Chapter Summaries

After the first phase ended, the players learned that Area D had killed the Sword Arbiters of Areas B and C, while their own team gained no privileges. The second phase scattered the players to separate locations, and Ji Yan reached his destination while Piao Daiyu was attacked by a creature in her abandoned building.

• The announcement reported the first-phase results: Area C was eliminated, Areas B and D would suffer Demon's Judgment, and Area D received double Additional Privileges.
• A Blue-eyed Eerie Shadow broke from its assigned route to meet a dark-red eerie shadow on horseback in a bamboo grove, then returned to its post.
• At 19:00, the second phase instructed every player to reach a marked location within twenty minutes, and Ji Yan's group discovered their destinations were far apart.
• Ji Yan marked Piao Daiyu's map and reminded her that two players were supposed to have Additional Identities before they left for their separate locations.
• Ji Yan reached an abandoned building and waited, while Piao Daiyu found a pool of sticky liquid behind her and saw a huge bloody mouth opening in the ceiling.

Ji Yan and Lu Jian joined forces during the second trial, but a mysterious Blue-eyed Eerie Shadow attacked them and proved immune to their weapons. Ji Yan recognized it as a Dungeon bug, and both players fled as it pursued them.

• Ji Yan followed Glasses Girl’s moving marker and met Lu Jian, a Zone B player who proposed working together.
• Lu Jian revealed his privilege for hunting Sword Arbiters, and Ji Yan agreed to team up with him.
• A Blue-eyed Eerie Shadow emerged after an explosion and attacked the two players.
• Lu Jian’s ring initially crushed the shadow, but it ignored the attack, injured him, and triggered a warning that confiscated his relic and reduced his completion progress.
• Ji Yan struck the shadow with a Coffin Nail, but it lost its eerie energy and could not be retrieved.
• Ji Yan identified the shadow as a walking Dungeon bug that could negate weapons and strip player progress, and he and Lu Jian ran from it.

Ji Yan and Lu Jian fled the Blue-eyed Eerie Shadows, but their escape failed when the monsters suppressed Burning Death Eerie and chased them into a house. Lu Jian repelled the house’s Sadako Eerie with Stinky Eerie’s foul odor, but a Blue-eyed Eerie Shadow entered and stripped away the ability.

• Ji Yan and Lu Jian were trapped in an alley by three Blue-eyed Eerie Shadows, so Ji Yan summoned Burning Death Eerie to carry them out.
• A Blue-eyed Eerie Shadow caught Burning Death Eerie, injured him, and suppressed him from Tier 7 to Tier 5; Ji Yan sent him back into the Thunderstruck Wood.
• Ji Yan entered a nearby house despite Lu Jian’s warning, and Lu Jian followed as the Game Panel warned that the area was outside the trial’s scope.
• Sadako Eerie emerged from a television, but Lu Jian replicated Stinky Eerie’s skin ability and made her retreat in disgust.
• A Blue-eyed Eerie Shadow entered the house, grabbed Lu Jian by the throat, and stripped away Stinky Eerie’s ability.

Ji Yan rescued Lu Jian from Blue-eyed Eerie Shadows by drawing them into a house, where they became vulnerable, then used the house’s eerie beings to corner Lu Jian and demand District B’s additional privilege. Lu Jian suspected Ji Yan had planned the encounter from the start, and the chapter ended with Ji Yan hinting that the privilege could reveal Lu Jian’s buried secret.

• Ji Yan appeared and killed the Blue-eyed Eerie Shadow attacking Lu Jian, explaining that the creatures became solid and vulnerable inside an NPC’s house.
• Lu Jian thanked Ji Yan and warned that hiding in houses could be dangerous, while Ji Yan asked him to reveal District B’s additional privilege.
• Ji Yan let Sadako Eerie and Blood Body Eerie Shadow emerge, and the eerie beings ignored him while attacking and surrounding Lu Jian.
• Ji Yan commanded Blood Body Eerie Shadow to stop, making it return obediently to his side as Lu Jian realized the eerie beings seemed to revere Ji Yan.
• Ji Yan locked the doors and windows and demanded the additional privilege, saying it could uncover Lu Jian’s secret; Lu Jian wondered whether Ji Yan had discovered District A.

