Chapter Summaries

After speaking with Luo Wensong, Yang Jian formed a plan to restore peace amid the supernatural era and went to investigate Dahai City. There he found Ye Zhen living in seclusion in Fushouyuan Cemetery, where the exhausted Ghost Tamer collapsed back onto his sofa after recognizing Yang Jian.

• Yang Jian left Luo Wensong's grave and returned to the real world, deciding to investigate Dahai City.
• Yang Jian searched Dahai City and found signs that Ye Zhen had secretly dealt with its supernatural incidents.
• Yang Jian entered Fushouyuan Cemetery and followed traces of grave digging to a brightly lit villa protected by supernatural red threads.
• Yang Jian entered the villa and found Ye Zhen asleep beside a strange doll while a game was still on the television.
• Ye Zhen woke, recognized Yang Jian, and then slumped back onto the sofa, showing how dispirited he had become.

Yang Jian discovered that Ye Zhen’s despair came from memories of accidentally causing Feng Sisi’s death, which A Wu had once sealed away. He left Ye Zhen to face the memories in Ghost Dream, hoping he would eventually overcome his guilt and awaken stronger.

• Yang Jian found Ye Zhen’s discarded longsword, marked with the names “Zhen” and “Wu,” and used Ghost Dream to enter Ye Zhen’s memories.
• In the dream, Yang Jian watched young Ye Zhen and Feng Sisi volunteer at a nursing home, where students found a suitcase containing the Substitute Ghost.
• The ghost’s power redirected harm done to the suitcase onto people nearby, and Ye Zhen’s attempt to burn the corpse led to Feng Sisi and others dying.
• Ye Zhen jumped from a building with the corpse and accidentally became a Ghost Tamer; A Wu rescued him and sealed his memories of the tragedy.
• Yang Jian chose not to erase or alter Ye Zhen’s memories, instead leaving him to work through his guilt in the dream before departing Fushouyuan Cemetery.

Yang Jian arrived in Headquarters’ city and visited Miao Xiaoshan at the villa he had given her, where many people were sheltering from supernatural incidents. He entrusted her cousin Shangguan Yun with protecting and managing the house before Miao Xiaoshan came out to greet him.

• Wang Guoqiang learned that Yang Jian was coming to Headquarters and ordered preparations for a meeting.
• Yang Jian entered the gold-covered villa and found Shangguan Yun sheltering there with more than twenty people.
• Yang Jian warned Shangguan Yun to preserve the villa’s gold and gave him a golden handgun to help him manage and protect the residents.
• Yang Jian told Shangguan Yun to use the safe room’s gold and assets as needed to protect Miao Xiaoshan and support her future.
• Miao Xiaoshan’s mother called her, and Miao Xiaoshan hurried out in pajamas and froze with tears in her eyes when she saw Yang Jian.

Yang Jian visited Miao Xiaoshan before heading to Headquarters, where he rejected its plans to restore the old Ghost Tamer system. He promised to try to stop supernatural incidents from appearing and told Headquarters to put its faith in him.

• Yang Jian reunited with Miao Xiaoshan, reassured himself that she was safe, and urged her to give her story a happy ending.
• Yang Jian left Miao Xiaoshan and went to Headquarters, where he found its personnel had been almost entirely replaced.
• Wang Guoqiang presented Headquarters' plans to rebuild Ghost Tamer teams and restore its authority, but Yang Jian dismissed them as ineffective.
• Yang Jian argued that the age of the supernatural had ended the old systems and said the only solution was to make fierce ghosts stop appearing.
• Yang Jian told Headquarters he would pursue that goal and asked them to bet everything on him, saying he had come to show that there was still hope.

Yang Jian returned to Dachang City and brought Zhang Xianguang to the sealed third door, intending to test a way to stop the supernatural era. After breaking it open, Yang Jian and Zhang Xianguang entered the darkness beyond, where a strange road stretched into the depths.

