Chapter Summaries

The Four Seas Dragon Kings used their dragon might to disrupt Lu Chen’s rain-prayer ritual just before it could gather enough Wish Power to restore the Well Dragon King. Lu Chen stopped the panicking crowd and argued that the Dragon Kings were bluffing because they dared not harm people openly.

• The Four Seas Dragon Kings’ roars and dragon might terrified the crowd, while Master Ling Shui celebrated what he thought was Lu Chen’s imminent downfall.
• The Well Dragon King and Lord of the Land watched the ritual through the Profound Light Art and realized the Dragon Kings had arrived to interfere.
• Lu Chen noticed that no true dragons had appeared and concluded that the Four Seas Dragon Kings were only using their might to bluff the crowd.
• In Mysterious Dipper Palace, Star Lord of Water Virtue refused to intervene directly for fear of incurring Karma, while Lord God of Wealth trusted Lu Chen to handle the crisis.
• As the crowd fled, Lu Chen ordered Sun Yourong to smash a boulder; the blast stopped the people long enough for him to call the Dragon Kings’ threat a show and remind them that the gods would face heavenly punishment for attacking humans.

Lu Chen endured the Four Seas Dragon Kings’ suppression and swore a blood oath to bring rain to Dragon-Tiger County, inspiring its people to unite in prayer. Their collective wish-power broke through the dragon might, and Lu Chen summoned the Well Dragon King to take his seat as Lord of the Land urged him to go.

• The Four Seas Dragon Kings crushed Lu Chen and the people of Dragon-Tiger County with their dragon might, while the Well Dragon King struggled against Lord of the Land’s restraints in the cave.
• Lu Chen denounced the Dragon Kings and swore to bring rain, cutting his hand with the peachwood ritual sword and calling on the townsfolk to lend him their strength.
• Moved by Lu Chen’s resolve, the people overcame their fear, lit incense, and prayed together for the Well Dragon King to bring rain.
• The prayers of a hundred thousand people gathered into a brilliant pillar of merit light that pierced the clouds and alarmed Ao Guang and the other Dragon Kings.
• Lu Chen commanded the High Lord of Spring Source Water Palace to return to his seat, the mud ropes binding the Well Dragon King crumbled, and Lord of the Land urged him to go.

Lu Chen completed the rain-prayer ritual, helping the Well Dragon King gain merit, become a Guardian Golden Dragon, and bring rain to drought-stricken Dragon-Tiger County. After the celebration, Lu Chen met the newly transformed Dragon King at Spring Source Water Palace to hear an important matter.

• The Well Dragon King absorbed the altar’s merit, grew to seventy zhang, and drove the Four Seas Dragon Kings into retreat.
• Lord God of Wealth bestowed a golden transformation and the title of Guardian Golden Dragon on the Well Dragon King, while the Four Seas Dragon Kings fled after being confronted by the Star Lord.
• Lu Chen presented the Rain-Prayer Memorial, and the Well Dragon King summoned a downpour that brought the people of Dragon-Tiger County to tears and celebration.
• Master Ling Shui sent the Red-spotted Woman away after glaring at the high platform.
• Two hours later, Lu Chen met the Well Dragon King at Spring Source Water Palace, where the Dragon King invited him inside to discuss an important matter.

Lu Chen learned that Huai Lie had protected the four dragon spirits left behind by his slain elder brothers and wanted Lu Chen to become their master. After hearing the spirits’ powerful gifts and Huai Lie’s oath of loyalty, Lu Chen agreed to accept them.

• Lu Chen visited Huai Lie’s renovated Water Palace, where the Dragon King explained that his cultivation had increased by five hundred years and revealed his surname was Huai.
• Huai Lie told Lu Chen that the Four Seas Dragon Kings had killed his elder brothers and that he had been entrusted with their unborn children.
• Huai Lie showed Lu Chen four Dragon Pearls containing dragon spirits and begged him to accept the spirits as his nephews and masters.
• Huai Lie described the four spirits’ abilities, including water escape and defense, increased damage, enhanced magical power and healing, and purification of toxins and curses.
• Huai Lie swore a blood curse to prove his sincerity, and Lu Chen agreed to accept the four dragon spirits.

