Chapter Summaries

Li Jiayu worried through the night about Kurumi’s safety, then resumed training the students as the military took control of the city and searched for a powerful white-haired Awakened. The search teams kept missing her, and Kurumi and Kikyo were approached as they walked along a path.

• Li Jiayu stayed awake worrying that Kurumi might be abducted, then got up at dawn to lead the students’ training.
• The military advanced into the city, wiped out unled gangs, and offered second-rank inheritors clemency and military ranks in exchange for their service.
• At the Old Mayor’s instruction, military squads searched the university district for a beautiful, powerful white-haired Awakened.
• The search party rode between Nanhai Martial Arts School and Anning Residential Area, repeatedly missing the girl they sought.
• Kurumi and Kikyo walked along a narrow path when someone called for Kurumi to wait.

Captain Zheng tried to recruit Kurumi and Kikyo into the military, but they refused, and his thunderous outburst brought Ran Hongxia and the other students running. His sonic intimidation failed to affect the students, while Kurumi was left weakened by the sound and Kikyo prepared to defend her.

• Captain Zheng approached Kurumi and Kikyo and demanded to speak with the person in charge, so Kurumi directed him to Principal Xiao.
• Captain Zheng asked Kurumi and Kikyo to join the military and promised them ranks, protection, and help finding their families, but Kurumi politely refused.
• Captain Zheng shouted angrily, and the sound waves hurt Kurumi until Kikyo shielded her.
• Ran Hongxia and more than a dozen students arrived, but Captain Zheng's next sonic blast did not affect them.
• Kikyo gathered magic to support Kurumi as Ran Hongxia's anger rose and her alloy longsword began to hum.

Captain Zheng’s attempt to recruit Xijiang University’s inheritors turned hostile after his sound ability injured Kurumi, and Ran Hongxia drove him off with a warning sword strike. Zheng left empty-handed and planned to seek out Master Xie Wenyuan.

• Captain Zheng’s sound attack left Kurumi pale and weak, so Kikyo shielded her and prepared to take her back to rest.
• Captain Zheng continued using his ability, and Ran Hongxia threatened him with sword pressure before cutting a deep fissure in the ground beside his boots.
• Captain Zheng stopped using his sound arts and tried to recruit the group, but they rejected his offer.
• Ran Hongxia told Captain Zheng that no one from Xijiang University would join the military and ordered him to leave.
• Captain Zheng left the university with his group, having failed his assigned objectives, and decided to find Master Xie Wenyuan.

Old Zheng dismissed the search for the white-haired girl as he led his recruits away from Xijiang University. Back at the school, Li Jiayu fretted over Kurumi, then told Xiao Wanqing that the group could travel with the military and use its soldiers as cannon fodder if necessary.

• Old Zheng scolded the skinny recruit for suggesting the white-haired girl might be at Xijiang University and led his remaining recruits away.
• Li Jiayu worried that Kurumi was weak after going outside, while Kikyo and Black Cat stayed by her.
• Xiao Wanqing drew Li Jiayu into the corridor to discuss the military and their journey to Yong City.
• Li Jiayu said Xijiang University's forces surpassed the military's and that they could use the soldiers as cannon fodder if needed.
• Li Jiayu said they could head straight to Yong City if Kurumi recovered, and Xiao Wanqing affirmed she would help those in need but show no mercy to the wicked.

Li Jiayu arranged for Professor Cao Potian to forge an alloy dagger for Kurumi, whose strength had rapidly recovered. Kurumi inspected the finished weapon, though she judged its plain, reflective blade unsuitable for an assassin.

• Over four days, the Female Wisteria Vine’s hormones made Li Jiayu’s appearance even more striking, while Kurumi’s injuries healed and her spiritual power grew stronger.
• Li Jiayu tested spiral blades made by Professor Cao Potian and explained that he wanted a thin, sharp dagger to suit Kurumi’s speed and close-combat skills.
• Li Jiayu invited Kurumi to inspect the dagger, and Ran Hongxia privately criticized his poor emotional judgment for focusing on weapons while Kurumi was still recovering.
• Professor Cao Potian brought over the roughly thirty-centimeter silver dagger, and Kurumi tested its balance and judged its bright, plain finish unsuitable for an assassin.

Xijiang University’s force reached the west side of the city, where hundreds of thousands of survivors had gathered. When a woman and child were trapped on the seventeenth floor with undead, Kurumi and Ran Hongxia prepared to rescue them.

