Chapter Summaries

Lu PingAn's group captured bandits in the ruin and learned that several forces had entered it, but none had returned. Catherine then altered the mural's Wave Pattern Spear and opened a hidden passage, revealing a way forward.

• Lu PingAn's group fought off an ambush by Evil Bone bandits and Red Sand Pirates, and Xia Qin killed one pirate with her Demon Gun.
• The captured bandits told Lu PingAn that their groups and other forces had entered the ruin, where dozens of people had gone missing.
• Lu PingAn ordered Cat Cat to find the Red Sand Pirates and other bandits deeper in the ruin.
• Catherine pulled the Wave Pattern Spear from the Beast God in the mural and thrust it into the Sun God.
• The mural shifted, and a massive opening appeared between the paintings of the two gods.

Catherine T. Dora’s sealed childhood memories resurfaced as she descended with the knights, revealing that she had been planted in the Knight Order by her Beast God-worshipping family. With both lives and faiths now restored, she questioned her family’s plan to resurrect the Beast God and faced the choice to live for herself.

• Catherine opened a hidden passage with a phrase from her memories, making the knights wary until Ben Knight urged them to trust their comrade.
• A voice in Catherine’s mind revealed her childhood identity and memories, while taking control of her speech as she descended.
• Catherine remembered that her parents had sealed her memories so she could infiltrate the Knight Order and later awaken to her mission as a Beast God believer.
• Catherine’s memories merged, and she recognized that her faith in both the Sun God and Beast God had been genuine.
• Catherine questioned whether the returned Beast God was truly the original god and recalled Lu PingAn’s words about living for herself.

Catherine’s sealed memories awakened, and she told Lu PingAn that the intruders following them were her parents and the Beast God Sect’s core members, who planned to revive their fallen god. Lu PingAn negotiated a new agreement with her, but when they returned, Xue En had fallen through a hidden trap despite Catherine’s claim that the passage had no mechanisms.

• Catherine’s personality and memories changed after she descended the passage, and Lu PingAn recorded the passage’s supernatural patterns while the team searched for clues.
• The team found a fresh footprint and a recently refueled torch, suggesting another group had passed ahead of them.
• Catherine privately told Lu PingAn that she knew the identity of the other intruders, and he brought her into his independent plane to negotiate.
• Catherine recognized Lu PingAn’s plane as an immature divine kingdom and offered to trade information for more Ship Tickets.
• Catherine revealed that she was the daughter and future successor of Marian T. Dora, the Beast God Sect’s High Priest, and identified the intruders as her parents and the sect’s core members.
• Lu PingAn and Catherine signed a new agreement, then returned to find that Xue En had fallen through a hidden trap.

Marian recognized that the Beast God Believers’ prophecy had been misinterpreted, but she sent them to hunt the tomb’s invaders rather than risk challenging their faith. As the believers battled the other factions, Xue En suddenly fell through the ceiling into the middle of a fight and was marked as their enemy.

• Marian realized the promised resurrection was actually corpse mutation and that the Beast God Believers’ Tracing the Source would fail.
• The believers demanded to attack the invaders, and Marian ordered the Bloodthirsty Hounds to hunt them as sacrifices.
• The Beast God Believers used their traps and terrain to gain the advantage over the other factions fighting in the Underground Tomb.
• Two Beast God priests cornered seven bandits and Red Sand Pirates, but Xue En crashed through the ceiling and struck one priest.
• The surviving priest fled after placing a Mark of Hatred on Xue En, who woke confused as the others raised their guns at him.

Xue En used a cursed pair of leather pants to roll through a battlefield, surviving as misfortune struck everyone around him. He rolled into an empty hall, where strange changes began affecting his body, while Lu PingAn and the others assumed he would survive.

• Xue En rolled across the battlefield using the cursed leather pants’ survival abilities and caused pursuers and nearby fighters to suffer a string of accidents.
• Xue En escaped his pursuers and rolled past cultists and the God Corpse Palace into an uninhabited hall.
• Xue En stopped when no intelligent beings remained nearby, then noticed his nails and arm fuzz changing and found himself unable to speak.
• Lu PingAn and the others heard that Xue En had rolled away, but they were unconcerned because they expected him to survive and return with trouble.

