Chapter Summaries

Ji Qinglin and his companions fought off a group of disguised Machina Qi Practitioners who attacked the Undercover Police Headquarters garage. After Ji Qinglin and the others defeated the attackers and Old Four, an escaping Machina Qi Practitioner suddenly collapsed when Yu Ye raised her hand.

• Ji Qinglin and his companions prepared for an ambush in the garage, then blocked the Machina Qi Practitioners’ surprise attack when Old Four opened the truck.
• Fan Yu, Xie Ling, Yu Ye, and Red Night disabled several attackers while Ji Qinglin blocked the corridor and battled the others.
• Ji Qinglin used Blood Mist and Thunderous Sword Intent to overwhelm the Machina Qi Practitioners, while the others defeated Old Four with poison, fire, and sword strikes.
• Old Four charged Ji Qinglin and was disarmed and knocked into a wall; Ji Qinglin then called for the Emergency Squad to handle the captured attackers.
• A Machina Qi Practitioner escaped control and attacked Ji Qinglin, but its arm stiffened and its body shook before it collapsed after Yu Ye raised her hand.

Ji Qinglin and his companions stopped an attack on the Undercover Police Headquarters, then investigated why the Machina Qi Practitioners had targeted Kong Wei. Their search took a strange turn when Fan Yu found that one attacker, Huang DaLi, had officially died ten years earlier.

• Yu Ye unexpectedly incapacitated a Machina Qi Practitioner, and Ji Qinglin’s group found three more attackers trapped in the vehicle as the Emergency Squad arrived.
• Ji Qinglin ordered the Emergency Squad to secure the scene and protect the headquarters, while Cui SanMei learned the attackers had targeted Kong Wei.
• The group confirmed the attackers carried Kong Wei’s identity information and concluded they could continue investigating the Yalu Hydroelectric Power Station.
• Kong Wei handed over the separated materials and said the attackers’ murderous approach resembled the incident at the police booth.
• Fan Yu reported that the technical department identified the truck driver as Huang DaLi, whose archived records showed he had died ten years earlier.

Ji Qinglin investigated why a dead Machina Qi Practitioner named Huang DaLi seemed to have become the raider Wu LaoSi, whose memories and testimony did not fit the evidence. Wu LaoSi uncovered clues that someone had revived and manipulated him, then died after recognizing something in Huang DaLi’s case files.

• Ji Qinglin learned that Huang DaLi’s Soul Storage Device had been documented as destroyed, while the raid suspects’ confessions accused Kong Wei of crimes he had a strong alibi for.
• Ji Qinglin questioned Wu LaoSi, who claimed Kong Wei had attacked his family seven days earlier, but the stated address could not be found and Wu LaoSi could not recall ordinary details of his life.
• Ji Qinglin showed Wu LaoSi that he had needed a storage device to identify Kong Wei, suggesting his memories had been altered and he had been used to attack the Undercover Police Headquarters.
• Wu LaoSi said a contact called Old K had organized the raid and promised to arrange the group’s rebirth, though Wu LaoSi could not recall any real memories of Old K.
• While examining Huang DaLi’s files, Wu LaoSi pointed excitedly at a photograph, then collapsed and was pronounced dead; Ji Qinglin saw that the pictured corpse matched Wu LaoSi and wore unusual pendants.

Ji Qinglin and his team traced the attackers to a secret organization marked by an Ouroboros symbol, which may be copying Machina Qi Practitioners’ soul consciousness to create obedient soldiers. After reporting the discovery and returning home, Yu Ye secretly spoke with Spirit Hero Murphy, who warned her to stay out of the investigation and hinted at knowing her identity; Ji Qinglin then revealed he had overheard them.

