Chapter Summaries

Tang Qi fought Mevonatur after the king merged completely with the Emperor Beast, using his Furnace Witch King avatar and secret protection to batter the monster. He sacrificed Teglas to stop Mevonatur from escaping, then rose from the sea as a Mystic Side army arrived at Knova Archipelago State.

• Mevonatur unleashed the Emperor Beast’s full power and attacked Tang Qi with six streams of Red Dragon Breath.
• Tang Qi drew Mevonatur’s attacks toward the sea, then used Furnace power to break through the Dragon Breath and hammer the monster apart.
• Teglas dragged the battered Mevonatur and the Empress Beast toward the ocean depths, trying to save its master.
• Tang Qi transformed into a Furnace Meteor and pierced Teglas beneath the sea, crying “Sacrifice!”
• More than a hundred thousand residents and tourists awoke as Tang Qi rose from the seabed and a Mystic Side army arrived.

Tang Qi learned that governments worldwide planned to reveal the Mystic Side and begin a new era, then formed plans to expand his influence through the Furnace Witches and Dream Witches. He began activating the Furnace Witches across the Divine Eagle Federation to build a new Furnace Legion.

• Thomas Berenson thanked Tang Qi for rescuing Knova Archipelago State and confirmed that Tang would become chief adviser to the Investigation Bureau.
• Chadwick told Tang Qi that governments worldwide would jointly reveal the Mystic Side and gradually declassify its hidden history.
• Tang Qi returned to the Dreamland and noted that his avatar had accumulated fifty-two Sun Merits.
• Tang Qi planned to expand the Furnace Witches into a powerful legion, grow the Dream Witches, and use his new government positions to shape supernatural rules.
• Tang Qi and his avatar looked across the Divine Eagle Federation, and forty ordinary-looking people in Hawknest City felt radiant flames awaken within them.

Tang Qi arrived at Eagleheart Palace to lead the president’s Mystic Side Consultant Group and learned about the palace’s restored Dark Age features. He met the Federation’s assembled scholars, whose intense curiosity prompted him to invite their questions.

• Tang Qi entered Eagleheart Palace after passing the guards’ supernatural inspection.
• Agent Emily guided Tang Qi through the palace and explained its history, magical defenses, and notable locations.
• Tang Qi passed a stricter clearance check and entered the Binossus Study Hall, where the presidential consultants had gathered.
• Rose Madeline greeted Tang Qi, and he recognized the diverse scholars’ specialized occult knowledge.
• Tang Qi asked the scholars what they wanted to know, and they immediately bombarded him with questions.

Tang Qi exchanged knowledge with the scholars at Binossus Study Hall and learned the official account of why humanity concealed the Mystic Side, though the truth behind the Mysterious Meteor and Great Cataclysm remained unknown. He then began summoning the Federation’s Furnace Witches and establishing his influence, starting with Messer City.

• Tang Qi promised to share his knowledge with the scholars and traded occult information with them, including details about the Ship of Fools and several scholarly schools.
• Tang Qi read declassified materials and learned that humanity had sealed away supernatural power after a Mysterious Meteor appeared, while people gradually forgot the Transcendental World.
• Tang Qi wondered about the meteor, the Great Cataclysm, and the Origin Divine Race, but gained no answers.
• Tang Qi used the Book of Nothingness in the Dreamland to control his Dream Master's Body and connect with his avatar aboard the Ship of Fools.
• Tang Qi and Tang Qi Number Two identified forty gathering points across the Federation and began summoning Furnace Witches to form a Furnace Legion.
• Tang Qi opened a passage from the Ship of Fools to the first gathering point in Messer City.

Tang Qi traveled among four muster points to gather new Furnace Witches, while Klaus Lovich, Ailey, Leon, and Mavrock each encountered trouble or an unusual distraction. The chapter ended with Mavrock declaring that he wanted to marry the woman he had rescued.

• Klaus Lovich explored Mysterious Valley until Tang Qi Number Two pulled him away and assigned him to gather new members around Messer City.
• Tang Qi cast Life Curse at the Messer City muster point, sending thirty-nine Flame Sparrows to find potential Furnace Witches.
• At White Whale Mountain, Ailey tried to fish for a White Whale Behemoth, and Tang Qi sent out five Flame Sparrows.
• Leon fought Radiation Fiends while driving a bus of young nuns, then Tang Qi brought him to the Jupiter Town muster point and sent out twenty-one Flame Sparrows.
• In City of Sin, Mavrock carried a young married woman through a casino while fleeing enforcers, jumped through a high-rise window with her, and told Tang Qi he wanted to marry her.

Tang Qi used his avatar to gather Furnace Witches in Kallen City while his true body devised a way to bypass Origin Star’s rejection of foreign divinity. He seeded Dream Threads across Mihuang State, creating new observation and influence nodes, and began extending the process further.

