Chapter Summaries

Luo Bin discovered that a six-thread golden silkworm gu had secretly taken over his scorpion gu and followed him. After Mao Yousan advised him not to rush into controlling it, Luo Bin gave him a drawing of the Three Southern Mountains.

• Luo Bin drew the Three Southern Mountains for Mao Yousan while his golden silkworm gu warned him of danger.
• Luo Bin noticed his scorpion gu was sluggish and found a six-thread golden silkworm gu and a thread gu hidden inside it.
• The six-thread golden silkworm gu briefly crawled onto Luo Bin before returning to the scorpion gu in his backpack.
• Mao Yousan recognized the thread gu as the source of the Witchcraft Curse and advised Luo Bin to postpone trying to control the six-thread golden silkworm gu.
• Luo Bin handed Mao Yousan the drawing of the Three Southern Mountains, surprising him.

Luo Bin followed Mao Yousan to Worry-Free Mountain in search of ghost lantern flowers, learning that Mao had a grudge with the Weilu Sect and possessed terrifying strength. Mao forced Luo Bin onto a narrow cliff path to teach him to accept and merge with feng shui, and Luo Bin used the Jade Star Qimen Compass to steady himself as he faced the precipice.

• Mao Yousan led Luo Bin and the three Dao Corpses out of the city toward Worry-Free Mountain, while Huang Bing reported that the Purple Miao people had safely departed with Miao Tu and Miao Yun.
• Mao Yousan explained that the Weilu Sect had once fought him after he bought several elders and an abbey master, and revealed that he had lost five Dao Corpses and intended to replenish them on the mountain.
• Luo Bin and Mao Yousan passed the empty Weilu Sect abbey and entered a cave before emerging onto a narrow ledge above a sheer drop.
• Mao Yousan pulled Luo Bin onto the ledge, taught him to accept and merge with feng shui, and made him walk without clinging to the rock wall.
• Luo Bin recalled Mao Yousan's lesson, consulted the Jade Star Qimen Compass, and recited the Mountain Hexagram phrase as his fear of the precipice began to fade.

Luo Bin crossed a perilous cliff by trusting fate’s protection, while Mao Yousan watched and praised his determination. After entering the Weilu Sect’s settlement, Mao Yousan divined that the on-duty City God had brought trouble to his doorstep and hurried uphill in anger.

• Luo Bin became one with the mountain’s feng shui through the Yin-Yang Arts, then chose to cross the narrow cliff path without relying on a hexagram.
• Luo Bin trusted fate’s protection and strode safely across the cliff, where Mao Yousan supported him and explained how feng shui, yang calculation, and the Yin-Yang Arts could gradually harmonize.
• Mao Yousan warned Luo Bin to stay quiet, keep his black blood vine hidden, and avoid being seen as they approached the Weilu Sect’s settlement.
• Mao Yousan found the settlement deserted, cast a hexagram, and hurried uphill with Luo Bin and the three Dao Corpses.
• Mao Yousan said the on-duty City God had brought trouble to his doorstep and vowed to return and break every bone in the City God’s body.

The Weilu Sect mobilized to lure Mao Yousan and Luo Bin into a trap, while the Day Patrol pressured Shi Xin to help search for them and proposed using the Second Deity’s remains against Mao Yousan. On Worry-Free Mountain, Mao Yousan explained why the Taoists were hostile, and Luo Bin began searching for the Ghost Lantern Flower near the location indicated by Heavenly First’s inheritance.

• Shi Xin learned that the Weilu Sect had mobilized its Taoists to use the City God Temple procession to lure and kill Mao Yousan and Luo Bin.
• The Day Patrol reported that Luo Bin was connected to Tang Yu and the Infant Ghosts from the Female Crypt and Male Cave, then accused Shi Xin of obstructing the search for the Death-Prison Yama Ghost.
• The Day Patrol argued that the City God Temple could use the Second Deity’s remains to deal with Mao Yousan, and Shi Xin ordered the Taoists to remain inside the temple.
• Luo Bin asked Mao Yousan why the Weilu Sect was targeting them, and Mao Yousan explained that Luo Bin’s ghosts and White Flower Lantern had drawn the Taoists’ hostility.
• Mao Yousan stopped at the area indicated by Heavenly First’s inheritance, and Luo Bin began searching for the Ghost Lantern Flower.

