Recaps

Jiang Chen convinced No. 03 that his obsessive-compulsive disorder was worse than No. 03’s by describing the hospital’s doctors as disruptive and his own killing spree as ruined by an odd-numbered death list. No. 03 was left astonished by Jiang Chen’s twisted reasoning.

• No. 03 confronted Jiang Chen over his bloody footprints, but Jiang Chen smeared them into a pattern that satisfied him.
• Jiang Chen introduced himself as No. 18 and claimed his obsessive-compulsive disorder had progressed beyond caring about neat clothes and symmetry.
• Jiang Chen described forcing people to do things as symptoms of his disorder, leaving No. 03 stunned and curious.
• Jiang Chen persuaded No. 03 that doctors disrupted the harmony among patients and caused the death characters on his skin.
• Jiang Chen said he had killed more than twenty doctors and complained that their names made an odd-numbered list, leaving No. 03 astonished.

Jiang Chen recruited No. 03 into the Patient Revenge Alliance after No. 02 revealed signs that the hospital was in turmoil, then encountered the terrifying No. 01 and invited him to help attack the doctors. No. 01 suspected Jiang Chen was faking his illness, and Jiang Chen countered that he might have other mental disorders.

• No. 02 described seeing a gigantic black face and hearing Director He roar, convincing No. 03 to join Jiang Chen's plan to attack the doctors.
• Jiang Chen slapped and grabbed No. 03, leaving a bloody handprint on his gown, then fled as No. 03 chased him.
• Jiang Chen encountered No. 01, a patient created through a sixteen-year experiment to conceal multiple mental illnesses, while No. 02, No. 03, and No. 04 cautiously backed away.
• Jiang Chen asked No. 01 to join the patients in killing the doctors, taking the nurses, and making a patient the new director.
• No. 01 revealed that he suspected Jiang Chen was not ill and questioned whether he had been sent by the doctors, citing Jiang Chen's deliberate mess on No. 03's clothes.
• Jiang Chen replied that he might have other conditions, including delusional disorder, a dangerous personality, and emotional deficiency.

Jiang Chen convinced No. 01 of his apparent madness with a fabricated story, and the four severe patients began their planned revolt against the doctors. As they crossed a warding line toward the stairwell, hurried footsteps approached from above.

• No. 01 questioned Jiang Chen about his mental state, and Jiang Chen described a gruesome fabricated massacre that earned him 8,000 Ghost Qi.
• No. 01 called No. 02, No. 03, and No. 04 over and declared that they would attack the doctors and settle old debts.
• Jiang Chen realized the four patients had already been plotting against the doctors and that he had merely become the fuse for their rebellion.
• No. 01, No. 02, No. 03, and No. 04 crossed the rice-and-incense-ash warding line while Jiang Chen scattered it and provoked No. 02 and No. 03.
• The patients heard hurried footsteps approaching from upstairs and turned their attention toward the stairwell.

Jiang Chen and the severely ill patients confronted the Hospital Ward's doctors on the Fourth Floor, where Director He had authorized the doctors to kill them. Jiang Chen transformed and teamed up with Carpenter Liu, but the remaining doctors grouped together to attack them and help Doctor Zhou.

• Doctor Sun told the doctors that Director He had ordered them to kill any patients who threatened the Hospital Ward, and the doctors prepared to fight.
• No. 01, No. 03, No. 04, and No. 06 arranged their opponents as the five patients faced seven doctors.
• Jiang Chen used Demon Transformation and Complete Demonization-torso, then summoned Carpenter Liu from the Sledgehammer.
• Jiang Chen and Carpenter Liu attacked a doctor and drove him toward defeat while Doctor Sun charged at No. 01 and No. 04 and No. 06 engaged other doctors.
• Jiang Chen challenged another doctor, but the doctor refused and called on two colleagues to attack Jiang Chen and Carpenter Liu before helping Doctor Zhou.

