Recaps

Fang Xiu saw through a dream created by a Ghost that killed its victims through fear, then deliberately killed himself with the Scalpel. After waking in the escape passage, he led the group through the emergency exit, only to find themselves back outside Hundred Willows Academy, where he stabbed himself again.

• Fang Xiu killed the dream's imagined coworkers and realized the female doctor could not harm him because the office was an illusion.
• The dream shattered, revealing Zhao Hao and two coworkers dead in the escape passage as a smoke-wreathed Ghost watched Fang Xiu.
• Fang Xiu deduced that the Ghost controlled dreams and killed through fear, then stabbed himself in the neck with the Scalpel.
• Fang Xiu woke beside the emergency exit and led Zhao Hao and the two coworkers through it without resting.
• The group emerged outside Hundred Willows Academy, and Fang Xiu stabbed himself in the neck again.

Fang Xiu tried to save Zhao Hao and his coworkers from a Ghost that trapped people in terrifying dreams, but they repeatedly died before they could overcome their fear. He tried distracting Zhao Hao with his favorite movie, and when the dream returned, Zhao Hao showed signs of arousal even as the terror intensified.

• Fang Xiu explained that the Ghost inside the emergency exit created hallucinations and that the victims had to overcome their fear to survive.
• Fang Xiu repeatedly entered the dream, but Zhao Hao and his two coworkers died in it each time despite his attempts to wake them.
• Fang Xiu decided to distract Zhao Hao with a powerful instinctive emotion and told him to play his favorite erotic movie before entering the dream again.
• Fang Xiu and the others entered the dream, where Zhao Hao remained frightened but showed a faint trace of lechery while his coworkers suffered fatal wounds.
• Zhao Hao's coworkers died as the dream reached its climax, while Zhao Hao puckered his lips and breathed in a labored, suppressed way.

Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao escaped the Ghost Domain, and Zhao Hao ignited his Spirituality. Fang Xiu claimed his ability was predicting the future, leaving Zhao Hao amazed and disappointed that he could not sense an ability of his own.

• Zhao Hao woke from the dream, confirmed Fang Xiu was real, and mourned their dead colleagues.
• Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao opened the entrance, crossed the darkness, and emerged near the Hundred Willows Academy sales office, where Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital had merged into reality.
• Fang Xiu asked whether Zhao Hao had ignited his Spirituality, and Zhao Hao discovered that his senses and strength had improved.
• Zhao Hao could not identify an ability, while Fang Xiu told him that he could predict the future.
• Zhao Hao realized Fang Xiu's earlier decisions had seemed like foreknowledge, then grew dejected because he had no ability he could detect.

Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao escaped a Ghost’s dream, and Zhao Hao explained how he overcame it. After returning home, Fang Xiu attacked his wife but died before he could reach her, leaving him to reconsider his next steps.

• Fang Xiu asked Zhao Hao whether he could see the Ghosts in the sky, and Zhao Hao saw nothing.
• Zhao Hao described how he distracted himself in the dream and overcame his fear of the Ghost posing as Li Feifei.
• Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao agreed on what to say if anyone came looking for them, then went home separately.
• Fang Xiu greeted his wife at home, recognized her sudden transformation, and stabbed at her neck with the Scalpel.
• Fang Xiu died before his attack landed and woke outside his front door, concluding that he needed to learn about Spirit Tamers before confronting more Ghosts.

After studying Spirituality without making much progress, Fang Xiu went to sleep. At the Green Vine City Investigation Bureau, Director Wang Dehai assigned Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao to investigate Fang Xiu, Zhao Hao, and the Hundred Willows Academy Ghost Domain.

• Fang Xiu studied Spirituality in hopes of uncovering the secrets of Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital and gaining strength, then fell asleep when he made little progress.
• Wang Dehai called an emergency meeting about a Ghost Domain that had appeared at the Hundred Willows Academy sales office five hours earlier.
• The bureau reviewed surveillance footage showing Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao emerging from the Ghost Domain and learned that their backgrounds appeared ordinary.
• The Spirit Tamers debated the Ghost Domain’s danger level, with some suspecting Fang Xiu had become a Spirit Tamer inside it.
• Wang Dehai ordered Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao to investigate the two survivors, assess their abilities and condition, and determine the Ghost Domain’s danger level.

Zhao Hao told Fang Xiu that his ability made him handsome, muscular, and more sexually potent between eleven at night and one in the morning. After the Investigation Bureau intercepted their call, Shen Lingxue decided Fang Xiu might be worth recruiting but ordered Zhao Hao closely monitored, and she went to meet Fang Xiu.

