Recaps

Robert killed Sun Mingyuan and the Ghost Tamers he had attacked, then left a chaotic, multicolored area around the hotel. As another enforcer headed to report what he found, intruders struck Headquarters, and Fu Youhua ordered every enforcer to return and defend it.

• Sun Mingyuan confronted Robert and trapped them both inside a colorful domain while Headquarters staff evacuated bystanders.
• Robert killed the injured Ghost Tamers, and his supernatural teeth devoured Sun Mingyuan's powers.
• An unseen attacker immobilized Sun Mingyuan, and Robert broke his neck before finishing him off.
• A late-arriving enforcer found the hotel area transformed and nobody there, then sped toward Headquarters after his call failed.
• Intruders triggered an alarm at Headquarters, and Fu Youhua ordered security doors activated and all enforcers summoned.

Hu Jiu tortured the Secret Peeker, reunited with his parents, and used Nightmare’s power to take their consciousness. As he prepared to dispose of the Secret Peeker, a silver-haired man offered to buy her and reveal the origin of malevolent ghosts and the supernatural.

• Hu Jiu ignored Headquarters’ urgent call while he tortured the Secret Peeker in a secluded park.
• Hu Jiu recalled how his parents and relatives had lived unhappy lives and died, then asked his dying parents what life they had wanted.
• Hu Jiu used Nightmare’s power to take his parents’ consciousness, creating two stars in the Dream Space.
• Hu Jiu agreed to support Headquarters and collected the bodies before a silver-haired man offered to buy the Secret Peeker.
• Hu Jiu attacked the man, who survived and asked whether Hu Jiu wanted to learn the origin of malevolent ghosts and the supernatural.

Exorcists invaded China's Supernatural Control Headquarters, while Bill used the negotiations to demand the Longevity Potion technology and a joint hunt for the Beauty Goddess. As Headquarters fell into chaos and reinforcements remained trapped outside Bill's Ghost Domain, a streak of black light struck the dome.

• Feng Qinfen confronted Pierrot and Edith, and the three began fighting inside Headquarters.
• Bill accused Headquarters of destroying an American city, then demanded the Longevity Potion technology and cooperation against the Beauty Goddess.
• Bill expanded his Ghost Domain over Headquarters and used its supernatural pressure to threaten Fu Youhua and the remote negotiators.
• Exorcists released several imprisoned ghosts as staff took shelter and Headquarters' Ghost Tamers struggled to hold their ground.
• Fu Youhua stalled for time while reinforcements gathered outside the Ghost Domain and argued over how to break through.
• A streak of black light struck the dome, which began to crack.

Hu Jiu arrived at Headquarters and overwhelmed Bill and the Exorcists with a supernatural blizzard, then captured Bill and learned Zhang Hongwen’s location from Fu Youhua. At safe house number three, Zhang Hongwen killed a woman before dying himself, while Hu Jiu resolved to eliminate the entire family to prevent future trouble.

• Hu Jiu broke Bill’s Ghost Domain dome, then unleashed a blizzard that froze the Exorcists and Ghost Tamers across Headquarters.
• Bill fought back with rotting supernatural power, but Hu Jiu used a Ghost Hand and talisman to decapitate him and sank the fallen enemies into his shadow.
• Hu Jiu carried Bill’s head toward the highest meeting room, and Fu Youhua told him Zhang Hongwen was in safe house number three.
• At the safe house, Zhang Hongwen broke through a woman’s pink bubble and strangled her before dying with a smile.
• Hu Jiu decided that killing alone was not enough and that he needed to wipe out the family’s nine generations.

After the crisis, Hu Jiu used his overwhelming power to deter Headquarters’ leaders and secure access to its resources and intelligence. He dealt with the remaining supernatural incidents, returned the dead, and supplied Headquarters with supernatural products, while warning that Shen Jiliang would never return.

• Hu Jiu displayed fake nuclear warheads during an online meeting, threatened to bury them, and demanded an explanation for being left alone after the disaster at Headquarters.
• A day later, Fu Youhua told Hu Jiu that Headquarters would give him access to all its resources and information and would support him.
• Fu Youhua explained that America’s exorcists had caused the deaths and disappearances at Headquarters, but Headquarters ruled out further fighting and asked Hu Jiu to handle the Capital’s remaining supernatural incidents.
• Hu Jiu contained the paint Source Ghost and returned the exorcists’ and Ghost Tamers’ corpses to Fu Youhua.
• Hu Jiu gave Fu Youhua wooden bead bracelets and other supernatural products to help replenish Headquarters’ strength, then assured him that Shen Jiliang would never return.
• Hu Jiu used Headquarters’ newly granted access to obtain more resources and secrets about the supernatural’s origin, and the prophet’s secret left him feeling small.

