Chapter Summaries

After erasing dangerous abnormal memories, Hu Jiu investigated a deadly supernatural incident involving peach blossoms in Ruihe City. Zhao Tingting was infected after catching a petal, leaving Hu Jiu facing the spreading threat.

• Hu Jiu regained his caution after erasing abnormal memories and spent half a month searching for time-related Fierce Ghosts.
• Headquarters asked Hu Jiu to investigate a Ruihe City incident after two senior Ghost Tamers disappeared, but he initially refused.
• Xiao Mei sent Hu Jiu a message about leaving Headquarters, then replaced it with a formal notice that a new operator would be assigned.
• Hu Jiu arrived at a cordoned-off temple where peach blossoms grew from a Buddha statue and spread petals that lured people inside.
• Zhao Tingting caught a petal, and roots grew beneath her skin before she calmly cut off her infected arm.

Hu Jiu contained the Supernatural Peach Blossoms at the temple while secretly spreading talismans and neglecting to stop the phenomenon elsewhere. After the blossoms erupted across Ruihe City and neighboring cities, Headquarters ordered him to resolve the crisis, while No. 52 was summoned and saw a chance to fake his death and escape the Time Management Bureau.

• Zhao Tingting lost an arm after touching a peach blossom, regenerated it, and asked Hu Jiu how to handle the flowers.
• Hu Jiu bound the temple with rules to keep petals inside, then wandered the area while secretly planting black talismans instead of diligently clearing the blossoms.
• The Supernatural Peach Blossoms erupted across twenty-one densely populated areas in Ruihe City and spread to neighboring cities, killing the ordinary people caught in their influence.
• Hu Jiu returned to the temple, found Zhao Tingting still watching the contained blossoms, and received Fu Youhua's warning that the phenomenon might be linked to the Beauty Goddess in Korea.
• The Time Management Bureau summoned No. 52 and other senior Asian agents to Ruihe City to eliminate the calamity, and No. 52 resolved to use the mission to fake his death and escape the Bureau.

No. 52 and the other Executors arrived in Ruihe City with the Death-Announcing Bird Statue, but Supernatural Peach Blossoms ambushed their convoy. After No. 46 released the statue, it killed nearly everyone nearby and began reviving unusually quickly, while Hu Jiu suddenly collapsed in Ruihe City.

• Hu Jiu mapped the locations of Supernatural Peach Blossom outbreaks and received Headquarters' order to wait for reinforcements.
• No. 52 arrived at Ruihe City Airport with No. 44 and No. 46 and discovered that the Death-Announcing Bird Statue had been brought along.
• The Executors found the transport vehicle overturned and fought the peach blossoms, which repeatedly tracked them despite their attempts to escape.
• No. 46 opened the golden container, and the Death-Announcing Bird Statue caused the nearby peach blossoms to wither and killed everyone who failed to flee in time except No. 44.
• No. 52 escaped with the lower half of his body dead, while No. 44 hid in a golden bag and heard the statue beginning to crack and revive.
• A severed hand's eyeball stared at the Death-Announcing Bird Statue, and Hu Jiu closed his eyes and fell from the streetlight.

Hu Jiu survived his fall and encountered a flock of monstrous birds spreading death along the highway to Ruihe City. He avoided the birds and called Fu Youhua, who asked to hear the bad news first.

• Zhao Tingting reported that Hu Jiu seemed dead, but he suddenly rose and vanished.
• Hu Jiu approached a flock of dangerous, black, four-winged birds near Ruihe City and shut off his senses to avoid them.
• The birds multiplied as they flew, perched on corpses, and killed the occupants of a passing car.
• Hu Jiu avoided the flock and answered a call from Fu Youhua, who asked for the bad news.

Hu Jiu refused to help Headquarters contain the newly revived bird-shaped ghost and openly demanded authority, while Fu Youhua and No. 6 Proxy discussed the threats infiltrating Headquarters. The chapter left Headquarters still investigating its compromised staff and hoping Zhao Tingting, a Fake Person, might help them target Hu Jiu.

• Hu Jiu told Fu Youhua that the bird-shaped ghost had revived, then refused to help Headquarters and defended his demand for power.
• Fu Youhua confronted No. 6 Proxy, who had freed Headquarters' leaders from Hu Jiu's supernatural control by removing their wooden bead bracelets.
• No. 6 Proxy revealed that Zhao Tingting was a Fake Person that copied human behavior and killed anyone who recognized it as a ghost.
• Fu Youhua doubted Zhao Tingting could deceive Hu Jiu, but No. 6 Proxy proposed trying to use her as a way to target him.
• No. 6 Proxy asked whether Headquarters had found all the infiltrating transmigrators, and Fu Youhua said the investigation was ongoing.