• Yang Jian met Zhang Xianguang outside Guangjiang Residential Area, and they discussed the Peach Blossom Spring Plan and the future of the supernatural world.
• Yang Jian brought Zhang Xianguang to the old house, where Li Yang and Huang Ziya spoke from the ghost coffins and Wang Shanshan warned them about sounds behind the sealed third door.
• Yang Jian revealed that the third door connected reality with the supernatural lands and said he had found a lead to stopping the supernatural era.
• Yang Jian broke down the golden door as Wang Shanshan watched and the ghost child studied Zhang Xianguang.
• Yang Jian entered the darkness beyond the door, and Zhang Xianguang followed him onto a strange road stretching into the depths.

Yang Jian showed Zhang Xianguang the Yin-Yang Road and explained his plan to end the supernatural era by raising Ghost Child into a powerful new existence. Convinced that Yang Jian’s plan had a real chance, Zhang Xianguang agreed to help.

• Yang Jian and Zhang Xianguang entered the third room and reached the boundary between reality and the supernatural world.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to intercept a ghost trying to cross into reality, but Zhang Xianguang warned that the barrier could only delay the supernatural era.
• Yang Jian explained that his ultimate goal was to end the supernatural era by cultivating an existence with human consciousness, immense supernatural power, and a long lifespan.
• Yang Jian summoned several Ghost Children and told Zhang Xianguang they were products of a supernatural collision with nearly limitless potential.
• Zhang Xianguang accepted that Yang Jian’s plan had a chance of success and offered to help, setting aside the Peach Blossom Spring Plan for now.

Yang Jian tested whether his Ghost Domains could block the supernatural world's erosion of reality and discovered that his ninth-layer Ghost Domain could summon past and future versions of himself. He and the summoned Yang Jians created a red road that trapped Zhang Xianguang for over an hour, leaving Yang Jian ready to test more Ghost Domain combinations.

• Yang Jian began testing his Ghost Domains on the Yin-Yang Road, and Zhang Xianguang found that a five-layer Ghost Domain could delay erosion for at most a year.
• Yang Jian opened his ninth-layer Ghost Domain and summoned two scarlet versions of himself, learning that the real Yang Jian anchored their arrival.
• Yang Jian and one summoned version intersected their five-layer Ghost Domains, replacing part of the Yin-Yang Road with a strange red road.
• Zhang Xianguang entered the red road and remained trapped for over an hour while the summoned Yang Jians stayed in reality.
• Yang Jian and his summoned versions agreed to record the effects of different overlapping Ghost Domains and find the best way to block supernatural invasions.

Yang Jian and Zhang Xianguang experimented with overlapping Ghost Domains on Yin-Yang Road to delay the supernatural era, achieving a method that could bring twenty years of peace. After five days, Yang Jian left the room to rest while his summoned counterparts continued testing, and he prepared to keep pursuing a longer-lasting solution.

• Yang Jian tested overlapping Ghost Domains with Zhang Xianguang, who reported that their first successful configuration could delay supernatural revival for about two and a half years.
• Yang Jian and Zhang Xianguang tested different stretches of red road, discovering that three overlapping Ghost Domains could preserve one for twenty years.
• Yang Jian found that his summoned versions could remain in reality for only eight hours, so he had to summon them again as the experiments continued over five days.
• Outside the third room, Wang Shanshan wanted to check on Yang Jian, but Li Yang and the others urged her to wait; she explained that Liu Xiaoyu had an urgent matter for him.
• Yang Jian came out to rest and told the others that his experiments had found a way to extend peace by twenty years, though he planned to keep testing for a better result.

Yang Jian rejected a supernatural incident assignment so he could continue his experiment to delay the supernatural era. The human skin paper revealed that he could extend the delay to sixty years by finding a ghost with a copied Ghost Eye in the Ghost Mirror, leaving Yang Jian wary that the information concealed a final trap.

