Chapter Summaries

Zhang Chen completed Xiang Yun’s blood transfusion while Little Nirvana and Chong Ying fought Jorōgumo in the woods. Chong Ying used her abilities to trap the spider woman in a burning forest, then retrieved a bead from her charred shell.

• Zhang Chen finished transfusing blood into Xiang Yun, and Chong Ying explained that Wang Yizhi had fainted from fear of the spiders.
• Zhang Chen left Chong Ying to guard Xiang Yun and Wang Yizhi, then went to support Little Nirvana, who had been wounded by Jorōgumo’s poison.
• Chong Ying joined Little Nirvana, treated the poisoned arm, and explained that Jorōgumo was a high-level ghost insect vulnerable to fire.
• Jorōgumo attacked Little Nirvana and Chong Ying, but an unexplained force disrupted her actions and Chong Ying used her abilities to save Little Nirvana.
• Chong Ying trapped Jorōgumo in silkworm silk as the surrounding trees burned, and the flames consumed the spider woman.
• Chong Ying landed beside Jorōgumo’s charred shell and removed a reddish-black bead from it.

After Chong Ying and Little Nirvana killed Jorōgumo, Zhang Chen’s group fled to their yacht while Xi’an’s Jailer Headquarters sent Luo Ping to investigate the stolen experimental documents and confront them. Luo Ping reached the yacht ahead of the group and told Zhang Chen he intended to kill them all.

• Little Nirvana distracted Jorōgumo while Chong Ying approached unseen and used her illusion ability, allowing them to burn the ghost insect to death and claim her Ghost Insect Pearl.
• Chong Ying helped care for Xiang Yun, and Little Nirvana suggested that Chong Ying become Zhang Chen’s second spouse before Zhang Chen stopped her from saying it aloud.
• Zhang Chen decided to move the group onto their yacht and set sail toward Xi’an, while Chong Ying planned to take Xiang Yun and Yi Zhi back to Tianfu City the next morning.
• Jailer Headquarters learned that Lu Jixing had been killed and that documents about Tian Hua’s experiment and history were missing, so it ordered Luo Ping to investigate.
• Luo Ping went to the riverbank and waited aboard Zhang Chen’s yacht; when Zhang Chen arrived, Luo Ping announced that he would kill him and his companions.

Zhang Chen defeated Luo Ping in a fierce battle by the Luohe River and took his Soul Stone, then set off by yacht with his companions. As the group headed toward Xi'an, Zhang Chen planned to send Wang Yizhi and Xiang Yun back to Tianfu City while he and Little Nirvana went to Changsha, where a severe crisis was unfolding.

• Zhang Chen lured Luo Ping away from the yacht and fought him, enduring his lizard transformations, rapid regeneration, and attacks.
• Zhang Chen used his strange white layer to stop Luo Ping's main soul ability and killed him, then decided to give Luo Ping's Soul Stone to Lian Yuxin and report the Shaanxi Jailer Envoys' behavior.
• Little Nirvana brought the others to the riverbank, where Zhang Chen found Wang Yizhi awake and Xiang Yun still recovering in Chong Ying's arms.
• Zhang Chen led everyone onto the yacht and set its automatic cruise system toward a waterway near Xi'an.
• Zhang Chen told Wang Yizhi that Chong Ying would take her and Xiang Yun back to Tianfu City, while he and Little Nirvana would go to Changsha.
• The yacht sailed toward Xi'an as Changsha City faced the worst crisis in its history.

After Zhang Chen lent Chong Ying a spider Soul Stone, she secretly used a Ghost Insect Pearl to awaken the Spider Empress sealed inside it, hoping to gain power to protect her companions. The Spider Empress accepted Chong Ying and merged her power into Chong Ying, while the Underworld punished Chong Ying by denying her contribution points.

