Chapter Summaries

Cao Xianming confirmed that grafting an Evil Eye could eliminate Corpse Worms and make a person immune, but warned Xiaoju that keeping hers would bind her to its owner and trap her in the Whale Lord’s space. Xiaoju chose to keep the Evil Eye, and Chen Gen gathered the survivors to reveal that they might have a way to survive infection.

• Cao Xianming reviewed the grafting process and confirmed that Xiaoju was free of Corpse Worms and immune to future infection.
• Cao Xianming told Xiaoju she could keep the Evil Eye and remain in the Whale Lord’s space or remove it and return to being an ordinary person.
• Xiaoju chose to keep the Evil Eye, accepting the risks in exchange for supernatural power and the ability to protect herself.
• Cao Xianming warned that the Evil Eye’s owner could control her unless she surpassed its strength, though the Whale Lord’s space temporarily blocked that control.
• Chen Gen and Cao Xianming gathered the survivors outside the Wooden House, where Chen Gen spoke about their fear of becoming monsters and the crowd demanded a way to be saved.

Chen Gen revealed that Evil Eye Grafting could expel Corpse Worms and offered survivors the choice to become Transcendents or have the graft removed. As treatment spread through the wooden house area, Yang Yong examined Chen Gen’s Curios and discovered the Fantasy Sniper Rifle’s steep cost: permanent blindness in the left eye.

• Chen Gen explained the two outcomes of Evil Eye Grafting, and many locals eagerly chose to join the Eerie Symbiosis Sequence while the Survival Convoy survivors remained wary because of the Sky Base’s God's Eye Plan.
• The Survival Convoy members received grafts to expel their Corpse Worms, then had the Evil Eyes removed; the treatment revealed that several had already been infected, including Convoy Supervisor Lao Zhang.
• Frightened that they might mutate overnight, Chen Gen’s subordinates begged for immediate treatment, and Chen Gen offered Cao Xianming his three Curios to save them.
• Cao Xianming accepted the Curios, and Yang Yong inspected the Fantasy Sniper Rifle, learning that it could blast a target’s soul out for three seconds but permanently blinded its user’s left eye.
• Yang Yong decided the Fantasy Sniper Rifle’s cost was not worthwhile and considered the Flesh-and-Blood Submachine Gun’s deadly toll on his body.

Yang Yong completed a trade with Chen Gen for two Curios and joined the effort to expel Corpse Worms from the survivors. As Xiao Xuan began to tire from killing them with her Buddha Light, Chen Gen asked Yang Yong to create a Curio that could strengthen and expand it, and Yang Yong called Mang Dabiao and Hu Xian'er for help.

• Cao Xianming convinced Yang Yong that he could modify the Fantasy Sniper Rifle and Flesh-and-Blood Submachine Gun, and Yang Yong exchanged them with Chen Gen for his work.
• Yang Yong gave Xiao Xuan Brown Blood Beads and helped organize the removal of Corpse Worms from Chen Gen's survivors.
• Yang Yong ordered Zheng Xiaofeng to knock out the survivors who screamed as their Corpse Worms were expelled.
• Xiao Xuan's Buddha Light weakened as more survivors arrived, so Chen Gen showed Yang Yong a cache of materials from Eerie and asked him to make a Curio to boost her Buddha Light.
• Yang Yong called Mang Dabiao and Hu Xian'er to inspect the materials and advise him on strengthening Xiao Xuan's Buddha Light.

Yang Yong forged a Buddha-Light Jewel for Xiao Xuan, greatly increasing her ability to kill the Corpse Worms and helping the survivors recover. The operation was running smoothly when someone arrived with news that they had found the source of the Corpse Worms.

• Hu Xian'er explained how to refine a Buddha-Light Jewel, and Mang Dabiao proposed using Eerie materials to make a false sacred relic.
• Mang Dabiao chose Eerie remains, and Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to forge the jewel with Xiao Xuan's Buddha Light and blood.
• The Buddha-Light Jewel amplified Xiao Xuan's light, destroying the Corpse Worms and easing the survivors' convulsions.
• Yang Yong took the remaining Eerie materials, and Chen Gen allowed him to keep them as payment for the useful Curio.
• A runner reached the Wooden House and told Chief Chen that they had found the source of the Corpse Worms.

A messenger reported finding the corpse that spawned the Corpse Worms, and Cao Xianming warned that the Sea Demons would protect it and that the search party was probably already dead. Yang Yong and the others set out to help while Zheng Xiaofeng stayed behind to protect Xiao Xuan.

