Chapter Summaries

Su Bai trapped Venomous Bee and his fifty shadow assassins in the Thirteenth Step’s endless labyrinth, where deadly rules began erasing their bodies. Venomous Bee discovered the labyrinth’s roll-call rule too late and lost an arm, while Su Bai watched from above and waited for the game to continue.

• Venomous Bee ordered his shadow assassins to cross the staircase, but its forced-path rule pulled them onto the steps and sent them into the labyrinth at the Thirteenth Step.
• Venomous Bee tried to escape, but Hongdou appeared, ignored his attacks, and knocked him onto the staircase, forcing him into the labyrinth too.
• Su Bai closed the entrance to his divine kingdom and watched as Venomous Bee found that the labyrinth looped back on itself.
• A voice called Venomous Bee’s code name, and when he answered and turned toward it, the labyrinth’s rule erased his left arm and embedded it in the wall.
• Su Bai observed Venomous Bee’s injury and taunted him about which body part the staircase would take next.

Su Bai used the Thirteenth Step maze to torment Venomous Bee and his fifty shadow assassins, then sent Hongdou to kill the assassin and claim his spatial ring. After absorbing their remains and divine kingdom origin, Su Bai strengthened his domain and headed home, planning a gift for the Gu Family.

• Venomous Bee answered the maze's calls after hearing the voice of his dead partner, and the rule erased his right leg and severed his connection to his divine kingdom core.
• The maze stripped apart Venomous Bee's fifty shadow assassins, while Su Bai watched its fear and flesh energy expand the maze.
• Su Bai sent Hongdou into the maze, where she killed Venomous Bee with her Death Gaze and took his spatial ring.
• Su Bai absorbed Venomous Bee's corpse, the assassins' remains, and the collapsed divine kingdom's origin, raising the maze to three floors and expanding his divine kingdom to twenty square kilometers.
• Su Bai withdrew his consciousness, found no trace of Venomous Bee in the alley, and went home intending to prepare a gift for the Gu Family.

Su Bai searched Venomous Bee’s spatial ring, found the Gu Family’s role in the bounty against him, and planned to build a mobile ghost story to strengthen his combat abilities. Bai Lan learned of Venomous Bee’s death, ended covert surveillance of Su Bai, and arranged to test him with a dangerous assignment at Benevolent Heart Hospital.

• Su Bai found over two million yuan, potions, a miniature spirit vein core, and Venomous Bee’s records in the spatial ring.
• Su Bai identified Gu Canghai as the likely employer behind the bounty and decided to improve his raw strength before retaliating against the Gu Family.
• Su Bai chose the Midnight School Bus blueprint and planned to obtain a wrecked bus, contaminated fuel, and fourteen resentful souls.
• Zhang Lei reported that Venomous Bee had taken a contract on Su Bai and died after intense spatial fluctuations were detected near Su Bai’s route home.
• Bai Lan concluded that Su Bai was far more dangerous than he appeared, ordered the Bureau to withdraw its covert surveillance, and assigned him an external-consultant task at Benevolent Heart Hospital.

Su Bai traded a spirit vein core for materials to build the Midnight School Bus and planned to gather resentful souls from the Shadow Guild. When the Gu Family used his contamination rating to push for his expulsion and divine kingdom severance, he accepted a dangerous assessment at Benevolent Heart Hospital, seeing the forbidden zone as a chance to create another urban legend.

• Su Bai skipped school and traded a top-grade second-tier spirit vein core to Iron Hand for a fatal-crash bus, contaminated black oil, a bloodstained steering wheel, mutated beast carcasses, and resentment crystals.
• Su Bai decided he still needed fourteen resentful human souls and planned to lure assassins at the Shadow Guild's meeting place in an abandoned chemical plant.
• Lin Que told Su Bai that Gu Canghai was pressuring the school and City Appearance Bureau to expel him and forcibly sever his divine kingdom.
• Lin Que said Zhang Lei had assigned Su Bai a mandatory solo assessment in Benevolent Heart Hospital to recover missing streamers' bodies and an Anomaly sample.
• Su Bai accepted the mission and told Lin Que to ask Zhang Lei to prepare stretchers and body bags for the hospital's natives.

