Chapter Summaries

He Ming sacrificed [Someone Under the Bed] to the Human Skin Paper and secretly left Headquarters to join Shen Jiliang, who revealed that the Capital’s supernatural incidents were linked to [Wish Fulfillment]. Hu Jiu decided to exploit the secret and impersonate the dead Ning Yun, while Hou Qingxu mobilized powerful families and Ghost Tamers after Ning Yun went missing.

• He Ming captured [Someone Under the Bed], and the Human Skin Paper devoured the ghost in exchange for protection from the Ghost Contract’s restrictions.
• He Ming returned home, contacted Shen Jiliang, and learned that [Wish Fulfillment], a bronze tree that granted wishes, caused the Capital’s frequent supernatural phenomena.
• Hu Jiu learned about [Wish Fulfillment] and planned to steal from Headquarters, beginning by using Ning Yun’s identity after her death.
• Hou Qingxu learned Ning Yun was missing, raged over her disappearance, and called for help.
• The Ning and Hou families pressured the police to search for Ning Yun, while Hou Qingxu offered Longevity Potion on the Ghost Tamer Forum as a bounty.

Xiao Yu defeated another Big Dipper employee and followed a new mission with Yin Wenxian, while Lao Wei and two associates searched Yizhuang for reporters Xue Qiang and Song Ting'an. They found the guesthouse mysteriously abandoned and suspected the nearby moving Supernatural location, Ghostly Ancient Tomb, had reached it.

• Xiao Yu trapped a Big Dipper employee's clay pot inside the Haunted House, and its owner died when the item's side effects erupted.
• Xiao Yu met Yin Wenxian, who had captured an unconscious Big Dipper member, and they drove toward another city.
• Lao Wei and his companions changed plans after Hou Qingxu ordered them to find Xue Qiang and Song Ting'an instead of investigating the Haunted House.
• Lao Wei's group entered Yizhuang and found its visitors gone, despite food still being warm on the tables.
• Lao Wei and the others considered whether Ghostly Ancient Tomb had moved nearby, and he recalled how tomb robbers emerged from it in a different city before one recounted the experience in a popular novel.

Hu Jiu revived Ning Yun and considered joining an exploration mission to the moving Ghostly Ancient Tomb, whose latest location was linked to her former fiancé, Hou Qingxu. In the Capital, Officer Zhang and Xiao Zhao investigated a phone video showing Ning Yun being dragged underground and questioned whether her disappearance was supernatural.

• Hu Jiu restored Ning Yun's body and awakened her, while worrying that her brain damage might have affected her consciousness.
• Xiao Mei invited Hu Jiu to explore the Ghostly Ancient Tomb in seven days, and he asked to review the mission information before deciding.
• Hu Jiu noticed the tomb's latest location and recalled that Ning Yun had been Hou Qingxu's fiancée.
• Officer Zhang questioned Xiao Zhao about a phone video of Ning Yun being dragged underground, while they awaited the technical team's authenticity check.
• Officer Zhang and Xiao Zhao considered whether Ning Yun's disappearance was a supernatural case as a colleague from the technical department called from outside.

Officer Zhang and Xiao Zhao watched a terrifying video showing Ning Yun fleeing pale figures in a mountain forest, adding a new mystery to her disappearance. Though the authorities tried to remove the footage, netizens had already saved and spread it.

• A technical unit officer showed Officer Zhang and Xiao Zhao a video of Ning Yun stumbling through a dark forest and fleeing a rotting corpse and other pale figures.
• Officer Zhang recognized Ning Yun and connected the footage to the wreck, her earlier disappearance, and the Ghost Shadow clue involving Yan San.
• Officer Zhang ordered the video taken down, and the technical unit officer said cyber monitoring had already removed it and was tracing its source.
• Netizen A learned that the uploader had reposted the video, then discovered it was being deleted across platforms and watched his cached copy repeatedly.

