Recaps

Zhang Wu tested a weightless, supernatural branch on laboratory mice, but after a fragment entered his hand, Hu Jiu tried to possess him and caused his death. The police began investigating Zhang Wu’s inexplicably decomposed body as Hu Jiu prepared to keep trying to enter the world beyond the Black Door.

• Zhang Wu searched the grove where the branch had fallen, then brought it home and ordered laboratory mice to test its powers.
• A fragment broke off the branch, and Zhang Wu fed it to a mouse, which quickly rotted and died.
• Zhang Wu implanted the fragment into another mouse, which transformed into a zombie-like creature before collapsing and dying.
• The fragment leapt into Zhang Wu’s palm, and Hu Jiu’s attempt to possess him caused him to convulse, rot, and die.
• Hu Jiu explained to Du Zhong that the world rejected outsiders and that native hosts could not withstand his possession.
• Zhang Wu’s landlord found his decomposed corpse, and police began investigating the strange mismatch between its condition and his recent sighting.

Wei Chuanmo found a strange branch in his rented room and implanted a fragment into his arm, gaining a chilling supernatural power before Hu Jiu took control of his body. Hu Jiu and Du Zhong began using Wei Chuanmo’s identity to invade the world and spread the supernatural, while a threatening message revealed that Wei Chuanmo was already being pursued for murder.

• Wei Chuanmo rented the room where a previous tenant had died and found a strange, nearly weightless branch beneath the bed.
• Wei Chuanmo implanted a piece of the branch into his arm, endured intense pain, and gained the power to pierce a table with one finger.
• The branch took control of Wei Chuanmo and merged into his chest as Hu Jiu and Du Zhong spoke through newly formed mouths on his body.
• Hu Jiu read Wei Chuanmo’s memories, took control of his body, and explained to Du Zhong that they would use Wei Chuanmo’s identity to weaken the world’s rejection of outsiders.
• Du Zhong warned Hu Jiu that the world might have once contained supernatural forces and said he had sensed a faint abnormal fluctuation.
• Hu Jiu received a threatening message and learned from Wei Chuanmo’s memories that the man had killed a rich young man and was being sought by the victim’s parents.

Hu Jiu used supernatural powers to escape a group of men searching for Wei Chuanmo, then continued his killings while moving to another city. There, he chose a hospital as his next target and encountered Zhao Chuxia, whose severe soybean allergy was dismissed by her mother.

• Hu Jiu controlled a supernatural tabby cat and trapped the landlord and armed men in a Ghost Domain, where they turned on one another and died.
• The police blamed Wei Chuanmo for the apartment murders and issued a wanted notice, while Hu Jiu used a ghost story to control a taxi driver and entered White Egret Villa District.
• Hu Jiu killed Wei Chuanmo's victim's family and left for another city, where Du Zhong suggested places for him to cause trouble.
• Zhao Chuxia woke in the hospital after a severe allergic reaction caused by her mother adding soybeans to her food.
• Dr. Li warned Zhao Chuxia's mother that even trace amounts of soybeans could endanger her, but her mother dismissed the warning, leaving Zhao Chuxia afraid the abuse would continue.

After gaining the ability to trigger soybean allergies, Zhao Chuxia used it against her abusive parents and began killing others as her power and murderous urges grew harder to control. The police surrounded her, and she realized the force lending her the ability was spiraling out of control.

• Zhao Chuxia secretly triggered severe soybean allergies in her parents, who needed stomach surgery after arriving at the hospital too late.
• Zhao Chuxia struggled with growing violent urges, then attacked three drunken men who cornered her in an alley.
• Zhao Chuxia increasingly killed people with her ability and became frightened by her changing body and loss of control.
• Zhao Chuxia distanced herself from Song Li, fearing that her friend would be hurt by her.
• Police summoned Song Li for questioning and deployed armed officers to surround Zhao Chuxia.
• Zhao Chuxia hid in an alley and realized that the force behind her temporary power was spiraling out of control.

