Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici interrogated Peter and discovered that his cowboy satchel was a spatial God's Taboo Object containing powerful items, including a summoned Warhorse and a Guardian Scarecrow. After taking Peter’s possessions, Lin Baici refused to release him merely for the promise of Slave Owner Hoffman’s friendship.

• The proprietress teased Lin Baici while he questioned Peter, and Lin Baici whipped Peter until he revealed what the whip did and admitted he liked older women.
• Lin Baici learned from God of Gluttony that Peter’s cowboy satchel was a spatial God's Taboo Object and had Nangong Shu open it by imitating a horse.
• Lin Baici summoned a white Warhorse with the Western War Horse Reins, and Nangong Shu tested the new mount.
• Peter confessed after Lin Baici found the Guardian Scarecrow and other valuable items in the satchel.
• Peter offered Lin Baici the friendship of Slave Owner Hoffman in exchange for his freedom, but Lin Baici demanded something tangible and threatened to bury him in the wheat field.

Lin Baici killed Peter despite the threat of retaliation from Peter’s father, then reunited with Nangong Shu and set out to find the others in Crow Ridge. They recovered the barmaid’s remains and reached the abandoned mine where Old Man Luo was hiding.

• Peter tried to bargain for his life by offering a ransom and a Slave Contract, but Lin Baici revealed that Shakira was his master and rejected every offer.
• Lin Baici gave Peter a final ultimatum and killed him with his Divine Grace, then Nangong Shu embraced him and they had sex on the balcony.
• Lin Baici and Nangong Shu showered, rode the Western War Horse, and followed the map to search for their companions.
• Lin Baici and Nangong Shu found the barmaid’s body in a cemetery and gathered her remains before continuing onward.
• Old Man Luo stayed hidden in an abandoned mine, worried that Lin Baici could not defeat the enemy, until someone called for him to come out.

Lin Baici gathered survivors after killing Peter and used Life Mastery to bring Old Man Luo under his control. The group escaped Crow Ridge, while Huang Cheng contacted a woman who suspected Lin Baici might be one of them and noted that he would attend the Liming Charity Foundation’s auction.

• Old Man Luo emerged from the mine and learned that Lin Baici had killed Peter; Lin Baici used Life Mastery to make Old Man Luo’s survival depend on his own.
• Lin Baici found the Female Cleaner, who confessed that Peter had forced her to sign a slave contract and ordered her to kill Lin Baici; Lin Baici revealed that he had killed Peter and taken control of his territory.
• Lin Baici and his companions reached the abandoned town, reunited with Li Yintong, Crew Cut, Huang Cheng, and Zhong Shuman, and then used the map to leave Crow Ridge.
• Back in the landlady’s reception room, Huang Cheng left and called a woman, telling her that Lin Baici felt familiar and suggesting they contact him before the Liming Charity Foundation’s auction.

After Lin Baici killed Peter, his allies discussed the danger of the Slave Owner’s likely response while Lin Baici learned more about Sannomiya Airi’s invitation to Dragon Palace Island. The chapter ended the next morning as High Ponytail called Lin Baici and asked why his phone had been off.

• Huang Cheng warned a woman that Lin Baici could become an unpredictable factor, then prepared to use explosive jerseys to spread Rule Pollution and distract the Haijing Safety Bureau.
• Nangong Shu sent Old Man Luo and Crew Cut away, gave the Female Cleaner time off and money, and hosted Lin Baici and his companions at the Dragon and Beauty bar.
• Zhong Shuman and Li Yintong told Jiu Long that Lin Baici had killed Peter, and Jiu Long praised Lin Baici while warning Zhong Shuman that Xia Hongmian would likely intervene.
• Lin Baici asked Nangong Shu about Sannomiya Airi’s invitation to Dragon Palace Island and learned that the island might hold a God's Taboo Object that could restore youth, though its price was unknown.
• Lin Baici spent the night with Nangong Shu and left the bar the next morning, when High Ponytail called to ask why his phone had been off.

