Chapter Summaries

Ji Yan entered East Town’s Violet Street trial with the Dull Prophet Long Yuan and learned that Long Yuan possessed a powerful, mysterious Eerie Weapon. The Eerie Head Child began the Organ Bet game, but its rules called for two opponents despite there being only three players.

• Ji Yan and the long-robed eerie entered the God Zone, where the eerie warned him about its dangerous players and said it had been selected for erasure.
• Ji Yan met Long Yuan, a blind Dull Prophet who said he had made a deal with a sequence Eerie to use the Dull Lord as his eyes.
• The long-robed eerie warned Ji Yan that Long Yuan hunted Eerie Game Masters and wielded an invisible weapon powerful enough to break the Black Death Sword.
• Long Yuan predicted that an unavoidable surprise would appear during their trial, just as the Eerie Head Child emerged and started the game.
• The Eerie Head Child explained that players would wager their organs, and Ji Yan pointed out that only three players were present despite the game requiring two opponents.

Ji Yan encountered Yuan Ming, a diseased Sequence 5 Eerie Gambler, as the Organ Bet trial began. Yuan Ming begged his opponent to eat one of his organs, leaving Ji Yan to realize that Yuan Ming was stockpiling deaths to advance his sequence.

• A supposedly dead man crawled from a corpse pile, and the Eerie in the long robe identified him as Yuan Ming, a Sequence 5 Eerie Gambler.
• Nangong Tong worried that Ji Yan would face Long Yuan or Yuan Ming in the luck-based trial and hoped Ji Yan would be paired with him.
• Yuan Ming recognized the Eerie in the long robe as one of Old Nine's stand-ins and greeted Long Yuan, who warned him not to approach.
• The Eerie Head Child selected Yuan Ming and the Eerie in the long robe for the first round of the Organ Bet and explained the organ-piece rules.
• Yuan Ming urged the Eerie in the long robe to eat one of his organs, and Ji Yan realized Yuan Ming was stockpiling his own deaths.

Nangong Tong’s Eerie Gambler defeated Yuan Ming in their organ-betting trial, but Yuan Ming’s death transferred a disaster onto Nangong Tong. Long Yuan explained Yuan Ming’s Death-buff ability, leaving Ji Yan concerned about the disaster’s impact on his plans and preparing for his own contest with Long Yuan.

• Yuan Ming lost a kidney to the Eerie Head Child, while the trial strengthened his physical resilience and Nangong Tong received a warning for harming a disciple of the Misfortune Sequence.
• Nangong Tong chose a kidney in the second round, but Yuan Ming revealed a heart; the Eerie Head Child tore it from Yuan Ming, killing him and awarding Nangong Tong the trial reward.
• Yuan Ming praised his Eerie Lord as he died, while Nangong Tong cursed that Yuan Ming had predicted his strategy and gotten himself killed first.
• Long Yuan explained that Yuan Ming stacked Death buffs by surviving fatal injuries, and that killing him transferred a negated Death buff as a disaster onto the culprit, Nangong Tong.
• Ji Yan worried that Nangong Tong’s disaster might disrupt his plans, and Long Yuan announced that it was their turn to compete.

Ji Yan and Long Yuan lost the Organ Bet, but Long Yuan killed the Eerie Head Child with an invisible Eerie Weapon and exposed the trial as a setup by the Eerie Game Master. Ji Yan discovered the weapon was Collector's Grade, but Long Yuan warned him to keep his distance as they prepared to track down the hidden Game Master.

• Long Yuan and Ji Yan each chose an organ, and Ji Yan's kidney devoured Long Yuan's heart, ending the game with Long Yuan's defeat.
• Long Yuan used an invisible Eerie Weapon to kill the Eerie Head Child, and Yuan Ming revived to warn him that the Burial Eerie Lord would punish him for breaking the rules.
• Ji Yan accused Long Yuan of planning to break the rules, and Long Yuan cut open the puppet to reveal that the Eerie Game Master had planted it in the trial.
• Long Yuan used his Prophet Privilege to search for the Eerie Game Master, while Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding to learn that Long Yuan's weapon was Collector's Grade.
• Long Yuan blocked Ji Yan from touching him and warned him to keep his distance.

