Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian and the survivors endured the final hours of the fourth day after restoring the old house’s balance, and Liu Qingqing unexpectedly returned alive with a supernatural red cheongsam. As the old man’s suppression faded, a ghost that turned people into projections attacked, leaving Fan Xing grabbed and being dragged away.

• Yang Jian used the Ghost Gate to reduce the number of ghosts in the old house, restoring its balance while the survivors waited for the fifth day.
• Liu Qingqing emerged from a room with her memories missing, and Yang Jian recognized that she had returned alive and was protected by a supernatural red cheongsam.
• Old Eagle explained the previous days’ events to Liu Qingqing as the group prepared for the fifth day’s Ghost Banquet.
• At eleven fifty, the old man’s corpse lay down in the coffin and a blurry, wall-bound ghost entered the main hall, turning the survivors into projections.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to halt the ghost’s influence on Li Yang and Fan Xing, but a hand from the wall grabbed Fan Xing’s projected feet and pulled him downward.

Yang Jian and the others struggled to contain the ghosts in the ancient residence as Fan Xing was erased and several more ghosts began moving. At midnight, the ghost banquet began and the residence’s suppression failed, leaving Yang Jian to figure out how to use the three bowls of rice to survive.

• Yang Jian failed to save Fan Xing, who became a shadow, vanished, and reappeared as a ghost after the vicious ghost swallowed his tamed ghost.
• The shadow ghost took Li Yang’s feet and one arm, but Yang Jian rescued him; Yang Jian’s attempt to pin the ghost with the cracked spear failed because it existed only as a shadow.
• Several more ghosts began moving, and Yang Jian dismembered the ghost invading a decayed corpse while Zhou Deng and Liu Qingqing temporarily restrained two others.
• The residence’s suppression failed at midnight, and every ghost began moving as the fifth-day ghost banquet started.
• Yang Jian took out the three bowls of white rice he had obtained at the grave and tried to work out how to use them.

On the fifth day, Yang Jian and the survivors tested how the three bowls of white rice could protect them during the Ghost Feast. Old Eagle and Zhou Deng both failed to find a safe method, and Yang Jian rescued Zhou Deng as the ghosts continued invading the old house.

• Yang Jian divided the white rice among the survivors, sealed the Red Coffin, and kept his Ghost Domain around the group as ghosts poured into the old house.
• Old Eagle volunteered to test the rice first, but scattering it at the approaching ghosts failed to stop their attacks.
• Old Eagle used his dice to interrupt the ghosts’ assault, remaining alive but trapped in the game while multiple ghosts targeted him.
• Zhou Deng went out next and placed his white rice on the ground, but the black Grand Tutor Chair knocked over the bowl and pressed him down with supernatural force.
• Yang Jian cut off the ghost’s hand with the firewood axe and pulled Zhou Deng back into his Ghost Domain.

Yang Jian discovered that bloodstained rice could make attacking ghosts take a grain and temporarily stop moving. He and the others began sharing the remaining rice so they could defend themselves inside the old house.

• Yang Jian tested plain rice against a ghost but found that it did not stop the attack, even when he held it or put it in his mouth.
• Yang Jian stained rice with his blood, and an invading ghost took a grain before withdrawing and becoming unable to move.
• Other ghosts reached for bloodstained rice, temporarily halting when they took it and revealing that the rice could protect the group.
• Li Yang identified the rice's effect, and Zhou Deng began staining the remaining rice with his blood.
• Liu Qingqing stopped Zhou Deng from using all the rice himself, and the group divided and stained it so everyone could survive.

Yang Jian and the others used bloodstained rice to survive the ghost banquet on the fifth day, while they reasoned that the sixth day would bring the funeral procession and the seventh the soul’s return. As the ghosts dwindled, Yang Jian recovered and picked up the severed ghostly hand, intending to make it a Supernatural Item.

• Yang Jian withdrew his Ghost Domain, and the group fed bloodstained rice to the vicious ghosts, making them vanish without attacking anyone.
• Yang Jian deduced that the sixth day would be the funeral procession and the seventh day the soul’s return, and the others accepted his reasoning.
• Yang Jian said he would lower Yang Xiaohua after the ghost banquet ended and insisted she was still alive.
• As fewer ghosts entered the ancient residence and the group’s rice dwindled, Yang Jian’s ghost shadow and wounds recovered.
• Yang Jian picked up the severed ghostly hand from the vicious ghost in the black Grand Tutor Chair, planning to turn it into a Supernatural Item.

