Chapter Summaries

Gu Xi prepared to advance through Bone-Eating Swamp after Shaya scouted a corridor filled with feasting enemies. He led his troops toward a force of fifteen hundred, including three suspected bosses, while resisting the food lining the road.

• Gu Xi examined Bone-Eating Swamp and learned that modifying it would require skills he largely lacked, though he considered using it as an ordinary soldier.
• Shaya reported a group of fifteen hundred enemies who ate and fought in turns, with three suspected bosses at the end of the road.
• Gu Xi ordered his assembled troops, including a thousand Bone-Eating Mud units and Bone-Eating Swamp, to advance while leaving the Steel City Gate behind to guard supplies.
• Gu Xi's force entered a bright blue corridor lined with roasted food, and his troops ignored the tempting dishes to focus on the strange creatures among them.

Gu Xi led his troops against a group of powerful Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts and used Corpse Explosion on their roasted food to disrupt them. After the Black Spear Camp struggled to pierce the beasts’ thick muscles, Arroyo unleashed Black Ash Impact, and a Skeleton Spearman killed one of the monsters.

• Gu Xi spotted the feasting Giants-like monsters, formed his troops, and ordered Arroyo to lead the Black Spear Camp into battle.
• Gu Xi used Undead Tendrils and repeatedly cast Corpse Explosion on the roasted meat, blasting and burning the charging beasts.
• Arroyo and the Black Spear Camp attacked, but their weapons barely pierced the monsters’ thick muscles, and the beasts’ counterattack knocked down many Spearmen.
• Gu Xi summoned Skeleton Priests to restore the troops while Skeleton Archers and Skeleton Mages began test shots.
• Arroyo used Black Ash Impact to carry the surviving Spearmen behind the monsters, and a Skeleton Spearman killed an Evil Mutant Muscle Beast.

Gu Xi discovered that Ghosts and poison were effective against the Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts, while ordinary arrows barely hurt them. He summoned the fallen beasts as Battlefield Ghosts, turning the tide of the battle in his favor.

• Arroyo told Gu Xi that the Black Spear Camp’s new technique could turn undead spearmen into Ghosts, which countered the Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts.
• Gu Xi observed that Poison Gas Bombs affected the beasts and that Ghosts could damage them, so he deployed the Main City Gate and ordered the Ghosts and Mist Corpse Wizards to attack.
• More Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts charged Gu Xi’s forces, and he used White Bone Canopy to shield himself as the beasts overwhelmed some of his undead.
• Gu Xi found that the beasts’ physical attacks were ineffective against Ghosts and that their souls were vulnerable to soul attacks.
• Gu Xi used Summoning on fallen beasts and deliberately raised them as Battlefield Ghosts, which charged the enemy leaders and shifted the battle in his favor.

Gu Xi used the Battlefield Ghosts’ countering weapons and tactics to turn the fight against the Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts in his favor. After an Evil Mutant Muscle Beast BOSS joined the battle and destroyed one Ghost with a punch, Gu Xi sent the Nether Soul Dragon to hold it off while he pushed the rest of his forces to finish the enemy quickly.

• Gu Xi repeatedly summoned Battlefield Ghosts from fallen Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts, and the Ghosts countered their weapons while exploiting their weaknesses.
• After more than three hundred Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts had fallen, a BOSS at the end of the hall complained about the noise from his meal.
• Gu Xi ordered his forces to keep fighting, and the BOSS joined the battle after five hundred Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts had been slain.
• The BOSS destroyed a Battlefield Ghost with one punch, so Gu Xi sent the Nether Soul Dragon to hold him back.
• Gu Xi ordered the Ghosts to attack the remaining Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts without regard for their safety and summoned Isabella’s Blood Clone to support the undead soldiers.
• The Blood Clone’s blood rain replenished the undead soldiers’ life, while the Nether Soul Dragon fought the BOSS evenly.

