Chapter Summaries

Yi Chen and the blind old man delivered the warning about the Great Annihilation to NO.2, who had prepared a meal for them in the asylum. NO.2 stopped them from leaving and demanded that Yi Chen explain how his collected arm had been taken back, leaving their mission to reach the source of the disease in jeopardy.

• Yi Chen considered how NO.2 could have known they were coming and recognized the immense danger he posed.
• NO.2 served Yi Chen and the blind old man a meal, and both praised the food.
• NO.2 revealed that he already knew the Great Annihilation had arrived, but the old man tried to leave and return to the Evil Circle.
• NO.2 played a record that kept the two guests seated, then asked Yi Chen how his collected arm had been taken away.
• The blind old man began cooking and eating his own frontal lobe while Yi Chen realized his plans to reach the disease's source and reunite with William might be delayed.

Yi Chen learned that NO.2 intended to eat him and ordered him to consume NO.7, so Yi Chen sabotaged the dining hall floor and escaped downward with the blind old man. Back in the City of Evil, Ruben refused to wait for them and ordered William to lead the others to the lesion.

• Yi Chen told NO.2 that the ability to seize concepts belonged to his friend Lainey, and NO.2 said he wanted to eat her palace during the Great Annihilation.
• Yi Chen warned that Ruben planned to create a new world after the Great Annihilation, but NO.2 dismissed his argument and revealed that Yi Chen was on his menu.
• NO.2 ordered Yi Chen to eat NO.7 within fifteen minutes, and Yi Chen realized their meal had been intended to clean out their digestive tracts.
• Yi Chen shattered the dining hall floor, turned into black water, and carried the blind old man downward while feeding him a special dumpling that helped regenerate his frontal lobe and skull.
• William asked Ruben to wait for Yi Chen and the old man, but Ruben refused and ordered the group to set out for the lesion.

As the City of Evil approached the Prime Material Plane, the circus embedded itself in the city and began a covert operation against the Eighth Calamity. The chapter ends with the Eighth Calamity drawn into the circus as its audience.

• William learned that Ruben was transferring his entire operation to the Infected World, where Ruben sensed the newly formed companion moon.
• The Eighth Calamity propelled the City of Evil toward the Prime Material Plane as the First Calamity's control over the city disappeared.
• The abyssal symbols in the abandoned amusement park activated, and the circus received the signal to move into the City of Evil.
• The First Abyss ordered the troupe to seed every member of a special collective, and Catherine took charge of selecting the audience and distributing Admission Tickets.
• The circus tent emerged in the amusement park, and its influence quietly lured some Eighth Calamity members there through dreams and tainted water.
• The Eighth Calamity members who entered the tent filled its audience seats and watched the circus perform.

Ruben brought the Mental Hospital into the Plague Focal World and used his Assimilation Bodies to seize control of its Source Plague Zones. He left William searching for New Moon while the Plague Lords confronted the invasion of Malice Domination.

• Ruben explained that Gray Matter was the Plague Focal World's secretion and moved the Mental Hospital toward the world.
• The First Calamity tore through the Gray Matter and landed at the center of Middle-Earth, where the Plague Lords sealed their Source Plague Zones.
• Ruben sent thousands of Assimilation Bodies across the world to search for New Moon and establish supervision and control.
• Ruben ordered William to find New Moon within half an hour, and William disguised himself and flew alongside him.
• Ruben's Assimilation Bodies clapped in unison, spreading Malice Domination through every Source Plague Zone and locking down the Plague Lords.
• William silently watched the takeover, intending to give Yi Chen more time.

Ruben used mass domination to seize control of the Focus of Infection and search the Sick Ones’ memories for information about the New Moon, but found their memories of the Stage obscured. William then revealed his plan and began flipping the New Focus of Infection over.

• Ruben’s domination spread across the Focus of Infection, overwhelming Sick Ones and pressuring even the Plague Lords until Duke spent all his accumulated wealth to suppress its effects on them.
• Ruben searched the dominated Sick Ones’ memories, found information matching William’s Plague Book, and discovered that memories of the Stage had been replaced with the words “keeping it hidden.”
• William laughed when Ruben addressed him by his title and invited him to begin the lesson.
• William touched the ground and invoked a power that began collapsing the New Focus of Infection and flipping the Stage out of its interior.

William used the abysses to turn the plague-stricken region inside out and create a stage meant to trap Ruben. After Ruben’s doppelgänger was destroyed, the First Calamity entered the abyss and arrived at William’s stage as the final carnival began.

