Chapter Summaries

Lu Xiao disguised himself as a Succubus and approached Yi Hao, then asked him to shoot down two Ravens that had been following them. After Yi Hao missed, Lu Xiao took the bow and fired at the birds himself.

• Lu Xiao transformed into a Succubus and sat on Yi Hao’s lap as he offered to massage the High Priest’s shoulders.
• Yi Hao suggested they talk elsewhere, while Lu Xiao noticed a Deity guarding him and joked about getting a bodyguard of his own.
• Hell Creatures speculated about the Succubus’s identity and the Holy City’s ties to the Succubi as Lu Xiao spotted two Ravens circling overhead.
• Lu Xiao asked Yi Hao to shoot down the Ravens, and Yi Hao’s arrows missed as the birds dodged them.
• Lu Xiao took Yi Hao’s bow, drew it to full strength, and fired a bone arrow toward the two Ravens.

Lu Xiao accidentally shot Calamity and Morati, then reunited them with Yi Hao, who learned how they had ended up transformed into humanoid ravens. After Yi Hao explained his plan, he asked whether the Unknowable Being would interfere if he acted near the bushes.

• Calamity and Morati dodged Lu Xiao's arrow, but it turned back and pierced both of them, sending them crashing to the ground.
• Lu Xiao teased Yi Hao on the Throne, injuring his mouth with his tail before standing aside as an obedient maid.
• Yi Hao recognized Morati and Calamity, then worried that his insult about them being dumb birds had caused lasting offense.
• Lu Xiao translated the ravens' threats to kill Yi Hao, and both ravens confirmed his translation.
• Yi Hao learned why Calamity and Morati had transformed and told Lu Xiao and the others his plan.
• Yi Hao asked whether the Unknowable Being would intervene if he made his move near the bushes.

Lu Xiao and Yi Hao prepared to trade two hundred million souls for Calamity and Morati’s freedom, relying on a planned battle between the major clans and the Wilderness Wanderers. Meanwhile, Antie reorganized the Succubus Clan and sent its members across Hell to build an intelligence network, insisting that he cared only about the result.

• Lu Xiao learned that the being would not interfere with the planned slaughter because the soul trade served His interests, and he agreed that the two-hundred-million quota was their only path to freeing Calamity and Morati.
• Yi Hao’s plan relied on the Wilderness Wanderers fighting the major clans, while Ding Dan prepared the battlefield and the allied army moved toward the coming battle.
• Antie used his authority to gather Succubus Clan resources and elites, spend heavily on male slaves, and dispatch low-aptitude succubi to gather intelligence among smaller clans and tribes.
• Ruiqi confronted Antie over sending ordinary succubi into danger, but Antie told her that sacrifice accompanied change and that he was now the clan’s leader.
• Amilia suggested Antie could have preserved Ruiqi’s goodwill by telling her the truth, but Antie said he did not need it and ordered Amilia to train the succubi at any cost.

Antie explained his plan to strengthen the Succubi through concentrated training and resource plunder, while Amilia confirmed that the Holy City's forces were marching south. Amilia was left stunned by Antie's ruthless strategy and said he acted more like a demon than the demons in the Royal Family.

• Amilia praised Antie's lavish spending and asked why he had chosen Lu Xiao as his master, but Antie said he was not curious.
• Amilia confirmed that the Holy City's High Priest had rallied wilderness Wanderers into an army marching south, and Antie said the powers in Hell were about to be reshuffled.
• Antie told Amilia to train the Succubi for intelligence work and explained that he planned to use resources to strengthen them before sending them to plunder smaller tribes.
• Amilia warned that Ruiqi's stockpiled resources would run out, but Antie said the Succubi should earn resources through war rather than depend on him.
• Antie described redirecting conflicts outward and plundering resources until the Succubi became the strongest, leaving Amilia to call him more demonic than the Royal Family's demons.

Amilia warned Antie that his plans for the Succubus Clan could bring him into conflict with the Holy City and the Hell Great Lord, but Antie said his term was short and explained that his own civilization faced imminent destruction. Amilia then reassured Ruiqi by explaining how Antie's harsh measures might protect and strengthen the clan, though the purpose of sending ordinary clanswomen away remained unfinished.