Lu PingAn learned that the Beast God Aksuun had been slain and sealed by the Sun God, but his followers might now be able to undo the seal and revive him. As the group prepared to face the believers and other threats below, they weighed the potential rewards against the danger of powerful divine artifacts.

• Catherine explained that Aksuun held four major divine authorities and that the Sun God had killed and sealed him seventy-eight years earlier.
• Lu PingAn learned the believers might be ready to undo the seal, and Big Cat urged the group to seize their divine artifacts and other treasures.
• Catherine described the Beast God Believers' transformation and beast-taming traditions, which could benefit Lu PingAn's group and its Beastified Humans.
• Catherine said her mother had once raised magical beasts to guard the tomb, but the creatures were likely gone, and the surviving believers could not be reasoned with.
• The group continued through safe passages while preparing for pirates, bandits, corrupted beasts, and at least two Truth-level and Rule-level items.

Lu PingAn’s group fought newly transformed beastmen in the Underground Tomb while Cat Cat scouted ahead and stole a battlefield journal. The journal and a test with Catherine’s Sacred Fire revealed that the transformations were likely caused by a powerful curse, leaving the group on guard as a ritual proceeded below.

• Catherine and the Knight Order’s elites defeated a group of beastmen, then realized they were newly transformed humans rather than Beast God Believers.
• Catherine identified bone tattoos linked to Evil Bone’s faction and suspected a ritual had already begun.
• Cat Cat used her ability to move through walls to scout the maze, assassinate a struggling beastman, and steal his head and notebook.
• Lu PingAn read Black officer David’s journal, which recorded that three people had entered a hidden chamber below and suffered a transformation curse.
• At Lu PingAn’s order, Catherine burned the severed head with Sacred Fire, revealing that its beastlike features remained and that the curse was likely Rule-level or higher.

Lu PingAn’s team cautiously advanced through the corrupted underground tomb while he planned to wait for the desperate groups below. Meanwhile, Xue En accidentally reached the Beast God’s sealed tomb in the form of a Black and White Bear, leaving the Beast God Believers unable to get inside or communicate with him.

• Lu PingAn reassured Miss Rou and the recruits that Xia Qin and the others had a way to protect them from the Rule-level threat, then led the team onward with Cat Cat scouting ahead.
• Lu PingAn’s team avoided dangerous areas, gathered supplies, and waited for the hungry groups below to come up instead of rushing toward the tomb’s core.
• Xue En reached the Beast God’s forbidden chamber, while the Beast God Believers outside pleaded with him to come out and promised him rewards.
• Xue En accidentally knocked over a statue and discovered in a metal reflection that he had become a Black and White Bear, which he recognized as a national treasure.

Xue En, a member of the disastrously unlucky Xue Family, entered the God Coffin chamber and learned that Aksuun’s Holy Relic was driving a resurrection ritual. As he worried that the statue might come alive, it moved.

• Xue En discovered that his transformation into a Panda Man had not robbed him of his sanity and complained about the cost of replacing his clothes.
• Xue En entered the golden palace and found the God Coffin, a stone statue with Aksuun’s mummified, rune-wrapped hand in place of its right hand.
• Xue En recognized the hand as Aksuun’s Holy Relic and understood that the palace ritual was meant to resurrect the sealed deity.
• The awakened Holy Relic caused mutations and chaos among Aksuun’s followers, while an enemy Truth-level Item attacked the High Priest and delayed the ritual.
• Xue En wondered whether the statue might come alive, and it moved.

Lu PingAn’s group focused on looting Rule-level Items and avoiding the Beast God’s dangerous resurrection, while scouts searched deeper for information. The chapter ended with Evil Bone’s bandits forcing a captive Shepherd Silver Person to drink tea made from his last surviving compatriot.

• Lu PingAn set the team’s priority on recovering three Rule-level Items at most before leaving, and the group agreed to put profit and survival first.
• Catherine explained the Resurrection Ritual, and Big Cat judged it could summon a powerful but weakened incarnation even though the Beast God was already dead.
• Lu PingAn chose to recover Rule-level Items first and sent scouts deeper, but they found little and received no useful reports.
• Evil Bone and the bandit group gathered to drink from Aidal's Friendship Teapot, also called Three Cups of Tea.
• The bandit leader urged a bound Shepherd Silver Person to drink foul-smelling tea made from his last remaining compatriot, Amuen.

