Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici chased a mysterious man carrying a God's Taboo Object, then learned that Haijing had suffered a series of deadly pollution incidents. During a National Day outing with Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen, he sensed a god had descended in the museum and tried to get everyone out, but Cai Wenqi and her friends stopped him.

• Lin Baici spotted a masked man carrying a God's Taboo Object, chased him through traffic and a mall, and lost him.
• Xia Hongyao told Lin Baici that Haijing's pollution victims disappeared and left painting-like marks, and said the Safety Bureau would investigate near Haijing Normal University.
• Lin Baici spent National Day with Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen, and the three visited the provincial museum.
• Black Sea God and six members of the Lost Coast watched Lin Baici and the women from the plaza and prepared to seize newcomers.
• Lin Baici sensed a god had descended near a golden funerary mask and urged Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen to leave the museum.
• Cai Wenqi and six friends blocked Lin Baici and delayed his attempt to get everyone outside.

At a museum, an art-obsessed god’s radiation turned visitors into Dead Meat People while its arrival trapped Lin Baici and the others inside a God Ruins. Lin Baici prepared to hunt the god as Cai Wenqi and the other survivors sought his protection.

• Red Prawn harassed Chen Xin, and the man in the trench coat flattened him with an invisible force before radiating nearby tourists into Dead Meat People.
• Lin Baici warned Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen that a god was in the museum and called Xia Hongyao, but the Black Sea God’s attempt to enter was swallowed by a sudden God Ruins.
• Lin Baici and his companions became trapped in the black mist, and he told Cai Wenqi and the other visitors that God Ruins had descended.
• The voice in Lin Baici’s mind described the god’s hatred of disrespect for art and told him to begin the hunt.
• As monsters approached, Lin Baici equipped his gloves and kasaya and gave Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu God’s Taboo Objects, while Cai Wenqi asked him for a weapon.

Lin Baici discovered that the coins falling from the ceiling protected their holders from the boulders and used his abilities to find more. The chapter ended with him confronting a fighter who had taken a coin, while the fighter refused to hand it over.

• Lin Baici recognized that the boulders were herding the crowd and told people to gather instead of fleeing.
• Lin Baici found a silver coin among the stones falling from the ceiling, and a boulder changed course before hitting him when he held it.
• Hook-nosed Man stole a coin from a girl and beat her, so Lin Baici threw him aside; other men then fought over the coin.
• Lin Baici used the Red Earth Clay Figure to locate coins, and Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen each found one.
• Lin Baici demanded that the Fighting Man surrender the coin he had won, but the fighter refused and said he had won a full-contact fighting championship.

Lin Baici defeated Fighting Man and tried to keep order as the boulders’ attacks grew more dangerous and people fought over coins. When a group of young men began robbing coin holders, Lin Baici confronted their leader and lunged at him.

• Lin Baici knocked Fighting Man out with one punch and returned the dropped coin to the Barrette Girl, then gave his remaining coin to Cai Wenqi.
• As the boulders began changing direction, Lin Baici warned the crowd; Jin Yingzhen tested whether coin holders could leave but had to retreat when boulders pursued her.
• The boulders’ paths became increasingly erratic, and Lin Baici warned that a coin protected only one person, allowing Cai Wenqi to escape the danger of sharing hers.
• More than a dozen young men knocked down a woman, stole her coin, and started targeting others; Lin Baici demanded they return the stolen coins.
• The blond-haired leader refused, so Lin Baici charged at him while the group called on its members to attack and steal more coins.

Lin Baici protected the survivors through a series of deadly boulder attacks by recognizing that the boulders targeted people carrying coins. He led a group deeper into the mist, where they encountered two Dead Meat People and prepared to fight them.

• Lin Baici defeated the six men who had been stealing coins, then kept the survivors from preying on one another as the boulders resumed rolling.
• The boulders began bouncing through the air, killing the round-faced girl, Fighting Man, the blond man, and others before stopping for another round of coin-finding.
• Lin Baici realized the boulders were targeting people with coins and urged Hua Yueyu, Jin Yingzhen, Cai Wenqi, and Barrette Girl to throw theirs away; Pointy Chin Girl and another woman died when the boulders pursued them.
• After the boulders rolled away, Lin Baici followed his growing hunger toward a dangerous area, and several survivors followed him through the mist.
• Mummies emerged from the mist and devoured Hooked Nose, while Lin Baici's group continued through the shifting museum.
• Lin Baici's group encountered two Dead Meat People, and Lin Baici stopped the middle-aged woman from throwing herself into his torch's flames before approaching the monsters with Hua Yueyu, Jin Yingzhen, and Cai Wenqi.

Lin Baici fought off Dead Meat People and Mummies while leading the survivors through the God Ruins, then reached a pyramid bearing a Golden Mask that provoked people to fight over it. A badly injured man claimed the mask and declared himself king, while the others waited to see how Lin Baici would respond.

