Chapter Summaries

Ji Yan learned that Clown Eerie wanted him to use Brush Immortal’s Brush to restore its makeup, which empowered its powerful Delusional Psychosis. After Clown Eerie tried to force him, Blood Shadow Wedding Dress and Burning Death Eerie attacked, but the surviving makeup triggered a new assault as the chapter ended.

• Clown Eerie revealed that its fading makeup, painted by Subject 6, gave it the power to use Delusional Psychosis far beyond its tier.
• Clown Eerie explained that it wanted to stay in its Private Paradise rather than advance and face greater scrutiny, then used a marionette to immobilize Ji Yan and force him to write its name.
• Ji Yan confirmed Clown Eerie was not a Chess Piece, and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress tore off its painted face while Burning Death Eerie struck it with lightning.
• The clown makeup on the torn-off face activated Delusional Psychosis, and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress covered her face with her veil to defend herself.
• Delusional Psychosis split open Burning Death Eerie’s chest and produced a head wearing a clown face.

Ji Yan used [Brush Immortal's Brush] to stop Clown Eerie's delusion and learned how the [White Piece] had shaped the Dungeon through him. The [White Piece] then triggered an imminent [Eerie Dao] investigation, leaving Ji Yan convinced that only the dying Clown Eerie could save them.

• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress erased the mental delusion affecting Ji Yan, while Clown Eerie's delusion afflicted Burning Death Eerie until Ji Yan wrote "Burning Death Eerie" and "emptying delusions" with [Brush Immortal's Brush].
• Ji Yan stopped Blood Shadow Wedding Dress from destroying Clown Eerie and used [Omniscient Understanding] to learn that the [White Piece] had used him to influence the Dungeon and spread ambition.
• Blood Shadow Wedding Dress caught Corpse Death Eerie eavesdropping, but Ji Yan realized the true spy had already left as Corpse Death Eerie declared his desire for a perfect world.
• Corpse Death Eerie's head developed white cracks, and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress could not destroy it; [Brush Immortal's Brush] warned that [Eerie Dao] was coming to investigate and erase them.
• Ji Yan told Blood Shadow Wedding Dress that only the dying Clown Eerie could save them.

Ji Yan used [Brush Immortal's Brush] and his [Black Chess] privilege to make the Clown Eerie lose control and wreak havoc across the dungeon. The Dungeon Order abandoned its search for Ji Yan to respond to the outbreak, while Ji Yan watched the destruction spread.

• Ji Yan wrote that the Clown Eerie would have unlimited release of delusions, despite [Brush Immortal's Brush] warning that writing more would make it uncontrollable.
• Ji Yan activated [Collapsing Fingertips], wounded the Clown Eerie, and sent Blood Shadow Wedding Dress to carry it to the liveliest place.
• Ji Yan ordered Burning Death Eerie to return to the Thunderstruck Wood and waited as the Dungeon Order scanned the corridor and marked him for erasure.
• The Dungeon Order detected the Clown Eerie's mass violations and withdrew to respond to it instead of erasing Ji Yan.
• The Clown Eerie rampaged through checkpoints and hidden areas, causing heads to explode and clown-headed corpses to follow it.
• Ji Yan emerged from the [Forbidden Zone] onto the third floor and watched the blood-soaked corridor as the dungeon fell into chaos.

Ji Yan used the Clown Eerie’s rampage to collapse the [Severe Illness Building] and claimed the prize-pool rewards before the Dungeon Order could erase him. He escaped into a new portrayal in the [Disaster Building], while other powerful figures began investigating the chaos.

• The Blue-Eyed Eerie recognized the rampaging Clown Eerie as the out-of-control seed he had cultivated and vanished to pursue the player who had interfered.
• A black-gowned figure detected the scents of Number 6 and Subject 5 on the Clown Eerie and began a hunt for whoever had eliminated Subject 5.
• The Clown Eerie’s power exceeded Tier 10, slaughtering Eeries and players across the [Severe Illness Building] before its clown identity and delusions dissipated on the final stair to Floor 8.
• The Dungeon Order erased the Clown Eerie and Ji Yan’s Infected Eerie, then repaired the building while searching Number 33’s [Forbidden Zone].
• Ji Yan exchanged the collapse reward pool for a [Lv.5] NPC Role-Playing Card and a [Fierce] card, chose the Lv.5 card, and entered the 80%-unlocked [Disaster Building].
• Ji Yan’s newly assigned Lv.5 Eerie opened its necrotic eyes on a blood-covered operating table in a flickering laboratory.

