Chapter Summaries

After the failed hunt for the Rat King, Yang Yong and the others escaped the battlefield and joined Cao Xianming’s Survival Convoy. Just as they cleared the rats’ blockade, Cao Xianming coughed up blood and collapsed, leaving Wang Ying to check his condition.

• Wei Yu realized his side had lost, and other animal immortals rescued him and his subordinate as the survivors fled the battlefield.
• Yang Yong deduced that Wei Yu’s Old Immortals had sought the Rat King’s method of absorbing Blood Moon Energy while retaining some reason, and that the Rat King’s self-detonation had driven the three Old Immortals toward losing control.
• Yang Yong’s convoy joined Cao Xianming’s Survival Convoy and sped away from the battlefield.
• Wang Ying led the convoy through the rats blocking the road, cutting down the Blood Moon-corrupted rats that attacked them.
• Xiao Ma shouted that Cao Xianming had coughed up blood and passed out, and Wang Ying checked his pulse and eyes.

After Cao Xianming was incapacitated, Yang Yong led the convoy onward into the night, where a mysterious figure beneath a streetlight used familiar faces to lure its victims. The python snapped Yang Yong out of the illusion, but Li Zhi fell under its spell and began walking toward the figure.

• Wang Ying said Old Cao was likely to recover after resting, but warned that the group had lost its guide as night approached.
• Yang Yong asked whether the convoy should keep moving or hide; everyone agreed to follow his decision, and they set off with Yang Yong’s pickup leading.
• The Blood Moon rose earlier and brighter than before as the convoy drove blindly through the darkness, initially encountering no Eerie.
• Yang Yong spotted a hooded figure beneath a streetlight and saw it transform into his mother, but the python warned him that it was an Eerie, breaking the illusion.
• Yang Yong realized Li Zhi had been drawn in by the figure; Li Zhi called it his little sister, stopped the vehicle, and started walking toward it.

Yang Yong watched Li Zhi get mauled by the Lamp-Under Ghost as the convoy fled, while Mang Dabiao drove the pickup. After learning that Yang Yong’s Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner could absorb blood moon energy, Mang Dabiao pleaded to become his underling and offered his abilities, including a possible way to save the unconscious captain.

• Yang Yong saw Li Zhi answer the Lamp-Under Ghost’s approach and lose half his arm, while the convoy continued on without rescuing him.
• Mang Dabiao took control of the pickup and explained that he had learned to drive from his spirit-medium disciple.
• Yang Yong summoned the Red-Clothed Female Ghost and the white-clothed Love Letter Ghost from the Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner, and Mang Dabiao recognized that it could absorb blood moon energy.
• Mang Dabiao asked Yang Yong to take him on as an underling so the Curio could keep him sane and help him grow stronger.
• Mang Dabiao offered to sense Eerie, communicate with animals, and recruit animal immortals from the northeast, then said a White Immortal such as Bai Sanye could cure Yang Yong’s unconscious captain.

Yang Yong and Wang Ying fought off a Cleaver Ghost and escaped, only to find three black goats attacking the convoy and eating a team member’s severed hand. They joined Zheng Xiaofeng in battle as the convoy finally started moving again.

• Mang Dabiao warned Yang Yong that a Cleaver Ghost was ahead, and Yang Yong and Wang Ying attacked it when it raised its cleaver against the convoy.
• Yang Yong ordered the convoy to drive through while he and Wang Ying fought the Cleaver Ghost, then they escaped in the pickup after Wang Ying deflected its final three slashes.
• Zheng Xiaofeng warned that more Eerie were ahead, and Yang Yong and Wang Ying found three black goats fighting Zheng Xiaofeng and eating a team member’s severed hand.
• The Red-Clothed Female Ghost engaged one black goat, the Love Letter Ghost distracted another, and Yang Yong, Wang Ying, and Zheng Xiaofeng gained the upper hand against the third.
• Wang Ying shouted at the stopped convoy to move, and its engines started roaring again.

Yang Yong and the convoy escaped the Black Goat and survived the night by following Mang Dabiao, whose ability to sense Eerie creatures helped them avoid danger until daylight. As they traveled on, Mang Dabiao revealed that it had sealed away most of its abilities after the Blood Moon erupted, leaving Yang Yong wary of the python.

• Yang Yong, Wang Ying, and Zheng Xiaofeng escaped the Black Goat and rejoined the convoy, with Mang Dabiao driving Yang Yong's pickup.
• Yang Yong ordered Mang Dabiao to lead the convoy and sense Eerie creatures, and the vehicles followed its directions to avoid most encounters.
• The convoy reached daylight after a night of danger, and exhausted drivers began taking over from those who had stayed awake.
• Yang Yong asked Mang Dabiao whether it had been with the large snake, and Mang Dabiao said they had traveled together from the northeast and grown attached.
• Mang Dabiao explained that it had sealed away most of its abilities after absorbing Blood Moon Energy and nearly losing control to murderous urges.
• Yang Yong remained suspicious of Mang Dabiao and wondered whether he could find a way to benefit from its help without trusting it completely.

