Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian entered the dream world to find and subdue the vicious dog that haunted his memories. As he cautiously approached it in the forest, water began spreading from his sleeping body in the apartment lobby, where Sun Rui kept watch.

• Yang Jian prepared to sleep in the former Ghost Post Office, asking Sun Rui to watch him and placing his hands into Yang Xiao's oil painting.
• A supernatural force pulled Yang Jian into sleep, and he awoke in a dream without his ghost hand.
• Yang Jian entered the seemingly endless forest near his hometown and found a vicious black dog inside an old cabin.
• The dog did not attack at once, but grew restless when Yang Jian approached, so he stopped to assess whether it could mistake him for his father.
• Sun Rui noticed water pooling around Yang Jian's sleeping body and realized it was coming from him.

Yang Jian tried to tame the vicious dog in his dream, but the supernatural bracelet mark on his wrist made it attack him. As the dog mauled him, Yang Xiao appeared in the old woods and drew its attention.

• Sun Rui watched the supernatural water rise through the apartment while Yang Jian remained asleep in his chair.
• Yang Jian approached the vicious dog and gradually calmed it, building its trust in the dream.
• The vicious dog sniffed Yang Jian’s wrist, recognized the black birthmark left by Sister Hong’s bracelet, and turned aggressive.
• The dog lunged at Yang Jian, knocked him down, and mauled him.
• Yang Xiao appeared on a path near the old woods, and the vicious dog stopped biting Yang Jian to look toward him.

Yang Jian and Yang Xiao worked to make the vicious dog in the nightmare mistake Yang Jian for its master, while the dream’s supernatural effects spread through Hell Apartment. Yang Jian woke after three hours, and the dog emerged from the lobby water into reality.

• The vicious dog attacked Yang Jian until Yang Xiao arrived and calmed it, revealing its loyalty to Yang Xiao’s father.
• Yang Xiao showed that the dog could misidentify its master and guided Yang Jian to approach and touch it without provoking an attack.
• Yang Xiao withdrew from the dream, causing the dog to mistake Yang Jian for him and giving Yang Jian a chance to become its new master.
• As Yang Jian slept, water flooded Hell Apartment, its lights failed, and the Ghost Post Office building began to emerge beneath the walls.
• After three hours, Yang Jian woke from the nightmare as the reflected black wolfhound leaped out of the pooled water into reality.

Yang Jian woke from his nightmare after gaining control of the vicious dog that had haunted his dreams, and the supernatural water flooding the apartment began to recede. He left to deal with other curses, while Sun Rui promised to investigate Zhang Xianguang further.

• Sun Rui watched as the vicious dog leaped from its reflection into the flooded lobby, then called to Yang Jian when he woke.
• Yang Jian confirmed that the nightmare was over and showed Sun Rui that the vicious dog now regarded him as its master.
• Yang Jian explained that the dog would not attack without his permission, and the stagnant water and supernatural interference gradually disappeared.
• Yang Jian said he had to leave to deal with other curses, then returned Yang Xiao's oil painting to the wall.
• Sun Rui told Yang Jian that he had made progress investigating Zhang Xianguang, and Yang Jian said he would await the news before leaving the apartment.

Yang Jian returned to Dachang City and used Ghost Lake’s water to suppress its supernatural influence before visiting his family. He learned that his cousin had vanished, then settled back into his routine and began documenting the Ghost Lake Incident.

• Yang Jian walked across Dachang City’s river, using his supernatural power to drive away uncontrollable phenomena while revealing that the vicious dog could manifest through water.
• Yang Jian returned to Guangjiang Residential Area and found Zhang Fen and Jiang Yan planting vegetables in his yard.
• Zhang Fen told Yang Jian that his cousin had disappeared about half a month earlier, and Yang Jian agreed to ask his friends to investigate.
• Yang Jian asked Zhang Fen about how she and his father had met, then reflected on his father’s time as a Ghost Post Office messenger and his death.
• After lunch, Yang Jian inspected the Supernatural Items and detained ghosts in the safe room, then told Zhang Liqin to record the Ghost Lake Incident.

After returning to Dachang City, Yang Jian learned that Wang Bin and Zhang Xiangui had been lured into losing a fortune at a casino. When the city’s person in charge demanded Shangtong Building as payment, Yang Jian realized the scheme targeted him and decided to face the people behind it himself.

• Yang Jian returned to his company, where Wang Bin and Zhang Xiangui told him they had lost a huge amount of money after a broker named Qian Xin introduced them to an investor and a casino.
• Yang Jian refused to gamble or use force to recover their losses, but called Dachang City’s person in charge, Luo Sheng, to ask him to end the matter.
• Luo Sheng called back and demanded Shangtong Building to settle the debt, revealing that the scheme was aimed at Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian agreed to handle the matter by the book and said he would visit the creditors with his companions to play another round.

