Chapter Summaries

The King of Equality arrived disguised as a dangerous enemy, but Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu turned the encounter into a trap that harvested Ghost Qi. The King of Equality was released and recognized that Jiang Chen had planned the whole performance.

• The King of Metropolis warned the Netherworld officers to retreat as a mysterious figure trapped them inside Infinite Hell.
• Su Qing recognized the figure as his master, the King of Equality, and Jiang Chen charged him with crimes before attacking with his man-eating hammer.
• Tie Zhu swallowed the King of Equality, mocked Su Qing, and resisted his attempts to free his master.
• Jiang Chen ordered Tie Zhu to spit out the King of Equality, then pretended to have mistaken him for an enemy.
• The King of Equality realized Jiang Chen had deliberately exploited his concealed aura and the staged confrontation to collect Ghost Qi.

Jiang Chen accompanied the Kings toward the Hospital Ward, but turned the King of Reincarnation’s popularity into a citywide flyer-selling scheme that delayed their departure and earned him Ghost Qi. The group left him and Tie Zhu facing the furious experts’ reactions.

• The King of Equality grew irritated as Jiang Chen cheerfully questioned him about reaching the Sixth Step.
• Tie Zhu made Yu Qian fetch heaps of food by withholding his King Artifact-grade Chain Hammers.
• The King of Reincarnation led Uncle Wei, the King of Equality, King Chen, the King of the Metropolis, Li Hongya, and the others through the city on foot, stopping to meet admiring girls.
• Jiang Chen photographed the King of Reincarnation, promoted him around town, and sold flyers that let buyers get his contact information.
• The flyers drew crowds of girls and delayed the group’s trip out of the city by hours, while Jiang Chen collected Ghost Qi and Tie Zhu offered to take a beating for him.

The King of Reincarnation revealed how the First Ward recruited talented ordinary people through undetectable brainwashing and led the powerhouses to the Plateau. There, he began fighting the Medicine Lord as the Hospital Wards’ Deans and patients emerged with death curses that raised several of them to King level.

• The King of Reincarnation used Xiao Qi’s hypnotic ghost domain to get his group out of Rosala, then formed a medical record that revealed the First Ward’s recruitment methods and pointed to a woman he killed as its informant.
• The King of Reincarnation led the powerhouses to the Plateau and challenged the Medicine Lord, who emerged from a Hospital Ward to meet him in battle.
• Three figures from the Third Ward came out, including its Dean, the escaped Dean of the Seventh Ward, and Chen Ren.
• The Third Ward’s Dean, the Seventh Ward’s Dean, and Chen Ren donned death curses and rose to the king realm.
• The Dean of the First Ward and a patient housing eleven exceptional souls emerged, both reaching Sixth-Step King strength under the death curses.

Jiang Chen and the Nine Provinces forces fought the ward leaders and their allies, but the Third Ward's Dean escaped with Chen Ren and the Seventh Ward's Dean. The Third Ward was swallowed in a horrifying transformation, and a newly empowered monster challenged Jiang Chen.

• Uncle Wei and the King of Equality engaged the First Ward's Dean and the 11-Personality Patient as Jiang Chen confronted the Seventh Ward's Dean and summoned four Ghost Kings.
• Jiang Chen and his allies fought the ward leaders while fighters from both sides clashed across the battlefield.
• Chen Ren asked the Third Ward's Dean to help him take the final step, and she broke free, rescued him and the Seventh Ward's Dean, and returned to the Third Ward.
• Sister Hong warned that the Third Ward's Dean might create a terrifying monster, but Jiang Chen and the King of the Metropolis remained calm.
• The Third Ward's Weird Objects died as a terrifying aura rose from the ward, and a many-voiced figure declared that it had swallowed the entire ward so it could face Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen and the Nine Provinces fought the Hospital Wards as Chen Ren emerged as a colossal monster, overpowering Jiang Chen’s allies. Jiang Chen unleashed Tie Zhu to crush Chen Ren while the other battles turned in the Nine Provinces’ favor, and the Hospital Wards’ survivors fled with a warning of darker threats to come.

• Chen Ren emerged from the Third Ward as a towering monster and killed or overwhelmed several of Jiang Chen’s allies, including the white-haired old man, Ronnie, and the River Earl.
• Sister Hong explained that Chen Ren had formed naturally from the Third Ward’s collective shadow and warned Jiang Chen that he surpassed the Hospital Wards’ research.
• Chen Ren demanded that Jiang Chen face him, but Jiang Chen questioned whether Chen Ren was confronting him or his own fear before declaring him beyond saving.
• Jiang Chen summoned Tie Zhu with Dragon and Snake Entwining the Body, and Tie Zhu squeezed Chen Ren in half before thrashing him across the battlefield.
• Uncle Wei suppressed the First Ward’s Dean, the King of Reincarnation gained the advantage, and the Hospital Wards suffered heavy losses as their survivors fled inside.
• The Hospital Wards’ survivors warned that Nine Provinces might face destruction and that darker schemes awaited them.