Ji Yan was assigned to play the Returning Soul Clown in the late-night A-Class Dungeon Madman's Paradise and became interested in finding Experiment Subject No. 4. Meanwhile, a four-player group used a mysterious Eerie Item to kill Patient Eeries and planned to hunt stronger targets.

• Ji Yan discovered that he had been selected as the Returning Soul Clown, a Special Clown Eerie whose mission was to torture and slaughter players.
• Ji Yan learned that Madman's Paradise contained Experiment Subject No. 4, one of the Tier 9 Grudge Eerie Items connected to 444 Asylum.
• Spirit of the Pen sensed another Grudge Eerie Item nearby but described it as a murderous lunatic before going silent.
• After all players entered the Dungeon, Ji Yan searched for restricted areas and decided to act like Pennywise.
• Four players used a mysterious Eerie Item to kill Patient Eeries, and their scarred leader resolved to keep hunting and possibly target Experiment Subject No. 4.

Scarred Player used Satan’s Cross to track an Experiment Subject, leading his exhausted team into a sealed room where a pencil and a Clown Eerie waited. After the Clown Eerie survived a gunshot and unleashed a mental delusion, the Demon Eerie offered to kill it and claim the pencil.

• Scarred Player pressured his three teammates to keep killing Patient Eeries and used Satan’s Cross to pursue an Experiment Subject detected by the Demon Eerie.
• Scarred Player and the other players entered a sealed room, while a Clown Eerie followed them inside and revealed that four little fish had taken the bait.
• Scarred Player mistook an ordinary pencil for the Experiment Subject and confronted a Tier 5 Clown Eerie guarding it.
• Scarred Player shot the Clown Eerie, but it survived and twisted the room with its Mental Delusion.
• The Demon Eerie told Scarred Player that the pencil was helping the Clown Eerie and offered to place both the clown’s head and the pencil before him.

Ji Yan and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress battled the Demon Eerie, whose strength rose as it drained the mental states of the Scarred Player’s allies. After discovering the Demon Cross could unleash an Extremely Fierce Eerie, Ji Yan attacked the Demon Eerie while the Scarred Player faced a mysterious offer to fully unseal it.

• Ji Yan’s Clown Eerie struck the Demon Eerie with the Ring of Dark Flash, but the Demon Eerie drained its contracted players and climbed from Tier 7 to Tier 9.
• The Demon Eerie challenged Ji Yan again, and Ji Yan called for a group beatdown as Blood Shadow Wedding Dress appeared and attacked it.
• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding to identify the Demon Cross as a cursed Collector’s Grade Eerie Item that could restore the Demon Eerie to Tier 10 if fully unsealed.
• Ji Yan drew the Demon Hunting Eerie Gun and shot the Demon Eerie while Blood Shadow Wedding Dress fought it, leaving it badly battered.
• The Scarred Player realized he was trapped and would be drained, then heard a mysterious voice offer enough mental state to remove the Demon Cross’s seal if he agreed.

Ji Yan and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress stopped the Demon Eerie from breaking free after a White-Clad Eerie Shadow intervened. Ji Yan refused to make a contract with the Demon Eerie and tried to destroy the [Demon Cross], but the Spirit of the Pen appeared and took it.

• The Scarred Player agreed to the unseen voice’s offer, and the Demon Eerie used him to break nearly all the shackles on the [Demon Cross].
• A White Ghost Shadow tore the [Demon Cross] from the Scarred Player and killed him, causing the weakened Demon Eerie to retreat into the cross after Blood Shadow Wedding Dress blasted its head apart.
• [White Chess] failed to eliminate the [Black Chess] and decided to target the [Black Chess Player] by seeking the asylum’s [Eerie Dean].
• Ji Yan identified [White Chess] as the likely intruder and recognized the Spirit of the Pen as the ninth-tier Grudge Eerie who had helped them.
• The Demon Eerie offered Ji Yan its power, but Ji Yan explained the contract’s hidden cost and began tearing apart the cross to destroy it.
• The Spirit of the Pen appeared, took the [Demon Cross] from Ji Yan, and faced him.

