Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen taught his Evil Self how to inflict psychological torment, then showed him recordings of his own brutal methods and prepared him for a practical lesson. Meanwhile, the woman in the Eighteenth-Storey Building tried to escape, unaware that Jiang Chen had sent the Evil Self to find her.

• Jiang Chen explained how to exploit an opponent’s deepest fears and resentments, leaving the Evil Self in awe and unsure which of them was truly evil.
• Jiang Chen showed the Evil Self recordings of his exorcisms, including his cruelty toward a doctor and a grieving mother, and a photograph of himself posing beside a crushed girl’s corpse.
• Jiang Chen told the Evil Self to put his lesson into practice by helping torment the woman from earlier.
• The woman fled to the first floor of the Eighteenth-Storey Building but found the entrance secured with a powerful iron chain.
• The Evil Self came downstairs carrying a heavy hammer, pretended he had saved the woman, and called for her to help him break open the chained door.

Jiang Chen and a terrified woman chased through the building repeatedly tried to decide which of two identical men was the real rescuer and which was the killer. The woman reached Jiang Chen on the sixteenth floor, but a shout from below raised a new doubt about who had chained the exit shut.

• The woman mistook Jiang Chen's warning for a lie, fled up the stairs, and was rescued by the wounded-looking Jiang Chen on the thirteenth floor.
• The woman noticed that Jiang Chen's supposed wound might be fake and began to suspect he was the shadow, then saw blood on the stairs and regretted doubting him.
• The woman slowed down near the fifth floor, escaped into an escape-room-themed room, and ran upstairs while the man behind her admitted his wound was fake and claimed to be the real self.
• The woman found Jiang Chen on the sixteenth floor and urged him to escape with her, but a voice from below warned her not to trust him and asked who had chained the downstairs door.

Jiang Chen trained his evil self by brutally tormenting ghosts across multiple high-rises, then noticed the blood clouds gathering over the metropolis and decided to attempt a risky plan before leaving the area. His evil self grew increasingly wary of him as they prepared for what was coming.

• Jiang Chen praised his evil self’s performance, reviewed his mistakes, and ordered him to record techniques for tormenting enemies.
• Jiang Chen dragged his evil self through black high-rises, where they exorcised ghosts with cruel schemes and gained large amounts of ghost qi.
• Jiang Chen’s evil self defeated a Half-King of the Restricted Zone after Jiang Chen guided it into the abyss and let its evil self take possession.
• Jiang Chen stopped on a rooftop when blood clouds spread across the sky and realized a major battle was approaching.
• Jiang Chen considered abandoning the black-building area, then came up with a risky plan that made his evil self fear for his safety.

Jiang Chen used the Yin God Hammer to lure hundreds of Fierce Souls and Half-Kings to a high-rise, where his Evil Self fought them off and Jiang Chen began teaching them how to twist their True Selves. The chapter ended with the gathered Evil Selves approving of his lesson.

• Jiang Chen asked his Evil Self to control the Fierce Souls and Half-Kings he planned to lure out, then gave him the Yin God Hammer.
• Jiang Chen drew the Evil Selves from the surrounding buildings to a high-rise, where they gathered and prepared to attack him and his Evil Self.
• Jiang Chen's Evil Self struck the crowd with the Six Paths Thunder Method, then used the Great Transformation Technique to create copies of their traits.
• Jiang Chen returned beside his Evil Self and bluffed that they could take on the crowd, before claiming he had called them to teach them how to twist their True Selves.
• Jiang Chen lectured the Evil Selves, who began praising his advice and agreeing with him.

Jiang Chen taught the Fierce Souls’ Evil Selves how to torment their True Selves, winning their admiration before discovering that the Great Transformation Technique could let his Yin God Puppets wield the copied Evil Selves’ full power in Blood-Colored City.

• Jiang Chen lectured the Evil Selves on exploiting obsessions, breaking psychological defenses, and turning hope into despair.
• The Evil Selves accepted Jiang Chen as one of their own and left eager to apply his teachings.
• Jiang Chen learned that his Evil Self had none of his memories and suspected the system had concealed his secrets.
• Jiang Chen gave his exhausted Evil Self a Purple Yang Pill and asked about the transformed Yin God Puppets’ strength.
• His Evil Self explained that Yin God Puppets could copy an Evil Self’s full power if they were at least Fierce Soul level, and Jiang Chen realized he had found a bug in Blood-Colored City.

Jiang Chen and Number Two turned the Fierce Souls in a black high-rise district into Evil Sha and headed toward the blood-colored district as ominous clouds gathered. On the road, Jiang Chen was separated from his companion and possessions, and an ancient motorcycle emerged from the fog.

