Chapter Summaries

Luo Bin used the Five Thunder Pestle and the Black-Gold Toad to fight the Beast-Headed Humans, but they took control of his body and led him away from Bai Wei. Fourth Master Gray found him on the mountain path and urged Luo Bin to let him possess him.

• Luo Bin struck the Snake-Headed Human and weakened two more Beast-Headed Humans with the Five Thunder Pestle.
• A disguised Yellow Weasel-headed human entered the shrine, and Luo Bin realized the apparent Bai Xian was an impostor.
• The Black-Gold Toad's venom killed a Fox-Headed Person and severely damaged the Snake-Headed Human, while the remaining Beast-Headed Humans carried Bai Wei away.
• Luo Bin lost control of his numb body and followed the Beast-Headed Humans toward the mountain path as the Black-Gold Toad tried to protect him.
• Fourth Master Gray appeared on Luo Bin's shoulder and excitedly urged him to allow spirit possession.

Luo Bin was taken to a burial ground where Shamanesses and spirit dancers tried to deliver the Five Corpse Immortals. The rite awakened the Five Corpse Immortals in Bai Wei, who broke free and reached Luo Bin despite the Shamanesses’ attempt to stop him.

• Luo Bin entered the burial grounds with the captured Bai Wei and was surrounded by Shamanesses, while Fourth Master Gray was caught by the tail.
• The spirit dancers placed the Five Corpse Immortals on separate bonfires and performed a rite to deliver their souls.
• The Five Corpse Immortals returned to Bai Wei’s body, protected themselves with a corpse core, and overwhelmed the Fox-Headed People.
• Bai Wei escaped the encirclement and raced toward Luo Bin as the Shamanesses chanted to drive out the possessing spirits.
• Bai Wei struck two Shamanesses who tried to block him, grabbed Luo Bin, and shouted for the others to get lost.

Luo Bin was caught in a clash with the Shamanesses, whose leader could transfer wounds she inflicted on herself to others. After she explained that Sawu Mountain intended to deliver the Five Corpse Immortals, Luo Bin learned that Shi Gan had already visited and was left facing the Shamaness’s demands.

• Bai Wei tried to carry Luo Bin away but suffered a mysterious waist wound and was taken by the beast-headed humans.
• Luo Bin attempted to summon a poison tide, but his fingers, tongue, and chest were injured, preventing him from using his Gu Arts and Hexagram Speech Manifestation.
• A Shamaness cut herself and caused matching wounds on Luo Bin, then healed them by stopping her own injury.
• The Shamaness explained that the Immortal Creatures needed to pass on and that Sawu Mountain would not allow the Five Corpse Immortals to remain alive.
• Luo Bin presented the Moon-Shaped Stone, but the Shamaness said Shi Gan had already visited and denied that Luo Bin was the Venue Master.
• The Shamaness approached Luo Bin and remarked on his unusual resemblance to a presence deep within Sawu Mountain; Luo Bin asked what she wanted.

Luo Bin was captured by the Sawu Mountain shamanesses, who threatened his companions and tested him with blood from the mountain’s core. The test changed their attitude toward him, but he recognized that their newfound reverence concealed a sinister scheme.

• A shamaness discovered that Luo Bin was occupying someone else’s body and threatened Bai Xian, Xu Lu, and Fourth Master Gray to force his cooperation.
• Luo Bin restored the shamaness tormented by the Golden Silkworm Gu, then followed the woman while planning to wait for Shi Gan to notice his absence.
• The shamanesses made Luo Bin bathe in medicinal water, and one of them trapped the Black-Gold Toad in a jade bowl after his attempt to warn it caused his tongue to bleed.
• The woman presented Luo Bin with a bowl of dark blood from Sawu Mountain’s core, and the blood tried to enter his finger before recoiling.
• The woman and the other shamanesses prostrated themselves and treated Luo Bin with sudden reverence, but he recognized the woman’s hidden malice and asked where she intended to take him.

