Chapter Summaries

Xu Ye and Qin Feng learned that Qin Yanhua held the eligibility to become the Death God Proxy and that the Reincarnation Cult planned to finalize it at a death marriage ritual in Uman City. As Xu Ye urged Qin Feng to protect her, Shenchuan Xiu punished Shenchuan Shengshui and ordered him to bring Qin Yanhua in.

• Qin Feng questioned how Qin Yanhua had escaped Shenchuan Shengshui, and Xu Ye suspected the assassin had deliberately spared her.
• Zhang Yuan reported that Li Qiong had gained the Death God Proxy eligibility while investigating the Reincarnation Cult, then transferred it to Qin Yanhua to protect it.
• Zhang Yuan revealed that the Reincarnation Cult and Teachers' Club were tied to human trafficking and that a final death marriage ritual would take place in Uman City in half a month.
• Xu Ye urged Qin Feng to keep Qin Yanhua safe, warning him that seizing another person's path to godhood would make him a false god.
• Shenchuan Xiu slapped and tortured Shenchuan Shengshui, then ordered him to bring Qin Yanhua before him.

After developing his combat abilities, Xu Ye followed Jiang Mei to a cemetery and discovered she had been tricked into a grotesque scheme involving a supposedly dead rich man. A rotting corpse emerged, turned the conspirators into zombies, and targeted Xu Ye, who fled as the Bandit Lord identified the Ancient Organism.

• Xu Ye reflected on the world's collapse and tested his Sequence Talents by firing detached fingers and shifting his organs.
• Xu Ye followed Jiang Mei to a cemetery, where gray-robed men tricked her into entering a coffin with Chen Fang for a fake resurrection ritual.
• After Jiang Mei left, Chen Fang and his companions mocked her, and Chen Fang dismissed the Reincarnation Cult as a tool for social control.
• A rotting corpse burst from the ground, killed Chen Fang, and transformed him and the other conspirators into zombies.
• The Bandit Lord identified the creature as a rotting corpse, an Ancient Organism that reproduced by biting people, and Xu Ye ran as the zombies sensed him.

Xu Ye and Shenchuan Shengshui fought a horde of rotting corpses, including a powerful Sequence 7 follower of the Death God, before fleeing with Shenchuan Shengshui badly injured. When Shenchuan Shengshui offered to let Xu Ye go in exchange for sparing his life, Xu Ye knocked him unconscious and kidnapped him.

• Xu Ye discovered that destroying a rotting corpse’s spine stopped it, while the ancient Sequence 7 corpse stayed back and commanded the others.
• Xu Ye ran into Shenchuan Shengshui, drew him into the fight, and Shenchuan Shengshui sliced a rotting corpse apart with a Wind Blade.
• The rotting corpses unleashed poisonous arrows, and the ancient corpse used high-speed movement to attack Xu Ye and Shenchuan Shengshui.
• Xu Ye and Shenchuan Shengshui fought back, but the ancient corpse broke Shenchuan Shengshui’s arms and forced Xu Ye to retreat with him.
• Xu Ye carried the injured Shenchuan Shengshui toward Uman City, then knocked him unconscious, declared him kidnapped, and headed home with him.

Xu Ye absorbed the Illusion Overlord’s information about the Death God, Ron, and the fixed Divine Seats, then learned that Ron was a powerful guardian whose past differed sharply from the corpse he had encountered. Meanwhile, Ron executed a group of people and sent followers to seize a prospective candidate for the Death God’s representative, while preparing to confront intruders on the Island.

• Xu Ye brought the injured Shenchuan Shengshui back to the apartment, where Alice teased him before he compressed the Illusion Overlord’s energy in the bathroom.
• Xu Ye received information about the Death God Contest, the Death God’s reincarnation, Ron’s history and conflict with the Child of Calamity, and warnings not to trust three goddesses but to trust the Mechanical Emperor.
• Xu Ye and the Bandit Lord questioned why the Divine Seats were not all occupied, but Alice burst in and interrupted them; Shenchuan Shengshui then woke and saw Xu Ye with his pants half on.
• At the graveyard, Ron revived ordinary corpses and executed a group of young people, claiming that cleansing the world required evil methods.
• Ron ordered his followers to capture a prospective candidate for the Death God’s representative and said he would deal with a group of intruders who had landed on the Island.

