Chapter Summaries

After returning from Barren Mountain, Lin Luo learned that the Deputy Director Ghost had fled and left him a threatening letter. He exited Yellow Springs Hospital with an SS rating and valuable rewards, then reunited with the surviving students and noticed Liu Yanyan had gained a Companion Ghost.

• Lin Luo rewarded Moli and Bai Qianqian with Monkey Wine, then left Barren Mountain with the Hospital Director Ghost.
• Lin Luo returned to Yellow Springs Hospital and asked the Director Ghost where the Deputy Director Ghost had gone.
• The Director Ghost gave Lin Luo the Deputy Director Ghost’s bloody letter, which threatened to kill him at their next meeting.
• Lin Luo left the completed instance and received an SS rating, 2,000 Ghost Coins, and the Midnight Butcher's Raincoat.
• Lin Luo saw that only a little over ten students had returned, and he noticed Liu Yanyan had bonded with a Companion Ghost.

After returning from Yellow Springs Hospital, Lin Luo reunited with Liu Yanyan and joined her classmates for a celebration at Heaven on Earth. There, he sensed the venue had become a ghost domain, and the Horror Game selected everyone present again.

• Lin Luo praised Liu Yanyan's new companion ghost, and she invited him to dinner to thank him.
• Luo Tong proposed a class gathering and tried to embarrass Lin Luo by suggesting he could cover Lin Luo's share.
• Lin Luo paid 100 ghost coins and followed the group to Heaven on Earth.
• Lin Luo sensed ghost power throughout the venue and realized it was a ghost domain.
• Black selection marks appeared on the medical students, and Lin Luo blamed Luo Tong for bringing them to Heaven on Earth.

Lin Luo and the other players entered Mandragora Manor, an A-rank Horror World instance, where the Maid Ghost killed the injured players and assigned everyone jobs. Lin Luo received the gardener role, Luo Tong became a driver, and a ponytailed girl asked Lin Luo for help as the players began their work.

• Lin Luo and the others woke in a decaying manor hall, where the Maid Ghost appeared and killed a player who tried to correct her headcount.
• The Maid Ghost slaughtered the players missing limbs, while Lin Luo watched her movements and kept his strength hidden.
• The Maid Ghost introduced herself as the players' superior at Mandragora Manor and announced that the game would last five days.
• Lin Luo recognized the manor from his earlier encounter with a Man-Faced Tree, while Luo Tong panicked at the instance's A-rank difficulty.
• The Maid Ghost gave out Identity Tokens, assigning Lin Luo to gardening, Liu Yanyan to dishwashing, and Luo Tong to driving.
• After the Maid Ghost vanished, a ponytailed girl with a gardener token asked Lin Luo to help her trim the gardens.

Lin Luo and Wen Hui were ordered by the Stuffed-to-Death Ghost to cut down ten Ironwood Firs each before dark, with their organs as the penalty for failing. When an Ironwood Fir threatened Wen Hui and attacked Lin Luo, Lin Luo revealed overwhelming ghost power and burned away its spikes, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Luo rejected Wen Hui’s attempt to persuade him to protect her, then faced the Stuffed-to-Death Ghost with her in the garden area.
• The Stuffed-to-Death Ghost failed to scare Lin Luo and ordered him and Wen Hui to cut down ten Ironwood Firs each or pay with their organs.
• Wen Hui summoned her Hanged Ghost to fell a tree, but the Ironwood Fir intimidated it into retreating and threatened her.
• Lin Luo approached the Ironwood Fir and stopped its attempt to bite him with his powerful ghost energy.
• The enraged Ironwood Fir grew spikes and launched them at Lin Luo, but a strange flame burned them to ashes.

Lin Luo used his fire to subdue the Ironwood Firs, completed the Stuffed-to-Death Ghost’s task, and sold ten trees to Wen Hui. When the ghost tried to provoke him, Lin Luo refused to back down and left with Wen Hui, while the Stuffed-to-Death Ghost threatened revenge.

• Lin Luo burned one Ironwood Fir to ashes and forced the rest to pull free and submit.
• Lin Luo selected ten Ironwood Firs, and Wen Hui bought them for 50 Ghost Coins.
• The Stuffed-to-Death Ghost arrived early and was stunned to find Lin Luo had completed the task.
• The Stuffed-to-Death Ghost accused Lin Luo of using tricks and threatened to punish him, but Lin Luo challenged him to try.
• The Stuffed-to-Death Ghost backed down and vowed they were not finished, and Lin Luo left with Wen Hui following.

Lin Luo and Wen Hui learned the rules of Mandragora Manor and survived attacks by the Door Ghost and Chandelier Ghost. Wen Hui grew stronger by having her Hanged Ghost devour the Door Ghost, while Lin Luo confronted the Chandelier Ghost for ordering the ambush.

