Chapter Summaries

Zhao Mu’s group used Old Master Kun’s ghostly disguises to mislead Shuten Doji while Qi Xue attacked the Peninsula Hotel, and Shuten Doji prepared to respond. Meanwhile, Zhang Chen reached the Myriad Demon Pillar’s eighteenth-floor prison, where Yamazaki Kenji tried to make him kill its unknown prisoner, which began emerging from its cell.

• Old Master Kun fused with a ghost and created six copies of Zhao Mu’s group, allowing the real group to leave the underground parking lot while the metal-eating ghost was deceived.
• Zhao Mu’s group headed upstairs as Luo Dakou explained that Qi Xue had supplied information about Shuten Doji’s movements.
• Qi Xue entered the Peninsula Hotel, killed the guards at its entrance, and began cutting through Shuten Doji’s subordinates in the lobby.
• Shuten Doji ordered Xid to bring Elder Susanoo and kill Qi Xue, then rose and declared that a slaughter was about to begin.
• Zhang Chen reached the eighteenth-floor prison, where Yamazaki Kenji evaded his attack and offered to let him leave if he killed the prisoner.
• A huge, white-eyed creature forced its head through the rapidly healing wall of its ink-green cell and stared at Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen confronted the regenerating Fatty Kid imprisoned on the eighteenth floor while the mustached man tried to persuade him to enter the cell. Heichuan Jun appeared, explained the creature’s origins and his plan to use it as the source of Gluttony, then hinted that Zhang Chen would soon understand why he would not attack him first.

• Zhang Chen sensed that Fatty Kid was neither human nor ghost and watched him regenerate after his head was severed.
• The mustached man urged Zhang Chen to enter the cell and kill Fatty Kid, while Zhang Chen tried and failed three times to kill the man.
• The mustached man suddenly collapsed after coughing blood, and Heichuan Jun emerged from a wall, gave Zhang Chen a soul marrow, and asked for a favor.
• Heichuan Jun explained that Shuten Doji had found Fatty Kid in a sealed Egyptian pyramid, where the boy had eaten people, buildings, and other things before being imprisoned.
• Heichuan Jun revealed that he wanted to use Fatty Kid as the source of Gluttony, one of the original sins he still lacked.
• Zhang Chen asked why Heichuan Jun thought he would not kill him before taking Fatty Kid, and Heichuan Jun said Zhang Chen would soon find out.

Zhang Chen learned that Shuten Doji's true base was The Peninsula Tokyo and that the Fatty Kid might hold secrets about him, then watched Heichuan Jun enter the sealed cell to fight it. Heichuan Jun was swallowed and reconstructed without his Wrath personality, while the Fatty Kid remained unharmed and Heichuan Jun called for Zhang Chen to come inside.

• Heichuan Jun told Zhang Chen he wanted to gather the Seven Deadly Sins and revealed that Shuten Doji's true body was at The Peninsula Tokyo, though Shuten Doji had a hidden contingency in the City of Demons.
• Heichuan Jun explained that the eighteenth floor was a sealed space and that killing the Fatty Kid was the only apparent way out, while Zhang Chen could not contact Jia Xin or Chong Ying.
• Zhang Chen agreed to watch from outside as Heichuan Jun entered the dark green fluid cell, where the Fatty Kid called him a robot and attacked.
• Heichuan Jun used Wrath and tried to deconstruct the Fatty Kid, but its body resisted and its head transformed into a mouth that swallowed him.
• The Fatty Kid spat out Heichuan Jun's Wrath cylinder, and Heichuan Jun reassembled without that personality before calling Zhang Chen into the cell.

Zhao Mu’s group tried to reach the upper floors of The Peninsula Tokyo, but Shuten Doji’s fear-filled trap forced them into a dark passage leading to the hotel lobby. There, Shuten Doji appeared and greeted them as they faced him.

• Xiao Qin used her psychic power to search the hotel, suffered a backlash, and Luo Dakou carried her away to safety.
• Zhao Mu touched gray-black fluid seeping from the stairwell walls and narrowly freed himself from its fear-inducing threads.
• Zhao Mu led the remaining group through a dark passage after they found the stairwell blocked and the hotel isolated from reality.
• Black Eagle detected more of the fluid near the passage’s far opening, where the group emerged into an empty Peninsula Tokyo lobby.
• Shuten Doji stood in the lobby and welcomed Zhao Mu, Davier, Black Eagle, and Zhuge Feixuan.

