Recaps

Yang Yuetong and the surviving fighters searched Qishan for the Grave-Guarding Ghost’s grave after it repeatedly revived and killed members of their group. As the ghost approached a Black Market Unusual Person, a man named Bai Yi startled it with a megaphone and gave the man a chance to escape.

• A second Wedding Procession appeared after the group had killed the first, and the Ghost Bride revived inside its sedan.
• The group realized the Ghost Bride was a Grave-Guarding Ghost and searched for its grave, suffering more deaths and injuries along the way.
• Yang Yuetong found the ghost’s grave and saw the ghost climb out behind the Black Market Unusual Person while a man secretly followed it.
• The ghost whispered to the Black Market Unusual Person, but Bai Yi suddenly grabbed the ghost and shouted into a megaphone, letting the man flee.

Jiang Chen confronted Jiang Qianqian, the Half-Body Blood Garment, and used a Two-Star Deer Power Immortal transformation to withstand her curses. He overpowered her with his blood qi and seized her, threatening to amputate her head.

• Jiang Qianqian attacked Jiang Chen after he asked her about the child, but he startled her by licking her ghostly face to test whether the blood was hers.
• Jiang Qianqian renewed her assault with dark red shadows, so Jiang Chen drew a Two-Star Monster Transformation Card and transformed into Deer Power Immortal.
• Jiang Chen gained Demon-Dominating Body and Rain-Prayer Technique, then used his surging blood qi to scatter the shadows and resist the memories they forced into his mind.
• Chen Xue, Yang Chan, Chen Xiaoyu, Tang Yi, Zhao Erhu, and Yang Yuetong watched as Jiang Chen advanced on Jiang Qianqian.
• Jiang Chen shouted at Jiang Qianqian and grabbed her head, saying her wound was too severe to save and should be amputated.

Jiang Chen learned that Jiang Qianqian could revive from her grave and guarded it rather than destroy it. Other Unusual People mistook his actions for sympathy or bewitchment until he smashed the revived ghost's head with the Yin God Hammer.

• Jiang Chen tore off Jiang Qianqian's head, burned her body to ash with his blood qi, and put her head in his sack.
• Yang Yuetong told Jiang Chen that the grave-guarding ghost repeatedly revived from her grave, and Yang Chan stopped her from suggesting its destruction.
• Jiang Chen examined the grave and stationed himself on top of it with a hammer.
• Zheng Yuan and the other Eastern Village Unusual People arrived, and Yang Dantong pointed out the ghost's grave.
• Jiang Chen refused to let anyone approach the grave, prompting the others to suspect that he had been bewitched or pitied the ghost.
• When Jiang Qianqian emerged again, Jiang Chen supported her chin with one hand and smashed her head with the Yin God Hammer.

Jiang Chen kept the female ghost trapped in her grave by killing her whenever she revived, then threatened to use Zhao Erhu and other men’s urine to force her out. The Unusual Persons joined in enthusiastically, leaving the female ghost panicking as a line of men gathered around her grave.

• Jiang Chen buried the female ghost’s corpse and her severed heads together, refusing to dig up her grave because he claimed it would disrespect her.
• When the ghost revived but stayed underground, Jiang Chen called to her and threatened to bring Zhao Erhu, a twenty-year virgin, to piss on the grave.
• Jiang Chen led Zhao Erhu to the grave and persuaded him to take part by comparing the sacrifice to Buddha’s selfless acts.
• Two more Unusual Persons volunteered, and Jiang Chen allowed them to photograph themselves but forbade them from recording anyone else.
• More men asked to join, and the female ghost panicked as a line of Unusual Persons assembled around her grave.

Jiang Chen and the Unusual People tormented Jiang Qianqian’s ghost by showing off and testing their techniques on her grave. When she finally emerged in a fury, Jiang Chen washed and killed her, ending the Grave-Guarding Ghost for good.

