Chapter Summaries

Hu Mang revived the dead dragon skin with Nether River water, prompting a Ghost Dragon Vein to devour the sealed Jiangtou Ghosts and transform the Soul-Binding Willows into a powerful snake vein. The snake spirits emerged to serve him, and Hu Mang discovered that Nanyang’s ghosts could be incomplete, sometimes consisting of only two palms.

• Jiacha told Hu Mang that Zheng Qingbo’s decision to give up territory had made Master Bao the target of the other contenders, prompting Master Bao to call and appease him.
• Hu Mang mixed yin soil into the dead dragon skin and watered it with Nether River water, reviving it and causing the Ghost Dragon Vein to swallow it and the Jiangtou infant.
• The giant python swept up the Jiangtou Ghosts and Salty Smoke Worms throughout the Zheng Family Garden, while Hu Mang sensed a clash between the two Ghost Dragon Vein consciousnesses.
• Hu Mang found the Soul-Binding Willow grove transformed into a snake-filled forest and summoned over two hundred red-clad snake women, led by Liuniang, who said they were half-ghosts and half-demons at Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Liuniang presented two little Jiangtou ghosts as her younger brothers, and Hu Mang recognized them as the ghosts summoned by the savage Jiangtou.
• Liuniang explained that Nanyang’s ghosts were incomplete, and the two little ghosts demonstrated by vanishing until only their ghostly palms remained.

Hu Mang learned that raising two Private Dragons in one body could make their consciousnesses overwhelm him, and he considered whether the Underworld Bureau’s Ghost Subway technology could offer a solution. Meanwhile, Chen Xiaosan formed a high-quality Ghost Core, demonstrated his progress in Mysterious Transformation, and asked about joining the Hundred Mysteries Night Parade.

• Hu Mang learned from Liuniang that two Private Dragons could not coexist safely in one body and that their competing consciousnesses might overwhelm him.
• Hu Mang considered the Underworld Bureau’s Ghost Subway as a possible model for raising a dragon without rebellion, then received a phone call.
• Chen Xiaosan celebrated forming a high-quality Ghost Core in Dachang Ghost City and found the ghost bride still watching him through a mirror.
• Chen Xiaosan tested his ghostly transformations and told Great Judge Zhong he could sustain Mysterious Transformation for ten breaths.
• Great Judge Zhong told Chen Xiaosan he could pursue a transfer, and Chen Xiaosan asked whether he could apply to the Hundred Mysteries Night Parade.

Hu Mang learned from Chen Xiaosan that the Nanyang Jiangtou Ghosts’ localized invulnerability was a partial form of Mysterious Transformation, then heard how the Underworld Bureau stabilized its Ghost Dragon Vein. He realized he might be able to control a Dragon Vein and that something in the Zheng Family Garden could help contain its rampages.

• Wen Fan and Lu Chen reacted with envy as Hu Mang and Chen Xiaosan revealed they had formed high-quality Golden Cores, and Chen Xiaosan bragged about outranking them.
• Hu Mang told Chen Xiaosan about the Nanyang Jiangtou Ghosts, and Chen Xiaosan explained Mysterious Transformation and its connection to Dragon Veins.
• They worked out that the Jiangtou Ghosts had partial Mysterious Transformation, limited to the body parts affected by their Jiangtou rituals.
• Chen Xiaosan said he planned to visit Hu Mang during his Golden Core holiday.
• Chen Xiaosan explained that artificial Yin-Yang Nodes and Ghost Subway drivers helped stabilize and control the Underworld Bureau’s Ghost Dragon Vein, prompting Hu Mang to consider his own ability to control a Dragon Vein.

Hu Mang learned that Master Bao’s Black God of Wealth was an Evil God with an Orthodox God Position, making his demand that Hu Mang collect Feng Haixiao in person more dangerous than it first appeared. After consulting Sun Youcai, Hu Mang decided to strengthen his control over the Snake Vein before facing Master Bao.

• New female servants with snake-like eyes appeared in the Zheng Family Garden, and one frightened an alley boss who later fell ill from nightmares.
• Jiacha told Hu Mang that Master Bao would release Feng Haixiao only if Hu Mang came in person, and Hu Mang suspected a trap or a challenge to his standing.
• Hu Mang used the Heavenly Devil Field to simulate the Snake Vein and drew Nanyang snakes to him, showing that he could make them regard him as one of their own.
• Hu Mang called Sun Youcai and learned that the Black God of Wealth was an Evil God whose Orthodox God Position let Master Bao lodge his consciousness within it safely.
• Hu Mang decided he needed to nurture the Snake Vein, reasoning that two Private Dragons might be enough to contend with an Evil God.

