Chapter Summaries

Tie Zhu blocked Xuanyi’s surprise attack on Jiang Chen, allowing Jiang Chen to track the fleeing assassin and give chase. Zhou Tai recognized Tie Zhu’s rare potential, while Tie Zhu complained to Jiang Chen and tried to claim a reward.

• Tang Yi attacked as Jiang Chen prepared to pursue Xuanyi, but Zhou Tai warned him of danger.
• Jiang Chen realized Xuanyi’s distant figure was a diversion and that the assassin had stayed near him to strike from hiding.
• Tie Zhu expanded to shield Jiang Chen and blocked Xuanyi’s deadly slash, then tried to swallow him, but Xuanyi escaped using Water Escape.
• Jiang Chen used a tracking Divine Ability to follow Xuanyi and left Tang Yi, Zhou Tai, and Fei Yaoyu to continue planning to kill the king.
• Zhou Tai explained that Tie Zhu was a Nine Luminaries Black-Scaled Python transforming into a Flood Dragon, a rare path to the pinnacle of the flesh.
• Tie Zhu coiled around Jiang Chen’s wrist during the pursuit, exaggerated his injuries, and asked for a share of what Jiang Chen had given someone else.

Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu pursued Xuanyi, but the Hidden Kill Sect assassin escaped using costly spatial techniques. Jiang Chen then took Tie Zhu to an ancient temple to exorcise its trapped dead, revealing a ruthless side to his profession.

• Jiang Chen realized Tie Zhu had endured powerful attacks without injury and recognized the flood dragon's hidden strength.
• Xuanyi used escape arts and needles to boost his power, then vanished beyond Jiang Chen's tracking abilities.
• Jiang Chen recorded Xuanyi's abilities and planned to lure him into a close-range attack next time.
• Jiang Chen told Tie Zhu that he was a Weird Exorcist, and Tie Zhu begged him not to use his own son to meet a quota.
• Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu reached an ancient Daoist temple inhabited by dead Daoists who did not know they had died.
• Jiang Chen, Ronnie, and the River Earl suppressed the temple's Weird Objects while Jiang Chen and his hammer tortured them to death.

Jiang Chen destroyed another gathering place for Weird Objects, then followed a Paper Figure to an ancient residence where Reincarnators Zhang Jing and Jiang Tian had laid a trap. Zhang Jing used the residence’s formation to repeatedly slaughter two kings, but Jiang Chen spoke from behind the Reincarnators as the battle continued.

• Jiang Chen lectured Tie Zhu about kindness after seizing Sacrificial Offerings from the corpses at a ruined Daoist temple.
• Jiang Chen destroyed a former Martial Arts sect gathering place, claiming its Hairy Jiangshi had offended public morals.
• Jiang Chen followed a Paper Figure carrying a Peace Talisman to an ancient residence, while Tie Zhu warned that Reincarnators were watching them.
• Zhang Jing and Jiang Tian discussed using the Old Residence’s formation and its Ghost King to secure Sacrificial Offerings and King Corpses.
• Zhang Jing activated the Restricting Formation and used its giant swords to repeatedly strike Ronnie and the disheveled old man.
• Jiang Chen spoke behind Zhang Jing and Jiang Tian, asking whether they could be kinder to those about to die.

Jiang Chen trapped the Reincarnators Zhang Jing and Jiang Tian, but Zhang Jing revealed secrets about the Dark Alliance and used a powerful formation to pin down the River Earl. The chapter ended with Zhang Jing calling on Jiang Tian to kill Jiang Chen while he held off the Five-Step King.

• Jiang Chen confronted Zhang Jing and Jiang Tian with the River Earl and a host of ghostly entities.
• Zhang Jing claimed ties to the Dark Alliance’s former leader and revealed the leader’s surname and the secret route through the Alliance’s headquarters formation.
• Jiang Chen refused to release Zhang Jing and proposed taking him to meet the new leader, prompting Zhang Jing to attack him.
• The River Earl smashed Zhang Jing, but an ancient Spell Formation restored Zhang Jing’s body and he tried to flee.
• Zhang Jing burned Sacrificial Offerings to activate a Ten-Thousand-Jun Formation that buried the River Earl under immense weight.
• Zhang Jing called on Jiang Tian to kill Jiang Chen while he held off the Five-Step King.

