Recaps

Headquarters’ Ghost Painting operation appeared to succeed when the Ghost Domains vanished and five participants emerged, but Yang Jian discovered signs that they had become ghosts. He blew out a ghost-attracting candle after all five turned toward him, leaving their threat unresolved.

• At Headquarters, staff reported that Li Jun, Liu San, A Hong, Su Fan, and Xu Yiping had lost contact, while Wang Xiaoming said the retreat plan and containment perimeter remained key.
• Zhao Jianguo advised waiting, and Wang Xiaoming urged Shen Liang to monitor the area around the Ghost Domain for anything that might escape.
• Yang Jian left the scene but noticed both Ghost Domains had disappeared and saw five figures, including Li Jun and Liu San, emerging.
• Yang Jian recognized identical holes in the five figures’ palms and suspected they matched wounds from Ghost Painting’s pale hands.
• Yang Jian lit a white ghost candle to test his suspicion, and all five figures stopped and turned toward him; he quickly blew the candle out after realizing they were ghosts.

Yang Jian discovered five figures resembling Li Jun, Liu San, Su Fan, A Hong, and Xu Yiping emerging from the Ghost Domain and heading toward the city. Headquarters concluded that the Ghost Painting and Ghost Messenger Ghost Domains had vanished, suspected the five were connected to Ghost Painting, and ordered a plan to divert them to the haunted house on the outskirts.

• Yang Jian saw five expressionless figures react to his white ghost candle and decided to follow them rather than confront them blindly.
• The five figures walked in synchronized steps toward the city as Yang Jian vanished into a red light to trail them.
• Drones detected and recorded the five figures, sending urgent intelligence to Headquarters.
• Cao Yanhua panicked at the sight of the five figures, while Wang Xiaoming said the disappearance of both Ghost Domains meant the plan to use ghosts to restrain ghosts had succeeded.
• Wang Xiaoming pointed out that the five lacked satellite phones and shared identical hollow wounds, and suggested they might be manifestations of Ghost Painting.
• Cao Yanhua ordered Shen Liang to notify Chen Yi and the others and prepare to lure the five toward the haunted house on the outskirts.

Chen Yi, Zhong Shan, and Guo Fan prepared to divert five unknown ghosts from an S-class supernatural incident away from the city and toward a ghost house. As the ghosts approached, Guo Fan used his spirit tablet ability to draw their attention, transforming until he appeared to be a real ghost.

• Chen Yi, Zhong Shan, and Guo Fan learned that five ghosts were approaching and discussed the risks of leading them to the ghost house.
• Chen Yi argued with Guo Fan over his reluctance, and Zhong Shan intervened before they sensed the ghosts drawing near.
• The three men prepared to stop the ghosts from entering the city, and Zhong Shan observed that they had not formed a Ghost Domain.
• Chen Yi assigned Guo Fan to lure the ghosts because his ability could protect him from being attacked under certain circumstances.
• Guo Fan pulled a blackened spirit tablet from his body, and his appearance changed until he seemed to have become a real ghost.

Guo Fan approached five figures emerging from the Ghost Portrait while using his ability to exchange places with the ghost in his memorial tablet, which was gradually eroding him. When the figures were revealed as fallen Headquarters Ghost Tamers, Guo Fan failed to light the ghost candle, leaving Zhong Shan and Chen Yi alarmed as Yang Jian watched from hiding.

• Guo Fan used his ghost-swapping ability to walk toward the five figures, while the ghost’s injuries faded and wounds appeared on Guo Fan inside the memorial portrait.
• Guo Fan recalled that Yang Jian’s earlier attack at the airport had left him with injuries that neither he nor the ghost could heal.
• Guo Fan, Zhong Shan, and Chen Yi recognized the approaching figures as Li Jun, Liu San, Su Fan, A Hong, and Xu Yiping, and Zhong Shan concluded that they had been wiped out.
• Chen Yi noticed that Guo Fan had not lit the white ghost candle as planned, and Zhong Shan realized Guo Fan might no longer control his ghost.
• Yang Jian watched the group from beneath an unlit streetlamp and wondered why they had approached the dangerous ghosts.

When Guo Fan’s ghost began to resurge, Chen Yi and Zhong Shan improvised a plan to use Ghost Candles to lead it and five other ghosts away. The operation got underway, while Yang Jian watched from a distance and decided not to intervene unless the ghosts threatened the city.

