Chapter Summaries

Zhang Chen secured a post guarding Nagoya University Hospital’s blood bank while Lu Sheng took the others out for sushi and a night on the town. As Zhang Chen headed back to the hospital alone, a tabby cat with ghostly green eyes stared at him from across the street.

• A woman in Japan fed her adopted feral cats with a criminal’s remains while sewing his body into a headless specimen, then went out to chat with her neighbors.
• Zhang Chen donated blood at Nagoya University Hospital and learned where its blood bank was located.
• Yui possessed two security guards, and Zhang Chen erased their memories, sent them home, and took one guard’s place at the blood bank.
• Zhang Chen joined Lu Sheng and the others for sushi, where his and Chong Ying’s appetites left Lu Sheng worried about the bill.
• Lu Sheng took the others out for the evening while Zhang Chen stayed behind to guard the blood bank.
• On his way back to the hospital, Zhang Chen saw a green-eyed tabby cat watching him from across the street.

Zhang Chen encountered a black cat and a woman in a mink coat while avoiding the ten high-level VIPs hunting him, then identified them as a Two-tailed Nekomata. The Nekomata sent him an invitation to meet at the Matsumoto residence, while the files on another pursuer—the artificial human—left him troubled.

• Zhang Chen spotted a green-eyed black cat following him through the hospital and pretended to be an ordinary security guard.
• A woman in a mink coat entered the elevator with Zhang Chen, but he left safely after petting the black cat that appeared at Basement Level 1.
• Zhang Chen found the Two-tailed Nekomata in Lu Sheng's files and recognized her as the woman from the elevator.
• A black cat delivered a letter from Matsumoto Nao inviting Zhang Chen to meet her at the Matsumoto residence before eleven the next morning.
• Zhang Chen planned to discuss the meeting with Lu Sheng and frowned after reading the file on the artificial human among the ten pursuers.

Zhang Chen learned more about the dangerous artificial human Heichuan Jun and discussed his plans with Lu Sheng, who arranged to conceal him during his visit to Two-tailed Nekomata. Meanwhile, a plane arriving in Tokyo was found empty and filled with unnatural darkness.

• Zhang Chen read records describing Heichuan Jun’s transformation into an artificial human, his rapid rise in strength, and his killing of Black Mound.
• Lu Sheng returned with Chong Ying, and Zhang Chen showed them Two-tailed Nekomata’s profile and explained that she had invited him to visit alone.
• Lu Sheng warned Zhang Chen that Nekomata had tried to seduce him before, described her as kind-hearted despite killing criminals, and said Zhang Chen might still recruit her.
• Zhang Chen proposed killing Heichuan Jun, but Lu Sheng argued that artificial humans could not break through their limits and that an attack would jeopardize their position.
• Lu Sheng said he would use Mirror Flower, Water Moon to erase Zhang Chen from the world for an hour so he could reach Nekomata’s home.
• A flight from Huaxia Country landed at Narita Airport, where staff opened its darkened cabin and found that every passenger and crew member had vanished.

Zhang Chen explored a ruined Japanese city in a Dreamscape, where an earthquake killed him before he could inspect a glowing underground depression. After identifying the city as Kyoto Prefecture, he hurried to meet Nekomata and arrived at her house, where she suddenly moved to kiss him.

• Zhang Chen realized his Dream Sight Body had brought him to an abandoned city and wondered whether it was connected to the hospital or the past.
• An earthquake opened a vast depression in the city, and Zhang Chen descended toward a reddish glow before falling and being killed by debris.
• Zhang Chen searched online and identified the Dreamscape city as central Kyoto Prefecture, then tried to return to the Dreamscape but found only darkness.
• Lu Sheng woke Zhang Chen and told him to hurry to his meeting with Nekomata, and Zhang Chen left the hospital without using Prison Envoy abilities.
• Zhang Chen found Nekomata at her villa, where a black cat dispelled his unease and Nekomata fed him rice balls.
• Nekomata crawled across the table and moved in to kiss Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen resisted Matsumoto Nao’s attempts to seduce him and learned that she wanted him to create a flesh-and-blood vessel for the vengeful souls she had collected. He negotiated for her help with his group’s business in Japan, and she agreed to consider it if he made the vessel well.

