Recaps

Yang Jian killed Fang Shiming and captured the corpse in Caesar Hotel, then sought a way to survive the Music Box Curse while tracking the Ghost Painting. The arc ended with Yang Jian entering the painting’s city to investigate the presence watching him.

• Yang Jian broke through Fang Shiming’s defenses, but Fang Shiming escaped after their fall while Yang Jian recovered and pursued him.
• Yang Jian found the rotting corpse in Caesar Hotel, restrained it with the burial shroud, and used the cursed hatchet to drive away the bloody handprints.
• Yang Jian struck Fang Shiming’s shadow through his footprints with the hatchet, killing Fang Shiming and the corpse on his back.
• Wang Xiaoming offered to help Yang Jian address the Music Box Curse, and Yang Jian agreed while secretly pursuing other options.
• Yang Jian consulted the human-skin paper, rejected its risky advice, and asked the Ghost Cabinet to resolve the curse, but it said he had only seen the woman and reminded him that nine months and three days remained.
• Wang Xiaoming took Guo Fan’s life-sustaining spirit tablet with Wei Jing’s help, leaving Guo Fan’s consciousness inside it.
• Yang Jian investigated a ghost painting in J City, carried it to He Tianxiong’s villa, and killed Wang Ye when Wang Ye tried to trade information with him.
• Yang Jian entered the Ghost Painting’s city after marking the exit with a gold bullet, then sensed something watching him from a nearby shop.

Yang Jian found the source of the Ghost Painting and escaped with the surviving foreigners, then used the Ghost Cabinet and Wang Xiaoming’s plan to transfer the Music Box Curse to Guo Fan. As Headquarters prepared another Ghost Painting operation, Yang Jian’s Ghost Child sealed the research base, and Li Jun recruited Xiong Wenwen for the mission.

• Yang Jian entered the Ghost Painting’s world, investigated its haunted building with Li Yang and Jimmy, and discovered that the red-clothed ghost and the deadly stairwell footsteps were closing in on them.
• Yang Jian led the survivors toward an exit, but the red-clothed ghost targeted Jimmy, so Yang Jian escaped with Li Yang and the others through a dark window.
• Yang Jian suppressed the Ghost Painting, helped Li Yang care for the stranded survivors, and asked the Ghost Cabinet to resolve the Music Box Curse, but it could not do so.
• Yang Jian took the second-stage Ghost Infant, named it the Ghost Child, and found that it needed frequent orders to keep it from attacking people.
• Wang Xiaoming offered Yang Jian a risky plan to transfer his consciousness into Guo Fan’s spirit tablet, and Yang Jian entered the Ghost Coffin to begin it.
• Guo Fan awakened in Yang Jian’s body and inherited the Music Box Curse, while Yang Jian remained safe in the memorial tablet.
• Yang Jian’s Ghost Child appeared inside the research base, where Xiao Zhang died trying to leave and Gao Ming realized a ghost had sealed off the building.
• Li Jun rejected Liu San’s objections and recruited Xiong Wenwen for the Ghost Painting operation, while Xiong Wenwen gave his mother Yang Jian’s private number in case he needed rescuing.

Yang Jian survived the Music Box Curse, revived, and uncovered how the spirit-tablet ghost and human-skin paper had shaped the crisis. After rescuing Tong Qian and gathering allies, he returned to Dachang City as the Ghost Painting operation collapsed and a new intrusion threatened his home.

• Wang Xiaoming used Wang Shanshan’s command over the Ghost Child to restore Yang Jian, who agreed to capture the spirit-tablet ghost and restore Wei Jing.
• Yang Jian discovered the human-skin paper had manipulated events around Wei Jing and Guo Fan, then sealed it in a golden sphere around the Ghost Child.
• Yang Jian refused Chen Shumei’s plea to rescue Xiong Wenwen from the Ghost Painting Incident and recruited Huang Ziya, Feng Quan, and Tong Qian for his team.
• Yang Jian rescued Feng Quan from Pei Dong’s group, killed Zhou Jiefeng, and freed the imprisoned Tong Qian, who agreed to join his team.
• Yang Jian returned to Dachang City with the Ghost Child and arranged to visit his mother and investigate his father’s death, while warning Zhang Liqin that his emotions and memories were fading.
• Li Jun learned that Chen Yi and Liu San were dead and Xiong Wenwen was trapped in a photograph, then sent Li Yang to escape while he stayed to fight the Ghost Painting.
• Yang Jian found blood and a child’s footprint at the entrance to Guangjiang Residential Area and asked Zhang Han to investigate the surveillance footage for a connection to an earlier intrusion.

Yang Jian traveled to Kobe City to confront the Door-Knocking Ghost, surviving its domain and eventually trapping it in a box. As Mishima prepared to transport the unstable containment, Yang Jian discovered that the hatchet he used had inflicted a matching necrotic wound on his arm.

• Yang Jian learned that the Ghost Painting operation had failed, investigated the Ghost Knocking case file, and found the Head Balloon Incident connected to it.
• Yang Jian agreed to help the island nation’s Headquarters in exchange for fifty tons of gold, five Ghost Porcelains, and three assistants, then traveled to Kobe City.
• Yang Jian entered Kobe City with Mishima, Nagazawa, and Keiko, where he encountered multiple supernatural threats and discovered the Door-Knocking Ghost’s domain was spreading through the city.
• Yang Jian used a ghost candle to draw in the Door-Knocking Ghost, but the confrontation weakened his safeguards and forced him to retreat with a wooden box taken from the ghost’s pocket.
• Yang Jian deciphered numbers carved into the wooden board as coordinates near Dahan City, then agreed to make another attempt and set a coffin trap with Nagazawa as bait.
• Yang Jian dragged the Door-Knocking Ghost into the trap and severed its raised arm with a woodcutter’s axe, allowing him to shut it inside a metal box.
• Yamazaki and Tian Ye challenged Yang Jian for the box, but a half-rotted-headed figure killed Tian Ye and pursued Yamazaki.
• Yang Jian reinforced the box and discovered a matching necrotic wound on his arm, realizing the hatchet had transferred the ghost’s injury to him.