Chapter Summaries

Sam and Ava uncovered Yellow Eyes’ plan to build an army of Special Children, while Gordon Walker attacked Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui. After the group stopped Gordon, they discovered Ava had been abducted and Brady murdered, leaving Sam determined to confront Yellow Eyes’ coming war.

• Sam and Ava stole Scott’s medical records and tape, which revealed Yellow Eyes planned to use Special Children as soldiers in a war against humanity.
• Dean and Bai Haorui joined Sam and Ava, but Gordon Walker attacked them; Bai Haorui and Dean fought him while Sam and Ava escaped.
• Sam went to Gordon’s trap at an abandoned factory to rescue Dean, and he and Bai Haorui subdued Gordon before police arrested him.
• Sam and Dean reconciled after the fight, but they could not reach Ava and found Brady dead and Ava missing from her home.
• Bai Haorui identified sulfur tainted with Yellow Eyes’ demonic energy, and Sam found Ava’s dropped engagement ring.
• Sam concluded Yellow Eyes’ plan was underway and vowed to face the war he intended to unleash.

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated deadly doll-like incidents at the Pierpont Inn and discovered that Maggie’s vengeful spirit was tied to the family’s old tragedy. After Roth reunited with Maggie and both sisters died, the spirit found peace, while Sam and Dean continued to face Sam’s fear of losing control to Yellow Eyes.

• Dean told Sam that Ellen had found a case at the Pierpont Inn, and Bai Haorui persuaded Sam to stop obsessing over Ava and investigate it.
• At the inn, Bai Haorui sensed resentment in the dolls, and Sam identified the banister symbols as a spell that could imprison spirits; a lawyer was then found hanged beside a doll posed the same way.
• After a car attacked Susan without a driver, Sam and Dean learned that Roth had bound her drowned sister Maggie’s spirit to the inn, and Bai Haorui’s coins pointed them toward the pool.
• Maggie tried to drown Taylor, but Bai Haorui’s talisman weakened her grip, allowing Sam to rescue the child.
• Roth apologized to Maggie and died as Maggie’s spirit disappeared, bringing the haunting to an end.
• Sam reminded Dean of his request to kill him if Yellow Eyes took control, and Dean said he hoped that day would never come before the three drove away.

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui hunted a Shapeshifter targeting Milwaukee banks, but Ronald's reckless attempt to expose the monster ended with him being shot by police. The group killed the Shapeshifter and escaped, while Henriksen ordered a nationwide manhunt for them.

• Bai Haorui identified the Milwaukee robberies as the work of a Shapeshifter, and the group traced its next target to Milwaukee Central Bank.
• Ronald confronted Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui at the bank, demanding proof that a monster was inside, while they tried to protect the customers and catch the Shapeshifter.
• Ronald chased a fleeing security guard outside and was shot dead by a police sniper; Dean and Bai Haorui then trapped and killed the Shapeshifter.
• Henriksen ordered SWAT officers to arrest Sam and Dean, but the trio disguised themselves with stolen uniforms and Invisibility Talismans and escaped in the Impala.
• Henriksen identified the Impala on surveillance and ordered a nationwide manhunt for the Winchester brothers and Bai Haorui.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui investigated suicides linked to a reliquary in Sacred Heart Church and discovered that its corrupted power showed desperate people visions of angels and dead loved ones. After they destroyed it and saved Casey, the group left Hazelton with Sam still wondering whether angels existed.

• Sam reported the suicides and his visions of white wings, and Dean drove the group to Sacred Heart Church.
• Bai Haorui’s Five Emperor Coins reacted to the reliquary, while Sam and Dean confirmed it caused the visions and Sheriff Miller identified the victims’ visits to the altar.
• Dean saved Casey from hanging herself, and Bai Haorui banished Liz’s phantom with a talisman.
• Griffin confessed he had concealed the danger to preserve the church’s prosperity, and Bai Haorui explained how despair and greed had corrupted the relic.
• Bai Haorui purified and struck the reliquary with his peachwood sword while Dean drove a silver dagger into it, destroying the relic and ending its influence.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui left Hazelton, where Sam questioned whether angels existed and Bai Haorui urged them to rely on one another.