The patients fought the doctors across the fourth floor, with No. 01 and Jiang Chen pushing their opponents to reveal powerful abilities. After Jiang Chen killed his doctor, it regenerated and killed Carpenter Liu, but Carpenter Liu returned alongside a bloodied paper effigy, leaving the doctor stunned.

• No. 03 fought a smiling doctor that copied his fury, while two doctors badly wounded No. 02 and the other patients struggled against their attackers.
• No. 01 overwhelmed Doctor Sun until Doctor Sun mirrored his pain and created a flesh puppet that severed one of No. 01's arms.
• Jiang Chen and Carpenter Liu killed Jiang Chen's doctor, but the doctor burst from its own belly and regenerated in a stronger form.
• The reborn doctor unleashed black-and-red blood threads that shredded Carpenter Liu, while Jiang Chen escaped.
• Carpenter Liu reappeared beside a bloodied paper effigy, and the doctor realized that killing one opponent had brought two back.

Jiang Chen overwhelmed Doctor Zhou and turned to help No. 02, leaving No. 04 to fight for herself. After the patients shifted the battle in their favor, Jiang Chen used Origin-Spirit Pills to bring Doctor Zhou back from the Yin God Hammer, plunging the doctors into despair.

• Jiang Chen tortured and killed Doctor Zhou while No. 03, No. 02, and No. 04 were badly beaten by the doctors.
• Jiang Chen summoned two more blood-clad ghosts and rushed to rescue No. 02 instead of No. 04, taking on both doctors attacking him.
• No. 04, disappointed that Jiang Chen had not saved her, unleashed her resentment and attacked her doctor.
• Jiang Chen and No. 02 killed Doctor Zhou together, removed his bones, drained his blood, and tore up his scarlet coat.
• Jiang Chen swallowed several Origin-Spirit Pills, and Doctor Zhou crawled out of the Yin God Hammer, leaving the doctors in despair.

Jiang Chen and the severely ill patients overwhelmed the doctors, with Jiang Chen brutally killing one after Carpenter Liu used his curse to injure him. The patients recognized Jiang Chen as the most dangerous among them as he continued hunting the remaining doctors.

• Doctor Zhou emerged from the Yin God Hammer transformed into a monster and helped Jiang Chen's ghosts overwhelm the doctors.
• Carpenter Liu blocked a doctor's curse, drew the doctor's likeness on a wall, and struck it with his chisel, causing the doctor’s heart to burst.
• Jiang Chen tormented the wounded doctor until he died, despite the doctor repeatedly crawling back from a pool of blood.
• Jiang Chen returned to the battle demanding that the other patients leave the remaining doctors to him, and they restrained themselves out of fear of his retaliation.
• No. 01, No. 02, No. 03, and No. 04 concluded that Jiang Chen was dangerously mad and had become the craziest patient among them.

Director He fought off a giant face outside the Dean’s Office, using one of the Dean’s remaining fingers to drive it away. He then appeared on the Fourth Floor, where he killed No. 04 as the Hospital Ward’s surviving doctors faced the chaos.

• Director He shredded the eerie faces outside the Dean’s Office with blood-red threads, but a giant face nearly forced its way inside.
• Director He threw a Glass Vessel containing one of the Dean’s fingers at the giant face, and a strange flower made it retreat.
• Jiang Chen chased Doctor Sun and attacked him with a hammer while Doctor Zhou and other blood-red figures joined the assault.
• Director He arrived on the Fourth Floor and rebuked the surviving doctors for letting the Hospital Ward fall into chaos.
• Director He told No. 04 that his head should be in pieces, and No. 04’s head shattered as he tried to flee.

No. 01 gambled that Director He's distorted perception could be turned against him by dying, making his condition appear fixed and allowing No. 01's black blood to overwhelm the Blood Shadow. No. 01 revived as the corridor turned black, but Director He revealed that the president had given him a defensive psychological mechanism and began reclaiming the shadows with his heart's blood.

