Chapter Summaries

Yu Huan, Blank Guide, Qingshuang, and Black Man rode a spinning cup attraction without being attacked, leaving Qingshuang and Black Man exhausted by the mounting tension. Meanwhile, observers in the Elder Council noticed that the two distant Blank Guides had become eerily synchronized in appearance and mannerisms.

• Yu Huan eagerly led Blank Guide to a spinning cup ride, and Qingshuang and Black Man joined them despite Black Man's suspicions.
• As the ride started, the Amusement Park faction found itself unable to move, while Qingshuang and Black Man worried about the lack of attacks in recent games.
• Blank Guide suddenly appeared in Black Man's seat and spoke to Qingshuang, unsettling her before switching away when the cups rotated again.
• The four riders finished the ride unharmed, and Yu Huan thanked Blank Guide for helping them choose attractions while Qingshuang and Black Man remained wary.
• Audience members and the Elder Council noticed that the two distant Blank Guides shared Sin's smile, sinister mannerisms, and even walking gait.

The Elder Council struggled to understand why Sin and Blank had split the players into two teams and what their victory condition was. Despite appearing to take different paths through the Amusement Park, both teams ultimately headed for the Haunted House.

• The Grand Elder and the elders debated whether Sin and Blank were testing different strategies, cooperating, and whether Yu Huan was really Joy.
• Sun told Blank he had noticed her guiding him, and Blank confirmed they were heading to the Haunted House.
• Yu Huan asked Blank what they would play next and chose the Haunted House.
• The two teams completed their separate circuits through the Amusement Park and converged on the Haunted House.

The two teams met at the Haunted House, where the two Blanks exchanged cryptic remarks about whether they had figured out the truth. Sun triggered the final game, and as the Haunted House swallowed everyone, Blank saw the other Blank reveal a pink mask and silently announce that their game had begun.

• Sun held back from attacking the Haunted House when Blank signaled him to wait.
• The two teams arrived at the Haunted House and discovered they had both reached the final stop.
• The two Blanks discussed what they had figured out, while one revealed that Yu Huan had told her the answer directly.
• Sun summoned a pillar of molten fire, and the game's voice announced the start of the Terrifying Haunted House.
• The Haunted House gates expanded and pulled everyone into another space, where Blank saw the other Blank reveal a pink mask and mouth, "Our game has begun."

After Lu Ce told Xie Antong that their game had begun, she was left confused as the darkness took her. Qingshuang entered a vast mirror-filled darkness, where Yu Huan stabbed her before vanishing, and then she encountered Black Man.

• Lu Ce mouthed to Xie Antong that their game had begun, leaving her unsure what he meant as she fell into darkness.
• Qingshuang was transported into a silent, dark space filled with towering mirrors and found herself separated from the other players.
• Yu Huan emerged from behind a mirror, approached Qingshuang, and stabbed her in the abdomen before fleeing into the shadows.
• Black Man appeared and asked why Qingshuang was there, and she warned him that the people they saw might not really be each other.

Qingshuang and the other visitors were attacked by figures shaped by the Haunted House, while Sun and Xie Antong recognized that their apparent opponents were not who they seemed to be. Sin remained alone among the mirrors and asked what Joy was planning, and Xie Antong repeated his question in perfect unison.

• Black Man appeared behind Qingshuang and shot at her, but she dodged and slashed him before he vanished; she then found Blank behind her and treated her reopened wound.
• Black Man and Nose Ring Man continued to face confusing attacks from people who appeared suddenly behind them.
• Sun burned and shattered the mirrors around him, then rejected a pink-masked figure posing as Sin because its aura was wrong.
• Xie Antong recognized that the pink-masked Lu Ce before her was not truly him and guessed that the Haunted House showed people whoever they expected to see.
• Sin sat among the mirrors, asked what Joy was planning, and Xie Antong repeated the question at the same moment.

Xie Antong questioned a shapeshifting player in the Haunted House and realized that her changing behavior and missing moments might be tied to the game’s nature. She concluded that their game had begun, while elsewhere Lu Ce waited for someone to appear.

• Xie Antong learned that the players had been told the Haunted House would disguise them and that this was their last chance to win.
• Xie Antong explained that Delight’s vague game was meant to make the two camps suspect and attack each other.
• Xie Antong noticed that several moments seemed to have been skipped and questioned the shapeshifting player about what had happened.
• The player said Xie Antong’s expression and manner had changed as if she had become someone else, prompting her to ask whether it had changed into only one person.
• Xie Antong lowered her defenses, declared that their game had begun, and the frightened player fled into the darkness.
• Lu Ce stopped laughing and muttering, then stared into a dark corner and wondered when someone would appear.

Lu Ce revealed that he had enjoyed watching the players’ fear and conflict, then told Yu Huan that she was only a vessel and hinted that he wanted a better one. A voice behind Yu Huan declared that it seemed to be quite popular.

