Chapter Summaries

The boat reached Ghost Lake, where Li Jun’s ghost fire sank beneath the water and revealed numerous submerged ghosts. When A Hong lit the white ghost candle to draw out the lake’s source, it attracted the three ghosts already aboard, and one turned toward the group.

• Li Jun, Yang Jian, and Shen Lin threw away supernatural items to keep the sinking boat afloat, while Shen Lin threatened Liu San over his lack of a contribution.
• Yang Jian recognized that the river had widened into Ghost Lake, and Shen Lin and Liu San confirmed their arrival.
• Li Jun set the lake ablaze with ghost fire, but the supernatural flames sank beneath the surface and exposed many corpses and ghosts below.
• Yang Jian warned that the operation could unleash the submerged ghosts, but Li Jun ordered A Hong to use the white ghost candle to draw out Ghost Lake’s source.
• A Hong lit the candle, which first attracted the three ghosts wandering on the boat; one turned its head toward the group as its neck cracked.

The team’s ghost candle drew the submerged horrors of Ghost Lake to the surface while Li Jun and Yang Jian dealt with a ghost that targeted A Hong. The boat was surrounded by rising corpses, and lake water had reached the passengers’ feet, putting them at risk if they closed their eyes.

• Li Jun used ghost fire to send three ghosts into Ping An Building, but Liu San foresaw that one would return and attack A Hong.
• Liu San revealed that he had shared one of Xiong Wenwen’s paper figures with him, giving him limited precognition and reducing Xiong Wenwen’s risk of ghost revival.
• A ghost attacked A Hong from the Ghost Painting world, but Yang Jian blocked it with his golden spear, found its medium, and severed its arms with the hatchet.
• The ghost candle drew numerous female corpses to the surface, and Li Jun illuminated the lake to reveal corpses rising throughout the water.
• Yang Jian warned everyone not to close their eyes because Ghost Lake water had reached their ankles and could trigger its first killing condition.

Feng Quan encountered supernatural events at an inn in Ping An Ancient Town and learned from its owner, Boss Liu, that Ghost Lake was nearing its limit. As Boss Liu led him to move two corpses, the chapter shifted back to Yang Jian and the other captains, surrounded by increasingly active corpses on Ghost Lake.

• Feng Quan found a paper effigy disguised as an inn servant dragging two fresh corpses, then met the innkeeper, Boss Liu, who demanded payment for the effigy.
• Boss Liu told Feng Quan that the dead guests had taken something from Ghost Street and explained that Ghost Lake was overflowing because it had accumulated too many ghosts.
• Boss Liu demonstrated that removing ghosts from the lake could reduce its supernatural effects, but said the root cause could not be cured.
• A one-eyed old man entered the inn to demand that the corpses be taken away, then left after inspecting Feng Quan.
• Feng Quan agreed to help Boss Liu move the corpses while intending to learn more about the town.
• On Ghost Lake, Yang Jian, Shen Lin, Li Jun, Liu San, and A Hong watched floating corpses begin to move as the white ghost candle burned down.

Yang Jian and the other captains faced Ghost Lake as the corpses and the lake itself grew increasingly dangerous. Shen Lin went to search for the source while Yang Jian and Li Jun worked together to clear the corpses into the Ghost Painting world, leaving the search unresolved.

• The waves grew stronger, corpses slammed into the boat, and several female corpses tried to climb aboard; Yang Jian used the coffin nail to repel one, while Liu San extinguished the Ghost Candle.
• Li Jun drove the corpses back with Ghost Fire, but Ghost Lake extinguished the flames, so Shen Lin stepped onto the lake and set off with a ghost axe to search for the source.
• Yang Jian froze the lake and the attacking corpses with his six-layer Ghost Domain, excluding Li Jun, Liu San, and A Hong from its effects.
• Li Jun reopened the Ghost Painting world through Ping An Building, and Yang Jian began transporting the immobilized corpses into it.

Shen Lin searched through ghosts’ memories for the source of Ghost Lake and found a memory of a black coffin at Ping An Ancient Town’s ferry crossing. After discovering that the coffin held only water and hair, he realized the source ghost was behind him and began breaking free of its attempt to control him, returning to Daxia City.

• Shen Lin repeatedly invaded ghosts’ memories, following the supernatural trail while killing the corpses that blocked his way.
• Shen Lin found a memory of four indistinct figures carrying a black coffin to the ferry crossing at Ping An Ancient Town.
• Shen Lin opened the coffin and saw water and black hair, then overturned it and found no corpse inside.
• A ghost pressed against Shen Lin from behind, and he realized it was trying to control him through the memory.
• Shen Lin cast off the ghost’s memory as Ping An Ancient Town disappeared and Daxia City replaced it.

