Chapter Summaries

Ji Yan and Shadow collected puzzle pieces while monsters attacked them, but a Blood Priest used Shadow’s blood to take control of him. Ji Yan fought back, yet the Black Death Sword revealed its monstrous form and struck at his neck.

• Shadow dissected a corpse and found a puzzle piece, then led Ji Yan through the area to collect another.
• Monsters swarmed the pair, and Ji Yan realized their attacks were meant to draw Shadow’s blood for the Blood Priest’s control.
• The Blood Priest tasted Shadow’s blood and used the old remains privilege to control monsters and begin turning Shadow against Ji Yan.
• Shadow tried to flee, then attacked Ji Yan while under the Blood Priest’s influence; Ji Yan repelled him with his eerie knives.
• Shadow’s attacks exposed the Black Death Sword’s living flesh and pale eye, and its slash cut across Ji Yan’s neck.

Ji Yan and Brother Electric faced the Black Death Sword after it was provoked, and its slash nearly destroyed Brother Electric. Ji Yan used State Regression to restore him, then marked Brother Electric and the Privilege Eerie Blade for another regression as the sword closed in.

• The Black Death Sword cracked Ji Yan's Privilege Eerie Blade and pursued him, so Ji Yan summoned Brother Electric to escape.
• Shadow briefly regained control and warned Ji Yan that the Black Death Sword could no longer be controlled, but the sword tore through a wall and attacked them.
• The Black Death Sword's slash split Brother Electric and the Thunderstruck Wood, but Ji Yan used the Siren Seductress's State Regression privilege to restore them.
• As the Black Death Sword approached again, Ji Yan marked the Privilege Eerie Blade and Brother Electric with the upgraded State Regression privilege, telling Brother Electric he needed to die once more.

Ji Yan and the Burning Death Eerie ambushed Shadow, exploiting State Regression to disable the Black Death Sword and cut off Shadow’s shoulder. Elsewhere, the Blood Priest disciple assumed Shi Yu was dead and joined the white-masked player in preparing to close the net.

• Shadow, controlled by the Blood Priest, pursued Ji Yan and the Burning Death Eerie while warning Shi Yu to run.
• Ji Yan baited Shadow into the restroom, where the Burning Death Eerie attacked and drew the Black Death Sword’s attention.
• After the Black Death Sword shattered Ji Yan’s eerie knife, the Burning Death Eerie ambushed Shadow and knocked him unconscious.
• Ji Yan used State Regression to restore his eerie knife and severed Shadow’s right shoulder, interrupting the Black Death Sword’s privilege.
• The Blood Priest disciple noticed her control had ended, presumed the Siren Seductress disciple dead, and met the white-masked player, who said Bai Luo had infiltrated the other two.
• The Blood Priest disciple and the white-masked player prepared to leave with nearly all the puzzle pieces and close the net.

Ying and Ji Yan reunited with Chi Changsheng and Ling Lu after surviving attacks from opposing Eerie Apostles, and their team gathered the puzzle pieces needed to locate the last one. Their final teammate arrived after trapping three opponents in dreams, leaving Ji Yan and Ying baffled by the newcomer.

• Ying woke with his right hand destroyed, then used an Eerie Item to regrow his arm while he and Ji Yan discussed Ji Yan's old remains privilege.
• Ying and Ji Yan followed the marked route and reunited with Chi Changsheng and Ling Lu, who had collected six puzzle pieces and defeated an opposing Eerie Apostle.
• Chi Changsheng used his old remains' data analysis to identify the route to the final puzzle piece, but the team waited for their missing teammate.
• Ling Lu's blond teammate arrived and said he had trapped the other three opposing players in dreams until the trial ended.
• The blond man asked Chi Changsheng what the team should do next, while Ji Yan and Ying stared at him in bafflement.

Ji Yan and Ying realized an opposing Eerie Disciple had altered Chi Changsheng and Ling Lu’s memories and infiltrated their team. At the final puzzle piece’s chamber, three more enemy players arrived, leaving Ji Yan and Ying surrounded while Chi Changsheng remained unaware of the betrayal.

