Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian’s corpse became the medium in a struggle between the ghost shadow and the ghosts inside the ghost mirror, while Wang Xiaoming considered the significance of Yang Jian’s method. The chapter ended with the human skin paper quietly waiting for another chance after Zhang Wei found its box had briefly opened.

• The ghost shadow and the ghosts inside the mirror fought over Yang Jian’s corpse, alternately pulling it toward and away from the mirror.
• Wang Xiaoming reflected that Yang Jian’s actions resembled his research into the second stage of the ghost coffin and could reveal a new way to control evil ghosts.
• Jiang Yan worried about Yang Jian, while Zhang Wei tried to comfort her and was slapped by her and Zhang Xiangui.
• Zhang Wei discovered that the golden box had opened and its lock and gold foil were damaged, exposing the human skin paper.
• The human skin paper wrote that Yang Jian was about to succeed and lamented that it had missed an opportunity, then fell silent again.

After seven days of conflict between the Headless Ghost Shadow and the ghost mirror, Yang Jian revived, but only his head returned to life inside the mirror. He pulled free with his head turned backward and an unnaturally jointed body, leaving his condition uncertain.

• For six days, the Headless Ghost Shadow and the ghost mirror struggled over Yang Jian's corpse, and the mirror began reversing the body's decay.
• The Ghost Eye's red light drove the mirror's ghosts away, but on the seventh day it went dark, and Yang Jian's head was drawn into the mirror as the two supernatural forces fell silent.
• Yang Jian revived inside the mirror, and the hand reaching for his face was snapped apart by a hand that reached in from outside.
• Yang Jian pulled his head out of the mirror, found it facing backward, and stood up without pain despite his body moving with dislocated joints.

Seven days after Yang Jian disappeared, Dachang City continued to collapse while the headquarters considered abandoning it. Yang Jian revived and returned to Guangjiang Residential Area, where Wang Bin set out carrying his daughter’s corpse to cremate it.

• The headquarters learned that Yang Jian had made no contact and discussed the dwindling supplies in Wang Xiaoming’s safe house and the worsening crisis in Dachang City.
• Yang Jian revived beside the ghost mirror with half his body still ghostly, forced his head back into place, and removed the ghost rope from his neck.
• Yang Jian covered the ghost mirror, drove back toward Guangjiang Residential Area, and decided to check on the people he had left there before continuing his plan.
• Wang Bin decided to cremate Wang Shanshan’s corpse despite Wang Haiyan’s fears, then carried the body out with a candle to find the prepared diesel.

After returning to Guangjiang Residential Area, Yang Jian found Zhang Liqin alive and used his Ghost Domain to survey the area. He contacted Headquarters for the first time in seven days, prompting preparations for a rescue operation, then set out to test his new power against two Ghost Infants.

• Yang Jian returned to Guangjiang Residential Area, secured the Ghost Mirror, and discovered that his corpse-like condition had not improved.
• Yang Jian found Zhang Liqin hiding in the building and promised to clear the surrounding ghosts.
• Yang Jian expanded his Ghost Domain across the residential area and sensed numerous ghosts nearby.
• Yang Jian called Headquarters and announced that he was officially online, prompting Liu Xiaoyu to alert the organization.
• Cao Yanhua ordered an emergency meeting and preparations for the second phase of the plan and a rescue operation.
• Yang Jian spotted Wang Bin carrying Wang Shanshan and vanished from a rooftop to confront two approaching third-stage Ghost Infants.

Yang Jian rescued Wang Bin from two Ghost Infants and discovered he could erase spawned ghosts by using the Ghost Shadow to disperse the power sustaining them. He cleared Guangjiang Residential Area of Ghost Infants but decided to focus on the source ghost in Dachang City.

• Wang Bin carried Wang Shanshan's corpse down the stairs and found Ghost Infants approaching from both directions.
• Yang Jian appeared behind Wang Bin, moved him and the Ghost Infants to an open road, and attacked one of the creatures.
• Yang Jian used the Ghost Shadow's power to disperse the Ghost Infant's sustaining power, causing it to vanish, then eliminated a second one the same way.
• Yang Jian summoned the Ghost Infants across Guangjiang Residential Area and erased them all with the Ghost Shadow.
• Yang Jian decided not to keep clearing spawned Ghost Infants and chose to confront the source ghost instead.

Yang Jian revived Wang Shanshan by restoring some of the Ghost Eye’s power, and she revealed that the source ghost was at Seventh Middle School. He entered the school to retrieve the coffin nail, rejecting Wang Xiaoming’s plan to use Zhang Han as bait.

