Recaps

After surviving Ye Feng’s attack and killing Wang Xiaoqiang, Yang Jian became Dachang City Manager just as a vast supernatural incident engulfed the city. He removed a Ghost Infant from Zhang Liqin and joined an emergency effort after reports revealed the creatures were spreading through the population.

• Yang Jian outmaneuvered Ye Feng in the Ghost Domain, fought him to a draw, and forced him to withdraw with Wang Xiaoqiang before containing the real Ghost Rope.
• Yang Jian rejected the human skin paper’s risky plan to strengthen himself, then accepted his appointment as Dachang City Manager and began pursuing Wang Xiaoqiang and Ye Feng.
• Yang Jian caught Wang Xiaoqiang on the road and burned him to death, then dismantled and sealed his skeletal ghost despite Wang Xiaoming’s arrival.
• A bluish-black haze spread over Dachang City, prompting Yang Jian and Zhao Kaiming to suspend their feud and cooperate while Headquarters prepared for a catastrophic incident.
• Yang Jian discovered a Ghost Infant growing inside Zhang Liqin, used his Ghost Shadow and Ghost Domain to extract it, and sealed it in a gold box.
• Reports of Ghost Infant cases multiplied as the city remained dark, and Wang Xiaoming told the emergency meeting that 138 had been confirmed and ordered the group to capture one for research.

Yang Jian and Wang Xiaoming pursued the Ghost Infants through a supernatural hospital, where Yang Jian contained Ye Feng’s corpse but failed to capture the source ghost. They returned to Guangjiang Residential Area as the gloom threatened Dachang City, and Yang Jian began sheltering Wang Shanshan’s family.

• Wang Xiaoming named the Starvation Ghost Incident and organized teams to hunt Ghost Infants, while Yang Jian negotiated for Dachang City’s gold reserves in exchange for his captured specimen.
• Ye Feng and He Chuan became trapped on Seventh Street, where Ghost Infants killed them, and Ye Feng’s final text contained the number 7.
• Yang Jian extracted a first-stage Ghost Infant for Wang Xiaoming, then used his Ghost Domain to trace it to the impossible street as the hospital fell under a spreading supernatural darkness.
• Yang Jian and Wang Xiaoming led Ghost Tamers into the altered hospital, where derivative Ghost Infants killed Sun Yi and trapped the group among shifting corridors and walls.
• Yang Jian retrieved the withered finger from Wang Xiaoming’s office, reunited with Wang Xiaoming, and learned the Ghost Infants’ attack conditions before they searched for the source ghost.
• Yang Jian and Zhang Han fought the fourth-stage Ghost Infant resembling Ye Feng, and Yang Jian suppressed it with the withered finger before sealing Ye Feng’s corpse in a Gold Box.
• Yang Jian found Wang Xiaoming alive, but the gloom overwhelmed the hospital and left the Gold Box behind, forcing Yang Jian, Wang Xiaoming, and Zhang Han to retreat.
• Yang Jian returned to Guangjiang Residential Area with Wang Xiaoming and Zhang Han, agreed to protect Wang Bin’s family, and learned that the mark on Wang Shanshan’s arm had grown clearer.

Yang Jian risked death to revive himself, recover the coffin nail, and confront the source ghost as the Starvation Ghost Incident consumed Dachang City. He used the nail to seal the source ghost, the haze lifted, and the city was left safe while the ghost was taken into custody.

• Yang Jian learned the source ghost was harvesting Dachang City and arranged shelter for the residents while asking Headquarters to accept the risk of releasing the ghost pinned beneath the White Bone Tree.
• With Headquarters’ approval, Yang Jian used the Ghost Rope and Ghost Mirror in a dangerous experiment, died, and revived after seven days inside the mirror.
• Yang Jian returned to Guangjiang Residential Area, restored Wang Shanshan, and learned from her that the source ghost was at Seventh Middle School.
• Yang Jian entered the school, fought Zhao Kaiming, then went to Hongfa Temple and pulled the coffin nail from the black figure pinned to the White Bone Tree.
• The source ghost ambushed Yang Jian in Zhou Zheng’s form and reset time, erasing the progress of their first confrontation.
• Yang Jian and Wang Xiaoming devised a long-range attack, and Yang Jian used stacked Ghost Domains to pierce the school’s haze and drive the coffin nail into the Starvation Ghost from over a thousand meters away.
• The haze over Dachang City dispersed, and Zhao Jianguo’s team sealed the Starvation Ghost in a gold box while Yang Jian returned to the residential complex and reunited with Jiang Yan.

After surviving the Starvation Ghost Incident, Yang Jian asserted his strength at Headquarters and dealt with a ghost tied to Zhao Lei. He followed clues to the Republican-era house and set out for Xiaochun City to decipher a notebook, where a missing Ghost Tamer drew his attention.

• Zhao Kaiming’s family revived after Zhao Xiaoya opened their ice coffins, but Zhao Kaiming died realizing the ghost’s curse would continue through his daughter.
• Yang Jian investigated Hongfa Temple, attended the Starvation Ghost meeting, and demonstrated his dominance by trapping Lin Long in a golden coffin box until Headquarters agreed to provide a ghost candle.
• Zhao Lei confronted Yang Jian, then vanished amid red paper and a newspaper-reading figure, leaving a message that promised they would meet again.
• Yang Jian discovered Zhao Lei’s notes explaining that a ghost had rewritten Zhao Lei’s memories and planted hatred to lure Yang Jian, then used the human skin paper to identify the old house’s second room as a lead.
• Yang Jian entered the sealed second room and found a cabinet that resisted his Ghost Eye and flashlight, with a pair of eyes briefly appearing behind its lattice door.
• Yang Jian learned that mercenaries linked to Shangtong Technology had attacked him and arranged for a handwriting expert in Xiaochun City to restore the notebook’s worn writing.
• Yang Jian traveled to Xiaochun City, left the notebook with Cheng Xiong, and followed the intermittent signal from a missing Ghost Tamer’s satellite phone after Liu Xiaoyu asked him to retrieve it.