Chapter Summaries

Ji Yan fought the Gray-haired Player, Tianma, and uncovered the rare items and eerie powers he carried. After Ji Yan exposed Tianma’s identity, the Spirit of the Pen tried to write his name but was interrupted by the Eerie Old Woman wearing the Eerie Shroud.

• The Gray-haired Player attacked Ji Yan through a window and revealed that he could sense the many eerie items associated with him.
• The Gray-haired Player released a captured Tier 5 eerie, extracted its spine, and transplanted it into himself, while Ji Yan recognized his black Metal Box as a Rare Grade eerie item.
• The Spirit of the Pen told Ji Yan that No. 1 and No. 2 had targeted it because it had devoured the Cross and No. 3’s White Silk.
• Ji Yan struck the Gray-haired Player with Drawing Slash, severing his neck and splitting his Whiteboard Mask to reveal his face and name, Tianma.
• The Spirit of the Pen tried to write Tianma’s name, but the Eerie Shroud and its Master appeared and warned that the name could not be written at will.

Ji Yan and his Eeries fought Tianma and the many Eeries hidden in his Black Box, but struggled against his overwhelming arsenal. Unable to flee or win a prolonged fight, Ji Yan proposed a risky one-on-one plan with the Spirit of the Pen’s help.

• The Spirit of the Pen broke free of the Eerie Shroud, destroying the paper and the name she had just written, while the Eerie Shroud attacked Ji Yan.
• Ji Yan shot the Eerie Shroud and the Shroud Eerie Granny, but Tianma used a Shadow Eerie to trap his feet and closed in with a hand that swallowed his Drawing Slash and an electric attack.
• The Burning Death Eerie broke the floor beneath Tianma, and the Spirit of the Pen tore apart the exposed Shadow Eerie after the corridor was illuminated.
• The Spirit of the Pen explained that she could not write a lethal suffix for Tianma because of her remaining shackle, their low contract compatibility, and his long fate line.
• Ji Yan proposed temporarily breaking the final shackle so the Spirit of the Pen could write a deadly suffix, then revealed his plan for a one-on-one clash.

Tianma confronted Ji Yan and his allies while plotting to use the [Bronze Mirror] and its Ancient House Eerie Old Man to kill him. Spirit of the Pen used Tianma’s blood to write his name with the [Cursed Grudge Brush], leaving Tianma stunned that her final shackle seemed to be gone.

• Tianma watched Qian Duoduo hide in the wreckage and complained that the Dungeon was slowing his pace.
• Tianma ordered Ancient House Eerie Old Man to spare the players dragged into the [Bronze Mirror], warning that killing them would damage his rating.
• Tianma prepared to attack Ji Yan and threatened to give Subject 5 to Ancient House Eerie Old Man if the plan failed.
• Ji Yan sent Burning Death Eerie charging as a feint, then used the [Thunderstruck Wood] to recall it just before Tianma’s bone spike struck.
• Spirit of the Pen attacked from behind, drew a drop of Tianma’s blood, and used [Blood as Ink] to write his name with the [Cursed Grudge Brush].
• Tianma realized Spirit of the Pen’s final shackle appeared to be undone, though she carried no scent of the [Eerie Dean].

Ji Yan and the Spirit of the Pen fought Tianma and the [Eerie Shroud], using their abilities and a carefully timed trap to counter the powerful Eeries. Tianma was decapitated, while Ji Yan survived having his soul snatched and turned the [Ring of Dark Flash] against the [Eerie Shroud]; the chapter ended with him wondering how the Spirit of the Pen was faring.

• The Spirit of the Pen used [Words Manifest Law] to inflict System Crash on Tianma, severing his thoughts long enough for her to cut off his head.
• The [Eerie Shroud] used [Soul Snatching and Soul Returning] to pull Ji Yan's soul from his body, and the Burning Death Eerie failed to stop it.
• Ji Yan unleashed the stored power of Dark Order from the [Ring of Dark Flash], interrupting the soul-snatching ability and blasting the [Eerie Shroud] and the Grudge Eerie away.
• Ji Yan explained that he had marked the Eerie Power before his soul was taken and used the Burning Death Eerie as a distraction to land the strike.
• Ji Yan looked toward the Spirit of the Pen's fight and wondered how it was going.

