Chapter Summaries

Tang Qi recovered after helping the Hannahs and reviewed his plans as Melada Special Education School’s new headmaster. Reading about the Furnace Witch lineage, he learned its power came from sacrificing evil gods—and that this habit had led to the lineage’s destruction, leaving him to wonder whether he had chosen a dangerous path.

• Tang Qi meditated in his Library Tower residence until his mental power and minor injury recovered.
• Tang Qi considered his duties at the school, his plans for his allies, and the need to strengthen himself, especially by advancing Furnace Witch.
• Tang Qi searched the Professional Secrets Section and found three books about the Furnace Witch lineage.
• Tang Qi dismissed The Faith of the Furnace as excessive praise and learned from Complete Record of Furnace Witches Seeking Death that Furnace Witches gained power by provoking and sacrificing evil gods.
• Tang Qi read How Did the Furnace Go Out? and learned that united followers of more than a dozen evil gods had exterminated the lineage, then wondered whether he had joined a doomed path.

Tang Qi reviewed the risks of being a Furnace Witch and resolved to reach Professional Level while concealing his identity. He visited Black Beech in the Lake Island Secret Realm and exposed its impossible test, but the creature refused to provide intelligence without a Witch token.

• Tang Qi decided to strengthen his Furnace Witch abilities quickly and find a way to thwart divination.
• Tang Qi settled Sally's mother, saw off his guests, and chose to use the school's stable period to pursue Professional Level.
• Tang Qi traveled to the misty forest on Lake Island and examined the Black Beech, a supernatural creature allied with the Melada Witch Group.
• Black Beech offered free intelligence to anyone who could spot the different crow among its three hundred identical Red-Eyed Crows.
• Tang Qi realized the test was a sham and guessed Black Beech had invented it out of boredom.
• Black Beech demanded a token from the Witches before agreeing to provide Tang Qi with intelligence.

Tang Qi used Black Beech’s token to search Mihuang City for mysterious incidents, filtering out those its warnings marked too dangerous. He found a lakeside villa in Hills Village inhabited by dozens of ghosts and traveled there, where lights shone inside the old house.

• Tang Qi asked Black Beech for a map of ongoing mysterious incidents near the school, and Black Beech gave him a ten-year Beechwood Token.
• Tang Qi reviewed the school’s responsibilities and returned to the Library Tower to activate the token and inspect its map of Mihuang City.
• Tang Qi rejected incidents marked with crimson danger warnings, including several associated with Green Dragon Ridge Lake.
• Tang Qi found an unwarned report of a lakeside villa in Hills Village where ghosts killed everyone who entered, and opened a doorway to the village.
• Tang Qi saw an old house by the lake with lights glowing inside.

Tang Qi arrived at Hills Village and encountered the Coleman family, a couple seeking recognition as exorcists and their daughter Lily, whose unusual powers made her a natural exorcist. As the Colemans began investigating the haunted Lakeside Oak House, Tang Qi discovered a murderous tree nearby and turned toward the villa when a scream came from inside.

• Tang Qi inspected the Coleman family and learned that Edel and Irene were attempting their sixth exorcism while their daughter Lily possessed a rare, unstable supernatural constitution.
• The Colemans drove to Lakeside Oak House, where Roger Albert and his family pleaded for help with the spirits tormenting them.
• Lily sensed dozens of malicious presences inside the villa and felt especially threatened by a locked hatch leading to the basement.
• Tang Qi approached a strange oak tree, burned through its noose-like vine, and identified it as a dying Suicide Oak tainted by a powerful resentful spirit.
• A scream rang out from Lakeside Oak House, and Tang Qi turned toward the villa, now hidden beneath nearly black fog.

The Coleman Couple and Roger's Family were overwhelmed by the vengeful spirits inside Oak House, and Lily's strange powers began transforming everyone into moth-like creatures. A huge monster emerged from a hidden nest beneath the house and swallowed the spirits, but Tang Qi arrived and faced it.

• Irene forced the spirits to appear, and dozens of them battered the Coleman Couple while Roger's Family found themselves trapped inside Oak House.
• Lily screamed, unleashing black-and-white light that began transforming her and everyone it touched into moth-like creatures.
• A surge of resentment split Oak House open, revealing a root-woven nest filled with human remains and a towering, faceless vengeful spirit.
• The monster swallowed all the evil spirits and turned its attention to the living people.
• Tang Qi emerged from Oak Forest carrying a suitcase and confronted the monster, calling it a big fish.

