Chapter Summaries

Tang Qi received Class C Authority from the World Tree Foundation, then learned that a message about the Rubber Fruit he needed had reached the Old Tavern. The message invited him to the Great Amazon Jungle to help an old wizard’s tribe fight a Sea Monster, leaving Tang Qi skeptical of their claim that he was a prophesied savior.

• Tang Qi read the World Tree Foundation’s letter of thanks and put away his new Class C Authority card.
• After a day of forging the Queen Serrana, Tang Qi watched the students and teachers compete in Dragonheart Castle’s lower district and reflected on the school’s growth.
• Gluttony produced Tang Qi’s Mysterious Seal, which told him that his bounty for a Rubber Fruit had yielded results.
• Tang Qi went to the Old Tavern, where a waiter gave him a bloodstained arrowhead carrying information from an old wizard.
• Tang Qi touched the arrowhead and saw the Rubber Fruit, then learned that the old wizard had invited him to help his tribe resist a Sea Monster in the Great Amazon Jungle in exchange for the fruit.
• Tang Qi questioned the old wizard’s claim that the invited Transcendents were prophesied saviors.

Tang Qi sought Lady Dorothy’s divination before deciding to travel to the Blazing Southern Continent in pursuit of Rubber Fruit. After preparing the school for his absence, he arranged for Lei to book his flight to Sweetwater City.

• Tang Qi investigated the old witch’s offer and consulted Savoy, who assured him that Sweetwater City’s Transcendental Market was trustworthy.
• Tang Qi used the Leader’s Token to awaken Lady Dorothy and asked her to divine the danger of his planned journey.
• Lady Dorothy foretold temptation and enemies coveting Tang Qi’s power, but suggested he could overcome them and gain a reward.
• Tang Qi decided to accept the invitation, put the Queen Serrana’s construction on hold, and entrusted Eva with school defenses while leaving Night Beast and the Wilnas Sprite behind.
• Tang Qi departed with Gluttony and asked Lei to book a midnight flight to Sweetwater City.

Tang Qi visited the Old Tavern, where he met Kriyas, Jensen’s Tyros Fiend cousin, and recruited her to teach at the Witch School. He then accepted a delivery commission involving an arrowhead and traveled with Gluttony to Mihuang Airport, preparing to continue his journey.

• Tang Qi met Jensen and his friends at the Old Tavern, where Jensen asked to leave the Manor Bureau and join the Witch School to escape an unwanted visitor.
• Kriyas arrived, clung to Jensen, and revealed that she had come to look after him, leaving him embarrassed and unable to resist her affection.
• Tang Qi invited Kriyas to teach elective courses at the Witch School, and she accepted after seeing images of Lake Island Secret Realm and Dragonheart Castle.
• Tang Qi collected the arrowhead for a commission and left the bounty on the Rubber Fruit active.
• Tang Qi collected his tickets from Lei, opened a portal, and arrived at Mihuang Airport with Gluttony.

Tang Qi traveled by plane to Sweetwater City and stopped a wraith from possessing a boy aboard the flight. After learning the boy had visited a haunted house on Medley Street, Tang Qi assured his family that he was safe and continued the journey.

• Tang Qi boarded a late-night flight to Sweetwater City and began meditating after takeoff.
• A wraith possessed a little boy, prompting Tang Qi to pose as a doctor and use an illusion to calm the passengers.
• Tang Qi pulled the wraith from the boy, bound it with Golden Flame, and burned it away.
• The boy's father told Tang Qi that the children had explored a haunted house at Number Thirty, Medley Street the day before.
• Tang Qi reassured the family that the boy and his friends were safe, advised the parents to give the boy more homework, and returned to his seat.

Tang Qi arrived in Sweetwater City and joined the Flesh Beach television crew so he could interview Pirou about Kituga culture. He left with the information he wanted, while Giselle’s hopes of guiding him went unfulfilled.

• Tang Qi arrived at Sweetwater City Airport and recalled the address of the Transcendental Market at Erebus Haunted House.
• The Flesh Beach crew approached tourists, and Giselle tried to recruit Tang Qi by offering to guide him around Sweetwater City.
• Tang Qi noticed Pirou’s Kituga tattoos and approached him, using an Illusion Incantation to speak in Kituga.
• Tang Qi introduced himself as an author, offered Pirou three Divine Grace coins, and arranged an interview about Kituga culture.
• Tang Qi interviewed Pirou during the television crew’s bus and beach activities, then left as Giselle complained that he would be alone forever.

Tang Qi learned from Pirou about Kituga’s massacre and its rebuilding under the shaman Namba, whom Tang suspected was the eerie old man inside the arrowhead. After considering Namba’s prophecy and whether he was one of its inheritors, Tang Qi got off the bus and entered a clothing store.

