Chapter Summaries

Luo Bin rescued Qin Tianqing’s group and helped the Chief Seat Deity drive off Yuan Tianshu’s Yin Spirit, then used a Good Corpse Core to heal Bai Wei’s Gray Immortal. He discovered that Gu Yiren’s soul was whole, but she rose as a shaman and threatened him with a dagger.

• Luo Bin arrived in the valley, used Yuan Tianshu’s body as a barrier, and joined the Chief Seat Deity in pursuing Yuan Tianshu’s Yin Spirit.
• Yuan Tianshu’s Yin Spirit fled after his body fell apart, while the Chief Seat Deity returned to Luo Bin.
• Luo Bin refused Third Master Hu’s request for the Good Corpse Core and used some of its powder to heal Bai Wei’s Gray Immortal.
• Luo Bin explained that the Feng Shui Formation still protected the valley and asked the group to rest while he carried Gu Yiren inside.
• Luo Bin saw that Gu Yiren’s soul was whole, but she stood with a dagger against his chest and appeared to be a shaman.

Gu Shanhong took control of Gu Yiren and challenged Luo Bin to uphold his duty as Venue Master, while Luo Bin weighed retreating after losing the initiative against Yuan Tianshu. Qin Tianqing proposed an audacious way to catch Yuan Tianshu off guard, and the chapter ended with Luo Bin considering its risks.

• Gu Yiren's soul fragment yielded control of her body to Gu Shanhong, who stopped Luo Bin from opening the book and demanded to know what he would do.
• Luo Bin considered abandoning his attempt to capture Yuan Tianshu and leaving with Qin Tianqing and Bai Wei, but Gu Shanhong condemned him and ordered him out.
• Luo Bin joined Qin Tianqing, Bai Wei, and the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds disciples outside and explained the situation and their lost initiative.
• Qin Tianqing proposed exploiting Yuan Tianshu's ignorance of Gu Shanhong's control of Gu Yiren to lure him into a surprise attack.
• Grandpa Hu San urged Luo Bin to act immediately, while Bai Wei told him to decide for himself; Luo Bin weighed the plan's risk of falling into Yuan Tianshu's hands.

Yuan Yinxin failed to find Mao Yousan at Outer Cabinet Mountain, while Zhou Sanming awakened and took control of the five Dao Corpses. Mao Yousan used their activation to enter the mountain and followed Zhou Sanming, who sensed danger and confronted two Sui Xies.

• Yuan Yinxin prepared a Peachwood Sword coated with Ba Xiao’s tooth powder and went to lure Mao Yousan into Sacred Way Mountain, but found him missing and left.
• Zhou Sanming used his life force and a corpse pill to awaken and control the five Dao Corpses, then set out with Xu Jin following.
• Mao Yousan tracked the activated Dao Corpses into Cabinet Mountain and planned to capture Zhou Sanming’s yin spirits, Yuan Yinxin, and possibly other targets.
• Zhou Sanming sensed someone watching him, suspected Yuan Tianshu, and continued toward Shendao Mountain with the Dao Corpses.
• Two Sui Xies appeared before Zhou Sanming, and one pointed toward a tree and urged him to investigate someone following him.

Zhou Sanming’s Dao Corpses exposed and destroyed a hidden Mountain Specter’s False Body, while Mao Yousan remained concealed under the blood-tinged moon. Elsewhere, the Tomb Guardian held back the hands emerging from the stone door, and Yuan Tianshu sensed the talisman formation nearing collapse but could not find a way to capture Luo Bin.

• Zhou Sanming ordered a Dao Corpse to strike down two evil spirits with Palm Thunder, then sent his Dao Corpses toward the place they had indicated.
• The five Dao Corpses turned around Zhou Sanming and destroyed a Mountain Specter’s False Body hidden behind a tree, while Mao Yousan revealed that he had guided them into action.
• Mao Yousan watched the pale, blood-tinged full moon and silently considered Zhou Sanming’s newfound confidence.
• Hands emerged from the Tomb Chamber’s cracks and frantically grabbed at the air, but the Tomb Guardian recited a suppressive incantation until they withdrew.
• Yuan Tianshu absorbed Living Soul Essence in a mountain cave and sensed that the talisman formation was close to breaking.
• Yuan Tianshu lamented the loss of his lantern and swords and, resentful of Luo Bin, demanded that he show a spirit of self-sacrifice.

