Chapter Summaries

Ji Yan persuaded the rotting corpse to open the Stone Gate and sent the Blood-Clad Phantom into the Forbidden Area with the Eerie Wedding Dress. He sacrificed her as a vessel for the dress, then admitted he had treated her as a tool.

• Ji Yan used the Eerie Wedding Dress and the Eerie Groom's threat to convince the rotting corpse to open the Stone Gate.
• The rotting corpse revealed that the Eerie Wedding Dress needed a rank-seven eerie being as a vessel to come back to life.
• Ji Yan handed the Eerie Wedding Dress and oil-paper umbrella to the Blood-Clad Phantom and urged her to enter the Forbidden Area.
• Eerie beings attacked the Blood-Clad Phantom as the Stone Gate began closing, while Ji Yan watched without intervening.
• The Blood-Clad Phantom realized Ji Yan had planned to sacrifice her, and Ji Yan apologized before she was overwhelmed and her blood stained the dress.
• The rotting corpse asked Ji Yan how he felt, and he replied that the Blood-Clad Phantom had been only a tool and that he felt no guilt.

Ji Yan lured the Eerie Groom into a gathering of players from Zones B and D, hoping to use them to delay the powerful eerie. After the Eerie Groom began killing players and most fled, Ji Yan used three Keys of Authority to force eerie cultists to attack it.

• Ji Yan secured the hidden passage with Space Privilege and returned to find Sang Gu, the Time-Traces Thief, and nearly all the players from Zones B and D gathered around the coffin.
• Ji Yan told Sang Gu that his Grudge Eerie was gone and hinted that another eerie was coming, while the Burning Death Eerie refused to be used as a shield.
• The Eerie Groom broke through the ceiling, found Ji Yan, and demanded to know where the wedding dress was; Ji Yan revealed that he had used the Twin Flowers to lure it there.
• The Eerie Groom killed a Blood Priest player with blue eerie fire, prompting players to flee after their panels marked it as a five-star danger.
• Ji Yan activated three Keys of Authority, forcing cultist players from the Fallen Matriarch, Farming Bishop, and Nightmare Ranger sequences to turn back and attack the Eerie Groom.

Ji Yan used the Key of Authority and a Space Traveler relic to summon Nightmare Rangers from the Novice Zone to delay the Eerie Groom, but Sang Gu disrupted the plan and took Ji Yan’s Twin Flowers. The Eerie Groom seized the flower, leaving Ji Yan wounded and waiting tensely for what would happen next.

• Ji Yan analyzed the Eerie Groom and decided to gather Nightmare Ranger disciples from the Novice Zone to help trap him in layered dreams.
• Ji Yan used the Key of Authority and an old rum relic to open a route to the Novice Zone and command seven Nightmare Rangers to come protect him.
• Sang Gu destroyed the rum relic, then attacked Ji Yan and took the Twin Flowers from his hand.
• Ji Yan revealed that the Twin Flowers were a dangerous treasure, and the Eerie Groom burned Sang Gu’s hand while claiming the flower.
• A healer reattached Ji Yan’s severed hand as the Eerie Groom held the Twin Flowers, and Ji Yan watched him nervously without tending to his injury.

The Eerie Groom pursued the Twin Flowers to the Forbidden Area, where Ji Yan and the rotting corpse tried to protect the recovering Eerie Wedding Dress. The Stone Gate opened early, and the transformed wedding dress emerged to strike the groom while Ji Yan found a shattered Umbrella Bone frame beyond the gate.

• The Eerie Groom realized the Twin Flowers’ red branch was reviving and charged through the hidden passage toward the Forbidden Area.
• Ji Yan followed the Eerie Groom and learned that the rotting corpse had helped the Eerie Wedding Dress recover by giving it a vessel.
• The rotting corpse prepared to defend the Stone Gate, but it opened before the Eerie Wedding Dress was expected to be ready.
• The Eerie Wedding Dress emerged, struck the Eerie Groom, and caught the Twin Flowers as the rotting corpse believed it had become its puppet.
• Ji Yan approached the Stone Gate and found a shattered oil-paper umbrella and its cracked Umbrella Bone frame.

