Recaps

Yang Jian remained trapped between reality and illusion while an unseen ghost attacked Liu Qi in the wooden house. Wang Shanshan brought Ghost Child out to help, but it could not reach the ghost, and the human-skin paper offered her a clue about how to see it.

• Yang Jian heard the vicious dog arrive and waited, hoping it could free him from the illusion.
• Liu Qi heard a ghost climb to the second floor, then was trapped on an Eight Immortals table and eaten by unseen heads.
• Liu Qi saw a figure dressed like an elder from the Republican Era, who warned him that it was already too late.
• Wang Shanshan left the room with Ghost Child and found Liu Qi's body being consumed by an invisible ghost.
• Wang Shanshan consulted the human-skin paper, which told her to lie on the ground to see the nearby ghosts.

Wang Shanshan tried to save Liu Qi from the invisible ghosts attacking him inside the wooden house while Yang Jian remained trapped and unconscious. Ghost Child shared the attacks but could not break free, and Wang Shanshan prepared to make it eat the human skin paper before attempting to close the coffin downstairs.

• As Liu Qi suffered increasingly severe bites, he urged Wang Shanshan to return to safety and focus on waking Yang Jian.
• Wang Shanshan ordered Ghost Child to lie down so it could see and attack the ghosts, but it became trapped on an apparent table beside Liu Qi.
• The ghosts divided their attacks between Liu Qi and Ghost Child, and Ghost Child tried to eat them but could not reach them.
• Wang Shanshan read the human skin paper's instruction to go downstairs and close the open coffin, but suspected it was another trap.
• Wang Shanshan decided to have Ghost Child eat the human skin paper before she went downstairs, then picked it up and approached Ghost Child.

Wang Shanshan fed the human skin paper to Ghost Child and went downstairs to close the open coffin, hoping to stop the attacks on Liu Qi and end the supernatural incident. She succeeded in shutting the coffin, but the other coffins and the wooden house began to awaken, and she feared the human skin paper had trapped them all.

• Wang Shanshan fed the human skin paper to Ghost Child and left Liu Qi to put the open coffin lid back in place.
• Liu Qi was attacked again beneath the table and was badly mutilated while Wang Shanshan descended the supernatural staircase.
• Wang Shanshan found a headless corpse feeding inside the open coffin and forced the lid shut, pressing the corpse back down.
• The attacks on Liu Qi stopped, but strange heads rolled downstairs as the coffins in the hall began shaking and the wooden house started to awaken.
• Wang Shanshan realized the human skin paper may have led her into a trap and wondered whether feeding it to Ghost Child had also been part of its plan.

Wang Shanshan tried to stop the human skin paper's plan as the ghosts in the wooden house awakened, but the staircase trapped her and the situation grew worse. Liu Qi's cries reached Yang Jian, who remained trapped between reality and illusion and waited for the evil dog's influence to let him escape.

• Wang Shanshan opened a coffin to unleash its headless corpse, then used the Liar Ghost necklace to rush back toward the second floor.
• Wang Shanshan realized the staircase was a ghostly trap, and she and the descending ghost were both unable to leave it.
• Liu Qi remained pinned to the wooden table with Ghost Child as shadows, corpses, and dead fingers emerged throughout the second floor.
• Liu Qi called for Yang Jian to wake up, warning that the ghosts were about to kill them.
• Yang Jian heard Liu Qi's cries and waited for the evil dog's supernatural influence to reach him so he could escape.

Yang Jian awakened just before the female corpse could strip away his life and supernatural power, then destroyed it with his weapons and ghost fire. He rushed to rescue Liu Qi, the ghost child, and Wang Shanshan and escape the haunted wooden house.

• Yang Jian realized the wooden house and its floor, pillar, windows, and stairs were supernatural traps, while he remained unable to affect reality.
• A revived female corpse emerged from a pillar, attacked Yang Jian, and began transferring its decay and stripping away his Ghost Eye.
• Liu Qi shouted for Yang Jian to wake, and the vicious dog's growl brought Yang Jian's consciousness back as he restarted himself with the seventh level of the Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian hacked the female corpse apart and burned it with ghost fire, forcing the gaunt figure and window reflections to retreat.
• Yang Jian opened the Ghost Eye and hurried out to save Liu Qi, the ghost child, and Wang Shanshan before escaping.

