Chapter Summaries

Luo Bin told Xu Lu about his origins and asked him to help extract He Lianxin’s soul from the Night Watch, but Xu Lu discovered that Luo Bin’s supposed Green Wraith Ghost was actually a Five-Prison Ghost. While Luo Bin slept, Bai Xian approached him with two Gau Bone Beads, and two injured monks appeared beside his bed, chanting.

• Luo Bin revealed his summoned soul, his enemies’ attempts to kill him, and his hope that Xu Lu could free He Lianxin from the Night Watch.
• Xu Lu examined the Day Patrol’s talisman and explained that he could work on the Night Watch after dark or use the Fierce Prison to imitate nighttime.
• Luo Bin showed Xu Lu the Human-Skin Garment, and Xu Lu realized it contained a Five-Prison Ghost, so they agreed to wait until night.
• Xu Lu had Luo Bin burn the talisman bundles containing the two On-Duty City Gods’ souls, then sent him to rest.
• Bai Xian entered Luo Bin’s room, placed two Gau Bone Beads beside his ears, and was stopped by Xu Lu, who carried her back to her room.
• Two wounded monks appeared beside Luo Bin’s bed in the sunlight and silently chanted “Om mani padme hum.”

Shangguan Xingyue hid with Dai Xingjie after he rescued her from the Underground Palace, while Luo Bin watched Xu Lu force the Night Watch to release He Lianxin through a bluff. The Night Watch then exploded under pressure from Xu Lu’s talisman trap, leaving Luo Bin wondering how the ghost had been destroyed.

• Dai Xingjie hid with Shangguan Xingyue in the Supreme Tenuity Configuration and promised to take her to safety and find Dai Zhixiong.
• Luo Bin woke and found Xu Lu covering the room with talismans to contain the Night Watch.
• Xu Lu taunted the Night Watch and threatened it with powerful talismans until it expelled He Lianxin’s soul.
• Xu Lu admitted that his most frightening talisman was fake, though his Earth Aspect Soul-Returning Talisman had helped extract He Lianxin.
• The Night Watch swelled and exploded as talismans flew toward it, and Xu Lu blamed its destruction on its inability to withstand psychological pressure.

Luo Bin reunited with his mother, He Lianxin, but found her still confused and trapped in a ghostly state. He and Xu Lu stabilized Bai Xian and discovered worms controlling her; as they set off to find Immortal Ash, Mo Kun warned them of powerful Evil Immortals near Tongzhou City, possibly connected to Fourth Master Gray.

• Xu Lu went upstairs to watch over Bai Xian while Luo Bin approached He Lianxin, who failed to recognize him and wandered toward the door.
• Luo Bin's black-gold toad suppressed He Lianxin with a talisman, and Luo Bin vowed to cure her and reunite their family.
• Luo Bin used the gu silkworm gold on Bai Xian, which ate many of the worms emerging from her, but he and Xu Lu concluded that they still needed to learn what the worms were.
• Xu Lu resolved to travel to the Tibetan lands to investigate the worms, while he and Luo Bin agreed to wait until they were stronger and Bai Xian was more lucid.
• Mo Kun told Luo Bin that a mountain east of Tongzhou City held multiple powerful Evil Immortals after repeated Taoist expeditions suffered heavy losses.
• Luo Bin and Xu Lu suspected one of the mountain's Spirit Mediums might be Fourth Master Gray's new backer, and Xu Lu proposed collecting talismans from the Evil Immortals.

Luo Bin, Xu Lu, and Bai Xian traveled to a mountain town to investigate the Immortal Creatures troubling nearby villages, while carrying a Five-Prison Ghost they could not yet safely dispose of. As they approached a village at night, Luo Bin spotted a woman who looked exactly like the supposedly dead Hu Xing, and Xu Lu stopped him from rushing out.

