Chapter Summaries

The Blue Oni asked Zhang Chen to gather information on sixth-floor unknown missions, then arranged to meet him after his next mission. Later, Evil Mouth Elder began turning Zhang Chen’s butcher knife into a bonded weapon, leaving Zhang Chen unable to use it during the process.

• The Blue Oni asked Zhang Chen to bring him details of unknown missions from Ye Tower and told him to meet on the outskirts of the Imperial Capital City after accepting a mission the next morning.
• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying received notice that the Jinxi County mission was complete, earning 5,000 contribution points and a Night Marrow Crystal.
• Zhang Chen took Chong Ying for crayfish and brought her home to sleep before they both retired for the night.
• Evil Mouth Elder discussed the Blue Oni’s potential and offered to teach Zhang Chen how to nurture his butcher knife.
• Zhang Chen fused with Evil Mouth Elder and swallowed the butcher knife into his Ghoul Ghost ability’s digestive space, beginning a process expected to take about ten days.

Evil Mouth Elder began reforging the butcher’s knife inside Zhang Chen’s Devouring Belly, using digestive bugs and stored remnant souls. The next morning, Zhang Chen learned Wang Yizhi’s consciousness had again faltered, discussed using the Black Blood Stone to form an avatar, and prepared to travel to Imperial Capital City with Chong Ying and Master Pu Hu.

• Evil Mouth Elder studied Zhang Chen’s Devouring Belly and began refining the butcher’s knife in an Iron Pot with digestive bugs and ten thousand Devouring Ghost Remnant Souls.
• Zhang Chen woke exhausted and learned from Wang Yizhi that her consciousness had been unstable and asleep since the previous day.
• Wang Yizhi identified the Black Blood Stone as a way for Zhang Chen to create a stable, independent Black Blood Hound avatar, and Zhang Chen agreed to consider it later.
• Zhang Chen told Wang Yizhi about Azure Ghost’s visit, but she withheld her guess about Azure Ghost’s plans.
• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying visited the recovered Master Pu Hu, who announced that he would go to Imperial Capital City to become a Jailer Overseer.

Zhang Chen and Chong Ying completed the Jinxi County mission, prompting Boss Jin to investigate the strange recording and request a meeting with Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen then examined another sixth-floor case at Shilin University, where the first deaths began after a mysterious proposal.

• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying returned to Ye Tower and submitted proof that they had completed the Jinxi County mission in a single day.
• Boss Jin reviewed their bracelets, noticed the recording had skipped the fight with the Black Blood Hound, and ordered Lan Qiu to deliver their Night Marrow Crystal and bring Zhang Chen to meet him.
• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying looked through the case files for an unknown mission at Shilin University, involving a mysterious woman and several bizarre deaths.
• Zhang Chen read that a former student union president died after a proposal, and that witnesses could not remember his supposed girlfriend's appearance.
• A male student at the university stepped into a full-length mirror in the library, starting another wave of panic across the campus.

Zhang Chen reviewed a dangerous mission involving unexplained deaths at Shilin University, then received the Night Marrow Crystal and was summoned by Ye Tower’s Boss Jin over missing footage from the Jinxi County mission. After Zhang Chen admitted killing the Black Blood Hound, Boss Jin praised his ambition and took him out for a meal.

• Zhang Chen considered the Shilin University mission but decided to investigate it through his connections before accepting it.
• Zhang Chen received the Night Marrow Crystal as his reward for completing the Jinxi County mission.
• The attendant told Zhang Chen that Boss Jin wanted to meet him about a malfunction in the bracelet he had brought back.
• Zhang Chen entered Boss Jin’s hidden estate through a bronze coin and confirmed that he had killed the Black Blood Hound.
• Boss Jin praised Zhang Chen’s ambition and snapped them back to the street outside Ye Tower, where he invited Zhang Chen to eat with him.

Boss Jin treated Zhang Chen and Chong Ying to a lavish meal at King Eater Pavilion and explained the danger surrounding the Shilin University mission. Zhang Chen decided to accept the mission and investigate the university, where a rare yin-gathering formation threatened thousands of students.