The Prophet explained to Hu Jiu how the Ghost World, the Big Dipper, and the weakening barrier had contributed to the Supernatural Revival. He invited Hu Jiu to join the Big Dipper, then revealed that the Ghost World might connect to multiple realities.

• The Prophet told Hu Jiu that the Ghost World was a vast realm overlapping with reality, and that Fierce Ghosts from it could enter through breaches in the barrier.
• The Prophet described the Big Dipper's ancient role in guarding reality and explained how internal divisions, weakening barriers, and reckless government experiments had helped cause the Supernatural Revival.
• The Prophet said that supernatural agencies sought to control supernatural power rather than eliminate it, then invited Hu Jiu to join the Big Dipper.
• Hu Jiu said he would think about the invitation, and the Prophet warned that the Ghost World might connect to more than one reality.
• The Prophet recounted hearing that people deep in the Ghost World came from different countries despite sharing the same language and writing.

After learning about ways to enter the Ghost World, Hu Jiu returned to his lair and caught Geheluos trespassing. Geheluos invited him to join Eternal Night, but Hu Jiu attacked him and stopped his escape.

• Hu Jiu recalled the Prophet's explanation that the Endless Corridor offered a safer passage into the Ghost World than breaking through a Ghost Domain.
• Hu Jiu found Geheluos trapped in the supernatural devices in his residence and demanded to know why he had come.
• Geheluos identified himself as an Eternal Night Judgment Angel and invited Hu Jiu to join the organization.
• Hu Jiu confronted Geheluos over Han Yang's attack, and Geheluos dismissed the conflict as settled and boasted about Eternal Night's power.
• Hu Jiu's attack split Geheluos in two, but Geheluos used a recorder and began to vanish while renewing his invitation and threatening Hu Jiu.
• Hu Jiu grabbed at the air and forcibly interrupted Geheluos's escape.

Hu Jiu relentlessly pursued Geheluos out of Linjiang City, separated him from his malevolent ghost, and chased him through a supernatural space after he was snatched away. The chapter left Geheluos missing and Hu Jiu pursuing whoever had taken him.

• Geheluos fled through Linjiang City while Hu Jiu pursued him, and he sent Evernight a distress message.
• Hu Jiu drove Geheluos into the wilderness, where his malevolent ghost took control and formed zombie-like figures from the soil.
• Hu Jiu struck down the giant crimson eye and pulled it from Geheluos, sealing it in a gold container.
• A hand reached from the void, seized Geheluos, and tossed out a painting that drew Hu Jiu into a deserted elementary school supernatural space.
• Hu Jiu burned away the school and collapsed its supernatural space, then used his Ghost Domain to chase after the vanished Geheluos.

Evernight’s executives met to discuss Geheluos’s defeat by Hu Jiu and chose to offer Hu Jiu one last chance rather than risk a direct confrontation. As the meeting ended, they learned that someone had invaded Glory City, and Geheluos identified the intruder as Hu Jiu.

• Geheluos recounted how Hu Jiu had overwhelmed him, taken one of his eyes, and cost him a fierce ghost.
• Ares and Ixtab mocked Geheluos, but another executive stopped their argument so the group could discuss Hu Jiu.
• Geheluos warned that Hu Jiu was hostile to Evernight and urged the executives to eliminate him, while others argued that recruiting him would be more beneficial.
• Evernight’s executives decided to give Hu Jiu one last chance and seek safer ways to deal with him rather than confront him directly.
• As the executives prepared to leave, someone reported an invasion of Glory City, and Geheluos declared that Hu Jiu was responsible.

Hu Jiu entered the fog-shrouded Glory City and found its residents unnervingly uniform and its streets dominated by homes, factories, and churches. After Mike suffered a disturbing nightmare and resolved to leave, his wife insisted they visit their child at Glory Enterprise’s factory.