Zhao Chuxia lost control of her supernatural power, killed many armed officers, and escaped into the sewers with help from Hu Jiu’s tabby cat. Hu Jiu then discussed his supernatural experiments and his reasons for preferring violence, while Zhao Chuxia was left alone and unsure where to go next.

• Zhao Chuxia was shot by armed police, lost control, and killed officers with her supernatural ability as Zhang Junyi received conflicting orders to capture her alive.
• Hu Jiu forcibly restored Zhao Chuxia’s awareness, and she fled after recognizing the scale of the deaths around her.
• A tabby cat raised the dead into attackers, led Zhao Chuxia to a sewer entrance, and helped her vanish from the pursuit.
• Zhao Chuxia reached the sewers and tried to question the tabby, but it left her alone without answering.
• Hu Jiu explained to Du Zhong that animals were harder to hide but difficult to train, and argued that human greed made violence inevitable when interests clashed.

Zhao Chuxia slaughtered members of human-trafficking villages until the military cornered her and used her parents to stop her. After she died and the Sick Ghost revived, Hu Jiu and Du Zhong advanced their plans to spread supernatural power and obstruct scientific research, while Zhang Suyuan awoke with extraordinary strength after a mysterious trial.

• Zhao Chuxia killed the people in several human-trafficking villages and fought off the military’s attacks with her growing supernatural power.
• Zhang Junyi brought Zhao Chuxia’s parents to the scene, and their abuse drove her into a berserk state that ended with her death.
• Hu Jiu transformed the revived Fierce Ghost in Zhao Chuxia’s corpse into the Sick Ghost, and the corpse began spreading a hidden disease among the researchers studying it.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong discussed their plans to create Ghost Tamers, stir up social conflict, and delay discoveries about Fierce Ghosts by targeting scientists.
• Hu Jiu summoned Zhang Suyuan for a trial ritual, and Zhang Suyuan later discovered that he had gained enough strength to smash a cabinet with a light punch.

Zhang Suyuan gained a deadly Ghost Hand, accidentally killed a passerby, and surrendered himself to the authorities. After Chen Zhanji attacked him in the name of justice and escaped, Zhang was moved to a research institute and received only a light punishment.

• Zhang Suyuan discovered that his dream had given him supernatural power and secretly went out to test it.
• Zhang Suyuan's violent urges surged, and he killed a passerby with his Ghost Hand before deciding to confess to his father.
• Hu Jiu observed Zhang Suyuan's choice, while Chen Zhanji learned that the victim's parents blamed Zhang and set out to punish him.
• Chen Zhanji confronted Zhang Suyuan in an Isolation Room, but Zhang beat him until armed guards arrived.
• Chen Zhanji escaped through the shadows, and officials transferred Zhang to a research institute after giving him a light punishment for the killing.

Hu Jiu sent the resurrected White Bone Spirit to take revenge, and the skeleton’s attack on an organ-trafficking ring drew Zhang Suyuan into a supernatural fight. Zhang Suyuan shattered the White Bone Spirit with his Ghost Hand, but the bones released black smoke that spread into a Ghost Domain over the city.

• Hu Jiu strengthened the White Bone Spirit and sent him out with a Hanging Rope to cause trouble in a randomly chosen city.
• The White Bone Spirit hunted down the doctor’s former enemies, killed the middle-aged man’s family, and attacked him as he fled into a crowd.
• The White Bone Spirit killed bystanders who tried to protect the middle-aged man, prompting armed police to cordon off the area as Hanging Ropes multiplied.
• Zhang Suyuan arrived and fought the White Bone Spirit, using his Ghost Hand to break the Hanging Rope’s supernatural strands.
• The White Bone Spirit unleashed the power within his body and sent Zhang Suyuan flying with a supernatural roar.
• Zhang Suyuan struck the White Bone Spirit’s head, scattering his bones, then fled as black smoke rose from them and spread across the city as a Ghost Domain.

