Chapter Summaries

Uncle Wei carried the awakening evil corpse away from Jiangbei Branch Bureau while Netherworld Messengers and Great Grandmasters guarded him through an ambush-filled procession. As Dao Xuan and Sun Zhengwen fought off the enemies, Jiang Chen held back and waited for the right moment to act.

• Uncle Wei left the city with the Soul-Suppressing Coffin on his back as Netherworld Messengers joined his procession and Restricted Zone spirit money eased the coffin’s burden.
• Luo Ji used sound waves to put ordinary people to sleep while the procession reached the outskirts, where the awakened corpse’s struggles weakened Uncle Wei and stripped the coffin of its talismans.
• Puppet Figures in the mist controlled the Netherworld Messengers with an ancient dance until the man wearing Gold-Rimmed Glasses stopped them and battled Luo Ji.
• Sun Zhengwen ordered the Netherworld Messengers to keep moving, and Dao Xuan identified the Five-Soul Baleful Chaos Formation’s life gate and went after its ringleader.
• Jiang Yi led the Netherworld Messengers through the life gate while Jiang Chen held back, deciding the enemy had not yet revealed its trump cards.

As Uncle Wei carried his coffin away from Jiangbei to avoid harming the city during his breakthrough, the group faced powerful opponents while Sun Zhengwen and the Mount Tai King’s Son moved to intercept threats. Chu Hanyue fought a blood-red Great Grandmaster, leaving Uncle Wei and Jiang Chen beside the coffin as danger continued to close in.

• Yamamoto Xingxiong challenged Sun Zhengwen for Wei-san’s evil corpse, but the Leader of the Dredging Sect arrived and told Sun Zhengwen to continue onward.
• Sun Zhengwen fought the Knocking Old Man after it blocked the group’s path beyond the tunnel.
• Chu Hanyue asked Jiang Chen about love, and he gave her a list of eerie examples before saying he would handle any A-Rank who appeared.
• Blood-red roots and mist surrounded the group, and Uncle Wei blasted a blood-red Great Grandmaster out of the mist so Chu Hanyue could fight it.
• Uncle Wei set down the coffin and questioned Jiang Chen’s fearlessness, while Jiang Chen pointed out that the corpse’s hand was sticking out.

Jiang Chen helped Wei Wudi suppress the evil corpse in the Soul-Suppressing Coffin while a Yama subdued a newly ascended King. After sealing the coffin with an ancient formation, Wei Wudi entered it to begin his life-or-death breakthrough, leaving his fate unknown.

• A female King appeared, and the King of Equality summoned Avici Purgatory to suppress her beneath the sea.
• Jiang Chen used a Blood Ginseng Pill and two half-step Fierce Souls to approach Wei Wudi's coffin despite its crushing pressure.
• Jiang Chen restored the coffin's King-Level talismans with Voidless Flame, strengthening their seals and bargaining with Wei Wudi for payment.
• After Jiang Chen replaced the ninth talisman, the evil corpse's hand broke and the coffin lid shut.
• Wei Wudi drew an ancient formation on the coffin with his own black blood, then lay inside and began his breakthrough.

As Wei Wudi underwent his breakthrough inside the Soul-Suppressing Coffin, battles raged across the battlefield and the Netherworld struggled to protect him from the Dark Alliance. Three Great Grandmasters closed in on the coffin, leaving only a lone, unsteady youth to stand in their way.

• Luo Ji fought the figure in the mist while Dao Xuan and an aged formation master battled through shifting terrain, and the Dredging Sect's leader clashed with Yamamoto Xingxiong.
• The Knocking Old Man trapped Sun Zhengwen with invisible doors, but Sun transformed into a giant and shattered them before attacking him.
• Chu Hanyue fought a wounded Great Grandmaster and gradually improved as she adapted to the battle.
• Ghost King Earth Bodhisattva and Zuo Yi confronted the King of Equality, who recognized Zuo Yi as a former Dao Alliance traitor who survived by possessing children.
• Chen Xing'an and Zhang Mu intercepted two attackers, but Black Miao Saintess Wuduo, the Ghost Refining Sect's Great Elder, and Maitreya Monk advanced toward the Soul-Suppressing Coffin.
• With Wei Wudi's breakthrough still underway, the three Great Grandmasters approached the coffin, and only a struggling youth stood before them.