Lu Chen claimed the four Dragon Pearls, gained their abilities, and advanced to Second Grade after his aptitude improved. He tested his new strength and learned how divine beings were suppressed when attacking mortals, but the chapter left him eager to fight someone stronger.

• Lu Chen dripped his blood onto the four Dragon Pearls, and their dragon spirits entered his body with Huai Lie’s help.
• The dragon spirits healed Lu Chen’s wounds, sharpened his mind and mana, strengthened his defense, and refined his innate constitution until he advanced to Second Grade.
• Lu Chen tested his new defensive ability by asking the Lord of the Land to hit him, and the blow injured him before his wounds began healing.
• The Lord of the Land and Huai Lie explained that the Heavenly Dao suppressed immortals and spirits who attacked mortals, with karma and merit influencing the consequences.
• Lu Chen judged that his abilities could withstand a same-grade opponent and perhaps hold his ground against a Third-Grade Spirit Cultivator, then became eager to fight someone stronger.

Lu Chen completed his mission in Dragon-Tiger County, received the Qilin Saber and Profound God-Communion Canon, and secured official support for several local deities. As he left amid the citizens’ grateful farewell, a black sedan began secretly following his car.

• Lu Chen promised Huai Lie that he would protect the four dragon descendants, then returned to the hospital with the Lord of the Land and reunited with Sun Yourong.
• Chen Tiansheng gave Lu Chen the Qilin Saber and Profound God-Communion Canon, warning him against using the Idol Communion Technique on certain powerful deities.
• Lu Chen identified the Pure Source Wondrous Dao True Lord as Erlang God, and Wang Zhongmin announced county funding and promotion for the local deities’ Incense Fire.
• Wang Zhongmin stamped Lu Chen’s mission document, formally completing his work in Dragon-Tiger County, and Lu Chen and Sun Yourong set off for Jiangdu City.
• The people of Dragon-Tiger County, Huai Lie, and the Lord of the Land sent Lu Chen off with heartfelt farewells as he drove away.
• A black sedan started following Lu Chen and Sun Yourong’s car after they entered a forest road.

Lu Chen and Sun Yourong were ambushed on the road by Master Ling Shui and Red-spotted Woman, both revealed as Third Grade Spirit Cultivators. As Sun Yourong prepared to protect him, Lu Chen eagerly stepped forward, ready for the fight he had expected.

• Lu Chen and Sun Yourong discussed his unusual worship choices and the gains he had earned in Dragon-Tiger County.
• Sun Yourong asked whether Lu Chen had feared confronting the Four Seas Dragon Kings, and he said that even fear had not stopped him from acting.
• Lu Chen swerved into the roadside woods to avoid an enormous spiked mace that split the road.
• Master Ling Shui and Red-spotted Woman emerged from the forest and revealed their Third Grade strength.
• Sun Yourong summoned her Xuanhua Battle-Axe and tried to shield Lu Chen, but he pushed past her and welcomed the fight.

Lu Chen and Sun Yourong fought Ling Shui and the red-spotted woman, with Lu Chen revealing that he had just advanced to second-grade Spirit Adept. Lu Chen found a way to purify Ling Shui’s Profound Water creatures, but the battle remained underway as Ling Shui marveled at his abundant spiritual power.

• Lu Chen revealed his second-grade Spirit Adept strength, and Sun Yourong faced the red-spotted woman while Lu Chen confronted Ling Shui.
• The red-spotted woman used her wolf-toothed hammer to drive Sun Yourong back, though Sun Yourong struck her with Mountain-Shattering Sweep.
• Ling Shui sent two poisonous blackwater boars after Lu Chen, who used the Jishui Dragon King ability to purify both of them.
• Ling Shui summoned more than a dozen Profound Water vicious spirits, and Lu Chen evaded them while purifying them one by one.
• Ling Shui watched Lu Chen continue fighting without tiring and called him freakishly strange.

Lu Chen defeated Master Ling Shui by summoning the Four Great Underworld Bailiffs and discovered an ancient, unreadable scroll after killing him. He then rushed toward another fight, where the Red-spotted Woman found herself surrounded by Lu Chen and the bailiffs.

