Arc 15The Night Parade Begins

Jiang Chen destroyed the village’s ghosts and Xu Lai, then returned to the branch and established the Wake-Up Department while learning of the coming upheaval. After claiming his rewards and strengthening the King of Reincarnation’s Sword Talisman, he joined the hunt for the Dark Alliance, which ended with the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons appearing.

  • Jiang Chen arrived at the village shrine, saved Zhao Xiaodong and the other novices, and set the Critical Patients against the Human Centipede while he dealt with the Shroud Ghosts.
  • Jiang Chen killed the Shroud Ghosts and Xu Lai, then used the Yin River to defeat the Human Centipede and drive off Xu Fu’s projection after revealing his True Dragon aura.
  • Jiang Chen returned to the branch, gained a major reward and the King of Reincarnation’s Sword Talisman, and made himself chief of a permanent Wake-Up Department.
  • Tang Yi warned Jiang Chen that the Restricted Zones would open within half a year, offered him a jade shard that could save his life once, and erased his memories of their conversation before vanishing.
  • Jiang Chen drew the Yellow-Brow King Five-Star Card, collected his reward, strengthened the Sword Talisman into a half-step Supreme Powerhouse weapon, and considered the growing crises ahead.
  • Jiang Chen joined the hunt for Dark Alliance members and caught Bailing and Viper after pursuing them to an abandoned house.
  • Xu Lei, Luo Ji, Chen Xue, and Yang Chan dealt with separate criminals as Sister Hong and Lin Youwei searched an abandoned complex, where a man with a Sledgehammer arrived amid the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.
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Ch. 351At the moment of despair, a sledgehammer fell from the sky

Zhao Xiaodong and the novice Netherworld Messengers were cornered in the Ancestral Shrine Hall by a monster made from seven mutilated villagers, and Zhao began ghost devouring in a last attempt to resist. Just as the group faced death, a sledgehammer crashed through the roof and several composed figures arrived, including someone whose familiar voice stunned them.

  • The novices fled into the Ancestral Shrine Hall after a limping old man mutilated one teammate and shroud-bearing figures blocked their escape.
  • Zhao Xiaodong found village records revealing generations of cruel punishments that had created the village’s many ghosts, and warned the approaching Grandmaster to turn back.
  • A blind man appeared and joined six other mutilated victims to form a human centipede, which held and devoured Grandmaster Zhou’s corpse.
  • As the monster’s pressure overwhelmed the group, Zhao Xiaodong walked toward it while undergoing ghost devouring, and the other novices prepared for death.
  • A sledgehammer smashed through the shrine roof between the monster and Zhao Xiaodong, and several calm figures arrived; a familiar voice made Yang Zhi, Zhao Qian, and Zhao Xiaodong freeze.

Ch. 352Sigh, my brothers just have to suffer a little

Jiang Chen forced the psychiatric patients to fight the Human Centipede while he collected ghost qi from both sides. The battle continued with the patients taking damage, and Jiang Chen decided to compensate them later with nicer suites in the Netherworld Purgatory.

  • Zhao Qian recognized Jiang Chen, and No. 02 rebuked her for addressing the Dean by name.
  • Jiang Chen threatened the ghost possessing Zhao Xiaodong with lightning and a sledgehammer, forcing it to retreat before he handed Zhao Xiaodong to Yang Zhi.
  • Jiang Chen gave the patients Origin-Spirit Pills and ordered them to fight the Human Centipede while he watched from the terrace.
  • No. 03 attacked the Human Centipede, No. 04 cut at its limbs, and No. 02 used his curse to control one of its segments.
  • The Human Centipede fought back with funeral-like wails, injuring No. 02 and removing his eyes as Jiang Chen collected ghost qi from the combatants.

Ch. 353What Kind of Monsters Are You?!

Jiang Chen rescued the novice Netherworld Messengers by commanding four Critical Patients against the Human Centipede. The battle left the monster increasingly corrupted by their Death Curse, and it began to fear the strange attackers.

