Yang Jian

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Yang Jian (杨间)
Alias(es)	Little Yang, used by Ye Zhen; Brother Lifeline, Leg Bro, and Brother Jian, used by Zhang Wei 15 60 193 210
Species/Race	Originally human; becomes a Different Kind whose ghosts have fused into a single whole 163 241
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Paranormal Forum; cooperates with Headquarters through the Captain Plan while retaining his Forum allegiance 100 107
Occupation/Role	Ghost Handler and supernatural-incident investigator; recommended for the Captain Plan and later addressed as “Captain Yang” 99 180 193
Status	Alive as a Different Kind; concerned about losing control and becoming increasingly like a rule-bound vengeful ghost 241
Residence	Dachang City; later shown living in a villa in the Guanjiang residential complex 71
First Appearance	Chapter 5, meeting Ning Rongrong at Seventh Middle School 5

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
One Ghost Eye; newly joined Ghost Handler	163	Retrospectively identified as his state roughly one month earlier, when he had just joined the Paranormal Forum.
Three Ghost Eyes	6	Lin Cheng confirms that Yang Jian has barely managed to open three eyes. His red Ghost Domain suppresses the Ghost Baby, allowing its capture.
Ghost Hand under control	28	Confirmed using the Ghost Hand to suppress an opponent. Lin Cheng had previously identified it as a suitable puzzle piece to strengthen him and restrain revival 6.
Acquisition of Splicing	32	Gains a weak paranormal ability after the Fierce Dog devours the consciousness associated with Chao Tianxiang’s Wisdom Soul Bone. Yang Jian suspects the Ghost Dream stole part of the Headless Paranormal Shadow’s power.
Four fierce supernaturals controlled	99	Lin Cheng reveals this established milestone to Headquarters, overturning its assessment of Yang Jian as an inexperienced newcomer.
Ghost Bone; four-layer Ghost Domain	117	Controlling the Ghost Bone lets his body bear four Ghost Eyes with ease. He uses the fourth layer to move his confrontation with Liu San to an empty field.
Fifth Ghost Eye; five-layer Ghost Domain	137	Opens the fifth eye while nearly dying from Li Leping’s attack. The Fierce Dog restores his awareness long enough to activate the domain.
Seventh Ghost Eye; Reboot	164	Releases his restraints at Lin Cheng’s instruction. The seventh eye grants the ability to restore himself or a limited area to an earlier state, but the awakening threatens to take over his body.
Sixth through eighth eyes forced open; eight-layer Ghost Domain	165	After the impostor rewinds his advancement, Lin Cheng’s hidden ghost fish reboots Yang Jian’s state. Yang Jian forces open the sixth eye, reopens the seventh, and opens the eighth, matching the impostor’s Area Reboot.
Nine Ghost Eyes present	235	The Ghost Bride ritual threatens to turn all nine eyes into the Bride’s puzzle pieces. The supplied account does not describe the initial opening of the ninth eye.
Ghost Bride ability acquired; enhanced Dream Entry	240	Establishes a powerful connection to the Ghost Dream and takes the Ghost Bride’s ability. He can now draw targets into convincing dreams through sight or sound without their awareness.
Different Kind; complete ghost fusion	241	The ghost marriage merges his ghosts into one whole. Within his active Ghost Domain, hearing his name or being killed can produce additional original bodies. He suspects nine eyes and nine domain layers are his current limit.

Background / History

Seventh Middle School

Yang Jian first encounters Ning Rongrong while searching Seventh Middle School to rescue his classmates. Unfamiliar with martial souls, he initially interprets her glowing Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda as a possible Ghost Handler ability 5.

When the Ghost Baby attacks, he demands that Ning Rongrong demonstrate her usefulness before protecting her. Her buffs barely improve his strength and speed, but their ability to slightly suppress ghost revival earns his attention. He rescues her and seals the creature in a gold box in less than three seconds 6.

Yang Jian subsequently expands his Ghost Domain to evacuate Zhang Wei, Ning Rongrong, and the surviving students. His attempt to contain the departing Knocking Ghost fails because three Ghost Eyes cannot fully restrain its disappearing paranormal presence 10 13.

After Fang Jing’s death, Yang Jian notices Ning Rongrong taking the Sheepskin Paper but leaves it with her under Lin Cheng’s instructions. Before departing, he warns his classmates that ghosts are real and offers to help if they encounter further danger 14 15.

Ning Rongrong and Rich Benevolence Mall

Yang Jian recognizes Ning Rongrong’s apparent martial-soul “evolution” as dangerous paranormal contamination. He suspects she may become a Ghost Slave or vessel, and believes her black soul rings represent ghost power rather than a safe breakthrough 7.

