Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian secured an apology and compensation from President Mishima, then waited for the Spirit Extermination Society to return the box. Meanwhile, a supernatural ghost hunted Yamazaki through Kobe City, and another ghost in a human face blended into the crowd.

• President Mishima apologized to Yang Jian for Yamazaki’s actions, and Yang Jian demanded twenty more units of gold and safe delivery of the box to Dachang City.
• Yang Jian agreed to wait two hours for the preparations and left for a banquet with Nagazawa, while the Ghost Infant appeared unnoticed in the car’s trunk.
• President Mishima learned that Tajima had died and suspected another supernatural incident was still active in Kobe City.
• Yamazaki fled a ghost that kept finding him and suppressed the ghost within his body whenever it fixed its gaze on him.
• A cold corpse wearing a living person’s face watched Yamazaki, then walked into the city and blended in among the survivors.

Yang Jian attended a banquet at the Spirit Extermination Society’s headquarters and discovered that a room in the residence contained a supernatural object guarded by an unseen presence. After meeting several powerful guests and encountering Yamazaki, he remained wary of the gathering and planned to eat before returning to Dachang City for his Ghost Cabinet transaction.

• Yang Jian sensed something unsettling in the old residence, declined the offer to bathe, and accepted Keiko as his sole contact with the Spirit Extermination Society.
• Yang Jian entered a secluded courtyard and spoke with a man whom Keiko could not see; the man explained that a supernatural object was kept inside the room and warned Yang Jian not to investigate.
• Yang Jian left the courtyard, and the unseen man vanished from view, though he was actually inside the room beside a long-dead corpse.
• Several prominent business leaders approached Yang Jian at the banquet and offered him their business cards, which he accepted before withdrawing from the crowd.
• Yang Jian saw Yamazaki arrive looking angry and shaken, then wondered whether the gathering served some purpose beyond honoring him.
• Yang Jian checked the time and decided to eat before returning to Dachang City for his Ghost Cabinet transaction.

At a Spirit Extermination Society banquet, Yang Jian learned of an old projector that showed users scenes of their deaths and suspected its predictions were curses. Yamazaki volunteered to use it, setting up a test that left Yang Jian watching closely.

• President Mishima hosted a banquet to thank Yang Jian, while several Spirit Extermination Society members eyed him with wariness and hostility.
• Yamazaki challenged Yang Jian to consider his own death and revealed that the society possessed an object that showed users how they would die.
• Yang Jian suspected the object's visions were curses rather than reliable glimpses of the future, and questioned whether it had predicted Sakai's death.
• President Mishima had an old hand-cranked projector brought to the banquet and explained that its film showed a segment from each user's death.
• Yang Jian asked Yamazaki to demonstrate how he would die, and Yamazaki agreed and approached the projector.

Yang Jian watched the projector reveal Yamazaki’s predicted death, in which a ghost killed him on an Osaka street. The footage vanished when the ghost turned toward the camera, and Jinchuan then volunteered to see his own death scene.

• Yamazaki cranked the projector, which displayed his headless corpse on a street in Osaka City.
• Yang Jian identified the approaching figure in leather shoes as a ghost by its stiff, even gait.
• The ghost reached Yamazaki’s body, and the footage distorted and vanished when it turned toward the camera.
• Yamazaki recognized the ghost as the one that had hunted him in Kobe City and grew uneasy about his predicted death.
• Jinchuan stood up and asked President Mishima to let him use the projector next.

Yang Jian watched the projector reveal that a ghost in leather shoes and suit trousers would kill several members of President Mishima’s society, then agreed to test his own fate. His death scene appeared, but the chapter ended before anyone saw what it showed.

• Jinchuan, Fujiwara, Ishida, and another society member each saw a future death scene in which the same ghost appeared near their bodies.
• Yang Jian suggested that Yamazaki’s death might have started the chain of events and provoked the others by proposing that killing Yamazaki could change the future.
• President Mishima asked Yang Jian to use the projector, offering him a piece of porcelain in return.
• Yang Jian turned the projector’s crank with his blackened ghost hand despite Yamazaki’s taunts.
• The projector displayed Yang Jian’s death scene.

Yang Jian watched the projector show his corpse in the blood pool formed after Yan Li's ghost revived, confirming that he had escaped the ghost targeting the Spirit Extermination Society. When Yamazaki threatened Keiko to force him to reveal how he avoided ghosts, Yang Jian killed Yamazaki and left the ghost inside his body behind.

