Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian used Infinite Restart to escape Old Qin and Graveyard Master Luo Qian, only to discover that Meng Xiaodong could follow him through the past. Surrounded by her growing multitude of past selves, he faced a new threat with no clear way to escape.

• Old Qin used the supernatural bus to knock Yang Jian down, then summoned Graveyard Master Luo Qian to bury him in Grave Soil.
• Yang Jian began a large-scale restart, escaped Luo Qian’s burial, and used his two Ghost Eyes in alternating restarts to evade Old Qin’s pursuit.
• Yang Jian realized his Infinite Restart gave him time to prepare before Old Qin’s attack, but Meng Xiaodong appeared on the rooftop and said he had not run far enough.
• Yang Jian looked downstairs and saw hundreds of Meng Xiaodong’s past selves carrying vegetable baskets, with more appearing as time passed.

Yang Jian chose to confront Meng Xiaodong alone after using Infinite Restart to buy himself half an hour, but her substitute dolls and growing numbers overwhelmed his attacks. As Meng Xiaodong began eroding his body, Yang Jian faced a looming supernatural attack with his remaining options uncertain.

• Yang Jian restarted time repeatedly to reach 2:00, then moved to the suburbs and cleared nearby people to prevent Meng Xiaodong from using them as mediums.
• Meng Xiaodong followed Yang Jian, and his cleaver failed to harm her because she had a basket full of substitute dolls.
• Yang Jian filled his Ghost Domain with ghost fire and ghost hands, but more versions of Meng Xiaodong appeared and the attack failed.
• Yang Jian used a coffin nail to immobilize one Meng Xiaodong, while another pointed out that he had too few nails to stop them all.
• Meng Xiaodong’s numbers grew beyond twenty, and supernatural erosion made Yang Jian’s body blur as another figure appeared before him.

Yang Jian fought Meng Xiaodong, whose dolls and ability to seal the past overwhelmed his Ghost Lake and other defenses. Even after he used a second coffin nail and restarted himself, her touch continued to age and assimilate him as she began replacing his consciousness.

• Meng Xiaodong’s attack erased Yang Jian’s body until he restarted himself and returned unharmed.
• Meng Xiaodong released numerous supernatural dolls that targeted Yang Jian and invaded his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian summoned the Ghost Lake, which dragged the dolls underwater but failed to submerge Meng Xiaodong and her copies.
• Meng Xiaodong’s encircling copies closed in and touched Yang Jian, causing an irreversible supernatural change that persisted through his restart.
• Yang Jian used a second coffin nail to pin one Meng Xiaodong, but another copy declared that he had lost as his body aged and her consciousness began replacing his.

Yang Jian broke through Meng Xiaodong’s blockade of the past by opening the tenth layer of the Ghost Domain and defeated her across the present and past. The Ghost Eye that enabled the power then shattered, leaving him alive but still facing Old Qin at two thirty with his path to survival unresolved.

• Meng Xiaodong’s old women overwhelmed Yang Jian’s restarts by invading and attacking him throughout the past.
• Yang Jian overlapped his Ghost Domains to open the tenth layer, allowing him to seize Meng Xiaodong across time and sever her and her substitute dolls with the firewood axe.
• Yang Jian’s countless overlapping selves overwhelmed Meng Xiaodong’s substitutes and dismembered her versions from the previous three hours, buying him twenty minutes of safety.
• The Ghost Eye that enabled the tenth layer shattered, and Yang Jian realized he could no longer use that power or kill Meng Xiaodong completely.
• Yang Jian saw that it was two ten, took an old woman’s corpse with a rusty coffin nail, and left Ghost Lake as the floating corpses drifted toward him.

Yang Jian prepared to escape the paranormal world by cutting his final connection to it, while strengthening Ghost Child for the attack expected at two thirty. He reached a crowded Japanese city with Ghost Child multiplying among its residents, as the final confrontation approached.

• Yang Jian went to his old home and reunited with Wang Shanshan and Ghost Child, which had arrived early because powerful Ghost Tamers were set to attack.
• Yang Jian let Ghost Child take Meng Xiaodong's corpse to devour her paranormal power, then burned Ghost Dream's corpse and Yang Xiaotian's remaining head to end the dream and sever his final tie to the world.
• As the world began to expel Yang Jian and Wang Shanshan, he sent her to hide in an uninhabited suburb and moved with Ghost Child to find a place for the coming battle.
• Ghost Child wrote that it needed a place with many people, so Yang Jian took it to a densely populated Japanese city.
• At two twenty-five, Ghost Child began erasing residents and appearing in their places, multiplying as Yang Jian prepared to rely on it against Old Qin.

