Recaps

Lu Xiao and Calamity persuaded Old Feis to find them more God flesh, offering him leather shoes made from a God’s skin. Old Feis took them to the northernmost part of Hell, where he confronted Daimon, a God of the Demon Clan, over the destruction of his clan.

• Lu Xiao fed God flesh to Big Good Boy and Little Well-Behaved while Calamity joked that beasts had it better than Gods.
• After Calamity said that eating too much could cause the runs, Lu Xiao took him to Old Feis and persuaded Old Feis to help by offering him shoes made from a God’s skin.
• Old Feis carried Lu Xiao and Calamity north, explaining that he knew where to find Gods and that the tentacled monster was too difficult to deal with.
• Old Feis recognized the Demon Clan and said he would take out his anger on Daimon’s clansmen without provoking the Tyrant.
• Daimon confronted Old Feis, who accused him of causing his clan’s destruction and challenged him to fight.
• Old Feis and Daimon transformed into gigantic mythical life-forms, with Daimon wreathed in flames.

Old Feis fought Daimon until Daimon admitted his responsibility for the Devilfish Clan’s destruction and promised to atone. After Daimon left, Old Feis joined Lu Xiao and Calamity, and Lu Xiao considered how eating a god might help him ascend.

• Old Feis and Daimon clashed in their true forms, and Old Feis bit chunks from Daimon’s legs while enduring his attacks.
• Daimon trapped Old Feis in a sea of fire and struck his head, but Old Feis turned intangible and tore more flesh from him with a Death Roll.
• Old Feis begged Daimon to stop, and Daimon promised to atone for his role in destroying the Devilfish Clan.
• Old Feis told Daimon he had only wanted him to drop his high-and-mighty attitude, and Daimon flew away.
• Old Feis joined Lu Xiao and Calamity, while Lu Xiao wondered whether eating a god could help him ascend and recalled Old Feis’s explanation that a god could be killed by erasing its divinity.

Lu Xiao asked Old Feis how Ding Dan could resist being assimilated by an authority, and learned that the fastest option was to separate the authority from him. Old Feis warned that doing so would destroy the Demon Clan’s hope, but Lu Xiao threatened to try anyway, forcing Old Feis to back down.

• Old Feis threatened Chef with being cooked if he prepared dark cuisine again, and Lu Xiao encouraged him.
• Old Feis said Ding Dan could avoid assimilation by surpassing the authority’s original owner before the owner revived, or by reversing the assimilation.
• Lu Xiao suggested separating Ding Dan from the authority, as he had done with his own left eye, and Old Feis admitted it would work fastest.
• Old Feis warned that separating Ding Dan from the authority would destroy the Demon Clan’s hope and threatened Lu Xiao with the gods’ retaliation.
• Lu Xiao threatened to take Ding Dan and try the separation anyway, and Old Feis laughed it off as a joke.

Lu Xiao learned that becoming a Great Old One would put him and his people under the watch of a mysterious “Audience” and expose them to deadly cosmic conflicts. The chapter ended with Calamity admitting that countless beings like him were merely small fry in the universe.

• Old Feis explained that Lu Xiao could become a Great Old One by winning and devouring Hell, but said he had no interest in ascending that way.
• Old Feis warned that Great Old Ones faced madness, the gaze of the “Audience,” and dangers that could bring suffering to their people.
• Old Feis accused Niu Bo of having ulterior motives, and Lu Xiao said he knew Niu Bo was waiting for the right price but that their interests did not yet conflict.
• Old Feis said the “Audience” demanded a climax and would not allow Hell’s Royal Family to surrender, but refused to reveal who the Audience were.
• Lu Xiao reflected on the universe’s cruelty and asked Calamity about his earlier description of it; Calamity said billions of beings like him were only small fry.

Lu Xiao arranged for the Prison Doctor to make leather shoes from a God's skin, then gave Liu Ni a special set of scalpels. He went to visit Ruiqi while she cultivated in a sealed Containment Room, and stood outside deciding how to enter.

• Lu Xiao left Calamity and Old Feis, collected God's skin from the Chef, and went to ask Ivan to make Old Feis leather shoes.
• Ivan sent Lu Xiao to the Prison Doctor, who agreed to make the shoes and then left him alone with Liu Ni.
• Lu Xiao gave Liu Ni a set of scalpels wrapped in leather embroidered with a black cat, and she took them before hurrying away.
• After learning that the shoes would take time, Lu Xiao went to find Ruiqi, who was digesting God's flesh in a sealed Containment Room inside Zhou.
• Lu Xiao knocked on the steel door, realized Ruiqi might not hear him, and decided to break it open.

