Recaps

Yang Jian returned to work as Dachang City's manager, surveyed the city, and learned that the operation against Ghost Painting had failed with heavy casualties. As he discussed the survivors’ uncertain fates, someone arrived at Shangtong Building insisting on delivering him a gift, prompting a security check.

• Yang Jian drove around Dachang City with Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin, found no abnormalities, and returned to Shangtong Building.
• Zhang Hua told Yang Jian that the Ghost Painting operation had failed: Chen Yi was confirmed dead, Liu San was suspected dead, Xiong Wenwen was trapped in a photograph, Li Jun was missing, and Li Yang survived.
• Yang Jian reasoned that Xiong Wenwen might have deliberately entered the photograph as a way to survive and suggested that he could possibly be rescued.
• Yang Jian discussed the operation’s losses and Headquarters’ next steps with Zhang Hua, then invited him to share breakfast.
• Zhang Liqin reported that someone downstairs wanted to deliver Yang Jian a gift, and Zhang Hua contacted his colleagues to verify the situation.

Yang Jian tested the Ghost Porcelain brought by Wang Xin, confirming that it could shield a person from a ghost at the cost of matching damage to the porcelain and its user. Wang Xin then showed Yang Jian a case file about the Ghost Knocking incident in Kobe City, and Yang Jian realized why the island nation’s Headquarters wanted his help.

• Zhang Hua told Yang Jian that Wang Xin and his delegation came from the island nation’s Ghost Tamer Headquarters, and Yang Jian agreed to meet them but refused to help with their supernatural incidents.
• Wang Xin presented Ghost Porcelain as an apology gift, and Yang Jian tested it by having his headless ghostly shadow attack Wang Xin.
• Yang Jian discovered that Ghost Porcelain could resist the attack, but damage to the porcelain caused corresponding damage to Wang Xin, and removing his identification medium ended its protection.
• Yang Jian accepted the damaged Ghost Porcelain and dismissed Wang Xin, but Wang Xin showed him a case file about the Ghost Knocking incident.
• Yang Jian recognized the old man in the file and learned that the Ghost Knocking incident had reached Kobe City, leading him to question why the island nation’s Headquarters could not handle it themselves.

Yang Jian weighed whether to help Headquarters with the Ghost Knocking Incident, using the negotiations to demand better compensation while remaining wary of their tactics. After Wang Xin’s team left, Yang Jian reviewed the case file and found evidence that the Head Balloon Incident was connected to the Door-Knocking Ghost.

• Wang Xin knelt before Yang Jian and asked him to share information about the Ghost Knocking Incident, but Yang Jian demanded another piece of ghost porcelain and rejected Wang Xin’s offer of a 1.5 billion investment.
• Yang Jian ended the meeting and threatened to throw Wang Xin’s team from the building if they stayed; Wang Xin left and punished the subordinate who had drawn a gun.
• Zhang Hua urged Yang Jian to consider helping Headquarters, and Yang Jian explained that he intended to wait for them to return with a better offer.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Hua to monitor the Ghost Painting Incident, then examined the Ghost Knocking Incident case file after Zhang Hua left.
• Yang Jian found a photograph showing severed heads in the Door-Knocking Ghost’s Ghost Domain and concluded that the Head Balloon Incident was part of the Ghost Knocking Incident.

Yang Jian agreed to give Sun Ren a detained ghost in exchange for Zhang Wei’s release, then ordered Zhang Hua to kill Sun Ren after the exchange. Sun Ren’s pursuing female corpse appeared beside his bed, and Zhang Wei decided to tell Yang Jian about it.

• Zhang Xiangui told Yang Jian that Sun Ren had taken Zhang Wei, and Yang Jian agreed to trade a detained ghost for Zhang Wei’s safe return.
• Yang Jian spoke with Zhang Wei over video, confirmed he was unharmed, and instructed Zhang Hua to arrange the exchange before issuing a wanted notice and killing Sun Ren.
• Sun Ren sent Yang Jian an address, then suffered another encounter with the female corpse that had been haunting him; it appeared beside his bed and broke through his locked door.
• Sun Ren told Zhang Wei about the female corpse, and Zhang Wei decided to tell Yang Jian and named the haunting Ghost Pressing the Bed.

Yang Jian learned that Guo Tao’s travels may be connected to paranormal incidents and the Ghost Knocking Incident, then decided to travel to Kobe City to retrieve a clue from the Door-Knocking Ghost. He left Zhang Han and Zhang Hua instructions to watch for Guo Tao while he prepared for the trip.

