Chapter Summaries

Bo Shuo entered the Moon Worship Casino after 007 urged him to seek enough Points to advance to C-rank. A gambler named Sana challenged him to high card, and the first round began with both players drawing five cards.

• Bo Shuo initially refused to enter the casino, but 007 persuaded him that it was their best chance to earn a large number of Points.
• An attendant explained that the White Tower had nine floors, each guarded by a Gambling King, and 007 set the third floor as their target.
• Sana noticed Bo Shuo and invited him to bet a thousand Points on a game of high card.
• Bo Shuo and Sana each drew five cards, and Sana asked whether Bo Shuo had been an artist before entering the Exam Venue.

Bo Shuo defeated Sana at gambling and drew attention from the casino’s First Floor Gambling King. He met Eveya in a private room, where she introduced herself after he brushed aside her attempts to charm him.

• Sana conceded to Bo Shuo, and the crowd reacted with awe and fear of the Youth.
• Bo Shuo ignored another gambler’s challenge and continued gaining Emotion Points with 007’s help.
• A red-clad servant invited Bo Shuo to gamble against the First Floor Gambling King, who watched him from a private room.
• Bo Shuo entered the luxurious room and remained calm despite Eveya’s seductive charm.
• Eveya introduced herself as the First Floor Gambling King and told Bo Shuo he could call her Eveya.

Bo Shuo met Eveya, who claimed fate had chosen him as the savior of a doomed world, and proposed a deal involving a time-limited Exam Venue. The chapter ended with Eveya sending him 100,000 Points as a welcome gift whether or not he accepted.

• Bo Shuo stopped Eveya's rambling and heard her call him the savior chosen by fate.
• Eveya claimed the world would eventually be drained of its value and asked Bo Shuo to save everyone.
• Bo Shuo dismissed her pitch as sounding like a pyramid scheme and refused to trust her without proof.
• Eveya offered Bo Shuo a deal to enter an Exam Venue opening in half a month and retrieve an S-class item for her.
• Eveya initiated a deal that sent Bo Shuo 100,000 Points, explaining that the Points were a gift regardless of whether he agreed.

After losing to Bo Shuo at cards, Eveya recognized his ability and offered to introduce him to the White Tower’s second-layer Gambling King. Bo Shuo challenged the king and built a commanding lead in a memory-based card match.

• Eveya admitted defeat after Bo Shuo outcalculated her, then told him she had expected him to win.
• Bo Shuo watched the casino from a floor-to-ceiling window, and Eveya offered to introduce him to the second-layer Gambling King.
• Bo Shuo publicly challenged the Gambling King, drawing a large crowd to watch the match.
• Bo Shuo and the Gambling King played a memory game matching identical characters among moving cards, with no props or acquired talents allowed.
• Bo Shuo maintained his pace and led the sweating Gambling King by nearly three times his score.

Bo Shuo won a wager with the second-floor Gambling King, then disguised himself after leaving the White Tower to avoid drawing attention. He discovered that his perfect-score clear had made him famous among examinees, rested at a luxury hotel, and was woken by 007 urging him to study.

• Bo Shuo refused to change his modest wager requirement, and Zhen Chenwu transferred the wager to him.
• Bo Shuo changed his appearance outside the White Tower and received hundreds of friend requests.
• Bo Shuo accepted Xu Yi and Gu Baiyu’s requests and found a forum post discussing his perfect-score clear as a Newcomer.
• Bo Shuo rejected all the other requests, booked the best room at a luxury hotel, and slept until his exhaustion eased.
• 007 woke Bo Shuo and told him to get up and study.

Bo Shuo and the other examinees arrived at a remote mountain village after an avalanche and were given a set of lodging rules. The chapter left them realizing they had entered a dangerous rule-based instance.