A black cloud sealed Shanque City off from the outside world, while Skeleton Ghosts began killing residents and multiplying. The city government organized rescue efforts, but the growing supernatural threat overwhelmed the city as it sank into darkness.

• A column of black smoke spread into a cloud over Shanque City, cutting off communications and preventing people from leaving.
• Wang Qiang saw a skeletal hand kill the pyramid scheme leader, then escaped the apartment building only to be killed and transformed by Skeleton Ghosts.
• The mayor organized rescue teams to assess the districts and calm residents, and most people initially stayed indoors.
• Rescue teams encountered Skeleton Ghosts spreading from the outskirts toward the city center and struggled to relay warnings without communications.
• The mayor questioned Zhang Junyi about whether his mission had caused the disaster, while the Black Cloud thickened and Skeleton Ghosts continued multiplying across Shanque City.

The Supernatural Investigation Bureau failed to breach the black smoke that sealed Shanque City as supernatural crises erupted around the world. When the smoke vanished twenty-four hours later, rescuers found most of the city's residents dead and Zhang Suyuan alive but dangerously corrupted by the Ghost Hand.

• The government established the Supernatural Investigation Bureau and used entertainment scandals to divert public attention from the Shanque City crisis.
• Skeleton Ghosts attacked residents inside Shanque City, while the Bureau's advance team and headquarters failed to penetrate or observe the black smoke.
• The Bureau learned that supernatural incidents were breaking out around the world as officials struggled to understand the crisis.
• Twenty-four hours after the smoke appeared, it vanished, allowing rescue teams to enter Shanque City and find fewer than one in ten residents alive.
• Rescuers found Zhang Suyuan alive after his team was wiped out, but the Ghost Hand's blackness had spread across half his body, so they arranged to take him to the Bureau.

After hearing Zhang Suyuan’s account of Shanque City, the Supernatural Investigation Bureau identified Bai Jingjing as the woman who absorbed the black smoke, while she traveled to seek help for the White Bone Madam inside her. Hu Jiu tested Spirit Money on a fast-food restaurant owner, who used it to force a customer to work for him.

• Zhang Suyuan told Mu Xingrui that black smoke had turned Shanque City’s residents into skeletons before a woman absorbed it and lifted the seal.
• Mu Xingrui ordered a portrait made, and the Investigation Bureau identified the woman as Bai Jingjing.
• Bai Jingjing traveled to another city and headed for a Taoist temple, hoping to find someone who could help suppress White Bone Madam’s awakening.
• Hu Jiu arrived at a train station and gave Spirit Money to a fast-food restaurant owner after disguising himself as the owner’s twin.
• The owner secretly included Spirit Money in a customer’s change, and the young man was compelled to work in the kitchen after taking it.

Bai Jingjing went to Xuanxiao Temple seeking help to stop White Bone Madam from awakening inside her, but Perfected Master Liang admitted he had no magical abilities. After Bai Jingjing demonstrated her power, she agreed to stay at the temple when White Bone Madam’s voice urged her to cause trouble.

• Bai Jingjing introduced herself to a young priest as White Bone Madam’s inheritor and asked to see Perfected Master Liang.
• The young priest led Bai Jingjing to Perfected Master Liang, who initially thought she needed psychiatric care and confessed that his online fortune-telling was staged.
• Bai Jingjing summoned black smoke and skeletons, convincing Perfected Master Liang that supernatural powers were real.
• Perfected Master Liang admitted he could not help her but asked her to stay at Xuanxiao Temple and pray to its deities.
• Bai Jingjing agreed to stay for several days, and Perfected Master Liang told Tong Yucheng to close the temple to visitors.

Bai Jingjing's presence at Xuanxiao Temple coincided with a sudden attack by skeleton monsters, which she secretly caused and then stopped. Liang the Perfected sheltered the surviving tourists and began accounting for the dead, while one of his disciples was missing.