He later accepts her company because her support can restrain revival, though he warns her about the danger. At his apartment, his Ghost Dream blocks an attempted supernatural intrusion before she mistakes a newspaper-covered figure for her father 18.

At Rich Benevolence Mall, Yang Jian fights Chao Tianxiang with a three-layer domain and attacks her consciousness through the Ghost Dream. The dream’s temporary departure destabilizes his powers; its return suppresses the Ghost Eyes and brings the newly acquired Splicing ability 29 32.

He then immobilizes the Headless Paranormal Shadow with his Ghost Hand and seals it in a gold bag. Hu Liena, Yu Tianheng, and Meng Yiran seek Forum membership afterward, but Yang Jian leaves their admission to Lin Cheng’s mission-based recruitment process 32.

Headquarters Training and the Circle of Friends

Yang Jian attends Headquarters’ newcomer training to compare himself with other Ghost Handlers, while remaining suspicious of its promises. When Gao Zhiqiang attacks him with Liar Ghost-enhanced strength, Yang Jian kills him with the Ghost Hand and Disassembly Rule, then contains the corpse before its ghost can revive 71 98.

During the assessment, he defeats six opponents. His first victory uses the Ghost Dream to induce deep sleep; after Li Jun demands more substantial exchanges, Yang Jian suppresses and dismembers later opponents without killing them. The remaining contestants surrender 101.

Lin Cheng recommends him for the Captain Plan and negotiates access to Headquarters’ supplies and freedom to choose his operations. Yang Jian accepts a reward compromise of one Substitute Death Doll and two other supernatural items, rather than the six dolls he initially requests 100 106.

After learning that Headquarters has ordered an attack on the Forum, Yang Jian suspects a joint trap with the Circle of Friends and strikes Jiang Shangbai first. Li Jun’s intervention escalates into a confrontation with four Headquarters captains, drawing Ye Zhen, Zhang Wei, Feng Quan, and other Forum forces into Dajing City 116 117 118 119.

Dajing City and the Wish-Granting Ghost

Li Leping’s attack pushes Yang Jian close to death. Yan’s warning, Huang Ziya’s rescue attempt, the Ghost Bone, and the Fierce Dog give him enough time to open his fifth Ghost Eye 137.

The Wish-Granting Ghost subsequently creates convincing copies of his companions and Yang Jian himself. Yang Jian and Ye Zhen coordinate a staged betrayal against his double, exploiting its inability to reproduce Lin Cheng’s ordinary communication earpiece 154 156.

The conflict escalates into competing eight-layer Reboot domains. Lin Cheng’s concealed ghost fish prevents Yang Jian from being completely rewound and enables him to match the duplicate’s power 164 165.

Later, Yang Jian entrusts his sleeping body to Ye Zhen and enters Zhang Lei’s consciousness to reach Lin Cheng. Trapped in a reconstructed Dachang City that resets every forty-nine seconds, he locates Zhao Kaiming’s apartment through deduction and repeated route-learning. He then uses the Fierce Dog to destroy memory fragments while Shen Lin holds off a memory-created Ye Zhen 177 178 180.

Sword Dojo

Yang Jian and Zhang Wei investigate an A-class incident at an abandoned dojo. Crossing its threshold traps them in a concealed paranormal space; after Zhang Wei activates his Luck Ghost Domain, the dojo is restored and Yang Jian loses access to his usual powers 193.

As the investigation continues, Yang Jian uses Fierce Dogs to overcome the gatekeepers and identifies the Ghost Sword and its scabbard as the likely source of the incident. A short sword capable of extracting paranormal power strikes Zhang Wei despite Yang Jian’s attempt to pull him clear 202 204 210.

Yang Jian discovers that Zhang Wei’s apparent death is the Luck Ghost’s gamble on survival: the Ghost Sword, Deceiving Ghost, and Luck Ghost are forming a precarious balance inside his body. He protects Zhang Wei with repeated waves of Fierce Dogs and summons Shen Lin to erase the dojo master’s historical existence. The dojo’s rules collapse, restoring Yang Jian’s powers 213 214.

After Zhang Wei awakens as a Different Kind, he shields Yang Jian from the Asura God’s attack. Zhang Wei turns the divine sword into cotton, and Yang Jian kills the defenseless god by breaking his neck with the Ghost Hand 215 216.

Old Mansion and Ghost Marriage

Yang Jian enters a dangerous Ghost Bride ritual while trying to save Zhang Wei. Failure would make his nine Ghost Eyes the Bride’s puzzle pieces, and completion under the wrong conditions threatens to reduce him to a Ghost Slave 234 235.

He emerges with the Bride’s paranormal ability and a strengthened Ghost Dream connection. Renxin’s apparent victory over the group is revealed to be an illusion experienced inside Yang Jian’s dream 240.

