Chapter Summaries

Ji Yan posed as the revived Old Cult Master and tried to bring the Headless Eerie Rider under his control while concealing his plans. He declared himself the Blood Moon Ruin Master and claimed he would rule Eternal Night Sin City, leaving Luo Xixi and the Headless Eerie Rider facing his grand ambitions.

• Ji Yan restored the forbidden land to silence, removed the Bone Spear Shard, and decided to win the Headless Eerie Rider’s loyalty.
• Ji Yan summoned Luo Xixi and the Headless Eerie Rider, then offered the Rider one wish as the supposedly revived Old Cult Master.
• The Headless Eerie Rider asked to join forces with Ji Yan to kill the Eternal Night Ruin Master, and Luo Xixi explained that the city’s upheaval had left the Ruin Master badly injured.
• Ji Yan suspected the Headless Eerie Rider had concealed a further connection to the Ruin Master and accepted his offer to serve as Deputy Cult Master.
• Ji Yan announced that he would become the Blood Moon Ruin Master, rename Eternal Night Sin City, and rule over its eerie ruins.

Ji Yan used the Gemini Totem’s deception to take over the Blood Moon Ruin Master’s identity and spared Luo Xixi after she tried to attack him. After obtaining the Lion Totem, he combined it with Gemini to locate the eighth Key Shard, though the revealed location made him react with surprise.

• The Headless Eerie Rider gave Ji Yan the Lion Totem and left Lu Dao alive at Ji Yan’s request.
• Ji Yan dismissed the Headless Eerie Rider but ordered it to leave Luo Xixi behind.
• The Blood Moon Ruin Master threatened to consume Luo Xixi, who pretended to surrender before stabbing at him with a short blade.
• Ji Yan appeared in place of the Blood Moon Ruin Master and revealed that he had used the Gemini Totem to take over the Old Cult Master’s identity.
• Ji Yan explained the deception to Luo Xixi and realized that his new eerie identity was changing how he viewed human life.
• Ji Yan combined the Lion and Gemini Totems, which revealed the location of the eighth Key Shard and startled him.

Ji Yan impersonated the Blood Moon Ruin Master and ordered the Headless Eerie Rider to prepare a route to Godfall Maze. He declared the maze the first target in his plan to rule Eternal Night Sin City.

• Ji Yan chose to pursue the Key Shard in Godfall Maze instead of meeting Xue and Liu Congming, and recruited Luo Xixi as his translator within Blood Moon Church.
• Luo Xixi warned Ji Yan that the Headless Eerie Rider might suspect him and that the Old Cult Master’s power far exceeded his own, but Ji Yan trusted his replicated presence to maintain the disguise.
• Ji Yan transformed into the Blood Moon Ruin Master, and the Gemini Totem’s influence made both his demeanor and Luo Xixi’s perception change.
• Ji Yan and Luo Xixi approached the Headless Eerie Rider, whose eerie horse cowered before Ji Yan’s overwhelming presence.
• Ji Yan ordered the Headless Eerie Rider to prepare a route to Godfall Maze, declaring it the first ruin they would eliminate to rule Eternal Night Sin City.

Ji Yan learned about the Godfall Maze and prepared to invade it, while recruiting Lu Dao to guard the Blood Moon Church’s forbidden land. After reviewing Luo Xixi’s translated intelligence, Ji Yan discovered the maze concealed the Sagittarius Totem and remembered Xue had avoided it because it was too disgusting.

• Ji Yan ordered Luo Xixi to draft a strategy from the Headless Eerie Rider’s information, then took his seat on the Blood Moon Church’s throne.
• Ji Yan confronted Lu Dao, learned he had drunk the Blood Moon Church’s Life Spring, and appointed him a speaker who could command the forbidden land’s skeletal believers.
• Ji Yan sent Lu Dao into the forbidden land to guard it during his planned invasion of the Godfall Maze.
• Ji Yan collected Luo Xixi’s notes and learned that the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods contained the Sagittarius Totem.
• Luo Xixi explained that the Godfall Maze had once been called Eerie Utopia, reminding Ji Yan that Xue had rejected it as a target because it was too disgusting.