• Zhao Hao called Fang Xiu to explain that his ability activated between eleven at night and one in the morning.
• Fang Xiu hung up on Zhao Hao after learning that his ability enhanced his looks, muscles, and sexual performance.
• Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao listened to the intercepted call and concluded Fang Xiu and Zhao Hao had become Spirit Tamers at Hundred Willows Academy.
• Shen Lingxue dismissed Zhao Hao as unsuitable for recruitment and ordered him placed under close surveillance.
• Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao set out to meet Fang Xiu.

Fang Xiu questioned two Investigation Bureau agents about Ghosts after they arrived to investigate the Hundred Willows Academy Ghost Domain and assess whether he could join them. Li Wenhao explained what the Bureau knew about Ghosts, and Fang Xiu asked how Spirit Tamers' power levels were classified.

• Li Wenhao and Shen Lingxue showed Fang Xiu their Investigation Bureau credentials and entered his home, while Fang Xiu checked whether they could see his wife.
• Shen Lingxue said the Bureau had come to investigate the Hundred Willows Academy Ghost Domain and determine whether Fang Xiu qualified to join.
• Fang Xiu asked the agents to answer his questions first, and Li Wenhao agreed as long as they did not concern classified information.
• Li Wenhao explained that the Bureau had no definitive account of where Ghosts came from, but believed they consumed human minds and emitted corrupting radiation.
• Fang Xiu asked how Spirit Tamers' power levels were classified.

Fang Xiu learned about Spirit Tamer tiers before revealing that he could see his wife, a Ghost invisible to the others. When she appeared in the room, Shen Lingxue attacked her with fire.

• Li Wenhao explained the Spirit Tamer tiers and said that no publicly known Spirit Tamer had advanced beyond the third tier.
• Shen Lingxue cut off Fang Xiu’s questions and told him to look up basic information on the Global Supernatural Forum.
• Fang Xiu asked whether Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao could see his wife, and they assumed his mind was unstable when they saw no one.
• Fang Xiu told his wife that he could see her, causing her to appear and reveal her monstrous Ghost form.
• Fang Xiu suspected that he alone could see Ghosts until he brought them into reality, while Shen Lingxue hurled two fireballs at his wife.

After his wife killed him, Fang Xiu returned to the checkpoint at his home and used the Global Supernatural Forum to prepare for the Investigation Bureau’s visit. He learned basic facts about Ghosts and Spirit Tamers, but the forum’s free information left major questions unanswered.

• Fang Xiu’s wife killed Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao, then killed Fang Xiu after he searched their bodies.
• Fang Xiu returned to the checkpoint outside his home and planned to use his foreknowledge to recruit the Investigation Bureau’s help.
• Fang Xiu explored the Global Supernatural Forum, discovered that most posts cost far more than he could afford, and closed a prank post by Cosmic Invincible Magical Girl Warrior.
• Fang Xiu spent the night reading official Investigation Bureau posts and learned about Ghost threat rankings, Spirit Tamers, and the unexplained history and increasing frequency of Ghost appearances.

Fang Xiu learned about Ghost Artifacts and connected with his Scalpel, gaining more spirituality and discovering its powers. After he foresaw Zhao Hao's ability, Li Wenhao and Shen Lingxue learned that Fang Xiu could predict the future.

• Fang Xiu learned that Ghost Artifacts could be powerful but risked contaminating their users, and realized his Scalpel was one.
• Fang Xiu connected with the Scalpel, resisted its corrupting influence, and raised his lit spirituality to two percent.
• Fang Xiu discovered that the Scalpel could cut more powerfully with spirituality and draw on Ghosts' power to strengthen him.
• Fang Xiu foresaw Zhao Hao's ability as sexual prowess during a breakfast call, then hung up to prepare for two guests.
• Li Wenhao and Shen Lingxue listened to the call, and Li Wenhao identified Fang Xiu's ability as Future Prediction.

Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao investigated Fang Xiu after hearing that he had predicted their visit, and Fang Xiu claimed his ability let him see the future. He proved he knew the contents of Li Wenhao’s hidden love letter, but Shen Lingxue remained unconvinced that this demonstrated future sight.

• Li Wenhao told Shen Lingxue that Fang Xiu had predicted two visitors would arrive, and they suspected he meant them.
• Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao went to Fang Xiu’s home, where they found him preparing tea with three cups ready.
• Fang Xiu identified the investigators by surname and said his eyes could see the future.
• Fang Xiu recited the contents of Li Wenhao’s secret love letter, prompting Li Wenhao to reveal it to Shen Lingxue.
• Shen Lingxue confirmed that Fang Xiu’s words matched the letter but argued that knowing its past contents did not prove he could predict the future.

