Recaps

Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng survived their first Blood Gate by uncovering a villa’s secrets and escaping the Red-Clothed Female Ghost. An anonymous warning led Ning Qiushui into a second gate with Bai Xiaoxiao, where their investigation of Rain-Praying Village exposed suspicious accounts of its past and a connection to Spirit Medium Ruan.

• Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng entered a Blood Gate that required seven caregivers to care for an elderly woman for five days, and several participants died as they investigated the villa.
• Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng discovered mutilated corpses, a girl’s diary, and the Blood Jade on the third floor, then sheltered there with the elderly housekeeper.
• Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng used the housekeeper as a distraction at her request and escaped the Red-Clothed Female Ghost with the Blood Jade.
• Ning Qiushui learned about the Mist World and received a second anonymous letter warning that Bai Xiaoxiao must not die in his second gate.
• Ning Qiushui, Liu Chengfeng, and Bai Xiaoxiao entered Rain-Praying Village to survive its seventh-day temple ritual and investigated deaths connected to the temple and Guangchuan’s memorial tablet.
• Ning Qiushui, Bai Xiaoxiao, and Liu Chengfeng found an account of Guang Xiu’s crimes and the villagers’ revenge at the Binding-Evil Shrine, where Guangchuan’s tablet frightened off an old man who threatened them.
• Ning Qiushui and Bai Xiaoxiao exposed Tang Jiao’s lie about visiting Fangcun Pond and suspected that the villagers had distorted Guang Xiu’s story.
• Ning Qiushui and Bai Xiaoxiao rescued Liu Chengfeng from the Everlasting Well, and Liu Chengfeng retrieved a wooden tag marked “Ruan” before Ning Qiushui spotted someone approaching and told them to hide.

Ning Qiushui and his companions uncovered how the Ruan Clan had driven the Guang family’s deaths and kept the village’s ghosts at bay through human sacrifices. After the Spirit Medium died, Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng rescued Bai Xiaoxiao, but the survivors had only two days to restore the monk’s head before Guang Xiu became a vengeful ghost.

• Ning Qiushui, Bai Xiaoxiao, and Liu Chengfeng encountered the headless corpse at Everlasting Well and the skin-shedding ghost at Fangcun Pond, which demanded that they bring it a woman.
• Ning Qiushui and Bai Xiaoxiao planted a Ruan token in Tang Jiao’s room, and Guangchuan killed Tang Jiao that night.
• Ning Qiushui questioned Mi Lan and her husband, learning that the Spirit Medium directed human sacrifices while the villagers blamed Guang Xiu’s family for the famine.
• Bai Xiaoxiao identified Spirit Medium Ruan as the Evildoer and urged the survivors to find the Compassionate One’s head, but she disappeared and Ning Qiushui found her living head in a jar at the Spirit Medium’s residence.
• Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng lured the Spirit Medium to Fangcun Pond, where the skin-shedding ghost restrained and killed her, then they read the book documenting Ruan Kaihuang’s crimes against Guang Xiu’s family and Zhu Nanyu.
• Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng went to Back Mountain for Bai Xiaoxiao’s body, escaped the Temple with it during Guang Xiu’s attack, and warned the bespectacled man’s group as they fled.
• Ning Qiushui and Liu Chengfeng reunited Bai Xiaoxiao’s head and body, and she revived before sunset as the survivors faced a two-day deadline to restore the monk’s head.