Chapter Summaries

Li Shanji underwent evaluation at South Korea’s Paranormal Research Institute while concealing that the charred corpse had merged with her. In Jing City, Wen Jingyan ended the immediate crisis, and Lin Xiufen’s account of surviving the black fog’s slaughter at a temple showed how survivors found comfort in worship and a golden Buddha.

• Li Shanji submitted to physical, ability, and psychological tests at the Paranormal Research Institute, hiding the charred corpse’s dangerous powers.
• Kang Min-jeong arranged a residence and allowance for Li Shanji, while the institute remained unaware that a supernatural monster had merged with her.
• After Jing City’s leaders persuaded Bai Jingjing to leave, Wen Jingyan subdued the remaining Fierce Ghosts without containing them, and the city began to resume operations amid public panic.
• Lin Xiufen sought shelter and protection at a temple as the black fog approached, but it killed many worshippers and monks despite their prayers and sacred objects.
• Lin Xiufen picked up a golden Buddha and used it to fend off skeletons; after surviving, she concluded the Buddha had protected her and continued worshipping at the temple.

After the black fog disaster, survivors and officials struggled with fear, financial losses, and how to respond to evidence of supernatural events. The government debated whether to acknowledge the threat publicly, while wealthy residents began preparing to flee Jing City and secure their assets.

• Li Ming Hao convened a meeting about his company’s losses, but a passing cloud panicked the executives and ended the meeting early.
• Chen Mo watched a viral video of the black fog killing people and saw fear and rumors spread through social media and his hometown.
• Elder Li and the others reviewed reports showing that remote, sparsely populated areas were safer, then planned to leave Jing City and convert assets into gold.
• Wealthy residents bought gold after hearing that Fierce Ghosts could not affect it, while the authorities delayed responding to the circulating videos.
• Cheng Linzhou attended an emergency meeting where officials debated censorship, a slow-handling strategy, and publicly admitting the existence of supernatural events.

Cheng Linzhou rebuilt the Supernatural Investigation Bureau with Wen Jingyan’s help, while the government tried to conceal supernatural disasters behind scientific explanations. As the Bureau began classifying and containing Fierce Ghosts, Wen Jingyan learned it was experimenting to create artificial Ghost Tamers.

• Leader A proposed publicly explaining supernatural phenomena as science, restricting online discussion, and declaring the disaster resolved after an investigation.
• Cheng Linzhou, shaken by the loss of nearly the entire Supernatural Investigation Bureau, introduced new consultant Wen Jingyan to the rebuilt team.
• Wen Jingyan taught the Bureau about Fierce Ghosts, Ghost Tamers, and gold, but withheld advanced ways to extend a Ghost Tamer’s life at Hu’s request.
• Cheng Linzhou granted Wen Jingyan a private office, top-level database access, and help collecting Supernatural Items.
• The Bureau established a D-to-S Fierce Ghost classification system and built gold containment facilities, including rooms for the Ghost Suona and Space Chaos Cube.
• Wen Jingyan suggested using the Space Chaos Cube to trap dangerous Fierce Ghosts, and Cheng Linzhou revealed the Bureau was experimenting to create artificial Ghost Tamers.

Wen Jingyan observed the Investigation Bureau’s failed attempts to create Ghost Tamers and advised Cheng Linzhou on choosing stronger candidates, while the Bureau faced supernatural crises across the country and abroad. The chapter ended as investigators Du Yan and Su Yu entered the anomalous Starlight Cinema in Lan City and found a film screening with an infinite showtime.

• Cheng Linzhou showed Wen Jingyan the laboratory, where a test subject died after merging with the Ghost Comb, bringing the experiment count to forty-seven failures.
• Investigation Bureau officials voted against using death-row prisoners as test subjects, and Professor Wu volunteered to fuse with the Ghost Phone because he had terminal cancer.
• Professor Wu died during the experiment, and Wen Jingyan advised Cheng Linzhou to select young, healthy, strong, intelligent, and emotionally stable candidates.
• The Investigation Bureau dispatched Du Yan and Su Yu to investigate disappearances at the Starlight Cinema in Lan City.
• Du Yan and Su Yu entered the cinema and found its ticket machine advertising Eternal Audience with a showtime of infinity.

