Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian waited at Chang'an Road Station for the supernatural bus and killed the wanted Ghost Tamer Ni Sheng as he stepped off. A dangerous ghost carrying a black paper umbrella then left the bus, forcing Yang Jian and Li Yang to board before it departed.

• Yang Jian and his team waited for the supernatural bus at Chang'an Road Station, and Qin Kai, Da Qiang, Old Eagle, and Liu Qingqing boarded when it arrived.
• Ni Sheng stepped off the bus and confronted Yang Jian, but Feng Quan identified him as a wanted criminal who had killed a city's person in charge.
• Yang Jian suppressed Ni Sheng with his Ghost Domain and pinned him to the ground with the cracked spear, killing him.
• A black-gauze-covered ghost carrying an old black paper umbrella stepped off the bus and suppressed Yang Jian's Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian told Feng Quan and Tong Qian to contain Ni Sheng's corpse, then boarded the bus with Li Yang just before it departed, leaving the umbrella-carrying ghost at the station.

Yang Jian and Li Yang boarded the supernatural bus, where passengers struggled to find seats among the ghosts. Yang Jian gave Li Yang the last passenger seat and took the driver’s seat himself, leaving the bus’s occupants shocked as nothing happened.

• Yang Jian and Li Yang rushed onto the supernatural bus, and its doors shut as it drove away from Dachang City.
• Qin Kai sat beside a frozen female corpse and decided not to risk changing seats, while the other passengers claimed the remaining seats.
• Yang Jian checked the display and realized that the bus carried eleven vicious ghosts, nearly matching the number of human passengers.
• Yang Jian told Li Yang to take the last passenger seat and said he was fine with anything.
• Yang Jian pulled the driver out of the driver’s seat and sat down there, but the driver remained motionless and nothing attacked him.

Yang Jian tried to take control of the paranormal bus from the driver's seat, but could only turn its steering wheel slightly before losing control. The bus entered a strange village and approached a stop where an eerie figure waited to board, threatening to overload the full vehicle.

• Yang Jian sat in the driver's seat and silenced the Ghost Tamers who tried to recruit him or curry favor with him.
• Yang Jian used his ghost hand and ghost shadow to turn the bus's steering wheel slightly, but it returned to center as soon as he let go.
• Yang Jian gave up on controlling the bus for the moment and watched it enter an ancient, deserted village.
• The bus reached a stop where an eerie figure waited to board, and the passengers feared the bus would become overloaded.

A mysterious old woman boarded the supernatural bus at a village stop, alarming its passengers because no ghosts got off and every seat was occupied. Yang Jian recognized her as the owner of Room 301 in Dachuan City, though he believed she had already died, and the bus display counted her arrival as two ghosts.

• A Ghost Tamer suggested killing someone to free a seat, but Yang Jian warned that he would kill anyone who tried and the passengers ultimately held back.
• The supernatural bus stopped at a village, and an old woman carrying a covered bamboo basket approached to board.
• No ghosts got off the bus, leaving the passengers to realize the old woman would have to board despite the lack of seats.
• Liu Qingqing felt that she recognized the old woman, while Yang Jian identified her as the owner of Room 301 in Dachuan City.
• After the old woman boarded, the bus display changed from 11 to 13, counting one passenger as two ghosts.

Yang Jian and Zhou Deng cleared two seats on the supernatural bus so the old woman and her basket could sit, allowing the bus to depart before the village ghosts boarded. The bus left the approaching lanterns behind, while Zhou Deng’s human-skin mask and the old woman’s strange nature remained mysteries.

• The old woman boarded with her vegetable basket, raising the bus’s ghost count by two, then stood waiting for a seat as the bus remained stopped.
• Lantern-bearing ghosts approached through the village, and passengers grew hostile as they realized someone had to give up a seat before the bus could leave.
• Zhou Deng introduced himself to Yang Jian, put on a human-skin mask that raised the ghost count, and offered to help clear the bus.
• Yang Jian threw a fourth-floor messenger off the bus, and Zhou Deng killed and expelled a Ghost Tamer.
• The old woman sat in one vacant seat and placed her basket on another; Zhou Deng removed his mask, lowering the ghost count by one.
• The supernatural bus shut its doors and drove away from the approaching lanterns.

