Recaps

Lin Luo sent eight powerful paper doppelgangers to search the mansion while he rested, then a bloodied girl asked the group to find her missing face. The girl’s power surged to the threshold of the Ghost King tier, and Snow Woman called on the Chef Ghost and the Maid Ghost to help confront her.

• Lin Luo dodged cursed darts from an unseen attacker and refused to split up, instead creating eight Ghost King-tier paper doppelgangers to search the mansion.
• A girl carrying a koala plush toy approached Lin Luo and asked for help finding her peeled-off face.
• Snow Woman tried to handle the girl, but the girl revealed her mangled face and demanded that they find it or provide a replacement within ten seconds.
• The girl in red erupted with baleful energy and surged to the threshold of the Ghost King tier.
• Snow Woman asked the Chef Ghost and the Maid Ghost to join her against the girl, suspecting that the girl had appeared to target Lin Luo.

Snow Woman, Maid Ghost, and Chef Ghost fought the Little Red-Dressed Female Ghost, but her relentless attacks overwhelmed them before she turned on Lin Luo. Lin Luo blocked her scissors and struck off her head, but she regenerated and threatened him again.

• Snow Woman froze the Little Red-Dressed Female Ghost, who broke free and attacked her with blood-dripping scissors.
• Chef Ghost blocked the Little Red-Dressed Female Ghost’s strike, and Maid Ghost kicked her away before the three ghosts fought her together.
• The Little Red-Dressed Female Ghost injured Maid Ghost and wore down all three defenders with her relentless attacks.
• The Little Red-Dressed Female Ghost rushed Lin Luo and tried to cut off his head, but he blocked her scissors with the Hell Torch.
• Lin Luo smashed the Little Red-Dressed Female Ghost’s head, but she reassembled it and threatened to kill him.

Lin Luo discovered that the Koala Plush Toy was the true body controlling the little ghost girl in red, but it drained and killed her before she could reveal what she knew. After the Koala Plush Toy threatened Lin Luo, he struck it with a Hellhound Pattern, and it extinguished the flames while vowing revenge.

• Lin Luo noticed the little ghost girl in red protected the Koala Plush Toy and confirmed that fire on the toy also harmed her.
• Lin Luo threatened to destroy the Koala Plush Toy unless the little ghost girl in red gave him information about Madam Rose’s corpse or killer.
• Before the little ghost girl in red could answer, the Koala Plush Toy absorbed her blood and Ghost Power, then drained her into ashes.
• The Koala Plush Toy revealed that the little ghost girl in red had been its puppet and threatened to peel off Lin Luo’s face.
• Lin Luo hit the Koala Plush Toy with a Hellhound Pattern, and it extinguished the Hellfire and vowed to make him suffer.

Lin Luo burned the Koala Plush Toy with Nine Netherworld Netherfire, exposing its fusion with Madam Rose’s torso, until the Corpse-Eating Ghost King appeared as a Ghost Baby. Lin Luo destroyed the toy despite the Ghost Baby’s threats, and the chapter ended with the Ghost Baby preparing to attack as the Maid Ghost and Chef Ghost armed themselves to protect Lin Luo.

• Lin Luo burned the Koala Plush Toy with Netherfire, then fused it with Hellfire to create Nine Netherworld Netherfire.
• Lin Luo discovered that the Koala Plush Toy had fused with Madam Rose’s torso and continued burning it despite its claims that the flames could not kill it.
• The Corpse-Eating Ghost King appeared as a pitch-black Ghost Baby and scolded the Koala Plush Toy for failing to defeat Lin Luo.
• Lin Luo ignored the Ghost Baby’s demand to stop and burned the Koala Plush Toy to ashes.
• The Ghost Baby threatened Lin Luo, while the Maid Ghost and Chef Ghost took out their Ghost Artifacts to defend him.

Lin Luo fought Ghost Baby, using his speed to evade the Ghost King Tier monster while uncovering its fear of being absorbed by Corpse-Eating Ghost. After warning Ghost Baby that Corpse-Eating Ghost might soon escape, Lin Luo unleashed his full Ghost Power and attacked with the Hell Torch.

