Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian and Zhou Ze explored the supernatural space inside the oil paintings, recovered a corpse fragment, and followed a hidden path to another Ghost Post Office. The chapter ended with Yang Jian confronting the one-armed old man and recognizing the strange figures in the lobby as people depicted in the paintings.

• Yang Jian left Wang Yong to guard the entrance while he and Zhou Ze pursued the old man through a black door into the oil painting’s supernatural space.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Eye to avoid paths leading to other paintings and followed what he believed was the route toward the source.
• Yang Jian found a painting of a wooden house and retrieved a Glass Bottle containing a corpse fragment, giving it to Zhou Ze to carry.
• Yang Jian and Zhou Ze followed a darker, branchless road until they reached a brightly lit Ghost Post Office resembling the real one.
• The old man attacked Yang Jian at the entrance, but Yang Jian blocked the axe, kicked him away, and took the weapon.
• Yang Jian saw the lobby’s gathered figures and recognized them as people depicted in the oil paintings, including former fifth-floor messengers.

Yang Jian and Zhou Ze discovered the Ghost Post Office inside the oil painting, where the conscious remnants of former fifth-floor messengers were trapped. Yang Jian met his son, Yang Xiao, who stopped the messengers from attacking and invited him inside to explain the place.

• Yang Jian entered the oil-painted post office with Zhou Ze and found a crowd of former fifth-floor messengers.
• Zhang Xianguang explained that the post office preserved messengers who had delivered their final letters, and that forgotten remnants disappeared while one person could be resurrected at the cost of another messenger's freedom.
• Yang Jian said the messengers could no longer disappear because he remembered them, provoking a woman in a floral dress and others to threaten him.
• As the crowd moved to attack, Yang Xiao arrived and warned that he would trap them in nightmares if they harmed Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian and Yang Xiao recognized each other as son and father from different times, then Yang Xiao invited him into the post office to discuss the place.

Yang Jian questioned Yang Xiao and the other dead souls about the Ghost Post Office’s purpose and proposed taking control of it, ending its delivery missions and changing its rules. After Yang Xiao explained that Ghost Painting could give the dead souls a way to affect reality, Yang Jian admitted he could retrieve only a derivative painting and asked whether they would help him despite that limitation.

• Yang Jian asked Yang Xiao about the post office’s missions, and Yang Xiao explained that messengers investigated supernatural incidents and transmitted information while gaining strength through their ordeals.
• Yang Xiao and Zhang Xianguang told Yang Jian that Old Man Luo had been murdered on the sixth floor, and Yang Jian learned that the black letter selected a future administrator.
• Yang Jian rejected sealing away the post office and proposed choosing an administrator, changing its rules, and canceling its delivery missions.
• Yang Xiao said the post office’s greatest value might be its dead souls, who could use Ghost Painting to reach into reality, and Yang Jian recognized the opportunity this could offer.
• Yang Jian said he could not retrieve the original Ghost Painting but could bring back a derivative, then asked the dead souls whether they would help him deal with supernatural incidents or seek release.

Yang Jian and Yang Xiao persuaded most of the dead souls in the oil paintings to support their plan to use them against paranormal incidents. Yang Jian then set out with Yang Xiao and Zhang Xianguang to find Sun Rui, who had gone toward the fierce ghosts.

• Zhang Xianguang chose to support Yang Jian and Yang Xiao, and other dead souls joined because they wanted to help resolve paranormal incidents and return to the outside world.
• The woman in the floral dress and several old dead souls refused to join and left for deeper parts of the post office.
• Yang Jian promised to help the dead souls who wanted release and learned that the way to end them might involve the ghost paintings or their creation.
• Yang Jian asked the dead souls to help locate Sun Rui, and Zhang Xianguang said Sun Rui had taken a path toward the fierce ghosts.
• Yang Xiao agreed to accompany Yang Jian, and Yang Jian, Yang Xiao, and Zhang Xianguang set out to search for Sun Rui.

Yang Jian traveled with Zhou Ze, Yang Xiao, and Zhang Xianguang through the ghost painting to search for Sun Rui. After crossing a forest haunted by a ghost that buried people alive, they found limping footprints and continued deeper into the painting.

• Yang Xiao and Zhang Xianguang warned Yang Jian that none of the dead, including themselves, could be trusted, and Yang Jian agreed to stay vigilant.
• Yang Jian asked Yang Xiao about the missing piece of the dismembered corpse and about Sister Hong; Yang Xiao advised bringing Sister Hong into the painting to kill her.
• Zhang Xianguang led the group into a painted forest, where Yang Xiao and Zhang Xianguang explained that a buried ghost attacked anyone standing in front of its moving hand.
• Yang Jian avoided the ghost's targeting pattern and concluded that Sun Rui had passed through the forest because he found no trace of his death.
• Yang Jian spotted muddy, uneven shoeprints suggesting Sun Rui had walked with a limp, then continued along the path toward another ghost.