Ji Yan forced Lu Jian to reveal B District’s hidden privilege and learned that B and D District planned to hunt A District players with Gifted Swords. He prepared to turn the night’s trial into chaos, armed with three Keys of Authority and the Spinal Heart Source.

• Lu Jian tried to stall Ji Yan until his companions arrived, but Ji Yan sent the Blood Body Eerie Shadow to attack him.
• Ji Yan revealed that the Spinal Heart Source let him command villager eeries and use Eerie Lady’s identities and information.
• The Blood Body Eerie Shadow consumed Lu Jian’s brain and recounted the information Ji Yan sought.
• Ji Yan learned that B District players could use Gifted Swords to turn Sword Wielders into Sword Arbiters, and that B and D District planned to target A District.
• Ji Yan realized A District was being misled about the Fire Transmission Ritual and decided to make the night’s trial go completely mad.

Ji Yan lured players into a fight with the Blood Body Eerie Shadow, then set out to find Glasses Girl after her location marker stopped moving. At the Courtyard House, he found his old enemy Xiao Wu, who did not recognize him and summoned an eerie creature from underground.

• Two players followed Lu Jian’s moving location marker into a house, where Ji Yan and the Blood Body Eerie Shadow ambushed them; one died and the other was defeated.
• Ji Yan took the farming player’s flower bud with the Key of Authority and questioned the Blood Body Eerie Shadow, but learned nothing about Zone D’s Sword Wielder.
• Ji Yan saw that Glasses Girl’s marker had stopped near him, activated Stealth Privilege, and headed toward her location.
• At the Courtyard House, Ji Yan found Glasses Girl’s marker had vanished and learned its eerie master bore a grudge against the Eerie Lady.
• Xiao Wu and a dwarf player entered the Courtyard House, mistook Ji Yan for a player from Zone A, and Xiao Wu summoned rotting hands from underground.

Ji Yan watched the Stitched Eerie defeat Xiao Wu and the dwarf player, who had combined Fallen Matriarch and Siren Seductress privileges. The Stitched Eerie spared Xiao Wu and went after the Hidden Hunter, while Ji Yan reached the well where the Glasses Girl’s signal had disappeared.

• Xiao Wu summoned an undead eerie, but the Stitched Eerie appeared and killed it instantly.
• Xiao Wu used blood sacrifices to summon more undead eerie, which surrounded the Stitched Eerie until it broke free and disappeared into the darkness.
• The Stitched Eerie returned behind Xiao Wu and the dwarf player, severing the dwarf player’s arm and exposing their fused bodies and linked privileges.
• The Stitched Eerie killed the dwarf player, causing the undead summons to collapse, then spared Xiao Wu because killing him could affect its Main Quest.
• The Stitched Eerie set off to hunt the Hidden Hunter, while Ji Yan reached the water well where the Glasses Girl’s positioning had vanished.

Ji Yan negotiated with the Stitched Eerie, who demanded the Spinal Heart Source in exchange for Glasses Girl. When Ji Yan tossed an oil-paper umbrella into the well, the Game God player controlling the Stitched Eerie realized Ji Yan had seen through the setup and called for Jian to move.

• The Stitched Eerie revealed that it had thrown Glasses Girl into the well and offered to return her in exchange for the Spinal Heart Source.
• Ji Yan agreed to give up the Spinal Heart Source after five minutes, claiming it needed time before it could be removed without losing its effect.
• Ji Yan asked whether the Stitched Eerie knew Jian, and it explained that single-digit sequence players could die and be replaced.
• Ji Yan offered a damaged oil-paper umbrella along with the Spinal Heart Source, then tossed the umbrella into the well.
• The young boy controlling the Stitched Eerie recognized Ji Yan had uncovered the setup and shouted for Jian to move.

Ji Yan uncovered a trap set by Jian, Stitched Eerie’s player, and Eerie Game Master, then used the oil-paper umbrella and Eerie Wedding Dress to defeat their plan. After the umbrella’s blood-clad eerie shadow devoured White Clad Eerie Shadow and began repairing it, Ji Yan climbed out of the well and found the scene above had changed.

