Recaps

Qu Zan escaped the Five-Extremities Offering, entered Corpse Camel Temple, and used his unusual talents to study scriptures and confront Vengeful Ghosts. After helping the monks survive Ghost-Fallen Guanyin, he was promoted to Scholar Monk and began academy life.

• Qu Zan escaped into the mountains with Meiduo, survived Nima and Tsering and their dogs, and chose to seek refuge as a monk.
• Qu Zan brought Meiduo to Duimu, then entered Corpse Camel Temple as the monk Gyatso and began learning to read and recite scriptures.
• Qu Zan mastered the Lion's Roar Heart Mantra, used it to destroy Dajie's ghostly mother, and gained Fortune Essence from her coral pendant.
• Qu Zan comprehended the Sun Salutation forms from Madam Yangjin's human-skin thangka and taught them to Doje, gaining the Giving talent.
• Qu Zan recognized Ghost-Fallen Guanyin's deadly rules in the Ancient Empty Courtyard and guided the surviving monks out of its reach.
• The Sutra Academy head rewarded Qu Zan for explaining the ghost, and Rinchen later arranged for Qu Zan to become a Scholar Monk.
• Qu Zan received a private chamber, joined the Scholar Monks' daily routine, and began his studies while planning to learn martial techniques from Doje.

Qu Zan rose through the Scholar Monks’ assessments and won the Courtyard Competition, then received the Lion Ghost Curse Seal through a secret empowerment. After being drawn into a vast Ghost Domain, he escaped a pursuing Vengeful Ghost, reunited with Doje and Tuya’s group, and continued searching for survivors.

• Qu Zan impressed Nepa Lama with his knowledge, passed the monthly assessment, and won Chima’s twenty taels of secret silver in a scripture debate.
• Qu Zan found Fortune Essence in antiques in Jieyou Alley, improved his abilities, and arranged a warmer stone house for Meiduo and Duimu.
• Qu Zan learned Tummo Meditation and the Tummo Saber Technique from Doje, then discovered that drinking restored Yeluo’s awareness and heard Yeluo ask him to retrieve a Golden Benba Bottle.
• Qu Zan placed third in the Dharma Assembly recitation and then won the Debate against five opponents, earning the Abbot’s praise and a hundred taels of Secret Silver.
• Qu Zan received the Lion-Headed Dakini’s power through a secret empowerment and fused the Lion Ghost Curse Seal with the Lion’s Roar Heart Mantra.
• A Vengeful Ghost drew Qu Zan into a dark cavern, where he found corpses and fled the creature in his white ghost lion form.
• Qu Zan found a severed hand pinned at the Four Continents Zan Dho and passed through a rock wall to find Doje, Tuya, and others trapped in the Ghost Domain.
• Qu Zan deduced that reflections had pulled the group into the domain, then left with Doje to search for survivors and encountered the old man from the market beside a black goat.

Qu Zan escaped Mirror Granny’s Ghost Domain, bound Indra’s Hand, and later subdued Tsering’s haunting by taking Indra’s Eye into himself. Back at Corpse Camel Temple, he pursued esoteric training and made new connections as Doji Cizhu prepared a sinister creation.

• Qu Zan restrained Mirror Granny with Indra’s Hand and opened an exit for Doje, Basang, Caiwang, and Tuya before escaping the Ghost Domain himself.
• The temple confirmed that Qu Zan’s ghost hand was stable, while the theft of uncanny objects and the deaths of Caiwang’s party left the temple on alert.
• Duo'erna took Qu Zan on as an attendant and apprentice, and he advanced his studies while learning to manage Indra’s Hand.
• Nyepa sent Qu Zan to investigate the Indra Thangka in Liduo Village, where he uncovered Tsering’s survival and the family’s abuse at Lord Qiangzuo’s hands.
• Qu Zan bound Indra’s Eye with Indra’s Hand, restoring Cizhu’s sight before leaving the village and discovering the eye’s powers.
• Nyepa arranged for Qu Zan to borrow the Peacock Wisdom King Esoteric Method after his successful investigation, and Qu Zan began studying mandalas with Duo'erna.
• Guocuo gave Qu Zan peacock tail feathers and offered to seek the fruits he needed, while Doji Cizhu later stitched a Flesh-and-Blood Bodhisattva that lacked only its eyes.

Qu Zan acquired rare ritual fruits, advanced his esoteric cultivation, and confronted the cruelties of Bado Manor and Nagarjuna Victory Temple’s deadly debates. After suppressing the Weeping Arhat, he chose the Ghost Rope as his reward, while his questions about the false Dzongben and the temple’s hidden powers remained unresolved.

• Qu Zan recovered Yundan’s treatment formula through a treasure-excavation ritual, traded it to Shi Long for the Auspicious Fruit and Juyuan Fruit, and arranged with Guocuo to prepare and sell the medicine.
• Doji Cizhu attacked Qu Zan and Guocuo with ghostly water, but Qu Zan defeated him, brought him to Nyepa, and later helped inventory his residence and confiscated treasure.
• Jiamo taught Qu Zan the Peacock Wisdom King Esoteric Method, and Qu Zan gained the first stage of its cultivation before Duo'erna explained the risks of mantras and ritual practice.
• Qu Zan traveled with the monks to Bado Manor, where memories of his childhood suffering renewed his determination to destroy the Bado Family, then inspected the corpse-filled statues at Nagarjuna Victory Temple.
• Qu Zan bound the Ghost-God Relic in an Enlightened One’s gau box and won Nagarjuna Victory Temple’s Smoke-Fog Debate by defeating Chilie with the Peacock Wisdom King’s Karma-Flame Heavenly Guard.
• Qu Zan learned that Tsering had become a Scholar Monk and that Geshe Geran had taken him in, then heard the temple elders discuss the false Dzongben, [Formless Tathagata], and the theft of bound ghost-god power.
• Danbai’s sobbing unleashed the [Weeping Arhat] and killed monks in the Monks’ Quarters, but Qu Zan suppressed the Vengeful Ghost until Queji’s monks bound it in a Corpse-Wrapping Khata and Golden Coffin.
• Qu Zan asked Nagarjuna Victory Temple for an uncanny object capable of restraining Vengeful Ghosts and chose the Ghost Rope after Queji described its deadly history.