Recaps

Lin Luo learned that the Ghost Butler was seeking a final disciple and planned to approach him with Monkey Wine. Meanwhile, Poppy intervened when a Pig-Headed Demon attacked her driver, Luo Tong, and the chapter ended as Luo Tong noticed a Cleaning Ghost watching him.

• The Cleaning Ghost told Lin Luo that the Ghost Butler was accepting a final disciple and loved collecting fine wine, so Lin Luo planned to use his Monkey Wine to build a connection.
• Lin Luo spared the Cleaning Ghost and assigned her a task.
• Luo Tong frightenedly apologized after a Pig-Headed Demon crashed into Poppy's car and demanded his organs as payment.
• Poppy stopped the Pig-Headed Demon, ordered him to sever one of his arms, and sent him away.
• Luo Tong mistook Poppy's intervention for personal support and noticed a Cleaning Ghost furtively watching him.

Luo Tong tried to use Poppy’s status to bully Cleaning Ghost into retaliating against Lin Luo, but Poppy revealed that Lin Luo was her friend and condemned Luo Tong for misusing her reputation. Poppy left after stripping Luo Tong of his driver assignment, leaving him terrified of Cleaning Ghost.

• Luo Tong threatened Cleaning Ghost by invoking Poppy’s status, then demanded to know who had sent her.
• Cleaning Ghost admitted that Lin Luo had sent her, and Luo Tong ordered her to kill him.
• Cleaning Ghost said she was no match for Lin Luo, so Luo Tong begged Poppy to deal with him instead.
• Poppy told Luo Tong that Lin Luo was her friend and rebuked him for using her name to bully others.
• Luo Tong begged Poppy for another chance, but she drove away after saying she would have him removed as her driver.

Lin Luo returned from cleaning and noticed that Luo Yujuan had changed, unaware that a ghost mask had possessed her. After the Maid Ghost settled the players’ pay, Lin Luo asked to drive Miss Yu the next day, while Luo Tong’s failures left him desperate and resentful.

• The Cleaner Ghost attacked Luo Tong for having offended her, and he fled back to the mansion badly injured and missing an arm.
• Lin Luo noticed that Luo Yujuan seemed different, while the ghost mask controlling her grew wary of his sharp senses.
• The Maid Ghost returned with her ghost power at the peak of the Ghost General Tier and announced that someone else had died.
• The Maid Ghost paid Liu Yanyan and Wen Hui 50 Ghost Coins each, rewarded Lin Luo and Luo Yujuan with 200 additional Ghost Coins, and canceled Luo Tong’s pay for poor performance.
• Lin Luo asked to drive Miss Yu the next day, and the Maid Ghost agreed, deepening Luo Tong’s resentment.

Luo Tong borrowed 50 Ghost Coins from Luo Yujuan, while Lin Luo went to the staff cafeteria and provoked a Burned-to-Death Ghost by refusing to pay protection money. The Chef Ghost intervened on Lin Luo’s behalf, severing the Burned-to-Death Ghost’s hand and revealing that Lin Luo was his brother.

• Luo Yujuan lent Luo Tong 50 Ghost Coins, and he accepted while secretly feeling no gratitude toward her or the other players.
• Lin Luo and the other players went to the staff cafeteria as night approached, where a Burned-to-Death Ghost demanded protection money.
• Lin Luo ignored the Burned-to-Death Ghost and warned him that attacking before night would bring the rules’ backlash; the ghost threatened to attack him after dark.
• The Chef Ghost arrived carrying his Meat-Cleaver and chopped off the Burned-to-Death Ghost’s hand after the ghost asked whether he planned to deal with Lin Luo.
• The Chef Ghost told the Burned-to-Death Ghost that targeting his brother had brought the injury upon him, leaving the ghost stunned.

