Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian and the other captains entered the Ghost Post Office and rescued Sun Rui, who told them Zhang Xianguang had taken He Yuelian and the Ghost Painting. They questioned Zhang Xianguang’s past self in an oil painting, learned the real Zhang Xianguang might be heading to Shuangqiao Town, and set out to intercept him.

• Yang Jian and seven other captains entered the Ghost Post Office, cleared the first-floor lobby’s ghosts, and found Sun Rui’s headless body.
• Zhou Deng found Sun Rui’s head sealed in black paper, and Yang Jian restored him; Sun Rui then brought the apartment back under control.
• Sun Rui explained that Zhang Xianguang had taken He Yuelian and the Ghost Painting after defeating him and escaping the post office.
• Yang Jian entered Zhang Xianguang’s oil painting with the other captains and asked the preserved version what the living Zhang Xianguang intended to do.
• Yang Xiao guessed Zhang Xianguang would go to his hometown, Shuangqiao Town, and the painted Zhang Xianguang pointed them toward an abandoned private school there.
• Yang Jian and the captains prepared to leave for Shuangqiao Town, while Zhang Xianguang warned them about possible allies including Song Xinhai, Nie Yingping, Zhang Xian, and Chen Qiaoyang.

Yang Jian and the other captains reached Shuangqiao Town to kill Zhang Xianguang and retrieve the Ghost Painting, only to find its Ghost Domain spreading across the town and nearby cities. After realizing the supernatural expansion was being manipulated, they entered the town to confront Zhang Xianguang and stop it.

• Yang Jian gathered the captains, and they traveled by Ghost Domain from Dahan City to Shuangqiao Town while Zhou Deng concealed a Supernatural Item he had found.
• Paper ash began falling over Shuangqiao Town, turning its surroundings gray and white as the Ghost Painting's Ghost Domain enveloped it.
• Yang Jian explained that entering the Ghost Domain could trap them, and the captains debated whether to confront Zhang Xianguang or retreat and contain the affected area.
• Sun Rui called to report that paper ash was falling over Dahan City, while Lu Zhiwen said the phenomenon was spreading to other nearby places and appeared to be manipulated.
• He Yin'er, Wei Jing, Yang Jian, Li Jun, Liu San, Li Lepeng, Zhou Deng, and Lu Zhiwen headed into Shuangqiao Town to confront Zhang Xianguang and deal with the Ghost Painting.

At Shuangqiao Town Elementary School, Zhang Xianguang revealed his plan to make everyone live in a controlled Ghost Painting world, using the Ghost Post Office administrator to keep it stable. When Yang Jian and the captains rejected him and attacked, Zhang Xianguang returned in multiple identical bodies as Ghost Messenger’s darkness closed around them.

• Liu San led Yang Jian, Li Jun, Wei Jing, He Yin'er, Lu Zhiwen, Zhou Deng, and Li Lepeng to the abandoned Shuangqiao Town Elementary School, where Zhang Xianguang appeared.
• Zhang Xianguang explained his Peach Blossom Spring Plan: have the immortal Ghost Post Office administrator control Ghost Painting and move everyone into its world, then invite the captains to help govern it.
• Yang Jian identified Zhang Xianguang as the man revived from the oil painting, who had delivered the Ghost Post Office’s final letter three times before becoming its administrator.
• Yang Jian and the other captains refused to join the plan and prepared to kill Zhang Xianguang; Li Lepeng seized him, while Li Jun’s ghost fire and a straw rope attacked him.
• Zhang Xianguang’s body vanished, but another version appeared and severed Li Lepeng’s arm; Ghost Messenger’s darkness then descended over the school.
• Four more identical Zhang Xianguangs emerged, surrounding the eight captains as Yang Jian recognized their apparent infinite restart ability.

Zhang Xianguang and four copies attacked the group, whose captains fought back while He Yin'er summoned dead souls. Yang Jian killed one copy, but the other four endured the assault, and Zhou Deng stole a cursed broadsword before Lu Zhiwen threw it away.

• The Ghost Messenger’s suppression hindered the group, and Yang Jian told He Yin'er to summon the dead souls as the five Zhang Xianguangs attacked.
• Yang Jian, Li Jun, Liu San, Wei Jing, and Li Lepeng shielded the others from the broadswords’ strike and suffered severe injuries.
• Yang Jian used his spear and coffin nail to kill one Zhang Xianguang, while the captains attacked the remaining four.
• Zhang Xianguang broke free of the captains’ attacks, crippling Li Jun and resisting Liu San and Li Lepeng.
• A dead soul urged He Yin'er to use the spirit tablet, while the three summoned souls charged one Zhang Xianguang.
• Zhou Deng stole a Zhang Xianguang’s broadsword, but it cursed his arm; Lu Zhiwen took the weapon and threw it aside.

