Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian gathered the captains in Lin Bei’s Mirror World to secretly prepare for war against the King Organization, welcoming new and returning allies while strengthening their side. The meeting remained incomplete as the captains waited to learn whether Li Jun could recover and attend.

• Lin Bei brought Wang Chaling into the Mirror World, where Yang Jian assessed his newly controlled ghost and warned that his lack of balance could lead to rapid revival.
• He Yin'er arrived, and Yang Jian gave her a teacup that could summon Luo Qian, the Graveyard Master, as a powerful weapon against the King Organization.
• Li Lepeng arrived, and Yang Jian confirmed his identity after the other captains struggled to remember him because of the Forgetting Ghost.
• Liu San attended through a paper effigy while investigating the King Organization in Dadong City, and Cao Yang arrived after recovering from injuries and mourning his assistant, Wang Quan.
• Yang Jian introduced He Yuelian as the secret replacement captain who controlled Ghost Painting, and the assembled captains accepted her appointment.
• He Yin'er asked whether Li Jun could attend, and Lin Bei said Li Jun had returned to life but might not regain his former strength.

The captains gathered early to discuss stopping the Ghost Ship and destroying the King Organization, but Yang Jian’s account of the kings’ strength left them without a workable plan. They considered the Great Flood Plan as a fallback while the danger of the Ghost Ship’s landing remained unresolved.

• Liu San questioned whether the scarred, weakened Li Jun should attend, but Yang Jian revealed that Li Jun had gained Chen Qiaoyang’s supernatural power, and Li Jun arrived with Lu Zhiwen and Wang Guoqiang.
• Zhou Deng arrived shortly before the meeting began, and Yang Jian defended him after the others joked about his excuse for being late.
• Yang Jian opened the meeting by focusing on stopping the Ghost Ship and eliminating the King Organization before the ship landed.
• Li Jun proposed attacking the fourteen remaining kings, but Lin Bei, Wang Chaling, and others warned that the kings were powerful, prepared, and likely to support one another.
• Yang Jian explained that the manor owner had withstood his attacks for over a minute and that his successful hunt had depended on He Yuelian’s help.
• Li Lepeng suggested activating the Great Flood Plan, but Yang Jian said it would only destroy both sides’ territories and leave the ghosts as the winners.

Yang Jian and the captains considered the King Organization’s offer to exchange Zhang Sun’s corpse for the Terror Manor Master’s head and planned to prepare for both a possible ambush and other moves. In Dadong City, Liu San followed and captured a suspected King Organization member, discovering an unusual recorder that might reveal how to contact the organization.

• Wang Guoqiang reported that the King Organization offered to exchange Zhang Sun’s corpse for the Terror Manor Master’s head.
• Yang Jian explained that the Terror Manor Master was still alive, and Lu Zhiwen proposed using the exchange to set a trap while preparing for other threats.
• Yang Jian agreed to arrange an exchange team and an emergency team as the captains’ meeting continued.
• Liu San followed a trench-coated man through Dadong City and entered a coffee shop after him.
• The man activated an unusual recorder, but Liu San snapped his neck and turned him into a paper figure.
• Liu San examined the recorder and concluded that it could help him infiltrate the King Organization.

Liu San infiltrated the King Organization’s supernatural intelligence network while Yang Jian’s captains planned a transaction and prepared for the Ghost Ship’s arrival. The meeting ended with a coin toss deciding that Dafu City would be defended, and Li Jun and Liu San were assigned to go there.

• Liu San used an old radio to enter the King Organization’s consciousness-based intelligence center and realized he could choose whether to resist its pull or remain inside.
• Yang Jian assigned Cao Yang, Li Lepeng, and Lin Bei to handle the planned transaction, with himself and He Yuelian serving as backup.
• Lu Zhiwen identified Dahai City, Dadong City, Dachang City, and Dafu City as the likeliest Ghost Ship landing sites and warned that the King Organization could target a major city to force a confrontation.
• Yang Jian argued that the captains lacked enough manpower to protect every city and had Wang Guoqiang toss a coin to choose between Dachang City and Dafu City.
• The coin landed tails, so Yang Jian assigned Li Jun and Liu San to defend Dafu City.

Ma Jun, Dafu City’s person in charge and codename Ghost Game, was attacked by Simon, a king of the King Organization, while heading home. Ma Jun used his supernatural game to delay the attackers and summon reinforcements, but died from the ghost Simon’s shot; his city-wide game continued under the control of a true ghost.

