Kong Yi

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Kong Yi (孔奕)
Alias(es)	K; Eerie Lord of Deception; The Hermit Attendant; “Teacher Kong”
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Black Chess Player; briefly accepted into Ai Li’s White Chess lineup during the Final Battlefield 858 911
Occupation/Role	Player; Black Chess Player; Eerie role-player; attendant of [The Hermit]
Status	Active; was revived after being eliminated from the Elysian Shore stage through unusual Audience interference 1104 1105
First Appearance	Chapter 305

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Tier 6 Player	443	Identified as a Tier 6 player while burdened by unfinished quests.
[K] Exclusive Privilege — three upgrades	801	His codename privilege was upgraded three times while his reliance on Night Burial Maitreya reached 90%; a previous ambush later reduced that reliance to 20%.
Masochistic Eerie role — Tier 7	858	Developed his Masochistic Eerie role to Tier 7, unlocking the ability to absorb non-lethal injuries inflicted by others.

Background

Kong Yi was orphaned as a child and taken in by a mysterious organization, where he worked for a superior to survive. After his undercover identity was exposed while fleeing through the mountains, he fell into the Eerie Game. 1010

Before Ji Yan properly learned of the chessboard system, Kong Yi had already operated under the false identity of the Eerie Lord of Deception. As a higher-tier player outside the dungeon’s normal influence, he used that role to deceive Ji Yan and draw him into the Tier 8 Roaming God Forbidden Ruin. 647

He was a Black Chess Player codenamed K, tasked with finding and cultivating worthwhile pawns for the Black Chess faction. He later helped introduce Ji Yan to the chessboard’s rules and the Roaming God Privilege. 610 649

Appearance

Kong Yi’s appearance is often obscured by deliberate disguises, role-playing, and The Hermit’s presence-reducing privileges. Even Ji Yan initially found him nearly unrecognizable in the Elysian Shore waiting hall. 1010

• Often wears unconventional or deliberately disheveled clothing; during one reunion, he had dry, unkempt hair and an exhausted appearance after Frontier City’s main storyline. 1010
• Has callused hands. 1011
• After his revival in Grotesque Town, he is described as muscular and handsome. 1104
• Commonly carries candy, cigarettes, or a lollipop, even during tense encounters. 647 1058 1101

Personality

Kong Yi is calculating, theatrical, and highly practiced at making others accept the version of events he wants them to see. He treats deception as both a survival tool and entertainment, frequently withholding crucial information until it benefits him most. His own reputation among Black Chess Players is poor enough that others readily assume he has betrayed his teammates. 777 858

He is observant and unusually skilled at identifying falsehoods, dungeon mechanics, and weaknesses from small behavioral details. He quickly recognized Ji Yan’s Starvation Eerie disguise from the clarity of his eyes, deduced the workings of the Lying Eerie’s false Order, and exploited the Moon Attendant’s dependence on moonlight. 796 1032 1060

Despite his selfishness, Kong Yi is not indiscriminately cruel. He refuses Xu Xin’s proposal to use herself as bait because he believes it would condemn her to a fate worse than death, and he intervenes to prevent Luo Xixi’s murder during the Final Battlefield. 796 887

He has also admitted that part of his intimidating reputation was a bluff, suggesting that his strength lies as much in information control and perceived threat as direct power. 856

Abilities & Skills

[Absentmindedness]

Kong Yi’s Term Talent floods a target’s mind with trivial information, disrupting their dominant thoughts and leaving them unable to focus or act coherently. 777

• Can interrupt a target at a critical moment, including preventing the activation of a Regret Move Save. 777
• Was used to incapacitate Ji Yan, Doctor Long, and Liu Congming during Kong Yi’s attempt to monopolize a reward. 1101
• Its effect has a short cooldown, and Ji Yan was able to break free quickly. 898

[Tomb Birth Field]

Kong Yi’s exclusive privilege creates an isolated arena by consuming part of a target’s body and activating the privilege. 799 800

• Pulls Kong Yi and the target into a sealed arena for a ten-minute deathmatch. 799
• Prevents outside interference while active. 799
• Forces those inside to role-play eerie identities of the same rank; against Mo Yu, both were changed into Masochistic Eeries. 799
• If neither side wins within ten minutes, the domain lifts and the passive target regains their original eerie identity. 799
• Kong Yi has used the field to force opponents into unfavorable identities, including changing Ai Li from a Grudge Eerie into a Burning Death Eerie. 846

[The Hermit] Privileges

As The Hermit Attendant, Kong Yi possesses concealment- and misdirection-focused privileges. His Audience path is [Forbearance], which raises favorability by minimizing his presence. 1025

• [Ventriloquist Puppet] — used to substitute a puppet for Ji Yan while Xue’s magic was being set up. 1058
• [Silent Proxy Hand] — one of his stated Hermit privileges. 1058
• Can reduce his presence to an extreme degree, enabling rapid escapes and making him easy to overlook. 1060
• Used a staged death to maximize his presence after previously suppressing it through The Hermit’s path. 1025

Role-Playing and Deduction

Kong Yi is an expert at playing NPC and eerie identities convincingly, then using the assumptions attached to those identities against other players.

