Chapter Summaries

White Night recognized Yin Yi as the daughter of Xun Yin, the renowned Medium he had known as a child, and revealed that he was her son, Wang Tao. Yin Yi told him about her mother’s cruelty and her life with her sister, leaving White Night reflecting on how prolonged contact with darkness could corrupt a Medium.

• White Night remembered meeting Xun Yin as a child and asked Yin Yi whether she knew a Medium named Yin Na'er.
• Yin Yi realized White Night knew her mother and reacted with suspicion, while Lynn watched their exchange.
• White Night identified himself as Wang Tao, Xun Yin’s only son, and Yin Yi recognized his name from accounts of the supernatural incident involving the school building and the Flesh God Cult.
• Yin Yi recounted how her mother turned her into an Evil Spirit at birth and bound her to her sister.
• White Night reflected that people who remained close to darkness could eventually be consumed by it, as he believed had happened to his mother.

White Night praised Yin Yi for overcoming her resentment and asked whether Lynn had guided her, but her account of his supposed lessons made White Night believe Lynn had been corrupting her. Lynn fled with Yin Yi after White Night attacked them with rockets, leaving him insisting he had done nothing wrong.

• White Night praised Yin Yi for surviving hardship without being consumed by resentment and asked whether her sister had helped change her.
• Yin Yi credited her older sister with sparing her and treating her kindly, then said Lynn had taught her many things and was finding her a job.
• Yin Yi described Lynn’s supposed lessons about dealing with enemies, money, mutation, and obeying a master, leaving White Night and Lynn horrified.
• White Night turned a murderous gaze on Lynn and demanded to know whether Yin Yi had invented everything, while Lynn swore he was innocent.
• White Night launched rockets at Lynn, who grabbed Yin Yi and escaped as White Night shouted for them to come back.

Lynn discovered that Yin Yi’s desire was abnormally high and kept rising, even though he had stopped using his M ability on her. He suppressed it somewhat with cold water, but the cause remained unexplained.

• Lynn hid in an alley while White Night chased and attacked his puppet, then blamed Yin Yi for damaging his image as a mentor.
• Lynn ruffled Yin Yi’s hair as punishment, but her intense reaction made him suspect something was wrong.
• Lynn used [Random Diagnosis] and learned that Yin Yi had severely excessive desire that could cause abnormal behavior and uncontrollable associations.
• Lynn poured Alice’s cold water over Yin Yi, briefly reducing her symptoms and desire.
• Lynn diagnosed Yin Yi again and found her desire at 87 percent and still rising.

Lynn discovered that his M skill’s effects were returning over time and affecting both Yin Yi and the Flesh Humanoids. He suspected the Weeping Clown’s Curse was spreading through his abilities and resolved to find a way to stop it before it harmed his allies.

• Lynn questioned Yin Yi about how many times she had relieved herself since his M had affected her, then considered why her desire had returned.
• Lynn connected to a Flesh Aberrant and heard the bound Flesh Humanoids describe developing similar symptoms before he severed the connection.
• Lynn concluded that M’s effects were spreading persistently and that the strongest affected people developed symptoms more slowly.
• Lynn suspected the Weeping Clown’s Curse was changing his Desire Domain abilities and feared that M could corrupt his allies, including Miss Doll.
• Lynn slammed his fist into the wall and resolved to find a solution before the Curse caused more damage.

Lynn blamed the weeping clown’s curse for his depravity and took Yin Yi to Wandering Soul Alley, where her symptoms of M worsened. After Zuo Zuo stopped Lynn from offering her liquor in a suggestive way, Lynn continued onward with Yin Yi and asked if she felt better.

• Lynn decided to return to Dark Night City for an examination and used his warp scythe to travel with Yin Yi to Wandering Soul Alley.
• Yin Yi’s symptoms returned, and she told Lynn that her spirit body felt increasingly strange and that she kept having improper thoughts about him.
• Lynn offered Yin Yi a bottle of liquor and began suggesting how she could use it to relieve her symptoms.
• Zuo Zuo slapped Lynn, warned Yin Yi not to listen to him, and told her to throw the stopper away.
• Lynn walked ahead with a handprint on his face, blamed the weeping clown, and asked Yin Yi if she felt better.