• Zhang Xiangui thanked Yang Jian for helping secure Zhang Wei’s return and invited him to dinner, where Yang Jian went with Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin.
• After returning home, Yang Jian met Zhang Han, who shared a file identifying Guo Tao as the person who had infiltrated the residential area and describing his mysterious disappearance and travels.
• Zhang Han revealed that the file contained a death certificate for the Door-Knocking Ghost and suggested Guo Tao’s travels might be linked to paranormal incidents across the country.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Han to capture Guo Tao if he appeared in Dachang City and said he would travel to Kobe City to investigate the Ghost Knocking Incident.
• Yang Jian asked Zhang Han to help receive his teammates while he was away, then prepared for the trip and found Zhang Liqin waiting in his room.

Yang Jian negotiated with Wang Xin to handle the Ghost Knocking Incident in Kobe City in exchange for fifty tons of gold, five Ghost Porcelains, and three assistants. He prepared to leave while the deadline for his Ghost Cabinet deal drew near, and Wang Xin rushed to arrange the mission.

• Jiang Yan discovered that five hundred million had been transferred to the company account, and Yang Jian told her to accept it as compensation.
• Wang Xin apologized to Yang Jian and offered any conditions if Yang Jian would deal with the Ghost Knocking Incident.
• Yang Jian demanded one hundred tons of gold, and Wang Xin returned from consulting the president with an offer of fifty tons of gold and five Ghost Porcelains.
• Yang Jian accepted the offer in exchange for three assistants and told Wang Xin to arrange a plane to Kobe City.
• Yang Jian packed a body bag with supplies and the ghost child, then told Zhang Hua he was avoiding the Ghost Painting Incident and would handle the mission.
• Wang Xin ordered his subordinates to arrange a private plane, three team members, and an interpreter for Yang Jian.

Yang Jian arrived in Kobe to handle the mobile Ghost Knocking incident in exchange for resources from the Spirit Extermination Society. President Mishima welcomed him and assigned Keiko to assist him, leaving her fate uncertain as the operation approached.

• Yang Jian flew to Kobe with Wang Xin and reviewed the preparations for the Ghost Knocking operation.
• Wang Xin confirmed that twenty-five tons of supplies and three pieces of ghost porcelain had been prepared as Yang Jian's deposit.
• Mishima, president of the Spirit Extermination Society, welcomed Yang Jian at the airport and hosted a meal while praising his record.
• Mishima introduced Keiko as Yang Jian's translator and personal assistant, placing her at his side for the operation.
• Yang Jian realized Mishima had assigned Keiko both to win his favor and to test him, but he refused to promise that he would protect her.

Yang Jian prepared to tackle the Ghost Knocking Incident, but Tian Ye disrupted the operation and attacked the people around him. Yang Jian swiftly subdued Tian Ye, then left with Keiko for the meeting point outside Kobe City, where the Spirit Extermination Society recognized the reach of his Ghost Domain.

• President Mishima welcomed Yang Jian, presented him with three pieces of ghost porcelain, and agreed to begin the operation at noon.
• Tian Ye arrived at the airport and used his Ghost Domain to attack two women, then threatened Keiko while mocking Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian tracked Tian Ye with his Ghost Eye, dragged him down with a ghost hand, and pinned both his hands with chopsticks before warning President Mishima to control him.
• Yang Jian took the file and gave the satellite phone to Keiko, then used his Ghost Domain to transport them directly to the meeting point outside Kobe City.
• President Mishima learned that Yang Jian had reached the location more than ten kilometers away and concluded that his Ghost Domain could cover an entire city.

Yang Jian led the Spirit Extermination Society team into Kobe City to locate the Door-Knocking Ghost, using Mishima’s ability to track its approximate position. As other supernatural threats emerged, the Ghost Child rang the doorbell of a house Mishima sensed was haunted.

• Yang Jian brought Nagazawa, Mishima, and Keiko into Kobe City with his Ghost Domain and warned them to follow his orders.
• Yang Jian released the Ghost Child and had Mishima identify the direction of the Door-Knocking Ghost.
• Yang Jian spotted decaying heads floating above the city and realized the Head Balloon Incident was a separate supernatural threat.
• Mishima sensed a ghost inside a wooden house and warned the group as Yang Jian approached it.
• Yang Jian sent the Ghost Child to ring the house’s doorbell.

Yang Jian investigated a dark house after Mishima sensed ghosts nearby, but the ghost child he sent inside failed to return. He entered to find it and reached a partly open room upstairs after discovering the house distorted distances and contained an unknown ghost.

