Chapter Summaries

The Blood Threads Ghost Creature explained that a powerful Strange Creature hidden deep in the apartment building was losing control, filling the mirror world with deadly bloody haze and causing the building’s exits to vanish. Su Bai and Feng Ling suspected the mirror world’s danger might not be directed at them, but the Ghost Creature tightened its Blood Threads before they could act on that possibility.

• Su Bai and Feng Ling offered to consider entering the mirror world if the Blood Threads Ghost Creature explained its nature and the power within it.
• The Blood Threads Ghost Creature revealed that a terrifying Strange Creature hidden deep in the apartment building periodically lost control, filling the sealed mirror world with bloody haze.
• The Ghost Creature explained that the mirror world had become a death trap and that the building’s exits had vanished as the power began seeping into its outer space.
• The Blood Threads Ghost Creature said its group had tried offering sacrifices to the hidden Strange Creature, but the offerings enraged it and triggered a devastating outburst.
• Su Bai questioned whether hunger explained the Strange Creature’s behavior and suggested the mirrors might seal the mirror world away from the outer space.
• Feng Ling realized they might survive by remaining outside the mirrors for seventy-two hours, but the Blood Threads Ghost Creature tightened the web of threads around them.

Su Bai combined his blue flame with Feng Ling’s fire, devouring the Blood Threads and freeing the Players from the Ghost Creature’s attack. Sang Sang summoned a blood-fed ghost and proposed surviving the remaining seventy-two hours outside the mirrors, but a powerful, blood-soaked presence soon overwhelmed the Reception Room.

• Feng Ling’s flames failed to affect the Blood Threads until Su Bai added his blue flame, which consumed the threads and protected Yue Zhengqing.
• The Players realized Su Bai possessed power worthy of Feng Ling’s respect, and Su Bai explained that his blue flame devoured filth rather than burning it.
• Sang Sang broke free, cut her arm, and used her blood to summon a tall, thin ghostly figure.
• Sang Sang proposed defeating the two Ghost Creatures and surviving seventy-two hours outside the mirrors, but a bloodlust-filled presence swept into the sealed Reception Room.

Su Bai questioned the Blood Threads Ghost Creature about how humans and Ghost Creatures could cross between the Mirror World and the outside. The Blood Threads Ghost Creature explained that malice created passages, but Su Bai remained puzzled about why it had protected Yue Zhengqing.

• A violent aura from the out-of-control Strange Creature overwhelmed the Reception Room, weakening Su Bai and the other Players before it receded after several minutes.
• The Blood Threads Ghost Creature warned that the Strange Creature was losing control more frequently and that neither humans nor Ghost Creatures could endure the Mirror World for seventy-two hours if it continued.
• Su Bai asked whether the Blood Threads Ghost Creature knew how to open a passage and pointed out how carefully it had protected Yue Zhengqing.
• Sang Sang asked whether Yue Zhengqing could help open the passage, prompting the Blood Threads Ghost Creature to explain that malice could create a mirror capable of carrying humans and Ghost Creatures across.
• Su Bai inferred that entering the Mirror World with a human body required greater malice and questioned why the Blood Threads Ghost Creature had chosen Yue Zhengqing instead of Qin Yuxuan.

Su Bai learned that the Blood Threads Ghost Creature planned to use Yue Zhengqing as a vessel for the mirror world's malice to open a passage between the two worlds. The passage would close within seconds after Yue was thrown through it, and Yue desperately struggled to escape as Su Bai realized the worlds were nearing collapse.

• The Blood Threads Ghost Creature explained that Qin Yuxuan had opened the mirror with malice, but its lord's rampages had grown increasingly dangerous and the world outside the mirror was nearing its limit.
• Su Bai concluded that the Ghost Creatures had used humans in repeated attempts to escape the corrupted mirror world, while the supernatural threat continued worsening across both worlds.
• The Blood Threads Ghost Creature revealed that it had placed malice from the mirror world inside Yue Zhengqing to use him as a vessel for opening the true passage.
• Su Bai realized the passage would stay open only for a few seconds before the malice dissipated and the passage closed.
• Yue Zhengqing struggled against his Blood Threads bonds and pleaded with Su Bai and the others to save him.

Yue Zhengqing begged Feng Ling and Su Bai to save him from becoming a sacrifice, but his admissions about killing people and dismissing human laws convinced them not to intervene. Su Bai decided to enter the Mirror World, then received a new commission from the Administrator to retrieve an item and find the apartment building’s only “Mirror” before the game collapsed.