Special investigators traced Ning Yun’s eerie video to the area near Lanqiong Mountain, while Hu Jiu investigated the Ghostly Ancient Tomb and Big Dipper’s parasitic worms. At the Yizhuang guesthouse, Hou Qingxu connected several disappearances to the video and resolved to find Ning Yun.

• Online users identified the woman in the video as Ning Yun, and special investigators analyzed the footage and concluded it was likely filmed near Lanqiong Mountain.
• Investigators discussed the video’s near-silent audio and whether the Ghostly Ancient Tomb near Lanqiong Mountain was connected to it.
• Hu Jiu used satellite platforms to monitor the area and learned that Big Dipper was also targeting the Ghostly Ancient Tomb and other supernatural phenomena.
• Lao Wei and his group found that people had vanished from the Yizhuang guesthouse, discovered footprints leading into the mountains, and returned to report to Hou Qingxu.
• Hou Qingxu linked the vanished reporters and Ning Yun’s video, then decided he needed to find her alive or recover her body.

Lao Wei led a search party into Lanqiong Mountain to look for Ning Yun, but a powerful hunter ambushed and slaughtered the group. The forest ranger revealed himself as the hunter’s ally, killed Lao Wei, and ordered the scene cleaned up.

• Lao Wei bribed a forest ranger to let his search party enter the protected reserve, while Xiao Li emerged from the woods as the sole survivor of the dead archaeological team.
• Lao Wei’s group sheltered from the rain in a wooden hut, where a hunter attacked and killed most of them.
• Lao Wei’s Fierce Ghost power failed to hurt the hunter, and he fled after his wrist was broken.
• The yellow-haired youth abandoned Lao Wei, but the ranger later appeared carrying the youth’s severed head and split Lao Wei’s head open.
• The ranger put Lao Wei’s body into a bag and ordered his accomplice to clean up the scene.

Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian traveled into Lanqiong Mountain to investigate supernatural phenomena and joined a hiking group on the way. After rescuing an injured man from a river, they followed him to a suspicious village, where they sensed they were being watched and left their rooms at night to meet secretly.

• Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian met at the foot of Lanqiong Mountain after both of their cars broke down, then joined seven hikers heading into the mountains.
• The group encountered an unexplained rainstorm, and Yin Wenxian contacted the Playing Card Organization before the rain soon stopped.
• At their riverside campsite, Yin Wenxian rescued an unconscious man floating downstream, and Liu Jun and a forest ranger invited the hikers to a nearby village.
• Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian grew suspicious when Liu Jun claimed there was a village nearby, but the hikers agreed to go with him.
• Liu Jun brought the group to a dark, unnervingly silent village, where a doctor treated the rescued man and the hikers settled into a guesthouse.
• Xiao Yu felt watched in her room, stayed in contact with Yin Wenxian, and quietly met him outside in the middle of the night.

Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian discovered that the village on Lanqiong Mountain was a base for the parasitic Big Dipper, then fought their way out with help from Xiao Li. Yin Wenxian escaped through a summoned door with the wounded Xiao Yu, leaving Xiao Li behind as a spreading wildfire engulfed the woods.

• Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian followed lantern-bearing villagers to a hidden ancient residence, where Number One discussed converting people into Parasite Soul clones and raiding the Ghostly Ancient Tomb.
• Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian were ambushed by villagers, fought back with Supernatural Items, and escaped with help from Xiao Li, the man Yin Wenxian had rescued from the river.
• Xiao Li confronted Professor Zhang, who revealed that the Parasite Soul had taken root in Xiao Li's brain, while the forest ranger shot Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian carried her away.
• Number One ordered his people to pursue Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian, but filthy water flooded the village and trapped some of the villagers.
• Yin Wenxian opened a door and escaped with Xiao Yu, leaving Xiao Li behind; flames then spread through the woods and became a wildfire that chased him.

