Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan removed the gu insect from Zhang Siliang, freeing him from Yuan Yi’s influence and revealing that her pregnancy could not be his. Zhang Siliang turned against Yuan Yi, and Ning Shuang had her taken away to a psychiatric hospital.

• The gu insect overdosed and died in Ye Fan’s medicinal liquid, and Ye Fan explained that Yuan Yi might eventually sense its death.
• Zhang Siliang returned to the hotel and told Yuan Yi he had removed the gu insect, then rejected her pregnancy because he had undergone a vasectomy.
• Zhang Siliang told Yuan Yi that her brother’s car crash was only the beginning of his revenge and walked away.
• Yuan Yi’s family waited for her help while her brother remained in jail and another relative faced trouble after a crash.
• Ning Shuang confronted Yuan Yi, revealed that Zhang Siliang had had a vasectomy after divorcing her, and ordered her men to take Yuan Yi to a psychiatric hospital.

Ye Fan tried to keep Bai Yunxi’s female relatives away from him, then met Bai Yunxi’s older sister, Bai Yunfei, and awkwardly apologized for nearly angering their grandfather. Bai Yunfei confronted Bai Yunxi about treating Ye Fan differently, and Bai Yunxi admitted that he did not dislike Ye Fan.

• Ye Fan offered to buy Bai Yunxi lunch and told the receptionists not to let any of Bai Yunxi’s girlfriends or sisters into the office.
• Bai Yunfei arrived, and Ye Fan introduced himself as Bai Yunxi’s boyfriend before learning she was Bai Yunxi’s older sister.
• Ye Fan apologized to Bai Yunfei with a Jade Pendant and offered to refine Tenfold Tonic Pills for their grandfather after hearing that his phone call had nearly put the old man in the hospital.
• Bai Yunfei ordered the receptionists to keep Ye Fan out, but they explained that Bai Yunxi had told them to let him in.
• Bai Yunfei entered Bai Yunxi’s office, noticed the durian smell, and questioned him about treating Ye Fan differently.
• Bai Yunxi said he did not know whether he liked Ye Fan but admitted that he did not dislike him.

Chen Songbin learned that Ye Fan had ties to Bai Yunxi, while Ye Fan bought a cheap haunted villa near Bai Yunxi’s company and planned to clear out its ghosts. The chapter left Ye Fan preparing to find materials for a Yin Ghost Banner.

• Chen Songbin heard that Zhang Siliang had divorced Yuan Yi and that Zhang Siliang’s ex-wife had returned, then learned Ye Fan came from the Ye Family and knew Bai Yunxi.
• Ye Fan met Yang Fei, said Master Xiao was still upset with him, and revealed he wanted to buy a quiet house with the money he had earned treating patients.
• Yang Fei took Ye Fan to a resale property center, where Ye Fan chose a villa priced at three million despite its history of murders and reported hauntings.
• Ye Fan told Yang Fei he had encountered a zombie in the ancient tomb, and Yang Fei shared that a later expedition had suffered deaths and serious injuries.
• Ye Fan told Bai Yunxi he had bought the haunted villa, explained that a Yin-Gathering Formation drew forty or fifty ghosts there, and said he would make a Yin Ghost Banner to deal with them.
• Bai Yunxi suggested Ye Fan search antique shops for the materials needed to make the banner.

Zhang Wentao asked Ye Fan to help save people who had fallen into comas after entering an ancient tomb, and Ye Fan negotiated payment with him. Bai Yunxi arranged for Dragon Tiger Mountain to pay in rare materials, and Ye Fan agreed to help.

• Zhang Wentao visited Ye Fan at Bai Yunxi's office and asked whether he was still selling talismans, but Ye Fan said he had switched to making money by helping rich people.
• Zhang Wentao explained that people who had entered the ancient tomb were in comas, and Ye Fan said corpse qi had likely caused their condition.
• Ye Fan offered to treat the patients and demanded fifty million per person, but Bai Yunxi told him to stop asking for so much.
• Bai Yunxi suggested Zhang Wentao take Ye Fan to Dragon Tiger Mountain's Capital City base so Ye Fan could choose rare materials instead of receiving money.
• Ye Fan warned Zhang Wentao not to offer him inferior materials and described the harmless misfortunes caused by his Bad Luck Talisman.

Bai Yunxi went to the hospital to see his possessed niece, Bai Momo, and used the protection Ye Fan had given him to drive the spirit out of her. The spirit escaped, leaving Bai Yunxi and Xiao Chi aware that it was still at large.

• Bai Yunxi declined to bring Ye Fan to the hospital, then learned from Xiao Chi that Bai Momo had awakened acting strangely and biting people for food.
• Bai Yunxi found Bai Momo eating roast chicken and watched her lunge at him with unnatural speed.
• The Fortune-Turning Beads repelled Bai Momo, and Bai Yunxi struck the skeletal spirit that emerged from her with a Lightning Talisman.
• The spirit fled through the window, and Bai Momo woke confused and said she had played Pen Immortal with her friends before passing out.
• Bai Yunxi told Xiao Chi that the spirit had escaped.

