Chapter Summaries

Greed told Wrath he had faked his death to escape the City of Sin, while Su Xian, Mu Hen, and Su Zhe prepared to travel to Sinful Pass after learning Li Chen was there. The group set out to bring Li Chen home amid a world overrun by Eerie Monsters.

• Greed explained to Wrath that he had faked his death to escape the City of Sin because he was terminally ill and felt turmoil was coming.
• A messenger told Wrath that Lust's shipment had been ambushed by someone likely at the Withered Sea Realm, but Wrath dismissed the report as possible bait.
• Mu Hen and Su Zhe joined Su Xian in Shenzhou City, and Mu Hen confirmed a message from his father placed Li Chen at Sinful Pass.
• Su Xian agreed they could leave Shenzhou City, where Eerie Monsters and the fallen Canghai Pass had reshaped life across the inland regions.
• Mu Hen revealed that Su Xian's spell had helped him reach the Calamity Realm, and Su Xian led the group out to bring Li Chen home.

Uncle Mu and Li Chen entered Gluttony's underground casino, where Uncle Mu used a high-stakes Three-card Poker game to draw attention and win against a fat gambler. The fat man accused Uncle Mu of cheating after losing the showdown.

• Uncle Mu and Li Chen passed the guards and entered Gluttony's crowded underground casino.
• Uncle Mu sat down to play Three-card Poker while Li Chen watched and folded his first hand.
• Uncle Mu raised the stakes as the fat gambler kept calling, eventually borrowing money to continue.
• Uncle Mu revealed an ace-king-queen straight flush, beating the fat man's ace-king-ten flush.
• The fat man collapsed in disbelief, then accused Uncle Mu of cheating.

Uncle Mu and Li Chen left the casino after the fatty was sent to Gluttony’s mine for his unpaid debt. They met Gluttony in his underground lair, where a bloodied man begged for mercy.

• The fatty accused Uncle Mu of cheating, but Uncle Mu showed he had no cards and the dealer demanded repayment of the fatty’s 50,000 Merit debt.
• Uncle Mu explained to Li Chen that Gluttony used the casino and mines to turn indebted gamblers into forced laborers.
• Uncle Mu and Li Chen exchanged their chips for Merit, then accepted Gluttony’s invitation to meet.
• At the mine, Li Chen saw the fatty working among the prisoners, and Uncle Mu threatened a guard who tried to bar Li Chen from entering.
• Uncle Mu and Li Chen entered Gluttony’s room, where a red-haired man ignored them while a bloodied prisoner pleaded for his life.

Uncle Mu and Li Chen negotiated with Gluttony over the stolen goods, and Gluttony agreed to buy them while offering Li Chen help and keeping his identity secret. As they left to face Lust’s people, Gluttony sensed that a major upheaval was approaching the City of Sin.

• Gluttony killed a customer who had cheated in his casino, then confronted Uncle Mu over the price of Lust’s stolen goods.
• Gluttony identified Li Chen as the Child of Destiny and guessed that he had stolen the goods while seeking to compete for the Greed Throne.
• Gluttony agreed to buy the goods at the original price and help Li Chen, provided his identity remained secret; Uncle Mu accepted.
• Gluttony warned that Lust’s people surrounded the casino and told Uncle Mu to clear them out as payment for the cheating.
• Uncle Mu and Li Chen left to confront Lust’s lackeys, while Gluttony watched the miners and reflected that the City of Sin was nearing a major upheaval.

Li Chen accompanied Uncle Mu out of Gluttony's casino, where Lust's men tried to force Uncle Mu to meet Lust and threatened his nursing home. After Uncle Mu drove them off, Lust learned that Sloth had refused his invitation and suspected Gluttony was preparing to challenge him.

• Uncle Mu and Li Chen emerged from the casino as Lust's men surrounded the exit, and Uncle Mu refused Lust's invitation to Heaven on Earth.
• The blond man threatened Uncle Mu's nursing home, so Uncle Mu attacked the armored men and wounded the blond man, who escaped in a cloud of smoke.
• Uncle Mu and Li Chen left before the executors arrived to collect the bodies.
• At Heaven on Earth, Lust questioned Xi about Sloth and threw him against a wall after learning Sloth had refused to come.
• Nu reported that the investigation into the shipment had uncovered little, while Le blamed Sloth; Lust suspected Gluttony also wanted the throne.

