Recaps

Chen Mo and Meng Yifan learned that He Tao’s ghost was haunting his parents’ house and agreed to investigate it with Zhao Laoqi. As they prepared to summon He Tao’s soul, Chen Mo worried about why Du Yuwei had begun harming people.

• He Tao’s mother told Chen Mo and Meng Yifan that her son had died after being haunted by Du Yuwei and that strange sounds still came from his room.
• Meng Yifan agreed to handle the haunting before selling the house, and He Tao’s mother gave them the keys.
• Meng Yifan decided they could profit from the house and called Zhao Laoqi for help.
• Zhao Laoqi said they would inspect the house that evening and summon He Tao’s soul with one more person.
• Chen Mo called Song Xiaotian and invited him to dinner without telling him about the planned summoning.
• Chen Mo wondered why Du Yuwei was harming people and whether Zhao Laoqi would spare her.

Chen Mo and his companions tried to summon He Tao’s soul to learn why Du Yuwei had killed him, but Zhao Laoqi discovered that she had taken and likely swallowed two of He Tao’s souls. They then used a mirror to contact the lingering po in He Tao’s home, where Chen Mo saw a second shadow imitating him.

• Chen Mo, Meng Yifan, Zhao Laoqi, and a reluctant Song Xiaotian went to He Tao’s home to investigate his death and Du Yuwei’s attacks.
• Zhao Laoqi made Chen Mo serve as the spirit medium and began the soul-summoning ritual with Meng Yifan and Song Xiaotian’s help.
• When He Tao failed to possess Chen Mo, Zhao Laoqi determined that He Tao’s earth soul and human soul were missing and suspected Du Yuwei had swallowed them.
• Zhao Laoqi explained that Du Yuwei was killing people to grow stronger and might continue even after taking revenge on Du Ruhai.
• Zhao Laoqi used He Tao’s dressing-table mirror to seek answers from his lingering po, and Chen Mo saw another shadow beside him imitating his movements.

The narrator used the mirror to question He Tao’s lingering soul and learned that Du Yuwei had consumed two of his souls before he dispersed to help his father. Zhao Laoqi revealed that Du Yuwei was Su Wenjing, one of twin sisters whose reunion preceded her death, explaining why two women had appeared as Du Yuwei.

• The narrator learned from He Tao that Du Yuwei had eaten his earth soul and human soul, blamed him for her death, and was somewhere on a mountain; He Tao had also seen two Du Yuweis.
• The narrator urged He Tao to leave so his mother could sell the house to pay for his father’s treatment, and He Tao’s lingering soul dispersed.
• Zhao Laoqi explained that He Tao could no longer reincarnate because Du Yuwei had consumed his earth soul, and said he would have to stop Du Yuwei or kill her.
• Zhao Laoqi revealed that Du Yuwei’s real name was Su Wenjing and that she had a twin sister, Su Yajing, who was still alive.
• Zhao Laoqi explained that the Su family had sent one twin away after a Taoist warned they must never meet, but the sisters reunited two months before Du Yuwei died.

Zhao Laoqi revealed that Du Yuwei’s twin sister, An Ning, had reunited with her and helped plan to take Du Yuwei’s body, while he intended to stop Du Yuwei from killing again. After the group settled He Tao’s family’s affairs, the narrator received an unknown person’s invitation to meet at Tianxing Amusement Park at midnight.

• Zhao Laoqi explained that the Su Family had sent Su Yajing, later known as An Ning, to an orphanage because a priest had predicted the twins’ fates.
• Zhao Laoqi told the narrator and Song Xiaotian that An Ning had secretly stolen Du Yuwei’s body and was determined to help her take revenge.
• Zhao Laoqi said he had to kill Du Yuwei to prevent more innocent people from being hurt, leaving the narrator troubled by her family’s role in Du Yuwei’s suffering.
• Meng Yifan sold He Tao’s house for 550,000 yuan, gave 350,000 yuan to He Tao’s mother, and Song Xiaotian received 5,000 yuan.
• The narrator received a text from an unknown number asking to meet at Tianxing Amusement Park at midnight.

The narrator entered Tianxing Amusement Park to meet Du Yuwei, but discovered that armed men had ambushed him to capture her. After Du Yuwei possessed him and attacked one of her pursuers, the story left off with her tearing off a man's head.

• The narrator searched Tianxing Amusement Park for Du Yuwei until An Ning's unknown number warned him that an attacker was hiding in a tree.
• The narrator ran from a knife-wielding man, then stabbed another attacker who tackled him from a flower bed.
• The narrator escaped after striking the first attacker and pretending to offer him five hundred thousand, but a yellow talisman immobilized him.
• Du Yuwei possessed the narrator, revealing that the men had come to capture her rather than kill him.
• Two strange men approached with a yellow talisman and a Vajra Pestle, and Du Yuwei seized one by the neck and tore off his head.