Gu Xi learned how the Evil Mutant Muscle Beast BOSSes were deployed and fought, while the Giant Skeleton engaged the second BOSS and the Nether Soul Dragon killed the first. The Nether Soul Dragon attacked the second BOSS with its breath as the Giant Skeleton suddenly moved.

• After the thousandth Evil Mutant Muscle Beast died, the second BOSS joined the battle and attacked the Battlefield Ghosts.
• Gu Xi let the Giant Skeleton fight the green-skinned Evil Mutant Muscle Beast while the Nether Soul Dragon finished off the Red-Clothed Evil Mutant Muscle Beast.
• The Giant Skeleton absorbed the green-skinned BOSS’s electrical current as it held him in place.
• The system announced that the dead BOSS had been level 11 and that the remaining BOSSes gained a level; Gu Xi ordered the Nether Soul Dragon to attack the middle BOSS.
• The green-skinned BOSS lifted the Giant Skeleton to use him as a shield, but the Nether Soul Dragon breathed fire at them, and the Giant Skeleton suddenly moved.

The Nether Soul Dragon and Giant Skeleton defeated an Evil Mutant Muscle Beast, while Gu Xi summoned a Battlefield Ghost Headman to organize his troops ahead of the final BOSS battle. The Giant Skeleton absorbed the beast’s lightning and unlocked a task from before its death, which Gu Xi agreed to help complete.

• The Nether Soul Dragon and Giant Skeleton tore the Evil Mutant Muscle Beast apart, and the deaths of BOSS-level beasts raised the levels of the two remaining ones.
• Gu Xi summoned a Battlefield Ghost Headman from the Red-Clothed Evil Mutant Muscle Beast’s corpse and ordered it to organize the Battlefield Ghosts.
• The Battlefield Ghost Headman assembled forty ghosts into a battle formation and led them against the remaining Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts.
• The Giant Skeleton absorbed the dead beast’s remaining lightning, improving its quality and activating an unfinished task from before its death.
• Gu Xi accepted the prompt to help the Giant Skeleton complete its task.

Gu Xi ordered the Giant Skeleton to complete his coming-of-age trial by killing a Bone Dragon while he dealt with the Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts. The Giant Skeleton succeeded and advanced into a level 11 Bone Titan, while Shaya went into Aryadovi City to investigate the undead created from the fallen beasts.

• Gu Xi assigned the Giant Skeleton the mission of killing a Bone Dragon before it was shot down.
• A new Battlefield Ghost Head emerged from a slain Evil Mutant Muscle Beast BOSS and led an aggressive attack that rapidly reduced the remaining beasts.
• As the last Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts remained, Gu Xi told the Giant Skeleton to hold off the Bone Dragon and sent Shaya into Aryadovi City to find newly spawned undead.
• Shaya mocked the Giant Skeleton, prompting him to use Chain Lightning to pull the Bone Dragon down and bind it with Lightning Lock.
• The Giant Skeleton mounted the Bone Dragon and struck it until he completed the trial, advanced into a Bone Titan, and began preparing his Titan Armor.

After the Giant Skeleton advanced into a Bone Titan, Gu Xi gathered his undead forces and started a boss fight against an armored Evil Mutant Muscle Beast. The Bone Titan, two Electric-Start Zombie Warriors, and the Nether Soul Dragon coordinated their attacks and pinned the boss down.

• The Giant Skeleton completed its advancement into a Bone Titan and wielded a spear made from a Bone Dragon’s skull.
• Gu Xi saw the Electric-Start Zombies and their two warriors join his forces, then judged them to be a rare defensive unit.
• Gu Xi ordered his troops to begin the boss fight, and the Battlefield Ghosts killed the last ten Evil Mutant Muscle Beasts as he cast summoning spells on them.
• An armored Evil Mutant Muscle Beast rose and threatened Gu Xi, who ordered the Bone Titan and Zombie Warriors to hold it while the Nether Soul Dragon attacked.
• The boss knocked Iron Jaw aside and deflected the Bone Titan’s spear, but Broken Waist clamped onto its back as the Nether Soul Dragon blasted it with dragon breath and Iron Jaw restrained its spear arm.