Dean and Bai Haorui tracked Sam down and learned that Meg had possessed him, forced him to kill Steve, and bound her soul to his with a Demon-Sealing Spell. Sam helped Dean and the others break the spell and expel Meg, but they fled Bobby’s cabin as Steve’s friends pursued them and Meg’s plans remained underway.

• Dean found Sam missing and discovered a demon-marked feather, then spent days searching for him with Bai Haorui.
• Dean and Bai Haorui followed a lead to the Lakeside Rest Motel, where they found Sam bloodied and likely possessed; a receipt led them to Steve Wandell’s body and footage of Sam shooting him.
• Meg took control of Sam, knocked Dean unconscious, and escaped; she later threatened Joe at Harvelle’s Roadhouse before fleeing toward Bobby’s cabin.
• Bobby, Dean, Bai Haorui, and Joe tried to exorcise Meg, but she revealed that her Demon-Sealing Spell bound her soul to Sam’s and broke free of their restraints.
• Bai Haorui pierced Sam’s marked arm and Bobby burned the spell, giving Sam the chance to carve a Devil’s Trap into his other arm and drive Meg out.
• Bobby sent Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui away to avoid Steve’s friends; Bai Haorui warned that Meg had mentioned Yellow Eyes and that demon-blood-fed children were in danger.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui investigated a series of bizarre illusions in Hampton Town and discovered Trickster was behind them. They outsmarted him with talismans and traps, but Trickster escaped, promising their game had only just begun.

• Bai Haorui identified the professor’s death, the students’ alien-abduction claims, and the municipal employee’s alligator sighting as illusions caused by a troublemaker.
• Trickster tormented Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui with escalating pranks, prompting them to seek Bobby’s help and learn about the god of mischief.
• Bai Haorui, Sam, and Dean lured Trickster into a Clear Heart Array and countered his illusions with talismans, insect powder, and a holy-water-soaked stake.
• Bai Haorui’s talismans transformed Trickster into a clown in Dean’s humiliating outfit, while pigeons swarmed him and an ink line immobilized him.
• Trickster laughed, vanished, and left a note promising they would meet again as the Hampton Town incidents ended.
• Trickster watched the Impala leave and declared that the game had only just begun.

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated disappearances on Highway 41 and helped the ghosts Jonah Greely, Molly McNamara, and David face the truth behind their deaths and move on. As the Impala drove away, Bai Haorui asked Sam and Dean what obsessions kept them trapped, and neither answered.

• Bai Haorui sensed a deep obsession on Highway 41, and the hunters met Molly McNamara, who said her husband David had vanished after a crash.
• At the supposed crash site, the men found no wreckage, and an old radio played a voice claiming Molly belonged to him.
• Sam discovered Jonah Greely's letters and learned that Jonah had been killed by a hit-and-run driver fifteen years earlier and that his wife Martha had died waiting for him.
• Molly remembered that she and David had struck Jonah and fled, then apologized to Jonah as Bai Haorui calmed his spirit.
• Sam and Dean burned Jonah's remains, freeing Jonah; Molly realized she was dead, reunited with David, and left with him after they agreed to atone together.
• On the drive away, Bai Haorui asked Sam and Dean to let go of their obsessions, while Sam reflected on their resolve to protect each other and defeat the Yellow-Eyed Demon.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui investigated a series of heart-stealing werewolf murders in San Francisco and uncovered the curse affecting Madison. After Glen’s death failed to free her, Sam was forced to kill Madison when she transformed and attacked Dean, and the brothers left the city grieving.

• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui examined Nate’s murder scene, where Bai Haorui identified werewolf saliva and found Madison’s photograph among the clues.
• Madison told Sam that her ex-boyfriend Kurt had threatened Nate, while Bai Haorui and Dean grew suspicious of her neighbor Glen and his connection to Hunters Point.
• Dean discovered a werewolf attacking a woman in Hunters Point and killed Glen, finding three hearts and a photograph of Glen with Madison.
• Madison transformed despite Glen’s death, and Bai Haorui’s talisman failed to suppress the curse; Sam and Dean restrained her as she begged Sam to kill her.
• When Madison transformed again and attacked Dean, Sam shot her with a silver bullet, and Bai Haorui performed a ritual for her soul before the brothers drove away in silence.

Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui investigated a real haunting at Hollywood’s Stage 9 and discovered screenwriter Walter Dixon was using an amulet to control the ghosts of Martha Cohen, Billy Beard, and other wronged souls. After the ghosts killed Walter and the studio turned the events into movie publicity, the three hunters left Hollywood and continued their journey.

• Dean persuaded Sam and Bai Haorui to visit Hollywood, where Sam noticed a strange bluish-black handprint and Bai Haorui sensed resentment around a prop cap at Warner Bros. Studios.
• A ghostly figure appeared on Stage 9, and sound recordist Brad was found dead; Bai Haorui confirmed that a real ghost had killed him.
• At night, a ghost attacked executive producer Jay, and Sam identified Martha Cohen and Billy Beard as the spirits haunting the set; the hunters discovered that the film’s Latin lines were summoning incantations.
• Martin Flagg revealed that Walter Dixon had written the occult material, and the three found Walter using a rune-covered amulet to control the ghosts.
• Walter summoned more spirits and refused to surrender the amulet, but Sam guided Dean and Bai Haorui with his phone as they fought the ghosts; Walter smashed the amulet and the spirits killed him.
• Bai Haorui used talismans to calm the released spirits, and the hunters escaped; days later, they saw Hollywood promoting the haunting as a movie before driving away.

Sam, Dean, and Bai Haorui investigated deaths at Green River County Prison, where they discovered that the vengeful spirit was nurse Dolores Glockner, not Mark Moody. After destroying her remains and escaping with help from Deacon and Mara, they drove off as Henriksen vowed to catch them.

• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui got themselves arrested and entered Green River County Prison, where Bai Haorui knocked out a racist inmate and the three fought off the Aryan Brotherhood.
• Bai Haorui sensed that the prison's heavy yin energy came from segregation, and Dean was sent there, where he saw a shadow kill another inmate.
• Sam found Dolores Glockner's prison records, and Randall revealed that she had poisoned inmates, framed Mark Moody, and been killed during the 1978 riot.
• After the Aryan Brotherhood attacked them in the yard, the three identified Dolores as the spirit and persuaded Deacon to help them escape through the ventilation ducts.
• Mara directed them to Dolores's grave at Green Valley Cemetery, where Bai Haorui burned her remains and destroyed her spirit as she attacked Deacon.
• Deacon helped the three evade Henriksen and gave Dean John Winchester's old gun, and they drove away toward their next case.

Dean was trapped in a djinn’s illusion built around his wish for a peaceful life with Mary, Sam, and Bai Haorui, while Sam and Bai Haorui fought to kill the creature in reality. After Dean discovered that the perfect world was false, Sam drove a silver dagger into the djinn’s heart, but Dean’s fate remained unresolved.

• The djinn wounded Dean and trapped his consciousness in an illusion, while Sam and Bai Haorui prepared to hunt it down and help him wake.
• Dean awoke in a dream life with Mary alive, Sam pursuing law school, and Bai Haorui as his childhood friend, but strange clues began to expose the illusion.
• Dean confronted Bai Haorui and Bobby about deaths and supernatural events, then learned from Bobby’s old book that the djinn’s illusion would consume his life force.
• Sam and Bai Haorui tracked the djinn to an abandoned slaughterhouse, where Bai Haorui drew its attacks and held it in place.
• Sam stabbed the djinn through the heart with a silver dagger, and the creature burned away into smoke and ash.

Dean rejected the djinn’s illusion of a peaceful life with his family and returned to reality, where Sam and Bai Haorui welcomed him back. The three shared a quiet celebration and reaffirmed their bond as brothers who faced the hunt together.

• Dean visited John’s grave and recognized that the Bai Haorui in the illusion was only a false shadow without their shared hunting past.
• Dean rejected the illusion’s version of Bai Haorui and chose to leave, prompting the talisman on his real body to flare as Sam and Bai Haorui saw signs of his return.
• Dean used a silver fruit knife to stab himself in the chest, destroying the illusion and waking in the motel beside Sam and Bai Haorui.
• Dean hugged Sam and Bai Haorui, then told them about the ordinary lives he had imagined for them in the illusion.
• Dean, Sam, and Bai Haorui shared beer and cherry pie, and Dean affirmed that he belonged with them on the hunting road.

