Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici helped survivors fight off wild dogs, but many were bitten to death or infected with severe rabies before the dogs announced a final challenge to find dog food. Reasoning that clues to the answer lay in Du Shan’s apartment and a neighboring window, Lin Baici led the survivors to the Ferris wheel to search the park from above.

• Ning Meng froze instead of killing her Earth Dog, and Social Butterfly Woman and Shanshan fought over the sword, drawing a pack of wild dogs that killed all three.
• Lin Baici recovered Dragon Tooth and passed it to Wang Bing, who killed his Earth Dog, while Lin Baici lent the sword to other survivors and prioritized helping those he considered kind.
• The dog fights left more than twenty people lucid, while over sixty survivors had severe rabies; Little Tiger Tooth wept over Number 24’s ashes.
• The wild dogs announced that the survivors had fifteen minutes to find dog food, and they told Lin Baici he had already seen the most important clue.
• Lin Baici connected the clue to Du Shan’s rental apartment, identified the neighboring apartment as Building Five, unit 502, and ran to the Ferris wheel with the others to search its cabins and view the park.

Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao found Du Shan and Wen Li’s photos in the park, ending the Rule Pollution, then Lin Baici discovered the Border Collie was a living God's Taboo Object and gained the Divine Grace Hundred Flavors in a Breath. The chapter leaves Lin Baici overwhelmed by the apartment’s smells as Xia Hongmian’s team arrives outside.

• Lin Baici used the God-Asking Tortoise Shell to locate an iron box containing photos of Du Shan and Wen Li, and finding it ended the park’s Rule Pollution.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao returned to Du Shan’s bedroom, where a Border Collie fed Du Shan, and Lin Baici recognized it as the dog he had fed before.
• Lin Baici killed the Border Collie and learned from the God of Gluttony that it had gained Divine Grace after licking a god’s saliva from a takeout container.
• Lin Baici absorbed the dog’s Divine Grace, Hundred Flavors in a Breath, which gave him an extraordinarily sensitive sense of smell.
• Lin Baici fled the foul-smelling apartment, then detected the scents of at least twenty approaching people.
• Xia Hongmian learned that the pollution had been cleared quickly and concluded that Lin Baici had purified it.

After surviving the polluted games, Lin Baici declined to join the Safety Bureau for now, while Xia Hongmian ordered the dead Border Collie handled as a possible God's Taboo Object. The chapter revealed the dog’s tragic history and ended with Ji Xinyan’s dormmates discussing Lin Baici’s absence and the Welcome Party.

• Xia Hongmian thanked Lin Baici and waited for him to decide whether to join the Safety Bureau, while Xia Hongyao mentioned his bonus for purifying the Rule Pollution.
• Lin Baici declined Xia Hongyao’s offer to stay with her and headed toward a hotel, briefly sensing something nearby without understanding why.
• A young man left Green Bank Perfume Residential Complex with his computer equipment as the chapter recounted how the Border Collie had tried to protect its former owner and later cared for the young man.
• Xia Hongmian ordered the Third Division to contain the Border Collie’s corpse and deliver it to the Ninth Division, suspecting it was a God's Taboo Object.
• At Haijing Institute of Technology, Ji Xinyan and her dormmates discussed Lin Baici skipping class and wondered whether he would perform at the Welcome Party.

Lin Baici spent the night in a hotel after surviving a Rule Pollution, while his Buddhist chant videos became hugely popular and his friends discussed romance and class officers. The next morning, he returned to school and learned that the class was preparing to choose officers and that Mi Qin would host Friday’s Welcome Party.

• Bai Jiao and Ji Xinyan argued with Zhou Zhou about Xu Daguan before the roommates praised the creator of the Heart Sutra and Diamond Sutra videos.
• Lin Baici ignored receptionist Zhang Ye’s hints, spoke with Li Wei about his unrequited love, and saw that his Diamond Sutra video had passed five million views.
• Lin Baici returned to school, rejected a roujiamo after detecting its smell, and ate chive and egg pancakes instead.
• Liu Yu raised the upcoming class officer election and suggested organizing a mixer, while Lin Baici said he did not want to be Class Monitor.
• Xu Daguan discussed Bai Jiao, Ji Xinyan, and Mi Qin, and Lin Baici received a message from the Countess of Monte Cristo asking him to meet her arriving flight and feed her.

