Chapter Summaries

Luo Bin outmaneuvered Miao Shun in the Three Miao Cave, capturing his soul and recovering his strength with Witch Doctor Peak’s medicinal pills. He left Miao Shun bound in the Human-Skin Garment as night fell, while Miao Shun pleaded for his release.

• Luo Bin provoked Miao Shun, but Miao Shun withdrew as his soul gradually turned into a ghost.
• Luo Bin searched Miao Shun’s body, found medicinal pills, and swallowed them to restore his strength.
• Luo Bin used talismans and Miao Shun’s corpse to summon his soul into a copper bead, then trapped it in the Human-Skin Garment.
• Luo Bin controlled Miao Shun’s soul with talismans and continued taking the pills until midnight, regaining strength and darkening his white hair.
• Miao Shun offered Luo Bin better medicine in exchange for release, but Luo Bin refused and warned that the Grand Shamanic Healer could not save him.

Luo Bin questioned Miao Shun, learned about the threats from Divine Firmament Mountain, and decided to seek a Medicine Person to restore his strength. After discovering that Miao Shun had planned to hand over the Golden Silkworm Gu Corpse, Luo Bin told Eighth Uncle that the village’s troubles stemmed from two imprisoned people whose absence had upset its yin-yang balance.

• Luo Bin learned that Witch Doctor Peak had seven elders, that Miao Zi remained injured in seclusion, and that Divine Firmament Mountain was demanding someone.
• Luo Bin fed Miao Shun’s body to the venomous insects, subdued his scattered Gu Worms, and chose to seek a Medicine Person rather than take the Malevolent Corpse Pill.
• Luo Bin returned to Thousand Miao Village, met Miao Yun and Miao Tu, and rested after giving them medicinal ingredients for his meals.
• Miao Shun revealed that Bai Xiang, three Real Person elders, and a dozen disciples from Divine Firmament Mountain were in the area, and that he had planned to give them the Golden Silkworm Gu Corpse.
• Luo Bin told Eighth Uncle that the village needed to restore its yin-yang balance by bringing back the people who had occupied two crucial locations.
• Eighth Uncle realized that Miao Gu and Miao Miao had become the Miao King and Grandma Li, and resolved to see the Grand Shamanic Healer about their imprisonment.

Luo Bin buried a Living Person’s Grave at the Mountain-Wind Gu site to afflict Chen Hongming, then returned to Granny Li’s courtyard as the Taoists confronted Thousand Miao Village. He challenged White Oak over blaming the village, while Chen Hongming’s condition and White Oak’s anger intensified the crisis.

• Luo Bin pressured Eighth Uncle to release the prisoners in Headman Lou Fang’s name, then left Thousand Miao Village.
• Luo Bin used Chen Hongming’s hair, fingernails, and skin flakes to create a Living Person’s Grave at the Mountain-Wind Gu site.
• Luo Bin waited until Chen Hongming’s illness became apparent, then went to Granny Li’s courtyard, where Eighth Uncle and the villagers had gathered.
• A Miao man reported that Chen Hongming had developed sores and confusion, and that the Taoists intended to hold the village accountable.
• Granny Li prepared to help remove the gu as White Oak arrived with Chen Hongming and demanded to know where Miao Shun was.
• Luo Bin introduced himself as Tang Yu and challenged White Oak for taking his anger out on Thousand Miao Village.

Luo Bin tried to redirect White Oak’s anger toward Miao Zi after Granny Li’s ritual failed to save Chen Hongming, but White Oak demanded that the Grand Shamanic Healer come to him. Luo Bin suspected White Oak had been trapped in Thousand Miao Village and questioned whether its people had fled, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Granny Li and the village ritual priest tried water, wind chimes, an ocarina, and blood on Chen Hongming, but none of the rituals helped him.
• Granny Li concluded that Chen Hongming suffered from formless gu and could only be saved by Miao Shun, who had fled.
• Luo Bin suggested that Miao Zi, the Grand Shamanic Healer, should be made to cure the gu and answer for failing to protect Thousand Miao Village.
• White Oak ordered Granny Li to bring Miao Zi and what he wanted or face thunderfire.
• Luo Bin challenged White Oak’s patience and weakness, then suggested that Miao Zi and the village’s capable people might have escaped while everyone waited.