Detectives investigating the bodies in an impossible village linked the deaths to multiple disappearances around Lanqiong Mountain, but a deadly attack on search teams prompted the National Supernatural Phenomena Control Bureau to take over. As He Ming sealed off the mountain, Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian met their superior, Queen of Spades.

• Firefighters found an unfamiliar, partly corroded village and more than twenty mutilated bodies after extinguishing the wildfire.
• Detective Lin found camping gear among the ruins and connected the victims to missing tourists, reporters Song Ting'an and Xue Qiang, and Professor Zhang's archaeological team.
• Detective Lin and Detective Zhou learned that the suspicious guesthouse Yizhuang had opened recently and that its owner and employees had vanished.
• A black shadow attacked search-and-rescue personnel near the mountain, killing two and injuring fifteen.
• He Ming of the National Supernatural Phenomena Control Bureau took over the Lanqiong Mountain cases and ordered a hundred-kilometer area sealed off.
• Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian, whose traces had been concealed by supernatural power, met Queen of Spades at a food stall.

Hu Jiu met with Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian when Beidou Organization representatives Song Yue and Qiao Hong arrived. Song Yue revealed she had cursed Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian with the Car Accident Ghost, leaving them destined to have vehicle accidents.

• Hu Jiu asked Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian whether they wanted to become Ghost Tamers, and Xiao Yu described her unusual requirements for one.
• Qiao Hong attacked Yin Wenxian, then fought him and easily overpowered him until Song Yue stopped the confrontation.
• Song Yue pointed out that the food-stall patrons had ignored the fight, prompting Qiao Hong to drop his arrogant act.
• Hu Jiu urged Song Yue to state her business, and she revealed that Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian had been cursed to have accidents whenever they traveled in a vehicle.

Hu Jiu confronted Big Dipper employees Song Yue and Qiao Hong over the organization’s Parasite Soul and refused their demand to cooperate. The confrontation turned violent, and Song Yue’s hair bound Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian.

• Song Yue described Big Dipper’s goal of containing the supernatural, but Hu Jiu accused it of infecting people with Parasite Souls and sending them to die.
• Song Yue and Qiao Hong threatened Hu Jiu and offered cooperation, while Hu Jiu rejected their claims and mocked their status as expendable employees.
• Song Yue warned that Big Dipper’s seven founders were Earthly Immortals, but Hu Jiu dismissed the threat and provoked Qiao Hong.
• Qiao Hong attacked Hu Jiu, who teleported behind him and struck him hard enough to send him flying and make him spit blood.
• Song Yue attacked with her long hair, and Xiao Yu stepped in to protect Yin Wenxian, but the hair bound them both.

Yin Wenxian woke captive in a Big Dipper laboratory, where the Spade Mark helped him break free and overpower the staff and guards. He escaped the lab only to find Song Yue and Xiao Yu waiting, with Xiao Yu apparently allied with his captors.

• Yin Wenxian overheard researchers discussing how his Parasite Soul had been forced dormant, then the Spade Mark cleared his mind and he broke out of his restraints.
• Yin Wenxian fought the guards, killed several people, and confronted Qiao Hong, whose ghost's power had no effect on him.
• Yin Wenxian took a researcher hostage to open the iris-locked laboratory doors and escaped into the corridor.
• Song Yue confronted Yin Wenxian over the casualties, while Xiao Yu stood behind her.
• Yin Wenxian asked Xiao Yu if he had joined the enemy, and Xiao Yu replied that a wise bird chose the right tree to roost in.

An unknown attacker breached Big Dipper's hidden stronghold, trapping its occupants inside an unconventional Ghost Domain while Filthy Water spread through the base. The assault continued in darkness after communications with the outside and both power supplies were cut off.

