Chapter Summaries

Xie Antong used Joy’s power to intensify the emotional clash inside Lu Ce and overload the Lust Mask. Lu Ce then pulled her into an unexpected kiss, and the mask fused with his face as a terrifying mental aura engulfed her.

• Xie Antong struggled against Lust’s influence while Lu Ce’s Love and Desire avatar cursed Joy for prolonging the confrontation.
• Xie Antong realized that Lu Ce was trying to overload the Lust Mask through an emotional clash, then chose to exceed Joy’s proper limit.
• Xie Antong pressed her hand against Lust’s forehead, bringing Joy, Lust, and Pain into a fierce collision inside Lu Ce’s mind.
• Lu Ce broke through the struggle, pulled Xie Antong into his arms, and forcibly kissed her.
• The Lust Mask melted and fused with Lu Ce’s face, and a terrifying mental aura swept over Xie Antong.

Lu Ce and Xie Antong’s kiss caused Lust to absorb Love and Desire’s power, stabilizing his mask’s overload. Lu Ce then unleashed the Succubus domain across the game, stripping everyone of their reason and making them susceptible to his charm.

• Xie Antong lost control and kissed Lu Ce, causing Joyful Power to recede and Love and Desire to be drawn into her mind.
• Love and Desire realized its power was being absorbed by Lu Ce and Xie Antong, and it could no longer take control.
• After the kiss ended, Xie Antong recovered some reason and realized Lu Ce had stopped attacking when she stopped firing her laser.
• Lu Ce spread his arms and activated Lust’s overload effect, Succubus, as the world around him turned purple.
• Lu Ce’s domain covered the entire game, wiped away everyone’s reason, and made them vulnerable to his seductive power.

Lu Ce, transformed into Overload Lust, took control of the game zone and drove nearly everyone into a frenzy of confessions. Jiang Yuan and Xie Antong resisted his influence, but Lust ended the game by making the crowd fire lasers at him, triggering mass elimination.

• Lu Ce’s overloaded Lust ability drew nearly everyone in the game toward him and made them confess their love.
• Xie Antong resisted the influence through Joyful Power, while Jiang Yuan broke free by stabbing his palm.
• Lust intensified the crowd’s frenzy, and people began dancing and stripping until Jiang Yuan confronted him.
• Jiang Yuan told Lust he did not seem like a bad person, but Lust called everyone his toys; Xie Antong realized that the crowd’s love rendered Narcissus’s attack ineffective against him.
• Lust ordered the crowd to show their love, and their lasers struck him, causing Red Lovers and Blue Lovers to eliminate themselves in a mass of pink bubbles.

Lust overwhelmed the players in Chosen Paradise, leaving only Lu Ce able to attack while he eliminated the exposed Narcissuses. As Lust mocked Xie Antong and the gods, Zhong Lirui suddenly woke from her daze.

• Lust’s succubus effect stopped the Narcissuses from firing and left the Red and Blue Lovers vulnerable, while Lu Ce remained able to attack.
• Lust used beams from his fingertips to identify and eliminate several Narcissuses as the crowd fell under his control.
• Lust taunted Xie Antong by declaring Chosen Paradise his own and questioning whether anyone could still struggle for his amusement.
• Lust mocked the silent Desire’s avatar and provoked the gods watching from above.
• Zhong Lirui suddenly snapped awake from her daze and looked around in confusion.

Zhong Lirui regained her senses amid the crowd’s mass infatuation with Lust, while Desire recruited her for a final attack on Lu Ce. The chapter ended with Desire revealing that Zhong Lirui’s ability card could free her from the game’s rules, making her one of two planned “bottles of poison.”

• Zhong Lirui woke from Lust’s influence, saw the crowd bewitched around her, and fled into a store after Desire urged her to find shelter.
• Lust mocked Desire’s attempt to regain control, while Xie Antong sent the All-Knowing Eye’s eyeballs after Zhong Lirui.
• Desire told Zhong Lirui that it had removed Blank’s drug and promised she could become the world’s first Ascendant if she helped.
• Zhong Lirui activated her special ability card, which temporarily made her immune to restrictions imposed by the game’s rules.
• Desire called the card one of two bottles of poison prepared for Lu Ce and ordered Zhong Lirui to attack him directly.

