Recaps

Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, Fatty Wang, and Yingzi found a Japanese military base stocked with weapons and restored its power while searching for a way to face the Flood Dragon Serpent. They discovered a colonel’s office and learned the remote base had once housed a regiment of more than three thousand soldiers.

• Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi found crates of Japanese submachine guns, and Hu Bayi realized the Japanese had likely abandoned the base during a hurried withdrawal.
• Fatty Wang recovered and wanted to attack the Flood Dragon Serpent, but Hu Bayi stopped him and led the group to search for the power room.
• Gu Cheng noticed no small handprints near the spot where Fatty Wang had tripped, leaving him uncertain what had caused the fall.
• Hu Bayi repaired the deteriorated machinery and restored power throughout the military base.
• Hu Bayi found the colonel’s office and explained that the base had once housed over three thousand Japanese soldiers.
• Hu Bayi warned Fatty Wang not to fire near the armory and said they would have to lure the Flood Dragon Serpent to them.

Gu Cheng and the others searched the Sakura People’s huge weapons depot and armed themselves before Yingzi spotted a child. Gu Cheng suspected the child was one of the ghosts from the Gas Chamber, leaving the group wary of what else might be in the base.

• Gu Cheng persuaded Hu Bayi to find more equipment first, and the group explored the enormous weapons depot.
• Gu Cheng found crates of Browning 1911A1 pistols and showed them to Hu Bayi, who identified the guns and hurried to collect some.
• The group gathered pistols, a Type 100 Submachine Gun, ammunition, and grenades.
• Yingzi screamed that a child had run past, and Gu Cheng suspected she had seen one of the children’s ghosts from the Gas Chamber.
• Gu Cheng warned the others that the base might contain something unholy, making Fatty Wang increasingly uneasy.

Gu Cheng prepared Hu Bayi, Fatty Wang, and Yingzi to face the Flood Dragon Serpent after it broke into the passage. When bullets and grenades failed, Gu Cheng recognized that their magical weapons might hurt it and ordered the group to attack hand to hand.

• Hu Bayi questioned Gu Cheng's certainty about ghosts and spirits, but a crash announced that the Flood Dragon Serpent had broken in.
• Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi set traps while Fatty Wang and Yingzi lured the serpent toward them.
• Fatty Wang fired at the serpent, but its thick hide stopped the bullets, and two grenades left it uninjured.
• Gu Cheng realized the Little Divine Edge had wounded the serpent before and that Fatty Wang's Mountain-Splitting Axe could pierce armor and suppress evil.
• Gu Cheng gave Hu Bayi the axe, told Yingzi to hide, and directed Fatty Wang to fire at the serpent's eyes while he prepared to attack its soft belly.

Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang fought the Flood Dragon Serpent, using the Little Divine Edge and Mountain-Splitting Axe to break through its defenses. Gu Cheng left the serpent with two grenades stuffed into a wound as the battle continued.

• Fatty Wang fired at the Flood Dragon Serpent’s eyes, slowing it while Gu Cheng rushed in and Hu Bayi followed.
• Gu Cheng slid beneath the serpent’s jaw and slashed it open with the Little Divine Edge.
• Hu Bayi split the serpent’s upper jaw with the Mountain-Splitting Axe, but the thrashing beast struck him and sent him flying.
• Fatty Wang fired into the serpent’s wounds, and the bullets lodged in its flesh.
• The enraged serpent lunged at Gu Cheng, who dodged and stabbed its body before stuffing two lit grenades into a fresh wound.

Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang pursued the wounded Flood Dragon Serpent through the passages, where it broke into the Jin General's Tomb. They found the serpent injured in the burial chamber, leaving them facing it again among the tomb's treasures.

• Gu Cheng's grenades tore open the Flood Dragon Serpent's belly, and it fled down a passage as Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang urged pursuit.
• Gu Cheng led Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang after the serpent while they argued over who should keep Gu Cheng's powerful axe.
• The Flood Dragon Serpent smashed through a wall and accidentally opened a way into what Gu Cheng recognized as the Jin General's Tomb.
• Gu Cheng brought diesel from the Power Room, and Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang used an ignited fuel can to light the tomb's side chamber and burial chamber.
• Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang spotted the badly injured Flood Dragon Serpent glaring at them from the burial chamber.

Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang killed the Flood Dragon Serpent after a swarm of giant bats attacked it, then found valuable antiques in a side chamber. Exhausted and out of food, Gu Cheng discovered the serpent’s meat was a spirit material that could nourish the body.