• Yu Huan emerged from the darkness and said she had been lost in it until she found Lu Ce.
• Lu Ce described the Haunted House as the fear, cruelty, and suffering of people trapped in the game.
• Lu Ce dropped his pretense and discussed how entertaining it was to watch the players react to danger.
• Yu Huan admitted she had enjoyed watching people turn against each other and protect others despite the risks.
• Lu Ce said Yu Huan was only a shell and suggested another vessel might make the game more enjoyable.
• A voice behind Yu Huan remarked that it seemed to be quite popular.

Xie Antong exposed Yu Huan’s loss of control over the Haunted House game, and Sun unexpectedly joined her and Lu Ce in confronting her. Surrounded by the three of them, Yu Huan turned the tables by declaring that she alone decided what counted as fun.

• Xie Antong appeared before Yu Huan and explained how she had entered the game despite its rules.
• Lu Ce, wearing the Jealousy Mask, appeared as another Xie Antong and taunted Yu Huan.
• Sun arrived in flaming armor and revealed that he had sensed the group’s auras and followed them.
• Xie Antong, Lu Ce, and Sun formed a triangle around Yu Huan, revealing that each had anticipated the others’ moves.
• Yu Huan’s eyes turned emerald green as she said that she decided when people should laugh and what counted as fun.

Yu Huan confronted Sun, Lu Ce, and Xie Antong in the Haunted House, but Xie Antong’s finger snaps disrupted Yu Huan’s attempt to possess her. Yu Huan was forced back into her own weak vessel and left burning after Lu Ce attacked.

• Sun told Yu Huan he was not on Lu Ce’s side and said he would fight him if she gave him a reason.
• Xie Antong lit three sticks of Burning Demon Incense and snapped her fingers while questioning Sun about his act.
• Yu Huan struck Sun and sent him flying, while Lu Ce and Xie Antong suspected that she was not Joy’s true body.
• Yu Huan took control of Xie Antong, but Lu Ce’s influence and Xie Antong’s finger snaps forced her out.
• Lu Ce attacked Yu Huan with flames, carbonizing parts of her body, and Xie Antong said she had practiced resisting possession.

Yu Huan fought the Sun while Xie Antong questioned her identity, and Joy took control of Xie Antong's body. After the Sun destroyed Yu Huan's vessel, Xie Antong briefly regained control before Joy took over again, just as someone greeted her.

• Yu Huan fought the Sun, who grew stronger as the battle continued and taunted her.
• Xie Antong questioned Yu Huan about her weakness and suspected she was connected to Joy.
• Joy seized control of Xie Antong's body and cut the Sun in half with a powerful slash.
• The Sun's upper body engulfed Yu Huan, destroying the vessel Joy had been using.
• Xie Antong briefly regained control, but Joy took over again and challenged her with a voice greeting Miss Joy.

Lu Ce and Xie Antong confronted Joyful Power, which had taken control of her body and attacked Sun. Lu Ce revealed that Xie Antong had never meant to be its vessel but had become its prison as his pink mask merged with his face.

• Joyful Power met Lu Ce and Xie Antong, claiming its existence was more elevated than theirs.
• Lu Ce snapped his fingers, allowing Xie Antong to observe and influence her body's movements while Joyful Power briefly lost control.
• Joyful Power regained control of Xie Antong and blasted Sun, forcing him back despite his flaming shield.
• Joyful Power boasted that it could leave the game whenever it wished, then taunted Lu Ce about Xie Antong's resolve.
• Lu Ce declared that Xie Antong was Joyful Power's prison, and his pink mask began merging with his face.

Lu Ce’s spirit surged into a grotesque, unstable state as he faced Joy, while Xie Antong’s soul resisted Joy’s control from within her body. The chapter ended with Lu Ce matching Joy’s golden energy blast with an identical beam of his own.

• The Haunted House turned pink as Lu Ce’s spirit fluctuated wildly and his face melted into pink sludge.
• Joy was unsettled by Lu Ce’s transformation, and Xie Antong briefly regained control after a finger snap.
• Xie Antong explained her Mana Amplification skill, while Joy choked her and threatened to destroy her mind.
• Lu Ce spoke to Joy, who fired a golden beam at him.
• Lu Ce raised a hand and countered Joy’s attack with a beam of identical power.

Lu Ce overloaded Jealousy by drawing on his envy of Xie Antong and assimilating Joy, gaining the powers to copy others and impose his traits on them. He copied Xie Antong and trapped Joy in the game, leaving them unable to tell who had entered whose world.

• Lu Ce’s Jealousy mask fused with his face and overloaded after he imitated Xie Antong and Joy.
• Lu Ce gained Card Swap, which let him copy another person’s appearance and strength, and Assimilation, which let him impose his traits on them.
• Lu Ce approached Joy, who was using Xie Antong’s body, and copied Joy’s divine aura and gestures exactly.
• Joy tried to withdraw from the game, but Lu Ce transformed into Xie Antong and assimilated them.
• Lu Ce and Joy faced each other with identical appearances as Lu Ce asked who had entered the game.

Lu Ce’s Envy trapped Joy inside Xie Antong and began assimilating it, while Xie Antong realized her choices could decide which consciousness prevailed. She threatened to kill herself to force Joy to beg her.