Lynn returned to his old home in Wandering Soul Alley with Yin Yi and found that the Bloodsaw Apothecary’s sign had been changed to “Bloodsaw Restroom.” As they watched the shop, Hellish customers emerged looking satisfied, revealing that the place served as a restaurant and bathhouse as well as a restroom.

• Yin Yi cooled her burning spirit body by wearing Lynn’s ice-soaked clothes, while Lynn promised to find a proper solution for her in Dark Night City.
• Lynn and Yin Yi reached the shop where Lynn had lived for nearly three years, and Yin Yi read its altered sign as “Bloodsaw Restroom.”
• Lynn became furious over the sign and claimed his true name was Enn Lynn Blood Saw dot com, but he decided to watch the shop before attacking.
• A burned ghost left the shop after a meal, and Lynn received a notification that the customer’s favorable review increased his renown in Wandering Soul Alley.
• A pig-headed monster emerged looking freshly bathed, and Lynn explained that Hell’s creatures enjoyed the shop’s filthy, heated facilities.

Lynn and Yin Yi investigated the brothel that had taken over the Potion Shop, with Lynn claiming he was gathering evidence of slave trafficking. He entered as a customer and provoked the Flesh Humanoid at the counter, but the encounter paused when he slapped down a Black Skull Coin.

• Two Stitching Monsters left Blood Saw's doors with seductive one-eyed humanoids, and Yin Yi realized the shop had become a brothel.
• Lynn and Yin Yi went to investigate whether slave girls were being trafficked, though Lynn insisted that buying sex was only a pretext.
• Lynn entered the changed Potion Shop, asked for ten young, pretty girls, and found the Flesh Humanoid serving customers at the counter.
• The Flesh Humanoid questioned whether Lynn was an outsider, then grabbed a Boning Knife and attacked him after Lynn struck it with his money pouch.
• Lynn slapped a Black Skull Coin onto the table, stopping the Flesh Humanoid mid-attack.

Lynn bribed a Flesh Humanoid into becoming his obedient dog and ordered him to arrange entertainment. Meanwhile, Big Tongue profited by turning captured cultists into a prostitution business, and two captains praised Lynn after discovering the idea in his notebook.

• Lynn scattered Skeleton Coins and offered them to a Flesh Humanoid, who eagerly agreed to serve as his dog.
• Lynn warned the Flesh Humanoid to keep him satisfied, then told him to arrange everything for their entertainment.
• In the Back Courtyard, Big Tongue drank with two Flesh Humanoid captains who praised him for sharing profits from their new business.
• The captains explained that Big Tongue had chained up their subordinates and rented them out to customers in different forms.
• Big Tongue showed the captains Lynn's handwritten notebook, and they admired Lynn for inspiring the scheme.

Lynn infiltrated the Flesh Humanoid Cult’s brothel disguised as a wealthy customer and found Big Tongue drinking with the cult’s captains. Big Tongue briefly suspected Lynn was nearby but failed to sense him, while Lynn confirmed to Yin Yi that Big Tongue was his Little Darling.

• Lynn followed a Flesh Humanoid through his former shop and learned that the cult had turned it into a brothel to spite its previous owner.
• The Flesh Humanoid told Lynn that the cult was prepared to deal with the former owner and had a favored one stationed in Wandering Soul Alley.
• Lynn posed as a rich customer, and the Flesh Humanoid showed the captains his Black Skull Coin and promised them a lucrative deal.
• The captains urged the Flesh Humanoid to treat Lynn well, then toasted Big Tongue, who had helped them improve their business.
• Big Tongue noticed Lynn’s disguised figure and briefly sensed something familiar, but his Transdimensional Sense found no connection to the Colossus Heart.
• Yin Yi asked if the tongue-like monster was the one Lynn had mentioned, and Lynn confirmed that Big Tongue was his Little Darling.

Lynn and Yin Yi discovered that the Flesh Humanoid’s promised “girls” were captive creatures who could be reshaped by ringing a bell. The creatures transformed first into succubi and then into little lolis, while Lynn’s Abstinence mission failed and its timer was set to restart in five minutes.

