Chapter Summaries

Lin Luo saw through the Ghost Baby’s attempt to bind him with a cursed contract and killed him, obtaining Baal’s Ghost Eyes and the final materials needed to assemble the Hell Torch. As Lin Luo began assembling it, the Man-Faced Tree decided to act early to stop his century-old plan from being ruined.

• The badly injured Ghost Baby offered Lin Luo Baal’s Ghost Eyes in exchange for a companion ghost contract, but Lin Luo recognized the contract as a curse document.
• Lin Luo tore the cursed contract, causing backlash that further weakened the Ghost Baby, and refused his attempts to bargain.
• Lin Luo used Murphy’s head and the Blood Rope to unleash the Crescent Moon Scimitar, killing the Ghost Baby and collecting two red beads.
• Lin Luo realized he had gathered the materials needed to assemble the Hell Torch and began putting the ghost artifact together.
• The Man-Faced Tree, seeing the Ghost Baby’s defeat, released a deadly haze and resolved to act before Lin Luo could finish assembling the Hell Torch.

Eerie smog released by the Man-Faced Tree drove Sunset Village’s ghosts into a frenzy, but Lin Luo slaughtered the attacking ghosts and faced Farmer and Wretched Ghost. Lin Luo burned Wretched Ghost with a powerful nether-colored flame, leaving Farmer shocked as the battle continued.

• The eerie smog agitated Sunset Village’s ghosts, and Bai Qianqian fought off a red-haired ghost while Lin Luo assembled the Hell Torch.
• Lin Luo blasted the attacking ghosts apart and realized the Man-Faced Tree was controlling them through the smog.
• Farmer ambushed Lin Luo, but Lin Luo dodged with Ghost Shadow Trace and taunted him about Wretched Ghost and his family.
• Wretched Ghost joined Farmer, and both ghosts shed their disguises and unleashed their enhanced Ghost Power.
• Lin Luo engulfed Wretched Ghost in a nether-colored flame that weakened his Ghost Power and threatened to scatter his soul.

Lin Luo used hellfire to kill the Wretched Ghost, but the Farmer devoured its remains and grew stronger. As the Farmer attacked in a frenzy, Lin Luo remained confident that his hellfire had the advantage.

• The Wretched Ghost shed its skin to escape Lin Luo's hellfire, then joined the Farmer in attacking him.
• Lin Luo lured the Wretched Ghost close and engulfed it in hellfire, refusing its plea to become his Ghost Slave and burning it to ashes.
• The Farmer swallowed the Wretched Ghost's remains, gaining power and bluish-purple flames.
• Lin Luo recognized that the eerie smog seemed to be affecting the Farmer's reason and warned that he would soon join the Wretched Ghost in hell.
• The enraged Farmer attacked Lin Luo with freezing ghostfire, but Lin Luo's hellfire remained far stronger.

Lin Luo used the Hell Torch to destroy the Farmer, only to discover that the Man-Faced Tree had been controlling him from within. The Man-Faced Tree then offered Lin Luo a pact and the promise of eternal life, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• The Farmer attacked Lin Luo while the Man-Faced Tree's eerie haze clouded his mind, but a heavy blow helped him regain some clarity.
• Lin Luo told the Farmer that the Man-Faced Tree controlled Village Chief Murphy and would use him as nourishment, prompting the Farmer to attack again.
• Lin Luo used the Hell Torch, a Soul-Burying Tier ghost artifact, to burn the Farmer to charcoal.
• The Man-Faced Tree revealed itself by rising from the Farmer's corpse and acknowledged that it had been hiding inside him.
• The Man-Faced Tree offered to join forces with Lin Luo, make him the Divine Tree's priest, and eventually grant him eternal life and the rank of Ghost King.

Lin Luo rejected the Man-Faced Tree’s offer, destroyed the blood tumor controlling Farmer, and fought off the smog-driven ghosts at Sunset Village. As the Man-Faced Tree unleashed a red glow from its trunk, Lin Luo suspected its relentless attacks concealed another scheme.

• Lin Luo refused to let the Man-Faced Tree possess him and attacked it with hellfire, forcing it to abandon Farmer’s corpse.
• Lin Luo identified the blood tumor as the Man-Faced Tree’s means of controlling ghosts and destroyed it with his Hell Torch.
• The Man-Faced Tree’s trunk split open and glowed red as it threatened Lin Luo.
• A crowd of ghosts charged Lin Luo, including Farmer’s wife, Shrewish Ghost, who said she hated her husband and welcomed his death.
• Lin Luo burned the attacking ghosts to ashes and wondered why the Man-Faced Tree kept sending them despite their losses.

Lin Luo fought the mutated Man-Faced Tree after it absorbed the village’s ghosts and revealed its deadly mandragora poison. Though poisoned and outnumbered by its duplicates, Lin Luo recovered enough ghost power to prepare a counterattack.

