Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian tried to identify the tall corpse’s killing pattern before Luo Suyī’s predicted death, while Xiong Wenwen’s visions warned that directly restraining the ghost would kill Yang Jian. Yang Jian’s attempt to trip the corpse with the corridor carpet unexpectedly changed its actions and saved Luo Suyī.

• Yang Jian deduced that the corpse’s sudden stops marked its attacks, but he could not identify what caused it to target someone.
• Xiong Wenwen predicted that Yang Jian would die and the Ghost Rope would break if he tried to bind the corpse.
• As Luo Suyī’s time ran out, Yang Jian watched the corpse approach and rejected Luo Suyī’s plan to attack it and risk a ghost revival.
• Yang Jian yanked the corridor carpet to trip the corpse, but its heavy body kept walking.
• Xiong Wenwen announced that Luo Suyī had survived because the corpse did not stop to kill him.

Yang Jian discovered that the ghost killed by completely covering a person's footprints with its own. After he flipped the carpet to hide their prints, Xiong Wenwen survived the next predicted attack, though the ghost continued wandering the corridor.

• Yang Jian suspected the carpet's footprints were connected to the ghost's killing pattern after Luo Suyī survived when the carpet was moved.
• Xiong Wenwen foresaw that he would die again within two minutes, and Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to recreate their earlier passage through the corridor.
• Yang Jian showed that the ghost's footprint had completely covered Xiong Wenwen's earlier footprint before it attacked him, striking the spot where he had left the print.
• Yang Jian explained that merely stepping on a footprint was not enough; the ghost's footprint had to cover it completely.
• Yang Jian flipped the carpet so their footprints were on its reverse side, and Xiong Wenwen remained unharmed as the ghost continued wandering.

Yang Jian and the others entered Room 31 to escape the footprint-stepping ghost and found the victims’ faces displayed on the walls. Seeing Tong Qian’s face among them, Yang Jian realized the Tong Qian he had sent to the hospital was actually the ghost, while the real Tong Qian had been reduced to a face on the wall.

• Yang Jian ordered Luo Suyī and Lin Luomei to cover their footprints, then led the group into Room 30 to escape the approaching ghost.
• Yang Jian found Room 31 brightly lit, with hundreds of faces attached to bloodstained newspapers, and concluded the hotel was a trap that used footprints to kill anyone searching for the ghost.
• Xiong Wenwen spotted Tong Qian’s face on the wall, leaving Yang Jian to question the identity of the Tong Qian he had sent to the hospital.
• Yang Jian recalled Tong Qian’s constant smile and realized the ghost had taken Tong Qian’s identity, while the real Tong Qian’s face remained on the wall.

Yang Jian found that the hotel room contained no ghost and suspected the ghost had taken Tong Qian’s identity. After Luo Suyī triggered an attack from a supernatural newspaper, Yang Jian restrained it and recovered the Ghost Newspaper, but realized the human skin paper may have led him toward a fatal trap involving the Ghost Faces.

• Yang Jian ordered Luo Suyī to remove the faces and red newspapers from the walls while Lin Luomei and Xiong Wenwen rested.
• Yang Jian failed to contact Headquarters and concluded that the hotel was inside a supernatural space and Guo Fan’s distress message had been bait.
• Luo Suyī found a newspaper covered in Zhao Lei’s handwriting, and it attacked him when he approached.
• Yang Jian caught the attacking newspaper and used the Ghost Shadow to suppress it, causing the other faces and newspapers to lose their supernatural power.
• Yang Jian wrapped the Ghost Newspaper and stored it in a golden container, then suspected the human skin paper had misled him into giving the ghost both Ghost Faces.

Yang Jian led the survivors out of Room 31 using his Ghost Domain, removed the hotel’s carpets and floor tiles to prevent the footprint-killing ghost from finding targets, and prepared to seal the hotel. Feng Quan then called from the fourth floor, revealing that he was still alive and asking Yang Jian to take him along.

• Yang Jian decided to leave Room 31 and postponed dealing with the ghost outside, though he planned to trap it in the hotel and keep the matter confidential.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to take the group out without leaving footprints and removed the human faces from Room 31.
• Yang Jian spread his Ghost Domain across the hotel and took away its carpets and first-floor lobby tiles to deny the ghost any footprints.
• Feng Quan called Yang Jian and said his condition was poor, asking to be taken along.
• Yang Jian checked the locator, found Feng Quan on the fourth floor, and realized he had wrongly assumed Feng Quan was dead.