• Yang Jian sent the ghost child into the house to scout while Mishima warned that she sensed more than one ghost nearby.
• After the ghost child failed to emerge, Yang Jian ordered Nagazawa to keep the front door open and entered the house.
• Yang Jian found a bloodied handprint on a sliding door and confirmed the house was unrelated to the Door-Knocking Ghost.
• Yang Jian heard heavy footsteps above, went upstairs, and approached a sliding door left partly open.

Yang Jian found Ghost Child trapped among corpses in a closet and freed it, but the haunted house’s ghost emerged and pursued them. The dead man’s head helped suppress the house’s supernatural influence, yet Yang Jian and Ghost Child became lost inside as the pursuing corpse closed in.

• Nagazawa was pushed toward the closing front door by a supernatural force, alarming the people outside.
• Yang Jian opened the master bedroom closet and found it packed with naked corpses, including Ghost Child trapped beneath them.
• Yang Jian used his ghost hand to remove the bodies and free Ghost Child, then told it to take the dead man’s head from its backpack.
• The corpses stirred and a bizarre body began rising from the closet, so Yang Jian and Ghost Child fled while the head suppressed the room’s supernatural influence.
• A heavy corpse followed Yang Jian down the stairs, and the house’s altered layout prevented him from reaching the entrance.

Yang Jian resisted and suppressed a dangerous ghost haunting a house, then left it behind when the suppression failed. He continued following Mishima’s ghost sense toward the Door-Knocking Ghost and noticed signs that it had recently wandered nearby.

• Yang Jian realized the house had trapped him and let the pursuing ghost attack so he could learn its killing method.
• The ghost’s supernatural power began tearing Yang Jian’s clothes and body, but his Ghost Hand neutralized the attack by picking up his jacket.
• Yang Jian ordered Ghost Child to use the rotten head to suppress the ghost, restoring the house and allowing Nagazawa and Sakai to open the front door.
• Yang Jian left the house with Ghost Child, but the suppression quickly failed and the ghost resumed wandering inside.
• Yang Jian told Mishima to lead the group to another ghost, then noticed the surrounding buildings had aged, suggesting the Door-Knocking Ghost had recently passed through.

Yang Jian led the group deeper into Kobe City, where the Door-Knocking Ghost had left streets full of corpses and Ghost Slaves. As ghostly phone calls rang around them and floating heads gathered overhead, Sakai was suddenly killed by the Head Balloon Ghost, whose killing pattern Yang Jian could not identify.

• Yang Jian explained that the ruined city and its many Ghost Slaves were signs of the Door-Knocking Ghost’s expanding influence.
• Mishima sensed that an unknown caller was a vicious ghost, so the group avoided answering their phones and threw most of them away.
• The discarded phones began ringing with the same caller ID, while Yang Jian realized the Door-Knocking Ghost was nearby and the Head Balloon Incident also threatened them.
• Mishima said the ghost seemed to be right there, and Sakai suddenly collapsed as his head detached and floated into the sky.
• Yang Jian wondered whether Sakai had triggered the Head Balloon Ghost’s killing pattern, but he could not tell what had killed him.

Yang Jian lit a white ghost candle to lure the nearby ghost into the open after Sakai was killed by the Head Balloon Incident. The candle drew several Ghost Slaves toward the group, while the Door-Knocking Ghost had yet to appear.

• Sakai was killed without warning, and Yang Jian moved his corpse into a nearby house to contain its impending revival.
• Mishima told Yang Jian she could sense that the ghost was nearby but could not pinpoint its location.
• Yang Jian led the group to an open intersection and had the Ghost Child hold a white ghost candle while he lit it.
• The candle plunged the area into darkness, leaving Yang Jian to watch with his Ghost Eye as the others waited in fear.
• A female Ghost Slave, a figure on a building's third floor, and a crawling rotten corpse approached the group as more footsteps sounded nearby.

The Door-Knocking Ghost killed survivors in a Kobe apartment building before the ghost candle drew it toward Yang Jian. As Ghost Slaves and floating heads gathered around the candle, Yang Jian kept it burning while waiting for the ghost to arrive.

• The Door-Knocking Ghost knocked at an open apartment door, killing a man and woman without leaving wounds, then continued through the building.
• A survivor hiding in another apartment died when the Door-Knocking Ghost knocked at his door, and the ghost then turned back toward the ghost candle.
• The floating dead heads began gathering above the city as the ghost candle attracted increasingly dangerous supernatural forces toward Ghost Child and Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Shadow to kill a Ghost Slave, while Ghost Child’s burial clothes and corpse fluid repelled and destroyed others.
• Nagazawa urged Yang Jian to extinguish the candle as ghosts closed in, but Yang Jian refused and continued waiting for the Door-Knocking Ghost.