  • The four Critical Patients fought the Human Centipede while Jiang Chen and the surviving Netherworld Messengers watched from the Ancestral Hall entrance.
  • Jiang Chen told Zhao Xiaodong, Zhao Qian, Yang Zhi, and the others that he was a temporary security worker at the Netherworld branch, not a Grandmaster.
  • Yang Zhi asked Jiang Chen to teach him how to sneak up behind ghosts, while Zhao Qian brought up their promised date.
  • Jiang Chen said he had a kid to look after, and No. 04 called him Big Brother Dean before losing an arm and attacking the Human Centipede more fiercely.
  • Jiang Chen reassured Zhao Xiaodong that the Critical Patients could handle the monster as their Death Curse spread across its body.
  • The Human Centipede slowed down and demanded to know what kind of monsters the Critical Patients were.

Ch. 354Personally, I like traditional clothing, especially burial shrouds

Jiang Chen commentated on the Blood-Clad Ghosts’ battle while protecting the novice Netherworld Messengers, then confronted the Shroud Ghosts outside the Ancestral Hall. He summoned Wu Tong and the other patients to help strip the Shroud Ghosts of their remaining clothes.

  • The Human Centipede reassembled after the Death Curse and resumed fighting the Critical Patients.
  • Jiang Chen mocked the Critical Patients’ tactics as No. 01 joined the battle and quickly destroyed three of the Human Centipede’s heads.
  • The battle’s curse aura harmed the novice Netherworld Messengers, so Jiang Chen led them out of the Ancestral Hall and intervened to save them.
  • Outside, Yang Zhi realized that the eerie figures were Shroud Ghosts whose burial shrouds Jiang Chen had already taken.
  • Jiang Chen asked the Shroud Ghosts for more burial shrouds, then ordered Wu Tong and the arriving patients to stop them and strip off their clothes.

Ch. 355Your Neighbors Will Die with You

Jiang Chen terrorized the Shroud Ghosts in Laowu Village, using their families and neighbors to provoke fear and harvest Ghost Qi. He slaughtered the ghosts who confronted him and began a countdown, leaving the remaining villagers panicked and silent.

  • Jiang Chen seized Xiu'er and threatened her family, but the Shroud Ghosts retreated instead of helping her.
  • After Old Xiao and Xiu'er's relatives urged the villagers to resist, Jiang Chen killed Xiu'er, her husband, their son, and Old Xiao with the Yin God Hammer.
  • Jiang Chen claimed he would preserve the family's story by carving their names into his hammer and advanced on the fleeing Shroud Ghosts, whose escape was blocked by psychiatric patients.
  • A tall young Shroud Ghost called for a coordinated attack, so Jiang Chen killed him and demanded that the villagers identify his family and neighbors.
  • When no one answered, Jiang Chen threatened to kill everyone and began counting down from sixty as Ghost Qi notifications rang out.

Ch. 356Wasn't there a well over there? I'll sit there

Jiang Chen slaughtered the Shroud Ghosts and returned the rookies’ fallen comrades, while the battle against the Human Centipede continued at the Ancestral Hall. Zhao Xiaodong warned him that a hidden Blood-Clad Ghost was watching from a newly appeared well, but Jiang Chen pretended his back hurt and asked to sit beside it.

  • Jiang Chen summoned tribulation lightning, drove the Shroud Ghosts into a panicked retreat, and killed them all.
  • The rookie Netherworld Messengers mourned their fallen comrades as Zhao Xiaodong recognized that their grief and hatred would change them.
  • Jiang Chen returned the bodies he had gathered and told the rookies to carry their comrades home.
  • No. 01 tore out and crushed the Human Centipede’s Seven Hearts, but the monster rose again and continued fighting the Critical Patients.
  • Zhao Xiaodong secretly warned Jiang Chen that another Blood-Clad Ghost was hiding near a well that had not been there before and urged him not to show exhaustion.
  • Jiang Chen acted as if his back hurt and called for help finding somewhere to sit, pointing out the suspicious well.

Ch. 357Hooked a big fish: the one behind the Human Centipede

Jiang Chen used himself as bait at the old well, where the Hospital Ward Doctor ambushed a female Blood-Clad Ghost, but the well swallowed her and then Doctor Wang. Jiang Chen realized a stronger force lay beneath the village and suspected the person behind its false reports was pursuing a larger goal in Jiangbei.