• The Unusual People filmed themselves boasting about their role in exorcising the ghost, and Jiang Chen recited a poem while Jiang Qianqian cursed them from her grave.
• Jiang Chen suspected Jiang Qianqian might be nearing her final revival, so he made wooden stakes and provoked the gathered Unusual People into adding their techniques to them.
• Jiang Chen tested the stakes by plunging them into the grave, while the Unusual People judged their methods by Jiang Qianqian’s screams.
• Jiang Qianqian crawled out of the grave, enraged and humiliated, and the group scattered from her.
• Jiang Chen used the Rain-Prayer Technique to wash Jiang Qianqian clean, then killed her with two hammer blows, ending the Grave-Guarding Ghost.
• The Unusual People dug up Jiang Qianqian’s bones and smashed them, while Jiang Chen let them do so.

Jiang Chen searched Qishan and helped his exhausted companions clear more ghosts before heading toward Northern Village. Reading a Netherworld Messenger’s report about the corpse retriever Old Yao, he realized that Old Yao had supposedly drowned despite being a Dredging Sect disciple.

• Jiang Chen questioned the group about child ghosts, then ordered them to search Qishan again and support the others in Northern Village.
• Jiang Chen dealt with three more vicious ghosts himself, giving the exhausted group time to recover before they descended the mountain.
• The group found that Jiang Hongyu and the others had already cleared the houses along the route, so Jiang Chen read a report about Old Yao and the pregnant female corpse he had retrieved from Qishui.
• The report said Old Yao had taken the corpse home to deliver her baby, then was found drowned headfirst in a water vat after disappearing for several days.
• Jiang Chen realized that Old Yao had been a Dredging Sect disciple and questioned how someone with underwater breathing techniques could have drowned.

Jiang Chen led the group through a cursed area filled with bloody air and strangely smiling corpses, which he mutilated in ways he believed were necessary. At the Qishui River, they found four Martial Sect Disciples losing a desperate fight against a powerful blood corpse, while Qin Tiancheng continued to conceal his full strength.

• Jiang Chen followed the increasingly strong bloody smell and led the group toward the source of the disturbance.
• Jiang Chen carved the blood-red corpses’ mouths, drove nails into their foreheads, and arranged their bodies in disturbing poses, saying their deaths should look abnormal.
• Jiang Chen and the others reached the Qishui River and saw four Martial Sect Disciples battling a blood-red woman near a wooden house.
• The blood corpse tore flesh from Senior Brother Sun and bit off Zhao Daniu’s arm, while the disciples’ attacks did little to stop it.
• Qin Tiancheng fought with the group but ignored the female disciple’s demand that he stop holding back.

Jiang Hongyu and the group faced a terrifying red-eyed boy whose illusion nearly ensnared everyone, but Jiang Chen resisted and the boy collapsed. The Blood Corpse revived her dead son by feeding him her flesh, and he returned as a feral creature.

• The red-eyed boy trapped the onlookers in a blood-red illusion and left sinister red marks on their bodies, while Jiang Chen remained unaffected and turned the boy’s power back on him.
• Jiang Hongyu attacked the collapsed boy with a series of powerful fist techniques, leaving him apparently dead in a crater.
• The grieving Blood Corpse crawled to her son and fed him her own flesh as Jiang Hongyu called for the others to stop her.
• The boy’s body regenerated, and he revived as a mindless beast like the Blood Corpse.

The corpse-born boy transformed into a Blood-Clad Ghost and sent the group fleeing, but it stopped when Jiang Chen drew near. Jiang Chen struck Qin Tiancheng with the Yin God Hammer, then pretended he had meant to hit the ghost behind him.