• Tang Qi reviewed Pirou’s account of Kituga, an ancient tribe whose leaders had planned to establish a trading city before a riot destroyed their vision.
• Tang Qi recalled Pirou’s memories of a Festival of Divine Descent that turned into a massacre, leaving survivors to find the tribe’s people transformed into terrifying living dead.
• Pirou said that Namba had led Kituga’s recovery and described the shaman’s claim that the massacre was a divine cleansing and his prophecy for the tribe.
• Tang Qi recognized that Namba was likely the eerie old shaman inside the arrowhead and wondered whether he was one of the prophecy’s inheritors.
• Tang Qi got off the bus on a different avenue and carried Gluttony into the Miracle Hand clothing store.

Tang Qi disguised himself as a wandering alchemist and entered Erebus Horror House, where he discovered that its thirteen horror rooms concealed a Transcendental Market. He explored the market and found supernatural goods for sale.

• Tang Qi wore a weathered alchemist outfit and traveled to Erebus Horror House to pursue becoming a Secret Medicine Master while investigating the Kituga Tribe’s prophecy.
• Tang Qi entered the horror house and exposed its receptionists’ monster act, earning a free experience.
• Tang Qi chose the Horror Factory and stepped beneath the Death Mining Drill, which transported him to a Transcendental Market after leaving a temporary mark on his hand.
• Tang Qi explored the market’s converted horror rooms and found a Pig-Shaped Fiend selling supernatural roasted pigs that temporarily increased strength and defense.

Tang Qi met the Kituga Tribe’s envoy, Cardo, and discovered that an ancient evil spirit had corrupted his soul. He traveled to an island where other invited supernatural beings had gathered, including two concealed Professional Level fighters, and continued to hide his own strength while assessing the situation.

• Tang Qi met Cardo in a private room at the Erebus market and learned that an evil spirit had irreversibly corrupted his soul.
• Cardo said the Kituga Tribe’s Namba had invited Tang Qi to help with a Sea Monster, and Tang Qi demanded ten Rubber Fruits and a living Demonic Rubber Tree before agreeing to judge the situation.
• Cardo accepted Tang Qi’s terms and took him by helicopter to an island where other invited supernatural beings had gathered.
• Tang Qi discovered that the twelve Kituga People waiting on the island were also corrupted by an evil spirit.
• Tang Qi identified a bald Yucatan Assassin and a red-haired Lost Female Warrior as concealed Professional Level beings, then hid his Furnace Magic Power and observed the others.

Tang Qi joined seven other superhumans on a dangerous journey into the Great Amazon Jungle to answer Namba’s invitation to the Kituga Tribe. There, he discovered that the witch doctor Namba had been completely fused with an Otherworldly Evil Seed, while the female adventurer silently urged him to keep up his disguise.

• Tang Qi assessed the invited superhumans and disguised himself as a curious novice Wandering Alchemist.
• Cardo led the eight guests in Toad Canoes through the jungle, where repeated attacks by unusually mutated creatures killed three Kituga guides.
• The group reached the Kituga settlement and saw its people wearing identical smiles, while some figures behind windows showed signs of warning and distress.
• Namba welcomed the guests as prophetic saviors and promised them rewards as the Kituga people knelt before him.
• Tang Qi identified Namba as an Otherworldly Evil Seed that had completely fused with the witch doctor, then declined to force further analysis.
• The female adventurer met Tang Qi’s eyes and telepathically told him not to reveal what he knew and to keep pretending.

Tang Qi and the other seven visitors learned that the Kituga Tribe needed them to stop an ancient Sea Monster called a Vissare, whose attacks had killed many warriors. Namba’s account matched an old legend involving eight companions, and Tang Qi recalled a secret medicine that could put Giant Demons to sleep.

• Tang Qi entered the Kituga Chieftain’s room with the others, recognized its valuable Insect Sac Wood, and sampled the Tribe’s supernatural feast.
• After the feast, Namba showed the visitors images of the Vissare emerging from the sea and attacking the Kituga Tribe three times.
• Namba explained that the monster threatened to invade Kituga and shared a prophecy calling for the inheritors of the Tribe’s ancient companions to destroy it.
• Namba revealed an old method for defeating such a monster, in which eight specialists weakened and restrained it before removing its eyes and power.
• Tang Qi recalled the formula for Giant Demon's Slumber, a secret medicine designed to put Giant Demons and similar creatures to sleep.

