Recaps

Jiang Chen led the Netherworld Messengers into the Tang Family’s home, where Tang De backed down after recognizing the danger of opposing them. After the group left, Tang De learned that his daughter-in-law had ordered the Life-Taking Dart and ordered her killed, and the Tang Family head carried out the execution.

• Qiu Hong and Xu Xingfeng confronted Tang De, the Tang Family patriarch, who tried to block the Netherworld search.
• Jiang Chen entered Tang De’s home and urged the Netherworld Messengers to search despite Tang De’s threats.
• Jiang Chen came out with two abused ordinary women, and Tang De agreed to accept punishment at the Netherworld Branch Office.
• The Netherworld Messengers found nothing and left with the two women after Jiang Chen approved their departure.
• Tang De learned that Xiao Qing had ordered the Life-Taking Dart and ordered her killed.
• The Tang Family head pleaded for Xiao Qing, but a lean man beside him beheaded her.

After settling the Tang Family affair, Jiang Chen returned home and encountered ghosts haunting his apartment. He slaughtered the female ghost in the kitchen, then reassured Zhang Yuling that he would protect her, unaware that she was also a ghost.

• Jiang Chen advised Tang Yi to move into the residential complex, work at the milk tea shop, and build ties with Sister Hong and the Gu family.
• Jiang Chen went to bed, then woke at midnight to strange noises and discovered a ghostly woman beside him; kissing her earned him Ghost Qi.
• Jiang Chen found several hauntings in the apartment and confronted a female ghost chopping up what looked like his own body.
• The ghost's curse made Jiang Chen feel as though he had been killed, but he grabbed a knife and chopped the female ghost until she tried to flee.
• Jiang Chen returned to the bedroom, kissed Zhang Yuling, promised to protect her from the unclean things, and then headed to the balcony.

Jiang Chen captured Slipper Ghost and added him to his collection before confronting Takeout Ghost, who delivered a chopped-up woman. Jiang Chen demanded that Takeout Ghost cook for him and left him stunned by asking for a deep-fried child.

• Jiang Chen lured Slipper Ghost into his apartment and used his ghosts to overwhelm and capture him.
• Takeout Ghost entered Jiang Chen's apartment with a box containing a woman's chopped-up body.
• Jiang Chen complained that the corpse was cold and demanded that Takeout Ghost make him a meal.
• Takeout Ghost saw the bloodied kitchen and asked what Jiang Chen wanted to eat.
• Jiang Chen asked Takeout Ghost to deep-fry a child, saying he had one at home.

Jiang Chen killed the deliveryman and Shachun, then carried Zhang Yuling to the bathroom and scalded her in a hot bath. When he found another female ghost in the tub with her, he accused Zhang Yuling of cheating and refused to believe she was there to hurt him.

• Jiang Chen tricked the deliveryman and Shachun into turning on him, then killed them both with the Yin God Hammer.
• Jiang Chen carried Zhang Yuling to the bathroom, drained the cold bathwater, and replaced it with boiling water before tossing her in.
• Jiang Chen returned to find a blood-soaked female ghost in the tub with Zhang Yuling and accused his wife of cheating.
• Zhang Yuling tried to explain that the other ghost was a woman, but Jiang Chen became even more upset that his wife had fallen for a woman.

After killing his newly acknowledged wife, Jiang Chen reflected on the Gu Family’s hidden past and the dangers surrounding its bloodline. The next morning, he met Chu Hanyue at the Netherworld, resisted her pressure, and learned she was an A-Rank Great Grandmaster—and Uncle Wei’s god-granddaughter.

• Jiang Chen called the Gu Family to clean his room while its branches argued over who would visit the paranormal scene first.
• Jiang Chen wondered what had forced the once-powerful Gu Family to disappear from the Unusual Person World and decided that hiding his strength was wise.
• Jiang Chen arrived at the Netherworld at dawn and teased Uncle Wei and the young woman sitting beside him.
• Chu Hanyue’s oppressive aura stopped Jiang Chen, but he used demonic power to push through it and earned Ghost Qi from her surprise.
• Chu Hanyue asked whether she could execute Jiang Chen for trespassing, but Uncle Wei stopped the confrontation and identified her as his god-granddaughter.
• Uncle Wei joked that Chu Hanyue was old enough to be worth four gold bricks if Jiang Chen married her.

