Chapter Summaries

Yue Wen arranged for Bureau personnel to enter the finals undercover, then accepted Gongsun Mo’s commission to retrieve his corpse puppets from Diamond Granny. He left the audition in Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian’s hands and announced the new assignment, prompting Zhao Xing'er to question whether he had misunderstood the dispute.

• Yue Wen told the Supernatural Affairs Bureau that Gongsun Mo had arranged for dozens of people to attend the finals, and Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian began auditioning investigators for undercover roles.
• Wang Shoucai and Lan Zhi sought parts in the operation, while Zhao Xing'er offered them different roles and Qi Dian protested her casting authority.
• Gongsun Mo told Yue Wen that Diamond Granny had kept his two corpse puppets and asked him to retrieve them or secure compensation, suggesting that Yue Wen seize her son if necessary.
• Yue Wen agreed to handle the matter and Gongsun Mo promised to support him in River City Branch affairs.
• Yue Wen interrupted the auditions to tell Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian about the commission, and Zhao Xing'er asked whether he had gotten the story backward.

Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian searched for Diamond Granny's missing son, Jingang Meng, but were suddenly pulled into a Demon Domain modeled on an amusement park. The chapter left them surrounded by newly arrived children as a voice welcomed them to the Fox Demon Amusement Park.

• Yue Wen planned to placate Gongsun Mo with compensation while keeping Diamond Granny quiet about their dealings before the Flame Ghost Hall finals.
• The Agency trio found Diamond Granny searching for Jingang Meng and agreed to look for him along the river.
• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian followed the river, puzzled that Jingang Meng could have been swept away by the shallow creek.
• Ripples suddenly transported Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er away, while Qi Dian rode the Little E-Scooter into the river alone.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er arrived in a foggy Demon Domain beside a carousel and recognized their arcade tokens resonating with its demonic aura.
• Six or seven children appeared around them, and a female voice welcomed them to the Fox Demon Amusement Park.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er entered the Fox Demon Amusement Park’s carousel game and learned that children viewed the park as a fun place that gave rewards. They dominated the game with their beanbag throws, sending the carousel spinning out of control while a frightened boy begged them to stop.

• Zhao Xing'er and Yue Wen listened to the carousel rules and learned from a little boy that children entered the Fox Demon Amusement Park to play games and earn rewards.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er began throwing beanbags at the masked scarecrows, quickly earning points with accurate headshots.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er competed to destroy scarecrows, repeatedly accelerating the carousel and leaving the other children little chance to throw.
• A little boy clung to his horse as the carousel spun wildly and screamed for Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er to stop.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er finished the Fox Demon Amusement Park’s carousel game, claimed their rewards, and returned to reality, where they found Jingang Meng. As they took him home, they realized Yue Wen had left his electric scooter by the river.

• Yue Wen won the carousel contest, set a new intermediate-area record, and assigned his fox hairs to strength, resilience, agility, and recovery.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er followed the children out of the amusement park and returned to a riverside park, where they found Jingang Meng playing with children.
• Diamond Granny asked them to bring Jingang Meng home, and Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er took him with them after he remembered he had been away for a long time.
• Jingang Meng said he had wandered into the amusement park while following his ball downstream, won the carousel game, and enhanced his charm so children would play with him.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er realized they had forgotten Yue Wen's electric scooter by the river.

Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian returned from the Fox Demon Amusement Park, and Yue Wen learned that its expanding domain might release the Fox Demon Lady and her Great Dao essence. After Lan Zhi credited Yue Wen with teaching her how to ambush Hu Yunting, Perfected One Fengguang advised her to spend less time with him.

