Chapter Summaries

Qin Tianqing challenged Shangguan Xingyue’s beliefs and proposed traveling to Cabinet Mountain to hear both sides before judging Yuan Yinxin. Shangguan Xingyue warned Luo Bin that Qin Tianqing had an ulterior motive, but Qin arrived and questioned whether Yuan truly intended to make Luo his successor or whether her loyalty to Luo came from Yuan’s orders.

• Zhang Yunxi led the group into town, where they ate and Qin Tianqing persuaded Shangguan Xingyue not to punish ordinary people for staring at her.
• Zhang Yunxi rented a courtyard for three days, and Qin Tianqing said they would rest before deciding what to do about Cabinet Mountain.
• Shangguan Xingyue visited Luo Bin’s room and urged him to distrust Qin Tianqing, claiming he wanted to take over Cabinet Mountain.
• Qin Tianqing entered the room and asked Shangguan Xingyue what Yuan Yinxin would do with Luo Bin and whether her kindness toward Luo came from her own choice or Yuan’s command.

Shangguan Xingyue defended Yuan Yinxin and revealed that she had taken Luo Bin’s father to Cabinet Mountain, while admitting she had sent Hu Jin away and left Huang Ying alive. Luo Bin remained resolute against her, and the next morning Qin Que was still unable to control his own body as his sect members gathered around him.

• Qin Tianqing pressed Shangguan Xingyue to state whether she would side with Yuan Yinxin, and Luo Bin agreed to go with them to Cabinet Mountain.
• Shangguan Xingyue told Luo Bin that she had taken his father, Luo Yong, to Cabinet Mountain after villagers mistreated him and stole the money for his eye treatment.
• Shangguan Xingyue said she had sent Hu Jin back to Floating Tortoise Mountain, had not killed Huang Ying, and did not want to share Luo Bin with anyone.
• After Shangguan Xingyue left, Luo Bin grieved over Huang Ying and eventually went to bed near midnight.
• At dawn, Qin Que remained unable to move or speak while more than twenty members of his sect gathered around him near the National Highway.

Dai Zhixiong led Huang Ying out of Floating Tortoise Mountain, where they found Hu Jin alive and brought him to Dai. Meanwhile, Luo Bin and his companions prepared to travel to Cabinet Mountain, and Qin Tianqing suggested that Shangguan Xingyue teach Luo Bin some of her yin-yang arts.

• Dai Zhixiong explained that a rift left by the Blackblood Vine had let him and Huang Ying escape Floating Tortoise Mountain.
• Hu Jin emerged from the woods, revealed that he had survived, and Dai Zhixiong beckoned him closer.
• Luo Bin delivered new clothes to Shangguan Xingyue, and she agreed with Qin Tianqing’s plan to rest before leading the group to Cabinet Mountain.
• After two days, Shangguan Xingyue drove Luo Bin, Qin Tianqing, and Zhang Yunxi toward Cabinet Mountain while Luo Bin studied the Legacy Book.
• Shangguan Xingyue told Luo Bin that Yin Yuan’s inheritance combined with the sixteen innate hexagrams to form a new discipline.
• Qin Tianqing suggested that Shangguan Xingyue teach Luo Bin some yin-yang calculations on her master’s behalf.

Shangguan Xingyue took Luo Bin aside to explain the Cabinet Mountain lineage’s ancient yin-yang arts and its Sixty-Four Mystic Shell, revealing that its primordial calculations could generate 256 hexagrams. She then sensed someone eavesdropping and demanded that they reveal themselves.

• Qin Tianqing persuaded Shangguan Xingyue to teach Luo Bin yang calculation, while Zhang Yunxi objected and warned that learning too much too quickly could be harmful.
• Shangguan Xingyue rejected Zhang Yunxi’s caution and declared that she would teach Luo Bin when they stopped to rest.
• At a run-down highway service area, Shangguan Xingyue led Luo Bin into the woods and showed him the Sixty-Four Mystic Shell without letting him touch it because of his injury.
• Shangguan Xingyue explained how Cabinet Mountain’s Feng Shui and yang calculation used primordial and acquired systems, including sixteen primordial hexagrams that could combine into 256.
• Shangguan Xingyue noticed someone hiding nearby and demanded that the eavesdropper come out.

