Recaps

Yang Jian and Ye Zhen lured the Captain into a trap that sent him into the supernatural old house, where the revived Zhang Dong began to approach him. The two stayed on the roof to prevent the Captain from escaping and watched to see whether Zhang Dong could contain him.

• Yang Jian explained that he was waiting for the Captain to enter the building’s entrance while he and Ye Zhen fought off the other ghosts.
• The Captain grew restless as Yang Jian and Ye Zhen held their ground, and he gradually wandered toward the trap outside the building.
• Yang Jian waited until the Captain stood at the trap’s center, then shattered the boundary between reality and the supernatural as he and Ye Zhen rushed outside.
• The Captain appeared inside the old house’s courtyard, where the revived Zhang Dong rose from his Grand Tutor Chair and began walking toward him.
• Yang Jian and Ye Zhen landed on the roof and prepared to interfere if the Captain tried to escape.

Yang Jian and Ye Zhen watched Zhang Dong erase the captain inside the old residence. The captain’s body nearly vanished, but its ship’s wheel remained, revealing its apparent true form.

• Yang Jian and Ye Zhen watched as Zhang Dong approached the captain, who chose to confront him rather than flee.
• The captain rolled a supernatural copper coin toward Zhang Dong, but Zhang Dong ignored it and stripped away its supernatural nature.
• The captain struck Zhang Dong with Yang Jian’s red spear, but the weapon’s power was erased and the spear shattered.
• The captain summoned the Ghost Ship to invade the old residence, but Zhang Dong erased the mist and the ship.
• Zhang Dong waved his hand repeatedly, erasing the captain’s limbs and most of its body as it tried to escape.
• Yang Jian realized that the captain’s true form might be the wooden ship’s wheel that remained after its body disappeared.

Yang Jian and Ye Zhen remained missing after their plan made the captain disappear, but the Ghost Lake ghosts began spreading and the Ghost Ship started moving again. Liu San summoned Old Qin’s statue, and Old Qin awakened and set out to take the Ghost Ship away.

• Liu San and He Yuelian observed that Yang Jian, Ye Zhen, and the captain had vanished, while the Ghost Lake ghosts began spreading and the Ghost Ship started moving.
• Liu San decided to use Old Qin’s statue, and Tong Qian and He Yuelian agreed as the statue was dropped onto a nearby rooftop.
• Liu San, He Yuelian, and Tong Qian saw black corpse fluid leak from the damaged statue and feared Old Qin had died inside it.
• Old Qin appeared beside the statue as phantom figures gathered around him, then said this was his final awakening and that he would sail the Ghost Ship away.
• Old Qin walked toward the Ghost Ship while his decaying body shed pieces of flesh.

Yang Jian and Ye Zhen defeated the captain in the old house, only to learn that the Ghost Ship could produce another captain. Back in Dazhou City, Yang Jian found Old Qin steering the ship and learned that he had arranged his final sacrifice long ago.

• The captain vanished before Zhang Dong, leaving a ship's wheel behind, and Yang Jian and Ye Zhen left the old house.
• Yang Jian and Ye Zhen returned to Dazhou City and learned from Liu San that Old Qin had boarded the Ghost Ship and drawn most of Ghost Lake's ghosts aboard.
• Yang Jian boarded the Ghost Ship and spoke with Old Qin, who revealed that he could communicate with his future self and had planned to vanish with the ship.
• Old Qin offered to bring the remaining Ghost Lake ghosts aboard, and Yang Jian left to release them before time ran out.
• Old Qin called after Yang Jian and said that when people around the world called his name, the supernatural era would be near its end.

After Old Qin ended the Ghost Ship incident, Yang Jian restored Dazhou City and returned to Dachang City to rest, while the surviving leaders faced the coming supernatural resurgence. At Headquarters, Cao Yanhua collapsed from exhaustion, and Wang Guoqiang took over as urgent reports revealed that too few people remained to contain the growing crises.

• Old Qin used the last of his life to control the Ghost Ship and take the fierce ghosts away from Ghost Lake, ending the incident as Yang Jian and Liu San watched the ship disappear.
• Yang Jian drained Ghost Lake, and He Yuelian used Ghost Painting to restore Dazhou City and its residents; Yang Jian returned Ye Zhen's Supernatural Weapon.
• Ye Zhen proposed that he and Yang Jian unite the remaining Ghost Tamers and rule the world, but Yang Jian refused and told Ye Zhen to go on alone.
• Yang Jian told the others to rest, then used Ghost Domain to take Tong Qian and the supernatural pendulum clock back to Dachang City; He Yuelian also left, and Liu San disappeared into Dazhou City.
• After hearing that the Ghost Ship incident had ended, Cao Yanhua collapsed from exhaustion and was taken to the emergency room, so Wang Guoqiang took over Headquarters' duties.
• Wang Guoqiang received urgent reports of supernatural incidents across the country and realized Headquarters lacked enough recovered Ghost Tamers to handle them.

