Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici captured A Xin and learned that she had used the Life and Death Grass to turn people into living corpses. Meanwhile, Nagai Asa planted a Weather Doll to attack the inn, where a spreading pollution killed several people and left Lin Baici searching for its cause.

• Lin Baici subdued A Xin, questioned her about the Life and Death Grass, and sent the three infected men to Jang Geum for examination.
• Kuroki Kaoru ordered Nagai Asa and three other Daeyao Hunters to capture or kill A Xin and Lin Baici's companions, then sent them to ambush the inn.
• Nagai Asa hung a Weather Doll above the inn's back door while Lin Baici's group gathered for hotpot and Zhao Decheng reported on the Grandfather of the Nation's growing power.
• Aba died suddenly, and Choi Soon-sil collapsed with searing chest pain as Lin Baici received a warning that pollution radiation was spreading.
• Lin Baici gathered the inn's occupants in the main hall, but a merchant and several people who fled outside died, and One-Ear also collapsed after crying out about a ghost.

Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu identified the inn’s Rule Pollution as a death game triggered by moisture, then confirmed the theory when Kwon Sang-in soaked the Bearded Man and he died. The group tried to dry themselves as Nagai Asa’s team watched from outside.

• One-Ear and several others died, and Lin Baici suspected the Japanese team behind the Rule Pollution.
• Lin Baici examined the bodies and noticed that the victims had been unusually wet, while Gu Qingqiu reached the same conclusion.
• Lin Baici deduced that the wettest person died first and warned Kwon Sang-in to wipe away his sweat.
• Kwon Sang-in splashed tea on the Bearded Man, who fled the room, collapsed, and died, confirming that moisture triggered the deaths.
• Kwon Sang-in begged Lin Baici for a hair dryer while the group tried to dry themselves.

After Lin Baici identified the Weather Doll as the source of the deadly humidity rule, Li Taixian retrieved it from the inn’s back door. Lin Baici then tracked down the Japanese attackers and punched through their hiding place, confronting them.

• Kim Jin-soo and the others wiped away their sweat after Bearded Man’s death confirmed Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu’s deduction about the humidity rule.
• Lin Baici followed his hunger radar to the Weather Doll hanging beneath the inn’s back-door lintel.
• Li Taixian ran through the snowy courtyard, removed the Weather Doll, and returned with it to the inn.
• Nagai Asa and the other Japanese attackers realized their Rule Pollution had been purified, and a woman called them out from the inn.
• Lin Baici smashed through the wall into the Japanese group’s hiding place and announced that he had found them.

Lin Baici’s team killed the Great Radiance scouts and infiltrated the royal palace to ambush Kuroki Kaoru, but an unseen attacker struck Kwon Sang-in before the assault could begin. Xia Hongyao blocked the invisible weapon as it turned on the group.

• Lin Baici killed Nagai Asa with Great Impression Hand, while Muscle Buddha crushed Furukawa Ri and Kwon Sang-in killed Takashi Taiyo; Xia Hongyao beheaded Sato Takeshi as he fled.
• Kim Jin-soo decided the team should attack the royal palace before Kuroki Kaoru realized his scouts were missing, and Lin Baici’s group set out through the snow.
• Lin Baici’s team reached the palace, where Kwon Sang-in located Kuroki Kaoru’s residence beside the Grandfather of the Nation’s residence.
• Lin Baici gave Kwon Sang-in the Weather Doll to use in a sneak attack, but an invisible weapon slashed Kwon Sang-in and alerted the palace guards.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao charged into the palace, and Xia Hongyao blocked the unseen attacker as it abandoned Kwon Sang-in and rushed at the group.

Lin Baici and his allies fought Kuroki Kaoru’s invisible Red Oni Maru and tracked the summoning to the Japanese captain. Yi Jisheng killed Kuroki Kaoru, but palace guards were approaching as the group prepared to deal with the two surviving Japanese men.

