Recaps

Yang Jian and Liu Qi followed the vicious dog deeper into the paranormal land, where Yang Jian considered turning back as the Ghost Lake’s water failed to anchor him. They found a strange wooden house containing coffins and traces of the Ghost Child, then saw a light turn on upstairs.

• Yang Jian slowed down and considered retreating because they had gone too deep and the Ghost Lake’s water was disappearing.
• Liu Qi sensed that Wang Shanshan might be ahead, so Yang Jian agreed to search another ten kilometers before turning back.
• After finding no sign of Wang Shanshan, Yang Jian and Liu Qi spotted distant neon lights and approached a wooden house avoided by the dead souls.
• Yang Jian found old coffins inside the house and recognized the Ghost Child’s handprints and footprints on one of them.
• Yang Jian discovered that the tracks led toward a back door that could not be opened from outside, while Liu Qi noticed a light turn on upstairs.

Yang Jian entered a strange wooden building while searching for Wang Shanshan and the ghost child, then found himself in Dachang City three years in the past after opening a door. His restart failed to return him to the building, and his old phone began ringing with Zhang Wei calling.

• Yang Jian left Liu Qi outside the wooden building and climbed its altered staircase, following the ghost child's footprints to a room on the second floor.
• When Yang Jian opened the room's door, a gust of wind erased the building around him and left him in his old rental apartment.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Eye and realized he was in Dachang City three years earlier, while his past self had apparently been replaced by him.
• Yang Jian tried to restart himself to escape, but remained trapped in the rental apartment.
• Yang Jian saw that his old phone was ringing and that Zhang Wei was calling.

Yang Jian searched for Wang Shanshan in the world of three years ago and discovered she had gone missing after going to school. He encountered Zhou Zheng and arranged for him to find Wang Shanshan, while keeping his own origins secret.

• Yang Jian ignored Zhang Wei's call, used his Ghost Eye to reach Wang Shanshan's home, and learned from Wang Haiyan that Wang Shanshan had disappeared.
• Yang Jian suspected Wang Shanshan had also arrived from the future, though the timing of her disappearance puzzled him.
• Zhou Zheng arrived at the residential complex after sensing a terrifying presence, and Yang Jian recognized him as the Dachang City Manager.
• Yang Jian asked Zhou Zheng to find Wang Shanshan and promised to consider joining Headquarters in exchange.
• Yang Jian left using his Ghost Domain, and Zhou Zheng concluded that he had controlled at least two ghosts.

Yang Jian searched for Wang Shanshan and demanded Headquarters help find her before he would negotiate. When Fang Shiming confronted him, Yang Jian overwhelmed the Ghost Tamers and killed him, leaving the consequences of changing the past uncertain.

• Yang Jian inspected the Ghost Mirror and Ghost Cabinet in the abandoned Republican-era house, then searched Dachang City and concluded Wang Shanshan was missing from it.
• Zhou Zheng told Yang Jian that Wang Shanshan had left Dachang City, and Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to reach Headquarters and demand her location before negotiations.
• Yang Jian subdued Jiang Shangbai and sent Lin Long away when they challenged him, prompting Zhao Jianguo to mobilize Headquarters to find Wang Shanshan.
• Fang Shiming arrived with Friends Circle Ghost Tamers and attacked Yang Jian, but Yang Jian endured his ghost's pressure and engulfed the group in ghost fire.
• Yang Jian struck Fang Shiming with his cracked spear, severing his neck and killing him.

Yang Jian killed Fang Shiming, forced Headquarters to find Wang Shanshan, and traveled to Baishui Town to meet her. Wang Shanshan confirmed that the world was not really three years ago and revealed that the human skin paper had led her there.

• Yang Jian beheaded Fang Shiming and extinguished the ghost fire, while Zhao Jianguo distanced Headquarters from the Friends Circle and agreed to find Wang Shanshan.
• Headquarters located Wang Shanshan in Baishui Town, and Yang Jian took the message and left immediately.
• Yang Jian found Wang Shanshan sitting on a balcony, with the ghost child watching from the window behind her.
• Wang Shanshan told Yang Jian that this was not three years ago and said she had learned the truth from the human skin paper that fell from the cracked bell.

Yang Jian learned that the human skin paper had tricked Wang Shanshan into opening a door that brought her to a supernatural world resembling three years ago, and he recovered the paper from her. The paper then predicted that Yang Jian would die in Baishui Town at 6:10 p.m., leaving him facing an imminent threat.

