Chapter Summaries

Weapon A’s livestream was hijacked by a drone showing Wen Jingyan battling a source Fierce Ghost and its Ghost Slaves outside the Supernatural Investigation Bureau. After the Bureau stopped the broadcast, its agents took Weapon A and his team for questioning and seized their equipment.

• Weapon A’s drone lost control and livestreamed the Bureau headquarters, where Wen Jingyan faced the source Fierce Ghost and its Ghost Slaves.
• Wen Jingyan trapped the source Fierce Ghost on a Yin-Yang Road and destroyed waves of Ghost Slaves as the livestream audience watched.
• Wen Jingyan noticed the camera, then vanished after hearing something; armed Bureau personnel shot down the drone and ended the livestream.
• Weapon A reviewed the footage, then cooperated when Supernatural Investigation Bureau agents came to take him in.
• The Bureau investigated Weapon A’s livestream team and carefully removed their malfunctioning equipment.

After Weapon A’s livestream sparked widespread debate and an official denial, multiple supernatural incidents broke out in Jing City. Trapped in a hotel where looking up seemed to cause death, Fan Cheng'an survived until a man in a black trench coat forced open the doors.

• The livestream spread across social media despite authorities deleting recordings, and Weapon A’s platform claimed it had been staged with special effects.
• Fan Cheng'an lost phone service in his hotel, then found a dead man inside the elevator as guests realized the exits could not be opened.
• People in the lobby began dying mysteriously, and Fan Cheng'an suspected that staying still might help him survive.
• A dying guest warned everyone not to look up, and Fan Cheng'an confirmed the warning when another person died after looking toward the ceiling.
• A faint scraping sound from above compelled survivors to look up, killing several more; Fan Cheng'an crouched to resist it.
• A man in a black trench coat forced the hotel doors open, and Fan Cheng'an believed he had been saved.

Fierce Ghosts and black fog spread through Jing City as survivors and troops struggled to respond. Feng Qian set out to investigate, while Bai Jingjing appeared above the fog and unleashed skeletons and more monsters on the city.

• Wen Jingyan warned the hotel survivors not to look at the Fierce Ghost, briefly subdued it, and vanished after advising them to stay put.
• Fan Cheng'an and the other survivors chose whether to remain at the hotel, formed a mutual-aid group, and learned that someone who left had been swallowed by black fog.
• Feng Qian met with a major general, learned that government agencies and rescue teams had gone silent, and agreed to investigate the city.
• Black fog reached the troops after Feng Qian departed, and the major general ordered an evacuation when people in the fog turned into skeletons.
• Bai Jingjing appeared above the black fog and sent skeletons and other monsters through the city, while the soldiers' weapons proved useless.

Hu Jiu visited an ancient tomb while a group of tomb robbers, led by the terminally ill Chen Liu, forced Fang Zhitu to guide them through its deadly traps. The survivors reached a chamber with a blood pool and ghost statues, where Chen Liu asked Fang Zhitu how to gain supernatural power.

• Hu Jiu went to the ancient tomb after replacing the Investigation Bureau’s leadership and changing his plans for Bai Jingjing.
• Chen Liu forced Fang Zhitu, who could release an evil ghost from his tattoo, to lead the tomb robbers into the passage.
• Skinny Monkey died after the rope snapped, and Fang Zhitu secretly triggered a trap that killed another robber.
• Old Wang and a companion died in the poisoned pool, after which Chen Liu ordered Fang Zhitu to lead the survivors.
• Fang Zhitu used his ghost power to break a stone door, and falling rubble sealed the group inside the tomb.
• The survivors found a blood pool surrounded by ghost statues holding bronze lamps, and Chen Liu asked Fang Zhitu whether he should jump in to gain supernatural power.

Hu Jiu killed the grave robbers, took Fang Zhitu’s ghost-head Fierce Ghost, and used supernatural power to turn Fang Zhitu into a Ghost Tamer while replacing his memories. After Fang Zhitu left to pursue the novel’s protagonist’s opportunities, Hu Jiu collected the tomb’s remaining ghosts and sent its dangerous corpse and coffin to separate locations.

• The blood pool swallowed Rat and the one-eyed man, while Fang Zhitu and Chen Liu escaped into the burial chamber.
• Hu Jiu disintegrated Chen Liu, pulled the ghost-head Fierce Ghost from Fang Zhitu, and learned that it could devour people and ghosts to gain their abilities.
• Hu Jiu gave Fang Zhitu Ghost Fire and rewrote his memories, making him believe he was a transmigrator who had taken the protagonist’s opportunity.
• Fang Zhitu left the tomb to seek more of the protagonist’s opportunities, while Hu Jiu gathered the tomb’s other Fierce Ghosts and opened the coffin.
• Hu Jiu sent the corpse to a film crew’s prop warehouse in Jing City and shipped the coffin to Du Zhong, asking him to test its powers.

