Chapter Summaries

Liu Yu insulted Da Xiao and his younger sister, prompting Da Xiao to attack him in Lin Baici’s dorm. The fight drew a crowd, and Da Xiao worried that Lin Baici would blame him despite being away from campus.

• Liu Yu mocked Da Xiao’s smoking, generosity, and family, while Fang Mingyuan and Xu Daguan listened.
• Da Xiao returned for his cigarettes, heard Liu Yu insult his younger sister, and confronted him.
• Liu Yu taunted Da Xiao and threw his cigarette pack out, so Da Xiao punched and beat him.
• Hu Wenwu tried to separate them, while Fang Mingyuan blocked Da Xiao’s roommates from joining the fight and Xu Daguan filmed.
• The students outside assumed Lin Baici was fighting, and Da Xiao asked Fang Mingyuan to tell Lin Baici that Liu Yu had provoked him.

Lin Baici interrupted a fight between Cecilia and Heavenly God Club members who had broken into his home, then discovered that Cecilia was a god and the source of his hunger. After the intruders recognized him as the Nine Provinces Dragon Wing, Lin Baici unleashed his Divine Grace against them.

• Lin Baici learned that an intruder had used a God's Taboo Object to knock Wang Fang unconscious, then went downstairs to confront the people fighting in his basement.
• Lin Baici recognized Cecilia as the blonde woman he had seen before and learned from the God of Gluttony that she was a god.
• When a guard attacked him, Lin Baici killed him with a pipe wrench and struck the middle-aged captain with Meat Shattering Strike.
• Cecilia asked Lin Baici for protection, while the brown-haired Heavenly God Club member tried to recruit him to capture her.
• Cecilia revealed that Lin Baici was the Lin God from Haijing, prompting the club members to panic and consider fleeing.
• Lin Baici rejected the club member's offer and activated Flash of Lightning, Great Impression Hand against the intruders.

Lin Baici defeated the Heavenly God Club hunters pursuing Cecilia and learned that the traumatized goddess had fled to Haijing seeking protection. He offered to shelter her, then called Xia Hongyao over; when she arrived and heard Cecilia was a goddess, she was stunned.

• Lin Baici flattened the brown-haired Heavenly God Club member with a blow, and Cecilia's lightning drove the remaining hunters away.
• Lin Baici captured Cecilia, but the God of Gluttony revealed she had surrendered after being traumatized by experiments, so he released her and comforted her.
• Cecilia explained that she had escaped a Heavenly God Club base, sought Xia Hongmian's help, and hidden near Lin Baici's home; Lin Baici offered to protect her.
• Lin Baici called Xia Hongyao over while Cecilia told him about her past, and Xia Hongyao arrived at the villa.
• Lin Baici introduced Cecilia as a goddess, leaving Xia Hongyao stunned.

Lin Baici helped Xia Hongyao assess Cecilia as a potential Security Agency recruit while juggling his friends and lovers ahead of the Dawn Auction. The chapter ended at Xia Hongyao’s home when a woman asked whether Lin Baici considered her his girlfriend as his childhood friend Li Wei listened on the phone.

• Lin Baici introduced Cecilia to Xia Hongyao, who checked on Wang Fang and began considering Cecilia for her team.
• Lin Baici spent the following days accompanying Xia Hongyao on official business while balancing time with Jin Yingzhen, Hua Yueyu, Nangong Shu, Da Tianjie, and Ji Xinyan.
• Li Wei video-called Lin Baici during the night at the Dragon and Beauty bar, teased him about dating, and invited him to meet during the May Day holiday.
• On May 4, Lin Baici, Hua Yueyu, Jin Yingzhen, and Gu Qingqiu visited Xia Hongyao’s home before the Dawn Auction.
• Li Wei called Lin Baici again, saw Xia Hongyao on screen, and asked how far Lin Baici had gotten with her.
• A woman behind Lin Baici asked whether he considered her his girlfriend.

Lin Baici arrived at the Haijing Arts and Culture Center for the Dawn Foundation auction, where allies and rivals gathered and Hoffman’s threat loomed. As the guests mingled, Mink Aunt assembled a group and headed toward the venue to begin their operation.

• Lin Baici spoke with his childhood friend Li Wei by phone while Gu Qingqiu pretended to be his boss, helping explain his income to his family.
• Lin Baici and the others arrived early at the venue and went to the hotel banquet hall to meet guests and inspect the crowd.
• Ang Ruo, Baditong, Sutai, and Pan Junjie discussed whether Lin Baici would attend and feared the consequences of approaching him because of the Slave Owner.
• Fish Ball Guy, Taimai, Li Yintong, Zhong Shuman, and others greeted Lin Baici and offered him support against Hoffman.
• A young man and Mink Aunt gathered their companions near the venue, and Little Cutie watched them set off with Shen Xin and Agent Kim nearby.

