Chapter Summaries

Hu Jiu freed the Beauty Goddess from the cross, then revealed that he had contaminated and claimed him, leaving with the transformed Bronze Tree and the Administration’s upper echelon. The Beauty Goddess’s death triggered worldwide chaos as his followers launched a chain of nuclear strikes, and mushroom clouds began to destroy human civilization.

• Hu Jiu used a bronze branch to capture No. 1, then turned to the Beauty Goddess, who begged him to remove the three nails pinning him to the cross.
• Hu Jiu stabilized the Beauty Goddess and pulled out the nails, causing the Fierce Ghosts in Ruihe City to go berserk as the Beauty Goddess broke free.
• The Beauty Goddess attacked Hu Jiu, but his power neutralized her supernatural abilities; Hu Jiu explained that his borrowed quill had contaminated and marked her.
• The Beauty Goddess transformed into a Bronze Tree under Hu Jiu’s control, and Hu Jiu took the tree, cross, and nails before leaving Ruihe City.
• The Beauty Goddess’s death triggered his beguiled followers and caused a nuclear launch from America; countries worldwide retaliated with indiscriminate nuclear strikes.
• Mushroom clouds spread across the world, while radiation, heat, and blast waves devastated human civilization.

Hu Jiu mastered the Executors’ supernatural abilities, emerged into the nuclear-ravaged world, and found survivors sheltering in a Ghost Domain at Headquarters. He reunited with Xiao Mei and confronted Fu Youhua, who accused him of having a hand in the nuclear blasts.

• Hu Jiu spent more than three months mastering the Executors’ abilities, but contained four time-type Fierce Ghosts in Golden Containers because he could not digest them.
• Hu Jiu left his Ghost Domain and surveyed the devastation, then found a father tending to his gravely injured son among the ruins.
• Hu Jiu entered the Ghost Domain over the ruined Capital and reunited with Xiao Mei, who explained that Headquarters’ Ghost Tamers had rescued survivors but were struggling to sustain the shelter.
• Xiao Mei told Hu Jiu that a mysterious black-robed figure and Minister Fu Youhua had questioned her about him before she was isolated.
• Fu Youhua confronted Hu Jiu over his cheerful reaction to humanity’s destruction, and Hu Jiu said he had never considered people human and denied causing the nuclear blasts.

Hu Jiu gave Fu Youhua a wish-granting Seven-Colored Flower, then sought out a hidden underground shelter and subjected survivors around the world to his Supernatural Game. A mysterious green arrow led him to a sealed brain in a vat whose leaking dream power briefly ensnared him.

• Hu Jiu confronted Fu Youhua about the Ghost Domain shelter and handed him the Seven-Colored Flower, warning that its wishes could be distorted.
• Fu Youhua revealed the location of an underground shelter holding Capital officials and elites, and a seven-colored flower bud began growing behind him after Hu Jiu left.
• Hu Jiu entered the underground shelter, found its healthy residents and Supernatural Items, and sent survivors into supernatural scenarios across the world.
• Hu Jiu waited for the mysterious person behind the Time Management Bureau Executors, keeping destructive traps prepared in case he could not draw them out.
• A fluorescent green arrow guided Hu Jiu through distorted space to a chamber containing a brain sealed in a glass vat.
• The brain communicated with Hu Jiu, and its leaking dream fragments briefly pulled him into a series of wish-fulfillment fantasies.

Hu Jiu met the unstable Brain in a Vat, who claimed to be a Ghost Tamer trapped in a Supernatural Item, but left without learning its full story. He then discovered that Fu Youhua and the survivors had used the Seven-Colored Flower to restore the Capital, which now seemed like the beginning of a new world.