Ji Yan planned to infiltrate the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods as an eerie slave and learn what lay inside before sending the Blood Moon Church to attack. He left Luo Xixi on standby, brought Lu Dao to the forbidden land’s edge, and awakened a buried Eerie Creature Head that recognized him as the Old Cult Master.

• Luo Xixi explained how the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods had been sealed after its Ruin Master devoured the Sagittarius Totem, and Ji Yan suspected Xue had escaped from it.
• Ji Yan told Luo Xixi that he would enter the Labyrinth alone disguised as an eerie slave while she and the Blood Moon Church remained on standby.
• Ji Yan insisted that his presence and three Eerie Totems would help him survive, then left after making an awkward speech about the Blood Moon Church’s rise to glory.
• Ji Yan instructed the Headless Eerie Rider to care for Luo Xixi and used Shrink Ground Into Inch to reach the forbidden land, where Lu Dao begged him to leave.
• Ji Yan took Lu Dao to a buried, gigantic Eerie Creature Head and awakened it; the head recognized him as the Old Cult Master and asked why the Eerie Dao had not erased him.

Ji Yan used Lu Dao’s blood to activate the Nether Gate and traveled to the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods to declare war on its master, the Deformed Eye Ghoul. Space Eerie warned the Deformed Eye Ghoul that Ji Yan had already infiltrated its sealed paradise, claiming to know what happened at the Blood Moon Church through planted eyes.

• Ji Yan cut Lu Dao’s wrist to baptize the Eerie Creature Head and activate the Nether Gate, then chose the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods as his destination.
• Ji Yan left Lu Dao behind as a future blood source and ordered the Eerie Creature Head to begin the teleportation.
• The Deformed Eye Ghoul rejected Space Eerie’s warnings about the revived Old Cult Master and attacked it by summoning a giant sword through its board game.
• Space Eerie revealed that Ji Yan had passed through the forbidden grounds and infiltrated the Deformed Eye Ghoul’s paradise.
• Space Eerie said its planted eyes in the Blood Moon Church had let it learn what happened there the previous night.

The Space Eerie ordered the Deformed Eye Ghoul to find an infiltrator in the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods, warning that the recovering Eternal Night City Lord would punish those who defied them. Ji Yan awakened inside the labyrinth and, distrustful of its rules, prepared to cause trouble with his powerful equipment and Blood Sis.

• The Space Eerie told the Deformed Eye Ghoul that the Eternal Night City Lord would return to power and ordered them to find the infiltrator in the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods.
• The Space Eerie revealed that the City Lord planned to destroy the Blood Moon Church over an old blood feud and a stolen bone and organ.
• The Deformed Eye Ghoul decided to obey the City Lord while resolving to hunt down the Old Cult Master inside the labyrinth.
• Ji Yan awakened behind door Number 444 and saw the glitched Game Panel describe the labyrinth's rules and escape quest.
• Ji Yan rejected the Game Panel's instructions, took out his eerie umbrella, and summoned Blood Sis to help him make a big mess.

Ji Yan entered the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods, where players were trapped in a deadly cycle of being hunted, eaten, and transformed into eerie monsters. After Jiang Qing and two other players offered to guide him, they lured him into a Blood Sacrifice Room and revealed that Ji Yan himself was their intended sacrifice.

• Ji Yan met three heavily marked players, who explained that dying in the labyrinth caused players to respawn with more Eerie Marks and eventually become eerie monsters.
• Jiang Qing invited Ji Yan to flee with her group, and they escaped into a room marked with a Scarlet Heart to evade pursuing monsters.
• The group explained that marked rooms required players to exchange currency, and a Puppet Eerie announced a five-minute time limit in the Blood Sacrifice Room.
• The bald player pretended to offer exchange currency, but fine threads bound Ji Yan and poison paralyzed him.
• Jiang Qing and the two players revealed their greed for Ji Yan's clean body and attacked him with bloodletting daggers.

