Chapter Summaries

Ji Yan completed tasks for Eerie Sister and Eerie Grandmother, collecting their black scales and receiving valuable rewards as the three Eeries tried to win his favor. With the Eeries’ third-night deadline approaching and their threats putting him in danger too, Ji Yan began searching for a way to survive.

• Ji Yan helped Eerie Sister fix her creaking bed, learned that she discarded old dolls and had nearly turned him into her preferred doll, and received a Chopper plushie and a second black scale.
• Eerie Sister asked Ji Yan to help her again, and he returned downstairs with two black scales, realizing he had only two nights before the Eeries’ survival deadline.
• Ling Lu came out of her bedroom looking haggard, while Eerie Grandmother praised her and told Ji Yan to spend time with her for good luck.
• Eerie Grandmother summoned Ji Yan to massage her shoulders, then gave him a yellow talisman, and he gained a third black scale.
• The game awarded Ji Yan an Eerie Food Bud, a Dream Eye Eerie Doll, and a Puppet Taming Eerie Talisman for completing the day’s tasks, and he resolved to find a way to protect himself.

Ji Yan learned that House Number 444 was a dangerous hidden Easter egg containing powerful rewards and trapped remnant souls, not an ordinary safe cabin. As midnight arrived, the three black scales in his Tool Bar began to glow, while Ling Lu had yet to explain her deal with Eerie Grandmother.

• Ling Lu told Ji Yan that House Number 444 was a hidden Easter egg with unusually high rewards and dangers, rather than a standard safe cabin.
• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding on the family portrait and discovered the origins of the three Eerie family members and a powerful reward privilege that required keeping all three alive.
• Ling Lu explained that she believed Eerie Grandmother was the Fallen Matriarch and had received one of her treasured fingers after helping her.
• Ji Yan told Ling Lu that Eerie Grandmother was only a remnant soul, that the cabin's three souls would soon be erased, and that Ling Lu still needed to find the old remains.
• Ling Lu started to explain the deal she had made with Eerie Grandmother, but the clock chimed midnight and the three black scales in Ji Yan's Tool Bar began to glow.

Ji Yan unlocked the Eerie Deceased Spirit privilege after advancing his Hidden Hunter quest and devised a plan to exploit the three family ghosts without killing or offending them. He left Number 444, intending to use the crowded welfare trial as part of his scheme.

• At midnight, Ji Yan received three Legendary-quality scales from the Burial Eerie Lord, which would expire after 54 hours.
• Ling Lu told Ji Yan that a welfare trial with an S Rank reward and B-rank difficulty was likely to appear in the West Town Novice Zone, drawing players from all four districts.
• Ji Yan learned that his sequence was Number 18: Hidden Hunter and unlocked the Eerie Game Master's first privilege skill, Eerie Deceased Spirit.
• Ji Yan realized the privilege might help him gain rewards from the three family ghosts without harming or offending them, so he decided not to kill any of them.
• Ji Yan told Ling Lu to stay at Number 444 and announced that he was going out to hunt beauties and pick up corpses.

Ji Yan left Cozy Cabin with Ling Lu to investigate a popular nighttime welfare trial, disguising himself as a Hidden Hunter Eerie Disciple along the way. He tested his assassination skills on Ling Lu and left her bleeding on the ground.

• Ling Lu told Ji Yan that Eerie Grandmother had tasked her with taking care of him in exchange for a reward, and Ji Yan agreed to bring her along.
• A tremor signaled that nighttime trials had opened, and Ji Yan and Ling Lu left Cozy Cabin No. 44 to find the welfare trial at West Town Plaza, scheduled to refresh at 1:00 a.m.
• Ji Yan transformed into the masked appearance of a Hidden Hunter Eerie Disciple, and Ling Lu described the sequence's stealth and assassination requirements.
• Ji Yan vanished into the darkness and circled behind Ling Lu, who thought she had detected him.
• Ji Yan revealed that he had already cut Ling Lu's neck with a bloodstained tile shard, and she collapsed as blood pooled around her.

Ji Yan and Ling Lu watched West Town’s welfare trial begin and encountered the mysterious Eerie Lady, who crawled between buildings and consumed offerings from their inhabitants. As Ji Yan followed her, a barrage of Black Death Swords struck and tore through her body.

• Ji Yan tested his enhanced abilities on Ling Lu, killing one of her fetal seeds before she revived and confronted him.
• Ji Yan and Ling Lu waited at West Town’s Central Plaza, suspecting the trial had been deliberately leaked to draw players in.
• The welfare trial began at one o’clock, and the Eerie Lady appeared with a message inviting the participating Eerie Disciples to a carnival feast.
• The Eerie Lady crawled between buildings and took offerings from inside as players watched from the streets and alleys.
• Ji Yan sensed someone was about to act and followed the Eerie Lady with Ling Lu.
• A crimson streak pierced the Eerie Lady, and Ji Yan recognized it as the Black Death Sword before more swords struck her.

