Chapter Summaries

Feng Qiang and Feng Lu found Huang Ying making pills from flesh cut from her injured leg, and learned that Li Yunyi had forced her to keep producing them. When rescuers arrived to take Huang Ying and the Feng Family out of Floating Tortoise Mountain, Li Yunyi attacked, controlled Feng Lu with a talisman, and threatened to make Huang Ying start over and prepare another batch of pills.

• Feng Qiang went to free Huang Ying and told Feng Lu that outsiders had come to take her and the Feng Family away.
• Feng Qiang and Feng Lu found Huang Ying exhausted and injured, making pills with flesh cut from her leg.
• Feng Lu explained that Li Yunyi had refused to let Huang Ying rest or stop making pills, despite learning how they were produced.
• Feng Qiang told Huang Ying that Mr. Yunxi and Hu Jin had sent Bai Xian and others to rescue her, and Huang Ying asked whether Mr. Luo was with them.
• Li Yunyi arrived, placed a talisman on Feng Lu that left him motionless, and kicked Huang Ying back onto the bed when she tried to stand.
• Li Yunyi picked up the knife and threatened to make Huang Ying start over, while the controlled Feng Lu lunged at Feng Qiang.

Luo Bin and his companions waited for the Feng Family to bring Huang Ying, but a swarm of evil spirits attacked the grounds and Bai Xian destroyed them. The family revealed that Li Yunyi was alive and with Huang Ying, and Luo Bin came face-to-face with him as unease and killing intent stirred.

• Bai Xian dismissed the Feng Family attendants, and Xu Lu explained that they were giving the family time to handle its internal conflict over Huang Ying.
• Two Feng Family members reported that evil spirits had breached the talisman array, and Luo Bin learned that a man from the Floating Tortoise Mountain Taoist Grounds named Li Yunyi had recently arrived.
• Luo Bin ordered Bai Xian to act, and she burned through the attacking spirits with a talisman spell.
• Feng Shou arrived with other family members, and a Feng Family member explained that Huang Ying had been with Li Yunyi, who had recovered after eating a golden core.
• Luo Bin ordered the family gathered in the courtyard and asked to be taken to Huang Ying and Li Yunyi, but Li Yunyi appeared and rebuked him for using his full name.
• Luo Bin recognized Li Yunyi and felt rising killing intent and unease as Li Yunyi approached.

Li Yunyi tried to deceive the Feng Family and attack Luo Bin's group, but they stopped him and exposed his strange nature. Luo Bin caught up to the fleeing Li Yunyi and struck him with a Primordial Fiend-Suppressing Talisman.

• Li Yunyi warned Feng Shou that Tang Yu was really Li Miu and accused him of plotting to turn the Feng Family into evil spirits, but Feng Shou hesitated to follow his orders.
• Li Yunyi and Tang Yu matched steps from the Primordial Sixteen Trigrams, then Li Yunyi hurled talismans at the Feng Family members.
• Bai Xian's talismans swept Li Yunyi's talismans to the ground, and Fourth Master Gray snatched the seal away before Li Yunyi could ignite it.
• Li Yunyi fled as Luo Bin struck his shoulder with a Copper Bead, causing a grotesque face to emerge, and Fourth Master Gray tore off two of his toes.
• Luo Bin caught up to Li Yunyi and raised a Primordial Fiend-Suppressing Talisman to strike his back.

Luo Bin subdued the inhuman Li Yunyi and left Xu Lu to question him while he followed Fourth Master Gray to find Huang Ying. At the Feng Family house, he discovered Feng Qiang and four others transformed by Corpse Talismans, freed them, and went upstairs as Feng Qiang warned him that it was over.

• Bai Xian pinned Li Yunyi with Bronze Swords and killed the Moss Eaters that emerged from his body, while Luo Bin discovered that his Purple Flower Lantern had no effect on Li Yunyi.
• Xu Lu stayed behind to study and question Li Yunyi, and Luo Bin followed Fourth Master Gray toward Huang Ying with the little seal.
• Luo Bin found Feng Qiang and five others in a candlelit house, all bearing corpse-like decay and wandering without awareness.
• Luo Bin removed Feng Qiang's Corpse Talisman, restoring him, then freed the other four and hurried upstairs.
• Feng Qiang regained his senses and warned Luo Bin that it was over.