Chen Xiaosan arrived at the Zheng Family Garden and found Hu Mang cultivating a Ghost Dragon Vein by helping a thousand-year-old snake corpse evolve Dragon Eyes. After the vein formed four Yin-Yang Nodes, Hu Mang dismissed it and invited Chen Xiaosan for tea, realizing the Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram might be meant for Dragon Veins rather than humans.

• Chen Xiaosan entered the Zheng Family Garden, met Liuniang, and recognized her as a terrifying humanoid ghost made from snake corpses.
• Chen Xiaosan saw Hu Mang meditating atop a massive snake corpse in a Ghost Haunt that ordinary people in the garden could not see.
• Hu Mang used his Dragon Eyes and the Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram to help the thousand-year-old Snake Vein evolve a new pair of Dragon Eyes.
• The Snake Vein awakened, extended through the earth, and created four natural Yin-Yang Nodes along its path as a Ghost Dragon Vein.
• Hu Mang told Chen Xiaosan that governing the vein with Heavenly Gate laws was irrelevant overseas, then dismissed the Ghost Dragon Vein and invited him for tea.
• As Chen Xiaosan followed Hu Mang and asked about working for him, Hu Mang realized the Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram might have been intended for cultivating Dragon Veins, not humans.

Hu Mang tested Chen Xiaosan’s Mysterious Transformation and learned how Jiangtou Ghosts could be worn down, while confirming that the ghost-jigsaw method could lead to an evil god. After heading off to negotiate with a Nanyang power and retrieve someone, he found Chen Xiaosan eager to come along and flip the table if talks went badly.

• Hu Mang used the Ghost Dragon Vein clone’s vision to survey Java and sent it to absorb Tribulation Qi while he took Chen Xiaosan to the training ground.
• Chen Xiaosan showed that Mysterious Transformation made him invisible and nearly impervious to Hu Mang’s suppression spear.
• Hu Mang pinned a Jiangtou little ghost with the spear, and Chen Xiaosan determined that repeated strikes to the affected area could drain and kill it.
• Hu Mang gave the little ghost Yin Virtue, then discussed how assembling Jiangtou Ghosts could produce an evil god.
• Hu Mang prepared to negotiate with another Nanyang big shot and bring someone back, and Chen Xiaosan insisted on joining him to watch and flip the table.

Hu Mang led the Zheng Family Garden’s armed convoy to Palembang to pick someone up, where they encountered Liu Shifa’s memories of the Old Heavenly Gate and the port’s formidable pirate fleet. After the Wanshun Sea Hall convoy arrived, Hu Mang prepared to meet Master Bao while keeping the ships offshore.

• Old Third eagerly explored the Zheng Family Garden’s ships and cannons until Liu Shifa caught him handling a dangerous gunpowder weapon and Hu Mang promised to keep him under control.
• Liu Shifa told Hu Mang and Chen Xiaosan that he had served in the Old Heavenly Gate’s military and fired the first cannon shot to suppress Yu Dingguo’s uprising.
• The Zheng Family Garden convoy traveled safely to Palembang, where Chen Xiaosan was disappointed that they encountered no pirates.
• Hu Mang’s group saw Palembang’s vast harbor and its many rune-covered pirate ships, which Liu Shifa said were imported from Heavenly Gate.
• The Wanshun Sea Hall convoy arrived, and Hu Mang ordered the ships to wait offshore while he and several alley bosses went to meet Master Bao.

Hu Mang attended a banquet with Master Bao, where the host suddenly ate himself to death. With Wanshun Sea Hall’s people gathering outside, Hu Mang investigated whether Jiangtou had caused the death and questioned Master Bao’s attendants.

• Hu Mang noticed a strange yellow-robed monk’s Buddhist power sweep toward him, then reached Tide Roast Pavilion with Chen Xiaosan, Naimi, and the other alley bosses.
• Master Bao arrived with Feng Haixiao and the others, offered Hu Mang a position overseeing a sea market, and urged everyone to eat.
• Master Bao began devouring food at an alarming pace, and Hu Mang used his Heavenly Devil Field to suppress his appetite.
• Master Bao choked, collapsed, and died; Hu Mang restrained the two Golden Core female cultivators while Naimi and the others found no poison.
• Hu Mang suspected Jiangtou and questioned the two women, who fell into a trance and began revealing what they knew about Master Bao and the Jiangtou materials.

