Chapter Summaries

After Lin Baici and his companions returned from purifying Rule Pollution at Li Taiwu’s estate, Jin Yingzhen learned that her grandfather was dying and arranged for Lin Baici to visit him. Later, she invited Lin Baici on a night run, where a woman began flirting with him.

• Xia Hongyao and the others heard Hua Yueyu recount how Lin Baici and the group fought zombies and purified Rule Pollution at Li Taiwu’s estate.
• Jin Yingzhen’s mother told her that her grandfather was near death and that Master Batishan could not help; Jin Yingzhen asked her to let Lin Baici examine him.
• Jin Xian invited Lin Baici and the God Hunters planning to enter Busan God’s Ruins to a meal at Myeongdong Grand Restaurant, and agreed that Lin Baici could visit Jin Yingzhen’s grandfather.
• Jin Yingzhen changed into workout clothes and persuaded Lin Baici to join her for a night run, keeping ahead of him as he admired her figure.
• A woman in running clothes caught up with Lin Baici, complimented his muscles, slapped his butt, and offered to buy him a midnight snack.

Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen confessed their feelings through an intimate encounter, but Lin Baici remained unsure about love. The next day, Jin Yingzhen brought him to her family estate to see her ill grandfather, where her brother Jin Dongcheng confronted them.

• A young woman with a venomous-spider warning flirted with Lin Baici, but Jin Yingzhen interrupted and later confessed that she liked him.
• Lin Baici admitted he liked Jin Yingzhen but did not know if he loved her, and they became intimate in a grove.
• Jin Yingzhen told Lin Baici it had been her first time and said she did not expect him to date her, though he asked her to be his girlfriend.
• Jin Yingzhen drove Lin Baici to her grandfather's estate, where guards initially blocked them until she called Jin Dongcheng.
• Jin Dongcheng accused Jin Yingzhen of endangering their grandfather and followed her and Lin Baici upstairs.

Lin Baici used Buddhist chanting to ease Jin Mo’s cursed nightmares, and his recitation changed the moods of everyone in the bedroom. As Jin Yingzhen prepared to leave, Jin Mo suddenly woke up.

• Lin Baici sensed a curse in Jin Mo’s bedroom and learned that Jin Mo was trapped in recurring nightmares and growing weaker.
• Jin Dongcheng belittled Lin Baici and dismissed Jin Yingzhen, but Lin Baici began reciting the Diamond Sutra beside Jin Mo’s bed.
• The chanting dispelled Jin Dongcheng’s desire to keep Jin Yingzhen away, and he left the bedroom.
• Lin Baici switched to a passage he had heard at Longchan Temple, calming Jin Mo and moving the maid and Jin Yingzhen.
• Jin Yingzhen thanked Lin Baici and prepared to leave, but Jin Mo suddenly opened his eyes.

Lin Baici used Muscle Buddha and the Cat God to remove the curse afflicting Jin Mo, saving his life. Afterward, Jin Yingzhen suspected her eldest sister Jin Yunshan might have arranged the curse, and she and Lin Baici went to meet her to investigate.

• Lin Baici used the Ghost Lamp to spot a green-scaled baby attached to Jin Mo, while the God of Gluttony warned that killing it directly could kill the elderly man.
• Lin Baici summoned the black cat with the Cat God Scale, and it severed the baby’s umbilical cord and dragged it away, allowing Jin Mo to recover.
• Jin Mo thanked Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen, while Lin Baici noticed Jin Mo’s young wife and child but chose not to interfere in the family matter.
• Jin Yingzhen told Lin Baici that her grandfather had been cursed and wondered whether his wife could be involved; Lin Baici decided to leave Jin Mo to handle the matter himself.
• Jin Yunshan invited Jin Yingzhen and Lin Baici to dinner, and Jin Yingzhen stopped the car to kiss Lin Baici before they later went to meet Jin Yunshan and investigate whether she had tried to kill Jin Mo.

At dinner with Jin Yunshan, Lin Baici discovered that her Japanese companions were using butterfly pollen to influence the men in the room. He exposed their scheme and was praised by an arriving stranger as a Dragon-level Prospect from the Nine Provinces Security Agency.

• Jin Yunshan invited Jin Yingzhen and Lin Baici to dinner and asked Jin Yingzhen to persuade her mother to support Jin Yunshan in the family succession struggle.
• Lin Baici learned from the God of Gluttony that Hanae Nanami's butterfly pollen could make men fall in love with her.
• Lin Baici spun the Dream Top, but Mano Ayumu and Hanae Nanami broke free of its influence.
• Hanae Nanami used pollen to revive Jin Yunshan, while Lin Baici splashed scalding tea on Hanae Nanami to cleanse the pollen's contamination.
• Lin Baici confronted the Japanese pair and warned Jin Yunshan that he had acted to protect her.
• A stranger entered the private room and praised Lin Baici as a Dragon-level Prospect from the Nine Provinces Security Agency.

