Chapter Summaries

Luo Bin told Bai Guanli, Bai Su, and Bai Xian about Three Perils Mountain’s barriers and the corpse king, hoping to enlist their help in obtaining a Rainbow Pill. Bai Guanli agreed to go to Thousand Miao Village if Luo Bin could guarantee they would receive the pill without interference.

• Bai Guanli apologized for Bai Su’s actions and offered Luo Bin talismans, which Luo Bin accepted.
• Bai Guanli explained that the Taoists had come to Three Perils Mountain to find extraordinary substances that could help their grandmaster break through a bottleneck.
• Luo Bin revealed his knowledge of the substances, identified himself as half Miao, and said he had learned Gu after arriving on the mountain six months earlier.
• Luo Bin explained that a corpse king was attacking Thousand Miao Village and that failed practitioners could become corpse kings or cave gods.
• Luo Bin said he knew where a Rainbow Pill was, and Bai Guanli agreed to go to the village if Luo Bin guaranteed they could claim it.

Luo Bin led Bai Guanli, Bai Su, and Bai Xian back to Thousand Miao Village after revealing why he needed their help, but the corpse prison drew them toward the Corpse King. The Taoist siblings used a jade talisman and ritual to disperse the mist and break the prison.

• Luo Bin explained that Lord Mo Di had become an ascended malevolent corpse, that Spirit-Transfer Cave wanted his ritual artifact, and that he could help the Taoists obtain a Rainbow Pill after they dealt with the Corpse King.
• Bai Guanli agreed to cooperate, and Luo Bin led the three Red-Robed Taoists back to Thousand Miao Village, where they found dozens of dead Spirit-Transfer Cave members.
• Luo Bin found Miao Yi's mutilated corpse, wrapped his ruined head, and dragged him toward the village gate tower.
• The corpse prison diverted Luo Bin and the Taoists toward the Great Well, where they sensed the Corpse King, resentful qi, and a horde of living corpses.
• Bai Su and Bai Xian joined two pieces of jade into a talisman, performed a Taoist ritual, and shouted for the prison to break as the mist receded.

Luo Bin and the three Taoists escaped the mist-filled Corpse Prison and reached Granny Li’s courtyard, where he reported Miao Yi’s death and the Spirit-Transfer Cave’s attack. When Witch Doctor Peak’s practitioners blamed Luo Bin for the village’s calamities, he challenged them and demanded they stop sowing discord.

• Bai Guanli stopped Bai Su and Bai Xian from succumbing to the Corpse Prison’s backlash, and Luo Bin realized the three came from orthodox Taoist schools.
• Fourth Master Gray led the group through the mist as Bai Su and Bai Xian burned back the attacking Blood-Fiend Living Corpses, while Bai Guanli destroyed more with a fiercer talisman technique.
• Luo Bin and the others reached Granny Li’s courtyard, where the villagers welcomed them warily and carried Miao Yi’s corpse inside.
• Luo Bin recounted Kong An’s attack, Miao Yi’s death, the Spirit-Transfer Cave’s actions, and his meeting with Bai Guanli and his companions.
• Two practitioners of shamanic medicine blamed Luo Bin for bringing calamities to Thousand Miao Village and demanded an explanation at Witch Doctor Peak.
• Luo Bin acknowledged partial responsibility for Kong An’s arrival but rebuked the practitioners and warned them to stop creating internal conflict.

Bai Guanli planned to use Taoist arts to break the Corpse King, while Zhang Yunxi and Luo Bin helped choose the place for the ritual. Luo Bin redirected Bai Guanli south and explained how the Sixteen Hexagrams of the Li Palace could strengthen his righteous energy, prompting Bai Guanli to identify him as a disciple of Primordial Calculation.

• Bai Guanli revealed that he came from an unaffiliated school outside the mountain and said the Corpse King’s remains belonged to a powerful Perfected One.
• Bai Guanli asked for Luo Bin’s help selecting a location for his Taoist arts, and Zhang Yunxi ordered the others to disperse while they dealt with the Corpse King.
• Bai Guanli and Luo Bin left the courtyard, and Luo Bin unexpectedly turned south instead of heading east toward the Zhen Palace.
• Luo Bin argued that the Li Palace and Sunfire Truth better suited Bai Guanli’s Prison-Breaking incantation and righteous energy.
• Bai Guanli reacted with shock and asked whether Luo Bin was a disciple of Primordial Calculation.