• Yang Jian found Wang Shanshan’s body and restored the Ghost Eye mark on her wrist, causing her to wake up.
• Wang Shanshan told Yang Jian that the ghost was at the entrance to Seventh Middle School, and he realized Ye Feng’s message had referred to the school.
• Yang Jian traveled to Seventh Middle School and found its haze suppressing his Ghost Domain.
• Wang Xiaoming proposed using Zhang Han as bait while Yang Jian retrieved the coffin nail, but Yang Jian rejected the plan and warned him to prepare a heavy gold coffin.
• Yang Jian ended the call and entered Seventh Middle School, where the haze closed around him.

Yang Jian searched the campus for a coffin nail but realized the Door-Knocking Ghost’s Ghost Domain had shifted to the city center. After receiving warnings that Zhao Kaiming was nearby, he was startled when an unknown figure entered his Ghost Domain.

• At the command center, Cao Yanhua and Zhao Jianguo discussed Yang Jian’s decision to reject Professor Wang’s plan and inspected the golden coffin prepared for the Starvation Ghost.
• The communications officer reported that Yang Jian’s phone had detected Zhao Kaiming, prompting Cao Yanhua to review Zhao Kaiming’s file and warn Yang Jian to be careful.
• Yang Jian crossed the campus through his Ghost Domain, avoiding the thousands of Ghost Infants surrounding him.
• At the school toilet, Yang Jian realized the Door-Knocking Ghost’s Ghost Domain had moved near the pedestrian street, so he decided to return there to find the strange space and retrieve the coffin nail.
• Yang Jian received messages warning him that there was an inside man and Zhao Kaiming was nearby, then an unknown figure entered his Ghost Domain through the toilet door.

Yang Jian confronted Zhao Kaiming, who revealed that an invisible ghost had directed him to cultivate the Ghost Infant and gather ghostly fragments for its revival. After their fight ended in a stalemate, Yang Jian spotted the source ghost and fled to retrieve the coffin nail, while Zhao Kaiming secretly planned to use Yang Jian against both ghosts.

• Zhao Kaiming entered Yang Jian's Ghost Domain and explained that an invisible ghost inside him had guided his plan to gather ghostly parts through the Ghost Infant.
• Zhao Kaiming attacked Yang Jian, but Yang Jian tore off his limbs and head, only for the invisible ghost to restore his body each time.
• Yang Jian saw the source ghost approach the school and realized it had spotted him through his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian threw Zhao Kaiming's head toward the source ghost and escaped through his Ghost Domain to retrieve the coffin nail.
• Zhao Kaiming planned to let the invisible ghost revive his family, then use Yang Jian to contain both ghosts and free himself from them.

Yang Jian traced the route from No. 7 High School to a hidden basement beneath Hongfa Temple and entered the sealed space to retrieve the coffin nail. He removed the nail pinning a towering black ghost to a White Bone Tree, leaving the creature free.

• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to reconstruct No. 7 High School and locate the corresponding site at Hongfa Temple.
• Yang Jian found a hidden basement beneath the temple, where a gold-covered wooden door concealed the place he had visited before.
• A bald temple master warned Yang Jian that opening the door would release something terrifying, but let him proceed after Yang Jian said he needed the coffin nail to save Dachang City.
• Yang Jian entered the dark space, photographed the black figure pinned to a White Bone Tree, and wrapped the coffin nail in gold foil.
• Yang Jian pulled the coffin nail from the figure's chest.

Yang Jian returned to Seventh High School with the coffin nail and found Zhao Kaiming’s message saying his plan had succeeded. As an invisible ghost eroded Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain, he concealed the nail and used himself as bait, unaware that the approaching figure was Zhou Zheng.

• Yang Jian took the coffin nail from the hidden room, warned the bald master to flee, and returned to Seventh High School within ten minutes.
• Yang Jian found the campus empty of Ghost Infants and discovered Zhao Kaiming’s recorded message saying his plan had succeeded.
• Footsteps appeared in the corridor, but Yang Jian could see only black footprints as an invisible ghost began eroding his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian shrank his Ghost Domain and waited with the coffin nail, then wrapped the nail in gold foil and reduced his Domain further to tempt the ghost into range.
• A figure in an old burial garment stood less than two meters behind Yang Jian; it was Zhou Zheng, the Ghost Tamer killed by the Ghost Infant.

Yang Jian fought a source ghost that used footsteps as bait and appeared in Zhou Zheng's form, but the confrontation abruptly vanished. He discovered that time had returned to forty minutes earlier, just as a recording from Zhao Kaiming warned that his plan had succeeded and the ghost was in the school.