Du Yan and Su Yu confirmed that the Starlight Cinema trapped people inside films, but the supernatural force separated them and Su Yu was pulled into a picture while Du Yan reached the projection room. Elsewhere, Feng Qian refused to join a Ghost Tamer experiment and suspected Investigation Bureau leaders were diverting gold meant for defenses and equipment.

• Du Yan and Su Yu saw missing people appear in a film at the cinema and realized the audience was being drawn into movies.
• The cinema trapped them in the auditorium and restroom, and they tried to contact the Investigation Bureau before heading toward the projection room.
• Film dragged Su Yu into a framed picture, while Du Yan escaped to the projection room and found an old projector running by itself.
• Cheng Linzhou told Feng Qian that the cinema would be handled later, and Feng Qian refused to participate in the Ghost Tamer experiment.
• Feng Qian suspected that Investigation Bureau leaders were diverting gold from the headquarters, protective suits, containers, and weapons.

Wen Jingyan led Feng Qian into Starlight Cinema to rescue Du Yan and Su Yu, but revealed that the cinema concealed a dangerous, layered movie world. The group entered a complete black-and-white film and found themselves trapped on a looping road leading to Wind Village, where villagers gathered ominously.

• Wen Jingyan and Feng Qian entered Starlight Cinema, where Wen Jingyan used the Yin-Yang Road to pull Du Yan out of the film and rescue Su Yu.
• Wen Jingyan explained that the group was still inside a movie world and that the surrounding streets had already been drawn into it.
• The group tried to reach the cinema exit, but a projector appeared in the darkness and drew them into a complete black-and-white film.
• Wen Jingyan's Yin-Yang Road merged with a dirt road leading to Wind Village instead of opening a way back to reality.
• Wen Jingyan led the group away from the village, but after more than an hour they returned to its entrance as villagers gathered to watch them.

Wen Jingyan and the others escaped the haunted village and cinema, only to find themselves trapped in a department store filled with strange phenomena. Wen Jingyan led them along a supernatural path that nearly collapsed after a ghost crossed it, and the group continued onward barely escaping.

• Wen Jingyan failed to open an exit from the village as the villagers closed in, until hexagonal wells and a motionless baby appeared and the villagers suddenly rotted away.
• A black-haired female ghost walked through the village, causing it to disappear and revealing the cinema; the projector then turned its light on her, forcing Wen Jingyan and the others to retreat.
• The group reached the cinema doors but found a department store instead, where Su Yu and Du Yan reported disturbing sights and sounds.
• Wen Jingyan used three supernatural roads to guide the group through the store, but the pale flagstone path cracked after a ghost crossed it.
• Feng Qian pulled Du Yan and Su Yu across the widening crack, and Wen Jingyan warned that they had nearly failed to escape.

After escaping the Starlight Cinema, Wen Jingyan and the others witnessed the moon turn blood-red before tree-shaped shadows restored it. The Investigation Bureau continued its efforts to create Ghost Tamers, while Feng Qian concealed a casino volunteer’s new power; the chapter ended as a soldier’s attempt to fuse with a Fierce Ghost began to destroy his body.

• Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, Du Yan, and Su Yu escaped the Starlight Cinema and watched a blood-red stain spread across the moon before shadowy branches drove it away.
• Wen Jingyan secretly left an invisible supernatural passage near the cinema, and the Investigation Bureau tightened its lockdown and called for faster experiments to create Ghost Tamers.
• Feng Qian saw that reports of the moon’s transformation had gone viral, then concealed Lin Rui’s casino-granted power and joined him in secretly taking advantage of the Investigation Bureau.
• Cheng Linzhou welcomed a group of soldiers brought in for Fierce Ghost fusion experiments, and Wen Jingyan oversaw the procedure.
• Volunteer 001 touched the Blood Handprint and suffered spreading decay as researchers recorded the failed fusion attempt.

