Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian trapped Luo Sheng, Sun Ren, Zheng Yijing, and their allies inside Room 707, then began fighting them after they revealed their plan to kill him. He killed one Ghost Tamer with a coffin nail and opened his sixth-layer Ghost Domain as the others launched supernatural attacks.

• Yang Jian deduced that Room 707's restriction could only be lifted from outside, and Sun Ren confirmed his guess.
• Luo Sheng, Sun Ren, and Zheng Yijing joined forces against Yang Jian while Boss He retreated to the corner.
• Yang Jian summoned a cracked golden spear from a glass of water and used it to pin the unfamiliar Ghost Tamer to the wall, killing him within seconds.
• Sun Ren sent a terrifying female corpse toward Yang Jian, Luo Sheng attacked with bloodstained threads, and Zheng Yijing revealed himself as an ancient wax corpse.
• Yang Jian opened his sixth-layer Ghost Domain, slowing the incoming attacks, though Sun Ren's female corpse and Zheng Yijing's wax corpse continued moving.

Yang Jian revealed that Room 707 was a deception created with his Ghost Domain and used Ghost Lake water to overwhelm the Ghost Tamers who attacked him. After killing Luo Sheng and watching the others sink, he faced Sun Ren, who tried to merge with a powerful female corpse, but Yang Jian struck first and nailed him down.

• Yang Jian used the sixth-level Ghost Domain to appear beside Luo Sheng, sever his head, and prepare to pin him with the coffin nail.
• Zheng Yijing tried to invade Yang Jian's body, but Yang Jian released Ghost Lake water and began pulling him and the others beneath it.
• Yang Jian exposed Room 707 as a false room he had simulated, and the rising water drowned Zhang Zhi while suppressing Luo Sheng and Zheng Yijing.
• Luo Sheng revealed that his body was a supernatural puppet and warned that Headquarters captains had been targeted; Yang Jian pierced his head with the coffin nail, and the remaining flesh and threads sank away.
• Yang Jian confronted Sun Ren, who summoned a female corpse and began changing as it overlapped with him.
• Yang Jian abruptly threw the cracked spear through Sun Ren and nailed him into the water, ignoring Sun Ren's accusation that he had cheated.

Yang Jian killed Sun Ren and Boss He after defeating them, then searched Boss He's memories to learn who was connected to He Yuelian. He discovered that Boss He had encountered Zhang Xianguang decades earlier, but the strange presence in the memory vanished when Yang Jian's vicious dog intervened.

• Yang Jian explained the past Knocking Ghost Incident to the pinned Sun Ren, who blamed him before losing consciousness and dying from his injuries.
• Yang Jian turned on Boss He, rejected his offers of money and information, and killed him by sending him beneath the pooled water.
• Yang Jian searched Boss He's memories and found a meeting with Zhang Xianguang on a street in Dachang City more than twenty years earlier.
• Zhang Xianguang seemed to notice Yang Jian inside the memory, but Yang Jian's vicious dog appeared and drove away the supernatural influence.
• Yang Jian concluded that Zhang Xianguang was connected to He Yuelian and wondered whether the Zhang Xianguang from the memory was still alive.

Yang Jian defeated the Ghost Tamers in the VIP room, secured the dangerous ghost inside Sun Ren's corpse, and buried it deep underground. He reclaimed the Room 707 door plaque from He Yuelian and left, while He Long faced the consequences of Yang Jian's people gambling at the entertainment complex.

• Yang Jian sealed Sun Ren's awakened ghost inside three nested gold boxes and buried them five thousand meters underground.
• Yang Jian emerged from the VIP room and told He Yuelian and He Long that everyone inside was dead.
• Yang Jian took the Room 707 door plaque from He Yuelian and warned her to notify him if she encountered Zhang Xianguang.
• He Yuelian told He Long that Yang Jian had affected her cognition and left something supernatural on her.
• He Long urged He Yuelian to use her connection to Yang Jian, but she saw through his plan and warned him that Yang Jian's companions might win too much at the entertainment complex.
• He Long hurried to the main hall to check on Yang Jian's companions and the complex's gambling losses.

Yang Jian stopped Xiong Wenwen and Zhang Wei from continuing to gamble after settling the conflict at Daxing Entertainment City, then searched Luo Sheng's villa for clues about his connections. A familiar supernatural recording began playing and linked Yang Jian to a curse that would put him to sleep.

