Chapter Summaries

Luo Bin recovered Luo Shan’s body and returned his soul to it, but Luo Shan resisted when Luo Bin tried to take the White Flower Lantern. Meanwhile, Yuan Yinxin sensed that Luo Bin was alive and celebrated on Cabinet Mountain.

• Luo Bin removed the Malevolent Corpse Pill and the Seven Yin Arts Talismans from Luo Shan’s body, then Luo Shan’s soul returned to it in pain.
• Luo Bin reached for the White Flower Lantern, but Luo Shan grabbed his wrist and insisted that his body and belongings were his.
• The Black-Gold Toad and Luo Bin’s gu insects reacted as Luo Bin tried to force Luo Shan to let go, but Luo Shan’s wrist proved too strong to dislocate.
• On Cabinet Mountain, Yuan Yinxin realized the life force flooding his body had stopped and sensed that Luo Bin was alive.
• Yuan Yinxin rejoiced and laughed loudly as his wounds continued to heal.

Qin Tianqing decided to lead his companions deeper into Cabinet Mountain to escape Yuan Yinxin, while Dai Zhixiong searched for Shangguan Xingyue after the disastrous battle on Sawu Mountain. Hidden with Hu Xing by Fourth Master Gray, Shangguan Xingyue sensed her supposedly dead junior brother and learned that he might still be alive.

• Qin Tianqing concluded Yuan Yinxin could not search for him and led his group deeper into Cabinet Mountain.
• Dai Zhixiong searched for Shangguan Xingyue and angrily silenced a disciple who suggested she had been captured or killed.
• Shangguan Xingyue and Hu Xing hid in a small hole with Fourth Master Gray as Dai Zhixiong passed nearby.
• Shangguan Xingyue sensed a faint presence from her junior brother and began crying with joy.
• Fourth Master Gray drew Dai Zhixiong away with a swarm of rats, then returned to Shangguan Xingyue and Hu Xing.
• Shangguan Xingyue asked Fourth Master Gray whether her junior brother was still alive.

Shangguan Xingyue grieved over Luo Bin’s possible death while Hu Xing rejected Fourth Master Gray’s matchmaking and urged her to repay her debt by avenging him. Inside Mountain Rift, Luo Bin used the Purple Flower Lantern to drive Luo Shan’s soul from its body and remove his ritual objects, but Luo Shan returned and attacked him again.

• Fourth Master Gray tried to comfort Shangguan Xingyue and hinted that she and Hu Xing could be part of Luo Bin’s good fortune, but Hu Xing insisted she was unworthy and told Shangguan to leave.
• Fourth Master Gray warned Shangguan Xingyue that Luo Bin saw her as the enemy who killed his father and might kill her for revenge.
• Luo Shan restrained Luo Bin and demanded the things that had been taken from his body, while the Gu Worms bit him without poisoning him.
• A dark shadow seized Luo Shan by the throat, and Luo Bin used the Purple Flower Lantern to drive Luo Shan’s soul out of his body.
• Luo Bin removed the ritual implements and suppressing objects from the body before allowing Luo Shan’s soul to return.
• Luo Shan demanded his possessions back and lunged at Luo Bin.

Luo Bin forced Luo Shan to give up his claim to the ritual artifacts and led him out of Pig Cage Cave, where the Blackblood Vine’s protection ended and the Shamanesses pursued them. They reached safety outside, and Luo Bin prepared to take Luo Shan back to their parents before heading down Usa Mountain.

• Luo Bin realized Luo Shan’s possessiveness came from his spoiled upbringing and incomplete soul, then refused to give him the ritual artifacts.
• Luo Bin threatened to take back only Luo Shan’s soul, and Luo Shan gave up his demand; Luo Bin released him and they continued through the Blackblood Vine’s territory.
• Luo Bin and Luo Shan left the vine’s reach and crossed Pig Cage Cave as the Shamanesses revived and pursued them, with the Black-Gold Toad warning Luo Bin.
• Luo Bin and Luo Shan reached safety in the mountain woods, where Luo Shan thanked him and agreed to return to their parents.
• Luo Bin checked that his ritual artifacts were intact and decided to head down Usa Mountain while waiting for Fourth Master Gray to find him.

