Recaps

Yang Jian and the others confronted the female corpses emerging from Ghost Lake after suspecting the ghosts had copied Liu San’s abilities. Their first attacks suggested each corpse was an independent vicious ghost, and the group began clearing buildings as the threat escalated.

• Li Jun tested the female corpses with ghost fire, but an invisible supernatural force kept the flames from reaching them.
• Liu San warned that the corpses might each possess the source ghost’s full power, and Yang Jian ordered the team to clear nearby buildings together.
• Li Jun and A Hong entered a building and faced a crowd of female corpses, while Liu San revealed his decayed ghost arms and sent his paper figures to fight.
• Liu San’s power destroyed a female corpse, but it recovered in the pooled water, suggesting it was a real vicious ghost.
• Yang Jian and Feng Quan subdued several female corpses, but Yang Jian’s axe curse affected only one, leading him to suspect each corpse existed independently.

Yang Jian deduced that Ghost Lake invaded people and corpses, turning them into fierce ghosts and copying Ghost Tamers’ abilities, then left Feng Quan to test whether he could use the lake’s power himself. Elsewhere, Cao Yang contained the female corpses in a dangerous human-skin bag, while the other Ghost Tamers continued their efforts.

• Yang Jian and Feng Quan found that female corpses kept appearing despite their attempts to bury or disable them, and Yang Jian concluded that Ghost Lake itself did not exist as a single ghost but invaded its victims.
• Yang Jian reasoned that Ghost Lake copied supernatural abilities from Ghost Tamers, including Liu San’s paper figures, and that this copying had caused the number of fierce ghosts to spiral out of control.
• Feng Quan urged Yang Jian to use the supernatural power he had stolen from Ghost Lake, so Yang Jian gave Feng Quan the Ghost Ring and left to test the power.
• Cao Yang used Ghost Pressing Person to immobilize the female corpses in his building, then swallowed them with a human-skin bag and used a lit white ghost candle to keep the ghosts inside from escaping.
• Cao Yang observed that Li Jun had cleared his building, Feng Quan was still facing the corpses, and Liu San was using paper figures to try to absorb one.

Li Jun and Liu San struggled against female corpses that kept emerging from the water, while Yang Jian discovered that Ghost Lake could create waterborne vicious ghosts from the dead. He revived 1,200 people and sent them into his river to create an army that could help him fight Ghost Lake.

• Li Jun and A Hong found that female corpses had returned after being trapped in Ping An Building, and Li Jun prepared to fight them again.
• Liu San contained thirty female corpses in paper figures, but more emerged from the water and surrounded him.
• Yang Jian created a new river domain outside Zhongzhou City and revived Wang Shan to test how Ghost Lake's power worked.
• Yang Jian drowned Wang Shan in the river, then summoned him back as a waterborne vicious ghost and realized the female corpses were formed from Ghost Lake water.
• Yang Jian used the Liar Ghost's necklace and Ghost Shadow to create 1,200 people who had died in Dachuan City, then sent them into the river to become more waterborne vicious ghosts.

Yang Jian used power stolen from Ghost Lake to create male corpses that fought the endless female corpses overwhelming the other Ghost Tamers. The tide turned in their favor, and Cao Yang, Liu San, Feng Quan, Li Jun, and A Hong realized Yang Jian was behind the rescue.

• Yang Jian watched the resurrected people sink into the river, then saw them reappear as red-eyed male ghosts and sent them toward Ghost Lake.
• Cao Yang, Liu San, Feng Quan, Li Jun, and A Hong struggled against the ever-growing female corpses, and Liu San retreated while the others neared their limits.
• Li Jun and A Hong prepared to flee when the female corpses suddenly stopped and began getting dragged away by male ghosts.
• Yang Jian appeared and explained that he had stolen some of Ghost Lake's power to create enough male ghosts to fight its female corpses.
• Feng Quan, Liu San, and Cao Yang recognized Yang Jian's intervention as the male ghosts began turning the fight around.

Yang Jian and the other captains debated how to contain Ghost Lake after his male corpses temporarily countered its female corpses. When the female corpses stopped appearing, a woman emerged on the wooden boat, revealing a new and terrifying threat.

• Yang Jian explained that he might use the supernatural pendulum clock in Dadong City to disrupt time and send Ghost Lake out of the real world, though the plan required a restart.
• Liu San urged the group to abandon the area, while Cao Yang proposed sealing Ghost Lake and Feng Quan offered to encircle it with Grave Soil if he could prevent his ghost from reviving.
• The male corpses continued fighting the female corpses until no new female corpses appeared, leaving Yang Jian wary of an unknown change in Ghost Lake.
• A muffled sob came from the wooden boat, where Yang Jian saw a woman in white combing her wet hair with a blood-red wooden comb; the group recognized her as Ghost Lake's source.