Yang Jian returned to Dachang City after defeating the King Organization and warned Shangtong Building that the supernatural era was approaching. He summoned Ghost Child and brought the human skin paper to an upcoming meeting as he prepared to protect the city.

• Yang Jian arrived at Shangtong Building, ignored the wealthy visitors and women seeking his favor, and greeted Keiko before going upstairs.
• Yang Jian reunited with Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin, then called a meeting and warned them that the supernatural circle had lost many powerful Ghost Tamers.
• Yang Jian found Huang Ziya in his office and discussed the coming crisis and the need to survive.
• Yang Jian checked Ghost Child, retrieved the human skin paper, and told it to attend the upcoming meeting.

Yang Jian warned company executives that supernatural incidents would spiral out of control and organized Dachang City’s preparations for survival. After assigning tasks to his allies, he consulted the human skin paper about how soon his evil spirit would resurge.

• Yang Jian told the gathered executives that most people capable of handling supernatural incidents were dead and that Dachang City could guarantee the safety of at most seven cities.
• Yang Jian assigned Wang Bin to manage supplies and livelihood supermarkets, and instructed Liu Xiaoyu to prepare personnel to punish employees who resold supplies.
• Yang Jian announced plans to clear supernatural dangers in Dachang City and nearby cities, sent Wang Yong to contact new Ghost Tamers, and tasked Old Eagle with visiting the Ghost Post Office.
• Yang Jian ordered Liu Xiaoyu to prepare spirit-containment containers and establish new safe houses.
• Yang Jian spread out the human skin paper and asked how long remained before his next evil spirit resurgence.

Yang Jian learned that the ghost on the supernatural bus would awaken in nine days and kill him, then used the human-skin paper to explore ways to survive. He postponed seeking a solution while he handled other matters, and the paper ominously described the world ahead as a hell of revived vicious ghosts.

• Yang Jian asked the human-skin paper about his condition, and it revealed that the supernatural bus’s ghost would awaken and kill him in nine days.
• Yang Jian threatened to feed the human-skin paper to Ghost Child, prompting it to describe a future in which he controlled Ghost Lake’s remaining power but still died on the ninth day.
• Yang Jian asked how he could survive, and the paper described a coffin from Ghost Street that could keep him alive, though leaving it would cause his immediate death.
• Yang Jian decided he had time to handle other matters before seeking a solution, while Huang Ziya and Jiang Yan urged him to keep asking.
• Yang Jian asked what the world would become, and the human-skin paper answered, “Vicious ghosts revive, Hell on Earth.”

Yang Jian learned from the human-skin paper that the supernatural era was an unstoppable, despairing future and that Dachang City would eventually fall. He kept the information secret, then prepared to face the Black Umbrella and moved his family to safety.

• Yang Jian and Huang Ziya discussed the human-skin paper’s prediction of a world overwhelmed by ghosts and the likely collapse of Dachang City.
• Yang Jian said Old Qin had likely foreseen the same dark future and argued that passing the supernatural threat to future generations would not solve it.
• Yang Jian asked whether the supernatural era could be stopped, but the human-skin paper described repeated failures and a lone survivor’s hope that future generations might end it.
• Yang Jian put away the paper, told Huang Ziya to keep the information confidential, and announced that he would deal with the Black Umbrella alone the next day.
• Yang Jian returned home and told Jiang Yan to take his mother to the completed safe house in their hometown while he handled the coming operation.

Yang Jian returned to Dazhou City to retrieve his Supernatural Weapon before confronting the Black Umbrella, despite the danger posed by Zhang Dong. He used repeated resurrections of Wang Shan to recover the broken spear and reassembled it with the coffin nail.

• Yang Jian told Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin about his recent experiences, then left for Dazhou City, noting that he had only eight days before the ghosts revived.
• Yang Jian resurrected Wang Shan and sent him into the old house to retrieve the spear, where Zhang Dong erased him after he grabbed one half.
• Yang Jian repeatedly resurrected Wang Shan, who gradually moved the spear half into the courtyard and threw it out for Yang Jian to retrieve.
• Wang Shan's repeated attempts brought both halves of the spear out of the old house, and Yang Jian joined them back together.
• Yang Jian retrieved the coffin nail from Ghost Lake, attached it to the restored spear, and left Dazhou City.

