Chapter Summaries

Lu Xiao entered the Dark Prison with the Driver to investigate why its Weird Life forms had vanished and learned that Dart had eaten them. Meanwhile, mutated Adam rampaged through the prison, and Chainsaw Man returned alone, saying Dart had become too strong to fight.

• Lu Xiao refused the cigarettes Dante offered because he had promised to quit smoking after his recovery, while Dante remained unaware of Dart's and Adam's mutations.
• The Director brought the Chef to C03, and Lu Xiao went with the Driver into the Dark Prison to find ingredients.
• Lu Xiao found no living or dead Weird Life forms and cut his wrist to summon Chainsaw Man.
• Chainsaw Man left Dart after Dart agreed to let him go, while mutated Adam slaughtered Weird Life forms and headed deeper into the Dark Prison.
• Chainsaw Man reached Lu Xiao and said Dart had eaten all the nearby Weird Life forms and had grown too strong for him to defeat.

Lu Xiao returned from the Dark Prison with Chainsaw Man after Doctor advised him not to search for Dart, whose fate remained unknown. Two days later, Dante discovered his body was ulcerating, and the Prison Doctor revealed that he was undergoing a supposedly pure life-form ascension.

• Lu Xiao found signs of devastation and a terrifying aura in the Dark Prison, and the Omniscient Mirror confirmed that Dart had gone deeper but warned that explaining what happened would cost too much.
• Lu Xiao contacted Doctor, who told him to return and said Dart should be fine, so Lu Xiao left the Dark Prison with Chainsaw Man.
• The Director took samples of Lu Xiao’s blood and flesh, while Doctor classified Chainsaw Man as Class S and placed him in Lu Xiao’s containment room.
• Two days later, Dante woke to find his skin ulcerated and hurried to the Prison Doctor.
• The Prison Doctor cut open Dante’s skin and explained that the ulcers were a sign of his body shedding its outer layer during a life-form ascension.

Prison Doctor examined Dante after his body transformed, discovering that his lung cancer had been cured but his scales were too tough for a scalpel. Lu Xiao brought in Chainsaw Man, who cut through Dante’s scales and opened his chest, revealing a beating heart.

• Prison Doctor told Dante his bodily changes were irreversible, and Dante wondered whether he still counted as human.
• Prison Doctor said a minor operation had cured Dante’s lung cancer, and Dante realized his lungs had been removed despite his ability to breathe.
• Prison Doctor tried to examine Dante but could not cut through his scales with his scalpel.
• Lu Xiao entered with Chainsaw Man, mistook Dante for food, and then recognized him after Dante called out.
• Prison Doctor gave Dante anesthetic, and Chainsaw Man used his chainsaw to cut through Dante’s scales and open his chest.
• Lu Xiao plucked a scale from Dante as Chainsaw Man’s incision revealed Dante’s vigorously beating heart.

Lu Xiao asked the Prison Doctor for a prenatal checkup after a Ghost-Faced Moth Empress larva began growing beside his heart. After the Omniscient Mirror told him to soak the egg in his blood, Ivan arrived and prepared to accelerate its maturation with an alchemy array.

• Lu Xiao showed the Prison Doctor a larva growing beside his heart and asked him to check its health and how soon it would hatch.
• The Prison Doctor found the larva healthy but could not perform a premature delivery, so Lu Xiao consulted the Omniscient Mirror.
• Lu Xiao filled a container with his blood and placed the larva's egg inside, calming it and raising its ontological rank.
• The Prison Doctor said the egg had become an entirely new creature and summoned Ivan to see it.
• Ivan arrived, examined the egg, and dipped a finger into the blood as the Prison Doctor urged him to inscribe an alchemy array to accelerate its maturation.

Lu Xiao and the others watched the Ghost-Faced Moth Queen Larva hatch after Ivan used an Alchemy Array to accelerate its growth. The newborn, named Lu Qian, bonded with Lu Xiao and welcomed her new godfathers, while her mental attack left Dante collapsed.