• Lu Chen survived Master Ling Shui's powerful punch, revealed the Yama's Command Token, and summoned Black and White Impermanence, Ox-Head, and Horse-Face.
• Lu Chen and the four bailiffs subdued Master Ling Shui, and Lu Chen killed him with Underworld Divine Lightning after seeing the souls of his victims.
• Lu Chen found an ancient scroll left unharmed by the lightning, but neither he nor the bailiffs could read its symbols, so he put it away.
• Lu Chen and the bailiffs headed toward the forest battle and arrived as the Red-spotted Woman prepared to attack the injured Sun Yourong.
• The Red-spotted Woman froze when Lu Chen placed a hand on her shoulder and saw him with the four bailiffs, then dropped her warhammer in terror.

Lu Chen and Sun Yourong killed the Red-spotted Woman, discussed the powerful Rakshasa Cult, and Sun Yourong learned of Lu Chen’s authority in the Netherworld. After returning to Jiangdu, Lu Chen was stopped by Auntie Wang, who begged him to help her starving husband in the Netherworld.

• The Red-spotted Woman recognized the Thousand Demons Visualization scroll as her husband’s, attacked Lu Chen, and Sun Yourong killed her with an axe.
• Sun Yourong told Lu Chen about the Rakshasa Cult and its SS-class extermination mission, worth twenty thousand military merit points.
• Lu Chen revealed that he could command Underworld Messengers and claimed King Yama was his godson, shocking Sun Yourong.
• Lu Chen destroyed the Red-spotted Woman’s corpse with Underworld Divine Lightning, and he and Sun Yourong returned to Jiangdu.
• Auntie Wang knelt before Lu Chen and begged him to ask King Yama to provide clothes and food for Uncle Wang, who was suffering in the Netherworld.

Lu Chen investigated the many families in his complex whose ancestors had become ghosts and moved into the villa gifted by the Sun family. After questioning the Ling Shui couple about Thousand Demons Visualization, he learned it could directly communicate with heavenly deities, leaving him shocked by the revelation.

• Lu Chen learned that twenty or thirty households in his complex had relatives trapped as ghosts, and he asked Lu Jianming to compile a list of the ancestors involved.
• Lu Chen went to Cloudtop Manor, set up the divine tablets, and summoned Xie Qingyi, Fan Rusong, Ox-Head, and Horse-Face.
• Lu Chen used a Life-Extraction Spell to let Xie Qingyi eat living-world snacks, then questioned the Ling Shui couple about Thousand Demons Visualization.
• Lu Chen ordered Ox-Head and Horse-Face to whip Ling Shui Adept and his wife until Ling Shui Adept agreed to explain what he knew.
• Ling Shui Adept said Thousand Demons Visualization could communicate directly with heavenly deities, shocking Lu Chen.

Lu Chen learned from Ling Shui’s memories that the Thousand Demons Visualization contained incantations for contacting gods of three ranks, though he saw little use in its first segment. After sending the Ling Shui couple to the Underworld and assigning his officers a relief task, he turned his attention to adjusting the exchange rate for spirit currency.

• Fan Rusong used a Soul-Searching Art on Ling Shui and the Red-Spotted Woman, revealing their crimes and their plan to obtain the Qilin Saber and Profound Mystery Divine Canon to craft an idol for the Great Black Buddha Mother.
• Lu Chen learned that the Thousand Demons Visualization had three incantation segments for contacting ghosts and gods, heavenly gods, and immortal gods, and that Ling Shui’s master had taught him only the first.
• Lu Chen decided not to pursue Blackwater Old Devil, who was reincarnated as a pig, and gave spirit currency to Ox-Head and Horse-Face.
• Lu Chen asked Fan Rusong to deliver clothes, food, and shelter to his neighbors’ deceased ancestors in the Underworld.
• Xie Qingyi and Ox-Head told Lu Chen that King Yama had bragged about his incense offerings to King Qin Guang, nearly provoking a fight.
• The four Underworld officers escorted Ling Shui and the Red-Spotted Woman away, and Lu Chen began considering the spirit-currency exchange rate.

