Chapter Summaries

A flesh-controlling boy on the Shinkansen hunted Zhang Chen, while Zhang Chen’s gluttony intensified as he was drawn into the front carriage. After Little Mouth urged him to accept the craving, Zhang Chen transformed into a beast, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• The boy revealed a beating multicolored heart in his backpack and used it to absorb an elderly woman and nearly a hundred passengers.
• The boy searched for Zhang Chen through the flesh under his control, but Zhang Chen devoured it from within and made him spit blood.
• Zhang Chen was surrounded by a flesh-covered train and ran toward the front carriage as a gigantic mouth pursued him, swallowing passengers and carriages.
• The boy confronted Zhang Chen and boasted that his Shinkansen flesh contained 23,487 people, while Zhang Chen’s craving for gluttony overwhelmed him.
• Little Mouth urged Zhang Chen to accept gluttony, and Zhang Chen transformed into a monstrous beast before the boy.

Zhang Chen swallowed the Five-Colored Blood Beast and gained its spatial abilities, but the Soul Stone’s third hole left him too weak to escape the Shinkansen. In Nagasaki, a priest turned Bayemon into a blessed sword and encountered a vast eyeball after allowing a metal insect to enter his body.

• Zhang Chen transformed into a gluttonous form, devoured the Five-Colored Heart’s dwarf body, and regained control of himself as he absorbed its multicolored flesh.
• The Five-Colored Blood Beast’s energy drilled a third hole into Zhang Chen’s Soul Stone, leaving him severely weakened on the tracks.
• A Shinkansen struck Zhang Chen and scattered his remains, leaving two spherical objects intact.
• In Nagasaki, a priest subdued Bayemon with blessed swords and a silver cross, then absorbed the demon into a black blessed sword.
• The priest picked up a metal insect that entered his body, revealing a hundred-meter-long eyeball in an underground abyss.

Shiguang and his father’s hunt in the coastal woods turned into a deadly encounter with a wolf pack, until a strange white bead transformed the wolves into a young man who spared them. The mysterious man vanished after leaving the forest, and the father believed he was the Mountain God.

• Shiguang and his father entered Rinkai Woods to hunt, and Shiguang learned to shoot before killing a wild boar that injured his father.
• As they tried to find their way out, a pack of eleven wolves surrounded them, and the father told Shiguang to flee toward the sea if rescue did not arrive.
• A dark blue bead and a white bead fell between the wolves and the humans, and one wolf swallowed the white bead before collapsing in agony.
• The white bead’s flesh drew the other wolves into the first wolf, crushing them together and forming a naked young man who emerged unharmed by Shiguang’s gunshot.
• The father gave the young man a coat and spare pants, then he and Shiguang left the woods with him; the young man vanished, and the father resolved to return each year to thank the Mountain God.

Zhao Mu and Zhuge Feixuan’s group arrived in Japan and met with Zhang Chen at a secluded inn to discuss the organization’s activities. Zhang Chen revealed that Japan’s situation was dire and asked whether anyone knew which Nightmare wielded fire, leaving the group alarmed.

• Zhao Mu, Zhuge Feixuan, and their companions arrived at Kansai International Airport, where Black Eagle detected that the airport staff had been modified.
• Zhuge Feixuan led the group onto a prepared coach, and Zhang Chen’s avatar joined them before Luo Dakou transported all eight passengers away from the bus.
• At a remote hot spring inn, Zhang Chen introduced himself and the gathered Jailers exchanged names and roles.
• Zhang Chen said he had obtained intelligence about the organization and asked whether Faceless or Ksitigarbha was the Nightmare skilled at using fire.

Old Mr. Ding met with a dark-haired woman, discussed their anti-Ling plan, and agreed to have her handle a dangerous priest while she offered limited assistance. Meanwhile, Zhang Chen shared unusually detailed intelligence with Zhuge Feixuan and the others, leaving them surprised by how much he knew.

• Old Mr. Ding met the woman in a ramen shop private room and argued that their centuries-long search for their original purpose had failed.
• The woman said Zhang Chen’s fate did not concern her and offered to assist Ding in exchange for demands she had not yet decided on.
• Ding showed her images of Father Andersen, Zhao Mu, and Jia Xin, and assigned her to deal with the mysterious priest.
• The woman said Qing Gui had failed years earlier and that she had heard nothing from the other two, while Ding noted that the group had been in the human world for 978 years.
• Zhang Chen told Zhuge Feixuan and the others that the enemy could control fire, then shared intelligence that impressed them.

Zhang Chen briefed Zhuge Feixuan’s team on Japan’s cyborgs and the Elder Council, then endured their test to verify he had not been controlled. He declined to join their team for now and left, while Zhuge Feixuan began planning their operation.

