Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen learned that the Young Ba had fled toward Eastern Province after awakening a terrifying ancient corpse that crippled two Netherworld leaders. The Netherworld suspected the Young Ba intended to become a king at the Enfeoffment Site and moved to seal the area and destroy it.

• Jiang Chen ordered Qin Yu held in Purgatory, and Qiu Hong promised to investigate the matter.
• Jiang Chen met with Zhao Erhu's message about the Martial Sect successor, then gained Ghost Qi and helped Sister Hong cultivate.
• Jiang Chen read a report that the Young Ba had awakened an ancient corpse, which gravely wounded Deputy Director Zhao and cost a full director an arm.
• Unusual Persons speculated that the Young Ba was heading to the Enfeoffment Site to become a king, and an official Netherworld account confirmed the possibility.
• The Netherworld ordered the Enfeoffment Site sealed and sent experts to guard it while seeking a Yama's intervention.

Jiang Chen arrived at the Black Market for the Qishan Village mission and reunited with Chen Xue and Yang Chan. Their teasing and misunderstandings left all three convinced they had uncovered complicated secrets about one another.

• Jiang Chen read about Young Ba's ancient corpse and worried that unrest across the Nine Provinces was growing, then decided to focus on becoming stronger.
• Jiang Chen arrived by taxi at the Black Market, where Chen Xue greeted him and explained that the C-Plus Rank Qishan Village mission required teams to include a C-Class expert.
• Yang Chan offered to take Chen Xue into her group because one of her cousins was a Martial Sect Disciple, then traded flirtatious barbs with Jiang Chen while claiming she was watching him for Lin Youwei.
• Chen Xue misread Yang Chan's reactions and their hand-holding, while Yang Chan and Jiang Chen each formed their own suspicions about the others' relationships.
• The three exchanged knowing looks and left their supposed discoveries unspoken.

Jiang Chen and the Martial Sect convoy traveled to Qishan Village, where Jiang Hongyu destroyed a buffalo carcass containing dismembered remains and a deadly apparition. As the group pressed onward toward the Blood Corpse, Jiang Chen regarded the mission as a warm-up for the greater threats ahead.

• Jiang Hongyu left the Black Market with the Martial Sect disciples, and Jiang Chen rode with Chen Xue and Yang Chan in Zhao Erhu's Land Rover.
• The convoy reached a deserted road toward Qishan Village and found a bloated, pale buffalo carcass blocking the way.
• A young man used a Megaphone to speculate that the buffalo contained human remains, unsettling the gathered Unusual People.
• Jiang Hongyu shattered the carcass with a punch, then her delayed Lung Injury force destroyed the bloody apparition that emerged from it.
• Zhao Erhu identified his older brother Zhao Daniu and Qin Ze's older brother Qin Tiancheng as the strongest Martial Sect disciples after Jiang Hongyu.
• Jiang Chen considered the village mission a manageable warm-up before facing a true Blood-Clad Ghost.

Jiang Chen and Zhao Erhu entered the deserted village with their team after the strongest members split off to investigate elsewhere. Jiang Chen urged Zhao Erhu to face danger with Buddhist resolve, and the chapter ended as they hid from a ghost calling for its head.

• Jiang Hongyu sent three strong teams toward the village's eastern side while she and four other C-Plus Rank members took a separate route.
• Jiang Hongyu told the remaining teams to enter from the west, stay near C-Class experts, and flee if the leaders did not return within half an hour.
• Zhao Erhu admitted he was nervous about fighting a Vengeful Ghost, but Jiang Chen persuaded him to seek out the most dangerous work in the spirit of self-sacrifice.
• Jiang Chen's team left the vehicles and chose a path toward a cluster of houses, with Jiang Chen guiding them.
• As the group approached a dirt road, Jiang Chen made everyone hide when a voice called, "Give me back my head," and warned that the ghost was coming closer.

Chen Xue sealed a vengeful ghost’s severed head in a formation, and Jiang Chen took it along while convincing Zhao Erhu that collecting ghosts was a virtuous act. The group reached a house with ghost blood outside, and Jiang Chen came up with a plan for it.

• A headless old ghost lost his head to the face hiding in the weeds and wailed as he searched for it.
• Chen Xue sealed the old ghost’s head with a formation, and Jiang Chen put it in a sack at his waist.
• Jiang Chen persuaded Zhao Erhu that collecting ghosts and granting them spiritual salvation were good deeds, earning Zhao Erhu’s admiration.
• Jiang Chen, Chen Xue, Yang Chan, and Zhao Erhu reached a house with a bowl of ghost blood outside and debated its purpose.
• Jiang Chen picked up the ghost blood, circled the house, and announced that he had a plan.

