Recaps

Jiang Nuo confronted the Ghost King and Lin Yu in the hidden room, where the fight revealed the Ghost King’s connection to a past instance and Lin Yu’s status as this world’s protagonist. Jiang Nuo stabbed Lin Yu and discovered that weakening him advanced the Save the Villain Plan.

• Zhang Quan resisted the Ghost King while Jiang Nuo arrived at the hidden room and recognized the Ghost King as a player.
• The Ghost King offered to cooperate with Jiang Nuo, but Jiang Nuo attacked him and used the red cord to trap the room.
• Lin Yu drained Brother Zhuang’s vitality, escaped through the window, and struck Jiang Nuo with An Yin’s power.
• Jiang Nuo crushed the jade bone, and the Ghost King recognized it and tried to flee from the red cord.
• Jiang Nuo subdued Lin Yu, stabbed him in the heart, and received a notification that the Save the Villain Plan had reached 40% progress.
• Jiang Nuo realized Lin Yu was the protagonist, while the Ghost King reacted with alarm.

Jiang Nuo killed Lin Yu and tore apart the Ghost King, then reunited with Si Yan, who accepted him despite his blood-red eyes and the bodies around him. Jiang Nuo left Zhang Quan to hide the killings while he and Si Yan went home.

• Jiang Nuo killed Lin Yu, whose death triggered a 70% completion notice and awarded 500 points.
• Zhang Quan fought the Ghost King, and Jiang Nuo recognized him as Duoluo ke before tearing his soul apart.
• Si Yan rushed upstairs after his ghost detector went dark and found Jiang Nuo beside the bodies.
• Jiang Nuo scolded Si Yan for disobeying him, then softened when Si Yan said he was not afraid of him.
• Jiang Nuo ordered Zhang Quan to conceal the deaths, and Zhang Quan staged the scene to make it look as though Lin Yu had killed Brother Zhuang.

An Yin restored Lin Yu to life in his original body and made him the new protagonist, tasking him with killing Si Yan and taking his powerful soul. Back home, Jiang Nuo reunited with Si Yan, but discovered that Si Yan’s Spirit-Suppressing Stone contained someone else’s soul.

• An Yin revealed that Lin Yu had used the body that originally belonged to the resurrected Lin Yu, then offered to make him the new protagonist.
• Lin Yu accepted An Yin’s task to kill Si Yan and seize the soul containing special power, and awoke in his original body.
• Jiang Nuo returned home with Si Yan and eagerly clung to him until Si Yan urged him to shower because his clothes were dirty.
• The system warned Jiang Nuo that a new protagonist had appeared and his plan’s progress had fallen to 50 percent, but he refused to spend points on a clue.
• Jiang Nuo noticed Si Yan’s Spirit-Suppressing Stone contained someone else’s soul and objected, while Si Yan said he would die without wearing it.

Jiang Nuo learned that the living soul inside Si Yan’s Spirit-Suppressing Stone was his missing Love Soul, leaving him doubting whether Si Yan’s love was genuine. After Si Yan’s desperate outburst, Jiang Nuo sent him home and confronted 0732 about where his Love Soul was.

• Jiang Nuo realized that the living soul Si Yan’s grandfather had found near Purple Forest Mountain was his missing Love Soul.
• Jiang Nuo asked whether Si Yan loved him for himself or because he possessed the Love Soul, and Si Yan could not answer.
• Si Yan tried to prove his love by offering to return the Love Soul, then threatened to hurt himself when Jiang Nuo tried to leave.
• Jiang Nuo stopped Si Yan, put him to bed, and called Si Mingde to have Si Yan taken home and kept away for a while.
• After Si Yan was taken away, Jiang Nuo confronted 0732 about its claim that his Love Soul was in the variety show, and 0732 said guests counted too.