Tang Qi killed a Resentful Demon and gained a large supply of fuel, but Lily’s uncontrolled transformation left her and nine others on the brink of becoming Mothmen. The chapter ended with the opposing powers inside Lily still balanced, and a single thought poised to decide their fate.

• Tang Qi identified the monster as a Resentful Demon and recognized that Lily’s powers were transforming her and the people around her.
• Tang Qi used a Body Control Spell on Lily as the Resentful Demon attacked, then shot the creature with Blood Python No. 1.
• The Resentful Demon split into more than a thousand pieces to escape, but Tang Qi burned every piece to ash.
• Tang Qi felt his progress surge after absorbing the Resentful Demon as fuel.
• Tang Qi examined Lily’s conflicting powers and realized that whichever side prevailed could determine what kind of Mothmen she and the nine others became.

Tang Qi restored Lily’s balance after her powers erupted, then agreed to enroll her at Melada Special Education School. Back at school, his Meditation Method advanced past fifty percent, and he chose to enhance Judgment.

• Tang Qi controlled Lily’s body and drew the powers of purification and chaos back into the insect pupae, ending her mutations and the spreading contamination.
• Tang Qi altered Roger’s Family’s memories, introduced himself to Edel and Irene, and agreed to enroll Lily at the school with a brief stay in the Quarantine Zone.
• Tang Qi returned to the Library Tower and entered meditation as his Meditation Method crossed the fifty-percent threshold.
• Tang Qi chose to enhance Judgment instead of acquiring the supporting spells of an orthodox Furnace Witch.

Tang Qi strengthened Judgment and decided to advance his Furnace Meditation Method by hunting for fuel. At an abandoned amusement park, he slaughtered its murderous clowns, then erased the memories of seven children who had witnessed the hunt.

• Tang Qi raised Judgment to its third stage and resolved to pursue Professional Level by devouring souls rather than exchanging merit for witchcraft.
• Tang Qi opened a Void Portal to an abandoned amusement park near Gale Village, where more than ten Murderous Clowns haunted the grounds.
• Seven children arrived to explore the amusement park, and Tang Qi immobilized them with a Body Control Spell before entering.
• The abandoned rides sprang to life as Tang Qi used blazing attacks to kill the clowns throughout the amusement park.
• Tang Qi warned the children to go home early, altered their memories, and vanished, leaving them with an unexplained fear of the park.

Tang Qi hunted Radiation Monsters, disguised mermaids, and Skin Monsters around Green Dragon Ridge Lake and Bliss Club. He returned through the Magic Array to Professor Eva and the Coleman Couple, carrying Gluttony and leaving the monsters dead behind him.

• Tang Qi appeared on a mountain trail and burned two Radiation Monsters that had chased three women, then entered their cave.
• Tang Qi destroyed the disguised mermaids in an abandoned factory pool, revealing their monstrous forms to the young men they had lured there.
• Tang Qi entered Bliss Club, identified its attractive patrons as Skin Monsters, and incinerated them with crimson flames.
• Tang Qi emerged from the Magic Array before Professor Eva, the Coleman Couple, and Lily, with Gluttony in hand and the monsters' corpses behind him.

Tang Qi cleared out the Skin Monsters at Bliss Club and strengthened his Crimson and Judgment abilities. When he visited Nydia, he discovered that a Nether Banshee was her Guardian Spirit and proposed a contract to protect the girl and restrain the spirit.

• Tang Qi killed the Skin Monsters at Bliss Club and told Professor Eva and the Coleman Couple he would keep clearing dangerous filth from Mihuang City.
• Tang Qi raised Crimson and Judgment to their third stage and visited Nydia in the Quarantine Zone.
• Tang Qi learned that Nydia's power came from a Nether Banshee who attacked anything she sensed as a threat to the girl.
• Tang Qi proposed a contract that would protect Nydia while limiting the Guardian Spirit's ability to kill, and the Banshee asked for one day to say goodbye to Nydia in a dream.

Tang Qi discovered that infant John was a Dream Eater whose uncontrolled power threatened anyone nearby, but he could not find a safe way to help him. After hunting monsters through the night, Tang Qi returned to the school and received a magical newspaper that revealed his identity and Gluttony on its front page.

