Chapter Summaries

Timely Rain judged Wu Wen, then trapped Ji Yan in a self-contained Dark Court and demanded that he peel Guan Sheng’s face to help obtain the Key of Authority. Ji Yan refused the plan, killed Guan Sheng, and chose to let the dungeon restart.

• The Dark Court convicted Wu Wen, binding him with Shackles of Atonement and causing the Lord of Fate to reclaim his sequence privileges.
• Timely Rain created another Dark Court around the cave and explained that peeling Guan Sheng’s face could help lure the Eerie Lord of Deception and obtain the Key of Authority.
• The trial ended in a draw, and Timely Rain urged Ji Yan to cooperate before the dungeon restarted.
• Ji Yan released Guan Sheng, who begged him to spare his younger brother by sending him to the Abandoned Dungeon.
• Ji Yan began to use Finger Peel Play Mask but stopped, then Blood Shadow Wedding Dress killed Guan Sheng at his command.
• Ji Yan told Timely Rain he would rather let the dungeon restart than be controlled.

Ji Yan exposed Timely Rain’s hidden second Eerie Game Master and learned that North Town could only be opened if Ji Yan personally met the Eerie Lord of Deception. Timely Rain revealed his supposedly special third disciple, then used Fraud Privilege to tear off Ji Yan’s face and declared himself the third Eerie Game Master.

• Ji Yan killed Guan Sheng, ending the immediate chance to restart the Dungeon, just as Burial Eerie Lord arrived to demand his atonement.
• Burial Eerie Lord stopped pursuing Ji Yan and waited after Timely Rain’s change in demeanor revealed that Timely Rain could remove Ji Yan’s crimes.
• Ji Yan deduced that Timely Rain’s team had two Eerie Game Masters, and Timely Rain admitted that he and Wu Wen had learned that Ji Yan had to meet the Eerie Lord of Deception to open North Town.
• Timely Rain offered to meet Ji Yan’s conditions and revealed the third Eerie Game Master hidden behind a rock wall, whose face was a bloody mass and whose presence resembled the real Dark Count.
• Timely Rain touched Ji Yan’s jaw with Fraud Privilege, tore off his facial skin, and announced that he was the third Eerie Game Master.

Timely Rain’s plan to control Ji Yan was exposed, but he and Wu Wen revealed a deeper alliance and turned Blood Shadow Wedding Dress against him. Ji Yan faced the new threat without knowing what Wu Wen had done to his eerie being.

• Timely Rain discovered that one stolen face belonged to Guan Ying, and Ji Yan struck him, cracking his Dark Count mask and disrupting his Judgment Privilege.
• Ji Yan explained that Guan Ying had willingly let him remove his face, and Guan Ying cursed Timely Rain before being eliminated offline.
• Timely Rain proposed that he and Ji Yan settle their fight before the Dungeon restarted, and Ji Yan summoned Blood Shadow Wedding Dress.
• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress suddenly appeared behind Ji Yan with a hostile, unfamiliar demeanor, while golden gears formed in her eyes.
• Wu Wen rose and regained her privileges, revealing that she and Timely Rain had deceived Lord of Fate and formed an alliance.
• Ji Yan demanded to know what Wu Wen had done to Blood Shadow Wedding Dress.

Wu Wen and Dong Sheng revealed how they had arranged to take Ji Yan’s face and secure Old Three, while Xu Liu stole Ji Yan’s equipment. The attempt to peel off Ji Yan’s face was interrupted when Xu Liu sensed the presence of Omniscient Understanding and became desperate to find it.

• Wu Wen explained that she had planted unease in Blood Shadow Wedding Dress to trigger a future outcome through Fate Privilege, leaving the eerie creature resentful of Ji Yan.
• Wu Wen and Timely Rain confirmed their bargain: Timely Rain would take Ji Yan’s face, while Wu Wen would claim Old Three, who remained alive as a prisoner.
• Timely Rain revealed his real identity as Dong Sheng and announced his Main Quest progress and survival days.
• Xu Liu used her Thief Privilege to steal Ji Yan’s equipment, leaving his Tool Bar nearly empty.
• Ji Yan warned Wu Wen that cooperating with Dark Order had stained her and risked violating her Main Quest, but she dismissed his warning.
• As Dong Sheng prepared to tear off Ji Yan’s face, Xu Liu stopped her, saying she could smell a valuable piece of equipment on Ji Yan; he realized she had detected Omniscient Understanding.

