Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei examined the drawings, which summoned ghosts around the apartment and revealed scenes of their possible deaths. They hid in a wardrobe with a trapped ghost girl as Jiang Chen preached about redeeming spirits, leaving the girl crushed beneath him and desperate for help.

• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei studied seven drawings that depicted children’s pranks and encounters with a red figure, while strange noises and cold air spread through the apartment.
• Lin Youwei found two new drawings bearing her and Jiang Chen’s names, each showing gruesome ways they might die.
• Jiang Chen pulled Lin Youwei toward the bedroom and opened a wardrobe, where a deformed ghost girl taunted them that the hiding spot was taken.
• As Jiang Yilei announced that he had found them, Jiang Chen squeezed into the wardrobe and pinned the ghost girl beneath him, then urged Lin Youwei to join them.
• Lin Youwei asked why Jiang Chen did not simply kill the ghosts, and he explained that exorcists should redeem their souls; the trapped ghost girl silently begged someone to notice her suffering.

Jiang Chen hunted down the ghosts in the tutoring center with his Yin God Hammer while Lin Youwei watched, alarmed by his brutality. After they defeated a powerful child ghost, Lin Youwei learned Jiang Chen was C-Class, and he accurately guessed she had only recently gotten her driver’s license after they found her crashed SF90.

• Jiang Chen killed the boy who emerged from the wardrobe, then dragged the girl hiding there out and smashed her with the Yin God Hammer.
• Jiang Chen searched the kitchen, smashed several hiding places, killed a child in the refrigerator, and hunted down the ghosts in the toilet and by the window.
• A Vengeful Spirit appeared, and Lin Youwei wounded him with her Golden Light Spell before Jiang Chen killed him with the Yin God Hammer.
• Lin Youwei realized Jiang Chen was C-Class, and he claimed he could read palms and tell fortunes.
• Jiang Chen told Lin Youwei she had only just taken her driving test, and she confirmed she had gotten her license two days earlier when they saw her crashed SF90.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei drove to the sealed Jiutai Mountain Tunnel to confront the ghosts of a dead family. A ghostly woman bewitched Jiang Chen, but he offered to take her dead infant to the funeral home for cremation.

• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei drove past a roadblock toward Jiutai Mountain Tunnel, where Jiang Chen said they would face a dangerous mission.
• Lin Youwei agreed to continue with Jiang Chen, while he reviewed how Zhao Hai, his son, and his wife had died at the construction site and on the mountain.
• Jiang Chen planned to draw out the two male ghosts separately before facing the Blood-Clad Ghost.
• A ghostly woman holding a dead infant appeared by the road and bewitched Jiang Chen into leaving the car, while Lin Youwei resisted her influence.
• Jiang Chen realized the infant was dead and told the woman he would take her to a funeral home he knew so she could skip the line for cremation.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei fled an enraged female ghost while Jiang Chen discovered that her child's corpse had become a dangerous Weird Object. When a second ghost distorted Lin Youwei's perception of the road, Jiang Chen steered them away from a cliff and left the injured ghost behind.

• Jiang Chen snatched the female ghost's child and escaped with Lin Youwei in the SF90.
• Lin Youwei used Swift Movement talismans to speed up the car, but the female ghost continued chasing them.
• Jiang Chen returned the child's body parts to the female ghost and realized the corpse was affecting his hand like a Weird Object.
• Lin Youwei saw an injured man ahead and realized the road illusion was drawing them toward a cliff.
• Jiang Chen told Lin Youwei to accelerate, then drifted around the man and crushed his remaining good leg while avoiding the cliff.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei raced from pursuing ghosts while Jiang Chen reinforced their car, then accepted a deadly challenge from a ghost taxi driver. The two cars sped toward a cliffside V-bend as Jiang Chen ordered Lin Youwei to play music.

• Jiang Chen used his artifact-refining technique to strengthen the car, and Lin Youwei mistook it for the legendary Ancient Artifact Refining Technique.
• A damaged taxi driven by a powerful vengeful ghost appeared beside them and challenged them to race for their lives.
• Jiang Chen controlled the steering wheel and pressed Lin Youwei's leg onto the accelerator, forcing their car into the race.
• The cars sped toward a deadly V-bend over a cliff without slowing down, and Jiang Chen challenged the taxi driver to keep his foot on the floor.
• Jiang Chen told Lin Youwei to play Deja Vu, and she started the car's music as they raced toward the bend.

