Recaps

Jiang Chen brought Su Ling and a suitcase containing a corpse to Lao Liu’s guesthouse, while Lao Liu mistook them for killers and secretly watched them. After seeing Jiang Chen nail pieces of the corpse to the wall, Lao Liu was terrified and feared that Jiang Chen had noticed him.

• Jiang Chen told Lao Liu that he, Su Ling, and his wife in the suitcase needed a room, and Lao Liu led them to one.
• Lao Liu secretly watched Jiang Chen and Su Ling through a hole in the wall and overheard words that made him think they planned to kill him.
• Jiang Chen disappeared from the room, and Lao Liu saw shadows beneath his door before they moved away.
• Jiang Chen returned with a hammer and steel nails, opened the suitcase, and revealed pieces of a corpse.
• Jiang Chen nailed the corpse pieces to Lao Liu’s wall, and Lao Liu fell backward after seeing the dead woman’s face pointed toward him.
• Jiang Chen opened the door after hearing a noise, leaving Lao Liu afraid that he had been discovered.

Jiang Chen killed the half-step vengeful ghost Old Liu, then told Su Ling he had peacefully sent the ghost on. As he discussed helping Su Ling learn the work of sending ghosts on, another ghostly disturbance drew him back toward their previous room.

• Jiang Chen entered Old Liu's room, discovered the peephole in the wall, and struck him with a hammer.
• Old Liu revealed his ghostly form, but Jiang Chen used the Great Strength Bull Demon Fist and Assassination Short Knife to kill him, then closed his eyes.
• Su Ling asked Jiang Chen how he could kill ghosts, and he claimed he had resolved Old Liu's obsession and sent him on in peace.
• Jiang Chen agreed to help Su Ling learn how to send ghosts on and considered seeking someone to assess her unusual spiritual qualities.
• A woman began slapping the wall and cursing from the room, and Jiang Chen hurried toward it with interest.

Jiang Chen repeatedly re-nailed a female ghost to the wall whenever she nearly escaped, harvesting over 3,200 Ghost Qi before she died. He then decided to tell her husband in room 102 about her death and set off with Su Ling.

• Jiang Chen and Su Ling watched as the female ghost struggled against the iron nails pinning her body parts to the wall.
• When the ghost freed a severed hand, Jiang Chen stepped on it and nailed it back to the wall, provoking her furious curses and earning Ghost Qi.
• Jiang Chen told Su Ling he was relieving the ghost’s pent-up distress, and she praised him while realizing how to speak to him safely.
• The female ghost repeatedly tried to escape, and Jiang Chen re-nailed her body parts until she died.
• Jiang Chen counted more than 3,200 Ghost Qi from the Vicious Ghost and went with Su Ling to tell the man in room 102 about his wife’s death.

Jiang Chen found the female ghost hiding inside the corpse in apartment 102 and killed her, then asked Su Ling about the dangers on the third floor. After hearing how the Mimicking Ghost killed the family in apartment 302, he went upstairs, wondering whether it could imitate screams.

• Jiang Chen broke into apartment 102, found the dead man in a cabinet, and smashed apart the other cabinets while searching for the female ghost.
• The female ghost crawled out of the corpse, but Jiang Chen surprised her and crushed her skull with his Iron Hand.
• Jiang Chen asked Su Ling about the third-floor residents, and she warned him they were more dangerous than the residents below.
• Su Ling described how the Mimicking Ghost had imitated the voices of the husband and wife to lure and kill the family in apartment 302.
• Su Ling warned that the ghost still called to passersby from apartment 302, and Jiang Chen headed upstairs wondering whether it could imitate screams.

Jiang Chen saved Su Ling from a ghost by killing it and discovered that a powerful presence, apparently her younger sister Su Qiao, hid in her shadow. He then tried to lure Zhang Lina out of apartment 302 by pretending to be her husband’s coworker and threatening her son’s safety.

• Su Ling heard her dead mother’s voice, turned around, and found a ghost boy approaching her while Jiang Chen walked ahead.
• Jiang Chen returned, grabbed the ghost boy, and killed him with the Kui Ox Drum, earning Ghost Qi.
• Jiang Chen sensed a half-step blood garment in Su Ling’s shadow and received a Ghost Qi notification from Su Qiao.
• Jiang Chen carried the boy’s corpse upstairs and tried to trick Zhang Lina into opening apartment 302, but she saw through his excuses.
• Jiang Chen held the boy’s clothes to the peephole and asked Zhang Lina whether she wanted her son to be bullied.