• Boss Jin brought Zhang Chen and Chong Ying to King Eater Pavilion, where Chen Yuan opened the top-floor Heavenly Emperor Pavilion for them.
• The Ape Man encountered Boss Jin, showed him respect, and took note of Zhang Chen.
• Boss Jin told Zhang Chen that an earthquake had transformed Shilin University into a Nine Heavens Yin Gathering, drawing ghosts while the students’ Confucian Sage Aura kept the yin energy contained.
• Boss Jin explained that evacuating the students could release the yin energy across northeastern Huaxia Country, and that no foolproof solution had been found.
• Zhang Chen thanked Boss Jin, then told Chong Ying they would meet the Green Ghost Society and accept the Shilin University mission.

Jia Xin joined Shilin University to investigate the Nine Heavens Yin Gathering formation, while Zhang Chen and Chong Ying accepted the Shilin University mission and traveled to Yunnan. The chapter left Zhang Chen and Chong Ying disguised as students at the university entrance, preparing to infiltrate the campus.

• Jia Xin met Guo Qing and Yang He on the teaching building rooftop, where they asked him to find a way to break the Nine Heavens Yin Gathering formation within a month.
• Green Ghost took Zhang Chen’s notebook of five unknown sixth-floor missions and promised to join the prison envoys against Faceless in three years.
• Wang Yizhi quietly noted that her consciousness body was weakening, while Zhang Chen decided to accept the Shilin University mission with Chong Ying.
• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying obtained information about the cultivator forces at Shilin University, but found that his master and Senior Sister Yu Xin were absent when they visited Shen Hou Mansion.
• Zhang Chen learned that the Yulong Sect was led by the Tribulation Stage cultivator Xue Cang, then traveled with Chong Ying to Yunnan and arrived at Shilin University disguised as students.

Zhang Chen and Chong Ying enrolled at Shilin University to investigate its unusually dense Yin energy, then rented an apartment nearby. As they began planning their investigation, a student named Wu Guanran encountered increasingly eerie black hairs in his textbook.

• Zhang Chen noticed cultivators among the students and administration staff while he and Chong Ying completed their enrollment procedures.
• Zhang Chen posed as a powerful rich kid to distract a cultivator at the student affairs office, then decided to live outside the university and investigate its unusual locations.
• Chong Ying offered to use insects to observe the campus, and Jia Xin spotted one as he wondered whether Zhang Chen's arrival would stir up hidden unrest.
• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying rented a cheap, furnished apartment with stronger Yin energy than the university, and Zhang Chen chose to investigate without involving Wang Yizhi.
• Chong Ying sensed that something was happening as she and Zhang Chen ordered dinner near the university.
• Wu Guanran returned to his classroom and found black hairs between the pages of his textbook, then discovered even more after resuming his studies.

Zhang Chen investigated a ghostly incident at Shilin University, captured a female hair ghost, and searched her memories. A blue-glowing skeleton resonated with the stone in his soul, and after the ghost broke free, a giant mouth swallowed her.

• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying reached the Fifth Teaching Building, where cultivators subdued a mass of hair and rescued Wu Guanran, but found the ghostly creature’s main body was missing.
• Zhang Chen used a blood thread to observe the cultivators, then sensed a hair ghost targeting him in a classroom and allowed it to attack before transporting it to his rented residence.
• Zhang Chen imprisoned the female ghost in a Flesh Sac and entered her memories with Mental Power, seeing that she had died in a car accident and was drawn to Shilin University.
• Zhang Chen saw a skeleton glowing deep blue in the ghost’s memories, and it resonated with the stone in his soul, disrupting his control over the ghost.
• The female ghost tore through the Flesh Sac and attacked Zhang Chen, but a spatial fluctuation appeared and a gigantic mouth swallowed her.

Qin Shuang ordered a search for the high-level ghostly creature at Shilin University while forbidding an investigation of a dangerous place, and Zhang Chen planned to return to campus to seek clues about the blue-lit skeleton. Meanwhile, Green Ghost and Heavenly Dog selected missions, and the Twin Jailer Ministers arrived at Ye Tower to pursue the Chaoyin Temple mission.