• Lin Luo escaped the rampaging ghosts with Bai Qianqian and discovered the Man-Faced Tree had absorbed hundreds of them.
• The Man-Faced Tree uprooted itself and attacked Lin Luo, who used the Hell Torch to keep it at bay.
• The Man-Faced Tree created four real duplicates and poisoned Lin Luo with mandragora released from its burning vines.
• Lin Luo learned the Man-Faced Tree came from the Mandragora Garden and planned to return there to seize supreme authority.
• Lin Luo regained his color and released powerful ghost power despite the poison.

Lin Luo used the Hell Torch to battle the Man-Faced Tree, which trapped him in a poisonous forest of clones. He exposed and badly wounded its true body, but the creature escaped, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Lin Luo burned through the Man-Faced Tree's offshoots with the Hell Torch and resisted its taunts.
• The Man-Faced Tree conjured the Lost Forest, filling the area with clones and poisonous haze that obscured Lin Luo's vision.
• Lin Luo burned back the attacking trees but realized the forest would keep regenerating and that the poison and repeated attacks were draining his ghost power.
• Lin Luo noticed the Man-Faced Tree kept its true body protected at the center and used a Hellhound-shaped burst of hellfire to break through its clones.
• The Hellhound struck the Man-Faced Tree's true body, badly wounding it and dispersing the forest.
• The injured Man-Faced Tree threatened Lin Luo and fled before he could finish it off.

After escaping Sunset Village, Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian entered Demon Monkey Forest to collect Monkey Wine and earn the Cursed Armor, but their path led to an encounter with three other players. The chapter ended with the woman in the group challenging Jin Lun’s assumption that Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian were ordinary players.

• Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian left Sunset Village and entered the Demon Monkey Forest, where the system assigned Lin Luo the quest to collect Monkey Wine for the Cursed Armor.
• A red-clothed Ghost-Faced Monkey attacked Bai Qianqian, but she knocked it away and Lin Luo killed it with the Hell Torch before fleeing with her.
• Dozens of Ghost-Faced Monkeys swarmed the area after Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian escaped.
• Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian met Jin Lun, Liu Hong, and a female player, and learned that the trio had triggered a winemaking quest.
• Jin Lun dismissed Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian as ordinary players, but the female player argued that ordinary players could not have survived to reach Demon Monkey Forest.

Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian concealed their identities to gain entry to the players’ camp at Demon Monkey Forest. Jin Lun’s infatuation with Bai Qianqian led him to admit them, then a dispute with Liu Hong over Spirit Fruit turned into a fight between their Companion Ghosts, with Moli stepping in.

• Lin Luo claimed his Companion Ghost had been destroyed, while Bai Qianqian pretended her weakened Companion Ghost was a spirit fox’s departed soul.
• Jin Lun agreed to let Lin Luo stay as an odd-job worker because he wanted Bai Qianqian to remain, despite Moli’s and Liu Hong’s misgivings.
• Jin Lun offered Bai Qianqian a brewing job and Spirit Fruit, prompting Liu Hong to object to redistributing their shares.
• Jin Lun summoned his muscular Companion Ghost and threatened Liu Hong, who responded by summoning his Hanged Ghost.
• Liu Hong’s Hanged Ghost attacked Jin Lun’s Companion Ghost, and the two evenly matched ghosts clashed.
• Moli intervened as Jin Lun prepared to deal with Liu Hong.

Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian encountered Moli and two hostile players at the Monkey Wine camp, where a Ghost-Faced Monkey attack exposed the danger of staying. After Moli killed the monkey, Bai Qianqian struck down Jin Lun, leaving Liu Hong wary of her strength.

• Moli stopped Jin Lun and Liu Hong from fighting, then told Lin Luo and Bai Qianqian they were not welcome at the camp.
• A Ghost-Faced Monkey emerged from the forest and attacked Jin Lun, whose Companion Ghost failed to stop it.
• Moli summoned her kimono-clad dancing ghost, which tore the Ghost-Faced Monkey apart.
• Moli ordered Jin Lun and Liu Hong to move the Monkey Wine and evacuate, while Jin Lun blamed Lin Luo and prepared to attack him.
• Bai Qianqian manifested a fox tail and knocked Jin Lun down with one strike, frightening Liu Hong.

Lin Luo revealed overwhelming strength by destroying the Ghost-Faced Monkeys that attacked the players, then demanded half of Moli’s Monkey Wine. He refused Moli’s request for protection and challenged Jin Lun after Jin Lun tried to bargain with him.

