Chapter Summaries

Ji Yan exposed Sister He's scheme and survived the exam, while Liu Congming revealed how he had used Eerie Infant Eerie to infect four Q players with her children. The chapter ended with Liu Congming trusting that Ji Yan would find a way to pass.

• Ji Yan explained that he had bet on Sister He's greed for doubled rewards and used his apparent corruption to hide his suspicions about Hidden Eerie.
• Sister He warned Ji Yan that Liu Congming might have been compromised, but Ji Yan pretended not to care about his companion.
• A Q player announced trouble in Private Room 4, where Ji Yan and Sister He found four Q players suffering from Eerie Infant Eerie's parasitic children while Liu Congming ate fruit.
• Liu Congming explained that Eerie Infant Eerie's hunger meant placing her children inside new hosts, and her favorability toward him rose by 10%.
• Liu Congming told Ji Yan he had taken the risk because he was certain Ji Yan could clear the exam.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming realized Sister She and the Q players planned to kill them before the exam ended, so Ji Yan used Liu Congming’s ability to turn the attackers against one another. As the slaughter raged outside the bathroom, Ji Yan discovered that its sounds excited her.

• Sister She told Ji Yan and Liu Congming that their Faith [Death] made promotion to the Experimental Class unlikely because their upperclassmen controlled the J Key Class.
• Ji Yan suspected Sister She intended to kill them after the exam and decided to exploit the attackers’ plan to make them violate the rules first.
• Sister She ordered the Q players to surround the private room, and they rushed inside just before the exam ended, but Ji Yan and Liu Congming had vanished.
• A grotesque eerie child emerged through the wall and triggered the Q players’ killing intent, causing them to stab one another with ice picks.
• Hiding in the bathroom, Ji Yan and Liu Congming heard the fighting and screams as blood seeped beneath the door.
• Ji Yan felt excited by the slaughter and realized her body was producing dopamine.

Ji Yan used the hidden revolver and Liu Congming’s Unlucky Eerie to extend the examination and expose Faith [Life]’s slaughter, allowing them to leave while its members faced a second examination. As Ji Yan and Liu Congming walked away, She Nian suddenly appeared before Ji Yan and touched his face.

• Ji Yan watched Death Spirit Eerie feast on the Q players’ murderous memories and fear, then revealed that the examination had not ended.
• She Nian realized Ji Yan had used the hidden revolver’s rule bullet to pause and extend the examination, and the Dungeon Order penalized Faith [Life] with a second examination.
• Ji Yan and Liu Congming left the room while the other faiths were allowed to depart, and She Nian vowed to take revenge as her second examination began.
• Liu Congming praised Ji Yan and explained that Unlucky Eerie had boosted his luck enough for him to survive firing the revolver five times.
• Ji Yan sensed a foul scent, turned around, and found the corpse-spotted She Nian touching his face and saying they would meet again soon.

She Nian caught up with Ji Yan and Liu Congming, then used her Faith [Life] ability to make Q players parasitize their bodies. As Ji Yan struggled with exhaustion and the spreading growths, a bell rang from down the passage, and an unseen attacker pierced She Nian's chest.

• She Nian revealed that she had cleared the second exam by making other players forfeit, using the faith power of Proliferation.
• Ji Yan realized that She Nian's touch had caused Q players to grow out of his face and take over his body.
• Liu Congming also became covered in gashes as limbs grew from his body, while She Nian explained that her followers could make their enemies suffer without killing them directly.
• Ji Yan identified She Nian's card as Plum Blossom Q and learned that his exhausted mental state prevented him from using his Term Talent.
• Ji Yan told Liu Congming to stake their lives on luck, then heard a bell approaching from the passage.
• A figure appeared through the hazy light, and an unseen hand pierced a bloody hole through She Nian's chest.

Spade J Yin Xiu revealed that he had defiled She Nian, causing Faith [Life] to abandon her, and offered her a place with Faith [Death]. She Nian accepted and completed a loyalty ritual, while Ji Yan suspected something was wrong.

• Yin Xiu appeared behind She Nian, tore out her heart, and mocked her as it rotted into black filth.
• She Nian discovered tumors, foul blood, and other signs that Faith [Life] had abandoned her, and repeatedly dug out her regenerating heart in desperation.
• Yin Xiu told She Nian that his poisoned bait had defiled her and offered to take her into Faith [Death].
• She Nian accepted Yin Xiu's offer and stabbed herself in the heart with his black knife as a loyalty ritual.
• Yin Xiu removed his mask, introduced himself as Spade J in charge of Deceptive Death, and welcomed She Nian into his ranks.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming learned how Yin Xiu’s deception led She Nian to kill herself, while Liu Congming’s Unlucky Eerie had triggered a bloody calamity that helped seal her death. After the entrance test ended, Le Yao announced that a new Eerie Instructor had arrived and the group was going to welcome them.

