Recaps

Yun Zimo refused to let Meng Huai leave her, and he agreed they would face danger together. After explaining the Doppelganger Gu and reassuring her about Silver Little Snake, Meng Huai accompanied Yun Zimo to a charity reception in Dian City.

• Yun Zimo cried, threatened to haunt Meng Huai, and persuaded him to stop trying to leave her.
• Yun Zimo explained her three secret weapons, and Meng Huai accepted that they would face hardship together.
• Meng Huai told Yun Zimo how Ye Yao used a Doppelganger Gu to control Fan Yuli and reassured her that Silver Little Snake could protect her from gu insects.
• Yun Zimo tested Meng Huai by suggesting they register their marriage, then said she wanted him to court her first.
• Yun Zimo resumed managing the foundation, and Meng Huai accompanied her to a charity reception at Dian City's largest hotel.

Meng Huai accompanied Yun Zimo to a reception, where his humble clothes and bold behavior drew attention from the city's elite. After recognizing Chang Yanping, Meng Huai said the powerful businessman was sick and predicted his condition would flare up within two days, then ordered expensive liquor as Chang Yanping approached.

• Meng Huai entered the reception with Yun Zimo, who introduced him to Lin Jinsu as her fiancé and kept his profession secret.
• Shan Meirong greeted Meng Huai and told the guests that Yun Zimo had refused to take over her position at Fenglan Group.
• Yun Zimo identified Chang Yanping as the president of Dian City's largest group, and Meng Huai said Chang Yanping was sick and would soon need his help.
• Yun Zimo went to speak with sponsors while Lin Jinsu approached Meng Huai, who ignored her and drank brandy straight from the bottle.
• Meng Huai asked the server for cases of Moutai and Wuliangye, drawing the attention of the guests and Chang Yanping.

Meng Huai rebuffed Chang Yanping at a charity reception, and Chang retaliated by targeting Yun Zimo’s foundation. Chang soon became mysteriously paralyzed, and Lin Dayin identified Meng as the person who might save him, leaving Chang to face the consequences of their clash.

• Meng Huai rejected Chang Yanping’s offer and criticized the reception’s lavish spending, while Yun Zimo left with him.
• Chang Yanping’s retaliation caused Yun Zimo’s foundation to suffer a series of blows and its funds to be frozen.
• Yun Zimo learned from Lin Jinsu that Chang Yanping had been hospitalized with a mysterious condition that doctors could not explain.
• Meng Huai called Elder Yuan and refused to get involved in Chang Yanping’s case, while Yuan confirmed Chang was not ill and suspected Meng could cure him.
• Lin Dayin visited Chang Yanping’s hospital room and revealed that Meng Huai might be able to save him; Yuan recognized Meng as the man he had mentioned.

After Hoshino Aki’s attempt to cure Chang Yanping made his condition worse, Qin Xiuying learned that the crisis stemmed from the mistreatment of Yun Zimo’s Foundation and Meng Huai. She ordered those responsible to make amends, while Yun Zimo and Meng Huai waited for them to arrive.

• Pei Cuiyun brought Hoshino Aki to treat Chang Yanping, but Hoshino Aki’s spell caused him to convulse and lose consciousness.
• Shan Meirong and Lin Dayin told Qin Xiuying that Chang Yanping’s circle had wronged Meng Huai and Yun Zimo by shutting down Yun Zimo’s Foundation and taking its funds.
• Qin Xiuying ordered the families responsible to restore the Foundation, repay ten times the money, and send people of standing to prison.
• Yun Zimo received apologies as her Foundation reopened and filled with funds to help children.
• Meng Huai told Yun Zimo the people responsible would soon arrive, while she realized he had planned to draw Chang Yanping’s attention.

Meng Huai gave Chang Yanping a phlegm-based remedy that restored his strength, prompting Chang Yanping to reflect on his arrogance and seek Meng Huai’s help. After Chang Yanping visited Meng Huai with a large gift of liquor, Meng Huai examined his wrist and looked puzzled.

