Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen killed Patient No. 13 while trying to remove the ghost faces inside him, then turned to treat Patient No. 11 by offering to mediate his marital dispute. No. 11 explained that his wife was jealous of his encounter with Patient No. 21, and No. 15’s account cast doubt on his claim that his wife was more attractive.

• Jiang Chen smashed No. 13’s head, then found ghost faces in his arm and killed them with his Scalpel and medical hammer.
• No. 13 died, and Jiang Chen recorded the death as a medical accident while blaming the patient’s insufficient willpower.
• Jiang Chen approached No. 11, who threatened him with a sharpened toothbrush and insisted that his wife was beside him.
• Jiang Chen calmly affirmed that he could see No. 11’s wife and offered to settle their argument as a community mediator.
• No. 11 said his wife had accused him of pursuing No. 21 after he offered to water her, and No. 15 described No. 21 as beautiful while hinting that No. 11 had married his wife for her father’s connections.

Jiang Chen stirred No. 11 and Liu Shihao into revealing their resentment and the truth that Liu had killed his wife, Cai Mingxia. He offered Cai revenge, then crushed Liu Shihao’s heart, killing the two bound souls together.

• Jiang Chen provoked No. 11 into suspecting Liu Shihao of repeated infidelity, and the couple argued over his betrayals and grievances.
• Liu Shihao revealed that he had discovered Cai Mingxia cheating and had killed her, causing her to remember her death and accuse him.
• Liu Shihao warned that killing him would destroy both souls because they shared one body, but Cai Mingxia asked Jiang Chen to help her take revenge.
• Jiang Chen plunged his hand into Liu Shihao’s chest, pulled out his heart, and crushed it, declaring that the pair would go to the underworld together.

Jiang Chen continued his brutal treatments across the Seventh Ward, while No. 15 grew terrified of his twisted belief that he was helping his patients. He reached the final room on the first floor, where the five remaining patients—No. 6, No. 5, No. 4, No. 3, and No. 1—were gathered.

• Jiang Chen told No. 15 that killing patients beyond saving was a merciful act, and she feared he might treat her the same way.
• Jiang Chen tortured and killed patients during a series of treatments, including a patient with sharp-object phobia, No. 21, and a patient with persecutory delusion.
• Jiang Chen restrained living patients for the Netherworld Messengers and treated seventeen patients as he worked his way along the first floor.
• No. 2, the Fraud Ghost, proposed an escape plan to Jiang Chen, but he killed her because he had no intention of leaving the hospital.
• Jiang Chen opened the last room and found No. 6, No. 5, No. 4, No. 3, and No. 1 gathered inside.

Jiang Chen confronted No. 1 after the patient identified No. 15 and deduced that Jiang Chen was an impostor. Once Jiang Chen revealed he had recognized the five patients as ghosts, he attacked them, leaving No. 1 and No. 4 shaken.

• No. 1 recognized No. 15 despite her mask and accused Jiang Chen of being a patient impersonating a doctor.
• Jiang Chen dismissed No. 1’s evidence, removed his mask, and decided to attack the five ghosts for their ghost qi.
• No. 6 swung a sharpened piece of iron at Jiang Chen, while Nos. 5, 4, and 3 tried to defend No. 1.
• Jiang Chen grabbed No. 6, exposed her burned face, insulted her, and threw her against the wall.
• Jiang Chen kicked No. 5 aside and killed No. 3 by stabbing her head with the Scalpel and twisting it off.
• No. 4 retreated in fear, and No. 1 realized that exposing Jiang Chen had only provoked him.

Jiang Chen killed No. 1 despite his midnight trap and confronted a half-body blood garment doctor who accused No. 15 of impersonating a doctor. Claiming to be Dr. Zheng Qichuan, Jiang Chen denounced the young doctor and advanced on him, vowing to purge the medical profession.

• Jiang Chen killed the burly patient, then attacked No. 1 after midnight arrived, piercing his skull before he could escape.
• No. 1 revealed his horrific death appearance and called for help, while No. 5 and No. 6 expected Jiang Chen to be punished.
• A young doctor in a blood-soaked coat entered and accused Jiang Chen and No. 15 of impersonating doctors.
• The young doctor threatened to send No. 15 to the Special Treatment Room and demanded that Jiang Chen remove his mask.
• Jiang Chen showed a badge bearing the name Dr. Zheng Qichuan, denounced the young doctor as a fraud, and vowed to purge the medical profession.

