Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao rescued the Chaste Maiden and learned that the Investigating Official had orchestrated the arson and planned to exploit the selected women for political gain. After the maidens were saved and the prefect arrived, Lin Baici's group returned to the Nine Dragon Pavilion.

• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao tracked down the Chaste Maiden after she escaped into the mountains, then subdued the Servant and two hunters who had recaptured her.
• The Chaste Maiden explained that the Investigating Official had used Shen the God of Wealth to undermine the prefect, seize Shen's fortune, and offer the women to his own master.
• The Chaste Maiden said she had helped lead the women because the Investigating Official promised her freedom, but she had expected him to silence her afterward.
• Lin Baici offered to help the Chaste Maiden fake her death, but she chose to enter the palace after he declined to marry her.
• Lin Baici's group reunited with the other women, and Li Yintong went to bring the prefect; the rescued maidens spent the night in the mountains.
• The prefect thanked Lin Baici and offered him an advisor position, which he declined, before the group returned to the Nine Dragon Pavilion.

After Fish Ball Guy's pollution incident ended, the God of Gamblers challenged Lin Baici to a three-round dice game because his God's Taboo Object had chosen Lin Baici for his exceptional luck. Lin Baici won the first round against the God of Gamblers, leaving two rounds to decide whose fortune prevailed.

• Li Yintong returned to the modern world and hurried off to inspect the damage to the pavilion, while the God of Gamblers arrived and learned that Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu had helped end the pollution.
• The God of Gamblers' black die rolled toward Lin Baici, identifying him as someone with exceptional luck and forcing a game of chance lest it take Lin Baici's fortune.
• The God of Gamblers led Lin Baici and the others to his casino and explained that the game would be best of three, with the highest dice roll winning each round.
• Lin Baici rolled six points, then the God of Gamblers rolled only three, giving Lin Baici the first-round victory.
• The God of Gamblers recognized that Lin Baici had beaten his luck for only the fourth time in twelve years and prepared to continue the game.

Lin Baici beat the God of Gamblers in a contest of luck and a contest of future prospects, leaving the God of Gamblers humbled and ready to befriend him. As Lin Baici and his companions prepared to leave the Nine Dragon Pavilion, the headquarters began shaking, and Fish Ball Guy realized something terrible had happened.

• Lin Baici used Magician's Eye to inspect the dice, then rolled 1, 2, and 3 in the second round, while the God of Gamblers rolled three ones.
• The dice transferred the God of Gamblers' luck to Lin Baici, leaving the God of Gamblers weakened and convinced that Lin Baici's life was tougher.
• Li Yintong arrived and learned that Lin Baici had won two rounds, after which the God of Gamblers asked to finish the third round to test their futures.
• The God of Gamblers rolled 666, but Lin Baici's dice kept spinning because they could not read his future, so the God of Gamblers conceded defeat.
• The God of Gamblers offered Lin Baici dinner, but Lin Baici declined and prepared to leave with his companions.
• The Nine Dragon Pavilion began shaking, and Fish Ball Guy turned pale as he realized something terrible had happened.

The Dragon Remains awakened beneath the Nine Dragon Pavilion and engulfed the casino in deadly Rule Pollution. As the Remains attacked the group, Lin Baici discovered that his blood could protect people from the pollution, leaving God of Gamblers worried that Gu Qingqiu might kill the witnesses.

• Fish Ball Guy explained that the Dragon Remains beneath the Nine Dragon Pavilion had begun radiating pollution, and the group realized they could not escape the surrounding fog.
• The Dragon Remains appeared in the mist and threatened the group, while Lin Baici claimed they were visiting tourists and denied being friends with the Pavilion Master.
• The Dragon Remains released golden rings that inflicted severe pain and threatened to turn the group into Dead Meat People.
• God of Gluttony told Lin Baici to make the others drink his blood, and Lin Baici gave some to Li Yintong and Gu Qingqiu to ease their suffering.
• God of Gamblers saw Gu Qingqiu look toward him and suspected she planned to kill the witnesses to keep Lin Baici's blood secret.

Lin Baici led the group through the Dragon Remains contamination, choosing a red dragon over the golden one and reaching its back. They began the Seven-Colored Bridge trial, where they had to avoid the color of scales that disappeared every ten minutes, and survived the first round by standing on gold.

• Lin Baici and the others ran through the lightning zone, and Xia Hongyao cut apart a bolt aimed at Gu Qingqiu.
• After the dragon's roars confused the group, God of Gamblers used Eye of Heaven to spot dragons of seven colors, but Lin Baici chose the red one instead of the golden one.
• The group followed the red dragon and touched its scales together, transporting themselves onto its back.
• Fish Ball Guy explained that the Seven-Colored Bridge would make one color disappear every ten minutes, killing anyone standing on that color's scales.
• Lin Baici chose gold when the group had to pick a scale color, and the red scales exploded while everyone survived the first round.