• Lin Luo hit Ghost Baby with Nine Netherworld Netherfire, but corpse oil smothered the flames.
• Lin Luo dodged Ghost Baby's cursed spit and identified its atrophied limbs as a weakness.
• Lin Luo deduced that Ghost Baby was secreted by Corpse-Eating Ghost and feared being absorbed if its parent body escaped.
• Lin Luo warned Ghost Baby that Corpse-Eating Ghost might have a contingency and would soon break free, provoking fear in Ghost Baby.
• Lin Luo raised his Ghost Power to its peak and swung the Hell Torch at Ghost Baby.

Lin Luo and Drunken Ghost overwhelmed Ghost Baby with Nine Netherworld Netherfire, forcing him to surrender Madam Rose’s head. Lin Luo collected the remains and received the Fire Control Technique, but spared Ghost Baby because he needed him for the main quest.

• Lin Luo burned through Ghost Baby’s curse with Nine Netherworld Netherfire and restored his injured arm with Ghost Power.
• Lin Luo summoned Drunken Ghost, who struck Ghost Baby from behind with the Wine Gourd, and they attacked together with Nine Netherworld Netherfire.
• Ghost Baby defended himself with a corpse-oil barrier and offered to stop fighting when the barrier began to weaken.
• Lin Luo demanded Madam Rose’s head, and Ghost Baby pulled it from his mouth and handed it over.
• Lin Luo collected Madam Rose’s head and received the Fire Control Technique from the Horror Game.
• Lin Luo promised not to attack Ghost Baby and withdrew his flames because Ghost Baby was needed for the main quest.

Lin Luo left the Ghost Baby alive and dismissed the Snow Woman, who was then devoured by the Ghost Baby after trying to escape its grasp. At White Rose Cemetery’s exit, Lin Luo encountered a Flaying Ghost and prepared to question it.

• Lin Luo left the Ghost Baby behind and told the Snow Woman she could go, so she fled the cemetery.
• The Snow Woman encountered the injured Ghost Baby, which trapped her with Corpse Oil and devoured her despite her threats to invoke Lin Luo’s protection.
• Lin Luo sensed the Snow Woman’s Ghost Power disappear and continued toward the cemetery exit without regret.
• After eating the Snow Woman, the Ghost Baby recovered and vowed to get hold of something that would make it stronger than Lin Luo and the Corpse-Eating Ghost.
• Lin Luo found the cemetery exit strewn with blood and encountered a Flaying Ghost, which attacked before sensing Lin Luo’s overwhelming Ghost Power and trying to flee.

Lin Luo forced the Flaying Ghost to guide him to the Drunken Immortal Tower, where the Alcoholic Ghost was hiding after placing a bounty on him. At the tower, the Flaying Ghost stood up to the Blue-Faced Ghost, who threatened to torture him.

• Lin Luo learned that the Alcoholic Ghost had put out a wanted notice for him and asked where the Alcoholic Ghost and Mandragora Manor’s Four Great Beauties were.
• Lin Luo caught the Flaying Ghost considering reporting his location and threatened to kill him unless he led him to the Alcoholic Ghost.
• The Flaying Ghost guided Lin Luo, the Chef Ghost, and another accompanying Ghost Creature toward the Drunken Immortal Tower, while Lin Luo explained that a servant of the Alcoholic Ghost was needed to enter safely.
• At the Drunken Immortal Tower, the Blue-Faced Ghost insulted and threatened the Flaying Ghost, but the Flaying Ghost warned him that he was no longer someone to provoke.

Lin Luo stopped the Blue-Faced Ghost from attacking the Flaying Ghost, then used his Ghost Power to immobilize him while the Flaying Ghost tortured him. When the White-Haired Jiangshi arrived to intervene, the Flaying Ghost defied him, provoking a threat of execution.

