Chapter Summaries

Si Mingde learned that Si Yan’s health and spiritual power had improved, while Jiang Nuo discovered that Kong Zhi was publicly challenging him with illusion magic and fake accusations. Jiang Nuo agreed to appear on the variety show and face Kong Zhi, setting up their televised contest for the title of “one true god.”

• Si Mingde’s doctor reported that Si Yan had recovered well and grown stronger, and Si Mingde credited Jiang Nuo with helping him improve.
• A subordinate told Si Mingde that Wa Country had appointed a powerful new vice president who was said to rival Jiang Nuo, but Si Mingde dismissed the report.
• Zhang Quan alerted Jiang Nuo that Kong Zhi had insulted him and claimed he could replace him, and Jiang Nuo watched Kong Zhi perform illusion magic on a trending variety-show clip.
• Si Yan identified Kong Zhi’s performance as illusion magic unique to the Mikazuki Family and suspected Mikazuki Shunsuke had sent him to undermine Jiang Nuo.
• Jiang Nuo agreed to join the variety show after learning Kong Zhi would appear, saying he wanted to see how powerful the illusion magic was.
• The show announced that Jiang Nuo would compete against Kong Zhi and other guests, and Kong Zhi reposted the announcement with a taunt.

Jiang Nuo arrived at the recording venue and humiliated Kong Zhi after he provoked him. During the show, Jiang Nuo answered questions about his relationship with Si Yan and began a challenge to coax Si Yan into saying he loved Jiang Nuo most and transferring him 520.

• Kong Zhi insulted Jiang Nuo and refused makeup, but fell before he could confront him; the staff laughed as he stormed out, threatening Jiang Nuo.
• Jiang Nuo entered the show in an immortal costume and greeted the cheering audience, while Zhang Quan restrained his rising ghost qi at Jiang Nuo's reminder.
• Jiang Nuo answered questions about his relationship with Si Yan, claiming he was the more assertive one and that Si Yan usually apologized first.
• The hosts challenged Jiang Nuo to call Si Yan and lead him to say he loved Jiang Nuo more than anyone in the world, then transfer him 520; Jiang Nuo waited for the call to connect.

Jiang Nuo called Si Yan during a live show, and their affectionate banter delighted the audience. After the first half ended, the guests moved to the competition studio, where Jiang Nuo prepared to face the second-half event as Kong Zhi taunted him.

• Jiang Nuo called Si Yan, who complained that he missed him and declared that he loved Jiang Nuo most in the world.
• Si Yan guessed that Jiang Nuo was calling from a show, and the audience cheered when Da Jiang let them count the call as a success.
• After the call, Kong Zhi insulted Jiang Nuo, who mocked him as a barking dog while Zhang Quan agreed and Hua Xiaohua and Su Su encouraged Jiang Nuo.
• Da Jiang announced that the competition would begin live in a larger studio, and the audience, guests, and hosts moved to the new venue.

Jiang Nuo defeated Kong Zhi in their streamed match and revealed that Mikazuki Shunsuke had sent him to test Jiang Nuo’s abilities. Mikazuki Shunsuke then prepared for their coming friendly match with help from the mysterious Si Yan.

• Da Jiang started the livestream and announced that the match would end when one fighter could no longer fight.
• Kong Zhi attacked Jiang Nuo with a giant snake illusion, but Jiang Nuo crushed it and injured Kong Zhi through their shared consciousness.
• Jiang Nuo summoned a phantom reaper that terrified Kong Zhi, who broke free and called out his core illusion consciousness entity.
• Jiang Nuo beat Kong Zhi’s muscular consciousness entity with demonic punches, leaving Kong Zhi barely breathing as the audience cheered.
• Jiang Nuo told the camera that Mikazuki Shunsuke had sent Kong Zhi and challenged him to be ready to die at their friendly match.
• Mikazuki Shunsuke told the masked Si Yan he planned to use Si Yan’s Spiritual Power to cultivate a thousand-year vengeful ghost, and Si Yan agreed to help kill Jiang Nuo.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan met their fellow Hua Country competitors, Su Yi and Qi Lin, before the team departed for a friendly competition against Wa Country. The chapter ended with the four competitors boarding a plane, warned to watch out for the Mikazuki Family.

