Recaps

Yang Jian investigated the Wishing Ghost’s return, then entered Baishui Town with Liu Qi to search for Wang Shanshan amid a supernatural rain and a road crowded with the dead. After Xiao Yang died and Liu Qi nearly lost control trying to take a wandering soul, Yang Jian saved him, and the two continued deeper into town to find Wang Shanshan.

• Yang Jian visited the Blind Old Man’s Chinese medicine shop, learned his views on Ghost Tamers and the supernatural cycle, and left with three packets of medicine after revealing he had killed Zhang Xianguang and the others.
• Yang Jian discovered that the Wishing Ghost had returned to Zhao Xiaoya, sent her to Zhang Xianguang for instruction, and used Zhang Xianguang’s broadsword to split the Ghost Cabinet before making contradictory requests of its two halves.
• Yang Jian reunited with Liu Qi and heard how Liu Qi had become a Ghost Tamer, then the two traveled to Baishui Town after learning Wang Shanshan and Xiao Yang had disappeared there.
• Yang Jian and Liu Qi found Baishui Town overtaken by supernatural rain and nighttime ghosts, rescued survivors sheltering with Xiao Yang, and contained five ghosts from a clothing store.
• Yang Jian, Liu Qi, and Xiao Yang became separated among the wandering dead souls, where Liu Qi and Xiao Yang tried to carry away the souls of loved ones while Yang Jian burned familiar apparitions and searched for Wang Shanshan.
• Three strange women trapped Liu Qi and Xiao Yang as they tried to take a dead soul, and Xiao Yang died when the supernatural rain sustaining the town stopped.
• Yang Jian broke the ghosts’ circle, killed the attacking ghosts, and used Chinese medicine to stabilize Liu Qi, who warned that taking a wandering soul provoked attacks tailored to the rescuer.
• Yang Jian and Liu Qi left Xiao Yang’s corpse behind temporarily and followed the vicious dog’s fading traces farther into the road of the departed to search for Wang Shanshan.

Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan fought to escape Baishui Town’s false world as Yang Jian severed his ties to it and faced Old Qin and the Republic-era Ghost Tamers. The world collapsed around him, but Zhang Dong trapped his consciousness, leaving the vicious dog as his last hope.

• Yang Jian followed the Ghost Child’s tracks into a wooden house and found himself in a false version of Dachang City three years earlier, where he searched for Wang Shanshan and learned she was missing.
• Yang Jian found Wang Shanshan in Baishui Town, recovered the human skin paper, and learned it predicted his death there at 6:10 p.m.
• Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan searched for a way out, but Ghost Lake led to an out-of-control version of itself, and Ghost Child revealed that Yang Jian had to sever his connections to the world before six.
• Yang Jian erased people’s memories of him and fought Headquarters’ Ghost Tamers, then used overlapping Ghost Domains to defeat Meng Xiaodong’s past selves and burn the remains of Ghost Dream and Yang Xiaotian.
• Yang Jian took Ghost Child to a crowded Japanese city, where it multiplied and attacked Old Qin, Meng Xiaodong, Luo Qian, Luo Wensong, and Zhang Dong as they came to kill him.
• Ghost Child overwhelmed the old Ghost Tamers, but Zhang Dong reached Yang Jian just as the false world collapsed and seized him before vanishing with the world.
• Wang Shanshan and Liu Qi tried to use the vicious dog to reach Yang Jian, and the dog entered his consciousness, where its growl jolted him from his thoughts.

Yang Jian rescued his companions and survivors from Baishui Town, dealt with threats in Nightmare Castle, and returned to Dachang City. At a class reunion, the Wishing Ghost began using egg fried rice and the wishes of Yang Jian’s friends and family to force him into a deal as midnight approached.

• Yang Jian escaped the wooden house with Liu Qi, Wang Shanshan, and Ghost Child, then led the survivors out of Baishui Town and returned to Dachang City.
• Yang Jian strengthened Ghost Child with red embroidered shoes and used it to devour Quiet’s ghost and the strange girls it summoned.
• In Nightmare Castle, Zhang Xianguang killed Ron in a duel, and Yang Jian later helped defeat the fierce ghost in the moving armor before returning Zhang Xianguang to the classroom.
• Yang Jian recorded the Baishui Town incident, discussed marriage with Zhang Fen, and told Miao Xiaoshan he was considering her and Jiang Yan as possible wives.
• Feng Quan buried himself with Wei Jing in the Grave Soil to try to communicate with him and restrain the Ghost Messenger.
• At Zhang Wei’s class reunion, Yang Jian recognized the Ghost Cupboard’s egg fried rice as a sign of the Wishing Ghost, and the group waited for it to appear before midnight.
• The Wishing Ghost drew a crowd of controlled people to the Peace Hotel, but Yang Jian used men in black to push them out without killing them and found nineteen plates of egg fried rice.
• Yang Jian discovered that the Wishing Ghost had approached Jiang Yan, Zhang Fen, and his companions’ families with wishes, while his group debated whether to imprison it before midnight.

Yang Jian defeated the Wishing Ghost, then became entangled in the renewed Starvation Ghost crisis and helped Sister Hong take control of the supernatural bus. The bus left a ghost-filled county town carrying Sister Hong and five Republican Era survivors toward an endless cemetery, while Yang Jian remained wary of them.

• Yang Jian used an eight-layer Ghost Domain to clash with the Wishing Ghost’s reset, survived the resulting crash of six Ghost Eyes, and contained the ghost fused with the Ghost Cabinet.
• Yang Jian learned how to use the Wishing Ghost’s power, formed it into a spear, and erased the supernatural corrosion by restarting himself.
• Wang Chaling discovered that the Starvation Ghost had escaped, and its blue-black Ghost Domain began spreading through Dadong City as Yang Jian and Headquarters responded.
• Yang Jian met Sister Hong, cleansed the curse on his Ghost Scissors in a blood pool, and agreed to help her with the supernatural bus.
• Yang Jian established a connection with the bus’s hidden driver ghost and drove through a forest of ghosts before stopping in an abandoned county town.
• As yellow-paper-faced ghosts killed Ghost Tamers and filled the town, Yang Jian used a wish to pass among them unharmed and took the bus’s driver seat.
• Sister Hong returned with five Republican Era survivors, and Yang Jian attacked her with his red spear after two of the men proposed taking the bus from him.
• Yang Jian drove the bus out of the county town with Sister Hong, the five survivors, and hidden ghosts aboard, heading toward a cemetery stretching beyond sight.