• She Nian’s death caused the Q players parasitizing Ji Yan and Liu Congming to leave their bodies, and Yin Xiu revealed that he had tricked her into believing Faith [Life] had abandoned her.
• Ji Yan explained that She Nian’s trust in Yin Xiu’s lies made her lose Faith [Life]’s protection, while Yin Xiu used eerie bells and sleight of hand to support his deception.
• Yin Xiu said She Nian’s later necrotic hearts came from her proliferated puppets, and Liu Congming revealed that Unlucky Eerie’s luck-devouring ability had triggered a life-threatening bloody calamity.
• A faith panel reported that Yin Xiu’s loyalty had risen by 15% through Deceptive Death and that the second-stage dungeon plot had reached 91%.
• Yin Xiu declared Ji Yan and Liu Congming’s entrance test complete, and Le Yao arrived to take them to welcome the new Eerie Instructor.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming learned that Yin Xiu and Le Yao had put them through a deadly training exam, then met the newly promoted J Eerie Instructor, who rewarded them but imposed punishment on Liu Congming. Ji Yan discovered that the instructor was Square Eerie Teacher, yet his strategy favorability had fallen to zero, leaving their promised alliance in doubt.

• Yin Xiu and Le Yao explained that their former Eerie Instructor had received Faith [Death]'s response and claimed they had sent Ji Yan and Liu Congming to Examination Room 440 to toughen them up.
• Diamond Q and Spade Q examined She Nian's corpse, and Spade Q suspected that a jinx he knew had been involved in her death.
• Yin Xiu and Le Yao reported to J Eerie Instructor that Ji Yan and Liu Congming had passed his training examination, and he gave Ji Yan a key as their reward.
• J Eerie Instructor gave Liu Congming a second key that sent him to the Ministry of Education for a third-class disciplinary penalty.
• Ji Yan discovered that J Eerie Instructor was Square Eerie Teacher but that his strategy favorability had dropped to 0%.

Ji Yan learned that Luo Xixi had died after failing J Eerie Instructor’s final exam, and he unexpectedly lost control when the instructor mocked her. He and Liu Congming reached their Key Class dorm, where Ji Yan found the Yin Yuan Red Thread had snapped, confirming Luo Xixi was dead.

• Ji Yan asked J Eerie Instructor about Luo Xixi and learned she had died in a deadly final exam before its promotion.
• J Eerie Instructor provoked Ji Yan, who angrily criticized it and triggered a warning that its favorability had fallen to negative 10%.
• J Eerie Instructor threatened Ji Yan, then withdrew and left after calling the threat a joke and warning him not to repeat his behavior.
• Ji Yan and Liu Congming discussed how J Eerie Instructor seemed pleased by Ji Yan’s emotional outburst, and Ji Yan noticed the Yin Yuan Red Thread had snapped.
• Ji Yan and Liu Congming found their shabby two-person Key Class dorm, while Ji Yan told himself his feelings about Luo Xixi amounted only to helplessness and regret.

After dinner, Ji Yan learned that Liu Congming had used Unlucky Eerie’s Fate’s Final Summon to identify Ji Yan as a Child of Fortune and decided to follow him through the dungeon. Ji Yan then reviewed the Key Class rules and the loyalty-based quest, leaving the next stage of his plan unstated.

• Liu Congming teased Ji Yan about confronting the Eerie Instructor, while Ji Yan reflected that his outburst had not been caused by Luo Xixi.
• Ji Yan questioned why Unlucky Eerie had stayed with Liu Congming after he entered the Key Class, and Liu Congming said he believed following Ji Yan would let him survive and clear the dungeon.
• Ji Yan guessed that Liu Congming’s eerie ability had crawled over him on their first night, and Liu Congming admitted it was Unlucky Eerie’s Fate’s Final Summon.
• Liu Congming explained that the ability had revealed Ji Yan as a Child of Fortune, so he intended to rely on Ji Yan’s luck to progress through the dungeon.
• Liu Congming complained that Instructor J the Trickster had erased their accumulated favorability, while Ji Yan suggested she might have another purpose.
• Ji Yan reviewed the Key Class quest, which required him to raise faith loyalty through exams to receive a response from Him.

Ji Yan was assigned to an examination with Le Yao, who explained that players’ faith privileges grew stronger with loyalty. The pair headed to face Chaos players, and Le Yao revealed that her privilege was Overdraft Death.