• Gu Cheng told Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang to hide as giant bats flew into the burial chamber and attacked the Flood Dragon Serpent.
• After the bats weakened the serpent, Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang shot the surviving bats and killed the serpent.
• The three men inspected the side chamber’s antiques, and Gu Cheng identified a Northern Song vase worth about 2.8 million.
• Gu Cheng returned to the burial chamber and considered eating the Flood Dragon Serpent because the group had run out of food and water.
• Gu Cheng used his ability to identify the Black Flood Dragon’s meat as a first-grade spirit material that could nourish the body.

Gu Cheng discovered that the dead Black Flood Dragon's body was packed with valuable spirit materials, including meat that could improve the body, a heart that extended lifespan, and a core that strengthened true essence. He and Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang realized they could not carry away the enormous carcass.

• Gu Cheng inspected the Black Flood Dragon and found that its blood, meat, hide, bones, heart, and core all had valuable properties.
• Gu Cheng explained to Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang that the Flood Dragon's parts were rare treasures rather than ordinary snake meat.
• Fatty Wang excitedly suggested abandoning the treasure hunt and selling the Flood Dragon's remains.
• Hu Bayi pointed out that the carcass weighed hundreds of tons, and Fatty Wang accepted that they could not haul it away.

After defeating the Black Flood Dragon, Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang realized Yingzi was missing and searched the base for her. A map led them to an unmarked third floor, where they entered a corridor that filled them with unease.

• Fatty Wang proposed finding a way to preserve the meat, and Gu Cheng suggested asking Yingzi, prompting the group to realize she was missing.
• Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang searched the passageways for Yingzi but found no trace of her.
• Gu Cheng speculated that the two ghost children might have lured Yingzi away, and the group decided to investigate that lead.
• Fatty Wang found a map of the base, and Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi worked out that it had three floors, with the third floor left unmarked.
• The three men armed themselves and opened the iron door to the third floor, where a freezing gust swept from the corridor.

Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang explored the corridor beyond the iron door and discovered a laboratory filled with preserved, deformed human bodies. They ended the chapter stunned by several lifelike specimens with extra limbs and even two heads.

• Gu Cheng and Fatty Wang spotted a pale child in green darting past the corridor, frightening Fatty.
• Gu Cheng led the group into the passage while Hu Bayi urged Fatty to keep moving.
• The three searched several ordinary offices before Fatty entered a laboratory.
• Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi examined a dried corpse and found that it had four naturally grown arms.
• Fatty called them to a row of tall glass containers holding preserved, deformed people, including one with two heads.

Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang discovered that the third level was filled with laboratories where the Sakura People had subjected captured Dragon Country people to horrific experiments. After the entrance was locked from outside, they searched for the child and found a chamber that Hu Bayi recognized, prompting him to hurry everyone out.

• Hu Bayi told Fatty Wang that the monsters in the laboratory had once been human subjects of experiments.
• Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang searched the third level and found laboratories for toxicology, organ transplant, and biochemical experiments.
• Gu Cheng read the records and concluded that the Sakura People had built the remote base to conceal their experiments on captured Dragon Country people.
• A clang revealed that the entrance to the third level had shut and been locked from outside, so Gu Cheng suspected the child had trapped them.
• The three followed the child’s route and entered a foul-smelling circular chamber with a dark shaft in the ceiling.
• After seeing grease on Gu Cheng’s hand, Hu Bayi recognized the chamber’s purpose and urged the others to leave immediately.

Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang searched for Yingzi and found a sealed Sakura People chamber that opened on its own. Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi entered its light-swallowing darkness while Fatty Wang guarded the doorway, but they vanished from sight and sound.

• Hu Bayi identified the strange room as an incinerator and explained that its residue was cremated ashes and the grease was corpse oil.
• Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang searched for Yingzi and found a rusted airtight door marked “No Entry.”
• Hu Bayi warned that the chamber might contain dangerous weapons, but Gu Cheng argued they should check in case Yingzi was inside.
• Gu Cheng uncovered a hexagonal fitting after the group realized the door’s wheel had been removed, and the airtight door suddenly opened by itself.
• Gu Cheng told Fatty Wang to guard the entrance, then entered the pitch-black chamber with Hu Bayi, where they disappeared from view and sound.

Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi discovered a chamber full of coffins, then found themselves attacked by living vines while searching for Yingzi. They decided to seek out the vines’ source, which Gu Cheng suspected was inside the largest coffin.

• Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi found a chamber containing coffins from different dynasties and noticed the smell of decay and plants growing through the room.
• Hu Bayi began opening coffins to search for Yingzi while Gu Cheng kept watch.
• A vine emerged from the ground, wrapped around Gu Cheng, and dragged his leg into the earth as the other plants came alive and seized Hu Bayi.
• Gu Cheng cut Hu Bayi free, and Hu Bayi escaped the vines by climbing onto a coffin.
• Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi agreed to find the vines’ roots, and Gu Cheng focused on the largest coffin at the far end of the chamber.

Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi reached the Soul-Nourishing Golden Coffin and discovered it was a magical artifact controlling the attacking vines. After opening it, Gu Cheng was seized and poisoned by an undead corpse, which rose from the coffin as the chapter ended.

• Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi crossed the unstable coffins and reached the bronze coffin's platform while vines attacked them.
• Gu Cheng identified the coffin as a low-grade magical artifact that gathered yin energy to nourish yin souls.
• Gu Cheng triggered the coffin's beast-head mechanism, causing an arrow to strike a vine and many attacking vines to dissolve.
• Gu Cheng set the mechanism correctly and opened the coffin after warning Hu Bayi about the poisonous mist.
• A clawed hand seized Gu Cheng's wrist, but Hu Bayi severed it with his axe.
• A blue-black figure shrouded in black mist rose from the coffin as Gu Cheng's left hand went numb.

Gu Cheng killed the White-Haired Jiangshi, but the darkness in the tomb persisted, revealing that two preserved children were behind the danger. The children rose and glared at Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi as their eerie laughter filled the chamber.

• Hu Bayi recognized the rising corpse as a White-Haired Jiangshi, but Gu Cheng leaped onto it and killed it with a dagger.
• The vines fell motionless after the White-Haired Jiangshi died, and Hu Bayi discovered two preserved children crouched in the coffin beside it.
• Hu Bayi explained how the children had been preserved with mercury and suggested giving them a proper burial.
• Gu Cheng noticed that the chamber remained dark and that Fatty and Yingzi were still missing, concluding the White-Haired Jiangshi had not caused the strange events.
• The children stood up and glared viciously at Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi, then laughed as Hu Bayi recoiled in fear.

Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi defeated the two Little Ghost Kings and the vine-controlled corpses with the Corpse-Suppressing Mirror, then found Yingzi alive in a coffin. They prepared to leave the chamber with the burial treasures.

• Gu Cheng explained that the two child ghosts had been sacrificed and trapped in the Soul-Nourishing Golden Coffin for over a thousand years, but they rejected his offer to let go of their hatred.
• The Little Ghost Kings sent vines and crawling corpses against Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi, and Gu Cheng realized the corpses in Sakura Soldiers' uniforms might explain why the soldiers never withdrew.
• Gu Cheng used the Corpse-Suppressing Mirror to immobilize the Little Ghost Kings, and Hu Bayi cut off their heads while Gu Cheng destroyed them with the Little Divine Edge.
• With the Little Ghost Kings dead, the vines and crawling corpses vanished, and Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi found Fatty guarding the chamber entrance.
• Gu Cheng revealed that the mirror was a Maoshan magical artifact, and he and Hu Bayi collected burial treasures from the coffin.
• A coffin lid flew open as Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi headed for the doorway, and Yingzi sat up and asked what they were doing there.

Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, Fatty, and Yingzi left the Soul-Nourishing Golden Coffin behind and prepared to seal the secret chamber. As they headed toward the Jin General's Tomb, Yingzi discovered that several dozen Mountain Monsters had left tracks nearby, and Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi went to investigate.

• Gu Cheng refused to take the Soul-Nourishing Golden Coffin and planned to collapse the chamber, while Hu Bayi agreed and Fatty reluctantly accepted their decision.
• Yingzi asked what had happened while she was unconscious, but Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi diverted the conversation by asking how to preserve fresh meat.
• The group found the large iron door open, then left without noticing it slam shut behind them as faint singing came from within.
• While the group discussed cooking the Black Flood Dragon Meat, Hu Bayi spotted unfamiliar tracks among the blood and footprints.
• Yingzi identified the tracks as belonging to at least several dozen Mountain Monsters, and Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi went to investigate while Fatty stayed with Yingzi.