Wang Hai and the Gu Family used official pressure to force Su Bai to choose between having his divine kingdom excised and entering the deadly Benevolent Heart Hospital. Su Bai accepted the mission, signed a waiver, and left to collect materials for his Midnight School Bus, intending to bring Anomalies back from the hospital.

• Wang Hai ordered Su Bai’s divine kingdom removed, while Qin Wan and Zhang Lei objected and the Gu Family lawyer accused Su Bai of endangering the school.
• Wang Hai offered Su Bai a dangerous assessment at Benevolent Heart Hospital: recover a streamer’s corpse and a second-tier Anomaly sample within forty-eight hours.
• Su Bai agreed to the mission and signed the life-and-death waiver despite Qin Wan’s warnings.
• Su Bai privately told Zhang Lei to warn Bai Lan to prepare enough funding and storage for the Anomalies he might bring back.
• Su Bai reassured Qin Wan, left the classroom, and headed to the abandoned steel mill to collect materials for the Midnight School Bus.

Su Bai used materials from the black market to create the Midnight School Bus in his divine kingdom, but it still needed the resentful souls of fourteen dead passengers to become fully active. He headed to an abandoned chemical plant to meet the Gu Family assassins, intending to make them the bus’s first passengers.

• Iron Hand delivered a wrecked school bus, ten drums of contaminated black oil, and fifteen mutant beast corpses to Su Bai at the abandoned Red Star Steelworks.
• Su Bai opened a passage to his divine kingdom and pulled the bus, oil, and beast corpses inside.
• Su Bai used the Urban Legend Creation System to reshape the bus with the mutant beasts’ remains and contaminated oil, creating the Midnight School Bus.
• The system warned Su Bai that the bus still needed the resentful souls of fourteen dead to be fully activated.
• Su Bai checked the time, took a rusty machete, and left for the Gu Family assassins’ rendezvous at Warehouse No. 3 of the abandoned chemical plant.

Su Bai turned the Gu Family’s assassination plot into a trap, using his Divine Kingdom’s Thirteen Steps to capture the assassins and harvest their souls. He lured a larger Shadow Guild and Gu Family force to Warehouse No. 3, where he prepared to trap them too.

• Gu Ming raised the bounty on Su Bai, and he and four Shadow Guild assassins planned to kill him before he reached Benevolent Heart Hospital.
• Su Bai wandered into their meeting, revealed his power, and used a Divine Kingdom passage to drag Mad Blade and the others into the Thirteen Steps.
• Su Bai and Hongdou tormented the five captives until they died, leaving their souls for the Thirteen Steps to extract.
• Su Bai used Mad Blade’s communications watch to fake a distress call and lure more assassins and Gu Family deathsworn to the warehouse.
• Su Bai welcomed the arriving force as prospective passengers, and the Thirteen Steps descended into the warehouse.

Su Bai created the Midnight School Bus by fusing fourteen resentful souls, then drove it out of his divine kingdom toward Benevolent Heart Hospital to confront the Gu Family’s ambush. The bus smashed through the hospital gates just as a mutated doctor was about to kill a trapped streamer.

• Su Bai extracted fourteen powerful resentful souls and fused them into the Midnight School Bus, creating a three-star urban legend vehicle with forced boarding and passenger sacrifices governed by its rules.
• Su Bai took control of the bus, brought Hongdou aboard, and set off for Benevolent Heart Hospital in Linhai City before midnight.
• At Benevolent Heart Hospital, Brother Long, Xiaoya, and two other exploration streamers hid from the hospital’s Anomalies while waiting for rescue.
• A Mutated Attending Physician diagnosed Xiaoya with heart necrosis and prepared to cut open her chest with a chainsaw.
• Su Bai’s Midnight School Bus crashed through the hospital’s iron gates, interrupting the doctor and drawing its attention.

