Chapter Summaries

Lou Shisui planted Blade Scales among Qiongfang City’s homeless demons while scouting the city. After three noble patrolmen murdered orphaned children, he killed them and took their place, gaining a chance to investigate the city gate’s defenses.

• Lou Shisui mapped Qiongfang City’s streets and planted toxin-bearing Blade Scales on wanderers beneath a bridge.
• Three noble descendants on the night patrol found eighteen homeless demon children and killed them to eat their flesh.
• The patrolmen planned to disable the city gate’s detection system so they could carry the bodies away undetected.
• Lou Shisui confronted the three patrolmen, killed them with his Blade Scales, and turned them into puppets.
• Lou Shisui cleaned the scene and led the puppets toward the city gate to investigate its defenses.

Lou Shisui infiltrated Qiongfang's city wall, turned Demon Race soldiers into puppets, and explored its defenses before escaping. He left a destructive spatial slash in the wall, triggering its alarm as he watched from the trading company dormitory.

• Lou Shisui used his puppets and a disabled section of the barrier to enter the city wall unseen.
• He poisoned eight young Demon Race nobles after they butchered and wasted the corpses, then transformed them into puppets and took a Qiongfang pass.
• Lou Shisui wandered the wall through the night, marking his route and turning low-realm patrol soldiers into puppets while avoiding Profound Realm demons.
• At five in the morning, Lou Shisui unleashed a spatial slash that tore through the wall and shattered his pass, setting off the defenses and alarm.
• Lou Shisui returned to the trading company dormitory several kilometers away and watched the wall light up.

Shisui prepared to leave his month-long cover at the Youhe Trading Company as Qiongfang City tightened security ahead of the Three Races Friendship and Exchange Conference. After refusing Yan Xu’s request to challenge a proposed pay cut, he marked Yan Xu with feather dust and continued toward the boss’s office.

• Demons at a city assembly discussed how enemies had infiltrated Qiongfang City and ordered a security review before the conference.
• Shisui read new regulations requiring identity registration and security checks at the gates, along with a census and possible expulsion for residents who refused to participate.
• Shisui decided that his month at the Youhe Trading Company was over and kept the goods he had supposedly delivered.
• Yan Xu asked Shisui to persuade the boss not to delay or reduce the workers’ pay, but Shisui refused and headed for the boss’s office.
• Yan Xu left the trading company, and Shisui noticed feather dust on his trouser leg and regarded him with icy malice.

Shisui collected his wages by killing Boss Zhou, then massacred Yan Xu and looted the Youhe Trading Company’s warehouse before leaving a Red Crane Orchid badge behind. The badge helped ignite a citywide crackdown and forced hidden Human Race spies and the Red Crane Orchid rebels to respond.

• Shisui killed Boss Zhou, compressed his remains into a cube, and ate part of it before leaving to collect his wages by force.
• At Youhe Trading Company’s warehouse, Shisui found Yan Xu restrained in midair among more than a thousand crimson cubes, killed him, and pulled the warehouse’s materials into a spatial rift.
• Shisui tossed a badge engraved with a red crane orchid into the warehouse district and left; the next day, news reported that Youhe’s Qiongfang branch had vanished.
• A citywide census and Youhe’s disappearance plunged Qiongfang City into chaos, and Demon Race nobles ordered intensified investigations after the badge was found.
• Human Race spies in the sewers decided to alert Chen City about the Red Crane Orchid emblem, while the rebel organization discussed denying ties to the Human Race and protecting its members from the crackdown.

As Qiongfang’s census and security sweeps plunged the lower city into fear, Shisui observed how the nobles’ oppression was fueling resentment. At the E’er family estate, he learned that the Demon Race planned a curfew and that rival races had noticed the spirit treasure on Embracing Moon Peak, leaving him to suspect the Demon Race was provoking wider chaos for a greater prize.

• Shisui passed soldiers arresting families on fabricated charges and recognized that the raids were increasing resentment toward the upper class.
• He entered the E’er family estate, where E’er Kai reported that Qiongfang would impose a midnight-to-five a.m. curfew in a week.
• E’er Kai reported that the spirit treasure on Embracing Moon Peak would mature during the assembly and that Chen City and the Ten-Thousand-Blade Beastfolk had likely detected signs of it.
• Shisui learned that human spies had been uncovered during the census and reasoned that the Beastfolk would notice the treasure later because the Human Race was intercepting Psychic Energy upstream.
• Shisui suspected the Demon Race was deliberately drawing rival races toward the treasure and stirring unrest to conceal a greater objective, possibly abandoning Qiongfang City.

Shisui infiltrated the Human Race Delegation’s guest mansion in Qiongfang City and discovered that Ye Luo could probe memories with her talent. He lured her toward the lower district, where his hunger stirred and he decided to target Tan Anqing, who was following her.

