Recaps

After Dachang City’s Ghost Tamers suffered heavy losses, Yang Jian prepared to lead a public revenge operation against the forces in Dadong City. Headquarters ordered Li Jun to assist him and told Dadong City’s captain, Wang Chaling, to cooperate.

• Yang Jian criticized Tong Qian for leading a rescue that cost Zhang Han his life and left her badly injured, then told her to learn from the mistake.
• Li Yang reported that the supernatural items were secure, while Headquarters agreed to send Dachang City a new liaison officer.
• Yang Jian told Shen Liang he would go to Dadong City to destroy the old residence and seek revenge, then ordered the team to depart in one hour.
• Yang Jian made his plans public and gathered a Substitute Doll, ghost candles, and ghost porcelain for the operation.
• Ye Zhen, Li Lepeng, Liu San, and the Spirit Extermination Society took notice of Yang Jian’s announcement.
• Cao Yanhua ordered Li Jun to Dadong City and told Wang Chaling to cooperate with Yang Jian.

Yang Jian examined his revived state and realized he had become a Ghost Shadow carrying the Music Box Curse, with the ability to invade memories and potentially revive the dead. After learning Li Jun and Wang Chaling would be involved in the Dadong City operation, Yang Jian assembled a full squad and took them there through his Ghost Domain.

• Yang Jian examined the powers he had inherited from the bloodstained old newspaper and Music Box, and considered using them with the Liar Ghost to restore the dead.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Liqin to record the incident before his trip, and Li Yang reported that Wang Chaling and Li Jun had been assigned to cooperate in Dadong City.
• Yang Jian reasoned that Li Jun had been rescued by Old Qin after the Ghost Painting Incident and that his assignment was meant partly to prevent a clash with Wang Chaling.
• Yang Jian gathered Feng Quan, Tong Qian, Xiong Wenwen, Huang Ziya, Li Yang, and Ghost Child, and ordered the team to prepare for the pendulum curse incident at the Republican era old house.
• Yang Jian instructed Zhang Liqin and the others to use the Second Safe House if trouble arose, then transported the squad from Dachang City to Dadong City in his fifth-layer Ghost Domain.

Yang Jian visited Dadong City’s person in charge, Wang Chaling, and challenged him to a blind game of Chinese chess before asking about the pendulum clock curse. Wang Chaling agreed to discuss the curse after sending the other guests away, leaving Yang Jian and his colleagues to speak with him in private.

• Wang Chaling defeated several invited chess players at a gathering in Ning'an Building.
• Yang Jian and his companions appeared amid flickering lights, and Wang Chaling greeted Yang as Dadong City’s person in charge.
• Yang Jian and Wang Chaling played Chinese chess aloud without a board, and Yang won by check.
• Yang Jian asked Wang Chaling what he knew about the pendulum clock curse, and Wang Chaling offered to discuss it after they sat down.
• Wang Chaling dismissed the guests, who left frightened after seeing Ghost Child.

Yang Jian confronted Wang Chaling over the Republican Era mansion and learned that it belonged to the Wang family, whose missing patriarch remained inside. Wang Chaling gave Yang Jian a pocket watch as he entered the mansion, then sent his mother’s ghost into the house to search for his father.

• Wang Chaling told Yang Jian that his father had gone into the Republican Era mansion to search for its unseen pendulum clock and had not returned.
• Wang Chaling revealed that the mansion belonged to his family and that two vicious ghosts accompanied him, prompting Yang Jian to threaten him before hearing his explanation.
• Wang Chaling said he knew little about the mansion’s history because he had rejected the family’s supernatural inheritance and studied abroad.
• Yang Jian accepted Wang Chaling’s pocket watch, which kept the same time as the old house, and warned him not to betray his trust before taking his team to the mansion.
• After Yang Jian left, Wang Chaling asked the ghost of his mother, who appeared in a family photograph, to search for his father and avoid clashing with Yang Jian.

