Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici and his team entered plague-stricken Sangqing Prefecture seeking Divine Doctor Li, but learned he had returned to Woniu Village. As soldiers surrounded them, Lin Baici claimed he could cure the plague.

• Lin Baici and Kwon Sang-in found an old man in a plague-ridden village, learned that Divine Doctor Li had identified the disease as leprosy, and were directed south to Sangqing Prefecture.
• The team reached Sangqing Prefecture, where funeral processions and signs of widespread death filled the streets.
• Hua Yueyu developed a persistent cough and Li Zaicheng reported feeling feverish, raising fears that the team had been infected.
• The team learned that Divine Doctor Li had returned to Woniu Village and discussed finding horses to reach him.
• Soldiers surrounded Lin Baici and his companions, and Lin Baici announced that he could cure the plague.

Lin Baici offered to investigate Sangqing Prefecture’s plague and secured horses and permission from Prefect Zhao Decheng to seek the Chief Medical Officer. He left some companions behind and led the others to the physician’s clinic, where strange signs suggested the doctor might already be dead.

• Hua Yueyu’s coughing worsened, and Lin Baici persuaded the Bearded Man to take him to Prefect Zhao Decheng.
• Zhao Decheng agreed to give Lin Baici three days to investigate and provide ten horses, while Lin Baici used his Great Impression Hand to warn the prefect not to harm his companions.
• Lin Baici and his group left half their companions in the official quarters and set out with the Bearded Man and more than thirty soldiers.
• The group traveled through famine-stricken villages and reached Woniu Village, where the silence alarmed Gu Qingqiu.
• Lin Baici found the Chief Medical Officer’s clinic, Jiminxuan, and he and Kwon Sang-in noticed flesh and dried blood on the bamboo spikes facing inward over its wall.

Lin Baici and the others discovered zombies trapped beneath the floor of Divine Doctor Li’s clinic and set the clinic and village ablaze to prevent the monsters from escaping. As dusk fell, a young woman arrived and mourned that everything had been ruined.

• Lin Baici entered the clinic with Jin Yingzhen, Gu Qingqiu, and Kwon Sang-in to search the abandoned rooms.
• Lin Baici broke through a rotten floorboard, revealing bloodied arms and a crowd of apparently breathless zombies beneath the clinic.
• Gu Qingqiu suspected the zombies hid from sunlight, and Lin Baici suggested capturing one to study.
• The Bearded Man’s soldiers barricaded the clinic and fired arrows into it, then Kwon Sang-in ordered them to burn the village.
• At dusk, a young woman carrying a medicine hoe and herb basket arrived and cried that everything was ruined.

Lin Baici and the others learned from Jang Geum that human flesh from a dead apprentice had been served as soup, creating living corpses that could spread by biting. As infected villagers charged from the burning village, the group fled, but a Big Head Living Corpse caught and bit a soldier.

• Lin Baici stopped the Bearded Man from threatening Jang Geum and questioned her about the clinic and its living corpses.
• Jang Geum revealed that Li Taixian had brought human flesh from the Chief Medical Officer's dead apprentice, and that destroying a living corpse's head was the only known way to kill it.
• Lin Baici learned that the living corpses grew stronger by eating people and infected anyone they bit.
• Jang Geum explained that the Chief Medical Officer had carried his dead apprentice back from the palace, where he had gone to treat the King, and had since gone into the mountains to gather herbs.
• Living corpses appeared in the burning village, and Lin Baici mounted a horse with Jang Geum as the group fled.
• A Big Head Living Corpse caught the Tall Man and bit his shoulder after arrows failed to stop it.

Lin Baici slaughtered the living corpses attacking the village, then used Jang Geum as bait to draw out the hidden Li Taixian. A gunshot revealed that Li Taixian was nearby, but he had not yet appeared.

• The living corpses overwhelmed the soldiers and killed Tall Man, while Bearded Man ordered a retreat.
• Lin Baici charged into the monsters and killed fifty-nine of them, despite Gu Qingqiu warning that others might spread the infection.
• After the fighting stopped, Lin Baici called for Li Taixian and threatened Jang Geum to lure him out.
• A hidden shooter fired at Lin Baici, and Gu Qingqiu identified the weapon as likely a flintlock.
• Lin Baici reasoned that Li Taixian had accompanied Jang Geum into the mountains and threatened to torture her unless he came out.

Lin Baici questioned Li Taixian and learned that Divine Doctor Li had buried an entire village after a sudden outbreak killed its people, while clues suggested the King might be a living corpse. After Jang Geum begged Lin Baici to save Korea, the group camped for the night and set off into the mountains to find Divine Doctor Li.

