Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici escaped the village with Gotō Mari and led his companions into a strange pool that transported them to another Rule Pollution. After fleeing through the mist, they reached a staircase lined with torii gates and found someone kneeling there.

• Lin Baici persuaded Gotō Mari to take him to the Dragon Girl’s ceremonial site, and they fled into the mountains as the villagers pursued them.
• Lin Baici carried Gotō Mari to the waterfall, where Xia Hongyao and Gu Qingqiu arrived and knocked her unconscious before the group jumped into the deep pool.
• Gu Qingqiu and Xia Hongyao used NOBODY to escape the water’s paralysis, then rescued Lin Baici, Long Miaomiao, and Yi Jisheng.
• Lin Baici sensed danger in the mist and led the group away from approaching beasts, up three thousand steps to a row of vermilion torii gates.
• Lin Baici and his companions saw someone kneeling before the torii gates.

Sannomiya Airi reunited with Lin Baici and his companions after becoming stranded at the Heavenly Dao Shrine, and told them Da Yao's Monk Master planned to eat a deity using Suzuka Momoka. Though Lin Baici initially wanted to leave rather than endanger his friends, he agreed to attempt the four-palace trial and assigned the group their routes while he and Airi headed for the Dragon Palace.

• Sannomiya Airi despaired at being unable to pass the Heavenly Dao Shrine alone until Lin Baici, Xia Hongyao, Gu Qingqiu, Yi Jisheng, and Long Miaomiao arrived to find her.
• Sannomiya Airi revealed that Da Yao's Monk Master wanted to eat a deity and that Suzuka Momoka was key to the plan.
• Sannomiya Airi explained that they had to purify Rule Pollution at four palaces simultaneously to open the Dragon Palace gates.
• Lin Baici initially refused to risk his companions, but the God of Gluttony advised him that the group could handle the palace trials, and Gu Qingqiu and Xia Hongyao persuaded him to proceed.
• Lin Baici assigned Gu Qingqiu to the East Palace, Xia Hongyao to the West Palace, Long Miaomiao to the South Palace, and Yi Jisheng to the North Palace, while he and Sannomiya Airi would enter the Dragon Palace.

Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi entered the Northern Palace’s battlefield Rule Pollution after their companions cleared the other palaces. When the cavalry caught them, Lin Baici turned to fight, but discovered that Divine Graces could randomly fail during the trial.

• Lin Baici sent Xia Hongyao, Gu Qingqiu, Long Miaomiao, and Yi Jisheng to clear the other palaces while he waited with Sannomiya Airi.
• The torii lanterns lit in sequence as Gu Qingqiu, Xia Hongyao, Long Miaomiao, and Yi Jisheng cleared their palaces, opening the way to the Northern Palace.
• Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi entered an ancient battlefield and rode toward the enemy army, but a cavalry force pursued them and shot down Sannomiya Airi’s horse.
• Lin Baici turned back and used Wild Buddha Blows Out the Lamp to kill the first cavalrymen, then fought the surrounding riders with his spear and sword.
• After arrows wounded him, Lin Baici learned from Sannomiya Airi that Divine Graces could fail randomly, teleported behind the cavalry commander, and killed him.
• Lin Baici unleashed Nine World Dragon Fist, sending nine golden dragons into the cavalrymen around him.

Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi escaped the pursuing cavalry and reached the steep mountain stairs guarded by chanting monks. As the monks’ mental pollution overwhelmed them, Lin Baici used Buddhist chanting and then activated Enthusiastic Idol, leaving the pair to climb while the monks’ threat remained.

• Lin Baici used Muscle Buddha to break Sannomiya Airi out of the cavalry encirclement, and they escaped on stolen horses before abandoning them in a forest.
• Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi reached a mountain staircase lined with monks and began climbing as the monks struck their Wooden Fish and chanted.
• The monks’ chanting brought back painful memories and intensified the pair’s anxiety, nausea, and anger, so Sannomiya Airi warned Lin Baici not to attack them.
• Lin Baici recited the Diamond Sutra using Sanskrit Chants and Buddhist Sounds, suppressing the pollution’s effects for a time.
• When the monks’ chanting grew stronger, Lin Baici activated Enthusiastic Idol, causing Sannomiya Airi to become infatuated with him before she slapped herself and demanded an explanation.

Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi entered Dragon Palace after his chanting turned the monks into followers, then made their way through its courtyards toward the rear hall. At a hot spring Rule Pollution, the shrine maidens tried to lure them into the water, but Lin Baici attacked them and drove them away.

• Lin Baici chanted the Diamond Sutra as he climbed the steps, drawing the monks into following him and fighting the monks who attacked near the temple gate.
• Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi entered Dragon Palace, and Sannomiya Airi guided him around dangerous Rule Pollutions while explaining that she wanted to find and rescue Suzuka Momoka.
• Sannomiya Airi led Lin Baici through the hot spring area, where they encountered shrine maidens behaving as part of an unfamiliar Rule Pollution.
• The shrine maidens offered Lin Baici food and tried to pull him into the hot spring, but he cut off one maiden's arm and head, causing the others to flee.

Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi fought through Dragon Palace Island’s defenses and reached the hall guarding Dragon Girl’s bedroom. They stood before two towering samurai, and Sannomiya Airi warned Lin Baici to wait before they crossed the threshold.

• Lin Baici cut down the shrine maidens at the hot spring and followed Sannomiya Airi toward Dragon Palace Island’s back mountain.
• Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi joked about his lack of interest in the shrine maidens, and Sannomiya Airi asked whether he would marry her; he refused.
• A shrine maiden archer attacked them at the teahouse, but Sannomiya Airi trapped and burned her with her giant fox while Lin Baici survived using a clone.
• Sannomiya Airi gave Lin Baici the archer’s longbow, and they continued toward Dragon Girl’s residence.
• Lin Baici opened the main hall doors and found two armored samurai guarding the corridor to Dragon Girl’s bedroom; Sannomiya Airi said they should rush past them, then told Lin Baici to wait.

Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi fought through the samurai guarding the Dragon Palace and hurried to find Suzuka Momoka. They found Momoka beside a sleeping woman whose golden energy flowed into a translucent sphere.

• Lin Baici used the Ghost Lamp to reveal nine shadow samurai waiting inside the hall, and Sannomiya Airi used the Three-Eyed Boy to see them too.
• Sannomiya Airi fought the shadow samurai while Lin Baici killed one ghost samurai with the Bronze Sword and raced ahead.
• Sannomiya Airi told Lin Baici that the Dragon Girl favored Suzuka Momoka and that Tachibana Chidou was draining the deity’s power to weaken and enslave her.
• Sannomiya Airi led Lin Baici to Momoka’s room, where they found Momoka in a bridal kimono beside a sleeping woman whose golden energy flowed into a translucent sphere.

Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi tried to leave Dragon Palace Island after Suzuka Momoka chose to remain with the dying Dragon Girl, but Tachibana Chidou attacked before they could escape. The chapter ended with Tachibana Chidou searching Suzuka Momoka’s abdomen while Lin Baici’s Storm Hammer disappeared before reaching her.

• Sannomiya Airi confronted Suzuka Momoka and learned that Momoka had triggered the God Ruins to protect the Dragon Girl from Tachibana Chidou and the powerful elders.
• Suzuka Momoka urged Sannomiya Airi to leave, gave Lin Baici her wakizashi as an early wedding gift, and asked him to take Airi with him.
• As the Dragon Girl disintegrated into the Dragon Pearl and contamination spread, Lin Baici pulled Sannomiya Airi toward the exit.
• The Dragon Pearl flew toward Suzuka Momoka, but Tachibana Chidou appeared and pierced Momoka with her black katana as Momoka swallowed it.
• Sannomiya Airi and Lin Baici attacked Tachibana Chidou, but she easily knocked them back and made Lin Baici’s Storm Hammer vanish.
• Tachibana Chidou plunged her right hand into Suzuka Momoka’s abdomen and searched inside.

Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi escaped Tachibana Chidou’s attack as Xia Hongmian arrived and the battle over the Dragon Pearl intensified. They met Xia Hongyao’s group at the temple gate and warned them that Suzuka Momoka was fighting Tachibana Chidou and preparing to self-destruct.

• Sannomiya Airi and Lin Baici attacked Tachibana Chidou, but her blue halo repelled them, and Lin Baici used God's Hand to destroy one of her hearts without killing her.
• Tachibana Chidou sent armored warriors after Lin Baici, who grabbed Sannomiya Airi and fled while Suzuka Momoka tried to keep the Dragon Pearl from her.
• Tachibana Chidou pulled the Dragon Pearl from Suzuka Momoka’s abdomen, but Xia Hongmian appeared and crushed Tachibana Chidou’s arm, sending the pearl back to Suzuka Momoka.
• Xia Hongmian confronted Suzuka Momoka and Tachibana Chidou as divine radiation surged through the room, while Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi escaped the growing pollution.
• Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi met Xia Hongyao, Gu Qingqiu, Long Miaomiao, Yi Jisheng, and High Ponytail at the temple gate, and Lin Baici told them Suzuka Momoka was fighting Tachibana Chidou and preparing to self-destruct.

Xia Hongmian defeated Tachibana Chidou, found Suzuka Momoka dead, and discovered that the Dragon Pearl was missing. Lin Baici’s group escaped Dragon Palace Island, and Xia Hongyao later revealed in the Dragon Soul group chat that the Dragon Girl had died.

• Xia Hongmian defeated Tachibana Chidou, found no Dragon Pearl or Dragon Girl remains, and cremated Suzuka Momoka’s body.
• Lin Baici’s group met Xia Hongmian on the mountain steps, where she confirmed Suzuka Momoka was dead and Tachibana Chidou had escaped.
• Xia Hongmian invited Sannomiya Airi to join the Haijing Safety Bureau, but Airi declined and was warned not to seek revenge on Tachibana Chidou.
• The group left Dragon Palace Island by warship, reunited with Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu in Osaka, and traveled onward toward Haijing.
• Xia Hongyao told the Dragon Soul group chat that Suzuka Momoka was dead, Tachibana Chidou had fled, and the Dragon Girl had been killed.

Xia Hongyao told the Dragon Rank group about the god’s death and praised Lin Baici’s accomplishments, while refusing to add him to the chat so she could keep bragging about him. Lin Baici caught up on messages from his mother and Li Wei, then checked the class group and realized Ji Xinyan had been upset when he failed to answer her.

• Xia Hongyao told the group that the Dragon Girl’s remains had gone missing and suspected Tachibana Chidou had taken them, while saying Xia Hongmian had not found them.
• Xia Hongyao described how Lin Baici purified God Contamination quickly, found Suzuka Momoka, and helped bring survivors back from the Ghost Ship.
• The group urged Xia Hongyao to invite Lin Baici, but she went offline rather than let him join and steal her chance to brag about him.
• Lin Baici called his mother and told her his phone had been stolen, then joked with Li Wei about his love life and his girlfriends.
• Lin Baici checked the university class group and saw that Ji Xinyan had complained about Xu Daguan before sending him blood-dripping knife stickers when he failed to answer her message.

Lin Baici reconnected with Ji Xinyan by video call while returning from Japan, and she learned he would reach Haijing that night. Their teasing and Ji Xinyan’s promise to comfort him when she returned to school left their relationship close but still undefined, as Zhu Hongyan urged Ji Xinyan to pursue him.