Jiang Chen defeated Jiang Tian, while Zhang Jing and Jiang Tian each used an escape method to flee. He then gathered their Sacrificial Offerings and continued robbing forces in the Restricted Zone, calling the Reincarnators his business partners.

• Jiang Tian attacked Jiang Chen with deadly Martial Arts footwork, but Jiang Chen used a massive fist from his bag to destroy her body and kept her head in his hand.
• Jiang Tian regenerated and urged Zhang Jing to use their trump cards, only to discover that he had escaped through a Spell Formation.
• With the Ten-Thousand-Jun Formation broken and the River Earl's aura returning, Jiang Tian sacrificed her body and escaped, leaving her Sacrificial Offerings behind.
• Jiang Chen let the two Reincarnators escape and explained to Tie Zhu that their repeated trips to the Restricted Zone could provide both sides with gains.
• Jiang Chen spent several hours killing Restricted Zone creatures, robbing Dark Alliance experts and the Three Official Organizations, and leaving no survivors among the Dark Alliance and Reincarnators he encountered.

Jiang Chen terrorized the Ghost Prison Restricted Zone, robbing Reincarnators and building a powerful team of Yin God Kings. As night approached, he followed the Reincarnators toward the deepest part of the zone, where they gathered around an unknown prize.

• Jiang Chen repeatedly robbed people in the Ghost Prison Restricted Zone, while his Yin God Hammer gained a first-step King from the Dark Alliance and a Four-Step King skinless freak.
• Jiang Chen nearly died after a black-haired boy trapped him in an ancient formation, but he sacrificed his Kings to force a path out and chose not to rob the boy.
• Jiang Chen noticed that the sky had darkened and that the Reincarnators were still heading deeper into the Restricted Zone despite the danger of nightfall.
• Jiang Chen followed the Reincarnators toward their shared objective, and his former partners warned the others when they spotted his Corpse-Carrying Bag.

Jiang Chen reached the deepest part of the Ghost Prison Restricted Zone and discovered what appeared to be the original Formation Gate Ancestral Grounds. He found a formation foundation containing nine Divine Sacrifice Items and a strange Stone Candle that might be connected to a Heavenly Sacrifice.

• Jiang Chen escaped from angry Reincarnators after taking their sacrificial offerings and warned Tang Yi's group to stay away from him.
• Jiang Chen reached the Ghost Prison Restricted Zone and saw a vast formation enclosing a place filled with skeletal remains and yin qi.
• Tie Zhu identified the massive formation and buildings above Ghost Prison as the likely ruins of the original Formation Gate, an Ancient Dao Orthodoxy.
• Jiang Chen entered the restricted zone and saw nearly a hundred High-Grade Sacrificial Offerings and nine Divine Sacrifice Items forming the formation's foundation.
• Jiang Chen noticed a strange Stone Candle serving as the formation eye, with a Divine Sacrifice Item as its wick, and suspected it was connected to a Heavenly Sacrifice.

Jiang Chen waited among the angry Reincarnators as Shenji arrived and began navigating the Formation Gate’s damaged ancient formation. Jing Shou, the Formation Gate’s last Young Sect Master, then appeared, and Tie Zhu warned Jiang Chen that he had provoked someone immensely powerful.

• Tang Yi, Fei Yaoyu, and Zhou Tai joined the Reincarnators in condemning Jiang Chen after learning he had robbed most of them.
• Jiang Chen moved away from the crowd and quietly told Tie Zhu that people only cared about the Sacrificial Offerings they had lost.
• As night fell, Shenji arrived and used his Thousand-World Illusory Eyes to study the Formation Gate’s ancient formation.
• Shenji advanced through the formation by testing its paths with King-Level mechanical puppets, several of which were destroyed.
• Jing Shou appeared before Shenji, and the Reincarnators identified him as the Formation Gate’s last Young Sect Master.
• Tie Zhu recognized Jing Shou’s power and asked Jiang Chen to sever their father-son relationship temporarily.