• Yang Jian refused Liu Xiaoyu’s request to handle a supernatural incident, choosing to focus on his experiment instead.
• After taking a walk, Yang Jian returned home and threatened to destroy the human skin paper unless it helped him finish his plan sooner.
• The human skin paper revealed that stacking Ghost Domains could delay the supernatural invasion by thirty years, but that this was Yang Jian’s limit.
• The human skin paper claimed that a ghost inside the Ghost Mirror had copied Yang Jian’s head and Ghost Eye, and that finding it could strengthen his power.
• The human skin paper described a future in which Yang Jian used the copied Ghost Eye to delay the supernatural era for sixty years, and Yang Jian suspected the account was its final trap.

Yang Jian entered the Ghost Mirror and removed the eye of the reflection that copied his supernatural power, allowing him to extend Yin-Yang Road’s isolation from thirty years to sixty. After the first seal succeeded, Zhang Xianguang urged him to build additional layers of defense, and Yang Jian began planning an eighteen-layer hell to keep ghosts from reaching reality.

• Yang Jian rejected Zhang Xianguang’s thirty-year plan and entered the Ghost Mirror to find the reflection left by his resurrection.
• Yang Jian removed the reflection’s Ghost Eye and returned with an eye that could temporarily boost his own supernatural power.
• Yang Jian and his summoned incarnations layered their Ghost Domains to isolate Yin-Yang Road, causing supernatural locations such as Fushouyuan Cemetery and Ghost Street to disappear from reality.
• Yang Jian’s group completed the sixty-year isolation plan, but Zhang Xianguang warned that a single Ghost Domain could still be breached.
• Yang Jian decided to add further defenses, including ghost fire, the Blood Lake, supernatural objects, and Zhang Xianguang’s rust-covered broadsword, to create eighteen layers of hell.

Yang Jian and Zhang Xianguang spent weeks building layers of Ghost Domains along the Road of Yin and Yang, helping stop new supernatural incidents from appearing. As their work neared completion, Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye revived and threw his supernatural powers out of balance, leaving him with a countdown to death that he postponed with Chinese medicine.

• Yang Jian and Zhang Xianguang speculated that the Road of Yin and Yang had been created by a predecessor whose lingering image still wandered it.
• Yang Jian resumed constructing Ghost Domains, and after a month the outside world began seeing fewer new supernatural incidents as existing ghosts were contained.
• Yang Jian built Ghost Domains using ghost fire, the Blood Lake, the Wang family's pendulum clock, and a road to the old house where Zhang Dong was buried.
• After forty-five days, Yang Jian's Ghost Eye lost its power and he began bleeding ghost blood, even after restarting himself.
• Yang Jian concluded that the human skin paper had set a trap that caused the Ghost Eye to revive and destabilize his supernatural powers.
• Yang Jian swallowed Zhang Bohua's Chinese medicine to temporarily stop the bleeding and continue the plan, while Zhang Xianguang suspected he had already considered a second phase.

After completing the first stage of separating the supernatural from the real world, Yang Jian prepared to carry out the second stage alone and told his companions he would disappear for sixty years. He left his assets to Jiang Yan and vanished into the third room with Ghost Child, leaving behind a golden statue made in his likeness.

• Yang Jian and Zhang Xianguang emerged after finishing the first stage, then parted ways as Zhang Xianguang set out to travel and deal with supernatural incidents.
• Yang Jian called Jiang Yan and Liu Xiaoyu to Wang Shanshan's home, then made a hollow gold statue resembling himself and encased the red spear in gold.
• Yang Jian told Jiang Yan, Wang Shanshan, and Liu Xiaoyu that he would leave for sixty years to carry out the next stage, and that they could summon him by calling his name if supernatural incidents returned.
• Yang Jian gave Jiang Yan documents transferring most of his assets to her, then asked the others to say goodbye to Zhang Wei and his friends.
• Yang Jian took Ghost Child into the third room and disappeared, leaving Jiang Yan to find only his golden statue holding a golden spear.

Yang Jian vanished after merging himself into the Ghost Child, leaving it a command to awaken and save people when paranormal threats returned. His disappearance was followed by a gradual worldwide decline in paranormal incidents, though those who knew the truth expected the era to return sixty years later.

