Chapter Summaries

Yuan Yinxin positioned five townspeople to ambush the Manager after nightfall, while Shang Liuli and Luo Feng reassured them with their identities and skills. The group prepared to confront the man behind Cabinet Mountain, with Yuan Yinxin insisting they must fight without holding back if they hoped to capture him and learn how to leave.

• Yuan Yinxin placed five talismans and sent the townspeople to concealed positions, leaving Yu Hao in the center to wait for the Manager after dark.
• Shang Liuli revealed she might be a Demon Hunter, and Luo Feng demonstrated his knife skills to persuade Yu Hao and the others to stay.
• Yu Hao recognized similarities between Luo Feng and Luo Bin, suspected a larger scheme involving Mo Qian, and decided not to investigate further.
• Luo Feng and Luo Bin sent Gu Ya and Gu Yiren away, while Yuan Yinxin told Luo Bin to intervene if the five townspeople could not handle the Manager.
• Shang Liuli said the Manager had to remain alive so they could learn how to leave the mountain, but Yuan Yinxin argued they had to fight to kill to force him to reveal his strength and make capture possible.

Yuan Yinxin entrusted Luo Bin with the Five-Element Seal and stressed that their plan had to keep Li Yunyi in town. When Li Yunyi arrived, he defeated Yu Hao and the four men who attacked him, leaving Luo Bin, Luo Feng, and Shang Liuli watching from hiding.

• Yuan Yinxin warned Luo Bin that failure to stop Li Yunyi would bring disaster and gave him the Five-Element Seal to keep.
• Shang Liuli chose a courtyard where Luo Bin, Luo Feng, and she could watch the town entrance, while Yu Hao and the others held their positions.
• Li Yunyi calmed himself on the way to Cabinet Mountain Town, wary that his enemies might be baiting him into a trap.
• Li Yunyi entered town and spotted Yu Hao advancing toward him, while Luo Bin and Luo Feng recognized him from their hiding place.
• Li Yunyi used wooden sticks to trip Yu Hao, then used an iron knife, a stone, cinnabar, and yellow mud to defeat the four men rushing him.

Li Yunyi broke Yuan Yinxin’s Five-Element Orthodox Method, but Yuan Yinxin reversed the attack and made Yu Hao and the others seize Li Yunyi’s five organs. Li Yunyi fought back with five gruesome talismans, while Yuan Yinxin watched and urged his disciple to push Li Yunyi further.

• Li Yunyi used the five elements’ cycles of generation and overcoming to break Yu Hao and the others’ formation.
• Luo Bin stopped himself from opening the door as Shang Liuli and Luo Feng prepared to wait for a chance to strike.
• Yuan Yinxin watched five game pieces move and change color on a cloth while Zhang Baijiao brought him medicine.
• Yu Hao and the other four rose and seized Li Yunyi at the points corresponding to his five organs.
• Li Yunyi jabbed the five attackers with different fingers, then hurled bloodied, flesh-streaked talismans onto their heads, turning them gray and motionless.
• Yuan Yinxin saw the game pieces turn grayish white and urged his disciple to push Li Yunyi harder.

Yuan Yinxin warned Zhang Baijiao that the evil spirits were changing, and a dead Mo Qian tried to lure him outside by claiming Zhang's granddaughter knew a way out. At the town entrance, Li Yunyi used Corpse Talismans to turn Yu Hao and four others into corpse-like attackers, who unexpectedly targeted Luo Bin instead of Yuan Yinxin.

• Zhang Baijiao realized Yuan Yinxin seemed unusually confident despite having lost to the Manager before.
• Mo Qian appeared outside the Medicine Shop as an evil spirit and urged Zhang Baijiao to come with him to find his granddaughter.
• Yuan Yinxin warned Zhang Baijiao that the Manager's growing hysteria was making the evil spirits stranger and that Mo Qian was exploiting his weakness.
• Li Yunyi ordered Yu Hao and the Four Others, transformed by Corpse Talismans, to find and eat their target.
• Yu Hao and the Four Others tracked the talisman scent to Luo Bin's hiding place, while Luo Feng and Shang Liuli rushed to confront Li Yunyi.
• Li Yunyi realized the transformed attackers had found Luo Bin, an outsider who could not have drawn the Five-Element Orthodox Method talismans, and was left bewildered.