• Xijiang University set out toward the west side of the city, with Kurumi’s squad surrounded by girls and supply teams.
• The force arrived at the crowded western encampment and stopped to rest after a long march.
• A woman carrying a child cried for help from a seventeenth-floor window as undead approached, while a man below begged the crowd to save them.
• Ran Hongxia asked Kurumi to help, and Kurumi raised Twilight Morning Star and coordinated the shot with her: she would take the left, and Ran Hongxia would take the right.

Li Jiayu used the Fallen Angel to catch a falling child and her mother after Kurumi’s shots accidentally sent them tumbling from a high window. The rescue succeeded, and Kurumi teased Ran Hongxia and Kikyo about the power she had used to steady the Fallen Angel.

• Kurumi and Kikyo shot living corpses, and their weapons drew the crowd’s attention.
• A bullet’s shockwave knocked a child from a seventeenth-floor window, and Li Jiayu sent out the Fallen Angel to catch her.
• The child’s mother fell after her, and the Fallen Angel struggled to stay airborne while carrying them both.
• Kurumi released a pressure that helped the Fallen Angel stabilize, and Ran Hongxia and Kikyo realized it had come from her.
• Ran Hongxia lunged at Kurumi, but Kurumi stopped her and kneaded her cheeks before refusing to explain what she had done.

After Kurumi demonstrated her power and reassured Ran Hongxia, a tremor struck as the spatial rift began to split open. The military ordered the entire city evacuated.

• Li Jiayu sent the Fallen Angel back to his original plane and considered him a powerful but risky trump card.
• Ran Hongxia asked Kurumi about her mental suppression, and Kurumi explained that strong mental power could resist it.
• Kurumi reassured Ran Hongxia that she would protect her from the insects and other humans.
• Kurumi sensed the spatial rift beginning to split open four kilometers away, threatening the army with an insect invasion.
• Jelly's agitated pets and a powerful tremor alarmed the survivors as nearby buildings shook and collapsed.
• The military made its final decision to evacuate the entire city.

After the earthquake, Kurumi and Li Jiayu left Xijiang University’s evacuation group to search for objects falling from the sky. Kurumi found traces of a lightning power in the ruins, while Li Jiayu found a Devil Fruit and was surrounded by several Yang Soul inheritors.

• The earthquake killed people in the panicked crowds, while veterans guarded the spatial rift and Xijiang University prepared to evacuate.
• Kurumi spotted streaks of light falling toward Xijiang City and persuaded Xiao Wanqing and the others to let her and Li Jiayu leave the group.
• Kurumi and Li Jiayu headed toward separate impact sites, with Li Jiayu summoning the Demon Hound to help him travel.
• Kurumi searched a desolate district and found scorched ground that left a numb, flickering Lightning Bolt on her fingers.
• Li Jiayu found a Devil Fruit, but several Yang Soul inheritors surrounded him after becoming attracted to his beauty.

Li Jiayu faced down Yang Soul inheritors while Kurumi examined a mysterious weapon she could neither understand nor claim. At the garrison, insects broke through the defenders as panic spread among the survivors, and a black figure watched the changed sky.

• Li Jiayu dismissed the Yang Soul inheritors as no threat and prepared to kill them if they angered him.
• Kurumi tried to imprint her spiritual mark on a lightning-wreathed blade but discovered it could not accept any owner.
• Kurumi stored the blade and purple crystals in a strange spatial box, then left to find Li Jiayu.
• Soldiers fired on insects emerging from the rift, but their bullets could not pierce the creatures' carapaces.
• A three-meter Blue-eyed Giant Ant emerged and broke the first line of defense as Commander Li watched and survivors panicked.
• A black figure stopped on a rooftop and looked up at a sky that was no longer blue.

Kurumi returned to Li Jiayu and secretly killed the young men who were harassing her. When the police captain ordered his guards to attack, Li Jiayu summoned a Rock Drake and told Kurumi to kill them all.

• Kurumi rushed back toward Li Jiayu and found her surrounded by six young inheritors.
• Kurumi secretly killed the plant-controlling young man who tried to touch Li Jiayu, then killed the other attackers as they threatened her.
• The police captain arrived with forty armed guards and accused Li Jiayu of causing the deaths.
• The captain ordered his guards to shoot Li Jiayu, but their bullets could not harm the Rock Drake she summoned.
• Kurumi appeared behind the Rock Drake, asked whether she should kill everyone, and vanished after Li Jiayu ordered her to do so.

