Chapter Summaries

Kurumi watched the battle against the insect swarm from a hillside while Li Jiayu and Xijiang University’s Inheritors fought at the front. She infused Twilight Morning Star with spirit power, causing its barrel to glow with enhanced freezing energy.

• Li Jiayu assigned Kurumi to a sniping position away from the swarm and asked her to watch over the school camp.
• Red-crowned Beetles and Green-crowned Beetles attacked the survivors, and Kurumi let a fleeing young man be dragged away until a streak of white light killed the beetle.
• Li Jiayu, Ran Hongxia, Chu Xiang, and the other Inheritors engaged the insects while Kurumi watched from an elevated slope.
• Kurumi drew on her spirit power and channeled it into Twilight Morning Star through her hands.
• Twilight Morning Star glowed icy blue as cold air and white mist rose from its barrel.

Kurumi used Twilight Morning Star to support Xijiang University’s left-wing defense as the insect swarm overwhelmed the army and two Blue-eyed Giant Ants charged toward the flank. The chapter ended with Kurumi shooting down a Scythe Beetle that had threatened civilians inside the camp.

• An inheritor froze a corpse venom spider with an icy-blue shot, and the shattered ice slowed nearby bugs and helped the defenders counterattack.
• Commander Li ordered two army Awakened to draw the Blue-eyed Giant Ants away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex, but both ants pursued them toward the left wing.
• Civilian factions repeatedly lured bugs toward Xijiang University’s defenders and crowded into Kurumi’s camp for protection.
• A Scythe Beetle circled outside the camp’s ice-white mist, then turned to flee.
• Kurumi fired an icy-blue shot that pierced the Scythe Beetle.

Kurumi unleashed a massive frost spell through Twilight Morning Star as the battle for Xijiang University’s left wing worsened. Her magically empowered bullet raced toward a fleeing Blue-eyed Giant Ant, leaving the attack’s result unknown.

• A shard from the shattered Scythe Beetle struck a smiling survivor dead, and panicked civilians drew nearby insects toward them.
• Frost mist shielded Xijiang University, but low-level insects pressed toward Hot Spring Villa, where trapped civilians overwhelmed the weakened defenders.
• Two Blue-eyed Giant Ants battered the left wing; Chu Xiang was badly wounded, and Ling Shaoping saved him from death.
• Li Jiayu wounded one Blue-eyed Giant Ant, while she and Ran Hongxia struggled to hold off the other as it attacked them.
• Kurumi poured a third of her spiritual energy into Twilight Morning Star and layered icy formations that froze the battlefield and drove the Blue-eyed Giant Ant to flee.
• Kurumi fired a 12.7mm bullet through the formations, transforming it into a surge of frost magic that sped toward the Blue-eyed Giant Ant.

A mysterious young woman’s frost-magic torrent wiped out the advancing Blue-eyed Giant Ant and devastated the left flank, leaving the battlefield stunned. As the insects began retreating, Commander Li searched Zhang Gan’s report for clues to the caster’s identity.

• The Blue-eyed Giant Ant broke through to Tier 3 but was swallowed and shattered by the frost-magic torrent, which also erased its bug crystal.
• The torrent left the surrounding battlefield frozen, and Zhao Fei was pulled away from the ice after trying to die following the loss of his wife and child.
• The insect horde began retreating while the inheritors and the Tyrannosaurus Rex stared in shock at the frost-covered battlefield.
• Commander Li read Zhang Gan’s report and wondered whether the unidentified frost-magic user was the girl the old mayor had sought.

Commander Li learned that powerful female inheritors had emerged at the Xijiang University encampment and decided to visit them, hoping to recruit their help. He set out with a Sky Eye Master and guards while Ran Hongxia and Xiao Wanqing tended to the aftermath of the battle.

• Commander Li learned that Zhang Gan had been killed in action and mourned the loss of his longtime subordinate.
• A Sky Eye Master told Commander Li about the frost-magic inheritor, a female summoner, her inherited cat, and the women who had crippled the Blue-eyed Giant Ant.
• Commander Li feared that someone in the army might have betrayed Zhang Gan’s warning and ordered preparations to visit the Xijiang University encampment.
• Soldiers cleared the battlefield for Bug Crystals and the remains of the fallen as Commander Li led a small group toward the encampment.
• Leaders of civilian factions headed to the left-wing battlefield, while Ran Hongxia and Xiao Wanqing rushed around to help injured Yang Soul inheritors.

After the insect swarm retreated, survivors searched the frozen battlefield for Bug Crystals, while the army assessed its losses and tried to identify the powerful inheritors. The icy mist proved dangerous to most people but empowered water- and ice-aligned inheritors, and the army discovered a massive hole leading underground.

