Chapter Summaries

Li Jingshu intervened when Zhuhuai attacked a wounded Huodou and her newborn pups, defeating Zhuhuai and protecting the litter. Huodou died, and Li Jingshu claimed the pups as her spoils, promising to decide what to teach them when they grew up.

• Sleepy Bugs led Li Jingshu to Zhuhuai and Huodou, where she saw the wounded Huodou guarding her newborn pups.
• Li Jingshu ordered Zhuhuai to spare the pups, but Zhuhuai charged at her.
• Li Jingshu severed one of Zhuhuai's horns, overturned it, and used Sleepy Bugs to put it to sleep.
• Li Jingshu refused to take Zhuhuai's remaining horns and approached the dying Huodou, claiming the pups as her spoils.
• Huodou looked at her pups one last time and died as the litter began to whimper.

Li Boyang ended Li Jingshu’s vacation early and promised to teach her talismans, while the large black dog warned Xiluo that Li Boyang’s work on the earth veins could attract hostile gods. He confronted the Undying Spring God’s kingfisher emissary and offered to guard Wu Yao’s relic if the emissary could not protect it.

• Li Boyang sent the Huodou puppies to Big Yellow’s kennel and told Li Jingshu her vacation was over, inviting her to Flying Peak to study talismans.
• The large black dog visited Xiluo and warned that Li Boyang’s efforts to order the earth veins could provoke other gods, especially because Mountain Hollow Village had no Land God.
• The large black dog told Xiluo that the Undying Spring God alone had the right to put the earth veins in order across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• The kingfisher emissary arrived, and the large black dog warned him that others coveted Wu Yao’s relic and offered to guard it if the emissary could not.

Qingfu entered the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and was ambushed by Hanging Silk Lady, who used the Yin-Yang Talisman Incantation to animate a treant. Qingfu revealed the power of the Green Wood Clan, transformed the forest into a vast sea of trees, and drove Hanging Silk Lady to flee toward Flying Peak.

• Qingfu encountered a withered tree whose spider-formed Speech restored it and transformed it into a treant.
• Hanging Silk Lady descended from her web, revealed that she had recovered using the Yin-Yang Talisman Incantation, and challenged Qingfu about Guifang Kingdom entering the mountain range.
• Qingfu called upon her god, and the resulting power caused the surrounding trees to grow rapidly.
• Hanging Silk Lady ensnared Qingfu, tore the head from her hand by breaking its spine, and fled as Qingfu unleashed the Green Wood Clan's power.
• Qingfu's power split the earth and turned the mountain forest into a sea of trees, while Hanging Silk Lady recognized the Green Wood Clan and escaped toward Flying Peak.

Li Boyang presented Li Jingshu with a living bronze book he had refined using the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron, the [Spirituality Talisman Incantation], and the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron. The book could correct her writing, learn and grow, and store Talisman Seal Script, though it disliked having its pages torn out.

• Li Jingshu eagerly awaited her lesson, so Li Boyang moved it to noon and showed her the bronze book he had made.
• Li Boyang explained that he had given the book an artificial soul by combining the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron's power with the [Spirituality Talisman Incantation].
• Li Boyang told Li Jingshu that the book contained all twelve Talisman Incantations and would bite her if she wrote Speech incorrectly.
• Li Boyang explained to Xiluo that the book could learn, correct mistakes, and expand by eating paper.
• Xiluo recognized the book as a mobile Talisman Seal Script treasury, and the book laughed as Li Boyang warned that it disliked having pages torn out.

Hanging Silk Lady tried to enter Flying Peak to find Li Boyang, but Xiao Gui refused to let her pass and broke away from her as the berserk sleepy bugs appeared. Li Boyang revealed himself from Hanging Silk Lady’s shadow, and she warned him that the Gods of the Five Directions had returned with a Chosen Priest of the Green Wood Clan.

