Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian planned to lure the captain into the old residence by retrieving the supernatural bus ghost from the Ghost Ship, but he needed someone to distract the captain. Ye Zhen arrived and blocked the captain as Yang Jian entered the ship, only to discover that the captain could pull the coffin nail from its body.

• Yang Jian escaped the captain but realized it still held his former body and the supernatural power left inside it, so he decided to try drawing the captain into the old residence.
• Yang Jian deduced that the supernatural bus ghost might be inside the Ghost Ship and that its power could let him cross into the supernatural region.
• Yang Jian found Tong Qian incapacitated after her attempt to use Ghost Makeup failed, leaving him without anyone to hold off the captain.
• Ye Zhen arrived, and Yang Jian asked him to distract the captain before diving into the Ghost Ship to find the supernatural bus ghost.
• The captain pursued Yang Jian, but Ye Zhen blocked its path; after Yang Jian warned him about the coffin nail, the captain dropped Yang Jian's corpse and pulled the nail from its body.

Yang Jian searched the Ghost Ship’s cabin for the supernatural bus ghost and discovered it fused with a decayed red coffin and the surrounding sludge. He freed the incomplete ghost by removing the female corpse that had protected the coffin, but the corpse vanished after he threw it aside.

• Yang Jian entered the Ghost Ship’s cabin through the supernatural bus’s breach and searched its trash-filled depths for the bus ghost.
• Yang Jian found a fresh female corpse in a damaged coffin and avoided disturbing it while he continued searching.
• Yang Jian located the supernatural bus’s driver’s seat and discovered the incomplete ghost beneath it, fused to the coffin and the Ghost Ship.
• Yang Jian determined that removing the female corpse would release the coffin and the ghost, then pulled her from the coffin and tossed her aside.
• The coffin collapsed, allowing Yang Jian to dig out the broken bus ghost, while the female corpse disappeared unnoticed.

Yang Jian escaped the Ghost Ship with half of the captain’s corpse and used its supernatural power to pull himself and Ye Zhen into a supernatural land when Ye Zhen was overwhelmed by ghosts. There, Yang Jian prepared to make another move against the captain and end the Ghost Ship incident.

• Yang Jian carried half of the mangled corpse out of the Ghost Ship while using his ghostly shadow to begin controlling it, despite the danger that its dormant power might revive.
• Ye Zhen kept the captain from returning to the Ghost Ship, then threw the coffin nail into the Ghost Lake so the captain could not reclaim it.
• The Ghost Ship released a flood of ghosts that buried Ye Zhen, and he vanished from the battlefield without leaving a corpse.
• Yang Jian used the new supernatural power to take himself and Ye Zhen across reality’s boundary into a supernatural land.
• Yang Jian told Ye Zhen he would act again to imprison the captain, with an ancient mansion in the forest behind him as the next destination.

Yang Jian and Ye Zhen returned to Ghost Lake and faced the captain and the ghosts it had turned against them. Yang Jian discovered his newly acquired bus power could force ghosts into dormancy, giving them a way to fight as he prepared to lure the captain into the ancient house.

• Liu San and He Yuelian discussed using Old Qin’s statue as a last resort if Yang Jian’s operation failed.
• Vicious ghosts began emerging from the full Ghost Lake, and Yang Jian and Ye Zhen reappeared above it.
• The captain and the ghosts on the lake turned toward Yang Jian and Ye Zhen as they prepared to lure the captain toward the ancient house.
• Yang Jian found that few ghosts were targeting him with curse threads, while the lake’s ghosts advanced under the captain’s influence.
• Yang Jian kicked a ghost into dormancy, then confirmed that his bus power let him strike ghosts and immobilize them.

After taking control of the paranormal bus ghost, Yang Jian gained terrifying power and could see the old house overlaid on the real world. He located the trap’s corresponding spot beneath a high-rise in Dazhou City and tried to lure the captain into it, but the captain sensed danger and stayed outside.

• Yang Jian’s new power sent attacking vicious ghosts flying and left them dormant, while Liu San, He Yuelian, and Tong Qian worried about the cost of his sudden increase in strength.
• Yang Jian cleared a path for Ye Zhen and headed toward the real-world location corresponding to the ancient house.
• Yang Jian discovered that his Ghost Eye could see the old house and the real world at once, and realized the bus ghost had invaded his body.
• Yang Jian found that the old house’s courtyard corresponded to an open space beneath a high-rise building, where the captain could be trapped if drawn to the center.
• Yang Jian and Ye Zhen retreated into the building to make it seem like the trap was inside, but the captain stayed outside as the vicious ghosts followed them in.