• Ji Qinglin stopped Kong Wei from reacting to the murder photograph and learned that its Ouroboros pendant matched a tattoo worn by a man Kong Wei had met with Kong DeCheng.
• Kong Wei explained that the man had discussed copying and preserving soul consciousness, and Ji Qinglin suspected the Ouroboros Organization had resurrected Huang DaLi using copied memories.
• Ji Qinglin and Cui SanMei agreed to keep the discovery secret and assigned Fan Yu’s team to investigate the Yalu Hydroelectric Power Station and Ouroboros through secure channels.
• Back home, Ji Qinglin planned to contact Dan LuLing while Yu Ye and Red Night went upstairs to bathe.
• Murphy contacted Yu Ye through the computer and warned her that the organization was too dangerous to confront, while insisting that Yu Ye in particular had to survive.
• Murphy refused to explain Yu Ye’s identity, and Ji Qinglin suddenly spoke through the headphones, revealing that he had overheard their conversation.

Ji Qinglin and Yu Ye confronted Spirit Hero Murphy, who revealed that it had been protecting Yu Ye and warned them away from the Machina matter. Murphy neutralized a nearby Machina surveillance team, then spotted a familiar little girl arriving at Ji's General Store as Ji Qinglin and his disciples hurried to answer her knocking.

• Ji Qinglin revealed that he had secretly installed an auditory synchronization device on Yu Ye, and Murphy explained that its mission was to protect her.
• Yu Ye tried to use her safety to make Murphy help with the Machina matter, but Murphy warned that it could not defeat the person behind it and refused to reveal more.
• Ji Qinglin reassured Yu Ye that Murphy was likely protecting her, then teased her and Red Night before carrying them upstairs.
• Two Machina Qi Practitioners watched Ji's General Store, but Murphy killed one, controlled the other, and forced him to keep reporting that nothing unusual was happening.
• Murphy spotted a familiar little girl approaching the General Store, and she loudly demanded that someone open the door while Ji Qinglin and his disciples were upstairs.

Lu Bing told Ji Qinglin, Red Night, and Yu Ye what she had learned about Red Night’s past and her search for Xiao Qinghong’s missing body. After Ji Qinglin revealed that the Ouroboros-marked group they had encountered was connected to the corpse, Lu Bing and Lu Bing proposed teaming up with Murphy against the group’s powerful leader.

• Lu Bing arrived at Ji Qinglin’s General Store late at night and postponed sharing Red Night’s past until morning.
• At Mountain Cave, the Big Boss ordered Old Yu and five identical Qi Practitioners to kill Ji Qinglin, Red Night, and Yu Ye.
• Over breakfast, Lu Bing explained that Red Night was Xiao Qinghong, a former leader of Wild God Technology, and described the experiment that had separated her soul from her body.
• Lu Bing said she was searching for Xiao Qinghong’s body and had found a clue: the truck that carried it bore a driver’s Ouroboros tattoo.
• Ji Qinglin showed Lu Bing a photograph of Huang DaLi wearing an Ouroboros ring and recounted the group’s recent encounters, linking their investigation to Xiao Qinghong’s missing body.
• Lu Bing said Murphy was poorly suited to direct combat, then called it and proposed that they work together against the mastermind.

Lu Bing and Ji Qinglin negotiated with Murphy and learned that the mastermind behind the Ouroboros Organization was Hu YanZongRen, the former Machina Hero known as “Offline Invincible.” As they discussed joining forces against him, Hu YanZongRen’s kill squad attacked Ji’s General Store, and Lu Bing leaped onto the rooftop to confront six identical attackers.

• Lu Bing and Ji Qinglin agreed in principle to help Murphy kill the mastermind in exchange for intelligence and the mastermind’s corpse, while Murphy promised to help recover Xiao Qinghong’s body and protect Yu Ye and Red Night.
• Murphy identified the mastermind as Hu YanZongRen, a vanished former Machina Hero who had never lost a fight and was far stronger than the current Machina Hero.
• Ji Qinglin argued that the Undercover Police and military could defeat Hu YanZongRen without relying on a one-on-one fight, and Murphy agreed to cooperate if he received the corpse.
• Murphy warned Lu Bing that Hu YanZongRen’s kill squad had reached the rooftop, but Lu Bing was shot in the back by an electromagnetic round as she stood at the entrance.
• Lu Bing recovered, armed herself with a bottle of cola, and leaped onto the rooftop, where Yu Jingxuan and five identical copies were waiting.

