Recaps

Si Yehan returned to his cabin while Jin Zhiguang left the banquet and accepted an invitation from four women, mistakenly believing he had not violated the killing rule. That night, female ghosts attacked Jin Zhiguang and the women, and he realized Si Yehan had deceived their group.

• Si Yehan checked his cabin for surveillance, showered, and went to sleep after reflecting on his dreams and recent killings.
• Wang Yuxiu returned to her cabin, while Jin Zhiguang and Chen Zhongshou decided to leave the banquet and go to bed early.
• Jin Zhiguang invited his former dance partner and three other women into his room, believing the killing rule only prohibited mentioning sex.
• A hidden camera recorded Jin Zhiguang and the four women as they fell asleep together.
• Female ghosts entered Jin Zhiguang's room and attacked the five sleepers, and Jin Zhiguang realized Si Yehan had tricked their group.

Jin Zhiguang and four women were killed by the female ghosts, while Chen Zhongshou and Wang Yuxiu tried to survive the night by following the rules. By morning, Chen Zhongshou had drowned in his bed, and Si Yehan prepared to check the results.

• Jin Zhiguang and four women were torn apart and eaten by the female ghosts.
• Chen Zhongshou kept his eyes on the sea to avoid falling asleep and survived the ghosts’ attack through the night.
• Wang Yuxiu invented happy memories to follow the supposed rule, but the ghosts killed her after she fell into extreme happiness.
• Chen Zhongshou celebrated surviving the night, then drowned when water gushed from his bed.
• Si Yehan woke after a dreamless night and said it was time to check the results.

Si Yehan killed the armed hostesses guarding the meeting hall and watched surveillance footage confirming three cruise-ship killing rules. He then shot the four powerful figures who emerged, killing Yan Jingxing, Su Qiuyue, and the fat old man after gravely wounding them.

• Si Yehan shot the two hostesses who tried to bar him from the meeting hall and entered to wait for the bosses.
• Yan Jingxing showed Si Yehan footage confirming that lust before sleep, pursuing pleasure before sleep, and staying awake to watch the sea each led to death.
• Si Yehan learned that the female ghost slaves had once worked on the ship and that Su Qiuyue had handled the extreme banquets that killed them.
• Su Qiuyue, the old woman, and the fat old man emerged with Yan Jingxing, and Si Yehan shot all four, wounding Su Qiuyue and the fat old man and shooting Yan Jingxing through the crotch.
• Si Yehan stabbed Yan Jingxing through the eye and temple, then beat and shot Su Qiuyue and fired dozens of shots into the fat old man, killing them.

Si Yehan searched the rooms behind the fourth-floor seats and found Yan Jingxing and Su Qiuyue’s backup plan for the Great Cleansing. He decided to lure everyone to the entertainment hall and use its poison gas system, leaving him to prepare for the next stage of his plan.

• Si Yehan searched four rooms marked with surnames matching the dead figures, collected portable firearms and equipment, and found more supplies.
• Si Yehan ate on the third floor and decided to begin the Great Cleansing, then returned to the fourth floor to search the documents at the seats.
• Si Yehan found Yan Jingxing and Su Qiuyue’s document describing plans to kill the ship’s tourists, insured personnel, and cargo, and to destroy Tianxia No. 4.
• Si Yehan learned that the entertainment hall’s poison gas system could kill those gathered there, and decided he would not need to move the bodies before sinking the ship.
• When a woman reported that the morning’s bodies had been disposed of, Si Yehan ordered her to invite all guests, singers, and dancers to the entertainment hall, then slapped her for questioning him.

Si Yehan killed the four bosses and the woman in white, then triggered a deadly mist in the entertainment hall. He watched the guests and security personnel die as a storm swept over the cruise ship.

• Si Yehan found the four bosses dead and realized the ship’s order would collapse before it reached shore.
• The woman in white entered, saw the corpses, and attacked Si Yehan, who killed her.
• Si Yehan went to the crowded entertainment hall and pressed the red button behind the stage.
• As deadly mist filled the hall, Si Yehan shot anyone blocking his exit and watched from outside while the guests and security personnel died.
• A fierce storm gathered over the ship, and Si Yehan stood beneath his umbrella as rain fell amid the screams.

