Chapter Summaries

Ji Yan used the creature’s blindness and reliance on sound to trick it into sparing his damaged door, then stabbed it with a Bayonet Card. He helped cause Candidate 999’s elimination and prepared to face the remaining player, while J Eerie Instructor revealed that the examination was unwinnable.

• Ji Yan deduced that the creature was blind and tracked players’ cards by listening for their sounds, so he skipped playing a card to make it think he had used his Bayonet Card.
• The creature knocked on another player’s door, and Ji Yan used the opening to exchange for a Bayonet Card and stab it when it returned.
• Ji Yan falsely claimed he had traded 1,000 milliliters of blood for the Bayonet Card to mislead the creature and the other players.
• Ji Yan played a Gong and Drum Card while the creature attacked the right-side player, whose door broke and who was eaten; the speaker announced that Candidate 999 had been eliminated.
• Ji Yan realized the wounded creature would hit harder and began recalling the left-side player’s remaining cards, while J Eerie Instructor said Ji Yan could never win the examination.

Ji Yan exchanged blood for a Bayonet Card and used his remaining cards to keep the ghost guessing while both doors neared collapse. After the neighbor also began trading blood for cards, Ji Yan heard that Examinee No. 888 had exchanged 2,000 ML of blood, leaving him to wonder if they were preparing to fight him head-on.

• Ji Yan exchanged 1,000 ML of blood for a Bayonet Card, then used his last Hammer Card to repair his door as the ghost wandered outside.
• The ghost damaged Ji Yan's repaired door again, and Ji Yan used his Gong and Drum Card while deducing that his neighbor had spent two Hammer Cards.
• With both doors nearly destroyed and no Hammer Cards left, Ji Yan exchanged for another Bayonet Card and stabbed the ghost when it came to his door.
• Ji Yan claimed he could keep drawing Bayonet Cards, frightening and confusing the ghost, which began to suspect he was cheating.
• Ji Yan heard that his neighbor had exchanged blood for a card, then learned Examinee No. 888 had made a second exchange of 1,000 ML.

Ji Yan used Bayonet Cards to wound the eerie being while the examinee next door endured repeated blood exchanges and faced it as well. The exam abruptly ended before Ji Yan learned whether the neighbor or the eerie being had died, leaving the final result uncertain.

• Ji Yan exchanged 1000 ML of blood for another Bayonet Card and used it to wound the eerie being again when it knocked on his door.
• Ji Yan pretended he could keep stabbing the eerie being and threatened to kill it, while hearing the neighbor repair their door and exchange more blood for cards.
• The eerie being knocked on the neighbor’s door, and Ji Yan concluded that the neighbor had drawn Hammer Cards again after hearing the door smashed and repaired without a gong or a scream.
• Ji Yan prepared to exchange another 1000 ML of blood, but an announcement declared the exam over and ordered the remaining examinees to leave for their rewards.
• Ji Yan watched his battered door open and wondered whether the neighbor or the eerie being had died.

Ji Yan won the hidden exam after the other examinee was eliminated, then discovered that the instructor’s surprise gift was Luo Xixi’s death. The gift triggered a Faith privilege that pulled Ji Yan into Luo Xixi’s perspective as she approached her elimination.

• J Eerie Instructor explained that the hidden exam had been arranged to help Ji Yan advance, and that the neighboring examinee’s blood loss had ended the match.
• J Eerie Instructor revealed that the hidden rewards were concealed in the masks of the eliminated examinees, but Ji Yan found nothing beneath the Poker K mask.
• Ji Yan lifted the Q player’s mask and recognized Luo Xixi, then restrained his anger as J Eerie Instructor taunted him about her death.
• J Eerie Instructor triggered the Witness Death privilege, increasing Ji Yan’s loyalty to Faith [Death] by 20%.
• Ji Yan entered Luo Xixi’s perspective and watched her fall into J Eerie Instructor’s trap and face elimination.