Ji Yan watched Eerie Wedding Dress defeat Eerie Groom and claim the Twin Flowers, becoming an eighth-tier Eerie. When the corpse tried to have her kill Ji Yan, her attack instead destroyed the corpse below the neck while Ji Yan remained unharmed.

• Eerie Wedding Dress defeated Eerie Groom and snapped off the blue flower branch, causing him to crumble into dust.
• Eerie Wedding Dress absorbed the Twin Flowers and became an eighth-tier Eerie.
• Ji Yan told the corpse that the result was not what he expected and tried to leave with the ruined Umbrella Bone as a keepsake.
• The corpse refused to let Ji Yan take the umbrella and sent Eerie Wedding Dress to kill him, using her hatred of him as a reason.
• Eerie Wedding Dress's attack left Ji Yan unharmed but pulverized the corpse's body below the neck.

Ji Yan’s plan succeeded: Blood Shadow Wedding Dress survived the Forbidden Area by devouring the Eerie Wedding Dress and transformed with her own consciousness. She confronted Ji Yan over his deception, and the chapter ended with her doubting whether he had fooled her or knowingly played along.

• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress revealed that she had devoured the Eerie Wedding Dress, and the dying rotting corpse realized Ji Yan may have planned it before turning to dust.
• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress transformed, and Ji Yan’s Umbrella Bone became a bridal umbrella as her power advanced beyond Tier 7.
• Ji Yan explained that he had deceived both Blood Shadow Wedding Dress and the rotting corpse, using her hatred to help her soul endure the Forbidden Area’s monsters and devour the Eerie Wedding Dress.
• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress admitted she had hidden inside the dress to test whether Ji Yan had truly sacrificed her, while Ji Yan claimed they were even and asked her to spare his life.
• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress suspected Ji Yan had seen through her test and deliberately acted frightened, leaving Ji Yan to say he had no options left.

Ji Yan emerged from the Forbidden Area as Bugged Eeries attacked, and learned the Fire Transmission Ritual had succeeded. As Blood Shadow Wedding Dress fought the attackers, Nanny stabbed Glasses Girl with an Arbitration Dagger and revealed her treachery.

• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress left Ji Yan the Oil Paper Joy Umbrella and told him to open it if anything happened.
• Ji Yan found Ling Lu and Nanny struggling against more than a dozen Bugged Eeries, which Sang Gu had summoned using District D's second Additional Privilege.
• The Fire Transmission Ritual completed, and Glasses Girl awoke unharmed, though no one knew how to enter the third round.
• Ji Yan and Ling Lu moved to hold off the Bugged Eeries while Nanny questioned Glasses Girl; Ji Yan opened the umbrella, and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress swiftly killed two attackers.
• Nanny claimed she was using old remains to activate Life Privilege, then stabbed Glasses Girl through the throat with the Arbitration Dagger and admitted she had wanted to do it from the beginning.

Yan Yu revealed that he was the Eerie Game Master and the true identity behind Yan Feng, then stabbed Glasses Girl with an Arbitration Dagger and believed he had killed the Sword Arbiter. Ji Yan exposed the deception: Glasses Girl was a decoy, and Yan Yu had been tricked in return, though the real Sword Arbiter had already died.

• Yan Yu stabbed Glasses Girl with an Arbitration Dagger, and Ji Yan and Ling Lu realized the healer was a mole whose mission was to kill the Sword Arbiter after the Fire Transmission Ritual.
• Ji Yan deduced that the healer was Yan Yu, an Eerie Game Master who had used Yan Feng as a deceptive puppet clone and spy.
• Yan Yu said he wanted to deceive a fellow disciple to attract the Exalted Fierce's attention and advance his main quest, while the bell marked the end of the second stage.
• Ji Yan pretended to concede defeat, and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress laughed at Yan Yu's confidence.
• Ji Yan revealed that Glasses Girl had been used to deceive Yan Yu, whose Arbitration Dagger showed that he had not killed the real Sword Arbiter.