  • No. 15 joined Jiang Chen at the well, and he teased her about looking like Tahm while warning Wu Tong not to look down into it with him.
  • A female Blood-Clad Ghost crept up behind Jiang Chen, but the Hospital Ward Doctor seized her and crushed her neck before the well swallowed her corpse and one of his arms.
  • Jiang Chen threw the wounded Doctor Wang into the well, then realized the well could kill a Blood-Clad Ghost when Doctor Wang's name dimmed on the Yin God Hammer.
  • Zhao Xiaodong told Jiang Chen that Grandmaster Zhou had chosen the village for training based on false intelligence about two resolved incidents.
  • Jiang Chen suspected the person behind the village's hidden activity was nearing their goal, warned everyone to stay close, and watched the Human Centipede weaken as the battle between the Blood-Clad Ghosts neared its end.

Ch. 358Let me introduce myself too: Patient No. 01, Dean Jiang Chen

The Critical Patients nearly destroyed the Human Centipede, but Xu Lai intervened and incapacitated them before revealing that he served Xu Fu. Jiang Chen confronted Xu Lai over the attack on his patients, and Xu Lai threatened to kill everyone except Jiang Chen, whose Three Souls he planned to imprison and torment.

  • The Critical Patients crushed the Human Centipede and reduced the blind man to a head, while the rookie Netherworld Messengers watched their unlikely victory.
  • Xu Lai attacked with enormous hands of soil, killing three Critical Patients and crushing No. 01's ghost heart before throwing him aside.
  • Xu Lai fed the Female Blood-Clad Ghost to the recovering Human Centipede and announced that he served Xu Fu, a Ghost King.
  • No. 01 identified himself as Patient No. 01 and named his dean, Jiang Chen, who stepped forward to confront Xu Lai.
  • Jiang Chen demanded that Xu Lai kneel, apologize, and die, but Xu Lai threatened to kill everyone present and imprison Jiang Chen's Three Souls.

Ch. 359You reminded me of my grand exploits on the Blackwater River

Jiang Chen fought Xu Lai, an immortal-seeking monster from the Qin era, and destroyed the Human Centipede before Xu Lai unleashed a Yin River that swallowed the village and trapped everyone. As Xu Lai took control of the river, Jiang Chen recalled that one of his transformations had once abducted Tang Sanzang in the Blackwater River.

  • Jiang Chen used the Tuolong Armor Technique to break free from Xu Lai's giant earthen hand and confronted him.
  • Xu Lai revealed his rotting, scaled face, explained that he had lived since the Qin era by swallowing the Elixir of Immortality, and invited Jiang Chen to join him.
  • Jiang Chen charged through Xu Lai's earthen barriers, narrowly missed him with the Yin God Hammer, and smashed the Human Centipede.
  • Xu Lai summoned a Yin River with his bronze compass, causing the village and the Netherworld Messengers, ghosts, and patients to sink into its waters.
  • Xu Lai stood over the river as Jiang Chen remembered that one of his transformations had abducted Tang Sanzang in the Blackwater River.

Ch. 360When There Was No Danger, Jiang Chen Was the Greatest Danger

Jiang Chen used the Wind-and-Rain Invocation to seize control of the Yin River, defeat Xu Lai, and pursue a fleeing figure by driving the entire river through the forest. The Netherworld Messengers were swept along for the ride as Jiang Chen’s allies faced danger from his power.

  • Xu Lai used the Yin River’s pressure to crack and shatter Jiang Chen’s Tuolong Armor.
  • Jiang Chen formed a Rain Edict with the Wind-and-Rain Invocation and stopped the turbulent river.
  • Jiang Chen controlled the river like an extension of his body, battered Xu Lai, and crushed him to death.
  • Jiang Chen sensed a Scarecrow fleeing through the woods and warned the ghosts and Netherworld Messengers to brace themselves.
  • Jiang Chen lifted the Yin River from its bed and raced through the forest after the fugitive, terrifying his companions and making Wu Tong recall that he was the greatest danger when no danger was present.

Ch. 361The aura of a True Dragon, Xu Fu's surprise

Jiang Chen killed Xu Lai and confronted the terrifying figure summoned by the bronze compass, resisting his deathly aura with his True Dragon bloodline. The figure vanished, and Xu Fu, aboard an ancient fleet at sea, sensed the True Dragon aura and wondered whether that man was still alive.