Du Yuwei and the narrator fought a man empowered by the Evil Buddha, but An Ning arrived and rescued them. They fled together as more of Du Ruhai’s people waited outside.

• Du Yuwei killed one of Du Ruhai’s men and confronted the survivor, who said Du Ruhai wanted her to return and warned that Zhao Laoqi was hunting her.
• The surviving man used a blood-anointed Evil Buddha to overpower Du Yuwei and beat the narrator, while Du Yuwei admitted she could not defeat the force inside him.
• An Ning jumped from a tree and stabbed the man in the side, breaking the Evil Buddha’s control over him.
• An Ning warned that more of Du Ruhai’s people were outside, and she pulled the narrator away as he stomped on the fallen man.

An Ning rescued the narrator from Du Ruhai’s men, but their escape ended with her using an unexplained power to stop traffic cops from detaining them. She left him in a park to meet Du Yuwei, who revealed Du Ruhai might be monitoring An Ning’s phone, and the narrator apologized for what his father and grandfather had done to her family.

• An Ning escaped over a wall with the narrator, rode away with him, and let him take the motorcycle after he noticed her injured hand.
• The narrator sped through the city and leaned into a turn, prompting traffic cops to stop them; when An Ning whispered “Wen Jing,” the cops froze and she reclaimed the keys.
• An Ning dropped the narrator at a park, where Du Yuwei appeared holding the baby and asked whether he was hurt.
• Du Yuwei said An Ning had texted the narrator and that Du Ruhai might be monitoring her number, leaving the narrator worried that An Ning was in danger.
• The narrator told Du Yuwei that his father and grandfather had died and apologized because they had caused her family’s suffering while trying to save him.

The narrator walked through the park with Du Yuwei and her child, trying to persuade her not to kill anyone else despite learning why she wanted revenge. He offered his life to her, but the child protected him, and Du Yuwei told him to keep living before leaving.

• The narrator walked with Du Yuwei and her child and asked whether she liked He Tao; Du Yuwei said she killed him because he refused to be with her.
• The narrator urged Du Yuwei not to kill more people, but she said she needed to grow stronger to avenge herself and protect An Ning.
• The narrator admitted that his family had caused Du Yuwei's suffering and offered to let her kill him and devour his soul.
• The child blocked Du Yuwei from hurting the narrator, and Du Yuwei told him to live before leaving with the child.

Meng Yifan proposed making money by buying and handling haunted properties, and he persuaded Song Xiaotian and Zhao Laoqi to support the risky plan. Chen Mo remained uneasy as the chapter ended with Zhao Laoqi defending the need to adapt their methods to changing times.

• Meng Yifan showed Chen Mo and Song Xiaotian documents for several haunted houses and argued that they offered far greater profits than ordinary properties.
• Song Xiaotian objected to risking their lives, while Meng Yifan insisted they could rely on their experience, Chen Mo's inherited book, and Seventh Master.
• Meng Yifan urged Song Xiaotian to join by promising that success could bring them wealth and Ferraris, and Song Xiaotian began to agree.
• Meng Yifan revealed that he had already discussed the plan with Zhao Laoqi, who arrived and approved it.
• Chen Mo questioned Zhao Laoqi's judgment, but Zhao Laoqi said their work and methods had to adapt to changing times.

Chen Mo agreed to help Meng Yifan take on haunted houses after Zhao Laoqi insisted, but Zhao also asked him to stop Du Yuwei from killing again. Chen Mo suspected He Tao’s girlfriend was Du Yuwei’s next target, and the chapter ended with Song Xiaotian missing after going to investigate her.

• Zhao Laoqi persuaded Chen Mo and Song Xiaotian to support Meng Yifan’s haunted-house business, then asked Chen Mo to prevent Du Yuwei from killing anyone.
• Chen Mo admitted he had tried to talk Du Yuwei out of killing, but Zhao Laoqi argued that she would not kill Chen Mo and he could stop her in person.
• Chen Mo realized Du Yuwei might target He Tao’s girlfriend, and Song Xiaotian went to investigate her.
• Meng Yifan began arranging to take on haunted houses from other agencies while Chen Mo repeatedly called Song Xiaotian without getting an answer.
• Zhao Laoqi feared Du Yuwei had attacked Song Xiaotian, and the group waited at the shop and called him dozens of times, but he remained missing.