Si Yehan cleared the entertainment hall and killed the armed men guarding the fourth floor. He left the ship’s leader dead beside the rotting corpses of the four powerful guests.

• Si Yehan inspected the poisoned entertainment hall and decided to head to the fourth floor for weapons.
• A group of women in protective suits blocked Si Yehan from entering, so he shot them and checked that none had survived.
• Si Yehan threw corpses through the guarded room’s door to draw fire and learn where the five people inside were positioned.
• Si Yehan used two blades to disarm two guards, then entered and shot the four armed men.
• Si Yehan shot the leader in the thigh, accused him of being a loyal dog, and killed him with a blade.

Si Yehan armed himself and slaughtered the security guards in the cargo hold before ordering Li Rui to kill the prisoners in exchange for safe passage. When Li Rui turned on the prisoners and tried to kill three little girls, Si Yehan shot him in the leg and revealed he had never intended to let him live.

• Si Yehan took a blade and submachine gun, then followed Yang Rui's route toward the cargo hold.
• Si Yehan killed the guards on duty and stabbed the fallen bodies to make sure none survived.
• Si Yehan found Li Rui among the prisoners and promised him a chance to live if he killed everyone in the cages.
• Li Rui began killing the prisoners, grew bolder, and turned his attention to three little girls.
• Si Yehan shot Li Rui in the leg as he raised his knife against the girls, then mocked him for trusting the promise.

Si Yehan slaughtered the captives in the cargo hold, set the cages ablaze, and killed the restaurant staff while gathering food. After restoring his strength, he headed for the bridge to see what remained of the ship.

• Si Yehan killed Li Rui and the captives locked in the iron cages.
• Si Yehan maimed the remaining captives, set the cargo hold on fire, and left as the flames consumed them.
• Si Yehan entered the restaurant and shot the service staff who fled from him.
• Si Yehan collected refrigerated food, bread, and milk, then ate to regain his strength.
• Si Yehan headed to the bridge to investigate the ship.

Si Yehan finished purging the cruise ship, killed the man steering it, and returned to his room to sleep. As night fell, he appeared in a vision above a sea of blood and human heads while countless voices chanted about Vengeful Ghosts.

• Si Yehan reached the bridge and killed the middle-aged man who had been steering the ship.
• Si Yehan confirmed that nobody aboard remained alive, then considered the instance’s easy killing rules and the threats posed by Worldwatch and Jiang Shanghan.
• Si Yehan returned to his room, reflected on the possible consequences of the city massacre, and went to sleep.
• The rain stopped as dark clouds lingered, and Si Yehan’s consciousness sank into darkness.
• A vision showed a blood-covered sea, a mound of human heads, and Vengeful Ghosts roaming the mortal world as Si Yehan stood above them, pleased.

Si Yehan relived the night he killed his biological parents, Si Xuanye and Murong Yu, in a dream. As the dream continued to replay his past, night had fallen outside it.

• The sea of blood and purple flames showed Si Yehan the faces of those he had killed, then revealed his biological parents, Si Xuanye and Murong Yu.
• The scene shifted to Si Yehan’s eighteenth birthday, where his relatives and servants gathered for the celebration his father had once wanted to hold.
• Si Yehan dismissed the crowd and stabbed Si Xuanye and Murong Yu, recreating their deaths in the burning villa.
• Si Xuanye died cursing Si Yehan, while Murong Yu confessed her love before dying in the fire.
• The dream continued to show the aftermath, including Si Yehan dealing with his family’s inheritance and the deaths being ruled accidents, while the night passed outside the dream.

As rain summoned ghosts aboard the cruise ship, the Mirror Ghost fought the Sea Resentment Ghost and the Sea Skull Ghost while a mysterious child discussed sending ghosts to the Linked Plane. Si Yehan woke and watched the three Vengeful Ghosts battle over the sea.

• A mysterious child appeared on the cruise ship, noted that Si Yehan was a surviving sacrifice with a strong killing aura, and spoke of turning the Linked Plane into an Underworld.
• The child vanished, and the Sea Resentment Ghost descended toward the second floor as red rain let the Vengeful Ghosts move more freely.
• The Mirror Ghost emerged on deck and fought the Sea Resentment Ghost, using mirrors and arms to attack it and seal its Ghost Slaves.
• The Sea Resentment Ghost triggered its killing rule, and a Sea Skull Ghost rose from Si Yehan's flooded room to join the fight against the Mirror Ghost.
• The three Vengeful Ghosts moved out over the sea to battle, while Si Yehan woke and went to the window to watch them.

