Recaps

Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian followed the sleazy ghost away from the Demon Tree, where he revealed that the village planned to sacrifice the players during a ceremony in three days. Lin Luo agreed to let the ghost join them, though he suspected the ghost’s betrayal might be part of a conspiracy.

• Lin Luo frightened the ghosts gathered by the Demon Tree into leaving, and the sleazy ghost stayed behind because the village chief ghost threatened him.
• Lin Luo offered to protect the sleazy ghost in exchange for useful information, and the ghost led Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian to a dilapidated hut.
• The sleazy ghost revealed that the Demon Tree absorbed players and their souls, and that the village planned to sacrifice them during a ceremony in three days.
• The sleazy ghost explained that the Divine Tree would strengthen the village ghosts during the ceremony, and said he wanted to join Lin Luo against them.
• Lin Luo suspected the village chief ghost had allowed the sleazy ghost to escape for a reason, but agreed to let him join them.

Lin Luo returned to Farmer’s house with Bai Qianqian and Wretched Ghost, where he overpowered Shrewish Ghost and forced Farmer to apologize for her. Farmer concealed his anger and continued treating Lin Luo courteously, while two new players watched and hoped to gain his protection.

• Wretched Ghost followed Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian back to Farmer’s house, where Eyeless Child nervously welcomed them inside.
• Shrewish Ghost tried to intimidate Lin Luo by transforming the house, but Lin Luo’s stronger ghost power shattered her illusion and injured her.
• Farmer arrived with a man and a woman, slapped Shrewish Ghost, and apologized to Lin Luo for her behavior.
• Lin Luo warned Farmer against beating his wife, and Farmer and Shrewish Ghost forced themselves to apologize to him.
• Farmer offered to prepare a feast as an apology while the two players looked to Lin Luo for protection.

Farmer invited Lin Luo and the other players to a deadly feast, killing one player who refused and using the meal to ensnare the guests. Lin Luo resisted the stew’s mind-clouding fragrance, but Farmer and his family remained a threat as the chapter ended.

• Lin Luo accepted Farmer’s invitation, while the yellow-haired player refused and Farmer killed him with a surge of ghost power.
• Farmer had Shrewish Ghost remove the corpse, and Lin Luo warned the terrified crew-cut player that he would have to fend for himself.
• Farmer and Fierce Woman brought out the feast, and Wretched Ghost provoked Fierce Woman before Farmer forced him to stop.
• Fierce Woman revealed a pot of rotten meat crawling with maggots, and its fragrance drove the crew-cut player to eat until Lin Luo struck him back to his senses.

Lin Luo traded the buzz-cut man’s Ghost Artifact map for his life, then foiled Farmer’s attempt to exploit the feast rules. Farmer revealed the frightening power of a Burned-to-Death Ghost, and Wretched Ghost tried to appease him with an offer.

• Fierce Woman Ghost tried to take the buzz-cut man away, but Lin Luo agreed to save him in exchange for his Ghost Artifact map of Barren Mountain.
• Farmer offered Lin Luo filthy rotten meat to provoke him, but Lin Luo pointed out that it had not been washed clean and thwarted the trap.
• Farmer slapped Fierce Woman Ghost, while Wretched Ghost mocked him for beating his wife and the two traded insults.
• Wretched Ghost offered to become Fierce Woman Ghost’s new husband, provoking Farmer to reveal his bloody flesh and unleash terrifying ghost power.
• Wretched Ghost asked Lin Luo for help, but Lin Luo refused, so Wretched Ghost offered Farmer something good instead.

Wretched Ghost gave Farmer a high-tier hand bone to secure a temporary stay, while Lin Luo grew suspicious of his motives. Lin Luo refused to promise the crew-cut man further protection, and after Bai Qianqian drove him from the room, Wretched Ghost stopped Fierce Woman from attacking him and struck him for misreading his intentions.