• The corpse-born boy’s resentment erupted into a terrifying Blood-Clad Ghost, forcing Jiang Hongyu, Zhao Daniu, and the others to flee.
• The ghost pursued Qin Tiancheng, who tried to trick a group of Unusual People into standing and fighting it for promised rewards.
• Jiang Chen waited with the Yin God Hammer as Qin Tiancheng approached, and the ghost halted more than ten meters away from him.
• Jiang Chen activated the Demon-Dominating Body and struck Qin Tiancheng with the Yin God Hammer, leaving him badly wounded after his jade pendant saved his life.
• Qin Tiancheng accused Jiang Chen of attacking a Martial Sect Disciple, and Jiang Chen claimed he had meant to hit the ghost behind him by mistake.

Jiang Chen used the curses on Qin Tiancheng to make the Martial Sect disciples believe he had been corrupted by the Blood Corpse. Jiang Hongyu bowed to Jiang Chen’s threat and let him kill Qin Tiancheng, while Little Boy protested that he had done nothing to them.

• Jiang Chen warned Qin Tiancheng to check for curses, and Qin Tiancheng began experiencing pain, burning lungs, and a ravenous hunger.
• Jiang Chen smeared Ghost Blood on his hand and claimed Qin Tiancheng had been corrupted by the Blood Corpse.
• Zhao Daniu and the other Martial Sect disciples agreed that Qin Tiancheng was beyond saving, while Jiang Hongyu recognized his earlier selfishness.
• Jiang Hongyu felt terrified by Jiang Chen’s gaze and, despite her reluctance, authorized him to purge Qin Tiancheng.
• Jiang Chen announced that he would kill Qin Tiancheng for everyone’s safety, and Little Boy protested that he had neither harmed them nor used curses.

Jiang Chen killed Qin Tiancheng, then blamed the little boy and fought him after the ghost attacked. When the Blood Corpse rushed to protect the boy, Jiang Chen destroyed her with lightning, leaving the boy and the others facing his demonized form.

• Jiang Chen killed Qin Tiancheng with the Yin God Hammer and secretly absorbed his remnant soul.
• Jiang Chen staged a tearful farewell for Qin Tiancheng and rallied the Martial Sect Disciples to blame the little boy for his death.
• The little boy attacked Jiang Chen at terrifying speed and tried to force a curse into his body.
• Jiang Chen used Complete Demonization, Divine Firmament, and Purple Palace to blast the boy with lightning.
• The Blood Corpse shoved the boy aside and lunged at Jiang Chen, who seized her and burned her to a charred husk with lightning.
• Jiang Chen surveyed the horrified onlookers while the wounded boy remained nearby.

Jiang Chen used his demonized strength to batter the little boy, then pursued Yu Sheng, who had revived as a Blood Corpse. He killed Yu Sheng again with Divine Firmament and found him reviving once more, this time with a hammer in his mouth and his lips sewn shut.

• Jiang Chen accepted Jiang Hongyu's explanation that he was a Chuma Family successor and continued hammering the little boy.
• After more than thirty blows, Jiang Chen struck the little boy with the Great Strength Bull Demon Fist and sensed something elsewhere.
• Yu Sheng woke among the Ghost Corpses, found himself pinned down with Steel Nails, and pulled them out as Jiang Chen approached.
• Jiang Chen claimed he had come to drive away Yu Sheng's bad luck, but Yu Sheng fled from his hammer and Jiang Chen struck him down with Divine Firmament.
• Yu Sheng revived again with a hammer in his mouth and his lips sewn shut, and Jiang Chen prepared to hit him once more.

Jiang Chen repeatedly killed the resurrecting Corpse-Born Child while the other Unusual Persons watched, until an old man warned that killing him would bring disaster to Qishui. Jiang Chen kept the boy barely alive and asked Zhao Erhu to explain who the Old-School Corpse Salvagers were.

• Jiang Chen used his Sledgehammer and lightning to kill the blood-red corpses whenever the Corpse-Born Child revived inside them.
• The Unusual Persons realized Jiang Chen had anticipated the resurrections and were stunned by his brutal, carefully justified exorcisms.
• The Corpse-Born Child challenged Jiang Chen to ask why he could not be killed, but Jiang Chen prepared to strike again.
• A lean old man rushed in and warned that killing the boy would bring catastrophe to Qishui, while Jiang Hongyu identified him as one of the Old-School Corpse Salvagers.
• Jiang Chen twisted off the boy's head and smashed his body to stop him resisting, then asked Zhao Erhu what the Old-School Corpse Salvagers were.

