Chapter Summaries

On Ghost Festival, Li Yichen bought ritual supplies from Good Karma Hall, and the old shopkeeper sensed his fortune and ties to the underworld. After finishing his campus job, Li Yichen rode away from the dorms to take care of something that night.

• Li Yichen bought candles, Dragon Incense, and three copper coins from the old man at Good Karma Hall, who directed him to an abandoned White Temple.
• The old man noticed divine radiance and netherworld aura around Li Yichen and suspected he was connected to an important underworld figure.
• Li Yichen joked and ate with his three roommates, then told them he had something to do that night.
• Li Yichen helped Sister Wang sort parcels at the courier station until after eight and learned she planned to transfer the shop to care for her injured husband.
• Li Yichen accepted his wages and rode away from the dorms on Ghost Festival, leaving Sister Wang to wonder where he was going.

Li Yichen performed his family’s blood-guided incense ritual at the ruined White Temple, sending three golden dragons into the Netherworld. The dragons reached a mysterious young man in a distant cave, where they hovered before him.

• Li Yichen crashed his bicycle on the way to the White Temple, then accidentally brought down its last standing wall as he entered.
• At midnight, Li Yichen lit candles with a gesture, bloodied three Dragon Incense sticks, and completed the inherited ritual with copper coins and Seven-Star Steps.
• The incense smoke formed three dragons, which the coins transformed into golden dragons before they vanished into the candle flames’ phantom world.
• The three dragons crossed into the Netherworld, lost their golden protection to the death energy, and began glowing red as they flew in one direction.
• A young man in black robes awoke in a distant cave as the three red lights arrived and hovered before him.

Li Haoran completed his cultivation and attained the imperial rank in the Netherworld, where the Ten Kings of Hell welcomed him and gave him Netherworld Soul Jade. After declining a role in governing the underworld, he returned to the mortal world to check on his descendants after a thousand years.

• Li Haoran absorbed the final three blood-red drops, completed his count, and caused powerful phenomena to shake the Netherworld as he attained the imperial rank.
• The Ten Kings of Hell congratulated Li Haoran, who said he would pursue the Heavenly Dao and would not take part in administrative affairs.
• King Qin Guang presented Li Haoran with three pieces of Netherworld Soul Jade, which Li Haoran accepted.
• King Qin Guang declared that Li Haoran's decrees would carry the same authority as the laws of the ten courts, and the gathered underworld deities bowed to him.
• After the Ten Kings of Hell departed, Li Haoran changed into a white-robed scholar and tore open space to return to the mortal world and visit his descendants.

Ghost Emperor Haoran returned to the White Temple and met his tenth-generation descendant, Li Yichen, who mistook him for a threat and tried to flee. Haoran froze Li Yichen in place after he ran.

• King Qin Guang advised the other kings to build good relations with Imperial Lord Haoran while remaining on guard against him.
• King Yama told Black and White Impermanence to look for Haoran’s descendants in the Mortal Realm and try to form a favorable connection.
• Ghost Emperor Haoran arrived at the White Temple, sensed his kinship with Li Yichen, and decided to give him a gift.
• Li Yichen woke to find Haoran touching him, struck him with a brick, and learned that Haoran was his Great-Grandpa and a Ghost Emperor.
• Li Yichen cried that there was a ghost and ran, so Haoran froze the space around him and stopped him.

Li Yichen learned that his Ghost Emperor Haoran great-grandfather had returned to the mortal world and discovered that only Li Yichen and his father remained in their branch of the Li Family. Haoran charged Li Yichen with continuing the family line, but their plans stalled when both revealed they were broke.

• Ghost Emperor Haoran found Li Yichen and asked about the state of their family branch.
• Li Yichen explained that only he and his father remained, and Haoran grieved over the Li Family's decline.
• Haoran's sorrow caused unnatural snow to fall around them until Li Yichen reassured him that their bloodline had survived.
• Haoran freed Li Yichen and declared that his duty was to continue the Li Family line.
• Li Yichen said he was single and too poor to support a girlfriend, then asked Haoran for gold.
• Haoran admitted that he was broke.

Ghost Emperor Haoran offered to teach Li Yichen the Great Netherworld Scripture, explaining how their family’s incense ritual accelerated cultivation. After discovering Li Yichen was a cultivation dud, Haoran proposed transforming him into a Netherworld Ghost Body, and Li Yichen agreed once he learned he would remain human.