• Ivan activated an Alchemy Array and placed the container holding the egg at its center, speeding up the hatching process.
• Dante woke, recognized the egg as a Ghost-Faced Moth Queen Larva, and backed away in alarm before deciding the Containment Facility could handle the danger.
• Lu Xiao named the larva Lu Qian, and she emerged from her egg and clung affectionately to his finger.
• Lu Qian's first vocalization caused severe pain for Dante and affected everyone else to a lesser degree.
• Ivan asked to be Lu Qian's godfather and promised to carve her a bone castle, while the Prison Doctor offered a dress made from a Deity's skin and Chainsaw Man promised to cover her snacks.

Ivan carved a jade-glowing bone into a castle and furnished it with pieces of his own bones, while Doctor dealt with Prison Doctor and Chainsaw Man trying to reach Sequence Number 09. Doctor opened 09's Containment Room in exchange for Prison Doctor's promise to act on his behalf once in a month, and Prison Doctor entered with Chainsaw Man to confront the Corrupted Creator.

• Ivan used an Alchemy Array to soften a jade-glowing bone, then shaped it into a medieval-style castle and carved miniature bone furniture.
• Prison Doctor and Chainsaw Man asked Doctor to open Sequence Number 09's Containment Room so they could meet the Corrupted Creator.
• Doctor reviewed footage showing that Prison Doctor wanted to cut off 09's skin, then tried to divert him to the Dark Prison.
• Prison Doctor refused because he was worried Lu Qian might go hungry, and demanded that Doctor open the door.
• Doctor agreed to open 09's room on the condition that Prison Doctor act on his behalf once in a month.
• Prison Doctor and Chainsaw Man entered the room, where Prison Doctor told 09 that he seemed sick and offered to cure him.

The Prison Doctor and Chainsaw Man fought the corrupted Creator in the Containment Room, using sedatives and Lu Xiao’s modified blood before escaping with the Creator’s severed leg. The Doctor then visited Lu Xiao and met Lu Qian, while Lu Xiao began teaching his daughter how to behave in the Containment Facility.

• The Prison Doctor injected himself and Chainsaw Man with sedative as they fought the corrupted Creator, whose warped powers attacked them.
• Chainsaw Man struck the Creator while the Prison Doctor cut tentacles and injected him with Lu Xiao’s modified blood.
• The anesthetic took effect, and the Doctor opened the Containment Room door as the Prison Doctor and Chainsaw Man escaped with the Creator’s severed leg.
• The Doctor visited Lu Xiao’s Containment Room, met Lu Qian, and asked Lu Xiao to teach her not to harm the humans and to bring her in for a rating test.
• Lu Qian thanked the Doctor, who promised to prepare her a present, and Lu Xiao taught her how to address people in the Containment Facility.

Ivan made Lu Qian a magical bone-carved castle, then told Lu Xiao how he had died, been made into a puppet, and eventually entered containment. Lu Xiao learned from the Omniscient Mirror that the Dark Prison was his original world, but not what had turned it into a hellish place, and he ended the chapter thanking Ivan for his gift.

• Ivan presented Lu Qian with an elaborate bone-carved castle, and she explored it happily before settling on its garden swing.
• Ivan recalled that priests had imprisoned his soul in his skeleton, and that a witch later dug up his bones and made him into a puppet.
• Ivan said he learned alchemy from the witch, escaped, turned her into a puppet, and later buried himself until the Prison Wardens found him.
• Lu Xiao asked the Omniscient Mirror whether the Dark Prison was his original world, and it confirmed this for the price of one fingernail.
• The Omniscient Mirror refused to reveal what had happened to Lu Xiao's original world because the price was too heavy.
• Ivan explained that his alchemy array let the castle shrink with Lu Qian inside, and Lu Xiao bowed to thank him.