Si Yehan watched three ghosts battle at sea before going back to sleep, while the Mirror Ghost ultimately sealed the Sea Resentment Ghost and Sea Skull Ghost inside a mirror. The mirror sank beneath the sea, but more than thirty new Special Ghost Slaves climbed aboard the Iblis.

• Si Yehan sensed three ghosts fighting outside and watched the Mirror Ghost, Sea Resentment Ghost, and Sea Skull Ghost unleash their powers across the sea.
• The Sea Resentment Ghost and Sea Skull Ghost joined forces to form a Ghost Domain, while Si Yehan returned to bed and fell asleep.
• The Mirror Ghost scattered its body into fragments, trapped its enemies in enormous mirrors, and began drawing the Ghost Domain inside.
• A water arm reached from the merged mirrors and dragged the weakened Mirror Ghost inside, where the three ghosts fought until they were suppressed and fell dormant.
• The mirror sank beneath the sea, and more than thirty Special Ghost Slaves climbed aboard the Iblis.

Si Yehan endured the hybrid Ghost Slaves aboard the cruise ship while waiting for the instance to end, then damaged the engine to sink the ship. The instance cleared as the Ghost Slaves and Vengeful Ghosts were pulled into the darkness, and Si Yehan vanished.

• Si Yehan woke to find hybrid Ghost Slaves filling his bedroom and followed their movements without looking at their mirrors.
• Si Yehan spent more than six hours resting by the television, then checked his equipment and made his way through the bloodied ship to the engine room.
• As the instance neared its end, Si Yehan shot the engine machinery and caused the cruise ship to sink.
• When seawater reached his feet, the space twisted and the hybrid Ghost Slaves were swept into whirlpools and turned to ash.
• The Mirror Ghost, the Sea Resentment Ghost, and the Sea Skull Ghost appeared before they and Si Yehan were swallowed by darkness, clearing the instance.

Si Yehan emerged from an instance with new Vengeful Ghost powers and confronted Pete, a Church member who tried to recruit him. After learning about the Church’s war with Worldwatch and its plans in Great Xia, Si Yehan killed Pete and prepared to leave the country.

• Si Yehan emerged above ruined Cangyun City, tested his new powers, and sensed someone watching him.
• Pete appeared and warned Si Yehan that Worldwatch would punish him for slaughtering a city, then invited him to join the Church.
• Si Yehan refused to join and trapped Pete in his Ghost Domain, prompting Pete to attack with an Instant-Death Curse and emerald flames.
• Si Yehan reflected Pete’s curse and attacked him with mirrors and withered arms while Pete explained the Church’s conflict with Worldwatch and its planned sacrifices.
• After getting the information he wanted, Si Yehan unleashed his full strength and dismembered Pete.

After killing Pete, Si Yehan traveled to North Yuan City, tortured and killed its participant Xu Guangyi, and unleashed his Ghost Domain to massacre the city. He then entered the provincial command center to target Hedong Province’s leaders as the city fell under a storm.

• After Pete died, Si Yehan left Cangyun City and traveled through a mirror to North Yuan City, where he sensed participant Xu Guangyi in a courthouse.
• Xu Guangyi killed the judges and prosecutor who had wronged him, but Si Yehan sealed the courtroom and tortured him to death.
• Si Yehan spread his Ghost Domain across North Yuan City and began killing its residents while Xu Guangyi suffered.
• After Xu Guangyi died, Si Yehan found no other participants in the city and decided to target powerful figures in the secular world.
• As Hedong Province’s leaders gathered over North Yuan City’s loss of communications, Si Yehan appeared at the supreme command center and killed the armed guards.

Si Yehan slaughtered everyone in North Yuan City, using the Ghost Domain to kill more than five hundred thousand people and absorb their resentment. He then left Great Xia through a mirror before Worldwatch could respond.

