Recaps

No. 6 learned that Deathbird had gone out of control and changed the Administration’s battle plan. Meanwhile, Hu Jiu headed away from Ruihe City, captured the strange birds, and prepared to create chaos as he suspected the Time Management Bureau planned to eliminate him.

• No. 6 told Fu Youhua that things were getting out of hand, then contacted the Administration to adjust its battle plan.
• Hu Jiu sealed off his senses and used talismans and bronze-like branches to capture the three-eyed strange birds.
• Hu Jiu headed toward a city beside Ruihe City while Zhao Tingting followed at a steady distance.
• Hu Jiu recognized a peach blossom petal as a message from Beauty Goddess and learned the organization was called the Time Management Bureau.
• Hu Jiu decided to create chaos and drag others down with him, suspecting Beauty Goddess had trapped him into facing the strange bird statue.

Hu Jiu encountered a grave ghost whose portrait swallowed whatever it looked at, but his talismans barely damaged it. Rather than contain the ghost, he provoked it and sent it rampaging toward populated parts of the city.

• Hu Jiu noticed the strange birds changing direction and saw a grave rise beneath him, its portrait swallowing several of the birds.
• Hu Jiu threw heavy talismans at the grave, but their explosion only cracked its surface without weakening its aura.
• A plume of black smoke shot from the grave, and a rotting, potbellied corpse crawled out.
• Hu Jiu dodged the smoke and deliberately provoked the grave ghost to make it stronger.
• The grave went berserk and released more potbellied corpses, while Hu Jiu vanished and drifting peach blossoms drew them toward places where people had gathered.

No. 52 struggled with the Ghost Peach Blossoms’ seductive supernatural assault while worrying that No. 13 would prevent his escape from the organization. When the blossoms attacked, No. 13 effortlessly drew them into his black dagger.

• No. 52 sat with No. 13 in Ruihe City as the Ghost Peach Blossoms’ soul-stirring sounds disturbed him, while No. 13 calmly read a pirated novel.
• No. 52 considered his plan to fake his death and escape the organization, but doubted he could get away with No. 13 guarding the area.
• No. 13 noticed the attack beginning just before peach blossoms burst through the window toward him and No. 52.
• No. 52 summoned the Fierce Ghost inside him and retreated, while No. 13 stood still and raised a black dagger.
• The flying petals changed direction and shot into No. 13’s blade, leaving No. 52 dumbfounded.

No. 13 revealed that he knew No. 52 planned to escape and agreed to let him go so he could learn whether the Administration could punish a proxy who fled beyond the world. As peach branches attacked, No. 13 disappeared, leaving No. 52 to face the danger with a supernatural item.

• No. 13 warned No. 52 that the peach blossoms’ first wave had only been a probe.
• No. 13 admitted he knew about No. 52’s escape plan and offered to cover for him, hoping to see whether the Administration could punish him after he escaped beyond the world.
• No. 13 noticed someone observing them, and Hu Jiu appeared from the ceiling.
• Hu Jiu claimed the real threat was outside, just as peach branches surged through the window and No. 13 vanished.
• No. 52 took out a plastic lotus lantern and touched its switch, starting an eerie birthday song.

No. 13 revealed that he planned to fake his death and leave the Time Management Bureau, explaining that its looping of time was costing Executors their true names. No. 52 suspected the Bureau was nearing collapse as world-ending Fierce Ghosts appeared more often and grew stronger.

• No. 52 endured the birthday song from the lotus lamp as peach blossoms slowed their attack around him.
• Hu Jiu blocked the way out overhead, and No. 13 appeared amid the peach blossoms.
• No. 13 told Hu Jiu that he intended to fake his death and leave the Time Management Bureau, surprising No. 52.
• No. 13 explained that the Bureau controlled repeated time loops and that Executors gradually lost their true names as the loops continued.
• No. 13 said he did not know how to reclaim his name but believed the Bureau was close to losing control.
• No. 52 reflected that world-ending Fierce Ghosts were appearing more frequently and growing stronger, perhaps as the price of reversing time.

