Chapter Summaries

Hu Jiu and He Ming led a group of Ghost Tamers toward the Ghostly Ancient Tomb aboard Headquarters' Ghost Bus, then continued on foot into the tomb's range. A supernatural incident began when eerie laughter and fast-moving Ghost Slaves attacked, and a childlike Ghost Slave leaped toward He Ming.

• He Ming brought the Ghost Tamers to the mountains on a Ghost Bus, which he explained came from the supernatural place codenamed [Fierce Ghost Parking Lot].
• Hu Jiu warned He Ming that the Ghost Tamers might act irrationally and exploit one another during the exploration.
• The group encountered an increasingly strange landscape, and Hong Ying's compass and another Ghost Tamer's compass began spinning wildly.
• A fast-moving figure and eerie laughter appeared, and He Ming warned the group that the laughter could affect their emotions.
• Hu Jiu urged He Ming to find the Source Ghost as Ghost Slaves rushed from the bushes and one leaped toward He Ming's neck.

He Ming and the other Ghost Tamers were trapped by a laughter-producing Source Ghost, but Tian Shan contained it with his sound-silencing ability. After a masked teammate blamed Tian Shan for a death, Tian Shan left the group, and He Ming led the survivors toward the Ghostly Ancient Tomb.

• He Ming searched for the Source Ghost while Fang Qingjiao used his ghost domain to move the group away from the Ghost Slaves, but the laughter followed them.
• Tian Shan identified the laughter itself as the ghost and explained that its domain had trapped them; he silenced the area, revealed the Source Ghost, and sealed it.
• Fang Qingjiao returned the group to the original location, where they learned that He Ming, Hu Jiu, and the terracotta-figurine Ghost Tamer had been left behind by the ghost domain.
• A masked Ghost Tamer accused Tian Shan of delaying his help and causing his friend's death, so Tian Shan announced he would leave and vanished.
• Hong Ying berated the masked man, and He Ming led the group toward the entrance to the Ghostly Ancient Tomb.

Hu Jiu and the Ghost Tamers entered the Ghostly Ancient Tomb, where the group split up after finding a chained corpse and the corpse revived to hunt them. Hu Jiu became separated from He Ming and the others, crossed the tomb alone, and contained a strange translucent vicious ghost, leaving the chapter as he prepared to put it in a Golden Corpse Bag.

• He Ming led the Ghost Tamers through rows of statues and into the underground palace, where they found a corpse chained into the passage wall.
• Hu Jiu suggested the chain could suppress a ghost, prompting the group to argue over whether to take it; He Ming then left with those who chose to move on.
• The chained corpse revived and dragged several Ghost Tamers away as the group fled, scattering Hu Jiu from He Ming.
• Hu Jiu crossed an underground stream alone, found a cracked bead that made people slip, and picked it up for later study.
• Hu Jiu used his Ghost Domain to reveal a translucent vicious ghost, immobilized it with the Ghost Book and Ghost Pen, and began preparing to contain it.

Hu Jiu found the Bronze Ancient Tree in the Ghostly Ancient Tomb and used the Ghost Book to draw it out while another Ghost Tamer team tried to contain it. As the team’s Supernatural Items began absorbing the tree’s roots, Hu Jiu slipped into the pit, where a team member noticed his arrival.

• Hu Jiu teamed up with Tian Shan, and the two discussed theories about the origins of Fierce Ghosts while exploring the tomb.
• Hu Jiu and Tian Shan encountered a plaza that appeared twice; after Tian Shan failed to return, Hu Jiu used his Ghost Domain to erase the surroundings and moved toward another explosion.
• Hu Jiu found a disciplined Ghost Tamer team trying to lure the Bronze Ancient Tree out of a pit and realized it was the missing tree from Headquarters.
• Hu Jiu exposed the Ghost Book, prompting the Bronze Ancient Tree to send roots out of the pit and attack the team, killing its captain.
• The vice captain used a wooden fish to soothe the tree and a Purple-Gold Alms Bowl to absorb its roots, while Hu Jiu entered the pit with his Ghost Domain.
• A Ghost Tamer noticed something strange enter the pit and warned the team.