Yang Yong used a mysterious cultivation mark to bind Mang Dabiao, who gained control over its blood moon energy and access to immortal arts. As the exhausted convoy continued across the wasteland, Yang Yong fell asleep while Mang Dabiao reflected on the hope of breaking the world’s barrier.

• Yang Yong drew a changing mark on his palm and pressed it to Mang Dabiao’s forehead, binding it so it could never harm him.
• Mang Dabiao discovered that the mark subdued its blood moon energy and slowly absorbed it, restoring its ability to use immortal arts.
• Mang Dabiao eagerly called Yang Yong its big brother, and Yang Yong sensed that he could read Mang Dabiao’s thoughts through the mark.
• Yang Yong relaxed and fell asleep, while Mang Dabiao resolved to cling to him and spoke of the Four Symbols Sealing Suppression and the barrier above the world.
• Wang Qian drove Wang Ying’s vehicle, Zheng Xiaohai drove while Zheng Xiaofeng slept, and most of the bus passengers rested after the previous night’s battle.
• Yang Yong dreamed of a quiet heavenly palace and Mang Dabiao driving him through the wasteland.

Cao Xianming’s fever climbed to forty-three degrees while other convoy members fell ill, leaving the group desperate for medicine. Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, and Yang Yong agreed to enter a nearby city to find supplies as Cao remained trapped in a terrifying nightmare.

• Xiao Ma told the convoy that Cao Xianming had a dangerously high fever, and Wang Ying confirmed he was burning up.
• Zheng Xiaofeng and Old Zhao reported that several others, including a Shamanism-practicing girl and Xiao Zhang, were also sick.
• Lao Zhang revealed that they had passed a city with a cross sign, where they might find medicine, despite the danger of entering.
• Zheng Xiaofeng volunteered to search for medicine, and Wang Ying and Yang Yong joined him.
• Lao Zhang ordered the convoy to turn back toward the city while Cao Xianming dreamed that he was driving through an endless graveyard pursued by watching faces.

The convoy raced toward the city to find fever medicine, and Old Zhao asked for volunteers to join the three Sequence Transcendents. Xiao Xuan and two other passengers stepped forward, and the group prepared to enter the dangerous city together.

• Mang Dabiao turned the farm vehicle around and drove the convoy toward the city as quickly as possible.
• Old Zhao announced that the convoy needed fever medicine and asked who would join the city search.
• Xiao Xuan volunteered, followed by a middle-aged man and a young man.
• Old Zhao warned the volunteers that the city was unknown and told them to prioritize survival while searching for medicine near the cross.
• The convoy reached the city, where Wang Ying told the volunteers to stay close and not fall behind.

Yang Yong's group reached Yangcheng First People's Hospital after navigating roads filled with dangerous shadows and Eeries. They avoided an Eerie on the first floor by climbing to the second-floor windows, where an unsettlingly sweet smell greeted them.

• Mang Dabiao drove Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, Xiao Xuan, and the others toward the hospital, braking when an Eerie appeared in a patch of shadow.
• Mang Dabiao steered the truck around and through dangerous shadows, turning the short drive into a journey of more than an hour.
• At the hospital, Yang Yong saw a vision of bloody water pouring from the windows, but it vanished when he looked again.
• Mang Dabiao sensed an Eerie near the first-floor corner, so the group retreated and climbed to the second floor.
• Zheng Xiaofeng opened a second-floor window, releasing the same faintly sweet smell they had encountered along the road.

Xiao Wei was trapped in an illusion of a murderous nurse ghost, then woke and pulled a real Nurse Ghost from behind the nurses' counter. As Mang Dabiao distracted it, Yang Yong and the others reached the locked pharmacy and tried to cut its bolt.

• Xiao Wei saw a stitched nurse ghost and other horrors attack him, but Xiao Xuan woke him from the vision.
• Xiao Wei insisted there was a ghost behind the nurses' counter, then dragged out a bandaged Nurse Ghost and realized he had made a mistake.
• The Nurse Ghost broke free and lunged at Xiao Wei, so Yang Yong threw Mang Dabiao to help draw it away.
• While Mang Dabiao and Xiao Wei led the Nurse Ghost around the waiting hall, Yang Yong and the others rushed to the pharmacy.
• Yang Yong found the pharmacy door locked and used the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors to cut its bolt.