• Lin Baici and Hua Yueyu weakened the Dead Meat People with lightning and burned them with the Pine Torch.
• Mummies attacked the crowd, and Lin Baici rescued the survivors and drove the monsters back into the mist.
• Lin Baici continued onward with the group as his hunger grew and Hua Yueyu began acting strangely.
• The group found a golden Pharaoh's Mask above a pyramid, and its words drove people to fight over who would claim it.
• A burly man won the fight, put on the mask, and ordered Lin Baici to kneel and pay respects.

Lin Baici investigated the sudden deaths caused by the burly man’s curse and discovered a Scarab Beetle inside a victim’s intestines. After the beetle entered the woman with the perm and killed her, he began dissecting her as the group suspected the Golden Mask’s beams had infected them all.

• Lin Baici threw the Dragon Tooth King Sword through the burly man’s throat, but the man rose again and cursed everyone, sweeping the crowd with purple beams from his Golden Mask.
• People began collapsing and dying, and Lin Baici dissected two dried corpses before the God of Gluttony told him that those who stayed closer would be eaten later.
• Lin Baici dissected a woman who had just died and found a swollen section of intestine containing a Scarab Beetle.
• The woman in red threw the woman with the perm toward the beetle to test it, and the beetle crawled into her before she shriveled into a mummy.
• Lin Baici began dissecting the woman with the perm, while Jin Yingzhen wondered whether the Golden Mask’s beams had put beetles inside everyone.

Lin Baici used a bonfire to drive the Flesh and Blood Sacred Scarabs from the survivors, then burned the insects and the infected men after the Golden Mask caused a deadly frenzy. He led the group deeper into the changed museum, where he heard a familiar voice.

• Lin Baici built a bonfire that forced the scarabs out of people’s bodies, and Hua Yueyu, Jin Yingzhen, and others vomited up the insects.
• The Golden Mask manipulated men into fighting over it, while scarabs erupted from the wounded burly man and infested the group.
• Lin Baici discovered that the scarab inside him had died, then used his torch to burn the insects and the infected men before storing the Golden Mask in a box.
• Song Huizhi introduced herself as a Rogue God Hunter and secretly planned to take Lin Baici’s valuables, while Lin Baici stayed wary of her.
• Lin Baici guided the survivors through the altered museum and found signs of recent Rule Pollution and Divine Grace.
• Lin Baici heard a familiar voice as he continued exploring.

Lin Baici reunited with Xia Hongyao in the God Ruin at the provincial museum, and the group encountered a new Rule Pollution centered on a black cat and a golden balance. The black cat began a five-question challenge, leaving everyone stumped by its first question about how many cats were beside it.

• Lin Baici joined Xia Hongyao and more than a hundred survivors as they fought off a group of Mummies.
• Xia Hongyao introduced Lin Baici to Gu Qingqiu, Hua Yueyu, and Jin Yingzhen, and Lin Baici suspected a god had triggered the God Ruin.
• The group found a corridor covered in blood and headless human murals, and the salesman explained how Lin Baici had saved the survivors there.
• Lin Baici stopped Xia Hongyao from touching a cat-person statue, but a voice announced that the group had entered a new Rule Pollution.
• The group passed through a forest of cat-person statues and reached a golden balance, where a black cat demanded five correct answers to let them leave.
• The black cat selected a man in a black shirt and asked how many cats were beside it, leaving the group unable to find any cats to count.

Lin Baici and the others faced the black cat’s deadly questions, which turned wrong or delayed answers into cat-person statues. The chapter ended with Gu Qingqiu and one couple answering that there were fifty-three cats around them, while the black cat scrutinized Lin Baici for interfering.

• The black cat turned the man in black into a cat-person statue after he answered its first question incorrectly.
• The black cat drained twenty years from Fishing Old Man, then turned him and Barrette Girl into statues when they agreed to become cats.
• Gu Qingqiu and three couples answered questions about cats and partners, and only one couple survived the black cat’s punishments.
• Lin Baici signaled Gu Qingqiu with his hand, and she answered that there were fifty-three cats around them.
• The surviving couple copied Gu Qingqiu’s answer, and the black cat studied her before turning its attention to Lin Baici.

Lin Baici used food offerings to help some people survive the black cat’s questions, then faced the cat himself instead of paying tribute. With the Ghost Lamp, he saw the hidden cats and answered that thirty-six were around the black cat, prompting the cat to ask the next group how many surrounded them.

