Chapter Summaries

Father Andersen revealed the Heroic Spirit Longinus and used its power against Prajna, while Zhang Chen watched from a nearby rooftop. After Andersen’s attack destroyed thousands of artificial humans and collapsed the building, the clown emerged from the smoke to face him as Prajna renewed his psychic domain.

• Father Andersen’s holy-water attack failed against Prajna’s psychic domain, so he opened his Soul Stone and revealed his Heroic Spirit, Longinus.
• The clown explained to Zhang Chen that Heroic Spirits were unique beings beyond rare species and warned him to flee or surrender control of his body.
• Father Andersen summoned the Spear of Longinus and dispelled Prajna’s psychic longsword, then unleashed a sweeping strike that destroyed thousands of artificial humans and shattered five layers of Prajna’s barrier.
• Andersen sensed Zhang Chen in the collapsing building and thrust the spear at him, but the clown emerged from the smoke unharmed.
• Prajna crouched and formed his psychic domain again as the next battle began.

Wang Yizhi received Liu Nuo’s report on the Elder Council and decided to intervene while Liu Nuo continued infiltrating the organization. In Osaka, Zhuge Feixuan escaped the pale woman’s attack, and Old Master Kun confronted her with his divided true body.

• Wang Yizhi summoned Liu Nuo, confirmed Zhang Chen’s body and soul had changed as planned, and ordered her to keep investigating the old man’s research.
• Liu Nuo described the Elder Council’s eight members, including an unidentified elder whose capture mission on Okinawa ended with the target joining the council.
• Wang Yizhi told Liu Nuo to report important information and said she would intervene in the Elder Council, then wondered how far Zhang Chen would go.
• Zhuge Feixuan opened the bottle at her waist and used the ghostly energy to escape with Black Eagle from the Umeda Sky Building.
• Old Master Kun appeared at three locations in the building and released ghostly energy to face the pale woman, as Zhuge Feixuan’s plan began.

Zhao Mu, Davier, and Luo Dakou worked to break through the Umeda Sky Building’s spatial restrictions and reach the trapped Ghost Tamers, while Zhuge Feixuan realized the enemy’s plan was far more dangerous than expected. Elsewhere, Little Mouth searched for Zhang Chen by slaughtering students, then encountered the Custodian.

• Davier insisted Old Master Kun and Centipede could handle the enemy, but Zhao Mu warned that their opponent might be an Elder Council member.
• Zhao Mu explained that Zhuge Feixuan and Black Eagle had entered the building through Old Master Kun’s ghost bodies, leaving their real bodies outside.
• Luo Dakou revealed that he had marked most of the building and offered to open routes to the four sealed rooms, estimating it would take about twenty-five minutes.
• Luo Dakou began tearing open four sections of space as Zhao Mu and Davier prepared to break through the water barriers, while Zhuge Feixuan feared the enemy’s true plan had begun.
• Little Mouth, possessing Zhang Chen’s original body, killed the remaining students while searching for Zhang Chen, then met the Custodian in the school corridor.

Zhang Chen and the clown faced Father Andersen and Prajna, and the clown used a sudden attack to help bring down the priest. Prajna transferred his spiritual power to the clown before dying, leaving Zhang Chen’s Divine Sea transforming as the clown fled and their body collapsed.

• Zhang Chen evaded the Spear of Longinus by severing himself from real time, then gave the clown control of his body.
• The clown approached Father Andersen and offered to help him kill Prajna, while Prajna gathered his spiritual power into a more concentrated domain.
• Prajna blocked Father Andersen’s spear with his bare hands, but the clown struck the priest from behind and caused the Spear of Longinus to disintegrate.
• Father Andersen’s body collapsed under Prajna’s spiritual force, while golden pages carried away his Soul Stone and attacked the clown and Prajna.
• Prajna gave his remaining spiritual power to the clown, causing Zhang Chen’s Divine Sea to expand and approach transformation.
• The clown fled across the rooftops, but Zhang Chen could no longer hold on, and their body fell onto an old residential building.