The Black Death Sword disciples wounded the Eerie Lady and received trial rewards, prompting players across West Town to join a frenzy of attacks. Ji Yan held back while he watched for a hidden danger, then announced that he was going to act.

• Four Black Death Sword disciples pierced the Eerie Lady, earning a special reward and advancing their Sequence Main Quests.
• Ji Yan told Ling Lu that the Eerie Lady would not go dark and suspected the Dull Prophet disciples were waiting for a larger reward or a hidden threat.
• Players from many sequences attacked the Eerie Lady, collecting rewards as her glassy blood spilled across West Town.
• The Black Death Sword disciples revealed that they had only started the hunt, while two Dull Prophet disciples waited in an alley.
• At three in the morning, the Eerie Lady staggered onward despite her severe injuries, and Ji Yan told Ling Lu he was going to act.

Ji Yan hunted players who had taken rewards from the Eerie Lady, but he watched a Gluttonous Maw player withstand a Fallen Matriarch’s Fetus Seeds and overpower his attackers. The chapter left Ji Yan stunned by the Gluttonous Maw’s enormous health and resilience.

• Ji Yan left Ling Lu behind in the shadows and sought players who had taken rewards from the Eerie Lady.
• A Gluttonous Maw player devoured part of the Eerie Lady and gained quest progress and an Old Remains.
• An Eerie King of Gluttony player and a Fallen Matriarch player ambushed the Gluttonous Maw, who resisted their attacks.
• The Fallen Matriarch player planted seven Fetus Seeds inside the Gluttonous Maw, but he tore open his belly, crushed the seeds, and killed the Eerie King of Gluttony player.
• The Gluttonous Maw threatened the Fallen Matriarch player, while Ji Yan watched in astonishment.

Ji Yan was caught spying on a fight and nearly killed by a Glutton Player before a Farming Player ambushed and drained him. After the Glutton Player died, the Farming Player confronted Ji Yan as he tried to leave.

• The Glutton Player spotted Ji Yan and chased him, repeatedly finding him despite his attempts to hide.
• Ji Yan killed the Fallen Matriarch player and attacked the Glutton Player, but the Glutton Player survived and seized him.
• A Farming Player appeared and caused the Glutton Player’s body to transform into a plant that drained him until he went offline.
• Ji Yan recognized that the Farming Player had waited for the Glutton Player to focus on him before striking.
• The Farming Player found Ji Yan as he tried to leave and called him over.

After the Eerie Lady died, Ji Yan learned the welfare trial's rewards had to be activated at safe houses before dawn, while West Town's eerie villagers began hunting players who tried to leave. Amid the chaos, Ji Yan searched the streets for corpses from two sequences.

• The Farming Player warned Ji Yan that the trial's apparent rewards were traps, then offered him a share of the real rewards if he met her at Room 22 on Rose Street after the Eerie Lady died.
• Ji Yan discovered the Fallen Player had survived with a Seed of Pregnancy, killed her when he confirmed it was her last life, and fed her corpse to the Dream Eye Eerie Doll.
• Ji Yan examined the Glutton Player's corpse and learned that the Eerie Lady's blood had only been an appetizer before a much greater reward.
• The Eerie Lady collapsed and died, ending the welfare trial; a broadcast told participating players to return to their safe houses before dawn to activate their accumulated rewards.
• As players fled the streets, eerie villagers emerged from buildings and attacked them, while Ji Yan moved through the slaughter searching for corpses from two sequences.

During West Town’s Night of a Hundred Ghosts, Ji Yan lured a player into danger and hunted for eerie corpses before a rival Hidden Hunter attacked him. Ji Yan survived the rival’s trap with help from Burning Death Eerie, who struck the Stealth Player from behind.

• Sunglasses Player fled through West Town after touching a forbidden zone, and Ji Yan tricked him into an alley where eerie creatures killed him.
• Ji Yan had the eerie doll swallow Sunglasses Player’s corpse and continued looking for a Matriarch of Cultivation.
• A rival Hidden Hunter confronted Ji Yan, attacking him from the darkness and explaining that Hidden Hunters could inherit a peer’s relics and progress by killing them.
• Ji Yan struck down the rival’s apparent figure, but the Stealth Player appeared behind him and pierced his heart.
• Ji Yan questioned whether the Stealth Player was the bait, and Burning Death Eerie appeared behind the rival and pierced his chest with lightning.

Ji Yan killed the Stealth Player, gained two old shells, and joined the Farming Player to intercept the prophet players’ attempt to steal Eerie Lady’s final reward. As the theft triggered the Eerie Boss’s pursuit, a Sequence 8 player killed the silver-rimmed prophet and revealed himself as the operation’s greatest twist.