Luo Bin persuaded White Oak and the Taoists to delay their ascent of Witch Doctor Peak until the next day, then urged Granny Li to guide them honestly and reconsider her determination to bear Thousand Miao Village’s troubles alone. Granny Li remained wary of Luo Bin’s motives but began to question the Grand Shamanic Healer’s choices.

• Luo Bin convinced the Taoists that Miao Shun might have used the difficulty of reaching Witch Doctor Peak as an excuse, and Bai Shouxin asked him to lead them there.
• Luo Bin agreed to accompany Divine Firmament Mountain and told Granny Li to find Miao guides, warning her not to deceive or endanger the Taoists.
• Luo Bin persuaded White Oak to wait until morning, and the Taoists carried the barely conscious Chen Hongming away.
• Luo Bin challenged Granny Li to consider how the Grand Shamanic Healer had hidden himself while leaving the village to face danger.
• Granny Li wondered why Luo Bin treated her with apparent respect and questioned her assumption that the Grand Shamanic Healer had no backup plan.

Luo Bin joined Granny Li and a large Divine Firmament Mountain party on the dangerous route to Healer-Shaman Peak, where they encountered Python Head Temple beside Black Snake River. Granny Li insisted they wait until daybreak before passing the temple, but Luo Bin dismissed the ancestral warning.

• Luo Bin considered whether his Yang Spirit Core and Blood Peach Sword could help Miao Zi against White Oak, then slept after taking zhongshan baijiao.
• Miao Yun and Miao Tu led Luo Bin to meet White Oak, Bai Shouxin, Bai Xianming, and the rest of the Divine Firmament Mountain party, while Granny Li, Eighth Uncle, Miao Miao, and Miao Gu prepared to guide them.
• Granny Li led the group along a winding mountain route and used Miao Gu and gu worms to detect and neutralize poisoned paths.
• Granny Li guided the party down to Black Snake River, where they found Python Head Temple and recognized it as a sacred site near the way to Healer-Shaman Peak.
• Granny Li said the group had to wait until daylight to pass Python Head Temple because of the Three Miao clans’ ancestral rule, but Luo Bin called the warning absurd.

Luo Bin and the Divine Firmament Mountain Taoists entered the Python Head Temple, where strange warmth and supernatural visions overcame them. As snakes and scaled corpses appeared inside, Granny Li realized the ancestral priests had emerged from the river and entered the temple.

• White Oak led the Taoists into the Python Head Temple despite Granny Li's alarm, while Luo Bin tried to prevent the conflict from escalating.
• A disciple reported that something had appeared in the river, and Bai Xianming led the Taoists outside to find the water covered in snakes.
• Luo Bin returned to the temple and discovered snakes writhing beneath his cushion, binding his legs as the Taoists chanted together.
• Figures entered the temple, and a scaled Miao corpse approached Luo Bin while green mist gathered at the entrance.
• Granny Li and Eighth Uncle watched green light pour from the temple as Granny Li said the ancestral priests had entered and that all was lost.

Granny Li revealed the truth about Python Head Temple and the sealed prison as Luo Bin and the Taoists were attacked by terrifying visions. Luo Bin's Yang Spirit Core dispelled the green mist and saved them, but he worried someone might have noticed.

• Granny Li told Miao Miao that Python Head Temple predated the Sacrificial Ancestor, who had sealed a deadly prison there with his life.
• Granny Li identified the green mist as the poison snake devouring body prison, and Eighth Uncle ran off before she ordered the others to follow him.
• Luo Bin and the Taoists were trapped by hallucinations of corpses and creatures that threatened to break through their bodies.
• Luo Bin's Yang Spirit Core burned away the hostile forces, making the green mist and apparitions vanish.
• Luo Bin realized the Taoists had not appeared to notice his role, but he wondered whether anyone truly knew.