• Lin Luo halted the Blue-Faced Ghost and overwhelmed him with Ghost Power, leaving him unable to move.
• Lin Luo told the ghosts to settle their private grudge, and the Flaying Ghost seized the chance to attack the Blue-Faced Ghost.
• The Flaying Ghost took the Blue-Faced Ghost's spiked club and used it to stab and torture him despite his pleas for mercy.
• The White-Haired Jiangshi arrived and threatened the Flaying Ghost for causing trouble in the Drunken Immortal Tower.
• The Flaying Ghost insulted the White-Haired Jiangshi, who vowed to subject him to a cruel execution.

Lin Luo protected the Flaying Ghost at the Drunken Immortal Tower and fought the White-Haired Jiangshi, who summoned a ghost tide. Lin Luo destroyed the tide with Nine Netherworld Netherfire and moved to kill the Jiangshi, but a powerful Ghost King-tier attack struck before he could finish him.

• Lin Luo stopped the White-Haired Jiangshi from attacking the Flaying Ghost and identified him as a friend.
• The White-Haired Jiangshi attacked Lin Luo, who burned him with hellfire and taunted him until he called the Hundred Ghosts of the Drunken Immortal Tower to attack.
• Lin Luo aligned his aura with the Drunken Ghost's and unleashed Nine Netherworld Netherfire, destroying the ghost tide.
• Lin Luo approached the White-Haired Jiangshi to kill him, but an immense surge of Ghost King-tier power struck him, and an unseen opponent vowed to make him pay for their last encounter.

Lin Luo confronted Alcoholic Ghost, who claimed Mandragora and the other beauties were dead after he lured them into a trap with Corpse-Eating Ghost. Alcoholic Ghost revealed his Ghost Tide had been destroyed, then reached the Ghost King Tier and prepared to fight Lin Luo and Drunken Ghost.

• Alcoholic Ghost told Lin Luo that Mandragora and the others had been trapped with Corpse-Eating Ghost and were already dead.
• Lin Luo summoned Drunken Ghost, and Alcoholic Ghost ordered White-Haired Jiangshi to unleash the Ghost Tide.
• White-Haired Jiangshi revealed that Lin Luo had already killed the Ghost Tide, enraging Alcoholic Ghost.
• Lin Luo pierced White-Haired Jiangshi's head with the Hell Torch and burned him to charcoal, undermining Alcoholic Ghost's authority.
• Alcoholic Ghost revealed his Ghost King Tier power, and Lin Luo reassured Drunken Ghost that they could still defeat him.

Lin Luo and the Drunken Ghost fought the Alcoholic Ghost, whose Ghost King power and resentment let him counter Lin Luo’s Paper-Binding Technique. The Alcoholic Ghost trapped them in his completed Ghost Domain and focused on killing Lin Luo, but Lin Luo’s hidden trump card shocked him.

• The Alcoholic Ghost attacked Lin Luo, but Lin Luo revealed himself and created eight Paper Doppelgangers with the Paper-Binding Technique.
• The Alcoholic Ghost’s resentment eroded the Paper Doppelgangers, so Lin Luo and the Drunken Ghost combined their Nine Netherworld Netherfire to counter his cursed tornado.
• The Drunken Ghost confronted the Alcoholic Ghost, who unleashed his complete Ghost Domain and targeted Lin Luo with wind blades and a tornado.
• Lin Luo burned away the wind blades with Nine Netherworld Netherfire while the Alcoholic Ghost kept the Drunken Ghost occupied.
• Lin Luo played his trump card, leaving the Alcoholic Ghost shocked.

Lin Luo used Nine Netherworld Netherfire and the Fire Control Technique to destroy Alcoholic Ghost’s Ghost Domain, allowing Drunken Ghost to absorb him. After Drunken Ghost devoured Alcoholic Ghost, Lin Luo advanced to the Ghost King Tier.

• Lin Luo shaped Nine Netherworld Netherfire into a taotie that burned through Alcoholic Ghost’s Ghost Domain and its cursed resentment.
• Drunken Ghost used Alcoholic Ghost’s weakened state to turn the fight around and provoke him into losing control.
• Alcoholic Ghost tried to detonate his ghost power, but Drunken Ghost absorbed it into the Wine Gourd.
• Drunken Ghost devoured Alcoholic Ghost and grew stronger.
• Lin Luo advanced to the Ghost King Tier.

