Chapter Summaries

Su Wen activated a Tier 3 Abyss rule that spread a safe dream layer across the Schlote Technology Exhibition and connected him to a fragment of the Omega System. As night fell, he planned to use his resistance to Abyss signals to locate the culprit behind the contamination.

• Su Wen used resonance to activate his freehand Abyss array, establishing five hours of dream-layer coverage across the exhibition and receiving an Omega System fragment and an achievement.
• Su Wen met Jiang Menghan at Starbucks and examined the webpage spreading the Mixed-Frequency Curse, but the system could not identify or register him.
• Su Wen realized he might amplify his immunity to Abyss signals into a shielding field and use it to track the curse's source.
• Su Wen rejected trying to protect victims one by one and resolved to use the shielding effect to find the true culprit.
• As night fell, college students at the exhibition watched the displays shift into murky reflections.

As the tech expo began, Su Wen and Jiang Menghan were caught in the Scarlet Blood Moon ritual, which transformed the venue into a lethal battlefield. Su Wen recognized the Mixed-Frequency Curse, received a hidden mission, and secretly changed its rules so entering the field meant withdrawal rather than death.

• Liu Yun searched the expo for dangerous stands while the Night Watch monitored the suspected conspirators and their targets.
• A Koen Modern representative bribed Chairman Wang to award the expo’s first prize, leaving him an anonymous Swiss Bank credit card hidden in a book.
• Su Wen and Jiang Menghan discussed Leis Angton’s presence and the expo’s judging before a blood-red veil engulfed the venue.
• The Scarlet Blood Moon screening removed almost everyone, and Su Wen identified the event as a manifestation of the Mixed-Frequency Curse.
• Su Wen received the mission to survive among the last ten or eliminate one of two Core Pollution Sources, then burned an Abyssal atlas to change the curse’s death outcome to withdrawal from the field.

Su Wen learned the Blood Moon Ritual’s rules, added a hidden bounty rule targeting cultists and Abyss Walkers, and began hunting in the mirror space. After a yellow-haired cultist attacked him, Su Wen prevented him from leaving the ritual and severed his arm and leg, intending to keep him alive for further punishment.

• Su Wen accessed the ritual details and learned that the final ten survivors could bring weakened abilities back to the Current World, while 1,437 participants remained.
• Jiang Menghan explained that the ritual occupied an Abyss-corroded mirror space, and Su Wen used the Omega System to add a hidden rule doubling kill rewards for cultists and Abyss Walkers.
• A yellow-haired cultist discussed the ritual with an Abyss scholar, including a stolen siren research project and their plans for Genetic Ascension.
• The cultist attacked Su Wen with a Blood Blade, but Su Wen blocked the strike and cut off the cultist’s arm and leg with the Watcher's Sword.
• Su Wen suspended the cultist’s exit procedure and announced that he intended to keep him alive while studying how much pain he could endure.

Su Wen marked a fleeing Blood Moon Cultist as bait and learned about the Blood Source Code while Jiang Menghan defeated more cultists. As the Blood Moon Ritual spread violence through the exhibition center, Su Wen followed the marked trail toward a threatened Lin Xiqing.

• Su Wen used his Appraisal Vision and the lantern's Guiding the Way trait to mark the fleeing blond-haired Blood Moon Cultist, then told Jiang Menghan what he had learned about the Blood Source Code.
• Jiang Menghan reported that she was unharmed after killing thirteen enemies, and she vanished into the moonlight under the Artemis Lineage's concealment.
• The blond-haired cultist contacted his captain, who ordered two high-ranking Blood Moon Apostles with Chameleon Y2 Blood Codes to hunt Su Wen, whom the cultist misidentified as a Tier 1 Transcendent.
• Su Wen followed the marked blood mist through the ritual space, intending to use the cultist as bait for more enemies.
• A young man in Area D killed someone and became exhilarated by his new Transcendent power, while Night Watch Xiao Zhang found his communicator unable to connect.
• Separated from Liu Yun, Lin Xiqing faced a threatening crowd after witnessing a murder, but Su Wen appeared at the far end of her exhibition area.

Blood Moon contamination drove the exhibition crowd into violent attacks, and Su Wen rescued Lin Xiqing before turning the violence against the rioters. After the area was mostly evacuated, he warned Jiang Menghan that Liu Yun might be in greater danger because she had gone to investigate a possible suspect.

• The Blood Moon drove rioters to kill and attack people, while Lin Xiqing used her Glimmer Wall to hold them back.
• Su Wen arrived as Lin Xiqing's barrier shattered, killed the attackers around her, and comforted her.
• Su Wen killed more rioters and urged the girls he had rescued to defend themselves against their attackers.
• Lin Xiqing asked Su Wen for a weapon, and the main exhibition area was mostly evacuated over the next ten minutes.
• Su Wen told Jiang Menghan that the crowd had separated them and feared Liu Yun had gone to stake out a possible suspect.