After Luo Xixi died in a rigged exam, Ji Yan witnessed her death and learned that the J Eerie Instructor had arranged her sacrifice to increase his Faith loyalty. The instructor revealed that Ji Yan must kill faction teammates to enter the Experimental Class, then announced that Liu would be sacrificed next.

• Luo Xixi was eliminated after the Eerie Teacher tampered with her exam and Ji Yan attacked her with Bayonet Cards.
• Ji Yan witnessed Luo Xixi's death, and Square J fed on her corpse, increasing its loyalty to Faith [Death].
• The J Eerie Instructor admitted that it had provoked Ji Yan and arranged Luo Xixi's sacrifice for his advancement.
• Ji Yan seized and destroyed his darker self, then questioned the instructor about why Luo Xixi had been chosen.
• The J Eerie Instructor explained that Witness Death required the death of a teammate from Ji Yan's faction and that he would have to kill teammates to enter the Experimental Class.
• The J Eerie Instructor said it would sacrifice Liu the following day and suggested Ji Yan might later save his teammates in hell.

Ji Yan gained the Witness Death privilege after Luo Xixi’s sacrifice and recognized that the Dungeon’s influence was changing his mindset. After Liu Congming returned from an exam with Yin Xiu, Ji Yan wondered whether his growing darkness came from Faith [Death].

• Ji Yan examined Luo Xixi’s death and used the loyalty she had earned to unlock the Witness Death privilege, which could reveal how to kill an enemy within the next ten seconds.
• J Eerie Instructor watched from the darkness and said Ji Yan had already lost by accepting the tome’s gift, then looked forward to the tome’s influence taking hold.
• Ji Yan returned to the dormitory, where Liu Congming described surviving an exam alongside Spade J Yin Xiu, whose Deceptive Death privilege made him repeatedly kill himself without dying.
• Ji Yan warned Liu Congming that Yin Xiu’s faith could not protect him if he broke the examination hall’s rules and disrupted Order.
• Liu Congming remained carefree about the next exam, while Ji Yan privately considered the loyalty he might gain if Liu were sacrificed.
• Liu Congming remarked that Ji Yan was smiling like Yin Xiu and Le Yao, prompting Ji Yan to question whether Faith [Death] was making him dark and insane.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming learned that their exam would take place on the Abyssal Apartment’s newly unlocked 7th Floor, while the three Eerie Instructors discussed the exam as a chess match. When Ji Yan and Liu Congming reached the floor, they encountered the bloody faces of Yin Xiu and Le Yao.

• Ji Yan and Liu Congming discussed the upcoming exam before the lights went out and they went to sleep.
• J Eerie Instructor challenged Q Eerie Instructor and K Eerie Instructor to a chess game, proposing that the day’s exam would decide the endgame.
• The Game Panel announced that the exam would take place on the hidden 7th Floor, and Ji Yan and Liu Congming received assignments to different zones.
• Ji Yan and Liu Congming climbed toward the 7th Floor and realized students from other factions would be taking the exam there too.
• Liu Congming looked up after blood dripped onto his face and saw Yin Xiu and Le Yao’s bloody faces pressed close to him.

Ji Yan and the other J Key Class examinees entered the hidden 7th Floor to begin the Ascension Exam, while the Eerie Instructors watched their moves on a chessboard. The J Eerie Instructor’s pawn collided with a facedown piece that the K Eerie Instructor revealed to be a chariot.

• Le Yao and Yin Xiu explained that they had been cutting off body parts while playing rock-paper-scissors as training in their faith in Death.
• The four J Key Class examinees entered the 7th Floor and found a corridor with seven examination areas but no visible examinees from the other factions.
• Ji Yan reasoned that the other factions had been separated by time or space, then entered Area A as Liu Congming warned him about his twitching right eyelid.
• The three Eerie Instructors watched the exam from a hidden chamber as the J Eerie Instructor moved a pawn into a facedown chess piece.
• The K Eerie Instructor turned over the piece and revealed that the pawn had collided with a chariot.