Yang Jian traveled to Xiaofeng City to deal with the Black Umbrella incident after resting in Ghost Dream, where he again sensed an unseen watcher he could not locate. He entered the umbrella’s increasingly dangerous Ghost Domain layers and reached the fourth, where his umbrella began to fail in the heavy rain.

• Yang Jian arrived in Xiaofeng City and decided to rest before confronting the Black Umbrella incident.
• In Ghost Dream, Yang Jian felt watched, searched a village and open area with the vicious dog, but found no intruder.
• After waking at ten in the morning, Yang Jian went to the rain-soaked construction site and entered the Black Umbrella’s second layer by taking an umbrella from a ghost.
• Yang Jian repeated the process on the second and third layers, taking umbrellas from ghosts to advance into the third and fourth layers.
• On the fourth layer, Yang Jian found that the scenery had become a cluster of abandoned wooden houses and that the heavy rain was ruining his umbrella, so he lit a white ghost candle to draw out the nearby ghosts.

Yang Jian crossed into the Ghost Umbrella’s fifth layer, where torrential rain forced him to shelter inside a strange house filled with Black Umbrellas. As he investigated the umbrellas, the female corpse from the Ghost Ship appeared behind him, and he noticed that some of the lime covering its face had peeled away.

• Yang Jian used a white ghost candle to draw the fourth-layer ghosts close, cut an umbrella from one ghost with his old chopping knife, and advanced into the fifth layer.
• Yang Jian found a village of intact, empty houses and forced open a door made from two coffin lids to escape the fifth layer’s rain.
• Inside the house, Yang Jian found many Black Umbrellas and used ghost fire to test them, discovering that a few open, intact umbrellas could not be burned.
• As Yang Jian reached for one unburnable umbrella, the female corpse from the Ghost Ship appeared behind him, and he saw that part of the lime on its face had peeled away.

Yang Jian freed the conscious female corpse after realizing she might be warning him away from the Black Umbrella. When she grabbed his wrist, she pulled him into Ghost Dream, where he found her appearing as a normal woman in his hometown village.

• Yang Jian impaled the female corpse with the coffin nail, then wondered whether she had appeared to stop him from taking the Black Umbrella.
• Yang Jian pulled out the coffin nail and warned the female corpse that he would imprison her again if she did not respond.
• The female corpse stopped when Yang Jian struck the spear against the ground, then raised a hand without making her intention clear.
• Yang Jian took the female corpse's hand, and she suddenly seized his wrist, causing him to enter Ghost Dream.
• Yang Jian summoned the vicious dog in his hometown village and saw the female corpse standing nearby with an uncovered, normal-looking face.

In Ghost Dream's world, Yang Jian learned that the woman following him was an incomplete survivor from the Republican Era and heard her warning about the Black Umbrella's deadly sixth layer. Returning to the umbrella village, he began testing umbrellas with Wang Shan duplicates, but the first trials revealed that the search could unleash dangerous ghosts.

• The woman told Yang Jian she had survived inside a coffin aboard the Ghost Ship and was compelled by a fierce ghost to follow him.
• Yang Jian demanded a reason to help her, and she offered to resolve the Black Umbrella incident.
• The woman warned Yang Jian that the real umbrella was among those on the fifth layer and that entering the sixth layer meant no return.
• Yang Jian woke from Ghost Dream, chose to search the umbrellas using people resurrected by the Liar Ghost, and brought back Wang Shan.
• Wang Shan picked up an umbrella and vanished, while other Wang Shan duplicates tested umbrellas and triggered ghost attacks that Yang Jian had to contain.

Yang Jian used the Wishing Ghost’s power to search for the real black umbrella, but the torrential rain repeatedly washed away the red spear’s guidance. After realizing the umbrella might be held by one of the ghosts outside, he deliberately exposed himself to the rain to draw them out, leaving him surrounded by a growing crowd of umbrella-holding figures.