Luo Bin learned that the Shaman Queen Yi Yi wanted him to become Sawu Mountain’s Shaman King, while Shi Gan sought a way to rescue him. After realizing the shamanesses’ physiognomies had changed to foretell prosperity for a husband and children, Luo Bin feared he was being groomed to father their descendants.

• Luo Bin released the Black-Gold Toad from the jade bowl after a shamaness warned that it might die if it followed him to the place he was going.
• The Shaman Queen told Shi Gan that Luo Bin might become the Shaman King and that the shamanesses would bear his descendants; Shi Gan reluctantly accepted her decision.
• Shi Gan resolved to find Luo Bin and help him leave, but sensed danger in the woods as Beast-Headed Men appeared around him.
• Yi Yi returned and led Luo Bin away, and he learned that she was the Shaman Queen.
• Luo Bin used Rewind to compare the shamanesses’ faces and realized their physiognomies had changed to predict prosperous husbands and children after he touched the blood in the jade bowl.

Luo Bin discovered that Yi Yi intended to use him to continue the Witch Lineage’s bloodline, then hid in a mountain fissure after reaching the blood pool beneath Sawu Mountain. As he read the Legacy Book of Primordial Calculation, he resolved to resist the fate others had chosen for him and swore to kill the Witch’s husband.

• Luo Bin noticed that older shamanesses bore physiognomies associated with their husbands’ deaths and concluded that the Witch Lineage had eliminated its men after using them to continue the bloodline.
• Luo Bin descended to a blood-filled pool beneath Sawu Mountain, where Yi Yi told him he qualified to become the Witch King but warned him not to touch anything.
• Luo Bin realized Yi Yi planned to use him to pass his unusual abilities to future generations of shamanesses, rather than let him control Sawu Mountain for himself.
• Luo Bin told Yi Yi he would investigate the presence in the pool, then slipped into a mountain fissure and hid while the black-gold toad spread venom ahead of him.
• Luo Bin read the Legacy Book of Primordial Calculation, recognized how others had manipulated his fate, and vowed to take revenge by killing the Witch’s husband.

Luo Bin expelled his soul from his body to escape Yuan Yinxin’s reach, leaving the Black-Gold Toad to protect his body and carry out his instructions. His soul awakened beside a coffin and encountered Luo Shan, while Yuan Yinxin and Xu Lu sensed that something had gone wrong.

• Luo Bin completed the Seven Yin Arts Talisman formation with the Black-Gold Toad’s help, expelled his soul, and used the Malevolent Corpse Pill and Yuan Yinxin’s Fingers to keep his body alive.
• The Black-Gold Toad entered the mountain’s cracks with the Gu Silkworm Gold and a crescent-shaped stone, while Luo Bin’s body remained unresponsive inside the talisman barrier.
• Yuan Yinxin saw Luo Bin’s piece shatter on the board and struggled to absorb the excess life force, wondering what his disciple was plotting.
• Xu Lu felt uneasy while drawing talismans, then pierced his foot on a copper pin from Luo Bin’s ritual artifacts and realized something terrible had happened.
• Luo Bin awoke beside a coffin and saw Luo Shan’s soul hovering above it, then asked whether this place or Mountain Cabinet Village was lonelier.

Xu Lu discovered signs that Luo Bin had been poisoned and received a warning from the Black Gold Toad to descend the Mountain, while Shangguan Xingyue sensed that her junior brother had died. Yi Yi ordered the Shamanesses to capture Luo Bin’s companions and prepare the five corpse immortals’ rites, and the Black Gold Toad set off in pursuit of an unknown destination.

• Xu Lu learned from the Two-Tailed Fox Immortal that Little Gray Spirit had found traces of sweet-smelling poison in Luo Bin’s room.
• Xu Lu recognized the Black Gold Toad beneath a Cinnabar Tortoise shell and read its message: “Go down the mountain.”
• The Black Gold Toad spat out Luo Bin’s moon-shaped stone as a silkworm emerged, and Xu Lu realized Luo Bin’s life-bound Gu had left him.
• Shangguan Xingyue lost her connection to her junior brother and broke down, blaming herself and crying out against Sawu Mountain.
• Gonpo told Lama Tsangyang that someone had died and that Tsangyang could live, prompting him to wonder whether another Living Buddha would emerge.
• Yi Yi ordered the Shamanesses to capture Luo Bin’s male and female companions, prepare the five corpse immortals’ rites, and punish Immortal Ash; afterward, Xu Lu left to find help and reunite with Bai Xian, while the Black Gold Toad set off in another direction.