• Lin Baici hesitated over what to message Ji Xinyan, then sent her a brief question and received her teasing reply.
• Lin Baici answered Ji Xinyan’s video call from a private plane, while Zhu Hongyan mistook the cabin for a club and then realized it was a plane.
• Lin Baici told Ji Xinyan that he had just returned from Japan and would be in Haijing that night, and she asked whether he had brought her a gift.
• Lin Baici said he had bought Ji Xinyan a gift in Hong Kong Island and reassured her that he had not been hurt during his trip.
• Ji Xinyan promised to comfort Lin Baici when she returned to school and signaled that they would walk the dog together that evening.
• After Lin Baici ended the call, Zhu Hongyan encouraged Ji Xinyan to pursue him, leaving Ji Xinyan troubled by the possibility that she had waited too long.

Lin Baici caught up with Nangong Shu about the Ghost Ship and handled messages from women who had been pursuing him, sending generous gifts while setting boundaries with Zhang Ye. Feng Ting continued trying to win his attention as her relationship with Zhou Zhen grew strained.

• Lin Baici told Nangong Shu that the god aboard the Ghost Ship had not died and would probably abandon the ship to live on land.
• Lin Baici sent Zhang Ye a ten-thousand-yuan red envelope, then warned her to stop sending suggestive messages because he had a girlfriend.
• Lin Baici sent Feng Ting a ten-thousand-yuan red envelope and said he would come see the properties she had selected when he returned to Haijing.
• Feng Ting flirted with Lin Baici over messages and sent him photos while neglecting a house showing.
• Feng Ting rejected Zhou Zhen's invitation to go out, thinking about the difference between his modest earnings and Lin Baici's generosity.

Lin Baici returned to Haijing after the Hong Kong Island and Dragon Palace Island missions, reunited with his friends, and spent the night with Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu. When he got home the next day, he found Jiang Yitong asleep on his sofa, and she had to explain why she was there.

• Lin Baici reassured Wang Fang that her salary would remain unchanged and promised Mi Qin another five million for her business.
• Lin Baici, Xia Hongyao, and Gu Qingqiu discussed the forum buzz about their God Ruins victories and Qin Shanwei's stalled Qin Palace mission.
• The group arrived in Haijing, and Lin Baici escorted Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu home after dropping off Long Miaomiao.
• Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu agreed to spend the night with Lin Baici, who left their villa the next day exhausted.
• Lin Baici returned to his house and found Jiang Yitong asleep on the sofa wearing only underwear; she woke, hurried to cover herself, and began explaining her presence.

Jiang Yitong tried to protect her mother Wang Fang’s job after Lin Baici found her sleeping naked in his villa, and she reconsidered how often she might return. Back in his bedroom, Lin Baici reflected on his summer and suddenly felt ravenously hungry while opening the Black Altar Bowl to inspect his wakizashi.

• Jiang Yitong complained to Lin Baici about her mother’s working conditions and blamed him for being stingy, while making clear she wanted to protect Wang Fang’s job.
• Lin Baici left Jiang Yitong in the living room and went upstairs without confronting her further.
• Jiang Yitong worried that Lin Baici might have recorded her, then considered returning to the villa monthly so she could take photos there.
• Lin Baici decided Wang Fang was an honest housekeeper and reflected on his exhausting summer encounters with the Ghost Ship in Hong Kong Island, Dragon Palace Island, and the Nine Dragon Pavilion.
• Lin Baici opened the Black Altar Bowl to take out the wakizashi, but a fierce wave of hunger suddenly washed over him.

Lin Baici discovered that the Dragon Pearl was the Dragon Girl god’s purified Life Source Quality and ate it, triggering a powerful surge of divine energy. Jiang Yitong was contaminated by the god’s radiation and attacked him, leaving Lin Baici to choose between letting her become a Dead Meat Person or using his essence to save her.

• Lin Baici found the Dragon Pearl in his Black Altar Bowl and learned from God of Gluttony that it was the Dragon Girl god’s Life Source Quality, stolen by the severed hand he carried.
• God of Gluttony revealed that the severed hand was Postman Marlon, one of the Seven Great Mysteries.
• Lin Baici swallowed the Dragon Pearl, and its Life Source Quality surged through his body as he struggled to digest it.
• Jiang Yitong burst into Lin Baici’s bedroom, overcome by hunger from the god’s radiation, and attacked and bit him.
• God of Gluttony told Lin Baici that Jiang Yitong would become a Dead Meat Person unless he injected her with Life Source Quality, and suggested using his essence through sex.
• Lin Baici decided to have sex with Jiang Yitong to save her and turned on his phone’s video recorder to document her attack.

