Recaps

Yu Chen used the Scripture of Deliverance to fulfill the dead’s final wishes, gaining martial power while protecting his identity. After defeating the White Ghost and helping bring Jiang Sanyu’s murderers to justice, he chose to reject a vengeful ghost’s demand and learned that the scripture did not control him.

• Yu Chen discovered the Scripture of Deliverance and fulfilled the beggar ghost’s wish, gaining the art of Paper Effigies and Paper Horses.
• Yu Chen used paper creations to frighten off Knife-Face and Big Strong, then helped the shoemaker’s son abandon gambling and received Bone-Forging Body-Tempering.
• Yu Chen fulfilled Zhao Xiansheng’s wish and Sun the Old Lady’s demand for repayment, gaining the Infernal Ghost Mask and Subduing Dragons and Tigers: Mortal Volume.
• Yu Chen learned that Young Master Wang’s wish required the White Ghost to stop killing people, then traveled to Fanghua Mountain and killed the tiger before it could claim more victims.
• Yu Chen arranged for Xie Qing and the Zhengqing Gang to claim credit for killing the White Ghost, and Young Master Wang’s soul crossed the Yellow Springs as Yu Chen gained the Heavenly Eye of Minute Insight.
• Yu Chen used Jiang Sanyu’s memories to guide Constable Lin Yi to the body and expose the murderers, then received a pill after Jiang Sanyu’s wish was fulfilled.
• Yu Chen refused to fulfill the tavern woman’s wish for revenge against Lin Yi, realizing he could choose whether to obey the Scripture of Deliverance.

Yu Chen fulfilled the wishes of several ghosts while investigating the case that led to his parents’ execution. He uncovered Xiao Zihua’s role in framing them and learned that the Blackwater Gang’s chiefs had carried out the massacre, leaving him determined to pursue them.

• Yu Chen learned that Deadmouth had been forced to falsify evidence against Yu Tiesheng and Madam Yu, then vowed to uncover who had framed his parents.
• Yu Chen helped Zhang San’er’s ghost seek justice against the Ji Family’s Three Brothers, but after the yamen released them, Yu Chen killed them and became known as the Head-Taking Ghost.
• Yu Chen returned Wang Hai’s hidden reward to his family and killed five Blackwater Gang members who had murdered him.
• Xie Qing told Yu Chen that Xiao Zihua, Yu Tiesheng’s adopted disciple and Weishui’s chief constable, might have framed his parents, while the Corpse Mover reported Xiao’s escape from prison.
• Yu Chen helped Wang Ling deliver a wooden carving to his mother’s grave and exposed the gravekeeper who had been stealing his offerings.
• Xie Qing located Xiao Zihua, and Yu Chen confronted him, forcing him to confess that he had stolen Yu Tiesheng’s maces and planted them at the Chen Household.
• Xiao Zihua revealed that the Blackwater Gang’s chiefs had killed the Chen Household’s twelve members, and Yu Chen resolved to pursue them for his parents’ deaths.