• Yue Zhengqing pleaded with Feng Ling and Su Bai to save him as blood threads loosened and a blood-red vortex formed in a mirror.
• Yue Zhengqing admitted that he had killed people in the Real World and injured Xiao Xiaodie's parents, then argued that human laws no longer mattered to Players.
• Feng Ling condemned Yue Zhengqing’s dishonesty and said she and her organization still followed the laws of the Real World, while Sang Sang called him scum.
• Su Bai refused to save Yue Zhengqing and revealed that he had decided to enter the Mirror World, where he hoped to find a chance to clear the game early.
• The Administrator warned Su Bai that Mirror Apartments might collapse within twenty-four hours and commissioned him to retrieve an item from the Void Sea and find the building’s only “Mirror.”

Su Bai accepted the Administrator’s commission to carry an object from the Void Sea into the Mirror World in exchange for two answers after the game. As Yue Zhengqing’s actions brought the passage close to opening, Su Bai and Feng Ling prepared to enter, while the Ghost Creatures showed no concern about letting them approach.

• The Administrator asked Su Bai to deliver an object from the Void Sea to the Mirror World and promised that the space would benefit Su Bai’s physical condition and terrifying left hand.
• Su Bai bargained for two answers from the Administrator after the game, and the Administrator agreed.
• The Administrator said the object would appear when Su Bai crossed the rift and promised to seek the Ghost Shaman’s help if Su Bai encountered danger.
• Su Bai decided to enter the Mirror World and told the hesitant Feng Ling, who gave up on trying to stop Yue Zhengqing.
• The Blood Threads Ghost Creatures laughed as Yue Zhengqing’s confession brought the passage close to opening.

Su Bai and Feng Ling entered the Mirror World through the newly opened passage, while Su Bai dragged the Blood Thread Ghost Creature inside with them. In the Reception Room, Zhang Yibu discovered that his ability could stop time when he stood still, and Su Bai and Feng Ling found themselves unable to use their flames.

• The blood-red passage opened in the Reception Room, and Su Bai and Feng Ling rushed toward it as Yue Zhengqing was pulled inside.
• Su Bai seized the Blood Thread Ghost Creature and used blue flame to trap it in Xiao Xiaodie's body before dragging it into the Mirror World with him and Feng Ling.
• Zhang Yibu stepped forward and discovered that time stopped when he stood still and resumed when he moved.
• Zhang Yibu chose to stay in the Reception Room and learn to use his ability rather than follow Su Bai into the vortex.
• Su Bai and Feng Ling landed in the Mirror World's dusty Reception Room, where Feng Ling found she could not use her flame.
• The Blood Thread Ghost Creature laughed and declared that Su Bai and Feng Ling would die in the Mirror World.

Su Bai and Feng Ling entered the blood-red Mirror World, where its power suppressed their abilities but eased Su Bai’s illness while weakening Feng Ling. Trapped after the passage closed, they faced hostile Ghost Creatures as Su Bai found the Administrator’s delivery item in his pocket.

• Su Bai realized neither he nor Feng Ling could use their powers in the Mirror World, and he explained that the world’s powerful aura had suppressed them.
• Su Bai felt his physical condition improve as the bloody aura forced his chaotic power into balance, while Feng Ling became weak.
• The passage closed, leaving Su Bai and Feng Ling inside with Yue Zhengqing, Xiao Xiaodie, and several hostile gelatinous shadows.
• Su Bai noticed the Ghost Creatures were also unable to use their powers and watched Xiao Xiaodie’s Blood Threads fade away.
• Su Bai found a small, cold, round mirror in his pajama pocket and discussed the White Faction with Feng Ling.

Su Bai and Feng Ling left the Reception Room and ventured into the corrupted Mirror World, where their powers were suppressed and the danger outside was growing. They found the unconscious Xiao Xiaodie and a barely conscious Qin Yuxuan, who recognized Su Bai in shock.

• Feng Ling explained why the Nameless Society's members worried about her and said she would enter the Mirror World regardless of the danger.
• The Ghost Creature possessing Xiao Xiaodie's body warned Su Bai and Feng Ling that no one could leave the Mirror World, and Feng Ling punched it.
• Feng Ling gave Su Bai a wooden strip to use as a weapon because the Mirror World suppressed their powers.
• Su Bai and Feng Ling left the Reception Room and headed into the blood-red corridor toward the more heavily corrupted area.
• Su Bai and Feng Ling found the unconscious Xiao Xiaodie and the half-conscious Qin Yuxuan, who stared at Su Bai and asked how it could be him.

Qin Yuxuan briefly saw Su Bai as the person from his old daydreams, but Su Bai struck at him as he approached. Su Bai then spotted a Blood Ghost behind Qin Yuxuan, a creature that threatened him and Feng Ling because it hunted people for their blood.

