Chapter Summaries

Bo Xiwan seized control of the Bo Xi Family by killing its former head and claiming he had inherited the position. After arresting the Second Elder, he turned the elders’ attention to retaliating against Shengtian Public School.

• Bo Xiwan’s forces attacked the Bo Xi residence, killing servants and capturing the former family head.
• Bo Xiwan killed his father and announced that the dying family head had entrusted the Bo Xi Family to him.
• The elders debated Bo Xiwan’s claim to leadership, while the Second Elder objected to the change.
• Bo Xiwan’s attendants arrested the Second Elder for allegedly conspiring with Bo Xiqian and Shengtian Public School.
• Bo Xiwan asked the elders to discuss how the Bo Xi Family should strike back at Shengtian Public School.

Shisui destroyed the Beastfolk outpost while repairing his body, then returned to Shengtian Public Library to search for the injured Earth Realm cultivator who had escaped. Meanwhile, Arakawa Jiushu brought the blindfolded young man to Yuanqing’s villa, where Yuanqing ordered Qing Wufei to watch him and report any contact with the Third Prince.

• Shisui attacked the outpost, killing most of its captives, while Miao Xingyu fled before the wall collapsed and was pinned beneath rubble.
• Shisui demolished the outpost and used a Space Wormhole to return to Shengtian Public Library, where he found the blindfolded Earth Realm cultivator gone and followed his scent.
• Shisui used a Radiant Feather to confirm that Bo Xiwan had entered Shengtian Public School’s internal conflict, then planted another feather at the library before setting off after the escaped cultivator.
• Arakawa Jiushu returned to Yuanqing’s villa with the gravely injured blindfolded young man and brushed past the bodyguard who tried to block his way.
• Yuanqing ordered Qing Wufei to watch Arakawa Jiushu and notify him if Arakawa Jiushu contacted the Third Prince.

Shisui massacred the prisoners gathered outside Shengtian’s Administration Building and began metamorphosis as he consumed them. Meanwhile, Arakawa Jiushu returned to Shengtian, where White Owl killed a guard and confronted the assembled soldiers.

• Shisui attacked the bound prisoners with concealed feather projectiles, killing many and cutting down survivors as they tried to flee.
• Shisui used Feather Powder to immobilize the remaining prisoners, then devoured them and began metamorphosis inside a fog-covered square.
• Arakawa Jiushu locked a gravely wounded Earth Realm cultivator in a cell beneath the seaside villa and returned toward Shengtian, expecting to be summoned.
• White Owl flew into Shengtian and killed a guard by tearing out his heart as the temporary outer guards gathered around him.

Citroën executives coordinated a shipment of warship thrusters and psychic energy barriers while Xu Xing arranged to guide the unrest in Shengtian and delay Wu City’s forces. As rival forces prepared to exploit the coming conflict, Shisui sensed the campus had calmed, gathered his spoils, and confronted a woman who had been watching him.

• Li Hao ordered the Citroën departments to finish loading the shipment and have the cargo ship depart at four.
• Xu Xing reported that the Bo Xi Family and prominent Wu City families were heading toward Mao City, and Li Hao told him to delay their arrival until dusk.
• Xu Xing ordered the Defense Force to patrol, directed his people to guide the Shengtian unrest toward a swift end, and told his Wu City agents to remain hidden.
• A horned group reported the human factions’ movements to their prince, who ordered them to strike when Mao City’s defenses were exposed.
• Shisui sensed that Shengtian campus had calmed, stopped his [Metamorphosis], gathered the Flesh Crystals, and vanished when he felt someone watching him.
• Shisui appeared behind a woman on a classroom roof and restrained her with his Bikaku.

Shisui captured a spy at Shengtian Public School and extracted two memories before fleeing, then followed a clue to a Citroën Company cargo ship on the Turbid Water. When black-robed figures attacked the ship, he became eager to steal the vessel and its weapons.

• Shisui recognized a library employee as a spy and restrained her with his Bikaku.
• Shisui used [Spirit Dream Recall] to break through the spy’s blocked memories, but the psychic struggle tore her body apart; he extracted two memory fragments and escaped.
• Black-robed figures arrived at the school roof, failed to locate Shisui, and reported to the Third Highness while one of his Radiant Feathers remained hidden nearby.
• As Academy Island’s unrest subsided, Shisui waited beside the Turbid Water in western Mao City, following a clue from the captured memories to a cargo ship.
• Black-robed attackers tried to board the Citroën Company ship, but its Psychic Energy defenses and weapons repelled them.
• Shisui saw the ship’s missile-like weapons and decided he wanted to steal the vessel itself.