Jiang Nuo learned that his love soul was inside Si Yan and struggled to find a way to save them both without knowing how much of Si Yan’s affection was genuine. When Jiang Nuo headed to Fragrant Tree Village to rescue missing fans and investigate a zombie outbreak, Si Yan reached for him, but Jiang Nuo pulled away.

• Jiang Nuo asked 0732 to consult Lingduan, which confirmed there was no error in the mission and that the solution would become clear later.
• Cui Ming alerted Jiang Nuo that fans had encountered zombies in Fragrant Tree Village, and Jiang Nuo gave one bitten fan instructions to suppress the corpse qi before contact was lost.
• Weird and Strange Adventure announced its fourth episode in Fragrant Tree Village, with Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Lin Yu, Pu Sang, Li Ta, Wu Chou, and Zhou Yize as guests.
• Jiang Nuo learned the Dao Xuan Association had sent members ahead to the village and redeemed supplies for the zombie incident.
• Jiang Nuo boarded the production bus, where Si Yan took his hand; Jiang Nuo pulled away, and Si Yan asked whether he had to treat him that way.

Jiang Nuo reunited with Lin Yu and met the Dao Xuan Association members on the way to their destination, while continuing to ignore Si Yan after their fight. Si Yan tried to win him over with tears and a revealed injury, but Jiang Nuo stayed guarded as Zhou Yize’s attention made him jealous.

• Jiang Nuo saw Lin Yu alive and instinctively stepped in front of Si Yan before greeting him.
• Si Yan clung to Jiang Nuo and begged him not to abandon him, but Jiang Nuo shook off his hand and sat alone.
• Jiang Nuo met Pu Sang, Wu Chou, and Li Ta, then argued with Si Yan and Zhou Yize over Zhou Yize calling him Xiao Nuo.
• Pu Sang revealed that Si Yan had been sad and hurt himself after returning home, prompting Jiang Nuo to check his wound and question where Si Yan lived.
• Jiang Nuo kept ignoring Si Yan during the drive while chatting with Zhou Yize, leaving the motion-sick Si Yan upset and jealous.

Si Yan feigned illness to draw Jiang Nuo’s attention, then the group traveled to Fragrant Tree Village to investigate jiangshi attacks. After Jiang Nuo was chosen as captain and the group entered the forest, Pu Sang spotted something alarming behind them.

• Si Yan pretended to be dizzy and upset until Jiang Nuo comforted him, then gave Zhou Yize a smug look.
• The director explained that the group would investigate jiangshi attacks and mysterious traditions in Fragrant Tree Village, and Jiang Nuo was chosen as captain.
• The group entered the village’s humid, pathless forest, where Jiang Nuo kept Si Yan close and Si Yan accused Zhou Yize of crowding him.
• After a rustling sound came from the thorny undergrowth, Jiang Nuo threw a stone toward it, but Li Ta dismissed it as an animal.
• Pu Sang turned around and stared at something ahead, her breathing slowing as she warned the others to turn back.

Jiang Nuo and the others fought through a snake-filled path, then faced swarms of venomous bugs in the woods. As they searched for the largest creature in each group, Si Yan spotted a rotting-faced watcher, and Jiang Nuo attacked a giant lizard above Lin Yu.

• Jiang Nuo used talismans and blades to lead the group through the snakes, while Si Yan helped bind a giant python with Spiritual Power and free Li Ta.
• Jiang Nuo warned that the bugs were coated in deadly slime, and Lin Yu identified the largest creature in each group as its weak point.
• Si Yan spotted a rotting-faced person hiding by a tree, but chose not to pursue them so he could stay with Jiang Nuo.
• Si Yan pulled Jiang Nuo away from a centipede near his ear, and Jiang Nuo cleaned Si Yan’s hand before hearing about the watcher.
• Jiang Nuo climbed a tree and sliced open a giant lizard positioned above Lin Yu.

Jiang Nuo and the guests reached Fragrant Tree Village after fighting through a mountain full of bred insects, where researcher He Jiu told them the Dao Xuan Association had rescued the bitten fans. As the group settled in, Si Yan connected a mysterious person’s facial symptoms to poisonous flowers, while Lin Yu attracted the village children and drew Jiang Nuo’s attention.