Jiang Chen transformed into the Four-Star Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord and revealed a formidable treasure sword as he confronted Wuduo and the Dark Alliance forces. He annihilated Wuduo’s poison swarm with his poisonous fog and continued toward her, declaring that he would cut her down.

• The King of Equality secretly warned Jiang Chen that the Netherworld had lost the battle and a Quasi-Ghost King threatened to intervene.
• Jiang Chen challenged Wuduo and transformed into the Four-Star Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord, gaining Divine Abilities, bloodline talents, and a life-bound sword.
• Jiang Chen materialized the White Gang Supreme Treasure Sword, alarming the A-Ranks with its power.
• Wuduo sent her Gu Insects and poisonous creatures to devour Jiang Chen, including her Thousand-Poison Insect.
• Jiang Chen exhaled a multicolored poisonous fog that dissolved Wuduo’s swarm and neutralized her blood poison.
• Jiang Chen walked toward Wuduo with his sword and declared, “With this sword, I'll cut you down.”

Jiang Chen defeated and killed Wuduo, the Black Miao Clan holy maiden, but the clan’s ancestor used a Substitute Scarecrow to snatch her corpse. After the King of Equality warned him about the Gu King, Jiang Chen cursed the Black Miao Gu Clan and declared that they could not coexist under the same sky.

• Jiang Chen destroyed Wuduo’s bone dagger and struck her, but she escaped the blow with a Voodoo Doll and attacked him with a Thousand-Poison Insect.
• Jiang Chen bit and poisoned the Thousand-Poison Insect to death, then wounded Wuduo with a sword strike.
• Jiang Chen killed Wuduo with another sword strike after she tried to flee.
• The Black Miao Gu Clan’s ancestor used a Substitute Scarecrow to take Wuduo’s corpse, and Jiang Chen cursed the one who had stolen it.
• The King of Equality explained that the Gu King had intervened and warned Jiang Chen about the Gu King’s wife, prompting Jiang Chen to threaten the Black Miao Gu Clan.

Jiang Chen provoked the King of the Black Miao Gu Clan and faced Elder Zhang and Ghost Maitreya as they moved to stop Wei Wudi’s breakthrough. Elder Zhang trapped him inside the Ten Thousand Ghosts Formation with a Fierce Soul’s Ghost Wall ability, leaving Jiang Chen unable to escape before the formation detonated.

• Jiang Chen threatened the King of the Black Miao Gu Clan and dared him to appear, while the King of Equality gained Ghost Qi from being dragged into the threat.
• Jiang Chen ordered Elder Zhang and Ghost Maitreya to leave or die, but Ghost Maitreya refused to attack first and urged Elder Zhang to act.
• Elder Zhang attacked Jiang Chen with the Ten Thousand Ghosts Formation, prompting Chen Xing'an to warn that the formation could detonate with devastating force.
• Elder Zhang used blood and an antique pot to intensify the ghosts’ resentment and secretly aimed to interfere with Wei Wudi’s breakthrough.
• Jiang Chen tried to reach Elder Zhang, but the Fierce Soul’s Ghost Wall repeatedly returned him to his starting point as the formation’s energy built.

Jiang Chen used his Supreme Treasure Sword Bai Gang to destroy Elder Zhang, who survived once through three incense sticks before Jiang Chen summoned the sword again and killed him for good. Jiang Chen gathered the ghosts and defeated the fleeing Fierce Soul, then faced Ghost Maitreya while visibly exhausted.

• Jiang Chen unleashed Divine Sword Mastery and struck Elder Zhang with a silver-white dragon of Sword Qi, destroying his body.
• Elder Zhang regenerated with the help of three incense sticks and taunted Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen called his sword back and killed him with a second strike.
• Jiang Chen summoned figures with the Yin God Hammer and sent Xiao He and the Half-Step Fierce Souls to capture the ghosts.
• Jiang Chen used God-Slaying to wound the fleeing Fierce Soul, then captured it himself with the Yin God Hammer.
• Jiang Chen returned to Old Wei's coffin, exhausted and wary of Ghost Maitreya, whose smile deepened as he faced him.

