Chapter Summaries

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated Ellen Miller’s death and found that his abused son Max had awakened telekinetic powers connected to the Yellow-Eyed Demon. Max killed Ben and then himself, leaving Sam afraid of his own fate as the group uncovered another demon anchor point.

• Sam dreamed about Ellen Miller’s shotgun suicide, then found news confirming the death and persuaded Dean and Bai Haorui to investigate.
• Bai Haorui recalled a story about a persecuted boy whose powers erupted in revenge, and he tracked Max to an abandoned factory using a talisman.
• Max attacked the group with telekinesis, but Bai Haorui’s Calming Talismans helped settle him while Sam tried to persuade him not to seek revenge.
• Max escaped, killed Ben, and fatally struck himself with a stone despite Bai Haorui’s attempt to save him.
• Bai Haorui found an Anchor Point Symbol pendant on Max, and the group learned the Yellow-Eyed Demon anchored special children through fires.

Dean, Bai Haorui, and Sam investigated a series of Chicago murders involving missing hearts and a Z-shaped symbol, which Bai Haorui’s notes linked to a shadow demon. After a system alert confirmed a Shadow Sha nearby, the three headed to the latest victim’s apartment to investigate.

• Dean and Bai Haorui bet on who could charm a woman at a Chicago bar, and each approached a different woman.
• Bai Haorui used fortune-telling to engage a blonde woman while Dean told Lina a story about his road adventures.
• Back at their lodgings, Sam showed Dean and Bai Haorui evidence linking three recent heart-removal murders to similar unsolved killings from ten years earlier.
• Bai Haorui found a passage in his grandfather’s notebook describing a Western evil spirit that took hearts and left a Z-shaped mark.
• Dean identified the crime-scene symbol as a Zoroastrian sigil used to summon a Daeva, and Bai Haorui received a quest to banish the shadow demon and expose its summoner.
• Sam found the latest victim Meredith’s address and contacted occult enthusiast Jake, and the three set out for the downtown apartment building.

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated the Daeva summoning symbol and reunited with John, who warned them that the anchors were part of the Yellow-Eyed Demon’s energy network. After Jake’s files implicated John in an older Daeva case, Meg approached Sam with an offer to lead him to the Yellow-Eyed Demon, and the group followed her toward abandoned warehouses.

• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui inspected Meredith’s apartment, where Bai identified the symbol as a Daeva summoning mark requiring both the altar’s destruction and pure yang power to defeat the spirit.
• John Winchester arrived, reunited with Dean and Sam, and told Bai that the anchors were connected to the Yellow-Eyed Demon’s energy network.
• John left to search for the Daeva’s altar while Sam, Dean, and Bai went to the Black Rose bar to meet Jake.
• Jake gave Sam old case files about three Daeva murders and a note naming John Winchester as the past summoner.
• Meg Masters approached Sam, offered to help him find John and the Yellow-Eyed Demon, and persuaded him to leave with her while Bai sensed her demonic aura.
• Sam secretly signaled that Meg’s invitation was a trap, and Dean and Bai followed her car toward abandoned warehouses.

Meg lured Sam and the others to a warehouse, where they destroyed the altar sustaining the Daeva and defeated her ambush. After John left to pursue the Yellow-Eyed Demon alone, Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui stayed together and resolved to face the demon as a family.

• Meg revealed that she had used Sam as bait and unleashed shadow creatures, but Dean and Bai Haorui drove them back with fire, light, and Taoist techniques.
• Bai Haorui injured the possessed Meg with a talisman and used an ink-line formation to hold the shadows while John and Sam went upstairs to destroy the altar.
• Old Tom revealed that Meg had threatened his grandson, then sacrificed himself by igniting gasoline drums, destroying the altar and weakening the shadows.
• The last Daeva dragged Meg to her death, and Bai Haorui found an Anchor Point Symbol pendant that unlocked a skill for tracking the Yellow-Eyed Demon's followers.
• John treated the wounded, then refused to let his sons join his hunt and drove away after asking Bai Haorui to protect them.
• Bai Haorui gave Dean and Sam protective talismans, and the three agreed to stay together and kill the Yellow-Eyed Demon.