Jing Shou used the Formation Gate’s bronze brush to pass through the ancestral formation and take the Heavenly Sacrifice item, causing the ancient formation to collapse. As Shenji and Jing Shou fought over the prize, the stone pillar sprang to life and fled toward Jiang Chen, leaving him surrounded by the pursuing Reincarnators.

• Jiang Chen learned that Tie Zhu intended to stay with him so he could inherit the family’s sacrificial offerings.
• Shenji challenged Jing Shou for the Heavenly Sacrifice item, and Jing Shou entered the restricting formation after asking the Formation Gate’s ancestors for forgiveness.
• Jing Shou took the Stone Candle, causing the ancient formation to collapse and exposing the scattered sacrificial offerings.
• Shenji tracked Jing Shou’s attempted escape, but the Stone Candle broke free and darted among the pursuing Reincarnators.
• The Stone Candle fled to Jiang Chen as he recorded the commotion, and he considered what to do while the crowd charged toward him.

Jiang Chen transformed into Sun Wukong, took the Heavenly Sacrifice Item, and escaped the Ghost Prison Restricted Zone with the Somersault Cloud. Xuanyi was left behind to face suspicion and pressure from the other Reincarnators, while Shenji and Jing Shou pursued Jiang Chen.

• After Xuanyi mocked him, Jiang Chen thanked him, took the stone pillar, and transformed into Sun Wukong, gaining the Somersault Cloud, other divine abilities, and the As-You-Will Golden Cudgel.
• Jiang Chen judged that he could not take on Shenji and Jing Shou, then pretended Xuanyi had taught him a special escape technique and urged him to flee.
• Jiang Chen somersaulted away in an instant, and Shenji identified his location near the Restricted Zone entrance.
• Jing Shou used the Bronze Formation Brush to leave, and Shenji followed with a talisman as Xuanyi realized Jiang Chen had framed him.
• The remaining Reincarnators accused Xuanyi and the Hidden Kill Sect of conspiring with Jiang Chen, then forced Xuanyi and another person to flee without any Sacrificial Offerings.

Jiang Chen escaped the restricted zone with the Heavenly Sacrifice item hidden inside Tie Zhu and rallied the survivors against the pursuing Reincarnators. He persuaded the Eight-Step Kings to withdraw and let him guard the portal as powerful enemies began to emerge.

• Jiang Chen had Tie Zhu swallow the sacrificial offerings and Heavenly Sacrifice item, then discarded his disguises and approached the trapped survivors as himself.
• Jiang Chen used his Fiery Golden Eyes to open the Golden Portal and let the survivors escape ahead of him.
• Jiang Chen emerged last, accused the Reincarnators of hunting the era’s powerhouses, and tried to unite the survivors and Eight-Step Kings against them.
• Jiang Chen identified himself to King You as Lao Jiang, but King You recognized him as King Chen and threatened to kill him.
• Jiang Chen warned the Eight-Step Kings about the two powerful Reincarnators and their stolen offerings, convincing them to retreat and let him face whoever came through the portal first.
• Ripples spread across the Golden Portal as someone prepared to emerge.

Jiang Chen confronted Shenji and Jing Shou at the Golden Portal, unleashing a colossal strike that injured both and shattered Jing Shou’s formation. As the gathered kings moved in to attack the weakened pair, Jiang Chen prepared to slip away.

• Shenji and Jing Shou emerged from the Golden Portal, and Jing Shou began forming an ancient Restricting Formation as Jiang Chen faced them.
• Jiang Chen used Complete Demonization and Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation, growing into a towering great ape and enlarging his Golden Cudgel.
• Jiang Chen’s golden gaze pinned Shenji in place and forced the Thousand-World Illusory Eyes in Shenji’s left eye to seal itself.
• Jiang Chen’s strike shattered Jing Shou’s Earth Origin Formation and injured both Jing Shou and Shenji, though it exhausted Jiang Chen’s trump cards.
• King You, the Puppeteer Sect Leader, and three other Eight-Step Kings surrounded the injured pair after noticing their spilled offerings, while Jiang Chen planned to escape.

