Recaps

Hall Master Zhou’s Dark Alliance forces gathered in a slaughtered village and prepared to attack Jiangbei to seize an opportunity at its Netherworld Branch Office. Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei arrived at the village, where Jiang Chen revived a dead child’s resentment and set out with him to rescue his sister from a monster.

• The paper effigy makers learned that Hall Master Liu was a master of the Curse-Banishing Technique and hurried to collect any personal belongings they might have left behind.
• Granny Wu arrived with a tide of venomous insects, and Hall Master Zhou revealed that the Dark Alliance planned to attack Jiangbei and hide near its Netherworld Branch Office until an opportunity appeared in five days.
• Jiang Chen doubled back after smelling blood and entered Xie Family Village with Lin Youwei, where they found a family killed by an Unusual Person or evil art.
• Jiang Chen used his Golden Pupils and yin qi to awaken the dead child’s resentment, which told him a monster had taken the child’s sister.
• Jiang Chen repaired a broken sword with the Voidless Flame and asked the child to help him destroy the monster and rescue his sister.

Jiang Chen confronted Xie Yujie over her betrayal of Xiaohai and tortured her while the Dark Alliance watched. When Hall Master Zhou challenged him, Jiang Chen attacked first and sent Zhou’s sedan chair crashing into a building.

• Jiang Chen arrived with Lin Youwei and revealed the Dark Alliance Blood Talisman on his arm, prompting the Paper Effigy Makers to prepare for battle.
• Xiaohai called out to his sister Xie Yujie, and the elder ordered her to deal with him after learning she had failed to eliminate his soul.
• Jiang Chen rushed toward Xie Yujie but stopped when Xiaohai begged him not to kill her, then pinned her down and tortured her with steel nails.
• Jiang Chen repeatedly healed Xie Yujie with an elixir so the pain would continue, horrifying the Dark Alliance members.
• Hall Master Zhou challenged Jiang Chen, who declared Zhou would die first and charged into his sedan chair, sending it into a small building that collapsed.

Jiang Chen unleashed the Yin Qi stored in his Golden Pupils, destroying Hall Master Zhou’s body and paper effigies, then fought off the other hall masters’ attacks. The chapter ended with Jiang Chen grabbing Carpenter Liu and daring him to curse him using Jiang Chen’s personal effects.

• Hall Master Zhou summoned paper effigies and donned a Paper Shroud, but Jiang Chen activated his Soul-Seizing Golden Pupils and blasted apart his defenses and body.
• Hall Master Zhou survived by transforming into a paper effigy, while Jiang Chen appeared exhausted and charged him with the Yin God Hammer.
• Old Lady Wu sent a Gu Poison Centipede at Jiang Chen, who killed it with his Blood Rain Great Divine Ability.
• Carpenter Liu tried to escape with a piece of Jiang Chen’s clothing, but Jiang Chen caught him and gave him an ID card, hair, a photograph, and blood as materials for a curse.
• Jiang Chen challenged Carpenter Liu to curse him.

Carpenter Liu used Jiang Chen’s hair, blood, and birth details to curse him, but the curse’s power turned against Carpenter Liu and left him in unbearable agony. As Jiang Chen confronted Granny Wu, her forces attacked, and the little boy stood between the approaching paper figures and Lin Youwei.

• Carpenter Liu fashioned Jiang Chen’s hair, blood, and clothing into a Yansheng Object, and Jiang Chen told him to complete all eight characters of his birth chart.
• Carpenter Liu invoked the curse and struck the straw figure’s head off, but a shadow in Jiang Chen’s vision fled from a tiger’s roar and was destroyed.
• Carpenter Liu collapsed, screaming in agony, while the onlookers realized that cursing Jiang Chen carried a horrifying price.
• Jiang Chen turned toward Granny Wu, who summoned venomous insects and Gu Insects to attack him and ordered Zhou Qian to seize his companions.
• Hall Master Zhou and the Paper Effigy Makers advanced on Lin Youwei and Xiaohai, and Xiaohai raised his Kamen Rider Sword to protect Lin Youwei.