• Ji Yan quietly told Ying that an opposing Eerie Disciple had manipulated Chi Changsheng and Ling Lu, and Ying considered killing the blond man.
• The blond man confronted Ying, then shook Ji Yan’s hand and detected another Sequence’s eerie aura in him; Ji Yan blamed the Blood Priest’s scent.
• Chi Changsheng located the final puzzle piece behind a heavily sealed chamber door, and the group prepared to enter despite the danger.
• The blond man revealed that eight Eerie Disciples were gathered, and three more players arrived from opposite corridors.
• Ying recognized the red-haired woman as a Blood Priest’s Eerie Disciple, while the newcomers blocked the escape routes and Ji Yan realized he and Ying were surrounded.

Ji Yan and Ying confronted a Memory Traveler who manipulated Chi Changsheng and Ling Lu by editing their memories, then launched a surprise attack. Ling Lu revived after Ying’s slash and used her Fallen Matriarch ability to make both Ji Yan and Ying pregnant, leaving them feeling something grow inside them.

• Ji Yan identified the blond man as a Memory Traveler who had altered Chi Changsheng and Ling Lu’s memories.
• The blond man arranged for Ying to lead the group, and Ji Yan announced that he and Ying were undercover before ordering Ying to attack.
• Ying split the blond man in two, but the body proved to be a paper effigy, and the Memory Traveler emerged from a paper door with two golden Memory Tapes.
• The Memory Traveler edited the tapes, causing Chi Changsheng and Ling Lu to recognize Ji Yan and Ying as enemies, and Ying slashed them both.
• Ling Lu’s Fetus Seed creature died in her place, restoring her, and she vowed to plant a child inside Ying.
• Ji Yan and Ying felt something growing inside their abdomens after Ling Lu used her pregnancy ability.

Shadow and Ji Yan tried to eliminate Chi Changsheng, but the Gluttony Witch’s acolyte petrified Shadow and his final slash struck three acolytes at once. With Shadow incapacitated and his memory film stolen, Ji Yan fled through a door carrying Chi Changsheng’s severed arm.

• Ji Yan urged Shadow to use the Black Death Sword’s Order privilege against Chi Changsheng, while the sword devoured the brood seeds inside Shadow.
• Chi Changsheng’s danger analysis judged his chance of dying to be only five percent, and the Blood Priest’s acolyte blocked Shadow’s first attack.
• The unveiled Gluttony Witch’s acolyte captivated Shadow and began turning him to stone.
• Shadow’s final slash severed Chi Changsheng’s arm, killed the Blood Priest’s acolyte, and sent Ling Lu’s head flying.
• Ji Yan shot the White Mask Player with the Old City Lord’s coffin nail, but the blond man stole Shadow’s memory film before Ji Yan could act.
• Ji Yan grabbed Chi Changsheng’s severed arm and escaped through a door, leaving Shadow behind.

Chi Changsheng’s group prepared to enter the secret chamber, believing it might contain a Collector’s Edition Eerie Item and a powerful creature, while Ji Yan discovered that his Eerie Game Master identity had been exposed. The role-playing failure changed Ji Yan’s Main Quest to killing the players who knew who he was.

• Chi Changsheng explained that the girl had stolen his eight puzzle pieces and run into the secret chamber, unaware of the danger inside.
• The blond man learned that the girl was likely an Eerie Game Master disciple and decided to seize her Memory Tape for his sequence mission.
• Ling Lu revived through a Fetus Seed and let Chi Changsheng reattach her head, while revealing she had planted seeds in the team members.
• The blond man ordered the group into the secret chamber to find the ninth puzzle piece, recover the other pieces and the girl, and claim any Collector’s Edition Eerie Item.
• Deep in the secret chamber, Ji Yan received a notification that his identity as an Eerie Game Master had been exposed and his Main Quest now required him to kill those who knew it.

Ji Yan fled into a waterlogged secret chamber to escape the players pursuing him, despite Burning Death Eerie warning that a powerful predator lurked there. After uncovering hidden information from a corpse, Ji Yan identified the threat as a hollow, self-moving garment, which began to stir deeper in the chamber.