• Wang Shanshan explained that the human skin paper had led her and Ghost Child into Baishui Town so she could discover whether Yang Jian was still alive after his revival.
• Wang Shanshan described how opening a door in a wooden house brought her to a false world resembling three years ago, and how she realized the human skin paper had deceived her.
• Yang Jian warned Wang Shanshan that the human skin paper was dangerous because it could make people act on its information, then took the paper back from her golden box.
• The human skin paper first asked why Yang Jian was still alive, then fell silent as Yang Jian confronted it about its purpose in bringing Wang Shanshan there.
• The human skin paper predicted that Yang Jian would find Ghost Child but die in Baishui Town at 6:10 p.m. that day.

Yang Jian learned that he would die in Baishui Town at 6:10 that evening, even after he and Wang Shanshan returned to Dachang City. He realized they were still trapped in Baishui Town’s supernatural land and had seven hours to escape, but his attempt to use the Ghost Lake connected him to its out-of-control version from three years earlier.

• Yang Jian took Wang Shanshan and the Ghost Child from Baishui Town to Dachang City, hoping to avoid the predicted danger.
• The human skin paper still said Yang Jian would die in Baishui Town at 6:10, and Yang Jian concluded that they had never left its supernatural land.
• Yang Jian explained that the trapped living seemed to have only one day to find a way out, leaving him and Wang Shanshan seven hours before six o’clock.
• Yang Jian tried to use the Ghost Lake to escape, but a female corpse’s arm dragged at him from the water, and he realized he had connected to the out-of-control Ghost Lake of this world.
• Yang Jian abandoned the Ghost Lake as an escape route, leaving him and Wang Shanshan trapped with time running out.

Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan discovered a possible way to lead dead souls back to life and searched for a second human skin paper that might reveal how to escape. Yang Jian found its location in Fang Jing’s memories, leaving the pair with a lead at Fang Jing’s home.

• Wang Shanshan explained that she had sold the Ghost Shroud to buy ghost money and a method for leading dead souls with a braid of hair.
• Yang Jian proposed finding the human skin paper in this world, identifying Fang Jing at Seventh High School as their best lead.
• Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan entered the school and found Fang Jing in class.
• Yang Jian seized Fang Jing and used his ghost shadow to steal his memories, while Wang Shanshan kept Su Lei from interfering.
• Yang Jian learned from Fang Jing’s memories that the human skin paper was at Fang Jing’s home.

Yang Jian retrieved the human skin paper hidden in Fang Jing’s home and used it to learn how several attempts to escape the world from three years ago ended in his death. The paper continued predicting his future, leaving Yang Jian to search for a way to survive before six in the evening.

• Yang Jian left Seventh High School with Wang Shanshan, while Zhang Wei failed to catch up with them.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to enter Fang Jing’s home and found the human skin paper concealed inside an old book on a bookshelf.
• The human skin paper began writing and predicted that Yang Jian would die at the Ghost Post Office after fighting Zhang Xianguang and Luo Wensong.
• The paper then predicted that Old Qin would trap Yang Jian inside Headquarters, where he would die after terrifying supernatural phenomena appeared at six in the evening.
• Yang Jian watched for further predictions, hoping the human skin paper would reveal a way to survive.

Trapped in the world from three years ago, Yang Jian concluded that its people and objects were hostile and had Ghost Child eat the human skin paper to uncover a way out. Ghost Child revealed that Yang Jian had to kill everyone familiar to him before six in the evening, leaving him to face the cruel task of severing his ties to this world.

• Yang Jian suspected that the world’s inhabitants and the second human skin paper were working against him, so he had Ghost Child swallow the paper and absorb its power.
• Yang Jian took Wang Shanshan and Ghost Child to a secluded park, where Ghost Child began writing a message in the sand.
• Zhou Zheng and Zhao Kaiming arrived and accused Yang Jian of killing Fang Jing, while Zhou Zheng attacked him and Zhao Kaiming made a wish to kill him.
• Ghost Child finished writing that Yang Jian had to kill the people familiar to him in his memories before six in the evening to escape the world.
• Yang Jian tore the Ghost Infant from Zhou Zheng’s belly and disabled it with his hatchet, then realized he had to sever every connection binding him to the world.

After killing Zhou Zheng and Zhao Kaiming, Yang Jian tried to escape the supernatural world by making people forget him and Wang Shanshan, while Wang Shanshan helped Ghost Child grow into a Starving Ghost. As Headquarters mobilized powerful Ghost Tamers against Yang Jian, the world began to distort, suggesting his plan was working.

