Recaps

Yang Jian led the messengers and Ghost Tamers into the eerie old residence, where he found a seated corpse, a coffin, and a room tied to the Ghost Cabinet’s task. He decided to stay for seven days to complete the letter mission, while the others sought his protection and worried that the corpse might return on the seventh day after death.

• Yang Jian entered the old residence with the others and found that supernatural interference had blinded his Ghost Eye.
• Yang Jian spotted the locked room the Ghost Cabinet wanted him to open, but postponed the task until after the letter mission.
• Yang Jian inspected the corpse seated in the main hall and found a vermilion coffin and burning incense in the rear hall.
• Yang Jian told the unrelated Ghost Tamers they could leave, but several chose to stay after discovering that the place suppressed their ghosts.
• Fan Xing revealed that Yang Jian had a doorknob that could help them escape, and the group asked Yang Jian to take them with him.
• Yang Jian said he would stay for seven days, prompting Zhou Deng to wonder whether the old man would return on the seventh day after death.

Yang Jian resisted the Ghost Tamers’ attempt to make him use his coffin nail, then explored the old residence and chose a room to wait out the seven-day mission. After midnight, the entrance lanterns turned white and displayed the character for mourning, making the house seem like a place holding a funeral.

• Fan Xing rallied the Ghost Tamers to pressure Yang Jian into using his coffin nail, but Yang Jian demanded that they sacrifice Fan Xing or attack him instead, and the group backed down.
• Yang Jian explored the corridor with Li Yang, found a sealed room whose bronze lock suppressed supernatural power, and decided to leave it closed until the letter-delivery mission ended.
• Yang Jian found a black Grand Tutor Chair blocking the seemingly endless corridor, then returned and ordered his group to rest in a room on the right.
• Yang Jian stayed awake to keep watch as midnight marked the start of the seven-day wait, while the others rested.
• The two red lanterns at the entrance turned white and revealed the character for mourning as a cold wind blew from the old forest.

As the post office mission’s first night began, Wanzhou and two Ghost Tamers became trapped in a ghost-filled forest and died. In the old house, Yang Jian investigated the seven-day mission’s dangers as pounding at the gate coincided with the old man’s corpse mysteriously changing seats, leaving the group unsure what was outside.

• After midnight, Wanzhou and two Ghost Tamers lost their way in the old forest, where ghostly figures surrounded and killed them.
• Three new, pale trees appeared at the forest’s edge after the Ghost Tamers died.
• Yang Jian stayed in the third room, reasoning that the messengers had to survive seven days and that the seventh day could bring the greatest danger.
• Pounding at the old house’s gate woke the Ghost Tamers, and Yang Jian went to the main hall to investigate.
• Zhou Deng and the others discovered that the old man’s corpse had moved from one Grand Tutor Chair to another, while the pounding outside grew louder.
• Someone pointed out that the front gate had been left open, leaving everyone to wonder what was striking it.

Yang Jian and the others investigated urgent knocking at the old house’s open gate, but the unseen visitor fled before they arrived. They found the gate covered in dirty handprints and Zhou Deng’s red lanterns replaced by white ones, leaving them unsure whether to close the gate or interfere with the lanterns.

• Yang Jian led a group toward the gate after they heard knocking, while Zhou Deng worried about the lanterns outside.
• The knocking stopped, and hurried footsteps retreated before Yang Jian reached the gate.
• Yang Jian and Zhou Deng found many dirty handprints on the gate and discussed whether the visitor could be an anomalous ghost imitating human behavior.
• Zhou Deng discovered that his red lanterns had become white lanterns without being taken down.
• Yang Jian said there was not enough evidence to decide whether to close the gate or destroy the lanterns, and Fan Xing urged everyone to leave things as they were.

Yang Jian chose to observe the old house after its doors opened and became covered in handprints, suspecting that triggering the strange medium could be dangerous. When a Ghost Tamer tried to provoke him over the corpse and his coffin nail, Yang Jian killed him with his ghost hand and returned to his room as the wind and white lanterns stirred outside.

• Yang Jian decided to close the old house's doors and watch for further changes instead of using the cleaver to trigger the handprint medium.
• A Ghost Tamer suggested using Yang Jian's coffin nail to restrain the corpse, and Yang Jian challenged him to act rather than make demands.
• The Ghost Tamer tried to attack, but Yang Jian seized and strangled him with his ghost hand, then threw his corpse outside.
• Yang Jian warned the others not to challenge him, and they backed down as Fan Xing realized Yang Jian could kill him too.
• Yang Jian returned to his room while the wind strengthened outside and the white lanterns swayed among unseen shadows.