• Qin Shuang learned that a spatially skilled high-level ghostly creature had escaped and ordered the school inspected, but refused to investigate “that place” without the Sect Master's orders.
• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying discussed the blue-lit skeleton, agreed to investigate Shilin University the next day, and Zhang Chen encountered a red-clothed female ghost in his apartment building.
• Green Ghost and Heavenly Dog chose nearby missions and discussed the danger of a mission on the sixth floor.
• Zhang Chen drove Chong Ying toward the Second Teaching Building the next morning, while Lin Nan and Lin Bei arrived at Ye Tower to pursue the Chaoyin Temple mission.
• Lin Nan and Lin Bei entered the sixth-floor mission reception room, where a monk holding Chaoyin Temple's mission slip blocked their way.

Qing Gui and Tiangou confronted the ghost behind the Shell Disease at Chaoyin Temple and arranged for her help with the next day's plans. Later, Lin Nan and Lin Bei teamed up with Demon Monk Wu Kun to investigate the same temple, where the young monk escorted them to meet the Abbot.

• Qing Gui and Tiangou entered Chaoyin Temple after requesting an audience about the plague from forty-one years ago.
• Qing Gui exposed the Abbot as a parasite-host, and Tiangou dragged the ghost’s main body, a green-haired woman inside a Clam Shell, from the pool.
• Qing Gui asked Tiangou to release the woman and told her what they needed her to do the next day.
• Lin Nan and Lin Bei encountered Demon Monk Wu Kun, agreed to team up with him, and traveled to Chaoyin Temple in Tianjin.
• Wu Kun recounted the history of Shell Disease and the temple’s past role in containing it.
• The twins and Wu Kun arrived at Chaoyin Temple, where the young monk led them to Willow Immortal Pavilion to meet the Abbot.

Lin Bei and Wu Kun encountered powerful enemies while investigating the temple, and the blue ghost revealed that he wanted to borrow Wu Kun’s body for three years. The chapter ended as Wu Kun summoned an army of resentful skeletons and challenged the ghost to suppress them within three seconds.

• Lin Bei tried to erode the temple’s barrier, but a black-eyed man attacked him, broke his mission bracelet, and forced him back toward the temple.
• Lin Nan sensed that Lin Bei was in danger, left Wu Kun to investigate the temple, and hurried outside to help his brother.
• Wu Kun exposed the Abbot as a false body hiding a Clam Shell, killed the woman inside, and consumed her soul marrow before his mission bracelet broke.
• The young monk transformed into a blue ghost and offered to help Wu Kun enter the top ten in the Jailer Hundred Man Ranking competition if Wu Kun lent him his body for three years.
• Wu Kun summoned the temple’s murdered monks as skeletal undead and challenged the blue ghost to suppress them within three seconds; the ghost accepted.

The Tengu defeated Lin Shuang and took over his body, while the Tengu and Blue Ghost discussed their plans for an operation three years later. Zhang Chen and Chong Ying joined Shilin University’s Supernatural Society, where Zhang Chen recognized the name Jia Xin as the members waited for him to arrive.

• Lin Bei and Lin Nan merged into Lin Shuang’s released state and attacked the Tengu, but the Tengu trapped Lin Shuang with Black Prison and took his body.
• The Tengu told the Blue Ghost that Lin Shuang had been talented but troublesome, and the Blue Ghost planned to use Demon Monk Wu Kun’s identity to build influence among the Prison Envoys.
• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying arrived at Shilin University and befriended Shi Feng, who offered to introduce them to the Supernatural Society.
• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying attended the society’s meeting, where the president asked Shi Feng to call the perpetually late Jia Xin.
• Zhang Chen froze when he heard the name Jia Xin.

Zhang Chen joined the Supernatural Society and helped President Wen Lu secure a permanent meeting place in a supposedly haunted residential complex. After reviewing reports of campus hauntings, he went to meet Jia Xin at the library, where he found Jia Xin and Wen Lu together.