• Ji Yan killed the Stealth Player and inherited two old shells that granted perfect cloning and invisibility.
• Ji Yan left Burning Death Eerie and met the Farming Player, who explained the prophet players’ plan to steal Eerie Lady’s final reward.
• The gold-rimmed prophet player seized Eerie Lady’s crystal spine, awakening the Eerie Boss, while the Black Death Sword disciples fled toward the safe house.
• The silver-rimmed prophet player prepared to analyze possible complications, but a player with Sequence 8 appeared behind him.
• The Sequence 8 player beheaded the silver-rimmed prophet player and declared himself the greatest twist in the operation.

The Eerie Samurai cut down four Eerie Disciple Players without violating the safety Order, while the Golden Prophet Player raced toward his safe house to claim the Spinal Heart Source. The Farming Player ambushed him, and Ji Yan struck from the shadows, leaving the Prophet Player gravely wounded.

• The Eerie Samurai shattered the four Eerie Disciple Players’ attacks and vanished after its slash cut through them and nearby buildings, frightening them into abandoning the chase.
• The Golden Prophet Player reached 17 Camellia Street, where the Farming Player blocked his path and demanded the Spinal Heart Source.
• The Prophet Player shot a vine and then fired at Ji Yan, believing he had hit him, but discovered the apparent body was a trick.
• Ji Yan emerged from the shadow beneath the Prophet Player and used a bamboo leaf to slice halfway through his neck.

Ji Yan seized the Spinal Heart Source after killing the Seer Player, then resisted Liu Shu and her teammate when they tried to take it from him. The Burning Death Eerie carried him toward Number 444 under the command of a Puppet Taming Eerie Talisman, while the Morgan Hot player transformed into another Burning Death Eerie and pursued them.

• Ji Yan killed the Seer Player with a bamboo leaf amplified by his Hidden Hunter privilege and took the dropped Spinal Heart Source.
• Liu Shu offered to take Ji Yan to her safe house, but he kept the spinal bone and revealed that he suspected she had planted eerie seeds inside him.
• Liu Shu's teammate, a bespectacled Morgan Hot man, arrived and tried to seize Ji Yan by force.
• A Puppet Taming Eerie Talisman compelled the Burning Death Eerie to escort Ji Yan to Number 444, and it carried him away in a burst of lightning.
• Liu Shu discovered she could not activate the seeds inside Ji Yan, while the Morgan Hot man transformed into a Burning Death Eerie and chased after them.
• Ji Yan swallowed blood taken from Liu Shu's face to suppress the eerie seeds in his stomach.

Ji Yan fought off Morgan Hot's imitation privilege and Liu Shu's ambush, using a bud from Eerie Mother to summon a powerful Steam Eerie that defeated Liu Shu's Eeries. As Ji Yan confronted the injured Liu Shu, the Eerie Samurai appeared behind him.

• Ji Yan identified Morgan Hot's opponent as an Imitation Apostle disciple who could copy what he saw, and Burning Death Eerie fought him while Ji Yan tried to escape.
• Liu Shu ambushed Ji Yan with three trial Eeries and revealed that she wanted to study his opportunity to advance the Farming Bishop sequence.
• Ji Yan released a bud given by a family member, and its Steam Eerie destroyed Liu Shu's three Eeries and her vine Eerie tree.
• Liu Shu tried to escape underground inside a man-eating flower, but the Steam Eerie dragged it back and burned it, leaving Liu Shu badly injured.
• Ji Yan told Liu Shu that he had been after her rather than the Spinal Heart Source, then noticed the Eerie Samurai standing behind him.

Ji Yan fled the Eerie Samurai while protecting the Spinal Heart Source, then returned it to Eerie Lady and revived her. Morgan Hot abandoned his fight with the Burning Death Eerie and transformed into an Eerie Samurai to pursue the opportunity.

• The Eerie Samurai’s Drawing Slash struck Ji Yan despite his Perfect Stealth, and Ji Yan realized it was tracking the Spinal Heart Source’s scent.
• Ji Yan saw that the Burning Death Eerie was losing to Morgan Hot and changed his plan, turning back toward Eerie Lady.
• Morgan Hot sensed Eerie Lady’s revival and discovered the Spinal Heart Source embedded in her back.
• Morgan Hot ended his imitation of the Burning Death Eerie, used an old hand bone, and transformed into an Eerie Samurai.

Morgan Hot imitated the Eerie Samurai’s increasingly powerful Drawing Slashes while fighting over what he believed was the Spinal Heart Source, but the Eerie Lady and the prize were both fakes. The Eerie Samurai left him gravely injured after discovering he held no real target, and Morgan blamed Fang Yuan as he staggered into the mist.