Luo Bin defeated Li Yunyi’s five Corpse-Talisman-controlled fighters by discovering that stabbing the talisman cores in their foreheads could kill them, then approached Li Yunyi. Li Yunyi had already overwhelmed Luo Feng and Shang Liuli with a glance and a snort, and the chapter left Luo Bin closing in on him, wary of his power.

• Li Yunyi knocked Luo Feng and Shang Liuli to the ground with a glance and a snort, then kicked Luo Feng and stepped on Shang Liuli’s face.
• Luo Bin struggled against Yu Hao and four other Corpse-Talisman-controlled fighters while Li Yunyi watched from the courtyard entrance.
• Luo Bin used the Five-Element Seal to pin Yu Hao’s talisman, then realized that the others’ talisman cores were vulnerable in their foreheads and killed four of them with knives.
• Li Yunyi applauded Luo Bin for breaking his Corpse Talismans, while privately fearing that Luo Bin had uncovered their weakness so quickly.
• Luo Bin collected the Five-Element Seal and knives, then walked toward Li Yunyi, remembering how easily Li Yunyi had felled Luo Feng and Shang Liuli.

Luo Bin confronted Li Yunyi and fought to protect the Five-Element Seal while Li Yunyi threatened Shang Liuli and Luo Feng. After resisting Li Yunyi’s Corpse Talismans, Luo Bin wounded him and left him afraid to retrieve the seal.

• Luo Bin advanced toward Li Yunyi, but stopped when Li Yunyi cut off Shang Liuli’s ears and threatened to mutilate her and Luo Feng.
• Li Yunyi demanded the Five-Element Seal, so Luo Bin threw it past him and rushed in with his blades.
• Li Yunyi dodged Luo Bin’s attack, slapped Corpse Talismans onto his face, and threatened to make him kill his parents.
• Luo Bin tore off the talismans despite the pain and charged Li Yunyi, who reached for the fallen Five-Element Seal.
• Luo Bin cut off four of Li Yunyi’s fingers and advanced, leaving Li Yunyi too frightened to pick up the seal.

Luo Bin pursued Li Yunyi beyond the town entrance, using the Evil-Breaking Banner to thwart Li Yunyi’s demon ambush. Li Yunyi tried to evade him through the fir forest, but Luo Bin kept tracking him with Rewind.

• Luo Bin told Shang Liuli and Luo Feng to secure the Five-Element Seal, then pushed toward the town entrance while Li Yunyi waited outside.
• After drinking Lamp Oil and leaving town, Luo Bin killed a Beauty Snake and evaded two Mountain Fen by jumping back across the paifang.
• Luo Bin climbed the paifang and pulled out the Evil-Breaking Banner, stunning Li Yunyi and driving the Mountain Fen away.
• Luo Bin chased Li Yunyi through the fir forest, using Rewind to keep sight of him as Li Yunyi failed to shake him with concealed routes and trigram positions.

Luo Bin pursued Li Yunyi to the Fenced Courtyard, where Li Yunyi tried to use a talisman formation against him. Li Yunyi mistook Luo Bin for a grand master, while Luo Bin denied it and provoked him as he prepared his own counterattack.

• Li Yunyi abandoned concealment and ran toward the cedar forest, with Luo Bin following close behind.
• Li Yunyi returned to the Fenced Courtyard, spread out a talisman-marked robe, and cut his palms to activate it.
• Luo Bin emerged from the cedar forest, astonishing Li Yunyi, who concluded that he was a grand master.
• Luo Bin told Li Yunyi his name and denied being a grand master, then claimed he had crossed the forest with his eyes closed.
• Li Yunyi grew furious at Luo Bin's claims while blood spread across the talisman cloth.