Jiang Chen killed the ward doctor with Purple Cloud lightning, convincing the patients that he was the real doctor. When No. 1 tried to destroy his own ghost heart, Jiang Chen stopped him and learned from his medical record that No. 1 had become a criminal while searching for his abducted daughter.

• The young doctor unleashed death-curse tentacles, but Jiang Chen summoned Purple Cloud lightning and burned him to cinders.
• Jiang Chen declared the dead doctor a liar and told the patients he would treat them next.
• Jiang Chen questioned No. 1 about criminal methods, prompting No. 1 to attempt to crush his ghost heart and die.
• Jiang Chen broke No. 1's arm and incapacitated him before No. 1 could self-destruct.
• No. 15 found No. 1's medical record, which revealed that No. 1 had abandoned his former life to hunt for his abducted daughter and take revenge on human traffickers.

Jiang Chen killed Numbers 6 and 5, then chose to seal Numbers 15 and 1 instead of killing them, hoping they could become Netherworld Messengers’ Companion Ghosts. As he left, Number 1 warned him that the hospital’s higher floors held terrifying crimson-clad doctors who could make his soul tremble.

• Jiang Chen killed Numbers 6 and 5 after deciding he had used up his kindness for the day.
• Jiang Chen reflected that ghosts with humanity left in them still worried about people they loved, and recognized Number 1 as a possible Companion Ghost.
• Jiang Chen restrained Number 15 and sealed her hands and feet with steel nails, giving her a chance to become a Netherworld Messenger.
• Number 1 willingly lay down and endured the same sealing, then asked Jiang Chen who he was.
• Jiang Chen identified himself as a Netherworld specialist and left without saying whether he planned to bring down the hospital.
• Number 1 warned Jiang Chen that the hospital’s higher floors housed crimson-clad doctors far more terrifying than the half-red doctors on the first floor.

Jiang Chen left No. 1 inspired by his resolve, then found Wu Tong unconscious in the hospital and moved her to a nearby room. He used one million Ghost Qi to draw a five-star Monster Transformation Card and found himself in a vast, monster-filled sea, where the creatures fled toward something approaching behind him.

• No. 1 told Jiang Chen about the blood-clad doctor and urged him to escape, but Jiang Chen vowed to purge the hospital’s evil.
• Jiang Chen gained Ghost Qi from No. 1’s admiration and added to it by pretending his injuries were worsening.
• Jiang Chen recognized the unconscious Wu Tong on a gurney, noticed her contaminated necklace, and moved her into an empty room.
• Jiang Chen spent one million Ghost Qi to draw a five-star Monster Transformation Card and was transported to a misty ocean filled with powerful monsters.
• A gigantic armored fish surfaced and sank beneath the sea, after which the surrounding monsters fled toward Jiang Chen as the water darkened behind him.

Jiang Chen woke from a terrifying vision after drawing the Five-Star Monster Transformation Card, Flood Demon King, and learned that it granted powerful new abilities. He steadied himself and set out to retrieve the Yin God Hammer before facing more hospital doctors.

• Jiang Chen saw the Flood Demon King's immense eye in the shattered ocean vision and received the Five-Star Monster Transformation Card.
• Jiang Chen examined the card's abilities, including full-body Demonization, extended use of Bloodline Talents, and a phantom of the monster's bonded magical treasure.
• Jiang Chen reminded himself that the card was only a trump card and that he still needed to improve his own strength.
• Jiang Chen collected hospital gowns, moved Wu Tong onto a bed, and placed the young doctor's corpse on the trolley.
• Jiang Chen wheeled the corpse toward the elevator to retrieve the Yin God Hammer before confronting more doctors.

Jiang Chen lured Dr. Qi into the garage, where his ghosts killed him, then used his body to frighten Dr. Zhao. The chapter ended with Dr. Zhao surrounded by patients’ ghosts accusing the doctors of sending them into the hospital.

• Jiang Chen disguised himself as Dr. Zheng and led Dr. Qi away from the garage’s entrance.
• Dr. Qi found a charcoal figure bearing Physician Zheng Kaiming’s badge, then Jiang Chen summoned ghosts that overwhelmed and killed him.
• Dr. Zhao returned to the garage, noticed the smell of anesthetic powder, and tried to flee when Dr. Qi’s mangled body blocked his path.
• Dr. Zhao read the blood-written accusation on Dr. Qi’s coat and found himself surrounded by ghosts repeating that the doctors had sent them into the hospital.