After absorbing Alcoholic Ghost, Lin Luo used Ghost Baby to find the secret chamber holding Corpse-Eating Ghost beneath the Drunken Immortal Tower. He broke into the chamber and began fighting the more powerful ghost, while Ghost Baby watched from hiding.

• Lin Luo forced Ghost Baby out of hiding with Nine Netherworld Netherfire and made him agree to reveal the dungeon’s location.
• Ghost Baby led Lin Luo to the secret chamber at the bottom of the Drunken Immortal Tower, secretly hoping Lin Luo and Corpse-Eating Ghost would kill each other.
• Lin Luo smashed open the chamber door with the Hell Torch and heard Corpse-Eating Ghost mistake him for a gift from Alcoholic Ghost.
• Corpse-Eating Ghost tried to drag Lin Luo inside with a ghost hand, but Lin Luo burned it with Nine Netherworld Netherfire.
• Corpse-Eating Ghost sent more ghost hands after Lin Luo, who burned them away and said he would enter the chamber.

Lin Luo entered Corpse-Eating Ghost’s chamber to rescue Mandragora Manor’s Four Great Beauties and defeat the powerful Ghost King. After being wounded, he summoned Drunken Ghost and renewed his attack, leaving both combatants fighting desperately.

• Lin Luo entered the secret chamber and revealed his Ghost King Tier power with Nine Netherworld Netherfire.
• Lin Luo discovered the Four Great Beauties trapped in cocoons and learned Alcoholic Ghost had helped Corpse-Eating Ghost capture them.
• Corpse-Eating Ghost attacked Lin Luo with Cursed Power, overpowering him and leaving him badly wounded.
• Lin Luo summoned Drunken Ghost, merged their Ghost Power, and attacked Corpse-Eating Ghost with the Hell Torch.
• Corpse-Eating Ghost tore flesh from Lin Luo and infected his wound with Cursed Power, but Lin Luo charged back at him with Nine Netherworld Netherfire.
• Ghost Baby watched from the shadows and hoped their deadly clash would leave him the winner.

Lin Luo fell after his attack wounded the Corpse-Eating Ghost, and the Ghost Baby took the chance to ambush him and launch a prepared assault with Madam Rose’s puppet. The Corpse-Eating Ghost turned the Ghost Domain against the Ghost Baby and sealed its entrance, trapping him in a fight he could no longer escape.

• Lin Luo struck the Corpse-Eating Ghost with a taotie formed from Nine Netherworld Netherfire, then collapsed from the curse that had hit him.
• The Ghost Baby ambushed the injured Corpse-Eating Ghost, bit his neck, and sent in a puppet made from Madam Rose, whose soul he had sealed and refined.
• The Corpse-Eating Ghost activated his Ghost Domain, where blood-drenched crows attacked as the Ghost Baby merged with the puppet and fought back.
• The Ghost Baby tore the Corpse-Eating Ghost apart but could not break the still-active Ghost Domain, while Lin Luo warned him not to let his guard down.
• The Ghost Baby pretended to leave, but the Corpse-Eating Ghost sealed the Ghost Domain’s entrance and revealed that he had lured him into a trap.

The Ghost Baby tried to escape the Corpse-Eating Ghost’s absorption, but Lin Luo intervened, killed the Ghost Baby, and earned the Fire Control Technique. The Corpse-Eating Ghost turned his full fury on Lin Luo, whose Nine Netherworld Netherfire burned away the cursed flesh as their battle continued.