After Lin Baici killed Peter Hoffman during a Rule Pollution incident, Xia Hongyao visited him and promised to help him face the Slave Owner’s retaliation. The story left Xia Hongyao seeking advice from the Dragon Soul WeChat Group while Lin Baici stayed in Haijing under Xia Hongmian’s protection.

• Lin Baici told Xia Hongyao that he had killed Peter Hoffman, and she regretted missing the chance to join the Rule Pollution case.
• Xia Hongyao promised to face any danger with Lin Baici and arranged to meet him at home.
• Xia Hongmian told Lin Baici to report the incident, stay in Haijing, and trust her to protect his mother.
• Xia Hongyao visited Lin Baici, heard his account of the haunted gold mine and its dangers, and offered to consult trusted experts.
• After lunch, Xia Hongyao went to ask Nangong Shu about the situation and messaged the Dragon Soul WeChat Group for a chat.

Xia Hongyao learned that Lin Baici had killed the Slave Owner’s son and warned Old Man Luo to keep quiet, then eagerly listened to his account of Lin’s actions. Lin later bantered with Ji Xinyan and Xia Hongyao before receiving a call from Jin Yingzhen.

• Xia Hongyao asked Prime Minister Crane and the others about the Slave Owner, and they warned her that Hoffman would seek revenge on Lin Baici for killing Peter.
• Xia Hongyao visited Nangong Shu, tracked down Old Man Luo, warned him not to reveal anything, and recorded his detailed account of Lin Baici’s actions in the pollution zone.
• After spending the night with Nangong Shu, Lin Baici drove toward school but exchanged teasing messages with Ji Xinyan and decided to go to the library instead.
• Lin Baici messaged Xia Hongyao about a Sherlock Holmes book, and she spoiled its murderer before telling him she wished she had his luck.
• Lin Baici received a phone call from Jin Yingzhen.

Lin Baici learned that Jin Yingzhen had come to Haijing and arranged to meet her at Haijing University, while the God warned him that his roommate Xu Daguan’s date was a scheming woman. As Lin Baici waited at the school entrance, a red Ferrari pulled up in front of him.

• Lin Baici agreed to meet Jin Yingzhen after she revealed she was on her way to Haijing University and promised to wait for her at the main entrance.
• Lin Baici returned to the dorm, where Xu Daguan bragged about his date with a junior; the God warned that she targeted wealthy men, but Xu Daguan dismissed the concern.
• Lin Baici browsed the Origin Forum and read about the Qin Palace, the expanding God Ruins near Zhouyang, and the upcoming Dawn Auction.
• Liu Zilu arrived at the university entrance and spotted Lin Baici beneath a plane tree, then noticed a red Ferrari pull up in front of him.

Liu Zilu watched Lin Baici reunite with Jin Yingzhen, a wealthy Korean heiress, and mistakenly hoped she could blackmail him with a photo of their kiss. The two spent the day together in a hotel suite, while Xu Daguan returned to his dorm boasting about his date with a senior and showing his classmates photos.

• Liu Zilu saw Jin Yingzhen arrive in a Ferrari, hug Lin Baici, and kiss him, then secretly photographed them and lamented that she had lost her chance with him.
• Lin Baici drove Jin Yingzhen to the Golden Page InterContinental, where she booked a presidential suite and ordered food, massages, and other luxuries.
• Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen spent the day eating, getting massages, bathing, and being intimate in the suite.
• Xu Daguan returned to the dorm with snacks and bragged to Qian Jiahui, Zhang Zhixu, and the others about his first date with a senior.
• Xu Daguan showed his classmates photos on his phone and warned them not to spread them.

Xu Daguan showed his dormmates photos of a woman he had paid to date, prompting them to discuss Lin Baici’s popularity and romantic prospects. Li Song then revealed photos and a video of Lin Baici kissing the wealthy Korean beauty Jin Yingzhen, leaving the dorm amazed by his girlfriend.