• Hu Jiu rode with Mike into Glory City, which appeared as ruins when approached from outside.
• Hu Jiu explored the orderly city, noticed its strange lack of public venues and a church statue, then vanished.
• Mike dreamed that an angel tortured him and awoke to find his wife acting like a cold, perfectly mannered stranger.
• Mike decided to leave Glory City, but his wife argued that their family, work, and faith were there.
• Mike called their child, who told him to come to Glory Enterprise’s factory, and his wife eagerly led him there.

Mike discovered that Glory Enterprise forced its employees to buy Blessing Candy and pay for meals, then tried to escape Glory City. A church statue nearly ensnared him, but Hu Jiu rescued him and took him to the city's edge to ask what he had encountered.

• Mike found his wife and child working at Glory Enterprise and learned that employees had to buy Blessing Candy and pay monthly meal fees.
• Mike tried to leave with his family, but they and the other employees blocked him, so he drove around Glory City searching for an exit.
• Mike discovered that he could only use his phone within Glory City and eventually ran out of fuel outside a church.
• A voice called Mike a sinner, and the church statue's sacred appearance gave way to a grotesque demon form that filled the city with mist.
• Hu Jiu snapped Mike out of the statue's influence, carried him to the edge of Glory City, and asked what he had encountered.

Hu Jiu investigated the force transforming Glory City’s residents and discovered that a strange light flowed from the church across the city. After freezing the church and revealing cursed writing, he was ordered to stop.

• Mike told Hu Jiu about his ordeal, gave him money to investigate, and asked him to find a way out.
• The smiling residents surrounded Hu Jiu and Mike, accused Mike of being a sinner, and demanded they come to the church for 007 Blessings.
• Mike began to change despite Hu Jiu’s supernatural protection, so Hu Jiu knocked him unconscious and carried him away.
• Hu Jiu expanded his Mirage Ghost Domain and saw that viscous light flowed from the church, bathing Glory City’s residents and gradually strengthening around Mike.
• Hu Jiu returned to the church, froze it, and revealed rows of cursed text as the building began to collapse.
• An angry voice shouted for Hu Jiu to stop.

Hu Jiu defeated Ares, exposed the malevolent ghost hidden inside the church statue, and began interrogating Ares after threatening to strip away the ghosts he controlled. Ares finally agreed to talk, and Hu Jiu prepared to ask his first question.

• Ares confronted Hu Jiu at the church, but Hu Jiu disarmed him and beat him through a wall.
• Ares revealed his name and summoned the malevolent ghost hidden inside the statue, whose appearance killed several nearby residents.
• Hu Jiu pinned Ares to the ground, captured the slow-moving ghost in a sack, and asked about its killing rule.
• When Ares refused to answer, Hu Jiu whipped him and began stripping away the malevolent ghosts inside him.
• Ares panicked at the threat of losing his ghosts and agreed to tell Hu Jiu everything.

Hu Jiu questioned Ares about the statue ghost, Evernight’s leader, and the city’s residents. Ares revealed the leader’s God Completion Plan and Evernight’s methods for controlling its members, while Hu Jiu continued to hold him captive.

• Ares warned Hu Jiu that Evernight’s leader might sense anyone who mentioned him, but Hu Jiu used Nightmare’s Supernatural power to make Ares believe his answers were safe.
• Ares told Hu Jiu that the ghost emerging from the statue killed anyone who looked at it, while the statue’s mist caused mental contamination.
• Ares explained that Evernight’s leader trapped primal-attribute ghosts in statues to purify their killing rules and use the resulting ghosts for the God Completion Plan.
• Ares revealed that the city’s residents were relatives of Evernight’s lower-ranking members who had been remade to be polite and compliant.
• Ares said his own parents lived in Washington and that he sent them money, though he had not visited them in a long time.

Hu Jiu interrogated Ares about the Eternal Night Organization before the leader’s supernatural attack triggered a fierce clash in Glory City. Their powers tore open the barrier between worlds, and Hu Jiu lost consciousness as the breach began.

• Ares told Hu Jiu that Blessing Candy was made from mentally contaminating mist and described how the Eternal Night Organization used it to influence workers and students.
• Ares began listing the Eternal Night leader’s powers, but the dream collapsed before he could reveal more.
• In Glory City, the leader attacked Hu Jiu with holy mist and supernatural commands, while Hu Jiu expanded his Ghost Domains and used his book to strengthen himself.
• Hu Jiu recognized similarities between the leader’s curses and his own methods, while their clashing powers devastated the city and stirred up the ruins beyond it.
• The Eternal Night leader warned that their fight was about to punch a hole in the real world and urged Hu Jiu to help seal it, but Hu Jiu tried to flee.
• A spatial fluctuation swept over Hu Jiu, and his vision went black as the barrier was breached.