Yang Jian and his team went to the old mansion in Dadong City to investigate the pendulum clock curse, while Yang Jian concluded that Wang Chaling had concealed strength and could not avoid responsibility for the danger in his territory. After killing a supernatural observer outside the mansion, the team entered its hidden Ghost Domain and heard an unseen person warn Yang Jian that he should not have come.

• Yang Jian explained that his meeting with Wang Chaling had been a test of their positions and said Wang had revealed at least three ghosts and likely possessed Supernatural Items.
• Yang Jian led Feng Quan, Tong Qian, Li Yang, Xiong Wenwen, and Huang Ziya to the old mansion and ordered the team to kill any Ghost Tamers they encountered.
• Li Yang tried to use the Blocking Door ghost on the mansion's iron gate but was suppressed by the supernatural force inside, so Feng Quan broke the lock and opened the gate.
• Yang Jian spotted a man filming the team with a corpse-like hand and pinned him to the ground with his cracked golden spear.
• Yang Jian identified the dead man as an observer connected to the mansion, then led the team through its entrance and into a vast Ghost Domain filled with old coffins.
• A voice from one of the mansion's hollow windows warned Yang Jian that he should not have come.

Yang Jian’s team entered the cursed old house to confront the Ghost Tamers gathered inside. Xiong Wenwen’s prediction helped Yang Jian avoid the front entrance and target the white-haired man, whom Yang Jian incapacitated and killed with the coffin nail and Ghost Hand.

• Yang Jian rejected the old house occupants’ offer to end the conflict, and Xiong Wenwen foresaw that entering through the front door would expose the team to a deadly curse.
• Xiong Wenwen warned Yang Jian to enter through a window and kill the white-haired man on the third floor first.
• Yang Jian and his team entered the old house through his Ghost Domain, which the building’s supernatural force limited to the hall.
• Yang Jian threw the coffin nail through the third-floor railing and pinned the white-haired man to a wall, suppressing the Ghost in his body.
• Yang Jian used a Ghost Hand to force its way into the white-haired man’s mouth, killing him as the other occupants watched.

Yang Jian and his teammates defeated the Ghost Tamers gathered in the old residence, but the pendulum clock reversed time and restored the people they had killed. The chapter ended as the group realized the clock had reset events to half an hour earlier.

• Yang Jian killed Liu Baimu, Zhang Qing, and Liu Yue, while Feng Quan and the others fought off their opponents.
• Tong Qian's crying killed several Ghost Tamers, and Li Yang survived by hiding inside a strange room.
• Yang Jian and his teammates regrouped after the battle and discussed the interference preventing Ghost Domains from affecting parts of the old residence.
• The pendulum clock chimed, and the corpses and ghosts of the slain Ghost Tamers disappeared as time on Yang Jian's pocket watch reversed to five thirty.
• The clock restored the dead Ghost Tamers, who emerged from the depths of the old residence, leaving Yang Jian and his teammates shocked.

Yang Jian deduced how the old mansion’s bell reset the cursed Ghost Tamers and confronted Liu Baimu’s group after they returned from their previous defeat. Liu Baimu, shaken by the revelation that Yang Jian had already killed them once, offered to negotiate.

• Yang Jian concluded that the bell reset the mansion to half an hour earlier, but the coffin nail had prevented Liu Yue’s ghost from resetting with the others.
• Liu Baimu appeared and realized that he and his group had already fought Yang Jian’s team and lost before the reset.
• Zhang Qing noted that Liu Yue was missing and Li Yang was absent, while Yang Jian confirmed that he had killed the group during their previous battle.
• Yang Jian warned that he could ensure Liu Baimu would not survive another reset, leaving Liu Baimu uncertain and afraid to fight again.
• Liu Baimu proposed negotiating over Xu Feng and Liao Fan’s invasion of Dachang City instead of continuing the battle.

After the pendulum clock reset the old house and revived Liu Baimu’s group, Yang Jian planned to wait until the reset could no longer help them. Liu Baimu’s people fled into the dangerous depths of the house, and Yang Jian let them go as he waited for six o’clock.