The narrator, Meng Yifan, and Zhao Laoqi went to Su Qian’s apartment after receiving an address in a text supposedly from Song Xiaotian, only to find her parents dead. The chapter ended when Song Xiaotian woke up and said he had never sent the text.

• Worried that Song Xiaotian was missing, the narrator, Meng Yifan, and Zhao Laoqi prepared to search for him, but a text claiming to be from him gave them Su Qian’s address.
• The three went to Su Qian’s apartment and, after Zhao Laoqi smelled blood and picked the lock, found her mother beheaded and her father dead beside her.
• Zhao Laoqi told the narrator and Meng Yifan not to call the police and wiped the door to remove their fingerprints before leading them away.
• Song Xiaotian called and said he had just woken up and had not sent the text.

After discovering that Du Yuwei and An Ning had used a lock of An Ning’s hair to track his actions and find Su Qian’s family, the narrator blamed himself for their deaths. Zhao Laoqi gave him a knife capable of killing Du Yuwei and left the choice to him.

• Song Xiaotian told Zhao Laoqi and the narrator that he had passed out after finding Su Qian’s address and had woken up in a school storage room.
• Zhao Laoqi found An Ning’s hair in the narrator’s pocket and realized Du Yuwei had used it, along with the narrator’s blood, to learn what he did.
• Song Xiaotian arrived as the police came to Su Qian’s home, and the group concluded that Du Yuwei had killed Su Qian’s parents while Su Qian was still missing.
• Song Xiaotian urged the group not to search for Su Qian, while Meng Yifan warned that Du Yuwei might continue killing other people.
• Zhao Laoqi gave the narrator a knife he said could kill Du Yuwei, and the narrator wondered whether he should use it.

Meng Yifan, Chen Mo, and Song Xiaotian celebrated their first haunted-house sale before recognizing the server, Su Qian, as a missing student whose parents had been murdered. They tried to stay out of her troubles, but when she vanished while carrying supplies, they feared something had happened to her.

• Meng Yifan, Chen Mo, and Song Xiaotian sold a haunted house after persuading the old lady's ghost to leave, then celebrated their profit at a barbecue stall.
• Song Xiaotian recognized the server as Su Qian from a school photo and explained that she had stopped attending school after He Tao's death and was hiding from Du Yuwei.
• Meng Yifan considered warning Su Qian, but Song Xiaotian urged them not to approach her and risk drawing her into more danger.
• The stall owners sent Su Qian to carry a heavy item to the storeroom, then complained that she had not returned and was not answering her phone.
• Meng Yifan, Chen Mo, and Song Xiaotian grew uneasy and wondered whether something had happened to Su Qian.

Chen Mo and his friends stopped Su Qian from injuring herself, then confronted Du Yuwei as she prepared to take revenge on her. Chen Mo offered his life to stop her, but Du Yuwei could not kill him and disappeared.

• Song Xiaotian, Meng Yifan, and Chen Mo found Su Qian hurting herself in the alley beside Du Yuwei.
• Chen Mo used chopsticks to clamp Su Qian’s middle finger until she calmed down and answered his questions.
• Chen Mo confronted Du Yuwei and urged her not to harm Su Qian or other innocent people.
• Chen Mo offered to die in Su Qian’s place and begged Du Yuwei to kill him, saying he no longer wanted to live.
• Du Yuwei lowered her hand instead of killing Chen Mo, then disappeared after he called out to her.

After Du Yuwei attacked Su Qian, the narrator and Song Xiaotian confronted her exploitative barbecue-stall employers, got Su Qian medical care, and helped her leave for Yu City. Song Xiaotian warned that Du Yuwei would keep killing while Du Ruhai remained alive, then confronted the narrator for failing to use Seventh Master’s knife.

• The narrator and his companions took the injured Su Qian back to the barbecue stall, where Song Xiaotian forced the owner to pay her full wages.
• The narrator paid for Su Qian’s treatment, and Meng Yifan bought her a train ticket to Yu City and transferred her eight thousand yuan.
• Su Qian thanked them and left for Yu City with food for the journey.
• Song Xiaotian said Du Yuwei would continue killing as long as Du Ruhai was alive and asked why the narrator had not used Seventh Master’s knife.
• The narrator admitted he had forgotten to bring the knife, and Song Xiaotian pointed out that it was at his waist.

The narrator and his colleagues expanded their haunted-house business and sold a house haunted by Huang Haiquan, a murdered husband whose resentful ghost possessed Meng Yifan. They restrained Meng Yifan and waited for Zhao Laoqi while the narrator tried to learn what Huang Haiquan wanted.

