Chapter Summaries

After the black clouds were contained, Hu Jiu waited for the Ghost Finger to appear but found it missing, then discovered the supernatural resources allocated to him had never arrived. An investigation revealed that Li Zhaoqiang had attacked his fellow courier and fled with the resources, while Lu Mou suspected a conspiracy.

• Hu Jiu told Qian Ying that he had fought the Source Ghost inside the black clouds, then left the city’s follow-up work to her.
• Hu Jiu dealt with Zhang Shucheng’s lingering supernatural incident, took his equipment, and handed him over to Headquarters.
• Hu Jiu waited at the place where he had found the Ghost Finger in his previous life, but it did not appear.
• Hu Jiu learned from Xiao Mei that his allocated resources had supposedly been sent, then reported that no Headquarters representatives had reached Linjiang City.
• Zhang Hongwen and Lu Mou ordered investigations into the missing delivery, and Lu Mou learned that Li Zhaoqiang had attacked Wang Xun and fled with the resources.

Lu Mou investigated Li Zhaoqiang’s disappearance and the loss of resources meant for Hu Jiu, while surveillance footage revealed that Li had apparently defected with help from a Ghost Tamer. The footage went to Zhang Hongwen, who ordered the investigation to continue and the resources to be recovered.

• Lu Mou’s search team recovered Li Zhaoqiang’s wireless Satellite Phone from a toy boat drifting down a river, and Lu Mou reported the disappearance and missing resources to Zhang Hongwen.
• Lu Mou reviewed Li Zhaoqiang’s file but found nothing to explain why he might defect.
• The intelligence department found footage showing Li meeting an indistinct figure, taking a robe, and becoming obscured by a supernatural effect while still carrying the supplies for Hu Jiu.
• Lu Mou concluded that Li had likely defected with a Ghost Tamer and worried he would be held responsible for the lost strategic-level resources.
• Zhang Hongwen received the footage and ordered the investigation to continue and the resources to be recovered.

Hu Jiu learned that the resources Headquarters had sent him were missing, refused to help search for them, and arranged to visit Fu Youhua. Meanwhile, the group that stole the supplies celebrated their haul and resolved to lie low, while Sister Gao remained troubled by her brother Gao Qiuhai’s death.

• Xiao Mei told Hu Jiu that one courier had died and Li Zhaoqiang was missing with the resources, and Headquarters could not replace them soon.
• Hu Jiu refused Headquarters’ request that he search for the missing resources and held Headquarters responsible for recovering them.
• Xiao Mei confirmed that Hu Jiu’s visit to Fu Youhua had been approved for the next morning.
• Sister Gao and her group divided the stolen resources, including twelve Longevity Potions, and discussed the risks of angering Hu Jiu and Headquarters.
• The group decided to keep a low profile and enjoy their stolen supplies, while Sister Gao’s smile turned cold as she thought of Gao Qiuhai.
• Headquarters convened a meeting.

At Headquarters, Zhang Hongwen blamed Lu Mou for the stolen supernatural resources and proposed making Hu Jiu recover his own missing reward instead of compensating him. The chapter ended with Zhang assigning Lu Mou to persuade Hu Jiu, while Lu Mou worried about what would happen if Hu Jiu refused.

• Zhang Hongwen announced that Lu Mou would be sidelined over the Resources Department’s missing supernatural resources, and others accused Lu Mou of arranging the theft.
• Lu Mou defended himself, but Headquarters agreed that he bore responsibility and discussed detaining him during the investigation.
• Zhang Hongwen proposed withholding Hu Jiu’s resources and asking him to retrieve the stolen batch himself, with Headquarters only making up any shortfall.
• Zhang Hongwen said the proposal would test Hu Jiu’s bottom line and asked Lu Mou to deliver it to him.
• Lu Mou asked what would happen if Hu Jiu refused.

Headquarters forced Lu Mou to tell Hu Jiu to recover the resources that had gone missing on their way to him, but Hu Jiu rejected the demand and Lu Mou was taken away for questioning. Zhang Hongwen then consulted the Secret Peeker, who proposed using Lu Mou as an expendable piece, prompting Zhang Hongwen to challenge her.

• Zhang Hongwen pressured Lu Mou to call Hu Jiu and present the missing resources as a mission for him to handle.
• Hu Jiu rejected Headquarters' demand, questioned whether senior officials had approved it, and ended the call after Lu Mou threatened him.
• Zhang Hongwen ordered armed personnel to take Lu Mou away, claiming he had failed to persuade Hu Jiu.
• Zhang Hongwen argued that Ghost Tamers had to obey Headquarters, while those present left unchallenged the possibility that Hu Jiu had caused a past incident in the Capital.
• Zhang Hongwen met with the Secret Peeker, who said Lu Mou had outlived his usefulness and should be used for whatever value remained.
• Zhang Hongwen challenged the Secret Peeker, asking whether she saw Headquarters' senior officials as mere pieces in Ghost Tamers' games.

