Chapter Summaries

A corpse appeared on the flooded, dark thirtieth floor and chased four men into a stairwell where the stairs had vanished. Three fell to their deaths while fleeing, and the surviving Thin Security Guard was found unconscious on the rooftop and questioned by Uncle Hat.

• The Fat Security Guard and the others found a bloodied corpse embedded in the thirtieth-floor wall, but it crawled out and stood beside it.
• The Thin Security Guard led the group into a fire escape, where they discovered that the stairs downstairs had become a wall, so they ran toward the rooftop.
• The four men tried to climb down from the rooftop, but the Thin Security Guard fell onto the man below, who grabbed the Fat Security Guard, and all three plunged to their deaths.
• Uncle Hat investigated the thirtieth floor and found no water, damage, or corpse, then discovered the unconscious Thin Security Guard on the rooftop.
• Uncle Hat questioned the Thin Security Guard, whose account of a haunting made the Relevant Department suspect a possible vicious-ghost incident while keeping open the possibility of a staged murder.

Jiang Qiao watched a headless security guard return to the eighth floor after a strange man removed its head and put it in a black bag. The guard entered Zou Xiang’s apartment, where his wife saw it and fell silent.

• Niu Dali fled from the man carrying a black plastic bag as the man entered the community and headed into the Underground Garage.
• Niu Dali took an elevator down from Building Four and met the man in the Underground Garage.
• The man plucked off Niu Dali’s head and placed it in the bag, while the headless guard walked back to Building Four and went to the eighth floor.
• Zou Xiang returned to the garage for his forgotten phone as the headless guard entered his apartment.
• Zou Xiang’s wife opened her eyes, screamed at the guard, and abruptly fell silent.

Jiang Qiao watched a supernatural incident unfold in a residential complex, where headless Ghost Slaves killed people and traded heads. He suspected the black-bag-carrying man had deliberately caused the event, though the man appeared to be an ordinary person.

• Zhou Xiang returned home and discovered that his wife was missing.
• Zhou Xiang's friend warned him that a dangerous killer carrying a head had entered his residential complex.
• Zhou Xiang saw his wife's face on a person hanging upside down outside his bedroom window, then encountered her headless body at the front door and was killed.
• The headless Zhou Xiang knocked on a neighbor's door to take a head, as Ghost Slaves spread killings through the complex by replacing their heads.
• The Ghost Slaves clashed with the police, while Jiang Qiao observed and concluded that the black-bag-carrying man had likely arranged the incident.

Jiang Qiao tracked a mysterious Evolver organization whose members were luring a ghost story out of Bin City, while the group learned that He Qun and Ma Li had been killed. The chapter ended as an unknown visitor appeared in their hotel room, offering to tell them what happened.

• Jiang Qiao followed a man carrying a bag to investigate an Evolver organization he had never encountered before.
• Wang Tao and the middle-aged man discussed their plan to lure a ghost story into the mountains and leave Braided Girl alone until Ghost Mother matured.
• Wang Tao received news that He Qun and Ma Li had been killed in a brief fight with one person near the bus station, while Xie Fei escaped.
• The middle-aged man ordered an investigation into the powerful expert in Bin City, but an unseen voice entered the room and said they could ask directly.

Jiang Qiao traced the Ghost Slave’s release to a hidden organization linked to hospital sacrifices and a Ghost Mother, then followed a newly released ghost story to two men hiding in a hotel. He confronted them after learning they were connected to the operation and that their companions had died at his hands.

• Jiang Qiao tracked the Ghost Slave’s handler to an abandoned factory and found traces of Live Sacrifices leading to patients whose bones contained Mo Wen Script.
• Jiang Qiao discovered the Ghost Mother hidden beneath the hospital and identified a patient who recalled seeing a man carve words into his kidneys during surgery.
• Jiang Qiao found the orthopedic director, who admitted ties to a sinister religion but knew little about the organization behind it.
• Jiang Qiao sensed a ghost story being released from an elementary school basement and heard its handler report that two companions had been killed by a mysterious expert.
• Jiang Qiao used Dual Pupils to locate the two men in a hotel and confronted them.

Jiang Qiao questioned two Hometown Association members about their organization and the coming Supernatural Revival, then faced their powerful cursed weapons. Their strength reminded him of strange tales that had left Bin City together after the revival.

