Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici and his companions survived a sandstorm, fought off the Pharaoh King's Scorpion Army, and encountered Zhang Heng and the Third Division battling desert mummies. As Lin Baici led his group toward the Third Division for safety, the mummies surrounded them and began killing people.

• Lin Baici used the Scorpion Queen's sand pit to shelter his group from the sandstorm, then dug survivors out after it passed and set off toward the distant building.
• The Pharaoh King's Scorpion Army attacked from beneath the sand, but the Golden Scorpion Queen frightened the scorpions into retreating after Muscle Buddha fought them.
• Lin Baici's group found Zhang Heng and the Third Division fighting mummies, and Fang Tianhua ran toward them before a mummy grabbed his ankle.
• More mummies rose around Lin Baici's group, and he ordered everyone to run toward the Third Division as Xia Hongyao and Hua Yueyu attacked the creatures.
• The mummy husks kept reforming after being smashed, while some people were bitten to death before the group could reach the Third Division.

Lin Baici identified and killed the mummy sustaining the others, then protected the Scorpion Queen from Wu Zhaokun. After Zhang Heng led the groups toward a distant black silhouette, Lin Baici sensed it was a mirage and urged them to turn left, but Zhang Heng chose to investigate it.

• Lin Baici noticed one unusually intelligent mummy, coordinated with Hua Yueyu to expose it, and destroyed it, causing the other mummies to crumble.
• Wu Zhaokun tried to attack the Scorpion Queen, but Lin Baici stopped him and said she was his friend.
• Chen Mingshu learned from Lin Baici how to kill the mummies, while Wu Zhaokun and Lin Baici clashed over their respective teams' abilities.
• Zhang Heng arrived, recognized Lin Baici's name, and led the groups toward the black silhouette despite Lin Baici's refusal to meet him.
• The God of Gluttony told Lin Baici that the silhouette was a mirage and that they needed to turn left, but Zhang Heng trusted his own judgment and continued toward it.

Lin Baici led his group through the desert toward a black obelisk while Zhang Heng's larger party was attacked by Pharaoh King's demonic scorpions. After the obelisk opened a passage, a curse gave everyone one hour to live, and Lin Baici rushed down one of two branching paths.

• Lin Baici refused to join Zhang Heng, and Fei Xiao, Fang Tianhua, and Cai Wenqi stayed with him while most survivors followed Zhang Heng.
• Pharaoh King's demonic scorpions attacked Zhang Heng's group, killing around twenty people before they learned Lin Baici's scorpion queen could drive the monsters away.
• Lin Baici's group reached a black obelisk, and ten people bowed before it, opening a passage beneath the stone structure.
• The group descended into the passage, where ghosts passed them before Pharaoh King cursed them to die within one hour and green flames appeared above their heads.
• Lin Baici read a message ordering them to eat Pharaoh King within an hour and charged down the right-hand branch when the passage split.

Lin Baici led the group through the temple’s deadly trials, using clues from the God of Gluttony to open a hidden passage and guide Fei Xiao across a trapped hall. After they crossed a snake-filled pit with the Scorpion Queen’s help, they reached the point where the snakes began resisting her.

• Lin Baici shouted the Pharaoh King’s return three times, opening the mural-covered wall and revealing a vast hall of trapped stone slabs.
• Xia Hongyao triggered the first falling slab, but Fei Xiao crossed the trap field with the Giant Locust Leg and his Frog Tongue Divine Grace, then pulled the lever to reset the slabs.
• The group crossed the hall and followed Lin Baici through the maze until Fei Xiao spotted Bian Xiang, an unaffiliated God Hunter who warned them of venomous snakes ahead.
• Lin Baici allowed Bian Xiang to join them, and the Scorpion Queen led the group into the snake pit as the snakes parted around her.
• Near the deepest part of the pit, the snakes stopped retreating and began pressing toward the Scorpion Queen.

Lin Baici and his companions escaped a venomous snake pit, where he found Snake Eggs imbued with Divine Grace and gained Snake Bone Soft Body. After Bian Xiang struck a Mother Scarab Beetle statue, it unleashed swarms of Scarab Beetles that trapped the group in a desperate flight.