• Zhang Chen explained that cyborgs were widespread in Japan and described the powerful high-level VIP Heichuan Jun, whose four remaining personalities had distinct abilities.
• Zhang Chen identified Shuten Doji, Nurarihyon, and The Custodian as members of the Elder Council and described The Custodian’s endlessly regenerating clones.
• Zhuge Feixuan signaled Zhao Mu to attack Zhang Chen, and Black Eagle examined him before confirming that he showed no signs of control.
• Zhuge Feixuan apologized and offered Zhang Chen her contact information, but he declined her invitation to join the team until he had handled his own affairs.
• After Zhang Chen left, Zhao Mu and Zhuge Feixuan decided not to track him and began planning a secret operation focused on Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Yokohama.

Little Mouth revealed its betrayal, killed Zhang Chen’s body, and took his Soul Stone, leaving Zhang Chen to awaken in the burning theater with the Clown. Zhang Chen agreed to reshape a body with the Sub-soul Stone and make his consciousness primary, but the theater collapsed around them.

• Little Mouth slaughtered the passengers aboard a Shinkansen while pursuing Zhang Chen and the Five-Colored Blood Beast.
• As Zhang Chen weakened after absorbing the Five-Colored Blood Beast, Little Mouth drained his strength, and the Shinkansen struck and tore apart his body.
• Little Mouth’s body entered Zhang Chen’s Soul Stone, and the impact sent the Soul Stone and Sub-soul Stone into the woods below the cliff.
• Zhang Chen awoke in the burning theater and realized Little Mouth had been Kou Dan’s true body and had plotted against him.
• The Clown offered to help Zhang Chen reclaim his Soul Stone by reshaping a body around the Sub-soul Stone, and Zhang Chen agreed on the condition that his consciousness remain primary.
• Zhang Chen and the Clown clasped hands as a burning roof beam collapsed onto them.

Little Mouth took over Zhang Chen’s body but discovered Zhang Chen’s consciousness was missing, and he shattered the Sub-soul Stone in anger. Meanwhile, a search party in Rinkai Woods found mutilated wolves and fresh barefoot tracks before screams erupted from the other team.

• Little Mouth pretended to be Zhang Chen at the clinic, avoided Xiaobai, and left to handle his own affairs.
• Little Mouth searched the Soul Stone’s water-filled cave but found no trace of Zhang Chen’s consciousness.
• Little Mouth sensed and shattered the Sub-soul Stone, realizing Zhang Chen had outwitted him.
• A police officer and local residents searched Rinkai Woods for missing father and son Inagaki Gen and Inagaki Shiguang.
• The search party found crushed wolf corpses, tracks leading deeper into the woods, and a fast-moving purple shadow.
• Screams came from the other search team, and the middle-aged officer feared that something was closing in on his group.

Zhang Chen entered the clown’s memories, then used the clown’s resentment crystal to rebuild his body and survive by devouring a black bear. While Zhang Chen fled from the usurper who had taken his former body, the scarlet-eyed youth killed a search party and sensed something unusual about the middle-aged officer’s corpse.

• Zhang Chen witnessed a boy and his abused mother flee after she killed a fat man, then the clown urged him to construct a body quickly.
• Zhang Chen formed a body from a deep blue orb but was left severely weakened, so he followed the clown’s advice to attract prey with wolf blood.
• A black bear attacked Zhang Chen, who used a purple crystal tail to kill it and devoured its flesh to recover.
• The clown warned Zhang Chen that the usurper was approaching and proposed that he eat a search party, but Zhang Chen refused.
• The scarlet-eyed youth found the eight-person search party, absorbed them, and then studied the middle-aged officer’s corpse before leaving after hearing a sound in the forest.

After Kou Dan took over Zhang Chen’s body, Zhang Chen escaped with the clown’s help and learned that the Eternal organization had once hunted the clown. The clown analyzed Zhang Chen’s altered Soul Stone and concluded that Liu Nuo had been using him and belonged to a powerful faction, leaving Zhang Chen shocked and uncertain about her motives.

• Zhang Chen changed clothes in a forest where Kou Dan had left drained corpses, then found shelter in a blood-soaked cabin and told the clown about the Eternal organization.
• The clown recalled fighting the Eternal organization in Japan and advised Zhang Chen to abandon his name while Kou Dan used his body, warning that Kou Dan might approach Zhang Chen’s friends.
• Zhang Chen described how his Soul Stone had turned white and shrunk after Liu Nuo’s operation, and the clown connected the change to the Devouring Realm creature becoming physical.
• After hearing about Liu Nuo’s use of É, the clown concluded that she was likely a ghost who had been using Zhang Chen and served a powerful faction, though her motives remained unclear.