• Lin Baici drew Li Taixian out of hiding, then offered food and clothing while questioning him about his past.
• Li Taixian admitted that Divine Doctor Li had buried more than five hundred villagers who died within days, and Gu Qingqiu suggested the doctor might be connected to their deaths.
• Li Taixian said Divine Doctor Li's apprentice had been bitten to death after entering the royal palace, and he confirmed that the wounds matched those left by the living corpses.
• Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu suspected the King was a living corpse and decided that finding Divine Doctor Li was their next priority.
• Lin Baici shared a hot pot with Li Taixian and Jang Geum, who begged him to save the people of Korea.
• After a peaceful night, Lin Baici's group set out toward the mountains with Li Taixian leading the way.

Lin Baici led the group into the forbidden zone to find Divine Doctor Li and herbs that might help cure the plague. After recruiting the mountain folk, they discovered strange purple flowers beside a hot spring, and Gu Qingqiu warned everyone not to approach them.

• Lin Baici ordered the group to search for Divine Doctor Li, then led Li Taixian and the others toward the forbidden zone.
• The mountain folk attacked with arrows, but Lin Baici blocked them with Muscle Buddha and forced their leader, One-Ear, to negotiate.
• Lin Baici promised the mountain folk food, clothing, and weapons in exchange for ten days of service, and One-Ear agreed.
• The group found a cave beneath a cliff with a hot spring and pale purple flowers, which Gu Qingqiu warned them not to approach.

Lin Baici and his companions searched a hot spring for the Life and Death Grass, then discovered a cave containing evidence of cruel medical experiments. After Lin Baici found and opened a buried box, a living corpse lunged at him.

• God of Gluttony identified the plants as Life and Death Grass, and Lin Baici had Jang Geum cautiously gather one.
• A soldier found a cave containing skeletons shackled to weights and equipment for preparing and testing medicine.
• Jang Geum examined the cave at Lin Baici’s request while he searched nearby for the source of his hunger.
• One-Ear and the mountain folk dug up a wooden box buried beneath a straw mat.
• Li Taixian broke the box’s lock, releasing black mist and a living corpse that lunged at Lin Baici, who punched instinctively.

Lin Baici and his companions escaped a living-corpse Rule Pollution by arranging the pages of a medical journal, then returned to Sangqing Prefecture, where Hua Yueyu and others were ill. As Jang Geum tried to treat them, a ragged man appeared at the city’s north gate before dawn.

• Lin Baici avoided touching the chained living corpses, and Gu Qingqiu realized they could pass safely by staying outside each corpse’s limited reach.
• Gu Qingqiu found the wooden box, and Lin Baici used the numbered pages of the medical journal to purify the Rule Pollution and end the infection.
• Lin Baici left the mountain with the group, brought Jang Geum the Divine Doctor’s Log, and returned to Sangqing Prefecture without finding Divine Doctor Li.
• Xia Hongyao told Lin Baici that Hua Yueyu, Bae Doowon, and Li Zaicheng were ill, and Jang Geum examined Hua Yueyu and prepared to prescribe medicine.
• A ragged man repeatedly struck Sangqing Prefecture’s closed north gate, and the gate guards opened it after the gate officer ordered them to do so.

After discovering that Life and Death Grass could revive corpses, Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu investigated Divine Doctor Li’s past and suspected he had used living corpses against the Japanese. Their discussion was interrupted when the living corpse plague spread into Sangqing Prefecture.

• At the city gate, a blood-trailing woman lured living corpses into the city, where they attacked gatekeepers and started the plague.
• Jang Geum told Lin Baici and the others that Life and Death Grass could revive the dead when prepared with medicine and injected into a corpse’s brain.
• Jang Geum recalled that Divine Doctor Li had traveled north during a plague outbreak more than four years earlier and returned to study medical books.
• Gu Qingqiu speculated that Divine Doctor Li had turned leprosy victims into living corpse soldiers to defeat the Japanese, then paid to bury the village out of guilt.
• As Lin Baici prepared to check on Hua Yueyu, people outside cried that monsters were coming and the living corpse outbreak spread through Sangqing Prefecture.

Lin Baici led the group through Sangqing Prefecture’s zombie outbreak to Zhao Decheng’s residence, forcing the official to abandon his valuables and join their escape. The back gate was overrun by living corpses, and Lin Baici stayed behind to fight as Zhao Decheng clung to hope.