Yang Jian faced Old Qin and four Republican Era Ghost Tamers, but Zhang Dong erased his supernatural powers and left him unable to move. Ghost Child then appeared and shielded him from the attackers, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Yang Jian blocked the supernatural bus’s impact with his spear as Old Qin arrived at 2:30.
• Meng Xiaodong, Luo Qian, and Luo Wensong stepped off the bus to join Old Qin against Yang Jian.
• Zhang Dong emerged as the group’s fourth ally and erased Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain and other supernatural powers, leaving him immobile.
• Luo Wensong and Luo Qian launched their fatal attacks, but Ghost Child appeared, protected Yang Jian, and stopped the Grave Soil from advancing.
• Old Qin recognized Ghost Child as Yang Jian’s final trump card.

Yang Jian's Ghost Child confronted the Republic-era Old Monsters, its multiplying horde overwhelming their defenses and draining their lifespans. Zhang Dong led the others through a path toward Yang Jian, forcing Ghost Child to keep fighting as they tried to kill him quickly.

• Ghost Child carried Yang Jian away while the Republic-era Old Monsters regrouped and Luo Wensong sealed the city with supernatural doors.
• Ghost Child multiplied across the city and attacked the Old Monsters by calling their names, but Zhang Dong silenced the calls near Meng Xiaodong.
• Luo Qian's Grave Soil and Luo Wensong's doors failed to stop most of the Ghost Children, while Zhang Dong erased large numbers of them.
• Luo Wensong suddenly died, and Old Qin reversed the scene so Luo Wensong could reveal that Ghost Child's curse was reducing their lifespans.
• Zhang Dong opened a path toward Yang Jian, and the Old Monsters followed to try to kill him before their lifespans ran out.

Yang Jian waited for the Ghost Children to defeat the Republican-era old men so he could escape the vanishing world. He survived until the world collapsed, but Zhang Dong struck him at the last moment before disappearing.

• The Ghost Children broke free of their restraints and overwhelmed the Republican-era old men as their numbers and supernatural power grew.
• Luo Qian, Meng Xiaodong, and Luo Wensong were swallowed by the Ghost Children, and Old Qin was killed soon after.
• Yang Jian regained his ability to move and waited inside the building as the world disappeared around him.
• At 2:40, Yang Jian saw the world collapse and believed he had survived, but Zhang Dong reached him along a winding path and seized him by the throat.
• Zhang Dong vanished with the world one second later, leaving Yang Jian's fate uncertain.

The illusory world collapsed, leaving Wang Shanshan and the ghost child in the wooden house while Yang Jian’s consciousness remained trapped between illusion and reality. Wang Shanshan and Liu Qi realized the vicious dog might be able to save him, but neither could command it.

• Wang Shanshan returned to the wooden room and found Yang Jian motionless beside the dried corpse, while the ghost child had escaped the illusion with her.
• Wang Shanshan consulted the human skin paper, which said Yang Jian had left this world and would remain trapped forever, with no one able to save him.
• Yang Jian realized Zhang Dong’s final attack had trapped his consciousness and left his supernatural abilities dormant, and he suspected the vicious dog was his only hope.
• Liu Qi entered the wooden house and joined Wang Shanshan in concluding that the vicious dog could save Yang Jian, but neither of them knew how to command it.

Wang Shanshan and Liu Qi worked to bring Yang Jian’s vicious dog back so it could protect him from the consciousness trap. After the dog returned, Yang Jian continued examining the supernatural world holding him, but remained trapped between illusion and reality.

• Wang Shanshan used Yang Jian’s Liar Ghost necklace to flood the room with water and discovered the vicious dog was missing.
• Liu Qi used his blood as a trail to lead the vicious dog toward the wooden house, disturbing a coffin downstairs as he did so.
• The vicious dog entered the room through the pooled water, approached Yang Jian, and vanished back into his consciousness.
• Yang Jian reasoned that the wooden house trapped people in a supernatural past and that escaping required breaking free of its hold.
• A low growl from the vicious dog jolted Yang Jian from his thoughts.

Yang Jian remained trapped between reality and illusion while an unseen ghost attacked Liu Qi in the wooden house. Wang Shanshan brought Ghost Child out to help, but it could not reach the ghost, and the human-skin paper offered her a clue about how to see it.