Fang Zhitu encountered a supernatural killing on a high-speed train and used his Ghost Fire to fight the invisible Fierce Ghost responsible. He discovered that the ghost killed people who saw it in the train’s window reflections, then pushed himself toward his limit to suppress it.

• Fang Zhitu noticed passengers dying without injuries as the train lost phone signal and vanished into gray mist, while the train’s brakes and communications failed.
• Fang Zhitu observed that victims seemed connected to the windows, and a red-haired man died after turning to look outside despite a warning not to.
• Fang Zhitu realized the danger came from the ghost’s reflection in the glass, stood up, and ignited his Ghost Fire to locate it.
• Fang Zhitu attacked the reflected ghost with a stream of Ghost Fire, but three survivors died after the ghost became briefly visible and observers saw it.
• Fang Zhitu poured more Ghost Fire into the fight and hurled a concentrated cluster at the ghost, shaking the carriage and plunging it into darkness.

After suppressing the Ghost Fire on a train, Fang Zhitu escaped before police could question him. In the capital, supernatural incidents overwhelmed the authorities as Cheng Linzhou became trapped in an ever-changing maze inside his home, while disasters spread worldwide.

• Fang Zhitu suppressed the ghost on the train, then used his Ghost Domain to vanish before the police arrived.
• The police reported the train incident, but the agency responsible for supernatural events gave no response because the capital's command structure had collapsed.
• Cheng Linzhou woke to find black fog outside and his home transformed into a maze of shifting rooms and impossible stairways.
• Cheng Linzhou followed Lin Ya's notes and found signs that she and Cheng Xiaoyu were trapped and being pursued by a shadow person.
• Cheng Linzhou encountered eerie figures resembling his family and kept moving through the maze rather than risk approaching them.
• Supernatural disasters spread across the capital and the world, including a Haunted House at the White House, vampires around London, and human-headed balloons in Tokyo.

Feng Qian led a group of officials through Jing City’s black fog and encountered Bai Jingjing, whose skeletons and mirror powers had plunged the city into chaos. Wen Jingyan fought her to a standstill, and Bai Jingjing vanished after refusing to stop her attack on the city.

• Feng Qian immobilized a group of approaching skeletons with his golden eyes and led the officials around them, only to encounter Bai Jingjing among more skeletons.
• Wen Jingyan arrived on the Yin-Yang Road and fought Bai Jingjing, whose mirror copied his attacks and created a maze that trapped the group.
• Wen Jingyan found Bai Jingjing through the mirror maze, but she countered with black-fog spikes, skeletons, and a duplicate of him.
• Feng Qian spotted that the real Wen Jingyan stood on the Yin-Yang Road, but Bai Jingjing copied the road and the two fighters paused to negotiate.
• Bai Jingjing said she had unleashed the chaos because the Investigation Bureau delayed its promise to let her explore an ancient tomb, then dismissed Wen Jingyan’s request to stop.
• Bai Jingjing told Wen Jingyan to stop interfering and disappeared as the black fog contracted.

After Bai Jingjing left Jing City, Wen Jingyan stayed to help the officials and reveal the supernatural to the public. In Britain, Livia recovered from terminal cancer after a mysterious transformation into a blood-drinking being, while Bishop Carlos dreamed of a strange figure on a cross and began to suspect it was the true form of his God.

• Wen Jingyan stayed in Jing City after officials urged him to help protect the city and expose the supernatural.
• Livia drank pesticide in despair, but awoke healed, transformed into a beautiful young woman, and discovered an urge to drink human blood.
• Livia drank blood from a doctor, accepted that she had become a member of the blood race, and left him alive; the doctor later noticed he had become more handsome.
• Bishop Carlos dreamed of a terrifying figure hanging upside down on a cross and woke wondering whether it was a revelation.
• Carlos worshipped the statue again and considered whether the figure in his dream showed God's true appearance.

Carlos received a revelation from the Hanged Man, embraced a corrupted version of the faith, and tried to seize authority in the Church. During Pentecost, the True God manifested above the Vatican, leaving the pope and gathered crowds convinced that their God had arrived.

• Carlos dreamed of the Hanged Man, woke with an eye-shaped mark on his forehead, and believed the True God had chosen him.
• Carlos wrote a new gospel, preached his altered doctrine, and was denounced by believers and arrested by the Inquisition.
• Carlos remained confident in captivity while the Holy See prepared for Pentecost.
• At the Pentecost celebration, the sky turned blood-red and a strange door appeared above the Vatican.
• A figure emerged from the door, and the pope, Church leaders, believers, and tourists praised the manifestation as the arrival of their God.