A woman was terrorized by an unseen entity that knocked on her doors and windows, asking whether anyone was home. She answered in desperation and believed it had left, but blood seeping from the bathroom revealed that it had tricked her and entered the house.

• A woman preparing dinner heard knocking at the front door and found bloody handprints there, but no one outside.
• The entity tried the unlocked back door, then called from outside and knocked on the upstairs windows, threatening to enter if no one answered.
• The woman debated whether answering would save her or invite the entity inside as the knocks grew more violent.
• The woman finally shouted that someone was home, and the knocking stopped.
• The woman thought the entity had left, but blood flowed from beneath the bathroom door, showing that it had entered.

Jiang Chen killed a female vengeful ghost with the Yin God Hammer after frightening her into fleeing her home, then absorbed her resentment and gained fifteen thousand ghost qi. Zhao Erhu questioned Jiang Chen’s claim that the brutal exorcism was salvation, but agreed to help him hunt more ghosts.

• The female ghost realized Jiang Chen had never entered her home and that she had frightened herself into leaving.
• Jiang Chen confronted the female ghost, battered her with the Yin God Hammer, and absorbed her resentment as she was reduced to mangled flesh.
• Jiang Chen gained fifteen thousand ghost qi from the female ghost and praised her contribution.
• Zhao Erhu, Chen Xue, and Yang Chan arrived, and Zhao Erhu challenged Jiang Chen’s explanation that terror before death counted as salvation.
• Zhao Erhu recognized Jiang Chen’s strength, agreed to help him exorcise more ghosts, and was revealed as the man who had poked the woman’s bathroom door from outside the window.

Jiang Chen and his companions encountered two ghosts near a haunted corner, while Jiang questioned their stories and earned Ghost Qi from their frustration. The second ghost began explaining how the sick homeowner’s wife and children had died before the homeowner himself, leaving the group with a disturbing clue about the house.

• A pale, sickly man invited Jiang Chen and his companions inside, warning them that a ghost haunted the nearby corner.
• The man claimed that a murdered layabout’s spirit returned on his Seventh Night and attacked people who passed the corner.
• Jiang Chen suspected the homeowner’s tale concealed his own involvement, then teased him about staying beside the ghost despite his fear.
• As the homeowner went to fetch medicine, another dark figure appeared and beckoned the group away from the house.
• Jiang Chen approached the second ghost, who claimed the homeowner’s illness could only be cured by eating flesh and hinted that his wife and children had died before him.

Jiang Chen maneuvered between Li Dafu and Liu Quan as the two accused each other of being ghosts, then warned Li Dafu that the three travelers were not his companions. He began recounting how they had entered his car and led his friend to jump from a cliff.

• Li Dafu emerged with a hoe and urged the group to flee from Liu Quan, while Jiang Chen claimed the two men were both alive and dragged Liu Quan toward the house.
• Jiang Chen proposed testing who was a ghost by striking both men with his Sledgehammer, but Li Dafu instead invited everyone to see his family.
• Li Dafu led the group through his dim house toward his family’s room, with Liu Quan and Zhao Erhu trailing behind.
• Jiang Chen privately warned Li Dafu that Zhao Erhu and the other two were not his companions, but strangers who had asked him and his friend for a ride.
• Jiang Chen said the three strangers had lied about their broken-down car, and his friend had eventually jumped from a cliff while demonstrating paragliding.

Jiang Chen and Li Dafu hid in a wardrobe while the others mistakenly believed Jiang Chen was a monster hunting them. As Li Dafu began to suspect Jiang Chen was the real danger, Jiang Chen revealed his side job as a funeral attendant for unclaimed bodies and showed his monstrous eyes.

• Jiang Chen convinced Li Dafu that Yang Chan, Chen Xue, and Liu Quan were likely not human and warned him not to speak with them.
• Yang Chan and Chen Xue told Liu Quan that Jiang Chen was a monster who attacked people from behind, and the group formed an alliance to escape him.
• The group searched an empty room, then retreated, while Jiang Chen and Li Dafu hid in a wardrobe elsewhere.
• Li Dafu noticed the bloody sack at Jiang Chen's waist and began to suspect that Jiang Chen was the real ghost.
• Jiang Chen claimed to be a plumber, then revealed that he also worked as a funeral attendant for unclaimed bodies and threatened Li Dafu.

Jiang Chen and the others exposed Liu Quan as a Vengeful Ghost and badly wounded him with a trap and coordinated attacks. Jiang Chen arrived claiming he would spare the ghost, but his promise to “release him into the wild” left Liu Quan unsure whether he was there to save him.