Ji Yan, Long Yuan, Yuan Ming, and the Long-Robed Eerie went to the Soul Returning Shrine to pursue the Eerie Game Master, despite warnings that the trail might be bait. They entered just after midnight, became trapped inside, and awoke a bloodshot-eyed figure who announced that its Final Judgment had come.

• Long Yuan proposed that he and Ji Yan’s group capture the Eerie Game Master, and Yuan Ming warned that the Burial Eerie Lord might pursue them for breaking the trial’s rules.
• At No. 222’s safe house, the Blood Shadow Wedding Dress told Nangong Tong that Ji Yan had warned her Long Yuan might be untrustworthy, then said she and Ji Yan were brothers.
• Yuan Ming led the group to the four-star Soul Returning Shrine, whose danger rating would rise to five stars after midnight.
• Ji Yan and the others entered the shrine after midnight and found its hall filled with motionless Paper Men as the entrance door closed behind them.
• A bloodshot-eyed figure deep inside the shrine opened its eyes, lifted its cracked face, and declared that its Final Judgment had come.

Ji Yan discovered that the Eerie Game Master nailed inside the Soul Returning Shrine was a Substitute Puppet meant to draw out another Eerie Game Master. The puppet invoked the Lord of Judgment to begin a vote that would expose and punish the hidden Eerie Game Master.

• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding to identify the nailed Eerie Game Master as a Substitute Puppet and recognized the scene as a trap.
• The substitute explained that two Eerie Game Masters were needed to interact with Burial Eerie Lord and unlock North Town, then revealed that one was among Ji Yan, Yuan Ming, and Long Yuan.
• Yuan Ming suspected Ji Yan and prepared to tear off his mask, but the Long-Robed Eerie protected him and warned Yuan Ming not to interfere.
• The substitute revealed that only the Lord of Judgment could determine who the hidden Eerie Game Master was, then used the dagger to summon the Dark Court.
• The substitute announced a vote to identify the Eerie Game Master, who would be judged guilty of obstructing East Town's Main Quest and handed over to the Dark Order.

Ji Yan was trapped in the Dark Court, where the Dark Court planned to convict and erase him for being an Eerie Game Master. With outsiders barred from intervening, his only hope was to win the trial, which began as the participants prepared to give their statements.

• Burial Eerie Lord entered the passage, destroyed the Paper Men that attacked it, and stopped outside the court because it recognized Eerie Dao order.
• The Dark Court opened and sealed Ji Yan’s Tool Bar and Eerie Weapons, while its rules established a trial that could use Dark Order to erase him.
• Ji Yan learned that the Dark Court opposed interaction with Burial Eerie Lord and that its leader was Timely Rain, a Count of Judgment of the third sequence.
• Nangong Tong told Blood Shadow Wedding Dress that a conviction could erase Ji Yan, but the Dark Court’s rules severed her connection to the Twin Heart Lock and prevented her from intervening.
• Nangong Tong sent Ji Yan what he knew, and Ji Yan realized he had to win the trial himself.
• Number 5 began the trial, announced that the four eerie disciples would speak before a vote, and called on Participant Number 1, Yuan Ming.

During the Dark Court trial, Long Yuan accused Ji Yan, disguised as Li Shuang, of being an Eerie Disciple of the Eerie Game Master, citing his Prophet Privilege. Ji Yan took his turn to make a startling speech condemning his own sequence, while relying on hidden information and the court’s rules to find a way to challenge the accusation.

• Yuan Ming began to recall his previous Dungeon, but the court punished him for speaking off topic and revoked his right to speak.
• Long Yuan accused Li Shuang of being an Eerie Disciple of the Eerie Game Master, saying Prophet Privilege and seven deductions had confirmed the Eerie Game Master would appear at the trial.
• Nangong Tong hesitated over what to say, while Blood Shadow Wedding Dress warned him that he understood the consequences if Ji Yan died.
• Ji Yan argued that he could speak before Nangong Tong because the latter had not organized his testimony, and the substitute player allowed him to go next.
• Ji Yan denounced the Eerie Game Master and its lord as hated deceivers, then saw notification panels from the Dark Order and the Eerie Lord of Deception.

At the Dark Court, Ji Yan turned the accusation against Long Yuan, claiming he was an Eerie Game Master who had deceived the substitute Law Enforcement Officer and set up the trial. Ji Yan left the court having exploited the Dark Order’s rules to avoid conviction and exposed Long Yuan as his target.

