Recaps

Yang Jian contained a ghost that had escaped from a soul bottle, saved a descending plane, and pursued the bottle’s history in J City. At Ping An Hotel, he stopped Lin Shan’s ghost from spreading and helped Wang Jiang confirm that Lin Shan had murdered a classmate.

• Yang Jian spotted the ghostly hand attacking passengers, found its source in the cabin, and contained it before using his Ghost Domain to land the failing plane at J City Airport.
• At the airport, Yang Jian discovered that Wan Delu’s suitcase held a soul bottle, then drove its ghostly hand away when it attacked Guo Fan and took the sealed bottle to investigate.
• Yang Jian confronted Liu Xiaoyu about Headquarters’ surveillance and containment measures, then had Wan Delu trace the antiques to their source and buy similar sealed bottles.
• When Lin Shan’s ghostly influence flooded Ping An Hotel, Yang Jian and Zhang Lei approached his room, where Zhang Lei was dragged beneath the water and Yang Jian demanded greater payment.
• Yang Jian rescued Zhang Lei from the corpses beneath the water, bound Lin Shan with the Ghost Rope, and kicked him from the eighteenth floor as Lin Shan’s ghost began to revive.
• Yang Jian restrained Lin Shan’s reviving ghost with the Ghost Rope and sealed the corpse in a box, while Shen Liang paid him with ghost candles and Yang Jian warned Headquarters against further routine assignments.
• Wang Jiang identified a corpse in Lin Shan’s room by its Peppa Pig toenail art and confronted Yang Jian, who explained that he had killed people to protect those important to him.

Yang Jian infiltrated the Circle of Friends, altered Li Yao’s memories, and learned why they wanted him removed. During training, the Ghost Coffin ghost escaped and trapped the Ghost Tamers in the base, where Yang Jian tried to gather survivors before it grew stronger.

• Yang Jian refused Li Yao’s recruitment offer, then altered her memories and made her loyal to him so she would spy on the Circle of Friends and protect Zhang Fen.
• Yang Jian learned from Zhang Lei that a coffin nail might be found in a graveyard, while Wang Xiaoming offered to help Yang Jian in exchange for the ghost bred in his Ghost Coffin.
• At the training base, Wang Xiaoming’s experiment on Wei Jing failed, and the ghost escaped the laboratory and began attacking the Ghost Tamers.
• Yang Jian discovered that the ghost had trapped him inside the Ghost Coffin and learned that it grew stronger by killing Ghost Tamers and taking their ghosts.
• Yang Jian searched the dormitory with Huang Ziya, found a dead Ghost Tamer, and rescued a frightened survivor while trying to gather the others.
• The ghost killed another Ghost Tamer and gained a sixth ghost as Zhang Lei’s group scattered during their retreat.
• Yang Jian learned that Qian Yi had used the others as bait, then convinced Wang Jiang and the remaining survivors to return with him and search for Zhang Lei.

Yang Jian gathered the surviving Ghost Tamers, used the human skin paper and the bloodstained newspaper to weaken the Ghost Messenger, and escaped its Ghost Domain. Wang Xiaoming then risked a final plan to lure the ghost back into the coffin, and the darkness began to recede.

• Yang Jian rescued Zhang Lei and gathered the remaining Ghost Tamers, then lit a white ghost candle to draw the Ghost Messenger toward them.
• When the ghost seized Wang Jiang, Yang Jian released the ghost hand and used his Headless Ghost Shadow to stop the attack, but the ghost hand attached itself to his arm.
• Yang Jian found Qian Yi and attacked the Ghost Messenger, while Zhang Lei’s rotting head halted its Ghost Turning Back ability and revealed that each suppressed ghost cost it an ability.
• Yang Jian covered the ghost’s face with the bloodstained newspaper, then altered its memories to believe it contained three ghosts and seized the coffin nail when it reset.
• The Ghost Messenger’s body collapsed and its Ghost Domain receded, while Yang Jian discovered a new ghost mark suppressing his other ghosts and saw the coffin returning toward the laboratory.
• Yang Jian left the training base and learned that Wang Xiaoming and the top Ghost Tamers had entered the Ghost Domain to confront the resetting ghost.
• Wang Xiaoming decided to lure the Ghost Messenger into the damaged coffin, then redirected it with a blood-marked cloth doll in a golden box.
• The Ghost Messenger struck the coffin, and the darkness began to recede as Feng Quan and Cao Yang watched.

Yang Jian rescued the Ghost Tamers from the revived Ghost Messenger, then gained control of Gao Zhiqiang’s ghost after stopping Gao at Headquarters. At the Captain Plan meeting, he opposed Jiang Shangbai’s proposal to use the Coffin Nail, and the attendees began considering how to contain the Ghost Messenger from outside.

• The Ghost Coffin revived and killed two Ghost Tamers, forcing Wang Xiaoming’s team to flee as its Ghost Domain suppressed Li Jun’s power.
• Yang Jian arrived to rescue the trapped Ghost Tamers, pulled the survivors and the coffin out of the Ghost Domain, then concealed the lingering darkness within a valley.
• Yang Jian wagered that he could alter reality, demonstrated by erasing a tree and nearby soil, and told Wang Xiaoming he could not yet restore what had disappeared.
• Yang Jian encountered Miao Xiaoshan in J City, urged her to keep her distance from his dangerous life, and decided to move the ghosts and Ghost Mirror stored at the hotel.
• At Headquarters, Yang Jian confronted Gao Zhiqiang after Gao controlled Liu Xiaoyu and Zhang Lele, then used his ghost shadow and Ghost Domain to subdue him.
• Yang Jian absorbed Gao Zhiqiang’s ghost, restored and strengthened his own body, and hid the Gold Box containing the ghost deep beneath Headquarters while requesting permission to control it.
• At the Captain Plan meeting, Yang Jian rejected Jiang Shangbai’s proposal to retrieve the Coffin Nail from the Starving Ghost, and Old Qin stopped their confrontation.
• Li Lepeng said the Ghost Messenger was a Ghost Domain that had to be contained from outside, while the attendees struggled to remember who he was.