Chapter Summaries

After the clowns hammered Pan Junjie to death in the street, Lin Baici prepared his group for their approach to the hotel. He refused to flee as the clowns turned toward them and began walking over.

• Takeuchi Kurano decided Lin Baici was a threat and told Nishimura Morihara to follow his lead if the clowns entered the hotel.
• Zhong Shuman and Fish Ball Guy watched the clowns kill Pan Junjie, and Fish Ball Guy decided to follow Lin Baici for the rest of the journey.
• Li Yintong and Hua Yueyu recoiled at the sight of Pan Junjie’s remains while Sannomiya Airi and Jin Yingzhen watched from the hotel room.
• Lin Baici handed out boxes of mental illness medication as the clowns stopped in the street and stared at the hotel.
• Li Yintong shut the curtains when the clowns turned toward the hotel, then saw them approach with bloodstained claw hammers.
• Lin Baici refused to run, and the group waited for the clowns to arrive.

After Takeuchi Kurano handed two subordinates over to the clowns, Nishimura Morihara sought Lin Baici’s favor, while Fish Ball Guy and Zhong Shuman visited Lin’s room. The survivors began looking for safety and support as they faced the days ahead.

• Takeuchi Kurano’s group surrendered two subordinates to the clowns, who killed them with claw hammers before leaving the room splattered with blood.
• Nishimura Morihara asked Takeuchi Kurano’s permission to consult Sannomiya Airi, then went to Lin Baici’s door and asked to pay his respects.
• Sannomiya Airi refused to see Nishimura, and Lin Baici also turned him away, but Nishimura politely said they would rely on Lin in the coming days.
• Fish Ball Guy and Zhong Shuman arrived as Nishimura left, and Fish Ball Guy explained that Nishimura was seeking a new protector after Takeuchi Kurano disappointed him.
• Fish Ball Guy thanked Lin Baici for the medicine and hugged him while Zhong Shuman envied the safety of Lin’s room.
• Fish Ball Guy asked Lin Baici what might happen next.

Lin Baici and the others fought their way out of the room as the Chainsaw Men revived. After escaping through the window, Lin Baici saw more than a hundred Rainy Night Butchers surrounding them from the alleys below.

• Sannomiya Airi smashed a window and jumped out, while Xia Hongyao followed and Fish Ball Guy stayed behind to hold off the Chainsaw Men.
• Lin Baici used his Double-barreled Shotgun to kill pursuing Chainsaw Men and keep the others moving toward the window.
• Everyone escaped through the window, including Nishimura Morihara, as the fallen Chainsaw Men began to revive.
• Fish Ball Guy chose to draw the monsters toward the Japanese, and Lin Baici jumped down using his Platinum Crow Feather.
• Lin Baici spotted more than a hundred Rainy Night Butchers emerging from the dark alleys around the group.

Lin Baici led the group toward Oliver Villa, which he suspected was the final boss’s location, and gave Jin Yingzhen a shotgun for protection. After entering the chaotic city at night, he was surrounded by bikers who challenged him to a race, and he aimed his shotgun at their leader.

• Gu Qingqiu told Lin Baici that Oliver Villa was known as the city’s safest place, and Lin Baici decided to lead the group there by motorcycle.
• Lin Baici gave Jin Yingzhen his Double-barreled Shotgun, while she refused it and said she could fight up close.
• Li Yintong, Hua Yueyu, and Fish Ball Guy reacted to Lin Baici’s care for the women before the group headed into the city.
• Lin Baici rode through the disorderly streets, ignored a bald man firing a rifle from a balcony, and drew the attention of a biker gang.
• The biker leader challenged Lin Baici to a motorcycle race, and Lin Baici drew his shotgun and aimed it at him.

Lin Baici’s team discussed the dangers of exploring God Ruins before the butler escorted them to a grand villa. There, they met the imposing Mrs. Oliver as she descended the staircase.

• Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu told Lin Baici they were prepared to risk their lives and asked him not to treat them like children.
• Xia Hongyao tried to reassure the team, while Gu Qingqiu urged everyone to cooperate and told Lin Baici to become less sentimental.
• Sannomiya Airi advised Lin Baici to spend more time with the women until he grew tired of them.
• The butler led Lin Baici’s group and Takeuchi Kurano’s party through the estate to a large villa, where maids welcomed them.
• Mrs. Oliver descended the villa’s enormous spiral staircase, startling Li Yintong and the others with her towering height and striking appearance.

