Chapter Summaries

Luo Bin persuaded Shangguan Xingyue to cooperate with his group, but Shang Liuli revealed that they had killed and eaten House Immortals, putting them in danger from the escaped Spirit Mediums. As the group kept watch through the night, a white fox reached the Spirit Mediums and warned them about Luo Bin.

• Luo Bin used Shangguan Xingyue's trust in him to enlist her help with the danger on the hillside, and she agreed to assist him.
• Shangguan Xingyue explained that escaped Spirit Mediums were traveling the same route and that her group needed to reach Cabinet Mountain Village for help from the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds.
• Shang Liuli revealed that the group had killed and eaten House Immortals, leading Shangguan Xingyue to suspect the Spirit Mediums were now pursuing them.
• Luo Bin assured Shangguan Xingyue that Qin Tianqing was not their enemy, and she agreed they would still need the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds' help.
• The Spirit Mediums hid near the hollow and sent out fox and weasel immortals to attack, but a white fox arrived first and warned them that Luo Bin could see through House Immortal disguises and carried something dangerous.

The Spirit Mediums attacked Luo Bin and the others inside the cave using Gray Immortals, weasels, and rats that disabled the group and overpowered them. As the creatures gathered to confer, the white fox that had previously drained Luo Bin's yang energy emerged from a hidden tunnel.

• Hu Xing and the Spirit Mediums assessed Luo Bin's hidden abilities and planned to attack while keeping him from nearing death.
• Two Gray Immortals extinguished the cave's oil lamps, and Shang Liuli warned the group that the rats had burrowed inside.
• A weasel hidden in Shang Liuli's hair blew out the lamps, then released yellow smoke that left her controlled as evil spirits battered the wooden door.
• Rats and weasels attacked the group, biting Gu Ya and Gu Yiren and controlling Zhang Baijiao while he strangled Shangguan Xingyue.
• Yellow smoke immobilized Luo Bin and the others as the Immortal Creatures gathered in the cave.
• A white fox crawled out of the shallow pit, revealing that the creatures had entered through another tunnel.

The Immortal Creatures drained Luo Bin and the others of their yang energy, and Spirit Riders captured them at dawn. As Zhang Baijiao faced execution, Zhang Yunling arrived and claimed she could lead the Spirit Riders to Yuan Yinxin, but the old man ordered her tortured instead.

• White-Haired Lean Fox kept the Immortal Creatures from feeding on Luo Bin while they drained the others and left them barely alive.
• At dawn, Spirit Riders brought the captives before three old men, and Zhang Baijiao admitted that he had captured and skinned the House Immortal.
• The old man ordered Zhang Baijiao skinned alive, and a Spirit Rider cut into his scalp.
• Zhang Yunling rushed in, claimed she was Zhang Baijiao's granddaughter, and said she knew how to leave Cabinet Mountain.
• Zhang Yunling offered to lead the Spirit Riders to Yuan Yinxin and said Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue had purposes, but the old man refused to trust her and ordered her toes eaten.

Hu Dongde’s group tortured Zhang Yunling and questioned Zhang Baijiao about Yuan Yinxin, while Luo Bin gradually regained control of his body. The chapter ended with Luo Bin claiming Yuan Yinxin wanted him and offering to lead the captors to his master.

• Hu Dongde ordered rats to bite off Zhang Yunling’s toes as he demanded information about Yuan Yinxin, and Zhang Baijiao began explaining what he knew.
• Zhang Baijiao described Yuan Yinxin’s schemes and Cabinet Mountain’s role as a breeding ground, prompting Hu Dongde to accuse him of lying and order a rat to take Zhang Yunling’s eye.
• Hu Dongde released Zhang Baijiao to tend to Zhang Yunling, while Luo Bin remained trapped and secretly waited for a chance to strike.
• Luo Bin stood and claimed Yuan Yinxin had chosen him as a disciple, warning that the captors were being misled and offering to take them to his master if they released everyone.
• Luo Bin chanted Yuan Yinxin’s secret technique and spat blood, causing Huang Jiu and Bai Wei to recognize it.

Luo Bin used fate strangulation to stop Zhang Baijiao from exposing the plan, then led Hu Dongde and the Spirit Mediums toward Yuan Yinxin with Shangguan Xingyue. The group camped near Cabinet Mountain Village, where Luo Bin noticed that no evil spirits were appearing.