Luo Bin provoked Li Yunyi, then left the Cedar Forest while Li Yunyi summoned three hidden beings and pursued him toward the Mountain God Temple. Shangguan Xingyue realized that her master, the Lord of Cabinet Mountain, was behind Luo Bin, while Luo Bin waited above the temple entrance for Li Yunyi to come closer.

• Luo Bin showed Li Yunyi the stolen bronze incense burner, denied that anyone had sent him, and said he would capture Li Yunyi for his master.
• Luo Bin backed out of the Cedar Forest, while Li Yunyi summoned three gray-skinned beings from underground and followed them after losing blood.
• Shangguan Xingyue returned and realized that the Lord of Cabinet Mountain had been behind Luo Bin, then followed Li Yunyi to learn her master's intentions.
• Li Yunyi followed the three beings out of the Qimen Dunjia formation and toward the Mountain God Temple.
• Luo Bin hid on a beam inside the Mountain God Temple and silently urged Li Yunyi to come closer.

Luo Bin used the traps at the Mountain God Temple to draw Li Yunyi in, but Li Yunyi avoided them and sent two evil spirits inside. Luo Bin fought them bare-handed, leaving Li Yunyi stunned by his strength and durability.

• Luo Bin decided to lure Li Yunyi to the Mountain God Temple and use Mo Qian’s traps against him.
• One of Li Yunyi’s evil spirits triggered a trap, but Li Yunyi stopped the other two and triggered the remaining traps himself.
• Li Yunyi used blood to draw talismans that sent the two evil spirits into the Mountain God Temple.
• Luo Bin ambushed the evil spirits at the entrance, but they clawed and bit him despite his blows.
• Luo Bin tore one evil spirit’s head apart and withstood the other’s bite, leaving Li Yunyi wondering whether Luo Bin was human.

Luo Bin used Gu Yiren’s blood to stop Li Yunyi’s two evil spirits, then provoked Li Yunyi into revealing a blood-drinking vine that empowered him and filled the Mountain God Temple with poisonous mist. The chapter ended with Luo Bin trapped against the Mountain God Statue as the mist muddled his vision and thoughts.

• Luo Bin battered Li Yunyi’s two evil spirits until he realized they were too fast and resilient to defeat by force alone.
• Luo Bin poured Gu Yiren’s blood into both evil spirits, causing them to collapse and go still.
• Luo Bin taunted Li Yunyi about his injured hands to provoke him, then threw knives at him when Li Yunyi erupted in anger.
• Li Yunyi caught a knife with a strange blood-drinking vine, which grew around his wrist and made him far more dangerous.
• Li Yunyi released a greenish poisonous mist that filled the Mountain God Temple and trapped Luo Bin against the statue.

Shangguan Xingyue realized Yuan Yinxin was trying to force Li Yunyi to reveal his hidden abilities, while Yuan secretly prepared to assist Luo Bin. At the Mountain God Temple, Luo Bin’s nature changed and he attacked Li Yunyi, who vanished before the blow landed.

• Shangguan Xingyue watched the Mountain God Temple decay and deduced that her master wanted to push Li Yunyi into using his hidden means.
• In a sealed burial chamber, Qin Jiumo’s corpse crawled out from beneath the Nightmare Corpse and disappeared through a crack in the wall.
• Luo Feng and Shang Liuli returned to the Medicine Shop with the Five Elements Town Seal and severe injuries, while Zhang Baijiao began treating them.
• Yuan Yinxin left the Medicine Shop with an infant corpse and placed a talisman bearing Luo Bin’s face over it, saying he would lend his disciple a hand.
• At the Mountain God Temple, Luo Bin’s confusion and bloodlust vanished, his clothes became a python robe, and his Bone-Cleaving Knife turned into a jade tablet.
• Luo Bin struck at Li Yunyi with the jade tablet, but Li Yunyi vanished, leaving aerial roots hanging over the temple entrance.