• Xu Lu agreed to help investigate the Immortal Creatures in exchange for compensation, and he, Luo Bin, and Bai Xian traveled with Shen Dong to a town near the mountains.
• Luo Bin and Xu Lu concluded they could not destroy or hand over the Five-Prison Ghost, so they kept her contained in the Human-Skin Garment beneath the Fourfold Compass.
• After dusk, the three left town and headed for a village where Immortal Creatures often appeared, planning to investigate quietly and capture a House Immortal or spirit medium if they found one.
• Xu Lu led Luo Bin and Bai Xian into a bamboo grove after spotting a figure near the village.
• Luo Bin recognized the woman as looking exactly like Hu Xing, whom he believed Dai Zhixiong had killed, and Xu Lu grabbed his shoulder to keep him from revealing their presence.

Luo Bin, Xu Lu, and Bai Xian followed a woman who resembled Hu Xing to a farmhouse, where Old Yan and his granddaughter Yan Nan told them that Evil Immortals had been terrorizing their village and stealing children. While the group hid inside, a red bridal sedan chair passed the gate with bowing Gray Immortals, revealing a strange wedding procession and leaving the three to pursue their mission without being discovered.

• Luo Bin followed a woman resembling Hu Xing and realized she was a stranger when she entered a farmhouse.
• Bai Xian sensed danger nearby, and the group knocked on the farmhouse gate rather than breaking in.
• Old Yan introduced his granddaughter Yan Nan and explained that Evil Immortals had been entering the village and stealing children.
• Xu Lu promised Old Yan that he would help the villagers, while Luo Bin and Bai Xian approached the gate to investigate the sounds outside.
• Luo Bin saw four gray-furred rats kowtowing before a floating red bridal sedan chair, and a cat-sized Gray Immortal emerged to bow before the procession departed.

Luo Bin connected the Gray Immortals’ bride-seeking to Bai Wei and led Xu Lu and Bai Xian up the mountain to investigate. At Five Immortals Abbey, a woman warned them away, but Luo Bin approached the gates after a hideous face appeared behind them.

• Old Yan and Yan Nan told Luo Bin’s group that the villagers were trapped and that the Gray Immortals had been seeking Yan Nan as a bride.
• Luo Bin suspected that Bai Wei was behind the Gray Immortals’ visits because Yan Nan resembled Hu Xing, and Xu Lu planned how they might subdue and restore Bai Wei.
• At dawn, Luo Bin, Xu Lu, and Bai Xian left Old Yan’s home and followed Xu Lu’s divination toward the mountain.
• The three reached Five Immortals Abbey, passing eerie statues of human-bodied Immortal Creatures along the steps.
• A woman beckoned them away from the abbey as its gate opened to reveal a hideous face; Bai Xian struck at the gate, but Luo Bin headed toward it despite the woman’s warning.

Luo Bin and his companions entered the Five Immortals Abbey, where an old spirit medium revealed how Bai Wei and a renegade disciple had seized control of the mountain. Learning that a Gray Immortal was being made to marry Yan Nan, Luo Bin headed down the mountain to find her, despite the dangers.

• Luo Bin led Xu Lu and Bai Xian into the dusty Five Immortals Abbey after deciding the woman outside was suspicious.
• An old man told Luo Bin that a renegade disciple had trapped the abbey’s residents and that a mad five immortals spirit medium had arrived six months earlier and slaughtered many of them.
• The old man explained that Bai Wei’s Gray Immortal was meant to marry Yan Nan, an ordinary girl living below the mountain.
• Luo Bin concluded Bai Wei was near Three Incense Mountain and that Yan Nan might be his reason for staying.
• Luo Bin left the abbey, and Bai Xian’s thunder attack drove five foxes disguised as a woman away from the gates.
• Luo Bin rejected Xu Lu’s suggestion to deal with the mountain’s dangers first and headed down to reach Yan Nan.

Luo Bin and the others returned to Yan Nan’s courtyard and learned that villagers had taken her to the Old Immortal Cave to appease the Immortal Creatures. As Luo Bin hurried to rescue her, Hu Youlong prepared to violate Yan Nan and scheme against the Gray Immortal.