• Morgan Hot killed the Eerie Lady with a Drawing Slash, caught her spine, and killed two players lurking in an alley.
• The Eerie Samurai attacked Morgan, whose imitated slashes could not match its threshold-breaking strikes; Morgan lost health and an arm before fleeing.
• Morgan noticed the spine had turned into a hairtail fish and realized the Eerie Lady had been dead all along and the Spinal Heart Source was fake.
• The Eerie Samurai caught up and severed Morgan’s other arm and Wado Ichimonji, leaving him below five percent health and ending his imitation.
• After Morgan explained that he held only a dead fish, the Eerie Samurai spared him and vanished because he was not carrying the Spinal Heart Source.
• Morgan staggered toward the mist, furious at Fang Yuan and humiliated by his defeat in the Novice Zone.

Morgan Hot was killed by a gray infant eerie, while Ji Yan reached Number 444 and escaped the Eerie Samurai’s attack with Eerie Grandmother’s help. Ling Lu died shielding Ji Yan, and the Eerie Samurai’s hostility was lifted after Ji Yan crossed the cabin threshold.

• Morgan Hot confronted Liu Shu, found her back torn open and her organs missing, then lost control as a gray infant eerie began rummaging through his body.
• Ji Yan headed back to Number 444, carrying the Red Embroidered Shoe and reflecting on his newly learned Eerie Deceased Spirit skill.
• The Eerie Samurai blocked Ji Yan near the cabin, but Eerie Grandmother opened the door and beckoned him inside.
• Ji Yan trusted Eerie Grandmother and ran for the threshold as the Eerie Samurai used Drawing Slash; Ling Lu intercepted the strike and was cut in two.
• Ji Yan crossed into Number 444, and the Eerie Samurai’s hostility disappeared before it left into the fog; Eerie Grandmother told him to rest.

Ji Yan learned that Eerie Grandmother’s protection came with a deadline and that Ling Lu had survived the Eerie Samurai’s fatal slash through her Eerie Infant. Ling Lu revealed the infant’s power and gave Ji Yan the corpses of Liu Shu and Morgan Hot, leaving him to inspect Liu Shu’s damaged body as dawn approached.

• Eerie Grandmother warned Ji Yan that he had to meet her deadline and that she would not hesitate to replace him if he failed.
• An Eerie Infant appeared, stitched itself back together after being torn apart, and restored Ling Lu, who rose from her severed corpse.
• Ling Lu said she had personally nurtured the Eerie Infant with Eerie Grandmother’s help and had protected Ji Yan as part of their deal.
• The Eerie Infant spat out Liu Shu and Morgan Hot’s corpses, which Ling Lu gave to Ji Yan.
• Ji Yan inspected Liu Shu’s body and declined Ling Lu’s offer of help, while she asked why he needed corpses.

Ji Yan activated the Spinal Heart Source, which burrowed into his neck and replaced his spine while leaving him unconscious until dawn. He discovered he had gained the Eye of Revelation, a skill that let him see through buildings and hear eerie villagers, and realized the Spinal Heart Source had made him the Eerie Lady.

• Ling Lu asked Ji Yan to share the Spinal Heart Source reward and requested that he raise her favorability with Eerie Grandmother, but Ji Yan kept the reward for himself.
• Ji Yan activated the Spinal Heart Source, and it tore into his neck and burrowed inside him as his health fell below five percent.
• Ji Yan woke at dawn with his health restored and found the spinal cord had replaced his original spine.
• The Game Panel granted Ji Yan a Rest Day card that let him skip two days of mandatory daily trials and move freely around the safe cabin and West Town.
• Ji Yan triggered Eye of Revelation and saw eerie villagers through buildings while hearing their conversations.
• Ji Yan read the skill information and concluded that the Spinal Heart Source had turned him into the Eerie Lady.

Ji Yan used the Eye of Revelation and a day of work to create three Eerie beings that deceived the Dungeon Order into refreshing as members of the Eerie family. As Ji Yan began controlling them, an unseen presence approached Ling Lu in the Cozy Cabin.

• Ji Yan studied the Eye of Revelation, then spent his Rest Day working with three corpses while the Eerie family members were absent.
• Players in East Town discussed the experts eliminated in the Novice Zone, and someone in an estate opened their eyes as the zone stirred.
• Ling Lu returned to Ji Yan's safe cabin after her trial and found him exhausted; Ji Yan warned her that the three Eerie family members would be emotionally unstable that night.
• Ji Yan discovered that his three creations had refreshed inside the house ahead of schedule, confirming that he had deceived the Dungeon Order.
• Ji Yan used the Game Panel to control the creations while Ling Lu tended to her Eerie Infant, which suddenly hid in her stomach as an unseen shadow approached her.