• Zhang Chen lent Chong Ying the spider Soul Stone he had obtained from a Level 3 Jailer, and the group settled in for the night while Little Nirvana kept watch.
• Chong Ying sealed off her room with beetles and used the Black Spider Woman's Ghost Insect Pearl to awaken the Nightmare inside the Soul Stone.
• The Soul Stone shattered, releasing the Spider Empress, who easily destroyed Chong Ying's Giant Strength Beetles and threatened to kill her.
• Chong Ying insisted that the Spider Empress become part of her power so she could protect everyone, and the Spider Empress stopped her attack after deciding Chong Ying had a pure heart.
• The Spider Empress kissed Chong Ying and merged her nightmare energy and source power into Chong Ying's body.
• The Underworld judged Chong Ying's unauthorized use of the Soul Stone a special case, withheld her contribution points, and allowed her to acquire the ability normally.

Chong Ying gained the Four-legged Spider Demon skill, while Xiang Yun woke in Xi'an and worried that Zhang Chen had taken advantage of her while she was poisoned. After Zhang Chen reassured her, they shared breakfast, and Xiang Yun began telling him about her past.

• Chong Ying absorbed the Insect Realm Nightmare Ghost and gained the Four-legged Spider Demon skill, which was highly compatible with her body.
• Xiang Yun woke alone in a hotel room and remembered kissing Zhang Chen while under the influence of spider poison.
• Xiang Yun found Zhang Chen and asked whether anything had happened beyond the kiss; Zhang Chen explained that he had only expelled the poison and saved her life.
• Zhang Chen offered to move Xiang Yun and her relatives away from the danger near Changsha, then took her downstairs for breakfast.
• Xiang Yun ate with Zhang Chen in Xincheng Park and agreed to tell him about her family and her grandfather, asking him to share his own story in return.

In 1996, Xiang Yun’s parents brought home a supposedly valuable Northern Song painting scroll that depicted the umbrella-carrying woman Xiang Yun had seen on their drive. After eerie incidents drove away buyers, Xiang Yun’s grandfather secretly gave her a talisman, but her parents tried to burn the scroll and were found dead the next morning.

• In March 1996, Xiang Yun’s parents bought a relic in Luoyang and brought it home, while Xiang Yun saw an umbrella-carrying woman beside her mother in the car.
• Xiang Yun recognized the woman in the painting scroll, and buyers who came to inspect it fled after strange events, including a client’s consecrated jade beads turning black.
• The scroll brought further disturbances into the house, and Xiang Yun’s grandfather secretly gave her a talisman that protected her from feeling watched at night.
• After a woman with a paper umbrella appeared on their camera feed and eerie singing filled the house, Xiang Yun’s parents decided to burn the scroll.
• The next morning, Xiang Yun’s parents were found as charred corpses in the kitchen, while the painting scroll remained intact.

Xiang Yun told Zhang Chen about her parents’ deaths, her grandfather’s Taoist teachings, and the necklace he left her, and Zhang Chen promised to help clear the female ghost from her old home. Back at the hotel, he learned that Chong Ying had absorbed the Soul Stone and checked her chest for its mark, prompting her to slap him.

• Xiang Yun’s parents died mysteriously after using a scroll, and she went to live with her grandfather, who taught her Taoist arts before dying of terminal liver cancer.
• Xiang Yun received her grandfather’s letter and protective necklace, and learned he had blamed his Taoist arts for her grandmother’s death.
• Xiang Yun explained her past to Zhang Chen, who promised to help remove the female ghost from her family home after they settled matters in Changsha.
• Zhang Chen teleported Xiang Yun back to the hotel and went to Chong Ying’s room to ask why she had needed the Soul Stone.
• Chong Ying revealed that she had absorbed the Soul Stone, so Zhang Chen pulled aside her collar to check for its mark, and she slapped him.

Chong Ying explained how she absorbed the Nightmare and revealed her new S-rank Spider Demon Body to Zhang Chen. After they tested its speed and strength, Chong Ying remembered a white-haired young man saving her and broke down in tears, while Little Nirvana decided Chong Ying was the most suitable for Master.