Yang Jian and the other captains faced a sobbing woman who appeared on Ghost Lake’s boat, but the curse began eroding them before they could confront her. They withdrew to a highway service station, where Liu San, Li Jun, and Yang Jian were still struggling against the supernatural effects.

• A strange woman appeared on a wooden boat on Ghost Lake, and Liu San’s attempt to foresee her next move failed.
• Liu San began walking toward the woman without awareness, then discovered wet black hair and a female corpse’s skin as the curse eroded him.
• Yang Jian recognized that the curse was making female corpses overlap with Liu San, Li Jun, and himself, and concluded they had to retreat.
• Feng Quan used Ghost Mist to take the group out of Ghost Lake’s range.
• At a deserted highway service station, Liu San vomited lake water and looked like a female corpse, Li Jun’s body filled with water, and Yang Jian struggled to control his body.

Yang Jian and his companions retreated from the ghost lake after its curse began eroding them. Yang Jian escaped the curse by replacing his body, then used the Ghost Scissors to restore Liu San’s consciousness, though the ghost lake remained unresolved.

• Yang Jian, Li Jun, and Liu San found the ghost lake’s curse worsening and retreated before confronting its source.
• Yang Jian abandoned his cursed body and used the ghost necklace to create a new one, leaving his old body to turn into a female corpse.
• Yang Jian pinned the transformed corpse with a coffin nail, and Cao Yang realized female corpses could be killed away from the ghost lake.
• Yang Jian cut the curse on Liu San three times with the Ghost Scissors, restoring his consciousness but becoming contaminated by another curse.
• Liu San thanked Yang Jian, and the group concluded that the ghost lake could grow stronger by stealing supernatural abilities from Ghost Tamers.

After the Ghost Lake operation left the captains exhausted, Yang Jian rested at a service station and discovered that Ghost Lake’s power was eroding his body. He then found that the Wishing Ghost and the Ghost Cabinet were locked in a supernatural deadlock, while Headquarters concluded that the Ghost Lake Incident could not be resolved.

• Yang Jian and the other captains agreed to suspend the operation, rest, and check whether Ghost Lake’s spread had been contained.
• Li Jun agreed to report the incident to Headquarters while the others went to rest at the service station.
• Yang Jian vomited blood as Ghost Lake’s power eroded him, though he sensed that it was calming Ghost Eye’s revival.
• Yang Jian discovered a curse linking the Ghost Cabinet and the Wishing Ghost, which appeared to be keeping both from targeting him or Zhao Xiaoya.
• Cao Yanhua reviewed the report from Li Jun and concluded that the Ghost Lake Incident had no solution.

Cao Yanhua authorized the Ghost Lake team to abandon the operation if necessary, while the one-eyed old man and his companions attempted to resurrect a young woman in Taiping Ancient Town. Liu San returned to the flooded ancestral hall to settle his blood debt with the old man, who revealed his identity as He Liansheng, the Soul Summoner, and summoned spirits to confront him.

• Cao Yanhua told Li Jun’s team to decide how to handle the Ghost Lake and to seal off the area if they could not resolve it, while Headquarters investigated Shen Lin’s disappearance and monitored Ye Zhen and Wang Chaling.
• At the service station, Li Jun told A Hong that Headquarters could send no more captains, and he continued analyzing the Ghost Lake while Yang Jian stayed awake and Cao Yang rested.
• The one-eyed old man, Boss Liu, and the Faceless Man placed a young woman’s corpse in a Red Coffin and used an incense stick and written paper in an attempt to bring her back to life.
• Liu San returned alone to the ancestral hall, revealed the old corpse concealed inside his paper effigy body, and declared that he would kill the one-eyed old man or die trying.
• The one-eyed old man shut the ancestral hall doors, summoned spirits from the memorial tablets, and introduced himself to Liu San as He Liansheng, the Soul Summoner.

He Liansheng summoned the dead to defend the ancestral hall, but Liu San's many paper effigies overwhelmed him and killed him. After Liu San fled, the Red Coffin opened and a young woman awakened, apparently resurrected.

• He Liansheng summoned the spirits of Taiping Ancient Town's dead and attacked Liu San, but Liu San's ancient corpse resisted his supernatural powers.
• He Liansheng's summoned spirits immobilized Liu San, tore off his face, and burned him, but the destroyed body proved to be only one of many paper effigies.
• More than a dozen Liu San paper effigies surrounded He Liansheng and used their ancient corpses' power to kill him.
• Liu San confirmed He Liansheng was dead and fled before the dead man's fierce ghost could revive.
• Boss Liu found He Liansheng's headless body and questioned why he had not summoned the most important souls.
• The Red Coffin's spirit tablet shattered, its lid opened, and a young female corpse sat up as the Faceless Man sensed her resurrection.