Tang Qi and Elder Mamba agreed to prepare secret medicines to test Namba’s prophecy, while the Kituga Tribe’s welcoming ritual revealed that its people were being transformed by evil seeds. Tang Qi received Rubber Fruits and materials to advance his secret medicine skills and prepare Giant Demon's Slumber, but he suspected the gathering was a dangerous game and stored two fruits with Gluttony.

• Tang Qi and Elder Mamba described secret medicines that could weaken or put monsters to sleep, and the eight inheritors agreed to judge the prophecy after seeing the potions work.
• Namba promised the materials and fruits Tang Qi and Elder Mamba needed, saying the monster might attack again in two days.
• During the bonfire ceremony, Tang Qi watched Namba’s incantation complete the infection and transformation of Kituga Tribe members.
• Cardo brought Tang Qi’s materials, including three fresh Rubber Fruits, and said Namba had agreed to provide ten fruits and one living Rubber Tree.
• Tang Qi realized the tribe and the invited supernatural beings were concealing mutual distrust, then had Gluttony swallow two Rubber Fruits for safekeeping.

Tang Qi prepared the Rubber Man Secret Medicine and advanced to Apprentice in the Primitive Secret Medicine School. He accepted an invitation from Namba and arrived at a council where seven other supernatural beings awaited.

• Tang Qi prepared the Rubber Man Secret Medicine, avoiding its repeated explosive attacks and its final attempt to strike him.
• Tang Qi touched the finished secret medicine and advanced to Apprentice in the Primitive Secret Medicine School.
• Tang Qi stored the secret medicine in Gluttony and planned to have it consume the excess materials in the Medicine Room.
• Tang Qi accepted a pale-green invitation from Namba and was pulled into a hazy world where seven supernatural beings had gathered.
• The other invitees gave Tang Qi little attention before turning toward the green-robed Witch from the Earth Mother Witch school.

Tang Qi joined the other Transcendentals in sharing suspicions about the Kituga Tribe and rejected the Earth Mother Witch’s tampered alliance contract. Two days later, as Tang Qi completed the Giant Demon's Slumber Secret Medicine, its strange colors and fragrance began burning the rot in Cardo and the others, while Namba watched.

• The Earth Mother Witch warned that the Kituga Tribe was rotting, and the Chakmo Beast Controller said the tribe was luring the Transcendentals into a trap.
• The female adventurer proposed demanding their rewards from Namba in advance, and the group agreed to pressure him together.
• Tang Qi discovered that the Gadoia Contract exempted the Earth Mother Witch from some of its terms, so he refused to sign it.
• Tang Qi suspected the Kituga forbidden area held something connected to the evil spawn and decided it should not be opened and Visares should not be killed.
• Two days later, Tang Qi finished brewing the Giant Demon's Slumber Secret Medicine, and its colors and fragrance spread through the Kituga Tribe.
• Cardo and the kneeling Kituga People developed sizzling rotten spots when the medicine’s colors touched them, while Namba sealed their mouths.

Tang Qi concocted an excellent Giant Demon's Slumber Secret Medicine and secretly marked the Kituga People with Furnace Magic Power. Just as Namba and the other superhumans gathered to inspect the medicine, Visares arrived from the ocean and threw the tribe into panic.

• Tang Qi used Melks Whale Feces and Furnace Magic Power to complete the Giant Demon's Slumber Secret Medicine, which could put Visares to sleep but would not affect creatures tied to fire, light, or magma.
• Tang Qi confirmed the medicine's excellent quality and used his Furnace Magic control to mark every Kituga person except Namba.
• Namba and the other seven superhumans arrived, and Tang Qi revealed that the medicine could contaminate the sea and make Visares sleep.
• Namba sniffed the secret medicine and praised its fragrance, while several others agreed with him.
• A violent tremor and roar came from the ocean, and Namba announced that Visares had arrived as the Kituga People fled in terror.

Tang Qi and the others witnessed Visares, an ancient artificial creature, attack the Kituga Tribe and helped Namba use Giant Demon's Slumber to put it to sleep. After Visares sank beneath the sea, Namba turned to the group and demanded they fulfill their agreement.

• Namba took command and led Tang Qi and the others with the Kituga army to confront Visares as it climbed the cliff.
• Tang Qi identified Visares as an ancient artificial creation of the Ancient Mayans acting on a primitive command.
• Namba blocked Visares's blood-red beam and used his magic to force it back into the sea.
• Eight Kituga People leapt from the cliff with two cauldrons of potion, and Visares crushed them before the potion burst over it.
• The potion corroded Visares while the Melks Whale's song from Giant Demon's Slumber made it drowsy, and it sank beneath the sea.
• Namba turned to Tang Qi and the others and told them to fulfill their agreement.

