Chapter Summaries

An eerie voice searched Yang Jian’s home and tried to draw him out, but he resisted and traced it to three visiting Ghost Tamers. Yang Jian restrained two of them and gave the third five minutes to explain why they had come.

• An eerie voice searched the floors of Yang Jian’s home, passed the Ghost Mirror, and tried to lead the sleeping Yang Jian away.
• Yang Jian woke, broke free of the voice’s control, and used his power to locate its source in Guangjiang Residential Area.
• Lin Luomei, Luo Suyī, and their companion were caught by Yang Jian’s ghost ropes when he arrived.
• Yang Jian confronted the three visitors, immobilized Luo Suyī, and demanded that the remaining man explain their purpose within five minutes.

Yang Jian captured three Supernatural Forum members who had approached his home at night and demanded one billion from the forum administrator, Ye Zhen. After the forum paid within minutes, Yang Jian released them and warned them not to approach him that way again.

• Yang Jian subdued Luo Suyī, Lin Luomei, and Huang Fei, then learned that the three were members of the Supernatural Forum seeking a meeting with him.
• Yang Jian took Huang Fei’s phone, demanded one billion within ten minutes, and threatened to kill the captives if the forum refused.
• Ye Zhen misread Yang Jian’s demand as a test of the forum’s strength and ordered a transfer while declaring that he wanted to befriend Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian waited with the immobile captives and received confirmation that one billion had been deposited into his mother’s bank account.
• Yang Jian warned the three that another nighttime approach would be treated as a declaration of war, then left.

Yang Jian confronted three Supernatural Forum members who had tried to recruit him, intimidated them, and let them go after receiving compensation. Back at his room, he agreed with Zhang Liqin that he should start a company and offered her a secretary position.

• After Yang Jian left, Luo Suyī, Lin Luomei, and Huang Fei realized their bodies had returned to normal and discussed how helpless they had been against him.
• The group discovered Yang Jian had used a Ghost Domain to move them from Dachang City to its outskirts, where he had apparently prepared to kill them if negotiations failed.
• Yang Jian returned to his room, where Zhang Liqin asked to work for him because she could no longer keep selling cars.
• Yang Jian agreed to consider starting a company and told Zhang Liqin she could be his secretary.

Yang Jian learned from Zhao Jianguo about the Supernatural Forum, its influence, and its administrator Ye Zhen before preparing to speak at a meeting about the Starvation Ghost Incident. He reunited briefly with Tong Qian, warned her that her condition was worsening, and then headed to the meeting.

• Yang Jian asked Zhao Jianguo about the Supernatural Forum after its members had visited his home, and Zhao explained how it grew into a powerful Ghost Tamer organization.
• Zhao Jianguo told Yang Jian that Ye Zhen led the Supernatural Forum and ranked among Asia's strongest Ghost Tamers, while assuring him Headquarters could restrain the organization if needed.
• Zhao Jianguo told Yang Jian to summarize his report and share his experience at the meeting, and warned him that other Ghost Tamers might resent his achievements.
• Yang Jian spotted Tong Qian at the stadium, warned her that her face would soon kill her, and declined her apology before leaving for the meeting.
• A passing Ghost Tamer joked that Yang Jian had been scared off by Tong Qian's other face, and Tong Qian replied that Yang Jian was simply always like that.

Yang Jian arrived at a meeting of Ghost Tamers gathered after the Starvation Ghost Incident, where Xiong Wenwen’s outburst and frightening glimpse of the future unsettled the room. Deputy Minister Cao Yanhua began the meeting, inviting Wang Xiaoming and Yang Jian to report on the operation.

• Xiong Wenwen insulted the assembled Ghost Tamers and clashed with Cao Yang, then used his foresight and fell into terror at something approaching the conference-room door.
• Yang Jian entered, and the Ghost Tamers realized Xiong Wenwen had apparently foreseen a dangerous confrontation with him.
• Yang Jian identified himself as Ghost Eye Yang Jian, asked the attendees to avoid fighting in his city, and learned that Xiong Wenwen could foresee nearby events.
• Zhao Jianguo arrived with Wang Xiaoming, Li Jun, and Deputy Minister Cao Yanhua, who explained Xiong Wenwen’s special ability.
• Cao Yanhua opened the meeting to review the Starvation Ghost Incident and prepare for similar threats, introducing Wang Xiaoming and Yang Jian as speakers.

Yang Jian deflected Ghost Tamer Headquarters’ attempts to learn how he resolved the Starvation Ghost Incident by crediting Wang Xiaoming and downplaying the danger. He left the meeting having concealed his secrets while encouraging others to underestimate the incident.

