Chapter Summaries

Li Jun used his ghost fire to connect the old residence to the Ghost Painting world and nearly trapped Chen Qiaoyang, but Chen escaped by using an old pendulum clock to restart time. After Li Jun withdrew his Ghost Domain, he encountered Li Yang in the old residence and noticed two fierce ghosts behind him.

• Li Jun brought Ping An Building, the ghost coffin's darkness, and the woman in the painting into the old residence, leaving Chen Qiaoyang, Zhang Qing, and Wan Tong with no clear escape.
• Chen Qiaoyang summoned four corpses that formed a barrier against the Ghost Painting's influence and used a pendulum clock to restart time.
• The restart briefly suppressed the Ghost Painting and ghost coffin, allowing Chen Qiaoyang to disappear while Li Jun remained behind.
• Li Jun withdrew his Ghost Domain and extinguished the ghost fire, leaving Zhang Qing and Wan Tong trapped in the Ghost Painting world.
• Li Yang appeared on the third floor, and Li Jun saw a middle-aged husband and wife who were fierce ghosts standing behind him.

Yang Jian waited outside the old house for the enemy forced to emerge, while Chen Qiaoyang escaped and faced Wang Chaling. Chen Qiaoyang reached the street’s end before Yang Jian appeared to block his way with the cracked spear.

• Yang Jian heard a bell ring and prepared to intercept whoever left the old house, while Xiong Wenwen played with the Ghost Child.
• Chen Qiaoyang emerged from the old house and met Wang Chaling, revealing that he knew Wang Chaling’s parents and had fought them before.
• Wang Chaling summoned the Wang Family First Generation, and Chen Qiaoyang surrounded himself with four corpses for protection.
• Chen Qiaoyang left the old house, and Wang Chaling let him go rather than risk a fight alone.
• Yang Jian blocked Chen Qiaoyang’s path with the cracked spear and enveloped the street in his scarlet Ghost Domain.

Yang Jian confronted Chen Qiaoyang, a Ghost Herder from his father’s era who had manipulated the clock at the Wang Family old house and knew Yang Jian’s father. Their fight escalated as Yang Jian suppressed Chen Qiaoyang’s ghosts, and Chen Qiaoyang lunged for the golden spear before someone called his name from behind.

• Yang Jian questioned Chen Qiaoyang about the clock at the Wang Family old house, and Chen Qiaoyang revealed that he had known Yang Jian’s father, Yang Xiaotian.
• Yang Jian rejected Chen Qiaoyang’s offer to discuss his father’s death and opened the fifth layer of Ghost Domain, revealing four fierce ghosts imprisoning and protecting Chen Qiaoyang.
• Chen Qiaoyang used blood to impose a killing rule on one ghost, but Yang Jian opened the sixth layer of Ghost Domain and pinned the moving ghost to a wall with his golden spear.
• Chen Qiaoyang made another ghost target Yang Jian, but Yang Jian submerged into Ghost Shadow and used black hands to suppress the bloated corpse.
• Chen Qiaoyang sent a third ghost after Yang Jian and charged toward the golden spear, but an unfamiliar voice called his name from behind.

Yang Jian used Ghost Child and a trap to dismember Chen Qiaoyang’s strongest ghost, then revealed that he could restart himself to evade the hatchet’s curse. As Chen Qiaoyang began losing control to Yang Jian’s ghost shadow, Xiong Wenwen appeared and claimed credit for helping secure the victory.

• Ghost Child called Chen Qiaoyang’s name, but Chen used his blood to temporarily strip away his identity and resist the call.
• Chen Qiaoyang tried to pull the cracked golden spear from the wall, realized it was a trap, and attempted to flee.
• Yang Jian’s shadow swung the spear and hatchet, but Chen Qiaoyang’s Republican Era ghost took the strike and was dismembered.
• Yang Jian appeared unharmed and explained that he had restarted himself by shifting his time backward one minute.
• The ghost shadow invaded Chen Qiaoyang as his legs lost sensation, and Xiong Wenwen appeared to boast about helping Yang Jian win.

Yang Jian nearly killed Chen Qiaoyang, but Chen’s plan to unleash the ghosts in the Wang Family’s old residence created an opening for a paper bridal sedan chair to carry him away. Yang Jian was left injured as the supernatural chaos spread.

• Yang Jian’s Ghost Shadow trapped Chen Qiaoyang, while Wang Chaling arrived and explained that he had not dared to fight alone.
• Chen Qiaoyang revealed that he had tampered with the old residence’s pendulum clock, and its unexpected ringing signaled that the ghosts were losing control.
• Yang Jian grabbed Chen Qiaoyang and began erasing his memories, determined to kill him before the danger outside could interfere.
• A paper bridal sedan chair invaded Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain, struck both men, and carried Chen Qiaoyang away before vanishing.
• Yang Jian recovered from his injuries but realized that Chen Qiaoyang had escaped alive.

