Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian visited Miao Xiaoshan’s villa and left Sun Yujia with memories of his paranormal experiences for her to share. He then offered Zhang Lei a chance to suppress the vicious ghost inside him with furnace fire, and the chapter ended as Zhang Lei began burning in the flames.

• Yang Jian visited the villa and learned from Sun Yujia that Miao Xiaoshan was writing a story about him.
• Yang Jian implanted memories of his experiences in Sun Yujia and instructed her to forget them after telling Miao Xiaoshan.
• Yang Jian visited Zhang Lei and explained that furnace fire might suppress the vicious ghost in his body.
• Zhang Lei accepted the dangerous treatment, and Yang Jian pressed his burning ghost hand against Zhang Lei’s chest.
• The ghost awakened and attacked Yang Jian’s hand as flames spread across Zhang Lei’s chest.
• Yang Jian warned Zhang Zhan not to interfere while Zhang Lei collapsed in pain.

Yang Jian used furnace fire to force Zhang Lei’s Ghost Eater power into a new balance, and Zhang Lei survived with a transformed body and controlled paranormal power. Yang Jian left him an invitation to come to Dachang City, but Zhang Lei remained tied to his current city.

• Yang Jian ignored Zhang Zhan’s objections while Zhang Lei endured the furnace fire and the ghost inside him began swallowing the flames.
• Zhang Zhan tried to stop Yang Jian, who threw him through a window from over thirty floors up; Zhang Zhan survived and returned to the office.
• The ghost and furnace fire settled into a cycle, and Zhang Lei’s burned skin peeled away to reveal a crimson body formed from paranormal power.
• Yang Jian concluded Zhang Lei had achieved a fragile new balance and left word that Zhang Lei could come to Dachang City if he could not remain where he was.
• Zhang Lei woke with a distorted face and body, confirmed his power was under control, and said he could not leave while his city lacked a qualified person in charge.

Yang Jian weighed Wang Xiaoming’s offer and agreed to become Enforcement Captain on limited terms, then went to inspect Headquarters’ warehouse. The agreement gave him authority to restrain the other captains when necessary and access to Headquarters’ Supernatural Items after organizing a meeting.

• Yang Jian concluded that survival mattered more than power and decided to accept the Enforcement Captain position while limiting its benefits, duties, and authority.
• Wang Xiaoming asked Shen Liang about Yang Jian’s recent actions, including his visits to Zhao Xiaoya, Miao Xiaoshan, and Zhang Lei.
• Yang Jian arrived early and agreed to Wang Xiaoming’s proposal, saying he would take only his rightful share of authority and obligation and would not interfere in Headquarters’ other decisions.
• Wang Xiaoming gave Yang Jian immediate Enforcement Captain authority and three days to gather the captains; if the meeting succeeded, Yang Jian could use Headquarters’ Supernatural Items.
• Yang Jian asked to see the warehouse, and Shen Liang led him there.

Yang Jian inspected Headquarters' supernatural supplies and took several items from its reserves. He then set out to personally gather the captains who had refused to attend the meeting, using his Ghost Domain to travel quickly.

• Shen Liang took Yang Jian into Warehouse No. 2, where Yang Jian saw Headquarters' reserves of Ghost Candles, Substitute Dolls, straw rope circles, and Ghost-Repelling Speakers.
• Yang Jian took five Substitute Dolls and ten straw rope circles, then asked Shen Liang to send him information about Headquarters' supernatural tools and Supernatural Items.
• Yang Jian told Shen Liang to send him the captains' latest addresses and contact details, and said he would visit the absent captains one by one.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to disappear from the warehouse and told Shen Liang to inform Cao Yanhua that he had set out.
• Shen Liang considered which captains Yang Jian might visit first and noted that the meeting would also finalize the twelve captain positions.

Yang Jian visited Liu San to persuade him to attend Headquarters’ captain meeting, but found Liu San occupied with a supernatural incident in the mountains. Yang Jian reached the site, where Liu San’s paper figures were scattered through the forest, and asked what was happening.

• Yang Jian traveled to DQ City and searched Liu San’s Twin Towers, where Wang Jie led him to an emergency-contact paper figure that woke Liu San.
• Liu San said he was caught up in a supernatural incident and gave Yang Jian coordinates, warning him to be careful.
• Liu San decided to set aside the incident and attend the captain’s meeting after Yang Jian left, while warning Wang Jie not to underestimate the captains.
• Yang Jian arrived in the mountainous area and spotted Liu San’s paper figures standing among the trees.
• A paper figure met Yang Jian on the mountain road, and he asked why Liu San had brought so many paper figures there.