Shen Lin’s ghost-driven invasion of Yang Jian’s memories reached Yang Jian’s high-school years, where a ghostly wolfhound stored in those memories blocked the attack. The wolfhounds surrounded the invading ghost, preventing it from killing Yang Jian or going deeper into his past.

• Shen Lin chose Yang Jian’s memories and asked the Yang Jian in Zhongzhou City to kill him, but the ghost forced the invasion farther into Yang Jian’s past.
• The ghost took Shen Lin to Dachang City four years earlier, where Yang Jian was a high-school student unable to see or hear the supernatural threat approaching him.
• As the axe-wielding ghost moved to attack Yang Jian on the school athletic field, a huge black wolfhound emerged from the shadows.
• More identical wolfhounds appeared and surrounded the ghost, protecting Yang Jian and blocking the ghost’s supernatural invasion.

Li Yang and Wang Yong discovered that the coffin in Yang Jian’s office had opened and the dog fur inside had vanished, while in Yang Jian’s memories the dog pack fought the Ghost Lake ghost and drove it toward defeat. On the Ghost Ship, Yang Jian’s body began to erode and the boat sank despite his successful restart.

• Li Yang and Wang Yong investigated a dog’s growl in the safe room and found the coffin empty except for black hairs.
• Dr. Chen identified the hairs as fur from a large wolfdog, and Li Yang ordered everyone to stop investigating until Yang Jian returned.
• In Yang Jian’s memories, the wolfdogs used endless restarts to overwhelm the Ghost Lake ghost and tear away its arm, including the hand holding the Ghost Axe.
• Shen Lin realized the ghost could not bring the Ghost Lake into Yang Jian’s memories and had lost its advantage there.
• Yang Jian sensed that his body was being eroded, but restarting himself did not stop it, and the Ghost Ship began sinking under his increased weight.

Yang Jian, Li Jun, Liu San, and A Hong sank into Ghost Lake after their escape attempt failed, while Shen Lin remained missing. In Yang Jian’s memories, his vicious dogs killed the invading Ghost Lake ghost, setting him up to inherit its power as the memory world collapsed.

• Ghost Lake began dragging the boat and its passengers underwater, while Yang Jian became numb and unable to control his body or ghost shadow.
• Li Jun tried to retreat with the others through Ping An Building, but a female corpse’s black hair dragged him underwater and extinguished his ghost fire.
• A Hong and Liu San sank into Ghost Lake after their route of escape vanished, leaving all four captains submerged.
• Li Jun’s body withered as Ghost Lake suppressed his supernatural power, and his Ghost Makeup began to peel away.
• Yang Jian remained conscious but motionless underwater as the paper boat floated up to the surface.
• In Yang Jian’s memories, his pack of vicious dogs tore apart the invading Ghost Lake ghost, causing the memory world to collapse and leaving Yang Jian to inherit what remained.

Yang Jian and the others sank deeper into the Ghost Lake, where Liu San found a chance to escape but the rest remained trapped. At the lake’s bottom, Yang Jian regained some movement and spotted a black coffin that might be connected to the lake’s source.

• Liu San’s paper body shed its outer layers, letting him move again, and he swam toward the paper boat on the surface.
• Yang Jian remained unable to move as he sank past layers of corpses, while Li Jun stopped among the malicious ghosts and A Hong remained in danger.
• Yang Jian saw Cao Yang trapped in the lake with the Ghost Scissors in his hand and realized he was still alive.
• Yang Jian sank through the lake’s fourth layer to the bottom, where his numbness began to fade and his Ghost Eye revealed a black coffin with eerie hair drifting from its open lid.

Boss Liu told Feng Quan that the Ghost Lake originated from a Black Coffin carried away by a Ghost Ship, while Yang Jian slowly regained movement at the lakebed and devised a way to use the Ghost Cabinet and a wish sticker to save A Hong. Yang Jian unknowingly began stealing the Ghost Lake’s supernatural power, leaving his recovery and the rescue attempt unresolved.

• Feng Quan buried the two corpses in the wasteland while Boss Liu recounted how a Black Coffin in the ancestral shrine had cried before being carried away on a Ghost Ship.
• Boss Liu explained that he suspected the coffin had formed the Ghost Lake, though he warned Feng Quan that finding it would not make the incident easy to resolve.
• Yang Jian gradually regained the ability to open his Ghost Eye and move on the lakebed, then spotted the Ghost Cabinet and considered using it to help A Hong and Li Jun.
• Yang Jian pulled out Zhao Ya’s wish sticker and planned to send it into the Ghost Cabinet so its protection might let the wish to save A Hong take effect.
• As Yang Jian moved toward the Ghost Cabinet, he unknowingly began stealing the Ghost Lake’s supernatural power after defeating the ghost that had invaded his memories.

