Chapter Summaries

Lin En and Hana Ye fired her homemade Human Cannon at the Secret Cult members approaching Shakira’s house. Lin En then stripped to prepare for a fight, eager to test what his maxed-out fullness would turn him into.

• Lin En scolded Hana Ye, learned she had brought two shells, and discovered her disguised mortar could also launch Hana Ye and Lolotia.
• Lin En spotted approaching guests and ordered Hana Ye to fire the cannon down the dark street.
• Three Secret Cult members hurried toward Shakira, discussing Lin Ke’s apparent return from the dead and their plans amid the Red Moon crisis.
• The cannon blast struck the approaching group and raised a small mushroom cloud.
• Lin En’s trousers blew off in the wind, and he said he was preparing to test his stats while Hana Ye recoiled in alarm.

Lin En confronted the three figures who had attacked him, revealed that he had Shakira’s Origin Substance, and challenged them to fight. Hana Ye interrupted his dramatic pose to cover him, and after Lin En scolded her, Nox charged at them.

• Three figures emerged from the smoke, and the ghostfire-cloaked figure realized someone was targeting them.
• Lin En appeared with Shakira’s Origin Substance and told the group he had taken back what belonged to him.
• The ghostfire-cloaked figure asked whether Lin En wanted to fight, and Lin En accepted the challenge.
• Hana Ye rushed in with Lin En’s pants and covered him, ruining his dramatic pose; Lin En then scolded her.
• The doctor called Lin En a mocker, and an enraged Nox charged at Lin En and Hana Ye.

Lin En killed Nox and demanded the origin substance tied to Lin Ke's body from the cloaked skeleton. When they failed to reach an agreement, the skeleton revealed his monstrous form and identified himself as the Skeleton Lord of the Spirit Realm.

• Lin En dodged Nox's attacks, crushed his fist, and killed him with a single punch.
• Igor dropped his blade in terror as Lin En retrieved the origin substance from Nox's corpse.
• The skeleton accused Lin En of being an Abyssal Species and proposed they leave each other alone.
• Lin En demanded the origin substance belonging to his body, but the skeleton refused and said Lin En was only a parasite.
• The skeleton shattered a ring, transformed into a towering skeletal monstrosity, and announced that he was the Skeleton Lord of the Spirit Realm.

Lin En confronted Skeleton Lord Salgon and revealed a terrifying transformation after advancing, as the city’s warning bells rang. He shouted “Tiga” amid a flash of blood-red light, leaving Hana Ye and Salgon stunned and Igor frightened.

• Skeleton Lord Salgon attacked Lin En with his scythe, but Lin En escaped the blow while carrying Hana Ye.
• Salgon identified Lin En as an Abyssal Species and dismissed him as a minor threat, while Lin En hinted that the previous night’s bells had rung for his arrival.
• Lin En used his excess satiety to advance, releasing a twisted aura that made Salgon recoil and caused the city’s warning bells to toll.
• Lin En’s body erupted into black tentacles as the black mist dispersed and the rift watched him.
• Lin En raised his hand toward the sky, shouted “Tiga,” and was enveloped in dazzling blood-red light, frightening Hana Ye, Salgon, and Igor.

Lin En transformed into a colossal tentacled monster in South City, terrifying Skeleton Lord Salgon and drawing the attention of the Exorcists at Gear Street. The chapter ended with Salgon revealing that he saw Lin En as the Thousand-Armed Demon God, the eternal Lord of Crawling.

• The Spirit Bell rang nine times, and Jones learned that an ultra-ancient great demon's aura had appeared in South City's Lower City rather than at Gear Street.
• Lin En grew into a vast tentacled being while Hana Ye hid in her trash can and Skeleton Lord Salgon stared in terror.
• Salgon recognized the aura associated with an outer god, but Lin En told him that this was not his true body.
• Salgon's Ring of True Seeing shattered when he looked at Lin En, and Lin En killed the fleeing doctor with a tentacle.
• Lin En seized Salgon and demanded to know what he had seen, and Salgon called him the Thousand-Armed Demon God and the Lord of Crawling.

Lin En interrogated the Skeleton Lord about his murder and the Crimson Secret Cult, then his second-stage advancement overwhelmed his vessel and shattered reality. Jones and the Demon Horde arrived to find that the surrounding street had fallen into the Spirit Realm.