Hu Jiu fought and contained the Bronze Ancient Tree, then left the pit and encountered Su Jingtang, who asked about her brother Su Jinghang’s death. The chapter ended with Hu Jiu remembering that Su Jinghang had been blamed for casualties caused by Yue Moumou’s loss of control.

• Hu Jiu fought through the Bronze Ancient Tree’s supernatural derivatives and found its true body hidden in a separate space at the bottom of the pit.
• Hu Jiu used the Ghost Book to restrain the Bronze Ancient Tree, then shrank it into a sapling and sealed it in a gold container before the Ghost Tamer team could claim it.
• The deputy captain’s team searched the pit for traces of the Bronze Tree, while a team member reported that an unknown presence had passed them again.
• Hu Jiu spent two more days exploring safely and filming the ancient tomb, then met the battered Su Jingtang.
• Su Jingtang asked Hu Jiu what had happened to her brother Su Jinghang, and Hu Jiu recalled that Yue Moumou had pinned the casualties from his loss of control on him.

Hu Jiu left the ancient tomb and rejoined the surviving Ghost Tamers, while learning more about Tian Shan’s ordeal inside. After returning to the hotel, he avoided an ambush by changing rooms, but the would-be attacker entered the empty room and was caught off guard.

• Hu Jiu misdirected Su Jingtang’s questions about her brother Su Jinghang, then left the ancient tomb; on the way out, he saw a mummy-like Ghost Tamer kill his opponent using the cloth around his body as his true form.
• Hu Jiu waited outside the tomb and reunited with Fang Qingjiao and Zheng Ling, noticing a familiar fragrance around Fang Qingjiao’s bleeding wound and seeing Zheng Ling flash him a strange smile.
• He Ming and the badly injured Tian Shan emerged before the deadline, and Tian Shan explained that the stone sculptures marked nested alternate spaces that could trap explorers.
• Hong Ying came out at the last moment, and He Ming led the group down the mountain on the Ghost Bus before announcing a meeting at the hotel.
• Hu Jiu detected a Ghost Tamer’s corpse stench in his room and changed rooms, foiling the attacker’s prepared ambush; he ignored the attacker’s knocks and hid until she entered and found the room empty.
• The short-haired woman searched the room, left, then rushed back after hearing footsteps and fell over something round; as she got up, a chill ran down her back.

Hu Jiu killed the woman who had come after him, then tried to subdue the Bronze Ancient Tree and fell into a deep sleep as it consumed the last of his humanity. While the Playing Cards' influence spread through the supernatural community, Xiao Yu was followed by Zhang Shucheng and Emily, who planned to capture her.

• Hu Jiu killed the short-haired woman who admitted she had come to avenge Gao Qiuhai, then destroyed her body and erased the evidence.
• After the Ghostly Ancient Tomb expedition meeting, Hu Jiu returned to Linjiang City and touched the Bronze Ancient Tree to try to subdue it.
• Hu Jiu used the Ghost Book's rules to slow the tree's encroachment, absorbed its power, and lost the last trace of his humanity before hiding in an alternate space and falling asleep.
• Xiao Yu continued building a network for the Playing Cards while Headquarters tried to recruit her, and the organization's services gained popularity.
• Zhang Shucheng and Emily followed Xiao Yu as they discussed Big Dipper and the coming Ghost Gate in the Endless Corridor.
• Zhang Shucheng and Emily decided to capture Xiao Yu, believing she could not escape them.

Headquarters studied a dangerous Bronze Tree branch, and its influence drove researcher Lin Lipeng into a delusional state as he resolved to steal it. Meanwhile, Xiao Yu was lured into a supernatural villa and became trapped inside, with no clear way out.