  • Jiang Chen trapped Xu Lai with fierce winds and the Yin River, then killed him with the Yin God Hammer as Xu Lai tried to take his own life.
  • The bronze compass kept spinning after Xu Lai's death, and Jiang Chen sent No. 01, Zhao Xiaodong, and the others away from the battlefield.
  • A mysterious figure appeared above the Yin River and overwhelmed Jiang Chen with his aura, but Jiang Chen resisted and invoked his Bloodline Talent.
  • Jiang Chen revealed his True Dragon aura and addressed the figure as Xu Fu, causing the bronze compass to shatter and the figure to disappear.
  • Xu Fu sensed the True Dragon aura from an ancient ship at sea, vanished from the deck, and wondered if that man was still alive.

Ch. 362If Great Grandmaster Chu didn't mind, I'd gladly marry a woman twelve years older

Jiang Chen survived Xu Fu’s vanished phantom and calmed the terrified group, then let them absorb the Yin River’s pure Yin Qi. Chu Hanyue arrived, recognized the king’s aura left by the battle, and promised to escort everyone back to the branch after Jiang Chen teased her about being twelve years older.

  • Jiang Chen approached the frozen Netherworld Messengers and ghosts, then smashed a nearby grave and killed a Vengeful Ghost he mistakenly accused of threatening them.
  • Jiang Chen praised No. 02 for pretending the ghost had been about to ambush them and rewarded him with extra Yin Qi.
  • Jiang Chen stopped the Yin River and let the psychiatric patients and novice Netherworld Messengers absorb its pure Yin Qi.
  • Chu Hanyue arrived and explained that she had delayed to have the Think Tank assess the route for a possible trap.
  • Chu Hanyue sensed traces of a Half-Step Great Grandmaster and a king’s aura, while Jiang Chen survived her curiosity by joking that he would marry a woman twelve years older.
  • Chu Hanyue angrily corrected Jiang Chen about her age and said she would escort the group back to the branch from the shadows.

Ch. 363The elixir of immortality, a comment from over sixty years ago

Jiang Chen led the group away after the Yin River empowered the Netherworld Messengers and pushed three Critical Patients to the peak of Blood-Clad Ghost strength. On the journey back, he considered the attention his growing power would bring and learned that Xu Fu’s supposed elixir of immortality only prolonged life through dormancy, before finding a decades-old comment linking the Netherworld to an ancient attempt at immortality.

  • Jiang Chen used the Yin River’s Yin Qi to strengthen the Netherworld Messengers and the four Critical Patients, though No. 01 did not break through.
  • Jiang Chen dispersed the river and made the group run after destroying two cars, using his Loudspeaker to keep them moving and gaining Ghost Qi from their exertion.
  • Jiang Chen checked his gains, noted that his Ghost Qi exceeded 1.73 million, and considered how his strength would force him to take sides in future conflicts.
  • Jiang Chen used the Underworld App to learn that Xu Fu’s elixir prolonged life through dormancy while the body continued to decay and mutate.
  • Jiang Chen found a comment suggesting the Netherworld was an ancient attempt at immortality and noticed that it had been posted over sixty years earlier under the name Yama King Zhao Jingtian.

Ch. 364The Security Department Should Have an Attitude of Its Own

Jiang Chen brought the exhausted group to the Netherworld Branch Office after leading them along the wrong road, then visited Uncle Wei at the Security Office. Uncle Wei exposed the Critical Patients’ disguises and warned Jiang Chen that the position was doomed, while Jiang Chen prepared to torment the office staff by sabotaging their alarms.

  • Jiang Chen realized he had led the group onto the road to Wangjiang City, but refused to turn back and drove them onward.
  • The exhausted group arrived at the Netherworld Branch Office, where Chu Hanyue told Jiang Chen that Deputy Director Luo was waiting on the seventeenth floor.
  • Jiang Chen argued with Uncle Wei, then discussed his promised funeral arrangements and asked for the duty roster.
  • Uncle Wei identified Jiang Chen’s companions as captured mad patients and warned that the position was doomed and they should not be sent into the conflict.
  • Jiang Chen ordered No. 01 and the others to disable the staff’s alarms and wake everyone by using his methods, then argued with Uncle Wei about the Security Department’s role.