• A week after the competition on Meet Every Weekend, Weird and Strange Adventure announced a new episode featuring a Hua Country and Wa Country contest in a seaside town haunted by vengeful ghosts.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan met Su Yi, who could communicate with ghosts, and Qi Lin, whose body shared a soul contract with a blood demon named Qi Cang.
• Jiang Nuo asked to meet Qi Lin's lover, and Qi Cang recognized demonic energy in Jiang Nuo before learning that Jiang Nuo had eaten a demon.
• Si Yan told the competitors they would leave that afternoon, and Jiang Nuo agreed to handle their supplies with his backpack.
• Si Mingde and the grand elder warned the team to prioritize their safety and beware of the Mikazuki Family's schemes.
• Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Su Yi, and Qi Lin assembled at the association's apron and prepared to leave by private plane.

Jiang Nuo and the other contestants from Hua Country arrived in Lost Town to investigate a rise in ghost killings and compete against the contestants from Wa Country. At the Soul Return Inn, the owner warned Jiang Nuo and Si Yan to claim they were brothers because same-sex couples were not allowed in town.

• Jiang Nuo learned that Mikazuki Shunsuke had taken Si Yong's place on the Wa Country team and joined the Illusion Arts Association.
• The contestants introduced themselves on the bus, where Mikazuki Hexi blamed Jiang Nuo for Lin Yu's death and Mikazuki Shunsuke sarcastically challenged the Hua Country team.
• The director explained that contestants had to investigate the recent ghost killings in Lost Town, and the first association to solve the mystery and restore peace would win.
• The teams arrived in Lost Town, where silent townspeople stared at them until the inn owner gave them hats for the town's prayer day.
• At the Soul Return Inn, the owner warned Jiang Nuo and Si Yan to say they were brothers if asked about their relationship, since same-sex couples were forbidden in town.

Jiang Nuo and the other contestants settled into the inn, where they noticed ghostly signs and strange customs in the town. The chapter ended with the contestants watching the townspeople mourn around a fountain while Jiang Nuo wondered why the town was entirely black, white, and gray.

• The owner warned the contestants to ask him or his wife about the town's rules before going outside, but refused to explain the consequences of breaking them.
• Jiang Nuo smiled at a little girl singing on the stairs, and she stopped singing and hurried upstairs.
• Su Yi sensed ghost qi in the second-floor carpet, while Jiang Nuo and Si Yan went to their room and Jiang Nuo revealed that Zhang Quan was inside an ugly doll.
• Jiang Nuo and Qi Lin sensed that someone had been watching them from the stairway, but they could not see anyone there.
• The contestants heard crying and saw townspeople circling a fountain with candles, weeping in the monochrome streets.

Sano Kurotsuki broke the town’s taboo by approaching the fountain and taking colored ribbons from the statues, while the strange little girl helped him escape the crowd. Jiang Nuo chose to follow the rules until he understood them, and the girl later returned to her room of dolls.

• Sano Kurotsuki ran to the fountain, where a crowd of expressionless townspeople silently gathered behind him.
• Sano Kurotsuki pulled colored ribbons from the statues and fled as a man tried to take them back.
• The little girl covered Sano Kurotsuki with a black cloak and warned him that he had broken the town’s taboo.
• Sano Kurotsuki gave the ribbons to Mikazuki Shunsuke, while Jiang Nuo told his group to rest and change clothes.
• Jiang Nuo sent Spiritual Power toward the mural, and the little girl looked up before returning to her room and sewing a button onto a red doll.

