Arc 17Chapters 401–425
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The Six agreed to visit Calamity Castle after Little Whale described it as a relatively safe amusement park where they might encounter a way to become a god. They arrived at the enormous castle and adapted to its dense Calamity Power, but a strange child noticed Ye Buyu staring at him and reacted angrily.
Ye Buyu and her companions queued to enter the Ancient Castle, where a Calamity tried to provoke them into a fight. Ye Buyu recognized his scheme and let Wan Lan and Su Wuwei verbally humiliate him as the group went inside.
Ye Buyu and her companions entered Calamity Castle and agreed to play the Clown’s rock-paper-scissors game after securing a temporary Soul Contract. They discovered the game was a deadly guillotine obstacle course, with the Long-Tongued Man also joining under a wager for the Clown’s flesh.
Ye Buyu, Wan Lan, Mu Bingge, and Lou Guanshan entered the Clown Rock-Paper-Scissors Game while Su Wuwei and Kou Ying stayed outside. As the players gained strange items and dodged deadly obstacles, Ye Buyu turned the long-tongued man into a cucumber, and Lou Guanshan raced ahead with his winning streak intact.
Ye Buyu and the others battled the long-tongued Calamity after he used a Replication Coin to multiply his items and overwhelm them. Ye Buyu’s Compulsory Cost and homing bullets helped turn the fight, and the chapter ended with the four attacking him together as he tried to escape.
Ye Buyu and her companions killed the Long-Tongued Man and escaped the burning Amusement Park with a map from the Clown. They set out to investigate the nearest attraction, while the Clown learned that people from the Salvation Hall of Fame had entered the castle.
The Six searched the amusement park for useful information but avoided attractions built around killing and violence. They found the Divination Spinning Teacup, where the owner explained that answers came at an equivalent price and warned them it had no clues about becoming a god.
Ye Buyu and the Six learned the Performance Party’s rules and the dangers of entering the Ancient Castle, but their questions and attempted divinations angered the teacup. The teacup punished them by spinning their seats wildly, leaving them clinging on and trying not to vomit.
Ye Buyu and the others stopped the Divination Teacups from spinning, escaped as the Amusement Park collapsed, and decided to head for the Ancient Castle. On the way, a bloodied stranger collapsed before them, and a man from a spiked carriage mocked and kicked the unconscious victim.
Ye Buyu and her companions rescued a chained person and a corpse from Parade Float, the Lord of the Mobile Amusement Park, and fled toward the Ancient Castle. Ye Buyu and Wan Lan turned the pursuit against him, leaving the gathered onlookers stunned as he was blasted out of sight.
Ye Buyu and the others reached the Ancient Castle and had to answer the guard’s questions to enter the Performance Party. After hearing their answers, the guard fell silent, leaving them and the onlookers waiting to learn whether they would be allowed through.
Six visitors entered the Ancient Castle early after the Guard approved their answers, provoking the Float Knight, whom the Guard beheaded. Hongyan brought Xiaoqing into the castle after the Divination Spinning Teacup was destroyed, where they encountered the six visitors.
Ye Buyu and her companions rescued Ling Wei and Qiu An, then discovered that they were already inside the Ancient Castle and had angered several of its inhabitants. When the Performance Party’s Identity Cards appeared, all six received golden cards, stunning the castle’s occupants.
Ye Buyu and her companions discovered that their Golden Identity Cards forced them to participate in the Ancient Castle’s Performance Party, leaving them unable to forfeit. They learned that stolen cards could let their holders forfeit, but the group faced a deadly game against stronger beings.
The Six learned that their Golden Identity Cards made them targets at the Performance Party, but Little Whale and Little Wan gave everyone Resurrection Cards as a safety net. With the party still ahead, the Six decided to use their cards and protected lives to gather information and strike back at anyone who targeted them.
At the Ancient Castle’s Performance Party, Clown announced that performers would compete for popularity through votes from guests and viewers across the surrounding star regions. When a fight broke out and NPCs exposed the Six’s Golden Identity Cards, Lou Guanshan awakened the castle’s defenses, which eliminated many of the attackers.
Qian Tu demanded Lou Guanshan’s Golden Identity Card and attacked Ye Buyu after the group mocked her. Ye Buyu forced Qian Tu to one knee, Su Wuwei killed her guard, and Qian Tu broke free before launching another attack.
Qian Tu and the Amusement Park performers ambushed Ye Buyu and her group, but the Six broke free and turned the fight around. Ye Buyu used her power to force the remaining performers to kneel and demanded their Identity Cards or payment, ordering the group to kill those who refused.
Ye Buyu and the other five forced the rival factions to pay materials to escape her kneeling restraint, but Shiying turned the Lost Legion against those who had not paid. As the fight began, Shiying tried to claim Ye Buyu’s spear, and she called out his shameless excuse for stealing it.
Ye Buyu and her teammates fired makeshift ion cannons to distract Shiying’s group, then fled as Qian Tu was about to emerge. Qian Tu’s rage devastated the Ancient Castle until Little Wan stopped her, and Clown announced punishment for her attack on a Spectator.
Ye Buyu and the others watched the factions gathered at the Ancient Castle and asked Little Whale to explain their origins and strength. The chapter left them better informed about the powers surrounding them, including the Dark Abyss Calamity Dynasty, the Lost Legion, Black Plague, and Rift.
Little Whale explained the gods, the Primordial Beginning Tower, and Judgment while the six mushrooms watched performers battle at the gathering. When humanoid NPCs launched the second half’s slaughter, Lou Guanshan triggered Building Punishment, adding chaos to the melee.
Qian Tu confronted the six Golden Identity Card holders after their accumulated punishments caused chaos, then invited them to talk when she could no longer act. When she asked for their names, Ye Buyu and the others refused, leaving everyone furious and still ignorant of their identities.
Ye Buyu and her companions turned the Lost Legion’s attack against them, killing Shiying in the Ancient Castle. Mu Bingge then changed the other performers’ identities to the Evil Faction, and Su Wuwei set their Calamity Power ablaze.
Ye Buyu and her companions cleared the field by attacking the Calamities at the Performance Party, while Qian Tu questioned their motives and revealed why she had wanted to kill Ye Buyu. The battle continued as Qian Tu’s curiosity replaced her immediate killing intent.