Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Yang Jian discovers that Zhang Wei has become a Ghost Handler after spending time with Ye Zhen. Worried, he tries to examine him with his Ghost Eye, but an unseen paranormal force blocks it.
• Zhang Wei explains that his ghost simply wants him to play games twice each night. He says he played against it all night without losing—and even won a game that morning.
• Yang Jian deduces that Zhang Wei controls the Luck Ghost. Its deadly game rule seems to create a self-sustaining loop: the ghost’s paranormal luck makes Zhang Wei unable to lose, so he can keep satisfying its demand. Yang Jian compares this paradox to Ye Zhen’s Substitute Death Ghost.
• While approaching Zhang Wei, Yang Jian senses a ghost inside Yan’s Storage Soul Tool that Ghost Dream desperately wants. He forces Yan to surrender his hidden belongings.
• Yan produces three bags containing a Ghost Hand, a Ghost Fingernail, and a Ghost Bone. The Ghost Bone is one of the missing pieces Yang Jian needs, so he claims it.
• To compensate Yan and his companions, Yang Jian offers them one request under the Forum’s rules. Hu Liena asks how to control ghosts.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Jian is concerned for Zhang Wei but recognizes that Zhang’s peculiar luck may have made him uniquely suited to control a dangerous ghost. He also acts decisively against Yan, yet offers compensation rather than simply keeping the Ghost Bone without explanation.
• Zhang Wei remains carefree and boastful about his new power, treating his nightly games with a deadly ghost as a casual nuisance. His eccentric confidence and inexplicable luck appear central to his survival.
• Yan initially denies hiding anything, but Yang Jian’s threat forces him to hand over the bags.
• Hu Liena and Yu Tianheng are frightened by Yang Jian’s overwhelming power and accept that they cannot oppose him. Hu Liena quickly recognizes the value of his promised favor and asks for guidance.
• Yang Jian and Zhang Wei have a familiar, teasing dynamic: Yang calls him “Brother Wei” in response to his boasts and tells him to report any trouble immediately. Yang’s confrontation with Yan, by contrast, is cold and intimidating.

Significant themes

• Paradoxical survival: Certain ghosts may create seemingly impossible loops that make their rules impossible to escape.
• Luck and fate: Zhang Wei’s unusual fortune turns a deadly supernatural trial into an advantage, suggesting that even irrational traits can determine who survives.
• Power and obligation: Yang Jian takes what he needs by force, but then offers a favor to honor the group’s rules and acknowledge the cost to others.

Key events

• Yang Jian rejects one of the group’s proposed conditions because they already have access to the Paranormal Forum and its support. He allows them to choose another reward.
• Hu Liena, Yan, and Yu Tianheng discuss what to ask for. Rather than request a one-time rescue, they choose a chance to use the Ghost Cabinet.
• Yu Tianheng makes the transaction on behalf of all three: remove his curse and let them each control a crashed evil ghost, offering two evil ghosts to reduce the price.
• The Ghost Cabinet accepts the two ghosts. As they revive and attack Yu Tianheng, its small black hand swiftly captures them.
• The cabinet returns three crashed ghosts—a finger, a tongue, and a bloodstained White Veil—with instructions for controlling them: swallow the finger, swallow the tongue, and wear the veil.
• The transaction also imposes three tasks, each due within a month: open room 414 at the Caesar Hotel, bring the boy in the attached photograph to the cabinet, and find the bride shown in another photograph. Yu Tianheng judges the tasks manageable and leaves pleased.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Tianheng shows resolve and strategic thinking. He conceals his personal need to remove his curse within a group reward, choosing an exchange that he believes will benefit all three. Though briefly terrified when the offered ghosts attack, he regains composure after the cabinet intervenes.
• Hu Liena and Yan are cautious and practical: they reject the idea of spending their reward on a single rescue and agree to Yu Tianheng’s plan after discussion.
• Yang Jian remains impartial, setting aside the invalid request but permitting the group to use the cabinet.
• The three companions cooperate in negotiating the wording of the deal, while Yu Tianheng takes responsibility for carrying it out.

Significant themes

• Power has a price: The Ghost Cabinet grants powerful means of survival, but its bargain creates dangerous obligations.
• Pragmatism and shared risk: Yu Tianheng balances his private need against the group’s interests by making the exchange collective.
• Uncertainty beneath confidence: Yu Tianheng considers the three tasks easy, but their strict deadline and eerie targets hint that the real danger may be greater than he assumes.

Key plot points and events

• Yu Tianheng, Hu Liena, and Yan divide three dormant evil ghosts and their linked tasks: Hu Liena takes the bloodstained bridal veil and agrees to find the child; Yan takes the purplish-black tongue; Yu Tianheng takes the shriveled finger.
• Their new power brings distrust rather than unity. Each worries the others might attack once they become Ghost Handlers, so they agree to separate for the night.
• Ning Rongrong, still suffering from the Ghost Skin’s effects, asks Yang Jian to help her find the Ghost Bus. He refuses, but tells her to contact Liu Xiaoyu. She learns the bus will pass an abandoned stop outside Dachang City the following night and resolves to board it.
• Bai Chenxiang, feeling isolated and unsure how to join the Paranormal Forum, is approached by Yan Li, who tells her to come with him if she wants to survive. She follows.
• Lin Cheng watches the group disperse and approves of their growing independence. He also tells Feng Quan, returning from Huanggang Village, how to make Ghost Cabinet transactions easier.
• Lin Cheng senses the approaching Douluo Qian Jun, now brainwashed into regarding him as an elder brother. He considers which supernatural entity Qian Jun should control and settles on one to test an idea.