Li Chen learned that the Seven Sins were preparing for a War of Kings and asked Qin Jiao for precise intelligence while she promised the executors would stay out of the conflict. As he questioned whether he would remain a pawn in the struggle, a whisper told him the Forbidden could satisfy every desire.

• Qin Jiao told Li Chen that Lust was preparing to move against Pride and that their conflict could give him a chance to act.
• Li Chen asked Qin Jiao for detailed information and confirmed the executors would not interfere once the War of Kings began.
• Li Chen considered how Sloth and Gluttony might join the struggle while Wrath and Envy had yet to reveal their positions.
• Li Chen reflected on being treated as a chess piece and questioned what he would have to sacrifice in the coming war.
• Li Chen wondered whether freedom required erasing the existing world, and a whisper promised that the Forbidden could satisfy every desire.

Li Chen confronted the Eldritch God in the Forbidden Door and declared his intention to become a God and create a free world. He left the sealed realm with Distortion agreeing to follow him, while the Eldritch God remained chained and vowed to escape.

• Li Chen entered the Forbidden Door and found the Eldritch God, once the God, sealed among the chained Eerie Monsters.
• The Eldritch God revealed that he had devoured Li Chen and threatened to escape and destroy the world.
• Li Chen said he would become a God and create a free world, a goal that frightened the Eldritch God.
• Li Chen found Distortion reduced to a chained little boy with most of his power sealed.
• Li Chen offered to free Distortion if he followed him, and Distortion nodded.

Li Chen named the newly freed Eerie Monster Ling and tried to teach him human customs while worrying about the Eldritch God and his own slow progress toward godhood. After agreeing to help seize Lust’s shipment, Li Chen watched the planned clash between Lust and Pride begin on Yanwu Street.

• Li Chen gave the little boy the name Ling, sealed his dangerous aura in a black garment, and told him not to eat humans.
• Ling followed Li Chen and asked why he could not Devour people, and Li Chen explained that he was human now.
• Li Chen worried that he could not reach the Calamity Realm or godhood before the Eldritch God escaped its seal in five years.
• Uncle Mu told Li Chen that Lust would attack Pride that night, and Li Chen agreed to seize a shipment while keeping his identity hidden.
• Li Chen went to Yanwu Street as Lust’s and Pride’s forces prepared to fight, while the city’s enforcers stayed out of the conflict.
• A signal flare and green smoke marked the start of the battle, and Gluttony watched from a dining table and called it a show.

Lust rejected Envy’s demand to plant End of the Spirit, then joined forces with the God-Slaying Cult to pursue control of the City of Sin. As Li Chen headed toward Yanwu Street, a black-robed cultist attacked him, recognized him as the Child of Destiny, and teleported away.

• Envy offered to help Lust against Wrath and hold back Sloth and Gluttony if he let her plant End of the Spirit in him, but Lust refused.
• Lust revealed that he intended to eliminate the other Sins and become the City of Sin’s only authority holder, then had a black claw pierce Envy while Pride watched.
• A member of the God-Slaying Cult told Lust that the cult was entering the City of Sin and demanded protection; Lust agreed to honor their arrangement.
• Li Chen rode toward Yanwu Street and dodged a surprise attack from a black-robed man wearing a skeletal mask.
• The attacker recognized Li Chen as the Child of Destiny, avoided a fight, and teleported away using a red ring.

Li Chen recognized an Evil Cult member in the City of Sin and raced to warn Uncle Mu, while Pride slaughtered the Seven Emotions with his plague ability. Uncle Mu, Wrath, and Gluttony confronted one another over Wrath’s subordinate, but Pride arrived and put them all on guard.

• Li Chen recognized the Evil Cult member he had encountered a year earlier, feared his identity had been exposed, and rode toward Yanwu Street to warn Uncle Mu.
• Several robed Evil Cult members found traces of a fight and vanished to search for Lord Skeleton, wary of the Heavenly Eye System.
• Pride killed Joy and infected the Seven Emotions, causing the group and everyone else on Yanwu Street to collapse and rot.
• Gluttony and Wrath watched the slaughter until Uncle Mu arrived carrying Wrath’s battered bat-man, prompting Wrath to attack him.
• Uncle Mu accused Wrath’s Qin Family of poisoning nursing-home residents, and the two prepared to fight as Gluttony intervened.
• Pride appeared in the moonlight, and Gluttony, Uncle Mu, and Wrath each raised defenses against his killing intent.