Lin Baici and the others discovered that the breakfast pastries Mrs. Oliver served were filled with maggots and eggs. The chapter ended with Mrs. Oliver slamming her palm on the table after the guests spat out the food and cursed.

• Mrs. Oliver finished a long prayer and invited everyone to eat breakfast.
• Lin Baici tried a cake and noticed its texture seemed wrong, while Hua Yueyu also sensed something was off.
• Sannomiya Airi spat out her cake and found maggots and translucent eggs inside it.
• The others spat out their cakes, and Fish Ball Guy found maggots inside a croissant.
• Mrs. Oliver slammed her palm on the table, rattling the plates and wine glasses.

Lin Baici helped Li Yintong gain a Divine Grace, and the group endured Mrs. Oliver's brutal breakfast before following her into the back garden. As they explored its flower beds, they realized people were losing weight, and the chapter left the cause of the change unclear.

• Lin Baici gave Li Yintong time to absorb the Parrot Doll's Divine Grace, then used Sanskrit Chants and Buddhist Sounds while Li Yintong recited a prayer for Mrs. Oliver.
• Mrs. Oliver served the guests maggot-ridden food and punished a Japanese man who vomited by beating him, forcing him to swallow boiling water and his vomit, and nailing his hand to the table.
• After breakfast, Mrs. Oliver led the group to the back garden, where the God of Gluttony told Lin Baici that the secret to leaving the botanical garden was hidden in the topiary designs.
• As the group walked through the flower beds, Gu Qingqiu plucked a flower and Lin Baici sneezed from the pollen, but no Rule Pollution appeared.
• Gu Qingqiu noticed Zhong Shuman had lost weight, Hua Yueyu saw that Jin Yingzhen had also grown thinner, and Xia Hongyao warned Gu Qingqiu to drop the flower because she had lost the most weight.

After Gu Qingqiu picked an iris and triggered Rule Pollution that made everyone lose weight, the group followed Mrs. Oliver through the garden. They watched her feed a rabbit to a bed of purple flowers, which attacked and tore it apart.

• Xia Hongyao identified Gu Qingqiu’s flower-picking as the likely trigger for the Rule Pollution, and the group noticed they were rapidly losing weight.
• Gu Qingqiu examined and smelled the iris but found nothing unusual, while Lin Baici and the others stayed close to her.
• Lin Baici led the group after Mrs. Oliver as she moved through the garden, followed by Takeuchi Kurano and the others.
• Mrs. Oliver had her maids bring cages of white rabbits to a sea of purple flowers.
• Mrs. Oliver threw a rabbit into the flowers, and thorny roots seized it and tore it apart.

Lin Baici and his companions tried to save Mrs. Oliver’s wilting sunflowers after she threatened to turn Hua Yueyu and the others into fertilizer. They discovered a buried corpse belonging to a Half-Step Dragon Rank expert, and Mrs. Oliver remained asleep after they finished shaking every sunflower.

• Lin Baici negotiated with Mrs. Oliver for three hours to revive the sunflowers, but she demanded that two people be made into fertilizer first.
• At Lin Baici’s direction, Nishimura Morihara chose Watanabe and Sato, whom the maids killed and used as fertilizer.
• Lin Baici learned that the sunflowers needed pollination and told everyone to shake them, while Sannomiya Airi released bees from her God's Taboo Object.
• Hua Yueyu uncovered a buried human head, and Xia Hongyao recognized it as Zhou Tao, a former Safety Bureau worker who had been Half-Step Dragon Rank.
• Everyone finished shaking the sunflowers, but Mrs. Oliver slept through their work, leaving the group waiting to see whether the flowers would recover.

Lin Baici and his companions passed Mrs. Oliver’s sunflower inspection, but Nishimura Morihara was killed after damaging the flowers. As the group searched for a way out before the garden’s pest-control operation began, Gu Qingqiu spotted a trail of dandelions leading toward a marble archway.

• Lin Baici rested while the Japanese group tried and failed to revive the sunflowers, then Mrs. Oliver praised the field and accepted his claim that the gods had helped him.
• Mrs. Oliver ordered Nishimura Morihara turned into fertilizer for touching her flowers, and her maids killed him after the butler broke his arms.
• Sannomiya Airi comforted Suzuka Tetsuwo and told the others about her beautiful friend Suzuka Momoka, who was also going to Dragon Palace Island.
• Gu Qingqiu noticed they had not left the garden and that Mrs. Oliver had gone silent; the butler then warned that pest control would begin in one hour.
• Gu Qingqiu pointed out that the dandelions drifted in one direction, and the group followed them through the garden to a flower-covered marble archway.