Character developments and interactions

• Hu Liena shows both strategic thinking and caution: she claims the task she considers hardest, then keeps her distance from the others.
• Yu Tianheng is relieved not to take the bridal veil, which he considers humiliating, but shares the group’s growing suspicion.
• Yan hesitates before choosing the tongue, then joins the others in preparing to become a Ghost Handler.
• Ning Rongrong accepts that she cannot rely on Yang Jian as a bodyguard and takes action herself, despite the danger.
• Yang Jian remains cold and unsentimental, refusing to help directly but pointing Ning Rongrong toward Liu Xiaoyu.
• Bai Chenxiang moves from isolation and despair to following Yan Li, seeing him as a possible way to survive.
• Lin Cheng treats the group’s distrust as useful and continues maneuvering events from behind the scenes. Feng Quan obeys his instructions, while Qian Jun’s brainwashing gives Lin Cheng a powerful new opportunity.

Significant themes

• Survival and self-reliance: Characters must pursue their own means of staying alive rather than depend on others.
• Distrust and fractured alliances: The promise of power makes former companions wary of one another.
• Power and manipulation: Lin Cheng shapes others’ choices and sees the approaching Qian Jun as a chance to experiment.
• Desperation in the face of supernatural danger: Ning Rongrong and Bai Chenxiang take risks because inaction may be fatal.

Plot points and events

• Yu Tianheng secretly uses the Ghost Cabinet’s note to identify the three ghosts’ effects, keeping the information from Hu Liena and Yan because he distrusts their Spirit Hall alliance.
• He swallows the ghost finger. The painful transformation turns his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon power black, changes all five of his soul rings to black, and adds paralysis to his attacks. He plans to test whether it can affect supernatural entities.
• Yu Yuanzhen watches the transformation on the Sky Screen and sees a path to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s rise. Bibi Dong, angered by Yu Tianheng’s advantage, vows to destroy the clan in a year.
• Hu Liena puts on the White Veil. It fuses to her face, painfully changing her fox martial spirit and soul rings to black. Her mental power and Bewitchment skill grow stronger, but she develops a violent urge to tear apart Yan’s face and has to suppress it.
• Yan swallows the tongue and gains an immensely heightened sense of taste. His Flame Lord power and soul rings also turn black, and he discovers he can taste Hu Liena’s scent and paranormal aura.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Tianheng proves calculating and self-reliant, treating the ghost’s risks as worthwhile in exchange for power.
• Hu Liena gains greater mental strength and influence but is left physically disfigured and vulnerable to a dangerous impulse. Yan worries about her, though she conceals her distress.
• Yan accepts the tongue despite its grotesque appearance; his new ability produces an unexpectedly intimate, awkward perception of Hu Liena.
• Yu Yuanzhen becomes ambitious about exploiting the ghost power, while Bibi Dong responds with open hostility and a threat of revenge.

Significant themes

• Power at a price: Each ghost grants an ability but also inflicts painful, unsettling transformations.
• Distrust and rivalry: Yu Tianheng’s secrecy reflects the competing loyalties between the Blue Lightning clan and Spirit Hall.
• Uncontrolled consequences: Hu Liena’s new power comes with a violent impulse, while Yan’s heightened senses distort ordinary experience.
• Ambition and escalation: The transformations fuel hopes of clan dominance and deepen political conflict.

Key events

• Yan discovers that his newly altered sense of taste can detect people and other flavors from as far as a kilometer away. But whenever he speaks, the ability activates uncontrollably, overwhelming him with sensory information and making him compulsively talk.
• Hu Liena recognizes Yan’s behavior as a side effect of controlling his ghost. She warns that she is struggling with violent urges of her own, and he manages to restrain himself.
• In downtown Dachang City, passersby mock Hu Liena’s bloodstained veil. Yan nearly confronts them, but Hu Liena stops him. Both realize their new powers are affecting their temperament: Yan is shocked by his sudden aggression, while Hu Liena admits she shares the urge to hurt people.
• At the Paranormal Forum headquarters, Douluo Qian Jun asks Lin Cheng what power he will receive. Lin tells him to remain on the building’s sixteenth floor, and Qian Jun—whose memories have been altered by the Ghost Brain and who now sees Lin as family—obediently leaves.
• Lin travels by Ghost Domain to Dahai City to meet Ye Zhen at Fushou Garden cemetery. Ye Zhen theatrically challenges the unseen arrival before recognizing Lin, then takes him to the cemetery, which he claims as his territory.
• Ye Zhen explains that he has subdued supernatural entities buried there. He also recounts discovering a luck ghost, failing to control it, and watching it become dormant after Zhang Wei’s unconventional thinking drew it into a game.

Character developments and interactions

• Yan and Hu Liena: Their new ghost-related abilities come with disturbing compulsions and aggression. They try to restrain one another, but both recognize that their personalities may be changing.
• Lin Cheng and Douluo Qian Jun: Qian Jun’s altered memories have made him devoted to Lin as his only family; Lin assigns him a place to wait while preparing to leave.
• Lin Cheng and Ye Zhen: Their familiar, informal exchange contrasts with Ye Zhen’s grandiose persona. Ye Zhen boasts about his cemetery domain and shares the story of Zhang Wei and the luck ghost.

