Recaps

Uncle Nine humbled Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng in a sparring lesson, then intensified their training after the medicinal bath strengthened them. A servant from a neighboring town arrived to adopt a spirit infant, and the chapter ended when she reached for the three demon infants.

• Uncle Nine defeated Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng in a few moves, taught them to rely on technique and balance, and ordered them to hold a horse stance.
• Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng found their training easier after the medicinal bath, while Lin Yu explained that their rapid gains would eventually slow.
• Uncle Nine put Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng through several days of grueling special training.
• A servant from the Marshal's residence came to adopt a spirit infant for her pregnant young madam, who had heard about the hall from Partridge.
• The servant reached for the red cloth covering the three demon infants, and Uncle Nine urgently warned her not to adopt them.

Lin Yu watched Uncle Nine reunite with Mi Qilian when her sister Nianjiao asked him to treat her brother-in-law’s strange illness. Before Uncle Nine left, Lin Yu gave Taoist Huang a protective jade pendant he had made himself.

• Uncle Nine stopped a pregnant woman from worshipping three spirit infants, and Lin Yu used his Heavenly Eye to check that she appeared ordinary.
• Taoist Huang warned Uncle Nine that zombies in Tengteng Town threatened nearby people, but Uncle Nine said a sect formation contained them while a larger matter took priority.
• Nianjiao asked Uncle Nine to treat her brother-in-law, and Uncle Nine reacted emotionally when he learned her sister was Mi Qilian.
• Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng teased Uncle Nine about his old feelings for Mi Qilian as he prepared to leave with Nianjiao.
• Lin Yu gave Taoist Huang a rune-covered jade pendant for protection, explaining to Uncle Nine that he had made it by stacking more than a hundred talismans.

Uncle Nine, Lin Yu, and the others visited Marshal Lung, whose corpse-toxin infection was obvious despite his denials. Lin Yu treated him and demonstrated his strength, then Uncle Nine sampled sashimi after Lin Yu assured him it was safe.

• Nianjiao brought Uncle Nine to the Marshal's residence to examine Marshal Lung, who denied being ill despite signs of corpse toxin.
• Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai spotted puncture wounds on Marshal Lung's neck, and Lin Yu pressed a talisman against them, making the Marshal cry out in pain.
• Marshal Lung drew his gun on Lin Yu, but Lin Yu swiftly took it and crushed it into an iron ball.
• Uncle Nine apologized for Lin Yu's rough treatment, and Marshal Lung invited everyone to eat sashimi.
• Lin Yu gave his sashimi to Uncle Nine, who tasted it and trembled with delight while pretending a draft had made him cold.

Uncle Nine investigated Marshal Lung’s corpse poison and learned that the marshal’s father was kept in the village ancestral hall. There, Uncle Nine and Lin Yu discovered that the village’s Immortals Splashing Water feng shui formation required coffins to be suspended above the ground, leaving the cause of the marshal’s illness to be uncovered.

• Uncle Nine questioned Marshal Lung about his recent activities and learned that his father had died half a year earlier and was in the ancestral hall.
• Lin Yu warned Uncle Nine about the mustard, and Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng suffered after eating it.
• Mi Qilian arrived, reunited with Uncle Nine, and explained that Marshal Lung had developed a strange illness that resisted treatment.
• Uncle Nine examined the village’s Immortals Splashing Water feng shui and explained that it brought wealth but harmed the health of people and livestock.
• Marshal Lung led the group to the ancestral hall, where they saw coffins suspended above copper basins of water to keep them from absorbing Earth Qi.

Uncle Nine identified Marshal Lung’s father as a jiangshi and explained that the marshal’s illness came from being bitten by him. As they waited for nightfall, the marshal ordered his guards to shoot anyone who emerged before him, while Uncle Nine and his disciples suffered from diarrhea.