• Guo Fan lost control of his ghost, and Zhong Shan realized he might already be experiencing a resurgence.
• Chen Yi refused to risk trying to save Guo Fan and instead rushed ahead to plant and light a Ghost Candle on him.
• The five ghosts were drawn toward Guo Fan, and Chen Yi explained that a second Ghost Candle could guide Guo Fan’s ghost and the five ghosts behind him.
• Zhong Shan lit the second Ghost Candle and began walking as the guide, with Guo Fan and the five ghosts following in sequence.
• Yang Jian watched the group leave and decided the plan was sufficient as long as the ghosts stayed out of the city.

Zhong Shan successfully lured the ghost away from the city while Headquarters prepared to retrieve the team using the Ghost Door. Wang Xiaoming raised suspicions about Guo Fan’s spirit tablet and warned Cao Yanhua that Zhao Jianguo might have been mentally invaded by a ghost, just as the first opening of the Ghost Door approached.

• Zhong Shan walked down the road with the ghost following behind him, while Headquarters confirmed that Chen Yi’s plan was working and the danger was leaving the city.
• Wang Xiaoming connected Guo Fan’s spirit tablet to the one seen near the ghost coffin in Huanggang Village and said he had wanted to observe an unusual reaction.
• Cao Yanhua, Wang Xiaoming, and Old Qin went to the underground room, where Old Qin began removing the chains from the Ghost Door ahead of its scheduled opening.
• Wang Xiaoming told Cao Yanhua that he suspected Zhao Jianguo had been invaded by a ghost in his mind, possibly connected to the ghost coffin’s loss of control.
• Cao Yanhua turned back to his watch as the time to open the Ghost Door for the first time drew near.

Cao Yanhua and Old Qin opened the Ghost Door in an attempt to bring Li Jun, Su Fan, Liu San, and the others back, but terrifying apparitions emerged instead. The first attempt ended without finding them, while Li Jun’s group remained trapped in an eerie village surrounded by dangerous portraits.

• Cao Yanhua ordered Old Qin to open the Ghost Door for the first time and set a one-minute limit.
• The room darkened as corpse-like fingers, a rotten head resembling Old Qin, and pale feet emerged from the darkness.
• Old Qin tapped his cane and shut the door, forcing the apparitions back without finding Li Jun, Su Fan, Liu San, or the others.
• Cao Yanhua and Wang Xiaoming discussed the danger and the remaining two attempts to open the Ghost Door.
• Inside an eerie village, Li Jun and his group found their retreat blocked by two portraits on a residence’s doors, with dangerous paintings and frames scattered throughout the area.

Li Jun’s team remained trapped in Huanggang Village’s Ghost Domain as Ghost Painting’s influence grew, leaving them two chances to escape through the right door. Outside, Chen Yi approached Guo Fan to replace the nearly burned-out Ghost Candle, entering the ghosts’ dangerous range.

• Li Jun told the team that they had two remaining chances to open the right door and escape, while the next chance would come in ten minutes.
• The team recognized that Ghost Painting was invading the Ghost Messenger’s territory and that the weakening balance would soon put them in greater danger.
• After portraits fell and a shadow-like ghost appeared, Li Jun led the team deeper into the village toward the Ghost Messenger.
• Outside the Ghost Domain, Zhong Shan’s Ghost Candle neared its end, so Chen Yi moved to replace it before the five ghosts following Guo Fan changed.
• Chen Yi entered the Ghost Candle’s range and faced the risk of being attacked by the surrounding ghosts.

Yang Jian learned that the circle of friends planned to kill him during his next supernatural incident, and he asked Li Yao to gather information on its Ghost Tamers. He dismissed her concerns about provoking powerful factions and ended the chapter standing beside the window, hidden in darkness by a headless figure.

• Yang Jian returned to Ping An Hotel after concluding that the Ghost Messenger incident had likely been resolved.
• Li Yao told Yang Jian that the circle of friends intended to eliminate him during his next supernatural incident, though their plans had been delayed by Headquarters' operation.
• Yang Jian asked Li Yao for detailed information about the circle of friends' Ghost Tamers, and she warned him that striking first would provoke powerful forces.
• Yang Jian said he could destroy a city within seconds and argued that he would not let others control his life.
• Li Yao agreed to gather the information and left, glancing back at Yang Jian as a headless figure shrouded him in darkness.

Chen Yi tried to replace the ghost candle on Guo Fan, whose body had been taken over by a ghost. After Chen Yi extinguished the old candle, his new candle would not light, and Guo Fan turned to face him.

• Zhong Shan worried that his candle would soon burn out and that Guo Fan’s candle might fail before Chen Yi completed the handover.
• Chen Yi concluded that Guo Fan had been fully replaced by a ghost and approached to change the candle.
• Chen Yi pinched out the candle on Guo Fan’s shoulder, revealing five ghosts nearby.
• Chen Yi tried to light his replacement candle, but the lighter’s flame went out.
• Guo Fan turned around and stared at Chen Yi with hollow eyes.