• The Stuffed-to-Death Ghost threatened Lin Luo after he and Wen Hui left the gardens.
• Wen Hui warned Lin Luo that players had to stay behind closed doors at night and explained that the Rose Queen ruled Mandragora Manor, where players had to survive five days.
• A Door Ghost attacked Wen Hui at the house entrance, but Lin Luo wounded it and Wen Hui's Hanged Ghost devoured it after Lin Luo urged her not to pass up a chance to grow stronger.
• Lin Luo and Wen Hui entered the house, where the Chandelier Ghost attacked them and accused them of killing the Door Ghost.
• Lin Luo deduced that the Chandelier Ghost had ordered the Door Ghost to ambush players, leaving the Chandelier Ghost stunned.

Lin Luo burned the Chandelier Ghost to ashes and reached the mansion’s living room with Wen Hui. The Maid Ghost paid the players, killed a one-armed worker, and spared Luo Tong after he bribed her, while Lin Luo and Wen Hui received 200 Ghost Coins each.

• The Chandelier Ghost attacked Lin Luo after the Door Ghost’s rules dissipated, but Lin Luo burned it to ashes with hellfire.
• Lin Luo and Wen Hui reached the living room, where the other seven players gathered with injuries from their assigned jobs.
• The Maid Ghost paid Liu Yanyan 50 Ghost Coins, then killed the one-armed player for being disabled.
• The Maid Ghost paid the two cleaning players 50 Ghost Coins each and prepared to kill Luo Tong for losing an ear.
• Luo Tong offered the Maid Ghost 500 Ghost Coins, and she spared his life because the mansion was short-staffed.
• The Maid Ghost gave Lin Luo and Wen Hui 200 Ghost Coins each, making Luo Tong jealous.

After refusing Luo Tong’s attempt to collect the players’ Ghost Coins, Lin Luo left with Liu Yanyan and Wen Hui to find food at Mandragora Manor’s dining hall. There, he rejected the Starving Ghost’s offer to buy one of his arms, angering the powerful ghost, who vowed to deal with him after nightfall.

• Luo Tong proposed becoming team captain and demanded that Lin Luo hand over his Ghost Coins, but Lin Luo refused and walked away.
• Liu Yanyan and Wen Hui followed Lin Luo, while Luo Tong angrily threatened that no one would save him if he got into trouble.
• Liu Yanyan offered to fetch Lin Luo food, but he suggested they go together so she would not face danger alone.
• At the dining hall, a powerful Starving Ghost offered Lin Luo 100 Ghost Coins for one of his arms.
• Lin Luo rejected the offer and challenged the Starving Ghost’s demand for respect, so the ghost left angrily and threatened to deal with him after nightfall.

Lin Luo used his emotion ability to calm the Chef Ghost and earned his trust by offering to treat his violent irritability. After learning the cause of the Chef Ghost’s condition, Lin Luo promised it could be cured, leaving the Chef Ghost eager to become his brother.

• Lin Luo placated the enraged Chef Ghost with his emotion ability and asked him to serve human food.
• The Chef Ghost gave Lin Luo roast chicken, then killed a Drowned Ghost who touched him and asked for a discount.
• Lin Luo suggested that the Chef Ghost was ill, and the Chef Ghost trusted him enough to accept treatment.
• Lin Luo secretly examined the Chef Ghost’s memories and learned that his wife had poisoned him and cut out his heart, leaving him prone to violent rages.
• Lin Luo said the Chef Ghost’s condition could be cured, and the Chef Ghost promised to treat him as a brother if he succeeded.

Lin Luo transplanted a heart into the Chef Ghost, earned his friendship and protection, and shared a meal with Liu Yanyan and Wen Hui. When Luo Tong tried to take the food without paying and threatened Lin Luo, the confrontation escalated as he summoned his Companion Ghost.

• Lin Luo cut open the Chef Ghost and transplanted a replacement heart, relieving his irritability.
• The Chef Ghost offered Lin Luo 1,000 Ghost Coins, but Lin Luo refused the payment and accepted the Chef Ghost's friendship and protection instead.
• The Chef Ghost prepared a feast, and Lin Luo invited Liu Yanyan and Wen Hui to eat with him.
• Luo Tong arrived with Luo Yujuan and Lin Dong, tried to take food without paying, and Lin Luo charged five Ghost Coins per person.
• Luo Tong lunged for Lin Luo's meal, threatened to kill him, and summoned his Flaying Ghost.

Lin Luo used the Chef Ghost to punish Luo Tong after he insulted him, then let him live while charging him extra for food. As night fell, Lin Luo and his companions reached their lodgings and Lin Luo offered the Maid Ghost five hundred Ghost Coins for a better room.