Ji Yan and Burning Death Eerie discovered that Tianma’s apparent death was a trap inside the [Bronze Mirror]’s Mirror World, where Ancient House Eerie Old Man had revived him. Tianma explained how he had secretly drawn Spirit of the Pen into the mirror and suggested Ji Yan’s plan had been clever enough to expose him.

• Burning Death Eerie carried Ji Yan to the lower floor, where they found Tianma’s decapitated body and a black box but no sign of Spirit of the Pen.
• Ji Yan recognized the [Bronze Mirror]’s trap and retreated as the Mirror World consumed part of the corridor; Tianma then sat up inside the attic.
• Spirit of the Pen had been pulled into the Mirror World ten minutes earlier, where Ancient House Eerie Old Man used his pipe to restore Tianma’s vitality and fought off her attack.
• Ancient House Eerie Old Man told Spirit of the Pen that the black box needed a master and that she could not kill Tianma unless he wanted her to.
• Tianma revealed that he had activated the [Bronze Mirror]’s [Bronze Eyeglasses Born] privilege, sacrificing an eyeball to set a region that unconditionally pulled intruders into the Mirror World.
• Tianma said he had suspected a trap when Spirit of the Pen ignored the [Eerie Shroud] and charged at him, and he praised the cleverness of Ji Yan’s written plan.

Ji Yan triggered the Frozen to Death Ghoul’s hidden Tier 10 power, Absolute Zero, and froze the Blackwind Ancient House while Tianma escaped the blast. As Ji Yan pursued him, the Dungeon Order warned that his collapse of the NPC had violated its rules.

• Tianma recalled gambling his life on the Ancient House Eerie Old Man and left the white-haired girl to be eaten.
• Tianma replaced his eyes with ghoul eyes from the Black Box, while Ji Yan realized Second Sis remained alive inside the Bronze Mirror.
• Ji Yan entered the Mirror World Projection and attacked Tianma, then used Collapsing Fingertips to crush the Frozen to Death Ghoul’s heart inside himself.
• Ji Yan triggered the blackened Easter egg and gained a one-time advance draw of the Tier 10 trick Absolute Zero, prompting a warning from the Dungeon Order.
• Ji Yan released Absolute Zero and froze the ancient house, but Tianma escaped through a Space Eerie, so Ji Yan headed deeper into the house.

Ji Yan escaped the ancient house inside the Bronze Mirror with the Cursed Grudge Brush and returned to the outside world, where Tianma prepared to use a trump card. Qian Duoduo secretly sent Tianma into the hidden Side Quest [Mad Bloody Funeral], then turned on Ji Yan.

• Ji Yan froze the Ancient House Eerie Old Man with [Absolute Zero], recovered the Cursed Grudge Brush and the Spirit of the Pen, and escaped the ancient house by taking and crushing its hidden eyeball.
• Ji Yan emerged from the Bronze Mirror as the Game Panel warned that his Frozen to Death Ghoul role was collapsing and the Dungeon Order was intensifying its review.
• Tianma opened the Black Box's lowest compartment while Qian Duoduo tried to slip away, then caught and seemingly devoured Qian Duoduo's substitute.
• Qian Duoduo reappeared in a cloud of blood mist and used the Black Chess Player's authority and an eerie item to trigger Tianma's forced teleportation into the hidden Side Quest [Mad Bloody Funeral].
• After Tianma vanished into a blood-colored hospital ward, Qian Duoduo came to Ji Yan, pinned him down, and pierced his chest with his fingertips.

Ji Yan and Qian Duoduo headed toward a Restricted Zone to deal with Ji Yan’s violation, while L and White Chess tried to anticipate their next move. The chapter left L preparing to act as Ji Yan approached a mysterious place.