Xu Ye freed Shenchuan Shengshui from the Shenchuan Family’s binding and recruited him as a spy, learning about the family’s plans and the Harvest Mother Goddess. The Reincarnation Cult then located them, putting the big celebrity who lived there in danger.

• Xu Ye deduced that the Shenchuan Family was holding Shenchuan Shengshui’s parents hostage and had bound him to the family.
• Bandit Lord helped Xu Ye break Shenchuan Shengshui’s energy binding while leaving enough of it to conceal the change.
• Xu Ye offered to rescue Shenchuan Shengshui and his parents in exchange for his help as a spy, and Shenchuan Shengshui agreed to answer questions on his own terms.
• Shenchuan Shengshui said the Harvest Mother Goddess had not descended, warned Xu Ye not to trust It, and explained that the Shenchuan Family used Its energy to restore a nearby Restricted Zone.
• Shenchuan Shengshui warned that the Reincarnation Cult had found them and could locate people qualified to become Death God Proxies; Xu Ye discreetly tapped his heart.

Xu Ye used a reckless disguise to help Qin Yanhua’s group evade the Reincarnation Cult and the Teachers’ Club, who had surrounded their restaurant. After an explosion, the group fled in four directions, and their pursuers split up to chase them.

• Xu Ye consulted his heart’s predictions and chose to split up rather than face the Reincarnation Cult head-on.
• At breakfast, Qian Yue confronted Qin Feng, while he noticed that people were being cleared from the street and danger was closing in.
• Xu Ye arrived disguised as a woman with Shenchuan Shengshui, taunted Qian Yue, and pretended to be Qin Feng’s lover; Qin Feng kissed him to maintain the act.
• Ise and Yun Changeng monitored the restaurant and prepared to capture Qin Yanhua, while discussing Qin Feng and the Bloody Pirate Group’s treasure.
• An explosion rocked the restaurant, and the group fled in four directions as Yun Changeng ordered the pursuers to split up.

Ivy and Alice fought off three Reincarnation Cult pursuers, while Shenchuan Shengshui killed a Sequence 7 enforcer and declared the Shenchuan Family's entry into the contest. Shenchuan worried that Qin Feng and the other man were facing Sequence 6 opponents.

• Ivy lured her pursuers into a screening barrier, where Alice blinded two men and helped her kill one with a dagger.
• Alice used Delusion to defeat the remaining Sequence 8 pursuer, then stabbed him again to ensure he was dead and gained his Feign Death Technique talent.
• Ivy fled with Alice and called for the police after the barrier disappeared and bystanders returned.
• Shenchuan Shengshui confronted the Sequence 7 enforcer Old Kong by the reservoir, revealed his identity, and killed him with Wind Blades.
• Shenchuan announced the Shenchuan Family's entry into the contest, destroyed the radio, and worried that Qin Feng and the other man had encountered Sequence 6 pursuers.

Xu Ye lured Reincarnation Cult members into a trap while disguised as a woman, then fought Yun Changeng after his identity was exposed. The chapter ended with Xu Ye unleashing a powerful strike against Yun Changeng with the Black Blade.

• Xu Ye led several Reincarnation Cult members away from the city and defeated their attackers after pretending to be poisoned.
• Xu Ye killed the Golden Medal cultist, while two ordinary cultists fled; Yun Changeng then arrived and confronted him.
• Yun Changeng mistook Xu Ye for a member of the Rose Society before recognizing him as Xu Ye and freezing him with his ability.
• Xu Ye broke free of Yun Changeng's immobilizing power by activating his first vortex, then attacked him with his Black Blade.
• Xu Ye activated three vortices and unleashed a red blade aura that clashed violently with Yun Changeng's blue umbrella.