Yuan Yinxin persuaded Luo Xianshen to confront Yuan Tianshu on Sacred Way Mountain, while Qin Tianqing presented Gu Shanhong with a plan to free the branch grounds master's tomb guardian. Gu Shanhong questioned whether she would have to give up her borrowed life, and Qin Tianqing proposed a shared burial that would leave the guardian inside her.

• Luo Xianshen learned from Yuan Yinxin that Mao Yousan had disappeared and asked about the dangers on Sacred Way Mountain.
• Yuan Yinxin described Yuan Tianshu's Human-Skin Puppets and warned Luo Xianshen about the risks of confronting his Master.
• Luo Xianshen agreed to let Yuan Yinxin lead him to Sacred Way Mountain, believing he needed to repay a debt owed to the Heavenly Mechanism Diviner.
• Qin Tianqing explained a plan for Yuan Tianshu to replace the branch grounds master's tomb guardian so Luo Bin could turn Yuan Tianshu's flesh and blood into talismans and free the guardian.
• Gu Shanhong asked whether the plan meant she would have to return to dust and earth, and Qin Tianqing suggested burying her with the guardian in a cuckoo-wood coffin.

Gu Yiren betrayed Luo Bin after luring him away from Qin Tianqing and Bai Wei, explaining that she intended to free him from Yuan Tianshu's influence. She left Luo Bin immobilized and subdued his guardians, declaring that she would help him form the Talisman and suppress Divine Dao Mountain.

• Gu Yiren took Luo Bin and Fourth Master Gray toward Wooden Puppet Village, pinning them with Crane-Bone Nails so Yuan Tianshu would believe she had captured them.
• Yuan Ying arrived, and Gu Yiren drove Crane-Bone Nails into him and used strokes on his face to make him move.
• Gu Yiren searched Luo Bin, taking the Good Corpse Core, Hanging Tortoise Mirror, and other items while using a substance from her Wooden Needle Case to restrain his gu worms.
• Gu Yiren revealed that she had anticipated Luo Bin's safeguards and had manipulated him and Qin Tianqing into separating from Bai Wei and pursuing Yuan Tianshu.
• First Seat Bright God appeared and seized Gu Yiren, but she used the black golden toad, the Pill, and the Hanging Turtle Mirror to pin First Seat Bright God down before nailing the toad's feet to the ground.
• Gu Yiren told Luo Bin she would fulfill his long-cherished wish by helping him form the Talisman and suppress Divine Dao Mountain.

Luo Bin realized that Gu Yiren was using Gu Shanhong’s body to manipulate him and take him to the tomb, but Qin Tianqing and Bai Wei arrived to expose her scheme. As Bai Wei moved to capture her, Yuan Tianshu appeared and struck him toward the cliff.

• Gu Yiren concealed the black-gold toad, carried Luo Bin toward the stone platform, and urged him to complete the Talisman Array while she guarded the tomb.
• At the stone bridge, Luo Bin resisted Gu Yiren, and poison from the corpse core briefly affected her.
• Qin Tianqing confronted Gu Yiren, revealing that Bai Wei had detected and captured a wisp of her soul.
• Gu Yiren immobilized Bai Wei with Death Wind Suppression, but he advanced again, and an unseen attacker hurled him off the cliff.
• Yuan Tianshu emerged from behind a crag, applauding and declaring that he would help his junior sister.

Yuan Tianshu believed Gu Yiren and Luo Bin were beaten and moved to carry out his plan to awaken the tomb, but Gu Shanhong had lured him into a trap. He ended the chapter immobilized by Crane-Bone Nails and the Hanging Tortoise Mirror, with Luo Bin poised to strike and Gu Yiren holding him in place.

• Yuan Tianshu revealed himself, knocked Bai Wei into the poison pit, and killed Qin Tianqing by forcing his hand through his chest.
• Yuan Tianshu praised Gu Yiren for her supposed scheme and explained that he would take Luo Bin to awaken their senior brother and rebuild the Primordial Calculation Mountain Gate.
• Yuan Ying carried Luo Bin into the tomb passage as Yuan Tianshu and Gu Yiren followed, and a stone door descended behind them.
• In the second Tomb Chamber, Yuan Tianshu pulled Luo Bin around and was met by a dark, blood-red shadow while Crane-Bone Nails pierced his back.
• Gu Yiren pinned Yuan Tianshu's yin spirit with the nails and Hanging Tortoise Mirror, and Luo Bin stopped his sword at her command.
• Gray Fourth Master appeared with Crane-Bone Nails in his mouth as Gu Yiren taunted the trapped Yuan Tianshu, who cursed her in rage.