No. 13 and Hu Jiu discussed their loyalty to the Time Management Bureau before No. 13 unleashed his power against the peach blossoms. As No. 13 and No. 52 prepared to flee into the Ghost World, Hu Jiu recognized that the Bureau might not be able to pursue them there.

• Hu Jiu remarked that No. 13 showed little loyalty to the Administration, and No. 13 pointed out that Hu Jiu was no more loyal to Headquarters.
• No. 13 swept through the peach grove with supernatural power, destroying branches and reducing the house to ruins.
• Hu Jiu asked whether No. 13 could interfere with time, and No. 13 said it was only an extra ability he rarely used.
• No. 13 explained that the Time Management Bureau's five lowest-numbered Executors pursued their own interests and that their resets seemed to be slipping out of control.
• No. 13 urged No. 52 to finish preparing before other Executors arrived; No. 52 changed his appearance using a corpse, while No. 13 split off an identical copy of himself.
• No. 13 asked Hu Jiu to keep their secret, and Hu Jiu replied that they would already have escaped into the Ghost World, beyond the Bureau's reach.

Hu Jiu followed No. 13 and No. 52 into the Ghost World and questioned No. 13 about the Time Management Bureau's rollbacks. No. 13 revealed that a powerful entity called “God” had destabilized repeated rollbacks, and Hu Jiu prepared to ask for one more favor.

• No. 13 and No. 52 faked their deaths and escaped with Hu Jiu, leaving Executors to find their bodies without their time ghosts.
• Hu Jiu followed No. 13 and No. 52 to the Ghost World and asked No. 13 about the Administration's rollbacks.
• No. 13 explained that Executors No. 1 through No. 5 held the rollback core and had withdrawn from public view after a major event during the 123rd rollback.
• No. 13 revealed that a World-Ending Level Fierce Ghost codenamed “God” had fought the Administration and scattered fragments with Omniscience or Omnipotence, magnifying variables and accelerating rollbacks.
• Hu Jiu suspected that he himself was one of the variables, while No. 52 watched No. 13 reveal the Administration's secrets; Hu Jiu then asked No. 13 for one last favor.

Executor No. 37 secretly guided Hu Jiu through the Sky Pavilion and revealed information about the Executors. Hu Jiu summoned the Ghost Peach Blossom’s true body, which attacked the Pavilion and began killing its defenders.

• Hu Jiu forced Executor No. 37 to guide him through the Sky Pavilion and disclose its layout and the Executors’ abilities and weaknesses.
• No. 37 revealed that No. 6 had gone to Headquarters, and Hu Jiu sent a Talisman through the barriers of space.
• The Ghost Peach Blossom’s true body descended onto the Sky Pavilion, destroying buildings and killing two Executors on impact.
• The tree monster seized an Executor, exploited his weakness, and drained him after removing the Fierce Ghosts he controlled.
• Peach trees spread across the clouds as petals filled the air and the attack on the Sky Pavilion continued.

Hu Jiu and No. 37 faced the Ghost Peach Blossom’s peach-tree avatars in the ruined Sky Loft while the Executors fought to survive. When No. 6 Proxy arrived and attacked with his time-manipulating ability, the Ghost Peach Blossom prepared to confront him.

• Hu Jiu shielded himself from the Ghost Peach Blossom’s petals and realized No. 37 had recovered from his daze.
• Hu Jiu ordered No. 37 to attack the two peach trees, and No. 37 struck them before fleeing from a cloud of blossoms.
• Hu Jiu questioned the peach-tree avatar about the Time Management Bureau, and it admitted it had failed to tame the stolen Time-Type Fierce Ghosts.
• The peach-tree avatar sensed a powerful arrival and disappeared as No. 6 Proxy descended into the Sky Loft.
• The Ghost Peach Blossom knocked No. 6 Proxy from the air, but he returned unharmed and summoned an illusory clock around himself and the surviving Executors.

No. 6 trapped Ghost Peach Blossom in a folded space-time scroll, but a beam of pink light escaped, and he learned that the Beauty Goddess’s true body remained unharmed. He then saw the enormous, grotesque Beauty Goddess watching the Sky Loft.