After the group was separated in the vine-covered corridor, Lin Baici escaped a hanging trap and began searching the dungeon for the others. He rescued Jin Yingzhen and another captive, but the foreign woman immediately attacked Jin Yingzhen.

• As people vanished one by one in the corridor, Lin Baici escaped the darkness by snapping the rope around his neck, then found himself in a dungeon.
• Lin Baici broke into a neighboring cell and rescued Jin Yingzhen from a hanging trap that had taken away her senses.
• Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen set off through the dungeon to search for their companions, following the passage and investigating faint cries.
• Lin Baici freed a blonde foreign woman from another cell without catching her, and she lunged at Jin Yingzhen as soon as she could see.

Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen rescued Melanie Dupont from a dungeon trap, but she attacked them before surrendering and joining their group. After following a divination deeper into the dungeon, they found a team fighting armored monsters and were invited to team up as the group prepared to regroup.

• Melanie Dupont regained her sight in a dungeon and lunged at Jin Yingzhen to take her hostage, but Lin Baici struck her down and she surrendered.
• Lin Baici left without interrogating Melanie, and she introduced herself as a member of the Heavenly God Club and followed him with Jin Yingzhen.
• Lin Baici used the God-Asking Tortoise Shell at a four-way intersection, and it directed them to go straight ahead while insulting Melanie when she asked for a divination.
• Lin Baici refused Melanie's suggestion to break open dungeon cells, then ran toward the sound of fighting and found five people battling armored monsters.
• After the five people defeated the monsters, one young man criticized Lin Baici for not helping, but their leader, Wang Qing, invited him to team up and then suggested they return to regroup.

Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen joined the gathered teams in the dungeon, where Dragon Rank powerhouse Krazer revealed that a human sacrifice was needed to activate the Altar and escape. Krazer and the other groups chose the two newcomers, but their calm reaction left Melanie wondering what they could do.

• Lin Baici's group reached the gathering area, where they met more survivors and learned Poseidon, whose real name was Krazer, was there.
• Melanie told Krazer she was Pierre Dupont's illegitimate daughter and a member of the Heavenly God Club.
• Krazer announced that he had repaired an Altar and that a human life was needed to activate it.
• When no one volunteered, Krazer ordered the Nine Provinces groups to provide a sacrifice, and the survivors argued over who should die.
• The Japanese team leader and Wang Qing's group pointed Krazer toward Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen as newcomers to sacrifice.
• Melanie noticed that Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen remained calm despite being chosen.

Lin Baici revealed his identity as a Dragon Wing after Jin Yingzhen killed Crew Cut with the Lamb Shotgun, changing the balance of power in the dungeon. When Krazer demanded the customary sacrifice, Lin Baici refused to offer his compatriots and ordered Jin Yingzhen to shoot one of Krazer’s Southeast Asian followers, leaving the group scattered behind him.

• Jin Yingzhen put on the sheepskin coat, drew the Lamb Shotgun from her handbag, and killed Crew Cut with one shot.
• Lin Baici introduced himself as a Nine Provinces Security Agency Dragon Wing, causing Wu Hongfu, Wang Qing, and the others to fear and defer to him.
• Gris told Krazer about Lin Baici’s rise to Dragon Rank and his reported feats, prompting Krazer to treat him as an equal.
• Krazer said he had found a way out and demanded that Lin Baici’s side send someone as a sacrifice.
• Lin Baici refused to sacrifice his compatriots and pointed to the Southeast Asians, then Jin Yingzhen shot one of them as they fled behind Krazer.

Lin Baici challenged Krazer’s plan to sacrifice people and used the pattern revealed by the God of Gluttony to complete the dungeon’s magic circle. The circle activated, leaving the group poised to escape.

• Krazer attacked Lin Baici with a giant fist, but Lin Baici’s Muscle Buddha shattered it.
• Krazer claimed the right to choose who would accompany him and explained that his group had found an altar with incomplete patterns.
• Wu Hongfu led Lin Baici to the altar, where Lin Baici recognized the missing design and began completing it with his Bronze Sword.
• Krazer prepared to sacrifice a Malaysian man, but Lin Baici insisted he would solve the trial himself and threatened to destroy the circle if anyone interfered.
• Lin Baici completed the final line, causing the patterns to glow and activate, then asked Krazer whether he wanted to go first.

