Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan learned more about the Tantai Family’s secrets and made a potion in the Ghost Garden to hide his vitality from ghosts. The chapter ended with him encountering Qiu Liang’s red-clad ghost as he tested the potion.

• Fang Yuan coaxed Tantai Jueqing into telling him about the outside world and asked her to take him along, but Tantai Jueqing refused and Tantai Juexin sent him away.
• Fang Yuan overheard Tantai Jueqing and Tantai Juexin discussing a twenty-year cycle, the family’s plan, and stolen scissors associated with Qiu Liang.
• Fang Yuan saw a dead maid named Ah Hong being carried away and heard servants whisper that a ghost might have killed her behind a locked door.
• Fang Yuan entered the Ghost Garden, made a potion that suppressed a living person's vitality, and drank some of it to test its effect.
• Fang Yuan saw a Red Shadow and approached the garden entrance, where he encountered the ghost of Qiu Liang.

Fang Yuan escaped a powerful ghost in Ghost Garden and discovered that the Tantai Family’s curse and the Inner Demon Realm’s influence were tied to the horrors around him. He began drawing in Dream Origin Power, but its strange effects left a human-shaped mark and heralded more danger.

• Fang Yuan fled Ghost Garden after the red-clad female ghost spotted him, crossing into the Reality World with a black handprint on his ankle.
• Tantai Guijing and the elders discussed the coming twenty-year curse cycle, Mie Ming’s unawakened constitution, and their plan to retrieve the cursed scissors.
• Fang Yuan saw a gate depicted in the ancestral hall, and the old man there used a black ring to become a scapegoat before the pursuing ghost killed him.
• The next day, Fang Yuan learned the ancestral hall old man had died and reconsidered whether the ghost had taken Qiu Liang’s form in response to his thoughts.
• Fang Yuan sensed purple Dream Origin Power and began absorbing it, turning pale and chilling the room before a scream revealed a human-shaped mark on the floor.

Fang Yuan learned that his awakened physique could resist ghosts and discovered the Tantai Family had summoned him into a newborn’s body as a weapon against their curse. After refusing Tantai Jueqing’s attempt to manipulate him, he faced the family with the truth exposed and began considering how to escape.

• Fang Yuan examined his status and found his physique had awakened, while Tantai Jueqing confirmed it after viewing the aftermath of Cui He’s death.
• Fang Yuan’s awakened physique healed a ghost-inflicted wound, and Tantai Juexin told him to prepare for a ceremony that night.
• Tantai Jueqing tried to control Fang Yuan and send him to Su Xin, but he seized her wrist and said he wanted to leave.
• Tantai Jueqing revealed that Fang Yuan was an evil ghost summoned by the Tantai Family’s curse, who had taken over the newborn’s body and erased the child’s soul.
• Fang Yuan accepted the revelation without breaking down, then wondered what had happened to the summoned evil ghost and whether the ceremony had gone wrong.

Fang Yuan discovered that Tantai Mie Ming’s awakened Seal Spirit Body could contain evil ghosts, but the Tantai Family tried to curse him and use him as a sacrifice to open the underworld. He released the ghost sealed inside him, leaving the family facing a true supernatural threat.

• Fang Yuan refused Tantai Guijing’s demand to help the Tantai Family and said he would return in twenty years.
• An Elder’s bronze bell failed to control Fang Yuan, but Tantai Guijing used the Ghost-Subduing Mirror while the Elders cursed him.
• Tantai Guijing ordered the Elders to make Fang Yuan a vessel for cursing the door and led him toward the ancestral hall to open the underworld.
• Fang Yuan awakened the Seal Spirit Body, realized it could seal ghosts, and deduced that the Tantai bloodline had given him the constitution.
• Fang Yuan released the ghost sealed inside him, and Tantai Guijing saw its adult, frozen-looking form in the mirror.

