Chapter Summaries

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.