Zhao Erhu explained the Nine Sects of the Long River’s grim history and the sacrifices they made to protect the Nine Provinces. Jiang Chen killed Little Boy despite Old Yao’s warning, then fought off Old Yao before a new threat appeared along Qishui’s dark banks.

• Zhao Erhu told Jiang Chen that the Nine Sects of the Long River had protected the basin through brutal methods and mass self-sacrifice before the Mount Tai King purged them.
• Old Yao identified Little Boy as the River God’s Son and warned that killing him would bring disaster to Qishui.
• Jiang Chen crushed Little Boy’s head, declaring that no River God would be allowed to wreak havoc in the Nine Provinces.
• Old Yao charged Jiang Chen with a Boat-Bottom Spike, but Jiang Hongyu and the others intervened before he slipped past them.
• Jiang Chen struck Old Yao with his hammer and sent him flying, then noticed something ahead along Qishui.
• Jiang Hongyu spotted the danger on Qishui’s pitch-black banks and ordered everyone to run.

A furious river god raised the Qishui into a massive wave, trapping Jiang Hongyu and the others as Jiang Hongyu prepared to sacrifice herself so they could escape. Jiang Chen intervened and used the Rain-Prayer Technique to rise before the wave, gathering the might of the falling heavens around himself.

• The Qishui surged into a towering, bone-filled wave, and its hostile will pinned the group in place.
• Jiang Hongyu threatened the riverbed creature with the Martial Sect and the Mount Tai King, but the wave kept rising.
• Jiang Hongyu realized the group had been caught in a test of the Nine Provinces' higher-ups and prepared to take a pill and escape alone.
• Jiang Chen stopped Jiang Hongyu, claimed her pill as payment for protecting everyone, and walked toward the wave.
• Jiang Chen prayed for rain, climbed a staircase of torrential water, and raised his sledgehammer as a vast rain-formed figure gathered the might of the falling heavens.

Jiang Chen struck Qishui with the Yin God Hammer, stopping the River God’s massive wave and earning a huge amount of ghost qi. He realized the River God was constrained by a treaty, mocked it to provoke it without attacking first, then ordered the group to turn away.

• Jiang Chen brought down the rain giant’s hammer on Qishui, suppressing the river and forcing its wronged souls back beneath the water.
• After the rain stopped, Jiang Chen recognized that the River God had likely held back because of a treaty and noticed a blood-clad figure watching him underwater.
• Jiang Chen insulted the Qishui River God, provoking repeated ghost-qi notifications as it grew increasingly furious.
• Jiang Chen concluded that the River God might be trying to bait him into breaking the treaty first, so he refrained from attacking.
• Jiang Chen waved the men along and told the women to turn their backs.

Jiang Chen led the Unusual Persons in humiliating the Qishui River God before they fled as the river flooded Qishan Village. After Old Yao confessed to causing the village’s tragedy, Jiang Chen stripped him of his abilities and took him away.

• Jiang Chen directed the Unusual Persons to use their ancestral treasures against the Qishui River God, then hurried them away when the river began to surge.
• The Qishui River God threatened Jiang Chen, who gave him his personal details and photos before the River God flooded Qishan Village.
• Jiang Chen and the group took Old Yao with them, restrained him with Spirit-Sealing Handcuffs, and interrogated him.
• Old Yao confessed that he had arranged Jiang Qianqian’s forced pregnancy and raised the Corpse-Born Child as the River God’s Son.
• Jiang Chen refused to kill Old Yao, destroyed his abilities, and tied him to a steel cable behind the car.