At Haijing Institute of Technology, Lin Baici received milk tea and a lunch invitation from Zhu Qiunan, then met Jin Yingzhen after class. Jin Yingzhen gave him a bank card as payment at a seafood restaurant.

• Lin Baici sat through English class after Zhu Qiunan brought him milk tea, thanked him for saving her, and invited him to lunch.
• Zhu Qiunan left the class, and Lin Baici asked the English teacher whether she was allowed to sit in, prompting the teacher to scold the students in the back rows for using their phones.
• The God of Gluttony described Zhu Qiunan as a cocktail with many flavors, but Lin Baici said he was not interested.
• Xu Daguan livestreamed himself approaching Jin Yingzhen outside campus, but she ignored him and left in her red Panamera.
• Lin Baici met Jin Yingzhen at Jinjiang Seafood Restaurant, ordered expensive dishes, and received a bank card from her as payment.

Lin Baici accepted Jin Yingzhen's reward for information about the Palm Harbor God's Ruins and heard Jin Xian's offer to recruit him to explore the dangerous Busan God's Ruins, which he postponed until winter break. The next morning, Lin Baici comforted Little Tiger Tooth by dunking repeatedly on the basketball court while Gu Qingqiu filmed him.

• Jin Yingzhen gave Lin Baici ten million yuan and fifty Meteor Coins on behalf of Sejongjeong, and Lin Baici accepted the reward.
• Jin Yingzhen told Lin Baici that Jin Xian offered him one billion yuan, ten thousand Meteor Coins, an A-Rank God's Taboo Object, and all the spoils to explore the Busan God's Ruins.
• Jin Yingzhen explained that the Busan God's Ruins were dangerous and that Jin Xian wanted to recruit Lin Baici, but Lin Baici declined and said he might visit Korea during winter break.
• Lin Baici met Jin Yingzhen for dinner and a night out in Geumgang, then walked her back to her hotel before returning to campus.
• Lin Baici found Little Tiger Tooth at the basketball court, listened as she said she wanted to see him play like Feng Qin, and repeatedly dunked to cheer her up.
• Gu Qingqiu filmed Lin Baici dunking on the basketball court.

Lin Baici spent time with Jin Yingzhen before attending Haijing Institute of Technology’s Welcome Party, where he drew attention as the freshman who had become a hero during the military training disturbance. The hosts unexpectedly called him onstage to perform, leaving the reason for Zheng Haixuan’s change of plan unclear.

• Lin Baici stopped dunking when a crowd gathered, left Little Tiger Tooth with Feng Qin’s signed basketball, and returned to campus as Ji Xinyan and Pei Fei watched.
• Fang Mingyuan showed the dormitory a viral video of Lin Baici dunking, earning him the nickname King of Basketball.
• Lin Baici took a day off and spent it with Jin Yingzhen at the zoo and dinner before she gave him a gift and hugged him outside campus.
• Lin Baici joined his classmates at the Welcome Party, where Ji Xinyan noticed the bag Jin Yingzhen had given him and the hosts introduced Mi Qin and Zheng Haixuan.
• Zheng Haixuan abruptly announced that Lin Baici, the freshman hero of the military training disturbance, would perform, surprising Mi Qin.

Zheng Haixuan tried to embarrass Lin Baici at the Welcome Party, but Lin Baici’s powerful Heart Sutra performance revealed him as the viral singer Lin the Hungry One and made him the Newcomer King. As Lin Baici headed back to his dorm, two unknown men discussed interrogating him, and Xia Hongyao called him.

