Recaps

Yang Jian reached Dafu City and used his Ghost Domain to revive its person in charge, Ma Jun, after the King Organization killed him. After treating Ma Jun, Yang Jian left to respond to other threats while Li Jun and Liu San pursued the fleeing attackers.

• Yang Jian ignored advice to stay in Dadong City and rushed to Dafu City, where he found Ma Jun dead inside his citywide Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian used an eighth-level Ghost Domain restart to bring Ma Jun back to life, then suppressed one of the three ghosts inside him with ghost hands.
• Ma Jun warned Yang Jian that Simon had shot a ghost into his body, and Yang Jian gave him Chinese medicine that temporarily delayed his ghost revival.
• Yang Jian told Ma Jun to keep his survival secret and assist Li Jun and Liu San, then departed to handle other attacks.
• Li Jun changed course to pursue the King Organization members, while Liu San objected and A Hong backed Li Jun's judgment.

After Ma Jun was attacked, Yang Jian concluded that the King Organization was targeting city officials and organized the captains to search for and intercept its members. Yang Jian killed three operatives in a small city, while Li Jun and Liu San encountered a waiting enemy in another town.

• Yang Jian returned to the captains in Dadong City and explained that the attack on Ma Jun signaled a broader operation against city officials.
• Yang Jian divided the captains into teams and sent them across several routes to hunt the King Organization, with Zhou Deng assigned to protect He Yin'er.
• Yang Jian traveled to a small city and found three King Organization members hiding there to avoid their assigned mission.
• Yang Jian killed the three men with ghost fire, and the Ghost Lake released three vicious ghosts overseas after absorbing their corpses.
• Li Jun and Liu San tracked enemies to a small town, where a bearded foreign man in a cowboy hat revealed that he had been waiting for them.

Li Jun, Liu San’s paper effigy, and A Hong confronted Simon and his King Organization squad after they attacked Ma Jun. As Simon’s ambush began, A Hong used Ghost Makeup to become Wei Jing and killed one of the squad members, leaving the others facing her temporary captain-level power.

• Li Jun and Liu San realized that Simon and five nearby Ghost Tamers had surrounded them, and Simon revealed that they belonged to the King Organization.
• Simon unleashed his Ghost Domain and fired a cursed shotgun at Li Jun, but the weapon burst apart and its ghostly ammunition began decaying Simon’s body.
• Simon ordered his squad to attack A Hong and Liu San, and their first wave of supernatural attacks tore Liu San’s paper effigy apart.
• A Hong completed her Ghost Makeup and transformed into Wei Jing, gaining sixty percent of his supernatural power.
• A Hong’s darkness suppressed one squad member’s supernatural abilities, and she killed him before turning toward the remaining four.

A Hong used Wei Jing’s power to kill two King Team members, while Li Jun revealed his Ghost Herder abilities and unleashed Simon’s ghost bullets. The chapter ended with more than twenty fierce ghosts swallowing both Li Jun and Simon.

• A Hong transformed into Wei Jing and killed two members of the King Team as the others fled.
• Li Jun saw that A Hong’s attack had left two corpses and used his Ghost Herder power to awaken the ghosts inside them.
• Simon drew his Ghost Domain around Li Jun and created three equally powerful versions of himself.
• Simon’s hands pierced Li Jun and began draining his supernatural power, but Li Jun triggered the ghosts trapped in Simon’s bullets.
• More than twenty fierce ghosts burst from Simon’s bullets and engulfed both Simon and Li Jun.

Yang Jian and the other captains hunted King Organization members across several cities while He Yuelian returned to Dachang City as its new person in charge. The chapter left the captains continuing their operation and searching for the kings behind the attacks.

• Yang Jian spared an unaffiliated Ghost Tamer in a small city and continued searching for King Organization members.
• He Yuelian visited her brother He Long in Dachang City, reassured him, and left as gray paper ash spread across the city.
• He Yuelian confronted a squad of King Organization Ghost Tamers in Dachang City and killed them with the complete Ghost Painting.
• Wang Chaling and Lu Zhiwen killed more than a dozen King Organization Ghost Tamers and discussed hunting down the kings leading the operation.

Cao Yang, Lin Bei, and Li Lepeng went to a Hong Kong wharf to exchange the manor owner's head for Zhang Sun's remains, but the King Organization used the trade to lure them into a supernatural trap. After Su Fan warned them too late to escape, three apparent kings confronted the captains, while the other captains were occupied elsewhere.