Su Bai arrived at Benevolent Heart Hospital in his ghostly bus and wiped out the mutated patients who attacked him. As the mutated attending physician plunged from the third floor to attack, Su Bai snapped his fingers and called the bus to pick up a passenger.

• Su Bai drove his battered bus through Benevolent Heart Hospital's gate and told Hongdou to stay aboard with the fourteen old men.
• Su Bai released his Wasteland Domain and chopped apart the mutated patients, absorbing their bodies into his Divine Kingdom.
• The mutated attending physician shoved Xiaoya aside and jumped from a third-floor window with its chainsaw aimed at Su Bai.
• Su Bai dropped his machete, called the physician a quack, and snapped his fingers to summon the school bus.

Su Bai used the Midnight School Bus to force the mutated attending physician aboard, where the bus’s fourteen evil spirits devoured it, then drove deeper into Benevolent Heart Hospital while Su Bai prepared to confront its director. The third-tier Benevolent Heart Director awakened in the morgue and unleashed a terrifying aura across the hospital.

• Su Bai triggered the Midnight School Bus’s forced-boarding rule and dragged the mutated attending physician inside, where the fourteen evil spirits tore it apart.
• Su Bai called the four exploration streamers down, reassured them, and introduced himself to their livestream viewers as a demolition director and the hospital’s psychological counselor.
• Su Bai told the streamers to stay put, then sent the Midnight School Bus crashing through the hospital doors and down the corridor, forcing mutated creatures aboard as it advanced.
• The Benevolent Heart Director awakened in the third-basement morgue and spread its reality-distorting contamination throughout the hospital.

Su Bai confronted Benevolent Heart Hospital’s tier-three director after Hongdou and the Midnight School Bus defeated the hospital’s guards. He summoned his Wasteland Divine Kingdom into the director’s Absolute Domain and offered the monster a place on his bus or staircase.

• The Benevolent Heart Director awakened and its mutant doctors diagnosed Su Bai, triggering a rule-based surgery attack.
• Hongdou caught and crushed the rule-formed scalpel, and Su Bai ordered the Midnight School Bus to forcibly board and devour eight mutant doctors.
• The Benevolent Heart Director emerged and trapped Su Bai in its Absolute Domain, the Operating Room of Despair.
• Su Bai summoned the Wasteland Divine Kingdom, breaking free of the director’s bindings as the Midnight School Bus and the Thirteen Steps entered the operating room.
• Su Bai offered the director a choice between becoming a doorman on his bus or a step in his staircase.

Su Bai overwhelmed the Benevolent Heart Director's forces with his Midnight School Bus, Hongdou, and the Thirteen Steps, then faced the Director alone. As the Director attacked with a spatial-rule teleportation strike, Su Bai revealed he had not bought a ticket.

• The Benevolent Heart Director summoned hundreds of mutant corpses to attack Su Bai, who ordered his school bus and the Thirteen Steps to deal with them.
• The Midnight School Bus forcibly boarded dozens of corpses, while Hongdou killed many with her Death Gaze and the Thirteen Steps swallowed the rest.
• Brother Long and the other explorer streamers' livestream showed the battle, prompting Bai Lan to mobilize two Abnormality Division squads to save Benevolent Heart Hospital from Su Bai.
• Su Bai confronted the Director after its forces were cleared, and the Director teleported behind him and swung its chainsaws down.
• Su Bai did not dodge and said, "I didn't buy a ticket."

Su Bai used the rules of his horror stories to defeat the Benevolent Heart Director and destroy the Operating Room of Despair. After absorbing the hospital’s remains and expanding his divine kingdom, he confronted the surviving streamers as Bai Lan and the Abnormality Division arrived.

