Chapter Summaries

Young Master Wu uncovered three ritual objects hidden in the Zhang Family ancestral burial ground and identified them as part of a formation draining the family's fortune. When Zhang Yucheng opened the final box and was struck by baleful qi, Young Master Wu treated him with a silver needle and brought him back to his senses.

• Young Master Wu found a tortured cat corpse in a black wooden box and explained that someone had tampered with the Zhang Family ancestral graves to ruin their feng shui.
• Young Master Wu directed the workers to uncover a red box containing nine decapitated snakes, then predicted the location and color of a final ritual object.
• Zhang Yucheng opened the white box despite Young Master Wu's warning, and black vapor struck him down.
• Young Master Wu stopped Zhang Yunyao and the others from touching Zhang Yucheng, then used a silver needle to release black blood and restore his breathing.

After Zhang Yucheng nearly died from opening the final warding box, Young Master Wu identified its contents as a fresh grudge bone and explained how the objects had ruined the Zhang Family’s ancestral feng shui. He warned that relocating the graves would be dangerous because the disturbed, well-preserved corpses might become undead.

• Zhang Yucheng opened the white box and nearly died when its black mist struck him, but Young Master Wu saved him.
• Young Master Wu examined the box and found a fresh human skull carved with tiny talismanic inscriptions.
• Young Master Wu identified the skull as a grudge bone and explained that it both damaged the Zhang Family’s feng shui and threatened anyone who opened the box.
• Young Master Wu explained how the dead cat, headless snakes, and grudge bone had ruined the dragon-tiger exorcism acupoint and disturbed the ancestors buried there.
• Zhang Yucheng asked Young Master Wu to find a new burial site, and Young Master Wu warned that relocating the graves could cause the preserved corpses to become undead.

Wu ordered the Zhang Family to burn the unearthed boxes and relocate every grave after keeping the coffins at home for three days. At midnight, he began digging up the graves with Zhang Yunyao, Zhang Yunliang, and eight workers, but Zhang Yunyao received an alarming phone call after two preserved bodies were transferred into new coffins.

• Wu told Zhang Yucheng to burn the wooden boxes and dig up every grave at midnight, keeping the coffins at home for three days before reburying them.
• At the Zhang Family's old house, Zhang Yunyao explained that Zhang Yunliang had suffered nightly nightmares for over twenty days, and Wu wondered if they were connected to the ancestral graves.
• Zhang Yucheng's blood pressure left him unable to go to the cemetery, so he sent Zhang Yunyao and Zhang Yunliang with Wu and warned Zhang Yunliang to cooperate.
• Wu led the group and eight workers to the cemetery, where the workers unearthed two rotted coffins containing perfectly preserved bodies.
• Wu had the workers move the elderly couple's bodies into new coffins, and Zhang Yunyao then received a phone call that made her anxious.

Wu left the Zhang Family ancestral graves under guard and returned with Zhang Yunyao to find her father possessed by an unclean spirit. He confronted the spirit as Zhang Yucheng, wearing makeup, asked whether they thought he was pretty.

• Zhang Yunyao told Wu that Zhang Yucheng had gone mad at home and was speaking in a woman's voice, so Wu paused the grave relocation and went with her.
• Wu sensed heavy yin energy around the Zhang Family residence, kicked open the barred gates, and found Housekeeper Wang unconscious with a bleeding head.
• Wu bandaged Housekeeper Wang while eerie laughter sounded from the house, then followed it to Zhang Yucheng's bedroom.
• Wu saw Zhang Yucheng combing his hair at a dressing table, shrouded in baleful qi, and recognized that an unclean spirit had possessed him.
• Zhang Yucheng turned toward Wu and Zhang Yunyao with makeup on his face, laughed, and asked whether they thought he was pretty, while Wu prepared the Ghost-Slaying Formula.

The narrator fought a resentful female ghost that possessed Zhang Yucheng and then Steward Wang, while Zhang Yunyao watched in fear. The chapter ended with the narrator pinning Steward Wang down and pressing a Thunder Talisman to his head.

• Zhang Yucheng, possessed by a ghost, approached Zhang Yunyao and the narrator and asked if he looked pretty.
• The narrator struck Zhang Yucheng with the Ghost-Slaying Art, but the ghost dodged further attacks and fled into the living room.
• The narrator used a Cloud Thunder Talisman to drive the ghost out of Zhang Yucheng, but it possessed the injured Steward Wang instead.
• The narrator placed an Evil-Warding Talisman over Zhang Yucheng's heart and gave Zhang Yunyao another to protect herself.
• The ghost, speaking through Steward Wang, threatened to kill the Zhang Family and the narrator, then hurled objects at him.
• The narrator dodged the flying objects, tackled Steward Wang, and pressed a Thunder Talisman to the top of his head.