Gu Xi and his summoned creatures defeated the Evil Mutant Muscle Beast, then used Summoning to turn its remains into Yagyu, a new Undead Hero. He assigned Yagyu the Battlefield Ghosts and ordered the undead to clean up the battlefield.

• Bone Titan bound the Evil Mutant Muscle Beast with Lightning Lock while the Nether Soul Dragon struck it with successive blasts of dragon breath.
• The Nether Soul Dragon's third attack blasted the Evil Mutant Muscle Beast apart, and it crushed the creature's Helmet to finish the kill.
• Gu Xi used Summoning on the remains and created Yagyu, a level 4 Undead Hero with Hero potential.
• Gu Xi assigned more than a thousand Battlefield Ghosts to Yagyu to organize and lead.
• Gu Xi ordered the Ghost Squad to clean up the battlefield and fetch the tavern chef to inspect the creature's remains as food.
• The undead began clearing the battlefield, and the first items were delivered to Gu Xi.

Gu Xi assessed the loot from the battle and asked his chef to study the recovered roasted-food recipes. After the chef left, Gu Xi had the Bone-Eating Mud consume the battlefield refuse and considered giving them a Garbage Area.

• Gu Xi reviewed the food, monster materials, and spear obtained from the battle, focusing on the food and its cooking recipes.
• A chef Skeleton inspected the intact roasted meat and explained that the tavern could reproduce similar recipes if Gu Xi found suitable ingredients.
• Gu Xi told the chef to research the recipes and promised to build a farm or livestock facility if he acquired an appropriate blueprint.
• The chef dismissed the smashed food as inedible and suggested using it as catapult ammunition, but Gu Xi sent him back to work on the recipes.
• Gu Xi summoned the Bone-Eating Mud, which ate the smashed food along with the broken bowls and plates.
• Gu Xi considered creating a Garbage Area for the Bone-Eating Mud after seeing how readily they consumed battlefield refuse.

After replenishing his army, Gu Xi entered the third stage and found a vast kitchen where a rat-controlled Puppet Chef ordered cooks to attack him. His Skeleton Archers killed the charging Evil Chefs almost instantly, leaving Gu Xi stunned by how weak the final stage’s enemies seemed.

• Gu Xi rested for three hours, replenished his forces, and formed an army of five thousand before advancing.
• Gu Xi gave the Evil Energy Spear to Arroyo and led his army through the doors at the back of the hall.
• Gu Xi entered a giant kitchen filled with enormous ingredients and saw a rat controlling a Puppet Chef.
• The rat mistook Gu Xi and his army for rats and ordered the Chefs to kill them.
• Gu Xi ordered his ranged troops to prepare, but the Skeleton Archers quickly killed the charging Evil Chefs with a volley of arrows.

Gu Xi repeatedly killed waves of Chefs in the Evil God Temple’s rear kitchen and used their corpses to summon thousands of undead. After earning the Chef Killer achievement, he saw enormous upright rats spawn beside the stove as the mouse announced the carnival had begun.

• Gu Xi’s forces killed successive waves of charging Chefs while he suspected the kitchen’s ingredients, rather than the Chefs, were the main threat.
• After noticing the Chefs’ levels and numbers dwindling, Gu Xi summoned 7,599 undead from their corpses and sent them back to Aryadovi City for equipment.
• Gu Xi continued killing Chefs and summoning undead until the final level 1 wave stopped spawning.
• Gu Xi received the Slaughtered Chef Achievement Statue and the Violent Gourmet title for killing all the Chefs in the rear kitchen.
• Enormous upright rats appeared beside the stove, and the mouse announced that the carnival had begun.