Fang Xiu tried to convince Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao that he could foresee the future, then recounted his experience inside Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital. He left them considering whether more Ghosts remained in the Hundred Willows Academy Ghost Domain.

• Fang Xiu revealed private details about Shen Lingxue, prompting her to accuse him of having X-ray vision and threaten him with flames.
• Fang Xiu wrote down lottery numbers and claimed they would win that night, then added a missing seventh digit after Li Wenhao pointed out the mistake.
• Shen Lingxue challenged Fang Xiu to prove his ability, but Li Wenhao redirected the conversation to Fang Xiu's experience in the Ghost Domain.
• Fang Xiu identified the Ghost Domain as Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital and described how it appeared over the Hundred Willows Academy sales office.
• Fang Xiu recounted the Ghost Domain's events while concealing the Scalpel, and Shen Lingxue asked whether other Ghosts might still be there.

Fang Xiu told the Investigation Bureau about his prediction of dozens of Ghosts in Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital, while Shen Lingxue dismissed his claim. Director Wang Dehai ordered the bureau to keep Fang Xiu’s alleged Future Prediction ability confidential and arranged a test using the lottery drawing that night.

• Fang Xiu described two possible futures at the fork and said the wrong path contained dozens of Ghosts, but Shen Lingxue insisted they were likely ghost servants.
• Fang Xiu told Li Wenhao he learned about Ghosts and Spirit Tamers from the Global Supernatural Forum and his future self, then agreed to go to the Investigation Bureau.
• Fang Xiu noticed illusory Ghosts wandering through the bureau and concluded that Spirit Tamers could not see them.
• Wang Dehai heard Li Wenhao and Shen Lingxue’s report, classified Fang Xiu’s ability as confidential, and told them to ensure Zhao Hao stayed quiet.
• Wang Dehai sent Li Wenhao to arrange independent oversight of the lottery drawing and asked Shen Lingxue whether Fang Xiu was lying; she said her intuition told her he was.

Shen Lingxue assessed the Hundred Willows Academy ghost domain as containing a Class D Ghost Doctor and a Class C Nightmare, while Wang Dehai approved their files and requested a meeting with Fang Xiu. During a mental contamination test, Fang Xiu truthfully claimed he would fight ghosts, refuse to join them, and make killing every ghost his ambition.

• Shen Lingxue argued that the academy domain held only the Ghost Doctor and Nightmare, and recommended a Class C threat rating.
• Wang Dehai approved the codenames, postponed action on Green Mountain Psychiatric Hospital until the lottery draw, and ordered Shen Lingxue to bring Fang Xiu to him.
• Shen Lingxue insisted that Fang Xiu take a mental contamination test before meeting Wang Dehai.
• Fang Xiu told Shen Lingxue he would fight a ghost threatening a city and would never join the ghosts, even to protect friends or family.
• Fang Xiu said his ambition was to kill every ghost in the world, and the Spirituality Lie Detector confirmed he was telling the truth.

After Shen Lingxue’s test confirmed Fang Xiu’s honesty and his claimed Future Prediction ability, Wang Dehai considered recruiting him. Their meeting was interrupted by news that Bai Qi had been killed by two Ghosts in Qingbei Town, prompting Wang Dehai to mobilize forces there.

• Shen Lingxue tested Fang Xiu with the Spirituality Lie Detector, accepted his answers, and brought him to meet Wang Dehai.
• Wang Dehai reviewed Fang Xiu’s flawless test report and considered inviting him to join the Investigation Bureau, but Fang Xiu said they could discuss it after the lottery results were announced.
• Shen Lingxue told Wang Dehai that Fang Xiu had passed the test for Future Prediction, though Wang Dehai remained cautious about the detector’s reliability.
• A young worker reported that Deputy Captain Bai Qi had died after finding the Head Ghost in an unfinished building in Qingbei Town, where another Ghost ambushed him.
• Wang Dehai ordered investigators and independent Spirit Tamer groups to go to Qingbei Town, offering three thousand Spirit Coins and ten sticks of Spirit Incense for resolving the Ghost incident.

After Bai Qi’s death plunged the Green Vine City Investigation Bureau into chaos, Fang Xiu disguised himself as a staff member to gather information. He overheard how Captain Yang Ming had defeated Bai Qi and learned that Yang’s ability was luck.