Luo Bin and Bai Guanli used the Fire Palace Sixteen Hexagram Array and Taoist rites to drive the living corpses and mist away from Thousand Miao Village, leaving Luo Bin unconscious from exhaustion. Three days later, Luo Bin awoke in Miao Miao’s room, rejected her claim that they were a couple, and set out to learn what had happened while he was incapacitated.

• Luo Bin led Bai Guanli to a southern stilt house while Bai Guanli lured the living corpses with bloodied incense and held them back with talismans.
• Luo Bin set up the Fire Palace Sixteen Hexagram Array, and Bai Guanli performed Taoist rites that cleared the mist and drove away the corpses.
• Luo Bin collapsed from exhaustion, and Bai Guanli caught him before he lost consciousness.
• Luo Bin awoke three days later with Fourth Master Gray beside him, and Miao Miao told him he was in their home and explained her faithful vow and the split golden bamboo.
• Luo Bin refused Miao Miao’s advances and left the bedroom despite his weakness, wondering about the corpse king, Cave Spirit Transfer, and An Kong.

Luo Bin learned that the village had survived the attack on Spirit-Transfer Cave and that the Taoists had gone to the Deep Pool's Forbidden Ground. He left Thousand Miao Village to find them and met Bai Guanli, whose gaze held a startling intensity.

• Luo Bin learned that Granny Li had gone to Witch Doctor Peak, while Zhang Yunxi and the Taoists had left for the Deep Pool's Forbidden Ground after Kong An devastated Spirit-Transfer Cave.
• Luo Bin found the Great Well sealed and saw no sign of the Lightning-Struck Chestnut Heartwood, then returned to his quarters and recovered with Flower Affection fruit.
• Luo Bin decided to find Mr. Xiyun and left Thousand Miao Village despite Eighth Great-Uncle's hesitation.
• Luo Bin reached the Deep Pool and found Zhang Yunxi, Hu Jin, Bai Guanli, Bai Su, and Bai Xian investigating the area.
• Bai Guanli met Luo Bin's gaze with burning intensity, prompting Luo Bin to suspect he had sensed power channeled through the True Fire of the Sun hexagram.

Luo Bin joined Zhang Yunxi and the others at Lakeheart Island, where they entered the Tomb Chamber to investigate Lord Mo Di and the Three Corpse Worms. He endured the worms’ soul-distorting illusion with the Bronze Clubs, but Bai Guanli’s sudden question left his role uncertain.

• Luo Bin realized Bai Guanli had not yet become a perfected master, though the Sunfire Truth hexagram had let him briefly experience that level of power.
• Zhang Yunxi and Hu Jin explained that Lord Mo Di had vanished and proposed exploring the Tomb Chamber, asking Luo Bin to help with their plan.
• Luo Bin led Zhang Yunxi, Hu Jin, Bai Guanli, Bai Su, and Bai Xian underwater into the Tomb Chamber, where a black-and-gold toad broke through a gu-insect barrier.
• Zhang Yunxi told the group to plug their ears and gave Luo Bin the Bronze Clubs, saying Luo Bin had to lead the way through the Three Corpse Worms.
• Luo Bin resisted the worms’ illusion by clenching his fists and striking them across each other without releasing the Bronze Clubs, causing the false scene to shatter.
• After the Bronze Clubs fell from Luo Bin’s hands, Bai Guanli asked whether he could divine heaven’s will.

Luo Bin and the others passed through passages haunted by corpse worms, learning that the true worms came from the soul and stirred body worms. As Bai Guanli led them into an area Luo Bin had not explored, Luo Bin noticed a problem that the others seemed to have missed.

• Luo Bin struck at an illusory Bai Guanli with the Bronze Club and suffered its painful backlash before the illusion vanished.
• Bai Guanli explained that Middle Corpse White affected people’s anger and that true worms came from the soul and stirred body worms.
• The group passed the passage with the Rainbow Pill after Zhang Yunxi struck the Bronze Club and the pill dissolved into green worms.
• Bai Guanli concluded that no Lower Corpse Blood was present because Mo Digong still retained part of his soul.
• Bai Guanli led the group into the next passage, and Luo Bin noticed a problem as Zhang Yunxi followed.