Lu PingAn learned the true history of the tea-making teapot, which turned living materials into poison, healing, or enhancement tea. Evil Bone used it to force Amu Fen to drink, then planned another attempt to obtain the treasure and capture more victims.

• The Old Lord revealed that his ancestor’s fable concealed how the third son killed his father and brother after they used the teapot to brew life-extending tea.
• Lu PingAn learned that the teapot transformed materials into poisonous, healing, or enhancing tea, and that humans and animals produced similar results.
• Evil Bone forced Amu Fen to drink tea made from a victim, and Amu Fen survived.
• Amu Fen identified himself as the last Shepherd Silver Person of the Gray Blue Tribe and begged to live.
• Evil Bone planned to use the treasure again after the Red Sand Pirates had lost men and equipment.

Lu PingAn's group assessed the Beast God Believers, Red Sand Pirates, and Evil Bone's bandits as they planned their first ambush and considered contacting Catherine's mother. Catherine received a reply confirming that her mother was badly injured and unable to preside over the ritual, leaving the Beast God's resurrection in doubt.

• Cat Cat reported that the upward passages were sealed, the Mechanism Room was guarded by two High-Rank Beastified Warriors, and the Underground God Tomb Chamber was crowded with Beast God Believers and Red Sand Pirates.
• Catherine asked Lu PingAn to let her write to her mother, and he allowed it with instructions to hide the group's situation and warn that the resurrection could bring another disaster.
• Cat Cat described Evil Bone's bandits occupying the Storage Room and the Red Sand Pirates as a small but powerful group hampered by their transformations.
• Big Cat warned Lu PingAn that Flower Flag teams might depend on one exceptionally powerful core member, so he delayed choosing where to ambush.
• Catherine received her mother's reply: she urged Catherine to escape but had been attacked by another Rule-level item and could no longer preside over the ritual.

Marian managed the memory curse from Bane's Wishbone while coordinating with her awakened daughter, Cat Cat. Meanwhile, Captain Lute arranged an uneasy alliance between the Red Sand Pirates and Evil Bone's bandits, who lured a giant snake toward the Divine Tomb to attack the Beast God Believers.

• Marian repeated three priorities to resist Bane's Wishbone's curse, then replaced her plan to lure out the blasphemer with the knowledge that her daughter had arrived and awakened.
• Marian sent a reply to Cat Cat while the Beast God Believers and Evil Bone's bandits continued attacking the Red Sand Pirates.
• Captain Lute offered to cooperate with Evil Bone and handed over the Red Sand Pirates' cursed wishbone, which Evil Bone could not use because it had already cursed Marian.
• Captain Lute and Evil Bone agreed to work together, then arranged to lure a giant snake toward their enemies.
• The bandits roused the giant snake and followed it toward the Divine Tomb, where the Beast God High Priest was located, unaware that more dangerous enemies had arrived below.

Lu PingAn and his companions discussed Xue En’s notorious bad luck before a sudden disturbance twisted their perception of the Underground Palace. As the team suffered mutations and spatial shifts, Lu PingAn sent several companions into the Courtyard, and the chapter ended with people apparently falling through the passageway.

• Xia Qin tried to calm Lu PingAn by recalling her embarrassing first days as captain, and the group blamed Xue En for their past misfortunes.
• Lu PingAn sensed that Xue En might have caused something significant just before the Underground Palace began shaking and tilting.
• Big Cat identified the disturbance as a possible spatial-sense misalignment, and Lu PingAn sent vulnerable companions into the Courtyard when they began to mutate.
• The mutation stopped for those who entered the Courtyard, while Catherine hurried ahead, troubled by what she suspected.
• A stronger spatial shift inverted the passageway’s directions, and figures began to fall.

Evil Bone and the Red Sand Pirates attacked the Beast God Believers at the God Tomb Chamber while the believers fought a giant snake. High Priest Marian turned the snake against the bandits, and her confusion over her plans coincided with a hidden two-man team finding an opening.

• Captain Lute gave Evil Bone the Red Cross Bone, hoping its mutation would grant him greater power.
• The giant snake devastated the Beast God Believers until their elders restrained it, while the Red Sand Pirates and Evil Bone's bandits launched a surprise attack.
• The Beast God Believers abandoned reason and sacrificed themselves to hold the snake back as their elders supported the defense.
• High Priest Marian emerged, briefly confused, then linked with the snake and directed it to attack the bandits.
• Marian forgot part of her plan and reaffirmed that reviving her Lord came first as two hidden attackers found an opening.