Yang Jian rescued Liu Qi from the wooden house’s supernatural restraint, recovered the human skin paper from Ghost Child, and freed Ghost Child as danger closed in. He led them down a staircase transformed into a Ghost Domain, expecting another fierce ghost to be waiting there.

• Yang Jian used Ghost Scissors to cut the cursed threads binding Liu Qi, allowing him to struggle free despite his severe injuries.
• Liu Qi warned Yang Jian that Wang Shanshan had fed the human skin paper to Ghost Child, and Yang Jian retrieved the undigested paper from Ghost Child’s stomach.
• As ghost fire weakened and the dismembered female corpse reassembled, Yang Jian used Ghost Scissors to free Ghost Child from its restraint.
• Yang Jian carried the human skin paper and led Ghost Child and Liu Qi downstairs, rejecting Liu Qi’s suggestion to escape through a window.
• Yang Jian entered a dark Ghost Domain on the staircase and used ghost fire to illuminate a path down, while remaining alert for a fierce ghost.

Wang Shanshan became trapped on the haunted staircase and nearly died when a vicious ghost pursued her, but Yang Jian woke and rescued her with his ghost fire. He healed Liu Qi with the Liar Ghost necklace and led the group onward, stopping the stair ghost with a coffin nail as they tried to escape the wooden house.

• Wang Shanshan realized she could not escape the staircase Ghost Domain and waited for Yang Jian to wake, while the ghost pursuing Liu Qi remained trapped above.
• An old corpse approached Wang Shanshan, crumbling the stairs behind it; her attempt to influence it with the Liar Ghost necklace failed and cracked the necklace.
• Yang Jian arrived through a path of ghost fire, pulled Wang Shanshan to safety, and reunited her with Liu Qi and the Ghost Child.
• Yang Jian used the Liar Ghost necklace to restore Liu Qi's damaged body, then led the group forward through the stairs.
• Yang Jian pierced the approaching old corpse with a coffin nail, stopping it, though the supernatural influence on the stairs remained.

Yang Jian and his companions crossed a dark Ghost Domain while an unseen presence followed them and a voice pleaded for rescue. They found a way down the forked stairs, but Yang Jian refused to detour for the stranger and promised only to return in three years if they escaped alive.

• Yang Jian released the old corpse after passing it and led Liu Qi and Wang Shanshan through the darkness on a narrow path made by his ghost fire.
• A voice claimed to be a trapped Ghost Tamer and begged for help, but Yang Jian refused to leave the path, suspecting the speaker might be dangerous or a ghost.
• The group reached a fork where both staircases broke underfoot, and Yang Jian realized the stairs' supernatural presence was disrupting his ghost fire.
• The voice revealed that they had to descend the left staircase by stepping only on even-numbered steps, and Liu Qi tested the method successfully.
• Yang Jian promised to return for the trapped speaker in three years if they survived, then led Wang Shanshan and Ghost Child down the even-numbered steps.

Yang Jian and his companions crossed the haunted staircase and found the first floor of the wooden house deceptively calm, with a dangerous Ghost Domain waiting beyond the stairway. Using Liu Qi’s bloodstains to reconnect Ghost Lake to the house, Yang Jian led everyone out safely and realized they had narrowly avoided a hall filled with roaming ghosts.

• Yang Jian used his coffin nail and firewood axe to deal with ghosts blocking the staircase as he led Liu Qi, Wang Shanshan, and Ghost Child downstairs.
• The group reached the first floor, where Yang Jian and Liu Qi realized the calm hall was likely an illusion concealing supernatural danger.
• Yang Jian ordered the vicious dog to use Liu Qi’s bloodstains as a path to carry Ghost Lake’s water back to the wooden house.
• Yang Jian tested the resulting puddle with Ghost Child, then led Wang Shanshan, Liu Qi, and himself through it to a location outside the wooden house.
• Yang Jian expanded the puddle outside the house, while the true first-floor scene revealed more than a dozen ghosts roaming among open coffins.