• Li Yichen and Ghost Emperor Haoran argued over money before Li Yichen suggested learning spells to earn it.
• Haoran offered Li Yichen the Great Netherworld Scripture and explained that the Blood-Led Incense Burning ritual gave its recipient a year of cultivation per stick.
• Haoran revealed that the ritual worked only for blood relatives and encouraged Li Yichen to find a girlfriend so their family could grow.
• Haoran examined Li Yichen and called him a hopeless dud, then proposed transforming him into a Netherworld Ghost Body to improve his cultivation.
• Li Yichen agreed to the transformation after Haoran assured him he would keep his flesh, and Haoran summoned a piece of Netherworld Soul Jade.

The Ghost Emperor Haoran transformed Li Yichen into a Netherworld Ghost Body using the Netherworld Soul Jade, granting him new abilities and teaching him the Great Netherworld Scripture. After Haoran prepared to leave, Li Yichen asked him to take him back to school, provoking his great-grandfather's anger.

• The Netherworld Soul Jade transformed Li Yichen's body, and the Ghost Emperor Haoran used blue-green light to help his cracking bones heal.
• Li Yichen awoke with night vision and learned that his Netherworld Ghost Body improved cultivation, toughened his body, and let him switch between ghost and human forms.
• The Ghost Emperor Haoran explained Li Yichen's innate abilities of Intangibility and Mind Control.
• The Ghost Emperor Haoran passed the Great Netherworld Scripture to Li Yichen and planted a talisman seal so Li Yichen could contact him.
• When Haoran tried to leave, Li Yichen asked him for a ride back to school, and Haoran angrily rebuked him.

Li Yichen received ten years of magical power from the Ghost Emperor Haoran and learned he could use the Netherworld Ghost Body for about half an hour. On his way back to Jinling University, he encountered an old woman whose head fell into her bowl, and she asked whether he could see her.

• The Ghost Emperor Haoran flew Li Yichen to Jinling University and agreed to give him ten years' worth of magical power.
• Li Yichen absorbed the power by practicing the Great Netherworld Scripture, transforming his body and growing stronger.
• The Ghost Emperor Haoran promised Li Yichen another fifty years of magical power for each additional girlfriend he found and warned that his Netherworld Ghost Body lasted only thirty minutes.
• Li Yichen tested the Netherworld Ghost Body and found it lasted thirty-one minutes and twenty-eight seconds.
• Li Yichen greeted an old woman on the street, and her head fell into her bowl as she asked if he could see her.

Li Yichen fled from a talking severed head and was struck by Ouyang Xuanxuan’s car near Jinling University. After he died and became a spirit, White Impermanence and Black Impermanence arrived to collect him, unaware that he was the Ghost Emperor Haoran’s descendant they had been seeking.

• Li Yichen panicked at the sight of a talking severed head and ran into the road.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan drove toward Jinling University after reassuring her worried mother by phone.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan swerved to avoid Li Yichen, but her car struck him and he died.
• Li Yichen’s spirit emerged from his body and urged Ouyang Xuanxuan to save him as she cried beside the car.
• White Impermanence and Black Impermanence came to the scene, recognized a dead man to collect, and prepared to take Li Yichen away.

After Ouyang Xuanxuan hit Li Yichen with her car, she tried to revive him, but Black and White Impermanence arrived to take him to the Underworld. When they realized he was the Ghost Emperor Haoran’s descendant, they bowed and welcomed him as Young Master Yichen.

• Ouyang Xuanxuan dragged Li Yichen from her car and tried to revive him with chest compressions and a kiss.
• Black and White Impermanence appeared and told Li Yichen that his allotted lifespan was over.
• Li Yichen flattered the two officials and insisted they check his identity to make sure they had not mistaken him for someone else.
• Black and White Impermanence recognized Li Yichen’s name as belonging to the Ghost Emperor Haoran’s descendant.
• Li Yichen confirmed that the Ghost Emperor Haoran was his great-grandfather, and Black and White Impermanence bowed to him as Young Master Yichen.

