Chapter Summaries

Lin Luo exposed the starving ghost as the one who had incited the Drowned Ghost to attack him, then clashed with Deputy Director Ghost over Security Guard Ghost’s assault on the culprit. The chapter ended with Lin Luo challenging Deputy Director Ghost’s authority at Yellow Springs Hospital.

• The Drowned Ghost admitted that a starving ghost had urged him to kill Lin Luo in exchange for a promotion and raise from Deputy Director Ghost.
• Lin Luo cut the starving ghost in half with his Blood Rope after identifying him as the culprit.
• Security Guard Ghost stomped the starving ghost for threatening Lin Luo and declared that he would protect his brother and benefactor.
• Deputy Director Ghost arrived and accused Security Guard Ghost of breaking hospital rules, threatening him with punishment.
• Lin Luo defended Security Guard Ghost and challenged Deputy Director Ghost by asking whether he claimed control of Yellow Springs Hospital.

Lin Luo forced the Deputy Director Ghost to apologize for falsely accusing the Security Guard Ghost, then killed the Starving Ghost when the Deputy Director Ghost spared him. The Deputy Director Ghost attacked Lin Luo, but the Director Ghost intervened and prepared to fight him.

• Lin Luo pressured the Deputy Director Ghost into apologizing to the Security Guard Ghost in front of the gathered ghosts.
• The Deputy Director Ghost refused to kill the Starving Ghost, but Lin Luo blasted the Starving Ghost's head apart when it taunted him.
• The Deputy Director Ghost revealed his High-Level Vampire form and attacked Lin Luo for killing the Starving Ghost.
• The Director Ghost blocked the attack and stood between the Deputy Director Ghost and Lin Luo.
• The Director Ghost declared that the Deputy Director Ghost had no right to harm Lin Luo, then gathered Ghost Power as the Deputy Director Ghost threatened to attack him.

Lin Luo was caught between the Director Ghost and the Deputy Director Ghost until the Nurse Ghost intervened and weakened the Deputy Director Ghost with an unknown drug. The Hospital Director Ghost stopped the fight, reprimanded the Deputy Director Ghost, and left Lin Luo with an enemy who vowed revenge.

• The Director Ghost and the Deputy Director Ghost fought while Lin Luo insulted the Deputy Director Ghost.
• The Deputy Director Ghost attacked Lin Luo, but the Nurse Ghost injected him with a corrosive liquid and helped Lin Luo escape.
• The weakened Deputy Director Ghost chased Lin Luo and the Nurse Ghost, while the Director Ghost attacked him and gained the upper hand.
• The Hospital Director Ghost arrived, heard Lin Luo's explanation, and warned the Deputy Director Ghost not to target a player.
• The Hospital Director Ghost ordered everyone to end the dispute and departed, and the Deputy Director Ghost left after threatening Lin Luo.

Lin Luo sought the Hospital Director Ghost’s help to reach Barren Mountain and followed the Nurse Ghost to his office. There, a Flaying Ghost threatened Lin Luo over the Nurse Ghost, and she attacked it with a syringe.

• Lin Luo asked the Director Ghost to accompany him to Barren Mountain, but the Director Ghost said only the Hospital Director Ghost could safely take him there.
• The Nurse Ghost offered to ask her godfather, the Hospital Director Ghost, for help, and Lin Luo went with her to his office.
• Lin Luo and the Nurse Ghost found the Hospital Director Ghost drinking tea made from a player's blood with a Flaying Ghost.
• The Flaying Ghost threatened Lin Luo after the Nurse Ghost declared that she admired him and refused to accept the Flaying Ghost's gift.
• The Flaying Ghost lunged at Lin Luo, but the Nurse Ghost plunged an enormous syringe into it.

Lin Luo escaped the Straw Ghost’s attack after the ghost revealed his identity and became jealous of the Nurse Ghost’s affection for him. The Hospital Director Ghost stopped their fight, but the Straw Ghost left Lin Luo with a threat to turn his flesh and blood into Tea Farmer Blood.

• The Nurse Ghost’s medicine dissolved the Straw Ghost’s rotten disguise, revealing that he was a powerful Straw Ghost who had been a Cursed Scarecrow in life.
• The Nurse Ghost rejected the Straw Ghost and said her heart belonged to someone, prompting him to attack Lin Luo in jealousy.
• Lin Luo narrowly dodged the Straw Ghost’s sickle with Ghost Shadow Trace, and the Nurse Ghost fought back with her syringe.
• The Hospital Director Ghost stopped the fight and ordered the Straw Ghost to end his dispute with Lin Luo.
• The Straw Ghost tried to provoke Lin Luo into drinking Tea Farmer Blood, then threatened to use Lin Luo’s Ghost Power-infused flesh and blood to make it.