Xu Ye faced Yun Changeng and the Teachers’ Club students, while Ron prepared to kill him from a nearby rooftop. Yan Shanwu and Sister-in-Law confronted Ron and intervened on Xu Ye’s behalf, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• Xu Ye survived Yun Changeng’s chalk attack by using Shadow Play, then narrowly avoided another strike when Yun Changeng’s classroom rules disrupted him.
• Yun Changeng called for backup, and six Jeeps carrying Teachers’ Club students arrived to surround Xu Ye.
• Ron recognized Xu Ye’s blasphemer sequence and raised his hand to attack him from a nearby high-rise.
• Yan Shanwu appeared in a Pumpkin Carriage and stopped Ron, then Sister-in-Law joined her and declared that the Rose Society would protect Xu Ye.
• Ron said Xu Ye was doomed against Yun Changeng and the Awakened, while Sister-in-Law challenged his judgment as the situation shifted in the snow.

Xu Ye fled Yun Changeng through the river with help from Shenchuan Shengshui’s sniper fire, then used the Radio to escape Yun Changeng’s auditory illusion. He reached the East Roman Sea and disguised himself among thousands of Aberrants beneath the Parrot, leaving Yun Changeng horrified by what he saw.

• Shenchuan Shengshui sniped Teachers' Club members from the Unfinished Building, giving Xu Ye a chance to break through the Jeeps and attack Yun Changeng.
• Shenchuan Shengshui fired several more shots, then packed up his equipment and left while Xu Ye and Yun Changeng plunged into the river.
• Yun Changeng pursued Xu Ye underwater and used an auditory illusion, but Xu Ye played the Radio and escaped while Yun Changeng was distracted.
• Xu Ye reached the East Roman Sea, wrapped himself in the Aberrant human skin, and blended into the thousands of Aberrants beneath the Parrot.
• Yun Changeng caught sight of the Aberrants and was horrified.

Xu Ye explored the vast Aberrant colony beneath the sea, where Yun Changeng encountered his former student Haili and barely escaped an attack. Xu Ye found a colossal Aberrant called Angel, fled the colony, and then spotted something among the Aberrants that left him horrified.

• Yun Changeng discovered thousands of Aberrants on the seabed and recognized Haili, a missing student who had become an Aberrant.
• Haili blamed Yun Changeng for rejecting her, lost control, and attacked him; Yun Changeng wounded her before the colony struck back and a hidden Hair Aberrant hit his eye as he fled.
• Xu Ye listened to Haili’s account, then continued exploring the colony while concealed inside Human Skin and carried by Hair Aberrant.
• Xu Ye approached the colony’s center and saw a vast silvery-white eyeball Aberrant whose name, Angel, appeared in his mind, so he used Human Skin to escape.
• Xu Ye escaped the colony before it erupted into a frenzy, then looked back and spotted a particular Aberrant that horrified him.

Xu Ye recognized a jellyfish-like aberrant as his old Earth classmate Fang Xiang, while Ron explained the gods’ return and the Red Moon’s role in reaching sequence 4. Shenchuan Shengshui endured Shenchuan Xiu’s punishment and wondered whether Xu Ye had escaped.

• Xu Ye spotted a jellyfish-like aberrant that reminded him of his old classmate Fang Xiang, and the aberrant retreated into the swarm.
• Ron told Yan Shanwu that true gods could only descend as projections and claimed the Red Moon was the deity people should believe in to reach sequence 4.
• Yan Shanwu and Sister-in-Law departed after an injured Yun Changeng emerged from the sea, while Ron wondered why his strength had fallen to sequence 7.
• Shenchuan Xiu whipped and choked Shenchuan Shengshui for failing two assignments, then warned that he had only one attempt left.
• Shenchuan Shengshui recovered silently and wondered whether Xu Ye had escaped.