• Lu Ce’s Envy ensnared Joy within Xie Antong, whose divided face spoke with several consciousnesses at once.
• Joy realized it could not escape as Sin and Xie Antong’s combined influence began to overwhelm it.
• Lu Ce and Xie Antong mocked Joy for relying on safety and power, while the Sun absorbed the divine power Joy released.
• Xie Antong told Joy to beg her, explaining that her allegiance could determine which side won the struggle for her body.
• Xie Antong warned Joy that her assimilation would trap it too, then pulled out a gun and pressed it beneath her chin.

Xie Antong forced Joy into a possible cooperation by threatening to shoot herself, then questioned Joy about its nature and the gods. Joy revealed that it was a separated portion of Joyful Power but refused to explain why gods did this, leaving Xie Antong searching for the discarded gun while Lu Ce offered Hell Roar.

• Xie Antong fired at herself, but her other hand knocked the gun aside, leaving her hand grazed and burned.
• Xie Antong argued that Joy feared even minor harm to itself, and Joy agreed to state terms and cooperate.
• Xie Antong asked what the real Joy was doing, and Joy said it was part of Joyful Power that had been separated to grow independently.
• Xie Antong asked why gods separated their power and whether they all did so, but Joy refused to answer and called Lu Ce their common enemy.
• Xie Antong looked for the gun after Joy refused, while Lu Ce prepared to hand her Hell Roar.

Xie Antong pressured Joy into revealing that every god had its own objective and methods of action, then negotiated a condition that let her retain some control while Joy possessed her. As Joy began taking over her body, Xie Antong announced that their game had begun.

• Lu Ce fired the third-gear Hell Roar, weakening Joy's control over Xie Antong without harming Joy itself.
• Xie Antong and Envy pressured Joy to speak while Sun and Envy waited to hear what it knew.
• Joy revealed that every god had its own objective and exclusive methods of action, then warned them not to push further.
• Xie Antong demanded that she retain partial control during Joy's takeover and the ability to kill herself if Joy crossed the line.
• Joy agreed as Envy attacked, and Xie Antong's body rose into the air as her face began to shift toward Joy.

Xie Antong completed her transformation by merging with the power of Bliss, appearing to have ascended and drawing worldwide attention. As she faced Lu Ce, Jealousy attacked Sun, and Xie Antong declared that her new state felt perfect.

• Xie Antong's remaining sanity dissipated into the power of Bliss as Lu Ce watched her ascend.
• Jealousy mocked Sun and struck him with a surge of energy, forcing him back while Sun held his ground.
• Xie Antong descended, opened her eyes, and transformed her All-Knowing Eye helmet into a lens as her body and appearance changed.
• Chiyo Eon and viewers around the world watched Xie Antong's screen, with many asking whether she was an ascender.
• Jealousy dismissed the transformation as a nuisance, and Xie Antong said that her new state felt perfect.

Xie Antong fused with Joy’s power and confronted Sin, provoking Jealousy into a fight while Sun questioned whether she still controlled herself. The Dragon Group’s Grand Elder warned that Joy was tempting Xie Antong with divine power and feared she would ultimately be consumed by it.

• The game announced that it had entered berserk mode, though the announcement applied only to the battlefield where Lu Ce and the others were fighting.
• Xie Antong taunted Jealousy and recalled their previous encounter at Sea Casino, then declared that Jealousy was weaker than Wrath.
• Sun watched Xie Antong closely and suspected that Blank’s personality remained in control despite her fusion with Joy.
• The Dragon Group’s elders concluded that Xie Antong and Joy shared control and that Joy was deliberately tempting her with power.
• The Grand Elder warned that Xie Antong would not withstand the temptation and might be assimilated by Joy.

The Grand Elder and other elders wondered whether Lu Ce’s Blank state imitated Sin’s power, while Xie Antong and Lu Ce clashed using matched abilities. Xie Antong gained the upper hand, but Lu Ce remained ready to counter with a Ruined Divine Weapon.

• The Grand Elder lamented the coming of an Ascender, and an elder suggested Blank might be borrowing Sin’s method of controlling power.
• Lu Ce and Xie Antong attacked simultaneously, creating a vast, fragile curtain of balanced energy with their palms.
• Xie Antong used Mana Amplification to break the balance and send Lu Ce flying, marking Sin’s first disadvantage against a player.
• People watching celebrated Xie Antong and began imagining that they, too, might become Ascenders.
• Xie Antong expressed surprise at her new power as golden light erupted above her and the Ruined Divine Weapon, Extreme Path Battle Axe, appeared.

Lu Ce wielded the Ruined Divine Weapon against Xie Antong, whose battle with Jealousy turned sharply against her after she dodged his axe. Pleasure tried to take greater control of Xie Antong but found her mind resisting assimilation.

• Lu Ce summoned the golden Extreme Path Battle Axe and struck Xie Antong, shattering her barrier and splitting the Haunted House grounds.
• Xie Antong bent backward to evade Jealousy's sweeping axe strike as he taunted her and pressed his advantage.
• Chiyo Eon and the others watched in silence while the game channel erupted with reactions and organizations opened betting pools.
• Pleasure tried repeatedly to assimilate Xie Antong and gain more control, but a defense deep in her mind resisted its temptations.