• Chong Ying told Zhang Chen that she used the Ghost Insect Pearl to draw the Nightmare out of the Soul Stone and absorb it, gaining full satiety and an S-rank ability.
• Chong Ying revealed her Spider Demon Body, which gave her four venomous spider legs and violet eyes, and Zhang Chen lost an arm when her spider venom turned it into tiny spiders.
• Zhang Chen took Chong Ying to the rooftop and sparred with her, but her speed and foresight overwhelmed him until he used his ghostified form to escape her attack.
• Chong Ying saw Zhang Chen's white hair and remembered a white-haired young man saving her in a ruined theater, then cried and said she would not let him die.
• Zhang Chen brought Chong Ying back downstairs for breakfast, and Little Nirvana concluded that Chong Ying was the most suitable for Master.

Zhang Chen sent Wang Yizhi, Chong Ying, and Xiang Yun by train to Tianfu City before rushing toward Changsha, while the girls discovered a pregnant passenger whose strange suitcase concealed a severed head. The passenger revealed herself as a short supernatural woman, escaped Chong Ying’s insect surveillance, and killed four travelers in a neighboring compartment.

• Zhang Chen chose the train for the three girls, saw them off, and returned to his yacht to head toward Changsha.
• Wang Yizhi, Chong Ying, and Xiang Yun shared their sleeper compartment with a tall pregnant woman carrying a heavy suitcase.
• Chong Ying found a sealed safe in the suitcase and suspected the pregnant woman was not what she seemed.
• After the girls left for dinner, the woman opened the safe, joined a severed head to a hidden headless body, and vanished from the compartment.
• The woman entered the neighboring compartment, killed a young man while he kissed the wall, and then took the heads of his three companions.

Chong Ying sensed something was wrong aboard the train, discovered that the pregnant woman’s safe had disappeared, and learned the train had missed its scheduled stop. The train’s driver was revealed to be fatally mutilated, and a petite woman killed the conductor as the train sped on.

• The 13.live forum listed Tian Hua as a priority capture target and named four VIPs, including the Flying Head Man, for a plan to lure Zhang Chen and his companions into Changsha.
• The conductor and dispatch staff discovered that the train had missed its scheduled stop and lost contact with Master Zhong in the driver's cabin.
• The conductor found Master Zhong's head nearly severed and, at Master Zhong's desperate request, grabbed the fire axe to kill him.
• A petite woman appeared beside Master Zhong, cut the conductor's throat, and held his head while the train continued speeding forward.
• Chong Ying returned to a strangely silent carriage with Xiang Yun and Wang Yizhi, then found that the pregnant woman's safe had vanished from her suitcase.
• Chong Ying's insects alerted her that the train had missed its stop, leaving her convinced that a dangerous conspiracy was unfolding.

A supernatural slaughter spread through the train after it sped into Baoji Railway Station, while Chong Ying and her companions stayed in Soft Sleeper Carriage Seven. The chapter left them facing a tide of grotesque, crawling heads outside their compartment.

• The speeding train killed a rail worker at Baoji Railway Station, and the panicked passengers discovered that the attendants had vanished.
• A police officer led four volunteers to the locomotive cab, where floating severed heads attacked and apparently killed them.
• The five men returned with their heads switched, then their bodies split open and a petite woman used threads to turn the passengers’ severed heads into crawling entities.
• Chong Ying stayed in the compartment on Wang Yizhi’s instruction, then pierced the pregnant woman with a spider leg and discovered that her body was stuffed with pillows and quilts.
• Grotesque heads with fingers growing from them crawled past the compartment door toward the rear carriages.

A short woman turned the passengers on the train into monstrous heads and forced them to slaughter one another, promising the last survivor a powerful new body. Zhao Hu survived, learned about the three people she wanted him to kill, and attacked her instead, leaving her frozen and seemingly defeated.

• The train driver lost control as the train changed course toward Changsha City, while the passengers were transformed into heads and tentacled creatures.
• The short woman used the broadcast to incite hatred and force the passengers to fight; Zhao Hu emerged as the last survivor among 1,893 people.
• The short woman assembled a powerful body for Zhao Hu and ordered him to kill the three extraordinary guests, but Zhao Hu asked for information about them and pretended to submit.
• Zhao Hu attacked the short woman, saying he had a better chance of killing her than the three guests, and a strange substance left her dazed and motionless.
• Zhao Hu tore apart and began consuming the frozen short woman.

