Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian followed the Wishing Ghost's guidance through the rain and located the real umbrella among a small group of black umbrellas, but the downpour and surrounding ghosts left him unable to search safely. He ended the chapter trapped in the rain after the storm disrupted his attempts to summon Wang Shan and use Ghost Lake.

• Yang Jian wished for his spear to point toward the real umbrella and charged through the umbrella-holding ghosts, knocking them aside.
• When the spear pointed behind him and then shifted directions, Yang Jian realized the ghost with the real umbrella was moving and chased it at high speed.
• Wang Shan watched as the mass of ghosts gathered around Yang Jian, while their umbrella canopy helped shield him from the rain.
• As Yang Jian's ghosts began reviving faster, his spear finally stopped guiding him, signaling that the real umbrella was nearby.
• Yang Jian dismembered the nearby ghosts and gathered a little over twenty umbrellas, then confirmed the real one was among them.
• Yang Jian tried to summon Wang Shan with the Liar Ghost's necklace and control Ghost Lake, but the rain washed away Wang Shan's figure and disrupted Ghost Lake.

Yang Jian used the Wishing Ghost’s power to narrow down which of many umbrellas was the real Black Umbrella, then grabbed one as the ghosts closed in. The umbrella trapped him in darkness, but he learned it was real and closed it, ending the supernatural incident.

• Yang Jian used repeated wishes and the red spear to narrow the real Black Umbrella to two choices.
• As ghosts crowded in and reached for the umbrellas, Yang Jian grabbed one without testing it further.
• The world turned pitch-black, and Yang Jian became trapped in darkness with the umbrella in his hand.
• The woman from his dream told Yang Jian that the real umbrella caused the darkness and that closing it would restore everything.
• Yang Jian closed the Black Umbrella, returned the world to normal, and decided it should be sealed away.

Yang Jian traveled to Taiping Ancient Town, confirmed Ghost Lake remained contained, and entered Ghost Street to fulfill his agreement with the female corpse. He accompanied her to the paper effigy shop, where she had asked for his help, while he still intended to buy a coffin.

• Yang Jian sealed the Black Umbrella in a gold-wrapped box and sank it into Ghost Lake before heading to Taiping Ancient Town.
• Yang Jian checked that Ghost Lake had not spread and entered the flooded ancient town and Ghost Street using his supernatural abilities.
• Yang Jian brought the female corpse to Ghost Street, completing their agreement, and she asked him to guide her to a paper effigy shop.
• Yang Jian led the female corpse to the shop and agreed to accompany her inside.

Yang Jian brought the female corpse to a paper effigy shop, where she sought a damaged effigy resembling her. He used ghost money to buy it and two other effigies, after making her agree to join his team.

• Yang Jian noticed the shop’s modern paper goods and watched the female corpse fixate on a damaged paper effigy resembling her.
• The shop’s supernatural presence warned the female corpse not to touch the effigy unless she bought it, while a cold breeze pushed it away.
• Yang Jian showed his forty ghost dollars, causing the shop to brighten and offer two paper effigies with a third free.
• The female corpse agreed to join Yang Jian’s team in exchange for his help buying the effigy.
• Yang Jian paid six ghost dollars for the two paper effigies guarding the entrance and the female corpse’s chosen effigy.

Yang Jian helped Lin Yunhui recover the missing half of herself, bringing her back to life and binding her to their agreement to handle supernatural incidents. As they continued through Ghost Street, Lin Yunhui explained how she had tried to escape ghost revival during the Republican Era.

• Yang Jian watched the beautiful paper figure burn and merge with Lin Yunhui, restoring her and bringing her back to life.
• Yang Jian gave Lin Yunhui clothes and warned her that they would become enemies if she broke their agreement; Lin Yunhui promised to honor it.
• Lin Yunhui considered taking a new name but kept her former name, and Yang Jian introduced himself.
• Lin Yunhui told Yang Jian that she had sought ways to delay ghost revival in Taiping Town, but the medicine shop owner had refused to give her medicine.
• Lin Yunhui explained that she sold half of herself to the paper effigy shop and chose a coffin to suppress ghost revival, planning to retrieve the missing half if she survived.

Yang Jian and Lin Yunhui reached the Coffin Shop, where Yang Jian tried to buy a Red Coffin to prepare for a ghost's revival. After the shop repeatedly raised its price and added a carrying fee, Yang Jian lost patience and prepared to attack it.