• Luo Bin used Yuan Yinxin's technique on Zhang Baijiao, convinced Hu Dongde that he could lead them to Yuan Yinxin, and stopped Zhang Baijiao from revealing the scheme.
• Hu Dongde's followers bound Shangguan Xingyue, revived her, and ordered her to guide them while leaving Luo Bin unbound.
• Zhang Baijiao revived Luo Feng, Gu Ya, and Shang Liuli, while Zhang Yunling argued with Shang Liuli and the Cloth Doll warned Zhang Yunling not to act recklessly.
• Shangguan Xingyue led Hu Dongde's group past Cabinet Mountain Village to the headless mountain, hoping the Spirit Mediums might help open the dojo's seals and let Luo Bin meet Yuan Yinxin.
• Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue camped among the shrubs with the followers surrounding them, and Luo Bin realized that no evil spirits were nearby despite the camp's proximity to the village.

Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue reached the heart of Cabinet Mountain with the Spirit Riders, where Yuan Yinxin welcomed them and offered to let Hu Dongde’s sect stand on equal footing with his dojo. Hu Dongde rejected the offer and attacked, but Yuan Yinxin’s formation immediately disrupted the assault.

• Hu Dongde led the Spirit Riders, Luo Bin, and Shangguan Xingyue through Cabinet Mountain’s elemental walls as Immortal Creatures scouted the doorways and cleared the route.
• Yuan Yinxin withdrew the mist around the main hall and waited for Hu Dongde, Huang Jiu, Bai Wei, Hu Xing, and their Spirit Riders to arrive.
• Yuan Yinxin greeted the group, thanked Hu Dongde for returning his disciples, and offered to establish their sect alongside Cabinet Mountain Dojo on equal footing.
• Hu Dongde rejected Yuan Yinxin’s offer and declared that he had come for revenge.
• Hu Dongde charged Yuan Yinxin but was thrown off balance, Huang Jiu broke his ankle in a fissure, and Bai Wei lunged for Yuan Yinxin’s eyes.

Luo Bin fled the Martial Arts Arena as Yuan Yinxin, the Nightmare Corpse, and Cabinet Mountain’s evil spirits and demons threatened him. After the Evil-Breaking Banner and his Moss Eaters helped him fight back, the chapter ended with parasitic tubes emerging from the evil entities as they surrounded him.

• Yuan Yinxin wounded Bai Wei and advanced on Luo Bin, while Hu Xing and Shangguan Xingyue became caught in the sudden chaos.
• Mist and evil spirits poured into the arena, and Luo Bin realized Yuan Yinxin’s disciples had become spirits; the Nightmare Corpse charged at him as he fled.
• The Nightmare Corpse threw its Jade Scepter at Luo Bin and attacked him, but Luo Bin repelled it with a compass before mistaking disguised Two-Legged Sheep for Qin Tianqing and Zhang Yunxi.
• Luo Bin used the Evil-Breaking Banner to destroy the Two-Legged Sheep and other demons, then stopped to help his six Moss Eaters attack the Nightmare Corpse.
• Luo Bin cut the tubes extending from the Nightmare Corpse and stuck Song Tianzhu’s talismans to its face, but tubes began emerging from the evil entities as they surrounded him.

Luo Bin nearly died as demons overwhelmed him, but Qin Tianqing, Zhang Yunxi, Qin Que, and the Taoist Grounds disciples rescued him and led him out of Cabinet Mountain. After explaining their plan against Yuan Yinxin, Qin Tianqing proposed sending the others away so Luo Bin could focus, leaving Luo Bin shocked.

• The Evil-Breaking Banner burned away as Luo Bin fled the demons, while pain and a strange connection to the ground overwhelmed him.
• The Nightmare Corpse attacked Luo Bin but recoiled when a talisman appeared on its head and broke the tubes emerging from its face.
• Qin Tianqing, Zhang Yunxi, Qin Que, and the Taoist Grounds disciples arrived with Jade Slips and mirrors, driving back the spirits and demons and escorting Luo Bin out of Cabinet Mountain.
• Qin Tianqing told Luo Bin that he had uncovered and destroyed the hidden thing guiding Zhang Lingyun, and that the Spirit Mediums could now threaten Yuan Yinxin.
• After the group traveled far from the Taoist Grounds, Qin Tianqing asked to send the others away so Luo Bin could focus, and Luo Bin reacted with disbelief.