Ji Yan exposed Yan Yu’s deception, causing the failed assassin to be erased by Order, and revealed that he had secretly completed the real Fire Transmission Ritual. The chapter ended with Ji Yan learning how to enter the trial’s third stage.

• Yan Yu’s attempt to kill the Sword Arbiter failed when the target died as an Eerie Puppet, and the trial announced Yan Yu’s failure.
• Ji Yan revealed that Yan Feng and Glasses Girl were Eerie Puppets and that he had identified Yan Yu as the healer Eerie Game Master.
• Yan Yu realized the switch had happened inside the Oil Paper Joy Umbrella, but Order erased him before he could take revenge on Ji Yan.
• The Blood Shadow Wedding Dress released two coffins from the umbrella, revealing the real Glasses Girl and a Sword Wielder for Ling Lu to use with the Arbitration Dagger.
• Ji Yan explained that he had already completed the real Fire Transmission Ritual and learned from Glasses Girl’s Game Panel how to enter the third stage.

After completing the second stage, Ji Yan received an Epic hidden reward and was attacked by an Uncontrolled NPC that revealed a rival player had arranged earlier threats against him. Order eliminated the NPC, and Ji Yan and Ling Lu prepared to enter the bonus stage.

• Blood Sis returned to the Oil Paper Joy Umbrella after warning Ji Yan that the Eerie Wedding Dress had backlashed and was not yet under control.
• Ji Yan received four Epic Burial Coffin Nails as a hidden reward for exploring the Forbidden Area and opening its Stone Gate.
• Ling Lu sent a Bloodthirsty Monarch follower to the Abandoned Dungeon, while one Bugged Eerie remained behind and suddenly grabbed Ji Yan by the throat.
• The Bugged Eerie revealed that it had arranged Cozy Cabin No. 444 and the Eerie Groom to kill Ji Yan, then threatened to destroy him in later Dungeons.
• Order detected the Uncontrolled NPC and erased it, and Ji Yan concluded that an unknown player was the invisible hand behind the attacks.
• Ji Yan asked Ling Lu about her ticket to the third stage, then splashed water on Glasses Girl in the Burial Coffin, waking her.

Ji Yan, Ling Lu, and Glasses Girl reached the gathering point for the third stage, where the Ferrywoman of Eerie opened a haunted house and explained that players could withdraw without losing their earlier rewards. Glasses Girl chose to leave, while Ji Yan and Ling Lu decided to enter the darkness, which seemed strangely familiar to Ji Yan.

• Glasses Girl recovered her Sequence Privileges and her Dull Prophet identity, and Ji Yan lost his Sword Wielder identity as the three headed for the third-stage gathering point.
• Ji Yan and his companions arrived at the hidden gathering place, where they found Sang Gu and the Ferrywoman of Eerie waiting outside a haunted house.
• The Ferrywoman of Eerie checked Glasses Girl's blood for the scent of incense from the Fire Transmission Ritual and opened the haunted house's red doors.
• The Ferrywoman of Eerie told the players they could withdraw with their first- and second-stage rewards intact, but warned that those entering would face one of the most vicious Eerie beings.
• Glasses Girl chose to withdraw, while Ji Yan entered and Ling Lu decided to go with him after confirming she was free of the seed inside her.

Ji Yan entered the third stage and met Skeleton Xu Xin, who warned him that the Eerie Game Master Sequence was forbidden in East Town and urged him to defect from it. Though Ji Yan pretended to agree, he destroyed the Blood Paper Person and accused Xu Xin of being an impostor.

• Sang Gu threatened Ji Yan before entering the third stage, and the Ferrywoman of Eerie sent the six remaining players into the haunted house without explaining the rules.
• Ji Yan walked through darkness, encountered the Blood Paper Person, and followed it to a hall where a giant skeleton sat on a stone throne.
• The skeleton claimed to be Xu Xin and warned Ji Yan to abandon the Eerie Game Master Sequence before entering East Town.
• Skeleton Xu Xin said the Blood Paper Person would help Ji Yan betray his Sequence by destroying his Playful Mask, and Ji Yan pretended to accept the plan.
• Ji Yan pinned the Blood Paper Person to the floor with coffin-burial nails and burned it, then accused the skeleton of being an impostor because Xu Xin would never speak so kindly.