• Liu Baimu offered Yang Jian a reconciliation, but Yang Jian left without accepting and privately discussed how to prevent another reset.
• Yang Jian estimated that the clock could only reset the old house by half an hour, and his team decided to wait until six before attacking again.
• Liu Baimu told his group that Yang Jian would not reconcile and proposed fleeing deeper into the old house to find the vanished president of the Survival Society.
• Zhang Qing, Wan Tong, and the others followed Liu Baimu and scattered into the depths of the old house.
• Yang Jian’s team watched them flee, and Yang Jian chose not to pursue them because four minutes remained until six.

Li Yang became separated from Yang Jian’s group inside the old house and encountered several ghosts as the pendulum clock struck 6:30. In another time period, Yang Jian’s team prepared to attack their enemies again after the six o’clock chime, leaving Li Yang alone and the fight about to resume.

• Li Yang found the old house empty, failed to contact Yang Jian or Tong Qian, and decided to escape through a window.
• A black-and-white woman ghost entered the hall while an old man and woman appeared outside; Li Yang avoided them and climbed out of the house.
• The pendulum clock chimed at 6:30, and Li Yang saw that the elderly ghosts had disappeared.
• At six o’clock in another time period, Yang Jian confirmed that time had continued forward and ordered the team to attack their enemies again.
• Feng Quan buried the pinned ghost in Grave Soil, and Yang Jian used the cleaver to strike Liu Baimu’s medium image.

Yang Jian used the cursed cleaver to sever Liu Baimu’s head from afar, but Liu Baimu remained alive through supernatural power and pressed on toward the pendulum clock. Zhang Qing and Wan Tong followed him up a mysterious staircase, where Liu Baimu’s headless body began to twitch.

• Yang Jian struck Liu Baimu’s medium with the cursed cleaver, cutting off Liu Baimu’s head and injuring Yang Jian and his Ghost Shadow with the curse.
• Liu Baimu, Zhang Qing, and Wan Tong split from the others and headed for a door that appeared once every twelve days, hoping to find the pendulum clock.
• Liu Baimu opened the door and led Zhang Qing and Wan Tong up a strange staircase beyond the old house.
• Liu Baimu’s head was severed by Yang Jian’s distant attack, and he recognized the method from the death of Fang Shiming.
• Liu Baimu urged Zhang Qing and Wan Tong to continue toward the pendulum clock, warning them that his headless body could revive as a fierce ghost.

Yang Jian led his team through the old house, killing or driving away the Ghost Tamers hiding there before moving to the second floor. In Dadong City, Li Jun told Wang Chaling that he had come to watch everyone without principles, including Wang Chaling.

• Yang Jian led Feng Quan, Tong Qian, Huang Ziya, and the Ghost Child deeper into the old house to hunt down the remaining enemies, while they remained unable to contact Li Yang.
• Yang Jian broke through a wall, dragged Xu Ming out of a secret room, and killed him when he refused to trust Xu Ming’s offer to guide them.
• Yang Jian sent Tong Qian into the room of darkness, where her Ghost Face’s laughter killed some hiding Ghost Tamers and drove others deeper inside until the room was cleared.
• Yang Jian’s team headed to the second floor to continue clearing out the old house.
• At Ning'an Building, Wang Chaling received Li Jun, who said he had come to watch everyone in Dadong City without principles, including Wang Chaling.

Yang Jian’s team encountered a strange ghost on the old house’s second floor, while Zhang Qing and Wan Tong escaped an endless staircase by walking backward and found an unexplored iron door. They entered the unknown place to hide from Yang Jian and search for a way forward.