• The Wishing Ghost retreated after Zhao Kaiming died without fulfilling his wish to kill Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian explained to Wang Shanshan that making people forget them could sever their ties to the world, then spread his Ghost Domain across Dachang City to erase memories.
• Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan agreed to act separately, with Wang Shanshan cultivating Ghost Child and Yang Jian targeting people’s memories before the six-hour deadline.
• Wang Shanshan had Ghost Child consume the dismembered Ghost Infant, while Yang Jian erased his classmates’ memories and began targeting other acquaintances.
• Yang Jian noticed the world distorting as his plan took effect, but Headquarters declared him its enemy and ordered Ghost Tamers, including Wang Chaling, Li Lepeng, Li Jun, A Hong, Chen Yi, and Ye Zhen, to converge on Dachang City.

Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to erase memories of himself before Headquarters’ Ghost Tamers arrived in Dachang City to kill him. He burned through the assembled team, killed Liu San and Li Lepeng, and turned his attention to Wang Chaling.

• Yang Jian covered Dachang City with his Ghost Domain and erased most residents’ memories of him before extending it toward his hometown.
• Zhao Jianguo led a large group of Headquarters’ Ghost Tamers into Dachang City, where they prepared to surround and kill Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian attacked the airport with pale green ghost fire, killing Guo Fan, Chen Yi, and many other Ghost Tamers.
• Yang Jian appeared before Liu San, pierced him with a cracked spear, and tore off his face with a ghost hand.
• Yang Jian killed Li Lepeng with a firewood axe and coffin nail after Li Lepeng’s attack struck only a Ghost Domain illusion.
• Yang Jian dismissed Li Jun as too weak to stop him and identified Wang Chaling as the main target whose death would end the attack.

Yang Jian annihilated the Headquarters team at the airport, overcoming Wang Chaling’s family ghosts and killing Ye Zhen before reviving from the counterattack. The chapter left Zhao Jianguo and the remaining Ghost Tamers dead, with Yang Jian alive.

• Zhao Jianguo and Wang Chaling realized Yang Jian had killed nearly everyone at the airport, while Li Jun and Zhao Jianguo remained among the few survivors.
• Wang Chaling used his grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother’s ghosts to shield himself from Yang Jian’s sixth-level Ghost Domain and spear attacks.
• Ye Zhen arrived from the sunlight and knocked aside Yang Jian’s spear, rescuing Wang Chaling from a fatal strike.
• Yang Jian attacked Ye Zhen, who used his substitute ghost to transfer the wounds back onto Yang Jian, but Yang Jian destroyed Ye Zhen’s head and consciousness.
• Yang Jian restarted himself after the counterattack shattered his head, then killed the remaining Headquarters Ghost Tamers and survived.

After Headquarters’ operation against Yang Jian failed, he strengthened himself by taking a second Ghost Eye and coffin nail while Ghost Child devoured more ghosts. As Old Qin set out to gather help before confronting Yang Jian, Yang Jian left Dachang City to alter the memories of acquaintances elsewhere.

• Cao Yanhua learned that Headquarters’ Ghost Tamers had been wiped out and went with Shen Liang to ask Old Qin to deal with Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian entered the sealed temple basement, took its Ghost Eye and coffin nail, and expanded his Ghost Domain across Dachang City and nearby towns.
• Ghost Child entered the Ghost Mirror and ate ghosts, then traveled with Wang Shanshan to Huanggang Village and devoured the ghost there while Feng Quan watched from the Black Coffin.
• Old Qin agreed to go to Dachang City, then boarded a supernatural bus to visit old companions before the confrontation.
• After erasing the memories of acquaintances near Dachang City, Yang Jian left to reach his mother, classmates, and relatives in other locations.

Yang Jian weakened the world’s restraints by erasing Zhang Fen’s memories, while Old Qin gathered powerful Republican Era Ghost Tamers to attack him. The second wave began when Old Qin’s bus struck Yang Jian, who realized he could survive by restarting.

• Yang Jian erased acquaintances’ memories while Old Qin drove the supernatural bus to recruit Meng Xiaodong and Luo Qian for an attack.
• Old Qin planned to gather Zhang Dong, Luo Wensong, and the pharmacy owner as well, while Li Qingzhi was presumed dead.
• Yang Jian erased Zhang Fen’s memories and judged the world’s restraints on him weak enough to leave, though Yang Xiaotian still remembered him.
• Yang Jian set out to contact Wang Shanshan, but Old Qin’s bus tore through his Ghost Domain and struck him.
• Old Qin accused Yang Jian of pretending to be dead, and Yang Jian recognized the attack as the second wave and relied on his ability to restart.