The clown explained that Liu Nuo may have transformed Zhang Chen’s body and arranged events to keep him alive, then urged him to prepare for the Hell Envoys arriving in Japan. The story shifted to a coastal village near Yokkaichi, where pollution and the death of Kusano Ichiro’s son preceded a string of horrific incidents that left the village nearly abandoned.

• The clown told Zhang Chen that the white substance had likely turned his body into a container for the main soul, and that Liu Nuo may have planned the experiment because she knew he had a Sub-soul Stone.
• The clown warned Zhang Chen that Hell Envoys and human experts were arriving in Japan, and told him to eat ghosts and train his physical abilities.
• The chapter described how seafood factories polluted the village’s waters, while Kusano Ichiro’s son died from mercury poisoning and other infections.
• Kusano went to confront a factory supervisor, but the workers captured him and his wife; the next morning, Kusano’s drowned body was found in the village.
• A year after Kusano’s death, workers found a guard dead from red blisters, and surveillance footage showed a many-legged fish entering the guardroom.
• More workers died from the spreading blisters, and the factory eventually closed as the village became almost cut off from the living.

Zhang Chen followed parasitic fish from a polluted shore to an abandoned village and discovered a factory breeding them. After breaking open its fermentation tank, he faced a powerful parasitic man while the clown reacted with delight.

• Zhang Chen found a rotten fish crawling on red legs, absorbed the parasite inside it, and followed the beach toward a nearby village.
• Zhang Chen entered a bloodstained house, absorbed the strange fish that burst from a swollen corpse, and followed the ones that fled toward a factory.
• Zhang Chen climbed into the factory to observe a glowing fermentation tank where strange fish were screened, then coated his bone claws in purple crystal by drawing on the clown's Soul Stone.
• Zhang Chen leapt through a second-floor window and tore open the fermentation tank, revealing a red-skinned middle-aged man armed with a fork made of fish bones.
• The clown recognized the man as a rare and powerful creature and warned Zhang Chen to be careful as it laughed with delight.

Jia Xin prepared to purify Mikasa City as part of Qingyun Sect’s plan, while Zhang Chen fought a decaying ghost creature and underwent a powerful transformation. The chapter ended with an unknown consciousness freezing Zhang Chen and dragging him beneath the sea.

• Jia Xin told Xiao Bai that they had to purify Mikasa City and warned him not to let his ties to Zhang Chen interfere with Qingyun Sect’s plan.
• Jia Xin and Xiao Bai left the restaurant after Jia Xin destroyed two carbon creatures that had been posing as the elderly owners.
• Zhang Chen cut off both infected arms to survive the fishbone-spear ghost creature’s attacks, then used Blood Transformation to enter and absorb the creature.
• Zhang Chen emerged reborn with greater power, absorbed a deep-blue crystal pearl, and headed toward the city after a blood-red beam exposed his location.
• An unknown consciousness began reassessing Zhang Chen’s body, froze him, and caused him to sink into the sea.

After waking in Fukuoka, Zhang Chen learned that the clown had brought him to safety and began teaching him how to use the clown’s time abilities. As Zhang Chen entered meditation, purple crystalline particles formed an intricate grid around him, revealing an unexpected breakthrough.

• Zhang Chen woke in an empty family home in Fukuoka, where the clown explained that he had carried him away after Zhang Chen’s consciousness collapsed.
• The clown told Zhang Chen that Kou Dan had stolen his body and urged him to master the clown’s abilities so they could return to his friends.
• Zhang Chen and the clown went to an abandoned underground reservoir, where Zhang Chen asked why the clown’s Main Soul was incomplete.
• The clown explained that a mysterious person’s restriction had corroded nearly half his origin and destroyed the core of his illusions.
• The clown taught Zhang Chen to understand time as a process and guided him through activating the clown’s power.
• Zhang Chen meditated and formed a spreading grid of purple crystalline particles, astonishing the clown.

A nameless priest arrived in Fukuoka after sensing something unusual there, while Zhang Chen formed a time field in an abandoned reservoir and received Zhan Yun’s Heavenly Eye. Zhang Chen headed into the city to replenish his energy as the priest entered Fukuoka.

• The priest’s history revealed that he had once fought for Vatican against Italy’s armies and was publicly executed in Rome before later appearing in Nagasaki.
• The priest left a Shinkansen bound for Tokyo at Fukuoka after sensing something unusual in the city.
• Zhang Chen created a purple grid that slowed time tenfold, but his main soul’s violent reaction forced him to stop and left him exhausted.
• The clown projection transferred Zhan Yun’s Heavenly Eye to Zhang Chen, forming a third eye connected to his Divine Sea.
• Zhang Chen left the underground reservoir to seek food and replenish his energy.

Zhao Mu’s group followed the pink umbrellas’ summons to the Umeda Sky Building, where the ghostly woman separated them into different locations and confronted several members. Meanwhile, Lu Sheng used an illusion to prepare an ambush for a carrier battle group in the Death Triangle Area.

