Chapter Summaries

Lu Ce was transferred into Bystander B’s room, where the room’s suicide punishments began. He ignored the danger and raced from button to button, leaving Bystander B struggling to keep up.

• Lu Ce appeared in Bystander B’s room after a room-transfer effect triggered, and the floor vanished beneath them.
• Bystander B tried to press the red button, but Lu Ce struck him with the tungsten gold pillar and sent him crashing into a wall.
• Bystander B teleported away, while Lu Ce pressed the gray button and triggered a room full of suicide punishments.
• In another room, Xie Antong realized that Wrongful Death Hell forced its occupants to commit suicide.
• Lu Ce drank the poison and rushed to press another button, accepting each new punishment as he began speedrunning the room.

Lu Ce exploited his strength and Gluttony to overcome the execution rooms, turning their dangers into opportunities to grow stronger. After devouring an entire herd in Bull Pit Hell, he moved on in pursuit of the red lights while Big Beard feared he had become unstoppable.

• Lu Ce ignored the suicide methods in Wrongful Death Hell, endured them without harm, and triggered the room's special mode until Bystander B regained control of his body.
• Lu Ce left Bystander B behind and entered Bull Pit Hell, where he saw a herd of cattle and charged at them.
• Lu Ce devoured the cattle in a gruesome slaughter, then pressed the gray button after the herd was gone.
• Lu Ce left the room as its third green light lit and continued toward the next room, seeming to chase the red lights.
• Big Beard watched Lu Ce grow stronger with each room and feared that he had become unstoppable.

Lu Ce speedran through the rooms and lit six green lamps, but a veteran player attacked him while the game’s judgments began turning the lamps red again. As Tongue-Pulling Hell intensified, Xie Antong was restrained by a Little Ghost and warned it that King Yama was behind it.

• Lu Ce lit six green lamps in quick succession, throwing Big Beard’s expectations and corrections off balance.
• A veteran spear-wielding player ambushed Lu Ce in Stone Mill Hell, and the two began fighting as the stone mill turned.
• Xie Antong realized that players left behind in rooms could be judged again, and one of Lu Ce’s green lamps turned red.
• The Little Ghost broke free of Xie Antong’s Epic Grade Weapon and used the execution tools to restrain her as Tongue-Pulling Hell reopened.
• The Little Ghost taunted Xie Antong, who told it that King Yama was behind it.

Xie Antong realized that two execution rooms had overlapped, making Little Ghost far stronger, and he began the tongue-ripping punishment. Lu Ce appeared behind Little Ghost and devoured him, leaving Xie Antong watching in fear.

• Little Ghost's strength rose after his room merged with another, and Xie Antong realized the execution difficulty had increased because two rooms overlapped.
• Little Ghost forced Xie Antong's mouth open and prepared to rip out her tongue while she waited for Lu Ce to appear.
• Lu Ce placed a scorching hand on Little Ghost's shoulder, startling him as he turned to face the blood-covered figure.
• Lu Ce attacked Little Ghost with Gluttony and began devouring his energy body, while Little Ghost's hook struck Lu Ce and drew a few drops of blood.
• Little Ghost's scream stopped as Lu Ce devoured him, and Xie Antong watched in fear.

Lu Ce absorbed Little Ghost and struggled with the unstable power of Gluttony, while Xie Antong tried to determine whether he still recognized her. She provoked him rather than escape, and his careful grip suggested he had not completely lost control.

• Little Ghost turned into air and entered Gluttony's stomach, where Lu Ce absorbed him instantly.
• Xie Antong feared Lu Ce had taken in too much power and considered merging with Joy if he lost control.
• A red button appeared in Xie Antong's palm, and she pretended to press it to test Lu Ce.
• Lu Ce lunged forward and seized Xie Antong's wrist before she could activate the button, carefully avoiding breaking her arm.
• Xie Antong taunted Lu Ce and warned that continuing to eat might make him explode.

Lu Ce used Gluttony to make Xie Antong press a gray button, undoing the players’ efforts to keep the room from turning green. He revealed that he had never intended to cooperate with the others and would force them instead.

