Recaps

Wen Jingyan led Feng Qian into Starlight Cinema to rescue Du Yan and Su Yu, but revealed that the cinema concealed a dangerous, layered movie world. The group entered a complete black-and-white film and found themselves trapped on a looping road leading to Wind Village, where villagers gathered ominously.

• Wen Jingyan and Feng Qian entered Starlight Cinema, where Wen Jingyan used the Yin-Yang Road to pull Du Yan out of the film and rescue Su Yu.
• Wen Jingyan explained that the group was still inside a movie world and that the surrounding streets had already been drawn into it.
• The group tried to reach the cinema exit, but a projector appeared in the darkness and drew them into a complete black-and-white film.
• Wen Jingyan's Yin-Yang Road merged with a dirt road leading to Wind Village instead of opening a way back to reality.
• Wen Jingyan led the group away from the village, but after more than an hour they returned to its entrance as villagers gathered to watch them.

Wen Jingyan and the others escaped the haunted village and cinema, only to find themselves trapped in a department store filled with strange phenomena. Wen Jingyan led them along a supernatural path that nearly collapsed after a ghost crossed it, and the group continued onward barely escaping.

• Wen Jingyan failed to open an exit from the village as the villagers closed in, until hexagonal wells and a motionless baby appeared and the villagers suddenly rotted away.
• A black-haired female ghost walked through the village, causing it to disappear and revealing the cinema; the projector then turned its light on her, forcing Wen Jingyan and the others to retreat.
• The group reached the cinema doors but found a department store instead, where Su Yu and Du Yan reported disturbing sights and sounds.
• Wen Jingyan used three supernatural roads to guide the group through the store, but the pale flagstone path cracked after a ghost crossed it.
• Feng Qian pulled Du Yan and Su Yu across the widening crack, and Wen Jingyan warned that they had nearly failed to escape.

After escaping the Starlight Cinema, Wen Jingyan and the others witnessed the moon turn blood-red before tree-shaped shadows restored it. The Investigation Bureau continued its efforts to create Ghost Tamers, while Feng Qian concealed a casino volunteer’s new power; the chapter ended as a soldier’s attempt to fuse with a Fierce Ghost began to destroy his body.

• Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, Du Yan, and Su Yu escaped the Starlight Cinema and watched a blood-red stain spread across the moon before shadowy branches drove it away.
• Wen Jingyan secretly left an invisible supernatural passage near the cinema, and the Investigation Bureau tightened its lockdown and called for faster experiments to create Ghost Tamers.
• Feng Qian saw that reports of the moon’s transformation had gone viral, then concealed Lin Rui’s casino-granted power and joined him in secretly taking advantage of the Investigation Bureau.
• Cheng Linzhou welcomed a group of soldiers brought in for Fierce Ghost fusion experiments, and Wen Jingyan oversaw the procedure.
• Volunteer 001 touched the Blood Handprint and suffered spreading decay as researchers recorded the failed fusion attempt.

Lan City vanished inside a Ghost Domain, and Hu Jiu sent Wen Jingyan to investigate and help the supernatural incident spread. After days of avoiding the danger with Feng Qian and Du Yan, Wen Jingyan concluded that Lan City remained hidden behind an anomalous boundary and prepared to force his way in.

• A supernatural transformation spread from Starlight Cinema, and Lan City disappeared along with its residents; Cheng Linzhou learned of the disaster and contacted Wen Jingyan.
• Hu Jiu appeared in Wen Jingyan’s mirror, ordered him to investigate Lan City and make the incident spread further, and gave him a powerful black Supernatural Item.
• The Investigation Bureau assigned Feng Qian and Du Yan to accompany Wen Jingyan; they set out for Lan City while internet celebrities followed their convoy.
• Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, and Du Yan questioned villagers near Lan City but found no useful information, then spent two days delaying their investigation.
• Wen Jingyan concluded that Lan City was trapped inside a Ghost Domain and explained that they would need a key or brute force to enter.

Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, and Du Yan entered Mad Village after a supernatural force trapped them there. When Pinshishi’s influencer team disturbed the villagers with their questions, the village’s peaceful facade began to collapse, leaving Wen Jingyan and the others fleeing toward the still-bright part of the village.

• Cheng Linzhou ordered Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, and Du Yan to investigate Lan City, where a supernatural force revealed Wind Village and prevented them from leaving.
• The three entered the village, renamed Mad Village after noticing the damaged character on its entrance stone, and found its villagers and surroundings seemingly ordinary.
• Wen Jingyan warned Feng Qian and Du Yan not to provoke the villagers, then led them deeper into the village to search for a way out.
• Pinshishi and his influencer team entered Mad Village and questioned a villager, who collapsed as the surroundings grew dark.
• Wen Jingyan hurried Feng Qian and Du Yan away as the villagers turned stiff and stared at the influencers, and he glimpsed corpses beneath the village’s fading facade.

Wen Jingyan and his companions remained trapped in Mad Village as its peaceful facade gave way to a terrifying night. Feng Qian saw a ghostly wedding procession, and a second procession carrying a coffin appeared as the chapter ended.

• Pinshishi and his influencer team discovered that every path out of Mad Village led them back to its entrance, so they followed Wen Jingyan and his companions into the village.
• Wen Jingyan decided they might need to provoke a change in the village, but before he acted, the village suddenly plunged into darkness.
• Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, and Du Yan hid inside a dilapidated ancestral hall as Feng Qian heard a suona and saw a ghostly wedding procession carrying a corpse-like bride.
• Feng Qian realized the others could not hear or see the procession as he had, and a bridal sedan remained outside after his vision passed.
• A piercing cry sounded, and Feng Qian saw a second procession appear, carrying a coffin beneath falling white paper scraps.

Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, and Du Yan faced a supernatural wedding and funeral procession that halted outside the ancestral hall, then cautiously ventured into Mad Village. They encountered the separated streamer Pinshishi and let him join them as they continued through the village.

• Feng Qian saw the bridal sedan and funeral procession collide, and his strange eyes began stirring as the procession stopped outside the ancestral hall.
• The group heard banging from inside the coffin, but the knocking ceased after a sudden howl and the bridal sedan appeared to have been knocked askew.
• Wen Jingyan left the ancestral hall to investigate, and Feng Qian and Du Yan followed after confirming that walking outside was safe.
• The three passed the bridal sedan without incident and encountered Pinshishi, who said his companions had disappeared one by one.
• Du Yan threatened Pinshishi with his investigator's pistol, but Wen Jingyan decided to let him accompany them.

As the coffin’s occupant struggled to escape, Wen Jingyan used a Supernatural Item to protect the group and secretly used Yin-Yang Road to help release the Fierce Ghost. The coffin fell and its lid flew off, leaving the ghost’s emergence imminent.

• The coffin’s knocking grew more violent, and Wen Jingyan opened a black box that created a protective space around the four living people.
• Wen Jingyan decided to accelerate the Ghost Village’s revival and approached the funeral procession with Feng Qian, Du Yan, and Pinshishi.
• Wen Jingyan used Yin-Yang Road to widen the coffin’s gap while lying that he was trying to suppress the Fierce Ghost.
• Feng Qian tested his golden light on the pallbearers, briefly freezing them, while Du Yan and Pinshishi argued about turning supernatural sites into tourist attractions.
• Wen Jingyan’s efforts broke the coffin’s supporting frame, and the coffin crashed to the ground before its lid flew off.

Wen Jingyan led Feng Qian, Du Yan, and Pinshishi through Ghost Village, where he uncovered the coffin’s connection to the village and deliberately stirred up its supernatural forces. The group escaped as the village’s ghosts ran rampant, but the dried-corpse bride left the village behind them.