• Yang Jian told Xiong Wenwen and Jiang Yan that Boss He was dead and the dispute was settled, then ordered Xiong Wenwen and Zhang Wei to stop gambling.
• Yang Jian went to Luo Sheng's villa and used the ghost shadow to reveal and examine the mediums left by people who had visited.
• A radio began playing a recording in Luo Sheng's voice, warning Yang Jian that it would make him fall into a deep sleep.
• Yang Jian recognized the recording as the missionary's curse and used the red scissors to see the thread connecting him to the radio.
• The recording responded to Yang Jian and declared that the curse had already begun.

Yang Jian identified the recording curse as a trap set by Luo Sheng and the Preacher, but the curse pulled him into Nightmare’s dream world. He entered a castle where his enemies planned to keep him trapped while his body slept in the real world.

• Yang Jian crushed the cursed radio, then let its supernatural effect put him to sleep after hiding his villa deep underground with his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian woke in an unfamiliar dream before a ruined European-style castle and realized his ghost hand and other supernatural powers were absent.
• Yang Jian inferred that the Preacher’s recording had made him sleep while Nightmare’s power dragged him into a separate dream world.
• Darkness and a collapsing courtyard forced Yang Jian toward the castle, where he concluded Nightmare had been harnessed by a Ghost Tamer.
• Luo Sheng and two allies spoke to Yang Jian from inside the castle, revealing that they meant to keep him trapped rather than kill him and planned to leave his body asleep for years.

Yang Jian remained trapped in the nightmare castle while its hidden group debated whether to kill him or keep him imprisoned. When three of them confronted him, he bluffed them into hesitating, then ran as soon as one charged, leaving his real plan unclear.

• Yang Jian taunted the unseen captors and guessed that they had hidden the nightmare world's source somewhere inside the castle.
• Luo Sheng opposed an immediate attack, but three others voted to hunt Yang Jian down while a golden-haired woman declined to join them.
• Luo Sheng and the three attackers found Yang Jian waiting in the castle hall, and Yang Jian confidently walked toward them despite having only one hand.
• Luo Sheng urged Liu to attack, but Liu hesitated and ordered the group to keep their distance as Yang Jian mocked their fear.
• A foreign man charged Yang Jian with an iron hammer, and Yang Jian immediately turned and ran, revealing that his confidence had been a bluff.

Yang Jian stalled the group hunting him inside the nightmare world while waiting for his vicious dog to arrive. After the nightmare world collided with Ghost Dream’s dreamworld, the dog appeared behind his pursuers, leaving them facing a sudden threat.

• Yang Jian evaded Liu, Luo Sheng, and the others, using his speed to keep them from catching him as he waited for his vicious dog.
• Yang Jian deduced that their control over the nightmare world was limited, and Luo Sheng confirmed that they had lured Ghost Tamers there to kill them.
• Yang Jian noticed that the scenery outside the castle had changed to resemble his hometown, recognizing that Ghost Dream’s dreamworld had collided with the nightmare world.
• Yang Jian deliberately changed routes until he reached a dead end, while Luo Sheng grew uneasy about his choices.
• Liu and the others paused to recover, and Yang Jian warned them to look behind them.
• Liu turned and saw Yang Jian’s enormous vicious dog in the corridor, making the foreign man freeze in shock.

Yang Jian used a pack of vicious dogs to attack Liu, Luo Sheng, and their foreign allies inside the Nightmare's world. A woman opened a door to help them escape, and Yang Jian decided to hunt the Nightmare's controller so the dogs could potentially take over its power.

• Luo Sheng and Liu argued over whether to attack Yang Jian or the vicious dog, but Yang Jian ordered the dog to attack them first.
• The vicious dog killed Buck despite the others slashing it, and Luo Sheng, Liu, and the remaining foreign man finally brought it down.
• Yang Jian revealed more vicious dogs surrounding them and ordered the pack to attack; a foreign woman opened a door, allowing Liu and the others to flee while the dogs pursued them.
• Yang Jian realized someone had altered the castle's layout and sent the dogs to search for the fleeing group.
• Yang Jian considered finding and killing the Ghost Tamer who controlled the Nightmare, hoping the vicious dogs could take over the Nightmare and expand their reach.

Liu and Luo Sheng fled Yang Jian’s vicious dogs through the shifting castle and escaped the Nightmare World with Kelly’s help, leaving her behind. Yang Jian then broke through the final altered wall and uncovered the meeting hall where Kelly had been hiding.

• Liu and Luo Sheng blamed each other for the failed attempt to deal with Yang Jian, then realized his dogs were spreading through the castle and decided to leave the Nightmare World.
• Kelly revealed that the meeting hall was the last safe place and offered to send Liu and Luo Sheng out while she hid from the dogs.
• Liu and Luo Sheng touched Kelly and vanished from the meeting hall, escaping the Nightmare World.
• Yang Jian identified the castle’s only unsearched area and ordered his vicious dogs to smash through the wall blocking it.
• Yang Jian’s dogs collapsed the wall, revealing the meeting hall behind it.