The Prison Doctor gave Lu Qian a dress made from the Creator’s skin and explained why the Creator’s appearance changed. Lu Xiao learned that the Prison Doctor had seen another Creator in Prison, while the Doctor pondered why powerful contained beings stayed in the Containment Facility.

• The Prison Doctor gave Lu Qian a transforming dress made from the Creator’s skin and assured Lu Xiao that Chainsaw Man would recover after receiving a skin graft.
• Lu Qian accepted the dress, thanked the Prison Doctor, and happily showed off her new outfit.
• The Prison Doctor explained that the Creator’s changing appearance reflected his thoughts or emotions and said the Creator seemed to harbor malice toward Lu Xiao.
• The Prison Doctor revealed that he had seen another, more severely corrupted Creator in Prison, and Lu Xiao asked whether there was more than one.
• The Doctor listened to their conversation and wondered where the Creators came from and why powerful living contained anomalies remained in the Containment Facility.

Doctor tested a drug meant to boost Mental Power and bodily functions, but the Consumable died after briefly resisting Deity's Whisper. Meanwhile, Lu Xiao and the others watched the chef cook Deity's flesh, and Doctor headed for Lu Xiao's Containment Room.

• Doctor told Assistant that the experiment would reveal whether he had been contaminated and said he might no longer be suited to lead C03.
• Doctor injected the Consumable with the drug and exposed him to Deity's Whisper; the Consumable briefly resisted, then died.
• Doctor judged the drug nearly ready for use and instructed Assistant to prepare another experiment with a revised formula.
• Lu Xiao gathered Prison Doctor, Ivan, Driver, the chef, Ding Dan, and Liuguang's trio in his Containment Room, where the chef cooked a Deity's thigh over an ordinary fire.
• Driver tried turning the thigh on the grill, but the fire no longer damaged it; the chef explained that cooking was his ability.
• Doctor left the laboratory and headed toward Lu Xiao's Containment Room.

Chef served roasted flesh from the contaminated Creator, and Doctor warned that ordinary people could safely eat no more than 0.1 grams. Ding Dan transformed after eating, but Chef’s clean and hygienic preparation prevented Driver from changing.

• Driver had learned the basics of flying a bomber after a day of instruction from professional pilots and drivers.
• Lu Xiao called Lu Qian out to eat, and she happily ate strips of roasted meat.
• Doctor warned Liuguang, Sly, and Xiao Yu that they should eat no more than 0.1 grams of the contaminated Creator’s flesh, while he himself ate a large portion.
• Chef served the group, and Lu Xiao praised the roast meat and invited Chef to eat some too.
• Ding Dan transformed after eating, growing horns and gaining dark red skin, while Driver ate several large portions without changing.
• Doctor explained that Chef’s food was clean and hygienic, so it contained no contamination or viruses.

After eating a Deity’s flesh with Lu Qian and the others, Lu Xiao learned from the Omniscient Mirror that he would need to eat much more to change. The Mirror warned him to beware of Lu Qian, then revealed that learning why would cost the entire C03 Containment Facility.

• The Prison Doctor warned Ding Dan to limit how much Deity’s flesh he ate, while assuring him that Lu Qian would be safe because of her higher ontological rank and his protection.
• The Doctor asked the Prison Doctor to join an experiment involving a drug for killing people and said Lu Xiao’s blood was an ingredient; the Prison Doctor asked for clinical trial data.
• The Doctor reminded Lu Xiao to bring Lu Qian for a safety rating, and Lu Xiao kept the leftover flesh for her.
• Lu Xiao asked the Omniscient Mirror why eating Deity’s flesh had not changed him, and it said he had not eaten enough.
• The Omniscient Mirror warned Lu Xiao to beware of Lu Qian, then demanded one of his fingernails to explain why.
• After Lu Xiao paid with a fingernail, the Omniscient Mirror said the answer would cost the entire C03 Containment Facility.

Lu Xiao learned that Lu Qian’s coming mutation would control C03 unless he sacrificed the facility, while an undisclosed way to twist the outcome carried a heavy price. Meanwhile, Niclade and the Saints prepared to awaken Cthulhu, with Niclade planning to sacrifice himself and appoint the Gambler as his successor.