• Ji Yan learned that his insults had lowered his Sequence Lord’s favorability, but his testimony further aggravated the Eerie Game Master’s crimes.
• Ji Yan questioned the substitute Law Enforcement Officer, who revealed his name was X and said he would accept the Lord of Judgment’s ruling.
• Ji Yan argued that X had been deceived and discarded by his master, then accused Long Yuan of being an Eerie Game Master hiding beneath the Dull Prophet disguise.
• Nangong Tong realized Long Yuan might be an Eerie Game Master, despite having seen him use Prophet Privilege to deduce how to reopen North Town.
• Long Yuan admitted Ji Yan had accused him, while Ji Yan claimed the Dark Order’s silence proved his testimony was truthful and explained he had entered the trap to find a breakthrough.

Ji Yan’s group voted in the Dark Court, and Yuan Ming’s unexpected vote helped identify Long Yuan as the Eerie Game Master. Proxy player X carried out the judgment, and Ji Yan received the Ring of Dark Flash as a reward.

• Ji Yan challenged Long Yuan’s defense, but proxy player X ruled that Ji Yan had violated the court’s rules and damaged his voice with Sharp-Tongued Laceration.
• Proxy player X gave the four participants cards to vote on whom to designate for adjudication, while Nangong Tong discussed the vote with Blood Sis.
• Long Yuan expected the vote to tie, but the results designated him as the Eerie Game Master after Yuan Ming secretly voted for him.
• Yuan Ming revealed that he had gambled on the outcome to advance his Eerie Gambler quest and urged proxy player X to judge Long Yuan.
• Proxy player X struck Long Yuan with the Sword of Judgment, ending the Dark Court trial.
• Ji Yan received the epic Ring of Dark Flash as the Dark Order’s reward.

Ji Yan received the Ring of Dark Flash while Yuan Ming revealed that the Dark Court’s trial had meant to force Ji Yan into submission, but its Shackles of Atonement had instead been placed on Long Yuan. As Yuan Ming and Long Yuan exposed their allegiance to rival organizations, the Burial Eerie Lord arrived, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Ji Yan received the Epic Golden Legendary Ring of Dark Flash, while Yuan Ming crushed his own Epic reward and hinted that greater trouble was coming.
• An invisible Collector's Edition Eerie Weapon killed X, but Long Yuan emerged unharmed from the Sword of Judgment's attack.
• Yuan Ming explained that the trial's verdict was to place the Shackles of Atonement inside Ji Yan, but Long Yuan had received them instead and was therefore immune to the verdict.
• Yuan Ming admitted he had targeted Ji Yan from before the Organ Bet, while Long Yuan revealed that he had lost his eyes as punishment and killed X.
• Long Yuan accused Yuan Ming of defecting to the Fate Hall, and Yuan Ming confirmed they both served rival organizations.
• The Burial Eerie Lord entered through the shattered door as the others faced off.

Guan Sheng revealed his true identity and faced punishment from the Burial Eerie Lord, but invoked the Dark Court to delay it. As the Dark Court’s judgment began, the Hidden Hunter trapped Ji Yan and the others in darkness that eroded their minds, while the Blood Shadow Wedding Dress and Oil Paper Joy Umbrella disappeared from the Basement.

• Guan Sheng revealed his identity as the Eerie Game Master and challenged Ji Yan after his Playful Mask cracked.
• The Burial Eerie Lord arrived to punish Guan Sheng, but Guan Sheng used the second Sword of Judgment to summon the Dark Court.
• Yuan Ming urged Ji Yan to leave with him and explained that his Fate Hall was one of the few forces able to oppose the Dark Court.
• The Hidden Hunter emerged and trapped Ji Yan and the others in his Endless Ink Prison, a darkness that swallowed their sight and disrupted their thoughts.
• Nangong Tong found that the Blood Shadow Wedding Dress and Oil Paper Joy Umbrella had vanished from the Basement.

Ji Yan was trapped in Buzz Cut Player’s Endless Ink Prison until Blood Shadow Wedding Dress attacked and helped track down the Hidden Hunter. After Buzz Cut Player died, Yuan Ming explained that the Shackles of Atonement made him a slave of the Dark Court, with disobedience leading to true death.

