Chapter Summaries

Big Beard’s phantom declared that only one player could atone for every sin and leave, then summoned eighteen doors as entrances to the trial. As the players argued over sin and innocence, Sin appeared behind Ace of Spades and said he was hungry and that Ace smelled delicious.

• Big Beard’s phantom told the players that only one person could atone for every sin and win, provoking suspicion and hostility among the crowd.
• Ace of Spades challenged Sin, but Sin lowered his head and stayed silent while a Dragon Group elder prepared to intervene.
• Perfect Life claimed he was innocent, and he and Big Beard’s phantom accused each other of sin.
• Xie Antong dismissed the idea that sins could be resolved through atonement and demanded the rules, while a mature-looking woman also asked how the game worked.
• Big Beard’s phantom produced eighteen glowing doors and told everyone to choose one to atone in, without explaining the specific rules.
• Sin appeared behind Ace of Spades, asked if Ace had been speaking to him, then said he was hungry and that Ace smelled delicious.

Lu Ce, wearing the red mask of gluttony, attacked Ace of Spades and revealed a brutal fighting style that let him endure a saber wound while tearing flesh from his opponent. After the game selected a gate and Lu Ce bit at it in vain, he realized the mask could no longer be removed and endless devouring might be all that remained.

• Ace of Spades sized up Lu Ce while Xie Antong prepared to record his combat ability.
• Lu Ce lunged at Ace of Spades, who dodged and slashed him with a golden saber.
• Lu Ce charged through the blade despite his wound, bit into Ace of Spades's shoulder, and tore away flesh.
• Ace of Spades fought back and drove Lu Ce toward a door as the game selected gate one of eighteen.
• Lu Ce bit at the door but caught nothing, then realized the mask of gluttony could no longer be removed.

After consuming energy from a likely divine envoy and Ace of Spades's shoulder, Lu Ce's Gluttony Mask neared overload and made him see everyone as food. Most players entered the eighteen doors, and Xie Antong left Lu Ce with a warning that the game involved the Eighteen Hells.

• Lu Ce lost control of his hunger after eating the energy and Ace of Spades's shoulder, while Chiyo Ming teased him and Xie Antong assessed the players with her All-Knowing Eye.
• The players began selecting doors as Lu Ce wandered around gnawing on one, though it had no physical form.
• After most players entered, Lu Ce told Xie Antong that she smelled delicious and asked why she was there.
• Xie Antong said she wanted to witness his death herself, explained that the game was called Eighteen Hells, and entered a door.
• Lu Ce stared blankly after Xie Antong disappeared, leaving only one door unselected.

Lu Ce and the other players entered separate rooms in the Eighteen Hells game, where their surroundings began to change as the game demanded that they count their sins. The chapter left the players facing unknown trials, with only one person allowed to atone successfully.

• Big Beard's phantom shoved Lu Ce through a door, starting the game, while Gluttony continued biting his hand.
• Lu Ce landed in a vast bowl-shaped pit beneath heavy cylindrical objects and kept chewing.
• Xie Antong inspected the steel plates and shackles in her white room, then identified the possible connection to the Eighteen Hells.
• Xu Long found himself on a tiny island surrounded by rising magma and tested it with his bare foot.
• The other players arrived in distinct rooms, and the game announced that they must count their sins and only one could atone.

The Bearded Phantom began a new game in the Eighteen Hells, showing players images and confronting them with their past crimes as red lamps lit above their rooms. Xu Long rejected the accusations, Lu Ce ate the creatures sent into his room, and Xie Antong was asked whether she still loved him.

• The Bearded Phantom announced a game in which players faced separate rooms and eighteen unlit lamps appeared above them.
• Xu Long recognized scenes from his past, admitted to killing a man and burning his house, then challenged the game as another lamp turned red.
• Dragon Group members watched the events, while the Grand Elder silently monitored the rooms from the Elder Council basement.
• Lu Ce's Gluttony swallowed a fleeing snake and a rotten rat, but no red lamp lit above his room.
• Xie Antong noticed the red lamps and their connection to events in the rooms, then heard the question, "Do you still love him?"