Jiang Chen subdued the woman in apartment 302 and used her to lure her husband, Sun Kai, home. Sun Kai followed a trail to apartment 201 to find his wife, unaware that Jiang Chen had crept up behind him.

• Jiang Chen knocked the knife from the female ghost's hand, beat her nearly senseless, and forced her to call her husband.
• Jiang Chen hid with the woman and Su Ling in the water valve room as her husband, Sun Kai, arrived at apartment 302.
• Jiang Chen called out, "Sun, want a wife?" and Sun Kai refused before entering his apartment and discovering his wife was gone.
• Sun Kai followed the muffled sounds to apartment 201, where he found his wife nailed to a wall and removed the hammer from her mouth.
• Sun Kai's wife warned him that someone was behind him, as a figure had silently followed him into the room.

Jiang Chen and Su Ling dealt with two ghosts before learning about the dangerous soul-summoning rituals in apartment 301. Jiang Chen went to confront the woman performing them and introduced himself as a dead person arriving on the seventh day after death.

• Jiang Chen killed Sun Kai, a mid-level vengeful ghost, and his ghostly wife while Su Ling watched from a cabinet.
• Jiang Chen praised Su Ling for supporting his mission to cleanse the building, and she warned him about the horrors in apartment 301.
• Su Ling explained that the resident of 301 had been summoning ghosts while trying to bring back her dead husband and son, and that strangers she lured inside never returned.
• Jiang Chen eagerly headed to apartment 301 with Su Ling, knocked on the door, and told the woman he had heard she was summoning souls and that it was the seventh day after their deaths.

Jiang Chen and Su Ling entered a grieving woman’s apartment after she summoned them, discovering that she had murdered people to feed the ghosts of her husband and son. When a ghost emerged in the guest room, Jiang Chen woke and prepared to deal with it.

• Jiang Chen and Su Ling accepted the woman’s invitation to enter her apartment, where Jiang Chen noticed a dead young man in the kitchen.
• The woman offered them water and asked them to stay the night, while Jiang Chen taunted her about sacrificing her family to help her.
• Jiang Chen and Su Ling went to the guest room without drinking the water, and Jiang Chen fell asleep while Su Ling stayed alert.
• Su Ling heard banging from the wardrobe and felt a cold hand reach from under the bed, but Jiang Chen did not respond when she called him.
• Jiang Chen woke when Su Ling shouted about a ghost and heard someone in the wardrobe sobbing that they wanted to die; he stood up and said it was easy.

Jiang Chen confronted a Suicide Ghost and cheerfully offered an array of gruesome ways to die, unsettling both the ghost and Su Ling. He drove steel nails into the ghost’s soul, but the Vengeful Ghost broke free and threatened to make Jiang Chen suffer.

• Jiang Chen opened the wardrobe and found a Suicide Ghost who demanded that he help him die.
• Jiang Chen laid out tools and described numerous painful killing methods, frightening the Suicide Ghost and the Under-the-Bed Ghost while Su Ling trembled.
• The Suicide Ghost chose a method, and Jiang Chen pinned him against the wall and drove a steel nail through his forehead and nails through his palms.
• The wounded Suicide Ghost broke free of the nails, revealed his Vengeful Ghost aura, and vowed to make Jiang Chen suffer ten times as much.

Jiang Chen killed Suicide Ghost and Under-the-Bed Ghost while Su Ling watched, then heard a married couple arguing in apartment 401. He decided not to intervene yet, confident that no ghost in the building would escape that night.

• Jiang Chen used the Green-Skinned Little Drum to stun Suicide Ghost, then cut off his head.
• Under-the-Bed Ghost emerged from beneath the bed, and Jiang Chen killed him after frightening him with Suicide Ghost’s severed head.
• Jiang Chen mistakenly claimed he had killed Under-the-Bed Ghost while trying to cure his fear, and Su Ling comforted him.
• Jiang Chen heard a couple arguing upstairs and moved toward the window, but Su Ling begged him not to leave her alone.
• Jiang Chen gave up on going upstairs and decided he had time to deal with every ghost in the building that night.

Jiang Chen confronted a ghost that tried to convince him he was dead, but he mistook himself for a ghost and the Sudden Death Ghost for a living person. The ghost was left bewildered as Jiang Chen prepared to make it his first victim.

