Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian stalled Ye Feng inside his Ghost Domain while Wang Xiaoqiang encountered a ghost girl outside and watched her leave. Ye Feng finally reached what he thought was Yang Jian, only to discover it was an illusion as the real Yang Jian taunted him from elsewhere.

• Yang Jian used the Ghost Candle and ghost ropes to wear Ye Feng down as Ye Feng advanced carefully under the burial robe's protection.
• Wang Xiaoqiang revived, failed to enter Yang Jian's Ghost Domain, and encountered a ghost girl that ran after a passing truck and left the residential area.
• Wang Xiaoqiang suspected the girl had escaped from the Ghost Mirror after Zhang Wei died and worried about the danger surrounding the residential area.
• Ye Feng broke through the ghost ropes and reached the Ghost Candle, where Yang Jian's image faded away.
• The real Yang Jian appeared at Ye Feng's starting point and called out to him, revealing that Ye Feng had been chasing an illusion.

Yang Jian and Ye Feng continued their standoff inside the Ghost Domain, each weakened by the powers of their ghosts. As Ye Feng tried to escape, he used his second ghost’s ability to bite a hole through the Ghost Domain.

• Ye Feng admitted his plan to kill Yang Jian had failed and offered to stop targeting him, but Yang Jian refused to let him go.
• The Ghost Rope attacked Ye Feng, but he pulled it down and escaped, realizing the funeral robe’s protection had shifted and his condition was worsening.
• Yang Jian sensed his own Ghost Eye beginning to revive while he maintained the Ghost Domain, and decided to wait Ye Feng out.
• Ye Feng exposed the teeth growing on his chest and used them to bite away dead flesh caused by the funeral robe.
• The ghost teeth bit through the Ghost Domain, and Yang Jian saw the breach with the Ghost Eye on his forehead.

Yang Jian recovered control of his Ghost Domain by taking the strange finger, while Ye Feng escaped after their battle left both men badly hurt. Ye Feng agreed to withdraw from the Xiaoqiang Club and end the fight for now, but Yang Jian warned that their next meeting would be fatal for one of them.

• Yang Jian decided he could not kill Ye Feng in the Ghost Domain and turned to retrieve the finger restricting it.
• Yang Jian shot Wang Xiaoqiang, who revived, then used his Ghost Shadow to pull the finger from the ground.
• Ye Feng tore his way out of the Ghost Domain, and he and Yang Jian recognized that their fight had ended in a draw.
• Wang Xiaoqiang urged Ye Feng to keep fighting, but Ye Feng rebuked him and declared he would withdraw from the Xiaoqiang Club.
• Yang Jian warned Ye Feng that only one of them would survive their next encounter, then ordered him to leave.

Yang Jian drove off Ye Feng and Wang Xiaoqiang after they tried to assassinate him, then contained the revived ghost rope. He reported the attack to Headquarters and insisted that Wang Xiaoqiang be punished under its rules, leaving Zhao Jianguo to arrange Yang Jian’s formal appointment and seek Wang Xiaoming’s cooperation.

• Yang Jian warned Ye Feng that he would pursue revenge in the future, and Ye Feng and Wang Xiaoqiang withdrew from the residential area.
• Yang Jian used a gold-thread marker to find and contain the real ghost rope, ending the immediate crisis.
• Yang Jian called Captain Liu to report the armed deaths, then told Zhao Jianguo that Wang Xiaoqiang and Ye Feng had tried to assassinate him.
• Yang Jian rejected Zhao Jianguo’s appeal to spare Wang Xiaoqiang because of Wang Xiaoming, and cited Headquarters’ rule requiring action against anyone who assassinated a city manager.
• Zhao Jianguo ordered Liu Xiaoyu to urge Sun Yi to reach Dachang City and help formalize Yang Jian’s appointment, then left to speak with Wang Xiaoming.