• Zhang Chen expelled the aphrodisiac Matsumoto Nao had put in his rice ball and learned that her cats could recognize his eyes despite his disguise.
• Zhang Chen investigated the resentful aura upstairs, where Matsumoto Nao showed him a suitcase containing hundreds of vengeful souls and asked him to make them a vessel.
• Zhang Chen learned that Matsumoto Nao had been a housecat whose soul became a ghost after accumulating deep resentment.
• Zhang Chen negotiated for Matsumoto Nao to secretly assist his group in Japan, and she said she would consider it if his creation was good enough.

Zhang Chen agreed to help Nekomata create a powerful living corpse using her collection of human skins and his rare Bone Blood. Meanwhile, Jia Xin infiltrated the JR Central Tower Building, killed an attacker, and completed a pentagram ritual on the rooftop.

• Nekomata showed Zhang Chen 947 preserved human skins and demonstrated how a vengeful soul could animate one as a living corpse.
• Zhang Chen identified the corpse’s weaknesses and agreed to use his Bone Blood to help Nekomata create a stronger vessel, possibly using all of her skins.
• Nekomata kissed Zhang Chen and said she would prepare lunch before they began their work that afternoon.
• Jia Xin entered the JR Central Tower Building unnoticed and climbed to an elevator, where an elderly man attacked him with venomous snake heads growing from his fingers.
• Jia Xin killed the old man, whose body and head burned to ashes, then went to the rooftop and arranged five unusual items in a pentagram ritual.

Zhang Chen and Little Mouth devised a way to make a body capable of containing nearly a thousand resentful souls, despite Little Mouth’s plan to use the opportunity to spy on Nekomata. With Matsumoto’s approval, Zhang Chen created the vessel and Little Mouth’s consciousness calmed the souls inside it, but Matsumoto witnessed the pale energy entering the body.

• Zhang Chen tried placing resentful souls into a body he had made, but the body exploded when it could not contain them.
• Little Mouth proposed using its own consciousness to govern the souls and secretly spy on Nekomata, and Zhang Chen agreed after refusing to make her their prey.
• Zhang Chen followed Little Mouth’s plan while explaining his solution to Matsumoto, who agreed on the condition that the governing consciousness could not act independently.
• Zhang Chen fused more than nine hundred human skins with Bone Blood to create a flesh-and-blood container, and Matsumoto praised his work.
• Matsumoto sent the resentful souls into the container, and Zhang Chen released Little Mouth’s consciousness to calm them as Matsumoto saw the pale energy enter the body.

Fujiwara bought a mysterious book titled “Jealousy,” which transformed his long-standing envy into murderous intent. After killing three coworkers, he attacked Tsukagawa Kenichi and prepared to torture him.

• Fujiwara bought an ancient leather-bound book from a mysterious seller and read it through the night, changing his outlook.
• Fujiwara acted warmly toward three coworkers who had mocked him, then killed and mutilated them after taking them to dinner.
• Fujiwara brought Tsukagawa Kenichi a birthday cake and arranged to stay late with him at the office.
• Fujiwara knocked Tsukagawa unconscious with a hammer, then bound him naked in a dark room and approached with instruments.

Fujiwara surrendered his jealousy to Heichuan Jun, who turned it into one of the Seven Deadly Sins and prepared to pursue greed and gluttony. In Nagoya, Zhang Chen successfully stabilized a body of sinful souls for Matsumoto, then met Lu Sheng outside her home.

