Chapter Summaries

Su Ziyu used [Crimson Purgatory] to frighten Steward Wang, who mistook him for the King in Yellow and helped him obtain the Octopus-Head Key and a beginner’s guide. After leaving the night market, Su Ziyu learned that his supposed identity had spread among the crowd and decided to study the book for clues about his grandfather’s costume.

• Steward Wang called Su Ziyu senior after being frightened by [Crimson Purgatory], and the goat-masked owner handed over the Octopus-Head Key.
• Su Ziyu took the key and the beginner’s guide, while Steward Wang paid ten thousand and gave him a business card.
• Steward Wang told Big Ox that he needed to report the King in Yellow and other powerful figures appearing in River City.
• Bystanders concluded that Su Ziyu was the King in Yellow, while the Void Shadow Beast listened from the darkness.
• The Void Shadow Beast returned to Su Ziyu’s shadow and told him what the crowd had said.
• Su Ziyu wondered about the costume from his grandfather’s wardrobe and went to a hotel to study the beginner’s guide.

A cult leader ordered an early assault on the Ghoul Cult after mistaking Su Ziyu’s yellow robes for the appearance of the King in Yellow. As Su Ziyu investigated the Octopus-Head Key, the Calamity Serpent Society, Grotesque Circus, and the leader’s fiery-cloud-robed followers besieged Li Kangming’s forces, and Ghoul Cult members began turning on one another.

• A fiery-cloud-robed man saw footage of Su Ziyu and feared that the King in Yellow had appeared, so he ordered the Calamity Serpent Society and Grotesque Circus to help attack the Ghoul Cult.
• Su Ziyu read about the Beyonder world’s churches and cults, then used his spirituality to reveal an ocean vision within the Octopus-Head Key.
• Su Ziyu recalled that the Black Bear-masked man had been controlled by a segmented insect and received a message from Rage that prompted him to practice swordsmanship.
• The Calamity Serpent Society, Grotesque Circus, and fiery-cloud-robed followers confronted Li Kangming and urged the Ghoul Cult members to defect.
• A Ghoul Cult follower roared, and members of the cult began turning their weapons against their own companions.

Ruan Xiaoqi summoned the Primordial Demon God’s power to strengthen Rage and his warriors as they slaughtered the Calamity Serpent Society and Grotesque Circus. The battle left the fiery-cloud-robed cultists standing, revealing that they too could not be killed.

• Rage’s Evil Spirit Marionettes killed the defiant members of the crowd, and Ruan Xiaoqi emerged and was greeted as the Holy Mother.
• Ruan Xiaoqi unfurled a scroll bearing the Primordial Demon God’s image, empowering Rage and transforming the surviving believers into Evil Spirit warriors.
• Rage led the warriors into battle, killing the Calamity Serpent Society priest and the Grotesque Circus clown priest while proclaiming their lord’s name as Burial Venerable.
• The Evil Spirit warriors slaughtered the believers of both groups, but the fiery-cloud-robed cultists repeatedly rose again after suffering fatal wounds.
• The qipao-clad beauty reattached her head and declared that River City’s forces belonged to her group.

Su Ziyu identified the cultists’ source of immortality and directed the Rage Knight to destroy the Seven-Segment Ringworms, ending their lives. He then appeared behind a fleeing priest, who recognized him as the King in Yellow and cried out.

• Su Ziyu spotted Seven-Segment Ringworms in the qipao woman’s brain and realized they were the source of the cultists’ immortality.
• The Rage Knight and the Evil Spirit warriors fought the cultists while Su Ziyu watched and withheld Ruan Xiaoqi from joining in.
• Rage pierced the qipao woman’s head, froze her Seven-Segment Ringworm, and killed her; the warriors also destroyed the worms inside her subordinates.
• Su Ziyu noticed a hooded priest trying to escape and teleported behind him in an empty alley.
• The priest turned, recognized Su Ziyu as the King in Yellow, and screamed.

Su Ziyu fought a bearded cult leader who summoned a Faceless Ghost Fox, then pursued him into the sewers to learn why the cult had attacked and what the strange undead were. The chapter ended as Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye and found something that startled him around a sewer corner.

• Su Ziyu used the Void Shadow Beast’s shadow attacks to wound the bearded brute and force him to summon the Faceless Ghost Fox.
• The bearded brute armored the Faceless Ghost Fox with spirituality and ordered it to attack Su Ziyu, then fled when the fight began.
• Ruan Xiaoqi, the Dread Demon Eye, and the Void Shadow Beast stayed behind to fight the Faceless Ghost Fox.
• Su Ziyu followed the bearded brute into the foul-smelling sewers, determined to question him about the cult’s ambush and the undead beings.
• Su Ziyu activated the All-Seeing True Eye, turned a corner, and stared in surprise at what he saw.