Luo Bin realized Gu Yiren had deliberately arranged for Yuan Tianshu to be restrained in the Tomb Passage so his body could be turned into a talisman to stabilize Divine Dao Mountain. Gu Yiren told Luo Bin he had to perform the method, while Yuan Tianshu warned him that she was lying and a breach in the stone door threatened to release something.

• Luo Bin pieced together that Gu Yiren had intentionally left ritual artifacts and Fourth Master Gray with him to carry out a hidden plan involving Yuan Tianshu.
• Gu Yiren explained that Yuan Tianshu had to die inside the tomb so his intact body could become a talisman and suppress the mountain.
• Gu Yiren told Luo Bin to form the talisman and seal Yuan Tianshu's skull sutures, saying the Tomb Passage would hold long enough for him to act.
• Luo Bin saw that a huge opening had appeared in the cracked stone door, and Yuan Tianshu warned him that Gu Yiren was lying.
• Gu Yiren pressed Yuan Tianshu's fontanelle until it bled and urged Luo Bin to act before something emerged from the opening.

Luo Bin suspected Gu Yiren intended to trap him after he turned Yuan Tianshu into a talisman, but a disturbance at the stone door interrupted his decision. After the threat at the door receded, Gu Yiren challenged him for delaying and asked why he had not dealt with Yuan Tianshu.

• Luo Bin reasoned that Gu Yiren had another plan and might have the Tomb Guardian seize his soul once Yuan Tianshu was turned into a talisman.
• Tapping and cries of “Save me” came from the stone door, and the Tomb Guardian pointed toward Luo Bin as hands reached through cracks.
• Gu Yiren identified the disturbance as witch-gu cursecraft and warned that the Tomb-Guarding Yong might emerge, while the heads chanted to reinforce the seal.
• Luo Bin regained control of the Two-Refined Thread Gu and stopped the Tomb Guardian from grabbing him as the hands withdrew.
• Luo Bin asked Gu Yiren about the Tomb-Guarding Yong, witch-gu cursecraft, and Mu Tong’s soul capture, then she accused him of stalling over Yuan Tianshu.

Gu Yiren, possessed by Gu Shanhong, tried to force Luo Bin to turn Yuan Tianshu into a talisman and attacked him when he refused. Gu Shanhong gained the upper hand with Hexagram Speech Manifestation, but her yin spirit suddenly began to burn, giving Luo Bin a chance to strike.

• Gu Yiren used a Cloth Doll to threaten Yuan Tianshu and demanded that Luo Bin carve the talisman, while Gu Yiren briefly warned him to run.
• Gu Yiren revealed another Moon-Shaped Stone covered in talisman inscriptions, suppressing Luo Bin's supernatural allies and allowing Gu Shanhong's yin spirit to escape her body.
• Luo Bin charged Gu Yiren, but Gu Shanhong's yin spirit attacked him and drove him back before returning to her body to cast Dispersion.
• Gu Yiren used Hexagram Speech Manifestation to inflict pain and confusion on Luo Bin, then sent Gu Shanhong's yin spirit out to attack again.
• Gu Shanhong's yin spirit suddenly froze and began burning at the chest, prompting Fourth Master Gray to urge Luo Bin to strike while she was weakened.

Luo Bin used the Moon-Shaped Stone and his knowledge of the Tomb Chamber’s hexagram positions to evade Gu Yiren’s attacks, while Qin Tianqing’s group struggled to burn Gu Shanhong’s captured life-soul fragment. Nearby, Luo Xianshen followed Yuan Yinxin’s urging to target the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds as Bai Wei climbed back onto the Stone Platform.

