Chapter Summaries

Hu Jiu defeated the queen at Fantasy Park, but suspected she was only an impostor and warned Headquarters that she might transfer her consciousness. After the incident was mostly resolved, he returned home and wondered whether the queen’s claim that the world would be destroyed was true.

• Hu Jiu trapped the queen in layers of mirror space and beat her until she could no longer resist, but Thousand Faces persuaded him to spare her for interrogation and possible use in lifting the victims’ curses.
• Thousand Faces sealed the queen in a Golden Corpse Bag while Hu Jiu and Bai He rescued the civilians and injured Ghost Tamers; Bai He used a Longevity Potion to stabilize one who was close to revival.
• Headquarters arrested the Furong City person in charge on suspicion of colluding with the queen, isolated the rescued tourists, and took the queen away for questioning.
• Hu Jiu warned Fu Youhua that the queen might transfer her consciousness into another body, and later concluded that the defeated queen was probably an impostor because she had been too easy to defeat.
• After dining with Thousand Faces and returning home, Hu Jiu found that a middle-aged couple had visited, then asked Kaiyang for access to the transmigrator in Big Dipper’s containment room and was refused.
• Hu Jiu remained unsure how to investigate the queen’s claim that the world would be destroyed.

Hu Jiu was assigned to investigate Green Fir Private Hospital, where a supernatural incident had trapped two Ghost Tamers and claimed several lives. As he reviewed the case files, unusual records revealed a mysterious, corpse-like patient admitted to the hospital.

• Headquarters sent Hu Jiu to investigate Green Fir Private Hospital and rescue the trapped Ghost Tamer Kang Yu.
• Hu Jiu read workers' accounts describing equipment failures, ghostly figures, fatal accidents, and rapidly rotting bodies at the hospital construction site.
• Hu Jiu reviewed the hospital's records and learned that staff had secretly recorded an unidentified, badly injured patient who moved and looked like a corpse.
• The medical notes said the patient had connections, and the department head had ordered staff not to interfere.

Hu Jiu investigated records of strange deaths and disappearances at Green Fir Private Hospital, then entered the hospital’s mirror-space to search for clues. He found a diary hidden beneath the nurses’ station desk.

• Hu Jiu read nurse records linking a deceased major shareholder and the disappearance of Xiao Zhou to the vacant ward at the end of the fourth-floor corridor.
• Hu Jiu marked the ward as a priority and traveled to Green Fir Private Hospital after Headquarters alerted the local authorities.
• Hu Jiu entered the abandoned hospital and found an elevator whose clean, mirror-lined interior contrasted with the ruined building.
• Hu Jiu used the Magic Mirror to enter the elevator’s Mirror Space, where the hospital appeared clean but dim and deserted.
• Hu Jiu searched the nurses’ station and spotted a diary in the darkness beneath the desk.

Hu Jiu read a nurse’s diary describing a mysterious room at the end of Green Fir Private Hospital’s fourth-floor corridor, then headed toward it through the dark hospital. He left off on the fourth floor as a fast-moving Ghost Slave emerged from the elevator.

• Hu Jiu read the diary and learned that a storage room at the end of the fourth-floor corridor sometimes became a ward, where the nurse had encountered someone and later suffered a frightening transformation.
• Hu Jiu suspected that someone had arranged the clues to draw him toward the strange room and walked through the dark hospital toward the stairs.
• Hu Jiu encountered and easily defeated several Ghost Slaves, including a nurse with a scalpel, a hammer-wielding figure, and a worker.
• As Hu Jiu reached the fourth floor, the elevator arrived and opened to reveal a dead middle-aged man in a suit who moved faster than the other Ghost Slaves.

Hu Jiu explored Green Fir Private Hospital’s fourth floor and found a diary describing a dead investor whose healing ability brought strange disasters to the hospital. He reached a hidden room and discovered a rotting figure trapped in a tank, which reacted to his presence.

• Hu Jiu froze another Ghost Slave inside the elevator, then searched the spotless, empty fourth floor.
• Hu Jiu found a note beneath a hospital bed describing an investor who could heal the sick but became corpse-like before dying and vanishing from his coffin.
• Hu Jiu inferred that the investor was likely a Ghost Tamer whose healing power had caused harm to people who visited his room.
• Hu Jiu followed the ajar door to a hidden room containing unfamiliar medical equipment and a tank of murky liquid.
• A decayed face struck the tank’s inner wall and stared at Hu Jiu as its mouth moved and a sound emerged.

Hu Jiu used Nightmare to uncover the Ghost Doctor’s history and learned that Green Fir Private Hospital was his body, but the Ghost Doctor’s consciousness vanished before revealing who had transformed him. The hospital’s vicious ghost awakened and the building collapsed, while a brown-jacketed man who appeared to have caused the destruction was suddenly caught by a rope.