Chong Ying and Wang Yizhi arranged for Zhao Hu to take the train to Changsha while they avoided drawing military attention. Zhang Chen and Little Nirvana reached a dark, apparently abandoned Changsha, where Lian Yuxin warned him that an incident and a third party had put Huang Ce in serious danger.

• Three hours before the train incident, Wang Yizhi guided Chong Ying in capturing Zhao Hu and restoring his self-awareness so he could follow their instructions.
• After Zhao Hu swallowed the short woman's remains and became the new Flying Head Man, he agreed to drive the train to Changsha, while Chong Ying threatened him against betraying them.
• Wang Yizhi explained that Changsha would let them avoid a military response, and Chong Ying planned to meet Zhang Chen after arriving.
• Zhang Chen and Little Nirvana found the Xiang River dry and entered Changsha through an electromagnetic interference barrier after killing two zombies trapped in a crashed car.
• Lian Yuxin contacted Zhang Chen, told him that Changsha was in the midst of an incident and Huang Ce was in very bad shape, and gave him the address of their base.
• Zhang Chen decided to reach Lian Yuxin's base through the unfinished subway tunnels rather than expose himself by using his powers in the streets.

Zhang Chen and Little Nirvana traveled through zombie-infested Changsha, where the mysterious ghost Ishihara Yui contacted Zhang Chen and invited him to meet her. After reaching Lian Yuxin and Fei Bai, Zhang Chen learned that Huang Ce had been badly injured by a third-party force and saw strange plants growing through his flesh.

• Zhang Chen and Little Nirvana fought their way through zombies and encountered a woman in a red overcoat who revealed herself as Ishihara Yui before disappearing.
• Ishihara Yui sent Zhang Chen messages by zombie rat, asked why he had not saved her, and invited him to meet her alone at Changsha Health School; Zhang Chen agreed.
• Zhang Chen and Little Nirvana traveled through the subway tunnel and reached the office building where Lian Yuxin and Fei Bai were waiting.
• Zhang Chen gave Tian Hua's information to Fei Bai, then followed Lian Yuxin to see the badly injured Huang Ce.
• Lian Yuxin showed Zhang Chen that green, threadlike plants had grown through Huang Ce's flesh and blood.

Zhang Chen examined Huang Ce and learned that the vines had transformed his body so extensively that replacing it would not save him; the only hope was to remove the plants. He agreed to meet the mysterious woman from the third-party force at Changsha Health School, hoping she might help, while Lian Yuxin and Fei Bai prepared to support him.

• Zhang Chen discovered that vines had taken over Huang Ce’s body and that the Soul Stone alone was protecting his brain.
• Zhang Chen and Lian Yuxin concluded that Huang Ce could only be saved by removing the vines, which Zhang Chen could not do with his vital blood.
• Lian Yuxin described the three attackers and gave Zhang Chen a crystal sphere that could stabilize space if he was trapped.
• Zhang Chen told Lian Yuxin that he had arranged to meet the beautiful woman in red ribbons, then left for Changsha Health School with Little Nirvana staying behind.
• At the Health School, the woman in red ribbons killed newborn White Zombies through a willow tree and argued with the Vine Demon, who had come at Old Bone’s request.
• After the Vine Demon left, the woman caused green liquid to seep from the school’s trees, making them wither and die.

Zhang Chen met Yui, a Japanese ghost who had lured him to the college intending to kill him, but their conversation about Fangzi changed her mind. After Yui admitted her original plan, Zhang Chen asked her to stay and go on a real date, and she appeared to agree.

• Zhang Chen entered Changsha Health Vocational College and followed Yui through the silk-scarf-lined passage to the cafeteria.
• Yui fed Zhang Chen fruit salad and tried to draw him into a kiss, but he stopped her and suggested they walk around the school.
• Zhang Chen absorbed the zombies on campus with the Blood Demon's power, then walked with Yui and sat with her at the athletic field.
• Zhang Chen told Yui about Fangzi, and Yui revealed that Fangzi had cared for her more than a hundred years earlier.
• Yui admitted she had arranged their meeting to kill Zhang Chen, but said she could no longer attack him after hearing about Fangzi.
• Zhang Chen asked Yui to stay and go on a date, and she turned back toward him with apparent agreement.