• Feng Qian saw the corpses of the villagers and Pinshishi's team inside the coffin, and Wen Jingyan guessed that the village was a Ghost Domain formed by it.
• Wen Jingyan led the others away from the funeral procession as the bridal sedan began to move, then they saw the dried-corpse bride inside before it vanished.
• Wen Jingyan took the group to the village outskirts, where the Ghost Infant revived among the wells and attacked them before they escaped along the Yin-Yang Road.
• Wen Jingyan led the group through the village, where more Fierce Ghosts revived as he pushed its supernatural forces into chaos.
• Wen Jingyan led the group out of Ghost Village, but Feng Qian saw the dried-corpse bride reach the entrance and leave after them.

Wen Jingyan returned to the Investigation Bureau and found Cheng Linzhou showing off newly recruited Ghost Tamers and a laboratory survivor while asserting control over his old consultants. Wen Jingyan warned that Lan City faced a major supernatural crisis, then went home, convinced the worsening Supernatural Revival was being accelerated while Ghost Tamers were suppressed.

• After returning from Ghost Village, Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, and Pinshishi went to the Investigation Bureau, where Chen Zhanji startled Wen Jingyan by emerging from his shadow.
• Cheng Linzhou introduced Chen Zhanji and Fang Zhitu, then showed Wen Jingyan and Feng Qian a file on Li Ming, a survivor who had fused with the Blood Handprint.
• Cheng Linzhou used the new Ghost Tamers and Li Ming to criticize Wen Jingyan and Feng Qian, prompting Wen Jingyan to warn that more than a dozen powerful Fierce Ghosts had revived near Lan City.
• Wen Jingyan and Feng Qian said they were too exhausted for fieldwork, and Cheng Linzhou approved their request to rest before assigning tasks to Chen Zhanji and Fang Zhitu.
• Feng Qian asked Du Yan to help conceal Wen Jingyan's black box, and Du Yan agreed while warning that its existence could not stay secret if Wen Jingyan used it again.
• Wen Jingyan returned to his own home and reflected that the Supernatural Revival was worsening as the emergence of Ghost Tamers was being suppressed.

After Wen Jingyan disappeared, the Investigation Bureau replaced him with Li Ming, whose heavy workload led to his death and the revival of his Fierce Ghost. The Bureau realized too late how exceptional Wen Jingyan and Feng Qian were, while Cheng Linzhou tried to contain the crisis and push the Research Department to create more Ghost Tamers.

• Wen Jingyan vanished after leaving the Investigation Bureau, and Li Ming took over his work the next day.
• Feng Qian kept a replica of the Lucky Casino die when the Bureau shut down the project and took the original into custody.
• Li Ming continued accepting assignments despite Feng Qian's warning, as supernatural incidents spread across the country.
• At a textile factory warehouse, Li Ming died while handling an incident, and the Blood Handprint revived alongside the Crying-Face Ghost.
• Fang Zhitu explained that frequent use of a Fierce Ghost's abilities shortened a Ghost Tamer's life, unlike the exceptional Wen Jingyan and Feng Qian.
• Cheng Linzhou ordered the warehouse sealed and urged the Research Department to produce more Ghost Tamers, while researchers worried Wen Jingyan had withheld crucial information.

As supernatural incidents overwhelmed the Investigation Bureau, Cheng Linzhou struggled to preserve its remaining Ghost Tamers while officials and the public reacted to spreading doomsday fears. He approved the diversion of gold into private safe houses, accepting that the world was beyond saving and urging the Minister of Finance to protect his family.

• Cheng Linzhou received reports of escalating supernatural disasters and ordered Chen Zhanji and Fang Zhitu to remain near Headquarters as its last line of defense.
• The Minister of Finance told Cheng Linzhou that gold used at the Beishan Villa District had exceeded its limit, and Cheng Linzhou chose not to intervene.
• As supernatural incidents fueled doomsday fears, ordinary people stockpiled supplies or gave up, while the wealthy sought gold and some people fled overseas and lost contact.
• The state restricted gold transactions and prohibited private hoarding, intensifying public tension and suspicions about the approaching end of the world.
• The Minister of Finance presented Cheng Linzhou with forged reports concealing large gold diversions, and Cheng Linzhou accepted the scheme and told him to think of his family.

