Recaps

Lin Yu helped Uncle Nine respond when Ren Weiyong escaped his coffin and attacked the Ren family. Ren Tingting survived his assault thanks to Lin Yu’s Protection Talisman, and Uncle Nine faced Ren Weiyong in the Ren Mansion’s main hall.

• Lin Yu struck Ren Weiyong with an Evil-Dispelling Talisman, forcing him to flee, and gave Uncle Nine Five Thunder Talismans before they pursued him.
• Uncle Nine reached the Ren Mansion and warned Ren Fa to wake Ren Tingting, but Ren Weiyong had already broken into her room.
• Ren Tingting’s Protection Talisman repelled Ren Weiyong, and she escaped to Ren Fa and Uncle Nine.
• Uncle Nine kicked Ren Weiyong from the second floor and jumped down to fight him in the main hall.
• Uncle Nine told Ren Fa and the servants to stay upstairs and avoid letting Ren Weiyong scratch them or suck their blood.

Lin Yu, Uncle Nine, and Wen Cai fought Ren Weiyong after he attacked the Ren Mansion, and Lin Yu ultimately helped destroy him with talismans. The next morning, Ren Fa and Ren Tingting visited Uncle Nine with gifts, while Lin Yu left disappointed that the jiangshi had no corpse core.

• Lin Yu arrived at the Ren Mansion and helped Uncle Nine and Wen Cai stop Ren Weiyong from escaping.
• Lin Yu weakened Ren Weiyong with a lightning talisman, then burned him with an ordinary fire talisman at Uncle Nine's insistence.
• Ren Tingting explained how a feng shui master had harmed the Ren family, and Uncle Nine advised Ren Fa to bury his father's ashes at an auspicious site.
• Lin Yu searched Ren Weiyong's ashes for a corpse core but found none, and Uncle Nine explained that only some mutated jiangshi formed them.
• Ren Fa and Ren Tingting brought a large pile of gifts to the funeral home the next morning.

Ren Fa offered to make Lin Yu his godson, but Uncle Nine refused to protect Lin Yu’s future, and Lin Yu agreed with him. Back in his room, Lin Yu discovered that the chat group had unlocked new owner-only features, while Yao Lao continued preparing for the enemies Xiao Yan had warned him about.

• Ren Fa asked Uncle Nine to let him take Lin Yu as his godson, but Uncle Nine tactfully refused and sent Ren Fa away with his gifts.
• Uncle Nine explained that Ren Fa’s family ties could entangle Lin Yu’s fortunes and karmic virtue, and Lin Yu said he had no intention of accepting.
• Lin Yu gave Qiu Sheng a protective talisman with a Clear Spirit Spell and told him to wear it every day.
• Uncle Nine sent Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai to cultivate, while Lin Yu returned to his room to read and check the chat group.
• The chat group revealed teleportation talismans and new features visible only to Omniscient and Omnipotent, who muted Huang Rong after she called him a privilege dog.
• Yao Lao accepted Xiao Yan’s claim that he had returned from the future and secretly prepared for the enemies Xiao Yan had described.

After the chat group introduced its tier system and new teleportation rules, Lin Yu learned that a female ghost had targeted Qiu Sheng and joined Uncle Nine in searching for him. Lin Yu used his Heavenly Eye to locate Qiu Sheng, and he and Uncle Nine hurried toward him.

• Su Xiaoxiao explained the chat group's tier rankings, teleportation rules, and prohibition on harming other members, while Xiao Yan asked how tiers related to combat strength.
• Lin Yu checked the new Teleportation Talisman but decided he could not afford one, then continued studying while preparing for Dong Xiaoyu's possible arrival.
• Qiu Sheng secretly rode away despite Master forbidding him to return home that month, and Lin Yu warned Uncle Nine that a female ghost had targeted him.
• Lin Yu and Uncle Nine followed Qiu Sheng's route and realized he had become trapped inside a ghost wall.
• Lin Yu opened his Heavenly Eye, found the thread connecting him to Qiu Sheng, and guided Uncle Nine in pursuit.

Qiu Sheng fell under Dong Xiaoyu’s ghostly trap, while Lin Yu’s protection talisman failed to stop him from pursuing her. Uncle Nine intervened just as Dong Xiaoyu revealed her power and escaped his attack in a cloud of smoke.

