Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian led his group through the dark training base after using the ghost candle and ghost coffin to temporarily halt the Ghost Messenger's killings, despite a possibly hidden ghost and his own worsening condition. Meanwhile, Headquarters sent its strongest Ghost Tamers to investigate the ghost coffin, and Yang Jian decided to meet Qian Yi after learning he was still alive.

• Yang Jian warned his companions that another ghost might be hidden among them, then led them onward while the ghost candle drew the Ghost Messenger toward the group.
• Yang Jian noticed his arm was growing numb after the Headless Ghost Shadow replaced it with a ghost hand, but put off dealing with the danger to keep moving.
• Jiang Shangbai proposed retrieving the coffin nail to stop the Ghost Messenger, while Tong Qian argued that Headquarters should first try to save Yang Jian and the others.
• Wang Xiaoming proposed examining the ghost coffin at the laboratory, and Cao Yanhua ordered more than a dozen top Ghost Tamers to escort him there and retrieve other important items.
• Huang Ziya reported that Qian Yi was alive and waiting about five hundred meters ahead; despite resenting his earlier deception, Yang Jian agreed to meet him.
• Heavy footsteps continued following Yang Jian's group, while a cold presence remained hidden among them.

Yang Jian learned from the Human Skin Paper that meeting Qian Yi would draw the coffin ghost to him and break the group’s fragile balance. He prepared to strip the Coffin Nail from the ghost before it could absorb Qian Yi’s ghost, then charged toward them as they converged.

• Yang Jian questioned the Human Skin Paper, which warned that meeting Qian Yi could let the coffin ghost break free of the Ghost Candle’s attraction and attack him.
• The Human Skin Paper revealed a plan to remove the Coffin Nail from the ghost and reduce its number of ghosts without trying to imprison it.
• Huang Ziya reported that Qian Yi was about fifty meters away, and Yang Jian warned the group that Qian Yi would be attacked when they met.
• Yang Jian told the others to protect him while he tried to dismember the ghost before it absorbed Qian Yi’s ghost and gained absolute suppression.
• Qian Yi’s signal overlapped with Yang Jian’s, and the coffin ghost changed targets and rushed toward Qian Yi.
• Yang Jian charged toward Qian Yi and the approaching ghost, declaring that their survival depended on the attempt.

Qian Yi headed toward Yang Jian’s group to escape the ghost’s attack, but the ghost ambushed and nearly killed him before they could meet. Yang Jian reached him with a ghost candle and confirmed that the group’s presence stopped the ghost, giving him one chance to weaken it.

• Qian Yi followed the phone’s signal toward Yang Jian’s group, anxious that Yang Jian might punish him for his earlier deception.
• A stiff, blackened hand covered Qian Yi’s phone, and a ghost strangled him with an old straw rope before tearing into his body.
• Yang Jian arrived with Zhang Lei, Wang Jiang, and two other Ghost Tamers, carrying a ghost candle that let him see the attacker.
• Yang Jian recognized the ghost as the entity from the ghost coffin wearing Wei Jing’s corpse as a vessel.
• Yang Jian and the others reached Qian Yi, and the ghost stopped attacking when they came within two meters.
• Yang Jian realized this brief pause was his only chance to weaken the ghost before it resumed its attack.

Yang Jian attacked the ghost to remove the coffin nail fused into its shoulder, but the ghost suppressed his abilities and began turning back toward him. Zhang Lei recognized the deadly Ghost Turning Back ability and rushed forward to block the attack.

• Yang Jian used his Ghost Eye to find the coffin nail's mark fused into the ghost's shoulder.
• Yang Jian combined the Headless Ghost Shadow with the ghost hand and plunged it into the ghost, causing the surrounding darkness to recede.
• The ghost suppressed Yang Jian's arm and Ghost Shadow, leaving him unable to move or pull his hand free.
• The ghost began turning its head toward Yang Jian, twisting his body as its Ghost Turning Back ability took effect.
• Zhang Lei warned that everyone behind the ghost would die if it turned around, then rushed forward to block its attack.

Yang Jian was nearly killed when Ghost Turning Back targeted him, but Zhang Lei stopped the attack by letting the rotting head in his chest bite the ghost. Zhang Lei survived the clash and announced that he had discovered another part of the ghost’s ability.

• Yang Jian’s ghosts were suppressed as Ghost Turning Back began twisting his body and spine.
• Zhang Lei recognized the danger, exposed the rotting head embedded in his chest, and grabbed the turning ghost.
• The rotting head awakened and swallowed half of the ghost’s skull, halting its neck before it could turn fully around.
• The ghost’s power forced Zhang Lei’s dead head into dormancy, but the attack also stopped and Yang Jian’s body relaxed.
• Zhang Lei shouted that his contact with the ghost had revealed another part of its ability.