• Cao Yang, Lin Bei, and Li Lepeng arrived at the deserted wharf and waited for the King Organization, discussing Hong Kong's missing person in charge, Su Fan.
• An ordinary boatman delivered a gold box containing Zhang Sun's badly mutilated remains, and Cao Yang sent back a prepared box that did not contain the manor owner's head.
• After the three captains left the wharf, Su Fan texted Cao Yang a warning, but Cao Yang's Ghost Domain could not take them out of the area.
• Lin Bei realized the wharf had been replaced by a supernatural place, and the missionary, a terrifying old woman, and a projected figure appeared around them.
• The missionary explained that the King Organization had used the trade as an opportunity to attack because the other captains were occupied elsewhere, and Lin Bei deduced that the organization had split its forces.

Yang Jian sensed Cao Yang's distress and rushed to the Hong Kong dock, where five Kings of the King Organization were attacking Cao Yang, Lin Bei, and Li Lepeng. As Cao Yang was trapped and cut apart inside a supernatural projection, Yang Jian emerged from a puddle, leaving the missionary and the other Kings facing unexpected reinforcements.

• Yang Jian sensed Cao Yang's call for help through Ghost Lake and traveled to the Hong Kong dock.
• The King Organization's Kings targeted Cao Yang while Li Lepeng killed members of their squads and Lin Bei subdued a foreign old man.
• Cao Yang endured the Kings' attacks with his supernatural protections, but one King pulled him into a black-and-white projection and attacked him with a chainsaw.
• Lin Bei tried to reach Cao Yang but was blocked by two Kings, while the missionary stopped Li Lepeng from helping.
• Yang Jian emerged from a puddle in the supernatural world, startling the missionary and the other Kings.

Yang Jian arrived during the King Organization’s attempt to kill three captains and turned the battle around by attacking the kings and freeing Lin Bei from a mental assault. He ended the chapter with one king pinned by the coffin nail, leaving the captains with the advantage in numbers.

• Yang Jian emerged from the water, and the preacher offered to halt the operation if Yang Jian handed over the manor owner’s head.
• Yang Jian rejected the deal, engulfed the king squad members in ghost fire, and sent Ghost Dream after the ink-covered man.
• The gaunt old man blocked Ghost Dream, but Yang Jian struck him with the firewood axe and broke through his supernatural interference.
• Ghost Dream invaded the ink-covered man’s consciousness, freeing Lin Bei from the assault as Yang Jian joined the fight against the kings.
• Lin Bei faced the recovered old woman while Yang Jian froze the battlefield and used the coffin nail to pin the ink-covered man, reducing the fight to four kings against four captains.

Yang Jian defeated two kings, but the old man’s Black Coffin nearly trapped him in a deadly supernatural attack before the old man’s weakened body gave out. The enemy retreated with one king after exchanging him for the mutilated Cao Yang, and Yang Jian’s group returned to the real world with Cao Yang alive.

• Yang Jian nailed the ink-covered king to the ground, then became immobilized when the old man began lowering the Black Coffin.
• The old man’s supernatural attack ended when his damaged body broke apart, freeing Yang Jian and revealing that the old man could no longer bear its cost.
• The preacher ordered a retreat as the enemy transformed the surroundings, while Yang Jian and Lin Bei held onto two captured kings.
• Yang Jian negotiated Cao Yang’s release in exchange for the old man, and the enemy accepted the trade.
• Yang Jian and the others returned to the real world with Cao Yang, who questioned the exchange, but Yang Jian and Lin Bei defended saving him.

After Yang Jian and the others defeated the King Organization’s ambush, Cao Yang left the team as a deadly curse and his failing supernatural balance left him unable to survive. He said goodbye to Cao Yanhua before vanishing with the approaching ghost, and Headquarters planned to report him missing.

• Yang Jian, Lin Bei, and Li Lepeng assessed their victory over the King Organization, while Cao Yang revealed that a curse would bring a ghost to kill him after midnight.
• Yang Jian restored Cao Yang’s body with the Liar Ghost’s power, then burned and dismembered the captured enemies and sealed their remains in boxes.
• Cao Yang left the docks alone, explaining that he would hide from the ghost, but went to a reef and accepted that his failing supernatural balance left him no hope.
• Cao Yang called Cao Yanhua, reported the victory, and asked him to tell his parents he was sorry and to claim he had gone missing rather than reveal his death.
• The ghost arrived and disrupted the call; Cao Yang and the ghost vanished, leaving only his phone behind.

Yang Jian investigated why he had lost contact with Li Jun’s team and learned that Li Jun and A Hong had disappeared into the sea after containing out-of-control ghosts. He took A Hong’s red makeup case and considered trying to recreate her, though he knew the result would not be the real A Hong.

