Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici humiliated Rafios in a duel while Gu Qingqiu stalled Rafios’s allies, waiting for reinforcements. Xia Hongyao and her group arrived, and Mrs. Oliver’s presence left everyone stunned as she stood beside Lin Baici.

• Rafios teleported behind Lin Baici and attacked, but Lin Baici evaded him and fought back with his Bronze Sword.
• Lin Baici countered Rafios’s Squid Twist with Snake Bone Soft Body, slammed him into the concrete, and kicked him across the floor.
• Lin Baici taunted Rafios and Ian while Gu Qingqiu used the Winchester M1887 Shotgun to intimidate their group and buy time.
• Nangong Shu warned Rafios’s group to leave, but Rafios refused and Emery tried to learn Lin Baici’s identity.
• Fish Ball Guy, Xia Hongyao, and the others arrived in two cars, and Mrs. Oliver approached Lin Baici as the crowd reeled at her intimidating presence.

Lin Baici confronted Rafios after learning that Rafios had threatened Nangong Shu, and his identity as the Sea-Capital Lin God changed the balance of power. As Krazer tried to broker a peaceful retreat, Lin Baici refused to let Rafios leave, but a mysterious figure appeared at the factory entrance.

• Xia Hongyao arrived and interrupted the standoff, while Mrs. Oliver called Lin Baici her lover and revealed she considered herself his slave.
• Fish Ball Guy and Wang Qing offered to fight for Lin Baici, and Xia Hongyao's remarks revealed that Lin Baici was the Sea-Capital Lin God who had killed the Slave Owner's son.
• Krazer emerged from the Bentley and gave Rafios an opening to withdraw, so Rafios ordered his group to leave.
• Lin Baici stopped Rafios and refused Krazer's appeal to let the matter go, insisting Nangong Shu could seek revenge even if she had not been harmed.
• Lin Baici and the others noticed a skinny man standing at the factory entrance, and Huang Cheng recognized him as a god.

A human-headed god appeared in the factory and began testing Lin Baici with questions that could trigger deadly pollution. Lin Baici redirected the god’s questions to save Hua Yueyu, but the god then proposed a magic trick, leaving the group facing another test.

• The human-headed god approached Lin Baici’s group, and Lin stepped forward while Xia Hongyao and Sannomiya Airi stayed close behind him.
• The god asked which girl Lin liked, and Lin confused it with a long, rambling explanation until it abandoned the question.
• The god asked whom Lin hated most, and Lin named Hua Yueyu, prompting the god to agree that she was annoying.
• Lin told Hua Yueyu to leave, and she ran out of the factory while the god let her go.
• Lin redirected the god toward Rafios, but the god returned its attention to Lin and proposed a magic trick.

Lin Baici discovered how to count the Head God's invisible pigeons and helped several people answer correctly, including Sannomiya Airi and the Wedding Ring Woman. The Head God then gave Wang Qing a bonus question after he correctly counted thirty-six pigeons, leaving him dependent on Lin Baici again.

• The Head God made pigeons appear and asked Lin Baici to count them, and Lin Baici answered thirty-one with help from God of Gluttony.
• The Head God asked Sannomiya Airi to count the pigeons, and she trusted Lin Baici's signal and answered thirty-three.
• Lin Baici noticed white dots with his eyes closed, identified the trick, and helped the Wedding Ring Woman answer twenty-seven.
• The Head God chose Wang Qing for its final pigeon trick, and Wang Qing answered thirty-six after following Lin Baici's signal.
• The Head God gave Wang Qing a bonus question about where the seventeenth pigeon came from, and Wang Qing asked Lin Baici for help.

Wang Qing guessed incorrectly in the Head God’s pigeon trick and died horribly as pigeons emerged from his body and devoured him. Xia Hongyao discovered that the pigeon had come from the left side of the Head God’s jacket, but the Head God claimed Wang Qing had changed his answer on his own.

• The Head God rejected Wang Qing’s answers about where the last pigeon had come from, leaving him with one final chance.
• Wang Qing guessed that the pigeon had come from the right side, and the Head God declared him wrong.
• Pigeons crawled out of Wang Qing’s throat and stomach, swarmed him, and ate him alive.
• Wang Qing’s swollen stomach burst, and the pigeons finished consuming his corpse.
• Xia Hongyao asked where the last pigeon had come from, and the Head God showed that it had emerged from the left side of its jacket.
• The Head God argued that Wang Qing had changed his answer himself after it shook its head, rather than being told he was wrong.