• Jiang Nuo killed the lizard and exchanged an unsettlingly familiar smile with Lin Yu before the guests continued through the woods.
• He Jiu met the group, gave Zhou Yize bandages, and explained that the bitten fans were staying at the village chief’s house while the zombie remained unidentified and impossible to kill.
• He Jiu warned Pu Sang away from poisonous flowers, and Si Yan told Jiang Nuo that someone he had seen in the woods showed the same eye sores and facial rot described by He Jiu.
• The guests entered Fragrant Tree Village, where Wu Chou searched the crowd and Lin Yu hugged the children who gathered around him.
• Jiang Nuo watched Lin Yu closely, and Lin Yu asked whether he had something to say.

Jiang Nuo and the guests arrived at the village chief’s home, where they found Shuishui unconscious with signs of corpse qi and discovered that she was making the number four. When Shuishui awoke and pointed at Li Ta, Lin Yu suggested that Li Ta was the fourth person marked to die.

• He Jiu led the guests to the village chief’s flower-filled home, where the chief said zombies had killed three people and Shuishui was the fourth victim.
• Jiang Nuo examined Shuishui, while Si Yan identified corpse qi in her body and found that her Corpse-Suppressing Plaques had been smashed.
• Jiang Nuo noticed Shuishui’s fingers seemed to show four, and the village chief’s wife recalled that the first three people killed had also been making numbers.
• Shuishui’s head moved, her eyes opened, and she pointed four fingers at Li Ta.
• Lin Yu suggested that Li Ta was the fourth person marked to die, leaving Li Ta terrified.

Jiang Nuo discovered a chained, pregnant woman eating bugs in a locked room, then joined the village’s corpse herders for an exorcism ritual as Si Yan reacted uneasily to the coffins. The chapter left Jiang Nuo examining the corpses while Si Yan glared at Zhou Yize.

• Jiang Nuo stopped Li Ta from attacking Shuishui, restrained her with a talisman and red cord, and gave Jiang Qianqian more talismans.
• Si Yan pointed out a person watching them from a sealed room, and Jiang Nuo decided to investigate while ordering Si Yan to stay behind.
• Jiang Nuo found a beautiful woman with ulcerated eyes chained inside, crushing and eating bugs beside a cabinet containing an infant-shaped vase and three flowers; she noticed him, and he vanished.
• Jiang Nuo heard a cry of pain near Li Ta’s room but continued on after listening briefly.
• The village chief’s party gathered for the exorcism ritual, where the corpse herders lined up chained coffins and Si Yan hid behind Jiang Nuo, saying he hated them.
• Jiang Nuo went to examine the corpses, Zhou Yize followed him, and Si Yan glared viciously at Zhou Yize.

Jiang Nuo and the others took part in Fragrant Tree Village’s corpse-cleansing ritual, then agreed to guard the mortuary overnight. As the group settled beside the coffins, Si Yan went to the bathroom and asked Jiang Nuo to rescue him if he did not return.

• The corpse herders performed a ritual to drive ghost qi from the bodies, and Jiang Nuo noticed Wu Chou’s eyes looked lifeless.
• The village chief asked the guests to split into teams to guard the mortuary and the village against the jiangshi.
• Jiang Nuo volunteered to guard the mortuary, and Si Yan, Pu Sang, and Wu Chou joined him, leaving Zhou Yize with the other team.
• Zhou Yize felt dizzy, Li Ta kept scratching his neck, and Lin Yu concealed a rash on his arm.
• After nightfall, Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Pu Sang, and Wu Chou settled on a bamboo bed beside the coffins in the mortuary.
• Si Yan left to use the bathroom and asked Jiang Nuo to come save him if he took too long.

Si Yan received a strange love-gu from a creepy granny before a coffin opened and a jiangshi attacked the group. Jiang Nuo restrained the jiangshi and bound most of the coffins, but his talisman blew off.