• Hu Jiu spoke with the Brain in a Vat, who said the Time Management Bureau had used his power to restart time and trap him in dreams.
• Hu Jiu refused to free the Brain in a Vat before it explained its past, then left, prompting the brain to fight the chains and resist falling asleep.
• Hu Jiu added rewards to the Supernatural Game and headed for the Capital.
• Fu Youhua found Hu Jiu speaking to him from a mirror and explained how survivors used successive wishes on the Seven-Colored Flower to send harmful side effects into the ruins beyond the Capital.
• Hu Jiu learned that a Ghost Domain now enclosed the restored Capital and imagined it as the embryo of a new world.

Hu Jiu visited the Capital, then met the Brain in a Vat, who explained that his Rollbacks were consuming the world and accelerating its destruction. The Brain in a Vat’s account ended as he revealed the world’s instability was worsening with every reset.

• Fu Youhua described how the Capital relied on the Seven-Colored Flower and asked Hu Jiu for help, but Hu Jiu refused and left.
• Hu Jiu wandered the Ghost World collecting Fierce Ghosts while the Brain in a Vat repeatedly tried to reach him.
• The Brain in a Vat used a Rollback that reset the world by fifteen hours, then asked Hu Jiu to take him along; Hu Jiu declined.
• The Brain in a Vat explained that his time-reset ability had a shrinking range and that Rollbacks caused unexplained deviations, including missing people and new ghosts.
• The Brain in a Vat said the world was a broken system, and each Rollback consumed it and hastened its collapse.

Hu Jiu learned from the Brain in a Vat that Fierce Ghosts were supernatural bugs linked to an apocalypse spreading across many worlds, and that time rollback accelerated the collapse. After deciding to take the brain for its memories, Hu Jiu freed it from its palace but discovered that its remaining chains and container came from another world and could not be broken with his powers.

• The Brain in a Vat explained that time rollbacks worsened the world's materialist breakdown and produced more Fierce Ghosts, then described how a traitorous ally and his own intelligence-lowering ability led to his defeat.
• The Brain in a Vat revealed that Fierce Ghosts were manifestations of an apocalypse affecting many worlds, caused by an unknown external force, and that unstable time made the disaster's starting point impossible to determine.
• Hu Jiu concluded that the Brain in a Vat's knowledge of the Ghost World made it worth taking, then decided to swallow it and obtain its memories.
• Hu Jiu returned to the palace, smashed it apart, and found the Brain in a Vat floating freely with chains still attached.
• Hu Jiu tried to break the chains but failed, and the Brain in a Vat explained that the chains, container, and liquid came from another world and used a different supernatural system.

Hu Jiu and the Brain in a Vat debated whether a World Consciousness or Doomsday Consciousness had secretly shaped their fortunes and misfortunes. Hu Jiu urged him not to fret over unseen forces, leaving the Brain in a Vat laughing and with a new respect for him.

• The Brain in a Vat said he had collected the Otherworld objects that were used to seal him and suspected an unseen will had caused his downfall.
• Hu Jiu dismissed the Brain in a Vat's theory that a World Consciousness was interfering and told him to prepare to leave before the world ended.
• The Brain in a Vat argued that supernatural Ghost Tamers such as Hu Jiu had grown extraordinarily powerful because another will was fostering destroyers while the weakened world's will tried to stop them.
• Hu Jiu said he accepted his good fortune and argued that worrying about vague forces would only create needless turmoil.
• The Brain in a Vat laughed and admitted that he had misjudged Hu Jiu as merely cold and vicious.

Hu Jiu and Brain in a Vat erased their traces, gathered supplies, and accelerated the destruction of their world until it collapsed into the Ghost World. They explored the aftermath and debated whether the Ghost World might be the true reality.