• Qin Yuxuan remembered how Su Bai had once stirred his hopes for a warm future, before he rejected those dreams and came to despise his former self.
• As the Mirror World's bloody aura eroded Qin Yuxuan's mind, he saw Su Bai approaching and reached toward him, believing he had found a lifeline.
• Su Bai raised a wooden stick and swung it at Qin Yuxuan as he came closer.
• Su Bai noticed a Blood Ghost following Qin Yuxuan and realized that it would target him and Feng Ling, who had entered the Mirror World in their physical bodies.
• The Blood Ghost passed through Qin Yuxuan, and Su Bai swung his wooden stick at it.

Su Bai explained the origins and nature of Strange Creatures as he and Feng Ling faced blood ghosts in the Mirror World. Feng Ling used the fire power in her blood to attack them, but the blood aura quickly healed their wounds.

• Su Bai reasoned that Strange Creatures included ancient nonhuman races, dead humans transformed by the Red Moon, and objects mutated by its power.
• Su Bai’s club passed through a blood ghost, and more blood ghosts appeared in the corridor, drawn by the humans’ scent.
• Feng Ling admitted she had brought no combat items, while Qin Yuxuan pleaded for help and she ignored him.
• Feng Ling cut her palm and used her blood’s fire power to ignite a wooden stick and the corridor wall before charging the blood ghosts.
• Feng Ling’s flames burned the blood ghosts, but their bodies quickly healed by drawing on the Mirror World’s dense blood aura.

Su Bai and Feng Ling were cornered by a swarm of Blood Ghosts in the Mirror World until Grandma White emerged from the Vengeful Ghost Puzzle and froze them. Su Bai recognized her as his grandmother, while Feng Ling saw her as a terrifying white python.

• Feng Ling prepared to use more of her blood to burn the approaching Blood Ghosts if Su Bai had no way to escape.
• Su Bai realized he could open the Mist Shop, but before he did, an aged voice ordered the Blood Ghosts to stop.
• Grandma White froze the Blood Ghosts in the corridor, and Feng Ling smashed one of their frozen arms apart.
• The ice wall collapsed, revealing Grandma White, whom Su Bai greeted warmly as he approached her.
• Feng Ling saw Grandma White as an enormous white python that gently nuzzled Su Bai.

Qin Yuxuan awoke long enough to witness Su Bai calmly greeting the terrifying White Python, then lost consciousness again. Su Bai introduced Grandma White to Feng Ling and discovered that the young puzzle piece Yao had followed her through the door.

• Qin Yuxuan regained consciousness, saw Su Bai pet White Python, and fainted again after realizing how powerful Su Bai was.
• Su Bai introduced Grandma White to Feng Ling and explained that he knew she was a snake but indulged her disguise.
• Feng Ling nervously asked whether White Python could hear them, and Su Bai said her hearing and eyesight had grown poor.
• Su Bai noticed Yao emerge from behind Grandma White and sternly asked why he had come there alone.

Su Bai reunited with Yao and Grandma White in the Mirror World, where Yao scolded him for taking a dangerous commission alone and warned him about the uncontrolled force ahead. After they vanished, Little Fire joined Su Bai and Feng Ling as they continued searching for the Strange Creature that had lost control.

• Su Bai remembered how close he and Yao had been, then apologized for forgetting their first meeting and for not summoning him more often.
• Yao told Su Bai that he and Grandma White had come through the puzzle's open door, and warned that the hidden presence could become dangerous under outside pressure or if anyone lost control.
• Yao and Grandma White vanished from the corridor after urging Su Bai to take care, leaving the shattered ice from White Python's Blood Ghosts behind.
• Little Fire appeared as a small blue flame, complained that Yao had chosen to bring Grandma White instead of him, and abruptly stopped himself from revealing what Yao was actually like.
• Su Bai and Feng Ling continued down the corridor to find the Strange Creature in the Mirror World that had lost control.

Su Bai and Feng Ling searched the ruined first floor of the Mirror Apartments while Little Fire burned away corrupted Ghost Creatures. At the blocked entrance, Su Bai used the delivery mirror and asked where its cargo belonged, prompting a pale hand to appear in the mirror.

• Feng Ling wondered whether Su Bai was human, and Su Bai told her he was.
• Su Bai, Feng Ling, and Little Fire searched the corridor, rooms, Security Office, and entrance while the Blue Flame held off the Blood Ghosts.
• Little Fire burned corrupted Ghost Creatures and recalled how a wandering soul had fused with him, preserving his consciousness.
• Su Bai concluded that they could not keep searching blindly and recorded his theory that mirrors and artificial rifts were connected to the Void Sea.
• Su Bai held up the small round mirror at the entrance and asked where he should deliver its cargo, and a pale hand appeared in the mirror.

