power.
• Xie Qingyi and Fan Rusong told Lu Chen that the Fetal-Separation Pavilion Chief had agreed to help, and Lu Chen decided to repay Meng Po with a favor rather than spirit money.
• Lu Chen identified his remaining preparations as securing the Moon Goddess’s help against Spirit Cypress Immortal and locating the cypress tree in the Chang Residence.
• Lu Chen used the Hearthfire Register to enter the Chang residence and discovered Chang Suqing reading in a luxurious room.

Lu Chen secretly explored Chang Residence, learned how the Chang family viewed him, and found the cypress tree whose divine radiance protected the estate. Just as he planned to sabotage it, an elderly man appeared behind him and stared directly at him.

• Lu Chen watched Chang Suqing read in her room, then passed through the walls to explore Chang Residence.
• Chang Youfang wanted to confront Lu Chen, but Old Master Chang and his eldest son warned him that Lu Chen was powerful and should not be provoked.
• Old Master Chang arranged to invite Lu Chen to his eightieth-birthday celebration through Wang Yiming, whom Lu Chen spotted among the guests.
• Lu Chen used the Lunar Dharma Eye to trace the estate's protective azure radiance to a cypress tree in the rear courtyard.
• Lu Chen planned to destroy the spiritual tree with concentrated talisman water, but an elderly man appeared behind him and stared at him.

Lu Chen discovered that Cypress Immortal had planted a nonhuman agent in Chang Residence, who harvested divine fluid from an ancient cypress and fed it to Chang Suqing’s unborn child. After accepting an invitation to Old Master Chang’s birthday banquet, Lu Chen asked the Lunar Star Lord about the agent and learned his suspicion was correct.

• Lu Chen followed Master He from the ancient cypress and watched him collect its divine fluid in a jade vial.
• Master He added a drop of the fluid to Chang Suqing’s bird’s nest soup, and Lu Chen saw the fetus absorb its divine power and grow stronger.
• Lu Chen returned to the hotel, where Wang Yiming invited him to attend Old Master Chang’s birthday banquet with him and Sun Yourong.
• Lu Chen visited Chang Clan Temple the next morning and told the Lunar Star Lord about the old man; she confirmed that he was not human.

Lu Chen prepared to stop the Spirit Cypress Immortal’s scheme to reincarnate through Chang Suqing, while the Lunar Star Lord agreed to hold the Immortal back. On the day of Old Master Chang’s birthday banquet, Lu Chen headed to the Chang residence as the Spirit Cypress Immortal and Wheel-Turning King finalized their plans.

• The Lunar Star Lord told Lu Chen that the wood spirits were powerful but vulnerable to the Samadhi True Fire in his Hearthfire Seed, and agreed to restrain the Spirit Cypress Immortal if needed.
• Lu Chen searched Chang Residence over several nights, found no other wood spirits, and watched the old man secretly add green liquid to Chang Suqing’s bird’s nest.
• The Spirit Cypress Immortal and Wheel-Turning King discussed their reincarnation scheme and how either outcome could weaken the Lunar Star Lord or benefit the Spirit Cypress Immortal.
• On the day of Old Master Chang’s birthday banquet, Lu Chen joined Sun Yourong and Wang Yiming’s convoy heading to the Chang residence, ready to act.

Lu Chen brought Sun Yourong and Wang Yiming to Old Master Chang’s eightieth birthday banquet, where he revealed that deadly resentment surrounded Chang Residence and manipulated Wang Yiming into voicing suspicions about it. The Cypress Four Generals overheard them but chose not to intervene, while Old Master Chang began explaining why he had held such an unusually grand celebration.