Ch. 365I praised your youthful promise, and you praised my good eye?

Jiang Chen recruited Blood-Clad Ghosts to wake the Jiangbei Branch Bureau’s Netherworld Messengers and persuaded Deputy Director Luo Ji to establish a Wake-Up Department. After arranging for rescued patients to be considered as new Netherworld Messengers, Jiang Chen left looking injured and exhausted, prompting Luo Ji to promise him a generous mission reward.

  • Xu Lei and a male Netherworld Messenger were terrified awake by Blood-Clad Ghosts recruited by Jiang Chen, who had disabled the branch’s alarm clocks.
  • Jiang Chen praised Deputy Director Luo Ji extravagantly, then proposed banning alarm clocks and creating a department to wake and train the messengers.
  • Chu Hanyue objected that Jiang Chen had wiped out a Hospital Ward, then left while Jiang Chen and Luo Ji arranged the Wake-Up Department.
  • Jiang Chen suggested that rescued living patients could be assessed as potential Netherworld Messengers, and Luo Ji realized they might provide four team-leader-level experts.
  • Jiang Chen departed after coughing and revealing blood on his hand, and Luo Ji vowed to seek the highest possible mission reward for him.

Ch. 366Three Questions, Great Chaos, Tang Yi's Origins, and the Secrets of the Restricted Zone

After Tang Yi awakened to a terrifying power, she met Jiang Chen to repay the debt she owed him. She offered him a jade shard and a chance to survive the coming great chaos, while agreeing to answer his questions except those concerning the Living Person Forbidden Zone.

  • Jiang Chen returned home after reporting his destruction of the Hospital Ward and killing of Xu Lai to Luo Ji, who praised him and offered to introduce his daughter.
  • Sister Hong told Jiang Chen that Tang Yi had fainted, then awakened acting like a different person and led her to Vengeful Ghosts so she could devour their fortune and advance to C-Class.
  • Sister Hong said Tang Yi had warned her to hide the Gu family's identity and abilities, and that she wanted to settle her karma with Jiang Chen.
  • Jiang Chen found Tang Yi waiting in her room and claimed she owed him for saving her life several times.
  • Tang Yi offered Jiang Chen a jade shard and promised to save his life once during the coming great chaos, then agreed to answer questions about the chaos and her origins.
  • Tang Yi said she knew the secrets of the Living Person Forbidden Zone but warned that speaking or hearing them would bring disaster.

Ch. 367A great secret: the existence of people of reincarnation

Tang Yi told Jiang Chen that all the Restricted Zones would open within half a year and that terrifying Yin Gods might emerge, then revealed she was one of a group of reincarnating people with ancient powers. Before vanishing, she promised to save Jiang Chen once through the broken jade and erased his memories of their conversation.

  • Tang Yi warned Jiang Chen that the Restricted Zones would open in succession within half a year, bringing a great upheaval and the emergence of Yin Gods.
  • Tang Yi revealed that she was a person of reincarnation who could live new lives, and warned Jiang Chen that some of her kind were Supreme Powerhouses.
  • Tang Yi explained that the Demon Suppression Bureau had been founded after an earlier upheaval and mentioned the King of Reincarnation and a mysterious final chance.
  • Tang Yi gave Jiang Chen the broken jade, promised to save him once if it shattered, and vanished while erasing his memories of her and their conversation.
  • Jiang Chen reasoned that people of reincarnation could use strange methods to kill those who tracked them, and decided to draw his second Five-Star Card.

Ch. 368The strongest five-cost-Yellow-Brow Patriarch

After learning more about reincarnators and the Living Person Forbidden Zones, Jiang Chen drew a Five-Star Card and endured a terrifying vision of the fake Thunderclap Monastery. He returned home to discover that he had summoned the Yellow-Brow King, a powerful Five-Star figure.

