Chapter Summaries

Lin Qiye tracked the stolen corpses to an abandoned alley, then used his Night Creatures to search Cangnan City and discovered signs of a Rat Tide in the sewers. He summoned Mumu and prepared to investigate underground.

• Wu Xiangnan told Lin Qiye that the van had last been seen near Second Dao Alley and was registered under a false identity.
• Lin Qiye found the van in an abandoned factory, but saw no tracks or other signs showing how the van or stolen corpses had arrived.
• Lin Qiye sent Night Creatures across the city to search for the Secret Thief.
• A Rat Tide moved through the sewers around an underground cavern where a young man studied three pale corpses beside preserved monster remains.
• Lin Qiye learned that his Night Creatures were dying in the sewers and suspected the Rat Tide was connected to the thief.
• Lin Qiye summoned Mumu and asked it to accompany him underground.

Lin Qiye and Mumu tracked the Secret Thief through the sewers and fought the hooded man waiting there. After Lin Qiye wounded him, the man regenerated and revealed his face, greeting Lin Qiye as an old acquaintance.

• Lin Qiye carried Mumu through the sewers, following the growing Rat Tide toward the Secret Thief's hideout.
• The hooded man left his underground cavern after sensing Lin Qiye approaching.
• Mumu blasted a path through the rats, and Lin Qiye confronted the hooded man in the silent sewer.
• The hooded man attacked with white vines and ice, but Lin Qiye and Mumu countered, and Lin Qiye summoned two blades to fight him.
• Lin Qiye wounded the hooded man, who rapidly healed and removed his hood to greet Lin Qiye.

Lin Qiye discovered that An Qingyu had survived the Nanda Snake Demon incident and become a hidden supernatural being with a laboratory beneath Cangnan City. After explaining his abilities and his dealings with the Night Watchmen, An Qingyu asked whether Lin Qiye would turn him in, and Lin Qiye asked why he refused to join them.

• Lin Qiye recognized An Qingyu, followed him into the sewers, and asked what had happened after the Nanda Snake Demon incident.
• An Qingyu explained that his Forbidden Ruins, which he named The Only Correct Answer, analyzed the traits of the Mysterious and let him improve them.
• An Qingyu said he controlled the sewer rats with an ability he called Fish Seed and showed Lin Qiye his underground laboratory.
• An Qingyu explained that he had borrowed three Mysterious corpses for experiments and killed the Murderous Ghost himself.
• Lin Qiye warned An Qingyu that the Night Watchmen would recruit or imprison an unaffiliated supernatural being, and An Qingyu asked if Lin Qiye would hand him over.
• Lin Qiye asked An Qingyu why he was unwilling to join the Night Watchmen.

Lin Qiye decided not to turn An Qingyu over to the Night Watchmen, but warned him not to endanger the public. An Qingyu spotted an abnormal lack of blood at the murder scene and persuaded Lin Qiye to let him help investigate the case.

• An Qingyu explained that he had rejected the Night Watchmen because their rules would interfere with his research into Mysteries.
• Lin Qiye repaid An Qingyu for sending him information during the New Year by agreeing not to report him, while warning that he would stop him if he endangered the public.
• An Qingyu told Lin Qiye that the three corpses on his lab bench matched their autopsy reports and had been killed with iron nails through the heart.
• Lin Qiye and An Qingyu discussed the unusually small amount of blood at the tavern crime scene, and An Qingyu revealed that he had recreated the murder by cutting off his own regenerating fingers.
• An Qingyu asked Lin Qiye to take him to examine the tavern corpse, arguing that his forensic skills could help solve the case faster.

Lin Qiye and An Qingyu examined Sun Xiao’s corpse and found evidence that his fingers had been severed before he was nailed to the wall, contradicting the footage. They concluded that another victim had appeared in the recording, but the crime scene contained only Sun Xiao’s DNA, leaving their theory unexplained.

• Lin Qiye brought An Qingyu to the morgue to examine Sun Xiao’s body.
• An Qingyu found that Sun Xiao’s fingers had been cut from palm to back, unlike the fingers of the three earlier victims.
• An Qingyu observed that the nails had been driven through Sun Xiao’s hands in the opposite direction, indicating his fingers were severed before he was nailed up.
• Lin Qiye and An Qingyu concluded that the person killed in the footage was not Sun Xiao and that someone had later substituted Sun Xiao’s body.
• Lin Qiye noted that the scene had yielded only Sun Xiao’s DNA, despite their theory requiring two victims.

Lin Qiye and An Qingyu remained puzzled by the corpse evidence, while Wu Xiangnan identified a ritual that could explain the murders and predicted the Mystery’s next attack. Team 136 prepared to stake out a residential district before the ritual’s final stage at 3:33 a.m.

