Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan broke into the Supernatural Pawnshop’s hidden core and sealed the Parchment Scroll, ending the pawnshop’s curse. The released frozen corpse then turned on him, freezing him solid as the pawnshop collapsed around them.

• Fang Yuan forced his way into the pawnshop’s hidden hall, fought its ghost horde, and drew out the Humanoid Incarnation guarding the Parchment Scroll.
• Fang Yuan fully released the Zombie Ghost to battle the Humanoid Incarnation, then used spirit doubles to test the parchment’s defenses.
• Fang Yuan grabbed the Parchment Scroll and endured its curse as he saw how the first trader had signed away his soul to reunite with his wife, Lan Xin.
• Fang Yuan sealed the Parchment Scroll, causing the Humanoid Incarnation to crumble and the Supernatural Pawnshop’s curse to end.
• The frozen corpse turned on Fang Yuan, froze him into an azure statue, and left the traders watching as the pawnshop collapsed.

Fang Yuan escaped the collapsing Supernatural Pawnshop after sealing its Monster Class curse and discovered the powers he had gained. He reclaimed control over Lu Bingqi through the pawnshop’s contract and seized Lu Bingqi’s soul.

• The pawnshop and its black-mist plane collapsed after Fang Yuan sealed the curse, and the surviving traders were expelled into reality.
• Fang Yuan reunited with Monk Jie Se and Lu Bingqi, then examined his status and realized sealing the Monster Class curse had greatly increased his abilities.
• At the detective agency, Fang Yuan tested his new curse powers and identified his abilities to spawn curses, harvest souls, and manipulate information.
• Lu Bingqi fled the agency, but the pawnshop’s control made him return when a message threatened his life.
• Fang Yuan explained that the pawnshop’s contracts and control now belonged to him, then pulled Lu Bingqi’s soul from his body and bound it with black chains.

Fang Yuan took control of the Supernatural Pawnshop’s traders and asked Monk Jie Se to bring him intelligence on powerful ghosts before preparing to leave Ma Xiaoling. Meanwhile, Ghost Exorcist Chen Xin was rescued from a well ghost by Alliance President Zhan Tianhu, who learned that someone had broken the pawnshop’s curse.

• Fang Yuan claimed Lu Bingqi’s soul and gained control of the pawnshop’s traders, then asked Monk Jie Se to seek out information on powerful ghosts and curses.
• Fang Yuan told Ma Xiaoling he planned to leave and entrusted her with the garden and its remaining plants.
• Chen Xin was nearly killed by a ghost in a village well until Zhan Tianhu arrived and sealed the ghost for ten years.
• Zhan Tianhu said the well ghost was not the one he sought, then received word that someone had broken the Supernatural Pawnshop’s curse.

Zhan Tianhu learned that Fang Yuan had broken the Supernatural Pawnshop curse and sought information about other dangerous curses, while Fang Yuan fought off the Bronze Door curse that pursued him through his Tantai bloodline. The Door Curse was forced back, but one member of the Tantai Family returned from the netherworld determined to pursue Tantai Mie Ming.

• Zhan Tianhu told the Ghost Exorcists that twenty-year-old paranormal investigator Fang Yuan had resolved the Supernatural Pawnshop curse and wanted information about other Fierce Ghost curses.
• Fang Yuan sensed an outside Monster Class curse at the Ma Family Paranormal Detective Agency and was dragged into a vision of the Tantai ancestral home by a bloodied woman.
• The Bronze Door curse manifested through the Tantai Family’s dead, and Fang Yuan released both Monster Class curses within him to shatter the vision and drive the Door Curse back.
• Fang Yuan returned to the agency and found Ma Xiaoling and Ma Wencai unconscious, then treated Ma Wencai while sensing that something had happened at the Tantai ancestral home.
• A surviving member of the Tantai Family returned from the netherworld after the ancestral home faded and vowed that Tantai Mie Ming could not escape.

