Chapter Summaries

Dai Zhixiong tormented Shangguan Xingyue and Luo Shan while Yi Yi led the Shamaness Lineage in a counterattack. Yi Yi’s powers failed against Dai Zhixiong’s Pill Corpses, but after she invoked a ritual involving a swaddled infant, Dai Zhixiong fled down the mountain as the infant died.

• Dai Zhixiong stopped Luo Shan from stabbing Shangguan Xingyue and knocked her unconscious when she tried to reach the deity.
• Dai Zhixiong forced Luo Shan toward the ground, but Yi Yi’s arrival and self-inflicted wounds made him release Luo Shan.
• Yi Yi used a ritual that made her wounds mirror onto Dai Zhixiong, but he swallowed a second Pill Corpse and the spell rebounded onto her.
• Dai Zhixiong accused Yi Yi of using supernatural tricks and charged at her, while Yi Yi’s Shamanesses brought her a crying infant and opened a scroll.
• Yi Yi raised the infant during the ritual, and Dai Zhixiong abruptly fled as the infant fell silent and died.

Luo Bin revealed himself on Divine Drum Summit and confronted the Death-Prison Yama Ghost, which had subdued Dai Zhixiong and threatened Shangguan Xingyue. After striking the ghost with the Blood Peach Sword and using ritual artifacts to pin it down, Luo Bin faced Yi Yi’s attack as Shangguan Xingyue recognized him and called out to him.

• The Death-Prison Yama Ghost subdued Dai Zhixiong, inspected the others, and questioned Shangguan Xingyue about how many people she had eaten.
• Luo Bin emerged from the shadows, and the Death-Prison Yama Ghost turned away from Shangguan Xingyue to confront him.
• Luo Bin lit the White Flower Lantern and cleaved the Death-Prison Yama Ghost with the Blood Peach Sword, while Yi Yi decided he could not be allowed to live.
• Fourth Master Gray brought Luo Bin a Good Corpse Core, which Luo Bin swallowed before Yi Yi warned that he was a Yin-Yang Practitioner.
• Luo Bin used Crane Bone Nails, a Hanging Turtle Mirror, the Jade Star Qimen Disk, and the Black Gold Toad to pin down the Death-Prison Yama Ghost.
• Shangguan Xingyue shakily called Luo Bin “Tang Yu” three times as Yi Yi and her allies faced him.

Luo Bin revealed his identity as the real Grounds Master of Primordial Calculation and used the Miao King’s Ocarina, gu worms, and ritual artifacts to suppress the attackers and hold down the Death-Prison Yama Ghost. Shi Gan recognized him and urged Yi Yi to stop, but Luo Bin continued summoning the mountain’s venomous insects as the standoff continued.

• Luo Bin unleashed his gu worms and played the Miao King’s Ocarina, driving back the Shamanesses and Beast-Headed Men while the Death-Prison Yama Ghost remained pinned down.
• Yi Yi ordered Shi Gan to summon the immortals, but Shi Gan stood despite his injuries and told her to stop.
• Shi Gan recognized Luo Bin as the Primordial Calculation Grounds Master and Three Perils Mountain Miao King, then apologized for Sawu Mountain’s actions and asked him to recall his gu worms.
• Fourth Master Gray accused Yi Yi of exploiting Luo Bin and planning to kill him after using him against the Shamaness Lineage.
• Luo Bin kept playing as mist returned and venomous insects climbed the mountain, leaving Yi Yi’s forces increasingly threatened by the growing gu tide.

Yi Yi demanded that Luo Bin surrender the Witch King, but Luo Bin refused to stop summoning the mountain’s venomous creatures. Yi Yi escaped with her followers using blood and witchcraft, leaving Luo Bin surrounded by a spreading crimson mist as the creatures and other figures vanished.

• Yi Yi offered to let Luo Bin and his companions leave if they handed over the Witch King, but Luo Bin continued playing his ocarina to gather venomous creatures.
• Shangguan Xingyue took a position that strengthened their defense, and Shi Gan suddenly attacked Yi Yi before her injury-transferring witchcraft stopped him.
• Yi Yi threatened Shangguan Xingyue with a dagger, but Shangguan Xingyue summoned the Bright God with Six Ears and Six Eyes and remained unharmed.
• Yi Yi poured out blood, beat her drum, and fled through the swarm, transferring the venomous creatures’ attacks onto Chang Xu as her followers carried away Shi Gan and the wounded.
• The blood spread into a vast crimson mist, and Luo Bin stopped playing when the venomous creatures, the Death-Prison Yama Ghost, the warding objects, and Dai Zhixiong disappeared from sight.

Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue were drawn into the Witch Ghost Pool, a domain that separated souls from bodies, while Yi Yi used it to keep Luo Shan’s body alive. Shangguan Xingyue was attacked by a ghost with a sickle, but the ghosts suddenly retreated when someone placed a hand on her shoulder and whispered to be quiet.

• Luo Bin and Fourth Master Gray saw apparent versions of Shangguan Xingyue and Luo Shan, but the scene shifted and Luo Bin vanished, leaving Fourth Master Gray among the ghosts.
• Shangguan Xingyue followed what she believed was Luo Bin through the dark, blood-tinged domain and approached a figure carrying a sickle.
• Yi Yi realized Luo Bin had disappeared from the mountaintop and explained that the Witch Ghost Pool had drawn out living souls while ghosts tried to enter the bodies left behind.
• Yi Yi ordered the Spirit Mediums to search for Luo Bin and kill him, but Hu Tianji urged her to let him go, prompting her to threaten him.
• A sickle-wielding ghost lunged at Shangguan Xingyue as the surrounding ghosts pushed her forward, but they abruptly retreated when an unseen person touched her shoulder and told her to be quiet.

Luo Bin rescued Shangguan Xingyue from a strange realm where her soul had been separated from her body, then found Luo Shan and learned that ghosts had tried to possess him. As Sawu Mountain’s strange landscape and its threats reappeared, Luo Bin sensed that his shadow was becoming rooted there.

• Luo Bin reunited with Shangguan Xingyue, confirmed his identity, and warned that they needed to take Luo Shan and deal with Dai Zhixiong.
• Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue reached the mountaintop and found Yi Yi, her companions, Luo Shan, Dai Zhixiong, and the Death-Prison Yama Ghost missing.
• Luo Bin slashed Shangguan Xingyue’s wrist and discovered that her living soul had left her body, then led her back to her motionless body so she could return to it.
• Luo Bin found Luo Shan lying on the ground with Fourth Master Gray guarding him, and Fourth Master Gray explained that ghosts had tried to possess Luo Shan.
• Luo Bin explained that Sawu Mountain’s strange realm could separate souls from bodies and leave ghosts behind, while the ash, vines, Dai Xiong Zhi, the Death Prison Yama Ghost, and the gu insects reappeared.
• Luo Bin sensed that his shadow was becoming less lively and warned that they should not linger.

Luo Bin discovered that the Death-Prison Yama Ghost had escaped by leaving the River Lady and Bright Consort behind, then used the Thunderstruck Blood Peach Sword to pull Dai Zhixiong out of the ghost’s domain. The sword’s purging aura began transforming Dai Zhixiong, who demanded it from Luo Bin as the chapter ended.

• Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue realized the Death-Prison Yama Ghost had shed its shell, leaving the River Lady and Bright Consort in its place.
• Luo Bin collected the two ghosts and approached Dai Zhixiong as the mist around him thinned.
• Luo Bin thrust the Thunderstruck Blood Peach Sword into Dai Zhixiong’s mouth, bringing him back from his memories of Chen Lingling.
• The sword’s aura purged Dai Zhixiong’s yin energy and began turning him toward a yang spirit, so Luo Bin pulled it away and kicked his abdomen.
• Dai Zhixiong demanded that Luo Bin give him the sword, having tasted the relief it brought from his wicked thoughts.

Luo Bin pinned Dai Zhixiong’s Yin Spirit and deliberately provoked his greed while restoring his corpse core, hoping to drive him into another dangerous transformation. He sent Fourth Master Gray to move Dai Zhixiong’s body and find Yi Yi and Shi Gan, leaving Dai Zhixiong’s next response uncertain.

