Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici went to a nightclub with his classmates, where he noticed a sudden hunger that might signal a nearby God's Taboo Object. In the restroom, he attacked a rude young man and forced a lit cigarette into his mouth.

• Qian Jiahui led the classmates into Sea Waves nightclub and booked two booths.
• Lin Baici joked and flirted with his classmates while Ji Xinyan sat beside him.
• Lin Baici's stomach rumbled, making him suspect a God's Taboo Object was nearby, but he found nothing during a search of the club.
• In the restroom, Lin Baici confronted a short-haired young man who insulted him and blew smoke in his face.
• Lin Baici beat the short-haired young man's companions, lit seven cigarettes, and pressed one against the man's tongue.

Lin Baici punished a group of smokers in the bathroom, then returned to his classmates and chatted with Hua Yueyu and Ji Xinyan at the nightclub. The chapter ended when an extravagant birthday-style champagne delivery arrived at their booth, supposedly sent by someone called Sister Zhong.

• Lin Baici burned the short-haired youth with cigarettes after the gang harassed him, and the youths backed down rather than summon Brother Feng.
• A drunk rich woman vomited on Lin Baici's shoe, and the God of Gluttony urged him to treat her as food.
• Lin Baici messaged Hua Yueyu during her livestream, while viewers speculated about their relationship and she wondered whether he would get jealous.
• Ji Xinyan flirted with Lin Baici and asked whether he was seeking true love, but she hesitated when he asked if she wanted a relationship or just fun.
• Bai Jiao called the classmates back from dancing, and Lin Baici joked with them as they prepared to leave.
• Servers brought a costly Dragon Set to the students' booth and announced that Sister Zhong wished them success, leaving the group worried about who would pay.

Lin Baici accepted Zhong Shuman’s apology champagne, then left the nightclub with his classmates and gave the bottles to their dorms. After the group split up, Ji Xinyan stayed behind with Lin Baici, but a sudden downpour left them stranded outside the club.

• A promoter delivered an expensive Dragon Set to Lin Baici on Zhong Shuman’s behalf, and Lin Baici went over to meet her with Qian Jiahui, Xu Daguan, Fang Mingyuan, and Ji Xinyan.
• Zhong Shuman explained that she had thrown up on Lin Baici earlier and had sent the drinks as an apology, then invited him to meet her again; Lin Baici politely declined and accepted her business card.
• Lin Baici returned to his classmates and told them to take the champagne back, giving one bottle to each dorm instead of leaving the drinks at the nightclub.
• Lin Baici sent Qian Jiahui and Xu Daguan to accompany the girls, while Ji Xinyan stayed behind with him and Pei Fei.
• Rain suddenly poured down outside the nightclub, leaving Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan unable to find a taxi and stranded together.

Lin Baici arranged a hotel car while Ji Xinyan and Pei Fei waited outside the nightclub, where lawyer Lin Yuan tried unsuccessfully to give Ji Xinyan a ride. The arrival of a Mercedes-AMG and a Rolls-Royce drew everyone's attention, and a driver bowed to Lin Baici as Mr. Lin.

• Lin Baici called the Hilton manager, who arranged a hotel driver to pick him up outside the Sea Wave nightclub.
• Lin Yuan offered Ji Xinyan and Pei Fei a ride in his BMW, but Ji Xinyan repeatedly refused him.
• Lin Baici returned with warm drinks for Ji Xinyan and Pei Fei, and Ji Xinyan accepted milk while teasing him.
• A Mercedes-AMG and a Rolls-Royce arrived, leaving Lin Yuan wondering whether Ji Xinyan was a wealthy heiress.
• A young man carrying umbrellas approached and apologized to Lin Baici for keeping him waiting, addressing him as Mr. Lin.