Fang Yuan escaped the Tantai estate as the Door Curse pulled it into the netherworld, then arrived in a new world. At Chen Mansion, Detective Ma took a paranormal case involving a white-clad ghost, while Ma Xiaoling sensed that the haunting was real and dangerous.

• Tantai Juexin attacked Fang Yuan, but Fang Yuan struck him and escaped while a powerful ghost killed two elders.
• Fang Yuan used the Fierce Ghost's power to break through the Tantai estate's boundary and flee as the Door Curse swallowed the estate.
• Fang Yuan left the vanished estate behind and set out to explore the new world.
• At Chen Mansion, Chen Xinbo hired Detective Ma to investigate a woman in white and the disappearance of a servant.
• Ma Xiaoling spotted a blood-eyed woman and warned Detective Ma that a real ghost threatened them, but he refused to abandon the case.

Detective Ma investigated the disappearance of Xia He at Chen Mansion and grew suspicious of the family’s reclusive eldest daughter. As he secretly approached her room at night, Ma Xiaoling met Fang Yuan, who offered to help with the supernatural case.

• Detective Ma found no clues in Xia He’s spotless room, then learned from Butler Chen that Madam and the second young miss had left while Chen Xinbo stayed to accompany his eldest daughter, Wei'er.
• Butler Chen showed Detective Ma and Ma Xiaoling around Chen Mansion, where Ma Xiaoling drew attention to the door of the eldest daughter’s room.
• That night, Detective Ma sneaked toward Wei'er’s room while Ma Xiaoling stayed behind, and Fang Yuan arrived hungry after escaping the Tantai Family.
• Fang Yuan warned Ma Xiaoling that a ghost might kill her father and offered to help, while she told him Detective Ma was investigating a supernatural case.
• Detective Ma peered through Wei'er’s partly open door and saw Chen Xinbo stroking the hair of a woman with her back turned.

Detective Ma and Fang Yuan confronted the White-Clad Female Ghost at Chen Mansion, where Chen Xinbo’s attempt to summon his dead daughter had ended in tragedy. Fang Yuan helped Ma Xiaoling and Detective Ma escape, but the ghost remained dangerous as dawn approached.

• Detective Ma discovered Chen Xinbo tenderly caring for his dead daughter’s skull, while housekeeper Chen Bo recalled Chen Xinbo’s failed effort to summon her soul and was killed by a ghost.
• Chen Xinbo begged Detective Ma to help him see his daughter’s soul, but the White-Clad Female Ghost appeared and attacked them.
• Detective Ma fled through repeating corridors until Ma Xiaoling and Fang Yuan helped him reach the hall, where Fang Yuan demanded identity papers, lodging, and meals in exchange for saving him.
• Fang Yuan’s Flying Eagle Thirteen-Strike Combo failed to harm the ghost, so he splashed it with liquid from a test tube and led Ma Xiaoling toward the exit as dawn neared.

Fang Yuan escaped Chen Mansion with Ma Xiaoling and Detective Ma, then helped Ma Wencai explain the ghost attack to the police. A week later, Fang Yuan settled into the Ma Family Detective Agency under his real name and began planning his training and ghost research.

• Fang Yuan pushed the White-Clad Female Ghost aside at the gate, allowing Ma Xiaoling and Detective Ma to escape into the morning sunlight.
• Fang Yuan revealed he had escaped too and promised to give the police proof of the ghost, helping Detective Ma turn the incident into publicity for his agency.
• A week later, Fang Yuan read newspaper reports praising Ma Wencai and received identity papers naming him Fang Yuan, Ma Wencai’s adopted orphan.
• Fang Yuan joined the Ma Family Detective Agency and declined Ma Wencai’s suggestion that he return to Chen Mansion to deal with the Fierce Ghost.
• Fang Yuan speculated that Chen Xinbo’s summoning ritual and Xia He’s resentment had created the ghost, and said he wanted to investigate the monk.
• Fang Yuan planned to train his Physical Quality, study ghosts through the agency, test spiritual arts, and try planting the seeds he had saved.