• Hu Jiu retrieved his Supernatural Items and removed the supernatural powers and curses he had spread, while Brain in a Vat collected internet data and demanded that creators be brought along to keep producing stories.
• Brain in a Vat repeatedly rolled back time to hasten the world's destruction, and humanity's civilization ended as reality's rules broke down and the real world overlapped with the Ghost World.
• Hu Jiu thrilled at the world's collapse as the land, hidden Ghost Domains, and a city carried by a Seven-Colored Flower vanished into an unknown place.
• In the Ghost World, Hu Jiu and Brain in a Vat discussed a little girl who had survived her world's destruction among potatoes and cabbages, while Hu Jiu refused to help her.
• Brain in a Vat wondered whether the Ghost World was the true reality, citing a manga in which humans turned out to be invaders of the Demon Realm.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong were swept into a large Ghost Domain where sunlight replaced the Red Moon, and they found themselves in a silent primeval forest. After Hu Jiu’s supernatural power disturbed the forest’s apparent graveyard for Fierce Ghosts, they prepared to face whoever had created it.

• Hu Jiu offered to make Du Zhong a body, but Du Zhong rejected his creations and chose a pink starfish form instead.
• Du Zhong sensed danger ahead as bright light spread through the Ghost World, and Hu Jiu realized they had been swept into a large Ghost Domain.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong found themselves in a silent primeval forest beyond the Red Moon’s light, unable to reach the boundary between it and the red sky.
• Hu Jiu unleashed his supernatural power across the forest, transforming the trees and bringing rotting corpses out from beneath their roots.
• Du Zhong identified the corpses as Fierce Ghosts suppressed by the burial clothes, forest, land, and sunlight, and said the area looked like a graveyard made by humans.
• Hu Jiu decided they should confront whoever had disturbed them and flee if they could not win.

Hu Jiu and Du Zhong discovered a Black Door in the Ghost World that led to another world, but its healthy spatial barrier prevented them from entering. Hu Jiu forced a tiny, fragile passage through it, leaving the door marked with a sinister tree and Du Zhong newly impressed by his strength.

• Hu Jiu devoured Fierce Ghosts in the primeval forest, disrupting its balance and causing a Black Door to appear.
• Hu Jiu recognized the door as similar to the Endless Corridor doors from his world and suspected it led to another world.
• Hu Jiu opened a small hole in the door, and Du Zhong explained that the world beyond was protected by a strong spatial barrier.
• Hu Jiu used the Bronze Tree's power to punch a tiny gap through the barrier and held it open, though the passage could not yet admit them.
• The Black Door's patterns formed a sinister tree, and Du Zhong reconsidered how strong Hu Jiu was.

Zhang Wu tested a weightless, supernatural branch on laboratory mice, but after a fragment entered his hand, Hu Jiu tried to possess him and caused his death. The police began investigating Zhang Wu’s inexplicably decomposed body as Hu Jiu prepared to keep trying to enter the world beyond the Black Door.

• Zhang Wu searched the grove where the branch had fallen, then brought it home and ordered laboratory mice to test its powers.
• A fragment broke off the branch, and Zhang Wu fed it to a mouse, which quickly rotted and died.
• Zhang Wu implanted the fragment into another mouse, which transformed into a zombie-like creature before collapsing and dying.
• The fragment leapt into Zhang Wu’s palm, and Hu Jiu’s attempt to possess him caused him to convulse, rot, and die.
• Hu Jiu explained to Du Zhong that the world rejected outsiders and that native hosts could not withstand his possession.
• Zhang Wu’s landlord found his decomposed corpse, and police began investigating the strange mismatch between its condition and his recent sighting.

Wei Chuanmo found a strange branch in his rented room and implanted a fragment into his arm, gaining a chilling supernatural power before Hu Jiu took control of his body. Hu Jiu and Du Zhong began using Wei Chuanmo’s identity to invade the world and spread the supernatural, while a threatening message revealed that Wei Chuanmo was already being pursued for murder.

• Wei Chuanmo rented the room where a previous tenant had died and found a strange, nearly weightless branch beneath the bed.
• Wei Chuanmo implanted a piece of the branch into his arm, endured intense pain, and gained the power to pierce a table with one finger.
• The branch took control of Wei Chuanmo and merged into his chest as Hu Jiu and Du Zhong spoke through newly formed mouths on his body.
• Hu Jiu read Wei Chuanmo’s memories, took control of his body, and explained to Du Zhong that they would use Wei Chuanmo’s identity to weaken the world’s rejection of outsiders.
• Du Zhong warned Hu Jiu that the world might have once contained supernatural forces and said he had sensed a faint abnormal fluctuation.
• Hu Jiu received a threatening message and learned from Wei Chuanmo’s memories that the man had killed a rich young man and was being sought by the victim’s parents.

