Chapter Summaries

Tianma trapped L into violating the rules of Roaming God Forbidden Ruin, stripping him of his White Chess privileges. Tianma revealed that he had once cleared the Tier 8 Dungeon as White Chess Player [T], then explained that Ji Yan’s scent was familiar because he had marked him in another Dungeon.

• L tried to attack Tianma and escape, but found that his Tool Bar, Return Flow, and access to the White Chess Player Game Panel had been disabled.
• A warning identified Liu Mubai as having severely violated Dungeon rules, and Tianma explained that L had revealed Tier 8 Dungeon information while traveling through a lower-tier Dungeon.
• Tianma revealed that he had manipulated L into exposing the information, and that L’s White Chess privileges had been stripped because the Restricted Zone had already been lifted.
• Tianma said he had cleared Roaming God Forbidden Ruin as White Chess Player [T] before L and challenged L’s assumption that he had never been there.
• L demanded to know why Tianma targeted the White Chess pieces instead of Ji Yan, and Tianma said Ji Yan’s scent was familiar because he had marked him in another Dungeon.

Tianma killed Liu Mubai and sent his codename, [L], to Ji Yan, who was struggling to survive as the Frozen to Death Ghoul. Ji Yan and Qian Duoduo recovered the codename from Liu Mubai’s corpse, while Ji Yan wondered why Tianma had helped them.

• Tianma learned that L was Liu Mubai, killed him with a bone spur, and sent his corpse toward Ji Yan as a push to reach the Dungeon.
• Ji Yan reunited with Luo Xixi, whose Healing Eerie Item put her to sleep while it cleansed her Depression Overflow.
• As the Frozen to Death Ghoul crumbled and its health dwindled, Ji Yan told Blood Shadow Wedding Dress he needed L’s codename before leaving the Dungeon.
• Qian Duoduo returned after failing to find L, and Ji Yan said he might locate him using [Omniscient Understanding].
• Long Neck Eerie delivered Liu Mubai’s headless corpse, and Qian Duoduo pulled the fresh heart from it, identifying it as the codename [L].
• Ji Yan realized Tianma had delivered the codename and wondered why, but remained unable to understand Tianma’s motives.

Ji Yan persuaded the Timid Ghoul to leave the collapsing asylum with him, uncovering its ability to adapt to different dungeons and gather information. The Timid Ghoul joined Ji Yan’s eerie-item family while remaining loyal to its missing “brother.”

• Qian Duoduo predicted Ji Yan would soon become a [Black Chess Player] after performing exceptionally in the dungeon.
• Ji Yan told the Timid Ghoul that Lord Clown had promised to take it away, then showed it its Grudge Item, the [Dog Blood Jade Pendant].
• The Timid Ghoul recalled visiting several dungeons with a traveling human uncle it called its “brother,” who later disappeared.
• Ji Yan decided the Timid Ghoul’s dungeon-adapting privilege made it too valuable to leave behind and invited it to travel with him.
• The Timid Ghoul entered the [Dog Blood Jade Pendant] and joined Ji Yan’s family of eerie items, where Brother Electric welcomed it and Blood Shadow Wedding Dress warned that Ji Yan brought disaster.

Ji Yan rejected returning to the [Roaming God Forbidden Ruin] immediately and arranged for Luo Xixi to receive the [Black Chess Player] codename after [444 Asylum] collapsed. Qian Duoduo brought her to meet [Night Burial Maitreya], and introduced himself as the player holding the [Q] codename.

• Ji Yan told Qian Duoduo that he had other tasks based on secret information from [Night Burial Maitreya], and Qian Duoduo agreed to follow his lead.
• The collapse of [444 Asylum] spread across the map, and the Eerie Game officially marked it as an [Abandoned Dungeon].
• [Night Burial Maitreya] and [Sun Burial Tuo Luo] discussed the cost of the asylum’s collapse and the coming Final Battle.
• Luo Xixi awoke in the [Roaming God Forbidden Ruin], where Qian Duoduo explained that Ji Yan had arranged for her to become a [Black Chess Player] and receive the MVP reward.
• Qian Duoduo explained that Ji Yan had triggered [Regret Move Save] and yielded the MVP to Luo Xixi, then prepared to take her to meet [Night Burial Maitreya].
• When Luo Xixi asked who he was, Qian Duoduo introduced himself as a [Black Chess Player] holding the [Q] codename and explained that he had adopted Ji Yan’s collapse plan.