Gu Xi sent his forces after the rats that were stealing corpses, but the battle turned dangerous when the rat commanding the Puppet Chef revealed its lethal strength. Gu Xi dispatched two Death Avatars to confront the threat as the rat mistook them for Bone Dragons and planned to cook them.

• Gu Xi ordered the Battlefield Ghosts to reclaim the corpses, and Yagyu led them into battle against the rats.
• The rats rallied and injured the Battlefield Ghosts, so Gu Xi sent in the Ghost Squad and Electric-Start Zombies while Isabella used blood clouds to heal the ghosts.
• Yagyu switched the Battlefield Ghosts to full attack, and one ghost struck the rat riding the Puppet Chef.
• The rat commanded the Puppet Chef to attack, and the Puppet Chef sliced the Battlefield Ghost into pieces before killing more ghosts.
• Gu Xi sent out his two Death Avatars, and the rat mistook them for Bone Dragons it could roast and simmer.

Gu Xi and his Death Avatars fought the Puppet Chef and its controlling mouse, first clearing the kitchen of mice and then destroying the Puppet Chef. The mouse was killed, and Gu Xi relaxed when a ding confirmed the fight was over.

• Death Avatar-Bone Dragon realized Death Dragon Breath had struck the Puppet Chef instead of the mouse, so Gu Xi ordered Death Avatar-Death God to engage the Puppet Chef while his troops killed the mice.
• Death Avatar-Death God blocked the Puppet Chef's attacks and weakened it with curses as Gu Xi's troops slaughtered most of the mice.
• Gu Xi used Wave of Death to reveal and freeze the remaining mice, and his undead killed them all.
• Gu Xi's Death Avatars used Dissolving Rays to melt the Chef Hat, exposing the mouse, who tried to leap onto Death Avatar-Bone Dragon.
• Death Avatar-Bone Dragon's Crystal Dust Storm slowed the Puppet Chef, allowing Death Avatar-Death God to cut off its head and fling the mouse free.
• Death Avatar-Bone Dragon struck the mouse with Dissolving Ray, melting its flesh and leaving bones; Gu Xi relaxed when a ding rang out.

After killing the Twisted Chef Leader, Gu Xi earned achievements and ordered his undead to salvage the kitchen and its corpses. The cleanup yielded materials, a chef’s memory core, and the quest item Glory of Plague.

• Gu Xi discovered that killing the Twisted Chef Leader without activating the ingredients earned him the Twisted Ingredients achievement statue and the Evil Food God title, which he combined with Violent Gourmet into Food Devourer.
• Gu Xi ordered his forces to transport the Chefs’ corpses to Aryadovi and had the Ghost Squad dismantle the rat corpses while the Undead Eye Musicians investigated them.
• The Undead Eye Musicians played at the rats’ death sites, drawing out rat phantoms before they vanished.
• The Ghost Squad dismantled the Puppet Chef, hauled away the kitchen stoves, and scavenged giant food and flour granules.
• Gu Xi received kitchen knives, cloth, seasonings, Blood Oil, a Chef’s Memory Core, a damaged Puppet power engine, and the quest item Glory of Plague.

After defeating the chefs, Gu Xi gained over fifty thousand undead for Aryadovi City and discovered that the Evil God Temple had reached its outer edge. He realized the temple was held in place by Lida Juan’s finger and concluded that destroying it could send the temple crashing into Stuttestrup World.

• Gu Xi found a temporary quest on the rat-skin banquet recipes and considered offering it to Liu Kai in exchange for purple equipment.
• Gu Xi learned that the battle had added over fifty thousand undead troops to Aryadovi City.
• Shaya reported that the passage ended at a vast balcony, where fierce winds prevented the Nether Soul Dragon from flying outside.
• Gu Xi spotted Lida Juan’s red-haired finger wedged above the balcony and realized it was holding the Evil God Temple in place.
• Gu Xi decided not to approach the other groups and began considering how to strike the finger.