• Xu Lu reflected on Luo Bin’s quick judgment, while Luo Bin warned him to stay focused on dealing with Bai Wei.
• Luo Bin, Xu Lu, and Bai Xian returned to Yan Nan’s courtyard and stopped Old Yan from hanging himself.
• Old Yan revealed that villagers had taken Yan Nan to the Old Immortal Cave, believing her marriage to a Gray Immortal would protect the village.
• Luo Bin rushed west toward the Old Immortal Cave after hearing where Yan Nan had been taken.
• Hu Youlong found Yan Nan restrained in an Immortal Tower and prepared to claim her for himself.

Luo Bin, Bai Xian, and Xu Lu confronted Hu Youlong at the Old Immortal Cave, where Bai Xian killed him with a palm strike and a Path-Clearing Curse. They rescued Yan Nan and started back, while Xu Lu glimpsed a human silhouette near the cave entrance.

• Hu Youlong emerged from the Immortal Towers and attacked the approaching group, intending to take Yan Nan and kill one of them.
• Bai Xian struck Hu Youlong in the chest, then set him ablaze with the Path-Clearing Curse as he fled into the Old Immortal Cave.
• Luo Bin found Yan Nan trapped on a bed by two snakes, killed them, and helped her leave the Immortal Towers.
• Yan Nan clung to Luo Bin in fear, then took Bai Xian's hand as the group started back.
• Xu Lu saw what looked like a human silhouette in his phone camera near the cave, checked the entrance, and hurried after the others.

After bringing Yan Nan back, Luo Bin prepared an arrangement to protect her and draw out the threat behind the Gray Immortals. As the group waited through the night, a strange Spirit Medium appeared at the courtyard gate, and Luo Bin realized the figure was neither Bai Wei nor the person he expected.

• Yan Nan reunited with Old Yan, and Xu Lu assured them the group would stay until the danger was dealt with.
• Luo Bin rejected a stillness hexagram and set up the Bright Palace Sixteen Hexagrams in the courtyard.
• Luo Bin told Yan Nan to follow his plan, assigned Bai Xian to drive off any returning Gray Immortals, and warned Xu Lu to be ready to intervene.
• Luo Bin altered Yan Nan’s appearance and had her wait on the steps while he removed the courtyard talismans.
• A gaunt, purple-skinned Spirit Medium appeared at the gate, and Luo Bin recognized that the figure was not Bai Wei.

Xu Lu, Luo Bin, and Bai Xian confronted the newly awakened Underground Master, whose corpse-immortals controlled his body and attacked them. After Bai Xian was badly wounded, the Old Immortal turned toward Xu Lu, who defiantly answered his threat.

• Xu Lu recognized the pale figure as an Underground Master from the Old Immortal Cave, and Luo Bin realized he was the former Abbey Master of the Five Immortals Abbey.
• Xu Lu tried to explain why they had killed Hu Youlong, but the Old Immortal approached Yan Nan with five reanimated corpse-immortals clinging to him.
• An unseen ally struck the Old Immortal with a Heavenly Thunder talisman, but the lightning left him and the corpse-immortals unharmed.
• Bai Xian attacked with talismans and flames, but Xu Lu realized the corpse-immortals were controlling the Old Immortal, who then wounded her in a rapid counterattack.
• The Old Immortal overpowered Bai Xian and moved toward Xu Lu, demanding to know what he was looking at; Xu Lu loudly challenged him.

Luo Bin’s plan succeeded when Bai Wei appeared, but Bai Wei tried to summon Bai Qingjin and turned against Luo Bin. Luo Bin used hexagram speech and Six Yin Mountain’s ritual artifact to disrupt Bai Wei’s control, only for Bai Qingjin to awaken as a smoke soul.

• The Old Immortal defeated Xu Lu and threatened Luo Bin, while the five living Immortals emerged from Yan Nan’s room with Bai Wei.
• Yan Nan gave Bai Wei the corpse core, and the Old Immortal attacked him as the living Immortals fought the corpse immortals.
• Bai Wei summoned Bai Qingjin’s spirit, and Luo Bin used Clear Wind over Lake to interrupt the summoning and urge Bai Wei to wake up.
• Fourth Master Gray emerged from Bai Wei’s clothes, and Luo Bin struck Six Yin Mountain’s ritual artifact, stunning Bai Wei and the Immortals.
• Luo Bin urged Bai Wei to remember Hu Xing and his cultivation deviation, but a Fox Immortal sang and Bai Qingjin opened her eyes as a smoke soul.