Luo Bin returned to Cabinet Mountain Village and learned that Qin Que could guide his loved ones out of the mountain, allowing them to avoid becoming liabilities in the coming conflict. He persuaded them to leave, then gathered Gu Yiren, Shang Liuli, and Zhang Yunling, but found an unfamiliar Heavenly Secrets Dojo disciple at Zhang Yunling's home.

• Qin Tianqing explained that Qin Que could find a way out of Cabinet Mountain, and Luo Bin thanked Qin Que for helping his family escape.
• Luo Bin reunited with Luo Feng and Gu Ya, then told them that their presence would hinder his fight against Yuan Yinxin.
• Luo Feng agreed that he and Gu Ya should leave the mountain with the others so Luo Bin could act without distractions.
• Luo Bin found Gu Yiren, explained the plan, and she agreed to leave without becoming a burden to him.
• Luo Bin went to He Gui's house and brought Shang Liuli with him, then visited Zhang Yunling and found her injured and accompanied by an unfamiliar Heavenly Secrets Dojo disciple.

Luo Bin prepared to leave Cabinet Mountain Village with his family and learned that eating Flower Affection fruits had given him a way to sense people with close ties to him. Zhang Baijiao and Zhang Yunling arrived, while Luo Feng set out to bring Zhong Zhicheng with them.

• Luo Bin told Zhang Baijiao that Mr. Qin would likely take him out of the mountains and returned to the Courtyard with Gu Yiren.
• Luo Bin and Gu Yiren shared a quiet night together and promised to find a safe place to live after escaping.
• Luo Bin gave Luo Feng and Gu Ya Flower Affection fruits, then ate more himself and gained a stronger ability to sense people connected to him.
• Luo Feng decided to find Zhong Zhicheng and bring him along because he deserved to leave the village.
• Zhang Baijiao and Zhang Yunling arrived at the Courtyard, and Zhang Yunling apologized to Gu Ya, who ignored her.

Luo Feng, Gu Ya, Gu Yiren, Shang Liuli, Zhang Baijiao, Zhang Yunling, and Zhong Zhicheng attempted to leave Cabinet Mountain Village with Qin Que’s help. Zhong Zhicheng turned back, while the others emerged into the outside world, where Luo Feng and Gu Ya discovered their companions were missing.

• Luo Feng invited Zhong Zhicheng to leave Cabinet Mountain, but Zhong Zhicheng struggled with abandoning the villagers.
• Qin Tianqing organized the departing group into smaller parties so they could leave the village without attracting attention.
• Qin Que used his power to lead the group through a barrier and into the white mist, while Zhong Zhicheng chose to remain on Cabinet Mountain.
• Luo Feng, Gu Ya, Gu Yiren, Shang Liuli, Zhang Baijiao, and Zhang Yunling walked through the mist and emerged beside a road outside the mountain.
• Luo Feng and Gu Ya found themselves alone, with Gu Yiren, Shang Liuli, Zhang Baijiao, and Zhang Yunling nowhere in sight.

Gu Yiren escaped Zhang Li’s grasp with help from Dai Zhixiong, while Luo Bin returned to his courtyard after entering Cabinet Mountain Village with Qin Tianqing, Qin Que, and Zhong Zhicheng. Dai Zhixiong headed downhill to meet the others and learn more about the mountain, as Luo Bin prepared himself for what lay ahead.

• Luo Feng and Gu Ya realized they needed to find Gu Yiren and set off toward the mountain pass.
• Gu Yiren mistook Zhang Li for Gu Ya in the mist, but Dai Zhixiong pulled her free and subdued Zhang Li with a talisman.
• Dai Zhixiong told Huang Ying that Cabinet Mountain had a master and chose to help the people leaving before entering the mountain to seek the Moon-Star Official.
• Qin Tianqing, Qin Que, Luo Bin, and Zhong Zhicheng entered Cabinet Mountain Village, and Qin Tianqing sent Zhong Zhicheng to make preparations.
• Luo Bin returned to his courtyard, cooked noodles, and found peace in accepting whatever might happen.