Luo Bin and Luo Shan escaped a haunted slope on Sawu Mountain, where Luo Bin discovered that the Shamaness Lineage had apparently beheaded men and used their bodies to create Beast-Headed Men. Enraged by the revelation, Luo Bin left Luo Shan hidden in a tree hollow and decided to go back to take care of something.

• Luo Bin found the Immortal Towers full of Beast-Headed Men and shamanesses, so he led Luo Shan away along another route.
• Luo Bin followed a path to a village of men, then turned back when the woods grew unnaturally dark and silent.
• Luo Bin saw hundreds of male ghosts carrying their own severed heads and concluded that the Shamaness Lineage had killed men to make Beast-Headed Men.
• Luo Bin and Luo Shan fled the ghosts and reached bright sunlight, where Luo Bin condemned the Shamaness Lineage and considered destroying Sawu Mountain's core.
• Luo Bin gave Luo Shan three copper beads and sent him to hide in a hollow tree while he went back alone.

Yi Yi blamed Shi Gan for the Way of the Immortals’ attack and ordered him to capture Bai Wei and hunt down the remaining enemies. As Shi Gan left the Immortal Tower, seven escaped outer five elements Spirit Mediums confronted him with an army of beast-headed Immortal Creatures.

• Yi Yi accused Shi Gan of failing to discipline his Spirit Mediums and said Luo Bin was dead after attempting to control Mountain.
• Yi Yi ordered Shi Gan to capture Bai Wei, eliminate the Way of the Immortals, and contain the yin spirit projector, threatening to replace him if he failed.
• Shi Gan asked Yi Yi to preserve the inheritance of primordial calculation, saying the lineage could not be allowed to end.
• Two beast-headed Immortal Creatures tore the heads off two shamanesses outside the Immortal Tower as Shi Gan tried to save them.
• Dozens of outer five elements Immortal Creatures surrounded the tower, and seven escaped Spirit Mediums told Shi Gan to leave and keep his lineage away from the area.

Luo Bin freed the Spirit Mediums imprisoned in the Tower Building, only to discover their souls had been driven from their bodies and the talismans had also kept ghosts out. As the released souls and ghosts rushed to return or possess bodies, he retreated to the third floor and found himself immobilized by a terrifying presence.

• Beast-Headed Men attacked the Immortal Towers, which collapsed as Yi Yi emerged from the rubble and called out Bai Wei’s name.
• Luo Bin decided to free the people imprisoned by the Shamaness Lineage and drove the ghosts from the Tower Building’s second floor with the Black Blood Vine.
• Luo Bin cut the chains binding the Spirit Mediums and discovered talismans beneath their backs that had prevented their souls from returning to their bodies.
• Luo Bin removed the talismans, allowing the Spirit Mediums’ souls and wandering ghosts to rush toward the vacant bodies, then retreated to the third floor.
• Luo Bin sensed a presence gripping his arms from behind and found himself unable to move despite the Black Blood Vine’s uncontrolled growth.

After a horrifying encounter on the Tower Building’s third floor, Luo Bin left the pagoda and set the Shamaness Lineage’s boundary ghosts marching uphill by destroying their talisman-inscribed steles. Elsewhere, Dai Xiong Zhi’s search party passed near Luo Shan’s hiding place, and Dai Xiong Zhi stopped after noticing something nearby.

• A many-armed figure sniffed Luo Bin and immobilized him before vanishing, leaving infant-shaped Moss Eaters among the Blackblood Vine on the third floor.
• Luo Bin failed to open the iron door to the sixth floor, then left the Tower Building and saw that the Shamaness Lineage was burning amid a battle.
• Luo Bin resolved to further destabilize the Shamaness Lineage and destroyed the talisman inscriptions on three boundary steles, summoning unjustly killed ghosts to walk uphill.
• Luo Shan remained hidden in a tree hollow as Dai Xiong Zhi and more than ten disciples passed nearby while searching for Shangguan Yuexingguan.
• Dai Xiong Zhi sniffed golden Pill powder, stopped, and fixed his gaze on a spot near Luo Shan’s hiding place.

Dai Zhixiong mistook the badly injured Luo Shan for Luo Bin, captured him, and fed him soul-nourishing pills. Meanwhile, Shangguan Xingyue ignored Hu Xing and Fourth Master Gray’s warnings and hurried toward the presence she believed was her junior brother, leaving them behind.