• Su Bai’s declaration that he had not bought a ticket turned the Midnight School Bus’s Forced Boarding rule against the director, while the Thirteen Steps took the director’s arm after Su Bai called out “Venomous Bee.”
• The director began to self-destruct, but Su Bai ordered Hongdou, the Midnight School Bus, and the Thirteen Steps to suppress it and interrupt the explosion.
• Su Bai shattered the director’s glass head with his machete, seized its black heart, and killed the Benevolent Heart Director.
• Su Bai’s system devoured the hospital’s remains and pollution, expanded his divine kingdom to thirty square kilometers, and began developing the Forbidden Hospital.
• Su Bai demanded payment from Brother Long and the surviving streamers, then Bai Lan, Zhang Lei, and the Abnormality Division arrived at the ruined hospital.

Su Bai returned from Benevolent Heart Hospital after killing its third-rank director and destroying the forbidden zone, then secured official protection from the City Appearance Bureau. Bai Lan granted him the highest-level safety certification and a bounty, while warning that the Gu Family’s conflict with him could destabilize Linhai City.

• Bai Lan and the City Appearance Bureau officers arrived to find Su Bai collecting rescue fees amid the hospital’s ruins and learned that he had killed the director.
• Brother Long told Bai Lan that Su Bai’s green-glowing bus had taken away the hospital’s mutated doctors, prompting her to question his Divine Kingdom.
• Su Bai handed Bai Lan the hospital’s second-rank Anomaly records and the director’s duty roster, while claiming his Divine Kingdom had been severely damaged.
• Bai Lan declared that Su Bai had passed his practical combat assessment and granted him the highest-level safety certification, protecting him from forced removal by the Gu Family and education bureau.
• Su Bai negotiated a five-hundred-thousand bounty, warned Brother Long to pay his hundred-thousand fee, and left the hospital.
• Bai Lan called Su Bai a clever monster who knew how to use the rules and predicted that the Gu Family’s actions would stir up Linhai City.

Su Bai returned alive after killing the third-tier Anomaly at Benevolent Heart Hospital, exposing the Gu Family’s failed scheme and earning a hero’s welcome at school. Gu Qingshan then ordered agents inside Linhai No. 3 Middle School to arrange Su Bai’s death during next week’s placement test.

• Wang Hai and the Gu Family lawyer told Principal Chen Tianxing and Qin Wan that they expected Su Bai to die and planned to claim his body and divine kingdom core.
• Su Bai entered the principal’s office alive and presented an official safety certificate confirming his divine kingdom was controllable and that he had killed the Benevolent Heart Director.
• Su Bai threatened to settle his debt with Gu Canghai, and Wang Hai and the lawyer fled to report what had happened.
• Su Bai returned to Class Seven, where Lin Que and his classmates celebrated his survival, while Shen Yueli showed relief.
• Gu Qingshan learned that Venomous Bee and more than thirty elites had been lost, then ordered agents in the school’s elite class to kill Su Bai during next week’s placement test in an unmonitored mystic realm.

Su Bai developed the Forbidden Hospital in his Wasteland Divine Kingdom, traded his spoils for resources to strengthen Hongdou, and learned that his school would hold a three-day assessment in Mist Canyon. He anticipated that the Gu Family’s agents would target him there.

• Su Bai entered his Divine Kingdom and found that the Forbidden Hospital prototype could convert corpses and polluted materials into first-tier caregivers and patients; he fed it remains and produced dozens of cannon-fodder monsters.
• Su Bai saw that Hongdou was nearing a breakthrough to the third tier and decided to exchange a spirit vein core and looted artifacts for resources to help her advance.
• Su Bai visited Iron Hand at Machinery and Flesh and traded his equipment and spirit vein core for high-purity resentment crystals and polluted flesh materials.
• Qin Wan announced that students would compete in five-person teams during a three-day practical assessment at Mist Canyon, and Su Bai suspected the Gu Family’s agents would attack him there.

Su Bai struggled to form an assessment team for Mist Canyon because the Gu Family’s threats scared off his classmates, but Lin Que and Shen Yueli joined him. After upgrading his spirits over the weekend, Su Bai entered the assessment with his undersized team and threatened to take heads from Wang Meng’s group, while Wang Meng set the Blood Wolf plan in motion.