At the Dawn Foundation auction banquet in Haijing, Lin Baici’s group faced growing attention from powerful guests and a delegation from Dayao. When a Dayao swordsman warned Lin Baici to stay away from Sannomiya Airi because she was the junior Monk Master’s fiancée, Lin Baici pulled her close and kissed her.

• Shen Xin left with Agent Kim while Little Cutie cried and watched them go.
• Park Jae-wook urged Jin Yingzhen to stay with his group, but she and Lin Baici’s companions rejected his warning and affirmed their confidence in Lin Baici.
• A Dayao delegation arrived, and Sannomiya Airi left her companions to greet Lin Baici and his friends.
• Sannomiya Airi told Lin Baici that the Dayao delegation was angry with him because she had said she had fallen for a man from Nine Provinces.
• A Dayao swordsman warned Lin Baici that Sannomiya Airi was the fiancée of the junior Monk Master, Kamizumi Nichijo.
• Lin Baici pulled Sannomiya Airi close and kissed her as his companions reacted with excitement.

Lin Baici accepted Kuriyama Bashou’s death duel at the banquet and used his Divine Grace, God's Hand, to steal Kuriyama Bashou’s heart. Kuriyama Bashou died without activating his counterattack, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Lin Baici kissed Sannomiya Airi and provoked Kuriyama Bashou into challenging him to a death duel.
• Sannomiya Airi hinted that she wanted Lin Baici to kill Kuriyama Bashou, while Xia Hongyao agreed to let the duel proceed.
• The guests and officials cleared a space as Lin Baici and Kuriyama Bashou faced each other; Kuriyama Bashou secretly relied on Counter Storm, which struck anyone who attacked him.
• Lin Baici suspected Kuriyama Bashou had a hidden Divine Grace and used God's Hand while his opponent remained still.
• Kuriyama Bashou suddenly felt a sharp pain as his heart was stolen, then collapsed dead, shocking the onlookers.

Lin Baici killed Kuriyama Bashou instantly, cementing his reputation as a formidable God Hunter while powerful guests gathered for the auction. As the crowd headed for the venue, Hoffman arrived and Takeuchi Kurano greeted him deferentially.

• Lin Baici killed Kuriyama Bashou in an instant, leaving the Japanese samurai and the other guests afraid to challenge him.
• Takeuchi Kurano watched his men retrieve Kuriyama Bashou's body while guests debated Lin Baici's strength and Divine Grace.
• Shayikova embraced Lin Baici after arriving with Yaxin and the White Giant Bear delegation, drawing the crowd's attention to him again.
• Feynman greeted Lin Baici with a respectful gesture, further impressing the guests.
• Lin Baici and his companions left for the auction venue as Takeuchi Kurano's party reached the banquet hall entrance.
• When one of Takeuchi Kurano's men insulted Hoffman, Takeuchi Kurano struck him and greeted Hoffman respectfully.

Hoffman confronted Lin Baici over his son's death at a banquet, but Shakira intervened and forced Hoffman to leave. Afterward, she warned Lin Baici to avoid provoking Hoffman and stay away from Gu Qingqiu.

• Takeuchi Kurano swallowed his anger after Hoffman ignored him and walked into the banquet hall.
• Hoffman found Lin Baici and demanded an explanation for killing his son, while Lin Baici refused to back down and challenged him to fight.
• Xia Hongyao offered to face Hoffman, but Hoffman threatened Lin Baici with three Divine Graces and dismissed Wang Jing when he tried to intervene.
• Shakira entered the banquet hall, declared Lin Baici her friend, and told Hoffman she would not let anything happen to him; Hoffman then left.
• Shakira advised Lin Baici to lie low and warned him that Gu Qingqiu could get him killed before she departed.

After defying Hoffman with Shakira’s support, Lin Baici arrived at the charity auction and donated generously alongside his companions. As the group settled into their seats, Lin Baici’s stomach suddenly growled with intense hunger, and Sannomiya Airi wondered if it was connected to his power.

• Lin Baici rejected Sannomiya Airi’s invitation to meet after the auction, and Gu Qingqiu taunted her about her height and legs.
• Lin Baici and his companions arrived at the auction venue, where several of them donated millions to the Dawn Charity Foundation.
• Lin Baici declined to sign the event’s wall and went to the auction hall with his group.
• Lin Baici used his invitation to let Taimai sit with the group, and they found their seats near the front.
• Lin Baici’s stomach growled with overwhelming hunger, prompting Sannomiya Airi to suspect it was related to his strength.

