Recaps

Yang Jian returned to Dachang City with Jiang Yan after staying in his hometown, where he glimpsed the mysterious Xiao Yuan near the woods. He went to Shangtong Building to check on his company and planned to visit Zhang Hua for the results of his investigation into the coordinates.

• Yang Jian and Jiang Yan left the village, while Zhang Fen stayed behind and Xiao Yuan remained unseen.
• Yang Jian spotted Xiao Yuan in a raincoat near the woods, but she vanished when he looked again.
• Yang Jian and Jiang Yan arrived in Dachang City, and Yang Jian chose to go to Shangtong Building before visiting Zhang Hua.
• Yang Jian walked through the company to show that he was alive and reassure employees and any infiltrators.
• Yang Jian saw Zhang Wei berate employees during a meeting, then watched a bodyguard knock an angry employee unconscious.

Yang Jian reunited with Zhang Wei, caught up over food, and learned the company planned a gathering he was expected to attend. A message from Wang Shanshan reported that Ghost Child had left Guangjiang Residential Area, and Yang Jian went to investigate.

• Yang Jian met Zhang Wei at the company and listened to him complain about employees and invite him to eat barbecue skewers.
• Zhang Wei told Yang Jian that Zhang Xiangui had arranged a company gathering for the next day and wanted Yang Jian to attend.
• While they ate, Zhang Wei and Yang Jian discussed their former classmates, including Miao Xiaoshan and Liu Qi.
• Wang Shanshan texted Yang Jian that Ghost Child had run out, so Yang Jian left Zhang Wei and returned to his office.
• Yang Jian asked Zhang Liqin about the gathering, then opened his Ghost Eye and looked toward Guangjiang Residential Area to investigate.

Liu San and Li Yang came to Dachang City to find Yang Jian, who confronted them after a Ghost Child blocked their path. The chapter ended with Yang Jian asking whether the Ghost Painting operation had failed and whether they had come to seek his help.

• Liu San and Li Yang arrived near Guangjiang Residential Area and headed toward Yang Jian’s home.
• A Ghost Child appeared in their path, and Liu San recognized it as resembling the Starvation Ghost but noted that it did not attack them.
• Liu San called for Yang Jian, and Yang Jian appeared as his Ghost Domain turned the surroundings red.
• Yang Jian ordered the Ghost Child to leave, and it obeyed before disappearing.
• Yang Jian demanded that Liu San explain why he and Li Yang had come, suggesting the Ghost Painting operation might have failed.

Yang Jian learned from Liu San that the Ghost Painting operation had nearly destroyed their team, though Old Qin had temporarily contained the painting. Liu San revealed that Headquarters was then invaded and the Starving Ghost was stolen, leaving Ye Zhen as the main suspect.

• Yang Jian brought Liu San and Li Yang to his office through his Ghost Domain and agreed to hear Liu San out.
• Liu San said the Ghost Painting team had lost Chen Yi and one of his paper figures, while Li Jun saved Li Yang and later disappeared inside Ghost Painting.
• Liu San explained that Old Qin had acted and temporarily trapped Ghost Painting inside a building.
• Liu San told Yang Jian that someone invaded Headquarters while Old Qin was occupied, and Ye Zhen was the sole suspect.
• Liu San revealed that several imprisoned ghosts had vanished, including the Starving Ghost, shocking Yang Jian.

Yang Jian learned that the Starvation Ghost and its coffin nail had been stolen from Headquarters, but refused to help investigate the theft. Liu San then offered a paper-doll body to revive Xiong Wenwen, and Yang Jian agreed to let Li Yang join his team.

• Liu San told Yang Jian that Headquarters had been infiltrated and that the Starvation Ghost and other detained ghosts had been stolen.
• Yang Jian rejected Liu San’s request for his opinion on whether Ye Zhen was responsible and refused to join the investigation, even when Liu San mentioned the coffin nail as a reward.
• Liu San told Yang Jian that Xiong Wenwen could be revived from the photograph using a special vessel, and offered his paper-doll body for the purpose.
• Liu San peeled away his outer paper-doll layers to reveal a smaller doll prepared to hold Xiong Wenwen.
• Yang Jian accepted Li Yang into his team, while Liu San’s paper-doll body was left torn and incomplete.

Yang Jian kept Liu San’s paper figure and postponed Xiong Wenwen’s revival while considering the danger of Headquarters’ stolen ghost and the possibility that someone was trying to provoke a clash between him and Ye Zhen. He then reviewed what had happened while he was away and planned to meet Zhang Hua and attend Zhang Xiangui’s gathering with Zhang Liqin and Jiang Yan.