• Lin Que failed to recruit teammates for Su Bai’s team, but refused to abandon him despite the danger from the Gu Family.
• Shen Yueli joined Su Bai and Lin Que, offering her Moonshadow Elf’s help against the Gu Family in Mist Canyon.
• Zhao Qiang secretly reported the team’s members and recommended an ambush, while revealing that the Gu Family had brought in Blood Wolf Mercenaries for the assessment.
• Su Bai spent the weekend using resentment crystals to strengthen Hongdou, expand the Thirteen Steps labyrinth, and reinforce the Midnight School Bus.
• At the teleportation array, Wang Meng challenged Su Bai’s three-person team and demanded their disqualification for violating the five-person requirement.
• Su Bai warned Wang Meng that he would take heads from his side in the secret realm, then entered the array with Lin Que and Shen Yueli as Wang Meng ordered his men to contact the Blood Wolf people.

Su Bai, Lin Que, and Shen Yueli entered Mist Canyon for the exam, where they discovered Wang Meng and four mercenaries had been killing students on behalf of the Gu Family. As Wang Meng’s group surrounded them, Su Bai stepped forward and promised a far more spectacular death for them than a beast tide.

• Shen Yueli led the group through the polluted canyon while Su Bai secretly fed slain beasts’ flesh, blood, and souls to the Forbidden Hospital.
• The trio found five dead students, and Shen Yueli determined that a person had killed them with spiritual power.
• Su Bai recognized Wang Meng and four mercenaries as the killers and accused them of working for the Gu Family.
• Wang Meng revealed the Gu Family’s bounty on Su Bai and threatened him and Shen Yueli while his mercenaries surrounded the group.
• Lin Que and Shen Yueli prepared to protect Su Bai, but Su Bai stepped forward and promised to make the attackers’ deaths more spectacular than a beast tide.

Su Bai used Hongdou and the Midnight School Bus to kill Wang Meng and devour four mercenaries, then collected their points and sent Wang Meng’s body to the Forbidden Hospital. With Lin Que and Shen Yueli stunned by his power, Su Bai set out to hunt down the Gu Family’s remaining agents in the secret realm.

• Wang Meng and four mercenaries attacked Su Bai, but Hongdou emerged from his Divine Kingdom and killed Wang Meng with her Death Gaze.
• The four mercenaries fled, but Su Bai summoned the Midnight School Bus, whose Forced Boarding rule dragged them aboard and let its evil spirits devour them.
• Su Bai took Wang Meng’s point counter and spatial ring, then sent his corpse to the Forbidden Hospital to be remade as a security guard.
• Su Bai gave Wang Meng’s point counter to Shen Yueli and said they should head deeper into the secret realm to find the Gu Family’s agents.
• Su Bai declared that the hunt had only just begun.

Su Bai joined Lin Que and Shen Yueli to hunt the Gu Family’s infiltrators in Mist Canyon, while officials and Gu Qingshan watched from outside, confident that their mercenaries would kill him. Su Bai confronted five Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps members by unleashing the remade Wang Meng and other Forbidden Hospital orderlies, beginning a fight at the cliff.

• Su Bai revealed that he had disposed of Wang Meng’s group through his Divine Kingdom rift and told Lin Que and Shen Yueli they would hunt the Gu Family’s remaining infiltrators.
• Principal Chen Tianxing admitted he had allowed disguised mercenaries into Mist Canyon to test Su Bai, while Gu Qingshan and Wang Hai discussed the plan to kill him and seal his Divine Kingdom passage.
• Five Blood Wolf mercenaries killed a Berserk Black Bear and delayed their search for Su Bai to harvest its magic core.
• Su Bai, Lin Que, and Shen Yueli found the mercenaries, and Su Bai opened a Divine Kingdom rift to release more than a dozen mutated Forbidden Hospital orderlies, including Wang Meng.
• Su Bai ordered the orderlies to attack, and they leaped from the cliff toward the five mercenaries.