• The Scorpion Queen scattered the snakes with Scarlet Poison Mist, then protected the group by having them drink water mixed with her poison and sharing her antidote with Lin Baici.
• Lin Baici followed the Scorpion Queen through the snake pit and found seven Snake Eggs imbued with Divine Grace; he and Xia Hongyao absorbed Snake Bone Soft Body, while he gave an egg to the Scorpion Queen.
• Lin Baici, Xia Hongyao, and the Scorpion Queen rejoined the group in a Scarab Beetle-carved hall, and they continued through a long corridor.
• Lin Baici warned the group not to touch a Mother Scarab Beetle statue, but Bian Xiang struck it with his blade.
• The statue charged after the group and released a swarm of Scarab Beetles; Lin Baici lit a Pine Torch, but more beetles poured from openings in the walls and ceiling and crawled over everyone.

Little White Dragon discovered that Lady White Bone was waiting to seize Tang Sanzang and stopped the Black Fox Demon from attacking a family. Lady White Bone then disguised herself as a young woman and approached Tang Sanzang, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing while Sun Wukong was away.

• Little White Dragon infiltrated White Bone Cave, learned Lady White Bone planned to capture Tang Sanzang, and followed the Black Fox Demon as she went to find food.
• A demon reported that Tang Sanzang and his disciples were nearby and that Sun Wukong had left, so Lady White Bone flew out to capture Tang Sanzang.
• The Black Fox Demon attacked a family of three, but Little White Dragon hurled his spear and wounded her ear, saving them.
• Lady White Bone found Tang Sanzang, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing resting without Sun Wukong, then transformed into a lovely young woman and approached them.

Lin Baici and the others survived a scarab beetle swarm by using the golden mask to control the insects, then entered a grand hall and faced the Pharaoh King. Lin Baici learned that destroying the slave images in the murals—not merely defeating the Pharaoh King—would lift the Curse, and he sent the group to search for their own images as Bian Xiang fought the boss.

• Lin Baici put out the torch, then used Divine Grace to kill a wave of scarab beetles and donned the golden mask to command the swarm to retreat.
• Fei Xiao, Xia Hongyao, Jin Yingzhen, Hua Yueyu, and Fang Tianhua each used the mask to control the beetles, helping the group escape the swarm.
• The scarab beetles stopped at a corridor, and Lin Baici rescued a woman before the group reached a golden hall where the Pharaoh King demanded that they kneel.
• Lin Baici learned from the God of Gluttony that destroying the slave images in the murals would lift the Curse, and he refused to help Bian Xiang fight the Pharaoh King until Bian Xiang charged alone.
• Lin Baici directed the others to search the murals for images of themselves while Bian Xiang battled the Pharaoh King.

Lin Baici discovered that cutting the heads off the slaves’ bas-reliefs would end their curses, and he organized the others to find and destroy them while fighting Pharaoh King and Bian Xiang. He killed Bian Xiang, but Pharaoh King remained alive and trapped Xia Hongyao in its bandages.

• Lin Baici searched the murals, found Cai Wenqi’s and Jin Yingzhen’s slave bas-reliefs, and learned from the God of Gluttony that their heads had to be cut off in one stroke.
• Bian Xiang guessed that the murals held the key, attacked the reliefs, and exposed the connection when a man died; Lin Baici then ordered everyone to search while Fei Xiao held Bian Xiang back.
• Lin Baici severed Cai Wenqi’s and Jin Yingzhen’s reliefs, ending their curses, while Hua Yueyu found Bian Xiang’s relief and damaged it with her fists.
• Pharaoh King attacked Hua Yueyu, and Xia Hongyao intervened; Lin Baici used the Champion Dart to strike Bian Xiang’s relief, killing him.
• Lin Baici searched for Pharaoh King’s true relief, but the monster revealed that hundreds of its images covered the mural and bound Xia Hongyao with its bandages.