• More than a dozen Ghost-Faced Monkeys attacked the players, and Moli offered Lin Luo half the Monkey Wine in exchange for help.
• A Ghost-Faced Monkey wounded Jin Lun, and Moli fought off the troop until her Ghost Power began to run low.
• Lin Luo unleashed his Ghost Power and Hell Torch, burning every Ghost-Faced Monkey to ashes and shocking Moli, Jin Lun, and Liu Hong.
• Lin Luo demanded half the Monkey Wine and rejected Moli’s request to travel under his protection.
• Jin Lun accused Lin Luo of unfairly taking the wine and tried to appeal to their shared status as Human Players, while Lin Luo challenged him to do something about it.

Lin Luo took control of the players’ Monkey Wine, defeated Jin Lun, and learned that the wine was only an imitation. He decided to seek the authentic Monkey Wine from the Ghost-Faced Monkey King, with Moli agreeing to guide him through the Demon Monkey Forest.

• Lin Luo redistributed the Monkey Wine and removed Jin Lun’s share with Moli and Liu Hong’s agreement.
• Jin Lun ordered his Companion Ghost to attack Lin Luo, but the terrified ghost turned on Jin Lun instead.
• Jin Lun attacked Lin Luo and was badly injured by Lin Luo’s Ghost Power, then begged for his life.
• Moli revealed that the authentic Monkey Wine belonged to the Ghost-Faced Monkey King, and Lin Luo decided to seek it.
• Moli offered to lead Lin Luo using her map of the Demon Monkey Forest, while Liu Hong declined to join them.

Lin Luo used Jin Lun as bait while leading Moli and the others toward the Ghost-Faced Monkey King's territory. After the Ghost-Faced Monkeys spotted them near the poisoned swamp, they faced the challenge of crossing it to retrieve the Monkey Wine.

• Jin Lun begged Moli for a Snow Ginseng Pill, but she refused, and he cursed her in anger.
• Lin Luo stopped Moli from killing Jin Lun and proposed using him as bait to lure the Ghost-Faced Monkeys away.
• Lin Luo let Liu Hong beat Jin Lun, then stopped him before he killed him and divided the imitation Monkey Wine among the group.
• Moli led Lin Luo, Bai Qianqian, Liu Hong, and the battered Jin Lun to the Ghost-Faced Monkey King's territory, where they smelled the swamp's deadly poison.
• A Ghost-Faced Monkey spotted the group and called its companions, while Moli explained that the Monkey Wine lay beyond the swamp.

Lin Luo fought through the Ghost-Faced Monkeys and wounded the Ghost-Faced Monkey King before the Hospital Director Ghost arrived to help. With the monkeys still surrounding them, Lin Luo planned to focus on defeating their leader.

• Lin Luo left Bai Qianqian and Moli behind and entered the miasma-shrouded swamp, where the Ghost-Faced Monkeys attacked him.
• Lin Luo used the Hell Torch to burn through the monkeys and struck the Ghost-Faced Monkey King, whose strength approached the ghost general tier.
• The Ghost-Faced Monkey King called its troops to block Lin Luo’s escape routes, putting him under mounting pressure.
• The Hospital Director Ghost arrived, and Lin Luo asked whether he had found the Drunkard Ghost; the Director said the Drunkard Ghost was in trouble and needed rescuing.
• The Ghost-Faced Monkey King attacked Lin Luo and the Hospital Director Ghost, who helped hold off the monkeys.
• Lin Luo told the Hospital Director Ghost to keep the monkeys busy while he went after the Ghost-Faced Monkey King.

Lin Luo used the Hell Torch to fight the Ghost-Faced Monkey King, whose injuries drove it toward the Ghost General Tier and left Lin Luo struggling to keep up. He created a Hellhound Pattern to escape and rushed toward the Cellar to seize the Monkey Wine, while the enraged Ghost-Faced Monkey King raced to stop him.

• With the Hospital Director Ghost's help, Lin Luo shook off the Ghost-Faced Monkeys and attacked the Ghost-Faced Monkey King with the Hell Torch.
• The Ghost-Faced Monkey King grew stronger as it was injured, nearly reaching the Ghost General Tier and suppressing Lin Luo with its claws and tail.
• Lin Luo formed a Hellhound Pattern, frightening the Ghost-Faced Monkey King, then fled toward the Cellar using Moli's map clues.
• The Ghost-Faced Monkey King realized Lin Luo was raiding its Cellar after sensing the guards' auras vanish, abandoned its attack on the Hospital Director Ghost, and rushed to the Cellar entrance.

Lin Luo obtained the Cursed Armor from the Ghost-Faced Monkey King’s cellar and fought the enraged Ghost-Faced Monkey King. After its wounds weakened it despite its rise to the Ghost General Tier, Lin Luo blocked its attempt to reach the Monkey Wine and forced it to dodge the Hell Torch’s Hellhound image.