Jiang Chen used his demonic eyes and poisonous fog to trap Ghost Maitreya after his sword attack failed, then beat him to death with the Yin God Hammer. Exhausted and resting against the Soul-Suppressing Coffin, Jiang Chen faced a new threat as the masked figures began to stir.

• Ghost Maitreya pretended to withdraw, then used a scheme to close in on Jiang Chen and attack him with a powerful palm strike.
• Jiang Chen unleashed his sword energy, destroying the giant Buddha and the clay shrines, but Ghost Maitreya rebuilt his body and attacked him at close range.
• Jiang Chen opened the blood-gold demonic eyes on his body, trapping Ghost Maitreya in golden light as poisonous fog weakened him.
• Jiang Chen dispersed the golden cage, struck Ghost Maitreya with his sword, and repeatedly hammered him until his Diamond Body shattered.
• Jiang Chen sat exhausted against the coffin, while the masked figures in the fog began to stir.

Jiang Chen transformed into the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord and trapped more than twenty Great Grandmasters in unbreakable Golden Light Cages, including his allies. After ending his Demon Transformation, he pretended to be crazed to frighten them and draw out Ghost Qi, while the King of Equality and the other Kings wondered what he truly was.

• Seven masked Great Grandmasters attacked Jiang Chen while he guarded the Soul-Suppressing Coffin, and he chose to face their combined killing moves rather than dodge.
• Jiang Chen used Complete Demonization-Body and transformed into a giant, many-eyed centipede whose attacks imprisoned the Great Grandmasters in Golden Light Cages.
• The captives failed to break their cages, while the yellow mist weakened them; Dao Xuan and Chu Hanyue protested after realizing Jiang Chen had trapped his allies too.
• Jiang Chen ended his Demon Transformation and acted as if he planned to kill everyone, terrifying the captives and earning Ghost Qi as he reached for the Yin God Hammer.
• The King of Equality and the other Kings watched Jiang Chen, and the King of Equality considered whether he belonged to a terrifying group that could reappear throughout history.

Jiang Chen trapped the Great Grandmasters in a golden cage, then played the part of a dying hero after Zuo Yi claimed he had sacrificed his lifespan. As the Netherworld mourned him, Zuo Yi summoned Mist Ghost, and a terrifying figure began to emerge from the fog.

• Jiang Chen’s golden cage held the Great Grandmasters as their strength weakened and they struggled to escape.
• Zuo Yi accused the King of Equality of sacrificing Jiang Chen’s lifespan to help him seal the Great Grandmasters.
• Jiang Chen coughed blood and acted like a tragic hero, leading the Netherworld Messengers to believe he had exhausted his life for them.
• The Netherworld Messengers mourned Jiang Chen, while he checked his gains and fell over to hide his joy.
• Zuo Yi told Mist Ghost to act, and a terrifying figure emerged from the fog as the kings faced one another.

The Quasi-King Mist Ghost overwhelmed the Netherworld fighters and seemed to kill Jiang Chen, leaving the battle on the verge of defeat. Jiang Chen survived her attack and faced her in a renewed fight, each declaring that killing the other would bring them closer to becoming a king.

• The Quasi-King Mist Ghost appeared and buckled Jiang Chen’s Golden Light Cage, but withdrew her hand when a trapped Dark Alliance expert warned she would crush him too.
• The Netherworld side despaired as Sun Zhengwen said King Chujiang could not come to help.
• The Quasi-King Mist Ghost formed a giant hand from the mist and crushed the ground where Jiang Chen stood, then turned toward the Soul-Suppressing Coffin.
• Jiang Chen lifted the mist hand with one arm and climbed out of the pit, surprising both sides.
• The Quasi-King Mist Ghost said killing Jiang Chen might let her ascend the throne, and Jiang Chen replied that killing her could help him do the same.