Yang Guang and his friends became trapped by a supernatural photograph after exploring an abandoned apartment with Lu Xia’s supposedly haunted camera. After Lu Xia died in a fire, the photograph began erasing the others, and Yang Guang planned to seek help from paranormal detective Ma Wencai.

• Yang Guang, Bai Ling, Wu Lu, and Xiuwen examined the photograph, which showed Lu Xia erased and Bai Ling’s image beginning to blur, and decided to consult Ma Wencai.
• Bai Ling recalled how Lu Xia had invited the group to photograph ghosts in an abandoned apartment using his secondhand Polaroid camera.
• After the group photo distorted Lu Xia’s face, Yang Guang saw a charred figure seize the camera, and the friends fled the apartment.
• Xiuwen found the photograph despite Lu Xia having left it behind, and Yang Guang burned it, but Lu Xia then found an identical photograph in his pocket.
• The photograph repeatedly returned intact as Lu Xia faded from its image, and the group learned that he had died in a fire.

Yang Guang, Bai Ling, Xiuwen, and Wu Lu sought help from the fraudulent Daoist Liu Yuan, but his ritual failed and the ghost killed Bai Ling. Yang Guang saw Wu Lu becoming the next target and decided to find the detective and return to the apartment for the camera.

• Xiuwen led the group to Liu Yuan, who claimed he could protect them with a ritual and told them to burn the photograph.
• The photograph re-formed from its ashes, and the ghost trapped the group inside Liu Yuan’s room as Bai Ling’s image began to blur.
• Yang Guang, Xiuwen, and Wu Lu escaped the room, but Bai Ling became separated from them in the building and realized a charred corpse was holding her hand.
• Yang Guang, Xiuwen, and Wu Lu found Bai Ling’s charred body in the stairwell and hurried away to avoid attracting attention.
• Yang Guang saw Wu Lu’s face beginning to blur in the photograph and decided to find the detective and retrieve or destroy the camera at the apartment.

Wu Lu and Xiuwen fled the apartment and sought help from Ma Wencai’s paranormal affairs office, where Fang Yuan investigated their ghost case. The chapter ended with Fang Yuan noticing an extra person in their photograph, a detail Ma Xiaoling had missed.

• Yang Guang told Wu Lu and Xiuwen to split up and escape when a charred hand appeared on the stairs.
• Xiuwen helped Wu Lu up, and the two took a taxi to the Ma Family Paranormal Affairs Office.
• Fang Yuan tended to the supernatural plants he had grown and reflected on the limits of his abilities and his classification of ghosts.
• Ma Xiaoling received Wu Lu and Xiuwen as clients, and Fang Yuan joined them after learning they were being haunted.
• Fang Yuan studied the photograph and pointed out that it contained an extra person.

Ma Xiaoling and Fang Yuan discovered that Xiuwen was a Ferocious Ghost who had manipulated the group’s memories, and Fang Yuan drove off its clones. As Fang Yuan and Wu Lu headed to the apartment to destroy the curse at its root, Yang Guang smashed the camera and uncovered the charred corpse hidden inside the wall.

• Ma Xiaoling used solution on the photograph and revealed that Xiuwen was the fifth figure, a charred evil ghost who had fabricated the group’s memories.
• Fang Yuan identified Xiuwen as a Ferocious Ghost and struck down its clones throughout the agency, buying time for them to reach the apartment.
• Fang Yuan asked Wu Lu to lead him to the apartment, and she remembered that Yang Guang had gone there alone.
• Yang Guang recovered his memories, realized Wu Lu was in danger, and smashed the camera in the apartment.
• The wall behind the group-photo setup crumbled, revealing the charred corpse as the true source of the curse.

