Chapter Summaries

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.