• Liang the Perfected introduced Bai Jingjing as an honored guest and ordered Tong Yucheng to clear the tourists from Xuanxiao Temple.
• At the gate, a sick tourist transformed into a skeleton, bit the middle-aged man, and became part of an attack that sent tourists fleeing into the temple.
• Liang the Perfected saw the skeletons and rushed to find Bai Jingjing, while the monsters attacked the Daoists and tourists inside.
• Bai Jingjing used black smoke to immobilize the skeletons, then claimed they were unknown evil creatures.
• Liang the Perfected decided to shelter the survivors overnight and call the police, then learned that one disciple was missing.

Zhu Ci investigated the deaths at Xuanxiao Temple and sought answers about Bai Jingjing, while Hu Jiu continued spreading supernatural disasters. In New Yan City, Hu Jiu found the home of missing student Tian Tian and discovered her parents’ corpses, seeing an opportunity to create another haunting.

• Zhu Ci questioned Liang the Perfected about Bai Jingjing’s visit to Xuanxiao Temple, while the Bureau separately investigated the temple’s other witnesses.
• Hu Jiu reflected that Bai Jingjing was a useful tool for spreading disasters, then killed a hot pot restaurant’s proprietress after she resisted his forced kindness and turned the restaurant into a ghostly place.
• Hu Jiu compared his despair-inducing methods with Du Zhong’s supernatural schemes and chose a new city at random from a map.
• Hu Jiu entered a run-down residential complex in New Yan City and found a missing-person notice for Tian Tian, who had disappeared while seeking a late-night meal.
• Hu Jiu discovered Tian Tian’s decomposing parents at their dining table and learned that her mother had poisoned the food after her father considered ending the search and having another child.
• Hu Jiu decided Tian Tian’s parents’ deaths would make excellent material for a haunting.

Li Hua encountered the dead-looking Old Tian and the missing Tian Tian in the apartment complex and fainted as a supernatural chill spread through the area. Hu Jiu watched over the transformed complex and prepared to make Bai Jingjing star in his show.

• Li Hua walked home late at night and reflected on his exhausting job and the Tian family's missing daughter.
• A cold wind carried a missing-person notice to Li Hua, and he hurried toward the complex as fear grew around him.
• Old Tian appeared behind Li Hua, repeatedly calling his name with a corpse-like face.
• Tian Tian appeared in front of Li Hua as Old Tian approached from behind, and Li Hua fainted.
• An icy chill spread through the complex, while Hu Jiu strengthened its eerie atmosphere and prepared to involve Bai Jingjing.

Li Hua told police captain Feng Qian that he had seen ghosts connected to missing girl Tian Tian, but Feng Qian dismissed his claims as superstition. Feng Qian and his officers entered the Tian family’s apartment, where they found two eerie, motionless versions of Tian Tian’s parents, then discovered another identical pair blocking their exit.

• Li Hua woke beside responding officers, panicked about ghosts, and told Feng Qian he had seen Tian Tian and her father.
• Feng Qian suspected Li Hua might be connected to Tian Tian’s disappearance, but Li Hua refused to return home and left for a crowded place.
• After hearing a scream from the apartment building, Feng Qian took his officers inside and followed the stench of decay to apartment 302.
• Feng Qian and the officers found Tian Tian’s parents standing motionless in the living room, smiling like lifeless figures.
• When the officers tried to leave, they saw an identical pair of Tian Tian’s parents blocking the stairwell, and rhythmic tapping began.

Feng Qian and his officers were trapped in the Tian family apartment by ghostly versions of Mr. and Mrs. Tian and the corpse of Tian Tian. A mysterious woman arrived, destroyed the ghosts, and vanished, leaving Feng Qian to handle the aftermath.