• Dong Xiaoyu lured Qiu Sheng onto a road where he rode in circles until a talisman helped him escape.
• Dong Xiaoyu controlled a night watchman and staged an assault, prompting Qiu Sheng to knock him unconscious and escort her home.
• Uncle Nine and Lin Yu followed Qiu Sheng, and Lin Yu explained that his Heavenly Eye had detected ghost Qi around his senior brother.
• Dong Xiaoyu’s attack on Qiu Sheng was repelled by Lin Yu’s Protection Talisman, but Qiu Sheng tore it off and threw it away at her urging.
• Uncle Nine charged in with an enchanted copper-coin sword and scolded Qiu Sheng, while Dong Xiaoyu dodged the weapon and vanished behind thick smoke.

Qiu Sheng was bewitched by Dong Xiaoyu and attacked Uncle Nine, but Lin Yu helped expose her and Uncle Nine subdued her. Back at the mortuary, Qiu Sheng apologized and pleaded for Dong Xiaoyu, while Uncle Nine planned to send her to reincarnation.

• Dong Xiaoyu bewitched Qiu Sheng, who mistook Uncle Nine for A Wei and fought him while she tried to escape.
• Lin Yu struck Dong Xiaoyu with an Evil-Dispelling Talisman, and Uncle Nine broke Qiu Sheng’s bewitchment before he and Lin Yu subdued her.
• Uncle Nine trapped Dong Xiaoyu in a gourd after the ghostly illusion shattered and revealed the ruined buildings beneath it.
• Qiu Sheng apologized to Uncle Nine at the mortuary and asked what would happen to Dong Xiaoyu.
• Uncle Nine said he would send Dong Xiaoyu to be reincarnated, while she called Qiu Sheng’s name from inside the gourd.

After Uncle Nine captured Dong Xiaoyu and sent her away until the seventh-month ghost festival, Four Eyes arrived and learned what had happened. The next day, Four Eyes discovered Lin Yu’s extraordinary talent and lamented that Lin Yu was not his disciple.

• Uncle Nine put Dong Xiaoyu in his ghost room and said he would send her to reincarnate when the gates of the underworld opened on the fifteenth of the seventh month.
• Four Eyes arrived with his corpse customers, heard how Qiu Sheng had become involved with Dong Xiaoyu, and laughed until Uncle Nine threatened to kick him out.
• The next day, Uncle Nine thanked Four Eyes for teaching Lin Yu a technique, then told him Lin Yu had invited the Perfected Lord of Pure Source and Wondrous Way.
• Lin Yu listed his abilities, including drawing talismans and nearing the Daoist Realm, leaving Four Eyes dismayed that Lin Yu was not his disciple.
• Uncle Nine asked about Four Eyes's disciple Jia Le and then teased him about Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng.

Lin Yu traveled with Four Eyes as his martial uncle drove a line of walking corpses, after Uncle Nine sent him away to escape Ren Fa’s repeated matchmaking attempts. Their journey ended with Four Eyes injuring himself when he leaned backward beneath a tree and struck a stump.

• Ren Fa repeatedly visited Uncle Nine with gifts and tried to arrange a match between Lin Yu and Ren Tingting, so Uncle Nine sent Lin Yu away with Four Eyes.
• Wen Cai asked Uncle Nine to let him take Lin Yu’s place, but Qiu Sheng explained that Uncle Nine was telling him to stop daydreaming.
• Four Eyes boasted about driving corpses and slipped while showing off, knocking the corpses down as Lin Yu landed safely and helped them up.
• Lin Yu gave a tired walking corpse spiritual power, which made it stand upright again.
• Four Eyes leaned backward to lead the corpses beneath a fallen tree, ignored Lin Yu’s warning to look ahead, and struck his crotch on a stump.

Lin Yu and Four Eyes dealt with a fox spirit that tried to steal one of their corpses, then continued to Four Eyes’ cultivation ground. They arrived at dawn, where Lin Yu judged the site to be excellent feng shui, leaving Four Eyes annoyed by his familiar praise.

• Four Eyes lured the fox spirit into attacking, then repelled her with his Five Emperor Coins.
• Lin Yu used his Heavenly Eye to kill the fleeing fox spirit and recovered a demon core from her corpse.
• Four Eyes and Lin Yu rounded up the scattered corpses and resumed their journey.
• Four Eyes reassured Lin Yu that his cultivation ground was protected by their grandmaster and that the fox spirit likely had no clan.
• At dawn, they reached Four Eyes’ mountain basin, and Lin Yu praised its feng shui, echoing what his master had said before.

Lin Yu watched Four Eyes try out his new commands on the hopping corpses, which led to Four Eyes being beaten when he said “ouch.” After Lin Yu stopped the corpses and gave Four Eyes a healing talisman, Four Eyes asked him for more.