Ji Yan entered a hidden exam room where a multiple-choice question determined the challenge he would face, then encountered Mock Disaster Eerie as his punishment. He summoned Death Spirit Eerie to learn about the threat, but it immediately retreated, leaving Ji Yan to face Mock Disaster Eerie alone.

• Ji Yan entered the exam room, inspected its eerie totem and red dividing lines, and learned from the Coalball Eerie that the exam had begun.
• A hand emerged from the blackboard, stopped Ji Yan’s Coffin Nail with ease, and withdrew before the Coalball Eerie declared that his opponent had answered the multiple-choice question better.
• The Coalball Eerie assigned Ji Yan the punishment game Escape from the Tiger’s Jaws, in which he was the rabbit and an Eerie was the tiger.
• Mock Disaster Eerie appeared, recognized the scent of the Eerie Umbrella on Ji Yan, and threatened to snatch him as prey.
• Ji Yan summoned Death Spirit Eerie to learn about Mock Disaster Eerie, but Death Spirit Eerie said it could not win and fled back into Ji Yan’s body.

Ji Yan used Death Spirit Eerie to trigger Witness Death and saw seven possible deaths at the hands of Mock Disaster Eerie, then deduced that it could inflict different calamities through eye contact or physical contact. As the exam continued and Mock Disaster Eerie left to punish the other examinee, Ji Yan asked Blood Gu Eerie to help him borrow something from Coalball Eerie.

• Ji Yan triggered Witness Death and saw himself die from tumors inflicted by Mock Disaster Eerie, then woke unharmed as Mock Disaster Eerie began its attack.
• Death Dodge Boots moved Ji Yan out of reach, and Mock Disaster Eerie released its hostility lock and left to punish the examinee on the other side.
• Coalball Eerie explained that the punishment continued between examinees, while Ji Yan learned that the opposing examinee was not a Poker K player.
• Ji Yan told Blood Gu Eerie that he had witnessed seven versions of his death and guessed that Mock Disaster Eerie could inflict different calamities through eye contact or physical contact.
• Ji Yan whispered to Blood Gu Eerie, which lifted Coalball Eerie from the ceiling, and Ji Yan said he wanted to borrow something.

Ji Yan discovered that candidates’ positions in the exam room affected both Mock Disaster Eerie’s strength and the correctness of their answers. He used the Reversal Gloves to redirect Mock Disaster Eerie into Coalball Eerie, then answered correctly and shifted the punishment to Candidate 555.

• Ji Yan took a hair from Coalball Eerie and used the Eerie Codex to learn that warning lines divided the exam room into zones with different threat levels.
• After walking between zones, Ji Yan realized that a candidate’s position also determined whether an answer was correct and that punishment could pass between candidates.
• When Mock Disaster Eerie returned, Ji Yan retreated to the back of the room, where Order restricted its powers, while Blood Gu Eerie held it back.
• Ji Yan ran to the podium and used the Reversal Gloves to make Mock Disaster Eerie attack Coalball Eerie, which was reduced to ashes.
• Ji Yan stood his ground as Mock Disaster Eerie attacked, and the announcement confirmed his answer was correct while Candidate 555 answered incorrectly and received the punishment.

Ji Yan used the hidden weight rule in the Area A exam to survive and outlast Candidate 444, then received the candidate’s bloodied Diamond K mask as spoils. He discovered Blood Paper Person inside it, who said Xu Xin was in great danger, and watched Yin Xiu emerge from Area E with Diamond Q.

• Ji Yan explained that staying near the podium made him lighter on the exam’s balance scale, while the opposing candidate’s weight kept Mock Disaster Eerie hunting him.
• The opposing exam ended with Candidate 444 advancing, and Mock Disaster Eerie gave Ji Yan the bloodied Diamond K mask after revealing it had killed the opposing candidate.
• Blood Paper Person crawled out of the mask and told Ji Yan that Xu Xin had sent it to find him because she faced great danger, though it had forgotten the details after sleeping.
• Ji Yan suspected Xu Xin might be setting a trap and considered which eerie in the Dungeon she might be impersonating.
• Yin Xiu walked out of Area E covered in blood and showed Ji Yan the bloodied Diamond Q mask he had obtained.