Lin Luo persuaded Hospital Director Ghost to escort him into Barren Mountain by promising they could find Monkey Wine and meet Drunkard Ghost. After they entered the mountain, a headless corpse wearing Hospital Director Ghost’s appearance suddenly collapsed before Lin Luo.

• Straw Ghost left after Hospital Director Ghost stopped him from attacking Lin Luo, but he glared at Lin Luo as he departed.
• Lin Luo asked Hospital Director Ghost to take him to Barren Mountain, and Hospital Director Ghost agreed after Lin Luo mentioned Monkey Wine and Drunkard Ghost.
• Hospital Director Ghost refused to let Nurse Ghost join them, then set out for Barren Mountain with Lin Luo.
• Hospital Director Ghost warned Lin Luo not to answer if a mountain ghost spoke to him, and they entered the mountain together.
• Hospital Director Ghost stopped and said they had arrived, then his head burst apart, leaving Lin Luo facing a headless corpse.

Lin Luo fought his way across Barren Mountain, where imitating ghosts and a demon tree threatened to kill him. Trapped and drained by the tree, he struck back with the Blood Rope and discovered that his attack had injured it.

• Lin Luo destroyed a headless corpse with the Red Cord, then ignored the Hospital Director Ghost’s false voice and blasted the disguised ghost apart.
• Lin Luo resisted the surrounding ghosts’ attempts to lure him with imitated voices and continued through Barren Mountain.
• Lin Luo nearly walked toward a demon tree under the spell of its fragrance, but regained his senses and dodged its vines with Ghost Shadow Trace.
• The demon tree formed a face from the ghosts and players it had consumed, trapped Lin Luo with its branches, and began draining his blood.
• Lin Luo pretended to give up, then used the Blood Rope to blast through the vines and realized he had wounded the demon tree.

Lin Luo exposed the Demon Tree’s illusions and escaped by bluffing that he would detonate himself. He had lost more than half his Ghost Power, and Barren Mountain still held more dangerous ghosts.

• Lin Luo used the Blood Rope to break through the Demon Tree’s defenses and realized his injuries were illusions that did not weaken him.
• Lin Luo taunted the Demon Tree, identified its talent for making illusions seem real, and resisted its attacks as he closed in.
• The Demon Tree grew limbs so it could move, then panicked when Lin Luo appeared ready to detonate himself.
• Lin Luo abruptly fled while the Demon Tree hesitated, leaving it furious and unable to pursue him safely.
• Lin Luo escaped, but the fight had consumed more than half his Ghost Power.

Lin Luo escaped the Demon Trees but found no trace of the Drunkard Ghost or the Hospital Director Ghost before dusk forced him to seek shelter in a wooden cabin. After resisting the old woman's tempting soup, he saw something alarming about the pot, leaving him in danger inside the cabin.

• Lin Luo used Ghost Shadow Trace to break through the Demon Trees' encirclement and flee.
• Lin Luo searched for the Drunkard Ghost and the Hospital Director Ghost but found no clues as the fog thickened.
• Lin Luo accepted the old woman's offer to spend the night in her cabin and noticed ghost power coming from a family portrait.
• The old woman served Lin Luo her restorative soup, but he refused to eat it.
• The old woman ate the soup in front of Lin Luo, and he resisted its bewitching effect with his ghost power before the pot frightened him.

Lin Luo pretended to admire the old woman’s cooking while avoiding her human-flesh soup, then found himself trapped in her cabin as hostile ghosts gathered outside. The old woman gave him sandalwood incense to repel the cabin’s vicious mosquitoes, but the insects grew stronger as they devoured their dead, leaving Lin Luo facing a newly transformed mosquito.

• Lin Luo concealed his disgust at the soup’s true appearance and politely declined to drink more.
• Lin Luo sensed ghosts surrounding the cabin, and the old woman assured him it was protected after its eerie glow destroyed an attacking starving ghost.
• Lin Luo returned to his guest room, where the old woman gave him sandalwood incense and matches to repel the mosquitoes.
• Lin Luo fought mosquitoes entering through the cabin’s gaps, but two grew to enormous size by eating their fallen companions.
• Lin Luo used the Red Cord to kill one giant mosquito, while the other devoured its corpse and grew a venomous spike.