Lan City vanished inside a Ghost Domain, and Hu Jiu sent Wen Jingyan to investigate and help the supernatural incident spread. After days of avoiding the danger with Feng Qian and Du Yan, Wen Jingyan concluded that Lan City remained hidden behind an anomalous boundary and prepared to force his way in.

• A supernatural transformation spread from Starlight Cinema, and Lan City disappeared along with its residents; Cheng Linzhou learned of the disaster and contacted Wen Jingyan.
• Hu Jiu appeared in Wen Jingyan’s mirror, ordered him to investigate Lan City and make the incident spread further, and gave him a powerful black Supernatural Item.
• The Investigation Bureau assigned Feng Qian and Du Yan to accompany Wen Jingyan; they set out for Lan City while internet celebrities followed their convoy.
• Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, and Du Yan questioned villagers near Lan City but found no useful information, then spent two days delaying their investigation.
• Wen Jingyan concluded that Lan City was trapped inside a Ghost Domain and explained that they would need a key or brute force to enter.

Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, and Du Yan entered Mad Village after a supernatural force trapped them there. When Pinshishi’s influencer team disturbed the villagers with their questions, the village’s peaceful facade began to collapse, leaving Wen Jingyan and the others fleeing toward the still-bright part of the village.

• Cheng Linzhou ordered Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, and Du Yan to investigate Lan City, where a supernatural force revealed Wind Village and prevented them from leaving.
• The three entered the village, renamed Mad Village after noticing the damaged character on its entrance stone, and found its villagers and surroundings seemingly ordinary.
• Wen Jingyan warned Feng Qian and Du Yan not to provoke the villagers, then led them deeper into the village to search for a way out.
• Pinshishi and his influencer team entered Mad Village and questioned a villager, who collapsed as the surroundings grew dark.
• Wen Jingyan hurried Feng Qian and Du Yan away as the villagers turned stiff and stared at the influencers, and he glimpsed corpses beneath the village’s fading facade.

Wen Jingyan and his companions remained trapped in Mad Village as its peaceful facade gave way to a terrifying night. Feng Qian saw a ghostly wedding procession, and a second procession carrying a coffin appeared as the chapter ended.

• Pinshishi and his influencer team discovered that every path out of Mad Village led them back to its entrance, so they followed Wen Jingyan and his companions into the village.
• Wen Jingyan decided they might need to provoke a change in the village, but before he acted, the village suddenly plunged into darkness.
• Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, and Du Yan hid inside a dilapidated ancestral hall as Feng Qian heard a suona and saw a ghostly wedding procession carrying a corpse-like bride.
• Feng Qian realized the others could not hear or see the procession as he had, and a bridal sedan remained outside after his vision passed.
• A piercing cry sounded, and Feng Qian saw a second procession appear, carrying a coffin beneath falling white paper scraps.

Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, and Du Yan faced a supernatural wedding and funeral procession that halted outside the ancestral hall, then cautiously ventured into Mad Village. They encountered the separated streamer Pinshishi and let him join them as they continued through the village.

• Feng Qian saw the bridal sedan and funeral procession collide, and his strange eyes began stirring as the procession stopped outside the ancestral hall.
• The group heard banging from inside the coffin, but the knocking ceased after a sudden howl and the bridal sedan appeared to have been knocked askew.
• Wen Jingyan left the ancestral hall to investigate, and Feng Qian and Du Yan followed after confirming that walking outside was safe.
• The three passed the bridal sedan without incident and encountered Pinshishi, who said his companions had disappeared one by one.
• Du Yan threatened Pinshishi with his investigator's pistol, but Wen Jingyan decided to let him accompany them.