• Mavrock placed an unconscious young woman in a living-person capsule as Tang Qi Number Two finished casting the Life Curse and sent twenty-nine Flame Sparrows to find Furnace Witches.
• Tang Qi Number Two reached Kallen City, where Annie Fox had beaten a bar full of armed cowboys, and they headed toward a nearby Ghost City to gather more Furnace Witches.
• Tang Qi tested Origin Star’s rejection with his Dream Body and discovered that its force threatened to destroy his Divinity Tentacle as it probed the planet.
• Tang Qi used Omniscience to follow the lights of his avatar and Flame Sparrows, then split his Dream Tentacle into threads that slipped through the rejection and reached Mihuang State.
• Dream Threads formed nodes in White City, Warrenburg, Pontiac City, Amber Town, Sooke City, and Bay City, allowing Tang Qi to observe those places and potentially recruit dependents or interfere there.
• Tang Qi began sending a second Divinity Tentacle toward Origin Star to expand the network of nodes.

Tang Qi spread Dream nodes across the Divine Eagle Federation while gathering the Furnace Legion, gaining a dangerous, near-omniscient view of the regions he covered. He broke free from the state when fading Guiding Radiances revealed that someone was trying to sacrifice a Furnace Witch.

• Tang Qi lit nodes across Malas State, where Ailey and five Furnace Witches gathered, and across Lori State, where Leon received nineteen witches.
• Tang Qi continued spreading nodes through other states, awakening strange changes in haunted sites, creatures, objects, and people.
• Tang Qi realized the growing network let him perceive and potentially devastate much of the Federation, while contamination in the Book of Nothingness began to rise.
• Dozens of weakening Guiding Radiances pulled Tang Qi out of his near-omniscient state.
• Tang Qi recognized that someone was attempting to sacrifice a Furnace Witch and grew angry.

Tang Qi discovered that the Furnace Witches had been targeted by the Family of Myriad Spirits' Filth, which had ambushed Happy Fisher and the other witches in Delaware City Hall. Tang Qi Number Two arrived as the evil gods began sacrificing them and identified the attackers, but the Furnace Witches remained trapped and under attack.

• Tang Qi learned his subordinates were in danger and sent his avatar toward the incident in Delaware City.
• Happy Fisher and thirty-one Furnace Witches were ambushed inside a mirrored version of Delaware City Hall by a supernatural organization.
• A parasitized wizard tortured a young Furnace Witch, and Happy realized the enemies were luring the Furnace Witch King into a trap.
• Filthy-colored beams immobilized the Furnace Witches as parasitized hosts prepared to kill them.
• Tang Qi Number Two arrived aboard the Ship of Fools, resisted the corruption with Furnace Flame, and identified the attackers as the Family of Myriad Spirits' Filth.

Tang Qi confronted the Collector, a filthy spirit who wielded divine powers scavenged from other gods, and overcame his attacks with Furnace Witch King magic. The Collector then surrounded Tang Qi with hundreds of manifestations and demanded his body and Furnace power.

• Tang Qi recognized the descended spirits as members of the Family of Myriad Spirits' Filth, and his disgust drew their attention.
• The Collector appeared, introduced himself, and attacked Tang Qi with the collected powers of imprisonment, sleep, disease, nightmares, thunder, and darkness.
• Tang Qi identified the Collector's weakness, burned through his stolen powers, and struck him with the Furnace Hammer.
• Tang Qi entered the Magic Array and incinerated the eight parasitized pale wizards, then kicked away the wizard possessed by the Plague Green Rat.
• Delaware City Hall shifted around Tang Qi as hundreds of the Collector's filthy manifestations surrounded him and demanded his body and Furnace power.

Tang Qi turned the tables on The Collector and the evil spirits by freeing Happy Fisher and summoning Furnace Witches from across the battlefield. The gathered Furnace Legion advanced on the weakened spirits, who recognized the force that had once terrorized the Chaotic Evil Faction.

• Tang Qi burned away The Collector’s attacking figures with Furnace Flame while judging that the Collector and its evil spirits had weakened on Origin Star.
• The Collector ordered the evil spirits to attack the thirty-one captured Furnace Witches, and Happy Fisher was about to be devoured by a giant maggot.
• Tang Qi cast Crimson to trap the evil spirits in the Illusion World briefly, then opened teleportation doorways through the changing reliefs of Delaware City Hall.
• Klaus Lovich, Annie Fox, Ailey, Leon, and other Furnace Witches arrived through the doorways, joining Happy and the captive witches.
• Hundreds of Furnace Witches linked their power as Flame Emissaries and advanced on the trembling evil spirits, who remembered the Furnace Legion’s past might.