Ji Yan entered the Tier 6 Grave Mound Ghoul Prison as the Oil Lamp Ghost, a hidden Eerie NPC in Liu's Ancient House, and learned that the Dungeon's players fought to defend and annex ancient houses. After discovering Liu Congming was in danger with only one Eerie NPC left, Ji Yan was unlocked, but Liu Congming was disappointed when the oil lamp lit.

• Qian Duoduo told Luo Xixi that he would take her to meet Night Burial Maitreya and explained that Ji Yan could use Regret Move Save to choose another compatible Dungeon.
• Ji Yan entered Grave Mound Ghoul Prison as the Oil Lamp Ghost, with seven days left in the already 30%-complete Dungeon.
• Ji Yan learned that players explored ancient houses to unlock Eerie NPCs and could use them in nighttime battles to attack and annex other houses.
• Ji Yan checked Liu's Ancient House and found that four houses had fallen, while Liu Congming had lost four of his five unlocked Eerie NPCs.
• Liu Congming entered the spirit-tablet room hoping to unlock a powerful Eerie NPC, but the only one to react was Ji Yan's battered oil lamp.

Liu Congming faced another night of the haunted-house attack and defense battle with only a half-dead Hanged Ghost and a weak Oil Lamp Ghost, while Liu’s Haunted House continued to reject his attempts to explore it. Ji Yan emerged from the lamp and saw that Liu Congming’s territory was already largely annexed, leaving their survival uncertain.

• Liu Congming discovered that his new eerie was only a Tier 4 Oil Lamp Ghost, and the Unlucky Eerie refused to eat its meager bad luck.
• Liu Congming wiped the lamp and released Ji Yan, who emerged as the Oil Lamp Ghost and noticed the Unlucky Eerie had reached Tier 7.
• Liu Congming complained that Liu’s Haunted House blocked him from exploring many areas and wished he had Ji Yan’s Bug-like Term Talent.
• Liu Congming took the Oil Lamp Ghost out of the Main Room as the Unlucky Eerie urged him to plan for the coming battle.
• Ji Yan saw that black mist and talismans had sealed off the Facing Seat Room and West Wing Room, leaving Liu Congming with little territory and few explored areas.

Ji Yan realized an unseen force was turning Liu Congming’s haunted house against him, and decided to help Liu survive while investigating the house’s restricted areas. Liu Congming’s attempts to explore kept failing, and the chapter ended with the Oil Lamp Ghost taking his Bronze Oil Lamp and walking toward the back courtyard.

• Ji Yan chose to help Liu Congming rather than sabotage him, since they were both trapped in the Dungeon.
• Liu Congming summoned the badly injured Hanged Ghost, which resented him for using it as bait during the previous night’s invasion.
• The Hanged Ghost proposed joining Ji Yan to rebel against Liu Congming, but Ji Yan’s Burning Death Eerie struck it down after it attacked him.
• Liu Congming returned from the East Wing Room, and Ji Yan inferred what he was planning as he continued investigating the haunted house.
• Liu Congming was again barred from the Right Ear Room, while the haunted house’s eeries continued rejecting him despite the Game Panel urging him to explore.
• The Oil Lamp Ghost took Liu Congming’s Bronze Oil Lamp and walked toward the rear of the courtyard.

Liu Congming discovered that an invisible eerie aura was making Liu's Haunted House eeries hostile toward him, and traced it to a cursed item hidden in his Tool Bar. The Oil Lamp Ghost swallowed the item, leaving Liu Congming without a clear explanation of who had planted it or how.

• Ji Yan brought the [Bronze Oil Lamp] close to the vat, and the [drowned eerie] attacked before recoiling in terror at the faces it saw on the Oil Lamp Ghost.
• The [drowned eerie] used the water's reflection to reveal that black mist made of tiny eerie faces clung to Liu Congming, exposing the source of the haunted house eeries' hostility.
• Liu Congming searched for the source of the aura and found an unfamiliar [Ivory Necklace] hidden in his Tool Bar, where it had been emitting an abhorrent eerie aura.
• The [Ivory Necklace] changed from [Rare] to [Legendary] when Liu Congming removed it, and he suspected an enemy player had secretly placed it in his Tool Bar.
• The Oil Lamp Ghost swallowed the cursed item after Liu Congming struggled to decide what to do with it.