• Wretched Ghost gave Farmer a pitch-black high-tier ghost artifact hand bone in exchange for staying at his house, and Farmer accepted despite Fierce Woman's displeasure.
• Lin Luo suspected Wretched Ghost had another motive and returned to his room with Bai Qianqian and the crew-cut man.
• Lin Luo told the crew-cut man that the map only secured one rescue, then refused to protect him or return it.
• The crew-cut man insulted Bai Qianqian, who revealed her strength by slapping him out of the room.
• Fierce Woman targeted the crew-cut man, but Wretched Ghost claimed him for himself and struck him after he mistook the remark for a sexual advance.

Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian faced the ghosts’ schemes as Farmer and Wretched Ghost plotted to kill Lin Luo. Lin Luo exposed their plan and warned Farmer that Wretched Ghost intended to betray him, then revealed that the black hand bones had been tampered with.

• Wretched Ghost made the buzz-cut man his human slave after beating him nearly to death.
• Bai Qianqian worried that Farmer and Wretched Ghost might join forces, but Lin Luo said he could turn them against each other.
• Farmer agreed to Wretched Ghost’s plan to use the buzz-cut man as bait and ambush Lin Luo with the black hand bones.
• The buzz-cut man provoked Lin Luo, but Lin Luo invoked his tenant rights and forced Farmer to punish the man.
• Lin Luo detected Farmer’s planned ambush and warned him that Wretched Ghost would betray him after the backlash.
• Lin Luo revealed that the black hand bones had been tampered with to work against Wretched Ghost.

Lin Luo exposed Wretched Ghost’s deception, turning Farmer against him and triggering a fierce battle between the two ghosts. As Farmer’s ghost fire overwhelmed Wretched Ghost’s poisonous blood, Lin Luo suspected Farmer was not truly fighting to protect his family.

• Lin Luo revealed that Wretched Ghost had concealed the black hand bone’s corrosive power, and Farmer realized he had been tricked.
• Farmer attacked Wretched Ghost with his hoe, forcing Wretched Ghost to reveal his true form as a powerful Flaying Ghost.
• Wretched Ghost wounded Farmer with his poisonous blood, but Farmer burned it away with intensified ghost fire.
• Lin Luo taunted Farmer about his wife and son, while Bai Qianqian hoped the ghosts would kill each other.
• Lin Luo noticed Farmer’s behavior did not fit his knowledge of the selfish Burned-to-Death Ghost and suspected something was wrong.

Lin Luo dodged Flat-Headed Man’s poisoned dagger, then watched him burn to ashes when Farmer’s ghostfire consumed him. Lin Luo joined Farmer against Wretched Ghost, leaving the badly wounded ghost struggling to survive.

• Flat-Headed Man attacked Lin Luo from behind with a poisoned dagger, but Lin Luo dodged using Ghost Shadow Trace.
• Ghostfire erupted from Flat-Headed Man, and Farmer’s ghostfire burned him to ashes while the nearby ghosts watched.
• Lin Luo offered to help Farmer defeat Wretched Ghost, prompting Farmer to attack Wretched Ghost with ghostfire and his farming hoe.
• Lin Luo slashed Wretched Ghost with his bloodstained Kitchen Knife, and Wretched Ghost retaliated with a sickle but missed.
• Farmer and Lin Luo kept attacking Wretched Ghost until his body was covered in wounds and he feared he would die.

Lin Luo and Farmer fought the gravely wounded Wretched Ghost after his black hand bone exploded and injured Farmer. Wretched Ghost fled, leaving Lin Luo facing Farmer and the Fierce Woman ghost, whose hostility toward him grew.

• Wretched Ghost triggered the black hand bone on Farmer, causing a powerful explosion that left Farmer badly injured.
• Wretched Ghost urged Farmer to join forces against Lin Luo, but Lin Luo persuaded Farmer to let him handle Wretched Ghost.
• Lin Luo struck Wretched Ghost with the Blood Rope, but Wretched Ghost fled before they could stop him.
• Farmer threatened Lin Luo, then backed down when Lin Luo pointed out that Farmer was too injured to win.
• The Fierce Woman ghost urged Farmer to attack Lin Luo, but Farmer silenced her, and Lin Luo suggested that Farmer kill her and find a new wife.

