Chapter Summaries

Chu Tianshu left Fang Jun to watch Zhu Heng’s corpse and tracked down Kong Wenju, who had stolen his grandfather’s ancient book. After disarming Kong and securing his bag, Chu questioned him about the evil spirit and the precious jade that had led him to Macau.

• Chu Tianshu told Fang Jun to keep watch over Zhu Heng’s corpse, then ran toward the place where Zhu Heng had been hiding.
• The hired people saw Zhu Heng’s corpse and left, while Manager Wang wondered whether anything had been left at the hiding place.
• Chu Tianshu detected poisonous gas behind a load-bearing wall and used his technique to disperse it before confronting Kong Wenju.
• Chu Tianshu identified himself as Old Chu the shamanic physician’s grandson and forced Kong Wenju to put down his bag and crawl away from it.
• Chu Tianshu asked Kong Wenju to explain where the precious jade came from, what he had experienced while possessed, and why he had gone to Macau.

Kong Wenju told Chu Tianshu how ancient jade had awakened his powers and led him to Macau, where an evil spirit from the Wanli-era cult leader Liu Tianxu had taken hold of him. After Fang Jun arrived, the group decided to kill the spirit, and Chu Tianshu lunged to strike it first.

• Kong Wenju explained that ancient jade had heightened his ability to sense antiques and detect and collect toxins, and that he traced the jade to Liu Tianxu, a Ming Dynasty Dragon Flower Cult Leader.
• Kong Wenju recalled abandoning his home and stealing antiques, then angrily complained that Hong Ying's younger brother had mishandled a Tang Bohu fan painting.
• Chu Tianshu observed that Kong Wenju's evil spirit was weaker and more disordered than Zhu Heng's, while Fang Jun brought Zhu Heng's wrapped corpse to the building.
• Fang Jun identified himself as a Special Investigation Bureau officer and said they should kill the evil spirit inside Kong Wenju rather than spare him.
• Fang Jun explained that the Bureau killed evil spirits in sets to cripple them and track their traces afterward, and Chu Tianshu thrust two fingers toward Kong Wenju's spleen to kill the spirit.

Chu Tianshu refined Toad Art Palm Thunder into a dangerous method that used lightning to purge the organs, then recovered his grandfather’s annotated witch-medicine manual and joined Fang Jun in tracking another precious jade evil spirit. Their search led them to an office worker drinking milk pouches, but the test tubes showed that the target was still farther away.

• Chu Tianshu used the two precious jade evil spirits to refine Toad Art Palm Thunder, whose new method called for drawing lightning through the body to cleanse the organs.
• Fang Jun returned Chu Tianshu’s annotated manual, and Chu Tianshu placed it in the Special Investigation Bureau’s safe before agreeing to continue investigating evil spirits.
• Fang Jun used two test tubes containing traces from Zhu Heng and Kong Wenju to track the Longhua Kidney Jade through Macau.
• The test tubes led Chu Tianshu and Fang Jun to an office building, where they heard a worker making chewing sounds at a desk.
• Chu Tianshu stopped Fang Jun from attacking and found the worker sucking milk from bitten-open pouches; the worker said he was working overtime.

Wang Zifang reported to the Dragon Flower Cult Leader, Liu Tianxu, that the Spleen Jade’s host had died, while Liu Tianxu failed to locate the Kidney Jade. A silver-haired stranger confronted them and urged Liu Tianxu to focus on contacting the God of Longhua; elsewhere, Little Qin returned to the Year-Eating Hotel and heard that its boss was still searching Macau for Old Man Nie.

• Wang Zifang told Liu Tianxu that the Spleen Jade’s host, a psychiatric patient, had died after government agents intervened on Hengqin Island.
• Liu Tianxu tried to trace the Kidney Jade through the Heart Jade and Liver Jade but found its connection faint and elusive.
• A silver-haired man entered Wang Zifang’s basement with two companions, identified Liu Tianxu, and urged him to renew his efforts to communicate with the God of Longhua.
• Liu Tianxu fell silent as the silver-haired man’s presence pressed against his own, leaving Wang Zifang caught between two opposing forces.
• Little Qin returned to the Year-Eating Hotel and told the long-haired, scarred boss that the job on Hengqin Island had nearly killed her.
• The hotel boss said Su Ha had proposed blowing up the Nie Family’s biggest casino, but he had refused and remained convinced Old Man Nie was still in Macau.

Chu Tianshu and Fang Jun investigated office worker Yin Fengxin, whose unusual energy and milk-drinking were linked to the Kidney Jade Evil Spirit. Chu Tianshu realized Yin Fengxin had not resisted the spirit’s influence but redirected it, and suspected the man had already died once when the jade revived.