The owner told the eight contestants about the town’s rules and explained that fierce ghosts had been killing residents more often and more brutally. After refusing to explain the punishment for breaking the rules, he left, and the contestants split up to investigate or rest.

• The owner announced that the contestants could explore town but must not enter the church or light white candles, and warned that vivid colors attracted fierce ghosts.
• The owner said the town had long sacrificed one resident each year, but the killings had recently become more frequent and gruesome.
• Mikazuki Shunsuke questioned the owner about his willingness to resist the ghosts, and the owner said he had moved to town ten years earlier with his wife.
• Yue Qian suggested killing the fierce ghosts, but the owner insisted that everyone had to obey the rules and refused to explain who imposed the harsher punishment for breaking them.
• Mikazuki Shunsuke and the other Wa Country contestants left to investigate after Jiang Nuo declined to join them.
• Jiang Nuo said he and Si Yan would visit the fountain while Su Yi and Qi Lin chose to investigate separately.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan investigated the town’s fountain and church after Sano Kurotsuki was struck by a chilling force while trying to uncover the stone maiden’s eyes. They learned that the church was connected to the town’s Power of Faith and accepted a quest requiring them to attend a collective memorial service, then followed the church’s old caretaker inside.

• Sano Kurotsuki tried to remove the stone maiden’s black blindfold, but the residents’ chanting froze him until he let go.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan discovered that the fountain gathered the town’s Power of Faith and that it flowed toward the church.
• At the closed church, an old caretaker gave Jiang Nuo a newspaper announcing a collective memorial service for the dead, including the Soul Return Inn owner’s mother.
• 0732 issued Jiang Nuo the side quest to redeem Lost Soul Return Town, and Jiang Nuo agreed to attend the service.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan persuaded the old caretaker to let them into the church for water, and he allowed them inside while warning them not to linger.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan investigated the strange church, then returned to find the inn owner grieving over an injured dove and Sano Kurotsuki unable to stop blurting out his thoughts. Jiang Nuo rejected Mikazuki Shunsuke’s offer to exchange clues, while Shunsuke quietly sent Yue Qian upstairs.

• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan questioned the old man at the church, who warned them to respect local customs and invited them to the memorial service in two days.
• At the inn, Jiang Nuo offered condolences to the owner over his injured white dove and received a gold pocket watch as a gift.
• Sano Kurotsuki insulted the owner and the town, then panicked when he realized he could not keep his thoughts from coming out aloud.
• Jiang Nuo rejected Mikazuki Shunsuke’s proposal to share clues, and Si Yan traded insults with Shunsuke.
• Mikazuki Shunsuke told Mikazuki Hexi to wait, then Yue Qian slipped upstairs and out of the camera’s range.

Jiang Nuo and the others investigated the town’s bizarre rules and learned that a powerful demonic object lay beneath the garden. After a shadow vanished into a mural, they rushed upstairs to find Mikazuki Hexi trapped by a monster while Sano Kurotsuki’s illusions failed to stop it.

• Jiang Nuo and the others shared their findings, including the town’s mandatory daily weeding and its upcoming group memorial service.
• Qi Cang revealed that a demonic object beneath the garden could destroy the town and gave Jiang Nuo a fang in exchange for protecting Qi Lin during his dormant period.
• Su Yi played a recording of Librarian Tang Mu setting strange rules, then discovered a second recording in which he revealed that he knew she was listening.
• Zhang Quan alerted Jiang Nuo to a shadow outside their room, and Si Yan chased it to a mural where a human-shaped black mass had been hiding.
• Su Yi called the group upstairs, where they found Mikazuki Hexi bound beneath a snake-like monster while Sano Kurotsuki’s illusions failed to drive it away.

Mikazuki Hexi was rescued from the painting monster but temporarily blinded by its curse, while the owner explained the curse would fade after a day. As the contestants grew unnaturally sleepy and night fell, Si Yan removed suspicious nails from their doorway, which Jiang Nuo hid in the ugly doll for Zhang Quan to neutralize.

