Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Luo confronted the Ghost Baby in the Firewood Shed and fought off his Netherfire, but the Ghost Baby consumed the power of Baal's Ghost Eyes to trap him in a deadly illusion. Lin Luo was left inside a Small Clinic with his Ghost Power reduced to rock bottom.

• Lin Luo attacked the Firewood Shed until Baal's Ghost Eyes emerged, revealing that they belonged to the Ghost Baby he had met before.
• The Ghost Baby attacked Lin Luo with Hell Netherfire, but Lin Luo used the Blood Rope to cut off the flames.
• Lin Luo and the Ghost Baby clashed with their Ghost Power, and the Ghost Baby began consuming the power of Baal's Ghost Eyes.
• The Ghost Baby used Evil Ghosts Clear the Way, Ghost Barrier, and Lin Luo found himself trapped in a Small Clinic with his Ghost Power greatly weakened.

Lin Luo entered Baal Clinic, an illusion created by Baal's Ghost Eyes, where he had to treat three patients without earning a bad review. He survived a dangerous trap in the consultation room and learned the clinic's rules, but discovered the Desk and Chair Ghost secretly wanted revenge.

• A Pig Demon ordered Lin Luo to receive three patients and threatened to roast him if he got a bad review.
• Lin Luo used his Crimson Demon Finger to inspect the consultation room and learned the filthy desk and chairs were a dangerous ghost trap.
• Lin Luo sat at the clean workstation, then attacked the Desk and Chair Ghost with a scalpel when it tried to force him onto the other seat.
• The Desk and Chair Ghost offered information about Baal Clinic, warning Lin Luo not to ask patients about their illnesses.
• Lin Luo secretly examined the Desk and Chair Ghost's memories and learned it was plotting revenge despite pretending to cooperate.

Lin Luo killed the Desk and Chair Ghost, then treated the Faceless Female Ghost by making her a face from expired silicone. He left her dependent on regular replacements, preventing her from killing him for now.

• Lin Luo killed the gravely wounded Desk and Chair Ghost and returned to his seat to await patients.
• The Faceless Female Ghost arrived, and Lin Luo used Crimson Demon Finger to learn that she had been beaten to death and had her face removed.
• Lin Luo promised to make the Faceless Female Ghost a new face, then fashioned one from expired silicone.
• The Faceless Female Ghost admired her new face but threatened Lin Luo when he explained that it would need regular replacement.
• Lin Luo said he needed an intact face to make a permanent one, and the Faceless Female Ghost reluctantly swallowed her anger.

Lin Luo manipulated the Faceless Female Ghost into fighting the Pig Demon, only for the boss of Baal Clinic to intervene and punish them. After the Faceless Female Ghost left and the Pig Demon lost an arm, the boss turned its attention to Lin Luo.

• Lin Luo warned the Faceless Female Ghost that the Pig Demon planned to kill him, prompting her to promise to deal with the threat.
• The Pig Demon burst into the clinic and attacked Lin Luo, so the Faceless Female Ghost intervened and fought him.
• The Pig Demon and the Faceless Female Ghost battled fiercely, but a powerful presence from Baal Clinic's boss ordered them to stop.
• The boss dismissed the Faceless Female Ghost and punished the Pig Demon by making one of his arms explode.
• The boss of Baal Clinic turned to Lin Luo.

Lin Luo forced the Pig Demon to apologize, then faced a powerful Gambling Ghost seeking a cure for his addiction. The Gambling Ghost accepted Lin Luo’s challenge, and they prepared to guess high or low.

• The clinic owner dismissed the Pig Demon’s accusations, and the Pig Demon threatened Lin Luo before Lin Luo used the owner’s authority to make him apologize.
• The Pig Demon left with a grudge but became more cautious of Lin Luo.
• A scruffy patient arrived, and Lin Luo discovered through the Crimson Demon Finger that he was a powerful ghost suffering from a severe Gambling Addiction.
• Lin Luo said he could cure the Gambling Ghost and challenged him to a game, provoking him to accept.
• Lin Luo proposed that they guess high or low and bet on who guessed wrong.

Lin Luo cured the Compulsive Gambler Ghost's obsession by making him lose, then brought him to the Pig Demon's office for support. After Lin Luo spared the Pig Demon, the owner of Baal Clinic appeared, furious at the Compulsive Gambler Ghost for causing trouble.