• Cao Yanhua praised Yang Jian and described the international stakes of failing to resolve the Starvation Ghost Incident before inviting him to present an action summary.
• Yang Jian credited Wang Xiaoming’s research, called himself a mere executor, and refused to reveal what happened during his seven-day disappearance.
• Cao Yang asked whether a Ghost Tamer who controlled two ghosts could face the Starvation Ghost, and Yang Jian claimed that it was possible with luck and knowledge of its killing pattern.
• Yang Jian repeatedly downplayed the incident, calling it closer to an A-class Ghost Child Incident and claiming he had been too frightened to leave home afterward.
• Wang Xiaoming stayed silent, understanding that Yang Jian was hiding his trump cards.

Yang Jian downplayed his role in containing the Starvation Ghost to avoid attention, but Lin Long pressured him to sell his Ghost Candle and provoked a confrontation. Yang Jian severed Lin Long’s arm with his second ghost ability, and Lin Long prepared to counterattack.

• Yang Jian attributed the Starvation Ghost containment to Wang Xiaoming’s plan and minimized his own contribution during the mission report.
• After the report, Lin Long offered to buy Yang Jian’s future red Ghost Candle and handed him a business card, but Yang Jian refused to sell it.
• Lin Long gripped Yang Jian’s shoulder and threatened that they might become enemies if Yang Jian would not be his friend.
• Yang Jian rejected Lin Long’s offer of friendship and warned that he would rather deal with him immediately than risk future sabotage.
• Yang Jian revealed his scarlet Ghost Eye and used his second ghost ability to snap off Lin Long’s arm.
• Lin Long realized Yang Jian had attacked with his second ghost and readied himself to counterattack.

Yang Jian suppressed Lin Long after Lin Long threatened to take his ghost candles, then tried to imprison him in a golden box. When Zhao Jianguo called on Li Jun to intervene, Yang Jian's second-layer Ghost Domain overpowered Li Jun's, leaving the assembled Ghost Tamers to recognize the gap between them.

• Lin Long tried to use the ghost inside his body against Yang Jian, but Yang Jian's headless ghost shadow invaded him and suppressed his ghost.
• Yang Jian expanded his Ghost Domain across the conference room and stadium, then used it to make Lin Long walk toward a golden coffin box.
• Zhao Jianguo tried to bargain with Yang Jian and, when he failed, asked Li Jun to rescue Lin Long.
• Li Jun used his Ghost Domain against Yang Jian, but Yang Jian opened a second layer and overpowered him.
• Cao Yang and the other Ghost Tamers realized Yang Jian had surpassed even a top-tier Ghost Tamer like Li Jun.

Yang Jian overwhelmed Lin Long in the meeting room and sent him, sealed in a box, ten thousand meters underground. He agreed to release Lin Long in exchange for a ghost candle on credit, while Headquarters recognized Yang Jian’s importance and Zhao Jianguo guaranteed that Lin Long would stay away from Dachang City.

• Li Jun failed to break through Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain, and Lin Long walked into the box before it vanished with him.
• Yang Jian revealed that Lin Long was buried ten thousand meters underground, beyond Li Jun’s reach, and demanded a ghost candle as ransom.
• Wang Xiaoming agreed to provide the ghost candle on credit within two months, and Yang Jian warned that Lin Long must stay away from Dachang City.
• Zhao Jianguo agreed to stand surety for Lin Long, while Wang Xiaoming said Headquarters would spare no effort to rescue Yang Jian if he were ever in danger.

After the meeting about the Dachang City incident, Yang Jian reported a dangerous discovery and prepared to return to J City. Before he left, Xiong Wenwen offered to introduce his mother to Yang Jian.

• Yang Jian had Lin Long transported away in his box, and Ghost Tamer Headquarters members reevaluated Yang Jian after hearing the operation report.
• Yang Jian reminded Wang Xiaoming that he wanted two Ghost Candles within two months and handed him photographs of the Coffin Nail pinning a humanoid figure to a White Bone Tree.
• Wang Xiaoming classified the discovery as a potential danger requiring a risk assessment and report to Headquarters.
• Yang Jian left the meeting, but Xiong Wenwen stopped him and offered to introduce his mother as a girlfriend.
• Zhao Jianguo explained that Xiong Wenwen's father had died in a supernatural incident and that his mother was still young.

After the supernatural incident ended, the Ghost Tamers left Dachang City, and Wang Xiaoming gave Yang Jian a plan to repair his body. As Yang Jian headed home, Zhao Lei stopped him and revealed that he knew about Yang Jian’s past before asking about Wang Shanshan’s and Zhang Wei’s families.