Lin Baici’s Hunger Radar led him to an auction hall where a God's Taboo Object was about to release radiation pollution. After forcing his way inside despite the Dawn Foundation’s security, he found the object and opened its locked container just in time, leaving the gathered officials stunned by his knowledge of the code.

• Lin Baici sensed something valuable nearby and led Xia Hongyao, Sannomiya Airi, and the others toward the auction items on the third floor.
• Lin Baici warned Xia Hongyao that an auction item was about to release radiation pollution, but the response from Zhao Zongshao’s staff was delayed.
• Lin Baici entered the guarded hall with Sannomiya Airi’s help while Xia Hongyao and Gu Qingqiu held off the Foundation’s security personnel.
• Lin Baici located the dangerous God's Taboo Object inside a metal box and urged the arriving middle-aged man to open it.
• Lin Baici entered the combination code supplied by the God of Gluttony, and the box opened as the middle-aged man stared in shock.

Lin Baici opened a secured case, contained a damaged Black Coffin, and received the Wisdom Pen as a reward from Bai Yeming. The group returned to the auction venue, where Xia Hongyao noticed someone chatting up Jin Yingzhen.

• Lin Baici opened a metal case and found the damaged Black Coffin leaking contamination, then used his Antler Bone Flute to summon a reindeer sleigh and retrieve a replacement Black Coffin.
• Lin Baici contained the sphere before the contamination spread, and An Xiaohui told Commander Li that Lin Baici had saved them.
• Bai Yeming welcomed Lin Baici and his companions, then gave Lin Baici the Wisdom Pen, which could raise a baby's intelligence but could turn an unsuitable user into an imbecile.
• Bai Yeming ordered Cao Xuebin to recruit Lin Baici at any cost, and Lin Baici's group returned to the auction venue with the pen.
• Xia Hongyao noticed someone chatting up Jin Yingzhen as the group walked through the venue.

At the Dawn Foundation auction, Lin Baici and his companions realized something was wrong as Mink Aunt seized the stage and announced a deadly auction. Jing Wubing learned that a squad of gods had gathered at the venue, and he decided to make them and the God Hunters the targets of his plan.

• Charlie and John Joe harassed Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu until Lin Baici arrived and ordered them to leave.
• Guests gathered around Lin Baici and his companions before the auction began, while Xia Hongyao hoped to find a bargain.
• Backstage, Mink Aunt and her accomplices prepared to attack, twisting staff members’ necks and sending them back to their posts.
• Jing Wubing told Red Moon Thunderclap that a squad of gods was at the venue, then chose to continue his plan and give them a grand funeral.
• Mink Aunt appeared onstage, announced the Death Auction, and opened a Black Coffin to reveal a God's Taboo Object as the guests reacted in shock.

At the Dawn Foundation auction, Mink Aunt revealed a god's head that killed people who asked it questions, turning the event into a deadly Rule Pollution incident. The head continued selecting victims, while Lin Baici and his companions remained calm and tried to understand the rules.

• Mink Aunt presented the god's head and claimed it could answer any question, then instructed a volunteer to wake it.
• The Suit Man asked about his descendants, and the head predicted he would have none because he would die immediately; his head exploded.
• Mink Aunt revealed that questions demanded a price and that the awakened head had to answer everyone it saw.
• The head selected a woman in the audience, whose question about her age was followed by her head exploding.
• Xia Hongyao and Sannomiya Airi considered what questions might be safe, and Sannomiya Airi asked Lin Baici what he thought.

At Mink Aunt’s auction, a divine head killed guests who failed to satisfy it with their questions, leaving the trapped God Hunters unable to find a way to survive. The chapter ended with William Stone’s attempt to attack the head failing and his head exploding.

• Lin Baici suspected Mink Aunt was a god, while Gu Qingqiu guessed that satisfying the divine head might be the key to survival.
• The divine head killed more than a dozen guests who tried to sneak out, and their phones failed as everyone realized they were trapped in the God Ruins.
• Gu Qingqiu urged a chosen man to ask a question, but the divine head killed him before he could finish speaking.
• The divine head answered a woman’s question about her boyfriend, then killed her, and subsequent questioners also died without revealing a pattern.
• William Stone asked the divine head his IQ and was told it was 160, then danced when it demanded a monkey show.
• William Stone tried to teleport onto the stage and attack the divine head, but his head exploded before he could act.