After Chen Qiaoyang escaped Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain, Yang Jian confronted Wang Chaling over his refusal to help and witnessed the terrifying power of the Wang Family’s ghosts. Wang Chaling took charge of the old house’s remaining ghosts, while Yang Jian claimed one ghost and warned that he would take the pendulum clock.

• Chen Qiaoyang escaped Yang Jian’s fifth-layer Ghost Domain with the paper figures and sedan chair after Yang Jian erased only half his memories.
• Yang Jian accused Wang Chaling of standing by during the fight, and Wang Chaling’s two old ghosts tore apart and suppressed a ghost Yang Jian threw at him.
• Wang Chaling explained that he had avoided risking the Wang Family’s inherited supernatural power and said he would handle the old house’s loss of control.
• Wang Chaling’s old ghosts suppressed another roaming ghost, while Yang Jian removed the ghost hands covering a pale, swollen ghost and claimed it for himself.
• Yang Jian told Wang Chaling he would take the pendulum clock once the old house was secured, threatening to kill him if he resisted.

Yang Jian forced Wang Chaling to yield control of the Wang Family ancestral house, then regrouped with Li Jun and Li Yang after Li Jun contained the house’s supernatural outbreak. Wang Chaling later went to a safe house and wondered whether the pendulum clock could reset everything.

• Yang Jian threatened Wang Chaling into surrendering the Wang Family ancestral house, and Wang Chaling withdrew rather than fight him.
• A strange green ghost fire revealed an overlap with the Ghost Painting world, then vanished as the ancestral house grew quiet.
• Yang Jian found Li Jun alive, learned he had sent the house’s ghosts into the Ghost Painting world, and reunited with Li Yang.
• Yang Jian recognized Wang Lu and his wife as Wang Chaling’s ghostly parents, then left Dadong City with Li Yang, Xiong Wenwen, and Ghost Child.
• Wang Chaling brought the first-generation ghost to his safe house, where he watched the imprisoned Starving Ghost and wondered about the pendulum clock.

Wang Chaling confirmed that the Starving Ghost was still in his safe room and planned to combine its restart with the old house’s pendulum clock, while the ghost began to stir after he left. Outside Ning'an Building, Yang Jian devised a way to draw out the ghost tied to the red wooden stools, and the chapter ended as it began emerging.

• Wang Chaling confirmed that the Starving Ghost remained in the safe room and resolved to control it before Yang Jian could take the pendulum clock.
• After Wang Chaling left, the Starving Ghost’s eyes moved and rust began flaking from the coffin nail embedded in its forehead.
• Yang Jian and his team stayed at Ning'an Building to deal with the red wooden stools, whose ghostly medium had spread through the building.
• Yang Jian summoned Zhang Zhidong and used him to trigger the stool’s killing pattern, while a substitute doll redirected the ghost’s attack.
• The red stool shook violently as a fierce ghost began emerging from it, and Yang Jian waited with his golden, cracked long spear.

Yang Jian used Zhang Zhidong and a Substitute Doll to force the ghost on the red wooden bench into a supernatural stalemate, then contained its last medium and removed Zhang’s brain tumor. Back in Dachang City, Yang Jian warned his team about surviving Ghost Tamers and future dangers, while Feng Quan stayed behind and wondered whether his memories had been altered.

• Yang Jian used Zhang Zhidong as bait and the Substitute Doll to provoke the ghost, causing the other red wooden benches in Ning'an Building to vanish as the ghost struggled against its medium.
• The ghost settled into a strange balance, and Yang Jian confirmed that the bench Zhang Zhidong sat on was its last remaining medium.
• Yang Jian lifted Zhang Zhidong from the bench, took the bench and ghost into containment, and removed Zhang’s tumor with his blackened hand before leaving him outside Ning'an Building.
• Yang Jian returned to Dachang City with Feng Quan, Tong Qian, Li Yang, Huang Ziya, and the others, then warned them that other cursed Ghost Tamers might retaliate and that older survivors could emerge.
• Yang Jian left the office, the team dispersed, and Feng Quan remained behind as the smoke around him thickened into fog and he wondered whether his memories had been altered.

Yang Jian destroyed the Ghost Cabinet to renege on their deal, but it reappeared as a supernatural presence that could only be seen when the lights flickered. It marked him with a shortened deadline of twenty-nine days, leaving him facing a growing threat to himself and those close to him.