• Yang Jian wished for the red spear to guide him to the real umbrella, but the rain washed it clean after it pointed toward the door.
• Yang Jian crossed the rain to search another house, and his umbrella broke before he reached shelter.
• After Yang Jian got soaked, black figures holding umbrellas appeared outside, and he concluded that the rain drew the fifth-floor ghosts toward anyone it touched.
• Yang Jian made another wish, confirmed that the umbrella was not in the houses, and told Wang Shan to stay inside while he investigated.
• Yang Jian entered the rain without an umbrella to lure the ghost holding the real one, but countless umbrella-holding figures gathered around him as his supernatural strength began to seem finite.

Yang Jian followed the Wishing Ghost's guidance through the rain and located the real umbrella among a small group of black umbrellas, but the downpour and surrounding ghosts left him unable to search safely. He ended the chapter trapped in the rain after the storm disrupted his attempts to summon Wang Shan and use Ghost Lake.

• Yang Jian wished for his spear to point toward the real umbrella and charged through the umbrella-holding ghosts, knocking them aside.
• When the spear pointed behind him and then shifted directions, Yang Jian realized the ghost with the real umbrella was moving and chased it at high speed.
• Wang Shan watched as the mass of ghosts gathered around Yang Jian, while their umbrella canopy helped shield him from the rain.
• As Yang Jian's ghosts began reviving faster, his spear finally stopped guiding him, signaling that the real umbrella was nearby.
• Yang Jian dismembered the nearby ghosts and gathered a little over twenty umbrellas, then confirmed the real one was among them.
• Yang Jian tried to summon Wang Shan with the Liar Ghost's necklace and control Ghost Lake, but the rain washed away Wang Shan's figure and disrupted Ghost Lake.

Yang Jian used the Wishing Ghost’s power to narrow down which of many umbrellas was the real Black Umbrella, then grabbed one as the ghosts closed in. The umbrella trapped him in darkness, but he learned it was real and closed it, ending the supernatural incident.

• Yang Jian used repeated wishes and the red spear to narrow the real Black Umbrella to two choices.
• As ghosts crowded in and reached for the umbrellas, Yang Jian grabbed one without testing it further.
• The world turned pitch-black, and Yang Jian became trapped in darkness with the umbrella in his hand.
• The woman from his dream told Yang Jian that the real umbrella caused the darkness and that closing it would restore everything.
• Yang Jian closed the Black Umbrella, returned the world to normal, and decided it should be sealed away.

Yang Jian traveled to Taiping Ancient Town, confirmed Ghost Lake remained contained, and entered Ghost Street to fulfill his agreement with the female corpse. He accompanied her to the paper effigy shop, where she had asked for his help, while he still intended to buy a coffin.

• Yang Jian sealed the Black Umbrella in a gold-wrapped box and sank it into Ghost Lake before heading to Taiping Ancient Town.
• Yang Jian checked that Ghost Lake had not spread and entered the flooded ancient town and Ghost Street using his supernatural abilities.
• Yang Jian brought the female corpse to Ghost Street, completing their agreement, and she asked him to guide her to a paper effigy shop.
• Yang Jian led the female corpse to the shop and agreed to accompany her inside.

Yang Jian brought the female corpse to a paper effigy shop, where she sought a damaged effigy resembling her. He used ghost money to buy it and two other effigies, after making her agree to join his team.

• Yang Jian noticed the shop’s modern paper goods and watched the female corpse fixate on a damaged paper effigy resembling her.
• The shop’s supernatural presence warned the female corpse not to touch the effigy unless she bought it, while a cold breeze pushed it away.
• Yang Jian showed his forty ghost dollars, causing the shop to brighten and offer two paper effigies with a third free.
• The female corpse agreed to join Yang Jian’s team in exchange for his help buying the effigy.
• Yang Jian paid six ghost dollars for the two paper effigies guarding the entrance and the female corpse’s chosen effigy.

Yang Jian helped Lin Yunhui recover the missing half of herself, bringing her back to life and binding her to their agreement to handle supernatural incidents. As they continued through Ghost Street, Lin Yunhui explained how she had tried to escape ghost revival during the Republican Era.

• Yang Jian watched the beautiful paper figure burn and merge with Lin Yunhui, restoring her and bringing her back to life.
• Yang Jian gave Lin Yunhui clothes and warned her that they would become enemies if she broke their agreement; Lin Yunhui promised to honor it.
• Lin Yunhui considered taking a new name but kept her former name, and Yang Jian introduced himself.
• Lin Yunhui told Yang Jian that she had sought ways to delay ghost revival in Taiping Town, but the medicine shop owner had refused to give her medicine.
• Lin Yunhui explained that she sold half of herself to the paper effigy shop and chose a coffin to suppress ghost revival, planning to retrieve the missing half if she survived.