• Jiang Chen investigated chopping sounds in the kitchen and noticed that one of the legs by the entrance had disappeared.
• Jiang Chen saw his gruesome death reflected in the bathroom mirror, while Su Ling saw the injuries that had killed her.
• The Sudden Death Ghost used the mirror to make Jiang Chen realize he was dead, but Jiang Chen concluded that he had become a ghost and gained Ghost Qi for the ghost.
• The Sudden Death Ghost emerged from the mirror and attacked Jiang Chen, who slapped it into a wall.
• The ghost tried to suggest that one of them was alive, but Jiang Chen decided the ghost was a living person and threatened to make it his first achievement as a ghost.

Jiang Chen exorcised the Sudden Death Ghost through brutal methods and told Su Ling that exorcism meant healing souls. He then entered the kitchen, where he found a starving, skeletal man cooking soup beside a corpse, and asked whether it was cooked.

• The Sudden Death Ghost infected Jiang Chen with black blood, but Jiang Chen used the Kui Ox Drum to resist it.
• Jiang Chen tortured the Sudden Death Ghost with a knife, nails, and an iron chain until the ghost's soul scattered.
• Su Ling praised Jiang Chen's methods, and he explained that exorcists helped ghosts release their burdens and move on to reincarnation.
• Jiang Chen and Su Ling went to the kitchen, where Jiang Chen found a young man's corpse and a skeletal man cooking soup while eating his own hand.
• The skeletal man turned toward Jiang Chen, who asked whether the soup was cooked and derailed the man's thoughts.

Jiang Chen confronted the Starving Ghost, then subdued and mutilated him after resisting his hunger curse. He spared the ghost and carried him toward the woman’s bedroom, while Su Ling grew more terrified of Jiang Chen.

• Jiang Chen taunted the Starving Ghost over whether his soup was cooked and provoked him into attacking.
• The Starving Ghost’s hunger curse made Su Ling crave eating Jiang Chen, but she recognized him and backed away in fear.
• Jiang Chen used the Kui Ox Drum to overpower the Starving Ghost, tear off his arms, and cut into his abdomen.
• The Starving Ghost unleashed a curse that made Jiang Chen hungry, but Jiang Chen endured it until the ghost’s Yin Qi was depleted.
• Jiang Chen crushed the Starving Ghost’s organs, cut off his legs, dubbed him the Tragically-Died Ghost, and carried him toward the woman’s bedroom.

Jiang Chen forced the mistress of Unit 301 to perform Soul Summoning, then left her alone with the injured Starving Ghost. As he and Su Ling departed, the ghost turned on the woman, driven by hunger.

• Jiang Chen frightened the Unit 301 mistress with the mutilated Starving Ghost and stabbed her hand when she tried to seduce him.
• Jiang Chen made the woman perform Soul Summoning, and he noticed the ritual drained her blood vitality.
• The woman explained that Zhang Chunyu had taught her the ritual after she encountered Building 14 and searched for her dead husband and son.
• Jiang Chen left the Starving Ghost in the woman's home and warned it that only one of them could survive.
• The Starving Ghost fixed its gaze on the woman and attacked, desperate for Yin Qi.

Jiang Chen killed the starving ghost in Apartment 301, counted the Ghost Qi he had gained, and recovered after exhausting himself with the Kui Ox Drum. Despite Su Ling urging him not to climb higher, he insisted on continuing up the building to confront the ghosts upstairs.

• Jiang Chen recorded the Soul-Summoning Ritual while the starving ghost killed the woman inside the apartment.
• Jiang Chen killed the starving ghost with the Kui Ox Drum and a knife, then checked his gains and found he had earned more than twenty-nine thousand Ghost Qi.
• Jiang Chen noticed that Su Qiao had awakened in Su Ling's shadow but restrained her weak killing intent.
• Su Ling urged Jiang Chen to leave the complex rather than face the scarier residents on the fourth and fifth floors.
• Jiang Chen declared that he would keep climbing, swallowed a pill that restored his energy, and prepared to continue upstairs.

Jiang Chen went upstairs to investigate the apartment complex’s ghosts and entered Room 401 to mediate a couple’s argument. He left the quarrel ghosts baffled by his behavior and convinced Zhang Qiang to let him sit beside Liu Lijuan.