• Yang Jian heard the vicious dog arrive and waited, hoping it could free him from the illusion.
• Liu Qi heard a ghost climb to the second floor, then was trapped on an Eight Immortals table and eaten by unseen heads.
• Liu Qi saw a figure dressed like an elder from the Republican Era, who warned him that it was already too late.
• Wang Shanshan left the room with Ghost Child and found Liu Qi's body being consumed by an invisible ghost.
• Wang Shanshan consulted the human-skin paper, which told her to lie on the ground to see the nearby ghosts.

Wang Shanshan tried to save Liu Qi from the invisible ghosts attacking him inside the wooden house while Yang Jian remained trapped and unconscious. Ghost Child shared the attacks but could not break free, and Wang Shanshan prepared to make it eat the human skin paper before attempting to close the coffin downstairs.

• As Liu Qi suffered increasingly severe bites, he urged Wang Shanshan to return to safety and focus on waking Yang Jian.
• Wang Shanshan ordered Ghost Child to lie down so it could see and attack the ghosts, but it became trapped on an apparent table beside Liu Qi.
• The ghosts divided their attacks between Liu Qi and Ghost Child, and Ghost Child tried to eat them but could not reach them.
• Wang Shanshan read the human skin paper's instruction to go downstairs and close the open coffin, but suspected it was another trap.
• Wang Shanshan decided to have Ghost Child eat the human skin paper before she went downstairs, then picked it up and approached Ghost Child.

Wang Shanshan fed the human skin paper to Ghost Child and went downstairs to close the open coffin, hoping to stop the attacks on Liu Qi and end the supernatural incident. She succeeded in shutting the coffin, but the other coffins and the wooden house began to awaken, and she feared the human skin paper had trapped them all.

• Wang Shanshan fed the human skin paper to Ghost Child and left Liu Qi to put the open coffin lid back in place.
• Liu Qi was attacked again beneath the table and was badly mutilated while Wang Shanshan descended the supernatural staircase.
• Wang Shanshan found a headless corpse feeding inside the open coffin and forced the lid shut, pressing the corpse back down.
• The attacks on Liu Qi stopped, but strange heads rolled downstairs as the coffins in the hall began shaking and the wooden house started to awaken.
• Wang Shanshan realized the human skin paper may have led her into a trap and wondered whether feeding it to Ghost Child had also been part of its plan.

Wang Shanshan tried to stop the human skin paper's plan as the ghosts in the wooden house awakened, but the staircase trapped her and the situation grew worse. Liu Qi's cries reached Yang Jian, who remained trapped between reality and illusion and waited for the evil dog's influence to let him escape.

• Wang Shanshan opened a coffin to unleash its headless corpse, then used the Liar Ghost necklace to rush back toward the second floor.
• Wang Shanshan realized the staircase was a ghostly trap, and she and the descending ghost were both unable to leave it.
• Liu Qi remained pinned to the wooden table with Ghost Child as shadows, corpses, and dead fingers emerged throughout the second floor.
• Liu Qi called for Yang Jian to wake up, warning that the ghosts were about to kill them.
• Yang Jian heard Liu Qi's cries and waited for the evil dog's supernatural influence to reach him so he could escape.

Yang Jian awakened just before the female corpse could strip away his life and supernatural power, then destroyed it with his weapons and ghost fire. He rushed to rescue Liu Qi, the ghost child, and Wang Shanshan and escape the haunted wooden house.

• Yang Jian realized the wooden house and its floor, pillar, windows, and stairs were supernatural traps, while he remained unable to affect reality.
• A revived female corpse emerged from a pillar, attacked Yang Jian, and began transferring its decay and stripping away his Ghost Eye.
• Liu Qi shouted for Yang Jian to wake, and the vicious dog's growl brought Yang Jian's consciousness back as he restarted himself with the seventh level of the Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian hacked the female corpse apart and burned it with ghost fire, forcing the gaunt figure and window reflections to retreat.
• Yang Jian opened the Ghost Eye and hurried out to save Liu Qi, the ghost child, and Wang Shanshan before escaping.

Yang Jian rescued Liu Qi from the wooden house’s supernatural restraint, recovered the human skin paper from Ghost Child, and freed Ghost Child as danger closed in. He led them down a staircase transformed into a Ghost Domain, expecting another fierce ghost to be waiting there.

