Chapter Summaries

Master Zhang escaped after unleashing a shockwave, and black fog engulfed Wolong Mountain Villa as Rule Pollution spread. The trapped group argued over the God's Remains while Tang Duorou's family and other civilians prepared to risk the fog in search of a way out.

• Master Zhang regenerated his legs and fled, but a huge claw drove Walker back into the hall when he pursued him.
• Hua Yueyu identified the spreading black fog as Rule Pollution, while Xia Hongyao and the others recognized that they were trapped until the God's Remains were contained.
• Sannomiya Airi produced a blanket and supplies from her spatial pouch, then calmly arranged flowers as the others woke and questioned the God Hunters.
• Xia Hongyao told Tang Duorou's parents that their daughter was suffering from God Bone Radiation, and Walker warned that she could become a Dead Meat Person if they could not escape.
• Meat Dad persuaded several civilians to leave through the black fog, while Xia Hongyao urged them to stay and wait for the God Ruins to be purified.

Lin Baici and the others faced a stone claw that killed people who ventured outside and eventually reached into the main hall. After it dragged away and dropped a businessman, the group was left searching for a way to survive the attacks.

• Meat Dad led his family into the black fog, where a falling stone claw crushed him; when Meat Mom tried to return with her daughter, the claw killed them both.
• Lin Baici warned Coat Brother to dive, allowing him to escape the claw, and the survivors gathered inside to discuss how to endure the Rule Pollution.
• Lu Changming tested the claw by throwing a vase outside, confirming it attacked objects beyond the main hall, while Student Zhou suggested using bait to lure it away.
• When Lu Changming threw another flowerpot, the claw reached into the hall for Gu Qingqiu, but Lin Baici pulled her and Hua Yueyu out of its path.
• The claw struck a businessman, dragged him outside, and hurled his mangled body back to the ground.

Lin Baici realized that bundles of Flower Balls protected people from the guardian lion's claw and led the group out of the main hall. The claw stopped above Coat Brother once he picked up his flowers, confirming the escape rule as the survivors gathered outside.

• Walker forced Hu Lie toward the doorway, and the claw killed a frail boss while sweeping through the hall.
• Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu noticed that the claw avoided places where flower vases had shattered, and the group gathered Flower Balls.
• The claw killed a man carrying flowers, so Sannomiya Airi ordered Domoto Kenyo to drag Coat Brother outside with a bundle.
• Lin Baici recognized that a bundle of Flower Balls was needed to leave safely and led Xia Hongyao, Hua Yueyu, and the others out.
• Coat Brother picked up his dropped flowers just before the claw struck, and the claw stopped above him before withdrawing.

Lin Baici led the group deeper into Wolong Mountain Villa to find and contain the God's Remains, while the Loquat Garden's hungry fruit monsters attacked the people who had fled. The chapter ended with Han Meimei and a middle-aged man torn apart as the others faced the loquat tree's renewed hunger.

• Lin Baici sensed the God's Remains and led the group away from the villa's main gate, explaining that he and several others were God Hunters with Haijing's Safety Bureau.
• A gateway to the Loquat Garden appeared in the fog, and roots dragged Wang Shou and the fleeing visitors inside while leaving Lin Baici and the others untouched.
• The roots released the group beside a loquat tree, but they dragged and whipped the visitors when they tried to escape again.
• Sannomiya Airi fed the fruit monsters dumplings, salmon, and fruit, but they spat everything out and continued crying that they were hungry.
• The fruit monsters demanded to eat people, and roots seized Han Meimei and a middle-aged man, tearing both apart while the others panicked.

Lin Baici discovered that Loquat Fruits let people escape the monster tree’s attacks, then tried to save the group by silencing the fruit monsters and burning the tree. The loquat tree was reduced to ash, but the chapter ended before anyone learned whether the group could leave safely.

• Han Meimei and the middle-aged boss were torn apart and eaten by the loquat fruit monsters, and Lin Baici learned that a Loquat Fruit could protect someone from the roots and allow them to leave.
• Lin Baici used Storm Hammer and Death God's Grasp to knock a Loquat Fruit from Sannomiya Airi’s invisible shikigami and take it for himself.
• Sannomiya Airi’s three-tailed white fox retrieved another Loquat Fruit, which Sannomiya Airi tossed to Lin Baici before he returned it to her and explained what it did.
• Lin Baici recited Buddhist scripture with Sanskrit Chants and Buddhist Sounds, quieting the fruit monsters and calming the group.
• Lin Baici used the Pine Torch to set the loquat tree alight, dodged its attacking roots, and watched the burning tree turn to ash.