• Du Yuwei and An Ning stayed away from the narrator, while Meng Yifan sold several haunted houses and kept the agency busy advertising and working with a small staff.
• The agency sold a haunted house to a young man preparing to marry, earning 200,000 yuan on the deal.
• The narrator explained that Huang Haiquan had been poisoned by his wife and her lover after learning that none of their three children were his.
• The narrator and Song Xiaotian summoned Huang Haiquan, who possessed Meng Yifan and fought them until they tied him up and used Zhao Laoqi's talisman to restrain him.
• Song Xiaotian asked when Zhao Laoqi would arrive, and the narrator tried to persuade Huang Haiquan to explain his remaining wish.

After Huang Haiquan possessed Meng Yifan, he explained that he wanted descendants to honor him and bring him offerings, so the narrator promised to arrange for one of his nephews to be adopted as his son. The narrator removed the talisman and Huang Haiquan left Meng Yifan’s body, but Meng Yifan did not wake up, and his eyes looked lifeless.

• Huang Haiquan possessed Meng Yifan and asked the narrator for a cigarette.
• Huang Haiquan said he could not reincarnate after his violent death and feared having no descendants to honor him.
• The narrator offered to arrange for Huang Haiquan’s elder brother’s son to be adopted as his son and promised he would receive offerings.
• Huang Haiquan agreed, and the narrator removed the talisman so he could leave Meng Yifan’s body.
• The narrator and Song Xiaotian waited for Meng Yifan to wake, but he remained unresponsive and his pupils did not focus.

After a vicious yin soul forced one of Meng Yifan’s souls from his body, Zhao Laoqi used the Meishan Ritual Arts Sect’s soul-summoning spell to bring it back. Zhao Laoqi explained that learning ritual arts required more than memorizing techniques, leaving the narrator tempted to study the book his grandfather had passed down.

• Zhao Laoqi warned that Meng Yifan’s human soul had been forced from his body, then joked that they should prepare a funeral before confirming they could summon it back.
• Zhao Laoqi positioned Meng Yifan with talismans and a picture frame, then performed a soul-summoning ritual while Song Xiaotian and the narrator watched.
• Meng Yifan drew on the ash-covered frame while unconscious, then woke when the incense broke and said that being near people had made him burn.
• Zhao Laoqi explained that Meng Yifan’s wandering human soul had been scorched by the living people’s yang energy.
• Zhao Laoqi described the Meishan Ritual Arts Sect and explained that learning its rites required spiritual aptitude, proper apprenticeship, and the Patriarch’s approval.
• The narrator considered reading the book his grandfather had passed down in hopes of gaining the ability to cast spells.

The narrator and Zhao Laoqi arranged Huang Haiquan’s adoption of Xiaowen through a Death Writ, allowing Huang Haiquan’s Yin Soul to leave the apartment. Afterward, the apartment’s yin energy grew stronger, and Du Yuwei appeared in her Red Wedding Dress.

• The narrator and Zhao Laoqi persuaded Huang Jianhua to let his younger son Xiaowen be adopted by Huang Haiquan, while Huang Jianhua’s elder son rejected the ritual as superstition.
• Zhao Laoqi wrote and burned a Death Writ, and Xiaowen called Huang Haiquan Dad and mourned him sincerely.
• Huang Jianhua spoke to Huang Haiquan’s memorial portrait, and the candle flames returned to normal as Huang Haiquan departed.
• Zhao Laoqi comforted the grieving Xiaowen with a Peace Talisman, then placed Talismans around the apartment and hung a mirror to disperse the remaining yin energy.
• The apartment grew colder and its yin energy intensified, and Zhao Laoqi identified a shadow in the corner as Du Yuwei in the Red Wedding Dress.

Du Yuwei begged Zhao Laoqi to save her captured twin sister, An Ning, from Du Ruhai and the powerful Evil Buddha. Zhao Laoqi refused, so the narrator decided to rescue An Ning alone, leaving Song Xiaotian and Meng Yifan behind.

• Du Yuwei appeared before the group and knelt, pleading for help because Du Ruhai had taken An Ning.
• Du Yuwei explained that she could not defeat the Evil Buddha protecting Du Ruhai, and Zhao Laoqi described the entity as a powerful evil being.
• Zhao Laoqi refused to help, condemning Du Yuwei for harming people and warning that he would not bear the karma of rescuing her sister.
• Du Yuwei repeatedly begged Zhao Laoqi and offered her own life in exchange for An Ning's rescue.
• The narrator decided to save An Ning despite Zhao Laoqi's refusal, and Zhao Laoqi left while Song Xiaotian and Meng Yifan stayed behind.

