Chapter Summaries

The Night Watch Eerie used the Scorpio Totem to swallow Xue and Luo Xixi, while Ji Yan tried to discover how its privilege worked. After learning that its victims could still be rescued before they were digested, Ji Yan was swallowed too.

• Xue recognized the Night Watch Eerie, which revealed that it had escaped its imprisonment by fusing with Quan's Scorpio Totem and intended to claim the Aries and Libra Totems.
• Ji Yan's Libra Totem and Eerie Silence Wind Chime could not stop the Night Watch Eerie, which swallowed Xue.
• Luo Xixi stabbed the Night Watch Eerie with a low-quality Coffin Nail, and Ji Yan deduced that the Libra Totem's Absolute Balance privilege had affected it.
• The Night Watch Eerie swallowed Luo Xixi despite Ji Yan's attacks, while Ji Yan realized its victims could be rescued before they were digested.
• The Night Watch Eerie attacked Ji Yan and swallowed him as he prepared to uncover its Scorpio Totem privilege and save Xue and Luo Xixi.

Ji Yan deduced that Night Watch Eerie used the Scorpio Totem’s privilege to become untouchable, but struggled to predict when it would drop the protection. Just as Night Watch Eerie seemed poised to kill him, Liu Congming intervened with a Horse Chopping Saber.

• Ji Yan inferred that Night Watch Eerie became intangible while using its privilege and had to cancel it to make attacks tangible.
• Night Watch Eerie wounded Ji Yan with a surprise attack, exploiting how difficult it was to predict when its protection would end.
• Ji Yan tried to strike Night Watch Eerie with the Embroidery Needle as it attacked again, but the needle passed through its body.
• Night Watch Eerie canceled its Absolute Phasing privilege and pressed its hand to Ji Yan’s forehead.
• Liu Congming appeared and used a Horse Chopping Saber to sever Night Watch Eerie’s hand and neck.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming killed the Night Watch Eerie and rescued Xue and Luo Xixi, then found that the Key Shard was on a mummy emerging from one of the stone coffins. The mummy claimed it had only come out to stretch, leaving Ji Yan and Liu Congming facing the Eerie with the Key.

• Liu Congming ambushed the Night Watch Eerie with a Horse Chopping Saber, and Ji Yan finished it with the Eerie Blade’s Absolute Strike Privilege.
• Ji Yan smashed the Night Watch Eerie’s head rather than risk keeping it alive, then Liu Congming used his storage backpack to carry the unconscious Xue and Luo Xixi as Cloth Dolls.
• Ji Yan turned his attention to the three stone coffins, where the Key Shard was hidden, while anticipating the arrival of the Graveyard Eerie and the Spirit Guardian Eerie.
• The last stone coffin opened by itself, and a mummified corpse crawled out and sat on its edge.
• Ji Yan noticed the Key on the mummy, which told him and Liu Congming not to be nervous because it had only come out for air and to stretch.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming met the Mummified Eerie in the stone coffin, which gave them the Scorpio Totem and traded a Key Shard for their promise to bring it a complete Virgin Totem so it could die. After Ji Yan obtained the shard, dangerous eerie energy approached beyond the Stone Gate.

• The Mummified Eerie explained that it had assigned the Scorpio Totem to a holder and let Liu Congming take it.
• The Mummified Eerie revealed that it wanted to die and asked Ji Yan to bring it a complete Virgin Totem in exchange for the Key Shard.
• Ji Yan agreed to find a way to kill the Mummified Eerie, and it gave him a metal tooth that the Game Panel confirmed was a Key Shard.
• Ji Yan sensed dangerous eerie energy approaching beyond the sealed Stone Gate.

The Mummified Eerie used Ji Yan’s eerie knife to slash and badly injure the Graveyard Eerie, giving Ji Yan and Liu Congming a chance to escape. The Burning Death Eerie found the Night Watch Eerie’s remains and vowed to hunt the humans, while the Mummified Eerie returned to its coffin.

• The Mummified Eerie said it could not leave its secret chamber, then took Ji Yan’s eerie knife and revealed that its blade was incomplete.
• The Mummified Eerie swung the knife, sending a bloody slash through the Stone Gate that severed the Graveyard Eerie at the waist and badly wounded it.
• The Burning Death Eerie confronted the Mummified Eerie, which claimed it had only come out for air and denied helping the humans.
• The Burning Death Eerie entered the secret chamber, found the Night Watch Eerie’s remains, and realized the Scorpio Totem was missing.
• The Burning Death Eerie vowed to burn the humans, while the Mummified Eerie crawled back into its coffin and told it to stop making noise.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming escaped into Death Execution Spirit Hall’s Corpse Water Prison while searching for Dragon and Snake. They found Dragon alive and learned he had infiltrated a powerful Toad Eerie by letting it eat him, using the Capricorn Totem to assimilate its consciousness.