• Yang Jian sat on the sports field at Dachang City Seventh High School and told the Ghost Child it would inherit his memories and responsibilities if it survived him.
• Yang Jian commanded the Ghost Child to appear when ghosts returned, then merged into it to help it grow and inherit his power.
• Yang Jian disappeared as the Ghost Child grew into a youth resembling him and fell dormant in the Ghost Domain world.
• Wang Shanshan, Liu Xiaoyu, and Jiang Yan discussed their plans after Yang Jian vanished; Jiang Yan said she would wait for his return, while Wang Shanshan planned to guard his statue.
• Ten days later, Ye Zhen escaped the dream and returned to Dahai City, determined to eliminate fierce ghosts.
• Over the following years, paranormal incidents dwindled around the world, and the paranormal era temporarily ended, with its return expected sixty years after Yang Jian's disappearance.

Journalist He Feng interviewed Zhang Zhidong at a nursing home and heard his account of encountering a ghost and a group of Ghost Tamers about sixty years earlier. He Feng left with Zhang Zhidong’s old medical records and a warning about the danger of investigating vicious ghosts.

• He Feng abandoned his interview with the talkative Grandpa Sun after Grandpa Zhang mentioned ghosts causing disasters across the country.
• Grandpa Zhang identified himself as Zhang Zhidong and recalled vanishing from a hospital before brain surgery, then appearing beneath a building among mysterious people.
• Zhang Zhidong said Yang Jian forced him to sit on a red bench where a legless ghost appeared, then removed Zhang Zhidong’s brain tumor with his bare hand.
• Zhang Zhidong explained that the mysterious people were Ghost Tamers and gave He Feng his old medical records as evidence.
• He Feng photographed Zhang Zhidong’s withered, twisted legs after Zhang warned him that contact with vicious ghosts could bring terrible consequences.

Reporters He Feng and Zhou Mei traced the name Yang Jian from an elderly witness to Professor Miao Xiaoshan, whose family treated his name as taboo. They left with Miao’s original manuscript and a lead to Guangjiang Residential Area in Dachang City.

• He Feng told Zhou Mei that Zhang Zhidong had described ghosts and Ghost Tamers, and the reporters searched for Yang Jian.
• Zhou Mei found a foreign book about a city swallowed by Hell and an interview in which Miao Xiaoshan named Yang Jian as her childhood sweetheart.
• He Feng and Zhou Mei traveled to the capital to visit Miao, but her niece told them the family treated Yang Jian’s name with reverence and warned that speaking it carelessly brought disaster.
• Miao’s niece gave He Feng a copy of Hell on Earth, Miao’s first book, and he discovered it contained material omitted from the published edition.
• Miao’s niece advised the reporters to investigate Guangjiang Residential Area in Dachang City, and He Feng read the manuscript on their way back.

As Guangjiang Residential Area was demolished, Grandpa Zhang tried to protect the temple and the dangerous secrets buried there. Liu Yan’s crew uncovered seven red coffins, one of them empty, leaving the construction site facing an unexplained threat.

• Liu Yan decided to demolish the temple after his subordinate explained that Grandpa Zhang and Wang Shanshan were resisting the work.
• Grandpa Zhang warned Wang Shanshan that the demolition could release evil ghosts, but she said their era was over and the time was nearly here.
• Grandpa Zhang stopped Liu Yan’s crew by pretending to be injured when Liu Yan helped him, forcing them to leave the temple alone for the day.
• A worker told Liu Yan that the crew had unearthed several eerie coffins, and Liu Yan went to inspect them.
• Liu Yan found seven red coffins arranged in a circle in a pit, with one coffin open and empty.

Grandpa Zhang opened the family’s hidden Second Safe House and took up a crimson axe and a corpse-oil lamp after learning that demolition workers had unearthed seven red coffins. When a coffin released a vicious ghost that killed two workers, he headed to the site to confront it, leaving He Feng and Zhou Mei convinced that Ghost Tamers were real.

