Chapter Summaries

Cirrus sided with Jiang Yu and the Gourd Freaks, leaving Ignamar cornered and nearly powerless. Ignamar abandoned Little Gui and possessed the Underworld Officials, but the gourds crushed his forces as the battle continued in the real world.

• Cirrus admitted she had teamed up with the Judges and chose to side with Jiang Yu rather than oppose the Gourd Freaks.
• Ignamar realized he was trapped and too weakened to escape, so he released Little Gui and possessed a group of Underworld Officials.
• An Animated Moonhide Gourd caught the unconscious Little Gui as the other gourds charged at Ignamar’s possessed officials.
• The Gourd Freaks overwhelmed and swallowed the possessed Underworld Officials, while their assistance also appeared in the Blue Star battle.
• Ignamar saw the battle turning against him and rushed toward Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu defeated Ignamar with a single swing, and the animated Moonhide Gourds consumed the remaining Heliobi before the Ten-Lords Commission took over. Later, Jiang Yu showed Cirrus to Sushang, who fainted from fright and had to be taken to the clinic.

• Ignamar charged Jiang Yu, but Jiang Yu struck him with his sleeve and an animated Moonhide Gourd swallowed him.
• The remaining Heliobi lost their will to fight and were eaten by the animated Moonhide Gourds, which Jiang Yu handed over to Xueyi and the Ten-Lords Commission.
• After eating, Jiang Yu, March 7th, and Stelle met Sushang at Cloudford and recounted what had happened in Fyxestroll Garden.
• Jiang Yu brought Cirrus out to show Sushang what the Heliobi were like, and Sushang screamed and fainted.
• Jiang Yu caught Sushang with a gust of wind and asked Stelle and March 7th to take her to the clinic with Little Gui.

Little Gui invited the Seven-Star Fish trio to Fyxestroll Garden to join the Ten-Lords Commission’s new heliobus-hunting team. Hanya explained the team’s purpose and that participation was voluntary, while Jiang Yu showed clear interest in ghost hunting.

• Little Gui asked the Seven-Star Fish trio to return to Fyxestroll Garden for a meeting with Hanya.
• The trio arrived and learned that Little Gui had recruited them because the Animated Moonhide Gourd would not be assigned to her team.
• Cirrus teased Sushang, who admitted she found Cirrus’s floating-eye appearance frightening.
• Hanya explained that the Ten-Lords Commission had established a special team to find and subdue escaped heliobi, with Little Gui contributing through her public presence and online following.
• Hanya said nobody was being forced to join, and Jiang Yu showed clear interest in ghost hunting.

Hanya assigned Huohuo to lead the Ghost-Hunting Squad as they tracked Heliobi that had escaped after the Furnace of Creation shattered. Little Gui planned to gather reports and followers on the Luofu Miscellany website, while the team prepared to verify paranormal incidents.

• Hanya told the group that Little Gui had created an account on the Luofu Miscellany website to collect information about strange occurrences.
• Hanya appointed Huohuo to command the Ghost-Hunting Squad and instructed everyone to follow her expertise on Heliobi.
• Huohuo explained that escaped Heliobi would likely seek hosts in populated areas, causing unexplained incidents.
• Little Gui showed the team her account and proposed posting footage of their Heliobi hunts to attract followers and tips.
• Stelle questioned whether online reports might be rumors, and Huohuo said Ten-Lords Commission officials would investigate in secret as well.
• Little Gui mentioned that Little Fish had unusually enthusiastic fans, prompting Siberian Duck's livestream chat to joke about one particularly fervent fan.

Little Gui and the others investigated reports of Bailu vanishing and appearing as multiple figures, suspecting a Heliobus was involved. Cirrus named Ignamar as the likeliest culprit, leaving the group with a lead to pursue.

• Little Gui found and shared a witness's post describing Bailu disappearing in an alley and reappearing as multiple figures.
• Huohuo suspected a Heliobus was manipulating the witness's senses and suggested gathering information before trying to rescue the host.
• Huohuo looked to Cirrus for information, but Cirrus demanded something in return and frightened her.
• Jiang Yu pressured Cirrus to share what she knew, and Cirrus identified Ignamar as the most likely Heliobus to have abducted Bailu.
• Tail confirmed Cirrus was telling the truth and said Ignamar preferred roaming around and playing rather than manipulating mortals.

The group followed Cirrus’s lead to Aurum Alley to find Bailu, where Jiang Yu learned that the Dragon Lady had vanished and appeared to have been duplicated. They found two Bailus in a shadowy alley, one of whom was a Heliobus, and the chapter ended with Sushang screaming at the sight.