• Hanging Silk Lady demanded entry to Flying Peak, but Xiao Gui refused and flew back into the mist, choosing to stop being her mother’s spy.
• Berserk sleepy bugs surrounded Hanging Silk Lady, who retreated rather than risk provoking them.
• Hanging Silk Lady said she needed to meet the prophet to warn him that the Gods of the Five Directions had returned to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Li Boyang emerged from Hanging Silk Lady’s shadow and confirmed that he was the prophet she sought.
• Hanging Silk Lady told Li Boyang that a Chosen Priest had arrived, could manifest the Green Wood Clan’s true form, and had likely been sent by the clan under a divine oracle.

Li Boyang questioned Mu Chuan, the head Hanging Silk Lady had brought him, and learned how Mu Chuan became Qingfu’s captive. Mu Chuan explained that Qingfu had fled the Guifang Kingdom seeking the legendary Deceiver, a priest recognized by the bound ghost god Tufang Clan.

• Hanging Silk Lady pulled Mu Chuan’s head in front of Li Boyang, who changed into a humanlike form and questioned him.
• Li Boyang threatened Mu Chuan with his God Mask, and Mu Chuan recounted his origins as a herder whose tribe was destroyed by the Guirong Clan.
• Mu Chuan explained that Qingfu had kept him alive with Witch Law and recently fled the Guifang Kingdom carrying the Green Wood Clan’s divine oracle.
• Li Boyang asked why Qingfu had come to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, and Mu Chuan described the Deceiver as a legend among Guifang Kingdom priests.
• Mu Chuan said the Deceiver was the only priest personally recognized by the bound ghost god Tufang Clan.

Li Boyang learned that Deception Rabbit was the Tufang Clan’s chosen priest, the Deceiver, and discovered that he had secretly left Mount Yunmeng. Nüman revealed that Deception Rabbit had headed toward the place where Qingfu summoned the Green Wood Clan, leaving Li Boyang concerned about the trouble he had gone to face.

• Mu Chuan told Li Boyang that the Deceiver was a priest recognized by the Tufang Clan, prompting Li Boyang and Hanging Silk Lady to identify him as Deception Rabbit.
• Li Boyang asked why the Green Wood Clan’s chosen priest was searching for the Deceiver, but Mu Chuan said he did not know.
• Li Boyang asked where Deception Rabbit was, and Nüman revealed that he had left Mount Yunmeng the previous night.
• Nüman said Deception Rabbit had claimed he needed to deal with trouble from his past and that he had gone in the direction of Hanging Silk Lady’s hunting ground.
• Li Boyang reassured Nüman that Deception Rabbit could protect himself and would likely only learn a lesson.

Deception Rabbit tracked Qingfu to the Green Wood Clan’s overgrown hunting grounds, where she attacked him and the Green Wood Clan demanded that he return to the Guifang Kingdom. Deception Rabbit accused the clan of seeking to use him to control the Tufang Clan because a crisis had arisen among the Gods of the Five Directions.

• Deception Rabbit used his perfect-creature transformations to track Qingfu through mutated plants and found her in the woods.
• Qingfu summoned her god and attacked with roots, but Deception Rabbit escaped by transforming from a mountain hound into an eagle.
• Qingfu, empowered by the Green Wood Clan, demanded that Deception Rabbit return to the Guifang Kingdom or face punishment.
• Deception Rabbit revealed that he had helped the Four Gods of Guifang appease the Tufang Clan thirty years earlier and rejected the Green Wood Clan’s claim that he owed them obedience.
• Deception Rabbit accused the Green Wood Clan of trying to seize him to control the Tufang Clan and said their real motive was a crisis among the Gods of the Five Directions.

Deception Rabbit fought the Green Wood Clan, who had possessed Qingfu and come to take him back because of a crisis among the Gods of the Five Directions. Deception Rabbit revealed how his Breathing Method and Thousand Transformations Divine Ability let him control Life Primordial Qi and challenge a god, leaving the Green Wood Clan eager to learn his method.

