Chapter Summaries

Long Ya arrived at a survivor camp and suspected that its residents and containers hid a danger. She kept the children in the truck, refused the camp’s food, and was approached by Doctor Zhong as evening fell.

• Yang Yong warned Long Ya that the people who emerged after the Blood Moon were no longer human, and told her to hide her fear.
• Long Ya noticed that Zhu Yanzhi had no pulse, then exchanged a wary smile with her when Zhu Yanzhi claimed they were good people.
• Long Ya counted fifteen pieces of dried meat hanging from the camp wall and watched the residents eye her and the children hungrily.
• Auntie Feng offered Long Ya quarters in the containers, but Long Ya refused and kept the children in the truck.
• Long Ya and Yang Yong sensed sinister energy around the containers, so Long Ya refused the fried rice Auntie Feng brought.
• Doctor Zhong arrived at the truck with a medical bag and introduced herself as the camp’s Physician Sequence.

Doctor Zhong examined Long Ya and the children, then returned to her container. Long Ya and Yang Yong raided a hidden supply cellar, but Fu Xuyang noticed Long Ya’s nighttime excursion and prepared to take her gun; the chapter ended when Long Ya shot a man who attacked the children’s noodles.

• Doctor Zhong checked Long Ya and the children, warned them not to wander at night, and entered a shipping container.
• The Red-Clothed Female Ghost returned, and Yang Yong told Long Ya about a stash of supplies in an abandoned cellar seven li west of camp.
• Long Ya secretly went to the cellar, where Yang Yong used the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring to collect all the supplies.
• Fu Xuyang learned that Long Ya had left camp and told his men to watch for a chance to take her gun.
• The next morning, hungry camp residents gathered around the children’s pot of noodles, and a burly man kicked at the boy with the cleft lip before Long Ya fired her gun.

Long Ya defended her supplies, then followed the Red Blessing Rescue Team’s convoy into the mountains after Yang Yong provided a strange substitute for gasoline. In the fog, a voice impersonating Dean Granny reached her ear, and Long Ya remained frozen under Yang Yong’s warning not to look back.

• Long Ya shot a man who tried to take her food and warned the camp that anyone who touched her belongings would die.
• Long Ya noticed that the camp’s men dragged the corpse into a shipping container, and Yang Yong told her to wait until dark to learn more.
• After three days of searching, the Red Blessing Rescue Team moved out with the sealed containers, and Long Ya followed in her truck.
• When Long Ya ran out of gas, Yang Yong gave her Combustion Agent, which she used to refuel without revealing its source to the convoy.
• The convoy entered thick fog beneath the Blood Moon, where a voice that sounded like Dean Granny called Long Ya’s name.
• Long Ya resisted answering the voice, but it drew close and whispered beside her ear as Yang Yong warned her not to look back.

Long Ya faced a Rule-Type Eerie in the cab, which mimicked the voices of Dean Granny and the cleft-lipped boy to lure her into turning around. After Yang Yong told her to bait it, the Eerie attacked and began strangling her, but Climbing Vine seized it and the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace swallowed it.

• The Eerie spoke in Dean Granny’s and the cleft-lipped boy’s voices, while Yang Yong assured Long Ya that the children in the rear compartment were safe.
• Yang Yong told Long Ya to turn around slowly and act as bait so he could capture the Rule-Type Eerie.
• Long Ya saw the Eerie’s hideous true form, and it lunged at her and clamped its claws around her neck.
• As the Eerie strangled Long Ya and Yang Yong failed to respond, Climbing Vine shot from her pendant and restrained it.
• Climbing Vine forced the Eerie out of its incorporeal state, and the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace sucked it inside.

Long Ya survived an Answering Ghost, then entered a fog-filled Maze Formation where a child was snatched and she became disoriented searching for him. Yang Yong identified the formation core and directed her to shoot it, but the chapter ended before the result was clear.

• Yang Yong explained that the Answering Ghost had imitated familiar voices to lure Long Ya and warned her not to turn around when she heard a dead person's voice.
• Long Ya checked the sleeping children, then drove into a black fog that Yang Yong identified as a Ghost Domain containing a Maze Formation.
• Long Ya had several boys urinate to thin the fog, but a tentacle-like shadow seized Xiao Dong and dragged him away.
• Long Ya chased the children's voices into the fog and lost her sense of direction until Yang Yong ordered her to stop and calm down.
• Yang Yong located a rock thirty paces northwest as the formation core, and Long Ya fired six shots at it.