• Cirrus explained that a Heliobus’s temperament could be shaped by its host, and Little Gui suggested Bailu’s playful nature made Aurum Alley a likely place to find her.
• Jiang Yu questioned two Alchemy Commission medical assistants, who said Bailu had vanished after they caught her and that they had seen two of her.
• The Ghost-Hunting Squad entered a dark, chilly alley and called for Bailu.
• Two Bailus appeared, and one warned the other that the group had come to take them back.
• The front Bailu struck the other on the head and criticized her for suggesting they play tag with Jiang Yu.
• Sushang screamed at the sight of the two Bailus, while Cirrus mocked Huohuo for being too weak to handle strange creatures.

Jiang Yu freed Ignamar from Bailu and let it stay outside under rules that prevented it from possessing or harming people. The Ghost-Hunting Squad rested after their encounter, and Little Gui’s account gained a huge following overnight after featuring Bailu and Jiang Yu.

• Jiang Yu told Bailu she could keep Ignamar as a companion instead of sending it back to the Ten-Lords Commission.
• Jiang Yu pulled Ignamar out of Bailu and bound it against possessing people, feeding on their emotions, or taking over their bodies.
• Bailu kept Ignamar and considered using it to get back at the old men who picked on her.
• The Ghost-Hunting Squad set up a group chat, and Stelle was chosen to name their post while Little Gui handled its editing and content.
• Little Gui’s Luofu Miscellany account gained followers rapidly after its post featured Bailu and Jiang Yu.

Little Gui investigated a chess-playing woman called Chess Demon whose defeated opponents acted like soulless puppets. Jiang Yu went to confront her in Exalting Sanctum, where his command silenced her and her enthralled victims, leaving Chess Demon stunned by his apparent power.

• Little Gui told the Ghost-Hunting Squad about Chess Demon, who offered Strales to anyone who could beat her at chess and left losers standing like puppets.
• Huohuo suspected a Heliobus was exploiting people's greed, and Jiang Yu volunteered to play Chess Demon.
• Jiang Yu went to Exalting Sanctum with March 7th, Stelle, and Cirrus, where they met Yanqing, who had come to subdue a Heliobus.
• Chess Demon mocked Yanqing for hesitating to challenge her, but Jiang Yu ordered her to stop talking and sealed her mouth.
• When Chess Demon's enthralled victims also taunted Yanqing, Jiang Yu silenced them, shocking Chess Demon with his power.

Jiang Yu challenged Chess Demon to Pathfinder after mocking her puzzle game, then used unconventional tactics to solve her maze and create an impossible puzzle for her. He left Chess Demon bewildered by moving an ingenium directly to the exit and explaining that ingenia could fly.

• Jiang Yu dismissed Yanqing's idea of fighting Chess Demon and agreed to play her Pathfinder puzzle.
• Chess Demon agreed to face Jiang Yu at a proper board game if he beat her at Pathfinder, while Cirrus teased her.
• Stelle and March 7th laughed as Jiang Yu began the maze, and he cleared Chess Demon's puzzle by flicking an obstacle aside.
• Jiang Yu surrounded the ingenium in his own puzzle with barriers, and Chess Demon hurt her finger trying to move one.
• Jiang Yu picked up the ingenium and placed it at the exit, telling Chess Demon that ingenia could fly.

Jiang Yu drove Chess Demon into a breakdown by beating her repeatedly with absurd, invented chess moves, and Huohuo sealed her in the gourd. The Ghost-Hunting Squad then regrouped at Fyxestroll Garden for the ghost ship incident, where Sushang complained about being exhausted from their work.

• Jiang Yu defeated Chess Demon several times with his nonsensical chess moves until she begged Huohuo to take her away.
• Huohuo and Tail sealed Chess Demon in the gourd, while Yanqing took the unconscious people to a clinic.
• Little Gui posted about Jiang Yu’s chess exploits, and Secretary Tong revised the changed plot.
• The Ghost-Hunting Squad gathered at Fyxestroll Garden to begin work on the ghost ship incident.
• Sushang said she was exhausted from chasing Heliobi, and Little Gui compared her to a tile player from the Divination Commission.

The Ghost-Hunting Squad investigated strange behavior at the Divination Commission after Qingque reported that its staff were acting dazed and the Master Diviner had let her keep arriving late. Cirrus suspected Xiyan was involved, and the group found the Matrix of Prescience operating by itself amid a blood-red phenomenon, with Fu Xuan and the diviners staring at it blankly.