• Fujiwara returned to the bookseller and followed him into an underground cellar, where he agreed to give up his jealousy.
• Heichuan Jun drained Fujiwara’s flesh, refined his remains into a black cylinder, and inserted it into one of the holes in his back.
• Heichuan Jun identified greed as the last key sin he sought and gluttony as the target of an upcoming operation to capture the Level 3 Jailer Minister.
• Zhang Chen stabilized the body containing nearly a thousand sinful souls after Little Mouth’s consciousness entered it, and Matsumoto confirmed it had an unowned consciousness.
• Matsumoto offered to repay Zhang Chen, but he declined; after they exchanged phone numbers, Lu Sheng waited for Zhang Chen outside her home.

Zhao Mu prepared for an international operation in the Imperial Capital, while his past revealed how grief drove him from Shaolin into a career as a fighter. In 1985, after being forced into an underground death match, he fought through dozens of opponents and finally killed the arena’s king, Black Willie, before dying from his injuries and exhaustion.

• Zhao Mu trained at twenty-five times Earth's gravity until Zhuge summoned him to an advance meeting for an international operation.
• Zhao Mu left Shaolin after learning his father needed costly surgery, won martial arts competitions to earn money, and returned to find his father dead with a final letter asking him to leave boxing and build a family.
• After refusing an American corporation’s demand to throw the 1985 International Sanda Championship final, Zhao Mu was betrayed by his manager and forced into an underground death match.
• Zhao Mu killed seventy-three underground fighters over seven hours, then faced the returning arena champion Black Willie.
• Black Willie broke several of Zhao Mu’s ribs, but Zhao Mu eventually killed him and died standing, gripping the iron bars with his bloodied hand.

Zhang Chen discussed his plans and concerns with Lu Sheng, then received a warning from Liu Nuo about a hidden force in Japan before Lu Sheng abruptly cut off the call and took him away. The chapter left the meaning of Liu Nuo’s warning and Lu Sheng’s sudden move unresolved.

• On the subway, Lu Sheng questioned Zhang Chen about Jia Xin and explained that recovering Liu Nuo’s physical body would be nearly impossible until they dealt with Shuten Doji.
• Zhang Chen asked Lu Sheng about Kyoto Prefecture, and Lu Sheng promised to explain the matter privately that night.
• At a ramen shop, Chong Ying offered Zhang Chen a fried shrimp, while Little Nirvana teased them and Jia Xin smiled.
• Zhang Chen answered Liu Nuo’s coded call, and she warned that something hidden in Japan might be creating a brain capable of replacing Earth’s before the signal died.
• Lu Sheng’s aura changed, he cut Zhang Chen’s white watch with Mimi Kirimaru, and he took Zhang Chen through ripples in the ground.

Lu Sheng took Zhang Chen away while Jia Xin prepared to mislead whoever came looking for him. The chapter then followed Chino Suzu into a rumored cosmetics shop, where its pale proprietress transformed her face and killed her to make another mask before vanishing.

• Lu Sheng left with Zhang Chen, while Jia Xin told Chong Ying and Little Nirvana to clear the ramen shop and pretend Zhang Chen was not there.
• Chong Ying drove out the shop's customers and owner, and Jia Xin retrieved Lu Sheng's broken watch as the street fell dark.
• Chino Suzu went searching for the rumored white cosmetics shop after a classmate rejected her and failed to recognize her.
• Chino Suzu found the shop, where its pale proprietress applied white powder that made her face beautiful.
• The proprietress cut Chino Suzu's face off to create a new mask, then vanished as a puddle of white powder.

Jia Xin and his companions faced three powerful ghostly creatures while Zhang Chen escaped with Lu Sheng to Meidai Affiliated Hospital. There, Zhang Chen's despair triggered a terrifying mutation, drawing the attention of a Flesh and Blood creature.