Jiang Chen’s forces defeated the Hospital Ward enemies while the King of Reincarnation fought the Medicine Lord, and Jiang Chen pondered how the King might reach the Supreme Powerhouse level. After the Medicine Lord escaped, the King of Reincarnation ordered the Hospital Wards cleared, and Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu eagerly looted them despite Jiang Chen’s lecture about taking less loot.

• Tie Zhu destroyed Chen Ren and, alongside the King of Equality, helped defeat the 11-Personality Patient.
• Jiang Chen recognized that the King of Reincarnation had reached the half-step Supreme Powerhouse level and questioned Tie Zhu about reaching that realm during the Dharma-ending Age.
• The River Earl and other kings killed the 11-Personality Patient, while Uncle Wei and the others killed the Dean of the First Ward.
• The Medicine Lord escaped after using medicinal powder and Medicine Puppets to evade the King of Reincarnation, and Jiang Chen chose not to stop him with a Five-Star Card.
• The King of Reincarnation ordered the Hospital Wards cleared, but stopped Tie Zhu from taking two of them.
• Jiang Chen lectured Tie Zhu about taking less loot while looting a Hospital Ward himself, then called Tie Zhu in to help.

After the Hospital Ward operation, Jiang Chen learned that powerful Reincarnators were restoring their sects and seizing control of organizations around the world. A new Yin Qi Outbreak at the Tomb of the Gods in the Polar Bear Empire threatened to coincide with the coming upheaval in Fengdu.

• Jiang Chen and Sister Hong returned home, where she warned him that unknown King-Level figures had begun appearing worldwide.
• Jiang Chen read reports of Xuanyi forcing the Slaughter Alliance to submit to the Hidden Kill Sect, Shenji taking over the White Market, and a young Formation master winning the Formation Alliance's allegiance.
• Jiang Chen recognized the newcomers as Reincarnators who had recovered their King Realm strength and told Sister Hong to keep the Li Clan in the country and away from competition for Sacrificial Offerings.
• An urgent announcement reported that the Tomb of the Gods, a living person forbidden zone in the Polar Bear Empire, was about to undergo a Yin Qi Outbreak.
• Jiang Chen realized the outbreak could overlap with the coming upheaval in Fengdu, raising the possibility of two living person forbidden zones erupting at once.

Sister Hong told Jiang Chen that her Li Clan had helped end the previous disorder of the ultimate number by destroying the Ba Clan’s weird objects, but hidden forces had opposed them. Jiang Chen learned why Divine Spirit Valley’s divine souls were coveted and prepared Tie Zhu for the coming mission.

• Sister Hong explained that the Li Clan had joined the previous effort to resist the disorder of the ultimate number and had suffered heavy losses destroying the Ba Clan.
• Sister Hong said a hidden force had obstructed the disorder’s end for its own interests, leaving the Li Clan unwilling to fight at the front again.
• Jiang Chen learned that Divine Spirit Valley held divine souls left by dead Gods Organization members, which others could absorb to grow stronger.
• Jiang Chen realized the mission could help him gather ghost qi and planned to seize divine souls while clashing with other organizations’ people.
• Jiang Chen woke Tie Zhu and told it to watch television, rest up, and prepare to travel abroad with him in a couple of days.

Jim returned to Divine Spirit Valley with the Council of Elders' secret order to abandon the sacred graveyard and gather the Gods' Tomb-Keeping Team. Strange sounds and unsettling behavior from Old John, Simon, and the captain left him uneasy as the team assembled to hear the announcement.

• The Council of Elders decided to abandon Divine Spirit Valley to contain the Yin Qi Outbreak and tasked Jim with informing the team.
• Old John warned Jim about unusual sounds and a colleague possibly crawling from their grave, then murmured that people retreated when God came.
• Jim found the captain roasting two bloody carcasses and avoided delivering the order, saying the Elders required everyone to assemble.
• After Jim summoned Simon, Simon repeated Old John's phrase about God coming and people retreating.
• Jim gathered the team outside the wooden houses while the captain continued roasting meat without speaking.

Jim discovered that the captain and the Tomb Guard Team had become fanatical and had roasted the two elders, then they closed in on him. Elsewhere, Jiang Chen researched Divine Spirit Valley’s history and grew suspicious of the Gods Organization’s efforts to both venerate and contain it.