Yang Jian used the white ghost candle to draw out the Door-Knocking Ghost, while ghostly threats gathered around him. He joined Ghost Child and launched a combined attack, but the fight’s outcome remained unknown.

• Yang Jian watched Ghost Slaves and other ghosts swarm toward Ghost Child as the candlelight drew them in.
• Floating severed heads replaced themselves with heads from corpses, and Yang Jian realized that he and the others had been marked as possible targets.
• Yang Jian placed Ghost Porcelain over a lock of his hair to create a safeguard.
• The Door-Knocking Ghost emerged, and Yang Jian ordered Ghost Child to extinguish the candle and bring the severed head to him.
• Yang Jian joined Ghost Child and attacked the Door-Knocking Ghost with the severed head’s gaze and his blackened ghost hands.

Yang Jian confronted the Door-Knocking Ghost and combined three ghosts’ powers to suppress it long enough to reach for the object in its pocket. The Door-Knocking Ghost seized his wrist, and just as the Headless Ghost Shadow reached into the pocket, the dead man's head began floating away from Ghost Child.

• Yang Jian’s ghost hand and the dead man's head failed to stop the Door-Knocking Ghost, so he rushed forward to begin a second wave of suppression.
• Yang Jian grabbed the Door-Knocking Ghost’s arm and unleashed the Headless Ghost Shadow, temporarily halting its footsteps.
• Yang Jian reached for the object in the ghost’s pocket, but the ghost seized his wrist and shattered the porcelain figure’s wrist in the nearby shop.
• Yang Jian kept the Headless Ghost Shadow invading the Door-Knocking Ghost as its head turned toward him and the shadow reached into its pocket.
• The dead man's head began floating upward from Ghost Child, ending its suppression of the Door-Knocking Ghost.

Yang Jian’s attempt to suppress the Door-Knocking Ghost failed when the decayed head was drawn away and his ghost porcelain shattered. He escaped Kobe City with his companions, but lost the head and kept the gold-coated wooden box he had taken from the ghost’s robe.

• The decayed human head floated away, weakening the suppression of the Door-Knocking Ghost as corpse spots spread across Yang Jian’s arm.
• Yang Jian decided to retreat and withdrew the Ghost Hand and Ghost Shadow, taking a hidden object from the Door-Knocking Ghost’s pocket.
• The ghost porcelain shattered, and Yang Jian opened four layers of Ghost Domain to carry himself and his companions out of the Door-Knocking Ghost’s domain.
• Yang Jian realized the decayed head was gone, then took a square wooden box from his headless black shadow and secured it inside a larger golden box.

Yang Jian escaped the Door-Knocking Ghost’s Ghost Domain with Nagazawa, Keiko, and Mishima, but the corpse-spot curse continued spreading through his body. He used the Headless Ghost Shadow to suppress it, then led the survivors to a nearby hotel to rest and plan their next move.

• Yang Jian discovered that the corpse-spot curse was spreading across his body, while the Ghost Hand arm remained unaffected.
• Yang Jian fused the Headless Ghost Shadow with his body and gradually erased the spreading corpse spots over ten minutes.
• Yang Jian assessed the lost rotting dead head and the increased danger of the Door-Knocking Ghost, concluding that the confrontation had still yielded useful information.
• Nagazawa asked what to do next, and Yang Jian agreed to rest nearby before deciding how to proceed.
• Yang Jian gathered Keiko and Mishima and followed Nagazawa to a nearby hotel to recover and plan.

Yang Jian opened the box taken from the Door-Knocking Ghost and found a wooden board marked with numbers. Keiko recognized them as coordinates near Dahan City, giving Yang Jian a new lead as he prepared to continue the operation.

• Yang Jian had Mishima settled at the inn and told Keiko to inform President Mishima that the operation had not succeeded and he needed a new plan.
• Yang Jian opened the gold-painted box and found a wooden board carved with the numbers 114, 22 30, 30.
• Keiko joined Yang Jian in the hot spring, and she suggested the numbers were longitude and latitude coordinates.
• Yang Jian entered the numbers into a phone and found a location near Dahan City.
• Yang Jian connected the location to the old man's past and Dahan City's lack of supernatural incidents, then prepared to consider the next operation.

Yang Jian agreed to confront the Door-Knocking Ghost again after Mishima removed Ichiro from the meeting and promised to accept responsibility for any interference. He adopted Nagazawa’s plan to lure the ghost into a box trap, with Nagazawa serving as bait once the Spirit Extermination Society prepared the box.