Lin Luo avoided the Old Woman’s attempt to make him light the Incense, but she used a surprise attack to make him appear drugged and set up a chance to kill him over an unpaid lodging fee. He escaped to the Wooden House’s main room, while the furious Old Woman discovered that the figure beneath the bedding was only a decoy.

• Lin Luo injured a giant mosquito with the Red Cord, then lured it toward the Old Woman, who killed it with a meat cleaver.
• The Old Woman lit the Incense in Lin Luo’s room and struck him, but Lin Luo secretly blocked its effects and pretended to fall under its influence.
• After the Old Woman returned to the kitchen to sharpen her cleaver, Lin Luo slipped out of his room and made his way to the Wooden House’s main room.
• The Old Woman demanded ten Ghost Coins from the supposedly sleeping Lin Luo and stabbed the bedding when he did not answer.
• The Old Woman found no blood beneath the covers and realized Lin Luo had tricked her, while he remained safe in the main room.

Lin Luo watched the cabin owner’s memories reveal how Wang Jun and Li Aihua abused and sold their elder daughter, who later killed her family and became the old woman threatening him. He paid the demanded room fee to keep the inn’s rules from allowing her to attack, then began preparing to eliminate her before his guest protection ended.

• Lin Luo saw a replay of Wang Jun’s family history, including his injury, his abuse of Li Aihua and their children, and the parents’ decision to sell their elder daughter to an old bachelor.
• The elder daughter tied up her drunk parents, killed her younger brother in front of them, then murdered Wang Jun and Li Aihua and dumped their bodies in the wilderness.
• The old woman approached Lin Luo with the same meat cleaver and admitted she was the hunter’s elder daughter, threatening to kill him.
• The old woman accused Lin Luo of sneaking around to steal and demanded 1,000 ghost coins for a night’s lodging; Lin Luo paid with a banknote worth over a thousand.
• The old woman warned Lin Luo that she would kill him once he was no longer a guest, and Lin Luo decided to act first by asking if she owned the cabin inn.

Lin Luo freed the Ghost Hunter and his family from the inn’s picture frame, then paid the landlady for its destruction so she could not retaliate against him. As the family fought her, the landlady revealed that she was neither human nor ghost and had devoured both.

• Lin Luo shattered the barrier around the picture frame, releasing the Ghost Hunter and his family while Li Chunhua remained stuck.
• Lin Luo broke the frame to free Li Chunhua after she agreed to help kill the landlady, and he paid the landlady a thousand Ghost Coins for the damage.
• The Ghost Hunter and his family attacked the landlady, but she easily struck down the Ghost Child and decapitated Li Chunhua.
• The landlady revealed that she was neither human nor ghost and said she had devoured both humans and ghosts over the years.

The Old Woman revealed herself as a human-ghost hybrid and threatened the Ghost Hunter’s family, forcing them to choose between killing the Ghost Child and dying. The family turned on her, but she survived their ambush and left Lin Luo wary as she split the Ghost Child nearly in two.

• The Old Woman revealed two vicious ghosts sharing her body and demanded that the Ghost Hunter’s family kill the Ghost Child or face death.
• The Ghost Hunter pretended to agree, then struck the Old Woman with his Hunting Knife, and Li Chunhua joined him in attacking her.
• The wounded Old Woman survived and prepared to retaliate, while Lin Luo refused Li Chunhua’s request to help fight her.
• The Old Woman split the Ghost Child in two with her Meat-Cleaver, leaving him near death and enraging his parents.
• Lin Luo resolved to strike the Old Woman while she was weakened before she could recover.

The Old Woman defeated the ghost hunter and his wife, but the ghost child wounded her with an explosive ambush and escaped the Wooden House. Lin Luo watched as the Old Woman pursued him, weakening her power and giving Lin Luo a better chance to act.

• The Old Woman repelled the ghost hunter and his wife, then defeated them despite worsening injuries.
• The Old Woman approached the ghost child and raised her cleaver to kill him.
• The ghost child detonated the lower half of his body, blasting the Old Woman and severely injuring her.
• The Old Woman survived and blocked the ghost child's escape, while Lin Luo refused to join forces with him.
• The ghost child used corrosive black mist to get past the Old Woman and flee outside.
• The Old Woman pursued the ghost child beyond the Wooden House, where her Ghost Power fell to the level of an ordinary Red-Clothed Vicious Ghost.