• Jia Xin identified the kappa, the darkness-controlling man, and the White Powder Hag, then ordered Chong Ying and Little Nirvana to fight defensively and lose so they could escape.
• Jia Xin and Little Nirvana fled in separate directions when the ramen shop went dark, leaving Chong Ying trapped in the White Powder Hag's domain of faces.
• Lu Sheng brought Zhang Chen through the Dreamscape to the hospital's underground blood bank and explained that Shuten had left Japan, then went to help Zhang Chen's friends.
• Lu Sheng ordered Yui to conceal Zhang Chen's aura, but Zhang Chen's despair transformed his aura into a predatory force and dozens of mouths swallowed Yui's ribbons.
• A white-lipped Flesh and Blood creature opened its eyes in a West District loft and smiled.

Meiharu and a younger nurse entered the underground blood bank to retrieve blood for a critically injured driver, where they encountered Zhang Chen in a monstrous, bloodthirsty state. Jia Xin arrived to confront Zhang Chen while Lu Sheng maintained a barrier around the hospital.

• Meiharu and the younger nurse found the guard missing and the blood bank’s steel doors torn apart, but entered to retrieve the compatible blood despite the danger.
• After the younger nurse sneezed, Zhang Chen attacked her and began consuming her heart and blood.
• Zhang Chen caught Meiharu with a tongue growing from his back, but Jia Xin cut it apart and confronted him.
• Lu Sheng explained that Jia Xin, Chong Ying, and Little Nirvana had returned after Chong Ying killed White Powder Hag and Jia Xin misled their pursuers.
• Yui warned that something evil had awakened inside Zhang Chen and might devour the hospital, so Jia Xin went to stop him while Lu Sheng maintained the barrier and Chong Ying prepared to assist.

Zhao Mu reunited with members of the Huaxia Country squad selected for an operation in Japan and reviewed the threats and intelligence they faced. Zhuge Feixuan revealed that Divine Marquis’s disciple, Zhang Chen, was already in Japan, and Zhao Mu studied his unusually restricted file.

• Zhuge Feixuan, Xiao Qin, Black Eagle, and Luo Dakou began eating while they waited for Zhao Mu, and Zhao Mu arrived and greeted Xiao Qin and Black Eagle.
• Zhao Mu recalled how he had survived the failed Curse Operation in Thailand, destroyed the Curse Society’s base, and risen from thirty-fifth to fifteenth place in the Jailer Ranking Tournament.
• Zhuge Feixuan briefed the squad that they would reach Japan two days before other countries’ spies and said Southeast Asia’s three-person team would meet them in the Imperial Capital.
• Zhuge Feixuan told Zhao Mu that Divine Marquis’s Level 3 Jailer Minister disciple, Zhang Chen, was already in Japan, but Divine Marquis had instructed the squad not to interfere unless Zhang Chen asked for help.
• Zhao Mu examined Zhang Chen’s file and noted that its encryption level matched his own.

Lu Sheng worried that Zhang Chen’s gluttony had become too powerful to control, while Little Nirvana resolved to pursue a dangerous course to grow stronger. Jia Xin fought Zhang Chen after his transformation, but Chong Ying eventually subdued him and made the gluttony vanish.

• Little Nirvana asked Lu Sheng whether she could reach high-level VIP strength, then declared her determination to take a dangerous step so she could remain by her Master’s side.
• Jia Xin attacked Zhang Chen with silver needles and his Roaming Dragon Sword, but Zhang Chen’s mouths expelled the restraints and severed Jia Xin’s right arm.
• Zhang Chen transformed his arms into bone blades and battered Jia Xin, destroying his child sword and forcing him to retreat with a teleportation technique.
• Jia Xin bound Zhang Chen with Azure Dragon Binding and called for Chong Ying, while Zhang Chen’s mouths began consuming the binding’s aura.
• Chong Ying covered Zhang Chen with a pale substance and sent him to sleep, causing the gluttony aura in Basement Level 1 to disappear.

Zhang Chen woke from a strange white-world dream in which he searched for Wang Yizhi, then learned that the Hellbound Envoys’ attack on Japan had been moved up and that Liu Nuo was safe. After his master told him about five Chinese Hellbound Envoys arriving in Japan, Zhang Chen discovered that his Blood Realm Contract was missing.