Xie Antong tried to answer a series of questions in the Eighteen Hells game while resisting Joy's influence, then realized she had been judged guilty in Tongue-Pulling Hell. As the lights overhead continued to illuminate, a scream sounded and a giant screen appeared, leaving the next stage of the judgment unclear.

• Xie Antong stalled for information as the game began a countdown, then used Joy's power to answer questions about the man she loved.
• Xie Antong told the voice she loved the man who shot her on her wedding day and would rather kill him herself if he had to die.
• The game questioned Xie Antong about winning and choosing a victor, and the lights above her turned red as she answered.
• Xie Antong injected herself with medicine, suspected she had lied, and identified Tongue-Pulling Hell as the judgment she had failed.
• Xie Antong saw fourteen of the eighteen lights illuminated before a scream rang out and a giant screen appeared before her.

Xie Antong watched Passerby A endure a gruesome punishment before he passed it to another player, learning that the game let sinners transfer their punishments. As seventeen lights turned red and only one remained unlit, she suspected Lu Ce had escaped judgment in the Gluttony game.

• A massive screen showed Passerby A strapped upside down as a saw descended toward him, while Xie Antong and the other players watched from their rooms.
• Passerby A admitted his guilt, then pressed a red button to transfer his punishment before learning what the gray button did.
• The saw stopped, and Xie Antong's room displayed a video of Elder Council member Xu Long as the next punishment target.
• Xie Antong realized the game judged players' sins and let them pass punishments to others, with only one person able to atone.
• Xie Antong saw that seventeen lights were red and wondered whether Lu Ce, the Lonely Eater, was the only player not judged guilty.

Xie Antong inferred that Lu Ce’s unlit final red light was crucial and watched Xu Long’s turn for clues about the game. Xu Long activated the gray button before hearing its explanation, causing the lava to rise faster and set his shorts on fire.

• Xie Antong searched the livestream audience for details about Lu Ce’s room but found that the game blocked players from sharing them.
• Xie Antong inferred that Lu Ce’s final unlit red light mattered and focused on Xu Long’s screen, hoping to learn more.
• Xu Long’s island began sinking beneath rising lava, so he removed his Dragon Group robe and put it away.
• Xu Long struck the gray button before the game finished explaining the choices.
• The gray button’s special effect made the lava spread faster, and it set Xu Long’s shorts on fire.

Xu Long tested the gray button and transferred his punishment with the red button, while the Big Beard divine messenger confronted Lu Ce to force him into the game. The chapter ended with the messenger accusing Lu Ce of wasting food and demanding that he acknowledge his sin.

• Xu Long pressed the gray button and received a blue garment, which he immediately threw into the lava.
• The Dragon Group ordered Xu Long to stop testing the gray button, and he pressed the red button to transfer his punishment.
• Xie Antong reasoned that the gray button could produce valuable items and considered how Lu Ce might clear the game by dealing with the divine messenger.
• The Big Beard divine messenger entered Lu Ce's room and accused him of wasting and squandering food.

In Spring Mortar Hell, Big Beard tried to convict Sin of wasting food, but Sin used Gluttony to attack and devour part of the divine envoy's phantom. Sin thanked Big Beard and promised not to waste any of his flesh.

• Big Beard accused Sin of wasting grain and food while viewers questioned his unfairness toward the players.
• Sin, overwhelmed by Gluttony's effects, asked who counted as food and launched himself at Big Beard's phantom.
• Big Beard retreated, but Sin bit off some of the energy forming his body and reset the envoy's countdown.
• Sin charged again and struck through Big Beard's phantom, consuming more of his power before stopping to chew.
• Sin thanked Big Beard and promised not to waste a single piece of his flesh.