• Yun Zimo let Qin Xiuying and Shan Meirong into her home while turning away the other officials, and Qin Xiuying apologized for what had happened.
• Meng Huai gave Qin Xiuying a cup containing his phlegm and told her to have Chang Yanping swallow it and then come see him.
• Meng Huai warned Yun Zimo to keep her distance from Shan Meirong, who said she planned to leave her assets to Zimo's Foundation.
• Chang Yanping swallowed Meng Huai’s remedy, vomited violently, and discovered that his strength had returned.
• Qin Xiuying explained that Chang Yanping’s arrogance had cost him sight of what mattered, and Chang Yanping asked her to marry him if he survived.
• Chang Yanping brought more than a hundred cases of Hengshui Laobaigan to Meng Huai’s Villa, apologized, and asked what was wrong with him; Meng Huai examined his wrist and looked puzzled.

Meng Huai gave Chang Yanping a Protective Gu after discovering that an unknown Gu Master had afflicted him with Wormless Gu. He told Chang Yanping that finding the attacker depended on exposing the wrongdoing behind his case, and Chang Yanping agreed to do so immediately.

• Meng Huai examined Chang Yanping and concluded that he had been afflicted with gu, though Meng Huai could find no insect in his body.
• Yun Zimo suggested using Protective Gu, and Meng Huai sold Chang Yanping a greenbottle fly for ten million, which he said would protect him for at least three months.
• Meng Huai confronted Chang Yanping about the disgraceful matter involving over a thousand people and said the person seeking revenge could not be found until the truth became public.
• Meng Huai told Chang Yanping to hand over the culprit and reveal the truth to quell public anger and make the Gu Master easier to find.
• Chang Yanping agreed to do everything Meng Huai had asked without waiting three months, and Meng Huai spread his hands with a remark that stunned everyone.

Meng Huai negotiated a charitable payment from Chang Yanping, then guessed that a recent building collapse had driven a Gu user to attack those he blamed. In a dream, Meng Huai met the grieving man behind the attacks and agreed to investigate before they settled matters in seven days.

• Meng Huai required Chang Yanping to donate a hundred million to Yun Zimo's charity foundation and asked him to explain the matter at a press conference.
• Meng Huai told Yun Zimo he had guessed the Gu attack was connected to the building collapse and criticized how the victims' deaths had been dismissed.
• Meng Huai dreamed of You Xueli showing him images of the dead experts, then met the cloaked Gu user who revealed that his wife and unborn child had died in the collapse.
• Meng Huai agreed to investigate the incident for seven days before facing the Gu user in a match, with the loser surrendering his life-bound gu or life.
• Meng Huai told You Xueli that he was a Gu Master, but human too.

Meng Huai and Yun Zimo met Zhao Zhen, who asked Meng Huai to investigate the deaths of more than a dozen people. At the morgue, Meng Huai confirmed the victims had been killed by Wormless Gu and warned that they had seven days to find a countermeasure.

• Meng Huai told Yun Zimo that his dream had given them seven days, though he was unsure he could defeat the formidable Gu Master.
• Zhao Zhen, director of the Dian City Branch Office under the Special Affairs Bureau's Southwest Bureau, visited Meng Huai and asked for his help investigating the killings.
• Meng Huai and Yun Zimo went with Zhao Zhen to the morgue, where Meng Huai examined the victims and confirmed they had been afflicted with Wormless Gu.
• Meng Huai explained that the killer used his vital essence to turn the turbid qi of heaven and earth into worms, and told Zhao Zhen he had encountered the killer at the Butterfly Bar.
• Meng Huai warned that everyone involved would die within seven days unless they found a way to counter Wormless Gu, then sprayed wine over a corpse and exposed black qi rising from its belly.

Meng Huai investigated another Wormless Gu death and warned that Ye Yao had gained two extra lives, while the Night God Church might make the revenge harder to stop. At Chang Tower, a company executive died in a crude Wormless Gu attack, and Qin Xiuying revealed the company had been concealing responsibility for a disastrous development.