Eros tried to make Zhong Lirui attack Sin, but she doubted Him until He possessed her and lent her power. As Lust threatened to eliminate the remaining Narcissuses, Zhong Lirui burst from a shop in pink flames, drawing Lust’s contempt.

• Zhong Lirui panicked at Eros’s order to fight Sin and accused Him of lying when He urged her to kill him.
• Lust continued eliminating Narcissuses and warned Xie Antong that he would remove one every minute until she found a solution.
• Xie Antong told Lust that someone in his head had prepared two bottles of poison for him, but he showed little interest.
• Eros took control of Zhong Lirui and gave her power, calming her and filling her eyes with pink.
• Zhong Lirui burst into the sky from an exploding shop, and Lust mocked Eros for entrusting the task to her.

The Lust God possessed Zhong Lirui and granted her temporary immunity to the rules, hoping to use her to transfer its spirit into Sin. Sin killed her before she could reach him, ending the plan.

• Lust continued attacking people below while he gave the Chosen of Lust God time to prepare.
• The Lust God possessed Zhong Lirui and told her she could ignore the rules for half an hour.
• Xie Antong reminded Zhong Lirui that the lethal drug would take effect in three minutes, but the Lust God claimed to have cleared her negative effects.
• Zhong Lirui tested her new power by killing a distant player, then survived a direct hit from Lust's laser.
• The Lust God urged Zhong Lirui to touch Sin so it could transfer its spirit into her, but Sin beheaded her with a golden axe.

Lu Ce killed Zhong Lirui with the Extreme Path Battle Axe, then revealed that he had expected to win the gods’ game despite breaking its rules. Love and Desire summoned a terrifying presence to punish him, but Lu Ce produced a black card and challenged the assumption that he had lost.

• Lu Ce struck Zhong Lirui’s headless body away after killing her, while viewers wondered whether he had lost by killing a player.
• Jiang Yuan recognized the Extreme Path Battle Axe and insisted Lu Ce could not have killed its previous owner.
• Lust teased Jiang Yuan for not understanding the situation and told him to watch what happened next.
• Zhong Lirui’s corpse laughed and declared that Lu Ce had violated the rules of the gods’ game.
• Love and Desire sent a terrifying aura down toward Lu Ce, who said he had known he had won and showed a black card.

Sin used a Lie Detector card to challenge Love’s claim that the game rules protected players from being killed by stronger opponents. After the game judged Love’s statement a lie, Sin proposed transferring his own punishment for breaking the rules onto Love.

• The pink world returned, reviving the eliminated players as they watched Sin reveal a black Special Ability Card.
• Sin activated the Lie Detector card and selected Love, who was possessing Zhong Lirui’s headless corpse.
• Sin chose Break Lie and argued that Love had lied when It promised players would not be killed by stronger players.
• Love claimed the statement had referred to the severe punishment for killing, but Sin pointed out that Zhong Lirui had died.
• Sin suggested that Love receive the punishment for Sin’s rule-breaking, and Love erupted in fury.

Lust taunted the Emissary of Lust and the game’s watching consciousnesses as the rules threatened to turn its lie into a severe punishment. She challenged the gods to offer her a new opponent, leaving the game’s response uncertain.

• Lust taunted the sky while the Emissary of Lust argued that its lie should warrant only a minor punishment.
• The Emissary of Lust realized Lu Ce had deliberately waited to use the Lie Judgment card and had never treated it as a true opponent.
• Lust told the Emissary of Lust that it had never been her equal and declared herself the game’s only player.
• Xie Antong recognized that Lu Ce had remembered and invoked one of the game’s underlying rules she had previously explained.
• Lust called out to the gods watching the game and demanded that they provide something new to entertain her.

Lust exposed Love Desire’s presence inside his mind and declared that the game’s gods would eventually risk everything to eliminate him. When Love Desire’s avatar was destroyed by lightning, another bolt descended toward Lust, and Black Knight shielded him with their body.