• Jiang Chen performed a Soul Summoning rite in Room 301, then headed upstairs with Su Ling.
• Su Ling told Jiang Chen about the ghost of a woman who searched for her child and blamed others for the murder she had committed herself.
• Jiang Chen heard Zhang Qiang and Liu Lijuan arguing in Room 401 and decided to mediate.
• Jiang Chen entered Room 401 with Su Ling, locked the door, and introduced himself to the bewildered couple.
• Jiang Chen invited Liu Lijuan to sit beside him and persuaded Zhang Qiang that the arrangement would help him mediate.

Jiang Chen tried to mediate Zhang Qiang and Liu Lijuan’s domestic dispute, but their accusations revealed a wardrobe corpse and hints of other gruesome deaths. As the couple prepared to show him and Su Ling their dead child, Su Ling grew increasingly afraid.

• Liu Lijuan accused Zhang Qiang of cheating after finding a suspicious contact in his phone, and Jiang Chen offered excuses that briefly helped Zhang Qiang.
• Liu Lijuan called a number saved as Nine Provinces Mobile, and a woman greeted Zhang Qiang as “Brother Zhang” before he grabbed the phone and hung up.
• Zhang Qiang opened a wardrobe to reveal a man’s corpse, but Jiang Chen examined it without fear and insulted the couple while trying to explain their behavior.
• Liu Lijuan accused Zhang Qiang of comforting a neighbor whose husband and child had died, and Jiang Chen claimed the neighbor had tried to seduce him.
• Zhang Qiang accused Liu Lijuan of leaving their child unattended until the child froze in a refrigerator, then offered to show Jiang Chen and Su Ling the child.

Jiang Chen investigated the deaths of Zhang Qiang and Liu Lijuan’s child, then provoked the couple into exposing their buried anger and secrets. Liu Lijuan and Zhang Qiang transformed into Vengeful Ghosts and began a violent battle in Apartment 401, while Jiang Chen shielded Su Ling.

• Zhang Qiang showed Jiang Chen and Su Ling the frozen corpse of his child, but Jiang Chen calmly tried to wake the child before returning the body to the refrigerator.
• Liu Lijuan and Zhang Qiang argued over the child’s death, and Jiang Chen’s remarks intensified their anger until they attacked each other.
• Jiang Chen used Zhang Qiang’s phone to reveal suspicious calls from a woman saved as his cousin’s wife and from a contact saved as Mother, enraging both spouses.
• Liu Lijuan transformed into a Vengeful Ghost, and Zhang Qiang revealed his own horrific form before the two ghosts clashed and filled Apartment 401 with Yin Qi.
• Su Ling trembled at the fight while Jiang Chen stood in front of her to shield her from the ghosts’ influence.

Jiang Chen turned the ghosts’ curse against the vengeful couple and attacked them, then used the Green-Skinned Little Drum to blow up Liu Lijuan. Zhang Qiang was left staring at his wife’s scorched remains as Jiang Chen recovered his strength.

• Jiang Chen protected Su Ling while coaching the vengeful husband and wife into fighting each other.
• The ghosts realized Jiang Chen had manipulated their argument and advanced on him, while Liu Lijuan’s curse pushed Su Ling to voice her grievances.
• Jiang Chen redirected the curse into anger at the couple, accused them of causing deaths upstairs, and attacked Liu Lijuan with a knife.
• Jiang Chen struck the Green-Skinned Little Drum twice, sending blue-green lightning into Liu Lijuan and exploding her body.
• Jiang Chen took an Elixir and told Zhang Qiang that his wife had blown up, prompting Zhang Qiang to turn and see the remains.

Jiang Chen killed Zhang Qiang, investigated the bloody apartment at 502, and discovered Building Four had become Building 14. The chapter ended when a distressed woman from 501 asked about her missing child and Jiang Chen suggested the child might be dead.

• Jiang Chen struck the Kui Ox Drum twice, killing Zhang Qiang after the second blast left him barely alive long enough to utter “Pain.”
• Jiang Chen searched Zhang Qiang’s corpse for Ghost Artifacts and told Su Ling to do good deeds.
• Su Ling explained that the twin sisters who lived in 502 had tried to share the same boy, each ending up with half of him.
• Jiang Chen broke into 502, found it empty, and noticed the building across the way was marked Building 14 instead of Building Four.
• Jiang Chen wondered whether the strange building was connected to Zhang Chunyu and her pursuit of a shrine that might help her become a Blood-Clad Ghost.
• A woman from 501 asked Jiang Chen whether he had seen her missing child, and he suggested the child might have died.

