Chapter Summaries

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.

The group explored the funeral home and found that opening a door on the sixth floor killed anyone who tried it. They were then ordered to attend a night vigil, where Si Yehan examined the four corpses and considered how they might connect to the instance’s ghosts.

• Ge Congze kicked the woman back from the elevator and made her inspect the sixth-floor rooms, where opening a door killed her.
• Zhuang Xiaosheng led the group away from the sixth floor, and Ge Congze concluded that opening doors there triggered a killing rule.
• The group searched the fifth, third, second, and first floors but found no useful information before a middle-aged worker summoned them to the night vigil.
• The middle-aged worker brought the group to the vigil hall, where Ning Qian explained the rules and pointed out four refrigerated coffins and their photographs.
• Si Yehan lifted the wreaths to inspect the corpses, while Ge Congze and the others gathered around him.

During the vigil, Xia Yuanhou accepted food from Ning Qian and was moved by her kindness, while Si Yehan privately planned to kill her. The locked vigil hall grew eerie as a strange sound awakened the corpses in all four ice coffins.

• Ning Qian brought Xia Yuanhou food and water, and he thanked her and promised to help her before he left.
• Xia Yuanhou shared the food with the others, while Si Yehan refused it and thought about killing Ning Qian so Xia Yuanhou could see her corpse.
• The group ate and kept vigil as moonlight entered the room and the lights began to flicker.
• Ge Congze signaled Xia Yuanhou to try the door, but Xia Yuanhou found it locked.
• A strange sound rang through the room, the ice coffins trembled, and their lids lifted as all four corpses came back to life.

Zhuang Xiaosheng was killed after Si Yehan struck him in the darkness, and the red-clothed female ghost completed her transformation. The survivors learned that noise could trigger her attack, but the other three corpses remained untransformed.

• The four corpses rose from their coffins as Zhuang Xiaosheng moved toward the candle, while Si Yehan secretly followed him with a baton.
• Si Yehan struck Zhuang Xiaosheng, and the red-clothed female ghost then tore out his spine and killed him.
• The red-clothed female ghost carried Zhuang Xiaosheng's mangled corpse back to her coffin as the others watched in silence.
• Zhuang Xiaosheng's corpse burst into flames, and the red-clothed female ghost transformed before returning to her coffin.
• Qianjing Youhui concluded that killing someone could complete a corpse's transformation, and Ge Congze urged the survivors to use Zhuang Xiaosheng's death as a warning.

As the group kept watch over the remaining Vengeful Ghosts, Si Yehan dreamed of slaughtering a village and mountain forest in flames. He woke to learn that one ghost had disappeared after killing Zhuang Xiaosheng, while Ge Congze and Xia Yuanhou began to suspect Su Qing and considered watching her.

• Xia Yuanhou warned the group to stay quiet because three ghosts and their killing rules remained, and Ge Congze agreed.
• Si Yehan fell asleep and dreamed of himself slaughtering villagers before the flames consumed the surrounding mountain range.
• Xia Yuanhou tried to wake Si Yehan, who slapped his hand away, and then told him that the ghost that killed Zhuang Xiaosheng had disappeared after transforming.
• Ge Congze and Xia Yuanhou discussed their suspicions, deciding that Su Qing's strange crying warranted closer attention.
• Si Yehan overheard them and thought that testing him instead of Su Qing would be courting death.

After the vigil ended, Si Yehan learned that the director had altered Ning Qian’s memory and planned to meet him after resting. Xia Yuanhou grew closer to Ning Qian, while Si Yehan noted her room number and prepared to continue killing.

• At dawn, the corpses returned to their coffins, and the seven participants left the vigil room.
• Ning Qian remembered that the director had asked the group to find him in the second-floor office.
• Xia Yuanhou warned Ning Qian about strange events at the funeral home and walked back to the dormitory with her.
• Si Yehan found the security room floor clean, then saw Xia Yuanhou and Ning Qian talking by the elevator.
• Ning Qian went to room 302, and Si Yehan memorized her room number before returning to his room to sleep.