• Yue Wen gave Qi Dian five Fox Demon Game Coins after Zhao Xing'er recounted their adventure in the amusement park.
• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian arranged for Diamond Granny to supply Corpse-Scent Jade and then returned to the Supernatural Affairs Bureau.
• Yue Wen reported their visit to Perfected One Fengguang, who explained that the amusement park's growth signaled the awakening of a Demon Domain tied to the Fox Demon Lady beneath the Fox-Pressing Pagoda.
• Perfected One Fengguang told Yue Wen that the Fox Demon Lady's expanding domain might disperse her cultivation and Great Dao essence, while people continued entering the park for its rewards.
• Lan Zhi told Perfected One Fengguang that Yue Wen had taught her to prepare ambushes against Hu Yunting, prompting Fengguang to tell her to spend less time with him.

Hu Hanyi visited the Fox Demon Lady in the Hu Family’s tower and sought her help in obtaining the Void-Reality Dao Marrow, while Yue Wen and Gongsun Mo prepared for the Flame Ghost Hall’s leader-selection finals. The Hall Master arrived at the gathering, and the finals were about to begin.

• Hu Hanyi entered the tower and asked the Fox Demon Lady to grant the Hu Family her cultivation, but she offered only to reveal amusement park locations if the family’s children won the Void-Reality Dao Marrow and asked him to retrieve something she had lost.
• Yue Wen and Gongsun Mo gathered disguised Demonic Cultivators and Corpse Puppets at an unfinished building for the Flame Ghost Hall’s leader-selection finals.
• Yue Wen returned Diamond Granny’s compensation deposit to Gongsun Mo and accepted a commission from him.
• Tang Mo arrived with a new Corpse Puppet, and the gathered contestants awaited the Hall Master.
• The Hall Master appeared amid a whirlwind of leaves, and Gongsun Yan bowed to welcome him.

Yue Wen tried to stall the Flame Ghost Hall’s branch leader final while Guang Zhenren searched for Ahei Mo’s true body. As Yue Wen and Tang Mo delayed the match with repeated bows and courtesies, Tang Mo’s corpse puppet suddenly spoke and suggested that it and Ahei Mo’s puppet should fight instead.

• Guang Zhenren told Yue Wen that Ahei Mo’s apparent body was an intelligent corpse puppet and asked him to stall for ten minutes while he searched for the real one.
• Yue Wen used ambiguous bows and tactful praise to keep Ahei Mo from questioning his identity and to prevent Gongsun Mo from exposing their misunderstanding.
• Gongsun Mo began the branch leader final between Yue Wen and Tang Mo, while Yue Wen worried that Zhao Xing’er might be exposed if she acted before Ahei Mo.
• Yue Wen and Tang Mo exchanged apologies and bows instead of starting the fight, confusing the genuine Flame Ghost Hall disciples and prompting Ahei Mo to urge them to begin.
• Tang Mo’s corpse puppet laughed and suggested that it and Ahei Mo’s corpse puppet were the ones who should fight.

Fan Baimo revealed himself to Ahei Mo and confronted the disciple who had betrayed him, while Yue Wen and the others watched for an opening. After Ahei Mo and Fan Baimo each exposed a counterplot, Fan Baimo summoned the Demon God Cult’s Northern Guardian, whose attack began to emerge through a heavenly gate.

• Fan Baimo revealed that he had survived Ahei Mo’s betrayal by demonizing his Spirit Embryo, then formally expelled Ahei Mo from the sect and challenged him.
• Yue Wen and Gongsun Mo led the others to retreat and wait, while Fan Baimo froze and seized control of Ahei Mo’s Black Spirit Corpse Puppet.
• Ahei Mo appeared in the sky and revealed that he had planted a trap in the Corpse Puppet’s refinement method, but Fan Baimo disclosed that the confrontation had helped him locate Ahei Mo’s true body.
• Ahei Mo summoned two demonic Corpse Puppets and a powerful Dao Realm Corpse Puppet, while Fan Baimo admitted he had recovered only part of his strength.
• Fan Baimo announced that the Demon God Cult’s Northern Guardian had come for Ahei Mo, and a heavenly gate opened as the Guardian’s vast, withered hand reached through from the Myriad Corpse Spring.