• Xu Daguan showed his dormmates photos of a woman he had paid to date, but Li Jian'an left after feeling disillusioned by the situation.
• Qian Jiahui reminded the dorm that Lin Baici’s viral chanting videos and good looks could make him successful without Xu Daguan’s help.
• The dormmates speculated about Lin Baici’s love life and joked about which classmates might be interested in him.
• Li Song rushed into the dorm and showed photos and a video of Lin Baici kissing Jin Yingzhen beside her Ferrari Roma.
• Qian Jiahui judged Jin Yingzhen to be extremely wealthy, while Xu Daguan asked Li Song to send him the images so he could post them in the class group.

Xu Daguan circulated photos of Lin Baici with Jin Yingzhen, and the girls in his class and dormitory reacted to the news that he had a beautiful, wealthy girlfriend. The chapter ended with Pei Fei revealing that the class group chat had already seen the gossip.

• Xu Daguan sent photos of Lin Baici embracing Jin Yingzhen to the class group chat while Liu Yu reacted with jealousy.
• A senior student asked Ji Xinyan about Li Dongxia's dropout, but Ji Xinyan denied knowing anything and discouraged her from prying.
• Ji Xinyan guessed that Liu Zilu had seen Lin Baici with a girl, and Liu Zilu showed the dormitory photos and video of him kissing Jin Yingzhen.
• The girls admired Jin Yingzhen's looks and Ferrari, and Liu Zilu worried that Lin Baici might move abroad.
• Pei Fei showed the girls that the class group chat already knew about Lin Baici's girlfriend.

Lin Baici spent several days with Jin Yingzhen while classmates and students discussed their relationship, and Ji Xinyan struggled with her feelings for him. After Jin Yingzhen gave Lin Baici some space, he decided to visit Ji Xinyan at school and talk to her.

• Classmates discussed Lin Baici’s beautiful, wealthy girlfriend in their group chat, and his watch and their photo together attracted attention on the campus forum.
• Ji Xinyan messaged Lin Baici about the rumors, flirted with him, and worried about how she felt after he admitted he did not want to be unfair to Jin Yingzhen.
• Lin Baici told Jin Yingzhen he was concerned about Ji Xinyan learning of their relationship, then invited Jin Yingzhen to the Dawn Auction.
• Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen spent the next day shopping, while Jiang Yitong saw them together and messaged her mother, Wang Fang, about Lin Baici’s girlfriend.
• Lin Baici spent three days with Jin Yingzhen, met Xia Hongyao for a meal, and then decided to visit Ji Xinyan after hearing nothing from her.

Lin Baici met Zhang Hao for lunch and admitted that he had killed Peter, the Slave Owner’s son, after Peter kidnapped Nangong Shu. Zhang Hao warned him to prepare for the Slave Owner’s retaliation, while Ji Xinyan heard that Lin Baici was famous on the Campus Forum again.

• Lin Baici came to campus and learned from Fang Mingyuan that posts about his foreign girlfriend had appeared on the Campus Forum.
• Zhang Hao arrived at Haijing Institute of Technology, and she and Lin Baici went to a private restaurant for lunch.
• Lin Baici told Zhang Hao that he had killed Peter after catching him kidnapping Nangong Shu.
• Zhang Hao warned Lin Baici that the Slave Owner would seek revenge and offered to help him deal with the danger.
• Lin Baici returned to his villa, while Ji Xinyan scrolled through her phone and Liu Zilu rushed into the dormitory announcing that the Great Class Monitor was famous again.

Lin Baici’s classmates speculated about his relationship with Zhang Hao after photos of them appeared on the Campus Forum, while he hosted her around Haijing and returned home to Wang Fang. Wang Fang mistook her own worries for signs of Lin Baici’s interest, then messaged her daughter Jiang Yitong, who woke in alarm and feared Lin Baici might become her stepfather.