Ji Yan discovered that the skeleton on the stone throne was the Eerie Game Master’s Extreme Fierce residual soul, which had secretly tested him and granted him an audience. The residual soul tasked him with finding a way into North Town and locating Sequence 0, the only one able to revive it.

• Ji Yan recognized that the skeleton had impersonated figures from his memories, and the Extreme Fierce residual soul revealed that the third-phase trial was already over.
• The Eerie Game Master explained that it could deceive even Dungeon Order and needed its followers’ help to find a way to revive it.
• The residual soul told Ji Yan that East Town’s entrance to North Town had been cut off because of a scam, and warned him to uncover the trick to get through.
• The residual soul revealed that seven followers had reached it before Ji Yan, but only two were still alive and searching for a solution.
• The Eerie Game Master told Ji Yan to find Sequence 0 in North Town, because only Sequence 0’s privilege could revive it.

Ji Yan completed the trial and returned to East Town’s God Zone with his Main Quest progress and survival time mysteriously increased. A White Clad Eerie Shadow then appeared in his safe house and attacked him through the television.

• The Eerie Lord of Deception told Ji Yan to find the Eerie Disciple from Sequence 0, gave him three pebbles, and warned him not to reveal the information about East Town and North Town.
• Ji Yan passed the trial and was transported to safe house No. 222 in East Town’s God Zone, where the Game Panel showed 70% Main Quest progress, three unlocked Playful Masks, and 30 survival days.
• Ji Yan realized the three Playful Masks had come from the pebbles and kept his unusual sequence privileges secret.
• A White Clad Eerie Shadow appeared on Ji Yan’s television and demanded that he leave the safe house, but Ji Yan refused.
• The television showed pale hands reaching for Ji Yan from behind; when he turned back, hands grabbed his neck and a bloody maw lunged at his face.

Ji Yan and Burning Death Eerie fought the Television Eerie, which could make attacks inside its screen affect the real world. Ji Yan used Eerie Lady’s identity to halt the attack, but the Television Eerie saw through his disguise and ordered him killed.

• Burning Death Eerie killed a Sadako Eerie that crawled from the television, but the screen revealed that the television itself was the real threat.
• The Television Eerie sent a Thousand-Legged Eerie through the screen to attack Burning Death Eerie, while another screen-born Eerie swallowed Ji Yan’s Coffin-Burying Nail.
• Ji Yan’s Coffin-Burying Nail pierced the screen and cracked the television, but the Television Eerie reclaimed the nail and severed Ji Yan’s connection to it.
• Ji Yan borrowed Eerie Lady’s identity with his Spinal Heart Source, making the Television Eerie’s minions stop and release Burning Death Eerie.
• The Television Eerie explained that humans were forbidden from entering No. 222, then recognized Ji Yan as a fake Eerie Lady and ordered all intruders killed.

Ji Yan discovered that a hidden player in No. 222 was controlling the eerie entities and hunted him down in the basement. After the Oil Paper Joy Umbrella crippled Television Eerie, Ji Yan pinned the boy and pressed a Coffin Burial Nail to his brow.

• The Spinal Heart Source failed when Burning Death Eerie exposed Ji Yan as a fake, and three Tier 5 eerie entities attacked him.
• Ji Yan used Space Traveler's phasing privilege to evade the attacks, searched No. 222, and found hidden information in Television Eerie's plasma.
• Ji Yan slipped past the basement guardian and found a boy controlling the eerie entities with an old-fashioned game console.
• The Oil Paper Joy Umbrella destroyed the boy's game cartridge and a surveillance camera, leaving Television Eerie shattered and disabled.
• The boy begged for mercy as Ji Yan held him down and pressed the Coffin Burial Nail between his brows.