Zhang Yunjin and the surviving Jade Hall Taoist Grounds joined forces with the Red Armor Taoist Abbey to ambush Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue. Their linked fates countered Shangguan Xingyue’s lethal arts, leaving her collapsed as Zhang Yunjin turned his attention to capturing her and killing Luo Bin.

• Zhang Yunjin confronted Shangguan Xingyue and Luo Bin, accusing them of killing Jade Hall Taoist Grounds and guardian abbey members.
• The Red Armor Taoists encircled Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue with talisman robes that linked their fates and blunted Shangguan Xingyue’s attacks.
• Shangguan Xingyue used her Taoist arts against the group, but she vomited blood and collapsed while the Taoists recovered.
• Zhang Yunjin revealed his interest in Shangguan Xingyue’s knowledge of primordial calculation and urged Daoist Chixin to keep her barely alive while Luo Bin was killed.

Zhang Yunjin and the Taoists attacked Luo Bin after Shangguan Xingyue collapsed, but Luo Bin summoned Moss Eaters to protect them. The Taoists suppressed the creatures with talismans and Eight-Trigram Mirrors as Zhang Yunjin ordered them to kill Luo Bin.

• Shangguan Xingyue invoked Heaven-Destroying Death against Zhang Yunjin before losing consciousness.
• Zhang Yunjin declared himself master of the Jade Hall Taoist Grounds and ordered the Taoists to attack Luo Bin.
• Luo Bin discovered that he was no longer an evil spirit but still carried the Blackblood Vine as the Taoists wounded him with swords and Eight-Trigram Mirrors.
• Luo Bin summoned Moss Eaters, which drove the Taoists back and surrounded him.
• Luo Bin carried Shangguan Xingyue on his back while the Taoists used talismans and Eight-Trigram Mirrors to suppress the Moss Eaters.
• Zhang Yunjin urged Daoist Chixin to kill Luo Bin without mercy.

Luo Bin escaped the Taoists by awakening the speed and agility of a Moss Eater, then began ambushing them one by one while carrying Shangguan Xingyue. Meanwhile, Zhang Yunjin examined a jade tortoise shell with 256 hexagrams and anticipated changing the Jade Hall Dao Sanctuary’s future.

• The Taoists attacked the Moss Eaters with Eight-Trigram Bronze Mirrors and Bronze Scepters, then turned their swords on Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue.
• Luo Bin awakened Moss Eater-like speed, escaped the Taoists, and hid instead of fighting them head-on.
• Luo Bin ambushed a lone Taoist, killed him, and explained to Shangguan Xingyue that he planned to use the Primordial Sixteen Trigrams and adapt to the danger.
• Luo Bin continued moving between hiding places and killing Taoists who searched alone, turning the pursuit against them.
• Zhang Yunjin stayed behind with a jade tortoise shell bearing 256 hexagrams and anticipated changing the Jade Hall Dao Sanctuary’s future.

Luo Bin used Shangguan Xingyue’s instruction in Yin Hexagram Strangulation to lure Zhang Yunjin into a void position and kill him. The chapter ended with Shangguan Xingyue stunned by Luo Bin’s apparent mastery and untouched fate as he inspected Zhang Yunjin’s body.

• Shangguan Xingyue taught Luo Bin the basics of Yin Hexagram Strangulation and warned him that he would need to identify Zhang Yunjin’s position precisely.
• Luo Bin used Rewind to map the area and determine Zhang Yunjin’s hexagram position.
• Luo Bin pretended to collapse, prompting Zhang Yunjin to approach and step into the void position.
• Luo Bin invoked the earth-void collapse, and Zhang Yunjin fell into a concealed pit and died when an animal trap clamped around his head.
• Shangguan Xingyue wondered how Luo Bin had performed the technique without suffering harm to his fate or soul.