Ahei Mo and Fan Baimo fought a devastating battle involving the Myriad Corpse Spring, a Dao Realm Corpse Puppet, and the self-destructing Evil-Suppressing Bell. Both were immobilized after their final attacks, and they turned to Yue Wen and the others to decide who would die.

• Ahei Mo used his robed Corpse Puppet’s Evil-Suppressing Bell and lightning to counter Fan Baimo’s Myriad Corpse Spring projection.
• Ahei Mo detonated the Evil-Suppressing Bell, destroying the projection and killing nearly all the genuine Flame Ghost Hall Demonic Cultivators, while Gongsun Mo and Yue Wen escaped.
• Ahei Mo drank from a green gourd and recovered with the evil king immortal body, then expelled Fan Baimo’s soul and pinned it with Steel Nails.
• Fan Baimo struck Ahei Mo with divine light, leaving both unable to move, and each offered the Flame Ghost Hall Disciples rewards for killing the other.
• Gongsun Mo asked Yue Wen to decide what they should do.

Yue Wen poisoned Ahei Mo and killed him after disguising his attack as an act of loyalty to Flame Ghost Hall. Fan Baimo took Yue Wen as his personal disciple and named him River City Branch leader, while planning to return with the Demon God Cult’s northern protector, Su Beimo.

• Yue Wen agreed with Gongsun Mo and Guang Zhenren to kill Ahei Mo while keeping Fan Baimo alive to lure out the northern protector.
• Yue Wen secretly poisoned Ahei Mo’s gourd of Six Desires Blood Brew, then struck him with the Ghost-Head Broadsword.
• After his first blow failed to penetrate Ahei Mo’s defenses, Yue Wen took pills to strengthen himself and split Ahei Mo’s body with a second slash.
• Fan Baimo thanked Yue Wen for killing his treacherous disciple and accepted him as his personal disciple, naming him branch leader of Flame Ghost Hall’s River City Branch.
• Fan Baimo promised to return in ten days with Su Beimo and take Yue Wen along to explore the Hidden Demon Tomb.

Yue Wen helped the Supernatural Affairs Bureau eliminate Ahei Mo and establish control of Flame Ghost Hall’s River City Branch, then learned the bureau wanted his help targeting the Demon God Cult’s Seventh Realm Northern Protector. The chapter ended with Yue Wen willing to take part while leaving the decision to his two companions.

• Fan Baimo took Ahei Mo’s storage artifact and corpse puppet before leaving, while Gongsun Mo and Yue Wen arranged to bring their temporary actors back in ten days.
• Yue Wen persuaded Gongsun Mo to fund the actors’ compensation and contribute twenty million to the new River City Branch.
• The group returned to the City Seven Branch Bureau, where Guang Zhenren praised Yue Wen and awarded him and his two companions custom supernatural power cards, a Demon Beast Breeding Certificate, and a chance to train in the Demon-Locking Secret Realm.
• Guang Zhenren offered to provide Yue Wen and his companions with the materials needed for their future cultivation breakthroughs if they helped capture the Demon God Cult’s Seventh Realm Northern Protector.
• Yue Wen agreed to serve the Supernatural Affairs Bureau but said his two companions would decide for themselves whether to join the dangerous mission.

After a quiet day at the Agency, Big White transformed under the full moon and joined Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian on a night-market outing. Big White sensed a demonic aura, and Yue Wen recognized the starving monster that had just snatched discarded food as an old feline acquaintance.

• Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian eagerly agreed to go undercover in the Demon Tomb, while Yue Wen cautioned them about the danger and secrecy involved.
• Yue Wen read online reactions to Ahei Mo's death and the growing rush of cultivators seeking Fox Demon Amusement Parks, then spent a peaceful day cultivating at the Agency.
• Yue Wen used a Spicy Strip to wake Zhao Xing'er, and she dragged Big White into the storage room before coming downstairs to eat.
• At midnight, Big White's Howling Moon Sky Wolf bloodline awakened, transforming it into a child who greeted Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian before asking to visit the night market.
• The family of four explored the night market, where Big White sensed a demonic aura and spotted a white-furred monster stealing a fallen skewer.
• Yue Wen decided to investigate, saying he believed the monster was an old feline friend.

