Vol. 1Volume 1

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Chapters 1–50 Read from Ch. 1

Arc 1Dachang City Ghost Crisis

Jiang Li and Yang Jian battled the Hunger Ghost and other supernatural threats in Dachang City, ultimately helping contain the Hunger Ghost. After the crisis, Jiang Li faced new visitors and the growing influence of the Newspaper Ghost, while Zhao Kaiming’s hoped-for reunion with his family ended in his death.

  • Jiang Li suppressed the Person-Hiding Ghost with the severed hand, then absorbed its power and used it to clear the supermarket of ghost children.
  • Jiang Li joined Yang Jian’s effort to fight the hospital ghosts, but Zhao Kaiming’s Wishing Ghost reset the area and left them facing renewed danger.
  • Jiang Li and Yang Jian used their supernatural abilities against Zhao Kaiming and the Hunger Ghost, and Jiang Li killed Zhao Kaiming with a curse before the Person-Hiding Ghost began to revive inside him.
  • Zhang Han used Fang Shiming’s photograph to attack Jiang Li’s ghost, while Yang Jian and Zhang Han helped Jiang Li escape the immediate danger and retrieve the Coffin Nail from Hongfa Temple.
  • Jiang Li and Yang Jian investigated the ghosts spreading through Dachang City and entered Yang Jian’s old apartment, where the Newspaper Ghost distorted their perceptions and exposed Zhao Lei’s account of the Knocking Ghost night.
  • Jiang Li helped turn the Wishing Ghost against the Newspaper Ghost, then rushed at the Hunger Ghost with the Coffin Nail as Yang Jian sent it to him.
  • Jiang Li and Yang Jian watched the pinned Hunger Ghost get sealed in a gold coffin, and Jiang Li rejected Zhao Jianguo’s offer to join Ghost Tamer Headquarters.
  • Jiang Li subdued Guo Fan, considered joining the Friend Circle, and later demanded payment from Luo Suyi for releasing Lin Luomei and Huang Fei.
  • Jiang Li worried that the Newspaper Ghost’s influence was affecting the Person-Hiding Ghost and resolved to prevent future regrets, while Zhao Kaiming was shot by Zhao Xiaoya after the Newspaper Ghost appeared as Sun Yi.
Chapters 1–2525 summaries Read

Arc 2The Nut Cave Expedition

Jiang Li joined He Tianxiong’s expedition into Nut Cave, where he confronted a shifting Ghost Domain and subdued the Corpse-Dragging Ghost. After emerging, he arranged for his crow incarnations to pursue separate plans and prepared to face Fang Shiming’s circle.

  • Zhao Kaiming offered everything he had to the Wishing Ghost for revenge, while Jiang Li accepted Zhao Jianguo’s offer to become a candidate city person in charge.
  • At the Hunger Ghost meeting, Jiang Li refused to surrender his wooden box, subdued Tong Qian, and killed Wang Xiaoming and several officials before Elder Qin stopped him, and Jiang Li then agreed to visit He Tianxiong in Dayi City.
  • Jiang Li met He Tianxiong and learned of his plan to explore Nut Cave, where a dormant fierce ghost was said to lie, then joined the expedition with Liu Qingqing and the others.
  • The expedition entered Nut Cave, where Jiang Li secretly put the dormant ghost into his wooden box and discovered that the cave’s ghosts attacked under shifting conditions.
  • As the Ghost Domain separated the group, Sun Xin vanished, Master Huijue died, and Zhang Mao found Daoist Priest Simu badly wounded, and Jiang Li grafted a fierce ghost’s arm onto Simu and pursued the cave ghosts.
  • Jiang Li used the Ghost Crow to restrain the Corpse-Dragging Ghost, recover He Tianxiong’s Person-Treading Ghost, and gather scattered ghosts, then began merging with the Corpse-Dragging Ghost after placing the Hanging Corpse before it.
  • Seven days later, Jiang Li emerged from Nut Cave, warned Zhang Mao about a Ghost Post Office envelope, and learned from Liu Qingqing that Zhang Youhong might revive through the items she had left with her.
  • Jiang Li sent Li Jiang to impersonate him and Bai Li to the Ghost Post Office, arranged for He Tianxiong to come to Dachang City, and returned to his villa, where Zhang Wei challenged him with two golden pistols.
Chapters 26–5025 summaries Read