Ji Yan helped Liu Congming remove Nangong Feng’s Tool Bar trap, but Liu Congming then traded Oil Lamp Ghost to a Qipao Eerie Woman for protection from the coming invasion. Ji Yan ended the chapter trapped in her room, where she revealed she planned to render him into skincare grease.

• Ji Yan used Oil Lamp Ghost to consume the [Eerie-Repelling Necklace], then secretly learned information about its true master and refused Spirit of the Pen’s offer to kill him.
• Nangong Feng discovered that his [Eerie-Repelling Ivory] had been destroyed, recognized that the player in [Liu's Haunted House] had seen through [Imposed on Others], and prepared for his next invasion.
• With the Tool Bar trap removed, Liu Congming entered the [East Wing Room] carrying the [Resentful Hemp Rope] and later emerged without it, then returned Ji Yan to the [Bronze Oil Lamp].
• Liu Congming brought the [Bronze Oil Lamp] into an antique room, where a Qipao Eerie Woman said the House Guardian player had given him to her.
• The Qipao Eerie Woman revealed that the Hanged Ghost had been rendered into grease for her skin and said she had prepared a larger jar for Ji Yan.

Ji Yan used his summoned eeries to subdue the Qipao Eerie Woman in the East Wing Room, then approached her with a request. The chapter ended with him preparing to ask Xiao Hong for help.

• The Qipao Eerie Woman explained that Liu Congming had traded the Hanged Ghost and himself for protection in the East Wing Room, and Ji Yan suspected Liu was sacrificing territory to survive.
• When the Qipao Eerie Woman tried to extract grease from Ji Yan, the Burning Death Eerie intervened, but Ji Yan said it could not defeat the Tier 7 woman.
• Ji Yan analyzed the East Wing Room, then used his Black Chess privilege to unlock the Blood Shadow Wedding Dress and Spirit of the Pen, both Tier 9 eeries.
• The summoned eeries disciplined the Qipao Eerie Woman, who realized they all obeyed Ji Yan despite his Tier 4 rank.
• Ji Yan introduced himself to the subdued woman as he approached and asked her to do something for his group.

Ji Yan used Timid Ghoul’s Guard Worker role to gain access to hidden areas while Qipao Eerie Woman agreed to offer Liu Congming limited shelter. Liu Congming grew suspicious that the returned Bronze Oil Lamp concealed something as the night’s invasion approached.

• Ji Yan learned that Qipao Eerie Woman could make temporary deals with the House Guardian, then asked Timid Ghoul about his assigned work.
• Ji Yan discovered Timid Ghoul was a Guard Worker with broad access and immunity, and instructed him to explore marked areas while Ji Yan hid from the coming thieves.
• Qipao Eerie Woman let Liu Congming take back the Bronze Oil Lamp and promised limited help during danger, while sending Timid Ghoul out with him to work.
• Liu Congming returned the lamp to the Spirit Tablet Table and watched Timid Ghoul head into the Main Room to clean.
• Liu Congming noticed Qipao Eerie Woman had changed her attitude after receiving the lamp, suspected it was important, and picked it up again.

As night fell, Nangong Feng’s haunted house invaded Liu Congming’s territory, forcing Liu to flee from the Main Room. Nangong Feng cautiously sent two Eeries into the East Wing Room, while the Bronze Oil Lamp in the conquered Main Room quietly reignited.

• Ji Yan watched the approaching night from inside the Bronze Oil Lamp and planned to use Burning Death Eerie during the coming battle.
• At 18:00, the haunted houses entered offense-and-defense mode, and Nangong Feng prepared to attack Liu Congming’s territory.
• When black mist began consuming the Main Room, Liu Congming chose to run instead of fighting with Unlucky Eerie.
• Nangong Feng annexed the Main Room, found its Spirit Tablet Table, and ordered an Eerie to search for items with eerie energy.
• Nangong Feng sent a Starvation Eerie and a Long-Haired Eerie to probe the East Wing Room, while the Bronze Oil Lamp in the Main Room relit unnoticed.

Ji Yan infiltrated the Nangong Haunted House disguised as the Oil Lamp Ghost while Nangong Feng sent the Greedy Money Eerie to kill Liu Congming. The Greedy Money Eerie clashed with the Qipao Eerie Woman, and Ji Yan faced the house guards until the Timid Ghoul claimed he was its brother.