Lin Baici led the survivors out of the Loquat Garden, where they were attacked by many-legged koi whose stench caused severe contamination. He carried the injured female secretary to safety, learned that eating sashimi from a koi at least ten years old could cure the contamination, and prepared to fight the monsters without letting Sannomiya Airi burn them to ash.

• Lin Baici led the group away from the Loquat Garden as the Dark Mist thinned and they discovered the villa's terrain had changed.
• Many-legged koi crawled out of the pond and chased the group, while their stench made everyone vomit and slowed their escape.
• The female secretary sprained her ankles and fell, so Lin Baici used NO BODY to reach her and carried her as the koi closed in.
• God of Gluttony warned Lin Baici that eating sashimi from a koi at least ten years old was the only way to cleanse the stench contamination.
• Lin Baici asked Sannomiya Airi to deal with the koi, but stopped her scarecrow from burning them all because he wanted to eat the fish.
• Lin Baici summoned a Great Buddha and used Floating Life Night Rain, Wild Buddha Blows Out the Lamp as rain made flames spring up on the koi.

Lin Baici used his Great Buddha Divine Grace to kill a swarm of monster fish, then fed the fish to himself and his companions, hoping it would cure his nausea. As the group continued through Wolong Mountain Villa, a hidden attacker began snaring them with lassos, leaving three people targeted at the chapter’s end.

• Lin Baici summoned a Great Buddha that extinguished the monster fish’s flames and killed the charging swarm.
• Lin Baici prepared and shared the fish, and several people ate it despite its foul smell and texture.
• Lu Changming and Wang Shou tried to secure Meteorite Stones from Lin Baici as the group continued through the God Ruins.
• A lasso dragged the female secretary into the grass, but Lin Baici teleported to her and cut the rope with his Bronze Sword.
• The secretary clung to Lin Baici for protection, and minutes later three lassos shot out of the grass toward her, Gu Qingqiu, and Coat Brother.

Lin Baici and his companions searched the God Ruins, where lasso-wielding monsters ambushed them and the group discovered a town tied to a sheep-related contamination. After skinless human corpses came to life in a courtyard, Lin Baici stayed behind and shut himself inside with them.

• Gu Qingqiu dodged a lasso with her teleportation Divine Grace, and Xia Hongyao cut the ropes holding the female secretary and Coat Brother; Hua Yueyu then revealed she also had teleportation.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao repeatedly rescued people from lasso attacks as the group continued searching, then followed the smell of blood to a fenced sheep pasture and an earthen-walled town.
• The group entered a courtyard where skinned sheep hung from wires, then found another courtyard filled with skinned human corpses hanging by their necks.
• One corpse opened its eyeless sockets and began moving, waking the other corpses, which tore free and charged toward the doorway.
• Lin Baici kicked the charging corpses back through the doorway, stepped inside, and shut the door behind him.

Lin Baici and the others searched the town of Sheep Head People after he killed the skinless corpses in the first courtyard. They learned that a sheepfold was supposedly safe, but had not found it by the time they reached a gruesome slaughterhouse.

• Lin Baici used the Muscle Buddha to kill the skinless corpses attacking him in the first courtyard, then led the group to the next house.
• Gu Qingqiu questioned a sheep-headed old man while Chen Shaolian rubbed his back, and he revealed that they were in the territory of the Sheep Head People and that the sheepfold was the safest place.
• The old man fled into a house and disappeared, so the group split up to search for the sheepfold; Walker took several people as cannon fodder, but Lin Baici did not stop him.
• Lin Baici and the others searched courtyards along the main street, fighting skinless corpses when they attacked, until they reached a bloodstained threshing ground with a skinned body hanging over boiling water.

Lin Baici and the others were trapped in a town where Sheep Head People hunted humans as livestock and slaughtered anyone they selected. After the Sheep-headed Human Boss killed the Muscle Buddha with its taboo knife and took the female secretary and Wang Shou, Lin Baici noticed a sheep had escaped through the open pen gate, giving him a possible clue.

• Lin Baici led the group away from the threshing ground, but slung stones killed one boss and drove the survivors back toward town as Sheep Head People pursued them.
• Lin Baici rescued Wang Shou and the female secretary from lassos, then led them into the sheep pen, where the group hid among the flock.
• The Sheep-headed Human Boss entered the pen, selected a sheep, and butchered it while Gu Qingqiu realized the monsters regarded the group as livestock.
• The Sheep-headed Human Boss killed the Muscle Buddha with the Lamb Skinning Knife, then slaughtered the female secretary despite her pleas for help.
• The group tried to disguise themselves as sheep, but the Sheep-headed Human Boss chose Wang Shou for his size and dragged him away to be butchered.
• Lin Baici noticed that one sheep slipped out through the pen's open gate and that the Sheep Head People did not retrieve it.

