Recaps

Jiang Nuo worried that Si Yan might leave him to take over the Dao Xuan Association, but Si Yan promised to stay by his side for now. Over lunch, Jiang Nuo accepted an acting role and learned that Xu Jin had chosen him as a spokesperson, then asked Si Yan to order spicy food for their date night.

• Jiang Nuo asked Si Yan not to retire from acting, and Si Yan explained that he would eventually need to take over the Dao Xuan Association.
• After Yang Hong warned that fans might blame Jiang Nuo if Si Yan retired, Jiang Nuo threatened to lock Si Yan away if he left, and Si Yan promised to stay.
• Cui Ming told Jiang Nuo that a director had offered him a short drama role as a ghost-catching celestial master, and Jiang Nuo accepted the pay per episode.
• Cui Ming revealed that Xu Jin had chosen Jiang Nuo as the first spokesperson for a major clothing brand after her successful comeback.
• After Cui Ming left, Jiang Nuo asked Si Yan for extra-spicy food from the restaurant they had visited on their date, and Si Yan agreed.

Jiang Nuo found that a batch of antiques from Old Stockade Gate carried deadly resentment from a vengeful ghost’s tomb, then exposed the source of a market seller’s nightmares. When Wang Laoliu’s death confirmed the danger, streamer Zhang Gou confronted Jiang Nuo, who ended up in Si Yan’s arms as the crowd looked on.

• Jiang Nuo examined a chipped jade clasp at an older woman’s stall and learned that Wang Laoliu had brought it and other antiques from Old Stockade Gate.
• Jiang Nuo told the woman that her son had driven a girl to suicide and that her ghost was seeking an apology, then gave her talismans and advised her son to apologize in person.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan found heavily resentful antiques at several stalls, and Jiang Nuo warned the shopkeepers that the goods came from a vengeful ghost’s tomb and could kill people.
• A shopkeeper learned that Wang Laoliu had died suddenly the previous night, alarming the market sellers and customers.
• Zhang Gou pushed through the crowd, accused Jiang Nuo of spreading superstition, and gained viewers by featuring him on his livestream.
• Jiang Nuo threw a ceramic jar at Zhang Gou, then hid in Si Yan’s arms to avoid crying as Zhang Gou continued arguing and the onlookers stared at him like a fool.

The police and Wang Laoliu’s wife asked Jiang Nuo to examine Wang Laoliu’s bizarre corpse, which appeared to have been drained of blood and moisture. Jiang Nuo agreed to go, while Zhang Gou followed in the police car to keep livestreaming.

• Zhang Gou rejected the shopkeepers’ belief in ghosts, insulted Jiang Nuo, and was thrown out before charging back inside to challenge him on camera.
• A woman in red arrived with police officers, and Jiang Nuo struck Zhang Gou with an antique fragment after he tried to film them.
• The officers explained that Wang Laoliu had died of fright and that his black, stiff corpse had an unusually soft, swollen abdomen.
• Wang Laoliu’s wife pleaded with Jiang Nuo to help, and Jiang Nuo agreed to examine the corpse after leaving his collected treasures with the tattooed shopkeeper.
• Zhang Gou insisted on coming along and rode in the police car as the market vendors searched for his livestream and worried about goods they had bought from Wang Laoliu.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan investigated Wang Laoliu’s grotesquely altered corpse and discovered black qi inside it. Following a sinister presence to the study, they saved the villa’s housekeeper and found that the collection room was filled with resentful energy.

• Jiang Nuo examined Wang Laoliu’s corpse and found black qi and a pattern beneath the skin, then cut it open and collected the black qi in a porcelain bottle.
• A sinister gust slammed a door shut, and Si Yan followed the aura while Jiang Nuo went after him; the police decided to follow them and transfer the case to the association.
• Si Yan found the housekeeper in the study with resentful energy clinging to her, and Jiang Nuo used a talisman and a police officer’s blood to drive black qi from her body.
• The housekeeper identified the room as Mr. Wang’s collection room and said she had felt unwell after cleaning there.
• Jiang Nuo sensed cold, resentful energy inside the collection room and told the police to enter first, claiming they had strong yang energy.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan discovered that Wang Laoliu had raised a little ghost with human blood, but a vengeful ghost’s resentment had actually killed him. As the police began investigating both ghosts, Jiang Nuo sensed that the housekeeper was about to die, and everyone rushed downstairs.

