Chapter Summaries

Ji Minghuan used Gu Wenyu to complete Black Cocoon’s quest, improved Black Cocoon’s abilities, and discovered a new city exploration feature. Gu Qiye invited him to Tokyo, and Gu Zhuoan also agreed to go, as Gu Qiye prepared to cooperate with Japan’s Exorcist Association over the upcoming auction.

• Ji Minghuan completed Main Quest 3 through Gu Wenyu, raised Black Cocoon’s Speed to B Rank, and learned Restraint Belt Suppression.
• Ji Minghuan unlocked the Superpower Stealing skill and learned that creating another Game Character would require nine Split Points.
• Ji Minghuan discovered that Event Cards could appear around Li Capital after he had stayed in the city for three days.
• Gu Qiye invited Ji Minghuan to travel to Tokyo in a week, and Ji Minghuan agreed and messaged Su Zimai.
• Su Zimai refused to join the trip, while Gu Qiye asked Ji Minghuan to check whether Gu Zhuoan would go; Gu Zhuoan agreed.
• Gu Qiye headed upstairs, thinking about his plan to cooperate with Japan’s Exorcist Association and ensure the auction proceeded normally.

Ji Minghuan suspected the locked basement beneath the Welfare Home Library concealed the laboratory where his main body had been kept. After a Card Event appeared over the Library, he returned there to investigate and found a girl sleeping in the attic.

• Ji Minghuan recalled how he had resisted attending school because he loved the Library and described the director punishing him for trying to open the basement door.
• Ji Minghuan wondered whether the laboratory and his main body were hidden behind the locked basement door.
• A Card Event icon appeared above the Welfare Home Library, prompting Ji Minghuan to decide to explore the basement.
• Ji Minghuan used his Restraint Band to travel invisibly to the Library and enter through its attic skylight.
• Ji Minghuan found a sleeping girl in the attic, covered her with a blanket, and saw a prompt announcing the Welfare Home Library basement exploration event.

Ji Minghuan found Xu Keyin imprisoned and abused in the Library basement, then killed the director after forcing him to reveal that an organization marked with a hexagram had taken Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling. He asked Gu Qiye to protect Xu Keyin, and Gu Qiye rescued her as Ji Minghuan vanished into the storm, vowing to pursue Sodalitas Salvifica.

• Ji Minghuan unlocked the basement and discovered his former friend Xu Keyin chained and injured there, realizing the director had imprisoned her.
• Ji Minghuan confronted the director, used Restraint Band Truth to learn that people with a hexagram symbol had taken him and Kong Youling, and found the director had accepted two hundred thousand for his cooperation.
• Ji Minghuan killed the director and called Gu Qiye, asking him to cover up the death and arrange care and a safe home for Xu Keyin.
• Ji Minghuan identified the hexagram with Sodalitas Salvifica and vowed to pursue the organization before disappearing into the rain.
• Gu Qiye arrived at the Library, broke Xu Keyin's chains, and carried her to safety.

Ji Minghuan connected Sodalitas Salvifica to the people who had abducted his main body and began planning how to find their base and build alliances. After Instructor woke him with news that the director had died, Ji Minghuan realized Gu Qiye had covered up his murder as a suicide and kept Black Cocoon’s role secret.

• Ji Minghuan identified the Hexagram Pattern and the phrase “Sodalitas Salvifica” as clues linking the organization to the abduction and Red Light.
• Ji Minghuan decided to keep the Bird in a Cage Event Card and considered recruiting the Esper Association, the White Crow Troupe, the Exorcist Association, and Old Man’s criminal forces to help locate the laboratory.
• Instructor woke Ji Minghuan in the Imprisonment Room and told him the director had supposedly hanged himself after his crimes against Xu Keyin were exposed.
• Instructor explained that Blue Arc had received an anonymous call and found the director’s confession email, which revealed Xu Keyin’s location.
• Ji Minghuan realized Gu Qiye had staged the scene and made the death look like suicide, concealing that Black Cocoon had killed the director.

Ji Minghuan learned about China’s powerful Exorcist team, Lake Hunt, and Instructor suggested Ji’s Heavenly Drive might take the form of a mask. After earning a Split Point and returning to his body, Ji received a message from Li Qingping and turned his attention to the main quest about his friend’s secret.