• Uncle Nine discovered that Marshal Lung’s father had become a jiangshi after his coffin touched the ground, and Qiu Sheng tried to inhale its Corpse Qi until Uncle Nine stopped him.
• Uncle Nine explained that the jiangshi had bitten Marshal Lung and proposed luring it out at night to use its teeth as a cure; Marshal Lung agreed but ordered his guards to shoot anyone who came out before him.
• Uncle Nine caught two bullets when he went to the toilet, then rushed inside, while Marshal Lung dismissed the guards and repeated his shoot-on-sight order.
• Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng developed diarrhea too and used a vase as a toilet because they feared the guards’ guns.
• After night fell, the guards ran out of ammunition shooting at Uncle Nine, while Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng stayed inside after a bullet whizzed past them.

Lin Yu used Marshal Lung to lure his father’s jiangshi out of its coffin, then toyed with both of them while trying to pull out the jiangshi’s teeth. After Uncle Nine accidentally punched the battered jiangshi, it tried to flee back into its coffin.

• Marshal Lung panicked at the thought of facing his father’s jiangshi, but Uncle Nine had Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng tie him to a pillar as bait.
• The jiangshi burst from its coffin, and Lin Yu told Marshal Lung to hold his breath so it could not sense him.
• Lin Yu secretly teased Marshal Lung and repeatedly lured the jiangshi back toward him until the marshal gasped for breath and was seized by his father.
• Lin Yu pulled the jiangshi away, retrieved pliers, and ordered Marshal Lung to hold it down, but the jiangshi kept lunging at him.
• Lin Yu flung the jiangshi toward Uncle Nine, who punched it and left it battered enough to try to escape into its coffin.

Lin Yu knocked the zombie’s teeth out for Marshal Lung to use as an antidote, while Uncle Nine destroyed the zombie despite Marshal Lung’s attempts to protect it. The next morning, Marshal Lung brewed the teeth into water and tricked Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng into drinking it.

• Lin Yu smashed the zombie’s face and handed its fallen teeth to Marshal Lung, then crushed one tooth into powder for him.
• Marshal Lung tried to stop Uncle Nine from destroying the zombie because he wanted to save its teeth, but Uncle Nine drove him aside and killed it with his peachwood sword.
• Marshal Lung ordered guards to return his father’s remains to the coffin, then went back to the manor to rest before treatment.
• The next morning, Marshal Lung had the zombie teeth steeped in water and drank a cup of the antidote.
• Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng drank the tooth water without knowing what it was, and Marshal Lung revealed the ingredients after they had swallowed it.
• Uncle Nine told the horrified Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng that the tooth powder was an antidote for corpse poison and would not harm them.

Marshal Lung recovered after drinking the medicine made with a zombie’s tooth, and Uncle Nine left with Lin Yu and his disciples. Back at the mortuary, Lin Yu devised new stake-running games that pushed Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng into another round of training.

• Marshal Lung began dancing after drinking the medicine, and Uncle Nine explained that the treatment was making him move around.
• Marshal Lung ordered Uncle Nine and the others to leave, but Mi Qilian accompanied them to the door and apologized to Uncle Nine.
• Lin Yu used his Heavenly Eye to inspect the maid and saw that the dark thread around her was fading.
• Uncle Nine made Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng train after returning to the mortuary, and Lin Yu summoned wooden stakes for them to run around.
• Lin Yu proposed a talisman game on the stakes, and Uncle Nine sent him down so Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng could play first.

After realizing his perfected Primordial Spirit could help refine his body, Lin Yu began imprinting divinity into his cells. He then accepted an emergency mission to rescue Su Xiaoxiao and arrived with Goku, Xiao Yan, and Shi Hao at a dilapidated school that appeared to be alive.

• Uncle Nine told Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng to keep practicing on the wooden stakes, while Lin Yu returned to cultivating.
• Lin Yu reasoned that he had nearly followed the path of a Corpse Liberation Immortal by perfecting his Primordial Spirit before his body, and began using its power to refine his cells.
• Su Xiaoxiao called for help in the group, and an emergency rescue mission appeared after she stopped responding.
• Lin Yu accepted the mission at the last second, and Goku, Xiao Yan, and Shi Hao also joined the rescue.
• The four arrived at a mist-shrouded, dilapidated school, where Lin Yu saw that its buildings were living entities.