Lin Luo forced the Burned-to-Death Ghost to surrender Firelighting Wood after the Chef Ghost intervened, then shared a meal with his companions. As Lin Luo left with Liu Yanyan and Wen Hui, Luo Yujuan revealed she wanted Luo Tong as a teammate, while her eerie gaze suggested she might have a hidden agenda.

• The Burned-to-Death Ghost tried to apologize to Lin Luo, but the Chef Ghost threatened him until he handed over his valuable Firelighting Wood.
• The Chef Ghost treated Lin Luo to a lavish meal, while Luo Tong struggled to eat cheap, charcoal-black buns.
• Lin Luo shared the remaining food with Liu Yanyan and Wen Hui, and Luo Yujuan paid for a table of leftovers for Luo Tong.
• Luo Tong mistook Luo Yujuan's help for romantic interest, while Lin Luo noticed her unsettling behavior and resolved to stay wary of her.
• After Lin Luo, Liu Yanyan, and Wen Hui left, Luo Yujuan told Luo Tong she wanted a reliable teammate and pointed out that the others had already formed a group.

Luo Yujuan persuaded Luo Tong to sacrifice his soul in exchange for Ghost Power and revenge on Lin Luo, while Lin Luo learned that Ghost Mask possessed Luo Yujuan and began preparing for Alcoholic Ghost’s arrival. The next morning, Luo Tong showed off his unstable new strength as Luo Yujuan watched for a chance to turn him into a powerful Puppet.

• Luo Tong agreed to sacrifice his soul after Luo Yujuan promised him more Ghost Power and a chance to take revenge on Lin Luo, then marked the scroll with his blood.
• Drunken Ghost warned Lin Luo that Ghost Mask was probably possessing Luo Yujuan and carried an aura connected to Alcoholic Ghost, so Lin Luo resolved to deal with her.
• Lin Luo planned for Alcoholic Ghost’s likely arrival within two days and went to sleep after preparing for the next day.
• Luo Tong approached Lin Luo the next morning with newly gained but unstable Ghost Power, and Lin Luo dismissed his attempt at friendly conversation.
• Maid Ghost assigned Lin Luo to drive Miss Yu, Liu Yanyan and Wen Hui to clean, and Luo Yujuan and Luo Tong to garden, then took Lin Luo aside.
• Luo Yujuan watched Luo Tong’s resentment destabilize his Ghost Power and planned to seize his soul and make him a powerful Puppet.

Lin Luo recruited the Maid Ghost to help him fight the Alcoholic Ghost and delivered Healing Nectar to Poppy in exchange for a promised reward. After claiming the Paper-Binding Technique scroll, he checked his status and considered the new ability.

• The Maid Ghost warned Lin Luo that the Alcoholic Ghost had targeted him, and Lin Luo asked her to join his allies against the threat.
• Lin Luo promised the Maid Ghost skin-whitening ointment, and she agreed to help him fight the Alcoholic Ghost the next day.
• Lin Luo met Poppy and gave her the Healing Nectar, refusing an equal-value exchange because her increased strength would help their alliance.
• Lin Luo received a Netherworld Tier Paper-Binding Technique scroll as his task reward and checked his personal information panel.

Lin Luo accompanied Poppy to meet Mandragora, but her Gambling Ghost subordinate made him wager for entry. After losing the first round, Lin Luo questioned the Gambling Ghost’s confidence as the wager continued.

• Poppy brought Lin Luo to the Listening Rain Bamboo Grove and told him that Mandragora, her strongest sister, might help him deal with the Alcoholic Ghost.
• At the pavilion, the Gambling Ghost stopped Lin Luo from entering Mandragora’s private seating area and demanded a wager for passage.
• Poppy warned the Gambling Ghost not to hurt Lin Luo, then went upstairs after Lin Luo agreed to play.
• The Gambling Ghost rolled all sixes, while Lin Luo failed to control the dice with Ghost Power and lost the first round.
• The Gambling Ghost threatened to take Lin Luo’s arm if he lost again, and Lin Luo challenged its boast that nobody could beat it at gambling.