• Zheng Haixuan pressured Lin Baici to perform onstage, hoping to ruin his reputation, but Lin Baici accepted the challenge.
• Lin Baici rejected Zheng Haixuan’s microphone, borrowed Mi Qin’s, and chose to sing the Heart Sutra.
• Lin Baici’s Sanskrit Chants and Buddhist Sounds transformed the performance, silencing the crowd and convincing students that he was Lin the Hungry One.
• Zheng Haixuan realized his scheme had made Lin Baici famous across the school, while Mi Qin grew interested in him after he left without asking for her WeChat.
• Two men watched Lin Baici from afar and debated whether to interrogate him, while the middle-aged man warned that Lin Baici might be bait.
• Lin Baici received a call from Xia Hongyao on his way back to the dorm.

Lin Baici visited Dragon and Beauty with Xia Hongyao, where he learned that the bar served as a meeting place for God Hunters and encountered several people affected by Rule Pollution. The chapter ended when Zhuang Du, a Lost Coast member who had been watching Lin Baici, sat beside him and began plotting.

• Lin Baici told Xia Hongyao he had plans for the weekend, then faced roommates who teased him about his popular sutra-chanting video and his female acquaintances.
• Hua Yueyu invited Lin Baici to Disneyland, but he said he had already arranged to go out with Xia Hongyao.
• Xia Hongyao took Lin Baici to Dragon and Beauty, a bar where God Hunters shared news, posted bounties, and traded God's Taboo Objects.
• Lin Baici used his divine senses to learn that an old man was being drained of Life Energy and that a beautiful woman could make people become more feminine through contact.
• Nangong Shu, the bar's owner, greeted Xia Hongyao and invited her upstairs, while Lin Baici stayed at the bar and browsed its mission list.
• Zhuang Du, a Lost Coast member who had watched Lin Baici at Haijing Institute of Technology, arrived, sat beside him, and set a metallic spinning top on the table.

Lin Baici was trapped in Zhuang Du’s Dream Top and fought through its dream layers without falling under their rules. He escaped in the Dragon and Beauty bar, where the staff and Lin Baici attacked Zhuang Du as the customers learned he might belong to the Lost Coast.

• Lin Baici was pulled into a gladiator arena dream, where he used his God's Taboo Objects to burn the Orc to ash.
• Zhuang Du moved Lin Baici into a triumphant king’s return and tried to bind him with three questions, but Lin Baici killed the Old King and rejected the throne.
• In a church dream, Lin Baici killed the worshippers and forced his way out, then attacked Zhuang Du in the bar.
• Lin Baici questioned Zhuang Du about the Lost Coast while the bartender and dwarf tried to stop him from reclaiming the Dream Top.
• The Muscle Buddha struck Zhuang Du, and Lin Baici severed his left arm with the Bronze Sword before catching the returning blade.

Lin Baici killed Zhuang Du, a Lost Coast member who attacked him, then faced Chen Fujiang when he arrived looking for Zhuang Du. Before they could continue fighting, the Crazy Maid appeared and announced a deadly game for the God Hunters in the bar.

• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao overwhelmed Zhuang Du, and Lin Baici killed him with a Flying Stone before Xia Hongyao searched the body.
• Lin Baici paid Nangong Shu one hundred Meteor Coins to arrange protection for his mother and remained undecided about joining the Safety Bureau.
• Chen Fujiang arrived looking for Zhuang Du, and Lin Baici attacked him after realizing he was connected to the Lost Coast.
• The Crazy Maid entered the bar with a roulette wheel, and Xia Hongyao warned Lin Baici that the mysterious figure's games could kill God Hunters.
• The Crazy Maid announced Gourmet Roulette and produced a bloodstained baseball bat as she invited the God Hunters to play.

Lin Baici used the God of Gluttony's advice to survive Gourmet Roulette and help Xia Hongyao and Nangong Shu through their turns, while several other God Hunters suffered harmful effects. After the maid awarded Lin Baici a Coffee Machine, she began a Dart Competition in which the three lowest scorers would be executed.