• Fang Xiu reflected on Bai Qi’s death and the vulnerability Spirit Tamers faced against Ghosts.
• Wang Dehai left Fang Xiu in the lounge while he and Shen Lingxue handled the emergency response.
• Fang Xiu knocked out the young staff member, took his uniform, and slipped out of the lounge in disguise.
• Fang Xiu used his heightened senses to eavesdrop on Investigation Bureau staff discussing Bai Qi and Yang Ming.
• A staff member revealed that Yang Ming’s luck ability had helped him win against Bai Qi after Bai Qi’s stomach trouble left him unable to fight properly.

Fang Xiu infiltrated an emergency Investigation Bureau meeting, where Wang Dehai reported Bai Qi’s death and the hunt for the Shadow Ghost. The meeting revealed that Yang Ming had become a Third-Tier Spirit Tamer, then ended with Shen Lingxue recognizing Fang Xiu after he escaped custody.

• Fang Xiu followed Bureau staff into an emergency meeting and identified the forlorn smoker as Captain Yang Ming.
• Wang Dehai announced that Bai Qi had died after the Shadow Ghost ambushed him while he fought the Head Ghost, and ordered the Bureau to find the Shadow Ghost and avenge Bai Qi.
• Wang Dehai revealed that Yang Ming had advanced to Third-Tier Spirit Tamer, but Yang Ming remained grief-stricken and asked for cigarettes instead of responding to the news.
• Yang Ming tried to leave the meeting to buy cigarettes, then returned to his corner after Wang Dehai offered him a pack.
• A staff member reported that Fang Xiu had escaped after knocking him unconscious, and Shen Lingxue spotted Fang Xiu among the people in the meeting.

Fang Xiu claimed he could return to the past and rewrite the future, offering to save Bai Qi by calling Yang Ming before Bai Qi died. Yang Ming gave him his phone number and a secret to prove the call was real, while Shen Lingxue realized Fang Xiu’s earlier remarks may have described this ability.

• Wang Dehai ordered Fang Xiu arrested, but Fang Xiu ignored him and asked Yang Ming whether he wanted Bai Qi back alive.
• Yang Ming confronted Fang Xiu with overwhelming Spirituality pressure, then stopped the staff from acting and asked whether Fang Xiu could truly bring Bai Qi back.
• Fang Xiu said he could return to the past and rewrite the future, and asked where Yang Ming had been when Bai Qi died.
• Yang Ming said he had been near Qingbei Town tracking a lead on the Head Ghost, then gave Fang Xiu his phone number and promised a secret that would make him believe.
• Shen Lingxue connected Fang Xiu’s claim to his earlier words about traveling between the future and the past.
• Yang Ming revealed that he had secretly given Bai Qi a laxative during the captain-selection competition.

Fang Xiu claimed he could alter the past and predicted lottery numbers, prompting the Investigation Bureau to keep him under guard while they waited for the draw. When the numbers did not match, he accused the bureau of rigging the results, leaving his claims unresolved.

• Fang Xiu told Yang Ming to wait for his call from the past, then agreed to go with him to the Holding Cell.
• Yang Ming explained how Bai Qi’s Super Speed failed to save him from the Shadow Ghost’s ambush during his fight with the Head Ghost.
• Wang Dehai and Shen Lingxue questioned Fang Xiu about his claims, and Fang Xiu suggested that none of them might truly exist.
• After three hours, Shen Lingxue showed Fang Xiu lottery results that did not match his written numbers, and he accused them of rigging the draw.

After proving his ability to predict the future to Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao, Fang Xiu warned Yang Ming that Bai Qi would soon be killed by Ghosts. The chapter ended with Yang Ming learning where Bai Qi was and what danger awaited him.

• After the lottery prediction failed, Fang Xiu plunged a Scalpel into his own forehead and used Death Rollback to return to the Investigation Bureau.
• Fang Xiu predicted several staff members’ actions, then correctly anticipated the lounge’s location and Shen Lingxue’s coffee preference, convincing Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao that he could see the future.
• Fang Xiu sent Shen Lingxue and Li Wenhao to report to Wang Dehai while he called Yang Ming.
• Fang Xiu warned Yang Ming that Bai Qi would encounter the Head Ghost at an unfinished building near Qingbei Town and be ambushed by a Shadow Ghost hiding in his shadow.
• Yang Ming recognized that Fang Xiu knew his secret about drugging Bai Qi and learned that he still had time to go save him.

Fang Xiu passed the mental contamination test by predicting every question before Shen Lingxue asked it, then explained to Wang Dehai that his Future Prediction carried the risk of losing control of his spirituality. The chapter left Wang Dehai and Shen Lingxue alarmed as they considered the danger of Fang Xiu’s ability.