Shisui waited for a battle to finish aboard a Citroën Machinery Company cargo ship, then killed the surviving attackers and discovered they belonged to a sea-dwelling intelligent race. He took the ship into Alternate Space and hurried toward Academy Island and Shengtian Public School.

• Twelve black-robed Earth Realm experts ambushed the cargo ship, and its Psychic Energy Cannons drove them back before they forced their way through a weakness in the barrier.
• The attackers and the ship's crew fought until dusk while Shisui watched from the riverbank and waited for both sides to weaken.
• Shisui entered the ship, searched for survivors with Feather Powder, and killed the last black-robed attacker.
• Shisui found that the invaders had vertical pupils and smelled of the sea, and he recognized them as members of another intelligent race.
• Shisui collected the bodies, covered the hull with Koukaku, and swallowed the cargo ship into a Wormhole before flying toward Academy Island and Shengtian Public School.

As fighting spread across Academy Island, Shisui raided the Citroën Machinery Company and stole three production lines. Meanwhile, Arakawa Jiushu returned to the chaos, while a Dragon Spirit Species prince plotted to seize the Two Rivers Estuary.

• The Bo Xi Family attacked Shengtian Public School, and the fighting spread across Academy Island and toward Mao City.
• Shisui infiltrated the Citroën Machinery Company and used Koukaku to take the Psychic Energy Barrier and Psychic Energy Cannon production lines and the cannon-shell production line.
• Shisui escaped through a Radiant Feathers wormhole before the company's employees discovered the theft.
• Arakawa Jiushu left a seaside villa and returned to the fighting after being urgently summoned.
• A young Dragon Spirit Species prince dismissed the danger of meeting White Owl and plotted to claim the Two Rivers Estuary.

The great families attacked Shengtian Public School to seize Mao City, and Shisui returned to confront Bo Xiwan. After learning what he needed from Citroën, Shisui killed Bo Xiwan and ended their alliance.

• The great families bombarded Shengtian Public School, killing ordinary students and enraging its old principal, Lan Guihang.
• Lan Guihang identified the Bo Xi Family as the enemy’s leaders and charged at its members, while Bo Xiwan called on the First Elder and Third Elder for support.
• Shisui appeared beside Bo Xiwan, who noticed Shisui had changed his Psychic Energy Barrier and suspected he had connected with Citroën.
• Shisui stabbed Bo Xiwan with his Rinkaku Scorpion Tail, revealed his Profound Realm Fifth Realm cultivation, and killed him.
• Shisui devoured Bo Xiwan, explaining that he had no further use for him and had come to break their alliance.

Shisui used the Academic Clique’s map to target Mao City while Shengtian’s forces were drawn to the battle on Academy Island. As the Dragon Spirit Species and Human Race leadership purged the Academic Faction’s supporters, two cultivators discussed a missing defender and the cost of being sent into restraint.

• Shisui studied and took the map of Mao City, then used a Wormhole to leave no trace for the Bo Xi Family’s people.
• Shisui entered a coastal outpost after its soldiers were sent to defend Shengtian Public School and killed the troops left behind.
• As fighting intensified on Academy Island, White Owl killed a wealthy businessman in Mao City.
• The Dragon Spirit Species and the Human Race leadership cooperated in purging the Academic Faction’s supporters while leaving control of Mao City to whoever prevailed.
• A young Earth Realm cultivator worried that he could not contact Xun Yu, and a middle-aged cultivator explained that Xun Yu’s senses might still be affected by petrification.

A black-clad observer noticed living chains after two Human Race awakened ones left a bloodied villa, while the battle for Academy Island worsened as the Bo Xi Family lost contact with its head and Shengtian received no outside support. Lan Guihang failed to secure military aid and ordered a retreat, while Pei Qinglan reassured Councilor Yang amid a hidden purge in Mao City.

• Two chained Human Race awakened ones left a bloodied villa, and a black-clad figure with dark wings appeared afterward and noted that their similar chains seemed alive.
• Bo Xi Family elders discovered that Bo Xiwan and the strategic map were missing, then organized themselves to keep fighting for Shengtian and Academy Island.
• Lan Guihang learned that Shengtian could not reach city officials or secure support, and he contacted the Human Race Security Committee's Mao City office to request troops.
• The office told Lan Guihang that troop deployment required an application seven working days in advance, so he sought aid from the All-School Alliance and nearby public schools and ordered his forces to retreat while preserving their strength.
• The purge in Mao City remained concealed by the fighting on Academy Island, but politicians and wealthy merchants began noticing that people close to Shengtian were unreachable.
• Pei Qinglan assured Councilor Yang that she would take responsibility for her personal safety.