• No. 6 lured Ghost Peach Blossom into a purple clock and used Time-Space Unity to flatten him into a two-dimensional scroll.
• No. 6 folded the scroll repeatedly, but Ghost Peach Blossom escaped as a beam of pink light.
• No. 6 told the other Executors that Ghost Peach Blossom had escaped and suspected a mole had revealed the Sky Loft’s location.
• No. 6 ordered the Executors to remove the remaining peach roots, flowers, and branches from the Sky Loft.
• No. 6 saw the upside-down Beauty Goddess looming in the sky, and its allure shattered his cognitive barriers.

Fu Youhua learned from the injured No. 6 about the Beauty Goddess as the pink sky and supernatural disasters worsened. No. 6 went to investigate Ruihe City with Feng Qinfang, discovered the city was sealed and overrun with deadly incidents, and summoned the No. 5 Proxy for help before setting out to deal with ghosts.

• No. 6 returned to Headquarters injured and told Fu Youhua that the Beauty Goddess was a powerful ghost who could warp perception and had absorbed ghosts associated with beauty and enchantment.
• No. 6 accepted Feng Qinfang as his companion and set off for Ruihe City, forcing his way through a blockade of peach blossoms.
• No. 6 realized his thoughts had been tampered with and tried to leave Ruihe City, but discovered metallic roots beneath the ground and an impenetrable barrier sealing the city.
• No. 6 and Feng Qinfang found Ruihe City nearly deserted, while the Special Operations Department's injured leader explained that A-class supernatural incidents had erupted and the city had lost contact with the outside.
• No. 6 used a rotten conch to summon the No. 5 Proxy, Heaven's Retribution, and asked for help.
• After meeting Heaven's Retribution, No. 6 dealt with several ghosts roaming Ruihe City while the moon's strange light caused him to forget what he had been thinking.

No. 6 discovered that Hu Jiu had secretly tampered with his mind, while [Heaven's Retribution] and [Holy Light] found themselves trapped inside Ruihe City. As Beauty Goddess descended and [Heaven's Retribution] attacked, a strange mist rose from underground, leaving the Executives facing another hidden threat.

• [Heaven's Retribution] struck No. 6 with lightning, breaking the influence on his thoughts and prompting him to purge two foreign supernatural forces from his body.
• [Holy Light] arrived in Ruihe City and repelled Hu Jiu's Ghost Hand, while [Heaven's Retribution] explained that the underground Ghost Domains formed a maze and [Holy Light] revealed the city was sealed against escape.
• No. 2 warned Heavenly Dao that Rollback's side effects could hasten destruction, but Heavenly Dao insisted the Time Management Bureau would win using its ability to turn back time across the world.
• Beauty Goddess descended over Ruihe City, distorting the senses and thoughts of people across several cities as an enormous upside-down peach tree appeared in the sky.
• [Heaven's Retribution] charged at Beauty Goddess, but the lightning abruptly stopped as an illusory mist rose from underground and spread across Ruihe City.

Hu Jiu and Beauty Goddess fought the Time Management Bureau while secretly coveting its power and resources. Beauty Goddess used Hu Jiu’s Feather Pen to defeat [Heaven's Retribution] and devour him, while Hu Jiu took the stolen Hourglass and tested its time-manipulating ability.

• The mist transformed Ruihe City and its inhabitants into ghosts, while [Holy Light] protected the Special Operations Department building and confronted Hu Jiu.
• [Holy Light] fought Hu Jiu as [Heaven's Retribution] battled Beauty Goddess, and Hu Jiu secretly offered Beauty Goddess his Feather Pen.
• Beauty Goddess accepted the Feather Pen and used it to overpower [Heaven's Retribution], while a bloodstained white cloth seized the Hourglass named "Entropy."
• Beauty Goddess pierced and devoured [Heaven's Retribution] as [Holy Light] continued fighting Hu Jiu.
• Hu Jiu revealed that he had obtained the Hourglass and found that it let him observe and move through time without directly changing events.

