Chapter Summaries

Lian Yuxin briefed Zhang Chen on Tian Hua, the three unknown ghosts, and the planned operation in Changsha. Fei Bai tested Zhang Chen’s strength and made a wager over taking Chong Ying to the capital, then accepted Zhang Chen as backup for the operation.

• Lian Yuxin explained that Tian Hua had spread zombies across Changsha and that three ghosts had ambushed the Jailers while they fought him.
• Lian Yuxin told Zhang Chen that Tian Hua was comparable to a Wraith but could not use his own abilities and USO-003’s abilities at the same time.
• Fei Bai asked Zhang Chen to spar and wagered that he could take Chong Ying to the capital if Zhang Chen lost.
• Zhang Chen’s Blood Demon power surged, and he briefly sensed a connection to an underground area before using Black Coffin against Fei Bai.
• Fei Bai shattered Black Coffin and overwhelmed Zhang Chen, who conceded and agreed to serve as backup for the operation.

The Jailers and three ghostly creatures prepared to move against Tian Hua, whose location and allies remained uncertain. Fei Bai assigned Zhang Chen to lure the creatures to Tian Hua and provoke a clash by using Fang Xiao Mei, while promising to help Zhang Chen become a Jailer Minister if the plan succeeded.

• Old Bone ordered Flying Fate Demon to find Tian Hua underground before noon, and she disappeared to begin reconnaissance.
• Fei Bai assigned a team to eliminate Tian Hua and others to monitor the three ghostly creatures lurking nearby.
• Zhang Chen revealed that he sensed a Blood Realm creature beneath Orange Isle and explained the Japanese website members' connection to the mission.
• Fei Bai concluded that the ghostly creatures might want to recruit Tian Hua and tasked Zhang Chen with luring them to him and turning them against each other.
• Fei Bai introduced Fang Xiao Mei, a constructed figure resembling Tian Hua's only friend in life, and proposed using her death to enrage Tian Hua.
• Zhang Chen agreed to carry out the plan, and Fei Bai promised to help him become a Jailer Minister if it succeeded.

Zhang Chen met with Ishihara Yui, who agreed to help him lure her allies to Tian Hua, then entered the damaged headquarters' central area with her. Underground, he found a Blood Demon instead of Tian Hua, who had gone upstairs to slaughter civilians.

• Zhang Chen followed the red ribbon to Ishihara Yui, who proposed working with him to eliminate her two allies and learn about her past.
• Zhang Chen planned to turn Yui's allies against Tian Hua, and Yui agreed to bring them to him.
• Yui helped Zhang Chen pass through the electromagnetic barrier into the headquarters' central area.
• Zhang Chen followed a trail of blood energy underground and discovered signs that a Blood Demon had been released.
• A Blood Demon emerged from an intermediate Ghostly Creature and told Zhang Chen that Tian Hua had gone upstairs to slaughter civilians.

Tian Hua infiltrated the He household during a military inspection, killed the family members and soldier, and destroyed the transforming He Qi with sunlight as a zombie outbreak crippled the central district. Elsewhere, Zhang Chen offered Wu Zhong a drop of vital blood, triggering the Blood Demon’s frenzy, then escaped the sealed laboratory to continue searching for Tian Hua.

• He Qi’s parents concealed his infection, killed Cheng Youfu and Shen Xin, and tried to feed their transforming son while hiding him from a military inspection.
• A soldier discovered He Qi and shot He Xinjun, but Tian Hua entered, killed Qi Xiaoqin and the soldier, and exposed He Qi to sunlight until he dissolved into pus.
• A rocket strike and the resulting outbreak crippled nearly one-third of the military forces and turned one-fifth of the central district’s citizens into zombies, canceling the territory expansion.
• Zhang Chen gave Wu Zhong a drop of vital blood, causing Wu Zhong to erupt in blood and flood the enormous laboratory.
• Zhang Chen crushed Lian Yuxin’s crystalline particle and vanished with Yui before Wu Zhong could reach them.

Zhao Guangbin led special forces to Moon Lake Park, where Tian Hua ambushed and overwhelmed them. Zhang Chen arrived to find Tian Hua, but Yui drained Zhao Guangbin’s blood and appeared before Tian Hua to greet him.