Cheng Linzhou diverted the Investigation Bureau’s gold to build a lavish safe house as fear of the apocalypse spread. At a psychiatric hospital, former investigator Su Yu encountered a supernatural disappearance and tried to warn the staff, but the nurse dismissed her.

• Cheng Linzhou ordered the safe house’s gold observation dome completed, insisting that no expense or materials be spared.
• Su Yu reflected on the coming apocalypse and doubted that Feng Qian’s extraordinary luck came without a cost.
• A fellow patient vanished from the restroom, and Su Yu found the hospital hallway strangely empty before activity appeared to return to normal.
• A doctor disappeared after entering an examination room, and Su Yu warned a nurse that the room was dangerous.
• The nurse dismissed Su Yu’s warning and planned to report that Patient 224’s condition had worsened.

Su Yu led patients out of a psychiatric hospital as people and objects vanished in a spreading supernatural incident. Back home, she learned the anomalies were occurring around the world, while official media remained silent.

• The nurse ignored Su Yu’s warning and vanished inside the examination room, followed by a patient and parts of the room.
• Su Yu calmed the crowd, led the patients out of the hospital, and guided them over the wall to escape.
• A driverless truck crashed nearby as trees and parts of the hospital vanished, forcing Su Yu and the others to flee.
• Su Yu saw more disappearances on her way home and realized the incident had spread far beyond the hospital.
• Su Yu checked online and discovered that anomalies were happening worldwide as people spread apocalypse warnings and official media stayed silent.

He Xubai reflected on abandoning Feng Qian’s body and explained how he had used [Ghost Possession] to assume He Xubai’s identity. After a strange meeting with the mastermind beneath a colossal Bronze Giant Tree, he returned to his body and waited for his promised chance to shine as abnormal phenomena spread across the world.

• He Xubai rejected the idea of taking Feng Qian’s body and explained that [Ghost Possession] required him to use his host’s identity to avoid being exposed.
• He Xubai recalled how his consciousness had been summoned beyond Earth to a giant metallic tree, where he encountered the mastermind and another figure.
• He Xubai asked the mastermind for work, and the shorter figure mocked him for seeking out his boss to request a task.
• The taller figure told He Xubai to prepare because his time to shine was near, then sent his consciousness back to his body.
• He Xubai switched into He Xubai’s body because he felt uncomfortable, then watched reports of worldwide abnormal phenomena and fell asleep listening to an apocalyptic story.

Hu Jiu struggled to find a way to control Erasure while privately using Du Zhong and native pawns to shield himself from the World Consciousness. Meanwhile, the Investigation Bureau brought Wen Jingyan to its headquarters and realized something was wrong when he said he had lost his memory.

• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong observed the world collapsing as Erasure wiped out reality and resisted Hu Jiu's supernatural powers.
• Hu Jiu explained that he suspected the World Consciousness could only influence events indirectly, so he let Du Zhong and native pawns carry out the destruction while he stayed cautious.
• Du Yan found Wen Jingyan wandering the street, brought him to the Investigation Bureau, and learned that he did not recognize him because he had lost his memory.
• Cheng Linzhou welcomed Wen Jingyan at the headquarters and noticed that his behavior seemed unusual.

Wen Jingyan told Cheng Linzhou and Du Yan that he had lost ten years of memories, leaving the Investigation Bureau unsure how to handle him as supernatural incidents escalated worldwide. As people fled and stockpiled supplies, a livestreamer named Pinshishi claimed that high-purity gold could help people survive the apocalypse.

• Wen Jingyan told Cheng Linzhou and Du Yan that he remembered drowning as a college student and waking up ten years later with no memories of the intervening years.
• Wen Jingyan privately suspected he had transmigrated into a parallel world, but he kept the idea to himself to avoid being taken for research.
• Cheng Linzhou sent Du Yan to find Wen Jingyan a place to stay and considered using his apparent naivety to recruit him as a bodyguard.
• People around the world stocked up on supplies or fled as governments dismissed the growing supernatural incidents as rumors or harmless phenomena.
• A husband told his wife that his hometown village would be safer, and she found Pinshishi livestreaming advice that high-purity gold could fight the apocalypse.

