Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze discovered that the rabbits in the forest could regenerate from almost nothing and that one could communicate with him telepathically. He learned that the Divine Tree would scatter seeds the next day, and arranged for the rabbit to take him there in hopes of finding a way out of the forest.

• Qin Ze killed and roasted a rabbit, then noticed its bones had vanished after he ate it.
• Qin Ze watched the bones reassemble into a rabbit and learned that it could regenerate as long as any part of its body remained.
• Qin Ze dissected the rabbit, but found no Soul Orb, qi sea, or signs of cultivation that explained its ability.
• Qin Ze questioned the rabbit about the forest and learned that it knew little about the world or its origins.
• Qin Ze learned that the Divine Tree created the forest's magical animals and would scatter seeds the next day, and he ordered the rabbit to take him there.

Qin Ze witnessed the Divine Tree scatter world seeds and realized the forest might be the Land of Origin, the starting point of all life. After the scattering, he touched the Divine Tree and heard it begin to call him “God...” before the voice abruptly stopped.

• Qin Ze asked the rabbit about Scattering Day and followed it to the Divine Tree, where magical animals gathered in peace.
• As sunlight appeared, the Divine Tree scattered clusters of starlight, and Qin Ze touched one, seeing visions of a world’s creation and civilization.
• Qin Ze deduced that the star clusters were world seeds and the magical animals embodied ability rules, but the starlight refused to carry him out of the forest.
• Qin Ze touched the Divine Tree, heard it address him as “God...” before its voice cut off, and asked the rabbit whether it had seen other two-legged creatures like him.

Qin Ze followed the rabbit into the forbidden zone to find the sleeping two-legged beast, whom he believed was the Goddess of Life. After evading the centaur knight’s pursuit, Qin Ze revealed his Divine Markings and the knight stopped attacking, then motioned for him to follow.

• The rabbit led Qin Ze across the river into the forbidden zone and warned him about the powerful four-legged beast guarding it.
• Qin Ze and the rabbit fled through the forest when the centaur knight pursued them, using the rabbit’s remembered route to escape.
• The centaur knight descended in front of Qin Ze and revealed himself as a level-nine guardian with an aura resembling the Abyss Puppets.
• Qin Ze showed the knight his Divine Markings, causing the knight’s killing intent to fade, though Qin Ze could not command or communicate with him.
• The centaur knight saluted Qin Ze and walked into the forest, gesturing for him to follow.

Qin Ze followed a centaur knight to a sealed temple and found the Goddess of Life asleep inside a Desolate God-made barrier. After a voice claiming to be the goddess tried to persuade him to open it, Qin Ze resisted, and the rabbit in his arms was crushed into bloody mist.

• The centaur knight led Qin Ze and the rabbit through a hidden forest path to an ancient temple, then signaled Qin Ze to enter alone.
• Qin Ze opened the temple doors with the power of his Desolate God Bloodline and saw the sleeping Goddess of Life enclosed in a bubble.
• Qin Ze discovered that the bubble was made by the Desolate God and could be opened using his bloodline, but he recalled the Divine Tree's warning not to answer.
• A gentle voice claiming to be the Goddess of Life urged Qin Ze to open the bubble and promised to answer his questions, bless him, and help him become a god.
• Qin Ze resisted the voice and challenged it to free itself, then a fierce wind swept through the temple and the rabbit in his hands was crushed into bloody mist.

Qin Ze confronted the rabbit, who revealed it was a fragment of power from a sealed god and tried to persuade him to undo the seal. As the Goddess of Life sent Qin Ze away, the Divine Tree gave him a seed of the Desolate God's power.

• Qin Ze deduced that the rabbit was the Goddess of Life in disguise and questioned why the Desolate God had sealed it.
• The rabbit offered Qin Ze godhood if he opened the final layer of the seal, but the Divine Tree tried to warn him before the rabbit silenced it.
• Qin Ze refused to open the seal and grabbed the rabbit, while the centaur knight defended the temple from a swarm of magical animals.
• The Goddess of Life glowed and summoned a pillar of light that began sending Qin Ze away.
• The rabbit called Qin Ze its most outstanding child, and the Divine Tree urged him to accept the Desolate God's power as a green seed entered his chest.

Qin Ze's seed transformed his Desolate God Power and bloodline, forming a new Divinity without the Star Gate. After returning to the Abyss, he identified Torch City and headed toward Penglai City.