• Director He killed No. 04 and No. 03 by using his words to impose his distorted perception on them.
• No. 01 explained that Director He's cognitive disorder let him twist his mistaken perceptions into reality, then spread black blood through the Blood Shadow.
• Director He cursed No. 01 as a patient with no legs, so No. 01 stabbed himself in the brow and died, making his condition unchangeable.
• Director He's perception faltered, allowing No. 01's black blood to consume much of the Blood Shadow and restore his rotting corpse.
• No. 01 rose again and thanked Director He, but Director He revealed the president's defensive psychological protection and dropped heart's blood that began swallowing the black shadows.

Jiang Chen transformed into the three-star Bear-Stride Monster and confronted Director He, whose deadly curses distorted the corridor and struck him despite his newfound strength. The chapter ended with Jiang Chen wounded and summoning the Demon God Body to face Director He at full power.

• Director He had No. 01 dismembered after No. 01 revealed that Director He had planted the Dean's curse in his own heart.
• Jiang Chen challenged Director He to protect No. 02, and Carpenter Liu sacrificed himself to block Director He's attack.
• Director He's next curse overwhelmed Doctor Zhou's attempt to protect Jiang Chen and nearly shattered Jiang Chen's head.
• Jiang Chen used Demon Transformation to become the three-star Bear-Stride Monster and gained the Demon God Body, World-Extinguishing Black Wind, and Savage Beast Heavenly Aspect.
• Jiang Chen struck Director He with the Yin God Hammer, but Director He vanished and reappeared before cursing Jiang Chen and stabbing his shoulder.
• Jiang Chen summoned the Demon God Body after realizing his physical strength alone could not withstand Director He's full-force attack.

Jiang Chen unleashed the Demon God Body and its Sha Fire, overwhelming Director He’s Blood Shadow in the crimson corridor. Director He’s reality-warping ability failed against Jiang Chen, and after his final attack was crushed, he broke down in despair.

• Jiang Chen activated the Demon God Body, and his black Sha Fire burned away the Blood Hands and consumed the crimson corridor.
• Director He raged as Blood Shadow failed to extinguish the fire, while Jiang Chen advanced and taunted him.
• Unable to accept what he saw, Director He gouged out his right eye and declared that No. 18 had been killed in a medical accident.
• Director He summoned a powerful Blood Hands entity to recreate No. 18’s described death, but Jiang Chen caught it with one hand and smashed it against the Yin God Hammer.
• Director He collapsed into despair and clawed at himself, while Jiang Chen offered to help him stop torturing himself.

Jiang Chen battered Director He repeatedly as the surviving patients recognized him as their leader and called him Dean Jiang. Director He unleashed a final trump card on the Fourth Floor, and Jiang Chen answered with his complete demonization.

• Jiang Chen killed Director He with the Yin God Hammer, but Director He repeatedly revived, prompting Jiang Chen to keep beating him.
• No. 02 urged the surviving patients to honor Jiang Chen as Dean Jiang, while No. 03 and No. 04 recognized Director He beneath the hammer.
• No. 01 warned that Director He was using the beatings to heal, and Jiang Chen scolded him for calling him No. 18.
• Director He announced that he would destroy everything, then fled through the floors with a glass vessel containing a severed finger.
• Director He embedded the finger over his heart, bloomed a Black Strange Flower, and flooded the Fourth Floor with terrifying Yin Qi.
• Jiang Chen confronted Director He and activated Complete Demonization-Head, transforming into a bear-headed form and unleashing a blast of black Gang Wind.

Jiang Chen destroyed Director He after the Other Shore Flower briefly resisted his attack, then pretended to be too weak to defend himself. His hint to No. 04 instead led to the doctor being killed, leaving the other doctor stunned.

• Director He's Other Shore Flower blocked Jiang Chen's black wind, so Jiang Chen strengthened his demonic form and attacked with the Yin God Hammer.
• Jiang Chen smashed Director He and the flower into minced flesh, stopping only when Director He's name appeared on the hammer.
• After his strength faded, Jiang Chen feigned helplessness and claimed Director He had ruined his chance to reach the world's pinnacle.
• No. 01 warned that others might take advantage of Jiang Chen's apparent weakness, while No. 03 criticized his odd-numbered coughs.
• Jiang Chen prompted No. 04 to act manic, and No. 04 had Stitched Man No. 06 restrain a wounded doctor before stabbing him and removing his heart.

