Chapter Summaries

Hu Jiu faced Yan Lou in a training-ground challenge, where Yan Lou used his photo-editing ability to alter Hu Jiu's appearance and try to restrain him. Hu Jiu broke free, defeated Yan Lou, and silenced the onlookers who had doubted his strength.

• Yan Lou challenged Hu Jiu to prove he could handle the strength expected of an S-rank member, and the two fought in front of spectators.
• Hu Jiu dodged Yan Lou's spatial defenses and landed attacks, while Yan Lou healed his injuries with a soft light.
• Yan Lou revealed his camera-like eye and used his ability to distort Hu Jiu's appearance, explaining that changes to a picture became real.
• Hu Jiu's shadow wrapped around Yan Lou, nullified his restraint, and let Hu Jiu restore his appearance and knock Yan Lou down.
• When a spectator accused Hu Jiu of winning by surprise, Hu Jiu whipped Yan Lou and sent him flying with the twisted space around him, shocking the crowd.

Hu Jiu defeated Yan Lou and completed the formalities to join the Big Dipper as an S-rank member. At the base, he met Wei Ze, who explained the mysterious Old News Broadcast and warned him about Yan Lou.

• Hu Jiu defeated Yan Lou, who accepted his loss and warned Hu Jiu not to become overconfident.
• Hu Jiu completed his registration and learned that the Big Dipper’s members were preparing for an important year-end assessment.
• Hu Jiu arrived at his assigned residence and found Wei Ze listening to the Old News Broadcast on an old radio.
• Wei Ze explained that the broadcast distorted real past events and might alter history or connect parallel worlds to reality.
• Wei Ze praised Hu Jiu for beating Yan Lou and warned him that Yan Lou was jealous and might cause trouble.

Hu Jiu took Big Dipper’s year-end assessment, meeting its powerful overseer Kaiyang and answering a supernatural written test in his own unsettling way. During the practical exam, he focused on how Big Dipper recreated supernatural scenarios, solved the cases quickly, and discovered the blue-clad woman had finished before him.

• Hu Jiu waited with Wei Ze and other Ghost Tamers for Big Dipper’s year-end assessment, noticing a blue-clad woman and a powerful man with a keyboard embedded in his chest.
• Kaiyang arrived in Buddhist light and introduced himself as one of the Seven Stars, then sent the examinees into the hall for a two-hour written test.
• Hu Jiu answered questions about whom to save, a family tragedy, and sacrificing civilians; the test paper changed color after some of his answers.
• Big Dipper placed the examinees in recreated supernatural incidents for the second exam while observers watched them on a screen.
• Hu Jiu became absorbed in analyzing the scenario-recreation ability, solved the incidents in under ten minutes, and found the blue-clad woman already waiting when he left.

Hu Jiu and the other Ghost Tamers began the third assessment, a practical test at Big Dipper’s containment base on Star-Time Island. As Kaiyang showed them dangerous ghosts and supernatural items, Hu Jiu saw a mutilated transmigrator from a parallel world who had tried to bring people fleeing the Ghost World into their reality.

• Hu Jiu spoke with Wei Ze about Yin Zhong, the Witch, who had passed the second assessment before them by relying on her strength.
• Kaiyang announced that the third assessment would involve handling a real supernatural incident, and no one withdrew.
• Kaiyang led the group to Star-Time Island and explained that Big Dipper’s containment base guarded a border between the Ghost World and reality.
• Kaiyang showed the group a supernatural quilt that blocked ghost attacks but made its user unable to stop lying in bed.
• Kaiyang introduced a transmigrator from the Qi Kingdom in a parallel world, revealing that Big Dipper had captured him after he tried to bring people escaping a Ghost World invasion into their reality.

Kaiyang showed the participants the Endless Corridor and explained that its seals were failing as the Ghost World encroached on reality. He led them into the third assessment, where they had to capture derivative ghosts produced by the Toy Factory, while he and a translucent figure discussed the danger of entering the factory itself.

• Kaiyang showed the group strange contained entities, and Hu Jiu restrained his urge to seize the base while he assessed Big Dipper.
• Kaiyang explained that breaches in the Endless Corridor had increased over the past six months, forcing Big Dipper to station gatekeepers behind dangerous doors.
• Kaiyang told the participants their third assessment was to incapacitate and imprison as many Toy Factory derivative toy ghosts as possible, and gave each person a miniature-prison bracelet.
• Kaiyang led the participants through black door number 0 and opened an unnumbered door so they could enter the examination site.
• After the participants entered, Kaiyang and a translucent figure discussed how toy ghosts could form new factories and agreed that venturing deep into the Toy Factory was too risky for now.