Kurumi and Li Jiayu raced through Yong City as Second Order bugs poured from spatial rifts and overwhelmed the remaining military lines. They rescued Yang Xuyan and other fleeing people, but the streets remained under attack as the chapter ended.

• Li Jiayu summoned the Netherworld Warhorse and chased after Kurumi as the two headed toward the opened spatial rift.
• Second Order bugs flooded Yong City, and the remaining troops and civilians were overrun by creatures including Corpse Venom Spiders and Seven-colored Centipedes.
• Li Jiayu stopped to help Yang Xuyan, who was surrounded by bugs near his younger sister.
• Kurumi shot a Flying Dragon Louse before it could attack Yang Xuyan's sister, then targeted the Seven-colored Centipede pursuing Li Jiayu.
• Kurumi and Li Jiayu killed the Seven-colored Centipede and shot several Corpse Venom Spiders, giving the fleeing crowd a brief chance to escape.

Kurumi and Li Jiayu escorted Yang Xuyan’s group toward the city exit as the spatial rift widened and an insect swarm approached. Kurumi stayed behind to help hold the swarm back, and Li Jiayu secretly placed a mental mark on her before departing.

• Kurumi joined Li Jiayu after he collected Bug Crystals, and Yang Xuyan’s group continued following them.
• Li Jiayu and Kurumi reached the city exit with the survivors, where Ran Hongxia was waiting.
• Kurumi sensed an enormous insect swarm approaching the small force of soldiers and said she would stay behind.
• Ran Hongxia challenged Kurumi’s decision, and Kurumi confirmed that she meant to help the army delay the swarm.
• Li Jiayu grabbed Kurumi’s arm and left a mental mark on her before the others departed.
• Kurumi watched them leave from the darkness, revealing that she had no intention of helping without some profit.

Kurumi helped a thousand-man rear guard hold back the insect swarm as survivors fled Xijiang City, though she knew the soldiers were doomed. After the force was wiped out and the insects began feeding, she prepared to bury them all by detonating the object she carried.

• Kurumi recalled the Main God's destruction and questioned why it had chosen her, while deciding the insects would love the power of the small metal object.
• Flying Dragon Lice attacked the rear guard, and Kurumi supported the soldiers from a rooftop by shooting the insects with Twilight Morning Star.
• Regiment Commander Gao spotted Kurumi and learned that a twenty-meter Seven-colored Centipede was approaching with the next wave.
• The Seven-colored Centipede broke through the soldiers' gunfire and slaughtered them, while Kurumi continued firing to support the doomed defense.
• After Azure Thunder Poison Scorpions killed Regiment Commander Gao and the thousand-man force was wiped out, Kurumi watched the insects feast and told the Main God to detonate the object.

Li Jiayu’s fleeing group saw a strange white light over Xijiang while Kurumi hurried to catch up, sensing that a lord had descended through the spatial rift. Kurumi reunited with Li Jiayu and Ran Hongxia near Hot Spring Villa as the rain stopped, while the threat of an insect attack remained ahead.

• Li Jiayu paid 10 Reincarnation Points for an indirect detonation, producing a bright light over Xijiang that concealed the spatial rift without any energy fluctuation.
• Ran Hongxia worried about Kurumi as the main force continued toward Hot Spring Villa, while Commander Li fretted over the civilians, supplies, and growing conflict between inheritors and ordinary people.
• Kurumi raced along National Highway No. 1, killed insects in her path, and saw that her side quest to kill 100,000 alien beings had reached 12,658.
• Kurumi sensed that a lord had descended at Xijiang and hurried toward the refugee convoy, knowing she could not withstand the creature for long.
• Kurumi surprised Ran Hongxia by jumping onto her back, and Ran Hongxia embraced her before Li Jiayu teased her about getting Kurumi wet.
• The rain stopped, and Ran Hongxia removed her green raincoat’s hood as Kurumi and Li Jiayu watched.

At Hot Spring Villa, the Xijiang University survivors endured cold rain while Kurumi shared a tempting meal with Li Jiayu, Ran Hongxia, and Kikyo. Kurumi’s Charm made Li Jiayu blurt out that he wanted her, and the moment ended when someone summoned Ran Hongxia to register the Awakened.