• Ji Minghuan recalled Xu Keyin’s disappearance and condemned the former Welfare Home director for what he had done to her.
• Instructor explained Lake Hunt, its four family-backed members, and the role Exorcists played in keeping demons out of the human world.
• Instructor said Ji Minghuan’s existence could determine which Superhuman Species had the highest potential, and suggested his Heavenly Drive might be a mask.
• Ji Minghuan gained one Split Point for developing his knowledge of the Exorcist worldview, then left the Imprisonment Room by shifting his consciousness back to his body.
• Ji Minghuan read Li Qingping’s invitation and checked his quest to investigate the secret hidden by his best friend.

Ji Minghuan met Li Qingping at the cinema to watch a movie, where they discussed Esper criminals and their old Battle Suit design. When Ji Minghuan touched Li Qingping’s finger, his passive skill activated and detected a Restraint Belt.

• Ji Minghuan left home after Gu Zhuoan warned him about the Esper criminals active in the city.
• Ji Minghuan met Li Qingping at the cinema, and they waited for their movie while watching a warning display about criminals.
• Li Qingping praised Black Cocoon’s outfit and said it resembled the Battle Suit he and Ji Minghuan had designed in middle school.
• Li Qingping spoke wistfully about ordinary life before changing the subject and giving Ji Minghuan a Coke.
• A Restraint Band extended from Ji Minghuan’s fingertip and touched Li Qingping, activating Ji Minghuan’s Restraint Belt Detection skill.

Ji Minghuan followed Li Qingping to Li Capital Coast and discovered that his friend was the Royal Court Team’s vice-captain, codename Red Dragon. After Li Qingping entered the Whale Garden Box, Ji Minghuan received a quest to build a cooperative relationship with him and expand his connections there.

• Ji Minghuan’s detection skill revealed that Li Qingping had A-rank attributes and an Epoch-Grade Anecdote Fragment called “Red Dragon Wales.”
• After the movie, Ji Minghuan secretly followed Li Qingping from the city to Li Capital Coast.
• Ji Minghuan watched Li Qingping meet Nabis beside the Legendary Whale “Qikana'ou” and learn that the Second Prince wanted him to guard an upcoming Tokyo auction.
• Li Qingping agreed to accompany the Second Prince, then entered the Whale Garden Box through the whale’s mouth.
• Ji Minghuan completed his investigation quest and received a new objective to cooperate with Red Dragon and expand his connections in the Whale Garden Box.

Ji Minghuan worried that the Tokyo Underground Auction could cost him Li Qingping’s life or several Main Quests, then returned home and improved Black Cocoon’s abilities. That night, the Instructor entered the Imprisonment Room silently as Ji Minghuan slept.

• Ji Minghuan watched Li Qingping leave for Whale Garden Box and weighed the risks of the upcoming auction against his quests.
• Gu Qiye and Black Cocoon exchanged messages about the girl they had rescued and the director Black Cocoon had killed.
• Gu Qiye ate dinner with Gu Zhuoan and Gu Wenyu, while Ji Minghuan joined them without much conversation.
• Ji Minghuan raised Black Cocoon’s Strength to B Grade and learned Superpower Stealing.
• The Instructor quietly entered the Imprisonment Room and approached the sleeping Ji Minghuan.

The Instructor entered Ji Minghuan’s Spirit World to search for secrets, but encountered a child hiding in a wardrobe who refused to reveal anything. After the Instructor left, Ji Minghuan revealed his true inner world: a library containing memories and the hanging bodies of Black Cocoon and the Chess Player.

• The Instructor entered Ji Minghuan’s Spirit World and passed through an attic and a dormitory of masked children to reach a house.
• The Instructor found Ji Minghuan’s childlike True Self hiding in a wardrobe and asked about a photograph of Black Cocoon, but the boy denied knowing him.
• The boy refused to leave the wardrobe or accept the Instructor’s claim that superpowers could bring his parents back, and the Instructor withdrew before the Spirit World overwhelmed him.
• After the Instructor left, Ji Minghuan emerged from the wardrobe and revealed a library at the deepest layer of his Spirit World, where he could access the memories of Game Characters.
• Ji Minghuan sat beside a White-haired Girl and watched the sunset, while the bodies of Black Cocoon and the Chess Player hung from the library ceiling.

Two months earlier, Ji Minghuan discovered he could reshape and enter his own Spirit World, while Kong Youling could enter other people’s minds. Back in the present, Ji Minghuan woke in Gu Wenyu’s body and prepared to travel to Tokyo, where the underground auction was nine days away.