Lu Bing defeated the six Yu Jingxuans who attacked Ji's General Store, and Ji Qinglin captured the surviving original. Ji Qinglin used his underground interrogation chair and the threat of leaving Yu Jingxuan in darkness while a copy lived on to make him agree to talk about Hu YanZongRen.

• Lu Bing confronted the six Yu Jingxuans after they attacked her and tried to storm Ji's General Store.
• Lu Bing fought off the six attackers while Ji Qinglin watched with Yu Ye and Red Night and explained the enemies' identities.
• Lu Bing incapacitated five Yu Jingxuans, and Ji Qinglin killed another when he lunged at the store entrance.
• Lu Bing subdued the original Yu Jingxuan and handed him over to Ji Qinglin, who activated the store's interrogation system.
• Ji Qinglin threatened to imprison Yu Jingxuan in darkness while Hu YanZongRen revived his copied consciousness, and Yu Jingxuan finally agreed to talk.

Ji Qinglin interrogated Yu Jingxuan and learned that Hu YanZongRen had built a large Machina Qi Practitioner organization with a headquarters in Mang Mountain, where Xiao Qinghong's body might be held. After Yu Jingxuan died, Ji Qinglin headed to Undercover Police Headquarters with his disciples to plan an attack, while Red Night and Yu Ye wrestled with questions about their identities and memories.

• Yu Ye connected Yu Jingxuan to a Nerve Interface, and Ji Qinglin questioned him about Hu YanZongRen's organization and its rebirth method.
• Yu Jingxuan revealed that the organization had more than five hundred members at its headquarters in Mang Mountain, had collected human corpses, and was preparing to act before Hu YanZongRen remotely killed him.
• Lu Bing urged an immediate attack, but Ji Qinglin insisted they coordinate with Undercover Police Headquarters and seek Murphy's help locating the headquarters.
• On the drive, Ji Qinglin warned Red Night that merging with her body might change her memories, while Red Night and Yu Ye discussed their identities and teased each other.
• Ji Qinglin arrived at Undercover Police Headquarters with Yu Ye and Red Night, showed Xie Ling the six corpses, and declared that they were going to war.

Ji Qinglin briefed Cui SanMei and Cui ShengAn on the Ouroboros Organization, and they organized an investigation and preparations to confront Hu YanZongRen. At the morgue, Yu Ye sensed the dead machina and caused their corpses to attack before Ji Qinglin knocked her unconscious; he told Red Night to keep the incident secret.

• Ji Qinglin brought six identical attackers' corpses to Undercover Police Headquarters and told Xie Ling, Fan Yu, and the investigators that he had uncovered the Ouroboros Organization's situation.
• Ji Qinglin explained Hu YanZongRen's plans, the organization's copied machina, and its hundreds of Machina Qi Practitioners to Cui SanMei, Cui ShengAn, and the gathered team.
• Cui ShengAn prioritized locating the organization's hideouts and arranged military support, while Ji Qinglin volunteered to deal with Hu YanZongRen.
• Cui SanMei assigned the team to examine the corpses for weaknesses and signs that could identify copies, and Ji Qinglin took Yu Ye and Red Night to inspect them.
• Yu Ye sensed the dead machina, causing the six corpses to rise and attack Ji Qinglin and Red Night.
• Ji Qinglin struck Yu Ye with lightning Qi to stop the attack, caught her as she collapsed, and told Red Night not to reveal what had happened.