Tang Qi and the others signed Namba’s contract, took their rewards, and descended into the sea to attack the sleeping Visares. The six bound and wounded the Giant, and the Earth Mother Witch’s spell began dissolving it as it awakened.

• The Earth Mother Witch demanded that Namba pay the group’s rewards in advance, and Namba offered a lenient Kudolu Contract requiring them to make one attempt against Visares.
• Tang Qi and the other seven signed the contract, collected their rewards, and Tang Qi used Gluttony to preserve the withering Demonic Rubber Tree.
• The eight descended into the silent sea, where Tang Qi and the Elder from the Mamba School stayed back while the other six began the attack.
• The Jungle Puppeteer transformed the Stone of Nabop into a Shimmerscale Gem Serpent that bound Visares, and Timothy destroyed the Blood Eyes on its wings.
• The Beast Controller summoned fish to strip Visares to its skeleton, then the Transcendental Warrior and Rena Swinton struck it with spears and a lightning sword.
• Visares awakened and blasted Rena Swinton and the Transcendental Warrior away, but the Earth Mother Witch’s Magic Array suppressed it and began dissolving its body.

Tang Qi and the other superhumans escaped a resurrected Visares Legion by entering the gateway beneath the Ancient Mayan pyramid, while Namba revealed that the Kituga People planned to use one of them to break a seal and bring their ancestors back to the land.

• The dead Visares triggered explosions that uncovered an underwater graveyard and awakened dozens of reserve Visares, while a vortex opened around the Ancient Mayan ruins.
• The Visares attacked the eight superhumans with a grid of bloody beams, and the Beast Controller was killed while trying to flee.
• Tang Qi and the other six survivors entered the black-light gateway beneath the pyramid to escape the Visares Legion.
• Namba ordered the Kituga People to prepare a ritual altar and told Cardo that one of the eight could open the seal needed for their family’s return.
• Namba’s green mist revealed an ancient race passing through a gateway and descending upon the primitive continent to prey on humans.

Tang Qi and the other Transcendents entered the ancient city of Teotim, where they fled a Visares Legion and discovered the creatures could not attack the city’s temples. Tang Qi followed Rena Swinton into a temple and found a damaged statue of the Mayan goddess Serxi, whom Rena identified as a traitor.

• Tang Qi and six surviving Transcendents arrived in a jungle ruin filled with ancient buildings and floating black ash.
• Rena Swinton identified the ruin as the Mayan holy city of Teotim and explained its connection to the Vira People and ancient Mayan civilization.
• A Visares forced the portal open, and the Visares Legion charged into the ruin after the Transcendents.
• The Transcendents split up and ran into Teotim, noticing that the Visares would not attack its temples.
• Tang Qi followed Rena Swinton into a temple and saw a battered statue of Serxi, whom Rena called a former beloved goddess who had become a traitor.

Tang Qi and Rena Swinton investigated the Mayan ruins and raced toward the corrupted Tower of the Sky, which held clues to the Mayans’ disappearance. As the Visares Legion closed in, Tang Qi learned that the tower periodically purified itself.

• Tang Qi identified the temple’s Curios as fragile objects that would turn to dust outside the ruins and discovered that Serxi’s statue had been desecrated.
• When Visares attacked the temple, Rena Swinton grabbed Tang Qi and hurled him outside to save him, and they fled deeper into Teotim City.
• Rena Swinton told the other Supernatural individuals that the Tower of the Sky might conceal the truth about the Mayans’ disappearance and a way out, drawing them toward it.
• Tang Qi noticed Timothy secretly following them while the other Supernatural individuals stopped to collect Curios from the city’s buildings.
• Tang Qi, Rena Swinton, and Timothy encountered the grotesquely corrupted Tower of the Sky and recoiled from its contaminating aura.
• Tang Qi learned from an Information Fragment that the tower underwent self-purification every ten minutes as the Visares Legion drew closer.

The Visares Legion fused into a devastating Blood Cannon that selected and killed the Earth Mother Witch, forcing the intruders to flee. Tang Qi revealed that the Sky Tower could soon be purified, and the Elder Mamba stopped to prepare a countermeasure as the others considered joining forces.

• The Visares disassembled and merged into a Mechanical Cannon that targeted the intruders according to their strength.
• The Blood Cannon selected the Earth Mother Witch, who split into three bodies to escape, but its blasts killed all three.
• Rena Swinton and Timothy fled toward the sinkhole while the Puppeteer, Elder Mamba, and Haisen chose separate routes.
• The cannon targeted Haisen, who turned to fight it with a storm of spears.
• Tang Qi told the group that the Sky Tower's purification power would soon make it a safe route.
• The Elder Mamba agreed to delay the cannon's detection and pulled out a bottle of bubbling Black Liquid.