Ji Yan learned that the Spirit of the Pen was one of seven Experiment Subjects in the Eerie Dean’s attempt to free 444 Asylum from the Eerie Dao’s control, and received information about Experiment Subject No. 4, the God-Slaying Armor. He left the restricted area planning to reach the sealed laboratory in Room 404, while three players were whipping a pain-fearing Tier 6 Eerie on the fourth floor of the Disaster Building.

• The Spirit of the Pen pulled the Demon Eerie from the Demon Cross, swallowed it, and then wrote that the cross was a failed experiment and urged Ji Yan to find No. 3 or other Experiment Subjects.
• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding on the cross and learned that the Eerie Dean had created seven Experiment Subjects in a secret effort to free 444 Asylum from the Eerie Dao’s control.
• The Spirit of the Pen gave Ji Yan information about Experiment Subject No. 4, the God-Slaying Armor, and Ji Yan considered using its uncontrollable nature to trigger another dungeon collapse.
• The Spirit of the Pen said she could borrow more of the Pen’s power, while the Blood Shadow Wedding Dress warned Ji Yan that other Experiment Subjects might eat him.
• Ji Yan left the restricted area and decided to find a player to open the sealed laboratory in Room 404.
• On the Disaster Building’s fourth floor, three players whipped a cowardly Tier 6 Eerie that begged them to stop because it was afraid of pain.

Ji Yan killed three players who were tormenting the Timid Ghoul, then discovered it was a rare Know-it-all and took it along toward Room 404. Elsewhere, the God-Slaying Armor drove its host to keep killing in the name of Lord Bai Qi.

• Three players whipped the Timid Ghoul to improve their weapon, but Ji Yan appeared as the Clown Eerie and decapitated them with his juggling trick.
• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding to learn the Timid Ghoul could curse attackers and was the instance’s Know-it-all, trading information for favor.
• The Timid Ghoul explained that it had endured the players’ attacks to complete its assigned task, and Ji Yan returned two heads while keeping one.
• Ji Yan offered the Timid Ghoul food, learned that Room 404 held the director’s collections, and carried it into the corridor shadows.
• At another stage, the God-Slaying Armor compelled its host to keep killing and declared that Lord Bai Qi was its only master.

Ji Yan led the Timid Ghost into the laboratory, found Bai Qi’s Black Coffin, and opened it to provoke the god of slaughter. As the awakened corpse attacked, the Spirit of the Pen intervened briefly, and Ji Yan hurled the terrified Timid Ghost at the threat as his secret weapon.

• Ji Yan entered a laboratory filled with eerie beings and Grudge Eerie Items, then persuaded the Timid Ghost that they were there on the Eerie Dean’s orders.
• The Timid Ghost led Ji Yan to Bai Qi’s Black Coffin and found the iron shovel used to pry it open.
• Ji Yan opened the coffin, triggering a warning and awakening Bai Qi, whose killing intent overwhelmed Ji Yan’s Mental Delusion.
• The Spirit of the Pen struck Bai Qi with the character “Shake” and warned Ji Yan she would only write three characters before leaving.
• Ji Yan grabbed the Timid Ghost and flung it toward the Black Qi Corpse as his supposed secret weapon.

Ji Yan used Timid Ghoul’s Curse Backlash to destabilize the Black Qi Corpse, then let it rampage through Disaster Building and destroy the Dean’s experiments. Dungeon Order erased the corpse before God-Slaying Armor could reach it, while Ji Yan realized the Butterfly Effect had begun.

• Timid Ghoul’s Curse Backlash blasted the Black Qi Corpse away, and Ji Yan planted a collapsing seed in its core instead of killing it.
• The White Chess player learned an uncontrolled NPC had appeared and sent Spirit of the Pen No. 3 after Ji Yan, who was playing Clown Eerie.
• Ji Yan woke Timid Ghoul and claimed their operation had succeeded as the Black Qi Corpse destroyed the laboratory and rampaged through Disaster Building.
• Dungeon Order classified the Black Qi Corpse’s rampage as a five-star loss of control and judged it for erasure.
• God-Slaying Armor followed its former master, but Dungeon Order erased the Black Qi Corpse before it could reach him.
• Ji Yan smiled on the fourth floor and declared that the Butterfly Effect had arrived.