Gu Cheng and his companions abandoned the Black Flood Dragon meat to the Steppe Giant Ground Sloths and returned to the village, where Gu Cheng tallied his treasures and planned to explore Empress Dowager Xiao's Tomb. A call from Gu Sihai summoned him back to Yanbei City for a Divine Artifact Special auction, and Gu Cheng asked Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang whether they would go with him.

• Gu Cheng and Hu Bayi found Steppe Giant Ground Sloths devouring the Black Flood Dragon in the Jin General's Tomb and decided they could not challenge the beasts.
• Hu Bayi explained what the creatures were, and Fatty Wang grew furious over losing the Black Flood Dragon meat and blood before Gu Cheng persuaded him to leave.
• Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, Fatty Wang, and Yingzi returned through the cave to the forest, then reached the Village Stockade after nightfall.
• While bathing, Gu Cheng reviewed the treasures he had recovered and resolved to explore Empress Dowager Xiao's Tomb after resting.
• After waking the next afternoon, Gu Cheng learned from Gu Sihai that Yanbei City would host a Divine Artifact Special auction and asked Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang whether they would return with him.

Gu Cheng and his companions returned to Yanbei City with antiques from the village, bringing Yingzi along to see the city. At home, Gu Cheng offered his parents five Golden Cup Longevity Fruits to help them cultivate, then hinted that he had brought back more and followed Gu Sihai to the study.

• Gu Cheng, Hu Bayi, Fatty Wang, and Yingzi left the village for Yanbei City after agreeing to prepare for another expedition and bring supplies back to the villagers.
• Gu Cheng and his companions delivered the antiques to the Treasure-Hiding Studio warehouse, and Gu Cheng arranged for Yingzi to spend a few days with Fatty Wang before going home.
• Gu Cheng reunited with his parents, and Zhou Xiumei noticed that his skin looked fairer and smoother after his cultivation improved.
• Gu Cheng showed Gu Sihai and Zhou Xiumei five Golden Cup Longevity Fruits and urged them to eat the fruits to advance their Fetal Breathing Method.
• Gu Sihai took Gu Cheng to the study after Gu Cheng hinted that he had brought home more treasures.

Gu Cheng showed Gu Sihai and Zhou Xiumei the Black Flood Dragon Heart, which could extend their lives, and helped them prepare to benefit from it. He then told Gu Sihai about his dangerous journey, leaving his father shocked by how much Gu Cheng had survived.

• Gu Cheng revealed that the bloodied heart in his wooden box belonged to a Black Flood Dragon Serpent and could extend their lives by decades.
• Gu Cheng warned Gu Sihai and Zhou Xiumei that the heart had begun to smell and advised them to raise their Fetal Breathing Method to the third level before eating it.
• Gu Sihai ate two Longevity Fruits and Zhou Xiumei ate three, bringing both to the third level and cleansing their bodies.
• Gu Cheng told Gu Sihai that his appearance would change and that they should invent explanations to avoid suspicion.
• Gu Sihai asked Gu Cheng to recount his trip, and Gu Cheng described the dangers he faced, including a Black Flood Dragon, a mysterious Military Base, and three reanimated corpses.
• Gu Sihai was shaken by Gu Cheng's account and marveled that his son had survived so many dangers.

Gu Cheng learned about the Crescent Hotel auction and cultivated with a Black Flood Dragon Core, advancing his Fetal Breathing Method to the fourth layer. Meanwhile, Old Chen visited Big Gold Tooth in Panjiayuan and introduced him to Shirley, a reporter recently returned from the United States.

• Gu Sihai told Gu Cheng that the Crescent Hotel was hosting a Divine Artifact auction and gave him 400 million in family funds, warning him not to light the sky lantern.
• After a therapeutic feast, Gu Cheng spent the night unable to sleep because of swelling and cultivated with the Black Flood Dragon Core, reaching the fourth layer of the Fetal Breathing Method by dawn.
• Gu Cheng saw his parents acting unusually affectionate at breakfast and left without eating.
• Big Gold Tooth tried to sell a blue-and-white porcelain vase to two foreigners, but they declined his offer.
• Old Chen visited Big Gold Tooth and introduced Shirley, a reporter who had just returned from the United States.

Old Chen and Shirley Yang questioned Big Gold Tooth about the Gold-Seeking Commandants and offered him money for information. When a photograph of an eye-like design jogged his memory of a jade pendant, Big Gold Tooth realized he could bargain with them.

