Chapter Summaries

Lu Ding fought off the monsters and ghosts overwhelming apartment 1911, then entered the Yin Domain and destroyed its ghost soldiers. He gained the Drumbeat Heart-Shaking technique, and the chapter ended with Fang Du returning to find his ghost soldiers dead.

• Bureau 749 mobilized investigators, cleanup crews, and emergency measures after the Yin Domain overlap at Dinghao Residential Complex began.
• Lu Ding slaughtered the monsters flooding the corridor and guarded the wardrobe opening as ghosts emerged from the Yin Domain.
• A heavily armored ghost organized the soldiers into a formation and ordered them to attack Lu Ding with spears and hammers.
• Lu Ding charged into the formation with the Flying Bear phantom, defeated the armored ghost, and contained the Drum Hammer Ghost Chief.
• Lu Ding gained Drumbeat Heart-Shaking and used it to blast the remaining charging ghosts apart.
• Fang Du returned to apartment 1911 and found all the ghost soldiers he had substituted dead.

Lu Ding taunted Fang Du over the deaths of his son and soldiers, then defeated him with a single devastating kick. As Bureau 749 investigators arrived at the residential complex, Xue Ning complained about being sent to deal with the overlapping yin domains.

• Lu Ding told Fang Du that his son and soldiers were dead, then described how he had killed Fang Du's son to torment him.
• Fang Du attacked Lu Ding with ghostly energy and a hurled section of floor, but Lu Ding sliced through both attacks.
• Fang Du summoned ghostly armor, a warhorse, and an ancient army, then charged Lu Ding with a lance.
• Lu Ding caught Fang Du's lance barehanded and kicked him through a wall, destroying half his body.
• Lu Ding drove Fang Du down from the nineteenth floor toward the first as six Bureau 749 investigators entered the residential complex.
• Xue Ning complained about being sent to the dangerous scene and was asked by Xiao Xiong whether he agreed.

Lu Ding killed Fang Du and revealed that he had also killed Fang Du’s General Sha, then confronted Xue Ning and Xiao Xiong after overhearing their insults. He left the six investigators cowed and injured, with Xiao Xiong apologizing to him.

• Lu Ding crushed Fang Du’s body and told him that he had already killed and dismembered his general before crushing Fang Du’s head.
• Lu Ding received the General’s Fitted Armor Technique for containing General Sha.
• Lu Ding emerged from the dust, struck Xue Ning with enough force to send him flying, and injured Xiao Xiong by returning one of her throwing knives.
• Lu Ding warned Xiao Xiong not to provoke him again and threatened the man who stepped in to defend her.
• Xiao Xiong apologized to Lu Ding and promised not to insult him again.

Lu Ding defeated the monster behind the Yin Domain, and his cleanup report stunned Bureau 749’s new investigators. Ji Yanshuang, newly awakened as a Qi Refiner, learned about the First-Year Martial Competition and questioned whether its celebrated contenders could match Lu Ding.

• Lu Ding ordered the survivors to handle the scene and flew back toward the Public Security Administration Bureau to wash off the blood and dust.
• Cleanup personnel found Fang Du’s corpse and documented the grisly aftermath, which confirmed that Lu Ding had fought alone.
• Bureau 749 released Lu Ding’s cleanup report, prompting trainee investigators to wonder who would dare compete against him.
• Ji Yanshuang, who had awakened as a Qi Refiner and joined Bureau 749, approached the investigators to ask about the First-Year Martial Competition.
• The investigators described the competition’s leading contenders, and Ji Yanshuang pointed out that Lu Ding had killed a veteran Spirit Sea Qi Refiner while at Illuminating the Jade Pivot.

After Lu Ding told a bereaved woman that her family had been killed, he spent the night smoking in the stairwell. When Gao Zhengliang reported that the Five Viscera Life Society had detained public security officers, Lu Ding set out to rescue them.

• Ji Yanshuang defended Lu Ding as the strongest after hearing others compare him with Bai Hemian.
• Lu Ding told Miss Cheng that her family had been killed and that he had avenged them, and she thanked him before asking to return home.
• Miss Cheng asked Lu Ding his name and bowed to him, while Lu Ding left without finding words to comfort her.
• Lu Ding spent the night smoking in the stairwell after reporting the incident to Gao Zhengliang.
• Gao Zhengliang told Lu Ding that the Five Viscera Life Society had detained officers from Ginkgo Public Security Station after a clash during an investigation.
• Lu Ding called it a rescue and ordered Gao Zhengliang to take him to the Five Viscera Life Society.