Tang Qi summoned hundreds of Furnace Witches to trap and overwhelm the Family of Myriad Spirits' Filth, but the Collector revealed a fragment of Origin Metal and gained War Divinity. The chapter ended with the Collector attacking Tang Qi and beginning to consume the fragment, putting his avatar in mortal danger.

• Tang Qi summoned five hundred and forty-nine Furnace Witches, who transformed City Hall into a blazing battlefield and drove the evil spirits into panic.
• Tang Qi became a Furnace Body and sealed the passage to the Universe of Myriad Spirits' Filth, ordering the witches to sacrifice every trapped evil spirit.
• The Collector confronted Tang Qi and pulled a corroded fragment of Origin Metal from their chest.
• Tang Qi recognized the fragment as armor from the Origin Divine Race, then attacked the Collector as they began consuming it.
• The Collector gained War Divinity, crushed Tang Qi's avatar with a blow, and swallowed the Origin Metal while declaring that Tang Qi would become their treasure.

Tang Qi’s avatar was dragged into the Boundless Mystery and brutally beaten by the Collector, whose stolen divine powers were fueled by poisoned Origin Metal. As the Collector weakened toward death, Tang Qi forced it into a passage to the Furnace Master’s core, where it was incinerated, and two objects were spat back out.

• Tang Qi learned that the Collector had consumed corroded Origin Metal and would die from Origin Poison within ten breaths, even as it gained three powerful divine powers.
• Tang Qi carried the transforming Collector away from Delaware City Hall aboard the Ship of Fools and ordered the Furnace Legion to clean up the battlefield.
• The Collector used its divine powers to overwhelm and repeatedly batter Tang Qi Number Two in the Boundless Mystery while curious creatures watched.
• As the Collector’s powers declined, Tang Qi exchanged merits for a passage to the Furnace Master’s core and counterattacked with his Furnace Body.
• Tang Qi Number Two forced the weakened Collector into the passage, which incinerated it, then spat out two objects.

Tang Qi examined the Curios produced by the Furnace, including a key and bag belonging to the deceased Collector, and returned to Delaware City. There, he let Klaus Lovich trick the other Furnace Witches into sacrificing foul-smelling evil spirits, leaving the Master of the Furnace furious and the Witches blackened by smoke.

• Tang Qi obtained a Sphere of Peeping Secrets, a Filthy Secret Key, and the Collector's Cloth Bag from the Furnace passage.
• Tang Qi healed his avatar and returned to Delaware City as the surviving mysterious creatures fled.
• Klaus Lovich and the first Furnace team sacrificed a dying Plague Green Rat, drawing a furious roar from the Master of the Furnace despite earning merit.
• Tang Qi realized the Master of the Furnace could no longer afford to reject sacrifices after being locked away, and chose not to stop the other Witches from offering foul-smelling creatures.
• Klaus Lovich persuaded the other Furnace Witches that the Master liked the sacrifices, and they offered more creatures while Tang Qi laughed.
• Tang Qi dismissed the Furnace Witches and left Klaus Lovich surrounded by his blackened companions.

After expanding the Dreamland, Tang Qi considered Diana’s uncertain gestation and prepared to claim The Collector’s ownerless collections. He entered the Universe of Myriad Spirits’ Filth and found himself sinking into a vast, dangerous swamp of supernatural waste.

• Tang Qi sensed that the Dreamland had expanded across the Divine Eagle Federation, strengthened its Dream Creatures, and begun adding new divine offices.
• Tang Qi observed Diana’s dreamlight cocoon and concluded that she would become the first god born within the Dreamland, though her gestation had changed unpredictably.
• Tang Qi sent Tang Qi Number Two toward the Universe of Myriad Spirits’ Filth to collect The Collector’s abandoned spoils, first testing the gateway with a Flame Sparrow.
• Tang Qi Number Two entered the universe and nearly sank into a swamp of foul, unidentified liquids and decomposing matter.
• Tang Qi freed himself with Furnace Flame and recognized from the Information Fragments that the universe was even more repulsive and dangerous than he had expected.

Tang Qi reached The Collector’s residence on Collector’s Planet and discovered the fallen deity’s plan to use contaminated divine essence to become a Powerful Deity. As the planet began collapsing and Origin Poison spread through the essence pool, Tang Qi hurried to salvage the collections.

• Tang Qi flew across the filthy planet, using The Collector’s key to keep its hostile creatures away, and learned that a mountain of rainbow gemstones was made from Aurora Goddess Mephino’s waste.
• The key led Tang Qi to The Collector’s Garbage Mountains, where he found an Ancient God’s Head serving as The Collector’s residence and learned the planet would disintegrate within minutes.
• Tang Qi saw that The Collector was an Evil Spirit Aggregate whose many human forms had died, and identified the phosphorescent pool beneath the skull as contaminated divine essence gathered for an attempted ascension.
• As the skull tilted and the planet collapsed, Tang Qi realized Origin Poison was spreading through the pool and began searching the rooms for salvageable collections.