• Yang Jian warned Mishima that the Ghost Knocking incident involved several converging paranormal threats and that he would handle only the Door-Knocking Ghost if no one interfered.
• Ichiro attacked Mishima’s leadership and called for Yang Jian to be replaced, but Mishima had Ichiro dragged away and apologized to Yang Jian.
• Mishima asked Yang Jian to try again and promised to bear the consequences if the operation was disrupted; Yang Jian agreed and requested a sturdy box so he could take the ghost away afterward.
• Nagazawa suggested luring the Door-Knocking Ghost into a box trap, and Yang Jian approved the plan.
• Yang Jian told Nagazawa he would serve as bait, and Nagazawa accepted the dangerous role as they waited for the box.

Yang Jian and Nagazawa set a trap to lure the Door-Knocking Ghost into an ornate coffin, while the ghost’s approach revealed that the Head Balloon Incident had gone strangely quiet. Yang Jian confronted the approaching old man, determined to contain it and end the danger that began at Seventh High School.

• Yang Jian assessed the Door-Knocking Ghost’s abilities and left the hotel with Nagazawa, while telling Keiko to stay away from the supernatural circle.
• Ichiro recruited Tian Ye to enter Kobe City independently, hoping to claim credit if Yang Jian succeeded or undermine Mishima if he failed.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to set the coffin in the road and build a small room facing its opening, then sent Nagazawa inside to play a recording of the ghost’s knocking.
• Nagazawa endured the curse as his body continued to deteriorate, and the Door-Knocking Ghost’s vast Ghost Domain eventually spread over the area.
• Yang Jian noticed that the floating heads had vanished and suspected the Head Balloon ghost had found a suitable head, then saw the black-robed old man approaching through the darkness.
• Yang Jian prepared to lure the Door-Knocking Ghost into the coffin, determined to end the threat that had ruined his school life.

Yang Jian trapped the Door-Knocking Ghost in a Gold Box by using his Ghost Domain to pull it into reality, but its rotting curse began to erode his suppression. He severed its raised arm with a woodcutter’s axe, and the box lid slammed shut, leaving the ghost contained for now.

• Nagazawa stayed in the room as bait while the Door-Knocking Ghost approached the doorway.
• Yang Jian waited until the ghost raised its arm to knock, then opened five layers of Ghost Domain to drag it into reality and into the trap.
• The Door-Knocking Ghost resisted the Gold Box lid, while its rotting curse eroded Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain and began spreading to Nagazawa.
• Yang Jian brought Nagazawa over to help hold down the lid, but their combined efforts could not close the gap.
• Yang Jian struck the ghost’s raised arm with the woodcutter’s axe, severing it and allowing the lid to slam shut.

Yang Jian imprisoned the Door-Knocking Ghost, then refused Yamazaki’s attempt to take the box and claim the credit. Yamazaki withdrew, but he and his companions encountered a deadly ghost in Kobe City, leaving him trapped between identical apparitions.

• Yang Jian contained the Door-Knocking Ghost in a metal box and warned Nagazawa that the containment could fail.
• Yamazaki arrived with Tian Ye and a skeletal man, demanded the box, and backed down when Yang Jian threatened to fight.
• Yamazaki’s group drove into Kobe City to investigate another supernatural incident, and Tian Ye shouted at a figure walking away.
• The figure turned to reveal a half-rotted head, then killed Tian Ye by severing his head from his body.
• Yamazaki tried to flee but found an identical half-rotted-headed figure turning toward him from behind.

After the Door-Knocking Ghost incident ended, President Mishima prepared to travel to Kobe City amid concerns that Ichiro’s people might interfere with Yang Jian. While waiting to secure the ghost, Yang Jian discovered that using the strange hatchet had caused a matching, rotting wound on his own arm and tried to counter its curse with his ghost shadow.

• Wang Xin announced that the Door-Knocking Ghost incident was over, and President Mishima ordered preparations to inspect and transport the unstable containment.
• Mishima learned that Yamazaki had entered Kobe City with two people to find Yang Jian and hurried there, fearing Ichiro’s scheme would jeopardize the ghost’s containment and his plans with Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian reinforced the box holding the ghost and told Nagazawa he was waiting because he suspected other ghosts still lurked nearby.
• Yang Jian noticed a new black, necrotic wound on his right arm in the same place as the arm he had cut from the Door-Knocking Ghost.
• Yang Jian realized the strange hatchet inflicted corresponding wounds on its user and merged his ghost shadow into his body to try to remove the curse.