Chapter Summaries

Luo Bin thwarted a supernatural attempt to reach him through the Human-Skin Garment, while Lu Wu and Lu Min sent Longevity Immortals searching for Lu Si. Zhou Sanming, revealed to have escaped and regained some strength, summoned the Longevity Immortals and set out to hunt for people with abundant vital energy.

• Luo Bin sensed a face struggling inside the Human-Skin Garment and used blood-drawn talismans to stop the green mist and silence it.
• Lu Wu and Lu Min fed blood-soaked rice to the Longevity Immortals and sent them searching Gui Market for Lu Si's aura.
• The Human-Skin Garment wrapped around Luo Bin as a woman and several dead figures gathered silently beside his bed.
• Zhou Sanming recalled escaping Elephant Mountain after Xiao Chi drained his vital energy, then recovering by consuming ordinary people's essence.
• Zhou Sanming struck his bronze bowl, summoned the Longevity Immortals, merged them into one, and ordered the resulting spirit to lead the way.

Zhou Sanming met Lu Wu and Lu Min in Gui Market and learned they had prepared the three souls for Soul Fusion. Meanwhile, Luo Bin recovered, gathered supplies, and left Gui Market, leaving Fan Jie to encounter Zhou Sanming and flee in fear.

• Lu Wu and Lu Min were shocked to learn the longevity immortals had fused before the three souls, then knelt when Zhou Sanming entered and recognized him as their Patriarch.
• Zhou Sanming praised Lu Wu and Lu Min for preparing all three souls and questioned how they had evaded Six Yin Mountain's restriction on three generations studying Yin-Yang Arts together.
• Luo Bin woke to find the human-skin garment on his body, received gold bars and cash, and had Huang Bing buy medicinal herbs and other supplies.
• Luo Bin left Gui Market that evening, and Fan Jie arrived at his courtyard too late to find him.
• Fan Jie cursed Zhou Sanming, Lu Wu, and Lu Min, then apologized and rolled away when Lu Min ordered him to leave.

Luo Bin traveled to Stonewall Mountain to refine venomous creatures into gu, using a mountain-wind feng shui site and talismans to improve his chances. After refining nine jars of venomous creatures a second time, he found a surviving gu in every jar and had to decide whether to continue.

• Luo Bin bought venomous creatures in the town near Stonewall Mountain and failed to refine gu from his first batches.
• Luo Bin kept buying venomous creatures until he raised five ordinary gu: three centipedes, a gecko, and a scorpion.
• Luo Bin entered Stonewall Mountain with chickens and entrails, set them out in a valley suited to mountain-wind gu, and studied his primordial calculation inheritance.
• Luo Bin spent half a month refining gu at the valley, using feng shui and talismans to boost his success rate and begin refining gu a second time.
• Luo Bin woke to find a gu alive in each of nine jars, giving him nine twice-refined gu worms, and wondered whether to stop.

Luo Bin risked his accumulated gu worms in an attempt to create a three-refined gu while hunting more venomous creatures on Stonewall Mountain. Jin Lü, a murderous witch doctor who used flying heads and gu to kill Gui Market pursuers, searched the mountain for whoever was depleting its venomous creatures as Luo Bin slept under the protection of a mysterious woman.

• Luo Bin combined nine two-refined gu worms in a jar to attempt a three-refined gu, then went back into the woods to catch more venomous creatures.
• At Buddha Son Temple, Jin Lü used his ocarina to command flying heads to attack a captured Gui Market man and tortured him with a Centipede Gu.
• Jin Lü explained that he had learned gu from an old man but later killed him and fled to Stonewall Mountain, where he planned to refine enough flying heads to leave.
• Suspecting that someone was ravaging the mountain's venomous creatures, Jin Lü flew out to search for the culprit.
• Luo Bin fell asleep among his jars, and a mysterious woman emerged from the valley mist and concealed him and the jars as Jin Lü's head passed overhead.