Yang Jian used a wish sticker inside the Ghost Cabinet to save A Hong, triggering a supernatural clash that destroyed the cabinet and apparently freed A Hong from Ghost Lake’s effects. As Yang Jian noticed something watching him from the black coffin, the coffin’s lid shifted open.

• Yang Jian wrote “A Hong will not drown” on a wish sticker and placed it inside the Ghost Cabinet, setting its trading rules against the sticker’s power.
• The Ghost Cabinet shook violently, leaked blood, and began cracking as the supernatural forces clashed.
• Zhao Xiaoya woke to find the wish-granting ghost leaving, chased it into the street, and blamed Liu Siyue for its departure.
• The Ghost Cabinet exploded and rotted away, while A Hong regained consciousness underwater and became unaffected by the lake.
• Yang Jian suspected the Ghost Cabinet’s curse had ended, then sensed a gaze from the black coffin and saw part of its lid lift.

Yang Jian waited at the bottom of Ghost Lake as the Black Coffin watched him and the lake began responding to his presence. Meanwhile, Liu San escaped the depths on a paper boat, and the people of Taiping Ancient Town gathered as Ghost Lake started appearing outside Zhongzhou City.

• Yang Jian sensed a connection with the ghost inside the Black Coffin and decided to wait for his condition to recover before confronting it.
• Invisible currents stirred the lake, and submerged corpses began drifting toward Yang Jian.
• Liu San surfaced while holding a paper boat that could not be forced underwater, then tried to paddle toward shore.
• Boss Liu warned Feng Quan that Ghost Lake had broken free, and Feng Quan hurried toward its suspected appearance.
• Boss Liu met the one-eyed old man, a hostile woman, and a faceless man in Taiping Ancient Town, and the four set out for Zhongzhou City.
• A hazy lake began materializing on the outskirts of Zhongzhou City.

Yang Jian regained control over Ghost Lake and opened the Black Coffin, discovering Captain Yin Zi’s corpse inside. After the corpse melted away, Yin Zi’s ghost appeared behind him and dissolved his body, leaving only his cracked spear.

• Feng Quan saw Ghost Lake beginning to intrude into reality near Zhongzhou City and realized the operation had gone badly.
• Yang Jian recovered underwater, discovered he could control Ghost Lake, and moved freely through it toward the Black Coffin.
• Yang Jian opened the coffin and found Captain Yin Zi’s corpse, then realized the ghost was no longer inside it.
• Yin Zi’s corpse opened its eyes, and Yang Jian pinned it to the coffin with his cracked spear, but the body melted away, leaving her clothes and phone.
• Yin Zi’s ghost appeared behind Yang Jian, clung to him, and dissolved his body, leaving the cracked spear standing in the coffin.

Yang Jian discovered that he had stolen part of Ghost Lake's supernatural power, allowing him to separate nearly forty percent of the lake from the fierce ghost. He withdrew to rescue the others who had sunk into the lake, hoping they were on his side.

• Yang Jian restarted time after the fierce ghost dissolved his body, then froze it with his six-layer Ghost Domain and attacked with the hatchet and coffin nail.
• The female corpse dissolved and reappeared despite Yang Jian's attacks, so he cut the water between them and stopped it from approaching.
• As Ghost Lake split apart, corpses fell from the separated water and rapidly rotted.
• Yang Jian realized he had unknowingly stolen part of Ghost Lake's supernatural power, possibly because of Shen Lin.
• Yang Jian retreated from the fierce ghost to search for Li Jun, A Hong, Cao Yang, and the others who had sunk into the lake.

Yang Jian rescued Cao Yang and A Hong from the section of Ghost Lake under his control, but he could not find Li Jun. As Liu San sank after four older Ghost Tamers took his paper boat, Yang Jian surfaced nearby and turned his scarlet eyes toward them.

• Yang Jian searched the separated section of Ghost Lake and found Cao Yang alive, then carried him toward the surface.
• Yang Jian found A Hong, whose wish sticker prevented her from drowning, and took her with Cao Yang; he could not locate Li Jun.
• Liu San tried to escape Ghost Lake but unknowingly swam into its deeper waters through a fissure between the two sections.
• A black paper boat carrying a one-eyed old man, Boss Liu, a woman, and a faceless man approached Liu San; the woman took his boat, and he sank into the lake.
• Yang Jian emerged from the lake with Cao Yang and A Hong, stood on the water, and fixed his scarlet eyes on the four Ghost Tamers.