As disappearances spread worldwide, governments failed to stop the supernatural apocalypse, and people struggled to survive amid collapsing roads, panic, and betrayal. At the hospital, Su Yu saw a viral video suggesting that a Supernatural Item could protect someone from being disappeared, though it was consumed in the process.

• Leader A ordered helicopters to spray a golden Revealing Agent over disappearance sites, but it failed to reveal the source, and the helicopters vanished despite leaving the gold particles behind.
• A family fleeing Jing City became trapped in a highway pileup, and a grandfather forced his granddaughter out of their van under the pretext of buying chocolate for Yaozu.
• A government meeting produced no practical countermeasures as officials faced the prospect of society's collapse and the loss of capable leaders.
• Su Yu stayed covered in gold-containing protective gear while recovering from injuries at a crowded hospital.
• Hospital patients watched a video of a middle-aged woman surviving a disappearance incident with a red bridal veil, which Su Yu suspected was a single-use Supernatural Item.

When the sun abruptly vanished from view, a Patrol Medical Record Cart appeared in Su Yu’s hospital, turning the ward and corridors into a deadly supernatural incident. Protected by gold-thread clothing, Su Yu tried to escape and discovered a second cart in the stairwell.

• The sun suddenly disappeared, and Su Yu saw the sky turn unnaturally black from her hospital bed.
• A Patrol Medical Record Cart entered the corridor, and an old woman became a Ghost Slave after looking outside.
• Su Yu stayed hidden from the cart, then slipped out of her ward while it was distracted by injured patients.
• Su Yu triggered a fire alarm and sprinklers to give a young nurse a chance to flee from a Ghost Slave and the cart.
• Su Yu found a second Patrol Medical Record Cart on the stairs, but her gold-thread clothes protected her as it passed.
• Su Yu hurried toward the hospital entrance, hoping to escape before a Ghost Domain formed.

Feng Qian discovered that the Investigation Bureau’s contained Fierce Ghosts had escaped and learned that Cheng Linzhou was releasing them to resist “Erasure.” As the Bureau stripped gold from containment rooms to build a supernatural defensive line, Feng Qian questioned his own mysterious luck and feared the disaster was worsening faster than expected.

• Feng Qian found the containment rooms empty except for the room holding the “Space Chaos Cube,” then confronted Cheng Linzhou, who claimed he already knew the Fierce Ghosts had escaped.
• Feng Qian found a report linking Fierce Ghosts to resistance against “Erasure,” visited Wen Jingyan, and learned the Bureau was still detaining him after he lost his memories and the ghost inside him.
• Feng Qian found Cheng Linzhou dismantling containment rooms for their gold and learned that grade B and higher supernatural entities could resist or delay “Erasure.”
• Cheng Linzhou explained that he was releasing Fierce Ghosts as a defensive line and taking the gold to protect his chosen survivors, while Feng Qian challenged his priorities.
• Feng Qian wondered about the origin and cost of his Koi Constitution, then warned Cheng Linzhou that the supernatural disaster was worsening faster than expected.

As supernatural disasters spread, America discovered that erasure voids could open onto alien, scarlet spaces, while Su Yu rescued a little girl and killed a Ghost Tamer who threatened them. Su Yu and the girl then found a strange opening above a ruined high-rise, as a food-factory survivor base tried to preserve order.

• American officials learned that [Erasure] had devastated Africa and that bizarre spaces were appearing inside voids across the country.
• Su Yu rescued a quiet little girl from falling debris and gave her bread while they searched for food.
• A two-mouthed Ghost Tamer threatened Su Yu and the girl, so Su Yu killed him and his lackey with her gold-containing blade and a brick.
• The little girl took Su Yu’s hand, then pointed out a hole in the air that revealed a scarlet wasteland and a dim red sphere.
• At a food-processing plant, an elementary school teacher led a survivor base that let newcomers keep their food and expected them to obey the law.
• An older man warned armed would-be usurpers that the government could hold them accountable if order returned.