Ye Fan helped Zhang Wentao treat the special forces soldiers afflicted by corpse qi, while brushing aside Zhang Xuan’s challenge and repeatedly expressing his desire to return to Bai Yunxi. After the soldiers recovered, Zhang Wentao agreed to take Ye Fan to see the promised materials.

• Bai Yunxi told Ye Fan that a ghost had appeared near his niece, and Ye Fan advised putting Peace Talismans on her until he could return and deal with it.
• Ye Fan told Zhang Wentao he wanted to hurry back to Bai Yunxi, then invited him to visit a haunted house he had bought.
• Zhang Xuan doubted Ye Fan’s abilities and challenged him to a magical duel, but Ye Fan knocked him unconscious with a punch.
• Ye Fan drew corpse qi from the hospitalized soldiers, converted it into spiritual qi, and grew stronger.
• Zhang Xuan attacked Ye Fan after waking, and Ye Fan sent him flying again with a Wind Break spell.
• Zhang Wentao confirmed that the soldiers had recovered, and Ye Fan agreed to go with him to see the materials.

Ye Fan visited a military warehouse and found rare materials useful for cultivation, while Bai Momo recovered in the hospital after being possessed during a game of Pen Immortal. The chapter left Bai Momo worried that the ghost might return, and Bai Yunxi unable to reassure her.

• Zhang Wentao brought Ye Fan to a military warehouse, where Ye Fan discovered that Dragon Tiger Mountain supplied masters to the military in exchange for special materials.
• Ye Fan found darkening wood and yin soul thread, recognizing their value for cultivation and for refining a Soul-Summoning Banner.
• Ye Fan reflected on his eight-attribute spiritual roots and the Nine Heavens Myriad Things Art he had received from the Heavenly Dao.
• Bai Momo told Bai Yunxi that Zhao Yu had asked a ghost how it died during a game of Pen Immortal, and the ghost had possessed her instead of Zhao Yu.
• Bai Momo teased Bai Yunxi about having a boyfriend, then worried that the ghost might come after her again; Bai Yunxi said he did not know.

Ye Fan visited Bai Yunxi at the hospital, gave Xiao Chi tonic pills, and supplied Bai Momo with a protective jade pendant. He then arrived at his newly purchased Villa 18, unaware that the guards believed the house was haunted.

• Ye Fan gave Xiao Chi Tenfold Tonic Pills and told him to take one every seven days.
• Ye Fan examined Bai Momo, reassured Bai Yunxi that his Heavenly Yin Constitution was not contagious, and gave him a jade pendant engraved with protective formations for her.
• Ye Fan joked that Bai Momo had fallen for him, and Bai Yunxi dismissed his claim.
• Ye Fan arrived at Joyful Moon Estate and told the guards he owned Villa 18, which he had bought for three million.
• The guards discussed Villa 18's sinister reputation as Ye Fan entered the compound, planning to craft the Yin Ghost Banner without interruptions.

Ye Fan finished refining the Yin Ghost Banner and told Bai Yunxi he would help track down the Starved Ghost threatening Bai Momo. At the hospital, he ran into Dragon Tiger Mountain adept Zhang Xuan, who resented being defeated by him, and Ye Fan announced that he was Bai Yunxi’s boyfriend.

• Ye Fan captured the ghosts haunting Villa Eighteen with his newly refined Yin Ghost Banner and assured Cai Zhenjun and the security guards that he was fine.
• Ye Fan showed Bai Yunxi the Yin Ghost Banner and learned that the Starved Ghost had attacked Bai Momo again, while Dragon Tiger Mountain’s adept had failed to catch it.
• Ye Fan agreed to help find the Starved Ghost after eating and told Bai Yunxi he had captured the ghosts in his villa.
• Ye Fan and Bai Yunxi went to the hospital, where Zhang Xuan recognized Ye Fan and blamed him for their previous defeats.
• Ye Fan said he had come to see Bai Momo, called himself Bai Yunxi’s boyfriend, and challenged Zhang Xuan’s criticism of him.

Ye Fan tracked the ghost energy from Bai Momo’s hospital room to a factory, while Zhang Xuan doubted his abilities and the guards refused to let them in. Zhang Siliang arrived and revealed that the factory was his, asking Ye Fan to investigate the workers who had fallen ill.

• Bai Momo told Ye Fan that she had eaten a spiritual lingzhi as a child, and Ye Fan collected the hospital room’s lingering ghost energy to track the ghost.
• Ye Fan and Zhang Xuan followed the ghost energy by taxi to a factory, where guards turned them away and mocked Zhang Xuan’s claim that they were from Dragon Tiger Mountain.
• Zhang Siliang and Ning Shuang arrived, and Zhang Siliang greeted Ye Fan as the factory’s owner.
• Zhang Siliang explained that several factory workers had fallen ill, and Ning Shuang offered to pay Ye Fan to investigate.
• Zhang Siliang invited Ye Fan inside to discuss the situation.