Yang Jian used Infinite Restart to escape Old Qin and Graveyard Master Luo Qian, only to discover that Meng Xiaodong could follow him through the past. Surrounded by her growing multitude of past selves, he faced a new threat with no clear way to escape.

• Old Qin used the supernatural bus to knock Yang Jian down, then summoned Graveyard Master Luo Qian to bury him in Grave Soil.
• Yang Jian began a large-scale restart, escaped Luo Qian’s burial, and used his two Ghost Eyes in alternating restarts to evade Old Qin’s pursuit.
• Yang Jian realized his Infinite Restart gave him time to prepare before Old Qin’s attack, but Meng Xiaodong appeared on the rooftop and said he had not run far enough.
• Yang Jian looked downstairs and saw hundreds of Meng Xiaodong’s past selves carrying vegetable baskets, with more appearing as time passed.

Yang Jian chose to confront Meng Xiaodong alone after using Infinite Restart to buy himself half an hour, but her substitute dolls and growing numbers overwhelmed his attacks. As Meng Xiaodong began eroding his body, Yang Jian faced a looming supernatural attack with his remaining options uncertain.

• Yang Jian restarted time repeatedly to reach 2:00, then moved to the suburbs and cleared nearby people to prevent Meng Xiaodong from using them as mediums.
• Meng Xiaodong followed Yang Jian, and his cleaver failed to harm her because she had a basket full of substitute dolls.
• Yang Jian filled his Ghost Domain with ghost fire and ghost hands, but more versions of Meng Xiaodong appeared and the attack failed.
• Yang Jian used a coffin nail to immobilize one Meng Xiaodong, while another pointed out that he had too few nails to stop them all.
• Meng Xiaodong’s numbers grew beyond twenty, and supernatural erosion made Yang Jian’s body blur as another figure appeared before him.

Yang Jian fought Meng Xiaodong, whose dolls and ability to seal the past overwhelmed his Ghost Lake and other defenses. Even after he used a second coffin nail and restarted himself, her touch continued to age and assimilate him as she began replacing his consciousness.

• Meng Xiaodong’s attack erased Yang Jian’s body until he restarted himself and returned unharmed.
• Meng Xiaodong released numerous supernatural dolls that targeted Yang Jian and invaded his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian summoned the Ghost Lake, which dragged the dolls underwater but failed to submerge Meng Xiaodong and her copies.
• Meng Xiaodong’s encircling copies closed in and touched Yang Jian, causing an irreversible supernatural change that persisted through his restart.
• Yang Jian used a second coffin nail to pin one Meng Xiaodong, but another copy declared that he had lost as his body aged and her consciousness began replacing his.

Yang Jian broke through Meng Xiaodong’s blockade of the past by opening the tenth layer of the Ghost Domain and defeated her across the present and past. The Ghost Eye that enabled the power then shattered, leaving him alive but still facing Old Qin at two thirty with his path to survival unresolved.

• Meng Xiaodong’s old women overwhelmed Yang Jian’s restarts by invading and attacking him throughout the past.
• Yang Jian overlapped his Ghost Domains to open the tenth layer, allowing him to seize Meng Xiaodong across time and sever her and her substitute dolls with the firewood axe.
• Yang Jian’s countless overlapping selves overwhelmed Meng Xiaodong’s substitutes and dismembered her versions from the previous three hours, buying him twenty minutes of safety.
• The Ghost Eye that enabled the tenth layer shattered, and Yang Jian realized he could no longer use that power or kill Meng Xiaodong completely.
• Yang Jian saw that it was two ten, took an old woman’s corpse with a rusty coffin nail, and left Ghost Lake as the floating corpses drifted toward him.

Yang Jian prepared to escape the paranormal world by cutting his final connection to it, while strengthening Ghost Child for the attack expected at two thirty. He reached a crowded Japanese city with Ghost Child multiplying among its residents, as the final confrontation approached.