Yang Jian tested his control over the supernatural bus when it stopped in a quiet county town, rescuing Zhou Deng from the supernatural danger outside and taking a piece of strange yellow paper. As the bus left the town, the messengers grew anxious about the three stops still ahead, where the truly lethal dangers awaited.

• Yang Jian returned to the driver’s seat after killing a messenger, while Li Yang understood that he had eliminated a potential threat to the group.
• The bus reached an empty, carefully maintained county town, where an old copper basin filled with paper ash stood at the stop.
• A face-covered corpse got off the bus as Zhou Deng left to collect yellow paper, but supernatural forces overwhelmed him and Yang Jian reopened the bus door to let him back inside.
• Zhou Deng gave Yang Jian one of the three damaged pieces of yellow paper he had collected, and Yang Jian took the least damaged one.
• Yang Jian saw more than a dozen paper-faced ghosts gathered around the copper basin as the bus departed, and the messengers feared the three upcoming stops.

The supernatural bus reached its third stop in relentless rain, where a ghost boarded unseen through the downpour. The bus continued onward, leaving Yang Jian and the messengers facing the dangerous stretch before the fourth stop, where they planned to get off.

• Old Eagle decided the fourth-floor messengers should get off after the third stop because the crowded bus was too dangerous.
• Yang Jian and the other passengers saw heavy rain and a bus platform with a flickering vending machine as the bus neared its third stop.
• Zhou Deng proposed getting off with Yang Jian to take the vending machine, but Yang Jian refused and warned that ghosts might board if there were not enough seats.
• A rain-drenched ghost entered the bus unseen, leaving wet footprints and a puddle that reflected its figure.
• The bus left the third stop with only one ghost aboard, and the messengers anticipated a potentially deadly accident before the fourth stop.

The supernatural bus stalled beside an eerie old house with red lanterns, forcing its passengers to flee as the ghosts began to stir. Yang Jian warned Li Yang and rushed off the bus, leaving the group facing the unknown house and the ghosts outside.

• Da Qiang and Old Eagle considered staying aboard, but Liu Qingqing and Wang Feng insisted on delivering the letter.
• The bus abruptly lost power, and Zhou Deng explained that the ghosts would begin moving once everyone got off.
• Li Yang spotted an old wooden house with red lanterns, which the messengers recognized as the likely delivery destination where they had to stay for seven days.
• As the bus stopped and its doors opened, Yang Jian warned Li Yang to get off immediately while Qin Kai found a frozen hand on his leg.
• The passengers rushed off the bus, with Yang Jian and Fan Xing leaving through the entrance and Yang Xiaohua following Yang Jian.

When the supernatural bus stalled, Yang Jian and the surviving passengers fled its ghosts and found refuge in the old forest on the way to the old house. The forest kept the ghosts out, but the group remained stranded far from the bus as Yang Jian’s letter-delivery mission approached.

• Yang Jian escaped the stalled bus with his Ghost Domain while ghosts attacked passengers, killing Qin Kai and targeting others.
• Yang Jian gathered Li Yang, Yang Xiaohua, Old Eagle, and several passengers, then led them toward the old house through the forest.
• Zhou Deng and the other survivors followed Yang Jian, hoping to escape the ghosts and find shelter.
• The group discovered that the ghosts would not enter the old forest, though they worried they might not reach the bus if it started again.
• Wang Feng and Old Eagle discussed Liu Qingqing’s uncertain fate, Qin Kai’s death, Da Qiang’s escape, and Yang Xiaohua’s remarkable survival.

Yang Jian led the group through a ghost-blocking forest to the old house connected to several supernatural incidents. After confirming the house matched the photograph, he opened its front gate and entered with the others.

• Wanzhou formed a team that chose to wait in the forest for the supernatural bus instead of following Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian warned his group that the forest was dangerous and hurried them along its strange, empty path.
• Yang Jian and the messengers crossed the forest without being attacked and reached the old house.
• Yang Jian confirmed that the house matched the background in the photograph and warned Zhou Deng not to take its red lanterns.
• Li Yang opened the front gate, and Yang Jian led the group past the screen wall into the house.

Yang Jian led the messengers and Ghost Tamers into the eerie old residence, where he found a seated corpse, a coffin, and a room tied to the Ghost Cabinet’s task. He decided to stay for seven days to complete the letter mission, while the others sought his protection and worried that the corpse might return on the seventh day after death.