• Lin Qiye questioned how the bar corpse’s wounds fit their theory, then left An Qingyu to investigate further after receiving a call from the Vice-Captain.
• Wu Xiangnan told Team 136 that the Mystery likely had never been recorded and might be following an ancient ritual to transform a vengeful spirit into a powerful ghostly being.
• Wu Xiangnan explained that the ritual required five victims killed under specific conditions, followed by a large sacrifice of soul power.
• Wu Xiangnan used the earlier crime-scene locations and a ritual diagram to identify a high-end residential district as the site of the fifth sacrifice.
• Chen Muye ordered Team 136 to spread out and watch the district, while Lin Qiye warned that the Mystery was expected to act at 3:33 the following morning.

While the Night Watchmen kept watch over the neighborhood, Wen Qimo learned that the Tavern Owner was trying to flee Cangnan and went to intercept him. Meanwhile, An Qingyu investigated the tavern and discovered a clue by comparing the victim’s wounds with his own regenerating fingers.

• Lin Qiye and the others reported no abnormalities during hours of surveillance around the neighborhood.
• Wen Qimo received word that the Tavern Owner was heading to the airport after claiming to see ghostly figures, and Chen Muye ordered Wen Qimo to stop him and report any sign of a Mystery.
• Wen Qimo left his post, and Lin Qiye took over his surveillance point.
• An Qingyu entered the deserted tavern, compared its layout with a recording, and examined the bloodstained wall in the backyard.
• An Qingyu cut off five fingers to recreate the victim’s outline, then noticed his fingers regenerating and realized what was wrong.

Lin Qiye learned that the apparent supernatural murder video had been played in reverse, revealing that An Qingyu had staged it using his Super Regeneration. He deduced that Sun Xiao had been killed before being nailed to the wall and that the true crime scene was inside the tavern, where only one person could have acted unnoticed.

• Lin Qiye received a video from An Qingyu showing him apparently being killed by invisible forces and iron nails.
• An Qingyu explained that the first video was reverse playback and sent footage showing his wounds healing and the nails being expelled.
• Lin Qiye realized the recording showed An Qingyu recovering, not being attacked, and that someone had staged the scene.
• Lin Qiye concluded that Sun Xiao had already been dead when he was nailed to the wall and had been killed inside the tavern.
• Lin Qiye reasoned that only one person could have committed the murder unnoticed inside the tavern.

An Qingyu discovered the hidden first crime scene and confirmed the Tavern Owner had concealed it. Lin Qiye realized the Tavern Owner planned to perform the ritual aboard a plane passing over the designated area, and Team 136 rushed to stop him before the 3:20 flight took off.

• An Qingyu found fresh blood and nail marks in a hidden storage room beneath the tavern and explained how the altered property layout had misled the police.
• Lin Qiye reasoned that the Tavern Owner was carrying out the ritual for another Mystical creature and would return to the area to complete it.
• Lin Qiye noticed a plane overhead, checked the time, and tried to reach Wen Qimo, who had stopped responding.
• After learning the Tavern Owner's flight was scheduled to take off at 3:20, Lin Qiye deduced that he intended to perform the ritual in the sky and use Wen Qimo's soul as a sacrifice.
• Chen Muye ordered the airport contacted and sent Wu Xiangnan, Hong Ying, Si Xiaonan, and Lin Qiye to capture the Tavern Owner while he and Leng Xuan guarded the residential complex.

Lin Qiye and An Qingyu raced to stop the Tavern Owner, who had taken off on a plane before the airport could ground it. Lin Qiye and A Zhu caught up to the aircraft, but A Zhu fainted on its tail and they began sliding off.

• Lin Qiye sent An Qingyu to the airport to find the Tavern Owner’s 3:20 a.m. flight while An Qingyu raced there using his new abilities.
• Lin Qiye summoned A Zhu and rode him toward the airport as a giant spider.
• An Qingyu found the plane after it took off and clung to its underside, then told Lin Qiye what had happened.
• Lin Qiye and A Zhu shot Spider Silk onto the plane and climbed onto its tail as it flew low over Cangnan City.
• A Zhu looked down, fainted from fright, and lost his grip, sending himself and Lin Qiye sliding off the plane.

Lin Qiye infiltrated a plane controlled by the Tavern Owner and joined An Qingyu as they headed for the cockpit. He discovered that the Tavern Owner was accompanied by two Mysteries, including a crystal-sealed figure near death.

