Chapter Summaries

Yang Lie tested the Headless Evil Ghost’s rule power, survived having his head severed, and sealed the ghost after cutting it apart. He found no useful clues at Fan Donghai’s team’s vehicle and continued toward Linquan Village, where the surroundings grew colder and gloomier.

• Yang Lie explained the dangers of rule-bound ghosts and ordered three death-row inmates to scout, but all three died when they turned their heads.
• Yang Lie forced another inmate outside and let the Headless Evil Ghost sever the inmate’s head, then tested the ghost’s power on himself.
• The ghost twisted Yang Lie’s head off, but he survived, reattached it with the Life Dragon Transformation, and confirmed the ghost could sever his head again.
• Yang Lie cut the Headless Evil Ghost into four pieces with Saint Dragon Sword Qi and sealed it in the Sealing Box.
• Yang Lie searched the bodies and Fan Donghai’s team’s vehicle but found no valuable clues, then continued toward Linquan Village as the area grew colder and gloomier.

Yang Lie confronted four university students outside Linquan Village and learned from Ghost Hunter Ximen Yuan that the village had become a Ghost Domain. Ximen Yuan explained the basics of ghost hunting and warned that a new era of chaos was approaching.

• Yang Lie frightened Cao Yunxi, Li Qiusheng, Niu Fang, and Zhao Mingfeng by demonstrating his strength, then warned them that Linquan Village was haunted.
• Ximen Yuan and his daughter Ximen Ya arrived and revealed that the village was trapped in a Ghost Domain until its evil ghosts were eliminated.
• Yang Lie paid Ximen Yuan one million to explain the Ghost Hunters and their methods.
• Ximen Yuan said ghosts obeyed killing rules, could only be handled by other ghosts, and could be sealed with Purple Sandalwood.
• Ximen Yuan explained that the Ghost Gate opened every hundred years and warned that the chaotic age was about to begin.

Yang Lie learned how Ghost Hunters used anomalous power and explored the Ghost Domain trapping the group near Linquan Village. He broke through its barrier with Dragon's Half-Domain, astonishing Ximen Yuan.

• Yang Lie deduced that powerful Ghost Hunters had shorter lifespans, and Ximen Yuan explained that using evil ghost power while the Ghost Gate was closed consumed enormous amounts of lifespan.
• Ximen Yuan explained that people became Ghost Hunters by sealing ghosts inside themselves, but refused to reveal his family's sealing technique; Yang Lie offered to buy the Ximen Family's ghosts for one million each, and Ximen Yuan agreed.
• Ximen Yuan described the five ghost ranks and said that ghosts from Mid-level Ghosts upward could create Ghost Domains, while stronger domains were difficult for Ghost Hunters to break.
• Yang Lie and the others drove toward Linquan Village's outskirts, where their vehicle struck the invisible boundary of the Ghost Domain.
• Yang Lie punched the barrier with raw strength, then used Dragon's Half-Domain to blast a huge hole through it, leaving Ximen Yuan stunned.

Yang Lie and the Ximen family hunted the Shadow Splitting Ghost and the Dream Ghost in Linquan Village. Yang Lie sealed the Shadow Splitting Ghost, and Ximen Yuan sealed the Dream Ghost using a sleeping death-row inmate.

• Ximen Yuan told Yang Lie that the Shadow Splitting Ghost and Dream Ghost had been sealed by his family and explained their deadly rules.
• The Shadow Splitting Ghost tore Yang Lie into four pieces, but Yang Lie regenerated and captured it with Ancient Martial Arts Sword Intent.
• Yang Lie agreed to trade the Shadow Splitting Ghost to Ximen Yuan in exchange for ten ghosts.
• Yang Lie used three death-row inmates to lure out the Dream Ghost instead of risking Ximen Yuan and Ximen Ya.
• Ximen Yuan dragged the Dream Ghost out of a sleeping inmate and sealed it in a Purple Sandalwood box.