The Head God forced the gathered survivors through a card trick, and Emery tried to use Rafios’s help to pass safely. Meanwhile, Mink Aunt learned that Oliver had gone with Lin Baici, leaving her stunned.

• After Wang Qing died, the Head God moved on to Rafios’s group and chose Emery to assist with a card trick.
• Emery asked to perform the trick himself, found the card with Rafios’s help, and passed the first round.
• The Head God judged Emery insufficiently reverent toward magic and made him shuffle for another round.
• Mink Aunt learned that Lin Baici, not Krazer, had purified Bankruptcy City and that Oliver was still alive.
• The man in the black suit told Mink Aunt that Oliver had gone with Lin Baici, and she was dumbfounded.

Mink Aunt ordered Lin Baici placed on a watch list, while the Head God trapped Lin and the others in a chained dormitory inside its Divine Domain. The group began searching for a way out, but the Head God announced an underwater escape magic trick and flooded the room.

• Mink Aunt learned that Oliver had likely left willingly with Lin Baici and ordered Lin added to the watch list.
• The Head God wrapped Emery in playing cards after Emery appeared to lose its trick, then called off the contest when Krazer and Rafios challenged its role as performer and judge.
• The Head God unfolded its Divine Domain, transporting the group to a dormitory where everyone was bound in heavy chains and Mrs. Oliver was missing.
• Lin Baici discovered that pulling the chains made them tighten, and the group began searching the room and its locked iron door for a way to escape.
• The Head God announced that they were taking part in an Underwater Escape magic trick, and water burst into the dormitory through the speakers.

As water flooded the sealed Dormitory Room, Lin Baici realized the shackles could be picked with a strand of hair and freed himself. He shared the method with the others, who rushed to unlock their restraints before turning to the iron door.

• Four pipes began flooding the sealed Dormitory Room, and Fish Ball Guy ordered everyone to search for a key while Lin Baici considered other ways to escape.
• Lin Baici reasoned that a magician should be able to pick the locks, and Xia Hongyao gathered sharp objects for him to try.
• After Xia Hongyao explained that outside tools might break the pollution's rules, Lin Baici recognized that an unsuitable object could work and asked Nangong Shu for a strand of hair.
• Lin Baici used the strand of hair to open his shackles and told the group how he had done it.
• The others began unlocking their handcuffs and shackles, then headed toward the iron door as Fish Ball Guy told them to make way for Lin God.

Lin Baici and the others tested ways to open the locked dormitory door and concluded that extinguishing the lights might be part of the solution, though it caused the room to flood rapidly. When Xia Hongyao could not pick the lock and the water reached their necks, Lin Baici refused to turn the lights back on and ordered everyone to wait, leaving them close to drowning in darkness.

• Lin Baici and Rafios failed to pick the locked door, while Xia Hongyao proposed that the tungsten filament might be the correct tool.
• Gu Qingqiu noticed that the water flow strengthened as the lights went out, and Krazer reasoned that extinguishing every light might unlock the door.
• Krazer tried to order the Nine Provinces group to switch off the lights, but Lin Baici assigned the task to himself and the other hunters instead.
• Lin Baici and the others turned off the lights one by one, causing the water to surge until it reached waist height and then filled the dark dormitory.
• Xia Hongyao failed to open the submerged door, but Gu Qingqiu urged Lin Baici to wait for a more suspenseful condition, and he stopped the others from turning the lights back on.
• As the water rose to their necks, Lin Baici ordered Xia Hongyao to prevent anyone from reaching the switches, while one panicked person prepared to turn on the lights.

Lin Baici followed the God of Gluttony’s instructions to escape the flooded sealed dormitory room with Krazer’s help, then regrouped with the survivors in a corridor. The corridor was still filling with water, Emery had died, and the group faced another stage of the ordeal.

• As the dormitory room flooded, Lin Baici gave Gu Qingqiu the White Pufferfish Tooth, and she returned it to him after kissing him.
• The God of Gluttony told Lin Baici to wait until the room had been underwater for ten minutes, then turn the wheel handle fully to the right.
• After the water transported him away from the door, Lin Baici attracted Krazer’s attention, traced a signal on his wrist, and had him guide him back.
• Lin Baici turned the handle, and Krazer and Muscle Buddha forced the door open, allowing the survivors to escape into a corridor.
• The survivors regrouped, Lin Baici checked on Hua Yueyu, and Sannomiya Airi and Fish Ball Guy tried to revive Suzuka Tetsuwo.
• The group discovered that the corridor was still taking in water, while Emery had died in the flood.