Zhang Chen learned that Ishihara Yui had planned to kill him by poisoning him with substances that would erode his Soul Stone, then urged her to investigate her obscured past. Yui gave him a red scarf to temporarily protect Huang Ce, and the scarf began battling the vines inside Huang Ce’s body.

• Ishihara Yui explained how she had been adding substances to Zhang Chen’s body so she could destroy his Soul Stone with a final guiding substance.
• Zhang Chen suggested that Yui’s resentment and stalled progress toward becoming a Nightmare might be connected to her forgotten past, and she began to question whether she had attended a school while alive.
• Yui warned Zhang Chen that one of the three ghosts could kill him head-on, then gave him a red scarf that could extend Huang Ce’s life by two days.
• After Zhang Chen left, Yui glimpsed a college and a group of female students in her memories, but recoiled from the vision and bled from one eye.
• Lian Yuxin placed Yui’s red scarf on Huang Ce, and it entered his body, where it weakened the vines attacking his vital organs while other vines continued to spread.

Tian Hua infiltrated Old Liu's laboratory beneath the damaged Changsha Jailer Headquarters and tested his zombie corpse poison on its captive ghosts. After most of the powerful subjects exploded and died, he successfully turned one mid-ranking ghost into the first zombified ghost.

• Tian Hua broke into Old Liu's laboratory and triggered its security system, which released the stitched-monster gatekeeper Bach.
• Tian Hua bit Bach, but the corpse poison made the ghost energy in its soul marrows react and the monster exploded.
• Tian Hua copied Old Liu's appearance to pass the laboratory's identity scan and deactivate its termination system.
• Tian Hua killed the high-ranking ghost boy and a mid-ranking Fission Monster by biting them, then tested other captive ghosts.
• Tian Hua bit a laughing young man who did not immediately explode, and the corpse poison replaced the ghost energy in his soul marrow, creating the first zombified ghost.

Tian Hua found a Blood Demon sealed beneath the laboratory and tried to persuade him to undergo corpse transformation, but their first fight ended in a draw. Meanwhile, Zhang Chen learned Wang Yizhi was approaching Changsha Railway Station and rushed there, finding the city devastated and the station guarded by the military.

• Tian Hua followed a young man to a hidden room, where the young man was killed by the Blood Demon for entering without changing into slippers.
• Tian Hua attacked the Blood Demon with his speed and insect eyes, but the demon countered with blood magic and they both survived the exchange.
• Tian Hua asked the Blood Demon to undergo corpse transformation, but the demon rejected his corpse poison and invited him to fight instead.
• Zhang Chen woke to Wang Yizhi's call, learned what had happened, and promised to meet her at Changsha Railway Station.
• Zhang Chen used spatial movement to reach the station and saw that much of Changsha was overrun with White Zombies, while the military defended the station and central district.

Zhang Chen rescued Wang Yizhi, Xiang Yun, and Chong Ying from the approaching train, then brought them to the office building after discovering soldiers killed by parasitic vines. There, Lian Yuxin guided Chong Ying’s venom through Huang Ce’s body, successfully removing nearly all the vines as his ability began repairing the damage.

• Zhang Chen teleported Wang Yizhi, Xiang Yun, and Chong Ying away from the train and took them toward the office building.
• Xiang Yun struggled to drive, and Zhang Chen stopped the car with Telekinesis when she swerved to avoid bodies on the road.
• Zhang Chen had Chong Ying test her venom on a vine-infested soldier, but the corpse dissolved before she could remove the plants safely.
• At the office building, Zhang Chen told Lian Yuxin that Chong Ying might be able to remove the plants inside Huang Ce.
• Lian Yuxin used liquefied mental power to channel Chong Ying’s venom through Huang Ce, clearing nearly all the vines while the red ribbon prevented them from regrowing.