• The Chef Ghost destroyed Luo Tong's Flaying Ghost after Luo Tong insulted Lin Luo, leaving Luo Tong badly injured.
• Luo Tong begged Lin Luo to spare him, and Lin Luo refused to let the Chef Ghost kill him despite sensing Luo Tong's hidden killing intent.
• Lin Luo charged Luo Tong twenty Ghost Coins for food, and Luo Tong received only scraps before leaving the dining room with Luo Yujuan and Lin Dong.
• As night approached, Luo Tong hurried with Luo Yujuan and Lin Dong toward safety, while Lin Luo, Liu Yanyan, and Wen Hui calmly followed the Maid Ghost to their lodgings.
• The Maid Ghost showed Lin Luo a damp, cramped room with a moldy bed, and Lin Luo offered her five hundred Ghost Coins to request a different room.

Lin Luo used his Ghost General strength and his connection to Chef Ghost to force Maid Ghost to give him and the two women a clean room without charge. Luo Tong and his companions were sent to a filthy room, where Luo Tong blamed Lin Luo while Luo Yujuan and Lin Dong tried to make their beds usable.

• Maid Ghost demanded 1,000 ghost coins for a better room, but Lin Luo revealed his Ghost General strength and threatened her with the Hell Torch.
• Maid Ghost tried to resist by invoking Mandragora Manor, but Lin Luo warned that Chef Ghost was his brother, and she reluctantly gave him and the two women a clean room.
• Luo Tong arrived with Luo Yujuan and Lin Dong, but Lin Luo stopped him from entering the room he had claimed.
• Maid Ghost took Luo Tong and his companions to a moldy, rat-infested room and demanded another 1,000 ghost coins to change it.
• Luo Yujuan and Lin Dong wiped down their beds, while Luo Tong cursed Lin Luo for refusing to help him.

Lin Luo drove off a Headless Ghost that broke into his room, extorted 200 Ghost Coins from it, and left his door open to lure in more ghosts. A powerful Drowned Ghost appeared next, and Lin Luo demanded compensation for dirtying his room.

• Lin Luo woke when a Headless Ghost entered his room, and Liu Yanyan and Wen Hui also awoke as it attacked.
• Lin Luo overwhelmed the Headless Ghost and demanded 100 Ghost Coins for emotional distress before letting it leave.
• When the Headless Ghost resisted, Lin Luo struck it with the Hell Torch, then extorted another 100 Ghost Coins for cleaning the blood it spilled.
• Lin Luo left the door open to attract more Ghost Creatures, and a Drowned Ghost with power near the ghost general tier entered.
• Lin Luo told the Drowned Ghost to pay 100 Ghost Coins for dirtying his room, leaving it bewildered.

Lin Luo defeated the Drowned Ghost with hellfire and collected 200 ghost coins in compensation. He then recruited the frightened ghost to lure in creatures below the ghost general tier, leaving Liu Yanyan and Wen Hui stunned by his strength.

• The Drowned Ghost attacked Lin Luo, but Lin Luo dodged and burned away his water blasts with the Hell Torch’s hellfire.
• The Drowned Ghost surrendered and paid Lin Luo 200 ghost coins to spare his life.
• Lin Luo proposed that the Drowned Ghost lure ghosts to him in exchange for ten percent of the proceeds.
• Lin Luo revealed ghost general tier fluctuations, terrifying the Drowned Ghost and surprising Liu Yanyan and Wen Hui.
• Lin Luo told the Drowned Ghost to bring him any creatures below the ghost general tier.

The Drowned Ghost lured the Slit-Mouthed Woman and the Ghost Baby into Lin Luo’s room, where Lin Luo revealed his strength and confronted them. The Slit-Mouthed Woman prepared to fight, but Lin Luo unleashed Ghost Power that made her tremble.

• The Drowned Ghost lied to the Ghost Baby and led him and the masked female ghost to Lin Luo’s room.
• Lin Luo shut the door and demanded 200 Ghost Coins in compensation for entering without permission.
• Lin Luo slapped the Ghost Baby, then struck him with the Hell Torch and left him unable to rise.
• The masked female ghost revealed herself as the Slit-Mouthed Woman and challenged Lin Luo after he answered her question bluntly.
• Lin Luo unleashed his Ghost Power, making the Slit-Mouthed Woman tremble.

Lin Luo extorted Ghost Coins from the Slit-Mouthed Woman and the Ghost Baby, then took the Drowned Ghost as his subordinate. The two humiliated ghosts plotted to turn the Chef Ghost against Lin Luo, while the next morning the Maid Ghost came to assign work.