• Jiang Nuo revealed that resentment had made the porcelain doll appear black and found half of a talisman stuck to its head.
• Madam Wang retrieved the other half of the talisman, and Jiang Nuo discovered it was used to nourish the little ghost with human blood.
• Jiang Nuo explained that the little ghost had not killed Wang Laoliu; resentment from goods brought out of Old Stockade Gate had caused his death, with the little ghost acting as a catalyst.
• Si Yan received orders from his grandfather to investigate the porcelain doll little ghost and the vengeful ghost’s grave.
• Jiang Nuo sensed that the housekeeper was about to die, so the officers hurried downstairs while Jiang Nuo and Si Yan shared a kiss.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan contained the resentful spirit that had possessed the nanny, while a ghostly hand attacked a forensic examiner in the room. After Madam Wang fled with the little ghost, the nanny revealed that the Wangs had used infant fetuses to change their luck.

• Jiang Nuo instructed the police captain to smear blood on the nanny’s forehead, then used Spiritual Power to restrain her as a resentful spirit emerged and Jiang Nuo trapped it in a jade porcelain bottle.
• A ghostly hand dragged a forensic examiner behind a curtain, but Jiang Nuo drove it off with Spiritual Power.
• Jiang Nuo realized Madam Wang had left with the little ghost, and the officers went after her.
• The nanny regained consciousness and told Jiang Nuo that Mr. Wang and Madam Wang had used infant fetuses to change their luck.

Jiang Nuo forced Madam Wang to confess how she and Wang Laoliu used a ghost fetus and murdered Sister Liu and her baby to alter their luck. The police took control of Madam Wang while Jiang Nuo and Si Yan planned to ask Grandpa about Jiang Nuo’s uncontrollable tears.

• Jiang Nuo brought Madam Wang into the nanny’s room and confronted her with Sister Liu’s ghost.
• Madam Wang confessed that Wang Laoliu learned a Luck-Altering Technique and they fed infants to a ghost fetus to steal their families’ luck.
• Madam Wang admitted that Wang Laoliu ate Sister Liu’s baby after learning the family had won the lottery, and that they drowned Sister Liu to keep her quiet.
• Sister Liu’s ghost attacked Madam Wang, but Jiang Nuo restrained the ghost and left Madam Wang for the police to sentence.
• Jiang Nuo told Si Yan that his returned love soul made him cry uncontrollably, and they decided to visit Grandpa the next day for help.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan questioned Madam Wang and learned that Simazi supplied Wang Laoliu with haunted goods, so they arranged to meet him at Old Stockade Gate. After the female ghost attacked Madam Wang and Si Yan dispersed her, Jiang Nuo and Si Yan left to prepare for the next week’s meeting, with Si Yan jealous of Jiang Nuo’s attention to Song Zheng.

• Madam Wang told Si Yan that Wang Laoliu learned the Luck-Altering Technique from a sorcerer whose son, Simazi, ran a coffin shop and supplied their goods from Old Stockade Gate.
• Jiang Nuo had Madam Wang text Simazi, who agreed to let new workers collect goods next Wednesday but refused to let an expert inspect them.
• Jiang Nuo recruited Song Zheng to accompany them, while Si Yan asked the female ghost whether she was satisfied with Madam Wang’s punishment.
• The female ghost attacked Madam Wang, but Si Yan stopped her, handed Madam Wang to the police, and dispersed the ghost after her resentment faded.
• Jiang Nuo made Zhang Gou fall down the stairs, then left with Si Yan, who complained that Jiang Nuo had called Song Zheng handsome before kissing him in the car.

Jiang Nuo finished a fashion shoot and set off with Si Yan and Song Zheng for Old Stockade Gate, where a five-year-old investigation into three deaths had become a cold case. They arrived in the quiet old town, whose residents strictly avoided talk of ghosts and gods.

• Jiang Nuo met Xu Jin at the studio and completed a successful shoot in her distinctive designs.
• Cui Ming told Xu Jin that a new livestream variety show was copying Great Adventure’s haunted-house format and trying to promote another idol as the next Jiang Nuo.
• Si Yan arrived with Song Zheng, and Jiang Nuo reunited with him before they left for Old Stockade Gate.
• Si Yan explained that three people had died during an archaeological project at Old Stockade Gate five years earlier, but investigators found no ghosts and never identified a murderer.
• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Song Zheng reached Old Stockade Gate, where Si Yan said the residents’ customs had no known connection to ghosts and that talk of them was taboo.