On the fifth day in the old house, Yang Jian judged that the ghosts would mostly leave after the next day’s funeral procession, but the bloodstained rice was being consumed faster than expected. He ordered Old Eagle to stop using rice first and named Liu Qingqing and Li Yang as the next people to go without it, leaving the group facing a worsening shortage before midnight.

• Yang Jian told the survivors to rest and explained that the ghosts would likely leave the old house when they carried the coffin out for the funeral procession.
• Liu Qingqing and Zhou Deng noticed that the ghosts were taking rice again, and Liu Qingqing questioned whether the remaining three bowls could protect all five people.
• Yang Jian ordered Old Eagle to stop using rice first, and Old Eagle accepted after Liu Qingqing objected.
• Yang Jian said Liu Qingqing would be next because he did not trust her unusual memory lapses, followed by Li Yang; Li Yang accepted the decision.
• By ten at night, the rice in the bowls was nearly gone, and Liu Qingqing repeatedly watched Yang Jian’s cracked long spear.

As the remaining rice dwindled during the ghost banquet, Yang Jian avoided a fight with Liu Qingqing but refused to help her after she challenged his authority. He used the fifth layer of Ghost Domain to protect Zhou Deng and Li Yang, while Liu Qingqing's rice ran out and the ghosts spared her; at midnight, the old house entered its sixth day, the funeral procession.

• Liu Qingqing stained the remaining rice with her blood and defied Yang Jian, who said he would settle their grievances with her on the fifth floor after the mission.
• Zhou Deng and Li Yang agreed to follow Yang Jian, while Old Eagle remained neutral; Yang Jian gathered the remaining rice and explained his plan to shield the others with the fifth layer of Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian drew Zhou Deng and Li Yang into his Ghost Domain, leaving Liu Qingqing exposed to faster rice consumption and telling her he would no longer help her.
• As Yang Jian's rice ran low, he entered the fifth layer of Ghost Domain; Liu Qingqing's rice was consumed, but the ghosts avoided her as a woman's laughter echoed through the old house.
• Yang Jian used a grain of rice to repel a ghost invading the fifth layer, and the group endured until midnight, when the old house entered its sixth day, called the funeral procession.

As the ghosts dispersed from the old house, Yang Jian’s group prepared to leave for the funeral procession on the sixth day. Old Eagle died from the music box curse, and Yang Jian and Zhou Deng carried the unexpectedly light Red Coffin toward the woods without opening it.

• Yang Jian confirmed that the ghosts had left the old house, then removed the yellow paper from Yang Xiaohua and brought her down from the red balloon.
• Yang Jian and the others ate, gathered supplies, and rested while he counted seven rooms in the old house and wondered whether a seventh member of the Republican Era team was missing.
• When the rear hall door creaked open at four-thirty, Yang Jian revealed that Old Eagle had died from the music box curse and retrieved the dice from his hand.
• Liu Qingqing carried Old Eagle’s body away after Yang Jian abandoned his plan to use it to restore Li Yang’s limbs.
• Yang Xiaohua carried Li Yang while Yang Jian and Zhou Deng lifted the Red Coffin, and Yang Jian refused to open it before they left for the funeral procession.

Yang Jian and the others carried the Red Coffin into the old forest to bury it, but supernatural signs and the coffin’s movements made the procession increasingly dangerous. As the path seemed to stretch endlessly, an old woman appeared ahead and blocked their way.

• Yang Jian refused to open the Red Coffin and led the survivors out of the ancient house to bury it in the forest.
• The group found an empty grave beneath a fallen tree and a huge footprint showing that a ghost had walked along the path.
• The forest darkened, and the Red Coffin shook, prompting Yang Jian and Zhou Deng to hurry toward the burial site.
• The yellow-mud path seemed endless, and the group realized they might be lost despite never leaving it.
• Liu Qingqing said the old woman was there, and Yang Xiaohua’s flashlight revealed an old woman with a vegetable basket blocking the path.

Yang Jian and his companions encountered the Room 301 old woman blocking the path as they carried the Red Coffin to its burial place. Their attacks could not reach her because she existed in the past, and the chapter ended with the ghost targeting Zhou Deng and Liu Qingqing as Zhou Deng put on the human-skin mask.

• Yang Jian and Zhou Deng set down the Red Coffin and prepared to confront the old woman blocking the only path.
• Yang Jian's sixth layer of Ghost Domain and cracked spear failed to affect the old woman, and he concluded that she existed in the past while still being able to attack them.
• The old woman began approaching, and Yang Jian's doll vanished without reaching her.
• Yang Jian went close to the old woman to retrieve the spear, but she grabbed his wrist and began erasing him.
• Yang Jian restarted himself to escape her grasp, while Zhou Deng and Liu Qingqing began fading after being targeted.
• Liu Qingqing grabbed Zhou Deng and retreated, and Zhou Deng put on the human-skin mask, becoming a ghost.