• At Saint Dili Welfare Home, Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling entered Ji Minghuan’s Library-shaped Spirit World and found they could speak there.
• During the month before they were taken to the laboratory, Ji Minghuan learned to reshape his Spirit World and enter it on his own, while Kong Youling showed him her winter-street world.
• Ji Minghuan used his control of his Spirit World to mislead the Instructor during mental probes, hiding his empty True Self.
• After the Instructor left, Ji Minghuan returned to the present and woke in the Imprisonment Room, while his consciousness remained in Gu Wenyu’s body in Li Capital.
• Ji Minghuan read Gu Qiye’s messages about their flight to Tokyo that night, replied that he wanted to visit Akihabara, and checked that the auction was nine days away.

Ji Minghuan heard that Blue Arc and Silver Devourer were pursuing the International Thieves Flying Ant and Da Zhonghou, while Blue Arc captured Da Zhonghou. When Silver Devourer encountered Black Cocoon, Blue Arc immediately raced to help.

• Ji Minghuan woke up, found Gu Qiye and Gu Zhuoan gone, and turned on the news.
• Ji Minghuan learned that Flying Ant and Da Zhonghou had robbed Li Jing Third Bank and considered going to the scene.
• Blue Arc climbed a building and used electricity to stop Da Zhonghou, who fell and reverted to his human form.
• Blue Arc asked Silver Devourer about Flying Ant, but Silver Devourer said she was too fast and small to catch.
• Silver Devourer reported encountering Black Cocoon, and Blue Arc rushed toward him.

Black Cocoon used his Restraint Bands and stolen-power ability to capture Flying Ant after she escaped Silver Devourer. Blue Arc arrived to find Flying Ant bound and Black Cocoon still playing Minesweeper.

• Silver Devourer chased Flying Ant across the rooftops but could not keep up with her.
• Black Cocoon mocked Silver Devourer, then vanished inside his Restraint Bands and tracked Flying Ant by listening for her wings.
• Black Cocoon found Flying Ant in an alley and bound her with Restraint Bands as she returned to her normal size.
• Black Cocoon stopped Flying Ant from shrinking, stole her superpower, and texted Blue Arc.
• Blue Arc arrived, and Flying Ant called to him to make Black Cocoon let her go.

Black Cocoon escaped Silver Devourer’s steel cage by using Flying Ant’s shrinking power and returned home, where Blue Arc asked whether he knew the White Crow Troupe. Ji Minghuan privately recognized the troupe as his own.

• Black Cocoon knocked Flying Ant unconscious, then learned that his next quest was to help Blue Arc survive the Tokyo Auction Action.
• Silver Devourer arrived and trapped Black Cocoon in a steel cage, while Blue Arc left with Flying Ant.
• Black Cocoon shrank with his clothes and belongings, grew wings, and escaped through the cage bars.
• Black Cocoon returned the borrowed book to the Bookstore Owner, then went home and removed his disguise.
• Blue Arc messaged Black Cocoon asking if he knew the White Crow Troupe, and Ji Minghuan recognized it as his own troupe.

Ji Minghuan prepared to travel to Japan, improved Black Cocoon’s abilities, and planned how to use a recording of Gu Qiye’s identity to negotiate with Gu Zhuoan. He learned that Gu Zhuoan was buying groceries before their family’s flight that night.

• Ji Minghuan told Gu Qiye that he knew about the White Crow Troupe and said he would also be going to Japan.
• Ji Minghuan assigned an Attribute Point to Black Cocoon’s Speed and learned Restraint Belt Extension, increasing its range to 15 meters.
• Ji Minghuan replayed a recording in which Gu Qiye’s response revealed his identity and planned to use it as leverage when meeting Gu Zhuoan in Japan.
• Ji Minghuan messaged Gu Zhuoan that the family’s flight was at nine that night, and Gu Zhuoan replied that he was buying groceries.

Gu Qiye, Gu Zhuoan, and Ji Minghuan arrived at the airport, where Gu Qiye waited to see which Rainbow Wing member would help capture Ghost Bell. The arrival of Fan Dongqing, the hero Gu Zhuoan had longed to meet, left Gu Zhuoan stunned and regretful that he had agreed to travel with the others.

• Gu Qiye, Gu Zhuoan, and Ji Minghuan entered the airport, where Gu Qiye explained that a Rainbow Wing member had come to help capture Ghost Bell.
• Ji Minghuan asked Gu Qiye for permission to get Silver Devourer's autograph, then returned with the signed shirt and took a selfie.
• Gu Qiye, Gu Zhuoan, and Ji Minghuan checked in and ate at an airport restaurant while Gu Qiye watched the terminal exit.
• Fan Dongqing emerged from the terminal in a Tang suit, and Gu Qiye and Gu Zhuoan recognized him as Azure Wrath Boat.
• Gu Zhuoan stared at Fan Dongqing and regretted agreeing to travel with Gu Qiye and Ji Minghuan.