After killing Zhang Yunjin with the Primordial Sixteen Trigrams, Luo Bin escaped with Shangguan Xingyue and reunited with Zhang Yunxi and Qin Tianqing. As they traveled toward Cabinet Mountain, Qin Que arrived there with his disciples, intending to rebuild the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds.

• Luo Bin recovered Zhang Yunjin's Tortoise Shell, left a threatening message beside the dead man's planted arm, and carried Shangguan Xingyue back to the car.
• Old Taoist Chixin abandoned the pursuit, choosing to recover his dead disciples and return for payment from the Jade Hall Taoist Grounds.
• Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue told Zhang Yunxi and Qin Tianqing what had happened, and Qin Tianqing considered using Shangguan Xingyue's changed condition to enter Cabinet Mountain and investigate Yuan Yinxin's plans.
• Zhang Yunxi treated Luo Bin's chest wound, and the group traveled for three days toward Cabinet Mountain while watching for pursuers.
• Qin Que and his disciples reached the entrance to a path up Cabinet Mountain, and Qin Que vowed to rebuild the true Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds and restore the Heavenly Mechanism Divine Calculator's prestige.

Yuan Yinxin lured Qin Que and the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds disciples into Cabinet Mountain after losing control of Luo Bin. Qin Que saw through Yuan Yinxin’s concealment, but Yuan Yinxin displaced the group into Cabinet Mountain Village, where their bronze bell caused the approaching villagers to collapse and their blood to flow toward Qin Que.

• Yuan Yinxin walked through Cabinet Mountain, believing Luo Bin had returned under his control and that Shangguan Xingyue was absent.
• Qin Que spotted Yuan Yinxin, used the Slay Character on his Talisman Plaque to reveal him, and approached with his disciples.
• Yuan Yinxin realized Qin Que had taken away Luo Bin’s nightmare and its mark, then scattered sand and gravel to conceal his movements.
• Yuan Yinxin’s mist transported Qin Que and the disciples to the entrance of Cabinet Mountain Village.
• As villagers approached, Qin Que’s disciple struck a bronze bell, and the villagers collapsed as their blood streamed toward Qin Que.

Qin Que and the disciples of the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds entered Cabinet Mountain Village, where Qin Que lost control and attacked his own people as evil spirits and deformed villagers closed in. Yin Yuan watched from Headless General Mountain, while Zhong Chengzhi stayed awake in the village, wondering who had fallen victim to the night’s horrors.

• Qin Que stepped through the village paifang and warned the disciples to fall back as blood-like markings spread across him and his Talisman Plaque burned away.
• Qin Que wounded a disciple, and the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds disciples formed a defensive formation as more villagers approached from every direction.
• Qin Que realized someone had manipulated him into absorbing the lives of fallen evil spirits, strengthening the instinct controlling him, but he could only smile and claim everything was under control.
• Yin Yuan watched from Headless General Mountain and considered why Luo Bin had drawn the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds to Cabinet Mountain, while planning to investigate Heavenly Mechanism Mountain.
• Zhong Chengzhi stayed awake in his house behind the peach grove, wondering whether an evil spirit had lured someone from their home or slaughtered an entire family.

Luo Bin and his companions reached Cabinet Mountain, where something inside the mountain stirred as the Nightmare Corpse awakened in its tomb. The corpse sank back into the fissure, leaving the mountain’s new threat unclear.

• Gu Yiren remained trapped in misery in Cabinet Mountain Village after her old method of following the Evil Spirit stopped working and Si disappeared.
• Luo Bin reviewed his fight with Zhang Yunjin and suspected a Moss Eater had died in his place when he survived the Fate-Suppressing Objects’ strike.
• Shangguan Xingyue defended the Cabinet Mountain lineage as merciful, while Qin Tianqing and Zhang Yunxi challenged her view of the mountain and its people.
• Luo Bin, Qin Tianqing, Zhang Yunxi, and Shangguan Xingyue reached Cabinet Mountain, and Luo Bin felt something stirring within him as they drove up the mountain road.
• A Nightmare Corpse rose inside a stone coffin, released black vapor, and then sank into a fissure among writhing, blood-vessel-like things as something deep in the mountain awakened.