• Jiang Qiao asked the middle-aged man and the young man about the Hometown Association, its origins, and its purpose.
• The young man revealed that Supernatural Revival was imminent and that their organization had sent them to release ghosts and observe events in Bin City.
• The middle-aged man said the Hometown Association came from the Supernatural World, while warning that even Sixth Tier members were low-ranking operatives.
• The young man fired cursed stone bullets at Jiang Qiao, and the middle-aged man summoned a candle-bearing ghost that blew a powerful curse at him.
• Jiang Qiao recognized that their abilities far exceeded their stated tier and recalled that similar experts had vanished from Bin City after Supernatural Revival.
• Jiang Qiao connected their departure to the North City District's strange tales leaving en masse more than forty days after the revival.

Jiang Qiao forcibly read the memories of two Hometown Association Evolvers and uncovered a series of supernatural defenses hiding behind their blank memories. When he broke into the ancestral shrine within their minds, its mysterious figure noticed him and reverse-invaded the hotel room.

• Jiang Qiao stopped the Evolvers’ attacks and used talismans to pin them down before invading their memories.
• Jiang Qiao found that a damp green brick wall concealed the Evolvers’ memories and broke through it to reveal an ancestral shrine.
• A shadowy figure appeared in the shrine and warned Jiang Qiao that he should not have come.
• Jiang Qiao used black lightning to interrupt the figure’s voice, causing the Evolvers to bleed and expelling Jiang Qiao from their memories.
• The figure appeared in the hotel room with its back to Jiang Qiao, who sensed that he recognized it.

Jiang Qiao fought a powerful shadow that appeared after the memories of two Evolvers merged, and suspected it was either a survivor of the Return Journey Research Institute or a remnant of Great Qi’s Great Ancestor. He overcame the shadow’s rule-based attacks with Stove Fire and prepared to finish it off.

• Jiang Qiao discovered that the two Evolvers’ memories had merged into one and that a single figure stood beyond the collapsed walls.
• Jiang Qiao attacked the figure, which vanished and made the two unconscious Evolvers unleash sword qi against him.
• Jiang Qiao recognized the figure’s martial arts as resembling Great Qi’s techniques and fought back, destroying much of North City District.
• The figure transferred the damage from Jiang Qiao’s punch to a nearby middle-aged man, then formed azure rule chains to attack him.
• Jiang Qiao’s Stove Fire ignited the figure’s rule-based sword qi, but the shadow transferred the flames to another Evolver.
• Jiang Qiao suspected the shadow was a survivor of the Return Journey Research Institute or the Great Qi Great Ancestor and vowed to kill it for clues.

Jiang Qiao fought a remnant image that summoned the Nether Sea’s aura and a Half-God-level Ghost Ship. As the ship threatened Blue Star, strange talismans reacted and an unknowable symbol emerged from the chaotic qi, suggesting a hidden reason had prevented Half-Gods from reaching Blue Star.

• Jiang Qiao attacked the remnant image after realizing its martial arts method sought to elevate the supernatural.
• The remnant image opened a dark passage to the Nether Sea and summoned a battered Ghost Ship.
• The Ghost Ship’s arrival cracked the World Barrier and unleashed scarlet rain that threatened Bin City’s residents.
• Jiang Qiao suspected the Ghost Ship was trying to force its way into Blue Star for a reason beyond fighting him.
• Jiang Qiao’s talismans blazed as an indescribable symbol flew out from the chaotic qi above Blue Star.
• Jiang Qiao concluded that a hidden force, rather than a fragile passage, might have prevented Half-Gods from reaching Blue Star.

Jiang Qiao realized the afterimage had used the Ghost Ship to probe Blue Star, but an enigmatic symbol caused the ship and spatial damage to vanish. He resumed fighting the afterimage and gained the upper hand, then used Dual Pupils to locate every evolver in Bin City.

• Jiang Qiao reasoned that the Heavenly Talisman stole power from unseen beings and that the afterimage had summoned the Ghost Ship to test Blue Star's defenses.
• An unseen symbol entered the black hole, making the Ghost Ship fade away and restoring the damaged void as the chaos disappeared.
• Jiang Qiao attacked the afterimage again after the supernatural disturbance ended.
• The afterimage used evolvers across Bin City as substitutes to absorb damage, devastating the New Humans, while Jiang Qiao countered with Fate Weaver, Thunder Spirit, and his Assassination Technique.
• Jiang Qiao gained the advantage and used Dual Pupils to lock onto every evolver in Bin City.