• Amilia warned Antie that strengthening the Succubus Clan could provoke conflict with the Holy City and the Hell Great Lord, but Antie said he only needed to strengthen it during his two-month term.
• Antie told Amilia that the Holy City's warriors would likely leave Hell after its unification, because their own civilization faced destruction rather than resource depletion.
• Amilia left Antie and appeared beside Ruiqi, who asked him to use his connections to protect her clanswomen; he said he could not help directly.
• Amilia told Ruiqi that Antie was not as heartless as she believed and explained that scattering the clanswomen could protect them from the Holy City's upheaval while reducing the clan's supply costs.
• Amilia explained that Antie had spent Ruiqi's stockpiles to raise capable succubi into King-level fighters, who would disperse into the Wilderness to protect the ordinary clanswomen.
• Amilia began explaining that the ordinary clanswomen were not simply being sent out to die, but the chapter ended before he revealed the third reason.

Ruiqi accepted Amilia’s explanation and went south to find Lu Xiao, while Doctor examined a space-containing object and discussed Nini’s condition with Little Black. Doctor revealed a possible shortcut to Prison Doctor’s godhood that required Little Black’s cooperation, but had not yet explained what it was.

• Ruiqi decided to trust Antie’s arrangements, thanked Amilia, and set out south to find Lu Xiao.
• Amilia wondered whether to tell his Master about a slot for a god.
• Doctor told Shuns that the object taken from the leather bag contained a complete space and that he would study it in the Dreamscape.
• Doctor explained to Little Black that Nini needed another trait and a deification ritual to escape her condition, but he could not work out how she could undergo the ritual.
• Doctor said he had a shortcut to help Prison Doctor attain godhood, and Little Black asked how it could cooperate.

The Doctor suggested that Little Black complete its own Deification Ritual by weaving a realistic Dreamscape, and Little Black chose that over being eaten for its Trait. Shuns then invited Ivan to join his research team, but Ivan hesitated because he needed to cook for Lu Qian, leaving Shuns to inspect his strange green fried egg.

• The Doctor told Little Black to weave a realistic Dreamscape to complete its Deification Ritual and offered eating it as an alternative, which Little Black rejected.
• Shuns visited Ivan in his Containment Room and discussed alchemy before inviting him to join his research team.
• Ivan said he needed to cook for Lu Qian and would consider Shuns's invitation, while Shuns insisted on waiting for an answer.
• Ivan cooked a huge egg in a bone pan over emerald-green flames, and Shuns frowned at the resulting green fried egg.

Shuns tried to steer Ivan away from cooking and toward the laboratory, but Ivan decided to turn Chef into a stove. Xiao Yu and Lu Qian appealed to Ivan by reminding him that Lu Qian depended on Chef’s meals, leaving Ivan facing her plea.

• Shuns criticized Ivan’s cooking methods while they waited for Lu Qian to return from school.
• Lu Qian arrived with Xiao Yu and explained that they had eaten at Uncle Chef’s cafeteria, so she had already had dinner.
• Shuns encouraged Ivan to work in the laboratory, and Ivan agreed to go there the next morning.
• Ivan revealed that he planned to pull out Chef’s bones and make them into a stove.
• Xiao Yu and Shuns warned that Lu Qian needed Chef’s nutritious meals, and Lu Qian hugged Ivan’s leg bones and pleaded for his cooking.

Ivan visited Shuns's biological laboratory and became fascinated by an experiment that transformed a lump of flesh into a weapon. Shuns invited him to become the first test subject for flesh-and-blood armor, but the project stalled over the problem of attaching the flesh, leading Shuns to bring up life alchemy and Ivan to warn that it was forbidden.

• Ivan arrived at Shuns's laboratory and met its unusual staff.
• Shuns showed Ivan a lump of flesh that transformed into a grotesque pistol and spread blood vessels and nerve tissue over his arm bones.
• Shuns invited Ivan to be the first test subject for biomechanical armor powered by bioenergy.
• Shuns explained that he could not make the experimental flesh adhere firmly to Ivan's body.
• Shuns mentioned life alchemy, and Ivan warned him that it was a forbidden art.

Shuns asked Ivan to use alchemy to solve the project’s problem of giving biomechanical flesh life, and Ivan demonstrated flesh alchemy instead. The experiment transformed a glass beaker into a living-looking cup of pink flesh, leaving Shuns amazed by alchemy’s potential.

• Shuns urged Ivan to attempt life alchemy, but Ivan explained its low success rate and proposed flesh alchemy as a safer alternative.
• Shuns ordered Zhou Hao to bring fresh ingredients, and Zhou Hao returned with a wheelbarrow full of flesh, including a malformed beating heart.
• Ivan arranged the flesh and drew two alchemical circles, then instructed Shuns to place the experimental core in the flower-shaped circle.
• Ivan activated the circles, and the flesh in one array was consumed as a tender pink shoot grew around the beaker in the other.
• Shuns picked up the finished flesh cup, praised the result, and apologized to Ivan for his earlier prejudice.