Hu Jiu used supernatural powers to escape a group of men searching for Wei Chuanmo, then continued his killings while moving to another city. There, he chose a hospital as his next target and encountered Zhao Chuxia, whose severe soybean allergy was dismissed by her mother.

• Hu Jiu controlled a supernatural tabby cat and trapped the landlord and armed men in a Ghost Domain, where they turned on one another and died.
• The police blamed Wei Chuanmo for the apartment murders and issued a wanted notice, while Hu Jiu used a ghost story to control a taxi driver and entered White Egret Villa District.
• Hu Jiu killed Wei Chuanmo's victim's family and left for another city, where Du Zhong suggested places for him to cause trouble.
• Zhao Chuxia woke in the hospital after a severe allergic reaction caused by her mother adding soybeans to her food.
• Dr. Li warned Zhao Chuxia's mother that even trace amounts of soybeans could endanger her, but her mother dismissed the warning, leaving Zhao Chuxia afraid the abuse would continue.

After gaining the ability to trigger soybean allergies, Zhao Chuxia used it against her abusive parents and began killing others as her power and murderous urges grew harder to control. The police surrounded her, and she realized the force lending her the ability was spiraling out of control.

• Zhao Chuxia secretly triggered severe soybean allergies in her parents, who needed stomach surgery after arriving at the hospital too late.
• Zhao Chuxia struggled with growing violent urges, then attacked three drunken men who cornered her in an alley.
• Zhao Chuxia increasingly killed people with her ability and became frightened by her changing body and loss of control.
• Zhao Chuxia distanced herself from Song Li, fearing that her friend would be hurt by her.
• Police summoned Song Li for questioning and deployed armed officers to surround Zhao Chuxia.
• Zhao Chuxia hid in an alley and realized that the force behind her temporary power was spiraling out of control.

Zhao Chuxia lost control of her supernatural power, killed many armed officers, and escaped into the sewers with help from Hu Jiu’s tabby cat. Hu Jiu then discussed his supernatural experiments and his reasons for preferring violence, while Zhao Chuxia was left alone and unsure where to go next.

• Zhao Chuxia was shot by armed police, lost control, and killed officers with her supernatural ability as Zhang Junyi received conflicting orders to capture her alive.
• Hu Jiu forcibly restored Zhao Chuxia’s awareness, and she fled after recognizing the scale of the deaths around her.
• A tabby cat raised the dead into attackers, led Zhao Chuxia to a sewer entrance, and helped her vanish from the pursuit.
• Zhao Chuxia reached the sewers and tried to question the tabby, but it left her alone without answering.
• Hu Jiu explained to Du Zhong that animals were harder to hide but difficult to train, and argued that human greed made violence inevitable when interests clashed.

Zhao Chuxia slaughtered members of human-trafficking villages until the military cornered her and used her parents to stop her. After she died and the Sick Ghost revived, Hu Jiu and Du Zhong advanced their plans to spread supernatural power and obstruct scientific research, while Zhang Suyuan awoke with extraordinary strength after a mysterious trial.

• Zhao Chuxia killed the people in several human-trafficking villages and fought off the military’s attacks with her growing supernatural power.
• Zhang Junyi brought Zhao Chuxia’s parents to the scene, and their abuse drove her into a berserk state that ended with her death.
• Hu Jiu transformed the revived Fierce Ghost in Zhao Chuxia’s corpse into the Sick Ghost, and the corpse began spreading a hidden disease among the researchers studying it.
• Hu Jiu and Du Zhong discussed their plans to create Ghost Tamers, stir up social conflict, and delay discoveries about Fierce Ghosts by targeting scientists.
• Hu Jiu summoned Zhang Suyuan for a trial ritual, and Zhang Suyuan later discovered that he had gained enough strength to smash a cabinet with a light punch.