Lin Baici and the others searched a flooded corridor for a way out, while iron doors began bursting open and raising the water level. When Krazer’s man pulled a stopper from a restroom drain, a violent whirlpool formed and killed him and Ian, leaving the survivors in greater danger.

• Lin Baici led a broad search of the corridor and told the others to spread out instead of following him.
• Krazer, Rafios, and the others found corpses chained upside down in a public restroom, while Lin Baici noticed a stopper in a drain beneath a washbasin.
• Iron doors began bursting open at regular intervals, flooding the corridor and forcing everyone to search faster.
• Krazer ordered the freckled young man Fio to pull out the stopper, and Fio eventually yanked it free.
• The drain created a powerful whirlpool that sucked Fio in and shredded him, then Ian was swept into it and killed when the chain she held broke.

Lin Baici and the others escaped the flooded restroom by breaking a mirror with the Fire Axe, only to emerge from the mouth of a giant octopus sculpture at an abandoned stage. Fish Ball Guy warned that the Rule Pollution was still ongoing.

• As the whirlpool threatened to drag everyone into the sewer, Lin Baici sent Krazer to retrieve a Fire Axe from the corridor.
• Krazer returned with the axe, and Lin Baici's attempts to smash the mirror failed.
• Xia Hongyao anchored herself with her knife and shattered the mirror, opening a hole that drained the water.
• Lin Baici and the others followed Xia Hongyao through the hole and were swept through a long, dark tunnel.
• The group emerged from the mouth of a giant octopus sculpture at an abandoned stage, where Fish Ball Guy confirmed that the contamination continued.

At the abandoned circus stage, the Head God singled out Lin Baici and Rafios for a deadly contest, hoping to claim Lin Baici’s body. It hid nearby and challenged them to find it within half an hour, leaving Lin Baici confident he could defeat it while Rafios doubted him.

• The Head God appeared and Lin Baici insulted its earlier magic trick, earning its acknowledgment and drawing its attention alongside Rafios.
• The Head God asked Lin Baici and Rafios for their last wishes, revealing that it intended to kill them and was interested in taking over Lin Baici’s body.
• The Head God’s light separated Lin Baici and Rafios from the others, then announced that whoever found it within half an hour could leave alive.
• Lin Baici wandered among the circus props and tried to coax the Head God into possessing him, while Rafios searched for a way to work together.
• Rafios confronted Lin Baici and proposed they fight the Head God together, but Lin Baici said he did not want to cooperate and claimed he could win alone.

Lin Baici and Rafios discovered that the Head God was hidden inside their bodies and cut open their abdomens to pull it out. The Head God chose Lin Baici as its host, but Lin Baici let it enter him and began absorbing it before jumping into the Longevity Pot to heal.

• Lin Baici followed God of Gluttony's advice and cut open his abdomen to search for the Head God, prompting Rafios to do the same.
• Lin Baici and Rafios each pulled a head from their bodies, and the Head God revealed that it had chosen Lin Baici as its future host.
• The Head God used its divine domain to attack Rafios with his own intestines and internal organs.
• Lin Baici hurled a Storm Hammer and used Decapitation Strike, letting the Head God’s golden fragments enter his body.
• The Head God realized Lin Baici was absorbing its Life Source Quality, and Lin Baici jumped into the Longevity Pot to repair his wounds as he prepared to eat the god.

Lin Baici digested the Head God and gained three Divine Graces before killing the wounded Rafios as the divine domain collapsed. His allies regrouped with him, and Sannomiya Airi wondered whether Krazer had fled after seeing Rafios die.

• Lin Baici digested the Head God, gained the Circus of Nations, Magician's Eye, and Living Sacrifice Divine Graces, and recovered his strength.
• Lin Baici used Circus of Nations to distract Rafios while a Red Earth Clay Figure struck him, then killed him with the Bronze Sword.
• Xia Hongyao, Sannomiya Airi, and the other experts returned to the abandoned factory as the Head God's divine domain collapsed.
• Xia Hongyao celebrated Lin Baici's victory, while Sannomiya Airi tested that he was real by trying to kiss him.
• Sannomiya Airi suggested Krazer had stayed away out of fear and asked whether they should go after him.