Luo Bin successfully refined a three-refined snake gu in his valley, while Jin Lü’s search for an intruder led him to mistake its poisonous mist for a naturally born gu. Jin Lü flew toward the valley, believing he had found a rare treasure.

• Luo Bin continued refining gu and gathered venomous creatures as their numbers dwindled around the mountain.
• Jin Lü tortured a man who refused to reveal information, then turned him into the beginnings of a gu-bound person.
• After seven days of searching Stonewall Mountain, Jin Lü failed to find Luo Bin and began to suspect a naturally born gu had appeared.
• Luo Bin’s threefold refinement succeeded, producing a slender black-and-white snake gu that accepted his blood.
• Jin Lü spotted poisonous mist rising from Luo Bin’s valley, concluded a naturally born gu was hidden there, and flew down with dozens of corpse heads following him.

Gui Market’s elders struggled to explain a wave of disappearances while Zhou Sanming prepared to search for Lu Si’s soul. On Stonewall Mountain, Luo Bin defeated Jin Lü with the Calling Bell, but Jin Lü escaped toward Buddha Son Temple after unleashing his gu worms.

• Wu Dong and the elders discussed eighteen missing people, Long Liang’s failed divinations, and their inability to enlist Fan Jie or find Luo Bin.
• Zhou Sanming had Lu Min and Lu Wu collect blood and soak rice, then said he needed a day to recover before searching for Lu Si’s soul.
• Jin Lü descended into the poisonous mist and found Luo Bin surrounded by gu worms and jars on Stonewall Mountain.
• Jin Lü sent his flying heads to attack, but Luo Bin rang the Calling Bell and knocked Jin Lü’s head to the ground, making the other heads retreat.
• Jin Lü unleashed gu worms and poisonous insects, then fled toward the summit after Luo Bin’s second bell strike failed to stop him.
• Luo Bin’s gu worms devoured the disorganized insects left behind as he watched Jin Lü disappear into the distance.

Luo Bin discovered that Jin Lü practiced genuine Gu arts and continued climbing toward the Buddha Son Temple, while Jin Lü recovered and prepared to use ghosts and Gu against him. On the way, Luo Bin struggled to make a thrice-refined Gu Snake his natal Gu and suspected he had reached a limit.

• Luo Bin recognized Jin Lü’s Gu worms as genuine and headed up the mountain after they killed and devoured Jin Lü’s worms.
• Jin Lü recovered inside the Buddha Son Temple and became greedy for Luo Bin’s Gu worms and knowledge of Three Perils Mountain.
• Jin Lü fed his blood to a chubby infant spirit and ordered it to attack Luo Bin, while women’s ghosts and their dolls waited in the room.
• Luo Bin tried to feed blood to the Gu Snake but could not make it his natal Gu, despite having already claimed it as his own.
• The Gu Snake clung between Luo Bin’s brows, and Luo Bin wondered whether his three existing natal Gu prevented him from raising another before deciding he needed to clean house.

Luo Bin entered Buddha Son Temple while searching for Jin Lü, but the temple’s hidden passage led him into a supernatural courtyard haunted by murdered monks. Trapped in a passage that looped back on itself, he heard a voice demand that he eat vegetarian food.

• Luo Bin approached Buddha Son Temple cautiously, sent Gu Worms ahead, and climbed over the wall after finding no signs of people.
• He entered through a cobwebbed side door while Jin Lü hid behind a concealed door and waited for him to approach.
• Luo Bin left the Gu Worms in the courtyard and passed through a hidden passage into another courtyard where monks chanted beneath a sunless white sky.
• The monks stared at Luo Bin with hollow eyes, then walked toward him with their heads twisted around, and he recognized them as victims murdered at Buddha Son Temple.
• Luo Bin fled into the passage but found himself back at its entrance, where a voice told him to eat a bowl of vegetarian food or remain trapped.

Luo Bin escaped the temple’s haunted courtyards by turning the ghost monks against Lu Si, then let the monks enter the Human-Skin Garment and continued east. He emerged through a temple door in front of Jin Lü, who was shocked to see him.