Jiang Chen survived the battle by replenishing his demonic power, then appointed the Critical Patients to leadership roles while planning to dismantle the Hospital Ward. On the first floor, the survivors mistook him for a prisoner of the blood-clad ghosts, and No. 02 defended him as their Dean.

• No. 02 and the doctor refused to take Jiang Chen’s bait, and the doctor asked to join him instead.
• Jiang Chen revealed that his weakness had lasted only an instant because the Origin-Spirit Pills restored his demonic power.
• Jiang Chen named No. 01 and No. 02 Vice Presidents, and appointed No. 03 and No. 04 Physician Director and deputy Physician Director.
• Jiang Chen explored the fifth floor, found nothing notable, and led the Critical Patients downstairs to gather the survivors.
• Wu Tong, No. 1, and No. 15 saw Jiang Chen among the blood-clad ghosts and assumed he had submitted to them.
• No. 02 stepped in front of Jiang Chen and accused Wu Tong of insulting their Dean.

Jiang Chen gathered the Critical Patients and led them toward the exit, but a surge of black Weird Objects forced everyone upstairs. He discovered that the ghost faces could strengthen the Yin God Hammer and eagerly began collecting them.

• Jiang Chen ordered No. 02 and the other Critical Patients to gather everyone, while Wu Tong and No. 1 marveled at his control over them.
• Jiang Chen told Wu Tong that he had won the Critical Patients over with compassion and led them to defeat the hospital’s greatest evil, including Xiao He.
• After the patients were assembled, violent crashes and rising darkness outside the windows prompted Jiang Chen to rush upstairs, with the others following.
• In the Dean’s Office, black ghost faces burst through the windows, and Jiang Chen destroyed them with slaps and black wind.
• Jiang Chen noticed that ash from the ghost faces was absorbed by the Yin God Hammer, filling in names and making the hammer heavier.
• Jiang Chen realized the ghost faces were useful and began smashing them against the Yin God Hammer.

Jiang Chen deliberately exposed himself to the black faces to harvest Ghost Qi, while the Critical Patients and the Doctor grew convinced that the faces were corrupting him. After clearing the faces from his windows, he spotted more across the corridor and rushed toward them with his hammer, leaving the patients alarmed that he might attack the Hospital Ward windows.

• Jiang Chen grabbed and smashed black faces by the Dean's Office window, shocking the Critical Patients with his apparent fearlessness.
• Jiang Chen skewered a face on his hammer to let its Black Blood contaminate him, and he deliberately acted as though the faces were driving him mad.
• Jiang Chen urged No. 02 and the others to join him, prompting the patients and the surviving Doctor to flee into the corridor.
• The patients saw more faces battering the Hospital Ward windows and worried that Jiang Chen had been corrupted.
• After exhausting the faces outside his window, Jiang Chen spotted more across the corridor and rushed toward them with his hammer.

Jiang Chen tormented the patients while asking what the faces outside the Hospital Ward were. No. 01 revealed that the faces were known as Death Curse Remnants.

• Jiang Chen slapped No. 02 and threw No. 04 down the corridor as they tried to stop him from approaching the windows.
• No. 03 begged Jiang Chen to smash both windows, then became distressed when Jiang Chen left his sentence unfinished.
• Jiang Chen asked the patients what the faces outside were, but the Attending Physician said he knew nothing.
• No. 02 struck the Attending Physician seven times, and No. 03 added seven more after Jiang Chen pointed out the unevenness of his injuries.
• No. 01 said the faces were top-secret in the Hospital Ward and identified them as Death Curse Remnants.

No. 01 explained that Death Curse Remnants were born from patients’ unresolved obsessions and warned that they would soon breach the Hospital Ward. Jiang Chen encouraged the patients, then plunged from the Dean’s Office window into the darkness.