Luo Feng and Gu Ya reunited with Gu Yiren, who revealed that Dai Zhixiong had brought Huang Ying back to life, prompting the group to consider rescuing their trapped companions. The next morning, Qin Tianqing and Qin Que led a supply team into Cabinet Mountain, where they reached the mountain path and camped among evil spirits as Qin Que speculated about Yin Yuan’s predicament.

• Gu Yiren returned safely with Dai Zhixiong and Huang Ying, and she recognized Huang Ying from Luo Bin’s account of Floating Tortoise Mountain.
• Dai Zhixiong offered to consider rescuing the companions still trapped in Cabinet Mountain if Luo Feng told him what was happening there.
• Qin Tianqing and Qin Que led Luo Bin, Zhang Yunxi, Zhong Zhicheng, and the Able-Bodied Team out from Cabinet Mountain Village to search for a way through the mountain.
• Qin Que used a Jade Slip and his bleeding finger to guide the group onto the mountain path, while Luo Bin noticed that the usual crowd of evil spirits was missing.
• The group camped as evil spirits gathered around their tents, and Luo Bin sensed they might be approaching the other members of the Cabinet Mountain Dojo.
• Qin Que reasoned that Yin Yuan was trapped in the dojo’s most dangerous area and wondered whether the others would attempt a rescue, seek another solution, or try to subdue Cabinet Mountain.

Luo Bin and his companions crossed a forest packed with evil spirits, where demons and parasitic creatures attacked them despite the daylight. After the group fought its way to the Archaeological Team’s old campsite, they found a person’s body stretched between two trees in the shape of a talisman.

• Zhang Yunxi warned that the gathered evil spirits might be protecting something, and urged the group to hurry through the forest.
• A Two-Legged Sheep attacked Qin Que, while a mountain boar wounded a Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds disciple and demons began attacking the Able-Bodied Team.
• The evil spirits turned toward the travelers and released parasitic threads as demons closed in from all directions.
• Qin Que ordered the disciples to form a circle and raise their bronze mirrors, but one disciple fell into a hidden hole and died after Qin Tianqing used a Jade Slip to clear the creatures from his face.
• Qin Tianqing guided the formation through the dangers, and after two hours the group reached the old campsite, where they found a person’s flesh and bones arranged like a talisman between two trees.

Luo Bin and the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds Disciples followed the flesh-and-blood talismans toward the tomb, while the Able-Bodied Team fell behind. At Cabinet Mountain, Yuan Yinxin freed Shangguan Xingyue from the Horsehair Worms and set out after his disciples, revealing that they were going to seal Ba Xiao.

• Luo Bin identified the talismans as a protective boundary laid out according to the Primordial Sixteen Hexagram Positions, and Qin Tianqing concluded that someone was trying to control what lay inside the tomb.
• Qin Que led the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds Disciples into the Sacred Way, leaving Luo Bin, Qin Tianqing, and Zhang Yunxi uneasy at the entrance as night fell.
• Yuan Yinxin stood amid the dead in the Main Hall while Bai Wei and Hu Xing escaped after the evil spirits and ghostly creatures retreated.
• Yuan Yinxin removed the Horsehair Worms controlling Shangguan Xingyue and told her that her senior brother had gone to seal Ba Xiao.
• Yuan Yinxin and Shangguan Xingyue headed after the disciples, and Shangguan Xingyue began to suspect that Qin Tianqing and Zhang Yunxi were enemies of Cabinet Mountain Dojo.

Qin Que led the group into the Cabinet Mountain core, where Luo Bin and the others discovered a vast cavern and an enormous Mountain God Statue. They questioned whether the strange, motionless tubes covering its body belonged to the awakened creature or whether it had already been sealed.

• Qin Que led the group through flesh-and-blood talismans to a burial chamber and identified a fissure leading toward the thing in the mountain core.
• Qin Tianqing climbed into the coffin first and broke the talisman sealing the fissure, followed by Zhang Yunxi, Luo Bin, Qin Que, and the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds disciples.
• The group crawled through a network of tunnels lined with withered threads until Qin Tianqing emerged into a vast cavern.
• Luo Bin and the others saw an enormous statue resembling the Mountain God Statues in Cabinet Mountain Village.
• Luo Bin noticed thin, motionless tubes covering the statue and wondered whether the creature had already been sealed and suppressed.