• Yang Jian returned to Dadong City with Lin Bei and Li Lepeng, where the other captains reported their operations against the King Organization had mostly succeeded.
• Wang Guoqiang told Yang Jian that Li Jun, Liu San, and A Hong had stopped responding, so Yang Jian traveled alone to their last known location.
• Yang Jian found the coastal county deserted and discovered a damaged paper effigy of Liu San, who told him that Li Jun’s team had fought a King-led group there.
• Liu San explained that A Hong had become a Faceless Man after nearly wiping out the enemy team, while Li Jun defeated Simon but used the Ghost Herder’s power to lead the uncontrolled ghosts into the sea.
• Liu San gave Yang Jian A Hong’s red makeup case, and Yang Jian decided to try using the Liar Ghost to create a body and draw A Hong’s face.

After Li Jun and A Hong died fighting the King Organization, Yang Jian returned to Ning'an Building and told the captains about their sacrifice. With the Ghost Ship expected to arrive soon and Headquarters weakened, the captains planned to recruit reinforcements, leaving Yang Jian’s proposal to enlist Zhang Xianguang under debate.

• Yang Jian returned to Ning'an Building with Liu San's preserved makeup case and reported that Li Jun and A Hong had likely died after defeating King Simon.
• The captains discussed whether Ghost Makeup could revive Li Jun and A Hong, and Yang Jian promised to try using the makeup case.
• Lu Zhiwen urged Headquarters to recruit captain candidates, and Yang Jian agreed while asking Wang Guoqiang to reassess the city heads.
• Yang Jian recommended Ye Zhen, and the captains accepted after Yang Jian vouched for him.
• Yang Jian recommended Zhang Xianguang as another ally, but He Yin'er and Liu San's paper man opposed releasing him because he was too dangerous.
• Yang Jian argued that Zhang Xianguang's Taoyuan Plan conflicted with the King Organization's Ark Plan, prompting Lu Zhiwen to acknowledge the strategic logic.

After the captains agreed to recruit more help against the King Organization, Yang Jian visited Zhang Xianguang in his dream and asked him to join the coming battle. Zhang Xianguang agreed on the condition that Yang Jian return his knife.

• Yang Jian and the captains approved mobilizing candidate captains and inviting Ye Zhen, while leaving open the possibility of contacting Zhang Xianguang.
• The King Organization argued over the failed operation, and the man in the gentleman’s hat tried to replace the missionary as their leader.
• Yang Jian went to sleep in Dadong City and entered his dream, where he found Zhang Xianguang teaching Zhao Xiaoya.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Xianguang about the King Organization, the coming Ghost Ship, and the shortage of captains, then asked him to help fight.
• Zhang Xianguang agreed to help if Yang Jian returned his knife, and Yang Jian accepted.

Yang Jian traveled to Dahai City and persuaded Ye Zhen to cooperate with Headquarters against the King Organization and the approaching Ghost Ship. Ye Zhen agreed to attend the captains’ meeting, while remaining determined to surpass Yang Jian.

• Yang Jian agreed with Zhang Xianguang that Zhang Xianguang would help them win the war in exchange for eventual release.
• Yang Jian arrived in Dahai City and used his Ghost Domain to search for Ye Zhen, alerting the Supernatural Forum.
• Ye Zhen entered Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain and was surprised to find Yang Jian waiting for him with a changed Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian asked Ye Zhen to join Headquarters temporarily as outside support, but Ye Zhen insisted on cooperating as the administrator of the Supernatural Forum instead.
• Yang Jian accepted Ye Zhen’s terms and invited him to the captains’ meeting at Ning'an Building the next morning.
• Yang Jian left Dahai City, and Ye Zhen watched the golden light of his Ghost Domain disappear with envy.

After recounting the costly battle against the King Organization, Yang Jian prepared Tong Qian to join the coming fights by giving her A Hong’s red makeup case. The chapter ended with him providing her a strange, memory-made makeup teacher to train her quickly.

• Yang Jian returned to Shangtong Building and told Li Yang, Huang Ziya, Tong Qian, Wang Yong, and Xiong Wenwen about the battle and its casualties.
• Yang Jian ordered Li Yang to join the mobilized candidate captains, but refused Tong Qian’s request to fight unless she gained another supernatural power.
• Yang Jian chose Tong Qian to inherit A Hong’s red makeup case, explaining that her three faces could let Ghost Makeup draw on powerful supernatural abilities.
• Tong Qian accepted the makeup case and agreed to learn quickly, with Yang Jian recommending she practice painting Wei Jing’s face.
• Yang Jian created Teacher Tony from the Liar Ghost’s human body and stitched memories, then assigned him to train Tong Qian.