Significant themes

• Power and its cost: Ghost abilities bring useful capabilities but also intrusive side effects and risks of losing control.
• Identity and restraint: Yan’s shock at his violent impulses raises doubts about how much of his former self remains.
• Control versus unpredictability: Ye Zhen’s attempts to subdue supernatural forces contrast with the luck ghost’s defeat through Zhang Wei’s unconventional behavior.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Cheng asks Ye Zhen to retrieve the Name-Carving Ghost, which Ye had defeated and buried in a gold coffin beneath a mound.
• Lin Cheng opens the coffin and swiftly suppresses the ghost with his deep-blue ghost domain and its power to reset. He reveals that this sea-like domain already contains another, exceptionally powerful ghost and is nearly at capacity.
• Ye Zhen asks to borrow Lin Cheng’s Coffin Nail because A Wu’s ghost is beginning to revive. Ye has struggled to find a suitable ghost to restore A Wu’s balance: Ghost Rain would be a poor choice, while another elusive ghost keeps vanishing before Ye can catch it.
• Lin Cheng leads Ye to an unusual mound and has him dig up Luo Qian, the graveyard’s master, who is in deep sleep to delay his ghost’s revival.
• Lin Cheng touches Luo Qian’s forehead to activate the ghost brain and flood him with memories. In the constructed memory, an old woman unexpectedly turns toward Lin Cheng and speaks directly to him. She warns him for awakening two people in quick succession and implies she spared him earlier when he entered Li Qingzhi’s mind. Lin Cheng recognizes her and challenges her for still clinging to life.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Cheng demonstrates precise control and formidable supernatural power, suppressing the Name-Carving Ghost in seconds. He remains calm while waking Luo Qian, even when the old woman confronts him inside the memory.
• Ye Zhen is impressed by Lin Cheng’s ghost domain and relies on him for help with A Wu. Despite his confidence as a powerful fighter, he admits that an evasive ghost has thwarted him.
• A Wu, absent from the scene, is revealed to be nearing ghost revival. The chapter recalls his importance as the Paranormal Forum’s capable manager and his close partnership with Lin Cheng and Ye.
• Luo Qian is uncovered in a deliberate, prolonged slumber intended to postpone his ghost’s revival.
• The old woman emerges as a powerful, watchful presence capable of noticing and entering Lin Cheng’s constructed memories. Her warning suggests a history with him and raises questions about her identity and motives.

Significant themes

• Control versus revival: Lin Cheng and Ye manage supernatural threats by suppressing ghosts and maintaining balance, while A Wu’s condition shows how precarious that control can be.
• Power and its limits: Lin Cheng’s impressive abilities have a cost—his ghost domain is nearly full—and even he encounters forces that can intrude on his mind.
• Buried history and survival: The graves conceal powerful beings and divided supernatural forces, while Luo Qian’s sleep and the old woman’s survival underline the lengths people take to endure.

Key plot points and events

• The Old Woman threatens Lin Cheng for repeatedly waking her, but Lin Cheng argues that she needs to preserve her strength and cannot kill him. She warns him not to disturb her over trivial matters again.
• Luo Qian awakens in the grave pit and explains that Meng Xiaodong’s hostility comes from her deep feelings for him and her fear that Lin Cheng will disturb his rest.
• A black Ghost Flower emerges from the grave soil. Ye Zhen recognizes it as the source of the illusions that had made him attack empty air, then collects it.
• Luo Qian again offers Ye Zhen the chance to inherit his grave soil, but Ye Zhen refuses, saying the dirt would ruin his appearance.
• Lin Cheng reveals his true purpose: he wants the complete grave soil—the ghost within Luo Qian that will remain after his death—for an experiment. He promises to maintain the Cemetery and prevent the ghost from threatening the outside world.
• Luo Qian accepts Lin Cheng’s proposal, but insists on inspecting the person Lin Cheng has chosen to face the ghost. Lin Cheng says this person, Douluo Qian Jun, has no vengeful ghost but possesses extraordinary physical power, and promises to bring him when Luo Qian’s final moments arrive.
• Lin Cheng appoints Ye Zhen to guard the Cemetery. Luo Qian leaves to visit old friends, and Ye Zhen returns to his Pearl Tower with the Ghost Flower.
• Lin Cheng returns to the Paranormal Forum headquarters in Dachang City. Feng Quan emerges from the Ghost Cabinet’s Welfare Zone looking troubled, and Lin Cheng asks whether he failed to resolve a problem.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Cheng remains calm under supernatural threats and speaks directly, securing Luo Qian’s cooperation through a practical promise. He is pursuing an unconventional experiment and intends to use Douluo Qian Jun’s non-ghost power to test a new path.
• Luo Qian shifts from suspicion and intimidation to acceptance. Though near the end of his life, he is willing to pass on his burden once assured that the Cemetery will remain protected.
• Ye Zhen remains boastful and dismissive of inheriting the grave soil, but accepts responsibility for guarding the Cemetery, confidently promising to contain any escaping ghost.
• The Old Woman reasserts her power and sets a boundary with Lin Cheng, while implicitly confirming that she still has her own purpose and needs to conserve strength.
• Feng Quan’s worried appearance introduces an unresolved concern at the chapter’s close.

Significant themes

• Inheritance and responsibility: Luo Qian’s supernatural legacy must be entrusted to someone capable of containing it.
• Mortality and unfinished business: Luo Qian recognizes that his time is limited and chooses to visit old friends before his final moments.
• Innovation amid supernatural danger: Lin Cheng hopes to forge a new approach by combining a powerful ghost with a person whose strength comes from outside the ghost system.
• Trust and negotiation: Lin Cheng earns Luo Qian’s agreement by addressing the elder’s deepest concerns: the Cemetery’s safety and the consequences of his ghost’s awakening.

Key plot points and events

• Feng Quan reports that the Ghost Cabinet deal only temporarily suppressed the evil-ghost revival inside him. In exchange, it demands that he provide it with a ghost within ten days.
• Lin Cheng explains that a direct request to control a third ghost would have carried impossible conditions. Adding “Lin” made the deal easier, and the Cabinet’s power was intended to stabilize Feng Quan—not permanently solve his problem.
• Lin reveals that he has prepared a suitable ghost for Feng Quan: the Name-Carving Ghost, whose power can greatly amplify Feng Quan’s paranormal strength when combined with his grave soil.
• In a sealed Golden House, Lin begins the dangerous control procedure. He uses the Ghost Spirit Tablet as a medium and extracts the Name-Carving Ghost from the Deep Blue Ghost Domain, pinning it down with overwhelming pressure.
• Feng Quan spreads his grave soil over the ghost as Lin prepares to transfer Feng Quan’s consciousness into the tablet and temporarily revive his ghost fog and grave soil. The attempt begins, with three paranormal powers struggling inside Feng Quan.