• Kim Jin-soo repeatedly smashed the floor to reveal Red Oni Maru, while Lin Baici lit his oil lamp and spotted the Warring States warrior attacking Jin Yingzhen.
• Xia Hongyao and Jin Yingzhen charged deeper into the palace, and Lin Baici intercepted Red Oni Maru and cut off its head, but the warrior continued moving.
• Lin Baici’s group reached Kuroki Kaoru, who summoned Red Oni Maru back to his side and threatened to preserve Lin Baici as a specimen.
• Yi Jisheng unleashed Rule Pollution on Kuroki Kaoru and his companions, while Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao held Red Oni Maru off.
• Kuroki Kaoru summoned a nine-eyed fox that swallowed Yi Jisheng, but Yi Jisheng’s severed arm injured Kuroki Kaoru and the Red Earth Clay Figure’s Flying Stone killed him.
• Yi Jisheng claimed Kuroki Kaoru’s corpse, and Lin Baici urged the group to kill the two remaining Japanese men as palace guards approached.

Lin Baici’s group defeated Dayao’s attackers, and Lin Baici became Korea’s Grand Preceptor after bargaining with Zhao Grandfather of the Nation. As he went to meet the King, the Monk Master and Li Mingzhe’s forces prepared for their own moves, and a lavishly dressed woman stopped Lin Baici at the palace.

• Yi Jisheng and Kwon Sang-in joined the fight, and Lin Baici’s group killed the surviving Dayao attackers before the Imperial Guards arrived.
• Lin Baici identified Red Oni Maru’s power and corpse-affection side effect, then gave the sword to Gu Qingqiu after Yi Jisheng declined it.
• Lin Baici negotiated with Zhao Grandfather of the Nation and was appointed Korea’s Grand Preceptor with a salary of two thousand shi; he secured permission to visit the King with Jang Geum.
• The Monk Master learned of Kuroki Kaoru’s death and ordered Dayao’s prodigies to prepare for the Qin Palace God’s Ruins.
• Li Mingzhe and his team hurried toward the royal palace, expecting to seize the throne, while Lin Baici was stopped by a lavishly dressed woman outside the King’s palace.

Lin Baici’s group saw the rotting King of Korea, whose heart held God's Remains, and left Jang Geum to study him. Meanwhile, Zhao Chunyuan revealed that her pregnancy was false and defied Zhao Grandfather of the Nation’s plans for the succession.

• Zhao Chunyuan arrived at the king’s bedchamber, and the God of Gluttony revealed that she was not pregnant and hoped to seize the throne herself.
• The living corpse burst through the curtains and attacked Jang Geum and Li Taiwu, but Lin Baici pulled them out of its reach with Death God's Grasp.
• Lin Baici proposed leaving Jang Geum to study the king, and Zhao Grandfather of the Nation agreed; Li Taiwu stayed to protect her.
• Zhao Grandfather of the Nation learned that Zhao Chunyuan had miscarried and that pregnant women had gone missing, then confronted her in her quarters.
• Zhao Chunyuan admitted her pregnancy was a lie and rejected Zhao Grandfather of the Nation’s plan to find a prince’s child, declaring that she would make her own decision.

Zhao Chunyuan poisoned Lord Zhao and allied with An Jin-hyun, who seized control of the palace and unleashed armored living corpses. As Lin Baici's group and Prince Li Mingzhe confronted the coup, the King broke free and revealed overwhelming strength, leaving the palace battle in chaos.

• Zhao Chunyuan admitted poisoning Lord Zhao, and An Jin-hyun killed him before revealing his own ambition to seize Korea's throne.
• An Jin-hyun used Zhao Chunyuan's decree to purge Lord Zhao's forces, while Lin Baici ordered his group to fight the soldiers and kill the King for the God's Remains.
• An Jin-hyun unleashed fifty armored living corpses against Zheng Zhonggen, while Li Taiwu tried to seize the King and was bitten.
• Prince Li Mingzhe confronted An Jin-hyun, who broke the chain binding the King and ordered the living corpses to attack.
• The King crushed a blond young man's head with one blow, prompting Jesus and the others to attack as An Jin-hyun fled with the armored corps.
• Jang Geum broke away from A Xin and rushed to save Li Taiwu.