Zhao Mu fought Shuten Doji and Xid after Shuten Doji trapped Zhuge Feixuan, Black Eagle, and Davier in the Fear Liquid and killed Qi Xue. Zhao Mu unleashed his full power and overwhelmed Xid, while Shuten Doji recovered and challenged him; elsewhere, Zhang Chen and Heichuan Jun cut Fatty Kid apart, but Heichuan Jun could not absorb the pieces.

• Zhao Mu attacked Shuten Doji, who summoned the Fear Liquid and warned that Zhuge Feixuan, Black Eagle, and Davier had to face their fears without interference.
• Shuten Doji revealed the wounded Qi Xue and a bandaged Dark Realm ghost named Xid, then crushed Qi Xue as Zhao Mu tried to catch her.
• Zhao Mu seized Shuten Doji and crushed his skull, then snapped Xid's bandages and grabbed him from the darkness before Shuten Doji regenerated and armed himself with a halberd and saber.
• In the prison cell, Heichuan Jun used his Control ability to bind Fatty Kid with strands of the dark-green wall substance.
• Zhang Chen entered and used the butcher's knife marked 'Lin' to cut Fatty Kid into tiny pieces, but Heichuan Jun found he could not absorb them.

Zhang Chen and Heichuan Jun destroyed Fatty Kid’s hidden crystal core, but it released a black Jailer Gate that pulled them inside. Fatty Kid reformed after the gate vanished, leaving their fate unknown.

• Fatty Kid reassembled after Zhang Chen dismembered him and transformed his body into a mass of mouths that devoured Zhang Chen’s Black Coffin.
• Fatty Kid attacked Zhang Chen at high speed, but Zhang Chen cut him apart again and found an undetectable piece of flesh at his core.
• Zhang Chen struck the hidden core while Heichuan Jun drilled into it, shattering a tiny black crystal bead and turning Fatty Kid’s flesh to ash.
• A black Jailer Gate emerged from the broken bead and sucked Zhang Chen and Heichuan Jun inside before closing.
• The crystal bead healed, and Fatty Kid reformed, wondering where his feast had gone.

Tip arrived in Cairo with an ancient occult book, used it to kill the tour guide and turn him into a Witch Corpse, then entered Djoser’s tomb to search for a missing counterfeit. His investigation revealed that a sinister Japanese-faced man had taken the Fatty Kid in a strange bead, and Tip decided to reunite with his old companions.

• Tip opened Cults of the Ghouls in his hotel room, and its blue mist killed the guide before Tip resurrected him as a Witch Corpse.
• Tip led the tour group into Djoser’s tomb, where the stone door shut and the guide killed two armed guards so they could proceed inside.
• Tip found the inner chamber empty and discovered that a ghost’s aura remained there, suggesting that the counterfeit he had made was gone.
• Tip used the book’s Incantation Chapters to reveal a memory of a sinister Japanese-faced man absorbing the Fatty Kid into a strange bead.
• Tip recognized the man as a formidable ghost and wondered whether Old Fifth had arranged it, then decided it was time to meet his old companions.

Zhang Chen survived the Black Jailer Gate’s transfer and discovered an artificial world inside Fatty Kid’s crystal bead, where swallowed cities and their inhabitants were reconstructed. He reunited with Heichuan Jun and, after restoring him, found the world’s boundary, leaving them to search for a way out.

• Zhang Chen emerged from a river in a lifeless European-style city and realized the place was not the Underworld.
• Zhang Chen found the city’s corpses gathered in a municipal building and inferred that the connected cities included places Fatty Kid had swallowed.
• Zhang Chen concluded that the world lay inside the crystal bead in Fatty Kid and that swallowed places and crushed objects were reconstructed there.
• Zhang Chen found Heichuan Jun’s damaged torso in a Japanese town, rebuilt his head, and helped him restore his body with metal.
• Zhang Chen and Heichuan Jun traveled across the world and found a gray curtain at its edge that swallowed a stone Zhang Chen threw into it.