• Liu Congming kept the Scorpio Totem, while Ji Yan explained that the eerie blade was consuming the Old City Lord’s blood and might advance.
• Ji Yan checked Dragon and Snake’s locations on his Information Panel and led Liu Congming through Death Execution Spirit Hall to meet them.
• Ji Yan and Liu Congming entered a prison where human players melted into corpse water inside suspended iron cages.
• A Toad Eerie appeared, and Dragon emerged from the darkness, revealing that the Toad Eerie believed itself to serve Lord Capricorn because of Eerie Pattern Parasitism.
• Dragon explained that he had invaded the Toad Eerie by letting it eat him.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming found the Azure Coffin in Corpse Water Prison, but the Dragon Player, Snake player, and Toad Eerie ambushed them. Ji Yan was pinned to the wall as Liu Shanyi declared himself the Capricorn Totem’s loyal slave.

• The Dragon Player explained that the Capricorn Totem’s servants were Immortal Undying but bound by eerie-mark shackles, and led Ji Yan and Liu Congming to the Azure Coffin guarded by the Snake player.
• Ji Yan inspected the coffin, and the Toad Eerie warned that opening it would bring death before revealing that the Graveyard Eerie had ordered it to hold two prey.
• The Toad Eerie sprang a trap, throwing Liu Congming into a coffin and helping pin Ji Yan to the wall with chains.
• The Snake player stabbed Ji Yan, and Ji Yan accused the Dragon Player of betraying him despite needing his Term Talent to escape the Capricorn Totem’s control.
• The Dragon Player revealed his name was Liu Shanyi and declared himself the Capricorn Totem’s most loyal slave.

The Dragon Player summoned Lord Capricorn through the Snake player, who became its vessel, and Capricorn seized control of the water prison. When it opened the Azure Coffin and discovered that its contents had been taken, the Dragon Player attacked it with a bone bearing the Virgin Totem.

• The Dragon Player revealed that the Snake player had been made the vessel for Lord Capricorn, and her body transformed as Capricorn descended.
• Lord Capricorn killed the Toad Eerie, heard the Dragon Player report that the Libra and Scorpio Totems had been subdued, and threatened Ji Yan with taming.
• Lord Capricorn learned that the Azure Coffin held something more important than a totem and broke it open, finding it empty.
• Lord Capricorn realized that someone had removed the coffin's contents, which it recognized as something it hated.
• The Dragon Player appeared behind Lord Capricorn and stabbed it with a rib bone bearing the Virgin Totem.

Lord Capricorn was cornered by the players and forced into Silence when the Dragon Player revealed he had hidden the Virgin Totem’s remaining fragments on the Snake player. With the Capricorn creature defeated, Ji Yan faced the problem of deciding who would control its Totem.

• The Virgin Totem’s bone spike began purifying Lord Capricorn, while the Dragon Player broke free of his feigned loyalty and attacked it.
• Lord Capricorn reclaimed the eerie privileges it had granted the Dragon Player and shackled him, but Ji Yan escaped his chains and attacked with the Libra Totem.
• Liu Congming emerged from the Eerie Coffin with the Scorpio Totem, but his ambush failed when Lord Capricorn sensed his privilege and he retreated.
• Lord Capricorn tried to flee Death Execution Spirit Hall, but the Dragon Player revealed that he had hidden the Virgin Totem’s remaining fragments in a capsule on the Snake player.
• Bone spikes burst from Lord Capricorn, and the creature shrank and fell still as the Virgin Totem forced it into Silence.
• Ji Yan considered how the players could control the Capricorn Totem and who should receive it.

Dragon Player explained how he used the damaged Virgin Totem to Silence the Capricorn monster and free himself from its control. Ji Yan agreed to let Dragon Player take the Capricorn Totem after it revealed the next Key Shard’s location, while Liu Congming stored the Virgin Totem safely in the Azure Coffin.

• Dragon Player revealed that Snake had exposed him, and admitted he had originally planned to sell Ji Yan out before changing course after finding the damaged Virgin Totem.
• Ji Yan deduced Dragon Player’s plan to pit the opposing Totems against each other and use Purification to remove the eerie patterns and shackles.
• Dragon Player insisted on taking the Capricorn Totem, and Ji Yan agreed on the condition that it first reveal the next Key Shard’s location.
• The Totems entered Silence and split apart, allowing Ji Yan to obtain the next Key Shard’s location and Liu Congming to store the Virgin Totem in the Azure Coffin.
• Liu Congming placed the Azure Coffin in an inner compartment of his backpack, while the Xue and Luo Xixi dolls swayed resentfully from its zipper.