• Xie Antong worried that Lu Ce’s endless energy absorption could make him lose control and wondered why he never released the stored power.
• Gluttony released Xie Antong and told her he could smell a different flavor in her and Him, then said it was not time when she questioned him.
• Gluttony kicked the red button out of Xie Antong’s hand, lifted her, and forced her to press a gray button repeatedly.
• Xie Antong realized Lu Ce was making her trigger another judgment, and four green lights remained overhead as the players’ earlier choices were overturned.
• Gluttony told Xie Antong that he had never intended to cooperate with anyone and would force them, just as he was forcing her.

Lu Ce threatened the other contestants and the being behind the hell game while Xie Antong kept pressing the gray button for him. After Xie Antong activated a green light, Lu Ce left her behind and vanished, suspecting Big Beard was not a divine envoy.

• Lu Ce offered the contestants a choice between pressing their buttons or waiting for him to find and kill them, then challenged Big Beard.
• Chiyo Ming, Ace of Spades, and Xu Long reacted to Lu Ce’s threats while he weakened from suppressing his chaos.
• Xie Antong asked Lu Ce to kill her, but he had returned to an incoherent state and continued pressing the button with her.
• Xie Antong’s room’s light turned green, and Lu Ce threw her aside before pressing his own gray button and vanishing.
• Lu Ce sensed that Big Beard smelled different from the other divine envoys and suspected he was not one.

Lu Ce remained wary of Big Beard as he rushed to light more green buttons, while the other players followed suit. Perfect Life became the second player to clear a hell and openly challenged Big Beard, hinting that he would act against the god-disrespect charge.

• Lu Ce suspected Big Beard was a genuine god and restrained Xie Antong to keep her from interfering.
• After Sin disappeared, the players began pressing gray buttons, and six green lights appeared overhead.
• Perfect Life endured Knife Mountain Hell and became the second player to clear a hell.
• Perfect Life healed with high-grade medicine, told Big Beard he would fulfill his charge, and addressed the players watching through the screens.

Perfect Life and Lu Ce pushed players to press the gray buttons, disrupting Big Beard’s plan as green lights spread across the rooms. Big Beard focused on the player nearing a loss of humanity, hoping that person would become a decisive variable.

• Perfect Life urged everyone to press the gray button, while Ace of Spades chose to press it first and Xu Long ignored the Dragon Group’s orders to join in.
• Perfect Life forced Passerby A to press the gray button by knocking away his red button and turning the saw toward him.
• Lu Ce entered Blood Pool Hell, where Gluttony drank from the blood pool and pounced on Chiyo Ming as she reached for a button.
• Green lights appeared across the eighteen rooms, and Big Beard watched the player nearing a loss of humanity, suggesting that the player was close to collapse.

As Lu Ce’s Gluttony form neared collapse, he forced Chiyo Ming to activate the gray button in Blood Pool Hell while Xie Antong searched for a way to think like a god. More green lights appeared across the hells, bringing the count closer to forcing Big Beard out.

• Big Beard focused on Sin in Blood Pool Hell, recognized his power was nearing an explosive breaking point, and began gathering his own power.
• Chiyo Ming dodged Gluttony and tried to make him understand that they shared the goal of pressing the gray button, while Lu Ce’s restraint kept her from suffering the blood pool’s full punishment.
• Xie Antong worried that Lu Ce was close to collapsing and decided to think the way a god would.
• Xu Long escaped Volcano Hell, and the saw stopped just before reaching a person in Saw Hell, giving both a green light.
• Chiyo Ming pressed the gray button under Gluttony’s pressure, and Big Beard opened his eyes as the green lights overtook the others.

Lu Ce continued pressing gray buttons as Sin, while Big Beard prepared to confront him. In Oil Pot Hell, Lu Ce overwhelmed Ace of Spades, and a mysterious phantom appeared, declaring itself Lu Ce’s executioner.