After entering the Ghost World through a hole created by Erasure, Bai Mingchuan reached the Bronze Giant Tree and met the dying explorer Lin Wanyue, who warned him about the Red Moon and the tree. Unseen by Bai Mingchuan, two figures in the tree’s crown discussed how Erasure had connected worlds and brought living people into the Ghost World.

• Bai Mingchuan entered the dark red wasteland through a hole in the erasure-ravaged world and struggled through its distorted space toward the Bronze Giant Tree.
• Bai Mingchuan found Lin Wanyue beneath the tree, where she told him that the Red Moon and Bronze Tree were two ghosts and warned him to avoid moonlight and resist praising the moon.
• Lin Wanyue explained that the Investigation Bureau had sent her on an exploration mission and that she had learned the survival rules at the cost of human lives.
• Lin Wanyue fell unconscious, and Bai Mingchuan realized she was close to death and that the Ghost World held no magic or other people he could see.
• Two unseen figures in the Bronze Giant Tree’s crown said Erasure had opened holes between worlds and brought living people into the Ghost World.

Feng Qian entered Cheng Linzhou’s fortified safe house as the outside world vanished, then watched his Koi Constitution repeatedly turn accidents into solutions for the survivors. The chapter ended with Feng Qian’s luck freeing a jammed module in the safe house’s defense array, leaving the engineers convinced he was somehow responsible.

• Cheng Linzhou brought Feng Qian into his safe house and introduced him to his wife, Liu Man, and his father, Cheng Yuanshan.
• Feng Qian’s accidental chair movement coincided with a spilled thermos and the energy core’s backup pump returning to normal.
• Feng Qian tripped near the cultivation room, and discarded culture media splashed onto medicinal plants that had been wilting, restoring their vitality.
• Feng Qian’s cart jolted a crate of missing high-energy food into view, resolving a warehouse inventory shortage.
• Feng Qian reached toward a jammed scanning probe module as spilled cleaning solvent caused it to pop free and reset, astonishing the engineers.

Cheng Linzhou discovered that Feng Qian’s good fortune appeared to damage the safe house and draw on the fortune of the group around him. After the Imperial Seal cracked when Feng Qian touched a doorframe, Cheng confronted him with evidence and accused him of consuming the fortune of the Investigation Bureau and even the nation.

• Feng Qian became known as the safe house’s lucky charm, while Cheng Linzhou noticed that minor problems kept resolving around him and began secretly monitoring him.
• Cheng Linzhou linked Feng Qian’s lucky incidents to tiny fluctuations in the safe house’s systems, including moisture in a gold sealing pipe and damage to a sealed protective suit.
• When Feng Qian steadied himself on the study doorframe, the Imperial Seal in Cheng Yuanshan’s hands developed a hair-thin crack, alarming Cheng Yuanshan and Cheng Linzhou.
• Cheng Linzhou led Feng Qian to a classified tactical analysis room and showed him surveillance footage and timeline data from his lucky incidents.
• Cheng Linzhou accused Feng Qian of drawing on the fortune of the groups around him, including the Investigation Bureau and the nation, while Feng Qian rejected the accusation.

Hu Jiu’s attempt to take supernatural power from Erasure failed when it continued expanding after destroying its world and began erasing the Ghost World itself. He fled with Du Zhong through a spatial passage as the void swallowed stars and worlds, leaving the scale of the disaster unknown.

• Hu Jiu tested Erasure with curse power and found that it erased his attack without a trace.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong watched the world’s safe houses and their inhabitants vanish, while Hu Jiu absorbed the destruction’s power.
• The Red Moon fled as Erasure expanded beyond the destroyed world and began erasing the Ghost World.
• Hu Jiu tore open a passage through space and time and escaped with Du Zhong as Erasure erased the Ghost World and nearby stars.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong argued while fleeing through the darkness, with worlds disappearing behind them.