Ji Yan, Liu Congming, and Dragon Player tried to leave Death Execution Spirit Hall, but Space Eerie trapped them in Space Cubes and claimed their Totems. Burning Death Eerie arrived demanding the prisoners, while Space Eerie used the Ruins Master's eye to secure its obedience and began preparing to take the Totems.

• Dragon Player asked Ji Yan how to control the Capricorn Totem, and Ji Yan suggested eating it while warning that his Term Talent could be inaccurate.
• Ji Yan, Liu Congming, and Dragon Player attempted to retreat, but Space Eerie ambushed them before Liu Congming could retrieve the Virgin Totem from Silence.
• Liu Congming accidentally knocked down the Luo Xixi doll, and Ji Yan picked it up as the three missed their chance to resist and were imprisoned in Space Cubes.
• Space Eerie told Burning Death Eerie that he wanted the Totems while Burning Death Eerie could take the Key Shards, then showed it the Ruins Master's eye to calm its anger.
• Space Eerie ordered Burning Death Eerie to take the Totems from the three prisoners and leaned toward their Space Cubes.

Mummified Eerie sent Ji Yan, Liu Congming, and Dragon Player’s Space Cubes outside Death Execution Spirit Hall, disrupting Space Eerie’s capture. Liu Congming escaped into the city while Dragon Player woke inside a monster’s stomach and began eating the Capricorn eerie monster to survive.

• Mummified Eerie blew the three Space Cubes out of Space Eerie’s grasp, and Space Eerie sent Burning Death Eerie after one while pursuing the other two.
• Liu Congming emerged outside the west gate, activated the Scorpio Totem’s privilege, and fled from Space Eerie while carrying Xue.
• Unlucky Ghost told Liu Congming it had absorbed luck from Ji Yan and Dragon Player, and Liu Congming hoped Ji Yan could fend for himself.
• A wandering eerie monster swallowed Dragon Player’s Space Cube near the east gate, leaving him trapped in its corrosive stomach.
• Dragon Player found the Capricorn eerie monster inside the stomach and began eating it despite the acid and his injuries.

Ji Yan and Luo Xixi escaped Death Execution Spirit Hall but were pursued by the Burning Death Eerie. A Headless Eerie Rider appeared, killed the Burning Death Eerie with ease, and attacked Luo Xixi, leaving Ji Yan pinned and unable to intervene.

• Ji Yan and Luo Xixi escaped the Space Cube's destruction and ran through the foggy eerie city, still being hunted.
• The Burning Death Eerie confronted them, but Ji Yan prepared to fight it with his advanced eerie blade and the Libra Totem's Balance Privilege.
• The Headless Eerie Rider emerged from the fog and killed the Burning Death Eerie with its bone spear.
• The Headless Eerie Rider thrust at Luo Xixi, and Ji Yan tried to block the spear but was thrown down and pinned by Eerie Power.
• The Headless Eerie Rider raised its spear again and aimed it at Luo Xixi's forehead while Ji Yan wondered why the Balance Privilege had not weakened it.

The Headless Eerie Rider captured Ji Yan and Luo Xixi, sealed Ji Yan’s tools with its Disarm Privilege, and dragged them to Blood Moon Church. The church doors opened onto a swarm of ravens and a torchlit interior, leaving the two chained prisoners facing an unknown eerie ruin.

• The Headless Eerie Rider stopped attacking Luo Xixi, seized Ji Yan, and used Disarm to seal his eerie blade and umbrella in his Tool Bar.
• The rider shackled Ji Yan and Luo Xixi and took them prisoner, while Luo Xixi translated its communication with the eerie horse.
• Ji Yan and Luo Xixi followed the rider through the fog as night fell, reasoning that staying with it was safer than escaping into the surrounding eeries.
• The rider cut a path through poisonous miasma and led them across a bone-covered wasteland toward Blood Moon Church.
• The church doors opened, and a mass of ravens surged out as torches lit the interior.

Ji Yan and Luo Xixi were imprisoned in Blood Moon Church, where they met an original player who had been trapped for 156 days. After the Headless Eerie Rider identified the three prisoners’ uses as container, feed, and translator, Ji Yan triggered Omniscient Understanding by touching it.

• The Headless Eerie Rider locked Ji Yan and Luo Xixi in a bone-filled room and warned them through Luo Xixi to stay inside.
• Ji Yan found an original player hiding in the room, who explained that he had repeatedly failed to escape Blood Moon Church and believed he had triggered a Dungeon bug.
• Ji Yan told the original player that Eternal Night Sin City had already collapsed and that they were in an Abandoned Dungeon.
• The Headless Eerie Rider brought raw mutated seafood and identified the three prisoners as container, feed, and translator.
• Ji Yan attacked the Headless Eerie Rider with a Coffin Nail, but it deflected the nail, subdued him, and activated Disarm again.
• Ji Yan realized that touching the Headless Eerie Rider had triggered Omniscient Understanding.

