Chapter Summaries

Reborn in Lizhou City before an S-grade paranormal outbreak, Hu Jiu sought the Ghost Book and the Shen ghost so he could become a powerful ghost controller. After finding the cursed book, he hesitated over whether it could understand the human-given codename “Shen.”

• Hu Jiu recalled his past life as a ghost controller and the mysterious paranormal conflict that had killed him.
• Hu Jiu remembered that the Shen ghost and the Ghost Book were trapped in Lizhou City, and that Chu Shan had harnessed the ghost and obtained the book in his previous life.
• Hu Jiu decided to seize Chu Shan’s opportunity and searched the city-center square for the Ghost Book.
• Hu Jiu found the Ghost Book on a public bench and read its warning that knowing of its existence meant it knew of his.
• Hu Jiu felt compelled to write in the book that he would encounter and harness the Shen ghost, but stopped when he wondered whether the book knew what “Shen” referred to.

Hu Jiu used the Ghost Book to protect himself and tame the Mirage Ghost, then encountered a Ghost Tamer attacking survivors amid the destruction. The tall attacker caught Hu Jiu with bloodstained white silk.

• Hu Jiu wrote a rule in the Ghost Book to protect his body and consciousness, balancing its influence over him.
• Hu Jiu entered the Mirage Ghost’s Ghost Domain and wrote that he would tame the fierce ghost creating phantoms there.
• The Mirage Ghost entered Hu Jiu, and his body shifted between real and illusory before the taming stabilized.
• Hu Jiu fled as the Mirage Ghost’s domain took away the phantoms, leaving damaged buildings and corpses behind.
• A tall and a short figure appeared, and the tall man used bloodstained white silk to kill survivors and hoist Hu Jiu into the air.

Hu Jiu discovered that Zhou Long and Wei Xiyuan had deliberately released the Mirage Ghost and followed them as they confronted Lu Rui. After Hu Jiu’s hidden attack sparked a fight, Lu Rui’s Corpse Oil overwhelmed Zhou Long, while Wei Xiyuan fled.

• Hu Jiu faked his death with the Mirage Ghost’s illusion and overheard Zhou Long and Wei Xiyuan admit they had released the ghost on purpose.
• Hu Jiu followed Zhou Long and Wei Xiyuan until Lu Rui blocked their way and condemned them for attacking the city.
• Zhou Long and Wei Xiyuan tried to recruit Lu Rui, but Lu Rui refused and threatened to stop them to protect his hometown and family.
• Hu Jiu secretly sent white silk at Lu Rui, prompting Lu Rui to attack Zhou Long while Zhou Long denied responsibility.
• Wei Xiyuan abandoned Zhou Long, and Lu Rui’s Corpse Oil badly wounded Zhou Long as their fight escalated.

Hu Jiu killed Lu Rui using the Mirage Ghost’s illusions and recovered the Golden Corpse Bag and Bloodstained White Silk. Back home, he tested the Mirage Ghost’s powers, learned the limits of its replication and Ghost Domain, and added a protective rule to the Ghost Book as its existing rule began to fade.

• Hu Jiu used illusory Bloodstained White Silk to confuse Lu Rui, then killed him with the real silk when it revived around Lu Rui’s neck.
• Hu Jiu collected Lu Rui’s Golden Corpse Bag and Bloodstained White Silk, then left behind Lu Rui’s spreading pool of corpse oil and rotting flesh.
• Hu Jiu returned home and read a post describing Ghost Domains, Ghost Slaves, and ghosts’ inability to affect gold before the post was deleted.
• Hu Jiu tested the Mirage Ghost and discovered it could replicate a ghost’s power at about thirty percent strength and create a Ghost Domain that blended into reality.
• Hu Jiu stopped using the Ghost Domain after eight seconds, noticed the Ghost Book’s first rule fading, and wrote a new rule to protect his body and consciousness.

Hu Jiu prepared for headquarters to approach him and concealed how much he knew about the supernatural incident in Lizhou. When Liu Mingguang, the head of Linjiang City's special department, forced his way into Hu Jiu's home, he demanded a full account of how Hu Jiu became a ghost wielder and what happened in Lizhou.

• Hu Jiu decided that joining headquarters would give him valuable authority and resources, despite suspecting that the organization held powerful hidden cards.
• After staying awake until dawn, Hu Jiu met police officer Qian Ying and Xiao Zhang, then gave them only a few minor details about the Lizhou incident.
• Qian Ying ended the interview quickly and warned Hu Jiu that a superior might contact him, while Xiao Zhang complained that Hu Jiu had concealed the truth.
• Hu Jiu revealed that a phantom had impersonated him during the interview while he remained hidden nearby.
• Liu Mingguang entered Hu Jiu's home without permission and demanded a complete account of Hu Jiu's ghost-wielder abilities and the Lizhou incident.