• Chu Tianshu and Fang Jun noticed the test tubes had turned transparent, indicating the three remaining Viscera Precious Jade relics had formed a smaller closed loop.
• Chu Tianshu questioned Yin Fengxin, who described his clerical job and said he had recently begun sleeping only four hours, working more, and drinking over a case of milk each day.
• Yin Fengxin admitted his sexual urges had intensified but said he had suppressed them to focus on earning money and advancing at work.
• Fang Jun admired Yin Fengxin’s self-control, but Chu Tianshu realized he had redirected the Kidney Jade Evil Spirit’s influence toward work and suspected he had suffered sudden death when the jade revived.

Chu Tianshu arranged for Yin Fengxin to take time off and secretly resolved to try separating the Kidney Jade Evil Spirit from him himself. On the ride to Yin Fengxin’s home, Chu Tianshu fell asleep and encountered an ancient man in a dream who warned against seeking help from ghosts and gods.

• Doctor Jiang concluded that Yin Fengxin’s injuries were serious and that he would die with the evil spirit inside him in about fifteen days, but the Special Investigation Bureau could not treat him.
• Fang Jun and Chu Tianshu concealed Yin Fengxin’s condition and arranged for him to take leave as a public model example so he could recuperate.
• Yin Fengxin wondered why he had been chosen, and Chu Tianshu reassured him that he was a good person.
• Chu Tianshu decided to try separating the Kidney Jade Evil Spirit from Yin Fengxin and rode with Fang Jun and Yin Fengxin to inspect his home.
• Chu Tianshu dreamed of Macau’s feng shui manifestations, fought off lions, tigers, and pythons, then encountered an ancient man preaching, “Do not seek help from ghosts and gods!”

Chu Tianshu examined Yin Fengxin’s cramped home and learned about the jade and painting his mother had left him. He identified the painting as a possible work connected to Li Shizhen and resolved to save Yin Fengxin from the evil spirit and help him build a business.

• Chu Tianshu and Fang Jun visited Yin Fengxin’s container home, where Chu Tianshu noted that Yin had slept unusually well in his bed.
• Yin Fengxin discovered the jade his mother had left him was missing and told Chu Tianshu and Fang Jun how his mother had protected it from his gambling father.
• Chu Tianshu examined Yin Fengxin’s painting and recognized its seal, “Binh Mountain Recluse,” as Li Shizhen’s sobriquet.
• Chu Tianshu and Fang Jun tested the painting with their Mind Power; it absorbed Chu Tianshu’s power but rejected Fang Jun’s.
• Chu Tianshu concluded that Yin Fengxin had resisted the evil spirit through his own will and vowed to separate him from it and bring him into a business venture.

At Fang Jun’s house, Chu Tianshu set up an electric shock training machine to help Yin Fengxin recover and to train his own internal organs. The chapter left Chu Tianshu enduring the current as he tried to hear the thunder inside his body.

• Fang Jun explained that his birth parents had worked for Uncle Nie, who took him in after his family suffered a disaster.
• Chu Tianshu opened the box containing the electric shock training machine and carried it inside to plug it into a wall socket.
• Chu Tianshu and Fang Jun discussed Yin Fengxin’s chances of becoming a ghost and how a special playing card might be used to nurture one.
• Fang Jun offered to seek out a suitable playing card in case Yin Fengxin needed ghost-nurturing methods.
• Chu Tianshu attached the machine’s pads to acupoints on his wrists and ankles, then used the current while practicing Boxer Aperture Opening and Rapid Progress Breathing Method.

Chu Tianshu cultivated the internal-organ boxing art and used acupuncture and medicine to treat Yin Fengxin, whose condition gradually improved. As Fang Jun went to collect materials for ghost-nurturing playing cards, Chu Tianshu sensed a strange change in the house.

• Chu Tianshu entered a state of cultivation, stirring up wind-and-thunder sensations within his body, and Fang Jun recognized that he had reached the state.
• After cultivating for hours, Chu Tianshu restored his Mind Power with the Secret Incantations of Vertical and Horizontal and examined Yin Fengxin's painting, but it showed no response.
• Yin Fengxin offered Chu Tianshu the painting, then received another painful acupuncture treatment.
• Over the next week, Chu Tianshu prescribed medicine, cultivated, and treated Yin Fengxin, who began sleeping eight hours while Chu Tianshu grew more confident about his recovery.
• Fang Jun told Chu Tianshu that the custom paper for the ghost-nurturing playing cards was ready and left to collect it.
• Half an hour after Fang Jun left, Chu Tianshu sensed a strange change in the air inside the house, like the scent of a snapped willow branch.

Su Ha attacked Chu Tianshu with Glass Jiangtou and Stone Jiangtou, using a Willow Spirit Child’s power to target him. Chu Tianshu evaded the curses, traced them to the car by the pond, and charged toward his attackers.