• Buzz Cut Player used Endless Ink Prison to overwhelm Ji Yan’s senses and thoughts, then approached him with a paralyzing dagger.
• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress appeared behind Buzz Cut Player, wounded him, and wrapped Ji Yan in red silk ribbons while the darkness deepened.
• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress used Buzz Cut Player’s blood to track him through the dark domain, and he emerged with his spine torn out and died.
• Ji Yan noticed three black snakes wrapped around Buzz Cut Player’s heart before they fell lifeless from the corpse.
• Yuan Ming explained that the Shackles of Atonement compelled players sentenced by the Sword of Judgment to serve the Dark Count’s eerie minions, and that breaking free brought true death.

Ji Yan and his allies faced Burial Eerie Lord and Guan Sheng, who used an invisible Collector's Grade Eerie Weapon to attack them. Yuan Ming survived repeated lethal blows, and Ji Yan realized someone else was secretly operating the weapon to protect Guan Sheng.

• Yuan Ming told Ji Yan that the Dark Court could turn past misdeeds into crimes and that Timely Rain sought the Eerie Game Master's Key of Authority.
• Burial Eerie Lord returned and accused Yuan Ming, Nangong Tong, and Ji Yan of crimes, then attacked them while Guan Sheng shot Yuan Ming dead.
• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress protected Ji Yan from Burial Eerie Lord, but the Eerie Lord's black scales severed her bond with the Red Embroidered Shoes.
• Guan Sheng wounded Ji Yan and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress with an invisible Collector's Grade Eerie Weapon, then killed the long-robed eerie with three precise strikes.
• Nangong Tong went to bed after the long-robed eerie died, while Yuan Ming revived and revealed that his deaths reflected disasters onto his killer.
• Yuan Ming and Ji Yan realized the invisible weapon was not Guan Sheng's and that an unknown person was secretly using it to protect him.

Ji Yan escaped the Burial Eerie Lord by destroying his Space Traveler mask, but the Burial Eerie Lord continued hunting him through East Town. He brought Blood Sis to Nangong Tong’s basement and pressed him to reveal the Eerie cards he had hidden, as the danger drew closer.

• Guan Sheng changed faces to wield different sequence privileges, damaged Ji Yan’s Time-Traces Thief mask, and prepared to use the Memory Traveler sequence against him.
• The Burial Eerie Lord tore away Blood Sis’s Eerie Wedding Dress with its absolute dismantling privilege, weakening her and leaving her unable to put the dress back on.
• Ji Yan used his Space Traveler mask to open a rift and escape with Blood Sis, then tore off and destroyed the mask to shut the rift and stop the Burial Eerie Lord from following.
• The Burial Eerie Lord warned Guan Sheng that the Lord of Judgment had convicted him too, then went after Ji Yan and Yuan Ming in East Town.
• Ji Yan reached Nangong Tong’s basement with Blood Sis and urged Nangong Tong to bring out his hidden Eerie cards before the Burial Eerie Lord found them.

Guan Sheng and Guan Ying endured their enforced service to Timely Rain while plotting to outwit the Order. Meanwhile, Yuan Ming joined Ji Yan and Nangong Tong as they prepared to flee the approaching Burial Eerie Lord, which arrived at three in the morning.

• Guan Sheng told Guan Ying to keep obeying Timely Rain while they waited for a chance to deceive the Order, and Guan Ying revealed that a rebounded disaster had cost him an arm.
• Nangong Tong said his family had only three eerie items left and suffered a rebounded disaster from killing Yuan Ming; Ji Yan tried to find a way to repair the Eerie Wedding Dress.
• Yuan Ming tracked Nangong Tong to Ji Yan's hiding place and warned that the Burial Eerie Lord would arrive in five minutes.
• Ji Yan proposed using Nangong Tong's eerie items to buy time and fleeing to South Town, while Yuan Ming questioned whether they could safely escape or rely on a dungeon reset.
• At three in the morning, the Burial Eerie Lord crashed into the basement and challenged Ji Yan, Yuan Ming, and Nangong Tong to escape again.

Yuan Ming diverted Burial Eerie Lord and brought Ji Yan and his companions to Fate Hall’s hidden base, Hall No. 1, where the Disciple of Fate’s followers summoned Ji Yan to meet their leader. Ji Yan followed them into a desolate room, while Nangong Tong stayed behind gripping three Eerie Cards.