Hu Jiu found himself in the Ghost World beneath an enormous Red Moon and explored an abandoned building while searching for a way back. A supernatural hunger overtook him, and he encountered a ragged man who devoured his ghost fire and asked for more.

• Hu Jiu awoke in a blood-red room in the Ghost World, saw the Red Moon and a ruined city, and found that his Ghost Domain was heavily suppressed.
• Hu Jiu left the room and fought off groups of swollen-bellied Ghost Slaves in the abandoned building.
• Hu Jiu developed an unnatural hunger that persisted even after he covered himself with a supernatural shield.
• Hu Jiu resisted the urge to eat the walls and floor, then heard a voice asking why he was not eating.
• Hu Jiu attacked a nearby ragged man with ghost fire, but the man ate the flames and demanded more.
• Hu Jiu turned his gaze on the man as frost descended.

Hu Jiu descended through a strange building, evading dangerous beings before confronting Ares, who claimed he had been trapped there for months despite Hu Jiu arriving less than an hour ago. After defeating Ares, Hu Jiu heard him offer information about how to leave.

• Hu Jiu escaped the man who devoured supernatural powers and curses, then passed a silent red-clad Fierce Ghost on the third floor.
• Ares attacked Hu Jiu with a longsword, then accused him of carving words into his body and leaving him unable to communicate with others.
• Hu Jiu questioned Ares about other intelligent beings and was startled when Ares claimed he had lived there for half a year or a year.
• Ares attacked again, and Hu Jiu kicked and punched him into a wall before a rope hoisted him up.
• Ares silently asked Hu Jiu whether he wanted to know how to leave.

Hu Jiu learned from Ares that collapsing enough malevolent ghosts might free the building from its confinement, then encountered a ghostly glutton and attacked it with gold bullets and a Golden Corpse Bag. He left the glutton trapped in the bags and began beating it, but had not yet learned whether it could be destroyed.

• Ares told Hu Jiu that the building had endless floors and that its confinement might disappear if the number of active malevolent ghosts fell far enough.
• Hu Jiu restrained Ares again and continued down through the building, ignoring or easily handling the ghosts he encountered.
• Hu Jiu used a bead to lure the glutton, then discovered that gold bullets could hurt it even though it could chew nearly anything.
• Hu Jiu tripped the glutton, trapped it inside two Golden Corpse Bags, and struck its head with a thick stick until it begged him to stop.

Hu Jiu escaped the endlessly shifting building through a supernatural door and entered a gray expanse crowded with ghosts. Following them to an enormous black door, he glimpsed more doors nested behind it before his vision was forcibly cut off and his eyes began to bleed.

• Hu Jiu beat and killed a scruffy freak who could not remember his name or explain where he was.
• Hu Jiu explored the shifting building and concluded that eliminating enough Fierce Ghosts to escape would be impractical.
• Hu Jiu used a rusty master key to open a door he had drawn on a wall and stepped into a gray, hazy place filled with ghosts.
• Hu Jiu disguised himself as a ghost and followed the crowd toward an enormous, decaying black door.
• Hu Jiu looked through the door and saw more enormous black doors behind it, but his vision was cut off and his eyes became bloodshot.

Hu Jiu passed through a series of enormous doors and reached a graveyard where the earth tried to bury him. There, he encountered the gatekeepers Zhao Feng and Corpse Demon, and the chapter ended with Corpse Demon demanding Zhao Feng help subdue him.

• Hu Jiu used the master key to pass through several enormous black doors, finding fewer and more terrifying ghosts beyond each one.
• Hu Jiu entered a graveyard, escaped the living earth by hovering, and approached a brand-new fifth door.
• Corpse Demon emerged from a grave, demanded Hu Jiu identify himself, and attacked him with bone spikes.
• Zhao Feng arrived, introduced himself as a gatekeeper, and said Hu Jiu's identity needed to be examined.
• Hu Jiu dodged Corpse Demon's next attack and summoned a pumpkin hood, prompting Corpse Demon to order Zhao Feng to help take him down.

Hu Jiu easily defeated Zhao Feng and Corpse Demon while demanding to know where he was and what the door was for. When Corpse Demon refused to break the rules and insisted Hu Jiu submit to inspection, Zhao Feng argued that they could not stop him from leaving.