A blood-red figure appeared over the Holy See’s Pentecost celebration, and its presence triggered a power struggle that ended with Pope Mario and Bishop Carlos being sacrificed. The figure vanished after granting bloody powers to several people, while the elderly priest who orchestrated the executions became young again and took up the papal scepter.

• The blood-red figure appeared upside down on a cross in the sky, and the Holy See’s leaders recognized it as their true God despite their doubts.
• Carlos arrived, declared Pope Mario guilty of blasphemy, and demanded that he be burned as a sacrifice.
• The Holy See’s senior officials turned Carlos’s proposal against him, had Mario and Carlos bound to crosses, and ordered both men sacrificed.
• The blood-red figure spoke incomprehensible words, sent streaks of bloody light into several fanatics and Holy See personnel, and disappeared.
• The recipients discovered they could wield red mist, while the elderly priest who had supported the sacrifices grew young again and raised the papal scepter.

Pope Richter transformed the Holy See and declared the Blood-Red Hanged Man its true God, while Du Zhong and Hu Jiu discussed how the upheaval would worsen the supernatural crisis. They discovered that the Red Moon was trying to invade the world through the damaged barrier, which Hu Jiu’s Bronze Giant Tree was struggling to block.

• Richter became pope, reformed the Holy See around the Blood-Red Hanged Man, and demanded that believers worldwide make pilgrimages to the Vatican.
• News of the Vatican’s supernatural events spread globally, alarming Italy and drawing the interest of wealthy people seeking youth.
• Du Zhong revealed that he had impersonated the Blood-Red Hanged Man, and Hu Jiu explained that presenting him as an evil god would push the Holy See’s believers to act on their own.
• Du Zhong realized Richter was using his aggressive declarations to conceal the Holy See’s public abandonment of its former faith, and Hu Jiu said the upheaval would help bring about the world’s destruction.
• Hu Jiu told Du Zhong that the Red Moon was trying to penetrate the world’s barrier, while the Bronze Giant Tree’s shadow held back its light as cracks spread through the barrier.

Pope Richter launched a Holy See campaign to bring Italy under the True God's rule, as the country descended into chaos. In Jing City, Wen Jingyan explained to government officials that the Vatican's god was a Fierce Ghost and that supernatural beings were Ghost Tamers who were being consumed by the ghosts they used.

• Richter warned the bishops not to challenge the world's other powers and declared a holy war to bring Italy back under the True God's embrace.
• The Holy See seized Italian cities through mass conversion, executions, and political defections while the Italian government collapsed.
• Wen Jingyan told officials sheltering in Jing City that supernatural incidents were caused by Fierce Ghosts, whose killing rules could be avoided if not triggered.
• Wen Jingyan explained that supernatural beings were Ghost Tamers possessed by Fierce Ghosts, and that using ghost power hastened their deaths and eventual revival.
• Feng Qian trusted Wen Jingyan's account because Zhang Suyuan's deterioration and postmortem massacre had matched his explanation.

Wen Jingyan explained that Fierce Ghosts could not be destroyed and warned that Jing City might have to be abandoned unless Bai Jingjing could be trapped with gold. As the black fog consumed more than half the city, Feng Qian organized survivors and set out for a military quarantine zone in the East City District.

• Wen Jingyan told the officials that Fierce Ghosts could only be contained or restrained, that gold could block their powers, and that Bai Jingjing was a dangerous Ghost Tamer.
• Wen Jingyan advised evacuating Jing City, finding other Ghost Tamers, and preparing to abandon the city if Bai Jingjing could not be trapped.
• Three days later, Feng Qian and Wen Jingyan had rescued survivors while the black fog spread across more than half of Jing City.
• Feng Qian gathered survivors in an apartment building, shared scarce supplies, and watched Ghost Slaves hunt a man who had been hiding nearby.
• Wen Jingyan called to report that he had secured a relatively safe area in the East City District and established a quarantine perimeter with a rescued military unit.
• Feng Qian led his group out before dawn to reach the East City District as the black fog and Ghost Slaves threatened the city.

After discovering that the New Dawn Church was hiding murders, Li Shanji was forced to attend its full moon ritual, where a real supernatural creature emerged from the altar and began slaughtering the congregation. She remained alive in a corner and noticed that the creature paused after each kill and targeted those who moved or made noise.

• Li Shanji joined the New Dawn Church after Park Eunju offered her friendship and support, but later witnessed suspicious behavior and found evidence of missing members and murdered victims in the church basement.
• Park Eunju and three church members brought Li Shanji to the full moon ritual, where Kim Jihoon prepared a bound girl as a sacrifice.
• The statue behind the altar cracked open to reveal a moving charred corpse, which killed Kim Jihoon and then beheaded Park Eunju.
• The charred corpse began killing the believers as the ritual hall's door remained shut, while Li Shanji hid silently in a corner.
• Li Shanji observed that the corpse paused for about ten seconds after each kill and attacked people who moved or made noise.