Lu Xiao entered the Containment Room and found Ruiqi apparently out of control, with her power amplifying his desire and her appearance turning grotesque. After Ruiqi invoked him as her Chosen One, Lu Xiao used the Phantom in the Divine Hall to draw her into his presence, where he teased her and distinguished her beauty from the entity addressing him.

• Lu Xiao resisted Ruiqi's amplified desire, entered the Containment Room, and tried to feed her one of his severed fingers.
• Ruiqi asked Lu Xiao whether she was beautiful, then transformed into a decaying figure and tried to draw him into a world of desire.
• Lu Xiao escaped to the unnamed Divine Hall as Ruiqi broke her own finger and chanted his honorific names as his Chosen One.
• Lu Xiao merged with the Phantom and drew Ruiqi's point of light into the Divine Hall, bringing her before him.
• Ruiqi asked why Lu Xiao had run, and he called Ruiqi beautiful while clarifying that his praise did not apply to her.

Lu Xiao confronted the consciousness controlling Ruiqi’s body, but its seductive advances left him struggling to keep control. Zhang Chu appeared and struck Ruiqi with divine lightning, leaving Lu Xiao bound to his chair as the chapter ended.

• Lu Xiao realized the woman in Ruiqi’s body was not Ruiqi’s usual self and demanded to know who she was and what she wanted.
• Ruiqi’s consciousness teased Lu Xiao and approached him, while he tried to resist her charms.
• Zhang Chu appeared in the Divine Hall and challenged Ruiqi’s consciousness, identifying them both as consciousnesses.
• Zhang Chu summoned divine lightning and blasted Ruiqi while Lu Xiao shouted for him not to kill her.
• The lightning and thunder faded, and Lu Xiao discovered that the Phantom had bound him to his chair.

Lu Xiao watched Ruiqi withstand attacks from figures created by Fantasy, who appeared in the Divine Hall and drove off Night’s consciousness. After Ruiqi regained consciousness, Lu Xiao began weighing what the encounter revealed about the powerful beings above the Old Ones.

• Ruiqi endured lightning and then Dan Guofeng’s iron-whip lashes until she identified Fantasy, causing Dan Guofeng’s image to vanish.
• Fantasy arrived in an orange taxi and told Night to leave, while Night threatened to bring her true body through Lu Xiao’s connection.
• Fantasy joked about driving a carload of beings to confront Night, frightening her consciousness into collapsing before Fantasy disappeared with his taxi.
• Lu Xiao regained movement, covered the unconscious Ruiqi with his jacket, and concluded that Fantasy opposed Night and might have powerful allies on Fate’s side.
• Ruiqi regained consciousness, stood up, and studied the jacket in her hand without noticing Lu Xiao behind the chair.

After Ruiqi recovered from 'Night's possession, Lu Xiao discovered that 'Night' was repeatedly calling to him through his honorific name and that her presence was rapidly expanding in his consciousness. He sought Old Feis for help and admitted that he was the one being called.

• Ruiqi awoke with no memory of what had happened, and Lu Xiao avoided explaining that 'Night' had possessed her.
• 'Night' began calling to Lu Xiao as her Chosen One, and a vast point of light rapidly grew inside his world of consciousness.
• Lu Xiao refused to answer 'Night' and took Ruiqi back to the Containment Room before leaving her there.
• Lu Xiao found Old Feis in the cafeteria and told him that a powerful being was calling someone through an honorific name.
• Old Feis guessed that Lu Xiao meant himself, and Lu Xiao admitted that he was the one being called.

Lu Xiao learned that an expanding point of light in his consciousness could eventually erase his identity, and Old Feis explained that he had to raise his ontological rank faster than it grew. Lu Xiao resolved to pursue Hell’s ultimate spoils, then received the custom items he had requested from Prison Doctor.

• Old Feis warned Lu Xiao that the point of light calling to him could occupy his consciousness, and that responding to its call would let the being behind it find and reach him.
• Old Feis said Lu Xiao could survive by advancing rapidly enough to outgrow the point of light, potentially becoming a higher-ranked existence than the one calling him.
• Calamity suggested asking 'Death' for help, but Old Feis dismissed the idea, and Lu Xiao realized he had no way to call upon 'Fate' or 'Fantasy'.
• Lu Xiao decided to raise his ontological rank at any cost and became determined to claim Hell’s ultimate spoils.
• Chef served a simple pot of meat stewed with potatoes, and Prison Doctor arrived with gift boxes containing the items Lu Xiao had requested, including a custom leather outfit.