• No. 01 revealed that failed patients’ obsessions were extracted to make death curses, while the discarded remnants became incomplete monsters.
• Doctor Wang explained the origins of death curses, and No. 01 warned that the remnants could possess anyone carrying their matching curses.
• Jiang Chen realized the Yin God Hammer suppressed the many complete obsessions it contained and learned that the remnants could not be eliminated by killing them alone.
• No. 01 said the Death Curse Remnants would likely breach the Hospital Ward within two or three days, leaving the patients trapped and expecting to die.
• Jiang Chen urged the patients to live for tomorrow, then spread his arms and fell from the Dean’s Office window into the darkness.

Jiang Chen unleashed his Savage Beast Heavenly Aspect to destroy the enormous human faces threatening him and the Hospital Ward. After absorbing the remnants and clearing the remaining faces, he thinned the darkness around the ward, leaving the Critical Patients and Doctor Wang stunned.

• Wu Tong and No. 02 feared Jiang Chen had died after he stepped into the darkness, but they saw him slaughtering the human faces below.
• No. 01 warned that the Death Curse Remnants could combine, and a giant face overwhelmed Jiang Chen as the Critical Patients prepared to close the window.
• Jiang Chen awakened his Savage Beast Heavenly Aspect, which tore apart the giant face and shattered several more before striking down another enormous face.
• Jiang Chen swallowed an Origin-Spirit Pill and absorbed the writhing face fragments with the Yin God Hammer, which grew increasingly heavy.
• Jiang Chen cleared the remaining human faces, and the darkness around the Hospital Ward visibly thinned as the Critical Patients and Doctor Wang watched in shock.

After Jiang Chen destroyed the Hospital Ward’s Death Curse Remnants, the Critical Patients escaped and killed Doctor Wang when he tried to flee. Dean Gao emerged from the ruined hospital and threatened Jiang Chen, who eagerly gave him his home address and personal details before Dean Gao withdrew.

• Jiang Chen destroyed the last Death Curse Remnant, causing the Hospital Ward to decay and allowing the Critical Patients and other patients to escape.
• Doctor Wang urged the Critical Patients to flee while Jiang Chen was exhausted, but they stayed and chased him down after he ran.
• No. 02 used the Yin God Hammer to kill Doctor Wang, and the hammer devoured his Yin Qi.
• Dean Gao emerged from the Hospital Ward and asked who had destroyed it, while the patients hid from him.
• Jiang Chen called out to Dean Gao and gave him his address and personal information so he could find him later.
• Dean Gao began to withdraw, and Jiang Chen shouted his name and address again, demanding that he remember them.

After escaping the hospital, Jiang Chen took the patients toward the Netherworld while assessing his huge Ghost Qi haul and the Yin God Hammer’s power. He tested the hammer’s ability to strengthen ghosts and briefly summoned Director He, whose new Half-Step Fierce Soul aura terrified everyone before Jiang Chen sent him back.

• Jiang Chen left Dean Gao a packet of personal information, then led the patients out of the ruined hospital and reassured them while secretly planning to send them to the Netherworld.
• The group found working cars near Xunhe City, and Jiang Chen enhanced them before heading toward Jiangbei and checking his Ghost Qi, which had reached 940,000.
• Jiang Chen decided not to attack the Critical Patients for more Ghost Qi, reasoning that keeping them alive and taking them to the Netherworld would bring him a lasting return.
• Jiang Chen inspected the Yin God Hammer and found that its Death Curse Remnants had raised a Vicious Ghost to Vengeful Ghost rank.
• Jiang Chen repeatedly used Demonic Power and Origin-Spirit Pills to activate Director He’s name on the hammer, summoning him as a Half-Step Fierce Soul and frightening No. 04 and the other patients.
• Jiang Chen ordered Director He to return, and the oppressive aura vanished as the patients recovered from their fear.