Lian Hong and Luo Sheng assassinated Councilor Yang Wen, but Pei Qinglan recognized Lian Hong as her missing senior brother and learned he had become a Bound Captive. After Lian Hong fled and Pei Qinglan ran toward Academy Island, Shisui confronted Lian Hong outside the mansion.

• Luo Sheng and Lian Hong infiltrated Yang Wen's mansion, where Pei Qinglan sensed the attack and tried to protect the councilor.
• Lian Hong struck Yang Wen with a spatial slash, and a light arrow killed her; Luo Sheng escaped using a teleportation item.
• Pei Qinglan recognized Lian Hong's saber technique and asked why he had vanished from Shengtian three years earlier.
• Pei Qinglan asked whether Lian Hong had become a Bound Captive, and he broke down before insisting he could not return.
• Lian Hong pushed Pei Qinglan aside and fled, while she ran toward Academy Island inside an invisible spatial barrier.
• Shisui appeared on the roof as Lian Hong returned to the mansion and asked what he wanted.

Shisui fought and killed Lian Hong, a Bound Captive sent to assassinate powerful figures close to the Academic Faction. As Lian Hong died, he finally voiced his hatred of the Human Race’s higher-ups, and Shisui tasted him and called the flavor vegetable salad.

• Lian Hong reflected on his assassination orders and the shame he felt at serving the powerful, then faced Shisui on a villa roof.
• Lian Hong attacked Shisui with Spatial Energy, but Shisui evaded him with crystal doubles and countered with his Kagune.
• Shisui’s Kagune overwhelmed Lian Hong, whose saber shattered as he struggled to undo the chains’ seal.
• Shisui’s scorpion-tail stinger pierced Lian Hong’s eye and brain, leaving him dying and regretting his unfulfilled aspirations.
• Lian Hong’s chains snapped him in half as he vented his hatred, and Shisui’s Kagune crushed him to death.
• Shisui tasted Lian Hong and remarked that he tasted like vegetable salad.

Shisui discovered and destroyed a signal-transmitting chain before hiding to undergo Metamorphosis, while reports of a Demon Race experiment reached the Upper House. Elsewhere, Qing Wufei killed Luo Sheng, and the Dragon Spirit Species and Sea Race began purging the Human Race leadership’s lackeys in Mao City.

• Shisui detected the chain transmitting information, contained its signal, and swallowed it inside his protected Bikaku.
• Shisui concealed himself in the ruins to digest psychic energy and undergo Metamorphosis as city defense soldiers arrived too late to find anything.
• An administrator received news that a Bound Captive had died and the Motherly Silk Lock had been destroyed, then reported suspected Demon Race interference in Mao City to the Upper House.
• Luo Sheng left his safe house to look for Lian Hong, but Qing Wufei ambushed and killed him after identifying him as a Bound Captive.
• After the bells rang ten times, the Dragon Spirit Species and the Sea Race began purging the Human Race leadership’s lackeys under cover of night.

Shisui concealed his strength and headed toward Mao City's blood-soaked coast while Qing Wufei completed a kill and received another mission. At a Dragon Spirit Species villa, Bixu confronted Yuanqing over Qing Wufei's treatment and threatened to report him to His Majesty.

• Shisui finished his Metamorphosis, suppressed his Psychic Energy, and used his earring to disguise himself as a Mid Fourth Realm cultivator.
• Shisui made his way toward the coast, crossed a field of mangled bodies, and continued into Mao City.
• Qing Wufei collected the femurs of a powerful target after killing him, then flew away to carry out his next mission.
• Bixu accused Yuanqing of overworking Qing Wufei, and Yuanqing angrily warned him not to report the matter to His Majesty.

Bixu forced Yuanqing to order Qing Wufei to stop hunting, then went to retrieve him before his failing body collapsed. Shisui found Qing Wufei among the corpses, cut off his ear clip, and fought him as his body began to break apart.

• Bixu confronted Yuanqing over Qing Wufei’s condition and made him order the test subject to stop hunting.
• Yuanqing sent the order through the Amber Token Pendant, and Bixu left to find Qing Wufei.
• Qing Wufei killed his final target, received the order, and stood still among the corpses despite his pain and murderous urges.
• Shisui followed the scent of decay to Qing Wufei and recognized that his soul and body did not match.
• Shisui severed the ear wearing Qing Wufei’s clip, triggering Qing Wufei to attack him with bone blades.
• Shisui and Qing Wufei exchanged more than a hundred blows, and Qing Wufei’s body fractured before Shisui sent him flying.