Hu Jiu joined the National Paranormal Phenomena Control Headquarters and learned how malevolent ghosts were ranked and classified. Headquarters assigned Lin Guangning as his operator and told him to remain in Linjiang City, where he would assist Liu Mingguang until further notice.

• Liu Mingguang questioned Hu Jiu about how he became a ghost controller, but Hu Jiu gave him little information and agreed to join headquarters.
• Liu Mingguang sent Hu Jiu a link to the ghost controllers’ forum and said headquarters would contact him.
• Hu Jiu read the rankings of unsolvable malevolent ghosts and the danger classifications used by countries around the world.
• A headquarters representative explained the duties, support, and benefits of serving as a city’s person in charge, and assigned Hu Jiu an operator.
• Lin Guangning introduced herself as Hu Jiu’s point of contact and told him he would stay in Linjiang City and assist Liu Mingguang until reassigned.

Hu Jiu received equipment and a new residence from headquarters while considering how to pursue eternal life. An unidentified ghost controller attacked him, but Hu Jiu killed him and captured his Ghost Hand, then asked headquarters to identify the attacker.

• Hu Jiu rejected the codename Hanged Ghost and chose Strangling Ghost after learning it was already taken.
• A headquarters employee delivered gold containers, a special satellite phone, and news that Hu Jiu could receive a residence.
• A masked stranger entered Hu Jiu's room and attacked his illusion with a stretchy, corpse-spotted Ghost Hand.
• Hu Jiu strangled the attacker with the Bloodstained White Silk, then used the Mirage Ghost to suppress and copy the reviving Ghost Hand.
• Hu Jiu searched the dead stranger for clues but found nothing.
• The employee returned with the keys and documents for Hu Jiu's new residence, and Hu Jiu asked him to identify the attacker and handle the corpse.

After a ghost controller attacked him, Hu Jiu reported a misleading description of the Ghost Hand to headquarters and refused to surrender it. He studied Beifeng Commune’s members and ended the night developing a plan to take revenge on them.

• Lin Guangning called Hu Jiu and asked him to report the attack and describe the Ghost Hand.
• Hu Jiu gave the Ghost Hand the code name Ghost Hand, falsely described its abilities, and refused to turn it over to headquarters.
• Lin Guangning told Hu Jiu that the attacker, Zhou Zhi, belonged to Beifeng Commune and sent him information about the organization.
• Hu Jiu read the file and found the names Zhou Long and Wei Xiyuan, along with the other documented ghost controllers in Beifeng Commune.
• Hu Jiu considered killing Beifeng Commune’s members, possibly involving their families, an S-class vicious ghost, or Liu Mingguang, and began forming a plan.

After Headquarters reached a shaky agreement with the Beifeng Commune, Hu Jiu was sent to investigate a chaotic supernatural incident in Linjiang City. He pressured a reluctant police officer to enter the haunted residential complex with him.

• Fu Youhua reviewed the Beifeng Commune’s attack on Hu Jiu and the disputed events in Lizhou, then worried that Hu Jiu would seek revenge against a powerful organization.
• Lin Guangning urgently assigned Hu Jiu to handle a supernatural incident in Linjiang City because Liu Mingguang was in poor condition.
• Hu Jiu arrived at the cordoned-off residential complex and questioned a middle-aged police officer about the incident.
• The officer urged Hu Jiu to act quickly, so Hu Jiu used the officer’s own appeal to heroism to pressure him into entering the complex with his men.

Hu Jiu entered a cordoned-off residential compound and identified the Looking-Up Ghost’s killing rule before containing it. He then delayed reporting the incident so he could blame the deaths on Lin Guangning’s phone call and exaggerate the danger.

• Hu Jiu pressured a squad of police officers into entering the compound, where the Looking-Up Ghost killed several officers and Hu Jiu appeared to die.
• Hu Jiu revealed that his apparent death was an illusion and identified the ghost’s rule: it killed anyone who looked up.
• Hu Jiu used bloodstained white silk and a ghostly hand to immobilize the Looking-Up Ghost, copied it, and contained it in a gold body bag.
• Hu Jiu waited before answering Lin Guangning’s call, then blamed the call for two officers’ deaths and criticized headquarters.