Yang Yong escaped a rule-bound drinking challenge in a strange bar with Mang Dabiao’s help, but the foreign woman followed him and transported the group to a ghost market inside Yangcheng First People's Hospital. The group found themselves trapped in a bustling hospital filled with Eerie.

• Yang Yong entered a bar-like illusion where a foreign woman demanded that he drink 108 glasses, but he could not move or reach his Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
• Yang Yong summoned Mang Dabiao, who charmed the woman into drinking with him and helped Yang Yong escape the illusion.
• Yang Yong returned to the pharmacy, where Wang Ying and the others gathered medicine from mostly empty shelves before preparing to leave.
• Mang Dabiao broke his glass to escape the bar and returned to the pharmacy drunk, while Xiao Wei continued leading the Nurse Ghost on a chase.
• The foreign woman appeared in the pharmacy, snapped her fingers, and transported Yang Yong and his companions to a misty, crowded ghost market inside Yangcheng First People's Hospital.

Yang Yong and his companions entered the hospital’s Ghost Domain and tried to escape by descending the stairs, but they encountered a multiplying Eerie that their attacks could not stop. Yang Yong knocked the monsters down with Mang Dabiao and led the group toward the ground-floor entrance, where he charged the lone security guard Eerie, determined to open the door.

• Yang Yong realized the group had truly entered the hospital’s Ghost Domain, while Mang Dabiao remained blackout drunk and could not help.
• Yang Yong and Wang Ying silently led the group through the hospital and down the stairs to avoid the Eerie.
• Yang Yong and Wang Ying attacked the growth-covered Eerie, but every cut caused it and its severed growths to multiply.
• Yang Yong used Mang Dabiao to trip the monsters, then told the group to run for the ground-floor entrance.
• Yang Yong charged toward the entrance and its lone security guard Eerie, determined to open the door.

Yang Yong, Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, and Xiao Xuan’s group fought through a Ghost Domain where Eeries behaved unpredictably, then took shelter in a café after failing to find an exit. Outside Yangcheng, Lao Zhang waited anxiously as the group tried to figure out what was happening.

• Yang Yong killed the Security Guard Eerie with the Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner, then found the street outside crowded with Eeries and no sign of the pickup.
• The Eeries turned their heads toward Yang Yong and his companions before attacking, and Wang Ying urged everyone to run and find shelter.
• Wang Ying discovered that the Eeries defied classification when her attack destroyed a Male Ghost she had expected to be powerful, and the group fought their way through the street.
• Lao Zhang waited outside Yangcheng and silenced convoy members who feared the trapped Transcendents would not return before dark.
• Wang Ying, Yang Yong, and Zheng Xiaofeng hid in a café, where Yang Yong asked the others to help work out what was happening.

Yang Yong and his companions fought their way back to the hospital, then climbed to the upper floors to search for the foreign ghost woman who might be able to send them out of the Ghost Domain. As they examined the hospital floor plan, the sound of high heels approached from upstairs.

• Wang Ying proposed finding the foreign ghost woman at the hospital, and Yang Yong agreed they needed to reach the administrators' offices before nightfall.
• Yang Yong wrapped the still-unconscious Mang Dabiao around his waist, and the group fought through the Eerie-filled streets to reach the hospital.
• Wang Ying and Zheng Xiaofeng climbed the hospital exterior, while Yang Yong had the Red-Clothed Female Ghost and the Love Letter Ghost carry him to the rooftop.
• Yang Yong left Xiao Xuan and the other two hiding by the parking lot, then joined Wang Ying and Zheng Xiaofeng in searching the upper floors for the hospital's offices.
• The three found a floor plan below the rooftop, then froze when they heard high heels clicking on the marble floor upstairs.

Yang Yong and his companions escaped the Ghost Domain by collapsing the hospital and rushing through a rift, then fled the pharmacy before nightfall. As their pickup sped into the dusk, a formation of suited, axe-carrying figures appeared on the road.

• Yang Yong, Wang Ying, and Zheng Xiaofeng found the Foreign Woman Ghost in the purchasing department, and Mang Dabiao woke from its drunken stupor and urged them to bring down the hospital’s load-bearing walls.
• Wang Ying cut through the support columns, and the group escaped as the hospital collapsed and a rift opened between the Ghost Domain and reality.
• Mang Dabiao and Yang Yong crossed the rift, and Zheng Xiaofeng hurled Xiao Xuan, Xiao Wei, and the middle-aged man through before Mang Dabiao dragged him to safety.
• Back at the pharmacy near sunset, Yang Yong’s group jumped from the second floor, piled into the pickup, and drove away with Mang Dabiao at the wheel.
• A group in black suits and white gloves, each carrying an axe, appeared at the far end of the road as the pickup sped into the dusk.