After the children vanished in the mist, Yang Yong and Long Ya suspected the Red Blessing people had taken them and followed the convoy deeper into the mountains. The Red-Clothed Female Ghost eventually stopped at a quiet village that looked ordinary to the living but different through a ghost’s eyes.

• Long Ya found the truck empty after the mist cleared, and the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost reconstructed how pale hands had dragged the children away.
• Yang Yong warned Long Ya not to act rashly, and she rejoined the convoy while pretending nothing had happened.
• Fu Xuyang questioned Long Ya about the fog, then glanced at the strangulation marks on her neck without asking about them.
• Yang Yong told Long Ya not to accept anything from Fu Xuyang, and she followed the convoy farther into the mountains as night fell.
• Yang Yong sent the Red-Clothed Female Ghost to trail the Red Blessing people, and she led him to a mountain village that appeared ordinary to the living but not to ghosts.

Yang Yong entered the Eerie Domain in the village and discovered that the Red Blessing Rescue Team had been supplying disabled and ill people as hosts for an Abdominal Fetus Gu Shadow. He ordered his Eerie to attack and began devouring the domain's ghostly energy.

• Yang Yong left Long Ya with the convoy and entered the village in the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace.
• Yang Yong found that the village's weak Eerie Domain was filled with ghostly energy and sent the Red-Clothed Female Ghost, the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost, and the Little Girl Ghost to attack from different directions.
• Yang Yong discovered chained and incapacitated people with swollen bellies in the village houses and realized they were being used as gu nests.
• Yang Yong identified the Abdominal Fetus Gu Shadow and learned that its hosts had been people supposedly rescued by the Red Blessing Rescue Team.
• Yang Yong ordered his Eerie to clear the village as Yezi sealed it with Climbing Vine, then commanded the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to devour the domain.

Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to burn the infected hosts and their Gu Fetuses, then uncovered a deeper threat beneath the village. He discovered that the Red Blessing Rescue Team served a cult called the Holy Clan, and its burly member revealed their role in gathering people to serve as vessels for Gu Fetuses.

• Yang Yong drew the village's infected hosts into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, where they and their Gu Fetuses were burned to ash.
• Yang Yong saw the body forming inside the furnace grow more human, then tore up the last old house to expose a dark passage pulsing with yin energy.
• The burly man from the Red Blessing Rescue Team awoke inside the furnace, and Yang Yong had the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost use its letter on him.
• Under the ghost's influence, the burly man hailed Yang Yong as the Holy Lord and described the divine fetuses as part of a sacred mission.
• The burly man confessed that his team was one of many Holy Clan groups tasked with gathering living people and sending vulnerable candidates into prepared Eerie Domains as vessels for Gu Fetuses.

Yang Yong uncovered the Holy Clan’s plan to create three thousand Holy Sons and Eerie Domain Nests, then resolved to destroy their altars. After he warned Long Ya against accepting anything from Red Blessing, she waited at a hidden roadside stop and discovered that all the children in her truck had disappeared.

• Yang Yong learned from a burly man that the Holy Clan planned to sacrifice three thousand people to create Holy Sons and link prepared Eerie Domains into nests, but the man exploded when he tried to reveal the group’s headquarters.
• Yang Yong absorbed the remaining yin energy from the village’s Eerie Domain and decided to hunt down the Holy Clan’s altars.
• Yang Yong warned Long Ya not to eat or touch anything offered by Red Blessing and told her he would explain when they reached safety.
• Long Ya parked the truck beneath a sheltered cliff and found that every child in the cargo compartment had vanished, but she followed Yang Yong’s instructions and waited.
• Yang Yong returned to Long Ya’s truck, speaking from the hem of her clothing as the Blood Moon rose.

Long Ya learned the children had been taken to an old school, where ghost infants and armed adults guarded an underground space. Yang Yong told her to wait for the kidnappers to move the children before dawn and said he would ambush their convoy.