• Luo Bin summoned the female Green Wraith Ghost to fight the ghost behind him and fled into a courtyard filled with the poisoned monks’ ghosts.
• The ghost monks surrounded Luo Bin and pressed their bowls toward him, but he used the Human-Skin Garment to force Lu Si to release his soul essence.
• Luo Bin persuaded the ghost monks to devour Lu Si, opening a path through the courtyard.
• Abbot Shi'an asked Luo Bin to show mercy, and he and the ghost monks entered the Human-Skin Garment instead of attacking Luo Bin.
• Luo Bin called the ruined remains of Lu Si into the garment and ran east while the female Green Wraith Ghost fought the male ghost.
• Jin Lü watched a temple door get kicked open and was stunned when Luo Bin appeared.

Luo Bin fought Jin Lü in the Buddha Son Temple, using Copper Beads and Monk Ghosts against Jin Lü’s flying heads and Golden Boys. Jin Lü’s ocarina turned the gu worms against him, and they swarmed his body while Luo Bin’s thrice-refined gu snake bit his nose.

• Luo Bin surprised Jin Lü with a Calling Bell and Copper Bead attack, but Jin Lü escaped harm by detaching his head and sending flying heads after him.
• Luo Bin used more Copper Beads and released Monk Ghosts from the Human-Skin Garment to fight the heads as Jin Lü fled into the temple hall.
• Jin Lü sent a Golden Boy and other Golden Boys with Female Corpse Fiends at Luo Bin, but Copper Beads destroyed the lead Golden Boy and left the others motionless.
• Jin Lü threatened Luo Bin with an ocarina and played it to control the gu worms, but the swarm moved toward Jin Lü instead.
• Luo Bin’s thrice-refined gu snake bit Jin Lü’s nose as the gu worms burrowed into his body, and Jin Lü screamed in terror.

Luo Bin realized his inheritance as Miao King was bound to his soul and used the Miao King's Ocarina to turn Jin Lü’s gu worms and spider gu against him. Jin Lü was trapped, while his master Miao Chong acknowledged Luo Bin as the reigning Miao King and accepted responsibility for his disciple’s crimes.

• Luo Bin realized that the Miao King’s inheritance mark and authority resided in his soul, causing the gu worms to recognize him.
• Jin Lü summoned his ghost master with a Buddha Amulet and threatened Luo Bin as he took up the ocarina.
• Luo Bin played the Miao King's Ocarina, driving the gu worms to attack Jin Lü and control the spiders on the roof.
• Jin Lü tried to escape by sending his head flying, but the spider gu caught him in a web and began devouring him.
• Luo Bin rejected Jin Lü’s pleas for mercy, and Miao Chong bowed to him as the reigning Miao King before the Buddha Amulet split and corpse oil fell over him.

Luo Bin killed Jin Lü and Miao Chong, claimed Jin Lü’s ocarina, and left the temple with a backpack full of gu. After returning to Gui City exhausted, he went to sleep, but Fan Jie arrived with an urgent plea for help.

• Jin Lü tried to possess Luo Bin, but Miao Chong trapped and destroyed his soul before ending his own existence.
• Luo Bin searched Jin Lü’s hidden chambers, took his head and ocarina, and gathered some of the masterless gu into his backpack.
• Luo Bin left the temple, traveled to Gui City, and returned to his elder’s residence, avoiding the Su family so his gu would not endanger them.
• Luo Bin told Huang Bing to prepare medicinal food and retrieve thunderstruck wood, then went to bed without hearing about the trouble in Gui Market.
• Huang Bing returned with Wu Dong, Long Liang, and Fan Jie, who found venomous creatures crawling around Luo Bin’s room as Fan Jie shouted for him to wake up.

Luo Bin learned that Six Yin Mountain posed an escalating threat to the Gui Market and decided to leave for Cloudmist Mountain with Long Liang’s help. Before they could act, a mysterious beggar entered the courtyard, and Luo Bin recognized him as a Lifespan Person.