Lin Baici and the others escaped the dungeon through the magic array, then began exploring a castle-like building. The chapter left them in a corridor as a scout tried to open a room and a sudden bang sounded behind them.

• Lin Baici activated the teleportation array, and Krazer and the others used it to escape the dungeon.
• Krazer punished the injured survivors, but stopped himself from striking Wang Qing and Wu Hongfu when they called for Lin Baici's protection.
• Wang Qing apologized to Lin Baici, and Lin Baici led the group out of their room into a castle-like corridor.
• Lin Baici chose a direction by gut feeling, and Krazer ordered a Lion City man to scout a room.
• As the man tried to open the door, a bang sounded behind the group.

Lin Baici used the Ghost Lamp to reveal and kill the Black Armored Monster that had been attacking the group, then spotted another monster waiting around a corner. He silently signaled the second monster to attack Krazer, leaving the group’s fate unresolved.

• An invisible monster repeatedly struck the Black Person, eventually killing him, while Lin Baici searched the corridor with the Ghost Lamp.
• The monster killed a Lion City man at the rear of the group, and Lin Baici saw it through the Ghost Lamp and attacked it with his Bronze Sword, but the weapon did no harm.
• Lin Baici used Ghostbusters to overpower and kill the Black Armored Monster, while Krazer kept his own supernatural tools hidden and let Lin Baici handle the danger.
• At the corridor’s corner, Lin Baici found another Black Armored Monster preparing to ambush Wu Hongfu and silently signaled it to attack Krazer.

Lin Baici led the group through a castle as invisible monsters attacked, then charged through a ghostly army after Rule Pollution trapped them. He reached the kitchen in search of fishmen’s eyeballs, which could let the others see the soldiers, and found a vat filled with tiny fish-headed humanoids.

• An invisible monster attacked Krazer, and Lin Baici’s warnings and stops made Krazer suspect he was being tested, so Krazer revealed his candlestick, which could expose invisible monsters to everyone.
• White smoke brought a Rule Pollution that surrounded the group with an invisible army, and the God of Gluttony told Lin Baici that eating fishmen’s eyeballs would let people see the soldiers.
• Lin Baici followed the smell of fresh bread toward the kitchen, while Krazer lit his candlestick and the group attacked the revealed army.
• Lin Baici summoned the Muscle Buddha to smash through the infantry, then used NO BODY to teleport away; Jin Yingzhen teleported after him, while Krazer returned to protect his cannon fodder.
• Lin Baici reached the kitchen and searched it, then opened a water vat and found fish-headed humanoids swimming inside.

Lin Baici found a way to protect the group from the chess-piece monsters by having them eat the eyes of monstrous fish. The group then encountered a Chess Soul, who demanded a chess game and chose Gris to play.

• Lin Baici caught monstrous fish, removed an eyeball for Jin Yingzhen, and brought the rest downstairs for the others.
• After the group ate the fish eyes, the monsters stopped targeting them, and Krazer led everyone onward.
• Lin Baici and Krazer recognized the monsters as chess pieces, and the group later found black-armored soldiers guarding the stairs.
• Two kings carried a little girl downstairs with a chessboard, and she demanded a game before choosing Gris as her opponent.
• Gris said she did not know how to play chess, but the girl told her she would teach her and offered her three pieces.

Lin Baici was chosen to play the Little Girl at chess, but he provoked her into letting him leave to find a champion who could challenge her. He left Jin Yingzhen with a way to refuse her next game and searched the castle for a telephone, hoping to reach Gu Qingqiu.

• Gris was forced to play chess, lost, and was transformed into a metal chess piece; a white man lost his game and was killed when he tried to flee.
• The Little Girl chose Lin Baici, and God of Gluttony suggested that he seek help from a skilled board-game player outside the game.
• Lin Baici provoked the Little Girl by claiming a champion was better than her, so she ordered him to fetch that player and let him leave after he secured Jin Yingzhen's safety.
• The Little Girl chose a Japanese man next, but he attacked Jin Yingzhen to read Lin Baici's message and was beaten before the Kings dragged him away.
• Lin Baici searched the castle for a telephone, found an old crank model in a study, and discovered a narrow slot on its side.