Character developments

• Feng Quan moves from disappointment and confusion to understanding the danger Lin helped him avoid. He becomes intensely grateful and accepts the risk of the procedure without hesitation.
• Feng Quan’s determination is driven by his desire to grow stronger, repay Lin, and establish himself in the Paranormal Forum. He also believes Jiang Yan’s Ghost Mirror can save his life once if things go wrong.
• Lin Cheng reveals that his apparent improvisation was part of a calculated plan. He remains composed, though he privately wonders whether Feng Quan has taken his “new persona” of devoted follower too far.

Character interactions

• Lin explains the limits and risks of the Ghost Cabinet deal, correcting Feng Quan’s mistaken belief that it would provide a permanent solution.
• Feng Quan responds with loyalty and gratitude, kneeling and declaring that his life belongs to Lin.
• Before the procedure, Lin gives Feng a blunt warning that even his help cannot guarantee success. Feng accepts the danger and insists they proceed.

Significant themes

• Equivalent exchange and danger: Supernatural bargains grant power at a cost, and ambitious wishes may carry fatal conditions.
• Risk and survival: Even careful preparation cannot eliminate the deadly uncertainty of controlling ghosts.
• Strength and loyalty: Feng Quan sees power as necessary for survival and repayment, while his gratitude toward Lin deepens into near-total devotion.

Plot points and events

• After controlling the Ghost Finger, Yu Tianheng gains considerable strength, but worries that his bargain with the Ghost Cabinet leaves him cursed if Hu Liena and Yan fail to complete their assigned tasks.
• Since Hu Liena and Yan are Spirit Hall allies, Yu fears they may abandon him. He contacts Ning Rongrong to propose an alliance.
• Ning, badly damaged by the Ghost Skin and still facing supernatural danger, agrees to meet. She makes her support conditional on Yu accompanying her that night to board a Ghost Bus and help resolve the resurgence within her.
• Yu initially refuses, judging the Ghost Bus too dangerous. Ning counters that he is already at risk: if the others break their agreement, the Ghost Cabinet’s curse could kill him.
• Ning offers to use her Sheepskin Paper—a supernatural item that predicts the future—to help him track Hu Liena and Yan and find a safer way to fulfill his own tasks. She warns him not to try to steal it, noting both the danger of provoking her and the Forum’s rule against members attacking one another.
• After considering the risks, Yu agrees to go with her.
• Observers on the Douluo Continent react: Yu Yuanzhen praises Tianheng’s pragmatism, while Bibi Dong dismisses the Sheepskin Paper and predicts the fragile alliance will collapse.

Character developments

• Yu Tianheng is more powerful after mastering the Ghost Finger, but remains vulnerable to the Ghost Cabinet’s curse and politically isolated. He shifts from suspicion and fear toward a calculated alliance.
• Ning Rongrong is physically near collapse but remains assertive and strategic. She uses Yu’s fear of betrayal to secure help, while protecting herself by setting clear boundaries.
• Yu Yuanzhen sees Tianheng’s decision as evidence of resourcefulness.
• Bibi Dong remains contemptuous of the group and confident that Spirit Hall’s opponents will fail.

Significant themes

• Trust and self-interest: The alliance is built on mutual need, not loyalty; both sides have private aims.
• Survival through calculation: Characters weigh supernatural dangers and political threats, choosing the least dangerous option available.
• Power’s limits: Yu’s new strength cannot protect him from the curse or from being outnumbered.
• Fragile cooperation: A deal may offer short-term security while remaining vulnerable to fear, betrayal, and greater threats.

Character interactions

• Yu seeks Ning’s help because he distrusts Hu Liena and Yan, while Ning needs an escort and assistance with her condition.
• Ning turns Yu’s own predicament into leverage, trading help from the Sheepskin Paper for his cooperation.
• Their agreement is guarded rather than warm: Yu fears the Ghost Bus, and Ning explicitly warns him against taking her item.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Bibi Dong offer sharply contrasting judgments of Yu’s choice: one admires his adaptability; the other expects the alliance to fail.

Plot points and events

• Inside the sealed Golden House, the Grave Soil Ghost and ghost fog barely contain the Name-Carving Ghost within Feng Quan. After the struggle, Feng Quan wakes with no memory of who he is. Lin Cheng speaks his name, restoring his memories, and warns that the Name-Carving Ghost now controls his body. Feng Quan must keep remembering his name; if he forgets it completely, the ghost will replace him.
• Hu Liena and Yan discuss the Ghost Cabinet’s task. They decide not to search seriously for the targets, intending to claim they tried while leaving Yu Tianheng to bear the cost. Both prioritize their own survival over their obligation to the Forum.
• Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng, having allied at a coffee shop, choose separate hotels because neither trusts the other. They arrange to meet the next night at an abandoned platform.
• Lin Cheng learns from Zhao Jianguo that the rookie training has been moved to the following morning in Dajing City. Headquarters also proposes a friendly competition between Lin Cheng’s Forum members and the rookies. Lin Cheng objects that using ghost powers could trigger a deadly revival among the trainees. Zhao reveals that Professor Wang proposed the idea, prompting Lin Cheng to suspect Wang has planned for every eventuality.