Lin Baici left the nightclub with Ji Xinyan and Pei Fei in a hotel Rolls-Royce, drawing attention to his wealth and his relationship with Ji Xinyan. After he got out near the campus canteen, Ji Xinyan and Pei Fei continued to the girls’ dormitory, where Tao Nai worried about their lateness and Liu Zilu joked that they might have gotten a room.

• A Hilton manager sent a Rolls-Royce to the nightclub for Lin Baici, and Lin Yuan realized he had badly underestimated him.
• Ji Xinyan privately told Lin Yuan that Lin Baici was her boyfriend, then rode with Lin Baici and Pei Fei in the Rolls-Royce.
• Ji Xinyan kissed Lin Baici in the car after telling Pei Fei to close her eyes and cover her ears.
• Lin Baici got out near Canteen No. 1 and ran toward his dorm, while Ji Xinyan and Pei Fei rode on to the girls’ dormitory.
• Tao Nai worried that Ji Xinyan and Pei Fei had not returned before curfew, and Liu Zilu joked that they might have gone to get a room.

After a night out with Lin Baici, the girls gathered in the dorm to drink champagne and gossip about his looks, wealth, and romantic prospects. Ji Xinyan returned and sent him a flirtatious selfie, while Pei Fei kept quiet about what she knew of his money and the chapter ended with the girls speculating about whether he would stay in touch with the rich woman who had given him champagne.

• Liu Zilu drank champagne and joked about wanting Lin Baici, while the girls discussed his intelligence, looks, and lack of self-discipline.
• Ji Xinyan and Pei Fei returned to the dorm, and the girls praised Xu Daguan's BMW and debated his livestreaming success.
• Pei Fei privately reflected that Lin Baici seemed like a wealthy second-generation student, while Ji Xinyan messaged him that she was back and sent him a selfie.
• The girls joked about Lin Baici being pursued by rich women, and Bai Jiao said she would consider a boyfriend with assets worth twenty million yuan.
• Ji Xinyan said she cared most about a boyfriend's looks, and the girls speculated that Lin Baici would keep in contact with the rich woman who had given him champagne.

Uncle Jiu discussed recruiting Lin Baici into Nine Dragon Pavilion and considered making his future trip to Busan God's Ruins more difficult. After settling into college life and agreeing to stay overnight at Gu Qingxiang's apartment, Lin Baici felt a sudden, intense hunger while watching Little Immortal Tooth's livestream.

• Uncle Jiu told a woman to recruit Lin Baici first and warned her that he was dangerous, then considered making Lin Baici's visit to Busan God's Ruins harder.
• Lin Baici returned to the dorm, exchanged messages with Ji Xinyan and Jin Yingzhen, and spoke with Jin Yingzhen on a video call.
• Lin Baici learned that Little Immortal Tooth's imitations had made her a rising streamer and that Hua Yueyu was struggling with her own broadcasts.
• Lin Baici asked Gu Qingxiang if he could stay the night because Xu Daguan's feet stank, and Gu Qingxiang agreed on the condition that he passed his exams and got along with his roommates.
• Lin Baici opened Little Immortal Tooth's livestream in bed, and its audio triggered a sudden wave of hunger.

Lin Baici recognized a Parrot Doll touched by a god among Little Immortal Tooth’s plush toys and joined Xia Hongyao’s team to contain it. The team reached Little Immortal Tooth’s apartment, but she was away and was reportedly meeting her Streamer Friends.

• Lin Baici noticed his hunger while watching Little Immortal Tooth’s livestream, then later spotted a suspicious bird-like toy among her plushies and learned from the God of Gluttony that it was a Parrot Doll touched by a god.
• Lin Baici told Xia Hongyao about the God's Taboo Object, and Xia Hongmian advised them to wait until the next day before visiting Little Immortal Tooth.
• Gu Qingxiang gave Lin Baici five thousand yuan, and after he asked her to be his girlfriend, she kissed him but still did not agree.
• Hua Yueyu and Gu Qingqiu joined Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao as they traveled to Little Immortal Tooth’s apartment in Meiya Phase Two.
• Xia Hongyao found no answer at Little Immortal Tooth’s door, and Hua Yueyu reported that the streamer was meeting her Streamer Friends that day.