• Yang Jian entered the old residence with the others and found that supernatural interference had blinded his Ghost Eye.
• Yang Jian spotted the locked room the Ghost Cabinet wanted him to open, but postponed the task until after the letter mission.
• Yang Jian inspected the corpse seated in the main hall and found a vermilion coffin and burning incense in the rear hall.
• Yang Jian told the unrelated Ghost Tamers they could leave, but several chose to stay after discovering that the place suppressed their ghosts.
• Fan Xing revealed that Yang Jian had a doorknob that could help them escape, and the group asked Yang Jian to take them with him.
• Yang Jian said he would stay for seven days, prompting Zhou Deng to wonder whether the old man would return on the seventh day after death.

Yang Jian resisted the Ghost Tamers’ attempt to make him use his coffin nail, then explored the old residence and chose a room to wait out the seven-day mission. After midnight, the entrance lanterns turned white and displayed the character for mourning, making the house seem like a place holding a funeral.

• Fan Xing rallied the Ghost Tamers to pressure Yang Jian into using his coffin nail, but Yang Jian demanded that they sacrifice Fan Xing or attack him instead, and the group backed down.
• Yang Jian explored the corridor with Li Yang, found a sealed room whose bronze lock suppressed supernatural power, and decided to leave it closed until the letter-delivery mission ended.
• Yang Jian found a black Grand Tutor Chair blocking the seemingly endless corridor, then returned and ordered his group to rest in a room on the right.
• Yang Jian stayed awake to keep watch as midnight marked the start of the seven-day wait, while the others rested.
• The two red lanterns at the entrance turned white and revealed the character for mourning as a cold wind blew from the old forest.

As the post office mission’s first night began, Wanzhou and two Ghost Tamers became trapped in a ghost-filled forest and died. In the old house, Yang Jian investigated the seven-day mission’s dangers as pounding at the gate coincided with the old man’s corpse mysteriously changing seats, leaving the group unsure what was outside.

• After midnight, Wanzhou and two Ghost Tamers lost their way in the old forest, where ghostly figures surrounded and killed them.
• Three new, pale trees appeared at the forest’s edge after the Ghost Tamers died.
• Yang Jian stayed in the third room, reasoning that the messengers had to survive seven days and that the seventh day could bring the greatest danger.
• Pounding at the old house’s gate woke the Ghost Tamers, and Yang Jian went to the main hall to investigate.
• Zhou Deng and the others discovered that the old man’s corpse had moved from one Grand Tutor Chair to another, while the pounding outside grew louder.
• Someone pointed out that the front gate had been left open, leaving everyone to wonder what was striking it.

Yang Jian and the others investigated urgent knocking at the old house’s open gate, but the unseen visitor fled before they arrived. They found the gate covered in dirty handprints and Zhou Deng’s red lanterns replaced by white ones, leaving them unsure whether to close the gate or interfere with the lanterns.

• Yang Jian led a group toward the gate after they heard knocking, while Zhou Deng worried about the lanterns outside.
• The knocking stopped, and hurried footsteps retreated before Yang Jian reached the gate.
• Yang Jian and Zhou Deng found many dirty handprints on the gate and discussed whether the visitor could be an anomalous ghost imitating human behavior.
• Zhou Deng discovered that his red lanterns had become white lanterns without being taken down.
• Yang Jian said there was not enough evidence to decide whether to close the gate or destroy the lanterns, and Fan Xing urged everyone to leave things as they were.

Yang Jian chose to observe the old house after its doors opened and became covered in handprints, suspecting that triggering the strange medium could be dangerous. When a Ghost Tamer tried to provoke him over the corpse and his coffin nail, Yang Jian killed him with his ghost hand and returned to his room as the wind and white lanterns stirred outside.

• Yang Jian decided to close the old house's doors and watch for further changes instead of using the cleaver to trigger the handprint medium.
• A Ghost Tamer suggested using Yang Jian's coffin nail to restrain the corpse, and Yang Jian challenged him to act rather than make demands.
• The Ghost Tamer tried to attack, but Yang Jian seized and strangled him with his ghost hand, then threw his corpse outside.
• Yang Jian warned the others not to challenge him, and they backed down as Fan Xing realized Yang Jian could kill him too.
• Yang Jian returned to his room while the wind strengthened outside and the white lanterns swayed among unseen shadows.