• Zhao Guangbin ordered the troops to retreat toward the center and led thirty special soldiers to Moon Lake Park to crush the zombies in the south.
• Zhao Guangbin’s force found a mutilated soldier kneeling in an intersection, then fought off Black Zombies that sprang from underground.
• Tian Hua appeared and infected all thirty special soldiers, leaving Zhao Guangbin as the only one still standing.
• Zhang Chen returned to the surface and searched the central district for Tian Hua while civilians were attacked by zombies.
• Zhang Chen found Tian Hua at Moon Lake Park, where Yui drained Zhao Guangbin’s blood and transformed before greeting Tian Hua.

Zhang Chen and Fei Bai put their plan into motion to bring Tian Hua together with Bone Elder and the other ghosts, while Wang Yizhi sent Chong Ying to help if the plan failed. The meeting began smoothly, but the arrival of Fang Xiao Mei’s spirit body exposed the trap and ended with Tian Hua destroying it.

• Yui reported that Tian Hua had agreed to meet the ghosts in Moon Lake Park, and Zhang Chen informed Fei Bai of the situation.
• Fei Bai ordered the group to prepare, while Wang Yizhi sent Chong Ying to help Zhang Chen if the plan failed.
• Zhang Chen hid Fang Xiao Mei’s spirit body in the stilt house as Yui brought Bone Elder and the human demon to meet Tian Hua.
• Bone Elder discussed the organization’s goals with Tian Hua and identified the 1,008-eyed flesh worm as possibly connected to the Zero Realm Insect World.
• Fang Xiao Mei’s spirit body climbed to the top floor and approached Tian Hua, who waved his hand and made her body explode.

Zhang Chen recalled how Little Nirvana had gained a path to become a Nightmare after absorbing Chong Ying’s grandfather, then learned that USO-003 might contain blood from an Insect Realm powerhouse. At Moon Lake, Tian Hua killed Fang Xiao Mei and turned the situation against Fei Bai’s group, while the Blood Demon pursued Zhang Chen.

• Zhang Chen remembered that Little Nirvana’s Nightmare advancement required either the blood of one hundred thousand people or a drop of blood from the Insect Realm’s supreme being.
• Chong Ying’s grandfather confronted her at school, but Zhang Chen took her away and, at her request, Little Nirvana killed the old man and absorbed his Coiled Head Scorpion.
• The Blood Realm transmitted a message to Little Nirvana, revealing its two possible paths to becoming a Nightmare.
• After hearing Bone Elder’s account of USO-003, Zhang Chen suspected the clone might contain blood from an Insect Realm powerhouse and began considering how to obtain it.
• At Moon Lake, Tian Hua killed Fang Xiao Mei before Fei Bai’s group could act, and Wu Zhong rose from the lake and pursued Zhang Chen.
• Tian Hua asked Bone Elder to prove his sincerity by killing Fei Bai’s group, making Tian Hua the one controlling the plan.

Zhang Chen, Little Nirvana, and Yui fought the Blood Demon Wu Zhong while Tian Hua remained a possible threat. Zhang Chen used ghostification to wound Wu Zhong and began devouring him, while Yui slipped into the Blood Demon's body.

• Lian Yuxin warned Zhang Chen to evacuate, but Tian Hua's electromagnetic field sealed off the space and blocked his escape.
• Zhang Chen fled toward Changsha City's outskirts, where Wu Zhong appeared on an overpass, and Little Nirvana joined him.
• Wu Zhong attacked Zhang Chen with Blood Rain, stirring their negative emotions, but Zhang Chen used meditation and the Blood Realm Contract to calm himself and Little Nirvana.
• Zhang Chen ghostified to conceal his blood and kicked Wu Zhong apart, then clashed with the Blood Demon's true body and wrapped him in his tongues to devour him.
• As Wu Zhong focused on resisting Zhang Chen's tongues, Yui slipped silently into his body.

Zhang Chen and Little Nirvana fought Blood Demon Wu Zhong, but Tian Hua arrived and severely injured Chong Ying before a mysterious taxi driver spirited them away. Elsewhere, Fei Bai killed the Vine Demon and set out to find Zhang Chen, only to learn that Zhang Chen's aura had vanished.