Bai Haorui, Dean, and Sam escalated a three-day prank war while traveling, trading talisman tricks, food tampering, and embarrassing stunts. The rivalry ended when Sam found a report of a haunting in Texas, and Bai Haorui accepted a mission to investigate and seal the farmhouse's vengeful spirit.

• Bai Haorui retaliated against Dean's mustard toothpaste prank with an Itching Talisman and revealed he had ruined Dean's beer, while Sam sabotaged their breakfast and coffee.
• Dean, Bai Haorui, and Sam escalated their pranks with defaced talisman paper, a knotted car door, sandpaper, bugs, food tampering, and embarrassing traps.
• On the third day, the three traded more pranks, including a Mosquito-Attracting Talisman that left Dean covered in bites.
• Sam found a Hell Hound's Lair report about a girl who vanished from a Texas farmhouse, and he warned that the case involved more than an urban legend.
• Bai Haorui accepted the system mission to uncover the truth and seal the house's vengeful spirit, then told Dean to get ready to leave.

Bai Haorui, Sam, and Dean investigated a farmhouse spirit that had been created and empowered by a spreading legend. They destroyed its core and left Texas, with Sam and Dean continuing their prank war as the group drove away.

• Sam explained the farmhouse legend, and Bai Haorui showed Ed and Harry that their detector had found hallucinatory yin energy.
• Bai Haorui explained that Mordechai was an Obsession Manifestation, then described how collective fear had created a headless ghost in an earlier case.
• The spirit trapped Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui in personal hallucinations, but Bai Haorui broke them free and led the group to the haunted wardrobe.
• Sam's plan to update the website failed when its server crashed, so Bai Haorui sealed the wardrobe and destroyed it with Pure Yang Fire while Dean poured gasoline.
• After the police arrived, Sam arranged for Ed and Harry to film the truth and tricked them with a fake movie offer, while Dean planted a dead fish in their car and Bai Haorui gave them Safety Talismans.
• As Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui drove out of Texas, Dean proposed a truce, and he and Bai Haorui resumed bickering over a talisman.

Bai Haorui, Sam, and Dean investigated a cursed portrait and discovered that Melanie had murdered the Merchant family while Isaiah had been falsely blamed. They freed Isaiah and destroyed Melanie’s anchor and the portrait, then Sam stayed in town with Sarah as Dean and Bai Haorui drove away.

• Sam found records of three locked-room murders linked to the portrait, and Bai Haorui sensed that multiple vengeful spirits were trapped inside it.
• After the portrait reappeared following their attempt to burn it, Sam discovered that Isaiah had died before his family, and Evelyn was killed after buying the painting.
• Bai Haorui used the Yin-Yang Mirror to reveal that Melanie was the killer and that Isaiah’s spirit was bound to the portrait by injustice.
• The group delivered Isaiah’s soul at his grave, while Dean burned Melanie’s porcelain doll and Bai Haorui destroyed her spirit with an Evil-Breaking Talisman.
• Bai Haorui and Dean burned the portrait after its curse was broken, completing Bai Haorui’s quest and earning a physique increase.
• Sam opened up to Sarah about Jessica, then chose to stay with her for a few days as Dean and Bai Haorui left town.

John, Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui recovered the Colt and defeated the vampire leader Luther at an abandoned church. They left Manning united as a team and resolved to hunt the Yellow-Eyed Demon together.

• Kate and her vampires killed hunter Daniel Elkins and stole the Colt, but Elkins left clues that led Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui to John Winchester.
• John told the others the Colt could kill the Yellow-Eyed Demon, and Bai Haorui explained how Taoist methods and pure yang substances could weaken the vampires.
• The group captured Kate using enhanced dead man's blood and went to Saint Mary's Church, where they discovered the vampires were empowered by an anchor point tied to the Yellow-Eyed Demon.
• Sam and Dean rescued the captive villagers while Bai Haorui defeated a vampire guard and found the anchor point in the church basement.
• Luther seized the Colt, but Bai Haorui's talisman restrained him long enough for John to shoot him with the Colt and destroy him.
• John reconciled with Sam and Dean, and the four set out together to hunt the Yellow-Eyed Demon.