No. 6 learned that Deathbird had gone out of control and changed the Administration’s battle plan. Meanwhile, Hu Jiu headed away from Ruihe City, captured the strange birds, and prepared to create chaos as he suspected the Time Management Bureau planned to eliminate him.

• No. 6 told Fu Youhua that things were getting out of hand, then contacted the Administration to adjust its battle plan.
• Hu Jiu sealed off his senses and used talismans and bronze-like branches to capture the three-eyed strange birds.
• Hu Jiu headed toward a city beside Ruihe City while Zhao Tingting followed at a steady distance.
• Hu Jiu recognized a peach blossom petal as a message from Beauty Goddess and learned the organization was called the Time Management Bureau.
• Hu Jiu decided to create chaos and drag others down with him, suspecting Beauty Goddess had trapped him into facing the strange bird statue.

Hu Jiu encountered a grave ghost whose portrait swallowed whatever it looked at, but his talismans barely damaged it. Rather than contain the ghost, he provoked it and sent it rampaging toward populated parts of the city.

• Hu Jiu noticed the strange birds changing direction and saw a grave rise beneath him, its portrait swallowing several of the birds.
• Hu Jiu threw heavy talismans at the grave, but their explosion only cracked its surface without weakening its aura.
• A plume of black smoke shot from the grave, and a rotting, potbellied corpse crawled out.
• Hu Jiu dodged the smoke and deliberately provoked the grave ghost to make it stronger.
• The grave went berserk and released more potbellied corpses, while Hu Jiu vanished and drifting peach blossoms drew them toward places where people had gathered.

No. 52 struggled with the Ghost Peach Blossoms’ seductive supernatural assault while worrying that No. 13 would prevent his escape from the organization. When the blossoms attacked, No. 13 effortlessly drew them into his black dagger.

• No. 52 sat with No. 13 in Ruihe City as the Ghost Peach Blossoms’ soul-stirring sounds disturbed him, while No. 13 calmly read a pirated novel.
• No. 52 considered his plan to fake his death and escape the organization, but doubted he could get away with No. 13 guarding the area.
• No. 13 noticed the attack beginning just before peach blossoms burst through the window toward him and No. 52.
• No. 52 summoned the Fierce Ghost inside him and retreated, while No. 13 stood still and raised a black dagger.
• The flying petals changed direction and shot into No. 13’s blade, leaving No. 52 dumbfounded.

No. 13 revealed that he knew No. 52 planned to escape and agreed to let him go so he could learn whether the Administration could punish a proxy who fled beyond the world. As peach branches attacked, No. 13 disappeared, leaving No. 52 to face the danger with a supernatural item.

• No. 13 warned No. 52 that the peach blossoms’ first wave had only been a probe.
• No. 13 admitted he knew about No. 52’s escape plan and offered to cover for him, hoping to see whether the Administration could punish him after he escaped beyond the world.
• No. 13 noticed someone observing them, and Hu Jiu appeared from the ceiling.
• Hu Jiu claimed the real threat was outside, just as peach branches surged through the window and No. 13 vanished.
• No. 52 took out a plastic lotus lantern and touched its switch, starting an eerie birthday song.

No. 13 revealed that he planned to fake his death and leave the Time Management Bureau, explaining that its looping of time was costing Executors their true names. No. 52 suspected the Bureau was nearing collapse as world-ending Fierce Ghosts appeared more often and grew stronger.

• No. 52 endured the birthday song from the lotus lamp as peach blossoms slowed their attack around him.
• Hu Jiu blocked the way out overhead, and No. 13 appeared amid the peach blossoms.
• No. 13 told Hu Jiu that he intended to fake his death and leave the Time Management Bureau, surprising No. 52.
• No. 13 explained that the Bureau controlled repeated time loops and that Executors gradually lost their true names as the loops continued.
• No. 13 said he did not know how to reclaim his name but believed the Bureau was close to losing control.
• No. 52 reflected that world-ending Fierce Ghosts were appearing more frequently and growing stronger, perhaps as the price of reversing time.

No. 13 and Hu Jiu discussed their loyalty to the Time Management Bureau before No. 13 unleashed his power against the peach blossoms. As No. 13 and No. 52 prepared to flee into the Ghost World, Hu Jiu recognized that the Bureau might not be able to pursue them there.

• Hu Jiu remarked that No. 13 showed little loyalty to the Administration, and No. 13 pointed out that Hu Jiu was no more loyal to Headquarters.
• No. 13 swept through the peach grove with supernatural power, destroying branches and reducing the house to ruins.
• Hu Jiu asked whether No. 13 could interfere with time, and No. 13 said it was only an extra ability he rarely used.
• No. 13 explained that the Time Management Bureau's five lowest-numbered Executors pursued their own interests and that their resets seemed to be slipping out of control.
• No. 13 urged No. 52 to finish preparing before other Executors arrived; No. 52 changed his appearance using a corpse, while No. 13 split off an identical copy of himself.
• No. 13 asked Hu Jiu to keep their secret, and Hu Jiu replied that they would already have escaped into the Ghost World, beyond the Bureau's reach.

