Recaps

After Grandmaster and the senior disciples left to avenge Zhang Rong and Xiang Yifeng, the narrator, his master, and the others flew back toward Qingyang Temple. At the airport, his master warned that the police were coming, and the group was arrested; the narrator endured harsh interrogation while fearing what had happened to Grandmaster and the others.

• Grandmaster took Zhuge Ming and the senior disciples to seek revenge, while the narrator, his master, and Shi Xiu were ordered to return to Qingyang Temple.
• The narrator and Zhuge Ming exchanged farewells, and the narrator urged him to come back safely.
• The group flew toward Qingyang Temple, but after landing at City A's airport, the narrator's master learned that the police might search the temple and ordered Zhang Rong's and Xiang Yifeng's heads buried.
• The narrator's master warned everyone to say nothing about Qingyang Temple, and police officers arrested them at the airport.
• The narrator endured deprivation during interrogation and feared that Grandmaster and the others had been trapped by Tang Tianming.

After being released from detention, Chen Mo and the others returned to Qingyang Temple to find Grandmaster and his companions missing, with no word of their fate. Chen Mo suspected Grandmaster had anticipated trouble, but he kept his doubts about Grandmaster’s decisions to himself.

• Chen Mo, Master, Shi Xiu, and the others were released after two days in detention and flew back to Qingyang Temple.
• A senior martial brother told them that the police had searched the temple and questioned several martial uncles, but no one had heard from Grandmaster or his companions.
• Master ordered everyone to remain at the temple and say nothing if the police questioned them.
• Shi Xiu and the others asked Chen Mo to explain Grandmaster’s disappearance, and Chen Mo reasoned that Grandmaster might have known trouble was coming because he had left them behind.
• Chen Mo privately questioned why Grandmaster had sent Zhang Rong and Xiang Yifeng alone into danger in Mohe, but he could not bring himself to suspect Grandmaster of deliberately causing their deaths.

After Qingyang Temple’s disciples waited for news of their missing elders, Chen Mo dreamed that Zhang Rong, Xiang Yifeng, Zhuge Ming, Grandmaster, and the others had returned only to die before him. He woke in tears when his master summoned him to the main hall with news about Grandmaster and the others.

• Chen Mo refused Shi Xiu and the others’ suggestion to attempt a rescue, warning that Tang Tianming could use false information to trap them.
• Chen Mo remembered Zhang Rong, left a lit cigarette outside his room, and went to sleep after two days and nights of interrogation.
• Chen Mo dreamed that Zhuge Ming and the senior brothers returned, followed by Zhang Rong and Xiang Yifeng, and feared they were all dead.
• In the dream, Zhang Rong and Xiang Yifeng appeared headless, while the others, including Grandmaster, were shot and collapsed before Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo woke from the nightmare to his master knocking and calling him to the main hall because there was news of Grandmaster and the others.

After Boss Lei brought back five urns from Mohe, Qingyang Temple mourned the deaths of Grandmaster and four others. Chen Mo confronted his master about failing to stop Grandmaster, who explained that a divination had forced him to choose who would survive and said he could not yet reveal the reason for Grandmaster’s actions.

• Chen Mo went to the main hall with Shi Xiu and the others, where his master told them to recite the Scripture for Resolving Grievances and Eradicating Sins while they waited for Boss Lei.
• Boss Lei arrived with five urns and said Grandmaster and the others had been shot by police, then cremated after being accused of hostage-taking, murder, and resisting arrest.
• Shi Xiu called for revenge against the Tang Family, but Chen Mo’s master slapped him and ordered the temple gates closed for the mourning rites.
• During five days of mourning, Chen Mo suspected the Tang Family had manipulated events and confronted his master for not stopping Grandmaster from going to Mohe.
• Chen Mo’s master said Grandmaster’s divination had shown that some had to meet the calamity to leave survivors, and he insisted Grandmaster’s actions had a necessary reason that he could not yet disclose.

Master explained that Grandmaster had sacrificed Zhang Rong and Xiang Yifeng to preserve as many people as possible and prepare for the Tang Family’s destruction, which he predicted would reach a turning point within three months. During Grandmaster’s Seventh Day, Old Master Song and Daoist Master Lan kept vigil, and the narrator later found someone who looked like Grandmaster writing in the Steward’s Office.

• Master told the narrator about Meng Sheng and explained the Mohist ideals of keeping one’s word, seeing actions through, and laying down one’s life for righteousness.
• Master said Grandmaster had chosen a move to preserve as many people as possible and prepare for the Tang Family’s eventual destruction, which he expected within three months.
• After six days of funeral rites, Old Master Song, Uncle Song, Song Xiaotian, and Daoist Master Lan arrived at Qingyang Temple to pay their respects to Grandmaster.
• Old Master Song and Daoist Master Lan sent the exhausted disciples away and kept vigil with Grandmaster on the final night.
• The narrator woke at one in the morning, went to the Steward’s Office, and saw a familiar figure writing with a Chinese Brush, whom he called Grandmaster.

