Chapter Summaries

Jiang Nuo showed off his uncanny dart aim during the balloon game, then the guests discovered a mutilated corpse in the bushes. As everyone gathered around the body, Yang Xiaoxiao called Jiang Nuo over to inspect it.

• Han Wenche tried to persuade Si Yan to partner with him, but Si Yan stayed with Jiang Nuo.
• Jiang Nuo threw a dart that narrowly missed Han Wenche's ear and popped the smallest balloon; Han Wenche demanded medical attention and received a day's supplies.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan began the game by aiming for the smallest balloons, while Zhu An also showed impressive aim.
• Jin Jin found a corpse with half its body bitten off in the bushes and screamed, frightening the guests and staff.
• Si Yan grabbed Jiang Nuo's arm as the guests recoiled from the corpse, and Yang Xiaoxiao approached before asking Jiang Nuo to take a look.

Jiang Nuo examined a corpse with massive bite wounds while the guests argued over whether a monster or a ghost was responsible. When Si Yan's spiritual power was suppressed and his condition worsened, Jiang Nuo carried him away and used demonic qi in an attempt to save him, then asked 0732 to identify what was wrong.

• Jiang Nuo found huge bite marks on the corpse and told the crew member to call the police.
• The directors ordered the show to continue, but the shaken guests stopped playing the game.
• Si Yan began coughing and grew dangerously cold as his spiritual power was suppressed, so Jiang Nuo carried him to a guest room.
• Jiang Nuo drew a blood spell on Si Yan and struck demonic qi into his body, causing Si Yan to spit blood and faint.
• Jiang Nuo asked 0732 to identify what was suppressing Si Yan's spiritual power, and 0732 deducted 100 points before starting a scan.

Jiang Nuo used an Awakening Pill to revive Si Yan and helped him recover from the dark power suppressing his spiritual energy. After they rejoined the others, Yang Xiaoxiao, Zhu An, and Qin Sicun reported seeing smiling doubles of themselves.

• 0732 reported the dark power to Lingduan Baize, who told it to let Jiang Nuo continue the mission and said An Yin had fled to another world.
• Jiang Nuo gave Si Yan the Awakening Pill and absorbed the demonic qi he had transferred into him, waking him and restoring his spiritual power.
• Si Yan woke and worried over Jiang Nuo's bloodied wound, then agreed to help kill the dark power after learning it had suppressed his spiritual energy.
• After bathing and changing, Jiang Nuo and Si Yan went downstairs, where Yang Xiaoxiao, Zhu An, and Qin Sicun told the group they had seen smiling versions of themselves.

Jiang Nuo and the others learned that sightings of doubles had also occurred among townspeople, then went to a farmhouse tourism town for a food-trading task. There, Jiang Nuo offered to resolve a family’s dispute over their father’s burial by speaking with their deceased mother, and he and Si Yan sensed something strange in the courtyard.

• Zhu An and Yang Xiaoxiao told Jiang Nuo they had searched the cabin but could not rule out unseen presences, while Ming Xu showed him the talisman he had won.
• Yang Xiaoxiao reported that people in the town below the mountain had also seen doubles over a span of many years, and Jiang Nuo suggested waiting until night to investigate further.
• The production team sent the guests to the town to trade for lunch, while Han Wenche stayed at the cabin with the sleeping Jin Jin.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan found a family arguing over whether their deceased father should be buried with his first wife or his stepmother.
• Jiang Nuo claimed he could ask the family’s deceased mother for her opinion, and Si Yan confirmed that ghosts could remain underground for their lifetimes.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan sensed that the courtyard was sinister, and Jiang Nuo pulled a peachwood sword from his pocket and declared his skills.

Jiang Nuo summoned the siblings’ dead mother, learned about monsters in the woods southwest of the village, and left a spell there to investigate. Back at the cottage, Jiang Nuo saw Han Wenche in the living room, but Si Yan said no one was there.

• Jiang Nuo summoned the siblings’ mother and let them speak with her before the Underworld officers took her back.
• The mother rejected a joint burial and described monsters with enormous mouths appearing near the woods southwest of the village.
• Si Yan learned from the Underworld officers that the monsters were not ghosts and were outside their jurisdiction.
• Jiang Nuo followed a sinister aura toward the southwest woods, found nothing, and attached a spell to a bamboo stalk.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan returned to the cottage, where Jiang Nuo noticed Han Wenche sitting in the living room, though Si Yan saw no one.