• Wen Lu welcomed Zhang Chen and Chong Ying into the Supernatural Society, and Zhang Chen offered to fund the society's equipment and help find it a permanent location.
• Jia Xin arrived late with the society's records and privately told Zhang Chen to meet him that night in the library's north wing on the fifth floor.
• Zhang Chen took Wen Lu to a two-story storefront in his residential complex, arranged to rent it for two years, and handed her his bank card for the paperwork.
• Chong Ying told Zhang Chen that Jia Xin's aura seemed intertwined with Little White's, and Zhang Chen said they would ask Jia Xin about it that night.
• Zhang Chen read the university's reports of supernatural incidents and focused on Lindong Lake as a possible location of the strange skeleton.
• Zhang Chen went to the library at night and found Jia Xin and Wen Lu sitting together on the fifth floor.

Zhang Chen and Chong Ying met Jia Xin at Shilin University, where he explained his investigation into the Nine Heavens Yin Gathering and pointed them toward three suspicious locations. Jia Xin then learned that the Yulong Sect Master had arranged a marriage alliance between him and Qin Shuang, and agreed to discuss it after the school investigation.

• Jia Xin told Zhang Chen that he had found fragmented memories of a deep-blue skeleton in a ghost's mind, and said Yulong Sect might have created the Nine Heavens Yin Gathering.
• Jia Xin selected three suspicious locations from Zhang Chen's files and told him to investigate them while avoiding the cultivators monitoring him.
• Two students summoned Jia Xin to Qin Shuang's office, where she delivered a letter from the Yulong Sect Master proposing a marriage alliance.
• Jia Xin told Qin Shuang he was already married and his wife was five months pregnant, but agreed to discuss the alliance after the school investigation.
• Qin Shuang invited Jia Xin to walk around campus that night, and Jia Xin agreed.

Zhang Chen and Chong Ying investigated Lindong Lake, but Jia Xin warned them that its three-layer array was too difficult to breach, so they turned to the mystery of Dormitory Building No. 7. As they searched the numbered dormitories, Sister Ping began a ghost story about Lan Xin encountering a mysterious old woman selling red clothes.

• Zhang Chen and Chong Ying surveyed Lindong Lake, mapped the patrols, and discovered that a shifting three-layer array covered the lake and Water Cave.
• Zhang Chen met Jia Xin and Qin Shuang on the bridge, and Qin Shuang's handshake drew the attention of the seven patrolling cultivators before they all looked away.
• Jia Xin telepathically advised Zhang Chen to investigate the other two locations first, so Zhang Chen and Chong Ying headed to the dormitories.
• Zhang Chen noticed that Dormitory Building No. 7 was missing between Buildings No. 6 and No. 8, which housed unusually high numbers of cultivators; he and Chong Ying agreed to question students separately.
• In a girls' dormitory in Building No. 6, Sister Ping chose Lan Xin as the protagonist of her ghost story and described her finding an old woman selling red clothes outside the locked dormitory.

Chong Ying followed a faint trail of ghostly aura to Sister Ping’s dormitory ghost-story gathering, where she discovered that Sister Ping was bound by strange threads. As Sister Ping told a story about a student named Chong Ying at Dormitory Building No. 7, the tale reached a violent encounter with a boy and left Chong Ying waiting to learn what happened next.

• Chong Ying tracked the ghostly aura to a fifth-floor dorm room and entered the gathering, where she saw threads tied to Sister Ping and a deadly aura around Lan Xin.
• Sister Ping finished a story about Lan Xin encountering an eerie old woman, and Lan Xin found herself wrapped in a blanket beside a flayed woman’s body the next morning.
• Sister Ping began a story about a lonely student named Chong Ying who was ostracized for collecting and sewing dolls at Dormitory Building No. 7.
• The doll in the story told Chong Ying to kill everyone, and she later lured a popular boy to an empty teaching building.
• The boy tried to assault Chong Ying, but a fruit knife pierced his chest, and Sister Ping’s story stopped there.

Chong Ying realized Sister Ping’s ghost story was tied to the dolls and was pulled into a distorted version of the old Dormitory Building No. 7. When Zhang Chen entered the dormitory to search for her, he discovered that Building No. 6 had once been Building No. 7.

