Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian rejected the chance to resurrect the dead and burned the familiar souls haunting the road, leaving them unable to approach him. Liu Qi, supported by Xiao Yang, chose to test the legend and dragged his father's dead soul toward the road's edge.

• Yang Jian concluded that killing Zhao Lei's dead soul had erased Zhao Lei from the souls on the road, then resolved to eliminate the familiar dead souls rather than cling to resurrection.
• Yang Jian opened his Ghost Eye and burned the familiar dead souls, severing his past and clearing a space around himself.
• Liu Qi decided to try taking a dead soul away, and Xiao Yang agreed to help because he still hoped to save his family.
• Liu Qi seized the dead soul of his father and dragged him toward the nearest edge of the road.

Liu Qi and Xiao Yang tried to take the dead soul of Liu Qi’s father off the road, but fierce ghosts repeatedly blocked their escape. With the three women’s ghosts closing in and their supernatural items failing, they faced a choice between abandoning the dead soul and risking death.

• Liu Qi and Xiao Yang turned back and took a dead soul resembling Liu Qi’s father, while Xiao Yang warned that the apparent path to safety could be an illusion.
• When Xiao Yang tried to help carry the dead soul, it shrieked and began to rot, so he let go; Liu Qi used his curse to absorb the resistance preventing the dead soul from moving forward.
• A fierce ghost with bloodshot eyes attacked Liu Qi, and Xiao Yang helped hold back its scratched arms while Liu Qi used a swaying ghost to break them free.
• Three identical women with incomplete facial features blocked the road and trapped Liu Qi and Xiao Yang inside a closing ring of their arms.
• Xiao Yang’s rain and Liu Qi’s ghost could not stop the enclosure, their bodies began to lose vitality, and Liu Qi’s ghost candle would not light.
• Xiao Yang urged Liu Qi to abandon the dead soul before the ghosts closed their trap.

Liu Qi chose to risk his life to take the dead soul while Xiao Yang stood by him, but the ghosts’ attack killed Xiao Yang. Yang Jian, searching for Wang Shanshan elsewhere, noticed that the rain over Baishui Town had stopped.

• Xiao Yang urged Liu Qi to abandon the dead soul, but Liu Qi decided to continue and gamble with his life.
• Liu Qi and Xiao Yang agreed to face the ghosts together as the three strange women surrounded them.
• Liu Qi touched the red-lipped ghost to transfer its supernatural power onto himself, while the ghosts’ attack caused Xiao Yang to collapse.
• Yang Jian continued searching for Wang Shanshan and noticed that the supernatural rain had stopped.
• Xiao Yang died from the attack, causing the supernatural rain he had maintained to cease.

Liu Qi and Xiao Yang were trapped by three strange ghosts, and Liu Qi was close to death after failing to bring his father back from the dead. Yang Jian arrived and used ghost fire and his weapons to break the ghosts’ attack, pulling Liu Qi back from the brink while the remaining ghosts turned on him.

• Liu Qi and Xiao Yang lay trapped inside the three strange women’s hand-held circle, and Liu Qi’s body began disappearing as the ghosts’ power overwhelmed him.
• The dead soul Liu Qi believed was his father escaped his grasp and joined the other wandering souls, while Liu Qi’s consciousness began to fade.
• Yang Jian returned through a vast field of green ghost fire and found Liu Qi and Xiao Yang apparently dead inside the ghosts’ circle.
• Yang Jian pierced one strange woman with a rusty coffin nail, breaking the circle and helping Liu Qi regain consciousness.
• The remaining ghosts attacked Yang Jian, but his ghost fire disrupted one ghost’s power and his cleaver severed its head.
• Yang Jian retreated from the last approaching ghost, which continued trying to close in on him.

Yang Jian used a pack of medicine from the Chinese medicine shop to suppress Liu Qi’s out-of-control supernatural power, then set out with him to find Wang Shanshan. They left Xiao Yang’s body behind only after Yang Jian collected it, and continued across the road through the wandering souls, uncertain whether they could reach the other side.

• Yang Jian burned the final attacking ghost with ghost fire, confirmed Xiao Yang was dead, and found Liu Qi still alive but close to losing control.
• Yang Jian forced a pack of Chinese medicine into Liu Qi, suppressing the ghosts within him and restoring his senses, though the medicine only promised temporary relief.
• Liu Qi blamed himself for Xiao Yang’s death and warned Yang Jian that trying to take a wandering soul away provoked attacks tailored to the person attempting it.
• Yang Jian agreed to collect Xiao Yang’s corpse and hurried with Liu Qi to find Wang Shanshan before Baishui Town’s residents awakened.
• Liu Qi passed his father’s wandering soul without stopping, while Yang Jian and Liu Qi followed the hound’s fading traces through the wandering souls and continued toward the unseen opposite side.