• Zhang Chen explored a white version of Jinxi County, found plastic mannequins in place of its people, and searched Wang Yizhi’s apartment, where he found no sign of her and saw an unfamiliar family portrait.
• White dandelion-like clusters covered Zhang Chen, and he awoke in a hospital with Chong Ying watching over him; Lu Sheng explained that she had dealt with the White Powder Hag while Zhang Chen slept.
• Lu Sheng told Zhang Chen that Hellbound Envoys from around the world would invade Japan two days earlier than planned, that Shuten Doji would be their target, and that Liu Nuo was safe in Japan.
• Chong Ying told Zhang Chen that he had called Wang Yizhi’s name in his sleep, and Zhang Chen texted her; she replied that she was going fishing with her parents by the Jinxi River.
• Zhang Chen’s master said five Chinese Hellbound Envoys would arrive in Japan the next day and advised him to befriend one of his half-disciples; afterward, Zhang Chen found his Blood Realm Contract missing from his hand.

Zhang Chen learned that Little Nirvana had chosen to leave and train with the Nurarihyon Group, then discovered that his body had changed during a mysterious gap in his memories. After receiving Divine Marquis’s profiles of the Huaxia Jailers joining the Japan operation, Zhang Chen resolved to meet Zhao Mu and seek his help.

• Zhang Chen learned from Lu Sheng that Little Nirvana had voluntarily ended their contract and joined the Nurarihyon Group to train.
• Lu Sheng gave Zhang Chen a laptop and said they would discuss Kyoto that evening.
• Zhang Chen summoned Little Mouth, who explained that it had fused another layer of Zhang Chen’s blood-bone body and main soul during his strange state.
• Little Mouth urged Zhang Chen to devour ghosts and target Shuten Doji, and Zhang Chen agreed they could act the next day.
• Zhang Chen read Divine Marquis’s profiles of five Huaxia Jailers and identified Zhao Mu as a powerful ally who might help him bring Liu Nuo’s soul body into the organization’s core.

Black Eagle received three Southeast Asian jailers in the Imperial Capital, and Zhuge Feixuan prepared Huaxia’s team for the Japan Annihilation Plan. In Nagoya, Little Mouth revealed herself as the one behind the cat killings and devoured Nekomata’s corpse.

• Black Eagle escorted Centipede, Thailand’s Ghost Tamer Master, and Shiva to the Shangri-La Hotel and identified them to Zhuge Feixuan.
• Zhuge Feixuan worried that Shiva, a powerful jailer who had inherited the God of Destruction’s legacy, could challenge Zhao Mu.
• Zhao Mu arrived at the conference room and joked about the mission while Zhuge Feixuan explained that Xiao Qin would join the operation but skip the meeting.
• In Nagoya, police and neighbors discovered at least one hundred dead stray cats at Cat Lady’s home, but the police left after speaking with the Mistress.
• The woman at the villa revealed herself as Little Mouth and devoured the real Nekomata’s corpse, consuming its ghostly souls.

Shuten Doji discussed the arriving international Jailers and suspected that Zhang Chen had joined forces with Lu Sheng, then planned an attack at a Nagoya hospital. Meanwhile, Jia Xin restored his arm and went to the Nagoya Port Aquarium, where he encountered Xiao Bai outside the Deep Sea Pavilion Control Center.

• Shuten Doji told Heichuan Jun and The Custodian that Zhang Chen might be protected by Lu Sheng and proposed that they restrain Zhang Chen while he dealt with Lu Sheng.
• Shuten Doji threatened Heichuan Jun against plotting against him, and Heichuan Jun abandoned his plans for the night.
• Jia Xin used heavenly treasures to reconstruct his right arm and set out to establish a formation at the harbor aquarium.
• Jia Xin entered the aquarium's staff area, knocked out a technician, took his clothes, and reached the Deep Sea Pavilion Control Center.
• A stern-faced staff member with emerald-green eyes appeared behind Jia Xin, and Jia Xin recognized his junior brother Xiao Bai.