Lin Baici and the God Hunters fought the King and the Statue of Liberty team while the King’s poison turned Catherine against her allies. After Lin Baici left the palace with Jang Geum, A Xin, and Li Taiwu, Jesus’s team killed the King and claimed two cards, but the King’s severed head bit John and began controlling him.

• Jang Geum and A Xin tried to save Li Taiwu while Jesus’s team battled the King, and the King’s poison infected Catherine, who killed Howard and attacked the others.
• A Xin shot Li Mingzhe, and Johnny killed An Jin-hyun before Lin Baici took the corpse and its three cards; Muscle Buddha drove Johnny back.
• Gu Qingqiu’s Red Oni Maru killed Hank, prompting Johnny and Jesus’s team to pursue Lin Baici’s group into the palace.
• The God of Gluttony warned that only certain indigenous inhabitants could kill the King, so Lin Baici left with Jang Geum, A Xin, and Li Taiwu while Jesus stayed behind.
• Jesus’s team beheaded the King and found two cards, but its severed head bit John and began controlling his body.

Lin Baici and the others fought through the palace’s growing horde of living corpses while pursuing the King, who had taken over John’s body. Meanwhile, the Statue of Liberty members chased the King’s headless original body to the frozen lake, where they used Zhao Chunyuan as bait and ordered her to eat it.

• After hearing that An Jin-hyun was dead and the King had become a living corpse, Zhao Chunyuan ordered her wet nurse to release the living corpses in the dungeon, but a eunuch knocked the old woman unconscious before the King arrived and freed them himself.
• Living corpses spread through the palace, and Lin Baici led his group into a horde, using his Divine Grace to briefly stiffen them before he and the others cut their way through.
• The King, possessing John’s body, confronted Lin Baici’s group, and Lin Baici charged in while ordering everyone not to kill it in one blow and to cut off its limbs instead.
• The Statue of Liberty members burned the King’s headless body, but it survived, escaped across the palace, and plunged into the frozen lake to extinguish the flames.
• The headless body found Zhao Chunyuan hiding in a pavilion, but the Statue of Liberty members caught up and pinned it to the ice with a lance.
• A Black Person tore Zhao Chunyuan’s clothes, threw her onto the headless body, and whipped her while ordering her to eat it.

Zhao Chunyuan devoured the King's remains and transformed into a hidden boss, forcing Lin Baici and his companions to race against a deadline to hunt her down. They found her in the rear garden, where Lin Baici lit the Pine Torch and stopped Kwon Sang-in from rushing into its flames.

• The Black Person forced Zhao Chunyuan to eat the King's charred corpse, and she awakened a ravenous hunger that drove her to devour the God Hunters and become a hidden boss.
• Lin Baici, Yi Jisheng, Jang Geum, and A Xin destroyed the King's head with a mixture of maggots and Life and Death Grass, killing it and recovering a Meteorite Stone.
• A warning announced that the hidden boss had to be killed within half an hour, and God of Gluttony identified Zhao Chunyuan as the target.
• Lin Baici killed John, then led Xia Hongyao, Yi Jisheng, and Kwon Sang-in through the palace toward the rear garden.
• The group found Zhao Chunyuan beside the bloodied lake, and Lin Baici ignited the Pine Torch to confront the regenerating living corpses.
• Kwon Sang-in lunged toward the Pine Torch's irresistible flames, and Lin Baici spun around to kick him away.

Lin Baici battled Zhao Chunyuan while his allies held off the living corpses, but after he severed her head, she dragged him into the lake and bit him. Lin Baici bit her back and swallowed a piece of her flesh as Xia Hongyao plunged into the collapsing, corpse-filled lake to find him.