Yang Jian failed to stop the Room 301 ghost from erasing its target and had to restart, while Liu Qingqing held its attention so the others could search for a way past. As the Red Coffin grew restless, Zhou Deng volunteered to lure the ghost away.

• Liu Qingqing pulled Zhou Deng away from the ghost’s erasure, and his human-skin mask helped him survive the attack.
• Yang Jian triggered the ghost’s medium and struck it with his hatchet, but the erasure continued until he used restart to undo the attempt.
• Liu Qingqing stepped in to draw the ghost’s attention, resisting its erasure with her red qipao while Yang Jian regrouped with the others.
• The Red Coffin shook as the corpse inside grew restless, and Yang Jian proposed luring the ghost away at the cost of a volunteer.
• After Yang Jian suggested a dice roll to choose between them, Zhou Deng volunteered to lure the ghost away.

Zhou Deng sacrificed himself to lure the erasing ghost into the old forest, allowing Yang Jian’s group to advance with the Red Coffin. The ghost soon returned, and a second old woman appeared behind them, trapping the survivors as Liu Qingqing and Yang Xiaohua began to be erased.

• Zhou Deng volunteered to draw the vicious ghost away, gave Yang Jian his human-skin mask, and entered the old forest with the ghost following him.
• Yang Jian led the remaining group along the yellow dirt path toward the clearing of five graves while Liu Qingqing recovered from the ghost’s influence.
• The old woman carrying a vegetable basket reappeared ahead, and a second identical ghost emerged behind the group after Zhou Deng was erased.
• Li Yang proposed that he and Liu Qingqing each lure away a ghost so Yang Jian could survive, but Liu Qingqing refused and argued with him.
• Yang Jian rejected using a white ghost candle in the old forest, while the two approaching ghosts began erasing Liu Qingqing and Yang Xiaohua.

Yang Jian watched the others disappear as the ghosts overwhelmed the group, but refused to escape and planned to restart the area. He opened the Red Coffin and sent his ghostly shadow toward the corpse inside, believing he had found a way to deal with the ghosts.

• Yang Xiaohua was erased by the third ghost, and Li Yang urged Yang Jian to abandon the failed delivery mission and escape.
• Li Yang disappeared after throwing Yang Jian the wooden doorknob, while Liu Qingqing was left as a faceless, armless wooden puppet.
• Yang Jian remained on the yellow mud path as five ghosts approached, and decided that restarting the area would not help unless he could also defeat the ghosts.
• Yang Jian temporarily restored his body, opened the Red Coffin, and sent his ghostly shadow toward the old man's corpse inside.

Yang Jian abandoned his body and used Ghost Shadow to possess the old man in the Red Coffin, hoping to gain enough power to survive the ghosts. The old man awakened under Yang Jian’s control and erased one of the ghosts, though Ghost Shadow was being consumed by the corpse.

• Yang Jian left his body behind with the ghost hand and Eight-Sound Music Box's curse, then entered the old man's corpse inside the Red Coffin.
• After about three minutes, the eerie radio spoke and warned that the old man was not dead before its signal cut out.
• The old man's corpse opened its eyes and sat up as the ghosts shifted their attention to him and the Red Coffin began to lose its color.
• Yang Jian controlled the old man's body and restored the Red Coffin's color, suppressing the erasure around it.
• Yang Jian waved at a vicious ghost, erasing it completely, while he sensed Ghost Shadow becoming part of the old man's puzzle.

Yang Jian possessed the corpse in the Red Coffin and used its power to erase the fierce ghosts before expanding his eighth-layer Ghost Domain to restart the surrounding area. He reversed time by up to half an hour, restoring his allies and leaving the story after the restart ended.

• Yang Jian possessed the corpse in the Red Coffin and used its power to erase two fierce ghosts.
• Yang Jian opened the eighth layer of Ghost Domain and isolated himself and the corpse from its restart effects.
• Yang Jian reversed events to restore Yang Xiaohua, Li Yang, and Liu Qingqing, causing two incomplete ghosts to vanish.
• Yang Jian continued the restart, pulling Zhou Deng back from his death and determining that his limit was about half an hour.
• Yang Jian ended the restart as the eighth layer of Ghost Domain became unstable.