Zhao Mu and Davier escaped The Peninsula Tokyo with Zhuge Feixuan and Black Eagle after a fierce battle against Shuten Doji and Susanoo. An unknown man named Tip captured Shuten Doji, then asked him about a cute object he had taken from an Egyptian pyramid, and Shuten Doji agreed to lead him to it.

• Zhao Mu gained the upper hand against Shuten Doji, but Shuten Doji awakened the power of the demonic tattoo on his back and wounded Zhao Mu with his black halberd.
• Susanoo pierced Zhao Mu with Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, but Davier broke free of his seal and helped Zhao Mu recover enough to fight back.
• Zhao Mu and Davier grabbed Zhuge Feixuan and Black Eagle and escaped the hotel, pursued by Shuten Doji and Susanoo.
• An unknown figure emerged from purple, starlit mist, pulled Shuten Doji out of his fearful aura, and disappeared with him.
• Tip introduced himself to Shuten Doji in a residence and asked about an object Shuten Doji had taken from a pyramid in Egypt.
• Shuten Doji apologized and offered to take Tip to the object, which he had kept imprisoned in a safe place.

The appearance of a terrifying figure in Japan forced the Eternal organization into lockdown and disrupted everyone’s plans. Lu Sheng evacuated Jia Xin and Chong Ying from the City of Demons, while Zhang Chen remained trapped inside and Shuten Doji prepared to lead Tip to him.

• The Eternal organization cut power, issued a Level 1 Danger alert, and shut down 13.live as Liu Nuo learned that Wang Yizhi planned to go to Tokyo to protect Zhang Chen.
• Wang Yizhi transformed her ebony house into a giant dark creature and traveled toward Tokyo with Liu Nuo.
• After sensing a powerful presence above Tokyo, Lu Sheng abandoned the search for Shuten Doji and went to the City of Demons to evacuate Jia Xin and Chong Ying.
• Lu Sheng found Jia Xin and Chong Ying on the seventeenth floor, put Chong Ying to sleep, and took them away through Dreamscape space.
• Shuten Doji met Tip at the black building, where Nurarihyon’s five-colored glow appeared and Tip ordered Shuten Doji to let him leave.
• Tip’s gaze overwhelmed Lu Sheng and Jia Xin as they fled Tokyo, leaving Zhang Chen’s fate uncertain.

Tip recovered Fatty Kid and the swamp prison, then discovered a Level 3 Jailer and a robot inside a crystal. When Wang Yizhi and Ksitigarbha demanded people from him, Tip proposed a lethal contest inside his pseudo-Underworld and prepared a humanoid Blind One as his contestant.

• Tip absorbed the swamp-fluid prison into the Cults of the Ghouls and crushed Fatty Kid, extracting a crystal that contained a Level 3 Jailer and a robot.
• Tip seized Shuten Doji, but Ksitigarbha intervened and demanded the return of a subordinate trapped inside Tip's property.
• Wang Yizhi arrived with Liu Nuo and demanded the Level 3 Jailer from the crystal.
• Tip cracked the crystal and proposed that three factions send contestants into his pseudo-Underworld, where they would fight until only one side survived.
• Ksitigarbha suggested that each faction send two people, and Wang Yizhi agreed to Tip's game.
• Tip transformed and brought forth a humanoid Blind One as his second contestant, then asked when the contest should begin.

Tip opened the Black Jailer Gate and sent Liu Nuo, Shuten Doji, and the others into the pseudo-Underworld, where Zhang Chen and Heichuan Jun were already trapped. After Tip announced a deadly three-faction competition, Zhang Chen and Heichuan Jun learned that four more entrants had arrived, including the Black Woman.