Luo Bin recovered some clarity by using Rewind to access the undistorted part of Primordial Calculation, then left the cave to find food and regain his strength. Meanwhile, the Black-Gold Toad freed Fourth Master Gray from his cage, and the two headed down the mountain as Fourth Master Gray realized something was wrong with the toad.

• Luo Bin discovered that Rewind still worked and restored access to the correct portion of Primordial Calculation.
• Luo Bin drew Luo Shan into his left little fingernail and left the cave to recover his strength.
• The Black-Gold Toad killed the three rat-headed guards and freed Fourth Master Gray from the iron cage.
• The Black-Gold Toad and Fourth Master Gray left the Immortal Tower and crawled down the mountain.
• Fourth Master Gray noticed the Black-Gold Toad's tears and stopped squeaking as he understood the toad was grieving.

After recovering from hunger and illness, Luo Bin reached a remote village, where Su Su rescued him and brought him home. He identified a supernatural source of her father’s chest tightness and decided to stay, beginning to understand that engaging with the world was his path to mastering innate divination.

• Luo Bin descended the mountain, collapsed near the village, and woke in Su Su’s home after she gave him glucose.
• Luo Bin told Su Su and her wary father that someone had tied him up and taken his phone and ID, then accepted food and money from Su Su.
• When Luo Bin asked to stay, he recognized that Su Su’s father’s chest tightness came from a fiendish object piercing the gate’s lintel.
• Luo Bin had Su Su’s father hang a mirror to reveal the object, then asked him to bring a knife and Su Su to prepare paper and a pen.
• Luo Bin reflected that engaging with the world, rather than retreating into seclusion on Sawu Mountain, might be his path to mastering innate divination.

Luo Bin relieved Su Jian’s chest pain by identifying and cutting down a pole pointed at the Su family home, then rested and studied the Innate Calculation inheritance. While he slept, grave robbers were injured trying to dig beside a grave, and Su Jian tended his wife’s grave as the villagers searched the mountain; blood began dripping from the knife under the Su family’s eaves as Luo Bin asked Su Su for water.

• Luo Bin found a pole pointing from the graves toward the Su family home and told Su Jian to cut it down, after which Su Jian’s breathing eased.
• Luo Bin instructed Su Jian to hang the woodcutter’s knife beneath the courtyard eaves, then wrote and studied the Innate Calculation inheritance before eating and going to sleep.
• Three men digging beside a grave on the mountain suffered a severe injury when a shovel broke and one man’s hand was sliced off.
• Villagers gathered after hearing that Su Jian’s family grave had been disturbed, and Su Jian stayed behind to reseal his wife’s grave while others followed the blood trail uphill.
• Su Su noticed blood dripping from the knife beneath the eaves, and Luo Bin opened his door and asked her to bring him water.

Luo Bin used the Su family’s old house to gather five kinds of poisonous creatures and seal them together in a jar, hoping to make a gu while he rebuilt his abilities. Meanwhile, grave robbers discovered a jade coffin in a mountain cave and released the beautiful female corpse inside, who trapped them in a mist-filled maze.

• Luo Bin explored an abandoned house and identified it as a place where the five poisons lived.
• Luo Bin borrowed a jar and tools from Su Su, then caught centipedes, toads, scorpions, geckos, and a snake and sealed them together to make a gu.
• Luo Bin returned to the Su house and hid the jar beneath his bed, resolving to patiently regain his lost abilities and prepare for revenge.
• A gang of grave robbers entered a cave and found a jade coffin containing a beautiful female corpse.
• The robbers cut the cord binding the corpse to the coffin and tried to take her away.
• The female corpse opened her eyes as mist filled the cave, trapping the robbers in a maze where they crashed into the walls.