Yang Jian rejoined Zhou Deng, Li Yang, Liu Qingqing, and the others after restarting time and led them to bury the Red Coffin in a sixth grave. The group finished burying the coffin and Old Eagle, then asked Yang Jian whether they should return to the old house or stay in the clearing.

• Zhou Deng, Li Yang, Liu Qingqing, and the others found Yang Jian sitting beside the Red Coffin, and he told them he had only suffered minor supernatural interference.
• Yang Jian led the group to the clearing with five old graves and a blank tombstone marking the spot for a sixth grave.
• Zhou Deng dug a deep pit and buried the Red Coffin while Yang Jian rested.
• Liu Qingqing buried Old Eagle's corpse nearby, and the group completed the sixth grave.
• Li Yang asked Yang Jian whether they should return to the old house or stay in the clearing.

After burying the old man and the Red Coffin, Yang Jian’s group returned to the old residence to wait out the final day of their letter-delivery mission. The residence seemed calm, but Yang Jian and the others prepared to rest while remaining wary of the seventh day.

• Yang Jian told Zhou Deng that the Republican Era Ghost Tamers had lived for decades or even a century, then considered what awaited them on the final day of the mission.
• After resting by the graves, Yang Jian led the group back to the old residence, where they found no ghosts or paranormal activity.
• Yang Jian explained that burying the old man on the sixth day had been the right choice and said they would leave the seventh-day danger to fate.
• Yang Jian shut and bolted the residence’s doors before returning to a room to sleep.
• Zhou Deng stayed behind to keep watch and examine the black Grand Tutor Chair, while Li Yang remained to make sure he did not tamper with anything.
• Yang Xiaohua and Liu Qingqing went to rest, leaving Zhou Deng and Li Yang to talk in the room.

As the seventh night approached, Yang Jian and the remaining messengers prepared for the final letter delivery while Zhou Deng proposed that the black Grand Tutor Chairs were connected Supernatural Items. Liu Qingqing feared the post office’s influence was changing her identity, and the chapter ended just as midnight began the Soul Returning Night.

• Liu Qingqing noticed that her face, memories, and habits seemed to be changing, and she resolved to reach the fifth floor of the post office and leave it behind.
• Zhou Deng and Li Yang examined the four black Grand Tutor Chairs and suspected that seven connected chairs had once been used to move the old man's corpse.
• Yang Jian woke at eleven, and Yang Xiaohua joined him as they went to the main hall with the other survivors.
• Yang Jian and Zhou Deng concluded that the recipient might arrive through one of the chairs, while Zhou Deng revealed that a Headquarters captain was a messenger on the fifth floor.
• The five survivors waited with Yang Jian's red letter until midnight, when the seventh-night Soul Returning Night began.

On the old residence’s final day, Yang Jian and the others encountered an invisible, untouchable recipient who had entered through the rear hall. As the recipient began to leave, Yang Jian realized the black Grand Tutor Chairs might let them hold it in place long enough to deliver the red letter.

• Yang Jian and the others waited past midnight, but the old residence remained quiet until its back door opened at 12:25; Yang Jian recognized that the residence’s time had been affected by his earlier reset.
• The recipient entered the rear hall and walked toward the main hall, but Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye could not see it, and Zhou Deng could neither touch nor stop it.
• Yang Jian expanded his Ghost Domain to six layers and tried sitting in a black Grand Tutor Chair, but neither attempt revealed the recipient.
• When the recipient’s footsteps moved toward the courtyard, Yang Jian remembered that a black Grand Tutor Chair had stopped an invisible ghost during the night watch.
• Yang Jian proposed placing the four black Grand Tutor Chairs around the recipient to trap it inside the old residence before it could leave.

Yang Jian and the others used black Grand Tutor Chairs to trap the invisible recipient inside a passage, then waited for it to sit so Yang Jian could make contact. The recipient finally sat down, and a familiar, terrifying figure began to appear before Yang Jian.

• Yang Jian, Zhou Deng, Yang Xiaohua, and Liu Qingqing tried to surround the recipient with four chairs, but it slipped past their first attempt and headed into a corridor.
• Zhou Deng blocked the corridor exit while Yang Jian placed chairs at the room entrances to track the recipient’s movements.
• When the recipient tried to leave a room, Yang Jian and Zhou Deng sealed the passage between their chairs and trapped it.
• Yang Jian sat on a chair to contact the recipient while the others kept it from escaping, but it remained invisible as it paced and sighed.
• After the recipient finally sat down, a familiar, terrifying figure gradually appeared before Yang Jian.