Ji Yan learned that the Headless Eerie Rider planned to use him as feed to revive the Blood Moon Church’s Old Cult Master. With dawn approaching and no clear way to escape, he faced an urgent threat.

• Lu Dao praised their safe life at the Blood Moon Church and said he expected to keep relying on the Headless Eerie Rider.
• Ji Yan told Lu Dao that he had survived because the creature had chosen him as a vessel, and that Ji Yan was its intended feed.
• Lu Dao recalled that a previous player with a totem had escaped through the poisonous miasma, though it had melted his flesh.
• Ji Yan used information from Omniscient Understanding to learn that the Headless Eerie Rider sought its head, the Old Cult Master’s revival, and revenge.
• Ji Yan realized the Rider planned to take him to the Old Cult Master after dawn, while he had no way to flee or fight back.

Ji Yan used Lu Dao’s secret passage to leave the cell and discovered the Headless Eerie Rider was bringing Luo Xixi to a chained black gate to communicate with the old cult master. After learning a shocking secret about the cult master, Ji Yan was caught by the Rider.

• The Headless Eerie Rider took Luo Xixi away, saying she was needed as a translator, while Ji Yan realized he had to escape before dawn.
• Lu Dao revealed a secret passage and learned that the Headless Eerie Rider intended to use his body as a vessel for the old cult master.
• Ji Yan crawled through the passage into a dusty hall, where he saw the Headless Eerie Rider bring Luo Xixi before two chained black gates.
• Luo Xixi translated the voice behind the gate, which said it was ready to begin and offer the fodder.
• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding on the gate and learned a shocking secret about the old cult master, then found the Headless Eerie Rider standing behind him.

Ji Yan was dragged beyond the black door and had his abilities suppressed, where the Old Cult Master tried to condition him into becoming feed. Ji Yan pretended to submit, then exposed the figure as a fake and attacked it.

• The Headless Eerie Rider stabbed Ji Yan with its bone spear and pulled him through the black door as Luo Xixi foresaw his death.
• The Headless Eerie Rider told Luo Xixi that the Old Cult Master would revive and rule the city, claiming the Ruin Master had once been its meal.
• Ji Yan woke in a bone-filled realm, where the bone spear had severed his connection to the Libra Totem and sealed his Tool Bar.
• The Old Cult Master manipulated Ji Yan into believing he was a devoted believer who had been chosen as feed.
• The Old Cult Master tore the Eerie Eyeball from Ji Yan and asked if he was ready to be eaten, but Ji Yan called it a fake and stabbed its eye socket with a hidden weapon.

Ji Yan exposed the Old Cult Master as a self-aware Eerie Totem by using a Bone Spear fragment to weaken it, then ate its two-headed snake form to seize control. He discovered that the totem was the Gemini Totem, which could move freely between eerie creature and player identities.

• Ji Yan secretly removed a Bone Spear fragment from his wound and planted it in the Old Cult Master's eye, weakening the counterfeit.
• Ji Yan accused the Old Cult Master of being an Eerie Totem, and the impostor called skeletal creatures to attack him.
• The Old Cult Master admitted it had deceived the Blood Moon Church, but Ji Yan stomped its skull and caught the two-headed snake inside.
• Ji Yan swallowed the weakened snake to gain control of the Eerie Totem.
• Ji Yan learned that the Gemini Totem represented the boundary between darkness and light and could freely switch between eerie creature and player identities.

After erasing the Gemini Totem’s self-awareness, Ji Yan took control of its Mask of Deception and impersonated the Old Cult Master to seize command of Blood Moon Church’s Skeleton Eeries. With the church fooled and submitting to him, he began planning how to use the identity-stealing privilege to expand his power.

• Ji Yan erased the Gemini Totem’s self-awareness, mastered its information, and took control of its privilege.
• Ji Yan crushed the Skeleton Eeries climbing the bone throne, then donned the Old Cult Master’s robe and claimed he would rule the city through Blood Moon Church.
• Ji Yan activated the black mask, erased his human aura, and used the Old Cult Master’s appearance and manner to convince the Skeleton Eeries that he had awakened.
• The Skeleton Eeries cheered and submitted to Ji Yan, accepting him as the Old Cult Master.
• Ji Yan recognized that the black mask could steal an Eerie’s identity and the white mask could steal a player’s identity, but neither granted the target’s combat strength.
• Ji Yan thanked the Gemini Totem and began considering how to use the Mask of Deception to build Blood Moon Church’s power.