After sealing the Dream Ghost, Yang Lie hunted down other sealed evil ghosts with Ximen Yuan and strengthened his Weird Clone. On Dalmut Star, Perot sacrificed an entire city to the Mother of Spirit Blood, advanced to Martial Saint, and became a half-mad fanatic determined to fight the Human Alliance.

• Yang Lie killed the death row inmates after the Dream Ghost was sealed, then agreed to help Ximen Yuan find the Ximen Family's other sealed evil ghosts.
• Yang Lie paid Ximen Yuan for each ghost they found and later fed King of Anomalies Origin Shard Fruits to his Weird Clone, improving its Hanging Rope ability.
• Perot activated a citywide ritual that drained the blood essence of the city's residents and killed everyone inside.
• The Mother of Spirit Blood empowered Perot with the Spirit Blood Scepter, allowing him to break through the Martial Saint Barrier and survive his body exploding.
• Perot emerged as a half-mad fanatic and vowed to turn the world into the Mother of Spirit Blood's pasture and tear apart the Human Alliance.

Yang Lie ordered the Human Alliance forces to retreat while he stayed behind to face Perot, an Eighth Order Martial Saint. After Perot destroyed the automated defenses and flew toward Azure Dragon, Yang Lie’s hidden Weird Clone trapped him with the Hanging Rope.

• Perot flew toward the Human Alliance landing ships, and their radar identified him as an Eighth Order monster.
• Yang Lie ordered the troops to retreat and stayed behind, reassuring the others that he had a way to deal with Perot.
• Yang Lie summoned the Tier 8 Armored Azure Dragon and flew toward Perot as the others withdrew.
• Perot destroyed the fortress’s automated cannons and robots, then drained the blood of nearby living creatures to restore his strength.
• Perot spotted Azure Dragon and flew toward it, but Yang Lie’s hidden Weird Clone used Hanging Rope to trap him.

Yang Lie killed Perot with a combination of his Weird Clone’s Hanging Rope ability and the Azure Dragon Cannon, then purified the Spirit Blood Scepter and used it to create and consume an eighth-order Blood Clan Origin Fruit. He returned to his companions stronger, but refused to report the kill to the Alliance military because the resulting Merit Points could put him on the front lines against Martial Saints.

• Yang Lie used the Hanging Rope ability and Azure Dragon Cannon to kill Perot, leaving behind the Spirit Blood Scepter.
• Yang Lie purified the Spirit Blood Scepter in his Small World, refined it into an eighth-order Blood Clan Origin Fruit, and consumed the fruit.
• Yang Lie’s Life Essence strengthened, and he advanced to Grandmaster Seventh Heaven.
• Yang Lie returned to the landing ships and told his companions that Perot was dead, while Gu Mingdong and the others stayed away.
• Yang Lie refused to claim Merit Points for killing Perot, explaining that the Alliance military might send him to fight stronger enemies.
• Yang Lie and the women celebrated briefly and ignored Gu Mingdong and the others.

Jin Mingzhu was kidnapped by Ghost Controllers, who used her to lure Yang Lie to an abandoned construction site and demand his Longevity Elixir, its formula, and his martial arts manuals. Yang Lie saw through their trap and confronted Wu Qide, revealing that he knew the kidnappers were hiding and Jin Mingzhu was not there.

• Jin Mingzhu crashed into a car blocking the road, and Wu Qide and a bandaged Ghost Controller attacked her bodyguards with supernatural powers.
• Jin Mingzhu agreed to go with the kidnappers to protect her bodyguards, but the Ghost Controllers killed them and took her away.
• Yang Lie received a message demanding that he come alone to Red Cloud Road to save Jin Mingzhu.
• Yang Lie entered the unfinished buildings and confronted Wu Qide, who demanded the Longevity Elixir, its formula, and Yang Lie's martial arts manuals.
• Yang Lie pointed out that four people were present and that Jin Mingzhu was not at the site.

Yang Lie exterminated Wu Qide and three other Ghost Controllers, then used Wu Qide’s memories to identify Donggui Shengquan as the mastermind. Donggui Shengquan tried to secure a marriage alliance with Jin Mingzhu, but Yang Lie reached the manor and killed him, leaving his corpse sealed.