After Master Bao died, Hu Mang and his companions fled inland while the Wanshun Sea Hall declared the highest alert and pursued them. Hu Mang refused to simply escape and planned to uncover how Master Bao had died, but three days later pursuers found their trail in the Barisan Mountains.

• Hu Mang offered Feng Haixiao the choice of leaving alone or joining the group, and Feng Haixiao chose to go with them.
• Hu Mang questioned Master Bao’s two golden core female cultivators about his anti-Jiangtou measures, while the Wanshun Sea Hall arrived and found his corpse.
• The Wanshun Sea Hall ordered the group captured and sounded its highest alert across Sumatra.
• Hu Mang sent Liu Shifa to withdraw with the others, then led his group inland and said they would wait for reinforcements and investigate Master Bao’s death.
• Three days later, four Wanshun Sea Hall cultivators searched Palembang without finding anyone, then discovered the Zheng Family Garden group had fled inland.

Chen Xiaosan and Feng Haixiao were ambushed by Nanyang cultivators, but Chen Xiaosan incapacitated their two attackers while Feng Haixiao killed them. As a Life Insect escaped with its owner’s memories, more than a dozen Golden Core cultivators approached, and the chapter left the fate of Chen Xiaosan’s second brother uncertain.

• Chen Moye summoned and transformed swarms of insects while Shilansheluo used a temple technique to collapse the forest around Chen Xiaosan and Feng Haixiao.
• Feng Haixiao warned Chen Xiaosan about Nanyang’s poisonous insects and sorcery, then fought off the insect-men as Chen Xiaosan turned into a ghostly form.
• Chen Xiaosan vanished to deal with the two Golden Core cultivators, and Feng Haixiao soon found them unconscious beside him.
• Feng Haixiao beheaded the two cultivators, but a Life Insect escaped with some of its owner’s memories.
• Chen Xiaosan said his second brother would be fine, but Feng Haixiao sensed more than a dozen Golden Core cultivators heading toward them.

Hu Mang used a volcanic eruption of Turbid Qi to cripple the Wanshun Sea Hall cultivators pursuing him, allowing him to escape with Feng Haixiao and Chen Xiaosan. The Buddha Woman treated the survivors and ordered the pursuit to continue, while Hu Mang insisted they investigate the dead captain’s death before the seventh day.

• Feng Haixiao and Chen Xiaosan flew to help Hu Mang as nine Wanshun Sea Hall Golden Core cultivators closed in on him.
• Hu Mang unleashed a Turbid Qi eruption that overwhelmed the pursuers’ Divine Senses, killing three and injuring the others.
• The Buddha Woman treated three injured cultivators, learned what had happened, and ordered her people to dig into the scorched ground.
• The Buddha Woman said the Wanshun Sea Hall had to avenge the dead captain to preserve its authority, and the managers continued the pursuit.
• Hu Mang, Feng Haixiao, and Chen Xiaosan fled through the rainforest, and Hu Mang said they had to learn why the captain died before the seventh day.

Wei Kaishan refused to let the Wanshun Sea Hall search his Palembang dock for Zheng Family Garden members who had fled after Master Bao’s death. After warning that the Sea Hall had already suffered heavy losses, he arranged for his people and goods to leave before the conflict escalated, while the Martial Hall Master watched the busy streets and considered how difficult the fugitives would be to find.

• Two Wanshun Sea Hall cultivators confronted Wei Kaishan about the Zheng Family Garden members who vanished after Master Bao died and demanded to search his dock.
• Wei Kaishan resisted the sea cultivator’s spiritual pressure and refused to let the Sea Hall search, warning that its forces were spread too thin across the Nanyang ports.
• Wei Kaishan pointed out that the Sea Hall had lost at least five Golden Core cultivators and needed to protect its weakened ports rather than pursue the fugitives.
• The Sea Hall cultivators threatened to return the next day and left after realizing they could not defeat Wei Kaishan alone.
• Wei Kaishan ordered the dock manager to distribute the saved accounts among the workers and send them away, then admitted he could shelter the people who had arrived during the night only until daybreak.
• The Martial Hall Master watched the busy street and reflected that the Sea Hall’s scattered search teams and ordinary informants would struggle to find the fugitives under the Heavenly Devil Field.