Chen Mo spoke with Grandmaster’s spirit on the seventh day after his death and received a piece of calligraphy and a letter. After Grandmaster disappeared, Chen Mo found Old Master Song and Daoist Lan dead in meditation before Grandmaster’s memorial portrait.

• Grandmaster gave Chen Mo his calligraphy as a wedding gift and told him to read the letter beneath his mattress after leaving Qingyang Temple.
• Grandmaster said goodbye to Chen Mo and disappeared alongside Old Master Song and Daoist Lan.
• Chen Mo rushed to the Spirit Hall and alerted Song Xiaotian and the others that no one inside was answering.
• Song Xiaotian broke down the Spirit Hall door, and Chen Mo discovered Old Master Song and Daoist Lan had died in meditation.
• Chen Mo confirmed both elders were dead and understood they had come to join Grandmaster after settling their affairs.

After Old Master Song and Daoist Lan died, the narrator stayed at Qingyang Temple to help care for the senior brothers and sisters, then prepared to return to Lanjiang City to face the Tang Family. The chapter ended at dawn, when his master waited outside his room and told him it was time to leave.

• Song Xiaotian and Uncle Song carried Old Master Song and Daoist Lan down the mountain to be buried beside Grandmaster at Wangyue Village.
• The narrator comforted Song Xiaotian, learned that his godson was named Song Xinglin, and watched him and Uncle Song leave with the bodies.
• The narrator continued helping at Qingyang Temple and dreamed of Grandmaster, Old Master Song, and Daoist Lan riding across the grasslands with a young man named Li Mu.
• The narrator delayed his departure by a week, then packed to return to Lanjiang City and plan how to wipe out the Tang Family.
• Unable to sleep, the narrator walked around Qingyang Temple until dawn, when his master waited outside his room and told him he was leaving.

The narrator prepared to leave Qingyang Temple after Master taught him the Eight Sabres of Breaking the Edge. Before departing, he read and burned Grandmaster's letter, which revealed the truth about the cave and Judge Temple and warned that his fate would soon turn alongside the Tang family's; he left the mountain in tears.

• Master taught the narrator the Eight Sabres of Breaking the Edge and urged him to keep practicing after he returned home.
• The narrator found Grandmaster's letter beneath his mattress and learned that the coffin and his look-alike in the Zhang Family Village cave were real, and that Grandmaster had also concealed the truth about the Judge Temple in Tang Family Village.
• The narrator burned the letter as instructed and realized that the Tang family's coming destruction would affect whether he could live with An Ning and care for Master.
• The narrator said goodbye to Zhang Rong and Zhuge Ming in his memories, then ate breakfast and faced his tearful senior brothers and sisters at the temple gate.
• Shi Xiu offered to see the narrator off, but the narrator told him not to be anyone's lapdog and left Qingyang Temple without looking back until he reached the foot of the mountain.

After returning to Lanjiang City, the narrator reunited with An Ning, Meng Yifan, Song Xiaotian, Seventh Master, and Xiuzhu, then told Seventh Master about the deaths at Qingyang Temple. Seventh Master calculated the narrator's fate for the next two months and said he would die.

• The narrator returned to Lanjiang City and reunited with his friends and Xiuzhu at the airport.
• The group ate together, and the narrator told Meng Yifan that he and An Ning would not return to work at his office yet.
• The narrator and An Ning went to stay with Seventh Master, and the narrator explained how his grandmaster and fellow disciples had died.
• The narrator asked Seventh Master to calculate his fate over the next two months and paid him ten thousand yuan.
• Seventh Master cast a Yin Pan Qimen chart and told the narrator that he would die.

The narrator agreed to register his marriage with An Ning before facing the Tang Family, then rushed to buy her a diamond ring. After a chaotic morning and a misunderstanding, he gave An Ning the ring and took her to register their marriage.

• An Ning asked when she and the narrator would get married, and he agreed to register their marriage the next day despite his coming fight with the Tang Family.
• The narrator went out before dawn to buy An Ning a diamond ring but was mistaken for a robber and detained by police officers.
• The narrator returned home with the ring and learned from Seventh Master that An Ning was crying because she thought he had left.
• The narrator gave An Ning the diamond ring, put it on her finger, and invited her to register their marriage.

After An Ning and Chen Mo registered their marriage, Tang Tianming contacted Chen Mo and challenged him to stop an impending major move. The chapter ended with Chen Mo accepting the challenge and warning Tang Tianming that he would die.