• A creepy granny offered Si Yan a gu to bind him to Jiang Nuo, then disappeared before he could question her further.
• Si Yan told Jiang Nuo about the gu, and Jiang Nuo noticed that it smelled like the room.
• A coffin began knocking, and Jiang Nuo briefly stopped it with a talisman before its lid blasted off and a jiangshi emerged.
• Wu Chou and Pu Sang fought the jiangshi while Si Yan redirected its charge, and Jiang Nuo tied red cord around several coffins.
• Jiang Nuo stopped the jiangshi with a talisman, but the talisman blew off in a gust of wind.

After the group drove a strange zombie back to its coffin, Pu Sang woke in the village grove and became trapped in a supernatural vision. The children’s rhyme named her as the fifth Guiding Soul, and a bridal sedan struck her as the chapter ended.

• Jiang Nuo and the others shoved the zombie toward the entrance, but it returned to its coffin when moonlight reached it.
• The group went to sleep, with Wu Chou keeping watch while Pu Sang rested in the mortuary.
• Pu Sang woke in the grove and saw the village children chanting that she was the fifth Guiding Soul.
• The children recited the fates of the first four Guiding Souls and chased Pu Sang through the grove.
• A bridal sedan appeared and crashed into Pu Sang, causing her intense pain despite her belief that the scene was an illusion.

Pu Sang woke from an illusion in which a bridal sedan pursued her and she was identified as the fifth person to die. After Shuishui recovered and Li Ta was found unconscious with blisters on his neck, Lin Yu and Zhou Yize recounted how ghosts had lured Li Ta toward the forbidden room, leaving Si Yan to question Zhou Yize’s account of his fall.

• Jiang Nuo woke Pu Sang from an illusion, and she remembered barefoot children singing that she was the fifth person and a bridal sedan crashing into her.
• He Jiu rushed from the village chief’s house and reported that Li Ta had suffered an accident while Shuishui had awakened.
• Jiang Nuo examined Li Ta’s blistered neck as Lin Yu and Zhou Yize described the previous night’s events.
• Lin Yu said ghosts in hemp clothing had summoned Li Ta to kowtow before the forbidden room and injured him when he tried to intervene.
• Zhou Yize said he had seen the ghosts and fallen while trying to cross the courtyard threshold, but he ran across it easily in daylight when Si Yan asked him to demonstrate.

After Zhou Yize survived the illusion’s predicted substitution, the group investigated the village’s gu poison and searched the forbidden room. Jiang Nuo uncovered a black snake and a blood-red stone hidden in an infant’s skull, leaving the stone in Si Yan’s care as they continued their investigation.

• Zhou Yize noticed that the courtyard threshold’s height had changed, while Shuishui silently watched from the corridor before leaving.
• Jiang Nuo identified Li Ta’s neck blisters as a combination of gu poison and corpse poison, and Pu Sang worried that the fourth line of the prophecy had been fulfilled.
• The village chief’s household served raw beans as a gu test; Pu Sang found them sweet, suggesting she might be afflicted, while Jiang Nuo and Si Yan left to look for clues.
• Jiang Nuo returned to the forbidden room and learned from the village chief that it supposedly stood empty, then entered it with Si Yan.
• Jiang Nuo smashed a vase built on an infant’s skull, releasing a fast black snake and exposing a faintly glowing blood-red stone.
• Jiang Nuo gave the stone to Si Yan, who took it with him as he hurried out of the room.

Jiang Nuo turned Lin Yu’s attempt to frame him for a child’s murder back on Lin Yu, getting him locked in the ancestral hall. While Lin Yu investigated the children’s spirit tablets, Jiang Nuo and the others followed a trail of dead insects to a wooden hut that opened into darkness.