Jiang Chen visited the bureau hoping to find work supervising its level-two combat readiness order, but learned that Team Leader Yang was away investigating strange patients. Xu Lei revealed that the bureau’s acting leader was Chu Hanyue, the Great Grandmaster Jiang Chen had just insulted, leaving him wary of their next meeting.

• Jiang Chen joked about Chu Hanyue’s age and appearance, earning 35,000 ghost qi, while Uncle Wei explained that her youthful appearance stemmed from a strange illness and might be a curse.
• Jiang Chen asked Uncle Wei about supervising the bureau’s combat readiness order, and Uncle Wei suggested he seek psychiatric help for dark personality disorder.
• Jiang Chen met Xu Lei, who said Team Leader Yang had gone to investigate strange patients linked to a hospital ward.
• Xu Lei told Jiang Chen that the person currently in charge was Team One’s fearsome leader, Chu Hanyue, who had hunted down and killed a half-step Fierce Soul after it gave her a look.
• Jiang Chen realized Chu Hanyue was the woman he had recently insulted and took comfort only in the fact that he had never called her by her full name.

Jiang Chen read a report about a joint attack on the Nine Provinces’ Blood-Red City garrison, where a Ghost King and a Dark Alliance king forced a dangerous entity out of the Restricted Zone. The King of Reincarnation vowed to honor the fallen with king’s blood in five days, leaving Jiang Chen to wonder whether the Fengdu Forbidden Domain was about to open early.

• Jiang Chen returned home, helped Sister Hong cultivate, and watched her break through to D-Rank.
• Jiang Chen opened the Underworld App and saw a warning that something had escaped from Blood-Red City’s Restricted Zone.
• Surveillance footage showed cursed shrines approaching the garrison as two Half-Kings and six Great Grandmasters faced an attack by a Ghost King and a Dark Alliance king.
• The Netherworld report revealed that three Great Grandmasters had died, two Half-Kings were gravely wounded, and the attackers had drawn a foul thing out of the Restricted Zone.
• The King of Reincarnation declared that king’s blood would honor the dead in five days, and Jiang Chen speculated that the Fengdu Forbidden Domain might open early.

Jiang Chen reviewed the hide-and-seek killings at a community tutoring class and a B-Rank mission involving the haunted Jiutai Mountain Tunnel. As night fell, Lin Youwei arrived in ghost-hunting gear, ready to accompany him.

• Jiang Chen read about evil-thought blood shadows and wondered whether he could use them to frighten ghosts and generate ghost qi.
• Jiang Chen reviewed the tutoring-class case, where blind boy Zhang Ming died in a staged hide-and-seek accident and the teacher and former students later died in gruesome incidents.
• Jiang Chen examined the B-Rank Jiutai Mountain Tunnel mission, which involved construction deaths, strange apparitions, and a high rate of accidents.
• Lin Youwei arrived at the Jade Garden Residential Complex at night dressed in combat gear and carrying talismans and ghost-exorcising tools.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei entered an abandoned residential complex to confront a Vengeful Ghost, where Jiang Chen turned a headless child’s search for his head into an excuse to attack him. The boy and a stone bollard were destroyed by Jiang Chen’s Yin God Hammer.

• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei drove to the Eastern Suburbs, and Lin Youwei promised to protect him as they entered the abandoned complex.
• They heard children laughing and encountered a headless boy who asked whether they had seen his head.
• Jiang Chen stopped Lin Youwei from attacking and led the boy to a stone bollard, claiming it might be his head.
• When the boy said the bollard was not his head, Jiang Chen accused him of stealing Jiang Chen’s own head and raised his Yin God Hammer.
• Jiang Chen struck the headless boy and the stone bollard, destroying both.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei entered the abandoned Community Tutoring Class building, where Jiang Chen killed a Staircase Ghost that attacked Lin Youwei. They found a strange drawing in the classroom, and the sound of running water began in the toilet.

• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei reached the building and climbed toward the third floor as eerie children’s graffiti covered the stairwell.
• A girl ghost appeared beside Lin Youwei, but Jiang Chen grabbed her and smashed her against the wall before she could harm Lin Youwei.
• Jiang Chen teased Lin Youwei after rescuing her, and she angrily told him to stay close as they continued upstairs.
• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei entered the dusty tutoring-class apartment and found a clean drawing book showing a little red figure attacking a teacher.
• Running water began in the nearby toilet just after they finished examining the drawing.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei examined the drawings, which summoned ghosts around the apartment and revealed scenes of their possible deaths. They hid in a wardrobe with a trapped ghost girl as Jiang Chen preached about redeeming spirits, leaving the girl crushed beneath him and desperate for help.

• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei studied seven drawings that depicted children’s pranks and encounters with a red figure, while strange noises and cold air spread through the apartment.
• Lin Youwei found two new drawings bearing her and Jiang Chen’s names, each showing gruesome ways they might die.
• Jiang Chen pulled Lin Youwei toward the bedroom and opened a wardrobe, where a deformed ghost girl taunted them that the hiding spot was taken.
• As Jiang Yilei announced that he had found them, Jiang Chen squeezed into the wardrobe and pinned the ghost girl beneath him, then urged Lin Youwei to join them.
• Lin Youwei asked why Jiang Chen did not simply kill the ghosts, and he explained that exorcists should redeem their souls; the trapped ghost girl silently begged someone to notice her suffering.

Jiang Chen hunted down the ghosts in the tutoring center with his Yin God Hammer while Lin Youwei watched, alarmed by his brutality. After they defeated a powerful child ghost, Lin Youwei learned Jiang Chen was C-Class, and he accurately guessed she had only recently gotten her driver’s license after they found her crashed SF90.

• Jiang Chen killed the boy who emerged from the wardrobe, then dragged the girl hiding there out and smashed her with the Yin God Hammer.
• Jiang Chen searched the kitchen, smashed several hiding places, killed a child in the refrigerator, and hunted down the ghosts in the toilet and by the window.
• A Vengeful Spirit appeared, and Lin Youwei wounded him with her Golden Light Spell before Jiang Chen killed him with the Yin God Hammer.
• Lin Youwei realized Jiang Chen was C-Class, and he claimed he could read palms and tell fortunes.
• Jiang Chen told Lin Youwei she had only just taken her driving test, and she confirmed she had gotten her license two days earlier when they saw her crashed SF90.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei drove to the sealed Jiutai Mountain Tunnel to confront the ghosts of a dead family. A ghostly woman bewitched Jiang Chen, but he offered to take her dead infant to the funeral home for cremation.

• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei drove past a roadblock toward Jiutai Mountain Tunnel, where Jiang Chen said they would face a dangerous mission.
• Lin Youwei agreed to continue with Jiang Chen, while he reviewed how Zhao Hai, his son, and his wife had died at the construction site and on the mountain.
• Jiang Chen planned to draw out the two male ghosts separately before facing the Blood-Clad Ghost.
• A ghostly woman holding a dead infant appeared by the road and bewitched Jiang Chen into leaving the car, while Lin Youwei resisted her influence.
• Jiang Chen realized the infant was dead and told the woman he would take her to a funeral home he knew so she could skip the line for cremation.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei fled an enraged female ghost while Jiang Chen discovered that her child's corpse had become a dangerous Weird Object. When a second ghost distorted Lin Youwei's perception of the road, Jiang Chen steered them away from a cliff and left the injured ghost behind.

• Jiang Chen snatched the female ghost's child and escaped with Lin Youwei in the SF90.
• Lin Youwei used Swift Movement talismans to speed up the car, but the female ghost continued chasing them.
• Jiang Chen returned the child's body parts to the female ghost and realized the corpse was affecting his hand like a Weird Object.
• Lin Youwei saw an injured man ahead and realized the road illusion was drawing them toward a cliff.
• Jiang Chen told Lin Youwei to accelerate, then drifted around the man and crushed his remaining good leg while avoiding the cliff.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei raced from pursuing ghosts while Jiang Chen reinforced their car, then accepted a deadly challenge from a ghost taxi driver. The two cars sped toward a cliffside V-bend as Jiang Chen ordered Lin Youwei to play music.

• Jiang Chen used his artifact-refining technique to strengthen the car, and Lin Youwei mistook it for the legendary Ancient Artifact Refining Technique.
• A damaged taxi driven by a powerful vengeful ghost appeared beside them and challenged them to race for their lives.
• Jiang Chen controlled the steering wheel and pressed Lin Youwei's leg onto the accelerator, forcing their car into the race.
• The cars sped toward a deadly V-bend over a cliff without slowing down, and Jiang Chen challenged the taxi driver to keep his foot on the floor.
• Jiang Chen told Lin Youwei to play Deja Vu, and she started the car's music as they raced toward the bend.