Yang Jian returned to Baishui Town to rescue survivors as Ghost Rain’s effects weakened and the town descended into chaos. He organized a search and used Ghost Fire to free people trapped in a supernatural steamed bun shop, then continued the rescue operation.

• Yang Jian gathered supplies, left the road of wandering dead with his companions, and returned to Baishui Town through the Ghost Lake.
• Yang Jian and Liu Qi decided to search the town for survivors before using the Ghost Domain to evacuate them, and Yang Jian gave Liu Qi a Ghost Candle and a Substitute Doll.
• Yang Jian summoned a hundred black-suited puppets with the Liar Ghost’s necklace to help find and gather survivors.
• Yang Jian found survivors trapped in a supernatural steamed bun shop and discovered that people who left after eating its buns starved to death.
• Yang Jian used Ghost Fire to burn away the supernatural contamination, allowing most of the trapped survivors to escape alive, then continued searching the town.

Yang Jian rescued the remaining survivors from Baishui Town and used the brief six o’clock weakening of the supernatural restrictions to return them to reality. After arranging their resettlement and warning that the town might become an S-class incident, he left for Dachang City, while Liu Qi stayed to handle Xiao Yang’s funeral.

• Yang Jian reached the last trapped survivors, drove back the pursuing ghost with ghost fire, and carried the injured Bai Mei out of the alley.
• Yang Jian and Liu Qi waited until six o’clock, then used Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain to bring the survivors out of Baishui Town and move them to a resettlement site.
• Yang Jian warned the survivors not to return to Baishui Town and learned from Liu Xiaoyu that the town had been evacuated and sealed off.
• Yang Jian told Feng Quan to go to Ghost Post Office to help Wei Jing and warned the others that Baishui Town could become an S-class supernatural incident.
• Liu Qi stayed behind to arrange Xiao Yang’s funeral, while Yang Jian gave him a corpse and reminded him about the class reunion.
• Bai Mei thanked Yang Jian and learned his name before he departed for Dachang City with Wang Shanshan and Ghost Child.

Yang Jian gave Ghost Child the embroidered shoes and took it to the Quiet supernatural incident so it could consume the ghost there. After Ghost Child multiplied and overwhelmed the incident, Yang Jian saw that its new abilities made it extremely dangerous, and decided to stop its growth for now.

• Yang Jian returned Wang Shanshan safely to Guangjiang Residential Area, then took Ghost Child to his safe room to consider how to strengthen it.
• Yang Jian put a pair of old red embroidered shoes on Ghost Child, giving it eerie mobility and the ability to move through Ghost Domains.
• Yang Jian went with Ghost Child to the sealed county town and used a coffin nail to pin down Quiet's ghost before ordering Ghost Child to eat it.
• Quiet's ghost summoned countless strange little girls, but Ghost Child devoured them and multiplied until the supernatural phenomenon dissipated.
• Yang Jian summoned the new Ghost Children and recognized their layered attacks and protections as a threat capable of killing a captain-level Ghost Tamer, so he decided to halt their growth.

Yang Jian discovered that an armored foreigner was defending Nightmare Castle from his vicious dogs and agreed to a duel after being provoked. He recruited Zhang Xianguang to fight the foreigner, leaving the castle's fate to their confrontation.

• Yang Jian sent Ghost Child back to protect Wang Shanshan, then rested and entered his dream to inspect Nightmare Castle.
• Yang Jian saw an armored foreigner killing vicious dogs and realized he was helping defend the castle against the invasion.
• Yang Jian warned the foreigner that he could bring a large force into the dream, but refused the foreigner's initial duel terms because they favored the defender.
• After the foreigner insulted him and his country, Yang Jian accepted a duel with the castle as the wager.
• Yang Jian went to the schoolhouse, freed Zhang Xianguang to move within the classroom, and asked him to kill the foreigner and take the castle.
• Zhang Xianguang objected to killing an innocent person, but agreed to go after the foreigner when Yang Jian said the man had called their country cowardly.