Yang Jian deduced that the old house’s supernatural events followed a seven-day funeral sequence and stopped the first night’s funeral wailing by placing the old man’s corpse in the Red Coffin. He returned to find a black Grand Tutor Chair had moved closer, suggesting the ghosts were steadily advancing through the house.

• Yang Jian connected the old house’s wind and eerie cries to funeral wailing and concluded that the first day’s encoffining had to be completed.
• Yang Jian used his ghost shadow to lift the abnormally heavy old man’s corpse and place it in the Red Coffin.
• The funeral wailing stopped after Yang Jian laid the corpse in the coffin, confirming his deduction that encoffining suppressed the first day’s supernatural phenomenon.
• Yang Jian warned two Ghost Tamers not to touch anything and reasoned that the old house’s funeral rites would continue in order over seven days.
• Yang Jian found a black Grand Tutor Chair much closer in the corridor and concluded that a ghost was pushing past the house’s defenses.

Yang Jian and the others debated what funeral rites the second day required after the old house stayed relatively safe during daylight. As night brought renewed and earlier supernatural disturbances, Yang Jian and Yang Xiaohua remained in their room while the second day approached.

• Yang Jian and the others concluded that placing the old man in the coffin had curbed the first night's supernatural phenomena and discussed which funeral rites might be required next.
• Fan Xing, Zhou Deng, Old Eagle, and Wang Feng argued over whether the second day involved mourning, keeping vigil, or paying respects, while Yang Jian warned against testing guesses carelessly.
• Zhou Deng slipped away toward the rear hall to explore despite Yang Jian's warning not to disturb the old house's arranged Supernatural Items.
• Night fell, and cold wind, crying, grinding noises, scraping chairs, and splashing sounds returned inside the old house.
• Yang Jian stayed in his room with Yang Xiaohua as the disturbances gathered in the corridor, beginning earlier than the previous night with thirty minutes left before the second day.

Fan Xing and five Ghost Tamers entered a neighboring room to investigate a strange radio, triggering a curse that brought a black Grand Tutor Chair and darkness into the old house. As the second day began, Yang Jian concluded that the vigil task might require staying by the coffin, while the group faced the possibility that the house would soon be overrun.

• Fan Xing led five Ghost Tamers into the neighboring room to investigate a radio that might be a Supernatural Item.
• The radio lured one Ghost Tamer into answering, then revealed itself as a medium for a curse and summoned a black Grand Tutor Chair pushed by bloody hands.
• Fan Xing and the others fled toward the main hall as darkness swallowed their corridor, while Yang Jian noticed the ghost drawing closer on his side too.
• Yang Jian left his room and joined the group in the main hall as midnight marked the start of the second day.
• Yang Jian proposed that keeping vigil meant staying near the coffin, but warned that the task might instead require moving it into the main hall and opening it.
• Darkness spread through the old house, leaving the main hall and courtyard as the only clearly visible places.

As supernatural phenomena invaded the old house on the second day, Yang Jian led everyone to keep vigil beside the Red Coffin, the only place untouched by darkness. An old radio then reached the rear hall, caught a signal, and spoke as if it had found them.

• Yang Jian led everyone to the rear hall as darkness and ghostly traces spread through the old house.
• The group noticed that one incense stick was missing and realized Zhou Deng had disappeared, then found the back door and a path that could carry the coffin toward the forest.
• The main hall fell into darkness, and strange noises, crashing furniture, and fast bare footsteps sounded from within.
• An old radio's static approached from the front entrance, while the group concealed that one Ghost Tamer had triggered a radio-related curse.
• The radio reached the doorway, caught a signal, and said, "Y-you're in there, aren't you? Heh, hehehe."

Yang Jian and the other Ghost Tamers prepared to defend the rear hall after supernatural phenomena breached its boundary. They drove back one ghost, but another presence appeared in the darkness, and Yang Jian struck at its medium.

• Fan Xing used a strange roar to shatter an old radio, but an identical radio appeared and repeated a threat against the group.
• Yang Jian urged everyone to abandon hope of safety and fight together, then took up position in the corridor as the others guarded the hallways.
• A ghost’s voice seemed to guide other ghosts toward them, and a pale, wet leg emerged from the darkness.
• Old Eagle fired his unusual gun, forcing the ghostly leg to withdraw; Yang Jian suspected the incense or coffin had helped repel it.
• Yang Jian sensed a blurry figure through his ghostly shadow and struck its medium with a firewood axe, drawing a piercing scream from the main hall.

Yang Jian drove back the ghost invading the ancient house, then confronted Fan Xing and the other messengers over attracting danger to the group. Outside, Zhou Deng explored a forest road and accidentally awakened a woman buried in a grave, who headed toward the ancient house.