Jiang Chen summoned powerful ghosts and unleashed the Blood Rain Great Divine Ability, destroying Old Woman Wu’s swarms of insects and driving her back. Cornered, Old Woman Wu and Hall Master Zhou agreed to reveal their remaining trump cards and kill him with a single strike.

• Jiang Chen summoned a Blood-Clad Ghost and other spirits to help free his companions from the Paper Effigy Makers.
• Jiang Chen swallowed two Spirit-Origin Pills and used the Blood Rain Great Divine Ability to kill Old Woman Wu’s venomous and gu insects.
• Jiang Chen advanced on Old Woman Wu while Lin Youwei explained to Xiaohai that he was pretending to treat her as an ally.
• Old Woman Wu demanded that Hall Master Zhou reveal his trump card, and they agreed to attack Jiang Chen together.
• Old Woman Wu fed her blood to the human-faced spider and prepared to unleash her life-bound gu creature while Hall Master Zhou went to retrieve Lao Liu’s reserved trump card.

Zhou Qian unleashed the power of a blue Colored Paper while Granny Wu and Carpenter Liu attacked Jiang Chen from both sides. Jiang Chen used complete demonization to kill the Dark Alliance fighters in an instant, then convinced Lin Youwei to say she had seen a Fox Immortal rather than his terrifying transformation.

• Zhou Qian revealed that his elderly companion was a paper effigy and burned a blue Colored Paper to gain immense power.
• Granny Wu sent her Human-Faced Spider after Jiang Chen while Zhou Qian armed himself with Carpenter Liu's Chisel and Plane.
• Jiang Chen activated complete demonization, destroyed the spider, killed Zhou Qian, Granny Wu, Carpenter Liu, and the other Dark Alliance fighters, and exhausted the Monster Transformation Card.
• Lin Youwei, Xiaohai, and Xie Yujie saw a glimpse of Jiang Chen's transformation, and Lin Youwei excitedly mistook it for a nine-headed immortal.
• Jiang Chen insisted that he had invoked a Fox Immortal, and Lin Youwei obediently agreed that she had seen wrong.

Jiang Chen repeatedly healed and tortured Xie Yujie while asking Xiaohai whether he wanted his sister to die. After Xiaohai finally agreed, Jiang Chen killed Xie Yujie, and Xiaohai awakened to the Resentment level after vowing to protect the beauty he had lost.

• Jiang Chen treated Xie Yujie's injuries, then repeatedly slashed her with the Kamen Rider Sword and asked Xiaohai whether he wanted her to die.
• Xiaohai struggled to understand his sister's crimes and the meaning of death before finally asking Jiang Chen to send her on her way.
• Jiang Chen killed Xie Yujie and gave Xiaohai the bloodstained sword, urging him to use it to protect others.
• Xiaohai remembered his family as the beauty he had lost, vowed to protect others like Kamen Rider, and crossed into the Resentment level.
• Jiang Chen gathered useful items and led Xiaohai and Lin Youwei away.

Jiang Chen sped toward a roadblock manned by Netherworld Messengers and the great families, while the group prepared for battle. Lin Youwei worried his approach would cause a misunderstanding, but Jiang Chen charged ahead even faster.

• Jiang Yi rallied the Netherworld's Third Team and prepared them to attack the Dark Alliance alongside requisitioned Yang and Tang Family experts.
• Yang Jianye slapped his nephew for insulting Jiang Yi and dismissed him from the operation, then took the driver's seat as the Yang Family Grand Old Master approved in silence.
• The Tang Family members accepted that they had to fight to protect their place in a stable Jiangbei City, despite resenting the Netherworld's orders.
• Qiu Hong called the group to combat alert when Jiang Chen's vehicle approached at high speed, and Yang Jianye warned Yang Chan to stay close.
• Lin Youwei warned Jiang Chen that speeding toward the Netherworld Messengers could cause a misunderstanding, but Jiang Chen accelerated toward the roadblock.