High Priest Marian activated the Hand of God and sacrificed the Underground Tomb’s accumulated resources to awaken the Beast God, despite Xue En’s presence inside. Her ritual tore open the earth’s seal and awakened the dead before the deity could respond.

• Marian learned that an intruder had occupied the Underground Tomb and decided to awaken the deity using the relic already inside.
• Marian recited the unsealing incantation, causing the Hand of God to attack Xue En and infuse divine power into the prepared statue.
• Marian offered the tomb’s resources, fallen believers, and accumulated faith to summon the Beast God.
• The ritual disrupted the earth veins, broke the earth’s seal, and brought the prophesied disaster early.
• The dead Beast God Believers in the Grave of the Elephant rose as mutated Living Corpses.

The failed resurrection ritual awakened a corpse god that took possession of the Giant God statue and began devouring the Beast God Believers. High Priest Marian prepared to confront it, but her daughter Catherine appeared with strangers at the chamber entrance.

• Evil Bone and the others fought revived corpses and undead half-beast Corpse Monsters as Lute recognized signs of the Third Calamity.
• The corpse god tried to descend but, unable to find a vessel, bestowed a blessing on the Giant God statue before being pulled back into the tomb.
• The statue came to life and began absorbing believers, while Marian realized it was a monster rather than their god.
• Marian called on the believers to attack, but most approached the monster in worship and were devoured.
• Marian stepped toward the monster, resolved to correct her mistake, when Catherine called out to her from the passage with strangers behind her.

Lu PingAn and the knights arrived in the midst of a slaughter and blocked the Red Sand Pirates’ escape route. Evil Bone revealed himself as a spy for the King, betrayed Captain Lute, and asked Lu PingAn for a way out.

• Catherine recognized her mother near the Giant God, ignited Sacred Fire, and charged into the battlefield.
• Lu PingAn ordered the knights to form Turtle Spirit defenses, and they sealed the narrow passage against Captain Lute and the survivors.
• Evil Bone stabbed members of the Red Sand Pirates and revealed that he served Gray Mist as Codename Purple Flower.
• Evil Bone used the red bone to curse Captain Lute, then fought alongside Ben Knight and killed him.
• Evil Bone asked Lu PingAn to give him a way out.

Lu PingAn forced Evil Bone to hand over Crossbone and the Teapot, then made the spy and his bandits help fight the Beast God puppet. The group charged the growing monster while Lu PingAn cut off its supply of worshippers, as Marian and Catherine struggled to hold it back.

• Lu PingAn demanded both Truth-level Items from Evil Bone in exchange for sparing him, and Evil Bone threw him Crossbone and the Teapot.
• Lu PingAn agreed to work with Evil Bone against the monster, then ordered him to go first and test it.
• Big Cat judged the Giant God to be a mad puppet infused with part of the Beast God's will and power, not a True God or God Incarnation.
• The Beast God puppet grew stronger by feeding on its kneeling followers while Marian and Catherine retreated and fought to survive.
• Evil Bone and his bandits charged the Beast God statue with Lu PingAn behind them, cutting down the kneeling believers to stop the puppet from feeding.

A divine puppet awakened in the Beast God's holy hall, slaughtered believers, and repeatedly restored itself by absorbing the dead. Just as Lu PingAn's group considered retreating, the tomb's self-destruct mechanism activated, and Black and White Bear was exposed as holding its control ring.

• The divine puppet unleashed Divine Curses that killed most Beast God Believers and the approaching bandits, while Catherine survived with three Holy Fire flames.
• Chris explained that the puppet's powerful attacks rapidly drained its limited reserves, so Lu PingAn's group planned to evade it and wear it down.
• Awakened undead rushed into the puppet and replenished its strength, leaving Big Cat to warn that fighting in the holy hall was too dangerous.
• The puppet targeted Lu PingAn with a Death Proclamation, which he endured, but the dead believers restored the puppet again.
• As Lu PingAn prepared to order a retreat, the tomb's passages began closing and someone identified the cause as the activated Self-Destruct Device.
• Black and White Bear denied activating the device, but the group noticed that it wore the ring serving as the main control hub.