• Yang Jian’s team spotted a lifeless middle-aged man in a dark doorway, but the ghost and doorway vanished before they could investigate.
• Yang Jian told Feng Quan, Tong Qian, Huang Ziya, Xiong Wenwen, and the Ghost Child to continue clearing the second floor.
• Zhang Qing and Wan Tong realized the stairs they were climbing could not be completed by walking forward.
• Liu Baimu told Zhang Qing and Wan Tong to close their eyes and walk backward, following information left by an earlier explorer.
• After backing down ten steps, Zhang Qing and Wan Tong reached a rusted iron door and entered the unexplored place to avoid Yang Jian’s pursuit.

Zhang Qing, Wan Tong, and Liu Baimu searched a hidden prison beneath the old house for the cursed pendulum clock, finding cells filled with dormant supernatural phenomena but no clock. Meanwhile, Yang Jian concluded that a door—and possibly the clock—existed only in the past, then held his team back from entering it while they waited for the next reset and searched for Li Yang.

• Zhang Qing and Wan Tong carried Liu Baimu into a hidden prison, where Liu Baimu reasoned that the doorless cells had been built to contain fierce ghosts.
• Zhang Qing and Wan Tong passed cells containing eerie corpses, strange objects, darkness, and unexplained sounds without being attacked, then found a desk with recent but unreadable notes.
• Yang Jian killed the last Ghost Tamer on the second floor and followed Xiong Wenwen’s precognition to a door outline drawn on a third-floor wall.
• Yang Jian compared his pocket watch with outside time and concluded that the door appeared only during resets because it existed in the past, possibly concealing the pendulum clock.
• Yang Jian chose not to investigate the nonexistent door and told his team to keep contacting Li Yang, wait for the next reset, and leave if no one returned.

After the old mansion’s second chime accelerated its internal time, Yang Jian’s team prepared to leave but discovered Liu Baimu’s headless corpse and a supernatural force blocking his medium. Meanwhile, Zhang Qing and Wan Tong remained in the hidden room, unaware that a figure had appeared and begun writing in the notebook.

• Zhang Qing and Wan Tong found nothing unusual beyond the objects on the table, and Liu Baimu admitted he had no way to survive without a body.
• The pendulum clock chimed again, advancing the old mansion’s time to seven-thirty without reviving those Yang Jian had killed or affecting the outside world.
• After Li Yang’s signal appeared, Yang Jian decided to withdraw with his team and ignore the strange door, but heavy footsteps came down its stairs.
• Yang Jian used the coffin nail to stop Liu Baimu’s headless corpse, then sensed danger when his medium was cut off by an unusual supernatural force inside the room.
• A figure appeared behind the desk and wrote in the notebook, while Zhang Qing and Wan Tong heard the sound of a fountain pen behind them.

Zhang Qing, Wan Tong, and Liu Baimu freed a man trapped in the old house’s notebook, only to learn he planned to release the ghosts imprisoned there. As the man headed into the darkness, the prison cells began shaking from the ghosts’ impacts.

• After the second chime, Zhang Qing, Wan Tong, and Liu Baimu found a closed-eyed man writing at a desk in the cell.
• Wan Tong closed the notebook as its warning instructed, causing the man to regain his awareness and stand up.
• The man recognized Liu Baimu’s neck wound and learned that Yang Jian had taken the cleaver and was hunting the group.
• The man explained that the pendulum clock existed in the past and revealed that the old house was a Wang Family prison for fierce ghosts.
• He announced that he intended to release the imprisoned ghosts and walked toward the darkness at the far end of the prison.
• Impacts sounded from the dim cells, shaking the nearby iron bars as Zhang Qing and the others realized the danger.

Yang Jian’s team escaped the old house as its time anomalies worsened, but Liu Baimu’s crushed head was thrown out after them. Inside, the mysterious man revealed himself as Chen Qiaoyang, the Ghost Herder, and began recruiting Zhang Qing and Wan Tong as his errand runners.

