Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen struck Qishui with the Yin God Hammer, stopping the River God’s massive wave and earning a huge amount of ghost qi. He realized the River God was constrained by a treaty, mocked it to provoke it without attacking first, then ordered the group to turn away.

• Jiang Chen brought down the rain giant’s hammer on Qishui, suppressing the river and forcing its wronged souls back beneath the water.
• After the rain stopped, Jiang Chen recognized that the River God had likely held back because of a treaty and noticed a blood-clad figure watching him underwater.
• Jiang Chen insulted the Qishui River God, provoking repeated ghost-qi notifications as it grew increasingly furious.
• Jiang Chen concluded that the River God might be trying to bait him into breaking the treaty first, so he refrained from attacking.
• Jiang Chen waved the men along and told the women to turn their backs.

Jiang Chen led the Unusual Persons in humiliating the Qishui River God before they fled as the river flooded Qishan Village. After Old Yao confessed to causing the village’s tragedy, Jiang Chen stripped him of his abilities and took him away.

• Jiang Chen directed the Unusual Persons to use their ancestral treasures against the Qishui River God, then hurried them away when the river began to surge.
• The Qishui River God threatened Jiang Chen, who gave him his personal details and photos before the River God flooded Qishan Village.
• Jiang Chen and the group took Old Yao with them, restrained him with Spirit-Sealing Handcuffs, and interrogated him.
• Old Yao confessed that he had arranged Jiang Qianqian’s forced pregnancy and raised the Corpse-Born Child as the River God’s Son.
• Jiang Chen refused to kill Old Yao, destroyed his abilities, and tied him to a steel cable behind the car.

After Tang Hu died, Tang Yi revealed that she had been raised as a Tang Family deathsworn guard and feared the family would kill her. When the others could offer only advice, Jiang Chen offered her a job at his shop, leaving everyone wondering who stood behind him.

• The group recoiled from Jiang Chen’s brutal treatment of Old Yao as the convoy carried him away in chains.
• Tang Yi explained that she had been picked up as a child, trained as a deathsworn guard, and assigned to protect Tang Hu.
• Tang Yi asked the group to shelter her, but Chen Xiaoyu, Zhao Erhu, Chen Xue, and Yang Chan could offer only help or advice that would not guarantee her safety.
• Tang Yi accepted that she would have to leave Jiangbei and try to escape the Tang Family’s pursuit.
• Jiang Chen offered Tang Yi a job at his shop, and when Chen Xue asked about its business, he claimed it sold milk tea.

Jiang Chen offered Tang Yi a job at his milk tea shop despite Zhao Erhu's warning about the Orthodox Tang Sect, then returned from the mission and received a Martial Sect Challenge Writ from Jiang Hongyu. He learned that winning the required fight could make Jiang Hongyu work for him for three years—or become his wife.

• Jiang Chen offered Tang Yi work at his milk tea shop, and she eagerly accepted despite having no experience or asking for wages.
• Zhao Erhu warned Jiang Chen that the Tang Family had the Orthodox Tang Sect behind it, but Jiang Chen welcomed the prospect of trouble because Tang Yi might be connected to the Restricted Zone.
• Jiang Chen's convoy returned to the Black Market after Old Yao died; Jiang Chen dismembered and buried him to prevent him from reviving.
• Jiang Hongyu praised Jiang Chen's strength and challenged him to a fight after she emerged from seclusion, but Jiang Chen said he did not hit women.
• Jiang Hongyu issued Jiang Chen a Martial Sect Challenge Writ, and Zhao Erhu explained that if Jiang Chen won, she would have to work for him for three years or marry him.

After Jiang Chen accepted Jiang Hongyu’s Martial Sect Battle Warrant and Zhao Erhu returned to Dragon Elephant Temple, he went back to Jade Garden Residential Complex. Gu Youmin asked permission to move the Gu Family into the complex, and Jiang Chen agreed, seeing potential in their history and connections.

• Jiang Chen accepted the Martial Sect Battle Warrant, gave Zhao Erhu a Blood-Spirit Pill, and said goodbye to him, Chen Xue, and Yang Chan.
• Jiang Chen returned to Jade Garden Residential Complex with Tang Yi, where Gu Youmin and the Gu Clan Members welcomed him.
• Gu Youmin explained that the Gu Family had bought the complex and asked Jiang Chen for permission to make it their base.
• Jiang Chen welcomed the Gu Family, and Gu Youmin told him the family could provide information and handle miscellaneous matters.
• Jiang Chen considered the Gu Family’s history as Ba Hunters and decided they were worth supporting.

Jiang Chen assessed his gains from the mission, enhanced Jiang Hongyu’s pill into a lost Nine-Turn Secret Treasury Pill, and used online bait to lure ghosts to his residential complex. With the Gu Family and the Netherworld supporting his plan, a Fraudulent Ghost Haunting Craze spread across the internet.