Yang Jian received Feng Quan’s call from inside the Caesar Hotel and learned that a hatchet-wielding ghost had nearly killed him. After sending Xiong Wenwen, Lin Luomei, and Luo Suyī to safety, Yang Jian returned into the ghost fog to rescue Feng Quan while planning to test a bloodstained newspaper on him.

• Feng Quan told Yang Jian that the tall corpse with a hatchet had attacked him and that the hotel seemed to lure Ghost Tamers to their deaths.
• Zhao Jianguo said the Head Balloon Incident in Z City had stopped causing deaths and asked Yang Jian to rescue Feng Quan.
• Yang Jian agreed to rescue Feng Quan after first sending Xiong Wenwen, Lin Luomei, and Luo Suyī out of the ghost fog.
• Yang Jian promised Lin Luomei his slot for controlling a second ghost and persuaded Luo Suyī to help with his next operation.
• Yang Jian left Zhao Lei’s body with the others, warned them that the ghost might be Tong Qian, and reentered the ghost fog with the bloodstained newspaper.

Yang Jian found Feng Quan injured in the haunted hotel and learned that Grave Soil was consuming him. While testing a method to control two ghost faces, Yang Jian was buried when Feng Quan's altered memories triggered an attack, but he revealed he had escaped through his Ghost Domain.

• Yang Jian located Feng Quan in Room Five on the fourth floor, where Feng Quan lay severed in half and explained that Grave Soil was eroding him.
• Yang Jian cut off their phone connections and said he planned to conduct an experiment on Feng Quan as insurance for saving him.
• Yang Jian sent the Headless Ghost Shadow into Feng Quan to suppress the ghost inside him, but Feng Quan accused him of betrayal and attacked.
• Feng Quan's Grave Soil rapidly spread, buried Yang Jian, and formed a burial mound with Feng Quan's head exposed.
• Yang Jian's voice revealed that he had survived in his Ghost Domain, and he concluded that Feng Quan's memories had been altered by a ghost after Feng Quan mentioned Zhao Lei.

Yang Jian rescued Feng Quan from the Grave Soil and used the Ghost Newspaper to remove his face and inspect his altered memories. The chapter ended with Yang Jian discovering that Feng Quan’s memory changes were incomplete.

• Feng Quan’s Grave Soil attack failed, and he began undergoing ghost revival as Yang Jian prepared to restrain him.
• Yang Jian looped Wang Yue’s Ghost Rope around Feng Quan and used the last of his Ghost Candle to suppress the grave mound long enough to pull him free.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Shadow to temporarily suppress Feng Quan’s revival and covered Feng Quan’s face with the Ghost Newspaper.
• Yang Jian tore the newspaper away with Feng Quan’s face attached, then found Zhao Lei’s incomplete instructions written beside it.

Yang Jian altered Feng Quan’s memories with the ghost newspaper and used his Headless Ghost Shadow to reattach Feng Quan’s face. Feng Quan woke and called him “Brother Leg,” confirming the alteration worked, and Yang Jian prepared to deal with Tong Qian next.

• Yang Jian erased the ghost newspaper’s previous writing and implanted memories that made Feng Quan grateful and loyal to him, adding “Brother Leg” as a test.
• Yang Jian discovered the ghost newspaper could remove Feng Quan’s face but could not put it back, so he used the Headless Ghost Shadow to reattach it.
• Feng Quan woke after about two minutes and called Yang Jian “Brother Leg,” confirming the memory alteration had succeeded.
• Yang Jian left with Feng Quan and decided to deal with Tong Qian, the ghost in Z City.

Yang Jian restrained the ghost in the fog and reassembled Feng Quan’s body, then prepared to see whether Feng Quan could survive without the ghost shadow suppressing his revival. The chapter left Feng Quan facing a dangerous test as Yang Jian withdrew the shadow.

• Yang Jian learned that Guo Fan was still missing and chose to leave him to fend for himself.
• Feng Quan explained that movement attracted the fog ghost, so Yang Jian walked through the mist to lure it out.
• Yang Jian spotted the fog ghost approaching and used the ghost shadow to seize it, dispersing the surrounding ghost fog.
• Yang Jian reassembled Feng Quan’s body and warned that the Grave Soil and fog ghost could still revive.
• Yang Jian retrieved the ghost shadow so Feng Quan could try to survive on his own.

Yang Jian tried to restore balance between the Grave Soil and ghost fog inside Feng Quan before the two ghosts could kill him. Feng Quan survived after Yang Jian used a white ghost candle to draw out part of the Grave Soil, and Yang Jian imprisoned the separated portion in a gold body bag.

