Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian confronted Sister Hong and the five revived Ghost Tamers from the Republican Era in a graveyard, insisting they remain buried to prevent them from becoming threats. When negotiations failed, he attacked and used the Wishing Ghost’s power to strike Hu Zongshang with his cleaver, splitting him in two.

• Yang Jian demanded that Sister Hong leave the five revived people in the supernatural land, while Sister Hong defended their right to survive.
• Yang Jian stalled the supernatural bus, forcing Sister Hong, the five, and the sole surviving Ghost Tamer to get off in a graveyard.
• Yang Jian explained that the five revived people would gradually become vicious ghosts, but Sister Hong refused to abandon them.
• Yang Jian sealed the graveyard with his Ghost Domain and attacked, but Hu Zongshang vanished and reappeared after being cut by the Ghost Scissors.
• Yang Jian invoked the Wishing Ghost’s power and swung his cleaver at empty air, causing Hu Zongshang to split in two and collapse.

Yang Jian fought Sister Hong and the resurrected Republican Era Ghost Tamers, repeatedly overcoming their supernatural attacks. He killed Sister Hong with the hatchet, but the fate of the other puppets remained unresolved.

• Yang Jian dismembered Hu Zongshang, then Sister Hong used a supernatural handkerchief to interfere with Yang Jian's Ghost Domain.
• Zhang Yi bound Yang Jian with a straw figure, and Feng Wen struck him, but Yang Jian broke free, killed Feng Wen, Zhang Yi, and another attacker, and burned Brother Qiu San.
• Sister Hong trapped Yang Jian among her puppets and dismantled his body and ghost shadow into pieces.
• Yang Jian restarted himself and explained that the resurrected Republican Era Ghost Tamers were ghosts retaining memories and habits from life.
• Yang Jian used the Wishing Ghost's power to make his spear strike Sister Hong, severing her head and causing the other puppets' heads to fall as well.

Yang Jian defeated Sister Hong, but the Republican Era figures took over her body and turned against her. Sister Hong summoned the real Zhang Youhong, who killed them with puppet replicas of powerful Ghost Tamers and left Yang Jian to decide whether Sister Hong deserved another chance.

• Yang Jian defeated Sister Hong, whose severed head remained conscious, and warned her to surrender.
• Zhang Yi attached her head to Sister Hong's body, while Hu Zongshang and Brother Qiu San urged her to take over Sister Hong's supernatural power.
• Sister Hong realized that Zhang Yi and the others were ghosts and revealed a lit half-incense stick that summoned Zhang Youhong.
• Zhang Youhong created puppet replicas of Republican Era Ghost Tamers and sent them to fight Zhang Yi and the other figures.
• The replicas buried the five Republican Era figures, and Zhang Youhong asked Yang Jian to give Sister Hong another chance.
• Yang Jian agreed to spare Sister Hong for now, and Zhang Youhong promised that the incident would not happen again.

After helping Sister Hong deal with the Republican Era Ghost Tamers, Yang Jian returned to Dachang City and learned that the Starvation Ghost incident had worsened and the King Organization had begun a coordinated assault. He considered the growing crisis as a Ghost Ship headed for the country.

• Zhang Youhong used incense to revive and bury five Republican Era Ghost Tamers, then vanished as Sister Hong regained consciousness.
• Yang Jian left the graveyard with Sister Hong and a surviving Ghost Tamer, learned that his copper coin could lure nearby ghosts, and returned to reality on the supernatural bus.
• Yang Jian traveled back to Dachang City and went to Shangtong Building after receiving messages from Liu Xiaoyu, Li Yang, and Zhang Liqin.
• Liu Xiaoyu told Yang Jian that Lin Bei and Wang Chaling had failed to contain the Starvation Ghost, which was suspected of eating the coffin nail.
• Liu Xiaoyu reported that the King Organization had murdered Zhang Sun and launched its Ark Plan, while Cao Yang, Wang Quan, Liu San's teammate Wang Jie, and He Yin'er had been caught up in separate attacks or incidents.
• Li Yang argued that the King Organization was exploiting Headquarters' internal troubles to weaken the captains and help the Ghost Ship reach the country; Yang Jian calmly acknowledged that the balance had broken.

Yang Jian responded to the King Organization’s Ark Plan by ordering the captains to secure their jurisdictions and publicly declaring war on the organization in Headquarters’ name. He won Ye Zhen’s support for a joint fight, while Ye Zhen revealed he had killed a King Organization intelligence operative in Dahai City.

• Yang Jian concluded that a Headquarters mole had helped the King Organization target captains and warned that a careless counterattack could unleash supernatural incidents across the country.
• Yang Jian postponed the captains’ meeting, ordered Liu Xiaoyu to tell the captains to protect their jurisdictions and await his message, and directed Li Yang to publish a declaration of war.
• Yang Jian contacted Ye Zhen and proposed joining forces against the King Organization, and Ye Zhen agreed to cooperate.
• Ye Zhen killed a person he identified as the King Organization’s intelligence operative in his Dahai City manor.
• Ye Zhen ordered his manager to announce the Supernatural Forum’s cooperation with Headquarters and declare war on the King Organization.

