Vol. 1The Anomaly Containment Association

Shen Yu founded and expanded the Anomaly Containment Association as Bai Zuo and its members contained anomalies and cleared dangerous dungeons. The volume ended with a masked Leader rescuing Evil Mouth and Love Resentment after an uncontrolled Evil God appeared, while viewers speculated about secret organizations.

  • Shen Yu founded the Anomaly Containment Association, and Ji Wu and Xu Zhou joined as they investigated anomalies and built the organization.
  • At the Lamp Mansion Festival, Bai Zuo claimed half the authority of the netherworld and spread a Ghost Domain, while Ji Wu and Xu Zhou struggled to protect the crowd.
  • Bai Zuo, Xu Zhou, Ji Wu, Kong Yubo, and Tian Hua entered the Lamp Mansion Festival Dungeon and helped defeat Yama.
  • Bai Zuo, Du Jiashi, and Xu Rou defeated and contained the Pig Head Man, clearing the Strange Food Dungeon.
  • Skywing A escaped the Inverted Pyramid, rescued Lan Ruo and Yin Nu, and defeated the parasitic Weird controlling their town.
  • Shen Yu established Association headquarters, while Zhao Hun witnessed the Resentful Woman tear out the Wedding Dress Ghost’s heart.
  • Shen Yu defeated the City Lord and brought Vaser Dungeon under the Anomaly Containment Association.
  • A Calamity Fate-level Evil God attacked Evil Mouth and Love Resentment before a masked Leader rescued them.
Chapters 1–100 Read from Ch. 1

Arc 1The Lantern Mansion Festival

Shen Yu established the Anomaly Containment Association as Bai Zuo and his agents confronted anomalies and the government began investigating them. At the Lamp Mansion Festival, Bai Zuo’s Ghost Domain spread through the crowd, leaving Ji Wu and Xu Zhou struggling to prevent a disaster.

  • Shen Yu survived the bus anomaly by taking Bai Zuo’s form, containing the Wandering Soul, and founding the Anomaly Containment Association.
  • Ji Wu and Xu Zhou joined the Association, investigated a Ghost Domain in the hospital, and contained two Ghost Infants after Bai Zuo arrived.
  • Ji Wu built the Association’s company, while Xu Zhou became a C-Class Contract Anomalist and Zhang Lin chose to join the mysterious organization.
  • Ji Wu and Xu Zhou investigated the Abandoned Bridge, escaped the White Mist with a Soul Lamp, and learned that the bridge’s anomaly was beyond their abilities.
  • Ji Wu and Xu Zhou traveled to Anyang Island, where Kong Yubo’s team also arrived as the Lamp Mansion Festival procession began.
  • Bai Zuo stepped onto the Divine Altar, claimed half the authority of the netherworld, and spread a Ghost Domain through the crowd.
  • Ji Wu shot Bai Zuo to stop him, but the gunshot intensified the panic, and Xu Zhou struggled to keep people from being trampled.
Chapters 1–2525 summaries Read

Arc 2Anyang Island and Strange Food

Bai Zuo and Xu Zhou helped defeat Yama in the Lamp Mansion Festival Dungeon, while Shen Yu investigated a ghostly admirer after returning to the hospital. Bai Zuo then entered the Strange Food Dungeon with a group of strangers and cleared it with Du Jiashi and Xu Rou.

  • Bai Zuo protected the crowd from the invading Ghost Domain as Xu Zhou and Ji Wu fought the Wandering Souls, then Skywing A arrived to help defeat Yama.
  • Bai Zuo, Xu Zhou, Ji Wu, Kong Yubo, and Tian Hua entered the Lamp Mansion Festival Dungeon, where Bai Zuo and Skywing A helped the group defeat Yama and clear it.
  • The authorities treated the survivors, and Ji Wu and Xu Zhou began investigating fifteen people missing after the battle.
  • Shen Yu discovered an anonymous love letter and confronted the ghostly girl who appeared in the hospital mirror, while Heart Gu drove her off.
  • Bai Zuo triggered the Strange Food Dungeon at a breakfast shop, where the Pig Head Man killed the restaurant owner and the survivors began searching for keys.
  • As the group descended through the floors, the Pig Head Man injured Xu Rou, Qiang Ge, Li Ke, and Han Shitao, while Bai Zuo recruited Du Jiashi through a Mind Control contract.
  • Bai Zuo exposed the survivors' guilt and resentments, and Du Jiashi helped Xu Rou accept her past and join their group.
  • Bai Zuo, Du Jiashi, and Xu Rou defeated and contained the Pig Head Man, cleared the dungeon, and emerged outside to a deserted, cordoned-off street.
Chapters 26–5025 summaries Read