• The Green Wood Clan possessed Qingfu and attacked Deception Rabbit, insisting he return quietly because something catastrophic had happened among the Gods of the Five Directions.
• Deception Rabbit used Riding Clouds and Driving Mist to blindside the Green Wood Clan and land a punch, but the god recognized his progress and countered with a snake-tailed demigod form and poisonous gas.
• Deception Rabbit resisted the poison with a pig's snout, grew four additional arms, and fought the Green Wood Clan with his Six-Armed Body.
• The Green Wood Clan realized Deception Rabbit could control the flow of Life Primordial Qi and had surpassed the limits of mortal creatures.
• Deception Rabbit refused to explain his method and attacked more fiercely, having trained in the Breathing Method and Thousand Transformations Divine Ability with Li Boyang's guidance.

Deception Rabbit fought the Green Wood Clan and transformed into a black dragon, but the transformation stripped away his reason. Li Boyang’s Divine Firmament Sword interrupted the Green Wood Clan’s spell and forced her to flee underground with Qingfu’s broken body.

• Deception Rabbit used his Life Primordial Qi and Thousand Transformations Divine Ability to counter the Green Wood Clan’s attacks.
• The Green Wood Clan transformed into an azure python and swallowed Deception Rabbit, but Deception Rabbit tore his way out as a black dragon.
• Deception Rabbit’s black dragon transformation overwhelmed his reason, and he attacked the Green Wood Clan as an Ominous Deity.
• The Green Wood Clan began a spell using the phantom of Jianmu, but a sigh shattered its patterns and collapsed the phantom.
• Li Boyang’s Divine Firmament Sword pierced the Green Wood Clan, who escaped underground with Qingfu’s broken body.

Li Boyang discovered that Deception Rabbit had transformed into a rampaging Ominous Deity and sent Xiluo to retrieve him while he went to Mountain Hollow Village. Deception Rabbit’s transformation intensified as he devoured the Green Wood Clan’s ruined body, leaving nearby gods and spirits fleeing or praying for safety.

• Li Boyang absorbed the golden Sword Pill and asked Xiluo to bring Deception Rabbit back, explaining that Deception Rabbit had transformed into an Ominous Deity on his own.
• Xiluo questioned whether she could handle Deception Rabbit, and Li Boyang said he had other business and would send the Divine Firmament Sword to take her to him.
• Li Boyang announced that he needed to travel to Mountain Hollow Village because trouble had come knocking again.
• After devouring the Green Wood Clan’s ruined body, Black Dragon Deception Rabbit gained a surge of divine vitality that expanded his body and changed his appearance.
• The rampaging Deception Rabbit terrified nearby mountain gods and river gods, while stranded spirits and mountain folk prayed that his destruction would not reach them.

Qingfu followed the Green Wood Clan’s guidance to Mountain Hollow Village and discovered its unusually refined buckwheat crops. Meanwhile, Li Boyang flew toward the village and confronted the azure kingfisher, reasoning that it had long advised Xiluo and asking whether conflict within the Guifang Kingdom or among the Gods of the Five Directions had forced it to reveal itself.

• Qingfu expected the black dragon to be destroyed by the divine power it had swallowed, but the Green Wood Clan sent her toward Mountain Hollow Village.
• Qingfu found a large field of improved buckwheat and wondered who had developed the crop, while the Green Wood Clan stayed silent.
• Villagers from Mountain Hollow Village approached Qingfu with clubs and pitchforks after noticing her arrival.
• After sending Xiluo away, Li Boyang rode a baleful cloud toward the village and steadily restored his strength with Sha Qi.
• An azure kingfisher appeared beside Li Boyang, who inferred that it had secretly advised Xiluo for centuries.
• Li Boyang asked whether the Green Wood Clan’s true-body descent and the kingfisher’s appearance were caused by serious conflict in the Guifang Kingdom or among the Gods of the Five Directions.