Yang Jian brought Zhang Xianguang to Nightmare Castle, where foreign forces tried to alter their wagered duel by choosing a new fighter. Zhang Xianguang killed Ron in their first clash, forcing the foreigners to surrender the castle, and Yang Jian prepared to clear it out.

• Yang Jian and Zhang Xianguang discussed He Yuelian, the Peach Blossom Spring Plan, and the foreign forces’ threat as they approached Nightmare Castle.
• Yang Jian found the foreigners had brought in armed fighters and replaced their original duelist with Ron, a heavily built man wielding a greatsword.
• Zhang Xianguang charged Ron and overwhelmed his defensive strike, then cut his neck and killed him.
• Yang Jian declared the duel won and ordered the foreigners to leave Nightmare Castle, and they agreed to withdraw.
• Yang Jian gave the foreigners five minutes to evacuate and planned to enter the castle with Zhang Xianguang after waiting ten minutes.

Yang Jian and Zhang Xianguang entered Nightmare Castle and confronted Kelly, who released the fierce ghost inside the castle’s armor before dying. Yang Jian used the vicious dogs to destroy the armor and claim the castle, then returned Zhang Xianguang to the classroom and left to seek ghost money.

• Yang Jian asked Zhang Xianguang about Baishui Town and learned that the dead souls there could imitate lost relatives, though his revived mother’s imitation lasted only half a year and grew increasingly strange.
• Yang Jian and Zhang Xianguang found Kelly waiting in the castle, and she admitted that her companions had abandoned her.
• Kelly released the fierce ghost housed in the moving armor and let the supernatural source of Nightmare Castle take over, then died as her body disappeared.
• Yang Jian ordered the vicious dogs to attack the armor, and Zhang Xianguang helped by cutting off its sword arm so the dogs could tear it apart.
• Yang Jian returned Zhang Xianguang to the classroom under their agreement, left Zhao Xiaoya there, and took Zhang Xianguang’s advice to seek more ghost money.

After escaping Ghost Dream and taking Nightmare Castle, Yang Jian recorded his experiences and reunited with his mother over breakfast. Zhang Fen asked him to help find his missing cousin and urged him to choose between Zhang Liqin and Jiang Yan, but Yang Jian set aside the marriage question because marrying him could draw them into the dangerous supernatural circle.

• Yang Jian woke after escaping Ghost Dream, told Jiang Yan about his dream, and recorded Baishui Town and the events of the night in his notebook.
• Jiang Yan told Yang Jian that Zhang Fen had returned and had been asking to speak with him, and Yang Jian thanked Jiang Yan for caring for his mother and supporting him.
• At breakfast, Zhang Fen asked Yang Jian about his missing cousin, and he said Headquarters was watching for news but finding her would be difficult.
• Zhang Fen asked Yang Jian to choose between Zhang Liqin and Jiang Yan as his wife, but Yang Jian warned that marriage to him could expose them and their families to the supernatural circle.
• Zhang Fen continued suggesting other possible wives, including Wang Shanshan and Miao Xiaoshan, while Yang Jian listened with a helpless expression.

Yang Jian considered who could serve as a capable, trustworthy wife and picked up Miao Xiaoshan at the airport. He told her she was one of his two candidates, leaving her surprised and delighted as she promised to think about his proposal.

• Yang Jian ruled out Wang Shanshan, Zhang Liqin, and Liu Xiaoyu as potential wives before narrowing his choices to Jiang Yan and Miao Xiaoshan.
• After Miao Xiaoshan arrived in Dachang City, Yang Jian drove to the airport to pick her up and discussed her studies and growing anxiety about the future.
• Yang Jian told Miao Xiaoshan that he was considering her and Jiang Yan as marriage candidates, and she reacted with shock and embarrassment.
• Miao Xiaoshan said she would seriously consider the proposal and give Yang Jian an answer.
• Yang Jian took Miao Xiaoshan to Shangtong Building and warned her not to wander around because people had been dying in Dachang City.