• Yang Jian led his team out of the old house after hearing walls collapse and noticing the pocket watch’s time fluctuate within the house’s reset period.
• A ghost blocked the courtyard gate but moved aside when Yang Jian approached, allowing the group to reach the streets of Dadong City.
• Liu Baimu’s head flew from the old house and landed in the street; Yang Jian saw that its skull had been crushed and suspected someone inside had killed him after he left.
• A mysterious man watched Yang Jian from a broken third-floor window, praised his supernatural weapon, and said he would seek him out soon.
• The man identified himself to Zhang Qing and Wan Tong as Chen Qiaoyang, also known as the Ghost Herder, and offered to spare them if they became his errand runners.
• Yang Jian departed with his team while Chen Qiaoyang returned to the old house and confronted several strange figures, including the Wang Family Second Generation couple.

After defeating Liu Baimu, Yang Jian learned that someone was resetting the old mansion’s time and releasing its imprisoned ghosts, so he joined forces with Wang Chaling and Li Jun to stop the crisis. Before they could begin, mysterious red benches appeared throughout the building, revealing another paranormal threat.

• Yang Jian confronted Wang Chaling, returned the pocket watch, and learned that the old mansion’s time was being recalibrated, potentially releasing thousands of imprisoned ghosts.
• Wang Chaling explained that the danger could become an S-class or SS-class incident, and Yang Jian agreed to cooperate while demanding preparations and support.
• Li Jun arrived, and he, Yang Jian, and Wang Chaling formed a tentative alliance to contain the old mansion’s threat.
• Feng Quan and Huang Ziya spotted red wooden benches blocking several corridors, and Wang Chaling suggested a ghost might have been driven into the building.
• Li Jun kicked one bench away without triggering an attack, while Yang Jian used five layers of Ghost Domain and suspected the benches were a medium rather than ghosts.

Yang Jian and Feng Quan investigated a silent supernatural incident in the building, where red wooden benches appeared and disrupted Ghost Domains. They searched for a victim to learn how the ghost's killing rule worked, while Li Jun and Wang Chaling left for the old mansion.

• Li Jun and Wang Chaling agreed to go to the old mansion while Yang Jian stayed behind to handle the incident, but the red benches disrupted Li Jun's Ghost Domain and trapped the floor.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to send Li Jun and Wang Chaling downstairs, then assigned the others to stay safe while he and Feng Quan investigated.
• Yang Jian told Feng Quan he distrusted Wang Chaling and wanted to wait before joining the old mansion expedition.
• Yang Jian and Feng Quan found another bench blocking the emergency stairs and reasoned that the benches were a medium for the ghost rather than the ghost itself.
• A female employee found a dead man beside a red bench in a restroom corridor, and Yang Jian hurried downstairs to investigate the victim.

Yang Jian investigated a death caused by a mysterious red bench in Dadong City and used the victim’s memories to learn how its ghost attacked. He sat on the bench to confront the ghost, but it appeared and began suppressing his body and Ghost Shadow.

• Yang Jian entered the crowded corridor and found Wang Feng’s corpse beside a red wooden bench.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Shadow to steal fragments of Wang Feng’s memories and learned that Wang Feng had sat on the bench before a ghost appeared.
• Feng Quan showed his identification and threatened the supervisor with a gun, then ordered the employees to stay at their desks.
• Yang Jian deduced that sitting on the bench connected a person to its ghost, though he suspected the incident was more dangerous than it seemed.
• Yang Jian told Feng Quan to keep others away and sat on the bench, where his lower body and Ghost Shadow became immobilized.
• The ghost appeared on the seat opposite Yang Jian.

Yang Jian tested the red wooden bench and discovered that its ghost could kill him despite his supernatural defenses, while the bench itself served only as a medium for the hidden source. He designated the case Codename: Red Bench and ordered the building’s employees to stay overnight as the danger remained unresolved.

• Yang Jian sat on the red wooden bench, became immobilized from the waist down, and failed to hit the ghost with his coffin nail.
• The ghost touched Yang Jian, killing his body as the bench broke and released him from its suppression.
• Yang Jian realized the ghost remained connected to another red wooden bench at the entrance and that his supernatural items could not reach it through the medium.
• Yang Jian told Feng Quan to create a case file called Codename: Red Bench.
• Yang Jian ordered the employees to remain in the building overnight and keep away from the red wooden benches.