• After a failed protest left Qiongfang City under martial law, the Human Race Delegation arrived, and Shisui secretly watched its members enter the guest mansion.
• Ye Luo tried to take a group photo, but Song Haomiao warned her to keep a lower profile, and Tan Anqing confronted him on her behalf.
• Ye Luo diverted Tan Anqing by promising him a place in the newspaper, then spotted a hooded figure through her camera and chased after it.
• Shisui realized Ye Luo had sensed him and deliberately led her toward the lower district, prompting her to use Psychic Energy to sharpen her memory and vision.
• Shisui identified Ye Luo’s memory-probing talent and, as his hunger intensified, decided to take Tan Anqing as a late-night snack.

Shisui lured Tan Anqing away from Ye Luo, killed him, and cooked him into fries. After Ye Luo gave an uncertain account of the encounter, a Blade Scale and Radiant Feather slipped beneath her skin while she slept, and she woke the next morning unaware of them.

• Tan Anqing recognized Shisui as the wanted Eight-Tailed Owl and followed him, while Shisui led him away from Ye Luo.
• Shisui admitted his identity to Tan Anqing and killed him before Ye Luo and the team leader arrived.
• Shisui used a controlled noble’s kitchen to make fries from Tan Anqing and ate them with a dark-red sauce.
• Ye Luo told the team leader she had seen a white-haired man but could not clearly remember the encounter.
• While Ye Luo slept, a Blade Scale and a Radiant Feather entered her foot and vanished; she woke the next morning feeling well and hurried to a tournament meeting.

After Tan Anqing was killed by the wanted criminal Eight-Tailed Owl, the human delegation tightened its safety rules and prepared for the youth tournament. Lin Shunan and several faction members exchanged warnings and plans, while Yin Xingyao urged his companions to prioritize survival on the perilous trip.

• The team leader announced that Tan Anqing had been killed by Eight-Tailed Owl, who was suspected of having ties to the Demon Race, and ordered the delegation not to travel alone.
• Lan Xundong and Lin Shunan discussed the sea’s potential turmoil, and Lin Shunan sent a coded message reporting Tan Anqing’s death and a change at sea.
• Fang Muyu mocked Tan Anqing, but Guo Lun told her to keep a low profile because the Reformist Faction was watching the Aristocratic Faction.
• Jiang Hongyan advised Song Haomiao to stabilize his recent cultivation breakthrough before the competition, while he focused on defeating the aristocratic families.
• Yin Xingyao warned Qu Yi and Zhan Yuyun that his master had divined danger on the journey and urged them to prepare to survive.

Shisui bombed targets across Qiongfang City, worsening the unrest and drawing the city defense forces into a frantic search. As a human intelligence team scrambled to cover up a damaged base, its leader learned that the Demon Race rebel organization Red Crane Orchid had discovered it and suspected someone was deliberately fanning the flames.

• Shisui used his Kagune and Radiant Feathers to begin bombing targets around Qiongfang City, plunging the city into chaos.
• Shisui escaped each blast by changing his appearance and moving on to another target, while the fire brigade and city defense forces responded to the explosions.
• A commander ordered a search for the bombers and learned that five more explosion sites had been found, including a suspected spy hideout.
• An Jiarong told his team leader that Zhai Simiao was heading for a bombed base and was sent to erase evidence, even if it meant sacrificing himself.
• A talking pigeon warned the team leader that Red Crane Orchid had discovered the base, leading him to suspect that someone was deliberately stirring up trouble.

Shisui engineered chaos in Qiongfang City by raiding Human Race and Beastfolk strongholds and framing the Red Crane Orchid, leaving the city engulfed in violence. After deciding to leave the nobles’ mansions for later, he encountered Lin Shunan, who recognized him and invited him to a teahouse to make a deal.

• The Human Race agents and the Beastfolk hurried to evacuate their exposed intelligence stations, but Shisui attacked the Beastfolk stronghold and stole the Radiant Feathers.
• Shisui left a Red Crane Orchid badge at the ruins, prompting the Human Race and Beastfolk to blame the Demon Race faction and intensifying the conflict among the three parties.
• Fighting and arson spread through Qiongfang City as ordinary residents joined the chaos, while Shisui watched the city burn and considered attacking the nobles’ mansions.
• Shisui killed a Demon Race robber in a remote lane and confronted Lin Shunan, a Human Race Delegation member who recognized him as the Eight-Tailed Owl.
• Lin Shunan proposed a deal over tea, and Shisui agreed to follow him to a teahouse.

Lin Shunan revealed that the delegation member's Spirit Dream Recall could copy images from recent memories and offered to obtain it for the Eight-Tailed Owl. Shisui gave Lin Shunan a sample of his blood and Radiant Feathers to advance his Crimson Chain talent, leaving him to experiment with the dangerous transformation.