Ji Yan confronted Nangong Tong in safe house No. 222, discovered his Game God sequence and learned the Eerie Game Master identity was forbidden in East Town. After his Playful Mask broke and exposed him, Ji Yan put on a new mask that transformed him into the Time-Traces Thief, and the two moved toward a truce.

• Ji Yan recognized Nangong Tong from the Courtyard House, restrained him, and used Omniscient Understanding to learn his identity, sequence traits, and quest progress.
• Nangong Tong explained that he had placed the Eeries in No. 222 in self-defense, while Ji Yan noted that his panel also listed the safe house as his own.
• Ji Yan's Playful Mask suddenly broke, exposing his face and sequence identity to Nangong Tong.
• Nangong Tong warned Ji Yan that the Eerie Game Master was a forbidden identity in East Town and urged him to put on another Playful Mask.
• Ji Yan donned the Time-Traces Thief mask, gained its appearance and privileges, and Nangong Tong praised the sequence.
• Ji Yan said killing Nangong Tong could trigger an Order penalty and that he needed the veteran player's information, while Nangong Tong asked to call a truce.

Ji Yan ate with Nangong Tong in the underground chamber and learned that Nangong Tong had survived the Dungeon by staying inside and completing trials through Monster Cards. Nangong Tong’s Extreme Fiend Skeletal Soul revealed that Ji Yan must reach North Town and revive it, while Ji Yan realized his own Main Quest progress had been artificially inflated.

• Nangong Tong served Ji Yan a moldy leg of lamb, which Ji Yan restored with the Gluttony Cutlery and ate.
• Nangong Tong explained that he had stayed in the Basement for over half a year and used Monster Cards to clear trials without going outside.
• Nangong Tong questioned Ji Yan about his strength and the damage to his equipment, then his Main God Skeletal Soul spoke through him.
• The Main God Skeletal Soul explained that Extreme Fiend Skeletal Souls activated after Main Quest progress passed seventy percent and urged Ji Yan to go to North Town and revive it.
• Ji Yan realized the Eerie Lord of Deception had sent him into the God Zone early by falsifying his Main Quest progress.

Ji Yan learned that the Burial Eerie Lord’s question could unlock North Town, but only Eerie Game Masters could trigger its trial. He realized the other players were hunting his fellow disciples to test the danger, leaving his own next move uncertain.

• Nangong Tong explained that the Burial Eerie Lord had sealed North Town’s entrance and would only interact with Eerie Game Masters.
• Nangong Tong said players could trigger the trial by bringing an Eerie Game Master disciple to the Burial Eerie Lord, with different trials depending on whether they were spurned or praised.
• Nangong Tong warned that the Burial Eerie Lord had instantly destroyed his Tier Seven Eerie when he tried to force his way through.
• Ji Yan asked Nangong Tong whether he would spurn or praise him, then considered the risk of triggering the trial at Yellow Springs Hall.
• Nangong Tong revealed that other Eerie Game Masters in the God Zone were hunting their fellow disciples to test the trial first.

Ji Yan and Nangong Tong planned to use a nighttime trial to hunt another Eerie Game Master, while Blood Shadow Wedding Dress watched over Nangong Tong. Ji Yan left No. 222 for the trial and was met by a featureless eerie being that told him to go.

• Nangong Tong warned Ji Yan that the Main Quest sequences might be erased in a Dungeon reboot as North Town's disorder worsened.
• A random nighttime trial was assigned to Ji Yan, and Nangong Tong offered to guide him through it while using Ji Yan as bait to hunt another Eerie Game Master.
• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress warned Ji Yan that Nangong Tong might betray him, so Ji Yan left the Oil Paper Joy Umbrella with Nangong Tong and silently gave Blood Sis an instruction.
• Nangong Tong chose Eerie Card No. 5 to control an eerie being for the trial, then discussed his own possible plans with Blood Shadow Wedding Dress.
• Ji Yan left No. 222 and encountered a tall, featureless eerie being in the gray fog, which slit a mouth into its face and told him, “Let's go.”