• Lin Qiye used the Chaos Cube to teleport from the plane’s tail to An Qingyu, then brought them both inside the aircraft.
• Lin Qiye told Team 136 he had infiltrated the plane, and revealed that he had graduated first from the Training Camp before removing his earpiece.
• Lin Qiye and An Qingyu crossed the passenger cabin, realizing the passengers were unaware that the pilots and flight attendants had been controlled.
• At the curtain separating first class from the cockpit, Lin Qiye sensed the Tavern Owner with a Ten-Cut Ghost Child and another Mystery sealed in crystal and near death.

Lin Qiye and An Qingyu rescued Wen Qimo from the Tavern Owner, who planned to sacrifice the plane’s passengers and people on the ground to revive Belial Clande. After stopping the ritual, Lin Qiye offered An Qingyu one corpse each as payment.

• An Qingyu used his mental-control Forbidden Ruin to knock out the first-class passengers while Lin Qiye went to the cockpit.
• The Tavern Owner revealed his plan to crash the plane into a residential district and sacrifice its victims to revive Belial Clande.
• Wen Qimo resisted the Tavern Owner and trusted his teammates, then used darkness to free himself and strike the Tavern Owner with the iron nails.
• An Qingyu entered the cockpit and blocked Ten-Cut Ghost Child from attacking Wen Qimo as Lin Qiye checked his injuries.
• Lin Qiye called An Qingyu a helper and offered him one corpse each.

Lin Qiye exposed the Tavern Owner’s murder ritual and plan to destroy the Night Watchmen, tracing the clues that revealed him as the killer. The Tavern Owner sent ten Ten-Cut Ghost Children to attack while he resumed the ritual, leaving Lin Qiye and An Qingyu to face the threat.

• Lin Qiye and An Qingyu confronted the Tavern Owner, whose Super Regeneration healed the wound in his brow.
• Lin Qiye explained how the Tavern Owner staged the murders, fabricated a Mystique, and planned to sacrifice a Night Watchman to restore Belial Klande.
• Lin Qiye revealed that the Tavern Owner had loaded six hundred kilograms of explosives onto a plane to crash it into the Night Watchmen’s residential complex.
• Lin Qiye described how inconsistencies in Sun Xiao’s murder and its recording led them to uncover the reverse playback and identify the Tavern Owner.
• The Tavern Owner ordered the Ten-Cut Ghost Child to attack as he continued the ritual, and it split into ten copies that surrounded Lin Qiye, An Qingyu, and Wen Qimo.
• An Qingyu chose to fight one of the Ten-Cut Ghost Children while Lin Qiye dealt with the Tavern Owner.

Lin Qiye fought the Tavern Owner on the outside of the plane, where the Tavern Owner used Eerie Silk and Super Regeneration to withstand his attacks. After Lin Qiye decapitated him and he revived, Lin Qiye immediately struck again.

• The Tavern Owner pinned a pilot to the wall, but Lin Qiye attacked him and shattered the cockpit windshield, sending two Ten-Cut Ghost Children and the Tavern Owner outside.
• Lin Qiye followed the Tavern Owner onto the plane’s exterior and learned that his Sequence 351 Forbidden Relic, Eerie Silk, let him control razor-sharp threads.
• Lin Qiye blocked the Tavern Owner’s thread attacks and cut him across the chest, but Super Regeneration healed the wound within seconds.
• The Tavern Owner fired at Lin Qiye, whose darkness stopped the bullets, and Lin Qiye cut the Tavern Owner’s throat and sent his head flying.
• The Tavern Owner’s threads reattached his head and revived him, but Lin Qiye immediately slashed again and decapitated him.

An Qingyu fought Ten-Cut Ghost Children inside the plane as a red-glowing insect appeared to trigger sinister behavior among the first-class passengers. Meanwhile, Lin Qiye kept the regenerating Tavern Owner under control atop the plane and summoned the little mummy, asking how much explosive it would take to destroy his enemy completely.

• An Qingyu froze the broken cockpit window, identified the Ten-Cut Ghost Children's weak points, and continued fighting them as the insect in the Crystal Ball began glowing red.
• Several passengers in first class woke under the insect's influence, pinned a young man to the wall, and cut his fingers without reacting to his pain.
• Hong Ying, Wu Xiangnan, and Si Xiaonan arrived beneath the circling plane, and Leng Xuan told them Lin Qiye was fighting the Tavern Owner on its roof.
• Lin Qiye beheaded the Tavern Owner for the sixth time, dismantled his gun with the Absolute Darkness Divine Forbidden Zone, and concluded that killing him would be difficult because he regenerated.
• Lin Qiye summoned the frightened little mummy onto the plane and asked how many kilograms of explosives would be needed to destroy the Tavern Owner completely.