• Lin Shunan met Shisui at a tea house and explained that the girl’s Spirit Dream Recall could view recent memories and copy images from them.
• Lin Shunan offered to help Shisui obtain the talent, and Shisui agreed after learning Lin Shunan intended to develop her into a Transcendent.
• Shisui guessed that Lin Shunan needed his help to advance Crimson Chain, which currently let him control his own blood.
• Lin Shunan asked for a sample of Shisui’s blood, and Shisui gave him a drop along with a piece of Radiant Feathers to swallow.
• Shisui left the tea house, while Lin Shunan recovered from the encounter and kept the cup stained with Shisui’s blood.

Lin Shunan drank Shisui’s blood, gaining a major boost to his Crimson Chain talent while becoming vulnerable to Shisui’s control. As Demon Race regulars prepared to enter Qiongfang City, Shisui decided to act before their arrival.

• Lin Shunan returned to his room and drank the crimson liquid supplied by Eight-Tailed Owl, then collapsed as Rc Cells began invading his body.
• Shisui monitored Lin Shunan’s transformation and concluded that his flesh had become valuable nourishment; he decided Lin Shunan would have to be killed before returning to the Human Race.
• Lin Shunan awoke and found his talent strengthened, using a blood whip to slice a chair in half.
• Shisui read that Demon Race regulars would soon be sent to Qiongfang City under the pretext of quelling unrest.
• Shisui considered the approaching army and resolved to do something drastic before it arrived.

As the Human Race prepared to confront the Demon Race and Beastfolk on multiple fronts, Lou Shisui reignited the unrest in Qiongfang City by bombing a noble residence on the mountainside. The blast drew the factions toward the nobles’ district and caught the Beastfolk delegation in the upheaval.

• The Demon Race and Human Race mobilized across from each other at the Wunu River, while a Human general kept a corps watching the Beastfolk.
• The Human Race secretly deployed troops and teleportation anchors into the Spirit Resonance Rainforest to prepare an attack on the Beastfolk.
• Fighting in Qiongfang City dwindled as the factions suspected they had been manipulated and temporarily held back ahead of the Three Races Friendship and Exchange Conference.
• On December 1, Lou Shisui detonated a bomb halfway up the mountain, destroying noble residences and throwing the city back into chaos.
• The factions blamed one another and surged toward the mountainside as Lou Shisui watched from a rooftop and noticed the blast had struck near the Beastfolk delegation’s residence.

Shisui endured the pressure of a Heaven Realm expert in Qiongfang City, then escaped and delivered footage of the incident to the mayor of Chen City. The mayor confirmed the Heaven Realm threat and requested support, while a hidden observer watched.

• A Heaven Realm expert's Psychic Energy pressure silenced Qiongfang City and pinned the Beastfolk delegation and Shisui in place.
• Shisui concealed his Kakugan and restrained his Kagune as he recognized he could not fight the Heaven Realm expert.
• After escaping Qiongfang City by teleporting, Shisui carried a black cube to the mayor's residence in Chen City.
• Shisui placed the cube in the mayor's study, where it later played footage of the explosion and the Heaven Realm expert's arrival.
• The mayor contacted the upper echelon to request support after confirming a Heaven Realm expert was in Qiongfang City.
• A translucent feather watched from a bookshelf as a Heaven Realm expert appeared likely to be stationed in Chen City.

The Human Race delegation arrived at the Three Races Friendly Communication and Youth Sparring Exchange Conference, while Lin Shunan secretly considered helping Eight-Tailed Owl obtain a powerful spirit skill. As the armies of the races waited beyond the mountains, the conference opened with Song Haomiao and the other competitors taking their seats.

• Ye Luo rode to the conference with Lin Shunan, agreed to photograph him during the competition, and exchanged contact information with him.
• Shisui watched the conference venue from a mountainside and noted that the armies and an unknown Heaven Realm powerhouse were waiting outside the mountains.
• Lin Shunan avoided telling Lan Xundong what he had been doing and left after Lan teased him about Ye Luo.
• Song Haomiao entered the entry-level hall, recalled his dead friend and resolved to rise high enough to challenge the great clans, while Jiang Hongyan encouraged him.
• Jiang Hongyan and Xiao Ziyi led their competitors to the Human Race delegation's seats, and the conference opened at 8:00 a.m.

The three races’ representatives traded barbed remarks before watching the youth sparring competition, where Jiang Hongyan’s Human Race team faced the Beastfolk in the opening beginner team match. After the first exchange ended in a draw, Shisui grew bored and wanted the fight to move faster.