• Meng Huai identified the woman they saw as Ye Yao, explained Wormless Gu’s dangers, and said the group had seven days to find its user before the final target was killed.
• Meng Huai and Yun Zimo went to Chang Tower, where Qin Xiuying planned to make the development incident public.
• A fat man fell from the tower, and his severed head declared that everyone would die; Meng Huai recognized another Wormless Gu attack.
• Qin Xiuying identified the dead man as the head of engineering and admitted the company had concealed the role of its second-largest shareholder to protect the corporation and its workers.
• Meng Huai agreed to keep helping after Qin Xiuying promised a one-billion donation, intending to trade the company’s information for help finding the mastermind.

Meng Huai investigated a series of deaths tied to Chang Yanping’s company and tried to protect Chang Yanping while uncovering the killer’s connection to the Night God Church. After watching a video that revealed the company’s wrongdoing, Meng Huai realized the killer’s next victims might face a far worse fate.

• A fat project manager fell to his death, and Qin Xiuying identified him as one of the people involved in the company’s scandal.
• Meng Huai told Qin Xiuying to present the deaths as suicides driven by guilt and reassured Chang Yanping that a protective gu would keep him safe for seven days.
• Meng Huai explained that the killer’s rare Wormless Gu technique made him valuable to the Night God Church, which might later protect Chang Yanping once their conflict ended.
• The Public Relations Director jumped to his death, so Meng Huai ordered Qin Xiuying to find the Security Director and Yun Zimo to search for a video of the earlier incident.
• Qin Xiuying obtained a backup video, and Meng Huai condemned what it showed, warning Chang Yanping that the people involved would die and that the Security Director would suffer especially horribly.

Meng Huai confronted Chang Yanping over the people who had bullied the victims of an accident, then explained to Yun Zimo why he tolerated wealthy clients while trying to make them answer for their actions. Yun Zimo guessed that the Night God Church had lured the killer with a promise to resurrect his family, and Meng Huai headed to Fenglan Group to investigate before noticing something wrong at the factory.

• Meng Huai warned Chang Yanping that the people shown in the video had to die and told him not to interfere with the killer's revenge.
• Chang Yanping agreed to let events proceed, and Meng Huai asked for the bodies to be sent to the morgue untouched and requested a top-of-the-line Hummer.
• Meng Huai told Yun Zimo that he relied on wealthy clients to fund the Foundation and that he had to balance his principles with supporting her and helping others.
• Yun Zimo suggested that the Night God Church had promised the killer it could resurrect his wife and child, and Meng Huai realized the church might have used the Luo Fu Drum to manipulate him.
• Meng Huai and Yun Zimo went to Fenglan Group, where Meng Huai sensed something strange and told her to stay close.

Meng Huai and Yun Zimo discovered that the Fenglan Group factory grounds concealed a miniature Underworld, then confronted Shan Meirong and her son Xiang Yu. Shan Meirong refused to let her dead son go and prepared to fight them.

• Meng Huai and Yun Zimo uncovered centipedes beneath the factory road, and Meng Huai explained that someone had made it into a yin-yang road to confuse underworld officers.
• Meng Huai and Yun Zimo reached the staff dormitory, where a tiny insect he sent inside burst into a mist of blood.
• Meng Huai realized the dormitory was part of an attempt to create a miniature Underworld, but retreating led him and Yun Zimo into its corridor.
• Meng Huai identified Xiang Yu as a walking corpse whose soul had been kept inside his dead body by an unknown method.
• Shan Meirong grew enraged at Meng Huai's description of her son, rejected his warning, and declared that Xiang Yu would never leave her side.

Meng Huai and Yun Zimo confronted Shan Meirong, who used the Luo Fu Drum to command her resurrected son and the workers she had turned into vessels for blood corpse gu. Shan Meirong and Xiang Yu merged into a two-headed monster, leaving Meng Huai facing a foe stronger than he expected.