Lin Baici led the group through the Seven-Colored Bridge by choosing safe dragon scales, then followed the God of Gluttony’s warning to climb a vine during the next contamination. After three days of climbing with no end in sight and their supplies inaccessible, the exhausted group stopped for a brief rest.

• Lin Baici chose blue, black, and purple scales in turn, avoiding the deadly explosions, and helped the others steer clear of the golden scales during the black mist.
• Lin Baici chose purple instead of green, and the group survived the Seven-Colored Bridge as green vines erupted from the dragon’s back.
• The God of Gluttony warned that they had to climb the vines before time ran out, so Lin Baici ordered the group to find and climb the thickest one together.
• Lin Baici led the group upward, but after seventy-two hours without reaching the top, the exhausted climbers struggled to continue.
• Lin Baici called a ten-minute rest, and Fish Ball Guy climbed onto a huge, swaying leaf to give the group a place to recover.

Lin Baici learned that the group had to climb the vines without stopping to reach the dragon’s back, so he warned everyone to push themselves and rely on their own strength. Several teammates reached the platform first, but Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao were still climbing.

• God of Gluttony revealed that only those who climbed at their limits could reach the dragon’s back, and Lin Baici warned the group not to stop or wait for one another.
• Lin Baici set off up the vines after saying goodbye to Hua Yueyu, Jin Yingzhen, and Li Yintong, and told Xia Hongyao and the others to climb as fast as they could.
• Hua Yueyu fought exhaustion and loneliness by imagining a future with Lin Baici, while the others pushed themselves onward for hours.
• Li Yintong reached the platform first, then found Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen there; Gu Qingqiu, Xia Hongyao, God of Gamblers, and Fish Ball Guy also arrived.
• Xia Hongyao reassured Hua Yueyu that Lin Baici would survive, while God of Gamblers privately worried about both Lin Baici’s survival and his own chances without him.

Lin Baici and the others faced a dragon-map trial on the platform, killing golden insects and fitting their marked hides into the dragon image. With nine minutes left, three pieces were still missing, and the group had not figured out how to obtain them.

• Lin Baici reached the platform exhausted, reunited with his companions, and warned them to rest before another wave of contamination arrived.
• A golden dragon projection appeared, and Lin Baici killed a giant golden insect whose hide Gu Qingqiu matched to part of the dragon image.
• The dragon demanded that they complete the map within sixty minutes or fall with the collapsing platform, while waves of insects began raining down.
• God of Gamblers trapped and slowed the insects as Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao hunted those with marked hides, while Gu Qingqiu directed Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu in placing them.
• After the group fitted a hundred hides, Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao stopped attacking waves without marked insects, but Gu Qingqiu said three pieces remained and the last waves yielded none.
• With nine minutes left, God of Gamblers worried that the missing hides required another method, and the group still had no answer.

Lin Baici and his companions discovered that they had to use their own skin to complete the dragon image, awakening the dragon just before time ran out. The dragon offered three wishes, but Lin Baici calmly told it to go ahead and grant them.

• Gu Qingqiu proposed filling the dragon image’s three missing sections with human skin, and Li Yintong volunteered to be skinned.
• Lin Baici, Fish Ball Guy, and the God of Gamblers agreed to provide the skin, but Lin Baici took the first sacrifice himself and Xia Hongyao peeled the skin from his back.
• After Lin Baici confirmed the method worked, Gu Qingqiu and Jin Yingzhen also offered their skin, and the group completed the dragon image with only thirty seconds remaining.
• Golden light brought the dragon projection to life, and the dragon praised the group’s courage before offering three wishes.
• Lin Baici told the dragon to go ahead and grant the wishes, leaving it confused.

The Dragon God offered the survivors three wishes, each with a steep price, while God of Gluttony warned Lin Baici that the dragon was seeking a new host. Gu Qingqiu used her turn to ask how humanity could surpass the gods, then paid ten years of her life for the dragon’s answer.

• The Dragon God told Lin Baici that only three people qualified to make wishes and warned that each wish carried a price.
• God of Gluttony told Lin Baici that the three questions would help the dragon choose a new master, and the dragon revealed the costs of its wishes.
• Gu Qingqiu asked how humanity could surpass the gods, and the Dragon God said humans would need to eat and fully digest a god.
• Gu Qingqiu asked how humans could digest a god, and the Dragon God said they would have to endure radiation from a god’s remains for ten thousand years.
• Gu Qingqiu accepted the cost of ten years of her life, and the Dragon God took a golden orb from her as Xia Hongyao steadied her.