Dean and Bai Haorui fought off Yellow Eyes' demonic ambush, but Sam was teleported to Cold Oak with other gifted children. After Bobby identified the site and its deadly influence, he, Dean, and Bai Haorui set out to rescue Sam, who found himself trapped in the ghost town as Lily ran into the woods.

• Bai Haorui sensed Azazel's presence, and Dean and Bai Haorui fought a group of demon-possessed attackers while Sam was taken by spatial teleportation.
• Bai Haorui used the Five Emperor Coins to trace Sam northwest, and Dean called Bobby for help while he and Bai Haorui treated their wounds.
• Bobby connected the disappearances of gifted children to Cold Oak and explained that its resentment could drive them to kill each other.
• Dean and Bai Haorui insisted on going with Bobby to rescue Sam, and the three drove toward Cold Oak.
• Sam woke at Cold Oak with Andy, Ava, Lily, and Jake, and their attempt to leave returned them to the abandoned cabin.
• Lily panicked, cried that she wanted to go home, and ran into the woods.

Sam and the other chosen survivors were forced into Azazel’s game at Cold Oak, where Ava turned on them and Jake fought Sam under threats against his family. Jake stabbed Sam just as Dean, Bobby, and Bai Haorui arrived, and Sam died in Dean’s arms as Azazel declared the game had only just begun.

• Lily was found dead, and Sam urged Andy, Ava, and Jake to stay together against Yellow Eyes’ plans.
• Bobby, Dean, and Bai Haorui fought through demon-possessed attackers and hurried toward Cold Oak to reach Sam.
• Azazel appeared and revealed that Sam’s powers came from him, while Ava admitted she had sided with the demons and killed Andy.
• Sam and Jake defeated the demons and Ava, but Azazel threatened Jake’s family, driving Jake to attack Sam.
• Dean, Bobby, and Bai Haorui arrived as Jake stabbed Sam; Bobby shot Jake, but Bai Haorui’s talisman failed to save Sam.
• Sam died in Dean’s arms, and Dean vowed revenge as Azazel’s laughter announced that the game had only just begun.

Bai Haorui failed to revive Sam as Dean made a crossroads deal, trading one year of his life for Sam’s resurrection. Azazel coerced Jake into going to Cowboy Cemetery to open the gate to hell, while Bai secretly watched and resolved to defy the force controlling their fates.

• Bai Haorui tried to use a life-prolonging talisman on Sam, but Azazel’s power blocked it and the talisman burned to ash.
• Bobby brought Dean food and whiskey, but Dean grieved over Sam and rejected attempts to comfort him.
• Azazel appeared to Jake at the campsite, threatened his family, and ordered him to use the Colt at Cowboy Cemetery to open the gate to hell.
• Bai Haorui tracked Jake and watched Azazel, deciding to wait until he could make a meaningful move against the power behind the events.
• Dean buried a tin box at a crossroads and bargained with a demon, accepting a one-year lifespan in exchange for Sam’s resurrection.

After Sam returned from the dead, the group uncovered Azazel’s plan to open Hell’s Gate and confronted Jake at Cowboy Cemetery. Bai Haorui summoned Nezha, who killed Azazel, while Bai Haorui collapsed after the possession and the system’s energy ran out.

• Sam woke with a scar from Jake’s stabbing, and Dean and Bai Haorui concealed that he had died.
• Ellen brought Ash’s map to Bobby, and the group learned that Jake’s blood could open Hell’s Gate beneath Cowboy Cemetery.
• Dean admitted to Bobby that he had sold his soul, while Bai Haorui prepared a Demon-Breaking Formation and a blood talisman for the coming fight.
• Jake arrived with the Colt gun, used mind control against Ellen, and was killed by Sam before his blood opened Hell’s Gate and released the demons.
• Azazel pinned Dean and Sam and taunted them, but Bai Haorui summoned Nezha, who possessed him and burned Azazel’s body and soul away.
• Nezha gave Bai Haorui a body-tempering cultivation method before departing, and Bai Haorui collapsed as the system announced that its energy was depleted.

Bai Haorui’s summoning of Nezha killed Azazel and deterred God, while John said goodbye to Dean and Sam before Hell’s Gate closed. After waking at a motel, Bai Haorui explained that he had summoned Nezha to warn the hidden force manipulating them, and he began recovering with a complete cultivation art as the group prepared to face the dangers ahead.