• Yang Lie killed Wu Qide and three other Ghost Controllers with concealed Wind Blades and sealed their remains.
• Yang Lie released Wu Qide’s corpse and used the Evil Ghost Skin to learn that Wu Qide’s water-bound ghost dragged victims into water.
• Yang Lie tested his resistance against the ghost, cut it apart with Fourfold Sword Intent, and learned that Donggui Shengquan led the plot.
• At his manor, Donggui Shengquan pressured Jin Mingzhu to marry him and revealed his plan to obtain Yang Lie’s Divine Medicine Recipe.
• Yang Lie’s Weird Clone appeared at the manor and killed Donggui Shengquan with Wind Blades, sealing his corpse.

Yang Lie hunted down the Donggui Family Ghost Controllers and used their sealed ghosts to transform his Weird Clone into an Eighth Order existence. After testing its evolved Hanging Rope ability on the Azure Dragon in the Monster World, Yang Lie realized the Weird Star would soon summon the clone back.

• Yang Lie killed Donggui Shengquan, rejected Jin Mingzhu's offer, and went to hunt the other Donggui Family Ghost Controllers.
• Yang Lie killed Donggui Shengjiu, sealed his Mid-level Ghost, and learned the family held locations for 362 ghosts and a key to the Ghost King's sealing grounds.
• Yang Lie killed the remaining Donggui Family Ghost Controllers and turned their sealed ghosts into King of Anomalies Origin Shard Fruits.
• Yang Lie's Weird Clone consumed the fruits, evolved into a Transcendence Eighth Order existence, and entered the Monster World.
• Yang Lie's Weird Clone used the Hanging Rope on the Azure Dragon, restraining it for ten seconds before it broke free, while Yang Lie realized the Weird Star would soon summon the clone back.

Yang Lie used Guo Zinan’s identity to buy sealed ghosts from the Northern Ghost Family and confronted the leaders of the Central Ming and Nan Yuan Families. After killing Nan Yuan Zhengming and coercing Zhong Ming Wanyi, he demanded the Zhongming Family’s ghosts and its key to the Ghost King’s seal.

• Yang Lie sent his Weird Clone back to the Weird Star, where it contacted the major Ghost Controller Families.
• Yang Lie offered Miao Yu Fang money for the Northern Ghost Family’s sealed ghosts, then bought them all and strengthened his Weird Clone with the resulting Origin Shard Fruits.
• Zhong Ming Wanyi and Nan Yuan Zhengming discussed Yang Lie’s ghost purchases, suspecting he wanted to learn the Ghost Controlling Technique.
• Yang Lie entered their villa, restrained both men with Hanging Ropes, and made them swallow Parasitic Tree Vine Seeds.
• Nan Yuan Zhengming attacked Yang Lie, but the seed killed him and Yang Lie sealed his High-level Ghost.
• Yang Lie demanded all of the Zhongming Family’s sealed ghosts and its key to the Ghost King’s seal, and Zhong Ming Wanyi asked why he wanted the key.

Yang Lie collected sealed ghosts and used the Five Great Ghost Controller Families’ keys to reach and absorb the Ghost King sealed at Ying Mountain. With Weird Star falling into chaos, he left the location of a second sealed Ghost King unknown.

• Zhong Ming Wanyi agreed to give Yang Lie the Zhongming Family’s sealed ghosts, and Yang Lie gathered the Nan Yuan Family’s ghosts as well.
• Yang Lie’s Weird Clone grew stronger as supernatural phenomena spread across Weird Star, prompting the Great Zhou Empire to form a Ghost Hunting Division.
• Yang Lie used all five keys to open the Ying Mountain Ghost Domain and lured out its anomalies with death-row prisoners, then sealed and removed them.
• Yang Lie found the golden coffin in a hidden chamber and sent it into the Small World, where the Ghost King inside was suppressed and dissolved.
• Yang Lie learned that the Great Zhou Empire had sealed another Ghost King, but the Five Great Ghost Controller Families did not know where it was.

