Recaps

Yang Jian navigated Headquarters’ demands, investigated the soul bottles, and uncovered Friends Circle’s plan to kill him while Headquarters sent a team to contain the Ghost Messenger with the Ghost Painting. The team became trapped in Huanggang Village, where Yang Jian suspected they had suffered heavy losses and left to prepare for what came next.

• Cao Yanhua offered Yang Jian supernatural items in exchange for withdrawing from the Captain Plan, and Yang Jian negotiated for his Coffin Nail and accepted Wang Xiaoming’s offer to study the human skin paper.
• Yang Jian rejected Friends Circle’s recruitment offer, warned Li Yao to monitor the group, and learned that it had decided to kill him when an opportunity arose.
• Wan Delu brought Yang Jian information about the soul bottles and introduced him to Luo Yong, who recognized the Door-Knocking Ghost as his missing grandfather.
• Yang Jian postponed investigating Luo Yong’s family history after Li Yao warned him about Friends Circle, then requested the music box and other protective items from Cao Yanhua.
• Li Jun led Headquarters’ team into Ghost Painting’s ash-filled domain, where they found Huanggang Village in place of the valley and realized they were trapped.
• Li Jun’s team entered the village to search for the Ghost Messenger, encountering apparently suppressed ghosts and signs that they had visited the same house before.
• Liu San discovered paper effigies of himself, and Li Jun’s team found a portrait depicting them with an old man before encountering the man outside.
• Yang Jian observed that Ghost Painting’s domain remained active three hours into the operation, suspected the team had suffered heavy losses, and left to make preparations.

The Ghost Messenger operation ended with Li Jun’s team escaping and Wei Jing returning, while Yang Jian began targeting the Friends Circle. New Ghost Painting incidents appeared as Yang Jian pursued He Tianxiong, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Yang Jian discovered that five ghostly figures had emerged from the vanished Ghost Domains, while Headquarters suspected they were manifestations of Ghost Painting and tried to lure them away from the city.
• Chen Yi and Zhong Shan guided the five figures with Ghost Candles, but the plan collapsed when Chen Yi could not relight his candle and Guo Fan’s ghost attacked.
• Li Jun led his team through Ghost Painting’s encroaching domain to the last house in Huanggang Village, where they escaped through the Ghost Door as Wei Jing’s corpse followed them back to Headquarters.
• Wang Xiaoming learned that Wei Jing had returned after Ghost Messenger’s Infinite Restart, while Chen Yi recovered his Human Skin Coat and Yang Jian decided to strike the Friends Circle.
• Yang Jian killed Zhang Jian in his Ghost Domain, then confronted Manager Fei, who disclosed the location of hidden information before leaving to die.
• After an oil painting containing a mutilated woman appeared near Manager Fei’s apartment, Yang Jian recognized it as a possible sign of a renewed Ghost Painting threat and offered Headquarters help for five days.
• Yang Jian confronted He Tianxiong at his villa and demanded that he survive five minutes, then pursued him through the house until He Tianxiong turned in terror as Yang Jian activated his Ghost Eyes.

Yang Jian contained the Ghost Painting at the school, uncovered a threat from the Circle of Friends, and negotiated a contract that gave him team-forming rights instead of the captain position. The arc ended with Jiang Shangbai reporting Yang Jian’s demands to Fang Shiming, who planned to kill him at six.

• Yang Jian attacked He Tianxiong, but a substitute-death doll took the fatal blow, and he left when Miao Xiaoshan called about the ghost painting at her dormitory.
• Yang Jian evacuated Miao Xiaoshan and investigated the dormitory with Wang Quan’s team, where the Ghost Painting distorted the building and released a woman in red.
• Yang Jian suppressed the woman in red and the Ghost Painting, ending the Ghost Domain and allowing Wang Quan’s team to rescue the trapped students.
• Yang Jian restored Li Yao’s memories of his supernatural influence, then left her as a ghost attacked her.
• Jiang Shangbai investigated the Circle of Friends’ missing members, while Yang Jian recognized that his Ghost Eye had reached its limit.
• At Headquarters, Yang Jian confronted Jiang Shangbai with a recording of the Circle of Friends’ plan to kill him, and Jiang withdrew after Yang Jian threatened him with his Ghost Domain.
• Cao Yanhua presented the Captain Plan and assigned the Ghost Tamers three days to find the Ghost Painting’s source, while Yang Jian declined to pursue the case and negotiated other terms with Headquarters.
• Yang Jian traded the captain position for team-forming rights and other concessions, then Jiang Shangbai told Fang Shiming about the deal, and Fang ordered the Circle of Friends to wait until six so he could kill Yang Jian.

After the Friends Circle used the Ghost Scissors to kill Yang Jian, the music box curse kept him conscious long enough to reclaim his body. He returned in secret, attacked the Friends Circle, and was pinned by the real Fang Shiming as their battle escalated.

• Fang Shiming used the Ghost Scissors and Yang Jian’s photograph to split Yang Jian’s head, but the music box curse preserved Yang Jian’s consciousness.
• With Huang Ziya’s help, Yang Jian reunited his head and body, then used Gao Zhiqiang’s ghost to repair them and give Huang Ziya a pendant that temporarily halted her revival.
• Yang Jian learned that Headquarters had concealed his death and expanded his Ghost Domain across the city, separating ordinary people from the trapped Ghost Tamers.
• Yang Jian told Liu Xiaoyu that he was going offline, stole the corpse-wrapping cloth from Headquarters, and went to attack the Circle of Friends at Ping An Building.
• Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye and Ghost Hand killed Fang Shiming’s first self and Wu Yun, while Jiang Shangbai fought off the Headless Ghost Shadow before Yang Jian dragged him into the darkness.
• Yang Jian threw Jiang Shangbai’s corpse from Ping An Building and searched Fang Shiming’s body for the Ghost Scissors as Ghost Tamers gathered outside.
• The real Fang Shiming appeared, used the Ghost Scissors to crush Yang Jian beneath a ghost’s weight, and Yang Jian opened the sixth layer of his Ghost Domain.