Lin Baici and the others destroyed the key murals to strip Pharaoh King of his immortality, then defeated him with help from Zhang Heng’s team. After the battle, Zhang Heng tried to recruit Lin Baici, and the group collected the spoils before Zhang Heng sensed someone near the hall entrance.

• Gu Qingqiu identified the murals tied to Pharaoh King’s birth and major life events, and Hua Yueyu destroyed them with lightning while Lin Baici and the others held him back.
• Pharaoh King became vulnerable, and Fei Xiao landed a heavy blow before Zhang Heng’s spear and saber finished the monster; Zhang Heng then invited Lin Baici to join his team, but Lin Baici refused.
• Xia Hongyao and the others praised Gu Qingqiu’s role in the fight, and Zhang Heng ordered his team to guard the area and search for God's Remains.
• Xia Hongyao collected Pharaoh King’s scepter and golden flail, while Lin Baici found the Pharaoh’s Shroud and a glowing bandage that was also a God's Taboo Object.
• Zhang Heng turned toward the hall entrance and called out to whoever was there.

A powerful artistic god entered the Pharaoh King's hall and attacked the survivors with strange abilities that turned people into colorful, two-dimensional images. As Zhang Heng's team tried to break out, Lin Baici and his companions chose to fight, and the chapter ended with a Champion Dart striking the god's left eye.

• The artistic young man arrived, admired the murals, and asked Xia Hongyao about her sister and Jin Yingzhen to model for him.
• Zhang Heng attacked the young man but was hurled into a wall, and the young man knocked down the Third Division members and flattened several into human images on the floor.
• The young man allowed Gu Qingqiu to leave after praising her, while Lin Baici prepared to hold him off and Scorpion Queen fled.
• Zhang Heng and his team launched a breakout as Lin Baici, Xia Hongyao, and the others joined the fight, but the young man melted the deputy captain and turned Wu Zhaokun into paper.
• The artistic young man damaged Muscle Buddha's arm, but Lin Baici's Champion Dart struck his left eye and hurt him.

The artsy young man unleashed Divine Domain Bloom, killing Zhang Heng, Fei Xiao, and the people trapped in the hall, while Lin Baici stayed behind with Xia Hongyao to buy time. Lin Baici swallowed the Primordial Divine Remains and gained Flash of Lightning, but as he savagely overpowered the god, his reason began to slip away.

• The artsy young man used Divine Domain Bloom to melt Zhang Heng, Fei Xiao, and the remaining people in the great hall into iridescent paint, then pursued Lin Baici and the others.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao stopped to face the artsy young man while Jin Yingzhen, Hua Yueyu, and Gu Qingqiu initially fled; all three later turned back.
• Lin Baici swallowed the eyeball-shaped Primordial Divine Remains and gained Flash of Lightning, allowing him to attack the artsy young man at tremendous speed.
• Lin Baici battered the artsy young man and began losing control of himself, then bit the god's neck, smashed his head, and ate part of his brain matter.
• Hua Yueyu, Gu Qingqiu, and Jin Yingzhen were knocked unconscious, and Xia Hongyao crouched and apologized when it was her turn.

Xia Hongmian confronted the Black Sea Emperor while Xia Hongyao tried to get the contaminated Lin Baici to safety. Lin Baici later woke on a train home and discovered that consuming divine remains and the artistic god had granted him new Divine Graces.

• Xia Hongmian arrived, assessed Lin Baici, and confronted the Black Sea Emperor while Xia Hongyao carried Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu away.
• Lin Baici attacked Xia Hongyao, but Xia Hongmian snapped her fingers and burst his fist, briefly bringing him back to his senses.
• When Xia Hongyao urged him to go home, Lin Baici ran into the darkness, and Xia Hongmian offered the Black Sea Emperor a chance to become her dog before bursting one of his eyes.
• Chen Xin, chosen by the artistic god through Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell, rode a taxi to Haijing Academy of Fine Arts and calmed herself with Lin the Hungry One's video.
• Lin Baici woke on a high-speed train bound for Guangqing and recalled eating the artistic god and absorbing divine energy from the Eyeball-shaped Divine Remains.
• Lin Baici identified his Divine Graces as Flash of Lightning and Soul Sketch.