The clown persuaded Hannya to cooperate against the priest, while Zhang Chen remained hidden within the clown’s body. In Kasuga City, Ashida Mana discovered Zhang Chen unconscious on her rooftop and found that he was still breathing.

• The clown told Zhang Chen that Hannya might examine his heart and that he might need to draw heavily on the Heavenly Eye’s power.
• The clown contacted Hannya, who examined Zhang Chen’s consciousness but refused to speak with him directly.
• The clown convinced Hannya to cooperate against the priest and asked him to leave his body to Zhang Chen afterward.
• Ashida Mana, who had grown used to strange happenings in her apartment, went to the rooftop after hearing a crash and found a motionless man.
• Mana brought her quilt inside and called the police, then returned to check on the man and felt him breathing faintly.

Ai Cai took the unconscious Zhang Chen into her apartment, where supernatural disturbances transformed her bedroom into a decayed room and revealed a ghostly presence. Zhang Chen woke, removed the spirit, and led the frightened Ai Cai toward the source of the ghostly aura in the living room.

• Ai Cai dragged the unconscious Zhang Chen into her apartment after waiting in vain for the police, then encountered a terrifying eye at her door and a series of unexplained disturbances.
• Ai Cai found her phone without signal, saw the television turn on and the kitchen faucet run by itself, and moved Zhang Chen into her bedroom for safety.
• Ai Cai noticed a third eye opening on Zhang Chen's forehead, then discovered that her bedroom had become old and moldy, with maggots crawling across the floor.
• Zhang Chen witnessed a memory of the Clown as a boy restoring a steamed bun with a time-related ability, then woke in Ai Cai's transformed bedroom.
• Ai Cai struck Zhang Chen with a wooden stick, but he recovered unharmed and pulled the shriveled eyeball spirit from the air.
• Zhang Chen thanked Ai Cai for saving him, explained that an earthbound spirit was haunting her, and led her toward the ghostly aura in the living room.

Zhang Chen helped Ai Cai recover the memory of her murder and offered her a chance to confront her killer, but she chose not to kill him and found peace through Zhang Chen’s comfort. After burying her remains, Zhang Chen’s mental energy settled, and he prepared to return to Nagoya to reclaim his main soul.

• Ai Cai remembered how the landlord drugged, drowned, and murdered her before hiding her body inside the wall.
• Zhang Chen brought Ai Cai to confront the old man who killed her, but she refused to kill him and returned to her room.
• Zhang Chen comforted Ai Cai, and she cried before vanishing as she was purified, earning Zhang Chen 500 Hell Envoy Contribution Points.
• Zhang Chen tore open the wall, recovered Ai Cai’s remains, and buried them behind the building, calming his Divine Sea.
• Zhang Chen and the clown decided to return to Nagoya to reunite with his friends and begin reclaiming his main soul.

After their failed operation in Osaka, Zhuge Feixuan’s group assessed their losses and learned that the United States had withdrawn from the Japan operation after its jailers were wiped out. Meanwhile, Little White and Chong Ying rushed to aid Jia Xin, while growing suspicious of Zhang Chen’s changed behavior.

• Davier reported that Centipede was dead and Old Master Kun’s left leg and soul had been severely damaged by the rainwater-wielding enemy.
• Zhuge Feixuan moved the group to a temporary shelter, ordered them to report their movements, and gathered accounts of the battle to assess the enemy’s abilities.
• Black Eagle relayed that the United States had declared the Japan Annihilation Plan a failure after losing contact with its jailers, and Zhuge Feixuan requested updates from headquarters about the European Union and whether their operation should continue.
• Zhuge Feixuan concluded that the rainwater-wielding Elder was a powerful counter to Old Master Kun and arranged to seek soul-healing medicine and pair him with Luo Dakou.
• Little White learned that his main body had died while with Jia Xin and left the clinic with Chong Ying to help him escape an Elder-level enemy.
• Chong Ying and Little White encountered Zhang Chen, whose unusual power and calm demeanor made them suspicious, but they concealed their concern and continued toward Jia Xin.