• Yang Jian used the hatchet to chop the Ghost Cabinet into pieces, sealed the bloodstained fragments in a gold box, and buried them underground.
• After returning home, Yang Jian found Zhang Liqin frightened by a figure she had seen in her room and brought her to his bedroom.
• Yang Jian discovered that the shattered Ghost Cabinet appeared only during the instant the lights flickered, and his coffin nail could not strike it.
• The Ghost Cabinet left the warning “twenty-nine days” in blood on the wall, shortening the deadline for Yang Jian's deal.
• Yang Jian concluded that the Ghost Cabinet was threatening those close to him and that he would have to resolve the transaction before its deadline.

Yang Jian received Ghost Door, ghost candles, and a new liaison officer from Headquarters while learning that the captains would soon be ordered to handle A-rated supernatural incidents. He agreed to let Liu Xiaoyu take the liaison role and said he would accept an assignment for suitable overtime pay, while Headquarters continued investigating Chen Qiaoyang.

• Zhang Liqin woke beside Yang Jian after a disturbing supernatural incident, and Yang Jian reassured her before heading to Shangtong Building.
• Yang Jian arrived at his office, where Shen Liang, Liu Xiaoyu, and other Headquarters personnel were waiting with the delivered items and a proposal for a new liaison officer.
• Shen Liang handed Yang Jian five red ghost candles and the sealed Ghost Door, warning him not to open it casually.
• Yang Jian approved Liu Xiaoyu as his new liaison officer and operator, then learned Headquarters planned to require each captain to handle one A-rated supernatural incident within two months.
• Yang Jian demanded overtime pay before accepting the work and asked about Chen Qiaoyang; Shen Liang said Headquarters had found no reliable identity records for him.

Yang Jian reviewed several dangerous supernatural incident files and decided to postpone taking a mission while he focused on the Ghost Post Office. After dismissing Liu Xiaoyu’s concerns about murders in Dachang City’s southern district as an ordinary human crime, he was left with the Supernatural Bus as the means to reach the old house required by the ghost cabinet’s deal, while Zhang Wei stole the murder report and ran off to investigate.

• Yang Jian examined the A-level incident files, judged the Supernatural Bus especially dangerous, and chose to rest before investigating the Ghost Post Office.
• Liu Xiaoyu brought Yang Jian Zhang Hua’s report about victims missing body parts in Dachang City’s southern district, and Yang Jian concluded that a human killer was responsible and ordered an investigation in the northern district.
• Yang Jian explained that Liu Xiaoyu needed to learn to make judgments in her liaison role and noted that twenty-eight days remained to fulfill the ghost cabinet’s deal.
• Yang Jian realized he would need to board the Supernatural Bus to reach the strange old house required by the deal.
• Zhang Wei introduced himself to Liu Xiaoyu as the Dual Wielding Golden Spear Man, snatched the murder report, and ran off to investigate.

Yang Jian dismissed Liu Xiaoyu’s concerns after Zhang Wei took the case file, while Zhang Wei recruited local youths to investigate the northern district. Their search led to an abandoned residential complex where a corpse assembled from victims’ body parts was slowly healing, and Yang Jian left work early to focus on his own plans.

• Liu Xiaoyu told Yang Jian that Zhang Wei had taken her case file, but Yang Jian said Zhang Wei would eventually give up and return.
• Zhang Wei gathered Brother A Fei and a group of young men to search the northern district for suspicious people or places.
• A young man led Zhang Wei to an aging residential complex after reporting that an old resident had smelled a corpse there.
• In Room 602 of Building Nineteen, an assembled corpse made from victims’ body parts continued healing and appeared to be coming alive.
• Yang Jian left work early, planning to rest before returning to the Ghost Post Office and the Ghost Cabinet matter.

Yang Jian arranged for Liu Xiaoyu to live with Wang Shanshan in a secluded house in Guangjiang Residential Area instead of staying at his home. Liu Xiaoyu learned that the house contained a sealed room with Supernatural Items and feared that a ghost might be inside.

• Liu Xiaoyu asked Yang Jian to let her stay at his house, but he said it was not a wise choice.
• Yang Jian brought Liu Xiaoyu to Wang Shanshan's residence and asked Wang Shanshan to keep her safe.
• Wang Shanshan agreed to host Liu Xiaoyu and showed her around the house.
• Wang Shanshan explained that two rooms contained dangerous Supernatural Items and that Yang Jian had never opened the third room.
• Liu Xiaoyu grew frightened at the thought of sleeping near a room that might contain a fierce ghost.

Yang Jian tested the supernatural taxi and discovered that he could control it with his ghost hand, but a ghost in its trunk began to emerge after thirty minutes of driving. He returned the taxi to his garage and decided to leave it intact, while Liu Xiaoyu stayed the night in Wang Shanshan’s room.