Lin Baici and his companions attended Little Immortal Tooth’s streamer gathering to investigate the God’s Taboo Object in her bag. As they tried to leave after her ex-boyfriend Zeng Guoxue confronted her, the object activated and Rule Pollution erupted.

• Xia Hongyao led Lin Baici, Gu Qingqiu, and Hua Yueyu to Little Immortal Tooth’s gathering at Haihong Building, where they signed in and drew attention from the fans.
• Hua Yueyu met Little Immortal Tooth and offered her advice, while Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu observed her and suspected the God’s Taboo Object was in her crossbody bag.
• As the group prepared to leave, Zeng Guoxue arrived and angrily confronted Little Immortal Tooth, so Lin Baici restrained him and Gu Qingqiu urged someone to call the police.
• Lin Baici began escorting Zeng Guoxue away, but a sudden gale kicked up sand and stones, and Lin Baici realized Rule Pollution had broken out.

A Rule Pollution outbreak transported Lin Baici, Xia Hongyao, and the Haihong Building guests to a rooftop where they had to collect feathers to survive. After Lin Baici warned the group to move away from the edge, a hurricane swept more than twenty people off the roof.

• A sandstorm transported the banquet guests to a skyscraper rooftop, and Xia Hongyao identified the outbreak as Rule Pollution.
• Xia Hongyao searched Little Immortal Tooth's bag for the God's Taboo Object but found only ordinary belongings; black cubes then appeared across the rooftop, some bearing feathers.
• Lin Baici gave Xia Hongyao the Giant Locust Leg and told her not to reuse cubes, linger, or take the same route back as she collected a feather.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao crossed the cubes and returned with feathers; the rules revealed that each person needed two feathers to withstand the gale and that cubes would randomly fall over time.
• Lin Baici rushed his companions toward the rooftop's center, but many guests ignored him and stayed near the edge when a hurricane struck.
• The hurricane stopped after half a minute, having blown more than twenty people off the rooftop.

Lin Baici and the others tried to collect feathers that could protect them from the rooftop’s recurring hurricanes, but falling corpses and shrinking platforms made the challenge increasingly dangerous. Hua Yueyu and Gu Qingqiu got feathers, while most of the Streamer Friends remained at risk as another hurricane swept people from the cubes.

• Lin Baici sent Hua Yueyu and Gu Qingqiu to collect feathers, but a rain of corpses frightened Hua Yueyu and the watching Streamer Friends.
• Gu Qingqiu crossed twelve cubes, retrieved a feather, and returned before the hurricane resumed; two feathers then weakened the hurricane’s force on Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao.
• As the cubes disappeared after each hurricane, Lin Baici warned everyone to hurry, and seven people still on the cubes were swept away by the next gust.
• Zeng Guoxue tried to give Little Immortal Tooth his feather, but it caught fire when he passed it to her; Lin Baici extinguished the flames with a fire extinguisher.
• Hua Yueyu retrieved a feather, but only about a dozen of the nearly four hundred Streamer Friends had managed to get one.
• More people attempted the shrinking cube routes, but several froze from fear of heights, and the next hurricane swept away everyone still on the cubes.

As the cubes around the rooftop disappeared and the hurricanes grew stronger, Lin Baici gathered feathers and tossed them back so people could survive. He rescued Little Immortal Tooth and warned everyone to save themselves, but the desperate crowd turned violent as the platforms dwindled.

