Chapter Summaries

Meng Huai confronted He Huaying at the Butterfly Bar over the deaths of several women and refused to let her Gu operation continue. After learning the bar was a Lawless Land where his Gu could not help him, he found himself mysteriously back in his bed.

• Meng Huai resisted He Huaying’s nighttime charm and accused her of being responsible for the deaths of female students and a model.
• He Huaying said the students had sought luxury and the model had broken a promise, then asked Meng Huai to leave her group alone.
• Meng Huai vowed that she could not use Gu to harm people, but his Gu insects failed to appear when he tried to summon them.
• Hu Tianzhen introduced herself as the Butterfly Bar’s owner and explained that no one could fight or use magic in the Lawless Land.
• Meng Huai rejected He Huaying’s offer to back down, then lost consciousness and awoke in his own bed.

Meng Huai realized the Butterfly Bar incident had taken place in a dream and confronted Fan Yuli about Qi Xiaoyun’s death and the fashion show sabotage. Fan Yuli confessed to activating the lust gu early, and Yun Zimo learned that her trusted employee had betrayed her, while Meng Huai demanded to know who had put the gu in Fan Yuli.

• Meng Huai woke from the apparent dream, confirmed Yun Zimo was safe, and suspected that Qi Xiaoyun’s death was connected to something Fan Yuli had concealed.
• Meng Huai learned that He Huaying had suddenly fallen gravely ill and died, then concluded the Butterfly Bar had been part of a dream created with the Dream-Entering Grand Method.
• Meng Huai used a special rhythm to awaken the gu in Fan Yuli and accused her of influencing the models and helping Xiang Yu sabotage the fashion show.
• Fan Yuli admitted that she had made the gu activate early to ruin the show and take revenge, and said the models were used as playthings by powerful men.
• Meng Huai accused Fan Yuli of helping destroy the company and having a role in Qi Xiaoyun’s death, while Yun Zimo confronted her over the betrayal.
• Meng Huai demanded that Fan Yuli reveal who had put the gu in her.

Meng Huai and Yun Zimo uncovered how Fan Yuli had helped Pei Cuiyun target the company and how Qi Xiaoyun had been drawn into the scheme. Yun Zimo chose to sell her company to Fame and use the money to establish a charity in Xiaoyun’s name, but the chapter ended with Meng Huai recognizing Hoshino Aki as a fellow practitioner.

• Yun Zimo and Meng Huai confronted Fan Yuli, who admitted that Pei Cuiyun and Hoshino Aki had persuaded her to betray the company and lure Qi Xiaoyun away.
• Fan Yuli left to work for Pei Cuiyun, and many models followed her, worsening Yun Zimo’s company’s troubles.
• Yun Zimo decided to sell her modeling company to Fame and donate the proceeds to a foundation for children who could not afford schooling, named after Qi Xiaoyun.
• Yun Zimo and Meng Huai arrived at the company the next day and found many departments deserted.
• Fan Yuli returned with a businesswoman and Hoshino Aki, whom Meng Huai recognized as a fellow practitioner.

Pei Cuiyun threatened Yun Zimo after taking control of her company, while Hoshino Aki tried to bewitch Yun Zimo and was stopped by the Silver Snake. Meng Huai confronted Hoshino Aki about the attack and the deaths linked to gu poison, then turned to Fan Yuli, suspecting she had concealed the truth.

• Pei Cuiyun taunted Yun Zimo over losing her company and threatened to destroy her family if she tried to live happily with her fiancé.
• Hoshino Aki used Japanese dark arts on Yun Zimo, but the Silver Snake emerged from Yun Zimo's brow and wounded Hoshino Aki's face.
• Meng Huai revealed his Natal Golden Cicada Gu's aura and demanded that Hoshino Aki explain her attack on his fiancée.
• Hoshino Aki admitted Pei Cuiyun had hired her but denied knowing gu poison arts or causing the deaths of Fan Yuli's victims.
• Meng Huai questioned Fan Yuli about the Lust Gu and Qi Xiaoyun's death, and Fan Yuli met his gaze with an eerie smile.

Meng Huai confronted Ye Yao, who had been using Fan Yuli as a vessel, and secured a payment from Hoshino Aki before Ye Yao escaped by faking Fan Yuli's death. After warning that the Night God Church remained a threat, Meng Huai suggested breaking up with Yun Zimo to protect her, but she dragged him back to the villa.

• Ye Yao revealed himself through Fan Yuli and offered Meng Huai a place as Left Protector of the Night God Church, but Meng Huai refused.
• Yun Zimo tried to escape, but Ye Yao blocked the side door and trapped her and Meng Huai.
• Ye Yao demanded that Hoshino Aki pay ten times the company's purchase price, and Hoshino Aki wrote a check while Pei Cuiyun objected.
• Ye Yao jumped from the window, leaving Fan Yuli's body behind, and Meng Huai accepted Hoshino Aki's payment while warning her not to cause trouble.
• Meng Huai realized the figure Yun Zimo saw leaving was Ye Yao and warned that the Night God Church would be difficult to handle.
• Meng Huai suggested that he and Yun Zimo break up to keep her safe, but Yun Zimo drove him back to the villa and dragged him inside.

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.