Luo Bin and the Old Immortal fought Bai Qingjin and the Immortal Creatures while Bai Wei struggled under Hexagram Speech Manifestation. Bai Wei spat out the Corpse Core and charged the Old Immortal, leaving Luo Bin shocked by his actions.

• Bai Qingjin tried to suck out Luo Bin's soul, but the Old Immortal's Three-Tailed Fox Immortal pulled her away and swallowed her.
• Bai Wei's Immortal Creatures attacked the Old Immortal, while Luo Bin struck the Fox Immortal with the Five Thunder Pestle and pinned it with a copper rod.
• The Fox Immortal changed its face into He Lianxin's and Yi Gu's, distracting Luo Bin as Bai Wei approached him with a sickle.
• Bai Wei cut off the Fox Immortal's head, then spat out the Corpse Core and swept a hand over the Fox Immortal's corpse.
• Bai Wei charged at the Old Immortal, leaving Luo Bin unable to tell whether he had regained his senses or gone completely insane.

Bai Wei regained control of himself by killing the Fox Immortal and disabling the other Immortal Creatures, but the old immortal demanded the Corpse Core and the creatures. The old immortal took them and warned that he would also claim Bai Wei’s remaining Immortal Creatures.

• Bai Wei attacked his own Immortal Creatures, killing the Fox Immortal and incapacitating the Yellow Immortal, Gray Immortal, White Immortal, and Willow Immortal.
• Luo Bin realized the Immortal Creatures had been controlling Bai Wei and that removing them had restored his lucidity.
• The old immortal demanded the Corpse Core, while Fourth Master Gray spoke with him and appeared to negotiate.
• Fourth Master Gray ended its Spirit Possession and returned to Luo Bin as the Corpse Immortals collected the Corpse Core and the defeated Immortal Creatures.
• The old immortal declared that he would take the Corpse Core and the Immortal Creatures, citing Bai Wei’s actions and the lives he had saved.

Bai Wei died after realizing Yan Nan was not Xing'er, while Fourth Master Gray explained how the Four Immortals and Bai Qingjin had been killed. Luo Bin tended to the unconscious survivors, and the chapter ended with the master of Five Immortals Temple entering the courtyard.

• The Old Immortal left, and Bai Wei recognized that Yan Nan was not Xing'er before collapsing and dying.
• Fourth Master Gray told Luo Bin that the Four Immortals had sacrificed themselves to save Bai Wei and revealed that they had driven Bai Qingjin's death.
• Luo Bin carried Yan Nan, Old Yan, Bai Xian, and Xu Lu inside, while Bai Xian began healing herself under the worms' control.
• Xu Lu woke and worried about explaining the deaths and Bai Wei's actions to Divine Firmament Mountain, and Luo Bin relayed Fourth Master Gray's account.
• The current master of Five Immortals Temple entered the courtyard.

Bai Wei returned transformed after the Five Immortals Abbey took him to assess his aptitude, and he asked Yan Nan to become his disciple and carry Hu Xing’s soul. Yan Nan refused, then knelt and called him “Grandpa Bai.”

• An elder from the Five Immortals Abbey took the dying Bai Wei away, explaining that the abbey’s Grand Masters wanted to assess his innate aptitude.
• Over the next three days, Old Yan and Yan Nan recovered, while Fourth Master Gray gradually won Yan Nan’s trust.
• Luo Bin and Xu Lu discussed the dangers of staying, including Bai Qingjin’s soul and Chen Hongming on Divine Firmament Mountain.
• Bai Wei returned to Old Yan’s courtyard looking much younger and radiating a powerful aura.
• Bai Wei apologized to Yan Nan, offered to take her as his disciple, and asked to let Hu Xing’s soul reside within her.
• Yan Nan declined Bai Wei’s offer, then knelt and addressed him as “Grandpa Bai.”