Luo Bin fought off several evil spirits in the Mountain God Temple and nearly fell to Li Yunyi before Qin Jiumo intervened. He chased Li Yunyi and Qin Jiumo through a hidden passage, but strange bells and voices calling his name began to disorient him.

• Luo Bin fought three evil spirits in the Mountain God Temple, using the Jade Scepter and Bone-Cleaving Knife to stop them.
• Li Yunyi broke free of the vines and attacked Luo Bin, but Qin Jiumo arrived and forced him to retreat.
• Li Yunyi escaped through a vine-covered hole in the temple wall, and Qin Jiumo followed him.
• Luo Bin chased them into the passage and through an unfamiliar fir forest as bells and voices calling his name began to unsettle him.
• Luo Bin bit his tongue to regain focus and continued pursuing Li Yunyi and Qin Jiumo.

Mao Yousan glimpsed a hidden, dangerous side of Cabinet Mountain while trying to summon Luo Bin, and Shangguan Xingyue entered the closing passage behind the Mountain God Statue. Luo Bin realized the passage had taken him onto a strange mountain road where Li Yunyi and Qin Jiumo had vanished, and he continued forward in search of them.

• Mao Yousan used Soul Summoning to call Luo Bin, but the distant figure vanished as Cabinet Mountain briefly revealed a blackened, twisted landscape.
• Shangguan Xingyue concluded that the hole behind the Mountain God Statue could lead out of Cabinet Mountain and plunged into it before the passage closed.
• Luo Bin used Rewind to discover that after passing through the hole, he had left the Cedar Forest and arrived on a mountain road while Li Yunyi and Qin Jiumo disappeared.
• Luo Bin recognized that two people were pursuing him from behind, including someone who felt familiar, then continued along the road in the direction they had come.

Li Yunyi hid in a roadside hut on Floating Tortoise Mountain after escaping Qin Jiumo, while Luo Bin searched for him through the mountain’s strange roads. The chapter ended with Luo Bin approaching Li Yunyi’s hiding place as evil spirits gathered outside.

• Li Yunyi pulled the Blackblood Vine from his wounded arm, wrapped it in talisman cloths, and hid inside the hut while out-of-control evil spirits wandered outside.
• Luo Bin realized Qin Jiumo had disappeared and continued searching for Li Yunyi, then ignored a signpost pointing toward danger and the forest.
• Luo Bin found a crowd of decayed evil spirits wandering in daylight and hid in a Chinese banyan until they moved on.
• After climbing down, Luo Bin sensed a person inside the hut, drew a bone-cleaving knife, and hurried toward it, intending to maim Li Yunyi.
• Li Yunyi smelled the growing stench of rotting corpses and stayed silent as more evil spirits gathered outside the hut.

Luo Bin searched for Li Yunyi along a dangerous road through Floating Turtle Mountain, while Shangguan Xingyue cautiously made her way through the forest after being stranded there. Luo Bin found a blood-written message bearing his and Yuan Yinxin’s names, then hid as a crowd of evil spirits approached.

• Luo Bin entered a hut to avoid evil spirits, learned its occupant had not seen anyone with an injured palm, and continued following the signs.
• Luo Bin walked for hours without finding Li Yunyi and worried that he would fail to protect his family and Gu Yiren from the consequences.
• Shangguan Xingyue emerged from an unstable talisman passage into Floating Turtle Mountain and realized she could not return or safely use anything to suppress the mountain.
• At night, Luo Bin found the names Yuan Yinxin and Luo Bin written in blood on a hut’s floor and suspected Li Yunyi had left the message.
• Luo Bin saw a crowd of evil spirits approaching, shut the hut door, and hid beside it in silence.

Luo Bin was trapped by evil spirits for four days, then collapsed from exhaustion after trying to trigger his evil spirit instincts to reach food. Meanwhile, Gu Yiren feared Luo Bin and Yuan Yinxin were dead and tried to take her own life, but Si appeared and stopped her.