After weakening the Farmer, Lin Luo left to investigate the living sacrifice and destroy the village’s Demon Tree before it could empower the ghosts. He killed the Blue-Faced, Fanged Evil Ghost and forced the Hanged Ghost to offer information, but the Demon Tree awakened and confronted him.

• The Farmer pretended to reconcile with the Shrewish Ghost, and Lin Luo left with Bai Qianqian after deciding to act while the Farmer and Wretched Ghost were injured.
• Bai Qianqian guided Lin Luo through the village to the Demon Tree, which he suspected would awaken during the living sacrifice and strengthen the ghosts.
• The Blue-Faced, Fanged Evil Ghost blocked their way, but Lin Luo feigned innocence and then killed him with the Blood Rope.
• Lin Luo threatened the Hanged Ghost until she agreed to share what she knew about the village.
• The Demon Tree attacked the Hanged Ghost with a vine, which Lin Luo severed with the bloodstained Kitchen Knife.
• The Demon Tree revealed a ghostly face and challenged Lin Luo, who defiantly refused to back down.

Lin Luo fought the Man-Faced Tree at Sunset Village’s entrance, using the Blood Rope to injure it before escaping with Bai Qianqian and the Hanged Ghost. He then asked the Hanged Ghost to reveal everything he knew, knowing the tree could move freely on the day of the living sacrifice.

• The Man-Faced Tree attacked Lin Luo and the Hanged Ghost, and Bai Qianqian cut off the Hanged Ghost’s pierced arm to stop the poison from spreading.
• Lin Luo recognized that the Man-Faced Tree was rooted in place and told Bai Qianqian to take the Hanged Ghost away, but the tree summoned two Man-Faced Fruits to block their escape.
• Lin Luo used the Blood Rope to strike the Man-Faced Tree and discovered that it aggravated the tree’s old injuries.
• Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian destroyed the Man-Faced Fruits, collected their fragments, and escaped with the Hanged Ghost beyond the village entrance.
• Lin Luo warned that the Man-Faced Tree would be more dangerous on the day of the living sacrifice and asked the Hanged Ghost to share what he knew.

Lin Luo learned that the Man-Faced Tree feared the Hell Torch, which required three high-tier Ghost Artifacts, and followed the Hanged Ghost to Village Chief Murphy's home. After the Hanged Ghost attacked a Drowned Ghost, Murphy intervened, but Lin Luo stopped him from killing the Hanged Ghost, leaving Murphy to offer the ghost a chance to atone.

• The Hanged Ghost told Lin Luo that the Man-Faced Tree controlled the village exits and could be burned with the Hell Torch, assembled from Murphy's Head, Baal's Ghost Eyes, and the Dark Horn.
• The Hanged Ghost said Village Chief Murphy had stolen his wife and made him serve as the Man-Faced Tree's guard, then led Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian to Murphy's home.
• A Drowned Ghost tried to attack Lin Luo, and the Hanged Ghost struck him with the White Silk Ghost Artifact, accusing him of destroying his family.
• Village Chief Murphy appeared and tried to punish the Hanged Ghost, but Lin Luo blocked Murphy's cane and persuaded him to spare the ghost for now.

Lin Luo entered Village Chief Murphy’s haunted residence and agreed to examine Murphy’s bedridden son, a sleeping ghost. The chapter ended with Lin Luo facing the enormous, bluish-purple patient on a sandalwood bed.