Luo Bin and his companions entered Cabinet Mountain through a misty path where hostile spirits distorted their surroundings and separated them from Shangguan Xingyue. A powerful figure in a Python Robe attacked Luo Bin with a Jade Scepter, leaving the group facing an immediate threat.

• Shangguan Xingyue led Luo Bin, Qin Tianqing, and Zhang Yunxi into the mountain, where Luo Bin noticed familiar paths and markers had disappeared.
• The mist thickened, revealing a Two-Legged Sheep that imitated Gu Yiren's voice, and Luo Bin warned the others about the demon.
• The path split the group apart, but Qin Tianqing used a jade slip to reunite Luo Bin and Zhang Yunxi.
• A figure in a Python Robe cut through the mist with a Jade Scepter, and Qin Tianqing sensed a powerful corpse stench.
• The figure swung his Jade Scepter at Luo Bin's head as Zhang Yunxi warned him to watch out.

Luo Bin, Qin Tianqing, and Zhang Yunxi fought off a Nightmare Corpse as a mysterious mist separated the group and plunged Cabinet Mountain into chaos. Yuan Yinxin discovered that his control over the Nightmare Corpse had failed and found himself hunted by the mountain’s creatures.

• Qin Tianqing struck the Nightmare Corpse with a Jade Slip while Zhang Yunxi attacked it with a Copper Talisman, forcing it to retreat into the mist.
• Shangguan Xingyue mistook a Two-Legged Sheep for Yuan Yinxin and was knocked rolling down the mountain.
• Yuan Yinxin ordered Cabinet Mountain’s disciples to return to the dojo after the mist spread and the mountain fell into chaos.
• Yuan Yinxin’s calculations drew blood from his fingers, and he found that he could no longer sense control over the Corpse Child in its coffin.
• The Corpse Child attacked Yuan Yinxin, and he stopped it with a game piece before fighting off other figures emerging from the mist.

Luo Bin, Qin Tianqing, and Zhang Yunxi escaped the foggy woods and headed toward Cabinet Mountain Village to investigate Yuan Yinxin’s plans. After resting at the second Resting Place, Luo Bin woke to find Qin Tianqing looking at him with a strange expression.

• Zhang Yunxi’s attempt to divine Shangguan Xingyue’s location injured his fingers, and Qin Tianqing warned that Yuan Yinxin had interfered with divination inside the mountain.
• Luo Bin led the group through the woods toward Cabinet Mountain Village, while Zhang Yunxi proposed investigating the place and Luo Bin also mentioned the destroyed Qiang Village.
• The three passed the fourth and third Resting Places without encountering evil spirits, then reached the second Resting Place and stopped to rest.
• Qin Tianqing told Luo Bin that Yuan Yinxin’s actions suggested fear, and Luo Bin resolved to find another weakness in him.
• Luo Bin slept until the afternoon, then woke as Qin Tianqing turned to him with a strange look.

Luo Bin returned to Cabinet Mountain Village with Qin Tianqing and Zhang Yunxi, where Zhong Zhicheng revealed that Gu Yiren had come back after believing Luo Bin was dead. Worried about what Gu Yiren might have done and unwilling to endanger Zhong Zhicheng, Luo Bin withheld what he knew about Cabinet Mountain.

• Qin Tianqing said Luo Bin seemed harder to read than before, and the three continued toward Cabinet Mountain Village.
• Villagers recognized Luo Bin as Luo Shan and crowded around him until Zhong Zhicheng arrived and led the group to Luo Bin's abandoned home.
• Zhong Zhicheng confronted Luo Bin, saying Gu Yiren had told him Luo Bin was dead and asking whether the two companions belonged to the Mountain-Suppressing Cabinet.
• After Zhong Zhicheng dragged Luo Bin inside and lit an oil lamp, he asked how Luo Bin survived the Manager and where he had been.
• Luo Bin asked whether Gu Yiren was safe, learned that she was alive, and refused to tell Zhong Zhicheng more, warning that knowing too much would bring him no good.