Yang Guang uncovered the apartment fire’s concealed deaths but was trapped and killed by the Ferocious Ghost’s curse. Fang Yuan found and sealed the ghost’s true root, ending the apartment’s curse and gaining more power from the sealed spirits.

• Yang Guang was drawn into a vision of the apartment fire and realized that multiple migrant workers had died there and been hidden in the walls.
• Yang Guang escaped the burning apartment, but a charred spirit clung to him and trapped him in a wall, where he suffocated as the developers’ cover-up played out around him.
• Fang Yuan and Wu Lu found the damaged wall and entered the fire-filled supernatural space where the Ferocious Ghost’s root lay.
• Fang Yuan partially released the power of his Seal Spirit Body, extinguished the flames, and used his Fiery Golden Eyes to locate the ghost’s root.
• Fang Yuan pulled the charred corpse into view and sealed it inside his body, ending the apartment’s curse.
• Fang Yuan’s status panel showed two sealed ghosts and attributes that had broken through their limits again.

Fang Yuan altered Wu Lu’s memories and resolved the apartment incident, then planned to hunt stronger Monster Class curses before the twenty-year calamity. Meanwhile, Lu Bingqi returned to his hometown and encountered a deadly ghost, while a young monk learned that the Chen Mansion case he had come to settle was already over.

• Fang Yuan used the apartment Ferocious Ghost to make Wu Lu forget what happened and planted the memory that Yang Guang and the others died in an accident.
• Fang Yuan concluded that the ghost sealed inside him had once been Monster Class but had been badly wounded by the door, and he planned to seek stronger curses and involve himself more openly with Ghost Exorcists.
• Fang Yuan returned to the Ma Family’s paranormal affairs office, reassured Ma Xiaoling that the matter was settled, and shared the strawberry cake she had made.
• Lu Bingqi returned to his hometown to investigate his nephew Xiao Xia’s death, but a ghost attacked a phone booth and killed three people before he escaped.
• A young monk arrived at the station intending to go to Chen Mansion, then learned from a cabbie that the ghost there had already been dealt with by the Ma Family’s paranormal affairs office.

Jie Se visited Chen Mansion to confirm that its vengeful ghost had been suppressed, then traveled to the Ma Family office to thank those responsible. After sensing a terrifying man in a trench coat, he resolved to investigate Hell and the disappearance of Golden Mountain Temple’s patriarchs, and met Fang Yuan, whom he could not read.

• Jie Se entered Chen Mansion and learned that Ma Wencai had apparently resolved the ghost’s haunting, so he carved golden Vajra seals into a wall before leaving.
• Jie Se headed for the Ma Family office and felt overwhelming terror when a man in a trench coat brushed past him, prompting him to mark the stranger and vow to investigate Hell.
• Jie Se thanked Ma Wencai and Ma Xiaoling for dealing with the Chen Mansion ghost, and Ma Xiaoling introduced him to Fang Yuan.
• Jie Se told Fang Yuan that his master had raised the ghost through Chen Xinbo and explained his efforts to atone for his master’s wrongdoing.
• Jie Se found that he could not see through Fang Yuan, the first person to stump him since he left the mountain.

Fang Yuan learned about the Ghost Exorcist Alliance and volunteered to help Monk Jie Se investigate Hell, a supernatural structure rumored to appear as a pawnshop. Elsewhere, Lu Bingqi entered the Supernatural Pawnshop and accepted a costly contract to learn how his nephew Lu Xia died.

• Monk Jie Se told Fang Yuan and Ma Xiaoling that he had found information about Hell in his master Monk Yun Hai’s notebook and planned to avenge him.
• Fang Yuan agreed to help Monk Jie Se investigate Hell, which was said to make contracts with fallen mortals and take the form of a pawnshop.
• Lu Bingqi returned to the Supernatural Pawnshop, where he had to make repeated deals to survive the ghost that came for him each year.
• Lu Bingqi asked the pawnshop to reveal the truth about Lu Xia’s death, and it offered a contract requiring him to unseal the ghost in the Chen Mansion within seven days and spend a night there afterward.