The Secret Peeker forced Zhang Hongwen to follow her plan and then killed Lu Mou, while Hu Jiu visited the hospitalized Fu Youhua and offered him a healing bracelet. The Secret Peeker accepted the risk of consequences as she embraced her new willingness to act without restraint.

• The Secret Peeker mocked Zhang Hongwen for complaining about being used as a pawn and ordered him to stick to their plan.
• Hu Jiu visited Fu Youhua in a special hospital and found Huang Jingxing assisting with his treatment.
• Hu Jiu offered Fu Youhua a healing bracelet and complained that Zhang Hongwen had mishandled Headquarters and withheld his reward.
• The Secret Peeker strangled Lu Mou and disguised his death while the Prophet warned her that her actions could bring serious consequences.
• The Secret Peeker dismissed the Prophet’s warning and reflected on how Headquarters had failed to seek justice after her injuries.

After Lu Mou was murdered, Zhang Hongwen tried to use the evidence against Hu Jiu to have him detained, but Hu Jiu’s hospital alibi disrupted the plan. Zhang Hongwen realized the visit had been concealed from him and began looking for a way to escape the growing crisis, when something even more unexpected happened.

• Headquarters discovered that Lu Mou had been strangled, and the surveillance equipment had malfunctioned around the time of his death.
• Zhang Hongwen pointed suspicion at Hu Jiu, citing his last conversation with Lu Mou and footage of someone resembling him, and sought to have him detained for investigation.
• Hu Jiu said he had spent the day visiting Minister Fu Youhua at the hospital, where the minister and medical staff could confirm his alibi.
• Xiao Mei explained that Hu Jiu’s visit had been arranged directly through Minister Fu Youhua and the hospital, leaving Zhang Hongwen unaware of it.
• Zhang Hongwen reconsidered the timing of Hu Jiu’s visit and Lu Mou’s murder, then tried to plan how to account for Lu Mou’s death and resolve the crisis.
• Something even more unexpected happened as Zhang Hongwen was searching for a way to break the deadlock.

Hu Jiu spoke with Fu Youhua about the murder of Lu Mou before Fu Youhua suffered a severe heart attack and was saved by Hu Jiu’s supernatural bracelet. After learning that more senior Headquarters members had been killed, Fu Youhua ordered Hu Jiu to return with him to Headquarters, where the situation was in chaos.

• Hu Jiu discussed Lu Mou’s murder with Fu Youhua and suggested the killing might have been politically motivated.
• Hu Jiu left Fu Youhua’s hospital room and learned from Huang Jingxing that American exorcists had arrived in the Capital and clashed with Ghost Tamers.
• Fu Youhua suffered a heart attack, and medical staff used Hu Jiu’s supernatural bracelet to save him.
• Fu Youhua questioned Hu Jiu about whether he had left the hospital, while Huang Jingxing defended him.
• Fu Youhua revealed that senior Headquarters members had been murdered one after another and told Hu Jiu to come with him to Headquarters.

Headquarters’ senior officials were killed one by one in seemingly accidental deaths, leaving Zhang Hongwen as the sole survivor. Meanwhile, the Secret Peeker fled with two bound captives, and the young woman driving wondered whether her plans could still work without the Prophet.

• After American exorcists clashed with local Ghost Tamers, Zhang Hongwen and Headquarters’ officials planned to send two enforcers to negotiate and prepare for force if needed.
• A senior official fell down the stairs and died, and further officials soon died in a series of apparent accidents.
• The surviving officials fled toward the golden safe room, but all except Zhang Hongwen died before reaching it.
• Zhang Hongwen hid in the safe room and tried unsuccessfully to call the Secret Peeker.
• The Secret Peeker drove away with two bound captives as the young woman driving realized Headquarters’ senior officials had been wiped out and lamented the Prophet’s disappearance.

Fu Youhua took control of Headquarters and learned from Zhang Hongwen that Secret Peeker and others had been behind the recent killings and schemes. While Hu Jiu rushed to rescue his kidnapped family, Robert attacked a group of Ghost Tamers and demanded to know how their leader had obtained a Ruby Brooch from the Eternal Night Organization; someone shouted for him to stop.