After Tang Hu died, Tang Yi revealed that she had been raised as a Tang Family deathsworn guard and feared the family would kill her. When the others could offer only advice, Jiang Chen offered her a job at his shop, leaving everyone wondering who stood behind him.

• The group recoiled from Jiang Chen’s brutal treatment of Old Yao as the convoy carried him away in chains.
• Tang Yi explained that she had been picked up as a child, trained as a deathsworn guard, and assigned to protect Tang Hu.
• Tang Yi asked the group to shelter her, but Chen Xiaoyu, Zhao Erhu, Chen Xue, and Yang Chan could offer only help or advice that would not guarantee her safety.
• Tang Yi accepted that she would have to leave Jiangbei and try to escape the Tang Family’s pursuit.
• Jiang Chen offered Tang Yi a job at his shop, and when Chen Xue asked about its business, he claimed it sold milk tea.

Jiang Chen offered Tang Yi a job at his milk tea shop despite Zhao Erhu's warning about the Orthodox Tang Sect, then returned from the mission and received a Martial Sect Challenge Writ from Jiang Hongyu. He learned that winning the required fight could make Jiang Hongyu work for him for three years—or become his wife.

• Jiang Chen offered Tang Yi work at his milk tea shop, and she eagerly accepted despite having no experience or asking for wages.
• Zhao Erhu warned Jiang Chen that the Tang Family had the Orthodox Tang Sect behind it, but Jiang Chen welcomed the prospect of trouble because Tang Yi might be connected to the Restricted Zone.
• Jiang Chen's convoy returned to the Black Market after Old Yao died; Jiang Chen dismembered and buried him to prevent him from reviving.
• Jiang Hongyu praised Jiang Chen's strength and challenged him to a fight after she emerged from seclusion, but Jiang Chen said he did not hit women.
• Jiang Hongyu issued Jiang Chen a Martial Sect Challenge Writ, and Zhao Erhu explained that if Jiang Chen won, she would have to work for him for three years or marry him.

After Jiang Chen accepted Jiang Hongyu’s Martial Sect Battle Warrant and Zhao Erhu returned to Dragon Elephant Temple, he went back to Jade Garden Residential Complex. Gu Youmin asked permission to move the Gu Family into the complex, and Jiang Chen agreed, seeing potential in their history and connections.

• Jiang Chen accepted the Martial Sect Battle Warrant, gave Zhao Erhu a Blood-Spirit Pill, and said goodbye to him, Chen Xue, and Yang Chan.
• Jiang Chen returned to Jade Garden Residential Complex with Tang Yi, where Gu Youmin and the Gu Clan Members welcomed him.
• Gu Youmin explained that the Gu Family had bought the complex and asked Jiang Chen for permission to make it their base.
• Jiang Chen welcomed the Gu Family, and Gu Youmin told him the family could provide information and handle miscellaneous matters.
• Jiang Chen considered the Gu Family’s history as Ba Hunters and decided they were worth supporting.

Jiang Chen assessed his gains from the mission, enhanced Jiang Hongyu’s pill into a lost Nine-Turn Secret Treasury Pill, and used online bait to lure ghosts to his residential complex. With the Gu Family and the Netherworld supporting his plan, a Fraudulent Ghost Haunting Craze spread across the internet.

• Jiang Chen counted his 430,000 ghost qi, enhanced the Six-Turn Secret Treasury Pill into a Nine-Turn Secret Treasury Pill, and learned it had once helped a Martial Sect Leader suppress a Sub-Restricted Zone at the cost of his life.
• Jiang Chen noted his 100,000 Underworld Points, then performed a Soul-Summoning ritual outside his apartment to expose the Gu Family to ghosts.
• Jiang Chen updated his social media profiles with his real name and address, replied to ghost-bait posts, and wrote his own messages inviting ghosts to his home.
• Jiang Chen asked Gu Youmin to spread the posts, and the Gu Family circulated them widely after Jiang Chen went to sleep.
• The Netherworld contacted Jiangbei, Yang Chuan secured approval for the ghost-luring plan, and Netherworld Messengers helped spread the posts until a Fraudulent Ghost Haunting Craze swept across the internet.