• Yang Jian examined Liu San’s paper figure, stored it in a temporary safe house, and told Li Yang to register and rest while he delayed deciding whether to revive Xiong Wenwen.
• Zhang Liqin asked Yang Jian about the stolen ghost, and he explained how a powerful Ghost Domain could uncover hidden objects and why Ye Zhen might be suspected.
• Yang Jian realized Liu San’s question about testing Ye Zhen had been a provocation and suspected someone at Headquarters wanted to set him against Ye Zhen.
• Zhang Liqin reported recent visitors and messages, including Zhang Hua’s completed investigation and Zhang Xiangui’s invitation to a private gathering.
• Yang Jian said he would speak with Zhang Hua and attend the gathering, and he told Zhang Liqin that Jiang Yan could come too.

At Zhang Xiangui’s gathering, Yang Jian and Zhang Wei ignored the business crowd and discussed an unfinished building tied to the Door-Knocking Ghost. The evening took a more serious turn when Yang Jian sensed Ghost Tamers among a group entering the hall.

• Zhang Xiangui held a lavish gathering in Dachang City after postponing it until Yang Jian returned from the countryside.
• Yang Jian studied Zhang Hua’s information about an abandoned building at 869 Jianshe Road in Dahan City, where several successive owners had failed to complete construction.
• Zhang Wei joked that the site had to be haunted, while Yang Jian reasoned that its connection to the Door-Knocking Ghost made it suspicious despite its ordinary surroundings.
• Tang Yanyan approached Yang Jian and Zhang Wei, mistook their ghost-catching claims for nonsense, and left; another woman then considered greeting them, prompting jealous Jiang Yan to hurry over.
• Yang Jian sensed Ghost Tamers among a group entering the gathering and judged that they posed little immediate danger.

Yang Jian confronted Wang Han, a Ghost Tamer who disrupted Zhang Xiangui’s gathering and treated ordinary people as disposable. Yang Jian demanded that Wang Han kowtow, and the confrontation was left unresolved.

• President Qian arrived and mocked Zhang Xiangui over the Guangjiang Residential Area, while Zhang explained that he was only supporting the gathering’s real guest of honor.
• Wang Han sensed a Ghost Tamer in the hall and shoved guests aside as he made his way toward Yang Jian.
• Jiang Yan asked Yang Jian to escort her around the gathering, but he pulled her out of the way when Wang Han tried to shove her aside.
• Zhang Wei drew two golden guns on Wang Han, who introduced himself and said he had come to meet Yang Jian.
• Wang Han dismissed ordinary people as beneath him, so Yang Jian opened the Ghost Eye and ordered him to kowtow.

At a gathering, Yang Jian confronted Wang Han after Wang Han appeared behind Jiang Yan and insulted her. The two avoided a fight that could endanger the guests, and Wang Han warned President Qian not to provoke Yang Jian.

• Jiang Yan hid behind Yang Jian when Wang Han appeared, and Yang Jian demanded that Wang Han apologize or fight him.
• Zhang Wei shot Wang Han in the forehead, but Wang Han survived and revealed that he could affect the hall with his Ghost Domain.
• Wang Han agreed to leave the confrontation until after the gathering, while Yang Jian held back to protect the people present.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Wei to let the gathering continue and planned to speak with Wang Han afterward.
• Wang Han told President Qian that Yang Jian was terrifying and warned him never to offend Yang Jian again.

Yang Jian ended the confrontation with Wang Han and turned the gathering’s attention to business, revealing his authority over the attendees. He took the seat of honor as Zhang Xiangui and Wang Bin prepared to hear what he had to say.

• Yang Jian told Zhang Wei that his shot had settled the conflict with Wang Han and warned him not to copy Yang Jian’s methods.
• Zhang Xiangui arrived with executives, and Yang Jian spoke with Ma Youcai about the body he had received through Ghost Shadow.
• Yang Jian confirmed that most guests had arrived and ordered everyone to take their seats for the gathering.
• The attendees made way for Yang Jian, while Tang Yanyan realized that he and Zhang Wei were far more important than she had thought.
• Zhang Liqin and Jiang Yan followed Yang Jian onto the platform, where he took the seat of honor and began the private gathering.