• Le Yao climbed onto Ji Yan’s bed to wake him for the examination, explaining that she liked watching defenseless people sleep but would not harm a Junior Brother.
• Le Yao told Ji Yan that Liu Congming had been taken by Yin Xiu to receive punishment and that she and Ji Yan had been assigned to the same examination group.
• Ji Yan checked the task panel and followed Le Yao toward Examination Room No. 520, though he remained wary of her reassurances.
• Le Yao said their opponents were Chaos players who disrupted examinations and held a grudge against her for killing one of them.
• Le Yao explained that poker cards granted faith privileges strengthened by loyalty, then revealed that her own privilege was Overdraft Death.

Ji Yan and Le Yao entered a paired exam that required them to find an answer and hand it off while surviving the other team. Ji Yan killed a Poker K player and obtained the answer, then needed to find Le Yao to finish the exam.

• Ji Yan learned that the exam rewarded the fastest team and could also serve as a hunt, while Le Yao told him to stay alive and hide if he found the answer.
• Ji Yan and Le Yao entered separate red and blue doors, and Ji Yan followed a maze passage.
• Ji Yan found a sleeping coal-black cursed creature, but a short-haired Poker K player grabbed it and fled.
• Ji Yan chased the Poker K player, wounded her with a Coffin Nail, and killed her when she reached into her pocket.
• Ji Yan picked up a black cube and received confirmation that he had obtained the answer, so he set out to find Le Yao.

Ji Yan completed the exam task but encountered Swastika Reverse Eerie, which stole the Rubik’s Cube and nearly twisted his neck. Blood Gu Eerie drove it away, while the masked K player revealed that he had planted a hook and was surprised to see Square 1 again.

• Ji Yan finished the mission, took the black Rubik’s Cube, and headed back to meet Le Yao.
• Swastika Reverse Eerie appeared in the passage and scrambled Ji Yan’s movement and perception as it pursued him.
• Swastika Reverse Eerie took Ji Yan’s hair and Rubik’s Cube, then began twisting his neck with its reversal ability.
• Blood Gu Eerie emerged and frightened Swastika Reverse Eerie into dropping the items and leaving.
• The player wearing the K poker mask said Swastika Reverse Eerie’s hook had been planted and remarked that he had seen Square 1 again.

Ji Yan returned with the answer, but Spade K convinced him that the Swastika Reverse Eerie had reversed his consciousness and that he belonged to Poker K. Ji Yan followed Spade K toward the supposed correct door, unaware that Spade K was manipulating him.

• After Ji Yan left, Spade K admired the staged chaos and planned to take Diamond K for himself.
• A female player questioned why Spade K was disrupting the exam even after his group had found the answer, and he told her to deepen Heart J’s confusion.
• Ji Yan waited at the starting point until Spade K arrived, then offered him the Rubik’s Cube containing the answer.
• Spade K claimed the Swastika Reverse Eerie had reversed the exam grounds and warned Ji Yan that the Red Door was the wrong door.
• When Ji Yan mistakenly believed they were Poker J, Spade K told him the Eerie had reversed his consciousness and persuaded him to follow.
• As they set off, Spade K’s eyes changed beneath his mask and formed a swastika pattern.

Liu Xi discovered that the Le Yao she had encountered was a decaying substitute, while Spade K’s attempt to confuse Ji Yan was upended by the real Ji Yan’s disguises and actions. The chapter ended with Ji Yan’s Coffin Nail killing a fake Ji Yan instead of Spade K, leaving Spade K and Liu Xi bewildered.

• Liu Xi saw the apparent Le Yao collapse into rotten flesh and found a vivid red spine among the remains.
• Spade K led Ji Yan through the maze and used a human head’s vapor to deepen Ji Yan’s consciousness confusion while asking about his Square 1 card.
• Liu Xi reported that the Le Yao she had met was a substitute and gave Spade K a flesh-stained Eternal Pocket Watch.
• Spade K triggered the watch’s hidden ability, which slowed his own speed by ninety times as it slipped from his hand.
• A disguised Ji Yan revealed himself, drew a Coffin Nail, and threw it past Spade K to kill the fake Ji Yan behind him.

Ji Yan and Le Yao used a fake Ji Yan as bait to expose Spade K's abilities, and Le Yao explained how she repeatedly borrowed death to survive. The exam was nearly over, but Liu Xi's reaction and the two remaining troublemakers still posed a threat.

• Ji Yan killed the fake Ji Yan, who was Le Yao, as part of their plan to lure out Poker K's players.
• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding and the Eerie Codex to identify Spade K as Li Ziyue and reveal his Consciousness Confusion privilege, which depended on killing stimulation.
• Le Yao revived herself, reclaimed the Coffin Nail, and explained that her Borrowing Death privilege let her defer the consequences of her repeated deaths.
• Le Yao described how Yin Xiu used drugs and self-deception to make his Faith Privilege manifest, including recovering from a fatal wound by believing he was not dead.
• Ji Yan asked about the privilege of his Square J card, but Le Yao said the exam was nearly over and urged him to deal with the two troublemakers.