Luo Bin found Huang Ying badly injured after Li Yunyi forced her to make pills from her own flesh, then treated her wounds and confronted the Feng Family members involved. He carried her back to the courtyard, where Li Yunyi was bound, and ordered him brought over as his murderous anger peaked.

• Luo Bin found Huang Ying unconscious and injured, realized Li Yunyi had forced her to make pills using her own flesh, and treated her with ointment and medicine person blood.
• Feng Qiang explained that Li Yunyi had forced Huang Ying to make pills and used talismans to control the Feng Family; Luo Bin ordered Feng Lu to cut three slices of flesh from himself.
• Luo Bin carried Huang Ying from the Two-Story House and ordered Feng Qiang to bring the Medicine Mortar and Feng Lu to follow with the knife.
• Huang Ying woke in Luo Bin's arms, panicked, and struggled until Fourth Master Gray told her to stay still.
• Luo Bin returned to the courtyard, saw Li Yunyi tied to a chair, and ordered him brought over.

Luo Bin tortured Li Yunyi in retaliation for Huang Ying's injuries, slicing away the flesh from his legs while the Feng Family watched. Huang Ying asked for Li Yunyi to be killed rather than tortured further, and Xu Lu raised the possibility of burning him with Thunderfire.

• Luo Bin set Huang Ying down, stopped Xu Lu from approaching, and took a knife after Li Yunyi demanded that they satisfy his wishes before he shared a way to survive Cabinet Mountain.
• Luo Bin cut the toes from both of Li Yunyi's feet, while Xu Lu explained that the Ghost Metal Zhen Water Compass suppressed Li Yunyi's mutations.
• Luo Bin repeatedly sliced flesh from Li Yunyi's legs until they were stripped to blackened bone, leaving Li Yunyi barely alive and his face fully mutated.
• Xu Lu asked whether Li Yunyi could return to life again, and Luo Bin said he could not be sure what would happen if they put him among the Blackblood Vines.
• Bai Xian suggested burning Li Yunyi with Thunderfire, and Huang Ying said killing him was enough and thanked Luo Bin.
• Fourth Master Gray praised Huang Ying and joked about Luo Bin having multiple wives, prompting Xu Lu to rebuke him while avoiding exposing Luo Bin's identity.

As Li Yunyi was burned, the Feng Family’s talisman array failed and the Main Corpse led evil spirits into the compound. Luo Bin sent the others to safety, stayed behind with Lu Xie, and beheaded Li Yunyi as Blackblood Vines reached his remains.

• Xu Lu removed the ink lines around Li Yunyi, but Li Yunyi began to stir, so Luo Bin and Bai Xian placed talismans on him and Bai Xian burned him with lightning and fire.
• Sinking ash, Blackblood Vines, and Moss Eaters appeared throughout the Feng Family compound as the talismans on Xu Lu’s seal decayed.
• A crowd entered the courtyard, and Luo Bin realized the Main Corpse had broken through the talisman array and caused the breach.
• Huang Ying urged everyone to flee to the Sixteen Hexagrams Site, while Luo Bin chose to remain and deal with Li Yunyi.
• Luo Bin asked Lu Xie for his axe and severed Li Yunyi’s head as the flames weakened and Blackblood Vines reached the body.

Luo Bin escaped the Feng Family grounds with Lu Xie while the Main Corpse and Moss Eaters pursued him, then confronted Li Xiangyang, an elder of Mountain Turtle Float. Li Xiangyang said Li Qingxiu had invited Luo Bin to talk, and Luo Bin demanded permission to leave with the uninvolved Feng Family members.

• Luo Bin used the Thunderstruck Blood Peach Sword to stop Li Yunyi's head from being overtaken, then kicked it toward the Main Corpse and fled with Lu Xie.
• The Main Corpse took Li Yunyi's remains, and the evil spirits pursued Luo Bin as the Moss Eaters withdrew into the courtyard.
• Luo Bin led Lu Xie away from the Feng Family grounds and down the mountain until the pursuing spirits stopped; he then gave Lu Xie food treated with medicine person blood.
• Luo Bin noticed someone hiding behind a tree, and Li Xiangyang emerged while unseen people applauded from all directions.
• Luo Bin deduced that Li Qingxiu had been controlling the Main Corpse and asked whether she was dead; Li Xiangyang said she had invited him to talk.
• Luo Bin refused the invitation and demanded to leave with the Feng Family members who had nothing to do with Mountain Turtle Float.