Yang Jian and Ye Zhen lured the Captain into a trap that sent him into the supernatural old house, where the revived Zhang Dong began to approach him. The two stayed on the roof to prevent the Captain from escaping and watched to see whether Zhang Dong could contain him.

• Yang Jian explained that he was waiting for the Captain to enter the building’s entrance while he and Ye Zhen fought off the other ghosts.
• The Captain grew restless as Yang Jian and Ye Zhen held their ground, and he gradually wandered toward the trap outside the building.
• Yang Jian waited until the Captain stood at the trap’s center, then shattered the boundary between reality and the supernatural as he and Ye Zhen rushed outside.
• The Captain appeared inside the old house’s courtyard, where the revived Zhang Dong rose from his Grand Tutor Chair and began walking toward him.
• Yang Jian and Ye Zhen landed on the roof and prepared to interfere if the Captain tried to escape.

Yang Jian and Ye Zhen watched Zhang Dong erase the captain inside the old residence. The captain’s body nearly vanished, but its ship’s wheel remained, revealing its apparent true form.

• Yang Jian and Ye Zhen watched as Zhang Dong approached the captain, who chose to confront him rather than flee.
• The captain rolled a supernatural copper coin toward Zhang Dong, but Zhang Dong ignored it and stripped away its supernatural nature.
• The captain struck Zhang Dong with Yang Jian’s red spear, but the weapon’s power was erased and the spear shattered.
• The captain summoned the Ghost Ship to invade the old residence, but Zhang Dong erased the mist and the ship.
• Zhang Dong waved his hand repeatedly, erasing the captain’s limbs and most of its body as it tried to escape.
• Yang Jian realized that the captain’s true form might be the wooden ship’s wheel that remained after its body disappeared.

Yang Jian and Ye Zhen remained missing after their plan made the captain disappear, but the Ghost Lake ghosts began spreading and the Ghost Ship started moving again. Liu San summoned Old Qin’s statue, and Old Qin awakened and set out to take the Ghost Ship away.

• Liu San and He Yuelian observed that Yang Jian, Ye Zhen, and the captain had vanished, while the Ghost Lake ghosts began spreading and the Ghost Ship started moving.
• Liu San decided to use Old Qin’s statue, and Tong Qian and He Yuelian agreed as the statue was dropped onto a nearby rooftop.
• Liu San, He Yuelian, and Tong Qian saw black corpse fluid leak from the damaged statue and feared Old Qin had died inside it.
• Old Qin appeared beside the statue as phantom figures gathered around him, then said this was his final awakening and that he would sail the Ghost Ship away.
• Old Qin walked toward the Ghost Ship while his decaying body shed pieces of flesh.

Yang Jian and Ye Zhen defeated the captain in the old house, only to learn that the Ghost Ship could produce another captain. Back in Dazhou City, Yang Jian found Old Qin steering the ship and learned that he had arranged his final sacrifice long ago.

• The captain vanished before Zhang Dong, leaving a ship's wheel behind, and Yang Jian and Ye Zhen left the old house.
• Yang Jian and Ye Zhen returned to Dazhou City and learned from Liu San that Old Qin had boarded the Ghost Ship and drawn most of Ghost Lake's ghosts aboard.
• Yang Jian boarded the Ghost Ship and spoke with Old Qin, who revealed that he could communicate with his future self and had planned to vanish with the ship.
• Old Qin offered to bring the remaining Ghost Lake ghosts aboard, and Yang Jian left to release them before time ran out.
• Old Qin called after Yang Jian and said that when people around the world called his name, the supernatural era would be near its end.

After Old Qin ended the Ghost Ship incident, Yang Jian restored Dazhou City and returned to Dachang City to rest, while the surviving leaders faced the coming supernatural resurgence. At Headquarters, Cao Yanhua collapsed from exhaustion, and Wang Guoqiang took over as urgent reports revealed that too few people remained to contain the growing crises.

• Old Qin used the last of his life to control the Ghost Ship and take the fierce ghosts away from Ghost Lake, ending the incident as Yang Jian and Liu San watched the ship disappear.
• Yang Jian drained Ghost Lake, and He Yuelian used Ghost Painting to restore Dazhou City and its residents; Yang Jian returned Ye Zhen's Supernatural Weapon.
• Ye Zhen proposed that he and Yang Jian unite the remaining Ghost Tamers and rule the world, but Yang Jian refused and told Ye Zhen to go on alone.
• Yang Jian told the others to rest, then used Ghost Domain to take Tong Qian and the supernatural pendulum clock back to Dachang City; He Yuelian also left, and Liu San disappeared into Dazhou City.
• After hearing that the Ghost Ship incident had ended, Cao Yanhua collapsed from exhaustion and was taken to the emergency room, so Wang Guoqiang took over Headquarters' duties.
• Wang Guoqiang received urgent reports of supernatural incidents across the country and realized Headquarters lacked enough recovered Ghost Tamers to handle them.