Jiang Chen escaped the battle at the Ghost Prison Restricted Zone, rescued Uncle Wei, and used his newly inherited Somersault Cloud to return them to the Nine Provinces. There, Uncle Wei revealed that the master behind the cursed Hospital Ward had fought the King of Reincarnation, leaving the Nine Provinces to focus on the First and Third Wards as Jiang Chen contemplated the looming Restricted Zone crisis.

• Jiang Chen fled the Ghost Prison Restricted Zone and found Uncle Wei, who told him that the Nine Provinces' plans had changed and the Mount Tai King would not be coming.
• Jiang Chen grabbed Uncle Wei and used Somersault Cloud to return with him and Tie Zhu to the Jiangbei Branch Bureau, where they staggered and vomited after the journey.
• Jiang Chen learned that Somersault Cloud had been permanently inherited and that he had regained King-Level cultivation beyond the first step.
• Uncle Wei told Jiang Chen that the King of Reincarnation had fought the master behind the cursed Hospital Ward in Tibet, with the Old Celestial Master and Mount Tai King unable to intervene.
• Uncle Wei explained that the King of Reincarnation had decided to focus on the Third Ward and First Ward, and Jiang Chen reflected on how terrifying the Restricted Zones must be.

Jiang Chen admitted to Uncle Wei that he had caused several recent upheavals and offered him a grand sacrifice to avert his danger. After returning to Jade Garden Residential Complex, Jiang Chen learned that Sister Hong had reached King-Level, and she pledged the Li Clan’s support.

• Uncle Wei questioned Jiang Chen about the Dark Alliance’s alert and the fighting near the Ghost Prison Restricted Zone, and Jiang Chen claimed responsibility for the events.
• Jiang Chen recounted his exploits to Uncle Wei, including hunting Dark Alliance experts and stealing sacrificial offerings, while concealing the Heavenly Sacrifice Item.
• Jiang Chen gave Uncle Wei a top-tier grand sacrifice, and Uncle Wei accepted it and promised to support him, except in replacing Reincarnation.
• Jiang Chen returned to Jade Garden Residential Complex and found that Sister Hong had advanced to King-Level after the Gu Family’s grand sacrifice and her study of the Big Dipper Seven-Star Secret Technique.
• Sister Hong pledged that the Li Clan would follow Jiang Chen’s commands and offered the clan’s knowledge of fate and fortune to help him.

Jiang Chen asked Sister Hong to read Tie Zhu’s Fate Pattern while he assessed the spoils from his trip and considered laying low as his enemies regained strength. The chapter ended with Tie Zhu having eaten Jiang Chen’s television and Jiang Chen planning to prepare him for future dangers if his Fate Pattern showed promise.

• Jiang Chen told Sister Hong to read his son’s Fate Pattern and warned her not to act rashly; her divination showed she had narrowly avoided a path to death.
• Tie Zhu watched a cooking cartoon, became convinced that its dishes outranked him among the world’s ingredients, and switched off the television.
• Jiang Chen discovered Tie Zhu had eaten his plugged-in television, and Tie Zhu claimed he had destroyed it for his father’s own good.
• Jiang Chen counted his sacrificial offerings, Yin God Hammer, and nearly thirty million ghost qi, then reflected on the enemies he had made during his trip.
• Jiang Chen considered keeping a low profile and equipping Tie Zhu for future dangers if Sister Hong’s reading revealed great potential.

Sister Hong used ancient divination techniques to discover that Tie Zhu possessed an unmatched imperial destiny, though someone had tampered with its fate. Jiang Chen performed a Grand Sacrifice for Tie Zhu, restoring it to the King Realm and raising it to the fifth step.

• Sister Hong questioned Tie Zhu and used ritual implements to calculate its fate, finding a peerless imperial destiny entwined with a black thread that suggested someone had altered it.
• Tie Zhu panicked at the possibility that someone was plotting against it and asked Jiang Chen to let it become insignificant instead.
• Jiang Chen took Tie Zhu and the Stone Pillar outside the city, where he intended to perform a Grand Sacrifice and investigate the pillar.
• Jiang Chen gave Tie Zhu nine High-Grade Sacrificial Offerings and a Divine Sacrifice Item, and Tie Zhu returned to the King Realm before advancing to the fifth step.
• Tie Zhu transformed into a Flood Dragon over three hundred meters long, then fetched Jiang Chen's Yin God Hammer after he ordered it to retrieve the hammer.