Jin Jin was attacked by a ghost that looked like Jiang Nuo and was dragged into a mirror despite using his talisman. That night, Jiang Nuo encountered two identical Si Yans on the stairs.

• Jin Jin accused Jiang Nuo of entering her room and watching her change, but Jiang Nuo and Si Yan realized she had seen a ghost copying his appearance.
• Yang Xiaoxiao and Zhu An warned Jin Jin that a ghost in the house could take on their appearances, and Jin Jin decided to leave the show.
• The production staff told Jin Jin the mountain road was blocked and arranged to send her away the next morning.
• Jin Jin found a second version of herself in her mirror, was pulled inside, and vanished after her torn talisman briefly stopped the mirror.
• Jiang Nuo went downstairs hoping to encounter a ghost and found two identical Si Yans.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan defeated a mirror copy of Si Yan and realized a mirror double might be distracting them while another ghost targeted the lodge. In the girls’ room, Jin Jin began crying and suggested the strange events had started only after Jiang Nuo arrived.

• Jiang Nuo recognized that the fake Si Yan had come from a mirror and killed him with his dagger.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan chased a mirror copy of Jiang Nuo, then Si Yan ambushed and destroyed it with a single Spiritual Power attack.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan suspected the copy had been a diversion and turned back toward the dark lodge villa.
• Jin Jin came out of the bathroom, climbed into bed, and cried that she was scared by the day’s events.
• Yang Xiaoxiao comforted Jin Jin and said that she and Zhu An had encountered ghosts before Jiang Nuo arrived.

Zhu An and Yang Xiaoxiao discovered that Jin Jin was a mirror ghost and trapped her with talismans. When Jiang Nuo arrived to deal with her, Zhu An grew suspicious of him and backed away.

• Jin Jin begged Yang Xiaoxiao to stay with her, but Zhu An refused and Yang Xiaoxiao offered her a talisman instead.
• Zhu An noticed that Jin Jin cast no shadow and warned Yang Xiaoxiao that she might be a fake.
• Jin Jin confronted them, and Zhu An and Yang Xiaoxiao used talismans to drive her into the mirror.
• Zhu An and Yang Xiaoxiao met Ming Xu in the corridor, and he told them he had encountered a ghost while searching for Brother Sicun.
• Jiang Nuo joined them and found Jin Jin struggling to escape the mirror, but Zhu An grew wary when he closed the door and Si Yan was nowhere nearby.
• Ming Xu asked whether Jiang Nuo intended to kill Jin Jin.

Jiang Nuo confronted a mirror monster that had taken the form of his former, most dangerous self and fought it after discovering it could not fully copy his power. He destroyed the monster’s disguise, while Si Yan shattered the room’s mirrors to prevent its escape, but it rushed toward Ming Xu to transform into him.

• Jiang Nuo said Jin Jin was a vengeful ghost and prepared to destroy the mirror, while Ming Xu hesitated to abandon her.
• Ghost Jiang Nuo appeared outside the window and threatened the people in the room with a deadly game; Zhu An tried to use Yang Xiaoxiao’s bag of talismans against him, but the ghost seized it.
• Jiang Nuo recognized the attacker as a mirror monster imitating his former, most dangerous self, and he and Si Yan went to confront it.
• Jiang Nuo fought his double and used his scarlet eye to immobilize and shatter its form.
• Si Yan destroyed the room’s mirrors, but the fleeing ghost rushed toward Ming Xu to take his appearance.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan subdued a mirror ghost, which revealed that a powerful vicious ghost lived beneath the cabin. The next morning, the production team confronted them about the livestream footage and missing stars, but Jiang Nuo sent everyone away.

• Jiang Nuo and Ming Xu used talismans to suppress the mirror ghost, which revealed it had copied a powerful ghost beneath the cabin and guarded the tomb with three other ghosts.
• Jiang Nuo sealed the mirror ghost in a shard and entrusted it to Ming Xu, while Si Yan explained that Jin Jin had been an illusion.
• The production team reviewed the livestream footage and discovered that Han Wenche and Qin Sicun had disappeared.
• Si Yan brushed off the director's concerns until Jiang Nuo woke and told the production team to leave or be fed to the ghosts.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan prepared to search for Han Wenche and Qin Sicun, while Jiang Nuo confirmed that Han Wenche had been taken by a ghost. Qin Sicun then returned unharmed but confused, leaving everyone unsure whether he was really human.

• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan got dressed and joined the worried crew, while Jiang Nuo insisted on eating before searching for the missing men.
• Ming Xu asked Jiang Nuo to save Qin Sicun, and Yang Xiaoxiao offered to join the search.
• Jiang Nuo sent the production crew to search around the cottage, where they found Han Wenche's watch.
• Jiang Nuo sensed lingering ghost qi on the watch and concluded that a ghost had taken Han Wenche.
• Qin Sicun walked into the dining room, and Zhu An stopped Ming Xu from rushing to him because they could not be sure he was human.

Jiang Nuo led a rescue party into an underground tomb to search for Han Wenche and investigate his ties to the Mikazuki Family. The group encountered ghostly guardians, and the chapter ended with two giant ghosts confronting Yang Xiaoxiao and Zhu An.

• Qin Sicun told Jiang Nuo that he had seen Han Wenche dragged into a tiny, bottomless hole while sleepwalking.
• The chief director explained that Han Wenche had ties to the Mikazuki Family, and Si Yan identified Mikazuki Shunsuke as an illusionist he had fought before.
• Jiang Nuo widened the hole and entered the tomb with Si Yan, Yang Xiaoxiao, and Zhu An while Ming Xu and Qin Sicun stayed behind.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan passed through the bone-filled tomb passage, burned away its ghosts, and blasted open a stone door.
• Jiang Nuo sent Yang Xiaoxiao to fight a ghost dressed as a general, and her talisman made it split into two giant ghosts.
• Yang Xiaoxiao warned Jiang Nuo that her talisman did not seem to work on the doubled ghosts, so Jiang Nuo called on Si Yan to fight.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan fought their way through the tomb, rescued Han Wenche from a female ghost, and drew the Ghost Lord’s attention. The Ghost Lord’s overwhelming ghostly energy reached them before it appeared.

• Si Yan easily destroyed a path-blocking ghost as Jiang Nuo led the group deeper into the passage.
• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Yang Xiaoxiao, and Zhu An found Han Wenche bound in a chamber while a female ghost prepared to prey on him.
• Jiang Nuo pierced the female ghost with his red cord, and Si Yan destroyed her cultivation and burned the spiders.
• Yang Xiaoxiao gave Han Wenche her jacket, while Jiang Nuo and Si Yan left him in the chamber and continued onward.
• Jiang Nuo frightened a crowd of little ghosts with a talisman, and they rushed off to summon their lord.
• The Ghost Lord approached, its dense ghostly energy reaching the passage before its figure appeared.

Jiang Nuo fought the Ghost Lord in its lair, then lured it into the sunlight and began building a Ghost-Devouring Formation with blood. As the battle escalated, the crew brought him more blood, and he warned the directors not to interfere.

• Jiang Nuo told Si Yan to destroy residual dark power in the southwestern woods and sent Yang Xiaoxiao and Zhu An to gather chicken and dog blood in town.
• Jiang Nuo demonized his left hand, seized Han Wenche, and used his blood to lure the Ghost Lord out of the cave.
• Jiang Nuo fought the Ghost Lord in the garden, where sunlight harmed it but failed to suppress its power.
• Jiang Nuo used demonic qi and blood to bind the Ghost Lord with a fishing net while constructing a formation.
• Jiang Nuo threatened to sacrifice the directors if they interfered, and the crew brought him more blood.

Jiang Nuo struggled to complete a formation against the ghost lord and called for human blood, while Si Yan fought the black mist in the woods and destroyed it with his Spiritual Power. Si Yan was unexpectedly restored by a violet glow and hurried back to help Jiang Nuo.

• Curious townspeople fled after seeing the enormous ghost, and an older woman urged the town to bring blood because she believed the ghost lord threatened them all.
• Yang Xiaoxiao went to question the older woman, while Ming Xu brought Jiang Nuo chicken and dog blood; Jiang Nuo found it insufficient and asked Ming Xu to get everyone to donate half a bowl of human blood.
• Ming Xu told the crowd that the formation would fail and ghosts would devour the town without their blood, prompting the directors and townspeople to prepare to donate.
• While everyone gathered blood for Jiang Nuo, Han Wenche lay dying unnoticed in the cottage courtyard.
• In the woods, Si Yan used his Spiritual Power to bind and crush the black mist, then received a burst of violet light that restored his strength and set off to help Jiang Nuo.

Jiang Nuo completed a formation that destroyed the Ghost Lord, and the Underworld officers took the defeated spirit away. Exhausted and still charged with Demonic Qi, Jiang Nuo reunited with Si Yan and sought to replenish his Spiritual Power as they withdrew together.