Yang Jian then explains that the marriage has fused his ghosts and transformed him into a Different Kind. After leaving Renxin trapped in the dream, he returns to the Forum branch, where Wang Xiaoming presents a custom supernatural weapon commissioned by Lin Cheng 241.

Appearance

• Youthful appearance: Introduced as a boy; Liu San remarks on his youth during Headquarters’ assessment 5 101.
• Scarlet Ghost Eyes: A red eye opens on his forehead, with additional eyes emerging elsewhere, including his arm and the back of his hand 6 15 105.
• Pale Ghost Hand: Described as deathly pale and without warmth 28 29.
• Bleeding eyes under strain: His eight Ghost Eyes bleed while he protects the transforming Zhang Wei 213.
• Increasingly inhuman presence: After becoming a Different Kind, Wang Xiaoming sees him as resembling a vengeful ghost wearing Yang Jian’s skin 241.

Personality

Yang Jian is blunt, guarded, and strongly pragmatic. He evaluates unfamiliar allies by their contribution to survival, initially withholding help from Ning Rongrong until she proves useful and later accepting her ability to block a fatal attack as a safeguard. He distrusts tempting paranormal opportunities, refusing the Sheepskin Paper despite its apparent predictive value 6 39 60.

His emotional detachment does not erase his loyalty. He rescues his classmates, stands guard over a vulnerable Lin Cheng, and displays rare panic when Zhang Wei appears to be dying. His vow to resurrect Zhang Wei at any cost sharply contrasts with his usual cold manner 10 15 173 210.

Yang Jian understands that his powers are stripping away his humanity. He initially accepts that loss as necessary for survival, but hesitates over becoming inhuman and later worries that his transformation may eventually escape his control 12 29 241.

Abilities & Skills

Ghost Eyes and Ghost Domain

The Ghost Eyes generate a red Ghost Domain whose capabilities expand as additional eyes open 6 117 137.

• Suppression: Immobilizes the Ghost Baby and restricts its attacks 6.
• Teleportation: Moves himself and other people, including evacuating the school’s survivors 10 105.
• Domain expansion and displacement: Clears supernatural fog and relocates confrontations 117 154.
• Erasing red light: Fires repeated erasing beams during the fight with his duplicate 165.
• Reboot: The seventh eye restores his own state or a limited area to an earlier moment; eight-layer Area Reboot counters the duplicate’s equivalent power 164 165.
• Limits: Overuse threatens awakening and possession. Four coordinated elite Ghost Handlers can begin breaking through his four-layer domain 118 164.

Ghost Dream and Fierce Dog

The Ghost Dream operates on consciousness, manifesting through a black Fierce Dog 12 32 178.

• Consciousness attacks: Overwhelms the soul-beast consciousness within Chao Tianxiang’s mind and devours it 29 32.
• Sleep induction: Sends Fan Ming into deep sleep and traps Jiang Shangbai in a dream where his supernatural powers are absent 101 116.
• Internal restraint: Suppresses restless Ghost Eyes; its absence can destabilize Yang Jian’s other powers 15 29 32.
• Mental protection: Helps him recover Li Leping’s identity despite supernatural forgetting and restores his awareness during a fatal attack 127 137.
• Consciousness travel: Carries his consciousness into Zhang Lei’s mind 177.
• Multiple dogs: Produces sixteen Fierce Dogs against the dojo’s gatekeepers and repeated waves against the dojo master 202 213.
• Limits: A memory-created Ye Zhen’s substitute-death power prevents the Fierce Dog from quickly defeating him 180.

Ghost Hand, Headless Ghost Shadow, and Splicing

Yang Jian combines suppression with powers that separate or reconnect bodies 32 98 101.

• Ghost Hand: Suppresses ghosts inside other handlers and immobilizes the Headless Paranormal Shadow 32 101.
• Disassembly: Severs Gao Zhiqiang’s head and removes opponents’ limbs during the assessment 98 101.
• Splicing: Acquired after the Ghost Dream devours Chao Tianxiang’s soul-bone consciousness; initially weaker than the power of two Ghost Eyes 32.
• Divine-defense bypass: His Ghost Hand breaks the Asura God’s neck despite the god’s protection 216.
• Limits: Chao Tianxiang avoids his initial grab. Grabbing Li Leping fails to suppress the fatal attack and instead gives it a route into Yang Jian 28 137.

Ghost Bone

The Ghost Bone improves his ability to withstand the burden of multiple Ghost Eyes and hostile paranormal attacks 117 137.

• Allows his body to bear four Ghost Eyes comfortably 117.
• Resists part—but not all—of Li Leping’s fatal force 137.

Dream Entry

After taking the Ghost Bride’s ability, Yang Jian can induce dreams through sight or sound without announcing an attack 240.