Yang Jian returned to Dachang City after defeating the King Organization and warned Shangtong Building that the supernatural era was approaching. He summoned Ghost Child and brought the human skin paper to an upcoming meeting as he prepared to protect the city.

• Yang Jian arrived at Shangtong Building, ignored the wealthy visitors and women seeking his favor, and greeted Keiko before going upstairs.
• Yang Jian reunited with Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin, then called a meeting and warned them that the supernatural circle had lost many powerful Ghost Tamers.
• Yang Jian found Huang Ziya in his office and discussed the coming crisis and the need to survive.
• Yang Jian checked Ghost Child, retrieved the human skin paper, and told it to attend the upcoming meeting.

Yang Jian warned company executives that supernatural incidents would spiral out of control and organized Dachang City’s preparations for survival. After assigning tasks to his allies, he consulted the human skin paper about how soon his evil spirit would resurge.

• Yang Jian told the gathered executives that most people capable of handling supernatural incidents were dead and that Dachang City could guarantee the safety of at most seven cities.
• Yang Jian assigned Wang Bin to manage supplies and livelihood supermarkets, and instructed Liu Xiaoyu to prepare personnel to punish employees who resold supplies.
• Yang Jian announced plans to clear supernatural dangers in Dachang City and nearby cities, sent Wang Yong to contact new Ghost Tamers, and tasked Old Eagle with visiting the Ghost Post Office.
• Yang Jian ordered Liu Xiaoyu to prepare spirit-containment containers and establish new safe houses.
• Yang Jian spread out the human skin paper and asked how long remained before his next evil spirit resurgence.

Yang Jian learned that the ghost on the supernatural bus would awaken in nine days and kill him, then used the human-skin paper to explore ways to survive. He postponed seeking a solution while he handled other matters, and the paper ominously described the world ahead as a hell of revived vicious ghosts.

• Yang Jian asked the human-skin paper about his condition, and it revealed that the supernatural bus’s ghost would awaken and kill him in nine days.
• Yang Jian threatened to feed the human-skin paper to Ghost Child, prompting it to describe a future in which he controlled Ghost Lake’s remaining power but still died on the ninth day.
• Yang Jian asked how he could survive, and the paper described a coffin from Ghost Street that could keep him alive, though leaving it would cause his immediate death.
• Yang Jian decided he had time to handle other matters before seeking a solution, while Huang Ziya and Jiang Yan urged him to keep asking.
• Yang Jian asked what the world would become, and the human-skin paper answered, “Vicious ghosts revive, Hell on Earth.”

Yang Jian learned from the human-skin paper that the supernatural era was an unstoppable, despairing future and that Dachang City would eventually fall. He kept the information secret, then prepared to face the Black Umbrella and moved his family to safety.

• Yang Jian and Huang Ziya discussed the human-skin paper’s prediction of a world overwhelmed by ghosts and the likely collapse of Dachang City.
• Yang Jian said Old Qin had likely foreseen the same dark future and argued that passing the supernatural threat to future generations would not solve it.
• Yang Jian asked whether the supernatural era could be stopped, but the human-skin paper described repeated failures and a lone survivor’s hope that future generations might end it.
• Yang Jian put away the paper, told Huang Ziya to keep the information confidential, and announced that he would deal with the Black Umbrella alone the next day.
• Yang Jian returned home and told Jiang Yan to take his mother to the completed safe house in their hometown while he handled the coming operation.

Yang Jian returned to Dazhou City to retrieve his Supernatural Weapon before confronting the Black Umbrella, despite the danger posed by Zhang Dong. He used repeated resurrections of Wang Shan to recover the broken spear and reassembled it with the coffin nail.

• Yang Jian told Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin about his recent experiences, then left for Dazhou City, noting that he had only eight days before the ghosts revived.
• Yang Jian resurrected Wang Shan and sent him into the old house to retrieve the spear, where Zhang Dong erased him after he grabbed one half.
• Yang Jian repeatedly resurrected Wang Shan, who gradually moved the spear half into the courtyard and threw it out for Yang Jian to retrieve.
• Wang Shan's repeated attempts brought both halves of the spear out of the old house, and Yang Jian joined them back together.
• Yang Jian retrieved the coffin nail from Ghost Lake, attached it to the restored spear, and left Dazhou City.