Fang Yuan sought the Ghost Exorcist Alliance’s help and met its branch president, Zhan Tianhu, whose blood and aura suggested he belonged to the Tantai Family. Meanwhile, a figure from the old Tantai estate arrived to hunt down Tantai Mie Ming, and the chapter ended with Fang Yuan confirming Zhan Tianhu was a clansman left outside the family.

• Fang Yuan moved in next door to Monk Jie Se and asked him to share the Ghost Exorcist Alliance’s intelligence while he searched for stronger curses.
• Zhan Tianhu arrived in the city with Chen Xin and Chen He, then arranged to meet Fang Yuan the following day.
• Monk Jie Se told Fang Yuan that Zhan Tianhu’s blood repelled ghosts and that he wielded a half Ghost Face Mask, prompting Fang Yuan to suspect a Tantai Family connection.
• A figure from the old Tantai Family estate sensed two members of the family nearby and vowed to take Tantai Mie Ming back to the netherworld.
• Fang Yuan met Zhan Tianhu at the apartment, sensed his familiar aura, and confirmed that he was a Tantai clansman who had been left outside the family.

Fang Yuan and Zhan Tianhu investigated Lin Qi’s sudden death and pursued the Fierce Ghost responsible. They cornered Tantai Jue Lie, who accused Fang Yuan and Zhan Tianhu of being traitors and vowed revenge on the Tantai Family.

• Zhan Tianhu recognized Fang Yuan as a Tantai relative, but Lin Qi was suddenly killed by an unseen attacker before they could talk privately.
• Fang Yuan released ghosts from his palm to track the killer, frightened the Ghost Exorcists, and broke Chen Xin’s arm after she pointed a gun at him.
• Fang Yuan followed the ghosts’ trail, attacked a bus to stop the fleeing suspect, and intercepted him as Zhan Tianhu and Monk Jie Se caught up.
• Fang Yuan identified the suspect as Tantai Jue Lie, who revealed his scarred face and accused Tantai Mie Ming and Tantai Guihu of being traitors.
• Tantai Guihu explained that he had left the family to investigate the source of the trouble, while Fang Yuan confronted Tantai Jue Lie about interfering with his plans.

Fang Yuan faced Tantai Jue Lie, who unleashed five ghosts made from Tantai Family Elders and used a blood-bound cursed doll to try to capture him. Fang Yuan destroyed the doll and absorbed the ghosts, then approached the defeated Jue Lie, promising not to kill him before an unexpected event interrupted.

• Tantai Jue Lie revealed five ghosts made from Tantai Family Elders and sent them after Fang Yuan.
• Tantai Jue Lie used a cursed doll made from Tantai Mie Ming’s blood to restrain Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan crushed the doll, severed Jue Lie’s ghost hand, and absorbed the ghost it released.
• Fang Yuan captured all five Fierce Ghosts with chains from his black robe, leaving Tantai Guihu impressed.
• Tantai Jue Lie begged for his life, and Fang Yuan said he would not kill him before an unforeseen turn occurred.

Fang Yuan rescued Tantai Guihu from the Door Curse and learned that Guihu had been searching for the place where the Tantai Family’s bloodline curse began. Fang Yuan joined his investigation, which was set to lead them to Ghost Sealing Village.

• The Door Curse dragged Tantai Jue Lie into the Netherworld and began pulling Tantai Guihu in as well.
• Fang Yuan used the power of his ghostly shadow and the Supernatural Pawnshop to pull Tantai Guihu back and return everyone to the Reality World.
• Fang Yuan concealed the supernatural destruction from the public by manipulating information and making witnesses treat it as an ordinary traffic accident.
• Tantai Guihu explained that he had stayed away from the family because he was researching the origin of its bloodline curse, which he believed began in the Reality World.
• Tantai Guihu said he had narrowed the search to a few possible locations, and Fang Yuan joined his investigation.
• Tantai Guihu revealed that the village where the curse began was called Ghost Sealing Village.