• Jiang Chen confirmed that the Evil Self could copy a nine-step Ghost King, and the Evil Self resolved to treat him as its superior.
• Jiang Chen watched as Fierce Souls became Evil Sha, then sent the Evil Self and the Yin God Hammer’s Ghost Kings to finish off the holdouts.
• Jiang Chen collected more than twenty million Ghost Qi overall, while hundreds of Evil Sha marched toward the blood-red high-rise district without attacking him.
• Jiang Chen renamed the Evil Self Number Two and set off with it toward the blood-colored area, urging it to abandon kindness and embrace cruelty.
• Jiang Chen noticed the storm clouds and worsening cold, recalled his past on a road like this one, and found himself alone without his companions or possessions.
• An ancient motorcycle slowly emerged from the blood-colored fog ahead of Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen escaped a blood-mist illusion that recreated his childhood memories and suspected Old Zhang’s mysterious background had caused it to collapse. He and the Evil Self reached the blood-colored region, where Jiang Chen sent his Yin God Puppets to gather curses and evil sha energy and asked how close the nearest Ghost King was.

• Jiang Chen realized the old man and motorcycle in the illusion were disappearing as Old Zhang’s face came into focus, and the blood mist revealed the road again.
• Jiang Chen wondered whether Old Zhang’s origins were powerful enough to disrupt the Restricted Zone’s illusion, then decided he needed another Seven-Star Card for protection.
• The Evil Self followed Jiang Chen out of the blood mist and admired how easily he had escaped the illusion.
• Jiang Chen entered the blood-colored region, recognized the curses and evil sha energy on its high-rises as useful materials, and sent his Yin God Puppets to collect them.
• Jiang Chen asked Number Two how far away the nearest Ghost King was.

Jiang Chen and the Evil Self crossed the Blood-Colored Region while the Yin God Hammer devoured the buildings’ curses and Evil Sha blood qi, growing stronger and nearing another enhancement. They found signs of an Outsider fighting there and arrived as a young married woman and a Night-Watch Evil Sha clashed atop a high-rise.

• The Evil Self sensed a Ghost King aura and a powerful battle ahead, so Jiang Chen led him toward it.
• Jiang Chen observed the damaged Blood Buildings and let the Yin God Puppets devour their curses and Evil Sha blood qi, hoping to strengthen the Yin God Hammer again.
• Jiang Chen asked the Evil Self about his research into using the Black Iron Anvil and promised him the weapon if he mastered it.
• Jiang Chen found a dead Evil Sha and fresh battle traces, then continued through the Blood-Colored Region with the Evil Self.
• Jiang Chen and the Evil Self reached a rooftop battle where a young married woman atop a Flood Dragon fought the Night-Watch Evil Sha, whose gong strike weakened the dragon.

Jiang Chen watched the black-dressed woman and Flood Dragon defeat a Seven-Step King Night-Watch Evil Sha after she used ancient Taoist Arts to trap and destroy it. As she took a valuable protective talisman from the corpse, Jiang Chen warned her not to take things from the dead.

• Jiang Chen realized that the woman in the black dress and Flood Dragon were less suppressed because they had experience with multiple Restricted Zones.
• The woman used the Inviting the Gods Bell and Underworld-Walking Steps to trap the Night-Watch Evil Sha and tear it apart.
• The woman took a high-quality protective talisman from the Night-Watch Evil Sha's corpse.
• Jiang Chen warned the woman that it was best not to take things from the dead.

Jiang Chen’s evil self confronted the woman in the black dress over her stolen talisman and Sacrificial Offering Prototypes, then used Divine Firmament thunder to grievously wound Flood Dragon. A ghostly force possessed the woman and overwhelmed Jiang Chen’s evil self, leaving him embedded in a blood-colored high-rise.

• Jiang Chen’s evil self demanded the woman in the black dress return his talisman and hand over her Sacrificial Offering Prototypes, while Jiang Chen collected the offerings she threw away.
• Jiang Chen’s evil self blocked the woman and Flood Dragon from escaping, and the woman prepared Yellow Paper Money, incense, and candles to invoke a Thunder Method.
• The woman’s lightning blasted Jiang Chen’s evil self into a high-rise, so she ordered Flood Dragon to attack him.
• Jiang Chen’s evil self summoned Divine Firmament thunder, badly wounding Flood Dragon as the woman tried to flee.
• A ghostly hand blocked the thunder, and the woman assumed the possessed posture she had shown during Inviting the Gods.
• The possessed woman struck Jiang Chen’s evil self with overwhelming force and embedded him in a blood-colored high-rise.

Jiang Chen’s Evil Self fought the woman who had Invited the Gods while Jiang Chen faced the purple-black Flood Dragon. Jiang Chen used a tide of Evil Sha to contaminate the Flood Dragon, hoping to exploit its fear of losing control and protect its master.