• The Ghost Baby detonated Madam Rose’s puppet, damaging the Corpse-Eating Ghost’s Ghost Domain and then preparing to ignite his ghost blood.
• Lin Luo struck the Corpse-Eating Ghost with the Hell Torch, shattering his head and freeing the Ghost Baby from the clinging flesh.
• Lin Luo burned the weakened Ghost Baby to ashes with Nine Netherworld Netherfire and received the Fire Control Technique as a quest reward.
• The Corpse-Eating Ghost regenerated his head, unleashed greater ghost power, and sent cursed flesh toward Lin Luo.
• Lin Luo burned away the curse in the attacking flesh with Nine Netherworld Netherfire, showing the Corpse-Eating Ghost that his power could counter the curse.

Lin Luo fought the Corpse-Eating Ghost, whose strength and grotesque true form proved far more dangerous than expected. Lin Luo answered by revealing his own Ghost Domain, leaving the Corpse-Eating Ghost alarmed at the threat he posed.

• The Corpse-Eating Ghost tried to devour Lin Luo, but Lin Luo attacked with Nine Netherworld Netherfire and burned away the ghost's flesh growths.
• The Corpse-Eating Ghost ambushed Lin Luo, but Lin Luo unleashed six fire taotie that struck and severely burned him.
• The Corpse-Eating Ghost burst the veins across his body, greatly increasing his power and revealing his terrifying true form.
• The Corpse-Eating Ghost spat out heat-resistant sticky threads and bounced Lin Luo's flames back at him, but Lin Luo regained control with the Fire Control Technique.
• Lin Luo harmonized his aura with the Drunken Ghost's and summoned his Ghost Domain, whose volcanic heat rivaled the Corpse-Eating Ghost's domain.

Lin Luo defeated the Corpse-Eating Ghost with the Drunken Ghost’s help and was recognized as Mandragora Manor’s master. The Horror Game awarded him an S-rank clearance, drawing widespread attention and jealousy from the high-ranked player Graveyard Disco.

• Lin Luo used his Hell Netherfire Star to critically injure the Corpse-Eating Ghost, but exhausted his Ghost Power in the process.
• The Drunken Ghost attacked the Corpse-Eating Ghost from behind with Nine Netherworld Netherfire and burned him to ash, freeing Mandragora Manor’s Four Great Beauties.
• Mandragora offered Lin Luo control of Mandragora Manor, and he accepted after the others agreed to recognize him as their master.
• The Horror Game awarded Lin Luo 80,000 Ghost Coins and the Netherworld Tier movement technique Phantom Shadow Unfettered, giving him an S-rank rating and announcing his achievement server-wide.
• Graveyard Disco, jealous of Lin Luo’s new fame, posted that Lin Luo was merely lucky and would fail in an S-rank Instance.

After clearing Mandragora Manor, Lin Luo took Chen Yuling’s cursed job application for Green Mountain Clinic and prepared to enter the C-rank instance. As they ate before being transported, Wang Yao confronted Chen Yuling.

• Lin Luo returned from Mandragora Manor, where Liu Yanyan and Wen Hui thanked him for helping them survive, then went home to rest.
• Lin Luo discovered that Chen Yuling had been given a job application for Green Mountain Clinic by Wang Yao, whose curse would weaken by passing the application to someone else.
• Chen Yuling tried to keep Lin Luo from getting involved, but he revealed his strength and took the application, weakening the curse on her.
• With half an hour before the Green Mountain Clinic instance began, Lin Luo took Chen Yuling to a restaurant, where they ate a large meal together.
• Wang Yao arrived and accused Chen Yuling of eating without inviting her, and Chen Yuling angrily said she had already cut ties with her.

Lin Luo and Chen Yuling entered Green Mountain Clinic with Wang Yao and Qian Gui, where they faced a three-day survival quest and an optional investigation into missing patients. After Li Yong tried to assert authority and pressure Chen Yuling, Lin Luo challenged him, and a woman interrupted Li Yong before he could attack.

• Wang Yao tried to take Lin Luo and Chen Yuling's food, and Lin Luo slapped her after she attempted to strike him.
• Qian Gui arrived and threatened Lin Luo, but the Horror Game transported all four of them to Green Mountain Clinic.
• The game assigned the players a three-day survival quest and an optional quest to investigate patient disappearances.
• Li Yong introduced himself as a Silver Player and promised to protect the others if they followed his orders.
• Li Yong propositioned Chen Yuling, who refused and took Lin Luo's arm; Li Yong then threatened Lin Luo.
• Lin Luo dismissed Li Yong, who gathered ghost power to attack before a woman warned him she would stab him.