Zhang Suyuan gained a deadly Ghost Hand, accidentally killed a passerby, and surrendered himself to the authorities. After Chen Zhanji attacked him in the name of justice and escaped, Zhang was moved to a research institute and received only a light punishment.

• Zhang Suyuan discovered that his dream had given him supernatural power and secretly went out to test it.
• Zhang Suyuan's violent urges surged, and he killed a passerby with his Ghost Hand before deciding to confess to his father.
• Hu Jiu observed Zhang Suyuan's choice, while Chen Zhanji learned that the victim's parents blamed Zhang and set out to punish him.
• Chen Zhanji confronted Zhang Suyuan in an Isolation Room, but Zhang beat him until armed guards arrived.
• Chen Zhanji escaped through the shadows, and officials transferred Zhang to a research institute after giving him a light punishment for the killing.

Hu Jiu sent the resurrected White Bone Spirit to take revenge, and the skeleton’s attack on an organ-trafficking ring drew Zhang Suyuan into a supernatural fight. Zhang Suyuan shattered the White Bone Spirit with his Ghost Hand, but the bones released black smoke that spread into a Ghost Domain over the city.

• Hu Jiu strengthened the White Bone Spirit and sent him out with a Hanging Rope to cause trouble in a randomly chosen city.
• The White Bone Spirit hunted down the doctor’s former enemies, killed the middle-aged man’s family, and attacked him as he fled into a crowd.
• The White Bone Spirit killed bystanders who tried to protect the middle-aged man, prompting armed police to cordon off the area as Hanging Ropes multiplied.
• Zhang Suyuan arrived and fought the White Bone Spirit, using his Ghost Hand to break the Hanging Rope’s supernatural strands.
• The White Bone Spirit unleashed the power within his body and sent Zhang Suyuan flying with a supernatural roar.
• Zhang Suyuan struck the White Bone Spirit’s head, scattering his bones, then fled as black smoke rose from them and spread across the city as a Ghost Domain.

A black cloud sealed Shanque City off from the outside world, while Skeleton Ghosts began killing residents and multiplying. The city government organized rescue efforts, but the growing supernatural threat overwhelmed the city as it sank into darkness.

• A column of black smoke spread into a cloud over Shanque City, cutting off communications and preventing people from leaving.
• Wang Qiang saw a skeletal hand kill the pyramid scheme leader, then escaped the apartment building only to be killed and transformed by Skeleton Ghosts.
• The mayor organized rescue teams to assess the districts and calm residents, and most people initially stayed indoors.
• Rescue teams encountered Skeleton Ghosts spreading from the outskirts toward the city center and struggled to relay warnings without communications.
• The mayor questioned Zhang Junyi about whether his mission had caused the disaster, while the Black Cloud thickened and Skeleton Ghosts continued multiplying across Shanque City.

The Supernatural Investigation Bureau failed to breach the black smoke that sealed Shanque City as supernatural crises erupted around the world. When the smoke vanished twenty-four hours later, rescuers found most of the city's residents dead and Zhang Suyuan alive but dangerously corrupted by the Ghost Hand.

• The government established the Supernatural Investigation Bureau and used entertainment scandals to divert public attention from the Shanque City crisis.
• Skeleton Ghosts attacked residents inside Shanque City, while the Bureau's advance team and headquarters failed to penetrate or observe the black smoke.
• The Bureau learned that supernatural incidents were breaking out around the world as officials struggled to understand the crisis.
• Twenty-four hours after the smoke appeared, it vanished, allowing rescue teams to enter Shanque City and find fewer than one in ten residents alive.
• Rescuers found Zhang Suyuan alive after his team was wiped out, but the Ghost Hand's blackness had spread across half his body, so they arranged to take him to the Bureau.