Luo Bin resisted Li Xiangyang and the Floating Tortoise Mountain practitioners, using his ritual artifacts and Gu Worms to kill Li Xiangyang and seize control of the group. He left the surviving practitioners helpless and ordered them to approach, while Lu Xie stood at his side.

• Luo Bin helped Lu Xie break through the encirclement, then lit the Primordial Purple Flower Lantern and forced the surrounding practitioners' souls from their bodies.
• Luo Bin pointed his sword at Li Xiangyang, and Lu Xie hurled his axe, nearly splitting Li Xiangyang's chest and bringing him down.
• Luo Bin played the Miao King's Ocarina, sending Gu Worms into the practitioners, then extinguished the lantern so their souls returned to their bodies and suffered the worms' torment.
• Luo Bin collected Li Xiangyang's soul with a Heavenly Origin Soul-Anchoring Talisman and explained to Lu Xie that Xu Lu had prepared him to strike at the Floating Tortoise Mountain practitioners.
• Luo Bin ordered the surviving practitioners to approach and threatened to use the ocarina again, while Lu Xie warned that he would cut off their heads if they refused.

Luo Bin interrogated Floating Tortoise Mountain’s practitioners about Li Qingxiu and discovered that they were magically prevented from revealing information. After the practitioners died and Li Xiangyang’s captured soul was destroyed, Luo Bin decided to leave the mountain and check on the Feng residence.

• Luo Bin demanded to know whether Li Qingxiu had achieved Yin Spirit Projection and how many practitioners on Floating Tortoise Mountain had done so, then ordered Lu Xie to sever a prisoner’s arms when no one answered.
• Luo Bin used Gu Worms and medicine person blood to keep the mutilated prisoner alive, while Fourth Master Gray tore out the man’s eyes and sent him stumbling into the forest.
• One practitioner bit off his tongue, and others died when they tried to speak or approach Luo Bin; Lu Xie realized a spell prevented them from revealing secrets.
• Luo Bin poisoned the fleeing practitioners with Gu Worms and found that their souls had been shattered; he also discovered that Li Xiangyang’s soul-sealing talisman had turned black.
• Luo Bin heard approaching footsteps, told his companions to leave Floating Tortoise Mountain, and headed back to check on the Feng residence.

Luo Bin returned to the Feng Family grounds and warned them to prepare to leave, while explaining that Floating Tortoise Mountain’s people were pursuing Li Yunyi and the Blackblood Vine. At the summit, Li Yunyi revived and realized Luo Bin was the person his master, Li Qingxiu, wanted him to find, so he ran toward the cave entrance.

• Luo Bin and Lu Xie returned to the Feng Family grounds with Fate-Suppressing Objects, and Luo Bin learned that the Main Corpse and Moss Eaters had taken Li Yunyi’s severed remains.
• Luo Bin explained to Xu Lu and Bai Xian that Li Yunyi might be a Blackblood Vine rather than a Moss Eater and warned that people from Floating Tortoise Mountain were after him.
• Luo Bin told the Feng Family elders to pack food and medicine while he discussed an escape plan with Xu Lu and Bai Xian.
• Tiny vines rejoined Li Yunyi’s head and body at the summit, reviving him as the Blackblood Vine tried to draw him back.
• Li Qingxiu confronted Li Yunyi and revealed that he had failed to recognize Luo Bin, whom she wanted him to find.
• Li Yunyi realized Luo Bin was the useful target and ran toward the cave entrance, promising to capture him for Li Qingxiu.

Li Qingxiu confronted Li Yunyi as he tried to escape, then plunged her Yin Spirit into his chest while strange black mist gathered above the mountain. Meanwhile, Luo Bin and the Feng Family traveled through the eerie mountain, where Fourth Master Gray detected something that needed investigating.