• Crazy Maid chose Lin Baici to take the first turn in Gourmet Roulette, and he safely prepared and ate a Pockmarked Bullfrog.
• Lin Baici warned Xia Hongyao to remove the fuzz from her Monkey Peach with vinegar, then advised Nangong Shu to warm her Sperm Whale Fat Jelly.
• The old man won a beneficial effect by eating sashimi, while Chen Fujiang copied Lin Baici's bullfrog preparation and later suffered an embarrassing reaction after eating a dangerous nut.
• Gourmet Roulette ended with two people dead, one blinded, and several others afflicted; the maid rewarded Lin Baici with a Coffee Machine.
• Crazy Maid announced the Dart Competition, declaring that the highest scorer would win a reward and the three lowest scorers would be executed.

Lin Baici used the Red Earth Clay Figure to win the dart game and earned the Champion Dart, while Chen Fujiang's cheating accusation failed. The Crazy Maid then began announcing the three lowest scorers.

• The Crazy Maid explained the dart game's rules, and Lin Baici secretly used the Red Earth Clay Figure to guide his darts and protect Xia Hongyao and Nangong Shu from dangerous red zones.
• Chen Fujiang relied on his Eagle Strike Eye to score accurately, but Lin Baici used a marble to disrupt Chen Fujiang's final throw, forcing him to concede.
• Lin Baici finished with a bullseye on his last dart, and Xia Hongyao and Nangong Shu also hit the bullseye with all ten darts.
• The Crazy Maid named Lin Baici the winner and awarded him the Champion Dart, a God's Taboo Object that always hit a target within three hundred meters but made its owner obsessively competitive.
• The Crazy Maid began announcing the bottom three as the ten-minute game ended.

Xia Hongyao and Nangong Shu survived the Crazy Maid’s games, while Lin Baici gained the Lover’s Lipstick and helped assemble a team for the next challenge. The maid began a dungeon-themed role-playing game by blowing out the candle, leaving the team about to face its first trial.

• The Crazy Maid killed a Raging Bear God Hunter and the barmaid with Light Speed 21, then spared the remaining contestants after Lin Baici joked that there were too few people.
• The Leather Pants Woman thanked Lin Baici with Meteor Coins and the Lover’s Lipstick, and the maid started a dance game with Breakdance Speaker that forced everyone to sway to the music.
• The maid ended the dance and began an Escape the Dungeon game, giving each player a character card; Lin Baici drew a Goblin King while Xia Hongyao drew a dragon.
• Lin Baici formed a team with Xia Hongyao, Nangong Shu, the Leather Pants Woman, the bartender, the dwarf, and the old man, turning down offers from the Transgender Person and others.
• The maid declared the game started and blew out the candle.

Lin Baici led the group through a slaughterhouse dungeon, killing Pig Head Men and discovering that map fragments were hidden inside some of their intestines. After the Leather Pants Woman called for help beyond the iron gate, the group prepared to face whatever she had found.

• Lin Baici killed the first Pig Head Man and ordered the bartender and old man to search its corpse, learning from the God-Asking Tortoise Shell to travel west and avoid fragrance.
• Lin Baici led the group downstairs, where Xia Hongyao and the others killed Pig Head Men after a second one attacked the old man.
• Lin Baici used the Muscle Buddha to squeeze a map fragment out of a Pig Head Man's intestine, and the group recovered nine fragments from the bodies.
• Lin Baici deduced that only one Pig Head Man of each neck-number group carried a map fragment, and the Leather Pants Woman called for help from beyond the iron gate.

Lin Baici and the others fought their way through the freezer, where White Striped Human corpses fused into Stitched Corpse Meat Monsters. After Lin Baici destroyed the monsters, the group searched the freezer, and a supposedly defeated corpse attacked the bartender.

• Lin Baici led the group into a freezer filled with hundreds of hanging White Striped Human corpses, and Leather Pants Woman warned them that one ungutted corpse had moved.
• The ungutted corpse jerked to life, the other corpses broke free and attacked, and the freezer door slammed shut under powerful Rule Pollution.
• Lin Baici and the others fought off the corpses until their remains gathered into Stitched Corpse Meat Monsters, then he organized the group to lure the monsters together.
• Lin Baici used Floating Life Night Rain and Wild Buddha Blows Out the Lamp to immobilize the monsters, then burned them to ash with the Pine Torch.
• While searching the freezer, the bartender was ambushed by the bloated corpse whose head he had cut off, and Lin Baici and the others rushed to help.