• Gu Qingqiu passed the black cat’s fifth question by agreeing to dance, and the cat let her leave without dancing.
• Lin Baici gave food to Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen to offer the black cat, then gave Hoodie Guy an offering while refusing the others.
• The black cat questioned the group about whether they would let Lin Baici die; after some hesitated, it punished three people with petrification and turned a narrow-foreheaded man to stone when he charged at it.
• White Pufferfish tried to get Lin Baici included in his group, so the black cat selected Lin Baici to answer its questions.
• Using the Ghost Lamp, Lin Baici saw the hidden cats and answered that thirty-six black cats surrounded the cat; White Pufferfish objected, and the black cat asked the next question about how many cats surrounded him.

Lin Baici solved the black cat’s counting challenge and stopped White Pufferfish from killing it, then summoned the cook, who subdued the cat and ended the threat. Lin Baici claimed the golden scale as Song Huizhi secretly planned to take his treasures after they left the God Ruins.

• Lin Baici counted the cats around himself and White Pufferfish, spotted the hidden cat and the false sound, and exposed White Pufferfish’s trick.
• The black cat asked whether they would abandon their families to live with it, and White Pufferfish began turning to stone after Lin Baici refused to answer.
• White Pufferfish attacked the black cat with his Snake Whip, but Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao fought him off until he became a cat-person statue.
• Lin Baici activated the Black Altar Bowl and summoned the cook, who grabbed the black cat and agreed to take it back to the Xiangji Kitchen.
• The cook and black cat disappeared, and Lin Baici took the golden scale while Song Huizhi decided to wait for a chance to seize his treasures.

Lin Baici distributed the Cat God Scale’s Divine Graces to Xia Hongyao, Hua Yueyu, and Jin Yingzhen, then looted White Pufferfish’s corpse and continued through the museum God Ruins. Outside, Xia Hongmian entered the ruins, rescued civilians from the rolling boulders, and destroyed every boulder she found.

• Lin Baici consumed one Divine Grace from the Cat God Scale and gave the others to Xia Hongyao, Hua Yueyu, and Jin Yingzhen, who gained Catwalk Light and Graceful.
• Lin Baici offered Song Huizhi the remaining Divine Grace and the scale for Meteor Coins, then looted White Pufferfish’s water-breathing tooth and plague-spreading Black Death Military Stiletto.
• Lin Baici warned Xia Hongyao about the stiletto, had her prepare Black Coffins, and led the group onward despite the civilians’ worsening radiation sickness.
• Xia Hongmian entered the museum God Ruins after ordering nearby residents not to be evacuated and learned that Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao were inside.
• Xia Hongmian rescued a mother and daughter from a rolling boulder, recognized that coins were involved in clearing the pollution, and destroyed the remaining boulders with her Divine Grace.

Lin Baici and the group entered the Scorpion Queen’s banquet, where venomous wine made the guests euphoric and vulnerable to the Golden Scorpion Beauties. The beauties began eating their willing dance partners, while Lin Baici remained unaffected and tried to understand the Rule Pollution’s fatal rule.

• As radiation turned more travelers into Dead Meat People, Xia Hongyao killed a woman who began transforming.
• The group entered a golden palace and encountered Golden Scorpion Beauties, whose scent made people infatuated with them.
• Lin Baici led the group to the Scorpion Queen’s banquet, helped Cai Wenqi get a seat, and used the Black Altar Bowl to cleanse some wine.
• The Scorpion Queen made the guests drink venomous wine until they became excited and eager for more.
• The Scorpion Queen ordered a dance, and the Golden Scorpion Beauties began biting their partners while the intoxicated guests felt no pain.
• Lin Baici realized the dancing signaled the monsters’ mealtime and noticed a Golden Scorpion Beauty watching him.

Lin Baici protected his companions from the Scorpion Queen’s drunken banquet by using Monster Corpse meat disguised as Squid Jerky to sober them, then searched for a way to survive until the banquet ended. After the Scorpion Beauties forced him toward the dance floor, he pretended to get handsy and began punching one of them, making her drunk.

• Lin Baici drank the Scorpion Queen’s wine to protect Jin Yingzhen and tested how much the monsters would tolerate while he drank.
• Lin Baici fed Squid Jerky made from Monster Corpse meat to his companions, restoring their senses while they pretended to remain drunk.
• The Scorpion Beauties dragged more than thirty drunken guests away to be eaten, and Lin Baici noticed the monsters watching a sundial as the banquet continued.
• Lin Baici inferred that advancing the sundial might bring the banquet to an end, but Song Huizhi’s hypnotized volunteer was killed before he could move it.
• The Scorpion Queen ordered the Golden Scorpion Beauties to get Lin Baici’s group drunk, and Lin Baici pretended to stumble toward the dance floor before punching the Scorpion Beauty supporting him until she became drunk.

Lin Baici persuaded the Golden Scorpion Queen to join him and the others in investigating the force binding her to the God Ruins. A Pharaoh King's invitation then teleported them to a river aboard a Sun Boat, while those who failed to close their eyes in time were left to face the mummies.