Lu Ce entered Gluttony’s second phase and attacked Big Beard’s divine envoy, forcing Big Beard to strike him and judge him guilty. With all eighteen lamps lit, Sin officially entered the game, and Xie Antong saw the punishment expand to include another room.

• Lu Ce’s Gluttony reached its second phase, making him faster and more violent as he pursued and bit Big Beard’s divine envoy.
• Big Beard’s divine envoy struggled to escape while weighing whether to let Lu Ce go or intervene.
• Big Beard finally enlarged himself and struck Lu Ce with a blast of divine power, sending him into a wall.
• Big Beard declared Lu Ce guilty, lighting the eighteenth lamp and making Sin officially enter the game.
• Xie Antong sensed the game’s difficulty rising as the display split into two screens and a new room joined the punishment.

Lu Ce endured the punishment in Mortar Hell while watching another player's execution in Bull Pit Hell. The other player triggered the gray button's special effect and was killed by the empowered bulls, marking the first execution.

• After Big Beard left, Lu Ce's room repaired itself and the punishment resumed as a screen showed another player's execution.
• Lu Ce tried to grab and eat the projected screen, then watched the player face demon bulls in Bull Pit Hell.
• A massive pillar struck Lu Ce as he tried to catch it, and he discovered its surface was reinforced tungsten steel.
• The experienced player in Bull Pit Hell pressed the gray button, activating a special effect that greatly strengthened every demon bull.
• The bulls killed the player, and the game announced that one of the eighteen executions had succeeded.

As old players watched the new game begin, one of them died almost immediately, while Xie Antong studied Lu Ce’s choices in Mortar Hell. She realized that Sin remained in control even in his Gluttony state and that the damage to Lu Ce’s room pointed to an earlier fight.

• An old player died when the game’s execution difficulty suddenly increased, and the surviving players realized the new challenge could kill them without warning.
• Gluttony pressed the gray button, triggering Special Mode as heavy pillars struck Sin, who endured the blows and gnawed at the pillars’ tungsten cores.
• Xie Antong noticed the dents in Lu Ce’s room and suspected he had fought someone before the game footage was selected.
• Sin deliberately leapt to reach a gray button placed among the overhead pillars, showing Xie Antong that he could still make controlled choices while mad.
• Xie Antong concluded that Lu Ce’s earlier conviction was not a mistake and said the flaw had been exposed early.

Xie Antong reasoned that the game update was meant to discourage players from pressing the gray button, suggesting it threatened the game or its divine envoys, and she began preparing to stall in her torture-device room. Perfect Life faced a blade-filled room and chose gray as the rollers began turning, while Sin continued pressing gray under attack.

• Xie Antong concluded that pressing gray likely posed a serious threat to the game or Big Beard, even though it put players at greater risk than pressing red.
• Xie Antong gathered and assembled the torture devices in her room, deciding that its layout could help her stall.
• Sin repeatedly pressed the gray button as pillars battered him, while the other players watched his screen.
• Perfect Life opened his eyes in a cramped room lined with spinning blade-covered rollers and asked how Sin could keep choosing gray.
• As the rollers began turning, Perfect Life raced across the blade tips toward his button and chose gray.

Perfect Life joined Sin in repeatedly pressing the gray button, worsening their dangerous rooms as they tried to uncover its effects. When a new punishment was triggered for everyone, Xie Antong was selected and challenged Aladdin's Lamp by asking whether it also needed to atone.

• Perfect Life concluded that Sin was targeting the existence behind the game and pressed the gray button himself.
• The gray button enlarged the rollers and sharpened their blades, making Perfect Life's Mountain of Blades Hell even more dangerous.
• Perfect Life kept pursuing gray buttons while Sin endured his own punishment, and their actions stalled the transfer of punishments between players.
• Another player pressed a gray button, triggering a special effect that increased everyone's punishment.
• Xie Antong appeared on a screen and asked Aladdin's Lamp whether it too needed to atone.