Jiang Chen arrived at the standoff between Jiang Yi’s group and the Dark Alliance, revealing that he had already killed the three feared opponents they were preparing to fight. The stunned Netherworld Messengers and family experts learned that the attack on Jiangbei City had been stopped before it began.

• Jiang Yi stood in the road as a red sports car approached, then challenged the person inside to identify himself and fight.
• The voice in the car named Zhou Qian, Liu Qiucheng, and Wulingsu, alarming the Netherworld Messengers and prominent-family experts with the revelation that the three Dark Alliance figures were nearby.
• The voice gave an address and introduced himself as Jiang Chen, prompting Qiu Hong and the Tang Family to recognize him and warn Jiang Yi not to attack.
• Jiang Chen and Jiang Yi exchanged cigarettes and introductions, and Jiang Yi explained that his group planned to surround and kill the Dark Alliance figures.
• Jiang Chen brought bloodstained weapons, paper effigies, and sinister objects from the car, then revealed that the night’s targets were already dead.
• Qiu Hong asked in disbelief whether Jiang Chen had killed all three Upper Grandmasters before they reached Jiangbei City.

Jiang Chen’s victory in the Eastern Suburbs amazed the gathered families and Netherworld Messengers, and he left with Lin Youwei and Yang Chan for the assembly point. There, Chen Xue froze when she saw their red sports car arrive.

• Jiang Chen confirmed that he had defeated three Dark Alliance Grandmasters, and the crowd celebrated their survival.
• Jiang Yi reported the defensive operation’s results and credited Jiang Chen with the Eastern Suburbs’ victory.
• Jiang Chen greeted Yang Chan and invited her to ride with him, while her family left them alone.
• Lin Youwei joined Jiang Chen and Yang Chan in his sports car, and the three drove to the Netherworld’s assembly point.
• Chen Xue stared in shock as Jiang Chen’s red sports car arrived at the plaza.

After the mission ended, Jiang Chen collected a huge reward and helped Xiaohai feel less conspicuous by giving him a mask. As the two walked away beneath the streetlights, Lin Youwei recognized a lonely resemblance between Xiaohai and Jiang Chen’s childhood, while Chu Hanyue watched them leave.

• Chen Xue saw Yang Chan and Lin Youwei embracing, panicked when Yang Chan greeted her, and clung to Jiang Chen, who threw her off.
• Luo Ji arrived, announced that he had eliminated the remaining threats and that the mission was over, then left after ordering the rewards distributed.
• Chu Hanyue oversaw the rewards, and Jiang Chen exchanged his for more than nine hundred thousand Underworld Points.
• Jiang Chen gave Xiaohai a Kamen Rider mask so he would not frighten people, and Xiaohai put it on and followed him away.
• Lin Youwei watched Jiang Chen and Xiaohai leave and thought they shared the loneliness of growing up without family; Chu Hanyue also watched them before vanishing.

Wuduo found that a blood-tracking Life Gu had died after touching blood left by Jiang Chen, while Jiang Chen searched for a way to help Xiaohai become a ghost cultivator. The chapter ended with Jiang Chen preparing for the house to become dangerous at night by summoning ghosts through several rituals and online replies.

• Wuduo arrived at Xie Family Village, identified the dead, and found that her Life Gu died after tasting blood on a straw doll.
• Wuduo discovered a waterproof bag containing another person's blood, hair, photograph, and identifying details, and realized that person had left it brazenly.
• Jiang Chen returned to the residential complex, counted his gains from the night's missions, and decided to use his Underworld Points at Black Market Headquarters.
• Jiang Chen searched the Underworld App for ways to help Xiaohai and learned that ghost cultivation required a ghost nearly indistinguishable from a human.
• Jiang Chen decided to ask the Netherworld about ghost cultivation and invited Xiaohai to sleep in his room.
• Jiang Chen performed rituals and replied to ghost-related posts to summon danger into the house, and Xiaohai realized why the house would become dangerous at night.