• Ji Yan caught the oil-paper umbrella as he fell into the dry well and revealed that White Clad Eerie Shadow had lured him into a trap to take the Spinal Heart Source.
• Ji Yan called the umbrella his second Blood Sis and revealed that his eldest sister had also entered the well, while red threads appeared behind him.
• Jian tried to recall White Clad Eerie Shadow, but crimson flames destroyed her hair and severed her connection to the eerie.
• Eerie Wedding Dress skinned Jian and dismantled Stitched Eerie, causing the player controlling it to lose his eerie and old remnant.
• Ji Yan found a walking corpse carrying the Courtyard House Eerie Master’s scent and realized Eerie Game Master had helped set the trap.
• The blood-clad eerie shadow devoured White Clad Eerie Shadow and returned to the umbrella to sleep, while Ji Yan climbed out of the well and reacted to what he saw.

Ji Yan returned to the Courtyard House, where he discovered Jian’s endless rebirth and drove her away, then found a game cartridge in the Stitched Eerie. As an awakened Eerie Master targeted him, the Eerie Wedding Dress returned without Jian and warned him to flee to the Myriad Fire Ancestral Hall.

• In a study filled with records of Nightmare Fall Eerie Town, a white-haired player from the second sequence reviewed Ji Yan’s trial and named him a candidate for No. 32.
• Ji Yan saw the Eerie Wedding Dress repeatedly kill Jian, who revived after each death, and loudly warned that Jian could be trapped in a coffin sealed with Coffin Nails.
• Jian fled the Courtyard House, while Ji Yan stored the unconscious Glasses Girl in his oil-paper umbrella and found an arcade game cartridge inside the Stitched Eerie.
• A warning announced that the Courtyard House’s Eerie Master had awakened and targeted Ji Yan, who realized the Eerie Game Master had escaped and likely provoked it.
• The Eerie Wedding Dress returned without Jian, left Ji Yan her Red Embroidered Shoes, and told him to run to the temporarily safe Myriad Fire Ancestral Hall because something was coming.

Ji Yan was confronted by the Eerie Master, then forced to face the far more powerful Eerie Groom, who demanded that he lead it to the Myriad Fire Ancestral Hall. Ji Yan pretended to comply, then used a distraction to flee and put on his fourth roleplay mask.

• The Eerie Master appeared and demanded that Ji Yan give up the Eerie Lady’s spinal bone.
• Midnight ended Ji Yan’s Hidden Hunter roleplay and revealed his Eerie Game Master appearance, but the Eerie Master still attacked him.
• The Eerie Groom arrived, killed the Eerie Master, and demanded that Ji Yan take it somewhere, threatening him with its power.
• Ji Yan recognized that the Eerie Groom wanted to reach the Myriad Fire Ancestral Hall and agreed to lead it there to avoid being killed.
• Three Eerie beings attacked the Eerie Groom, giving Ji Yan a chance to run toward the Courtyard House’s inner gate and put on his fourth roleplay mask.

Ji Yan used the Eerie Lady’s identity to enlist the Eerie Monk against the pursuing Eerie Groom, then hurried toward the Myriad Fire Ancestral Hall. He realized the Groom had been forced into the Dungeon by someone who could defy Order, and suspected Xu Xin.

• Ji Yan unlocked the Space Traveler sequence and used its scissors to escape the Courtyard House through a spatial rift, with the Eerie Groom following him into the Blood Moon Bell Tower.
• The Eerie Monk recognized Ji Yan as the Eerie Lady and agreed to fight the Eerie Groom in repayment for her past protection of the bell tower.
• Ji Yan promised to protect the Blood Moon Bell Tower forever, then left the Eerie Monk to face the Groom and headed toward the Myriad Fire Ancestral Hall.
• Ji Yan concluded that someone had broken the Dungeon rules to awaken the Eerie Groom and suspected that Xu Xin was responsible.

Ji Yan encountered the healer and Ling Lu while fleeing through South Town, and Ling Lu killed her Zone B teammates to avoid opposing him. He brought both women to the Myriad Fire Ancestral Hall, where he planned to use the healer for an important purpose.