Xu Ye recovered after Angel’s attack and discussed how to handle Qin Yanhua’s Death God Proxy qualification. He planned to rely on the Shenchuan Family’s protection, while Shenchuan Shengshui revealed the family’s ties to the Harvest Mother Goddess and Alice offered a possible way to remove her mark.

• Xu Ye woke after three days unconscious and learned that Angel’s power had shattered the word in his mind before Alice shielded him with Soul-Seizing.
• Xu Ye proposed sending Qin Yanhua to the Shenchuan Family so they could exploit the conflict over the Death God Proxy ritual, and Qin Feng gave Xu Ye a Psionic Block to recover.
• Shenchuan Shengshui visited Xu Ye, described Shenchuan Xiu’s ambition and the Harvest Mother Goddess’s influence on the Shenchuan Family, and agreed to take Qin Yanhua the next day.
• Xu Ye asked Bandit Lord how to remove the Harvest Mother Goddess’s mark, and Alice offered to overwrite it with her own once her followers grew in number.

Xu Ye and Qin Feng secretly investigated the empty captain’s cabin and triggered a trap that sent them into a cavern, where they fought and killed a monstrous ancient organism. An unseen captain returned to the cabin, realized they had defeated his trap, and considered them promising prey.

• Shenchuan Shengshui wondered about his unusual physical reactions after treating Xu Ye, then suppressed the unfamiliar emotion and left.
• Ron sensed a ritual beneath the Parrot and left without discovering which deity planned to return.
• Four days later, Xu Ye and Qin Feng investigated the captain’s cabin while the others went fishing for Catfish, and a trap transported them to a cavern.
• A crimson flower creature attacked, but Xu Ye and Alice killed it with help from Qin Feng, and the cabin returned around them.
• The unseen captain came back, learned someone had triggered his trap and defeated Flower Woman, and decided the investigators were good prey.

Xu Ye and the others discovered that golden catfish meat carried the Child of Calamity’s mark, which Alice could erase. When they cut open the fish, they found a small Fishman inside, who worshipped the Red Moon.

• The Bandit Lord explained that the Flower Woman was an ancient First Era creature, and Xu Ye wondered how ancient organisms had survived and why Mermaid Island had appeared.
• Ivy caught a golden catfish, and Xu Ye helped carry it to the room so Qin Feng could prepare it.
• Alice tasted the catfish and enjoyed it, but Xu Ye sensed the Child of Calamity’s mark spreading through the meat and warned everyone to stop eating.
• Alice erased the marks from Qin Feng and the others, then proposed eating the fish in small bites and removing each mark afterward.
• While Qin Feng cut open the catfish, its stomach cried out, and Xu Ye pulled a small Fishman out of it.
• The Fishman praised the Red Moon as its god and demanded water from the stunned group.

Xu Ye and his companions questioned Kus, who explained that Mermaid Island’s mermaids had fallen into madness and asked them to help rescue Lilith. Lillian revealed that she had staged Kus’s arrival to test them, then pleaded for their help against the island’s corrupted mermaids and the Child of Calamity.

• Xu Ye had Alice beat Kus after the fishman claimed to be a Demigod, then questioned him about Mermaid Island.
• Kus said the mermaids’ Chief had gone mad and begun sacrificing young mermaids, and that Lilith had been captured while he and Lillian escaped.
• Lillian appeared before Xu Ye’s group, and they discovered that the mermaid had a bearded, masculine appearance because mermaids had no sexes.
• Xu Ye recognized Lillian from the Seagull and deduced that she had arranged Kus’s arrival to test the group.
• Lillian admitted she had tested them and asked them to save Lilith, warning that the Chief and many mermaids had gone mad while worshipping the Child of Calamity.

Xu Ye agreed to help Lillian rescue her sister Lilith from the mermaid tribe before its sacrificial ceremony, while learning more about the Child of Calamity and the Illusion Overlord. Meanwhile, Mo Suo found Lu Xiaoyu and forced her to surrender by threatening her brother and the people in her building.