• Headquarters discovered that a team had returned with only a branch of the Bronze Tree, and Lin Lipeng began researching it in the supernatural laboratory.
• Lin Lipeng noticed that one test subject remained unusually calm and then began experiencing visions and whispers after studying him.
• Lin Lipeng’s reflection attacked its own eyes in a hallucination, after which he drew a strange tree-patterned door and decided to take the branch from Headquarters.
• Xiao Yu received Yin Wenxian’s warning that someone was targeting them and went home after she could not contact the Queen of Spades.
• A strange voice called Xiao Yu’s real name in her sleep, leading her to a villa, where she woke and tried to leave but repeatedly returned to its gate.
• Xiao Yu entered the villa through a dark corridor and reached its eerie main hall, where she struggled to figure out how to escape.

Xiao Yu was abducted to a villa by Emily and Zhang Shucheng, who wanted to contact the Playing Card Organization, but a Red Moon follower attacked before they could explain. Xiao Yu’s bracelet unleashed a vast green force that destroyed the follower’s red domain, and Zhang Shucheng killed him, leaving Xiao Yu to demand answers from her captors.

• Xiao Yu discovered Emily butchering a person in the kitchen, then dodged Zhang Shucheng’s hammer and was trapped by a crawling severed hand.
• Emily stopped Zhang Shucheng and told Xiao Yu they needed something from her because they could not reach the person in charge of the Playing Card Organization.
• Red Moon light flooded the villa, forcing Xiao Yu, Emily, and Zhang Shucheng to shield themselves as a Red Moon follower appeared and attacked.
• Xiao Yu used her bracelet’s green light to fight the follower, but the bracelet suddenly surged out of control and drove back the red light.
• The Red Moon follower was grievously wounded when the red domain collapsed, and Zhang Shucheng killed him with his hammer.
• Xiao Yu asked Emily and Zhang Shucheng who they were and what they wanted from her.

Hu Jiu struggled to control the Bronze Tree’s power and discovered that his Wish Fulfillment ability could alter reality, while Lin Lipeng’s disappearance sparked a murder investigation and a bloody escape. Hu Jiu regained his human form and began questioning the cause of his rebirth and whether time could turn back again.

• Hu Jiu remotely influenced the fragment of the Bronze Tree held by Headquarters, helped Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian, and let the tree’s roots spread beneath the Haunted House.
• Headquarters investigated Lin Lipeng’s disappearance and found his assistant Xiao Yang murdered and dismembered in Lin Lipeng’s apartment.
• Lin Lipeng hid in an old house, killed Zhao San and Liu Shui after they discovered the corpses inside, then fled to continue his mission and frame someone else.
• Hu Jiu regained his human form and found that the Ghost Book had changed; he realized his thoughts could trigger supernatural anomalies and sealed his power behind a switch-like mark.
• Hu Jiu considered his apparent immortality and began wondering whether his rebirth meant someone could control time or send the past backward again.

Yin Wenxian and Xiao Yu joined the Playing Card Organization after surviving attempts to exploit them, while Xiao Yu gained Emily’s possession ability by devouring her consciousness. Hu Jiu expanded the organization into a supernatural-item trading network, and the chapter left He Ming wondering about his unstable power as Headquarters watched the growing threat in South Korea.

• Hu Jiu summoned Yin Wenxian through a supernatural door after hearing how organizations had tried to manipulate and curse him.
• Emily tried to possess Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yu’s spade mark let her devour Emily and take control of her body and abilities.
• Xiao Yu bluffed Zhang Shucheng, then entered a door that recalled her to the Playing Card Organization alongside Yin Wenxian.
• Hu Jiu used his abilities to mass-produce crude supernatural items, which Xiao Yu and Yin Wenxian traded through a growing network that disrupted [Big Dipper]’s barter system.
• He Ming reflected on his recently unstable supernatural power while Spirit Cat watched a Korean drama and discussed the Ghost Tamer controlling South Korea’s government.

Headquarters sent He Ming to investigate a suspected supernatural incident at Langzhou University and the city officials accused of concealing it. He learned that Langzhou’s leader, Chu Yan, had a dangerous reputation, then consulted the Human Skin Paper for advice.