• Yang Jian struck the invading ghost with his hatchet, forcing the darkness to retreat, and warned the messengers that the threat had only been driven back temporarily.
• Yang Jian accused Fan Xing and his companions of drawing ghosts toward the rear hall, then ordered them not to retreat during future crises.
• Zhou Deng stole a stick of incense and a white lantern before following a strange yellow-earth road into the old forest.
• Zhou Deng explored a clearing of graves, left the incense on a beautiful woman's grave, and returned without taking its offerings.
• The incense burned into the grave, the tomb collapsed, and a woman in a red qipao emerged and walked toward the ancient house.

Yang Jian and the others discussed the old residence’s funeral rituals while guarding the Red Coffin, but Zhou Deng’s return with a white lantern revealed that he had announced the old man’s death to the ghosts. The old residence’s defenses then failed, leaving the rear hall under supernatural attack ahead of schedule.

• Wang Feng explained that the funeral’s third day should involve announcing the death, while the fourth day would be for people to pay their respects.
• Zhou Deng returned carrying a white lantern and yellow mud, and the group found supernatural footprints around the back door.
• Yang Jian concluded that the footprints came from a ghost that had followed Zhou Deng, but he chose not to investigate further.
• The darkness returned around four in the morning, and Li Yang and the others struggled to keep the back door shut against an unseen force.
• When the radio announced that someone had died, Yang Jian realized Zhou Deng’s lantern had told the ghosts the old man was dead.
• The incense stopped protecting the Red Coffin, and the darkness and ghosts reached the rear hall as the back door gave way.

After the premature mourning announcement brought the third day’s ghosts into the old residence, Yang Jian sent Li Yang to retrieve the lantern while the others guarded the coffin. Li Yang crossed the main hall and courtyard with Yang Jian’s ghost shadow and a ghost candle, but the lantern’s recovery remained uncertain.

• Yang Jian decided to correct the disrupted timing by carrying out the third day’s mourning announcement and enduring the second night’s ghosts until midnight.
• Yang Jian sent Li Yang through the main hall to retrieve the lantern, giving him a scarred doll and the last ghost candle.
• A Ghost Tamer began vomiting blood as a fierce ghost eroded him, and Li Yang set off along Yang Jian’s ghost shadow.
• When the shadow reached its limit, Li Yang lit the ghost candle, which burned rapidly after shielding him from a ghost’s attack.
• Li Yang hurried through the main hall and courtyard toward the front yard, briefly glimpsing a hunched old man carrying a bamboo basket.

Yang Jian dealt with a Ghost Tamer whose body had been invaded by a ghost, while Wang Feng used his Ghost Dice to hold back the ghosts entering through the back door. The chapter left Yang Jian fighting a pale corpse ghost after chopping it in two with the firewood axe, though the axe’s curse also split him at the waist.

• Yang Jian stabbed the blood-vomiting Ghost Tamer with the Coffin Nail, killing him, then threw his corpse out through the back door.
• Old Eagle fired at a blurry figure in the corridor, while Wang Feng began a Ghost Dice game to stop the ghosts at the rear entrance.
• Wang Feng won the first dice round and pushed the black shoes outside back several meters, but a second ghost joined the game and the next round ended in a draw.
• Yang Jian told Fan Xing and the others to take turns replacing the messengers playing against the back-door ghosts.
• Yang Jian used the Ghost Shadow to spot a pale, emaciated corpse ghost in the main hall and chopped it in two with the firewood axe, but the curse split him at the waist as well.

Li Yang retrieved the white lantern and realized he needed to lure the ghosts away from the old house, while the survivors in the rear hall struggled to hold back the invasion. After Wang Feng and two other Ghost Tamers died in the dice game, Yang Xiaohua nearly fell through a supernatural gap in the wall, but Yang Jian and her red balloon caught her.

• Li Yang opened the main gate with his red ghost candle, removed the white lantern, and recognized that he needed to lead the ghosts away from the old house.
• Wang Feng lost the dice game and died, but another Ghost Tamer took his place and temporarily forced the ghost back.
• The replacement Ghost Tamer lost his next round and died, so Old Eagle took over the dice game as the ghosts continued pressing toward the rear hall.
• A radio in the main hall taunted the survivors as Fan Xing grew desperate and Yang Jian continued guarding the Red Coffin.
• Yang Xiaohua stepped through a gap that had appeared in the rear-hall wall, but Yang Jian's ghost hands and her red balloon lifted her to safety.