• The woman’s attacks drove Jiang Chen’s Evil Self back until a prepared Six Paths Thunder Method strike wounded her, and Jiang Chen urged his Evil Self to activate his strength-boosting abilities and wield the Black Iron Anvil.
• Jiang Chen’s Evil Self fought the woman to a standstill, using the anvil’s chains to block her enormous ghost hand while Jiang Chen watched the Flood Dragon for a hidden trump card.
• Jiang Chen rejected escaping to find a stronger Restricted Zone king and realized that the Flood Dragon, like others in the Restricted Zone, had an Evil Self and a master it would protect.
• Jiang Chen asked the Flood Dragon where its Evil Self and master were, then summoned swarms of Yin God Puppets whose Evil Sha Blood Qi contaminated it as it attacked them to defend its master.

Jiang Chen and his Evil Self fought the black-dressed woman and her Flood Dragon as the woman’s Inviting the Gods state drove her into a deadly slaughter. Heavenly Qiu used a forbidden Dragon Transformation technique to carry her away, but Jiang Chen sensed their escape and pursued them.

• The Flood Dragon charged Jiang Chen, but the Dragon-Slaying Spear appeared and forced it to hold back.
• Jiang Chen summoned a flood of Yin God Puppets against the black-dressed woman, who slaughtered them while under Inviting the Gods.
• The woman used the God-Sending Spell to expel the summoned god, then ordered Heavenly Qiu to flee before her evil self caught up.
• Heavenly Qiu swallowed one of its limbs and briefly gained Dragon Transformation power, allowing it to seize the woman and escape.
• A deranged woman approached, sniffed the air, and pursued in another direction, while Jiang Chen and his Evil Self followed the fleeing pair.

Jiang Chen and his Evil Self abandoned their pursuit of the woman’s Evil Self after spotting the dangerous young man with the Yin God's left hand, then entered a new Blood-Colored Region to find an Eight-Step King to copy. His Evil Self transformed into the formidable Evil Sha General, blocked the general’s attack, and fled with Jiang Chen into the blood mist.

• Jiang Chen’s Evil Self detected the young man with the Yin God's left hand following them, and Jiang Chen chose to retreat rather than confront him.
• Jiang Chen and his Evil Self entered a new Blood-Colored Region and approached a twenty-eight-story martial training tower guarded by the Evil Sha General.
• Jiang Chen’s Evil Self observed the general and completed his transformation into a Restricted Zone Eight-Step King as the general discovered them and attacked.
• Jiang Chen’s Evil Self countered the general’s blade with Chaos-Dwelling Heavenly Blade, then carried Jiang Chen away into the blood mist.

Tie Zhu fled from Zhao Qingcheng after their battle left the Flood Dragon badly wounded, but before it could transform into a half-dragon, the Blood Sha General arrived. The General attacked Zhao Qingcheng for hurting his nephew.

• Tie Zhu cursed Zhao Qingcheng while retreating from the Sword Saint, who pursued it on behalf of the Artifact Gate.
• Zhao Qingcheng struck Tie Zhu with his powerful Sword Dao, leaving a deep gash across its back.
• Tie Zhu threatened to bring its father, Jiang, to avenge it and began to prepare to transform into a half-dragon.
• The Blood Sha General arrived after hearing that his nephew had been injured and confronted Zhao Qingcheng.
• The Blood Sha General charged Zhao Qingcheng with a black-light broadsword and demanded to know if he had hurt his nephew.

Jiang Chen's Evil Self fought Zhao Qingcheng while Jiang Chen reunited with the badly injured Tie Zhu, who recounted his experiences in the Restricted Zone. The chapter left Zhao Qingcheng's battle unresolved and Tie Zhu beginning to explain how he encountered an even greater danger.

• Jiang Chen's Evil Self used the Ancient Shackles to stop Zhao Qingcheng from fleeing, and the two resumed their battle.
• Tie Zhu wept against Jiang Chen's leg, then accepted Sacrificial Offering Prototypes to heal and a notebook to record the people who had injured him.
• Tie Zhu told Jiang Chen that he and his Evil Self had devoured ghosts in a Black Skyscraper Region before they were separated in a Blood-Colored Region.
• Tie Zhu said King You and a group led by a faceless man appeared after he killed an Evil Sha, and the man's glance left him badly injured.
• Tie Zhu fled through the Blood Mist and hunted Evil Sha to recover, but said he soon encountered something even more troublesome.

Tie Zhu told Jiang Chen about a damaged thirty-story building guarded by a gravely wounded Nine-Step King and explained how Zhao Qingcheng had attacked it while pursuing him. Jiang Chen recognized the chance to copy the powerful Guardian, then returned with Tie Zhu to help his Evil Self defeat Zhao Qingcheng.