• Dai Zhixiong found Luo Shan hiding in a tree hollow and mistook him for Luo Bin after Luo Shan stabbed him.
• Dai Zhixiong seized Luo Shan, extracted his weak living soul, and recognized signs of severe injury and Malevolent Corpse Pills.
• Dai Zhixiong forced soul-nourishing golden pills into Luo Shan and asked whether he had sensed Shangguan Xingyue.
• Shangguan Xingyue changed course after sensing what she believed was her junior brother, despite Fourth Master Gray’s frantic objections.
• Shangguan Xingyue knocked Hu Xing unconscious, left Fourth Master Gray to guard her, and hurried away alone.

Luo Bin destroyed the fifth Boundary Stele and returned to find Luo Shan missing, then reunited with Fourth Master Gray and discovered Hu Xing was alive inside a clay jar. Fourth Master Gray revealed that Dai Zhixiong, Shangguan Yuexingguan, and Hu Xing had come to Sawu Mountain, while Luo Bin sensed other practitioners nearby.

• Luo Bin destroyed the fifth Boundary Stele, releasing the souls and spotting a distant red glow before leaving the area.
• Luo Bin returned at dawn and found a bear in the tree hollow where he had left Luo Shan; he killed it with the Golden Silkworm Gu.
• Luo Bin found signs that someone had forced Luo Shan against a tree and taken him away.
• A woman in a floating clay jar appeared with Fourth Master Gray, and Luo Bin recognized her as Hu Xing.
• Fourth Master Gray told Luo Bin that Dai Zhixiong had slaughtered Spirit Mediums and that Hu Xing and Shangguan Yuexingguan had come to the mountain with him.
• Fourth Master Gray detected the scent of Yin and other practitioners near the tree, and Luo Bin silenced him.

Luo Bin questioned Hu Xing about Shangguan Xingyue and Dai Zhixiong, but Hu Xing rebuked him for helping the woman who had caused his birth father's death. Hu Xing and Fourth Master Gray parted bitterly, and Fourth Master Gray returned to Luo Bin's shoulder, indicating the way forward.

• Luo Bin inferred that Shangguan Xingyue had sensed Luo Shan and pressed Hu Xing for information about why she and Dai Zhixiong had come to Sawu Mountain.
• Hu Xing told Luo Bin that Shangguan Xingyue had killed his birth father and urged him to leave Sawu Mountain rather than help her.
• Luo Bin explained that Shangguan Xingyue had caused harm but also served Heavenly First's divination and could save people, while Fourth Master Gray supported his reasoning.
• Hu Xing revealed that Shangguan Xingyue had come to avenge Luo Bin and said Dai Zhixiong seemed to have no purpose beyond helping her, though his search had seemed unusually desperate.
• Hu Xing crawled into a tree hollow and told Fourth Master Gray to leave and never return; after repeatedly carrying the Calling Bell back to her, Fourth Master Gray returned to Luo Bin and pointed the way.

Luo Bin learned that Dai Zhixiong still possessed three Corpse Cores, while Sawu Mountain reeled from the invasion and turmoil within the Shamaness Lineage. Dai Zhixiong took control of the Taoist temple and threatened Shi Gan, demanding to borrow Sawu Mountain’s grounds.

• Luo Bin and Fourth Master Gray discussed Hu Xing’s safety, and Fourth Master Gray vowed to take revenge on Dai Zhixiong.
• Fourth Master Gray told Luo Bin that Dai Zhixiong had three Corpse Cores, prompting Luo Bin to consider capturing him for lamp oil.
• Shi Gan returned to Divine Drum Summit amid mourning, unrest, and reports that Bai Wei had vanished with his wife missing.
• Shi Gan entered the Taoist temple and found Dai Zhixiong, Luo Bin, the Black Grannies, and the deputy Cult Leaders waiting inside.
• Dai Zhixiong threatened to send wandering corpses after Sawu Mountain’s disciples if Shi Gan tried to summon the Witch Queen, then demanded to borrow the mountain’s auspicious grounds.

Dai Zhixiong negotiated with Shi Gan for access to Divine Drum Summit, revealing that he intended to target Shangguan Xingyue and that he wanted Luo Bin for his own purposes. Meanwhile, Shangguan Xingyue followed the Brahmic Voice toward the summit, where she realized the presence she had been sensing did not seem to be Luo Bin.