Yang Jian explained the red wooden stools’ killing rule and led his team out of the building as the supernatural incident worsened. In the lobby, Ghost Child began scouting a route past the corpses and stools toward the entrance.

• Yang Jian told Feng Quan, Tong Qian, Xiong Wenwen, and Huang Ziya that people who sat on the red stools could see the ghost, which could kill them while remaining untouchable by his weapon.
• Yang Jian warned that the ghost was reviving and red stools were multiplying, then decided to evacuate his team while leaving ordinary residents in the building to avoid spreading ghosts outside.
• Yang Jian led the team down through Feng Quan’s Ghost Fog after the elevators failed, and they found corpses and red stools filling the elevator cars and lobby.
• Yang Jian sent Ghost Child, protected by the Ghost Shroud, to walk through the lobby and test whether they could leave the building.

Wang Chaling and Li Jun attacked the old house in Dadong City, where Chen Qiaoyang and his allies were using a pendulum clock to manipulate time. After the clock erased Li Jun’s ghost fire by shifting the house to another time, Li Jun rushed inside and vanished when it chimed again.

• Wang Chaling explained that the coffins in the courtyard held dead members of the Wang family, while he and Li Jun concluded that entering the old house without the right timing was too dangerous.
• Li Jun decided to burn the old house at nine twenty, and Wang Chaling agreed to watch for an attack.
• Li Jun’s ghost fire engulfed the house and forced Chen Qiaoyang, Zhang Qing, and Wan Tong into a supernatural safe area.
• Chen Qiaoyang’s power suppressed the flames around him until the pendulum clock chimed and shifted the burning house into another time period, making the fire disappear.
• Wang Chaling realized the clock had moved the house forward one minute, but Li Jun entered before Wang Chaling could stop him and vanished when the clock chimed again.

Yang Jian used his ghostly shadow to destroy the red wooden benches and lead his team out of Ning'an Building, then headed to the old house to help Li Jun and Wang Chaling. Inside, Chen Qiaoyang easily trapped Li Jun, but the sudden appearance of a woman in red and a coffin-like darkness left Chen Qiaoyang terrified.

• Yang Jian sent his ghostly shadow to sit on the red wooden benches, causing the benches and the supernatural force sustaining their corpses to collapse.
• Yang Jian led his team out, ordered Tong Qian, Huang Ziya, and Feng Quan to secure the area, and took Xiong Wenwen and Ghost Child to investigate the old house.
• Li Jun confronted Chen Qiaoyang in the old house and demanded that he surrender, but Chen Qiaoyang emerged and accepted his challenge.
• Li Jun attacked with his ghost fire, but Chen Qiaoyang trapped him inside his body and declared that the Ghost Tamers of the current era were no match for him.
• A woman in red appeared in the hall, and the darkness took the shape of a black coffin, making Chen Qiaoyang lose his composure.

Yang Jian watched from outside as Li Jun and Chen Qiaoyang continued their confrontation in the Wang family's old house. Li Jun revealed a way to bring the dangerous Ping An Building out of the Ghost Painting, and the chapter ended as its ghost fire spread across the old house.

• Yang Jian judged that the silent bell meant the fight inside the old house was still unresolved and that Li Jun was in danger.
• Chen Qiaoyang found Li Jun’s ghost skin and learned that A Hong had used Ghost Makeup to paint Li Jun onto Chen Yi’s skin.
• Chen Qiaoyang discovered a Ghost Painting imprinted on Li Jun that showed the abandoned Ping An Building, and he realized the woman had left the painting.
• Li Jun rejected Chen Qiaoyang’s threats and used his ghost fire to extract Ping An Building from the Ghost Painting.
• Chen Qiaoyang backed away as Li Jun’s flames expanded the building across the old house, opening a path to a terrifying place.