• Ji Yan received the Eerie Puppet, which could take on a person's form and use sequence privileges, as he fled the collapsing clock tower.
• Ji Yan found the wounded healer being hunted by three Zone B players and stopped her from running away.
• Ling Lu recognized Ji Yan and used her abilities to kill her two teammates, then admitted she had turned on them because she feared opposing him.
• Ji Yan told Ling Lu he would provide a player from another zone to help her complete the Fire Transmission Ritual, but said the healer was too important to hand over.
• Ji Yan led Ling Lu and the healer to the Myriad Fire Ancestral Hall.

Ji Yan sent Ling Lu and the Healer to perform the Fire Transmission Ritual while he searched the Myriad Fire Ancestral Hall for the Eerie Bride. He found the burial coffin empty and realized that the player behind the mocking card had taken her first.

• Ji Yan gave Ling Lu an oil-paper umbrella and directions for the Fire Transmission Ritual, then entered the ancestral hall alone to resolve the Eerie Bride and Eerie Groom’s relationship.
• Ji Yan followed the Eerie Wedding Dress’s directions to a coffin beneath the incense altar and used the Spinal Heart Source to make the Door God eerie creatures retreat.
• Ji Yan found the coffin empty, with no Coffin Nails and no Eerie Bride inside.
• Ji Yan discovered a card bearing the words “A Foolish Fate Master Can Also Carry the Way” and concluded that the same player had taken the Eerie Bride and was interfering with his side quest.

Ji Yan uncovered the Eerie Game Master’s deception and hurried toward the ancestral hall’s rear hall as the Eerie Groom and hostile players entered the area. Meanwhile, Ling Lu and the healer prepared the Fire Transmission Ritual, and the blood-clad eerie shadow forced Glasses Girl into the coffin.

• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding on the coffin, learned the history of the Eerie Groom and Eerie Bride, and continued toward the rear hall.
• The Eerie Groom entered the Myriad Fire Ancestral Hall carrying the Eerie Monk’s head, rousing its NPC Eeries.
• A group of Sword Wielders from Zones B and D followed the Time-Traces Thief’s disciple into the ancestral hall to hunt players from Zone A.
• Ji Yan sensed that other players had arrived and hurried through the courtyard toward the rear hall.
• Ling Lu and the healer tried to make Glasses Girl complete the Fire Transmission Ritual, but she resisted in panic.
• The blood-clad eerie shadow silenced Glasses Girl, put her in the coffin, and warned that she would drain dry anyone who opened it.

Ling Lu and the wet nurse completed the Fire Transmission Ritual, reviving two eerie ancestors who headed toward East Town. Meanwhile, Ji Yan confronted Yan Feng in the rear hall, where the Eerie Wedding Dress was ambushed and Yan Feng revealed Xiao Wu, summoned through the Fallen Matriarch privilege.

• Ling Lu and the wet nurse watched the ritual cover the coffin in blood and revive the spirit tablets of Drought Demon—Ancestor Liu and Yin Soldier—Ancestor Zhang.
• Ling Lu realized the revived eerie creatures had gone toward East Town and wondered whether the Fire Transmission Ritual was a trap set by Order.
• Ji Yan entered the rear hall and found Yan Feng waiting among the ancestral spirit tablets.
• Yan Feng explained that players were trapped in East Town and that he needed another Eerie Game Master to unlock North Town, then offered to return the Eerie Bride if Ji Yan played a game.
• The Eerie Wedding Dress attacked Yan Feng, but the two revived ancestors appeared and forced it to defend itself.
• Yan Feng lit an oil lamp and revealed Xiao Wu, summoning him with the Fallen Matriarch privilege.

Ji Yan defied Yan Feng’s rigged choice and opened both spatial seams, bringing the Eerie Bride and Eerie Groom together. The Eerie Groom destroyed the Bride, the Eerie Wedding Dress collapsed, and Yan Feng declared that Ji Yan would pay for his victory with his life.