Luo Bin and his companions learned that Cabinet Mountain had grown more dangerous after Qin Que and other outsiders arrived, so they decided to wait until morning before searching for Gu Yiren. As urgent knocking sounded at the door, a hidden voice warned Zhong Zhicheng that Luo Bin and the two men with him were impostors.

• Zhong Zhicheng told Luo Bin that deformed outsiders had arrived, evil spirits had died and transformed, and three households had been mysteriously wiped out.
• Qin Tianqing reasoned that Yuan Yinxin had changed Cabinet Mountain's feng shui to contain Qin Que and was losing control of the village.
• Luo Bin restrained his urge to search for Gu Yiren and agreed with Qin Tianqing to stay until morning and observe the village.
• Zhong Zhicheng heard urgent knocking, but Luo Bin dismissed it as an ordinary evil spirit at the door.
• A faint, childish voice told Zhong Zhicheng not to react and warned him that Luo Bin and the supposed masters had lied to him.

Zhong Zhicheng recognized Si’s warning and became convinced that Luo Shan and his companions were Two-Legged Sheep plotting against Cabinet Mountain Village. He shot one of them, but another charged toward him and vanished before he could fire again.

• Si warned Zhong Zhicheng, who concluded that Luo Shan and the two gentlemen were impostors and hid in a room with his gun.
• Luo Bin left the evil spirit knocking outside the gate and discussed searching for Qin Que and confronting Yuan Yinxin with Zhang Yunxi and Heaven-Dumping Qin.
• Zhong Zhicheng peered into the courtyard and saw three Two-Legged Sheep where Luo Shan and his companions had stood.
• Zhong Zhicheng fired at the Two-Legged Sheep and wounded one, while another charged at him and disappeared.

Zhong Zhicheng shot Zhang Yunxi, but Qin Tianqing and Luo Bin subdued him after Luo Bin wounded him with a thrown knife. While the group dealt with Zhong Zhicheng, Zhang Yunxi disappeared from the Main Hall, leaving a blood trail toward another room.

• Zhang Yunxi sensed mortal danger and dodged Zhong Zhicheng’s first shot, which struck his shoulder instead of his heart.
• Qin Tianqing used a Hexagram Position to evade a second shot and rushed the room as Luo Bin dodged Zhong Zhicheng’s aim and threw a knife through the curtain.
• Qin Tianqing disarmed and subdued Zhong Zhicheng, while Zhong Zhicheng saw his captors as Two-Legged Sheep and believed they were attacking him.
• Outside Cabinet Mountain Village, the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds traitors discussed Qin Tianqing’s arrival and revealed they had set up a Heart-Peering Field around the village.
• Luo Bin nearly strangled the unresponsive Zhong Zhicheng, then left with Qin Tianqing to check on Zhang Yunxi.
• Luo Bin and Qin Tianqing found Zhang Yunxi missing from the Main Hall and noticed blood droplets and drag marks leading toward another room.

Luo Bin mistook Zhang Yunling for an evil spirit while she treated Zhang Yunxi, but Qin Tianqing used a jade slip to break the illusion and explain that the traitors had altered Cabinet Mountain Village. Zhang Yunling recognized Luo Bin as Xiao Shan and, after tending Zhang Yunxi, set out to kill Zhong Zhicheng.

• Luo Bin opened the bedroom door and tried to attack Zhang Yunling, whom he perceived as an evil spirit harming Zhang Yunxi, but Qin Tianqing restrained him.
• Qin Tianqing showed Luo Bin his reflection in the jade slip, clearing his confusion and revealing Zhang Yunling treating Zhang Yunxi's wound.
• Qin Tianqing explained that the traitors had altered Cabinet Mountain Village, causing people to see what they feared and prompting Zhong Zhicheng to attack them.
• Luo Bin recognized Zhang Yunling as Sister Xiaoling, and she continued removing the bullet fragments and stitching Zhang Yunxi's shoulder.
• Zhang Yunling asked about Luo Bin's family, apologized for not helping sooner, and drew a dagger to go kill Zhong Zhicheng.