• Wang Yiming led Lu Chen and Sun Yourong into Chang Residence, where they noticed the cold outside gave way to warmth indoors.
• Lu Chen told Wang Yiming and Sun Yourong that powerful resentment surrounded the residence and that the local City God’s failure to act suggested a hidden formation.
• Wang Yiming speculated that Old Master Chang’s unusually grand eightieth birthday banquet concealed something suspicious, then decided the group should leave after eating.
• The Cypress Four Generals heard Lu Chen’s explanation, but General Wither-Bloom ordered them not to act so they could protect Child-Giving Granny and their master’s plan.
• Lu Chen, Sun Yourong, and Wang Yiming reached the front courtyard, where Old Master Chang began explaining why he had invited so many important guests.

At Elder Chang’s birthday banquet, Lu Chen learned that the celebration was meant to counter the baleful presence outside Chang Residence. After guests mocked his gift, Lu Chen offered to resolve the Chang family’s trouble with a ritual.

• Elder Chang explained that a Wondrous Daoist Hermit had advised him to gather guests and borrow their celebratory luck to dispel the baleful presence outside Chang Residence, then announced Chang Suqing’s pregnancy.
• Lu Chen dismissed the hermit as a possible swindler, while Wang Yiming urged him to offer his help; Lu Chen declined to show off without a reason.
• Elder Chang introduced Lu Chen to the guests, and Lu Chen presented him with a fifth-grade Scarlet Flame Fruit.
• Guests twice mocked Lu Chen as someone from a small place, and Wang Yiming and the Wang Family’s Third Uncle confronted them before the Song Clan head silenced the crowd.
• Lu Chen offered Elder Chang another grand gift and warned that the Chang family would suffer disaster, then said he could resolve the trouble with nothing more than a ritual.

Lu Chen agreed to perform a ritual to dispel the resentment surrounding Chang Residence, while the Spirit Cypress Immortal and several groups of heavenly beings watched. He began preparing the altar and asked Old Master Chang for water, only for the elder to conjure a lake above the residence.

• Lu Chen told Old Master Chang that red mist and wronged spirits surrounded the residence and were weakening its guards, and Old Master Chang asked him to resolve the calamity.
• The Cypress Four Generals decided to let Lu Chen try, while the Spirit Cypress Immortal dismissed his claims as empty boasting.
• Lu Chen changed into a yellow Daoist robe and set up an Eight Immortals table as the Lunar Star Lord, Giant Spirit God, and other immortals watched through Profound Light Mirrors.
• Lu Chen asked Old Master Chang to provide clean water to purify the altar, and Old Master Chang summoned a lake above Chang Residence.
• Lu Chen realized Old Master Chang's water-control power exceeded what he needed and feared the vast water would devastate the Spirit Cypress Immortal's tree.

Lu Chen used King Yama’s power and a hidden talisman plan to wash Chang Residence and dispel the protection around its rear courtyard. As the Cypress Four Generals moved to attack him, the Giant Spirit God and the Four Heavenly Kings arrived with a vast heavenly army to arrest them.

• Lu Chen summoned King Yama’s phantom to empower a Grievance-Resolving Talisman, astonishing Old Master Chang, the Song Clan head, and the others.
• Lu Chen sent Impurity-Attracting Talismans into the suspended lake, then used a Giant Spirit Summoning Talisman to call on Heavenly Court’s divine power.
• At Lu Chen’s command, Old Master Chang released the lake as rain over Chang Residence, extinguishing the green divine light in the rear courtyard and provoking a chilling sound.
• The Cypress Four Generals realized Lu Chen had deceived them, and General Dark Branch attacked him before a zither’s sound stopped the blow.
• The Giant Spirit God, the Four Heavenly Kings, and more than ten thousand heavenly soldiers confronted the Cypress Four Generals and ordered their arrest.

The Four Heavenly Kings and the Cypress Four Generals fought in the clouds above Haicheng while Lu Chen denied causing the disturbance. At Chang Residence, a horde of resentful spirits arrived, and Lu Chen prepared to guide them onward with the Scripture of Resolving Grievances and Removing Sins.