Luo Bin realized that a Yin-Yang Practitioner was targeting Su Jian and Su Su, so he ordered them to stay inside while he studied the primordial calculation inheritance. Jin Youde plotted to kill Su Jian and have his grandson take Su Su, unaware that Luo Bin was protecting them.

• Luo Bin spotted ominous lines on Su Jian and Su Su’s brows and told them not to leave the courtyard.
• Su Su asked whether the grave robbers had caused the danger, but Luo Bin said the threat was unrelated and promised they would be safe near him.
• Jin Youde revealed that he had arranged fiendish auras to kill Su Jian and agreed to his grandson’s plan to target Su Jian and Su Su.
• Jin Youde handled a Human-Skin Garment and vowed revenge on whoever had stolen his garment and ghost.
• Luo Bin sneezed, then returned to studying and writing out the primordial calculation inheritance.

Jin Jie tried to lure Su Jian and Su Su into negotiating with his family, but a falling knife nearly killed him and convinced Su Jian to follow Luo Bin’s warnings. Luo Bin discovered the Jin Family was targeting the Su Family, sent his centipede Gu after Jin Jie, and left Jin Jie convulsing after he tried to tamper with the feng shui at the building site.

• Jin Jie arrived at Su Jian’s home to invite him and Su Su to negotiate over the papers for their new house, but Su Jian delayed the visit because Luo Bin had warned them not to go out.
• Jin Jie stumbled at the gate as a woodcutter’s knife fell beside his face, then fled when Su Jian tried to explain the accident.
• Luo Bin told Su Jian that the Jin Family meant them harm and instructed him to secure the courtyard and keep sharp tools by the gate.
• Luo Bin found hairs near the spot where the knife had fallen and fed them to his centipede Gu before sending it into the foundation pit at the Jin Family’s property.
• Jin Jie dug a hole and prepared to bury a set of teeth as part of a feng shui arrangement, but the centipede Gu poisoned him and left him convulsing.
• A figure wearing Jin Youde’s human skin arrived as Jin Jie was carried back into the courtyard.

Luo Bin laid a centipede gu trap for Jin Jie and confronted Jin Youde, who came demanding the remedy. When Jin Youde countered Luo Bin’s traps, Luo Bin used Mountain Death-Extinction Hexagram against him, but Jin Youde resisted with a strange multicolored garment.

• Luo Bin told Su Jian that the Su Family could use the old courtyard for their house and warned him not to sign anything before Luo Bin left.
• Luo Bin waited in the courtyard, expecting Jin Youde to come after the centipede gu afflicted Jin Jie.
• Jin Youde entered the courtyard, avoided Luo Bin’s traps, and demanded that he come back and undo the gu.
• Luo Bin invoked Mountain Death-Extinction Hexagram, causing Jin Youde severe pain and weakness, then warned him to remain still to avert calamity.
• Jin Youde tried to stand and threw a patchwork garment at Luo Bin, whose appearance horrified him.

Luo Bin used his strengthened yang blood, a copied talisman, and the house’s feng shui to drive back Jin Youde’s Green Wraith Ghost and protect Su Su and her father. Jin Youde escaped toward the courtyard gate, where a beautiful woman blocked his way.

• Jin Youde sent the Human-Skin Garment’s Green Wraith Ghost to attack Luo Bin, but Luo Bin’s blood and notebook burned her face.
• Jin Youde smeared his blood on the Human-Skin Garment to restore the ghost, while Luo Bin bloodied the mirror and drew a talisman on the main door.
• Luo Bin shut himself inside, and the house’s bloodied mirror and talisman prevented the ghost from entering through any door.
• Jin Youde, too injured to stand, used the ghost’s possession to retreat toward the exit as Luo Bin watched him go.
• Jin Youde reached the open courtyard gate and found a beautiful woman waiting there; he cursed at her to get lost.