Jiang Chen defeated the three ghosts after ramming the ghost taxi off a cliff and using his Yin God Hammer and Divine Firmament to destroy two of them. The taxi driver’s curse failed against Jiang Chen, who gathered demonic power into his hammer as Lin Youwei watched in horror.

• Jiang Chen struck the ghost taxi with his Yin God Hammer, sending it over the cliff, while Lin Youwei crashed into the mountainside.
• Three vengeful ghosts cornered Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei, but Jiang Chen approached them and killed the injured male ghost with one hammer blow.
• Jiang Chen mocked the female ghost’s love for her son, then struck her with Divine Firmament as she fled and destroyed her.
• The taxi driver tried to bargain, then used a curse that made Jiang Chen’s left eye feel as though it were burning.
• Jiang Chen dispersed the curse with demonic power and infused his hammer with it, leaving Lin Youwei horrified by the ghostly figures appearing across the weapon.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei drove through a haunted road as Jiang Chen hunted down and killed numerous ghosts with the Yin God Hammer. They reached a tunnel covered in warnings about a blood-clad ghost, leaving Lin Youwei terrified and questioning the mission.

• Jiang Chen chased the driver, stopped its attempted self-destruction, and killed it with the Yin God Hammer, absorbing its resentment.
• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei continued driving, and Jiang Chen pursued and killed several more ghosts along the way.
• Lin Youwei realized Jiang Chen was likely at pseudo-B-rank and was shocked by how many ghosts he had defeated.
• Jiang Chen urged Lin Youwei to speed past warning signs and told her they were nearing the mission site.
• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei arrived at a tunnel marked with warnings about a blood-clad ghost, and Lin Youwei feared the mission was to confront one.

Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei explored the haunted tunnel and found clues suggesting its Blood-Clad Ghost had been luring victims inside. Jiang Chen confronted Zhang Yan by asking about her missing husband and son, and his blunt explanation that they were dead enraged her as her terrifying form emerged.

• Jiang Chen examined the wreckage and corpses in the tunnel, noting that they showed no signs of resentment despite the Blood-Clad Ghost’s presence.
• Jiang Chen and Lin Youwei spotted Zhang Yan searching the tunnel, and Jiang Chen called out to her about her husband and son.
• Zhang Yan said her husband and son had disappeared, then demanded that Jiang Chen tell her what had happened to them.
• Jiang Chen suggested they might be buried nearby and tried to comfort Zhang Yan by saying they were still together as a family.
• Zhang Yan realized Jiang Chen was telling her they had died, lost control of her fury, and began transforming into her horrifying deathly appearance.

Zhang Yan’s despair overwhelmed Lin Youwei and Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen’s thunder attack only strengthened the Blood-Clad Ghost. As Zhang Yan seized him, Jiang Chen began a three-star Demon Transformation into a Nine-Headed Bird.

• Zhang Yan unleashed her despair across Jiutai Mountain Tunnel, nearly driving Lin Youwei to suicide and infecting Jiang Chen with painful memories.
• Jiang Chen struck Zhang Yan with Taiyi Thunder, but the attack left her stronger and more resentful.
• Zhang Yan hurled Jiang Chen into the tunnel wall, then pulled him close and trapped him by the throat.
• Jiang Chen told Zhang Yan that a life surrounded by despair had made him numb to pain, then invoked Three-star Nine-Headed Bird Demon Transformation.

Jiang Chen awakened the Nine-Headed Bird’s Soul-Seizing Golden Pupils and used them to absorb Zhang Yan’s resentment, overpowering the blood-clad ghost. Zhang Yan escaped by cutting off half her body and summoned the dead in the tunnel to attack him.

• Jiang Chen completed his demon transformation, gaining Soul-Seizing Golden Pupils, the Blood Rain Great Divine Ability, and Feathered-Insect Divine Speed.
• Zhang Yan tried to tear out Jiang Chen’s heart, but he caught her hand and punched her into the tunnel wall.
• Zhang Yan wrapped Jiang Chen in her blood and tried to devour him, but his golden pupils absorbed the resentment from her blood.
• Jiang Chen held Zhang Yan and drained more of her power until she severed half her body to escape.
• Zhang Yan called the dead to awaken, and corpses throughout the tunnel began to rise.

Jiang Chen escaped the Baleful Corpses’ devastating explosion with Lin Youwei, then confronted Zhang Yan after discovering her husband and son were alive. He seized Zhang Yan and threatened to suck her dry as punishment for lying.