• Yang Jian told Lin Yunhui he was considering robbing the Coffin Shop, and she warned that the risk was great.
• The Coffin Shop offered coffins for ten ghost money, but its unseen voice refused to sell Yang Jian any Red Coffin, claiming they were reserved.
• The voice demanded that Yang Jian outbid a previous seven-ghost-money deposit, so he agreed to pay twenty ghost money for a Red Coffin.
• The Coffin Shop then demanded an additional four ghost money as a carrying fee, and Yang Jian put away his money, gripped his red spear, and summoned ghost fire.

Yang Jian and Lin Yunhui robbed the supernatural Coffin Shop by breaking through its boundary into Taiping Ancient Town and throwing coffins into reality. They escaped as ghosts emerged inside the shop, leaving its owner demanding the coffins back.

• Yang Jian ignited ghost fire, seized a red coffin, and chopped apart the Coffin Shop’s supernatural door when it shut against him.
• Yang Jian recognized that the darkness outside the shop formed an endless supernatural loop and refused the shopkeeper’s demand for payment.
• Yang Jian broke open a passage to submerged Taiping Ancient Town by hurling the coffin through the boundary.
• Yang Jian and Lin Yunhui threw several more coffins through the opening before ghosts began gathering outside the shop.
• Yang Jian and Lin Yunhui escaped to Taiping Ancient Town as the passage closed and old corpses appeared inside the Coffin Shop.
• The Coffin Shop’s unseen owner demanded that Yang Jian return the stolen coffins.

After robbing the Coffin Shop once, Yang Jian returned repeatedly to steal more coffins by exploiting the shop’s rules and escaping its supernatural traps. He agreed to stop when the shop offered him all its ghost money, which could help him repay Sister Hong.

• Yang Jian and Lin Yunhui returned to Taiping Ancient Town with eight stolen coffins, and Yang Jian decided to rob the Coffin Shop again.
• The Coffin Shop shut its doors, but Yang Jian broke them open, argued that the shop owed him four coffins and compensation, then entered.
• Yang Jian took a red coffin and used the bus’s supernatural power to escape the shop’s trap, then returned twice more to steal the remaining coffins.
• The Coffin Shop offered Yang Jian money to make him stop, and he agreed to take all the ghost money instead of continuing to rob it.
• The Coffin Shop blew its colorful paper money out toward Yang Jian and Lin Yunhui.

Yang Jian returned to Dachang City with Lin Yunhui, assigned her to handle supernatural incidents, and stored ten empty coffins at Wang Shanshan’s house before preparing to confront his ghostly resurgence. He learned that the sealed third room upstairs had begun making noises around midnight, then retrieved the human-skin paper to seek guidance.

• Yang Jian accepted two hundred yuan in compensation from the Coffin Shop and left Taiping Ancient Town with Lin Yunhui for Dachang City.
• Yang Jian introduced Lin Yunhui to his team and assigned her several supernatural incident case files to handle.
• Yang Jian returned to Guangjiang Residential Area and stored ten empty coffins at Wang Shanshan’s house.
• Wang Shanshan told Yang Jian that the sealed third room on the second floor had recently made noises around midnight.
• Yang Jian left Wang Shanshan’s house and retrieved the human-skin paper from the lake water.

With two days left before his ghostly resurgence, Yang Jian rejected the human-skin paper’s options of taking Chinese medicine or hiding in the Red Coffin and sought a way to solve the problem permanently. The paper led him to consider controlling Yan Li’s ghost blood, but a precognitive image of his corpse in the blood pool left him uncertain whether to take the risk.

• Yang Jian learned that the Chinese medicine would only delay his ghostly resurgence by twenty days and concluded that both it and the Red Coffin were dangerous stopgaps.
• Yang Jian demanded a direct solution from the human-skin paper, which described him searching Headquarters’ records without finding an answer.
• As the countdown continued, Yang Jian recalled Yan Li’s ghost blood and considered using it to suppress the bus’s supernatural power.
• The human-skin paper’s account ended with Yang Jian jumping into the blood pool, leaving his fate unknown.
• Yang Jian connected the plan to a precognitive image of his corpse in the blood pool and weighed gambling on the ghost blood against being trapped in the Red Coffin.

Yang Jian visited the Chinese medicine shop to confirm the risks of the life-extending medicine and spoke with the Blind Old Man. He learned that the medicine only delayed supernatural revival and would make it worse when it wore off, leaving him to face his imminent death with his own plan.