• Zhang Chen disrupted Wu Zhong with red ribbons and, with Little Nirvana, struck him with a Blood Bone Arrow, but Wu Zhong regenerated from the supreme blood inside him.
• Chong Ying attacked Wu Zhong, but Tian Hua struck her with a lightning-fast hammer and grievously wounded her.
• A young taxi driver took Zhang Chen, Little Nirvana, and Chong Ying away as the surroundings shifted into thick fog, leaving Wu Zhong and Tian Hua unable to sense Zhang Chen.
• Fei Bai, Lian Yuxin, and Huang Ce withdrew from the Island Nation ghosts, then Fei Bai ambushed and tore apart the Vine Demon while Bone Elder escaped.
• Fei Bai led Lian Yuxin and Huang Ce to search for Zhang Chen, but Lian Yuxin's attempt to contact him ended when his aura disappeared.

Zhang Chen and Chong Ying recovered in the publishing house after Little Nirvana devoured a hidden USO-003 offspring, while Zhang Chen accepted a mission to find the taxi driver's evil incarnation. The driver then met Wang Yizhi, revealed his name was Qing Ghost, and agreed to let her continue her plans for three days before intervening.

• Zhang Chen paid Qing Ghost with a Warden-class Soul Stone and agreed to locate his evil incarnation in exchange for a ride back to the original world.
• Little Nirvana calmed Chong Ying's agitated ghost insects, and Zhang Chen forced a hidden electrical offspring of USO-003 into her right leg, where Little Nirvana swallowed it.
• Chong Ying recovered and admitted she had left Wang Yizhi and Xiang Yun's protected location because she sensed Zhang Chen was in danger.
• Qing Ghost entered the office where Wang Yizhi was waiting and discussed the people he had rescued, the missing Tengu, and the danger posed by the city troublemaker.
• Wang Yizhi refused Qing Ghost's offer to kill the troublemaker, and Qing Ghost gave her three days to resolve the matter before he acted himself.

Zhang Chen and his companions explored the Otherworld and found a survivor settlement of exactly 500 people, sustained by replacements whenever residents died. After learning that the settlement’s statue resembled the taxi driver and was said to depict the source of all evil, Zhang Chen went underground to seek more information.

• When the Otherworld descended, Zhang Chen extracted a corrupted human’s memories and learned of an underground shelter and a statue resembling the taxi driver.
• Zhang Chen and Little Nirvana found Pu Fangxin being lured toward a lake by a monster disguised as his dead wife, and the red-haired young man killed the lake creature.
• Zhang Chen introduced himself and his companions to Pu Fangxin, subtly used Mind Control on him, and asked him to lead them to the shelter.
• Pu Fangxin told Zhang Chen that the shelter held exactly 500 survivors, that newcomers replaced the dead, and that food shortages had recently forced people to travel farther during the Otherworld.
• At the shelter entrance, Zhang Chen asked about the statue, and Pu Fangxin said it depicted the source of all evil before leading the group underground.

Zhang Chen learned from Zhang Minjie that a blue, giant-headed creature matching the statue had appeared in a Bubugao Supermarket during the Inner World seven years earlier, and he went there with Little Nirvana and Chong Ying to investigate. After the Inner World ended, Zhang Minjie activated a hidden green mark beneath his bed and disappeared.

• Wei Yandong welcomed Zhang Chen, Little Nirvana, and Chong Ying into the underground shelter and warned them about the statue.
• Wei Yandong introduced the confined Zhang Minjie, whose memories revealed how a blue giant-headed creature killed his three companions in a Bubugao Supermarket.
• Zhang Chen learned that the supermarket was about eight kilometers from the city center and left the shelter with Little Nirvana and Chong Ying.
• Zhang Chen and his companions reached the supermarket, waited for the Inner World to descend, and planned to search it for anything unusual.
• After the Inner World ended, Zhang Minjie moved his bed, stepped onto a hidden green mark, and vanished in a flash of light.