• Ji Yan and his Eeries silently killed the Smothering Death Eerie, then Ji Yan disguised himself as the Oil Lamp Ghost and entered the Nangong Haunted House.
• Ji Yan avoided attacking the three guards because their deaths would alert Nangong Feng and could lift the restricted zone.
• Nangong Feng sent the Long Hair Eerie and Starvation Eerie into the East Wing Room, but the Qipao Eerie Woman defeated them and threw out their heads.
• Nangong Feng paid the Greedy Money Eerie five copper coins to kill Liu Congming, and it entered the East Wing Room to confront the Qipao Eerie Woman.
• The Greedy Money Eerie and the Qipao Eerie Woman began fighting over Liu Congming while Ji Yan encountered the haunted house guards.
• The Timid Ghoul told the guards that Ji Yan was its brother and had come to sweep the courtyard.

Ji Yan used Timid Ghoul’s new identity to explore the haunted residence while targeting its treasury, as Nangong Feng paid Greedy Money Eerie to accelerate the fight in the East Wing Room. The Qipao Eerie Woman expelled Liu Congming, then discovered her younger sister had been weakened after the fortune protecting her vanished.

• Timid Ghoul explained that it had explored the residence, and Ji Yan asked it to lead him into the Main Room to sweep for money.
• Nangong Feng threw more copper coins into the East Wing Room, strengthening Greedy Money Eerie as it fought the Qipao Eerie Woman.
• The Qipao Eerie Woman threw Liu Congming out of the room, leaving him exposed to Nangong Feng amid the invasion.
• Greedy Money Eerie left the room, and the Qipao Eerie Woman found her younger sister weak inside the makeup box.
• The Qipao Eerie Woman realized that the Unlucky Eerie had disappeared from above Liu Congming and that the makeup box had lost nearly all its fortune.

Liu Congming used the Unlucky Eerie’s absolute luck to escape Nangong Feng by opening the sealed [Right Ear Room] through a one-in-ten-thousand trial. Nangong Feng was left outside with the annexed haunted house, while the Qipao Eerie Woman offered him a deal to kill Liu Congming.

• The Unlucky Eerie devoured the [Luck Eerie]’s luck, enraging the Qipao Eerie Woman and forcing Liu Congming to flee as Nangong Feng sent eeries after him.
• The Unlucky Eerie activated [Absolute Luck], causing the Greedy Money Eerie to abandon the chase and collect its fallen coins.
• Liu Congming reached the [Right Ear Room] and grabbed its key from the Green-faced Fanged Eerie Face during the one-in-ten-thousand trial, unlocking the room and slipping inside.
• Nangong Feng could not enter the [Right Ear Room] without finding a hidden item, and he realized Liu Congming had escaped despite his annexation of [Liu's Haunted House].
• The Qipao Eerie Woman offered to serve Nangong Feng in exchange for Liu Congming’s life, and Nangong Feng considered the Unlucky Eerie.

Nangong Feng discovered that his hidden treasure chest had been robbed and blamed Yue Family Haunted House after finding one of its Eeries in his territory. Yue Qing retaliated against Nangong Feng’s attacks, and both House Guardians launched Full Invasion, leaving their Haunted Houses locked in a battle to the death.

• Nangong Feng received a warning that his Main Room had been invaded and found his alarm Eeries asleep, then followed the Greedy Money Eerie to an open, empty treasure chest.
• Nangong Feng found a corpse from Yue Family Haunted House and concluded that Yue Qing had stolen his three hundred copper coins.
• Yue Qing found his Facing Seat Room damaged and an Eerie from Nangong Haunted House dead, then saw two more Nangong Eeries invade his rooms.
• Nangong Feng and Yue Qing escalated their attacks into Full Invasion, sending their Eeries into a murderous battle across both Haunted Houses.
• Nangong Feng entered Yue Family Haunted House and gave his remaining copper coins to the Greedy Money Eerie, while Yue Qing prepared to retaliate with a Spirit Tablet.

Liu Congming found a Flowing Easter Egg pipe in the [Right Ear Room] and planned to use Unlucky Eerie’s luck to claim it before dawn. Meanwhile, Ji Yan stole the Copper Coin Treasure Box, helped escalate a war between the [Nangong Haunted House] and the [Yue Family Haunted House], and entered the room to bring Liu Congming money.