Yang Jian and Liu Qi followed the vicious dog deeper into the paranormal land, where Yang Jian considered turning back as the Ghost Lake’s water failed to anchor him. They found a strange wooden house containing coffins and traces of the Ghost Child, then saw a light turn on upstairs.

• Yang Jian slowed down and considered retreating because they had gone too deep and the Ghost Lake’s water was disappearing.
• Liu Qi sensed that Wang Shanshan might be ahead, so Yang Jian agreed to search another ten kilometers before turning back.
• After finding no sign of Wang Shanshan, Yang Jian and Liu Qi spotted distant neon lights and approached a wooden house avoided by the dead souls.
• Yang Jian found old coffins inside the house and recognized the Ghost Child’s handprints and footprints on one of them.
• Yang Jian discovered that the tracks led toward a back door that could not be opened from outside, while Liu Qi noticed a light turn on upstairs.

Yang Jian entered a strange wooden building while searching for Wang Shanshan and the ghost child, then found himself in Dachang City three years in the past after opening a door. His restart failed to return him to the building, and his old phone began ringing with Zhang Wei calling.

• Yang Jian left Liu Qi outside the wooden building and climbed its altered staircase, following the ghost child's footprints to a room on the second floor.
• When Yang Jian opened the room's door, a gust of wind erased the building around him and left him in his old rental apartment.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Eye and realized he was in Dachang City three years earlier, while his past self had apparently been replaced by him.
• Yang Jian tried to restart himself to escape, but remained trapped in the rental apartment.
• Yang Jian saw that his old phone was ringing and that Zhang Wei was calling.

Yang Jian searched for Wang Shanshan in the world of three years ago and discovered she had gone missing after going to school. He encountered Zhou Zheng and arranged for him to find Wang Shanshan, while keeping his own origins secret.

• Yang Jian ignored Zhang Wei's call, used his Ghost Eye to reach Wang Shanshan's home, and learned from Wang Haiyan that Wang Shanshan had disappeared.
• Yang Jian suspected Wang Shanshan had also arrived from the future, though the timing of her disappearance puzzled him.
• Zhou Zheng arrived at the residential complex after sensing a terrifying presence, and Yang Jian recognized him as the Dachang City Manager.
• Yang Jian asked Zhou Zheng to find Wang Shanshan and promised to consider joining Headquarters in exchange.
• Yang Jian left using his Ghost Domain, and Zhou Zheng concluded that he had controlled at least two ghosts.

Yang Jian searched for Wang Shanshan and demanded Headquarters help find her before he would negotiate. When Fang Shiming confronted him, Yang Jian overwhelmed the Ghost Tamers and killed him, leaving the consequences of changing the past uncertain.

• Yang Jian inspected the Ghost Mirror and Ghost Cabinet in the abandoned Republican-era house, then searched Dachang City and concluded Wang Shanshan was missing from it.
• Zhou Zheng told Yang Jian that Wang Shanshan had left Dachang City, and Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to reach Headquarters and demand her location before negotiations.
• Yang Jian subdued Jiang Shangbai and sent Lin Long away when they challenged him, prompting Zhao Jianguo to mobilize Headquarters to find Wang Shanshan.
• Fang Shiming arrived with Friends Circle Ghost Tamers and attacked Yang Jian, but Yang Jian endured his ghost's pressure and engulfed the group in ghost fire.
• Yang Jian struck Fang Shiming with his cracked spear, severing his neck and killing him.

Yang Jian killed Fang Shiming, forced Headquarters to find Wang Shanshan, and traveled to Baishui Town to meet her. Wang Shanshan confirmed that the world was not really three years ago and revealed that the human skin paper had led her there.

• Yang Jian beheaded Fang Shiming and extinguished the ghost fire, while Zhao Jianguo distanced Headquarters from the Friends Circle and agreed to find Wang Shanshan.
• Headquarters located Wang Shanshan in Baishui Town, and Yang Jian took the message and left immediately.
• Yang Jian found Wang Shanshan sitting on a balcony, with the ghost child watching from the window behind her.
• Wang Shanshan told Yang Jian that this was not three years ago and said she had learned the truth from the human skin paper that fell from the cracked bell.

Yang Jian learned that the human skin paper had tricked Wang Shanshan into opening a door that brought her to a supernatural world resembling three years ago, and he recovered the paper from her. The paper then predicted that Yang Jian would die in Baishui Town at 6:10 p.m., leaving him facing an imminent threat.