Lin Luo won a dice wager against the Gambling Ghost by making the lower roll the winner, then prepared to kill him after the Gambling Ghost attacked and suffered backlash from the Horror Game's rules. Mandragora intervened just as Lin Luo was about to strike.

• Lin Luo challenged the Gambling Ghost to a wager where the lower dice roll won, and the Gambling Ghost accepted after Lin Luo taunted him.
• The Gambling Ghost rolled triple sixes twice, while Lin Luo rolled lower numbers and won the wager.
• The Gambling Ghost refused to accept defeat and attacked Lin Luo, triggering backlash from the Horror Game's rules that left him gravely weakened.
• Lin Luo chased down the fleeing Gambling Ghost with Ghost Shadow Trace and prepared to smash his head with the Hell Torch.
• Mandragora appeared through a powerful wave of Ghost Power and asked Lin Luo to spare the Gambling Ghost.

Lin Luo met Mandragora after defeating Gambling Ghost and tried to persuade her to help him deal with Alcoholic Ghost. Mandragora recognized Lin Luo’s cleverness but grew angry when he warned that Alcoholic Ghost might threaten her authority.

• Mandragora intervened to stop Lin Luo from killing Gambling Ghost, then invited Lin Luo upstairs.
• Poppy introduced Lin Luo to Mandragora, who tested him by serving tea that appeared to be blood and flesh.
• Lin Luo drank the tea, explained that he knew it was an illusion, and earned Mandragora’s approval.
• Mandragora asked why Lin Luo had provoked Alcoholic Ghost, and Lin Luo pointed to the coming player hunt and Yu’s curse.
• Mandragora rejected helping for Yu’s sake, but Lin Luo warned that Alcoholic Ghost might target her too.
• Mandragora grew angry and released powerful Ghost Power as she insisted she could keep Alcoholic Ghost under control.

Lin Luo agreed to steal Long Kui’s mutated Cat Demon in exchange for Mandragora’s help against the Alcoholic Ghost, then prepared for the task and headed to Long Kui’s home. He reached the Withered Sunflower House but was blocked by a hostile mutated sunflower before he could get inside.

• Mandragora demanded that Lin Luo steal Long Kui’s little wildcat before she would help him deal with the Alcoholic Ghost, and Lin Luo accepted.
• Poppy warned Lin Luo that the little wildcat was a mutated Cat Demon that had killed a ghost general, while Lin Luo prepared by learning the Paper-Binding Technique.
• Poppy arranged for Lin Luo to work as the little wildcat’s feeder at the Withered Sunflower House.
• Lin Luo arrived at the house, where a mutated sunflower demanded his organs as payment for passage and then blocked the way with other sunflowers.

Lin Luo forced the Withered Sunflowers to give him all three of their precious Sunflower Seeds, then reached Long Kui’s house and met the Puppet guarding it. The Puppet tried to deceive Lin Luo, who recognized the lie but pretended to believe him, leaving the Puppet eager to keep him alive for his own amusement.

• Lin Luo attacked the Withered Sunflowers’ strongest member after they threatened him, then refused to accept their apology as enough.
• The Withered Sunflowers offered Lin Luo one Sunflower Seed that could heal injuries and increase Ghost Power, but he demanded all three.
• The Withered Sunflowers surrendered their remaining two seeds, and Lin Luo continued to Long Kui’s house.
• The Puppet guarding the house threatened to eat Lin Luo, but changed his approach after learning that Poppy had assigned him as a keeper.
• The Puppet lied that Sunflower House was welcoming, and Lin Luo pretended to believe him, prompting the Puppet to decide to keep him alive for entertainment.

Lin Luo entered Sunflower House and learned that he had to feed the dangerous stray cat Xiao Ye Fangtooth Fish. He caught a bucketful of fish, while Long Kui watched him from upstairs and reprimanded the marionette.