• Pu Sang recognized the murdered boy as one of the children from the illusion, and the boy’s father accused Jiang Nuo after finding a piece of his jacket in the child’s pocket.
• Jiang Nuo accused Lin Yu of planting evidence and persuaded the villagers to lock Lin Yu in the ancestral hall.
• Lin Yu considered how to separate Jiang Nuo from Si Yan and remove the Gu Poison spreading across his arm.
• Lin Yu noticed that the ancestral hall held many children’s spirit tablets and began investigating a hidden corner.
• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Pu Sang, and Wu Chou followed dead insects to a wooden hut, whose doors opened to reveal a pitch-black interior.

Jiang Nuo and the others found a rotting man living among bugs in a cabin and discovered that he was both human and ghost after being bitten by a zombie. The group left the cabin, and Jiang Nuo linked the man’s condition to Fragrant Tree Village’s Dragon Vein while Si Yan sensed that their relationship had changed.

• Jiang Nuo led the others into a cabin filled with live bugs and found a rotting person lying among them.
• The man woke, ate bugs, and groomed his hair, revealing a zombie bite on his neck.
• Pu Sang recognized the bite as connected to the Guiding Souls, and the bugs inside the man swarmed toward the group.
• Jiang Nuo’s red cord passed through the man, but he and Si Yan restrained him with a fishing net and Spiritual Power before Jiang Nuo strangled him.
• Outside, Jiang Nuo explained that the man was both human and ghost, possibly because Fragrant Tree Village’s unusual Spiritual Power altered the corpse qi inside him.
• Jiang Nuo praised Si Yan’s deduction, but Si Yan sensed that the rift between them remained and touched the Spirit-Suppressing Stone on his chest.

Jiang Nuo and his companions rescued Shuishui from a forced marriage and discovered that her aunt was making a love-inducing gu. Si Yan’s medicine matched the aunt’s gu, but she recognized his tube as a yin gu made only by her dead mother, suggesting he had encountered a ghost.

• Qianqian told Jiang Nuo and Pu Sang that Shuishui had been taken home and beaten before being forced to marry her aunt’s son, whose legs were broken.
• Jiang Nuo silenced the villagers, freed Shuishui, and had Wu Chou keep the crowd away while the others entered the courtyard.
• Jiang Nuo restrained Shuishui’s aunt, and Si Yan identified the substance in her bowl as the same gu medicine he had received.
• The aunt explained that the gu made its victim fall in love with the person who used it and described how it was prepared.
• Si Yan showed the aunt his bamboo tube, and she recognized its contents as yin gu made only by her dead mother.

Si Yan killed the auntie after sensing ghostly energy in her, while Jiang Nuo defended his decision and planned to check the body that night. The group found a mutilated man with zombie bites who called Pu Sang a dowry bride, and Jiang Nuo decided the zombie would likely target her.

• Si Yan stabbed the auntie, then said he had recognized her as the ghost who gave him medicine; Jiang Nuo backed him and tied red cord to her corpse as a precaution.
• Wu Chou questioned Si Yan’s judgment, but Pu Sang urged everyone to stop arguing and inspect the room’s corpse.
• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Pu Sang, and Wu Chou found a man with his legs severed and zombie bite marks, who muttered about a dowry bride while staring at Pu Sang.
• Pu Sang realized the zombie might target her that night, and Jiang Nuo told her she had an important mission.
• Livestream viewers and online users continued condemning Si Yan for killing the auntie, while Si Mingde and the Dao Xuan Association’s grand elder watched the broadcast.

Jiang Nuo prepared a formation to destroy the zombie while investigating the strange behavior affecting villagers and children at night. Meanwhile, Lin Yu discovered a zombie hidden in the ancestral hall and hoped it could kill Jiang Nuo.