Ji Yan and Timid Ghoul fled the chaos caused by Number 4’s rampage, but White Silk ambushed them in the passage. Ji Yan recognized the attacker as Luo Xixi only after she had decapitated him, and she destroyed his head.

• Ji Yan carried Timid Ghoul away after their prank caused Number 4 and other NPCs to go berserk and spread chaos through multiple stages.
• Timid Ghoul confessed that he had been hiding in a restricted restroom to slack off, and Ji Yan promised to help him escape.
• The Cursed Grudge Brush and Timid Ghoul warned Ji Yan that Subject Number 3 was approaching, and White Silk appeared in the passage.
• Ji Yan and Spirit of the Pen tried to identify White Silk, but she fulfilled the condition for her attack and strangled Ji Yan with invisible white silk.
• White Silk decapitated Ji Yan, and he recognized her as Luo Xixi before she turned his head into blood mist.

Ji Yan survived Luo Xixi’s attack by transferring into Physician Gao and used his [Black Chess] privilege to reclaim the [Cursed Grudge Brush]. Spirit of the Pen urged him to name Subject Number 3 so she could trigger her murder privilege, leaving Ji Yan hesitant to answer.

• Luo Xixi killed Clown Eerie, took the [Cursed Grudge Brush], and left Timid Ghoul alive.
• The [Cursed Grudge Brush] was forcibly taken from Luo Xixi by an order from [Roaming God Forbidden Ruin], leaving her baffled.
• Ji Yan awoke as Physician Gao after consuming his final NPC Role-Playing Card, having escaped death by transferring into another NPC.
• Ji Yan used his [Black Chess] privilege to summon the [Cursed Grudge Brush] and reunite with Spirit of the Pen.
• Spirit of the Pen asked Ji Yan for Subject Number 3’s name so she could write the suffix that triggered Words Manifest Law’s murder privilege, but Ji Yan hesitated.

Ji Yan, posing as Physician Gao, was ordered to prepare three dungeons and met the Octopus Vice Dean, who demanded that he secretly stock them with monsters to kill the incoming Human Players. Ji Yan recognized the order as a trap, refused, and faced the Vice Dean’s sudden attack.

• A Masked Ghoul told Ji Yan that three dungeons would open soon and that he had to prepare for Human Players entering the 7th Floor.
• Ji Yan learned that the Vice Dean wanted to meet him in the Medicine Preparation Room and chose to focus on the Main Quest rather than reveal Luo Xixi’s name to the Spirit of the Pen.
• The Octopus Vice Dean ordered Ji Yan to place three vicious creatures in his dungeons and eliminate every Human Player, claiming one of them had caused the chaos below.
• Ji Yan’s hidden prompt warned that the Dungeon Order would identify him as the culprit if he released the creatures, so he refused and said the Eerie Dean had to approve.
• The Vice Dean accused Ji Yan of not being the real Physician Gao and sent its tentacles stabbing toward him.

Ji Yan discovered that the Ghoul Vice Dean was Qian Duoduo, a [Black Chess Player] whose plans had been disrupted by Ji Yan’s past actions. Qian Duoduo recruited him to ruin the seventh floor through three Assessment Dungeons, hoping to draw the Eerie Dean’s attention and create an opening against the [White Chess Player].

• Ji Yan stopped the Ghoul Vice Dean’s attack by opening the door to the [Restricted Area], where the [Eerie Dao] could punish them both for breaking the rules.
• The Ghoul Vice Dean revealed that he was Qian Duoduo, a [Black Chess Player] with the codename Q, and Ji Yan used [Omniscient Understanding] to learn his name.
• Qian Duoduo blamed Ji Yan for ruining his Clown Eerie in [Eternal Night Sin City] and said the conflict with the [White Chess Player] had shifted against him.
• Qian Duoduo explained that his confrontation with the [White Chess Player] was nearing its final steps and that he needed Ji Yan’s help.
• Qian Duoduo told Ji Yan to use the three Assessment Dungeons to ruin the seventh floor, drawing the Eerie Dean’s attention so Qian Duoduo could make his move.