Sun Yi’s disastrous blind date ended when Ghost Tamer Headquarters canceled his leave and ordered him to Dachang City, but he was stuck with an enormous restaurant bill. Zhao Jianguo agreed to investigate whether Sun Yi had been scammed and reimburse him if the meal was legitimate.

• Sun Yi tried to impress Hu Jiajia on their blind date by proposing marriage and describing their imagined future family, while she grew increasingly uncomfortable.
• Hu Jiajia left after completing her task, and Sun Yi learned that Headquarters had canceled his leave and ordered him to report for a mission in Dachang City.
• The restaurant charged Sun Yi thirty-eight thousand for the meal, but he had only a hundred yuan and could not qualify for an online loan.
• Sun Yi asked Zhao Jianguo for money, and Zhao Jianguo said he would investigate the bill and reimburse him if the meal was not a scam.

After Yang Jian survived an armed attack at Guangjiang Residential Area, he told Captain Liu that Zhao Kaiming was involved and planned to handle the remaining enemies himself. Wang Xiaoqiang refused Wang Xiaoming’s offer of protection and remained alone in the deserted club, facing Yang Jian’s coming pursuit.

• Captain Liu’s personnel reported twenty-three criminal bodies, firearms, ammunition, and unexploded bombs at Guangjiang Residential Area.
• Yang Jian reassured Zhang Xiangui that the attackers had come for him and promised to deal with the remaining enemies.
• Yang Jian told Captain Liu that Zhao Kaiming had a hand in the attack and asked him to preserve the recovered firearms temporarily.
• Wang Xiaoqiang returned to his abandoned club, where he learned that his members and shareholders had fled.
• Wang Xiaoming urged Wang Xiaoqiang to come to his laboratory because Yang Jian intended to kill him, but Wang Xiaoqiang smashed his phone and refused.

Yang Jian decided that his current abilities were not enough to defeat Ye Feng and consulted the human skin paper for a way to grow stronger. It revealed a dangerous method called suicide that could let him perfectly control a ghost, and Yang Jian learned that the ghost shadow might be the target.

• Yang Jian weighed the risks of fighting Ye Feng and resolved to strengthen himself to protect Guangjiang Residential Area.
• Yang Jian opened the gold box and threatened to destroy the human skin paper unless it gave him a useful way to increase his strength.
• The human skin paper described suicide as a dangerous method of perfectly controlling a ghost without dying from its revival.
• Yang Jian learned that the method required another ghost and that he had already possessed the conditions to use it.
• The human skin paper explained that Yang Jian could use the method to perfectly control the ghost shadow, whose abilities were far more dangerous than he had realized.

Yang Jian learned that the human skin paper’s method for perfectly controlling the Ghost Shadow required him to die by the Ghost Rope before the Ghost Mirror, and he decided not to risk it yet. The next day, he received an appointment as Dachang City Manager and set out to meet Sun Yi, with official forces ready to support his hunt for Wang Xiaoqiang and Ye Feng.

• Yang Jian read the human skin paper’s plan to merge the Ghost Shadow into his body, hang himself with the Ghost Rope before the Ghost Mirror, and rely on the ghosts’ struggle to resurrect him.
• The human skin paper warned that the plan could fail, and Yang Jian chose to put it away rather than risk dying while dealing with Ye Feng.
• Yang Jian returned to his room and rested without sleeping, still thinking about finding a safer way to strengthen himself.
• Zhao Jianguo called Yang Jian the next day to tell him that his appointment as Dachang City Manager had been arranged and that Sun Yi would meet him.
• Yang Jian decided Zhao Jianguo had chosen to support him, then prepared to leave; Jiang Yan briefly asked to go with him before learning he was handling a supernatural incident.

Yang Jian completed the assessment for appointment as Dachang City Manager, answering Sun Yi’s questions with blunt, pragmatic reasoning. The assessment proved to be routine, and Yang Jian officially received his new credentials, but the prospect of meeting Zhao Kaiming left him grim.