Yang Jian decided to investigate the gambling operation that had bankrupted Wang Bin and Zhang Xiangui, suspecting it might be a trap targeting him. He planned to travel to Dachang City with Zhang Wei and Xiong Wenwen, while postponing several growing supernatural threats until he returned.

• Yang Jian rejected the idea of recovering the losses through ordinary gambling and agreed to return to Dachang City to confront the operators, bringing Zhang Wei as a gambling expert and Xiong Wenwen for his precognition.
• Liu Xiaoyu reported that the Black Umbrella Ghost Domain was moving south after its white ghost candle went out, and Yang Jian decided to address it after his trip.
• Liu Xiaoyu told Yang Jian that Tong Qian had returned to ZS City to investigate supernatural phenomena at the Caesar Hotel, and Yang Jian warned him not to act alone.
• Liu Xiaoyu reported that representatives of the island nation's Spirit Extermination Society were waiting at Shangtong Building, but Yang Jian refused to meet them for now.

Yang Jian tested how the Ghost Lake power let him travel through connected water and found that a supernatural dream helped ease the strain on his mind. He set off for Dachang City with Jiang Yan and Xiong Wenwen, while Zhang Liqin stayed behind to care for his mother, and news of his arrival spread through the city's supernatural circle.

• Yang Jian used his home's swimming pool to vanish and confirmed that water areas corroded by the supernatural could connect to Ghost Lake, though he feared it could not be sealed completely.
• Yang Jian dreamed of living as an ordinary person with a black dog beside him, then woke feeling mentally more stable.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Liqin to stay home and look after his mother, then left with Jiang Yan and Xiong Wenwen, carrying a cracked long spear.
• Yang Jian arrived at the Dachang City airport with Jiang Yan and Xiong Wenwen, where Wang Bin, Zhang Xiangui, Zhang Wei, and other executives waited aboard his private jet.
• Yang Jian recognized flight attendant Wang Dong from an earlier flight and ordered the plane to depart for Dachang City.
• News that Ghost Eye Yang Jian was coming spread quickly through Dachang City's supernatural circle.

Yang Jian arrived in Dachang City with Zhang Xiangui, Wang Bin, and the others to investigate a business dispute, while the city’s officials watched him warily. He arranged a dinner at Xin Ji Tea Restaurant with Qian Xin and an investor who had refused to meet, leaving them warned that he would deal with them personally if they failed to attend.

• Yang Jian’s group landed in Dachang City, and Xiong Wenwen argued with Zhang Wei while a hidden observer monitored them at the airport.
• Yang Jian noticed the observer and suspected that Luo Sheng, Dachang City’s person in charge, was avoiding him; Luo Sheng discussed Yang Jian with a suited young man before entering Daxing Entertainment City.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Xiangui to arrange a six o’clock dinner with Qian Xin and the investor at Xin Ji Tea Restaurant, and Manager Ma initially reported that neither could attend.
• Yang Jian gave the two men ten minutes to reconsider, and they agreed to come but asked him to guarantee their safety.
• Yang Jian dismissed their demand and decided that the dinner would be their last meal, while a beastlike growl sounded from the carriage beside him.

Yang Jian investigated several mysterious locations in Dachang City after suspecting that supernatural forces had set a trap for him. He left a locked apartment door unopened but found a restaurant using a Corpse Oil Lamp, leaving its purpose unclear.

• Yang Jian told Jiang Yan to stay at the hotel while he went out to investigate, and she chose to remain by his side.
• Yang Jian forced open a high-level safe house, found valuables and supplies untouched, and left after deciding it posed no threat.
• Yang Jian inspected an old apartment building and noticed a locked eighteenth-floor door with the same kind of brass lock as the one at the old house, but he decided not to open it.
• Yang Jian entered a renovated Republican-era residence operating as a restaurant and recognized the smell of burning corpse oil from a lamp overhead.

Yang Jian uncovered a restaurant secretly harvesting corpse oil from a restrained fierce ghost and took some for Dr. Chen to study. After surveying Dachang City, he prepared to meet the businessmen who had wronged his company, while they gathered nervously at Xin Ji Tea Restaurant.

• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to reveal a chained corpse beneath the restaurant and identified the black liquid dripping from its feet as corpse oil.
• Yang Jian filled a beer bottle with corpse oil, leaving more than half of the basin empty, then finished checking the old house and left.
• Yang Jian surveyed a guarded villa and other areas of Dachang City, then marked Daxing Entertainment City for a later visit that night.
• Jiang Yan, Wang Bin, Zhang Xiangui, Zhang Wei, and Xiong Wenwen set off for Xin Ji Tea Restaurant after Yang Jian told them to go ahead.
• Qian Xin and two other businessmen waited anxiously at Xin Ji Tea Restaurant, fearing Yang Jian but disputing his right to intervene over their gambling losses.

Yang Jian confronted Boss He and Qian Xin over the debts Zhang Xiangui and Wang Bin had incurred, rejecting their offers of repayment and proposing to settle the dispute through a gambling game. He left the gathering headed for Boss He’s entertainment complex, with the bodyguards still scraping off their tattoos under his order.

• Zhang Xiangui and Wang Bin met Qian Xin and Boss He at Xin Ji Tea Restaurant to discuss their debts, while Zhang Wei and Jiang Yan joined the gathering.
• Boss He offered to cancel the debts, return part of their funds, and invest one billion in their companies, but Zhang Xiangui said they had come because someone threatened to take Shangtong Building as payment.
• Yang Jian appeared without warning, confronted Boss He’s armed bodyguards, and ordered them to scrape off their tattoos with spoons.
• Yang Jian rejected Boss He’s offer of two billion and proposed settling the dispute with a gambling game at Boss He’s entertainment complex.
• Jiang Yan warned Yang Jian that the complex’s points could not necessarily be exchanged back into money, but Yang Jian accepted the rules as irrelevant.
• As the meeting continued, Boss He’s bodyguards scraped their skin until they bled, and Yang Jian prepared to continue the confrontation.

Yang Jian forced Boss He into a high-stakes wager at Daxing Entertainment City, using the bet to test whether Boss He’s group had been sent by someone behind them. As Zhang Wei and Xiong Wenwen began playing, Boss He prepared to stop them from winning and sought help from Luo Sheng.

• Yang Jian threatened Boss He and his men with a wager: if Boss He lost one hundred million points, one of them would die, and Boss He agreed to play by Yang Jian’s rules.
• Yang Jian revealed that Zhang Wei and Xiong Wenwen would gamble for him, while he stayed out of the games to watch for trouble.
• The group went to Daxing Entertainment City, exchanged points, and split up, with Jiang Yan choosing to follow Xiong Wenwen.
• Yang Jian gave Jiang Yan a glass of water containing the protection of his black vicious dog, then wandered through the entertainment city as hidden cameras tracked him.
• Boss He ordered his security staff to prevent Yang Jian and Xiong Wenwen from winning, then went to find Luo Sheng after learning he was waiting in a VIP room.

Yang Jian investigated the supernatural precautions at Daxing Entertainment City while Zhang Wei and Xiong Wenwen gambled to earn points for their mission. Xiong Wenwen’s winning streak ended when a supernatural dealer interfered, but Jiang Yan’s spilled water revealed a vicious dog watching him from the shadows.

• Yang Jian examined a dice table and realized Daxing Entertainment City used gold equipment and other measures to prevent supernatural cheating.
• Zhang Wei turned one hundred points into millions by gambling, drawing a crowd of curious players and followers.
• Xiong Wenwen won more than twenty rounds, raising his chips from one thousand to tens of millions as Jiang Yan urged him to continue for the mission.
• A pale-faced dealer removed the table’s betting limit and dealt against Xiong Wenwen, whose foresight showed that the dealer had changed the outcome through supernatural interference.
• Jiang Yan spilled her water, revealing a vicious dog in the shadows beneath the puddle, and the dealer recoiled.

At Boss He's entertainment complex, Xiong Wenwen's prediction and Jiang Yan's ghostly water frightened off Zhang Zhi, while Yang Jian's growing winnings made Boss He seek a way to survive. Luo Sheng and Sun Ren discussed whether they could ambush Yang Jian, but after learning of his power, they waited for developments; Boss He began calling for help and reconciliation as the crisis escalated.

• Xiong Wenwen predicted that Zhang Zhi would die, and Jiang Yan's ghostly water frightened Zhang Zhi into fleeing the entertainment complex.
• Boss He confronted Luo Sheng, who blamed him for provoking Yang Jian and warned that no one could guarantee victory against a Headquarters captain.
• Sun Ren proposed trapping and killing Yang Jian, but Luo Sheng showed him a report about Yang Jian sealing Ghost Lake and agreed only to wait for the situation to develop.
• Boss He's assistant reported that Xiong Wenwen and Zhang Wei had won enormous sums while Yang Jian watched, and Boss He realized the complex could soon go bankrupt.
• Boss He called Yue Lian and offered terms to bring her in, then continued making calls to prepare for Yang Jian.