• A seed took root in Qin Ze, refined his Desolate God Power, and spread golden Divine Markings across his body.
• The Divine Tree told Qin Ze that a Divinity had formed and urged him to become a god and see her again, before the pillar of light took him away.
• The rabbit revealed that it intended to wait until Qin Ze reached level nine and then offer to help him become a god for a price.
• Zi Yue recognized the golden vortex above the Abyss as the phenomenon of a new Divinity forming, while four mysterious phantoms concluded it had come from the Land of Origin and agreed to visit the Spirit Clan.
• Qin Ze returned to the Abyss, spotted Torch City, and raced toward Penglai City.

While traveling toward Penglai City, Qin Ze strengthened his new Divine Vein and read Old Huang’s Chronicle of Time, uncovering the spread of a dangerous contamination across worlds. The diary ended with Old Huang fearing a great crisis would soon threaten the Land of the Gods.

• Qin Ze rode an Abyss Puppet toward Penglai City and learned from Brother Yuanzi that the Otherworld had not opened yet.
• Qin Ze absorbed the Apostle of the God of Machinery’s Relic, raising his new Divine Vein’s progress to about forty-five percent.
• Qin Ze read Old Huang’s diary entries about serving the Goddess of Life and traveling through different worlds.
• Qin Ze discovered that contamination had spread to a world where anomalous spirit entities had killed every living thing.
• Old Huang recorded that the Goddess of Life subdued the source of the contamination and planted a Spirit Tree to stabilize the world, then predicted a great crisis for the Land of the Gods.

Qin Ze read the Desolate God's diary and learned that pollution originated in New Land and that a strange beast had passed through the Star Gate to become a god. The diary ended before revealing how the Desolate God planned to stop the beasts, leaving Qin Ze to suspect he had destroyed the Star Gate.

• Qin Ze read that pollution had spread from New Land into the Land of the Gods, while the Goddess of Life and other gods initially ignored it.
• Qin Ze discovered that the gods later tried to confront the pollution, but the Goddess of Life shut herself away.
• Qin Ze read that a strange beast passed the Star Gate's trial, became a god, killed the minotaur, and escaped the gods' attack.
• Qin Ze inferred that the Desolate God had destroyed the Star Gate to prevent more beasts from becoming gods, but wondered why the Desolate God's Source of God was inside a Star Gate Fragment.
• Qin Ze put away the Chronicle of Time and saw Penglai City in the distance.

Captain Hook absorbed an S-rank Ghost Type Soul Orb and became Ghost Captain, then set off with Vice Captain Paopao to hunt in the Abyss. Qin Ze returned to Snow City, where he waited for the Otherworld to open and arranged to get a Martial Artifact staff for Fatty.

• Qin Ze gave Captain Hook the S-rank Ghost Type Soul Orb, and Captain Hook evolved into Ghost Captain with abilities including physical immunity, possession, and mass control.
• Qin Ze gave the acting captain a Hunting Beast Soul Orb and supplied Ghost Captain with looted Soul Orbs and Martial Artifacts for his crew.
• Qin Ze escorted Ghost Captain and the clones aboard the Flying Circus Man back to Penglai City, and the ship set off toward the Abyss, crashing through a hill on the way.
• Qin Ze returned to Snow City, messaged Brother Yuanzi that he had arrived, and waited for the Otherworld to open.
• Qin Ze contacted Slacking on the Sidelines as Beast Tamer and arranged to obtain a Martial Artifact staff for Fatty.
• Passerby A appeared in the chat group and said they thought they knew the identity of the new Hunter.

Qin Ze learned that Wang Biao was the final Hunter and that his own key was a unique little tree, then heard that Leo had escaped and was heading for the Abyss. At the bar, Slacking on the Sidelines gave Qin Ze a cane from the Moon Clan’s Martial Artifact armory, just as three armed men entered.

• Passerby A revealed that Wang Biao was the final Hunter and had a leaf-shaped key, while Qin Ze realized his own little tree key was different from everyone else’s.
• Passerby A said Wang Biao had heard a summons, and Catch a Fox Spirit identified it as the coming trial Otherworld.
• Yao Yuan reported that Leo had broken free after someone opened his cell and warned people in Snow City that Leo was heading to the Abyss entrance.
• Qin Ze met Slacking on the Sidelines at the bar, where Slacking handed him a sturdy cane from the Moon Clan’s Martial Artifact armory for Fatty.
• Three fully armed men entered the bar and drew everyone’s attention.

