Chapter Summaries

Lu Ziyou and Gu Baishui were forced to wager their lifespans against the Red-Robed Judge in Fight the Landlord, and lost three rounds in a row. In the fourth round, Gu Baishui revealed that the real contest was between him and Lu Ziyou, and that he had deliberately let the Judge take their lifespan to make the game more exciting.

• The Red-Robed Judge explained that each player had three thousand years of lifespan to wager, and Lu Ziyou and Gu Baishui began playing against him.
• Gu Baishui declined to bid for landlord in the first three rounds, and the Red-Robed Judge won each one, taking nine hundred years from each youth.
• The Red-Robed Judge revealed that the stolen lifespan was truly gone, leaving Lu Ziyou horrified and prompting him to decide to bid in the next round.
• When the Red-Robed Judge called landlord in the fourth round, Lu Ziyou bid four hundred years, but Gu Baishui immediately outbid him.
• Gu Baishui explained that the wager was really between him and Lu Ziyou, then admitted he had let the Judge win because he wanted the game to become more exciting.

Gu Baishui and Lu Ziyou wagered their remaining lifespans in a final card game, which Lu Ziyou won, but the Red-Robed Judge revealed that the contest had not decided who would inherit Li Shiyi’s legacy. The chapter left Lu Ziyou stunned after the Judge said that he and the others had killed Li Shiyi.

• The Red-Robed Judge called landlord in the fourth round and defeated Lu Ziyou, while Gu Baishui’s interference helped secure the loss.
• Gu Baishui wagered his remaining thousand years of lifespan in the fifth round, and Lu Ziyou matched the bet.
• Lu Ziyou revealed two Ghost Cards and won the final game, prompting the Judge to cross out Gu Baishui’s remaining lifespan.
• The Red-Robed Judge explained that he would answer the contestants’ questions, and Lu Ziyou asked whether the Mansion was Li Shiyi’s Mausoleum Grounds and whether Li Shiyi had become an emperor.
• Lu Ziyou claimed to be the Transmigrator Li Shiyi had spoken of and said he wanted to inherit Li Shiyi’s legacy.
• Gu Baishui asked how Li Shiyi died, and the Red-Robed Judge answered that they had killed him, leaving Lu Ziyou horrified.

The Red-Robed Judge revealed that Li Shiyi was killed just as he became a Great Emperor, after years of planning for revenge. He explained that Li Shiyi had not been a Transmigrator before falling ill in Luoyang, and the chapter ended with a mysterious man beyond a wall in Li Shiyi’s dream promising he would recover after the next spring rain.

• The Red-Robed Judge told Lu Ziyou and Gu Baishui that his group ambushed and killed Li Shiyi during his tribulation, paying a terrible price.
• The Red-Robed Judge described Li Shiyi’s crimes and said his mother had hanged herself after losing her daughter and suspecting the truth.
• Gu Baishui guessed that Li Shiyi’s story changed when he fell ill, and the Red-Robed Judge confirmed that Li Shiyi had not been a Transmigrator before that spring.
• After returning from the Cloud and Mist Mountain Range, Li Shiyi developed a persistent cough and began dreaming of thick fog and deepening loneliness.
• As his illness worsened, Li Shiyi followed the sound of water through the fog until he found a stone wall and knocked on its iron window.
• A man beyond the wall asked Li Shiyi how he was and said he would recover when the next spring rain came.

Li Shiyi’s illness stripped away his emotions, and the voice behind the dream’s stone wall revealed itself as a robot serving the devil who had returned from death. As the devil took over Li Shiyi’s body, the chapter revealed that Li Shiyi had always known A-Xu was a Transmigrator and ended with the Red-Robed Judge describing how a stranger had once taken Li Shiyi’s body and killed A-Xu.

• Li Shiyi spoke with the person behind the stone wall, who answered his questions about the world and promised to reveal everything at the final spring rain.
• As his illness erased his emotions, Li Shiyi questioned the wall’s voice about its knowledge of him and its interest in A-Xu, then concealed his worsening condition in letters to her.
• A-Xu sensed that Li Shiyi was unwell, left Chang’an, and hurried back to Luoyang, but arrived too late to save him.
• During the heavy rain, Li Shiyi pushed down the stone wall and discovered a robot imprisoned in Chang’an; the resurrected devil told him it was his system and that he would become Li Shiyi before taking over his body.
• As Li Shiyi died, he remembered recognizing A-Xu as a Transmigrator from birth and choosing to protect her secret.
• The Red-Robed Judge revealed that Li Xu had later returned to Luoyang and died at Li Shiyi’s hands after an unfamiliar soul took over his body.

Gu Baishui learned that the Old Ye Residence’s scholars had hunted Transmigrators and killed Li Shiyi, while investigating the Red-Haired Monsters that followed them. Luo Ziwei stayed behind to speak with Gu Baishui and revealed that, despite her father and Wu Tian’s efforts to prolong her life, she had decided she wanted to die.

• The Red-Robed Judge killed Lu Ziyou and explained that the Old Ye Residence had hunted Transmigrators, including Li Shiyi, who had become an emperor for less than half an hour before they killed him.
• The Red-Robed Judge said every Transmigrator had a Red-Haired Monster following them, and that the residence wanted to learn the monsters’ purpose and the Decaying Great Emperor’s identity.
• The Red-Robed Judge explained that he and Wu Tian had once been scholars who settled in the mountains after meeting the Ye Clan Young Miss, and Gu Baishui realized they had helped her take revenge on Li Shiyi.
• Luo Ziwei arrived and told the Red-Robed Judge to wait outside the city with her father while she spoke with Gu Baishui.
• Luo Ziwei explained that her father had become a Quasi-Emperor and made himself a corpse to seek revenge, while she had been kept alive for years despite finding life exhausting.
• Luo Ziwei told Gu Baishui, "I'm going to die."