• Yang Jian waited in the impenetrable gloom as empty leather shoes circled him, and he realized the footsteps were bait without knowing the source ghost was close behind him.
• A blackish-green hand seized Yang Jian, and he opened his Ghost Domain, revealing the source ghost in Zhou Zheng's form.
• The ghost pinned Yang Jian's wrist with a dried-up finger and tried to bite his head, but the Ghost Rope held it back while the Headless Ghost Shadow raised the coffin nail to attack.
• Yang Jian's consciousness blurred, and the ghost, his injuries, and the surrounding gloom disappeared as his Ghost Domain returned to full strength.
• Yang Jian heard Zhao Kaiming's recording, checked the satellite positioning phone, and found that time had returned to forty minutes earlier.

Yang Jian learned that the source ghost had reset time by forty minutes, undoing his nearly successful plan while leaving his memories intact. He accepted Wang Xiaoming’s long-range sniping strategy and took position outside Seventh High School, preparing to use his Ghost Eye and the coffin nail to kill the ghost.

• Yang Jian told Wang Xiaoming that the source ghost had reset time and erased the progress of their operation.
• Wang Xiaoming concluded that Zhang Han could not be used as bait and proposed using Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye to fire the coffin nail at the ghost from beyond the reset’s range.
• Yang Jian accepted the plan, left Seventh High School, and climbed a communications tower more than a thousand meters away.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Eye to look through the haze and reasoned that the source ghost was still inside the school.
• Yang Jian began releasing the Ghost Shadow to suppress the Ghost Eye’s revival as he prepared to locate and snipe the source ghost.

Yang Jian stacked three Ghost Eye Ghost Domains to pierce the haze and locate the Starvation Ghost Incident’s ghost in Seventh Middle School. He pinned it with the coffin nail from over a thousand meters away, ending the incident as the haze dispersed.

• Yang Jian covered himself with the Ghost Shadow and compressed his Ghost Domain, but its red light could not penetrate the haze around Seventh Middle School.
• Yang Jian opened successive Ghost Domains through stacked Ghost Eyes, allowing the red beam to pierce the haze and reveal the school.
• Yang Jian searched the campus with the beam and found Zhou Zheng’s motionless body in the north gate guardroom, with the Starvation Ghost inside it.
• Yang Jian sent the coffin nail into the ghost’s forehead from over a thousand meters away, and its body collapsed like an ordinary corpse.
• The haze over Dachang City rapidly dispersed, ending the Starvation Ghost Incident.

As the gloom over Dachang City receded, Ghost Tamer Headquarters sent Zhao Jianguo and a team of Ghost Tamers to support Yang Jian and contain the restrained Starvation Ghost. Yang Jian kept watch at Seventh High School, heard Zhao Kaiming warn him about the dangers of becoming a hero, and waited as the team began securing the corpse.

• Wang Xiaoming reported that the gloom was dissipating because Yang Jian had restrained the source ghost, and Cao Yanhua ordered an advance team into Dachang City.
• Zhao Jianguo and Li Jun led Ghost Tamers and special operations personnel through the city, with Zhao Jianguo heading toward Yang Jian and Li Jun sent to retrieve Professor Wang.
• Yang Jian guarded the motionless Starvation Ghost corpse at Seventh High School and decided not to take its coffin nail or burial shroud.
• Zhao Kaiming appeared before Yang Jian, warned him that his success would make him a target, and vanished as an illusion.
• Zhao Jianguo arrived with Ghost Tamers and ordered his team to contain the Starvation Ghost in a heavy metal box.

Yang Jian handed the restrained Starvation Ghost over to the authorities and warned them that it was far more dangerous than they understood. He returned to the residential complex to check that Wang Xiaoming had not taken the Ghost Mirror, then reunited with Jiang Yan as Dachang City was declared safe.

• Yang Jian warned Zhao Jianguo and the other Ghost Tamers not to experiment on the Starvation Ghost and said that if it escaped, they would all die.
• Zhao Jianguo ordered the corpse sealed in a gold box, welded shut, and transported under heavy guard while the team inspected Dachang City.
• Yang Jian left No. 7 High School and used his Ghost Domain to return to the residential complex, worried Wang Xiaoming might take the Ghost Mirror.
• Li Jun thanked Yang Jian for saving Dachang City, and Jiang Yan ran over to greet him.
• Yang Jian told Jiang Yan to wash up and said Dachang City was safe, since the Starvation Ghost had also resolved the other supernatural incidents.