Zhang Xianguang revealed that he was the Ghost Post Office’s third administrator and escaped the oil painting world to advance his plan to spread the Ghost Painting across the world. Sun Rui recruited the painted messengers to pursue him through a second Ghost Painting, leaving them poised to intervene.

• Outside Shuangqiao Town Primary School, Zhang Xian and Chen Qiaoyang watched as Zhang Xianguang fought eight captains inside the Ghost Messenger’s deadly arena, ready to unleash the Ghost Messenger if needed.
• Inside the oil painting’s Ghost Post Office, Zhang Xianguang told Yang Xiao and the other messengers that he was the third administrator and intended to move everyone into the Ghost Painting world.
• Zhang Xianguang escaped through an exit in the oil painting, appeared beside Sun Rui, and left with Nie Yingping carrying a derivative Ghost Painting.
• Sun Rui revealed a second derivative Ghost Painting and asked the painted fifth-floor messengers to help stop Zhang Xianguang.
• Yang Xiao and the other messengers agreed to help, and Sun Rui opened a passage between the Ghost Painting and one of the messengers’ oil paintings.

Yang Jian and the others discovered that Zhang Xianguang was using repeated attacks to keep them from reaching the teaching building, where the secret behind his restarts lay. As Yang Jian, Liu San, and Li Lepeng moved to break in, He Yin'er summoned a powerful decaying old man, who swiftly turned all five Zhang Xianguangs into graves.

• He Yin'er summoned three deceased spirits, and two of them joined forces to kill one Zhang Xianguang while Yang Jian and the others killed another.
• Four more Zhang Xianguangs emerged from the teaching building, forcing Yang Jian and the others to retreat and reconsider their approach.
• Lu Zhiwen deduced that the real Zhang Xianguang and the secret of his restart were inside the teaching building, and Yang Jian planned to enter with Liu San and Li Lepeng while He Yin'er held off the others.
• Five Zhang Xianguangs attacked He Yin'er, but her newly summoned decaying old man blocked their strike.
• The decaying old man used Grave Soil to erode all five Zhang Xianguangs, leaving five mounds of dirt behind.

He Yin'er’s second soul summoning destroyed the five Zhang Xianguangs, while the summoned old man took Wei Jing toward the darkness. Yang Jian and the others confronted the real Zhang Xianguang in the abandoned teaching building, where they discovered his light-based medium and temporarily prevented him from manifesting, but he remained alive in the darkness.

• He Yin'er summoned a decayed old man who destroyed the five Zhang Xianguangs, then carried Wei Jing toward the darkness to help him.
• Yang Jian, Liu San, and Li Lepeng entered the abandoned teaching building and charged toward Zhang Xianguang’s classroom on the third floor.
• Yang Jian found five Corpse Oil Lamps creating Zhang Xianguang’s shadows, while Liu San and Li Lepeng eliminated three resetting copies.
• Yang Jian’s coffin-nail strike failed because Zhang Xianguang’s real body did not exist in reality, and Yang Jian deduced that light served as his medium.
• Yang Jian covered the classroom in ghost shadow, stopping Zhang Xianguang from manifesting and attacking, but Zhang warned that the darkness also kept the captains from reaching him.

Zhang Xianguang prepared to use He Yuelian and a dry corpse bride in a plan involving the Ghost Painting, while Yang Jian’s team trapped Zhang Xianguang in the abandoned teaching building. The chapter ended as Yang Jian lit his Corpse Oil Lamp and revealed three Zhang Xianguangs attacking what they believed was his real body.

• Zhang Xianguang told Nie Yingping that he had transferred his supernatural power to another version of himself and explained how Luo Wensong had tacitly supported his plan.
• Zhang Xianguang met Du Hong and Zhang Ying, then revealed that He Yuelian would be used to help revive the Ghost Painting woman’s supernatural power.
• Du Hong and Zhang Ying brought out a chained dry corpse bride, and Zhang Xianguang prepared to use oil-painting pigment to provide its missing shoes.
• Yang Jian, Liu San, and Li Lepeng decided to fight Zhang Xianguang without calling in the other Ghost Tamers, and Yang Jian summoned the vicious dog as a backup.
• Yang Jian gave Liu San and Li Lepeng Substitute Dolls, used one himself, and lit his Corpse Oil Lamp to reveal three Zhang Xianguangs surrounding him.
• The three Zhang Xianguangs struck at Yang Jian, but the real Yang Jian was the Ghost Shadow covering the classroom.