Bai Haorui, John, Dean, and Sam protected Rosie from Yellow Eyes and uncovered the locations of more bloodline anchor points. Their attempt to stop Yellow Eyes at Sunrise Apartments failed, and they crashed on the way to Stanford as the demon pursued the final anchor point.

• Sam had a vision of Yellow Eyes targeting Rosie, so the four traveled to Red Rock Town, removed the anchor point beneath her cradle, and prepared to defend her.
• Yellow Eyes attacked the farmhouse, but the group weakened him and drove him off; Meg then lured them to an abandoned warehouse, where they trapped her and learned that the next anchor point was at Sunrise Apartments.
• At Sunrise Apartments, the group trapped Yellow Eyes and learned that the final anchor point was at Stanford, but he broke out and escaped.
• Yellow Eyes sent possessed trucks after the Impala, then rammed it with a heavy truck near Stanford, leaving Bai Haorui, John, Dean, and Sam unconscious in the wreckage.

After Dean’s soul left his body, Bai Haorui tried to save him while John made a deal with Yellow Eyes, trading his soul for Dean’s life. John died after Dean awakened, and the chapter ended with Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui setting out to retrieve the Colt and rescue John’s soul.

• Bai Haorui used the Five Emperor Coins to shield the injured Winchesters, and Sam shot the possessed truck driver with the Colt.
• Bai Haorui discovered that Dean’s soul was trapped in the hospital, then used a spirit channel and a Seven-Star Lamp Life-Extension Method to try to reach him.
• John prepared to summon a demon, but Bai Haorui warned that the blood talisman was connected to Yellow Eyes; John went ahead and offered his soul and the Colt for Dean’s life.
• Yellow Eyes accepted the deal and freed Dean’s soul, while Bai Haorui recorded the demon’s energy frequency before Dean woke.
• John told Dean to kill Sam if demons ever corrupted him, then collapsed and died after Yellow Eyes took his soul and the Colt.
• Bai Haorui told Dean and Sam he could track Yellow Eyes through the Anchor Network, and they drove away in the Impala to retrieve the Colt and save John.

Bai Haorui, Sam, and Dean investigated a string of murders in Medford and killed a Shapeshifter hiding at the town carnival. They left with a new lead on Yellow Eyes’ network of anchors and a plan to follow it.

• Ellen gave the group a case involving murdered adults and a surviving girl who reported seeing a clown, while Ash suspected a Shapeshifter.
• Bai Haorui examined Lily’s home and discovered that anchor energy led toward the carnival, where he and the Winchesters identified the performer Barry as the Shapeshifter.
• The Shapeshifter fled into the carnival, and Bai Haorui, Sam, and Dean split up to protect the visitors as Jo arrived with Lily.
• Bai Haorui trapped the Shapeshifter in the funhouse, where Dean and Bai Haorui held it back while Sam stabbed its chest with a brass dagger.
• The group took Lily home, and Ash later reported that the carnival stood on an old execution ground that Yellow Eyes had used as an anchor.
• Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui decided to investigate the anchors to find Yellow Eyes, while Jo sent Dean a dagger blueprint and promised to keep training.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui investigated a vampire nest in Red Lodge and discovered that its members had been living without harming humans. After confronting Gordon over his torture of Lenore, the three chose to protect her and left town with a new resolve to follow their own rules.

• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui examined a beheaded victim and found signs of a vampire, then met Gordon, a hunter who insisted monsters should all be killed.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui rescued Gordon from vampires at an abandoned mill, and he agreed to work with them while continuing to defend his ruthless beliefs.
• Sam entered the vampire cave alone, where Lenore told him her group survived on cattle blood and had never harmed humans.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui found Lenore being tortured by Gordon, stopped him, and bound him while Lenore prepared to leave with Eli.
• Dean questioned his father’s rules, and Sam and Bai Haorui affirmed that they would protect innocents and make their own choices.
• As they drove away from Red Lodge, Dean shared his doubts with Sam and Bai Haorui, and the three toasted to staying alive and following their own rules.

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated a resurrection spell that had brought Angela back as a vengeful monster. After stopping her at the cemetery, Dean confronted his own anguish over being resurrected and vowed to protect Sam while they faced their father’s deal together.