• Luo Bin stayed trapped inside a little house while evil spirits surrounded it for three days, then watched them leave on the fourth day.
• Luo Bin searched for loquats but, too weak to reach them, prepared to stab himself and awaken his evil spirit instincts.
• A woman Luo Bin had met four days earlier snatched away his knife, and he collapsed before he could explain himself.
• Gu Yiren spent four days and five nights waiting for Luo Bin and Yuan Yinxin, then blamed herself for the tragedy and raised a dagger to her neck.
• Si appeared beside Gu Yiren and asked what her cousin would do if she died.

Gu Yiren resolved to return to Cabinet Mountain Village and avenge Luo Bin after Little Girl told her he was dead. Zhang Yunling remained hidden in the village, while Luo Bin awoke in Floating Tortoise Mountain and reacted with shock when a woman said no outsider had entered in a very long time.

• Little Girl told Gu Yiren that Luo Bin had died and urged her to return to Cabinet Mountain Village to wake Zhang Li.
• Gu Yiren decided to return to the village, find Zhang Li, and avenge Luo Bin by bringing down the Manager and the Lord of Cabinet Mountain.
• Zhang Yunling hid in the Underground Room after her plan to kill Zhong Zhicheng failed, and she imagined Luo Shan embracing her while blaming Zhong Zhicheng for the Luo Family's deaths.
• Luo Bin awoke in a small room in Floating Tortoise Mountain and believed his plans had failed while he was unconscious.
• A woman questioned Luo Bin about entering Floating Tortoise Mountain, and he sprang up in shock when she said no outsider had arrived there in a very long time.

Luo Bin woke in a place called Floating Tortoise Mountain after escaping Cabinet Mountain, and learned that a group of strangers had treated his wounds and taken him in. He recovered his belongings and set out to understand the place so he could find Li Yunyi, ending by asking Zhan Qing what Floating Tortoise Mountain was.

• Luo Bin woke in an unfamiliar room, found his clothes and belongings missing, and realized he was no longer on Cabinet Mountain.
• Zhan Qing explained that she and the others had treated Luo Bin’s wounds and returned his belongings, while warning that outsiders needed a Group Dwelling to survive.
• Luo Bin retrieved his Leather Belt, Evil-Breaking Banner, book, and fruit, then wondered whether Floating Tortoise Mountain harvested fear like Cabinet Mountain did.
• Luo Bin left his room and entered a dim, quiet hall, where he met Zhan Qing again and asked what Floating Tortoise Mountain was.

Luo Bin learned from Zhan Qing that Floating Tortoise Mountain had once been protected by a secluded Taoist Grounds, but an earthquake unleashed Blackblood Vines and Moss Eaters that devastated the mountain and trapped its inhabitants. Zhan Qing believed Luo Bin could neither escape nor reach the mountain’s summit, while he questioned whether the Taoist Grounds was truly as benevolent as she described.

• Luo Bin explained to Zhan Qing that he had learned Judicial Executor arts from his family and Mountain-and-Water Divination from his Master while pursuing the man who had harmed his family.
• Zhan Qing described the secluded Taoist Grounds on Floating Tortoise Mountain and how Talisman Houses had once protected people from evil spirits.
• Zhan Qing recounted how Earth Dragon Tumbling brought Blackblood Vines and Moss Eaters, destroying the Taoist Grounds’ protections and leaving people with nowhere safe to go.
• Zhan Qing explained that survivors lived in communal dwellings made from stone disliked by the vines, while those who left the mountain could not return.
• Zhan Qing said Mountain Explorers still sought the ruined Taoist Grounds, but the changed terrain made the ascent nearly impossible and left Feng Shui practitioners highly valued.
• Zhan Qing told Luo Bin he was unlucky to have arrived after the Taoist Grounds’ destruction, and Luo Bin privately wondered whether it had really been good.