Hu Jiu explored the dark Toy Factory assessment, tested a toy ghost’s killing rule, and captured it. Elsewhere, Yin Zhong fought the toy ghosts but discovered they could evolve and imitate their surroundings.

• Hu Jiu used the Scarlet Ghost Eye to navigate the dark tunnel and encountered a humanoid doll that tracked him wherever he moved.
• Hu Jiu transformed into a fox and found that the doll stopped watching him, then removed its button eyes and stored the doll in his bracelet’s miniature prison.
• Yin Zhong drew toy ghosts toward her blue glow and beat them, storing the defeated ghosts in her bracelet.
• The smashed toys recombined into a stronger monster, which Yin Zhong defeated and captured in her miniature prison.
• A glowing toy jellyfish imitated Yin Zhong’s light, struck her from behind, and revealed that the Toy Factory’s ghosts could evolve to suit their environment.

Hu Jiu and Keyboard Warrior met during the Toy Factory assessment, shared information about the evolving toy ghosts, and traveled together while Keyboard Warrior chattered about Big Dipper members. Hu Jiu quietly led them toward the stronger oppressive presence as they fought off more toy ghosts.

• Keyboard Warrior attacked toy ghosts with his chest-mounted keyboard until Hu Jiu, in his giant cat form, dodged his Big Treasure Keys and identified himself as a fellow participant.
• Hu Jiu changed back into human form, and he and Keyboard Warrior exchanged information about toy ghosts combining into stronger forms and learning to chase animals.
• Hu Jiu traveled with Keyboard Warrior, who spent the journey gossiping about Yan Lou’s former appearance and his ability to edit faces.
• Hu Jiu sensed the oppressive presence growing stronger and led them toward it while they took turns defeating waves of toy ghosts.

Hu Jiu and Keyboard Warrior fought a powerful stitched-together Toy Ghost, then tried to avoid the Toy Factory as they explored. They nevertheless found themselves at the factory, where Keyboard Warrior chose to escape while Hu Jiu remained behind.

• Hu Jiu and Keyboard Warrior defeated a massive Toy Ghost by freezing it, cutting off its limbs, and knocking away its button eyes.
• Hu Jiu and Keyboard Warrior changed direction to avoid the increasingly dense Toy Ghosts, but continued to encounter some as they walked.
• Hu Jiu and Keyboard Warrior discovered the Toy Factory, where black vines struggled to restrain Toy Ghosts emerging from pipes.
• When Toy Ghosts approached, Keyboard Warrior said he had contained enough for the assessment and snapped his silver ring to escape.

Hu Jiu resisted the Toy Factory’s lure, then placed first in Big Dipper’s year-end assessment. Over tea, Kaiyang revealed that only three of Beidou’s seven stars remained and explained why visitors from other worlds threatened their already sick reality.

• Hu Jiu recognized that the Toy Factory was luring him inside, left a mark, and departed without entering.
• Kaiyang and a transparent figure discussed the assessment as participants continued to return from the examination grounds.
• After the assessment ended, Kaiyang counted the participants and announced that Hu Jiu had placed first overall.
• Kaiyang invited Hu Jiu to tea and revealed that only three of Beidou’s seven stars remained while visitors from other worlds grew more rampant.
• Kaiyang explained that the world rejected visitors from other worlds, especially Ghost Tamers, whose presence unsettled the border between reality and the Ghost World.

Kaiyang assigned Hu Jiu a mission to investigate Fantasy Park in Furong City, where visitors and Big Dipper investigators had disappeared. Hu Jiu accepted and teamed up with Thousand Faces, who explained how visitors from other worlds could enter reality; the two began examining the park’s history and a pattern of missing families.

• Kaiyang formally acknowledged Hu Jiu as a member of Big Dipper and assigned him to investigate suspected visitors from other worlds.
• Hu Jiu chose the Fantasy Park mission after learning that investigators had vanished inside the Furong City amusement park.
• Hu Jiu returned to Headquarters, briefed Fu Youhua, and prepared to leave for the mission.
• Thousand Faces introduced himself as Hu Jiu’s teammate, and Hu Jiu verified his identity with Kaiyang before agreeing to work with him.
• Thousand Faces explained the different ways transmigrators entered the world and how the world could reject them.
• Thousand Faces told Hu Jiu that Furong City had unusually frequent missing-person cases, including entire families, though their connection to Fantasy Park remained unknown.