Song Zheng, Jiang Nuo, and Si Yan reached Simazi’s coffin shop and posed as workers sent by Wang Laoliu to collect goods. After Simazi confined them to a room and warned them not to touch the coffins or go out at night, Jiang Nuo decided they would investigate the courtyard after midnight.

• Song Zheng learned that townspeople avoided Simazi’s family because deaths had repeatedly followed each new generation’s takeover of the coffin shop.
• Song Zheng, Jiang Nuo, and Si Yan arrived at the remote coffin shop, where A Wu greeted them and Jiang Nuo noticed the birthmark covering half his face.
• Song Zheng told Simazi that Wang Laoliu had been in a car accident and that they had come to collect the new goods; Simazi said the goods were still on the mountain and ordered them to stay overnight without touching the coffins.
• A Wu led the three through a courtyard full of coffins and paper figures to the damp room where Wang Laoliu and Madam Wang had stayed.
• Jiang Nuo stopped Simazi from locking them inside by asking for water, then told Si Yan and Song Zheng that they would investigate the courtyard after midnight.

Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Song Zheng investigated the courtyard at night and found a timid ghost draining A Wu’s yang energy. The ghost pointed them toward a powerful presence on the mountain, which Jiang Nuo planned to investigate the next day.

• Jiang Nuo woke Si Yan and Song Zheng at eleven, and the three went to investigate a sound outside.
• Jiang Nuo found A Wu sleeping inside a cramped child’s coffin and realized a ghost was absorbing his yang energy.
• Si Yan pulled Jiang Nuo and Song Zheng behind a coffin when a ghost floated into the courtyard and settled beside A Wu.
• Jiang Nuo blocked the ghost’s escape and questioned it, but it cowered and obeyed when he ordered it to stand.
• The ghost pointed toward the mountain when Jiang Nuo asked about powerful ghosts nearby, then fled the courtyard.

A Wu woke to find Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Song Zheng investigating the ghost in his room, and revealed that his father had made him sleep in a coffin because of a family curse. After discovering a hidden underground level beneath the courtyard, Jiang Nuo forced A Wu to lead them to the basement.

• A Wu woke in his coffin, saw a ghost, and learned that Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Song Zheng had come to investigate.
• Si Yan identified A Wu's blue facial mark as an azure ghost face curse, and A Wu said his father claimed he needed to sleep in a coffin to avoid dying young.
• Jiang Nuo found a hidden mechanism beneath the central coffin and learned that the underground coffins contained things.
• Jiang Nuo pressured A Wu to guide them downstairs despite the boy's warning that only the head of the household could enter the basement.

Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Song Zheng, and A Wu discovered a basement filled with Yin-Gathering Coffins and corpses that were close to becoming ghosts. Si Yan suspected the dead had completed tasks imposed by an evil ghost’s curse, possibly including Simazi, whose Azure Ghost Face had disappeared.

• A Wu led the others to a hidden basement entrance beside the red-painted sign, where they found rows of altered coffins.
• Si Yan identified the coffins as Yin-Gathering Coffins designed to keep Corpse Qi from dispersing and nurture corpses into ghosts.
• Jiang Nuo and Song Zheng opened a coffin and found a corpse undergoing transformation, then discovered that the corpses belonged to A Wu’s uncle and grandmother.
• Si Yan questioned A Wu about his bluish birthmark, and A Wu said his father had once claimed to have faked a similar mark for him.
• Si Yan explained that an evil ghost’s curse could assign its victims tasks that continued even after death, and suspected the corpses had completed their tasks, including Simazi.

Song Zheng, Jiang Nuo, and Si Yan investigated the coffin shop’s basement and discovered a Flesh Corpse raised by A Wu’s father. Jiang Nuo used Song Zheng’s blood to lure the monster away, while Si Yan cleared the corner.

• Song Zheng deduced that each new generation of the coffin shop inherited a task involving a death, and that the Azure Ghost Face remained on A Wu until then.
• Jiang Nuo found ghost-raising materials among the corpses and coffins in the basement.
• A Flesh Corpse emerged, and Si Yan gave Song Zheng a Spiritual Power-infused dagger after warning him that his gun would not work.
• Song Zheng charged the Flesh Corpse, and Jiang Nuo slashed his arm to collect blood on his jacket.
• Jiang Nuo used the bloodied jacket to draw the starving Flesh Corpse toward him while Si Yan moved to clear the corner.

Jiang Nuo and the others subdued a Blood Corpse in the coffin shop basement and discovered the sorcerer’s corpse was still missing. Before leaving to investigate the mountain the next day, Jiang Nuo forced A Wu to keep quiet about what happened.