Jiang Chen defeated the three ghosts after ramming the ghost taxi off a cliff and using his Yin God Hammer and Divine Firmament to destroy two of them. The taxi driver’s curse failed against Jiang Chen, who gathered demonic power into his hammer as Lin Youwei watched in horror.

• Jiang Chen struck the ghost taxi with his Yin God Hammer, sending it over the cliff, while Lin Youwei crashed into the mountainside.
• Three vengeful ghosts cornered Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei, but Jiang Chen approached them and killed the injured male ghost with one hammer blow.
• Jiang Chen mocked the female ghost’s love for her son, then struck her with Divine Firmament as she fled and destroyed her.
• The taxi driver tried to bargain, then used a curse that made Jiang Chen’s left eye feel as though it were burning.
• Jiang Chen dispersed the curse with demonic power and infused his hammer with it, leaving Lin Youwei horrified by the ghostly figures appearing across the weapon.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei drove through a haunted road as Jiang Chen hunted down and killed numerous ghosts with the Yin God Hammer. They reached a tunnel covered in warnings about a blood-clad ghost, leaving Lin Youwei terrified and questioning the mission.

• Jiang Chen chased the driver, stopped its attempted self-destruction, and killed it with the Yin God Hammer, absorbing its resentment.
• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei continued driving, and Jiang Chen pursued and killed several more ghosts along the way.
• Lin Youwei realized Jiang Chen was likely at pseudo-B-rank and was shocked by how many ghosts he had defeated.
• Jiang Chen urged Lin Youwei to speed past warning signs and told her they were nearing the mission site.
• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei arrived at a tunnel marked with warnings about a blood-clad ghost, and Lin Youwei feared the mission was to confront one.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei explored the haunted tunnel and found clues suggesting its Blood-Clad Ghost had been luring victims inside. Jiang Chen confronted Zhang Yan by asking about her missing husband and son, and his blunt explanation that they were dead enraged her as her terrifying form emerged.

• Jiang Chen examined the wreckage and corpses in the tunnel, noting that they showed no signs of resentment despite the Blood-Clad Ghost’s presence.
• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei spotted Zhang Yan searching the tunnel, and Jiang Chen called out to her about her husband and son.
• Zhang Yan said her husband and son had disappeared, then demanded that Jiang Chen tell her what had happened to them.
• Jiang Chen suggested they might be buried nearby and tried to comfort Zhang Yan by saying they were still together as a family.
• Zhang Yan realized Jiang Chen was telling her they had died, lost control of her fury, and began transforming into her horrifying deathly appearance.

Zhang Yan’s despair overwhelmed Lin Youwei and Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen’s thunder attack only strengthened the Blood-Clad Ghost. As Zhang Yan seized him, Jiang Chen began a three-star Demon Transformation into a Nine-Headed Bird.

• Zhang Yan unleashed her despair across Jiutai Mountain Tunnel, nearly driving Lin Youwei to suicide and infecting Jiang Chen with painful memories.
• Jiang Chen struck Zhang Yan with Taiyi Thunder, but the attack left her stronger and more resentful.
• Zhang Yan hurled Jiang Chen into the tunnel wall, then pulled him close and trapped him by the throat.
• Jiang Chen told Zhang Yan that a life surrounded by despair had made him numb to pain, then invoked Three-star Nine-Headed Bird Demon Transformation.

Jiang Chen awakened the Nine-Headed Bird’s Soul-Seizing Golden Pupils and used them to absorb Zhang Yan’s resentment, overpowering the blood-clad ghost. Zhang Yan escaped by cutting off half her body and summoned the dead in the tunnel to attack him.

• Jiang Chen completed his demon transformation, gaining Soul-Seizing Golden Pupils, the Blood Rain Great Divine Ability, and Feathered-Insect Divine Speed.
• Zhang Yan tried to tear out Jiang Chen’s heart, but he caught her hand and punched her into the tunnel wall.
• Zhang Yan wrapped Jiang Chen in her blood and tried to devour him, but his golden pupils absorbed the resentment from her blood.
• Jiang Chen held Zhang Yan and drained more of her power until she severed half her body to escape.
• Zhang Yan called the dead to awaken, and corpses throughout the tunnel began to rise.

Jiang Chen escaped the Baleful Corpses’ devastating explosion with Lin Youwei, then confronted Zhang Yan after discovering her husband and son were alive. He seized Zhang Yan and threatened to suck her dry as punishment for lying.