Yang Jian drove Luo Sheng and Liu from the Nightmare World and left a route connecting it to the Ghost Dream World, while Kelly remained hidden in the castle. After waking in Luo Sheng’s villa, Yang Jian considered using the firewood axe to kill his enemies through their mediums.

• Yang Jian searched the castle’s assembly hall but found no one, while Luo Sheng and Liu woke overseas and realized they had escaped the Nightmare World.
• A vicious dog emerged from a fountain and tore off Luo Sheng’s head before disappearing; Liu stitched Luo Sheng back together, and Luo Sheng refused to face Yang Jian again.
• Yang Jian concluded that the Nightmare World had a hidden controller, but decided to leave the dogs searching the castle while he returned to the Ghost Dream World.
• Yang Jian followed the supernatural road from the castle to the village, establishing a connection between the Nightmare World and the Ghost Dream World, then woke in Luo Sheng’s villa in Dachang City.
• Yang Jian checked the time and considered using the firewood axe to kill Luo Sheng through his medium and locate the mediums of other potential enemies.

Yang Jian returned to Daxing Entertainment City and resolved a dispute over his companions’ winnings by forcing He Long to promise twelve billion yuan. He Long arranged for He Yuelian to visit Dachang City in three days, leaving her chance to investigate her secret in Yang Jian’s hands.

• Yang Jian decided not to use Luo Sheng’s medium to attack him and left Luo Sheng’s residence through his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian returned to Daxing Entertainment City and found Jiang Yan, Xiong Wenwen, Zhang Xiangui, and Wang Bin arguing with the staff over the exchange of their winnings.
• Yang Jian took Manager Wang’s phone, told He Long to settle the debt, and secured a promise that twelve billion yuan would be transferred within three days.
• Yang Jian told Jiang Yan and the others to split the money and warned them not to gamble at the entertainment city again.
• He Long told He Yuelian to visit Yang Jian in Dachang City and apologize, and she agreed after securing half a share of the inheritance.

Xiong Wenwen’s precognition failed to locate Zhang Wei, so Yang Jian searched with his Ghost Domain and found him being robbed in an alley. Yang Jian rescued him and the group prepared to return to Dachang City that night.

• Xiong Wenwen tried to predict Zhang Wei’s location but found that his precognition would not work on him.
• Yang Jian spread his Ghost Domain across the area and found Zhang Wei surrounded by robbers in an alley.
• Yang Jian blocked the robbers’ escape and learned that Zhang Wei had been lured there by men who had pretended to be friendly.
• Yang Jian kicked the robbers down from a distance, and Zhang Wei retrieved his guns and kicked each attacker once.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Wei to stay alert and said they needed to leave for Dachang City that night.

After returning to Dachang City, Yang Jian arranged research on the corpse oil he had brought back and learned that Caesar Hotel had become active again. He decided to investigate the hotel with Li Yang that afternoon, while other supernatural threats and the Spirit Extermination Society remained unresolved.

• Yang Jian gave Dr. Chen a bottle of corpse oil to study and arranged for Wang Yong to assist with the research.
• Liu Xiaoyu told Yang Jian that Tong Qian had found lights and sounds inside Caesar Hotel and had seen someone living there before they escaped deeper into the hotel.
• Old Eagle recalled delivering a letter at Caesar Hotel and encountering a tall ghost there.
• Yang Jian chose to investigate Caesar Hotel with Li Yang that afternoon.
• Liu Xiaoyu reported that Feng Quan was tracking the Black Umbrella incident, and Yang Jian asked her to prepare a report on Luo Sheng and his foreign allies.
• Yang Xiaohua told Yang Jian that the Spirit Extermination Society wanted to meet him, but he told her to make them wait.

Yang Jian and Li Yang joined Tong Qian at the sealed Caesar Hotel to investigate new supernatural activity. After learning that five young people had disappeared and a walking corpse had terrified the sole survivor, Yang Jian decided to wait until night to investigate the hotel’s recurring anomalies.

• Yang Jian and Li Yang entered the Caesar Hotel lockdown zone and discussed how earlier supernatural incidents had strained the Captains and threatened the country’s stability.
• Tong Qian met them inside and explained that she had observed strange nighttime activity but had encountered no ghosts during the day.
• Tong Qian showed them Huang Ying, a traumatized young woman who had hidden in a room after entering the hotel with five companions.
• Yang Jian used his ghost shadow to erase Huang Ying’s memories and send her safely outside, then learned that her five companions were missing and she had seen a walking corpse.
• Tong Qian described how the hotel came alive from ten at night until four in the morning, so Yang Jian chose to search cautiously and investigate the nighttime anomaly.
• Yang Jian recognized the walking corpse as strangely familiar and decided he needed paper to draw its face.