• Kurumi returned to her tent and slept as her spiritual power replenished, while Li Jiayu also rested after absorbing the Blue-eyed Giant Ant's essence.
• Commander Li reviewed the army's casualties and recognized that the left-wing inheritors had been far stronger than his forces, though he could not identify or recruit them.
• Ordinary survivors entered the icy battlefield seeking Bug Crystals, and a young man found and absorbed a First Order Advanced Bug Crystal before heading back inside.
• Some inheritors robbed or killed the ordinary people searching the battlefield, while water- and ice-aligned mages discovered that the icy mist's energy helped them advance.
• A little girl with a Yin Soul Inheritance absorbed the icy energy and advanced to Second Order High Rank.
• The army discovered a massive hole that led deep underground.

Commander Li’s team discovered that a gigantic centipede had left the ravaged battlefield, and the report identified it as a threat beyond the Seven-colored Centipedes. As survivors scavenged the battlefield and the convoy prepared to move, Kurumi recovered spiritual power and noticed it had grown denser and easier to control.

• Commander Li questioned the Sky Eye Master, who identified the tracks as those of a huge insect whose legs had gouged the nearby ravines.
• The military’s report revealed that the enormous insect was a centipede, which Kurumi and Li Jiayu would have recognized as the Sacred Armor Centipede King.
• Commander Li and the other officials returned to Hot Spring Villa, while survivors searched the battlefield for valuable Bug Crystals.
• Kurumi woke at Xijiang University’s camp and observed the mist clearing over the frozen battlefield as more people entered to scavenge.
• Kurumi found that a fifth of her spiritual power had recovered overnight and that it had become denser and more responsive.

Kurumi reassured Xiao Wanqing that yesterday’s powerful attacks had not harmed her and restored Xiao Wanqing’s mental energy. As the convoy prepared to depart for Yong City, Xiao Wanqing decided to let the civilian survivors remain with them, while Kurumi claimed she had received a divine legacy.

• Kurumi demonstrated a tiny hole she had punched into marble, whose lingering aura resembled the icy magic from the previous day.
• Xiao Wanqing struggled to manage visiting civilian factions and survivors who had gathered at Xijiang University’s camp.
• Chu Xiang told Xiao Wanqing that the military would depart in fifteen minutes, and she ordered him to notify the Legacy Holders and students.
• Xiao Wanqing chose to let the survivors stay with the convoy, and Kurumi met Chu Xiang as he left the tent.
• Xiao Wanqing worried that Kurumi’s attacks had harmed her, but Kurumi used spiritual power to dispel her exhaustion.
• When Xiao Wanqing asked what legacy she had received, Kurumi said it was a divine legacy.

Kurumi told the group to prepare for the migration and teased Ran Hongxia about what had happened with Li Jiayu. After waking Li Jiayu, she joined the group as they moved with the main force and spotted a sign reading “Xijiang.”

• Xiao Wanqing concluded that Kurumi had received an Epic God’s inheritance and told her to wake the others and prepare to leave.
• Kurumi teased Ran Hongxia about being alone with Li Jiayu, then fixed her disheveled collar and left her embarrassed.
• Kurumi woke Li Jiayu, who joked with and threw a shoe at the Dark Octopus before the group set out.
• The Xijiang University group traveled with the main force, and Kurumi found an iron sign reading “Xijiang.”

Kurumi and the survivors reached a town overrun by poison zombies, where soldiers and inheritors fought to clear the streets. Commander Li was summoned to inspect an unknown creature, but ordered it burned without investigating further.

• Kurumi completed Main Quest ②, received 783 Reincarnation Points, and learned that Main Quest ③ required her to kill or drive away the Sacred Armor Centipede King.
• The four-hundred-thousand-strong group made slow progress, taking detours around insect swarms before reaching a town that the vanguard had not fully cleared.
• Ran Hongxia and Kurumi helped the soldiers kill poison zombies, while the town’s dangerous cleanup continued to cause casualties and damage buildings.
• Squad Sixteen found an unusual black creature curled beside a rural manure pit and called Commander Li to examine it.
• Commander Li ordered the plant mage to burn the creature rather than study it.

Two mages struggled to destroy a mysterious mass of black threads while Kurumi watched from the shadows, recognizing it vaguely. After the fire died out near dawn, the threads crept toward the tents surrounding the town.

• The Fire Mage’s flames and Mage Chen’s vines failed to harm or control the black mass, so they gathered firewood to burn it.
• Squad Sixteen returned to town, and its rookies mocked Mage Chen until their burly squad leader silenced them and led them away.
• The Fire Mage complained that the army looked down on inheritors, while Mage Chen built a fire around the black mass.
• Kurumi watched the creature from hiding, failed to recall where she had seen it, and returned to her tent after its threads stopped moving.
• The exhausted survivors crowded the town and its outskirts with tents, then fell asleep as the fire burned down.
• Around dawn, the fire went out, and the black threads stretched toward the surrounding tents.

Black threads invaded the sleeping survivors, leaving them with an unexplained, rapidly recurring hunger as the convoy continued toward Yong City. Xixi and the others were forced to keep eating, and her mother worried as their supplies dwindled.