After the serpent-devouring punishment withdrew, White Oak questioned Luo Bin about the artifact that had supposedly suppressed it and sought a way to help Chen Hongming. Luo Bin used the talisman on his back to conceal himself, but White Oak secretly projected his Yin Spirit, apparently intending to seize Luo Bin’s body.

• The Taoists and three Real Persons feared they had encountered the snake-devouring punishment from the Twenty-Four Hells, and White Oak said the incomplete prison had tested them before withdrawing.
• White Oak accurately described the threat before Luo Bin and demanded to see the ritual artifact he believed had suppressed it.
• Chen Hongming struggled to point at Luo Bin, prompting White Oak to ask him to use the artifact to remove the invisible gu harming Chen Hongming.
• After the others left, Luo Bin showed White Oak the talisman on his back and claimed it protected his soul, then said it could not help Chen Hongming.
• White Oak accepted that Chen Hongming would need to seek help from Miao Zi, but Luo Bin noticed White Oak’s Yin Spirit had appeared and understood that it was targeting his body.

Luo Bin pieced together how the poison snake devouring body prison related to the twenty-four hells and suspected the Sacrificial Ancestor's corpse was involved. As White Oak rejected Luo Bin’s plan to approach the Miao people alone, Luo Bin feared the Patriarch would disturb the corpse and endanger Three Perils Mountain.

• Bai Xianming argued that an entity tied to Three Perils Mountain suppressed the poison snake devouring body prison and warned that the Miao people could remove that suppression.
• Luo Bin connected the prison’s commandments to his own actions and White Oak’s wrath, then told Bai Xianming about encountering the snake-heart prison at another feng shui site.
• Bai Xianming explained that the poison snake devouring body prison produced Execution Corpse Snake Ghosts when snakes consumed a victim’s heart.
• Luo Bin suspected that a flesh-scaled Execution Corpse Snake Ghost was the ascended Sacrificial Ancestor and that disturbing it could engulf Three Perils Mountain in the prison.
• Luo Bin offered to find the Miao people by himself, but White Oak refused and said he would accompany him.

Luo Bin deduced that Three Perils Mountain’s Feng Shui only partially suppressed the Poison Snake Devouring Body Prison because the Black Snake River was a Two-Headed Snake. He found the hidden route into Witch Doctor Peak and confronted Granny Li, Eighth Great-Uncle, and Miao Miao with White Oak at his side.

• Luo Bin followed the Black Snake River with White Oak and used Rewind to connect Three Perils Mountain’s toad-shaped Feng Shui to the river’s course.
• Luo Bin realized Python Head Temple did not mark the end of the river’s momentum and deduced that the Black Snake River was a Two-Headed Snake, with only one head suppressed.
• Luo Bin located a concealed path across the river and entered a hidden cave in Witch Doctor Peak with White Oak.
• Luo Bin found Granny Li, Eighth Great-Uncle, and Miao Miao beside a huge suspended coffin, and White Oak’s arrival left them alarmed.

Luo Bin tried to stop White Oak from opening the Sacrificial Ancestor’s coffin, but White Oak revealed his need for a new corpse shell and demanded Luo Bin’s skin, Compass, and Feng Shui Arts to suppress the poison snake devouring body prison. Luo Bin accepted the jade ointment and talismans while preparing a countermeasure, then openly insulted White Oak as the chapter ended.

• Luo Bin explained that the feng shui and coffins suppressed the poison snake devouring body prison, and White Oak sent Granny Li, Eighth Uncle, and Miao Miao back to Python Head Temple.
• White Oak opened the Sacrificial Ancestor’s coffin and discovered a corpse with dense flesh scales, which he coveted as a potential shell.
• White Oak told Luo Bin about the suffering caused by yin spirit projection and demanded that Luo Bin use his skin, Compass, and Feng Shui Arts to seal the prison’s opening.
• Luo Bin secured White Oak’s promise of Elder Chen’s Compass and received three empowered Talisman Plaques, while claiming he needed to inspect the feng shui first.
• Luo Bin examined the coffin and cavern opening, took out a lantern, and called White Oak an old bastard.