Luo Bin found the white ghost lantern flower field on Worry-Free Mountain, but its flowers exposed Mao Yousan and the Dao Corpses’ Yin Spirits, forcing him to continue alone. As he began gathering flowers in a cave, a sword narrowly missed his head, leaving him facing an unseen threat.

• Luo Bin used the Jade Star Qimen Compass to find a white ghost lantern flower field among graves on Worry-Free Mountain.
• Mao Yousan realized the graves were a burial ground, and Luo Bin explained the flowers’ properties before they entered the field.
• Luo Bin saw Mao Yousan and the three Dao Corpses’ false Yin Spirits cracking in the flowers and shoved them back beyond the boundary.
• Mao Yousan told Luo Bin to gather enough flowers and make the lanterns there, so Luo Bin continued uphill alone.
• Luo Bin found a cave containing a dead Taoist with a sword through his skull, ignored Fourth Master Gray’s urging to take it, and began picking flowers.
• A sudden stitch made Luo Bin bend over just as a sharp sword flew past his head and buried itself in the ground.

Luo Bin fought a Weilu Sect Taoist guarding the tombs, whose lethal Taoist arts pushed him to the brink. The Six-Thread Golden Silkworm Gu and curse-suppression witch gu immobilized the Taoist, while Luo Bin prepared to strike again.

• Luo Bin dodged the Taoist’s flying swords and realized his attacker was a True Cultivator of the Weilu Sect.
• The Taoist accused Luo Bin of stealing the sect’s disciples’ remains and attacked despite Luo Bin’s explanation.
• Luo Bin sent gu worms against the Taoist and used Hexagram Speech Manifestation to injure him without suffering a backlash.
• The Taoist burned and soaked Luo Bin’s gu worms with talismans, then bound Fourth Master Gray in an iron chain and pressed his attack.
• The Taoist’s Bell Saber art nearly struck Luo Bin, but the Six-Thread Golden Silkworm Gu and curse-suppression witch gu stopped him.
• Luo Bin raised a finger to his lips and formed a hand seal as the Six-Thread Golden Silkworm Gu prepared to bite the immobilized Taoist.

Luo Bin resisted the six-thread golden silkworm gu’s attempt to replace his life gu and suppressed the corpse worms threatening to overwhelm him. He then used the mother thread gu to take control of the old Taoist and make him sit where the Weilu Sect could see him.

• Luo Bin accepted the mother thread gu, which burrowed into his arm and let him control the old Taoist.
• The six-thread golden silkworm gu approached Luo Bin, and he realized it wanted to replace his existing life gu and remove his cultivation bottleneck.
• As the corpse worms emerged and his greed and killing intent surged, Luo Bin rejected the six-thread golden silkworm gu and swallowed the corpse worms while reciting an incantation.
• Luo Bin regained his clarity by recalling the Ten Admonitions of the Prison Corpse, then used the mother gu to make the old Taoist walk to a visible spot and sit down.

Luo Bin completed a White Flower Lantern with help from Fourth Master Gray, then escaped the Ghost Lantern Flower Grounds with Mao Yousan and the Three Dao Corpses. Mao Yousan recognized the lantern handle as part of the Weilu Sect’s Five Camp Command Banner, leaving Luo Bin wary of the sect’s response.

• Luo Bin freed Fourth Master Gray, gathered Ghost Lantern Flowers, and worked through the night preparing lantern materials while Fourth Master Gray searched the Weilu Sect dwellings for food and a suitable handle.
• Luo Bin ate the medicinal ingredients Fourth Master Gray had taken and made two handles from a wooden stick, then noticed the Weilu Sect Taoists had returned and stayed inside the cave.
• Luo Bin completed one White Flower Lantern and hung the Lightning-Struck Blood Peach Sword beneath it, but repeated failures and worsening wind stopped him from finishing a second.
• Luo Bin met Mao Yousan and the Three Dao Corpses at the edge of the flower grounds, and they left by a route that avoided the returned Weilu Sect Taoists.
• Mao Yousan examined Luo Bin’s lantern and realized its handle came from the Weilu Sect’s Five Camp Command Banner.

