Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiao traveled to Lian City and entered the Red Moon Restaurant through its hidden main entrance. He arrived as the city’s supernatural forces and the restaurant’s influence continued to shape one another.

• Jiang Qiao visited his former hotel and considered the Paper Person and Paper Figure Maker connected to it.
• Jiang Qiao traveled to Lian City, where the Red Moon Restaurant’s influence had turned the city into a place where people and ghosts coexisted amid rampant supernatural horrors.
• Jiang Qiao observed the busy central square and approached the statue that concealed the Red Moon Restaurant’s main entrance.
• Jiang Qiao sensed the hidden door, entered it, and vanished from the square in a flash of crimson light.

Jiang Qiao overheard the three old ghosts plotting to exploit the coming Supernatural Revival and seize Lian City. He revealed himself and ended their discussion, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Jiang Qiao entered the Red Moon Restaurant and sensed the three old ghosts meeting on the third floor.
• The old woman, chef, and butcher discussed the coming Supernatural Revival and their plans to expand beyond the restaurant’s restrictions.
• The old woman planned to use the Red Moon’s power to take Lian City and ordered the butcher to create panic and recruit Awakened.
• The three old ghosts discussed the Prayer Association, the Green Lotus Sect, and other groups possessing Taboo Weapons.
• Jiang Qiao confronted the three old ghosts and told them their plans would have to wait until their next lives.

Jiang Qiao ambushed the three ghosts in Red Moon Restaurant and overwhelmed them with his vastly increased strength. After killing the Butcher and striking the Chef, he shattered the Old Woman’s attack, leaving her to stab at him with a Meat Cutting Knife.

• The Old Woman, the Butcher, and the Chef discovered Jiang Qiao in their room and demanded to know how he had entered.
• The Butcher attacked Jiang Qiao with a cursed Meat Cutting Knife, but Jiang Qiao ignored its influence and killed him with one blow.
• The Old Woman ordered the Chef to attack alongside her, and Jiang Qiao punched through the Chef’s ghostly defenses and struck him in the chest.
• The Old Woman trapped Jiang Qiao in mist and a black void, but he destroyed both with a lightning-wrapped fist.
• The Old Woman summoned a Meat Cutting Knife and stabbed toward Jiang Qiao as he attacked her.

Jiang Qiao killed the Old Woman in the Red Moon Restaurant and returned to Bin City. There, he sensed an ancient-style alley whose aura seemed more terrifying than the Supernatural Space hiding the Paper Figure Maker.

• The Old Woman attacked Jiang Qiao, but her knife could not pierce his skin.
• Jiang Qiao overwhelmed the Old Woman with his Evil Spirit Body and Thunder Art, then erased her with a black lotus.
• Jiang Qiao noted that he had killed the butcher, the chef, and the Old Woman in under five minutes, then explored the restaurant while avoiding the Nether Sea entrance.
• Jiang Qiao returned to Bin City after about an hour and chose not to confront the Paper Figure Maker.
• Jiang Qiao sensed a terrifying aura in an ancient-style alley, recalling the ghost vendor who had once sold him barbecue skewers and milk tea.

Jiang Qiao discovered a hidden passage from Ancient-style Alley into an abandoned supernatural space and sent a weakened clone inside after the unstable entrance rejected his true body. The clone found an ancient street resembling the alley, but the chapter left him hearing strange voices as he explored.

• Sister Lan, Qian Jia, and their companion entered a hidden passage in Ancient-style Alley to reach ruins.
• Jiang Qiao spotted the passage and deduced that the three visitors were Awakened who had returned from the Supernatural World.
• Jiang Qiao found that his strength destabilized the passage, so he used Thunder Spirit to form a weakened clone and send it inside.
• Jiang Qiao’s clone explored an ancient street lined with abandoned stalls and realized it resembled Ancient-style Alley.
• Jiang Qiao’s clone heard strange voices while walking deeper into the street.

Jiang Qiao discovered two sinister entities behaving like lovers inside a house and watched as a crowd arrived to catch them in the act. The woman's husband confronted the monkey-faced man, while Jiang Qiao remained hidden nearby.