Xu Liu’s attempt to steal Ji Yan’s Term Talent backfired, disrupting his Theft Privilege and returning his stolen equipment. Ji Yan and Wu Wen were brought before Lord of Fate, who exposed his plan to punish Wu Wen for her crimes.

• Xu Liu used Theft Privilege on Ji Yan, but Omniscient Understanding spread a bug through his Privilege and caused his White Gloves and Game Panel to malfunction.
• Xu Liu’s stolen goods and equipment returned to their owners as Dong Sheng, Blood Shadow Wedding Dress, and the others moved to kill Ji Yan.
• Ji Yan invoked Fate Privilege to bring himself and Wu Wen before Lord of Fate, who announced that he would revoke Ji Yan’s privilege.
• Wu Wen praised Lord of Fate for her work, while Ji Yan accused her of colluding with Dark Count and deceiving her lord.
• Lord of Fate pierced Ji Yan with a sword of light, then restrained Wu Wen with swords and shackles and said her reward was to confess her crimes.

Wu Wen’s plan to deceive the Lord of Fate was exposed when Ji Yan used Fate Privilege to reveal her intended betrayal. The Lord of Fate stripped her of her position and let Ji Yan take her face, while Wu Wen realized the two had been conspiring together.

• Wu Wen denied Ji Yan’s accusations and insisted the Lord of Fate investigate her.
• Ji Yan revealed a future in which Wu Wen worked with Dong Sheng to deceive the Lord of Fate, exposing the betrayal seed in her heart.
• Wu Wen confessed that she had made a risky deal to unlock North Town, kill Timely Rain, and help the Lord of Fate devour the Eerie Lord of Deception.
• The Lord of Fate said Wu Wen’s betrayal seed had to be removed and announced that Ji Yan would take her place.
• Wu Wen realized the Lord of Fate and Ji Yan were allied, and Ji Yan broke free and touched her face with Fate Privilege.

Ji Yan returned from an audience with the Lord of Fate and exposed Dong Sheng’s attempt to unmask him, then peeled off Dong Sheng’s face with help from the Blood Shadow Wedding Dress. The face skin reacted and opened a Game Panel from the Eerie Lord of Deception.

• Ji Yan and Wu Wen vanished into the Lord of Fate’s audience, while Xu Liu’s Theft Privilege spiraled out of control after the Hand of Theft was destroyed.
• Wu Wen returned alone and told Dong Sheng that the Lord of Fate had kept Ji Yan for a continued audience.
• Dong Sheng used a Smoke Eerie to restrain the person he believed was Wu Wen and tried to tear off Ji Yan’s face.
• Ji Yan emerged from the Oil Paper Joy Umbrella and peeled off Dong Sheng’s face before the Blood Shadow Wedding Dress restrained him.
• Ji Yan told Dong Sheng that the Lord of Fate had helped him betray her appointed eerie disciple, and the stolen face skin triggered a Game Panel from the Eerie Lord of Deception.

Ji Yan reached an audience with the Eerie Lord of Deception and learned that North Town was full of hidden setups. He approached the lord under the pretense of claiming a reward, preparing to assassinate it with the Fate Brooch so he could obtain the Key of Authority and help restart North Town.

• Ji Yan tore off Dong Sheng's face, earned an audience with the Eerie Lord of Deception, and left Dong Sheng and Wu Wen faceless and stripped of their sequence privileges.
• Yuan Ming and Nangong Tong discussed the remaining time and hoped Ji Yan could obtain the Key of Authority before the Dungeon was restarted.
• Ji Yan entered the hall and told the Eerie Lord of Deception that East Town's deception had been broken and the Burial Eerie Lord stood between them and North Town.
• The Eerie Lord of Deception warned Ji Yan that every inch of North Town was a setup, then offered him an early-unlocked Eerie Technique as a reward.
• Ji Yan approached the Eerie Lord of Deception to let it touch him, concealing the Fate Brooch as his weapon for the planned assassination.