Su Ziyu confronted the bearded man inside a lavish house hidden in the sewers and used the [Dark Wisdom Chapter] to overwhelm him. The man recognized him as Burial Venerable and unleashed controlled female dolls before Su Ziyu’s fireball struck the house, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Su Ziyu tested the house with dark matter, then used [Dark Wisdom: Bound Dungeon] to surround and penetrate it.
• The bearded man recognized the [Dark Wisdom Chapter] and suspected Su Ziyu was the King in Yellow.
• Su Ziyu questioned the bearded man about the Old God Cult and the gathering at the abandoned factory.
• The bearded man realized Su Ziyu was Burial Venerable, and the Twisting Lines bound him while tearing apart the house.
• Su Ziyu launched a massive black fireball as the bearded man summoned controlled female dolls that fired a combined beam of spiritual light.
• The fireball and spiritual beam collided in a huge explosion, and Su Ziyu watched the house’s ruins through the flames.

Su Ziyu killed Zhang Huan, uncovered the Old God Cult’s Alchemy grimoire and an invitation to the major city, and prepared to investigate the cult there. He vanished from the sewer just before Hong Ying and the Special Affairs Department arrived and found the gruesome aftermath.

• Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye to learn that Zhang Huan had joined the Old God Cult, learned Alchemy, and turned women into Living Skin Dolls.
• Su Ziyu killed Zhang Huan and found the Grimoire of the Old Days, including the Earth's Seven Mysteries Chapter on Alchemy.
• Su Ziyu found a recommendation letter from a person surnamed Xiao granting Zhang Huan entry to the major city, and decided he might use it to follow the Old God Cult's trail.
• Su Ziyu extracted materials from the damaged dolls, formed a ritual from sewage and dark matter, and vanished into the sewer as footsteps approached.
• Hong Ying led Special Affairs Department agents into the sewer, where she found bloodied walls and a revolting scene.

Hong Ying's squad found a corpse marked with the words “King in Yellow,” adding another terrifying name to River City's growing list of supernatural threats. Meanwhile, Su Ziyu collected cultist materials, used them to evolve Rage and the Netherworld Army, and prepared to edit a new monster.

• Hong Ying and her squad drove off the blood-eyed crows and found “King in Yellow” written in the remains of a corpse, prompting her to report the discovery to headquarters.
• Su Ziyu met Ruan Xiaoqi in an alley, extracted materials from a Faceless Ghost Fox, and transported them to an abandoned factory.
• Su Ziyu examined the corpses of the Calamity Serpent Society and Grotesque Circus cultists, then deduced how Zhang Huan had made living-skin dolls.
• Su Ziyu rewarded Rage for guarding the factory and used Spirit Severing to gather cultist flesh and spirits around Rage, his warhorse, and the eighty-two evil spirit warriors.
• Su Ziyu watched the warriors enter flesh cocoons, then entered System Space to begin editing a new monster.

Su Ziyu used the Five-Star aura and several other materials in the Hundred-Eyed Furnace to create the Hundred-Tailed Serpent Fox. After the creature emerged, the furnace contracted into a flesh cocoon.

• Su Ziyu reviewed the materials in the System Space and chose the Five-Star aura, the Faceless Demon Fox corpse, Rootless Tendrils, Jester's Grotesque Smile, and Calamity Serpent Tails for creation.
• Su Ziyu added the Five-Star aura to the Creation Magma, turning it glittering gold, then submerged the Faceless Demon Fox corpse in it.
• Su Ziyu added the remaining materials, and ninety-nine Calamity Serpent Tails formed grotesque, humanlike faces at their tips.
• The Hundred-Tailed Serpent Fox rose and roared as its last Rootless Tendril became a longer, grotesque-smiling tail.
• The Hundred-Eyed Furnace released white vapor, contracted inward, and turned into a flesh cocoon.

Su Ziyu created the Four-Star Hundred-Tailed Serpent Fox, gained two of its skills, and discovered that it could hide in his subconscious sea. As the remaining flesh cocoons opened, Rage emerged stronger and Su Ziyu named a newly evolved Evil Spirit Marionette the Greed Reaper.

• The Hundred-Tailed Serpent Fox emerged from its cocoon, and Su Ziyu chose [All Things Have Spirits] and [Nature Breath] to solidify as his skills.
• Su Ziyu discovered that the Hundred-Tailed Serpent Fox could retreat into the Chaos Sea, which was his tangible subconscious sea alongside the Primordial Demon God.
• Rage emerged from his cocoon at the peak of the Morning Star Initial Stage, with a larger greatsword, demonic horns, and a stronger Netherworld Ghostfire warhorse.
• Another Evil Spirit Marionette emerged in its second form, and Su Ziyu named it the Greed Reaper.