Jiang Chen unleashed Half-King-level power and fought the Mist Ghost Quasi-King inside her domain of deadly mist. His Rain-Prayer Technique weakened her control and let him strike back, but the battle’s outcome remained uncertain.

• Jiang Chen revealed terrifying demonic power, shocking the A-Rank experts and the three Kings watching from afar.
• Zuo Yi and Ghost King Earth Bodhisattva questioned the King of Equality’s preparations, while Zuo Yi warned that Mist Ghost had devoured a Half-King before.
• Jiang Chen used Hanzhan, which he called Big Baby, to cut apart the Mist Ghost Quasi-King’s enormous mist hands, but she vanished into the thickening mist.
• The Mist Ghost Quasi-King formed the surrounding mist into a colossal hand that crushed down on Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen invoked the Rain-Prayer Technique, summoned rain that weakened the mist’s pressure, and climbed toward the enormous hand with Hanzhan raised.
• Jiang Chen’s rain-powered saber strike collided with the Mist Ghost Quasi-King’s mist hand, while the King of Equality raised barriers to contain the battle’s destructive shockwave.

Jiang Chen destroyed the Quasi-King Mist Ghost’s Ghost Domain and seemingly annihilated her with a powerful lightning attack. She reappeared alongside another Quasi-Ghost King and trapped him, but Jiang Chen prepared to swallow them both.

• Jiang Chen chased the Quasi-King Mist Ghost after she faked her death and began forming her Ghost Domain.
• The Quasi-King Mist Ghost used a cursed Dark Alliance Great Grandmaster as a teleportation point, shattered the Golden Light Cage, and trapped Jiang Chen in her Ghost Domain.
• Jiang Chen blasted the Mist Ghost’s attack apart with God-Shaking Roar and struck her with a devastating lightning technique.
• The Quasi-King Mist Ghost survived as a skeletal creature, and another Quasi-Ghost King emerged from the blood mist to help restrain Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen told the two monsters he would swallow them so they would never be apart again.

Jiang Chen devoured the Mist Ghost Quasi-King and defeated the other Quasi-Ghost King, while Uncle Wei’s breakthrough reached its critical point. The King of Equality then faced three Kings who aimed to keep him occupied while their newly ascended Ghost King attacked Jiang Chen and the others.

• Jiang Chen used Heaven Swallowing and his Buddha-Demon Sha Body to overwhelm the two Quasi-Ghost Kings, devouring their power and Ghost Domain.
• Jiang Chen shattered the Mist Ghost Quasi-King with the Yin God Hammer, and the other Quasi-Ghost King vanished with the Blood-Red Ghost Domain.
• Blood poured from the Soul-Suppressing Coffin as Uncle Wei’s breakthrough reached its most critical stage.
• Ghost King Earth Bodhisattva shattered Avici Purgatory and freed the red-robed female Ghost King, then joined her and Zuo Yi in surrounding the King of Equality.
• Earth Bodhisattva proposed that the newly ascended Ghost King test his strength against Jiang Chen while Zuo Yi and Earth Bodhisattva occupied the King of Equality.
• The King of Equality prepared to fight with everything he had, holding his court tablet and a black bead.

As the King of Equality fought Earth Bodhisattva and Zuo Yi, the female Ghost King in red attacked Jiang Chen and the others. Jiang Chen swallowed a Nine-Turn Secret Treasury Pill and used Heaven Swallowing to absorb her strike, surviving and shocking the Kings.

• Earth Bodhisattva attacked the King of Equality with a blood-marked Buddha hand, and the King of Equality countered with Avici Purgatory.
• Zuo Yi joined the battle with two powerful punches, but the King of Equality repelled them with the Dark Soul Pearl while fighting both Kings.
• The female Ghost King in red pressed the blood-red sky down toward Jiang Chen and the Great Grandmasters, and the King of Equality told Jiang Chen to run.
• Jiang Chen swallowed a Nine-Turn Secret Treasury Pill, activated Complete Demonization, and used Heaven Swallowing to absorb the descending sky.
• The force of the female Ghost King in red's strike hurled Jiang Chen through the ground and killed the masked Great Grandmaster and the Knocking Old Man, but Jiang Chen survived and stunned the Kings.