• Luo Bin used the White Flower Lantern and Black-Gold Toad to immobilize Dai Zhixiong’s Yin Spirit, then repeatedly stabbed him with the ordinary Blood Peach Sword until his resentment returned.
• Luo Bin taunted Dai Zhixiong with the treasures and powers he could gain by attaining a living Yang Spirit, awakening green traces in his eyes.
• Luo Bin returned a corpse core to Dai Zhixiong’s body, increasing its life force and further stirring his greed.
• Luo Bin ordered Fourth Master Gray to take Dai Zhixiong’s body outside and find Yi Yi and Shi Gan.
• Luo Bin reasoned that he had to overwhelm Dai Zhixiong with anger, greed, and danger to test whether the corpse insects could be driven out again.

Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue tried to leave Dai Zhixiong in the hands of Sawu Mountain while managing Luo Shan’s anger and Dai Zhixiong’s emerging corpse impulses. Shangguan Xingyue revealed herself to be Lingling and used Dai Zhixiong’s obsession with his wife to deceive him, leaving his Divine Yin Spirit hollow and motionless.

• Luo Bin stopped Fourth Master Gray from taunting Dai Zhixiong, and mountain rats carried Dai Zhixiong’s body away.
• Luo Shan woke, and Luo Bin warned him not to use the Soul-Absorbing Pearl or seek revenge on Shangguan Xingyue; she apologized, and Luo Shan accepted her apology.
• Dai Zhixiong’s Upper Corpse Green and Middle Corpse White erupted, but he remained lucid and vowed revenge on Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue.
• Shangguan Xingyue approached Dai Zhixiong and spoke as though she were Lingling, making him believe his wife had returned and that they could be together again.
• Luo Bin played along with Shangguan Xingyue’s ruse, which exposed Dai Zhixiong’s obsession and left his Divine Yin Spirit hollow and motionless.

Shangguan Xingyue’s words drove Dai Zhixiong’s Yin Spirit to split into three true worms, and he attacked Luo Bin before disappearing toward the mountain’s other dangers. At the Sawu Mountain Taoist Temple, Dai Zhixiong’s body revived and began preparing for Yang Spirit Projection, leaving Yi Yi and Shi Gan facing a new threat.

• Shangguan Xingyue provoked Dai Zhixiong until his Yin Spirit divided into the Three-Corpse True Worms and reassembled.
• Dai Zhixiong attacked Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue, but the White Flower Lantern let them escape as Dai Zhixiong fled in another direction.
• Luo Bin gave Blood-Human Medicine to two dying old women, then led Shangguan Xingyue and Luo Shan beyond the Mountain Summit, where the Blackblood Vines began to wither.
• At the Sawu Mountain Taoist Temple, Yi Yi insisted that killing Dai Zhixiong was urgent, while Shi Gan prepared a powerful sword to behead him.
• Dai Zhixiong’s body opened its eyes, expelled Insect Corpses, and spoke of corpse liberation and Yang Spirit Projection before attacking the fleeing Immortal Ash.

Luo Bin refused Hui Gui’s demand to surrender Luo Shan and faced a growing force of Spirit Mediums and Black Grannies. As Hui Gui pressed him to cooperate, Black Granny suddenly charged past Luo Bin and struck him.

• Fourth Master Gray criticized Luo Bin for giving Dai Zhixiong a tainted Corpse Core, and Luo Bin explained how it would keep him under control.
• Luo Bin and Shangguan Xingyue discussed the Spirit Mediums’ ties to the Shamaness Lineage and the possibility of the Spirit Mediums leaving Sawu Mountain.
• Hui Gui and the surrounding Spirit Mediums blocked the road and demanded that Luo Bin hand over Luo Shan, while more reinforcements approached.
• Luo Bin refused to abandon Luo Shan and warned Hui Gui to step aside, but six Black Grannies arrived and Hui Gui continued urging him to cooperate.
• Black Granny leaped past Luo Bin and his companions, then swung her paw into Hui Gui’s chest.

Luo Bin and his companions left Sawu Mountain after Black Granny and other Immortal Creatures intervened on their behalf. Luo Bin urged Shangguan Xingyue to go to Primordial Calculation, while Dai Zhixiong’s violence left Yan Nan dying at the Taoist temple.