Qin Ze watched Snow City's Inspection Team harass members of the company's Mobile Team and wondered why the company had deployed them there. After sending a walking stick to Fatty, Qin Ze spotted several suspicious figures he recognized as the Mobile Team.

• Qin Ze learned from Slacking on the Sidelines that the company's Mobile Team had deployed to Snow City and clashed repeatedly with the Inspection Team.
• Two gray-coated officers searched three Mobile Team members and confiscated their Martial Artifacts, while the team's tall member restrained his companions from fighting.
• Qin Ze suspected the company had a purpose for sending its Mobile Team to Snow City, then declined Slacking on the Sidelines's offer of a job so he could prepare for the Trial Otherworld.
• Qin Ze learned a special train would leave for Sea Capital the next day and sent Fatty his walking stick from the freight station.
• Qin Ze left the freight station and spotted several suspicious figures who appeared to belong to the company's Mobile Team.

Qin Ze witnessed the Mobile Team secretly collecting a sealed box from a sickly man, then collapsed from a mysterious illness while fleeing. Scholar examined him and concluded that he was sick, not injured.

• Qin Ze followed the Mobile Team to a freight train, where its captain collected a heavy, sealed box from a sickly man.
• The sickly man spotted Qin Ze and declared him a dead man, while the Mobile Team carried the box away without pursuing him.
• Qin Ze ordered his clones in Snow City to investigate the box, then suddenly grew weak, vomited blood, and began bleeding from his eyes and nose.
• Slacking on the Sidelines and Passerby A took Qin Ze to Scholar, who examined him and said he was sick rather than injured.

Scholar cured Qin Ze's mysterious illness, and Qin Ze agreed to help the Dew Duo find Leo, the strongest of the Twelve Zodiac Signs, in Snow City. As Qin Ze went to sleep, his clones reported that they had lost the people transporting the box.

• Scholar used his ability to cure Qin Ze, confirming that Qin Ze had been sick despite being a martial artist.
• Qin Ze told Scholar, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Passerby A about the sickly man and the suspicious box at the freight depot, and Scholar suggested the man had used a disease vector.
• Scholar urged Qin Ze to accept the Dew Duo's bounty mission, and Slacking on the Sidelines revealed they had been hired to find Leo in Snow City by an executor from the Law Enforcement Team.
• Qin Ze recognized that the executor was Brother Yuanzi and agreed to join the Dew Duo the next morning.
• After the Dew Duo left, Qin Ze's clones reported through the Local Area Network that they had lost track of the box's escorts.

Qin Ze learned that Capricorn’s illness-inducing ability had killed three of his clones and endangered him, while the Mobile Team pursued the Fairness Society’s Leo. The next morning, Qin Ze met the Dew Duo, whose investigation had made no progress, and took them somewhere to continue the search.

• The Mobile Team escaped Qin Ze’s clones by flying into the sky, and three pursuing clones later died suddenly after apparently falling ill.
• A clone found the three bodies and tried to erase the evidence, but the tall Mobile Team captain caught him; the clone self-destructed, and the captain survived and reported that someone else was watching them.
• Qin Ze concluded that Capricorn’s illness ability had killed the clones and that the Mobile Team’s flight had been a hallucination; the group chat identified Capricorn as a Fairness Society Zodiac and discussed his weakness in close combat.
• Yao Yuan told the group that Snow City’s Inspection Team had been alerted, while the Dew Duo reported they were searching for Leo.
• Qin Ze met Slacking on the Sidelines and the Dew Duo at a bar the next morning, learned they had made no progress, and took them somewhere to investigate.

Qin Ze and his companions found Leo's location with help from a retired Inspection Team veteran, then discovered the northern factory belonged to the company. Thousand Faces revealed he was already inside the factory beside the box, leaving Qin Ze ready to coordinate an extraction.

• Qin Ze confronted the old shopkeeper and persuaded him to locate Leo of the Twelve Zodiac Signs.
• The shopkeeper used his Thousand-Mile Eye ability to find Leo at a factory in the north of Snow City.
• Qin Ze explained that the shopkeeper was a retired Inspection Team veteran and that Thousand Faces had once been his apprentice.
• Qin Ze, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Passerby A found the company-operated factory guarded by Mobile Team members.
• Thousand Faces contacted Qin Ze through the Local Area Network and said he was inside the factory beside the box, proposing a joint effort to retrieve it.

Leo prepared to return to the Abyss while Capricorn monitored the Void Beast, and a rapidly spreading disease began devastating Snow City. Qin Ze learned that Leo was hiding in a factory and suspected the Void Beast was inside the box Capricorn had been checking, then went to alert Brother Yuanzi.