• The Four Heavenly Kings attacked the Cypress Four Generals and their three thousand Celestial Patrol Soldiers, who formed the Eternal Azure-Sky Yimu Grand Formation and fought back.
• The heavenly battle shook the skies above Haicheng, and Elder Qin fled after seeing something terrifying beyond the clouds.
• Lu Chen watched the battle through the Lunar Dharma Eye and told Old Master Chang that the anomaly had nothing to do with him.
• A wave of cold and red resentment gathered above Chang Residence, and Lu Chen burned the Grudge-Resolving Talisman to summon Netherworld ghost soldiers and the Yama King's phantom.
• Lu Chen took out the Scripture of Resolving Grievances and Removing Sins and prepared to send the resentful spirits on their way.

Lu Chen recited the Scripture of Resolving Grievances and Removing Sins to calm the resentful spirits trapped by the Severing Yin Grand Formation, enduring the memories of millions of their deaths. The spirits were cleansed and sent through the opened gates of the Netherworld, and Lu Chen vowed to seek justice from the Spirit Cypress Immortal as purple qi and golden lotuses descended upon him.

• Lu Chen chanted the scripture while King Yama’s dharma manifestation suppressed the resentful spirits, and its divine light eased their rage.
• Lu Chen experienced the deaths and torment of millions of souls trapped by the Severing Yin Grand Formation and continued chanting despite the pain.
• Lu Chen finished the scripture, cleansing the surviving spirits of their resentment and causing them to reveal their original forms.
• A gate to the Netherworld opened above Chang Residence, and the departed spirits’ soul-light flowed through it toward reincarnation.
• Lu Chen blamed the Spirit Cypress Immortal for the souls’ suffering and vowed to seek justice as purple qi and golden lotuses descended upon him.

Lu Chen dispelled the resentment at Chang Residence, earning immense merit for King Yama while his allies prepared to capture Spirit Cypress Immortal’s essence soul. In Heaven, the Lunar Star Lord stopped Spirit Cypress Immortal from intervening by launching a Moon-Riding Heavenly Circuit, but He remained determined to pursue His plans.

• Lu Chen cleared the resentment from Chang Residence, and Elder Chang and his sons offered him a reward for saving the family.
• King Yama received a torrent of merit, while Lu Chen instructed Xie Qingyi to continue scouting as Fan Rusong and the Fetal-Separation Pavilion Chief waited below.
• Spirit Cypress Immortal discovered that the Spirit-Eye Divine Tree had been destroyed and received no reply from the Cypress Four Generals, so He set out to investigate.
• The Lunar Star Lord intercepted Spirit Cypress Immortal and ordered a Moon-Riding Heavenly Circuit, forcing Him to perform the required rites and remain in place.
• After the divine vessel departed, Spirit Cypress Immortal resolved to make one final move and force the opportunity He sought.

The Lunar Star Lord began an unexpected celestial patrol, prompting the Heavenly Court’s deities to present their immortal registers while they wondered what had caused it. In the lower realm, Giant Spirit God shattered the Cypress Four Generals’ formation with a single strike, leaving the battle at the Chang Residence poised to escalate.

• The Lunar Star Lord’s divine vessel passed through the Heavenly Court as the deities presented their register books, and Thunder Ancestor sensed a thread of karma rising from the lower realm.
• Venus Star welcomed the Lunar Star Lord at Bright Spirit Divine Mountain and remarked that Lu’s small matter had stirred up the Heavenly Court.
• At Red Luan Star Manor, the Lunar Star Lord warned the Matchmaker God through divine voice that she had spared him because that boy had helped her.
• At the Chang Residence, Giant Spirit God saw the Four Heavenly Kings trapped by the Cypress Four Generals’ Yimu formation and ordered the fighters to withdraw.
• Giant Spirit God struck the formation with the Heaven-Piercing Divine Axe, splitting it open and sending Azure Rock General and the soldiers guarding its core flying back.