• Ji Yan entered the secret chamber, explaining that fleeing there was his best chance of survival and would force Burning Death Eerie to help him.
• Burning Death Eerie warned Ji Yan that a special Eerie inside was its natural predator and could devour it completely.
• Ji Yan found a fresh corpse, ate most of it to restore his status, and learned that other Eerie acolyte players might also enter the chamber.
• Ji Yan touched the corpse's head and used Omniscient Understanding to uncover an image of a hollow, bright-red garment that moved on its own.
• The vivid garment rose from a blood-red bed in the deepest part of the chamber as Eerie energy and scarlet petals filled the room.

Ji Yan overcharged the Siren Seductress’s old remains with Burning Death Eerie’s power to trigger an upgraded privilege while enemies entered the forbidden area. After killing the masked man, Ji Yan faced the Gluttony Witch’s petrifying ability and let the effect spread as the chapter ended.

• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding’s bloody message to suspect it offered a way to deal with the Grudge Eerie, then decided to upgrade the Siren Seductress’s sequence privilege.
• Ji Yan persuaded Burning Death Eerie to overdraw its Eerie Power, activating the hidden Easter egg in the Siren Seductress’s old remains.
• The blond man, Chi Changsheng, Ling Lu, Ying, and two other players entered the forbidden area, and a warning announced that the Grudge Eerie had begun hunting them.
• A masked man captured Ji Yan in a paper figure, but Ji Yan broke free and cut him in two with an Eerie blade charged with fear collected from Lu Dao.
• The veiled woman attacked Ji Yan with the Gluttony Witch’s voice, causing half his face to petrify, and Ji Yan closed his eyes and let the petrification spread.

Ji Yan used the Siren Seductress privilege to restore the Blood-Clothed Eerie Shadow temporarily, then confronted the Eerie Bride Attire while seeking the ninth puzzle piece. Shadow regained his memories and died after Ji Yan refused to help him, leaving Ji Yan facing the Eerie Bride Attire alone.

• Ji Yan summoned the Blood-Clothed Eerie Shadow, who refined the veiled woman, and explained that his restoration privilege would only last briefly.
• Ji Yan saw that the masked man had been revived by paper figures, while Shadow approached with the Black Death Sword and prepared to fight.
• Red petals appeared, and the Eerie Bride Attire skinned the masked man before turning its hunt toward Shadow.
• Ji Yan used ten Fear Slash privileges against the Eerie Bride Attire, then ran deeper into the dungeon to search for its nest and the ninth puzzle piece.
• The Eerie Bride Attire returned with Shadow's skin, and Shadow begged Ji Yan to regress his state after regaining his memories.
• Ji Yan refused, claiming he had used all his old remains, and Shadow collapsed and was eliminated while Ji Yan watched the Eerie Bride Attire.

Ji Yan realized the Eerie Bride was drawn toward a disturbance in her nest, while Chi Changsheng uncovered the final puzzle piece and exposed the blond man's betrayal. The Eerie Wedding Dress killed the blond man at Chi Changsheng's command, leaving the real puzzle-heart in Chi Changsheng's hands.

• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding on a petal and questioned how players could finish the trial when no Management Eerie had appeared to receive the puzzle pieces.
• Chi Changsheng and the blond man found a shriveled heart at the wedding bed, and Chi Changsheng claimed it was the final puzzle piece.
• The blond man shot Chi Changsheng and took the heart, but the Eerie Wedding Dress appeared and the supposed heart melted into pus.
• Chi Changsheng revealed that he had faked his death, kept his memories intact, and already knew the opposing eerie disciples' sequences through deals with players farther along in the Dungeon.
• Chi Changsheng held up the real puzzle-heart and ordered the Eerie Wedding Dress to strip the blond man's skin; it peeled his skin away after his bullets passed through it.

Chi Changsheng used Eerie Wedding Dress to hunt for a living Eerie Game Master Eerie Disciple, but a disguised blood-clothed Eerie attacked him and revealed that the probability of his death had come true. After Chi Changsheng regrew his head, the attacker escaped into an oil-paper umbrella, which immediately attacked him again when he opened it.