Ji Yan and Yin Xiu learned that Liu Congming and Le Yao had been eliminated, while J Eerie Instructor hinted that he was interfering with the exams and promised Ji Yan a place in the Experimental Class. Ji Yan entered Area D and found Liu Congming’s corpse.

• Yin Xiu told Ji Yan that his exam was a sandbag-throwing game, and the punishments had killed him six times before his win.
• K Eerie Instructor and Q Eerie Instructor persuaded J Eerie Instructor to move their general pieces out of the Nine Palaces and secretly gamble with king pieces.
• The announcement declared Liu Congming and Le Yao eliminated, and J Eerie Instructor appeared in the corridor despite the rule barring instructors from the 7th Floor Exam Room.
• Yin Xiu chose Area G Exam Room, while J Eerie Instructor told Ji Yan that a major event could secure his entry to the Experimental Class.
• Ji Yan entered Area D Exam Room and found Liu Congming’s corpse.

Ji Yan entered the Area D Exam Room, found Liu Congming’s corpse hanging in chains, and confronted Spade Q, who despised Liu Congming and blamed him for making his past exams miserable. As 000 appeared to begin the exam, Ji Yan realized the room’s rules had erased the players’ favorability and turned his attention to Spade Q.

• Ji Yan recognized Liu Congming’s corpse and learned that Spade Q had once been his roommate and resented him for the misfortune caused by Unlucky Eerie.
• Spade Q explained that Liu Congming had died after stepping on a landmine during the exam, and Ji Yan considered lowering the corpse to learn more about the room.
• Ji Yan stepped carefully across the strange gridded floor as an eerie sound signaled the exam’s start.
• 000 emerged between the exam rooms, and Ji Yan noticed that her cold, hollow gaze suggested the players’ favorability had been reset.
• Ji Yan stared at Spade Q, who felt uneasy and quickly looked away.

Ji Yan used Witness Death to survive successive rounds of a blind jumping-squares exam and realized that the exam room, Wu Bufan, and 000 were likely fake. He threw a Coffin Nail at the apparent illusion, shattering part of the room and exposing that something was hidden behind it.

• Ji Yan triggered Omniscient Understanding on Wu Bufan and learned that his Term Talent could undo moves, then examined the exam rules forbidding playing cards.
• When the first round began with no visible color clues, Ji Yan used Witness Death to avoid deadly squares and landed safely while Wu Bufan also survived.
• Wu Bufan claimed he had taken control of the exam room, but Ji Yan suspected the room and its occupants were fake after his talent failed to reveal information about them.
• Ji Yan used Witness Death to survive a second round in which ninety-one percent of the squares were deadly, while Wu Bufan stood safely across two squares.
• During the third round, Ji Yan reasoned that eerie items could influence opponents and threw a Coffin Nail toward the space beside Wu Bufan.
• The Coffin Nail struck an unseen barrier, shattering part of the exam room like a mirror.

Ji Yan exposed Wu Bufan’s layered mirror illusions, survived another Death Tile-Hopping round, and used the Reversal Gloves to make Wu Bufan step onto a death tile. Just as Wu Bufan was being eliminated, a strange force rewound the exam room and began undoing the events.

• Ji Yan shattered two mirror illusions, confirmed the real Wu Bufan, and advanced to the next round by stepping onto a safe blue tile.
• Ji Yan realized the purple slime’s color was distorted by the orange-yellow lighting and used his remaining Faith privilege to find a safe red tile.
• Wu Bufan stepped onto a blue death tile after Ji Yan’s Reversal Gloves confused his sense of direction, and the curse began dismantling him.
• A strange force repaired Wu Bufan and rewound the exam room, reversing the countdown, death announcement, and Ji Yan’s actions.

Ji Yan used Witness Death on Liu Congming and discovered that he might still be alive, prompting Unlucky Eerie to emerge and revive him. Wu Bufan panicked at the apparent resurrection, while Ji Yan waited to see when he would recognize the deception.

