Chapter Summaries

Su Wu waited in Peaceful Garden for the safest time to reach the Little Temple as the supernatural crisis spread through the complex. Outside, the Eye Fiend killed a family, and Su Wu’s warning appeared in the tenant chat.

• A girl and her mother watched videos at home while the girl’s father’s severed head floated out of the kitchen and asked for soy sauce.
• The mother’s head flew off as she chased her husband’s, and the girl cried out for her parents.
• Su Wu finished knitting and raised his compatibility with the Corpse-Strider Fiend to 31.9%.
• Su Wu prepared his emergency supplies and waited until 9:50 p.m. to leave for the Little Temple, avoiding the Eye Fiend outside and the Shadow Fiend’s later encroachment.
• Su Wu’s scheduled warning appeared in the Tenant Group Chat, telling residents to shut doors and windows, cover lights, and turn off electronic devices.

Wang Xiaogang discovered that a woman from his apartment building was livestreaming before shadows from the light engulfed her and a man, killing them. He realized Su Wu’s warning about light was true and urgently told the tenants’ group chat.

• Wang Xiaogang clicked a livestream link posted in the tenants’ group and recognized the streamer as the woman who lived upstairs.
• Wang Xiaogang bought a seat in the stream and recorded the streamer and a man preparing to end the broadcast after they sent the link to the wrong group.
• Wang Xiaogang watched shadows spread through the room, wrap around the streamer and the man, and kill them as viewers posted comments.
• Wang Xiaogang remembered Su Wu’s warning about light and sent messages to the tenants’ group saying the warning was true.

Wang Xiaogang’s warning video and an official alert convinced the Peaceful Garden tenants that the light-transmitted substance was real, while the Shadow Fiend continued its slaughter. Su Wu left his apartment in darkness and encountered a cautious, muscular neighbor on the stairs, whose actions led him to form a judgment about the man.

• Wang Xiaogang sent his video to the group chat before the Shadow Fiend enveloped him, leaving a final plea for others to believe him.
• Blow a Smoke Ring and Sleep began to confirm the video from his own experience but stopped responding, alarming the group.
• An officially verified account warned Peaceful Garden residents to seal their homes, extinguish every light source, and wait for rescue, and posted censored photographs of bodies.
• The tenants accepted that the warnings were true, blamed the landlord for kicking Su Wu out of the chat, and learned that the landlord could not reach him.
• Su Wu switched off the stairwell lights and went downstairs, where he saw a muscular neighbor quietly leave his apartment and crawl down the stairs.
• Su Wu watched the neighbor’s movements and deliberately made his footsteps heavier, then began to form a judgment about him.

Su Wu shut off Building 6’s power to protect residents from the Shadow Fiend, then confronted a man who tried to use him as a scout. After Su Wu’s hidden third hand summoned the Shadow Fiend to kill the attacker, he used the Imperial Bell to escape the alley and headed toward the crimson-lit sky.

• Su Wu switched off every breaker in Building 6, removing the light sources that could expose residents to the Shadow Fiend.
• Su Wu realized the burly man had been pretending not to notice him and challenged him about his knowledge of the fiends.
• The man described seeing a fiend emerge from a shadow, then lunged at Su Wu to force him to scout outside.
• Su Wu used a third hand to shine a High-Powered Flashlight at the man, and the Shadow Fiend dragged him into the shadows and killed him.
• Su Wu picked up the man’s dagger, rang the Imperial Bell to hold back the Shadow Fiend, and escaped the alley onto a dark side path beneath the crimson sky.

Su Wu drove through the dangerous city and rescued Jiang Yingying before taking her to the Little Temple. After sharing a meal, he planned to prepare supplies there and then leave the city with her.

• Su Wu escaped the Shadow Fiend and retrieved candles and the Chevrolet Cruze from near the Little Temple.
• Su Wu drove through the streets and reached Jiang Yingying at the intersection, then persuaded her to get in the car.
• Su Wu brought Jiang Yingying and Emergency Can back to the Little Temple, where he asked how she had escaped the lanterns.
• Su Wu gave Jiang Yingying hot pot and told her they would stay at the temple while he prepared to leave the city.

Su Wu entered the dagger owner's past-life simulation to investigate the man’s fighting skills and found himself in a brutal training hall. The hall was a Safe House where he could exit, but masked men attacked him as his first exercise began.

• Su Wu spent 30 Origin Jade to simulate the dagger owner's past life and entered without bringing any items.
• Su Wu arrived in a combat training hall surrounded by hulking men and heard a speaker offer to train him for underground fighting if he completed every exercise.
• A hulking man slapped Su Wu when he hesitated, and Su Wu answered yes to the speaker's demand.
• The simulator identified the hall as a Safe House and offered Su Wu the option to exit, but he stayed.
• Masked men rushed Su Wu, and after he dodged a punch, another man kicked his knee and the group beat him on the floor.

Su Wu endured a brutal beating in the fighter’s simulation, then discovered that a massage and medicinal bath rapidly healed and strengthened his body. Back in the Little Temple, he warned Jiang Yingying to stay inside and prepared to physically enter the simulation.

• More than a dozen hulking men beat Su Wu until he lost consciousness.
• A middle-aged woman massaged Su Wu and directed him to soak in a medicinal tub.
• The medicinal liquid rapidly healed Su Wu’s bruises and appeared to strengthen his physique.
• Su Wu exited the simulation and returned to the Little Temple, where he warned Jiang Yingying not to leave.
• Su Wu decided to physically enter the fighter’s past-life simulation to pursue its training and potential rewards.

Su Wu personally entered the Fighter's past-life simulation and experienced the medicinal bath and the facility's training program. After learning that the program had seven subjects, he began the third session: coordination training.

• Su Wu confirmed that he would personally experience the Fighter's past life, and the simulator created a disguise and deducted 210 Origin Jade.
• Su Wu awoke in a medicinal bath as his bruises faded and his physical fitness improved, while Jiang Yingying noticed his body becoming translucent and stayed beside him with the Imperial Bell.
• Pharmacist checked that Su Wu's injuries had healed and explained the facility's seven training subjects.
• Su Wu questioned the facility's true purpose, then went to the training hall and began coordination training as steel walls enclosed the area.

Su Wu endured increasingly difficult coordination training, was punished with an arrow after repeated failures, and then discovered he could train with the disguised Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand. His instructor ordered the next day's training and medicinal bath to be intensified.

• Su Wu copied the Iron Mask figure's movements as the training grew faster and more demanding, but failed to complete a movement in time for the fourth time.
• An arrow shot through the steel wall, and Su Wu ducked to avoid it; the simulator warned that failures during the next seven days would bring increasingly severe punishments.
• Su Wu began another training cycle and brought out the Corpse Buddha Ghost Hand, which the simulator disguised to protect his identity as the dagger's owner.
• Su Wu practiced coordinating his body with the Fiend Hand, using only its normal-range power to avoid raising the risk of the Vicious Ghost awakening.
• The middle-aged instructor watched Su Wu on the monitor and told the Pharmacist to increase the training intensity and triple several ingredients in his medicinal bath.