• Ma Jun dismissed his assistant’s concerns about Headquarters’ war with the King Organization and focused on managing Dafu City.
• Simon confronted Ma Jun at an intersection, revealed himself as a Ghost Tamer, and attacked him with a supernatural hunting rifle.
• Ma Jun froze Simon and the surrounding crowd with his Ghost Game, escaped, and alerted Headquarters, but a ghost embedded in his body began reviving.
• Simon and other King Organization Ghost Tamers tracked Ma Jun down, so Ma Jun turned Dafu City into a silent ghost city and hid within it.
• Ma Jun died from ghostly revival, but his supernatural game continued after his death.

Yang Jian reached Dafu City and used his Ghost Domain to revive its person in charge, Ma Jun, after the King Organization killed him. After treating Ma Jun, Yang Jian left to respond to other threats while Li Jun and Liu San pursued the fleeing attackers.

• Yang Jian ignored advice to stay in Dadong City and rushed to Dafu City, where he found Ma Jun dead inside his citywide Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian used an eighth-level Ghost Domain restart to bring Ma Jun back to life, then suppressed one of the three ghosts inside him with ghost hands.
• Ma Jun warned Yang Jian that Simon had shot a ghost into his body, and Yang Jian gave him Chinese medicine that temporarily delayed his ghost revival.
• Yang Jian told Ma Jun to keep his survival secret and assist Li Jun and Liu San, then departed to handle other attacks.
• Li Jun changed course to pursue the King Organization members, while Liu San objected and A Hong backed Li Jun's judgment.

After Ma Jun was attacked, Yang Jian concluded that the King Organization was targeting city officials and organized the captains to search for and intercept its members. Yang Jian killed three operatives in a small city, while Li Jun and Liu San encountered a waiting enemy in another town.

• Yang Jian returned to the captains in Dadong City and explained that the attack on Ma Jun signaled a broader operation against city officials.
• Yang Jian divided the captains into teams and sent them across several routes to hunt the King Organization, with Zhou Deng assigned to protect He Yin'er.
• Yang Jian traveled to a small city and found three King Organization members hiding there to avoid their assigned mission.
• Yang Jian killed the three men with ghost fire, and the Ghost Lake released three vicious ghosts overseas after absorbing their corpses.
• Li Jun and Liu San tracked enemies to a small town, where a bearded foreign man in a cowboy hat revealed that he had been waiting for them.

Li Jun, Liu San’s paper effigy, and A Hong confronted Simon and his King Organization squad after they attacked Ma Jun. As Simon’s ambush began, A Hong used Ghost Makeup to become Wei Jing and killed one of the squad members, leaving the others facing her temporary captain-level power.

• Li Jun and Liu San realized that Simon and five nearby Ghost Tamers had surrounded them, and Simon revealed that they belonged to the King Organization.
• Simon unleashed his Ghost Domain and fired a cursed shotgun at Li Jun, but the weapon burst apart and its ghostly ammunition began decaying Simon’s body.
• Simon ordered his squad to attack A Hong and Liu San, and their first wave of supernatural attacks tore Liu San’s paper effigy apart.
• A Hong completed her Ghost Makeup and transformed into Wei Jing, gaining sixty percent of his supernatural power.
• A Hong’s darkness suppressed one squad member’s supernatural abilities, and she killed him before turning toward the remaining four.

A Hong used Wei Jing’s power to kill two King Team members, while Li Jun revealed his Ghost Herder abilities and unleashed Simon’s ghost bullets. The chapter ended with more than twenty fierce ghosts swallowing both Li Jun and Simon.

• A Hong transformed into Wei Jing and killed two members of the King Team as the others fled.
• Li Jun saw that A Hong’s attack had left two corpses and used his Ghost Herder power to awaken the ghosts inside them.
• Simon drew his Ghost Domain around Li Jun and created three equally powerful versions of himself.
• Simon’s hands pierced Li Jun and began draining his supernatural power, but Li Jun triggered the ghosts trapped in Simon’s bullets.
• More than twenty fierce ghosts burst from Simon’s bullets and engulfed both Simon and Li Jun.

Yang Jian and the other captains hunted King Organization members across several cities while He Yuelian returned to Dachang City as its new person in charge. The chapter left the captains continuing their operation and searching for the kings behind the attacks.

• Yang Jian spared an unaffiliated Ghost Tamer in a small city and continued searching for King Organization members.
• He Yuelian visited her brother He Long in Dachang City, reassured him, and left as gray paper ash spread across the city.
• He Yuelian confronted a squad of King Organization Ghost Tamers in Dachang City and killed them with the complete Ghost Painting.
• Wang Chaling and Lu Zhiwen killed more than a dozen King Organization Ghost Tamers and discussed hunting down the kings leading the operation.

Cao Yang, Lin Bei, and Li Lepeng went to a Hong Kong wharf to exchange the manor owner's head for Zhang Sun's remains, but the King Organization used the trade to lure them into a supernatural trap. After Su Fan warned them too late to escape, three apparent kings confronted the captains, while the other captains were occupied elsewhere.