Yang Jian led the group through a fork in the Ghost Post Office and discovered vats of supernatural paint that might reveal how oil paintings were made. When he approached a vat of red dye, a ghost resembling him emerged, copying his Ghost Eye and other abilities.

• Yang Jian used his Ghost Eye to inspect both paths, chose the left path, and led the group without splitting up.
• Yang Xiao and Zhang Xianguang discussed Yang Jian's decisiveness and Yang Xiao's hopes for him.
• The group reached a clearing of strange dye vats, and Yang Xiao concluded they were likely the source of the oil paintings' colors.
• Yang Jian examined the red vat, saw his reflection remain still, and warned everyone to back away.
• A crimson ghost emerged from the vat resembling Yang Jian, complete with a Ghost Eye and a shadow-like form, then climbed out and faced the group.

Yang Jian fought and defeated a blood-red ghost that emerged from a dye vat and copied the supernatural powers he controlled. After the group continued along the path, Yang Jian found Sun Rui lying motionless ahead.

• A vicious ghost identical to Yang Jian emerged from a dye vat, and Zhang Xianguang discovered that its pigment could erase dead souls.
• The ghost matched Yang Jian's Ghost Domains and Ghost Shadow, melted his axe, and killed him, but Yang Jian restarted himself and tore out one of its Ghost Eyes.
• Yang Jian weakened and suppressed the ghost, which melted into scarlet pigment and flowed back into the vat.
• Yang Xiao reasoned that Sun Rui had likely defeated a similar ghost and continued deeper along the path, so Yang Jian led the group onward while avoiding the dye vats.
• Yang Jian spotted Sun Rui lying face down and motionless on the path.

Yang Jian found Sun Rui near death from the Plague Ghost’s supernatural influence and used his ghostly shadow to temporarily suppress the revival. Sun Rui agreed to become the Ghost Post Office’s administrator, while Yang Jian left to handle the post office and retrieve the ghost painting.

• Yang Xiao approached Sun Rui’s body and confirmed that the Plague Ghost’s power was infecting the area, then used Nightmare Yang Xiao’s ability to bring Sun Rui’s remaining consciousness into a dream.
• Yang Jian spoke with Sun Rui and asked him to become the Ghost Post Office’s administrator, offering him survival in exchange for remaining trapped there under its curse.
• Sun Rui accepted the role, and Yang Jian’s ghostly shadow entered his corpse to suppress the reviving ghost and temporarily restore him.
• Yang Jian departed with Sun Rui’s corpse and Zhou Ze, promising Yang Xiao that he would retrieve the ghost painting.
• Yang Xiao told Zhang Xianguang that he feared Yang Jian’s future because the mysterious man surnamed Qin had first mentioned his name.

Yang Jian returned from the painting with Sun Rui and decided to have him tear up the black letter to take control of the Ghost Post Office and end the messengers’ delivery missions. To improve their chances against the curse, Yang Jian arranged for Li Yang to summon Ye Zhen before they acted.

• Yang Jian, Zhou Ze, and Sun Rui emerged from the painting, and Li Yang saw that Sun Rui was nearly dead.
• Yang Jian explained that Sun Rui would tear up the black letter and become the Ghost Post Office’s administrator, with the others helping him withstand the resulting attack.
• Wang Yong, Zhong Yan, Brother Long, Zhou Ze, and Li Yang agreed to the plan, though they discussed the danger and where to carry it out.
• Yang Jian rejected inviting Headquarters-affiliated Captains and considered asking Ye Zhen to help, noting that Sun Rui had little time left.
• Yang Jian decided to summon Ye Zhen to Dahan City, and Li Yang left the post office to contact him.

Li Yang contacted the Supernatural Forum to ask Ye Zhen to repay his debt to Yang Jian by helping with a supernatural incident in Dahan City. Ye Zhen agreed and set out through his Ghost Domain while Li Yang returned to the Ghost Post Office.

• Li Yang called the Supernatural Forum and demanded that Ye Zhen come to Dahan City to help Yang Jian, giving the company ten minutes to answer.
• The manager decided the Supernatural Forum could not refuse Yang Jian's request and called Ye Zhen at his estate.
• Ye Zhen ended his cultivation, learned that Yang Jian wanted his help, and agreed to go to Dahan City.
• Ye Zhen rejected the private plane and traveled north through his Ghost Domain, while the manager confirmed to Li Yang that he had set off.
• Li Yang lit the black Letter Paper to return to the Ghost Post Office and prepare to deal with its affairs.