At the art center, the divine head killed Dragon Rank expert William Stone and began choosing people to answer its questions. Lin Baici intervened to protect Gu Qingqiu, survived by asking for food recommendations, and the divine head later confirmed that her mother was alive; Mink Aunt began reconsidering her plans.

• The divine head killed William Stone, terrifying the art center’s guests and making them realize Dragon Rank experts were not safe.
• Gu Qingqiu asked where her missing mother was, and the divine head answered that she was in Antarctica; she then asked whether her mother was dead.
• Lin Baici interrupted with a question about what to eat, and the divine head recommended several restaurants without punishing him.
• The divine head later told Gu Qingqiu that her mother was not dead, then killed another guest whose question about water displeased it.
• Guests moved toward Lin Baici after noticing the divine head avoided his section, while Mink Aunt began considering bringing her plan forward.

Auntie Mink turned the God's severed head against the crowd, but Grand Duke Feynman and other bigwigs launched a coordinated attack. The head exploded and transported Lin Baici’s group to a classical garden, where Ang Ruo asked to join them.

• As people crowded around Lin Baici for protection, he proposed attacking Auntie Mink, but the crowd hesitated over who should lead.
• Auntie Mink tried to direct the God's severed head at Lin Baici, but it targeted Grand Duke Feynman, who stood and signaled the bigwigs to attack.
• Grand Duke Feynman used Gravitational Collapse as more than a dozen attacks struck Auntie Mink, the God's severed head, and the burly man in the brown flight jacket.
• Auntie Mink sent the God's severed head soaring over the stands, where it exploded in a shower of blood and flesh, and Lin Baici told everyone to stay close.
• Lin Baici and his companions found themselves together in a classical Jiangnan garden, where Ang Ruo introduced herself and asked to join their team.

At the Dawn Auction’s God Ruins, Lin Baici led the gathered hunters toward a lotus pond after sensing nearby Rule Pollution. A koi demanded wishes from its victims, and after John Joe’s wish killed him, a four-legged koi crawled out of the pond.

• Ang Ruo, Pan Junjie, Baditong, and Sutai asked to join Xia Hongyao’s team, but Xia Hongyao accepted none of them; other guests then crowded Lin Baici to request a temporary alliance, and he refused.
• Lin Baici led the group to a lotus pond, where one man was dragged underwater and another walked in and melted as the koi ate their remains.
• Charlie was drawn toward the pond, and his friend John Joe tried to save him, but Charlie entered the water and died.
• A red koi spoke to John Joe and demanded one wish; John Joe wished to be Hua Yueyu’s boyfriend, then swelled and burst when the wish was not fulfilled.
• The koi crawled out of the pond on four legs, shocking the gathered hunters.

Lin Baici and the others tried to understand the wish-granting koi and discovered that different foods drew different fish and wishes. After Sannomiya Airi used Dragon Palace Island rice to satisfy several koi, Lin Baici left the offered rice untouched and headed toward the pond.

• A four-legged koi ate John Joe’s remains, and the group realized they needed to fulfill the fish’s wishes to survive the Rule Pollution.
• When a koi killed another person for failing to receive an answer, Lin Baici fed it various foods, while Gu Qingqiu volunteered to test the fish’s wishes.
• Gu Qingqiu gave a koi blood from plasma bags, satisfying its wish and surviving.
• Sannomiya Airi fed Dragon Palace Island rice to several koi, which repeatedly wished for more fish food and then swam away satisfied.
• Sannomiya Airi gave her remaining rice to Lin Baici, but he left it untouched and walked toward the pond.

Lin Baici discovered that the wishing koi feared him, then learned that a Song-dynasty fish plate at the bottom of the pond was causing the Rule Pollution. After the koi began killing people for failing to grant its wish, Lin Baici plunged into the pond and surfaced with the Black Coffin containing Fish Playing with Pearls on a Koi Plate, apparently ending the crisis.

• Lin Baici tested cereal and ham sausages as fish food, but the koi fled from him instead of approaching.
• God of Gluttony revealed that touching the fish plate more than three times would make Lin Baici hate seafood and become obsessed with raising fish.
• Pan Junjie paid Lin Baici a hundred thousand Meteor Coins for information about the koi and future contamination.
• A koi demanded food and a woman in the crowd exploded; Lin Baici charged ten thousand Meteor Coins each for help before diving into the pond.
• When a golden koi wished for wings, Sannomiya Airi caught sparrows and tore off their wings, but Xia Hongyao refused to grant the wish.
• Lin Baici surfaced holding a Black Coffin containing Fish Playing with Pearls on a Koi Plate, and the koi swam away.