• Jiang Qiao followed suspicious sounds to a house and saw a monkey-faced man bathing with a beautiful woman in a huge pot.
• Jiang Qiao realized the woman was assembled from mismatched body parts and suspected she was a White Bone Demon.
• A crowd carrying a paper minibus arrived, and the two sinister entities hurried to dress and repair their bodies.
• The crowd broke into the house, where the woman greeted the man leading them as her husband.
• The husband revealed his rotting corpse-like body as his friends and relatives urged him to beat the monkey-faced adulterer.

Jiang Qiao watched a violent encounter inside a house end in eerie silence, then found that everyone had vanished. Meanwhile, Zhou Sen, Qian Jia, and Sister Lan escaped the town and sought shelter at a Land Temple, where they spotted a woman vaulting over the courtyard wall.

• Jiang Qiao hid outside a house and listened as the monkey-faced man, a woman, and the mummified husband fought inside.
• A burly man with a chainsaw entered the house, but after several minutes of silence, Jiang Qiao found the people gone and a stained paper van left behind.
• Zhou Sen, Qian Jia, and Sister Lan fled the ruins and discussed the dangers they had encountered.
• Sister Lan used her map to guide them to a Land Temple, where they planned to rest until daylight.
• After they entered the shrine, Zhou Sen spotted a woman vault over the courtyard wall and disappear.

Sister Lan, Qian Jia, and Zhou Sen encountered a hidden danger inside a Land Temple, where Zhou Sen vanished without warning. Sister Lan and Qian Jia fled, but an unfamiliar shadow appeared beside Sister Lan as they continued through the ruins.

• Sister Lan and Qian Jia realized that none of them had actually seen the ghost they had sensed, and they suspected the Land Temple was dangerous.
• Zhou Sen vanished from the temple hall, so Sister Lan and Qian Jia hurried out and heard the doors slam shut behind them.
• Sister Lan and Qian Jia left the temple courtyard and reflected on how dangerous the ruins were as they traveled the moonlit road.
• Qian Jia spotted a black shadow by the field, then noticed an unfamiliar human shadow beside Sister Lan's own.

Jiang Qiao killed a disguised Fifth Tier enemy at the market and continued along a countryside road, where he found two survivors battling three ghosts outside a Land Temple. The ghosts overwhelmed Sister Lan’s supernatural entity, leaving Sister Lan and Qian Jia badly injured as Jiang Qiao watched from a distance.

• Jiang Qiao pursued a fleeing old man through the market and killed him despite the man’s claim that he was alive and Fifth Tier.
• Jiang Qiao left the market and walked past graves whose soil absorbed blood, then noticed a man and woman escaping a Land Temple while three linked ghosts followed them.
• Sister Lan summoned her lanky ghost to defend her against one of the shadows, but the other two ghosts joined the fight and seized it.
• The three ghosts shrieked, spraying blood from Sister Lan’s and Qian Jia’s eyes and ears, while Jiang Qiao covered his ears from hundreds of meters away.

Jiang Qiao effortlessly killed three Fourth Order Vicious Ghosts and entered the Land Temple, where he found a dead Awakened and a concealed passage beneath the statue. As he prepared to open it, the temple plunged into darkness and a chilling wind swept past him.

• Jiang Qiao killed the three Fourth Order Vicious Ghosts with lightning-charged punches, stunning Sister Lan and Qian Jia.
• Sister Lan and Qian Jia thanked Jiang Qiao, but he ignored them and entered the Land Temple.
• Jiang Qiao recognized the statue as connected to the Earth God and found the corpse of Sister Lan and Qian Jia's companion inside.
• Jiang Qiao discovered a concealed door beneath the statue's pedestal and prepared to open it.
• The oil lamp went out, the temple fell dark, and a cold wind brushed Jiang Qiao's neck.

Jiang Qiao fought the Earth God’s weakened avatar in the ruined Land Temple and destroyed the temple during their clash. After the avatar tried to escape and its cursed saber failed to finish the job, Jiang Qiao killed it with his fists, leaving only himself at the scene.