Yang Jian recalled that A Nan, whom he had seen in Caesar Hotel before, was the corpse in Huang Ying’s memory, and he and his team investigated the hotel’s strange survivors. On the fourth floor, they found that the wall sealing a dangerous corridor had vanished, along with the shrouded corpse Yang Jian had sealed inside it.

• Yang Jian sketched the dead man from Huang Ying’s memory and recognized him as A Nan, who had been with Xiang Lan in Room 71.
• Li Yang and Tong Qian reported finding several old-fashioned corpses, and the team discussed whether people from earlier eras had survived inside the hotel.
• Yang Jian retrieved his cracked golden spear through water connected to the Ghost Lake, then led Li Yang and Tong Qian to investigate the fourth floor.
• The team found a decayed, supernatural corridor where a wall had once stood, and Yang Jian realized the shroud and tall male corpse he had sealed there were gone.
• Yang Jian suspected someone inside the hotel had broken through the wall and taken the corpse, but the corridor’s far end remained hidden from his Ghost Eye.

Yang Jian and his companions sealed the strange passage with a gold-and-steel door, though Yang Jian doubted it would hold. After eating, Yang Jian, Li Yang, and Tong Qian prepared to face whatever would happen at ten o’clock.

• Yang Jian, Li Yang, and Tong Qian discussed sealing the passage, and Yang Jian decided to forge a golden door reinforced with steel.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain and supernatural methods to collect gold from across the city and brought tools to make the door.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang lifted the finished door into place, and Yang Jian welded its edges shut with gold.
• Tong Qian ordered food delivered by drone, and the three ate while waiting for ten o’clock.
• At nine fifty, Yang Jian, Li Yang, and Tong Qian moved into a spacious hall and prepared for the coming event.

Yang Jian, Li Yang, and Tong Qian witnessed Caesar Hotel transform into its restored state at night and investigated the supernatural changes. They found the golden door missing and discovered that room 401 briefly contained an old supernatural room.

• At ten o’clock, Caesar Hotel’s lights came on and the dusty building became a pristine, luxurious hotel; Tong Qian said it returned to normal at four in the morning.
• Li Yang theorized that the hotel had been shifted in time, and Yang Jian led the group through the transformed building to investigate.
• The group returned to the fourth-floor corridor and found that the golden door sealing the passage was gone; Yang Jian suggested they were in another version or time of the hotel.
• Yang Jian spotted fading, blackened footprints left by the tall male corpse and inferred that it had entered room 401.
• Li Yang opened room 401 with the door-opening curse, overcoming resistance, and the group saw an old supernatural room briefly appear before it changed back into a modern guest room.

Yang Jian realized that a supernatural room had swallowed Caesar Hotel and that escaped ghosts were trapped inside it. When a deadly musical curse led them to a hidden room, he used his sixth-layer Ghost Domain to reach it, where a corpse with Xiang Lan’s head attacked him.

• Yang Jian deduced that the hotel had been absorbed into a supernatural room and that ghosts from the corridor rooms were now wandering inside Caesar Hotel.
• Music began playing from the second-floor restaurant, and Yang Jian identified it as a death curse that would kill everyone who heard it when it ended.
• Yang Jian’s fourth-layer Ghost Domain failed to reveal the source, so he used the sixth layer and watched the restaurant shift into an old, supernatural place.
• A dried corpse with Xiang Lan’s head appeared at the piano, continued the curse without playing, and walked toward Yang Jian.
• The corpse grabbed Yang Jian’s wrist, causing his arm to wither as the corpse’s arm regained flesh and blood.

Yang Jian defeated the ghost and neutralized the cursed piano music with the Music Box Curse, then used the ghost lake to take the piano. In the sealed room, he and his companions encountered Chu Nan, whom Yang Jian believed had died, and the chapter ended with both sides facing off.

• Yang Jian broke free of the ghost’s attack, severed its head with the firewood axe, and recovered from his injuries through the seventh level of the Ghost Domain.
• Li Yang disrupted the piano’s deadly music, and Yang Jian played the Music Box Curse alongside it until both curses canceled each other out.
• Yang Jian explained how they had entered the sealed supernatural room and sank the cursed piano into the ghost lake to take it with him.
• Tong Qian spotted a watcher at the restaurant entrance, and a young man in a Zhongshan suit entered and identified himself as Chu Nan.
• Yang Jian confronted Chu Nan about his apparent death, and Li Yang and Tong Qian readied themselves as Chu Nan stopped before them.