Yang Jian gathered the fifth-floor messengers and Ye Zhen at the Ghost Post Office to tear up its black letter, hoping to escape the post office’s rules. When Sun Rui’s corpse destroyed the letter, the post office plunged into darkness and a humanoid shadow blocked the doors.

• Ye Zhen used his Ghost Domain to find and enter the hidden Ghost Post Office, where Yang Jian and the messengers were waiting.
• Yang Jian warned Ye Zhen about the danger, then prepared the group to tear up the black letter.
• Yang Jian placed the black letter in Sun Rui’s corpse’s hand, and the corpse tore it apart, causing it to crumble into scraps and powder.
• The post office’s lights exploded from floor to floor, plunging the building into darkness.
• Ye Zhen opened the doors to let in sunlight, but supernatural power slammed them shut and a humanoid shadow appeared outside.

Yang Jian and Ye Zhen defended the Ghost Post Office while Sun Rui remained the key person they needed to protect. After they stopped two attacking ghosts, more supernatural forces appeared, and Yang Jian recognized a deadly Door-Opening Ghost approaching down the stairs.

• Li Yang, Zhou Ze, Zhong Yan, and Brother Long braced the post office doors against ghosts trying to break in from outside, while Yang Jian told Ye Zhen to help protect Sun Rui.
• Yang Jian gave Wang Yong a Supernatural Item and used his sixth-layer Ghost Domain and spear to stop a pair of dead feet rushing up the stairs.
• Ye Zhen found a child-shaped ghost sobbing by the counter and smashed its head with one punch, silencing it.
• Black Letter Paper fell through the atrium, and Ye Zhen disappeared into it as he approached the heavy footsteps descending the stairs.
• Yang Jian recognized the corpse-spotted old man as the Door-Opening Ghost and recalled that opening a door or turning off the lights could trigger its killing rules.

Yang Jian and Wang Yong confronted the Door-Knocking Ghost in the post office, and Yang Jian dismembered it after Wang Yong survived its lights-out killing pattern. Sun Rui had begun to stir after tearing the black letter, but he had not yet awakened.

• Ye Zhen vanished after sinking into the black Letter Paper covering the floor as the Door-Knocking Ghost approached the group.
• Wang Yong attacked the ghost with his shovel after Yang Jian warned him that the post office lights signaled its certain-kill pattern.
• The lamp went out, but Wang Yong survived when his controlled ghost took the supernatural attack, and the Door-Knocking Ghost collapsed temporarily.
• Yang Jian cut off the ghost's head and arm with his spear, then gave the cursed arm to Li Yang as a possible way to help him endure ghost revival.
• Yang Jian noticed his hatchet's curse spreading while Sun Rui's eyelids began twitching, though Sun Rui still had not awakened.

Ye Zhen fell into a supernatural space beneath the post office’s first floor, destroyed its curse-bound corpse, and returned with the body. Yang Jian recognized it as a missing piece of the female corpse he had been seeking, while Ye Zhen rushed off after hearing singing.

• As the others fought ghosts in the lobby, Ye Zhen fell through the first-floor atrium into a paper-covered supernatural space marked with dead messengers’ names.
• Ye Zhen found the corpse at the source of the space and resisted its cursed papers, which repeatedly caused him to die and recover.
• Ye Zhen beat the corpse until the supernatural space collapsed and he returned to the post office’s atrium with the body.
• Yang Jian recognized the armless, headless, legless corpse as a missing piece of the female corpse from the glass bottle and asked Ye Zhen to stop damaging it.
• Ye Zhen threw the corpse to Yang Jian, warned him about its curse, then heard singing and ran upstairs to confront its source.

Yang Jian and the messengers faced five fierce ghost silhouettes that invaded the post office after its main doors shattered. After discovering that the shadows killed people through separate targeting rules, Yang Jian used the coffin nail to pin down one, but the other four kept advancing.

• Ye Zhen raced upstairs toward the mysterious singing, while Yang Jian ordered the nearby ghosts sent out through the ghost door.
• The post office doors shattered, and five fierce ghost silhouettes entered; the first silhouette moved and Brother Long died instantly.
• Yang Jian approached the shadows to test their rules, but the second silhouette targeted him and killed him twice before he restarted himself each time.
• Yang Jian threw the long spear and pinned the second silhouette with the coffin nail, stopping its attacks while the other four continued advancing.