Luo Bin and the others investigated Lord Mo Di’s tomb and concluded that the living corpse was hiding wherever his obsession led him. After Luo Bin suspected Bai Guanli might be infected by True Worms and insisted on checking him, Bai Guanli asked who Luo Bin really was, repeating a sentence Luo Bin had heard in the White Corpse’s illusion.

• Zhang Yunxi explained how the damaged talismans and disrupted Feng Shui had released Lord Mo Di, and Luo Bin placed the Corpse Core in the air vent to restore the tomb’s airflow.
• Hu Jin found inscriptions describing Lord Mo Di’s purpose, and the group searched the tomb chambers but found no further clues.
• Zhang Yunxi concluded that Lord Mo Di was hiding wherever his obsession lay, and the group left the tomb without finding him.
• Luo Bin stopped Bai Guanli and proposed using his Ritual Artifact to check whether Bai Guanli had True Worms or Body Worms.
• Bai Guanli refused the check and challenged Luo Bin by asking who he was, repeating a question Luo Bin had heard during the White Corpse’s illusion.

Luo Bin tried to convince Bai Guanli that the Three Corpse Worms were influencing his judgment, but Bai Guanli’s suspicions of Six Yin Mountain drove the group toward a confrontation. Luo Bin struck first with the Black Gold Toad and a hidden silkworm, but Bai Su resisted his counterattack, leaving the battle unresolved as the toad’s venom began to take effect.

• Bai Guanli accused Luo Bin of manipulating him for Six Yin Mountain and demanded the ritual artifact and corpse core.
• Luo Bin agreed to hand over the items, then ambushed Bai Guanli with a golden silkworm and the Black Gold Toad’s tongue.
• Bai Guanli froze as the poison took hold, while Bai Su attacked Luo Bin and Bai Xian warned that they needed him alive to remove the Gu.
• Luo Bin used Yin Hexagram Strangulation on Bai Su, but Bai Su resisted with a Taoist spell and struck Luo Bin hard enough to make him spit blood.
• The Black Gold Toad leaped onto Bai Su and aimed its tongue at Bai Xian as Gray Fourth Master knocked aside Bai Su’s sword.
• The venom blackened Bai Su’s face and made Bai Guanli’s body begin to stink.

Luo Bin and Zhang Yunxi exposed and removed the Three Corpse Worm influencing Bai Guanli, then used Goldfish Water and the Corpse Core to determine where Lord Mo Di was hiding. Zhang Yunxi led the group toward the place the goldfish avoided.

• Bai Xian stopped attacking after Luo Bin and Zhang Yunxi convinced her that Bai Guanli was being influenced by the Three Corpse Worms.
• Luo Bin used the Black-Gold Toad to remove the poison from Bai Su and Bai Guanli, then Zhang Yunxi struck Bai Guanli with the Bronze Clubs and expelled Middle Corpse White.
• Bai Guanli regained his clarity, thanked Luo Bin, and declined the Emotion Flower Fruit, choosing instead to take medicine from his own supplies.
• Zhang Yunxi put the Corpse Core into the Goldfish Water and explained that the goldfish's direction away from evil indicated where Lord Mo Di was.
• Zhang Yunxi led Luo Bin, Bai Guanli, and the others in the opposite direction, while Fourth Master Gray squeaked in protest.

As Kong An terrorized Spirit-Transfer Cave, the Burden-Bearer and the Miao King each made their own calculations around Lord Mo Di and Luo Bin. Zhang Yunxi’s group realized they could not wait for the conflict to resolve, and Zhang Xiyun urged them to strike first and seek the Miao King’s protection.

• Zhang Yunxi told Luo Bin that Kong An was likely targeting Spirit-Transfer Cave’s master, who might summon the cave’s equivalent of the Miao King against him.
• Kong An demanded that Spirit-Transfer Cave’s master surrender, threatening to kill another hundred and forty-three disciples, while Huang Hang stayed hidden in the cave with the Burden-Bearer.
• The Burden-Bearer decided to wait for Lord Mo Di to find Luo Bin, then use the resulting clash to pursue the Rainbow Pill and challenge Healer-Shaman Peak and Thousand Miao Village.
• The Miao King spoke of wanting to protect Bin and reacted with alarm after a Cave Maiden delivered a message.
• Zhang Yunxi’s group passed a blood-soaked area near Spirit-Transfer Cave, and Fourth Master Gray could not confirm whether Kong An was nearby because his scent might be concealed.
• Bai Guanli wondered whether Kong An had driven Lord Mo Di into hiding, and Zhang Xiyun proposed striking first before the rival forces could turn on Luo Bin.