• Cao Yang, Lin Bei, and Li Lepeng arrived at the deserted wharf and waited for the King Organization, discussing Hong Kong's missing person in charge, Su Fan.
• An ordinary boatman delivered a gold box containing Zhang Sun's badly mutilated remains, and Cao Yang sent back a prepared box that did not contain the manor owner's head.
• After the three captains left the wharf, Su Fan texted Cao Yang a warning, but Cao Yang's Ghost Domain could not take them out of the area.
• Lin Bei realized the wharf had been replaced by a supernatural place, and the missionary, a terrifying old woman, and a projected figure appeared around them.
• The missionary explained that the King Organization had used the trade as an opportunity to attack because the other captains were occupied elsewhere, and Lin Bei deduced that the organization had split its forces.

Yang Jian sensed Cao Yang's distress and rushed to the Hong Kong dock, where five Kings of the King Organization were attacking Cao Yang, Lin Bei, and Li Lepeng. As Cao Yang was trapped and cut apart inside a supernatural projection, Yang Jian emerged from a puddle, leaving the missionary and the other Kings facing unexpected reinforcements.

• Yang Jian sensed Cao Yang's call for help through Ghost Lake and traveled to the Hong Kong dock.
• The King Organization's Kings targeted Cao Yang while Li Lepeng killed members of their squads and Lin Bei subdued a foreign old man.
• Cao Yang endured the Kings' attacks with his supernatural protections, but one King pulled him into a black-and-white projection and attacked him with a chainsaw.
• Lin Bei tried to reach Cao Yang but was blocked by two Kings, while the missionary stopped Li Lepeng from helping.
• Yang Jian emerged from a puddle in the supernatural world, startling the missionary and the other Kings.

Yang Jian arrived during the King Organization’s attempt to kill three captains and turned the battle around by attacking the kings and freeing Lin Bei from a mental assault. He ended the chapter with one king pinned by the coffin nail, leaving the captains with the advantage in numbers.

• Yang Jian emerged from the water, and the preacher offered to halt the operation if Yang Jian handed over the manor owner’s head.
• Yang Jian rejected the deal, engulfed the king squad members in ghost fire, and sent Ghost Dream after the ink-covered man.
• The gaunt old man blocked Ghost Dream, but Yang Jian struck him with the firewood axe and broke through his supernatural interference.
• Ghost Dream invaded the ink-covered man’s consciousness, freeing Lin Bei from the assault as Yang Jian joined the fight against the kings.
• Lin Bei faced the recovered old woman while Yang Jian froze the battlefield and used the coffin nail to pin the ink-covered man, reducing the fight to four kings against four captains.

Yang Jian defeated two kings, but the old man’s Black Coffin nearly trapped him in a deadly supernatural attack before the old man’s weakened body gave out. The enemy retreated with one king after exchanging him for the mutilated Cao Yang, and Yang Jian’s group returned to the real world with Cao Yang alive.

• Yang Jian nailed the ink-covered king to the ground, then became immobilized when the old man began lowering the Black Coffin.
• The old man’s supernatural attack ended when his damaged body broke apart, freeing Yang Jian and revealing that the old man could no longer bear its cost.
• The preacher ordered a retreat as the enemy transformed the surroundings, while Yang Jian and Lin Bei held onto two captured kings.
• Yang Jian negotiated Cao Yang’s release in exchange for the old man, and the enemy accepted the trade.
• Yang Jian and the others returned to the real world with Cao Yang, who questioned the exchange, but Yang Jian and Lin Bei defended saving him.

After Yang Jian and the others defeated the King Organization’s ambush, Cao Yang left the team as a deadly curse and his failing supernatural balance left him unable to survive. He said goodbye to Cao Yanhua before vanishing with the approaching ghost, and Headquarters planned to report him missing.

• Yang Jian, Lin Bei, and Li Lepeng assessed their victory over the King Organization, while Cao Yang revealed that a curse would bring a ghost to kill him after midnight.
• Yang Jian restored Cao Yang’s body with the Liar Ghost’s power, then burned and dismembered the captured enemies and sealed their remains in boxes.
• Cao Yang left the docks alone, explaining that he would hide from the ghost, but went to a reef and accepted that his failing supernatural balance left him no hope.
• Cao Yang called Cao Yanhua, reported the victory, and asked him to tell his parents he was sorry and to claim he had gone missing rather than reveal his death.
• The ghost arrived and disrupted the call; Cao Yang and the ghost vanished, leaving only his phone behind.

Yang Jian investigated why he had lost contact with Li Jun’s team and learned that Li Jun and A Hong had disappeared into the sea after containing out-of-control ghosts. He took A Hong’s red makeup case and considered trying to recreate her, though he knew the result would not be the real A Hong.