Hu Jiu and Thousand Faces investigated Fantasy Park separately after Furong City’s department head denied anything unusual was happening there. Meanwhile, Xu Can and Bai He’s team identified and captured a suspected transmigrator in a residential complex, though the chapter left the truth about Fantasy Park and the captive uncertain.

• Hu Jiu and Thousand Faces questioned Furong City’s department head, who insisted that Fantasy Park was normal and reacted nervously when Hu Jiu examined a figurine on his desk.
• Hu Jiu and Thousand Faces split up at Fantasy Park; Hu Jiu changed his appearance in the shadows while Thousand Faces marked the perimeter and entered the park.
• Thousand Faces examined visitors who seemed ordinary but continued to trigger his suspicions, while a wasp-like insect with blood-red eyes followed him.
• Xu Can identified a handsome young man as the target in a sealed residential complex, and Bai He’s team shot and restrained him when he resisted arrest.
• Bai He took the injured young man to a containment device and ordered police to keep the residents confined and under observation.
• Xu Can explained the mission to capture a transmigrator to Bai He, who accepted Xu Can’s leadership after learning about the Ghost World and parallel worlds.

Xu Can and the Bai He Squad executed suspected transmigrators in Furong City, but the prisoners died mysteriously before they could reveal who was behind them. As the team investigated the missing local person in charge, Bai He spotted two strange figures that looked like pigs.

• Xu Can explained how the squad could identify transmigrators and ordered the suspects dealt with.
• A Ghost Tamer shot a young man, and Xu Can used his glasses to reveal the man’s fat otaku apparition.
• The apparition began to answer Xu Can’s questions but suddenly vanished, while the other arrested transmigrators also collapsed and died.
• Xu Can ordered the bodies cremated and speculated that an organized mastermind had smuggled people into local residents’ bodies.
• Bai He and Xu Can learned that Furong City’s person in charge was missing, then continued their investigation.
• Bai He spotted two strange figures that looked like pigs.

Bai He and the other Ghost Tamers attacked two pig-headed visitors, but the pair knocked them out and an unseen woman captured Bai He. Meanwhile, Hu Jiu investigated the amusement park and saw a fleeing visitor burned to ashes by a strange child.

• Bai He and the Ghost Tamers confronted GG Bond and Ruoren Shuai, mistook them for supernatural creatures, and were knocked unconscious.
• Bai He woke hanging upside down, learned that a woman had captured him, and agreed to stay out of her plans while looking for a way to survive.
• Hu Jiu entered the amusement park disguised as an orange cat and observed visitors struggling against voices that tried to take over their identities.
• A visitor resisted the voice offering to replace him and ran toward the exit, but an orange fireball struck him and burned him to ashes.
• A child with a gourd and two green leaves on his head watched the ashes scatter and continued patrolling.

Hu Jiu investigated the amusement park, where strange two-dimensional creatures attacked tourists and a mysterious director controlled the place. After uncovering how the tourists’ minds were being altered, he saw the director order his creations to hunt him and watched the fire-breathing child kill a tourist who tried to escape.

• Hu Jiu defeated two upright-walking rats, killed the muscular one, and questioned the one-eared rat, who vanished before revealing who the director was.
• A woman in a purple-black gown appeared, summoned an immortal cat and rat, and ordered them to kill Hu Jiu before deciding the park would soon be evacuated.
• Hu Jiu watched the woman and her creations, then changed into a bee and investigated the tourists’ minds with Nightmare.
• Hu Jiu found a twisted figure fused to a tourist’s consciousness and helped the tourist remove it.
• The tourist woke, tried to flee and call the police, but the fire-breathing child killed him and destroyed his body.

While trapped in the amusement park, Bai He learned that Xiao Qian was a real ghost and tried to convince his captor that humans and ghosts could coexist, while secretly performing an idealist persona to improve his odds of survival. When the woman revealed that Thousand Faces and Lucky One had infiltrated the park, Bai He shared what he knew about Headquarters and ended by asking how ghosts like Xiao Qian came to exist.

• Bai He used flattery to learn that the woman in white was named Xiao Qian and lived at Lanre Temple, before his captor appeared and reprimanded him.
• Bai He asked whether Xiao Qian was human, a ghost, or a Ghost Tamer, and the woman in the purple-black dress told him she was a real ghost formed after a person died.
• Bai He argued that intelligent ghosts might coexist peacefully with humans, while the woman warned that ghosts were instinctively driven to kill.
• Bai He privately resolved to use an idealist persona to make his captor more likely to spare or recruit him.
• The woman revealed that Thousand Faces and Lucky One had infiltrated the amusement park and that she hoped to withdraw without conflict after stalling for eight hours.
• Bai He shared what he knew about Lucky One and Headquarters, then asked how ghosts like Xiao Qian came into existence.