  • Jiang Chen found that Sister Hong had forgotten Tang Yi and considered how reincarnators might be connected to past calamities and the Living Person Forbidden Zones.
  • Jiang Chen embraced the danger and uncertainty ahead, then spent one million Ghost Qi to draw a Five-Star Card.
  • Jiang Chen awoke in a vast Buddhist hall, resisted the old Buddha’s spiritual influence, and watched the Tathagata kill the disguised demon with an auspicious vase that became a wolf-tooth mace.
  • Jiang Chen returned to his room shaken, and the System announced that he had drawn the Five-Star Card-Yellow-Brow King.
  • Jiang Chen celebrated Yellow-Brow’s strength and judged him the strongest among the Five-Star Cards.

Ch. 369Six Million Points and a Sword Talisman, the Tang Family Annihilated

Jiang Chen received a powerful Yellow-Brow card and prepared for an impending Netherworld incident while Xiaohai hunted ghosts. On the way to collect his reward, Jiang Chen learned that the Tang Family had been annihilated, and he suspected Tang Yi’s reincarnated peers were capable of ruthless cruelty.

  • Jiang Chen considered the Yellow-Brow card’s strength and the magical treasures it might manifest, then went to sleep after completing his card draw.
  • Xiaohai guarded Jiang Chen and reported killing two Vengeful Ghosts and five Vicious Ghosts; Jiang Chen praised his resolve to help suffering ghosts find release.
  • Jiang Chen told Xiaohai to keep anyone who came looking for him nearby, hoping to be present for a major Netherworld event and gain ghost qi.
  • Luo Ji called Jiang Chen to confirm his reward of over six million Underworld Points and a sword talisman refined by the King of Reincarnation.
  • Jiang Chen and Xiaohai set out to collect the reward, and Jiang Chen read that all 270-plus members of the Tang Family had been killed overnight.
  • Jiang Chen suspected that reincarnated experts such as Tang Yi could regard ordinary people’s lives as insignificant.

Ch. 370Dao Xuan's regrets, the King of Reincarnation's sword challenge

Jiang Chen took up his duties at the Netherworld and met Sun Zhengwen and Dao Xuan, who were stunned by his rapid rise and recent achievements. Sun Zhengwen rewarded Jiang Chen with nearly seven million Underworld Points and the King of Reincarnation’s Sword Talisman, which could win its wielder the King’s attention as a potential disciple.

  • Jiang Chen used the Death-Curse Yin God Hammer to wake patients across the Netherworld while No. 01 and the other patients remained in Purgatory.
  • Jiang Chen met Sun Zhengwen and Dao Xuan in the Director’s Office, where Dao Xuan was shocked to learn Jiang Chen had reached the Grandmaster ranks.
  • Sun Zhengwen named Jiang Chen chief of the Wake-Up Department, and Jiang Chen jokingly suggested replacing Old Wei as Security Department chief.
  • Sun Zhengwen showed Dao Xuan records of Jiang Chen’s achievements, including wiping out a Hospital Ward, killing Xu Fu’s prized disciple, and surviving Xu Fu’s Projection.
  • Sun Zhengwen transferred nearly seven million Underworld Points to Jiang Chen and gave him the King of Reincarnation’s Sword Talisman, explaining it could attract the King’s attention and lead to a chance to become his disciple.

Ch. 371Stirrings on all sides, a storm on the horizon...

Jiang Chen received the King of Reincarnation’s Sword Talisman and turned his wake-up calls at the Jiangbei Branch Bureau into a permanent department, despite the Netherworld Messengers’ protests. As he headed to the Black Market, he considered the bureau’s preparations and the many crises unfolding across the Netherworld.

  • Sun Zhengwen warned Jiang Chen that the sealed Sword Talisman could unleash power ranging from a Great Grandmaster’s strike to something far stronger, and Jiang Chen took it upstairs.
  • Jiang Chen reclaimed his terrifying ghosts from the Yin God Hammer and told the Netherworld Messengers he was no longer a temporary wake-up worker, then announced that he was establishing a permanent Wake-Up Department.
  • The Netherworld Messengers celebrated Jiang Chen’s supposed departure, then fell silent and slammed their doors when he explained that his work would continue.
  • Uncle Wei warned Jiang Chen that forcing people to improve could turn them against him, and Jiang Chen insisted that someone had to be the villain to protect everyone.
  • Jiang Chen left the Netherworld to visit the Black Market and reflected on the four Great Grandmasters at the Jiangbei Branch Bureau and crises involving Mount Tai, Western Hunan, the East Sea, and the Nine Provinces border.