• Jiang Nuo trapped the Flesh Corpse in a hidden compartment, but a Blood Corpse emerged from another compartment and attacked the group.
• The Blood Corpse pursued Song Zheng, and Si Yan slowed it with silver needles before it turned its attention to him.
• Jiang Nuo beat the Blood Corpse, sealed it inside a compartment with a talisman, and placed paper figures in the coffins to prevent the bodies from becoming undead.
• Jiang Nuo noted that the sorcerer’s corpse was missing and said the group would search the mountain the next day.
• Jiang Nuo made A Wu swallow something that would kill him if he revealed what happened, and the four left the basement.

Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Song Zheng traveled with Simazi and A Wu toward the mountain, while Song Zheng tried to draw information from Simazi. Simazi revealed a history of family deaths and hinted at bitter resentment before Song Zheng changed the subject to the treasures on the mountain.

• Simazi woke late, found the courtyard unchanged, and questioned A Wu about whether anyone had made noise the night before.
• After breakfast, Simazi urged the group to leave for the mountain, and Song Zheng drove them there with A Wu seated apart from Simazi.
• Simazi asked about Jiang Nuo and Si Yan’s relationship, and Jiang Nuo claimed Si Yan was his wife and invented a story about stealing him from a gang boss.
• Song Zheng asked why Simazi ran a coffin shop, and Simazi said it was his family business and that he was not destined for wealth.
• Simazi described his mother, brother, sister-in-law, and nephew dying, then muttered that they deserved it and suggested he might die too.
• Song Zheng tried to comfort Simazi, then asked what treasures were among the goods on the mountain.

Simazi led Song Zheng, Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and A Wu up the mountain, where he revealed his skill at orthodox exorcism when ghost miasma blocked their path. A Wu began to suspect that his father was connected to the bodies and ghosts in the basement, and noticed someone following them.

• Simazi led the group up the mountain and said the road ahead was too rough for their van.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan flirted in the van before catching up with the others.
• As the group climbed through the damp, sinister woods, Simazi muttered that they had nearly taken all the goods from the area.
• Ghost miasma suddenly appeared across the trail, and Simazi brought out the Three Pure Ones Bell and a ritual mirror.
• Simazi chanted and used righteous qi to exorcise the ghosts blocking their way.
• A Wu wondered whether his father was connected to the bodies and ghosts in the basement, then spotted someone following them.

A Wu repeatedly saw a ghost following the group as Simazi led them into an underground tomb, though no one else could see it. Jiang Nuo discovered Simazi had been leading them in circles and confronted him at knifepoint.

• A Wu saw a half-faced ghost behind the vines, then spotted it again on the mountain path while Jiang Nuo and the others saw nothing.
• Simazi uncovered a cement-reinforced entrance and led A Wu, Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, and Song Zheng underground, boasting about the tomb’s treasures.
• As the group descended, A Wu kept seeing the ghost and panicked, while Jiang Nuo and Si Yan could not sense it nearby.
• Jiang Nuo revealed that he had marked the passage wall and that they had been walking in circles.
• Jiang Nuo held a dagger to Simazi’s neck as Song Zheng drew his gun and Simazi accused them of tricking him.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan followed a ghostly shadow through the tomb, where Simazi revealed that the apparent ghosts were people afflicted with the Ghost Plague. After Jiang Nuo claimed he could cure them, Si Yan explained that fierce ghosts transmitted the illness and that the infected would eventually become Yin Ghosts.

• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Song Zheng, A Wu, and Simazi followed a shadow through the tomb until they reached a blocked ledge.
• Jiang Nuo threatened Simazi with a photograph of Wang Laoliu's corpse, and Simazi confessed that the ghostly figures were sick people hiding in the tomb.
• Simazi summoned the people behind the wooden planks after Jiang Nuo said he could save them.
• More than twenty scarred, armed people confronted the group, and Si Yan explained how the Ghost Plague spread and worsened.

Jiang Nuo exposed the false prophecy that had lured the rotting men deeper into the tomb, revealing that their leader had likely sacrificed them to escape a curse. The group set off toward the deepest chambers to confront the malicious ghost, with Simazi forced to accompany them.