Gu Xi summoned Death Avatar and ordered his forces to attack a giant red-haired monster that emerged from a severed finger. The monster withstood their assaults and began overpowering them, leaving Gu Xi’s forces struggling to hold it back.

• Gu Xi summoned Death Avatar-Bone Dragon, which flew up and attacked the enormous finger with Death Dragon Breath, but the finger struck it down and transformed into a giant armored monster.
• Gu Xi ordered Death Avatar-Death God to attack and Shaya to cut the two lines connecting the monster to the space above.
• Bone Titan, the three Electric-Start Zombies, and the Nether Soul Dragon attacked the monster, but it battered the Nether Soul Dragon and flung Magic Helmet away.
• Iron Jaw bit the monster’s arm while Broken Waist wedged itself into its muscles, and Death Avatar-Death God sent three cursed skulls into the creature’s nostrils.
• Death Avatar-Bone Dragon recovered, and Gu Xi dropped the Steel City Gate onto the monster, but it lifted the gate and grabbed Earthbound Weird Dragon as it tried to pull it free.

Gu Xi and his Death Avatars drove the monster off the Evil God Temple balcony by severing its bloodlines and knocking it into the air. After Death Avatar-Death God climbed one bloodline to scout the area above, Gu Xi used Aryadovi City to reach the Steel City Gate and head up himself.

• Death Avatar-Bone Dragon distracted the monster while Death Avatar-Death God cursed it into a berserk rage, drawing it toward the balcony edge.
• Shaya severed the monster’s two bloodlines with Well Dragon’s Roar, and Death Avatar-Death God used Trajectory Slash to pull it beyond the railing.
• Gu Xi summoned Death Avatar-Bone Dragon with extra weight, sending the monster flying away from the balcony and out into the air.
• Two Electric-Start Zombies released the bloodlines over the edge, and Death Avatar-Death God climbed one to scout the area above the temple.
• Gu Xi sent the Steel City Gate above the temple and used Aryadovi City to transfer there, leaving Shaya to keep watch below.
• Gu Xi ran from the Main City Gate toward the Steel City Gate and noticed Aryadovi City had gained many undead residents after the battle.

Gu Xi reached the top of the Evil God Temple and realized that releasing more of Lida Juan’s fingers would unleash powerful monsters, so he chose to dismantle the platform instead. He left the finger-hand untouched and had his undead carefully salvage the structure, with valuable materials and a building design already being recovered.

• Gu Xi saw that Lida Juan’s Ring Finger Knuckle had been severed and realized that moving the other fingers could release more monsters.
• Gu Xi checked the sealed staircase and sent Shaya to investigate the area where they had fought and the hall where he had entered.
• Gu Xi decided that fighting the remaining monsters was too dangerous and ordered undead from the Main City Gate to dismantle the platform.
• Undead architects studied the structure and chose to dismantle it from the central staircase, while other undead removed and transported the materials.
• Gu Xi received reports that the demolition crew had recovered Blue Quality building material, Purple Quality timber, and a small building design drawing.

Gu Xi uncovered valuable materials and a hidden teleportation mechanism while demolishing the Evil God Temple’s platform. When the giant hand’s bloody threads began retracting, he ordered the demolition sped up, and an Undead Architect reported another discovery.

• Gu Xi realized the temple’s materials, hidden treasures, and Building Blueprints could help improve Aryadovi City.
• Shaya found three floor tiles that activated a balcony’s Teleportation Array, which revealed a route toward a sealed door above the hall.
• Gu Xi could not contact Fang Kang and decided to keep the upper platform for himself while warning the others to find a way to survive.
• An Electric-Start Zombie warrior reported that the bloody threads were retracting, so Gu Xi ordered his undead to prioritize and accelerate the demolition.
• An Undead Architect told Gu Xi that the workers had found something and asked him to come look.