Hu Mang investigated the anti-Jiangtou protections tied to Chen Baoying and discovered that the intact Buddha-bone relic suggested Master Bao had deliberately set his plan in motion. As Hu Mang considered how to respond, the ghost ship's consciousness stirred inside him.

• Hu Mang absorbed Tribulation Qi in Sumatra while preparing to disrupt the scheme he suspected involved the Wanshun Sea Hall's Evil God.
• Feng Haixiao, Naimi, and the others brought Hu Mang documents from the Guanshan Gang, and Hu Mang decided to pick up Old Wei and inspect a marked Buddhist shrine.
• At the Chen Clan Buddhist Shrine, Hu Mang used Form-Emptiness Transformation to control its Buddha and reveal an underground chamber.
• Hu Mang found an untainted Buddha-bone relic engraved with Chen Baoying's name, indicating that Master Bao had not been replaced or stripped of authority.
• Feng Haixiao asked what they should do, and the ghost ship's consciousness stirred inside Hu Mang before he could answer.

Hu Mang absorbed Chen Baoying’s sarira and discovered that his ghost ship could track Wanshun Sea Hall’s Ship Gods through Jiangtou treasures. He used the ship to devour a Ship God statue, while Chen Xiaosan helped steal it, and a Black God of Wealth statue cracked at Wanshun Sea Hall’s headquarters.

• Hu Mang absorbed Chen Baoying’s sarira, received a vision of an ancient ship at Wanshun Sea Hall’s private port in Palembang, and realized the ghost ship wanted to eat the Ship Gods.
• Hu Mang told Feng Haixiao he would secretly pursue the Ship Gods, claiming the Heavenly Gate had anti-Jiangtou tracking technology, and invited Chen Xiaosan to help with a plan involving a Private Dragon.
• Hu Mang remotely steered the ghost ship to a Ship God and introduced himself to Chen Xiaosan as Devil Dragon, a devil-path holy son cooperating with Hu Mang against the Overseas Devil Sect.
• As the ghost ship pulled the ancient ship underwater, Chen Xiaosan used Mysterious Transformation to steal its prow statue, which the water ghosts then devoured.
• A hairline crack appeared on the eyelid of a Black God of Wealth statue at Wanshun Sea Hall’s headquarters.

Wanshun Sea Hall’s Ship Gods were mysteriously dragged beneath the sea, prompting the Buddhist Maiden, Zhao Longbo, Immortal Woman He, and Old Man Hai to gather around a scrap-built Black God of Wealth and receive its Evil God power. Meanwhile, Hu Mang’s plan continued to succeed as Old Third used Mysterious Transformation to steal Ship God statues, and the chapter left their raids ongoing.

• Wanshun Sea Hall increased its defenses after Ship Gods began vanishing into the sea, leaving behind traces of Yin Qi.
• The Buddhist Maiden arrived at the wrecked-ship island and met Zhao Longbo, Immortal Woman He, and Old Man Hai beside a Black God of Wealth made from shipwreck scrap.
• Zhao Longbo and Immortal Woman He discussed their powers and the threats posed by the Celestial People and the Heavenly Gate.
• The Black God of Wealth darkened the skies and granted streams of Evil God power to the Buddhist Maiden, Zhao Longbo, and Immortal Woman He, breaking through their cultivation limits.
• At Floating Fragrance Ferry, Hu Mang observed the thinning tribulation clouds and reflected that Old Third had stolen more than ten divine statues by using Mysterious Transformation to reach their sources of power.

Hu Mang escaped three unstable Nascent Soul-level presences when a Buddhist woman’s light began converting people across Sumatra. After reaching a peat swamp to establish a Yin-Yang Node, he sensed one pursuer heading for the ghost ship and detected what might be Dragon Sloughing from another.

• Three Nascent Soul-level Divine Senses spread across Sumatra, and the Buddhist light began forcing people to worship and transforming them.
• Hu Mang used a giant snake of Yin Qi to carry himself, Naimi, and Feng Haixiao away before the Buddhist woman arrived.
• The Buddhist woman turned two converted alley masters into copper Buddhas and discovered that Hu Mang knew Saha Buddhist Dharma, then the statues shattered beneath her hands.
• Hu Mang emerged in a peat swamp and considered using the remote, spiritually rich area to establish a Yin-Yang Node and confront his pursuers.
• Hu Mang sensed the strongest Qi-and-Blood presence heading out to sea toward the ghost ship, then noticed a possible Dragon Sloughing from the suspected Celestial Person.

