Recaps

Hu Jiu seized ghosts and resources while eliminating Liu Mingguang, but the Ghost Book’s growing hunger and influence raised new dangers. Headquarters sent Hu Jiu on a team mission to Longevity Village, where the group found evasive villagers and an invitation to the village chief’s birthday banquet.

• Hu Jiu found the Ghost Book in Lizhou City, harnessed the Mirage Ghost, and used it to survive the chaos caused by Zhou Long and Wei Xiyuan.
• Hu Jiu joined headquarters, survived an attack by Zhou Zhi, and contained the Looking-Up Ghost during a Linjiang City incident.
• Hu Jiu attacked Liu Mingguang and trapped him in a Ghost Domain, then later killed him and took his Fragrant Corpse and immobilizing flashlight.
• Hu Jiu discovered that the Ghost Book was hungry and self-aware, then let it consume the Looking-Up Ghost to quiet its influence.
• Headquarters made Hu Jiu a candidate for Linjiang City’s leadership and sent him with Cui Xueyan, Zou Cong, and Yue Renchun to investigate Longevity Village.
• The team found the villagers evasive, lost phone service, and returned to their guesthouse without useful information.
• An old man invited Hu Jiu and the others to Old Master Peng’s birthday banquet and offered them candy, which they handled without touching directly.

Hu Jiu escaped Longevity Village, took charge of Linjiang City, and used several supernatural incidents to pursue his own goals while evading Headquarters and rival groups. After confronting Beifeng Commune and uncovering Zhao Lifeng’s ties to a larger organization, he followed Yue Renchun and Ye Songlan into Yuezhao City, where they became trapped by a rules-based phenomenon.

• Cui Xueyan and her teammates failed to escape Longevity Village, where Hu Jiu uncovered the Peng family’s Longevity Candle and Old Master Peng’s connection to the haunting.
• Hu Jiu stole the Longevity Candle, learned that Headquarters wanted the Chang Ghost and Ghost Contract, killed Zou Cong, and escaped after the village’s Ghost Domain vanished.
• Hu Jiu returned from Longevity Village, concealed his actions from Headquarters, killed Zhu Ze, and passed the test to become Linjiang City’s person in charge.
• Hu Jiu contained the Hysteria Ghost and other dangerous Ghost Tamers, then investigated the Haunted House and prepared to draw the Ghost Pen to him.
• Hu Jiu traveled to Yuzhou City, discovered Yue Renchun’s supernatural crisis, and helped him frame rival groups before leaving the city.
• Hu Jiu and Yue Renchun joined Headquarters’ operation against Beifeng Commune, captured several members, and learned that Zhao Lifeng served a larger organization.
• Hu Jiu, Yue Renchun, and Ye Songlan entered Yuezhao City and found that its strange rules repeatedly returned people to where they had started.
• Hu Jiu concluded that witnesses had to help anyone in trouble, and he and his companions escorted an injured old woman to the hospital while the Rose Squad remained trapped.

Hu Jiu uncovered Yuezhao City’s rule-making ghost, then helped contain the Ghost Grass disaster while secretly manipulating events and guiding He Ming toward becoming a Ghost Tamer. The arc ended with new threats gathering around Hu Jiu and the haunted house as He Ming prepared to travel to the Capital.

• Hu Jiu and Yue Renchun uncovered Qin Fangtong’s use of the Ghost Pen to impose rules on Yuezhao City, and Hu Jiu took the pen before leaving the city.
• Hu Jiu tamed the Mirage Ghost, expanded his Ghost Domain across Linjiang City, and learned that a supernatural disaster was spreading from Xihe City and Longevity Village.
• Hu Jiu traveled into the Ghost Grass outbreak, investigated its killing mechanism, and clashed with Xu Bo’s team while the grass and Ghost Water spread.
• He Ming used the Human Skin Paper to find and merge with a fierce ghost, then helped deploy a statue whose red moonlight weakened the Ghost Grass.
• Hu Jiu reunited with He Ming after the disaster and admitted he had used hidden ghosts and the Human Skin Paper to manipulate events and make He Ming’s debut.
• Wei Shanhai entered Happiness Apartment and was killed by the Drunkard, Ghost Head-Shaving, and Ghost Wall-Building, after which Hu Jiu recorded the ghosts’ abilities.
• Lin Guangning found her boyfriend’s severed head in apartment 203 and died when an inexplicable force overturned her car, prompting her powerful family to demand an investigation.
• An unfamiliar young man captured Yin Wenxian, while Ye Zhuxing’s team sought Hu Jiu and Hu Jiu monitored He Ming as the Human Skin Paper spoke in He Ming’s voice.

He Ming survived an ambush after returning from Headquarters, while Xiao Yu joined the Playing Card Organization and helped take down Liang Rong. Hu Jiu pursued his own plans against the Hou Family as a new mystery around an ancient mask and a Vengeful Ghost Puzzle emerged in the Capital.

• He Ming traveled to the Capital, where Headquarters put him through meetings, training, and an assessment while he resolved supernatural incidents and learned about the rising number of S-class cases.
• Hu Jiu watched the Big Dipper team enter the Haunted House, where distorted rooms, false visions, and supernatural worms drove the team into conflict and killed its members until Xiao Yu survived alone.
• The Queen of Spades recruited Xiao Yu as a spy, and Xiao Yu later teamed up with Yin Wenxian to rescue Gu Dao and seize Liang Rong’s supernatural items after interrupting his attempt to summon the Red Moon.
• He Ming was ambushed at home by talisman-wielding Ghost Tamers, escaped with help from Hu Jiu and the Human Skin Paper, and reported Yan San’s involvement to Headquarters.
• Hu Jiu interrogated Zhang San, extracted a talisman-paper worm, and learned that Liang Rong’s organization connected Red Moon, Big Dipper, and secret bases.
• Xue Qiang and Song Ting'an went to Yizhuang, where Professor Zhang’s team investigated a tomb that might contain remains from multiple eras and two watchers tried to stop further exploration.
• Hou Qingxu asked Hu Jiu to investigate the Haunted House, so Hu Jiu traveled to the Capital, controlled Ning Yun, and captured a Ghost Slave after her car crashed.
• Hou Qingxu bought an ancient mask at an auction, but an attack disrupted the sale and two people in black escaped with it as Hu Jiu and He Ming both pursued new supernatural matters in the Capital.