• Lin En battered the Skeleton Lord until he handed over the origin substance, then demanded answers about his host’s death and the corpse’s disposal.
• The Skeleton Lord revealed that Shakira had ordered the host killed and that he, Shakira, and two dead humans belonged to the Crimson Secret Cult, which worshipped the Crimson King.
• Lin En threatened the Skeleton Lord, who offered his loyalty, while Lin En questioned the Spirit Bell’s ranking of powerful beings.
• Lin En’s second-stage advancement reached its limit, his vessel cracked, and his chaotic aura caused reality and the nearby buildings to collapse into the Spirit Realm.
• Jones arrived with the Demon Horde and found a blank area over a hundred meters wide where the street had been, concluding that something had fallen into the Spirit Realm.

Lin En’s immense aura caused reality to collapse repeatedly, sending him, Hana Ye, and the skeleton down through the Spirit Realm’s layers. Lin En forced Hana Ye into his body and returned to the Warp with the skeleton’s skull and soul, leaving the skeleton to realize he had been brought before an Outer God.

• Lin En, Hana Ye, and the skeleton fell from the Surface World into the first layer of the Spirit Realm as Lin En’s aura shattered reality.
• The group fell through the second layer after Lin En’s presence destabilized it, and Lin En realized his body could no longer contain his power.
• Lin En hid Hana Ye inside his body, then used [Dismiss projection] to return and took the skeleton’s skull and soul with him.
• The skeleton awoke beside Lin En’s cocoon in the Warp, saw the Sun, and identified Lin En as an Outer God.
• The skeleton wondered whether the Valkyrie who ended the Eternal Night Era was already dead.

After completing his second-stage advancement in the Warp, Lin En discovered that Salgon had been brought along as an item. Salgon begged to become Lin En’s servant and spokesman, but his final suggestion left them in awkward silence.

• Lin En’s cocoon burst, completing his second-stage advancement and revealing his new tentacled form.
• Lin En discovered that Salgon’s ghostfire had survived even though his skeleton was crushed, and the system log showed that Salgon had returned to the Warp with him.
• Lin En prepared to kill Salgon, but Salgon begged for a chance to explain why he could be useful.
• Salgon offered to guide Lin En, gather information, warn him about powerful ability users, and recruit servants in the Spirit Realm.
• When Lin En demanded a concise explanation, Salgon called himself Lin En’s guide, spokesman, and spymaster, then accidentally offered to abduct and sell little girls.

Lin En brought Salgon back as his loyal servant and returned to his lair, where Salgon mistook the humble surroundings and a battered cooking pot for signs of divine power. Lin En then checked the abilities unlocked by his advancement, including granting a follower the power to harvest emotions and creating and fusing origin substances.

• Salgon pledged eternal loyalty to Lin En, who warned him to obey and asked whether the fallen noble girl would be safe in the Second Layer of the Spirit Realm.
• Lin En teleported with Salgon through the black mist to his lair, believing the aura left in the noble girl's vessel would keep creatures away from her.
• Lin En quickly hid his books, food, and comics before telling Salgon that the lair was his birthplace and divine domain.
• Salgon touched Lin En's battered cooking pot, felt its aura, and mistook it for a powerful demonic artifact, bringing back Lin En's bad memories of cooking his own flesh.
• Lin En opened his panel and reviewed his new second-stage abilities, which let him grant one of up to three followers the power to harvest emotions, forge origin substance from satiety, and fuse two pieces of origin substance.

Lin En discovered that he could create origin substance by spending satiety and merge separate substances together. After learning how sequences worked, he wondered whether combining enough single-sequence substances could let him create a substance filled with identical sequences.

• Lin En considered appointing Salgon to harvest emotional fragments for him, and Salgon eagerly accepted the idea of serving without wages.
• Lin En activated his new skills and spent 300 satiety to create first-order origin substance with two inactive sequences.
• Salgon explained that origin substance drew on the Spirit Realm, that living beings could implant no more than nine substances, and that sequences could not be altered once formed.
• Salgon described the Valkyrie, who had supposedly reached godhood with eighty-one identical Holy Flame sequences.
• Lin En spent another 300 satiety to create a second origin substance, then merged it with the first to make one containing three sequences.
• Lin En asked whether he could combine many single-sequence substances to produce one whose sequences were all identical.