• Dai Zhixiong threatened Shi Gan with a blood-soaked Pill until Shi Gan halted Black Granny and the deputy cult leaders.
• Dai Zhixiong explained his plan to use Grafting Flowers and Trees and Substituting the Peach Tree for the Plum against Shangguan Xingyue, and Shi Gan agreed to let him use Divine Drum Summit in exchange for Luo Bin.
• Shangguan Xingyue stumbled from exhaustion and a warning sense of danger, but the Brahmic Voice urged her onward.
• As Shangguan Xingyue approached the summit, she recognized its Feng Shui as Deity Striking the Drum and sensed that the nearby presence felt insignificant rather than like Luo Bin.
• Shangguan Xingyue reached the summit and ran toward the enormous clearing at the center of the drumhead.

Shangguan Xingyue reached the mountaintop and found Luo Bin, but Dai Zhixiong revealed a hidden ritual and forced her to take suspicious pills. As drums sounded, she faced an imminent confrontation with her master and the deity stirring within her.

• Shangguan Xingyue defied her death omens and followed the Brahmic Voice to the mountaintop, where she found Luo Bin standing in a clearing.
• Shangguan Xingyue suspected someone had put Luo Bin under control and called for the hidden person to come out.
• Dai Zhixiong emerged from the mist, claimed he had saved Luo Bin, and offered Shangguan Xingyue three pills made from human bone.
• Shangguan Xingyue recognized the pills as suspicious and noticed incense braziers arranged around the clearing, while Dai Zhixiong blocked her path to Luo Bin.
• Dai Zhixiong pointed a blade at Luo Bin and ordered Shangguan Xingyue to eat a pill, revealing his longing for someone he called Lingling.
• Shangguan Xingyue took a pill as the deity stirred within her, and Dai Zhixiong angrily demanded that she eat it as drums began to pound.

Dai Zhixiong pursued Shangguan Xingyue toward Sawu Mountain’s summit, where a six-eared, six-eyed Deity swallowed the three Golden Cores she threw. As Luo Bin raced uphill trying to understand Dai Zhixiong’s motives, Yi Yi learned that someone had left with the Witch King and began to doubt that Luo Bin was dead.

• Shangguan Xingyue threw three Golden Cores, and the six-eared, six-eyed Deity caught and swallowed them before Dai Zhixiong could stop it.
• Luo Bin heard the Divine Drum and followed the uphill route, suspecting Dai Zhixiong’s pursuit was really about Shangguan Xingyue.
• Fourth Master Gray possessed Luo Bin and sped him toward the summit while Luo Bin analyzed Dai Zhixiong’s actions.
• Yi Yi removed the blades embedded in her body after defeating seven ancient Spirit Mediums, while the Shamaness Lineage’s grounds remained devastated by fighting.
• A wounded Shamaness told Yi Yi that she had seen a group leaving with the Witch King, making Yi Yi question whether Luo Bin had truly died.

Yi Yi realized that the Underground Palace lineage had orchestrated the chaos to rescue Luo Bin and undermine the Shamaness Lineage. At Divine Drum Summit, Dai Zhixiong’s attempt to seize power collapsed into a fight with the Deity with Six Ears and Six Eyes, and the chapter ended with the Deity pulling at Dai Zhixiong’s spirit.

• Yi Yi concluded that the Underground Palace lineage had arranged Luo Bin’s rescue and the upheaval against the Shamaness Lineage.
• Shi Gan’s drumming stopped, and Luo Shan brought Dai Zhixiong’s body to Shi Gan as the deputy cult leaders held blades to his neck.
• The Deity with Six Ears and Six Eyes devoured the pill containing Dai Zhixiong’s wife’s soul, while Shi Gan’s Fox Immortal revealed the trap and Dai Zhixiong’s Yin Spirit vanished back into his body.
• Dai Zhixiong swallowed a Jade Brainstone Pill, pulled a Three Corpse Worm from his eye, ate it, and threatened Shi Gan before vanishing.
• Dai Zhixiong attacked Shangguan Xingyue, who swallowed a Buddhist Prayer Bead and retreated behind the Deity.
• Dai Zhixiong struck the Deity with talismans and tried to draw out the woman’s face, but the Deity seized his shoulders and began pulling out illusory images of them.