Wei Wudi completed his breakthrough and gained the Life-and-Death Dao, allowing him to inflict lasting injuries on the red-robed Ghost King. The Dark Alliance’s kings retreated, and King You appeared before a message from the Mount Tai King explained why he had not joined the fight.

• The King of Equality trapped Earth Bodhisattva and Zuo Yi in Avici Purgatory while Jiang Chen tried to protect the Soul-Suppressing Coffin.
• Wei Wudi emerged from the coffin after completing his breakthrough, killed the red-robed Ghost King’s head, and healed from her counterattack.
• Wei Wudi tore off the red-robed Ghost King’s arm, leaving her permanently missing two fingers, as the Dark Alliance’s three kings fled.
• King You arrived, shattered the Golden Light Cage, and swept away the Dark Alliance’s experts without attacking the King of Equality or Wei Wudi.
• The Mount Tai King sent a talisman message saying he had stopped Xu Fu’s fleet and that another person had held King You back before suddenly leaving.

Uncle Wei became a King-Level ghost cultivator after the battle, while Jiang Chen tried to turn his breakthrough into money and a chance to expand the Wake-Up Department. Uncle Wei stopped Jiang Chen from openly plotting against the Yamas and began to tell him what the King of Equality had said.

• The Dark Alliance's experts and Xu Fu's fleet withdrew, ending the battle, and the King of Equality congratulated Uncle Wei on becoming a king.
• Uncle Wei returned everyone to the branch office, where Jiang Chen said the poison would wear off within twelve hours.
• Jiang Chen demanded two billion from Uncle Wei for his expenses and then tried to assess how much the new king could fetch if sold.
• Jiang Chen urged Uncle Wei to use his new rank to expand the Wake-Up Department across the Nine Provinces and help them gain power in the Netherworld.
• Uncle Wei covered Jiang Chen's mouth to stop him from talking about the Yamas, then asked whether he knew what the King of Equality had told him.

Jiang Chen tried to persuade Uncle Wei to expand the Security Department, but Uncle Wei explained that the Yin Qi eruption had begun and that King-Level fighters were needed to guard the Fengdu Restricted Zone's openings. He outlined the strength of several kings and revealed his own potential, while Jiang Chen kept joking about taking over the Netherworld.

• Jiang Chen urged Uncle Wei to use his connections and King-Level status to build up the Security Department, but Uncle Wei refused and threatened to spar with him.
• Jiang Chen pretended to be gravely injured and demanded two point one billion points for medical and funeral expenses.
• Uncle Wei revealed that the Yin Qi eruption had started the previous night and explained that King-Level figures had to guard the Restricted Zone's openings.
• Uncle Wei described the ranks of the King of Equality, King You, the King of Reincarnation, and Owl King, and explained how the Dark Alliance had forced the red-robed female Ghost King to King-Level.
• Uncle Wei said he had two Great Daos and could eventually contend with fourth- or fifth-step kings, prompting Jiang Chen to praise him and joke that the Netherworld would be theirs.

Uncle Wei warned Jiang Chen that the three-day yin qi eruption would leave the Nine Provinces vulnerable to disasters stirred up by the Dark Alliance, and asked him to help protect the suppressed threats. Jiang Chen eagerly agreed once he heard the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage was involved, while a call from King Chujiang left Uncle Wei asking whether the captain was still alive.

• Uncle Wei explained that the yin qi eruption would tie down most Kings and allow the Dark Alliance to provoke calamities across the Nine Provinces.
• Uncle Wei said Half-Kings would bear the brunt of the crisis and named the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage and Dragon-Locking Well as major threats.
• Jiang Chen initially refused to help, but changed his mind and enthusiastically offered to deal with the Ghost-Sacrificing Lineage.
• King Chujiang called Uncle Wei and said each rift had a King guarding it, making it dangerous for anyone to leave.
• Uncle Wei asked King Chujiang whether the captain was still alive after spirit money replenished his karma and someone stopped King You.