Fang Yuan and his companions found the remote village they believed was Ghost Sealing Village, now called Five Ghost Village. After the village chief reacted coldly to questions about its old name, Fang Yuan warned the group that the village had a serious problem: it had no living residents.

• Fang Yuan recognized the mountain range’s unusual feng shui and led the group to a village nestled within it.
• Monk Jie Se observed that the village’s layout concealed Taoist formations, and the group suspected it was Ghost Sealing Village.
• Chen Xin arranged lodging with the village chief, who said the village was now called Five Ghost Village and offered to sell them goods.
• Tantai Guihu asked whether the village had once been called Ghost Sealing Village, and the village chief abruptly became hostile.
• After Aunt Donghua showed them to their rooms, Tantai Guihu and Monk Jie Se sensed danger in the village.
• Fang Yuan refused to eat and told the group there was not a single living person in the village.

Fang Yuan and the others investigated the eerie village after discovering its residents were not alive, and Chen He vanished when a corpse disappeared. Aunt Donghua warned that everyone who learned about a secret would die and told them not to go to the Ancestral Hall; the survivors searched for it and narrowly avoided an illusion.

• Fang Yuan and the others found a child’s corpse hanging in Aunt Donghua’s house, with a nail driven into its head as part of a soul-extracting Wicked Spell.
• Chen He examined the corpse, then suddenly vanished, and the child’s body disappeared as well.
• Fang Yuan and the others found Aunt Donghua hiding by the kitchen; she said she had killed her son and warned that everyone who learned about “that” would die.
• Aunt Donghua told Fang Yuan not to go to the Ancestral Hall, then disappeared before the group could learn more.
• Fang Yuan led the survivors through the silent village to search for the Ancestral Hall, and Monk Jie Se nearly stepped into a ditch after mistaking an illusion for the building.

Fang Yuan investigated Ghost Sealing Village and discovered that its Monster Class curse trapped visitors in a repeating cycle of time. After Chen Xin fled and Tantai Guihu went after her, Fang Yuan forced the village chief to lead him and Monk Jie Se to the Ancestral Hall, where they learned the villagers belonged to the Ghost clan.

• Fang Yuan released a ghost tide to search the village, but an unseen force destroyed it, revealing that the curse was Monster Class and its source lay beyond ordinary perception.
• At apparent morning, Fang Yuan and the others found themselves back at the village entrance, and Monk Jie Se recognized that time had returned to the day they first arrived.
• Fang Yuan explained that the curse had trapped them in a time loop, while Chen Xin broke down over her brother's death and ran out of the village.
• Fang Yuan sent Tantai Guihu to pursue Chen Xin and went with Monk Jie Se to find the village chief and the Ancestral Hall.
• Fang Yuan intimidated the village chief into opening the Ancestral Hall, where he and Monk Jie Se saw ancestral spirit tablets and learned that the village's residents mostly belonged to the Ghost clan.

Fang Yuan and Monk Jie Se watched Gou Dan and discovered that he had witnessed villagers looting an ancient tomb and reading a forbidden name. Tantai Guihu and Chen Xin fell into the tomb beneath the mountain, where Tantai Guihu found the ancestral tablet of Tantai Moye.

• Fang Yuan forced Aunt Donghua to let him and Monk Jie Se stay at her home and keep Gou Dan under constant watch.
• Tantai Guihu and Chen Xin followed footprints to a newly exposed tomb, then fell into an underground cavern after Tantai Guihu found a Tantai Family crest.
• Gou Dan remembered joining the villagers in looting the tomb and hearing someone read the forbidden inscription, then began sobbing.
• The Old Village Chief remembered the tomb and the forbidden name Tantai, then died as a ghost rose from his body.
• Tantai Guihu and Chen Xin explored the underground Ancestral Hall, where Tantai Guihu saw the tablet bearing the name Tantai Moye.

Fang Yuan learned that the curse came from the name Tantai Moye and confronted the ghosts rising in Ghost Sealing Village as time began reversing their destruction. Tantai Guihu and Chen Xin tried to reach Fang Yuan, but the curse separated them and stranded Chen Xin at the tomb.