After He Liansheng died, his final summoning revealed the secrets of the Soul Summoner’s inheritance and entrusted the role to He Yin'er. He Yin'er became the fourth Soul Summoner and left Taiping Town with Boss Liu and the Faceless Man to rebuild it in Dayuan City.

• He Yin'er learned that He Liansheng had died, then saw his headless corpse in the ancestral hall and grieved for her grandfather.
• He Liansheng appeared through the Soul Summoning Incense and told He Yin'er how to inherit his power, warned her not to seek revenge, and entrusted the spirit tablets to her.
• After He Liansheng's summoning ended, He Yin'er replaced her eye with his ghostly eyeball and completed the inheritance, becoming the fourth Soul Summoner.
• He Yin'er announced that she would rebuild Taiping Town in Dayuan City, where she had served as a captain at Headquarters.
• He Yin'er, Boss Liu, and the Faceless Man gathered the spirit tablets and important items, while He Liansheng's body remained in Taiping Ancient Town for burial.

Yang Jian inspected the aftermath of containing Ghost Lake and argued that the team should stop short of confronting the ghost inside it. Headquarters approved his lockdown plan, and the group agreed to monitor Ghost Lake for three days before leaving.

• Yang Jian surveyed the altered terrain, confirmed Ghost Lake's spread had been contained, and discovered that ghosts which escaped the lake had vanished from the region.
• Yang Jian returned to the service station and told Li Jun and the others that the escaped ghosts could cause future incidents, while Cao Yang reported that Captain Yinzi was online again.
• Liu San proposed using the supernatural camera against the ghost on Ghost Lake's wooden boat, but Yang Jian argued that a direct fight risked undoing the containment and releasing dormant ghosts.
• Li Jun contacted Headquarters, and Cao Yanhua approved Yang Jian's plan to leave Ghost Lake contained as long as its influence did not spread outward.
• Yang Jian, Cao Yang, and Liu San accepted the plan, while Li Jun required the group to monitor Ghost Lake for three days before they left.

Yang Jian and the other captains investigated a strange county town that appeared near Ghost Lake, where the lake’s supernatural influence seemed to be receding. They found an empty opera stage that Yang Jian recognized as dangerous, and he ordered everyone to leave it alone as the town began to disappear.

• After Liu San reported an unfamiliar county town, Yang Jian confirmed it had no counterpart in the real world and agreed to investigate with the other captains.
• The group found Ghost Lake water covering the county town, and Yang Jian observed that the town’s supernatural force was affecting the Ghost Lake power inside him.
• As the water vanished, the county town began to blur, and Liu San sensed that hidden things were about to emerge.
• The captains followed strange sounds to an empty opera stage with white hanging cloth and rows of red benches, which reminded Yang Jian of supernatural objects he had encountered before.
• Yang Jian warned the others that an unseen ghost might be present near the stage and decided they should record the discovery rather than risk triggering a taboo.

Yang Jian withdrew from the vanishing county, while Li Jun tested the supernatural opera stage and the red benches despite warnings from the others. After the group escaped, Yang Jian made clear he would not help with incidents beyond Ghost Lake and planned to return to Dachang City if the blockade remained stable.

• Yang Jian chose to leave the county, and Cao Yang and Liu San agreed to document it as a level X incident called Weird County.
• Li Jun set the county ablaze with ghost fire, revealing that the opera stage resisted the flames while supernatural corpses burned away.
• Li Jun touched a red bench and found a child-sized, blood-red handprint on his palm, confirming that invisible ghosts occupied the benches.
• Li Jun stepped onto the stage, causing its sounds to stop, the ghost fire to die, and many benches to shift as though their unseen occupants had stood up.
• Cao Yang pulled Li Jun away, and Feng Quan used his Ghost Domain to help the group retreat beyond the county.
• Yang Jian warned the others that he would not intervene in incidents unrelated to Ghost Lake and said he would return to Dachang City if the blockade held through the next day.

After the Ghost Lake operation, Yang Jian parted from the other captains and visited Sun Rui at Hell Apartment to consult Yang Xiao about the Ghost Dream dog haunting his nightmares. Yang Xiao advised him to meet the dog in the dream, and Yang Jian prepared to do so with Yang Xiao's help.