Yang Jian confronted the older-generation Ghost Tamers aboard a black boat after Liu San sank into Ghost Lake. Their negotiations failed, and Yang Jian’s attack was blocked, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• Yang Jian pulled A Hong and Cao Yang from Ghost Lake and warned them that Liu San had sunk beneath the water.
• Yang Jian identified the boat’s occupants as Taiping Ancient Town Ghost Tamers, and the woman argued they should kill the younger generation to protect the town.
• Yang Jian rejected the one-eyed old man’s offer to let the group leave and demanded that the woman be thrown into the lake in exchange for Liu San.
• Yang Jian attacked with his sixth-layer Ghost Domain and hatchet, but the boat’s oil lamps resisted the Ghost Domain and an enamel teacup blocked his strike.
• The one-eyed old man seized Yang Jian’s cracked spear and was struck by its fatal curse, but the woman transferred the curse to her coat and saved him.
• Boss Liu urged Yang Jian to stop fighting, warning that he could not defeat all four of them and that dealing with the lake was the priority.

Yang Jian fought the four older-generation Ghost Tamers on the Ghost Lake, escaped the woman’s dead man’s clothes, and beheaded the one-eyed old man with his hatchet. As the black boat approached again, a vicious dog from Ghost Dream emerged from the lake, leaving both sides stunned.

• Yang Jian triggered the hatchet’s curse against the one-eyed old man, but the woman immobilized him with dead man’s clothes.
• Yang Jian sank into the Ghost Lake, removed the clothes underwater, and surfaced ready to fight again.
• Yang Jian struck the one-eyed old man’s medium and severed his head, but Boss Liu caught it and the old man began recovering.
• The one-eyed old man ordered the black boat to approach Yang Jian, while Cao Yang prepared to act with A Hong.
• A black vicious dog appeared as a reflection beneath the lake, then leaped out of the water into reality.

Yang Jian watched the vicious dog he had raised attack the four people on the black boat after they entered his lake. The dog dragged the woman and part of the one-eyed old man's consciousness into Ghost Dream, leaving the others unsure how to stop it.

• The one-eyed old man recognized the vicious dog as a deliberately cultivated ghost that had replaced Ghost Dream, while Yang Jian wondered whether it would obey him.
• Cao Yang and A Hong prepared to act as the black boat crossed into Yang Jian's lake, but the vicious dog charged the boat first.
• Boss Liu stretched the distance between the boat and the dog, but the dog ignored the effect because it existed in a dream.
• The vicious dog vanished after pouncing, and Yang Jian realized it had invaded someone's dream.
• The woman collapsed into a deep sleep, Boss Liu's seven-yuan banknote protected him, and the one-eyed old man was partly dragged into a nightmare while the Faceless Man's oil lamp went out.

Yang Jian learned that the vicious dog had killed the woman inside her dream, while Ghost Lake had broken into reality and begun spreading through Zhongzhou City. He set aside his fight with Taiping Ancient Town’s survivors and used his Ghost Domain to reshape the surrounding land and contain the lake.

• The vicious dog chased the woman through dream-version Taiping Ancient Town and mauled her to death after the one-eyed old man ignored her plea for help.
• Boss Liu and the one-eyed old man confirmed that the woman had died in the dream, and Yang Jian recovered from the firewood axe’s curse and prepared to kill the survivors.
• The one-eyed old man warned Yang Jian that Ghost Lake had invaded reality, its supernatural water was spreading, and its submerged ghosts were beginning to awaken.
• Yang Jian stopped pursuing the survivors and ordered Cao Yang to watch them while A Hong prepared to use her Wei Jing disguise and powers.
• Yang Jian expanded his Ghost Domain across a hundred kilometers and reversed the terrain, raising the surrounding land to funnel Ghost Lake’s spreading water toward him.

Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to reshape the terrain around Zhongzhou City and force Ghost Lake’s water back into the lake, limiting its spread. The lake was contained for the moment, but its broken balance let a powerful ghost begin moving toward shore.

• Yang Jian altered the terrain across a hundred kilometers to block Ghost Lake, while Headquarters learned that the surrounding towns and cities were shifting.
• A Hong used Wei Jing’s supernatural power to recover corpses that had washed out of the lake and push them back into the water.
• Yang Jian ordered A Hong to redirect the river channels, then used the lake water under his control to make Ghost Lake flow back in.
• Boss Liu recognized that Yang Jian had brought Ghost Lake under control, while the one-eyed old man abandoned his attempt to protect Taiping Ancient Town after Cao Yang warned him.
• As the water submerged most of the exposed ghosts, one disheveled-haired head remained afloat and moved toward shore.