• Qian Duoduo removed Ji Yan’s Deterioration Wound with his [Black Chess Player] privilege and warned him that further illegal moves could bring Order’s punishment.
• Ji Yan told Qian Duoduo that he had relied on him as insurance, and Qian Duoduo explained that he had ambushed Tianma by sending him into a time-wasting Side Quest.
• Qian Duoduo took Ji Yan to a nearby [Restricted Zone], where the warning for his violation disappeared after several minutes.
• Ji Yan checked on the weakened Spirit of the Pen and promised to find a way to remove her final restriction.
• L learned that Qian Duoduo had intervened and realized Ji Yan was nearing a mysterious place; he prepared to move and gave White Chess another task.

L and Bai Qi advanced their plans to recruit Tianma and sent him toward the dungeon’s Forbidden Zone. Meanwhile, Ji Yan and Qian Duoduo entered the forbidden Special Ward No. 000 to investigate a hidden main-quest secret.

• L decided to recruit Tianma as a White Chess piece, while Bai Qi went to retrieve him from the Delusional Blood Funeral side quest.
• Tianma cleared Delusional Blood Funeral in under thirty minutes and earned the Eerie Dean’s attention.
• Bai Qi invited Tianma to the dungeon’s Forbidden Zone, and Tianma followed in hopes of earning the Perfect Strategy Guide.
• Ji Yan and Qian Duoduo arrived at Special Ward No. 000, which Qian Duoduo identified as a hidden main-quest Easter egg.
• Qian Duoduo dismissed the entry restriction, tore away the seals, and forced his way into the ward with Ji Yan.

Qian Duoduo revealed that the Eerie Dean’s Daughter was a hidden-route NPC and his trump card for forcing L to lose the Eerie Dean role. He explained how her release could trigger a collapse, then began to explain why he had not used her earlier.

• Qian Duoduo and Ji Yan entered the sealed room and learned that the Eerie Dean’s Daughter was a severely depressed patient.
• Qian Duoduo explained that players could clear the Dungeon by making her smile, but speaking with her was deadly and her depression affected humans and ghosts.
• Qian Duoduo revealed that the Eerie Dean had secretly sent failed Experiment Subjects to keep his daughter company, violating Dungeon Order’s rules.
• Qian Duoduo proposed taking the daughter to the Special Disease Department to trigger a collapse and force the Eerie Dean’s dismissal, threatening L’s role card.
• Ji Yan asked why Qian Duoduo had not used this plan from the beginning, and Qian Duoduo said their next crucial step explained the delay.

Ji Yan and Qian Duoduo devised a plan to use a fake Cherry Hairpin to lure L away while Qian Duoduo pursued his deterioration plan. Ji Yan entered the hidden space as L arrived and learned that the Eerie Dean’s daughter was there.

• Qian Duoduo used a Mimic Eerie to create a fake Grudge Eerie Item, the Cherry Hairpin, and gave it to Ji Yan as bait for L.
• Qian Duoduo told Ji Yan to enter the hidden space, avoid interacting with the Eerie Dean’s Daughter, and escape through a passage after five minutes while Qian Duoduo intercepted L.
• A red petal landed on Ji Yan’s fingertip; he crushed it, then entered the hidden compartment with the fake Cherry Hairpin.
• Qian Duoduo opened another hidden compartment and began triggering deterioration in an eerie, preparing to hold off L.
• L entered the emergency area, learned the background information about Room 000 and the Eerie Dean’s daughter, and cursed when he realized what was there.

L pursued Qian Duoduo through [000 Special Ward], but Qian Duoduo stalled him with a mandatory rock-paper-scissors game and an Experiment Subject. L eventually realized Ji Yan had used the distraction to escape with the [Eerie Dean]'s Daughter and both versions of the [Grudge Hairpin], leaving Qian Duoduo stunned and furious.

• L recognized Qian Duoduo's plan and rushed deeper into [000 Special Ward], but Qian Duoduo survived L's attack with [Death Substitution Eerie Skin].
• Qian Duoduo used the [Life-Death-Dealing Rock-Paper-Scissors Glove] to force L into a series of games, repeatedly humiliating him with slaps despite L's overwhelming strength.
• When Qian Duoduo stopped playing, L attacked, but an Experiment Subject intercepted him before Qian Duoduo phased through a wall with [Turtle Retreat].
• L realized Ji Yan had used Qian Duoduo to buy time and pursued the bloodline scent of the [Eerie Dean]'s Daughter.
• Qian Duoduo entered the hidden compartment and found it empty, discovering that Ji Yan had taken both the fake and real [Grudge Hairpin] without following his plan.