The Prison Doctor gave Lu Xiao custom clothes made from God skin and prepared outfits for his companions. Liu Ni opened boxes meant for someone else before finding her own gift, leaving Lu Xiao embarrassed by the Prison Doctor’s choices.

• The Prison Doctor explained that the God-skin clothes and shoes could change size and protect their wearer from attacks below a Deity’s level.
• Old Feis hinted that he wanted more than shoes, so the Prison Doctor revealed a custom leather outfit; Old Feis put it on and showed off his cowboy-style look.
• When Liu Ni arrived, the Prison Doctor told her Lu Xiao had prepared a present, and she blushed after opening a revealing evening gown meant for Ruiqi.
• Lu Xiao directed Liu Ni to another box, where she found a pink-and-white nurse’s uniform, and he hurriedly claimed it was not her gift.
• Liu Ni called Lu Xiao a liar and opened the last box, finding a pair of pure white gloves.

Lu Xiao gave Ruiqi a revealing evening gown and learned she had become one of the Deities, then left the white gloves with Prison Doctor for Liu Ni. He went to Doctor's office and kicked in the steel door after no one answered.

• Lu Xiao stopped waiting for Doctor and Shuns, ate a large meal, and took gifts and processed divine flesh and blood to Ruiqi.
• Ruiqi tried on the evening gown, and Lu Xiao realized she had advanced to become one of the Deities and that her charm had grown stronger.
• Lu Xiao asked Prison Doctor to pass the white gloves to Liu Ni, explaining that his Human Heart Authority made him wary of her; Prison Doctor later teased Liu Ni by calling Lu Xiao shy.
• Lu Xiao went to Doctor's office, got no answer after knocking, and kicked a huge dent into the steel door.
• Someone inside cursed about the damaged door, and Lu Xiao smiled.

Lu Xiao learned that the Doctor and Shuns were trying to solve the Biological Armor power-core problem, which could give over sixty thousand soldiers King-level combat strength. After visiting Lu Qian’s lesson, he went to Zhang Weidong disguised as Liu Guang to ask for a favor, but Zhang challenged his claim that Liu Guang had never asked him for anything.

• Lu Xiao visited the Doctor and Shuns, learned they were working to prove an equation for Biological Armor, and told them Old Feis had brought back Gods’ flesh and blood for them.
• Shuns explained that solving the power-core problem could give ordinary soldiers King-level strength, and Lu Xiao left the Doctor’s office to check on Lu Qian.
• Lu Xiao watched Lu Qian study with Xiao Yu and worried that she had no other children at the base to play with.
• Lu Xiao found Zhang Weidong at a sand table, transformed into Liu Guang, and claimed he had never asked Zhang for anything.
• Zhang Weidong pointed out that Lu Xiao was not Liu Guang and asked how he knew Liu Guang had never asked for a favor, given that Liu Guang had obtained his fake identities from him.

Lu Xiao asked Zhang Weidong to arrange study companions for his daughter, Lu Qian, and Zhang eagerly joined the group himself. After Lu Xiao checked that the class seemed normal and left, Zhang led the soldiers in a surprise song for Lu Qian.

• Lu Xiao asked Zhang Weidong to select about thirty soldiers to study alongside Lu Qian, and Zhang agreed enthusiastically.
• Zhang proposed that he join the study group, claiming he was a postdoc who simply liked learning.
• Two hours later, Zhang and twenty-seven others joined Lu Qian’s classroom in uniform and took part in the lesson.
• After Lu Xiao left the classroom, Zhang signaled the others to gather around Lu Qian and introduce themselves.
• Zhang asked Lu Qian if they could sing for her, then led the soldiers in a song about defending their homes and country.

Lu Xiao resumed digesting the flesh and blood of Gods while Amilia learned that Antie had infiltrated the Outsiders. At the mess hall, Lu Xiao discovered that Zhang Weidong had arranged for Lu Qian to become an air force officer and presented an enlistment agreement.

• Lu Xiao inspected his lively classroom, then chose a cool Containment Room in Zhou to sleep while digesting the flesh and blood of Gods.
• Amilia heard that Mr. Antie had infiltrated a group of Outsiders and planned to coordinate with him, astonishing Amilia with his intelligence work.
• Lu Xiao woke after fully digesting the flesh and blood, met Amilia, and invited him to eat at the mess hall.
• Lu Xiao saw Lu Qian and her twenty-eight study companions wearing generals' uniforms, and Lu Qian saluted him in a miniature air force uniform.
• Lu Xiao realized Zhang Weidong had intended to enlist Lu Qian from the start, and Zhang Weidong revealed a document that Lu Xiao recognized as an enlistment agreement.