Luo Bin agreed to accompany Bai Wei to the Mountain Gate of Primordial Calculation in exchange for Bai Wei's help against Dai Zhixiong. Bai Wei refused to release Bai Qingjin unless Luo Bin could guarantee Divine Firmament Mountain would not retaliate, leaving their next move unresolved.

• Old Yan felt relieved when Yan Nan refused Bai Wei's offer to take her as a disciple and called him Grandpa Bai instead.
• Luo Bin worried about Hu Xing's fate before falling asleep with Fourth Master Gray beside him.
• Bai Wei told Luo Bin he would accompany him to the Mountain Gate of Primordial Calculation if Luo Bin helped him deal with Dai Zhixiong and returned with him to Sawu Mountain.
• Bai Wei asked Fourth Master Gray whether he would continue following Luo Bin, and Gray answered with several squeaks.
• Luo Bin asked Bai Wei to release Bai Qingjin, but Bai Wei refused unless Luo Bin could guarantee Divine Firmament Mountain would not retaliate.

Luo Bin and Bai Wei traveled with Xu Lu and the others toward Primordial Calculation, arriving at a Great River said to separate a hundred thousand mountains. Luo Bin sensed someone had followed them from Cabinet Mountain, but Bai Wei said their scouts had found no pursuer.

• Bai Wei left the village with Luo Bin, Xu Lu, and Bai Xian, while Yan Nan and Old Yan stayed behind; Xu Lu revealed he had obtained another Gray Immortal, and Fourth Master Gray drove it back into hiding.
• Dai Xingjie and Shangguan Xingyue arrived at Three Paths Mountain after the group had already departed, and Shangguan Xingyue sensed that her Master had gone west.
• After five days of travel, Xu Lu led the group to a riverside town facing the hundred thousand mountains where Primordial Calculation was hidden, and Luo Bin said they would need to cross the river to search for clues.
• Luo Bin sensed a persistent presence following them from Cabinet Mountain and wondered whether Shangguan Xingyue or someone sent by Yuan Yinxin was pursuing him.
• Bai Wei said the Immortal Creatures had found no recurring pursuer and assured Luo Bin that no one from Divine Firmament Mountain could have followed them.

Xu Lu, Luo Bin, and Shen Dong reached Victory Qi Town and learned that boats could not safely cross the Primordial River. While studying the river’s ominous qi, Luo Bin was attacked from behind, and Bai Xian intervened.

• Xu Lu rewarded Shen Dong with talismans after Shen Dong found them lodging and reported that travelers vanished or suffered accidents when crossing the Primordial River.
• Luo Bin considered whether the river marked the boundary of Primordial Calculation’s Mountain Gate, then used water methods to inspect the river’s qi.
• Bai Wei warned that they should not attack anyone who might belong to Primordial Calculation and voiced concern about Yuan Yinxin.
• Luo Bin saw signs of monster and corpse qi beneath the river’s surface, but someone grabbed his shoulders and forced his head underwater.
• Bai Xian pulled the attacker away from Luo Bin, who surfaced as the attacker lay on the ground clapping and giggling.

Luo Bin examined the Primordial River and learned from Liu Shuisheng about the vanished Auspicious Qi Town and the dangers across the water. As Xu Lu prepared to investigate, Luo Bin noticed Shangguan Xingyue watching the river, and she and Dai Xingjie spotted someone below.

• A Village Guardian startled Luo Bin by the river, and Bai Xian nearly killed him before Luo Bin told her to stand down.
• Luo Bin explained that Qi Observation revealed corpse qi in the river, which signaled great calamity and explained why travelers sank.
• Shen Dong brought Liu Shuisheng, who recounted how a flood destroyed Auspicious Qi Town and how people who crossed to investigate never returned.
• Xu Lu tried to hire Liu Shuisheng to take them partway across the river, but Liu refused, so Xu Lu planned to gather supplies and persuade him another way.
• Luo Bin noticed a figure at a courtyard overlooking the river and saw Shangguan Xingyue and Dai Xingjie there; Dai Xingjie spotted someone looking back, and Shangguan Xingyue watched with warmth and joy.