Luo Bin and the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds disciples reached the Mountain God Statue and fought their way past Yuan Kong, Cabinet Mountain Dojo’s chief disciple. As Qin Tianqing and Luo Bin approached the altar that Yuan Kong warned would destroy Mountain Cabinet if disturbed, the chapter left the fate of the mountain uncertain.

• Luo Bin suffered a bloody backlash at the door beneath the Mountain God Statue, and Qin Que, Qin Tianqing, and Zhang Yunxi were struck by Yuan Kong’s Hexagram Speech Manifestation.
• Qin Que kicked open the door, where Yuan Kong tried to stop him with a Fate-Suppressing Object but was hit by Qin Tianqing’s arrows and surrounded by the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds disciples.
• Yuan Kong identified himself as the Cabinet Mountain Dojo’s chief disciple and accused Luo Bin of betraying Yuan Yinxin, while Luo Bin wondered why he had not sensed Yuan Kong before.
• Qin Tianqing approached a sixteen-sided altar ringed with tortoise shells, and Yuan Kong warned that disturbing it could destroy Mountain Cabinet.
• Luo Bin followed Qin Tianqing toward the altar, wondering whether Mountain Cabinet’s core lay beneath it.

Luo Bin and Qin Tianqing uncovered the Cabinet Mountain Core beneath the altar and opened the coffin sealing Ba Xiao. Ba Xiao awakened and attacked Luo Bin, leaving the group facing the calamity Yuan Kong had warned them about.

• Luo Bin explained that Yuan Kong had turned Cabinet Mountain disciples into flesh-and-blood talismans, and Qin Tianqing found another talisman covering a coffin beneath the altar.
• Luo Bin opened the Taiji Diagram using Yuan Kong's bloody handprint, then insisted on descending alone to investigate the coffin.
• Luo Bin found blood-vessel-like strands spreading beneath the coffin and realized they connected the creature to the Mountain God Statue and the cave.
• Qin Tianqing sent eight Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds disciples to assist Luo Bin as he prepared to open the coffin.
• Luo Bin tore apart the talisman and exposed Ba Xiao, then touched the creature to move it from the coffin.
• Ba Xiao opened its eyes, seized Luo Bin's wrists, and drove its writhing hairs into his arms as Qin Tianqing ordered the others to raise their mirrors.

Luo Bin was freed from the Blackblood Vine and his evil-spirit transformation when Qin Tianqing used the Twelve Palaces of Life-Binding methods to pull them from him. After sensing danger from Yuan Kong’s power over Emotion Flower Fruit eaters, Luo Bin killed him before he could complete a Hand Seal.

• Luo Bin struggled against Ba Xiao as the Moss Eaters bit into it and its hair enveloped them and his arm.
• Qin Tianqing descended to help Luo Bin and used steel needles and jade coins to extract the Blackblood Vine and Luo Bin’s transformation into an evil spirit.
• Ba Xiao fell back into the coffin, where the Blackblood Vine and its hair sealed it inside a cocoon, and Qin Tianqing carried Luo Bin out.
• Luo Bin realized Yuan Kong could control those who had eaten Emotion Flower Fruit and ordered the disciples to restrain Yuan Kong’s hands.
• As Yuan Kong nearly completed a Hand Seal, Luo Bin shoved him down and killed him with the bone-chopping blade.

Luo Bin and the others escaped the altar, only to find the Nightmare Corpse and newly freed evil spirits attacking the disciples of the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds. As demons poured into the cavern and Qin Tianqing was pinned down, Luo Bin grabbed Zhang Yunxi’s Jade Tortoise Shells and ran toward the cavern’s center.

• Luo Bin found Yuan Kong’s body stripped of its book and ritual artifacts, then gathered the Jade Tortoise Shells from the Sacrificial Platform.
• The group crawled out of the tunnel, where bloodied disciples emerged alongside Qin Que, who had regained his movement and smiled like the Cabinet Mountain Evil Spirit.
• Qin Tianqing identified the Nightmare Corpse and ordered the disciples to form up, but Qin Que and the Nightmare Corpse attacked them.
• Zhang Yunxi deduced that the demons and evil spirits had returned to Yuan Yinxin’s command, while Luo Bin used a Jade Tortoise Shell to kill a Snake Beauty.
• The Nightmare Corpse pinned Qin Tianqing with its Jade Scepter as more demons entered the cavern, and Luo Bin seized Zhang Yunxi’s Jade Tortoise Shells and ran toward the center.