Vol. 9Across the Primordial River

Luo Bin and his companions battled the forces pursuing them while seeking answers about the Gray Immortals and Bai Wei. After crossing the Primordial River and escaping Auspicious Qi Town, they reached a Taoist ground, where Dai Xingjie revealed he had covered their tracks and challenged Luo Bin.

  • Dai Zhixiong found white Life Cores among the Six Yin Mountain captives, but Kong An fought him and freed Luo Bin and the others at the cost of his life.
  • Xu Lu led Luo Bin, Zhang Yunxi, and Hu Jin to a tomb where Yuan Yinxin took control of Luo Bin, and lightning struck the snake and Feathered Benevolent Corpse as the group escaped.
  • Bai Xiaoshan questioned Luo Bin about Bai Guanli, Bai Su, and Bai Xian, and Luo Bin used a hexagram to restore Bai Xian’s clarity.
  • Xu Lu helped Luo Bin escape Divine Firmament Mountain, Bai Xian killed Bai Su, and Luo Bin overcame Bai Qingjin before reuniting with Xu Lu, Bai Xian, and Shen Dong.
  • Luo Bin and Mo Kun killed Huang Zhili and Wu Zhenqing and burned down the City God Temple.
  • The Old Immortal claimed the Corpse Core and the defeated Immortals after Bai Wei recognized Yan Nan was not Xing’er and died.
  • Luo Bin, Xu Lu, Bai Xian, and Bai Wei destroyed Auspicious Qi Town’s Acupoint Eye and escaped its soul-trapping formation.
  • Dai Xingjie led the group back into Auspicious Qi Town, then admitted he had covered their tracks and accused Luo Bin of hypocrisy.
Chapters 805–904 Read from ch. 805

Arc 33The Snake Ridge Tomb

Luo Bin and his companions entered a tomb on Flood Dragon Mountain to find an ascended benevolent corpse, where Yuan Yinxin took control of Luo Bin’s body and the corpse and snake were transformed by a lightning strike. After surviving the tomb, Luo Bin planned to travel with Bai Xian to Divine Firmament Mountain while Huang Zhili tried to draw out his soul.

  • Dai Zhixiong discovered the Six Yin Mountain captives carried white Life Cores, but Kong An arrived, fought him, and freed Luo Bin and the others at the cost of his own life.
  • Luo Bin’s group reached the City God Temple, then took refuge at Chen Zu’s villa, where Luo Bin agreed to Xu Lu’s offer to lead him to a rumored ascended benevolent corpse in exchange for the Talisman Inkstone.
  • Xu Lu led Luo Bin, Zhang Yunxi, and Hu Jin to a hidden tomb in Flood Dragon Mountain, where they found a woman joined to a huge white snake and learned the tomb’s feng shui had sustained her ascension.
  • The group tried to suppress the snake and the Feathered Benevolent Corpse, but the corpse drained Luo Bin’s essence and his soul vanished from his motionless body.
  • Yuan Yinxin controlled Luo Bin, removed the snake gallbladder and corpse core, and returned Luo Bin to the burial chamber, where the snake and corpse recoiled from him.
  • Luo Bin and his companions escaped as the Yin Dragon Water surged, then watched lightning strike the summit and the snake and Feathered Benevolent Corpse disappear.
  • Luo Bin kept the details of his soul’s disappearance from Zhang Yunxi, while Shangguan Xingyue faced a shadowy man and seven figures who discussed turning her into a Human Pill.
  • Luo Bin and Bai Xian planned to travel to Divine Firmament Mountain, while Zhang Yunxi arranged to take Hu Jin to the Nether Market and Huang Zhili tortured He Lianxin in an attempt to summon Luo Bin’s soul.
Chapters 805–829 Summaries Read

Arc 34Flight from Divine Firmament

Luo Bin’s visit to Divine Firmament Mountain turned into a struggle over Bai Xian’s fate and the Old Abbey Master’s attempted recovery. After escaping the mountain and fighting Bai Qingjin, Luo Bin reunited with Xu Lu, Bai Xian, and Shen Dong, and the group set out to find a place to rest.