• The captain and the others confronted Jim over his faith in the Gods, and Jim realized they had lost control.
• Jim learned that the captain had roasted the two elders, and the team surrounded him despite his warning that their actions would bring disaster.
• The captain declared that the Gods had returned and that anyone who defiled Divine Spirit Valley would die, as Jim screamed from within the valley.
• Jiang Chen learned that Divine Spirit Valley had a long history of cults, supernatural disasters, and violent incidents dating back to Burial God Valley.
• Jiang Chen questioned why the Gods Organization publicly treated the site as holy while secretly taking precautions against it.

Jiang Chen traveled through countries plagued by supernatural disasters, offering free exorcisms, and arrived in Jiya, where he discovered a demon was forcing a family to sacrifice their unborn child. Suspecting someone was orchestrating the Horror Revival, he promised to confront Bloody Mary and left the family stunned by his grisly collection of ghost remains.

• Jiang Chen set out for the Polar Bear Empire with Tie Zhu, warning it not to dig underground in Divine Spirit Valley.
• Jiang Chen crossed several countries, exterminating ghosts and earning the devotion of people who had suffered through Paranormal Incidents.
• Jiang Chen entered Jiya and found Sato Town eerily silent, with residents too terrified to answer their doors.
• An old woman let Jiang Chen stay and explained that Bloody Mary had ordered her family to remove their unborn baby and hang it from a tree.
• Jiang Chen suspected a human was manipulating the supernatural disasters and promised to deal with Bloody Mary.
• Jiang Chen showed the family the ghost remains in his sack, causing the old woman to faint and the lean man to kowtow.

Bloody Mary entered Sato Town and was lured into a deadly encounter with a mysterious woman who reflected her actions. Jiang Chen tracked down the woman behind the incident, killed her after she refused to answer his questions, and set out to investigate the faction claiming control of Jiya.

• Bloody Mary entered Lor’s house, mistook its mirrors for reflections, and fled after seeing monsters and ghosts in them.
• A woman in red hanged herself beneath a tree, causing Bloody Mary to experience the same death and perish.
• Jiang Chen sensed a woman hiding in a house with a little girl and confronted her after she revealed herself through her shock at Mary’s death.
• The woman warned Jiang Chen that a powerful faction controlled Jiya, but he identified himself as the Eleventh King of the Netherworld.
• When the woman hesitated to answer Jiang Chen’s question about the faction’s name, he killed her, checked that the girl was ordinary, and left to investigate Jiya.

Jiang Chen wiped out the evil cultivators terrorizing Jiya, learned they belonged to the Ghost Refining Sect, and headed to their headquarters in the Loren Mountains. There, he and Tie Zhu noticed a foul but tempting smell that suggested something extraordinary was nearby.

• Jiang Chen slaughtered the evil cultivators in Jiya and learned from one survivor that the Ghost Refining Sect was based in the Loren Mountains.
• Jiang Chen killed the survivor, called Tie Zhu, and left Jiya with the ordinary people believing he had saved them.
• Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu reached the Ghost Refining Sect, where its disciples were repairing damage from a recent attack by Reincarnators.
• Jiang Chen denied responsibility for the Reincarnators' attack, then asked Tie Zhu to investigate a strange smell.
• Tie Zhu detected the enticing odor and suspected the sect grounds held rare ingredients.

The Ghost Refining Sect's Ancestor led the Sect Master and Deputy Sect Master to a buried altar, claiming its treasure would raise their power. When the Sect Master seized the jade-white hand, it drained him dry, then crawled toward the pinned Deputy Sect Master.

• The Ghost Refining Sect's Ancestor revealed that a powerful treasure lay buried beneath the sect and brought the Sect Master and Deputy Sect Master to excavate it.
• The three uncovered a chamber containing a White Jade Altar, spent sacrificial offerings, and a jade-white human hand.
• The Sect Master ordered Zhang to attack the Ancestor, then grabbed the hand despite the Ancestor's warning.
• The hand clamped onto the Sect Master's wrist and drained his power and body until he became a dried corpse.
• The Ghost Puppet pinned the Deputy Sect Master as the hand crawled toward him.

Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu attacked the Ghost Refining Sect as it brought in newly created vicious ghosts, then Jiang Chen summoned the Ghost Clan and the Four Directional Ghost Emperors. The Ghost Puppets rebelled against the sect and charged its disciples, leaving the battle underway.

• Jiang Chen rejected Tie Zhu’s suggestion to leave and prepared to attack the Ghost Refining Sect.
• Jiang Chen killed the gatekeepers, held open the protective formation, and declared that he would exterminate the sect.
• The Ghost Refining Sect activated its Ten Thousand Ghosts Formation, but the ghosts gathered in the sky far exceeded its members’ expectations.
• Jiang Chen summoned the Four Directional Ghost Emperors and called on the Ghost Clan to fight back.
• A disciple activated the ghosts’ restraints, provoking them to rebel and attack the Ghost Refining Sect’s disciples.
• The sect’s disciples ordered the Ten Thousand Ghosts Formation to be forcefully activated and the ghosts blown up.