• Qingque posted that the Divination Commission’s staff seemed dazed and that the Master Diviner had told her to keep arriving late as usual.
• Stelle warned Qingque, who revealed that she had already left the commission and agreed to guard its entrance.
• Cirrus suspected Xiyan was behind the incident and explained Xiyan’s ability to read the future among the Heliobi who formed the Flint Emperor.
• Jiang Yu shared his view that people shaped fate through their own choices and suggested that the group think about food after resolving the crisis.
• The Ghost-Hunting Squad met Qingque, explained the Heliobi escape, and entered the Divination Commission with her.
• The group saw the Matrix of Prescience operating on its own amid bloody mist, while Fu Xuan and the diviners watched with vacant expressions.

Jiang Yu and the others found Fu Xuan and the Divination Commission under Xiyan’s influence, then used Huohuo’s Heartfire Bell to wake her. Fu Xuan claimed to be the commission’s sole master and fired Qingque, who was delighted by the news.

• Qingque and the others saw the diviners murmuring deliriously beneath a twitching Matrix of Prescience, with Fu Xuan standing at its center.
• Cirrus said Xiyan had possessed Fu Xuan, and Huohuo suggested using the Heartfire Bell to enter their shared illusion.
• Jiang Yu animated the Heartfire Bell, which rang until Fu Xuan snapped at the group and came out of her trance.
• Fu Xuan claimed that she or Xiyan was the Divination Commission’s sole master and ordered everyone not to interfere with the divination.
• Fu Xuan recognized Qingque, scolded her, and fired her, leaving Qingque overjoyed.

Qingque prepared to leave the Divination Commission after helping resolve its crisis, while Jiang Yu challenged the Heliobus Xiyan’s claim that fate was fixed. Jiang Yu pulled Xiyan out of Fu Xuan and told it to stop preaching and focus on practical ways to help people.

• Qingque thanked Fu Xuan for pushing her to seek change, but said she would help the others before leaving the Commission.
• Huohuo said she did not know how to free Fu Xuan from Xiyan without risking lasting harm, while Fu Xuan insisted she was lucid and declared that fate had only one path.
• Fu Xuan claimed Stelle and the others were following a script, but Jiang Yu challenged her certainty and argued that people’s choices and actions shaped the future.
• Jiang Yu confronted Xiyan, pressed Fu Xuan’s face, and pulled the spirit flame out of her with ropes formed from inscriptions.
• Jiang Yu told Xiyan that it could not escape him and suggested it set up a stall under an overpass to help people instead of spouting grand principles.

Jiang Yu subdued Xiyan by relentlessly breaking its will, and Huohuo took the Heliobus away to work at Jiang Yu’s factory. The Ghost-Hunting Squad resolved the crisis at the Divination Commission, and Hanya praised them before they went their separate ways to rest.

• Cirrus, March 7th, Stelle, and Qingque discussed how Jiang Yu’s stubbornness and verbal attacks had driven Xiyan into despair.
• Jiang Yu dismissed Xiyan’s self-pity and ordered it sent to his factory, where Huohuo sealed it in the Moonhide Gourd.
• Fu Xuan recovered from Xiyan’s influence, and Qingque avoided being fired but was assigned to the archives.
• The Ghost-Hunting Squad returned to Fyxestroll Garden, where Hanya praised them for resolving the Divination Commission crisis and reflected on the burdens of their duties.
• Hanya left, and the Ghost-Hunting Squad members said goodbye and dispersed to rest.

The Ghost-Hunting Squad investigated a possessed Cloud Knight at the Alchemy Commission after Little Gui found a suspicious post. Jiang Yu knocked the Cloud Knight unconscious with a single blow, and Huohuo confirmed the man was alive but trapped in a delusion caused by a Heliobus.

• The Ghost-Hunting Squad let Wenyuan remain with Ruoxi, a Heliobus, while Jiang Yu secretly marked her for tracking.
• Little Gui offered two extra cups of milk tea, and the group went to the Evernight Marquis for Immortal's Joy Tea.
• Little Gui found a post claiming a Cloud Knight was acting violently at the Alchemy Commission, so the Ghost-Hunting Squad hurried there.
• The group found fallen Cloud Knights and Abominations of Abundance while a possessed Cloud Knight challenged his companion to a fight.
• Jiang Yu took a Cloud Knight's blade and struck the possessed man with its hilt, knocking him senseless so the others could subdue him.
• Huohuo examined the Cloud Knight and reported that he was alive but suffering spasms, incoherent speech, and a delusion caused by possession.