Zhang Lei explained how the ghost suppressed other ghosts and proposed adding more to their side, but Yang Jian warned that complete suppression would trigger the ghost's restart ability. When Wang Jiang joined the suppression, the ghost used the Ghost Rope's revival ability, leaving Yang Jian only seconds to find a way out.

• Zhang Lei explained that the ghost lost one ability for each ghost it suppressed and proposed having Wang Jiang and Huang Ziya touch it.
• Yang Jian stopped them, warning that complete suppression would trigger the ghost's second ability and that Qian Yi already counted toward the limit.
• Yang Jian told Wang Jiang to touch the ghost, bringing the number of ghosts suppressing Yang Jian's side to eight.
• The ghost revived the Ghost Rope, causing endless nooses to descend toward everyone.
• Yang Jian covered the ghost's face with a bloodstained old newspaper as the ropes closed in on Wang Jiang and the others.

At a secret laboratory, Wang Xiaoming examined the damaged lid of the ghost coffin and suspected its supernatural power had departed. At the training base, Yang Jian sent Huang Ziya away with a ghost candle to draw off the ghost ropes, leaving his group to face the next stage of their plan as the ghost’s face began sliding away.

• Jiang Shangbai concluded that the ghost had escaped from the ghost coffin, while Wang Xiaoming suspected the coffin lid had been the source of its supernatural power.
• Yang Jian and the others struggled to maintain their suppression of the ghost as its ropes descended and threatened to hang them.
• Yang Jian told the group to use the ghost candle to lure the ghost ropes away and gave the volunteer a cloth doll that could save her life.
• Huang Ziya took the ghost candle and cloth doll, ran into the darkness, and drew the ghost ropes after her.
• Yang Jian saw the bloodstained newspaper slide off the ghost’s face as the dead person’s face slipped down too.

Yang Jian used the human skin paper to devise a way to escape the Ghost Domain by making the ghost misjudge how many ghosts it contained. He altered its memories to believe it had three ghosts and restored its face, leaving the group waiting for the ghost to reset so he could take the coffin nail.

• Huang Ziya fled the ghost ropes with a cloth doll Yang Jian had given her, nearing exhaustion as she tried to buy time for the others.
• Yang Jian hesitated over how to alter the ghost’s memories, while Wang Jiang and Zhang Lei warned that Qian Yi and Huang Ziya might not hold out much longer.
• The human skin paper revealed that making the ghost believe it contained one ghost or zero would lead to the group’s deaths, then gave Yang Jian a plan involving the number three.
• Yang Jian realized he had to make the ghost believe it contained three ghosts, then take the coffin nail holding those ghosts when the ghost reset.
• Yang Jian altered the ghost’s memories to believe it contained three ghosts and returned its face, preparing to seize the coffin nail as soon as it reset.

Yang Jian completed his plan to make the ghost reclaim its face and then suppress it again, but the operation fused a strange new ghostly mass into his arm and restored balance among the ghosts in his body. The Ghost Domain began retreating toward the laboratory, revealing the ghost coffin’s shape.

• Huang Ziya was caught by the ghost rope, but her blood-marked cloth doll drew its attacks away and kept her safe as it fled.
• Yang Jian told Wang Jiang to release the ghost, allowing it to reclaim its face from the old newspaper, then had him restrain it again.
• Yang Jian used the brief opening to remove a crucial part of the ghost, causing its corpse to collapse and its Ghost Domain to begin disappearing.
• Yang Jian found a black, diamond-shaped mark fused into his arm and realized it had formed a new ghost that suppressed the Ghost Eye, ghost hand, and Headless Ghost Shadow.
• Zhang Lei spotted the darkness retreating toward the laboratory in the shape of a coffin, and Yang Jian recognized it as the ghost coffin.

After surviving the training base incident, Yang Jian gathered the survivors and assessed the aftermath, concluding that the ghost was likely returning to the laboratory’s ghost coffin. As he prepared to investigate Qian Yi’s emerging ghost, Headquarters asked him to stay away from J City for several days.

• Yang Jian warned the surviving Ghost Tamers that the ghost could not be imprisoned from inside its Ghost Domain, and he confirmed that the injured Qian Yi was alive but chose not to save him.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to search the training base, recover supernatural items, gather corpses, and look for the ghost released from the golden bottle, but he could not find it.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Lei that the ghost was likely heading to the laboratory and returning to the ghost coffin, while Zhang Lei reported the situation to Headquarters.
• Huang Ziya handed Yang Jian his satellite phone, and Liu Xiaoyu told him that Wang Xiaoming and Headquarters’ top Ghost Tamers were at the laboratory; Yang Jian advised them to escape.
• Liu Xiaoyu asked Yang Jian to remain outside J City for several days, and Yang Jian noticed Qian Yi had died and prepared to take the ghost emerging from his body.