Character developments and interactions

• Feng Quan survives, but his identity is now precarious: his continued humanity depends on remembering his own name. Lin Cheng remains watchful and warns him plainly about the danger.
• Hu Liena reveals herself as calculating and self-protective; Yan, initially hesitant, accepts her reasoning. Their exchange shows their shared willingness to let Yu Tianheng suffer the consequences.
• Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng cooperate only out of mutual interest and distrust, keeping their distance even after forming an alliance.
• Lin Cheng and Zhao Jianguo discuss the training proposal, with Lin Cheng challenging the recklessness of the plan and Zhao explaining that it came from Professor Wang.

Significant themes

• Identity and survival: Feng Quan’s name is the last barrier between himself and possession.
• Self-preservation versus loyalty: Hu Liena and Yan treat others’ lives as expendable, while Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng’s alliance is undermined by suspicion.
• Risk and manipulation: The proposed competition may endanger the rookies, and Lin Cheng suspects Wang Xiaoming has carefully engineered the situation.

Key plot points and events

• Headquarters’ Wang Xiaoming proposes pitting its new Ghost Handler recruits against the Paranormal Forum. Lin Cheng sees the contest as a trap for the Forum’s reputation but accepts, determined to prove his people are no pushovers.
• Lin Cheng invites Yang Jian to Dajing City for the training. Yang agrees, eager to compare himself with other Ghost Handlers, unaware that his powers far exceed those of most recruits.
• Lin Cheng offers Forum members a mission reward for joining the trip. Most decline because they are busy or have already used the Ghost Cabinet. Hu Liena and Yan volunteer, leaving the Dajing City group as Yang Jian, Hu Liena, and Yan.
• That evening, Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng wait at an abandoned stop for the Ghost Bus, hoping to use the Ghost Cabinet. Liu Xiaoyu warns them that the bus holds at most thirty-five people, including its driver, and they must get off if it is full.
• The pair board the bus and see its display read 33. With the driver and the two of them, that makes thirty-five occupants. Though only twenty-six seats appear occupied, the bus is packed with ghosts—and they must figure out which, if any, of the remaining seats are safe.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Cheng recognizes Wang Xiaoming’s political maneuver and accepts the challenge rather than backing down. He also recruits Yang Jian and rallies the Forum.
• Yang Jian welcomes the chance to test himself, but the narration emphasizes the gulf between his unusual strength—three controlled ghosts and stolen Splicing power—and ordinary handlers’ fragile abilities.
• Hu Liena and Yan eagerly join because the reward gives them a legitimate reason to trade with the Ghost Cabinet.
• Yan Li, Ning Rongrong, and Yu Tianheng each decline the Dajing City invitation for practical reasons. Ning and Yu instead face the Ghost Bus together, relying on Liu Xiaoyu’s warning.
• Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng enter the bus despite their fear, then realize how precarious their situation is.

Significant themes

• Reputation and political maneuvering: Headquarters can spin the contest either way to strengthen its standing and undermine the Forum.
• Power disparity: Yang Jian’s extraordinary abilities contrast sharply with the vulnerability of typical Ghost Handlers.
• Risk and survival: The Ghost Bus turns a seemingly simple decision—where to sit—into a deadly supernatural gamble.
• Loyalty and incentives: Lin Cheng’s reward draws some members in, while others prioritize their own safety, duties, or plans.

Key plot points and events

• The Sky Screen postpones the next trial selection until night, warning that the previous trial’s death toll was excessive. Alarmed, major powers buy up nearly all the gold on the continent, apparently preparing for the trial.
• At Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong asks whether a selected person should join the Paranormal Forum or Headquarters. Qian Daoliu argues that Headquarters may be the stronger choice because it appears vast, orderly, and well-resourced, though he sees no immediate reason to reject either organization.
• At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang presents his theory that controlling a malevolent ghost evolves both soul rings and martial souls, urging students to pursue that power. Tang San challenges him, viewing the changes as dangerous corruption rather than genuine evolution. Yu dismisses the criticism.
• Tang San later tells Tang Hao he has lost faith in Yu Xiaogang. Tang Hao reveals that he once tried to prevent Yu from teaching Tang San, even arranging for a hundred-year Mandala Snake to kill him, but Tang San saved Yu.
• Meng Shu confronts Ning Fengzhi over Meng Yiran’s death in the other world. Ning offers alternative explanations, though both know Rongrong’s use of the Ghost Cabinet caused it. Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo intimidate Meng Shu into backing down.
• That night, the fifth trial group is announced: four people are selected—Zhu Zhuqing, Bo Saixi, Ghost Douluo, and Liu Erlong.

Character developments and interactions

• Qian Daoliu takes a strategic view of the two organizations, while Bibi Dong and the Spirit Hall assembly weigh his recommendation.
• Tang San’s respect for Yu Xiaogang collapses after Yu refuses to reconsider his theory. Tang Hao reinforces that distrust and reveals the lengths he once went to protect his son from Yu’s poor judgment.
• Meng Shu, grieving his wife and granddaughter, demands accountability from Ning Fengzhi, but Ning deflects the accusation and his two Titled Douluo bodyguards overpower the confrontation.
• The selection places people from very different backgrounds together, setting up the next trial’s central conflict.

Significant themes

• Survival and preparation: The warning about high mortality drives the continent’s powers to scramble for resources.
• Power versus humanity: Yu Xiaogang treats paranormal transformation as worthwhile if it grants strength, while Tang San worries that such “evolution” destroys what is human.
• Trust and responsibility: Tang San’s disappointment highlights the importance of sound guidance; Meng Shu’s confrontation raises the question of who bears responsibility for deaths in the trial world.
• Institutional strength and uncertainty: Spirit Hall debates whether Headquarters’ structure and resources make it safer or more advantageous than the Paranormal Forum.

