Chapter Summaries

Xu Yue used enhanced reflexes and precise gunfire to defeat Zhu Tao’s gunmen at the mall and help Chan Ka Kui reunite with Shalina, who carried evidence of Zhu Tao’s crimes. When the Flying Tigers arrived, Xu Yue handed Chan Ka Kui a cleaned gun and slipped away disguised as an ordinary passerby.

• Xu Yue emerged from a clothing store and shot down the first wave of Zhu Tao’s gunmen before they could return fire.
• Xu Yue picked off the gunmen who tried to aim and shoot, forcing the survivors to hide while Chan Ka Kui came out.
• Shalina emerged with a briefcase of evidence against Zhu Tao, who offered a reward for her death but could not get his men to act.
• Xu Yue led Chan Ka Kui to Shalina and explained how he had overcome the disorganized gunmen.
• The Flying Tigers surrounded the mall as Zhu Tao’s remaining men loudly surrendered and pleaded for protection.
• Xu Yue gave Chan Ka Kui a gun after wiping off his fingerprints, then removed his disguise and blended in with the civilians.

Xu Yue returned from helping Chan Ka Kui after Zhu Tao was arrested, then visited the injured security team undergoing Leon’s brutal special training. Leon sensed that Xu Yue had killed people and told him to wait for the Li couple’s Haunted Night, where he would play a key role.

• Chan Ka Kui covered for Xu Yue by claiming the God of War had returned to help him, and Uncle Piao accepted the explanation without pressing further.
• After taking leave to help Chan Ka Kui, Xu Yue returned to his security team and found Captain Lu, Huang Yaozu, Leon, and the other guards battered from special training.
• Captain Lu told Xu Yue that the security team would look to him as its next captain, then passed out before Leon slapped him awake.
• Leon told Xu Yue to skip the training and prepare for Mr. and Mrs. Li’s Haunted Night, saying he sensed Xu Yue had killed at least a dozen people.
• Xu Yue drew the lingering resentment around him into his body, while Huang Yaozu asked what he had done during his leave.

Leon replaced his dangerous training method with cow tears that let people with magical talent see ghosts, then took the trainees to an abandoned cinema to meet an Earthbound Spirit. After Lee confirmed the ghost was real, the other security guards fled, leaving the group to face the prospect of Mr. and Mrs. Li’s return.

• Leon explained that cow tears could help ordinary people see ghosts and used them on the security guards and Ah Qun.
• Huang Yaozu led the group to an abandoned cinema to meet an Earthbound Spirit he had been monitoring.
• Lee dismissed the ghost stories and reached for the old man, only for his hand to pass through him.
• Lee calmed the old man by praising the cinema, while the other security guards retreated toward the entrance.
• The security guards made excuses and scattered, leaving Lee, Leon, Huang Yaozu, Ah Qun, and Xu Yue behind.

Leon trained the security guards to face the ghosts at the abandoned cinema, while Huang Yaozu warned that two powerful spirits could soon become Fierce Spirits. Chan Ka Kui arrived to thank Xu Yue and offer him a meal, but Leon accepted the invitation for the whole group.

• After seeing ghosts at the cinema, Huang Yaozu worried that two malevolent spirits would soon become Fierce Spirits, and Leon told him not to fear them.
• Chan Ka Kui arrived and confronted Leon for slapping Huang Yaozu, but Xu Yue explained that Leon was from Chongguang Psychiatric Hospital.
• Huang Yaozu apologized for Leon and congratulated Chan Ka Kui on clearing his name, while Chan Ka Kui asked whether the Miscellaneous Affairs Department needed Xu Yue's help.
• Chan Ka Kui said he had come to thank Xu Yue and offered to treat him to a meal at Stephen Chow's new restaurant.
• Leon accepted the offer on behalf of the security guards and the rest of the group, leaving Chan Ka Kui stunned.

Xu Yue and Chan Ka Kui visited Stephen Chow’s restaurant, where Tang Niu publicly undermined the God of Cookery as part of a scheme to take him down. When a security chief insulted Xu Yue and tried to stop him, Chan Ka Kui pleaded with him to stay calm, but Xu Yue said he only wanted to eat.

• Leon teased Chan Ka Kui about Xu Yue’s help against the bandits, and the group arrived at Stephen Chow’s restaurant.
• Xu Yue recognized that Stephen Chow was nearing the downfall that would lead him to rediscover his cooking talent.
• Stephen Chow promoted his Unbreakable Love set meal while Tang Niu repeatedly mocked and criticized its ingredients and cooking.
• Tang Niu’s partner and Stephen Chow’s own staff turned against him, and his security guards blocked him from leaving.
• A security chief shouted at Xu Yue, prompting Chan Ka Kui to plead with Xu Yue to stay calm.
• Xu Yue wiped his sunglasses and told Chan Ka Kui he only wanted to eat there.

