Chapter Summaries

Yang Yong discovered that Mang Dabiao had negotiated a symbiotic contract with the Twin Green Snakes trapped in the Ancient Well. He ordered Mang Dabiao to change the agreement so he could sign it himself.

• A giant snake emerged from a hole in the ground, greeted Yang Yong as Mang Dabiao, and dodged his punch when he struck at it.
• Yang Yong pinned Mang Dabiao down and learned that it had gone into the Ancient Well, where cold air and strange sounds were rising.
• Mang Dabiao explained that the Twin Green Snakes were Little Green in the well water and Qingyun, whose remnant soul was sealed inside a stone.
• Mang Dabiao told Yang Yong it had negotiated a symbiotic contract in which the snakes would help guard and modify the Ancient Well's formation while Yang Yong restored Qingyun's body.
• Yang Yong learned Mang Dabiao had already signed the contract using his aura and ordered it to change the agreement so he could sign with the snakes directly.

Yang Yong set strict terms for Little Green and Qingyun in the Ancient Well, then sensed that something dangerous remained sealed beneath the Ancient Tomb. When a scream sounded at the village’s edge, he found evidence that someone had been dragged through a wall by a creature, and his lighter began to bleed.

• Yang Yong established rules for Little Green and Qingyun’s Symbiotic Contract, including requiring Qingyun’s remnant soul to remain dormant.
• Yang Yong sensed a force churning beneath the Ancient Tomb’s ninth level and wondered whether the village’s defenses could stop it if it escaped.
• Two young men on night watch heard footsteps in the cornfields, and a scream was cut off nearby.
• Yang Yong rushed to an adobe house and found claw marks, dark green slime, blood trails, and a fingernail beside a crack in the wall.
• Yang Yong saw something writhe inside the crack as his lighter lit itself with a ghostly green flame and its engraved snake began to bleed.

Yang Yong investigated Zhang Weifeng’s disappearance and found a room full of blood but no body or detectable eerie presence. After half a month without another incident, the village continued its work until Cao Xianming summoned everyone with sequence transcendence to the courtyard.

• Yang Yong followed a blood trail to the village crossroads, where he found only a faint sticky residue and no eerie qi.
• Xiao Ma identified Zhang Weifeng as the man assigned to the bloodied room and described him as easy to overlook; Cao Xianming could not calculate what had happened.
• Yang Yong found far more blood than a human body could contain, concluded Zhang Weifeng had been drained and taken away, and ordered Yezi to spread vines across the village as a warning network.
• Yang Yong told the villagers that Zhang Weifeng was dead and ordered continued patrols, but nothing strange happened for fifteen days.
• Huang Santainai rebuilt the Dragon-Trapping Formation into a fortress, assisted by Qingyun and the little green snake, while Yang Yong forged Qingyun a pendant.
• Cao Xianming called everyone with sequence transcendence into the courtyard.

Yang Yong discovered that an unseen force was drawing three attacked convoys toward the village while a strange trace seeped from the direction of the Ancient Well. He identified Little Green’s aura in the trace and suspected something was trying to open the Demon-Suppressing Ancient Tomb on the ninth level.

• Cao Xianming reported Zhang Weifeng’s death and said an undetected being had killed him, drunk his blood, and taken his body.
• Wan Qi reported that three convoys were fighting in different directions, and Yang Yong concluded someone was herding them toward the village.
• Yang Yong planned to admit the first convoy and make the others wait outside, warning that the village’s defenses could not withstand all three groups and their pursuers at once.
• Yang Yong questioned whether the thing that killed Zhang Weifeng was Eerie, then saw a faint trace blacken the moss as it crept into the courtyard from the Ancient Well.
• Yang Yong sent Cao Xianming to summon Huang Santainai and found Little Green’s aura in a tiny granule left by the trace.
• Yang Yong concluded that something was trying to open the Demon-Suppressing Ancient Tomb on the ninth level.

Yang Yong searched the Ancient Tomb for the hidden presence but found no sign of it, then left Ancient Well Village to meet an approaching convoy. The convoy encountered an Eerie, and its captain, Li Zhi Hui, desperately tried to reach someone through a mirror.

• Yang Yong searched the ninth layer of the Ancient Tomb, confirmed the barrier to the tenth layer remained closed, and decided to stay in Ancient Well Village until the hidden presence revealed itself.
• Yang Yong told Cao Xianming he would prioritize receiving the approaching convoys, then left the village to meet one of them.
• After Yang Yong departed, the Earth Dragon moved underground and pursued him, drawn by Long Ya's and Yezi's auras.
• A family traveling at the rear of the convoy feared being abandoned when the group encountered an Eerie ahead.
• Li Zhi Hui held a mirror and repeatedly breathed on it and wiped it, urging someone to answer.

Li Zhi Hui and Su Zhenxing encountered Yang Yong as the Assembly-Line Ark Convoy was pursued by an Eerie. Yang Yong charged toward the pursuer, while a huge underground presence also changed course toward the battle, leaving Li Zhi Hui unsure whether Yang Yong was friend or foe.

• Li Zhi Hui doubted whether Wan Qi had lured the convoy into danger and asked Su Zhenxing if Wan Qi could be trusted.
• Su Zhenxing stopped the vehicle when a tiny black object rapidly approached, expanded into a furnace, and released Yang Yong.
• Li Zhi Hui introduced himself to Yang Yong and tried to ask what to do about the Eerie nearby, but Yang Yong told him to wait and vanished toward the rear.
• Li Zhi Hui explained that an Eerie had been herding the convoy from behind as Yang Yong attacked it with steel wings and flashing blades.
• Li Zhi Hui saw the huge underground presence ahead change course toward Yang Yong's battlefield and wondered whether Yang Yong was friend or foe.