Plot points and events

• On Sea God Island, Bo Saixi is targeted by the Sky Screen’s blood-red teleportation beam. She calls on the Sea God, whose projection uses Unfixed Storm to stop it, but the beam passes through the divine skill and teleports her away.
• Bo Saixi arrives in the world of Mysterious Revival with Zhu Zhuqing, Ghost Douluo, and Liu Erlong. The four find themselves in a gloomy forest near a dilapidated Republican-era house.
• Elsewhere, Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng board the Ghost Bus, which is crowded with vicious ghosts. They know they must find seats quickly, but that each apparently empty seat may carry a hidden danger.
• Ning Rongrong recognizes Zhao Lei, Yang Jian’s classmate from the Knocking Ghost incident. He invites her to sit beside him; wary of his strange condition but short on time, she takes the seat.
• Yu Tianheng avoids an ominous umbrella dripping black blood and sits in the window seat beside it. He immediately discovers that an invisible ghost was occupying the seat. It pins him down and begins wrapping its arms around him. Yu Tianheng desperately activates the Ghost Finger as the chapter ends.

Character developments

• Bo Saixi turns to her faith and the Sea God for protection, but even divine power cannot counter the Sky Screen’s rules.
• Ning Rongrong stays alert and makes a calculated choice under pressure, though Zhao Lei’s presence remains suspicious.
• Yu Tianheng, despite being a Ghost Handler, is overwhelmed by the bus’s dangers and discovers that careful-looking choices can still be fatal.
• Zhao Lei appears in an uncanny, possibly nonhuman state, but his true nature is left unclear.

Character interactions

• The Sea God attempts to protect Bo Saixi, but the teleportation beam defeats his intervention.
• The four newly transported characters assess one another and their unfamiliar surroundings.
• Zhao Lei directs Ning Rongrong to an apparently safe seat; she accepts his help despite doubting what he is.
• Yu Tianheng’s attempt to avoid the umbrella leads him into the invisible ghost’s grasp.

Significant themes

• Limits of power: Even a deity cannot override the Sky Screen’s rules.
• Uncertainty and misjudgment: On the Ghost Bus, visible clues can mislead, while danger may be invisible.
• Survival under pressure: The characters must act quickly without knowing whom or what they can trust.

Plot points and events

• On the Ghost Bus, an unseen force pins Yu Tianheng down and restrains his hands. He uses his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul to turn one hand into a black, lightning-wreathed dragon claw. Its brief contact paralyzes the force, giving him time to break free by snapping one finger and reach a seemingly safe seat.
• Yu Tianheng realizes his altered martial soul can briefly suppress other ghosts—a powerful defensive advantage. But nine uninjured fingers then twitch and crack uncontrollably, signaling that using his martial soul to activate paranormal power has sharply accelerated the ghost’s revival. The bus’s suppression prevents the awakening from progressing further.
• Watching from Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang declares that the incident proves ghosts can alter martial-soul traits. Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai eagerly imagine gaining ghost-based powers, while other factions across the continent begin considering how to harness ghosts for themselves.
• Ning Rongrong observes the attack without helping, regarding Yu Tianheng as only a temporary ally. She notices that his martial soul has changed and reflects on her own blackened Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and soul rings, which changed in appearance but not strength. She decides to test what her altered martial soul can do.
• Ning Rongrong introduces herself to Zhao Lei, then questions why he is on the bus and what has happened to him, suspecting he has harnessed a ghost.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Tianheng survives through quick thinking and gains evidence that his ghost-altered martial soul can interfere with other ghosts. His victory is tempered by the dangerous physical cost: paranormal use risks triggering ghost revival.
• Ning Rongrong remains cautious and self-protective, observing rather than intervening. Her curiosity about her own changed martial soul grows, and she begins probing Zhao Lei’s circumstances.
• Yu Xiaogang, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai interpret Yu Tianheng’s survival as proof of an opportunity. Their enthusiasm reveals a tendency to focus on potential power while underestimating the danger.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhao Lei exchange brief introductions; her questions establish suspicion about his ghostly condition.

Significant themes

• Power comes at a cost: A martial soul can gain ghostly traits, but using them may hasten a fatal revival.
• Survival and self-interest: On the Ghost Bus, Ning Rongrong prioritizes her own safety over helping an ally.
• Opportunity amid danger: Observers see ghost harnessing as a path to greater strength, even as the chapter shows its severe risks.
• Appearance versus reality: Ning Rongrong’s blackened soul rings look stronger but have not actually advanced in level.

Key events

• On the supernatural bus, Zhao Lei tells Ning Rongrong how he got aboard: after learning about the hidden supernatural world, he tried to find a way to control a ghost, gave up, and then accidentally boarded the bus after work.
• He has been trapped for eight hours, too afraid to leave at stops that seemed to lead to dangerous places. He only now learns that Dachang City had been outside the bus earlier.
• Zhao Lei reveals a ghost’s face embedded in his chest. The ghost is only partially contained and is steadily trying to take over his body. Leaving the bus could kill him within twelve hours; staying offers only a fragile chance of survival.
• Meanwhile, Bo Saixi, Ghost Douluo, Liu Erlong, and Zhu Zhuqing arrive at a dark, mist-surrounded ancient house. Bo Saixi’s immense power cannot affect the mist, convincing her that the place’s supernatural force exceeds her abilities.
• Bo Saixi orders Ghost Douluo to scout the house. At the threshold, he senses an unseen presence scrutinizing him and freezes, remembering that ghosts attack according to rules. After a minute, the scrutiny fades; he realizes he survived by not moving and triggering no rule.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhao Lei shifts from guarded silence to a painful confession. His brief success in gaining a ghost has left him trapped between two likely deaths.
• Ning Rongrong listens without offering comfort; Zhao Lei’s story deepens her understanding of how cruel the supernatural world is for ordinary people.
• Bo Saixi sees her faith in the Sea God’s all-encompassing power challenged. Though still commanding, she recognizes her limits and prepares to flee if the house proves deadly.
• Ghost Douluo is humiliated and frightened when ordered forward, but obeys because Bo Saixi vastly outranks him. His caution at the entrance saves him.
• Liu Erlong shields Zhu Zhuqing, and the two follow at a distance, aware of their weakness and lack of choice.