• Tang Qi visited John in the Quarantine Zone and learned that the infant's Dream-Eating Spirit could trap nearby beings in eternal dreams and drain their life force.
• Tang Qi concluded that John could not be killed and left without finding a safe way to contain or remove his power.
• Tang Qi decided he needed to reach Professional Level and spent the night hunting evil Supernatural Creatures around Green Dragon Ridge Lake.
• Tang Qi returned to Dragonheart Castle at dawn and considered how he would lead Melada Special Education School.
• Professor Eva gave Tang Qi a magical newspaper that transformed into three-dimensional information, showing his silhouette and Gluttony on its front page.

Tang Qi read the Mysterious Daily’s report on his purge of evil strongholds, then advanced his Judgment ability after absorbing the creatures’ life force and souls. He paused his hunting to let Mihuang City’s Mystic Side adjust to his arrival and turned his attention to books and the problems facing his students, including Dream Eater John.

• Tang Qi watched the Mysterious Daily’s Witch News Anchor report that he had destroyed more than ten evil strongholds around the Lake Island Secret Realm.
• Tang Qi teased Professor Eva about the News Anchor she had seen, then entered the Library Tower’s Meditation Room.
• Tang Qi absorbed the energy from the creatures he had killed and advanced past seventy percent, raising Judgment to its fourth stage.
• Tang Qi reread the newspaper and concluded that its coverage and Raphael’s leaked analysis presented him as a powerful but not demigod-level headmaster.
• Tang Qi decided to lie low and give Mihuang City’s Mystic Side time to react before continuing his hunt.
• Tang Qi searched the library for books on dreams and life as he considered his students’ potential and the threat posed by Dream Eater John.

Tang Qi rescued Nydia from the Quarantine Zone and arranged for her to attend school at Dragonheart Castle, while the Nether Banshee agreed to a binding contract. He then began hunting the evil creatures around Green Dragon Ridge Lake, where a salvage crew encountered a ghostly ship rising from the water.

• Tang Qi learned from Doctor Lord's travelogue that escaping the Dream Realm required finding the self, but he remained unsure how to help baby John.
• Tang Qi brought Nydia to Dragonheart Castle, where Professor Eva and the caregivers welcomed her, and the Nether Banshee signed a contract restricting her ability to kill.
• The contract lowered Nydia's danger level from Level Five to Level Two, allowing her to attend classes normally.
• Tang Qi left the secret realm and surveyed Green Dragon Ridge Lake, where many chaotic evil creatures were fleeing after learning he had become Witch School's Headmaster.
• Tang Qi chose a salvage fleet as his next target, but its divers reported that a sunken ship had come back to life as a glowing whirlpool formed around its phantom.

As supernatural creatures fled Green Dragon Ridge Lake for Saint Martin Lake, Tang Qi prepared a surprise attack to eliminate several of the strongest among them at once. He unleashed a massive Core of the Sun that split into seven fireballs, and the targeted monsters began to resist.

• A salvage fleet watched ghosts, lake monsters, and other supernatural beings leave Green Dragon Ridge Lake, including the ghost liner Aeolus.
• Supernaturals gathered to observe the migration and discussed the power of the Melada Witches' new leader and the threat the migrating creatures posed to Martin City.
• Tang Qi surveyed the creatures from the sky and decided to attack several powerful targets at once rather than hunt them individually.
• Tang Qi formed a Core of the Sun from his Furnace Power and sent it crashing toward Green Dragon Ridge Lake.
• The Core split into seven fireballs, prompting the Aeolus's passengers to raise a curse barrier, mermaid-like monsters to summon a wave, a giant jellyfish to divide and flee, and a corpse giant to confront the flames.

Tang Qi annihilated the seven monsters of Green Dragon Ridge Lake with a devastating flame attack, establishing himself as the lake’s new master in the eyes of Mihuang City’s supernatural community. The immense harvest pushed his cultivation into a Furnace Witch Professional Trial, and he was drawn into a mysterious universe of dying suns.

• Tang Qi’s seven meteor fireballs overwhelmed the monsters in Green Dragon Ridge Lake, and supernatural observers watched the lake fall silent as he disappeared from view.
• Tang Qi returned to the Meditation Room, absorbed the monsters’ souls, advanced his Golden Furnace Meditation Method past ninety percent, and raised Crimson to the fourth stage and Judgment to the fifth.
• Tang Qi began his long-awaited Furnace Witch Professional Trial, and the Master of the Furnace swept him through the Ruins of Darkness into a mysterious realm.
• Tang Qi found himself among enormous, nearly extinguished suns, and an Embers Sun pulled him inside.