As the coffin’s occupant struggled to escape, Wen Jingyan used a Supernatural Item to protect the group and secretly used Yin-Yang Road to help release the Fierce Ghost. The coffin fell and its lid flew off, leaving the ghost’s emergence imminent.

• The coffin’s knocking grew more violent, and Wen Jingyan opened a black box that created a protective space around the four living people.
• Wen Jingyan decided to accelerate the Ghost Village’s revival and approached the funeral procession with Feng Qian, Du Yan, and Pinshishi.
• Wen Jingyan used Yin-Yang Road to widen the coffin’s gap while lying that he was trying to suppress the Fierce Ghost.
• Feng Qian tested his golden light on the pallbearers, briefly freezing them, while Du Yan and Pinshishi argued about turning supernatural sites into tourist attractions.
• Wen Jingyan’s efforts broke the coffin’s supporting frame, and the coffin crashed to the ground before its lid flew off.

Wen Jingyan led Feng Qian, Du Yan, and Pinshishi through Ghost Village, where he uncovered the coffin’s connection to the village and deliberately stirred up its supernatural forces. The group escaped as the village’s ghosts ran rampant, but the dried-corpse bride left the village behind them.

• Feng Qian saw the corpses of the villagers and Pinshishi's team inside the coffin, and Wen Jingyan guessed that the village was a Ghost Domain formed by it.
• Wen Jingyan led the others away from the funeral procession as the bridal sedan began to move, then they saw the dried-corpse bride inside before it vanished.
• Wen Jingyan took the group to the village outskirts, where the Ghost Infant revived among the wells and attacked them before they escaped along the Yin-Yang Road.
• Wen Jingyan led the group through the village, where more Fierce Ghosts revived as he pushed its supernatural forces into chaos.
• Wen Jingyan led the group out of Ghost Village, but Feng Qian saw the dried-corpse bride reach the entrance and leave after them.

Wen Jingyan returned to the Investigation Bureau and found Cheng Linzhou showing off newly recruited Ghost Tamers and a laboratory survivor while asserting control over his old consultants. Wen Jingyan warned that Lan City faced a major supernatural crisis, then went home, convinced the worsening Supernatural Revival was being accelerated while Ghost Tamers were suppressed.

• After returning from Ghost Village, Wen Jingyan, Feng Qian, and Pinshishi went to the Investigation Bureau, where Chen Zhanji startled Wen Jingyan by emerging from his shadow.
• Cheng Linzhou introduced Chen Zhanji and Fang Zhitu, then showed Wen Jingyan and Feng Qian a file on Li Ming, a survivor who had fused with the Blood Handprint.
• Cheng Linzhou used the new Ghost Tamers and Li Ming to criticize Wen Jingyan and Feng Qian, prompting Wen Jingyan to warn that more than a dozen powerful Fierce Ghosts had revived near Lan City.
• Wen Jingyan and Feng Qian said they were too exhausted for fieldwork, and Cheng Linzhou approved their request to rest before assigning tasks to Chen Zhanji and Fang Zhitu.
• Feng Qian asked Du Yan to help conceal Wen Jingyan's black box, and Du Yan agreed while warning that its existence could not stay secret if Wen Jingyan used it again.
• Wen Jingyan returned to his own home and reflected that the Supernatural Revival was worsening as the emergence of Ghost Tamers was being suppressed.

After Wen Jingyan disappeared, the Investigation Bureau replaced him with Li Ming, whose heavy workload led to his death and the revival of his Fierce Ghost. The Bureau realized too late how exceptional Wen Jingyan and Feng Qian were, while Cheng Linzhou tried to contain the crisis and push the Research Department to create more Ghost Tamers.