Hu Jiu followed No. 13 and No. 52 into the Ghost World and questioned No. 13 about the Time Management Bureau's rollbacks. No. 13 revealed that a powerful entity called “God” had destabilized repeated rollbacks, and Hu Jiu prepared to ask for one more favor.

• No. 13 and No. 52 faked their deaths and escaped with Hu Jiu, leaving Executors to find their bodies without their time ghosts.
• Hu Jiu followed No. 13 and No. 52 to the Ghost World and asked No. 13 about the Administration's rollbacks.
• No. 13 explained that Executors No. 1 through No. 5 held the rollback core and had withdrawn from public view after a major event during the 123rd rollback.
• No. 13 revealed that a World-Ending Level Fierce Ghost codenamed “God” had fought the Administration and scattered fragments with Omniscience or Omnipotence, magnifying variables and accelerating rollbacks.
• Hu Jiu suspected that he himself was one of the variables, while No. 52 watched No. 13 reveal the Administration's secrets; Hu Jiu then asked No. 13 for one last favor.

Executor No. 37 secretly guided Hu Jiu through the Sky Pavilion and revealed information about the Executors. Hu Jiu summoned the Ghost Peach Blossom’s true body, which attacked the Pavilion and began killing its defenders.

• Hu Jiu forced Executor No. 37 to guide him through the Sky Pavilion and disclose its layout and the Executors’ abilities and weaknesses.
• No. 37 revealed that No. 6 had gone to Headquarters, and Hu Jiu sent a Talisman through the barriers of space.
• The Ghost Peach Blossom’s true body descended onto the Sky Pavilion, destroying buildings and killing two Executors on impact.
• The tree monster seized an Executor, exploited his weakness, and drained him after removing the Fierce Ghosts he controlled.
• Peach trees spread across the clouds as petals filled the air and the attack on the Sky Pavilion continued.

Hu Jiu and No. 37 faced the Ghost Peach Blossom’s peach-tree avatars in the ruined Sky Loft while the Executors fought to survive. When No. 6 Proxy arrived and attacked with his time-manipulating ability, the Ghost Peach Blossom prepared to confront him.

• Hu Jiu shielded himself from the Ghost Peach Blossom’s petals and realized No. 37 had recovered from his daze.
• Hu Jiu ordered No. 37 to attack the two peach trees, and No. 37 struck them before fleeing from a cloud of blossoms.
• Hu Jiu questioned the peach-tree avatar about the Time Management Bureau, and it admitted it had failed to tame the stolen Time-Type Fierce Ghosts.
• The peach-tree avatar sensed a powerful arrival and disappeared as No. 6 Proxy descended into the Sky Loft.
• The Ghost Peach Blossom knocked No. 6 Proxy from the air, but he returned unharmed and summoned an illusory clock around himself and the surviving Executors.

No. 6 trapped Ghost Peach Blossom in a folded space-time scroll, but a beam of pink light escaped, and he learned that the Beauty Goddess’s true body remained unharmed. He then saw the enormous, grotesque Beauty Goddess watching the Sky Loft.

• No. 6 lured Ghost Peach Blossom into a purple clock and used Time-Space Unity to flatten him into a two-dimensional scroll.
• No. 6 folded the scroll repeatedly, but Ghost Peach Blossom escaped as a beam of pink light.
• No. 6 told the other Executors that Ghost Peach Blossom had escaped and suspected a mole had revealed the Sky Loft’s location.
• No. 6 ordered the Executors to remove the remaining peach roots, flowers, and branches from the Sky Loft.
• No. 6 saw the upside-down Beauty Goddess looming in the sky, and its allure shattered his cognitive barriers.

Fu Youhua learned from the injured No. 6 about the Beauty Goddess as the pink sky and supernatural disasters worsened. No. 6 went to investigate Ruihe City with Feng Qinfang, discovered the city was sealed and overrun with deadly incidents, and summoned the No. 5 Proxy for help before setting out to deal with ghosts.

• No. 6 returned to Headquarters injured and told Fu Youhua that the Beauty Goddess was a powerful ghost who could warp perception and had absorbed ghosts associated with beauty and enchantment.
• No. 6 accepted Feng Qinfang as his companion and set off for Ruihe City, forcing his way through a blockade of peach blossoms.
• No. 6 realized his thoughts had been tampered with and tried to leave Ruihe City, but discovered metallic roots beneath the ground and an impenetrable barrier sealing the city.
• No. 6 and Feng Qinfang found Ruihe City nearly deserted, while the Special Operations Department's injured leader explained that A-class supernatural incidents had erupted and the city had lost contact with the outside.
• No. 6 used a rotten conch to summon the No. 5 Proxy, Heaven's Retribution, and asked for help.
• After meeting Heaven's Retribution, No. 6 dealt with several ghosts roaming Ruihe City while the moon's strange light caused him to forget what he had been thinking.