• Yang Jian and the other captains confirmed that Ghost Lake had been contained, thanked him for his help, and agreed to share information about dangerous places linked to the Republican Era.
• Yang Jian left for Dahan City instead of returning to Dachang City, seeking Sun Rui at Hell Apartment.
• Sun Rui showed Yang Jian an oil painting through which he entered the painting world and met Yang Xiao.
• Yang Jian told Yang Xiao about Ghost Dream and the vicious dog in his memories, and Yang Xiao advised him to enter the dream and meet the dog.
• Yang Xiao offered to help if anything went wrong, and Yang Jian decided to contact the dog inside Ghost Post Office.

Yang Jian entered the dream world to find and subdue the vicious dog that haunted his memories. As he cautiously approached it in the forest, water began spreading from his sleeping body in the apartment lobby, where Sun Rui kept watch.

• Yang Jian prepared to sleep in the former Ghost Post Office, asking Sun Rui to watch him and placing his hands into Yang Xiao's oil painting.
• A supernatural force pulled Yang Jian into sleep, and he awoke in a dream without his ghost hand.
• Yang Jian entered the seemingly endless forest near his hometown and found a vicious black dog inside an old cabin.
• The dog did not attack at once, but grew restless when Yang Jian approached, so he stopped to assess whether it could mistake him for his father.
• Sun Rui noticed water pooling around Yang Jian's sleeping body and realized it was coming from him.

Yang Jian tried to tame the vicious dog in his dream, but the supernatural bracelet mark on his wrist made it attack him. As the dog mauled him, Yang Xiao appeared in the old woods and drew its attention.

• Sun Rui watched the supernatural water rise through the apartment while Yang Jian remained asleep in his chair.
• Yang Jian approached the vicious dog and gradually calmed it, building its trust in the dream.
• The vicious dog sniffed Yang Jian’s wrist, recognized the black birthmark left by Sister Hong’s bracelet, and turned aggressive.
• The dog lunged at Yang Jian, knocked him down, and mauled him.
• Yang Xiao appeared on a path near the old woods, and the vicious dog stopped biting Yang Jian to look toward him.

Yang Jian and Yang Xiao worked to make the vicious dog in the nightmare mistake Yang Jian for its master, while the dream’s supernatural effects spread through Hell Apartment. Yang Jian woke after three hours, and the dog emerged from the lobby water into reality.

• The vicious dog attacked Yang Jian until Yang Xiao arrived and calmed it, revealing its loyalty to Yang Xiao’s father.
• Yang Xiao showed that the dog could misidentify its master and guided Yang Jian to approach and touch it without provoking an attack.
• Yang Xiao withdrew from the dream, causing the dog to mistake Yang Jian for him and giving Yang Jian a chance to become its new master.
• As Yang Jian slept, water flooded Hell Apartment, its lights failed, and the Ghost Post Office building began to emerge beneath the walls.
• After three hours, Yang Jian woke from the nightmare as the reflected black wolfhound leaped out of the pooled water into reality.

Yang Jian woke from his nightmare after gaining control of the vicious dog that had haunted his dreams, and the supernatural water flooding the apartment began to recede. He left to deal with other curses, while Sun Rui promised to investigate Zhang Xianguang further.

• Sun Rui watched as the vicious dog leaped from its reflection into the flooded lobby, then called to Yang Jian when he woke.
• Yang Jian confirmed that the nightmare was over and showed Sun Rui that the vicious dog now regarded him as its master.
• Yang Jian explained that the dog would not attack without his permission, and the stagnant water and supernatural interference gradually disappeared.
• Yang Jian said he had to leave to deal with other curses, then returned Yang Xiao's oil painting to the wall.
• Sun Rui told Yang Jian that he had made progress investigating Zhang Xianguang, and Yang Jian said he would await the news before leaving the apartment.

Yang Jian returned to Dachang City and used Ghost Lake’s water to suppress its supernatural influence before visiting his family. He learned that his cousin had vanished, then settled back into his routine and began documenting the Ghost Lake Incident.

• Yang Jian walked across Dachang City’s river, using his supernatural power to drive away uncontrollable phenomena while revealing that the vicious dog could manifest through water.
• Yang Jian returned to Guangjiang Residential Area and found Zhang Fen and Jiang Yan planting vegetables in his yard.
• Zhang Fen told Yang Jian that his cousin had disappeared about half a month earlier, and Yang Jian agreed to ask his friends to investigate.
• Yang Jian asked Zhang Fen about how she and his father had met, then reflected on his father’s time as a Ghost Post Office messenger and his death.
• After lunch, Yang Jian inspected the Supernatural Items and detained ghosts in the safe room, then told Zhang Liqin to record the Ghost Lake Incident.