• Yun Zimo tried to persuade Shan Meirong to let go of Xiang Yu, but Shan Meirong insisted she would keep Yun Zimo as her son's wife.
• Shan Meirong revealed that an envoy of the Night God Church had helped her resurrect Xiang Yu, then used the Luo Fu Drum to send his corpse after Meng Huai and Yun Zimo.
• Meng Huai summoned a White Flower Snake, which crushed Xiang Yu's body, but flesh and blood from the dormitory reassembled him into a stronger form.
• Xiang Yu tore apart the White Flower Snake, while Meng Huai used a black worm and spiders to counter the blood-red worms Shan Meirong sent from the dormitory.
• Shan Meirong spat blood onto the Luo Fu Drum, then she and Xiang Yu merged into a two-headed monster, making Meng Huai realize he was in serious trouble.

Meng Huai and Yun Zimo faced Shan Meirong and Xiang Yu after they fused into a Two-Headed Corpse Gu. Meng Huai freed Xiang Yu's Life-Bound Gu and destroyed the creature, then explained that Xiang Yu had joined the Night God Church partly to escape his mother's obsessive control.

• Shan Meirong's Two-Headed Corpse Gu resisted Meng Huai's insects, leaving him unable to attack effectively.
• Xiang Yu struggled against Shan Meirong, exposing the blood-red Life-Bound Gu at their joined necks.
• Meng Huai sent out his Golden Silkworm Gu and used fire to distract Shan Meirong, allowing the silkworm to pull out and swallow the Life-Bound Gu.
• The Two-Headed Corpse Gu split apart, and Meng Huai's ants devoured Shan Meirong, Xiang Yu, the corpses, and the dormitory's contents before the building collapsed.
• Meng Huai called Zhao Zhen to handle the scene and told Yun Zimo that Xiang Yu had sought escape from his mother, whose past control may have led to misfortune for his former girlfriends.

Meng Huai discovered that the Wormless Gu left a detectable trace in the air and trained with Chang Yanping to dodge its attacks. When the agreed time arrived, they faced the man in black on a rooftop.

• Meng Huai realized that Wormless Gu moved as concentrated qi, creating a breeze that could reveal its path.
• Yun Zimo reasoned that Wormless Gu attacks traveled in straight lines and could be dodged, helping Meng Huai identify a way to counter them.
• Meng Huai brought Chang Yanping to Zhao Zhen's base and trained them both to sense and evade incoming attacks.
• Meng Huai and Chang Yanping went to the rooftop when their seven-day deadline arrived, and Meng Huai dodged the man in black's opening attack.
• The man in black appeared atop the elevator housing, and Meng Huai stepped forward to face him.

Meng Huai confronted Ye Yin, the Night God Church’s Right Protector, and fought him to stop his revenge from continuing. Just as Meng Huai prepared to unleash his Life-Bound Golden Silkworm Gu, an uninvited guest appeared and changed the situation.

• Ye Yin explained that the Night God Church had given him hope of bringing back his dead wife and child, and Meng Huai failed to talk him out of seeking revenge.
• Meng Huai rescued Chang Yanping from Ye Yin’s Wormless Gu attack, then challenged Ye Yin to a fight to end the killings.
• Meng Huai sensed that Ye Yin’s Wormless Gu could only attack in a straight line and dodged its strikes while counterattacking with his own gu worms.
• Meng Huai broke through Ye Yin’s defense with an exploding worm, then overwhelmed him with punches and kicks.
• Ye Yin escaped to a distant fire-water tank, and Meng Huai prepared to summon his Life-Bound Golden Silkworm Gu before an uninvited guest appeared.

Meng Huai defeated Ye Yin and He Huaying, then accepted Chang Yanping’s offer of a one-percent company stake for Yun Zimo and gave Chang Yanping a lead to the Black-and-White Witch Cult. Several days later, Yun Zimo took Meng Huai to meet her lawyer friend, setting the stage for more trouble.