Hu Jiu defeated [Holy Light] and absorbed her Fierce Ghosts, while Beauty Goddess faced three Time Management Bureau executives after consuming [Heaven's Retribution]. No. 2 suspected that powerful Ghost Tamers might be behind the coming world-ending disaster, and Hu Jiu noticed that the Bureau's leaders seemed to be acting irrationally.

• Hu Jiu used the hourglass to evade [Holy Light], then trapped her in a Magic Mirror cage and turned her purification beams back against her.
• [Holy Light] stopped time, but Hu Jiu stalled until she released the time stop, then stabbed her true body and defeated her.
• Hu Jiu absorbed [Holy Light]'s Fierce Ghosts, gained a major increase in strength, and left the unstable Beauty Goddess behind in Ruihe City.
• Beauty Goddess, who had eaten [Heaven's Retribution], was surrounded by Nos. 1, 2, and 4, while Hu Jiu concealed his whereabouts and did not come to help.
• No. 2 suggested that exceptionally powerful Ghost Tamers might be responsible for the coming calamity, but No. 1 ordered him to attack Beauty Goddess alone and No. 4 accepted the decision.
• Hu Jiu watched from underground and wondered whether someone hidden in the shadows was clouding the Time Management Bureau leaders' minds.

The Beauty Goddess overwhelmed Nos. 2 and 4 while an unseen force repeatedly muddled the Executors’ thoughts, leaving No. 1 to fight alone. After No. 1’s strange weapons nearly destroyed the Beauty Goddess, No. 1 regained control of the fight—only for the Beauty Goddess to turn the tables and pierce him with bronze branches.

• Hu Jiu watched as Nos. 2 and 4 attacked the Beauty Goddess clumsily, then were bound and swallowed by the upside-down peach tree.
• No. 1 suspected that 0’s power or an outside powerhouse was disrupting the Executors’ minds, but the influence returned and muddled his thoughts again.
• The Beauty Goddess fought No. 1, who summoned a black inverted cross and three nails that pinned the Beauty Goddess’s humanoid form and threatened to make him fall apart.
• The Beauty Goddess unleashed a crimson supernatural attack, and No. 1 took the blow before recovering his senses and trying to control him.
• No. 1 touched the peach tree, turning it to bronze, but the Beauty Goddess emerged from its trunk and impaled No. 1 with sharp branches.

Hu Jiu freed the Beauty Goddess from the cross, then revealed that he had contaminated and claimed him, leaving with the transformed Bronze Tree and the Administration’s upper echelon. The Beauty Goddess’s death triggered worldwide chaos as his followers launched a chain of nuclear strikes, and mushroom clouds began to destroy human civilization.

• Hu Jiu used a bronze branch to capture No. 1, then turned to the Beauty Goddess, who begged him to remove the three nails pinning him to the cross.
• Hu Jiu stabilized the Beauty Goddess and pulled out the nails, causing the Fierce Ghosts in Ruihe City to go berserk as the Beauty Goddess broke free.
• The Beauty Goddess attacked Hu Jiu, but his power neutralized her supernatural abilities; Hu Jiu explained that his borrowed quill had contaminated and marked her.
• The Beauty Goddess transformed into a Bronze Tree under Hu Jiu’s control, and Hu Jiu took the tree, cross, and nails before leaving Ruihe City.
• The Beauty Goddess’s death triggered his beguiled followers and caused a nuclear launch from America; countries worldwide retaliated with indiscriminate nuclear strikes.
• Mushroom clouds spread across the world, while radiation, heat, and blast waves devastated human civilization.

Hu Jiu mastered the Executors’ supernatural abilities, emerged into the nuclear-ravaged world, and found survivors sheltering in a Ghost Domain at Headquarters. He reunited with Xiao Mei and confronted Fu Youhua, who accused him of having a hand in the nuclear blasts.