Doctor Luo hypnotized Number 7 in the Special Treatment Room and coaxed him into confessing that he had deliberately run over an old woman to cover up a hit-and-run. As Doctor Luo prepared to continue the treatment, an old woman carrying a lunch box and memorial portrait appeared, and Number 7 began recalling another incident.

• Doctor Luo began Number 7’s treatment after the patient described disturbing sights on the hospital’s second floor.
• Doctor Luo hypnotized Number 7 with his pocket watch and confirmed that he would answer questions truthfully.
• Number 7 confessed that he had hit an old woman with his car and run her over again to keep her from identifying him.
• Doctor Luo told Number 7 that his illness, not his own choices, was to blame, and Number 7’s guilt disappeared.
• An old woman carrying a lunch box and memorial portrait entered the room as Doctor Luo continued questioning Number 7 about another troubling memory.

Doctor Luo’s treatment drove Number 7 into terror by making his murdered victims appear before him, but the experiment failed to produce a special curse. Jiang Chen arrived at the hospital and approached Doctor Luo, bringing his Yin God Hammer within five paces.

• Doctor Luo encouraged Number 7 to confess his murders, then left the treatment room and triggered the start of his treatment with a pocket watch.
• Number 7 saw the dead dog, cat, child, mother, and father from his memories confronting him, and he screamed in terror.
• Doctor Luo and his colleagues found the experiment had failed, recorded the result, and moved Number 7’s mangled body into a consultation room.
• Jiang Chen arrived carrying the Yin God Hammer and fabricated an embarrassing story about Doctor Luo to distract him.
• Jiang Chen moved within five paces of Doctor Luo with the Yin God Hammer.

Jiang Chen entered Doctor Luo’s treatment room and pretended to be a patient while resisting the doctor’s hypnosis. He began describing his violent delusions, then reacted with apparent distress when Doctor Luo asked about his most unforgettable experiences.

• Doctor Luo invited Jiang Chen into the treatment room, and Jiang Chen followed while hiding his suspicions.
• Doctor Luo hypnotized Jiang Chen with a pocket watch, but Jiang Chen broke the influence with the Thunder Method and continued to act hypnotized.
• Jiang Chen claimed his patient number was 18 and described delusions in which he imagined himself as a Ghost Exorcist and several other professions who killed people he mistook for ghosts.
• Doctor Luo asked Jiang Chen about the most painful or unforgettable experiences in his life.
• Jiang Chen clutched his head and trembled, saying he had too many painful experiences to remember or discuss.

Jiang Chen recounted a string of murders to Doctor Luo, repeatedly insisting that his human victims had been ghosts and that killing them had been justified. As more twisted apparitions gathered to listen, Doctor Luo realized Jiang Chen was far more disturbing than he had expected, and Jiang Chen showed no sign of stopping.

• Doctor Luo questioned Jiang Chen, who alternated between admitting he threw a living woman from the twelfth floor and claiming he had killed a ghost.
• Jiang Chen described decapitating a woman in an old residential complex, insisting she had followed him and demanded to know if she was pretty.
• Jiang Chen recounted impersonating a Public Security Office worker to enter a home, then killing a boy's mother because he suspected a ghost had possessed her.
• Doctor Luo grew alarmed as Jiang Chen described murdering several people at a Mountain Villa and killing more during an exploration of an abandoned school.
• More apparitions gathered around Jiang Chen while Doctor Luo and the other doctors reacted with shock to his continuing stream of murder stories.

Jiang Chen recounted how he had killed ghosts and people while claiming he was helping them, horrifying Doctor Luo and the other ward doctors. After a doctor tried to leave the treatment room, Jiang Chen unknowingly pushed through the crowd, shut the door, and returned to his seat.

• Jiang Chen described burying the tragedies of a residential complex, including bringing a troubled family together by killing them.
• Jiang Chen recounted killing a deaf, blind carpenter, a widow, and a village child and his mother while insisting that he had acted to help.
• Jiang Chen revealed that he had run over a family of three in a sports car, causing the doctors to fear he had killed a Blood-Clad Ghost.
• A doctor dressed as a Ghost Bride unlocked the door to escape, but Jiang Chen stood up and shut it without noticing the crowd around him.
• Jiang Chen returned to his seat and remarked that the room felt crowded and that he had stepped on things he could not see.

Jiang Chen recounted his violent past to Doctor Luo and the ghost doctors, making them fear that he had killed people while believing they were ghosts. When Doctor Luo ended the hypnosis and revealed the ghosts, Jiang Chen welcomed the chance to kill them.