• Bai Haorui detected forbidden resurrection magic at Angela Mason’s grave, and the group found Matt murdered after discovering his affair with Angela and Lindsey.
• The investigation led them to Neil, who confessed to resurrecting Angela, but Angela killed him and attacked Lindsey before the group could learn more.
• Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui lured Angela to the cemetery and drove a silver stake through her chest, ending her rampage.
• Dean broke down beside Angela’s coffin, revealed that John had made a deal to bring him back, and said he should have died.
• The group reburied Angela, and Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui agreed to face the consequences of John’s deal together.

Sam’s visions led Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui to Guthrie, where they uncovered a pair of mind-controlling twins among the Special Children. After Andy killed his murderous twin Anson to save others, the group returned to the Roadhouse with their lead on Yellow Eyes still unresolved but Sam more determined to control her own fate.

• Sam foresaw a gun-store shooting in Guthrie, and Bai Haorui identified psychic residue at the scene as evidence of mind control.
• The group met Andy Gallagher, whose ability to control people did not affect Sam or Bai Haorui and was blocked in Dean by Bai Haorui’s Clear Heart Talisman.
• Sam foresaw a woman setting herself on fire, and the group discovered that the victims were Andy’s birth mother Holly Beckett and Dr. Jennings, who had delivered him.
• Sam found Andy’s birth records, revealing that he had an identical twin brother, Anson, who had been raised in an abusive orphanage and was responsible for the killings.
• Anson controlled Dean and Tracy and tried to force Andy to kill him, but Bai Haorui distracted Anson with glutinous rice bombs and Andy shot his brother to save them.
• The group returned to the Roadhouse and told Ellen what had happened; Ellen noted that Yellow Eyes may have chosen Special Children through more than one method, while Sam vowed not to become what he wanted.

Joe joined Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui on a hunt in Philadelphia, where they rescued two captives and sealed the vengeful spirit of H.H. Holmes. Afterward, Ellen revealed that John had used Joe’s father as bait during a hunt, leaving Dean shaken and questioning his father’s choices.

• Joe argued with Ellen about hunting, then convinced Dean to let her join the Philadelphia investigation, and Bai Haorui gave her a Safety Talisman.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui discovered that H.H. Holmes’s earthbound spirit was targeting blonde women and agreed to investigate the haunted apartment building.
• Joe secretly entered the ventilation ducts, where Holmes captured her and Teresa, but Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui found and rescued them.
• Joe used the Safety Talisman to help weaken Holmes, and the group sealed his remains in concrete mixed with salt, black dog blood, and mugwort.
• Ellen confronted Joe and Dean, revealing that John had used Joe’s father as bait; Joe left with Ellen, and Dean began doubting his father’s beliefs about hunting.

Dean and Sam were arrested after discovering Tony and Karen Giles murdered beside printers endlessly producing “danashulps.” Bai Haorui infiltrated the police station with forged FBI credentials and found matching traces of yin energy on officers Diana Ballard and Pete Sheridan as he investigated the printers.

• Dean and Sam investigated Tony Giles’s suspicious clients, while Bai Haorui’s coins warned of danger and police announced that Karen Giles was missing.
• The group found Karen dead beside another printer and a sketch of a bloodied woman, but police arrived and arrested Dean and Sam.
• Bai Haorui hid from police, concluded the ghost was seeking help, and called Bobby while the brothers were taken into custody.
• Dean and Sam were interrogated; Sam told Diana Ballard about the ghost and the strange printed word, but she dismissed his explanation.
• Bai Haorui presented forged FBI credentials, detected matching yin energy on Diana’s wrist and Pete Sheridan’s necklace, and secretly gathered the printer pages for analysis.

Bai Haorui, Sam, and Diana uncovered that Pete had murdered Claire, Tony, and Karen to conceal his drug trafficking, and they found Claire’s body and a ledger proving his crimes. Pete was killed during the confrontation, Claire’s spirit found peace, and the Winchester Brothers and Bai Haorui drove off together, though Sam privately worried about his own future.