• Wen Jingyan vanished after leaving the Investigation Bureau, and Li Ming took over his work the next day.
• Feng Qian kept a replica of the Lucky Casino die when the Bureau shut down the project and took the original into custody.
• Li Ming continued accepting assignments despite Feng Qian's warning, as supernatural incidents spread across the country.
• At a textile factory warehouse, Li Ming died while handling an incident, and the Blood Handprint revived alongside the Crying-Face Ghost.
• Fang Zhitu explained that frequent use of a Fierce Ghost's abilities shortened a Ghost Tamer's life, unlike the exceptional Wen Jingyan and Feng Qian.
• Cheng Linzhou ordered the warehouse sealed and urged the Research Department to produce more Ghost Tamers, while researchers worried Wen Jingyan had withheld crucial information.

As supernatural incidents overwhelmed the Investigation Bureau, Cheng Linzhou struggled to preserve its remaining Ghost Tamers while officials and the public reacted to spreading doomsday fears. He approved the diversion of gold into private safe houses, accepting that the world was beyond saving and urging the Minister of Finance to protect his family.

• Cheng Linzhou received reports of escalating supernatural disasters and ordered Chen Zhanji and Fang Zhitu to remain near Headquarters as its last line of defense.
• The Minister of Finance told Cheng Linzhou that gold used at the Beishan Villa District had exceeded its limit, and Cheng Linzhou chose not to intervene.
• As supernatural incidents fueled doomsday fears, ordinary people stockpiled supplies or gave up, while the wealthy sought gold and some people fled overseas and lost contact.
• The state restricted gold transactions and prohibited private hoarding, intensifying public tension and suspicions about the approaching end of the world.
• The Minister of Finance presented Cheng Linzhou with forged reports concealing large gold diversions, and Cheng Linzhou accepted the scheme and told him to think of his family.

Cheng Linzhou diverted the Investigation Bureau’s gold to build a lavish safe house as fear of the apocalypse spread. At a psychiatric hospital, former investigator Su Yu encountered a supernatural disappearance and tried to warn the staff, but the nurse dismissed her.

• Cheng Linzhou ordered the safe house’s gold observation dome completed, insisting that no expense or materials be spared.
• Su Yu reflected on the coming apocalypse and doubted that Feng Qian’s extraordinary luck came without a cost.
• A fellow patient vanished from the restroom, and Su Yu found the hospital hallway strangely empty before activity appeared to return to normal.
• A doctor disappeared after entering an examination room, and Su Yu warned a nurse that the room was dangerous.
• The nurse dismissed Su Yu’s warning and planned to report that Patient 224’s condition had worsened.

Su Yu led patients out of a psychiatric hospital as people and objects vanished in a spreading supernatural incident. Back home, she learned the anomalies were occurring around the world, while official media remained silent.

• The nurse ignored Su Yu’s warning and vanished inside the examination room, followed by a patient and parts of the room.
• Su Yu calmed the crowd, led the patients out of the hospital, and guided them over the wall to escape.
• A driverless truck crashed nearby as trees and parts of the hospital vanished, forcing Su Yu and the others to flee.
• Su Yu saw more disappearances on her way home and realized the incident had spread far beyond the hospital.
• Su Yu checked online and discovered that anomalies were happening worldwide as people spread apocalypse warnings and official media stayed silent.

He Xubai reflected on abandoning Feng Qian’s body and explained how he had used [Ghost Possession] to assume He Xubai’s identity. After a strange meeting with the mastermind beneath a colossal Bronze Giant Tree, he returned to his body and waited for his promised chance to shine as abnormal phenomena spread across the world.

• He Xubai rejected the idea of taking Feng Qian’s body and explained that [Ghost Possession] required him to use his host’s identity to avoid being exposed.
• He Xubai recalled how his consciousness had been summoned beyond Earth to a giant metallic tree, where he encountered the mastermind and another figure.
• He Xubai asked the mastermind for work, and the shorter figure mocked him for seeking out his boss to request a task.
• The taller figure told He Xubai to prepare because his time to shine was near, then sent his consciousness back to his body.
• He Xubai switched into He Xubai’s body because he felt uncomfortable, then watched reports of worldwide abnormal phenomena and fell asleep listening to an apocalyptic story.