Tang Qi passed the Furnace Witch trial and began merging with the Sun Furnace’s true power, only to discover the transformation would bind him to the slumbering Master of the Furnace. To preserve his self without stopping the irreversible fusion, he cast the Soul Splitting Curse and was overcome by agony.

• Tang Qi entered the Ash World, learned he had to clear the Dead Star Venom and reignite the Sun Furnace, and was attacked by the contaminating creatures.
• Tang Qi used his enhanced Furnace Eyes and the Sun Furnace’s critical surge to destroy the Dead Star Venom and complete the trial.
• Tang Qi discovered that fusion would brand him with a Furnace Imprint and make him a follower unable to refuse the Master of the Furnace’s demands.
• Tang Qi chose to preserve his self while allowing the irreversible transformation to continue, and cast the Soul Splitting Curse.
• Tang Qi screamed as the curse unleashed extreme pain from the depths of his soul.

Tang Qi used the Soul Splitting Curse to separate his own soul and let the Furnace Imprint bind to the detached piece, then plunged into an Embers Sun to claim its power. He awoke transformed by the Furnace Power as the Spirit Tide returned to Origin Blue Star, having reached the Professional Level as a Furnace Witch.

• Tang Qi painfully split away soul fragments bearing traces of the Original Owner and Old Morgan, creating a second Tang Qi soul.
• Tang Qi let the Furnace Imprint bind to the separated soul, then swallowed it without fusing it back into himself.
• Tang Qi threw himself into the deepest part of the Furnace, reigniting an Embers Sun nearing extinction.
• Tang Qi awoke in the Library Tower as golden Furnace Power remade his body and he glimpsed the returning Spirit Tide surrounding Origin Blue Star.
• Tang Qi checked his skills and saw that he had reached the Professional Level as a Furnace Witch.

After becoming a Professional Level Furnace Witch, Tang Qi tested his new Furnace Power on Gluttony and a bullet, then decided to seek out a powerful opponent for a spar. He opened a Void Portal to an ancient castle, planning to hide his new level and claim he had learned a skill.

• Tang Qi recalled that he had used soul fragments to bear the Furnace Master's brand, but the procedure cost him many of the Original Owner's and Old Morgan's memories and left his soul briefly weakened.
• Tang Qi infused Gluttony with Furnace Power, expanding its Pocket Space to nearly half the size of a football field.
• Tang Qi forged a Furnace Explosive Bullet with golden flame and confirmed that it could harm creatures of any faction, with doubled damage against Chaotic and Evil creatures.
• Tang Qi ruled out testing his combat strength at Green Dragon Ridge Lake and thought of an opponent who was close to Professional Level.
• Tang Qi opened a Void Portal to an ancient castle, intending to conceal his advancement and tell his opponent he wanted to spar after learning a new skill.

Tang Qi visited Colson Manor, where Jennifer, a young scholar who admired him, guided him toward Old Colson’s laboratory. He corrected her research on the Blasphemous Blood Curse and identified the god it had killed as Thun, leaving Jennifer shocked by the gap between his revelation and historical records.

• Tang Qi arrived at Colson Manor and used his William Family badge to clear the security alert.
• Jennifer welcomed Tang Qi, canceled the planned ceremony, and offered to take him to Old Colson because Jensen and Raphael were away on a mission.
• Tang Qi realized Jennifer was a young scholar who admired him and noticed her curiosity as they toured the Manor Bureau.
• Jennifer asked Tang Qi which ancient god had been killed by the Blasphemous Blood Curse, listing several possibilities.
• Tang Qi said the god was Thun, and Jennifer was shocked because the historical records she had consulted contradicted him.
• Jennifer recalled how her father’s admiration for the Immortal Count had survived the revelations that shattered his understanding of the pirate hero.

Tang Qi discussed his new Ralph Witchcraft with Old Colson and Jennifer, then joined them when Jensen brought in the ailing actress Elizabeth. As Elizabeth began transforming into a monster, Tang Qi diagnosed her as pregnant, leaving Jensen stunned.

• Tang Qi visited Old Colson and helped him develop healing secret medicines while Jennifer listened.
• Tang Qi revealed that he had inherited Ralph Witchcraft and intended to establish a new Witch School.
• Old Colson and Jennifer received word that something had happened to Jensen, and Tang Qi agreed to go with them.
• Jensen arrived carrying actress Elizabeth, whose body was wasting away and sprouting golden scales.
• Old Colson found that Elizabeth’s transformation could not readily be separated from her, and Tang Qi said she was pregnant.