• Jiang Chen realized he had been sitting on the female doctor and insulting her, but Doctor Luo kept her from attacking him.
• Jiang Chen described killing everyone at a village Ghost Festival and treating hospital patients until he killed a doctor he considered family.
• Jiang Chen’s remorse twisted into a threat, and he asked Doctor Luo to make sure nobody could ever learn his secrets.
• Doctor Luo lifted the hypnosis, revealing the ghost doctors, and Jiang Chen thanked him for the chance to face them again, promising Doctor Luo would die last.

Jiang Chen confronted Doctor Luo and the doctors’ ghostly manifestations, then summoned the ghosts bound to his Yin God Hammer to kill them. He left the Treatment Room exhausted but excited after proving he could defeat more than twenty half-body blood garments without a Monster Transformation Card.

• Doctor Luo revealed his powerful blood-red aura and threatened Jiang Chen with nightmares drawn from his memories.
• Jiang Chen spoke to the ghosts as people he regretted killing, then crushed Wenwen’s head with the Yin God Hammer, but she regenerated and called the others to attack.
• More than twenty cursed ghostly figures surrounded Jiang Chen, who swallowed Origin-Spirit Pills and summoned the blood-clad ghost and three Dark Alliance Grandmasters bound to his hammer.
• Jiang Chen sent the summoned ghosts against the doctors’ manifestations, killing them as blood spread beneath the Treatment Room door.
• Jiang Chen walked out carrying the Yin God Hammer, which now bore more than twenty new names, and realized he could defeat such foes without a Monster Transformation Card.

Jiang Chen learned how the Seventh Ward’s Sick Angel Plan and Death Curse research worked, then sent the ghosts bound to his Yin God Hammer to destroy the failed experiments. He headed toward the third floor, where four dangerous critical patients awaited, and wondered whether the other wards would target him if he destroyed the Seventh Ward.

• Jiang Chen learned that the Seventh Ward had five floors, transformed illnesses into obsessions through the Sick Angel Plan, and used failed experiments as materials for Death Curses.
• Jiang Chen released the doctors’ ghosts from the Yin God Hammer and ordered them to destroy the second-floor rooms; after the screams stopped, he gained Ghost Qi and the hammer gained more names.
• Jiang Chen learned that the four critical patients on the third floor could become director-level or higher if cured, and that a former deputy superintendent had disappeared while retrieving something needed to sustain the ward.
• Jiang Chen learned that the superintendent had left half a month earlier amid chaos in the Nine Provinces and had not returned, then considered whether other wards might target him if he destroyed the Seventh Ward.

Jiang Chen weighed the risks of destroying the Hospital Wards and decided he needed another Five-Star Card before revealing his full strength. Meanwhile, Wu Tong woke in a bloodied hospital room and realized the patients had been tortured in ways that matched their deepest fears.

• Jiang Chen concluded that the three connected Hospital Wards could rival a colossal force and resolved to seek another Five-Star Card.
• Jiang Chen worried that revealing his King-Level strength could make other factions covet his power, and he considered the killings he might need to survive.
• Wu Tong woke in a dark hospital room, found a severed ghost hand in her bed, and discovered a Ghost Corpse with densely punctured legs.
• Wu Tong found the medical record of a patient with trypophobia and realized the patient had been mutilated with holes across his legs.
• Wu Tong discovered another patient’s body parts piled beneath her bed and read that he had feared his body parts were not his own.

Wu Tong explored the Hospital Ward and found that a ruthless attacker had slaughtered most of its patients, leaving her to suspect Grandmaster Jiang was responsible. Patient No. 1 confirmed that Doctor Jiang had gone upstairs, and warned Wu Tong that the remaining patients’ fate depended on whether he returned alive.

• Wu Tong found several dangerous patients tied up, including a woman doctor and the terrifying No. 1.
• Wu Tong discovered horrific scenes of torture and slaughter throughout the empty wards, which reminded her of Grandmaster Jiang’s methods.
• Wu Tong recalled that officials had sent her to track down the Hospital Ward after detecting a Fierce Soul nearby, and she worried that her mission had gone wrong.
• No. 1 asked Wu Tong whether she belonged to an official organization and described Doctor Jiang’s brutal treatment of him.
• Wu Tong realized that Doctor Jiang was Grandmaster Jiang, while No. 1 warned her that he had gone upstairs and that the patients’ future depended on whether he survived.