• A messenger told Chen Gen and the others that a corpse on a nearby island was the source of the Corpse Worms.
• Cao Xianming concluded that the Sea Demons would defend the corpse and warned that the people who found it were likely dead.
• Wang Ying rallied the group, and Yang Yong summoned a red pickup truck so they could rush to the island.
• Yang Yong told Zheng Xiaofeng to stay behind and guard Xiao Xuan in case the Sea Demons attacked the Wooden House.
• Zheng Xiaofeng accepted the order, planted his shield at the entrance, and stood guard.

Yang Yong and his companions raced across the sea toward the island where Chen Gen’s men had been captured, while Wang Ying’s space-crossing slash killed three Sea Demons. The Sea Demons quickly recovered and swarmed beneath the truck, leaving Yang Yong to press onward toward the source of the Corpse Worms.

• Yang Yong gave Zheng Xiaofeng the Flesh-and-Blood Submachine Gun, whose draining cost Zheng Xiaofeng could endure with his defense and recovery.
• Mang Dabiao drove the pickup across land and sea, and Chen Gen hauled the messenger aboard to guide them to the island.
• Wang Ying struck three Sea Demons beneath the water with a slash that crossed space, killing them before they could attack.
• Mang Dabiao spotted a dense swarm of Sea Demons circling beneath the pickup, and Yang Yong planted the Three-Yang God-Sealing Banner and ordered Mang Dabiao to speed up.
• The truck jolted as it struck Sea Demons, but the three Wang Ying had cut down healed and returned to the water.
• Yang Yong realized the Sea Demons’ recovery made them difficult to kill and focused on reaching the source of the Corpse Worms.

Yang Yong and his companions climbed a sea demon-infested mountain to find a corpse inside a living, blood-red cave. They discovered that the corpse was alive, though it lay motionless at the center of the cave.

• Yang Yong drove the group to the island, where Mang Dabiao sensed many eerie beings gathered near the cave containing the corpse.
• The messenger explained that Corpse Worms had covered the cave walls and surrounded the corpse when his group found it.
• Yang Yong dismissed Mang Dabiao's suspicion that the absent guards were dead and led everyone up the slime-covered mountain.
• Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to burn the Corpse Worms in the sea demons' slime as the group climbed.
• Yang Yong and his companions reached a living, blood-red cave and saw the corpse lying motionless inside.

Yang Yong and the others discovered that a fragment of finger bone had created the corpse calling for help, and learned that the Sea Demons wanted them to free it. With Chen Gen unable to ask the Whale Lord for help, they left the trapped fragment behind and headed back to reconsider their options.

• A voice inside everyone's minds repeatedly begged them to pull the corpse out, and Yang Yong realized the Sea Demons had been waiting for people to rescue it.
• Chen Gen revealed that Xiao Mo and Xiao Wei had been forced into the cave and digested by Whale.
• Yang Yong used Night Eye and discovered that the corpse was an illusion created by a small fragment of finger bone, then decided the fragment was too dangerous to approach.
• Chen Gen explained that his relationship with the Whale Lord was only symbiotic and that he could not ask Whale to seal the cave or intervene.
• Yang Yong and the others abandoned the attempt to deal with the finger bone and began walking back.

Yang Yong and his group were surrounded by more than a thousand Sea Demons, whose psychic call urged them to enter the blood-red cave. Wang Ying resisted the call and fought the creatures, but they kept reviving until Chen Gen fired a revolver, leaving the group facing an even more dangerous confrontation.

• More than a thousand Sea Demons emerged and surrounded Yang Yong's group, while the voice in their minds urged them to pull a bone fragment from the cave.
• The Sea Demons worshipped the cave and their voice began compelling Yang Yong and Chen Gen to approach, but Wang Ying broke Yang Yong's trance with a blow and declared she would clear a path.
• Yang Yong's flying daggers tore holes in the Sea Demons' chests, but the creatures recovered and continued advancing.
• Wang Ying decapitated more than twenty Sea Demons, but they found their heads, reattached them, and stood back up.
• Chen Gen drew a revolver and fired at the nearest Sea Demon, while Mang Dabiao pulled the guide away from the blast and the cave.

Yang Yong and the others were trapped between the Sea Demons’ parasitic blue lights and the Blood Hole, where a seductive voice from a finger bone nearly lured them to their deaths. After the guide was swallowed, Chen Gen escaped the Blood Hole, leaving Yang Yong to ask why he had not been digested.