Su Wen and Jiang Menghan continued their coordinated assault on the abyssal ritual at the Schlote Technology Exhibition while Liu Yun moved to cut off the suspected cultists. The chapter left Liu Yun entering a hidden passage, unaware that the Blood Moon was subtly affecting her senses.

• Su Wen praised Lin Xiqing for holding out, then asked her to follow him to Captain Liu while Jiang Menghan handled another ritual core.
• Su Wen led Lin Xiqing and the rescued young women toward the Night Watch, while Jiang Menghan headed upstairs and killed a cultist on the stairwell.
• Su Wen's team used the exhibition center's blueprint and field analysis to identify six likely ritual-core locations, and Su Wen ordered that no cultists be left alive.
• Liu Yun entered a hidden passage leading to the third-floor archive room to block the cultists' escape, not realizing the Blood Moon was affecting her senses.

Liu Yun uncovered the cultists’ plan to infiltrate the Deep Sea Research Institute and was gravely wounded by Satanian. Su Wen and Lin Xiqing arrived just in time to shield her from the killing blow.

• Liu Yun overheard a bandaged man and Satanian discuss the Blood Moon Ritual, the Deep Sea Research Institute, and the factions involved.
• Satanian discovered Liu Yun hiding nearby and attacked her with a poisonous dagger.
• Liu Yun fought back with her Extraordinary Traits and pistol but was badly wounded by Satanian.
• As Satanian struck again, Su Wen arrived with Lin Xiqing and raised a golden barrier to protect Liu Yun.

Su Wen repelled Satanian’s ambush and confronted the mutated bandaged man, Continio, codename K. After identifying K as a Blood Moon Believer and learning of his failed genetic modification, Su Wen prepared to use Judgment against him.

• Satanian tried to distract Su Wen with an offer before attacking him with an enchanted dagger.
• Su Wen’s Dawn-infused Crusader longsword struck Satanian, blew open her abdomen, and pinned her to a wall.
• K charged Su Wen as his bandages fell away, revealing a body transformed by Black Tide-like corruption.
• Su Wen considered a possible connection between the Fourth Route, Ara, and the Omega System fragment, then set aside his plans for later.
• Su Wen appraised K as Contинio, a former Luthers-Antonio Medical Conglomerate executive suffering from Blood Seepage Phenomenon, and manifested the silver-white Judgment characteristic.

Su Wen defeated the Blood Moon Believers Continio and Satanian, revealing the growing power of his second-tier abilities. With Liu Yun treated and the immediate crisis over, he concealed how much he knew about Satanian’s powers.

• Su Wen sentenced Continio to death and destroyed him with Condemnation, realizing his second-tier abilities could protect allies and turn lost barriers into offensive power.
• Su Wen gave Lin Xiqing medicine for Liu Yun and told her to treat the wounded while he handled the remaining danger.
• Satanian released venomous snakes, but Su Wen used Watcher's Sword - Storm Tear to destroy her, the snakes, and part of the surrounding terrain.
• Lin Xiqing treated Liu Yun, who apologized for being caught off guard by Satanian’s mental seduction ability.
• Su Wen said Satanian’s seduction came from her Blood Source Code and claimed that, before every choice, he was first and foremost a scholar.

Su Wen explained the ritual’s altered outcome to Liu Yun and identified the Blood Moon Faith’s genetic modification research as a likely lead. As he trusted Jiang Menghan to handle the other threat, she confronted Ken in the chairman’s office and trapped him with Artemis’s abilities.

• Liu Yun reported hearing information about the Blood Source Code in the hidden passage, then apologized to Lin Xiqing for being separated from her.
• Su Wen attributed the ritual’s strange outcome to the cultists changing its rules and linked the Blood Moon Faith’s genetic modification work to Luthers-Antonio Medical Conglomerate.
• Liu Yun tried to resume the operation despite her shoulder wound, but Su Wen told her Jiang Menghan was already moving and would handle the threat.
• In the chairman’s office, Ken threatened Chairman Wang for the safe’s password and reacted to approaching footsteps by dodging an energy attack.
• Ken activated his Blood Moon Imprint and charged toward the door, but Jiang Menghan used Artemis’s Photolithography - Stasis to slow and bind him.

Jiang Menghan killed Ken and the traitorous Wang Pangzi as the Night Watch’s operation against the Blood Moon cult concluded. After agreeing to visit Coastal City’s Ferris wheel with Su Wen, he watched the Blood Moon world collapse and explained to Lin Xiqing that what they saw was real, though only a small part of reality.