As the war between Headquarters and the King Organization became public, Cao Yanhua agreed to back Yang Jian despite the sudden declaration. Yang Jian arrived at the Ghost Post Office to recruit He Yuelian and locate Feng Quan, while Wei Jing remained unavailable.

• Ghost Tamers debated the war online as reports spread that the Spirit Extermination Society supported the Ark Plan and Ye Zhen’s Supernatural Forum backed Yang Jian.
• Cao Yanhua learned that Yang Jian had declared war and agreed to cooperate, accepting responsibility and asking Wang Guoqiang to help manage Headquarters.
• Yang Jian arrived at the Ghost Post Office in Dahan City and asked Sun Rui about Wei Jing’s condition.
• He Yuelian agreed to fight alongside Yang Jian, and he offered to make her the new person in charge of Dachang City.
• Yang Jian asked Sun Rui where Feng Quan was, and Sun Rui pointed toward the massive old grave.

Yang Jian returned from the Ghost Post Office with He Yuelian and began preparing for war against the King Organization. After Wang Yong contacted a foreign Ghost Tamer who might know about the organization, Yang Jian took Wang Yong and He Yuelian overseas to meet him.

• Yang Jian discussed the old grave and the looming conflict with Sun Rui, then returned to Shangtong Building with He Yuelian.
• Yang Jian introduced He Yuelian as Dachang City's new controller of Ghost Painting and approved her joining Headquarters.
• Li Yang and Liu Xiaoyu reported that the King Organization had allied with Japan's Spirit Extermination Society and that Cao Yanhua was preparing Headquarters for war.
• Yang Jian decided to kill one of the King Organization's Kings and sought information from a foreign Ghost Tamer whom Wang Yong knew from the Ghost Post Office.
• Wang Yong called Mr. Dai, arranged a meeting at a motel in America, and Yang Jian took Wang Yong and He Yuelian overseas through his Ghost Domain.

Wang Yong located the fifth-floor messenger Dyson, but Yang Jian revealed that the Ghost Post Office story had been a ruse to draw him out and demanded information about the King Organization. After threatening Dyson with ghost fire, Yang Jian obtained the possible location of one of its kings.

• Wang Yong used a cash tip to learn that Dyson was staying at the motel, where Dyson's informants recognized him and directed him to an abandoned RV.
• Dyson explained that the King Organization had hunted him after he refused to join, and that it had destroyed his family.
• Yang Jian appeared at the RV and admitted he wanted information about the kings in the King Organization.
• Dyson warned that attacking a king alone would invite the other kings to intervene, but refused to help Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian burned Dyson with ghost fire until he agreed to provide the address of a king who might be at a manor in the state.

Yang Jian entered Terror Manor to hunt its master and burned through the manor’s scarecrow defenses, while the master recognized him and prepared to confront him. As the manor master left the castle, supernatural water attacked his butler, but he repelled it and walked out across the water.

• Yang Jian identified the scarecrows around Terror Manor as supernatural defenses and entered the manor with his red spear.
• The scarecrows attacked Yang Jian, and he used ghost fire to burn them and spread flames across the manor.
• Wang Yong and Dyson watched from outside while He Yuelian waited for Yang Jian’s signal.
• The Terror Manor Master learned Yang Jian’s identity, ordered the gardeners to stay inside, and summoned the others to the manor.
• Supernatural water filled the castle and pale hands dragged at the butler, but the manor master pulled him free and walked through the water, leaving enormous black footprints.

Yang Jian stormed the estate castle and used his sixth-layer Ghost Domain and hatchet curse to dismember its twenty-six gardeners in seconds. The estate owner appeared after the attack, but Yang Jian could not locate him, so he hurled his cursed red spear toward the unseen voice.

• Yang Jian found the castle gates shut and flooded the estate with Ghost Lake water and ghost fire while its gardeners waited inside.
• Yang Jian opened the gates with his hatchet, entered beneath the sixth-layer Ghost Domain, and struck the gardeners with the hatchet curse.
• Yang Jian ended the pause, leaving the gardeners dismembered, and let Ghost Lake water swallow their bodies.
• The estate owner appeared and exchanged threats with Yang Jian, while supernatural interference prevented Yang Jian from finding his location.
• Yang Jian made a wish that his spear would pierce the speaker and hurled it toward the estate owner.

Yang Jian pursued the manor lord through the castle, but the man's power blocked Yang Jian's attacks and trapped him in a supernatural cage. The manor lord struck Yang Jian with a black cane, and Yang Jian began rapidly withering into dust.