• Yang Yong explained the Red-Clothed Female Ghost’s discoveries and the kidnappers’ plans for the children, leaving Long Ya horrified but determined.
• After dark, a pack of ghost infants passed the truck, and Yang Yong told Long Ya to follow them toward their nest.
• Long Ya followed the ghost infants to an abandoned school, where the Red-Clothed Female Ghost confirmed the children were held underground.
• Yang Yong warned that the school contained at least twenty adults and told Long Ya not to enter alone.
• Yang Yong predicted the kidnappers would move the children before dawn and said he would ambush their convoy.

Long Ya waited in ambush outside the school while Little Radish Head woke in an underground passage with an old woman and an old man hiding him and the other children from a creature. A strange furnace appeared aboveground as the Gu Mother emerged from beneath the courtyard and turned toward it.

• Long Ya took a position on a nearby rise and aimed her rifle at the school gate, waiting for the captors to return.
• Little Radish Head woke in the dark and called for Long Ya and the other children before an old woman silenced and comforted him.
• The old man and old woman discussed the creature blocking their passage and planned to wait for the captors to return, with the old man ready to draw it away if necessary.
• A shrill whistle and heavy impacts shook the passage, and the old man saw a dark-red furnace streak past the school gate.
• The Gu Mother burst out of the courtyard, and the old man said it was pursuing the furnace.

Yang Yong and Long Ya defeated the Gu Mother and wiped out the Red Blessing members outside the old school, while two old people and the children remained underground. Yang Yong warned Long Ya that a feng shui formation blocked the basement, and an injured old man emerged as they waited.

• Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to pull out and burn the Gu Mother.
• Long Ya and Yang Yong killed the Red Blessing members fleeing or fighting outside the school, while Long Ya kept one survivor alive to lead them.
• Yang Yong told Long Ya not to enter the basement because a feng shui formation could trap her, and said the old people and children were alive.
• An injured old man emerged from the basement with his hands raised and a feng shui compass in one hand.

Long Ya reunited with the fourteen children and brought Jiang Meng and Zhang Dongyun along as the group fled Red Blessing’s search. As strange fog surrounded their truck, they encountered a young woman who looked exactly like the long-dead Dean Granny.

• Long Ya found all fourteen children alive, then accepted Jiang Meng and Zhang Dongyun’s help and had them join the group in the truck.
• Yang Yong warned Long Ya that Zhang Dongyun was neither human nor ghost, but advised keeping her with them.
• Jiang Meng warned that Red Blessing would search the area, so Long Ya chose the old village road despite it being a dead end.
• As the truck entered thick fog, Yang Yong sensed that someone had released it and was following them.
• A woman in white appeared in the road, and Little Radish Head recognized her as Dean Granny; Long Ya realized the woman looked like Dean Granny in her youth.

Long Ya and her companions used Zhang Dongyun’s spirit-medium abilities to speak with Dean Granny’s remnant soul, which warned them that a powerful evil being beneath the land enslaved the souls of the dead. As the possession began to weaken, Long Ya asked why Granny’s soul had not been taken.

• Yang Yong judged the following remnant soul to be clean but bound by intense attachment, and agreed to let Zhang Dongyun try to contact it.
• Jiang Meng scattered rice around the vehicle to create a mist, and Zhang Dongyun used Dean Granny’s copper button to invite the remnant soul into her body.
• Dean Granny spoke to Long Ya through Zhang Dongyun, then urgently told her to flee with the children.
• Dean Granny revealed that a sleeping evil being beneath the land pulled the souls of the dead underground and enslaved them.
• Yang Yong warned that the possession was draining the remnant soul and Zhang Dongyun, so Long Ya asked Granny why her own soul had escaped the evil being.

Dean Granny warned Long Ya and the others that they had disturbed a powerful Eerie underground, then vanished after Jiang Meng expelled her from Zhang Dongyun. Yang Yong helped Long Ya preserve Dean Granny’s remnant soul as the group escaped and Jiang Meng concealed them with a Feng Shui Formation.

• Dean Granny warned Long Ya and the others to flee, but the underground Eerie disrupted her possession of Zhang Dongyun and forced Jiang Meng to expel her.
• Yang Yong gave Long Ya an incantation, and she drew Dean Granny’s remnant soul into the Small Banner before the group fled in the truck.
• Jiang Meng used Rice Divination to confirm that the group was safe for the moment, though three grains floated when he asked whether pursuers had caught up.
• Jiang Meng drove the truck to a desolate roadside and arranged the stone lions, a stone, and a broken flowerpot to form a concealment formation.
• The formation enveloped the group in mist, and the Red-Clothed Female Ghost reported that they had vanished.