• Chong Ying recognized that Sister Ping used threads and a strange aura to threaten her, so she put the other girls to sleep and attacked Sister Ping as a Four-legged Spider Demon.
• Chong Ying let the threads drag her into another world, where she found herself at the entrance to the old Dormitory Building No. 7 and saw a hair-woven doll in the Dormitory Auntie’s room.
• Zhang Chen sensed that Chong Ying was missing and entered Dormitory Building No. 6 despite the cultivators guarding it.
• Zhang Chen possessed a female cultivator to enter the room where the incident had occurred and found broken threads and old blood.
• Zhang Chen scraped the wall and uncovered evidence that the renovated Dormitory Building No. 6 had originally been Dormitory Building No. 7.

Chong Ying entered a strange space inside Dormitory Building No. 7 and solved a doll-based task to reach the second floor. Meanwhile, Jia Xin learned that Qin Shuang and the Yulong Sect were controlling the Nine Heavens Yin Gathering and using a campus ghost, while two Jailer Ministers remained trapped inside the building.

• Chong Ying followed a wooden puppet’s instructions, found a note and key inside the Dormitory Auntie’s doll, and chose Room 101 based on its clue.
• Chong Ying found Xiao Hong’s skinned body beneath a blanket, received a note directing her to the second floor, and continued upstairs after the puppet disappeared.
• Qin Shuang noticed a ghostly energy fluctuation from Dormitory Building No. 6 and invited Jia Xin to the student council office to discuss it.
• Qin Shuang showed Jia Xin a map marking a presence inside the building and revealed that the Yulong Sect was controlling a campus ghost and feeding it living people for the Nine Heavens Yin Gathering.
• Qin Shuang planned to use the trapped Jailer Ministers as bait, while Jia Xin declined to fight them and said he would return to his sect to discuss marrying Qin Shuang.

Zhang Chen suspected the cultivators at Building No. 7 had deliberately left weak guards to capture him while Chong Ying was imprisoned. Chong Ying continued the dice game through the dormitory rooms, overcoming its traps and discovering a pattern before entering a room with a powerful woman in red.

• Zhang Chen read a guard's memories, found she knew little about the school, and suspected the cultivators had planned to capture him after Chong Ying was caught.
• Chong Ying followed a note's dice-game rules and entered Room 207, where she found a friendly wooden puppet and a special die that could replace a normal one.
• Chong Ying entered Room 216, contracted a plague from a puppet among the cockroaches, and used her ability to find and swallow the antidote cockroach before expelling it.
• Chong Ying entered Room 228 and learned that the demon-possessed child puppet wanted a bloody heart, so she retrieved Xiao Hong's heart and placed it inside.
• Chong Ying recognized that the left-side odd-numbered rooms held good people and the rooms on the right held bad people, then entered Room 213 and encountered a powerful woman in a red dress.

Chong Ying uncovered Xiao Hong’s story and learned that cultivators at Shilin University might endanger tens of thousands of people. She reunited with Zhang Chen, who planned to meet Jia Xin the next day, while Chong Ying kept a doll she had found secret.

• Chong Ying reached the third floor, found a clue inside a Xiao Hong doll, and patiently reconciled with the corpse students in nearly twenty dormitories.
• Xiao Hong appeared and questioned why Chong Ying had not killed the students, then revealed a reenactment of Shilin University’s past and warned that three Mahayana Stage cultivators would ambush Chong Ying if she left.
• Xiao Hong offered to send Chong Ying somewhere safe in exchange for her promise to kill cultivators at Shilin University, but Chong Ying hesitated because she lacked a reason to kill them.
• Zhang Chen received Chong Ying’s voice transmission and returned to their rented apartment, narrowly avoiding Senior Qin Shuang and two Mahayana Stage cultivators heading to Dormitory Building Six.
• Chong Ying told Zhang Chen about Xiao Hong and the danger to the school, and Zhang Chen decided they would meet Jia Xin the next day.
• After returning to her room, Chong Ying examined an exquisite doll from beneath her pillow and put it back without telling Zhang Chen about it.