• Yang Yong realized the blue lights released from the shattered Sea Demon were parasitic flesh individuals and warned everyone not to let them touch them.
• With the group backed toward the Blood Hole, Yang Yong cursed at the finger bone until the corpse conjured by it flickered out of sight.
• A seductive voice from the finger bone drew Yang Yong toward the Blood Hole, but a bell chime inside him broke its influence; Wang Ying was also saved by her blade spirit.
• Chen Gen and the guide stepped into the Blood Hole, and the guide was swallowed and digested within seconds.
• Chen Gen pulled himself free and collapsed on the ground, and Yang Yong rushed over to ask why he had not been digested.

Yang Yong discovered that the Sea Demons feared the Blood Hole and used it to dispose of them. After the Sea Demons were nearly eliminated, the agitated finger bone unleashed a tide of Corpse Worms, which Yang Yong burned away before turning his attention back to the remaining Sea Demons.

• Chen Gen explained that the Whale Lord would spare him for only three seconds because of a scent on him, prompting Yang Yong to devise a plan.
• Yang Yong threw a Sea Demon into the Blood Hole and saw its fleshy tendrils consume it, confirming the Sea Demons feared the hole.
• Yang Yong had Wang Ying decapitate the Sea Demons, while Mang Dabiao kicked their heads into the Blood Hole and Yang Yong and Chen Gen whipped their headless bodies inside.
• The finger bone grew agitated as the Sea Demons were fed to the Blood Hole, then sent swarms of Corpse Worms toward the entrance.
• Yang Yong summoned the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace and burned the Corpse Worms, then prepared to deal with the remaining Sea Demons.

Yang Yong and his companions drove the headless Sea Demons into the Blood Hole, where the flesh buds devoured them, until the finger bone turned the remaining creatures against Yang Yong. The chapter ended with the Sea Demons still charging after Wang Ying sliced them in half.

• Yang Yong escaped the Sea Demons’ encirclement and directed his flying daggers to herd them toward the Blood Hole, while Chen Gen, Wang Ying, and Mang Dabiao helped drive them inside.
• The finger bone began commanding the Sea Demons, which charged toward Yang Yong despite being headless.
• Yang Yong summoned the Red-Clothed Female Ghost and Little Girl Eerie and attacked with the Heavenly Dragon Slash, but the Sea Demons kept regenerating and crawling after their limbs were severed.
• The Red-Clothed Female Ghost stopped a Sea Demon by tearing out something from its chest, while Little Girl Eerie refused to fight.
• Wang Ying cut the charging Sea Demons in half with an invisible slash, but they continued rushing toward Yang Yong.

Yang Yong and his companions fed the Sea Demons into the Blood Hole, where a surviving finger released the Corpse Worms, and Yang Yong briefly encountered the Whale Lord in a Consciousness Space. They returned safely to the Wooden House Area, where Cao Xianming identified the finger as an Eerie source-level being and predicted they would face no Eerie attack for three days.

• Yang Yong, Wang Ying, and Mang Dabiao defeated the Sea Demons and fed their bodies into the Blood Hole for the Whale Lord to digest.
• Yang Yong was pulled into a Consciousness Space, where the Whale Lord opened an eye before returning him to his body.
• Wang Ying buried the Blood Hole entrance with rubble, and the group hurried back to the Wooden House Area in Mang Dabiao's Pickup Truck.
• Yang Yong and the others found the Wooden House Area unharmed, with Zheng Xiaofeng guarding the entrance and residents receiving treatment for Corpse Worms.
• Cao Xianming watched the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost's recording and deduced that a surviving finger from another Eerie source-level being was creating Corpse Worms.
• Cao Xianming predicted no Eerie attack within three days, then shut himself inside a small wooden house to plan the Survival Convoy's next move.

After Xiao Xuan helped remove the Corpse Worms from the survivors, Zheng Xueju revealed the powers she had gained from her grafted Evil Eye. Yang Yong recognized her gratitude, then encouraged her to challenge Wang Ying for pointers.

• Xiao Xuan used the Buddha-Light Jewel to remove the Corpse Worms from the survivors, and Chen Gen thanked Yang Yong, Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, and Xiao Xuan.
• The survivors rested overnight, and the next morning Xiao Ma told Yang Yong that Zheng Xueju could extend sharp nails and fire a powerful red beam from her Evil Eye.
• Zheng Xueju knelt before Yang Yong and thanked him for saving her, explaining how alone and vulnerable she had been before gaining her powers.
• When Zheng Xueju showed eagerness to test herself against Wang Ying, Yang Yong told her that Wang Ying was the convoy's strongest fighter and suggested she ask her for pointers.

Wang Ying knocked Xiaoju unconscious with a casual blow, and Yang Yong destroyed the remaining Evil Eyes after realizing the power could make the others a threat. Later, Yang Yong went to the kitchen, where a woman mistook him for a worker and ordered him to wash sweet potatoes before recognizing him as a Transcendent and dropping to her knees.