The chapter explained the Five Viscera Life Society’s rise in Ten Thousand People Residential Community and its secret trade in ritual supplies from Chenla. After public security officers caught the Society smuggling the goods, Tang Hu tried to intimidate them, but Yan Biexi defied him, and he prepared to act.

• The Five Viscera Life Society grew influential in Ten Thousand People Residential Community by resolving supernatural incidents for its residents.
• The Society secretly arranged to import ritual supplies from Chenla because its domestic sources could not meet demand.
• A public security officer inspecting fruit discovered crates of protected animals and plants, bones, and skulls, and the Society caught the officers.
• At the Society’s headquarters, Tang Hu entered a spirit-invocation state and demonstrated his power to the bound officers.
• Yan Biexi rebuked Tang Hu and dared him to kill her, reminding him that harming a public security officer would carry serious consequences.
• Tang Hu abandoned his plan to intimidate the officers into silence and empowered incense ash with a secret art.

Lu Ding rescued Yan Biexi from Tang Hu’s torture and killed Tang Hu and the Qi Refiners who had surrounded him. He recorded Tang Hu’s confession before carrying out his sentence, leaving Gao Zhengliang stunned by the massacre.

• Tang Hu tortured Yan Biexi and demanded that she sign a statement promising to keep quiet, but Lu Ding broke into the room and eased her pain.
• Lu Ding invoked his authority as a Bureau 749 patrol investigator and sentenced Tang Hu and the surrounding Qi Refiners to death.
• Lu Ding destroyed the shrine’s statues and picture album, then drove off the mountain lord attached to Tang Hu with Flying Bear’s roar.
• Tang Hu admitted he had been wrong to arrest a public security officer and threaten Lu Ding.
• Lu Ding recorded Tang Hu’s confession and killed him, while Gao Zhengliang and the surviving officers stared in shock.

Lu Ding summoned Tang Long and Tang Bao to the Five Viscera Life Society after attacking its headquarters, prepared to judge them by their response. Tang Bao warned his brother against seeking revenge and led him upstairs after whipping himself with thorn branches to show remorse.

• Yan Biexi questioned whether Lu Ding had followed procedure, and he knocked her unconscious before telling Gao Zhengliang to summon Tang Long and Tang Bao.
• Gao Zhengliang accepted that Lu Ding would act against Qi Refiners who broke Bureau 749’s rules, while Lu Ding defended his actions as reasonable and legal.
• Tang Long and Tang Bao met outside the Five Viscera Life Society, and Tang Bao warned that their second brother, Tang Hu, might be dead.
• Tang Bao told Tang Long that their society’s arrogance and Tang Hu’s misconduct had brought them to the brink of ruin, and he insisted they must not seek revenge.
• Tang Bao took thorn branches from the car, whipped his back until it bled, and then went upstairs with Tang Long to see Lu Ding.

After Tang Hu’s death, Tang Bao and Tang Long knelt before Lu Ding, who ended the dispute and approved the Five Viscera Life Society’s application concerning Chenla. As news spread across Baofan District, Cao Ying decided to approach Lu Ding for support in securing his position in Cao Family Alley.

• Tang Bao and Tang Long found Tang Hu’s remains and knelt before Lu Ding to apologize and ask for mercy.
• Lu Ding warned the brothers not to let a similar incident happen again and agreed to sign their application concerning Chenla, reminding them to pay taxes.
• Tang Bao felt relieved that the Five Viscera Life Society was safe and that the ritual-consumables matter was resolved.
• News of the Yin Domain Overlap and Tang Hu’s death spread through Baofan District, drawing attention to Lu Ding.
• Cao Ying decided to seek Lu Ding’s support to secure his position in Cao Family Alley.

Cao Ying reconsidered how to challenge Cao Yuan, while Lu Ding spent all his Bureau 749 contribution points on three treasures that rapidly advanced his cultivation. As Lu Ding continued cultivating, visitors from Great Black Mountain stormed Xie Shunan’s office and seized the Baleful Qi-Nurturing Gourd she had bought for him.

• Cao Ying decided he needed an ally more powerful than Cao Yuan’s brother to help him regain his place in the Cao family.
• Lu Ding received 150 contribution points and two million in cash for resolving the Dinghao Residential Complex Yin Domain Overlap.
• Lu Ding spent all his contribution points on Disemboweled Buddha Buds, Fallen Spirit Sand, and Full Moon Dew.
• Lu Ding mixed the three treasures and drank them, causing his Spirit Sea to expand and his cultivation realm to rise rapidly.
• Xie Shunan received a Baleful Qi-Nurturing Gourd as an apology gift for Lu Ding.
• Several Great Black Mountain figures broke into Xie Shunan’s office, and their young leader took the gourd with Dragon Claw Hand.