Ghost School: The Vengeful Spirit

Ghost School: The Vengeful Spirit is a long campus supernatural novel by the author Tiandi Zhiwoxin Er, serialized on Baidu Novels. The complete work runs 1,352 chapters and roughly 2.9094 million Chinese characters, marked as completed in June 2022, and was once an entry in the fifth season of the 2014 "Star Creation Awards." The protagonist, Zhang Zekai, is an heir of the Longshi Mountain lineage whose grasp of Daoist arts is merely half-baked. When the village beauty he secretly loves vanishes mysteriously from the medical university, he enrolls there with crude ritual tools and talismans to uncover the truth, and from then on is drawn into a string of bizarre supernatural incidents: an eerie teaching building empty late at night, death texts from the dead, a soul-summoning puppet manipulated by unseen hands, a grim and terrifying anatomy building and underground forbidden zone, and the No. 444 ghost bus. As the investigation proceeds, clues such as corpse mutations, the list of the vanished, and the order of deaths surface layer by layer, and supernatural beings—female ghosts, water ghosts, corpse fiends, and the zombie king—appear one after another, behind which seems to hide an ancient secret that uses human lives as sacrifices. Beyond horror and puzzle-solving, the work also devotes considerable space to campus daily life: the campus belle and the department belle take turns appearing, and Zhang Zekai wears himself out juggling exorcisms and romantic debts, mixing a touch of light humor into the horror atmosphere. The book combines traditional Chinese Daoist arts and folk ghost legends with campus suspense; cases nest within cases and clues advance layer by layer, making it one of the larger and more structurally complete works in the early web-fiction campus supernatural genre.