• The Xijiang University survivors camped near Hot Spring Villa as heavy rain and cold left many people soaked and shivering.
• Kurumi ate braised pork in her tent while its aroma drew Li Jiayu, Ran Hongxia, and Kikyo to visit her.
• Kurumi used Charm while offering Li Jiayu a piece of pork, and he blurted out, “I... I want... you...”
• Li Jiayu recovered from the Charm and blushed, while Ran Hongxia and Kikyo stared in surprise.
• Someone called for Ran Hongxia, saying the military had arrived to register the Awakened.

Ran Hongxia and Kikyo went to meet Xiao Wanqing and military officer Zhang Gan, while Li Jiayu and Kurumi stayed behind to eat. Zhang Gan judged Li Jiayu weak after the Sky Eye Master inspected her, then asked him to assess Kurumi as well.

• Ran Hongxia invited Li Jiayu and Kurumi to meet Xiao Wanqing and Zhang Gan, but Kurumi said they would come later.
• Kurumi let Li Jiayu eat the braised pork after making him wash the fork, and she quietly amused herself with a thought that made him uneasy.
• Ran Hongxia introduced herself to Zhang Gan, who praised her strength and spoke with Xiao Wanqing.
• Li Jiayu came out of the tent, and the Sky Eye Master’s assessment led Zhang Gan to dismiss her as weak and her inheritance as damaged.
• Kurumi emerged carrying Black Cat and feeding it dried fish, stunning Zhang Gan with her appearance.
• Zhang Gan asked the Sky Eye Master to assess Kurumi’s strength.

During the army’s examination, the Sky Eye Master’s inappropriate behavior toward Kurumi provoked Li Jiayu and Xiao Wanqing. He then failed to detect Kurumi’s strength or inheritance, and his shocked reaction to Black Cat’s gaze left the examination unresolved.

• The Sky Eye Master stared at Kurumi and reached for her, claiming she reminded him of his dead granddaughter, but Li Jiayu stepped in to stop him.
• Li Jiayu challenged the Sky Eye Master over his behavior, and Xiao Wanqing reprimanded him and Zhang Gan.
• The Sky Eye Master examined Kurumi and reported that she had a physical strength of 8, no spiritual energy or inheritance, and an unusually pure yin essence.
• Li Jiayu and Ran Hongxia mocked the Sky Eye Master’s assessment, while Zhang Gan wondered whether Kurumi’s aura had affected everyone.
• The Sky Eye Master examined Kurumi again as Black Cat opened its eyes and met his gaze, leaving the old man stammering in shock.

Kurumi’s black cat appeared to possess overwhelming power when the Sky Eye Master examined it, prompting Zhang Gan to seek an alliance with her. The chapter ended with the military securing the area while Xiao Wanqing, Ran Hongxia, and the others realized Kurumi had fooled the Sky Eye Master with spiritual suggestion.

• The Sky Eye Master reported that the black cat in Kurumi’s arms had combat power exceeding a thousand and spiritual power like the starry sky.
• Zhang Gan tried to recruit Kurumi, recognizing her as the Tokisaki Zaibatsu’s heir and planning to bring her and Li Jiayu to the manor.
• The Sky Eye Master clarified that the black cat—not Kurumi—had the remarkable combat power, and Zhang Gan wondered whether Kurumi was a summoner.
• Black Cat blinked at the crowd and meowed, while Li Jiayu dismissed the idea that it was truly powerful.
• The Sky Eye Master sensed an inheritance comparable to the Golden Clock and described it to Zhang Gan, who ordered soldiers to clear the area.
• Xiao Wanqing, Ran Hongxia, and the others understood that Kurumi had deceived the Sky Eye Master through spiritual suggestion and a simulated aura.

Zhang Gan tried to persuade Kurumi and Li Jiayu to take shelter in the manor, but they stayed at the Xijiang University encampment. When an insect swarm surrounded the survivors, Kurumi promised to help defend them and hinted that she might let the Black Cat act.

• Zhang Gan urged Kurumi and Li Jiayu to go to the manor, but Kurumi refused and Xiao Wanqing told him to leave them at the encampment.
• The Sky Eye Master detected an approaching insect swarm and warned that it had surrounded the survivors.
• Zhang Gan ordered ordinary people toward the manor's guarded positions as the Sky Eye Master identified numerous dangerous insects, including Tier 2 Advanced Blue-eyed Giant Ants.
• The encampment's strongest inheritors looked to Kurumi for support, uncertain whether her injuries had fully healed.
• Zhang Gan swore he would protect Kurumi, and she told him to guard the defensive line, promising she would be fine and might let the Black Cat take action.