Chapter Summaries

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.