• The rotting men mocked Si Yan's diagnosis and threatened Jiang Nuo's group, but Jiang Nuo produced a cannon and made them reveal the location of the prophecy mural.
• Jiang Nuo burned away the fake mural's cloth covering and uncovered the original mural, which described a cursed treasure seeker ordered by a malicious ghost to bring twenty people as sacrifices.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan concluded that the first person cursed had brought the others underground to save himself, and Si Yan decided the malicious ghosts had to be eliminated to protect their victims.
• The men agreed to go deeper with Jiang Nuo, while Jiang Nuo and Si Yan suspected the person who faked the prophecy had another purpose.
• Song Zheng stopped Simazi from leaving, and Jiang Nuo handed out flashlights as the group entered the tomb passage.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan led Song Zheng and Da Zhu’s group through the tomb to a black jade door that they could not open. They found a mechanical-looking tomb guardian and a hidden object near an ever-burning lamp, but the chapter ended before they could unlock the door.

• Jiang Nuo told Da Zhu to keep his people in line as the group entered the tomb’s lower levels.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan recognized symbols on the black jade door as matching those on the coffin lid in Simazi’s basement.
• Song Zheng tried to push the jade door, but it did not move, and Jiang Nuo pointed out a stone tomb guardian beside it.
• Jiang Nuo turned the guardian’s right eyeball and heard clicks while Si Yan noticed its left eye was aimed at an extinguished ever-burning lamp.
• Song Zheng climbed onto Zhang Linsan’s back to inspect the lamp, found something hidden there, and brought it back to Si Yan.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan opened the jade door and entered a burial chamber filled with dangerous mechanisms and black jade Buddhas. They found the chamber’s central point, but Jiang Nuo’s attempts to activate it did nothing.

• Jiang Nuo warned everyone about the arrows, and Si Yan used an umbrella as a shield while trying to plug the opening with a stone.
• Several men rushed to collect gold and jewels, then died when the arrows resumed firing; Si Yan plugged the mechanism and opened the jade door.
• The group entered the burial chamber, where two black jade Buddhas shattered and the steps beneath them retracted.
• Jiang Nuo examined the chamber’s four imposing general statues and, with Si Yan’s help, found where their gazes converged.
• Jiang Nuo stepped on the chamber’s central point several times, but the mechanism did not activate.

Jiang Nuo opened a hidden mechanism with a gunshot, revealing a coffin that Simazi recognized as one used to nurture corpses into ghosts. After Simazi’s candle was blown out by an unseen presence, Jiang Nuo relit it with his power, leaving the wandering ghost unable to extinguish the flame.

• Jiang Nuo fired at the thick brick between Zhang Linsan and another man, breaking it and triggering the mechanism that raised a coffin.
• Simazi recognized the coffin’s patterns as those used to nurture corpses into ghosts and warned that a ghost was inside.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan questioned Simazi about his father swapping Wang Laoliu’s fate, and Simazi claimed he had nothing to do with it.
• Simazi lit a candle in the southeast corner, but an unseen presence blew it out.
• Jiang Nuo relit the candle with his power, and the wandering ghost failed to blow it out.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan opened the coffin and found a sacrificial corpse bound with Soul-Suppressing Nails and a Yin-Containing Talisman, but an unseen ghost attacked the group. Jiang Nuo used his blood to change his vision and search the burial chamber for it.

• Jiang Nuo sheltered Si Yan from the coffin’s yin energy as they opened it and examined the decomposed corpse.
• Si Yan identified Soul-Suppressing Nails, and Jiang Nuo found a Yin-Containing Talisman and explained how the corpse had been both suppressed and nourished with resentment.
• Jiang Nuo questioned Simazi about the corpse-nurturing method, but Simazi denied knowing anything about it.
• Jiang Nuo placed another suppression talisman on the corpse, but an invisible force lifted a short man and twisted his neck.
• Si Yan and Jiang Nuo fought back against the unseen ghost, which they could neither see nor track with spiritual power.
• Jiang Nuo smeared blood across his left eyelid, turning his iris red as he scanned the burial chamber.

Jiang Nuo and the others discovered a second coffin containing human-skin layers and deciphered that the runes in both coffins were incomplete. After searching the burial chamber for an exit, Jiang Nuo noticed a dripping sound and asked where it was coming from.

• Jiang Nuo found and destroyed a ghost hiding in the wall while the men discovered a second coffin.
• Jiang Nuo scraped a curse off the coffin lid, and the group opened the coffin despite Simazi's warnings.
• Si Yan revealed layers of human skin beneath two skeletons, and Simazi explained they might have belonged to slaves buried as sacrifices.
• Song Zheng gave blood so Si Yan could reveal the runes, and Si Yan realized each coffin held only half of them.
• Da Zhu led a search for an exit, but Jiang Nuo noticed a dripping sound and asked where it came from.