• Village Chief Murphy humiliated the Hanged Ghost by ordering him to serve his own wife, and Lin Luo stopped him from retaliating.
• Lin Luo persuaded Murphy to let him enter the residence, where he sensed its powerful resentment and dispelled some of it with his Ghost Power.
• Murphy offered Lin Luo tea, but Lin Luo revealed he had come as a doctor and agreed to treat Murphy’s son.
• The Hanged Ghost warned Bai Qianqian that Murphy’s son was an incurable sleeping ghost, but Bai trusted Lin Luo’s medical skill.
• Lin Luo followed Murphy into a side room and saw his enormously fat, bluish-purple son lying unconscious on a sandalwood bed.

Lin Luo forced the sleeping drugs from Sleep Ghost, awakening him and exposing Village Chief Murphy’s attempt to keep his son subdued. Sleep Ghost turned on his father, and their battle threatened to tear apart the blood-soaked side room.

• Lin Luo used Crimson Demon Finger to inspect Sleep Ghost’s memories and learned of his crimes and Village Chief Murphy’s decision to drug him into a deathlike sleep.
• Lin Luo punched Sleep Ghost and forced sleeping drugs from his body, prompting Village Chief Murphy to attack him.
• Lin Luo used Sleep Ghost as a shield, causing Village Chief Murphy to strike his son and get sprayed with blood and drugs.
• Sleep Ghost awakened, accused Village Chief Murphy of poisoning him, and attacked him while Hanged Ghost prepared to fight.
• Village Chief Murphy and Sleep Ghost clashed with powerful Ghost Power, damaging the room as Sleep Ghost declared his father could not defeat him.

Village Chief Murphy and Sleep Ghost fought inside the Haunted House while Hanged Ghost tried to reunite with his wife, Xiaomei. After Xiaomei betrayed him and Lin Luo wounded her, Hanged Ghost prepared to take her with him to hell.

• Village Chief Murphy and Sleep Ghost revealed their true forms and clashed, shaking the Haunted House.
• Hanged Ghost rushed toward Xiaomei despite Lin Luo's warning, but she stabbed him with a Soul-Reaping Nail.
• Xiaomei admitted she hated Hanged Ghost and blamed him for ruining her life in the Haunted House.
• Xiaomei attacked Lin Luo with Soul-Reaping Nails, but he struck her with the Blood Rope and exposed her strangled-ghost form.
• Hanged Ghost confronted Xiaomei with a strip of white silk as she pleaded for Village Chief Murphy to protect her.

The Hanged Ghost killed the female ghost in green and collapsed, while Lin Luo joined Village Chief Murphy to fight the nearly indestructible Sleep Ghost. The Sleep Ghost tore open Village Chief Murphy’s belly, and Murphy revealed that his son’s stomach was his weakness.

• The Hanged Ghost strangled the female ghost in green with the White Silk, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Village Chief Murphy fought the Sleep Ghost with his cane, but the Sleep Ghost endured the barrage and threatened to kill him.
• Lin Luo joined Village Chief Murphy and struck the Sleep Ghost with the Blood Rope, then fought him with the bloodstained Kitchen Knife.
• Lin Luo and Village Chief Murphy battered the Sleep Ghost into a heap, but the Sleep Ghost regenerated into a faster, skinless form and ripped open Village Chief Murphy’s belly.
• Lin Luo asked Village Chief Murphy for the Sleep Ghost’s weakness, and Murphy told him to attack his stomach.

Lin Luo fought the Sleeping Ghost as it battled Village Chief Murphy, weakening it with his strange methods before the Sleeping Ghost struck him into a side room. Murphy then confronted his badly wounded son, while Bai Qianqian prepared to attack.