Shuns tested the durability of the flesh-and-blood construct Ivan had made, while in Hell, the allied forces converged on the seemingly wounded Ding Dan and more than a hundred deities surrounded Yi Hao. Ding Dan revealed himself on the Throne, subdued one deity, and Pain killed another for speaking disrespectfully to His Majesty.

• Shuns questioned how little flesh and blood Ivan had produced, then tested the beaker-based construct by putting a fragmentation grenade inside it.
• Lu Xiao and the others approached the battlefield Ding Dan had prepared, where Ding Dan sat gravely wounded near the mysterious thicket.
• Hell creatures rushed toward Ding Dan, tempted by the divinity in his flesh and blood, while more than a hundred deities surrounded Yi Hao's Throne.
• A deity tried to attack Yi Hao, but Yi Hao revealed himself as Ding Dan and forced the deity to kneel beneath his foot.
• When another deity challenged the assembled deities to kill Ding Dan, Pain stabbed him and declared that they must watch their tone when speaking to His Majesty.

Ding Dan fought dozens of deities while Lu Xiao revealed himself among the Hell creatures and unleashed a monstrous transformation. Lu Xiao grew into a giant and formed a towering mass of fat covered in malicious eyes, driving the surrounding creatures toward madness.

• A Near-God Level Hell Worm swallowed Pain, and Ding Dan crushed another deity before rising into the air to battle dozens of deities.
• Ding Dan used Confusion to disorient a deity, allowing the others’ attacks to destroy him and his authority.
• Lu Xiao revealed himself among the Hell creatures, summoned countless ravens, and killed a creature with a casual slap.
• Lu Xiao ripped out and ate his heart, then grew into a giant as yellowish-brown fat poured from his splitting skin.
• The fat gathered into a huge mass covered in malicious eyes, and its stench and negative emotions began driving the Hell creatures mad.

Lu Xiao lost control and became a colossal, contaminating mass that drove Hell’s beings to madness, while Calamity and Morati fled its influence. As deities tried to escape the battlefield, Yi Hao rallied the encircling Wilderness Wanderers to stop them and fight for a better future.

• The fat mass contaminated Hell’s beings, making some vomit fat until they shriveled and others slaughter one another.
• Lu Xiao’s mind went blank as the fat mass grew, and Calamity and Morati flew out of its reach.
• Lu Xiao covered himself in the fat, which formed armor and a vast eyeball as he began to move.
• Ding Dan withdrew from the battle, and the deities fled when they saw the giant approaching.
• Yi Hao ordered the Wilderness Wanderers surrounding the battlefield to prevent any deity from escaping and urged them to fight for their peoples and descendants.

Yi Hao’s forces trapped the fleeing Deities on the ground and in the air, while the remaining Deities searched for a way out. They believed the Royal Family would send help, but Ding Dan and Mitchell had deceived them.

• Yi Hao’s Wanderers blocked a Deity’s advance, while King-level leaders attacked him and forced him to retreat.
• Ding Dan intercepted flying Deities and killed two of them, making the skies unsafe for escape.
• The remaining Deities discovered that their numbers had fallen to a little over fifty and learned that Hell Worms would take four days to arrive.
• A Deity with ties to the Royal Family said its forces were attacking the Royal City, but claimed a lord had promised to send reinforcements.
• Ding Dan told Mitchell that the Deities had believed his false message about Royal Family aid.

Ding Dan and Yi Hao discussed the arriving supplies, Lu Xiao’s loss of control, and their plan to draw out the being hidden in the bushes. As ravens harvested corpses’ eyes, Calamity suspected that “Death” was protecting him and Morati as part of a larger game, while Morati mistook Ding Dan’s battlefield plan for a sacrifice made to free him.

• Yi Hao told Ding Dan that their supplies and focusing lenses had arrived and would help them punish their opponents.
• Ding Dan revealed that Lu Xiao was Shadow and that the real Shadow had fallen, then said he believed Lu Xiao had chosen to lose control.
• Yi Hao and Ding Dan agreed to stick to their plan, though Ding Dan pointed out that he could not reach Lu Xiao.
• Calamity watched ravens harvest the corpses’ eyes and suspected the quota and “Death’s” protection were pieces in a larger game.
• Morati saw Ding Dan on the battlefield but stayed away, believing his sovereign had arranged the slaughter to buy back his freedom.