Jiang Chen led the Ghost Refining Sect's ghost puppets to turn on their masters, then destroyed the sect while mourning the puppets who died. A Reincarnator with a terrifying jade-like hand ambushed him and began stealing everything from him, leaving Jiang Chen strangely calm as his body shriveled.

• The ghost puppets detonated themselves among the Ghost Refining Sect disciples, inflicting devastating losses before Jiang Chen joined the attack.
• Jiang Chen and the four Ghost Kings defeated the sect, and Jiang Chen gathered the surviving ghost puppets into his big family.
• A young Reincarnator with a pale jade-like left hand emerged from the ruins and declared that Jiang Chen would join him.
• Jiang Chen tried to escape by somersaulting great distances, but the young man pursued him through the void each time.
• The jade-like hand seized Jiang Chen, pierced his collarbone, and began draining his strength, flesh, soul, and fate.
• Jiang Chen lit a cigarette and let his body shrivel without resisting, puzzling the young man.

Jiang Chen resisted the jade hand by letting it drain him until it became contaminated and was forced to return power, then it fled after cutting off its five fingers. He kept the fingers and promised Tie Zhu he would use them in a Divine Sacrifice to help him become a Supreme Powerhouse.

• The jade hand drained Jiang Chen until black lines spread across it, forcing it to return stolen power and strengthen him.
• Tie Zhu struck down the young man when he lunged to interrupt Jiang Chen.
• The jade hand tore itself free, severed all five fingers, and escaped through space with the young man.
• Jiang Chen picked up the strange fingers, and Tie Zhu failed to digest the one he swallowed.
• Tie Zhu suggested using the fingers in a Divine Sacrifice, and Jiang Chen promised to help him become a Supreme Powerhouse.

Factions from around the world gathered outside Divine Spirit Valley to await the uncertain Yin Qi Outbreak, while Gray warned the Saints Organization’s young members about the powerful Nine Provinces groups. After finishing his ghost-exorcising journey, Jiang Chen arrived at the valley and headed for the Nine Provinces camp.

• At the Saints Organization’s camp, Rode and Albert questioned whether the many factions gathered at Divine Spirit Valley were qualified to take part.
• Gray explained that the Shenji Sect, Formation Gate, Hidden Kill Sect, Talisman Gate, and a group of reincarnators were powerful forces the young Saints should not provoke.
• Gray told the young people that Nine Provinces cultivation methods were the world’s only true cultivation methods, and he doubted the elders’ plan to unite other countries’ organizations against the Nine Provinces factions.
• Jiang Chen arrived near Divine Spirit Valley on a Somersault Cloud after the Ghost Refining Sect incident and saw that the valley was shrouded in fog, with knocking sounds coming from inside.
• Jiang Chen went to the Nine Provinces camp, where its personnel had arrived ahead of him.

Jiang Chen arrived at the Nine Provinces’ camp for the trip to Divine Spirit Valley and urged the younger fighters to act boldly, despite the King of Equality’s warning to keep a low profile. The group gathered around the campfire to hear intelligence about the other factions and the coming yin qi outbreak.

• King Qin Guang welcomed Jiang Chen and listed the Nine Provinces’ experts attending, while explaining that Su Ling, Luo Li, Wang Xuanyi, and Zhang Wendao had chosen a dangerous path of cultivation.
• Jiang Chen greeted the Yama Successors and Six Giants’ successors, praised their progress, and promised to back them if they clashed with anyone.
• The King of Equality warned Jiang Chen that mysterious factions had arrived and that the King of Reincarnation had instructed the Nine Provinces to keep a low profile.
• Jiang Chen joined the King of the Metropolis and the King of Equality by a campfire, where the King of Equality began briefing them on the operation and the factions’ experts.

Jiang Chen and the Kings entered Divine Spirit Valley after the Yin Qi Outbreak began, and the gathered factions started drawing Divine Souls from the graves. The first apparition revealed itself as a grotesque being revered as a god, leaving the crowd wary of its power.

• The King of Equality warned Jiang Chen and the other Kings that powerful Reincarnators had recruited dangerous experts, including Zhang Jiu and Liu Ming.
• Jiang Chen asked about the knocking from Divine Spirit Valley, then told the three Kings to prepare lifesaving measures and flee if anything unusual happened.
• Two days later, the Yin Qi Outbreak began, and the Gods Organization withdrew its guards from the valley.
• The Nine Provinces, Church, Saints Organization, Shenji Sect, Formation Gate, and Talisman Gate entered Divine Spirit Valley and began offering blood essence at graves to lure out Divine Souls.
• A burly Saints Organization expert drew out a grotesque Divine Soul, and the crowd warned one another not to insult the gods worshipped by the Gods Organization.