• Song Yue ordered the guards to seize Yin Wenxian, but an alarm announced that someone had forced their way into the base.
• Xiao Yu revealed through gestures that he had served as bait to help the Queen of Spades pinpoint the stronghold, and Yin Wenxian realized the Queen had left a contingency that strengthened him.
• An explosion caused a brief fire, then Filthy Water poured through the ventilation ducts and dissolved anyone it touched.
• The person in charge told the outside guard captain that an unknown supernatural force was attacking and warned him not to enter, but the captain discovered their communications with the outside had been cut off.
• An unconventional Ghost Domain enveloped the base and prevented anyone from escaping.
• The attacker cut both the main and backup power supplies, plunging the base into darkness.

As Hu Jiu’s attack tore through the Big Dipper base and plunged it into chaos, Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian seized their chance to escape. Song Yue and Qiao Hong were left behind, with Song Yue vowing revenge.

• After the base lost power, Song Yue ordered Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian restrained and prepared to evacuate with them.
• Hu Jiu’s supernatural attack smashed through the base, collapsing floors and scattering rubble.
• Yin Wenxian freed himself and fought off the guards while Xiao Yu attacked Song Yue, revealing that she had gained strange fighting power too.
• Qiao Hong used Ghost Kicking Person against Xiao Yu, but Yin Wenxian sacrificed a guard as a shield and fired at Qiao Hong to cover their escape.
• Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian fled through the sealed base, while Qiao Hong helped the battered Song Yue up and she swore to kill Xiao Yu.

Hu Jiu sent Qiao Hong and Song Yue to the Capital after destroying the Big Dipper base, while Ning Yun began a Ghost Shadow massacre there. Qiao Hong and Song Yue sought help from Hou Qingxu, whose banquet they stormed as Ning Yun's killing spree spread.

• Hu Jiu destroyed and looted the Big Dipper base, leaving Qiao Hong and Song Yue stranded in the Capital after they escaped.
• Qiao Hong and Song Yue killed local thugs, learned they were in the Capital, and decided to seek help from a Big Dipper operative in the Hou Family.
• Xiao Yu returned Yin Wenxian's Supernatural Items and gave him two weeks off, which he planned to use to settle matters with his family.
• Ning Yun entered the Capital and used the Ghost Shadow to slaughter people at a Hou Family underground casino, turning many victims into Ghost Slaves.
• Ning Yun sent the Ghost Slaves onward as Qiao Hong and Song Yue forced their way into Hou Qingxu's banquet and identified themselves as members of an organization.

Qiao Hong and Song Yue sought Hou Qingxu’s help leaving the Capital, but a wave of supernatural attacks engulfed the city. As Headquarters investigated the simultaneous outbreaks, Fu Youhua connected the incidents to Fierce Ghosts recently held by the Research Department.

• Qiao Hong revealed that the Longevity Potion contained Foolish Ghost Tears, and Song Yue asked Hou Qingxu to help them leave the Capital and explain its recent scrutiny of outsiders.
• Ghost Slaves emerged from the shadows and covered the Hou Family Building, where Ning Yun attacked Hou Qingxu before Song Yue and Qiao Hong rescued him.
• Hu Jiu unleashed multiple Fierce Ghosts across the Capital, including Filthy Water, a red candle, and Ghost Grass, while also provoking a Ghost Tamer’s Fierce Ghost to revive.
• Fu Youhua joined senior officials at Headquarters to discuss the Capital’s worsening supernatural crisis and noted that Filthy Water and Ghost Grass had recently been under the Research Department’s control.

As supernatural incidents threw the Capital into chaos, Hu Jiu infiltrated Headquarters to steal the bronze tree [Wish Fulfillment], only to find it gone and escape a Ghost Tamer’s Ghost Domain. Headquarters learned the tree had returned to the Ghostly Ancient Tomb, while Hou Qingxu and Song Yue were brought in for questioning.