Yang Jian survived Zhang Xianguang’s attack by shifting into his Ghost Shadow while Liu San and Li Lepeng struck Zhang Xianguang, forcing the fight into darkness. Yang Jian later traced signs that Zhang Xianguang might have escaped and rushed back toward the other captains after finding an oil lamp outside the school.

• Zhang Xianguang dismembered Yang Jian’s body and split his Ghost Shadow, but Yang Jian’s cracked spear pinned one duplicate while his vicious dog dragged another into a dream.
• Liu San and Li Lepeng attacked the remaining Zhang Xianguang, whose body began dissolving before he extinguished Yang Jian’s oil lamp and disappeared into darkness.
• Yang Jian emerged from his Ghost Shadow in a new body, while Li Lepeng and Liu San withdrew after reaching their limits.
• Yang Jian relit the Corpse Oil Lamp and found no sign of Zhang Xianguang in the classroom, then followed green corpse-water traces upstairs and out through the school’s back door.
• Yang Jian found an oil lamp where the traces ended and hurried back toward the captains gathered on the playground.

After the Ghost Messenger vanished, Zhang Xianguang released a ghost cage and trapped Liu San, He Yin'er, Zhou Deng, and Lu Zhiwen in a supernatural consciousness world. A ghost began killing students at random, leaving the captains unable to move as it approached He Yin'er.

• Liu San reported that Zhang Xianguang had been badly injured, while Li Lepeng and several others could no longer fight; Zhou Deng and Lu Zhiwen offered to lead if danger returned.
• Chen Qiaoyang and Zhang Xian decided to use ghosts from a cage to attack the weakened captains, and Zhang Xian released them while Chen Qiaoyang guided them forward.
• Yang Jian realized Zhang Xianguang had hidden another version of himself and was targeting the other captains, but he rushed back too late.
• Zhang Xianguang trapped Liu San, He Yin'er, Zhou Deng, and Lu Zhiwen in a supernatural private-school scene where they could not move.
• A ghost entered the school and began killing students at random; Zhang Xianguang revealed that the killing game would continue until he allowed it to stop, while the ghost approached He Yin'er.

Yang Jian took Li Jun’s ghost fire and combined it with his Ghost Eye, creating a golden Ghost Domain that subdued the surrounding ghosts and threatened Zhang Xian and Chen Qiaoyang. He then entered Ghost Dream with the vicious dog to rescue the four unconscious captains, reaching the old private school where Zhang Xianguang’s consciousness attack had trapped them.

• Yang Jian found Liu San, He Yin'er, Zhou Deng, and Lu Zhiwen unconscious while a swarm of ghosts closed in, and recognized that Chen Qiaoyang was directing the ghosts alongside Zhang Xianguang’s attack.
• Li Jun urged Yang Jian to take his ghost fire, and Yang Jian absorbed it, using the Ghost Lake to control the flames as they merged with his Ghost Eye.
• Yang Jian’s new golden Ghost Domain ignited and immobilized the surrounding ghosts, while Zhang Xian caught fire and Chen Qiaoyang fled in a paper sedan chair that also began burning.
• Yang Jian sent the vicious dog into Ghost Dream and followed it to an old private school, where he believed the unconscious captains were trapped.
• The vicious dog opened a path into the private school with little resistance as Yang Jian hurried after it.

Lu Zhiwen’s supernatural protection saved He Yin’er from the school ghost’s attack while Zhang Xianguang’s deadly trap continued to threaten the captains. Yang Jian arrived in time to save Liu San, but Zhang Xianguang claimed his larger plan had probably already succeeded.

• A fierce ghost wandered through the private school, killing students and leaving He Yin’er trapped in its path.
• The ghost’s sword missed He Yin’er because Lu Zhiwen had secretly given her and several others one-use supernatural protection.
• Zhang Xianguang insisted the ghost would keep killing, while Liu San urged the others to find a way out of the school.
• A vicious dog barked outside, and Liu San recognized it as a sign that Yang Jian was near.
• The ghost moved to attack Liu San, but Yang Jian burst into the school and ordered the vicious dog to tear it apart.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Xianguang he had underestimated the captains, but Zhang Xianguang said his larger plan had probably succeeded.