Ji Yan turned the Blood Sacrifice Room’s rules against three players, then devoured its Puppet Eerie rules officer to provoke a serious violation. He sent Blood Sis to slaughter the monsters gathering outside, aiming to attract the attention of the Ruins Lord.

• Ji Yan used the bone tag to seal the players’ weapons and free himself, while Blood Sis removed the poison worm from his hand.
• After his blood marked him as a Blood Sacrifice, Ji Yan revealed that the player who lost the most blood would be chosen and slashed all three players’ throats before the countdown ended.
• Player No. 223 became the Blood Sacrifice, and Ji Yan rejected the food reward from the Puppet Eerie.
• The Puppet Eerie transformed and attacked Ji Yan, who killed and ate it with his Gluttony Cutlery.
• Ji Yan told Blood Sis to crush the monsters gathering outside, then smashed the Puppet Eerie’s head to provoke a serious violation and draw the Ruins Lord’s attention.

Ji Yan slaughtered his way through the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods, using the maze to strengthen his eerie weapons and draw out its Ruin Master. The Deformed Eye Ghoul trapped him with the Sagittarius Totem’s privilege, and a gigantic hand reached down as the Ruin Master’s many eyes appeared over the ruins.

• Ji Yan ignored repeated warnings as he killed eerie creatures and players, gathering fear to power the eerie knife’s Absolute Strike.
• Ji Yan used the eerie umbrella and the Libra Totem to slaughter stronger creatures while the Deformed Eye Ghoul tested him with increasingly powerful opponents.
• The Deformed Eye Ghoul recognized Ji Yan’s totem and attacked him with black swords that pierced his body and scrambled his Game Panel.
• Ji Yan revealed that he had deliberately baited the Ruin Master into intervening and tried to learn the Sagittarius Totem’s privilege with Omniscient Understanding.
• Black chains restrained Ji Yan, the blood-clothed eerie shadow retreated to the Tool Bar, and the Ruin Master tore open the ceiling as enormous eyes appeared in the sky.

The Deformed Eye Ruin Master interrogated Ji Yan about the Blood Moon Church and tried to tear him apart, but a decayed Tang sword triggered seven Absolute Strikes against it. Meanwhile, the Eerie Creature Head summoned Lu Dao and prepared to send him to the Old Cult Master as a key.

• The Deformed Eye Ruin Master questioned Ji Yan about his totem and his connection to the Blood Moon Church, cutting off one of his arms when he lied.
• Ji Yan claimed the Old Cult Master had been revived and planned with the new Cult Master to target the Deformed Eye Ruin Master first.
• The Deformed Eye Ruin Master demanded that Ji Yan curse the Blood Moon Church, then accused him of being untrustworthy and began tearing him apart.
• A decayed Tang sword fell from Ji Yan, triggering seven Absolute Strikes that slashed at the Deformed Eye Ghoul.
• The Eerie Creature Head told Lu Dao that the time had come and ordered him to jump into its maw so it could send him to the Old Cult Master as a key.

Ji Yan revealed that Lu Dao’s arrival would activate the Nether Gate and summon eerie beings from the Blood Moon Church into the hall. As the Headless Eerie Rider fought the Deformed Eye Ruin Master and Luo Xixi arrived, the Cult Master’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• Ji Yan explained that the Deformed Eye Ruin Master had neutralized his Absolute Strikes without using its totem’s privilege, and the Ruin Master recognized the Old City Lord’s scent on Ji Yan’s eerie blade.
• Lu Dao fell into the hall after being swallowed by a giant skull, and Ji Yan told him he was the main force.
• A black longsword pierced Lu Dao, causing black blood to erupt from him and activate the Nether Gate through the Cult Master’s personal signature.
• The Headless Eerie Rider emerged from Lu Dao’s black blood and attacked the Deformed Eye Ruin Master, shattering its privilege-bearing longswords with his bone spear.
• Luo Xixi was teleported into the hall and tried to remove the swords impaling Ji Yan while the Headless Eerie Rider continued fighting the Ruin Master.
• The Deformed Eye Ruin Master asked where the Cult Master was, and the Headless Eerie Rider searched for his scent without finding it.