Players arriving at Green Mountain Clinic encountered a terrifying old ghost whose power suggested the C-tier instance was far more dangerous than it appeared. After he punished two newcomers for breaking the clinic’s rules, Qian Gui urged him to punish another player, leaving Chen Yuling and Little Green Snake furious.

• Li Yong tried to recruit Little Green Snake as his girlfriend, but she insulted him and rejected him.
• An old man arrived, and Lin Luo sensed that the apparently frail figure was a powerful ghost king-tier being.
• After a bronze-tier player mocked him, the old man tore off the player's arm and ate it as punishment.
• The old man ordered Wang Yao to eat her vomit after she dirtied the floor, and she obeyed to save her life.
• Lin Luo warned Chen Yuling to be careful, while Qian Gui asked the old man to punish a player for slacking, angering Chen Yuling and Little Green Snake.

Uncle Fu assigned the players jobs at Green Mountain Clinic and punished Qian Gui for falsely accusing Lin Luo. Lin Luo was sent to work as an intern doctor, where he met Doctor Ghost and watched Wang Tao face a hundred self-inflicted slaps.

• Lin Luo calmly challenged Uncle Fu's accusation, so Uncle Fu turned on Qian Gui and smashed his left hand with a cane for making an unsupported complaint.
• Uncle Fu introduced himself as the clinic's security team captain and assigned jobs to the twenty players, sending Lin Luo to the dangerous intern doctor post.
• Lin Luo asked Little Green Snake to protect Chen Yuling, and she agreed in exchange for a favor.
• Lin Luo and Wang Tao reached the Outpatient Room and met the huge, faceless Doctor Ghost; Lin Luo introduced himself politely while Wang Tao froze in fear.
• Doctor Ghost ordered Wang Tao to slap himself a hundred times and warned that he would take his head if Wang Tao faked it.

Lin Luo faced Doctor Ghost, Wang Tao, and a more powerful Bandage Ghost at the Clinic, refusing to be intimidated or let Wang Tao sacrifice him. While examining Bandage Ghost, Lin Luo secretly read its memories and learned how it had been burned by its wife.

• Wang Tao slapped himself a hundred times at Doctor Ghost’s command, then suggested that Lin Luo should be made to slap himself too.
• Lin Luo rejected Doctor Ghost’s attempts to intimidate him and told Wang Tao he was trash, angering them both.
• Bandage Ghost entered the Clinic, and Doctor Ghost promptly left; Wang Tao pointed at Lin Luo and claimed he was the doctor.
• Lin Luo struck Wang Tao for ordering him around, then calmly asked Bandage Ghost to sit and hold out its hand.
• Lin Luo touched Bandage Ghost and used Crimson Demon Finger to read its memories, discovering that its wife had burned it with gasoline after enduring its abuse.

Lin Luo used Hell Netherfire to make the Bandage Ghost back down, then let him turn on Wang Tao, who had framed him. The Bandage Ghost nearly dragged Wang Tao away, but the Doctor Ghost stopped him by invoking the Clinic Owner’s authority.

• Lin Luo recognized that the Bandage Ghost was cured and had only come to the Clinic to torment players, then scared him off with a flash of Hell Netherfire.
• Lin Luo told the Bandage Ghost that Wang Tao was not a doctor, so the Bandage Ghost attacked Wang Tao after he mocked him with a lighter.
• The Bandage Ghost punched Wang Tao, who begged for mercy, then dragged him toward the exit despite his pleas.
• The Doctor Ghost returned and warned the Bandage Ghost that Wang Tao was a temporary worker under the Clinic Owner’s authority.
• The Bandage Ghost hesitated at the mention of the Clinic Owner and demanded compensation rather than continuing to take Wang Tao away.