• Li Yunyi tried to flee the cave, but Li Qingxiu accused him of malice and urged him to fight for his life.
• The Moss Eaters released Li Yunyi, and he raised his hand to command a kill before Li Qingxiu appeared beside him.
• Li Qingxiu plunged her Yin Spirit into Li Yunyi's chest as the Elders and disciples held their positions.
• Strange black mist gathered over Li Qingxiu's former shack while ashes, decay, and moving evil spirits spread across Floating Tortoise Mountain.
• Xu Lu noticed that the mountain's evil spirits had vanished as Luo Bin led the Feng Family onward in a jade ruler formation.
• Fourth Master Gray pointed out a direction, and Xu Lu told Luo Bin to investigate with him.

Luo Bin discovered that the evil spirits were sending their life force into a Mountain God Temple, and Xu Lu concluded that their work was helping the Main Corpse control Floating Tortoise Mountain's dragon vein and prevent anyone from escaping. After Luo Bin resisted the temple's call, Xu Lu rallied the group to press onward, while a dozen people chose to stay behind.

• Luo Bin and Fourth Master Gray found an ancient Mountain God Temple surrounded by evil spirits feeding their life force into its pedestal.
• A voice lured Luo Bin toward the temple, but Fourth Master Gray and the Black-Gold Toad jolted him back to his senses, and he withdrew after spotting Blackblood Vines and Moss Eaters inside.
• Luo Bin rejoined Xu Lu's group and explained what the evil spirits were doing, prompting Xu Lu to suspect that the Main Corpse was using their life force to influence the dragon vein and seal the mountain.
• Xu Lu ended the group's rest and urged everyone capable of continuing to move quickly, promising to force a way out before the mountain's feng shui arrangement stabilized.
• About a dozen people refused to continue, while Feng Shou and Feng Lu condemned their decision.

Luo Bin grew increasingly suspicious of the quiet dangers along the group’s route and split from Xu Lu to investigate, while Li Qingxiu tried to devour Li Yunyi and seize his vitality. The chapter ended with Li Yunyi’s soul being consumed and Luo Bin setting out alone.

• Several people abandoned the group, and Xu Lu led the remaining travelers through a town without entering its buildings.
• At the Mountain Cave, Li Qingxiu explained that she wanted Li Yunyi and Luo Bin as possible ways to preserve her life and prevent Yuan Yinxin from succeeding.
• Li Qingxiu began forcibly drawing out and devouring Li Yunyi’s soul, while his corpse master’s vitality poured into her body.
• Luo Bin stopped on the road, said he needed to investigate what felt wrong, and persuaded Xu Lu to lead the group onward without him.
• Luo Bin left the group with the Thunderstruck Blood Peach Sword in hand, sensing someone watching him before he departed.

Luo Bin deduced that Li Qingxiu was trying to control the Blackblood Vine through Li Yunyi and that the evil spirits were sealing the vine within Floating Tortoise Mountain. He entered a Mountain God Temple and let the Blackblood Vine merge with his shadow, accepting that fate was repeating itself.

• Luo Bin found a Mountain God Temple surrounded by weakened evil spirits and concluded that they were sealing the Blackblood Vine within the mountain.
• Luo Bin reasoned that Li Qingxiu sought control of the Blackblood Vine through Li Yunyi and that success could trap everyone on the mountain and give Yuan Yinxin control of the Mountain Cabinet.
• Luo Bin decided not to cast a hexagram, believing that leaving the outcome uncertain gave him a chance to alter fate again.
• Luo Bin entered the temple, where ash swirled and the Blackblood Vine entwined with his shadow instead of piercing him.
• Luo Bin closed his eyes and calmly accepted the changes as the Blackblood Vine's tendrils and ash spread around him.

Li Qingxiu took over Li Yunyi’s body, but the Moss Eaters turned against her and began draining her Yin Spirit. Luo Bin held the Moss Eaters at bay in the Mountain God Temple by threatening to kill himself, while the elders fled to regroup and capture him.

• Li Qingxiu devoured Li Yunyi’s soul, took over his body, and celebrated her transformation as the elders hailed her as Mountain Lord.
• Li Qingxiu failed to control the Moss Eaters, which swarmed her body and drained her essence and Yin Spirit as her original body completed its corpse transformation.
• An elder realized a thief had tricked Li Qingxiu and ordered the others to flee toward the east and southeast to capture him and bring him back to the cave.
• Luo Bin resisted the Blackblood Vine’s attempt to possess him with the toad, the Thunderstruck Blood Peachwood Sword, and the Three Great Ordination Precepts.
• Luo Bin stopped the Moss Eaters from attacking by threatening to stab himself with the Thunderstruck Blood Peachwood Sword, warning that his death would disrupt the balance suppressing someone within the mountain.