Jiang Chen learned that Yang Chuan had vanished after fighting patients from the Third Ward and discovered the wards were emerging again, prompting him to consider entering the Seventh Ward. The chapter ended with Uncle Wei solemnly telling Xiaohai to call him Grandpa and promising him the Netherworld Branch Office building.

• Xu Xingfeng told Jiang Chen that Yang Chuan disappeared after a doctor appeared on a traffic camera and the footage was destroyed.
• Xu Xingfeng explained that the Third Ward, along with the First and Seventh Wards, had begun sending doctors and patients out into the world.
• Jiang Chen checked his Patient Record, saw that its admission time had changed to fifteen hours, and became excited that he could enter the Seventh Ward before growing too strong for its requirements.
• Jiang Chen told Xu Xingfeng he planned to wipe out a ward, despite Xu Xingfeng warning him that the task was too dangerous to face alone.
• Jiang Chen joked that Xiaohai should call Uncle Wei Grandpa and inherit the building, but Uncle Wei solemnly agreed and repeated his promise.

Jiang Chen watched Uncle Wei help Xiaohai inherit his duty of protecting the area by burning treasured offerings that rapidly strengthened him. Xiaohai emerged as a top-level vengeful ghost, while Uncle Wei faced his own approaching death.

• Uncle Wei asked Xiaohai to inherit his mantle as a guardian, and Xiaohai agreed to keep the area safe.
• Uncle Wei prepared spirit money, incense, and a candle to treat Xiaohai to a meal, but Chu Hanyue warned him that using them would cost him his future.
• Uncle Wei burned the offerings, unleashing yin qi that boosted Xiaohai's strength while he and Jiang Chen waited outside.
• Chu Hanyue explained that Xiaohai had avoided hatred because he blamed himself rather than resenting his sister for killing his family.
• Uncle Wei said he might die in four days, and Jiang Chen jokingly asked him to transfer his property before then.
• Xiaohai emerged as a top-level vengeful ghost approaching a half-body blood garment, astonishing Jiang Chen with his rapid growth.

Jiang Chen helped Xiaohai prepare to become a masked night rescuer, then read reports of the Dark Alliance and Ghost Kings backing several emerging threats. The chapter left him facing the possibility that four new kings could overturn the world’s existing order.

• Uncle Wei gave Jiang Chen a bag of belongings for Xiaohai to receive after his death and warned him that Xunhe City and Jiangbei would soon descend into chaos.
• Jiang Chen found that ordinary incense and spirit money could not strengthen Xiaohai, then sent him out to rescue people from ghosts under three strict rules.
• Jiang Chen read reports that the Headless Bishop had emerged from the Vatican Forbidden Zone and that Blood Shadow had helped the Dark Alliance destroy a small nation.
• News linked a Crystal Coffin aboard a fleet bearing Xu banners to the coffin stolen from the Xunhe City Branch Office, raising suspicions that a new king had appeared.
• Reports suggested that Young Ba, Blood Shadow, the Headless Bishop, and the woman in the Crystal Coffin could become four new kings, prompting questions about whether the Dark Alliance risked a united response from major organizations.

Jiang Chen studied the Seventh Ward’s origins and learned how its founders turned psychiatric patients and doctors into a hidden force of vicious ghosts. He prepared to enter the ward, convinced that his mission would let him practice psychiatric medicine and purge its corrupt healers.