• Lin Luo demanded 200 Ghost Coins each from the Slit-Mouthed Woman and the Ghost Baby, then gave 40 coins to the Drowned Ghost.
• Lin Luo told the Drowned Ghost to claim him as a master for protection and to lure more ghosts the following night.
• The Slit-Mouthed Woman and the Ghost Baby confronted the Drowned Ghost, but backed down when he said he was Lin Luo's Ghost Slave.
• The Slit-Mouthed Woman and the Ghost Baby decided to spread rumors and provoke the Chef Ghost into attacking Lin Luo.
• The next morning, the Maid Ghost found Lin Luo and his two companions unharmed and ordered them to get up for their assigned work.

Lin Luo fought off a Headless Ghost sent to delay him and arrived at the gathering on time, foiling the Maid Ghost's attempt to punish him. The Maid Ghost then assigned Lin Luo the dangerous job Luo Tong had done the previous day, after Luo Tong volunteered to swap jobs with him.

• The Maid Ghost ordered everyone to gather in the hall within five minutes, while Luo Tong hurried to obey.
• A Headless Ghost blocked Lin Luo's path, but Lin Luo struck him down with the Hell Torch and rushed to the living room.
• Lin Luo arrived just before the deadline and warned the Maid Ghost that he would deal with the Headless Ghost after work.
• The Maid Ghost threatened Lin Luo for attacking a Ghost Creature, but he said he could ask Head Chef to handle the Headless Ghost.
• Luo Tong suggested that Lin Luo take over his previous day's work, and the Maid Ghost ordered them to swap jobs.

Lin Luo confronted Luo Tong's scheming and took over as Miss Yu's driver, while Luo Tong and Lin Dong fought over their assigned jobs. At the Listening Rain Bamboo Grove, Lin Luo forced the Car Ghost to waive its fare, impressing Miss Yu with his strength.

• Luo Tong tried to exchange his gardener assignment with Lin Dong, and the Maid Ghost approved the swap.
• Lin Dong fought Luo Tong until Luo Tong warned him that the Maid Ghost might punish him, and the two stopped when she ordered everyone to work.
• Lin Luo followed his Identity Token's instructions to the courtyard, where Miss Yu told him to drive her to the Listening Rain Bamboo Grove.
• The Car Ghost demanded payment from Lin Luo, but Lin Luo battered its steering wheel with Ghost Power until it agreed to drive for free.
• Miss Yu compared Lin Luo with Luo Tong and remarked that this group of players was not entirely weak.

Lin Luo drove Miss Yu to Listening Rain Bamboo Grove, where he punished the bamboo ghosts for trying to extort him and received a Heavenly Net Bamboo Shoot. Inside the pavilion, he recognized that Miss Yu’s powerful one-eyed subordinate was a Ghost Slave of an Emotion Mutant, and the chapter ended with One-Eyed Ghost attacking Lin Luo out of jealousy before Miss Yu stopped him.

• Miss Yu invited Lin Luo into Listening Rain Bamboo Grove’s pavilion after Car Ghost drove them there.
• The emerald bamboo ghosts demanded 100 Ghost Coins from Lin Luo, but he threatened them with his Ghost Power and smashed one stalk with the Hell Torch.
• The bamboo ghosts begged for forgiveness, and their leader gave Lin Luo a Heavenly Net Bamboo Shoot as an apology.
• In the pavilion, Lin Luo learned from Drunkard Ghost that One-Eyed Ghost was likely the Ghost Slave of an Emotion Mutant.
• One-Eyed Ghost attacked Lin Luo, but Miss Yu blocked him and said Lin Luo was her driver.

Lin Luo navigated One-Eyed Ghost’s attempts to provoke him while earning Miss Yu’s favor with thoughtful tea advice and a Heavenly Net Bamboo Shoot. He received a valuable Silver Ring in return, and after One-Eyed Ghost left in fury, Lin Luo asked Miss Yu what she had really wanted from him.

• One-Eyed Ghost tried to trap Lin Luo into a breach of etiquette, but Lin Luo deferred to Miss Yu, who defended him and invited him to drink tea.
• Lin Luo sampled Miss Yu’s tea and suggested using younger leaves, pleasing her with his advice.
• One-Eyed Ghost challenged Lin Luo to bring Miss Yu good tea leaves, so Lin Luo presented her with a Heavenly Net Bamboo Shoot.
• Miss Yu gave Lin Luo a Silver Ring in return, and One-Eyed Ghost revealed that it was a Soul-Burying Tier defensive Ghost Artifact before storming away in anger.
• Lin Luo accepted the ring despite One-Eyed Ghost’s hostility and asked Miss Yu whether she had invited him to the Listening Rain Bamboo Grove for more than tea.