• William inverted the plague-stricken region with help from the abysses, while Ruben recalled his doppelgängers and withdrew the high-rise building from the collapse.
• Ruben’s doppelgänger attacked William, but William’s hidden black flame burned it away and sent its final memories to Ruben.
• Ruben recognized that William had set a trap with the abysses and moved his high-rise building into the inverted world.
• The inverted region formed a vast stage, where plague masters and special leaders took their places as the audience.
• William welcomed Ruben to the stage in his Gold and Black Suit and announced that the final carnival was beginning.

Ruben Victoriano encountered Hannibal Lecter, whose Law of the Jungle malice threatened Ruben’s domination, and later allowed him to leave the City of Evil. In the present, Yi Chen and the Seventh Calamity faced Hannibal in his Gluttonous Feast, and Hannibal gave them twenty minutes to fight for the chance to become his perfect ingredient.

• Ruben Victoriano fought Hannibal Lecter for three days, barely defeating him before inviting him to the City of Evil.
• Ruben established a comprehensive strength-ranking system for calamities and learned that Hannibal’s Danger Radiation exceeded the Mental Hospital’s detection limit.
• Hannibal later left the City of Evil, and True Lord Jehovah gave him control of the Unknown’s containment facility in exchange for killing those who threatened its secrets or the Great Annihilation.
• Yi Chen and the Seventh Calamity fell into the facility’s lowest level, where Hannibal’s Gluttonous Feast began labeling them as ingredients.
• The Seventh Calamity urged Yi Chen to absorb him, but Yi Chen instead proposed a fight to the death to satisfy Hannibal.
• Hannibal stopped the feast’s attack and gave Yi Chen and the Seventh Calamity twenty minutes to battle while he watched.

Yi Chen killed the Seventh Calamity and convinced Hannibal to regard him as a strong opponent rather than an ingredient, but Hannibal began processing him with a chef’s knife that could cut through his death-based defenses. The chapter left Yi Chen facing Hannibal’s overwhelming attack in the ruined containment facility.

• Yi Chen recalled Director Cao’s advice to become an Apex Predator whom Hannibal would recognize as an equal.
• Yi Chen killed the blind old man, the Seventh Calamity, using his death domain and took the old man’s head.
• Hannibal applauded Yi Chen’s strength and replaced his label of ingredient with that of a strong one.
• Hannibal declared that he would personally process Yi Chen, donned a white apron, and summoned a chef’s knife.
• Hannibal’s slash sliced Yi Chen across his body, and Yi Chen reformed from black water while suffering real damage.

Ruben emerged in his transcendent form and swallowed Mobius, overwhelming the abyss William had prepared to restrain him. William provoked Ruben into attacking, triggering his own malignant-tumor transformation and launching a game as Ruben sensed Hannibal fighting Yi Chen elsewhere.

• Ruben stepped onto William's stage, revealing a chaotic form whose colors infected viewers with false memories of suffering and fear.
• Ruben shrank the living high-rise, swallowed it, and gained Mobius's Ring Seal and properties.
• Ruben sensed Hannibal's aura and concluded that Hannibal was fighting Yi Chen, then questioned whether William and Yi Chen had planned to betray him.
• William taunted Ruben and proposed betting on whether Yi Chen would reach the stage, but Ruben sliced William in two with an iridescent flash.
• William's Malignant Tumor swelled his body and exploded into intestine-like ribbons as a screen began playing footage of him declaring that he wanted to play a game.

Yi Chen faced Hannibal Lecter’s one-on-one Cutting Board field, but summoned the dead sea to break it and used Nash’s iron chain to withstand Hannibal’s attack. He appeared behind Hannibal, ready to strike, though he had lost an ankle in the exchange.

• The hotel manager warned Yi Chen that NO. 2, Hannibal Lecter, would kill him if they met alone, and Yi Chen asked how he could improve his chances.
• Hannibal trapped Yi Chen in his Cutting Board field and prepared to process him as an ingredient.
• Yi Chen summoned a crowd of dead, including the Seventh Calamity, causing Hannibal’s single-target field to collapse.
• Hannibal used Flesh Separation against the dead, but Yi Chen blocked most of the attack with his arms and Nash’s iron chain.
• Yi Chen lost an ankle, then used a white tie to suspend himself behind Hannibal at an angle for decapitation.

Yi Chen discovered that Hannibal’s ingredient concept prevented him from dealing fatal damage, and he spent the Dead Sea’s reserves fighting on. He finally bypassed the restriction with an unmarked executioner and brought Hannibal down with a beheading.