• He Huaying arrived beside Ye Yin, healed him with witchcraft, and left with him after saying they had been ordered not to attack Meng Huai.
• Chang Yanping offered Meng Huai a free one-percent stake in his company, and Meng Huai told him to put it in Yun Zimo’s name.
• Meng Huai directed Chang Yanping to the Black and White Bars in Dian City as contact points for the Black-and-White Witch Cult, then told him to repair the rooftop.
• Meng Huai returned to Yun Zimo, recounted the fight, and told her about the company stake after they made love.
• Several days later, Yun Zimo said the money had arrived and asked Meng Huai to accompany her to meet her lawyer friend, and he agreed.

Meng Huai accompanied Yun Zimo to meet her friend Zhao Yuejiao, but he sensed danger in her law firm and discovered a man collapsing from a gu curse. After extracting nine beetles and stabilizing him, Meng Huai left the firm and warned Yun Zimo that the matter was serious.

• Yun Zimo brought Meng Huai to Zhao Yuejiao's office, where the three joked before Yun Zimo presented the Foundation's documents.
• Meng Huai spotted a fat middle-aged man and warned Zhao Yuejiao that she should resign to stay alive.
• The man collapsed and convulsed, and Meng Huai identified the black aura around him as a sign of a gu curse and retribution.
• Meng Huai pushed through the crowd, removed nine beetles from the man's neck, and healed the wound as the man began to recover.
• Meng Huai told Zhao Yuejiao to send everyone home and have her boss bring the man to the Villa, then told Yun Zimo that the matter was serious.

Meng Huai confronted Liu Shourui and Liu Jun after learning that Liu Shourui's work on the Wang Taiying case may have provoked someone to curse them with blood corpse gu. He refused to save them unless they made amends for the harm they had caused, then offered to point them toward a way to survive.

• Meng Huai explained that blood corpse gu could trap Liu Shourui's soul and turn his corpse into an undead creature, and warned Liu Jun that she might also face retribution.
• Zhao Yuejiao and Yun Zimo asked Meng Huai to help, noting that the law firm had provided legal aid and recovered unpaid wages for migrant workers.
• Liu Jun connected the curse to Liu Shourui's handling of the Wang Taiying case, prompting Meng Huai to angrily condemn the three for their part in the case.
• Meng Huai refused to save Liu Shourui and Liu Jun unless they revealed the truth and secured justice for the girl, while Zhao Yuejiao argued that he had a duty to stop the person using gu.
• Meng Huai rejected Zhao Yuejiao's attempt to guilt-trip him but said he would show them a way out if they wanted to live.

Meng Huai explained that he intended to use the conflict around Wang Taiying to draw out the Night God Church, while Liu Jun, Zhao Yuejiao, and Liu Shourui tried to find a way to survive. The chapter ended as they heard something crawling nearby.

• Meng Huai told Liu Jun and Zhao Yuejiao to confront Wang Taiying, then explained to Yun Zimo that he planned to exploit the conflict and target the Night God Church.
• Liu Jun, Zhao Yuejiao, and Liu Shourui returned to the firm, where Liu Shourui threatened to expose their dealings if he was killed.
• Zhao Yuejiao reasoned that someone must be protecting Wang Taiying, so Liu Shourui called Wang Taiying and demanded protection in exchange for keeping their records secret.
• Wang Taiying promised to send someone to keep Liu Shourui safe.
• Zhao Yuejiao, Liu Jun, and Liu Shourui heard a rustling sound like something crawling.

A vengeful cockroach figure attacked Zhao Yuejiao, Liu Jun, and Liu Shourui, then turned on Ye Zifeng when he arrived. After the figure’s corrosive insects badly damaged Ye Zifeng’s bugs and injured him, Meng Huai and Yun Zimo entered, leaving Ye Zifeng facing Meng Huai.

• Zhao Yuejiao and Liu Jun fought off cockroaches that poured into the office, while Liu Shourui cowered in terror.
• The cockroaches formed a speaking figure that spared Zhao Yuejiao and said it would kill Wang Taiying first.
• Ye Zifeng arrived and admitted that his side had used heart-control gu to make the girl jump, provoking the cockroach figure to attack him.
• Ye Zifeng’s insects tore into the cockroach swarm, but its corrosive yellow liquid dissolved many of his bugs and burned him.
• Ye Zifeng threatened Liu Shourui against speaking online, then Meng Huai and Yun Zimo entered, and Meng Huai challenged Ye Zifeng.