Lin Baici questioned the divine dragon about Dragon Palace Island and learned it wanted a new host because Uncle Jiu was dying. The dragon offered Lin Baici a Dragon's Contract, but he refused and asked it to prove its power by killing someone, leaving everyone wondering whom he meant.

• Lin Baici asked how to purify Dragon Palace Island, and the divine dragon revealed that a god from the same God Ruins lived there and warned him not to provoke it.
• The divine dragon used Rule Pollution to summon lightning, but Lin Baici warned everyone not to move; the God of Gamblers was struck after raising dice shields.
• Lin Baici pressed the divine dragon to restore Gu Qingqiu's Divine Power, and it returned the energy before admitting it wanted a new host because Uncle Jiu was going to die.
• The divine dragon offered Lin Baici power and immunity to contamination in exchange for a Dragon's Contract that would kill him if the dragon died.
• Lin Baici refused the contract because he still planned to go to Dragon Palace Island, then asked the divine dragon to kill someone to demonstrate its power.

Lin Baici exposed the God of Gamblers as the mole who had arranged to make Fish Ball Guy fall victim to the traditional painting’s Rule Pollution. The God of Gamblers revealed that the Professor had recruited him to obtain the painting, then challenged Lin Baici to a life-or-death bet that failed to activate in the Dragon Lord’s divine domain.

• Lin Baici asked the Dragon Lord to kill the God of Gamblers, then explained that the timing of Fish Ball Guy’s painting-related Rule Pollution seemed suspicious.
• The Dragon Lord revealed that the person who led Fish Ball Guy to the black-market deal had met secretly with the God of Gamblers several times, and that two powerful people had also appeared outside the pavilion.
• The God of Gamblers admitted that he had arranged for Fish Ball Guy to obtain the traditional painting on the Professor’s orders, hoping to join Darkness Eclipse and seize the god within it.
• The God of Gamblers challenged Lin Baici to a life-or-death bet with his Fate Dice, but the die’s Rule Pollution failed to activate in the Dragon Lord’s divine domain.
• The God of Gamblers accepted that he had lost and explained that his love of gambling had led him to betray Uncle Jiu, though he regretted that he would not live to see the outcome.

The Dragon killed the God of Gamblers, then signed a contract with Lin Baici and gave him a healing Divine Grace. When the Dragon settled inside Lin Baici as a tattoo, Lin Baici's God of Gluttony began consuming its Divine Power, leaving Dragon Lord trapped and terrified.

• The God of Gamblers unleashed Fate's Finger against the Dragon, but the Dragon shattered the attack with a sneeze and killed him with a flick of its claw.
• The Dragon sent Xia Hongyao and the others away, then inscribed its runes into Lin Baici to complete their contract.
• The Dragon gave Lin Baici the Great Time Rain Technique so he could heal Gu Qingqiu and Jin Yingzhen, then entered his body as a golden tattoo.
• Lin Baici's God of Gluttony began draining the Dragon's Divine Power, and Dragon Lord realized Lin Baici had eaten gods before.
• Lin Baici taunted the trapped Dragon Lord and began to devour it.

Lin Baici devoured the Divine Dragon, escaped Nine Dragon Pavilion with his companions, and gained three Divine Graces. Uncle Jiu learned what happened and named Lin Baici as his successor, while Lin Baici discovered his new powers on the way home.

• Xia Hongyao shattered the underground water prison door with One Flash, but Gu Qingqiu’s group wandered through a maze until the Rule Pollution ended and they returned to an office.
• Lin Baici arrived unharmed, joked about becoming Pavilion Master, and left Nine Dragon Pavilion with his companions.
• Fish Ball Guy called Uncle Jiu, who wondered whether Lin Baici had killed the Divine Dragon and declared him the next Pavilion Master, offering him Nine Dragon Pavilion’s wealth.
• Uncle Jiu told Fish Ball Guy to use Night Echo against Darkness Eclipse’s remaining forces on Hong Kong Island, then continued across the ice as he reflected on Lin Baici’s succession.
• Lin Baici reviewed the gains from devouring the Divine Dragon: greatly increased physical strength and the Great Time Rain Technique, Nine World Dragon Fist, and Great Wish Technique.

Lin Baici told Gu Qingqiu and Xia Hongyao that he had killed the Dragon god that possessed him, leaving them to prepare for their upcoming trip to Dragon Palace Island and Osaka without its protection. Xia Hongyao also became fascinated by Lin Baici’s unusually appealing scent.