After returning to Dachang City, Yang Jian learned that Wang Bin and Zhang Xiangui had been lured into losing a fortune at a casino. When the city’s person in charge demanded Shangtong Building as payment, Yang Jian realized the scheme targeted him and decided to face the people behind it himself.

• Yang Jian returned to his company, where Wang Bin and Zhang Xiangui told him they had lost a huge amount of money after a broker named Qian Xin introduced them to an investor and a casino.
• Yang Jian refused to gamble or use force to recover their losses, but called Dachang City’s person in charge, Luo Sheng, to ask him to end the matter.
• Luo Sheng called back and demanded Shangtong Building to settle the debt, revealing that the scheme was aimed at Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian agreed to handle the matter by the book and said he would visit the creditors with his companions to play another round.

Yang Jian decided to investigate the gambling operation that had bankrupted Wang Bin and Zhang Xiangui, suspecting it might be a trap targeting him. He planned to travel to Dachang City with Zhang Wei and Xiong Wenwen, while postponing several growing supernatural threats until he returned.

• Yang Jian rejected the idea of recovering the losses through ordinary gambling and agreed to return to Dachang City to confront the operators, bringing Zhang Wei as a gambling expert and Xiong Wenwen for his precognition.
• Liu Xiaoyu reported that the Black Umbrella Ghost Domain was moving south after its white ghost candle went out, and Yang Jian decided to address it after his trip.
• Liu Xiaoyu told Yang Jian that Tong Qian had returned to ZS City to investigate supernatural phenomena at the Caesar Hotel, and Yang Jian warned him not to act alone.
• Liu Xiaoyu reported that representatives of the island nation's Spirit Extermination Society were waiting at Shangtong Building, but Yang Jian refused to meet them for now.

Yang Jian tested how the Ghost Lake power let him travel through connected water and found that a supernatural dream helped ease the strain on his mind. He set off for Dachang City with Jiang Yan and Xiong Wenwen, while Zhang Liqin stayed behind to care for his mother, and news of his arrival spread through the city's supernatural circle.

• Yang Jian used his home's swimming pool to vanish and confirmed that water areas corroded by the supernatural could connect to Ghost Lake, though he feared it could not be sealed completely.
• Yang Jian dreamed of living as an ordinary person with a black dog beside him, then woke feeling mentally more stable.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Liqin to stay home and look after his mother, then left with Jiang Yan and Xiong Wenwen, carrying a cracked long spear.
• Yang Jian arrived at the Dachang City airport with Jiang Yan and Xiong Wenwen, where Wang Bin, Zhang Xiangui, Zhang Wei, and other executives waited aboard his private jet.
• Yang Jian recognized flight attendant Wang Dong from an earlier flight and ordered the plane to depart for Dachang City.
• News that Ghost Eye Yang Jian was coming spread quickly through Dachang City's supernatural circle.

Yang Jian arrived in Dachang City with Zhang Xiangui, Wang Bin, and the others to investigate a business dispute, while the city’s officials watched him warily. He arranged a dinner at Xin Ji Tea Restaurant with Qian Xin and an investor who had refused to meet, leaving them warned that he would deal with them personally if they failed to attend.

• Yang Jian’s group landed in Dachang City, and Xiong Wenwen argued with Zhang Wei while a hidden observer monitored them at the airport.
• Yang Jian noticed the observer and suspected that Luo Sheng, Dachang City’s person in charge, was avoiding him; Luo Sheng discussed Yang Jian with a suited young man before entering Daxing Entertainment City.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Xiangui to arrange a six o’clock dinner with Qian Xin and the investor at Xin Ji Tea Restaurant, and Manager Ma initially reported that neither could attend.
• Yang Jian gave the two men ten minutes to reconsider, and they agreed to come but asked him to guarantee their safety.
• Yang Jian dismissed their demand and decided that the dinner would be their last meal, while a beastlike growl sounded from the carriage beside him.

Yang Jian investigated several mysterious locations in Dachang City after suspecting that supernatural forces had set a trap for him. He left a locked apartment door unopened but found a restaurant using a Corpse Oil Lamp, leaving its purpose unclear.

• Yang Jian told Jiang Yan to stay at the hotel while he went out to investigate, and she chose to remain by his side.
• Yang Jian forced open a high-level safe house, found valuables and supplies untouched, and left after deciding it posed no threat.
• Yang Jian inspected an old apartment building and noticed a locked eighteenth-floor door with the same kind of brass lock as the one at the old house, but he decided not to open it.
• Yang Jian entered a renovated Republican-era residence operating as a restaurant and recognized the smell of burning corpse oil from a lamp overhead.