• Jiang Chen read reports of early Yin Qi eruptions across the Nine Provinces and other countries, and suspected the Dark Alliance and other ancient powers were exploiting the crisis.
• Jiang Chen searched the Level Two Permission files and learned that the Seventh Ward began after an abandoned hospital secretly drove patients mad and staged a massacre.
• Jiang Chen discovered that the hospital had taken the victims’ ghosts and formed the Seventh Ward, where former patients served as doctors and former doctors became patients.
• Jiang Chen resolved to discuss medicine with the ward’s practitioners and condemned their treatment as a grave violation of a healer’s duty.

Jiang Chen entered the Seventh Ward by letting its staff drug and transport him, while concealing that he had resisted the sedative. He opened his eyes when someone checked whether he had woken, leaving his next move inside the hostile hospital unknown.

• Jiang Chen drove toward the Seventh Ward alone and prepared several Monster Transformation Cards, including Tuolong as a possible trump card.
• When the medical record’s countdown reached its final hour, it multiplied into sheets that covered the car windows and guided him to the ward.
• The ward’s staff filled Jiang Chen’s car with drugged mist, but he resisted its effects and pretended to be unconscious as they carried him inside.
• Jiang Chen stayed motionless on the trolley and bed, sensing the staff’s strength and deducing that someone had secretly watched him beside the bed.
• After someone returned and wondered why Jiang Chen was not awake, he opened his eyes.

Jiang Chen woke in a psychiatric ward with the nurse insisting he was a violent patient who had forgotten his past, and warning him that his roommate, Number 10, was dangerous. After Number 10 claimed there were ghosts in the hospital, Jiang Chen learned that Number 10 believed ghosts were real too.

• A nurse told Jiang Chen he was a murderous patient who had repeatedly lost his memory, then warned him that Number 10 had killed six former roommates.
• Jiang Chen pretended to fear the ward, inspected the pitch-black world beyond its curtains, and caught Number 10 trying to sneak up behind him.
• Number 10 warned Jiang Chen not to open the curtains and revealed that he believed ghosts were in the world and inside the hospital.
• Jiang Chen said he believed in ghosts, prompting Number 10 to share his secret and ask to see Jiang Chen's medical chart.
• Number 10 pointed out that the hospital had only patients and doctors, questioning where the nurse had come from.

Jiang Chen ignored No. 10’s warnings and left the ward, believing the patient was trying to manipulate him. At the registration window, he encountered a ghost patient and tried to provoke her with increasingly outrageous questions.

• No. 10 warned Jiang Chen that losing his medical record could send him to the second-floor treatment room and advised him to find the nurse or go to sleep.
• Jiang Chen suspected No. 10’s advice was a trap and revealed that his record listed sleepwalking and killing ghosts in his dreams.
• No. 10 urged Jiang Chen to search the west-side consultation room for the nurse but warned him not to enter it.
• Jiang Chen left the ward and found the hospital entrance chained shut and the registration window unattended.
• A ghost patient appeared at the registration window, and Jiang Chen asked for discounts, a free surgery appointment, and a date.

Jiang Chen mocked patient Number 15, thwarted her attempt to stab him, and took her scalpel. He led the frightened woman toward a role-play game tied to his plan to deal with the disguised nurse.

• Jiang Chen offered to pay Number 15 with his roommate’s kidneys, then tricked her into falling from the registration window and insulted her appearance.
• Jiang Chen noticed the registration-office door and mocked Number 15 while she secretly prepared a scalpel.
• Number 15 tried to stab Jiang Chen, but he seized her hand and took the scalpel.
• Jiang Chen pressured Number 15 to keep their agreement and follow him to the game, while thinking about his plan for the nurse.

Jiang Chen explored the Hospital Ward, learned that its staff deliberately worsened patients’ conditions, and discovered that the consulting room contained records revealing the patients’ pasts. After leaving unharmed and gathering supplies, he entered No. 15’s room and faced her violent roommate, No. 14.

