Chapter Summaries

Lin Guanhua challenged the Boxing King but was overwhelmed by its afterimages until Lin Baici took his place. Lin Baici dominated the first round with flexible kicks and freezing punches, leaving the match poised to continue as the Boxing King prepared to fight back.

• The Boxing King chose Lin Guanhua to fight, and the women encouraged him while Taimai admitted they hoped he would wear the monster down for Lin Baici.
• Lin Guanhua used lightning and steel-enhanced punches to attack the Boxing King, but it recovered, multiplied into seven afterimages, and beat him badly.
• Lin Baici entered the ring, and the Boxing King spared Lin Guanhua before Lin Baici began his match.
• Lin Baici dodged the Boxing King's counterattack with Snake Bone Soft Body, then struck it with Yongdong Long Fist and encased its upper body in ice.
• The first-round bell ended the exchange, and Xia Hongyao warned Lin Baici that the Boxing King would likely use its Trump Card in the next round.

Lin Baici outmaneuvered the Boxing King through four rounds, then used an illusion and a card-drawing Divine Grace to defeat him in the fifth. After the Boxing King fell into hell, Lin Baici claimed his gold belt and learned that the monster could not have been killed by ordinary unarmed attacks.

• Lin Baici battered the Boxing King in the second round and repeatedly kicked it out of the ring whenever its Divine Grace pulled it back.
• Lin Baici stalled the third and fourth rounds with a clone and evasive tactics, while the Boxing King summoned Champion's Shadows.
• Lin Baici used Circus of Nations to deceive the Boxing King, then saw through the illusion with Magician's Eye and activated Fate Dice and Heaven's Judgment.
• Lin Baici pressured the Boxing King to draw a card until the countdown expired, making it forfeit and dragging it into hell.
• Lin Baici took the Boxing King's Gold Belt and learned from God of Gluttony that only Divine Skills could bypass the monster's protection from unarmed attacks.

After Lin Baici killed the Boxing King, he led the survivors out of the God Ruins with a pocket watch that pointed the way. They emerged near Haijing, where Xia Hongyao learned that her sister had entered the still-uncleared ruins and Jiang Xin was commanding the response.

• The Boxing King's death caused his bus-built ring to collapse, and his surviving followers fled as Lin Baici told the rescued people to find cars and head home.
• Zhang Hao joined Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao's car, where Xia Hongyao revealed that Lin Baici had killed a god and used a pocket watch to guide them out.
• Zhang Hao questioned Lin Baici about the battle, including his killing of Rafios, and praised his remarkable achievements.
• After eight hours of travel through Dark Mist, Xia Hongyao led the convoy out of the God Ruins using the pocket watch.
• Armed security forces surrounded the convoy, and Xia Hongyao learned from Zhao Zongshao that her sister had entered the ruins while Jiang Xin commanded the operation.
• Jiang Xin arrived and asked whether Xia Hongmian had rescued them, but Xia Hongyao said their group had escaped on its own.

After escaping the God Ruins, Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao reported to Jiang Xin, who learned that Lin Baici had killed a god and agreed to send them back after a day of rest. Xia Hongyao then celebrated their return in the Dragon Soul WeChat Group, where the others eagerly asked for news.

• Xia Hongyao insisted that she and the others had escaped the God Ruins themselves, while Lin Baici told Jiang Xin to let them rest after decontamination.
• The survivors described Lin Baici’s achievements, and he demonstrated his Divine Skill to Jiang Xin before Xia Hongyao recounted their adventure.
• Jiang Xin examined the pocket watch and asked Lin Baici to help cleanse the God Ruins; Lin Baici agreed to return with preparations made for the next day.
• Xia Hongyao cheered at the prospect of returning, and Lin Baici left to contact his mother while she went to visit Nangong Shu.
• Xia Hongyao announced herself in the Dragon Soul WeChat Group, where the members reacted with shock and pressed her for details.

Xia Hongyao recounted how Lin Baici killed a god and escaped the God Ruins, while Lin Baici reassured his mother and sent money to Li Wei. After Bai Lele saw photos of Lin Baici on Li Wei’s phone, she became determined to treat him to Häagen-Dazs and add him as a friend.

• Xia Hongyao told the Dragon Soul group that Lin Baici killed a god, obtained a God's Taboo Object, and used it to escape the God Ruins.
• Lin Baici lied to his mother about college activities, told her he would come home for summer break, and urged her to take good care of herself.
• Lin Baici called Li Wei, sent him 200 yuan, and said a rich girl had a crush on him.
• Bai Lele took Li Wei’s phone and browsed photos of Lin Baici, then said she wanted to treat him to Häagen-Dazs.
• Bai Lele learned Lin Baici’s name and began searching Li Wei’s WeChat contacts so she could add him.