• Yuan Ming drew Burial Eerie Lord away by triggering activity at Twilight Hall, then revealed that Fate Hall’s leader wanted to meet Ji Yan.
• Yuan Ming used a Fate Gear to transform the Basement into Hall No. 1 and explained that the base was protected by the Fate Order.
• Two followers of the Disciple of Fate arrived and asked Ji Yan to meet their leader, while Yuan Ming warned that she knew the answer to the meaning of “Praise and Spurn.”
• Ji Yan followed the two followers upstairs, and Blood Sis insisted on accompanying him while Nangong Tong remained behind.
• Ji Yan entered a desolate room and reacted strangely after catching a certain scent.

Ji Yan met Wu Wen, the Disciple of Fate, who explained that the Dungeon was nearing a reset because Sequence 1 had exploited a bug to block North Town. She revealed that Ji Yan and her were the only players who could reopen the route and avert the reset, then introduced her power to manipulate fate through a Butterfly Effect.

• Ji Yan entered the room and learned from Wu Wen that the Dungeon would reset if Order could not resolve the blocked North Town map and stalled Main Quests.
• Wu Wen explained that Sequence 1 had blocked North Town and that reopening it required players to use deception, judgment, and deduction to kill the Eerie Lord of Deception and obtain the Key of Authority.
• Wu Wen revealed that Ji Yan and she were the only players able to complete the opposing objectives needed to reopen North Town, though only one of their hostile Sequences could survive.
• Ji Yan shook Wu Wen's hand and used Omniscient Understanding to access her secrets, but the information overwhelmed him and rapidly drained his condition.
• Wu Wen introduced herself as a Sequence 2 Eerie Disciple whose Fate Gear could foresee scenes and trigger a Butterfly Effect to force a predicted outcome.

Ji Yan learned how Wu Wen’s Fate privilege could borrow a desired future and restore Blood Shadow Wedding Dress’s combat strength, though the borrowed outcome came with restrictions. Wu Wen revealed that she and Timely Rain had to eliminate each other to break their stalled Main Quests, and she planned to use Ji Yan as her blade before the Dungeon restarted.

• Wu Wen explained that she needed remnants such as hair or scales to trigger her Fate privilege, and that she had used a black scale to lure the Burial Eerie Lord away from Ji Yan.
• Wu Wen used a strand of Blood Shadow Wedding Dress’s hair to restore the Eerie Wedding Dress and embroidered shoes by borrowing a future outcome, but warned that Blood Shadow Wedding Dress could not fight the Burial Eerie Lord before entering North Town.
• Wu Wen said the Dungeon would restart at midnight the next night, and that she and Timely Rain had been stuck at 90% on their Main Quests for 110 days.
• Wu Wen explained that she and Timely Rain had to eliminate the Eerie Disciple of the opposing Sequence to advance, and said she intended to fight him before the restart.
• Wu Wen identified Guan Sheng as Timely Rain’s blade and Ji Yan as hers, while Ji Yan asked her to stop using strange metaphors.

Ji Yan agreed to cooperate with Wu Wen in the coming Secret Realm trial and entered the Fate Gear to meet the Lord of Fate. After hearing Wu Wen’s warning about Blood Shadow Wedding Dress’s possible future, Ji Yan returned to the hall as Nangong Tong and Yuan Ming discussed East Town’s looming collapse.

• Wu Wen told Ji Yan that tomorrow’s Secret Realm trial would bring him together with Guan Sheng and urged him not to kill the Eerie Game Master, since a living one could lure out the Eerie Lord of Deception.
• Wu Wen explained that Ji Yan would need to deceive his Sequence Lord to advance his Main Quest, and Ji Yan agreed to cooperate despite having no safe alternative.
• Wu Wen sent Ji Yan into the Fate Gear to meet the Lord of Fate, while he warned Blood Shadow Wedding Dress that some futures showed Ji Yan stabbing her with a pitch-black sword.
• The Lord of Fate asked Ji Yan why he had summoned a disciple of the Eerie Lord of Deception, and Ji Yan suggested he might know the reason.
• Nangong Tong questioned Yuan Ming about joining Fate Hall, and Yuan Ming said East Town had reached the final stage before collapse and he feared the Dungeon would restart.
• Ji Yan emerged from the Fate Gear as Nangong Tong and Yuan Ming heard a sound and turned to look.