L realized Ji Yan could use the Eerie Dean’s daughter to trigger a Dungeon-wide collapse, so he ordered a hunt for Ji Yan while trying to preserve his identity as the Eerie Dean. Ji Yan fought through the ambushes toward the Experiment Subject Research Lab with the Cherry Hairpin, while L deliberately let him continue toward it.

• L deduced that Ji Yan planned to unleash the Eerie Dean’s daughter’s Depression Overflow on the Experiment Subjects and ordered NPCs and players to hunt the Frozen to Death Ghoul.
• Ji Yan headed for the Experiment Subject Research Lab, escaped an endless stairwell by driving Burial Coffin Nails into the Staircase Ghoul, and killed a Tongue-Curse Eerie with the Demon Hunter Rifle.
• Ji Yan used the Cherry Hairpin to summon the Eerie Dean’s daughter and activated Collapsing Fingertips, leaving a passage filled with eerie corpses.
• A Sound Transmission Eerie reported that Ji Yan had wounded the Eerie Dean’s daughter and triggered her loss of control early.
• L dismissed the Sound Transmission Eerie’s offer to intercept Ji Yan and hurried toward the Experiment Subject Research Lab, intending to let Ji Yan bring his daughter there.

L arrived at the collapsing 444 Asylum and confronted Ji Yan near the Experiment Subject Research Lab, while Qian Duoduo and White Chess reacted to the crisis. After L seized the Cherry Hairpin, he discovered it held a Mimic Eerie instead of his daughter, and Ji Yan hinted that the real girl was somewhere else.

• L reached the 3rd Floor, saw the slaughter caused by the Eerie Dean's Daughter, and received a warning that 444 Asylum was collapsing.
• Qian Duoduo panicked over Ji Yan's plan to target the Experiment Subject Research Lab, while White Chess continued guiding Tianma through Side Quests.
• L intercepted Ji Yan outside the Experiment Subject Research Lab, but Spirit of the Pen used Words Manifest Law to help Ji Yan escape his grip.
• Ji Yan dropped the Cherry Hairpin, and L took it, revealing a Mimic Eerie disguised as his daughter.
• L recognized the Mimic Eerie's signs of collapse and crushed it, then demanded to know where his real daughter was.
• Ji Yan smiled and asked L to guess where she was, leaving L alarmed.

L rushed to the Experiment Subject Research Lab, intending to kill Xiao Xiao and contain the corruption before Dungeon Order penalized him. He tore out her heart while presenting her actions as the reason, but found no corruption cracks in it.

• L left Ji Yan behind and hurried to the Experiment Subject Research Lab after receiving the corruption warning.
• Ji Yan relaxed once L departed, then followed with Spirit of the Pen to watch the Eerie Dean’s response.
• L entered the lab and found Xiao Xiao using her depression to influence the experiment subjects and spread corruption.
• Xiao Xiao told L she believed he had arranged the outing as a birthday surprise, and she was happy to have found playmates.
• L asked Xiao Xiao to pay a price to save his life's work, then tore out her heart and called her a demon-possessed evil seed.
• L examined Xiao Xiao’s heart and discovered that it had no corruption cracks.

Ji Yan’s plan caused L to be framed for severe Violating Behavior and erased as Eerie Dean, while Ji Yan watched from outside the research lab. He explained that Luo Xixi and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress had taken and won over the Eerie Dean’s Daughter, which made L’s downfall possible.

• L realized the Eerie Dean’s Daughter had not collapsed, but the heart stuck to his hand and accused him of hurting Xiao Xiao.
• Dungeon Order charged L with multiple violations, stripped him of his Eerie Dean position, and began erasing him.
• The Eerie Dean’s Daughter’s depression overwhelmed L, preventing him from switching roles with his White Chess Player privilege.
• Ji Yan warned that L’s erasure would also kill the White Chess Player and answered the Spirit of the Pen’s questions about his plan.
• Ji Yan revealed that Luo Xixi and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress had taken the Eerie Dean’s Daughter from 000 Special Ward and slowly won her over while he drew L to the research lab.