Lin Baici called Mi Qin to reassure her that she could manage his investment and later contacted Liu Zilu to ask about Ji Xinyan. He learned Ji Xinyan had been complaining about him, then hesitated over whether to message or call her.

• Bai Lele took Li Wei’s phone, searched through his chats and photos of Lin Baici, and sent Lin Baici a WeChat friend request.
• Lin Baici told Mi Qin she could spend his investment as she pleased, while Mi Qin teased him and challenged his claims that his girlfriend was prettier and more attractive than her.
• Lin Baici called Liu Zilu, promised to buy her milk tea, and asked whether Ji Xinyan was with her.
• Liu Zilu said Ji Xinyan had complained about Lin Baici and advised him to be sweeter to her; Lin Baici said he feared holding Ji Xinyan back.
• Lin Baici sent Liu Zilu a 200-yuan red packet for milk tea, then considered whether to contact Ji Xinyan by message or phone.

Ji Xinyan brooded over Lin Baici’s disappearance until his call lifted her spirits, and their flirtatious video chat revealed how strongly she cared for him. She left the Starbucks after turning down Kang Long and showing him Lin Baici’s generous allowance, while still wondering whether they were in love.

• Ji Xinyan complained to her friends about feeling unwanted by Lin Baici, and they teased her about being in love.
• Kang Long approached Ji Xinyan at Starbucks and tried to flirt with her, but she ignored him when Lin Baici called.
• Ji Xinyan and Lin Baici joked flirtatiously over video chat, and she invited him to return and take her for a walk on a leash.
• Ji Xinyan told her friends that Lin Baici still would not make a move on her, then wondered if their conversation had felt like a couple’s exchange.
• Kang Long asked to add Ji Xinyan as a friend, but she rejected him and showed him the more than seven million yuan Lin Baici had given her as an allowance.

After returning from the God Ruins, Lin Baici warned Song Tian to leave Haijing while he prepared to face the dangerous eruption near the Haijing Arts Center. He kept his distance from the women interested in him, unaware that Song Tian had just shown his edited photo to her livestream audience, while Bai Lele tried to add him again after he rejected her friend request.

• Lin Baici declined a friend request from Bai Lele and called Song Tian after she anxiously messaged him about rumors surrounding the Haijing Arts Center.
• Lin Baici confirmed that a highly polluted God Ruins had erupted near the arts center and urged Song Tian to leave Haijing, while he planned to enter the ruins as a God Hunter and Nine Provinces Dragon Wing.
• Song Tian ended her livestream to answer Lin Baici, then returned and told her Streamer Friends that she wished she were his girlfriend and showed them an edited photo of him.
• Lin Baici sent Zhang Ye a ten-thousand-yuan red packet and told Feng Ting he had no time to view houses, sending her a thousand yuan as well.
• Bai Lele saw that Lin Baici had rejected her friend request and decided to add him again.

Lin Baici returned from a God Ruins battle as a celebrated God Hunter, then prepared a dinner gathering while worrying that Gu Qingxiang could not be reached. As his friends celebrated his victory, Li Mengge returned from her run hoping she had encountered a wealthy bachelor.

• Lin Baici called Wang Fang and asked her to prepare a feast, while she told him that neighbors and young women had been trying to contact him.
• Lin Baici shopped for groceries and planned to surprise Gu Qingxiang, but her phone remained powered off, so he left the prepared food and returned later.
• Xia Hongyao told the Dragon Wing group about Lin Baici's team defeating a god and escaping the God Ruins first, prompting the group to praise their achievement and discuss the threat from the gods.
• Lin Baici invited Xia Hongyao to dinner, and the Dragon Wing group anticipated that the Safety Bureau would need them to respond to the emerging danger.
• Gu Qingqiu, Jin Yingzhen, Hua Yueyu, and Sannomiya Airi joined Lin Baici's victory dinner, where he remained worried that Gu Qingxiang was unreachable.
• Li Mengge returned to the villa and He Qing teased her about running extra laps to meet a wealthy bachelor.

Lin Baici worried about Gu Qingxiang’s unexplained absence while Xia Hongyao teased him about his love life and the group prepared to return to a God Ruins. That night, Sannomiya Airi invited him to Japan’s Dragon Palace Island, promising secret treasures and urging him to work with her.

• Li Mengge gave up on trying to win Lin Baici after seeing the wealthy, beautiful women around him.
• Lin Baici asked Qian Jiahui to find out why Gu Qingxiang’s phone was off, and learned that she had taken sick leave.
• Xia Hongyao teased Lin Baici about a woman’s belongings in his house, then warned him not to become obsessed with women or neglect their God Ruins missions.
• Lin Baici and the women reviewed their gains and losses from the God Ruins auction and planned to enter the ruins again.
• Sannomiya Airi climbed into Lin Baici’s bed and proposed that he work with her, inviting him on a summer trip to Japan’s Dragon Palace Island.