Luo Bin and the others reached the Cliff Platform, where they found a second place called Three Miao Cave and prepared to confront Lord Mo Di. As Kong An approached and the group chose their route inside, Luo Bin glimpsed figures watching them from the dark windows.

• Bai Guanli asked Luo Bin to find a suitable hexagram position for his fight with Lord Mo Di, while Luo Bin explained that the Zhen Hexagrams would provide a stronger boost than Sunfire Truth.
• The Burden-Bearer sent the female corpse to watch the Miao King and gave her a talisman plaque, while warning Huang Hang to keep watch on Kong An.
• Kong An continued along the mountain path with his robe stained redder and his bag fuller, saying there was no need to hurry.
• Zhang Yunxi led the group along a narrow cliff path, where Luo Bin's golden silkworm gu seed scattered the venomous insects and Black Gold Toad and Fourth Master Gray fed on them.
• The group reached a tiered complex labeled Three Miao Cave, and Hu Jin observed that its yin-filled buildings held corpses burdened with unresolved resentment.
• Luo Bin warned that finding a Fire Hexagram position would be difficult, but Zhang Yunxi chose the Fire direction; Luo Bin then saw figures behind the complex's dark windows.

Luo Bin and the others entered Three Miao Cave to find a room where they could begin sha-transforming and help free Lord Mo Di from the Corpse Prison. After Bai Xian vanished, they secured a room, but Bai Su recklessly killed a hidden gu person and angered Zhang Yunxi.

• Bai Guanli led the group into Three Miao Cave, where Luo Bin used the Compass to navigate its confusing passages.
• The Compass showed six ominous needle patterns, and Bai Xian vanished during a sudden dimming of the light.
• Zhang Yunxi tied the remaining five together with a red cord and urged Luo Bin to find a room while Bai Guanli searched for a breach in the Corpse Prison.
• Luo Bin found a cramped room filled with jars, and Zhang Yunxi and Hu Jin covered it with talismans.
• Bai Guanli performed a ritual that revealed a sixth shadow, and Bai Su struck down the gu person it belonged to.
• Zhang Yunxi rebuked Bai Su for acting rashly, while the dead gu person's worms escaped into the cracks.

Zhang Yunxi tried to contain the danger after Bai Su’s attack drew Lord Mo Di’s attention, then led the group back into the corpse prison. Luo Bin spotted a Black Di Water Corpse lunging at Zhang Yunxi, but the creature vanished, leaving Luo Bin unsure whether he had seen it at all.

• Zhang Yunxi explained that Bai Su’s attack had exposed the group to Lord Mo Di and spoiled their safe retreat, while Luo Bin considered whether people from the Veiling Heaven Lands lacked mental fortitude.
• Bai Guanli accepted responsibility, and Zhang Yunxi waited through two rounds of knocking before renewing the talismans and arranging a Jade Hall Formation with Guiding Coins.
• Zhang Yunxi tied the group together with red cord and explained how the coins could help them return to the room if they became separated.
• Luo Bin opened the door and led the group into a dark corridor that returned them to the corpse prison, where the entrance disappeared from sight.
• Luo Bin saw a Black Di Water Corpse crawling above them and lunging at Zhang Yunxi, but the creature vanished, and Zhang Yunxi saw only an empty corridor.

Luo Bin and Bai Guanli realized that Lord Mo Di was using the Corpse Prison and Spirit Collision to deceive and divide them, while blood corpses preyed on their desires and emotions. Luo Bin resisted long enough to recognize the blood worm, but he and Bai Guanli became trapped in separate visions as the others vanished.

• Luo Bin recounted seeing Lord Mo Di, and Bai Guanli warned that an unseen corpse was trying to separate the group through the red cord.
• Luo Bin and Bai Guanli discovered that Hu Jin, Zhang Yunxi, and Bai Su had vanished, then saw them reappear after the cord connecting them had snapped.
• Bai Guanli dispelled the apparent pursuers with his palm strikes, while Luo Bin used his Compass to resist Spirit Collision and realized Hu Jin might have been controlled.
• Luo Bin found a blood-colored worm on his hand and mistook Bai Guanli for Yi Gu, but Miao Miao and Huang Ying appeared and seized his arms as his red cord broke.
• Bai Guanli walked after a woman in his own vision, driven by a real blood worm and an illusory white worm that intensified his desire and rage.