• Lust taunted the Love Desire avatar and explained that its privilege had let it know every card effect and ensure Zhong Lirui received a card it thought would win.
• Lust said Love Desire was about to be sacrificed and predicted that the game’s gods would pay increasingly greater prices to eliminate him.
• Lust openly declared that the gods would eventually put themselves on the gambling table, while viewers flooded Xie Antong’s livestream with questions about his challenge to the game.
• Love Desire began to protest, but thunder destroyed the headless corpse carrying its power, and a lightning bolt then struck toward Lu Ce.
• Lust raised his two divine artifacts as Black Knight transformed into a fortress and wrapped around him to shield him from the lightning.

The game’s final punishment struck Lu Ce, overwhelming the Black Knight, Jiang Yuan’s shield, and Xie Antong’s defenses before leaving a deep crater. Jiang Yuan found Lu Ce at the bottom apparently dead, with no heartbeat or pulse.

• Xie Antong spotted a nanometer-thin beam piercing Lu Ce’s heart and ordered Jiang Yuan to protect him.
• The Black Knight fired its Annihilation Cannon at the clouds, while Jiang Yuan raised an energy shield and Xie Antong activated two powerful items.
• The game’s energy pillar blasted through the defenses and swallowed Lu Ce, leaving the world silent for a minute.
• After the pillar vanished, Xie Antong and Jiang Yuan jumped into the crater to find Lu Ce.
• Jiang Yuan found Lu Ce charred and motionless, with no heartbeat or pulse, and reached toward his cracked mask.

Lu Ce survived the game's highest-level punishment, unlocked his third Gene Lock, and discovered Black Knight had been reduced to a Mechanical Core. After the game ended without winners or losers, the God of Lust chose Lu Ce as its spokesperson despite his resistance to divine power.

• Lu Ce survived the divine punishment as his Pain points rebuilt his body, unlocking his level-three Gene Lock while the Extreme Path Battle Axe and Heart-Piercing Thunder remained intact.
• Black Knight's shell lay destroyed, but its Mechanical Core reached Lu Ce, and the two joked together as Jiang Yuan and Xie Antong watched.
• Lu Ce told Xie Antong that she could act now that Lust's power had weakened, but a pink beam suddenly struck him before she could move.
• The game announcement declared there were no winners or losers and named Lu Ce, player Sin, as the God of Lust's chosen spokesperson.
• The revelation caused a worldwide frenzy because Lu Ce had repeatedly rejected ascension but was still granted the divine inheritance.

After Lu Ce became Desire’s spokesperson and Xie Antong received Joy’s inheritance, the Arbiter created the Land of Emptiness and began the First Conference of the Gods to discuss the player known as Sin. The meeting opened with War’s arrival, and the Arbiter called on Desire to explain its choice.

• Desire chose Lu Ce as its spokesperson, healing him with a pink glow while Jiang Yuan and Xie Antong watched in confusion.
• The game announced that Blank had inherited the God of Joy’s power, and a beam of light struck Xie Antong as she tried to preserve her sanity with medicine.
• Black Knight landed on Jiang Yuan’s shoulder and told him to guard the two unconscious players until they woke.
• The Arbiter created the Land of Emptiness and announced the First Conference of the Gods.
• War arrived angrily after the Arbiter raised the topic of Sin, and the Arbiter asked whether Desire would explain its actions.

The gods argued over Lust’s choice of Sin’s representative and Joy’s selection of a Blank, then discussed how to deal with Sin in the next game. As the Arbiter warned them not to underestimate him, the Grand Elder defeated the Apostles and a divine envoy in Capital City and sensed that the gods had gone quiet.

• The Arbiter calmed the gods and asked Lust to explain why she had chosen Sin as her candidate.
• Lust refused to justify her choice and challenged the gods for trying to kill her without explanation.
• The Arbiter questioned Joy about choosing a Blank, and Joy replied that she had chosen her because it was fun.
• War objected to avoiding Sin, but the gods discussed matching him against troublesome opponents in the next game.
• The Arbiter warned that Sin’s mask was close to unlocking all its modes and urged the gods not to underestimate him.
• The Grand Elder destroyed the Apostles and killed a divine envoy in Capital City, then looked toward the universe and remarked that the gods seemed quiet.