Lin Baici reviewed the Divine Graces and God's Taboo Objects he had gained before Xia Hongmian invited him to join the Haijing Safety Bureau and serve as an examiner. He accepted the invitation and planned to continue toward the Busan God's Ruins while thinking about protecting his mother.

• Lin Baici assessed his new Divine Graces and God's Taboo Objects, deciding which were useful and which he could sell.
• Xia Hongmian appeared on the train, offered Lin Baici ice cream, and invited him to join the Haijing Safety Bureau.
• Lin Baici accepted Xia Hongmian's invitation and agreed to serve as an examiner for the God Hunter qualification exam.
• Xia Hongmian learned Lin Baici planned to visit the Busan God's Ruins and wished him a good haul before leaving.
• Lin Baici received messages from Detective Xia and Li Shangui, then called his mother and told her he would stay busy working on a website.

At the Dragon and Beauty bar, Xia Hongyao learned that Lin Baici was safe and would join the Haijing Safety Bureau, then asked Xia Hongmian about Jin Yingzhen and the planned Busan mission. The chapter left Xia Hongyao eager to join the team supporting Lin Baici in Busan as Dragon Soul members questioned her about the Haijing incident.

• At the Dragon and Beauty bar, Xia Hongyao worried that Lin Baici and Xia Hongmian had fallen out while customers speculated about the provincial museum incident.
• Lin Baici messaged and called Xia Hongyao, telling her he was fine, had spoken with Xia Hongmian, and was joining the Haijing Safety Bureau.
• Xia Hongyao invited Lin Baici to join her team as deputy captain, and he agreed to return to Haijing the next day.
• Lin Baici asked Xia Hongyao to check on Jin Yingzhen, and Xia Hongyao called Xia Hongmian to discuss her situation.
• Xia Hongmian said she would trade Jin Yingzhen for a chance to explore the Busan God's Ruins and send a seven-person team to support Lin Baici; Xia Hongyao insisted she should go too.
• In the Dragon Soul group chat, members questioned Xia Hongyao about the Haijing incident and wondered whether Darkness Eclipse was involved.

Xia Hongyao reported the Haijing Provincial Museum God Ruin’s heavy casualties to the team leaders, who learned Lin Baici had played a major role in purifying it. Meanwhile, Jiu Long agreed to keep monitoring Lin Baici for Diana, and Lin returned to Haijing, where Gu Qingxiang invited him to dinner.

• Xia Hongyao told the team leaders that the Third Division and Lost Coast had been wiped out and the Ninth Division had suffered heavy casualties during the Provincial Museum God Ruin.
• The team leaders learned Lin Baici had been a major contributor, and Xia Hongyao said he had agreed to join the Safety Bureau.
• Jiu Long ordered his subordinate to keep monitoring Lin Baici, then learned from Diana that a god connected to Lin had appeared and agreed to test him later without hurting him for now.
• Lin Baici returned to Haijing and stocked up on supplies at a supermarket.
• Lin Baici met Gu Qingxiang while shopping, and she invited him to her home for beef-and-scallion dumplings.

After surviving a deadly encounter in the God Ruins, Lin Baici spent the evening with Gu Qingxiang and confided in her about his fears and the changes in his life. He woke in her spare bed with no memory of doing anything improper, and Gu Qingxiang had breakfast ready.

• Lin Baici and Gu Qingxiang bought groceries, cooked dumplings and side dishes together, and shared dinner and beer.
• While Gu Qingxiang washed the dishes, Lin Baici hugged her and called her "Mom," overwhelmed by exhaustion and memories of nearly dying in the God Ruins.
• Lin Baici explained that he had been afraid to visit his mother and later told Gu Qingxiang about his changed life, his uncertainty as a God Hunter, and his struggle to control his power and desires.
• Gu Qingxiang listened patiently as Lin Baici talked late into the night, and he eventually fell asleep in a double bed.
• Lin Baici woke alone, relieved that he had not revealed anything he should not have, and heard Gu Qingxiang calling him to wash up for breakfast.