• Wang Yizhi told Liu Nuo to assist Zhang Chen, warned her about Tip’s subordinates, and gave her a hidden pouch to deliver if necessary.
• Old Man Ksitigarbha explained the Blind One’s dangerous palm-eyes and concealed weakness to Shuten Doji before the entrants entered the gate.
• Tip opened the Black Jailer Gate, and Liu Nuo, Shuten Doji, the Blind One, and Tip’s guide were pulled into the pseudo-Underworld.
• Zhang Chen and Heichuan Jun failed to cross the world’s boundary, then tried to reach a vortex in the sky but could not approach it before it vanished.
• Zhang Chen and Heichuan Jun hid in a residence after sensing that others had entered the world.
• Tip announced that four more people had arrived and that his faction, Old Man Ksitigarbha’s faction, and the Black Woman’s faction must fight until one faction survived.

Zhao Mu recovered from Shuten Doji’s fear and chose to remain in Japan with Luo Dakou to investigate, while Zhuge Feixuan returned to report the danger. In a separate gray world, Zhang Chen and Heichuan Jun split up, and Zhang Chen narrowly avoided detection by a powerful masked figure.

• Zhao Mu stopped Davier from killing the villagers, then recovered when the fear within him suddenly collapsed, suspecting something had happened to Shuten Doji.
• Luo Dakou brought Xiao Qin and Old Master Kun to the group, and Xiao Qin used her psychic power to help Zhuge Feixuan and Black Eagle emerge from their fear.
• After the group discussed the capture of Shuten Doji, Zhuge Feixuan decided to return home and report the intelligence, while Zhao Mu stayed in Japan with Luo Dakou to investigate.
• In the gray world, Zhang Chen proposed that he and Heichuan Jun find their allies rather than fight, and Heichuan Jun left on his own.
• Zhang Chen hid after sensing a dangerous masked gray figure drifting past the window, and the figure nearly detected him.

Zhang Chen followed a faint trace of Liu Nuo’s scent to an underground sacrificial chamber, where she explained the factions and dangers in the slaughter. She revealed that he was key to victory, then demonstrated her ability to paralyze him with darkness.

• After evading a gray masked creature, Zhang Chen traveled through the sewers to find Black Woman’s ally.
• Zhang Chen followed Liu Nuo’s scent through a rainforest village and found her in an underground sacrificial hall.
• Liu Nuo explained that Nyarlathotep had created the pseudo-Underworld and that the slaughter involved three factions.
• Liu Nuo described the powerful beings serving Jizo and Faceless and warned Zhang Chen that they needed to probe their opponents carefully.
• Liu Nuo revealed her Twin Dark Fiend nature and said Zhang Chen’s potential made him key to victory.
• Liu Nuo touched Zhang Chen with her blackened nail, spreading darkness through his body and leaving him numb and stiff.

Liu Nuo’s history revealed how Wang Yizhi split and restored her soul, then arranged for her revenge against the Eternal Organization. In the pseudo-Underworld, Zhang Chen and Liu Nuo planned their next move as the dead aura awakened corpses across the cities, while Shuten Doji prepared to use one.

• Liu Nuo refused to join the Eternal Organization and was killed, splitting her soul between the human world and the Underworld.
• Wang Yizhi restored Liu Nuo’s ghost half with her Darkness Ability, and Liu Nuo’s Underworld half later became a Jailer.
• Wang Yizhi arranged for Liu Nuo to infiltrate the Eternal Organization and use Zhang Chen’s mission to carry out her revenge.
• Zhang Chen mapped the pseudo-Underworld for Liu Nuo, and they chose a seventeenth-century city where they could wait for their enemies.
• The dead aura entered stored corpses throughout the pseudo-Underworld, animating them and sending them rushing into the cities.
• Shuten Doji examined an animated corpse, then placed the Fear Source Pearl inside it.

Liu Nuo and Zhang Chen tested whether Zhang Chen could absorb the cursed corpses in the British city, but the necrotic aura made him violently ill. Meanwhile, Shuten Doji revived an old ally with a Resentment Crystal, and the female guide in Tip’s group transformed into a ghoul as the three sides prepared for conflict.

• Liu Nuo and Zhang Chen traveled through the sewers to the Clock Tower after spotting corpses devouring one another across the city.
• Liu Nuo cleared the Clock Tower’s corpses, and Zhang Chen tried absorbing a surviving corpse but coughed up blood when his Ghost Devourer rejected its necrotic aura.
• Shuten Doji used a Resentment Crystal to revive a woman, who warned that she needed to absorb the town’s corpses before fighting their enemies.
• Shuten Doji stopped the woman from attacking Heichuan Jun because his boss had ordered Heichuan Jun returned alive.
• In Tip’s desert city, the female tour guide used black incantations to draw necrotic aura from thousands of corpses and transformed into a ghoul.