• Lu Xiao paid the Omniscient Mirror fingernails to learn that Lu Qian’s mutation was connected to C03 and that sacrificing the facility could stop it from taking control.
• Lu Xiao refused to sacrifice C03 or eliminate Lu Qian, thinking of his friends at the facility and watching Lu Qian play in the Bone Carving Castle.
• On an island in the South Pacific, Niclade led the Saints’ ritual, in which hundreds of followers slit their throats and became twisted flesh for the magic circle.
• Niclade met with the Saints’ nine other highest seats and praised Lucilla for her work helping the Prison Wardens unknowingly advance Cthulhu’s awakening.
• Niclade told the Gambler that he would lead the Saints after Niclade sacrificed himself, but the Gambler bet his life that Niclade would die.

Niclade prepared for the Prison Wardens’ coming attack while Gambler wagered his life against him, and setbacks among Niclade’s followers strained his plans. At C03, Lu Xiao and Ding Dan discussed the Doctor’s request to search the Dark Prison for food, but worried about going without Chef.

• Gambler challenged Niclade’s certainty by wagering that Niclade would die, and Niclade added that Gambler’s soul would dissipate if Niclade were resurrected.
• Niclade ordered Lucilla to monitor the Prison Wardens and learned they planned to attack in a month, using Contained Anomalies and sacrificing him to the Omniscient Mirror.
• Niclade discovered that the Doctor survived the attempt to destroy C03 and that C03 personnel had killed the Ghost-Faced Moth Empress, then ordered his followers to report information promptly.
• At C03, Ding Dan told Lu Xiao that the Doctor wanted them to find food in the Dark Prison and bring some back for him.
• Lu Xiao and Ding Dan worried about searching deeper without Mr. Chef, whom the Doctor wanted to stay behind and cook.

Lu Xiao, Ding Dan, Chainsaw Man, the chef, and the Driver entered the Dark Prison through the C02 Containment Facility, where they planned to hunt for nutritious Weird Creatures. The chapter left Ding Dan experimenting with Lu Xiao’s Bone Spur after Chainsaw Man went ahead to find prey.

• The Doctor prepared the chef and supplies for the trip, arranged for the Driver to accompany them, and reminded Ding Dan to raise his Ontological Rank.
• The Driver brought Lu Xiao and the others to the C02 Gate in the newly powered Transforming Vehicle, which could teleport much farther after consuming 297-Shy Guy.
• The Director submitted an application to open the Gate, thanked Lu Xiao for his blood waking his father, and then returned to his work.
• The Driver took the group through the Gate, and they appeared on a barren mountain where a strange C02 Weird Creature roared at Ding Dan before fleeing.
• Ding Dan explained that the creature was a low-level Weird Creature, and Lu Xiao sent Chainsaw Man to find appetizers while he examined the Bone Spur.
• Ding Dan took the Bone Spur from Lu Xiao and drove it into his own thigh.

Ding Dan tested whether the Bone Spur could incapacitate him, then the group ate a three-headed python and teleported into a forest. Driver was traumatized by a pale figure that appeared behind him after he picked up a bar of soap, while Chainsaw Man returned battered with a huge creature in tow.

• Ding Dan stabbed his thighs with Lu Xiao's Bone Spur, but the chef only fell asleep, and Ding Dan stopped because it hurt too much.
• Chainsaw Man brought back a three-headed python, which the chef cooked into griddle-fried snake meat that Ding Dan and the others enjoyed.
• Driver randomly teleported the Transforming Vehicle into a dense forest, where Chainsaw Man charged out to hunt and Lu Xiao suspected a rule-type weird life was nearby.
• Driver picked up a bar of soap despite Lu Xiao's warning, and a deathly pale figure appeared behind him, leaving him terrified.
• Lu Xiao encouraged Driver to cry, and Driver broke down in tears as the chef vowed to cook him something comforting.
• Chainsaw Man returned with torn bandages and dragged an enormous weird creature behind him.