  • Xu Lu joined Luo Bin and Bai Xian on their journey toward Primordial Calculation’s old Mountain Gate, but He Lianxin later tried to pull Luo Bin’s soul from his body.
  • Bai Ying brought Luo Bin and Xu Lu to Divine Firmament Mountain, where Bai Xiaoshan questioned Luo Bin about Bai Guanli, Bai Su, and Bai Xian.
  • Luo Bin used the Sunfire Truth hexagram to restore Bai Xian’s clarity, and Bai Xiaoshan concluded that Luo Bin and Bai Xian had told the truth.
  • The former Grandmaster tried to possess Luo Bin in Wenqing Peak’s restricted grounds, and Bai Zihua rescued him from the grave-filled valley.
  • After Divine Firmament Mountain considered using Luo Bin to restore the Old Abbey Master, Xu Lu escaped with him, and Bai Xian killed Bai Su while helping them flee.
  • Bai Qingjin pursued Luo Bin and attacked him, but Luo Bin used his hexagrams and transformed Golden Silkworm Gu to overcome her before a shadow cut her body apart.
  • Luo Bin found Bai Qingjin near death and fed her a fragment of the Corpse Core, then reunited with Xu Lu, Bai Xian, and Shen Dong at the village entrance.
Chapters 830–854 Summaries Read

Arc 35The Old Immortal Cave

Luo Bin pursued the forces behind the Gray Immortals, hoping to recover Bai Wei and understand Fourth Master Gray’s new backer. The Old Immortal took the Corpse Core and the defeated Immortal Creatures, while Bai Wei died and the current master of Five Immortals Temple arrived.

  • Luo Bin and Mo Kun exposed the Night Watches’ plot, killed Huang Zhili and Wu Zhenqing, and burned down the City God Temple.
  • Xu Lu freed He Lianxin from the Night Watch, but she failed to recognize Luo Bin, and the group later set out to investigate the Immortal Creatures near Tongzhou City.
  • Luo Bin learned that Gray Immortals were seeking Yan Nan as a bride and traced the threat to Five Immortals Abbey and the Old Immortal Cave.
  • Luo Bin rescued Yan Nan from Hu Youlong, then prepared to lure Bai Wei by disguising her and laying a formation in Old Yan’s courtyard.
  • The Old Immortal attacked Luo Bin’s group as Bai Wei and the Immortals fought over the Corpse Core, and Luo Bin interrupted Bai Wei’s attempt to summon Bai Qingjin.
  • Bai Qingjin’s smoke soul attacked Luo Bin, but the Old Immortal’s Three-Tailed Fox Immortal swallowed her before Bai Wei turned on the Immortals controlling him.
  • Bai Wei killed the Fox Immortal and incapacitated the other Immortals, while Fourth Master Gray returned to Luo Bin and the Old Immortal claimed the Corpse Core and the defeated Immortals.
  • Bai Wei recognized that Yan Nan was not Xing’er and died, and Fourth Master Gray revealed that the Four Immortals had sacrificed themselves to save Bai Wei and had driven Bai Qingjin’s death.
Chapters 855–879 Summaries Read

Arc 36The Primordial River

Luo Bin and his companions crossed the Primordial River and broke the soul-trapping formation around Auspicious Qi Town, then fled with Divine Firmament Mountain pursuing them. The group reached a Taoist ground near the mountains, where Dai Xingjie admitted to covering their tracks and challenged Luo Bin’s judgment of him.

  • Bai Wei returned to Old Yan’s courtyard with a powerful aura, apologized to Yan Nan, and offered to take her as his disciple, but she declined and called him Grandpa Bai.
  • Luo Bin and his companions reached the Primordial River, where Liu Shuisheng agreed to ferry them across if they helped restore Liu Shengqi’s soul.
  • The group entered Auspicious Qi Town as souls and discovered that its dangers trapped the dead, while Xu Lu hid from the gentlemen in Tang suits who had taken his soul.
  • Luo Bin, Xu Lu, Bai Xian, and Bai Wei destroyed the formation’s Acupoint Eye, broke the town’s barrier, and returned to their bodies aboard the river.
  • Bai Zihua and Divine Firmament Mountain’s Red-Robed Taoists confronted the group, while Bai Wei fought them and Luo Bin escaped by boat with Xu Lu and Bai Xian.
  • Dai Xingjie led the group back into Auspicious Qi Town, where a skeletal man subdued them and chose Bai Xian to consume, but Bai Xian’s sutra and the ghost monks shattered his soul.
  • Luo Bin’s group fled toward the Eight Mountains and sheltered near a Taoist ground as the town’s mist and apparitions appeared around them.
  • The group traveled to another Taoist ground near a mountain, where Dai Xingjie admitted he had cleaned their traces and accused Luo Bin of hypocrisy.
Chapters 880–904 Summaries Read
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