• Chi Changsheng explained his trade with a God-Tier Player and asked Eerie Wedding Dress to capture a living Eerie Game Master Eerie Disciple carrying the other eight puzzle pieces.
• Eerie Wedding Dress agreed to help once, warned Chi Changsheng not to break his word or touch the bed, and left to retrieve the target.
• Chi Changsheng used Probability Deduction, which gave an 80% chance of completing the trial and 10% chances of dying from a snapped neck or an exploding lower body.
• A blood shadow returned and attacked Chi Changsheng, tearing his abdomen and snapping his neck before he could identify it.
• Chi Changsheng's Stand Out talent grew him a new head, and the blood-clothed Eerie shadow fled into an oil-paper umbrella as its State Reversal privilege ended.
• Chi Changsheng picked up and opened the umbrella, triggering an Eerie blade that sliced his head off as Ji Yan's body emerged behind it.

Ji Yan escaped the Eerie Wedding Dress and confronted Chi Changsheng over the final piece of the Undead Puzzle and the shriveled heart. Chi Changsheng revealed he had been feigning ignorance and trapped them both with a Grudge Eerie Item, but Ji Yan unleashed an electric attack as another Shadow Eerie closed in.

• Ji Yan used the oil-paper umbrella and the Blood-Clothed Eerie Shadow to lure away the Eerie Wedding Dress and teleport to its nest, where he found Chi Changsheng and the shriveled heart.
• Chi Changsheng regrew his head, recognized Ji Yan, and pretended to have recovered from the Memory Traveler's control while Ji Yan claimed that only they remained and showed him the Undead Puzzle pieces.
• As they approached, Ji Yan and Chi Changsheng revealed their mutual killing intent; Ji Yan struck Chi Changsheng with a Coffin Nail and cut off his arm, which held the final puzzle piece.
• Both rushed toward the shriveled heart, but Chi Changsheng used a Grudge Eerie Item lighter to bind their shadows and immobilize them.
• Chi Changsheng released a Shadow Eerie from his shadow to attack Ji Yan, who answered by unleashing a bolt of electricity that lit the chamber.

Ji Yan and Ling Lu survived Chi Changsheng’s death and faced Eerie Wedding Dress’s imminent attack. Ji Yan assembled the scattered body parts into a corpse and offered to help Eerie Wedding Dress recover the rest in exchange for their survival.

• Burning Death Eerie tore Shadow Eerie from the wall, but Ling Lu emerged holding the heart.
• Eerie Wedding Dress killed Ling Lu and explained that it obeyed only the first person to touch the heart.
• Ling Lu’s Old Corpse Privilege caused Chi Changsheng and the Fetus Seed inside him to die, while Ling Lu revived.
• Ling Lu returned the heart to Ji Yan, who assembled it into a corpse and presented it to Eerie Wedding Dress.
• Ji Yan promised to gather Eerie Wedding Dress’s remaining body parts, and her killing intent eased.

Ji Yan and Ling Lu cleared the academy trial by returning the puzzle pieces to Eerie Wedding Dress, then left the secret room and learned the outcome of their Main Quest role-playing. Ji Yan’s true identity was revealed to Ling Lu, and he received Eerie Wedding Dress’s Embroidered Shoes as a dangerous hidden reward.

• Ji Yan told Ling Lu that Eerie Wedding Dress was the trial’s ninth-tier boss and that returning every puzzle piece to it was the only way to clear the trial.
• Eerie Wedding Dress opened the secret room and let Ji Yan and Ling Lu leave, refusing Ji Yan’s request for an extra reward.
• Ji Yan and Ling Lu exited the academy grounds and discovered that they had spent nearly a day inside the trial.
• The Main Quest Panel showed that Ji Yan gained 5% progress after a deduction because one witness survived and his Eerie Game Master identity had been exposed.
• Ji Yan’s Shi Yu disguise shattered, revealing his true body to Ling Lu, who realized he was an Eerie Game Master’s Eerie Disciple.
• Ji Yan received Eerie Wedding Dress’s Embroidered Shoes as a hidden optional reward, followed by a warning that the reward was also a dangerous Easter egg.