Yang Jian reviewed reports from Dachang City and left the investigation into the disappearances on hold until after midnight, while weighing the danger posed by Zhao Xiaoya’s Wishing Ghost. At the Ghost Post Office, Feng Quan chose to bury himself in the Grave Soil with Wei Jing to investigate his condition, as He Yuelian continued mastering the Ghost Painting.

• Li Yang told Yang Jian that the disappearances in Dachang City were likely unrelated to Zhao Xiaoya, and Yang Jian ordered the investigation and surveillance to continue until after midnight.
• Li Yang reported that Huang Ziya had rescued Wang Shanshan’s grandmother, Feng Quan had reached the Ghost Post Office, and Tong Qian was monitoring the Caesar Hotel situation.
• Feng Quan told Sun Rui that Wei Jing remained motionless beneath the Grave Soil and that the Ghost Messenger buried with him might have fused with his body.
• Yang Jian left the decision to Feng Quan, who chose to enter the Grave Soil and bury himself with Wei Jing to try to communicate with him and restrain the Ghost Messenger.
• Feng Quan sank completely into the grave, while Sun Rui refused He Yuelian’s request to leave the Ghost Post Office until she became more proficient with her supernatural power.

Zhang Wei organized a class reunion and retrieved his supernatural axe to prepare for it, while Yang Jian requisitioned Headquarters' stored ghost money after learning its value. The chapter left Zhang Wei heading out for the gathering and Yang Jian arranging to collect the remaining ghost money.

• Zhang Wei failed to recruit a teenager and a young woman as underlings before A Fei reminded him about the class reunion.
• Zhang Wei confirmed that Miao Xiaoshan, Wang Shanshan, and Liu Qi would attend the reunion at six that evening.
• Zhang Wei went to Shangtong Building and took back his supernatural axe from Dr. Chen for the gathering.
• Dr. Chen judged the axe stable and suitable for ordinary users, and Yang Jian tacitly approved Zhang Wei taking it.
• Yang Jian requested Headquarters' ghost money, learned Cao Yang had already requisitioned one item, and ordered the rest collected for him.

Yang Jian collected Headquarters’ remaining ghost money and attended Zhang Wei’s class reunion while staying wary of his deal with the Ghost Cabinet. At the hotel, he discussed Ghost Child and his uncertain future with Wang Shanshan before rejoining his classmates and meeting the entertainers Zhang Wei had invited.

• Yang Jian received Zhang Wei’s invitation and gathered the last forty yuan of Headquarters’ ghost money.
• Yang Jian drove around Dachang City to check for danger before going to the hotel for the reunion.
• Yang Jian met Wang Shanshan, explained how he had strengthened Ghost Child, and discussed marriage and helping each other.
• Yang Jian joined Zhang Wei and the other classmates, learned that several entertainers were Zhang Wei’s company employees, and spoke with one he recognized.
• Miao Xiaoshan teased Yang Jian about the entertainer, and Zhang Wei asked Yang Jian to change his appearance before backing off after hearing about the side effects.

Yang Jian’s reunion with his classmates was interrupted when a plate of egg fried rice signaled the return of the Ghost Cupboard’s supernatural power. After discovering that a ghost had infiltrated the gathering, Yang Jian suspected the Wishing Ghost had taken control of the Ghost Cupboard, leaving the true threat unidentified.

• Yang Jian discussed the declining number of capable Ghost Tamers with Liu Qi and warned that supernatural incidents would soon spiral out of control.
• The classmates toasted to meeting again next year, and Zhang Wei and Wang Shanshan entertained the gathering with a song and a dance.
• A waiter brought an unrequested plate of egg fried rice, and Liu Qi returned with the dead waiter after investigating.
• Yang Jian recognized the rice as a signal from the Ghost Cupboard and decided everyone should stay while they investigated the ghost’s arrival.
• Yang Jian used ghost fire to expose an infiltrated female assistant, and Zhang Wei killed her with his red axe.
• Yang Jian suspected the Wishing Ghost had controlled the Ghost Cupboard and escaped Zhao Xiaoya’s control, while Liu Qi warned Zhang Wei that he had killed only a Ghost Slave.