Xie Antong exploited Tongue-Pulling Hell’s restraints to trap Little Ghost, then spread a rumor about Big Beard to make the other players question him. After pressing the red button and repairing her weapons, she watched to see how the players would react.

• Xie Antong wedged her Epic Grade weapons into the tangled restraints, preventing Little Ghost from freeing himself.
• Little Ghost strained to break the weapons, but Xie Antong pressed the red button and ended the punishment.
• Xie Antong repaired her cracked weapons and watched the other players’ screens.
• Ace of Spades and Chiyo Ming questioned Xie Antong’s claim about Big Beard, while the other players grew wary.
• Xie Antong admitted to herself that the claim was a rumor meant to influence the players’ suspicions.

Xie Antong cast doubt on the red button, causing players and the Elder Council to reconsider their strategies. As Lu Ce neared death in Mortar Hell, he invoked “Chosen of Suffering” and called to add points.

• Xie Antong suggested that the red button might serve the divine envoy’s interests, unsettling the players and the Big Beard divine envoy.
• The Grand Elder realized Xie Antong’s words had disrupted the game’s strategy and recognized her quick thinking.
• After her punishment ended, Xie Antong returned to Passerby A, who pressed the red button when his turn resumed.
• Chiyo Ming endured Blood Pool Hell and chose the gray button despite the blood scorching and corroding her body.
• Lu Ce neared death in Mortar Hell, then silently invoked “Chosen of Suffering” and said, “Add points!”

Lu Ce spent Pain to strengthen his body and withstand Mortar Hell’s crushing pillar. After he broke the pillar’s mechanism, he bit into the Tungsten Pillar, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Lu Ce decided to spend most of his accumulated Pain on Strength, Coordination, and Luck to strengthen himself against Gluttony.
• Lu Ce braced himself against a stone pillar and pushed it up, shattering its internal structure.
• Big Beard recognized that Lu Ce had damaged the execution mechanism in Mortar Hell and questioned his connection to Pain.
• Lu Ce ignored the gray button, turned toward the Tungsten Pillar, and bit down on it.
• A cracking sound came from where Lu Ce’s teeth clamped onto the pillar.

Lu Ce broke the Tungsten Pillar with his teeth, creating a safe gap in Mortar Hell and shocking the other players. He then used a fallen pillar to strike the gray button, and one of the eighteen red lights turned green.

• Lu Ce kept biting the Tungsten Pillar as it pounded him, until cracks spread and the pillar’s lower third exploded into fragments that wounded him.
• Gluttony laughed, climbed the pillar, and bit through it again, causing it to collapse and leave a gap where Mortar Hell could no longer strike Lu Ce.
• Lu Ce chewed the tungsten to absorb energy and repair his wounds while the other players watched in shock; Perfect Life skipped his round, and players in other rooms began pressing their gray buttons.
• Lu Ce grabbed the fallen pillar and charged through the formation, swinging it at the gray button.
• The gray button produced no visible effect in Lu Ce’s room, but one of the eighteen red lights overhead turned green.

Lu Ce survived the Tungsten Pillar punishment and turned the light green, secretly alarming Big Beard's divine envoy, who knew the lamp was meant for him. Although Lu Ce's stage seemed complete, he found a hidden gray button and pressed it, causing the screen to switch to a room where two people appeared.

• Lu Ce's green light stopped the Tungsten Pillars, and the pillars retracted as his wounds healed.
• The audience and players wondered what the green light meant, while executions continued in other rooms and Sin's punishment stopped.
• Xie Antong sensed that the game had changed unnaturally, while Big Beard's divine envoy realized the green light had activated the lamp meant for him.
• Lu Ce spotted a gray button hidden between the Tungsten Pillars and pressed it despite his stage appearing complete.
• Lu Ce's screen shut off and a new room appeared, showing two people, including Sin.