• Tao Nai and the other dorm residents saw trending Campus Forum posts showing Lin Baici with Zhang Hao beside a luxury SUV, and Liu Zilu argued with people claiming he was being kept.
• Qian Jiahui privately asked Lin Baici about the woman in the Bentley, and he insisted Zhang Hao was just a friend.
• Lin Baici showed Zhang Hao around Haijing, then took her to Dragon and Beauty Bar, where she met Nangong Shu.
• After returning home late, Lin Baici found Wang Fang carrying a baseball bat and later accepted warm milk from her while she tidied his room.
• Wang Fang misunderstood Lin Baici’s thoughts and worried he might make a move on her, but learned he had been thinking about his mother and felt ashamed of her suspicions.
• Wang Fang messaged Jiang Yitong that she would punish her for badmouthing Lin Baici, and Jiang Yitong woke up fearing he had become her stepfather before calling her mother.

Jiang Yitong realized Wang Fang had grown fond of Lin Baici, while Lin Baici spent the day on campus arranging to meet Ji Xinyan and speaking with Gu Qingqiu. The chapter ended with Shakira arriving at Haijing Institute of Technology and warmly greeting Lin Baici.

• Jiang Yitong teased Wang Fang about Lin Baici, angering her mother and prompting Jiang Yitong to resolve to study hard and earn enough money to protect Wang Fang.
• Lin Baici ate breakfast, thanked Wang Fang for cleaning his Panamera, and drove to campus to invite Ji Xinyan to lunch.
• Lin Baici met Gu Qingqiu, who urged him to strike first against Hoffman, but he declined and said he wanted a few peaceful days.
• Li Yintong and Zhong Shuman invited Lin Baici to lunch with their friends, but he declined because he had plans with a classmate.
• Lin Baici waited on campus for Ji Xinyan, then received a call from Shakira and went to meet her at the old library.
• Shakira embraced Lin Baici and praised how quickly he had risen.

Shakira visited Lin Baici in Haijing and offered to stand by him after learning he had killed Peter, while her divination predicted that Xia Hongyao would bear his child. The chapter ended with Zhu Qiunan seeing campus gossip spread about Lin Baici’s glamorous foreign visitor and her Rolls-Royce.

• Shakira and the Black Nun greeted Lin Baici at the library, then rode with him to dinner in a Rolls-Royce Phantom.
• Lin Baici learned that the incense in the car was a God Ruins drug that could temporarily enhance memory and reasoning but cause mental agitation with excessive use.
• Shakira asked Lin Baici about killing Peter and made clear she intended to support him against Hoffman.
• Lin Baici asked Xia Hongyao to arrange dinner, and Xia requested a divination from Shakira.
• Shakira predicted that the first friend Lin Baici met in Haijing would give birth to his child, and Lin Baici wondered whether he could prevent Xia Hongyao from coming.
• Zhu Qiunan saw campus forum users gossiping about Lin Baici and post a photo of Shakira beside rumors of her Black maid and Rolls-Royce.

Lin Baici spent time with Shakira, prompting rumors about their relationship and stirring up his classmates and fellow God Hunters. After touring Haijing with her, Lin Baici's name spread further through the God Hunter circles.

• Photos of Shakira and Lin Baici sparked gossip on the Campus Forum, where students speculated that she was his mother-in-law.
• Ji Xinyan misunderstood Lin Baici's apology as a breakup and grew upset, while Lin Baici told her he could not have lunch with her.
• Lin Baici introduced Xia Hongyao, Gu Qingqiu, and Hua Yueyu to Shakira over dinner, and Shakira showed particular interest in Little Fish Person.
• Xia Hongyao told the Dragon Soul WeChat Group that Shakira had visited Lin Baici, prompting concern about the approaching auction and the danger surrounding him.
• Lin Baici took Shakira to the Haijing Museum, an ancient Han tomb, and Pu Garden, and his name began circulating among God Hunters.

Lin Baici spent a busy day juggling Nangong Shu, his friends, and God Hunter work before deciding to face Ji Xinyan and clear the air. He was interrupted by Sannomiya Airi, who offered to help him confront the Slave Owner and asked him to meet secretly at the school’s back entrance.