Hu Jiu contained the sound-triggered Ghost Ear and clashed with Liu Mingguang, who accused him of killing officers and reported him as mentally unstable. Hu Jiu then took the initiative, secretly scouting a future ghost’s location before appearing at the police station to demand someone’s records.

• Fu Youhua apologized for Lin Guangning’s conduct, heard Hu Jiu’s account of Ghost Ear, and asked him to hand over the contained ghost, but he refused.
• Liu Mingguang confronted Hu Jiu over the dead officers and demanded the golden body bag, but Hu Jiu left after mocking him.
• Liu Mingguang revealed he had sent Old Liang to test and record Hu Jiu, then reported Hu Jiu as unstable and suspected of killing officers and civilians.
• Hu Jiu returned home with the Looking-Up Ghost, then went out in disguise to scout the place where the Ghost Finger would appear.
• Hu Jiu entered the police station openly and demanded to see someone’s records, prompting a middle-aged man to hurry over.

Hu Jiu obtained Liu Mingguang’s personal information while Liu tried to have headquarters investigate Hu and began planning to eliminate him. After a staged attack and the murder of Liu’s family triggered an emergency response, Liu was attacked at home by a ghostly hand.

• Hu Jiu forced the police chief to give him Liu Mingguang’s address, family details, connections, and routines.
• Liu Mingguang failed to persuade headquarters to detain Hu Jiu, then reviewed Hu’s file and decided to teach him a lesson or kill him.
• Fu Youhua received reports that a Beifeng Commune ghost handler had attacked the Linjiang City Public Security Bureau and that Liu Mingguang and his family had been attacked.
• Fu Youhua ordered nearby ghost handlers to rescue Liu after learning that Liu’s family had been killed and headquarters had lost contact with him.
• Liu Mingguang prepared to strike Hu Jiu, but a ghostly hand burst through his door and came at his head.

Hu Jiu pushed Liu Mingguang into overusing the Ghost Perfume, until Liu Mingguang triggered its ability to lure ghosts. After seeing his mother’s severed head and losing his reason, Liu Mingguang summoned a powerful supernatural presence and charged at Hu Jiu.

• Liu Mingguang fended off Hu Jiu’s ghost hands and illusions, but the relentless assault forced him to use the Ghost Perfume until his body began to break down.
• Liu Mingguang warned Hu Jiu that he would fight back and used the Ghost Perfume’s hidden ability to attract supernatural phenomena.
• Hu Jiu showed Liu Mingguang his mother’s severed head and taunted him, driving him into grief and rage.
• Liu Mingguang’s foul black mist summoned a powerful ghost, and he lunged at Hu Jiu, intent on destroying his enemy.

Hu Jiu fled after a terrifying old woman ghost engulfed Liu Mingguang’s mansion in darkness and decay. Liu Mingguang tried to escape the ghost domain alone, but an endless wall blocked his way.

• A hunched old woman ghost appeared behind Liu Mingguang, and her presence corroded the mansion while darkness swallowed the light.
• Hu Jiu withdrew his illusion, crushed Liu Mingguang’s satellite phone with the Ghost Hand, and escaped through a window.
• Liu Mingguang drank a pale blue liquid to suppress the Ghost Perfume, then angrily answered the phone before Hu Jiu destroyed it.
• Liu Mingguang cautiously navigated the darkness, suspected he was trapped in a Ghost Domain, and tried to leave his home.
• Liu Mingguang struck a wall that should not have been there and followed it, only to find that it seemed endless.

Hu Jiu escaped the old woman ghost’s Ghost Domain and learned that Liu Mingguang was trapped near his home, where another Ghost Domain was spreading. He headed toward the scene while concealing his true intentions and hoping Liu Mingguang was already dead.

• Hu Jiu escaped the Ghost Domain, left Liu Mingguang trapped inside, and returned home.
• Lin Guangning called Hu Jiu and ordered him to support Liu Mingguang, but Hu Jiu asked headquarters to appoint him as Linjiang City’s person in charge instead.
• Lin Guangning told Hu Jiu that a Ghost Domain had appeared near Liu Mingguang’s home and that civilians were disappearing, then urged him to investigate and rescue survivors.
• Hu Jiu promised to gather information and contain the source ghost, but he avoided promising to help Liu Mingguang or rescue civilians.
• Hu Jiu went to the cordoned-off scene, wondering whether Liu Mingguang had died, as bystanders watched from a distance.