• Feng Qian shot the ghostly Mr. and Mrs. Tian, who fell and melted into the shadows, then ordered his officers to escape through the window.
• Feng Qian and his officers tried to make a rope from coats and curtains, but a fierce wind and Tian Tian’s corpse blocked their escape.
• Tian Tian’s weeping drove one officer to fire wildly, while bullets failed to stop Mr. and Mrs. Tian as they closed in on Feng Qian.
• Feng Qian lowered the gun he had aimed at himself and chose to face the ghosts after remembering that Li Hua had survived an encounter with one.
• A mysterious woman arrived in black smoke, turned all three Tian family ghosts into skeletons, and made them disappear.
• The woman told Feng Qian she had cleared the ghosts and left him to handle the aftermath before vanishing.

At a Supernatural Investigation Bureau meeting, Mu Xingrui and his staff reviewed the incidents involving Bai Jingjing and ghosts in New Yan City, then discussed how to manage public knowledge of supernatural events. The bureau decided to expand its ranks by recruiting people who had survived or encountered anomalies.

• Zhu Ci reported that Bai Jingjing believed White Bone Madam was awakening inside her and that the Xuanxiao Temple incident may have been her venting her frustration.
• A staff member reported that the Tian family had appeared as ghosts in New Yan City and that Bai Jingjing had likely rescued them.
• Mu Xingrui learned that investigators had found no information about White Bone Madam and discussed confidentiality agreements and plans to steer public opinion.
• A staff member proposed a television program that would present supernatural reports as cases debunked by science, and Mu Xingrui approved the suggestion.
• Mu Xingrui reviewed a proposal to expand the bureau by recruiting people including Feng Qian, Liang Shoupeng, Shanque City survivors, and Li Hua, then agreed to it.

Hu Jiu investigated supernatural incidents and noticed a debt collection company, where he encountered its predatory owner, Luo Dian. The chapter left Hu Jiu inside Luo Dian’s office as Luo Dian indulged in memories of his murders.

• Xiao Li told his boss that a psychiatric patient named Wei had killed twelve people in a New Yan City residential complex.
• Hu Jiu monitored domestic and international news before noticing a third-party debt collection company from the milk tea shop.
• Hu Jiu entered the company, mesmerized Old Luo, and walked upstairs to find the boss.
• Luo Dian recalled killing a classmate as a teenager and described how he continued killing while hiding the evidence and relying on powerful protection.

Hu Jiu cursed Luo Dian with a blackened machete and commanded him to kill, then showed him a portrait of Bai Jingjing and told him to follow her instructions if they met. When Luo Dian’s employees entered his office, he slaughtered several of them and continued to grow more monstrous.

• Hu Jiu appeared in Luo Dian’s office, and Luo Dian’s dagger passed through him when he attacked.
• Hu Jiu turned Luo Dian’s machete black, caused it to bind to Luo Dian’s hand, and transformed Luo Dian’s body and mind.
• Hu Jiu gave Luo Dian a portrait of Bai Jingjing and ordered him to follow her instructions if he encountered her.
• Luo Dian’s employees broke into his office after hearing crashing noises and found him hacking at his desk with the black machete.
• A muscular employee struck Luo Dian with a golf club, but the club broke without harming him, and Luo Dian killed the man and several others.
• The remaining employees shoved people toward Luo Dian as they fled, while his skin and machete grew increasingly black and his eyes grew redder.

Luo Dian became a monstrous wielder of the Ghost Blade and slaughtered his coworkers before confronting the police outside. Feng Qian’s forces set Luo Dian on fire, but he emerged from the flames and resumed attacking.

• Luo Dian used the Ghost Blade to cut down his fleeing subordinates and killed those who tried to fight back on the fourth floor.
• Luo Dian descended through the empty building, briefly regained his senses in the lobby, then left as the Ghost Blade took control again.
• Feng Qian arrived with armed police and ordered them to fire on Luo Dian, but the gunfire shattered Luo Dian’s brief return to reason.
• Feng Qian ordered the police to retreat, and Luo Dian’s distant slash killed a person and split a police vehicle in two.
• Feng Qian ignited fuel beneath Luo Dian, but Luo Dian walked out of the flames and swung the Ghost Blade at the police.