• Si Yehan entered a government conference room, killed Secretary Liu and two men who tried to subdue him, and drove the remaining officials to devour the corpses.
• Si Yehan expanded his Ghost Domain across North Yuan City, killing its residents as the domain crushed the city and twisted its buildings.
• Si Yehan gathered the more than five hundred thousand survivors in a clearing and cut them to pieces with supernatural wind.
• Si Yehan withdrew the Ghost Domain, absorbed the city's resentment, and said he would leave Great Xia before Worldwatch could act.
• Si Yehan stepped into a mirror and vanished.

Si Yehan reached a remote island, killed its inhabitants, and waited there while reading before entering the next instance. Meanwhile, Sun Ying and Shen Wangshu fought Ge Te’er and other Church bishops in a fierce battle at the southernmost tip of Great Xia, where Mary Joia began aiding Bishop Norman.

• Si Yehan used a mirror to reach a remote island and killed three people inside a noble household.
• Si Yehan spread a deadly mist across the island, killing its inhabitants and sealing the area from outside perception.
• Si Yehan formed a chair from bones, read a book, and used the cries of captured beings as background noise.
• At Great Xia’s southernmost tip, Sun Ying and Shen Wangshu fought Ge Te’er and the Church bishops while ghost domains protected the nearby city and its residents.
• Ge Te’er ordered Mary Joia to help Bishop Norman overpower the two captains fighting him.
• Mary Joia sent her damaged dolls into the battle as enormous rag dolls rose from the sea.

Sun Ying and Shen Wangshu fought to hold back the Church bishops, but Norman killed Sun Yu before the Worldwatch captains could save her. The Church escaped as the ghost domain dissipated, while Si Yehan planned to return to Great Xia after his next instance.

• Sun Ying destroyed Mary Joia's rag doll and kept Mary Joia occupied, while Ge Te'er sent ghost slaves into the fighting among Worldwatch's lower- and mid-level members.
• Shen Wangshu burned his life force to fight Ge Te'er, and Norman trapped Liu Ye and Wang Jue in a prison of blue flames before attacking Sun Yu.
• Liu Ye and Wang Jue broke out of Norman's prison, but a wall of waves blocked their path as Norman tore Sun Yu apart and devoured her, killing her.
• Norman opened a rift in the ghost domain and led the Church members away, leaving the Worldwatch captains unable to stop their escape.
• The ghost domain dissipated, and Si Yehan planned to return to Great Xia after leaving his next instance and kill a Worldwatch participant.

After the Church’s attack left Worldwatch devastated, Shen Wangshu learned that the newly emerged participant Si Yehan had massacred two cities and ordered a warrant for him. Sun Ying’s killing curse forced Si Yehan to enter a dungeon to escape, while Worldwatch’s survivors prepared to strengthen themselves and pursue revenge.

• Si Yehan considered infiltrating Worldwatch territory under a false identity and killing participants in a weaker city, then reviewed his abilities and power.
• Shen Wangshu surveyed the battle’s aftermath as Sun Ying searched the bloodied sea and Liu Ye and Wang Jue left to enter dungeons.
• Wang Jue reported that five cities had been massacred, including two by an unidentified new participant who had killed a Church member.
• Sun Ying used her compass to identify Si Yehan and launched a killing curse, while Shen Wangshu arranged to issue a warrant.
• Si Yehan sensed the threat and entered a dungeon, causing Sun Ying’s curse to miss; she vowed to kill him after leaving her own dungeon.
• Shen Wangshu ordered Si Yehan’s information distributed as a warrant, and Sun Ying entered a dungeon.

Si Yehan and seven other players arrived at Renshou Funeral Home for the Night Watch instance, where they had to discover why staff disappeared and survive seven days. Their envelopes offered different clues about the funeral home, its dead, and the dangers posed by both ghosts and people.

• Si Yehan awoke with seven other players outside Renshou Funeral Home and suspected the instance would take place there.
• Zhuang Xiaosheng, Xia Yuanhou, Ge Congze, Si Yehan, Su Wei, Xie Fei, Xu Qing, and Qianjing Youhui introduced themselves and described their strengths.
• Si Yehan read his envelope, which instructed him to discover the cause of the disappearances and survive seven days, then removed the clue about staff vanishing at night.
• The players shared their envelopes, which warned them to investigate the deceased, observe the funeral home, beware the director, and guard against both ghosts and people.
• Qianjing Youhui noted that her brief letter only mentioned investigating the deceased and surviving seven days, and suspected the letters were no longer real from the sixth instance onward.