Jiang Qiao realized Stove Fire followed a path that used the supernatural while turning it into a force of human warmth, and he considered the flaws in the Great Qi path and other alternatives. He killed the Evolvers in Bin City, trapped the afterimage in Stove Fire, and watched it burn.

• Jiang Qiao fought the humanoid afterimage and recognized that Stove Fire transformed supernatural power into warmth and light.
• Jiang Qiao analyzed how the Great Qi path preserved human consciousness in Vicious Ghosts but ultimately risked producing hidden, self-aware Vicious Ghosts.
• Jiang Qiao compared Stove Fire with Moon Laurel and speculated about the origins of Crow Country’s Vicious Ghosts.
• Jiang Qiao used lightning and Dual Pupils to find and kill every Evolver in Bin City, preventing the afterimage from transferring its injuries to them.
• Jiang Qiao trapped the afterimage in a cage of Stove Fire, and the flames engulfed it after its attempt to transfer the damage failed.

Jiang Qiao defeated the Half-God’s afterimage, leaving Bin City devastated. Qing Wu investigated Jiang Qiao and the Hometown Association, concluding that supernatural means had created Jiang Qiao’s inexplicable identity record.

• Jiang Qiao defeated the afterimage, which had countered many of his techniques but could not overcome Fate Weaver and the stars' Stove Fire.
• Rescue teams and the Relevant Department responded to the destruction and casualties across Bin City.
• Qing Wu learned that the Hometown Association had little traceable history and had recently drawn Vicious Ghosts out across Blue Star.
• Qing Wu examined Jiang Qiao’s file and found a valid identity number but almost no personal information.
• Qing Wu’s investigation ruled out ordinary database access and concluded that someone had used supernatural means to create Jiang Qiao’s identity.

After the destruction in Bin City, powerful groups investigated the incident while hidden figures adjusted their plans around the experts who had appeared there. As rumors spread and residents fled, the Paper Figure Maker and Liu Ping focused on the return of the Great Emperor Water Official.

• Qing Wu added Bin City to the protection list and ordered Awakened to be sent there.
• The Prayer Association president dismissed the events in Bin City and directed attention toward the seal beneath Fishbone Temple, where a Half-God was imprisoned.
• The Paper Figure Maker told Liu Ping that his incarnation in Bin City had died and canceled his plan to possess the Braided Girl.
• The Paper Figure Maker refused to send another incarnation, while Liu Ping continued to wait for his return and asked about the Great Emperor Water Official's ritual.
• The Paper Figure Maker used liquid and crystal fragments to summon a small pale foot, followed by a baby's sinister laugh.
• News of the Bin City disaster spread online, and frightened residents began leaving as people elsewhere demanded explanations.

Jiang Qiao realized the Simulator might use the River of History to explore alternate outcomes, then walked through an increasingly deserted Bin City on the eve of the Supernatural Revival. He left the noodle shop owner reflecting on the chaos and the family he had hoped to bring to the city.

• Jiang Qiao connected the Simulator’s alternate outcomes to the River of History and wondered whether a powerful figure had created it.
• Jiang Qiao recalled how Half-Gods could influence reality by shifting possibilities in the River of History, and he questioned the mystery of his own arrival in this era.
• On the sixth day, Jiang Qiao walked through a deserted Bin City, where shops had closed and alarms and ambulances sounded across the streets.
• Jiang Qiao found an open noodle shop and heard the owner describe how his friend’s family had disappeared and how he planned to return to his hometown.
• The owner told Jiang Qiao that he had hoped to bring his two-year-old child to Bin City, then revealed that his wife had run away with someone else.

Jiang Qiao listened as the noodle shop owner, Little Boss, recounted his unhappy marriage, his wife’s fraud and infidelity, and their divorce. Before vanishing from the shop, Jiang Qiao advised Little Boss to bring his family to Bin City for safety, leaving the frightened owner wondering whether the apparent ghost had given him a genuine warning.

• Little Boss told Jiang Qiao how his wife’s resentment, celebrity obsession, and failed stock scheme strained their marriage, and how she later had an affair with a neighbor and divorced him.
• Little Boss explained that he won custody of their daughter while the couple divided their property equally.
• Jiang Qiao comforted Little Boss and advised him to bring his family to Bin City, saying it would be safer than the surrounding area.
• Jiang Qiao vanished as he left the noodle shop, and Little Boss feared he had been talking with a ghost.
• Little Boss closed the shop and considered whether the ghost’s warning was sincere.