• Zhao Erhu, Chen Xue, and Liu Quan fled after Yang Chan convinced them the homeowner was being tortured inside.
• Liu Quan realized the people running with him were ghosts and that his own footsteps revealed their ambush.
• Zhao Erhu struck Liu Quan with Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, revealing that Liu Quan was the ghost in disguise.
• A Spell Formation trapped Liu Quan while Yang Chan and Zhao Erhu attacked, leaving a large hole in his chest.
• Jiang Chen arrived and stopped Zhao Erhu from finishing Liu Quan, saying that a ghost was also a life and that he would release him into the wild.
• Chen Xue worried over Jiang Chen, who said the blood covering him belonged to ghosts, prompting Liu Quan to doubt that Jiang Chen meant to save him.

Jiang Chen killed Liu Quan after trapping him with a string of baffling questions, then hurried toward a scream with Zhao Erhu, Chen Xue, and Yang Chan. They found Chen Xiaoyu and two Tang Family members fleeing a deformed Vengeful Ghost, while a Martial Sect Disciple was occupied fighting a headless corpse.

• Jiang Chen tested Liu Quan with ten confusing questions, declared him a mad ghost, and killed him with the Yin God Hammer.
• Jiang Chen collected Liu Quan’s head and reflected on the hammer’s increased weight and the ghost qi he had gained.
• Chen Xue recognized a distant scream as Chen Xiaoyu’s, and Jiang Chen rushed toward it with Zhao Erhu and the others.
• Chen Xiaoyu, Tang Yi, and Tang Hu fled from a fast-crawling deformed Vengeful Ghost that had crippled Tang Yi’s leg.
• Chen Xiaoyu recalled that the ghost had emerged from a well after their group killed the couple who planned to drown their deformed daughter, while a headless corpse kept the Martial Sect Disciple occupied.

Tang Hu abandoned Tang Yi and Chen Xiaoyu to escape the Vengeful Ghost, but the ghost killed him and tormented the two women as they fled. Just as Chen Xiaoyu and Tang Yi tried to avoid it, they encountered a man carrying a sledgehammer covered in ghosts, who seemed even more terrifying.

• Tang Hu threw Tang Yi aside and attacked Chen Xiaoyu with coin darts, but Tang Yi caught them with her bare hands.
• Tang Yi prepared to hold off the Vengeful Ghost while Chen Xiaoyu invoked a talisman, but the ghost passed them and killed Tang Hu by ripping out his heart.
• The Vengeful Ghost threatened Chen Xiaoyu and Tang Yi, repeatedly appearing in their path and making Tang Hu's corpse lunge at them as they fled.
• Chen Xiaoyu carried Tang Yi and ran, hoping the Martial Sect Disciple would arrive, but she saw a man approaching with a sledgehammer crawling with ghosts.
• Chen Xiaoyu and Tang Yi turned to flee from the man, fearing he would kill them more brutally than the Vengeful Ghost.

Jiang Chen chased down and captured the little girl ghost while Tang Yi and Chen Xiaoyu reunited with Chen Xue and the others. Lü Peng arrived after escaping a powerful ghost, and he began directing the group toward a safer area.

• Jiang Chen chased the little girl ghost with a hammer full of ghosts, crushed Tang Hu's corpse, and captured the fleeing girl in his Sack.
• Tang Yi and Chen Xiaoyu escaped and met up with Chen Xue, Yang Chan, and the others, then explained that Jiang Chen was on their team.
• Jiang Chen returned and said the captured ghost was in pristine condition.
• Lü Peng arrived after fleeing a fierce fight with a powerful ghost and asked where the deformed ghost was.
• Jiang Chen claimed his buddy had dealt with the deformed ghost, and Lü Peng assigned Tang Yi and Chen Xiaoyu to accompany him toward the outskirts.

Lü Peng let Chen Xiaoyu and Tang Yi leave his team to join Zhao Erhu and Jiang Chen, who agreed to take them in. When a powerful headless old man appeared, Jiang Chen distracted him by kicking his head away and gained more Ghost Qi.

• Lü Peng accepted Chen Xiaoyu and Tang Yi's decision to leave his team, then privately welcomed the chance to be rid of them.
• Tang Yi asked Jiang Chen and Zhao Erhu to take them in, and Jiang Chen agreed.
• Jiang Chen asked Tang Yi about her size, prompting Yang Chan to angrily confront him.
• A headless old man crawled out of the weeds, and Zhao Erhu stepped forward to face him.
• Jiang Chen showed the old man a head, then kicked it into the distance, sending the old man chasing after it and earning Ghost Qi.

Lü Peng followed Jiang Chen into the village, hoping to use the ghosts to kill him, but the horrors he witnessed convinced him Jiang Chen was a madman who had lost himself. After a brutal pursuit and attacks by both Jiang Chen and the Headless Old Man, Lü Peng escaped badly injured, having sacrificed his future for Qin Tiancheng’s promised reward.