Meng Huai overpowered Ye Zifeng, but Fan Yuli intervened and took Ye Zifeng away. Meng Huai warned Liu Shourui that Cockroach Man would likely target him next, then left with Yun Zimo.

• Meng Huai taunted the injured Ye Zifeng and used chewing gum to rip the red insects from his face.
• As Meng Huai prepared to destroy Ye Zifeng's cultivation and take his life-bound Gu, Fan Yuli attacked with venom from outside the window.
• Fan Yuli pulled Ye Zifeng away with spider silk, and they fell from the building but walked off unharmed.
• Meng Huai explained the limits of Practitioners and warned that Cockroach Man might target Liu Shourui as he fought Wang Taiying.
• Meng Huai cautioned Liu Jun about the consequences of his choices, then left with Yun Zimo after glancing toward a distant alley.

Meng Huai explained to Yun Zimo how practitioners, worldly authorities, and the Night God Church’s wealthy allies shaped the power struggle surrounding Cockroach Man. Yun Zimo then showed Meng Huai a photograph identifying the little girl’s father as Zheng Lin.

• Meng Huai sobered up with his Life-Bound Golden Silkworm Gu and tried to appease Yun Zimo after she complained about his drinking.
• Yun Zimo asked why neither side had acted, and Meng Huai said the Night God Church and Cockroach Man were preparing for a major confrontation.
• Meng Huai explained how practitioners differed from ancient cultivators and why they generally kept their distance from worldly powers.
• Meng Huai described how wealthy people’s influence strengthened the Night God Church and predicted that Cockroach Man might only manage to die alongside Wang Taiying.
• Yun Zimo showed Meng Huai her tablet and identified the little girl’s father as Zheng Lin.

Meng Huai and Yun Zimo found Zheng Lin hiding in a garbage-filled courtyard and confronted him about using gu to avenge his daughter. Meng Huai agreed to let Zheng Lin kill Wang Taiying but forbade him from harming innocents, then left wary of what might happen next.

• Meng Huai and Yun Zimo arrived at a shantytown and found a foul-smelling courtyard that Meng Huai suspected was Zheng Lin’s hiding place.
• Zheng Lin emerged and accused Meng Huai and Yun Zimo of defending an unjust system that had failed his daughter after she was sexually assaulted.
• Zheng Lin recounted how Wang Taiying had been acquitted after a lawyer claimed his daughter had consented in exchange for a lollipop.
• Meng Huai set terms for Zheng Lin’s revenge: he could kill Wang Taiying but must spare innocents, and he could punish Liu Shourui but not kill him.
• Zheng Lin accepted the terms, and Meng Huai and Yun Zimo backed out of the courtyard.
• In the car, Meng Huai told Yun Zimo that someone who used the lollipop to declare Wang Taiying innocent deserved to die.

Meng Huai persuaded Zhao Zhen to let a man continue taking revenge while warning him that the Night God Church might be connected to the Luo Fu Ghost Domain. Zhao Zhen left to alert his superiors, and Yun Zimo arrived as Meng Huai was left with a new visitor.

• Zhao Zhen urged Meng Huai to stop the gu user, but Meng Huai argued that the man was taking revenge on guilty people and that intervening would be dangerous.
• Meng Huai explained that he was letting the man act against Wang Taiying and the Night God Church, and Zhao Zhen agreed as long as no more of their people were killed.
• Meng Huai warned Zhao Zhen that the Night God Church's Left and Right Protectors were powerful but seemed to be pursuing a larger plan.
• Meng Huai told Zhao Zhen that Shan Meirong and her son had used a counterfeit Luo Fu Drum, suggesting the Night God Church had a connection to the Luo Fu Ghost Domain.
• Zhao Zhen left to report the warning to his superiors, and Yun Zimo entered holding her phone.