Ch. 372No problem, I'll take all these pills too

Jiang Chen went to the Black Market to buy stronger restorative pills for the battles ahead, and Elder Qi was stunned by his power and wealth. Jiang Chen bought all the available Old Ginseng Pills and Living Ginseng Pills, then agreed to take all ten Azure Yang Pills held at Black Market headquarters.

  • Jiang Chen visited Elder Qi at Zhenbaoge to buy pills that could keep pace with his Demonic Power consumption.
  • Elder Qi recognized Jiang Chen’s hammer and sensed his murderous aura, then concluded that Jiang Chen had become at least an upper grandmaster and offered him the lowest prices.
  • Jiang Chen bought all forty Old Ginseng Pills and all five Living Ginseng Pills in stock.
  • Elder Qi explained that the Black Market had no Azure Yang Pills at the branch and that headquarters held ten priced at two hundred thousand points each.
  • Jiang Chen agreed to buy all ten Azure Yang Pills, leaving Elder Qi shocked.

Ch. 373Strengthening the Sword Talisman, two Great Grandmasters' misunderstanding

Jiang Chen strengthened the King of Reincarnation’s Sword Talisman into a half-step Supreme Powerhouse Sword Talisman, unleashing a terrifying strand of sword intent before he fled. Dao Xuan and Sun Zhengwen mistook the power in the sky for Jiang Chen’s own ability, while Uncle Wei recognized that the sword qi had merely leaked from something far more powerful.

  • Jiang Chen bought ten costly pills from Elder Qi at the Black Market and strengthened his Old Ginseng Pills and Living Ginseng Pills.
  • Jiang Chen strengthened the King of Reincarnation’s Sword Talisman several times, spending over two hundred thousand ghost qi and turning it into a half-step Supreme Powerhouse Sword Talisman.
  • A strand of formless sword intent burst into the sky, and Jiang Chen left before anyone could ask him to explain the disturbance.
  • Dao Xuan and Sun Zhengwen examined the sword intent and mistakenly judged it to be a strike from Jiang Chen, comparing his talent with a young successor of Zhengyi Dao.
  • Uncle Wei arrived, noticed the spot where Jiang Chen had stood, and realized the sword qi leaking from the talisman had immense power.

Ch. 374I don't usually serve the living, but let's call it making friends

Jiang Chen searched Jiangbei for ghosts but found none, then learned the Netherworld had begun a citywide hunt for Dark Alliance members. He and Xiaohai encountered two of them hiding in an abandoned house, and Jiang Chen attacked them.

  • Jiang Chen searched for ghosts around Jiangbei, found nothing, and beat up the families of Zheng Shaoming, Qin Ze, and Qin Tiancheng.
  • The Netherworld Jiangbei Branch Bureau ordered Unusual People and Netherworld Messengers to hunt Dark Alliance members, providing files based on evidence gathered from their crimes.
  • Jiang Chen took Xiaohai to an abandoned house, where Dark Alliance members Bailing and Viper were hiding among their victims.
  • Bailing recognized Jiang Chen's Blood Talisman and fled, while Jiang Chen impaled Viper and pursued her.
  • Jiang Chen caught Bailing and slammed her onto the hammer handle, leaving both Dark Alliance members pleading for their lives.

Ch. 375The hunt began: The man who brought the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons

Xu Lei, Luo Ji, Chen Xue, and Yang Chan hunted intruders across the city as the Netherworld’s guardians. Their hunt gave way to the arrival of a man leading the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, leaving the city’s fighters facing a terrifying new threat.

  • Xu Lei killed a gentleman who had sealed a married couple in beeswax and freed them and their baby.
  • Luo Ji confronted a disguised intruder at a newsstand and killed him after demanding that he answer to the owner of the stolen skin.
  • Chen Xue and Yang Chan ambushed and killed a man who had been hunting women and stealing their fingers, then removed talismans from Plastic Mannequins.
  • Sister Hong and Lin Youwei finished looting an old woman’s corpse while the group sensed intense Yin Qi around the abandoned complex.
  • A man dragging a Sledgehammer appeared with a host of terrifying figures behind him, revealing the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.
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