Krasis and the Blind One strengthened themselves by absorbing corpses as Zhang Chen and Liu Nuo headed toward the anomaly, hoping to form an unspoken alliance with Shuten Doji’s group. Shuten Doji, Heichuan Jun, and his companion reached the island and prepared to confront the corpse, with Heichuan Jun ordered to hold off the Blind One.

• Krasis asked the Blind One, who called himself Simon, to help absorb corpses before they attacked the other groups.
• Zhang Chen spotted a distant gloom and warned Liu Nuo that a corpse subordinate was growing stronger by absorbing necrotic energy.
• Liu Nuo proposed that she and Zhang Chen head toward the anomaly, expecting Shuten Doji and Heichuan Jun to approach it as well and avoid fighting them while the threat remained.
• Shuten Doji’s companion explained how he had sustained her damaged Resentment Crystal with fear, then she and Shuten Doji set out with Heichuan Jun toward the anomaly.
• The three reached an island, where the companion absorbed a cursed corpse and learned Heichuan Jun could control objects within a radius of 1,500 meters.
• The companion told Heichuan Jun to face the Blind One while she and Shuten Doji killed the corpse, and Heichuan Jun reacted with alarm.

Heichuan Jun entered the island’s underground passages to draw away the Blind One, while Shuten Doji and the woman prepared to attack a corpse. He discovered a vast underground gathering of corpses and the female tour guide, but the Blind One sensed him and turned its eye toward him.

• The woman ordered Heichuan Jun to lure the Blind One away while she and Shuten Doji fought the corpse, threatening to kill him if he failed.
• Heichuan Jun activated his Sloth personality and searched the island’s central village, finding traces of corpse aura but no corpses or Blind One.
• Heichuan Jun detected a huge sinkhole, found a nearby cave entrance, and descended through its winding passage into the underground.
• At the passage’s end, Heichuan Jun saw tens of thousands of corpses arranged in seven rings around the female tour guide and spotted the Blind One above her.
• The Blind One turned toward Heichuan Jun and opened an eye in its palm as the tour guide transformed into a ghoul, so Heichuan Jun activated all three black cylinders on his back.

Heichuan Jun escaped the Blind Man’s illusion but was killed when he tried to confront him, while Krasis fought Shuten Doji in the pit. Zhang Chen and Liu Nuo reached the island and discovered Heichuan Jun was dead.

• Heichuan Jun realized the Blind Man had trapped him in an illusion, tore out his eyes, and fled from the cave while the Blind Man pursued him.
• Krasis waited for Shuten Doji in the pit and attacked him, but a hazy figure seized her face as the pit shook.
• Heichuan Jun tried to stop the Blind Man from returning to the pit, but the Blind Man’s sound shattered his body and destroyed his Soul Stone and Soul Marrow.
• Zhang Chen and Liu Nuo tracked Shuten Doji’s group across the sea to an island where Zhang Chen sensed Heichuan Jun’s death.

Zhang Chen and Liu Nuo investigated Heichuan Jun’s death and discovered that the Blind One could spread a Chaos Domain. Meanwhile, Shuten Doji protected a woman absorbing deathly energy, transformed into a masked form, and attacked the Blind One as it approached.

• Zhang Chen told Liu Nuo that Heichuan Jun’s aura had vanished near a blind spot, and they suspected the Blind One had killed him.
• Zhang Chen and Liu Nuo found Heichuan Jun’s remains and discovered that the Blind One’s ten-meter Chaos Domain had reduced nearby trees to dust.
• Zhang Chen found and secretly stored a black cylinder carrying the aura of the sin of Sloth before following Liu Nuo toward activity deeper on the island.
• At the natural pit, Shuten Doji kept a Corpse Ghost pinned while a woman absorbed deathly energy from thousands of corpses and said she needed ten more minutes.
• Shuten Doji transformed by drawing on the energy stored within him, then confronted the Blind One and struck it down into the forest.