• Yang Jian returned to Dadong City with Lin Bei and Li Lepeng, where the other captains reported their operations against the King Organization had mostly succeeded.
• Wang Guoqiang told Yang Jian that Li Jun, Liu San, and A Hong had stopped responding, so Yang Jian traveled alone to their last known location.
• Yang Jian found the coastal county deserted and discovered a damaged paper effigy of Liu San, who told him that Li Jun’s team had fought a King-led group there.
• Liu San explained that A Hong had become a Faceless Man after nearly wiping out the enemy team, while Li Jun defeated Simon but used the Ghost Herder’s power to lead the uncontrolled ghosts into the sea.
• Liu San gave Yang Jian A Hong’s red makeup case, and Yang Jian decided to try using the Liar Ghost to create a body and draw A Hong’s face.

After Li Jun and A Hong died fighting the King Organization, Yang Jian returned to Ning'an Building and told the captains about their sacrifice. With the Ghost Ship expected to arrive soon and Headquarters weakened, the captains planned to recruit reinforcements, leaving Yang Jian’s proposal to enlist Zhang Xianguang under debate.

• Yang Jian returned to Ning'an Building with Liu San's preserved makeup case and reported that Li Jun and A Hong had likely died after defeating King Simon.
• The captains discussed whether Ghost Makeup could revive Li Jun and A Hong, and Yang Jian promised to try using the makeup case.
• Lu Zhiwen urged Headquarters to recruit captain candidates, and Yang Jian agreed while asking Wang Guoqiang to reassess the city heads.
• Yang Jian recommended Ye Zhen, and the captains accepted after Yang Jian vouched for him.
• Yang Jian recommended Zhang Xianguang as another ally, but He Yin'er and Liu San's paper man opposed releasing him because he was too dangerous.
• Yang Jian argued that Zhang Xianguang's Taoyuan Plan conflicted with the King Organization's Ark Plan, prompting Lu Zhiwen to acknowledge the strategic logic.

After the captains agreed to recruit more help against the King Organization, Yang Jian visited Zhang Xianguang in his dream and asked him to join the coming battle. Zhang Xianguang agreed on the condition that Yang Jian return his knife.

• Yang Jian and the captains approved mobilizing candidate captains and inviting Ye Zhen, while leaving open the possibility of contacting Zhang Xianguang.
• The King Organization argued over the failed operation, and the man in the gentleman’s hat tried to replace the missionary as their leader.
• Yang Jian went to sleep in Dadong City and entered his dream, where he found Zhang Xianguang teaching Zhao Xiaoya.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Xianguang about the King Organization, the coming Ghost Ship, and the shortage of captains, then asked him to help fight.
• Zhang Xianguang agreed to help if Yang Jian returned his knife, and Yang Jian accepted.

Yang Jian traveled to Dahai City and persuaded Ye Zhen to cooperate with Headquarters against the King Organization and the approaching Ghost Ship. Ye Zhen agreed to attend the captains’ meeting, while remaining determined to surpass Yang Jian.

• Yang Jian agreed with Zhang Xianguang that Zhang Xianguang would help them win the war in exchange for eventual release.
• Yang Jian arrived in Dahai City and used his Ghost Domain to search for Ye Zhen, alerting the Supernatural Forum.
• Ye Zhen entered Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain and was surprised to find Yang Jian waiting for him with a changed Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian asked Ye Zhen to join Headquarters temporarily as outside support, but Ye Zhen insisted on cooperating as the administrator of the Supernatural Forum instead.
• Yang Jian accepted Ye Zhen’s terms and invited him to the captains’ meeting at Ning'an Building the next morning.
• Yang Jian left Dahai City, and Ye Zhen watched the golden light of his Ghost Domain disappear with envy.

After recounting the costly battle against the King Organization, Yang Jian prepared Tong Qian to join the coming fights by giving her A Hong’s red makeup case. The chapter ended with him providing her a strange, memory-made makeup teacher to train her quickly.

• Yang Jian returned to Shangtong Building and told Li Yang, Huang Ziya, Tong Qian, Wang Yong, and Xiong Wenwen about the battle and its casualties.
• Yang Jian ordered Li Yang to join the mobilized candidate captains, but refused Tong Qian’s request to fight unless she gained another supernatural power.
• Yang Jian chose Tong Qian to inherit A Hong’s red makeup case, explaining that her three faces could let Ghost Makeup draw on powerful supernatural abilities.
• Tong Qian accepted the makeup case and agreed to learn quickly, with Yang Jian recommending she practice painting Wei Jing’s face.
• Yang Jian created Teacher Tony from the Liar Ghost’s human body and stitched memories, then assigned him to train Tong Qian.