Chen Yi's Ghost Candle switch failed, leaving him under attack and forcing Zhong Shan to extinguish his candle as the ghost-luring plan collapsed. In another Ghost Domain, Li Jun and the others reached the village's final unentered haunted house and faced a choice between risking its ghost or being trapped by the Ghost Painting.

• Chen Yi failed to relight the Ghost Candle, and Guo Fan's ghost attacked him while five identical ghosts advanced toward Zhong Shan.
• Chen Yi used Ghost Skin to resist Guo Fan's ghost, but the ghost kept gripping him as his condition worsened.
• Zhong Shan blew out his Ghost Candle when Guo Fan's ghost turned toward him, ending the group's ghost-luring plan.
• Li Jun, Su Fan, Liu San, and Xu Yiping reached the village entrance after fleeing through the Ghost Painting's encroaching domain.
• Xu Yiping warned that the group had to enter the final haunted house or risk dying in the Ghost Painting, though the Ghost Messenger inside could also kill them.

As Headquarters waited for the second opening of the door, Li Jun’s team searched for a way out of Huanggang Village’s last untouched house. Liu San and A Hong carried out Wang Xiaoming’s hidden mission involving the hanging corpse, leaving the team facing a newly stirred supernatural threat.

• Cao Yanhua learned that Wang Xiaoming had arranged A Hong as a backup, with another contingency in reserve if she failed.
• Li Jun led Su Fan, Liu San, A Hong, and the others into the last house in Huanggang Village, where a corpse hung from a hemp rope.
• Li Jun found a gray wooden door and urged the team to survive until the agreed opening time.
• Liu San climbed to the hanging corpse, explaining that Wang Xiaoming had tasked him with finding it, while A Hong prepared a red ghost candle.
• The rope and corpse fell to the floor, the corpse began to move, and A Hong lit the candle, revealing an unfamiliar male face on half of her own.

Li Jun and the team escaped the Ghost Painting’s domain through the second door opening, but Li Jun was seized by the corpse as he left. The others reached Headquarters safely, where they heard two sets of footsteps approaching from beyond the still-open door.

• Liu San disturbed the balance between the corpse and the Ghost Rope, while the Ghost Painting’s influence began spreading through the old house.
• Li Jun opened the door at the agreed time, and Su Fan, Liu San, A Hong, and Xu Yiping passed through after A Hong extinguished the Ghost Candle.
• As Li Jun stepped through last, the corpse grabbed his shoulder from behind.
• Su Fan and the others emerged in a sealed room at Headquarters, where Old Qin prepared to close the door because Li Jun had not appeared.
• Li Jun’s footsteps sounded from beyond the door, but the others heard a second set of footsteps with him.

Wang Xiaoming let a corpse emerge from the old door to test information from the human skin paper, and confirmed that Wei Jing had returned in a strange state after Ghost Messenger’s restart. The group contained the discovery and turned back to their remaining tasks, while Wang Xiaoming wondered whether the human skin paper was leading him into a trap.

• As the old door opened for a second time, a corpse-like figure stepped through before Li Jun, prompting Cao Yanhua to demand that the door be closed.
• Wang Xiaoming ordered everyone to wait, and Wei Jing’s corpse entered the room as the lights dimmed.
• Li Jun emerged behind Wei Jing, collapsed from the strain of using Ghost Domain, and confirmed that the operation had succeeded.
• Wang Xiaoming revealed that the corpse was Wei Jing, who had regained consciousness after Ghost Messenger’s Infinite Restart, though Wei Jing said he might now be part of the Ghost Coffin.
• Wang Xiaoming considered whether the human skin paper had manipulated him, while Cao Yanhua classified Wei Jing’s return and Old Qin shut the door.

Chen Yi survived Guo Fan’s ghost attack and rejoined his Human Skin Coat, while two ghosts vanished during Headquarters’ plan to draw out the Ghost Painting. By morning, Yang Jian learned the crisis had mostly passed and received a message from Li Yao, prompting him to prepare to act.

• Chen Yi explained that two of the five ghosts from the Ghost Painting had disappeared after the Ghost Painting’s and Ghost Messenger’s Ghost Domains vanished, leaving a dangerous gap in the plan.
• Jiang Shangbai told Chen Yi that Guo Fan had returned to normal and was not close to a ghost revival, then pointed out Chen Yi’s Human Skin Coat.
• Chen Yi endured the painful process of rejoining his Human Skin Coat and left with signs that he had become more ghostlike.
• Jiang Shangbai took over guarding the second ghost candle as the night ended and the city returned to its usual routine.
• Yang Jian concluded that Headquarters had mostly resolved the incident, then received a message from Li Yao and decided to act proactively.