Yang Jian refused Wang Xiaoming’s request to study his mirror but received a white ghost candle, while Zhao Kaiming waited for his family to be resurrected. When the promised resurrection did not happen, Zhao Kaiming began to panic.

• Wang Xiaoming thanked Yang Jian for the insight from his livestream and agreed to recommend sealing the Hungry Ghost rather than researching it.
• Wang Xiaoming offered Yang Jian a white ghost candle in exchange for studying the mirror, but Yang Jian refused the deal and warned him to keep the video secret.
• Wang Xiaoming left Dachang City, and Yang Jian kept the white ghost candle despite objecting to the gift.
• Zhao Kaiming hurried to the warehouse, believing he had fulfilled the ghost’s demand and would soon be free of its curse, with his family resurrected.
• Zhao Kaiming shut off the refrigeration system and waited, but his family remained lifeless long after the expected time, leaving him distraught.

Zhao Kaiming’s family revived after he tried to kill himself, but the ghost had shifted its curse to his daughter, and he died realizing Xiaoya would suffer the same tragedy. The story left the curse continuing through the next generation.

• After waiting for his dead relatives to revive, Zhao Kaiming lost hope and tried to kill himself with his golden handgun.
• Zhao Xiaoya revived and escaped her ice coffin while Zhao Kaiming survived the gunshot but was gravely wounded.
• Zhao Kaiming told Xiaoya to open the other ice coffins, but she could not manage it and he passed out.
• Zhao Kaiming woke to find his wife, parents, and relatives revived, and Xiaoya said an uncle had helped her open the coffins.
• Zhao Kaiming realized the ghost had helped Xiaoya at the cost of a relative, then died knowing the curse would continue through his daughter.

Yang Jian investigated the changes to his resurrected body, gathered his supernatural equipment, and visited Hongfa Temple to learn about the ghost once restrained there. The abbot confirmed that the ghost had vanished when Yang Jian took the coffin nail, but could offer no answers about its origins, leaving Yang Jian to consider that the secrets of the past had been lost.

• Yang Jian tested his new body and found that he had extraordinary strength, resistance to physical damage, and control over his own body, though his head remained vulnerable.
• Yang Jian checked the supernatural objects stored in his residence, decided to bring the ghost rope, and chose not to use the human skin paper unless desperate.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Xiangui that Dachang City would be safer than other places for some time and advised him to sell homes at much higher prices because residents valued Yang Jian's protection.
• Yang Jian traveled to Hongfa Temple and used his Ghost Domain to bypass the queue and enter the abbot's residence.
• The abbot told Yang Jian that the space behind the secret door had become empty less than a minute after Yang Jian took the coffin nail, and recalled seeing a White Bone Tree, a tall shadow, and a red eye inside when he was young.
• The abbot said temple records dated the basement to the Republican Era, but he knew nothing about the ghost's origins, and Yang Jian left without the answers he sought.

Yang Jian learned that Zhao Kaiming had died after his family mysteriously returned to life, and Zhao Jianguo invited him to a meeting in J City. As Yang Jian considered the attention his rising fame would bring, unfamiliar visitors arrived near his home and asked about him.

• Yang Jian returned from Hongfa Temple and found Zhao Jianguo waiting at his home with two Ghost Tamers.
• Zhao Jianguo told Yang Jian that Zhao Kaiming had died by shooting himself and that his supposedly dead family members had reappeared.
• Yang Jian dismissed Zhao Kaiming’s death as a fortunate outcome, and Zhao Jianguo invited him to a meeting at the city stadium before traveling to J City.
• After Zhao Jianguo left, Yang Jian reflected on the dangers of becoming famous and put away Zhao Kaiming’s death report.
• A young man and his companion located Yang Jian’s residence, but the young man decided not to visit him yet.

Yang Jian tried to restore his corpse-like body and discovered that he had lost his desire for women, while three visitors led by Luo Suyī entered Guangjiang Residential Area to find him. Lin Luomei sent her strange voice searching through the complex, but it had not yet reached Yang Jian.

• Yang Jian read about the human body, used the Headless Ghost Shadow to remove his corpse spots, and sped up his heartbeat to warm himself.
• Yang Jian realized he could not sleep and worried that the ghost's influence might eventually alter his thoughts.
• Zhang Liqin confronted Yang Jian about avoiding her, and he recognized that he had lost his desire for women before asking her to help him with something.
• Luo Suyī, Lin Luomei, and another man entered Guangjiang Residential Area at night to look for Yang Jian.
• Lin Luomei used a loudspeaker to send her searching voice through the complex, and it entered Yang Jian's house and began searching its floors.