Significant themes

• Power has limits: Even a Level 99 Limit Douluo cannot resist the supernatural mist.
• Survival through understanding rules: Ghost Douluo survives by recognizing that stillness may prevent him from triggering an attack.
• Precarious existence: Zhao Lei’s partial control of a ghost is not a triumph but a slow countdown to death.
• Fear and hierarchy: The group’s responses to the ancient house reveal how terror, power, and authority shape their choices.

Key plot points and events

• After sensing a powerful supernatural presence inside an old house, Bo Saixi leads the group into a dead forest, ordering Ghost Douluo to scout ahead.
• They encounter a lost-looking little girl in a red jacket. Her crying instantly bewitches Ghost Douluo, who approaches her as if controlled.
• Watching through the Sky Screen, Chrysanthemum Douluo urges Bibi Dong to use its voice function. Bibi Dong sends a warning that snaps Ghost Douluo out of the trance—just as he touches the girl.
• The girl’s hand begins corrupting Ghost Douluo’s arm and drags him toward the forest. Unable to break free, he severs his own right arm and escapes.
• The girl is left holding the severed arm, her eerie smile disappearing. Bo Saixi coldly remarks that Ghost Douluo’s survival is useful because he can continue scouting. A new disturbance then begins deeper in the forest.

Character developments and interactions

• Ghost Douluo moves from terrified but obedient scout to a desperate survivor. Once freed from the girl’s influence, he acts decisively, sacrificing his arm to escape.
• Bo Saixi remains calculating and emotionally detached, prioritizing the group’s survival while treating Ghost Douluo as expendable.
• Bibi Dong chooses to reveal the Sky Screen’s voice-transmission ability to save Ghost Douluo, despite having hoped to reserve it for a more valuable opportunity.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo shows genuine concern for his longtime friend and is the one who identifies how the Sky Screen might help.
• Liu Erlong and Zhu Zhuqing react with alarm to the girl and Ghost Douluo’s trance, but cannot intervene in time.

Significant themes

• Survival through sacrifice: Ghost Douluo’s willingness to sever his own arm turns certain death into escape.
• The limits of power: Even a rank-ninety-five Titled Douluo’s Soul Power cannot resist the girl’s supernatural strength or influence.
• Loyalty versus exploitation: Chrysanthemum Douluo risks speaking up for his friend, while Bo Saixi views Ghost Douluo chiefly as a useful scout.
• Unfamiliar rules and danger: The group’s strength and experience offer little protection in a world governed by supernatural threats they do not understand.

Plot points and events

• In the Old Forest, the Red-Coat Little Girl wails after failing to pull a person from the ground. Her cries summon a spreading black fog and numerous unseen evil presences, forcing Bo Saixi, Ghost Douluo, Liu Erlong, and Zhu Zhuqing to flee.
• The fog stops at the boundary around the Old Mansion. The girl remains outside, and Bo Saixi realizes the mansion’s grounds repel the forest’s ghosts. The group enters, hoping to find shelter and learn the ghost inside’s killing rules.
• On the Ghost Bus, Ning Rongrong sees that the surroundings have shifted into a bleak supernatural landscape. The bus’s influence is suppressing her Ghost Skin, giving her hope that she can survive the next two days and evade the death predicted by the Sheepskin Paper.
• The bus unexpectedly stops for a ghost in mourning clothes. Liu Xiaoyu finds records describing this “ghost roadblock”: normally, passengers should let the ghost board so the bus can resume moving.
• Zhao Lei warns that the bus is already nearly full. If the ghost takes the final seat, the bus will overload and stall, releasing the bus’s suppression of the thirty-odd ghosts aboard. Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng decide to confront the newcomer rather than allow it on.

Character developments and interactions

• Bo Saixi quickly recognizes the Old Mansion’s protective boundary and proposes entering it as their best chance of survival.
• Ning Rongrong moves from cautious optimism—believing the bus may help her outlast her predicted death—to urgent resolve when she learns that letting the new ghost board could doom everyone.
• Zhao Lei supplies crucial firsthand information about the bus’s capacity and the fatal consequences of a stall, contradicting the safer guidance in the Forum’s records.
• Yu Tianheng and Ning Rongrong exchange a silent understanding and act together, leaving their seats to stop the ghost.

Significant themes

• Survival under incomplete information: Characters must choose between conflicting guidance and firsthand warnings.
• Temporary safety: The mansion’s boundary and the bus’s suppression offer protection, but neither guarantees escape.
• Collective peril and decisive action: One passenger’s entry could unleash dozens of ghosts, forcing Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng to risk acting before the threat boards.

Key events

• A mourning-clad Fierce Supernatural approaches the open Ghost Bus. Ning Rongrong explains that her Ghost Skin is defensive and cannot directly stop it, so Yu Tianheng confronts the creature at the doorway.
• Yu Tianheng’s broken ghost fingers release paranormal force that shoves the creature backward—but the Grave-Crying Supernatural begins a second attack: its crying twists victims’ faces into expressions of grief, apparently causing instant death.
• Ning Rongrong’s Ghost Skin automatically restrains her facial muscles, but Yu Tianheng has no such protection. He repeatedly breaks his fingers to interrupt the curse, buying only about ten seconds each time.
• The crying echoes inside the bus, amplifying its paranormal power. Ning Rongrong’s protection begins to fail, while Yu Tianheng risks exhausting all his fingers.
• Ning Rongrong consults the Sheepskin Paper. It advises using her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to amplify Yu Tianheng, then having him break three fingers simultaneously to drive the Supernatural beyond the bus’s detection range, prompting the bus to depart.
• Ning Rongrong activates the Pagoda’s strength and speed enhancements, which also boost Yu Tianheng’s paranormal power. He breaks three fingers at once as the chapter ends.