• Xiong Wenwen tried to match his mother with Yang Jian, while Cao Yang joked that he would take the role instead before leaving for another assignment.
• The visiting Ghost Tamers departed, and Wang Xiaoming gave Yang Jian instructions for repairing his damaged body before returning to J City with Li Jun.
• Cao Yanhua and Zhao Jianguo discussed whether Yang Jian’s strength and unstable personality made him a danger or an asset to Headquarters.
• Yang Jian drove away from the stadium as Dachang City began recovering, though the city remained badly damaged.
• Zhao Lei stopped Yang Jian’s car and revealed knowledge of Yang Jian’s past, including the strange tree, then asked whether Wang Shanshan’s and Zhang Wei’s families were still alive.

Yang Jian confronted Zhao Lei, who blamed him for his family’s deaths and revealed that he had become a Ghost Tamer after encountering the motionless figure in Yang Jian’s old house. Zhao Lei vanished into a red-paper Ghost Domain, where Yang Jian saw the newspaper-reading figure again.

• Yang Jian questioned Zhao Lei’s condition and offered sympathy for the deaths of his family, but Zhao Lei angrily accused him of failing to protect them.
• Zhao Lei revealed that he had become a Ghost Tamer and had encountered someone who looked exactly like Yang Jian, sitting in his old house and reading a newspaper.
• Yang Jian suspected that Zhao Lei had been influenced or controlled by the ghost and tried to seize him, but Zhao Lei disappeared, leaving behind red paper bearing his face.
• A Ghost Domain formed around Yang Jian as red papers covered the street, and he saw the motionless newspaper-reading figure seated at the end of it.

Yang Jian confronted Zhao Lei, who was controlled by a ghost that used red paper faces to suppress his powers and alter identities. Zhao Lei escaped after Yang Jian pinned down a substitute, and Yang Jian ordered a nationwide wanted notice while wondering whether the ghost was seeking Tong Qian’s face.

• Yang Jian tried to capture the newspaper-reading ghost, but its red paper suppressed his Ghost Eye and immobilized his ghost shadow.
• Yang Jian detached an arm of the ghost shadow and hurled it at the figure, pinning it down and ending the street’s paranormal effects.
• Yang Jian found only a substitute’s clothes and an unfamiliar human-skin face, then discovered Zhao Lei’s blood-written message promising they would meet again.
• Yang Jian contacted Liu Xiaoyu and ordered a nationwide wanted notice for Zhao Lei, explaining that he was likely controlled by a ghost and knew Yang Jian’s circumstances.
• Yang Jian noticed the collected faces and wondered whether Zhao Lei’s ghost was searching for Tong Qian’s strange face.

Yang Jian investigated Zhao Lei’s suspicious behavior and returned to his old home, where he uncovered notes describing Zhao Lei’s struggle against a ghost that could alter and steal memories. The notes revealed that Zhao Lei had used implanted hatred to lead the ghost to Yang Jian, leaving Yang Jian furious and aware that the ghost had detected the plan.

• Yang Jian questioned Zhao Lei’s motives and asked Liu Xiaoyu to verify what had happened to the Zhao family.
• Yang Jian returned to his old residential complex and entered his former apartment, where Zhao Lei had left scattered notes.
• Yang Jian pieced together that Zhao Lei had been attacked by a ghost that rewrote his memories and made him forget his own identity.
• Yang Jian found Zhao Lei’s repeated pleas for him to kill the person the ghost had turned him into.
• Yang Jian discovered that Zhao Lei had implanted false hatred of Yang Jian to draw him to the ghost, but the ghost had noticed the scheme.
• Yang Jian stood up in anger after understanding Zhao Lei’s desperate plan.

Yang Jian searched Dachang City for Zhao Lei and confirmed the city was safe, then recorded his Ghost Shadow experiments and questioned the human skin paper about Zhao Lei. The paper fell silent, leaving Yang Jian without an answer.

• Yang Jian gathered Zhao Lei's notes, left his former home, and searched Dachang City while Liu Xiaoyu reported that Zhao Lei's parents were alive but several relatives had gone missing.
• Yang Jian confirmed Dachang City had no supernatural incidents and found a blood-red pond near the northbound highway, which he identified as a remnant of Yan Li's death and chose not to approach.
• Yang Jian returned to Guangjiang Residential Area, asked Zhang Liqin and Jiang Yan to piece together Zhao Lei's notes, and recorded his observations about Ghost Shadow's abilities.
• Yang Jian retrieved the human skin paper, dismissed its ominous opening message, and demanded information about Zhao Lei and the ghost.
• The human skin paper stopped responding when Yang Jian threatened to bury it underground.