• An investigator reported that a suspected A-level incident at Langzhou University had gone unreported, and Fu Youhua ordered an investigation.
• A second investigator said students had died gruesomely, officials and university leaders were obstructing inquiries, and an unknown supernatural force had attacked him.
• Fu Youhua assigned He Ming to investigate the university incident and uncover why Langzhou’s administration had concealed it.
• Spirit Cat warned He Ming that Langzhou’s previous leaders had often vanished or died until Chu Yan took charge.
• He Ming reviewed Headquarters’ sparse file on Chu Yan, codenamed [Briber], which warned him not to accept gifts from Chu Yan.
• He Ming took out the Human Skin Paper in the restroom to seek its advice.

Hu Jiu sent Lin Lipeng to investigate Chu Shan in Langzhou City, while He Ming was ambushed by Ghost Tamers and pursued through the city. Gu Dao rescued He Ming and brought him to the Crocodile Bar, but the reason behind the trap and Langzhou’s apparent complicity remained unclear.

• Hu Jiu sent Lin Lipeng to Langzhou City to investigate Chu Shan and considered using his pieces there.
• He Ming met the investigator sent to Langzhou and was ambushed by Ghost Tamers using gold dust to counter his Insubstantiality.
• He Ming realized the attack was a trap connected to earlier claims that the Mirage Ghost belonged to someone else, and fled through the East Ring District as Ghost Tamers and police pursued him.
• A stranger pulled He Ming into the shadows and helped him escape the pursuing group.
• At the Crocodile Bar, Gu Dao introduced himself as its owner and said he had rescued He Ming, while He Ming questioned his motives and asked what was happening in Langzhou.

After escaping an attack in Langzhou City, He Ming contacted Headquarters but received no backup and was assigned to investigate the city. He tried to flee, but his pursuers blocked every route, leaving him trapped and without close Ghost Tamer friends to call for help.

• He Ming borrowed Gu Dao’s Satellite Phone, called Fu Youhua, and reported that a Headquarters investigator and Langzhou police had attacked him.
• Fu Youhua refused to send backup and assigned He Ming to investigate what had happened to Langzhou City’s person in charge and its administration.
• He Ming decided to abandon the assignment and leave, but police repeatedly blocked his escape through stations, airports, and other routes.
• He Ming asked Headquarters why Langzhou City’s authorities had not been held accountable, and the operator said they denied ever meeting him.
• The operator suggested He Ming ask Ghost Tamer friends for help, but He Ming realized he knew no one well enough and wondered whether he could ask Mao Mao.

Headquarters used Secret Peeker and Prophet to investigate the attack on the Capital and the infiltration of Headquarters, discovering that He Ming was a major suspect with ties to many incidents but was not the true culprit. As the inquiry turned toward Langzhou City and Big Dipper’s factions, Prophet explained how internal divisions could arise in a sprawling organization.

• Spirit Cat dismissed a request for help and was watched from the void before returning to his Korean drama.
• Secret Peeker reported that Spirit Cat was innocent, while Prophet criticized Headquarters for investigating him.
• Secret Peeker and Prophet explained that He Ming was linked to the attack on the Capital, the Headquarters infiltration, and other incidents, though neither believed he was the true culprit.
• Shen Jiliang confirmed that the Ghost Contract had failed on He Ming and noted that He Ming’s location in Langzhou City had shifted inexplicably.
• Shen Jiliang asked whether the Ghost Tamers controlling Langzhou City came from Big Dipper, and Prophet replied that large organizations naturally developed factions.

Hu Jiu struck back against the Secret Peeker after she tried to see through him, leaving Headquarters wary of his unknown strength. Headquarters then called him to help handle an A-level Supernatural incident in Langzhou City, where local officials had concealed the crisis and investigators were trapped.