• Yang Jian turned the projector's crank as blood seeped from the footage, which showed a blood pool on the outskirts of Dachang City and his own corpse floating in it.
• Yang Jian reasoned that he might enter the pool willingly in a future crisis, then dismissed the other members' doubts about his survival.
• Yamazaki demanded that Yang Jian reveal how to avoid ghosts and threatened Keiko when Yang Jian refused.
• Yang Jian challenged Yamazaki to act, while Yamazaki considered using the Spirit Extermination Society's members to overpower him.
• Yamazaki overturned the table and released an icy aura, so Yang Jian opened his five-layer Ghost Domain and crushed Yamazaki's neck with his black ghost hand.
• Yang Jian's Ghost Domain removed Yamazaki's corpse but left the curled-up ghost that had been inside his body.

Yang Jian killed Yamazaki in seconds at the banquet, then left the Spirit Extermination Society to deal with Yamazaki’s newly active ghost. He returned to the airport and departed for Dachang City, leaving Keiko behind, though she hoped he would come back.

• Yang Jian swiftly killed Yamazaki, frightening the Spirit Extermination Society’s members and forcing President Mishima to apologize.
• Yang Jian demanded a flight to Dachang City and left the banquet, but Yamazaki’s ghost suddenly attacked him.
• Yang Jian briefly restrained the ghost with his ghost hands, then vanished and left the Spirit Extermination Society to contain it as it targeted Ishida.
• At the airport, Yang Jian told Keiko to stay behind and warned her that Ghost Tamers could not live forever.
• Yang Jian departed, while Keiko remained hopeful that he would return.

Yang Jian returned to Dachang City with the imprisoned Door-Knocking Ghost after resolving the crisis in the island nation. He arranged to secure the ghost, sent Zhang Hua to investigate coordinates near Dahan City, and dictated his trip’s details to Zhang Liqin as midnight approached and his Ghost Cabinet deal came due.

• Yang Jian flew back to Dachang City with Ghost Child and the Door-Knocking Ghost, while President Mishima acknowledged that he had badly underestimated Yang Jian’s strength and considered recruiting him.
• After landing, Yang Jian asked Zhang Hua to store the Door-Knocking Ghost securely and investigate coordinates near Dahan City without reporting the matter to Headquarters for now.
• Yang Jian returned to Guangjiang Residential Area, ordered Ghost Child to protect it, and asked Zhang Liqin to record his account of the trip.
• Yang Jian described the events in the island nation, including the deaths of Sakai and Yamazaki, Mishima’s condition, and his encounter with Keiko.
• Zhang Liqin asked why Yang Jian had not brought Keiko back, and Yang Jian recognized that she was jealous before continuing his account until eleven o’clock.

Yang Jian completed his seven-day transaction with the ghost cupboard, discovering that its blood curse had protected him before it delivered a new task. The cupboard gave him a photograph of an old residence and a brass key, ordering him to open a locked door within three months, while Yang Jian left wary of the ghost’s larger purpose.

• At midnight, the ghost cupboard opened and released blood that Yang Jian realized had been protecting him from the strange projector’s supernatural threat.
• After the blood withdrew, the cupboard delivered a photograph of an old residence and a brass key to Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian read the task on the photograph: open the residence’s locked door within three months, and recognized the residence from the ghost bride photograph and possibly the supernatural bus.
• Yang Jian suspected the ghost cupboard’s linked tasks served a ghost’s purpose, and decided to keep the key while looking for a way to end the transaction.
• After returning home, Yang Jian discovered that the firewood axe wound on his arm had healed, possibly because the completed transaction suppressed its curse.

Yang Jian went to work after worrying about his deal with the Ghost Cabinet, where he found Zhang Wei running an absurd job fair. When Jiang Yan threatened to jump after discovering Yang Jian and Zhang Liqin’s relationship, he rescued her with his Ghost Domain and left her believing he cared for her.

• Yang Jian arrived at the company and watched Zhang Wei hire applicants for bizarre reasons, including their gaming skill and appearance.
• Zhang Liqin told Yang Jian that Jiang Yan had discovered their selfies and threatened to jump if she could not see him.
• Yang Jian confronted Jiang Yan, explaining that he would not choose her because he believed his dangerous life would only hurt her.
• Jiang Yan jumped from the forty-fifth-floor window after Yang Jian told her he would not stop her.
• Yang Jian opened his Ghost Domain and brought Jiang Yan back unharmed, and she clung to him, convinced that he liked her.

Yang Jian agreed to return to his hometown after his mother called and invited Jiang Yan to go with him. Before leaving, he learned Sun Ren had escaped with the trade item, while the investigation into his father’s possible connection to supernatural incidents continued.