Yang Lie advanced his Weird Clone to Ninth Order Transcendent strength and used it to hunt Eighth Order Yelifeijia in the Monster Origin World. By repeatedly consuming their Source Fruits, he continued advancing the Ten Dragon Divine Art.

• Yang Lie fed his Weird Clone Origin Shard Fruits and a Ghost King fruit, advancing it to Ninth Order Transcendent strength before purifying it in his Small World.
• Yang Lie learned that the Weird Clone could remain away from Weird Star for only thirty seconds and then required seven days there before it could be summoned again.
• After the cooldown, Yang Lie entered the Monster Origin World in his monster-clone form and found six Eighth Order Yelifeijia.
• Yang Lie summoned the Weird Clone to hang and kill an Eighth Order Yelifeijia, then used Azure Dragon to retrieve its corpse.
• Yang Lie hunted another Eighth Order Yelifeijia seven days later, ate its Source Fruit, and advanced another level in the Ten Dragon Divine Art.
• Yang Lie continued hunting Eighth Order Yelifeijia whenever his Weird Clone's cooldown ended, gaining another level of the Ten Dragon Divine Art from each Source Fruit.

Yang Lie advanced to Grandmaster while Mengke City was overrun by a deadly ghost, prompting Bei Mang Country’s leader to ask for his help. The chapter ended with Yang Lie weighing the request against the promised reward of 452 evil ghosts.

• Yang Lie consumed an eighth-order Yelifeijia's Source Fruit, advanced to Seventh-Order Grandmaster, and evolved his Dragon's Half-Domain into a complete domain.
• Fang Zihuan and Han Yuantong entered Mingshan Apartment, where a powerful faceless ghost killed them and unleashed fog across Mengke City.
• Jin Mingzhu told Yang Lie that Pu Liehu had come seeking an audience and offered ten ghosts.
• Pu Liehu told Yang Lie that evil ghosts had trapped millions of people in Mengke City and begged him to intervene.
• Pu Liehu offered Yang Lie all 452 evil ghosts collected by Bei Mang Country in exchange for his help.

Yang Lie traveled to Bei Mang Country to hunt evil ghosts, where Li Quandon provided death-row prisoners and four Ghost Controller guides, including Bei Gong Minghui. As the convoy entered a Ghost Domain, Yang Lie sealed a bell-covered ghost, impressing Bei Gong Minghui.

• Yang Lie arranged to take five hundred evil ghosts from Pu Liehu and flew to Bei Mang Country.
• Li Quandon welcomed Yang Lie and introduced his guides Jin Leidong, Nan Chen, Wang Xiong, and Bei Gong Minghui, along with buses full of death-row prisoners.
• Bei Gong Minghui asked to stay by Yang Lie’s side, and he agreed to let her call him Brother Zi Nan.
• The convoy entered a fog-filled Ghost Domain, where Yang Lie warned everyone to block their ears after hearing strange ringing.
• A death-row prisoner began twisting and vomiting blood, so Yang Lie used Hanging Rope to capture and seal the bell-covered ghost.

Yang Lie and the Ghost Hunters entered Mengke City, where a series of powerful Weird Clones attacked them. Yang Lie sealed several ghosts, but Wang Xiong and Nan Chen died, and the human-faced Weird Clone remained a threat.

• Yang Lie used Hanging Ropes to capture three Weird Clones, then the human-faced Weird Clone swallowed his group in darkness and summoned the Life Candle Ghost.
• Yang Lie lifted the Life Candle Ghost with a Hanging Rope, dispelling the darkness, and then sealed the Weird Clone resembling Han Yuan as playing cards attacked the group.
• Wang Xiong recognized a disease-controlling ghost, and Yang Lie dragged out and sealed the Plague Ghost after Bei Gong Minghui pleaded for help.
• Wang Xiong suddenly exploded, and Nan Chen died after looking at the human-faced Weird Clone.
• Yang Lie sealed the Weird Clones controlled by Wang Xiong and Nan Chen, then closed his eyes and used Wind Dragon Transformation to sense the human-faced ghost.