Luo Bin left the Su home to confront Jin Youde, but found that Jin Youde had already been killed by the Green Wraith Ghost he had tortured and controlled. The abducted people were missing, and Luo Bin was left facing Jin Youde’s skinless body in the basement.

• Jin Youde escaped Luo Bin and seized a woman who had blocked his path, then carried her to his basement.
• Luo Bin decided he could not abandon the woman and hurried to the Jin home after warning Su Su and Su Jian to remain inside.
• Jin Youde ordered the Green Wraith Ghost to skin the woman, but four mysterious people restrained him while the ghost revealed her skinned true form.
• The Green Wraith Ghost tore off Jin Youde’s face and killed him in the basement.
• Luo Bin entered the Jin home and found Jin Youde dead in a human-skin garment, then asked whether the abducted people had been released.

Luo Bin subdued Jin Youde’s Green Wraith Ghost, returned to the Su Family residence, and discovered that the Human-Skin Garment could help him collect ghosts for a future Daylight Hexagram Flower Lantern. Jin Youde’s diary and a hidden map pointed Luo Bin toward a grave where he had hoped to further cultivate a Five-Prison Ghost.

• Luo Bin sealed the Green Wraith Ghost inside the Human-Skin Garment with his Blood Talisman, and Jin Youde’s body fell to the floor.
• Luo Bin searched Jin Youde’s belongings, warned the middle-aged couple not to harm the Su Family, and returned to tell Su Su and Su Jian that they were safe.
• Luo Bin decided to use the Green Wraith Ghost as lamp oil for a Daylight Hexagram Flower Lantern and found instructions for using the Human-Skin Garment to contain ghosts.
• Luo Bin imprinted the Human-Skin Garment with a talisman, then read Jin Youde’s diary and learned that the Ghost Shrine elder had fled after its leaders fell and power changed hands.
• Luo Bin found a map hidden in Jin Youde’s notebook and learned that Jin Youde had planned to visit a marked grave to advance his cultivation of a Five-Prison Ghost.

Luo Bin searched for Daxiang City's Nether Market to sell Jin Youde's ritual artifacts, but discovered the underground venue was a Gui Market instead. As he entered the Stall Market, the practitioner Fan Jie approached him eagerly, and Luo Bin remained wary of him.

• Luo Bin concealed the Human-Skin Garment, continued studying his inheritance for seven days, and decided to seek fieldwork and sell Jin Youde's belongings.
• Luo Bin traveled to Daxiang City, replaced his ID card, and used his knowledge of feng shui to locate an underground market.
• At the entrance, Sun Yu explained that Luo Bin had found the Gui Market rather than the Nether Market and gave him a pendant for entry.
• An attendant led Luo Bin through the expansive Gui Market toward the Stall Market while a practitioner followed them.
• Fan Jie introduced himself as the Empty Mountain Practitioner and pressed Luo Bin to trade with him, but Luo Bin refused to go elsewhere and studied him with suspicion.

Luo Bin sold a set of Fate-Suppressing Objects and Ritual Artifacts at Gui Market after Fan Jie tried to pressure him into a cheap deal. Fan Jie paid a gold bar and Zhongshan baijiao, but Resident Elder Long Liang then asked Luo Bin for a rubbing of something he had not shown.

• Fan Jie followed Luo Bin into Gui Market, hoping to acquire his practitioner equipment by offering a connection to a Hua Family master.
• Luo Bin laid out the items and rejected Fan Jie's pitch, pointing out Fan Jie's corpse energy and asking for money, gold, or soul-nourishing medicinal materials.
• Fan Jie offered a hundred thousand for the Compass and wanted the remaining items included for free, but Long Liang intervened and offered a gold bar for the set.
• Fan Jie raised his offer to a gold bar and a piece of Zhongshan baijiao, and Luo Bin accepted before Long Liang could bid again.
• After Fan Jie left with the case, Long Liang thanked Luo Bin and offered the same price for a rubbing of an item Luo Bin had kept hidden.