• The Sleeping Ghost strengthened the membranes around its stomach, then cut Village Chief Murphy in half with the Meat-Cleaver, but Murphy smashed its head apart with his cane.
• The Sleeping Ghost regenerated its head and released poisonous purple smoke, forcing Lin Luo to retreat with Bai Qianqian.
• The Sleeping Ghost attacked Lin Luo, but Lin Luo used Ghost Shadow Trace and the Blood Rope’s red light to evade and repel it.
• Lin Luo said he had paralyzed the Sleeping Ghost, whose Ghost Power and defensive membranes began to weaken as stabbing pain seized its abdomen.
• The Sleeping Ghost feigned weakness, then struck Lin Luo into a side room with the Meat-Cleaver, leaving his fate unknown.
• Murphy blocked the wounded Sleeping Ghost from escaping and declared he would take its life, while Bai Qianqian prepared to risk an attack.

Village Chief Murphy and Sleep Ghost fought to the brink of mutual destruction, while Lin Luo recovered from his wounds and revealed that he had used their hatred to create an opening. Lin Luo struck Village Chief Murphy with the Blood Rope, leaving both ghosts vulnerable and making him the apparent victor.

• Village Chief Murphy unleashed the haunted house's resentment to trap and wear down Sleep Ghost.
• Sleep Ghost detonated his body, blasting the haunted house in half and gravely wounding Village Chief Murphy and himself.
• Lin Luo emerged from a side room, having survived Sleep Ghost's attack and deliberately allowed himself to be wounded as part of his plan.
• Village Chief Murphy tried to persuade Lin Luo to stay out of the family conflict, then threatened to join forces with Sleep Ghost against him.
• Lin Luo struck Village Chief Murphy with the Blood Rope, sending him flying as Bai Qianqian realized Lin Luo had won the reversal.

Lin Luo defeated the Sleep Ghost and Village Chief Murphy after they tried to trick him into sparing their lives. He absorbed the Sleep Ghost's ghost power and killed Village Chief Murphy, whose corpse began changing as a dangerous surge of ghost power emerged.

• The Sleep Ghost ambushed Lin Luo with poisonous fog, but Lin Luo had sealed his acupoints and resisted it.
• The Sleep Ghost and Village Chief Murphy both offered to work with Lin Luo, then agreed to attack him together when he said only one could live.
• Village Chief Murphy fled instead of fighting, and Lin Luo destroyed the Sleep Ghost's remnant soul and absorbed its ghost power with the Ghost-Raising Art.
• Lin Luo used Ghost Shadow Trace to catch up with Village Chief Murphy, then cut him in half and beheaded him despite his pleas for mercy.
• Village Chief Murphy's body began changing, releasing ghost-power fluctuations that made Lin Luo sense danger.

Lin Luo exposed the Hanged Ghost as a disguise for a cunning ghost baby and fought him over Murphy’s head. The clash left Lin Luo gaining the upper hand, while the ghost baby remained cornered inside the collapsing Haunted House.

• Lin Luo suspected the motionless Hanged Ghost was still alive and blasted his body apart, forcing the ghost baby hiding inside to reveal himself.
• The ghost baby demanded Murphy’s head, but Lin Luo refused and learned that collecting the Hell Torch had triggered a quest for a Hell-level high-tier contract scroll.
• The ghost baby attacked Lin Luo with corpse poison and overwhelming Ghost Power, but Lin Luo countered and fought back.
• Their clashes shook the Haunted House and drove the lesser ghosts to flee, while Lin Luo gradually gained the advantage over the weakened ghost baby.

Lin Luo took Murphy's head from the Ghost Baby and discovered it was a high-tier ghost artifact. After the weakened Ghost Baby tore off his umbilical cord and nearly overwhelmed Lin Luo, Lin Luo combined Murphy's head with the Blood Rope, forcing the Ghost Baby to flee.

• Lin Luo dodged the Ghost Baby's attack, picked up Murphy's head, and transformed it into a blood-colored crystal.
• Lin Luo used Murphy's head against the Ghost Baby, whose weakened body took the worst of their clash.
• The Ghost Baby tore off his umbilical cord to unleash greater power, then grazed Lin Luo with poisonous saliva that consumed much of his ghost power.
• Lin Luo recognized that Murphy's head and the Blood Rope were both components of the Hell Torch and used them together.
• The artifacts combined and set the Ghost Baby's ghost power ablaze, forcing him to flee while vowing revenge.