• Jiang Menghan shot Wang Pangzi after Ken used him as a human shield, then killed Ken with a second shot.
• Jiang Menghan asked Su Wen to go with her to the Ferris wheel in Coastal City New City, and he agreed.
• Liu Yun rested after bandaging herself and receiving treatment, while the decapitation operation neared completion.
• Lin Xiqing asked Su Wen whether the supernatural world was reality, and he told her that all they saw was real but only a fragment of a much larger universe.
• The Blood Moon ritual ended, the Blood Moon world collapsed, and the technology exhibition returned to its undamaged form in the Current World.

After the Blood Moon Crisis ended, Su Wen’s rules blurred ordinary survivors’ memories and put the remaining cultists and rioters into deep dreams. While the Night Watch began its cleanup, Su Wen handed the scene over to Liu Yun and left, promising to speak with Old Mr. Lin the next day.

• Su Wen’s Dreamscape rule softened the memories of ordinary people caught in the crisis, while Slumber—Blood Moon Lockdown cleared the dead cultists’ contamination and trapped them in deep dreams.
• Su Wen gave Liu Yun his jacket to cover her wounds and reassured Lin Xiqing as police and Night Watch members secured the exhibition center.
• The Night Watch found an unconscious first-rank cultist and, following Liu Yun’s orders, prepared to restrain the cultists and rioters for interrogation.
• Su Wen sensed Jiang Menghan leave into the shadows and completed the handover to the Night Watch.
• Su Wen said he would discuss the details with Old Mr. Lin tomorrow, said good night to Liu Yun and Lin Xiqing, and left the sealed-off area.

After the Blood Moon Ritual, Su Wen and Jiang Menghan shared a quiet late-night walk to their favorite shrimp noodle shop. Elsewhere, Kolonchis warned Lucius that his plan to obtain genetic data from the Coastal Research Institute was doomed, but Lucius insisted the Third Era System Fragment had to be activated.

• Su Wen found Jiang Menghan hiding with her Refraction trait and invited her to eat shrimp noodles on Linjiang Road.
• Su Wen and Jiang Menghan pushed his old bicycle along the riverside and joked about selling Faro Copper Mine to buy a Bentley.
• Su Wen and Jiang Menghan ate at Granny Zhang's noodle shop and reminisced about the changing Old Town.
• Kolonchis answered Lucius's call and mocked his attempt to distract Coastal City's Night Watch squads while pursuing research at the Coastal Research Institute.
• Lucius demanded a plan to obtain the genetic data needed to activate the Third Era System Fragment.

Kolonchis arranged for covert operatives to target the Deep Sea Research Institute during Chinese New Year, unaware that Night Watch - Rhine would oppose him. Meanwhile, Su Wen shared memories of his lonely youth with Jiang Menghan, ending on an amusing story about a forged book signature.

• Kolonchis warned Antonio United that the Deep Sea Research Institute was too heavily guarded to approach until Chinese New Year, when it would be understaffed.
• Kolonchis and the caller agreed to have the Recovery Agency contact covert operatives, while Kolonchis concealed his identity as a Koen Group sales representative.
• Su Wen reminisced to Jiang Menghan about buying practice books that hurt his exam ranking and led his teacher to suspect he was dating someone.
• Su Wen told Jiang Menghan that his parents were usually absent and that he once traveled alone to Japan as a teenager.
• Su Wen recalled seeing Japanese sights and buying a supposedly signed book that he later discovered had a badly forged signature.

Su Wen and Jiang Menghan shared noodles and reflected on the people and experiences that had made him feel less alone. The next morning, they met Old Man Lin to discuss intelligence from the Blood Moon Ritual crisis, while a Night Watch figure appeared to terrify two prisoners.

• Su Wen told Jiang Menghan that he had accepted his true self and was not alone, then shared warm noodles with her along Linjiang Road.
• Jiang Menghan recalled finding Su Wen reading Haruki Murakami in high school, and Su Wen ordered another bowl of noodles.
• Su Wen and Jiang Menghan discussed reporting their Blood Moon Ritual intelligence to Old Man Lin and parted at the road leading home.
• In the Night Watch prison, the bandaged man and Ken considered escape options before a uniformed figure appeared and frightened the bandaged man.
• Su Wen and Jiang Menghan visited Old Man Lin's bookstore, where Curator Yu asked about a handwritten copy of the Yongle Encyclopedia and Old Man Lin demanded two Border Relics: Sky Almanacs in exchange for an explanation.

Su Wen and the others discussed the Blood Source Code, a gene-modification technology that could empower Transcendents but also lead to human experimentation and social collapse. After Su Wen warned that a Gene Virus could threaten civilization, he received a Class A hidden quest and began considering how to prepare for the crisis with Klosan.