• Gu Yiren’s Yin Spirit returned to her body, and Luo Bin retrieved the Moon-Shaped Stone before moving among the hexagram positions to avoid her Hexagram Speech Manifestation.
• Qin Tianqing failed to relight the Life-Lamp Soul Scorching candle, and he told the disciples to wait for Bai Wei and prepare for further danger.
• The puppets of Sacred Way Mountain retreated, and the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds disciples mistook Bai Wei’s return for the reason.
• Luo Xianshen dispersed the approaching evil spirits with the Prison-Breaking Incantation while Yuan Yinxin explained the situation and urged him to attack Qin Tianqing’s group.
• Yuan Yinxin spotted Bai Wei climbing onto the Stone Platform and urged Luo Xianshen to strike first, especially against the animal-spirit medium.

In the Tomb Chamber, Luo Bin kept evading Gu Shanhong while searching for a weakness. Meanwhile, Luo Xianshen chose to pursue a peaceful meeting with the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds, but Yuan Yinxin suddenly moved behind him as a warning rang out.

• Luo Bin continued dodging Gu Shanhong and stabbing the Cloth Doll with the Crane-Bone Nail, hoping to find an opening.
• Luo Xianshen observed the Spirit Mediums and concluded that Bai Wei and the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds were not together.
• Yuan Yinxin told Luo Xianshen that Yuan Tianshu might be attempting something behind the sealed door.
• Luo Xianshen suggested negotiating with Heaven-Dumping Qin, believing the conflict might be a misunderstanding, and promised to protect Yuan Yinxin.
• Yuan Yinxin agreed to lead the way, then abruptly stepped behind Luo Xianshen as someone shouted for Taoist Luo to watch out.

Xu Jin’s shout triggered a sudden battle on Sacred Way Mountain, leaving Yuan Yinxin badly wounded and Old Master Bai charred by Luo Xianshen’s heavenly thunder. Luo Xianshen reached Yuan Yinxin, but five Dao Corpses surrounded them as their unseen controller remained at large.

• Bai Wei possessed the Five Immortals and attacked Yuan Yinxin, impaling him with a sword while Luo Xianshen fought off two Dao Corpses.
• Zhou Sanming sent three more Dao Corpses toward Yuan Yinxin, bringing their number to five.
• Luo Xianshen unleashed heavenly thunder, leaving Old Master Bai charred and motionless.
• Luo Xianshen treated Yuan Yinxin’s wounds as the five Dao Corpses surrounded him.
• Yuan Yinxin coughed up blood and concealed a vicious expression from Luo Xianshen.

Yuan Yinxin and Luo Xianshen fought Bai Wei and the Dao Corpses, with Yuan Yinxin using thunder techniques to protect and strengthen Luo Xianshen. As the battle continued, Yuan Yinxin’s vital energy began draining rapidly, while Luo Xianshen sensed that his lightning arts were about to change.

• Yuan Yinxin shielded Luo Xianshen from Bai Wei’s attack, then warned him that Evil Immortals might be controlling the Dao Corpses.
• A Spirit Medium and five Dao Corpses attacked Luo Xianshen, but Yuan Yinxin struck Bai Wei with a Hexagram Speech Manifestation and Luo Xianshen repelled the attackers with his sword and lightning incantation.
• Bai Wei ordered Qin Tianqing and the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds Disciples to stop, then chose not to attack Yuan Yinxin again while Luo Xianshen remained in his way.
• Yuan Yinxin directed Luo Xianshen to retreat seven steps and used Great Thunder Strength to enhance him as the Dao Corpses closed in.
• Yuan Yinxin’s vital energy began draining at an abnormal rate, while Luo Xianshen felt an unfamiliar urge to unleash a different kind of lightning art.

Luo Xianshen’s aura surged after Yuan Yinxin empowered him, terrifying Bai Wei and driving back the Five Corpse Immortals. As the thunder’s beckoning grew stronger, Luo Xianshen struggled to resist using heavenly lightning on himself or the Dao Corpses, while Mao Yousan watched from hiding.

• Qin Tianqing warned Bai Wei to flee, but Luo Xianshen blasted the Five Corpse Immortals away with Earth Thunder and stopped Bai Wei from advancing.
• Zhou Sanming watched from the shadows and inwardly blamed Yuan Yinxin for empowering Luo Xianshen.
• Yuan Yinxin felt the strain of draining his vitality to empower Luo Xianshen and urged him to strike the Dao Corpses.
• Mao Yousan stayed hidden, fearing Luo Xianshen’s thunder would destroy his remaining Dao Corpses and choosing not to intervene.
• Luo Xianshen sensed the growing urge to call down thunder on himself, but resolved to break out of the state without killing Bai Wei or striking the Dao Corpses.