• Yang Jian used Ghost Scissors to cut the cursed threads binding Liu Qi, allowing him to struggle free despite his severe injuries.
• Liu Qi warned Yang Jian that Wang Shanshan had fed the human skin paper to Ghost Child, and Yang Jian retrieved the undigested paper from Ghost Child’s stomach.
• As ghost fire weakened and the dismembered female corpse reassembled, Yang Jian used Ghost Scissors to free Ghost Child from its restraint.
• Yang Jian carried the human skin paper and led Ghost Child and Liu Qi downstairs, rejecting Liu Qi’s suggestion to escape through a window.
• Yang Jian entered a dark Ghost Domain on the staircase and used ghost fire to illuminate a path down, while remaining alert for a fierce ghost.

Wang Shanshan became trapped on the haunted staircase and nearly died when a vicious ghost pursued her, but Yang Jian woke and rescued her with his ghost fire. He healed Liu Qi with the Liar Ghost necklace and led the group onward, stopping the stair ghost with a coffin nail as they tried to escape the wooden house.

• Wang Shanshan realized she could not escape the staircase Ghost Domain and waited for Yang Jian to wake, while the ghost pursuing Liu Qi remained trapped above.
• An old corpse approached Wang Shanshan, crumbling the stairs behind it; her attempt to influence it with the Liar Ghost necklace failed and cracked the necklace.
• Yang Jian arrived through a path of ghost fire, pulled Wang Shanshan to safety, and reunited her with Liu Qi and the Ghost Child.
• Yang Jian used the Liar Ghost necklace to restore Liu Qi's damaged body, then led the group forward through the stairs.
• Yang Jian pierced the approaching old corpse with a coffin nail, stopping it, though the supernatural influence on the stairs remained.

Yang Jian and his companions crossed a dark Ghost Domain while an unseen presence followed them and a voice pleaded for rescue. They found a way down the forked stairs, but Yang Jian refused to detour for the stranger and promised only to return in three years if they escaped alive.

• Yang Jian released the old corpse after passing it and led Liu Qi and Wang Shanshan through the darkness on a narrow path made by his ghost fire.
• A voice claimed to be a trapped Ghost Tamer and begged for help, but Yang Jian refused to leave the path, suspecting the speaker might be dangerous or a ghost.
• The group reached a fork where both staircases broke underfoot, and Yang Jian realized the stairs' supernatural presence was disrupting his ghost fire.
• The voice revealed that they had to descend the left staircase by stepping only on even-numbered steps, and Liu Qi tested the method successfully.
• Yang Jian promised to return for the trapped speaker in three years if they survived, then led Wang Shanshan and Ghost Child down the even-numbered steps.

Yang Jian and his companions crossed the haunted staircase and found the first floor of the wooden house deceptively calm, with a dangerous Ghost Domain waiting beyond the stairway. Using Liu Qi’s bloodstains to reconnect Ghost Lake to the house, Yang Jian led everyone out safely and realized they had narrowly avoided a hall filled with roaming ghosts.

• Yang Jian used his coffin nail and firewood axe to deal with ghosts blocking the staircase as he led Liu Qi, Wang Shanshan, and Ghost Child downstairs.
• The group reached the first floor, where Yang Jian and Liu Qi realized the calm hall was likely an illusion concealing supernatural danger.
• Yang Jian ordered the vicious dog to use Liu Qi’s bloodstains as a path to carry Ghost Lake’s water back to the wooden house.
• Yang Jian tested the resulting puddle with Ghost Child, then led Wang Shanshan, Liu Qi, and himself through it to a location outside the wooden house.
• Yang Jian expanded the puddle outside the house, while the true first-floor scene revealed more than a dozen ghosts roaming among open coffins.

Yang Jian returned to Baishui Town to rescue survivors as Ghost Rain’s effects weakened and the town descended into chaos. He organized a search and used Ghost Fire to free people trapped in a supernatural steamed bun shop, then continued the rescue operation.

• Yang Jian gathered supplies, left the road of wandering dead with his companions, and returned to Baishui Town through the Ghost Lake.
• Yang Jian and Liu Qi decided to search the town for survivors before using the Ghost Domain to evacuate them, and Yang Jian gave Liu Qi a Ghost Candle and a Substitute Doll.
• Yang Jian summoned a hundred black-suited puppets with the Liar Ghost’s necklace to help find and gather survivors.
• Yang Jian found survivors trapped in a supernatural steamed bun shop and discovered that people who left after eating its buns starved to death.
• Yang Jian used Ghost Fire to burn away the supernatural contamination, allowing most of the trapped survivors to escape alive, then continued searching the town.