Ji Yan agreed to help Qian Duoduo disrupt the White Chess Player’s progress by corrupting three arenas in the [444 Asylum]. As players entered the seventh floor, Ji Yan began setting up the dungeons, while Luo Xixi arrived among the group.

• Qian Duoduo explained the Final Battlefield and offered Ji Yan a [Fiendish]-grade Role Card and three [Uncontrolled Eerie Seedlings] to corrupt the [444 Asylum].
• Ji Yan learned that Qian Duoduo needed the corruption to interrupt the [White Chess Player]'s progress and gain an advantage in their struggle to control the dungeon.
• After Qian Duoduo left, Ji Yan stored the Role Card and seedlings, then prepared to act as a dungeon designer before players reached the seventh floor.
• Ji Yan dropped the first [Eerie Seedling Follicle] into the darkest pool in [Tight Scream] and the second into the abyss of [Grotesque Corridor].
• Ji Yan turned to the five-star S-Class [Dream Core Playground] and chose to oversee its setup himself as players began arriving on the seventh floor.
• Luo Xixi entered the seventh-floor group of players, following behind them in the form of a resentful female eerie.

Luo Xixi entered the S-Class Dream Core Playground to find Subject 5, while the other players explored the grotesque playground in search of an exit. The group encountered a child’s shirt that exploited the Purple-haired Female Player’s traumatic memories, and strange creatures began crawling out after the Vest Player struck it.

• Luo Xixi entered the Dream Core Playground and learned that she had four hours before the White Ribbon Ghost would devour her if she failed to capture Subject 5.
• Luo Xixi sensed that Subject 5, the Clown Eerie, was somewhere in the dungeon, and joined four other players heading toward an exit identified by the Purple-haired Female Player’s Grudge Eerie Item.
• The players passed grotesque toys and decorations as the Purple-haired Female Player warned that the dungeon could peer into their memories.
• A wet pink-striped child’s shirt appeared and accused the Purple-haired Female Player of causing her younger sister’s death by sending her across a river.
• The Vest Player slashed the shirt with his Nepalese Curved Knife, and strange creatures began crawling out of it amid a spray of blood.

Luo Xixi helped the Purple-haired Female Player understand that the Dream Core Ghoul could only be defeated by confronting the memories behind it. The player recovered the truth about her sister’s death and identified a Pinocchio Doll as the real culprit, which fled as Luo Xixi gave chase.

• The players struggled against the Child-clothed Eerie until the Game Panel revealed that a Dream Core Ghoul could be killed only with a weapon from their memories.
• Vest Player blamed the Purple-haired Female Player and attacked her, but Luo Xixi intervened and forced him away.
• Luo Xixi urged the Purple-haired Female Player to search her memories and explained that the Dream Core Playground had distorted them.
• The Purple-haired Female Player remembered that a child next door had tricked her younger sister into crossing the river, where she drowned.
• The Purple-haired Female Player recognized a Pinocchio Doll as the culprit, and Luo Xixi rushed after it when it fled.

Luo Xixi explained how to handle Dream Core Ghouls and led the players onward through Dream Core Playground. As Ji Yan watched from behind the scenes, the Buzz Cut Player’s attempt to recall a terrifying memory caused a second head to grow out of his skull.

• Luo Xixi captured Pinocchio and brought him to the Eerie Child’s Clothes, which consumed him and released the grudge haunting it.
• Luo Xixi warned the players that Dream Core Ghouls could distort memories and told them to prepare for their most frightening Shadow Memories.
• Ji Yan watched Luo Xixi from outside the level and revealed that Qian Duoduo’s Eerie Seedling Follicle was already inside Dream Core Playground, while the Spirit of the Pen urged him to let Luo Xixi obtain Subject Number 3 before she died.
• Luo Xixi led the players onward, and the Buzz Cut Player tried to recall and share a painful memory from school.
• The Buzz Cut Player’s memory forced itself into his mind, and a second head tore out of his skull.