Dai Zhixiong used blood talismans and star stones to weaken the deity and extract Chen Lingling's soul, but Gan Shi and the Black Grannies attacked him before he could finish. As Dai Zhixiong resorted to Dissolution, a purple-tinged black smoke emerged from Xiong Zhi's chest, terrifying him as the White Corpse's fury threatened to erupt.

• Dai Zhixiong used blood talismans to draw Chen Lingling's soul from the deity and pressed her into his chest.
• Dai Zhixiong struck the deity with nine colored stones and weakened it with Broken Army Slaughtering Suppression and Five Yellow Star Brings Calamity.
• Shangguan Xingyue ran toward Gan Shi and the others, urging them to act before Dai Zhixiong could free his hands.
• Gan Shi told Shangguan Xingyue to take Master Luo away, then joined the two Black Grannies in restraining Dai Zhixiong.
• Dai Zhixiong ate a Corpse Core and used Dissolution, sending corpse qi into Gan Shi and the Black Grannies.
• Purple-tinged black smoke rose from Xiong Zhi's chest, and Xiong Zhi begged it to stop as the White Corpse's fury surged.

After his wife’s soul vanished, Dai Zhixiong became a raging threat, killing the Fox Immortal and Yellow Immortal and attacking Shi Gan’s group. Luo Bin watched from hiding and held back, expecting another possessing immortal to arrive at Sawu Mountain.

• Dai Zhixiong’s wife’s soul disappeared, leaving him emotionally hollow as Middle Corpse White overwhelmed him.
• Dai Zhixiong broke free, struck Shi Gan, and killed the Fox Immortal and Yellow Immortal as they tried to save him.
• Dai Zhixiong tore apart the deity, trapped its remains in a tortoiseshell pattern, and charged Shi Gan and the two Deputy Cult Leaders.
• Dai Zhixiong slapped Shangguan Xingyue aside but paused after noticing Shan Luo.
• Luo Bin hid near the drumhead while Fourth Master Gray urged him to help Shangguan Xingyue, but Luo Bin waited for another possessing immortal to appear.

Dai Zhixiong crippled Chang Xu and Hu Tianji, incapacitated the two Black Grannies, and turned his fury on Shi Gan, who taunted him while explaining why he could not leave Sawu Mountain. The chapter ended with Dai Zhixiong beating Shi Gan and threatening to kill his allies and build a Palace Grounds there.

• Dai Zhixiong ignored Chang Xu’s warning and severed Chang Xu’s and Hu Tianji’s limbs, then calmed himself and made the corpse worms disappear by recalling Lingling.
• Dai Zhixiong attacked the two Black Grannies, took their inner pills, and said he could use them and Shi Gan to restore his cultivation.
• Shi Gan told Dai Zhixiong that Yin Spirit Projection trapped him on Sawu Mountain and taunted him over his grief for his cultivation partner.
• Luo Bin restrained himself from intervening while Fourth Master Gray questioned Shi Gan’s decision to provoke Dai Zhixiong.
• Dai Zhixiong punched Shi Gan, seized him by the neck, and threatened to kill his allies and turn Sawu Mountain into a Palace Grounds.

Luo Bin watched Dai Zhixiong break Shi Gan’s limbs while contemplating fate and the feng shui of the battlefield. When Luo Shan suddenly attacked Shangguan Xingyue, Luo Bin realized Dai Zhixiong had anticipated something, and the chapter ended with Luo Shan’s knife thrust and eerie applause and laughter.

• Dai Zhixiong released Shi Gan and spoke about fear, fate, and Sawu Mountain’s misfortunes as Luo Bin secretly listened.
• Luo Bin considered Dai Zhixiong’s words and the battlefield’s feng shui while Fourth Master Gray questioned him about Luo Shan.
• Dai Zhixiong broke Shi Gan’s arms and legs, while the deity with Six Ears and Six Eyes remained suppressed and Shangguan Xingyue failed to escape with Luo Shan.
• Shangguan Xingyue dragged the silent Luo Shan away, but he drew a knife and struck at her back.
• Shangguan Xingyue sensed the attack and turned just as Luo Shan thrust harder, while Dai Zhixiong applauded and laughter filled the Mountain Summit.