• Fan Jie failed to wake Luo Bin and left the courtyard after receiving alarming messages, while Long Liang and Wu Dong stayed behind.
• Luo Bin woke among his Gu worms, ate the meal Huang Bing had prepared, and learned Wu Dong had come because Fan Jie wanted to see him.
• Long Liang told Luo Bin that Six Yin Mountain’s missing Lu Si and another arrival had intensified the danger facing the Gui Market.
• Luo Bin asked Long Liang to help him visit Cloudmist Mountain, and Long Liang realized Luo Bin might be able to appeal to his supposed Revered Master.
• A ragged beggar entered the courtyard carrying a bowl, stick, and knife, and Luo Bin recognized him as a Lifespan Person.

Luo Bin escaped a Lifespan Person and exposed Six Yin Mountain’s Lifespan Theft operation to Long Liang and Huang Bing, then went to collect the Cloudmist Mountain assignment. There he recognized Zhou Sanming, who had secretly followed him and greeted him as an Elder of Gui Market.

• Luo Bin told Long Liang and Huang Bing to close their eyes, hold their breath, and walk past the Lifespan Person, which then disappeared.
• Luo Bin explained that the Lifespan Person was tied to Six Yin Mountain’s Lifespan Theft and urged Long Liang to alert Gui Market’s divisions and Six Yin Mountain.
• Luo Bin gave Huang Bing a copper bead and assigned him to report the matter to Mr. Wu Dong, while Long Liang agreed to leave Gui Market with Luo Bin.
• Luo Bin collected the Cloudmist Mountain assignment at the Coffin House and noticed a man whose features resembled Zhou Sanming’s.
• Zhou Sanming followed Luo Bin and greeted him, while Luo Bin concealed his alarm and asked what he wanted.

Luo Bin evaded Zhou Sanming in Gui Market, obtained information about Cloudmist Mountain, and warned Long Liang that Zhou Sanming was among the Six Yin Mountain men. After spending the evening at Long Liang’s residence, Luo Bin faced a sudden attack from Zhou Sanming’s lifespan-seeking beggar form.

• Zhou Sanming asked Luo Bin for the information he had acquired, then sent a projected Yin Spirit after him and took the envelope Luo Bin carried.
• Luo Bin returned to the coffin house for another copy of the Cloudmist Mountain information, left Gui Market, and read that it gave the sea spring’s location but said nothing about blood peachwood.
• Long Liang called Luo Bin and arranged for him to stay at his residence before their group set out the next morning.
• Luo Bin told Long Liang that one of the Six Yin Mountain men in Gui Market was Zhou Sanming, and Long Liang took him to his home for the night.
• A mist appeared in Luo Bin’s room, and the lifespan-seeking beggar rushed at him with a knife aimed at his throat.

Luo Bin killed a Lifespan Person and discovered a huge talisman on his back before Jin Youde appeared and warned him not to get cocky. When Long Liang spotted a different, strange Lifespan Person outside, Luo Bin realized it was searching for Lu Si, whose soul was struggling inside the Human-Skin Garment.

• Zhou Sanming had Lu Wu and Lu Min help a Longevity Immortal absorb their soul energy so it could find Lu Si, and a crack appeared on Zhou Sanming's finger.
• Luo Bin released the Monk Ghosts to devour a Lifespan Person that had tried to attack him, then noticed a massive talisman covering his back while showering.
• Jin Youde appeared in the bathroom, put the Human-Skin Garment on Luo Bin, and told him to put on his clothes and not get too cocky.
• Long Liang showed Luo Bin a strange, stooped old man wandering outside the courtyard, and Luo Bin saw Lu Si struggling inside the Human-Skin Garment.
• Luo Bin realized the old man was searching for Lu Si's soul and studied its face through the curtains.

Luo Bin and Long Liang hid from Zhou Sanming’s Lifespan Person, and Luo Bin warned Long Liang to keep quiet about Lu Si’s death. After the figure vanished, they left Gui Market while Zhou Sanming realized two unusual people were nearby and ordered the market’s leader to bring him the elder connected to the Coffin House assignment.