Chan Ka Kui and Xu Yue arrived as Tang Niu defeated Stephen Chow in a cooking contest designed to strip him of his God of Cookery title. Xu Yue supported the shaken Stephen Chow and challenged him to value hard work and good food, while Uncle Tat’s plan was disrupted by Xu Yue’s unexpected arrival.

• Chan Ka Kui intimidated the security captain by implying he had gang connections, then explained the captain’s reference to Chicken Chan and left the restaurant dispute behind.
• Tang Niu knocked the knife from Stephen Chow’s hand and used his Shaolin techniques to prepare an impressive bowl of Chop Suey Noodles.
• Uncle Tat prepared to have the food inspection department take away Stephen Chow after Tang Niu’s performance, expecting the scandal to promote the new God of Cookery.
• The security captain let Xu Yue into the venue, where his looks drew the critics’ attention away from Tang Niu and disrupted Uncle Tat’s plan.
• Uncle Tat learned Xu Yue might have gang connections and decided to contact Brother B rather than remove him by force.
• Xu Yue supported Stephen Chow and told him that clever marketing could not overcome inferior food, urging him not to betray hard work and good cooking.

Xu Yue challenged Tang Niu to a Chop Suey Noodles food battle and defeated him, reviving Stephen Chow’s passion for cooking. As Tang Niu and Stephen Chow were overcome by the food and their renewed convictions, Uncle Tat moved ahead with his plan to seize Stephen Chow’s business, backed by Brother B’s men.

• Stephen Chow realized he had abandoned cooking for money and thanked Xu Yue for exposing what was happening, while suspecting Tang Niu had planned to destroy him and take his business.
• Xu Yue picked up a cleaver and challenged Tang Niu to a Chop Suey Noodles food battle, revealing a powerful chef’s presence that unsettled Tang Niu.
• Xu Yue created a new spice blend and overwhelmed Tang Niu with his cooking, impressing the crowd and the judges before they tasted the competing bowls.
• Tang Niu tasted Xu Yue’s noodles, remembered his original love of cooking, and collapsed in tears, while Stephen Chow also wept and thanked Xu Yue for awakening him.
• Uncle Tat decided to continue taking over Stephen Chow’s business, and his men reported that Brother B had sent Chan Ho Nam and Chicken Chan to back him.

Xu Yue won over the judges with his cooking and helped Stephen Chow and Tang Niu form a business alliance that left Uncle Tat on the outside. Uncle Tat’s triad reinforcements arrived as Xu Yue and the others ate together.

• Xu Yue’s cooking moved the judges, Tang Niu, and Stephen Chow, who recognized Xu Yue as the new God of Cookery.
• Stephen Chow offered Xu Yue half the shares in his business, but Xu Yue asked him to give half of those shares to Tang Niu instead.
• Xu Yue warned Stephen Chow to remember his conscience and original aspirations, then bound Stephen Chow and Tang Niu together as business partners.
• Uncle Tat called on his triad connections, and Brother B sent Ho Nam, Chicken Chan, and a large group of men to support him.
• Uncle Tat’s assistant pointed out the approaching gangsters as they marched down the street toward the restaurant.

Chan Ho Nam led a large gang force to Uncle Tat’s restaurant to intimidate Xu Yue and his companions, but Tang Niu quickly subdued him. Xu Yue invited Chan Ho Nam to sit and eat, leaving the young gangster stunned by Tang Niu’s strength.

• A large crowd of gangsters surrounded the restaurant, and Chan Ka Kui and the others realized they were in danger.
• Tang Niu and the others stayed calm, confident that their police influence, status, and fighting ability could handle the gangsters.
• Chan Ho Nam entered and assured Uncle Tat that he would deal with Xu Yue’s group without harming Stephen Chow.
• Tang Niu kicked away the chair Chan Ho Nam tried to stand on, making him stumble and get food on himself.
• Xu Yue invited Chan Ho Nam to sit and eat, and Tang Niu seized his collarbone and forced him into the chair.
• Chan Ho Nam realized that he was no match for Tang Niu.

Tang Niu defeated Uncle Tat’s gangsters at Stephen Chow’s restaurant, leaving Uncle Tat’s attempt to disrupt the business in ruins. Xu Yue then offered Chan Ho Nam a chance to leave the gang and become a witness against those who arranged the attack.

• Tang Niu subdued Chan Ho Nam as Uncle Tat’s men threatened Stephen Chow and demanded he sell his shares.
• Tang Niu charged into the gangsters and routed them, breaking the legs of Chicken Chan and the core members who kept resisting.
• Uncle Tat threatened Tang Niu with a criminal assault charge, but Stephen Chow said the diners could testify that Tang Niu had acted in self-defense.
• Chan Ka Kui offered to use his influence to target Brother B’s establishments, while Xu Yue suggested Chan Ho Nam become a tainted witness and offered him legitimate work.