Ji Yan used the Eternal Pocket Watch to trap Spade K in years of frozen time, breaking his faith and making him long for death. After Spade K escaped the effect, he begged for a knife, embraced death as his new faith, and killed himself.

• Le Yao left to deal with Liu Xi while Ji Yan faced Spade K alone.
• Ji Yan triggered the Eternal Pocket Watch’s hidden effect, trapping Spade K in a time-stilled world for what felt like years.
• Ji Yan slowly moved a knife toward Spade K’s throat during the ordeal, making death his only hope.
• After the pocket watch broke, Spade K emerged shattered and begged Ji Yan for the knife so he could die.
• Ji Yan made Spade K declare faith in death, then gave him the knife, and Spade K stabbed himself in the neck.
• Le Yao returned and questioned Ji Yan, who said he had turned time into a blade and made death a luxury.

Ji Yan completed the exam after causing Li Ziyue’s faith to collapse and unlocking the Witness Death privilege. Le Yao recruited Liu Xi by killing and resurrecting her through borrowed faith, while J Eerie Instructor approached Ji Yan with an offer.

• Ji Yan learned that using the Eternal Pocket Watch had increased his faith loyalty by 25% and unlocked the Witness Death privilege.
• Le Yao revealed that she had captured Liu Xi and used a Faith privilege to make her choose Death and receive a second life.
• Ji Yan and Le Yao submitted their answers just before the exam ended, and Liu Xi left with Le Yao as one of her people.
• Le Yao explained that she could lend and reclaim faith, then advised Ji Yan to be careful while exploring the Abyssal Apartment.
• J Eerie Instructor appeared and told Ji Yan he had something good to give him, making Ji Yan wary.

Ji Yan accepted a Legendary survival item and stole another eerie item after defeating Li Ziyue, then waited for J Eerie Instructor to reveal the task involving Luo Xixi. At midnight, J Eerie Instructor appeared inside Ji Yan’s dormitory, confirming that it had used Luo Xixi to make him comply.

• Ji Yan refused J Eerie Instructor’s offer until it hinted that the task involved Luo Xixi, then agreed to meet at midnight in his dormitory.
• Ji Yan claimed the Death Dodge Boots, which could automatically teleport him away from death threats, and stole the Reversal Gloves from Li Ziyue with The Hand of the Dead.
• Ji Yan returned to his dormitory, rested, and learned from Yin Xiu that Liu Congming had passed an exam but remained trapped in another exam room.
• Yin Xiu warned Ji Yan that J Eerie Instructor seemed unusually human and had shown him no favorability.
• At midnight, J Eerie Instructor appeared in Ji Yan’s room and admitted that using Luo Xixi had made Ji Yan do what it wanted.

Ji Yan learned that Luo Xixi could be revived if he passed a hidden exam, but J Eerie Instructor drugged him and sent him into an unfamiliar test. He woke trapped in a sealed room, cut off from his powers and eerie items, with an Eerie lurking outside.

• J Eerie Instructor explained that Luo Xixi had been placed in a revival match and that Ji Yan had to pass a hidden exam to bring her into the Key Class.
• J Eerie Instructor revealed its ambition to rise beyond Eerie Instructor and promised to help Ji Yan reach the Experimental Class, while warning that loyalty alone would not earn admission.
• Ji Yan asked about the Eerie Codex's side effects, and J Eerie Instructor said the backlash had already begun and offered to explain more after the exam.
• J Eerie Instructor injected Ji Yan with a syringe, knocked him unconscious, and placed a Poker J mask over his face before sending him to the exam.
• Ji Yan woke in a small, sealed room, found five strange cards, and saw an Eerie shadow moving outside the door.
• Ji Yan discovered he could not access his Game Panel or contact the Blood Gu Eerie and Death Spirit Eerie, leaving him without his abilities or eerie items.

Ji Yan entered a survival examination where three players used cards to fend off a wolf attacking their doors. After studying the other players’ choices and repairing his damaged door, he realized something unsettling as the wolf warned that he was almost out of cards.

• Ji Yan learned the examination rules and chose not to exchange a card during the first round, reasoning that his intact door could withstand an attack.
• The wolf attacked Ji Yan’s door, damaging it before moving on, and Ji Yan estimated it could survive no more than two more attacks.
• In the second round, Ji Yan exchanged a Hammer Card to repair his door, then identified that the neighboring player had used a Bayonet Card and the other player had used Gong and Drum Cards.
• Ji Yan declined to exchange for another card, expecting his repaired door and remaining cards to keep him safe.
• The wolf attacked Ji Yan’s door again, stared at him through the damage, and taunted him that he was almost out of cards.