Chapter Summaries

Tang Qi and Sally traveled to Winston Town, where Transcendents were gathering in pursuit of the Blood of the Deity. After visiting Winston High School to investigate the Immortal Count’s donated antiques, they found others preparing to fight over the exhibits.

• Tang Qi recognized that Sally was recovering from the influence of the Legend of the Immortals and let her regain her bearings on her own.
• Tang Qi and Sally took a crowded sightseeing bus to Winston’s Main Street to avoid Transcendents who had infiltrated the town.
• A high school student gave Tang Qi and Sally a flyer inviting them to Winston High School’s Founding Day celebration, and Tang Qi noticed that the school displayed antiques donated by the Immortal Count.
• Tang Qi and Sally entered the school’s Exhibition Room under their Illusion Aura but stopped when they realized several others were gathering to seize the donated items.
• Tang Qi had the Night Beast conceal them in shadows so they could watch the confrontation about to begin.

Tang Qi watched a plumber battle a Mountain Witch disguised as a blonde student, while he and Sally prepared to use a Word Spirit Curse. The fight ended with the plumber smashing the witch’s face as Tang Qi’s ghostly light surged.

• Tang Qi watched a brown-haired student and a blonde bombshell approach the Exhibition Room, where the plumber barred them from entering.
• The blonde transformed into a black-haired female gorilla, revealed as a Mountain Witch, and charged the plumber, an Underground Witch, who spread green paint across the corridor to create a battlefield.
• Tang Qi read the supernatural information about both fighters and told Sally to assist him with a Word Spirit Curse while they stayed in the shadows.
• The Mountain Witch grabbed the plumber and smashed him into the Exhibition Room doorway, breaking the paint, the doorway, and half a wall.
• The plumber slipped free and battered the Mountain Witch’s face with his Pipe Wrench as Tang Qi’s eyes began to glow with ghostly light.

Tang Qi discovered that a rusted sword tied to the Immortal Count’s dead First Mate hinted at a secret the Count had covered up, then investigated a gruesome campus massacre caused by a powerful supernatural being. He left the campus with Sally and noticed a theater advertising a play called “Battle of Mist Bay.”

• Tang Qi identified a rusted sword as Deputy Tebat’s curio and learned that the Immortal Count had killed Tebat after he discovered the Count’s secret.
• Tang Qi and Sally left the Exhibition Room unseen after the plumber defeated and tied up the Blonde Bombshell.
• Tang Qi and Sally found students mutilated and hung from trees in a campus grove, and Tang Qi judged the culprit to be a rule-breaking supernatural being near Professional Level.
• Tang Qi warned that Winston Town might descend into chaos and left the campus with Sally.
• Tang Qi spotted a theater poster advertising “Battle of Mist Bay.”

Tang Qi and Sally watched a musical about the Battle of Mist Bay and learned more about Tebat’s loyalty to Samuel Winston. Following the Witch’s Mark to a bookstore filled with comics by Esmeralda, they saw the shop transform and a hunched figure emerge from a bookshelf.

• Tang Qi watched the musical and noticed its portrayal of Tebat saving Samuel Winston from a curse during the Battle of Mist Bay.
• After the performance, Sally removed the seal from Legend of the Immortals, and she and Tang Qi followed the Witch’s Mark to the Witch shop district.
• Tang Qi and Sally entered a bookstore and found its comic display filled with works bearing Esmeralda’s name.
• The bookstore’s books and shelves rearranged themselves, revealing a hunched figure as ghostly light surged in Tang Qi’s eyes.

Tang Qi and Sally met the Melada Witch Group’s guide, the powerful Tree Fiend, who gave them secret medicines and false identities for entering Winston Town. The Tree Fiend explained that the group could not approach the town before the Day of Prophecy, leaving Tang Qi to confront the coming danger alongside Sally.

• Tang Qi recognized the kindly old grandmother as a Professional Level Tree Fiend and sat with Sally for tea and pastries.
• Gluttony repeatedly devoured the refreshments, prompting the Tree Fiend to make the table and food disappear.
• The Tree Fiend praised Tang Qi as the Daughter of Destiny’s guardian and gave him and Sally semi-finished Transformation Secret Medicines.
• The Tree Fiend showed them the brother-and-sister identities arranged for their stay in Winston Town.
• Tang Qi questioned whether the Witch Group would leave them to face the danger alone, and the Tree Fiend said the curse prevented the Thirteen Progenitors and their descendants from approaching until the Day of Prophecy.