Luo Bin was captured by Lord Mo Di, who tried to force the Rainbow Pill out of his own body and into Luo Bin. The Miao King rushed toward Sanmiao Cave to stop him, but the Pill was already falling toward Luo Bin’s mouth.

• Luo Bin used the pain of Rewind’s backlash to break free from the three corpse worms’ illusions, but Lord Mo Di struck him and dragged him away.
• Kong An took Luo Bin’s Bronze Clubs and used his blood to transform a lotus pagoda.
• Lord Mo Di dragged Luo Bin to a window and began retching, revealing that he intended to expel the Rainbow Pill into him.
• Fourth Master Gray attacked Lord Mo Di but was struck and sent flying from Sanmiao Cave.
• Luo Bin realized Lord Mo Di had chosen him as a recipient for the Rainbow Pill, while the Miao King raced toward the cave to save his disciple.
• The Rainbow Pill fell from Lord Mo Di’s mouth toward Luo Bin.

Kong An interrupted Lord Mo Di as he tried to force the Rainbow Pill into Luo Bin, then fought the Ascended Malevolent Corpse inside the Three Miao Cave. Luo Bin clung outside the window as Kong An pursued Lord Mo Di and a Living Corpse into a hole, while the Miao King and moon disappeared.

• Kong An caught the Rainbow Pill and shoved it into Lord Mo Di's mouth, then pulled Luo Bin upright and stunned Lord Mo Di with his voice.
• Kong An swept Luo Bin out the window and fought Lord Mo Di, who tore away Kong An's Bone Shards and robe as he slipped free.
• Kong An's words froze Lord Mo Di, but Gu Worms crawled over him and his ritual weapons failed to pierce Lord Mo Di's body.
• A water-covered Living Corpse attacked Kong An, who knocked it and Lord Mo Di into the hole in the rear wall before pursuing them with two thighbones.
• Luo Bin clung outside the window and saw that the Miao King and the moon had vanished as an unnatural chill surrounded him.

Luo Bin escaped Lord Mo Di’s Corpse Prison and reunited with Zhang Yunxi, Hu Jin, and Bai Su in a trapped chamber. When Kong An drew the cave’s corpses away, they tried to flee, but Bai Su grabbed Luo Bin and demanded that he head toward the Fire Hexagram to save his Master and Junior Sister.

• Luo Bin used the Guiding Coins to find Zhang Yunxi’s talisman-protected room and escaped the Corpse Prison.
• Zhang Yunxi, Hu Jin, and Bai Su rushed into the room, and Luo Bin told them that Lord Mo Di had trapped Kong An.
• Zhang Yunxi warned that the cave held other powerful beings and that the group had little chance of survival.
• The pounding outside stopped as Kong An drew the Three Miao Cave’s living corpses toward Lord Mo Di, and Zhang Yunxi ordered everyone to flee.
• Bai Su seized Luo Bin’s wrist and insisted he go in the Fire Hexagram direction rather than abandon his Master and Junior Sister.

Luo Bin recovered the Lightning-Struck Chestnut Heartwood from Bai Su as the group searched for a way out of the Three Miao Cave. They met the Miao King outside, where he explained that he had come to protect Luo Bin and revealed that a Back Spirit was waiting to exploit his death.

• Zhang Yunxi provoked Bai Su, and Luo Bin seized the Lightning-Struck Chestnut Heartwood hidden beneath Bai Su's clothes.
• Bai Su released Luo Bin to avoid the Black-Gold Toad's poisonous tongue, and Luo Bin, Zhang Yunxi, and Hu Jin hurried north through the Three Miao Cave.
• The group found the Miao King waiting outside the meeting hall, and he thanked Zhang Yunxi for looking after Luo Bin.
• Luo Bin offered the Good Corpse Core, but the Miao King refused it and said his concern was not his remaining lifespan.
• The Miao King explained that he had come out to protect Luo Bin from the Back Spirit, who planned to strike after his death, and Hu Jin asked whether he was testing human nature.