Liangren investigated the Hell Post Office and learned that its letter-delivery tasks supplied locals with water and let carriers return to Hell even if they died. Suspecting the Post Office belonged to an unknown civilization that could translate forms, he decided to test it by mailing a letter to a vague cosmic address.

• Liangren arrived at the Settlement around the Post Office, learned Hell’s language during the journey, and examined the building’s strange construction.
• Liangren questioned a local and learned that delivery tasks had stopped for a long time, leaving residents without water.
• The local explained that letter carriers attacked recipients for resources, then returned to Hell after ten minutes, where injuries healed and the dead were resurrected.
• Liangren inspected the Post Office’s Chinese forms and suspected it translated text into each form-filler’s language and had been established by an unknown civilization.
• Liangren left his notebook with a guard, filled out a form, and addressed his letter to the Laniakea Supercluster, Virgo Cluster, and Andromeda Galaxy.

Liangren questioned the Postman about the Post Office after learning he needed an exact planet number to mail his letter. He agreed to join the Postman, who led him through a wormhole toward a dazzling white light.

• Liangren addressed his letter to Random, but the Postman told him the address needed an exact planet number and explained that an unspecified recipient's letter would go to a mailbox.
• Liangren asked who established the Post Office and why, and the Postman invited him to join to learn the answers.
• Liangren followed the Postman into a desolate void and deduced they were traveling through a wormhole where sound could not travel.
• Liangren considered the risks of joining, reasoning that he was a Clone and that his notebook remained in Hell.
• The Postman led Liangren onward until a dazzling white light appeared ahead.

Liangren passed through the gate and joined Universe Logistics, then learned he had been assigned to Hell. He sent the Doctor a warning-filled letter, but its carrier attacked the Doctor, and Little Black showed the Doctor what happened.

• Liangren crossed the gate, became a member of Universe Logistics, and learned that Space might have chosen him, though the Postman lacked clearance to confirm it.
• The Postman assigned Liangren to Hell, and Liangren filled out a delivery form addressed to the Doctor.
• Liangren wrote the Doctor a letter warning about the Outsiders, Hell, and the coming rise of the New Gods, then sent it with a Hell creature.
• The letter carrier reached the Doctor's room, discarded the letter, and appeared poised to attack the sleeping Doctor.
• Little Black told the Doctor that the carrier had sucked him dry and displayed the scene on a Light Curtain.

Doctor received Liangren’s warning about Space, the conflict between the Rules, and Earth being a pasture, but decided to continue investigating. In Hell, Ding Dan’s forces used a deadly focusing mirror to devastate the battlefield, and he outlined a strategy for consolidating support without forcing the major factions into a desperate fight.

• Doctor criticized Black Cat’s Dreamscape for making his body unrealistic, then read Liangren’s letter and chose to keep studying space despite its warning to end the experiment.
• Holy City’s demons used a giant focusing mirror to concentrate sunlight on the battlefield, drying out and killing those caught in its beam.
• Yi Hao warned Ding Dan that the deities would soon rally their armies, and Ding Dan said the goal was to weaken the major races rather than eliminate their leaders.
• Ding Dan told Yi Hao to distribute the promised benefits to the Wanderers and rely on diplomacy to secure Hell after the battle.
• Ding Dan proposed elevating selected minor races as examples of victory, expecting their rise to attract more Wanderers and deepen divisions among the oppressed.

Ding Dan explained that the Holy City planned to divide the tribes it would rule, while the battle continued with the Sky Curtain devastating enemy armies. After hearing Amilia’s battlefield report, Antie concluded that the Holy City had chosen not to kill the enemy deities because it did not serve its interests, but its victory was assured.

• Ding Dan told Yi Hao that elevating certain tribes would make the others oppose them and help the Holy City rule later, prompting Yi Hao to worry that Ding Dan’s emotions were fading.
• The Holy City let the allied armies charge the Wanderers’ defensive line while the enemy deities avoided fighting and watched the Sky Curtain; Lu Xiao remained curled up as his contamination continued killing Hell creatures.
• The enemy deities argued over whether to break through, then continued ordering their forces to charge as the Wanderers fought back and suffered extreme casualties.
• Amilia reported to Antie that more than twenty deities had fallen or disappeared, though none had been seen dying, and asked whether they might be hiding.
• Antie said the Holy City had no reason to kill all the enemy leaders and that its victory in the war was already assured.