Yang Jian used the Music Box Curse to keep Old Eagle alive after he lost the dice game, then left the Red Coffin’s protection to attack the ghost whose Ghost Domain was swallowing the old residence. He dismembered several ghosts and found the source of the domain, striking it as a crack of light opened in the darkness.

• Yang Jian freed Yang Xiaohua from the red balloon and warned everyone to stay near the Red Coffin as the Ghost Domain spread through the rear hall.
• Yang Jian played a piano simulator to release the Music Box Curse on Old Eagle, allowing Old Eagle to survive losing the dice game and continue playing.
• Yang Jian asked Da Qiang to hold back the advancing Ghost Domain for ten seconds while he rushed into the main hall to attack its source.
• Da Qiang used his Ghost Domain to protect the others around the Red Coffin as Yang Jian entered the main hall and revealed the ghosts’ mediums with his ghost shadow.
• Yang Jian used the hatchet to sever the mediums of several ghosts, endured the resulting curses, and restarted his shattered body with the Ghost Eye.
• Yang Jian found and dismembered the ghost behind the old residence’s Ghost Domain, and a bright crack appeared in the darkness.

Yang Jian used the firewood axe to dismember the ghost sustaining the ancient house’s Ghost Domain, temporarily ending the attack and buying time for everyone. The group survived the second day, while Yang Jian rested in the main hall and warned that the fourth day remained uncertain.

• Yang Jian dismembered several ghosts and struck the source of the Ghost Domain again, despite the axe’s curse damaging his body and forcing him to restart twice.
• Yang Jian noticed the strange old woman from the bus among the ghost mediums, but ignored her and continued attacking the source ghost.
• Li Yang returned with the white lantern, and the supernatural phenomena in the rear hall disappeared as he left to draw away the outside ghosts.
• Yang Xiaohua found Yang Jian in the main hall, where he said the third day’s mourning announcement had begun early and that the immediate danger had been stabilized.
• Yang Xiaohua told the others that Yang Jian was alive and the crisis had passed; the old house stayed calm for hours, and the survivors rested and recovered.

After surviving the second-day vigil, Yang Jian and the remaining Ghost Tamers prepared for the third day’s death announcement. He decided they should leave the old house together, trusting Li Yang’s judgment that the white lantern could keep the ghosts at bay.

• Yang Jian recovered from the hatchet’s curse while the others rested, and he told Yang Xiaohua that following the old house’s rules might let them survive the remaining days.
• At midnight, the third day began without anything unusual happening inside the old house.
• Yang Jian checked the Red Coffin and found it undisturbed, while the incense sticks had gone out.
• Li Yang advised leaving the old house for the death announcement, and Yang Jian agreed after considering the risks to the coffin and the delivery task.
• The survivors gathered outside, and Yang Jian took the white lantern from Li Yang and led the group.

Yang Jian and the others used the third day’s safe death-announcement route to investigate beyond the old house and prepare for the coming funeral days. They found signs linking Liu Qingqing to a collapsed grave and debated how much grave rice to take for a possible ghost banquet on the fifth day.

• Yang Jian and the others discussed whether the fourth day would require paying respects, mourning, or wearing mourning clothes to survive.
• During the death announcement, Yang Jian led the group farther from the old house and found old graves and a recently collapsed grave along the yellow dirt path.
• Yang Jian identified a high-heel print leading toward the old house, and he and Li Yang speculated that a ghost connected to Liu Qingqing might be seeking her.
• Old Eagle noticed bowls of white rice before the graves and proposed that the fifth day would involve a ghost banquet.
• After debating the risks of taking rice early, Yang Jian chose to take the bowl from the collapsed grave, while the group considered how many bowls they might need.

Yang Jian and the others exchanged three incense sticks for three bowls of white rice, preparing for the fifth-day ghost banquet while continuing to investigate the grounds. In the old forest, they found Zhou Deng buried beneath yellow paper; after Yang Jian removed it, Zhou Deng awoke and said something had taken his lantern.

• Yang Jian found a burned incense stick in the collapsed grave and inferred that incense could be exchanged for white rice.
• Li Yang explained that Zhou Deng had disrupted the proper order of events, so Yang Jian retrieved the remaining incense sticks from the rear hall.
• Yang Jian and the others planted the two incense sticks on graves and took the remaining two bowls of rice, completing the exchange of three sticks for three bowls.
• Yang Jian led the group into the old forest, where they found the paranormal bus gone and discovered a pale hand protruding from the soil.
• Yang Jian pulled Zhou Deng's body from the ground and tore away the yellow paper on his face, revealing that Zhou Deng was alive beneath a human-skin mask.
• Zhou Deng told Yang Jian that something had taken his lantern and asked to leave the forest before explaining what had happened.