• An Ning discovered she needed a household-registration certificate to marry Chen Mo, so she went to the orphanage to obtain one.
• An Ning returned with the certificate two days later, and she and Chen Mo registered their marriage.
• Chen Mo and An Ning stayed at Seventh Master's home, enjoying a peaceful life while Chen Mo trained and spent time with friends.
• Tang Tianming video-called Chen Mo, congratulated him on his marriage, and explained that he did not consider Wu Huaqing his father.
• Tang Tianming revealed that he had planned to kill Chen Mo and Daoist Xiang at Mohe, but Daoist Xiang sent Chen Mo away and died in his place.
• Tang Tianming challenged Chen Mo to stop his coming major operation, and Chen Mo accepted while threatening to kill him.

The narrator realized Tang Tianming’s growing arrogance was the opening in the Tang Family’s decline, but he could not determine what Tang Tianming planned. The Patriarch divined that the coming event involved many deaths, and the narrator suspected Tang Tianming would sacrifice an entire planeload of people.

• Tang Tianming contacted the narrator and told him to go stop something, prompting the narrator to see his arrogance as the first sign of the Tang Family’s decline.
• The narrator dreamed of the Patriarch and explained Grandmaster’s sacrifice and his uncertainty about the turning point.
• The Patriarch had the narrator roll a die, which landed on eight and selected the Before Completion hexagram.
• The Patriarch interpreted the hexagram as an ill omen involving large numbers of deaths and asked what could fly through the sky and cross rivers or seas.
• The narrator realized the clue pointed to a plane and feared Tang Tianming planned to sacrifice everyone aboard.

After Tang Tianming revealed that an international flight from Lanjiang City on the ninth might be his sacrificial target, I struggled with whether to stop it and risk bearing the passengers’ karma. Song Xiaotian recalled a fortune-teller who had stopped a doomed flight and suffered a string of terrible accidents afterward, leaving the cost of intervention hanging over us.

• I told Seventh Master that Tang Tianming might use a major disaster as a sacrifice to eliminate the flaws of Seven Deaths for a Life, and Seventh Master agreed that this was possible.
• Seventh Master explained that stopping the crash might bring me severe retribution if the passengers were fated to die, while saving them could earn merit if they were not.
• Song Xiaotian visited, and Tang Tianming sent me the cryptic message, “The ninth. Lanjiang City to overseas.”
• I found the only international flight departing Lanjiang City Airport on the ninth, and Seventh Master estimated it would carry at least two hundred passengers.
• Song Xiaotian recounted how a fortune-teller had stopped a flight by claiming there was a bomb after predicting the captain would cause a crash, then suffered accidents that left him without his legs and blind.

The narrator and Song Xiaotian found fortune-teller Wang Jun to ask how he had foreseen a plane crash and suffered for preventing it. Wang Jun explained that the coming disaster might be preventable if its intended cause was deliberate, but the narrator still had to determine whether Tang Tianming truly planned to cause it.

• The narrator learned from Song Xiaotian that the fortune-teller was named Wang Jun and lived in the Wang family Plain, so they drove there together.
• On the way, Song Xiaotian urged the narrator to consider his family and leave dangerous conflicts behind, while the narrator insisted he needed to avenge Grandmaster and his fellow senior disciples.
• The narrator and Song Xiaotian found Wang Jun blind and severely disabled, and asked him about the plane crash he had once predicted.
• The narrator told Wang Jun that someone planned to sacrifice everyone aboard a plane scheduled to fly the day after tomorrow.
• Wang Jun said the plane disasters were similar but differed in cause, and asked whether the person behind the coming disaster truly intended to carry it out.

The narrator suspected Tang Tianming was using the threat of a plane sacrifice to conceal a plan involving water, so he deliberately caused a bomb scare to stop the flight and get arrested. Two days later, Brother Liu took custody of him and gave him the handcuff key.

• The narrator booked a seat on the ninth's flight after deciding he might need to stop Tang Tianming, despite fearing the consequences.
• Song Xiaotian found the narrator at the airport and warned him not to risk becoming like Master Wang.
• The narrator reasoned that Tang Tianming might be planning a sacrifice in water rather than in the sky, and asked Song Xiaotian to alert his master to watch the Tang Family.
• The narrator boarded the plane and shouted that it had a bomb, causing panic before security restrained him.
• The airport police detained the narrator for two days, then handed him over to Brother Liu on suspicion of multiple intentional homicides.
• After driving away from the police station, Brother Liu gave the narrator the key to his handcuffs.

Chen Mo learned that Tang Tianming planned to sacrifice passengers on an ordinary cruise ship, while a luxury cruise carried his wealthy guests. As Chen Mo prepared to stop the disaster in City A, Li Fuguang appeared and revealed that the Underworld had sent him to help.