Zhao Xiaodong and a team of novice Netherworld Messengers waited in the woods outside a mountain village after their Grandmaster disappeared. When a half-body blood garment ghost attacked and began killing them, Zhao Xiaodong realized the forest might be aiding it and led the survivors toward the village.

• Zhao Xiaodong ordered the team to wait ten minutes for Grandmaster Zhou, then retreat and report if he did not return.
• Zhao Xiaodong recalled how he had joined the Nine Provinces, survived brutal training, and become a Netherworld Messenger alongside Yang Zhi and Zhao Qian.
• Zhao Xiaodong called for a retreat when Grandmaster Zhou failed to return, but a woman in half-red clothing appeared in a tree.
• A hanged ghost killed three novice Netherworld Messengers, including a young man whose head was severed by a tightening noose.
• Zhao Xiaodong concluded that fleeing through the forest might expose them to further attacks and ordered the survivors to run toward the village, where the ghost's power might weaken.

Zhao Xiaodong led the survivors into the village after rescuing Sister Qin from the Hanged Female Ghost, then discovered that Li Kai had been marked by a paper shroud. The group entered a nearby house to seek safety and help Li Kai, but two eerie figures carrying paper shrouds approached as they found a sealed well and foul water vats in the courtyard.

• Zhao Xiaodong used his gaze to distract the Hanged Female Ghost, rescued Sister Qin, and led the group into the village while the ghost stopped at the woods' edge.
• Zhao Xiaodong took charge, requested rescue from the Netherworld Branch Office, and noticed that Li Kai was wearing a paper shroud.
• An old man warned that wearing the shroud and hiding in a nearby house could keep them safe, but vanished when Zhao Xiaodong chased him.
• Li Kai began coughing up bloody matter and suffered severe stomach pain, so Zhao Xiaodong chose to bring everyone into the nearby house rather than split up.
• Zhao Xiaodong found a sealed well and foul water vats in the courtyard as Sister Qin spotted two figures carrying paper shrouds approaching.
• Zhao Xiaodong ordered everyone inside the house quickly.

Zhao Xiaodong’s group tried to escape the shroud-wearing ghosts by fleeing deeper into the village, but the villagers pursued them and claimed more victims. The group ran into another ghostly presence ahead, leaving their escape uncertain.

• Zhao Xiaodong and Sister Qin tore Li Kai’s Paper Shroud, but Li Kai was killed, and Zhao Xiaodong took responsibility for the failed rescue.
• Zhao Xiaodong realized the house was surrounded by powerful ghosts and led the group through the gate to flee deeper into the village.
• The group fought back the two ghosts at the gate and escaped, but more shroud-bearing figures emerged from the darkness and chased them.
• Wang Yang succumbed to the ghosts’ calls, accepted a shroud, and wandered into a house.
• As Zhao Xiaodong’s group ran onward, a familiar grotesque laugh and the words “Put it on” came from ahead.

Zhao Xiaodong led the surviving novice Netherworld Messengers through the village by using the sealed wells to evade the Shroud Ghosts and reach the ancestral hall. After reporting that a Blood-Clad Ghost was pursuing them and more than one might haunt the village, he drew Jiang Chen and the Critical Patients toward the danger.

• Zhao Xiaodong broke open a sealed well, whose eerie presence frightened the Shroud Ghosts away from the house.
• Zhao Xiaodong found a message blaming the village chief for falsely accusing a woman and having her father’s legs broken in the ancestral hall.
• Zhao Xiaodong opened the gate to lure the Shroud Ghosts inside, then led the group toward the ancestral hall as a blood-red female ghost pursued them.
• The survivors reached the ancestral hall, where the blood-red ghost refused to enter and Zhao Xiaodong realized the village might contain multiple Blood-Clad Ghosts.
• Zhao Xiaodong reported that a Blood-Clad Ghost was the village’s strongest threat and that Grandmaster Zhou might be dead.
• Jiang Chen ordered No. 01, No. 02, No. 03, and No. 04 to hurry after him, then raced toward the village with the Critical Patients following.