Zhou Deng recounted how he survived the ghost forest, where a female ghost recognized him and took his lantern, and the group speculated that she may have deliberately left him where they could find him. With the fourth day of the Condolence Day approaching, Yang Jian led everyone into the forest to search for white clothes that might protect them.

• The group found Zhou Deng buried beside the road and returned with him to the old house, where he explained that the forest was a vast Ghost Domain filled with ghosts.
• Zhou Deng said he used a human-skin mask to blend in with the ghosts, but a woman resembling the figure on the second grave's tombstone recognized him and chased him until he used yellow paper to play dead.
• Yang Jian and the others discussed whether the female ghost had deliberately left Zhou Deng near the road, and they decided to wait for a possible appearance on the Condolence Day.
• Yang Jian ordered Zhou Deng to follow his instructions and directed the group to prepare for the fourth day, with only six hours left before midnight.
• After Zhou Deng revealed that some corpses buried beneath the forest trees wore white clothes, Yang Jian led the group to dig near the forest's edge in search of mourning clothes.

Yang Jian and the others searched beneath the old trees for mourning clothes, but their digging triggered supernatural changes in the forest. As the fourth day's condolence visit began, they retreated into the old house, where the lantern went out and ghosts forced their way inside.

• Yang Jian's group dug beneath the trees and found only four sets of mourning clothes among numerous disturbing corpses, including a shrouded skeleton and a breathing infant.
• With too few mourning clothes for the eight people, Old Eagle and Zhou Deng gave up their claims as night fell and the trees they had dug beneath began collapsing.
• The infant began crying, so Yang Jian led everyone back into the old house before midnight and distributed the mourning clothes, while Zhou Deng gave Yang Xiaohua yellow paper.
• At midnight, a cold wind extinguished Yang Jian's lantern, and ghosts forced open the old house's doors and rushed inside.

On Condolence Day, Yang Jian used the coffin nail to pin down the infant ghost that appeared on an unfamiliar Ghost Tamer, but eerie cries and a flood of black-clad ghosts invaded the old residence. As the group fled toward the red coffin in the rear hall, Zhou Deng, Old Eagle, and Yang Xiaohua relied on their own supernatural protections while the unfamiliar Ghost Tamer remained behind.

• The unfamiliar Ghost Tamer objected to being denied mourning clothes and considered taking them from the others, but Yang Jian refused to give him a yellow sheet of paper.
• The infant ghost from beneath the tree appeared behind the unfamiliar Ghost Tamer, and Yang Jian used his sixth-layer Ghost Domain and coffin nail to pin it to the wall.
• Although the infant ghost was pinned, its cries continued as paper figures and countless black-clad ghosts began entering the old residence.
• Yang Jian ordered everyone to retreat to the red coffin in the rear hall, while Zhou Deng put on the human-skin mask and Old Eagle sat down to endure the ghosts with the music box's curse.
• Yang Xiaohua floated silently, the others headed for the coffin, and the unfamiliar Ghost Tamer remained standing where he was.

On Condolence Day, Yang Jian and the others carried the Red Coffin into the main hall and opened it, releasing the old man's supernatural power and halting most of the ghosts. The uneasy balance left some ghosts still moving, including a vivid figure in crimson.

• Yang Jian and the others discovered that the back door had shut as ghosts flooded the old house and pressed toward the rear hall.
• Yang Jian decided to carry the Red Coffin into the main hall, and the group found that their mourning clothes concealed them from the ghosts as long as they stayed silent.
• After Da Qiang spoke, several ghosts turned toward the group, revealing that noise could expose them despite the mourning clothes.
• Yang Jian opened the Red Coffin, and the old man's corpse sat upright with a fierce expression as the invading ghosts stopped advancing.
• Yang Jian spotted several figures moving among the halted ghosts, including one wearing a vivid crimson garment.

Yang Jian opened the locked room during the temporary balance of Condolence Day and discovered that it had supplied several red supernatural objects found elsewhere. As he inspected the room, a slender figure’s shadow stretched toward him from the doorway.

• The old man's changed corpse stopped the ghosts’ advance and temporarily restored balance in the old house.
• Yang Jian asked Zhou Deng to watch the situation, borrowed the doll from Li Yang, and crossed the crowded main hall along its wall.
• Yang Jian used the bronze key to unlock the door, fulfilling the Ghost Cabinet’s trade request, then pushed it open despite the red light inside.
• Yang Jian found a bridal chamber missing its canopy bed, Ghost Cabinet, and other furnishings, and realized that many red supernatural items may have come from there.
• A slender figure’s shadow stretched across the floor toward Yang Jian from the doorway.