• Fu Youhua returned to Headquarters, assumed its leadership, and questioned Zhang Hongwen about the deaths and power struggle.
• Zhang Hongwen confessed that he had joined forces with Secret Peeker to manipulate events, kill people, and frame others, while Fu Youhua realized Hu Jiu was unavailable because his family had been kidnapped.
• Fu Youhua sent two Law Enforcers to confront Robert, who was causing trouble near the hotel used by Headquarters to receive visiting Ghost Tamers.
• Robert suppressed a group of Ghost Tamers and demanded that their leader explain where she had gotten the Ruby Brooch.
• The woman remained silent as Robert accused her of possessing an item from the Eternal Night Organization and raised his foot to strike her again.
• An angry voice shouted for Robert to stop.

Robert killed Sun Mingyuan and the Ghost Tamers he had attacked, then left a chaotic, multicolored area around the hotel. As another enforcer headed to report what he found, intruders struck Headquarters, and Fu Youhua ordered every enforcer to return and defend it.

• Sun Mingyuan confronted Robert and trapped them both inside a colorful domain while Headquarters staff evacuated bystanders.
• Robert killed the injured Ghost Tamers, and his supernatural teeth devoured Sun Mingyuan's powers.
• An unseen attacker immobilized Sun Mingyuan, and Robert broke his neck before finishing him off.
• A late-arriving enforcer found the hotel area transformed and nobody there, then sped toward Headquarters after his call failed.
• Intruders triggered an alarm at Headquarters, and Fu Youhua ordered security doors activated and all enforcers summoned.

Hu Jiu tortured the Secret Peeker, reunited with his parents, and used Nightmare’s power to take their consciousness. As he prepared to dispose of the Secret Peeker, a silver-haired man offered to buy her and reveal the origin of malevolent ghosts and the supernatural.

• Hu Jiu ignored Headquarters’ urgent call while he tortured the Secret Peeker in a secluded park.
• Hu Jiu recalled how his parents and relatives had lived unhappy lives and died, then asked his dying parents what life they had wanted.
• Hu Jiu used Nightmare’s power to take his parents’ consciousness, creating two stars in the Dream Space.
• Hu Jiu agreed to support Headquarters and collected the bodies before a silver-haired man offered to buy the Secret Peeker.
• Hu Jiu attacked the man, who survived and asked whether Hu Jiu wanted to learn the origin of malevolent ghosts and the supernatural.

Exorcists invaded China's Supernatural Control Headquarters, while Bill used the negotiations to demand the Longevity Potion technology and a joint hunt for the Beauty Goddess. As Headquarters fell into chaos and reinforcements remained trapped outside Bill's Ghost Domain, a streak of black light struck the dome.

• Feng Qinfen confronted Pierrot and Edith, and the three began fighting inside Headquarters.
• Bill accused Headquarters of destroying an American city, then demanded the Longevity Potion technology and cooperation against the Beauty Goddess.
• Bill expanded his Ghost Domain over Headquarters and used its supernatural pressure to threaten Fu Youhua and the remote negotiators.
• Exorcists released several imprisoned ghosts as staff took shelter and Headquarters' Ghost Tamers struggled to hold their ground.
• Fu Youhua stalled for time while reinforcements gathered outside the Ghost Domain and argued over how to break through.
• A streak of black light struck the dome, which began to crack.

Hu Jiu arrived at Headquarters and overwhelmed Bill and the Exorcists with a supernatural blizzard, then captured Bill and learned Zhang Hongwen’s location from Fu Youhua. At safe house number three, Zhang Hongwen killed a woman before dying himself, while Hu Jiu resolved to eliminate the entire family to prevent future trouble.

• Hu Jiu broke Bill’s Ghost Domain dome, then unleashed a blizzard that froze the Exorcists and Ghost Tamers across Headquarters.
• Bill fought back with rotting supernatural power, but Hu Jiu used a Ghost Hand and talisman to decapitate him and sank the fallen enemies into his shadow.
• Hu Jiu carried Bill’s head toward the highest meeting room, and Fu Youhua told him Zhang Hongwen was in safe house number three.
• At the safe house, Zhang Hongwen broke through a woman’s pink bubble and strangled her before dying with a smile.
• Hu Jiu decided that killing alone was not enough and that he needed to wipe out the family’s nine generations.

After the crisis, Hu Jiu used his overwhelming power to deter Headquarters’ leaders and secure access to its resources and intelligence. He dealt with the remaining supernatural incidents, returned the dead, and supplied Headquarters with supernatural products, while warning that Shen Jiliang would never return.

• Hu Jiu displayed fake nuclear warheads during an online meeting, threatened to bury them, and demanded an explanation for being left alone after the disaster at Headquarters.
• A day later, Fu Youhua told Hu Jiu that Headquarters would give him access to all its resources and information and would support him.
• Fu Youhua explained that America’s exorcists had caused the deaths and disappearances at Headquarters, but Headquarters ruled out further fighting and asked Hu Jiu to handle the Capital’s remaining supernatural incidents.
• Hu Jiu contained the paint Source Ghost and returned the exorcists’ and Ghost Tamers’ corpses to Fu Youhua.
• Hu Jiu gave Fu Youhua wooden bead bracelets and other supernatural products to help replenish Headquarters’ strength, then assured him that Shen Jiliang would never return.
• Hu Jiu used Headquarters’ newly granted access to obtain more resources and secrets about the supernatural’s origin, and the prophet’s secret left him feeling small.