Lin Yu used his Primordial Spirit to investigate the self-contained eerie campus and found Su Xiaoxiao trapped in classroom 404, then helped her resist its influence. After he joined Shi Hao and Xiao Yan, the school’s rules summoned the dean of discipline, whose attack enveloped Lin Yu in shadow tentacles; Lin Yu concluded that defeating the entity would require destroying the campus’s rules or the campus itself.

• Lin Yu surveyed the campus with his Primordial Spirit, found Su Xiaoxiao near death in classroom 404, and helped her regain her senses.
• Lin Yu’s Primordial Spirit passed beyond the campus barrier and revealed an eerie modern world containing countless hidden small worlds.
• As Lin Yu, Su Xiaoxiao, Shi Hao, and Xiao Yan explored, four bloody school rules appeared, and the dean of discipline emerged to confront them.
• Lin Yu tried to tell the dean that they were lost, prompting the rules to change to forbid lying in front of him.
• The dean attacked Lin Yu with resentment-filled black tentacles, which wrapped around him despite his Primordial Spirit barrier.
• Lin Yu recognized the campus as a rule-based system and reasoned that defeating it meant destroying its rules or the campus itself.

Lin Yu was trapped by the dean’s rule-bearing tentacles and discovered that the rules came from a terrifying entity capable of erasing existence. He destroyed the tentacles with a strike that severed the entity’s probing power, then decided to recover with his companions before facing a likely stronger attack.

• Lin Yu touched a rule crystal with his Primordial Spirit, lost the wisp to its power of erasure, and realized the rules’ creator was far stronger than him.
• The dean’s tentacles spread rule crystals that burned away Lin Yu’s attacks, but he and his heavenly soldiers opened a gap and escaped.
• Lin Yu saw Goku, Xiao Yan, and the others fighting ordinary tentacles, while the red rule-bearing tentacles pursued him.
• Lin Yu combined his Primordial Spirit, the power of heaven and earth, and the Heavenly Eye to slash the blood-red rules, halting and dissolving the tentacles.
• Lin Yu told his companions that the entity had only been testing him, then decided they should recover their Primordial Spirit power before its next attack.

Lin Yu, Son Goku, Xiao Yan, Shi Hao, and Su Xiaoxiao entered the principal’s office after the loudspeaker ordered them to appear. Lin Yu identified a trap in the principal’s rules, but the principal attacked when they refused to answer, leaving the group preparing to fight back.

• The loudspeaker ordered Lin Yu, Son Goku, Xiao Yan, and Shi Hao to report to the principal’s office, and Su Xiaoxiao warned them that the principal was dangerous.
• School rules declared that refusing the loudspeaker’s orders meant withdrawing from school and dying, so Su Xiaoxiao reluctantly joined the others on their way to the office.
• Goku opened the principal’s office door, where the group found a black figure, a bloodstained principal’s badge, and photographs of students with their eyes gouged out.
• Lin Yu used his Heavenly Eye to learn that the principal could attack students who admitted they were students or anyone who disrespected him, so the group stayed silent.
• The principal’s black mist spread through the office and pressured Su Xiaoxiao, while Lin Yu reassured her that they could fight back; the principal accused them of disrespect.

Lin Yu and the others escaped the principal’s office and faced the campus transformed into a giant monster beneath a blood-red sky. After their attacks failed to stop its regeneration, Lin Yu began inscribing golden rules to oppose the campus’s black rules.

• Xiao Yan used Heavenly Flame to burn back the principal’s black mist, and Lin Yu led the group out of the office.
• The group saw the campus transform, with the teaching building growing flesh-and-concrete limbs and towering over the square.
• Goku, Shi Hao, and Xiao Yan attacked the giant building monster, while Lin Yu shielded the group from the resulting shock wave.
• The monster began reassembling, and Lin Yu used his Heavenly Eye to discover it could not die while the campus’s rules remained.
• Lin Yu began inscribing golden rules in the void, causing the black mist to shrink back as he struggled against the existing rules.