• Yi Chen used the iron chain around his arms to withstand Hannibal’s attack and strike him, but Hannibal’s field vanished and the blow only cut his finger.
• Yi Chen realized Hannibal’s ingredient concept transferred any damage he dealt into a superficial finger injury.
• Hannibal used Flesh Separation to disassemble Yi Chen, who repeatedly resurrected by draining the Dead Sea and continued attacking despite his worsening condition.
• Yi Chen kept Hannibal distracted with his relentless attacks, then used an extra arm growing from his ear to wield the Black Blade as an executioner not marked as an ingredient.
• The unmarked executioner beheaded Hannibal, who collapsed forward by the cooking counter.

Yi Chen and Nash nearly beheaded Hannibal, but Hannibal transformed into a powerful prisoner and left Yi Chen close to death. As Yi Chen prepared to surrender, the Film Crew arrived in the prison exercise yard to face Hannibal.

• Nash struck Hannibal with a beheading blow, but Hannibal's body dissolved into blood and his malice condensed into a prison setting.
• Hannibal revealed his prisoner form and used his overwhelming power to destroy Yi Chen's arms and chains, leaving Nash badly injured.
• Director Cao urged Yi Chen to end his life, and Yi Chen raised his hand to behead himself.
• Lainey tried to use reproduction to reach Yi Chen but was blocked, while the Film Crew and its vessel left the City of Husks.
• The Film Crew appeared behind the nearly defeated Yi Chen as alarms sounded, and Hannibal prepared to fight them.

The Film Crew sacrificed themselves to save Yi Chen from Hannibal, and their deaths caused the evil seeded in Yi Chen to bloom into the true Tenth Calamity. Yi Chen vanished through a cut in the prison wall, leaving Hannibal to wonder what he planned to do in the upper levels of the God Domain.

• One month earlier, the director hosted a restaurant dinner where Film Crew members thanked Yi Chen and apologized for their past hostility.
• In the Lowest Level containment facility, Hannibal overwhelmed Yi Chen, and the Film Crew arrived to rescue him with a script calling for their own deaths.
• Hannibal killed the director and slaughtered the Film Crew members as they attacked him, while their Slaughterous Aura restored Yi Chen’s youth.
• The deaths of the Film Crew stirred Yi Chen’s soul, and his black-petaled flower of evil bloomed as Director Cao watched in shock.
• Yi Chen’s murderous intent reached its peak, and he disappeared through a pitch-black blade-cut in the prison wall toward the upper levels of the God Domain.

Hannibal escaped his confinement and followed Yi Chen to the Three Pure Heavens, where he found the aftermath of a massive slaughter. He discovered Yi Chen undergoing a dangerous transformation to raise his power enough to face him.

• Hannibal tasted the black water from the prison fissure, then left Seven-Layered Heaven and slaughtered the angels guarding its highest level.
• Hannibal followed Yi Chen’s scent through the teleportation gate to Pure Land and the Three Pure Heavens, finding the domains drenched in Blood Rain and strewn with corpses.
• Hannibal reached the White Jade Elixir Origin Divine Heart Heavenly Venerate’s ruined mountain and followed Yi Chen’s scent into its deepest chamber.
• Hannibal found Yi Chen suspended with his chest and abdomen opened as he used the Golden Lung and ruined Dead Sea to fuse with all Five Viscera Gods and construct a perfect body.

In Avalon, Golden Lung Heavenly Venerate told the gods that Hannibal had escaped and slaughtered the Pure Land and Three Pure Heavens, while Yi Chen faced him alone. Yi Chen descended in a transformed, sealed state, and the chapter ended with him silently severing Hannibal’s fingers.

• Zombies were contained in Avalon, but the gods realized the Great Annihilation could no longer be delayed as the malice weakened their divine authorities.
• Golden Lung Heavenly Venerate sealed the passage to the Pure Land and Three Pure Heavens and revealed that Hannibal had escaped, massacred its inhabitants, and been confronted by his special disciple, Yi Chen.
• Golden Lung Heavenly Venerate explained that Yi Chen had borrowed the golden-body organs of four Heavenly Venerates and could bear their True Body using his Golden Lung and the Black Sea.
• Hannibal savored Yi Chen’s blood and declared that he wanted Yi Chen’s body as the perfect ingredient.
• Yi Chen descended gaunt and transformed, with black threads sealing his senses, and silently severed all five fingers of Hannibal’s right hand.