Lu Chen set prices for Netherworld Currency but struggled to find people capable of helping him run the business. After his success in Dragon-Tiger County, the Sun family recognized his extraordinary abilities, while the Underworld Office provided food and shelter to ghosts from his residential compound; the chapter ended with Lu Chen unexpectedly meeting Li Ruoyi at school.

• Lu Chen decided on two denominations and exchange rates for Netherworld Currency, then worried that he lacked the manpower to manage the business while pursuing military merits.
• Sun Yourong told the Sun family that Lu Chen had asked Lord God of Wealth to suppress the Four Seas Dragon Kings, and Sun Qingcang predicted that Jiangdu City might soon produce another New Nobility.
• Ox-Head found Wang Shufa and led him to the Underworld Office, where Fan Rusong and Xie Qingyi welcomed ghosts from Southern Mountain Residential Compound with food and shelter.
• Lu Chen went to Jiangcheng No. 3 High School to hand in his mission and look for another one, then bumped into Li Ruoyi, who asked whether he had ever gone to Dragon-Tiger County.

Lu Chen returned from completing the Dragon-Tiger County rain-prayer S-Class mission in two days, received Special-Class status and its rewards, then searched for another mission. He found a new S-Class task offering five thousand military merit points to treat the former governor’s wife.

• Lu Chen apologized to Li Ruoyi and the other students for frightening them, then revealed that he had already returned from his S-Class mission.
• The dean and teachers verified Lu Chen’s completion, learned that he worshiped the Well Dragon King, and awarded him the mission payment, a fifty-percent advancement bonus, and a Special-Class Medal.
• The dean told Lu Chen that Special-Class students received double rewards for three years and directed him to visit the City Lord’s Residence to learn about another benefit.
• Lu Chen reviewed available S-Class missions in a private room and chose Rebirth Academy, but the mission list refreshed before he could accept it.
• Lu Chen discovered a new S-Class mission to treat Zheng Changguo’s wife, which offered five thousand military merit points, and reacted with disbelief.

Lu Chen accepted two S-rank missions, including a high-value mission to treat former Governor Zheng Changguo’s wife, then visited City Lord Yu Feng to learn about the special class’s second incentive policy. Yu Feng revealed that the Rakshasa Cult had suffered a major defeat, and the chapter ended with him telling Lu Chen the incentive involved the Imperial Treasury.

• Lu Chen accepted the Governor Mission and another S-rank mission, planning to complete both within the twenty-day limit.
• Li Ruoyi learned that Lu Chen had taken two S-rank missions and was astonished.
• At the City Lord’s Manor, Yu Feng celebrated Lu Chen’s success and announced that the Demon-Suppression Army had destroyed the Rakshasa Cult’s main altar, killing Han Wuxiu and Feng Tianhua.
• Lu Chen realized Sun Yourong may have kept news of the successful rain prayer in Dragon-Tiger County from spreading.
• Yu Feng led Lu Chen to learn about the special class’s second incentive policy, and Lu Chen was shocked to hear it involved the Imperial Treasury.

Lu Chen explored the Imperial Treasury, learned its exchange prices, and accepted a Sumeru Ring from Yu Feng. When he revealed that he had taken two S-rank missions, Yu Feng warned him that the former prefect’s wife did not have an ordinary illness but was afflicted by a plague rooted in Heavenly-Triggered Killing Intent.

• Yu Feng took Lu Chen to the Imperial Treasury and showed him its exchange catalog, including divine abilities, treasures, and unusual royal favors.
• Lu Chen found that powerful divine abilities required high Divine Service Ratings and large amounts of military merit, then browsed the other exchange categories without spending his points.
• Yu Feng gifted Lu Chen a Sumeru Ring, which Lu Chen accepted gratefully.
• Lu Chen told Yu Feng that he had accepted the Rebirth Academy mission, and Yu Feng warned him that its target was a Ghost King.
• Lu Chen revealed that he had also accepted a mission to treat the former prefect’s wife, prompting Yu Feng to explain that her supposed illness was a plague caused by Heavenly-Triggered Killing Intent.