• Hu Jiu spent more than three months mastering the Executors’ abilities, but contained four time-type Fierce Ghosts in Golden Containers because he could not digest them.
• Hu Jiu left his Ghost Domain and surveyed the devastation, then found a father tending to his gravely injured son among the ruins.
• Hu Jiu entered the Ghost Domain over the ruined Capital and reunited with Xiao Mei, who explained that Headquarters’ Ghost Tamers had rescued survivors but were struggling to sustain the shelter.
• Xiao Mei told Hu Jiu that a mysterious black-robed figure and Minister Fu Youhua had questioned her about him before she was isolated.
• Fu Youhua confronted Hu Jiu over his cheerful reaction to humanity’s destruction, and Hu Jiu said he had never considered people human and denied causing the nuclear blasts.

Hu Jiu gave Fu Youhua a wish-granting Seven-Colored Flower, then sought out a hidden underground shelter and subjected survivors around the world to his Supernatural Game. A mysterious green arrow led him to a sealed brain in a vat whose leaking dream power briefly ensnared him.

• Hu Jiu confronted Fu Youhua about the Ghost Domain shelter and handed him the Seven-Colored Flower, warning that its wishes could be distorted.
• Fu Youhua revealed the location of an underground shelter holding Capital officials and elites, and a seven-colored flower bud began growing behind him after Hu Jiu left.
• Hu Jiu entered the underground shelter, found its healthy residents and Supernatural Items, and sent survivors into supernatural scenarios across the world.
• Hu Jiu waited for the mysterious person behind the Time Management Bureau Executors, keeping destructive traps prepared in case he could not draw them out.
• A fluorescent green arrow guided Hu Jiu through distorted space to a chamber containing a brain sealed in a glass vat.
• The brain communicated with Hu Jiu, and its leaking dream fragments briefly pulled him into a series of wish-fulfillment fantasies.

Hu Jiu met the unstable Brain in a Vat, who claimed to be a Ghost Tamer trapped in a Supernatural Item, but left without learning its full story. He then discovered that Fu Youhua and the survivors had used the Seven-Colored Flower to restore the Capital, which now seemed like the beginning of a new world.

• Hu Jiu spoke with the Brain in a Vat, who said the Time Management Bureau had used his power to restart time and trap him in dreams.
• Hu Jiu refused to free the Brain in a Vat before it explained its past, then left, prompting the brain to fight the chains and resist falling asleep.
• Hu Jiu added rewards to the Supernatural Game and headed for the Capital.
• Fu Youhua found Hu Jiu speaking to him from a mirror and explained how survivors used successive wishes on the Seven-Colored Flower to send harmful side effects into the ruins beyond the Capital.
• Hu Jiu learned that a Ghost Domain now enclosed the restored Capital and imagined it as the embryo of a new world.

Hu Jiu visited the Capital, then met the Brain in a Vat, who explained that his Rollbacks were consuming the world and accelerating its destruction. The Brain in a Vat’s account ended as he revealed the world’s instability was worsening with every reset.

• Fu Youhua described how the Capital relied on the Seven-Colored Flower and asked Hu Jiu for help, but Hu Jiu refused and left.
• Hu Jiu wandered the Ghost World collecting Fierce Ghosts while the Brain in a Vat repeatedly tried to reach him.
• The Brain in a Vat used a Rollback that reset the world by fifteen hours, then asked Hu Jiu to take him along; Hu Jiu declined.
• The Brain in a Vat explained that his time-reset ability had a shrinking range and that Rollbacks caused unexplained deviations, including missing people and new ghosts.
• The Brain in a Vat said the world was a broken system, and each Rollback consumed it and hastened its collapse.

Hu Jiu learned from the Brain in a Vat that Fierce Ghosts were supernatural bugs linked to an apocalypse spreading across many worlds, and that time rollback accelerated the collapse. After deciding to take the brain for its memories, Hu Jiu freed it from its palace but discovered that its remaining chains and container came from another world and could not be broken with his powers.

• The Brain in a Vat explained that time rollbacks worsened the world's materialist breakdown and produced more Fierce Ghosts, then described how a traitorous ally and his own intelligence-lowering ability led to his defeat.
• The Brain in a Vat revealed that Fierce Ghosts were manifestations of an apocalypse affecting many worlds, caused by an unknown external force, and that unstable time made the disaster's starting point impossible to determine.
• Hu Jiu concluded that the Brain in a Vat's knowledge of the Ghost World made it worth taking, then decided to swallow it and obtain its memories.
• Hu Jiu returned to the palace, smashed it apart, and found the Brain in a Vat floating freely with chains still attached.
• Hu Jiu tried to break the chains but failed, and the Brain in a Vat explained that the chains, container, and liquid came from another world and used a different supernatural system.