Yang Jian met Li Yao outside Ping An Hotel and learned that two ghosts from the Ghost Painting Incident were still missing while the Friends Circle was occupied with the fallout. After reviewing the Friends Circle’s member files, he decided to target its core members and went to find Zhang Jian, the bodyguard of Manager Fei.

• Li Yao gave Yang Jian files on Friends Circle members and explained that two ghosts from the Ghost Painting Incident had disappeared.
• Yang Jian decided to strike the Friends Circle’s core members first and planned to warn other Ghost Tamers to stay away.
• Li Yao identified Manager Fei and his bodyguard Zhang Jian as key targets, and Yang Jian agreed to go after Zhang Jian.
• Yang Jian and Li Yao drove to Zhang Jian’s privately owned bar, where Li Yao stayed outside and Yang Jian headed for the entrance.

Yang Jian entered a bar and confronted Zhang Jian, who had been using card games and money to humiliate and manipulate the people around him. Yang Jian trapped Zhang Jian in a red Ghost Domain and said he had come to bury him before he could cause trouble.

• Yang Jian searched the crowded bar for Zhang Jian and found him gambling with young men and women in a private room.
• Zhang Jian made the young men drink when they lost and tossed cash to the women who scrambled for it.
• Yang Jian forced his way into the room, identified Zhang Jian, and ignored the guards as Zhang Jian kicked them aside.
• Zhang Jian mocked the people around him as crazy and briefly choked a woman before rewarding her with a bag of money.
• Yang Jian dismissed Zhang Jian's behavior as a performance, then raised his Ghost Domain until the room and everyone in it vanished into red light.
• Zhang Jian realized Yang Jian had isolated him and asked whether Yang Jian had come to kill him; Yang Jian said he planned to bury him to prevent future trouble.

Yang Jian confronted Zhang Jian, a bodyguard for Manager Fei and member of the circle of friends, and killed him after learning he had backed the plan against Yang Jian. Zhang Jian's corpse revealed a ghost that invaded bodies, but Yang Jian outmaneuvered it with layered Ghost Domains and sent it away, leaving its eventual return uncertain.

• Zhang Jian tried to negotiate with Yang Jian, who revealed he had come to kill him because Zhang Jian knew about the circle of friends' plan and still protected Manager Fei.
• Yang Jian immobilized Zhang Jian with ghostly hands and snapped his neck, but Zhang Jian's body became an empty skin as his corpse-stench ghost invaded Yang Jian.
• Zhang Jian believed he had killed Yang Jian, but the invaded body collapsed into dirt when Yang Jian revealed it had been a decoy in the first layer of his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian exposed Zhang Jian's decomposed true form in the third layer and opened the fifth layer of his Ghost Domain to send Zhang Jian and his ghost away.
• Yang Jian concluded that Zhang Jian was dead, though the ghost might return to the real world elsewhere in the future.

Yang Jian killed Zhang Jian and used Li Yao to follow Manager Fei, while Moments' leaders discussed exploiting another Ghost Painting Incident to eliminate Yang Jian and strengthen their faction. Manager Fei returned to a hidden apartment and found Yang Jian waiting inside.

• Yang Jian killed Zhang Jian, took his phone and car keys, and arranged for Li Yao to impersonate him while following Manager Fei.
• Manager Fei and other Moments leaders discussed the Ghost Painting Incident, suspected outside interference, and considered killing Yang Jian if the incident returned.
• Manager Fei left Ping An Building in a randomly assigned car, followed a changing route, and sent Zhang Jian the route details.
• Li Yao followed Manager Fei, then drove away after he entered a residential building; Manager Fei secretly returned to a different apartment across the street.
• Manager Fei entered the apartment and found Yang Jian there, then collapsed in terror when he recognized him.

Yang Jian confronted Manager Fei in his home and revealed that he had made Fei’s wife and child forget him. After Fei gave up the location of his hidden information, Yang Jian sent him out to die and learned that Fei had only just realized Li Yao was under Yang Jian’s control.

• Manager Fei begged Yang Jian to spare Wanyue and Fei Xiaobao, but Yang Jian revealed that he had erased Fei from their memories.
• Yang Jian told Manager Fei that he would decide whether Fei’s death had value, and Fei gave him the address of his hidden information.
• Manager Fei asked to die somewhere distant, and Yang Jian pointed out a tall building across the street.
• Manager Fei deduced that Li Yao was Yang Jian’s agent, and Yang Jian confirmed he had controlled her on his first visit to Ping An Building.
• Yang Jian warned Manager Fei that ordinary people should not meddle in matters beyond them, and Manager Fei left in despair.