• The marionette warned Lin Luo to keep his distance from Xiao Ye and told him to feed her Fangtooth Fish.
• A black stray cat ambushed the marionette, and Lin Luo stayed back as the marionette reattached its head and sent him to the pond.
• Lin Luo tried blasting the murky pond but caught no fish, so he made a fishing rod and used sunflower seeds as bait.
• Lin Luo caught more than a dozen Fangtooth Fish and subdued them with his ghost power.
• Long Kui watched Lin Luo from the second floor and told the marionette to remember its place, leaving it trembling in fear.

Long Kui punished the marionette for wanting to attack Lin Luo, then assigned it a task while Lin Luo tried to earn Kitten’s trust by feeding it Fangtooth Fish. When the marionette confronted him, it was stunned to see Kitten calmly beside Lin Luo.

• Long Kui crushed the marionette with Ghost Power when it suggested killing Lin Luo, insisting that Lin Luo had not broken the rules.
• Long Kui watched Lin Luo fish and recognized that he had sensed her gaze, then gave the marionette a task.
• Lin Luo used paper doubles to feed Kitten Fangtooth Fish until it grew docile and let him approach.
• Lin Luo prepared to seize Kitten but noticed the marionette approaching and hid his intentions.
• The marionette warned Lin Luo that previous keepers had died, then stared in shock as Kitten remained peacefully beside him.

Lin Luo used Fangtooth Fish and a Sunflower Seed to win Kitten’s affection, making Puppet increasingly jealous. After Kitten cut off Puppet’s head, Lin Luo confronted it and pointed out that Long Kui had abandoned it as a disposable pawn.

• Puppet threatened Lin Luo and ordered him to feed Kitten properly, while Lin Luo considered getting rid of Puppet.
• Lin Luo lured Kitten to the pond with Fangtooth Fish, and Puppet followed while coveting his Sunflower Seed.
• Lin Luo gave the Sunflower Seed to Kitten, deepening her affection for him and intensifying Puppet’s jealousy.
• Puppet insulted Lin Luo, so Kitten rushed at it and swiped its head off.
• Puppet threatened Lin Luo over the coming fifth day, but Lin Luo told it Long Kui had already discarded it as a disposable pawn.

Lin Luo killed Puppet and accepted Long Kui’s demand that he serve as her keeper, then took Little Wild to gather Sunflower Seeds while Long Kui was away. Long Kui’s trusted Hanged Ghost attacked him for defying her, but Little Wild intervened, and Lin Luo joined the fight.

• Lin Luo crushed Puppet’s head despite Puppet’s plea for mercy.
• Long Kui confronted Lin Luo and made him her keeper, responsible for Little Wild and available whenever she called.
• After Long Kui left to meet Poppy, Lin Luo took Little Wild out to gather Sunflower Seeds.
• Long Kui’s Hanged Ghost accused Lin Luo of disobeying her and attacked him with White Silk.
• Little Wild blocked the Hanged Ghost’s strike, and Lin Luo used Ghost Shadow Trace to charge at her.

Lin Luo and Kitten overwhelmed the Hanged Ghost, who tried to kill Lin Luo with the Falling Red Hairpin after pretending to surrender. Before Lin Luo finished her off, the Hanged Ghost revealed her connection to Zi Qin and warned that Zi Qin would seek revenge.

• Lin Luo unleashed the Hell Torch while Kitten attacked, badly wounding the Hanged Ghost and smashing half her head.
• The Hanged Ghost tried to bargain with Lin Luo, then stabbed him with the Falling Red Hairpin when he reached to accept it.
• Lin Luo survived the attack using the defenses of the Cursed Armor and Silver Ring, pulled out the hairpin, and blocked the Hanged Ghost's escape with Ghost Shadow Trace.
• Kitten struck the weakened Hanged Ghost from behind, and she revealed that Zi Qin had given her the hairpin and that she worked with Zi Qin while serving Long Kui.
• Lin Luo unleashed the Hellhound Pattern at full power, leaving the Hanged Ghost's spectral body completely dimmed as she warned that Zi Qin would come after him.