Hu Jiu and the Brain in a Vat debated whether a World Consciousness or Doomsday Consciousness had secretly shaped their fortunes and misfortunes. Hu Jiu urged him not to fret over unseen forces, leaving the Brain in a Vat laughing and with a new respect for him.

• The Brain in a Vat said he had collected the Otherworld objects that were used to seal him and suspected an unseen will had caused his downfall.
• Hu Jiu dismissed the Brain in a Vat's theory that a World Consciousness was interfering and told him to prepare to leave before the world ended.
• The Brain in a Vat argued that supernatural Ghost Tamers such as Hu Jiu had grown extraordinarily powerful because another will was fostering destroyers while the weakened world's will tried to stop them.
• Hu Jiu said he accepted his good fortune and argued that worrying about vague forces would only create needless turmoil.
• The Brain in a Vat laughed and admitted that he had misjudged Hu Jiu as merely cold and vicious.

Hu Jiu and Brain in a Vat erased their traces, gathered supplies, and accelerated the destruction of their world until it collapsed into the Ghost World. They explored the aftermath and debated whether the Ghost World might be the true reality.

• Hu Jiu retrieved his Supernatural Items and removed the supernatural powers and curses he had spread, while Brain in a Vat collected internet data and demanded that creators be brought along to keep producing stories.
• Brain in a Vat repeatedly rolled back time to hasten the world's destruction, and humanity's civilization ended as reality's rules broke down and the real world overlapped with the Ghost World.
• Hu Jiu thrilled at the world's collapse as the land, hidden Ghost Domains, and a city carried by a Seven-Colored Flower vanished into an unknown place.
• In the Ghost World, Hu Jiu and Brain in a Vat discussed a little girl who had survived her world's destruction among potatoes and cabbages, while Hu Jiu refused to help her.
• Brain in a Vat wondered whether the Ghost World was the true reality, citing a manga in which humans turned out to be invaders of the Demon Realm.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong were swept into a large Ghost Domain where sunlight replaced the Red Moon, and they found themselves in a silent primeval forest. After Hu Jiu’s supernatural power disturbed the forest’s apparent graveyard for Fierce Ghosts, they prepared to face whoever had created it.

• Hu Jiu offered to make Du Zhong a body, but Du Zhong rejected his creations and chose a pink starfish form instead.
• Du Zhong sensed danger ahead as bright light spread through the Ghost World, and Hu Jiu realized they had been swept into a large Ghost Domain.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong found themselves in a silent primeval forest beyond the Red Moon’s light, unable to reach the boundary between it and the red sky.
• Hu Jiu unleashed his supernatural power across the forest, transforming the trees and bringing rotting corpses out from beneath their roots.
• Du Zhong identified the corpses as Fierce Ghosts suppressed by the burial clothes, forest, land, and sunlight, and said the area looked like a graveyard made by humans.
• Hu Jiu decided they should confront whoever had disturbed them and flee if they could not win.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong discovered a Black Door in the Ghost World that led to another world, but its healthy spatial barrier prevented them from entering. Hu Jiu forced a tiny, fragile passage through it, leaving the door marked with a sinister tree and Du Zhong newly impressed by his strength.

• Hu Jiu devoured Fierce Ghosts in the primeval forest, disrupting its balance and causing a Black Door to appear.
• Hu Jiu recognized the door as similar to the Endless Corridor doors from his world and suspected it led to another world.
• Hu Jiu opened a small hole in the door, and Du Zhong explained that the world beyond was protected by a strong spatial barrier.
• Hu Jiu used the Bronze Tree's power to punch a tiny gap through the barrier and held it open, though the passage could not yet admit them.
• The Black Door's patterns formed a sinister tree, and Du Zhong reconsidered how strong Hu Jiu was.