Lin Yu inscribed a golden rule that let ordinary attacks destroy the campus’s black rules, and the group cleared the eerie campus. A vast red eye then appeared in the darkness, suppressing their powers, and Lin Yu used the golden rule to shield the five from its attack.

• Lin Yu inscribed a golden rule stating that rules could be destroyed by ordinary attacks, and the golden crystal empowered Xiao Yan, Goku, Shi Hao, and Su Xiaoxiao.
• Goku, Xiao Yan, and Shi Hao used their enhanced attacks to shatter the black rules and disperse the campus’s black mist while Su Xiaoxiao guarded Lin Yu.
• A gigantic red eye opened in the darkness, and its pressure began collapsing the small world and suppressing the group’s powers.
• Lin Yu gathered the golden rule into a barrier over the five, and the eye sent scarlet rule chains together into a gigantic black hand that struck toward them.

Lin Yu and the others failed to destroy the giant hand of rules, so he used every escape technique he had to get them out of the collapsing eerie campus. They reached a city street in the Dragon Nation, where Lin Yu warned Goku not to challenge the entity again.

• Goku, Shi Hao, Su Xiaoxiao, and Xiao Yan combined their strongest attacks with Lin Yu’s golden rule, but the giant eye strengthened the hand and crushed their assault.
• Lin Yu stopped the others from attacking again and used several escape techniques to carry all five out of the ruined small world.
• The giant hand struck the eerie campus after their escape, collapsing the world and swallowing it into a pitch-black void.
• The five appeared on a city street in the Dragon Nation, where Lin Yu snatched a passerby’s cola and caught his breath.
• Lin Yu explained that the giant hand was likely connected to the eerie resurgence in Su Xiaoxiao’s world and warned Goku that he would be erased if he fought it without help.
• Goku suggested borrowing Lin Yu’s golden rule to fight the entity, but Su Xiaoxiao kicked him and forbade him from drawing it back to her world.

After the group’s immense energy display drew State Security’s attention, Lin Yu shared his golden rule with Chen An to help Dragon Nation fight the bizarre entities. The world’s will rewarded Lin Yu with merit, revealing that the bizarre rules were invaders from outside.

• Su Xiaoxiao showed the group reports about the energy fluctuations and the sealed-off area, while Shi Hao asked how her phone worked.
• Chen An and State Security secured the area and took Su Xiaoxiao and the others to a safe house for questioning.
• Su Xiaoxiao described their experience at the bizarre campus, and Chen An identified Lin Yu as the key to what had happened.
• Lin Yu revealed his golden rule and gave Chen An a portion so State Security could cultivate it and attack the bizarre rules.
• After Chen An absorbed the rule, Lin Yu received a vast force of merit and realized the bizarre rules were invaders that the world’s will had been resisting.

Lin Yu returned from Su Xiaoxiao's world and refined the rule he had created with the Power of Merit, forming a powerful divine ability. Nearly a week later, Uncle Nine received an urgent plea for help from Four Eyes about a rampaging golden-armored corpse and set out with Lin Yu.

• Lin Yu gave Su Xiaoxiao a strand of golden rule and warned her that using it could draw Him down before he and the others returned to their world.
• Lin Yu checked himself for contamination, received 50,000 points from the Chat Group, and found that his rule was difficult to use outside Su Xiaoxiao's world.
• Lin Yu infused the rule with the Power of Merit and Dao arts, transforming it into a divine ability that could bind and purify evil, form a defensive domain, and strike down enemies.
• Lin Yu tested the golden chain on a ghost soldier and purified it completely.
• Nearly a week later, Uncle Nine showed Lin Yu Four Eyes's message asking for help against a rampaging golden-armored corpse, then told him to pack their gear so they could leave at once.