• Lin Luo made the Compulsive Gambler Ghost guess dice results under rules that ensured he was always right, causing him to lose over a hundred rounds and abandon his gambling obsession.
• The Compulsive Gambler Ghost's Ghost Power increased, and he thanked Lin Luo for curing him before agreeing to give him a good review.
• Lin Luo brought the Compulsive Gambler Ghost to the Pig Demon's office, where the Pig Demon tried to attack Lin Luo.
• The Compulsive Gambler Ghost overpowered the Pig Demon and offered to kill him, but Lin Luo asked him to spare the Pig Demon to avoid provoking Baal Clinic's owner.
• The owner of Baal Clinic unleashed powerful Ghost Power and confronted the Compulsive Gambler Ghost for causing trouble in the clinic.

Lin Luo persuaded the Baal Clinic owner to acknowledge that the Pig Demon had started their conflict and make him answer for it. The owner punished the Pig Demon but spared him, while privately considering another way to deal with Lin Luo.

• The Baal Clinic owner threatened to kill the Compulsive Gambler Ghost, but Lin Luo explained that the Pig Demon had attacked him first.
• Lin Luo urged the owner to punish the Pig Demon, and the owner took Lin Luo and the Compulsive Gambler Ghost to the treatment room.
• The Pig Demon demanded that the owner kill the Compulsive Gambler Ghost, so the owner burned the Pig Demon with Black Flame.
• The Pig Demon begged Lin Luo for mercy, and Lin Luo asked the owner to spare him.
• The owner withdrew the Black Flame and warned the Pig Demon not to repeat his mistake before leaving, while privately planning another way to deal with Lin Luo.

Lin Luo survived the Pig Demon's threats and treated a sickly ghost whose murderous past he uncovered. After the ghost threatened him, Lin Luo tied him down and began cutting into his leg with a chainsaw.

• The Compulsive Gambler Ghost frightened the Pig Demon into apologizing and praising Lin Luo before leaving.
• Lin Luo left the Pig Demon's office and returned to treat his third patient, a sickly ghost with powerful Ghost Power.
• Lin Luo read the sickly ghost's memories and discovered he had murdered his parents and many innocent people, and had come intending to kill Lin Luo.
• The sickly ghost threatened to punish Lin Luo if he failed to cure him, while secretly planning to torture him.
• Lin Luo tied the sickly ghost up with a high-tier ghost artifact and began sawing into his left leg, making the ghost scream and curse.

Lin Luo tortured the sick ghost in the Medical Room until it gave him a positive review, then continued tormenting it while the Clinic Owner stayed out of the way. The sick ghost was left completely crippled with its Ghost Power at rock bottom.

• Lin Luo sawed off the sick ghost's second leg until it agreed to give him a positive review.
• Lin Luo summoned the Pig Demon to record the sick ghost's ghost handprint on the Evaluation Form.
• After the Pig Demon left, Lin Luo resumed the treatment, while the Clinic Owner refrained from interfering to avoid punishment.
• Lin Luo sawed off all four of the sick ghost's limbs and wrecked its heart and lungs, reducing its Ghost Power to rock bottom.
• The Pig Demon heard the sick ghost's screams and resolved never to provoke Lin Luo.

Lin Luo destroyed Sick Ghost by throwing him to the hungry Lonely Ghosts, prompting the Clinic Owner to weaken the clinic’s barrier and send more ghosts after him. When a female ghost tried to force Lin Luo to turn around, he injured her with Tongue-tip Blood, but the danger remained.

• Sick Ghost accused Lin Luo of cruelty, but Lin Luo threw him outside, where the Lonely Ghosts tore him apart and scattered his soul.
• The Clinic Owner suffered backlash from Baal's Ghost Eyes and weakened the clinic’s barrier so hungry Lonely Ghosts could enter and attack Lin Luo.
• As night fell, Lin Luo noticed the clinic had closed and suspected the Clinic Owner was using other ghosts to kill him.
• A female ghost crept up behind Lin Luo, immobilized him, and tried to make him turn around.
• Lin Luo bit his tongue and struck the female ghost with his bloodstained hand, injuring her and regaining movement in his legs.