Tang Qi and Sally learned that Scarlet Moon Day was seven days away and settled into their Watson Siblings identities in Winston Town. Tang Qi decided to investigate the Count’s Castle disaster and its hidden secrets, and found a promising job opening at Golden Goat Antique Shop.

• Tree Fiend Grandma told Tang Qi that Samuel Winston could not be affected before Scarlet Moon Day and offered the town as a sanctuary for seven days.
• Tang Qi concluded that the Melada Witch Group might be manipulating events but chose to stay and face the challenge with Sally.
• Tang Qi and Sally transformed into John and Emma Watson, settled into their apartment, and Tang Qi received a library of Mystic Side books from the Witch Group.
• Tang Qi and Sally visited the former Count’s Castle, now a Church of the Lord of Light, but found no traces connected to the old disaster.
• Sally went to Winston High School while Tang Qi looked for work and decided he needed information about the Count’s Castle before Scarlet Moon Day.
• Tang Qi found an apprentice opening at Golden Goat Antique Shop and decided it suited him.

Tang Qi used Crimson to secure an apprenticeship at Golden Goat Antique Shop and searched its hidden warehouse for Curios. He found a ruined pirate anchor whose history deepened his suspicion that Samuel Winston was an immortal tyrant, not the heroic figure described in the comic.

• Tang Qi used Crimson to make Arthur Wilson and the others believe he had earned a place as Golden Goat Antique Shop’s second apprentice.
• Arthur put Tang Qi and his nephew Tyler Wilson to work before leaving for the Winston Noble Museum.
• Sally contacted Tang Qi through the modified One-Way Iron Plate and told him that a Detective was investigating the murder at Winston High School.
• Tang Qi created an illusion to distract Tyler, transformed into a shadow, and entered the shop’s hidden second warehouse.
• Tang Qi identified a scrapped Blood Deer ship anchor as a Curio and learned that its pirate crew had secretly served Samuel Winston before he abandoned and silenced them.
• Tang Qi concluded that the anchor’s evidence of Winston’s cruelty contradicted the comic’s portrayal of him as a just hero.

Tang Qi realized Count Winston’s relics could help him uncover the truth about the Immortal Count and proposed an exhibition to gather them in one place. Arthur Wilson became interested, while the authorities’ detective duo and growing danger in town remained on Tang Qi’s mind.

• Tang Qi formed a plan to investigate Count Samuel Winston through historical evidence and pretended to keep studying at the antique shop.
• Sally reported that a famous detective and a powerful consultant had arrived to monitor the escalating Winston High School murder case, and Tang Qi warned her to strengthen her disguise.
• Arthur Wilson explained that Count’s Castle relics had been scattered among local residents after refugees settled in Winston Town.
• Tang Qi recognized the relics as a way to investigate the Count and suggested that Arthur organize an Immortal Count Relics Exhibition with the residents and authorities.
• Arthur Wilson worried that the government would reject the costly plan, but Tang Qi assured him they would agree quickly.

Tang Qi and Sally investigated a supernatural battle at Winston High School, where Jensen and a Detective faced a Parasitic Rabbit. The fight continued as Tang Qi assessed the monster and Jensen’s growing strength.

• Arthur Wilson accepted Tang Qi’s exhibition proposal and left to put it into action.
• Tang Qi picked up Sally at Winston High School, and she told him about the Detective and consultant investigating the murders.
• Sally sensed something happening at the school, so Tang Qi took her through the shadows and into a hidden ward.
• Tang Qi and Sally found Jensen fighting a Parasitic Rabbit while the Detective sheltered behind a barrier.
• Tang Qi identified the monster’s abilities and realized that Jensen had grown powerful enough to fight it without his immediate help.

Tang Qi and Sally watched Jensen use an arsenal of powerful curios to kill the Parasitic Rabbit, then Tang Qi continued his plans and daily life. The chapter ended when Tang Qi spotted a coordinated supernatural assault gathering around the church of the Lord of Light.

• Tang Qi and Sally hid nearby as Jensen used his shield and several Tyros curios to defeat the Parasitic Rabbit, which left behind a girl and a newly formed curio.
• Tang Qi and Sally returned to the apartment, where Tang Qi reflected on Jensen’s privileged Fiend-descendant background and spent the evening reading, training Sally, and caring for Night Beast and Gluttony.
• Tang Qi sold antique furniture at Golden Goat Antique Shop, advised Arthur Wilson on borrowing relics for the Immortal Count Relics Exhibition, and received three Divine Grace in commission.
• Tang Qi and Sally went out for dinner and headed toward the church, but Tang Qi spotted dense beast shadows and other strange presences gathering around it.
• Tang Qi brought Sally back to the apartment and realized that a group of superhumans was preparing to attack the church.