• Tie Zhu refused to reveal who had trapped it beneath the Dragon-Locking Well, saying the beings involved were taboo even to mention.
• Tie Zhu described the Blood-Colored Region’s damaged thirty-story building, its huge cache of pseudo-sacrificial offerings, and its gravely wounded Nine-Step King Guardian.
• Tie Zhu said Zhao Qingcheng had spotted and attacked him, then pursued him into another region, where Tie Zhu was badly injured before meeting Jiang Chen and his Second Uncle.
• Jiang Chen considered copying the Nine-Step King Guardian and urged Tie Zhu to help finish the battle.
• Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu arrived to find Zhao Qingcheng badly wounded and trapped by shackles while Jiang Chen's Evil Self attacked him relentlessly.

Jiang Chen’s Evil Self and Tie Zhu cornered Zhao Qingcheng, who used a hidden sword strike to break the dark-light shackles and escape into the Blood Mist. After the danger passed, Tie Zhu called the strike a fraction of Jiang Chen’s glory in his prime, shocking the Evil Self and strengthening his resolve to remain loyal.

• Jiang Chen’s Evil Self battered Zhao Qingcheng with the Black Iron Anvil and Supreme Powerhouse Artifact souls until Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu arrived.
• Jiang Chen revealed himself as Tie Zhu’s father and ordered Tie Zhu to kill Zhao Qingcheng, prompting the Sword Saint to seek an escape.
• Zhao Qingcheng opened a white jade box and released a terrifying sword strike that made Jiang Chen, his Evil Self, and Tie Zhu retreat.
• Zhao Qingcheng used the sword light to shatter the dark-light shackles and fled into the Blood Mist.
• Jiang Chen and his companions waited ten minutes before the Evil Self found the exhausted iron sword and broken jade box.
• Tie Zhu said the sword strike held a fraction of Jiang Chen’s glory in his prime, and the Evil Self resolved to remain loyal to Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen considered whether to spend Ghost Qi enhancing the damaged Immortal's Finger, then asked Tie Zhu about the Six Sword Steles Suppressing the Abyss. Tie Zhu recounted the Sword Master's history, leaving Jiang Chen confident the sword fragment was not single-use and willing to enhance it twice.

• Jiang Chen saw that enhancing Immortal's Finger would cost one million Ghost Qi and weighed its power against the risk that it might be single-use.
• Tie Zhu offered to cut meat from himself to grill for Jiang Chen, prompting Jiang Chen to ask him about the Six Sword Steles Suppressing the Abyss.
• Tie Zhu explained that the Ghost Abyss had once threatened to spread, until the Sword Master drove back its horrors and forged six sword steles to suppress it.
• Tie Zhu described several steles, including Immortal's Finger, and said the steles were later shattered, though their fragments remained valuable treasures.
• Jiang Chen concluded that Immortal's Finger probably was not single-use and decided to enhance it twice before considering further upgrades.

Jiang Chen used the system to enhance the Iron Little Sword into the Immortal's Finger, a vastly stronger weapon whose demonic-power attack nearly drained him. As Tie Zhu exaggerated Jiang Chen's fearsome reputation to his Evil Self, another immense surge of sword intent spread across the area.

• Jiang Chen spent a million ghost energy to enhance the sword, restoring its sharpness and filling the surrounding area with powerful sword intent.
• The system named the upgraded weapon Immortal's Finger, and Jiang Chen tested it by destroying the upper floors of a Blood Building.
• Jiang Chen poured demonic power into the weapon and erased an entire Blood Building, but the attack consumed most of his strength and blood qi.
• Tie Zhu and the Evil Self marveled at the weapon's power, while Tie Zhu worried that his uncle might compete for the family inheritance.
• Tie Zhu described Jiang Chen as a notorious, murderous figure, leaving the Evil Self horrified and wondering whether he should return to Jiang Chen's body to restrain him.
• A vast wave of sword intent erupted and enveloped everything within three thousand meters.

Jiang Chen completed the enhancement of Immortal's Finger, creating a weapon powerful enough to threaten a Supreme Powerhouse. A gigantic figure emerged from the Blood Mist and pursued Jiang Chen, the Evil Self, and Tie Zhu as they fled through the Restricted Zone.

• Jiang Chen enhanced Immortal's Finger to +3, and its sword pressure terrified Tie Zhu and the Evil Self.
• Jiang Chen decided to postpone spending more ghost qi on Rebirth and Bone-Remolding after sensing that something was watching him.
• Jiang Chen, the Evil Self, and Tie Zhu fled when a mountain-sized figure appeared in the Blood Mist and overwhelmed them with its presence.
• The giant shadow pursued them across multiple Blood-Colored Regions, forcing the Evil Self to use Somersault Cloud repeatedly.
• After crossing more than twenty building districts, Jiang Chen, the Evil Self, and Tie Zhu narrowly shook off the giant shadow.