• Yang Jian arrived at the guarded reception room and met Sun Yi, who conducted his recorded assessment.
• Yang Jian answered Sun Yi’s hypothetical ghost-emergency questions by prioritizing survival and explaining which people he would suspect.
• Yang Jian gave conventional answers about how he would handle paranormal incidents, then endured two hours of personal and aptitude questions.
• Sun Yi told Yang Jian the assessment was only routine because he had already been preselected, and officially appointed him Dachang City Manager.
• Sun Yi gave Yang Jian a satellite phone, identification, and uniform, then told him he would meet city officials and Zhao Kaiming.
• Yang Jian’s expression darkened when he heard Zhao Kaiming’s name, since Zhao was at the top of his death list.

Yang Jian took up the title of Dachang City manager and pushed for an immediate operation to find Wang Xiaoqiang and Ye Feng, while leaving most city affairs to Zhao Kaiming for now. After the meeting, Yang Jian recruited Sun Yi’s help and learned that the manager system might change as supernatural incidents increased.

• Sun Yi introduced Yang Jian to Dachang City’s officials, including fellow manager Zhao Kaiming, and Yang Jian made clear he would not take on the city’s routine responsibilities yet.
• Yang Jian demanded that the city find Wang Xiaoqiang and Ye Feng, and the East District’s representative agreed to lead an operation that afternoon.
• Zhao Kaiming privately worried that Yang Jian’s survival and new position had ruined his plans, and hoped Wang Xiaoqiang would escape and distract Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian and Sun Yi shared a meal, and Yang Jian urged the indebted Sun Yi to join the operation against Wang Xiaoqiang and Ye Feng.
• Sun Yi told Yang Jian that officials might revise the manager system because one manager could no longer handle the growing number of supernatural incidents.

Yang Jian led the operation to arrest Wang Xiaoqiang, but Wang Xiaoqiang escaped the Xiaoqiang Club in a sports car after receiving instructions from Wang Xiaoming. Yang Jian realized Wang Xiaoqiang was fleeing to meet his brother and used a narrow Ghost Domain to pursue him toward the city limits.

• Yang Jian ordered the forces surrounding the Xiaoqiang Club to hold position while he entered alone, and he confronted Zhao Kaiming before heading inside.
• Wang Xiaoming called Wang Xiaoqiang and told him to drive out of the city, promising to meet him and protect him.
• Wang Xiaoqiang jumped from a third-floor window, stole a blue sports car, and smashed through the barricades as Zhao Kaiming and Sun Yi made only token efforts to stop him.
• Yang Jian recognized that Wang Xiaoqiang was heading north to meet Wang Xiaoming and opened his Ghost Domain to pursue him.
• Yang Jian reshaped his Ghost Domain into a narrow path that extended hundreds of meters, then repeatedly vanished and reappeared farther down the road.

Yang Jian mastered seamless movement through his Ghost Domain and used it to catch Wang Xiaoqiang before he could reach Wang Xiaoming’s helicopter. After wrecking Wang Xiaoqiang’s car, Yang Jian prepared to kill him permanently.

• Wang Xiaoming tracked Wang Xiaoqiang and Yang Jian, then ordered his helicopter to intercept Wang Xiaoqiang near the expressway.
• Yang Jian experimented with extending his Ghost Domain and eliminated the pauses in his movement, allowing him to fly at extreme speed.
• Yang Jian caught up with Wang Xiaoqiang and entered his car, trapping him inside the Ghost Domain and making the helicopter disappear from view.
• Wang Xiaoqiang pulled out a gun, but the car crashed and broke apart, leaving him bloodied but alive.
• Yang Jian stood over Wang Xiaoqiang and said he knew how to prevent the ghost inside him from bringing him back to life.