• Gu Qingqiu deduced that someone had lured the living dead to Sangqing Prefecture, and Lin Baici ordered Li Taixian to gather the mountain people before leading them toward Zhao Decheng’s residence.
• Lin Baici protected a woman from a living corpse with his Bronze Sword, whose embarrassing voice announced his name and appetite to the stunned crowd.
• Lin Baici reached Zhao Decheng’s residence and forced him to leave by burning the carts of luggage, then gave Hua Yueyu Zhao Decheng’s sedan chair.
• A living-corpse maid attacked Zhao Decheng as the group fled through the back courtyard, and Lin Baici killed it before urging everyone onward.
• The back gate opened onto streets crowded with living corpses, which overwhelmed the soldiers and servants; Lin Baici confronted the attackers while Zhao Decheng believed they could survive.

Lin Baici led the survivors through Sangqing Prefecture’s swarming living corpses, using the Muscle Buddha to break through a wall and reach the docks. A woman in a conical hat watched them escape and continued luring the corpses north, while Zhao Decheng celebrated seeing their boat.

• Lin Baici and Kwon Sang-in fought through the corpses as the group was overwhelmed by attacks from the street and rooftops.
• Lin Baici broke through a wall with the Muscle Buddha, and One-Ear and the mountain folk cleared a path through the panicked crowd.
• A mutant baby corpse bit Li Zaicheng, who transformed and unleashed his Divine Grace before Lin Baici killed him.
• Yi Jisheng and Lin Baici fought off the mutant baby corpse, and Lin Baici pinned it beside the monster formed from the family of four.
• Lin Baici led the group through the wall and out of the city toward the docks as the woman in the conical hat continued drawing corpses north.
• Zhao Decheng spotted the official boat at the docks and rejoiced that they had escaped.

Lin Baici led the survivors onto a boat as living corpses overran the docks, then discussed how to clear the God’s Taboo Game. The group concluded that the next lead lay in the north, while Gu Qingqiu made an unexpected request of Lin Baici.

• Lin Baici stopped the panicking crowd from pushing aboard and ordered the sailors to set sail as living corpses closed in on the docks.
• Kwon Sang-in refused to save the people left behind, and the boat departed while the living corpses killed those who fled on foot but stopped at the riverbank.
• Gu Qingqiu warned that the living corpses could grow stronger and suggested the group needed to purify the Rule Pollution quickly.
• Lin Baici proposed killing the Goryeo king or finding Divine Doctor Li or the mastermind behind the outbreak as possible ways to clear the game.
• Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu independently identified the north as their next destination, after which Gu Qingqiu asked Lin Baici to provide a sperm cell so she could have a child.

Lin Baici led the group aboard a government ship toward the north, arguing that clues about Divine Doctor Li might be there, while the others agreed to follow him rather than risk splitting up. He suspected the mastermind had planted a threat aboard the ship, and the search uncovered a black coffin containing a living corpse.

• Lin Baici proposed splitting up, with one group heading north and the other killing the King, but Kwon Sang-in chose to follow Lin Baici north.
• Gu Qingqiu warned that the mastermind might be hiding a threat aboard the government ship, and Lin Baici ordered the crew to search it.
• Kwon Sang-in told Kim Jin-soo to accept their temporary submission to Lin Baici, whom he regarded as far beyond their strength.
• A sailor ran from a cabin after opening a black coffin in the supply hold and discovering a corpse covered in strange patterns.
• A hand dragged the injured sailor back into the cabin, and Kwon Sang-in heard the living corpse eating him.

After living corpses attacked the official ship, Lin Baici led the group north to investigate where the outbreak began. His hunger radar guided them to an abandoned Jurchen village, where Xia Hongyao heard what sounded like chains as they searched for clues.

• Kwon Sang-in killed a boatman who had turned into a living corpse, and Gu Qingqiu noted that the infection seemed to spread faster than before.
• Zhao Decheng followed Lin Baici’s orders, and Lin Baici rejected the official’s breakfast before making instant noodles that amazed Zhao Decheng and the imperial chef.
• Li Taixian learned that nine villages had been wiped out by a plague three years earlier, and Lin Baici chose to investigate a Jurchen village despite warnings about Po Zhu Wei raiders.
• Lin Baici’s group reached the deserted village, where Kwon Sang-in kicked open a hut and Xia Hongyao said she heard chains.

Lin Baici’s group discovered that someone had been secretly feeding chained living corpses, then confronted Divine Doctor Li and learned he had turned a leprosy-stricken village into first-generation living corpses to defeat Japanese pirates. The group questioned him about the newer outbreak and the king, but the chapter ended before he answered.