• Makes the dream indistinguishable from reality to its target 240.
• Traps Renxin in a false victory while the real group remains unharmed 240.
• Leaves Renxin repeatedly invoking his own ghost’s fatal rule inside the dream, accelerating its awakening 241.

Different Kind: Multiple Original Bodies

His fused state allows certain triggers to create additional real bodies rather than ordinary imitations 241.

• Triggers: Hearing his name or being killed inside his active Ghost Domain 241.
• Shared manifestation: Additional bodies appear with Ghost Eyes, Fierce Dogs, and overlapping domain layers 240 241.
• Control: Closing a Ghost Eye dismisses its associated body and dog 241.
• Condition: The ability requires an active Ghost Domain 241.
• Uncertain ceiling: Yang Jian suspects nine eyes and nine domain layers are the limit; exceeding it may cause complete awakening 241.
• Continuing danger: Despite describing himself as invincible within the domain, he remains concerned about losing control 241.

Investigation and Tactical Reasoning

• Identifies supernatural killing rules and distinguishes paranormal contamination from apparent martial-soul advancement 7 32.
• Uses an ordinary earpiece to expose a supernatural duplicate’s copying limitation 156.
• Solves the forty-nine-second memory loop through observation, deduction, confidential information, and repeated route-learning 178.
• Recognizes when direct combat cannot overcome an enemy’s home-ground rules and calls on Shen Lin’s memory-erasure power 213 214.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Special Communication Earpiece — Connects him with Lin Cheng and Forum operations. Its inability to be perfectly copied provides the crucial clue against his double 6 127 156.
• Gold containment box — Used to seal the Ghost Baby 6.
• Gold bags / Golden Corpse Bag — Contain the Headless Paranormal Shadow and Gao Zhiqiang’s corpse, preventing their uncontrolled resurgence 32 98.
• Substitute Death Doll — Receives one as part of his negotiated assessment reward 106.
• Ghost Card — Obtained from Headquarters; later handed to Zhang Wei during the captain confrontation 118 121.
• Shroud — Another Headquarters item, kept ready for a desperate fight against the four captains 118.
• Custom supernatural weapon — Developed by Wang Xiaoming using all available resources at Lin Cheng’s order. Presented in a two-meter high-purity gold case; its form and abilities remain unrevealed in the supplied account 241.

Relationships

• Lin Cheng — Forum leader, protector, and principal source of support. Helps manage Yang Jian’s revival, secures Headquarters resources, secretly protects him with a ghost fish, and commissions his weapon. Yang Jian trusts him enough to release the Ghost Eyes’ restraints and later guards his vulnerable body 12 100 164 165 173 241.
• Zhang Wei — Classmate and close friend. Their teasing conceals deep mutual loyalty: Yang Jian vows to restore him at any cost, while Zhang Wei later shields him from the Asura God 10 60 210 215.
• Ye Zhen — Competitive ally. Their early confrontation nearly becomes lethal, but they later coordinate against a duplicate and entrust each other with protection. Ye Zhen concedes Yang Jian’s superiority after his Different Kind transformation 12 156 177 241.
• Ning Rongrong — Initially a frightened stranger and conditional support partner. Her buffs can slightly suppress his revival, but he remains suspicious of her infection and the Sheepskin Paper influencing her 6 7 18 60 169.
• Liu Xiaoyu — Operational contact who supplies files and intelligence, including information on Li Leping. Her memory-world counterpart helps him locate Zhao Kaiming’s home 127 178 204.
• Shen Lin — Fellow Forum member whose memory-based existence provides a crucial contingency. Assists Yang Jian inside Zhang Lei’s consciousness and erases the dojo master at his request 180 213 214.
• Huang Ziya — Ally whose Ghost Hair pulls Yang Jian away from Li Leping, helping him survive long enough to counterattack 137.
• Yan — Forum associate who recognizes Yang Jian’s strength and warns him of Li Leping’s ambush 98 137.
• Wang Xiaoming — Initially a distrusted Headquarters strategist. Recognizes Yang Jian’s Captain Plan qualifications and later develops his custom weapon on Lin Cheng’s instructions 99 100 241.
• Li Jun — Headquarters official whose efforts to enforce its rules repeatedly clash with Yang Jian’s autonomy and Forum loyalty 98 101 117 121.
• Jiang Shangbai — Circle of Friends executive targeted by Yang Jian’s preemptive attack during the factional conflict 116 117.

Notable Quotes

“You have some value after all.”
— After discovering Ning Rongrong’s support can slightly suppress ghost revival 6

“Even if I have to capture every vengeful ghost in the world to pay it, I'll bring you back!!”
— Vowing to save Zhang Wei 210

“Although I'm a Different Kind now, I feel more like a vengeful ghost that follows its rules but possesses a living human consciousness.”
— Describing the cost of his transformation 241