• Bo Shuo arrived in a snowy mountain setting as the exam began and learned the group had to survive for three days.
• The examinees followed the Village Chief into Snow Mountain Village after spotting it through the storm.
• Bo Shuo observed that thirty examinees were present, including Sang Yu, a C-class lone wolf.
• The Village Chief brought the group to a small house and welcomed them to Snow Mountain Village.
• The Village Chief issued five lodging rules involving nighttime curfews, Aunt Wang, a wedding, red candles, and red strings.
• The examinees recognized that the rules meant they were in a rare, low-clearance rule-based instance.

Bo Shuo encountered Xi Guici, whose aura matched that of the deity who had killed 007’s previous hosts, then received a partnership offer from Sang Yu. The chapter left Bo Shuo reviewing Sang Yu’s powerful skill while she waited anxiously for his answer.

• The examinees watched Bo Shuo, whose cold and dangerous presence made them wary.
• Xi Guici introduced himself, and 007 warned Bo Shuo that Xi Guici carried the aura of the deity who had killed its previous hosts.
• Bo Shuo gave Xi Guici only his surname and withdrew, while Xi Guici recognized him as a fellow madman and became excited.
• Sang Yu approached Bo Shuo and asked to partner with him, saying she was useful.
• Bo Shuo accepted Sang Yu’s panel and saw that her Shadow Escape skill was exceptionally powerful.

Bo Shuo stopped an examinee from saying that the tall man was dead in front of Aunt Wang, preventing a possible violation of the rules. After Aunt Wang left, the examinees remained wary of the tall man and the room’s dangers.

• A tall man went outside after eight at night to ask Aunt Wang for charcoal, testing the rule against leaving rooms after dark.
• Aunt Wang brought charcoal and warmed the room, while 007 revealed that the tall man had returned behind her in a bloodied, ruined state.
• The tattooed man recognized the tall man as dead, but Bo Shuo silenced him before he could say the word in front of Aunt Wang.
• Bo Shuo warned the tattooed man with a threatening look, and the examinees realized that mentioning death could trigger Rule Five.
• After Aunt Wang left, the examinees exchanged wary glances and stayed silent about the tall man.

Bo Shuo and Xi Guici’s confrontation ended when their bed collapsed, but a scream from a nearby room drew Bo Shuo and the other examinees to a blood-soaked scene. A mutated man charged at them, and the chapter ended with Sang Yu warning Bo Shuo to watch out.

• Bo Shuo pinned Xi Guici down, but their bed collapsed before Xi Guici could get off it.
• Xi Guici asked Bo Shuo whether he had been a doctor, and Bo Shuo mocked him for making small talk.
• Bo Shuo heard a scream from the neighboring room and forced its door open as the examinees gathered behind him.
• Bo Shuo and the others found a tall, blood-covered man eating an NPC’s corpse and biting off his own hands.
• The mutated man charged at the group, and Sang Yu warned Bo Shuo to watch out.

Bo Shuo left the gruesome scene after killing the monster and rejected Xi Guici, who had tried to give him a surgical knife. Later, Bo Shuo woke to a ghostly wedding procession carrying a crying bride, and grabbed 007 to record it.

• The examinees and NPCs saw the remains of the monster Bo Shuo had killed, and they were terrified of him.
• Xi Guici handed Bo Shuo a Silver White surgical knife, but Bo Shuo threw it aside and shut Xi Guici out.
• Xi Guici picked up the knife, transformed it into a rose, and crushed it to dust.
• Bo Shuo woke to a nighttime wedding procession of Paper Figurines carrying a bride who cried that she had been wronged.
• Bo Shuo grabbed 007 and forced him to become his recorder.

Bo Shuo and Sang Yu survived the Ghost Bride’s attack by extinguishing their red candle and lighting a white one. In the morning, Xi Guici admitted he knew some of the rules, then cut off an examinee’s pointing hand when the man accused him of withholding information.

• The Ghost Bride’s sedan chair attacked rooms, killing Zhang Yi, Lu Yiji, Zheng Chenggong, and Ning Hua.
• Bo Shuo extinguished the red candle and lit a white one, diverting the sedan chair from his room.
• The survivors emerged at dawn, and Sang Yu showed Bo Shuo the red string required for the wedding banquet.
• An examinee accused Xi Guici of hiding what he knew about the rules, and Xi Guici admitted he knew some of them.
• Xi Guici severed the accuser’s pointing hand, leaving him screaming on the ground.