Jiang Chen tested Tie Zhu’s strength and tried unsuccessfully to activate the Heavenly Sacrifice item, which later led him to an unexpected encounter. He met Tie Zhu’s old friend Erleng, who called himself Wuhen, the World’s Number One Assassin, and heard how Tie Zhu had helped him through his strange life.

• Jiang Chen tested Tie Zhu with the Yin God Hammer and learned Tie Zhu could rival powerful kings without using abilities.
• Jiang Chen tried several ways to awaken the Heavenly Sacrifice item but could not damage or activate it.
• The Heavenly Sacrifice item flew from Jiang Chen’s pocket and struck an invisible figure, revealing a man who said he was on their side.
• Tie Zhu recognized the man as Erleng, who insisted his new name was Wuhen and claimed to be the World’s Number One Assassin.
• Tie Zhu told Jiang Chen how Erleng had survived being sunk in the river, pursued the assassin’s path, and lost his savings to a man claiming to be the world’s greatest assassin.

Jiang Chen questioned Er Leng about the dangers of pseudo-restricted zones and the looming end of the era. Er Leng explained that Yin Gods threatened humanity and that reincarnators were gathering offerings to secure a god’s protection, then vanished after giving Tie Zhu a talisman.

• Tie Zhu challenged Er Leng’s claim to be the world’s greatest assassin, and Er Leng defended his knowledge of the Hidden Kill Sect’s Space Escape technique.
• Jiang Chen took Er Leng to a nearby grave and asked what danger appeared in pseudo-restricted zones after nightfall.
• Er Leng explained that Yin Gods emerged when night fell and described how forbidden zones might be ancient seals containing increasingly powerful Yin Gods.
• Er Leng said diviners believed humanity faced its end, prompting reincarnators to gather offerings so one person could become a god and shelter others according to their contributions.
• Er Leng gave Tie Zhu a voice transmission talisman and disappeared into the void, leaving Jiang Chen impressed by his ability.

Jiang Chen realized the Heavenly Sacrifice Item could not speak and recruited it despite not fully trusting it. After returning home, he read a report about two Reincarnators overpowering Eight-Step Kings in the Ghost Prison Restricted Zone before leaving.

• Jiang Chen guessed the Heavenly Sacrifice Item was only halfway to becoming a spirit, soothed it, and declared it part of his team.
• Jiang Chen told Tie Zhu the stone pillar had joined them, then considered enhancing it but abandoned the idea because it would cost fifteen million Ghost Qi.
• Jiang Chen returned home at dawn, slept, and woke after nightfall to read a report on the Ghost Prison Restricted Zone.
• The long-limbed Reincarnator used a Bronze Formation Disk while his companion unfolded the Black-Iron Heavy Ruler into a Mechanism Firebird.
• The two Reincarnators killed or injured several Eight-Step Kings with their attacks, then departed after signaling that they knew observers were watching.

Jiang Chen learned that the plan to eliminate the Hospital Ward would begin the following night, then spent a peaceful evening while Reincarnators struggled to gather enough offerings for a Grand Sacrifice. Meanwhile, powerful figures assembled in Sarola for the operation, where Yu Qian appeared as a newly advanced Half-King and greeted only the King of the Metropolis.

• Jiang Chen learned that the Hospital Ward operation had been set for midnight the next night after Sister Hong reported her King-Sealing and Uncle Wei made a major leap in strength.
• Tie Zhu pestered Jiang Chen for a television, so Sister Hong brought over her own large television and prepared food for Tie Zhu.
• Reincarnators realized Jiang Chen had stolen their Ordinary Sacrificial Offerings, leaving many short of what they needed for a Grand Sacrifice, and sought offerings from reserves or contemporary factions.
• Powerful figures gathered at a mansion in Sarola, including Netherworld Branch Office directors, Zou Lianshan, and the King of the Metropolis.
• Yu Qian arrived as a Half-King, and his greeting to the King of the Metropolis suggested he could challenge veteran Half-Kings.