Ji Yan assassinated the Eerie Lord of Deception with the Fate Brooch, allowing Xu Xin to deliver the final blow and reveal that the Lord had knowingly accepted its death to help her enter North Town. Xu Xin explained that she was a Tier 8 Chess Player, and that Ji Yan remained one of her chess pieces as she pursued her own Dungeon’s Main Quest.

• The Eerie Lord of Deception saw through Ji Yan’s concealed brooch but let him attack, curious whether he would dare commit regicide.
• Ji Yan struck the Eerie Lord of Deception with the Fate Brooch, and Xu Xin emerged from the darkness to crush its weakened skull and erase its remnant soul.
• Xu Xin explained that the Eerie Lord of Deception had willingly traded a wisp of its remnant soul to help her enter North Town and revive it.
• Ji Yan asked about Xu Xin’s arch-enemy, and Xu Xin said the enemy was in North Town, had sealed it off, and intended to erase them both.
• Xu Xin revealed that her Dungeon was Tier 8, where twenty-six players could travel through lower-tier Dungeons as NPCs and advance their Main Quest by finding chess pieces.
• Xu Xin said the players were divided into black and white factions and identified Ji Yan’s fake teacher, Kong Yi, as a black-piece Chess Player from her faction.

Ji Yan learned that he had to climb to the Tier 8 dungeon to meet Xu Xin, then returned to the cave just before the deadline with the Eerie Game Master's Key of Authority. The Burial Eerie Lord took him to Yellow Springs Hall, while Timely Rain ambushed Dong Sheng and began settling their score.

• Xu Xin explained that Ji Yan had to reach the Tier 8 dungeon and clear it alongside the Chess Player to leave the chessboard, and she warned him about Q’s powerful piece, an eerie disciple of Sequence 1.
• Xu Xin feinted at Ji Yan’s heart as the dungeon restarted, and Ji Yan returned to the cave holding the Eerie Game Master's Key of Authority.
• Wu Wen revealed that the Eternal Clock of Fate had made the cave run five minutes slower, preventing the Burial Eerie Lord from stripping the group’s Extreme Fiend Skeletal Souls and memories for being late.
• The Burial Eerie Lord accepted the Key of Authority and ordered Ji Yan to accompany him to Yellow Springs Hall.
• Dong Sheng declared that he would return to the Novice Zone in West Town and eventually take revenge on Ji Yan, but Timely Rain stabbed him with the Sword of Judgment.

After Ji Yan helped reopen North Town, he learned what little was known about the powerful Sequence 1 and entered the town with Yuan Ming. Nangong Tong stayed behind, revealing that he had obtained Burial Eerie Lord’s Eerie Card and believed he was the “biggest winner.”

• Burial Eerie Lord reopened North Town and said the Key of Authority would be placed there for the Eerie Dao to decide its destination.
• Ji Yan told Xu Liu that his Term Talent’s effects would lift upon entering North Town, then asked about Sequence 1.
• Xu Liu described Sequence 1’s strange privilege, including shutting down Timely Rain and creating things that did not exist in the Dungeon.
• Ji Yan and Yuan Ming entered North Town before the gates of Yellow Springs Hall closed.
• Nangong Tong declined to enter North Town, then revealed that he held Burial Eerie Lord’s game Eerie Card.

Ji Yan entered North Town and found himself chained in a water prison inside the S Rank trial site, Grudge-Born Tower. After an Eerie Old Woman attacked him and tore his mask, Blood Shadow Wedding Dress freed him, but the Old Woman regenerated with the Farming Bishop’s privilege.

• Ji Yan woke chained in a water prison and learned that escaping Grudge-Born Tower was the trial’s goal.
• A female player cursed Xu Liu for unsealing North Town and warned Ji Yan that its Eerie beings would turn players into food.
• The Eerie Old Woman arrived to collect tribute, killed the female player, and named Ji Yan Cow Number 44.
• The Eerie Old Woman tore Wu Wen’s Playful Mask from Ji Yan’s face before Blood Shadow Wedding Dress attacked her and cut his chains.
• The Eerie Old Woman regenerated from roots that burst out of the iron bucket, revealing the Farming Bishop’s sequence privilege.