Yang Jian and Lin Yunhui reached the Coffin Shop, where Yang Jian tried to buy a Red Coffin to prepare for a ghost's revival. After the shop repeatedly raised its price and added a carrying fee, Yang Jian lost patience and prepared to attack it.

• Yang Jian told Lin Yunhui he was considering robbing the Coffin Shop, and she warned that the risk was great.
• The Coffin Shop offered coffins for ten ghost money, but its unseen voice refused to sell Yang Jian any Red Coffin, claiming they were reserved.
• The voice demanded that Yang Jian outbid a previous seven-ghost-money deposit, so he agreed to pay twenty ghost money for a Red Coffin.
• The Coffin Shop then demanded an additional four ghost money as a carrying fee, and Yang Jian put away his money, gripped his red spear, and summoned ghost fire.

Yang Jian and Lin Yunhui robbed the supernatural Coffin Shop by breaking through its boundary into Taiping Ancient Town and throwing coffins into reality. They escaped as ghosts emerged inside the shop, leaving its owner demanding the coffins back.

• Yang Jian ignited ghost fire, seized a red coffin, and chopped apart the Coffin Shop’s supernatural door when it shut against him.
• Yang Jian recognized that the darkness outside the shop formed an endless supernatural loop and refused the shopkeeper’s demand for payment.
• Yang Jian broke open a passage to submerged Taiping Ancient Town by hurling the coffin through the boundary.
• Yang Jian and Lin Yunhui threw several more coffins through the opening before ghosts began gathering outside the shop.
• Yang Jian and Lin Yunhui escaped to Taiping Ancient Town as the passage closed and old corpses appeared inside the Coffin Shop.
• The Coffin Shop’s unseen owner demanded that Yang Jian return the stolen coffins.

After robbing the Coffin Shop once, Yang Jian returned repeatedly to steal more coffins by exploiting the shop’s rules and escaping its supernatural traps. He agreed to stop when the shop offered him all its ghost money, which could help him repay Sister Hong.

• Yang Jian and Lin Yunhui returned to Taiping Ancient Town with eight stolen coffins, and Yang Jian decided to rob the Coffin Shop again.
• The Coffin Shop shut its doors, but Yang Jian broke them open, argued that the shop owed him four coffins and compensation, then entered.
• Yang Jian took a red coffin and used the bus’s supernatural power to escape the shop’s trap, then returned twice more to steal the remaining coffins.
• The Coffin Shop offered Yang Jian money to make him stop, and he agreed to take all the ghost money instead of continuing to rob it.
• The Coffin Shop blew its colorful paper money out toward Yang Jian and Lin Yunhui.

Yang Jian returned to Dachang City with Lin Yunhui, assigned her to handle supernatural incidents, and stored ten empty coffins at Wang Shanshan’s house before preparing to confront his ghostly resurgence. He learned that the sealed third room upstairs had begun making noises around midnight, then retrieved the human-skin paper to seek guidance.

• Yang Jian accepted two hundred yuan in compensation from the Coffin Shop and left Taiping Ancient Town with Lin Yunhui for Dachang City.
• Yang Jian introduced Lin Yunhui to his team and assigned her several supernatural incident case files to handle.
• Yang Jian returned to Guangjiang Residential Area and stored ten empty coffins at Wang Shanshan’s house.
• Wang Shanshan told Yang Jian that the sealed third room on the second floor had recently made noises around midnight.
• Yang Jian left Wang Shanshan’s house and retrieved the human-skin paper from the lake water.

With two days left before his ghostly resurgence, Yang Jian rejected the human-skin paper’s options of taking Chinese medicine or hiding in the Red Coffin and sought a way to solve the problem permanently. The paper led him to consider controlling Yan Li’s ghost blood, but a precognitive image of his corpse in the blood pool left him uncertain whether to take the risk.

• Yang Jian learned that the Chinese medicine would only delay his ghostly resurgence by twenty days and concluded that both it and the Red Coffin were dangerous stopgaps.
• Yang Jian demanded a direct solution from the human-skin paper, which described him searching Headquarters’ records without finding an answer.
• As the countdown continued, Yang Jian recalled Yan Li’s ghost blood and considered using it to suppress the bus’s supernatural power.
• The human-skin paper’s account ended with Yang Jian jumping into the blood pool, leaving his fate unknown.
• Yang Jian connected the plan to a precognitive image of his corpse in the blood pool and weighed gambling on the ghost blood against being trapped in the Red Coffin.