• Jiang Nuo brought Pu Sang to a clearing near the mortuary and prepared the village's customary means of eliminating the zombie.
• Si Yan found children hiding in wine barrels, and Jiang Nuo shut them inside and banged on the barrels before dragging them toward the formation.
• Jiang Nuo pointed out that villagers seemed to be controlled at night when an old man abruptly walked home in a trance.
• Zhou Yize called Jiang Nuo asking to join them, while Jiang Nuo wondered whether Lin Yu had been released.
• Lin Yu examined children's corpses in the ancestral hall, suspected a connection between the children and old people, and found a zombie hidden in a cabinet.
• Lin Yu said whether Jiang Nuo could be killed that night depended on the zombie.

Lin Yu used the Ghost King's power to control the zombie and sent it toward Jiang Nuo, while Jiang Nuo and the others prepared a ghost-subduing formation. After the zombie fought off the corpse herders and repeatedly changed targets, Jiang Nuo ran toward the formation with it hooked by his red cord.

• Lin Yu masked his human vitality with the Ghost King's corpse qi and subdued the zombie after a struggle.
• Jiang Nuo and the others completed a ghost-subduing formation and waited for the zombie to arrive.
• The zombie attacked Jiang Nuo, and the corpse herders failed to stop it with an ink line and an iron-filing weapon.
• The zombie shifted its target toward Pu Sang and then back to Jiang Nuo, revealing that someone was controlling it.
• Si Yan called out that the formation was ready, and Jiang Nuo ran toward it while pulling the zombie with his red cord.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan struggled to contain a zombie as the midnight gong transformed the villagers into monsters. After Si Yan was injured, Jiang Nuo pulled a pulsed electron energy cannon from his bag and prepared to blast the zombie.

• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan used a blood-activated formation and the Blood-Slaying Curse to weaken the zombie, but the midnight gong strengthened its ghost power.
• The corpse herders warned that the villagers turned into monsters at midnight and fled to the graveyard, while Pu Sang and Wu Chou stayed to guard the formation.
• The villagers transformed and attacked, and Si Yan intercepted the zombie before it could reach Pu Sang.
• The zombie struck Si Yan into a tree, and Jiang Nuo rushed to his side before binding the zombie again with red cords.
• Jiang Nuo retrieved a pulsed electron energy cannon from his bag and aimed it at the zombie.

Jiang Nuo destroyed the zombie with a cannon and helped fight off the monstrous villagers, while Lin Yu watched from hiding. As a sudden illusion engulfed the village and a child bit Pu Sang, Jiang Nuo warned that the fifth person had appeared.

• Jiang Nuo fired Lin Yu’s cannon at the zombie, destroying it in a blast that left a crater.
• The grand elder and Si Mingde discussed Jiang Nuo’s weapon and whether Number One might recruit him.
• Jiang Nuo kissed Si Yan, then joined the others as monstrous villagers attacked and children escaped their barrels.
• Lin Yu hid in a tree after shaking off the camera and plotted another way to kill Jiang Nuo.
• Thick fog covered the village, Pu Sang recognized an illusion, and a child bit her before Jiang Nuo announced that the fifth person had appeared.

Jiang Nuo and the others survived the bridal sedan’s attack when Pu Sang’s Death Substitution Talisman transferred its impact to a villager. As dawn neared, Lin Yu decided to kill Si Yan to exploit Jiang Nuo’s attachment to him, but a cracking sound from the tree threatened to reveal him.

• The ghost children sang the fifth and sixth verses as the Mourning-clad Sha carried the bridal sedan toward Pu Sang, and Jiang Nuo let it strike her.
• Pu Sang escaped injury because her talisman transferred the sedan’s attack to a female villager, whose legs were crushed.
• The bridal sedan and ghost children departed with the villagers, and Jiang Nuo noted that only four people had followed it; Si Yan identified Li Ta as the missing fourth person.
• Jiang Nuo examined Si Yan’s wound, prompting Pu Sang and Zhou Yize to misunderstand what they saw while Lin Yu hid in the tree above them.
• Lin Yu resolved to kill Si Yan first so he could more easily kill Jiang Nuo, but the tree trunk cracked as he swung his legs, drawing Wu Chou’s attention.