Thousand Faces and Bai He escaped their captors and met up inside the amusement park, where they were surrounded by a group of strange creatures. Meanwhile, Hu Jiu was captured in the haunted house and confronted by the woman calling herself Queen.

• Thousand Faces fled from Red Big Wolf and other strange creatures, then was pursued and attacked by the Forest Sheep Trio.
• A mysterious voice freed Bai He from his ropes, and Bai He escaped after dispersing Xiao Qian.
• Thousand Faces encountered Bai He, who told him that a woman controlled the park’s creatures and could steal information from Headquarters.
• An orange cat wielding a sword and several monsters surrounded Thousand Faces and Bai He, forcing them to prepare to fight.
• Queen confronted the captured Hu Jiu in the haunted house, and Hu Jiu prepared to attack her.

Hu Jiu rejected Queen’s offer to help find a crucial Fierce Ghost in exchange for a future place in a Ghost World sanctuary, demanding the ghost she controlled as immediate payment instead. Queen turned hostile and sent her two Beauty Snakes to attack him, leaving Hu Jiu fighting back with his shadow and a blast of freezing wind.

• Queen offered to cooperate with Hu Jiu and claimed that his world was approaching destruction.
• Queen explained that she wanted Hu Jiu to help her find a Fierce Ghost needed to build a human sanctuary in the Ghost World.
• Hu Jiu rejected Queen’s promise of future shelter and demanded that she give him the ghost she controlled.
• Queen ordered the golden and green Beauty Snakes to attack Hu Jiu.
• The golden Beauty Snake struck Hu Jiu’s shadow with her Ruyi, while Hu Jiu sent freezing wind toward the green Beauty Snake.

Hu Jiu defeated and burned the beauty snake sisters, then left the haunted house focused on preparing for the world’s possible destruction. Meanwhile, Thousand Faces and Bai He questioned the captured amusement park creatures, and Bai He’s worsening headache brought him a glimpse of someone else’s life.

• Hu Jiu used his Hanging Rope and Ghost Fire to kill the golden and cyan beauty snakes.
• Hu Jiu left the haunted house, intent on pursuing his own power and preparing for the possible destruction of the world.
• Thousand Faces and Bai He questioned the captured orange-red cat-headed man and other creatures hanging from a tree.
• The captives claimed they did not know how they had arrived at the amusement park or why they were being controlled.
• Bai He’s headache eased, but he seemed to see another person’s life, prompting Thousand Faces to check on him.

Hu Jiu and Thousand Faces joined forces to confront the amusement park’s Queen as a spreading haze transformed its victims and strengthened their attacks. They attacked Queen while Xu Can struggled to survive against her and the short-haired girl, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Bai He, Thousand Faces, and Hu Jiu exchanged what they knew about the amusement park and its source, Queen.
• A haze swept across the park, hurting Bai He and transforming the short-haired girl into a relentless attacker.
• The short-haired girl summoned a lightning-clad beast and Queen from her cards, and they nearly defeated Xu Can.
• Hu Jiu identified Queen and struck her with an icicle while Thousand Faces followed up by sending his shed faces toward her.

Hu Jiu, Thousand Faces, and Xu Can fought Queen and her short-haired ally, while Hu Jiu secretly hoped the two powerful opponents would grievously injure each other. Queen escaped after a clash of supernatural attacks, leaving Hu Jiu without the chance to make her and Thousand Faces perish together.

• Hu Jiu unleashed supernatural frost that slowed Thousand Faces and Xu Can, then apologized when Xu Can questioned whose side he was on.
• Queen sent her electric beast to attack Hu Jiu, but Hu Jiu killed it easily, and Thousand Faces urged him to use his full strength.
• Hu Jiu realized Queen had not been using her own summoning ability and attacked her with sharp snowflakes while Thousand Faces formed a giant mask to assault her short-haired ally.
• Queen shattered her protective barrier, raised a purplish-black curtain against the blizzard, and sang a supernatural high note that destroyed the icicles and knocked Xu Can unconscious.
• Queen used the opening to flee, and Hu Jiu abandoned his hope of making her and Thousand Faces kill each other.