• Liu Congming discovered the [Bridge of Helplessness's Pipe] in the [Right Ear Room] and decided he needed enough luck to retrieve it before dawn.
• Ji Yan collected the three hundred copper coins from the Copper Coin Treasure Box after Timid Ghoul led him to it and Spirit of the Pen helped dismantle its weakened lock.
• Ji Yan used ten copper coins to hire [Deathmatch Ghoul] to raid the [Yue Family Haunted House], helping provoke a full-scale battle between Yue Qing and Nangong Feng.
• Ji Yan asked Spirit of the Pen to write him an “Absolute Luck” suffix, then won the Green-Faced Fanged Ghoul’s one-in-ten-thousand key challenge on his first try.
• Ji Yan entered the [Right Ear Room] carrying the copper coins to give Liu Congming money for his desperate plan.

Nangong Feng annexed Yue Qing’s haunted house but discovered that his three hundred copper coins had been stolen and traced the theft to Liu Congming. Meanwhile, Liu remained trapped in the Right Ear Room until Oil Lamp Ghost arrived with the missing coins, leaving Liu stunned.

• Nangong Feng annexed Yue Qing’s haunted house, claimed the top spot in haunted house territory, and worried about the losses his invasion had caused.
• Yue Qing hid in his Term Talent’s invisible space, but a Copper Coin Jar he found released Greedy Money Eerie, which dragged him out half-dead.
• Nangong Feng questioned Yue Qing about the missing coins, but Yue Qing died before he could give Nangong Feng any answers.
• Nangong Feng found a severed wick in his Main Room and learned it came from Liu Congming’s Tier 4 Oil Lamp Ghost, so he hurried to open the Right Ear Room.
• Liu Congming, still trapped in the Right Ear Room, watched Oil Lamp Ghost arrive with Timid Ghoul and a sack full of the stolen copper coins.

Liu Congming discovered that Oil Lamp Ghost appeared to be a Lucky NPC and took the three hundred copper coins it had found, while Ji Yan’s hidden plan and the fake identity behind the Information Panel were revealed. With Eeries from the outer residence surrounding them and the House Guardian heading for the Right Ear Room with a key, Liu Congming prepared to act now that he had money.

• Liu Congming inspected Timid Ghoul and Oil Lamp Ghost’s Information Panels and learned that Oil Lamp Ghost was listed as a Lucky NPC whose favorability could trigger Lucky Events.
• Liu Congming realized Oil Lamp Ghost’s previous actions had helped him and celebrated his improving luck, while Unlucky Eerie claimed credit.
• Ji Yan’s thoughts revealed that Oil Lamp Ghost’s Lucky NPC identity was fake, created with Spirit of the Pen to disguise his actions and make it easier to help Liu Congming.
• Liu Congming pocketed the three hundred copper coins Oil Lamp Ghost had found, unaware that Nangong Feng’s suspicion and killing intent toward him would grow.
• Timid Ghoul warned Liu Congming that Eeries from the outer residence had trapped them and that the House Guardian was heading toward the Right Ear Room with a key.
• Liu Congming caught a copper coin and declared that he could act because he had money.

Liu Congming began the Skeleton Eerie’s six-round dice challenge to borrow its smoking pipe, but the game devoured his luck and destroyed his valuable eerie items. Ji Yan saw that the dice were a rule-type item that turned luck into misfortune, and Liu Congming entered the third round with his odds worsening.

• Liu Congming triggered the hidden Guess the Dice challenge by asking the Skeleton Eerie to borrow its smoking pipe.
• The game warned Liu Congming that he had to guess the dice total for six rounds or lose both hands and be expelled from the Right Ear Room.
• Liu Congming used Unlucky Eerie’s luck boost in the first round, guessed incorrectly, and watched the Skeleton Eerie crush his [Legendary] Black Scissors.
• Unlucky Eerie boosted Liu Congming’s luck again in the second round, but the Skeleton Eerie consumed it and destroyed another [Legendary] item.
• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding to identify the dice as [Unlucky Dice], which converted Liu Congming’s luck into misfortune and made each guess harder.
• The Skeleton Eerie started the third round, and Liu Congming wagered an [Epic]-quality item.