Luo Bin escaped Floating Tortoise Mountain after using the Moss Eaters to clear his path, while Xu Lu led the exhausted Feng Family toward the exit. The group was surrounded by swarms of evil spirits and confronted by the Floating Tortoise Mountain Sanctuary, which rallied the spirits to attack.

• Luo Bin realized Li Qingxiu had become subordinate to Li Yunyi, then used his influence over the Moss Eaters to leave the mountain god's temple safely.
• Xu Lu urged Huang Ying to give up on Luo Bin and privately warned her that Tang Yu favored a particular kind of woman.
• Xu Lu stopped Lu Xie from leaving the group, instead arranging for him to leave ritual artifacts and fate-suppressing objects for Cao Yan and the others to find.
• As Xu Lu led the Feng Family onward, increasingly large groups of weakened evil spirits pursued them, and the Jade Ruler Formation kept the group together.
• The group encountered the Floating Tortoise Mountain Sanctuary, whose elders used bone-handled pellet drums to direct the evil spirits into an attack, prompting Xu Lu to order everyone to maintain formation.

Xu Lu and Bai Xian fought off the Floating Tortoise Mountain practitioners, but Li Yunyi suddenly appeared with a power that made Xu Lu realize he might be Li Qingxiu. The chapter left Bai Xian injured and Xu Lu alarmed by the newcomer.

• Xu Lu used the Jade Ruler Formation to repel the evil spirits while the Floating Tortoise Mountain elders attacked with poisoned needles.
• Bai Xian deflected the needles, then unleashed wind, cloud, and thunder Taoist Arts that struck down most of the practitioners.
• Xu Lu led the Feng Family toward the fallen practitioners, urging them to take revenge before leaving the mountain.
• Bai Xian tried to cut down the leading elder, but a dark figure struck her and sent her crashing across the ground.
• Xu Lu recognized the figure as Li Yunyi and suspected that Li Qingxiu had taken over his body.

Li Qingxiu attacked the Feng Family group, and Xu Lu, Bai Xian, and Luo Bin fought to stop her. Luo Bin’s plan to exploit Blackblood Vine left Li Qingxiu’s Divine Yin Spirit in a struggle with something inside Li Yunyi’s body.

• Li Qingxiu confronted Xu Lu and Bai Xian, and Xu Lu baited her Yin Spirit into attacking before striking it with the Jade Ruler.
• Li Qingxiu nearly killed Xu Lu, but Bai Xian and a thrown axe interrupted her, while Fourth Master Gray saved Lu Xie from Lu Guo’s attack.
• Luo Bin arrived with a Blood Peachwood Sword and a living Cinnabar Tortoise, then used his influence over Li Yunyi’s body to make Li Qingxiu step forward.
• Li Qingxiu lunged at Luo Bin, but Blackblood Vine bit into Li Yunyi’s body, and Bai Xian’s wind redirected Luo Bin’s lightning talisman into Li Qingxiu’s Divine Yin Spirit.
• As Li Yunyi’s body shriveled, Li Qingxiu cried out that she was not dead and ordered something to let go of her.

Luo Bin escaped Floating Tortoise Mountain with the Feng Family after witnessing a terrifying presence in Rewind that had frightened Li Qingxiu. At the river, Huang Ying embraced him and said she planned to return with him to Three Perils Mountain.

• Luo Bin used Rewind and saw a black-mist creature reach for him, then stopped before looking at it again.
• Xu Lu and the others arrived, and Luo Bin led them out of Floating Tortoise Mountain through the mist.
• The Feng Family emerged by a river in sunlight, and Feng Shou and Fifth Master Feng thanked Luo Bin and asked where they should go.
• Huang Ying approached Luo Bin, embraced him, and said she planned to go to Three Perils Mountain.
• Huang Ying warned Luo Bin that if he stepped away, she would fall and reopen her wound, which he could not heal.