• Kwon Sang-in led the group to a locked house, where they found emaciated living corpses chained among animal skeletons.
• Gu Qingqiu deduced that a villager had been raising the corpses and that someone had fed them within the past week, so she sent Zhao Decheng to search the village.
• Lin Baici called out Divine Doctor Li, and the old man appeared after Gu Qingqiu challenged him over the threat to Korea.
• Divine Doctor Li admitted that he and Lord An Jin-hyun had sacrificed the leprosy-stricken villagers by turning them into living corpses to defeat thirty thousand Japanese pirates.
• Li Taixian fired at Divine Doctor Li but missed, then demanded to know why his village had been chosen.
• Divine Doctor Li explained how first- and second-generation living corpses differed, and Lin Baici asked whether the king was a living corpse and which generation he belonged to.

Divine Doctor Li revealed how the King became a living corpse and described a girl who had used the Life and Death Grass before a gunman silenced him. Lin Baici and his companions fought the Imperial Guard, and Muscle Buddha shattered its cavalry as the Commander of the Imperial Guard rode toward Lin Baici.

• Divine Doctor Li confessed that he had turned the King into a living corpse to keep him alive until the Middle Palace Lady gave birth, and explained how the infected apprentice had spread the plague.
• Divine Doctor Li said a young girl had taught him to use the Life and Death Grass, but a sniper killed him before he could explain how she knew about it.
• Lin Baici and his companions charged the Imperial Guard after its soldiers opened fire, while Zhao Decheng kept the Bearded Man from revealing their connections to the attackers.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao cut down the Imperial Guard soldiers, and Yi Jisheng hurled corpses at the rooftop gunners until they retreated.
• Lin Baici summoned Muscle Buddha, whose punch smashed the charging cavalry apart as the Commander of the Imperial Guard tried to steer away from him.

Lin Baici’s group defeated the Imperial Guards and discovered three tickets to Hanseong inside Divine Doctor Li’s corpse. Bae Doowon used one to leave, but the living corpses broke free and charged the survivors.

• Lin Baici smashed a warhorse’s head with one punch, and the Imperial Guard commander fell onto Lin Baici’s Bronze Sword and died.
• Lin Baici spotted a disguised God Hunter among the soldiers, and a Flying Stone killed him as he fled.
• Lin Baici ordered Yi Jisheng to dissect Divine Doctor Li, revealing three tickets to Hanseong hidden in the corpse’s stomach.
• Lin Baici gave Bae Doowon a ticket, and Bae Doowon shouted to board before the ticket’s flames carried him away.
• The living corpses broke their chains and charged out of the earthen houses.

Lin Baici’s group found Divine Doctor Li’s journal and followed its map to a cave filled with Life and Death Grass, where they studied murals describing how it could create living corpses. Meanwhile, Bae Doowon was killed aboard the train for using an invalid ticket, and Jesus urged Li Mingzhe to abandon Jeonju and seize the throne in Seoul.

• Lin Baici sent Kwon Sang-in to defeat the disguised Japanese God Hunters while the others searched for Divine Doctor Li’s home.
• Lin Baici found Divine Doctor Li’s journal and gave it to Jang Geum, who discovered a map to a cave beneath a cliff.
• Bae Doowon arrived on the train with an invalid ticket and was killed when the countdown ended; the Great Shaman considered his account of Lin Baici.
• Lin Baici’s group reached the cave, examined murals showing how Life and Death Grass could turn people into living corpses, and considered testing the plant.
• As living corpses overwhelmed Jeonju City, Jesus told Li Mingzhe to abandon the city, go to Seoul, kill the King, and take the throne.

Lin Baici reached Hancheng with his companions, where he killed royal guards who tried to extort them and followed the pull of his growing hunger. Elsewhere, A Xin infected people with a mysterious yellow liquid, but a tall figure spotted her as she worked.

• Jesus abandoned corpse-ravaged Quanzhou City and led the Statue of Liberty team toward Hancheng to help Li Mingzhe claim the throne.
• Lin Baici returned from the mountains with Life and Death Grass, secured warhorses through Zhao Decheng, and brought his group into Hancheng.
• Lin Baici sent companions to gather intelligence while he explored the city with Hua Yueyu, Kim Jin-soo, and Choi Soon-sil.
• Royal guards tried to extort Lin Baici’s group in an alley, so Xia Hongyao broke the general’s leg and Lin Baici killed the soldiers with Flash of Lightning.
• Lin Baici followed his hunger through the city as Kim Jin-soo and Choi Soon-sil worried about staying with him, while a short man followed their group.
• A Xin infected three drugged people with a yellow liquid, then noticed a tall figure outside the window.