• Lin Baici used the sundial and Lover's Lipstick to survive the Scorpion Queen's banquet, then helped the surviving guests escape.
• The Scorpion Queen kept Lin Baici behind and proposed having a child with him, but he persuaded her to investigate the God's Remains instead.
• Lin Baici reunited with Xia Hongyao and the others with the Scorpion Queen, and they set out to find the force binding her.
• A mummy delivered the Pharaoh King's invitation, and the group accepted it by closing their eyes as instructed.
• Lin Baici and the invited group appeared aboard a Sun Boat on a river, while those who closed their eyes too late were attacked by mummies.

Lin Baici discovered that Anubis demanded valuable fare rather than judging passengers’ purity or hearts, and helped the group pay enough to board the Sun Boat. Anubis selected the ten passengers who had offered the least valuable items and ordered them to jump into the River Styx or face the jackals.

• Anubis appeared aboard the Sun Boat and demanded passengers prove they had pure bodies and beautiful hearts, while warning that only a hundred could ride.
• After the Golden Scorpion Queen persuaded Anubis to spare Lin Baici, Lin Baici realized the test was really about paying passage and told a frightened girl to hand over her valuables.
• Anubis accepted the girl’s purse but rejected a young man’s worn phone, then sent four jackals to kill him when he could not pay.
• God of Gluttony warned Lin Baici that passengers who paid too little would be thrown overboard, while those who paid too much would attract Anubis’s greed.
• Lin Baici warned the group to offer valuables around the middle of the crowd’s range, and the passengers handed over their possessions to Anubis.
• Anubis singled out the ten people who had offered the least valuable items and ordered them to jump into the river or be torn apart by jackals.

Anubis tried to force Jin Yingzhen and Xia Hongyao to prove their hearts were beautiful, so Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao attacked him. After Lin Baici discovered that Anubis’s true body was the Sun Boat’s oar and destroyed it, he claimed Anubis’s scepter and absorbed its Divine Grace.

• Anubis demanded that Jin Yingzhen and Xia Hongyao prove themselves, and Lin Baici decided to fight the monster when it threatened them again.
• Xia Hongyao and Lin Baici attacked Anubis with Muscle Buddha, and Lin Baici pierced its eye with the Champion Dart.
• Anubis recovered from their attacks, summoned jackals, and claimed to have twelve lives, while Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao kept fighting it.
• The God of Gluttony revealed that Anubis’s true body was the Sun Boat’s oar, and Gu Qingqiu sent Xia Hongyao to search the cabin as Jin Yingzhen and Hua Yueyu rushed there.
• The Little Clay Figure brought out the broken oar, and Lin Baici destroyed it, causing Anubis and its jackals to vanish.
• Lin Baici picked up Anubis’s scepter, learned that it carried the Divine Grace Dance with Wolves, and absorbed the Light Orb.

Lin Baici found a pendant that made him captain of the Sun Boat, then used its authority to throw Song Huizhi into the river after revealing her ties to the Lost Coast. Song Huizhi’s fate remained uncertain as Lin Baici waited to see whether she would offer a ransom.

• Lin Baici gave Xia Hongyao the Dance with Wolves Divine Grace and handed Jin Yingzhen the golden scepter for protection.
• Lin Baici found the Nile No. 3 pendant hidden beneath the cabin table and gained control of the Sun Boat.
• About a hundred people appeared on deck, including Xia Hongyao’s Division Nine colleagues Fei Xiao and Fang Tianhua.
• Lin Baici accused Song Huizhi of belonging to the Lost Coast, and Song Huizhi admitted he had figured it out.
• When Song Huizhi refused to reveal her captain’s Divine Grace and God's Taboo Objects, Lin Baici used the ship’s authority to expel her overboard.

Lin Baici led the survivors into the desert in search of the God's Remains, while Song Huizhi drowned after discovering she could not reach shore. A sandstorm struck the group, and Lin Baici used his stored supplies and God's Taboo Objects to shelter them as the God of Gluttony warned that a monster was approaching.

• Song Huizhi swam away from the Sun Boat, realized the river would not let her reach shore, and drowned after hours of swimming.
• Lin Baici used the God-Asking Tortoise Shell, then led 120 people into the desert while others stayed behind and were devoured by Scarab Beetles.
• Lin Baici supplied the group with water from his Black Altar Bowl as they crossed the scorching desert and spotted a tower-like shape on the horizon.
• Gu Qingqiu spotted a sandstorm approaching, and Lin Baici summoned a tank and handed out goggles and masks as the group tried to take shelter.
• Lin Baici summoned Muscle Buddha to brace the tank and shield the group from the storm, then the God of Gluttony warned him that a monster was approaching.