• Yang Jian examined the supernatural taxi and found that its headlights opened a Ghost Domain that let it pass through buildings.
• Yang Jian used his ghost hand to control the steering wheel and drove the taxi through the city, observing its speed and supernatural effects.
• After thirty minutes, a dead hand appeared in the rearview mirror as the taxi’s ghost began interfering with the cabin, so Yang Jian stopped the vehicle.
• Yang Jian drove the taxi back to his garage, decided not to open its locked trunk, and planned to leave it at the company for Feng Quan to control.
• Liu Xiaoyu asked Wang Shanshan if she could sleep in her room, and Wang Shanshan agreed.

Zhang Wei and his friends investigated a suspected death in Apartment 602, but found only a bloodstained bed and left believing they had made a false alarm. An extra, unfamiliar person slipped into their group as they descended, and A Fei sensed corpse stench among them.

• Yang Jian returned home, ate dinner with Zhang Liqin, and had her record the events of their trip to Dadong City.
• Zhang Wei gathered friends in a deserted neighborhood after A Fei traced a corpse stench to Building Nineteen.
• The group entered Apartment 602 and found a dark room with a strong stench, but Zhang Wei's gunshot revealed no visible target.
• Zhang Wei and A Fei discovered blackened, bloodstained bedding that vaguely resembled a human shape, then the group decided to leave.
• An extra person blended into the group on the way downstairs, while A Fei sensed corpse stench among them.

Zhang Liqin joined Yang Jian and his team at the riverbank, where bodies and body parts surfaced in contaminated water. They suspected the distant Ghost Lake incident was spreading downstream, sealed off Dachang City's waters, and left the threat unresolved as Yang Jian weighed several escalating supernatural problems.

• Zhang Liqin woke to find Yang Jian gone and worried that she would become dispensable to him.
• Zhang Liqin found Yang Jian, Li Yang, and Huang Ziya examining a river where a dead face and other body parts surfaced.
• Li Yang suspected the contamination had spread from upstream, and Huang Ziya identified the uncontrolled Ghost Lake incident as the likely source.
• Yang Jian ordered Liu Xiaoyu notified and directed the team to seal off Dachang City's bodies of water and keep people away from the river.
• Li Yang explained that he and Yang Jian could not leave because they were awaiting the Ghost Post Office's letter-delivery mission, so the team postponed dealing with Ghost Lake.

Yang Jian left for the Ghost Post Office after the road to it reappeared, bringing Li Yang with him. At the lobby, Sun Rui warned that the post office had fallen out of control and that messengers upstairs were dying.

• Yang Jian explained that Wang Shanshan's youth and life depended on supernatural power, while Zhang Liqin said she would accept the same bargain.
• Yang Jian suddenly stopped the car, sent Zhang Liqin and Liu Xiaoyu home, and answered Li Yang's call about the road to the post office reappearing.
• Yang Jian told Li Yang to bring two red Ghost Candles and entered the supernatural road carrying his cracked golden spear.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang reached the Ghost Post Office and found Sun Rui still alive behind the lobby counter.
• Sun Rui told Yang Jian that the post office had lost control and that messengers on the third and fourth floors were dying.

Yang Jian learned that the Ghost Post Office was losing control and decided to reach the fifth floor to uncover how to control it. He led the surviving messengers onto the increasingly dangerous fourth floor and chose Room 402 before nightfall.

• Sun Rui told Yang Jian that fourth-floor messengers had been wiped out, fifth-floor messengers had died or vanished, and ghosts now roamed the post office; Yang Jian gave him a red Ghost Candle and told him to leave once Yang Jian reached the fifth floor.
• Wang Shan and Yang Xiaohua arrived, and Yang Jian warned them that the fourth-floor delivery mission might kill them while rejecting Yang Xiaohua's claim that he owed her help.
• Yang Jian, Li Yang, Wang Shan, and Yang Xiaohua reached the fourth floor and found a hanging corpse whose face remained hidden, along with rooms marked by strange supernatural traces.
• With the lights due to go out at six, Yang Jian rejected the room sealed with black Letter Paper and chose Room 402, whose white door was coated in bone ash.

Yang Jian forced his way into Room 402 and found Liu Qingqing and Old Eagle inside, then learned how the fourth floor had fallen into chaos. As the lights went out at six o’clock, ominous thuds sounded outside the room.

• Yang Jian injured himself on the cremation ash covering Room 402, then used the butcher knife to split the door after Yang Xiaohua could not open it.
• Liu Qingqing recognized Yang Jian and persuaded Old Eagle to let him and his companions enter the room.
• Old Eagle explained that messengers Lin Yue and Zhao Li had preceded the fourth floor’s collapse, and that a ghost still hiding among the survivors had caused the messengers to distrust one another.
• Yang Jian proposed a temporary team, and Liu Qingqing agreed to join while Old Eagle reserved judgment.
• At six o’clock, the corridor lights went out, and dull impacts began coming from outside Room 402.