• Little Immortal Tooth struggled to jump after being burned, so Lin Baici tested whether she could use a feather he had collected; Zeng Guoxue tried to take his supplies, and Lin Baici struck and kicked him away.
• Lin Baici crossed the cubes, attached a feather to a can of herbal tea, and threw it to the rooftop, where Little Immortal Tooth picked it up without being burned.
• Lin Baici tossed more feathered cans to the crowd, exposed a man who falsely claimed to be one of Hua Yueyu’s big-spending fans, and told people to collect their own feathers.
• As a stronger hurricane swept across the rooftop, Lin Baici caught Little Immortal Tooth before she was blown away, while falling people struck others on the cubes.
• Lin Baici gave Little Immortal Tooth another feathered can and continued collecting feathers, while the fat guy charged into the crowd fighting over cans and knocked people toward the rooftop’s edge.

Lin Baici and the others endured the rooftop’s growing gaps and another hurricane while people fought over feathers. After the God of Gluttony told him to insert feathers into both arms and jump, Lin Baici and his companions leaped from the rooftop, leaving the other survivors to decide whether to follow.

• A desperate man tried to push people off the rooftop, but the crowd beat him before Hua Yueyu warned everyone to shelter from the hurricane.
• Lin Baici refused to give away more feathers to people who threatened him, while Gu Qingqiu spotted a gang planning to steal feathers from vulnerable survivors.
• When the rooftop began splitting into widening sections, Lin Baici scattered the gang after they attacked people with feathers.
• As people fell during the renewed hurricane, the God of Gluttony instructed Lin Baici to put feathers into both arms, and Lin Baici urged his companions to do the same.
• After the God of Gluttony told Lin Baici to jump, Gu Qingqiu, Lin Baici, Hua Yueyu, and Xia Hongyao leaped while the remaining survivors hesitated.

Lin Baici and the surviving Streamer Friends landed in a vast, freezing forest after jumping from the sky, then began searching for bird eggs that God of Gluttony had identified as important. When Hua Yueyu took eggs from a nest, giant birds attacked, killing one of the survivors as the group faced a new danger.

• Lin Baici, Gu Qingqiu, Xia Hongyao, and Hua Yueyu survived their fall into the forest, while people without feathers began crashing to their deaths.
• Lin Baici inspected the nests and told the survivors to gather bird eggs and food, estimating that only a little over a hundred and fifty of nearly four hundred Streamer Friends remained.
• Hua Yueyu climbed a tree, collected two gray eggs with red speckles, and hurried down when she sensed a looming shadow.
• Giant birds as large as yaks swooped toward the group, and Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao warned Hua Yueyu to run.
• Lin Baici struck one giant bird with a stone and pierced it with his Bronze Sword, while another bird killed the Plane Guy by pecking through his skull.

Lin Baici rescued the survivors from giant birds with the Muscle Buddha and used his Black Altar Bowl to provide them food. As they prepared to hunt the remaining birds, a huge object suddenly emerged from the ground nearby.

• Giant birds attacked people who had climbed trees to steal eggs, while Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu realized the birds were targeting only nest raiders.
• Lin Baici summoned the Muscle Buddha, which killed the giant bird attacking the man in luxury casualwear and scared the other birds away.
• Lin Baici took two stolen eggs from Hua Yueyu, but the God of Gluttony told him to hold them in his mouth.
• Lin Baici gave the hungry survivors bread, ham, and Mineral Water from the Black Altar Bowl, then organized them into teams to gather wood for torches.
• As Little Immortal Tooth asked to join Lin Baici's group, a huge object burst out of the ground nearby.

Lin Baici tried to communicate with a fat bird monster by feeding it an egg, then led a group to gather more eggs while avoiding the giant birds. When the birds attacked, he used a Pine Torch and Muscle Buddha to fight them off.

• Lin Baici guessed the fat bird monster wanted bird eggs, fed it one, and watched it demand more while threatening the man it had grabbed.
• Lin Baici led Xia Hongyao, Gu Qingqiu, Hua Yueyu, and Little Immortal Tooth away from the giant birds, but the fat bird monster followed them until his display of strength frightened it.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao split up to collect eggs from more than twenty nests while Gu Qingqiu and Hua Yueyu hid nearby.
• When the giant birds returned and attacked, Lin Baici drew them away from Xia Hongyao, lit a Pine Torch, and fought them with Muscle Buddha.