Lin Yu accompanied Uncle Nine to Black Wind Pass to rescue Four Eyes from a Golden Armored Corpse and its horde of zombies. They found Four Eyes badly wounded, healed him, and learned that their enemy was a powerful Five Elements Zombie.

• Uncle Nine refused to bring Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng, but agreed to take Lin Yu to confront the Golden Armored Corpse.
• Uncle Nine used the Maoshan Thousand-Li Tracking Technique to guide them to Black Wind Pass, where Lin Yu sensed that no living people remained nearby.
• Uncle Nine and Lin Yu reached a mountain god temple filled with walking corpses, and Four Eyes nearly attacked them before recognizing Uncle Nine.
• Uncle Nine treated Four Eyes' corpse-poison wounds, and Lin Yu healed his injuries with the Medicine divine ability.
• Four Eyes explained that the Golden Armored Corpse was a Five Elements Zombie whose metal attribute gave it powerful defenses and control over walking corpses.

Uncle Nine, Four Eyes, and Lin Yu prepared two formations to trap and subdue the thousand-year-old Five Elements Golden Armored Corpse. Lin Yu’s paper figures and talismans let them complete the Six Ding and Six Jia Formation, and both formations were ready for the night’s battle.

• Uncle Nine decided they would lure out the Five Elements Golden Armored Corpse at night and use a Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation against it.
• Four Eyes proposed adding a Six Ding and Six Jia Formation, but Uncle Nine pointed out they lacked the twelve people needed to guard its positions.
• Lin Yu created twelve lifelike paper figures, allowing Four Eyes to set up the additional formation around the first.
• When they ran out of talisman paper, Lin Yu supplied talismans drawn with the Heaven-Reaching Talisman and completed the remaining positions.
• Both formations lit up and concealed themselves, ready to face the enemy that night.

Uncle Nine, Four Eyes, and Lin Yu used animal blood and their living presence to lure the nearby walking corpses into two formations. The horde arrived after dark, and the formations and Lin Yu and Uncle Nine’s attacks began destroying the zombies as Four Eyes cheered from the rear.

• Uncle Nine concluded that few living creatures remained nearby and sent Lin Yu and Four Eyes to gather animal blood for the lure.
• Lin Yu transformed stones into clay jars with the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts, surprising Four Eyes, then he and Four Eyes returned with jars of blood after searching the woods.
• Uncle Nine activated a Ki-Attracting Talisman on a blood jar and spread the blood scent through the woods to draw in the walking corpses.
• The walking corpses surged toward the temple after dark, and Uncle Nine, Lin Yu, and Four Eyes took their places in the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation and the Six Ding and Six Jia Formation.
• Both formations burned walking corpses to ash as Lin Yu bound and purified zombies and Uncle Nine fought through the horde.
• Four Eyes retreated to the rear and cheered for Uncle Nine and Lin Yu without throwing the talismans in his hand.

Uncle Nine and Lin Yu fought the intelligent Thousand-Year Five Elements Gold-Armored Corpse, with Uncle Nine overwhelming it in a brutal fistfight. The battered corpse could barely stand, and Lin Yu prepared to take his turn.

• A Golden Armored Corpse emerged and cleared a path through the walking corpses, prompting Four Eyes to recognize it and warn Uncle Nine and Lin Yu.
• Uncle Nine attacked the corpse while Lin Yu restrained its arms with golden chains, and their combined blow shattered its head armor without injuring it.
• The corpse charged at Lin Yu, but Lin Yu lashed it backward with his chains and broke the rest of its head armor.
• Uncle Nine stopped Lin Yu from finishing the corpse and battered it with his fists until its armor was wrecked and one arm was torn off.
• Four Eyes asked Lin Yu whether Uncle Nine had received power from the Patriarch, and Lin Yu said his master would be even more terrifying if he got serious.
• Uncle Nine declined to let Four Eyes try fighting the corpse, and Lin Yu readied his golden chains to take his turn.