Yang Jian warned a gathering of wealthy businessmen that supernatural incidents were worsening and urged them to prepare. After Fan Hong challenged him and was driven out, Yang Jian revealed that he had founded a company to protect Dachang City and set a ten-billion investment threshold.

• Zhang Xiangui opened the gathering and handed the floor to Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian told the guests that supernatural incidents had existed for years and were spiraling out of control, but Fan Hong mocked him and threatened to call the police.
• Fan Hong called the authorities, who warned him to stop investigating Yang Jian and ordered him to report for questioning; Yang Jian made him apologize and leave.
• Yang Jian resumed his warning, identified himself as the person in charge of Dachang City, and said he had established a company to protect the city.
• Yang Jian invited interested guests to invest in his company's projects, setting the minimum contribution at ten billion.

Yang Jian demanded a minimum investment of ten billion yuan for projects meant to make Dachang City self-sufficient and protect its residents from paranormal incidents. After Wang Han and President Qian invested, Yang Jian isolated Wang Han in his Ghost Domain and asked why he had come to find him.

• Yang Jian warned the gathered businesspeople that money was losing value and explained that gold safe houses could protect people from paranormal incidents.
• Wang Bin presented plans for dispersed investments in safe houses, agriculture, storage, supermarkets, shopping malls, and energy, while Ma Youcai pledged twenty billion yuan.
• Wang Han urged President Qian to invest twenty billion yuan to settle their misunderstanding with Yang Jian, and Yang Jian accepted their show of goodwill.
• Yang Jian approached Wang Han and used his Ghost Domain to clear the hall, then told him their investment had bought their lives and asked why he had come.

Yang Jian pulled Wang Han into his Ghost Domain to learn why he had sought him out, but rejected Wang Han’s invitation to meet long-lived Ghost Tamers and warned him about his dangerous loss of humanity. Yang Jian returned to the gathering, leaving Wang Han alive but unwelcome on his territory.

• Yang Jian vanished with Wang Han, alarming the guests, while Ma Youcai urged the executives to support Yang Jian’s plans for survival.
• Wang Han argued that Ghost Tamers would eventually lead the world and invited Yang Jian to meet people who had survived paranormal incidents for over ten years.
• Yang Jian refused to join Wang Han’s group and questioned whether their longevity came at the cost of their humanity.
• Wang Han claimed Ghost Tamers had been using the wrong method to control ghosts, but Yang Jian warned that prolonged spiritual erosion could turn people into ghosts.
• Yang Jian threatened to kill Wang Han if he returned as a danger to his territory, then left the Ghost Domain and returned to the sofa.

Yang Jian secured investors for Wang Bin’s projects and answered questions about his authority as Dachang City’s captain and the safety he could offer. After Wang Han left, Yang Jian reflected on Wang Han’s warning that controlling vicious ghosts was the wrong path.

• Several wealthy guests agreed to invest, and Yang Jian put Wang Bin in charge of the business arrangements.
• Yang Jian promised investors protection within Dachang City, explained what a captain was, and warned that he could not manage more territory than he could handle.
• Wang Han left after Yang Jian warned him that he would be treated like a vicious ghost if he became one, while President Qian stayed.
• Tang Yanyan apologized to Yang Jian and asked to join his company, so Yang Jian sent her to Zhang Wei, who asked whether she could play video games.
• Jiang Yan grew jealous of Tang Yanyan, while Yang Jian wondered what the right path was after Wang Han said that controlling vicious ghosts was wrong.

After returning home, Yang Jian rejected Zhang Liqin’s attempt to become closer to him and discovered the ghost child watching through the window. Wang Shanshan then told him the coffin he had brought from his hometown was shaking, leaving him uncertain whether its contents were a ghost.

• Yang Jian returned to the villa with Jiang Yan, then asked Zhang Liqin to record what had happened in his hometown.
• Zhang Liqin confessed that she wanted to stay by Yang Jian’s side, but he refused her invitation to spend time alone and told her to get his notebook.
• Yang Jian spotted the ghost child peering through the window, and it ran away after he noticed it.
• Wang Shanshan told Yang Jian that the coffin had begun shaking and that the ghost child would not attack whatever was inside.
• Yang Jian considered that the coffin’s contents might not be a ghost.

Yang Jian discovered that the fierce ghost's corpse in the coffin had grown black hair and begun twitching, so he moved it to a locked safe room at his office. After returning, he had Zhang Liqin record the events in the village as a Ghost Dream file, leaving the women to help preserve his experiences in a handwritten notebook.

• Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan opened the coffin and found the corpse covered in thick black hair, twitching and moving as if it were coming back to life.
• Yang Jian moved the coffin to the small safe room in his office and told Wang Shanshan he planned to build a dedicated room for storing supernatural objects.
• Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin discussed their feelings for Yang Jian while waiting for him to return.
• Yang Jian appeared in the room and told Zhang Liqin to record the village incident under the file name Ghost Dream.
• Zhang Liqin completed the handwritten record after one in the morning, while Jiang Yan fell asleep beside Yang Jian.

Yang Jian arranged to travel to Dahan City with Li Yang to investigate coordinates left by the Door-Knocking Ghost, while leaving Zhang Han to watch over Dachang City. In Dahan City, Sun Rui learned of Yang Jian’s arrival and decided to meet him, suspecting the visit was connected to a problem in the city.

• Yang Jian rejected a dinner invitation, reflected on the Ghost Cabinet’s seventy-five-day countdown, and told Zhang Hua and Li Yang he would leave for Dahan City the next morning.
• Yang Jian chose Li Yang to accompany him, planned for Zhang Han to oversee Dachang City, and instructed Zhang Hua to invite Chen Shumei to meet about Xiong Wenwen.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Hua to continue searching for Sun Ren and warned Li Yang that their investigation could be dangerous.
• Zhang Liqin booked two tickets for Yang Jian and Li Yang, and Yang Jian explained that he needed to investigate supernatural threats despite wanting a peaceful life.
• In Dahan City, Sun Rui heard that Yang Jian was coming, ordered his assistant to arrange a pickup, and decided to meet Yang Jian because he suspected something was wrong in the city.

Yang Jian and Li Yang arrived in Dahan City to investigate why the major city had experienced no supernatural incidents, and its person in charge, Sun Rui, welcomed them. As Sun Rui drove them through the prosperous city, Yang Jian learned that Sun Rui had known Feng Quan and told him Feng Quan would soon join his team.

• Yang Jian and Li Yang arrived at Dahan City Airport, where Yang Jian explained that they had come to investigate the city's lack of supernatural incidents.
• Sun Rui, Dahan City's person in charge, greeted Yang Jian and Li Yang at the airport and offered them an extravagant welcome.
• Yang Jian told Sun Rui he had come only to investigate and asked him to show them around the city.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang rode through Dahan City with Sun Rui and observed its busy streets and prosperity.
• Sun Rui mentioned his past acquaintance with Feng Quan, and Yang Jian said Feng Quan would soon return to Dachang City and join his team.

Yang Jian learned from Sun Rui about a pattern of suspicious disappearances in Dahan City and followed a clue to Jianshe Road. The chapter ended with Yang Jian identifying an abandoned unfinished building as the place to investigate.

• Yang Jian asked Sun Rui about supernatural irregularities in Dahan City, and Sun Rui revealed a C-class case of mysterious disappearances.
• Sun Rui explained that roughly nine people disappeared each day, often remaining in contact with their families before vanishing completely.
• Yang Jian suspected the disappearances were supernatural and showed Sun Rui a location on Jianshe Road.
• Sun Rui agreed to accompany Yang Jian, and they traveled to the marked area.
• Yang Jian stopped outside an abandoned unfinished building across the street, while Sun Rui saw nothing unusual about it.

Yang Jian traced the Door-Knocking Ghost's death to an unfinished building in Dahan City and warned Sun Rui that the site might trigger a major supernatural incident. After Sun Rui sealed off the surrounding street, Yang Jian prepared protective measures and set out with Li Yang to investigate the building.

• Yang Jian matched the Door-Knocking Ghost's recorded coordinates and five-story fall site to an unfinished building in Dahan City, then told Sun Rui that the ghost had once been a Ghost Tamer, possibly from the Republican Era.
• Yang Jian ordered the street cordoned off, observers and snipers posted, and nearby civilians evacuated; Sun Rui agreed and expanded the isolation zone.
• Yang Jian checked into a hotel facing the building and placed his and Li Yang's ID cards beneath pieces of ghost porcelain for protection.
• After Sun Rui's people finished sealing the area near dusk, Yang Jian ordered the hotel room secured and went downstairs with Li Yang.
• Yang Jian told Sun Rui that he would lead the operation, and Sun Rui agreed to follow his orders.

Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to reveal a Republican Era building, the Ghost Post Office, hidden where the unfinished building stood. He forced his way inside with Li Yang and Sun Rui, awakening a terrifying presence in the building.