• Xiaoju attacked Wang Ying after gaining power from an Evil Eye, but Wang Ying knocked her unconscious without drawing her blade.
• Chen Gen checked Xiaoju, apologized to Wang Ying, and watched her return to the Wooden House Area.
• Yang Yong decided not to give the others Evil Eyes and destroyed the nineteen remaining ones in the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace.
• Chen Gen understood why Yang Yong had changed his mind but stayed silent as Yang Yong left for the kitchen.
• A woman ordered Yang Yong to wash sweet potatoes, then recognized him as a Transcendent and fell to her knees in fear.

Yang Yong inspected the damage from Xiaoju’s fight with Wang Ying and found that Xiaoju’s Evil Eye had impressive destructive power. When Xiaoju asked whether the Eerie Symbiosis Sequence was weak because she had lost, Yang Yong explained that she had challenged Wang Ying before she had any experience.

• Yang Yong accepted three hot sweet potatoes from the kitchen and ate them before checking the area around the Wooden House.
• Yang Yong examined stones pierced by Xiaoju’s claws and Evil Eye, judging the attacks powerful enough to threaten him.
• Xiaoju returned from treatment in tears, and Yang Yong concluded that Wang Ying had knocked her unconscious without seriously injuring her.
• Xiaoju asked whether the Eerie Symbiosis Sequence was weak because she had failed to beat Wang Ying.
• Yang Yong told Xiaoju that she had just received the Evil Eye and had recklessly challenged Wang Ying, whose Sequence Transcendence had awakened naturally.

Yang Yong explained the dangers of the eerie symbiosis sequence to Xiaoju, then took her to explore the Small Island. Old Man Xia urgently brought him to the sweet potato field to show him something unusual.

• Yang Yong told Xiaoju that a stronger symbiotic Eerie increased a person's power but could eventually erode their humanity, while the Whale Lord's presence would keep her Evil Eye in check.
• Xiaoju asked to accompany Yang Yong, and he agreed to walk around the Small Island with her.
• Yang Yong and Xiaoju passed the rice paddies, where they saw Old Man Xia examining the crops.
• Old Man Xia hurried Yang Yong to a lush sweet potato field and began digging an unusually wide patch of soil.

Yang Yong discovered that a two-colored patch of strange mud beneath a sweet potato vine had produced six enormous sweet potatoes, and he took the mud back to study its effects. News of the giant sweet potatoes spread through the Wooden House Area, leaving Yang Yong eager to test whether the mud could speed up plant growth.

• Old Man Xia and Yang Yong dug up six sweet potatoes nearly two meters long from a single vine.
• Yang Yong used the Heavenly Dragon Slash to excavate the plot and found a basin-sized patch of black-and-white mud beneath the roots.
• Yang Yong removed the strange mud and dug through the surrounding field, finding nothing else unusual.
• Yang Yong took Xiaoju and the strange mud back to the Wooden House Area to investigate whether it could accelerate plant growth.
• News of the giant sweet potatoes caused a sensation throughout the Wooden House Area.

Yang Yong investigated the two-colored strange mud after learning that sweet potatoes grown in it had reached enormous sizes. He discovered that it resisted both furnaces but caused an ordinary sweet potato to sprout and grow vines in seconds.

• Xiao Xuan woke, saw the six enormous sweet potatoes, and rushed outside to get a closer look.
• Yang Yong refined the surrounding soil and carefully separated the basin-shaped two-colored strange mud from it.
• Yang Yong found that the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace did not react to the mud and the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace could not alter either its black or white soil.
• Yang Yong pushed an ordinary sweet potato into the mud and watched it sprout and cover the surface with vines in seconds.
• Yang Yong pulled the sweet potato and its lush vines out of the two-colored strange mud.

Yang Yong hid the Two-Colored Strange Mud from Chen Gen and discovered that it rapidly grew plant-based things. After planting a saved Screaming Wax Apple seed in it, he watched a tree covered in human faces spring up and scream at him.

• Yang Yong realized the Two-Colored Strange Mud had barely diminished and considered using it to grow Ideal Grain Seed.
• Chen Gen searched Yang Yong’s room and asked to trade a Curio for the treasure, but Yang Yong denied having it.
• Yang Yong spent the next day testing the mud and found that it accelerated the growth of plant-based things.
• Yang Yong found his saved Screaming Wax Apple seeds and planted one in the Two-Colored Strange Mud.
• A tree rapidly grew from the mud, its human faces opening their eyes and screaming at Yang Yong.