Lin Yu used his golden chain, the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation, and the Innate Xirang’s earth power to destroy the Golden Armored Corpse. Uncle Nine and Four Eyes watched as Lin Yu’s final strike reduced the corpse to ash and left the surrounding ground collapsed.

• The Golden Armored Corpse reattached its severed arm and tried to drain Lin Yu’s Qi and blood, but Lin Yu’s chain burned away its Corpse Qi.
• Lin Yu circled the corpse and repeatedly lashed it with the chain, breaking its armor and severing its newly restored arm.
• Lin Yu activated the earth element of the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation, and earthen spikes pinned the Golden Armored Corpse to the ground.
• Lin Yu struck the trapped corpse with his earth-powered golden chain, crushing its body and burning it with the Golden Light of Merit.
• Uncle Nine and Four Eyes watched as the Golden Armored Corpse disintegrated and the surrounding ground collapsed from the force of Lin Yu’s attack.

Lin Yu, Uncle Nine, and Four Eyes destroyed the remaining walking corpses and traced the Golden Armored Corpse to a half-collapsed ancient tomb near Black Wind Pass. They found damaged Sha-Sealing Talismans at the entrance and prepared to investigate the tomb for other dangers.

• Lin Yu activated the Six Ding and Six Jia Formation and burned the remaining walking corpses to ash.
• Uncle Nine asked Four Eyes where he had encountered the Golden Armored Corpse, and Four Eyes recalled a half-collapsed tomb west of Black Wind Pass.
• Uncle Nine reasoned that the tomb had nurtured the Golden Armored Corpse and might contain other evil things, so the three set out to investigate.
• At the tomb entrance, Uncle Nine found ancient Sha-Sealing Talismans beneath the clay and concluded that someone had damaged them, allowing the Golden Armored Corpse to escape.
• Four Eyes tightened his grip on his peachwood sword and asked whether they were going inside.

Uncle Nine, Lin Yu, and Four Eyes entered the ancient tomb and overcame its working traps before uncovering records of a thousand-year plan to create a Five Elements Golden Armored Corpse. A powerful surge of Yin baleful Qi from the main burial chamber revealed that someone was already inside.

• Uncle Nine identified the tomb's landscape as a site where diverted water channeled Yin baleful Qi into the tomb, then led Lin Yu and Four Eyes inside.
• Uncle Nine triggered a quicksand and crossbow-bolt trap and crossed it safely, while Lin Yu found the formation core and Four Eyes disabled the mechanisms.
• The group found corpse-refining materials and a record stating that King Yue of Donghai had planned to raise a Five Elements Golden Armored Corpse to open the Yin Coffin after a thousand years.
• Uncle Nine led the others toward the main tomb, where a surge of Yin baleful Qi revealed a concealing formation and the presence of someone inside.

Lin Yu, Uncle Nine, and Four Eyes discovered that the tomb’s array had been altered to turn the emperor’s Dragon Qi into a force that would destroy cultivators. The Three Miao tomb guardian awakened the emperor’s corpse and fused his soul with it, leaving the three to fight the newly risen enemy.

• The Three Miao tomb guardian told Uncle Nine and Four Eyes that the emperor’s corpse lay inside the coffin and revealed the ancient plan to use imperial Dragon Qi to restore Spiritual Qi.
• Lin Yu discovered that the Slay the Dragon and Dispel the Sha Spirit-Reversing Array had been altered to gather and nurture Sha Qi, and the guardian declared his intent to make the emperor’s corpse destroy the cultivation world.
• The guardian activated the array, and Lin Yu tried to restrain the cracking coffin with golden chains while Uncle Nine attacked the guardian and Four Eyes invited a grandmaster to possess him.
• The emperor’s corpse burst out of the coffin, the guardian died, and his soul fused with the corpse after Uncle Nine and Lin Yu failed to stop it.
• Uncle Nine attacked with lightning as Lin Yu used his Heavenly Eye, Mountain Shaking, and Kunpeng Precious Technique to block the corpse’s palm and unleash a barrage of golden wind blades.