Li Shanji and Park Jin-woo escaped the New Dawn Church as the Fierce Ghost massacred police officers, but the monster grew stronger and caught up with the five survivors in the subway tunnel. The chapter ended with them hiding as the Fierce Ghost emerged, now able to teleport.

• Li Shanji warned the police that a monster was inside the church, but the officers ignored her and were attacked when the Fierce Ghost came through the doors.
• Li Shanji lied to the captain about how to escape, causing him to run and speak loudly; the monster killed him as she and Park Jin-woo slipped away.
• Police backup arrived and opened fire, but the Fierce Ghost killed the officers while Li Shanji and the other survivors moved toward a subway entrance.
• Li Shanji, Park Jin-woo, Choi Min-a, and two other survivors fled into the subway, where Li Shanji and Park Jin-woo realized the monster was killing faster and regaining strength.
• Choi Min-a heard the Fierce Ghost approaching, and the five hid in a maintenance recess as it appeared with a more distorted body and the ability to teleport.

A charred corpse attacked Seoul, killing civilians, police, and soldiers despite their attempts to stop it. Han Ji-woo survived by hiding in a convenience store, while South Korean officials argued over how to respond as the creature continued its massacre.

• Han Ji-woo saw the charred corpse kill a schoolgirl and an office worker at Central Station, then hid behind a ticket machine as it hunted people who ran or made noise.
• Han Ji-woo crawled out of the station and sheltered in a convenience store, where the charred corpse killed a blood-soaked man and a vomiting witness.
• Han Ji-woo watched the army attack the charred corpse, but bullets and heavy weapons failed, and the creature massacred the soldiers and routed the force.
• The president and ministers argued at the Blue House emergency command center over military action, economic damage, intelligence, public opinion, and blame for the disaster.

Kang Min-jeong helped establish the Silence Project to contain the Charred Corpse, but the creature broke through the quarantine and disappeared into Seoul. As the government debated how to respond, Kang Min-jeong continued investigating her father’s mysterious research notes.

• The president approved the Silence Project, appointing Kang Min-jeong deputy head of the team studying the Charred Corpse, and she received a message from her mother about new findings on her father’s death.
• The government evacuated residents from a one-kilometer zone around the subway station and built buffer zones; Kang Min-jeong learned the Charred Corpse reacted to sound and movement and that four survivors bore black handprints.
• When protesters gathered near the quarantine zone, the Charred Corpse vanished and killed dozens of them, revealing that it could appear beyond the barriers.
• Kang Min-jeong opened her late father’s research notes on restricting supernatural powers as the government confirmed the Charred Corpse had disappeared and spread panic across Seoul.
• Kang Min-jeong warned that the creature’s restrictions were weakening, while officials argued over emergency measures and the defense minister proposed a citywide curfew and closures.

Li Shanji was pursued by the charred corpse at her apartment building and became fused with it after it killed Jin Zhemin. She woke in a hospital with black markings spreading across her body and a strange power inside her beginning to erode her.

• Li Shanji hid in her Daegu apartment as the charred corpse attacked the building, killing tenants who panicked and made noise.
• Li Shanji escaped through her second-floor window, but the charred corpse killed Jin Zhemin and then seized her, causing it to merge with her.
• Li Shanji woke in a hospital and discovered that the black handprint had spread into wriggling lines across her body.
• Li Shanji saw that her reflection had become a charred, rotting face and felt a strange power within her.
• Li Shanji unconsciously used the power, fell to her knees in pain, and felt something inside her eroding her.

Li Shanji developed powers resembling those of the charred corpse, along with a dangerous urge to kill and abnormal bodily changes. Kang Min-jeong of the South Korea Supernatural Research Institute invited her to join, and Li Shanji agreed to consider it after resting; she eventually fell asleep, though she began sleepwalking.

• Li Shanji discovered that her senses had sharpened, her nails could turn black, and she could damage objects, while struggling to suppress an urge to kill the nurse.
• Li Shanji learned that her temperature and metabolism were abnormally low and realized her new abilities were accompanied by a loss of humanity.
• Kang Min-jeong introduced the Supernatural Research Institute and offered Li Shanji resources and training in exchange for examinations and help with supernatural incidents.
• Li Shanji asked for a few days to rest before deciding, and Kang Min-jeong gave her a card with the institute's address and contact number.
• South Korean agents secured the hospital, and Li Shanji finally fell asleep, though she began sleepwalking.