Wang Ying and the convoy faced a swarm of powerful Axe Ghosts, but Yang Yong's Dead Furnace forged a new blade from her sword intent. Wang Ying used it to split the enormous axe and blast open a path, allowing Mang Dabiao to drive the survivors through.

• Wang Ying's attack failed against the lead Eerie, and Yang Yong's Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors was damaged when he tried to strike it.
• Axe Ghosts surrounded the convoy and formed an enormous axe above them as Xiao Xuan, Xiao Wei, the middle-aged man, and Zheng Xiaofeng faced what seemed like certain death.
• Wang Ying unleashed a surge of power, transformed her Pig-Slaughtering Knife into a Tang Dao, and struck the enormous axe, but she was badly hurt and failed to stop it.
• Yang Yong's Dead Furnace absorbed Wang Ying's remaining sword intent and forged a new blade, which he threw to her.
• Wang Ying swung the forged blade and split the enormous axe, while the white line from her strike caused the Eerie in its path to explode into black mist.
• Mang Dabiao accelerated the pickup through the cleared path, carrying the survivors away into the night.

Yang Yong led the battered Survival Convoy out of Yangcheng, but the Axe Gang's eerie entities pursued them through the night. After fleeing for hours, Mang Dabiao spotted lights ahead that might belong to another convoy.

• Yang Yong caught the unconscious Wang Ying as her slash cleared a path, and his farm truck led the Survival Convoy out of Yangcheng.
• Yang Yong ordered the convoy to keep moving, and the vehicles raced away while Wang Ying remained unconscious and Zheng Xiaofeng lay gravely wounded.
• After a brief rest, Mang Dabiao warned that the Axe Gang's eerie entities had caught up, so Yang Yong ordered everyone to flee at full speed.
• The convoy drove for three hours as faint footsteps continued to haunt Yang Yong, until Mang Dabiao spotted lights ahead that might be another convoy.

Yang Yong’s Survival Convoy encountered a strange convoy fleeing toward the Axe Gang Eerie, but the newcomers ignored his warning and charged into the pursuers. As Yang Yong realized the crowd of Eerie ahead was a Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts, his damaged strength left the Survival Convoy facing danger from both sides.

• Yang Yong spotted another convoy approaching and ordered Mang Dabiao to drive toward it.
• Yang Yong used the Red-Clothed Female Ghost’s vision to see that the newcomers were being pursued by Eerie and that the Axe Gang Eerie blocked the road behind his own convoy.
• The strange convoy ignored Yang Yong’s warning and rushed into the Axe Gang Eerie, where its riders and passengers revealed themselves as Transcendents and fought back.
• Mang Dabiao spotted a Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts ahead, and Yang Yong realized his broken Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors left him poorly equipped to protect the Survival Convoy.

Yang Yong led the convoy and the returning survivors in a desperate charge through a swarm of Eerie while the Axe Gang Eerie closed in behind them. As the bus began to buckle under the ghosts’ assault, Yang Yong sent the reluctant Love Letter Ghost to protect it.

• Yang Yong offered to join forces with the battered survivors returning from their fight with the Axe Gang Eerie, and they agreed.
• Yang Yong summoned the Red-Clothed Female Ghost and ordered the survivors to defend the convoy as they fought through the ghost tide.
• Yang Yong used the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors to carve a path, and Mang Dabiao drove the convoy through it.
• Ghostly hands swarmed the vehicles, while the saber near Wang Ying’s off-road vehicle kept Eerie at bay.
• The bus began to fail under the Eerie’s attack, so Yang Yong ordered the Love Letter Ghost to go to it, and she floated onto its roof as love letters filled the air.

Yang Yong and the convoy fought through a vast horde of Eerie as the Love Letter Ghost’s letters sparked a brawl that distracted many of their attackers. With a staff-wielding girl from a neighboring convoy helping him, Yang Yong pushed toward the heart of the ghost tide, but the chapter ended just as their escape seemed within reach.

• The Love Letter Ghost’s letters drove two male Eerie into a fight that spread into a mass brawl and eased pressure on the bus.
• Yang Yong used the broken Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors to clear a path while the Red-Clothed Female Ghost guarded him.
• A girl from the neighboring convoy struck a harassing Infant Spirit with Holy Light, destroying it and earning Yang Yong’s grateful acknowledgment.
• Yang Yong recognized the staff-wielding girl as part of a group of student survivors who had escaped Yangcheng No. 2 Middle School and lost two teammates to the Axe Gang Eerie.
• Zhang Bihuang admired Yang Yong as he continued knocking Eerie aside to conserve strength and lead the convoy forward.
• Yang Yong believed the convoy was close to escaping the ghost tide, but the chapter ended before the breakthrough.