• Mikazuki Shunsuke and Sano Kurotsuki destroyed the monster attacking Mikazuki Hexi, but its slime injured her eyes and left her temporarily blind.
• Mikazuki Shunsuke threatened the inn owner, who explained that the town's first curse would disappear after a day and Hexi's sight would return.
• The owner gave the contestants a farewell blessing as the sky darkened and everyone became overwhelmingly sleepy.
• Jiang Nuo's group returned to their room, where Si Yan found and removed a row of nails beside the doorframe.
• Jiang Nuo put the nails into the ugly doll, and Zhang Quan wrapped them in ghost qi while Jiang Nuo told him to keep watch.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan woke to a rule-enforced darkness covering the town, then clashed with Mikazuki Shunsuke at breakfast before the owner warned that the Nightwalkers were arriving. The Nightwalkers entered, and Jiang Nuo immediately saw through their disguise and casually offered them bread.

• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan discovered that Monday's rules had plunged the town into darkness, and the owner delivered a note wishing them a happy Monday.
• At breakfast, Jiang Nuo threatened Yue Qian for staring, while Si Yan stopped Mikazuki Shunsuke's candle attack and Jiang Nuo retaliated with a talisman and his red cord.
• Zhang Quan emerged from the ugly doll to confront Mikazuki Shunsuke's malevolent ghost, while Si Yan destroyed a ghost hiding in the dining room.
• Mikazuki Shunsuke demanded to know how Jiang Nuo had tamed the doll, then threatened to take it when Jiang Nuo refused to explain.
• The owner stopped the fight and warned that the Nightwalkers would cage anyone who seemed abnormal and sink them into Satan's Underground River.
• The Nightwalkers arrived in black cloaks, and Jiang Nuo recognized that they were human and offered them bread.

Jiang Nuo used the candlelight and Nightwalkers to help capture Mikazuki Shunsuke, while Sano Kurotsuki and Mikazuki Hexi set out to find a way to trade for him. After learning that Qi Lin’s soul had been suppressed by Qi Cang’s demonic qi, Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Su Yi, and Qi Cang headed to the library.

• Jiang Nuo lit the candles beneath Mikazuki Shunsuke’s chair, allowing the Nightwalkers to seize him and carry him away as Sano Kurotsuki was overwhelmed.
• The inn owner told Sano Kurotsuki that he could rescue Mikazuki Shunsuke by finding food for the Nightwalkers, directing him to the church’s top floor; Sano and Mikazuki Hexi left for the church with Meizi.
• Yue Qian quietly left the inn and circled around to the flower bed behind it.
• The little girl asked Jiang Nuo to retrieve a book from her friend Tang Mu if they went to the library, and Jiang Nuo accepted her candy before deciding the group would go there.
• Si Yan checked Qi Cang and discovered Qi Lin’s soul had fallen into a deep sleep because Qi Cang had suppressed it; the little girl said the weather would be lovely tomorrow.
• Jiang Nuo brought Si Yan a coat and gathered useful supplies, then the four of them set out for the library.

Su Yi and Jiang Nuo questioned Tang Mu at the library about the town’s origins and customs, but their visit was interrupted when Mili died and her soul was taken. Tang Mu explained the town’s haunted-room and full-moon rules, leaving Jiang Nuo to face another set of dangers governed by ghosts.

• Su Yi questioned Tang Mu about the town’s history, rules, Nightwalkers, church, and beliefs while Jiang Nuo and the others stayed quiet.
• Mili suddenly died in the library, and Jiang Nuo saw her soul engulfed by black mist before it vanished.
• Jiang Nuo sent Zhang Quan after the Nightwalkers with a talisman, and Tang Mu said the Reaper had taken Mili.
• Mili’s older sister admitted that Mili had gone to play hide-and-seek in a haunted room the previous night.
• Tang Mu explained that vengeful ghosts took awake residents from haunted homes on moonless nights and hunted anyone who made a sound on full-moon nights.