• Su Ha prepared a curse outside Fang Jun’s house while Li Kang and A Luo questioned whether killing Fang Jun would draw Nie Longding out.
• Chu Tianshu sensed malice and sorcery, went into the courtyard, and destroyed Su Ha’s Glass Jiangtou attack.
• Chu Tianshu recognized the Willow Spirit Child’s power and understood how Su Ha’s unusual Gong Tau curses worked.
• Su Ha launched Stone Jiangtou at Chu Tianshu, but Chu Tianshu dodged the false stones and sprinted toward the car where Su Ha was waiting.

Chu Tianshu fought Li Kang, A Luo, and Su Ha after they tried to run him down, killing A Luo and Li Kang and overpowering Su Ha. The chapter ended with Chu Tianshu grabbing Su Ha by the neck after breaking through his Mind Power attack.

• Li Kang drove at Chu Tianshu, but Chu Tianshu struck the car and sent it plunging into the pond with Li Kang and Su Ha inside.
• A Luo attacked Chu Tianshu with his cursed knife, but Chu Tianshu resisted the Mother-and-Child Nails and killed him with a palm strike.
• Li Kang emerged from the pond and attacked Chu Tianshu, who broke his hand, kicked his throat, and drove him underwater.
• Su Ha spat blood that turned into green droplets, but Chu Tianshu swept them aside with a forceful palm strike.
• Su Ha unleashed a face-shaped Mind Power attack, but Chu Tianshu broke through it with the true word "Dou!" and grabbed his neck.

Chu Tianshu defeated the Gong Tau practitioners and discovered that Yin Fengxin had been possessed by an evil spirit, not altered by experiments. He finally unlocked the ancient painting, which transformed into an ivory-white longsword instead of revealing the expected medical texts and poison formulas.

• Chu Tianshu killed Su Ha, destroyed the willow-spirit doll that emerged from his mouth, and learned it had served as an emissary for a child in the Spirit Realm.
• Fang Jun arrived, secured the scene, and recovered Su Ha's phone while Chu Tianshu noted that the attackers had used Gong Tau techniques and Mother-and-Child Nails.
• Yin Fengxin emerged from the basement and mistook the fight for an attempt to silence him as a bioengineered test subject, so Chu Tianshu explained that he had been possessed by an evil spirit.
• Chu Tianshu told Yin Fengxin that the ancient painting likely concealed works by Li Shizhen and continued pouring Mind Power into it.
• The painting transformed through transparent flames into an ivory-white longsword, leaving Chu Tianshu surprised by what Li Shizhen had hidden inside.

Scarface and his group ambushed Nie Longding at a remote church, but he defeated them and took them alive. In Macau, Shen Yuntai learned the group had vanished and asked Master White Horse to read the character Nie, leaving her wondering where to find the second lead he said she needed to investigate.

• Scarface and his companions set out to kill Nie Longding after failing to reach Su Ha, Li Kang, and A Luo.
• Scarface’s group attacked the church with coordinated gunfire, but Nie Longding revealed that they had shot a stand-in.
• Nie Longding cut down the attackers with invisible playing cards and said he had captured them for a purpose.
• Shen Yuntai learned that Fang Jun and a temporary mainland consultant had been attacked, and that the vanished attackers were tied to a revenge group targeting Nie Longding.
• Shen Yuntai asked Master White Horse to divine the meaning of Nie; he warned her to abandon the easier of two leads, but she realized she did not even have a second one.

Chu Tianshu used the Three-Seven Sword to cure Yin Fengxin, whose father arrived boasting about a suspicious company promising riches. Fang Jun and Chu Tianshu followed Old Man Yin to investigate, while Shen Yuntai also pursued their van, suspecting it might lead to a major event.

• Fang Jun told Chu Tianshu that he could not reach Uncle Nie, and Chu Tianshu explained how the Three-Seven Sword concentrated Mind Power.
• Chu Tianshu used the sword to eradicate the Kidney Jade Evil Spirit afflicting Yin Fengxin.
• Old Man Yin visited Yin Fengxin and claimed his flyer-distribution company would soon make its early employees wealthy.
• Yin Fengxin worried that his father had joined a scam, so Fang Jun and Chu Tianshu agreed to follow him and investigate.
• Shen Yuntai recognized Fang Jun's van and followed it, wondering whether it was heading toward a major event.

Chu Tianshu infiltrated a company lecture and discovered that its leader, Mai Danhong, had spent two years collecting casino resentment through elderly workers as part of an evil ritual. As the ritual began and the workers weakened, Chu Tianshu sent for help and launched an attack before the reinforcements arrived.

• Chu Tianshu sneaked over the wall and entered the hall, where he found Old Man Yin and hundreds of older workers gathered for a company lecture.
• Mai Danhong announced that the workers’ old contracts were being destroyed, and Chu Tianshu sensed resentment rising from everyone in the hall.
• Chu Tianshu traced the accumulated resentment to casino feng shui and realized the company had used the workers to collect it for an evil ritual.
• Chu Tianshu sent ten exclamation marks to summon the police as the ritual’s release left the workers dizzy and weakened.
• Mai Danhong began the ritual, but Chu Tianshu charged through the hall doors toward the lectern before reinforcements arrived.