• A rain-controlling ghost appeared at the hot spring inn, evaded Zhao Mu’s punch, and left pink umbrellas bearing separate meeting places for the group.
• Zhuge Feixuan decided the group would go to the Umeda Sky Building, where each person’s umbrella allowed entry to a different location guarded by a pink-kimono woman.
• Zhao Mu, Shiva, and Luo Dakou found that their assigned rooms led back to the hot spring inn, while Zhuge Feixuan, Black Eagle, the tall Vietnamese man, and the Thai Ghost Tamer Master encountered the woman in disturbing locations.
• Lu Sheng spread fog across the sea and ordered Gyuuki, Yuki-onna, and Kubinashi to help lure a carrier battle group into the Death Triangle Area.
• Lu Sheng and thousands of ghosts boarded an enormous Edo-period warship and sailed into the fog.

Zhang Chen assessed his weakened abilities and chose to investigate a powerful mental-energy shockwave in Fukuoka, taking control of a female cyborg to blend in with the crowd. Earlier, a filthy old man at Itazuke Shrine displayed jars containing human brains and brain components, while a family noticed his unsettling presence and hurried away.

• Zhang Chen reviewed how Kou Dan's actions had weakened his Blood Bone Body and Devouring Ghost abilities, and planned to learn combat techniques from the clown before reuniting with Jia Xin and the others.
• A powerful electromagnetic brainwave spread across Fukuoka and cut power throughout the prefecture, prompting the clown to offer Zhang Chen the choice of fleeing or investigating.
• Zhang Chen chose to investigate, entered a female cyborg's body, and joined the cyborgs heading toward the source of the brainwave.
• Six hours earlier at Itazuke Shrine, a filthy old man stepped on a family's picnic cloth and unsettled their young daughter.
• The mother saw the old man unpack glass bottles containing living brains and brain components, then hurried away with her husband and daughter.

Prajna, an ancient elder disguised as shrine guard Ichikawa I, caught a young man stealing a bronze sword and agreed to help him ransom his sister. As they reached the young man's residential complex, Prajna sensed something was wrong inside.

• Prajna ate brains taken from local funeral homes before reporting for his guard shift at Itazuke Shrine.
• Prajna gave his colleague blood-jade beads to help the colleague's sick son recover.
• A young man stole a bronze sword, and Prajna trapped him in an illusion where he found the body of his sister, Kyoko, and saw her open her eyes.
• Prajna returned the young man to the shrine hall and agreed to go with him to ransom his sister.
• Prajna followed the young man to his residential complex, then stopped at the entrance after sensing danger inside.

The old security guard sent the young man to Kasuga City and entered Room 419 to confront the blond priest, who was guarding Shizuka. The priest’s attack destroyed the residential complex, and the guard revealed his demonic form before the priest’s black blade shattered his mask.

• The old security guard persuaded the young man to leave Fukuoka City and promised to reunite him with his sister, Shizuka, the next morning in Kasuga City.
• The old security guard returned the bronze sword to Itazuke Shrine, entered Room 419, and discovered Shizuka eating with a blond priest.
• The priest attacked the old security guard with a holy gunblade, collapsing the residential complex and triggering a brainwave that drew artificial humans to Fukuoka City.
• A male artificial human rescued Shizuka from the ruins and raced toward Kasuga City while the old security guard transformed into a scarlet-masked being.
• The priest attacked with weapons summoned from his Bible, but the old security guard’s body turned insubstantial and his mask showed the priest visions of war and destruction.
• The priest’s black blade struck the old security guard’s scarlet mask and shattered it.

The chapter recounted Prajna’s origin as a child who became a brain-eating monster before being absorbed and transformed by a Buddhist monk. In the present, Zhang Chen watched a powerful priest and an emotionless middle-aged man clash, learning that the latter wielded a devastating psychic domain.

• In 736, famine drove a couple to cook themselves so their infant son could eat, and the child later survived a lightning strike and entered the forest.
• A Grand Commander’s troops killed the wolves in the forest and impaled the boy, but his corpse remained undecayed and citizens blamed it for misfortune.
• A group of monks took the corpse to their temple, where it absorbed yin energy and became a pulsing brain; an elderly monk let it consume him, and it formed a middle-aged man named Prajna.
• In the present, a priest confronted the middle-aged man as a psychic storm erupted, and the priest accused him of hiding Satan’s nature beneath false benevolence.
• Zhang Chen’s artificial human was swept toward the fighting crowd as the psychic storm formed over Fukuoka City and a shockwave destroyed many artificial humans.
• Zhang Chen reached a nearby rooftop and saw the priest facing the middle-aged man; his companion warned him to hide his aura from the man’s lethal psychic domain.