Pride and Lust revealed that they had lured the other authority holders together to kill them and seize control of the City of Sin. As the War of Kings erupted and Qin Jiao ordered her officers to attack fleeing criminals, Li Chen faced an Evil Cult summoning array and tried to bind its monsters with Forbidden Power.

• Pride said he and Lust had allied and staged the War of Kings to draw in the other authority holders.
• Lust arrived with Envy, who had been captured and mutilated, revealing that Envy had been their main target.
• Wrath attacked, and Lust declared that every authority holder would die as bomb-bearing puppets and Pride's plague spread through the battlefield.
• Criminals fled toward the outskirts, where Qin Jiao ordered her armored officers to kill them for merit.
• Li Chen fought Evil Cult members who sacrificed themselves to form an array summoning Eerie Monsters, then bound its tentacles with Forbidden Power.

Li Chen summoned the Forbidden Door as the War of Kings continued across the City of Sin. Lust, Pride, and Gluttony each faced a powerful opponent, and Gluttony’s fight began with the arrival of the cultist Skeleton.

• Li Chen acknowledged that Forbidden power was erasing his memories and emotions, then vowed to break free of the Eldritch Gods and summoned the Forbidden Door.
• Lust paused at the spreading black mist, giving Uncle Mu an opening to attack; Lust countered with his seven-colored sword and declared that only becoming a king could ensure survival.
• Pride taunted Wrath by threatening the Qin Family, provoking Wrath to unleash his blood aura and fight him with a red axe.
• Gluttony reflected on how defeat could destroy a faction in the City of Sin before sensing a surprise attack and calling on Luck.
• Skeleton identified himself as the cultist there to kill Gluttony, and the two Calamity Realm powerhouses began trading attacks with bone spikes and playing cards.

Li Chen used the Forbidden Door to absorb Eerie Monsters, declared the formation of a new faction called Night Purification, and ordered Ling to release Calamity Realm Eerie Monsters into the city. He turned his attention to the Seven Sins members, intending to plunge them into chaos.

• Li Chen opened the Forbidden Door, drawing in Eerie Monsters and gaining Forbidden Substance while resisting the Eldritch God's attempts to influence him.
• Li Chen declared that Night Purification would become a new faction and told Ling to release the Eerie Monsters inside the door.
• Ling released ten Calamity Realm Eerie Monsters and brought out a tentacle monster marked with five arrays placed by the Evil Cult.
• Li Chen dissolved the arrays inside the tentacle monster, but ordered Ling to return it to the Forbidden Door because it was too large.
• Li Chen faced the Seven Sins members fighting nearby and said he would send them into the abyss.

Li Chen left to face his chosen path alone, sending Ling and the Eerie Monsters to deal with the Seven Sins. In the City of Sin, Ling’s forces overwhelmed Lust while Uncle Mu escaped, and Ling began transforming Lust into an Eerie Monster.

• Li Chen sent Ling and the Eerie Monsters to deal with the Seven Sins, then vanished as the Forbidden Door dissipated.
• Lust tried to persuade Uncle Mu to join the Seven Sins’ rebellion, but Uncle Mu rejected his vision of an age of chaos.
• Ling arrived with two Calamity Realm Eerie Monsters and attacked Lust and Uncle Mu.
• Ling and the Eerie Monsters restrained Lust and tore into his body while Uncle Mu faked a fall and escaped.
• Ling infected Lust with distortion and began mutating him, telling him to join My Lord.

Four Calamity Realm Eerie Monsters attacked Wrath and Pride in the City of Sin, turning the riot into a fight for survival. Meanwhile, Mu Hen, Su Zhe, and Su Xian entered the city to find Mu Hen’s father, as a figure atop Sinful Pass questioned Yu Qingnian about Li Chen’s path.

• Four Eerie Monsters appeared and attacked Wrath and Pride, sending them crashing through buildings.
• Criminals realized Eerie Monsters had entered the city and began fleeing as Wrath charged back into the fight and Pride reassembled after being pierced.
• Mu Hen, Su Zhe, and Su Xian emerged from a hidden passage into the rioting City of Sin and set out to find Mu Hen’s father.
• A figure atop Sinful Pass told Yu Qingnian that Li Chen had chosen a path of making an enemy of the world and questioned whether it matched Elder Gu’s vision.

Li Chen transformed Lust into a conscious Eerie Monster under his control, using Lust’s emotion-manipulating ability to erase his will. He prepared to spread the ideal of freedom beyond the City of Sin.