• Lin Baici used the Great Time Rain Technique to heal Gu Qingqiu and Jin Yingzhen, then rested from the effort.
• Gu Qingqiu and Jin Yingzhen realized they had gained the Dancing Couple’s Pose Divine Grace after enduring the Skinning Pollution, while the group worried about keeping Lin Baici’s god contract secret.
• The next morning, Xia Hongyao noticed Lin Baici smelled irresistible and repeatedly sniffed him; Gu Qingqiu joined them when Lin Baici called her over.
• Lin Baici revealed that the Dragon god had died after possessing him and being destroyed by his Divine Grace, and Xia Hongyao checked that he was unharmed.
• Gu Qingqiu offered to have Lin Baici’s child to show her trust, and Lin Baici said he planned to eat local food before the group boarded the Ocean Miracle cruise ship for Osaka in five days.

Lin Baici and his companions boarded the Ocean Miracle and enjoyed the cruise after it set sail. As powerful figures including Hoffman, Jiang Ge, and Cowgirl gathered aboard to target him, Jing Wubing and Red Moon Thunderclap watched and waited for events to unfold in international waters.

• Lin Baici and his companions boarded the Ocean Miracle, where Gu Qingqiu arranged cabins for the group.
• After the ship set sail, Lin Baici sunbathed by the pool and Xia Hongyao chased off a woman who flirted with him.
• Jing Wubing and Red Moon Thunderclap monitored Lin Baici through the ship's hacked security cameras and discussed the Professor's orders to follow him.
• Jing Wubing spotted Hoffman aboard the ship, seeking revenge on Lin Baici for humiliating him at the auction.
• Jing Wubing and Red Moon Thunderclap also identified Jiang Ge and Cowgirl among the powerful figures aboard, while Jing Wubing anticipated trouble once the ship reached international waters.

The Ocean Miracle’s electronics failed and its course changed after it encountered the Hong Kong Island Ghost Ship, a feared God Ruin. Lin Baici and the other God Hunters gathered on the bridge as passengers panicked, and other hunters aboard debated whether to join forces with him.

• Hua Yueyu livestreamed a tour of the cruise ship while fans teased her about Lin Baici and harassed her with crude comments.
• Hua Yueyu’s phone went black, and Xia Hongyao recognized that Rule Pollution might be affecting the ship’s electronics.
• The captain discovered that the radar had failed and the Ocean Miracle was drifting off course, while frightened passengers crowded the bridge.
• Xia Hongyao, Hua Yueyu, and Li Yintong reached the bridge, where Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu identified the Hong Kong Island Ghost Ship as the likely cause.
• Lin Baici went with the captain to calm the passengers, while Red Moon Thunderclap proposed teaming up with him and Jing Wubing argued they should watch from the shadows.

As the Ocean Miracle encountered the Ghost Ship, Lin Baici helped passengers cross between the vessels while the group tried to prepare for the coming Rule Pollution. The newcomers were told they had boarded the God of Gamblers cruise ship and would need tickets to continue sailing.

• Fog surrounded the Ocean Miracle, then revealed the Ghost Ship moored beside it with planks forming a bridge between the vessels.
• Lin Baici and his companions urged the passengers to board the Ghost Ship, but most hesitated at the dangerous crossing.
• Lin Baici carried the captain across, cleared a frightened couple from the plank, and helped more passengers reach the other ship.
• Bunny girls appeared on the deck and announced that passengers needed tickets to continue sailing aboard the God of Gamblers cruise ship.

Lin Baici used his extraordinary luck to win seven tickets to the God of Gamblers, including a reward for rolling triple sixes. As the bunny girls forced passengers to gamble or threw them overboard, the Ocean Miracle began to sink.

• The bunny girl leader announced that the Ocean Miracle would sink in half an hour and offered tickets to passengers who won a dice game.
• Lin Baici rolled triple sixes after the bunny girl leader rolled triple fives, winning tickets for himself and his companions and receiving a special reward.
• The God of Gluttony warned Lin Baici’s group to keep their tickets safe because monsters might check them aboard the God of Gamblers.
• A female guest lost her gamble and refused to wager a hand for another chance, so bunny girls threw her overboard and kicked her husband down.
• The bunny girls began forcing reluctant passengers to gamble, and half an hour later the Ocean Miracle shook violently and started to sink.

As the Ocean Miracle sank, passengers rushed across to the God of Gamblers, where Lin Baici and the others learned they needed to earn a hundred chips within seven days to escape. The group collected their starting chips and prepared to explore the deadly cruise ship.

• Passengers crowded onto the planks as the Ocean Miracle sank, and many fell into the sea amid the crush.
• God of Gluttony warned Xia Hongyao not to leave the God of Gamblers, while the bunny-girl leader said leaving would forfeit a ticket.
• Gu Qingqiu and the others entered the reception hall and memorized the two sightseeing maps, whose routes passed through attractions in different orders.
• A voice announced that each guest needed a hundred chips to leave, had seven days to earn them, and would be thrown to the sharks if they failed.
• Gu Qingqiu suspected they would need to win at the casino, while Li Yintong doubted gambling would work and Jin Yingzhen led the group to collect their starting chips.