As rival supernatural forces gathered around the Winston Town church, Tang Qi watched a Light Heavy Armored Warrior defeat the first attackers and demand that challengers beat him to enter. The forces held back until a bloated fire-dragon-shaped Flesh Puppet appeared carrying cargo, leaving its purpose unknown.

• A fire and spreading barriers isolated the church district as Tang Qi spotted numerous superhumans waiting in the darkness.
• A flesh-ball attacker and its companions charged the church, but a Light Heavy Armored Warrior emerged and swiftly destroyed them.
• The warrior announced that anyone who wanted to enter the church had to defeat him and warned that those who defied the church would be placed on the Judgment List.
• Most of the waiting superhumans withdrew to watch rather than challenge the warrior immediately.
• A bloated, fire-dragon-shaped Flesh Puppet appeared in the sky, and its cargo arrived in the next instant.

A Ragnar Descendant challenged the Heavy Armored Warrior outside the church but lost when his borrowed body and power gave out. After the supernatural factions withdrew at dawn, Tang Qi decided to help Arthur Wilson gather the Count’s Relics sooner so he could learn the truth about Immortal Count Samuel Winston.

• A Ragnar Descendant emerged from the Fire Dragon Puppet and attacked the Heavy Armored Warrior while Tang Qi identified the elder’s parasitic body and time limit.
• The Ragnar Descendant unleashed his final attack, but the Heavy Armored Warrior defeated him and declared himself unbeatable.
• No second challenger appeared, and the supernatural beings dispersed at dawn as the church restored the damaged square.
• Tang Qi sent Sally to Grandma Tree Bookstore and went to the Golden Goat Antique Shop to help Arthur Wilson persuade residents to surrender the Count’s Relics.

Tang Qi used “Crimson” to search the descendants of those who looted Count Winston’s castle, gathering Curios that confirmed Samuel Winston had been a brutal tyrant. At Winston Noble Museum, he discovered a painting of the Battle of Mist Bay made by Winston himself, and began examining its information.

• Tang Qi persuaded Arthur Wilson to take him to Howard’s villa, where he found and took the Chieftain’s Bowl, a Curio that revealed Count Winston had slaughtered the Hammerwa Tribe and taken power from their monster.
• Tang Qi and Arthur visited several local residents, and Tang Qi used “Crimson” to obtain three more Curios whose information further confirmed Winston’s brutality.
• Tang Qi returned to the antique shop, still uncertain what had happened at the castle or why Winston had gathered healing Curios.
• Tang Qi used “Crimson” on Arthur and went with him to Winston Noble Museum, where he found nearly twenty Count’s Relics.
• Tang Qi examined an Oil Painting of the Battle of Mist Bay and discovered that Samuel Winston himself had painted it.

Tang Qi discovered the secrets behind Samuel Winston’s portrait and knife, then drank Sally’s failed Beloved Potion while trying to brew a decryption potion with her blood. As night fell, a grotesque Giant appeared to challenge the Light Heavy Armored Warrior outside the church.

• Tang Qi learned that Samuel Winston had betrayed the Anglo Empire to pursue immortality and that Norma’s Sin could be unlocked with his bloodline or Forced Analysis.
• Tang Qi collected Sally’s blood and began brewing the decryption potion while Sally prepared dinner.
• Sally served Tang Qi her failed Merada’s Beloved Potion, which tasted sweet at first and then left a horrifying aftertaste.
• Sally decided to try making the potion again, while Tang Qi worried about her lessons and his stomach.
• A powerful hypnotic aura swept over the area, and Tang Qi and Sally watched a bloated Giant emerge from the darkness and vomit before the church.

The Pale Corpse assembled seven powers from the Seven Progenitor Descendants and challenged the church’s armored warrior for the right to enter Count's Castle. The warrior defeated it in a destructive battle and returned to the church, while Tang Qi recognized him as an ascetic monk.

• The Pale Corpse vomited seven bodies and replaced its organs and bones with their supernatural powers.
• The Pale Corpse told the Light Heavy Armored Warrior that the church had to leave and that the descendants would enter if he failed to stop them.
• The armored warrior attacked, and the Pale Corpse swallowed him before they fought with their supernatural powers.
• The Pale Corpse unleashed its powers in a final explosion that destroyed the square and shattered the barriers, but both it and the armored warrior disappeared.
• A scarred Elder emerged from the ruins with the greatsword and walked back into the church.
• Tang Qi recognized the Elder as an ascetic monk and concluded that the church had won, though it would leave Count's Castle several days later.