• Hu Jiu slapped the Ghost Doctor and used Nightmare to learn how his healing powers harmed patients and how he founded Green Fir Private Hospital to survive.
• Hu Jiu forced the Ghost Doctor to reveal that someone had changed him from the Ghost Doctor into the Ghost Hospital, but the Ghost Doctor vanished before naming the person.
• The vicious ghost awakened after the Ghost Doctor’s consciousness disappeared, and Hu Jiu searched the overlapping hospital with the Frost Ghost Domain but found no one, including Kang Yu.
• Green Fir Private Hospital collapsed and disintegrated under a violent supernatural force.
• A brown-jacketed man watched the ruins and lit a cigarette, but a rope dropped from the sky and hoisted him by the neck.

A Headquarters investigator learned that a new time-related Fierce Ghost was hunting him and accepted a dark figure’s offer to escape in exchange for killing someone. Meanwhile, Hu Jiu exposed Kang Yu’s plot and forced him to confess, but Kang Yu still believed Headquarters would protect him because of his rare Fierce Ghost.

• Headquarters staff investigated the supermarket incident after a Fierce Ghost killed every survivor who tried to escape and then vanished.
• Two Ghost Tamers found no trace of the Fierce Ghost, while a Headquarters man learned that it targeted anyone who had traveled through time.
• A dark figure offered the man a way to evade the ghost in exchange for finding and killing someone, and he accepted.
• Hu Jiu confronted Kang Yu and revealed that Kang Yu had staged the Green Fir Private Hospital trap to murder him.
• Hu Jiu forced Kang Yu to confess, then dropped him to the ground; Kang Yu apologized but privately trusted Headquarters to protect him because of his rare Fierce Ghost.

Kang Yu used his time-interfering ghost to attack Yuan Hongfei, but Hu Jiu’s intervention saved Yuan Hongfei and led to Kang Yu’s arrest. At Headquarters, Kang Yu began explaining time travel and the ghost that hunts those who use it.

• Kang Yu sent a Fierce Ghost after Yuan Hongfei, whose body was drained while time stood still around him.
• Bluish-black branches emerged from the ground and used a Golden Corpse Bag to shield Yuan Hongfei, while the Fierce Ghost disappeared; Yuan Hongfei collapsed after the danger passed.
• Headquarters arrested Kang Yu and questioned him, while Hu Jiu and Fu Youhua learned he was behind the attacks on Yuan Hongfei and the supermarket survivor.
• Kang Yu explained that his ghost could send him back at most ten minutes and that a ghost encountered during time travel would pursue its observer until death.
• Hu Jiu asked Kang Yu to explain his ability and the time-traveling ghost, and Kang Yu began describing the many Fierce Ghosts connected to time.

Kang Yu explained the dangers of time travel and revealed that a mysterious person had taught him how to divert the Fierce Ghost hunting time travelers. Hu Jiu left Kang Yu alive but cursed, then investigated the dead survivors at the sealed supermarket before returning home to prepare for the threat against him.

• Kang Yu warned Hu Jiu and Fu Youhua that time travel could erase memories and attract a Fierce Ghost that hunted travelers, and said its true body could not be found.
• Kang Yu revealed that a dark-cloaked person had taught him to make the ghost mistake Yuan Hongfei for him and had ordered him to hunt Hu Jiu.
• Fu Youhua asked whether Hu Jiu could help Kang Yu defeat the ghost, but Kang Yu said its time-based killing mechanisms could not be overcome with strength.
• Hu Jiu left ten delayed death curses on Kang Yu and departed Headquarters, judging that a time-traveling Ghost Tamer could be valuable to Headquarters.
• Hu Jiu visited the sealed supermarket, found its survivors dead, and wondered whether they had traveled through time before returning home to prepare for the mysterious person's attack.
• Hu Jiu dealt with the [Ghost Doctor] from Green Fir Private Hospital and summoned a Magic Mirror.

Hu Jiu investigated a disguised murderer whose crimes involved a supernatural item, then encountered a black-robed figure who appeared to control time and space. The figure revealed a connection to Kang Yu and confronted Hu Jiu, leaving him facing an apparent time stop.

• Hu Jiu learned that Kang Yu was suffering repeated attacks and suspected that Fu Youhua was warning him against taking revenge.
• Hu Jiu realized Headquarters had discovered his wooden bead bracelets, which gradually turned their wearers into his devotees.
• Hu Jiu and Qian Ying caught a woman who had murdered her family and others while disguising the killings as ghost attacks; Hu Jiu recognized a supernatural item from his own collection.
• Outside the police station, Hu Jiu saw a black-robed figure that passersby could not see and teleported home to avoid following it.
• The figure returned Hu Jiu to the police station and said Kang Yu should have told him about it; Hu Jiu attacked, but the figure warped time and space until everything froze.