• Luo Bin concluded that Zhou Sanming’s three lives corresponded to the Lu family’s three generations and suspected Zhou had made the Lifespan Person searching outside.
• Long Liang guessed that Luo Bin’s Revered Master had killed Lu Si, but Luo Bin said Lu Si’s soul possessed him and warned Long Liang not to reveal what he knew.
• Luo Bin and Long Liang waited until Zhou Sanming’s Lifespan Person disappeared after midnight, then left with Luo Bin’s backpack of Gu insects.
• Zhou Sanming told Lu Wu and Lu Min that he had nearly found one practitioner before the connection was severed, while another person had killed Lu Si and evaded soul-searching.
• Zhou Sanming ordered the person in charge of Gui Market to bring him the elder who had accepted the Coffin House assignment.

Zhou Sanming discovered that the missing lifespan people and Lu Si’s death might be connected to a man named Luo Bin, then realized Gui Market had been turned into a trap. He was forced into view by golden talismans as the Incense-Blessing Taoist called down heavenly thunder.

• Zhou Sanming examined Lu Wu’s photograph and portrait and suspected that the two men named Luo Bin were the same person using different faces.
• Zhou Sanming, Lu Wu, and Lu Min found Gui Market unnaturally quiet and discovered its exit blocked by stones while poison smoke seeped inside.
• Zhou Sanming broke through the wall and appeared outside Gui Market, where he tried to seize Wu Dong but was driven back by a golden talisman.
• People disguised as Gui Market residents encircled Zhou Sanming and used golden talismans to reveal his Yin Spirit.
• The Incense-Blessing Taoist chanted an incantation and summoned dark clouds and thunder, then raised his bloodied sword as a blinding bolt of light struck down.

Luo Bin learned that Zhou Sanming’s Yin Spirit projection made him far more dangerous than the forces sent against him, while Xu Lu continued toward Tibetan territory with Bai Xian. After discovering that a talisman on his back caused Long Liang to suffer a divination backlash, Luo Bin suspected it had severed his fate’s unseen ties and wondered why Mr. Mao had hidden him.

• Long Liang told Luo Bin that Six Yin Mountain and the Central Yellow Taoist Abbey had joined forces to attack Zhou Sanming, but Luo Bin insisted they continue away from the city because a projected Yin Spirit could kill even a Real Person.
• A Black-Gold Toad crawled toward an unknown destination with jade in its mouth as Fourth Master Gray complained and then noticed something behind them.
• Xu Lu drove Bai Xian toward Tibetan territory, hoping to learn what the bugs inside her were before seeking help from the talisman arts lineage.
• Luo Bin examined the talisman on his back and suspected it concealed his aura or severed his fate’s unseen ties.
• When Long Liang tried to divine Luo Bin’s fortune, he suffered a violent backlash, and Luo Bin gave him Zhongshan White Resin to recover.
• Luo Bin wondered why Mr. Mao had hidden him and searched his memories for something he might have overlooked.

Luo Bin summoned Luo Shan’s remnant soul and began to suspect that Mr. Mao’s talisman had severed their connection while protecting him from divination. In Gui City, Zhou Sanming identified Luo Bin as the person who had exposed him and sent out his three Yin Spirits as danger closed in.

• Luo Bin summoned Luo Shan’s remnant soul, which revealed an obsession with returning to Cabinet Mountain Village.
• Luo Bin realized that someone other than Yuan Yinxin may have helped him fight Yuan Yinxin, and suspected Mr. Mao had lent him power before the talisman severed their connection.
• Poisonous smoke spread through Gui City while Zhou Sanming, Lu Wu, and Lu Min endured it.
• Zhou Sanming recovered gray mist from the bricks, suffered a lightning wound, and identified Cloud Brocade Mountain as the source of the attack.
• Zhou Sanming named Luo Bin as the person who had informed Six Mountain Yin and exposed him, then sent out three Yin Spirits with longevity folk and men in traditional jackets.