Lin Baici’s group escaped the abandoned factory after he killed the headless god, while Mink Aunt learned of the death and decided to approach him. The chapter ended with Mink Aunt inviting Shen Xin to meet a powerful human.

• Lin Baici stopped Fish Ball Guy from killing the surviving outsiders, and the group left the factory with Nangong Shu’s followers.
• Huang Cheng and the others found Rafios dead, while Krazer chose to remain alone rather than risk joining Lin Baici’s group.
• Mink Aunt learned that Lin Baici had killed the headless creature and that it had probably been eaten after failing to take his body.
• Mink Aunt decided to make contact with Lin Baici and invited Shen Xin to meet the powerful human.

Mink Aunt and Shen Xin prepared to inspect the battle zones while Lin Baici rested on a rooftop and grew closer to Nangong Shu. When Mink Aunt found him in her compact mirror, Agent Kim recognized him as her husband and tried to rush to him, while Mink Aunt went up to meet him.

• Shen Xin challenged Mink Aunt’s plan to spread God Contamination in Haijing, but Mink Aunt insisted on establishing a country through displays of strength.
• Lin Baici took his companions to a residential complex, then went alone to the rooftop to rest and worry about the gods and his friends’ safety.
• Nangong Shu advised Lin Baici to stop burdening himself with guilt, then seduced him on the rooftop.
• Mink Aunt spotted Lin Baici in her compact mirror, and Agent Kim recognized him as her husband.
• Shen Xin restrained Agent Kim while Mink Aunt went into the building to meet Lin Longyi.

Mink Aunt trapped Lin Baici and Nangong Shu in her divine domain, but Lin Baici survived its trials and returned to the rooftop. Mink Aunt then offered to spare them if he won a game, while Agent Kim begged Shen Xin to help him below.

• Mink Aunt entered the rooftop and sent Lin Baici and Nangong Shu plunging into her divine domain, where ghost hands tore at them as they ran.
• Lin Baici followed his hunger radar through the domain and charged through the gate of life, returning to the rooftop with Nangong Shu, who fainted.
• Mink Aunt questioned how Lin Baici had chosen the correct gate, then offered to let everyone leave if he guessed her game.
• Agent Kim pleaded with Shen Xin to help Lin Baici while the black-suited man kept her from going upstairs.

Lin Baici correctly identified Huang Cheng as a god, and Mink Aunt let him leave the God Ruins with a Fortunate Pocket Watch. He reunited with his unconscious companions and prepared to continue, while Mink Aunt, Huang Cheng, and Shen Xin set off to carry out their plan against powerful God Hunters.

• Lin Baici deduced that Huang Cheng was the god among the strangers, and Huang Cheng confirmed it.
• Mink Aunt asked Lin Baici what he thought of Xia Hongmian, then gave him a Fortunate Pocket Watch and allowed him to leave with Nangong Shu.
• Mink Aunt, Huang Cheng, and Shen Xin discussed their plan and the risks of antagonizing Xia Hongmian before leaving in a Rolls-Royce driven by Agent Kim.
• Lin Baici returned to the resting room and woke Xia Hongyao, Sannomiya Airi, Fish Ball Guy, and the others, explaining that he had purified a burst of contamination.
• Xia Hongyao asked where the group would go next and showed that she was eager to continue their journey.

Lin Baici led the survivors out of the settlement and across the God Ruins with Aunt Mink’s pocket watch, then followed a hunger-driven warning toward a fortified camp. The chapter ended with Xia Hongyao’s convoy breaking through the camp’s tank defenses and landing inside.

• Lin Baici refused Xia Hongyao’s suggestion to keep exploring and ordered everyone to pack up and leave the God Ruins.
• The group discovered Huang Cheng was missing, and Lin Baici revealed that Huang Cheng had been a god; he used the pocket watch to guide their escape.
• After hours of driving through the God Ruins, Lin Baici sensed contamination ahead and led the group toward it despite initially planning to keep the others safe.
• Xia Hongyao drove the convoy toward a settlement defended by tanks, whose cannon fire destroyed one of the survivors’ cars.
• Xia Hongyao sped across a roadway made of buses and leapt the gap into the camp, where the convoy skidded to a stop as the residents watched.