Yue Wen invited the hungry Meow-Meow Cult's three little ones to dinner and offered them food and money in exchange for information about demons in Jiangcheng City. They described the Flying Bird Group's blackmail schemes and began telling him about the Antelope Gang.

• Yue Wen and his family found the three little Cat Demons sharing a dirty skewer and brought them to the Agency for a late-night meal.
• The three cats explained that their Cult Leader had left River City, and they had run out of food and money.
• Yue Wen offered them provisions and pocket money in return for information about local demons and criminal activity.
• The orange cat described the Flying Bird Group's bird-demon surveillance and blackmail of celebrities, including its plans to target Su Yun.
• The white cat began to reveal that an Antelope Gang also operated in Jiangcheng City.

Yue Wen questioned the three Cat Demons about harmful Monsters and learned that the Fox Demon Amusement Park offered Spirit Plants and access to the Fox Demon Lady’s treasure-filled Secret Realm. He checked the location of the only open advanced park and discovered it was nearby, with a Thunder Dragon Mountain rafting attraction.

• The white cat told Yue Wen that Antelope Gang demons delivered takeout with help from small gangs, and admitted some riders stole food from customers.
• The black cat described Koi Demons winning money from elderly mahjong players until their illnesses flared up, then explained that powerful, influential demons could join the Monster Club.
• The black cat reported that perfectly transforming Fox Demons from Green Fox Cave had entered River City to reclaim the Fox Demon Lady’s treasures through the amusement park.
• Orange Cat and the white cat said the advanced park could award a random Spirit Plant, while the Special-Grade Park offered the Secret Realm where the Fox Demon Lady stored her treasures.
• Yue Wen checked the Cultivation Chat forum and found that the only open advanced park was near the Agency in City Seven, where its attraction was Thunder Dragon Mountain rafting.

Auntie Hua gave Yue Wen, Qi Dian, and Zhao Xing'er an automatic mahjong table, and their attempt to find a fourth player led them to teach Big White. The dog beat them at mahjong, and although the humans denied the game had ever happened, Big White later stole a table leg back from Auntie Hua.

• Auntie Hua offered the Agency an automatic mahjong table left behind by a funeral family, and Zhao Xing'er carried it over.
• Yue Wen, Qi Dian, and Zhao Xing'er discovered they could not find a fourth player, so they taught Big White the rules in exchange for spicy strips.
• Big White claimed the humans' discards and won a round, prompting the group to play through the night.
• The next morning, Zhao Xing'er returned the table and denied enjoying mahjong, while Yue Wen and Qi Dian insisted their loss to Big White had been a dream.
• Big White returned carrying a table leg, and the three humans shouted at him to give it back as Auntie Hua chased after him.

Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian visited an advanced Fox Demon Amusement Park in City Seven, where they encountered cultivators preparing to compete. Hu Yunting arrived amid a crowd and asked if everyone had come to compete for second place.

• Lan Zhi told Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian that the advanced Fox Demon Amusement Park would open in about an hour and explained that the bureau had cordoned off the area.
• Zhao Xing'er shopped for souvenirs on Ancient-Style Street while Su Renxue ordered Ji Yang to take photos of her and Ji Yang vowed to win at the amusement park.
• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, and Qi Dian returned to the park entrance as a crowd gathered to welcome Hu Yunting.
• Hu Yunting stepped out of his luxury car and asked his bodyguards whether everyone had come to compete for second place.

Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, Qi Dian, and Lan Zhi entered the advanced Thunder Dragon Mountain Rafting game alongside Hu Yunting and other cultivators. As Thunder Monkeys attacked the players, Yue Wen and Hu Yunting swiftly killed them, leaving Ji Yang unable to show off.