Yang Jian and the others reasoned that the ghost was using their transaction with the Ghost Cabinet to escape its restrictions, while it continued sending waiters with bowls of egg fried rice. The group resolved not to let it safely pass midnight, but a third waiter arrived with another bowl before they could act.

• Yang Jian and Liu Qi suspected the ghost had human consciousness and was trying to contact Yang Jian through controlled people rather than kill anyone.
• Yang Jian explained that the ghost had agreed to appear before him before midnight in exchange for making a demand, and he considered what would happen if it failed to fulfill the transaction.
• A female waiter delivered a second bowl of egg fried rice and left; Yang Jian let her go because she was an ordinary person under supernatural control.
• Wang Shanshan proposed that the ghost might be trying to provoke Yang Jian into breaking the transaction, freeing it from the rules and allowing unrestricted attacks.
• Yang Jian and the others agreed they could not let the ghost safely pass midnight, then another waiter entered and delivered a third bowl of egg fried rice.

Yang Jian and the others realized that Zhang Wei’s casual request for egg-fried rice may have triggered the Wishing Ghost, which could kill one of his relatives after delivering twenty portions. Yang Jian prepared supernatural tools to lure, reveal, and lull the ghost, then waited for it to appear.

• Yang Jian connected Zhang Wei’s request for egg-fried rice to the Wishing Ghost and warned that fulfilling it could cost one of Zhang Wei’s relatives their life.
• Yang Jian produced a Corpse Oil Lamp and gave Zhang Wei a spare lamp, then lit Ghost Incense to protect the group.
• Yang Jian gave Liu Qi a loop of straw rope and explained that the Ghost Incense would keep the area safe while it burned.
• After a fourth bowl of egg-fried rice arrived, Wang Shanshan and Liu Qi suggested using a white ghost candle to draw the hidden ghost to them.
• Yang Jian lit the white ghost candle, and the group waited as the surrounding lights dimmed.

Yang Jian’s trap for the Wishing Ghost was disrupted when it sent a crowd of controlled people into the Peace Hotel, preventing him from using paranormal power against them. He pushed them out with men created by the Liar Ghost, but the crowd left behind enough egg fried rice to bring Zhang Wei’s total to nineteen, leaving his family one plate from danger.

• The Wishing Ghost sent repeated deliveries of egg fried rice and then drew hundreds of controlled people toward the Peace Hotel.
• Yang Jian and Liu Qi realized that using paranormal power against the crowd could kill them, and Yang Jian failed to move the hotel because the ghost’s power had pinned it in place.
• Yang Jian sealed the hall, but the Wishing Ghost destroyed the walls and let the crowd flood inside.
• Yang Jian summoned men in black with the Liar Ghost’s power, and they pushed the controlled people out without killing them.
• Yang Jian’s group counted the egg fried rice left behind and found nineteen plates, prompting him to conclude that the Wishing Ghost was deliberately holding Zhang Wei one plate short.

Yang Jian discovered that the Wishing Ghost was targeting his friends’ families to pressure him into a deal, and he stopped it from entering his home. With his mother and his companions’ relatives now threatened by fatal gifts, he had to decide whether to pursue the ghost before midnight, with only half an hour left.

• Miao Xiaoshan and Liu Qi reasoned that the Wishing Ghost was using Zhang Wei’s relatives to force Yang Jian into a deal, and Yang Jian realized it might be targeting people elsewhere too.
• A ghost disguised as Yang Jian entered Yang Jian’s home and repeatedly offered Jiang Yan egg fried rice; Zhang Liqin recognized the danger and called Ghost Child to block it.
• Yang Jian returned and pinned the ghost’s corpse with his cracked spear, then learned that the ghost had also targeted his mother, Zhang Fen, with a wish for new clothes.
• Wang Shanshan, Miao Xiaoshan, and Liu Qi reported that their families had been approached by the ghost and drawn into similar deals, while Zhang Wei worried about the consequences.
• Yang Jian’s companions debated whether to imprison the ghost before midnight or risk letting it escape the rules, and Yang Jian delayed his decision as the deadline approached.