• Jiang Nuo finished the formation while fighting off the Ghost Lord, who had escaped the fishing net and wounded his arm.
• Jiang Nuo trapped the Ghost Lord in the completed formation, and Si Yan helped extinguish the remnants of its Dark Power.
• The Ghost Lord exploded, revealing a dwarf scholar, and the Underworld officers collected him and gave Jiang Nuo a token.
• Si Yan sent Yang Xiaoxiao and the onlookers away, then brought the exhausted Jiang Nuo into a room.
• Jiang Nuo kissed Si Yan and drew in his Spiritual Power before Si Yan carried him toward the bathroom.

After the ghost attack, Jiang Nuo recovered and left with Si Yan, who revealed that his uncle Si Yong had killed his father and warned Jiang Nuo not to trust him. Si Yan’s grandfather invited them to the Dao Xuan Association, and Jiang Nuo eagerly agreed to meet his family.

• Si Yan held Jiang Nuo as he slept, while police and medical staff entered the house, Han Wenche was taken away severely injured, and the production team cleaned up after the attack.
• Jiang Nuo woke with his Spiritual Power restored and earned points for clearing Dark Power and advancing the Save the Villain Plan.
• Cui Ming apologized for the danger on the show, and Jiang Nuo asked him to cook a feast as punishment.
• Yang Hong told Si Yan that his youngest uncle had contacted her, and Si Yan said Si Yong had killed his father and warned Jiang Nuo not to meet him alone or believe him.
• Si Yan’s grandfather called and invited Jiang Nuo to visit, so Cui Ming turned the car toward the Dao Xuan Association.

Jiang Nuo visited the Dao Xuan Association with Si Yan, met Si Mingde, and learned about his lost soul and the next Dragon Vein restoration mission. The chapter ended with Jiang Nuo preparing to compete for Huaxia against Wa Country while eagerly negotiating a cash prize.

• Jiang Nuo met the association's eccentric members, who crowded around him as fans until Si Yan ordered them back to work.
• Jiang Nuo met Si Mingde, who apologized for using Jiang Nuo's soul to keep Si Yan alive.
• Jiang Nuo explained that his soul had left his body since childhood and that his Love Soul had been missing from birth.
• Jiang Nuo learned that Han Wenche had been sent to a psychiatric rehabilitation center and had blamed Jiang Nuo while threatening revenge through his family.
• Si Mingde explained that the next Dragon Vein restoration site lay between Huaxia's and Wa Country's waters, and that the two countries would compete through Great Adventure.
• Jiang Nuo asked Si Mingde for a cash prize for competing, and Si Mingde wrote him a check.

Jiang Nuo learned that Mikazuki Shunsuke had once tried to eat Si Yan for his Spiritual Power and vowed to kill him. Si Yong then confronted Si Yan, revealing his ties to Wa Country’s association and the Mikazuki Family, while Jiang Nuo promised to deal with him.

• Si Mingde explained the Mikazuki Family’s sacrificial illusion arts and told Jiang Nuo that Mikazuki Shunsuke had cultivated his illusion consciousness entity since childhood.
• Si Yan told Jiang Nuo that Mikazuki Shunsuke had tried to eat his flesh, and Jiang Nuo vowed to kill him at their next meeting.
• Si Yong barged into the study to see Si Yan, and Jiang Nuo insulted him while Si Mingde left the room.
• Si Yan attacked Si Yong with a Spiritual Power-infused brush, wounding him after Si Yong revealed his own use of Wa Country’s illusion arts.
• Si Yong declared that Wa Country’s illusion arts would prevail in the coming friendly competition, then left after Jiang Nuo mocked his abilities.
• Si Yan told Jiang Nuo that Si Yong had joined Wa Country’s association, and Jiang Nuo said he would kill him in Si Yan’s place.

Jiang Nuo learned about Si Yan’s family tragedy and shared that he had grown up without a family. He stayed with Si Yan through a checkup, which went better than usual, and reassured him that his health had improved.

• Si Mingde told Jiang Nuo that Si Yong had set a trap that killed Si Yan’s father, and Si Yan’s mother died of grief soon afterward.
• Jiang Nuo asked whether Si Yong’s personality had changed suddenly, then told Si Mingde that he had grown up in an orphanage and lost the director he called Mom.
• Si Yan asked for Jiang Nuo to stay with him during his treatment, and Jiang Nuo comforted him while the doctor examined him.
• Si Yan told the doctor that his Spiritual Power had changed, and the doctor completed the treatment in under two hours.
• Si Yan noticed that his body stayed warm after treatment, cuddled with Jiang Nuo, and heard Jiang Nuo reassure him that his health was much better.