Shisui overwhelmed Qing Wufei, whose Gift of Pain kept him alive despite catastrophic injuries, but an attacker rescued Qing Wufei and confronted Shisui. The newcomer, Bixu, identified Shisui as a previously unknown member of the Spirit Race, and Shisui launched a deadly counterattack.

• Shisui used his Bikaku to break Qing Wufei's arms and crush half his body, while Qing Wufei's Gift of Pain kept him conscious and alive.
• As Shisui prepared to extract Qing Wufei's talent, Bixu attacked with crystal arrows and used a water double to carry Qing Wufei away.
• Bixu recognized Shisui as the Eight-Tailed Owl named in the Human Race's supreme wanted notice.
• Bixu claimed Shisui belonged to an undiscovered kind of Spirit Race, and Shisui attacked him with his Bikaku and Steel Feathers.

Shisui defeated Bixu on the shore and read his memories, learning about the Sea Race and a captive held at the Sea Race First Research Institute. A mysterious force then attacked Shisui through Bixu’s soul, damaging [Spirit Dream Recall] before Shisui severed the connection.

• Bixu used seawater and a halberd to attack Shisui, while Shisui wounded him with Blade Scales and forced a standoff in the mist.
• Bixu transported Qing Wufei to the seabed laboratory, where researchers prepared an emergency body replacement for A0005.
• Shisui trapped Bixu with Feather Powder crystals, and the Rc Cells killed and began digesting him.
• Shisui read Bixu’s memories and learned about the Sea Race, the Dragon Palace succession struggle, and a gravely injured Fifth Realm captive at the Sea Race First Research Institute.
• A terrifying force struck through Bixu’s soul, but Shisui severed the connection; the Rc Cells absorbed most of the soul-level damage, while [Spirit Dream Recall] was injured and sent back into Snow Spirit to recover.

Shisui attacked Mao City's harbor to gather nourishment, slaughtering the crowds and turning them into Flesh Crystals before storing the crystals and cargo in his Alternate Space. He flew toward the other harbors and residential districts, leaving Mao City to be discovered half-empty after the factions finished fighting.

• Shisui flew toward the Mao City Peninsula while considering how to breathe underwater and reach the Sea Race's headquarters.
• A wealthy merchant and other crowds gathered at the harbor to flee the turmoil on Academy Island.
• Shisui unleashed a barrage of Radiant Feather projectiles, killing people with toxin and transforming them into Flesh Crystals.
• Shisui used more projectiles and Koukaku to collect the crystals and harbor goods, then stored them in his Alternate Space.
• After clearing the harbor in three minutes, Shisui replenished his energy and flew toward other harbors and residential districts to hunt more people.

Arakawa Jiushu, known as White Owl, flew to Third West Harbor after hearing screams and found it in ruins, where Shisui ambushed him. Their fight revealed Shisui’s rapid healing and spatial defenses, and White Owl fled toward the sea with Radiant Feathers secretly clinging to his clothes.

• Arakawa Jiushu heard cries from Third West Harbor and flew there, only to find the harbor destroyed and empty.
• Shisui attacked Arakawa Jiushu with a blade-like feather and a Koukaku long blade, using Alternate Space to strike from hiding.
• Arakawa Jiushu used [Dance of Mercury] to stop Shisui’s blade and severed both of his arms, but Shisui healed them instantly and counterattacked.
• Arakawa Jiushu questioned whether Shisui was a Demon, and Shisui teased that he was one too.
• Arakawa Jiushu realized he could not overcome Shisui’s defenses, launched mercury-coated feathers, and retreated toward the sea as Shisui blocked the barrage.

Shisui’s deception led the Sea Race’s Third Prince faction to suspect Demon Race interference in Mao City, while the prince ordered an attack that spared only the shipping channel. A tsunami then surged toward the city, throwing its residents into panic.

• Shisui used his disguise and the news of Bixu’s death to encourage the Sea Race to suspect Demon Race involvement.
• The Third Prince’s ministers debated White Owl’s intelligence and agreed to inform His Highness, while Yuanqing resented his low standing in the faction.
• The Third Prince ordered his forces to destroy Mao City’s buildings and kill its civilians while leaving the shipping channel intact.
• At three in the morning on January 4, the sea receded and a tsunami rushed toward Mao City, prompting coastal residents to flee inland.