• Gluttony and Perfect Life continued clearing rooms, while Xu Long joined them and Chiyo Ming pondered the game’s purpose.
• When twelve green lights appeared, Big Beard’s phantom manifested and looked toward Lu Ce’s room as Lu Ce sensed his presence.
• After the thirteenth green light lit, Lu Ce entered Oil Pot Hell and found Ace of Spades waiting with four blades ready to fight.
• Lu Ce struck Ace of Spades with overwhelming force, sending him flying and beginning to lose control of his own body.
• Ace of Spades stepped on the gray button, but the room did not change; Lu Ce smiled as every room shook and a golden phantom declared, “I shall be your executioner!”

Big Beard revealed his true identity as Judgment and confronted Lu Ce after Lu Ce swallowed his divine power. As Judgment gathered tungsten gold into armor around himself, Lu Ce remained unstable but demanded more to eat.

• Big Beard appeared in Oil Pot Hell and declared that he was the executioner of those whose sins were unforgivable.
• Ace of Spades recovered from being thrown into the wall and wondered why Big Beard had appeared before all the green lights were lit.
• Lu Ce stopped pressing the gray button, swallowed the divine power Big Beard tossed to him, and his body swelled and cracked with light.
• Big Beard created a powerful gravitational pull that collapsed several hell rooms and drew tungsten gold and Lu Ce's Tungsten Pillar to him.
• Big Beard formed armor from the tungsten gold and identified himself as Judgment, leaving the Grand Elder, Perfect Life, and Xie Antong pale with shock.

Gluttony recognized Judgment as a god and the weakest kind of one, then unleashed his suppressed power and attacked him in Oil Pot Hell. He managed to crack Judgment’s armor and began devouring the blue energy inside it, despite Judgment warning that he would burst to death.

• The Grand Elder trembled and muttered in the Dragon Group’s basement, insisting that Judgment’s appearance was too early.
• Ace of Spades lowered his blades and gave up fighting as Judgment’s presence unsettled him.
• Gluttony laughed, revealed that he wanted to taste a god, and shattered the floor of Oil Pot Hell with a powerful blow.
• Gluttony charged Judgment and cracked his tungsten-gold armor, then rammed his mouth into the gap and began devouring the blue energy within.
• Judgment slapped Gluttony away and warned that consuming the energy would hasten his death, but Gluttony stood up and said he intended to eat his fill.

Xie Antong freed herself from her restraints and escaped as Pleasure, then Perfect Life arrived in Oil Pot Hell and tried to calculate Judgment's weakness. Judgment shattered his formation and knocked Lu Ce, Perfect Life, and Sin into the walls, leaving Perfect Life asking Sin to join forces.

• Xie Antong dislocated her shoulder, merged with Pleasure, and cut through her restraints.
• Xie Antong kicked away the iron bars, stored them in her game space, and stepped on the gray button to teleport away as Pleasure.
• Perfect Life appeared in Oil Pot Hell and saw Judgment battering Lu Ce.
• Perfect Life used Yin Yang Hand to form an Eight Trigrams formation and calculate the danger, but sensed signs of certain death.
• Judgment smashed the formation with its tungsten-gold staff, sent all three fighters flying, and Gluttony told Perfect Life to stay away.

Gluttony, Perfect Life, and Xu Long attacked Judgment while Chiyo Ming withdrew into the shadows, and Judgment’s tungsten armor began to crack under Gluttony’s repeated charges. With five people gathered in the room, Judgment offered them an opportunity to ascend.

• Gluttony ignored Perfect Life and repeatedly charged Judgment, tearing small cracks in his tungsten armor and devouring some of his power.
• Perfect Life dodged Judgment’s attack and mocked him for relying on Gluttony to collapse before he could win.
• Chiyo Ming and Xu Long teleported into the room; Chiyo Ming vanished into the shadows while Judgment knocked Xu Long away with a tungsten slab.
• Judgment surveyed the five people in the room, struck the ground with his Tungsten Pillar, and asked whether they wanted to ascend.