• Black Granny struck Hui Gui and, with two other Black Grannies, helped Luo Bin’s group leave Sawu Mountain safely.
• Luo Bin, Shangguan Xingyue, and Luo Shan departed the mountain as sunlight broke through the clouds.
• Shangguan Xingyue offered to return to the Palace Grounds and bring its disciples to the Mountain Cabinet’s aid, but Luo Bin told her to go to Primordial Calculation instead.
• Luo Bin explained that Primordial Calculation’s Mountain Gate was wherever people could look up and see the moon, and Shangguan Xingyue understood.
• At the Sawu Mountain Taoist Temple, Dai Zhixiong crushed Shi Gan’s Gray Immortal and shattered Yan Nan’s soul when she asked about Bai Wei.
• A Yellowwaist of the Outer Five Elements approached the dying Yan Nan, who asked who it was.

Bai Wei found Yan Nan dying and carried her down the mountain with Hu Xing’s body, while Luo Bin returned to Peach Immortal Town with Shangguan Xingyue and Luo Shan. As Luo Bin copied the complete Heavenly First Calculations, Fourth Master Gray found Shangguan Xingyue smiling at the full moon.

• Bai Wei told the dying Yan Nan that he could not save her, then carried her down the mountain with the White Immortal Lady keeping her alive and Hu Xing’s body in a jar.
• Luo Bin returned to Peach Immortal Town with Shangguan Xingyue and Luo Shan and settled back into his rented courtyard.
• The Guesthouse Owner welcomed Luo Bin and arranged for people to bring them replacement clothes.
• Luo Bin wrote out the complete Heavenly First Calculations, keeping the inheritance book in his own hands according to the rules.
• Fourth Master Gray went to Shangguan Xingyue’s room and found her smiling up at the full moon.

Shangguan Xingyue watched Luo Shan for signs of something strange, then spent several days discussing primordial calculation with Luo Bin and resolved to repay the people harmed on Cabinet Mountain. Meanwhile, Yi Yi gathered a crowd outside Mount Usa after unleashing its death hexagram to stop Dai Xiong Zhi from obtaining a dangerous sword, and Gan Shi criticized her for it.

• Shangguan Xingyue repeatedly checked Luo Shan’s room but found no clear sign of trouble, and the Guesthouse Owner brought food and supplies to the courtyard.
• Luo Bin explained primordial calculation and warned Shangguan Xingyue that learning its complete inheritance would temporarily destroy her foundations in yin-yang arts and leave her weak.
• After observing Luo Shan for several days, Shangguan Xingyue concluded that the strange sensation around him had disappeared and decided to save those harmed on Cabinet Mountain while killing its evil perpetrators.
• Luo Shan sat alone before a mirror, adjusting and studying his expressions.
• Yi Yi gathered humans, House Immortals, Witches, and Human-Headed Beasts outside Sawu Mountain after stirring Mount Usa’s witch-ghost pool into a death hexagram to keep Dai Xiong Zhi from claiming a sword.
• Gan Shi said Yi Yi’s virtue did not befit her position, and Yi Yi angrily rejected his criticism.

Yi Yi was abandoned by Shi Gan and the Spirit Mediums after they fled Sawu Mountain, while Dai Zhixiong searched the mountain for his body. Elsewhere, Feng Luo and Gu Ya received a call from Luo Bin, who said the danger had passed and he planned to visit them with a surprise.

• Shi Gan led the Spirit Mediums away from Sawu Mountain, rejecting Yi Yi's attempt to remove him as Cult Leader.
• Yi Yi remained at the mountain's foot with the surviving Shamanesses and Beast-Headed Men, blaming Luo Bin for her predicament.
• Dai Zhixiong searched Sawu Mountain for his body as corpse worms increasingly suppressed his reason.
• A frightened man hid deep inside a fissure passage in Pig Cage Cave after narrowly escaping dangerous figures on the mountain.
• Feng Luo and Gu Ya received repeated calls from an unfamiliar number, and the caller eventually identified himself as Luo Bin.
• Luo Bin told Feng Luo that the Six Mountain Yin threat was settled for now and that he planned to visit with a surprise.

Luo Bin reunited with his parents by phone and prepared to leave with Luo Shan, while Shangguan Xingyue returned the Buddhist Prayer Bead to him. The deity inside escaped the White Flower Lantern’s control, leaving Luo Bin with a dangerous burden; the bead then appeared on Shangguan Xingyue as she left Peach Immortal Town.