Yang Jian killed Wang Xiaoqiang in his Ghost Domain despite Wang Xiaoming’s attempt to negotiate, then learned how to contain the skeletal ghost left behind. After Wang Xiaoming left, Yang Jian prepared to deal with Ye Feng and noticed a strange bluish-black haze over Dachang City.

• Wang Xiaoming arrived by helicopter as Yang Jian trapped Wang Xiaoqiang in the Ghost Domain and prepared to burn him alive.
• Yang Jian rejected Wang Xiaoming’s offer and burned Wang Xiaoqiang until only the skeletal ghost remained.
• Wang Xiaoming grieved for his brother, then told Yang Jian to dismantle the skeleton and wrap its pieces separately to prevent it from reassembling or parasitizing someone.
• Yang Jian dismembered the skeleton, wrapped each bone in Gold Foil Paper, and watched Wang Xiaoming leave for the laboratory.
• Yang Jian turned to consider how to deal with Ye Feng, then noticed a bluish-black haze dimming the sky over Dachang City.

After a tense meeting, the Asian Ghost Tamer Division decided to cultivate Yang Jian despite his flaws and to avoid removing him over Wang Xiaoqiang’s death. A satellite image then revealed a possible S-class incident in Dachang City, and the division rushed to contact Yang Jian as the crisis escalated.

• Deputy Minister Cao Yanhua argued that Yang Jian should be removed for killing Professor Wang’s younger brother, while others defended Yang Jian’s actions against Wang Xiaoqiang’s attempted terrorist attack.
• Zhao Jianguo described Yang Jian’s record of surviving major incidents and rescuing Ghost Tamers, and urged the division to cultivate him.
• The meeting concluded that Yang Jian would remain in service and that Zhao Kaiming should be transferred out of Dachang City to prevent conflict.
• Liu Xiaoyu asked Zhao Jianguo why the division had wanted Yang Jian to act but did not want him to succeed, and Zhao declined to explain further.
• A staff member brought Zhao Jianguo a satellite image showing a dangerous change in Dachang City, prompting him to call an emergency meeting and order Liu Xiaoyu to keep communications with Yang Jian open.
• Zhao Jianguo warned that the situation might be an S-class incident capable of wiping out several cities, and Liu Xiaoyu hurried to the communications room.

After Wang Xiaoqiang’s death, Wang Xiaoming left Dachang City by helicopter but discovered a supernatural phenomenon trapping him inside the city. Yang Jian noticed the same ominous darkness on his way back to Xiaoqiang Club and persuaded a reckless taxi driver, Old Wang, to speed through the streets.

• Wang Xiaoming grieved his brother’s death but chose not to retaliate against Yang Jian, recognizing that Wang Xiaoqiang had been a criminal.
• Wang Xiaoming’s helicopter became trapped over Dachang City as a bluish-black haze darkened the sky, so he called Li Jun and the minister to report a large-scale supernatural incident.
• Ghost Tamer Headquarters agreed to isolate Dachang City and discussed rescuing Wang Xiaoming at any cost.
• Yang Jian saw the strange darkness spreading over the city and asked his taxi driver to hurry back to Xiaoqiang Club.
• After Yang Jian showed his ID and fired his handgun to prove he was a Ghost Tamer, Old Wang accelerated at high speed and began boasting about his racing skills.

Yang Jian returned to Dachang City after dealing with Wang Xiaoqiang and learned that a large supernatural incident was spreading across the city. He accepted a mission to protect Professor Wang Xiaoming in exchange for authority over the city’s gold reserves, and agreed to a temporary truce with Zhao Kaiming.

• Old Wang’s taxi lost its brakes and plunged into an artificial river, but Yang Jian used his supernatural power to teleport them both to the sidewalk.
• Yang Jian returned to the sealed Xiaoqiang Club and told the director that he had shot Wang Xiaoqiang dead and disposed of his body.
• Sun Yi warned Yang Jian that the sky was darkening, and Yang Jian identified the change as signs of a large supernatural incident affecting Dachang City.
• Zhao Kaiming proposed a temporary truce, and Yang Jian agreed after Liu Xiaoyu offered him authority over Dachang City’s gold reserves to protect Professor Wang Xiaoming.
• Yang Jian and Zhao Kaiming parted on terms of a temporary truce without shaking hands.