Yang Jian prepared his team for the coming war against the kings and recruited Sister Hong as possible outside help. He left for Dadong City’s arrangements still pending, while Sister Hong agreed to join him if she could kill a king for twenty yuan of ghost money.

• Tong Qian left with Teacher Tony to train his makeup skills, while Yang Jian considered how Tong Qian could use three captains’ faces to gain enough supernatural power to fight the kings.
• Yang Jian told Li Yang to rely on his balanced abilities and directed him and Tong Qian to reach Dadong City by midnight the next day.
• Yang Jian assigned Wang Yong and Huang Ziya to protect Dachang City and decided to take the reluctant Xiong Wenwen with him because his life was tied to Liu San.
• Yang Jian visited the Chinese medicine shop in the old district, where Xiao Ru said her master would not get involved in the coming conflict.
• Sister Hong appeared and offered to join Yang Jian if he paid her, and she accepted twenty yuan of ghost money for killing a king.

Yang Jian went to Headquarters to ask whether Old Qin, sealed inside a statue, was alive, then prepared for the approaching battle by taking supernatural items from the warehouse. He returned to Guangjiang Residential Area to see his mother and have Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin record recent events.

• Yang Jian arrived at Headquarters and told Cao Yanhua he planned to take supernatural items from the warehouse.
• Yang Jian asked Cao Yanhua whether Old Qin was alive inside the statue, and Cao Yanhua admitted that only opening it could reveal the truth.
• Yang Jian said he would take and open the statue if the situation became desperate, and Cao Yanhua agreed.
• Yang Jian entered Headquarters' warehouse and took half of its ghost candles and substitute dolls, leaving the rest in reserve.
• Yang Jian returned to Guangjiang Residential Area, intending to see his mother and ask Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin to record recent events.

Yang Jian prepared to leave for the coming battle and asked Zhang Liqin and Jiang Yan to care for his mother if he died. After reaching Dadong City, he agreed to the King Organization’s sudden offer of video peace talks while Headquarters assembled its forces for the coming conflict.

• Yang Jian told Zhang Liqin and Jiang Yan to stay home, care for his mother, and call Ghost Child if trouble arose while he was away.
• Yang Jian left Dachang City for Dadong City after lunch and learned that the King Organization had requested peace talks with Headquarters.
• Lu Zhiwen argued that negotiations could buy time but that Headquarters still needed to destroy the King Organization and stop its Ark Plan.
• Yang Jian agreed to a video conference, limited who would attend, and ordered Wang Guoqiang to arrange a new location.
• Yang Jian and Lu Zhiwen reviewed their preparations, including recruiting Ye Zhen, Zhang Xianguang, Sister Hong, and other allies, while reserving the supernatural pendulum clock as a final trump card.
• Yang Jian told Lu Zhiwen to bring over Liu San’s paper figure so they could speak with the King Organization.

Yang Jian rejected the King Organization’s ceasefire offer during a tense video conference, while Lu Zhiwen used the talks to press for concessions. After the meeting exposed divisions among the organization’s kings, Yang Jian proposed striking first to increase the pressure.

• Yang Jian, Lu Zhiwen, and Liu San’s paper figure began a video conference with six representatives of the King Organization, led by Charlie.
• Charlie offered a temporary ceasefire, promising to withdraw the organization’s members and cancel the Ark Plan, but Yang Jian refused and declared that the war would continue.
• An unfamiliar king challenged Charlie’s authority, and Yang Jian used the dispute to point out that Charlie could not speak for the whole organization.
• Lu Zhiwen said the Headquarters might consider a ceasefire if the King Organization handed over Zhang Sun’s murderer and canceled the Ark Plan, but Charlie called Zhang Sun’s death a misunderstanding.
• Charlie proposed holding another discussion in three days, and both sides disconnected without reaching an agreement.
• Liu San’s paper figure and Lu Zhiwen judged the talks to be a stalling tactic, while Yang Jian proposed striking first to exploit the King Organization’s internal divisions.

Yang Jian used a recorder to enter the King Organization’s consciousness-only intelligence network and turned the hidden space into his Ghost Dream. He captured several intelligence officers and left the others facing interrogation after his vicious dog killed Zhang Li.

• After the video conference ended without agreement, Yang Jian ordered Liu San to help locate the King Organization’s intelligence network and told Lu Zhiwen to receive the arriving candidate captains.
• Yang Jian went to Liu San’s real body in Dadong City and learned that an old recorder drew consciousness into a supernatural place where the organization’s intelligence officers communicated.
• Yang Jian used the recorder and his vicious dog to enter the consciousness space, then ordered the dog to invade it and transform it into the Ghost Dream.
• The Ghost Dream revealed and trapped Zhang Li, an intelligence officer investigating Ma Jun; Yang Jian had the vicious dog kill him.
• Two more intelligence officers appeared in the expanding dream, and Yang Jian began questioning them.