• Shirley Yang introduced herself to Big Gold Tooth, who questioned why she used a foreign name.
• Old Chen asked Big Gold Tooth whether he knew the Gold-Seeking Commandants’ art of Gold-Fixing and Acupoint-Determining, but Big Gold Tooth denied knowing anything.
• Shirley Yang offered Big Gold Tooth ten thousand US dollars for a solid lead and accidentally included a photograph of a strange design among the bills.
• Big Gold Tooth recognized the design as something he had seen recently and remembered it from a piece of jade.
• Big Gold Tooth noticed Old Chen and Shirley Yang watching him intently, then leaned back and concealed his reaction.

Big Gold Tooth told Old Chen and Shirley Yang that Young Master Gu of the Treasure-Hiding Studio had bought a jade pendant marked with the eye pattern they were investigating. Gu Cheng then prepared Yingzi, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang to join him at an auction at the Crescent Hotel.

• Big Gold Tooth demanded payment for information, and Shirley Yang transferred him two hundred thousand Dragon Yuan.
• Big Gold Tooth said a fatty from the Western Borderlands had owned the jade pendant, but Young Master Gu had bought it for a hundred thousand.
• Old Chen and Shirley Yang hurried off to find Young Master Gu after hearing where the jade had gone.
• Gu Cheng took Yingzi, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang shopping for outfits ahead of the Crescent Hotel auction.
• Yingzi emerged in a white dress and heels, and Gu Cheng complimented her while Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang joked that they looked like bodyguards.

Gu Cheng and his companions arrived at the Crescent Hotel, where the guest limit left Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang outside until Xie Yuchen agreed to help. After Gu Cheng promised to sell him a divine artifact, the group entered together and met Wu Xie and Huo Xiu Xiu.

• Gu Cheng showed his invitation at the Crescent Hotel, but the staff said it allowed only two guests, leaving Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang unable to enter.
• Xie Yuchen arrived with Wu Xie and Huo Xiu Xiu, and Gu Cheng asked him to get his companions past the guest limit.
• Gu Cheng promised to sell Xie Yuchen a divine artifact with a clearly identified function in three months, and Xie Yuchen agreed to help.
• Xie Yuchen introduced Huo Xiu Xiu and Wu Xie to Gu Cheng, and Gu Cheng introduced Hu Bayi and his companions.
• Wu Xie and the others warmed to Hu Bayi after learning he was a successor to the Gold-Seeking Commandants, and the group entered the hotel together.

Gu Cheng attended the Crescent Hotel’s Divine Artifact Special auction with Xie Yuchen, Wu Xie, Hu Bayi, Fatty Wang, and Yingzi. The first lot was a Buddha head that transmitted Buddhist teachings, and Gu Cheng left it to other bidders as the price climbed.

• Xie Yuchen invited Gu Cheng and the others to watch the auction from his second-floor private box, where Wu Xie and Hu Bayi eagerly discussed Gold-Seeking Commandants.
• The auctioneer opened with a bronze Buddha head rated two stars, explaining that people who recited Buddhist scriptures before it experienced visions.
• Gu Cheng asked Xie Yuchen about the artifact rating system, and Xie Yuchen explained the Crescent Hotel’s one-to-five-star scale and gave examples.
• Gu Cheng identified the Buddha head as a magical artifact that transmitted Buddhist Dharma through a Heavenly Dragon Illusion, but decided he had no interest in it.
• Bidders raised the Buddha head’s price above seventy million while Xie Yuchen explained that Buddhist artifacts did not interest him and that the previous owner had taken this one to Shaolin Temple and become a monk.

Gu Cheng watched the Crescent Hotel auction a magical Erudition Chair for 437 million and discovered that the supposedly unremarkable Lucky Coin was a supreme-grade artifact that enhanced luck. The chapter ended as he realized the coin’s true value.

• An old man bought the Buddha head for 134 million, and Gu Cheng wondered how much his own treasures would be worth.
• The Crescent Hotel presented the Erudition Chair, and Xie Yuchen explained its rating and bidding to Gu Cheng.
• Gu Cheng inspected the chair and learned it enhanced comprehension and memory, while Xie Yuchen bid 150 million.
• Guests fought over the Erudition Chair until its price reached 437 million, and Xie Yuchen stopped Fatty Wang from recording the auction.
• The Crescent Hotel introduced a gold coin with unknown effects, and Xie Yuchen explained why the hotel was selling it.
• Gu Cheng inspected the coin and discovered it was a supreme-grade magical artifact that enhanced luck.