Yang Jian identified the five ghost shadows’ killing rules and found that people could avoid one by confusing their identities through physical contact. Elsewhere, Ye Zhen confronted Sister Hong on the stairs, and their battle continued as his supernatural sword wounded her.

• Li Yang opened the Ghost Door, and Zhou Ze and Zhong Yan threw the door-opening ghost and another dangerous ghost inside before Li Yang shut the door.
• Yang Jian summoned three half-dead people with the Liar Ghost’s power, and a ghost shadow killed the woman among them, revealing that the five shadows targeted elderly people, young adults, women, children, and people holding a child’s hand.
• Yang Jian warned Zhong Yan to hold Zhou Ze’s hand, confusing the female ghost’s judgment and stopping its attack.
• Ye Zhen met Sister Hong on the stairs, and his supernatural sword triggered her cracking-face death rule while she summoned wooden puppets in red cheongsams.
• Ye Zhen destroyed one puppet and fought through the others, but Sister Hong’s supernatural power made him vomit up his heart before he slashed her cheongsam.

Ye Zhen fought Sister Hong but could neither kill her nor enter the supernatural room where she returned after being destroyed. Meanwhile, Sun Rui awakened and followed a hidden path toward the sixth floor to become the Ghost Post Office's administrator, while Yang Jian took the female corpse upstairs to Room 501.

• Ye Zhen wounded Sister Hong, but she entered a bloodstained room, returned unharmed, and escaped after he failed to enter it.
• Ye Zhen searched the post office for another opponent after Sister Hong disappeared.
• Sun Rui awakened as the post office suppressed his ghost revival, and he saw a hidden staircase leading toward the sixth floor.
• Wang Yong identified the staircase as the administrator's path, and Sun Rui followed its guide through the wall.
• Yang Jian left the lobby with the female corpse to retrieve the final puzzle piece from Room 501, while Li Yang and the others followed.

Yang Jian and the others assembled the female corpse from the pieces hidden throughout the post office, with Ye Zhen supplying its final arm. When the corpse awakened, the post office began changing and its floors collapsed one after another, leaving the group falling through the building.

• Yang Jian searched Room 501 and found the female corpse’s legs in a Glass Bottle beside an oil lamp.
• Yang Jian and his companions broke the Glass Bottles and joined the corpse’s legs, body, arm, and head, leaving one arm missing.
• Ye Zhen returned from Room 504 with the last arm, saying he had fought Sister Hong and destroyed a sinister record player.
• Yang Jian attached the final arm, completing the corpse, which opened its eyes and triggered violent changes throughout the post office.
• The fifth floor collapsed beneath the group, and the floors below them began collapsing in turn.

After the corpse awakened, the Ghost Post Office’s structure changed and its hidden staircases appeared. While Yang Jian and the others waited in the lobby, Sun Rui reached room 601, discovered the managers’ booklet, and became the fourth manager, leaving him poised to learn how managers shaped the post office.

• The post office shook and its floors collapsed, revealing the original connected layout and staircases hidden inside the walls.
• Yang Jian stopped Ye Zhen from attacking the female corpse on the fifth floor and told the group to wait for Sun Rui while Ye Zhen studied the ghost shadows in the lobby.
• Sun Rui followed a strange figure up a concealed staircase to room 601, where he found a black booklet listing Luo Wensong, Tian Xiaoyue, and Zhang Xianguang as managers.
• Sun Rui wrote his name on the booklet’s blank fourth page and became the fourth manager.
• Oil lamps illuminated room 601, revealing a supernatural black robe and an unfinished painting of the Ghost Post Office that Sun Rui realized managers could shape.

Sun Rui took control of Ghost Post Office, transformed it, and ended the messengers’ curse while suppressing the ghosts beneath the building. As Yang Jian learned that Zhang Xianguang had been the third administrator, the former post office received the proposed new name Hell Apartment.

• Sun Rui changed Ghost Post Office into a modern apartment building, removed several dangerous paintings, and drove the five ghost shadows outside.
• Yang Jian pulled his spear from the trapped ghost shadow, allowing all five shadows to leave, and Zhou Ze confirmed that his black Letter Paper had lost its power.
• Yang Jian declared the messenger era over, and Zhong Yan and Zhou Ze left after their messenger identities were stripped away.
• Sun Rui returned and explained that he had buried the ghosts beneath the post office, but could not affect the female corpse on the fifth floor.
• Sun Rui revealed that the former administrators included Tian Xiaoyue and Zhang Xianguang, and Yang Jian recognized Zhang Xianguang as a messenger whose portrait remained in the building.
• Yang Jian rejected Ye Zhen’s proposed name Battlefield of Gods and suggested calling the building Hell Apartment.