Bo Shuo joined Aunt Wang’s wedding procession and rescued a girl from a man beating her. The other examinees realized the girl wore a red string identical to theirs, while Bo Shuo remained unaware of the clue they thought he had noticed.

• Aunt Wang led the wedding guests through the winding village and told them to wear red strings.
• Bo Shuo spotted a woman and girl being abused by a man as the procession passed.
• Bo Shuo cut the man’s foot with his scalpel, stopping him from kicking the girl, then rejoined the procession.
• Aunt Wang heard the scream but found no explanation and continued leading the group.
• Sang Yu and the other examinees admired Bo Shuo for noticing the girl’s red string, and 007 pointed it out to him.
• Bo Shuo compared the girl’s red string with his own and found them identical.

Bo Shuo questioned Aunt Wang about the village’s strange wedding customs, then discovered that the wedding banquet resembled a funeral. Inside the venue, he found paper guests and two rules posted on the wall, while the reason behind the bizarre ceremony remained unclear.

• Bo Shuo challenged Aunt Wang about the locked homes and the wedding, provoking her anger and a surge in her hostility toward him.
• Bo Shuo concluded Aunt Wang wanted the group dead but was being prevented from acting, and the group reached the banquet venue.
• The Village Chief ushered the examinees into a silent, funeral-like gathering where spirit money and white decorations replaced wedding ornaments.
• Bo Shuo entered the gloomy basement banquet hall, where paper figurines with scarlet eyes stared at the guests.
• Bo Shuo noticed the posted Wedding Banquet Rules, which required guests to finish their food and not leave during the banquet.

During the wedding banquet, the villagers transformed into monsters and attacked the examinees, while Bo Shuo discovered that wearing a Red String stopped them from hunting him. The crisis briefly eased, but the chapter ended as the Skinny Man caught his breath.

• Xi Guici insulted the Village Chief, then told Bo Shuo to investigate the back mountain for information.
• The wedding banquet began, and the paper dolls lifted the coffins to stage the newlyweds’ bow to heaven and earth.
• The villagers transformed into fur-covered monsters and attacked the examinees, killing one who tried to flee through the door.
• Bo Shuo realized the monsters targeted people without Red Strings and tied his own Red String around his wrist to stop their pursuit.
• The Skinny Man and other examinees put on their Red Strings, halting the monsters’ attacks as the Skinny Man let out a breath of relief.

After the candidates ate the Ghost Bride’s food, they were transported to separate locations, leaving Bo Shuo alone in a bridal cabin with the Ghost Bride. He avoided her attack by denying he was her husband, and she mistook him for a wedding guest while searching for her missing groom.

• Bai Ziheng and Xiao Qi ate first, prompting the other candidates to eat the strange dishes while Bo Shuo refused his portion.
• Xi Guici offered Bo Shuo a steak, which Bo Shuo also refused, and 007 gave it to Sang Yu instead.
• After the food was eaten, the surroundings shifted and Bo Shuo lost consciousness, waking alone in a red bridal cabin as his Corruption Value began to rise.
• The Ghost Bride emerged from behind the bridal canopy and asked Bo Shuo whether he was her husband.
• Bo Shuo denied being her husband and insulted the man she had mistaken for him, causing the Ghost Bride to calm down and call him a wedding guest.
• The Ghost Bride complained that Little Bugs had impersonated her husband, then sat before the vanity.

Bo Shuo comforted the Ghost Bride, learned she wanted to kill her missing husband, and promised to help find him. After she gave him a wooden comb and the scene shifted, he freed the other Examinees from a basement where the Ghost Bride had imprisoned them.