Yang Jian forced the human skin paper to reveal a lead pointing to the second room of the Republican-era old house, then buried it underground and decided to investigate. On his way there the next day, he uncovered a disguised group of armed visitors seeking contact with him and called the police after they delivered an invitation to a ball.

• Yang Jian threatened to bury the human skin paper until it suggested that the second room of the Republican-era old house might hold answers, then he sent it ten thousand meters underground.
• Yang Jian decided to explore the old house the next morning, and Zhang Liqin told him that his car was being repaired.
• Yang Jian met Zhang Han, who said a group of reporters had been asking sensitive questions about the Starvation Ghost Incident.
• Yang Jian smashed the reporters’ camera and fired a warning shot, prompting three supposed journalists to reach for guns.
• Terry admitted that the group had come under cover of an interview to deliver an invitation to a ball, and Yang Jian threatened to send them to Dachang City Prison.
• Yang Jian decided to call the police and have Captain Liu question the armed visitors.

Yang Jian entered the old house’s second secret room and found a strange cabinet that seemed to contain something unseen. After a pair of eyes appeared in its darkness and vanished, he suspected the cabinet held a special ghost and left the mystery unresolved.

• Armed personnel arrested Terry and his group, and Yang Jian told them to investigate who had sent them.
• Yang Jian went to the renovated old house and used his Ghost Domain to enter the sealed second secret room.
• He found a warning carved into a table, then smashed the ordinary table while examining it.
• Yang Jian found that his Ghost Eye and flashlight could not see into the cabinet’s upper section.
• A pair of eyes appeared behind the cabinet’s lattice door and vanished, leaving Yang Jian suspecting that a small, unusual ghost was inside.

Yang Jian investigated the Ghost Cabinet and found an old notebook with traces of writing that might reveal its secrets. He learned that foreign forces linked to Shangtong Technology were behind the attack on him, and decided to pursue a search warrant while arranging to have the notebook deciphered.

• Yang Jian found an old ink bottle, fountain pen, and notebook atop the Ghost Cabinet, then took the notebook to have its residual writing restored.
• Yang Jian returned to his villa and met Zhang Hua, who reported that Captain Liu had gone missing and that Dachang City had arrested or expelled numerous infiltrators.
• Zhang Hua showed Yang Jian evidence linking Shangtong Technology to the mercenaries who attacked him, though the company’s ties to them were difficult to prove.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Hua to apply for a search warrant under his name and said he would join the investigation of Shangtong Technology.
• Yang Jian asked Zhang Hua to contact a handwriting expert and decided to travel himself to have the notebook deciphered.

Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to travel to Xiaochun City to meet a handwriting-restoration expert. He reached the New District Case Handling Bureau and tested his new operator, Qin Meirou, with an absurd demand over the phone.

• Zhang Hua gave Yang Jian a contact at the Xiaochun City bureau who could restore the handwriting and left information on Shangtong Technology.
• Yang Jian learned that travel services were suspended, then decided to travel to Xiaochun City with his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian arrived outside the New District Case Handling Bureau in Xiaochun City ten minutes later and asked his operator to contact Cheng Xiong.
• Qin Meirou introduced herself as Yang Jian's second operator and said she would take turns supporting him with Liu Xiaoyu.
• Yang Jian demanded that Qin Meirou cry out to test her composure, then criticized her attempts until the phone fell silent.

Yang Jian went to Xiaochun City to ask Cheng Xiong to recover writing impressions from an old notebook, hoping to uncover the ghost cabinet’s secret. After Headquarters asked him to retrieve a missing Ghost Tamer’s moving satellite phone, Yang Jian followed its signal through the city.

• Yang Jian met Xiaochun City investigator Cheng Xiong and asked him to translate the notebook’s worn writing impressions, insisting that the work remain confidential.
• Cheng Xiong agreed to analyze the notebook and send Yang Jian the results when finished.
• Liu Xiaoyu told Yang Jian that a ghost candle and his five-hundred-kilogram gold quota would arrive in Dachang City the next day.
• Liu Xiaoyu asked Yang Jian to investigate Xiaochun City’s missing international Ghost Tamer, but Yang Jian refused to take on another city’s case.
• Liu Xiaoyu asked Yang Jian to retrieve the missing Ghost Tamer’s satellite phone, and Yang Jian located its intermittent signal and followed it by taxi.