Tang Qi tried to decrypt Norma's Sin and learned that Sally's blood was not Count blood, raising doubts about Diana Winston's parentage and the story behind the curse. As Scarlet Moon Day drew near, he continued breaking the knife's powerful seal while tensions in Winston Town erupted into war after the church relocated.

• Tang Qi used a Decryption Potion made with Sally's blood on Norma's Sin, but the attempt failed because the potion lacked Count bloodline.
• Tang Qi began using his Mental Power and Furnace Power to break the knife's seal, while the church announced its relocation and Winston Town's authorities planned a Pirate Carnival to move civilians out of danger.
• Arthur Wilson raged that the authorities had stolen his Pirate Carnival idea, and Tang Qi left the Golden Goat Antique Shop without resigning.
• Tang Qi had Sally use the Beloved Potion as an excuse to learn about Esmeralda from the Tree Fiend, while he continued analyzing Norma's Sin and prepared backup plans.
• Two days before Scarlet Moon Day, the Elder left the relocated church, and war erupted on Main Street as soon as he disappeared.

The Twelve Progenitor Descendants destroyed the church and uncovered Diana Winston’s corpse, using it to reveal that Sally was an Immortal and their true target. As the Eye of Vitt exposed supernatural beings across Winston Town, Tang Qi hid himself and Sally inside the Corroder’s Stomach Pouch.

• The Immortal Council and Seven Progenitor Descendants drove intruders from the castle and battled inside the church.
• Their clash demolished the church and uncovered a grave containing the corpse of Diana Winston, an Immortal who had died after a god’s parasitism was forcibly removed.
• The twelve Progenitor Powers opened a gateway, and the Eye of Vitt emerged with Diana’s Corpse, revealing disguises throughout Winston Town.
• Tang Qi realized the descendants were targeting Sally because she was another Immortal, and the Eye of Vitt’s moonlight began approaching their apartment.
• Tang Qi used the Corroder’s Stomach Pouch to hide himself and Sally, while a shadow dragged the pouch into the kitchen.

Tang Qi and Sally broke the seal on Norma’s Sin and were pulled into an illusion revealing Norma’s past. The vision ended as Norma met naval officer Samuel Winston, who took her aboard his ship.

• Tang Qi and Sally returned to Winston Town after escaping the Immortal Council’s search, and Tang Qi saw the authorities concealing the ruined church with a Curio.
• Tang Qi and Sally replenished their strength, then Tang Qi used Furnace Power to break the seal on Norma’s Sin.
• Norma’s Sin drew Tang Qi and Sally into an illusion showing Norma’s mistreatment by the townspeople and her killing of her parents before fleeing a burning town.
• Norma boarded a slave ship to escape without identification, where she encountered Samuel Winston after the navy raided the ship.
• Samuel Winston took Norma aboard as his pet.

Tang Qi and Sally witnessed the Immortal Fleet’s doomed expedition and the transformation of Norma into a new Samuel Winston. As the new Samuel left the ship, the narrator welcomed them into “My World.”

• The narrator explained that Samuel Winston took Norma as his pet before spending his fortune to form a fleet and search for an Immortal.
• Samuel’s fleet found an uncharted island, where a powerful native woman killed him with a spear and devastated the expedition.
• After the surviving crew claimed Norma as spoils, Norma ate Samuel’s corpse and emerged wearing his identity.
• Tang Qi and Sally watched the Immortal return to port with the new Samuel, and a hostile voice welcomed them to “My World.”

Tang Qi and Sally were trapped in Norma’s illusion world, where she ruled as a god and forced them to relive her past. After repeated resets brought them closer to Norma’s life, they realized she might force them to play Norma and Samuel Winston.

• Tang Qi recognized the plump figure in the palace as Norma’s discarded initial personality, and Norma welcomed him and Sally into a magically created banquet.
• When Tang Qi and Sally refused to stay with Norma forever, she transformed into a masked figure and dragged them into a replay of her past as participants.
• Tang Qi and Sally experienced repeated resets as townsfolk and intervened in Norma’s life, but each attempt to change her path caused the illusion to restart.
• The resets assigned Tang Qi and Sally increasingly intimate roles until they became Norma’s parents, and they feared they would next be made to play Norma and Samuel Winston.