• Lin Youwei recognized the corpses as Baleful Corpses and warned Jiang Chen that their Yin Baleful Qi could kill even powerful cultivators.
• Zhang Yan triggered the corpses, causing them to explode and flood the Jiutai Mountain Tunnel with lethal Yin Baleful Qi.
• Jiang Chen activated Feathered-Insect Divine Speed, rescued Lin Youwei, and escaped the tunnel before the blast devastated the mountain.
• Zhang Yan emerged with her husband and son and questioned how Jiang Chen had survived.
• Jiang Chen accused Zhang Yan of lying about her family, tossed Lin Youwei toward the road, and seized Zhang Yan to punish her.

Jiang Chen drained Zhang Yan’s Yin Qi while taunting her about her suffering, but she broke through into an upper blood-clad ghost after he reduced her to a bloody wreck. He embraced her and continued absorbing her power as the chapter ended with her caught in his arms.

• Jiang Chen restrained Zhang Yan and used his Soul-Seizing Golden Pupils to drain her Yin Qi while her husband and son watched helplessly.
• Jiang Chen provoked Zhang Yan by recounting her misfortunes, causing her resentment and aura to rise as he absorbed her Ghost Qi.
• Jiang Chen struck Zhang Yan with the Yin God Hammer more than a hundred times, reducing her to minced flesh, then warned Lin Youwei to retreat.
• Zhang Yan crawled from the blood and transformed into an upper blood-clad ghost, terrifying everyone with her aura.
• Jiang Chen promised to bear Zhang Yan’s pain, pulled her into his arms, and continued draining her resentment and Yin Qi.

Jiang Chen used the Yin God Hammer’s ghosts to save Lin Youwei from Zhang Yan’s husband and son, then drained Zhang Yan’s power and killed her. Zhang Yan’s name appeared on the hammer.

• Zhang Yan restrained Jiang Chen and ordered Lao Liang and Xiaobao to kill Lin Youwei, while Jiang Chen struggled to break free.
• Jiang Chen poured Demonic Power into the Yin God Hammer, releasing its ghosts to attack the two half-body blood garments threatening Lin Youwei.
• Yu Sheng and the Ghost Bride led the ghosts in killing Lao Liang and Xiaobao, and their names appeared on the Yin God Hammer.
• Zhang Yan went berserk after seeing her husband and son killed, so Jiang Chen used his Soul-Seizing Golden Pupils to drain her power.
• Jiang Chen struck the weakened Zhang Yan with the Yin God Hammer, killing her and adding her name to it.

Jiang Chen killed the Blood-Clad Ghost, sealed its corpse, and returned toward the city with Lin Youwei. Meanwhile, a Paper Effigy Woman attacked a family in a village beneath the Xunjiang Expressway, leaving only one of them promised to survive.

• Jiang Chen drained the Blood-Clad Ghost’s Yin Qi, sealed its corpse in a Spirit-Locking Bag, and searched the tunnel before leaving with Lin Youwei.
• Jiang Chen pushed Lin Youwei’s car back toward the city at tremendous speed and considered spending his rewards on another Yin God Hammer.
• A Paper Effigy Woman killed and skinned a village dog, then stood outside a family’s home as the frightened villagers waited for help.
• The Paper Effigy Woman pierced the eyes of the middle-aged man and his father, sliced the man in half, and entered the house.
• A woman’s voice from outside declared that only one member of the family would be allowed to live.

Xie Yujie obeyed the Dark Alliance’s order to slaughter her village, beginning with her own family, as a procession led by Hall Master Zhou arrived. At the village center, Hall Master Liu appeared with a cart full of human heads, while the gathering awaited Old Woman Wu.

• Xie Yujie’s paper figure killed her mother, grandparents, and younger brother Xiaohai when she returned home, and she revealed that she had become a pawn of the Dark Alliance.
• Xie Yujie joined the other Dark Alliance members in waiting for an important figure, then knelt as Hall Master Zhou arrived in a sedan chair carried by paper figures.
• Hall Master Zhou’s procession stopped at one house, where a paper figure killed a subordinate whose victims had died without screaming enough.
• The Dark Alliance members continued killing villagers with greater cruelty as the procession reached the center of the village.
• Carpenter Liu arrived pulling a cart packed with human heads, and Hall Master Zhou introduced him as Hall Master Liu.

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.