Yi Chen fought Hannibal after proving that his instinct-driven combat mode could counter the Apex Predator’s attacks. He launched Hannibal through the mountain and pursued him as the battle continued.

• Hannibal tested Yi Chen’s speed and recognized that Yi Chen had become an Apex Predator with a pure, movement-triggered killing instinct.
• Hannibal attacked with invisible blades of malice, but Yi Chen detected and severed them with a knife formed from blood.
• Hannibal used preserved Brain Tissue to enhance his senses and blocked Yi Chen’s slash with a collected arm.
• Hannibal tore away Yi Chen’s knife and swung at his head, but Yi Chen dissipated the force and countered with a spinning heel kick that drove Hannibal through the mountain.
• Yi Chen intercepted Hannibal below with a vertical slash and Skyward Kick, blasting him through the cavern and into the Giant Bell.
• Yi Chen healed his shattered leg and leaped after Hannibal, continuing the hunt.

Hannibal broke free of his human form and transformed into a monstrous predator, overwhelming Yi Chen in battle. Just as Hannibal moved in for the kill, Yi Chen’s organs completed their coordination, and he decapitated Hannibal with a single slash.

• After repairing his head and consuming more specimens, Hannibal opened the sealed containers and cast off the restraints of his human form and name.
• Yi Chen pursued Hannibal through the caves despite his sealed senses and severe injuries, relying on instinct and the Five Viscera Gods to survive.
• Hannibal emerged from the shattered Giant Bell transformed with grafted limbs, blades, and teeth, and he repeatedly battered Yi Chen across the Immortal Realm.
• Hannibal drove Yi Chen into Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable’s mountain and crossed his blades for a final strike.
• Yi Chen’s eyes opened as the black lines receded, and he severed Hannibal’s neck with one slash.

Yi Chen completed the integration of the Five Viscera Gods and recognized a barrier that might mark the path to transcending. He defeated Hannibal, whose final thoughts turned to Ruben, the man whose earlier victory had led him to abandon his identity as a predator.

• Yi Chen united the Five Viscera Gods into a living black humanoid manifestation of the Dead Sea and sensed an unseen membrane beyond his current reach.
• Yi Chen judged Hannibal’s monstrous transformation to have weakened him and beheaded him with a butcher’s knife.
• Hannibal tried to heal himself by consuming the Sacrifices in his collection cabinet, but Yi Chen cut apart the cabinet and its contents.
• Yi Chen severed Hannibal’s tongue and limbs, then split his body vertically with a single strike.
• As the Second Calamity dissipated, Hannibal’s memories revealed that Ruben’s earlier defeat had driven him to question his identity and pursue a misguided transformation.

Todd discovered that William’s abandoned Paradise was swallowing the Eighth Calamity, and summoned the Manager and Aunt Mei to investigate. Their discussion was interrupted by the news that Mr. Yi had killed the Second Calamity, while the Manager revealed his allegiance to William and kept Aunt Mei from entering the Paradise.

• Todd sensed a threat on the world’s reverse side, found William’s abandoned Paradise, and lost contact with nine phenomenon-level malice he sent inside.
• Todd summoned the Manager and Aunt Mei, but the Manager secretly prepared to stop them from interfering with the Paradise’s destruction of the Eighth Calamity.
• A perceptual shock from the God Domain revealed that Mr. Yi had killed the Second Calamity, prompting Todd to leave for the boss’s side.
• The Manager restrained Aunt Mei at the Paradise’s gate and admitted that he favored William and the Plague Focal World.
• Aunt Mei agreed to wait for the outcome and said she would side with the boss if he returned, or pretend to support William if he did not.

Yi Chen returned to Avalon after killing Hannibal and hurried to confront the zombie before going to help William. He removed a strange substance Ruben had implanted in the zombie and set out with him to face Ruben as the final battle approached.

• The deities in Avalon sensed the battle in Sanqing Heaven end, and Yi Chen emerged from the portal after killing Hannibal.
• Yi Chen asked Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable to take him to the sealed zombie, and the deities removed the barriers around Doomsday City-State.
• Yi Chen entered the city-state through blood rain that erased the spreading virus and found the zombie transformed and soaking in the central fountain.
• The zombie attacked Yi Chen with unnatural speed and strength, but Yi Chen beheaded him and discovered Chroma Substance inside his body.
• Yi Chen tore out the Chroma Substance, and the blood rain destroyed it; the zombie returned to normal and recalled that Ruben had injected it into him at the Mental Hospital.
• Yi Chen asked the zombie to help him deal with Ruben, and the zombie agreed as the final battle approached.