• Wu Bufan used his Time Rewind talent to undo his death, then resolved to kill Ji Yan in the sixth round.
• During the intermission, Ji Yan lowered Liu Congming's corpse while Wu Bufan secretly cut off a finger to prepare his regeneration privilege.
• Ji Yan used Witness Death and saw that Liu Congming had died early in the exam, but noticed an additional segment that shocked him.
• Ji Yan told Wu Bufan that a third player entering the room would interrupt the exam, then argued that Liu Congming might not be dead because Witness Death had failed to activate.
• Unlucky Eerie emerged from Liu Congming's back, fed him something, and his corpse began twitching as if coming back to life.
• Wu Bufan was horrified by Liu Congming's apparent resurrection, while Ji Yan watched to see when he would realize it was a deception.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming tricked Wu Bufan into believing Liu Congming had died, triggering Liu’s Trick Death privilege and bringing him back to life. Ji Yan revealed that Wu Bufan’s Time Rewind could no longer save him and claimed the exam’s hidden rules meant Wu had lost, then activated the Eerie Codex to negotiate with Order.

• Ji Yan waited out the fifteen-second limit while Wu Bufan believed Liu Congming was dead, and the sixth round began before Wu could rewind time.
• The Pregnant Spirit Eerie gave birth to a new Liu Congming, whose Trick Death privilege had turned his apparent death into a false one.
• Liu Congming recovered, reunited with Ji Yan, and explained that he had trusted Ji Yan to carry out the deception with help from Unlucky Eerie.
• Ji Yan deduced that Wu Bufan could rewind only fifteen seconds and explained why Wu could no longer undo Liu Congming’s survival.
• Ji Yan told Wu Bufan that the exam’s hidden rules meant he had lost, then activated the Eerie Codex to negotiate with Order.

Ji Yan discovered that the 7th Floor had become an ungoverned area after Q Eerie Instructor and K Eerie Instructor entered Area D Exam Room and began hunting candidates. The Eerie Codex revealed that the instructors had signed a contract to remove Order’s supervision, and Ji Yan realized J Eerie Instructor might have been tricked into agreeing to it.

• Ji Yan used the Eerie Codex to impose a life-or-death hopscotch round on Liu Congming and Wu Bufan for their rule violations, then explained how Liu could win.
• Wu Bufan hid a severed finger as a backup for his Regeneration privilege and planned to kill Ji Yan after dealing with Liu Congming.
• Area D Exam Room lost power and became paralyzed, and Q Eerie Instructor appeared to protect Wu Bufan.
• K Eerie Instructor arrived and revealed that J Eerie Instructor was trapped in Area B Exam Room, while Yin Xiu and Le Yao had been dealt with.
• Q Eerie Instructor and K Eerie Instructor accused Ji Yan of killing their students and explained that the Eerie Instructor's Contract had removed Order's supervision from the 7th Floor.
• Ji Yan suspected K Eerie Instructor and Q Eerie Instructor had used chaos to deceive J Eerie Instructor with a falsified contract.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming were trapped by K Eerie Instructor, who used Chaos Privilege to disrupt their senses and Game Panels. Q Eerie Instructor betrayed K, revealed herself as Xu Xin, and declared that she was on Ji Yan’s side.

• Q Eerie Instructor confirmed that she and K had set a trap for J Eerie Instructor and its examinees, while K revealed its face covered in eyeballs.
• K Eerie Instructor explained that it and Q belonged to the Black Emperor Faction and planned to corrupt Ji Yan and Liu Congming’s faith to strip them of their Faith privilege.
• K used Chaos Privilege to scramble the Game Panels and the examinees’ sense of direction, leaving Ji Yan and Liu Congming unable to move.
• Q Eerie Instructor claimed Ji Yan as her prey and approached him with a mucus-covered needle, while K turned to attack Liu Congming.
• Q silently cut K’s eyes with the needle, weakening its chaotic influence, and K realized that Q had betrayed it.
• Q removed her mask, revealed herself as Xu Xin, and told K that she was on Ji Yan’s side.