Recaps

Lu Chen gained Lord God of Wealth Chai Rong’s favor, raised his Divine Service Rating, and used his growing influence to secure King Yama’s help for the Sun family patriarch. The arc ended with Lu Chen collecting the Sun family’s support and planning ways to attract worshippers and Incense Fire for King Yama.

• Lu Chen chose to worship neglected Chai Rong, repaired his shrine, and received a blessing that brought him luck and raised his Divine Service Rating.
• Lu Chen won a fortune from scratch cards, then offered Chai Rong costly gifts and became his sworn younger brother, receiving divine treasures and the Treasure Appraisal Eye.
• Lu Chen’s Divine Service Rating for Lord God of Wealth reached 43%, prompting Zhao Zhihong to warn him that the Zhao Clan Temple might remove Chai Rong’s deity position.
• After Tan Kun failed to extend Sun Dechang’s life, Lu Chen persuaded Sun Qingcang to let him pray to King Yama.
• Lu Chen summoned King Yama, offered him merit and promised a temple, then negotiated for help with Sun Dechang’s nearly exhausted lifespan.
• King Yama granted Sun Dechang seven more days and told Lu Chen to bring him worshippers in exchange for further extensions.
• Sun Qingcang promised support, gave Lu Chen five million yuan and offered him a villa, while Lu Chen obtained statues of Chai Rong and King Yama.
• Lu Chen planned to propose ancestor worship and an officially designated Netherworld Currency business to draw worshippers and offerings for King Yama.

Lu Chen secured King Yama’s authority and built his standing among the living, then took an S-rank mission to end Dragon-Tiger County’s drought. After uncovering the county’s hidden history, he enlisted the surviving Well Dragon King and prepared to challenge Master Ling Shui’s false rain.

• Lu Chen negotiated with King Yama, gaining the title of Underworld Martial and Virtuous General, divine power, and authority over Netherworld Incense Fire matters in the mortal realm.
• Lu Chen brought 109 residents to the Sun Clan Temple, where they could reunite with deceased relatives, then discovered that his prayer to the Thunder Ancestor had caused him backlash.
• At school, Lu Chen’s Divine Service Rating tested at 50%, and he accepted an S-rank mission to bring rain to Dragon-Tiger County.
• After Song Hao challenged him, Lu Chen revealed his First-Grade Peak Yama inheritance and frightened Song Hao and the other students into submission.
• Sun Yourong explained that the East Sea Dragon King had imposed a thirty-year rain ban after a Spirit Cultivator killed his son, and Lu Chen traveled to the county to end the drought.
• Lu Chen exposed Master Ling Shui’s rain as evil-tainted dead water, then found the Land God and learned that a Well Dragon King had survived nearby.
• Lu Chen showed the Well Dragon King his Fortune-Bringing Gold Ingot and Yanluo form, then promised to protect him, restore his cultivation, and provide him worshippers in exchange for rain.
• When protesters demanded that county officials accept Master Ling Shui’s offer, Lu Chen announced that he would seek real rain from the Well Dragon King, and Chen Tiansheng agreed to make a Lord God of Wealth statue.

Lu Chen ended Dragon-Tiger County’s drought by rallying its people to empower the Well Dragon King, then gained four dragon spirits and departed for Jiangdu. After defeating Ling Shui and the Red-spotted Woman, he took on new Underworld responsibilities and pursued further S-rank missions as a Special-Class student.

• Lu Chen secured Lord God of Wealth and Star Lord of Water Virtue’s help, then gathered Dragon-Tiger County’s people for a rain-prayer ceremony at Great Dragon Pool.
• When the Four Seas Dragon Kings tried to frighten the crowd into abandoning the rite, Lu Chen rallied the people to pray, freeing the Well Dragon King and empowering him with their merit.
• The Well Dragon King became a Guardian Golden Dragon, drove off the Four Seas Dragon Kings, and brought rain to Dragon-Tiger County.
• The Well Dragon King, Huai Lie, entrusted Lu Chen with four dragon spirits, which entered his body and raised his cultivation to Second Grade.
• After finishing his county mission and receiving the Qilin Saber and Profound God-Communion Canon, Lu Chen left for Jiangdu with Sun Yourong, but Master Ling Shui and the Red-spotted Woman ambushed them.
• Lu Chen summoned Underworld officers to defeat Ling Shui, and Sun Yourong killed the Red-spotted Woman, and afterward, Lu Chen arranged food and shelter for deceased ancestors trapped in the Netherworld.
• Lu Chen returned to Jiangcheng No. 3 High School, received his mission rewards and Special-Class Medal, and accepted two S-rank missions.
• At the City Lord’s Manor, Yu Feng told Lu Chen that the Demon-Suppression Army had destroyed the Rakshasa Cult’s main altar, then revealed that Special-Class students could receive another benefit involving the Imperial Treasury.

Lu Chen became the Plague Emperor’s agent and raced to clear missions so he could save Madam Zheng from her Heavenly-Triggered Killing Intent. After defeating the Rebirth Academy’s red-clothed ghost, he returned to find Madam Zheng dead and entered the Underworld to retrieve her soul, where he recruited thousands of City God Street’s soldiers.

• Yu Feng warned Lu Chen that Madam Zheng’s illness was Heavenly-Triggered Killing Intent, but Lu Chen traveled to Qianjiang City and sought King Yama’s help.
• King Yama appealed to the Plague Emperor, and Lu Chen persuaded Haotian to make him an agent and gave him seven days to erase the Plague-Chiming Pearl’s Tribulation Karma.
• Lu Chen accepted all forty-eight missions in Qianjiang City and cleared demon and ghost dungeons, using his plague ability to destroy their denizens.
• Lu Jianming told Lu Chen that he and Mother Lu had been taken to the yamen over their ghost-money business, and Lu Chen hurried back to Jiangdu City before returning to clear more missions.
• Lu Chen entered Rebirth Academy, summoned the Four Yin Officials, and helped them kill the red-clothed vicious ghost and uncover a scheme to refine a Ghost Immortal.
• The Plague Emperor secured relief from Her Majesty for Lu Chen’s success, but Madam Zheng died before Lu Chen reached her, and Zheng Changguo nearly killed himself.
• Lu Chen entered the ghost city with the Four Yin Messengers and persuaded Xie Bi'an and Fan Wujie to let him take Madam Zheng’s soul, but the Prefectural City God’s forces intercepted them.
• Lu Chen offered the City God Street soldiers higher pay and benefits, and more than three thousand ghosts joined him against the livid Prefectural City God.