Zhang Chen, Chong Ying, and Little Nirvana searched Bubugao Supermarket’s hidden basement for clues and encountered a big-headed monster that nearly killed Little Nirvana. After discovering that the basement’s inhabitants followed different rules from the shelter survivors, Zhang Chen realized the two locations were connected and returned to the shelter to investigate a matching formation beneath Zhang Minjie’s bed, unaware that something was watching from a wardrobe.

• Zhang Chen divided the search of Bubugao Supermarket among himself, Little Nirvana, and Chong Ying, then discovered a hidden basement entrance in a fitting room.
• Zhang Chen and his companions searched the basement’s many identical bedrooms, where Little Nirvana found a dark green formation beneath a bed and was attacked by a big-headed monster from a wardrobe.
• Zhang Chen reached Little Nirvana after an explosion and found him gravely wounded, then pursued the fleeing monster with Chong Ying through the maze-like basement.
• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying encountered a woman who explained that the basement had five hundred residents and different rules, prompting Zhang Chen to recognize that the basement and shelter were linked.
• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying returned to the shelter, found its rooms empty, and uncovered a dark green formation beneath Zhang Minjie’s bed while an unseen watcher waited in the wardrobe.

Zhang Chen faced a time-controlling incarnation of evil intent and survived by figuring out how its attacks worked, then devoured it and raised his Sub-soul Stone compatibility. The taxi driver appeared afterward, saying he had helped Zhang Chen in exchange for something, and invited him to ride back.

• Zhang Chen used Ziwu's temporal perception to evade the cyan-skinned man's first attack, while Chong Ying hid nearby and watched.
• In a flashback to August 2008, Liu Nuo warned Zhang Chen that his Sub-soul Stone's 21% compatibility made using its power dangerous and said he could improve it by devouring a time-controlling ghostly creature.
• The cyan-skinned man repeatedly attacked Zhang Chen, severing his arm and then his head and upper torso before remaining motionless for a period.
• Zhang Chen deduced that the man paid for each attack by being forced to stay still, then charged past him and swallowed the incarnation of evil intent.
• The white watch reported that the time-type lifeform had raised Zhang Chen's Sub-soul Stone compatibility by 23%, and the taxi driver arrived and offered him a ride back.

Zhang Chen and Chong Ying returned to the office building after surviving the Chaos Demon King’s trial, where they learned that the Blood Demon had wiped out the central district and that an operation against him and Tian Hua was planned for eight that night. The driver warned Zhang Chen about the red ribbon on his wrist and gave the survivors three days to resolve the crisis before he intervened.

• Chong Ying scolded Zhang Chen for risking his life, and he apologized before they left with the driver.
• Zhang Chen explained how he had deduced the driver’s motives and learned that the driver was a ghostly creature called Green Ghost, formerly known as John.
• Green Ghost said someone had asked him not to intervene yet, gave the survivors three days to resolve the crisis, and warned Zhang Chen not to tell the capital about him.
• After Green Ghost drove away, Lian Yuxin reconnected with Zhang Chen, who returned upstairs with Chong Ying and learned the Blood Demon had destroyed the central district.
• Fei Bai said the Blood Demon and Tian Hua had hidden after the massacre and that the group planned an operation for eight that night.
• Fei Bai, Lian Yuxin, and Huang Ce suspected Zhang Chen had a hidden trump card and agreed to keep his secrets guarded.

Zhang Chen questioned Yui about the people secretly helping him, then tested the Sub-soul Stone’s power in a secluded room. His attempt to erase Yui from a segment of time triggered a dangerous transformation, and the chapter ended after Yui stopped it and Zhang Chen restored her arm.

• Wang Yizhi asked Zhang Chen where he had been, and he promised to take her and Xiang Yun out for a good meal.
• Yui warned Zhang Chen that Old Bone had joined forces with Tian Hua and the Blood Demon, and she said Tian Hua was exceptionally dangerous.
• When Yui nearly identified the person helping Zhang Chen, a sudden darkness stopped her from revealing more.
• Zhang Chen used the Sub-soul Stone to manipulate time and tried to erase Yui from a segment, but the power went out of control and a violet-crystal tail erupted from his spine.
• Yui severed the tail with her short sword, losing her right arm in the process, and Zhang Chen regained consciousness and reconstructed her arm.