• Tantai Guihu and Chen Xin found the warning about the cursed name in the tomb and realized the villagers had been trapped in a cycle of repeated deaths.
• Fang Yuan persuaded Aunt Donghua to reveal the name Tantai Moye and sensed that the curse's source lay along the time axis.
• Aunt Donghua and Gou Dan turned into ghosts and attacked Monk Jie Se, while Fang Yuan restrained them and defended the courtyard from the ghost tide.
• Fang Yuan's soul-reaping attack destroyed the surrounding ghosts, but a temporal reversal restored them.
• Tantai Guihu concluded that the curse was driving them back toward Ghost Sealing Village, but his mask began to crack as he and Chen Xin approached.
• The curse transported Chen Xin back to the tomb and separated her from Tantai Guihu.

Fang Yuan was thrown into earlier timelines by the curse and traced the Tantai Family to a period before they left Ghost Sealing Village. He infiltrated their gathering, where the Tribe Leader recognized that Fang Yuan was human.

• Fang Yuan found himself in a timeline where the Old Village Chief was a child and questioned Ghost Thirteen about the village's history.
• Fang Yuan tried to leave Ghost Sealing Village, but the curse sent him through the fog into another earlier timeline.
• Fang Yuan slipped past the Tantai Family's guards by altering their memories and followed an Elder to the council hall.
• The Tantai Family's leaders discussed their ancestor's cursed name, their plan to move the family, and their intention to remain behind and face the curse.
• The Tantai Family detected Fang Yuan and attacked him, but he destroyed their magical artifacts and emerged from the smoke.
• The Tribe Leader saw through Fang Yuan's ghostly appearance and recognized him as human.

Fang Yuan learned that the Tantai Family had once guarded a gate to the underworld, but he doubted the Tribe Leader’s account of how the curse began. After fighting his way out of Ghost Sealing Village, he found and sealed the curse’s hidden source, uncovering a memory of a man opening the Bronze Giant Gate.

• Fang Yuan introduced himself to the Tantai Tribe Leader and asked about the curse and the Tantai Family’s twenty-year cycle.
• The Tribe Leader explained that the Tantai Family had guarded the underworld’s gate for generations until an ancestor opened it while alive, bringing ghosts and curses into the world.
• Fang Yuan doubted the Tribe Leader’s explanation and left Ghost Sealing Village despite the elders trying to stop him.
• Fang Yuan used Double Curse to dispel the mist, locate the curse’s source in a crack in time and space, and seal it inside his body.
• Fang Yuan endured the source’s backlash and saw a memory of a man pushing open the Bronze Giant Gate.

Fang Yuan sealed Tantai Moye’s time-space curse and discovered that five years had passed in the Reality World while he was trapped. He reunited with Monk Jie Se and Ma Xiaoling, who told him the Tantai Family was nearing another cycle and the Ghost Exorcists planned to enter the underworld.

• Fang Yuan deciphered the curse’s fragments and saw how a purple meteor corrupted the underworld, while Tantai Moye’s attempt to stop it unleashed curses into the human world.
• Fang Yuan sealed his fourth curse, doubled his attributes, and gained the ability to affect space and time.
• Fang Yuan returned to Ghost Sealing Village and found Monk Jie Se and Ma Xiaoling mourning his presumed death five years after he vanished.
• Monk Jie Se revealed that he and Tantai Guihu had survived the ghost tide, while the other villagers had disappeared and the Tantai Family faced another twenty-year cycle.
• Fang Yuan appeared before Monk Jie Se and Ma Xiaoling, confirmed he was alive, and heard that the Ghost Exorcists planned to enter the underworld to avert a catastrophe.

Fang Yuan learned that the Tantai Family’s twenty-year reckoning had begun and decided to enter the Underworld to confront the danger. As he opened a path from Ghost Sealing Village, the Tantai elders awaited the coming Door Curse and received news that a Ghost Exorcist had appeared.