• Bai Haorui learned that Pete had unexplained money and ties to Claire, then told Sam that Ashland Street’s abandoned warehouse was likely where Claire’s body was hidden.
• Diana saw Claire’s ghost and verified Pete’s unexplained deposit, so she took Sam to the warehouse on Ashland Street.
• Bai Haorui found Claire’s body in the basement, and Sam discovered a ledger documenting Pete’s crimes and Tony’s plan to confess.
• Claire’s ghost warned them that Pete was coming, and Pete arrived armed; Dean, Sam, Bai Haorui, and Diana confronted him.
• Pete confessed to killing Claire, Tony, and Karen, and Dean shot him after Sam restrained him; Claire’s spirit then vanished in peace.
• Diana reported the case to the police chief, and Bai Haorui gave Dean a Clear Heart Talisman as the group drove away.

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated a string of deaths and disappearances tied to ten-year crossroads deals, then summoned the demon responsible and freed Evan and George from their contracts. The demon revealed that John Winchester had traded his soul to save Dean, leaving Dean determined to rescue his father from Hell.

• Bai Haorui, Sam, and Dean found sulfur traces, huge paw prints, and black residue at the scenes of Sean Boyden’s death and Sylvia Perlman’s disappearance, then connected them to their former workplace, Lloyd’s Bar.
• The owner of Lloyd’s Bar told Dean about Sean’s midnight visits to a crossroads, and Sam found that former employee George Darrow had also become successful after leaving the bar.
• George told the three that he had traded his soul to a blonde demon for fame and that a hellhound was hunting him; he also revealed that Evan Hudson had made a deal to save his wife, Lina.
• The three found Evan and learned that his contract was nearing its end, then dug up the deal’s voodoo mediums and used them to summon the demon at a crossroads.
• The demon told Dean that John Winchester had traded his soul to save him and offered Dean a deal to free John, but Dean refused and demanded that Evan’s and George’s contracts be broken.
• The demon released Evan and George from their contracts and vanished; as the three drove away, Sam promised they would rescue John, and Dean vowed to free his father from Hell.

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated a demonic outbreak in Rivergrove, where Sam was infected but proved immune to the virus. They learned that Duane Tanner was working with Yellow Eyes, who ordered him to keep observing Sam as part of the “special children” plan, and the trio left determined to uncover the demon’s intentions.

• Sam had a vision of Dean shooting a man in a khaki fishing outfit, and the three hunters drove to Rivergrove to investigate the town’s demonic history.
• In Rivergrove, they fought an infected clerk and met Amanda, Sarge, and Pam, who told them the outbreak had cut the town off from help.
• Pam deliberately scratched Sam, infecting him, but Bai Haorui suspected her while Dean defended Sam from Sarge’s demand to kill him.
• A fisherman named Duane Tanner arrived at the clinic, and Bai Haorui sensed that his energy came from the same source as Yellow Eyes; Sam later recovered and was found immune to the virus.
• Duane secretly reported Sam’s immunity to Yellow Eyes, who ordered him to observe Sam as part of the “special children” plan; the infected then marched into the woods, and Duane escaped before the hunters realized he matched Sam’s vision.
• Dean promised Sam he would never kill him, and the brothers and Bai Haorui left Rivergrove while resolving to learn what Yellow Eyes was planning.

Sam investigated Scott Carey's death and learned that Yellow Eyes had tormented him, while Ava arrived with a dream warning that Sam would die in an abandoned factory. Dean and Bai Haorui learned Gordon Walker was hunting the Special Children and hurried to find Sam.

• Scott Carey told his therapist that Yellow Eyes had invaded his dreams and forced him toward violence, then an attacker killed him outside the clinic.
• Ava dreamed of Scott's death and Sam's death in an abandoned factory, saw Scott's murder reported in the news, and decided to warn Sam.
• Bai Haorui's Five Emperor Coins detected Yellow Eyes' demonic qi near Lafayette, and he told Dean that Scott might have been another Special Child targeted by Yellow Eyes.
• Sam and Dean argued over John's last words, and Sam demanded that Dean kill him if Yellow Eyes ever controlled him before Sam drove away to investigate Scott.
• Ash told Sam that Scott had shared the other Special Children’s birth circumstances and had suffered Yellow Eyes' torment; Sam visited Scott's grieving father and found drawings of Yellow Eyes in Scott's room.
• Ava found Sam at the motel and warned him about the factory; Dean and Bai Haorui then learned Gordon Walker was heading to Lafayette to kill the Special Children and set out to find Sam.