Jia Xin escaped Susanoo with Lu Sheng’s help, and the group grew concerned that something was wrong with Zhang Chen. Meanwhile, Zhang Chen traveled in disguise toward the clinic after absorbing Hannya, discovering major changes to his Divine Sea and Heavenly Eye.

• Susanoo pursued the wounded Jia Xin until Lu Sheng intervened with the boss’s order to stop him.
• Jia Xin, Lu Sheng, Junior Brother Xiao Bai, and Miss Chong Ying reunited and discussed Zhang Chen’s unusual behavior and the deaths of Hannya and the Custodian.
• Lu Sheng left to investigate, while Jia Xin returned to the clinic to repair his arm and Miss Chong Ying was summoned by someone appearing to be Zhang Chen.
• Zhang Chen examined his expanded Divine Sea and transformed Heavenly Eye, then reasoned that Chong Ying might discover the impostor Kou Dan.
• A disguised Zhang Chen killed and absorbed a mechanical attendant aboard the Shinkansen, then hurried from Nagoya toward the clinic.

Lu Sheng and Shuten Doji investigated the deaths of Hannya and The Custodian, while Zhang Chen returned to the clinic and found Kou Dan impersonating him. Zhang Chen entered the ward to stay close to Chong Ying, but discovered Kou Dan had grown stronger than before.

• Lu Sheng found The Custodian's death recorded on the organization's website and connected it to Zhang Chen's mysterious strength.
• Shuten Doji learned The Custodian had died in Nagoya and decided to go there himself.
• Zhang Chen returned to the clinic and sensed Kou Dan's powerful Blood Qi surrounding Chong Ying.
• Lu Sheng arrived and persuaded Chong Ying to leave the room, while Kou Dan continued posing as Zhang Chen.
• Zhang Chen pretended to be ill so the doctor would let him enter the ward, then spat blood and realized Kou Dan had become stronger despite lacking part of the Blood Bone Body.

Jia Xin and Xiao Bai prepared a Hongmen Banquet after recognizing the threat behind the patient posing as Zhang Chen, while Lu Sheng briefed the group on their plan to target Shuten Doji in Kyoto. The meal ended with Lu Sheng and the impostor confronting each other as everyone else vanished.

• Jia Xin restored his body with heavenly treasures, and Xiao Bai recognized the scent of an enemy outside and recovered about ninety percent of his strength.
• The clown told Zhang Chen that the Heavenly Eye was merging with his brain and that he would need to manage the body while the clown handled the transformation.
• Jia Xin and Xiao Bai arranged a Hongmen Banquet, while Jia Xin and the impostor discussed the Prison Envoys, the cultivators, and the danger posed by Shuten Doji.
• Lu Sheng explained that the group would travel separately to Kyoto to target Shuten Doji during his scheduled trip there, with Zhang Chen accompanying him.
• At the dining table, Lu Sheng clamped his chopsticks against the impostor's, and everyone else disappeared.

Lu Sheng fought the false Zhang Chen in the Dreamscape but discovered that the creature could regenerate by absorbing the town’s civilians. As the monster emerged into reality, Jia Xin and Xiao Bai prepared to hold it off while Lu Sheng led the others away.

• Little Mouth attacked Lu Sheng in the Dreamscape, but Lu Sheng’s blade found no Soul Stone in its body, and he later reported that the creature had absorbed The Custodian and could regenerate by consuming civilians.
• Zhang Chen emerged from the private ward as red tongues spread through the town and devoured its residents; the doctor cut down one tongue with a scalpel.
• Jia Xin returned with Xiao Bai and brought the group to the clinic roof, where Lu Sheng emerged and explained that he had killed the monster eighty-seven times without stopping its regeneration.
• Jia Xin gave Lu Sheng the Shifting Wheel and told him to move the others to a desolate place while Jia Xin and Xiao Bai delayed the monster.
• The monster tore its way out of the Dreamscape passage, and Jia Xin had Xiao Bai produce a white scabbard before he sheathed the Roaming Dragon Sword and faced it.