Black and White Impermanence returned Li Yichen’s soul to his body after learning he was Ghost Emperor Haoran’s descendant. He woke during Ouyang Xuanxuan’s mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and the chapter ended with her rushing to her car while the two marshals departed, pleased that Li Yichen would tell his great-grandfather about their help.

• Li Yichen persuaded Black and White Impermanence to treat him as a younger brother, then explained that Ouyang Xuanxuan had hit him with her car.
• Black Impermanence tried to seize Ouyang Xuanxuan’s soul, but Li Yichen stopped him and asked that she be spared.
• White Impermanence decided to return Li Yichen’s soul to his body rather than take him to the Underworld, and Li Yichen agreed.
• As Ouyang Xuanxuan gave Li Yichen mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, his soul reunited with his body and he kissed her, prompting her to bite his lip.
• Li Yichen woke up, and Ouyang Xuanxuan released him and ran toward her car after he reminded her that she had hit him.
• Black and White Impermanence departed after Li Yichen thanked them and promised to tell Ghost Emperor Haoran they had saved him.

After White and Black Impermanence gave Li Yichen a way to contact them, he argued with Ouyang Xuanxuan over her wrecked car and his torn shirt. Ouyang agreed the accident was her fault and offered to pay him, but she interrupted before Li Yichen finished naming the price.

• White Impermanence drew a Communication Talisman on Li Yichen's palm with the Waters of the River of Forgetfulness and explained how to summon it.
• White and Black Impermanence returned to the Underworld, leaving Li Yichen pleased to have their help.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan mourned her badly damaged car, and Li Yichen pointed out that she had also torn his shirt while saving him.
• Li Yichen pretended to call the police, and Ouyang grabbed his arm and admitted the accident was her fault.
• Li Yichen learned Ouyang Xuanxuan's name and said he would ask her parents to pay for his shirt.
• Ouyang mistook Li Yichen's five raised fingers for a demand of fifty thousand and offered to pay, cutting him off before he could finish.

After Ouyang Xuanxuan collided with Li Yichen, she tried to settle the matter by giving him cash, while he insisted he did not want it. She called her cousin Jiang Ruoyi for help after admitting she had crashed her father’s car, and Jiang Ruoyi arrived believing someone might have been killed.

• Ouyang Xuanxuan threw five bundles of cash to Li Yichen, declared they were even, and drove away before returning to say she hoped never to see him again.
• Li Yichen decided to keep the money temporarily and return it when he got the chance, then headed toward his dorm.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan called Jiang Ruoyi, confessed she had taken her father’s car and gotten into an accident, and sent her location.
• Jiang Ruoyi rushed to Ouyang Xuanxuan’s parked car and feared the person hit had been badly injured after seeing the dent and blood.
• Ouyang Xuanxuan told Jiang Ruoyi that the person she hit had left, and Jiang Ruoyi demanded to know the truth about what had happened.

Ouyang Xuanxuan stayed with Jiang Ruoyi while her car was repaired, then Li Yichen returned to the dorm and learned he had been assigned to welcome freshmen. His roommates envied his coveted volunteer duty, and he hinted that he could help them get spots but refused to explain how.

• Ouyang Xuanxuan told Jiang Ruoyi about her encounter with Li Yichen, and Jiang Ruoyi offered to let her stay until her car was repaired.
• Jiang Ruoyi drove Ouyang Xuanxuan away, and a tow truck took the sports car to a private modification shop.
• Li Yichen returned to his dorm, where Yang Weifeng, Sun Kai, and Zhang Yong questioned him about the dorm inspection.
• Li Yichen learned that students absent during the inspection had to volunteer to welcome freshmen, and his roommates envied his assignment.
• Li Yichen said he had a way to help his roommates volunteer, but refused to reveal his plan, so they stopped catering to him.

Li Yichen arrived at Sister Wang’s parcel shop and found Madman Liu threatening her over its transfer. He beat Liu with a brick and drove him away, but Sister Wang worried Liu would retaliate and said she would rather close the shop than sell it cheaply to him.

• Li Yichen heard Sister Wang arguing with Madman Liu, who demanded the shop for a low price and threatened to make parcels disappear.
• Madman Liu took Sister Wang’s scissors and knocked her down, prompting Li Yichen to rush in and help her.
• When Madman Liu taunted Li Yichen to strike him, Li Yichen hit him repeatedly with a brick until Sister Wang stopped him.
• Madman Liu fled after Li Yichen ordered him to leave, while Sister Wang warned that he would seek revenge.
• Sister Wang said she would close the shop rather than let Madman Liu take it for a song.