• God concealed the Supernatural universe behind powerful barriers after Bai Haorui’s display of divine power.
• John’s soul reunited with Dean and Sam, apologized, praised them, and departed as golden light.
• Bobby and Ellen sealed Hell’s Gate, while Dean confessed to Sam that he had traded his soul to bring him back and had one year before going to Hell.
• Bai Haorui cultivated the Three Altars Body-Tempering True Fire Art while unconscious and realized he could now pursue strength without relying on the system or incomplete notes.
• After waking, Bai Haorui told Dean and Sam that he had summoned Nezha to deter the force manipulating their lives, not to kill Azazel.
• Bai Haorui resolved to recover and hunt demons with the Winchester brothers as Dean’s contract, Sam’s demon blood, and the escaped demons remained threats.

Bai Haorui advanced his true fire cultivation while Dean and Sam struggled with Dean’s one-year contract and Sam’s fear of his demonic power. After Bobby reported deaths in Lincoln City, the group investigated a suspected Seven Deadly Sins demon, clashed with hunters Isaac and Tamara, and arrived at a department-store killing apparently caused by envy.

• Bai Haorui practiced the Three Altars Body-Tempering True Fire Art, detected a weak wandering spirit, and secretly placed protective talismans in Dean’s coat.
• Bai Haorui sensed a powerful demonic aura, while black smoke possessed Walter Rosen in Oak Park and turned his eyes completely black.
• Bobby called about three people found starved and dehydrated in a food-filled Lincoln City house, and Dean agreed to join Sam and Bai Haorui in investigating.
• Bai Haorui identified a dangerous special demon at the victims’ house, while Sam suspected the Seven Deadly Sins; Isaac and Tamara arrived and blamed the Winchesters for opening the gates of hell.
• Bai Haorui glimpsed a mysterious red figure watching Sam, and the group went to a department store where a witness described a woman killing someone over a pair of green heels.

Sam, Dean, Bai Haorui, and Bobby confronted the Seven Deadly Sins after discovering that Walter Rosen’s demon could amplify envy, but Isaac was killed when he and Tamara charged into the demons’ bar. At Bobby’s safe house, Tamara exorcised the Demon of Envy from Walter Rosen, while the other demons remained at large.

• Sam reviewed surveillance footage showing Walter Rosen whispering to a girl who then killed a woman over her green high heels, and Bai Haorui identified envy as the demon’s influence.
• Isaac and Tamara entered the bar alone, where the Seven Deadly Sins surrounded them; the Demon of Wrath killed Isaac, and Sam rescued Tamara as Dean and Bai Haorui fought the demons.
• Dean captured Walter Rosen, and the group retreated from the bar after Bai Haorui burned the Demon of Lust and injured the Demon of Pride with True Fire Slash.
• At Bobby’s safe house, Bobby found an account describing the Seven Deadly Sins as demons empowered by humanity’s negative emotions, while Tamara grieved for Isaac and vowed revenge.
• Walter Rosen taunted Dean about his deal with a demon and his year left to live, then Tamara recited an exorcism that drove the Demon of Envy out of Walter and into the night.

Tamara defeated a demon impersonating Isaac, and the group fought off the Seven Deadly Sins before a mysterious woman appeared and killed three of them. As the survivors went their separate ways, Sam vowed to find a way to break Dean’s contract, while Bai Haorui continued growing stronger.

• A demon used Isaac’s voice and corpse to lure Tamara into the woods, but she anticipated the attack and exorcised it with a holy-water-coated stake.
• The Seven Deadly Sins attacked the safe house, where Bai Haorui’s Fire Gathering Array trapped Sloth and Bobby exorcised him, while Dean killed Lust with holy water.
• Pride, Wrath, and Greed overwhelmed Sam until a mysterious woman burst in and killed all three with a dagger before disappearing into the woods.
• Bai Haorui purified the former hosts’ bodies in a golden fire, and Tamara left to hunt the two remaining Seven Deadly Sins.
• Sam urged Dean to seek a voodoo priest in Louisiana to break the contract, but Dean refused to risk Sam’s life; they agreed to keep hunting demons as they traveled on in the Impala.