Lin Luo returned to the Farmer’s home and demanded to know where Baal’s Ghost Eyes were, threatening the Farmer when he hesitated. The Farmer feared Lin Luo might assemble the Hell Torch, and the chapter left him weighing his own survival against the village’s fate.

• After Lin Luo left, the ghosts in Sunset Village turned to the Sickly Ghost, who planned to use the Man-Faced Tree’s Ghost Power to kill Lin Luo.
• Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian returned to the Farmer’s home, where the Eyeless Child greeted Lin Luo fearfully.
• Lin Luo confronted the recovering Farmer, and his Ghost Power frightened the Shrewish Ghost into silence.
• The Farmer apologized for his wife and agreed to answer Lin Luo’s questions.
• Lin Luo asked where Baal’s Ghost Eyes were, and the Farmer realized Lin Luo might already possess the other parts of the Hell Torch.
• Lin Luo threatened the Farmer, who feared him but was unwilling to sacrifice himself for the village.

Lin Luo entered the Sickly Ghost’s haunted house to find Baal’s Ghost Eyes and used his strength to free the Maid Ghost from her deadly plate-counting rule. He obtained a detailed map of the house and continued inside, where a hearty laugh greeted him.

• The Farmer told Lin Luo that the Sickly Ghost had stolen his son’s Baal’s Ghost Eyes, and Lin Luo left to prepare for the Sacrifice.
• Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian reached the Sickly Ghost’s grand haunted house, where the Maid Ghost challenged them to count her plates.
• After a rule notification offered a map as a reward, Lin Luo seized the plates, smashed them, and declared that none remained.
• The Maid Ghost’s obsession vanished, and Lin Luo learned from her memories that the Sickly Ghost and his wife had caused her death.
• Lin Luo received a detailed map of the haunted house and continued inside with Bai Qianqian, where they heard a hearty laugh.

Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian entered Sickly Ghost’s Haunted House, escaped his Ghost Wall trap, and defeated Strangulation Ghost’s ambush. Lin Luo cornered Sickly Ghost and asked about Baal’s Ghost Eyes, leaving both ghosts alarmed.

• Sickly Ghost welcomed Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian, then trapped them in the courtyard’s Ghost Wall.
• Lin Luo used his detailed Map to find the Ghost Wall’s way out and led Bai Qianqian to safety.
• Sickly Ghost ordered Strangulation Ghost to ambush Bai Qianqian, but her fox tail struck Strangulation Ghost down.
• Sickly Ghost tried to flee, but Lin Luo blocked him; Sickly Ghost blamed Strangulation Ghost, and the two ghosts turned on each other.
• Lin Luo said he had heard Baal’s Ghost Eyes were in the house, startling Sickly Ghost and Strangulation Ghost.

Lin Luo forced the Strangulation Ghost to reveal that Baal's Ghost Eyes controlled the ghosts in the haunted house, then followed her to the woodshed where the Eyes were hidden. After resisting a corpse-fragrance attack, he sensed concealed Ghost Power inside and launched an indiscriminate strike.

• Lin Luo knocked the Sickly Ghost down and threatened the Strangulation Ghost until she agreed to tell him what she knew.
• Lin Luo promised the Strangulation Ghost she could deal with the Sickly Ghost, then left Bai Qianqian to guard him as he followed the Strangulation Ghost.
• The Strangulation Ghost told Lin Luo that Baal's Ghost Eyes had become a ghostly entity and mentally controlled every ghost in the haunted house.
• Lin Luo ordered the Strangulation Ghost to open the woodshed, where a corpse fragrance melted her flesh, but his Ghost Power blocked the attack.
• Lin Luo followed the Strangulation Ghost into the unexpectedly clean woodshed, detected hidden Ghost Power, and unleashed the Blood Rope in every direction.