• Lin Baici trapped Kwon Sang-in in the icy water, then used the Pine Torch and the Goblin King card to hold off the palace-maid corpses while approaching Zhao Chunyuan.
• Lin Baici discovered that the Goblin King’s aura frightened Zhao Chunyuan, and used the Ghost Lamp to reveal her when she turned invisible.
• Zhao Chunyuan resisted the Pine Torch, but Lin Baici beat her with his fists, grabbed her hair, and cut off her head with the Bronze Sword.
• Zhao Chunyuan spat poison, seized Lin Baici, and pulled him through the ice into the lake, where she bit his shoulder and he bit her cheek and swallowed her flesh.
• Xia Hongyao rushed into the lake to search for Lin Baici as hundreds of living corpses broke through the ice and thrashed in the water.

Lin Baici killed Zhao Chunyuan, cleared Goryeo Plague, and boarded the train with his companions. Jesus and the surviving Statue of Liberty players failed the game, but Jesus sacrificed his left eye to buy a ticket to the same next stop as Lin Baici.

• Lin Baici ate Zhao Chunyuan's brain, gained Divine Grace, and used the White Pufferfish Tooth to help Xia Hongyao escape the lake.
• Lin Baici used Zhao Chunyuan's head to keep the living corpses from attacking, then retrieved her body and found the videotape announcing his victory.
• Lin Baici and his team reached the train, where Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu reunited with him before he was summoned to VIP Car 1.
• The Mysterious Voice told Jesus's group that they had lost and could either die or pay for tickets with body parts.
• Jesus surrendered his left eye to buy a ticket and learned that he would travel to the same next stop as Lin Baici.

Lin Baici absorbed a Meteorite Stone aboard the train, recovered from his injuries, and considered the Divine Graces and dangerous items he had collected. As the train approached its next stop, he welcomed Gu Qingqiu and Yi Jisheng into the team alongside Xia Hongyao, Hua Yueyu, and Jin Yingzhen.

• Lin Baici entered the VIP carriage, absorbed the Meteorite Stone, and felt his strength, senses, and appearance improve as his bite wound healed.
• Lin Baici considered his Zombie Step and Living Corpse Revival Divine Graces, learned the risks and effects of the Corpse Goryeo videotape, and reviewed the other items he had collected.
• Lin Baici returned to the ordinary carriage, where Xia Hongyao was recording the team's gains and losses from the Rule Pollution.
• Gu Qingqiu noticed Lin Baici's healed wound and asked to join the team; Lin Baici accepted her, and Xia Hongyao, Hua Yueyu, and Jin Yingzhen joined their hands in welcome.
• Lin Baici invited Yi Jisheng to travel with them, and Xia Hongyao promised to negotiate his salary.
• The train began slowing as it approached the next stop.

Lin Baici and the other God Hunters reached the God Ruins by train, but a sudden collapse separated them and left Lin Baici alone in a strange rental building. He investigated its dangerous rules, found a dead God Hunter, and ended the chapter after catching Li Yintong trying to assassinate him.

• Lin Baici led the group off the train, but collapsed moments later; Johnny and Jesus's group also passed out after getting off.
• Lin Baici woke in a shabby rental room, inspected it, and found a computer full of adult videos.
• After something slapped the window and a mysterious knocker visited the rooms, Lin Baici stayed quiet until it moved on, then ventured into the corridor.
• Lin Baici found a God Hunter dead in a shower and suspected Rule Pollution had driven her to suicide.
• Li Yintong ambushed Lin Baici with a Butterfly Knife, but he used Flash of Lightning to dodge and pin her to the floor.

Lin Baici subdued Li Yintong and met the other newcomers on the floor while investigating the locked rooms and their dangers. When he approached room 9012, its door suddenly opened on its own, leaving the group wary of what was inside.