• Wang Shanshan explained that the human skin paper had led her and Ghost Child into Baishui Town so she could discover whether Yang Jian was still alive after his revival.
• Wang Shanshan described how opening a door in a wooden house brought her to a false world resembling three years ago, and how she realized the human skin paper had deceived her.
• Yang Jian warned Wang Shanshan that the human skin paper was dangerous because it could make people act on its information, then took the paper back from her golden box.
• The human skin paper first asked why Yang Jian was still alive, then fell silent as Yang Jian confronted it about its purpose in bringing Wang Shanshan there.
• The human skin paper predicted that Yang Jian would find Ghost Child but die in Baishui Town at 6:10 p.m. that day.

Yang Jian learned that he would die in Baishui Town at 6:10 that evening, even after he and Wang Shanshan returned to Dachang City. He realized they were still trapped in Baishui Town’s supernatural land and had seven hours to escape, but his attempt to use the Ghost Lake connected him to its out-of-control version from three years earlier.

• Yang Jian took Wang Shanshan and the Ghost Child from Baishui Town to Dachang City, hoping to avoid the predicted danger.
• The human skin paper still said Yang Jian would die in Baishui Town at 6:10, and Yang Jian concluded that they had never left its supernatural land.
• Yang Jian explained that the trapped living seemed to have only one day to find a way out, leaving him and Wang Shanshan seven hours before six o’clock.
• Yang Jian tried to use the Ghost Lake to escape, but a female corpse’s arm dragged at him from the water, and he realized he had connected to the out-of-control Ghost Lake of this world.
• Yang Jian abandoned the Ghost Lake as an escape route, leaving him and Wang Shanshan trapped with time running out.

Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan discovered a possible way to lead dead souls back to life and searched for a second human skin paper that might reveal how to escape. Yang Jian found its location in Fang Jing’s memories, leaving the pair with a lead at Fang Jing’s home.

• Wang Shanshan explained that she had sold the Ghost Shroud to buy ghost money and a method for leading dead souls with a braid of hair.
• Yang Jian proposed finding the human skin paper in this world, identifying Fang Jing at Seventh High School as their best lead.
• Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan entered the school and found Fang Jing in class.
• Yang Jian seized Fang Jing and used his ghost shadow to steal his memories, while Wang Shanshan kept Su Lei from interfering.
• Yang Jian learned from Fang Jing’s memories that the human skin paper was at Fang Jing’s home.

Yang Jian retrieved the human skin paper hidden in Fang Jing’s home and used it to learn how several attempts to escape the world from three years ago ended in his death. The paper continued predicting his future, leaving Yang Jian to search for a way to survive before six in the evening.

• Yang Jian left Seventh High School with Wang Shanshan, while Zhang Wei failed to catch up with them.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to enter Fang Jing’s home and found the human skin paper concealed inside an old book on a bookshelf.
• The human skin paper began writing and predicted that Yang Jian would die at the Ghost Post Office after fighting Zhang Xianguang and Luo Wensong.
• The paper then predicted that Old Qin would trap Yang Jian inside Headquarters, where he would die after terrifying supernatural phenomena appeared at six in the evening.
• Yang Jian watched for further predictions, hoping the human skin paper would reveal a way to survive.

Trapped in the world from three years ago, Yang Jian concluded that its people and objects were hostile and had Ghost Child eat the human skin paper to uncover a way out. Ghost Child revealed that Yang Jian had to kill everyone familiar to him before six in the evening, leaving him to face the cruel task of severing his ties to this world.

• Yang Jian suspected that the world’s inhabitants and the second human skin paper were working against him, so he had Ghost Child swallow the paper and absorb its power.
• Yang Jian took Wang Shanshan and Ghost Child to a secluded park, where Ghost Child began writing a message in the sand.
• Zhou Zheng and Zhao Kaiming arrived and accused Yang Jian of killing Fang Jing, while Zhou Zheng attacked him and Zhao Kaiming made a wish to kill him.
• Ghost Child finished writing that Yang Jian had to kill the people familiar to him in his memories before six in the evening to escape the world.
• Yang Jian tore the Ghost Infant from Zhou Zheng’s belly and disabled it with his hatchet, then realized he had to sever every connection binding him to the world.

After killing Zhou Zheng and Zhao Kaiming, Yang Jian tried to escape the supernatural world by making people forget him and Wang Shanshan, while Wang Shanshan helped Ghost Child grow into a Starving Ghost. As Headquarters mobilized powerful Ghost Tamers against Yang Jian, the world began to distort, suggesting his plan was working.