As a large-scale supernatural incident darkened Dachang City, Yang Jian paused his conflict with Zhao Kaiming and collected weapons while seeking case files and reinforcements. After Captain Liu told him that Zhang Yuan had died trapped in a mirror, Yang Jian left as the city sank deeper into an ominous haze.

• Yang Jian and Zhao Kaiming stopped their conflict because Dachang City faced a potentially catastrophic supernatural incident.
• Yang Jian asked Liu Xiaoyu for reinforcements and all of Dachang City's supernatural case files, warning that the incident could trigger other hidden cases.
• Yang Jian collected confiscated weapons from Captain Liu, leaving some equipment for Captain Liu and his colleagues.
• Captain Liu told Yang Jian that Zhang Yuan had died of thirst inside the mirror and pleaded for future sacrifices not to be meaningless.
• Yang Jian saluted Captain Liu and left as a bluish-black haze shrouded the city.

Zhang Liqin secretly told Yang Jian that a rapidly growing fetus had appeared in her abdomen, and he discovered it was a Ghost Infant. He suspected the creature was being bred through an unexplained process, while Liu Xiaoyu insisted it could not be connected to Yang Jian.

• Jiang Yan tried to send Zhang Liqin home, but Zhang Liqin stayed to wait for Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian returned and agreed to speak privately with Zhang Liqin about her concern that she might be pregnant.
• Zhang Liqin showed Yang Jian her enlarged abdomen and said she had discovered a baby growing inside her.
• A baby's face appeared beneath Zhang Liqin's skin and tried to bite Yang Jian when he touched her stomach.
• Yang Jian identified the fetus as a Ghost Infant and warned that it would consume Zhang Liqin's organs and emerge from her body.
• Liu Xiaoyu said a Ghost Infant could not result from a Ghost Tamer having sex with an ordinary person, and Yang Jian concluded there had to be another explanation.

Yang Jian discovered that Zhang Liqin carried an uncontrollable Ghost Infant and brought her to his home to remove it. After preparing supernatural objects on the fifth floor, he began setting up a risky procedure to extract the Ghost Infant safely.

• Yang Jian learned that Zhang Liqin could not control the Ghost Infant in her belly and warned that it might eventually kill her.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Liqin to stay at his home while he found a way to remove the Ghost Infant, and Jiang Yan reacted jealously to her presence.
• Yang Jian considered using his Ghost Domain and Ghost Shadow together to extract the Ghost Infant without harming Zhang Liqin.
• Yang Jian brought Zhang Liqin to the fifth floor and gathered a gold box, a dried finger, and a Ghost Candle for the procedure.
• Zhang Liqin undressed to her underwear while Yang Jian arranged his equipment and instructed her to stay calm and follow his directions.

Yang Jian tried to remove the Ghost Infant growing inside Zhang Liqin, but his first two methods failed. He attempted to combine the Ghost Shadow with his Ghost Eyes through his left arm, and the chapter left him struggling to control the Shadow as his arm began to crack.

• Yang Jian enveloped Zhang Liqin in his Ghost Domain, but the Ghost Infant showed no reaction.
• Yang Jian sent the Ghost Shadow through Zhang Liqin's stomach, but it passed through her without touching the Ghost Infant.
• Yang Jian prepared to merge the Ghost Shadow with his left arm and asked Zhang Liqin to light a red candle if he lost control.
• The Ghost Shadow began overpowering Yang Jian's arm, cracking and twisting it despite his attempt to suppress it with a Ghost Eye.
• Yang Jian moved the final Ghost Eye in his body to his arm, and its opening immediately calmed the Ghost Shadow's agitation.