Luo Bin used the Primordial Purple Flower Lantern to expose White Oak’s Yin Spirit and fought back with the Blood Peach Sword and a hidden Yang Spirit power. The chapter ended with White Oak recoiling in shock after Luo Bin revealed a great core.

• Luo Bin illuminated the cave with the Primordial Purple Flower Lantern, forcing White Oak’s Yin Spirit out of his body.
• White Oak charged at Luo Bin, but Luo Bin saw him and struck his Yin Spirit with the Blood Peach Sword.
• White Oak’s Yin Spirit healed and tried to possess Luo Bin, but Luo Bin’s body burned and badly damaged it.
• White Oak realized Luo Bin carried Yang Spirit energy and threatened to wait for the lantern to go out before taking his body.
• Luo Bin entered the venomous snake body-devouring hell and revealed a glowing great core, making White Oak retreat in shock.

Luo Bin hid inside the Poison Snake Devouring Body Prison with the Great Core and provoked White Oak into attacking the snake ghosts. White Oak unleashed a water-summoning incantation at the cavern entrance, leaving Luo Bin and the gathered ghosts facing the next strike.

• Luo Bin escaped White Oak's sword and lightning attacks by retreating into the Poison Snake Devouring Body Prison, where the Great Core kept the approaching Execution Corpse Snake Ghosts at bay.
• White Oak recognized that he could not reach Luo Bin and decided to leave, planning to return with disciples who could capture him and claim the corpse's core.
• Luo Bin taunted White Oak from inside the prison, provoking him to throw two swords into the cavern and strike two Execution Corpse Snake Ghosts.
• White Oak sent burning talismans into the cavern, briefly lighting it and revealing rows of snake-headed statues before green mist extinguished the flames.
• Luo Bin continued insulting White Oak as the Execution Corpse Snake Ghosts chanted and White Oak began a spell that appeared to summon water from the nearby Black Snake River.

Luo Bin used the Execution Corpse Snake Ghosts and the Primordial Purple Flower Lantern to draw White Oak’s Yin Spirit from his body, killing him and escaping the cave. After forcing himself to stay conscious with Zhongshan baijiao, Luo Bin watched a group of Taoists arrive and seal the entrance, while White Oak’s surviving Yin Spirit seized a disciple and ordered Granny Li to search for Tang Yu.

• White Oak’s incantations held the Execution Corpse Snake Ghosts at bay, and Luo Bin decided to exploit the standoff.
• Luo Bin lit the Primordial Purple Flower Lantern and pulled White Oak’s Yin Spirit from his body, allowing the venomous snakes to devour White Oak’s heart and kill him.
• Luo Bin drank blood from the Sacrificial Ancestor’s corpse, climbed out of the cave, and collapsed by the Black Snake River while using Zhongshan baijiao to remain conscious.
• Bai Xianming led Taoists in sealing the cave entrance as White Oak’s Yin Spirit returned with them and ordered a Green-Robed Disciple to come forward.
• Bai Xiang seized the disciple’s body and ordered Granny Li to send Gu insects into the cave to find out whether Tang Yu was still inside.

After absorbing the Sacrificial Ancestor’s corpse blood and the Zhongshan baijiao, Luo Bin recovered his strength and decided to avoid rushing into the conflict on Witch Doctor Peak. On his way back across the Black Snake River, water snakes attacked him, and a giant python dragged him toward an underwater temple.

• Luo Bin recovered from his injuries after absorbing the Sacrificial Ancestor’s corpse blood and the Zhongshan baijiao.
• Luo Bin realized the Taoists from Divine Firmament Mountain had gone up the mountain to find Miao Zi, and he considered but rejected following them to exploit their conflict.
• Luo Bin retraced his steps to the stone-pillar path across the Black Snake River and sensed something watching him.
• Water snakes bound Luo Bin in the river, but his gu insects helped him fight free of them.
• A giant python coiled around Luo Bin’s legs and dragged him underwater, where he recognized a temple as the Black Snake River’s other Two-Headed Python head.