After the supernatural incident ended, Yang Jian discovered that Qian Yi had died and contained the ghost in his body by suppressing a pair of red embroidered shoes. He checked the training base for further danger, found no ghosts, and left for the hotel to rest while the wider incident remained unresolved.

• Yang Jian and the others found Qian Yi dead, and they feared the ghost in his body would escape.
• Qian Yi's corpse moved an impossible distance, but Yang Jian used the Headless Ghost Shadow to suppress it.
• Yang Jian removed the red embroidered shoes hidden beneath Qian Yi's leather shoes and locked them in a golden box.
• Yang Jian opened three layers of Ghost Domain, found no nearby ghosts, and wondered whether the ghost from the bottle had been taken by the ghost coffin.
• Yang Jian left the training base for the hotel and told the others they could follow Headquarters' orders only on the surface.

After returning to the Ping An Hotel, Yang Jian worried that the ghost might target ordinary people and decided to monitor the situation at the laboratory. Huang Ziya tried to get close to him, but he turned her down and called Liu Xiaoyu for an update.

• Yang Jian considered how the ghost’s changed rules might endanger ordinary people and decided to keep track of its movements.
• Huang Ziya visited Yang Jian, thanked him for saving her, and offered to keep him company, but he refused.
• Zhang Lei and Wang Jiang revealed that they had bet on whether Huang Ziya would succeed with Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian called Liu Xiaoyu to ask whether Wang Xiaoming and the others had encountered the ghost at the laboratory.

Wang Xiaoming and a group of top Ghost Tamers tried to contain Ghost Messenger, but it repeatedly restarted and targeted him inside its Ghost Domain. Yang Jian learned that Wang Xiaoming had entered the incident and suspected the ghost coffin was involved, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Ghost Tamers outside the Ghost Domain watched as the darkness trapped the group inside and discussed the stakes of the Captain Plan.
• Wang Xiaoming and the others endured three attacks, but Ghost Messenger restarted each time their attempts to restrain or contain it failed.
• Wang Xiaoming suspected the ghost coffin had drawn Ghost Messenger to him and ordered the group to separate it from them.
• Liu Xiaoyu told Yang Jian that Wang Xiaoming and the top Ghost Tamers had entered the Ghost Domain to confront Ghost Messenger.
• Yang Jian concluded that Wang Xiaoming was likely in trouble but chose to wait for further news rather than intervene.

Yang Jian shared what he knew about the Ghost Messenger’s altered killing rule and suggested returning it to the ghost coffin, while he waited to see whether Headquarters’ plan would work. Inside the Ghost Domain, Wang Xiaoming proposed using himself as bait, and Li Jun suspected he might be trying to die.

• Li Jun called Yang Jian to ask about the Ghost Messenger’s resets, and Yang Jian explained that it now killed only ordinary people because its killing rule had changed.
• Yang Jian suggested that returning the Ghost Messenger to the ghost coffin might end the incident, and Li Jun said the idea matched Wang Xiaoming’s plan.
• Yang Jian decided to wait, keeping another untested plan in reserve in case Wang Xiaoming’s approach failed.
• Inside the Ghost Domain, Cao Yang praised Yang Jian’s achievement, while Jiang Shangbai dismissed his ability to contain the ghost.
• As the fifth wave of attacks approached, Wang Xiaoming proposed lying in the ghost coffin alone to lure the ghost inside, but Li Jun objected and suspected Wang wanted to use the incident to kill himself.

Wang Xiaoming devised a plan to lure the evil ghost back into its coffin and asked the others to leave him alone for the attack. He used Yang Jian’s substitute doll to draw the ghost into the coffin, and the darkness began to dissipate.

• Li Jun and the others tried to dissuade Wang Xiaoming from risking his life, but he insisted that only he could lure the ghost back into the coffin.
• Wang Xiaoming ordered the others to move away and waited alone beside the damaged ghost coffin as the seventh attack began.
• When the ghost approached, Wang Xiaoming shot through a golden box containing a cloth doll and dripped his blood onto the doll.
• Wang Xiaoming tossed the box into the coffin, redirecting the ghost toward it instead of himself.
• The ghost struck the coffin, and the darkness began to recede, leaving Feng Quan and Cao Yang astonished that Wang Xiaoming’s plan appeared to have worked.