Lin Baici and Muscle Buddha fought off giant birds while gathering Bird Eggs, then forced a fat Bird Monster to reveal a way through the forest. The group followed its directions with Bird Eggs in their mouths, and Lin Baici led them toward an Altar in an open area.

• Lin Baici and Muscle Buddha burned and battered the giant birds as Lin Baici collected Bird Eggs and tested one by eating it raw.
• While Lin Baici was away, the fat Bird Monster attacked the waiting group, killing one man before the survivors fled toward Lin Baici.
• Lin Baici and Muscle Buddha beat the fat Bird Monster into submission, and it pointed toward a route out of the bird forest.
• Lin Baici realized the group needed to keep Bird Eggs in their mouths, then told the others to gather eggs themselves as they moved along the route.
• The group survived an attack by nine giant birds, and Lin Baici reached an open area where an Altar stood.

Lin Baici and the group reached a crude altar, where a Birdman Ghost attacked anyone without an intact Bird Egg in their mouth. After the ghost returned to the Straw Birdman, Lin Baici noticed feathers growing on a young man wearing Nike shoes.

• Lin Baici warned everyone not to touch the altar, and Gu Qingqiu approached the Straw Birdman to inspect it.
• The Straw Birdman's eyes opened, and a Birdman Ghost emerged and struck the group with an ultrasonic wave.
• The ghost spared people with intact Bird Eggs but killed two people without eggs and Rocket Bro after he cracked his egg.
• The Birdman Ghost checked the crowd, killed three more people with cracked eggs, and returned to the Straw Birdman.
• Lin Baici's Bird Egg seemed to move, and Hua Yueyu pointed out feathers growing on a young man wearing Nike shoes.

Lin Baici and the others discovered that hatching bird eggs let them use the Altar to fly, while rotten eggs transformed people into bird-men. Their hatchlings carried them east before releasing them high above the ground, and Xia Hongyao landed in a feather pile beside a golden cage.

• The Nike-clad young man and several others sprouted feathers and attacked as they turned into bird-men, while spitting out an egg failed to stop the denim-jacketed young man's transformation.
• Zeng Guoxue tried to force Little Immortal Tooth to spit out her egg and slapped her, so Lin Baici restrained him and kicked him away.
• Hua Yueyu's egg hatched, revealing that the surviving hatchlings were the key to using the Altar; Lin Baici and the others let their hatchlings carry them east.
• Zeng Guoxue put his discarded egg back into his mouth and began turning into a bird-man as the others flew away.
• The hatchlings released their passengers high in the sky, and Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao jumped after the falling Hua Yueyu and Gu Qingqiu.
• Xia Hongyao landed in a mound of feathers and found a golden iron net that looked like a birdcage.

Lin Baici and the other survivors faced a parrot trial in a golden birdcage, where each person had to imitate a chosen bird or be eaten. After several deaths and Gu Qingqiu’s successful imitation, Lin Baici activated the Black Cat Scale and froze the parrots, leaving the trial’s outcome uncertain.

• Hua Yueyu, Xia Hongyao, Gu Qingqiu, Lin Baici, and the other survivors emerged in a giant golden birdcage, where the crested parrot ordered them to call out their numbers.
• The crested parrot announced that each person had to choose a parrot and imitate its speech; the luxury-loving man failed and was swallowed after Lin Baici declined to help him.
• Gu Qingqiu chose the second parrot and successfully imitated its Bengali quotation from Tagore, which she recognized from a book she had read.
• A young man numbered fifteen failed to imitate an English sentence and was swallowed by his chosen parrot.
• Lin Baici activated the Black Cat Scale, summoning a black cat that made the crested parrot and the twelve perched parrots freeze in fear.