• Lü Peng saw Jiang Chen drive off the Headless Old Man with Tang Hu’s severed head, then followed the group after deciding the risk was worth Qin Tiancheng’s promised reward.
• Lü Peng entered a haunted house after Jiang Chen’s group left and found mutilated ghosts and signs of extreme torture.
• Lü Peng watched more of Jiang Chen’s bizarre ghost-driving and feared that Jiang Chen had become a deranged Unusual Person who had lost himself.
• Lü Peng heard Jiang Chen’s mad muttering and fled, but Jiang Chen caught him, struck him with a Sledgehammer, and tried to drive a Steel Nail into his leg.
• Lü Peng escaped Jiang Chen by taking a Forbidden Pill and damaging his potential, then nearly died when the Headless Old Man attacked him.
• Lü Peng survived only by taking another Forbidden Pill, sacrificing his future for a reward of Underworld Points and medicinal liquid.

Jiang Chen and his group reached the eerie home of Old Tian, Qishan Village’s only coffin maker, after surviving several Paranormal Incidents with few losses. They learned that Old Tian’s wife had found his dismembered corpse sealed in a coffin, raising the question of what had returned home and lived with her for days.

• Jiang Chen’s group dealt with several Paranormal Incidents, and Jiang Chen dispelled the ghost curse on Yang Chan after a female ghost clawed her chest.
• Jiang Chen drove off the headless old man twice and crippled Lü Peng, then left him to the ghost, who spared him.
• Zhao Erhu led the group to Old Tian’s old house, which the information had marked as a dangerous place.
• Tang Yi and the others recalled that Old Tian’s wife had heard him leave at night to make a coffin and later noticed strange noises and unexplained disappearances.
• Old Tian’s wife learned that a villager had seen Old Tian following a blood-faced woman toward the mountain, then found Old Tian’s dismembered corpse sealed inside a coffin in a graveyard.

Jiang Chen led Zhao Erhu's team into the Old Residence despite warnings that a powerful vengeful ghost might be inside. After checking the well as a possible escape route, they found a hall filled with coffins and freshly burned offerings.

• Old Tian's wife reported a supposed prank after asking her best friend to call the police, but Qishan Village was later classified as a C-Plus Rank large-team assignment after two groups of Unusual Persons and a Netherworld squad died there.
• Chen Xue and Yang Chan questioned whether Jiang Chen's team should enter the Old Residence, but Jiang Chen urged them onward with a speech about sacrificing themselves for others.
• Zhao Erhu agreed with Jiang Chen's claim that the team should follow his principles, and Tang Yi praised Jiang Chen's concern for his teammates before entering the residence.
• Jiang Chen leaned over the courtyard well to call for anyone inside, then told the team that it was safe and that they should check escape routes first.
• Jiang Chen led the team toward the main hall, where they found rows of vermilion coffins and funeral offerings with burning incense and candles.
• Zhao Erhu noticed that two of the five incense sticks had been cut short, while the paper ashes on the ground were still warm.

Jiang Chen gave in to his compulsions, evening the incense and cutting every coffin to the same length, which drew five Vengeful Ghosts into the hall. As the ghosts advanced, a towering dark figure charged out of the darkness with a hammer surrounded by terrifying auras.

• Jiang Chen shortened the incense sticks until they were all level, ignoring his companions’ warnings.
• Jiang Chen cut the coffins to the same length and arranged them neatly.
• Two children and then three more Vengeful Ghosts appeared in the courtyard and entered the hall.
• The ghosts cursed the group for destroying their homes, while Jiang Chen complained that they were all different sizes.
• A green-eyed, towering figure charged out of the hall dragging a heavy hammer, its aura surpassing the five ghosts’ combined resentment.

Jiang Chen killed the vengeful ghosts attacking the group, while the lame old man escaped. He returned to the others, leaving the most terrifying ghost in the old residence still to be dealt with.

• The lame old man fled as Jiang Chen’s Sledgehammer killed the hollow-chested ghost and injured the disfigured woman, who tore off her own head under the curses’ effects.
• Zhao Erhu ordered the others to help, but Jiang Chen told them to stay back and approached the woman himself.
• The woman called for Tian Zhuang and Tian Shui to save her, then abandoned the two child ghosts when they blocked Jiang Chen’s path.
• Jiang Chen killed Tian Shui and Tian Zhuang with his Sledgehammer, then used Divine Firmament lightning to kill the wounded woman.
• Jiang Chen called after the fleeing lame old man but let him escape, then returned to the group because a more terrifying ghost remained in the old residence.