• Lin Xiqing reported that an information disruption had killed seven captured cultists, severely injured one, and allowed another to disappear; Old Man Lin suspected hidden traitors within the Night Watch and said he would handle them.
• Su Wen argued that formal spiritual-energy education could strengthen Coastal City and reduce the risks of relying on untrained Transcendents, and Yu Kaiji and Old Man Lin agreed with his assessment.
• Su Wen described the cultists’ Blood Source Code as a Gene Virus that granted enhanced abilities, while Jiang Menghan explained how gene modification could cause genetic collapse and ethical dangers.
• Su Wen warned that the technology could enable forced experimentation and that a Gene Virus might threaten civilization; Yu Kaiji listened as the group considered the danger.
• Su Wen received the Class A hidden quest “Turning Point of Civilization—Genetic Ascension, or Genetic Destruction” and resolved to look for a chance to plan ahead with Klosan during next year’s Lorenz Riel research.

Su Wen discussed the Blood Source Code threat with Curator Yu Kaiji and Lin Xiqing, then refused Lin’s invitation to join the Night Watch. After walking Jiang Menghan home, he received confirmation that he had completed the C-Class hidden mission and prepared to start a new Time Travel Game.

• Su Wen warned that the Blood Source Code could cause immune dysregulation or Gene Collapse, while Lin Xiqing noted that the cultists still needed extraordinary lifeform blood samples to make carriers.
• Curator Yu Kaiji said he would raise the threat with the Sage Council and explained that the Great Library focused on civilizations beyond the planet; Su Wen and Jiang Menghan discussed convergent evolution and Dark Matter Stream.
• Old Man Lin invited Su Wen to join the Night Watch, but Su Wen declined and warned Lin Xiqing not to investigate the cult too deeply because of its hidden intelligence and Mixed-Frequency Curse technology.
• Su Wen walked Jiang Menghan home, and they agreed to visit the Ferris Wheel together a few days later.
• Su Wen received confirmation that he had eliminated the Core Pollution Source and completed the C-Class Hidden Mission: Bathed in Blood, earning the one-time Spiritual Energy Trait Hunter - Tracking - Ink Trace.
• Su Wen returned to his Jiangnan house and activated the Time Travel Game, looking forward to seeing Duke Miss Angelia again.

Su Wen began the newly available game Prometheus (Stealing Fire Chapter), set during a fierce winter in Moscow. After arriving near Moscow State Lomonosov University, he detected a dangerous relic response and suspected a Transcendent Out of Control incident.

• Su Wen returned to his old house and opened the game interface, which introduced Prometheus (Stealing Fire Chapter) and its objectives and trial abilities.
• The game transported Su Wen to a snowbound alley in northern Asia, where he prepared for the blizzard with a fur-lined coat and Appraisal Vision glasses.
• Su Wen followed Spiritual Energy fluctuations to Moscow State Lomonosov University and detected a sharp signal spike from a high-tier Border Relic or Legendary Relic.
• Su Wen examined the university's unusual storm and relic readings and wondered whether a Transcendent Out of Control had occurred.

Su Wen repeatedly reset time to reach Angelia inside the burning Moscow State University Grand Chapel. He found her trying to contain an anomalous fragment of Prometheus's Heavenly Fire, then revealed himself as Kevin-Alfred and vowed to protect her.

• Su Wen used the blizzard to slip past the cameras and scale Moscow State University's outer wall.
• He discovered that the Grand Chapel was on fire and raced inside to search for Angelia and rescue students.
• After failing to reach her before an explosion and seeing a clown appear outside, Su Wen concluded the route was wrong and reset time.
• Su Wen repeated the attempt sixteen times, testing routes and protecting the injured, before reaching a sealed fourth-floor laboratory on his seventeenth try.
• Su Wen found Angelia exhausting her spiritual energy to contain the anomalous Prometheus's Heavenly Fire fragment, with unconscious bodyguards and the injured Virginia Nala nearby.
• Su Wen introduced himself as Duke Christopher's steward, Kevin-Alfred, and vowed to protect Angelia.

Su Wen returned to save the gravely injured Angelia as the Prometheus Heavenly Fire Fragment neared a catastrophic overactivation. He stopped time, used the Time Travel System and World Influence to calculate a perfect containment model, then resumed time with only ten seconds left to put his solution into action.

• Su Wen caught Angelia, urged her to stop draining her spiritual energy, and gave her a healing potion while promising to handle the crisis.
• The panicked researcher explained that the Prometheus Heavenly Fire Fragment would overactivate in ten seconds and that stabilizing its confinement device seemed impossible.
• Su Wen stopped time and used copied verification data, World Influence, and the Laplace Future Preview Module to run immense calculations.
• Su Wen spent more than ten hours of stopped time refining a closed-loop Spiritual Energy Field model capable of containing the fragment.
• Su Wen resumed time with ten seconds remaining, reassured Angelia, and recalled his promise to create a perfect future for her.