• Lin Luo obtained the Cursed Armor after taking Monkey Wine from the cellar.
• Lin Luo endured the Ghost-Faced Monkey King’s tail strike, then knocked it down with the Hell Torch.
• Lin Luo drank Monkey Wine, healing his wounds and restoring his strength.
• Lin Luo lured the Ghost-Faced Monkey King outside the cellar and fought it as it advanced to the Ghost General Tier.
• Lin Luo held out while the Ghost-Faced Monkey King’s injuries weakened it, then intercepted its attempt to reach the cellar.
• Lin Luo summoned the Hellhound image with the Hell Torch, forcing the wounded Ghost-Faced Monkey King to retreat and dodge.

Lin Luo fought the Ghost-Faced Monkey King and survived the ghost’s desperate self-detonation, leaving the exhausted enemy vulnerable. As Lin Luo prepared to destroy the Ghost-Faced Monkey King’s soul, a dangerous presence approached, and the ghost revealed that its master was coming.

• Lin Luo trapped the injured Ghost-Faced Monkey King in hellfire and refused his offer to part ways, insisting that one of them had to die.
• The Ghost-Faced Monkey King ignited his beast blood, briefly restored his strength to the Ghost General Tier, and fought Lin Luo while his injuries worsened.
• The Ghost-Faced Monkey King detonated his own body, injuring Lin Luo despite the protection of his Cursed Armor.
• Lin Luo prepared to destroy the Ghost-Faced Monkey King’s soul as the exhausted ghost tried to escape.
• Lin Luo sensed a dangerous presence, and the Ghost-Faced Monkey King declared that his master was coming.

Lin Luo escaped the Ghost-Faced Monkey King’s lair with the Monkey Wine but was confronted by its powerful master, the Masked Man. Lin Luo helped the Drunkard Ghost recover with Netherworld Wine, and the Drunkard Ghost reached the Ghost General Tier and took on the Masked Man.

• The Masked Man appeared, and Lin Luo tried to flee after realizing he could not defeat the Ghost-Faced Monkey King.
• The Masked Man intercepted Lin Luo, but the Drunkard Ghost struck him and revealed their history of conflict.
• Lin Luo gave the Drunkard Ghost Earth-Burial Wine and Yellow Springs Wine, while his Hell Torch burned away the Masked Man’s attack.
• The Netherworld Wine eased the Drunkard Ghost’s injuries and brought him to the Ghost General Tier.
• The Masked Man attacked Lin Luo, but the Drunkard Ghost intervened with netherfire and challenged the Masked Man himself.

Lin Luo killed the Ghost-Faced Monkey King while Drunkard Ghost held off the masked man, who then tried to attack Lin Luo. The Hospital Director Ghost joined the fight, forcing the masked man to flee with a powerful Ghost Artifact, while Lin Luo turned his attention to signing a Companion Ghost Contract with Drunkard Ghost.

• Lin Luo burned the weakened Ghost-Faced Monkey King to ashes despite the masked man's threats.
• Drunkard Ghost clashed with the masked man and told Lin Luo to retreat and meet the Hospital Director.
• The masked man used corrosive pus to slip past Drunkard Ghost and attack Lin Luo, but the Hospital Director blocked him.
• Lin Luo urged the Hospital Director to stop yielding to the masked man's threats, and the Hospital Director revealed his true form and joined the fight.
• Drunkard Ghost and the Hospital Director overpowered the masked man, but he escaped through a vortex from his mask, which Lin Luo suspected was a Soul-Burying Tier Ghost Artifact.
• Lin Luo accepted the masked man's escape and focused on signing a Companion Ghost Contract with Drunkard Ghost.

Lin Luo signed a High-Tier Scroll contract with the Drunkard Ghost, gaining a major boost in strength and learning that the ghost had once been a Ghost King split into six emotional mutants. After collecting the Monkey Wine and returning from the Demon Monkey Forest, Lin Luo reunited with Bai Qianqian and Moli, who noticed his new power and the skull mark on his arm.

• The Hospital Director Ghost calmed down after Lin Luo reminded him that the escaped masked man had no evidence to report him.
• Lin Luo agreed to contract with the Drunkard Ghost despite its enemies, and used a High-Tier Scroll to complete the pact.
• The Drunkard Ghost's power raised Lin Luo to the Ghost General tier, and it revealed that it had split into six emotional mutants after a Ghost King tricked it into drinking Soul-Scattering Wine.
• Lin Luo learned the Drunkard Ghost's history and resolved to help it recover by gathering its avatars, despite the dangers posed by the five other mutants.
• Lin Luo took the Monkey Wine from the Cellar and shared half with the Hospital Director Ghost before leaving the Demon Monkey Forest.
• Lin Luo reunited with Bai Qianqian and Moli, and Moli recognized the skull tattoo as the sign of his new contract.