Recaps

Hu Jiu helped stop the Frozen-to-Death Ghost after it devastated the Chu Family grounds and spread across the region, then returned to investigate supernatural incidents and faced growing suspicion within Headquarters. The arc left Hu Jiu probing a distorted supermarket while a Ghost Fire Bomb attack triggered a serious crisis inside Headquarters.

• Tianji fought Hu Jiu, Li Yunheng, Qiao Xinyuan, and Zhou Xiaomeng, copying their abilities and killing Li Yunheng before Hu Jiu’s curses and invisible Fierce Ghost wounded him.
• Tianji drove Hu Jiu to lose control and transform into the Bronze Tree, then released the Frozen-to-Death Ghost as its Frost Ghost Domain spread across the Chu Family grounds.
• Hu Jiu escaped the expanding frost with Zhou Xiaomeng and Qiao Xinyuan, reported the S-class threat to Shen Jiliang, and learned that the frost was advancing toward Great Desert City.
• Hu Jiu used snowmen to investigate and drain the Frozen-to-Death Ghost, then repeatedly trapped it in Golden Corpse Bags until the Frost Ghost Domain receded.
• Hu Jiu searched the Chu Family mansion for supernatural remnants and encountered Han Yang, who offered to trade for Tianji’s Magic Mirror, but Hu Jiu refused and left with his spoils.
• Hu Jiu returned to Linjiang City and agreed to investigate the Supermarket You Can't Get Out Of, where his snowmen found trapped survivors, distorted space, zombies, and a discrepancy in how long the supermarket had existed.
• A Ghost Fire Bomb launched from a Headquarters base attacked Hu Jiu at the supermarket, and the fire resisted containment as Shen Jiliang investigated the attack.
• Headquarters learned that someone had controlled the Ghost Fire Bombs official and that the official was in custody, while Zhang Hongwen blamed Shen Jiliang and ordered arrests and a Research Department screening.

Hu Jiu traced a wave of supernatural attacks to Evernight, pursued Han Yang across several locations, and uncovered the organization’s plans. As Headquarters withheld his resources and its leadership was torn apart by murder and betrayal, Fu Youhua took charge, while Hu Jiu’s family was kidnapped and Robert confronted a woman over a Ruby Brooch.

• Hu Jiu learned from Xiao Yu that Evernight worshipped Fierce Ghosts and pursued a God Completion Plan, then began investigating the organization while dealing with escalating supernatural incidents in Linjiang City.
• Hu Jiu sealed Linjiang City inside Black Cloud and hunted Zhang Shucheng, who confessed that Evernight’s leader had ordered him to release the Fierce Ghost.
• Hu Jiu pursued Han Yang through the Little Garden and a foreign city, unleashed ghosts that devastated the city, and questioned Han Yang about Evernight’s leader and God Completion Plan.
• America accused China’s Headquarters of the destruction, while Zhang Hongwen and the Secret Peeker plotted against Hu Jiu and Headquarters’ missing resources were stolen by Li Zhaoqiang.
• Zhang Hongwen tried to make Hu Jiu retrieve the stolen supplies, but Hu Jiu refused, and the Secret Peeker strangled Lu Mou and framed Hu Jiu for the murder.
• Fu Youhua confirmed Hu Jiu’s hospital alibi as senior Headquarters officials died in apparent accidents, leaving Zhang Hongwen alive in the safe room and the Secret Peeker fleeing with captives.
• Fu Youhua took over Headquarters and questioned Zhang Hongwen, who confessed to conspiring with the Secret Peeker, while Hu Jiu was unavailable because his family had been kidnapped.
• Fu Youhua sent two Law Enforcers to confront Robert, who demanded that a woman explain her Ruby Brooch before an angry voice ordered him to stop.

Hu Jiu dismantled Evernight’s operation in Glory City, but his battle with its leader breached the barrier and sent him into the Ghost World. After fighting through a shifting building and reaching a corridor of numbered doors, Hu Jiu escaped and asked Fu Youhua to investigate the island beyond them.

• Hu Jiu killed Bill’s invading force at Headquarters, secured the agency’s support, and learned from the Prophet about the Ghost World and the Big Dipper.
• Hu Jiu defeated Geheluos and pursued him, but a painting pulled Hu Jiu into a deserted school supernatural space, which he burned away.
• Hu Jiu entered Glory City with Mike, discovered that its residents were controlled by the church and Glory Enterprise, and confronted Ares about Evernight’s methods.
• Hu Jiu battled Evernight’s leader, and their clashing powers breached the barrier and swept Hu Jiu into the Ghost World.
• Hu Jiu fought his way through an endless building, met Ares again, and used a master key to reach a succession of enormous black doors and a graveyard guarded by Zhao Feng and Corpse Demon.
• Hu Jiu subdued Zhao Feng and Corpse Demon, captured the Bulb Monster, and entered a corridor of numbered doors, where an attack from No. 200 forced him to retreat.
• Hu Jiu hid from the stitched monster and Tianxuan, then entered the half-open No. 0 Door and escaped upward after Tianxuan formed a Ghost Domain.
• Hu Jiu returned to Headquarters, described the island surrounding the doors to Fu Youhua, and asked him to investigate it discreetly.

Hu Jiu joined Big Dipper, passed its assessments, and investigated a dangerous amusement park with Thousand Faces. The park’s Queen escaped after clashing with Hu Jiu and his allies, leaving the source of its supernatural incidents unresolved.

• Hu Jiu embedded the scarlet eye in his palm, advertised its rumored ability to ease ghost-control side effects, and turned Zhang Si into a living stone statue with the Monkey’s Paw.
• Hu Jiu joined Big Dipper after defeating Yan Lou and placing first in the assessment at Star-Time Island, where he encountered evolving Toy Factory ghosts.
• Kaiyang assigned Hu Jiu to investigate suspected visitors from other worlds at Fantasy Park, and Hu Jiu teamed up with Thousand Faces.
• Xu Can and Bai He captured apparent transmigrators, but they died after an unseen force vanished their apparitions, while Bai He later encountered the park’s strange creatures.
• Hu Jiu entered Fantasy Park in disguise and discovered that voices and twisted figures were trying to take over visitors, while the fire-breathing child killed those who escaped.
• Queen captured Hu Jiu and offered cooperation, but Hu Jiu rejected her proposal and killed the Beauty Snakes she sent against him.
• Bai He and Thousand Faces joined Hu Jiu, and the group learned more about Queen as a haze transformed a girl into an attacker who summoned Queen and a lightning beast.
• Hu Jiu and Thousand Faces attacked Queen, but she countered their assault with a supernatural song and fled, leaving Xu Can unconscious.