Jin Xian met Lin Baici at a barbecue restaurant, thanked him for his work, and arranged for him to enter the Busan God's Ruins with a recording team. After Jin Xian left, Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen headed back to prepare, while Mi Qin thought she recognized Lin Baici nearby.

• Jin Xian arrived at the restaurant, greeted Lin Baici, and asked Jin Yunshan, Mano Ayumu, and Hanae Nanami to leave.
• Outside, Jin Yunshan wondered whether Lin Baici was impressive, and Hanae Nanami said he had seen through her trick.
• Jin Xian thanked Lin Baici for purifying the Rule Pollution at the Li Taiwu estate and explained that Sejongjeong would send seven people to record his work in the Busan God's Ruins.
• Jin Xian scheduled the group to meet at Seoul Station the day after tomorrow and dismissed Jin Yingzhen's attempt to tell him about their grandfather's curse.
• Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen left to prepare, while Mi Qin thought she recognized Lin Baici and her father noticed Jin Yingzhen.

Lin Baici's group traveled with Jin Xian's team to Miryang to prepare for entering Busan God's Ruins, while facing hostility from their Korean allies. They learned that entry depended on the Busan Train, which would arrive within two days and ran only once every three months.

• Hua Yueyu insisted on joining the trip despite Gu Qingqiu and Xia Hongyao trying to dissuade her.
• Jin Xian introduced Kwon Sang-in and his team to Lin Baici's group, and the teams traveled together by train toward Miryang.
• Xia Hongyao explained that the Koreans viewed the outsiders as treasure seekers, while Gu Qingqiu defended their mission as humanitarian aid, provoking hostile reactions from Kwon Sang-in's team.
• The groups arrived in militarized Miryang, where Hua Yueyu saw the vast Dark Mist surrounding Busan God's Ruins and felt reassured by Lin Baici.
• Kwon Sang-in explained that entering the ruins required boarding the Busan Train, which ran once every three months and was expected within two days.

Lin Baici and his companions set out for the Busan God's Ruins after a horn stirred the Dark Mist and brought God Hunters to a train station. As hundreds gathered on the platform, Lin Baici revealed he had a space-type God's Taboo Object, drawing everyone's attention.

• Lin Baici's group prepared to enter the God Ruins while Jin Yingzhen lamented that her brother's men were focused on gathering intelligence rather than helping them.
• A horn sounded the next evening, the Dark Mist churned, and Kwon Sang-in ordered Lin Baici's group to follow the military vehicles.
• Jin Yingzhen drove the Humvee through the Dark Mist, following Kwon Sang-in to a train station that Xia Hongyao identified as the entrance to the Busan God's Ruins.
• Lin Baici and his companions reached the platform, where more than two hundred God Hunters from several groups had gathered.
• A brawny Black Person asked Lin Baici if he had a space-type God's Taboo Object, and Lin Baici confirmed that he did, drawing the crowd's attention.

Lin Baici and his companions boarded Carriage 8 on the God of Gluttony's advice as the train departed for the Busan God's Ruins. The carriage's corpse-like stench revealed that Rule Pollution had begun, and the God of Gluttony urged Lin Baici to eat the ingredients before they rotted.

• The Yellowstone Hunters and the Statue of Liberty faction arrived at the platform, and Jesus warned Lin Baici that he would face a surprise inside the train.
• Lin Baici waited for the God of Gluttony's guidance while people chose among the train's eighteen carriages; Kwon Sang-in boarded Carriage 7, but Jin Yingzhen stayed with Lin Baici.
• The God of Gluttony chose Carriage 8, so Lin Baici, Xia Hongyao, Hua Yueyu, Jin Yingzhen, Gu Qingqiu, and Yi Jisheng boarded as the doors began closing.
• Jesus decided to follow Lin Baici into Carriage 8, while Xia Hongyao prepared to fight the people already inside.
• Lin Baici noticed the smell of corpses, and the God of Gluttony announced that Rule Pollution had begun and urged him to eat the ingredients before they rotted.

Lin Baici recognized that Rule Pollution was making the passengers on the train rot, while he and his companions remained unaffected. As desperate God Hunters gathered in Car 8, one of the Indonesians who had earlier confronted Lin Baici demanded he reveal the answer.