Su Bai followed the pale hand in the special mirror through the Mirror Apartments, guided by Yao Qing’s prophecy toward a hidden mirror room that might hold the key to the game. He found a concealed space at the end of the third-floor corridor and invited Feng Ling to follow him through.

• Su Bai showed Feng Ling the hand in his mirror and explained that it was guiding him on an extra task.
• Su Bai connected Yao Qing’s prophecy of a room surrounded by mirrors to the missing out-of-control Ghost Creature and led Feng Ling upstairs.
• Su Bai and Feng Ling followed the hands in the mirrors to the third floor while Little Fire burned away Ghost Creatures and filth.
• Feng Ling saw only a wall at the corridor’s end, but Su Bai saw a murky mirror that he believed Players on the special task could perceive.
• Su Bai passed his hand through the mirror and gestured for Feng Ling to enter the hidden space with him.

Su Bai and Feng Ling entered the hidden space beyond the mirror, where Little Fire consumed the pure, dense bloody aura and revealed a room filled with mirrors. They found a shattered central mirror and a huddled humanlike figure that had not appeared in Yao Qing's precognitive dream.

• Feng Ling took Su Bai's hand and followed him through the invisible mirror into the hidden space.
• Little Fire shielded Su Bai and Feng Ling from the bloody aura, then discovered that it was pure and unusually delicious.
• Little Fire sensed pain, hunger, bloodlust, despair, malice, and self-rejection woven into the aura as it devoured it.
• Su Bai and Feng Ling advanced as the aura thinned, revealing a semicircle of mirrors around a shattered central mirror.
• Su Bai noticed a huddled humanlike figure sitting in front of the shattered mirror.

Su Bai and Feng Ling met the corrupted Strange Creature who had created the Mirror World, and he urged them to leave before he lost control. He revealed that he had come to the mirror with another being to escape a disaster, and hinted that he belonged to another race from the ancient civilization.

• Su Bai and Feng Ling found the gelatinous Strange Creature at the broken mirror, and he warned them to leave before he lost control.
• The Strange Creature told them that praying sincerely to the mirror should let them escape, and said that only people who had never shown malice could reach his prison.
• Su Bai recognized the term “Short-lived Species” and asked whether the Strange Creature was a Merfolk, but the creature dismissed Merfolk as cowards who had fled into the Void Sea.
• The Strange Creature said he had grown so old that he wished to forget his memories and identity, but he could not forget the mirror or the being he had come there with.
• The Strange Creature told Su Bai that Merfolk were only one of several races from the destroyed civilization, and that other creatures like his own kind had also escaped.

The Strange Creature explained that Little Fire’s blue flame had eased the bloody aura in the room, then answered questions about his origins. He described an ancient civilization of many intelligent humanoid races, including his own blood-feeding race, and said they were similar to humans.

• The Strange Creature said Little Fire’s blue flame had consumed some of the bloody aura and helped him remain lucid.
• Su Bai invited Feng Ling to ask the Strange Creature questions so the Nameless Society could learn from his answers.
• Feng Ling asked whether the Strange Creature was human, noting that he had spoken of growing old.
• The Strange Creature described the many intelligent humanoid races in his civilization and said his race survived by feeding on blood.
• Su Bai repeated the detail about blood-feeding and looked as though he understood something.

Su Bai and Feng Ling questioned the being in the Mirror World about his past, the Red Moon, and the shattered mirror. He revealed that the mirror itself had become a Mirror Ghost, but he knew little about the Red Moon or the Cataclysm, leaving Feng Ling’s questions about why he fled there unanswered.

• Su Bai considered that the being’s repeated loss of control might have been caused by hunger after centuries of confinement, and held on to the Administrator’s mirror instead of handing it over.
• Feng Ling asked whether the being was waiting for someone to emerge from the shattered mirror, and he explained that the one he awaited was the mirror itself, which had absorbed the Red Moon’s Power and become a Mirror Ghost.
• Feng Ling asked whether the Red Moon had appeared after the world’s original civilization, and the being confirmed that the civilization had been destroyed around the time of the Cataclysm.
• The being said he knew nothing about human Players or the Red Moon’s origins, but the power in his kind did not reject the Red Moon’s Power.
• Feng Ling asked why the being and the mirror had fled to the Mirror World and why the mirror was shattered, but the chapter ended before he answered.