Chan Ho Nam began his new job as an apartment security guard and learned from Captain Lu that a dead couple was expected to return for revenge that night. As Chan Ka Kui arrived with food, he and Chan Ho Nam discovered that the security team and several specialists were preparing for a real ghost encounter.

• Captain Lu lectured Chan Ho Nam about leaving gang life for stable work and explained why he had become a state's witness and taken a security job.
• Captain Lu warned Chan Ho Nam that a married couple who died seven days earlier would return to the apartment building that night to seek revenge.
• Chan Ho Nam laughed off Captain Lu's warning, but Captain Lu insisted that the security team had seen ghosts during their training.
• Chan Ka Kui arrived with Urinating Beef Balls for the night shift and joined Captain Lu and the others in the security room.
• Leon distributed the food while Huang Yaozu questioned Chan Ka Kui's presence and considered recruiting him for the Miscellaneous Affairs Department.
• Chan Ho Nam and Chan Ka Kui realized that Captain Lu and the assembled specialists genuinely expected ghosts to appear that night.

Chan Ka Kui dismissed the warnings about ghosts until he saw Mr. and Mrs. Li outside the security room and learned they were hunting everyone inside. Xu Yue distributed safety talismans as the guards prepared to face the vengeful spirits.

• Chan Ka Kui rejected Huang Yaozu's warning and let him apply cow's tears, while Chan Ho Nam also treated the ghost story as a prank.
• At midnight, Chan Ka Kui tried to leave but saw Mr. and Mrs. Li outside the door and hurried back into the security room.
• Huang Yaozu showed Chan Ka Kui the couple's newspaper photograph, and Chan Ka Kui admitted that he had seen them.
• Ghost Hunting Master Leon explained that the spirits could create illusions, while Huang Yaozu revealed that Xu Yue had killed the couple and that they were targeting everyone in the room.
• Xu Yue handed out safety talismans that could preserve the guards' consciousness if they were possessed.

Leon and the others confronted two vicious Ghosts after they entered the room, and Leon drove one out of Lee by stabbing him and using high-frequency sound and enchanted chocolate. The second Ghost possessed Captain Lu and attacked Leon, but Xu Yue broke Captain Lu’s arm, freeing Leon as the fight continued.

• Xu Yue revealed that he had bought a protection talisman, and Leon explained that it could preserve someone’s consciousness during possession but complicated their usual method of killing possessed victims.
• Leon warned everyone that two vicious Ghosts had entered the room, while Huang Yaozu hesitated to use his gun because the talisman and Leon’s other methods offered alternatives.
• Leon stabbed Lee and blasted him with a loudspeaker, then repelled the Ghost possessing Lee with chocolate when it tried to possess him.
• The second Ghost seized Captain Lu and strangled Leon, but Xu Yue broke Captain Lu’s arm with a folding stool, allowing Leon to escape.

Xu Yue drove Mr. Li out of Captain Lu, then followed the security guards as they pursued the vicious ghosts. Mrs. Li possessed Ah Qiang and injured Huang Yaozu and Chan Ka Kui, leaving Xu Yue to tend their wounds as the group faced the danger of stopping her.

• Xu Yue broke the arm Mr. Li used to possess Captain Lu, forcing Mr. Li to flee, then treated Captain Lu and placed him inside a protective circle.
• The security guards followed Leon to hunt the ghosts, and Leon captured Mr. Li using chocolate, plastic wrap, and his spirit-sensitive lily.
• Mrs. Li possessed Ah Qiang and used his chainsaw to scatter the guards and injure Huang Yaozu and Chan Ka Kui.
• Huang Yaozu warned Chan Ka Kui that Mrs. Li was growing stronger with each possession and that they might have to sacrifice the possessed person to stop her.
• Xu Yue arrived and began bandaging Huang Yaozu and Chan Ka Kui's wounds.

Xu Yue treated Huang Yaozu’s wound while Huang tried to recruit him and Chan Ka Kui into the Miscellaneous Affairs Department. Mrs. Li possessed Ah Qiang and then Chan Ho Nam, and Xu Yue lured her away from the others as she pursued him with a chainsaw.

• Xu Yue stitched Huang Yaozu’s wound and casually revealed that he was a doctor, while Huang tried to recruit Xu Yue and Chan Ka Kui into his department.
• Mrs. Li possessed Ah Qiang and charged at Xu Yue, Huang Yaozu, and Chan Ka Kui with a chainsaw.
• Chan Ho Nam tackled Ah Qiang, but Huang warned that Mrs. Li could transfer possession through contact, and she took over Chan Ho Nam.
• Possessed Chan Ho Nam threw Ah Qiang aside and picked up the chainsaw as Xu Yue, Huang Yaozu, and Chan Ka Kui fled.
• Xu Yue threw a fruit knife into Chan Ho Nam’s arm and taunted Mrs. Li, who abandoned Ah Qiang and pursued him.