• Capricorn told Leo that his return to the Abyss would be possible in a few days and warned him that the president was disappointed in his performance.
• Capricorn said he had been checking on the Void Beast, while a disguised man watched him and approached Leo's room after Capricorn left.
• Soldiers returning to Snow City discovered that a disease causing blisters and pustules was spreading through a tavern and had already infected much of the city.
• The Inspection Team's captain learned that a third of Snow City's population was infected and hurried to investigate.
• Qin Ze learned from Son of the Version that Leo was in the basement of the factory and that Capricorn had been checking a box, leading him to suspect it contained the Void Beast.
• Qin Ze left to tell Brother Yuanzi what he had learned before a possible beast tide threatened Snow City.

Qin Ze realized Capricorn had unleashed a disease to help Black Mountain Biotechnology gain influence in Snow City, while a Void Beast threatened to trigger a beast tide. Yao Yuan planned to bring in the Inspection Team that night, and the group prepared to intervene as Fairy revealed Capricorn was the plague’s source.

• Qin Ze abandoned his plan to steal Capricorn’s sealed box after suspecting it contained a Void Beast.
• A news bulletin reported a deadly airborne disease in Snow City, and Qin Ze suspected Capricorn had caused it.
• Qin Ze deduced that Capricorn was paving the way for Black Mountain Biotechnology to gain support for Mobile Team deployments.
• Black Mountain Biotechnology announced it had developed a treatment, and Qin Ze and the others recognized the company’s public-relations move as an open plot.
• Yao Yuan told the group Capricorn had brought a Void Beast and said he would bring in the Inspection Team that night.
• Fairies Don't Poop said killing Capricorn would stop the disease and warned that he was level 8.5, with other Zodiac Signs possibly coming to help.

Qin Ze joined Yao Yuan’s Inspection Team for an assault on the factory, where Capricorn was spreading disease and Leo was being held. The team entered under the Cage Formation, and Captain Fang killed a Mobile Team deputy after the factory tried to obstruct the arrest.

• Slacking on the Sidelines invited Qin Ze to join the raid, and Qin Ze agreed so he could retrieve the Star Gate Fragment and deal with a possible Void Beast passage.
• Capricorn spread disease spores across Snow City and plotted to earn a promotion, while a Mobile Team captain assured him the company would cooperate and guard his box.
• Captain Fang raised the Cage Formation around the factory, alerting Capricorn that the Inspection Team had arrived; Capricorn headed toward the basement where Leo was held.
• Yao Yuan assigned Captain Fang to capture Capricorn, himself to handle Leo, and Qin Ze to find and retrieve the box containing the sealed Void Beast.
• The Inspection Team entered the factory and confronted the Mobile Team, whose deputy challenged them; Captain Fang killed him with a sword strike.

The Inspection Team attacked the company’s warehouse, forcing Capricorn to awaken Leo’s strength and bring forward the Void Beast’s awakening. Yao Yuan and Captain Fang confronted Leo and Capricorn while Qin Ze’s group searched Zone B for the box.

• Yao Yuan killed the deputy and ordered the Inspection Team to kill anyone who resisted, while the tall captain and his team surrendered.
• Capricorn gave Leo a disease spore that restored most of his strength, then set out to awaken the Void Beast early.
• Yao Yuan attacked Capricorn and Leo, and Leo fought him in the air while Capricorn slipped away toward Zone B.
• Captain Fang intercepted Capricorn, delaying the Void Beast’s awakening.
• Qin Ze and his group reached the Zone B warehouse, where Thousand Faces beckoned them inside.

Qin Ze and his companions stole the sealed black box from the warehouse and fled while Captain Fang fought Capricorn and Yao Yuan fought Leo. Just as Qin Ze reached the factory gates, Aries took the box, and Leo ordered Aries and Ma Yan to kill them.

• Thousand Faces led Qin Ze, Slacking on the Sidelines, the Dew Duo, and Scholar to the warehouse and revealed the black box.
• Scholar made the box weigh as little as cotton, allowing Qin Ze to carry it as the group escaped.
• Leo spotted Qin Ze with the box and attacked, while Capricorn sent disease spores toward them; Scholar protected the group with his ability.
• Captain Fang wounded Capricorn and kept him occupied, giving Qin Ze and the others a chance to reach the factory gates.
• Aries took the box from Qin Ze, and Leo ordered Aries and Ma Yan to kill them.