Hu Jiu arrived at the supernatural incident, concealed himself, and waited outside the ghost domain instead of confronting the ghost. After the domain dissipated and Liu Mingguang vanished, Hu Jiu took credit for the apparent resolution and reported the ghost to headquarters, leaving Liu Mingguang’s fate uncertain.

• Hu Jiu told Qian Ying to guard the cordon, then used the Mirage Ghost to hide and waited rather than entering the ghost domain.
• The ghost domain slowly dissipated, revealing a devastated area and many mutilated corpses.
• Hu Jiu searched Liu Mingguang’s decayed mansion but found neither Liu Mingguang nor the ghost’s eerie fragrance.
• Qian Ying thanked Hu Jiu, who accepted the credit and told headquarters he had driven the ghost back at great personal cost.
• Hu Jiu described the B-grade ghost and its abilities to Lin Guangning, then claimed he was too injured to act again for a while.

Hu Jiu took charge of searching for the missing Liu Mingguang while Liu recovered in a gold safe house after surviving a powerful ghost’s Dark Ghost Domain. Liu planned to contact headquarters, having already used his Longevity Potion to survive the attack.

• Hu Jiu ordered Qian Ying to search for Liu Mingguang and report any trace directly to him without approaching Liu.
• Liu Mingguang regained consciousness in his gold safe house, badly injured and emotionally numb from the supernatural’s erosion.
• Liu remembered how a ghost’s Dark Ghost Domain had trapped him and realized the gold safe house had kept him alive.
• Liu left the safe house after confirming the ghost had departed and found the surrounding area ruined.
• Liu decided to contact headquarters and recalled that he had used a vial of Longevity Potion during the attack.

After escaping a supernatural incident in Linjiang City, Liu Mingguang contacted headquarters to report the attack and demand a Longevity Potion. Fu Youhua refused and proposed replacing him with Hu Jiu or enrolling in an experiment to control a second ghost, leaving Liu Mingguang wary of headquarters and his own precarious position.

• Liu Mingguang disguised himself, retrieved his contained ghosts and supernatural items, and answered a call from Xiao Mei on an old phone.
• Liu Mingguang reported an unfamiliar ghost controller and a hostile ghost with a Ghost Domain, but concealed that he had deliberately attracted the ghost.
• Xiao Mei passed Liu Mingguang's report to Fu Youhua, who compared it with Hu Jiu's action report and found discrepancies.
• Liu Mingguang demanded a Longevity Potion, but Fu Youhua refused and suggested that Hu Jiu could temporarily take over Linjiang City.
• Fu Youhua proposed that Liu Mingguang join experiments to control a second ghost, but Liu Mingguang refused because he feared headquarters would use him as a test subject or punish him for past crimes.

Hu Jiu tracked down Liu Mingguang and killed him before Headquarters could provide him with a new Satellite Phone, taking Liu Mingguang’s ghosts and supernatural flashlight. Afterward, Hu Jiu recalled that Headquarters’ Ghost Tamer codenamed [Beauty Goddess] was known for appearing amid a rich fragrance.

• Hu Jiu learned from Qian Ying that Headquarters had located Liu Mingguang and hurried to his former apartment to kill him.
• Liu Mingguang used a purple-light flashlight to immobilize the Ghost Hand, but it failed to affect Hu Jiu’s phantom.
• Hu Jiu’s Suicide-Hanging White Silk triggered the Looking-Up Ghost’s killing rule and broke Liu Mingguang’s neck.
• Hu Jiu bagged Liu Mingguang’s Fragrant Corpse and took the flashlight, which could forcibly immobilize fierce ghosts.
• Hu Jiu considered his gains and remembered that the fragrant [Beauty Goddess] was a powerful Ghost Tamer at Headquarters.

Hu Jiu suspected the Ghost Book was influencing him and investigated the strange line that appeared on its title page. The chapter ended with him hesitating over whether to write on the cover.

• A uniformed man found Liu Mingguang’s room broken into and reported the scene, while Liu Mingguang became a missing person.
• Hu Jiu reviewed his ghosts and realized the Ghost Book’s protection was fading rapidly as its power was depleted.
• Hu Jiu noticed the Ghost Book staring at the flashlight and other ghosts, then guessed it might need to replenish its supernatural power.
• Hu Jiu nearly fed the Ghost Book the flashlight but stopped, suspecting it had influenced his thoughts despite the rule protecting his consciousness.
• Hu Jiu reconsidered the details he might have overlooked and saw an unfamiliar sentence appear on the Ghost Book’s title page: [When you know of my existence, I will also know of yours].
• Hu Jiu picked up his pen and hesitated over whether to write on the cover.