Yang Jian traveled to Xiaofeng City to deal with the Black Umbrella incident after resting in Ghost Dream, where he again sensed an unseen watcher he could not locate. He entered the umbrella’s increasingly dangerous Ghost Domain layers and reached the fourth, where his umbrella began to fail in the heavy rain.

• Yang Jian arrived in Xiaofeng City and decided to rest before confronting the Black Umbrella incident.
• In Ghost Dream, Yang Jian felt watched, searched a village and open area with the vicious dog, but found no intruder.
• After waking at ten in the morning, Yang Jian went to the rain-soaked construction site and entered the Black Umbrella’s second layer by taking an umbrella from a ghost.
• Yang Jian repeated the process on the second and third layers, taking umbrellas from ghosts to advance into the third and fourth layers.
• On the fourth layer, Yang Jian found that the scenery had become a cluster of abandoned wooden houses and that the heavy rain was ruining his umbrella, so he lit a white ghost candle to draw out the nearby ghosts.

Yang Jian crossed into the Ghost Umbrella’s fifth layer, where torrential rain forced him to shelter inside a strange house filled with Black Umbrellas. As he investigated the umbrellas, the female corpse from the Ghost Ship appeared behind him, and he noticed that some of the lime covering its face had peeled away.

• Yang Jian used a white ghost candle to draw the fourth-layer ghosts close, cut an umbrella from one ghost with his old chopping knife, and advanced into the fifth layer.
• Yang Jian found a village of intact, empty houses and forced open a door made from two coffin lids to escape the fifth layer’s rain.
• Inside the house, Yang Jian found many Black Umbrellas and used ghost fire to test them, discovering that a few open, intact umbrellas could not be burned.
• As Yang Jian reached for one unburnable umbrella, the female corpse from the Ghost Ship appeared behind him, and he saw that part of the lime on its face had peeled away.

Yang Jian freed the conscious female corpse after realizing she might be warning him away from the Black Umbrella. When she grabbed his wrist, she pulled him into Ghost Dream, where he found her appearing as a normal woman in his hometown village.

• Yang Jian impaled the female corpse with the coffin nail, then wondered whether she had appeared to stop him from taking the Black Umbrella.
• Yang Jian pulled out the coffin nail and warned the female corpse that he would imprison her again if she did not respond.
• The female corpse stopped when Yang Jian struck the spear against the ground, then raised a hand without making her intention clear.
• Yang Jian took the female corpse's hand, and she suddenly seized his wrist, causing him to enter Ghost Dream.
• Yang Jian summoned the vicious dog in his hometown village and saw the female corpse standing nearby with an uncovered, normal-looking face.

In Ghost Dream's world, Yang Jian learned that the woman following him was an incomplete survivor from the Republican Era and heard her warning about the Black Umbrella's deadly sixth layer. Returning to the umbrella village, he began testing umbrellas with Wang Shan duplicates, but the first trials revealed that the search could unleash dangerous ghosts.

• The woman told Yang Jian she had survived inside a coffin aboard the Ghost Ship and was compelled by a fierce ghost to follow him.
• Yang Jian demanded a reason to help her, and she offered to resolve the Black Umbrella incident.
• The woman warned Yang Jian that the real umbrella was among those on the fifth layer and that entering the sixth layer meant no return.
• Yang Jian woke from Ghost Dream, chose to search the umbrellas using people resurrected by the Liar Ghost, and brought back Wang Shan.
• Wang Shan picked up an umbrella and vanished, while other Wang Shan duplicates tested umbrellas and triggered ghost attacks that Yang Jian had to contain.

Yang Jian used the Wishing Ghost’s power to search for the real black umbrella, but the torrential rain repeatedly washed away the red spear’s guidance. After realizing the umbrella might be held by one of the ghosts outside, he deliberately exposed himself to the rain to draw them out, leaving him surrounded by a growing crowd of umbrella-holding figures.

• Yang Jian wished for the red spear to guide him to the real umbrella, but the rain washed it clean after it pointed toward the door.
• Yang Jian crossed the rain to search another house, and his umbrella broke before he reached shelter.
• After Yang Jian got soaked, black figures holding umbrellas appeared outside, and he concluded that the rain drew the fifth-floor ghosts toward anyone it touched.
• Yang Jian made another wish, confirmed that the umbrella was not in the houses, and told Wang Shan to stay inside while he investigated.
• Yang Jian entered the rain without an umbrella to lure the ghost holding the real one, but countless umbrella-holding figures gathered around him as his supernatural strength began to seem finite.