Chapter Summaries

After a year and a half of relentless cultivation and study, Lin Yu reached Refining Spirit and Returning to Emptiness and turned ten. On his birthday, an opera troupe arrived in Ren Family Town, prompting Qiu Sheng and Uncle Nine to show off their floral signs for the singer Lan Guifang.

• Lin Yu and Uncle Nine devoted themselves to cultivation, while Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng were made to study and train each day.
• Lin Yu broke through to Refining Spirit and Returning to Emptiness, aided by the Innate Xirang and the Shangqing Dadong Scripture.
• Lin Yu noticed that his accumulated knowledge made him analyze objects automatically and grow increasingly rational.
• On July 13, Lin Yu marked his tenth birthday and the second anniversary of his arrival in the world.
• Qiu Sheng showed Lin Yu an elaborate floral sign he and Wen Cai had made for Lan Guifang, and Lin Yu criticized its aesthetics.
• Uncle Nine entered with his own small floral sign, unaware that Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng were hiding theirs behind their backs.

Uncle Nine coveted Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng’s enormous floral tribute and tricked them into giving it up by stamping it with his name. After claiming it, he ordered them to fold ingots before they could attend the opera, leaving Lin Yu to refuse to help.

• Uncle Nine asked Wen Cai to explain what made a floral tribute impressive, and Wen Cai revealed the enormous heart-shaped tribute he and Qiu Sheng had made.
• Uncle Nine admired the tribute and tried to claim it, but Qiu Sheng hugged it and pleaded to keep it.
• Uncle Nine distracted Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng with a basket of ingots, then accidentally—or so he claimed—stamped their tribute with his seal.
• Uncle Nine handed Qiu Sheng his own small tribute and seal, then walked off with the large tribute bearing his name.
• Lin Yu refused to help Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng fold the ingots and warned the spirit children not to help them either.

Lin Yu found that Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng had refrained from asking the spirit infants to fold paper ingots, and he decided their improved behavior meant he could help them grow stronger. He spent the afternoon cultivating and contacted Shi Hao to ask about buying ordinary beast blood, while jokingly threatening to visit and beat him.

• Lin Yu found the spirit infants idle and learned Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng had not asked them to help fold ingots.
• Lin Yu told the spirit infants to wait peacefully for reincarnation and decided he would secretly help his senior brothers with the ingots later.
• Lin Yu resolved to strengthen Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng now that they had become more restrained.
• Lin Yu cultivated and read alone at the mortuary, then messaged Shi Hao to ask about buying ordinary ferocious beast blood.
• Shi Hao directed Lin Yu to the Chat Group store and asked for a greeting gift, prompting Lin Yu to threaten to visit and kick his butt.

Lin Yu prepared ferocious beast blood essence from Shi Hao for Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng, removing its incompatible cultivation laws while leaving the remnant souls. After helping his senior brothers with their work, he revealed the blood essence and explained to Uncle Nine that he planned to use it to strengthen their foundations.

• Lin Yu paid Shi Hao two-fifths of the blood essence's value in mall points and selected three milder drops for Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng.
• Lin Yu removed the blood essence's cultivation laws that could clash with his senior brothers' system, while preserving the beasts' remnant souls.
• Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng returned to the mortuary and began folding gold ingots; Lin Yu joined them, then summoned paper figures to finish the work.
• Lin Yu showed Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng the three drops of ferocious beast blood essence, and they reacted to its powerful presence.
• Uncle Nine arrived, recognized that the blood essence came from another world, and heard Lin Yu explain that he intended to use it to temper his senior brothers' bodies.

Lin Yu prepared medicinal baths infused with essence blood to temper Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng’s bodies, while Uncle Nine supervised. After the two emerged stronger, Lin Yu offered Uncle Nine another drop of essence blood, then returned to cultivating as Uncle Nine called his senior brothers to demonstrate their gains.

• Lin Yu prepared two cauldrons of golden medicinal liquid with herbs and essence blood, then explained that Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng would absorb its power through a body-tempering bath.
• Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng climbed into the cauldrons and endured the scalding liquid and attacking beast phantoms while circulating their cultivation techniques.
• The beast phantoms weakened into power that the two disciples absorbed, and they emerged with greatly strengthened bodies.
• Lin Yu offered Uncle Nine a drop of essence blood, but Uncle Nine declined it, so Lin Yu saved it for Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng.
• Lin Yu returned to his room to cultivate through the night, while Uncle Nine called Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng to test their strength.

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.