• Lin Baici used the Black Cat Scale to drive the Indonesians out of Car 8, then Jesus and the Statue of Liberty team approached him to play a game.
• Lin Baici noticed the stench of rotting flesh on Jesus and his teammates, and a blonde woman soon realized everyone else smelled the same.
• Jesus took his team away to investigate the Rule Pollution, while Lin Baici and his companions stayed in Car 8 and discussed their immunity cautiously.
• Passengers across the train developed visible rot as they failed to find the Rule Pollution's key, and many God Hunters crowded into Car 8, including Kwon Sang-in and his teammates.
• The Indonesians returned, and a monkey-faced man slammed his fist on Lin Baici's table and demanded the answer, claiming Lin Baici owed it to him.

Lin Baici turned a confrontation with the monkey-faced man into a chance to pit the passengers against the Indonesian group, killing their leader and ordering the rest attacked. After the Indonesians were slaughtered, he pointed the surviving passengers toward the television as they asked for the key to the Rule Pollution.

• The monkey-faced man threatened Lin Baici and his companions, but Lin Baici offered to reveal the Rule Pollution’s solution to whoever killed the group.
• When the monkey-faced man tried to seize Jin Yingzhen, Lin Baici used Flash of Lightning and Great Impression Hand to slap him dead.
• The Indonesians backed down and tried to blame the monkey-faced man, but other passengers attacked and killed two of them as they tried to flee.
• Lin Baici ordered the passengers to attack the remaining Indonesians, and they killed the entire group while he watched.
• When a young man asked for the solution, Lin Baici pointed at the television.

Lin Baici protected the train passengers from Rule Pollution and reached Hancheng, where Kwon Sang-in warned that a zombie outbreak would begin soon. Following his hunger toward a likely God’s Taboo Object, Lin Baici entered an alley and found someone eating a corpse.

• Lin Baici told the passengers to watch a movie to avoid Rule Pollution, and they left the carriage while Kwon Sang-in’s team stayed to watch.
• After the passengers’ rotting flesh recovered, several teams invited Lin Baici to join them, but he refused.
• The train stopped at a station five hours later, and Kwon Sang-in explained that the group needed to find tickets by killing monsters outside.
• Lin Baici and the others discovered they were in a busy city that Jin Yingzhen suspected was Hancheng.
• Kwon Sang-in warned Lin Baici that a zombie virus would break out in a few hours, but Lin Baici followed his hunger instead of hiding.
• Lin Baici stopped at an alley and saw someone squatting there and eating a corpse.

Lin Baici and the God Hunters discovered that killing zombies could yield tickets to stations with different Rule Pollutions, while the outbreak spread through the city. When a horde poured out of a subway exit, Lin Baici commandeered a taxi and fled as Kwon Sang-in’s group faced the swarm.

• Kim Jin-soo killed a delivery worker zombie, which dropped a ticket from Hancheng Station to Hanyang Station, and Kwon Sang-in handed it to Lin Baici.
• Xia Hongyao killed a revived office worker zombie, but it dropped no ticket.
• Lin Baici killed zombies inside a KFC, collected tickets for Hanyang Station and Silla Station, and sent Xia Hongyao and Yi Jisheng to clear the bodies.
• Kwon Sang-in urged his group to kill a horde of zombies emerging from a subway exit, while Lin Baici seized a taxi and knocked the driver down.

Lin Baici led his group through Seoul after a zombie outbreak overwhelmed the streets, then took shelter in a hotel and gathered supplies. Kwon Sang-in sought an alliance, but Lin Baici remained wary of his team as they prepared for what came next.

• Kwon Sang-in ordered his group to retreat as zombies flooded into the road, while Lin Baici drove his companions away from the outbreak.
• Gu Qingqiu advised Lin Baici to seek a less crowded refuge, but gridlocked traffic forced them to abandon their SUV and enter a Sheraton Hotel.
• Lin Baici knocked out the hotel manager, stopped Kim Jin-soo from barricading the doors, and organized his group to secure a suite and gather food.
• Gu Qingqiu and Xia Hongyao mapped the area, and Hua Yueyu realized they were in Seoul rather than Busan.
• Lin Baici demanded that Choi Soon-sil's group leave, but Kwon Sang-in proposed cooperation and promised to keep his men in line.

Lin Baici led his team through the hotel to hunt zombies for tickets and help Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu practice fighting. Jin Yingzhen killed a zombie, while Lin Baici saved Hua Yueyu from another, and more zombies flooded into the hallway.