• Hu Yunting arrived at the amusement park and declared that he had come to claim first place, prompting Lan Zhi to explain his strength to Yue Wen's group.
• The game opened early and transported the players into the Thunder Dragon Mountain Rafting venue before Yue Wen's group could decide whether to avoid Hu Yunting.
• The game rules announced that players would raft downstream, fight off Thunder Beasts without attacking one another, and be ranked by how far they traveled.
• Yue Wen, Zhao Xing'er, Qi Dian, and Lan Zhi chose kayaks and plunged down the waterfall when the game began.
• Thunder Monkeys emerged from the water, and Yue Wen used his Azure-Purple Flying Sword to kill a swarm and gather golden mist that formed Evil-Suppressing Money.
• Hu Yunting slew the Thunder Monkeys near him with streams of sword-qi-laden water, wiping out Ji Yang's targets as Ji Yang prepared to show off.

During the Thunder Monkey challenge at Fox Demon Amusement Park, Hu Yunting tried to dominate the spectators’ attention, but Yue Wen and Zhao Xing’er unveiled their spectacular two-person combo technique. Their flying, fire-spinning attack tore through the Thunder Beasts as the whole course watched in shock.

• Ji Yang protected himself from the Thunder Monkeys with four spirit fires while resolving to look impressive even if he could not beat Hu Yunting.
• Hu Yunting effortlessly killed the Thunder Monkeys with water sword qi and expected the challenge to build his reputation in River City.
• Yue Wen asked Zhao Xing’er to test their upgraded combo technique, while Qi Dian declined to join them.
• Zhao Xing’er spun her flaming staff overhead to create the Blazing Fire Helicopter Staff Technique, and Yue Wen added sword qi propulsion to form the Dual-Person Blazing Fire Helicopter.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing’er charged through the Thunder Monkeys with their Ugly Blood-Boiling Combo Technique 2.0, drawing shocked reactions from the contestants and Hu Yunting.

Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er dominated the river course with their Blazing Fire Helicopter, then entered a dark tunnel where Qi Dian’s brilliant Flash Technique stole the attention Ji Yang had hoped to claim. The group faced Thunder Bats as Ji Yang’s attempt to showcase his Shadow Mystic Spirit Fire went unnoticed.

• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er used their Blazing Fire Helicopter to destroy and chase Thunder Eagles, earning Yue Wen Evil-Suppressing Money.
• Hu Yunting tried to maintain his composed air but kept getting distracted by Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er’s aerial spectacle.
• Ji Yang grew frustrated that Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er drew everyone’s attention, then planned to illuminate the tunnel with his Shadow Mystic Spirit Fire.
• Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er ended their flight at the tunnel entrance, and Qi Dian warned that Thunder Bats inside could eliminate many cultivators.
• Ji Yang ignited his Shadow Mystic Spirit Fire as the group entered the tunnel, but Qi Dian’s Flash Technique lit the passage and revealed the Thunder Bats.
• Qi Dian stood calmly while Yue Wen and Zhao Xing'er protected him from the attacking Thunder Bats, leaving Ji Yang frustrated that nobody noticed him.

Yue Wen and Hu Yunting battled to destroy the Thunder Crow Stones, while their attacks eliminated most of the other cultivators. At the gorge entrance, a giant’s hammer eliminated Ji Yang, who discovered afterward that even Su Renxue had not noticed his fall.

• Yue Wen used sword-heart resonance to turn falling rocks against the Thunder Crow Stones, accidentally eliminating several cultivators, including Su Renxue.
• Hu Yunting unleashed Liu Li and cleared a huge portion of the Thunder Crow Stones, prompting Yue Wen to summon Zhao Xing'er and Qi Dian to help compete for kills.
• Yue Wen and Hu Yunting fought to clear the sky, while the intensified barrage eliminated nearly everyone else and Lan Zhi jumped into the river to watch from shore.
• At the gorge entrance, Yue Wen dodged the giant’s hammer with a Shadow Talisman, but the blow knocked Ji Yang into the water.
• Ji Yang asked Su Renxue when he had been eliminated and learned that she had been too absorbed in the fight to notice.