The Lunar Heavenly Patrol disrupted the Cypress Four Generals’ arrest and drew attention across the Three Realms, while Lu Chen followed Child-Giving Granny and confronted the wood spirit. The wood spirit was caught off guard and beheaded by a scarlet-armored soldier, leaving Lu Chen to continue pursuing Spirit Cypress Immortal’s essence soul.

• The Giant Spirit God and the Four Heavenly Kings captured the Cypress Four Generals and their Celestial Patrol Soldiers, then rushed back to the Heavenly Court when the Lunar Heavenly Patrol began.
• Wang Yiming explained the once-in-a-century spectacle to Lu Chen at Chang Residence, and Lu Chen left the banquet after his Yanluo Token grew hot.
• Xie Qingyi revealed that Child-Giving Granny had arrived with a black jade box, and Lu Chen followed her as she approached Chang Suqing.
• Lu Chen used the Hearthfire Register and Lunar Dharma Eye to search for the wood spirit, only to discover the spirit was waiting beside his body.
• The wood spirit attacked Lu Chen, but a scarlet-armored soldier appeared behind him and beheaded him with a single sword.

Lu Chen discovered that the Spirit Cypress Immortal had used a Thousand-Mechanism Lure to bind its spirit fetus to Chang Suqing and the Chang Residence, thwarting the planned separation. As the underworld officials considered transferring the fetus to another pregnant woman in the family, Lu Chen noticed a pregnant dog and stopped them to ask the Fetal-Separation Pavilion Master something.

• Lu Chen burned the sixth-rank wood spirit with Samadhi True Fire and headed to the second floor of the Chang family villa.
• Lu Chen summoned Xie Qingyi, Fan Rusong, and the Fetal-Separation Pavilion Master to separate the spirit fetus, telling them not to place it in any pregnant woman in the Chang family.
• The Fetal-Separation Pavilion Master discovered that a Thousand-Mechanism Lure kept the fetus bound to Chang Suqing and the Chang Residence, apparently activated by spiritual sap from the cypress tree Lu Chen had destroyed.
• The Pavilion Master explained that the fetus could only be transferred to another pregnant woman in the Chang Residence, and Lu Chen confirmed that several of Chang Suqing's relatives were pregnant.
• A pregnant scruffy dog crawled upstairs, and Lu Chen stopped the Pavilion Master, turning his attention to the dog before asking a question.

Lu Chen arranged for Spirit Cypress Immortal’s avatar to be reincarnated as a dog, accepting the karmic cost to avenge a million dead souls. After the Fetal-Separation Pavilion Warden completed the ritual, Spirit Cypress Immortal realized that the barking it heard was coming from inside its own sea of consciousness.

• Lu Chen asked the Fetal-Separation Pavilion Warden to reincarnate Spirit Cypress Immortal’s avatar into a little dog, then persuaded him by revealing Lu Chen’s powerful divine offices and promising protection.
• Lu Chen explained that he sought justice for the million souls Spirit Cypress Immortal had slaughtered and accepted responsibility for the karma and lost merit.
• The Fetal-Separation Pavilion Warden agreed to the plan and prepared the reincarnation while Lu Chen returned to the banquet.
• Lu Chen saw his merit diminish, then learned from the Fetal-Separation Pavilion Warden that Spirit Cypress Immortal’s avatar had been reborn in the dog and would have to protect it.
• Spirit Cypress Immortal celebrated its plan to reincarnate its avatar into Chang Residence, then heard barking and realized it was coming from within its own sea of consciousness.

The Spirit Cypress Immortal discovered that his avatar had been reincarnated as a dog and flew into a rage, while Lu Chen negotiated a Netherworld currency deal with the Chang and Song families. Lu Chen agreed to sign a contract that could help him reach the one-trillion-currency goal for earning the Netherworld God of Wealth divine status.