Hu Jiu’s decoy was destroyed by a mysterious man who wielded a time-related fierce ghost, leaving Hu Jiu to warn the Beidou Organization and prepare for the threat. The black-robed man was confronted by Kaiyang and other powerful auras in Linjiang City.

• The black-robed man used stopped time to shatter Hu Jiu’s copy, then left Linjiang City believing Hu Jiu might still be there.
• Hu Jiu realized his copy had been killed and concluded the unknown enemy was powerful enough to be a serious threat.
• Hu Jiu sent the Beidou Organization a warning that exaggerated the enemy’s time-related abilities to draw the organization’s attention.
• The black-robed man found traces of Hu Jiu’s aura on isolated fierce ghosts and questioned whether Hu Jiu cared about Linjiang City.
• Several powerful figures surrounded the black-robed man, and Kaiyang stepped forward to demand his identity.

Hu Jiu learned that the mysterious man in black, who called himself the Executor, knew about his memories from a previous playthrough and demanded the Divine Tree. After Hu Jiu refused and the Executor was injured by an exploding supernatural message, Hu Jiu reported him to Headquarters while Kaiyang recovered from their failed fight.

• Hu Jiu contacted Kaiyang about the mysterious man in black, but the Executor used the supernatural paper to reveal that he knew Hu Jiu retained memories from a previous playthrough.
• The Executor offered to stop pursuing Hu Jiu if he handed over the Divine Tree, but Hu Jiu refused and taunted him.
• The supernatural paper exploded in the Executor's face, embedding cursed scraps in his skin and worsening his injuries from fighting Kaiyang and the others.
• Hu Jiu inspected the ruined battle site, scattered the supernatural residue elsewhere, and told Headquarters about the Executor.
• Kaiyang, injured and surrounded by flickering Buddha's light, wondered where the powerful monster had come from.

Kang Yu retrieved a strange black bead from a corpse behind a hidden door, but the corpse awakened and forced him to flee toward Linjiang City. Meanwhile, Hu Jiu met the battered Beidou Organization Ghost Tamers, and Kaiyang sensed something wrong outside.

• Kang Yu opened a hidden passage and used the Agent's single-use silver key to enter a sealed chamber containing a Republican-era corpse and a black bead.
• Kang Yu took the bead with gold-mixed gloves, but the corpse opened its eyes, so he fled with the bead toward Linjiang City.
• Hu Jiu arrived at the unfinished building where Kaiyang and the other Beidou Organization Ghost Tamers had gathered after their failed attack on an Agent.
• Hu Jiu denied asking Big Dipper for help, while Kaiyang worried that the unknown powerhouse might have allies.
• Kaiyang stopped the argument and warned that something was wrong outside as visibility dropped.

Hu Jiu located Kang Yu carrying a black pearl that Kaiyang identified as the Fear Pearl, a dangerous object linked to the Suspicious Ghost. They hurried outside the city to contain it before its influence awakened more ghosts or attracted the real Suspicious Ghost.

• A supernatural fog spread across Linjiang City, and Kaiyang urged Hu Jiu to find its source.
• Hu Jiu searched the city with his supernatural power and found Kang Yu clutching a black pearl surrounded by fog.
• Hu Jiu moved Kang Yu and the pearl to the wilderness outside the city to keep the danger away from the city.
• Kaiyang identified the pearl as the Fear Pearl and explained how it distorted perception, spread abnormality, and stirred other ghosts.
• Kaiyang revealed that the Fear Pearl had once been used by a leader who fled after Big Dipper destroyed his organization, and the group rushed to contain it.

Kang Yu struggled with the Fear Pearl’s curse and the Time Fierce Ghost pursuing him while Hu Jiu and Kaiyang’s group entered a supernatural fog to find him. As the fog separated the Ghost Tamers and their abilities, one of Kaiyang’s companions used threads to locate a target within it.

• Kang Yu realized the Fear Pearl brought him misfortune, but it returned after he tried to throw it away.
• Hu Jiu told Kaiyang and the others that Kang Yu controlled a Time Fierce Ghost and could redirect another ghost’s attacks.
• Kaiyang led the Ghost Tamers into thick fog outside the city, where they discovered it corroded and compressed their Ghost Domains.
• Hu Jiu withdrew his Ghost Domain and defeated a fog-formed Ghost Slave, while the fog separated him from the others.
• Kang Yu faced increasingly frequent attacks from the Time Fierce Ghost as the fog made it harder to find him.
• A young Ghost Tamer brought by Kaiyang used his threads to perceive through the fog and lock onto a target.

Kang Yu escaped the Big Dipper Ghost Tamers by following a mysterious path through the fog, where a powerful figure in black declared he had passed an assessment. Hu Jiu let Kang Yu leave with the stranger and secretly followed them, keeping him alive as bait to investigate the Executors.