Lu Chen learned that Madam Zheng suffered from Heavenly-Triggered Killing Intent despite the great merit of her and Governor Zheng, and agreed to travel with Yu Feng to Qianjiang City to meet them. Back home, he sold Netherworld Currency to his neighbors and prepared to leave the next day.

• Yu Feng explained that Madam Zheng's illness had been identified as Heavenly-Triggered Killing Intent after doctors and the Imperial Astronomical Bureau failed to help her, while Lu Chen insisted on trying to treat her.
• Yu Feng agreed to take Lu Chen to Qianjiang City the next day to meet Governor Zheng and Madam Zheng, warning him not to act recklessly.
• Lu Chen returned to Southern Mountain Residential Compound after Lu Jianming called him about the neighbors gathered at home.
• Lu Chen announced that residents could buy Netherworld Currency to send money to their ancestors, then sold more than forty thousand yuan's worth to the neighbors.
• Lu Chen left the sales proceeds with Mother Lu, told his parents he would be away in Qianjiang City for several days, and returned to Cloudtop Manor to worship the Lord God of Wealth.

Lord God of Wealth celebrated the flood of Incense Fire that Lu Chen had gathered for him and reassured him that the Four Seas Dragon Kings had been confined for a year. But when Lu Chen asked for help with Madam Zheng’s Heavenly-Triggered Killing Intent, Lord God of Wealth warned that it was Heaven’s will and ordered him not to get involved.

• Lord God of Wealth welcomed Thunder Duke, Lightning Mother, and the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions, crediting his mortal younger brother with the surge in Incense Fire.
• Star Lord of Water Virtue told Lord God of Wealth that the Four Seas Dragon Kings had been confined to their palaces for one year and praised Lu Chen’s talent.
• Lu Chen summoned Lord God of Wealth, who confirmed that Dragon-Tiger County’s offerings had greatly restored his divine power and warned Lu Chen to be wary of the Four Seas Dragon Kings.
• Lu Chen told Lord God of Wealth about Madam Zheng’s Heavenly-Triggered Killing Intent, and their connection briefly froze as he described it.
• Lord God of Wealth declared that Heavenly-Triggered Killing Intent could not be broken because Heaven forbade it, and told Lu Chen to stay out of the matter.

Lu Chen accepted the danger of investigating Madam Zheng’s Heaven-triggered killing intent and traveled to Qianjiang City to examine her. He reached her bedside and recognized something strangely familiar in her condition.

• Lord God of Wealth warned Lu Chen that Madam Zheng’s Heaven-triggered killing intent was likely tied to the Plague or Pox Department, and suggested he seek King Yama’s help after learning more.
• Lu Chen chose to continue with the task and quickly learned a simplified Idol Communion Technique before departing for Qianjiang City with Yu Feng.
• Yu Feng brought Lu Chen to Number One Courtyard, where they met Zheng Changguo and Secretary Fan.
• Lu Chen felt an oppressive presence in Zheng Changguo’s villa and used the Ji River Dragon King’s Purest Water ability to resist it.
• Lu Chen entered Madam Zheng’s room despite the dense sinister aura and saw green qi flowing beneath her skin.
• Lu Chen found Madam Zheng’s appearance strangely familiar as he examined her.

Lu Chen learned that Madam Zheng's illness stemmed from Heavenly-Triggered Killing Intent and that Zeng Rou had delayed its progress with the Rakshasa Cult's Five Gu Art. He carved a statue of Yama King and summoned him, leaving the matter of treating Madam Zheng about to begin.

• Lu Chen told Zheng Changguo that Madam Zheng's miasma resembled the effects of the Plague or Pox Departments, and Zheng Changguo confirmed the Imperial Astronomical Bureau had suspected them.
• Zheng Changguo revealed that he had asked Zeng Rou of the Rakshasa Cult to treat his wife with Five Gu Art, which slowed the illness but could not cure it.
• Yu Feng explained why Zheng Changguo could not openly worship gods of the Plague or Pox Departments, and Lu Chen decided to proceed with his own method.
• Lu Chen locked himself in Zheng Changguo's study and carved a simplified statue of King Yama, spending more than half his mana before recovering.
• Lu Chen lit incense and summoned Yama King, then knelt and cried that his godfather's son was in trouble.