After Fan Dongqing arrived openly in Li Capital, Gu Zhuoan struggled to approach him for answers about his wife's death, while Gu Qiye hoped to investigate the truth himself. On the flight to Japan, Ji Minghuan's Tokyo Event Card unlocked, and he spotted a Card Event marker near Roppongi.

• Gu Qiye watched Fan Dongqing arrive at Li Jing International Airport and guessed he had come in response to Ghost Bell's provocation.
• Gu Zhuoan considered approaching Fan Dongqing to ask about his wife's death but stayed with his children and watched him leave with the Esper Association.
• Ji Minghuan, Gu Qiye, and Gu Zhuoan passed airport security and boarded a plane to Japan.
• Ji Minghuan's consciousness entered Xia Pingzhou's body in Tokyo, where a notice announced that the city's Event Card had unlocked.
• Ji Minghuan spotted a red exclamation mark near Roppongi and decided to investigate the Card Event.

Ji Minghuan kept Xia Pingzhou hidden in a hotel to avoid the Exorcist Association, then went to Mori Tower to investigate a Tokyo Card Event. He triggered a mission to eliminate the Spider Demon in Roppongi EX Theater, where a mysterious woman emerged from a Movie Screen and watched him.

• Ji Minghuan kept Xia Pingzhou confined to a hotel because the Exorcist Association could recognize him and his Chess Player ability made escape difficult.
• Ji Minghuan replied to Ayase Origami that he would meet No. 4 and No. 9 after they arrived in Tokyo, then left for Roppongi wearing a Human-Face Mask.
• Ji Minghuan used the Queen Statue to bypass the sealed entrances and disable the surveillance cameras at Mori Tower and Roppongi EX Theater.
• Ji Minghuan triggered Card Event No. ⑤, which ordered him to eliminate the Spider Demon in the theater within five minutes.
• The Spider Demon vanished beneath the stage spotlight as the theater went dark, while a tall, thin woman stepped out of a Movie Screen and watched Ji Minghuan.

Ji Minghuan fought a Spider Demon in the darkened Roppongi EX Theater using his chess pieces, but discovered that a second, male-faced twin demon was still poised to attack. The second demon descended toward the isolated King Colossus.

• Ji Minghuan summoned his remaining chess pieces and used the Chessboard Perspective to track the Spider Demon through the theater.
• The Rook struck the Spider Demon with a cannonball, and the Queen attacked as the demon wrapped itself in a cocoon.
• Ji Minghuan ordered the Queen to cut the silk strand holding the cocoon, which fell toward the three waiting Pawn Pieces.
• Ji Minghuan spotted a second Spider Demon with a man's face and realized the demons were twins.
• As the Queen landed, the Pawns attacked the cocoon, and the reloading Rook left the King Colossus exposed to the second demon's dive.

Ji Minghuan defeated both Spider Demons at Roppongi EX Theater and gained an Event Card and progress toward advancing his Heavenly Drive. As he left with the Queen Statue, Ke Qirui stopped him and said she wanted to talk about Xia Pingzhou.

• Ji Minghuan used the Shadow Demon to hide the King Colossus, then ordered the Queen Colossus to phase through the male-faced Spider Demon's attack and kill it.
• The Black Iron Soldiers killed the Spider Demon trapped in the cocoon, completing the event at Roppongi EX Theater.
• Ji Minghuan received the Twins on Stage Event Card, sold it for a Skill Point, and learned that killing demons advanced his cultivation mission and Heavenly Drive.
• Ji Minghuan returned the other statues to the Black and White Ring Road and left the theater with the Queen Statue.
• Ke Qirui stopped Ji Minghuan at the exit and said she wanted to talk to him about Xia Pingzhou.

Ji Minghuan met Ke Qirui outside Roppongi EX Theater, where she tried to persuade him to leave the White Crow Troupe and return to the Exorcist Association. After he refused and claimed he willingly followed the troupe, the Queen Statue offered Ke Qirui a possible ally: a black mummy.

• Ji Minghuan recognized Ke Qirui, and she said she had repeatedly encountered him while investigating demons in the harbor district.
• Ke Qirui said she had deleted Xia Pingzhou's file to protect him and urged him to leave the White Crow Troupe for the Exorcist Association.
• Ji Minghuan rejected her offer and left, insisting that Ke Qirui had mistaken his motives.
• Ji Minghuan told Ke Qirui that he might admire the troupe's violence, concealing his true reason for joining it.
• The Queen Statue told Ke Qirui that someone else might work with her, then named a black mummy before disappearing into the theater wall.