Ji Yan claimed the Red Embroidered Shoes and began the dangerous Eerie Wedding Dress storyline, then allowed Ling Lu to follow him to Residence Number 44. At lunch, Eerie Grandmother exposed the unclean thing Ling Lu had put in Ji Yan’s stomach, causing him to vomit four pregnancy seeds.

• Ji Yan claimed the Red Embroidered Shoes, triggering the Eerie Wedding Dress storyline and adding the shoes to his Tool Bar.
• Ling Lu revealed that following Ji Yan could advance her Fallen Matriarch Main Quest, and Ji Yan agreed to take her to his residence as a scout.
• Ji Yan returned to Residence Number 44 with Ling Lu and found that Eerie Grandmother and the house’s other eerie things had appeared at lunchtime.
• Ling Lu’s Main Quest reported that an Extreme Fiend’s favorability toward her was increasing as she interacted with Eerie Grandmother.
• Eerie Grandmother asked Ling Lu whether she had put an unclean thing in Ji Yan’s stomach, and Ji Yan vomited four pregnancy seeds.

Ji Yan’s lunch with Ling Lu turned deadly when her pregnancy ability failed against his family’s monsters, and Eerie Grandmother forced her to help upstairs. After the house’s three resident monsters clashed and Order subdued them, Ji Yan received a warning to visit the grieving Third Floor Eerie Mother before the Cozy Cabin collapsed.

• Ling Lu’s pregnancy seed was vomited out, and Eerie Grandmother killed her before she revived and discovered her Sequence privilege no longer worked.
• Eerie Grandmother ordered Ling Lu to help with tasks in her room, saying that Ling Lu was the same kind as she was.
• The Third Floor Eerie Mother and Eerie Grandmother exchanged threats, while Second Floor Freak Sister joined the uproar and the house began to break apart.
• Order repaired the house and silenced the monsters, after which Ji Yan received a notification warning that the cabin could collapse if he neglected the Third Floor Eerie Mother.
• Ji Yan decided to go upstairs to see his mother, and Eerie Grandmother told him to return downstairs when the time came.

Ji Yan discovered that Eerie Mother was cultivating seeds that could produce copies of Eerie beings, including an imitation of the Eerie Wedding Dress. He realized the room might contain seeds of every Eerie NPC in the Dungeon, leaving him stunned by its potential value.

• Ji Yan found Eerie Mother among the crowded potted plants on the third floor, and she asked him to move them beneath a window.
• Ji Yan accidentally knocked a bud from a plant, causing an imitation of the Eerie Wedding Dress to emerge before Eerie Mother ordered it back inside.
• Eerie Mother explained that she had cultivated the Wedding Dress from a seed and warned Ji Yan about the benefits and drawbacks of his embroidered shoes.
• Ji Yan recognized Eerie Mother's cultivation as the privilege of Sequence 10, the Farming Bishop.
• Ji Yan suspected that Eerie Mother had planted seeds of every Eerie NPC in the Dungeon and saw the room as a treasure trove.

Ji Yan helped Eerie Mother move her dangerous potted plants and received a flower bud as a reward. She then gave him a black scale and demanded he use it to cut his younger sister and Grandmother before her deadline, threatening to unleash the plants if he refused.

• Ji Yan tried to persuade Eerie Mother to give him plants, but she said he had to earn them through proper means and asked him to move her pots.
• A plant attacked Ji Yan after his blood fell on it, and Eerie Mother killed it with her scissors.
• Eerie Mother said she remembered a great battle in the town and revealed that Ji Yan’s younger sister and Grandmother were her mortal enemies.
• After Ji Yan finished moving the plants, Eerie Mother gave him a purple-red flower bud that could make life in the town easier.
• Eerie Mother pressed a black scale into Ji Yan’s hand and ordered him to cut his younger sister and Grandmother with it after midnight, threatening to release the plants if he failed.