Li Yichen took over Sister Wang’s Courier Station on a repayment plan, then cultivated the Great Netherworld Scripture through the night and discovered he could use it to descend safely from his dorm window. He left for the Administration Building, worried he was already late.

• Li Yichen offered to take over Sister Wang’s shop, and she agreed to transfer it to him for twenty thousand yuan paid in monthly installments.
• Back in his dorm, Li Yichen heard Ghost Emperor Haoran urge him to cultivate and studied the Great Netherworld Scripture.
• Li Yichen practiced the scripture, absorbing negative energy and filling the dorm with frost as Ghost Emperor Haoran praised his rapid progress.
• Li Yichen finished a full circulation, froze the water in his cup with his breath, and realized the night had passed.
• Li Yichen jumped from his dorm window while circulating the scripture, floated safely to the ground, and ran toward the Administration Building.

Li Yichen used his supernatural abilities to sneak into the academic affairs office and add his roommates to the orientation volunteer list. As Director Wang approached, Li Yichen tried to shut down the slow computer before he was discovered.

• Li Yichen raced across campus so quickly that a jogging student thought he had seen a ghost.
• Li Yichen met Principal Cao while asking for the academic affairs office, then went upstairs before Director Wang arrived.
• Li Yichen turned invisible and passed through the locked office wall, but could not find the volunteer list among the folders.
• Li Yichen started the office computer and found the volunteer list in a Word document.
• Li Yichen added his roommates beneath his own entry and saved the changes.
• As Director Wang opened the office door, Li Yichen hurriedly tried to shut down the computer.

Li Yichen secretly watched Director Wang and Han Wenqi arrange the welcome volunteer list, then sabotaged the director’s computer after seeing what he was watching. He returned to his dorm and found his roommates asleep before he could tell them they had also become volunteers, then headed to class.

• Li Yichen stayed hidden in Director Wang’s office and overheard him summon Han Wenqi to print the welcome volunteer list.
• Han Wenqi noticed the list had 127 names instead of the 124 he remembered, but Director Wang dismissed his concern and sent him to post it.
• After Han Wenqi left, Li Yichen saw what Director Wang was watching and tipped hot water into the computer, burning it out.
• Li Yichen left the office unseen and returned to his dorm, where Sun Kai, Yang Weifeng, and Zhang Yong asked him to answer attendance for them.
• Li Yichen tried to tell his roommates they had become welcome volunteers, but they fell asleep, so he picked up his backpack and went to the teaching building.

Li Yichen found that he and his three roommates had been assigned to welcome freshmen, then woke them with his frosty hands and told them the news. The roommates confirmed their names on the posted list, but Yang Weifeng falsely claimed student council authority to push through the crowd, and they fled when the deception was exposed.

• Li Yichen saw that he and his roommates were listed as freshman welcome volunteers and hurried back to their dorm.
• Li Yichen woke Yang Weifeng, Sun Kai, and Zhang Yong by chilling them with his frosted hands, then told them their names were on the volunteer list.
• Yang Weifeng, Sun Kai, and Zhang Yong rushed to the noticeboard while Li Yichen chased after them and urged them to put on clothes.
• Yang Weifeng shoved through the crowd by claiming the three were handling student council business, and he and his roommates confirmed their names on the list.
• Students recognized that the three were not student council members, and Yang Weifeng called for them to run as the crowd turned on them.

Li Yichen took over the parcel pickup station and persuaded Wang Bo to keep working there. On his way back to the dorm late that night, he spotted Madman Liu and another man sneaking toward the shop and silently approached them.

• Zhang Yong, Sun Kai, and Yang Weifeng argued over which roommate was the most handsome, and Li Yichen declared himself the winner.
• Li Yichen signed the contract transferring the parcel pickup station to the Li family.
• Sister Wang paid Wang Bo his wages and told him she was returning to her hometown.
• Li Yichen told Wang Bo he had taken over the shop and asked him to continue working there, and Wang Bo agreed.
• After staying late to sort through six months of transactions, Li Yichen spotted Madman Liu and another man creeping toward the shop and moved to confront them.