• Lynn followed the Flesh Humanoid into a room where chained Flesh Humanoids were penned in a pit, shocking Yin Yi and upsetting Lynn.
• The Flesh Humanoid rang a bell, and the captives transformed into succubi.
• Lynn asked the Flesh Humanoid to show a less intense form, and the creatures changed into little lolis.
• Lynn’s Abstinence mission failed after a streak of 2 hours and 32 minutes, and he experienced dizziness and depleted blood vitality.

Lynn infiltrated a Flesh God Cult brothel to investigate its trafficking and learned that the creatures posing as enslaved girls were actually drugged cult members. When the Flesh Humanoid revealed that Lynn’s own notes had inspired the scheme and branded him the most depraved culprit, Lynn shot it dead.

• Lynn recoiled from the transformed girls and struggled to maintain his composure as the Flesh Humanoid presented them to him.
• Lynn questioned the Flesh Humanoid and learned the girls were cult members drugged and forced to serve customers for profit.
• The Flesh Humanoid revealed that Lynn’s notes had given them the idea and described Lynn as a depraved infiltrator.
• Lynn shot the Flesh Humanoid, killing it and gaining 50 experience points.

Lynn killed a Flesh Humanoid and took its Soul-Seducing Bell and other items, then mapped out the remaining enemies in the castle. He and Zuo Zuo began silently eliminating them, leaving the three Flesh Humanoids in the courtyard, including Big Tongue, for last.

• Lynn killed the Flesh Humanoid and took the Soul-Seducing Bell, Black Skull Coin, Skeleton Coins, Soul-Stealing Pollen, and bananas from its corpse.
• Lynn used his Plague Doctor Mask to locate the remaining Flesh Humanoids and identified Transcendent-level Big Tongue as the main threat.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo silently killed the three Flesh Humanoids in the underground library.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo killed the two Flesh Humanoids in the Attic, and Lynn said they would next deal with the three in the courtyard.

Lynn used Blood Aberrant Vine seeds to turn the kitchen stew into irresistible chicken soup and served it to Big Tongue and the two captains. As they ate, two wounded Flesh Humanoids fled toward the Bloodsaw Apothecary to warn the other outposts about the monsters.

• Lynn scattered Blood Aberrant Vine seeds into the stew, causing it to give off a delicious fragrance.
• Lynn served the chicken soup to Big Tongue and the two captains, claiming he had found special seasoning at the Black Market.
• Big Tongue and the captains drank the soup eagerly, while system notifications reported increased happiness and resentment.
• Two badly wounded Flesh Humanoids raced toward the Bloodsaw Apothecary to warn the other outposts, as green slime continued dissolving their bodies.

After the Night Doctor Faction attacked the Flesh God Cult’s strongholds around Wandering Soul Alley, a messenger warned the captains inside Bloodsaw Apothecary to flee. Lynn revealed that he had already killed the shop’s other occupants, then confronted the captains and Big Tongue, leaving them terrified.

• A Night Doctor emerged from the black mist after killing a Flesh Humanoid and reported that the cult’s strongholds were surrounded.
• A wounded messenger reached Bloodsaw Apothecary and warned the two captains that the Night Doctors were wiping out the cult’s bases.
• The captains tried to assemble their subordinates, but one captain found a dead Flesh Humanoid in a nearby room.
• Lynn revealed himself as the shop’s owner, and Zuo Zuo spat out a skull to show that he had killed the nearby occupants.
• Lynn transformed back into his familiar appearance, frightened the captains, and greeted Big Tongue as his old companion.

Lynn returned to his Potion Shop and confronted Big Tongue for colluding with the Flesh God Cult and turning the shop into a den of corruption. After discovering Big Tongue had hidden far more Skeleton Coins than he claimed, Lynn punished the Flesh Humanoids with Mutant Vines and left Big Tongue sweating over his next move.

• Lynn confronted Big Tongue, who claimed the Flesh Humanoids had forced him to cooperate with the Flesh God Cult.
• Big Tongue tried to prove his loyalty by giving Lynn his Skeleton Coins, but Lynn suspected he was hiding money.
• The two Flesh Humanoids attacked Lynn, and he snapped his fingers to make red vines burst through their bodies.
• Lynn questioned Big Tongue about the money, and Big Tongue vomited up another 1,210 Skeleton Coins, blaming his poor arithmetic for the lie.
• Lynn accidentally snapped his fingers again, causing the vines to bloom and the Flesh Humanoids to wither as he wondered which finger controlled them.