• Yang Ming turned his car around and sped toward Qingbei Town after remembering Fang Xiu had correctly exposed his secret.
• Fang Xiu predicted and answered every mental contamination test question before Shen Lingxue could ask, and the Spirituality Lie Detector never sounded.
• Fang Xiu met Wang Dehai, who questioned how a newly awakened Spirit Tamer could wield such powerful Future Prediction.
• Shen Lingxue admitted she had not written a test report because Fang Xiu had answered everything in advance.
• Fang Xiu told Wang Dehai that using Future Prediction risked making his spirituality go out of control, alarming Wang Dehai and Shen Lingxue.

Fang Xiu explained that using Future Prediction endangered his Spirituality and demanded Second-Tier Spirit Tamer benefits, monthly Spirit Incense, and extra compensation whenever the Investigation Bureau used his ability. He claimed his gift was Bai Qi’s life, and when Wang Dehai learned Bai Qi was badly injured, he and Shen Lingxue suspected Fang Xiu had attacked him.

• Fang Xiu explained that Future Prediction strained his Spirituality and that he wanted Spirit Incense by joining the Investigation Bureau.
• Fang Xiu demanded Second-Tier Spirit Tamer pay and benefits, monthly Spirit Incense, flexible hours, and extra compensation for using his ability.
• Wang Dehai offered to meet Fang Xiu’s pay and Spirit Incense demands if a lottery confirmed his ability, but hesitated over the extra fees.
• Fang Xiu called Bai Qi’s life a gift, and Wang Dehai discovered that Bai Qi’s phone was switched off.
• Shen Lingxue threatened Fang Xiu, but Yang Ming called Wang Dehai and reported that Bai Qi was badly injured.
• Wang Dehai and Shen Lingxue blamed Fang Xiu and the organization behind him, while Fang Xiu urged Wang Dehai to let Yang Ming finish explaining.

Fang Xiu convinced Wang Dehai that his warning had saved Bai Qi, though Wang still reserved judgment until the lottery draw. Yang Ming then privately confronted Fang Xiu, worried that his secret role in drugging Bai Qi would be exposed.

• Yang Ming told Wang Dehai that Fang Xiu had warned him about the Ghost ambush, allowing him to save Bai Qi.
• Wang Dehai agreed to consider Fang Xiu's demands after the lottery draw and the investigation into Bai Qi's attack.
• Fang Xiu and Shen Lingxue waited together in the bureau lounge until Yang Ming arrived and asked to speak with Fang Xiu alone.
• Yang Ming asked whether Fang Xiu had told anyone that he drugged Bai Qi, and Fang Xiu said keeping quiet about it would cost extra.
• Yang Ming tried to persuade Fang Xiu with his authority as a captain, but Fang Xiu warned that Bai Qi might learn the truth.

Fang Xiu proved his Future Prediction ability by correctly predicting the lottery draw and joined the Investigation Bureau, where Wang Dehai concealed his true power and planned to classify him as an S-rated talent under the codename Prophet. The chapter ended with Yang Ming suspecting that someone had deliberately set up Bai Qi’s death.

• Yang Ming paid Fang Xiu two hundred Spirit Coins to keep quiet about his earlier remarks.
• Fang Xiu’s predicted lottery numbers matched the winning draw exactly, and Wang Dehai invited him to join the Investigation Bureau with the benefits he had requested.
• Wang Dehai ordered Fang Xiu’s Future Prediction ability kept secret, assigned Shen Lingxue to guide him, and planned to report him as an S-rated talent with the codename Prophet.
• Wang Dehai proposed recruiting Zhao Hao to strengthen the bureau’s connection to Fang Xiu.
• Yang Ming told Wang Dehai that he suspected someone had orchestrated Bai Qi’s death, though he had no evidence.

Yang Ming told Wang Dehai that the Shadow Ghost seemed to be a powerful Spirit Tamer tied to an organization, and showed him an Ace of Spades made of mindsteel. Meanwhile, Fang Xiu considered how to spend the two hundred Spirit Coins Yang Ming had given him, then heard someone knock at the door.

• Yang Ming reported that the Shadow Ghost had held back during their fight, vanished after Yang Ming reached the third tier, and might be a Spirit Tamer rather than a supernatural entity.
• Yang Ming showed Wang Dehai a damaged mindsteel Ace of Spades, leading Wang Dehai to suspect the Shadow Ghost belonged to an organization hostile to the Investigation Bureau.
• Wang Dehai told Yang Ming to track down the Shadow Ghost and decided not to assign protection to Fang Xiu, since doing so could draw the enemy's attention.
• Fang Xiu examined the two hundred Spirit Coins Yang Ming had given him and decided to use them to forge a scalpel, selling any remaining coins for information.
• Someone knocked at Fang Xiu's door.