• Yi Jisheng watched the street while Lin Baici and the others ate and rested through the noisy afternoon.
• Kwon Sang-in proposed leaving, but Lin Baici split the group into two teams to clear the hotel floors and let his companions choose tickets.
• Lin Baici's team reached the thirty-fifth floor and drew five zombies toward them by knocking on the wall.
• Jin Yingzhen freed her sword from a zombie and beheaded it, while Hua Yueyu struggled against another zombie and Lin Baici destroyed it with a Flying Stone before it could bite her.
• More zombies emerged from nearby rooms and crowded into the hallway.

Lin Baici trained his group while they cleared floors for Hanyang train tickets, then joined Kwon Sang-in’s team on a motorcycle ride to the station. The groups reached the station plaza and rushed inside, leaving their bikes behind.

• Lin Baici cleared a floor of zombies with his Bronze Sword and Muscle Buddha, earning a Hanyang ticket.
• Lin Baici let Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu lead the fighting as his group cleared odd-numbered floors, but they remained two tickets short.
• Kwon Sang-in gave Gu Qingqiu the two tickets they needed and told Lin Baici’s group to leave at nine the next morning.
• Kim Jin-soo and the others discussed taking Lin Baici’s spatial God’s Taboo Object and exploiting the dangers of Rule Pollution.
• Lin Baici’s group met Kwon Sang-in’s team, rode motorcycles through the zombie-filled streets, and reached the station plaza.
• Kwon Sang-in abandoned his motorcycle and led the group up the station stairs.

At the station, Lin Baici and the God Hunters discovered that trains were not arriving, and passengers who missed their departures were beginning to rot. With Lin Baici’s train to Hanyang due in minutes, Kwon Sang-in knew the solution but withheld it, while Jesus threatened him for the answer.

• Lin Baici and his companions entered the station and encountered the Statue of Liberty, Nine Dragon Pavilion, and Thousand Snow.
• Gu Qingqiu noticed that no trains had been announced, and a passenger revealed that his train to Daixing had failed to arrive.
• The God of Gluttony told Lin Baici that anyone unable to board a train to the God Ruins within twenty-four hours would rot, and the stranded passengers began to panic.
• Kwon Sang-in hinted that he knew how to board, but Lin Baici left without accepting his help.
• Jesus confronted Kwon Sang-in and threatened to kill everyone if he did not reveal the answer before the 11:20 train.

Lin Baici solved the station’s ticket-inspection rule and boarded the 11:20 train to Hanyang Station, while Jesus and the other God Hunters chose to follow him. The train departed with the stranded hunters aboard, leaving their fate uncertain as the Busan Trip continued.

• Jesus pressured Kwon Sang-in into explaining how to board the train, then decided to travel to Hanyang Station with Lin Baici.
• Lin Baici used the control-room equipment to announce ticket inspection early and direct passengers to Gate A15.
• Lin Baici and the others reached the platform, where the 11:20 train arrived and its doors opened.
• Lin Baici boarded first, followed by Jin Yingzhen, Jesus, Kwon Sang-in, and their companions.
• The God Hunters who had missed the train climbed aboard without tickets, and the train departed.

Lin Baici watched ticketless passengers die aboard the train and stopped Xia Hongyao from touching a cursed dagger. After the dagger cost Li Zaicheng an arm, the carriage fell silent as the survivors faced the dangers ahead.

• The man in the hat failed to buy a ticket, offered his puppet-making dagger, and then tried to steal Kim Jin-soo’s ticket when ticketless passengers began dying.
• An invisible force shattered the ticketless passengers, including the man in the hat, as Lin Baici’s group watched.
• Gu Qingqiu urged Xia Hongyao to grab the dagger, but Lin Baici stopped her after recognizing that touching it was fatal.
• Li Zaicheng grabbed the dagger, and Kwon Sang-in cut off his arm to prevent its wooden transformation from spreading.
• The ticketless passengers died, leaving the carriage silent before the train reached Hanyang Station.

After the train’s God Ruins contaminated the dead passengers’ belongings, Lin Baici led the group through a fog to Hanyang Station, where they emerged in a seemingly ancient wilderness. They reached a silent mountain village strewn with funeral paper, and Kwon Sang-in sensed a strong stench of death.

• Lin Baici refused to let the others touch the contaminated God's Taboo Objects and led them to another carriage.
• The train stopped at Hanyang Station, and Lin Baici led the group into the fog, where they became separated from the other teams.
• Lin Baici's group and Kwon Sang-in's team crossed a plain and followed a dirt road to a remote village.
• Gu Qingqiu noticed the village had no cooking smoke, and Lin Baici led the group inside to investigate.
• The group found the village silent, with its doors shut and funeral paper blowing through the air, while Kwon Sang-in smelled something dead nearby.