Character developments and interactions

• Ning Rongrong remains composed under pressure and takes the initiative, using the Sheepskin Paper despite its danger. Her Pagoda’s paranormal transformation—bleeding and growing flesh—shows the cost of forcing its power.
• Yu Tianheng is courageous and willing to injure himself to protect the group. He endures the curse and obeys Ning Rongrong’s plan without hesitation.
• Their partnership becomes crucial: Ning Rongrong supplies defensive protection and amplification, while Yu Tianheng provides the force needed to repel the creature. The Sheepskin Paper, usually suspect, offers unexpectedly useful guidance.

Significant themes

• Power at a physical cost: Yu Tianheng sacrifices his fingers, while Ning Rongrong risks the Pagoda’s corruption and her own failing defenses.
• Cooperation and complementary abilities: Neither character can survive the attack alone; combining their powers creates a possible escape.
• Escalating supernatural danger: The crying becomes stronger through echoes, turning the bus itself into part of the threat.
• Knowledge as a perilous tool: The Sheepskin Paper offers a solution, but relying on it remains a gamble.

Key plot points and events

• Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng survive the Grave-Crying Supernatural’s attack. Yu’s right hand is badly injured, while Ning has pushed the Ghost Skin close to revival and cannot safely use paranormal power for at least five hours.
• Zhao Lei remains alive but unconscious. A pupil-less face on his chest watches Ning without attacking, suggesting he is relying on the supernatural within him to stay alive.
• Ning contacts Headquarters, reports the Grave-Crying Supernatural’s appearance and lethal sobbing rule, and asks about the Sheepskin Paper. Liu Xiaoyu warns that it predicts real futures but can hide traps through omissions and wordplay.
• After an uneventful hour, two passengers leave the bus at a fog-shrouded stop, reducing its displayed passenger count from 35 to 33.
• The Sheepskin Paper then predicts that the bus will stall after two more stops, releasing the restraints on the supernaturals aboard and killing Ning. It says she can escape by getting off at Peaceful Ancient Town, where a blind shopkeeper may give her medicine to suppress ghost revival. The passage ends as the Paper begins outlining a plan to control a third supernatural.

Character developments and interactions

• Ning Rongrong remains composed after the attack, prioritizes reporting the new threat, and treats the Sheepskin Paper’s seemingly helpful predictions with suspicion.
• Yu Tianheng is gravely injured but uses soul power to begin healing; his relief after two passengers leave shows how strained he has become.
• Zhao Lei remains incapacitated, while the supernatural embedded in his chest displays unsettling awareness.
• Ning and Liu Xiaoyu cooperate professionally: Ning supplies a clear field report, and Liu explains the Paper’s dangers and records the new supernatural for Headquarters.

Significant themes

• Survival under uncertainty: Even after escaping one threat, Ning faces worsening danger with little ability to defend herself.
• The danger of useful knowledge: The Sheepskin Paper may tell the truth, but its omissions make trusting it perilous.
• Temporary relief versus lasting safety: The proposed medicine can suppress ghost revival, not remove the underlying threat.

Plot points and events

• Ning Rongrong reads a new passage on the Sheepskin Paper, which stops after describing Peaceful Ancient Town and medicine that can suppress supernatural revival. She concludes the details are likely true, but suspects the offer conceals a deadly trap. With few alternatives, she resolves to identify the danger and turn the clue to her advantage.
• At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo discuss how Rongrong’s use of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda repelled the Grave-Crying Supernatural but accelerated her evil-ghost revival. They recognize that the paper’s advice may help her while exacting a terrible cost.
• In the Old Mansion, Bo Saixi, Ghost Douluo, Liu Erlong, and Zhu Zhuqing find a seemingly lifeless old man in a burial robe. Sensing that waking him would be catastrophic, Bo Saixi leads the group out without challenging him. They remain trapped in the courtyard for four hours, with the supernatural-filled forest outside and the old man inside.
• At Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai warns that hunger, thirst, and exhaustion will soon endanger the trapped group. Yu Xiaogang tries to use his one chance to send a hint to Liu Erlong, but Flender stops him, pointing out that telling her to leave would send her toward danger on either side.

Character developments and interactions

• Ning Rongrong becomes more calculating: she remains wary of the Sheepskin Paper but is prepared to use its information as a possible route to survival.
• Ning Fengzhi sees the situation as a contest of intelligence and human nature, and trusts that Rongrong has noticed the paper’s manipulation.
• Bo Saixi sets aside pride and authority, choosing cautious retreat when she recognizes the old man’s overwhelming threat. The others follow her lead.
• Yu Xiaogang is desperate to protect Liu Erlong and initially acts impulsively; Flender restrains him and forces him to consider the consequences. Dai Mubai contributes a practical assessment of the group’s deteriorating condition.
• At the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Yu Yuanzhen praises Yu Tianheng’s resolve after he breaks six fingers.

Significant themes

• Survival under impossible choices: Characters are trapped between threats, with no safe route forward.
• Deceptive help and hidden costs: The Sheepskin Paper offers useful guidance while concealing dangerous consequences.
• Caution over strength or pride: Bo Saixi’s retreat shows that recognizing a threat can matter more than confronting it.
• The limits of knowledge and action: Yu Xiaogang realizes his theories cannot help, while Flender shows that even a well-intentioned hint can cause harm.