Mao Yousan and Luo Bin returned to the City God Temple after Mao sensed danger, while the Weilu Sect prepared to confront them over Luo Bin’s identity and the damage to its grounds. The chapter ended as a Taoist corpse seized Shi Xin outside the temple, despite Shi Xin’s frantic warning for Mao Yousan not to enter.

• Mao Yousan praised Fourth Master Gray for turning the Five Camps Command Flags into a bundle and a lantern handle.
• Mao Yousan sensed danger on the road and ordered Luo Bin to drive back to the City God Temple.
• Xu Ting and the Weilu Sect Taoists learned their burial grounds had been raided and debated how to deal with Mao Yousan and Luo Bin.
• Shi Xin tried to mediate, warning that Luo Bin had deceived people by using Tang Yu’s identity.
• Shi Xin greeted Mao Yousan outside the temple and asked Luo Bin whether he should call him Mr. Luo or Mr. Tang.
• A Taoist corpse seized Shi Xin by the neck as he gestured for Mao Yousan not to enter the temple.

Luo Bin realized the City God Temple had uncovered the truth about Beiwei City, while the Weilu Sect had gathered at the temple and disturbed Mao Yousan’s master’s corpse. Mao Yousan rejected Shi Xin’s demand to take Luo Bin for questioning and entered the temple courtyard, where the Night Watch and Weilu Sect leaders confronted them.

• Luo Bin inferred that the Night Watch’s recognition of him as not Tang Yu had exposed what happened in Beiwei City.
• Shi Xin revealed that the Weilu Sect’s altar master, two senior ritual masters, and many disciples were inside the temple, while more Weilu Sect members were on their way.
• Shi Xin said the City God Temple wanted Luo Bin to answer questions about the Death-Prison Yama Ghost, the scattered Night Watch, and the dead On-Duty City Gods.
• Mao Yousan refused to surrender Luo Bin after learning his master’s corpse had been disturbed, and a Dao Corpse hurled Shi Xin through the temple doors.
• Mao Yousan and Luo Bin entered the courtyard, where Xu Ting, the Weilu Sect disciples, and the Night Watch faced them beside Second Deity’s corpse.
• Weilu Sect disciples spotted the Five Encampments Command Banners’ main yellow banner pole and banner cloth among Luo Bin’s belongings.

Mao Yousan and Luo Bin faced off against Xu Ting and the Weilu Sect after the dispute over Worry-Free Mountain turned violent. As Mao Yousan’s bells threatened the sect’s disciples and the Night Watch maneuvered to provoke a deadly clash, Luo Bin stepped between them and challenged Xu Ting to attack him.

• Xu Ting summoned troops with the Nine-Dragon Spirit Horn, while Mao Yousan disrupted his incantation and sent the Three Dao Corpses to attack.
• Two Weilu Sect Real Persons drove back Dao Corpses with peach wood staffs as Xu Ting blew the horn and the disciples formed ranks as possessed soldiers.
• Mao Yousan used his Calling Bells to incapacitate the disciples, while Xu Ting signaled them to fire bamboo arrows and prepare another attack.
• Luo Bin realized the Night Watch had engineered the confrontation to force Mao Yousan into a choice that could damage his Dao Heart.
• Luo Bin stopped Mao Yousan from continuing and challenged Xu Ting to take a swing at him.

Luo Bin stopped Mao Yousan and let Xu Ting test whether fate would protect him, proving he was not wicked and preventing a battle with the Weilu Sect. Xu Ting withdrew his forces, but Mao Yousan turned on the Night Watch, whose ghost bodies attacked the Second Deity’s corpse.

• Luo Bin persuaded Mao Yousan to hold back and invited Xu Ting to strike, insisting the facts be established before anyone fought.
• Xu Ting’s first saber slash veered away from Luo Bin, and Xu Ting recognized that fate protected him.
• Xu Ting ordered the Weilu Sect to withdraw, declaring that fate’s protection showed Luo Bin was not wicked, and left the City God Temple with his people.
• Mao Yousan confronted the retreating Night Watch and sent the three Dao Corpses to attack him with Thunderheart Palms.
• The Night Watch split into sixty ghost bodies, and forty of them entered the temple hall and lunged at the Second Deity’s corpse.

Xu Ting and the Weilu Sect attacked the Plague Ghost after he revealed his true form, while the Grand Night Watch’s divided soul tried to stop them by possessing Shi Xin. As both sides prepared to summon greater powers, Luo Bin and Mao Yousan stayed back to avoid the coming clash.