Jia Xin fought “Zhang Chen” long enough to contact Lu Sheng, while a mysterious group recruited Yamano Kazuo for a task at an abandoned mental hospital. Yamano arrived at the hospital and found two other envelope-holders waiting there.

• Jia Xin used his white glove and Roaming Dragon Sword to destroy “Zhang Chen’s” body, but the enemy regenerated, so he contacted Lu Sheng after buying enough time.
• Yamano Kazuo stole and pawned a gold ring, then found a thick envelope containing money and a letter offering him fifteen million yen for a task.
• Yamano followed the letter’s instructions and traveled to the abandoned Eastern Suburb Hengxian Mental Hospital at night.
• Yamano found a middle-aged man and woman holding identical envelopes and waiting outside the hospital.

Shanye, Kubozuka Yoshihide, and Nakajima Ga arrived at an abandoned psychiatric hospital and were assigned to retrieve a patient for the remaining 13.5 million yen commission. After the three separated to search, Shanye found a recently decayed corpse hidden beneath a bed in a dark room.

• Shanye met Kubozuka Yoshihide and Nakajima Ga at the hospital, and Nakajima Ga described a strange road and a man in black who had left him a letter.
• The hospital lights switched on at 9:30, and the three found envelopes instructing them to follow a cryptic map, unlock a patient's room, and bring the patient to the lobby before midnight for the remaining commission.
• Shanye refused to cooperate and went off alone; Yoshihide also separated from him, while Nakajima Ga pocketed his map and headed down the corridor.
• Shanye chose a room on the third floor as a hiding place and tried to barricade its door with an iron bed.
• Shanye discovered a pile of partially decayed corpses beneath the bed and realized one body appeared to have hidden there before dying.

Shanye uncovered instructions directing him to the patient on Basement Eighteen and warnings about deadly abnormalities in the abandoned hospital. After surviving a terrifying encounter, he reached the West Hall elevator, where the bloodied bus driver caught up with him.

• Shanye combined two sheets of paper to reveal that the patient was on Basement Eighteen and that he should avoid a troublesome presence.
• Shanye found a corpse’s envelope bearing warnings to seek wards or red light during abnormalities, avoid long corridors and enclosed rooms, and stay in darkness.
• After objects began breaking around him, Shanye escaped into a ward and watched an enormous eyeball appear at its barred window before the presence vanished.
• Shanye set off west toward the elevator, changing routes whenever he could not find a ward and eventually locating the West Hall.
• The bloodied bus driver approached Shanye with a dagger, and Shanye fled toward the elevator.

Shanye escaped the bus driver and descended by elevator to Underground Level 18, relying on the red light and a warning about safe areas. He entered a dark room hoping to find shelter, but discovered it was a torture chamber and the door slammed shut behind him.

• A ghostly woman emerged from dark mist and killed the bus driver while staring at Shanye.
• Shanye shut himself inside the elevator, where its red light kept the mist at bay, and pressed the bronze button for level eighteen.
• The elevator carried Shanye far underground, where he chose the dark corridor over a dimly lit one and searched for a hospital room.
• Shanye found a rusted iron door in the corridor and entered the room, hoping it would be safe.
• The door slammed shut behind Shanye, and a tungsten bulb revealed that the room was a torture chamber, not a hospital room.

Lu Sheng and his allies tried to reclaim Zhang Chen’s body from Little Mouth, but Little Mouth evolved and gained overwhelming spatial power. Shuten Doji trapped Lu Sheng while Little Mouth attacked the others, leaving Chong Ying badly injured and Jia Xin unable to fight.