• Four Eyes found Jia Le asleep and set the hopping corpses up to punish him for neglecting his duty.
• Four Eyes commanded the corpses to strike whenever they heard “ouch” and tested the command by smashing a porcelain basin.
• Four Eyes tried to beat Jia Le, but the corpses instead attacked Four Eyes when he said “ouch.”
• Lin Yu used a talisman to stop the corpses, and Jia Le hurried away with one of them to avoid Four Eyes’s anger.
• Lin Yu placed a healing talisman on Four Eyes’s forehead, and Four Eyes asked him for more to treat his aches.

Lin Yu visited Four Eyes and helped him recover after a difficult night, then met the neighboring master and Qingqing. The master noticed Lin Yu's magical power, while Four Eyes proudly praised his talent and resumed bickering with the master.

• Four Eyes rested under Lin Yu's Healing Talismans while Jia Le arranged the corpses, and Four Eyes reflected on his hopes for his disciple.
• Four Eyes led Lin Yu and Jia Le to worship their ancestral master, then explained his unusual incense ritual as a way to aid the God-Invoking Technique.
• Jia Le told Four Eyes that the neighboring master had returned, and Four Eyes complained that the master had not come to visit him.
• The master arrived with Qingqing, and Lin Yu introduced himself while Jia Le greeted Qingqing warmly.
• The master sensed Lin Yu's magical power, and Four Eyes boasted about Lin Yu's talent as the master teased him.

Lin Yu stayed with Four Eyes, Jia Le, the master, and Qingqing, while the two old rivals traded insults and pranks before breakfast. After the meal, Lin Yu asked for a place to sleep and a study, hoping to pass the next few days quietly and possibly prevent Chin Hok’s death.

• The master introduced Qingqing to Four Eyes, Lin Yu, and Jia Le, while Qingqing and Jia Le acted awkwardly around each other.
• Jia Le and Lin Yu led Qingqing away as Four Eyes and the master resumed their rivalry, wrestling over the tea table until they exhausted themselves.
• Four Eyes used a Healing Talisman on his sore backside, then behaved politely through breakfast because Lin Yu was watching.
• Four Eyes scolded Jia Le after the meal, and Lin Yu discussed sleeping arrangements before agreeing to use the guest room.
• Lin Yu asked to read in a study and thought he might be able to save Chin Hok; Four Eyes led him to a room and opened the door.

Lin Yu learned the Heaven and Earth Spirit Imbuing Technique and used it to enchant a bagua mirror, which incinerated one of Four Eyes' corpse customers. Lin Yu and Jia Le fled to their master's house to hide from Four Eyes' anger.

• Lin Yu found and fully comprehended the Heaven and Earth Spirit Imbuing Technique in Four Eyes' dusty study.
• Lin Yu drew on the sun's power to enchant a bagua mirror, but saw no apparent change.
• Lin Yu tested the mirror on a corpse, and it erupted in golden light, reducing the corpse to ash.
• Jia Le helped Lin Yu sweep up the ash, but Four Eyes discovered it and angrily shouted about his customer.
• Jia Le and Lin Yu escaped to the master's house, where Jia Le explained what had happened and the master told them to apologize once Four Eyes had calmed down.

Lin Yu and Jia Le returned to Four Eyes to apologize after Lin Yu's spell destroyed one of his customers. Four Eyes forgave them, explained why Lin Yu's spirit-imbued Bagua mirror showed no outward glow, and Lin Yu advanced toward the Dharma Master realm by cultivating at Four Eyes' home.

• Four Eyes threatened Jia Le and Lin Yu with a club, but the Grandmaster and Qingqing stopped him from entering the house.
• Jia Le and Lin Yu brought Four Eyes dinner and apologized, and Four Eyes calmly asked to see Lin Yu's spell.
• Four Eyes learned Lin Yu had been practicing the Heaven and Earth Spirit Imbuing Technique and advised him to practice spells with an elder present.
• Lin Yu asked why his Bagua mirror did not glow, and Four Eyes explained that a perfectly imbued Dharma treasure concealed its brilliance until it encountered evil.
• Lin Yu cultivated in the richer spiritual Qi at Four Eyes' home, reached saturation, and sensed that he was close to condensing his Yin Spirit for the Dharma Master realm.

Lin Yu cultivated without risking a premature breakthrough, while Four Eyes’ feud with the master led to a prank that backfired and caused trouble for Jia Le. The next morning, Lin Yu quickly learned Jia Le’s fist technique, prompting Four Eyes to scold his disciple.