• Lin Baici caught Li Yintong after she ambushed him, searched her, and learned she had been on the floor for a day.
• Li Yintong told Lin Baici that Dorrisan, the Ashley Brothers, and Pogba were also on the floor, and they joined him to inspect a dead woman's room.
• Lin Baici stopped the group from forcing open room 9012's lock after realizing it would trigger a dangerous electric shock.
• Li Yintong explained that rats carried keys inside their bellies and warned that leaving the floor caused people to be shocked.
• The door to room 9012 clicked open by itself, and the group took cover and stared inside.

Lin Baici and the others were hit by a suffocation rule pollution in an apartment room, and he traced it to a goldfish in a fish tank. After identifying the fish as the likely God's Taboo Object, Lin ordered it killed, but Ashley Young collapsed as soon as he touched the water.

• Lin Baici entered a suspicious apartment room with Li Yintong and the others, where Pogba suddenly began suffocating at the computer.
• Lin Baici timed the suffocation bouts and found they lasted thirty seconds at first; he stopped Ashley Gan from dragging Li Yintong outside as a shield.
• The bouts grew longer, and Ashley Young struck his head on the desk during one while Lin Baici noticed the room's fish tank held goldfish like those in the others' rooms.
• Lin Baici observed that a goldfish stopped swimming whenever someone suffocated, then ordered the group to kill it after the fish's movement ended the tall woman's bout.
• Ashley Young tried to crush the goldfish, but he froze when he touched the tank's water and fell to the floor.

Lin Baici led the group through the goldfish’s suffocation Rule Pollution by discovering that it demanded food and using a corpse to feed it. The goldfish then demanded a heart, and after it ate one, it fixed on Pogba and repeated its demand.

• Lin Baici pulled Ashley Young away from the fish tank, ending his suffocation, then learned that staring into the goldfish’s eyes let him communicate with it.
• Lin Baici used the White Pufferfish Tooth to help Li Yintong breathe, and the Black Brothers and Pogba joined his team as the goldfish demanded meat.
• Giroud threw a woman’s corpse into the room, and Li Yintong, Pogba, and Dorrisan fed slices of it to the goldfish until the suffocation stopped.
• Lin Baici kept the group from leaving, and after the goldfish demanded organs, Dorrisan fed it the corpse’s heart.
• The goldfish ignored the other organs, turned toward Pogba, and repeatedly demanded a heart.

Lin Baici led the group in killing the deadly goldfish by heating its tank, then rescued the survivors from suffocation. Afterward, Li Yintong tried to recruit him to the Nine Dragon Pavilion and flirted with him, while Lin Baici left the group to pursue the next objective.

• Lin Baici ordered Pogba to use an electric heating rod on the goldfish, and the group collapsed as its pollution intensified.
• Lin Baici endured the suffocation until the goldfish died, then revived Dorrisan and gave Li Yintong the White Pufferfish Tooth to help her breathe.
• Li Yintong offered Lin Baici a position with the Nine Dragon Pavilion, but he avoided committing and told her to take the goldfish if she wanted it.
• Giroud entered and revived Pogba, while the group thanked Lin Baici and Pogba left to find the two Siamese and collect keys.
• Li Yintong flirted with Lin Baici in the bathroom, but he stopped her and sent her to look for keys.

Lin Baici gathered the group around the gold bars and a newly found room key, then defied their plan to hide from the Knocking Ghost and attacked it. After learning that physical weapons could not hurt it, he used Sutaijia to distract the monster and prepared to unleash a powerful move.

• Lin Baici refused the gold bars Apa and Sutaijia had found, then followed Giroud to a mouse and claimed the key it dropped.
• Li Yintong hid Lin Baici and the others from the approaching Knocking Ghost, but Lin Baici went out to confront it after learning it would drop a universal key if killed.
• Lin Baici broke open the others’ doors as he fled the Knocking Ghost, forcing the group into the corridor.
• Lin Baici threw Sutaijia toward the Knocking Ghost, and Sutaijia’s dagger and God's Taboo Object failed to affect it.
• Lin Baici began his ultimate move, Floating Life Night Rain, Wild Buddha Blows Out the Lamp.