Hu YanZongRen consulted the Immortal and planned to move his experimental supplies overseas using Garbage Collectors, while Ji Qinglin decided to form a company to provide intelligence and investigative services to the authorities. The chapter ended with Fan Yu increasing Ji Qinglin’s proposed fee for handling Hu YanZongRen’s case by adding another zero.

• Hu YanZongRen contacted the Immortal, learned that replicating True Persons would divide their souls, and received a code that might save his life.
• Hu YanZongRen ordered Yu Jingxuan to move their supplies to a harbor using disguised garbage trucks and hired Garbage Collectors, while he chose to remain behind.
• Yu Ye woke in Ji Qinglin’s office, and Ji Qinglin explained that he planned to establish a company to fund investigations into Hu YanZongRen and his other bases.
• Ji Qinglin asked Xie Ling and Fan Yu to bring Ji’s General Store and Nightfall Bar under a company that would sell intelligence and case-solving services to the authorities.
• Ji Qinglin wrote down his proposed minimum fee for handling Hu YanZongRen’s case, and Fan Yu added another zero to the amount.

Ji Qinglin arranged to establish Heavenly Dao Consulting and received intelligence that the Ouroboros Organization was moving goods from Mang Mountain in garbage trucks. He and his companions ambushed the convoy, leaving Yu Jingxuan captured and the remaining trucks under attack.

• Ji Qinglin approved Fan Yu and Xie Ling's plan to seek funding, then asked NanGong Qian Feng to register a consulting company named Heavenly Dao Consulting.
• Fan Yu reported that a Garbage Collector near Yalu Hydroelectric Power Station had been recruited to drive a truck carrying suspicious goods from Mang Mountain.
• Ji Qinglin refused to infiltrate the convoy directly and prepared another plan as Old Huang and six other Garbage Collectors joined the truck drivers.
• Yu Jingxuan's convoy set out with the Garbage Collectors disguised as sanitation workers, but an apparent accident with an old man and his granddaughter delayed the lead truck.
• Xie Ling and Fan Yu incapacitated the Machina Qi Practitioners in the trailing trucks while Lu Bing, disguised as the granddaughter, and Ji Qinglin captured Yu Jingxuan.

Ji Qinglin and his allies intercepted Hu YanZongRen’s convoy, seized the hidden supplies, and planned a strike against her base in Mang Mountain. They brought the haul to their new company site and prepared to pursue Hu YanZongRen while searching for Xiao Qinghong’s body and the Immortal Remains.

• Ji Qinglin’s group ambushed the convoy, captured its Machina Qi Practitioners, and learned from Old Huang that it was headed for QuYang Sea Port.
• The group uncovered soul consciousness storage devices, Technique Storage Devices, Red Coins, cultivation equipment, and a Hibernation Pod holding an unfamiliar woman, but not Xiao Qinghong.
• Fan Yu confirmed that the harbor contact was captured and that Cui ShengAn’s military support could arrive the next day, while Xie Ling confirmed the authorities would negotiate expenses.
• Ji Qinglin, Lu Bing, and Murphy agreed that Lu Bing and Murphy would confront Hu YanZongRen while Ji Qinglin searched the mountain cave for Xiao Qinghong’s body; Murphy offered Ji Qinglin the Immortal Remains in exchange for Hu YanZongRen’s body.
• The convoy reached the new company building NanGong Qian Feng and Jiang Chen had selected, and Ji Qinglin told Jiang Chen that the seized cargo was the company’s equipment and inventory.

Ji Qinglin prepared to infiltrate Hu YanZongRen's base at Mang Mountain with Lu Bing and Murphy while her allies stayed behind to await reinforcements. After entering the mountain disguised among the trucks, the group split up, but Lu Bing's cover was suddenly threatened when another Yu Jingxuan attacked their hypnotized decoy.