• Jiang Qiao chased the Shadow Figure through the Land Temple, crushed the incense sticks, and revealed that it was an Earth God avatar.
• The Earth God attacked Jiang Qiao with a cursed blue saber, and their collision shattered much of the temple.
• Sister Lan and Qian Jia fled the falling temple and watched Jiang Qiao pursue the wounded Earth God outside.
• Jiang Qiao dragged the Earth God back with a lightning whip and tried to decapitate him with his own saber.
• When the blade stalled and the Earth God’s power began to recover, Jiang Qiao abandoned the saber and beat him to death with his fists.

Jiang Qiao explored the crowded town at the foot of Grave Mountain and learned how many Awakened had gathered in the ruins. A man began hinting that the temple-smashing monster belonged to a particular organization, but the chapter ended before he named it.

• Awakened in town traded stories about the monster who had smashed temples, including one man who claimed the monster had politely apologized after destroying his shelter.
• The narrator explained that the town stood beside Grave Mountain, which concealed the tomb of an ancient expert whose death had created the ruins.
• Jiang Qiao observed that most Awakened in town were only first or second tier, while third-tier fighters were uncommon and fourth-order Awakened were rare.
• A man drew a crowd by claiming he knew which family the temple-smashing monster came from, then suggested the monster's actions resembled a certain organization's.
• The man asked whether the crowd knew the origins of the Divine Temples the monster had smashed.

Jiang Qiao reflected on his recent investigations before traveling to Yue City, where he overheard Awakened discussing a prodigy from the Luo Family and an old battle on Human Head Mountain. The chapter ended with the group recounting how a powerful visitor from Siam had taken a Golden Thread Jade Robe from the mountain.

• Jiang Qiao dismissed locals who blamed the Prayer Association for the temple destruction and continued investigating supernatural sites around Bin City.
• Jiang Qiao sent a clone to Dragon Transformation Mountain to search for the Chou God but found no sign of it at midnight.
• On his third day, Jiang Qiao arrived at Yue City and climbed Human Head Mountain.
• Jiang Qiao overheard Awakened discussing a Second Tier Dual Awakener born into the Luo Family.
• One Awakened recalled that a powerful visitor from Siam had fought the Guangming Society on Human Head Mountain about fifty years earlier and left with a Golden Thread Jade Robe.

Jiang Qiao learned that a Siamese Green Lotus Sect heir named Long Po Shui had taken a Golden Thread Jade Robe from Human Head Mountain fifty years earlier, so he traveled to Siam to investigate. There, he heard tourists recount a haunting involving photographs that showed them at a crossroads, while his search for the old monk remained ahead.

• Jiang Qiao learned from villagers on Human Head Mountain that Long Po Shui had found a Golden Thread Jade Robe in a mountain pool and taken it to Siam fifty years earlier.
• Jiang Qiao concluded that the Guangming Society had monitored the village and failed to stop a powerful Green Lotus Sect heir from leaving with the robe.
• Jiang Qiao reflected that villagers who left the mountain had likely died from a bloodline curse, while those who stayed were awaiting Supernatural Revival.
• Xiao Hu and his fellow tourists found a booklet outside their hotel room and saw photographs of themselves at a crossroads, where the figures turned their heads to face the camera.
• The tourists fled their room and waited in the hotel lobby until morning, while Jiang Qiao passed them in Siam and decided to seek out the Old Monk.

Xiao Hu and the others listened as the glasses man warned them about the dangers of Yin amulets and recounted a traveler’s bizarre experience after taking one. The story ended with the traveler discovering that the woman who had accosted him was actually a heavily made-up Paper Person.

• The glasses man explained that Yin amulets could grant intense desires but brought a growing risk of misfortune and supernatural backlash.
• He told how an atheist traveler chose a black Yin amulet depicting a naked woman and took it back to his hotel despite the other travelers’ warnings.
• After taking the amulet, the traveler began having hazy dreams and feeling that someone was moving his belongings.
• On the night before returning home, the traveler entered a bathroom stall and was embraced and kissed by a drunken woman.
• When two fellow travelers saw them, they screamed in terror, and the traveler discovered that the woman was actually a heavily made-up Paper Person.