Luo Bin was dragged toward a giant python in the Python Head Temple, but the female corpse from the cave rescued him and the Sacrificial Ancestor revealed why the snakes wanted his blood. He headed for Three Miao Cave with the Great Core, hoping to help the Old Miao King achieve yang spirit projection and protect the Three Miao Lineage.

• A giant python dragged Luo Bin toward the Python Head Temple, where another enormous python nearly bit him in half.
• The female corpse from the cave seized Luo Bin and hurled him safely onto the riverbank, while the Three-Refined Snake Gu escaped the attacking python's eye.
• Luo Bin saw the Sacrificial Ancestor apparently feeding blood to a giant python, then realized the vision had shown that the python wanted the corpse blood he had consumed to transform and escape.
• Luo Bin abandoned the chance to exploit White Oak and Miao Zi's fight and hurried toward Three Miao Cave to find the Old Miao King.
• Luo Bin considered giving the Old Miao King the Great Core, knowing it might help him pursue yang spirit projection and become the Three Miao Lineage's chance to survive.

Luo Bin reached Three Miao Cave and discovered that the female corpse had secretly followed and protected him, helping him understand her role in Jin Youde’s death. He found the Old Miao King trapped in a corpse-like state, where three corpse worms fought for control, and fled when his master urged him to go.

• Luo Bin reached the Cliff Platform, where the unseen female corpse pinned him down and chilled him into sleep.
• After waking, Luo Bin realized the female corpse had followed him and connected her to Jin Youde’s death and the other ghosts.
• Luo Bin entered Three Miao Cave and used Tang Gaoji’s compass to track the strongest malevolent yin energy toward Lord Mo Di and the old woman.
• Luo Bin found the Old Miao King rigid in a chair beside the two ascended malevolent corpses, with corpse worms emerging from his body.
• The three corpse worms fought and briefly formed the Old Miao King’s face before returning to his body, and he warned Luo Bin to go.

Luo Bin gave the Yang Spirit Great Core to the Old Miao King to stop the corpse worms, but the core began burning away the king’s body. Unable to accept his master’s death, Luo Bin forced two malevolent Pill Corpses into his abdomen and demanded that he achieve yang spirit projection.

• Luo Bin shoved the Yang Spirit Great Core into the Old Miao King’s mouth, destroying the corpse worms as the king’s life weakened.
• The Old Miao King stopped Luo Bin from pulling out the Great Core and silently accepted the possibility of death.
• Luo Bin protested that he could not see life and death clearly and begged the Old Miao King to stay alive and protect him.
• Luo Bin cut open Mo Digong and the old woman, extracted their malevolent Pill Corpses, and inserted both into the Old Miao King’s abdomen.
• Luo Bin demanded that the Old Miao King achieve yang spirit projection.

Luo Bin gave the Old Miao King two Malevolent Corpse Pills and urged him to overcome the final barrier, while Lord Mo Di and the old woman began showing signs of purging their evil thoughts. At Witch Doctor Peak, Miao Zi fled White Oak toward the Three Miao Cave, as Fourth Master Gray and the Black Gold Toad continued their journey through the mountains.

• The Old Miao King's body revived under the Malevolent Corpse Pills, and Luo Bin urged him not to disappoint his disciple by failing to attain understanding.
• Luo Bin noticed that Lord Mo Di and the old woman had sat up and that the black feathers on them were turning gray and white.
• White Oak demanded that Miao Zi hand over a medicine man and Luo Bin, then struck Miao Zi with heavenly thunder after Miao Zi denounced Divine Firmament Mountain.
• Miao Zi used a substitution Gu art to survive White Oak's attack, escaped his swords, and fled toward the Three Miao Cave while playing the Miao King's Ocarina to summon poisonous insects.
• Fourth Master Gray complained that his legs were failing as he and the Black Gold Toad trudged through the mountains.