Yang Jian followed Liu San’s paper figures along a supernatural yellow-mud road to an isolated old house, where Liu San had become trapped. After searching the house, Yang Jian found a Black Coffin on the second floor and suspected Liu San and the ghost were inside it.

• Liu San explained that he had been trapped in an old house while investigating the corpse keeper, and that the supernatural force there had immobilized his paper figures.
• Yang Jian followed Liu San’s paper figures through the woods until he reached a yellow-mud road leading to the old house.
• Yang Jian entered the house despite its supernatural interference and searched the ground floor, finding no sign of Liu San.
• Yang Jian climbed to the second floor using his ghost shadow and found a Black Coffin in the middle of the room.
• Yang Jian concluded that the house was a yin house and suspected Liu San and the ghost were inside the coffin.

Yang Jian rescued Liu San from a coffin in a haunted house and secured his promise to attend Headquarters’ meeting. He then traveled to Dachuan City to confront Li Lepeng, who agreed to meet but said his condition was still poor.

• Yang Jian opened the black coffin, discovered Liu San inside, and learned that the vicious ghost was hiding beneath the lid.
• Yang Jian pulled Liu San out and escaped through a second-floor window, confirming that the ghost could not descend to the ground.
• Liu San promised to attend Headquarters’ meeting within three days, and Yang Jian left to find another captain.
• Yang Jian traveled to Dachuan City and called Li Lepeng, who initially refused to attend the meeting.
• Li Lepeng invited Yang Jian to a villa, where he explained that his condition was still poor despite the previous situation having ended.

Yang Jian visited Li Lepeng in Dachuan City and learned that Li Lepeng lost control for three hours each night, making him reluctant to attend Headquarters’ meeting. After Li Lepeng’s Ghost Domain erupted, Yang Jian subdued him with the Ghost Lake and waited for him to regain consciousness.

• Li Lepeng explained that his transformation left him safe during the day but prone to losing control for three hours at night, and Yang Jian proposed using ghost candles and his Ghost Domain to manage the danger.
• Li Lepeng agreed to test Yang Jian’s proposal overnight, but Yang Jian returned with a red ghost candle to find him gone and discovered that he had forgotten Li Lepeng’s face.
• Yang Jian realized Li Lepeng had lost control during the danger period and tried to leave as Ghost Smoke spread from the villa and the Searcher Ghost’s killing pattern locked onto him.
• Li Lepeng appeared in a sleepwalking state and triggered a death curse on Yang Jian, while the Forgetting Ghost made Yang Jian forget how to restart himself.
• Yang Jian used the Ghost Lake to trap Li Lepeng, and the vicious dog in his memories helped restore the memories the Forgetting Ghost had erased.
• Yang Jian checked the time, saw that only five minutes had passed, and waited as Li Lepeng remained submerged in the water.

Yang Jian restrained Li Lepeng during another loss of control, then left Dachuan City to search for Shen Lin and learned that Shen Lin had vanished into memories after the Ghost Lake Incident. Headquarters planned to freeze Shen Lin’s captain position and consider replacements as Yang Jian continued toward his next stop.

• Yang Jian kept Li Lepeng trapped in Ghost Lake until Li Lepeng woke at eight, then released him and left him a red ghost candle for his expected midnight loss of control.
• Li Lepeng told Yang Jian that Room 301 remained dangerous but contained, and Yang Jian left Ghost Lake water in a pond before departing Dachuan City.
• Yang Jian searched Daxia City for Shen Lin, but his liaison reported that Shen Lin had disappeared after the Ghost Lake Incident.
• Yang Jian told Cao Yanhua that Shen Lin had been eroded by Ghost Lake and might be dead or lost in memories, and Cao Yanhua said Headquarters would freeze his captain position if he could not be found.
• Yang Jian and Cao Yanhua discussed captain candidates, including Lin Bei, Zhou Deng, Zhang Lei, Feng Quan, A Hong, Su Fan, and Yang Jian’s classmate Liu Qi.
• Yang Jian asked Cao Yanhua to send Liu Qi’s file to Liu Xiaoyu, ended the call, and set off for his next destination.

Yang Jian went to Dayuan City to summon He Yin'er to Headquarters' captain's meeting and found her rebuilding Taiping Ancient Town with Boss Liu and the Faceless Man. After a tense standoff, He Yin'er agreed to attend, while Boss Liu warned that Yang Jian's control of Ghost Lake made fighting him perilous.