• Jiang Chen counted his 430,000 ghost qi, enhanced the Six-Turn Secret Treasury Pill into a Nine-Turn Secret Treasury Pill, and learned it had once helped a Martial Sect Leader suppress a Sub-Restricted Zone at the cost of his life.
• Jiang Chen noted his 100,000 Underworld Points, then performed a Soul-Summoning ritual outside his apartment to expose the Gu Family to ghosts.
• Jiang Chen updated his social media profiles with his real name and address, replied to ghost-bait posts, and wrote his own messages inviting ghosts to his home.
• Jiang Chen asked Gu Youmin to spread the posts, and the Gu Family circulated them widely after Jiang Chen went to sleep.
• The Netherworld contacted Jiangbei, Yang Chuan secured approval for the ghost-luring plan, and Netherworld Messengers helped spread the posts until a Fraudulent Ghost Haunting Craze swept across the internet.

Jiang Chen uncovered signs that the Dark Alliance was coordinating attacks and infiltrations in Jiangbei, then found the Netherworld Branch Office preparing for a possible crisis. After Uncle Wei told him to stay away for half a month, Jiang Chen went to his milk tea shop, where Tang Yi was serving a long line of customers.

• Jiang Chen read Gu Youmin's materials and realized that rising attacks by Unusual Persons were distracting Netherworld Messengers while Dark Alliance members infiltrated Jiangbei.
• Jiang Chen worried that the operation could lead to a disaster like the one in Xunhe City and resolved to get stronger.
• Jiang Chen found the Jiangbei Branch Office unusually busy, with recalled personnel and Netherworld Messengers preparing for trouble.
• Uncle Wei told Jiang Chen not to come to the branch office for the next half month, leaving Jiang Chen to wonder about the old man's secrets.
• Jiang Chen went to his milk tea shop and found Tang Yi diligently serving a long line of customers.

Jiang Chen agreed to join Lin Youwei on a dangerous mission, then confronted two Tang Family instructors who came to take Tang Yi back. He left them injured and sent a warning that Tang Yi was under his protection.

• Tang Yi served Lin Youwei chrysanthemum tea while Jiang Chen joked with her about feeling overheated.
• Lin Youwei told Jiang Chen she had reached C-Minus Rank and invited him to join her solo mission; he agreed, and she offered to help with his mission afterward.
• After Lin Youwei left, two Tang Family instructors entered the shop and demanded that Tang Yi return with them.
• Jiang Chen led the men and Tang Yi to the Back Mountain, where he incapacitated the instructors and pierced their palms with Steel Nails.
• Jiang Chen warned the instructors to find a Grandmaster within half an hour and told them to report that Tang Yi was under his protection.

After the Tang Family sent a death-dealing dart after Jiang Chen and Tang Yi, Jiang Chen arranged for Qiu Hong and Xu Xingfeng to investigate the family’s criminal dealings. The two Netherworld Messengers agreed to help, and Jiang Chen offered them enhanced elixirs in return.

• The two Tang Family men fled with steel nails in their hands, while Jiang Chen and Tang Yi returned to the milk tea shop.
• A Tang Family death-dealing dart pierced Jiang Chen’s window, and Tang Yi warned him that it signaled ongoing assassination attempts.
• Jiang Chen summoned Qiu Hong and Xu Xingfeng to discuss a business arrangement and demonstrated his enhanced healing powder on Qiu Hong.
• Jiang Chen offered the Netherworld Messengers elixirs and asked them to investigate the Tang Family’s criminal dealings.
• Xu Xingfeng and Qiu Hong agreed to help Jiang Chen investigate the Tang Family.

Jiang Chen, Qiu Hong, and the Netherworld Messengers raided Tang Family businesses and arrested those involved in illegal Points gambling and exposing ordinary people to the Unusual Person World. They searched the Tang ancestral residence despite the family head’s objections, and hurried toward Old Master Tang’s room after a guard threatened a Netherworld Messenger.

• Qiu Hong and Jiang Chen led the Netherworld Messengers into Tang Casino, where they arrested its staff and gamblers for illegal Points gambling and exposing ordinary people to the Unusual Person World.
• The Netherworld Messengers brought Tang Family managers and other suspects to the bureau, then drove to the Tang ancestral residence to investigate its suspected death warriors.
• Qiu Hong ordered the Tang Family members gathered for questioning and announced that the Netherworld would search their home.
• The Tang Family head protested the search and nearly challenged the Netherworld Messengers, but an old man restrained him.
• When a sharp rebuke sounded outside Old Master Tang’s room, Qiu Hong led Jiang Chen and Xu Xingfeng toward it.

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.