• Yang Jian entered the unfinished building with Li Yang and Sun Rui, after Sun Rui sealed off the perimeter and warned his people not to enter.
• Yang Jian found gold jewelry embedded in the walls, floor, and ceiling, showing that missing people had vanished at the site.
• Yang Jian explained that the unfinished building overlapped with a separate Ghost Domain rather than containing the ghost itself.
• Yang Jian layered his Ghost Domain until a hidden Republican Era building appeared, then used its fifth layer to invade it.
• Yang Jian brought Li Yang and Sun Rui into the Ghost Post Office, where a strange figure appeared at an upper window and footsteps sounded from above.

Yang Jian, Li Yang, and Sun Rui entered the Ghost Post Office and encountered living people who appeared to be trapped there as messengers. After Yang Jian subdued Wan Xing, he began questioning him about the building and its occupants.

• Yang Jian entered the Ghost Post Office with Li Yang and Sun Rui, finding that its supernatural force suppressed most of his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian explored the first floor, noted the rooms and the lack of stairs, and saw a man emerge from Room 11.
• The man, Wan Xing, mocked Yang Jian and fired a handgun at him, but Yang Jian seized and threw him down.
• Sun Rui restrained Wan Xing with his cane and recorded his name, while a woman emerged from Room 11 after Wan Xing warned her to comply.
• Yang Jian identified the people as likely messengers and demanded that Wan Xing explain what he knew about the Ghost Post Office.

Yang Jian and Sun Rui investigated the Ghost Post Office, learned how its messengers and floors worked, and met Wang Shan, who offered a quicker route upward. They stayed in Wang Shan’s room as the lights went out, while an unseen ghost began wandering the dark post office.

• Wan Xing explained that messengers were summoned by unsigned yellow letters, had to deliver them under threat of death, and advanced floors after completing three deliveries.
• Yang Jian concluded that the upper floors occupied a layered Ghost Domain and suspected the post office’s rules could no longer be trusted.
• Li Yang sensed a terrifying ghost in the building, and Wang Shan explained that a ghost roamed the post office after the lights went out, while the rooms were the only safe places.
• Wang Shan offered to help Yang Jian reach the fifth floor quickly, but warned that the method was risky; Yang Jian chose to stay overnight and ordered Wang Shan to share his room with him and Sun Rui.
• The lights went out across all five floors, and heavy, irregular footsteps began echoing through the post office.

Yang Jian and the others entered Room Seven of Ghost Post Office and learned Wang Shan’s theory for using an upstairs letter to advance floors. As a ghost approached their room and knocked with a sound identical to the Door-Knocking Ghost’s, Yang Jian realized the familiar sound had not yet killed anyone.

• Yang Jian recognized that Room Seven’s layout resembled rooms in Caesar Hotel, while Sun Rui, Li Yang, and Wang Shan discussed the room and their senses of supernatural danger.
• Wang Shan explained his theory that taking another messenger’s third letter could let someone deliver it and move upstairs, and offered his own upcoming letter in exchange for Yang Jian’s help escaping the post office.
• Yang Jian agreed to help Wang Shan if he had a chance to take him out of the post office.
• Darkness seeped through the door, and heavy footsteps approached Room Seven through the first-floor corridor.
• Yang Jian prepared to confront the approaching ghost, but the footsteps stopped outside and a familiar knocking sound began.
• Yang Jian recognized the sound as resembling the Door-Knocking Ghost’s killing method, then realized it had not harmed anyone and was not the same attack.

Yang Jian, Li Yang, and Sun Rui resisted a ghost that attacked Room Seven by knocking out its lights and trying to force open the door. After forcing it to retreat, they deduced its two killing rules and began considering how to deal with it.

• The ghost knocked three times, extinguishing the living room and bathroom lights before threatening the last light, and Yang Jian warned everyone not to open the door.
• Li Yang blocked the door with his supernatural ability, while Yang Jian and Sun Rui joined forces to resist the ghost as it tried to enter.
• Yang Jian touched the ghost's cold hand through a gap in the door, and Sun Rui's coughing helped suppress it until it withdrew and the door slammed shut, fracturing Yang Jian's arm.
• The ghost's footsteps faded, and Yang Jian reattached his arm as the group confirmed the danger had left the floor.
• Yang Jian and Sun Rui deduced that the ghost could kill by extinguishing the room's lights or opening its door, and Sun Rui asked how they should deal with it.