• Hu Jiu shrugged off Zhao Feng’s bloody handprints and repelled Corpse Demon’s attacks, then used one of Corpse Demon’s bone spikes to send him crashing into a grave.
• Hu Jiu pressed his advantage against Zhao Feng and Corpse Demon, who coordinated their defense but grew increasingly afraid.
• Zhao Feng told Corpse Demon to wake another ghost, but Hu Jiu forced the malicious ghost back into its grave and restrained it with curses.
• Hu Jiu demanded to know where he was and what the door was for, but Corpse Demon refused to answer and insisted Hu Jiu accept an inspection and a restraining curse.
• Zhao Feng rebuked Corpse Demon for provoking Hu Jiu and said they should not risk their lives trying to enforce the rules.

Hu Jiu confronted Corpse Demon and Zhao Feng to learn about their organization and the door, but they refused and attacked him. He captured Corpse Demon with the Pumpkin Head Mask and knocked Zhao Feng down, only for Zhao Feng to warn that a vicious Fierce Ghost had escaped as a dazzling light filled the area.

• Corpse Demon and Zhao Feng threatened Hu Jiu and refused to answer his questions, then attacked him with bone spikes and the graves around them.
• Hu Jiu vanished, and Corpse Demon summoned a corpse to search for him while Zhao Feng urged them to retreat and find reinforcements.
• Hu Jiu reappeared and dodged their renewed attack, then controlled Corpse Demon by dropping a Pumpkin Head Mask over his head.
• Hu Jiu kicked Zhao Feng down and forced the soil and Fierce Ghosts back into the graves.
• Zhao Feng warned Hu Jiu that a vicious Fierce Ghost had escaped, and a dazzling light suddenly illuminated the area.

Hu Jiu captured the Bulb Monster and discovered that Zhao Feng had lost his memories, then entered a numbered-door corridor. After testing door 200 and encountering a dangerous arm behind it, Hu Jiu shut the door and continued cautiously.

• Hu Jiu captured the Bulb Monster in a mirrored cube, unaffected by its corrupting light, and confirmed that Zhao Feng could not remember anything about the place.
• Hu Jiu agreed to let Zhao Feng go, then removed his head and put it in a sack with the Corpse Demon.
• Hu Jiu opened the fifth door and entered a vast corridor lined with numbered black doors, arriving through door 167.
• Hu Jiu saw someone leave door 200, then tried to open it with his key after the stranger had gone.
• A bloodstained arm thrust through the gap and attacked Hu Jiu, who struck it with his hanging rope before shutting the door as something slammed against it from inside.

Hu Jiu explored a corridor of numbered black doors, where supernatural suppression grew stronger, then hid when a stitched monster and a doll-carrying girl detected an unknown presence. After the monster summoned his superior, Tianxuan arrived, leaving Hu Jiu concealed and waiting to learn what would happen next.

• Hu Jiu continued down the corridor until the increasing supernatural suppression made him decide not to go farther.
• Hu Jiu hid in the wall as a stitched monster walked past and knocked on a massive black door.
• A little girl emerged with a doll, searched for the stranger's traces, and told the stitched monster that someone had left an aura behind.
• Hu Jiu withdrew quietly while the stitched monster reported the discovery and later announced that Tianxuan would arrive.
• Tianxuan reached the corridor, and the stitched monster respectfully greeted him as Teacher Tianxuan.

Hu Jiu entered the No. 0 Door and discovered it led to an island in the real world, but escaped when Tianxuan trapped the area in a Ghost Domain. Back at Headquarters, Hu Jiu asked Fu Youhua to investigate the island, and Fu Youhua said he had been under pressure as head of Headquarters.

• Hu Jiu sensed Tianxuan nearby, but Tianxuan ordered the stitched monster to retreat and fled before they met.
• The stitched monster followed Tianxuan’s order and hurried back into his room.
• Hu Jiu entered the half-open No. 0 Door, where Tianxuan and a crowd confronted him and Tianxuan used a wooden stake to form a Ghost Domain.
• Hu Jiu escaped upward and discovered that the doors stood on an island surrounded by sea, then memorized the area’s features.
• A passenger on an international flight captured Hu Jiu flying through the clouds, but her video drew little attention after she posted it online.
• Hu Jiu returned to Headquarters, described the island to Fu Youhua, and asked him to investigate it discreetly; Fu Youhua mentioned the pressure of leading Headquarters.