Yang Jian deduced that the old house’s supernatural events followed a seven-day funeral sequence and stopped the first night’s funeral wailing by placing the old man’s corpse in the Red Coffin. He returned to find a black Grand Tutor Chair had moved closer, suggesting the ghosts were steadily advancing through the house.

• Yang Jian connected the old house’s wind and eerie cries to funeral wailing and concluded that the first day’s encoffining had to be completed.
• Yang Jian used his ghost shadow to lift the abnormally heavy old man’s corpse and place it in the Red Coffin.
• The funeral wailing stopped after Yang Jian laid the corpse in the coffin, confirming his deduction that encoffining suppressed the first day’s supernatural phenomenon.
• Yang Jian warned two Ghost Tamers not to touch anything and reasoned that the old house’s funeral rites would continue in order over seven days.
• Yang Jian found a black Grand Tutor Chair much closer in the corridor and concluded that a ghost was pushing past the house’s defenses.

Yang Jian and the others debated what funeral rites the second day required after the old house stayed relatively safe during daylight. As night brought renewed and earlier supernatural disturbances, Yang Jian and Yang Xiaohua remained in their room while the second day approached.

• Yang Jian and the others concluded that placing the old man in the coffin had curbed the first night's supernatural phenomena and discussed which funeral rites might be required next.
• Fan Xing, Zhou Deng, Old Eagle, and Wang Feng argued over whether the second day involved mourning, keeping vigil, or paying respects, while Yang Jian warned against testing guesses carelessly.
• Zhou Deng slipped away toward the rear hall to explore despite Yang Jian's warning not to disturb the old house's arranged Supernatural Items.
• Night fell, and cold wind, crying, grinding noises, scraping chairs, and splashing sounds returned inside the old house.
• Yang Jian stayed in his room with Yang Xiaohua as the disturbances gathered in the corridor, beginning earlier than the previous night with thirty minutes left before the second day.

Fan Xing and five Ghost Tamers entered a neighboring room to investigate a strange radio, triggering a curse that brought a black Grand Tutor Chair and darkness into the old house. As the second day began, Yang Jian concluded that the vigil task might require staying by the coffin, while the group faced the possibility that the house would soon be overrun.

• Fan Xing led five Ghost Tamers into the neighboring room to investigate a radio that might be a Supernatural Item.
• The radio lured one Ghost Tamer into answering, then revealed itself as a medium for a curse and summoned a black Grand Tutor Chair pushed by bloody hands.
• Fan Xing and the others fled toward the main hall as darkness swallowed their corridor, while Yang Jian noticed the ghost drawing closer on his side too.
• Yang Jian left his room and joined the group in the main hall as midnight marked the start of the second day.
• Yang Jian proposed that keeping vigil meant staying near the coffin, but warned that the task might instead require moving it into the main hall and opening it.
• Darkness spread through the old house, leaving the main hall and courtyard as the only clearly visible places.

As supernatural phenomena invaded the old house on the second day, Yang Jian led everyone to keep vigil beside the Red Coffin, the only place untouched by darkness. An old radio then reached the rear hall, caught a signal, and spoke as if it had found them.

• Yang Jian led everyone to the rear hall as darkness and ghostly traces spread through the old house.
• The group noticed that one incense stick was missing and realized Zhou Deng had disappeared, then found the back door and a path that could carry the coffin toward the forest.
• The main hall fell into darkness, and strange noises, crashing furniture, and fast bare footsteps sounded from within.
• An old radio's static approached from the front entrance, while the group concealed that one Ghost Tamer had triggered a radio-related curse.
• The radio reached the doorway, caught a signal, and said, "Y-you're in there, aren't you? Heh, hehehe."

Yang Jian and the other Ghost Tamers prepared to defend the rear hall after supernatural phenomena breached its boundary. They drove back one ghost, but another presence appeared in the darkness, and Yang Jian struck at its medium.

• Fan Xing used a strange roar to shatter an old radio, but an identical radio appeared and repeated a threat against the group.
• Yang Jian urged everyone to abandon hope of safety and fight together, then took up position in the corridor as the others guarded the hallways.
• A ghost’s voice seemed to guide other ghosts toward them, and a pale, wet leg emerged from the darkness.
• Old Eagle fired his unusual gun, forcing the ghostly leg to withdraw; Yang Jian suspected the incense or coffin had helped repel it.
• Yang Jian sensed a blurry figure through his ghostly shadow and struck its medium with a firewood axe, drawing a piercing scream from the main hall.