Sannomiya Airi urged Lin Baici to join her trip to Dragon Palace Island, while Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu agreed to join forces to pursue him. After an intimate encounter at the villa, Xia Hongyao returned frustrated that the Safety Bureau still had no plan for the heavily polluted God Ruins site.

• Sannomiya Airi proposed using a child as a deposit for Lin Baici's promise to visit Dragon Palace Island, then left for Kyoto to await him.
• Jin Yingzhen asked Hua Yueyu to team up so they could compete with Sannomiya Airi for Lin Baici, and Hua Yueyu agreed.
• Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu brought Lin Baici to the gym, where their workout and brandy led to them kissing him.
• Lin Baici stopped when he sensed Wang Fang had returned, and he went upstairs while Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu stayed behind to clean up.
• Xia Hongyao arrived at the villa angry that the Safety Bureau had spent all day discussing the polluted God Ruins without forming a plan.

Lin Baici waited with Xia Hongyao as the Safety Bureau struggled to organize a team for the dangerous auction's God Ruin, while he navigated his growing entanglements with the women around him. Inside the God Ruins, Mink Aunt learned that Darkness Eclipse had killed Green Lady and set out to gather allies, only for Gu Qingxiang to board their bus and take control of it.

• Xia Hongyao complained that the Safety Bureau might take several days to assemble a Dragon Rank team, then went to urge the bureau to act.
• Jin Yingzhen reasoned that bureau factions and competing interests could delay the expedition, and Xia Hongyao later drank with Lin Baici after learning the situation was more complicated than she had thought.
• At Dragon and Beauty Bar, Nangong Shu secretly kissed Lin Baici in a restroom stall, then explained to Xia Hongyao that the bureau would likely need five or six days to form a plan.
• Mink Aunt warned Huang Cheng and a muscular man about the danger of being captured by humans after they destroyed a Dragon Rank team.
• Mink Aunt told Huang Cheng and the muscular man that Darkness Eclipse had killed Green Lady, and they boarded a bus to gather forces against the group.
• Gu Qingxiang stopped the bus with her Divine Power, boarded it, and continued reading as the vehicle resumed under her control.

Gu Qingxiang warned Mink Aunt and Huang Cheng that Xia Hongmian had orchestrated the auction to eliminate gods and powerful God Hunters, then forced them to abandon their campaign. Afterward, Gu Qingxiang met Xia Hongmian and offered to deal with the foreign God Hunters.

• Gu Qingxiang trapped the muscular man and rebuked Mink Aunt and Huang Cheng for believing they could win a war against humanity.
• Mink Aunt argued that the gods needed a homeland for their descendants, but Gu Qingxiang warned that the gods could not defeat Xia Hongmian's forces.
• Gu Qingxiang revealed that Xia Hongmian had arranged the auction to gather and purge gods, prominent God Hunters, and their descendants.
• Gu Qingxiang demonstrated her power, and Mink Aunt ordered Huang Cheng to leave with the muscular man and gather the others to withdraw.
• Gu Qingxiang met Xia Hongmian in a plaza filled with corpses and offered to take care of the foreign God Hunters.

Xia Hongmian met Gu Qingxiang and learned that the goddess had lost her faith, but remained determined to study God's Remains despite the danger to humanity. In Haijing, Xia Hongyao struggled to assemble a team while Lin Baici’s group became the focus of God Hunter attention, and Lin Baici sneaked away to meet Nangong Shu.

• Xia Hongmian told Gu Qingxiang to spare Shakira and Hoffman, and Gu Qingxiang urged her to stop studying God's Remains before humanity was doomed.
• Xia Hongmian revealed that she believed humanity’s doom had begun thirty years earlier, when the monsters fell to Earth, and vowed to keep fighting until the end.
• Xia Hongyao struggled to organize a Dragon Rank team as factions in the Safety Bureau maneuvered for power and hesitated over the dangerous God Ruins mission.
• At the Dragon and Beauty bar, a man questioned Xia Hongyao about escaping the God Ruins and posted online that she and Lin Baici had used a God's Taboo Object to get out.
• Xia Hongyao saw God Hunters gossiping about her and Lin Baici, while Lin Baici left the bar and met Nangong Shu in a restroom stall.

Red Moon Thunderclap and Jing Wubing fled the God Ruins after Xinyue died, while Gu Qingxiang slaughtered the other trapped teams and spared Shakira at Xia Hongmian’s request. The Dark Mist eventually dissipated, Xia Hongmian emerged safely, and Lin Baici was given leave to return to ordinary life.