Arc 3The Association Takes Shape

Shen Yu expanded the Anomaly Containment Association while Skywing A survived a trap and exposed the Weird controlling a remote town. As the Association prepared its headquarters and sent supplies to Yi Gui Company, Zhao Hun wandered into a haunted manor and witnessed a battle between a Daoist, the Resentful Woman, and the Wedding Dress Ghost.

  • Bai Zuo brought Du Jiashi and Xu Rou to Yi Gui Company, where they applied to join the Association and Ji Wu questioned Bai Zuo about them.
  • Shen Yu sent Lan Ruo abroad, where villagers captured him and sentenced him and a wounded girl to be burned as witches.
  • As Evil Mouth revealed that Contract Anomalists fought Weird with their own powers, Bai Zuo used the Information Cocoon to erase public discussion of them.
  • Wei Tai and Yun Qing trapped Skywing A in the Inverted Pyramid, where he relived his abusive childhood before the Chairman helped him escape.
  • Skywing A rescued Lan Ruo and Yin Nu, exposed the parasitic Weird controlling the townspeople, and defeated the hidden anomaly with Nameless Bird.
  • Shen Yu established Association headquarters, contained seven anomalies, unlocked new technologies, and summoned Fu Zhang, an SSS-grade Executor who commanded lightning.
  • Headquarters sent personnel and weapons to Yi Gui Company, where Xie Yu explained that powerful members were away suppressing a Gate after three Contract Anomalists died.
  • Zhao Hun wandered into a haunted manor, where a Daoist and the Resentful Woman fought the Wedding Dress Ghost, which wounded the Daoist before the Resentful Woman tore out its heart.
Chapters 51–7525 summaries Read

Arc 4Dungeon and Calamity

Shen Yu subdued Vaser Dungeon and brought it into the Anomaly Containment Association, while overseas anomalies and a clash between Contract Anomalists drew growing public attention. The arc ended with a masked Leader rescuing Evil Mouth and Love Resentment, and online viewers speculating about secret organizations.

  • The Daoist priest contained the Bridal Gown Anomaly, and Zhao Hun and Zhang Lin joined Yi Gui Company as Contract Anomalist recruits.
  • Xu Zhou, Jiang Tianzong, Zhang Lin, and Zhao Hun entered a school rooftop Ghost Domain, where Xu Zhou held off Blood Robe until help arrived and Skywing A captured the fused Weird and Song Xiaojie.
  • Shen Yu entered Vaser Dungeon, defeated Green Face, killed the treacherous City Lord, and claimed control of the dungeon as Blood Lord.
  • Shen Yu brought Vaser Dungeon under the Anomaly Containment Association, while Xu Zhou recovered from the school mission and Ji Wu reported signs of overseas Contract Anomalists.
  • The exposed Vaser Dungeon caused an ancient ruin to surface, and a recording of its murals spread online before soldiers recovered the mural and a leader acquired a dangerous supernatural manual.
  • Evil Mouth and Love Resentment stole an Anomaly Containment Association shipment, but Xie Yu, Jiang Tianzong, and Xu Zhou confronted them outside the warehouse.
  • Evil Mouth used the Demon Scythe to seize control of Xie Yu, who summoned an uncontrollable Calamity Fate-level Evil God that attacked the pair.
  • A masked Leader rescued Evil Mouth and Love Resentment from the Evil God, while Ji Wu and Bai Zuo worked to erase evidence and viewers speculated about rival secret organizations.
Chapters 76–10025 summaries Read
Volume 1 of 16
Volume 1 of 16