• Yang Jian went to his old home and reunited with Wang Shanshan and Ghost Child, which had arrived early because powerful Ghost Tamers were set to attack.
• Yang Jian let Ghost Child take Meng Xiaodong's corpse to devour her paranormal power, then burned Ghost Dream's corpse and Yang Xiaotian's remaining head to end the dream and sever his final tie to the world.
• As the world began to expel Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan, he sent her to hide in an uninhabited suburb and moved with Ghost Child to find a place for the coming battle.
• Ghost Child wrote that it needed a place with many people, so Yang Jian took it to a densely populated Japanese city.
• At two twenty-five, Ghost Child began erasing residents and appearing in their places, multiplying as Yang Jian prepared to rely on it against Old Qin.

Yang Jian faced Old Qin and four Republican Era Ghost Tamers, but Zhang Dong erased his supernatural powers and left him unable to move. Ghost Child then appeared and shielded him from the attackers, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Yang Jian blocked the supernatural bus’s impact with his spear as Old Qin arrived at 2:30.
• Meng Xiaodong, Luo Qian, and Luo Wensong stepped off the bus to join Old Qin against Yang Jian.
• Zhang Dong emerged as the group’s fourth ally and erased Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain and other supernatural powers, leaving him immobile.
• Luo Wensong and Luo Qian launched their fatal attacks, but Ghost Child appeared, protected Yang Jian, and stopped the Grave Soil from advancing.
• Old Qin recognized Ghost Child as Yang Jian’s final trump card.

Yang Jian's Ghost Child confronted the Republic-era Old Monsters, its multiplying horde overwhelming their defenses and draining their lifespans. Zhang Dong led the others through a path toward Yang Jian, forcing Ghost Child to keep fighting as they tried to kill him quickly.

• Ghost Child carried Yang Jian away while the Republic-era Old Monsters regrouped and Luo Wensong sealed the city with supernatural doors.
• Ghost Child multiplied across the city and attacked the Old Monsters by calling their names, but Zhang Dong silenced the calls near Meng Xiaodong.
• Luo Qian's Grave Soil and Luo Wensong's doors failed to stop most of the Ghost Children, while Zhang Dong erased large numbers of them.
• Luo Wensong suddenly died, and Old Qin reversed the scene so Luo Wensong could reveal that Ghost Child's curse was reducing their lifespans.
• Zhang Dong opened a path toward Yang Jian, and the Old Monsters followed to try to kill him before their lifespans ran out.

Yang Jian waited for the Ghost Children to defeat the Republican-era old men so he could escape the vanishing world. He survived until the world collapsed, but Zhang Dong struck him at the last moment before disappearing.

• The Ghost Children broke free of their restraints and overwhelmed the Republican-era old men as their numbers and supernatural power grew.
• Luo Qian, Meng Xiaodong, and Luo Wensong were swallowed by the Ghost Children, and Old Qin was killed soon after.
• Yang Jian regained his ability to move and waited inside the building as the world disappeared around him.
• At 2:40, Yang Jian saw the world collapse and believed he had survived, but Zhang Dong reached him along a winding path and seized him by the throat.
• Zhang Dong vanished with the world one second later, leaving Yang Jian's fate uncertain.

The illusory world collapsed, leaving Wang Shanshan and the ghost child in the wooden house while Yang Jian’s consciousness remained trapped between illusion and reality. Wang Shanshan and Liu Qi realized the vicious dog might be able to save him, but neither could command it.

• Wang Shanshan returned to the wooden room and found Yang Jian motionless beside the dried corpse, while the ghost child had escaped the illusion with her.
• Wang Shanshan consulted the human skin paper, which said Yang Jian had left this world and would remain trapped forever, with no one able to save him.
• Yang Jian realized Zhang Dong’s final attack had trapped his consciousness and left his supernatural abilities dormant, and he suspected the vicious dog was his only hope.
• Liu Qi entered the wooden house and joined Wang Shanshan in concluding that the vicious dog could save Yang Jian, but neither of them knew how to command it.

Wang Shanshan and Liu Qi worked to bring Yang Jian’s vicious dog back so it could protect him from the consciousness trap. After the dog returned, Yang Jian continued examining the supernatural world holding him, but remained trapped between illusion and reality.

• Wang Shanshan used Yang Jian’s Liar Ghost necklace to flood the room with water and discovered the vicious dog was missing.
• Liu Qi used his blood as a trail to lead the vicious dog toward the wooden house, disturbing a coffin downstairs as he did so.
• The vicious dog entered the room through the pooled water, approached Yang Jian, and vanished back into his consciousness.
• Yang Jian reasoned that the wooden house trapped people in a supernatural past and that escaping required breaking free of its hold.
• A low growl from the vicious dog jolted Yang Jian from his thoughts.