Lu Xiao confronted Zhang Weidong for appointing Lu Qian a Senior Colonel, then learned Zhang had hoped her connection to Lu Xiao would make him and the others pay more attention to his soldiers. Lu Xiao insisted that they had always risked their lives for ordinary people, and the exchange ended with him revealing his bitterness that he could not give his descendants a better life.

• Zhang Weidong announced that Lu Qian had been appointed Senior Colonel, and Lu Xiao objected to her enlistment and the appointment.
• Zhang Weidong defended the appointment as procedurally valid and said he did not intend to send Lu Qian to the battlefield.
• After the political commissars left, Zhang Weidong admitted he had used Lu Qian's connection to make Lu Xiao and the others pay more attention to his soldiers.
• Zhang Weidong slapped himself and said he wanted his soldiers to finish their missions with fewer deaths.
• Lu Xiao angrily listed the sacrifices made by Liu Guang, the Researchers, the Doctor, Shuns, the Warden, and Mr. Antie, saying they were not simply looking out for themselves.
• Lu Xiao told Zhang Weidong that he was proud of Lu Qian but bitter that, despite risking his life, he could not give his descendants a better life.

Lu Xiao prepared to join Antie’s plan to kill Night’s Chosen One while Doctor and Shuns worked to solve the power problem for Biological Armor. Doctor proved the equations and asked Lu Xiao to test the first-generation Biomechanical Armor before the group set out.

• Lu Qian joined the Ninth Group Army as a recruit, and Lu Xiao arranged for her to receive divine flesh and blood in her meals.
• Amilia told Lu Xiao that Antie planned to slay Night’s Chosen One, a tentacled god, and Old Feis eagerly urged the group to rendezvous with Antie.
• Lu Xiao reviewed Antie’s battle plan, which included nuclear missiles, sedatives, and enhanced Cages, though their chance of victory was still below fifty percent.
• Doctor proved the equations that solved Biological Armor’s core power problem and asked Lu Xiao to help test the first-generation Biomechanical Armor before they departed.

Lu Xiao saw the First Prototype of the Biomechanical Armor, a massive flesh-like machine that Ivan and Shuns showed him after the Doctor solved its energy problem. Shuns explained that it was powered by combining controlled nuclear fusion with the operator’s consciousness energy, and said its physical strength was nearly godlike without the power of authority.

• Lu Xiao greeted Ivan in the laboratory, and Shuns told Ivan that the Doctor had solved the armor’s power problem.
• The Doctor went deeper into the laboratory, leaving Lu Xiao with Ivan and Shuns.
• Ivan led Lu Xiao and Shuns down to the First Prototype, a towering biomechanical armor covered in weapons and exposed cables.
• Shuns explained that the prototype used controlled nuclear fusion and the operator’s consciousness energy to power its body.
• Shuns said the First Prototype’s physical strength was nearly equal to that of the gods, excluding the power of authority.

Lu Xiao learned about the First Prototype’s abilities and limitations, then entered its cockpit to test it. The restraints were released, leaving him inside the giant armor as he looked down at Doctor and the others.

• Lu Xiao judged the First Prototype powerful but flawed, while Ivan argued that it could let ordinary people face deities.
• Doctor modified the armor, and Ivan told Lu Xiao that Lu Qian was transforming and might become a deity in about half a month.
• Doctor explained the Prototype’s durability, regeneration, gravity authority, and risks, then instructed Lu Xiao on how to pilot it.
• Lu Xiao climbed to the cockpit, allowed the flesh sphere to draw him inside, and merged with the armor.
• The scaffolds and restraints withdrew, and Lu Xiao saw Doctor and the others as tiny figures from the armor’s perspective.

Lu Xiao tested the First Prototype, a giant mech built by the Doctor and his team, and showed its power to Old Feis and the others. As they flew toward Hell, Old Feis asked for a mech of his own, while the group’s conversation revealed the grief behind his pride in the Devilfish Clan.

• Lu Xiao piloted the First Prototype out of the encampment and showed Old Feis that it could rival a nuclear bomb while fighting for extended periods.
• Lu Xiao explained that the Doctor, Mr. Ivan, Mr. Shuns, and their research team had built the mech, astonishing Calamity and the others with its near-divine power.
• Old Feis asked Lu Xiao to persuade the Doctor to make him a mech, and Lu Xiao promised to ask if they returned alive; he also promised one to Calamity and Ruiqi.
• As they flew through Hell, Calamity asked why only Old Feis and Feis remained of the once-powerful Devilfish Clan, and Old Feis fell silent with grief.