Jiang Chen taunted a grieving woman with an increasingly absurd account of her missing son, repeatedly claiming to have rescued and then lost him to various horrors in the complex. The woman ultimately concluded that Jiang Chen had thrown her son down a well and began wailing as her ghostly aura grew stronger.

• The woman accused Jiang Chen of knowing what happened to her son, and Jiang Chen provoked her with insults about the boy.
• Jiang Chen claimed he saw the child being chased by a cat-faced man, then said he rescued the boy and handed him to a security guard before taking him back.
• Jiang Chen said he left the boy with Zhang Chunyu in Building Four, then returned and took him away after she warned that Zhang Chunyu was a vicious ghost.
• Jiang Chen claimed he tossed the child into a well filled with hair, where a mass of hair swallowed him before he could scream.
• The woman decided Jiang Chen had killed her son and began wailing as her terrifying aura grew.

Su Ling begged her dead sister, Su Qiao, to save her from the vengeful woman in apartment 501, and Su Qiao took control of her body. Jiang Chen defeated the woman with the Kui Ox Drum and brutal follow-up attacks, then carried her into apartment 501, claiming he might know where her son was.

• The older woman’s appearance and resentment nearly drove Su Ling to scratch off her own skin, but a blood-red presence in her shadow pulled her into apartment 502.
• Su Ling asked Qiao Qiao to kill the woman, and her clothes turned red as she lost consciousness and became Su Qiao.
• The enraged woman attacked Jiang Chen, who froze her with the Kui Ox Drum and blasted her with a lightning ball.
• Jiang Chen stabbed the woman with the Assassination Short Knife and drove enhanced Steel Nails into her head until she was near death.
• Jiang Chen carried the dying woman into apartment 501 and told her he might know where her son was.

Jiang Chen killed the auntie in 502 after discovering the corpses of her victims and learning how she had accidentally scalded her son to death. He restored Su Ling’s strength with a pill, then decided to enter Buildings 1 and 4 to rescue anyone still alive and confront the dangers there.

• Jiang Chen searched 502 and found murdered adults’ body parts along with the auntie’s rotted child, prompting her memories of accidentally killing her son in a bathtub of boiling water.
• Jiang Chen stabbed the auntie dozens of times until she died, then left her head in the toilet and exited the apartment.
• Jiang Chen gave Su Ling a Spirit-Gathering Pill +3, which quickly restored her strength after she had been possessed.
• Jiang Chen refused to rest and announced that he and Su Ling would investigate Buildings 1 and 4 to save more people.
• Su Ling followed Jiang Chen out of Building 7 and realized that the security guard might now be prey rather than a threat to them.

Jiang Chen and Su Ling entered Building Four after it changed into Building 14, where no residents could be found. As they climbed, Su Ling recounted how the painter Zhang Chunyu had died in a bizarre accident.

• Jiang Chen left a message in Building Seven for the ghosts he had summoned, telling them where to find him.
• Jiang Chen and Su Ling saw strange figures watching them from Building One, and Jiang Chen taunted the ghosts as they began coming downstairs.
• Jiang Chen noticed that Building Four had become Building 14, and Su Ling warned him about its dangers and the powerful residents of Building One.
• Jiang Chen and Su Ling searched the empty apartments on the lower floors of Building 14, then heard faint sounds from above.
• Su Ling told Jiang Chen that Zhang Chunyu had predicted her death and was later found dead with a pen in her throat after suffering a heart attack.

Su Ling told Jiang Chen what she knew about Zhang Chunyu, and he hid with her before ambushing and killing a pig-headed ghost in Building Four. They reached the rooftop and found more than a dozen ghosts gathered there, all staring at them.

• Su Ling told Jiang Chen that Zhang Chunyu had foreseen her death and buried the entire building while seeking revenge.
• Jiang Chen pulled Su Ling into apartment 502 to hide from a pursuing ghost with a butcher's knife.
• Jiang Chen ambushed the pig-headed ghost, crippled it with his cleaver, and cut off its head.
• Jiang Chen and Su Ling climbed to the rooftop, where they found a gathering of more than a dozen ghosts.
• The assembled ghosts turned their eyes toward Jiang Chen and Su Ling.