• Yang Jian decided he had little choice but to gamble on controlling Ghost Blood, though he considered taking the medicine to buy twenty days.
• Yang Jian traveled to the Chinese medicine shop and argued with Xiao Ru, who said her master no longer wanted to see visitors and had lost hope in the era.
• Yang Jian shook the shop with his supernatural power, and the Blind Old Man called from the back room and agreed to meet him.
• Yang Jian entered the back room, saw the black coffin, and helped the Blind Old Man sit up.
• The Blind Old Man examined Yang Jian and warned that he would not survive two days; he explained that the medicine delayed revival but made it more intense after its effects ended.

Yang Jian refused the Chinese medicine and a coffin, choosing instead to risk controlling the ghost blood to find a new balance. After arranging for Li Yang to manage Dachang City if he failed to return, he headed toward the blood-soaked outskirts where he expected to face ghost revival.

• Yang Jian told the Blind Old Man he would not take the medicine or lie in a coffin, and left one hundred yuan in ghost money for Sister Hong.
• The Blind Old Man told Xiao Ru that Yang Jian's resolve gave him hope and asked her to remember his name and keep an eye on him.
• Yang Jian called Li Yang, explained that he was nearing ghost revival, and entrusted him with Dachang City and the coffins he had left with Wang Shanshan.
• Yang Jian returned to Dachang City and went to the sealed highway, where ghost blood had stained the land around a bottomless pool.
• Yang Jian crossed the barrier, discarded his belongings into the pooled water and Ghost Lake, and kept only the red spear.

Yang Jian entered the blood pool to balance its supernatural force against the power of the supernatural bus, leaving himself unable to sense the outside world. Eight days later, Li Yang found the red spear, confirmed Yang Jian was submerged, and chose to keep his condition secret while managing Dachang City.

• Yang Jian burned away the supernatural-tainted land with ghost fire, leaving the blood pool untouched.
• Yang Jian made a one-year wish with the red spear to protect the area, then entered the blood pool.
• Yang Jian lost all his senses as the ghost blood tried to erode him, while his consciousness remained clear.
• The blood pool stayed silent for days, and the strange phenomena that had emerged from it stopped.
• On the eighth day, Li Yang found the red spear and realized Yang Jian was in the blood pool.
• Li Yang decided to conceal Yang Jian’s condition and took over his work in Dachang City.

After three months of concealing Yang Jian’s whereabouts, Li Yang revealed that the captain was at the outskirts of Dachang City, dealing with the Ghost Blood incident. His teammates rushed to investigate, while Liu Xiaoyu prepared to inform Headquarters.

• Three months after Yang Jian disappeared, supernatural incidents and losses among captains left the world in crisis, while Li Yang struggled to manage Dachang City.
• Huang Ziya, Tong Qian, Wang Yong, and Xiong Wenwen pressed Li Yang to reveal what he knew about Yang Jian.
• Li Yang admitted Yang Jian had warned him he might disappear and had left plans to protect the team, including a limited means of saving injured teammates.
• Li Yang pointed toward the outskirts and revealed that Yang Jian was at the unresolved Ghost Blood incident in Dachang City.
• Lin Yunhui, Huang Ziya, and Tong Qian hurried to investigate, while Liu Xiaoyu prepared to inform Deputy Minister Wang Guoqiang.

Li Yang told Yang Jian's teammates that Yang Jian had entered the ghost blood to balance his supernatural powers, and argued that Ghost Child's continued control proved he was alive. He left the blood pool sealed off and urged the team to stay united while they awaited Yang Jian's return.

• The teammates found no sign of Yang Jian at the blocked highway, only a pool of ghost blood and his red spear.
• Wang Yong and Lin Yunhui suggested Yang Jian might have died after spending three months inside the ghost blood, prompting Li Yang to defend him.
• Li Yang said Ghost Child would lose control if Yang Jian were dead, and explained that it could only appear within its range.
• Li Yang warned the teammates against betraying the team and promised to help them survive supernatural revival.
• Li Yang refused to let anyone disturb Yang Jian or take his cursed Supernatural Weapon, and said he would keep the area sealed and patrol it.

While Yang Jian remained dormant in ghost blood, rumors of his death spread among the captains, who considered visiting him or preparing for a future without him. In Ghost Dream, Yang Jian told Jiang Yan, Zhang Liqin, and Zhang Wei that his body still had no sensation and he could not wake yet.