Mrs. Li possessed Chan Ka Kui and pursued Xu Yue and Huang Yaozu, then transferred into the Hu Jian brothers as Xu Yue tried to protect his companions. Mrs. Li ended the chapter possessing Hu Jian Ge and heading for the chainsaw to attack everyone.

• Mrs. Li abandoned the injured Chan Ho Nam and possessed the exhausted Chan Ka Kui, forcing Xu Yue and Huang Yaozu to flee.
• Xu Yue threw a knife at Chan Ka Kui, but Mrs. Li made him take the blade in his wrist and continued the pursuit.
• Xu Yue challenged Mrs. Li to target him instead of his colleagues, but she chased the Hu Jian brothers.
• Xu Yue hit Chan Ka Kui with a fire hose nozzle, and Mrs. Li transferred from him into the younger Hu Jian brother.
• Hu Jian Ge kicked the chainsaw away, but Mrs. Li transferred into him and headed to retrieve the weapon.

Mrs. Li’s ghost possessed one security guard after another while Xu Yue and Leon tried to stop her. Xu Yue finally trapped Mrs. Li and Mr. Li together inside himself, leaving the pursuit at an end.

• Mrs. Li transferred from Hu Jian Ge into Tie Dan, then possessed Huang Yaozu after Xu Yue hurled him at her.
• Leon set a trap for Mrs. Li, but she dodged it and transferred into Big Twin.
• Xu Yue forced Ah Qun into Big Twin, and Mrs. Li then possessed Ah Qun before transferring into Leon.
• Leon urged Xu Yue to cut into his head and seal the ghost, but Xu Yue refused to hurt a companion.
• Xu Yue used plastic wrap to draw Mrs. Li and Mr. Li into himself, then sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.

Xu Yue consumed Mr. and Mrs. Li’s mana, then saved the victims and treated them with Leon’s help. Huang Yaozu arranged compensation and forced the survivors into service with the Miscellaneous Affairs Department, while Lee resisted until Huang threatened to send him to a haunted prison.

• Xu Yue completely refined Mr. and Mrs. Li into mana and caught Leon’s chainsaw strike after waking.
• Xu Yue claimed he could deal with ghosts who possessed Leon and persuaded Leon that he had nearly killed a heroic ghost hunter.
• Xu Yue and Leon gathered the victims, and Xu Yue treated them while Huang Yaozu secured compensation and medical care.
• The Miscellaneous Affairs Department requisitioned the security guards’ assistance, and Chan Ka Kui learned he had been transferred and promoted to Senior Inspector.
• Lee refused to sign the agreement, so Huang Yaozu threatened to arrange his imprisonment in a place with ghosts.

Huang Yaozu coerced Xu Yue and the security guards into joining the Miscellaneous Affairs Department as temporary workers, then explained their duties and rewards. Xu Yue reflected on his progress and the state of Fuyuki City before Stephen Chow invited him to a jewelry exhibition where Long Wei would appear.

• Huang Yaozu forced the security guards to sign agreements and recruited them as temporary cooperative workers, while Xu Yue offered to help suppress Ghosts.
• Huang Yaozu showed the guards Earthbound Spirit assignments and bonuses, prompting them to consider which spirits they could monitor or soothe.
• Xu Yue judged that his mana made him a fledgling Magus and noted that Fuyuki City's reconstruction was still underway while Kiritsugu was alive and had recently adopted Shirou.
• Stephen Chow invited Xu Yue to a jewelry exhibition and said Tang Niu wanted to see the martial arts star Long Wei, though he worried Tang Niu might cause trouble.

Xu Yue agreed to help Stephen Chow with the jewelry exhibition and investigated where Chow Sing Sing might be undercover. While checking a possible school, he encountered He Jinyin being swindled by Gui Wangda and intervened.

• Xu Yue agreed to join Stephen Chow at the jewelry exhibition on Saturday, recognizing the event as part of the High Risk plot.
• Xu Yue planned to locate Chow Sing Sing's undercover assignment himself because the fused mission world differed from the original stories.
• Xu Yue visited a prominent Port City campus but discovered it was a training center rather than the school he sought.
• Xu Yue recognized He Jinyin from King of Destruction and deduced that He Jinyin had already begun seeking martial arts lessons from Gui Wangda.
• Gui Wangda asked He Jinyin for another donation, but Xu Yue grabbed He Jinyin's wrist and warned him that Gui Wangda was a scammer.