• Ling reported that three people had escaped and one was gravely wounded, then brought the unconscious Lust before Li Chen.
• Lust recognized Li Chen as the Child of Destiny and mistakenly accused him of belonging to the God-Slaying Cult.
• Lust entered Li Chen’s inner world to probe his thoughts, but Li Chen overpowered him and decided to make him a puppet.
• Li Chen transformed Lust into an Eerie Monster with the power to control emotions, and Lust pledged himself to Li Chen.
• Li Chen tossed a black chess piece into the air and declared that the ideal of freedom would spread throughout the world.

Uncle Mu learned that Li Chen might lead the world to destruction and that humanity faced an impending catastrophe, while Mu Hen, Su Zhe, and Su Xian waited at Mu Hen’s secret base in Sinful City. The chapter ended with Uncle Mu receiving Mu Hen’s message and setting out to meet him after finishing off nearby criminals.

• Uncle Mu discussed with a caller how Elder Gu’s lost guidance and Yu Qingnian’s choice had helped create a dangerous future centered on Li Chen.
• The caller said humanity faced disaster, hoped someone with Elder Gu’s foresight might appear, and planned to take a final step, leaving the City of Sin to Uncle Mu if he failed.
• At Mu Hen’s secret base, Su Zhe admired a motorcycle while Su Xian examined the weapons and asked how Mu Hen had built the bunker.
• Mu Hen told Su Zhe and Su Xian that he had used his ability to notify his father, and that Uncle Mu should arrive soon.
• Uncle Mu cut down criminals in the streets, then received Mu Hen’s paper-crane message saying the group had arrived at the secret base.
• Uncle Mu smiled at Mu Hen’s message and continued fighting, planning to meet his son after dealing with the criminals.

Yu Qingnian reflected on the choices surrounding Xiao at Canghai Pass as Qin Jiao dealt with the aftermath of the fighting in the City of Sin and searched for Li Chen. Mu Hen reunited with his father at the secret base and learned that the War of Kings had begun reshaping the city.

• Yu Qingnian spoke of Xiao’s path and the need to help him, then vanished from a temple surrounded by Eerie Monsters near Canghai Pass.
• Qin Jiao learned Weiyang had lost track of Li Chen and ordered the criminals’ corpses burned before the Heavenly Eye System was activated.
• Qin Jiao sent Weiyang to find Li Chen and keep following him because his actions and possible Authority Holder status mattered.
• Uncle Mu returned to Mu Hen’s secret base after fighting in the war, and Mu Hen introduced him to Su Xian and Su Zhe.
• Uncle Mu told Mu Hen that the War of Kings had begun and that the City of Sin was facing a new reshuffling.

Su Xian, Su Zhe, and Mu Hen met Uncle Mu and learned that Li Chen was caught up in the War of Kings in the City of Sin. Li Chen entered the bloodied casino and confronted Gluttony in the underground mine.

• Uncle Mu greeted Su Xian and explained that the Seven Sins were fighting to seize one another's forces, territory, and power.
• Su Zhe said they had come to take Li Chen home, and Uncle Mu gave them Li Chen's phone number but warned that he was involved in the struggle for power.
• Su Xian and Su Zhe reflected on how Li Chen and their companions might have changed since his disappearance a year earlier.
• Li Chen entered the deserted, bloodstained casino, took a dead guard's access card, and rode the elevator underground.
• Li Chen found Gluttony waiting at his desk with a bleeding claw wound on his face, and Gluttony greeted him.

Li Chen confronted the dying Gluttony, who asked whether he would restore the world before accepting death. The next day, as the City of Sin settled down and criminals eyed the vacant Authority Holder positions, Uncle Mu and the others wondered whether they would see Li Chen again.

• Gluttony explained why he had wanted to kill Li Chen, then said he had given up and asked Li Chen to kill him.
• Li Chen killed Gluttony and reflected on the unfair world and the people struggling within it.
• Li Chen left the casino, noting that Gluttony, Lust, Greed, and Sloth were dead and that Pride, Wrath, and Envy remained.
• News spread that Gluttony, Lust, and Envy had died, and criminals in the City of Sin began considering the vacant Authority Holder positions.
• Uncle Mu told Su Xian, Su Zhe, and Mu Hen that contenders were waiting for someone to make the first move, while Su Xian wondered if Li Chen would accept them if they met again.