Yang Jian trapped the King Organization's agents and operatives in Ghost Dream while waiting for the force behind its supernatural hall to respond. The Pianist appeared and attacked consciousness with a black piano, prompting Yang Jian to send his vicious dog after him.

• Yang Jian killed several King Organization operatives in Ghost Dream and ordered his vicious dog to torture one who insulted him.
• Yang Jian waited in Ghost Dream as its influence consumed the hall, but neither the Pianist nor Liu San appeared at first.
• A black piano played by itself in the ruined hall, and an intelligence agent identified its unseen master as the King Organization's king, the Pianist.
• The Pianist appeared and played music that drew the trapped agents out of Ghost Dream and slowed the vicious dog's invasion.
• Yang Jian recognized the music as a supernatural attack on consciousness and ordered his vicious dog to drag the Pianist into Ghost Dream and kill him.

Yang Jian fought the pianist inside Ghost Dream, where the pianist’s cursed music killed the trapped King Organization operatives and repeatedly returned after the vicious dog tore him apart. Yang Jian realized the pianist could only be defeated by finding the piano in reality, then left the confrontation and moved to eliminate the remaining operatives.

• The pianist’s screaming music harmed Yang Jian and killed the King Organization intelligence operatives trapped in Ghost Dream.
• The vicious dog tore apart the pianist and stopped the music, but the pianist soon reappeared beside the black piano.
• Yang Jian and the pianist exchanged threats, and Yang Jian concluded that the piano was the source of the pianist’s repeated returns.
• The pianist kept playing while the vicious dog attacked, forcing Yang Jian to recognize that neither could defeat the other in Ghost Dream.
• Yang Jian called the dog back and headed elsewhere in the hall to drag in and kill more King Organization operatives.

Yang Jian learned from Liu San that the King Organization had a hidden sixteenth figure connected to the Ark Plan and Ghost Ship, while the ship neared the harbor. He prepared to meet the candidate captains assembled in Dadong City and assign them tasks for the coming battle.

• Yang Jian left the pianist’s supernatural space after using the vicious dog to pull several intelligence agents’ consciousnesses into the Ghost Dream world.
• Liu San awakened and told Yang Jian that the King Organization had fifteen public kings, at least ten other potential kings, and a hidden sixteenth figure tied to the Ark Plan and Ghost Ship.
• Yang Jian and Liu San discussed how the hidden figure might control the Ghost Ship, then agreed that their immediate priority was dealing with the kings.
• Liu San warned Yang Jian that the Ghost Ship had entered their waters and could reach the harbor soon, despite the recent agreement to ease tensions for three days.
• Wang Guoqiang reported that the candidate captains had arrived in Dadong City, and Yang Jian set out to meet them and prepare for the coming battle.

Yang Jian assembled seven captain candidates into a squad led by Li Yang to prepare for the war against the King Organization. He supplied them with protective resources and left them on standby after they shared their abilities and resolved old tensions.

• The seven captain candidates gathered at Ning'an Building, where Lin Long recounted his past clash with Yang Jian during the Starvation Ghost Incident.
• Yang Jian arrived, confirmed Xiong Wenwen was absent, and appointed Li Yang leader of the seven-person squad.
• Yang Jian distributed two Substitute Dolls and three red Ghost Candles to each member and warned them that the captains had suffered heavy losses in the previous battle.
• Yang Jian apologized to Lin Long, who accepted and pledged to fight alongside the others against the King Organization.
• After Yang Jian left, the squad members disclosed their supernatural abilities and discussed how they could cooperate.

As Headquarters gathered outside aid against the King Organization, Ye Zhen arrived and boasted that he would kill three Kings. Meanwhile, Yang Jian studied the supernatural pendulum clock, and an abandoned ship filled with supernatural phenomena drifted toward the coast, nearing landfall.

• News of the King Organization's failed attack spread online, prompting some members and sympathizers to abandon it and support Headquarters.
• Ye Zhen arrived at Ning'an Building, mocked Wang Chaling and Lin Bei, and promised to eliminate three Kings despite Lu Zhiwen's request that he coordinate with Headquarters.
• He Yin'er left to meet the Faceless Man from Taiping Ancient Town, while Boss Liu stayed behind to recover and oversee reconstruction.
• Yang Jian studied the supernatural pendulum clock, hoping to master its ability to rewind time by half an hour.
• A silent, haunted ship drifted through the mist toward a coastal city and appeared likely to reach land that night.