• He Ming asked Hu Jiu for help after Spirit Cat refused, and Hu Jiu told him to wait despite sensing someone watching him.
• Hu Jiu attacked the Secret Peeker through her gaze, causing her to suffer horrific injuries while she attempted to inspect him.
• The Prophet failed to predict Hu Jiu's future, prompting Fu Youhua and Shen Jiliang to suspect he was a powerful figure.
• Shen Jiliang escorted the Prophet to his accommodations, while Fu Youhua issued several orders.
• Xiao Mei informed Hu Jiu that Headquarters had called him to Langzhou City, where an A-level incident had trapped investigators and local authorities were suspected of seizing control.

Hu Jiu accepted the mission to investigate the corruption and mysterious deaths in Langzhou City, then confronted a detective involved in the cover-up. He learned that Chu Yan had ordered Qin Dachuan killed after Qin witnessed a supernatural quill at Langzhou University.

• Hu Jiu agreed to investigate Langzhou City, where officials had died mysteriously and students had been killed or silenced.
• Hu Jiu called He Ming, promised to rescue him, and vanished from the room while He Ming continued evading the Ghost Tamers pursuing him.
• Hu Jiu appeared in a residential complex and forced a middle-aged detective to eat the meat of his own son before questioning him.
• The detective told Hu Jiu that Qin Dachuan had witnessed what seemed to be a supernatural quill at Langzhou University and that Chu Yan had ordered everyone who knew about it to be disposed of.

Hu Jiu questioned a middle-aged man about Langzhou City's wrongful convictions, missing students, and the fate of earlier city leaders, uncovering how Chu Yan had gained control. After extracting the information, Hu Jiu killed the man and vowed to kill his family as well.

• Hu Jiu learned that Qin Dachuan had been tortured and framed after the Ghost Pen vanished, and that his daughter Qin Fangtong later came to possess it.
• The middle-aged man told Hu Jiu that families of missing Langzhou University students had stopped complaining after meeting Chu Yan, while students were restricted from speaking about campus events.
• Hu Jiu freed the middle-aged man from a restriction, and the man explained that Langzhou City's officials had undermined, silenced, and sometimes killed previous people in charge.
• The middle-aged man suspected Chu Yan had changed people through gifts connected to his codename, [Briber], and said he had once wanted to be a good police officer.
• Hu Jiu snapped his fingers and removed the supernatural power sustaining the middle-aged man, causing his body to burst; he then threatened to kill the man's family.

Hu Jiu rescued He Ming from three Ghost Tamers and swiftly defeated them. With the immediate danger over, Hu Jiu took charge of the investigation into Langzhou City and headed for the government building.

• He Ming found Hu Jiu and warned him that three Ghost Tamers were hunting him, while worrying that Hu Jiu might be unable to handle them.
• Hu Jiu caught a nail shot at him, then attacked the three Ghost Tamers when they surrounded him and He Ming.
• Hu Jiu broke the nail-wielding Ghost Tamer in two and put the corpse into the Golden Corpse Bag.
• Hu Jiu seized the other two Ghost Tamers, suppressed their supernatural powers, and stuffed them into the Golden Corpse Bag before crushing them.
• He Ming asked whether they should leave Langzhou City, but Hu Jiu said he had a mission from Headquarters to investigate the city.
• Hu Jiu decided they would go to the Langzhou City government building and hold its officials accountable for concealing what had happened.

Langzhou City's officials plotted to kill Hu Jiu and He Ming while using ordinary people and police to wear them down, and discussed suppressing trouble at Langzhou University. As Hu Jiu and He Ming headed to the government building, Langzhou City's special operations department confronted them, and Hu Jiu challenged their authority.

• Officials in Langzhou City discussed Hu Jiu and He Ming, deciding to send ordinary people and police to wear them down before attempting another assassination.
• The officials discussed a man using Langzhou University as a testing ground and planned to suppress negative news and detain students' family members who protested.
• Hu Jiu and He Ming walked toward the government building when two men from Langzhou City's special operations department stopped them and demanded they accept supervision.
• Hu Jiu challenged the men, asking whether their department answered to Headquarters and telling them they should cooperate with his investigation.