• Monk Jie Se told Fang Yuan that the Chen siblings had died on the expedition and that the Tantai Family’s latest twenty-year cycle had arrived.
• Fang Yuan sent Monk Jie Se and Ma Xiaoling away, then used his power over space-time to open a passage into the Underworld from Ghost Sealing Village.
• Tantai Guijing learned from Tantai Juexin that Tantai Jue Lie’s life-lamp had gone out and feared the cycle’s reckoning would destroy the remaining family members.
• A Tantai Family member reported that a Ghost Exorcist had appeared outside their mansion in the Underworld.

Tantai Guihu returned to the Tantai residence in the Underworld with Daoist Master Sanmu and Master Kuhai, who warned that the Tantai bloodline’s destruction could doom the world. The clan learned Fang Yuan was still alive, and Tantai Guijing revealed that the cursed Bronze Door lay deep in the valley and had protected the residence from ghost tides.

• Tantai Guihu reunited with Tantai Guijing and brought Daoist Master Sanmu and Master Kuhai into the residence, where they discussed the Divination Immortal’s prophecy that the Tantai bloodline’s destruction would destroy the world.
• Tantai Guihu showed the black palm print left by the curse and explained that fleeing only made its pursuit more dangerous, while facing it in the Underworld might offer a chance to survive.
• Tantai Guihu learned that Tantai Mie Ming’s soul lamp was still burning, proving Fang Yuan was alive, and the clan’s anger toward him gave way to renewed hope that he might come to the Underworld.
• Tantai Guijing welcomed the visitors and explained how the Tantai clan survived in the Underworld by gathering scarce food and preparing for the annihilation wind season.
• Tantai Guihu asked whether the clan had found the door, and Tantai Guijing said it had appeared deep in the valley and deterred ghost tides from overrunning the residence.

The Tantai Family confronted the Bronze Ghost Gate as its curse appeared ahead of schedule, and Tantai Juexin called on the ancestors’ power to strike back. His copper-coin sword flew toward the gate, but the chapter ended before its impact was revealed.

• Tantai Guijing explained that the Bronze Door had kept other ghosts away while cursing the Tantai Family, and the elders agreed to wait three days for Tantai Mie Ming.
• The Bronze Gate appeared on the horizon early, so Tantai Guijing ordered Tantai Juexin to open the Ancestral Hall and prepare to fight.
• Tantai Juexin entered the Ancestral Hall and took the copper-coin sword and ritual bell, which carried the power left behind by generations of ancestors.
• Tantai Guihu, Daoist Master Sanmu, Master Kuhai, and Tantai Guijing confronted the gate’s phantom, whose howl burst the mask on Tantai Guihu’s face and turned Tantai people into human blood-sacks.
• Tantai Guijing used his mirror to reveal the gate’s true body, and Tantai Juexin launched the copper-coin sword at it with the ancestors’ strength.

Tantai Juexin’s attempt to destroy the Bronze Ghost Gate failed when it absorbed the Tantai ancestors and grew stronger. Fang Yuan arrived, restrained the gate, and uncovered how the purple crystal’s power had transformed the Underworld and created the Purple Eye World.

• Tantai Juexin damaged the Bronze Giant Gate with the Copper Coin Sword, but the gate healed itself by absorbing the summoned Tantai ancestors and grew to mountain size.
• Tantai Guijing, despairing at the family’s sacrifices, charged the gate, but Fang Yuan arrived and knocked him back, announcing he had changed his name and would settle his Karma by lifting the Door Curse.
• Tantai Guijing told Tantai Juexin that the old curse ritual might have failed, leaving Juexin to fear that Su Xin would never forgive him.
• Fang Yuan identified the gate as the corrupted original Gate to the Underworld, restrained it, and destroyed its ghostly attackers with ice and fire.
• Fang Yuan bound the gate with iron chains and realized that the purple crystal’s power had corrupted the gate and opened the Purple Eye World as a miniature world to contain it.