• The Plague Ghost overwhelmed the temple with black vapor, but Xu Ting arrived and pinned him with Five Thunder Divine Nails before striking with his Golden Saber.
• The Plague Ghost broke free of the nails, and Xu Ting declared that the Weilu Sect would kill him despite his former post in the Netherworld Office.
• Weilu Sect disciples opened an altar and formed an array, forcing the Plague Ghost into his Night Watch form and binding him with iron chains.
• The Night Watch claimed to be an official of the Netherworld Office and sent white vapor into Shi Xin, whose body the Grand Night Watch’s will then controlled.
• Xu Ting threatened to destroy the City God Temple if the Grand Night Watch interfered, while Mao Yousan warned Luo Bin that the Grand Night Watch’s true body and the Weilu Sect’s Grandmaster might both arrive.

Mao Yousan and Luo Bin survived the confrontation at the City God Temple, captured the Plague Ghost in the White Flower Lantern, and reached an agreement with the Weilu Sect over Worry-Free Mountain and the Second Deity's resting place. As they left for Shengqi Town, Mao Yousan reflected on the Weilu Sect's customs and what its Taoists considered their final destination.

• The Grand Night Watch appeared to summon his true body but vanished without fighting, and Mao Yousan sealed the Night Watch into a talisman bundle that Luo Bin used to fill the White Flower Lantern with lamp oil.
• Shi Xin apologized and warned Mao Yousan that the Grand Night Watch had marked him, while Mao Yousan and Luo Bin left the City God Temple with the Second Deity's remains.
• Xu Ting asked Luo Bin to let the Weilu Sect remain on Worry-Free Mountain as renters and offered a jade box as rent, which Luo Bin accepted.
• Xu Ting proposed that the Second Deity share the Weilu Sect's Patriarch's grave, and Mao Yousan agreed to the arrangement.
• Mao Yousan and Luo Bin returned to Weilu Mountain, settled the Second Deity's remains, and Luo Bin retrieved the thread-shaped gu from the Guardian Taoist.
• On the drive toward Shengqi Town, Mao Yousan criticized the Weilu Sect's rigid customs, and Luo Bin suggested its Taoists might view Corpse Liberation as their final destination.

Bai Xian hurried to Divine Firmament Mountain seeking help after learning Xu Lu had died, while Four-Rules Mountain chose a veiled female Taoist to travel there. She arrived at Luo Bin’s lodging, and Luo Bin was stunned by the mysterious woman.

• Bai Xian learned that Xu Lu had died and, unable to find Luo Bin, hurried toward Divine Firmament Mountain for help.
• Four-Rules Mountain decided to send a single representative to meet the White Clan, choosing a veiled woman in a pale purple Taoist robe.
• Luo Bin reunited with Luo Xianshen and Bai Wei, and Bai Wei explained that Hu Xing had refused to seize Yan Nan’s body and had become soul smoke.
• A veiled female Taoist arrived at the courtyard looking for her senior brother Xianshen, and Luo Bin was left stunned by her presence.

Luo Bin witnessed the strange rapport between Luo Xianshen, Si Yan, and the Real-Person Ghost Old Gong, who pledged to protect him after inspecting his Black-Gold Toad. When Luo Bin was introduced as a prospective Grand Chief Seat of Black City Monastery, Si Yan’s killing intent and Old Gong’s sudden hostility made the courtyard tense.

• Luo Bin saw Si Yan unsettle him with her Heaven-and-Earth Veil and watched her hand Luo Xianshen a chamber pot that Old Gong inhabited.
• Old Gong mocked Fourth Master Gray, then grew wary of Luo Bin’s Black-Gold Toad and promised to protect him if anything came up.
• Luo Xianshen introduced Si Yan as the current Hall Master of Mystic Profundity Hall on Four-Rules Mountain and introduced Luo Bin by his titles.
• Fourth Master Gray revealed that Luo Bin was the prospective Grand Chief Seat of Black City Monastery, and Old Gong repeated the title aloud.
• Si Yan gave off killing intent as Old Gong appeared on Luo Bin’s shoulder, leaving Luo Bin overwhelmed by a sense of threat.