After the Ghost Messenger returned to the ghost coffin, Wang Xiaoming realized the coffin itself was a dormant ghost that could revive. His warning came too late: the coffin began to leak supernatural power and killed two Ghost Tamers.

• The Ghost Domain dissipated after the Ghost Messenger returned to the coffin, and the gathered Ghost Tamers debated how easily the incident had seemed to end.
• Tong Qian and Cao Yang defended Yang Jian’s role in changing the ghost’s killing pattern, while Jiang Shangbai questioned the incident’s S-class classification.
• Wang Xiaoming deduced that the ghost coffin was itself a coffin-shaped Ghost Domain and that the Ghost Messenger and coffin were parts of one ghost.
• The coffin began shaking as something knocked from inside, and Li Jun pulled Wang Xiaoming away while the team prepared to contain it.
• Wang Xiaoming concluded that the ghost coffin was reviving and urgently ordered the team to contain it before it changed further.
• The black coffin lid dispersed, and the supernatural power killed two Ghost Tamers by snapping their necks before the others could escape.

After the ghost coffin’s killing pattern changed and two Ghost Tamers died, Wang Xiaoming ordered the team to abandon it and retreat. New supernatural forces then trapped them nearby, and Li Jun’s Ghost Domain was suppressed, leaving them to flee on foot.

• Two Ghost Tamers died after the ghost coffin’s killing pattern changed, and Wang Xiaoming recognized that the containment plan had failed.
• Jiang Shangbai, Feng Quan, and Zhong Shan discussed whether to retreat, and Wang Xiaoming ordered everyone to abandon the ghost coffin.
• As the group prepared to leave, ghost ropes, spreading blood, and a shadowy figure appeared around the coffin.
• Wang Xiaoming told Li Jun to use his Ghost Domain, but the ghost coffin suppressed it as soon as it spread.
• Wang Xiaoming urged the group to run beyond the coffin’s limited range, leaving them to force their way through the supernatural influence on foot.

Yang Jian woke to learn that the attempt to contain the Ghost Messenger had failed after the Ghost Coffin mutated. Professor Wang had chosen to stay and take the coffin, with Li Jun and Feng Quan agreeing to the plan.

• Yang Jian slept at Ping An Hotel while Zhang Hui, traumatized by the Ghost Messenger Incident, saw a shadow outside his door and fled the hotel.
• Liu Xiaoyu called Yang Jian and told him that Professor Wang's attempt to contain the Ghost Messenger had been obstructed and attacked by a supernatural force.
• Liu Xiaoyu explained that the Ghost Messenger had returned to the Ghost Coffin, but the coffin mutated and the ghost emerged again.
• Yang Jian learned that Professor Wang refused to leave because he wanted to take the Ghost Coffin away, and that Li Jun and Feng Quan had agreed to stay.

Yang Jian learned that Feng Quan, Tong Qian, and other Ghost Tamers were trapped in the Ghost Messenger incident, and Headquarters asked him for help. After negotiating reimbursement and special overtime pay, he agreed to rescue them and set off for the outskirts of J City.

• Yang Jian learned that several familiar Ghost Tamers had joined Wang Xiaoming's operation to reclaim the ghost coffin, and some had become trapped in danger.
• Yang Jian demanded reimbursement for a red ghost candle and a cloth doll before sharing his plan with Headquarters.
• Deputy Minister Cao Yanhua approved the reimbursement and promised Yang Jian a choice of a classified special item as overtime pay.
• Yang Jian agreed to rescue the trapped Ghost Tamers but said he would not confront or contain Ghost Messenger.
• Yang Jian sent a Ghost Eye out across the city and vanished from the sofa using his Ghost Domain.

Yang Jian arrived at the laboratory outskirts to rescue Wang Xiaoming and the others, and began testing whether his Ghost Domain could counter-invade the Ghost Messenger’s. Inside the darkness, Wang Xiaoming’s group struggled toward the coffin as the Ghost Messenger continued to rise toward full revival.

• Jiang Shangbai and Zhong Shan decided to leave the Ghost Domain’s perimeter and wait for Headquarters to arrange a rescue.
• Yang Jian arrived, explained that he had come for overtime pay, and proposed using a stronger Ghost Domain to compress the Ghost Messenger’s domain from the outside.
• Yang Jian entered his Ghost Domain and successively activated its layers, but even the fourth layer could not reach the source of the darkness.
• Tong Qian used her ghost faces to repel an attack, while Wang Xiaoming explained that he wanted the coffin because his discovery could allow people to control revived ghosts.
• Wang Xiaoming, Li Jun, Tong Qian, and the others pressed toward the coffin, where the Ghost Messenger had stood up and was nearing a complete revival.