• Yang Jian followed the wish-bound spear into the castle, while the manor lord evaded it by moving elsewhere.
• The manor lord appeared before Yang Jian and blocked his six-layer Ghost Domain and spear with the ghosts surrounding him.
• Yang Jian flooded the area with the Ghost Lake and discovered that the manor lord was protected by countless ghostly figures.
• The manor lord trapped Yang Jian inside a shrinking cage and threw a black cane at him.
• The cane struck Yang Jian's shoulder, causing his body to rapidly weather away into dust.

Yang Jian and He Yuelian killed the master of Terror Manor, but the King Organization’s reinforcements arrived before they could secure the castle. Yang Jian escaped through the Ghost Lake with the manor master’s head as supernatural power replaced the manor with an oil painting.

• The manor master wounded Yang Jian and trapped him behind invisible walls, but Yang Jian used the Wishing Ghost’s declarations to break through and slash him with the firewood axe.
• The manor master blocked Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain with black fog filled with the souls of dead Ghost Tamers, leaving their battle at a stalemate.
• Yang Jian called for He Yuelian, who summoned the black fog away and exposed the manor master to Yang Jian’s six-layer Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian threw the red spear through the manor master’s skull, pinning him to the wall and stopping his supernatural phenomena.
• Yang Jian discovered that reinforcements were replacing the castle with an oil painting, so he sent He Yuelian into the Ghost Lake and escaped with the manor master’s head.

Yang Jian returned to Shangtong Building after successfully hunting the Manor Master, and Headquarters publicized the kill to warn the King Organization and strengthen morale. As the news spread, the captains prepared for the coming conflict, while Wang Chaling learned that his family’s curse might pass to a fourth generation and agreed to answer Yang Jian’s call.

• Yang Jian, He Yuelian, and Wang Yong withdrew to a reservoir, where Yang Jian decided not to continue hunting and ordered Wang Yong to recruit Dyson as an informant.
• Yang Jian returned to Shangtong Building with the Manor Master’s head and told Li Yang to post proof of the kill on the Ghost Tamer website.
• News of the Manor Master’s death spread through the supernatural circle and reached Headquarters, where Cao Yanhua and several captains welcomed the blow to the King Organization.
• He Yin’er vowed to fight the King Organization, while Cao Yang waited for a chance to take revenge and Li Lepeng reflected on why he had not been attacked.
• Lin Bei told Wang Chaling that a child was expected to carry on the Wang family curse, then urged him to focus on the war; Wang Chaling agreed to answer Yang Jian’s call.

After nearly killing the Terror Manor Master, Yang Jian learned that the Ghost Ship could bring a flood of evil ghosts to his country within ten days. He rejected the captive king’s offer and devised the Great Flood Plan to threaten the King Organization in return.

• Li Yang found no sign of the King Organization after Yang Jian’s attack on the Terror Manor Master disrupted its plans.
• Yang Jian removed the coffin nail and tried to read the Terror Manor Master’s memories, but a vicious dog’s howl pulled his consciousness back from a dangerous darkness.
• The Terror Manor Master offered intelligence in exchange for freedom and warned that the Ghost Ship could reach the country within ten days, bringing countless evil ghosts ashore.
• Yang Jian refused to release him, pinned his head down again, and considered how to counter the Ark Plan.
• Seeing the water beneath his feet, Yang Jian decided to use Ghost Lake to release its trapped ghosts toward the King Organization’s countries and named the plan the Great Flood Plan.

Yang Jian prepared the Great Flood Plan to counter the King Organization’s Ark Plan and ordered Cao Yanhua to announce it while arranging a second captains’ meeting in Dadong City. As Headquarters mobilized and overseas Ghost Tamers reacted to the threat, the kings met on Xia Yi Island and began considering a more active response.

• Yang Jian called Cao Yanhua, ordered a second captains’ meeting for noon the next day in Dadong City, and explained the Great Flood Plan as a counter to the Ark Plan.
• Cao Yanhua accepted responsibility for the plan, ordered Headquarters to prepare for the meeting, and began tightening security and mobilizing staff.
• Yang Jian traveled overseas and left Ghost Lake’s supernatural influence in reservoirs and lakes as preparation for the Great Flood Plan.
• Cao Yanhua publicly announced the Great Flood Plan, prompting uproar among overseas Ghost Tamers and renewed posts from 'I Have a Plan.'
• The kings met on Xia Yi Island and debated how to respond to Yang Jian and the Great Flood Plan.
• The priest urged the kings to take action, and the group approved an attempt to exchange Zhang Sun's corpse for the Manor Owner's head.

Yang Jian went to Dadong City ahead of the captain's meeting to settle matters with Wang Chaling and deal with the Starvation Ghost Incident. After Wang Chaling agreed to become a Ghost Tamer and fight the King Organization, Yang Jian used a large-scale restart to reveal the supernatural pendulum clock, intending to use it for the coming battle.