Ji Yan escaped the water prison and discovered that North Town's Dungeon rules had been altered to make eerie disciples the eeries' slaves. Disguised as the Eerie Old Woman, he followed a female eerie into a room, where he found something that left him stunned.

• Ji Yan killed the Eerie Old Woman, stopped her Eerie Plant from healing her, and realized the eeries were draining farming eerie disciples to grow Eerie Tulips.
• Ji Yan ate an Eerie Tulip bud to restore himself, then discussed Wu Wen's vision with Blood Shadow Wedding Dress, who warned him that dangerous presences were nearby.
• After his Playful Mask was damaged, Ji Yan disguised himself with the Eerie Old Woman's facial skin and left the water prison, triggering an S Rank trial prompt and learning North Town's oppressive rules.
• Ji Yan suspected that someone from Sequence 1 had changed the Dungeon rules, then joined a female eerie who was carrying an Eerie Infant with a skull belonging to the Fallen Matriarch.
• Ji Yan followed the female eerie into a corridor and looked into a foul-smelling room.

Ji Yan discovered that the Grudge-Born Tower’s Eeries were abusing and consuming player Disciples, then used a puppet double to reach the Tower Lord’s banquet and investigate the Dungeon’s hidden rules. He arrived at the banquet hall, where players from several Sequences had been turned into food.

• Ji Yan and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress killed the Eerie Woman and found that the imprisoned Life Attendant Disciples were deranged rookie players.
• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding on two heads to learn that the Tower had seven floors and the banquet would begin on the seventh floor at 18:00.
• After the Dungeon branded him with Sin, Ji Yan created a puppet double to impersonate the Eerie Woman and accompany him as he climbed the Tower.
• Ji Yan saw Eeries tormenting and harvesting Disciples from several Sequences as they made their way to the banquet.
• An Eerie brought Ji Yan and Ji Yan No. 2 to the banquet hall through a spatial rift, where they saw a long table covered with dishes made from players.

Ji Yan and No. 2 infiltrated the Grudge-Born Tower’s banquet, where the floor managers discussed their habit of eating and exploiting Eerie Disciples. When the 7th Floor manager revealed his taste for Eerie Game Masters, No. 2 pointed him toward Ji Yan, leaving the manager staring at him.

• Ji Yan and No. 2 discussed capturing the tower owner alive and using All Skills All Solutions to extract information, then prepared dishes for the banquet.
• Ji Yan lent No. 2 the Eerie Samurai Sword but refused to hand over the Oil Paper Joy Umbrella.
• The tower’s Management Eeries arrived and chatted about using Eerie Disciples as food and entertainment while they waited for the tower owner.
• No. 2 played the Eerie Feeding Woman convincingly when the other managers questioned her silence.
• The 7th Floor manager described his fondness for Eerie Game Masters and revealed that his outfit and meal came from them.
• No. 2 told the 7th Floor manager that Ji Yan beside him was the Eerie Game Master he wanted, and the manager turned to stare at Ji Yan.

Ji Yan and Ji Yan No. 2 battled the Seventh Floor Management Eerie at a banquet before escaping amid an Eerie Fetus’s arrival. They set out to capture the absent floor lord, with No. 2 revealing that his Eerie Puppet had already found a clue.

• The Seventh Floor Management Eerie revealed it could detect Ji Yan’s sin brand and began fighting after No. 2 struck it, while the other Management Eeries watched.
• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress and Ji Yan attacked the Seventh Floor Eerie, which copied Blood Shadow Wedding Dress’s face and appearance with Dream-Pointing Face Play.
• Ji Yan decided they had to retreat, but a massive Eerie Fetus crashed through the ceiling and threw the banquet into chaos.
• Ji Yan and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress escaped, and No. 2 admitted he had brought the Eerie Fetus from a nearby cage to create a distraction.
• No. 2 said they would capture the absent floor lord and revealed that his Eerie Puppet had already found a clue.