• Simultaneously portrayed Liu Congming and the Constable Ghoul during the deterioration of Grave Mound Ghoul Prison. 777
• Played the Eerie Lord of Deception well enough to mislead Ji Yan despite Ji Yan possessing Omniscient Understanding. 647
• Identified Ji Yan’s Starvation Eerie role from behavioral details rather than equipment or stats. 796
• Deduced that the Shrine’s “Sly Eerie” was actually a Lying Eerie whose false Order depended on a majority of believing puppets. 1032
• Correctly analyzed the Moon Attendant’s loss of immortality, teleportation, and stored eerie power in spaces without moonlight. 1060

Stolen Shrine Authority

Kong Yi won a dice game against a plain-robed monk and gained the right to strip away 40% of the monk’s authority over the Oblivion Eerie Shrine. 1060

• Can manifest eerie roots from severed flesh using the stolen Shrine authority. 1060
• The authority remains usable only while the monk remains sealed and dormant in Kong Yi’s Tool Bar. 1060

Equipment

• Constable Ghoul’s black iron chain — restrains an eerie item’s movement and ability activation. 844
• Constable Ghoul’s Ox Tail Knife / cleaver — a weapon Kong Yi uses in close combat; it was shattered by the Initial Player. 857 887
• Constable Ghoul token — used to summon a Constable Ghoul against the Initial Player. 887
• Order-enforcing die — used to initiate games whose results must be honored by Order. 1034
• [The Hermit] Tarot Card — grants his attendant path and associated privileges. 1010
• Playing cards — used as part of his Eerie Lord of Deception act. 647

Relationships

• Ji Yan — Calls Ji Yan his “student,” but their relationship is defined by manipulation, temporary cooperation, and mutual attempts to use or eliminate one another. Kong Yi deceived Ji Yan into Roaming God Forbidden Ruin, later helped guide him through the chessboard system, and repeatedly worked beside him on Elysian Shore. 460 647 1063
• Xu Xin / X — Longtime partner and fellow Black Chess Player. They jointly guide Ji Yan in Roaming God Forbidden Ruin and fight together during the Final Battlefield. 647 793
• Night Burial Maitreya — The Black Chess Boss whose reliance and special favor upgraded Kong Yi’s codename privilege three times. 801
• Ai Li — Temporarily brought Kong Yi into the White Chess lineup as part of a strategic exchange; Ai Li remained wary that Kong Yi might threaten his position. 858 862
• Luo Xixi — Kong Yi prevents [U] from killing her, citing his knowledge of the Black Chess lineup. 887
• King Arthur — An adversarial relationship marked by theft and manipulation. Kong Yi took possession of the Sword in the Stone after King Arthur’s temporary death and used King Arthur’s desperation to advance his own plans. 1061
• Mysterious Audience member — An unknown Audience member appears to favor Kong Yi enough to interfere with stage rules and facilitate his revival. 1104 1105

Story Role / Major Arcs

Roaming God Forbidden Ruin

Kong Yi reveals himself as the false Eerie Lord of Deception who manipulated Ji Yan into entering Roaming God Forbidden Ruin. He explains that Ji Yan’s curiosity, rather than a failure of Omniscient Understanding itself, allowed the deception to succeed. 647

Alongside Xu Xin, he introduces Ji Yan to the Black Chess Player system, pawn promotion, dungeon privileges, and the larger Black-versus-White Chess conflict. 648 650

Grave Mound Ghoul Prison

Kong Yi descends into the deteriorating dungeon to assist Ji Yan, outsmarts J, and negotiates a fifty-fifty split of the deterioration rewards. 777

He manipulates Liu Congming and Xiao Bing into willingly becoming Black Chess Pieces by impersonating Dungeon Order during the dungeon’s deterioration. 780

Final Battlefield

Kong Yi and Xu Xin cooperate against White Chess Players, with Kong Yi using Tomb Birth Field to isolate and fight Mo Yu. 793 799

He is later accepted into Ai Li’s White Chess lineup, though his true motives remain unclear. His willingness to withhold information even from allies contributes to broad distrust from both factions. 858 867

After surviving the Final Battlefield, the game panel recognizes Kong Yi as belonging to the Black Chess Player faction for reward settlement. 911

Elysian Shore

Kong Yi reunites with Ji Yan as K, the holder of The Hermit Tarot Card. He shares information about the real-world nature of Tier 9 dungeons while withholding much of his own history and intentions. 1010 1011

He fakes his death to advance The Hermit’s Audience path, only for Ji Yan to recognize the trick and force him into the Two-Mouthed Eerie Woman’s deadly trial. Kong Yi survives, though he is left severely injured and unable to speak after having his tongue torn out. 1025 1027

He continues working with Ji Yan when their interests align, including investigating the World Attendant and confronting threats within Grotesque Town. 1063 1108

The Fool Reward and Revival

Kong Yi uses Absentmindedness to incapacitate Ji Yan, Doctor Long, and Liu Congming while attempting to claim The Fool reward for himself and maximize the Tier 10 dungeon prize pool. 1101

Although eliminated by Dungeon Order, he is revived through a loophole apparently enabled by a Mysterious Audience member. Ji Yan restores him because Kong Yi remains useful for navigating Grotesque Town’s unresolved dangers. 1104 1105

Notable Quotes

“How can you survive in the Eerie Game without some acting skills?” 777

“You have [Omniscient Understanding], but you’re not omnipotent.” 777

“I’m robbing a robber!” 1101

“In the darkness, however, a [The Hermit] like me has a natural environmental advantage.” 1060