Luo Ziwei left Luoyang City with the underworld officials, while Gu Baishui remained behind and opened the box she had left him. Inside, he found a letter and a Bronze Dagger, and the letter began the story of how Li Shiyi and the Ye Clan Young Miss first met.

• Luo Ziwei reflected on her memories of Luoyang City and set out with Ox-Head, Horse-Face, Black and White Impermanence, and the Red-Robed Judge.
• Luo Ziwei left Gu Baishui a small box containing answers and a gift, then departed from Luoyang City.
• Gu Baishui opened the box and found a letter and a clean Bronze Dagger.
• The letter recounted how the Ye Clan Young Miss traveled from Xunyang to Luoyang to seek her family and met Li Shiyi in an Abandoned Temple.
• Li Shiyi explained that he had run away to prove he could travel to Qingting, but bandits robbed and beat him before he reached the temple.
• The two hungry children shared food and laughed together, and Li Shiyi fell silent when he learned how far the little beggar had traveled.

Gu Baishui read the letter recounting Li Shiyi and the little beggar’s shared past, then realized why she had traveled with him to Luoyang. Mingque’s Red-Haired Monster revealed its forbidden art and offered Gu Baishui a deal as Luoyang’s Old Saints surrounded the Old Ye Residence.

• Gu Baishui finished reading the letter and understood that the little beggar had wanted to revisit the Abandoned Temple before her death, then chose to travel to Luoyang with him.
• The Red-Haired Monster broke into the room and seized the Bronze Dagger, revealing that its soul could move between itself and Mingque through an Innate Natal Forbidden Art.
• Gu Baishui deduced that Mingque’s soul had been shattered, leaving the Red-Haired Monster with only one life and prompting it to reveal its secret in hopes of deterring him.
• The Red-Haired Monster warned that Luoyang City was no longer theirs to control as the Old Saints entered the Old Ye Residence and surrounded it.
• The Red-Haired Monster offered to make a deal with Gu Baishui as one Transmigrator to another.

Gu Baishui revealed that he was Third Mister, a disciple of Great Emperor Changsheng, and used the Gravekeeper Token to protect himself from the Saints surrounding the Old Ye Residence. He burned the letter in the box and left Lu Ziyou facing the Saints as the only person holding Li Shiyi’s bronze dagger.

• Lu Ziyou proposed that he and Gu Baishui invent a shared account of Li Shiyi’s death to conceal the dagger and the box from the Saints.
• Gu Baishui suggested killing Lu Ziyou and taking the dagger, but Lu Ziyou warned that the Saints would not trust him outside the residence.
• Gu Baishui showed Lu Ziyou an ancient token bearing the character “Three” and identified himself as a disciple of Great Emperor Changsheng.
• Lu Ziyou recognized the Gravekeeper Token and asked whether Gu Baishui was the hidden Third Mister.
• Gu Baishui opened the box and burned the letter inside, leaving Lu Ziyou’s bronze dagger as the only remaining item from the residence.

Gu Baishui exposed Lu Ziyou as a Transmigrator and revealed that Li Shiyi had been one too, expecting the Old Saints to kill Lu Ziyou. Instead, the Saints turned their attention to Gu Baishui, as his awakened Bronze Mirror revealed nearly a hundred Red-Haired Monsters lurking behind them across Luoyang City.

• The Red-Haired Monster swallowed the Bronze Dagger and persuaded Gu Baishui that neither of them could safely expose the other to Luoyang City's Old Saints.
• Gu Baishui learned that the Red-Haired Monster had arrived three years earlier and realized it had undergone Soul Transmigration, like Li Shiyi.
• At dawn, Gu Baishui left the Old Ye Residence without the dagger while Lu Ziyou emerged pale and silent, and the Old Saints prepared to search the courtyard.
• Gu Baishui tossed down the Token and told the assembled Saints that Li Shiyi's inheritance was in Lu Ziyou's belly, prompting their Spiritual Pressure and Divine Sense to cripple Lu Ziyou.
• Gu Baishui declared that Lu Ziyou and Li Shiyi were Transmigrators, but the Old Saints stared at Gu Baishui instead of Lu Ziyou.
• Gu Baishui's Bronze Mirror warned him, and his Divine Sense revealed nearly a hundred Red-Haired Monsters standing behind the Old Saints throughout Luoyang City.

A young man in white left the Scarlet Earth Forest for Luoyang City to check on his junior brother, whom he had heard was mad. The madman vanished after being swept down the Qingliang River, while an old, red-furred shadow appeared outside Luoyang and cursed him for going there.

• The young man in white told the red-haired girl he was going to Luoyang City to see whether his junior brother was truly crazy, then left the Scarlet Earth Forest.
• The red-haired girl found blood and tufts of red fur where the young man had been standing.
• A nameless madman spent two months searching along the Luo River, clutching a broken Bronze Mirror as visitors from the human sacred lands watched him.
• The madman passed out in the Qingliang River and was swept away while clutching the last piece of Bronze Mirror he had found.
• An old, hunched shadow with deep red fur appeared outside Luoyang City beneath a blood-red moon and cursed the missing madman for going to Luoyang.