• Kang Yu used the Fierce Ghost's power to escape the Ghost Tamer's threads, then followed a foggy path while an unseen mist influenced his thoughts.
• Kaiyang and the other Big Dipper Ghost Tamers followed Kang Yu but could not enter the path, which led him to a mysterious figure in black.
• The figure told Kang Yu he had passed an assessment, then appeared to erase the pursuing Fierce Ghost when it attacked.
• Kang Yu submitted to the figure, and the two escaped through a pitch-black passage while Kaiyang and the others watched.
• Hu Jiu sealed the area, dismissed Headquarters' inquiry, and later used his Multiple Mirror Ghost Domain to spy on Kang Yu and the figure.
• Hu Jiu kept his supernatural power attached to Kang Yu and planned to use him as bait to uncover information about the Executors.

Kang Yu followed Executor No. 37 to the Time Management Bureau’s Sky Pavilion, where he learned that taming a time-related Fierce Ghost qualified him for recruitment. No. 37 explained the Hound’s rules and gave Kang Yu a Substitute Doll, then revealed that the future had already been destroyed and they were living in the past.

• Kang Yu rode a Ghost Cloud with No. 37 to the Sky Pavilion, an ancient complex floating above the clouds.
• No. 37 identified himself as Executor No. 37 of the Time Management Bureau and explained that Kang Yu’s taming of a time-related Fierce Ghost qualified him for assessment and recruitment.
• Kang Yu confronted No. 37 over his family’s deaths during the assessment, and No. 37 said such losses would become meaningless once Kang Yu learned the truth about the world.
• Kang Yu asked whether the Bureau could stop the Hound, and No. 37 explained that it could not be permanently destroyed because it was part of a fundamental rule.
• No. 37 gave Kang Yu a Substitute Doll, which could take the Hound’s attack and count as Kang Yu’s death once it was destroyed.
• No. 37 told Kang Yu, “The future has already been destroyed. We’re all living in the past!”

Kang Yu learned that the Time Management Bureau repeatedly rolled back time to avert the world's destruction, but each rollback created new world-ending Fierce Ghosts and worsened the cycle. No. 37 explained that the Bureau sought Kang Yu because unpredictable factors could resist Rollback, then described how it tried to contain the disasters.

• No. 37 led Kang Yu through the Sky Pavilion's entrance, which cleared the whispers influencing his thoughts.
• No. 37 gave Kang Yu a book documenting world-ending Fierce Ghosts born across successive Rollbacks.
• Kang Yu read about increasingly dangerous disasters, including the conceptual entity Knowledge Pursues People, and asked No. 37 what the records meant.
• No. 37 explained that Rollback sent the world into the past to prevent future destruction, but residual information and other supernatural forces could resist it.
• No. 37 revealed that repeated Rollbacks caused new world-ending Fierce Ghosts and drew the attention of outsiders, trapping the Bureau in a vicious cycle.
• No. 37 said the Bureau tested solutions across timelines and sometimes rolled back even farther when no other approach worked.

No. 37 explained the Administration’s history with God, the dangers posed by Rollbacks and outsiders, and Kang Yu’s new role as Executor No. 53. After registering Kang Yu and warning him to avoid returning home, No. 37 left him facing a chilling whisper in his mind.

• No. 37 told Kang Yu that God had nearly destroyed the Time Management Bureau, but the Administration had contained only part of it after God broke itself apart.
• No. 37 explained that the world also faced threats from the Ghost World, the Otherworld, and a secret group seeking to restore God.
• No. 37 identified Kang Yu as Executor No. 53 and gave him a defensive black cloak before taking him to register.
• No. 37 said Rollback was controlled by the top five Executors and warned Kang Yu that Headquarters was dangerous, advising him to build his strength before going home.
• After completing the registration process, Kang Yu and No. 37 left the Sky Pavilion, and a chill passed through Kang Yu as a whisper entered his mind.

No. 37 trapped Hu Jiu after he used his supernatural power to torment Kang Yu, leaving Hu Jiu’s consciousness to experience memories of many alternate lives. Hu Jiu found himself questioning what had happened as those memories reshaped his sense of self.

• Hu Jiu tortured Kang Yu for information, but Kang Yu could not reveal anything about the Administration.
• No. 37 admitted that he had noticed Hu Jiu’s presence and had used it to trace the spy back to its source.
• Hu Jiu lost contact with Kang Yu and awoke as a swaddled infant in an unfamiliar life.
• Hu Jiu grew up, encountered ghosts, became a Ghost Tamer, and served at Headquarters for three years.
• After dying during a supernatural incident, Hu Jiu awoke in a silver space and was killed by a younger version of himself in a black trench coat.
• Hu Jiu found memories of many alternate versions of his life in his consciousness and wondered how they had appeared.