• Wang Chaling learned of Yang Jian's condition and resolved to stay alive until the fourth generation of his family was born.
• Li Lepeng, Liu San, He Yin'er, and He Yuelian each considered Yang Jian's apparent downfall and planned to confirm his condition or preserve his legacy.
• Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin kept falling asleep because they were being drawn into Ghost Dream, where Yang Jian remained active.
• Yang Jian told Jiang Yan, Zhang Liqin, and Zhang Wei that he could not leave the dream because his body still had no sensation.

While Yang Jian remained trapped in Ghost Dream's world, he learned that Dachang City and the supernatural circle were becoming harder to manage but chose not to intervene. As others investigated his apparent death and He Yin'er began collecting Ghost Tamer relics, Li Yang agreed to help her while resolving to grow stronger.

• Zhang Wei, Jiang Yan, and Zhang Liqin told Yang Jian about disorder in Dachang City and resistance among the captains, but Yang Jian said he could not control them while trapped in Ghost Dream's world.
• Yang Jian sent Zhang Wei, Jiang Yan, and Zhang Liqin out of Ghost Dream's world and reminded Jiang Yan to keep his condition secret.
• Liu San sent a paper effigy to investigate the ghost blood pool, where Yang Jian's red spear destroyed it, then decided to leave rather than risk confronting Yang Jian.
• He Yin'er visited Li Yang at Shangtong Building and asked him to gather items regularly used by Yang Jian and other powerful Ghost Tamers for her soul-summoning ability.
• Li Yang agreed to prepare Yang Jian's belongings for He Yin'er, who offered to help protect Dachang City while Yang Jian was away.

He Yuelian tried to use her ghost-summoning power to confirm whether Yang Jian was alive, bringing her into conflict with Li Yang and Tong Qian. Yang Jian’s vicious dog emerged from the blood pool and pulled all three into the Ghost Dream, where they became ordinary people and Tong Qian believed she had the advantage.

• Li Yang learned He Yuelian had appeared near Yang Jian’s blood pool and went there with Tong Qian to stop her.
• He Yuelian continued summoning ghosts from the pool despite Li Yang and Tong Qian’s warnings, and Tong Qian prepared to fight her.
• A gigantic black vicious dog burst from the blood pool and vanished after lunging at He Yuelian.
• The Ghost Dream put He Yuelian, Li Yang, and Tong Qian to sleep and drew their consciousness into its world.
• Li Yang explained that dying in the Ghost Dream would kill their consciousness outside, while Tong Qian saw He Yuelian as an ordinary person and believed she could defeat her.

In the Ghost Dream world, Yang Jian stopped Li Yang and Tong Qian from killing He Yuelian and revealed that her power and memories were tied to safeguards involving Zhang Xianguang. He forced her to choose whether to accept his control, and she submitted, leaving Yang Jian with her under restraint.

• He Yuelian lost her supernatural powers in the Ghost Dream world, and Li Yang and Tong Qian chased her with the intent to kill her.
• He Yuelian ran into Yang Jian, who revealed that killing her could destabilize Ghost Painting and give Zhang Xianguang an opportunity to enact the Peach Blossom Spring Plan.
• Yang Jian explained that he had altered He Yuelian’s memories and made her a contingency key, while Zhang Xianguang could restrain her if Yang Jian died.
• Yang Jian asked He Yuelian what one plus one was, forcing her to choose between defiance and submission.
• He Yuelian answered that one plus one equaled three, and Yang Jian accepted her choice as Li Yang recognized that she had been tamed.

After He Yuelian’s Ghost Painting contained the corpses rising from the blood pool, Yang Jian’s body emerged as the final corpse. Li Yang ordered He Yuelian to guard it until Yang Jian awakened, and she agreed.

• Tong Qian, Li Yang, and He Yuelian awoke from the Ghost Dream, and He Yuelian accepted that she would have to follow Yang Jian’s warning.
• The blood pool churned and released corpse after corpse, which Tong Qian suspected had come from a connected supernatural place.
• He Yuelian used Ghost Painting to imprison the rising corpses, creating more than a dozen paintings before the pool settled.
• Yang Jian’s corpse surfaced last, and Li Yang told He Yuelian she had to guard it until Yang Jian awakened.
• He Yuelian agreed to remain as the corpse guard, fearing the consequences if she refused.