Ji Yan reunited with Number 2 and Number 3, who had gathered enslaved eeries and uncovered that Grudge-Born Tower’s Management Eeries were keeping its long-dead Tower Master alive to preserve the trial. Their search for Sequence 1 information was interrupted by Ling Lu, who revealed that players had been lured into the tower by a fraudulent free-trial offer.

• Number 2 led Ji Yan through the tower to meet Number 3, who had captured enslaved eeries and extracted information from the Vice Supervisor Eerie.
• Number 3 revealed that the Tower Master had died long ago and that the Management Eeries were draining enslaved eeries to keep him alive and prevent Grudge-Born Tower from collapsing.
• Number 2 realized that controlling the Tower Master could give them leverage over the Management Eeries, but Ji Yan insisted that their goal was Sequence 1.
• Number 3 introduced Ling Lu, who explained that she had accepted a supposedly safe Free Trial in East Town and was trapped in Grudge-Born Tower instead.
• Ling Lu told Ji Yan that the trial stripped players of their privileges, subjected them to abuse, and drew them into a deadly trap under false promises.

Ji Yan and his counterparts learned why the Sequence 1 Eerie Disciple had sealed North Town, but they doubted the story that he was a savior. They recruited Ling Lu to guide them toward the 7th Floor and prepared to confront the Management Eeries, leaving No. 2 and No. 3 behind to hold them off.

• Ling Lu explained that the Sequence 1 Eerie Disciple had sealed North Town to force the Dungeon Order to restart the dungeon and save players from its dead end.
• No. 2 revealed that players from the other towns had unsealed North Town, canceling the restart, and Ling Lu cursed Xu Liu as the culprit.
• The three Ji Yans doubted the Sequence 1 Eerie Disciple's supposed self-sacrifice and told Ling Lu to find her own path to survival.
• Ling Lu agreed to lead Ji Yan to the passage to the 7th Floor, where they planned to take the tower's owner hostage.
• When Management Eeries approached, No. 2 and No. 3 stayed behind to fight while Ling Lu went with Ji Yan; No. 3 armed himself with two stolen faces and an axe.

Ji Yan and Ling Lu took a hidden passage toward the 6th Floor and encountered a monster made from the Gluttonous Maw and Hidden Hunter. After it tore fibers from Blood Shadow Wedding Dress, she put on her red veil and prepared to fight it herself.

• No. 2 and No. 3 stayed behind to gather equipment and investigate the dangers of Grudge-Born Tower while Ji Yan and Ling Lu left for the upper floors.
• Ji Yan explained that No. 2 and No. 3 were versions of himself with different emotions, then he and Ling Lu entered a hidden passage used to dispose of corpses.
• Ji Yan realized a monster was breathing in the passage and fired a Burial Coffin Nail, but the creature ate it and appeared as a giant mouth.
• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress drove the monster back, but it vanished and returned to bite her, tearing several fibers from her dress.
• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress put on her red veil and promised to tear the monster apart, while Ji Yan retreated with Ling Lu.

Ji Yan survived the Eerie Wedding Dress’s takeover and gained the Gluttonous Eerie Creature as a pet, naming it Wang Cai. On the 7th Floor, Master and the tower’s enemies prepared to deal with the intruders, while Ji Yan No. 2 and No. 3 planned to cause chaos below and rescue Master.

• Blood Sis’s red veil let the Eerie Bride seize control, but she withdrew and Blood Sis returned to herself; Ji Yan advised her to control the veil through her emotions.
• Blood Sis revealed that she had beaten the Gluttonous Eerie Creature into submission, and it shrank onto Ji Yan’s head after trying to curry favor with him.
• Ji Yan named the Gluttonous Eerie Creature Wang Cai and considered whether he could take it out of Grudge-Born Tower.
• On the 7th Floor, the 7th Floor Eerie spoke with the injured Master, then learned an intruder had entered through the sewer and decided to send the Eerie Infant King and Drought Demon after them.
• Management Eerie reported that it had accidentally killed the people it was meant to capture, then revealed its disguise as Ji Yan No. 2.
• Ji Yan No. 2 and No. 3 planned to release dangerous Eerie Creatures on the 4th and 5th Floors, gather equipment, and rescue Master while Ji Yan No. 1 drew the enemies’ attention.