• Lin Yu finished cultivating late at night and went to sleep, while the master began reciting the Heart Sutra before dawn and kept Four Eyes awake.
• Four Eyes offered the master gold bars for his house, but when the master refused to move, Four Eyes tricked him into putting his handprint on a clay doll and took it away to prepare a prank.
• After Four Eyes’ prank backfired and left him drinking oil, he forbade Lin Yu and Jia Le from visiting the master, frustrating Jia Le about seeing Qingqing.
• Four Eyes staggered around and made Jia Le help him find the toilet, then watched Jia Le and Lin Yu practice the next morning.
• Lin Yu learned Jia Le’s fist technique after watching it once, so Four Eyes scolded Jia Le for lagging behind until Lin Yu defended him.

Lin Yu urged Four Eyes to ease up on Jia Le, whose fear of his master had become a reflex. Four Eyes tried to be kinder, but Jia Le misunderstood Lin Yu's joke about his master's “old flame” and spent lunch peppering him with questions.

• Lin Yu warned Four Eyes that his constant scolding could make Jia Le feel inadequate and develop a heart demon, prompting Four Eyes to reconsider his teaching.
• Four Eyes told Lin Yu to let Jia Le take a break, but Jia Le panicked when Lin Yu relayed the message and feared he had done something wrong.
• Lin Yu reassured Jia Le and said Four Eyes wanted fish, so Jia Le went fishing and cooked lunch while Lin Yu studied cultivation techniques.
• Four Eyes thanked Jia Le for the meal, but Jia Le assumed he was in trouble and knelt to apologize until Lin Yu explained that Four Eyes was praising him.
• Four Eyes withdrew to his room for peace and quiet, and Lin Yu jokingly told Jia Le that “Peace and Quiet” was his master's old flame.
• Jia Le believed the joke and asked Lin Yu questions about Four Eyes' supposed lover throughout the meal.

Lin Yu and Four Eyes met Chin Hok, who was transporting an imperial zombie, and Lin Yu warned him that rain could endanger the protective cord net. Chin Hok set off with glutinous rice and Lin Yu’s talismans, but Lin Yu feared his mission would go badly as thunder sounded in the distance.

• Four Eyes and Lin Yu greeted Chin Hok’s procession, and Chin Hok learned that Lin Yu was Uncle Nine’s talented disciple.
• Four Eyes recognized the coffin’s occupant as a zombie, while Lin Yu’s Heavenly Eye revealed its immense baleful Qi.
• Master Yixiu suggested removing the canopy so sunlight could weaken the zombie, but Lin Yu warned that rain could soak the cord net, and Four Eyes backed his judgment.
• Chin Hok accepted glutinous rice and Lin Yu’s Evil-Dispelling and Three Teachings True Spirit Talismans before Minister Wu led the procession onward.
• After Chin Hok departed, Lin Yu said he feared trouble was coming, and thunder sounded in the distance.

Lin Yu and Four Eyes caught up with Chin Hok’s procession as rain soaked the coffin’s talismans and ink-marker net. A strange bolt of lightning struck the coffin, awakening the jiangshi, and Lin Yu began enchanting his Bagua mirror as Four Eyes handed him his bronze sword.

• Lin Yu persuaded Four Eyes to accompany him through the forest to check on Chin Hok’s procession.
• Four Eyes and Lin Yu reached Chin Hok as heavy rain soaked the coffin’s protections, but Minister Wu initially refused to move it inside.
• Lin Yu sensed sinister lightning gathering and warned everyone to stand back before a blue bolt struck the coffin through the talismans.
• The jiangshi began forcing open the coffin, and Chin Hok, Four Eyes, and Dong, Nan, Xi, and Bei prepared to fight.
• Lin Yu took out his Bagua mirror to enchant it, and Four Eyes handed him his bronze sword and asked for help.

Lin Yu and the Taoists fought a royal zombie while he prepared his improved Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation. The formation trapped and battered the zombie, but its resistance left Lin Yu struggling to sustain it.

• Four Eyes attacked the emerging royal zombie with his enchanted bronze sword, while Chin Hok and Dong Nan Xi Bei helped restrain it with corpse-binding ropes.
• Lin Yu completed the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation as the zombie broke free of the ropes and threatened to reach the tent.
• Chin Hok used Lin Yu’s eight trigrams mirror to blast the zombie back, giving Lin Yu time to activate the formation with a talisman.
• Lin Yu’s formation trapped the zombie and unleashed its crushing force, but the creature resisted fiercely as Four Eyes and Chin Hok watched him anxiously.

Lin Yu exhausted himself to cripple the imperial zombie, and Chin Hok and Four Eyes burned it after discovering that its soul remained inside. Chin Hok suspected a Qing plan to build a zombie empire and left to warn his sect, while the young prince prepared to return with the remains.