Kingfisher explained how the Gods of the Five Directions arose and revealed that a religious reform in the Guifang Kingdom had destroyed their temples while the gods stayed silent. Li Boyang suspected the Guirong Clan had instigated a divine conflict and learned that the Green Wood Clan was most likely to remain loyal to the Roaring Heaven Clan.

• Kingfisher warned Li Boyang that his opponent was the Green Wood Clan’s true heavenly god, which might stake everything on a desperate fight.
• Li Boyang pressed Kingfisher for details about the crisis in the Guifang Kingdom, and she described how the Roaring Heaven Clan had transformed from an ancestral god into a heavenly god over centuries.
• Kingfisher said a sweeping religious reform backed by Chongming had destroyed temples dedicated to the Roaring Heaven Clan and other gods, while the Gods of the Five Directions remained silent.
• Li Boyang proposed that the reform was a divine war instigated by the Guirong Clan, and Kingfisher explained the tensions and competing interests among the five gods.
• Kingfisher identified the Green Wood Clan as the god most likely to remain the Roaring Heaven Clan’s steadfast ally if conflict erupted among the Gods of the Five Directions.

Li Boyang reached Mountain Hollow Village and confronted the Green Wood Clan deity, who had taken control of Qingfu’s body. The deity discovered that Li Boyang was the Red-Haired Ghost and could not understand how he could be human.

• Li Boyang arrived at Mountain Hollow Village and saw through the villagers’ peaceful appearance.
• Li Boyang noticed Lu Suiniang was not wearing his protective charm, gave her his red fur coat, and went to check on Uncle Lu.
• Li Boyang confronted Qingfu at the altar and revealed that he knew a Green Wood Clan deity was hiding inside her.
• The Green Wood Clan deity took control of Qingfu’s body, transformed into a towering snake woman, and wielded the [Yin-Yang Talisman Incantation].
• The deity recognized Li Boyang as the Red-Haired Ghost and questioned how he could be human.

Li Boyang tested his idea for a weapon that could harm heavenly gods by using a shadow-forged talisman pistol against the Green Wood Clan. Meanwhile, the bronze treasure book revealed its ability to consume materials and offered Li Jingshu a revolver blueprint.

• Li Boyang decided that ordinary guns and cannons would not protect humanity from ghosts and gods, so he developed a revolver loaded with Thunder Method talismans.
• Li Boyang shot the Green Wood Clan with the talisman pistol, blasting off one of her arms and striking her with heavenly lightning.
• At Flying Peak's mountain god temple, the bronze treasure book turned to a page bearing a new Talisman Seal Script talisman as Li Jingshu struggled to write Speech.
• The bronze treasure book showed Li Jingshu a list of minerals and medicinal ingredients, and she realized it wanted to consume them to make yellow paper.
• The bronze treasure book displayed a detailed revolver blueprint, and Li Jingshu asked what it would offer in exchange for the materials.

Li Boyang fought the Green Wood Clan, whose power transformed the land into a nine-headed giant serpent and devastated the surrounding mountains. As a black-robed man struggled against the resentful spirits within him, Lu Suiniang went into labor amid the battle.

• Li Boyang's talisman pistol failed to injure the Green Wood Clan again after she learned to dodge its shots.
• The Green Wood Clan raised an enormous earth dragon from plants and soil, causing earthquakes across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• A black-robed man appeared at Mountain Hollow Village and questioned Li Boyang's actions while watching him fight the Green Wood Clan.
• Li Boyang's Sword-Rays shattered much of the earth dragon, forcing the Green Wood Clan to merge with it and transform it into a nine-headed giant serpent.
• The serpent spread poisonous mist toward Mountain Hollow Village, and the black-robed man blew it away before resentful spirits within him challenged his control.
• Lu Suiniang spotted the black-robed man, then clutched her belly and cried out that her baby was coming.

Li Boyang recognized the Green Wood Clan deity as an innate deity and defeated it by reversing the [Yin-Yang Talisman Incantation], stripping Qingfu of her divine power and devouring the deity. Back in Mountain Hollow Village, he saw that Lu Suiniang’s newborn baby girl had a Heavenly Eye like his own.