• Ji Qinglin arranged for NanGong Qian Feng, Jiang Chen, Yu Ye, Red Night, Xie Ling, and Fan Yu to protect the equipment and coordinate with Headquarters' reinforcements while she infiltrated Mang Mountain.
• Ji Qinglin, Lu Bing, and Murphy traveled toward the mountain, and Lu Bing used Water Strength Stealth to conceal herself against a hypnotized Machina Qi Practitioner.
• The trucks entered the hidden mountain base, where Murphy parked them and controlled six Machina Qi Practitioners as Ji Qinglin followed the group toward the suspected location of Xiao Qinghong's body.
• A second Yu Jingxuan met the hypnotized Yu Jingxuan and led him toward the boss, while Ji Qinglin's group continued searching separately.
• Lu Bing prepared to ambush the second Yu Jingxuan, but he abruptly turned and slashed at the hypnotized Yu Jingxuan's throat with a Flame Hand Blade.

Ji Qinglin and Lu Bing infiltrated Hu YanZongRen’s underground base to find Xiao Qinghong’s body and uncover the secret of the Immortal Remains. Lu Bing defeated Yu Jingxuan and learned where the body was hidden, while Ji Qinglin found a crystal forearm bone in a server; Hu YanZongRen awoke, and Lu Bing confronted him as the infiltration turned into a fight.

• Ji Qinglin entered the tunnels with Murphy’s help and searched warehouses while Murphy warned him that Lu Bing had already started fighting.
• Lu Bing protected a hypnotized Yu Jingxuan from his duplicate, then watched the duplicate be killed and learned that Yu Jingxuan’s duplicates were routinely modified and reused.
• Lu Bing defeated Yu Jingxuan, forced him to reveal that Xiao Qinghong’s body was in Hu YanZongRen’s Private Warehouse, and killed him before his approaching subordinates arrived.
• Lu Bing followed the subordinates carrying the Yu Jingxuans’ bodies, while Murphy directed Ji Qinglin toward the room where Hu YanZongRen kept the Immortal Remains.
• Ji Qinglin found a soul-consciousness receiver and discovered a crystal forearm bone inside a server, waking Hu YanZongRen.
• Hu YanZongRen headed for the Immortal Remains chamber and sensed Lu Bing approaching; Lu Bing emerged from the tunnel and announced that the infiltration had failed.

Lu Bing and Murphy fought Hu YanZongRen while Ji Qinglin searched his private warehouse for Xiao Qinghong’s body. Ji Qinglin found Xiao Qinghong asleep in a hibernation pod, while reinforcements waited outside Mang Mountain for a chance to break in.

• Lu Bing confronted Hu YanZongRen, who sealed the cave complex and attacked her with machinery.
• Murphy joined Lu Bing’s fight, while Ji Qinglin learned that Machina Qi Practitioners were hunting intruders throughout the caves.
• Ji Qinglin told Murphy to guide him to Xiao Qinghong’s body as reinforcements gathered outside and learned the cave was booby-trapped.
• Lu Bing lured Hu YanZongRen into a warehouse of unactivated Machina Qi Practitioners so Ji Qinglin could search his private warehouse.
• Ji Qinglin entered Hu YanZongRen’s private warehouse and found Xiao Qinghong inside a silver-white hibernation pod.

Ji Qinglin found Xiao Qinghong’s body but was trapped in the mountain cave with Hu YanZongRen. Lu Bing and Murphy combined their powers to strike Hu YanZongRen with Ten Thousand Rivers Return to the Sea, but he survived the attack.

• Ji Qinglin found Xiao Qinghong’s body in a Hibernation Pod and fought off Machina Qi Practitioners as Hu YanZongRen approached.
• Cui SanMei, Fan Yu, and the Undercover Police arrived outside the mountain while Murphy coordinated support and showed them battle footage.
• Ji Qinglin distracted Hu YanZongRen by claiming Xiao Qinghong’s body held the method of True Person duplication and rebirth, but Hu YanZongRen struck him and buried him beneath prosthetic parts.
• Hu YanZongRen drank Blood Water and fought Lu Bing while the outside forces blasted open the stone gate and battled the Machina Qi Practitioners pouring out.
• Lu Bing and Murphy trapped Hu YanZongRen with Ten Thousand Rivers Return to the Sea and Electric Net Mirage, then slammed him into the wall with a massive vortex.
• Lu Bing was also thrown into a wall, and Hu YanZongRen climbed back up, cursing that an immortal’s code had anticipated this situation.