• Bo Shuo called the Ghost Bride Chen Zhiruo and told her she should never have suffered what happened to her.
• Chen Zhiruo asked Bo Shuo to find her husband, then revealed that she wanted to kill him because she did not want to marry him.
• Bo Shuo promised to help Chen Zhiruo find her husband, and she gave him a B-rank wooden comb that could mark entry into the Ghost Domain during the exam.
• Bo Shuo reappeared in a basement where the Ghost Bride had tortured and restrained the other Examinees, then used his scalpel to free them.
• The Examinees warned Bo Shuo about the Ghost Bride, and he interrupted them before explaining what he knew.

Bo Shuo exposed and killed the Ghost Groom, who had been disguised as an examinee, completing the Ghost Bride’s bonus question. The Ghost Groom revealed himself and angrily demanded to know how Bo Shuo had seen through his disguise.

• The Ghost Bride showed open affection toward Bo Shuo and hostility toward the other examinees.
• Bo Shuo spotted that the wounded examinee in the corner was labeled “npc: Ghost Groom” and stabbed him in the throat.
• The examinees panicked as the corpse rose and tore off its disguise, revealing the Ghost Groom.
• The Ghost Bride recognized the Ghost Groom and reacted with fury.
• The Proctoring System announced that Bo Shuo had completed the bonus question to help the Ghost Bride find the Ghost Groom for 20 points.
• The Ghost Groom accused Bo Shuo of uncovering his disguise with only an hour left before the Ghost Marriage was complete.

The Ghost Groom drank a blood-colored liquid and used the Ghost Bride’s Soul Contract to raise his strength, forcing Bo Shuo and the examinees to flee through the collapsing Ghost Domain. Bo Shuo drew the Ghost Groom’s attacks away from the others while searching for a way to escape the unstable domain.

• The Ghost Groom drank a blood-colored liquid, rose from C-rank to pseudo-B-rank, and drained the Ghost Bride through their Soul Contract.
• Bo Shuo pulled the Ghost Bride aside and led the group toward the entrance as the Ghost Domain began collapsing.
• 007 told Bo Shuo that they needed to return to reality and marked weak points in the Ghost Domain for him to destroy.
• Bo Shuo sent the Ghost Bride in the opposite direction and evaded the Ghost Groom’s attacks to keep the others out of danger.
• The examinees stayed clear of the fight and survived as the destroyed buildings began resetting.

Bo Shuo destroyed the Ghost Domain and defeated the Ghost Groom, then was teleported behind the mountain and encountered Xi Guici in a cave. The chapter ended with Xi Guici recognizing Bo Shuo and playfully approaching him despite being held at knifepoint.

• The Ghost Groom charged Bo Shuo in a final, self-destructive attack, but Bo Shuo struck its vulnerable point and used its momentum to destroy the Ghost Domain.
• The rescued examinees and investigating High-Rank Examinees witnessed Bo Shuo's victory and were stunned by his strength.
• Bo Shuo used 10,000 Emotion Points to repair his battered body after being teleported behind the mountain.
• Xi Guici followed his remembered route to the sacrificial point, detected blood near a cave, and entered it.
• Bo Shuo held Xi Guici against the cave wall with his scalpel, but recognized his voice; Xi Guici abandoned resistance and teased him about their fated meeting.

Bo Shuo and Xi Guici uncovered the village’s history of trafficking women and sacrificing newborn girls, triggering a faction task that pitted them against each other. Xi Guici was assigned to the White Faction, while Bo Shuo’s Black Faction teammate Sang Yu approached the cave.

• Bo Shuo recognized that Xi Guici had deliberately entered this Exam Venue and questioned his intentions.
• Bo Shuo connected the village’s sacrifices and ghost marriages to generations of women who had been trafficked and wronged.
• The Proctoring System activated a 50-point Faction War, assigning Bo Shuo and his listed teammates to stop the sacrifice and help the wronged souls take revenge.
• Bo Shuo realized Xi Guici belonged to the opposing White Faction, and Xi Guici offered to give up the task if Bo Shuo wanted him to.
• Xi Guici sensed someone approaching, and Bo Shuo spotted Sang Yu on the map as she stealthily neared the cave.