Nie Jiutian absorbed the dead divine messenger’s soul, then learned that Sin and Blank had both been chosen as spokespersons for the gods. Sin’s selection left Nie Jiutian visibly shaken.

• The Grand Elder, Nie Jiutian, revived the divine messenger’s soul and absorbed it, increasing the number of spheres orbiting him from twenty-four to twenty-five.
• Nie Jiutian’s body weakened after consuming the soul, and he hid his appearance before the Dragon Group members recovered from his brief lapse.
• A Dragon Group member reported that global riots had followed the games’ arrival, though conditions in the country were relatively stable.
• The Dragon Group member told Nie Jiutian that Sin and Blank had survived their game and been chosen as spokespersons for the gods.
• Nie Jiutian reacted with shock when he learned that Sin had also been selected.

Lust's power chose Xie Antong and Sin, but Pain rejected it from Lu Ce's body, forcing it to settle on his lust-themed mask instead. After Xie Antong absorbed her share and prepared to leave, Lu Ce recovered and confronted Jiang Yuan, who tried to ask about the golden axe.

• Nie Jiutian reacted strangely to Sin's condition, then left with the Dragon Group to find someone who could stabilize his mental strength.
• Xie Antong absorbed the power of joy, while Pain rejected lust's power from Lu Ce's body and forced it to cling to his purple mask.
• The Black Knight told Jiang Yuan that anyone involved with Lu Ce ended up miserable, and Xie Antong finished absorbing her power.
• Jiang Yuan stopped Xie Antong from approaching Lu Ce, and she said she was uninterested in settling their grudge before teleporting away.
• Lu Ce recovered and dismissed Jiang Yuan's questions about the golden axe, then changed his purple mask into a golden one when Jiang Yuan grabbed his arm.

Lu Ce revealed his identity as the Lord to Jiang Yuan, then tried to guide him back toward his unfinished mission. He gave Jiang Yuan the remnant of his destroyed world before secretly teleporting away after receiving a message that the game had no exit interface.

• Jiang Yuan recognized Lu Ce beneath the golden mask as the Lord and knelt before him, while the Black Knight complained that Jiang Yuan still did not recognize him.
• Lu Ce claimed that joining Jiang Yuan's game had been a test, then told Jiang Yuan to focus on his unfinished mission instead of appearances and other distractions.
• Lu Ce gave Jiang Yuan a World Relic containing the remnant of his destroyed world, leaving Jiang Yuan overwhelmed.
• The All-Knowing Eye sent Lu Ce a Secret Letter explaining that the game had no exit interface and that a teleportation talisman was in his upper pocket, which Lu Ce used to disappear.

After the divine selection ended, Lu Ce returned home and reviewed his rewards, discovering that one more divine power would complete the Divine Power Ring and turn it into a divine artifact. He slept through the aftermath of the global game until an unexpected visitor knocked at his door.

• Jiang Yuan confronted Xie Antong after learning she had knowingly set him against his Lord, and she warned him that following the Lord meant Hell Mode before leaving him alone.
• Lu Ce returned home, hid the All-Knowing Eye beneath a jar, and checked his rewards from the divine selection.
• The game revealed that the Divine Power Ring held the powers of Life, Love and Desire, Joy, and Pain, and that one more divine power would fully charge it.
• Lu Ce restored the Black Knight's core, then fell asleep from mental exhaustion while the world began recovering from the global game.
• Lu Ce slept until an uninvited visitor knocked on his bedroom door.

Lu Ce woke after sleeping for two days and found Xie Antong waiting to discuss the aftermath of the game and clear up a misunderstanding. Their conversation ended with Xie Antong confronting him about what happened when Lust Overload affected him.

• Black Knight woke Lu Ce and opened the door for Xie Antong, who found Lu Ce had slept for two days.
• Xie Antong explained that Divine Punishment had gained influence while the Apostles organization had been left leaderless and weakened.
• Xie Antong clarified that she had tried to defeat Lu Ce to secure the Apostles' position, not because she truly intended to oppose him.
• Lu Ce said he did not consider their in-game competition a betrayal, and Xie Antong asked why he had not said that when Lust Overload hit him.
• Black Knight offered to leave, while Xie Antong teased Lu Ce and asked him to close the curtains.