The Ghost-Hunting Squad learned that a Heliobus had possessed a Cloud Knight’s weapon and used him to attack Yanqing. After Yanqing’s Flying Sword came seeking help, Jiang Yu offered mystical and scientific explanations for its behavior, and the group followed it to find Yanqing.

• The Cloud Knight recalled that his weapon had spoken to him, guided his fighting, and persuaded him to attack Yanqing.
• Black Cleave denied involvement and explained that the Heliobus’s method differed from how it controlled wielders.
• The Cloud Knight identified the child he had attacked as Yanqing, and Jiang Yu said Yanqing would likely challenge the Heliobus.
• The Ghost-Hunting Squad said goodbye to the Cloud Knights and went after Yanqing.
• Yanqing’s frost-blue Flying Sword found the group, and Jiang Yu suggested it had come for help either through its own awareness or an emergency system responding to Yanqing’s disrupted perception.

Jiang Yu and the Ghost-Hunting Squad found Yanqing at Dragonprayer Terrace, where Molten Torch’s sword formation offered Yanqing a chance to study its techniques. Yanqing revealed he had never been bewitched and had only pretended to cooperate, while Jiang Yu used Black Cleave to immobilize Molten Torch and prepared to let it handle the Heliobus.

• The Ghost-Hunting Squad followed Yanqing’s flying sword to Dragonprayer Terrace and found him studying a sword formation created by Molten Torch.
• Yanqing asked Jiang Yu to assess the sword techniques, and Jiang Yu dismissed them as flashy and unremarkable.
• Molten Torch became enraged by Jiang Yu’s criticism, possessed Yanqing, and challenged Jiang Yu to a fight.
• Jiang Yu summoned Black Cleave, which immobilized Molten Torch before it could attack.
• Yanqing revealed he had never been bewitched and had followed Molten Torch only to learn its techniques, then Jiang Yu offered to let Black Cleave deal with it.

Jiang Yu and Black Cleave stripped Molten Torch of his swordsmanship memories, and Huohuo took the weakened Heliobus for Jiang Yu’s Factory. Later, Little Gui celebrated her Luofu Miscellany plaque by filming a fan Q&A with the Ghost-Hunting Squad, ending with Jiang Yu’s brief explanation for joining her streams.

• Black Cleave removed Molten Torch’s memories of swordsmanship until only a tiny flame remained, while Cirrus watched in fear.
• Jiang Yu dismissed Molten Torch’s protests and told Huohuo to capture him and Xiyan for his Factory.
• Little Gui shared the news of her plaque with the Ghost-Hunting Squad and proposed recording an acceptance speech and fan Q&A.
• The group chose fan questions and filmed in Starskiff Haven, with Little Gui answering first and March 7th and Stelle responding to questions about their personal lives.
• Little Gui saved Jiang Yu’s questions for last, and he said he streamed ghost hunting with Little Gui because it was fun.

Jiang Yu discovered that a Heliobus could consume a Mara-Struck person’s obsession, though it could not restore someone who had already succumbed. After returning to the Astral Express with Cirrus, the crew’s journey was interrupted when the train began shaking violently.

• The Ghost-Hunting Squad found a Heliobus trapped inside a Mara-Struck woman, and Jiang Yu forced it to consume her obsession until she returned to human form, though she never woke again.
• Jiang Yu told Bailu about the Heliobus’s ability to consume Mara-related emotions, then the squad finished catching Heliobi, took a group photo, and left Little Gui’s medal at their meeting spot.
• Jiang Yu returned to the Astral Express with Cirrus, where Dan Heng and Old Yang learned that he had brought another Heliobus aboard.
• Pom-Pom prepared the Express for a trip to Car Wash Planet, but noticed its heading was off and went to inspect the control room.
• The Astral Express shook violently, throwing March 7th, Pom-Pom, and Stelle to the floor while Dan Heng and Old Yang braced themselves; Cirrus asked Jiang Yu whether the train had crashed into something.

After the Express was struck by another ship and the stars outside turned an eerie red, the crew encountered Argenti aboard the train. Argenti warmly greeted Jiang Yu and praised Cirrus and a potted plant, while the Express remained in the strange region.

• March 7th, Stelle, and the others recovered after the Express stopped shaking and saw the red, distorted starfield outside.
• Dan Heng explained that another ship had collided with an obstruction and hit the Express, bringing two people aboard.
• Jiang Yu identified the red-clad newcomer as Argenti, while the crew spotted a Flames from Beyond the Universe drifting outside.
• Argenti praised Cirrus and introduced himself before greeting Jiang Yu with an especially affectionate salute.
• Stelle asked why Argenti praised a potted plant, and Argenti said he believed its heart was clear as a mirror.