Yang Jian exposed Daxing Entertainment City’s cheating and demanded that Boss He prove his loyalty by eliminating Luo Sheng. He then attacked He Yuelian after recognizing her as the woman who looked exactly like the figure in the ghost painting, intending to search her memories.

• Yang Jian accused the card dealer of cheating, exposed a chip containing sensing equipment, and knocked the dealer unconscious with supernatural power.
• Boss He offered Yang Jian ten billion and blamed Luo Sheng for using him, but Yang Jian demanded that Boss He kill Luo Sheng to earn his trust.
• Yang Jian saw He Yuelian, whose face matched the woman in the ghost painting, and seized her by the throat.
• Yang Jian sent his shadow into He Yuelian to search her memories and discover why she resembled the woman in the painting.

Yang Jian invaded He Yuelian’s memories and found a protected glimpse of the Ghost Post Office before confronting Boss He and three Ghost Tamers. Zheng Yijing offered to gamble Boss He’s wealth and life, adding He Yuelian to the wager, and Yang Jian agreed to play.

• Yang Jian found an oil lamp blocking his attempt to read He Yuelian’s memories, then forced it out and glimpsed the ghost painting on a wall that resembled the fifth floor of the Ghost Post Office.
• Zheng Yijing, Zhang Zhi, and another Ghost Tamer arrived and demanded that Yang Jian release He Yuelian.
• Yang Jian accused Boss He’s entertainment complex of cheating and targeting his people, and threatened to kill the Ghost Tamers who backed him.
• Zheng Yijing proposed gambling Boss He’s wealth and life against Yang Jian, then added He Yuelian to the wager.
• Yang Jian tossed He Yuelian to Zheng Yijing and agreed to play.

Boss He and Zheng Yijing learned that a mysterious figure had once made a bargain involving Boss He’s future daughter, possibly explaining why Yang Jian attacked He Yuelian. With Yang Jian’s deadline approaching, they agreed to Luo Sheng and Sun Ren’s plan to trap him using the cursed Room 707 doorplate, and sent He Yuelian to bring him to them.

• Zheng Yijing reasoned that Yang Jian had mistaken He Yuelian for someone dangerous who looked exactly like her, and that he had spared her after noticing a clue.
• Boss He revealed that a stranger had promised him lifelong wealth in exchange for using his daughter one day to settle a debt.
• Boss He decided to join forces with Luo Sheng and kill Yang Jian rather than beg for mercy, despite Luo Sheng admitting their odds in a direct fight were below ten percent.
• Sun Ren showed them the cursed Room 707 doorplate, which could trap anyone inside a supernatural room, and Luo Sheng said he had prepared additional methods to keep Yang Jian there.
• Boss He ordered He Yuelian to invite Yang Jian to gamble with them, and she agreed while warning that she would leave Dachang City afterward.

Yang Jian followed He Yuelian to a prepared meeting, where Boss He and Zheng Yijing gathered allies under the pretense of a gambling match. The appearance of his former classmate Sun Ren confirmed Yang Jian's suspicions, and he confronted the group as an ominous silence fell over the room.

• He Yuelian led Yang Jian toward the VIP room, and he revealed that he had altered her perception, leaving her terrified and uncertain of her own thoughts.
• Boss He introduced Luo Sheng, who had backed the demand that Yang Jian give Shangtong Building to Boss He to settle his debt.
• Zheng Yijing and Luo Sheng delayed the gambling match and brought in Sun Ren, Yang Jian's former high school classmate.
• Yang Jian accused Sun Ren of kidnapping Zhang Wei and threatened him, while Luo Sheng claimed he had invited Sun Ren only to meet Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian recognized that the gathering was meant to oppose him, mocked the group, and left the room tense and silent.

Yang Jian forced the conspirators to stake their lives on a wager involving the deadly Room 707, then made He Yuelian activate it. The room arrived as Zhang Zhi tried to escape, leaving everyone trapped inside.

• Yang Jian rejected Luo Sheng's offer to mediate and challenged Sun Ren over his crimes and motives.
• Zheng Yijing proposed a wager in which Yang Jian would enter Room 707, and Yang Jian accepted but demanded equal stakes.
• Yang Jian changed the wager so they would all enter Room 707, but the others refused to risk their lives.
• Sun Ren produced the 707 door plaque, and Yang Jian sent He Yuelian to hang it outside the private room.
• Zhang Zhi charged for the door after He Yuelian left, but the door would not open, confirming Room 707 had arrived.