Jiang Chen uncovered signs that the Dark Alliance was coordinating attacks and infiltrations in Jiangbei, then found the Netherworld Branch Office preparing for a possible crisis. After Uncle Wei told him to stay away for half a month, Jiang Chen went to his milk tea shop, where Tang Yi was serving a long line of customers.

• Jiang Chen read Gu Youmin's materials and realized that rising attacks by Unusual Persons were distracting Netherworld Messengers while Dark Alliance members infiltrated Jiangbei.
• Jiang Chen worried that the operation could lead to a disaster like the one in Xunhe City and resolved to get stronger.
• Jiang Chen found the Jiangbei Branch Office unusually busy, with recalled personnel and Netherworld Messengers preparing for trouble.
• Uncle Wei told Jiang Chen not to come to the branch office for the next half month, leaving Jiang Chen to wonder about the old man's secrets.
• Jiang Chen went to his milk tea shop and found Tang Yi diligently serving a long line of customers.

Jiang Chen agreed to join Lin Youwei on a dangerous mission, then confronted two Tang Family instructors who came to take Tang Yi back. He left them injured and sent a warning that Tang Yi was under his protection.

• Tang Yi served Lin Youwei chrysanthemum tea while Jiang Chen joked with her about feeling overheated.
• Lin Youwei told Jiang Chen she had reached C-Minus Rank and invited him to join her solo mission; he agreed, and she offered to help with his mission afterward.
• After Lin Youwei left, two Tang Family instructors entered the shop and demanded that Tang Yi return with them.
• Jiang Chen led the men and Tang Yi to the Back Mountain, where he incapacitated the instructors and pierced their palms with Steel Nails.
• Jiang Chen warned the instructors to find a Grandmaster within half an hour and told them to report that Tang Yi was under his protection.

After the Tang Family sent a death-dealing dart after Jiang Chen and Tang Yi, Jiang Chen arranged for Qiu Hong and Xu Xingfeng to investigate the family’s criminal dealings. The two Netherworld Messengers agreed to help, and Jiang Chen offered them enhanced elixirs in return.

• The two Tang Family men fled with steel nails in their hands, while Jiang Chen and Tang Yi returned to the milk tea shop.
• A Tang Family death-dealing dart pierced Jiang Chen’s window, and Tang Yi warned him that it signaled ongoing assassination attempts.
• Jiang Chen summoned Qiu Hong and Xu Xingfeng to discuss a business arrangement and demonstrated his enhanced healing powder on Qiu Hong.
• Jiang Chen offered the Netherworld Messengers elixirs and asked them to investigate the Tang Family’s criminal dealings.
• Xu Xingfeng and Qiu Hong agreed to help Jiang Chen investigate the Tang Family.

Jiang Chen, Qiu Hong, and the Netherworld Messengers raided Tang Family businesses and arrested those involved in illegal Points gambling and exposing ordinary people to the Unusual Person World. They searched the Tang ancestral residence despite the family head’s objections, and hurried toward Old Master Tang’s room after a guard threatened a Netherworld Messenger.

• Qiu Hong and Jiang Chen led the Netherworld Messengers into Tang Casino, where they arrested its staff and gamblers for illegal Points gambling and exposing ordinary people to the Unusual Person World.
• The Netherworld Messengers brought Tang Family managers and other suspects to the bureau, then drove to the Tang ancestral residence to investigate its suspected death warriors.
• Qiu Hong ordered the Tang Family members gathered for questioning and announced that the Netherworld would search their home.
• The Tang Family head protested the search and nearly challenged the Netherworld Messengers, but an old man restrained him.
• When a sharp rebuke sounded outside Old Master Tang’s room, Qiu Hong led Jiang Chen and Xu Xingfeng toward it.