• Lillian explained that mermaids could detect malice and revealed that her sister Lilith could sing hymns, offering Xu Ye a reward if he rescued her.
• Lillian asked Xu Ye to disguise himself as her and infiltrate the tribe during its sacrificial ceremony, which was three days away.
• Lillian told Xu Ye that the Child of Calamity had reappeared before the chief and some villagers changed, and she connected the Curse Notebook's coordinates to a treasure she hoped to trade for Lilith.
• Kus said the Illusion Overlord had disappeared, while Lillian ate the Golden Catfish and wondered whether fishmen tasted even better.
• Mo Suo appeared at Lu Xiaoyu's home, said her brother's hired protectors had revealed her location, and threatened to destroy the building if she resisted.
• Lu Xiaoyu agreed to go with Mo Suo to prevent further harm and silently focused on the faint mark in her mind.

Xu Ye infiltrated Mermaid Island and discovered that Captain Jack, an invisible evil spirit, was helping prepare a centuries-spanning ritual for the Child of Calamity. Imprisoned with Kus, Xu Ye used his thoughts to entice their mermaid guard into opening the cell, leaving him poised to escape and search for Lilith.

• Xu Ye and Kus were captured after infiltrating Mermaid Island, where Xu Ye saw Chief Keman and overheard him discussing the ritual with Captain Jack.
• The Bandit Lord identified Captain Jack as a likely evil spirit, while Xu Ye suspected the sea burials and the Aberrants aboard the Parrot were part of the Child of Calamity’s ritual.
• Xu Ye was locked in an underground water prison with Kus and secretly warned Qin Feng through Alice about Captain Jack and the ritual.
• Xu Ye realized he could influence mermaids through their thoughts and spent hours imagining seductive scenes for the young guard.
• The mermaid guard blushed, opened the prison door, and hurried toward Xu Ye.

Xu Ye learned that the Child of Calamity's unstable ritual was changing the mermaids, while Ruth secretly turned to the Harvest Mother Goddess for strength. An intruder then warned Xu Ye in a dream not to sabotage the ritual and revealed he served as the Goddess of Gloom's spokesperson.

• Ruth told Xu Ye she would help save Lilith because she admired him and feared the changes spreading through her tribe.
• Ruth transformed into a woman, then left when she heard someone approaching the water prison.
• While guarding the prison, Ruth ate an inherited piece of liver and prayed to the Harvest Mother Goddess for strength to lead her people out of madness.
• Alice alerted Xu Ye that someone had invaded his dreamscape, where a mysterious figure addressed him by name and warned him not to sabotage the Child of Calamity's ritual.
• Xu Ye suspected the intruder was connected to the Five-Person Council and learned that he was the Goddess of Gloom's spokesperson.

Xu Ye escaped the Dreamscape and learned more about the Illusion Overlord while Mr. Airo coerced Zhong Xiaoyu into providing good fortune for a Ritual. In the water prison, Ruth began a horrific transformation linked to the Harvest Mother Goddess and stabbed through Xu Ye’s chest.

• Xu Ye escaped the Dreamscape, and the Bandit Lord suggested the Goddess of Gloom might possess the Illusion Overlord’s divine essence.
• Kus described the Illusion Overlord as a gentle, solitary rainbow serpent that wandered the Dreamscape and helped others with Rituals.
• Mr. Airo admitted he led the Mushroom Society, persuaded Zhong Xiaoyu to grant him good fortune, and told Captain Jack he had sent his daughter aboard Jack’s ship with a Golden Key.
• Ruth told Xu Ye that Lilith was held in Water Prison No. 1, then began transforming and attacked him as her organs mutated.
• The Bandit Lord recognized the Harvest Mother Goddess’s power in Ruth, and a hand emerging from her severed intestine pierced Xu Ye’s chest.