A young man with glasses recounted how a tour member’s broken Yin amulet preceded strange events that continued after he returned home. The man repeatedly saw a mysterious woman in his apartment corridor, and when he followed her, she vanished, bringing back memories of Siam.

• The tour group found that a member’s Yin amulet had cracked and leaked, and they suspected it was connected to his strange experiences.
• The member failed to confront the amulet shop owner, who was away, and threw the amulet into a river before flying home.
• After returning to work, the member saw a beautiful woman enter his apartment corridor, then woke during the night to find his bathroom shower running.
• Over the next two nights, the member saw the woman again and suffered repeated sleep paralysis.
• On the third evening, the member followed the woman around a corner and found no one there, recalling the supernatural incident in Siam.

A tour group member realized that the Weird Woman from his Siam trip had followed him home and planned to move and burn his belongings to escape her. While he burned the clothes in his bathroom, a stray ember ignited the sink cabinet and the fire rapidly grew.

• The tour group member recognized the woman he kept seeing as resembling the Weird Woman from Siam and connected her to his Sleep Paralysis and other recent disturbances.
• He spent the night at an Internet café and decided to move, discard his Siam belongings, and seek help from a Funeral Master.
• After searching online, he resolved to burn his clothes and belongings, move, and take other precautions against the ghost.
• The next day, he returned home during lunch and began burning his Siam clothes in an iron basin in the bathroom.
• A smoldering strip of cloth landed beneath the sink and ignited the cabinet; the tour group member kicked over the basin in panic, causing the flames to merge and grow.

A glasses-wearing man recounted a fire caused by a supernatural encounter, then revealed he was the man who had died in it and vanished before his friends. Jiang Qiao watched the aftermath and concluded the man was a false person created by a mind-based phenomenon, while Xiao Xuan lay injured after being struck by a car.

• The glasses man described how a bathroom fire destroyed his home, left him financially ruined, and ended his encounters with the Weird Woman.
• When Xiao Hu accused him of inventing the story, the glasses man said he was the group member who had burned to death and that the man who left was not him.
• The glasses man’s body softened, turned into human skin, and became a cellphone advertisement poster before disappearing.
• Xiao Jing screamed, and Xiao Xuan stumbled into the road, where a speeding car struck her and sent her flying.
• Jiang Qiao observed that the glasses man was visible only through Dual Pupils and Supernatural Perception and suspected the friends’ memories had been altered.

Jiang Qiao investigated a village marked by a chemical factory disaster while Siamese video bloggers explored the supposedly haunted factory. He sensed a terrifying presence in a secluded temple nearby and followed the bloggers into the factory grounds.

• Jiang Qiao recognized that many elderly villagers had lost their eyes because they were survivors of a chemical leak at a nearby factory.
• Jiang Qiao learned that Long Po Shui was believed to live in seclusion near the village and noticed a sinister little temple deep in the forest.
• A group of Siamese video bloggers went to film the abandoned factory, hoping to make footage of it appear as though it had been shot at night.
• Jiang Qiao followed the bloggers to the factory while remaining invisible to them.
• A blogger looked through a factory window and saw human-shaped stains on the corridor floor, said to mark where workers had collapsed during the chemical leak.

Jiang Qiao spotted a Ghost Slave in the abandoned factory, judged that the old chemical leak concealed more than an accident, and left for an abandoned temple. Meanwhile, Xiao Lin and her companions explored the factory and discussed the missing workers before Xiao Ba suddenly cried out.

• Jiang Qiao saw an Old Woman in a filthy White Coats at a third-floor window and recognized her as a Ghost Slave.
• Jiang Qiao left the factory grounds and headed toward the old woods to visit an abandoned temple.
• Xiao Lin told Xiao Cai and the others that more than twenty factory workers had vanished after the accident and had never been accounted for.
• Xiao Lin and Xiao Ba filmed staged footage of her entering the factory while the other three men wandered nearby.
• Xiao Pa and Xiao Wang discussed the lethal chemical leak and the workers who had died or survived.
• Xiao Ba suddenly cried out in alarm while the three men were wandering around the factory.