Luo Bin and his companions shared a tense dinner with Si Yan and Old Gong, then retired for the night. Unable to sleep, Luo Bin took Fourth Master Gray to the Primordial River and explained that Hu Xing had chosen her own path as a smoke soul.

• Luo Xianshen and Bai Wei clarified that Luo Bin had never willingly joined Black City Monastery, easing Old Gong and Si Yan’s suspicions.
• Yan Nan served dinner as Old Gong offered to help her with the sorrowful female ghost accompanying her, while Fourth Master Gray drank and watched them.
• Luo Xianshen sent Old Gong back into his chamber pot when he began making advances toward Yan Nan, and Yan Nan kicked the drunken Fourth Master Gray out of the hall.
• Luo Bin could not sleep, so he carried Fourth Master Gray from the courtyard to the Primordial River.
• Luo Bin explained that Hu Xing was free to pursue strength as a smoke soul, and Fourth Master Gray accepted that they had chosen different paths.

Luo Bin told the group about Bai Zihua and Bai Yi, then suggested the Fangxian lineage as a source of Divine Yin Corpses for Mao Yousan. The group set out by boat to retrieve the Divine Firmament Four Sovereigns Mirror, and Luo Bin noticed Liu Shuisheng watching him as they crossed the river.

• Luo Bin watched the river at night, considered the origins of the Veiling Heaven Lands, and encountered Si Yan at the water's edge.
• The next morning, Luo Bin explained why Bai Zihua and Bai Yi had been kept as Mountain Guardians, and Mao Yousan asked whether they belonged to Divine Firmament Mountain or Primordial Calculation.
• Luo Bin proposed targeting the leaderless Fangxian lineage for Divine Yin Corpses, and Mao Yousan agreed not to take Bai Zihua and Bai Yi.
• Luo Bin told the group to seek only the Divine Firmament Four Sovereigns Mirror and avoid the Primordial Calculation Mountain Gate if possible.
• Liu Shuisheng and Liu Shengqi took the group by motorboat toward the opposite bank, and Luo Bin noticed Liu Shuisheng watching him.

Luo Bin became suspicious of Liu Shuisheng and Liu Shengqi after they vanished from the riverbank, then led the group through the Ten Thousand Mountains to Elephant Mountain. At Primordial Calculation, they found Bai Zihua and Bai Yi waiting beside the Divine Firmament Four Sovereigns Mirror.

• Luo Bin used Rewind after sensing Liu Shuisheng watching him, but the father and son behaved normally as they ferried the group across the Primordial River.
• After leaving Liu Shuisheng and Liu Shengqi, Luo Bin found that his divination could not locate them and ordered Fourth Master Gray to watch for them and summon Mountain Rats as a perimeter.
• Luo Bin led the group around Auspicious Qi Town and through the Eight Winds and Five Elements, warning them about the gentlemen in Tang Suits and avoiding the temples along the way.
• After seven or eight days, Luo Bin and Bai Wei drew out the Nightmare Fiend at Elephant Mountain and crossed through the mist while Luo Xianshen kept the evil spirits away.
• The group reached the space between Primordial Calculation and Elephant Mountain and found Bai Zihua and Bai Yi beneath the sunlight, with the Divine Firmament Four Sovereigns Mirror pressed against Bai Zihua's chest.

Luo Bin tried to remove the Divine Firmament Four Sovereigns Mirror from Bai Zihua, but the mirror burned him and Bai Zihua began to reanimate. Luo Bin and Luo Xianshen struggled to pull it free as Bai Yi knelt in a plea for them to stop.

• Luo Xianshen said he intended to return the Divine Firmament Four Sovereigns Mirror to Divine Firmament Mountain, despite Mao Yousan and Luo Bin arguing that he should keep it.
• Luo Bin explained the danger posed by the Primordial Calculation Ascended Corpse and realized Mao Yousan's question about nightfall had warned him of the danger around Bai Zihua and Bai Yi.
• Luo Bin took the pill and tried to pull the mirror from Bai Zihua's chest, but its reflection showed his strange, dark-green face and touching it seared his palm.
• Bai Zihua opened his eyes, clamped his hands over the mirror, and resisted as Luo Xianshen joined Luo Bin in pulling it away.
• Bai Yi dropped to his knees, apparently pleading with Luo Bin and Luo Xianshen to stop.