Jiang Yitong woke up after an unexplained, aggressive encounter with Lin Baici and watched a video confirming that she had initiated it. After arguing over what happened, Lin Baici transferred money to her and offered to take her back to campus.

• Jiang Yitong woke up sore and furious, then realized her memories of attacking Lin Baici had been real.
• Lin Baici showed Jiang Yitong a video of the encounter, and she confirmed that she had pounced on him while in a strange, uncontrollable state.
• Jiang Yitong searched Lin Baici's photos, saw pictures of several beautiful women, and grew more self-conscious as she considered what had happened.
• Lin Baici warned Jiang Yitong against calling the police, then offered her money so they could put the incident behind them.
• Jiang Yitong rejected his first offer and teased him about wanting to keep her, but Lin Baici added her on WeChat and transferred money to her.
• Lin Baici asked whether Jiang Yitong could move so he could take her back to campus.

After Jiang Yitong spent the night at the Shangri-La, Lin Baici learned more about her ambitions while trying to figure out how to make things right with her and Wang Fang. The next morning, Mi Qin visited Lin Baici, and he transferred ten million yuan to her for investment.

• Lin Baici offered Jiang Yitong a presidential suite and transferred two million yuan to her, but risk controls prevented her from returning the money.
• Jiang Yitong settled into the suite, took photos to post online, and considered whether Lin Baici might ever fall for her.
• Lin Baici returned home and learned from Wang Fang that Jiang Yitong was pursuing short-video fame through history content.
• Mi Qin visited Lin Baici with gifts and asked him to increase her investment by five million yuan.
• Lin Baici transferred ten million yuan to Mi Qin, surprising her.

Lin Baici signed investment contracts with Mi Qin, then visited the crowded Dragon and Beauty bar, where rumors about his exploits at the Ghost Ship and Dragon Palace Island drew attention. He reunited with Nangong Shu and told her what he knew about the two deities before she blindfolded him.

• Lin Baici signed five contracts with Mi Qin and declined her lunch invitation, teasing her as they discussed his love life.
• Lin Baici drove to the Dragon and Beauty bar, which was crowded with God Hunters curious about his rumored role in the Ghost Ship and Dragon Palace Island incidents.
• The bartender revealed to Wang Chen that the man who went upstairs was Haijing's Lin God, and Wang Chen realized Lin Baici was close to Nangong Shu.
• Lin Baici found Nangong Shu upstairs, and she asked him about the Ghost Ship deity and the Dragon Girl deity.
• Lin Baici said the Ghost Ship's deity was a gambler who planned to settle in the human world, and that the Dragon Girl had willingly become a Dragon Pearl before Tachibana Chidou ate it.
• Nangong Shu blindfolded Lin Baici and kissed him.

Lin Baici spent the day with Nangong Shu before learning that Qin Shanwei had entered the Qin Palace, then visited Jin Yingzhen and Jiang Yitong. He left Jiang Yitong at the hotel with their awkward relationship unresolved.

• Nangong Shu fed Lin Baici medicinal liquor and explained that his achievements had pushed Qin Shanwei into entering the Qin Palace to gamble on his future.
• Nangong Shu left Lin Baici after dinner when Jin Yingzhen called him about a scandal involving the Daesun Conglomerate, and Lin Baici spent the night with Jin Yingzhen before driving her to the airport.
• Xia Hongyao asked Lin Baici to help write a report, but he declined and considered visiting friends instead.
• Lin Baici bought Jiang Yitong expensive cosmetics and visited her at the Shangri-La Hotel, where she insisted she was fine and tried to repay him.
• Lin Baici checked Jiang Yitong's phone history, and the two teased each other about their past encounter as he warned that he would bite her again.