Yang Yong learned the locations of eleven unfinished Eerie Domains from Jiang Meng, then sent his ghosts to verify them and began devouring them to recover from his injuries. After consuming nine sites, the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace shook violently as his power fell into chaos.

• Jiang Meng told Yang Yong where thirteen Red Blessing Rescue Team Sacrificial Ceremony sites were, leaving eleven Eerie Domains for Yang Yong to target.
• Yang Yong sent the Red-and-White Twin Fiends to scout the eleven sites and gave Jiang Meng Ideal Grain Seeds and instructions for planting them.
• The two ghosts confirmed all eleven sites were ready, and Yang Yong flew the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to the nearest one.
• Yang Yong devoured nine unfinished Eerie Domains, burning away their guarding Eerie and absorbing their power to heal his body and soul.
• As Yang Yong approached the tenth site, the furnace shook violently, his power fell into chaos, and a dull pain struck his chest.

Yang Yong discovered that the power from the first nine Eerie Domains carried hidden marks planted by the Holy Lord and used the Great Chaos Warship's will to purge them. After driving the Holy Lord away, he continued toward the last two strongholds, nearing the completion of his body and his return to life.

• Yang Yong realized nine hidden marks had activated inside him and were corrupting the power he had devoured from the Eerie Domains.
• Yang Yong summoned the Great Chaos Warship's will and traced the marks back to the Holy Lord, whose accumulated power and creations were destroyed by the attack.
• The Holy Lord charged Yang Yong, then recoiled in terror when it saw the furnace phantom behind him and vanished as the illusory space collapsed.
• Yang Yong returned to the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and found the nine marks purged and the devoured power nourishing his flesh and soul.
• Yang Yong continued toward the final two Eerie Domain strongholds, confident that devouring them would let him return to life.

Yang Yong attacked a Holy Blessing stronghold hidden in a pig farm and discovered that its pig-headed guardian was raising human fetuses in pregnant sows for a Great Sacrifice. He began fighting the guardian, whose plague-filled wind withered Yang Yong’s vines.

• Yang Yong broke through the stronghold’s barrier and dodged an ambush from a pig-headed creature wielding a rusty rake.
• Yang Yong saw hundreds of pregnant sows carrying fetuses and learned the guardian called them Sacred Fetuses destined to trample the region.
• The guardian said a Yellow-Robed Envoy had taught him how to raise the fetuses for the Holy Lord’s Great Sacrifice.
• Yang Yong announced he would destroy the operation and attacked the guardian with flames and emerald-green vines.
• The guardian’s foul wind withered the vines, and it revealed that its plague countered the tricks of living people.

Yang Yong destroyed a Holy Blessing pig farm by killing its pig-headed guardian and burning the Eerie Fetuses, then rushed toward Long Ya after hearing her sniper rifle fire. The chapter left him racing back to find out what had gone wrong.

• Yang Yong avoided the pig-headed man's plague gas and used the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost to trap him in an illusion.
• Yang Yong restrained the pig-headed man with the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring and swallowed him into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace.
• Yang Yong burned the pigpens and destroyed the Eerie Fetuses emerging from the sows, then razed the entire pig farm.
• Yang Yong learned from Long Ya that she was keeping watch on the road and reflected on Holy Blessing's many breeding grounds.
• Yang Yong heard a gunshot through the master-disciple mark and hurried toward Long Ya, suspecting she had been cornered.

The Hundred Beasts Convoy discovered Jiang Meng’s Ideal Grain Seed after his Feng Shui Formation briefly failed, and Leopard sent Liangzi to assess the group. Liangzi identified the convoy’s apparent defenses, while Jiang Meng restored the formation without knowing they had been spotted.

• The Hundred Beasts Convoy’s lookout noticed the fog clear and saw Jiang Meng tending giant corn and potatoes.
• The lookout told Leopard that the plants might be Ideal Grain Seed, and Leopard ordered Liangzi to investigate the group’s strength.
• Jiang Meng celebrated the crops’ growth while Zhang Dongyun warned him to repair the failing Feng Shui Formation.
• Liangzi transformed into an owl, circled the graveyard, and observed the young woman with a sniper rifle, Jiang Meng, Zhang Dongyun, and the children.