Chapter Summaries

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.