• No. 15 told Jiang Chen that the hospital ranked patients by worsening conditions and that its doctors’ treatments provoked hysterical screams.
• Jiang Chen entered the forbidden consulting room and found staff badges and uniforms that exposed the patients’ identities and former roles.
• Jiang Chen took doctors’ coats, masks, badges, a surgical hammer, and restraint straps from the room.
• No. 15 was shocked when Jiang Chen emerged safely, but he pushed into her room despite her warning about her roommate.
• No. 14 became agitated, accused No. 15 of bringing a man in without permission, and glared at Jiang Chen as black veins bulged across her face.

Jiang Chen tried to treat Number 14’s violent mania with behavioral therapy, repeatedly slapping and restraining her until she became subdued. Number 15 then revealed Number 14’s history of abusing children and murdering her husband and child, while Jiang Chen continued to keep her anger in check.

• Jiang Chen explained mania and told Number 15 to close the door before confronting Number 14.
• When Number 14 attacked him with a shard of glass, Jiang Chen broke it, grabbed her, and slapped her repeatedly.
• Number 14 transformed and attacked Jiang Chen, but he snapped her forearm and slapped her until she returned to a calmer state.
• Jiang Chen restrained Number 14 on the bed and asked Number 15 about her roommate’s past.
• Number 15 revealed that Number 14 had abused children, drowned a girl, and later killed her husband and child; Jiang Chen slapped Number 14 when she grew angry.

Jiang Chen killed No. 14 while claiming he was treating her, then teamed up with No. 15 and set out to examine two dangerous patients. He insisted he was a real doctor and intended to cure them, despite No. 15’s warnings about their bloody pasts.

• Jiang Chen tried to calm No. 14 by repeatedly slapping her, and she died from the blows.
• Jiang Chen covered No. 14’s body, left her his identification and address, and ordered No. 15 to change into a white coat.
• No. 15 explained that patients learned one another’s histories through gossip and stolen medical records, while isolation worsened their conditions.
• Jiang Chen and No. 15 went to the ward housing No. 11 and No. 13, whose patients had killed people and carried dangerous delusions or personalities.
• No. 15 urged Jiang Chen to choose other patients, but he insisted he was a real doctor who would treat everyone equally.

Jiang Chen tried to treat No. 13’s belief that little ghosts lived in his belly by pretending to agree with him, then announced he would operate. The chapter ended with Jiang Chen preparing for surgery while No. 13, No. 11, and No. 15 grew alarmed at his admission that he had caused over a dozen medical accidents in half a month.

• Jiang Chen entered the ward with No. 15 and found No. 13 staring into his throat and No. 11 acting out an argument with his imagined wife.
• Jiang Chen convinced No. 13 that the little ghosts in his belly might be angry because he had swallowed them, then announced that surgery would solve the problem.
• Jiang Chen restrained No. 13 and tried to disinfect a scalpel by spraying it with saliva.
• No. 13 questioned Jiang Chen’s surgical experience, and Jiang Chen admitted he had suffered over a dozen medical accidents in half a month.
• Jiang Chen told Dr. Wu to take notes and spray saliva around the ward to create a sterile environment.

Jiang Chen operated on No. 13 to remove the ghosts inside his belly, ignoring the patient’s protests and harvesting Ghost Qi. After amputating No. 13’s arm, Jiang Chen decided the condition had spread to his brain and prepared to perform a craniotomy.

• Jiang Chen reassured the terrified No. 13 and began surgery while Dr. Wu finished disinfecting with saliva.
• No. 13 transformed into a ghostly form, revealing many little ghosts inside his swollen belly.
• Jiang Chen cut up the ghostly hands and faces inside No. 13, gaining Ghost Qi as No. 15 and No. 11 watched in horror.
• When some faces fled up No. 13’s body, Jiang Chen declared that the illness had reached his arm and amputated it despite his objections.
• Jiang Chen concluded the condition had spread toward No. 13’s brain and ordered Dr. Wu to prepare a medical hammer for a craniotomy.