Hu Mang fought the Buddha Woman, who tried to capture him to learn how he had avoided the karma of the Saha Continent. He defeated her with Buddhist Dharma and Earth Qi, but she regenerated as a Buddhist Abomination and declared that karma-tainted beings like her could not die.

• Immortal Woman He tore off her skin, creating another version that searched for Hu Mang while she herself tracked Zhao Longbo.
• The Buddha Woman confronted Hu Mang and questioned how he had escaped the karma of the Saha Continent.
• The Buddha Woman covered the rainforest with a vast Buddhist shrine and tried to pull Hu Mang inside, but he resisted with Emptiness Realm Buddhist Dharma.
• Hu Mang recited Buddhist verses, shattered the shrine gates, and struck the Buddha Woman with the Five Sacred Mountains Bearing Gang Method.
• The Buddha Woman regenerated from the crushed remains as a Buddhist Abomination and claimed that karma-tainted beings could not die.

Hu Mang discovered that the Buddha Woman could regenerate from any physical attack, so he used his Heavenly Devil Field to manifest an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil and devour her consciousness. After repairing the rainforest, he left with Feng Haixiao and Naimi to rescue Old Wei, while another Hu Mang approached the ghost ship beneath the sea.

• Hu Mang used his Heavenly Devil Field and multiple techniques to attack the Buddha Woman, but she repeatedly reformed without weakening.
• Hu Mang realized that a higher-level Vajrayana protected the Buddha Woman and that attacks from his Devil Cultivation Method weakened her consciousness.
• Hu Mang manifested an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil, which penetrated the Buddha Woman's Buddha light and consumed her consciousness until only an empty husk remained.
• Hu Mang used his Heavenly Devil Field to clear the battle's traces and wondered whether Earth Star was a fragment of the Numinous Emptiness Immortal Realm.
• The giant python returned Feng Haixiao and Naimi, and Hu Mang told them to rescue Old Wei and prepare to leave.
• In another field of vision, a giant crossed the sea toward the ghost ship on the seabed.

Hu Mang tried to escape Zhao Longbo’s pursuit aboard the ghost ship, but Zhao Longbo used a giant turtle-fishing rod to pull the ship’s Dragon Vein from the Yin-Yang Passage. Zhao Longbo confronted Hu Mang and explained his connection to Master Bao, leaving them poised for a fight.

• Zhao Longbo churned the sea and released dense Spiritual Qi, while Hu Mang prepared the ghost ship to force open a Yin-Yang Passage.
• Zhao Longbo used his giant turtle-fishing rod to haul Hu Mang’s Ghost Dragon and the ship’s Dragon Vein out of the seabed.
• Hu Mang re-formed from Ghost Qi and wondered whether Zhao Longbo’s rod could hook anything without fail.
• Zhao Longbo questioned Hu Mang about his identity and his connection to the Ship God, while Hu Mang considered testing the Dragon Vein in a fight.
• Zhao Longbo said he had once served aboard the Wanshun, the predecessor of Wanshun Sea Hall, and was helping Master Bao because he paid him tribute in Spirit Stones.

Hu Mang trapped Zhao Longbo in a Ghost Haunt, but Zhao Longbo’s Shattering the Void-level Qi and Blood let him fight through its illusions. Hu Mang then combined the Ghost Haunt with Unity of Heaven and Man, gaining control of the thousand-mile sea around them.

• Hu Mang learned from Zhao Longbo that the devil path was developing the Saha Continent, while Zhao Longbo questioned which overseas group Hu Mang belonged to.
• Zhao Longbo used his Longbo Giant Body to move at immense speed and attack, but Hu Mang blocked his punch with Void Devil Field: Thousand-Layer Wall.
• Hu Mang revealed that the apparent ship was a Ghost Haunt, and Zhao Longbo burned away the water ghosts with his Qi and Blood.
• Old Third tried to use Mysterious Transformation on Zhao Longbo but burned his arm on Zhao Longbo’s heat and escaped before Zhao Longbo could strike him.
• Zhao Longbo began punching through the Ghost Haunt while Hu Mang, seated atop a shadowy dragon, used Unity of Heaven and Man to control the surrounding sea.