Lin Qiye and Mumu killed the Tavern Owner in midair and returned to the plane, where An Qingyu had defeated the Ten-Cut Ghost Child. They discovered that Belial Krande had escaped its Crystal Ball and found a mutilated corpse in first class.

• The Tavern Owner jumped from the plane, but Lin Qiye and Mumu followed, using Mumu’s Flamethrowers to catch up and behead him.
• Mumu strapped explosives to the Tavern Owner’s neck, and the blast destroyed his body; Lin Qiye found no signs of life but lost track of Eerie Silk.
• An Qingyu killed the last Ten-Cut Ghost Child in the cockpit and examined its corpse.
• Lin Qiye and An Qingyu found the Crystal Ball cracked from the inside and realized Belial Krande had escaped.
• Lin Qiye rushed into first class and found a young man’s corpse with all ten fingers missing and a knife in his chest.

Lin Qiye and An Qingyu stopped a mind-controlled pilot from crashing the plane, while Chen Muye used an ancient parchment to divert it away from a residential district. The ritual appeared to have been completed despite the deaths of the Tavern Owner and Ten-Cut Ghost Child, and Wen Qimo explained that Team Phoenix would handle the Western Mist Mystery.

• An Qingyu discovered that the first-class passengers had died during a ritual, and Lin Qiye realized the creature’s control had a limited range.
• Lin Qiye knocked out the mind-controlled pilot while An Qingyu took over the controls and pulled the plane out of its dive.
• Chen Muye revealed an ancient parchment, and the plane veered away from the residential district and climbed back into the sky.
• Lin Qiye had the flight attendants reassure the passengers and told Wen Qimo that the ritual might have absorbed the souls of the Tavern Owner and Ten-Cut Ghost Child.
• Wen Qimo told Lin Qiye that Western Mist Mysteries were handled by Team Phoenix.

Lin Qiye searched the plane for Belial Krand and reunited with Team 136 after landing, while An Qingyu refused to return to the Night Watchmen. Chen Muye received a troubling call from Commander Ye, who also summoned Master Chen back to Cangnan.

• Wen Qimo explained the different duties of Special Squads 001 through 004, though he did not know what Team 001 did.
• Lin Qiye searched the plane for Belial Krand, but found no trace of him before An Qingyu landed the plane.
• Little Black's cleanup team removed the bodies and let the passengers disembark, while Lin Qiye kept searching them for Belial Krand.
• An Qingyu declined Lin Qiye's offer to return to the Night Watchmen, thanked him, and left among the passengers.
• Lin Qiye reunited with Hong Ying and the others from Team 136, then Chen Muye received a call from Commander Ye and answered in private.
• Commander Ye summoned Master Chen back to Cangnan, and Master Chen ordered the page boy to turn the carriage around.

Team 136 enjoyed a picnic after Chen Muye arranged a team-building outing, then learned they had been invited to Shangjing for observation and study. Chen Muye said he and Lin Qiye would remain in Cangnan while the others prepared to leave the next morning.

• Chen Muye interrupted the team’s office bickering and invited everyone on an outing.
• At Cangnan City Park, Lin Qiye learned that the Calamity Raven could warn of impending disasters.
• The team ate together, and Si Xiaonan showed them a green higanbana that Wu Xiangnan said symbolized everlasting hope.
• Chen Muye announced that Team 136 had been invited to Shangjing for observation and study.
• Wu Xiangnan worried about leaving Cangnan unguarded, so Chen Muye said he and Lin Qiye would stay behind.

Chen Muye sent five members of Team 136 to Shangjing City under a fabricated observation program to keep them away from possible danger in Cangnan, while Lin Qiye stayed behind under orders. As the Phoenix Squad flew to Cangnan to deal with the foreign Mystery Belial Klande, they were ordered to turn back because the city had been sealed off from all outside contact.

• Chen Muye explained that Wu Xiangnan, Hong Ying, Wen Qimo, Leng Xuan, and Si Xiaonan would attend an observation program in Shangjing City, and the team prepared to leave.
• After the five departed, Lin Qiye revealed that he had sensed Chen Muye forging the documents and learned that Chen had sent them away because danger might strike Cangnan.
• Chen Muye told Lin Qiye that he had to remain in Cangnan under orders, though his safety would still be guaranteed.
• A military transport carrying the Phoenix Squad flew toward Cangnan as Kong Shang briefed them on the foreign Mystery Belial Klande.
• The plane turned back after a military officer announced that Cangnan was cut off from the outside world and that no transportation, including Special Squads, could enter.