Ji Yan’s contingency scheme turned L’s attempt to save himself into the trigger for Xiao Xiao’s catastrophic loss of control. As the asylum’s quests collapsed, Ji Yan discovered that L had survived by switching NPCs and making an extreme escape.

• An hour earlier, Timid Ghoul persuaded Xiao Xiao to leave with Blood Shadow Wedding Dress while Luo Xixi advanced their plan to lure her into the Experiment Subject Research Lab.
• Ji Yan explained that the fake collapse would make L believe Xiao Xiao had lost control and push him to kill her, triggering Dungeon Order’s judgment and punishment.
• L’s actions caused Xiao Xiao’s damage to reach its limit, intensifying Depression Materialization and sending Experiment Subjects fleeing in a state of revenge.
• Ji Yan said Xiao Xiao’s unleashed ability was collapsing NPCs and quests, then fled the research lab with Spirit of the Pen.
• Ji Yan checked the Game Panel and realized that L was still alive because he had switched NPCs and escaped.

White Chess Player discovered that [444 Asylum] had reached 60% collapse as uncontrolled NPCs overwhelmed the Dungeon, while L barely escaped erasure and continued fleeing from Qian Duoduo. The story left Qian Duoduo pursuing L through the Novice Zone and wondering why he still refused to leave.

• [God-Slaying Armor] attacked White Chess Player and Tianma, but Tianma stopped it and consumed it with Devour Ruin Ghoul’s eerie hand.
• White Chess Player received a warning that [444 Asylum] had reached 60% collapse, then saw that [Eerie Dean] had been erased for severe Violating Behavior.
• Tianma offered to lead White Chess Player through a hidden passage, and White Chess Player agreed after asking him what had happened.
• L used [Awakening from a Dream] to regain clarity, switched NPC Role-Playing Cards, and escaped being erased, but learned the Dungeon was collapsing.
• L encountered Qian Duoduo and a tide of Rats in the Novice Zone, escaped by switching cards, and left Qian Duoduo convinced he had only one low-level card remaining.

As [444 Asylum] neared collapse, Ji Yan confirmed the Dungeon was already doomed and watched Xiao Xiao revive as its new ruler. L stayed behind to approach Tianma, hoping to recruit him before losing his standing with Sun Burial Tuo Luo.

• Ji Yan learned the collapse had reached the threshold for Dungeon Order to abandon [444 Asylum], and the Spirit of the Pen told him her final shackle had disappeared with the dean.
• Ji Yan watched Xiao Xiao reform her body from the black heart and realized she would rule [444 Asylum] beyond Dungeon Order’s control.
• Ji Yan headed toward an unaffected area to regroup after a red flower petal drifted past him.
• Tianma received the collapse announcement and prepared to leave a dark room while clutching the Black Box.
• L, disguised as a frail Tier 1 Corpse Death Eerie, entered Tianma’s room, recited his Dungeon clear records, and offered to share information in hopes of recruiting him.

L tried to recruit Tianma as his White Chess and offered him a direct path to the Tier 8 dungeon [Roaming God Forbidden Ruin]. After Tianma agreed, he showed L the severed head of the Vice Eerie Dean, revealing that White Chess had been killed while still in his NPC role.

• L explained that [444 Asylum] was collapsing and offered Tianma a choice between a [Discarded Dungeon] and becoming his White Chess to enter [Roaming God Forbidden Ruin].
• Tianma questioned L about the dungeon and revealed that he had previously encountered a [Discarded Dungeon] and gathered eerie beings there.
• L disclosed information about [Daily Hidden Tuo Luo], [Night Burial Maitreya], and White Chess’s advantage in the Main Quest.
• Tianma agreed to make the contract, but told L that White Chess had found a surprise and led him to it.
• L saw the Vice Eerie Dean’s severed head and realized that White Chess had been decapitated without leaving his NPC role or using [Return Flow].