• Fu Youhua and Shen Jiliang discussed the Capital’s supernatural outbreaks, suspected traces of the Longevity Candle, and the need to contain the Filthy Water and Ghost Grass.
• Hu Jiu exploited the diversion of Headquarters’ Ghost Tamers to infiltrate its containment room and search for [Wish Fulfillment].
• Hu Jiu opened the bronze tree’s chamber and found it empty, then tried to escape as soldiers searched the corridors.
• A middle-aged Ghost Tamer trapped Hu Jiu in a Ghost Domain, but Hu Jiu injured him, tore open the domain, and escaped.
• Fu Youhua and Shen Jiliang revealed that [Wish Fulfillment] had been drawn back toward the Ghostly Ancient Tomb, where Headquarters was investigating its return.
• Fu Youhua ordered two captured suspects brought in, and Hou Qingxu protested that he was a Ghost Tamer from Headquarters while Song Yue stayed silent.

After Hu Jiu’s failed operation left the Capital dealing with widespread damage and public rumors, he returned to Linjiang City and continued testing supernatural items. He brought the Cursed Coin to the Ghostly Ancient Tomb exploration mission, where he reunited with He Ming ahead of a briefing.

• The Capital began rescue and cleanup operations under military control while the authorities struggled to explain the supernatural disaster and contain public speculation.
• Hu Jiu returned to Linjiang City, accepted an exploration mission, and agreed to handle a new incident caused by the Cursed Letter.
• Hu Jiu tested the Cursed Coin on Jiang Yan, whose coin tosses caused dangerous outcomes and appeared to redirect good and bad luck between her choices.
• After Jiang Yan realized the coin might be causing tragedies, she threw it out the window, and Hu Jiu recorded its rules before retrieving it for the upcoming mission.
• Hu Jiu arrived near Lanqiong Mountain, checked into the hotel for the Ghostly Ancient Tomb exploration, and received a video call from He Ming.

He Ming recruited Hu Jiu as a trusted partner for the Ghostly Ancient Tomb exploration and briefed the assembled Ghost Tamers before their departure. After the meeting, Gao Qiuhai sought Hu Jiu out to propose a deal, but Hu Jiu tried to dismiss him.

• He Ming admitted he lacked confidence leading the mission and asked Hu Jiu to work with him; Hu Jiu agreed, but neither knew other trustworthy Ghost Tamers to recruit.
• Hu Jiu attended the briefing, where He Ming explained the tomb’s risks, the one-week exploration limit, and the mission’s provisional X-class rating.
• A late Ghost Tamer confronted He Ming outside the meeting, but He Ming rebuked him and the man left resentfully.
• Hu Jiu checked the Ghost Tamer Forum, ignored repeated calls and a message from an unknown number, then recognized the caller as the bluish-faced man from the meeting.
• Gao Qiuhai introduced himself and insisted he had urgent business, but Hu Jiu tried to close the door; Gao Qiuhai wedged himself in and warned him not to push it.

Hu Jiu killed Gao Qiuhai, the Ghost Tamer codenamed [Hanged Ghost], after Gao tried to force him to surrender his Fierce Ghost. Headquarters accepted Hu Jiu’s evidence and let him keep Gao’s noose as compensation, while Hu Jiu prepared to join the exploration mission the next morning.

• Gao Qiuhai demanded Hu Jiu’s ghost for his own strength and tried to justify the demand as a sacrifice for humanity, but Hu Jiu refused.
• Gao Qiuhai attacked Hu Jiu with his ghosts, but Hu Jiu broke free and revealed that Gao had failed to investigate his abilities.
• Hu Jiu grabbed Gao Qiuhai, removed his fused noose, twisted his neck, copied his revived ghost, and stored the corpse in a Golden Corpse Bag.
• Hu Jiu reported the fight to Xiao Mei and provided a recording proving Gao had attacked first; Headquarters reclaimed Gao’s second ghost and approved Hu Jiu’s request to keep the noose.
• Xiao Mei warned Hu Jiu that a powerful relative of Gao Qiuhai might retaliate privately, and Hu Jiu moved rooms before setting out for the mission meeting the next morning.