After destroying the kimono Hanged Ghost and fleeing with Kitten, Lin Luo discovered Mandragora was absent from their meeting place and headed for Heart-Enchantment Garden. Long Kui learned what Lin Luo had done and placed a bounty on him, and two ghosts confronted him before he could enter the garden.

• Lin Luo carried Kitten out of Long Kui's territory, distracting it with a Sunflower Seed as he rushed toward Listening Rain Bamboo Grove.
• Long Kui used a Bronze Mirror to witness Lin Luo killing the kimono Hanged Ghost and realized the ghost had been Zi Qin's mole; Poppy denied sending Lin Luo to provoke her.
• Lin Luo found Mandragora absent from Listening Rain Bamboo Grove and hurried to Heart-Enchantment Garden instead.
• A Blood-Eating Ghost confronted Lin Luo, claiming a bounty for capturing the supposed traitor to Long Kui, but Lin Luo persuaded it that attacking him might bring a backlash.
• A Hanged Ghost arrived and accused Lin Luo of killing its elder sister, confirming that he had broken the rules and prompting the Blood-Eating Ghost to turn against him.

Lin Luo fought the Blood-Eating Ghost and the Hanged Ghost, whose sister he had killed in self-defense. After the Blood-Eating Ghost tried to retreat, Lin Luo blocked his escape and countered his attack with the Hell Torch.

• The Blood-Eating Ghost charged Lin Luo, who struck him with the Hell Torch and dodged his blood-draining attacks.
• The Hanged Ghost tried to hit Lin Luo with her tongue but struck the Blood-Eating Ghost instead, prompting the two ghosts to argue.
• Lin Luo unleashed the Hellhound Pattern, and the Blood-Eating Ghost and Hanged Ghost combined their attacks to stop it.
• Lin Luo confronted the Hanged Ghost about her sister’s death and revealed his immense ghost power, frightening the Blood-Eating Ghost into seeking a way out.
• The Blood-Eating Ghost tried to leave, but Lin Luo blocked his escape and evaporated the blood he spat at him with the Hell Torch.

Lin Luo defeated the Blood-Eating Ghost and the Hanged Ghost, but the Blood-Eating Ghost revealed he had survived and consumed the Hanged Ghost to grow stronger. Lin Luo faced the empowered ghost while exhausted, yet remained confident he would kill him.

• Lin Luo used the Hell Torch to overpower and apparently kill the Blood-Eating Ghost while the Hanged Ghost attacked him.
• Lin Luo struck the Hanged Ghost with the Hellhound Pattern, leaving her too injured to escape or fight back.
• Lin Luo sensed the Blood-Eating Ghost's presence and realized the headless corpse had been playing dead.
• The Blood-Eating Ghost attacked the helpless Hanged Ghost and devoured her blood essence despite her curses.
• The Blood-Eating Ghost grew a second face resembling the Hanged Ghost's and threatened to drain Lin Luo's blood.
• Lin Luo calmly told the Blood-Eating Ghost that he would die there.

Lin Luo summoned the Drunken Ghost, who captured the Blood-Eating Ghost to brew Blood Wine, then entered Heart-Enchantment Garden to meet Miss Mandragora. He reached her residence, where the Gambling Ghost and a blind old woman demanded he pass their test before seeing her.

• Lin Luo summoned the Drunken Ghost, who revealed that the Blood-Eating Ghost could be brewed into Blood Wine.
• The Drunken Ghost defeated the Blood-Eating Ghost and sealed him inside his Wine Gourd to steep the wine.
• The Drunken Ghost asked Lin Luo to wake him on the fifth day, and Lin Luo recalled him into the Ghost Tamer Tattoo.
• Lin Luo crossed the poisonous Mandragora Flowers in Heart-Enchantment Garden and reached Miss Mandragora's secluded residence.
• The Gambling Ghost and a blind old woman guarding the entrance told Lin Luo that he had to pass their test to see Miss Mandragora.