Fang Yuan and Monk Jie Se stopped Lu Bingqi from unsealing the Fierce Ghost in Chen Mansion, then Fang Yuan searched Lu Bingqi’s memories and revealed that he had sealed the ghost that killed Lu Xia. Lu Bingqi began explaining what he knew about the Supernatural Pawnshop, leaving Fang Yuan and Monk Jie Se to learn more about its reach and his master’s possible connection to it.

• Fang Yuan and Monk Jie Se followed Lu Bingqi to Chen Mansion and discovered that he intended to unseal the ghost there.
• Lu Bingqi damaged the protective incantations and reactivated the spirit-summoning ritual, but Monk Jie Se seized the resentment-soaked jade.
• Monk Jie Se fought Lu Bingqi and sealed the power of his ghost eye, while Fang Yuan watched.
• Fang Yuan used a ghost’s power to search Lu Bingqi’s memories, then told him he had sealed the ghost that killed Lu Xia.
• Lu Bingqi warned Fang Yuan against challenging the Supernatural Pawnshop and, after learning the truth about Lu Xia, agreed to share what he knew about it.

Fang Yuan released and swiftly destroyed the White-Clad Female Ghost, then learned more about the Supernatural Pawnshop from Lu Bingqi. He decided to sabotage Lu Bingqi’s deal to provoke the pawnshop and test its power, leaving the group to prepare for its interference.

• Fang Yuan used the Resentful Blood Jade to unseal the White-Clad Female Ghost, then destroyed her with Heavenly Eagle Claw and forced her to retreat.
• Fang Yuan explained that his unusual constitution let him fight spirit-class ghosts, though stronger curses still posed a serious threat.
• Lu Bingqi told Fang Yuan that traders could enter the Supernatural Pawnshop once a year using their blood and a business card, and showed him the card he had received before his car accident.
• Fang Yuan proposed provoking the pawnshop by sabotaging Lu Bingqi’s deal, promising to protect Lu Bingqi’s soul in the Reality World.
• Monk Jie Se agreed to help Fang Yuan prepare to test the pawnshop’s capabilities.

Fang Yuan and Monk Jie Se tried to shield Lu Bingqi from the Supernatural Pawnshop’s punishment, but the pawnshop ultimately dragged him inside. Fang Yuan remained confident that they had not truly lost.

• Fang Yuan gouged out Lu Bingqi’s ghost eye and destroyed the Fierce Ghost hidden inside it, while Monk Jie Se’s Pagoda Formation suppressed the pawnshop’s attempt to seize Lu Bingqi’s soul.
• The pawnshop sent a tide of ghosts and a giant woman ghost against them, but Fang Yuan unleashed two sealed ghosts and attacked the woman ghost with a powerful blade strike.
• Lu Bingqi vanished into the Supernatural Pawnshop as the ghosts disappeared, leaving Monk Jie Se to believe he had failed to protect him.
• Lu Bingqi landed before the Supernatural Building and begged the pawnshop to spare him, with rows of brains in jars watching him.

Fang Yuan infiltrated the Supernatural Pawnshop to find and destroy the source of its Monster Class curse. As he fought his way through the pawnshop, it issued an emergency transaction offering traders the chance to kill him and redeem their souls.

• Fang Yuan revealed that he had used a spirit clone hidden inside Lu Bingqi to enter the pawnshop, then switched places with the clone to bring his true body across.
• Fang Yuan released more of his sealed ghosts, resisted the pawnshop's immense curse, and opened a path deeper into its alternate space.
• The pawnshop issued an emergency transaction offering all contractors the privilege of redeeming their souls if they killed Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan crushed traders who attacked him as he charged through the pawnshop.
• Thomas warned the witch not to challenge Fang Yuan, and they watched him destroy a black magician's curse and kill the magician with a single blow.