Lynn forced Big Tongue to surrender his hidden coins and questioned him about the Flesh God Cult’s search for Lady Blood Cloak. After learning that she had refused the cult’s summoning because of her daughter, Lynn demanded to know where the girl was.

• Big Tongue coughed up more Skeleton Coins, and Lynn discovered his hidden cellar stash and confiscated it.
• Lynn completed the hidden quest for Big Tongue’s secret wealth and threatened him into revealing what he knew.
• Big Tongue told Lynn that the Flesh God Cult’s followers had sought Lady Blood Cloak and tried to persuade her to answer their summoning ritual.
• Big Tongue revealed that Lady Blood Cloak refused because of her daughter, and Lynn demanded to know where the girl was.

Lynn hurried to the Flesh God Cult’s last stronghold in Wandering Soul Alley after learning that the cult had captured Xiao Yada, Lady Blood Cloak’s daughter. He reached White Night’s forces, but White Night immediately fired a rocket at him, and Lynn made Zuo Zuo swallow the blast.

• Lynn learned that the Night Doctors had nearly cleared the Flesh God Cult’s strongholds and asked them to search for a little Flesh Wraith girl.
• The anti-flesh Night Doctor reported that no one had found the girl, and Lynn resolved to rescue Xiao Yada from the cult.
• Lynn and the anti-flesh Night Doctor hurried through Wandering Soul Alley as the Night Doctors’ surprise attack destroyed the cult’s outposts.
• Lynn arrived at the encircled church and asked White Night about the situation.
• White Night aimed an RPG launcher at Lynn and fired, so Lynn forced Zuo Zuo to open her mouth and swallow the rocket.

Lynn and White Night struggled to reach a Chosen of the Flesh God Cult who had sealed himself inside a church basement with powerful Bio-Armor. Lynn called Sir Awen for help, but after Awen offered to send a psionic weapon, Lynn immediately phoned Matriarch as well.

• White Night told Lynn that the Chosen and his elite troops had retreated into the church basement behind a barrier generated by Bio-Armor.
• Lynn proposed calling Sir Awen, then contacted him while White Night and the Night Doctors watched in disbelief.
• Lynn explained the situation and asked Sir Awen to come help, but Awen said he could not descend freely and offered to warp over a psionic weapon.
• Lynn sent Sir Awen the coordinates and then called Matriarch, claiming he was about to die and needed support.

Lynn pretended that he and White Night were in desperate danger to obtain powerful bio-armor from the Self-Binding Angel, then called the Witch God to request another artifact. The Witch God and the other Origins recognized his scam, and she recalled that Lynn had once used a similar lie to lure Xiao Xiao to him.

• Lynn called the Self-Binding Angel and falsely claimed that he and White Night were overwhelmed by the Flesh God Cult, prompting her to promise holy-series bio-armor.
• Lynn ended the call after thanking the Self-Binding Angel, leaving White Night stunned by his shameless deception.
• Lynn immediately called the Witch God and claimed he was trapped, asking her to send a powerful Witchcraft Series item.
• The Witch God agreed to send an item, and Lynn ended the call after declaring his affection for her.
• The Witch God saw that the other Origins had stopped inscribing the magic array and asked whether Lynn often called them with false emergencies.
• The Self-Binding Angel and Witch God recalled that Lynn had previously used a false predicament to lure Xiao Xiao to him.

Lynn contacted Colossus Brain to ask for emotional encouragement, teasing her in front of the Origins until she nearly charged off to confront him. He then rallied the Night Doctors to establish a Beacon in Wandering Soul Alley, and the first shipment of supplies arrived as they prepared to attack the Church’s Barrier.

• Colossus Brain insisted Lynn would not contact her, but he immediately called and asked her for help with a dangerous mission.
• Lynn told Colossus Brain he only wanted her to blow him a kiss, and she nearly rushed to Wandering Soul Alley to punish him.
• Colossus Brain agreed to Warp Lynn’s requested supplies, especially her share, and promised to give him a huge present.
• Lynn ended the call and ordered the Night Doctors to set up a Beacon so Dark Night City could send equipment to break through the Barrier.
• The Beacon linked with Dark Night City, and the first shipment of supplies teleported into Wandering Soul Alley.