While Zhang Chen dreamed of the Sub-soul Stone and the clown being pulled into a massive rock, Little Nirvana revealed that the stone had altered Zhang Chen’s body. After dinner, Fei Bai outlined the mission against Tian Hua and the allied ghostly creatures, and Zhang Chen volunteered to face the Skeleton Old Man alone.

• Zhang Chen explored his consciousness space, where violet creatures gathered around a massive rock that pulled the Sub-soul Stone from his chest and drew the clown into its center.
• Zhang Chen woke to find Little Nirvana and the others preparing a hot-pot meal, and he secretly fed Yui through his Blood Demon Body.
• Little Nirvana told Zhang Chen that the Sub-soul Stone had infused strange energy into his body while he slept, though Zhang Chen had felt no change.
• Fei Bai explained that Tian Hua had joined forces with the isolated Eastern Island ghostly creature and assigned the group to fight their enemies.
• Zhang Chen received a telepathic message and declared that he would face the Skeleton Old Man alone.

Zhang Chen lured Bone Old Man away from the others and used a red ribbon trap to expose him to the mission restriction. As Bone Old Man’s body transformed, Zhang Chen’s enormous mouth swallowed him.

• Fei Bai divided the group’s responsibilities, leaving his finger clone to guard Wang Yizhi and Xiang Yun while the others headed west toward the suburbs.
• Zhang Chen, Fei Bai, and their companions reached the fields, where Wu Zhong’s blood clone attacked and Fei Bai crushed it before the three enemies arrived.
• Fei Bai faced Tian Hua with two Underworld Wardens as lightning suddenly struck their battlefield, while Zhang Chen led Little Nirvana and Chong Ying into the mountains to confront Wu Zhong.
• Bone Old Man ignored Wu Zhong’s fight and followed Zhang Chen’s red ribbons to a secluded pool, where Zhang Chen revealed that he had lured him there to kill him.
• Yui warned that attacking someone on the same mission would activate Bone Old Man’s restriction, and Zhang Chen swallowed him as his body began to transform.

After finding Liu Nuo’s warning that Old Bone was the Corpse Demon, Zhang Chen lured him into the mountains and attempted to swallow him. The ambush failed, but as Old Bone neared Nightmare power and impaled Yui, Zhang Chen vanished and Old Bone’s body was devoured by seven mouths, leaving Zhang Chen standing where he had been.

• Liu Nuo sent Zhang Chen a warning that Old Bone was the Corpse Demon and left details about its bones and limited Nightmare energy at a mountain coordinate.
• Zhang Chen used Yui’s red ribbons and a supposed alliance to lure Old Bone into the mountains, then swallowed him, only for Old Bone to attack from hiding.
• Old Bone sent dozens of duplicates after Zhang Chen, who used Blood Realm Descends while Yui spread ribbons to search for the real body.
• Zhang Chen seeped through loose earth into a cave, found Old Bone gathering Nightmare energy, and attacked with Black Coffin as Yui joined the fight.
• Old Bone tore apart Black Coffin and impaled Yui, but Zhang Chen vanished as Old Bone shattered and his remains were swallowed by seven mouths.

Zhang Chen killed Skeleton Old Man by dismembering and consuming him, then endured a severe bodily mutation caused by the time backlash and Nightmare remains. He emerged gaunt and bloodthirsty, absorbing Wu Zhong’s blood attack and tearing into the Blood Demon as Chong Ying and Little Nirvana struggled nearby.

• Yui considered taking Zhang Chen’s VIP card but waited as he recovered, while Zhang Chen recalled using the Sub-soul Stone to freeze and dismember Skeleton Old Man before consuming his pieces.
• Lord Kousuo warned Zhang Chen about the dangers of time backlash and told him to study the changes in his body after returning to the cave.
• Zhang Chen convulsed as his bones and flesh transformed, causing the sealed cave to collapse around him and earning 5000 Jailer contribution value for killing part of a Nightmare.
• Wu Zhong wounded Little Nirvana and Chong Ying, injected them with his blood, and was interrupted when a gaunt, unconscious Zhang Chen approached from the forest.
• Zhang Chen absorbed Wu Zhong’s blood wave, seized the Blood Demon, tore out his heart, and began devouring him.