• Brother Liu picked Chen Mo up after taking five hundred thousand from Song Xiaotian to secure his release.
• Shi Xiu told Chen Mo that Tang Family cruises would depart the next night, and Chen Mo deduced that Tang Tianming planned to sacrifice the passengers on the ordinary ship.
• Chen Mo, An Ning, and Shi Xiu drove twenty hours to City A, where Chen Mo told Shi Xiu to have his master and the others withdraw so Tang Tianming would not become suspicious.
• Chen Mo memorized the route to the docks, exchanged promises with An Ning, and prepared to act alone with the Seven-Star Lamp.
• Li Fuguang appeared and explained that the City God had sent him to help prevent the deaths of more than two hundred people and let him atone through meritorious service.

Chen Mo boarded Tang Tianming’s cruise ship to confront him, confident that Li Fuguang and the Underworld had helped set the stage for justice. Tang Tianming admitted Chen Mo had outsmarted his plan but ordered his men to seize him, leaving their fight about to begin.

• Li Fuguang explained that he had come to help Chen Mo and retrieve Daojue’s soul from Tang Tianming, after which Daojue would face punishment and Li Fuguang could reincarnate.
• Chen Mo boarded the cruise ship with remnants of the organization and walked through its halls to Tang Tianming’s private room.
• Tang Tianming sent his adoptive father away, praised Chen Mo for winning their contest, and said he would still die that night.
• Tang Tianming asked why Chen Mo had come instead of fighting a prolonged guerrilla war, and Chen Mo listed the people Tang Tianming had killed.
• Chen Mo declared that he had come to carry out Heaven’s justice and challenged Tang Tianming to meet his death.
• Tang Tianming applauded and ordered everyone in the hall to seize Chen Mo.

The narrator killed Tang Tianming and sank the cruise ship, then awoke in Zhang Family Village in the Fox Immortal’s body. He learned the Tang Family had been destroyed and, though Grandmaster’s letter promised answers in a year, he asked Master and the others whether the ordeal was truly over.

• The narrator revealed that he had died by suicide and returned as a shadowless soul, then possessed Tang Tianming while the buzz-cut fighter seized his Protective Talisman.
• The narrator said the other soul had possessed the buzz-cut man, who was Daojue, and Li Fuguang identified himself and condemned Tang Tianming to the Sin Domain.
• The narrator stabbed Tang Tianming for his victims and martial family, then slit his throat as Li Fuguang cast a spell that plunged the cruise ship into darkness.
• The narrator awoke in Zhang Family Village beside An Ning, Shi Xiu, Master, and his martial uncles, realizing he had returned through the Fox Immortal’s body after destroying the Tang Family.
• The narrator recalled Grandmaster’s letter about the Judge Temple, the cave, and the Fox Immortal’s body, which promised he would learn the remaining answers a year after destroying the Tang Family.
• The narrator asked Master and his martial uncles whether the danger had finally passed.

After the Tang Family fell, the narrator and An Ning left Qingyang Temple for Wangyue Village, where they would lie low and start a quiet life together. They reached the mountain village with Uncle Song, Seventh Master, and Xiuzhu waiting to help them settle in.

• The narrator learned he would hide in Wangyue Village for a year or two and asked whether An Ning could come with him.
• The narrator and An Ning left Qingyang Temple, briefly glimpsing Zhang Rong and Zhuge Ming as they departed.
• Master told the narrator that Qingyang Temple would care for the children and keep to its duties, then gave the couple protective talismans.
• Master warned the narrator to confiscate Seventh Master Zhao's secret recording devices when he came to Wangyue Village.
• After driving for about a day and a night, Shi Xiu brought the narrator and An Ning to the mountain beneath Wangyue Village, where Seventh Master, Xiuzhu, and Uncle Song greeted them.

Chen Mo settled in Wangyue Village with An Ning and Seventh Master, where they welcomed twin sons and enjoyed a peaceful family life. A year later, Chen Mo chased a mysterious intruder and received an appointment from Fengdu to judge the living and the dead, then saw Zhang Rong, Zhuge Ming, and Xiang Yifeng emerge from the darkness.

• Chen Mo found three hidden pinhole cameras on Seventh Master and handed them to Uncle Song before the group traveled to Wangyue Village.
• Chen Mo, An Ning, and Seventh Master settled into the village, where the villagers welcomed them and friends and family visited.
• Around ten months later, An Ning gave birth to twin boys, one of whom had a familiar birthmark that reminded Chen Mo of Li Fuguang.
• After hearing a noise in the courtyard, Chen Mo chased an intruder to the village entrance and recognized him as resembling Li Mu.
• Li Mu-like man appointed Chen Mo to judge mortal affairs by day and souls in the Underworld by night, gave him the Book of Life and Death and Soul-Summoning Brush, then vanished.
• Zhang Rong, Zhuge Ming, and Xiang Yifeng emerged from the darkness as Chen Mo looked on with tears in his eyes.