Lin Baici discovered that wearing a sheepskin let people pass as sheep and leave the town, while the Sheep Head People killed those who resisted or tried to flee without a disguise. After Lu Changming proved the disguise worked, the survivors argued over who should get the few sheepskins Lin Baici had made.

• Sannomiya Airi and Gu Qingqiu realized that disguising themselves as sheep could let them leave town, while Lin Baici began skinning a sheep.
• The Sheep-headed Human Boss targeted Domoto Kenyo after passing over Lin Baici, and Domoto led the monsters out of the pen to buy Lin Baici time.
• Hu Lie tried to escape without a sheepskin, but a Sheep Head Butcher caught and fatally wounded him as Chen Shaolian fled back to the pen.
• Lin Baici quickly skinned several sheep, and Lu Changming tested a sheepskin by leaving the pen without drawing the monsters' attention.
• Walker, Holkina, and Akiyama Aoi demanded hides for their companions, while the other survivors worried they would not receive one.

Lin Baici helped the group escape the sheep pen by making sheepskins that concealed them from the Sheep-headed Human Boss, then led them out of town. In the tall grass, a Wolf-headed Human grabbed Taozi and shot her with a double-barreled shotgun, leaving the group facing a new threat.

• Lin Baici sold sheepskins to Sannomiya Airi and demanded an IOU from Walker and Holkina, then gave hides to the trapped survivors.
• The Sheep-headed Human Boss entered the pen, but the group hid among the flock under sheepskins and avoided detection.
• Lin Baici gave Taozi a sheepskin, finished making hides for the others, and led everyone to Lu Changming's courtyard in town.
• Lu Changming explained that Sheep Head People had left him alone because he wore sheepskin, and the group followed Lin Baici out of town into the tall grass.
• A Wolf-headed Human grabbed Taozi's ankle and shot her head with a double-barreled shotgun.

Lin Baici and the others fought a Wolf-headed Human wielding a top-grade shotgun, but it regenerated after exploding and forced them to flee back to town. They learned that a legendary sheepskin might give someone the strength to kill it, though its location remained unknown.

• The Wolf-headed Human killed Taozi with its shotgun, wounded Walker, and fought Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao before blowing itself up.
• Walker tried to claim the shotgun, but a hand emerged from the dirt, shot him, and the Wolf-headed Human climbed out alive.
• Lin Baici led the group back to town to question the old Sheep Head Person, while the Wolf-headed Human followed them.
• The group found the old man hiding in a tunnel beneath the stove and learned that he believed no one could escape the town.
• The old Sheep Head Person revealed a legend that the strongest warrior of his clan left behind a sheepskin that could grant its wearer his strength.

Gu Qingqiu and Sannomiya Airi divided the group to search Sheep Head Town while Lin Baici investigated the well, where he found a box at the bottom. As the others waited and worried, a gunshot rang out beneath the locust tree.

• Gu Qingqiu questioned the Sheep Head old man, then assigned teams to investigate the town and its clues.
• Gu Qingqiu and Sannomiya Airi deduced that the Warrior Sheepskin was not in the sheep pen and kept Walker and Holkina away from the well.
• Lin Baici descended into the deep well using the White Pufferfish Tooth and found a long, flat box on the muddy bottom.
• Lin Baici's companions waited anxiously at the well while Student Zhou and the others discussed their chances of survival beneath a locust tree.
• A gunshot rang out as the group beneath the tree considered choosing a representative to speak with Lin Baici.

Lin Baici emerged from the well with the Warrior's Sheepskin Coat and joined Xia Hongyao's fight against the Wolf-headed Human. With the coat and the Lamb Shotgun, he defeated the monster, but Gu Qingqiu said they still had something left to do before leaving town.

• The Wolf-headed Human ambushed the group, killed two bosses, and pursued the survivors while Hua Yueyu led them away from the well.
• Lin Baici surfaced, found the Warrior's Sheepskin Coat in the box, put it on, and hurried toward the village after hearing gunshots.
• Xia Hongyao and the others fought the Wolf-headed Human but could not keep it dead, so Gu Qingqiu ordered them to draw it toward the well.
• Lin Baici arrived, and the Wolf-headed Human fled when it saw his coat; Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao cornered it and took the Lamb Shotgun from it.
• Lin Baici shot the Wolf-headed Human with the Lamb Shotgun, defeating it, and Sannomiya Airi returned its ammunition belt to him.
• Hua Yueyu celebrated their apparent victory, but Gu Qingqiu reminded everyone that they still had one thing left to do.

Lin Baici killed the Sheep Head Butcher with the Lamb Shotgun and recovered a healing-type Divine Grace, which he shared with his companions. The group continued through Wolong Mountain Villa and entered another fog-filled area after eerie laughter contaminated them, leaving Walker’s order to search unanswered.