The Prophet explained to Hu Jiu how the Ghost World, the Big Dipper, and the weakening barrier had contributed to the Supernatural Revival. He invited Hu Jiu to join the Big Dipper, then revealed that the Ghost World might connect to multiple realities.

• The Prophet told Hu Jiu that the Ghost World was a vast realm overlapping with reality, and that Fierce Ghosts from it could enter through breaches in the barrier.
• The Prophet described the Big Dipper's ancient role in guarding reality and explained how internal divisions, weakening barriers, and reckless government experiments had helped cause the Supernatural Revival.
• The Prophet said that supernatural agencies sought to control supernatural power rather than eliminate it, then invited Hu Jiu to join the Big Dipper.
• Hu Jiu said he would think about the invitation, and the Prophet warned that the Ghost World might connect to more than one reality.
• The Prophet recounted hearing that people deep in the Ghost World came from different countries despite sharing the same language and writing.

After learning about ways to enter the Ghost World, Hu Jiu returned to his lair and caught Geheluos trespassing. Geheluos invited him to join Eternal Night, but Hu Jiu attacked him and stopped his escape.

• Hu Jiu recalled the Prophet's explanation that the Endless Corridor offered a safer passage into the Ghost World than breaking through a Ghost Domain.
• Hu Jiu found Geheluos trapped in the supernatural devices in his residence and demanded to know why he had come.
• Geheluos identified himself as an Eternal Night Judgment Angel and invited Hu Jiu to join the organization.
• Hu Jiu confronted Geheluos over Han Yang's attack, and Geheluos dismissed the conflict as settled and boasted about Eternal Night's power.
• Hu Jiu's attack split Geheluos in two, but Geheluos used a recorder and began to vanish while renewing his invitation and threatening Hu Jiu.
• Hu Jiu grabbed at the air and forcibly interrupted Geheluos's escape.

Hu Jiu relentlessly pursued Geheluos out of Linjiang City, separated him from his malevolent ghost, and chased him through a supernatural space after he was snatched away. The chapter left Geheluos missing and Hu Jiu pursuing whoever had taken him.

• Geheluos fled through Linjiang City while Hu Jiu pursued him, and he sent Evernight a distress message.
• Hu Jiu drove Geheluos into the wilderness, where his malevolent ghost took control and formed zombie-like figures from the soil.
• Hu Jiu struck down the giant crimson eye and pulled it from Geheluos, sealing it in a gold container.
• A hand reached from the void, seized Geheluos, and tossed out a painting that drew Hu Jiu into a deserted elementary school supernatural space.
• Hu Jiu burned away the school and collapsed its supernatural space, then used his Ghost Domain to chase after the vanished Geheluos.

Evernight’s executives met to discuss Geheluos’s defeat by Hu Jiu and chose to offer Hu Jiu one last chance rather than risk a direct confrontation. As the meeting ended, they learned that someone had invaded Glory City, and Geheluos identified the intruder as Hu Jiu.

• Geheluos recounted how Hu Jiu had overwhelmed him, taken one of his eyes, and cost him a fierce ghost.
• Ares and Ixtab mocked Geheluos, but another executive stopped their argument so the group could discuss Hu Jiu.
• Geheluos warned that Hu Jiu was hostile to Evernight and urged the executives to eliminate him, while others argued that recruiting him would be more beneficial.
• Evernight’s executives decided to give Hu Jiu one last chance and seek safer ways to deal with him rather than confront him directly.
• As the executives prepared to leave, someone reported an invasion of Glory City, and Geheluos declared that Hu Jiu was responsible.

Hu Jiu entered the fog-shrouded Glory City and found its residents unnervingly uniform and its streets dominated by homes, factories, and churches. After Mike suffered a disturbing nightmare and resolved to leave, his wife insisted they visit their child at Glory Enterprise’s factory.

• Hu Jiu rode with Mike into Glory City, which appeared as ruins when approached from outside.
• Hu Jiu explored the orderly city, noticed its strange lack of public venues and a church statue, then vanished.
• Mike dreamed that an angel tortured him and awoke to find his wife acting like a cold, perfectly mannered stranger.
• Mike decided to leave Glory City, but his wife argued that their family, work, and faith were there.
• Mike called their child, who told him to come to Glory Enterprise’s factory, and his wife eagerly led him there.