Lin Baici spent the morning at Gu Qingxiang’s home, then joined the Safety Bureau under a lucrative talent contract. After learning that strange incidents near Haijing Normal University might signal Rule Pollution, he agreed to investigate the case involving missing mannequins and organs.

• Lin Baici had breakfast at Gu Qingxiang’s home, and she offered to teach him Korean every afternoon during the break.
• Lin Baici called Xia Hongyao, arranged to start work that day, and learned Hua Yueyu could leave that afternoon while Jin Yingzhen had to wait for her brother.
• Lin Baici signed a Safety Bureau talent contract offering an annual salary of a hundred million yuan, 3,000 Meteor Coins, and access to the bureau’s resources.
• Xia Hongmian told Lin Baici about missing mannequins at nearby malls and a medical university, as well as missing organs from bodies at Third City Hospital.
• Lin Baici agreed to investigate the incidents near Haijing Normal University because his friend attended the school, and Xia Hongyao joined him.
• Xia Hongyao took Lin Baici through onboarding, and Safety Bureau employees learned that the new recruit was a Dragon-level Prospect.

Lin Baici comforted Hua Yueyu after the God Ruins ordeal, but gently rejected her attempt to become his girlfriend and stayed with her while she recovered. Meanwhile, Jin Yingzhen told Jin Xian about the museum God Ruins and Lin Baici’s role in surviving them, leaving Jin Xian regretful that Lin Baici was not Korean.

• After Hua Yueyu called him in tears, Lin Baici went to her villa, where she twisted her ankle in the shower and he carried her to bed.
• Hua Yueyu begged Lin Baici to quit God Hunting, confessed her feelings, and kissed him, but Lin Baici said he considered her a friend and asked her to wait until she had recovered before discussing their relationship.
• Lin Baici agreed to stay with Hua Yueyu while she was sick, and Jin Yingzhen called to say she was returning to Korea with Jin Xian.
• On the private jet, Jin Yingzhen recounted the museum God Ruins, describing Lin Baici’s actions and his defeat of the Pharaoh King.
• Jin Yingzhen withheld her memory that Lin Baici had bitten the god, sensing that it was one of his biggest secrets.

Lin Baici spent the holiday recovering from the museum incident, studying Korean with Gu Qingxiang, and learning to drive with Xia Hongyao. As the holiday ended, he left to investigate the person who had made him feel hungry.

• Jin Xian told Jin Yingzhen he would help her obtain powerful Divine Graces and ordered her to accompany Lin Baici to Busan God's Ruins.
• Lin Baici cared for the sick Hua Yueyu, then studied Korean at Gu Qingxiang's home and impressed her by memorizing the syllables quickly.
• Lin Baici browsed the Origin Forum, answered God of Gluttony's symbol question for a fee, and decided he should buy a house.
• Xia Hongyao taught Lin Baici to drive, and he made rapid progress, even learning to drift around corners.
• After spending the holiday studying and practicing, Lin Baici left Gu Qingxiang's home to search Haijing Normal University for the person who had made him feel hungry.

Lin Baici left Gu Qingxiang’s apartment with a key and began searching Haijing Normal University for trouble, while Li Wei told him Cai Wenqi might like him. A divination led Lin Baici to a sobbing girl by the medical university, and after walking with her to the river, he realized her behavior was strange.

• Gu Qingxiang gave Lin Baici a key, and he kissed her before asking her to be his girlfriend; she punched him lightly and agreed to make dumplings another day.
• After Lin Baici left, Gu Qingxiang rejected a caller who asked her to deal with troublemakers, saying she was busy making dumplings.
• Lin Baici searched Haijing Normal University, then spoke with Li Wei, who said Cai Wenqi had been asking about him and recommended streamer Hua Yueyu.
• Lin Baici called Hua Yueyu, walked to the medical university, and used the God-Asking Tortoise Shell, which warned him to avoid traveling and women and pointed him west.
• Lin Baici found a sobbing girl at a bus shelter, offered her chocolate, and accompanied her to the river when she said she wanted to see the night view.
• At the river, Lin Baici noticed the girl scanning the embankment and tried to leave, but she clung to him and begged him to stay.