Yang Lie faced the Human-Faced Ghost King in Mengke City while Bei Gong Minghui and Jin Lei were caught in its threats. He sealed the Ghost King, and Bei Gong Minghui returned to learn that the crisis had ended.

• Yang Lie restrained the Human-Faced Ghost King with Hanging Rope and ordered Bei Gong Minghui and Jin Lei to flee and call for reinforcements.
• The Human-Faced Ghost King threatened Bei Gong Minghui and Jin Lei’s families and promised them power if they helped kill Guo Zinan.
• Bei Gong Minghui chose to seek help, but Jin Lei attacked Yang Lie in fear and was cut down by Yang Lie’s monster clone.
• Yang Lie’s monster clone wounded the Ghost King while Yang Lie’s Hanging Rope drained its power, allowing Yang Lie to seal it in a Sealing Box.
• The Ghost King’s defeat made its Ghost Domain vanish, and Bei Gong Minghui returned to Yang Lie and asked whether he had sealed it.

After defeating the Human-Faced Ghost King, Yang Lie strengthened his influence in Bei Mang Country and continued hunting weird entities. On Dalmut Star, he refused Chen Zilei’s demand to fight an eighth-tier biological armor and ordered his regiment to evacuate, leaving her to face her pursuer alone.

• Yang Lie eliminated the remaining weird entities in Mengke City and accepted Bei Mang Country’s Ghost Hunter Guild leader Pu Liehu as his disciple in exchange for teaching ancient martial arts.
• Yang Lie’s Weird Clone consumed the Human-Faced Ghost King’s King of Anomalies Origin Shard, greatly increasing its strength, while Yang Lie continued hunting monsters and evil ghosts.
• Chen Zilei arrived above Dalmut Star in a damaged eighth-tier mech while an eighth-tier biological armor pursued her.
• Chen Zilei ordered Yang Lie’s 103rd Regiment to attack her pursuer, but Yang Lie refused because she was not his direct superior.
• Yang Lie ordered the regiment to evacuate and hide, and its officers and soldiers fled as Chen Zilei vowed to kill him.

Yang Lie joined forces with Chen Zilei to drive off Kelly. Gulenster, but she turned on him and tried to kill him for his Tier 8 armor. Yang Lie survived with his Weird Clone, killed Chen Zilei, and examined her memories.

• Yang Lie agreed to help Chen Zilei against Kelly. Gulenster and summoned his Tier 8 Armored Azure Dragon.
• Kelly. Gulenster sensed Yang Lie's strength and fled, while Chen Zilei used Insight Art to discover Yang Lie was an Extraordinary Seventh Order Grandmaster.
• Chen Zilei attacked Yang Lie and tried to take his Azure Dragon Armor, believing she could escape punishment for his death.
• Yang Lie's Weird Clone used the Hanging Rope to kill Chen Zilei and disable her Tier 8 Combat Mecha.
• Yang Lie reassembled his body, sealed Chen Zilei's mech in a Sealing Box, and used the Evil Ghost Skin to absorb her memories.

After killing Chen Zilei in self-defense, Yang Lie sent edited evidence to the 10346th Army, whose commander Yun Shishi arranged for his case to be handled at her headquarters. He completed questioning and was brought before a temporary military court, where he was asked to testify under the Truth Scale.

• Yang Lie reviewed Chen Zilei's memories, then sent edited footage and evidence of her attack to the 10346th Army headquarters.
• Yun Shishi examined the evidence and, with Luo Yiheng's support, decided to handle the case according to procedure at the 10346th Army headquarters.
• Three days later, Shen Tu Lie summoned Yang Lie aboard the Courage, which carried him to the Iron Rose Fortress.
• Military police questioned Yang Lie and released him to stay in the officers' dormitory while the investigation continued.
• Yang Lie appeared before the temporary military court, where judge Qi An instructed him to testify truthfully before the Truth Scale.