Wu drove the female ghost out of Steward Wang and Zhang Yucheng, then learned Zhang Yunliang had resumed digging at the ancestral graves despite the danger. As Wu and Zhang Yunyao hurried to stop him, Wu collapsed and saw an eight-tailed fox warn him not to go.

• Wu placed an Evil-Warding Talisman on Steward Wang and drove the foul thing away after it fled from Zhang Yunyao.
• Zhang Yucheng woke and told Wu that he had felt a woman beside him before losing consciousness, while insisting he had not offended anyone.
• Uncle Huzi called Wu to report that Zhang Yunliang had ordered the workers to keep digging up coffins at the ancestral graves.
• Wu urged Zhang Yunyao to drive him to the graves, and Zhang Yucheng tried but failed to join them because he was too weak.
• Wu collapsed outside the courtyard, and an eight-tailed fox appeared as a beautiful woman who warned him not to go.

After the Eight-Tailed Fox warned Wu not to go, he ignored the omen and hurried with Zhang Yunyao to the Zhang Family's ancestral graves. They found the burial ground deserted and filled with baleful qi, and Wu's compass spun wildly before strange sounds began nearby.

• The Eight-Tailed Fox appeared as a beautiful woman and warned Wu not to leave, but he recovered and insisted on going to protect Uncle Huzi.
• Zhang Yunyao helped the dizzy Wu drive to the ancestral graves, where he feared Zhang Yunliang's workers had disturbed the coffins in the wrong order.
• Wu and Zhang Yunyao reached the burial ground and found no one there, only scattered coffins and dense baleful qi.
• Wu's compass needle spun wildly, so he put it away and took out his Heavenly Canopy Ruler for protection.
• Strange sounds came from nearby as Wu and Zhang Yunyao stood at the graves.

Wu and Zhang Yunyao discovered Zhang Yunliang rendering oil from a corpse in the grove, and Wu tried to stop him. Zhang Yunliang attacked Wu, while the corpse appeared to move.

• Wu and Zhang Yunyao followed Zhang Yunliang into a grove near the Zhang Family Ancestral Graveyard.
• They found Zhang Yunliang holding a red candle beneath a corpse’s chin and collecting the dripping corpse oil.
• Wu told Zhang Yunyao to stay back, then approached Zhang Yunliang with the Heavenly Canopy Ruler.
• The corpse opened its white eyes as Wu used the Daoist Roar Technique to call out to Zhang Yunliang.
• Zhang Yunliang threw the candle at Wu, lunged at him, and tried to strangle him; Wu struck him with the Heavenly Canopy Ruler, but it had no effect.
• Wu saw the corpse seem to move as Zhang Yunliang attacked him.

The narrator freed Zhang Yunliang from an evil spell, but the Zhang Family ancestor's corpse transformed into an undead. The narrator charged at the creature and was left facing it alone after ordering Zhang Yunyao to flee.

• The narrator recognized that an evil spell controlled Zhang Yunliang, and Zhang Yunyao struck him with a rock so the narrator could break free.
• The narrator used the Outer Binding Seal to free Zhang Yunliang from the mind control.
• Zhang Yunyao noticed the ancestor's corpse moving, and it awakened as an undead with fangs and long claws.
• The narrator ordered Zhang Yunyao to wait in the car, then fought the undead with the Heavenly Canopy Ruler.
• The undead and the narrator struck each other and were thrown several meters, leaving the narrator's arm numb as he prepared to fight again.

Young Master Wu fought a jiangshi while Zhang Yunyao tried to help, then chased the creature to the Zhang Family's ancestral burial ground. He subdued it with a corpse-suppressing talisman after spitting blood from his tongue into its face, but suffered deep shoulder wounds.

• Young Master Wu told Zhang Yunyao to leave as he faced the jiangshi, and he spotted a dark figure among the trees who might have controlled Zhang Yunliang.
• Young Master Wu struck the jiangshi with the Heavenly Canopy Ruler and drew a corpse-suppressing talisman in blood on his palm.
• The jiangshi changed targets and pursued Zhang Yunyao to the Zhang Family's ancestral burial ground, where she dodged it among the coffins.
• Young Master Wu leaped from a coffin and struck the jiangshi on the forehead, but it knocked him down and pinned him.
• Young Master Wu spat blood from the tip of his tongue into the jiangshi's face, then pressed his talisman onto its head and immobilized it.
• Zhang Yunyao bandaged Young Master Wu's wounded shoulders, and he added another corpse-suppressing talisman to the jiangshi's forehead.