• Grandpa Zhang learned from A Fei that seven red coffins had been dug up, then brought Zhang Wenwen, Zhang Tao, and Liu Xin into the hidden Second Safe House beneath his home.
• Grandpa Zhang showed his family the gold stored in the safe house and retrieved a crimson axe, a corpse-oil lamp, and golden pistols, then took the axe and lamp to the construction site.
• He Feng and Zhou Mei found Liu Yan and the workers opening the coffin that held Wang Jian’s phone, revealing an uncorrupted female corpse.
• Two workers died after vomiting black hair and collapsing as hair emerged from their bodies, and He Feng and Zhou Mei fled the site.
• Grandpa Zhang met the fleeing reporters, cut the Ghost Hair targeting them with his axe, and identified Huang Ziya as the likely source of the ghost.
• Grandpa Zhang continued toward the coffins with Zhang Wenwen, while He Feng recognized that the truth about ghosts and people who could fight them had been real.

He Feng returned to the construction site and helped Grandpa Zhang and Zhang Wenwen fight the ghosts, but they were nearly killed by Huang Ziya’s Ghost Hair and another ghost. Wang Shanshan arrived with a ghost candle and led them away, forcing Huang Ziya to retreat as they escaped.

• He Feng sent Zhou Mei away and returned to the construction site, where Grandpa Zhang and Zhang Wenwen confronted Huang Ziya and Ghost Hair.
• Grandpa Zhang chopped through the Ghost Hair with his red axe but collapsed from exhaustion before reaching Huang Ziya.
• He Feng rushed in to help and used Grandpa Zhang’s axe to cut the Ghost Hair, but ghostly arms seized him and Zhang Wenwen was nearly swallowed.
• Wang Shanshan arrived with a burning red ghost candle, drove the ghosts back, and ordered Zhang Wenwen to carry Awei.
• He Feng carried Grandpa Zhang and followed Wang Shanshan, who used the candle to make Huang Ziya retreat and clear their path.

Wang Shanshan had He Feng destroy the golden statue, hoping to summon Yang Jian, but learned that he may have changed his name and that only Liu Xiaoyu knew the new one. With a ghost closing in and Grandpa Zhang unconscious, He Feng set out to find Liu Xiaoyu and discover the name that might save them.

• Wang Shanshan ordered He Feng to topple the golden statue, which collapsed and spilled blood, but Yang Jian did not appear when she called for him.
• Wang Shanshan mourned that Yang Jian had died, until Aunt Jiang explained that he had once changed his name and Liu Xiaoyu might know the new one.
• Aunt Jiang said Liu Xiaoyu was hospitalized with dementia, but her home might contain a record of the name; Wang Shanshan decided He Feng should search for it.
• When a ghost returned to the temple, Wang Shanshan stayed to protect Grandpa Zhang and gave He Feng an axe and an oil lamp for his journey.
• He Feng left through the back door to find Liu Xiaoyu, determined to learn Yang Jian's true name and help save the people in the temple.

He Feng raced through a supernatural fog to find Liu Xiaoyu’s record of Yang Jian’s true name, relying on Grandpa Zhang’s axe to fend off a pursuing ghost. After he called out the name, Yang Jian manifested over Dachang City and dispelled the fog.

• A kindhearted driver picked up He Feng and sped toward the city center after hearing about the danger at Guangjiang Residential Area.
• Supernatural fog swallowed the roads, and He Feng struck a corpse-like ghost with Grandpa Zhang’s axe before continuing on foot as the driver escaped.
• He Feng reached Liu Xiaoyu’s apartment, fought off another pursuing ghost, and broke into the tenth-floor home as his oil lamp went out.
• He Feng found a wall covered with repeated writing in Liu Xiaoyu’s bedroom and recognized the name as Yang Jian.
• He Feng called out Yang Jian’s name, triggering a dazzling golden light that spread across Dachang City and banished the fog.
• A figure holding a crimson spear appeared in the sky, and people across the city reacted in shock while someone in Guangjiang Residential Area smiled.