Lin Luo trapped the wounded Old Woman outside the Wooden House, where ghosts she had wronged gathered to attack her. Old Woman fought the red-clothed female ghost and the Hanged Ghost, and although her power neared exhaustion, she remained intent on devouring them.

• Ghost Child attacked Old Woman after she taunted him, but Old Woman cleaved his soul apart.
• Old Woman found the Wooden House locked against her, while Lin Luo mocked her from inside and ghosts closed in around her.
• A red-clothed female ghost confronted Old Woman over the murder of her younger brother and began fighting her.
• The Hanged Ghost ambushed Old Woman, then joined the red-clothed female ghost in attacking her.
• Old Woman struck back fiercely with her meat cleaver and ghost faces, dimming both opponents as her Ghost Power nearly ran out.

Lin Luo killed the Old Woman after absorbing the power of the Red-Clothed Female Ghost and the Hanged Ghost, then set out through Three Cunning Rabbit Burrows to find the Drunkard Ghost. At the burrows' entrance, he agreed to escort a trapped Young Maiden for two thousand ghost coins and led her inside.

• The Old Woman killed the Red-Clothed Female Ghost and the Hanged Ghost, but Lin Luo attacked her and absorbed the two ghosts' power.
• Lin Luo evaded the Old Woman until her ghost power ran out and she detonated herself.
• After cultivating overnight, Lin Luo followed the map toward Demon Monkey Forest by way of Three Cunning Rabbit Burrows.
• Lin Luo found a Young Maiden caught in a Beast Trap, accepted her ghost coins, and broke the trap.
• Lin Luo agreed to escort the Young Maiden through the burrows for two thousand ghost coins and entered with her following close behind.

Lin Luo fought his way through Three Cunning Rabbit Burrows and confronted the Rabbit Demon controlling the Red-Eyed Rabbits. After the girl revealed the rabbits were illusions, Lin Luo killed the Rabbit Demon, and its illusions vanished.

• Lin Luo killed a Red-Eyed Rabbit, drawing dozens more out of their burrows and trapping him with the girl among them.
• Lin Luo used the Blood Rope to tear through the rabbits, then split open the largest burrow with his bloodstained Kitchen Knife.
• The Rabbit Demon emerged through black sand miasma and attacked Lin Luo, who fought back with Ghost Shadow Trace and his knife.
• The girl told Lin Luo that the Red-Eyed Rabbits were illusions, and Lin Luo blocked the Rabbit Demon's attack on her with the Blood Rope.
• Lin Luo ignored the rabbits biting at him and severed the Rabbit Demon's head, causing the Red-Eyed Rabbits to vanish.

Lin Luo fought the Rabbit Demon after exposing its feigned death and forced it to reveal its grotesque true form. When Bai Qianqian sought revenge for her parents, Lin Luo agreed to help only in exchange for all her Ghost Coins, then struck the Rabbit Demon with a surprise attack.

• Lin Luo destroyed the Rabbit Demon's decoy head and fought off its black sand baleful qi as it emerged in its true form.
• Lin Luo gradually turned the battle around and numbed the Rabbit Demon's tiger arms by pressing acupoints.
• Bai Qianqian revealed that the Rabbit Demon had eaten her parents and attacked it, but the demon overwhelmed her despite her immunity to its miasma.
• Lin Luo refused to help Bai Qianqian until she offered all her Ghost Coins, then hurled his kitchen knife into the Rabbit Demon's head.

Lin Luo drove the Rabbit Demon to flee after taking its 5,000 Ghost Coins, then questioned Bai Qianqian about her identity. After learning she was a Snow Fox, he agreed to let her guide him to Demon Monkey Forest in exchange for a favor.

• The Rabbit Demon offered Lin Luo 5,000 Ghost Coins to end their fight, but Lin Luo took the money and declared he would kill it.
• The Rabbit Demon ignited its bloody glow and fled at high speed, leaving Bai Qianqian to explain that the move would weaken it afterward.
• Lin Luo took Bai Qianqian's Ghost Coins and prepared to leave, but she offered to guide him around Barren Mountain.
• Lin Luo threatened Bai Qianqian until she revealed that she was a Snow Fox and showed him her fox ears and tail.
• Lin Luo agreed to let Bai Qianqian guide him to Demon Monkey Forest in exchange for a favor.