• Jiang Yan confessed her feelings to Yang Jian and clashed with Zhang Liqin over her place beside him, but Yang Jian sent them to wash up and change.
• Yang Jian called his mother, Zhang Fen, who asked him to visit for the New Year and bring a girlfriend; he agreed to go that afternoon.
• Yang Jian invited Jiang Yan to accompany him to his hometown, and she happily agreed to pack for the trip.
• Zhang Hua reported that Zhang Wei had been rescued and the stored item was secure, but Sun Ren had escaped with Yang Jian’s trade item and was likely a Ghost Tamer.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Hua to continue investigating the address he had provided and checked in with Wang Bin about Wang Shanshan, who remained isolated at home.

Yang Jian encountered his cousin Liang Yuan being chased after she deliberately rode into a young man and nearly stabbed him. He took responsibility for the damage and brought Liang Yuan and her friend along, but bruises on Liang Yuan’s arm convinced him that something supernatural might be affecting her.

• Yang Jian drove Jiang Yan toward his hometown, then stopped when he saw a group of young men chasing two girls, including his cousin Liang Yuan.
• Liang Yuan admitted she had ridden into the young men with her eyes closed, then pulled out a scalpel and tried to stab one of them.
• Yang Jian stopped Liang Yuan and paid the young man compensation, while noticing that Liang Yuan seemed unaware of her sudden violent behavior.
• Liang Yuan asked Yang Jian to take her and her friend to get food and then drive them home.
• Yang Jian saw bruise-like marks on Liang Yuan’s arm and decided that something was wrong with her and needed investigation.

Yang Jian brought Jiang Yan to his family’s old home in Meishan Village, where Liang Yuan’s disturbing behavior and a corpse in a passing hearse heightened his suspicions about the area. He found nothing unusual in his father’s memorial room, but after he left, the portrait seemed to darken as the incense went out.

• Jiang Yan met Liang Yuan, who called her Auntie and made unsettling remarks about ghosts and death; Yang Jian warned Jiang Yan that Liang Yuan had been affected by something.
• Yang Jian noticed Liang Yuan buying raincoats, ritual supplies, and knives, though she could not remember why she needed them.
• On the drive to Meishan Village, Yang Jian saw hearses carrying corpses and used his Ghost Eye to examine one whose hand had gripped its own neck.
• Liang Yuan and her friend went into the village, while Yang Jian and Jiang Yan drove to his abandoned family home.
• Yang Jian examined his father’s memorial portrait and found nothing abnormal, then left the room after paying respects.
• After Yang Jian left, his father’s portrait appeared shrouded in darkness as the incense flickered out; Jiang Yan asked to stay with Yang Jian that night, and he agreed.

Yang Jian searched the village for anything unusual, then asked his mother and relatives about places his father had visited. He learned about a fish pond, a small temple, and woods where his father had kept dogs, leaving him to suspect his father had known about the supernatural long before Yang Jian encountered ghosts.

• Yang Jian inspected the village with the Ghost Eye and found nothing strange, then decided to ask his mother about his father's old haunts.
• Zhang Fen told relatives that Yang Jian had started a company with Zhang Wei and earned her a villa, while Jiang Yan presented herself as Yang Jian's girlfriend.
• Yang Jian asked about his father's farmland and fish ponds, but his aunt objected and accused him of bringing up old family property.
• Zhang Fen and another relative recalled that Yang Jian's father had a fish pond, gave land to the village for a small temple, and kept dogs in woods until they all vanished overnight.
• Yang Jian suspected his father had not been ordinary and wondered whether his first encounter with a ghost had been connected to him.

Yang Jian waited in the village for Xiao Yuan, expecting a paranormal incident, but followed her and Lin Xiaoxi into a strange rain-soaked realm where he had lost his supernatural abilities and even his left hand. As they walked through what seemed like a dream, Xiao Yuan stabbed a corpse-like figure, while a young man resembling Yang Jian emerged from the room that held his father's portrait.

• Yang Jian refused Jiang Yan's advances so he could watch for Xiao Yuan and any paranormal activity in the village.
• Xiao Yuan called Yang Jian outside at night, then led him and Lin Xiaoxi out of the village to play hide-and-seek and avoid a dangerous thing.
• A young man resembling Yang Jian came out of the room that held his father's portrait and watched them leave.
• Yang Jian realized the road and surroundings were unlike those he knew, and discovered his Ghost Eye, ghost shadow, and left hand were gone.
• Xiao Yuan stabbed a black-hooded corpse by the roadside three times, then continued onward with Yang Jian and Lin Xiaoxi.