Jiang Qiao wandered through Bin City as residents reacted to the recent hauntings, then returned to the inn and reflected on how his past intervention might have changed history. The night passed peacefully, and the story reached the seventh day of the Supernatural Revival.

• Jiang Qiao continued walking through Bin City, where hauntings had decreased after the previous day's battle but rumors still frightened residents.
• The boss and several inn guests discussed recent supernatural incidents, including an internet café owner who had died in a car accident after receiving bloodstained spirit money.
• Jiang Qiao recognized the dead café owner as someone who had once bought him a Ghost Killer Power Bank and wondered whether he had disrupted history.
• Jiang Qiao returned to his room and stayed in for the rest of the day; the night passed without incident.
• Time passed, and the story reached the seventh day of the Supernatural Revival.

Jiang Qiao watched an upside-down city appear above Bin City as the blood-red sky and worldwide power and communications failures sparked panic. Vicious ghosts poured from the city and began falling toward the ground, leaving people below realizing they were under attack.

• Jiang Qiao watched the sky turn blood-red as people across Bin City panicked and tried to flee.
• The red sky spread across the world, communications and electricity failed, and ordinary flames became cold ghost fires.
• An enormous upside-down city appeared above the world, and Jiang Qiao recognized it as a mysterious source of many vicious ghosts.
• Jiang Qiao decided to observe the city and search for clues without acting rashly.
• Vicious ghosts emerged from the buildings in the upside-down city and fell toward the ground in swarms.
• People below saw the falling figures and realized that ghosts were flying in the sky.

As Vicious Ghosts fell from the sky and attacked people around the world, Jiang Qiao observed the invasion in Bin City and spotted a group of Awakened who seemed to have been sent by the Guangming Society. He sensed a terrifying presence within the growing White Tower in the Inverted City, and the Simulator awakened an immense power inside him as the chapter ended.

• Vicious Ghosts descended across the world and began killing people, while many avoided Bin City because of lingering magnetic fluctuations.
• Jiang Qiao saw Awakened fighters in Bin City defeat Vicious Ghosts and deduced that the Guangming Society had sent them to the city.
• Jiang Qiao concluded that Bin City would likely become a Safe Zone as the Vicious Ghosts moved away and the Awakened suppressed the invasion.
• Jiang Qiao sensed that the White Tower in the Inverted City was expanding its presence and felt a terror unlike anything he had encountered before.
• The Simulator appeared on its own, and an immense power awakened inside Jiang Qiao as he saw the words “Chou God!”

The Chou God's Mark awakened and carried Jiang Qiao through ancient geological eras to the early stages of Supernatural Revival, where he discovered the white tower in the Feng Qiu Ruins. As the tower answered the Chou God’s awakening with a starry sky that overwhelmed him with despair, Jiang Qiao’s Dual Pupils resisted, and the mark unleashed a dazzling seven-colored light.

• The Chou God's Mark stirred, surrounding Jiang Qiao with layered worlds from Blue Star’s ancient geological eras.
• The Simulator revealed that Jiang Qiao had reached the early stages of Supernatural Revival and identified a powerful white tower in the Feng Qiu Ruins.
• Jiang Qiao connected Feng Qiu Ruins to the Fate Dice, Taiyin’s fall, and Venerable Yu’s discovery of the Half-God remnant.
• The Chou God began awakening, and the white tower transformed the sky into a star-filled void.
• The void filled Jiang Qiao with despair and weariness, but his Dual Pupils resisted its influence.
• The Chou God's Mark fully awakened and sent a seven-colored radiance soaring from the overlapping worlds into the heavens.

The Chou God’s multicolored light reached the white tower, killing people across Blue Star who looked at it as a battle between gods unfolded beyond ordinary understanding. The chapter ended with the Half-Gods at Fishbone Temple recognizing one of the combatants as an old friend of the Man in Green with Sword.

• The Chou God’s multicolored light rose toward the white tower, and everyone who looked at it died, causing immense casualties across Blue Star.
• Jiang Qiao watched the sky safely because of his Chou God Mark and saw the white tower, the light, and the starry sky vanish as strange images flickered in a distant clash.
• The Prayer Association’s president realized the battle involved the god from Dragon Transformation Mountain and wondered who was fighting it.
• Qing Wu and most of the Guangming Society’s Blue Star headquarters died after looking at the multicolored light.
• The Half-Gods sealed in Fishbone Temple sensed a battle between gods, and the Man in Green with Sword said one combatant was an old friend before Granny Huang recognized him.