Yang Jian’s vicious dog weakened the private school ghost’s control, while Zhang Xianguang tried to recreate the Ghost Bride’s death by forcing He Yuelian to wear supernatural wedding clothes and confront the Ghost Painting ghost. Just as the two ghosts became locked in a still confrontation, Sun Rui and Yang Xiao arrived with thirty-six dead souls to stop Zhang Xianguang’s plan.

• Yang Jian’s vicious dog attacked the private school ghost, weakening its control over the school and allowing the people inside to gradually regain movement.
• Zhang Xianguang’s group lured the Ghost Painting ghost toward He Yuelian, dressed her in the red wedding dress and veil, and added painted red shoes to recreate the Ghost Bride’s supernatural condition.
• The Ghost Painting ghost grabbed He Yuelian as her wedding dress raised her hand, and their supernatural forces clashed, freezing both of them in place.
• Sun Rui arrived with Yang Xiao and thirty-six dead souls, who opposed Zhang Xianguang’s plan to draw everyone into the Ghost Painting.
• Sun Rui challenged Zhang Xianguang as an administrator, and the thirty-six dead souls advanced to fight him and his group.

Yang Jian and the other captains escaped Zhang Xianguang’s dream schoolhouse after the vicious dog defeated the fierce ghost and inherited the schoolhouse’s supernatural power. Back in the abandoned school, Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to find and pin Zhang Xianguang with the Coffin Nail, then sank his body and set off with He Yin'er, Zhou Deng, and Lu Zhiwen while Liu San stayed behind.

• The vicious dog killed the fierce ghost in the schoolhouse, freeing Yang Jian, Liu San, He Yin'er, and Lu Zhiwen from Zhang Xianguang’s control.
• Zhang Xianguang attacked Yang Jian in the dream, but the vicious dog restrained him with the schoolhouse’s power before the group left.
• The captains woke in the abandoned school and found that Yang Jian had used Li Jun’s Ghost Fire to fight the surrounding fierce ghosts.
• Yang Jian expanded his Ghost Domain until Zhang Xianguang appeared, then pinned him to the ground with the Coffin Nail and took his rusted saber.
• Yang Jian sank Zhang Xianguang’s body and the nearby burning ghosts into Ghost Lake, while Liu San stayed behind to watch over Wei Jing and Li Lepeng.
• Yang Jian left with He Yin'er, Zhou Deng, and Lu Zhiwen to continue their mission.

Yang Jian and his companions found the village where Sun Rui and the oil-painting dead souls were fighting Zhang Xianguang’s group. The captains arrived in time to stop Nie Yingping from killing Yang Xiao, leaving Nie Yingping shocked and suggesting the operation elsewhere had failed.

• Lu Zhiwen used Zhang Xianguang’s name and a special fountain pen to point the way, and Yang Jian led He Yin'er, Zhou Deng, and Lu Zhiwen to a village beyond Shuangqiao Town.
• Yang Jian found Sun Rui, Yang Xiao, the oil-painting dead souls, and the dried corpse bride in the village, where Sun Rui’s side was fighting Zhang Xianguang, Nie Yingping, Du Hong, and Zhang Ying.
• Nie Yingping used the Rattle Drum and his supernatural powers to kill many dead souls, while Zhang Ying died and Du Hong neared a ghost revival.
• Yang Xiao pulled Zhang Xianguang into a nightmare, but Nie Yingping resisted Yang Xiao’s attempt to trap him and attacked him instead.
• Nie Yingping grabbed Yang Xiao and prepared to strike, but Yang Jian’s golden flames restrained him as Yang Jian, Zhou Deng, He Yin'er, and Lu Zhiwen arrived.
• Nie Yingping recognized that the captains’ arrival meant the operation elsewhere had failed.

Yang Jian and the other captains defeated Zhang Xianguang’s team, but He Yuelian’s supernatural conflict with the Ghost Painting Incident remained unresolved. Zhang Xianguang woke from the nightmare and revealed that He Yuelian might still fulfill his plan, while killing her now could unleash the Ghost Painting Incident.

• Yang Jian trapped Nie Yingping in ghost fire after Zhou Deng seized his Rattle Drum, and Nie Yingping was overwhelmed by the flames.
• Zhang Xianguang woke from Yang Xiao’s nightmare and found his teammates dead and the captains surrounding him.
• Zhang Xianguang said the outcome depended on whether He Yuelian controlled the Ghost Painting Incident or was consumed by it, and suggested she remained part of his plan.
• He Yin'er proposed killing He Yuelian, but Yang Jian stopped her, and Zhang Xianguang warned that doing so could make the Ghost Painting Incident lose control.