Yang Jian realized he was trapped in a supernatural dream where dying would kill him in reality, so he followed Xiao Yuan and Lin Xiaoxi toward town while trying to understand the dream’s dangers. After headless corpses stopped pursuing them when they turned away, Yang Jian reached town and suspected the nightmare was tied to him—and that Xiao Yuan might be a ghost.

• Yang Jian concluded that he was in a supernatural dream, reasoned that his powers could not help him there, and resolved to survive until dawn.
• Yang Jian noticed that the corpse Xiao Yuan had stabbed had stood up again, then followed Xiao Yuan and Lin Xiaoxi past fields full of headless corpses.
• When the headless corpses began moving toward them, Yang Jian told the others not to turn their backs; the corpses stopped and retreated when they turned around.
• Xiao Yuan led Yang Jian and Lin Xiaoxi toward town, where Yang Jian noticed signs that other people might also be trapped in the dream.
• Yang Jian saw corpses hanging above town and suspected that the nightmare was his own and that Xiao Yuan might be a ghost, so he put distance between himself and the others.

Yang Jian entered the dream version of Yang Town with Xiao Yuan and Lin Xiaoxi, suspecting that anyone besides himself might be a ghost. As they searched for the dream ghost, Xiao Yuan killed a woman who appeared in the town, and the woman died the same way in reality.

• Yang Jian suspected that the dream could contain ghostly versions of people he knew, but chose to stay with Xiao Yuan and Lin Xiaoxi.
• Xiao Yuan and Lin Xiaoxi explained that they had to find the dream ghost early, since it grew more dangerous the longer it waited to attack.
• Yang Jian followed Xiao Yuan through the dark town, where corpses hung from ropes above the streets.
• A middle-aged woman approached Xiao Yuan, who stabbed her in the neck and heart with fruit knives.
• The woman died in the dream, and in reality she stabbed herself to death with her bare hands.

Yang Jian, Xiao Yuan, and Lin Xiaoxi survived an attack by rope-wielding corpses and reached a crowded county market, where Yang Jian realized the dream was amplifying the ghost inside him. The ghost seized Lin Xiaoxi, and Xiao Yuan charged into the crowd after another target, leaving Yang Jian alone in the market.

• Xiao Yuan killed a woman she mistook for her target, triggering the hanging corpses to fall and attack the trio with straw ropes.
• Yang Jian knocked away a corpse strangling Xiao Yuan and led her and Lin Xiaoxi through the encirclement.
• The three escaped to the county market, where Yang Jian explained that his ghost had affected the dream and that they needed to find and kill the ghost before dawn.
• A crowd suddenly filled the market, and Yang Jian stopped Xiao Yuan from attacking its people while planning to reach the county elementary school.
• Something in the crowd dragged Lin Xiaoxi away, and Yang Jian briefly saw the tall ghost before it disappeared.
• Xiao Yuan ignored Yang Jian's warning and charged into the crowd with her fruit knife.

Yang Jian searched the market for Xiao Yuan while trying to find and kill the ghost haunting his dream. After he attacked a knife vendor who resembled the Door-Knocking Ghost, terrifying figures from his nightmares closed in and blocked every path.

• Yang Jian chased after Xiao Yuan through the rain-soaked market and took a knife from a vendor for self-defense.
• The vendor grabbed Yang Jian's wrist, revealing a corpse-spotted hand and an appearance like the Door-Knocking Ghost, so Yang Jian cut off the hand and moved on.
• Yang Jian heard Zhang Wei ordering bizarre amounts of minced meat at an empty stall and realized the dream was drawing on his memories.
• Yang Jian encountered a dead head, a dead baby, and a coffin as he continued through the market.
• A woman in red stood in his path while the knife vendor, the woman with the dead baby, and people carrying the coffin approached, leaving Yang Jian surrounded by ghosts.

Yang Jian tried to escape the nightmare by killing the frightening figures around him, but the real ghost disguised itself as an inconspicuous coffin bearer and stabbed him. The chapter ended with Yang Jian gravely wounded and the ghost waiting for him to die.

• Yang Jian reasoned that the nightmare contained one real ghost and decided to attack the figures approaching him.
• Yang Jian stabbed and killed the figure dressed as the Ghost Bride, then killed the woman holding the Ghost Infant and the infant itself.
• Yang Jian charged at the Door-Knocking Ghost old man, but a coffin bearer stabbed him in the abdomen with a coffin nail.
• Yang Jian recognized the strange-faced coffin bearer as the likely dream ghost, but his desperate attack missed as it retreated.
• The Door-Knocking Ghost old man took Yang Jian's knife and left while the wounded Yang Jian lay helpless and the ghost waited nearby.