Luo Xianshen used Earth Thunder to expose Yuan Yinxin as the culprit behind the slaughter, then summoned controlled heavenly thunder against him and Zhou Sanming. The thunder struck both men and drove their Divine Yin Spirits from their bodies.

• Luo Xianshen used Earth Thunder to reveal the spirits of the murdered people and identify Yuan Yinxin as their killer.
• Luo Xianshen confronted Yuan Yinxin by asking whether he had planted the flowers on the mountaintop, and Yuan Yinxin's reaction betrayed him.
• Yuan Yinxin fled down the mountain as two men emerged from behind a tree, while the Dao Corpses broke free of their control.
• Luo Xianshen switched to the heavenly thunder seal and recited a Thunder Method that summoned three controlled bolts.
• Zhou Sanming cursed Yuan Yinxin as the thunder struck both men and their Divine Yin Spirits left their bodies.

Luo Xianshen struck down Yuan Yinxin and two other Yin Spirit Projection practitioners with heavenly thunder, while the Yellow Father Ghost pursued Yuan Yinxin’s fleeing yin spirit. Mao Yousan questioned Qin Tianqing about the people trapped inside the mountain tomb and revealed he was searching for his disciple, prompting Heaven-Dumping Qin to ask if he meant Luo Bin.

• Luo Xianshen used heavenly thunder to destroy the bodies of Yuan Yinxin and the other two practitioners, then started after their fleeing yin spirits.
• The Yellow Father Ghost emerged from black mist and chased Yuan Yinxin’s yin spirit, while Mao Yousan linked the Five Dao Corpses’ life force to protect them.
• Mao Yousan and Luo Xianshen went to the stone platform and questioned Qin Tianqing and the Heavenly Mechanism Taoist Grounds disciples.
• Qin Tianqing explained that Yuan Tianshu had taken his friend into the tomb chamber and asked Mao Yousan and Luo Xianshen to help rescue him.
• Mao Yousan said he was searching for his disciple before he helped, and Heaven-Dumping Qin asked whether the person he sought was Luo Bin.

Mao Yousan learned that Luo Bin was trapped inside the Tomb Chamber and ordered Luo Xianshen to break open its door despite the feng shui backlash. Inside, Gu Shanhong tried to stop Luo Bin from disrupting the feng shui, while Yi Gu warned him of danger behind him.

• Qin Tianqing recognized Mao Yousan as Mr. Mao and realized Luo Xianshen came from Four-Rules Mountain.
• Mao Yousan learned that Luo Bin was trapped with Gu Shanhong and urged Luo Xianshen to open the tomb door.
• Luo Xianshen struck the stone door with the High Heaven Pestle as Mao Yousan prepared his Bell Clashes and the Dao Corpses guarded against attacks.
• Yi Gu heard the door being forced open and feared the feng shui backlash would damage the Tomb Chamber's wards.
• Luo Bin restrained the Tomb Guardian as Gu Shanhong's Yin Spirit tried to escape, then Gu Shanhong warned him of his responsibility as the Primordial Calculation Grounds Master.
• Yi Gu pointed behind Luo Bin as he felt a sudden chill at his back.

Luo Bin faced the Witchcraft Curse as the Tomb Guardian, controlled through the Thread Gu, dragged him toward the crack in the stone door. Gu Yiren joined the struggle, leaving Luo Bin still resisting as the chapter ended.

• Luo Bin realized Gu Yiren had escaped because Gu Shanhong's Yin Spirit had been injured, while a pair of arms emerged from a crack in the stone door.
• Yuan Tianshu urged Luo Bin to release him so he could reinforce the formation, but Luo Bin stayed focused on the arms and the Witchcraft Curse.
• The Tomb Guardian cried "Save me," seized Luo Bin's arm, and dragged him toward the crack as the Two-Refined Thread Gu resisted Luo Bin's control.
• Luo Bin's Gu Worms formed a defensive line against the Thread Gu, but they could not stop the Tomb Guardian from pulling him closer to the door.
• Yuan Tianshu warned Luo Bin that the Witchcraft Curse could kill him, and Gu Yiren grabbed Luo Bin's shoulder to help pull him back as the Tomb Guardian roared, "Get in!"