• Yang Jian brought He Yuelian to Dadong City and said he would recommend her as a new captain.
• Yang Jian arrived at Wang Chaling's ancestral home, where Lin Bei said the residence's supernatural pendulum clock had hidden them from Yang Jian's Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian spared Wang Chaling but required him to become a Ghost Tamer and join the fight against the King Organization, with killing a king as atonement.
• Yang Jian said he would resolve the Starvation Ghost Incident with Wang Chaling and Lin Bei before the captain's meeting.
• Yang Jian opened the eighth layer of his Ghost Domain and restarted time until the supernatural pendulum clock appeared before them.

Yang Jian, Lin Bei, and He Yuelian entered the sealed area in Dadong City to confront the Starvation Ghost, while Yang Jian sank the Wang family's old residence into Ghost Lake. They began clearing the ghosts drawn to them, leaving the source Starvation Ghost still to be confronted.

• Yang Jian warned Wang Chaling that he would handle the old residence and gave him one night to become a Ghost Tamer before the captain meeting.
• Yang Jian used Ghost Lake to sink the Wang family's old residence, and Wang Chaling left after watching it disappear.
• Lin Bei explained that the Starvation Ghost had eaten a coffin nail and was trapped in his Mirror World, while Yang Jian considered using his own coffin nail to counter it.
• He Yuelian spread Ghost Painting's Ghost Domain over Dadong City, and Yang Jian and Lin Bei entered the sealed area.
• Lin Bei described how the Mirror World connected to reality and warned that living people might still be trapped inside as new Ghost Infants were born.
• He Yuelian drew nearby ghosts toward the group, and Yang Jian used ghost fire to burn the approaching Ghost Infants and ghost children.

Yang Jian tried to stop the Starving Ghost with a coffin nail and dismember it, but the ghost recovered and forced him to retreat. He learned it had grown stronger after possibly damaging Wang Chaling’s grandmother, and He Yuelian proposed sealing it in a ghost painting.

• He Yuelian’s summoned ghosts fueled Yang Jian’s ghost fire until the Starving Ghost appeared and extinguished the flames as it approached.
• Yang Jian threw a coffin nail into the Starving Ghost, then used his chopping knife to dismember it, but the nail no longer suppressed it completely.
• When Yang Jian retrieved the coffin nail, the Starving Ghost rapidly reassembled and attacked, forcing him to escape using six layers of Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian asked Lin Bei about the previous fight, and Lin Bei revealed that Wang Chaling’s grandmother had not appeared and might have been severely damaged by the Starving Ghost.
• He Yuelian suggested trapping the Starving Ghost in the world of the ghost painting, but Yang Jian decided to try fighting it again before attempting a seal.

Yang Jian, Lin Bei, and He Yuelian divided and imprisoned the Starving Ghost after their first plan failed. The three parts were sealed in separate golden boxes, leaving Yang Jian to consider the ghost a possible weapon despite the danger of releasing it.

• Yang Jian proposed using the coffin nail to dismember the Starving Ghost and imprison each part in a different world, with luring it overseas as a fallback plan.
• Lin Bei restrained the approaching Starving Ghost, allowing Yang Jian to pin it with the coffin nail and cut it into three pieces.
• He Yuelian sent the Starving Ghost's head into the Ghost Painting world, Lin Bei transferred half its body into the mirror world, and Yang Jian secured the remaining half in reality with straw ropes.
• The three confirmed that the separated parts had not recovered and that their different worlds were preventing the Starving Ghost from reuniting.
• Yang Jian made three golden boxes and sealed one part of the Starving Ghost in each, warning that opening all three could release it and let it recover within seconds.
• Lin Bei warned against using the boxes as a weapon because the Starving Ghost was close to mastering restarting, but Yang Jian said they might have no choice.

After the Starvation Ghost Incident was resolved, Wang Chaling accepted that he could not end his family’s curse and became a Ghost Tamer to prepare for the coming conflict with the King Organization. As the captain meeting approached, captains began secretly gathering in Dadong City.

• Yang Jian, He Yuelian, and Lin Bei cleared away the remaining Ghost Infants and ghost children after the Starvation Ghost was contained.
• Wang Chaling decided to become a Ghost Tamer, choosing the Corpse Raising Ghost to protect his body and a black bowler hat to shield his consciousness.
• Wang Chaling endured the transformation and emerged with a cold corpse-like body and the bowler hat, recognizing the strain and altered instincts of a Ghost Tamer.
• Captains began arriving secretly in Dadong City ahead of the meeting at Ning'an Building; Zhou Deng arrived by bus and chased after his stolen luggage.
• Liu San’s paper figures appeared in a dark alley, He Yin'er flew toward the city, and Cao Yang drove toward Dadong City.