Lu Xiao and the others prepared a feast from a supernatural wild boar Chainsaw Man had caught, while discussing which Dark Prison creatures tasted best. The chef revived Driver’s spirits with two dishes, then revealed that one was pan-fried pork rectum.

• Chainsaw Man brought back an enormous supernatural wild boar, and the chef butchered it for ingredients.
• Lu Xiao and Chainsaw Man gathered water and mutated wood while Lu Xiao told Ding Dan about the creatures he had eaten in the Dark Prison.
• The chef prepared more than twenty dishes from the boar, and Lu Xiao, Lu Qian, Ding Dan, and Chainsaw Man ate.
• The chef served Driver two dishes, and Driver quickly recovered and thanked him.
• Driver asked what the second dish was, and the chef revealed it was pan-fried pork rectum.

At the C03 Containment Facility, the Doctor and the Prison Doctor tested a drug that boosted a Consumable’s physical and mental capabilities while resisting Deity’s Whisper. The Consumable escaped the laboratory but collapsed as the drug wore off, leaving the researchers to assess the trial’s results.

• The Doctor began Experiment 92, and the Assistant injected the drug into a Consumable’s heart while Deity’s Whisper played.
• The Consumable resisted the mental corruption, calmly explained his escape calculations to the Prison Doctor, and persuaded him not to attack.
• The Consumable smashed two Prison Warden soldiers and fled the laboratory while the Doctor and Assistant observed.
• The Doctor estimated that the drug tripled the Consumable’s speed and increased his strength fivefold, while he and the Prison Doctor inferred that his Mental Power had risen substantially.
• The Consumable suddenly stopped, went blank-eyed, and collapsed as the drug’s effects wore off.

Lu Xiao and his companions traveled through the Dark Prison, where they found no powerful Weird Life and wondered what had driven them deeper inside. Ding Dan and the Driver noticed Lu Xiao had become more human since Lu Qian’s birth, leaving Lu Xiao unsettled by the change and the mirror’s warning about his daughter.

• The Driver, Ding Dan, and Lu Xiao discussed why the Driver had not changed after eating, while the Omniscient Mirror demanded Lu Xiao’s arm as the price for an answer.
• Lu Xiao drove a circuit through the Dark Prison searching for nutritious food but sensed no powerful Weird Life, and Ding Dan said something must have happened to them.
• Ding Dan remarked that Lu Xiao had started using his brain more after Lu Qian was born, prompting Lu Xiao to recall the mirror’s warning to beware of her.
• Lu Xiao asked what other changes Ding Dan had noticed, and Ding Dan said Lu Xiao had become more human.
• The Driver recalled Lu Xiao’s recent behavior and agreed that the change was uncanny, leaving him horrified.

Lu Xiao learned that the change in him was a beneficial trace of humanity, while his group found no supernatural creatures in the Dark Prison and was sent to investigate its depths. Meanwhile, Doctor prepared to bypass He Shang and finalized the dangerous details of a drug that could unlock human potential at the cost of the user's life.

• Lu Xiao asked the Omniscient Mirror whether Lu Qian had caused his change and whether it was good or bad; the Mirror confirmed the change was beneficial and cost him a fingernail for the answer.
• Ding Dan and Driver discussed Lu Xiao's transformation, and Ding Dan threw away Driver's cigarettes after remembering his promise to quit.
• Lu Xiao's group searched the outskirts of the Dark Prison for a day without finding any supernatural weird life forms, so Ding Dan contacted Doctor.
• Doctor directed Ding Dan to drive the group into the depths through C03 and warned him that Dart had been parasitized by R019-Source of Contamination.
• Doctor learned that He Shang was out of contact, ordered the Assistant to seek approval from the Warden and Director, and completed the file for Serial Number 306-Cage, whose side effect was the user's death.