Lin Luo faced the Blind Old Woman, who demanded that he find beautiful eyes to restore her sight. After she attacked him and suffered the Horror Game’s backlash, Mandragora intervened just as Lin Luo prepared to kill her, and Lin Luo spared her at Mandragora’s request.

• The Blind Old Woman demanded that Lin Luo obtain a beautiful pair of eyes for her, and he suggested Mandragora’s eyes to provoke her.
• The Blind Old Woman attacked Lin Luo with her cane, but he dodged her strikes and the Horror Game’s rules made her suffer backlash.
• Lin Luo evaded the Blind Old Woman until her Ghost Power ran low, while the Gambling Ghost refused to help her.
• Lin Luo prepared to finish off the Blind Old Woman with the Hell Torch, but Mandragora asked him to spare her.
• Lin Luo stopped his attack and forgave the Blind Old Woman for Mandragora’s sake.

Lin Luo escaped Long Kui’s wrath after Kitten vouched for him, and Long Kui took him back to the Withered Sunflower House to assign him a task. Mandragora, impressed by his tactics, considered working with him to eliminate the Alcoholic Ghost.

• Mandragora agreed to spare Kitten and join Lin Luo against the Alcoholic Ghost if he escaped Long Kui’s pursuit.
• Long Kui arrived at Heart-Enchantment Garden and accused Lin Luo of betraying her, but Kitten returned to her side and explained that Lin Luo had tried to protect it.
• Lin Luo admitted his fault and accepted Long Kui’s offer to keep serving her in exchange for carrying out a task.
• Mandragora realized Lin Luo had used Kitten’s loyalty to sway Long Kui and considered teaming up with him against the Alcoholic Ghost.
• Long Kui took Lin Luo back to the Withered Sunflower House and told him to carry out her next task properly.

Long Kui ordered Lin Luo to steal the Black Pearl Berry from Tianqin’s Zither Dwelling, and Lin Luo persuaded her to protect him from the Alcoholic Ghost. Unable to find the remote residence, he captured a Headless Ghost to ask for directions.

• Long Kui told Lin Luo to steal the Black Pearl Berry from Tianqin and reminded him that he had stolen Kitten from her.
• Lin Luo explained that Mandragora had made him steal Kitten to help him escape the Alcoholic Ghost, then persuaded Long Kui to help protect him.
• Long Kui agreed to deal with the Alcoholic Ghost and warned Lin Luo to complete his task before returning with Kitten to her room.
• Lin Luo set off for Tianqin’s Zither Dwelling, but got lost while crossing the vast Mandragora Manor.
• A Headless Ghost tried to eat Lin Luo, but Lin Luo struck it with the Hell Torch and stopped it from escaping.
• Lin Luo told the frightened Headless Ghost that he needed its help.

Lin Luo forced the Headless Ghost to guide him through the Mass Grave toward Zither Dwelling and cleared the Haze with the Hell Torch. When a Flaying Ghost attacked, Lin Luo stepped in to protect the Headless Ghost, and the Flaying Ghost prepared to fight him.

• Lin Luo threatened the Headless Ghost into agreeing to lead him to Zither Dwelling.
• Lin Luo and the Headless Ghost entered the Mass Grave, where thick Haze obscured their path.
• Lin Luo used the Hell Torch and the Hellhound Pattern to burn away the Haze and reveal the burial ground.
• A Flaying Ghost emerged from a tombstone and threatened to attack the Headless Ghost.
• Lin Luo used Ghost Shadow Trace to block the Flaying Ghost and warned him not to hurt the Headless Ghost.
• The Flaying Ghost became enraged and declared that he would kill Lin Luo.