Lu Xiao and his companions met Antie and learned that Futiya had signed a succubus contract with him, which helped both partners advance. Lu Xiao tried to sign a contract with Ruiqi, and Old Feis pointed out that he needed to take off his pants.

• Lu Xiao discovered that the First Prototype could draw Consciousness Energy from his Consciousness World and chose to save one nuclear bomb for the mission.
• Lu Xiao’s group reached the rendezvous point, where Ruiqi bewitched a pursuing false god and the First Prototype consumed him.
• Antie arrived with Futiya, inspected the First Prototype, and left the battlefield briefing to her.
• Ruiqi explained that a succubus contract bonded a succubus to a master and greatly accelerated both partners’ advancement.
• Lu Xiao asked Ruiqi to sign a contract with him, and Old Feis told him to take off his pants.

Lu Xiao and his allies learned that Antie had infiltrated an Outsider faction and prepared to use a nuclear strike against its assembled forces. As Antie and the Outsider army arrived, the group took to the sky to meet them.

• Ruiqi’s hoped-for contract with Lu Xiao remained unsigned after he joked that he might agree next time.
• Futiya revealed that Antie had gained the Outsider Deity’s favor and secretly disguised his rank as King-level.
• Lu Xiao and the others chose Old Feis to carry the missile targeting marker, relying on his ability to evade physical damage.
• Calamity and Lu Xiao argued privately about why Ruiqi wanted a contract, but Calamity accidentally made their conversation sound suspicious to the others.
• Futiya sensed Antie’s arrival, so Calamity carried Ruiqi and Futiya skyward while Lu Xiao launched the First Prototype; Old Feis remained behind.

Antie and Liv joined the Outsiders gathered beneath Old Feis, who unleashed a God’s corruption to drive them into madness. As a missile appeared overhead, Antie shielded Liv, and Old Feis snapped his fingers, turning the world grayish white.

• Zhang Weidong ordered a missile launched toward the beacon Old Feis had activated.
• Antie arrived among the Outsiders with Liv disguised as his wife, while concealing his plan to kill them if they survived the coming attack.
• Old Feis appeared above the army and used his Godly aura and murmurs to drive the Outsiders of Deity level and below into a frenzy.
• Another God’s Life Form appeared and spread further corruption across the army.
• Antie shouted for Liv to curl up, then liquefied his body around her and covered himself in frost as a missile appeared above Old Feis.
• Old Feis snapped his fingers, and blazing white light washed the world into grayish white.

Lu Xiao, Old Feis, Calamity, and Ruiqi fought the tentacle god after two nuclear strikes wiped out the Outsider legion’s Deities. Lu Xiao and Old Feis landed a coordinated attack that left the tentacle god’s tentacles withered, but the battle was still underway.

• A second nuclear strike killed the remaining Deities, and Old Feis swallowed the last survivor.
• Lu Xiao led the First Prototype into battle against the tentacle god while Old Feis waited for an opening.
• Calamity and Ruiqi found Antie injured on the battlefield and buried him underground to protect him while he recovered.
• Mental contamination overwhelmed Lu Xiao, who used a concentrated sedative to keep fighting inside the First Prototype.
• Calamity restrained the tentacle god as Lu Xiao unleashed the First Prototype’s ammunition and Old Feis struck with a green orb.
• Old Feis’s orb merged into the tentacle god, causing its tentacles to wither.

Old Feis swallowed the shattered Calamity, but Night answered his plea and manifested a towering deathly Phantom that froze time and cut him in two. Lu Xiao, Calamity, and Ruiqi escaped the time-stopping slash, only to see Old Feis’s severed body darken as Lu Xiao ordered them to prepare the Cage.

• Old Feis and the First Prototype struck Calamity while its body was weakened, and Old Feis swallowed the still-crumbling god with the soil beneath it.
• Old Feis’s body mutated, and he called upon Night to grant power to her Chosen One.
• Lu Xiao ordered a retreat as Night descended, but Old Feis also called upon the Master of the Dead, summoning a towering Phantom that froze time and split him in two.
• Lu Xiao, Calamity, and Ruiqi regained their freedom after the slash, and Lu Xiao described feeling as though death had struck his soul.
• A tentacle rose from Old Feis’s fallen half, which turned pitch-black, and Lu Xiao ordered everyone to prepare to inject the Cage.