• The Human Race, Beastfolk, and Demon Race representatives exchanged jabs about each other’s prospects and Qiongfang City’s recent unrest before agreeing to watch the competition.
• Jiang Hongyan reassured Song Haomiao that the matches served as leverage for the coming negotiations, then vowed to defeat the Beastfolk.
• Jiang Hongyan led Song Haomiao, Zhan Yuyun, Qu Yi, and Fang Muyu into the arena to face five Beastfolk competitors from the Myriad-Blade Rainforest.
• The Human Race team attacked with practiced coordination, but the Beastfolk blocked their opening moves, leaving the first exchange a draw and the match at a stalemate.
• Shisui yawned at the Fourth-Realm competitors’ slow fight and wanted to speed up the tournament.

Ye Luo struggled with a strange emotional numbness while Shisui watched the elite match and prepared to interfere. The Human Race team seemed to gain the upper hand, but Lin Shunan betrayed Xiao Ziyi, leaving the competition’s first death on the arena floor.

• Ye Luo mechanically photographed the aftermath of the Human Race’s first victory and briefly slipped into a cruel, contemptuous state before Lin Shunan’s visit restored her composure.
• Shisui observed Ye Luo and Lin Shunan, then focused on the elite match between the Human Race and the Demon Race, whose contestants included puppets under his control.
• Xiao Ziyi led the Human Race’s attack against E’erbo as Lin Shunan, Lan Xundong, and the other fighters engaged their opponents.
• Yin Xingyao sealed the Demon Race support player’s ability while Shen Cang restrained four opponents with vines, giving Xiao Ziyi a chance to strike E’erbo.
• Lin Shunan stabbed Xiao Ziyi from behind as he attacked E’erbo, and Xiao Ziyi’s head fell to the arena floor.

Lin Shunan betrayed the Human Race team, helping the Demon Race kill Xiao Ziyi, Lan Xundong, and Yin Xingyao before Shen Cang surrendered and fled. As Shisui pursued the remaining contestants, a spirit treasure erupted from the ground near Qiongfang City, unleashing a flood of Psychic Energy mist.

• Lin Shunan stabbed Xiao Ziyi, and E'erbo broke free and killed him as the Demon Race referee let the match continue.
• Lin Shunan and two demons overwhelmed Lan Xundong, while Shen Cang and Yin Xingyao struggled to hold back the attackers.
• Shisui's Rc Cells empowered the puppets, and his Crimson Chain pierced Lan Xundong; Shen Cang surrendered, but Shisui killed Yin Xingyao before the referee arrived.
• Shen Cang entered the contestants' passage alone, and Lin Shunan followed him toward the waiting area as the Human Race delegation's teachers searched elsewhere for a Psychic Energy source.
• The spirit treasure burst out of the ground near Qiongfang City, and Shisui flew toward the mountain through the dense Psychic Energy mist.

Shisui controlled Lin Shunan’s body, slaughtered the contestants in the waiting area, and remade the flesh into Lin Shunan’s form. He then joined E'erbo and Tangtai Norton in cornering Ye Luo and transferring Rc Cells into her, leaving her immobilized and overwhelmed by agony.

• Lin Shunan entered the contestants’ waiting area and attacked the Beastfolk member who taunted him, then fought off the contestants who charged at him.
• Shisui revealed that he was controlling Lin Shunan remotely and transformed his body into a tentacled monster that killed the waiting-area contestants.
• Two Demon Race puppets slipped away, while Shisui absorbed the corpses and reshaped the mass of flesh into Lin Shunan’s form.
• Ye Luo fled through the streets with a recorder as E'erbo and Tangtai Norton pursued her, then accepted help from Lin Shunan.
• Lin Shunan led Ye Luo into an alley and transferred Rc Cells into her; E'erbo and Tangtai Norton joined in, leaving her engulfed in pain.

Shisui sacrificed his three puppets to transform Ye Luo into a powerful new puppet and modified Spirit Dream Recall into a memory-viewing recorder. He then turned toward the summit’s Heavenly Earthly Spirit Treasures, where Moluoke faced representatives of the Human Race and Beastfolk over who could claim them.

• Shisui used his three puppets to flood Ye Luo with Rc Cells, driving her unconscious body to the Fourth-Realm Peak while the puppets withered away.
• Shisui reshaped Ye Luo into a red sphere and installed Spirit Dream Recall in a recorder, hiding the unstable device nearby.
• Shisui decided to pursue the Heavenly Earthly Spirit Treasures so Ye Luo could gain the chance to comprehend the Transcendent realm.
• The chapter revealed that the snow spirits atop Embracing Moon Peak were the treasures that had caused the Psychic Energy Sea of Mist.
• A Human Race teacher and the Beastfolk representative urged Moluoke to share the snow spirits, but Moluoke asserted the Demon Race’s claim and challenged them to take any.