• The Wishing Ghost retreated after Zhao Kaiming died without fulfilling his wish to kill Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian explained to Wang Shanshan that making people forget them could sever their ties to the world, then spread his Ghost Domain across Dachang City to erase memories.
• Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan agreed to act separately, with Wang Shanshan cultivating Ghost Child and Yang Jian targeting people’s memories before the six-hour deadline.
• Wang Shanshan had Ghost Child consume the dismembered Ghost Infant, while Yang Jian erased his classmates’ memories and began targeting other acquaintances.
• Yang Jian noticed the world distorting as his plan took effect, but Headquarters declared him its enemy and ordered Ghost Tamers, including Wang Chaling, Li Lepeng, Li Jun, A Hong, Chen Yi, and Ye Zhen, to converge on Dachang City.

Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to erase memories of himself before Headquarters’ Ghost Tamers arrived in Dachang City to kill him. He burned through the assembled team, killed Liu San and Li Lepeng, and turned his attention to Wang Chaling.

• Yang Jian covered Dachang City with his Ghost Domain and erased most residents’ memories of him before extending it toward his hometown.
• Zhao Jianguo led a large group of Headquarters’ Ghost Tamers into Dachang City, where they prepared to surround and kill Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian attacked the airport with pale green ghost fire, killing Guo Fan, Chen Yi, and many other Ghost Tamers.
• Yang Jian appeared before Liu San, pierced him with a cracked spear, and tore off his face with a ghost hand.
• Yang Jian killed Li Lepeng with a firewood axe and coffin nail after Li Lepeng’s attack struck only a Ghost Domain illusion.
• Yang Jian dismissed Li Jun as too weak to stop him and identified Wang Chaling as the main target whose death would end the attack.

Yang Jian annihilated the Headquarters team at the airport, overcoming Wang Chaling’s family ghosts and killing Ye Zhen before reviving from the counterattack. The chapter left Zhao Jianguo and the remaining Ghost Tamers dead, with Yang Jian alive.

• Zhao Jianguo and Wang Chaling realized Yang Jian had killed nearly everyone at the airport, while Li Jun and Zhao Jianguo remained among the few survivors.
• Wang Chaling used his grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother’s ghosts to shield himself from Yang Jian’s sixth-level Ghost Domain and spear attacks.
• Ye Zhen arrived from the sunlight and knocked aside Yang Jian’s spear, rescuing Wang Chaling from a fatal strike.
• Yang Jian attacked Ye Zhen, who used his substitute ghost to transfer the wounds back onto Yang Jian, but Yang Jian destroyed Ye Zhen’s head and consciousness.
• Yang Jian restarted himself after the counterattack shattered his head, then killed the remaining Headquarters Ghost Tamers and survived.

After Headquarters’ operation against Yang Jian failed, he strengthened himself by taking a second Ghost Eye and coffin nail while Ghost Child devoured more ghosts. As Old Qin set out to gather help before confronting Yang Jian, Yang Jian left Dachang City to alter the memories of acquaintances elsewhere.

• Cao Yanhua learned that Headquarters’ Ghost Tamers had been wiped out and went with Shen Liang to ask Old Qin to deal with Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian entered the sealed temple basement, took its Ghost Eye and coffin nail, and expanded his Ghost Domain across Dachang City and nearby towns.
• Ghost Child entered the Ghost Mirror and ate ghosts, then traveled with Wang Shanshan to Huanggang Village and devoured the ghost there while Feng Quan watched from the Black Coffin.
• Old Qin agreed to go to Dachang City, then boarded a supernatural bus to visit old companions before the confrontation.
• After erasing the memories of acquaintances near Dachang City, Yang Jian left to reach his mother, classmates, and relatives in other locations.

Yang Jian weakened the world’s restraints by erasing Zhang Fen’s memories, while Old Qin gathered powerful Republican Era Ghost Tamers to attack him. The second wave began when Old Qin’s bus struck Yang Jian, who realized he could survive by restarting.

• Yang Jian erased acquaintances’ memories while Old Qin drove the supernatural bus to recruit Meng Xiaodong and Luo Qian for an attack.
• Old Qin planned to gather Zhang Dong, Luo Wensong, and the pharmacy owner as well, while Li Qingzhi was presumed dead.
• Yang Jian erased Zhang Fen’s memories and judged the world’s restraints on him weak enough to leave, though Yang Xiaotian still remembered him.
• Yang Jian set out to contact Wang Shanshan, but Old Qin’s bus tore through his Ghost Domain and struck him.
• Old Qin accused Yang Jian of pretending to be dead, and Yang Jian recognized the attack as the second wave and relied on his ability to restart.