• Zhang Chen told Lu Sheng that Kou Dan was the Ghoul King’s son, so Lu Sheng decided they must suppress him and let Zhang Chen reclaim his body without destroying his consciousness.
• Jia Xin found Zhang Chen as Doctor Chang Qing’s attack stopped the red tongues, and Little Mouth transformed into Zhang Chen’s appearance before revealing a new mouth that swallowed his body.
• Shuten Doji appeared with the Fear Source Pearl and trapped Lu Sheng in Black Space, while Doctor Chang Qing moved to confront him.
• Little Mouth emerged from high-level space and attacked Zhang Chen, whose time domain could not stop the spatial crack.
• Chong Ying shielded Zhang Chen, but Little Mouth severed and swallowed her arm and nearly half her body; Jia Xin’s counterattack was repelled, leaving him gravely injured and unable to fight.

Shuten Doji recognized the doctor as a ruthless former prison envoy while Zhang Chen surrendered to Little Mouth, allowing the Clown to take control and defeat him. After Chong Ying carried Zhang Chen to safety, he woke and apologized for giving up, promising to keep living for his companions.

• Shuten Doji identified the doctor as Scalpel and recalled his history of killing prison envoys who fled or betrayed their posts.
• Little Mouth overwhelmed Jia Xin and Chong Ying, then moved to devour Zhang Chen as Zhang Chen stopped resisting.
• The Clown took control of Zhang Chen's body, froze time, and used his Heavenly Eye to create a black vortex that consumed Little Mouth.
• Chong Ying carried Zhang Chen away, and Jia Xin escaped as the vortex closed.
• Zhang Chen woke in a small room near Kyoto Prefecture, ate Chong Ying's seafood congee, and learned she was upset that he had given up.
• Chong Ying slapped Zhang Chen and tearfully confronted him, and he apologized and promised to keep living for everyone before embracing her.

After waking in Kyoto, Zhang Chen learned that Lu Sheng and the doctor were still in danger and discovered that the clown was preparing to use the Heavenly Eye while they recovered. Meanwhile, Shuten Doji’s boss ordered him to focus on the Huaxia Hell Envoys and revealed a plan involving her, leaving Shuten Doji eagerly anticipating the chaos her release might bring.

• Chong Ying told Zhang Chen that Jia Xin and Little White were setting up defenses, the doctor was in poor condition, and Lu Sheng had warned him about Little Mouth.
• Zhang Chen entered his mind and learned that the clown was building mental-energy conduits to power the Heavenly Eye; they discussed restoring Zhang Chen’s Hell Envoy abilities by improving their compatibility.
• Zhang Chen left Chong Ying to rest and went out at night with Little White to hunt ghosts.
• At a shrine near Mount Fuji, Shuten Doji told his boss he had a plan to kill Zhang Chen and Takeda Masayoshi, but the old man ordered him to leave Zhang Chen alone and focus on the Huaxia Hell Envoys.
• Shuten Doji’s boss proposed using Lu Sheng’s remaining commands to let the little ones play with her, and Shuten Doji rejoiced at the prospect of her release.

Lu Sheng explained the dangers facing the group in Japan and planned to release a powerful imprisoned Elder while Shuten Doji was away. After the meeting, he tracked down Little Mouth and began a discussion concerning Zhang Chen.

• Lu Sheng told Zhang Chen that Changqing was recovering and outlined five threats in Japan, including Kou Dan and a mysterious imprisoned woman.
• Lu Sheng revealed his plan to release the woman while Shuten Doji was away, and asked Zhang Chen to strengthen his abilities and alert him if Kou Dan appeared.
• Jia Xin privately gathered the others because he sensed something was wrong with Lu Sheng.
• Lu Sheng found Little Mouth in a town littered with destroyed artificial humans and said he wanted to discuss Zhang Chen.