• Nangong Shu called Lin Baici, teased him about his closeness with Shakira, and arranged to see him the following evening.
• Lin Baici turned down invitations from Jin Yingzhen, Hua Yueyu, and Song Tian, then spent most of the day avoiding his planned conversation with Ji Xinyan.
• Lin Baici joined Xia Hongyao’s team guarding the Dawn Foundation’s arriving auction items, but the foundation’s manager refused to share details about them.
• Lin Baici went to school intending to find Tea Sister, and learned from their messages that Ji Xinyan was upset with him.
• Sannomiya Airi called Lin Baici, warned him about the Slave Owner, offered her help, and asked him to meet her at the school’s back entrance.

Lin Baici met Sannomiya Airi at the school’s rear gate, where she revealed she wanted to team up with him to kill the Slave Owner and earn his trust before going to Dragon Palace Island. After she recruited Lin Baici’s friends into the prospective team, they were interrupted by Xu Daguan, Zhang Zhixu, and Yang Zhe, who had been watching them.

• Sannomiya Airi told Lin Baici she wanted to help kill the Slave Owner as a token of allegiance and asked him to meet her at the back gate.
• Lin Baici met Sannomiya Airi beside her bright pink Porsche, and she clung to his arm as they crossed the street.
• Lin Baici described Gu Qingqiu as fearless and mad, prompting Sannomiya Airi to invite her and Xia Hongyao on the Dragon Palace Island trip.
• Sannomiya Airi spotted Xu Daguan, Zhang Zhixu, and Yang Zhe watching them, and Xu Daguan approached with his livestream still running.
• Xu Daguan introduced himself to Sannomiya Airi, who sidestepped his offered handshake by asking about the Great Official from The Plum in the Golden Vase.

Lin Baici left campus with Sannomiya Airi, who used a charm to make Xu Daguan strip and run naked for his livestream before the platform banned it. Sannomiya Airi revealed she had staged their public meeting to fuel campus rumors about Lin Baici, while Xu Daguan discovered the forum was already calling Lin Baici a Sea King.

• Lin Baici reminded Xu Daguan that he had forgotten something, while Sannomiya Airi shrugged and prepared to leave with Lin Baici.
• Sannomiya Airi activated a God's Taboo Object and promised Xu Daguan her number if he ran naked around campus, and Xu Daguan began stripping and sprinted away after she drove off.
• Yang Zhe and Zhang Zhixu chased Xu Daguan, whose livestream was banned, while Sannomiya Airi told Lin Baici she had lingered at the school gate to spread rumors that she was his girlfriend.
• Sannomiya Airi tried to persuade Lin Baici to join her on Dragon Palace Island by hinting that gods were there, but Lin Baici refused to commit.
• Xu Daguan sat in the security office, then checked the campus forum and found posts calling Lin Baici a Sea King and discussing the beautiful women who had visited him.

The girls in Ji Xinyan’s dorm traded gossip about Lin Baici’s foreign admirers, his house, and the incident involving a student who dropped out, while Ji Xinyan grew irritated with their questions. In Lin Baici’s dorm, Liu Yu finally cleared out the students who had been crowding the room and proposed locking away the shared laptops, but Fang Mingyuan insisted he would pay if they were stolen.

• Liu Zilu and her roommates discussed photos of Shayikova and other women linked to Lin Baici, and Tao Nai revealed that he had bought a house in Haijing.
• Ji Xinyan sent the roommates to Bai Jiao for details about the dropout incident, and Bai Jiao’s account left them impressed by Lin Baici’s actions.
• Zhou Zhou pressed Ji Xinyan and Bai Jiao for information about Lin Baici, prompting Ji Xinyan to leave the dorm for some air.
• Liu Zilu teased Ji Xinyan and Bai Jiao that they should act quickly if they liked Lin Baici, while Zhou Zhou said she preferred Xu Daguan.
• Liu Yu shut down the laptops and drove the students who had gathered in Lin Baici’s dorm out before starting to use a computer himself.
• Liu Yu proposed locking up the laptops to prevent the dorm from becoming a messy gathering place, and Fang Mingyuan said he would pay if they were stolen.