Zhuang Xiaosheng and the other seven entrants arrived at Renshou Funeral Home, where a one-armed employee explained their seven-day vigil and the funeral home's work rules. The group headed to the staff dormitory, while Si Yehan suspected the old man was hiding something and considered capturing him.

• Zhuang Xiaosheng and Qianjing Youhui discussed how little information they had about the instances and whether envelopes would disappear after the sixth instance.
• A one-armed old man welcomed the eight entrants to Renshou Funeral Home, listed three rules about the dead and their families, and told them to keep vigil for seven days without letting the candles go out.
• Xia Yuanhou and Ge Congze speculated that the rules might not be killing rules and that the vigil candles could be important.
• Si Yehan noticed the old man carried a deathly aura but no trace of a ghost, and considered capturing him for answers.
• Zhuang Xiaosheng warned the group that the instance felt unusually dangerous and urged them to protect one another.
• The eight entered the staff dormitory and saw a green-lit elevator and clean rooms with open doors.

The group settled into their assigned rooms on the fourth floor of Renshou Funeral Home and debated whether to explore more before nightfall. Si Yehan studied the grounds alone, while Ge Congze and Xia Yuanhou went to join Zhuang Xiaosheng and the others for food.

• The group rode the elevator to the fourth floor, where Xie Fei, Su Wei, Su Qing, and Qianjing Youhui disagreed over whether to explore more or focus on known areas first.
• The eight newcomers chose rooms 401 through 408, and Zhuang Xiaosheng asked Xie Fei to turn off the hallway lights at night.
• Si Yehan inspected the funeral home and surrounding terrain from his window, considered the ghost’s nighttime killing rules, and questioned the claims others had made about their envelopes.
• Ge Congze and Xia Yuanhou invited Si Yehan to eat with them, but he declined and stayed in his room.
• Xia Yuanhou asked to accompany Ge Congze to find Zhuang Xiaosheng and the four women, and Ge Congze reluctantly accepted his company.

Si Yehan went to the security office to question the one-armed old man about previous guests at Renshou Funeral Home, then killed him when he provided little useful information. He took a collapsible baton and headed for the cafeteria.

• Si Yehan watched the others leave for the cafeteria before taking the elevator downstairs.
• Si Yehan overheard Wang Xu and two funeral-home employees discuss the bodies and a memorial service planned for the seventh day.
• Si Yehan confronted the one-armed old man in the security office and demanded to know how many groups of honored guests had come before.
• The old man said many guests had arrived, with some surviving and some dying, but Si Yehan beat him to death with an iron stool.
• Si Yehan searched the office, took a collapsible baton, and walked toward the cafeteria.

Si Yehan joined his teammates to explore the staff dormitory, but they found the sixth floor sealed behind an ominous gate. They decided to test the entrance by bringing a native to it, leaving Xia Yuanhou and Ge Congze to find one while the others waited below.

• Si Yehan ignored Su Wei at the cafeteria, ate a little, and returned to the dormitory, where he agreed to explore with Zhuang Xiaosheng and the others.
• Qianjing Youhui proposed exploring from the sixth floor downward, and the group took the elevator there.
• The group found the sixth-floor exit blocked by a locked iron gate covered in warning strips, with a key hanging beside it.
• Si Yehan suggested sending a native through the gate to test whether it was dangerous, and the others accepted the plan.
• Zhuang Xiaosheng sent Xia Yuanhou and Ge Congze to find a native while the rest waited on the fifth floor.

The group explored the fifth floor, captured a woman, and tested whether the sixth floor was dangerous. Si Yehan chose Xie Fei as his first target, while Ge Congze’s water woke the woman on the sixth floor with a scream.

• Zhuang Xiaosheng reported that most fifth-floor rooms were vacant, though a few appeared occupied.
• Ge Congze and Xia Yuanhou returned with an unconscious woman they had captured outside the funeral home, and the group debated her fate.
• The group took the woman to the sixth floor, where Xia Yuanhou threw her inside unconscious.
• Si Yehan decided to target Xie Fei first, then planned to kill Ge Congze and Xia Yuanhou together and hunt the others afterward.
• Ge Congze splashed water on the woman’s face, and she screamed as she woke.