Ji Yan and Luo Xixi were stranded in the Deformed Eye Ruin Master's Infinite Maze after it separated them from the Headless Eerie Rider and Lu Dao. With Ji Yan immobilized and near death, the Deformed Eye Ruin Master sent three ghosts after them, but Ji Yan revealed that he had prepared a second backup plan.

• The Deformed Eye Ruin Master flipped the hall into an Infinite Maze, scattering the Headless Eerie Rider and Lu Dao while leaving Ji Yan and Luo Xixi together.
• Ji Yan recognized that Space Eerie's power had combined with the Sagittarius Totem to create the maze and suspected someone in the Blood Moon Church had leaked information.
• Ji Yan realized the Deformed Eye Ruin Master had transferred its injuries to its own figurine, while holding Ji Yan's figurine to control him.
• The Deformed Eye Ruin Master sent three ghosts to attack Luo Xixi and ordered them to keep Ji Yan alive.
• Luo Xixi prepared to face the ghosts, but Ji Yan told her his first backup plan had failed and that his second backup plan was coming.

Ji Yan’s second backup plan brought Xue, disguised as the Magician Eerie, into the Infinite Maze, where she tried to deceive the Deformed Eye Ruin Master. The Ruin Master exposed her trick and used a puppet figurine to wound her, then killed Liu Congming as he attempted a sneak attack.

• Three Eeries suddenly suffered fatal wounds from an unseen attacker, and Ji Yan called it his second backup plan.
• Xue appeared behind the Deformed Eye Ruin Master, took its heart in a magic deception, and forced it to remove its robe.
• The Deformed Eye Ruin Master realized the heart was a cream-cake decoy and used the Sagittarius Totem to make a puppet figurine of Xue.
• The Deformed Eye Ruin Master stabbed Xue’s figurine, piercing Xue through the chest despite her Absolute Shielding.
• The Deformed Eye Ruin Master turned and threw a black longsword at Liu Congming, killing him before he could attack.

Liu Congming and Xue infiltrated the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods and helped Ji Yan recover his puppet figurine, forcing the Deformed Eye Ruin Master to retreat. Ji Yan and his companions regrouped, but the Ruin Master remained somewhere in its maze, planning to attack them with the Starfall Chessboard.

• Liu Congming phased through the Deformed Eye Ruin Master's attacks, severed its eerie hand, and returned Ji Yan's puppet figurine.
• Liu Congming's attack forced the Deformed Eye Ruin Master to flee, while he recovered Xue's puppet figurine and helped her remove a black sword by activating her phased state.
• Ji Yan explained that Liu Congming had followed a marker on his map, and that Liu Congming and Xue had used their complementary privileges to infiltrate undetected.
• Luo Xixi treated Ji Yan, whose injuries and missing arm still left him barely able to stand.
• Ji Yan said the group had three of the seven Dungeon Key Shards and argued that the Deformed Eye Ruin Master could not escape its own territory.
• Ji Yan warned that the Deformed Eye Ruin Master had likely retreated to use the Starfall Chessboard privilege to pick them off one by one.

Ji Yan refused to retreat from the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods and planned to use the Purification Totem to claim its treasures. The Deformed Eye Ruin Master scattered the group and sent a Tier 7 Burning Death Eerie after Ji Yan, then believed Ji Yan had been killed when his marker vanished.

• Xue explained that the Deformed Eye Ruin Master could turn anyone it touched into a puppet figurine, and she advised the group to escape before it could pick them off.
• Ji Yan rejected retreat, revealed that he had become the Blood Moon Ruin Master, and asked Liu Congming for the Azure Coffin containing the incomplete Purification Totem.
• Grasping the Azure Coffin transported Ji Yan alone into a dark room, where the Tier 7 Burning Death Eerie attacked him with lightning.
• The Deformed Eye Ruin Master saw the lightning fade, checked the Starfall Chessboard, and found that Ji Yan's marker had disappeared.
• Believing Ji Yan was dead, the Deformed Eye Ruin Master opened the sealed room's door.