• Li Boyang identified the Green Wood Clan deity as an innate deity whose serpent form came from a mountain tribe’s influence.
• The Green Wood Clan deity fought Li Boyang and threatened to destroy the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, but Li Boyang reversed the [Yin-Yang Talisman Incantation].
• Qingfu lost her connection to the Green Wood Clan deity as its true form, a heaven-reaching Jianmu tree, was dragged into and devoured by the talisman.
• Li Boyang returned to Mountain Hollow Village with the unconscious Qingfu and found Uncle Lu holding Lu Suiniang’s newborn baby girl.
• Li Boyang saw that the baby girl had a wide-open Heavenly Eye between her brows, matching his own.

Li Boyang refined the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron to help Deception Rabbit digest half a celestial god’s remains, while he and Xiluo discussed the rabbit’s prospects and the three-eyed baby girl he planned to raise. Li Boyang’s divination revealed that someone else from the Guifang Kingdom had entered the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, but he withheld another discovery from Xiluo.

• Li Boyang used the completed [Yin-Yang Talisman Incantation] to activate the Imprisoned Soul Cauldron and refine Deception Rabbit with alchemical flames and Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi.
• Xiluo questioned why Li Boyang was risking so much to save Deception Rabbit, and Li Boyang explained that the rabbit might gain a permanent Black Dragon form and grow much stronger.
• Li Boyang told Xiluo that he had separated the three-eyed baby girl’s evil side and Guhuo Bird’s memories, and planned to bring her to the mountain after she was weaned.
• Li Boyang said the baby girl’s maternal grandfather would keep her situation secret and that he would visit her every day until then.
• Li Boyang revealed that his divination had detected another person from the Guifang Kingdom in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, then stopped before sharing a further discovery.

You Chong brooded over the newborn Innate Divine Being and the coming flood before heading toward Mount Yunmeng, while Qingfu and Mu Chuan remained grafted to Nüman's tree. Hanging Silk Lady arrived and poisoned Qingfu to make her answer the prophet’s questions.

• You Chong regained control of the Blood Demon, recalled how its other personalities had delivered Lu Suiniang’s baby, and worried about the girl’s Heavenly Eye and connection to the Red-Haired Ghost God.
• You Chong concluded that the coming great flood threatened both the Guifang Kingdom and the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, and headed toward Mount Yunmeng seeking the Guirong Clan.
• At Mount Yunmeng, Qingfu and Mu Chuan hung as branches of Nüman’s tree, and Mu Chuan taunted Qingfu over her former treatment of him.
• Hanging Silk Lady approached the tree and confronted Qingfu, whom she blamed for destroying her hunting grounds.
• Hanging Silk Lady placed a venomous spider on Qingfu’s face, and it bit her, leaving her dazed as the venom spread.

Hanging Silk Lady reported that the Green Wood Clan had fled to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range after the Tide-Swallowing Clan and Guirong Clan turned against her. She and Li Boyang suspected that the Tide-Swallowing Clan’s return and the Guirong Clan’s accelerated revolution were connected to an impending great flood, though Qingfu knew nothing about it.

• Hanging Silk Lady met Li Boyang and Li Jingshu as they descended Flying Peak and told Li Boyang that Qingfu’s mental defenses had crumbled under questioning.
• Hanging Silk Lady explained that Qingfu had discovered Xuan was alive and leading the revolution against the Roaring Heaven Clan alongside Blood Demon You Chong, revealing the Guirong Clan’s involvement.
• The Green Wood Clan chose to wait for the Roaring Heaven Clan to recover, but the Tide-Swallowing Clan returned and the Guirong Clan accelerated its plans, forcing her to flee to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Li Boyang asked whether Qingfu knew the truth about the great flood, and Hanging Silk Lady confirmed that she did not.
• Hanging Silk Lady proposed that an unprecedented flood was approaching, empowering the Tide-Swallowing Clan and prompting the Guirong Clan to act sooner.