The narrator chose to help Du Yuwei rescue An Ning and confront Du Ruhai, despite believing the group might die. With Li Xiumei’s help, he and Du Yuwei drove to Du Ruhai’s club and launched their attack.

• After Zhao Laoqi refused to help, the narrator told Du Yuwei he would take responsibility for his family’s part in her suffering and go with her to rescue An Ning.
• The narrator proposed asking Li Xiumei to help them fight Du Ruhai, and Du Yuwei agreed.
• The narrator dug up Li Xiumei’s urn and asked her to join them; her ghost appeared and nodded.
• The narrator reasoned that Du Ruhai had abducted An Ning to lure Du Yuwei into a trap, then drove toward the club with Du Yuwei and Li Xiumei.
• Du Yuwei and Li Xiumei possessed the narrator, who drove straight into the club’s main entrance.

Possessed by Du Yuwei and Li Xiumei, the narrator stormed Du Ruhai’s club and fought through his thugs, but ritual wooden fish left him helpless until Song Xiaotian intervened. The narrator reached the garden and found Du Ruhai waiting on a rooftop, beckoning him closer.

• The narrator drove into the club lobby, then attacked Du Ruhai’s thugs while Du Yuwei and Li Xiumei controlled his body.
• Five men used wooden fish and chanting to weaken the narrator and the two Yin Souls possessing him.
• Song Xiaotian arrived and knocked down the chanters, then fought off the surrounding thugs so the narrator could continue.
• A frightened thug told the narrator that Du Ruhai was on the rooftop, and Du Yuwei forced the narrator to kill him before they left.
• The narrator entered the garden and saw Du Ruhai on a rooftop, beckoning him to come up.

Chen Mo confronted Du Ruhai on the rooftop, where Du Ruhai revealed his control over An Ning and ordered the Eighteen Venerables to attack. The Venerables overwhelmed Chen Mo and the spirits possessing him, and Li Xiumei was killed as she called out Lü Zhengxian’s name.

• Chen Mo found Du Ruhai with An Ning tied up and eighteen tattooed bald men standing behind him.
• Du Ruhai admitted that he had arranged Du Yuwei’s car accident and killed Li Yujiao and Du Yuwei when they threatened to expose him.
• Du Ruhai ordered the Eighteen Venerables to attack Chen Mo, and their strange abilities drove him back.
• An arhat struck Chen Mo with a Dharma Staff, forcing Li Xiumei out of his body as another Venerable attacked her with a Vajra Pestle.
• Li Xiumei called out Lü Zhengxian’s name before the Vajra Pestle killed her and scattered her soul.
• Du Ruhai scattered spirit money over Li Xiumei and declared that she had brought her death upon herself.

Chen Mo faced death after Li Xiumei was defeated, but Zhao Laoqi arrived and fought off the Eighteen Venerables. Zhao Laoqi interrupted their summoning of the Evil Buddha, but Du Ruhai began casting the spell himself as Zhao Laoqi weakened.

• Du Ruhai ordered the Eighteen Venerables to kill Chen Mo, and Chen Mo told Du Yuwei to find a chance to kill An Ning.
• Zhao Laoqi arrived, used a talisman to blind the Eighteen Venerables’ third eyes, and struck down the arhat who attacked him.
• Zhao Laoqi fought the Eighteen Venerables and declared that he had killed their predecessors and would kill every member of their organization he encountered.
• When several of the men began summoning the Evil Buddha, Zhao Laoqi invoked the Nine Heavens Thunder Ancestor and used a Thunder Talisman to interrupt them.
• Zhao Laoqi weakened, and the Evil Buddha’s head appeared again as Du Ruhai began casting the spell.

As Du Ruhai summoned the Evil Buddha, its power drove Zhao Laoqi and Song Xiaotian into a deadly fight and turned Du Ruhai against Fu Guang. After Du Yuwei was struck by the Vajra Pestle, her final words awakened Fu Guang’s memories of her as his little sister.

• Du Ruhai revealed his Evil Buddha tattoo and summoned the open-eyed Evil Buddha, which overwhelmed Fu Guang and left Zhao Laoqi trembling and weeping for Shen Qingran.
• Song Xiaotian arrived badly wounded, and the Evil Buddha’s influence drove him and Zhao Laoqi to fight each other.
• Du Ruhai attacked Fu Guang, but Du Yuwei possessed him and tried to control him before he expelled her and struck her with the Vajra Pestle.
• Fu Guang stabbed Du Ruhai in the heart and watched Du Yuwei begin to fade away.
• Du Yuwei called Fu Guang her brother, awakening memories that led him to recognize her as his little sister.