• Luo Bin used Luo Shan to speak with Luo Feng and Gu Ya, and the rat cries convinced Luo Feng that the caller was really Luo Bin.
• Luo Bin discussed Luo Shan’s recovery and their plans to visit his parents, while Fourth Master Gray urged him to discipline the boy.
• Shangguan Xingyue said she had reviewed the inheritance, returned the Buddhist Prayer Bead, and accepted Luo Bin’s talismans before leaving.
• The six-eared, six-eyed deity appeared and called Luo Bin “Chief,” then escaped the White Flower Lantern’s suppression and vanished from the bead.
• Luo Bin realized he could not control the deity, while Shangguan Xingyue found a cold, black object at her waist as she left Peach Immortal Town.

Shangguan Xingyue fell asleep in the car after being unable to speak, while Bai Wei helped Hu Xing choose to become a smoke soul rather than seize Yan Nan’s body. Yan Nan regained consciousness after drinking talisman water and sensed unfamiliar things in her mind.

• Shangguan Xingyue became stiff and unable to speak in the car, then grew drowsy and fell asleep.
• Bai Wei urged Hu Xing to seize Yan Nan’s body, but Hu Xing refused because she would not eat another soul.
• Hu Xing asked to become a smoke soul, and Bai Wei used a talisman to make her soul disappear.
• Bai Wei prepared talisman water and poured it into Yan Nan’s mouth.
• Yan Nan woke and noticed unfamiliar things in her mind as she saw the clay jar and its sword-pierced head.

Luo Bin brought Luo Shan back to the village near Cabinet Mountain and reunited him with Zhang Baijiao and Zhang Yunling. Luo Shan recognized Zhang Yunling’s distress, and she prepared to lead them onward.

• Luo Bin and Luo Shan left town, and Luo Bin reflected on the powerful deity sealed in the Buddhist Prayer Beads before falling asleep in the car.
• Luo Bin and Luo Shan traveled by high-speed train and taxi to the village near Cabinet Mountain, where Luo Bin worried about explaining Luo Shan’s condition to Gu Ya.
• Luo Shan felt oppressed when he saw Headless General Mountain, though Luo Bin believed his damaged, restored soul would escape Yin Yuan’s notice.
• Zhang Baijiao and Zhang Yunling arrived to meet them, and Zhang Yunling greeted Luo Shan with joy.
• Luo Shan noticed that Zhang Yunling was unwell and asked her not to cry but to lead the way.

Luo Bin, Zhang Yunling, and Zhang Baijiao reached Zhang Baijiao’s home after deciding to wait until morning to travel to Luo Feng. Zhang Yunling took Luo Shan’s hand, and Luo Bin settled in for the night while keeping his thoughts on Yin Yuan and the two fingers he had taken from him.

• Zhang Baijiao explained that the road was dangerous at night and that Luo Feng never opened his door late, so the group agreed to rest until daylight.
• Zhang Yunling took Luo Shan’s hand, and Fourth Master Gray startled her and Zhang Baijiao when he emerged and squeaked at them.
• Zhang Yunling led Luo Shan to her room while Zhang Baijiao showed Luo Bin to his former room.
• Luo Bin examined the Heavenly Circuit Concealment Talisman and the two dark fingers attached to it, wondering how Yin Yuan was doing.
• Fourth Master Gray tried to sneak away to check on Luo Shan, but Luo Bin stopped him.

Luo Bin traveled with Luo Shan and Zhang Baijiao to a hidden mountain village where Luo Feng lived. Luo Feng recognized Luo Shan but eyed the disguised Luo Bin with suspicion.

• Luo Bin stopped Fourth Master Gray from sneaking away overnight, then spoke with Zhang Baijiao about Luo Shan and Zhang Yunling.
• Zhang Baijiao urged Luo Shan to keep his distance from Zhang Yunling, while Luo Bin revealed details about Cabinet Mountain that made Zhang Baijiao realize he was Luo Bin.
• Luo Bin, Luo Shan, Zhang Yunling, and Zhang Baijiao ate breakfast and then set out through a dangerous mountain route toward a remote village.
• The group reached Luo Feng's courtyard, where Luo Feng recognized Luo Shan but questioned the unfamiliar man accompanying him.