• Red Moon Thunderclap told Jing Wubing that Xinyue had died and urged him to escape with her from the God Ruins.
• Gu Qingxiang killed most of Shakira’s team but spared Shakira because someone had asked her to.
• Mink Aunt learned that the Ancient God of Haijing was present and ordered the other Gods to withdraw as the Dark Mist began to fade.
• Xia Hongyao learned that the Dark Mist was dissipating and rushed with Lin Baici to the Haijing Arts Center to await Xia Hongmian.
• Xia Hongmian emerged safely at dawn, thanked Lin Baici for protecting Xia Hongyao, and gave the team a long vacation.

Lin Baici returned to campus after his dormmates learned he lived alone in a luxurious villa, and he tried to keep his rich-kid identity quiet. He arrived at class the next morning with chocolates for his female classmates, while his classmates anticipated visiting his home.

• Lin Baici chatted with Ji Xinyan and her dormmates, agreed to treat them to barbecue, and invited them to visit his house sometime.
• The girls realized Lin Baici lived alone in a mansion, and Ji Xinyan asked them not to spread the news about his wealth.
• Lin Baici drove his Panamera to campus and found Pei Fei and Bai Jiao studying in Classroom 5012.
• Lin Baici gave Pei Fei boxes of Godiva chocolates to hand out to the girls and joked that she should go easy on him during finals.

Lin Baici returned to class before finals, where Zhu Qiunan offered to tutor him and his classmates defended him during an argument about his popularity. After studying with Zhu Qiunan, Lin Baici invited Ji Xinyan and the girls to dinner at a barbecue restaurant, leaving the gathering planned for after class.

• Lin Baici gave Hu Wenwu chocolates and said he would cram for finals, then spent class trying to study Advanced Mathematics from the beginning.
• Zhu Qiunan offered Lin Baici breakfast and tutoring, but he initially refused before leaving with her to study after she offered exam-topic notes for his friends.
• When a girl from Class Three insulted Lin Baici's looks, Liu Zilu, Pei Fei, and others defended him, and Ji Xinyan ended the confrontation with a sharp retort.
• Lin Baici received Fang Mingyuan's message about the argument and felt touched that his classmates had defended him, though he thought they had nearly fought over something trivial.
• Lin Baici booked a private room at a new barbecue restaurant and arranged with Ji Xinyan to invite the girls for dinner after class.

After blocking Bai Lele for berating him over a rejected friend request, Lin Baici met Ji Xinyan and five of her dormmates for barbecue. The group began ordering an extravagant meal, and the server promoted the restaurant’s Australian wagyu as Pei Fei questioned its freshness.

• Bai Lele called Lin Baici from Li Wei’s phone, cursed him for rejecting her friend requests, and Lin Baici later blocked her on WeChat.
• Li Wei explained that Bai Lele was angry about being rejected and suggested Lin Baici could benefit from marrying into her wealthy family, but Lin Baici refused to take her seriously.
• Lin Baici went to a barbecue restaurant, where Ji Xinyan and five girls from her dorm joined him for the meal he was treating them to.
• The girls hesitated over the expensive menu, but Ji Xinyan ordered several premium dishes after Lin Baici assured them he could afford the meal.
• Lin Baici asked the server about the restaurant’s signature dish, and Pei Fei challenged the claim that its Australian wagyu was freshly slaughtered the same day.

Lin Baici treated Ji Xinyan and their classmates to an extravagant wagyu meal, and they learned more about his wealthy lifestyle and housekeeper. After lunch, he left to handle something, while the girls joked about keeping him from being matched with the housekeeper’s campus-belle daughter.

• Lin Baici ordered four pounds of expensive Australian wagyu after Ji Xinyan insisted the group should not worry about the cost.
• The girls learned that Lin Baici had a villa and that his housekeeper’s daughter was the campus belle of Haijing Normal University.
• The group enjoyed a lavish meal, and Lin Baici invited the girls to visit his villa during summer vacation.
• Lin Baici left near the school gate because he had something to take care of that afternoon.
• After he left, Liu Zilu and the others joked about getting the housekeeper fired so her daughter could not be matched with Lin Baici.

Lin Baici spent a warm evening at Gu Qingxiang’s home, cooking dinner and growing closer to her before staying overnight. Meanwhile, his victory over the Head God became public knowledge, making him the first God Hunter with a verified god kill.

• Lin Baici found Gu Qingxiang back at her apartment and cooked the dishes she remembered from their first meal together.
• Gu Qingxiang returned early, shared dinner and wine with Lin Baici, and let him stay the night in the guest room.
• Lin Baici told Wang Fang he would be away for several days and arranged to shop for summer-break gifts with Ji Xinyan.
• God Hunters learned that gods were real and that Lin Baici had killed the Head God and led people out of a God Ruins.
• Lin Baici became the first known god-slayer with a verified record, while the God Hunter community debated the gods’ strength and other possible god-killers.