• Yang Jian arrived at the construction site of Taiping Ancient Town and confronted Boss Liu, warning that he would stop the town and Ghost Street from returning.
• He Yin'er and the Faceless Man appeared, and He Yin'er challenged Yang Jian's right to interfere with her jurisdiction.
• Yang Jian and He Yin'er nearly fought, but Boss Liu and the Faceless Man urged them to stand down.
• Yang Jian revealed he had come only to summon He Yin'er to Headquarters' captain's meeting, and she agreed to attend.
• After Yang Jian left, Boss Liu explained that Yang Jian had taken Ghost Lake's power and could have flooded the site if they had fought.

Yang Jian searched for the missing Cao Yang and found that he had likely gone to investigate the supernatural incident codenamed Silent. The chapter left Yang Jian arriving at the sealed, deserted county town where Silent had occurred.

• Yang Jian went to Dajin City and learned from Wang Quan that Cao Yang had been missing for more than ten days.
• Wang Quan gave Yang Jian the files Cao Yang had recently reviewed, including one for the incident codenamed Silent.
• Yang Jian suspected Cao Yang had gone to investigate Silent and told Wang Quan to pass along a message if Cao Yang contacted him.
• Yang Jian traveled to the incident site and found a dark, empty county town that had been evacuated and sealed off.

Yang Jian entered the county town to investigate the Quiet Incident and found signs that Cao Yang had been there. He discovered a building crowded with sound-sensitive Ghost Slaves, burned it with furnace fire, and sent Ghost Lake corpses to rescue a living person trapped inside.

• Yang Jian found a half-burned white Ghost Candle at an intersection and used his ghost shadow to confirm that Cao Yang had visited the town.
• Yang Jian spread his fourth-layer Ghost Domain across the county town and located three areas it could not cover.
• At a residential building packed with eyeless, faceless Ghost Slaves, Yang Jian deduced that they reacted to sounds but had not attacked him while he spoke.
• Yang Jian used his charred ghost hand to ignite the Ghost Slaves, and the furnace fire spread through the building as strange cries came from inside.
• A living person appeared at a fifth-floor window and called for help, and Yang Jian realized that the person had drawn Ghost Slaves from across the town.
• Yang Jian sent three waterlogged corpses from the Ghost Lake into the burning building to bring the person out.

Yang Jian rescued three reporters from a burning building, but after they followed his directions out of the county town, a ghostly girl appeared and attacked them. He then found Cao Yang hiding in a shop, where Cao Yang revealed that a second ghost had locked onto him and refused to leave before the captains’ meeting.

• Yang Jian waited as three corpses emerged from the burning building carrying two men and a female reporter, then watched the corpses sink into Ghost Lake.
• Yang Jian pointed the three reporters toward the road out of town and left, while the reporters followed his directions and reached the streetlights beyond the county town.
• A streetlight went out ahead of the reporters, and a blind, filthy little girl appeared beneath it as their screams rang out.
• Yang Jian found Cao Yang hiding beside a bonfire in a shop, with a broken supernatural straw rope at the entrance.
• Cao Yang told Yang Jian that a second ghost had escaped and locked onto him, and that he could not leave until it went away in three days.
• Yang Jian urged Cao Yang to leave for the captains’ meeting the next day and offered to use Ghost Scissors, but Cao Yang said they would not work and kept the details secret.

Yang Jian persuaded Cao Yang to help deal with the Quiet Incident before either of them confronted the ghost stalking Cao Yang. After finding three newly killed victims on the highway, Yang Jian discovered that saying the word “ghost” triggered the entity’s appearance.

• Yang Jian pressed Cao Yang to attend the captains' meeting, and Cao Yang agreed to help only if Yang Jian captured the conceptual ghost from the Quiet Incident.
• Cao Yang warned Yang Jian not to encounter the other ghost or light a ghost candle, and Yang Jian left the shop to investigate.
• Yang Jian found the reporter and her two colleagues dead on the highway and used Ghost Shadow to recover their final memories.
• Yang Jian learned the victims had triggered the ghost by saying the word “ghost,” then repeated their phrase and confirmed the word made a streetlamp flicker.

Yang Jian discovered that the silent incident’s ghost reappeared whenever someone said “ghost,” even after he pinned or cut apart its manifestations. Unable to contain its source, he subdued one manifestation in the Ghost Lake and decided to report his findings to Cao Yang.

• Yang Jian triggered the ghost’s killing pattern, then pinned the girl-shaped ghost beneath a streetlamp with the coffin nail and confirmed that the supernatural activity had stopped.
• He used the Ghost Lamp to reveal multiple illusory copies of the girl and triggered the killing pattern again, causing another copy to emerge despite the first being pinned.
• Yang Jian cut the new manifestation and the revealed figures apart with his cleaver, but the ghost appeared again whenever he said “ghost.”
• He concluded that neither the coffin nail nor the cleaver could contain the ghost’s source, then dragged one manifestation into the Ghost Lake with his ghost hands.
• Yang Jian collected the two corpses and decided to return to Cao Yang with his findings so they could proceed with the captain’s meeting.