• Lin Youwei recognized the corpses as Baleful Corpses and warned Jiang Chen that their Yin Baleful Qi could kill even powerful cultivators.
• Zhang Yan triggered the corpses, causing them to explode and flood the Jiutai Mountain Tunnel with lethal Yin Baleful Qi.
• Jiang Chen activated Feathered-Insect Divine Speed, rescued Lin Youwei, and escaped the tunnel before the blast devastated the mountain.
• Zhang Yan emerged with her husband and son and questioned how Jiang Chen had survived.
• Jiang Chen accused Zhang Yan of lying about her family, tossed Lin Youwei toward the road, and seized Zhang Yan to punish her.

Jiang Chen drained Zhang Yan’s Yin Qi while taunting her about her suffering, but she broke through into an upper blood-clad ghost after he reduced her to a bloody wreck. He embraced her and continued absorbing her power as the chapter ended with her caught in his arms.

• Jiang Chen restrained Zhang Yan and used his Soul-Seizing Golden Pupils to drain her Yin Qi while her husband and son watched helplessly.
• Jiang Chen provoked Zhang Yan by recounting her misfortunes, causing her resentment and aura to rise as he absorbed her Ghost Qi.
• Jiang Chen struck Zhang Yan with the Yin God Hammer more than a hundred times, reducing her to minced flesh, then warned Lin Youwei to retreat.
• Zhang Yan crawled from the blood and transformed into an upper blood-clad ghost, terrifying everyone with her aura.
• Jiang Chen promised to bear Zhang Yan’s pain, pulled her into his arms, and continued draining her resentment and Yin Qi.

Jiang Chen used the Yin God Hammer’s ghosts to save Lin Youwei from Zhang Yan’s husband and son, then drained Zhang Yan’s power and killed her. Zhang Yan’s name appeared on the hammer.

• Zhang Yan restrained Jiang Chen and ordered Lao Liang and Xiaobao to kill Lin Youwei, while Jiang Chen struggled to break free.
• Jiang Chen poured Demonic Power into the Yin God Hammer, releasing its ghosts to attack the two half-body blood garments threatening Lin Youwei.
• Yu Sheng and the Ghost Bride led the ghosts in killing Lao Liang and Xiaobao, and their names appeared on the Yin God Hammer.
• Zhang Yan went berserk after seeing her husband and son killed, so Jiang Chen used his Soul-Seizing Golden Pupils to drain her power.
• Jiang Chen struck the weakened Zhang Yan with the Yin God Hammer, killing her and adding her name to it.

Jiang Chen killed the Blood-Clad Ghost, sealed its corpse, and returned toward the city with Lin Youwei. Meanwhile, a Paper Effigy Woman attacked a family in a village beneath the Xunjiang Expressway, leaving only one of them promised to survive.

• Jiang Chen drained the Blood-Clad Ghost’s Yin Qi, sealed its corpse in a Spirit-Locking Bag, and searched the tunnel before leaving with Lin Youwei.
• Jiang Chen pushed Lin Youwei’s car back toward the city at tremendous speed and considered spending his rewards on another Yin God Hammer.
• A Paper Effigy Woman killed and skinned a village dog, then stood outside a family’s home as the frightened villagers waited for help.
• The Paper Effigy Woman pierced the eyes of the middle-aged man and his father, sliced the man in half, and entered the house.
• A woman’s voice from outside declared that only one member of the family would be allowed to live.

Xie Yujie obeyed the Dark Alliance’s order to slaughter her village, beginning with her own family, as a procession led by Hall Master Zhou arrived. At the village center, Hall Master Liu appeared with a cart full of human heads, while the gathering awaited Old Woman Wu.

• Xie Yujie’s paper figure killed her mother, grandparents, and younger brother Xiaohai when she returned home, and she revealed that she had become a pawn of the Dark Alliance.
• Xie Yujie joined the other Dark Alliance members in waiting for an important figure, then knelt as Hall Master Zhou arrived in a sedan chair carried by paper figures.
• Hall Master Zhou’s procession stopped at one house, where a paper figure killed a subordinate whose victims had died without screaming enough.
• The Dark Alliance members continued killing villagers with greater cruelty as the procession reached the center of the village.
• Carpenter Liu arrived pulling a cart packed with human heads, and Hall Master Zhou introduced him as Hall Master Liu.