• The Spirit Cypress Immortal found his avatar had been reincarnated as a dog, lost control of his anger, and devastated Divine Tree Peak.
• After the banquet, Old Master Chang and the Song Clan Head invited Lu Chen to discuss cooperation on Netherworld currency distribution.
• Lu Chen asked Sun Yourong to assess the proposal, and she questioned the families' high minimum purchase requirements.
• Lu Chen explained that Netherworld currency should remain affordable and refused to cooperate if the families planned to sell it at high prices.
• The Song Clan Head offered to sell the currency for 10,200 and distribute over ten billion in real money's worth each year through the families' territories.
• Lu Chen realized the deal could help him deliver one trillion Netherworld currency to the Netherworld and immediately called for a contract to be signed.

Lu Chen left Haicheng after securing the Chang and Song families’ cooperation, while Elder Chang wondered about the Wondrous Daoist Hermit and Wang Yiming invited Lu Chen to consider a secret SS-rank dungeon mission. As Lu Chen and Sun Yourong headed back to Jiangdu, the Hermit watched them from above, and Lu Chen set out for Wu Family Shrine to resolve Sun Yourong’s romantic tribulation.

• Elder Chang’s sons questioned whether Lu Chen’s visits and the Lunar Heavenly Patrol were connected, and Elder Chang recalled spotting the Wondrous Daoist Hermit before dismissing his doubts.
• Wang Yiming invited Lu Chen to join a future SS-rank dungeon mission but withheld its details, and Lu Chen agreed only to consider it when the time came.
• Lu Chen and Sun Yourong left Haicheng for Jiangdu while the Wondrous Daoist Hermit watched them from above and wondered what Lu Chen would do about the coming Netherworld.
• Lu Chen told Sun Yourong he would go to Wu Family Shrine to resolve her romantic tribulation, and she hoped he would succeed in helping their families become a great family.
• After they entered Jiangdu, Sun Yourong drove home alone while Lu Chen used the City God Token and Earth-Escape Technique to vanish underground.

Zhao Wuya and Hu Sanniang discussed Lu Chen’s mysterious influence and his prospects in the upcoming manor-position selection while the Lunar Heavenly Patrol Ceremony kept the gods kneeling. Lu Chen visited the Lunar Temple, where the Lunar Star Lord appeared and asked what he had done with the Spirit Cypress Immortal’s avatar essence.

• Zhao Wuya complained about having to kneel for the Lunar Heavenly Patrol Ceremony and vowed that one day he would not have to bow to anyone.
• Zhao Wuya sensed Lu Chen heading to the Wu Family Shrine and speculated that his secrets and ties to deities could help with the manor-position selection.
• Lu Chen arrived at the Wu Family Shrine to offer incense, and Steward Wu and the male staff begged him not to worship the Moon Goddess again after the previous incident.
• Lu Chen went to the Lunar Temple and offered incense while the Lunar Star Lord, despite her heavenly patrol, sent an avatar in response to his summons.
• When Lu Chen started to leave after receiving no answer, the Lunar Star Lord appeared and asked whose body he had put the Spirit Cypress Immortal’s avatar essence into.

Lu Chen reported that he had sent the Spirit Cypress Immortal’s incarnation into a dog, earning the Lunar Star Lord’s approval, continued use of the Lunar Dharma Eye, and five hundred immortal merits. As he prepared to leave, the Lunar Star Lord questioned the origin of his strange divine abilities and asked whether Lu Chen might be someone’s incarnation.

• Lu Chen told the Lunar Star Lord that he had cast the Spirit Cypress Immortal’s essence soul into a dog about to give birth, and She praised his handling of the matter.
• The Lunar Star Lord promised to protect Lu Chen, resolve his tribulation of romantic fate, and let him keep using the Lunar Dharma Eye.
• The Lunar Star Lord took Lu Chen’s immortal register, promised him five hundred immortal merits, and told him to return in three days to collect it.
• Lu Chen admitted that Lord Yama knew about Chang Suqing’s matter and credited King Yama with helping him.
• The Lunar Star Lord challenged Lu Chen’s claim that his divine abilities were inherited through his family and asked whether he might be someone’s incarnation.