Yang Jian and Cao Yang prepared to confront the ghost that had been following Cao Yang, while avoiding the Quiet Incident’s killing rule. The ghost arrived to trade for a contained ghost, and Cao Yang approached it with the body bag as Yang Jian stood ready to intervene.

• Yang Jian told Cao Yang that the Quiet Incident’s ghost still existed despite his attempts to contain it, and Cao Yang explained that the second ghost was too dangerous to fight alone.
• Yang Jian left the shop to seek out the second ghost, prompting Cao Yang to grab the body bag and follow him outside, where the shop’s fire went out and the county changed.
• Yang Jian and Cao Yang waited on a road, and Yang Jian lit the Corpse Oil Lamp as strange wind and ringing announced the ghost’s approach.
• A gaunt, cloth-robed peddler carrying wooden boxes appeared, and Cao Yang explained that it wanted to purchase specific ghosts he had contained.
• Cao Yang approached the peddler with the body bag, intending to trade the partially contained Quiet Incident ghost, while Yang Jian waited with his cracked spear ready.

Cao Yang’s attempt to sell a counterfeit ghost trapped him and Yang Jian inside the peddler’s supernatural cargo box, but they escaped through Ghost Lake. When the peddler appeared again, Cao Yang tried to draw out the Quiet Ghost and offer it as the real goods.

• Cao Yang handed the strange peddler the incomplete ghost in a body bag, but it inspected the corpse instead of accepting it as payment.
• As the county town was swallowed by darkness, Yang Jian realized they were inside the peddler’s closing cargo box and used Ghost Lake to escape with Cao Yang.
• Yang Jian and Cao Yang returned to the highway, where the peddler appeared again and threatened them over the failed transaction.
• Cao Yang deliberately summoned the Quiet Ghost, hoping to lead it to the peddler and complete the transaction with the genuine goods.

Cao Yang lured Quietly toward the delivery collector, which took the ghost and stuffed her into its cargo box. Yang Jian warned that Quietly might not have been permanently imprisoned, then left for Dadong City to find Wang Chaling.

• Cao Yang tried to make Quietly attack him near the delivery collector, but an unseen force stopped her from approaching it.
• Yang Jian used Ghost Shadow to kick Quietly toward the collector, which seized her and placed her in its cargo box.
• Cao Yang and Yang Jian retreated, and Yang Jian cautioned that the trade could fail if someone summoned another Quietly.
• Yang Jian told Cao Yang to attend the Headquarters meeting, then left to seek the remaining captains.
• Yang Jian chose to visit Wang Chaling in Dadong City and check whether the pendulum clock remained in the Wang family's old residence.

Yang Jian arrived in Dadong City to bring Wang Chaling to Headquarters for the captains’ meeting, but Wang Chaling tried to draw him into a conflict with Ye Zhen. After Yang Jian refused, Ye Zhen attacked Wang Chaling, forcing him to defend himself with his ghosts.

• Yang Jian called Wang Chaling and ordered him to attend the captains’ meeting at Headquarters by noon the next day.
• Wang Chaling tried to enlist Yang Jian against Ye Zhen, but Yang Jian refused and warned Wang Chaling to give him an answer within an hour.
• Wang Chaling told Ye Zhen that Yang Jian was in Dadong City, hoping to redirect Ye Zhen toward him.
• Ye Zhen instead announced that he would fight Wang Chaling and descended toward his building through his Ghost Domain.
• Ye Zhen charged Wang Chaling and punched him, but Wang Chaling’s grandmother appeared and blocked the blow.

Ye Zhen fought Wang Chaling and was torn apart by the Wang family’s ghosts, but he revived using Substitute Ghost and resumed the attack. He transferred the next supernatural assault to Wang Chaling and his mother’s departed spirit, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Wang Chaling tried to persuade Ye Zhen to stop fighting, but Ye Zhen summoned his supernatural longsword and challenged him to a fight to the death.
• Ye Zhen’s sword curse struck, but Wang Chaling’s mother’s departed spirit emerged from his body and took the attack for him.
• Wang Chaling ordered his grandfather and grandmother’s ghosts to attack, and the two ghosts tore Ye Zhen apart despite his resistance.
• Ye Zhen revived with Substitute Ghost and charged at Wang Chaling again.
• When Wang Chaling ordered the ghosts to attack once more, Ye Zhen transferred the supernatural assault to Wang Chaling and his mother’s departed spirit.