Jiang Nuo and Su Yi split from Si Yan and Qi Cang to help Shali save her younger sister, Mili, from a vengeful ghost. Shali led them to a sealed haunted house and explained how to summon and dismiss the ghost before fleeing the door.

• Tang Mu reacted angrily when Jiang Nuo and Si Yan kissed, and the group split up to investigate the vengeful ghost and the underground demon.
• Jiang Nuo and Su Yi followed Shali to her home, where they met her grandmother beside Mili's corpse.
• Shali's grandmother said two newcomers had to play hide-and-seek with the vengeful ghost to try to save Mili.
• Grandmother explained that the ghost could sometimes be dismissed by looking it in the eye and telling it they would continue the game another time.
• Shali led Jiang Nuo and Su Yi to a sealed black door covered in symbols and a skull mask, then begged them to bring Mili back and hurried away.

Jiang Nuo and Su Yi summoned a vengeful ghost in the haunted house and learned it was Shali’s father, trapped there by a powerful entity whose name the town’s rules concealed. The ghost offered to guide them to the church’s secret chamber in exchange for help freeing his soul.

• Jiang Nuo and Su Yi followed Grandmother’s rules to summon a ghost in the haunted house, where Jiang Nuo hid among real human remains.
• Jiang Nuo startled the ghost, who appeared with goat horns, while Su Yi used a vision spell to witness the man’s death and imprisonment by the demon’s eyes.
• The ghost attacked Su Yi, but Jiang Nuo bound him with a red cord and burned him with a bead before demanding to know where Shali’s soul was.
• Su Yi recognized the ghost as Shali’s father, and he insisted he had wanted to save his daughter but could not escape the entity trapped in the haunted house.
• Jiang Nuo realized the town’s rules prevented them from hearing the entity’s name, and the ghost offered to show them the church’s secret chamber if they freed his soul.

Jiang Nuo helped the vengeful ghost reassemble his body and learned that masked Nightwalkers might appear that night. In the garden, Si Yan and Qi Cang fought the Nightwalkers and the demonic power beneath the town, and Qi Lin finally spoke to Qi Cang.

• Jiang Nuo rebuilt the vengeful ghost’s body, and the ghost warned him to avoid black-cloaked, masked Nightwalker supporters that night.
• Si Yan discovered that a demonic creature beneath the garden had gathered the town’s faith, while Qi Cang sensed a fluctuation in Qi Lin’s soul but found that Qi Lin had not awakened.
• Two squads of Nightwalkers approached the garden, and Qi Cang’s blood-demon power killed several of them as they attacked.
• Si Yan sealed off the demonic qi feeding the Nightwalkers, weakening them until Qi Cang defeated them and absorbed their demonic qi.
• When Qi Cang asked what was wrong with him, Si Yan said he wanted Nuonuo, and Qi Lin suddenly spoke in Qi Cang’s mind.

Qi Lin and Si Yan learned more about the town’s underground threat, while Qi Lin refused to leave before Qi Cang found his body. After Yue Qian hinted at Jiang Nuo’s violent past and fled, the group compared their clues and suspected townspeople were secretly using outsiders to oppose the force controlling the town.

• Qi Lin explained that he had been unable to wake because his soul form was suppressed, but insisted on staying in town until Qi Cang found his missing body.
• The weeder offered to guide Si Yan and Qi Lin to the underground river, gave Si Yan a map, and warned them that night was nearly there and it was a full moon.
• Yue Qian told Si Yan that Jiang Nuo had once been driven mad and killed people, then fled when Si Yan showed no surprise.
• Jiang Nuo returned with Su Yi, and Si Yan clung to him while he dispelled the demonic qi Si Yan had absorbed.
• The group compared their encounters with Tang Mu, the haunted-house ghost, and the weeder, then Jiang Nuo proposed that townspeople were exploiting outsiders to resist the force controlling the town.