• Yang Jian watched Feng Quan struggle as the Grave Soil overwhelmed the ghost fog and prepared to imprison him if the balance failed.
• Feng Quan urged Yang Jian to restrain him as the Grave Soil buried his body and filled his eyes.
• Yang Jian lit a white ghost candle, drawing the Grave Soil out of Feng Quan and giving the two ghosts a brief chance to reach equilibrium.
• Feng Quan regained balance and movement, and Yang Jian extinguished the candle before the Grave Soil could return to him.
• Yang Jian blocked the separated Grave Soil with his ghost shadow and sealed it in a gold body bag.

Yang Jian led a team toward Third Central Hospital to contain the ghost disguised as Tong Qian, while keeping Caesar Hotel sealed. The ghost’s laughter reached Headquarters through a phone call, confirming that the threat had spread beyond Z City.

• Yang Jian emerged from Caesar Hotel with Feng Quan and said the team would head to Third Central Hospital to contain the ghost.
• Yang Jian explained that the ghost could alter memories and had obtained Tong Qian’s ghost face, then warned the team to avoid its laughter.
• Feng Quan reported Yang Jian’s suspicion that Tong Qian was a ghost to Zhao Jianguo, while Yang Jian insisted they act before the ghost changed identities.
• Zhao Jianguo asked a liaison officer to contact Third Central Hospital, but a strange laugh came through the call and killed her.
• Zhao Jianguo ordered everyone to leave the communications room and realized that the paranormal threat had reached Headquarters.

After a supernatural phone call killed communications staff at Headquarters, Liu Xiaoyu was shaken but regained contact with Yang Jian. Yang Jian led a team into Z City's Third Central Hospital to confront Tong Qian, whose laughter filled the building as his Ghost Domain spread.

• A strange phone call triggered a supernatural invasion in Headquarters' communications room, killing several operators and leaving Liu Xiaoyu horrified.
• Liu Xiaoyu rushed to reconnect with Yang Jian, who restored communications as he prepared to confront Tong Qian.
• Yang Jian told Feng Quan, Luo Suyī, and Lin Luomei that they would enter the hospital together and use his Ghost Domain to reach Tong Qian.
• A smiling security guard revealed that the ghost knew they had arrived, so Yang Jian enveloped the hospital in his Ghost Domain.
• Tong Qian watched Yang Jian from a ward window and laughed throughout the hospital as Yang Jian prepared for their final confrontation.

Yang Jian and his companions subdued Tong Qian, removed and sealed her ghost face, and confined her body in a body bag. They reported the Z City incident as over, though Yang Jian still did not know what had stopped the Head Balloon Incident.

• Feng Quan heard Tong Qian's ghost face laughing, and Yang Jian tracked the sound to a ward on the top floor.
• Yang Jian, Feng Quan, and Luo Suyī attacked Tong Qian with three supernatural forces and stopped her laughter and movement.
• Yang Jian tried to remove Tong Qian's smiling face with the red newspaper, but it failed.
• Yang Jian used his ghost shadow to remove the ghost face and sealed it in a gold box.
• Feng Quan put Tong Qian's still-active body into a body bag, and Yang Jian asked him to contact Zhao Jianguo.
• Yang Jian considered the smiling face, crying face, and red newspaper he had gathered, but decided to think later about using them to create a Ghost Tamer.

After Tong Qian’s ghost was restrained, Yang Jian took refuge outside Z City and considered using her preserved face to bring her back in Zhao Lei’s body. He was left questioning whether to carry out the taboo rebirth.

• Cao Yanhua reprimanded Zhao Jianguo for overlooking Yang Jian’s warning, which led to thirty-two operators being killed, and arranged for Shen Liang to take custody of the restrained ghost.
• Yang Jian left Xiong Wenwen to be picked up by Headquarters and went to Luo Suyī’s villa outside Z City to stay while he dealt with the ghost face.
• Lin Luomei considered calling Wang Xiaoming about the chance to control a second ghost while Luo Suyī and Huang Fei celebrated their survival.
• Yang Jian studied the faces taken by the ghost and wondered whether attaching a human face to a ghost’s body could let someone control it.
• Yang Jian decided that Tong Qian’s face could be attached to Zhao Lei’s still-living, faceless body, but he hesitated over whether Tong Qian would accept the taboo rebirth.