Hu YanZongRen activated a lethal technique that restored his strength, but Ji Qinglin absorbed the blood in the warehouse and transformed into a powerful, uncontrollable blood-red state. After rescuing Xiao Qinghong’s Hibernation Pod and repelling Hu YanZongRen’s attack, Ji Qinglin leapt forward with a massive sword strike, leaving Hu YanZongRen facing his first fear.

• Hu YanZongRen entered the code left by the Immortal, causing his body, Qi, and soul to burn as his mechanical body regained its strength.
• Ji Qinglin woke in the Small Warehouse, found a route to evacuate Xiao Qinghong’s Hibernation Pod, and pushed it toward the tunnel.
• Hu YanZongRen blocked the tunnel, struck Ji Qinglin into the blood-filled bathtub, and took the Hibernation Pod hostage while threatening Lu Bing.
• Ji Qinglin absorbed the blood around him, lost control of his body, severed Hu YanZongRen’s mechanical arm, and caught the falling Hibernation Pod.
• Ji Qinglin stood firm against Hu YanZongRen’s next blow, sent the Hibernation Pod to Lu Bing, and launched a huge sword strike at Hu YanZongRen.

Ji Qinglin defeated Hu YanZongRen with overwhelming blood-red Sword Intent, but his allies could not calm him before the mountain cave collapsed. Yu Ye and Red Night sheltered with him in Hu YanZongRen's Private Warehouse, where they found his blood mist intensifying and prepared to use a familiar method to stabilize him.

• Ji Qinglin cut off Hu YanZongRen's Mechanical Arm and wounded him, then fought through his burning machinery and recovered from a deep slash.
• Ji Qinglin pierced Hu YanZongRen with Only Consciousness Sword Intent and killed him, while Lu Bing and the approaching support force cleared the blocked tunnel.
• Lu Bing stopped Yu Ye, Red Night, and Jiang Chen from approaching Ji Qinglin too quickly, but Yu Ye and Red Night eventually took his hands and tried to lead him out.
• The mountain cave collapsed, so Yu Ye and Red Night pulled Ji Qinglin into Hu YanZongRen's reinforced Private Warehouse and contacted Lu Bing and Jiang Chen for rescue.
• Yu Ye and Red Night found Ji Qinglin gasping with denser blood mist around him, and Yu Ye started to undo her jacket as Red Night had already stripped down to her last layer.

Cui SanMei coordinated the rescue of Ji Qinglin, Yu Ye, and Red Night after the Mang Mountain mine collapsed, while Lu Bing and Jiang Chen waited with the Hibernation Pod. Inside the tunnel, Yu Ye and Red Night calmed Ji Qinglin’s Asura state and gave him water, but he regained consciousness only to be consumed by Desire Fire as Red Night prepared to help him further.

• Cui SanMei sent rescue vehicles into the collapsed mine and directed the Assault Squad to search for other routes while Fan Yu led a team to scan the mountain.
• Lu Bing moved Jiang Chen and the Hibernation Pod to a safe cavern, then went to look for a way through the tunnel as NanGong Qian Feng called to ask about Ji Qinglin.
• Yu Ye and Red Night held Ji Qinglin between them until his trembling stopped, his Blood Mist dissipated, and his eyes closed.
• Yu Ye found clean water trickling from a broken pipe and fed it to Ji Qinglin, while Red Night also gave him water by mouth.
• Ji Qinglin regained control of his body, kissed Red Night, and pressed her beneath him as she prepared to become his Sword Sheath.