No. 6 discovered that Hu Jiu had secretly tampered with his mind, while [Heaven's Retribution] and [Holy Light] found themselves trapped inside Ruihe City. As Beauty Goddess descended and [Heaven's Retribution] attacked, a strange mist rose from underground, leaving the Executives facing another hidden threat.

• [Heaven's Retribution] struck No. 6 with lightning, breaking the influence on his thoughts and prompting him to purge two foreign supernatural forces from his body.
• [Holy Light] arrived in Ruihe City and repelled Hu Jiu's Ghost Hand, while [Heaven's Retribution] explained that the underground Ghost Domains formed a maze and [Holy Light] revealed the city was sealed against escape.
• No. 2 warned Heavenly Dao that Rollback's side effects could hasten destruction, but Heavenly Dao insisted the Time Management Bureau would win using its ability to turn back time across the world.
• Beauty Goddess descended over Ruihe City, distorting the senses and thoughts of people across several cities as an enormous upside-down peach tree appeared in the sky.
• [Heaven's Retribution] charged at Beauty Goddess, but the lightning abruptly stopped as an illusory mist rose from underground and spread across Ruihe City.

Hu Jiu and Beauty Goddess fought the Time Management Bureau while secretly coveting its power and resources. Beauty Goddess used Hu Jiu’s Feather Pen to defeat [Heaven's Retribution] and devour him, while Hu Jiu took the stolen Hourglass and tested its time-manipulating ability.

• The mist transformed Ruihe City and its inhabitants into ghosts, while [Holy Light] protected the Special Operations Department building and confronted Hu Jiu.
• [Holy Light] fought Hu Jiu as [Heaven's Retribution] battled Beauty Goddess, and Hu Jiu secretly offered Beauty Goddess his Feather Pen.
• Beauty Goddess accepted the Feather Pen and used it to overpower [Heaven's Retribution], while a bloodstained white cloth seized the Hourglass named "Entropy."
• Beauty Goddess pierced and devoured [Heaven's Retribution] as [Holy Light] continued fighting Hu Jiu.
• Hu Jiu revealed that he had obtained the Hourglass and found that it let him observe and move through time without directly changing events.

Hu Jiu defeated [Holy Light] and absorbed her Fierce Ghosts, while Beauty Goddess faced three Time Management Bureau executives after consuming [Heaven's Retribution]. No. 2 suspected that powerful Ghost Tamers might be behind the coming world-ending disaster, and Hu Jiu noticed that the Bureau's leaders seemed to be acting irrationally.

• Hu Jiu used the hourglass to evade [Holy Light], then trapped her in a Magic Mirror cage and turned her purification beams back against her.
• [Holy Light] stopped time, but Hu Jiu stalled until she released the time stop, then stabbed her true body and defeated her.
• Hu Jiu absorbed [Holy Light]'s Fierce Ghosts, gained a major increase in strength, and left the unstable Beauty Goddess behind in Ruihe City.
• Beauty Goddess, who had eaten [Heaven's Retribution], was surrounded by Nos. 1, 2, and 4, while Hu Jiu concealed his whereabouts and did not come to help.
• No. 2 suggested that exceptionally powerful Ghost Tamers might be responsible for the coming calamity, but No. 1 ordered him to attack Beauty Goddess alone and No. 4 accepted the decision.
• Hu Jiu watched from underground and wondered whether someone hidden in the shadows was clouding the Time Management Bureau leaders' minds.

The Beauty Goddess overwhelmed Nos. 2 and 4 while an unseen force repeatedly muddled the Executors’ thoughts, leaving No. 1 to fight alone. After No. 1’s strange weapons nearly destroyed the Beauty Goddess, No. 1 regained control of the fight—only for the Beauty Goddess to turn the tables and pierce him with bronze branches.

• Hu Jiu watched as Nos. 2 and 4 attacked the Beauty Goddess clumsily, then were bound and swallowed by the upside-down peach tree.
• No. 1 suspected that 0’s power or an outside powerhouse was disrupting the Executors’ minds, but the influence returned and muddled his thoughts again.
• The Beauty Goddess fought No. 1, who summoned a black inverted cross and three nails that pinned the Beauty Goddess’s humanoid form and threatened to make him fall apart.
• The Beauty Goddess unleashed a crimson supernatural attack, and No. 1 took the blow before recovering his senses and trying to control him.
• No. 1 touched the peach tree, turning it to bronze, but the Beauty Goddess emerged from its trunk and impaled No. 1 with sharp branches.