Tang Qi and his avatars looted The Collector’s vast store of Curios, uncovering several rare books and a mysterious page from the Everlasting Life Secret Scripture. The page’s contents remained beyond his ability to analyze, and he moved on to investigate a mirror showing the world outside Collector’s Planet.

• Tang Qi sent Furnace Avatars through The Collector’s rooms to gather Curios, while Gluttony began devouring the items it had approved.
• An avatar found bottles of Gift of the Goddess of Life, including one contaminated with Death Contamination that the infant evil spirit had treasured but feared to drink.
• Tang Qi Number Two searched the lowest level and collected its hoard of book Curios, including the damaged Skin Ancient Tome, which retained nine complete skin-sewing methods.
• Tang Qi discovered a Torn Page from the Everlasting Life Secret Scripture, whose contents Omniscience could not analyze, and quickly put it away.
• Tang Qi joined his Furnace Avatar beside the corpse of an old woman and noticed a Curio mirror showing a scene outside Collector’s Planet.

Tang Qi escaped the Collector’s Planet after looting its treasures and destroying the lair as members of the Family of Myriad Spirits’ Filth arrived. Back in Dream High Tower, he cleansed the spoils and discovered that an ancient scripture fragment could only be deciphered in the Everlasting Celestial Dynasty, then returned to Eagleheart Palace to prepare for his work as chief consultant.

• Tang Qi Number Two used Stefan’s Magic Mirror to observe the Universe of Myriad Spirits’ Filth as its monstrous inhabitants converged on the Collector’s Planet.
• Tang Qi stored the expedition’s loot, found no Origin Metal, and fled the planet by detonating a Core of the Sun beneath the Ancient God’s Head.
• Tang Qi’s true body cleansed the loot at Dream High Tower and used Omniscience to learn that the Everlasting Life Secret Scripture Torn Page required a special Spirit Tide node in the Everlasting Celestial Dynasty to analyze.
• Tang Qi Number Two returned to Eagleheart Palace and began writing in the booklet “Human Forbidden Zones within the Federation” as Dream Nodes across the Federation shimmered.

Tang Qi watched the Federation through his information nodes and discovered that television dramas were adapting real supernatural events, including one based on his past. He saw actress Cassie Chloe win an award for that drama and publicly declare that it had introduced her to a perfect person who would be the only light in her future.

• Tang Qi watched television programs across the Federation and noticed that news and dramas increasingly portrayed real supernatural events.
• Tang Qi recognized popular dramas based on Rose Madeline, a Mysterious Land, and his own Immortal Count Incident, and criticized the series about himself for its inaccuracies.
• Tang Qi discovered that the authorities had paid royalties for Mysterious Male Witch to Melada Special Education School, where Sally had helped add romance scenes.
• Tang Qi watched Cassie Chloe win the Margaret Award for Best Actress for playing two roles in Mysterious Male Witch.
• Cassie Chloe said the drama had introduced her to a perfect person who would be the only light in her future, leaving Tang Qi wondering whether she had become too immersed in her role.

Tang Qi observed the Mystic Side’s preparations for the coming New Era and unexpectedly spotted his former student Tate competing in a supernatural cage match. After seeing Tate defeat a mechanically modified werewolf, Tang Qi began searching the Dream Nodes for news of his other graduates.

• Tang Qi learned Cassie Chloe admired his scholarly reputation and watched Stan Duplessis perform with the powerful Soul Singer Arisa Scott.
• Tang Qi reviewed how authorities, organizations, and Transcendents were preparing for the public revelation of the Transcendental World.
• Tang Qi spotted a supernatural cage match in Bunker City and recognized the Orange Cat contestant as his former student Tate.
• Tate defeated a mechanically modified Steel Werewolf with several powerful slaps and was mobbed by the werewolf-blooded girls outside the cage.
• Tang Qi recalled Tate’s Beast Morph abilities and training, then began searching for the rest of Witch School’s first graduates.

Tang Qi used the Book of Nothingness to observe his former students and discovered that several had rapidly become powerful Transcendents. The chapter ended with him watching more graduates fight supernatural threats across the Federation.

• Tang Qi saw Austin leading the Youngsters' Secret Society as they defeated dark creatures in Penguin City, and learned that Austin had become a powerful Dream Witch.
• Tang Qi found Noah healing wounded soldiers at a battlefield hospital on the West Coast and learned that he had advanced to Morning Star Witch and earned the title Son of Morning Star.
• Tang Qi watched a girl summon Nether to protect children from supernatural creatures in a cave.
• Tang Qi saw Luca fighting monsters alongside FBI agents in Atlantis City with his Curio weapons and Demon Flame.
• Tang Qi observed the Hannahs trap dangerous creatures on a roller coaster in Magical Magic Park and prepare to begin their game.