Chu Tianshu defeated Mai Danhong on the podium, but an Overflow Zone engulfed the venue before he could stop the ritual. With resentment flowing toward a room above the northwest corner, he broke through the ceiling to reach the second floor.

• Chu Tianshu charged through Mai Danhong’s card attacks and pierced her lung, overcoming her illusion technique without losing his balance.
• Mai Danhong’s attempt to escape by manipulating distance failed when Chu Tianshu stabbed her in the forehead with a needle.
• An Overflow Zone transformed the venue, disabling the employees’ guns as Fang Jun, Shen Yuntai, and others arrived through the mist.
• Shen Yuntai sensed that resentment was flowing toward a room above the venue’s northwest corner and told her bodyguards to find the stairs.
• Chu Tianshu used the Sanqi Divine Sword to drill through the ceiling and land on the second floor.

Chu Tianshu broke into the venue and fought his way upward, discovering that Nie Longding was conducting a sacrifice on the third floor. After the staff helped him break through the floor, Chu Tianshu confronted Nie Longding, and their weapons clashed as Nie Longding spotted a colorless card lodged in Chu Tianshu’s body.

• Xiahou Wei revealed that he had trapped twelve casino owners in a Resentment Qi ritual, and Chu Tianshu burst into the hall and killed him.
• Chu Tianshu sensed Nie Longding above him and learned that the third floor held an altar, unconscious victims, and a sacrifice to the Ghost God Longhua.
• Six Hung Gar bodyguards joined Chu Tianshu and struck the ceiling with their staffs to distract Nie Longding and help Chu Tianshu break through.
• Nie Longding attacked Chu Tianshu as he emerged through the floor, and the two clashed with sword and saber.
• Nie Longding noticed a colorless card lodged between Chu Tianshu’s chest and abdomen.

Chu Tianshu confronted Nie Longding, who planned to become a ghost-and-human hybrid by sacrificing hundreds of people in a ritual. Chu destroyed the ritual’s statue and stood ready to fight Nie Longding.

• Chu Tianshu and Nie Longding exchanged attacks, and Nie Longding revealed his powerful healing ability.
• Nie Longding explained that he sought ghost blood to become a hybrid and gain access to the Spirit Realm, dismissing the sacrificed people as insignificant.
• Chu Tianshu charged Nie Longding with a sword engulfed in cleansing flame, then reached the altar as the statue leapt onto Wang Zifang.
• The statue’s Mind Power drove Wang Zifang to attack, but Chu Tianshu pierced and shattered the statue, killing Wang Zifang in the clash.
• Nie Longding rushed Chu Tianshu with his saber, but Chu Tianshu blocked the thrust and declared his intent to devour evil wherever he found it.

Chu Tianshu fought Nie Longding as the Ghost God’s ritual gained power, while Shen Yuntai and Fang Jun rallied the crowd to stop their resentment Qi from feeding it. Their singing severed the ritual’s supply and shattered the jade altar, sending two figures falling from the third floor.

• Chu Tianshu countered Nie Longding’s two-ghost saber assault, then used silver needles and flying debris to pressure him.
• Nie Longding recalled Iba Hachirō into himself, while the Ghost God empowered the jade tree and animated the half-dead people around the altar.
• Shen Yuntai used Millennial Song to awaken the crowd and slow the resentment Qi being drawn upstairs.
• When the resentment Qi surged again, Shen Yuntai and Fang Jun led the crowd in singing “The Great Wall Shall Never Fall.”
• The crowd’s song severed the resentment Qi from the ritual, crumbling the jade altar and shattering the third-floor windows.
• Two figures flew from the third floor and fell as the song continued.

Chu Tianshu defeated Nie Longding after Fang Jun chose to stand against his adoptive father and called for a final battle. As the fog began to clear, Chu Tianshu asked Shen Yuntai whether the supernatural incident could still be kept secret.

• Shen Yuntai and Fang Jun confronted Nie Longding, and Fang Jun explained that he had long feared facing his adoptive father.
• Fang Jun asked Shen Yuntai to tell him when to fight, then urged Nie Longding to fight the last battle of his life.
• Nie Longding cut off his own arm and launched a powerful saber attack, but Chu Tianshu pierced him with the Sanqi Divine Sword and killed him.
• Fang Jun thanked Chu Tianshu for giving him time to speak with Nie Longding, and Chu Tianshu said the fog was about to clear.
• Chu Tianshu asked Shen Yuntai whether the incident could still be kept secret after more than five hundred people witnessed it, souring her mood.