Lin Baici led his group through the slaughterhouse, where they discovered people being processed on a human-killing assembly line. He freed the captives to create a diversion, and as the group fought the Pig Head Men, a huge cleaver appeared behind the bartender, signaling the arrival of the BOSS.

• Lin Baici's group reunited with Sunglasses Man and Chen Fujiang, then continued deeper into the facility while the other group headed upstairs.
• The group found a slaughterhouse where Pig Head Men boiled and processed hundreds of captive people, and Lin Baici chose to free them despite the danger.
• Lin Baici and his companions opened the cages, and the freed people scattered through the workshop as Pig Head Men pursued them.
• Lin Baici's group used the chaos to hunt down Pig Head Men across the slaughterhouse.
• A huge cleaver smashed a Pig Head Man beside the bartender, who turned and shouted that the BOSS had appeared.

Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao killed the Slaughterhouse Supervisor and claimed its Divine Grace before the group searched the slaughterhouse for a map and reached the Pigman King. The Pigman King stood to fight them, leaving the level’s final battle about to begin.

• Xia Hongyao and Muscle Buddha worked together to kill the Slaughterhouse Supervisor, which dropped two Divine Graces.
• Xia Hongyao gave both Divine Graces to Lin Baici to choose from, and he learned Meat Shattering Strike.
• Lin Baici told the group that anyone seeking a share of the loot had to contribute, then led them in searching the corpses’ intestines for map pieces.
• Lin Baici assembled the map, and the seven climbed to the raw-meat corridor and followed its route through the rooms.
• Lin Baici and the others reached a hall where the Pigman King lounged on a sofa, then watched it stand and prepare to fight.

Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao led the fight against the armored Pigman King, defeating it with Nangong Shu’s help and a coordinated assault. After the battle, Lin Baici claimed the Pigman King’s Butcher Mask and ordered the others to prepare its organs for him to eat.

• The Pigman King resisted the group’s opening attacks, healed its wounds with its fat, and covered itself in armor.
• The Pigman King attacked the group while the bartender, the old man, the dwarf, and Leather Pants Woman fled or hesitated; Xia Hongyao kept fighting.
• Nangong Shu hypnotized the Pigman King, allowing Lin Baici to crack its armor with four powerful punches while Xia Hongyao and Lin Baici hacked at it.
• The Pigman King burst its fat outward and lunged at Nangong Shu, but Lin Baici, Xia Hongyao, the dwarf, and Leather Pants Woman wounded it and pierced its heart until it died.
• Lin Baici asked the magician to remove the Pigman King’s liver, assigned the bartender to handle its intestines, and picked up the Butcher Mask.

Lin Baici’s team cleared the Slaughterhouse, ranked third among historical teams, and entered the next stage, where the Crazy Maid warned that teams still in the first stage would have to sacrifice a member. In a branching cave tunnel, Lin Baici’s group came under attack just as a hidden quest appeared.

• Lin Baici identified the Pig-head Butcher Mask and Gluttony Apron as God's Taboo Objects, gave the Bone Crusher to the dwarf, and offered the apron to Nangong Shu, who refused it.
• The Crazy Maid announced that Lin Baici’s team had the third-fastest historical clear of the Slaughterhouse, while Lin Baici secretly swapped cards with Xia Hongyao and told her what he had discovered.
• Lin Baici opened the next stage with the golden key, led the group into a cave, and the Crazy Maid warned that teams which had not cleared the Slaughterhouse within fifteen minutes would have to sacrifice someone or be erased.
• Sunglasses Man’s team learned that Lin Baici had cleared the first stage and began arguing over who should pay the price for their passage.
• After wandering through branching tunnels, Lin Baici detected smoke and warned the group, but torches, spears, and arrows attacked them, injuring Leather Pants Woman as a hidden quest triggered.