Judgment offered the surviving players ascension as divine envoys, claiming it came without a price, while Gluttony continued attacking and the others reacted with suspicion. In an unnoticed corner, Xie Antong watched a screen and questioned Judgment’s claim that everyone who could still move was present.

• Xu Long threw a tungsten plate at Judgment and accused him of trying to provoke infighting, while Chiyo Ming rejected Xu Long’s claim that they were allies.
• Judgment announced that the players could become his divine envoys and said he alone would choose who ascended.
• Chiyo Ming asked what ascension would cost, and Judgment said it was a gift that would give them a new identity and some of his power.
• Ace of Spades asked what they had to do, but Gluttony intercepted Judgment’s attempt to begin his baptism, and Judgment floated Ace of Spades into the air.
• Perfect Life questioned the players’ willingness to become divine envoys, while Chiyo Ming retreated into the shadows.
• Xie Antong watched from another room and questioned Judgment’s claim that everyone still able to move was with him.

Xie Antong covertly watched the battle while manipulating a mysterious button, and Judgment completed Ace of Spades’s ascension. As Lu Ce began to falter and Judgment thought the other players had missed their chance, an unknown voice interrupted him with a question.

• Xie Antong used her concealment items and Activation ability to watch Judgment through a screen while pressing buttons and probing the original player’s fear.
• Ace of Spades completed his ascension in seconds, returning to his former appearance with an aura that Perfect Life could barely sense.
• Judgment wrapped the newly ascended Ace of Spades in tungsten gold as Lu Ce exploited the momentary opening to strike him.
• Lu Ce’s body began struggling to control the Gluttony Mask, while Ace of Spades and the other players charged at him.
• Judgment briefly escaped Lu Ce’s attacks and remarked that not everyone had chosen ascension, then an unfamiliar voice asked him a question.

Xie Antong appeared in the room and challenged Judgment, while insulting Sin and Chiyo Ming and questioning Ace of Spades’ supposed Ascension. She accused Judgment of fearing something and pointed out that the green lights might trigger an event, leaving the others waiting for their response.

• Xie Antong appeared and clashed briefly with Ace of Spades, then insulted Judgment and made clear she was not siding with them.
• Xie Antong taunted Sin and called out Chiyo Ming for considering serving Judgment.
• Xie Antong questioned whether Ace of Spades’ transformation counted as Ascension and suggested Judgment was controlling ghosts.
• Xie Antong asked Judgment what they feared and pointed to the ceiling lights, asking what would happen when all the green lights turned on.

Xie Antong revealed that seventeen of the eighteen lights had turned green and suggested that the final green light would condemn Judgment itself. As Judgment fought back, Sin struck it hard enough to shatter its tungsten-gold weapon, leaving the room’s battle unresolved.

• Xie Antong drew everyone’s attention to the lights and revealed that seventeen had turned green while she cleared the other hells.
• Judgment attacked Xie Antong, who dodged and challenged its right to execute her.
• Xie Antong proposed that all eighteen green lights would mean Judgment was guilty of failing to judge correctly.
• Judgment denied her theory and attacked again as Ace of Spades began another round of slaughter.
• Xie Antong taunted Judgment about the last light, and Sin used its opening to smash into Judgment and shatter its weapon.

As Sin drew Judgment’s fiercest attacks, Perfect Life realized that the missing button was hidden inside Judgment’s armor, which only Sin could break through. Xie Antong withdrew to watch the fight and asked Chiyo Ming who could judge Judgment.

• Judgment recovered his tungsten-gold armor and staff, then battered Gluttony with lightning and a sweeping strike.
• Ace of Spades attacked Xie Antong, while Judgment accused the mortals of being sinners and joined the assault.
• Perfect Life switched places with Ace of Spades and asked Xie Antong where the safe place was.
• Xie Antong revealed that the button was beneath Judgment’s armor, and Perfect Life realized Sin was the only one who could break through it.
• Xie Antong said she would only watch the fight, moved toward the sidelines, and asked Chiyo Ming who could judge Judgment.