Yang Jian killed Manager Fei and chose He Tianxiong as his next target after weighing the dangers posed by other Ghost Tamers. Meanwhile, an eerie oil painting appeared in a man's home, where blood began to seep from its frame.

• Yang Jian left Wanyue's home, and Manager Fei fell to his death in the residential compound shortly afterward.
• Yang Jian rejected the idea of altering Manager Fei's memories and told Li Yao he wanted to choose another target.
• Li Yao proposed Jiang Shangbai, He Tianxiong, and Fang Shiming, warning Yang Jian that Fang Shiming could stand against Ye Zhen.
• Yang Jian chose He Tianxiong and directed Li Yao to take him to the address Manager Fei had provided.
• A man found an unfamiliar oil painting in his living room, and blood seeped from its frame as a mutilated woman appeared within the image.

Yang Jian searched Manager Fei’s apartment for information on the Friends Circle and found a substitute doll and evidence that Fang Shiming possessed the Ghost Scissors. While he was upstairs, Li Yao discovered what appeared to be the Ghost Painting’s corpse in the residential complex, and it began to rise.

• Yang Jian entered Manager Fei’s apartment and took a substitute doll from a glass case.
• Yang Jian read He Tianxiong’s and Fang Shiming’s files, learning that Fang Shiming was suspected of possessing the Ghost Scissors and a Ghost Domain.
• Li Yao waited outside until residents and security guards gathered around an oil painting with a headless corpse protruding from it.
• Li Yao recognized the scene as a possible Ghost Painting incident and tried to retreat.
• The corpse suddenly began to stand, and Li Yao screamed for Yang Jian.

A Ghost Painting appeared in a residential complex, and Yang Jian confirmed the threat while Headquarters sent a team to contain it. He learned that several similar paintings had already surfaced, suggesting the incident was spreading and that its true source remained undiscovered.

• Li Yao fled from the headless corpse and its oil painting, then found Yang Jian on the eleventh floor.
• Yang Jian identified the painting as the Ghost Painting after hearing Li Yao’s description and said its killing pattern was unknown.
• Yang Jian and Li Yao went downstairs as Headquarters’ team arrived and cordoned off the scene.
• Chen Yi told Yang Jian that at least three or four similar oil paintings had appeared and been collected.
• Yang Jian declined to join the response and suspected the paintings were signs of a larger threat whose true source was still hidden.

Yang Jian drove to He Tianxiong’s villa to confront him, while Headquarters learned that Yang Jian would remain in the city for only five more days. After Yang Jian forced He Tianxiong out of hiding, the chapter ended with He Tianxiong realizing that Yang Jian had come to kill him.

• Yang Jian told Liu Xiaoyu he would stay in the city for five more days and would help if the Ghost Painting Incident erupted during that time.
• Shen Liang accepted Yang Jian’s offer and began checking how many Ghost Tamers Headquarters could call upon.
• Yang Jian and Li Yao arrived at He Tianxiong’s villa, where Yang Jian avoided using his Ghost Domain because other powerful Ghost Tamers might be nearby.
• He Tianxiong heard his dog stop barking and someone enter, then hid behind a concealed door.
• Yang Jian entered the gold-plated villa, blocked from seeing through its walls, and threatened to bring the house down until He Tianxiong appeared.
• Yang Jian stopped shaking the house and told He Tianxiong that coming out had saved him the trouble of demolishing it; He Tianxiong realized Yang Jian meant to kill him.

Yang Jian confronted He Tianxiong, whose shoulder-mounted ghost could kill anyone who looked up at it, and gave him five minutes to prove he could survive. He Tianxiong fled through his villa using its defenses, but Yang Jian found him and prepared to unleash his Ghost Eyes.

• Yang Jian recognized the ghost standing on He Tianxiong’s shoulders and avoided looking up, preventing it from attacking him.
• He Tianxiong offered to make peace and give Yang Jian his villa, but Yang Jian demanded that he survive five minutes to prove his sincerity.
• He Tianxiong fled when Yang Jian started the five-minute test, and Yang Jian pursued him through the villa using his Ghost Domain.
• He Tianxiong hid behind gold-shielded doors and tried to reach a safe room while Yang Jian searched for him.
• Yang Jian located He Tianxiong and activated the Ghost Eyes in his body, making He Tianxiong turn around in terror.