• Lin Baici approached the sheep pen and shot the fleeing Sheep Head Butcher, then killed its apprentices with the shotgun.
• Lin Baici extracted the Butcher’s stomach sac and distributed its two Divine Grace orbs to Hua Yueyu, Gu Qingqiu, himself, and Xia Hongyao.
• Lin Baici gave the Lamb Shotgun and fur coat to Xia Hongyao and Gu Qingqiu, and the group left the town with many members missing.
• Walker warned the group that a god might be in Wolong Mountain Villa, while Coat Brother’s health deteriorated during their journey.
• After eerie laughter contaminated the group, Lin Baici led them through a Moon Gate, where Walker kicked Coat Brother inside and ordered everyone to search.

Lin Baici and the others were trapped by the old locust tree’s strangling Rule Pollution and tried to discover what would stop it. After Hua Yueyu told a joke that made Gu Qingqiu and Sannomiya Airi laugh, the tree showed no clear reaction, leaving the group unsure whether she had found the answer.

• The old locust tree began laughing and crying, then strangled everyone; Lu Changming grabbed Lin Baici’s Pine Torch and charged the tree, but his neck twisted and he died.
• Lin Baici sent a clone to throw the Torch at the tree, and when the tree’s branches knocked it away, the choking pressure eased; Lin Baici teleported behind the tree and called everyone to safety.
• The tree resumed strangling a middle-aged boss, who died before the group could identify the condition for purification.
• Gu Qingqiu urged Chen Shaolian to tell a joke, but the tree did not react and later twisted her head around.
• When the tree stared at Hua Yueyu, she recited a joke based on Li Bai’s poetry, making Gu Qingqiu and Sannomiya Airi laugh, but the tree still showed no clear reaction.

Hua Yueyu and Lin Baici helped the group survive the old locust tree’s emotion-matching contamination by making it laugh and cry. The tree continued targeting the others, while Sannomiya Airi passed her test and proposed to Lin Baici, prompting Xia Hongyao to object.

• Hua Yueyu made the old locust tree laugh with a dirty joke, passing its test before it turned its attention to Coat Brother.
• Coat Brother bit a plastic lighter and danced, making the tree laugh and survive its turn.
• When the tree began crying and targeted Xia Hongyao, Lin Baici used Master Performer to act out a tragic story about a man visiting the grave of the girl he had loved.
• Lin Baici acted out a husband returning home after a seven-day business trip and realizing he had died, making the tree cry again and saving Hui Tai Niang.
• The tree targeted Sannomiya Airi, who acted out a girl fleeing Kayako and passed her test.
• Sannomiya Airi proposed to Lin Baici, and Xia Hongyao objected to him having children with her.

Lin Baici and the others survived the old locust tree’s courtyard by discovering that lit branches drove off its invisible tree spirits, then Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi burned the tree down. In the cellar, Master Zhang realized his connection to the tree had vanished and feared the group might reach him soon.

• Hui Tai Niang passed the old locust tree’s test when her frightened, awkward dance made it laugh, and Lin Baici passed by telling a grim story about an apocalypse caused by a virus.
• As the group tried to leave, tree spirits strangled them, so Lin Baici used the Ghost Lamp and Fire Axe while Sannomiya Airi used her lantern to reveal the spirits.
• Sannomiya Airi discovered that burning branches drove the tree spirits away, and the group armed themselves with lit branches to escape the courtyard safely.
• Lin Baici set the old locust tree ablaze with the Pine Torch, while Sannomiya Airi summoned a three-tailed white fox to devour the attacking tree spirits.
• Master Zhang sensed that his connection to the ancient locust tree had disappeared and worried that Lin Baici’s group could reach his cellar within fifteen minutes.

Lin Baici’s group found the Bracelet God’s cellar despite its luck-draining power, while the God Hunters’ progress left ordinary survivors sick and dying. As Master Zhang unfolded his Divine Domain, Hui Tai Niang was accidentally shoved down the cellar stairs and appeared to die from the fall.

• Lin Baici recovered the Tree Wraith Mask and shared its Divine Grace with the group.
• As Lin Baici led the group north, the worsening pollution transformed Coat Brother into a Dead Meat Person, and Xia Hongyao killed him.
• Lin Baici’s group found the cellar where Master Zhang was recovering in a wine jar, despite his belief that their bad luck would prevent them from finding him.
• Lin Baici summoned Coward Child, which clung to him and screamed in warning as the group descended into the cellar.
• Master Zhang unfolded his Divine Domain, and Student Zhou accidentally shoved Hui Tai Niang down the stairs, where she struck her head and appeared to die.