Yang Jian and the others waited while He Yuelian underwent the fusion with Ghost Painting, and Zhang Xianguang explained his failed plan. He Yuelian survived, inherited the ghost’s memories and power, and began deciding how to face the group.

• He Yin'er and Yang Jian condemned Zhang Xianguang for risking lives, while he defended his plan and explained why he had waited until Old Qin was gone.
• Lu Zhiwen explained that killing He Yuelian would make Ghost Painting lose control, so Yang Jian chose to wait and restrained Zhang Xianguang with a supernatural rope.
• He Yuelian struggled against Ghost Painting’s erosion as the ghost approached her within her consciousness, then touched it and received its memories and supernatural power.
• The ghost holding He Yuelian’s hand disappeared, and Yang Jian and the others watched as the fusion ended and He Yuelian opened her eyes alive.
• He Yuelian sensed the group’s readiness to attack, decided not to flee, and moved her hand, putting everyone on guard.

He Yuelian survived and controlled the Ghost Painting, rejecting Zhang Xianguang’s Peach Blossom Spring Plan and agreeing to join Headquarters. Zhang Xianguang walked out of the Ghost Post Office and vanished in the sunlight, while He Yuelian brought the remaining people and dangers into the post office.

• He Yuelian woke beneath the red bridal veil and told everyone she was alive, confirming that she had controlled the Ghost Painting.
• He Yuelian rejected the Peach Blossom Spring Plan, chose to join Headquarters, and said she wanted revenge on Zhang Xianguang.
• He Yuelian revealed that the Ghost Painting had lost its power, then moved everyone and the remaining dangers into the Ghost Post Office.
• Zhang Xianguang explained that the post office’s curse had protected his consciousness and accepted that his plan had only partially succeeded.
• Zhang Xianguang left the Ghost Post Office and dissipated beneath the sunlight, dropping a glass bead that Zhou Deng chased after.
• Sun Rui reflected on the manager’s curse, and He Yuelian confirmed that the Ghost Messenger and Wei Jing were buried in the lobby.

After the Ghost Post Office battle, Yang Jian arranged how to handle the dead and missing captains, then asked He Yuelian to choose her future. He Yuelian decided to stay at the post office until she could control her new power, while Yang Jian and Lu Zhiwen went to search for two missing members of Zhang Xianguang’s group.

• Sun Rui returned the oil-painting souls to their paintings, and Yang Jian discussed the losses and the possibility of reviving them.
• Yang Jian decided not to disturb the grave holding Wei Jing and the Ghost Messenger, and asked Lu Zhiwen to seek A Hong’s help in reviving Li Jun.
• He Yuelian chose to stay at the Ghost Post Office temporarily and later join Headquarters, while Sun Rui agreed to train her.
• Yang Jian learned that Wang Han and Chen Qiaoyang were still missing, then left with Lu Zhiwen to search for them, especially Chen Qiaoyang.
• Liu San, He Yin'er, and Li Lepeng chose to rest at the post office, and Sun Rui warned He Yuelian that powerful supernatural abilities came with deadly risks.

Yang Jian and Lu Zhiwen tracked down Chen Qiaoyang, who tried to bargain and threaten them with supernatural forces he had planted across several towns. Yang Jian erased Chen Qiaoyang’s consciousness and left Lu Zhiwen and the revived Wang Shan to deal with the hidden dangers and help revive Li Jun.

• Yang Jian dismissed Lu Zhiwen’s suspicions about He Yuelian and burned a sketch that predicted Yang Jian’s death beside her.
• Yang Jian and Lu Zhiwen searched for Chen Qiaoyang, following Lu Zhiwen’s fountain-pen guidance across multiple cities until they cornered him in a county town.
• Chen Qiaoyang begged Yang Jian to spare him, then threatened to unleash supernatural forces he had left behind in eight cities and fifteen county towns.
• Yang Jian burned Chen Qiaoyang’s paper sedan chair and erased his consciousness, leaving him alive but unconscious.
• Lu Zhiwen asked to use Chen Qiaoyang to help revive Li Jun, and Yang Jian agreed and revived Wang Shan to assist with locating the hidden supernatural forces.
• Yang Jian departed, while Lu Zhiwen and Wang Shan took Chen Qiaoyang’s body and set out to handle the remaining dangers.