Ji Yan returned as the Blood Moon Ruin Master and overwhelmed the Deformed Eye Ruin Master, stripping away its powers until it agreed to submit. The Deformed Eye Ruin Master offered him the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods and handed over the Sagittarius Totem.

• The Deformed Eye Ruin Master found Burning Death Eerie silent inside the Thunderstruck Wood and discovered that Ji Yan had vanished from the chamber.
• Ji Yan appeared behind the Deformed Eye Ruin Master and revealed himself as the resurrected Blood Moon Ruin Master.
• The Deformed Eye Ruin Master tried to use the Sagittarius Totem and its eerie objects against Ji Yan, but both failed.
• Ji Yan wounded the Deformed Eye Ruin Master and stripped away its eerie abilities, leaving it unable to fight.
• The Deformed Eye Ruin Master submitted to Ji Yan and offered him the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods and the Sagittarius Totem.

Ji Yan killed the Deformed Eye Ruin Master, claimed the Sagittarius Totem, and brought his allies together before heading back to the Blood Moon Church. There, he learned the church was under attack by the Space Eerie, who revealed that a traitor had exposed Ji Yan’s plans.

• Ji Yan killed the Deformed Eye Ruin Master, claimed the Sagittarius Totem, and found a Level 7 Grudge Eerie inside a piece of Thunderstruck Wood.
• Ji Yan explained how he used several totems to intimidate and disarm the Deformed Eye Ruin Master, then retrieved the third Key Shard from the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods.
• Ji Yan sent Xue and Luo Xixi to his location and decided to return to the Blood Moon Church before seeking another Key Shard.
• Ji Yan confronted the Headless Eerie Rider in the Labyrinth of Fallen Gods, but Lu Dao told him that the Blood Moon Church’s Nether Gate connection had been cut off.
• The Space Eerie raided the Blood Moon Church’s forbidden land, revealed that a traitor had informed it of Ji Yan’s whereabouts, and erased the Eerie Creature Head with the Golden Ox Totem.

Space Eerie destroyed Blood Moon Church’s ancestral coffins and returned to Eternal Night Town to work with Dragon Player, now the puppet-like Lord Capricorn. Dragon Player suspected Ji Yan was alive and impersonating the Old Cult Master, and demanded Ji Yan’s head.

• Space Eerie killed the stone statue guarding Blood Moon Church’s ancestral grounds and crushed the three cult masters’ coffins to ashes.
• Space Eerie returned to Eternal Night Town and spoke with Dragon Player before the barrier containing Eternal Night Ruin Master.
• Dragon Player revealed that he had escaped by devouring the Capricorn Totem and had become its controlled Lord Capricorn.
• Space Eerie offered Dragon Player a constellation and slaves in exchange for helping it obtain all the totems and the Headless Cult Master.
• Dragon Player argued that Ji Yan might have survived the Forbidden Land and impersonated the Old Cult Master, and insisted that he wanted Ji Yan’s head.

Dragon Player manipulated Space Eerie while Ji Yan investigated an attack on the Blood Moon Church and tried to stop the Headless Eerie Rider from killing Luo Xixi. The Headless Eerie Rider accused Luo Xixi of treachery and openly defied Ji Yan, leaving their alliance on the brink of conflict.

• Dragon Player used his altered Taking Out of Context talent to inspect and change eerie information, then declined Space Eerie's offer to meet the injured Eternal Night Ruin Master.
• Ji Yan learned that an intruder had destroyed the Blood Moon Church's Spirit Guardian Eerie and the remains of its former cult masters, and suspected a mole had exposed their plan.
• The Headless Eerie Rider accused Luo Xixi of betraying the church and attacked her, but Ji Yan blocked its spear and demanded evidence.
• Liu Congming and Xue fought the Headless Eerie Rider, which pierced Xue's decoy before she escaped using Eerie Magic.
• The Headless Eerie Rider accused Ji Yan of being bewitched and defied his orders, claiming it would kill Luo Xixi to make him see clearly.