Yang Jian assembled Tong Qian’s face, the Grave-Weeping Ghost’s crying face, and the smiling ghost face onto Zhao Lei’s body to attempt Tong Qian’s resurrection as a Ghost Tamer. As the two ghost faces awakened and began laughing and crying, Yang Jian escaped through his Ghost Domain, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Yang Jian decided to use Zhao Lei’s body to revive Tong Qian and let her control two ghost faces.
• Yang Jian used the old bloodstained newspaper to erase the malicious ghost’s command and alter Tong Qian’s memories so she would trust him and forget the implanted memories.
• Yang Jian arranged Tong Qian’s face, the crying face, and the smiling face above Zhao Lei’s body.
• Yang Jian used his headless ghost shadow to attach the smiling face and crying face to Zhao Lei’s cheeks, then placed Tong Qian’s face between them.
• The three faces fused with Zhao Lei’s body, and the awakened ghost faces began laughing and crying.
• Yang Jian fled through his Ghost Domain to avoid being caught by the ghost faces’ voices.

Yang Jian tried to revive Tong Qian by attaching her face and two ghost faces to Zhao Lei’s body, then moved Luo Suyī and the others away from the dangerous villa. Tong Qian’s body began alternating between the ghosts’ killing expressions, and her survival depended on the two faces balancing each other so she could control both.

• Yang Jian appeared in the courtyard and told Luo Suyī and the others that he had tried to revive Tong Qian, but the ghost faces had become dangerous.
• When the laughter and crying started inside the villa, Luo Suyī and Huang Fei fled, and Yang Jian transported them to a nearby stream.
• Yang Jian explained that he had joined Tong Qian’s face to a body without a face and added two ghost faces, hoping she would revive as a Ghost Tamer who controlled both.
• Yang Jian reassured Luo Suyī that he could contain the danger if the attempt failed, then waited outside the villa while the others watched.
• Inside the room, the two ghost faces alternately threatened to kill Tong Qian, but each one pulled her expression away from the other’s killing method, giving her a chance to control both.

Yang Jian revived Tong Qian using the body of his deceased classmate Zhao Lei and helped her control two ghost faces. Tong Qian accepted the new body, but her faces carried dangerous powers that she still needed to understand.

• Luo Suyī and Huang Fei waited outside while Yang Jian watched Tong Qian's villa and noticed its lights had gone out.
• Yang Jian used the Ghost Eye to see Tong Qian standing in the villa with three faces, then went inside to check on her.
• Tong Qian learned that Yang Jian had revived her after she died in Z City and that she now occupied Zhao Lei's body.
• Tong Qian refused to blame Yang Jian for using another person's body and thanked him for saving her.
• Tong Qian warned Yang Jian not to smile at her because her smiling face might kill him, and Yang Jian told her to learn to control the dangerous ability.

After reviving Tong Qian, Yang Jian prepared to leave with her for Z City while warning the others about the dangers of her new condition and the sealed Caesar Hotel. On the drive back, Yang Jian questioned whether the ghost had truly been dealt with or had planned its own capture.

• Tong Qian returned to life with two ghost faces, and Yang Jian confirmed she was stable while warning Luo Suyī that his body was deteriorating.
• Tong Qian explained that the ghost faces seemed calm and that she could wake using one face while her own face slept; Yang Jian warned her to keep her revival secret.
• Yang Jian told Tong Qian to leave Caesar Hotel sealed and agreed that they would discuss the incident after returning to Z City.
• Yang Jian secured Lin Luomei a chance to control two ghosts and gave Luo Suyī half a Ghost Candle for helping protect Xiong Wenwen.
• Yang Jian and Tong Qian drove to Z City, where Yang Jian worried that the intelligent ghost might have planned to be captured.

Headquarters learned that Tong Qian had returned to life and ordered Shen Liang to bring her to J City under strict secrecy. In Z City, Yang Jian, Tong Qian, and Feng Quan agreed to seal the Caesar Hotel while the Head Balloon Incident’s source remained unidentified, and Yang Jian went to meet Shen Liang.

• Liu Xiaoyu told Zhao Jianguo that Yang Jian had revived Tong Qian, and Zhao urged her to report the news directly to the Deputy Minister.
• Zhao Jianguo warned Liu Xiaoyu that paranormal incidents were growing more frequent and difficult to handle, while staff in the archives discussed several recent cases.
• Headquarters treated Tong Qian’s return as a first confirmed case of a dead Ghost Tamer coming back to life and ordered Shen Liang to bring her to J City confidentially.
• Yang Jian, Tong Qian, and Feng Quan reviewed the Z City investigation and concluded that the Caesar Hotel should be sealed until the Head Balloon Incident recurred.
• Zhang Gao told the group that Shen Liang had arrived, and Yang Jian went to meet him before returning to Dachang City.