• Yan Feng deceived Xiao Wu into summoning undead eerie creatures to attack the Eerie Wedding Dress, causing Xiao Wu to overuse Undead Privilege and collapse.
• Yan Feng revealed his Space Traveler disguise and challenged Ji Yan to choose between two stitched seams, one hiding the Eerie Bride and the other the Eerie Groom.
• Ji Yan tore open both seams at once, releasing the Eerie Bride’s skeleton and the Eerie Groom.
• The Eerie Groom charged at the Eerie Bride, shattered her skeleton, and burned the remains to ash before the Eerie Wedding Dress could escape with her.
• The Eerie Wedding Dress lost its support and fell as an ordinary ruined gown, while Yan Feng told Ji Yan that his victory would cost him his life.

Ji Yan used the hidden history of the Ghost Marriage to defeat Yan Feng’s scheme and secure the Twin Flowers, while the Burning Death Eerie helped kill Yan Feng. Yan Feng died after Ji Yan revealed a truth that horrified him, leaving Ji Yan with the flowers and a promise to help the Burning Death Eerie regain Tier 7.

• After the Eerie Bride died, the Eerie Groom remained alive and searched the burial coffin for the missing Twin Flowers.
• Ji Yan revealed that the Eerie Groom’s true target was the Twin Flowers and used sandalwood incense from the Ferrywoman of Eerie to freeze him temporarily.
• The Burning Death Eerie emerged from beneath the coffin with the Twin Flowers, and killed Yan Feng when he tried to intervene.
• Ji Yan promised to help the Burning Death Eerie return to Tier 7 in exchange for his continued service.
• Ji Yan explained that Yan Feng had only hidden the burial coffin’s location and had never truly moved it, then confronted him about his identity.
• Ji Yan told Yan Feng a final truth that left him horrified, and Yan Feng’s health fell to zero as he died and logged out.

Ji Yan escaped the Eerie Groom and returned to Ling Lu and the milk-mom, where they faced Sang Gu and a Time-Trades Thief disciple. As Sang Gu attacked Ji Yan with his Black Death Sword, a bloody-robed eerie stopped the blade between two fingers.

• Ji Yan took the scrapped Eerie Wedding Dress and fled the immobilized Eerie Groom using the oiled-paper umbrella, leaving the Twin Flowers withered and the Groom growing stronger.
• Ling Lu and the milk-mom waited by the coffin for the Fire Transmission Ritual as Sang Gu and a Time-Trades Thief disciple arrived and claimed them as prey.
• Sang Gu threatened Ling Lu, but she stood her ground in front of the coffin while the milk-mom explained his Black Death Sword abilities.
• Ji Yan appeared beside them as the sandalwood incense burned out and the Eerie Groom roared through the ancestral hall.
• Sang Gu lunged at Ji Yan with the Black Death Sword, but a bloody-robed eerie caught the blade between two fingers before it reached Ji Yan’s forehead.

Ji Yan explained that reviving the Ghost Marriage branch required restoring sentience to the Eerie Wedding Dress, then took the Blood-Clad Eerie Shadow into the Myriad Fire Ancestral Hall’s Forbidden Area. There, a rotting corpse threatened them and raised its hand to attack as Ji Yan refused to retreat.

• The Blood-Clad Eerie Shadow offered to kill Sang Gu and the other player, but Ji Yan said he needed her protection for a more urgent task: reviving the Eerie Wedding Dress and the Twin Flowers.
• Ji Yan refused to wait even two minutes to deal with Sang Gu, warning that the Eerie Groom would soon find them, and chose to leave Glasses Girl’s Fire Transmission Ritual under Ling Lu and the healer’s guard.
• Sang Gu and the other player retreated, and Ji Yan entered a hidden passage beneath the ancestral hall with the oil-paper umbrella.
• Ji Yan and the Blood-Clad Eerie Shadow reached an ancient Stone Gate in the Forbidden Area, where a dusty rotting corpse gave them thirty seconds to leave.
• The Blood-Clad Eerie Shadow warned Ji Yan that the corpse could one-shot her and offered to carry him away, but Ji Yan said they could not return because the Eerie Groom was waiting.
• The corpse declared that the thirty seconds had passed and raised its hand toward Ji Yan, while the Blood-Clad Eerie Shadow prepared to knock him out and flee.