Feng Qian and the armed police appeared to kill Luo Dian with a sniper round, but the Ghost Blade returned to his mangled corpse and revived him. As bullets began passing through his broken body, Luo Dian raised the blade, forcing everyone to retreat.

• A sniper round severed Luo Dian’s hand and knocked the Ghost Blade away, after which gunfire reduced him to mangled flesh.
• Li Hua took a young witness to the Investigation Bureau while Feng Qian’s team prepared to recover Luo Dian’s body.
• The Ghost Blade trembled, flew back to Luo Dian, and enabled his shattered corpse to stand again.
• Feng Qian ordered the sniper to fire, but the bullet passed through Luo Dian and struck the building behind him.
• Feng Qian fired his pistol and saw bullets either strike Luo Dian or pass through gaps in his body.
• Luo Dian raised the Ghost Blade as its supernatural power gathered along the edge, and Feng Qian ordered everyone to retreat for cover.

Luo Dian rampaged through the sealed-off area with the Ghost Blade until Bai Jingjing arrived and destroyed him. She took the blade and disappeared, leaving Feng Qian and the Investigation Bureau to handle the aftermath.

• Luo Dian cleaved a building in two, causing its collapse and killing people with falling rubble as Feng Qian tried to escape him.
• The Investigation Bureau sent reinforcements while the Network Public Opinion Control Center prepared an explanation for the destruction.
• Luo Dian cornered Feng Qian, but Bai Jingjing restrained him with black smoke and gave Feng Qian time to flee.
• Bai Jingjing summoned skeletons that tore Luo Dian apart, then used black smoke to retrieve the Ghost Blade.
• Bai Jingjing ignored Feng Qian's attempt to speak and vanished, while Feng Qian ordered his team to secure the scene, help the injured, question witnesses, and collect samples.

Feng Qian’s operation killed Luo Dian but recovered no useful evidence, while Bai Jingjing claimed the powerful machete and Hu Jiu continued secretly spreading supernatural threats. The chapter ended with Feng Qian learning that the collected samples appeared ordinary and discussing the cover story for the incident with Li Hua.

• Feng Qian judged the operation a failure because Luo Dian’s corpse was destroyed and Bai Jingjing had taken the machete, though he believed he would meet her again.
• Bai Jingjing accepted the machete as her own and sensed that the Investigation Bureau’s people carried the stink of a supernatural disease.
• Hu Jiu left New Yan City to spread the Supernatural randomly and planned to eliminate anyone who uncovered its true nature.
• The laboratory reported to Feng Qian that the monster’s blood and flesh appeared ordinary, much like samples from Zhang Suyuan and Zhao Chuxia.
• Li Hua told Feng Qian that the media blamed the building collapse on a gas-cylinder explosion during a dispute at a debt collection company and said eyewitnesses had signed confidentiality agreements.

Feng Qian investigated the employees who survived Luo Dian’s rampage and discovered that Lao Luo was terrified after encountering a ghost. When the authorities questioned him, Lao Luo began recounting what he had seen, but his memory abruptly became clearer as he spoke.

• Feng Qian learned that Luo Dian had killed twenty-two people and ordered an investigation into the nine employees who escaped.
• Lao Luo recalled letting a strange young man into the company before its office building collapsed, and became convinced that a ghost was connected to the disaster.
• Feng Qian and his team heard Lao Luo shouting that he had seen nothing when they knocked, and decided his reaction was suspicious.
• Feng Qian’s team forced open Lao Luo’s door, restrained him, and questioned him at home.
• Lao Luo agreed to cooperate and began describing how a very young girl had walked into the company the previous morning.