• Lin Yu poured all his remaining spiritual power into the formation, badly injuring the imperial zombie before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Chin Hok and Four Eyes burned the weakened zombie, then realized its soul was still inside its body and discussed rumors of a Qing zombie empire.
• The young prince stopped Minister Wu from arguing over the burned remains, and Chin Hok refused to escort them back to the capital so he could return to his sect.
• Four Eyes carried the unconscious Lin Yu back with Chin Hok and the others, then scolded Jia Le for failing to help.

After Four Eyes and Chin Hok left to report the suspected Manchu plot to create zombies, Lin Yu asked the Master to guard him during a breakthrough. With the Master's help, Lin Yu condensed his Yin Spirit and entered the Dharma Master Stage at age eight.

• Four Eyes and Chin Hok departed for the Maoshan Sect to report the suspected zombie plot, leaving Jia Le to care for Lin Yu and Four Eyes' customers.
• The Master and Qingqing visited, and Jia Le boasted about Maoshan while flirting with Qingqing.
• A week later, Lin Yu asked the Master to stand guard as he prepared to break through to the Dharma Master Realm.
• The Master and Qingqing secured the room, and the Master used Buddhist chants to steady Lin Yu's soul during the painful breakthrough.
• Lin Yu condensed his Yin Spirit, which emerged from the crown of his head, marking his entry into the Dharma Master Stage.

After breaking through to Dharma Master, Lin Yu created his own version of the Maoshan Qi Refining Technique. Thunder gathered over him, and he suspected Heaven was about to strike him for inventing it, so he considered fleeing with a Teleportation Talisman.

• Lin Yu thanked Master Yixiu for protecting his spirit during his breakthrough to Dharma Master.
• Lin Yu found Jia Le asleep, woke him, and threatened to report his neglect of cultivation to their martial uncle.
• Lin Yu studied Daoist scriptures and experimented until he completed a cultivation technique suited to himself.
• Thunder suddenly boomed as dark clouds and a vortex appeared above Lin Yu, invisible to the others.
• Lin Yu panicked at the apparent heavenly retribution and considered buying a Teleportation Talisman to escape to another world.

As a deadly storm threatened Lin Yu, he escaped to Shi Hao's world and arrived in Stone Village. Willow God recognized that Lin Yu did not belong to this world, then gave him a sealed drop of power in exchange for studying his unfamiliar path, leaving him to settle in Stone Village with Shi Hao.

• Lin Yu asked the chat group for help as a lightning-filled vortex formed overhead, and Su Xiaoxiao tagged everyone to find him shelter.
• Lin Yu used a Teleportation Talisman to travel to Shi Hao's world as lightning struck, but the memorial tablet blocked the strike and sent another beam of light into his head.
• Lin Yu arrived in Stone Village, where Shi Hao greeted him warmly and showed him around.
• Willow God sensed that Lin Yu's Dao was incompatible with her world, but withdrew her branch after Shi Hao explained that he had invited him.
• Willow God sealed a drop of liquid inside Lin Yu as payment for studying his path, and Shi Hao led him back to meet the other village children.

Lin Yu was welcomed into Stone Village after inventing a story about his past, then joined Shi Hao and the other children for a lesson in Bone Script. After resting beside Shi Hao that night, Lin Yu examined the information the True Lord had given him when he was transported.

• Lin Yu told the Stone Village children that his tribe had cast him out and a vicious beast had killed his parents, and Pi Hou and the others offered him a home.
• The village chief accepted Lin Yu into Stone Village and began teaching Bone Script, warning him not to strain his frail body.
• Lin Yu and Shi Hao listened intently to the lesson until the hunting party returned at sunset and the children ran to greet their fathers.
• The chief offered Shi Hao beast milk, which Shi Hao drank while denying he wanted it, and Lin Yu played along.
• Lin Yu shared a room with Shi Hao for the night, then examined the information the True Lord had given him during his transport.

Lin Yu learned the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Transformations and realized they could help him survive the remaining two calamities. After three days in Stone Village, he returned to his own world, leaving Shi Hao determined to work harder and amazed by Lin Yu’s strength.

• Lin Yu learned Communicating with the Netherworld, then woke the next morning when Little Dot called him.
• Lin Yu ate roasted beast meat near Willow God, who warned him not to lose himself in the local Dao, and he resolved to forge his own path.
• Lin Yu recalled that the True Lord had passed him the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Transformations to help him face the Three Calamities, including the Fire and Wind Calamities still ahead.
• Lin Yu spent three days in Stone Village learning more transformations, including Carrying Mountains, and demonstrated his strength by lifting a three-meter-tall rock.
• Lin Yu said goodbye to Shi Hao and vanished when the chat group transported him away; Shi Hao resolved to train harder.