• During the night, black threads entered the survivors’ bodies through their tents and various openings without waking them.
• The next morning, Xixi became hungry soon after breakfast, and her mother gave her chocolate while Sister Xu offered her biscuits.
• More survivors began suffering intense hunger and stopped to eat, assuming at first that the problem was ordinary.
• Barely ten minutes after eating, several people, including Xixi, became hungry again and opened their backpacks for more food.
• Xixi’s mother grew worried as she realized the repeated hunger was abnormal and watched their supplies dwindle.

Doctor Zhang could not identify or treat Xixi’s strange, relentless hunger, so he told Xixi’s mother and Sister Xu that a Light Priest might be able to help. He revealed that the Light Priest was with Xijiang University and led the group toward its camp after the day’s journey ended.

• Doctor Zhang examined the people who kept eating and drinking, but found no obvious illness and said they seemed only unusually hungry.
• Doctor Zhang told Xixi’s mother and Sister Xu that an inheritor, especially a Light Priest, might be able to cure them.
• Sister Xu appealed to Doctor Zhang for help, and he revealed that the Light Priest was with Xijiang University rather than the military.
• Doctor Zhang picked up Xixi, and Sister Xu’s group took turns carrying her through the day’s journey.
• When the military ordered a rest, Doctor Zhang led the group toward Xijiang University’s camp.

Doctor Zhang led Xixi's Mom and the others to Xijiang University's well-supplied base, where he boasted that his nephew was an inheritor and claimed he could help them reach the Light Priest. The guards recognized his nephew Zhang Chuan but grew suspicious of Doctor Zhang's real purpose.

• Doctor Zhang and the exhausted group arrived at Xijiang University's brightly lit base, where they smelled meat and saw people living far more comfortably than they were.
• Doctor Zhang told Xixi's Mom that his nephew studied at the university and had become an inheritor, prompting Sister Xu and the others to praise him.
• Xixi's Mom asked whether Doctor Zhang could meet the Light Priest, and he decided to approach the guards despite knowing he had no personal access to her.
• Doctor Zhang handed the unconscious Xixi back to her mother and told the guards he was Zhang Chuan's uncle.
• The guards identified Zhang Chuan as a Yang Soul inheritor on President Ran's team, and one guard said Doctor Zhang did not seem to be there merely to visit a relative.

Doctor Zhang failed to persuade the night guards to let him enter Xijiang University to find Zhang Chuan, leaving Xixi's mother desperate about getting treatment for her daughter. A black cat appeared at the gate, and the guards reacted as if it were dangerous before Doctor Zhang recognized it as Black Cat.

• Doctor Zhang begged the night guards to let him enter the camp and speak with Zhang Chuan, but they refused.
• Sister Xu and the others restrained Doctor Zhang when he nearly confronted the guards, while Xixi's mother worried about how to get her daughter treatment.
• Xixi woke and asked her mother whether Little Xi had come to find her, referring to the cat they had once kept.
• Doctor Zhang noticed the guards tense up at the sound of meowing and prepared to flee with Xixi and her mother if danger appeared.
• A little black cat emerged from the darkness, and Doctor Zhang recognized it as Black Cat.

Doctor Zhang and the others learned that the night watchmen feared the little black cat because it belonged to Tokisaki Company, and the cat perched on one guard’s head. Doctor Zhang tried to slip into the camp to find his nephew, but ran into a black figure.

• Doctor Zhang and the others mistook the night watchmen’s alarm over the kitten for a joke until Sister Xu explained that the clean, well-cared-for cat likely belonged to an important person.
• A young man explained that the black cat was probably owned by a powerful figure, and Doctor Zhang noticed a glint around its neck.
• The night watchmen recognized the cat as Tokisaki Company’s pet and anxiously tried to coax it back into the camp.
• Black Cat leaped onto the tall night watchman’s head, and he stayed still while his companion went to fetch help.
• Doctor Zhang told the others to stay near the camp, then tried to sneak inside to find his nephew, but a night watchman spotted him and he collided with a black figure.

After Doctor Zhang mistook Chu Xiang for a monster, Chu Xiang investigated the sick family pleading for help at the camp entrance. Black Cat reacted to the little girl, and Chu Xiang said its owner was about to arrive.

• Doctor Zhang fell when he encountered Chu Xiang and apologized after Chu Xiang confronted him about trying to sneak in.
• Chu Xiang called Black Cat over, and it settled on his shoulder while Xixi and the others watched.
• Xixi's mother begged Chu Xiang to save her daughter, and a night watchman explained the family's situation.
• Chu Xiang sent for Zhang Chuan and noticed that the little girl was trembling and unusually exhausted.
• Black Cat sat up and meowed at Xixi, prompting Chu Xiang to say that its owner was about to arrive.

Kurumi heard Black Cat’s call and went to the camp perimeter, where Doctor Zhang and the residents of his complex had brought several people suffering from an unknown illness. Zhang Chuan learned his uncle had come seeking help, and the group waited for Kurumi to arrive and treat Xixi and the others.

• Kurumi sensed Black Cat’s call and told Chu Xiang she would come to the camp perimeter.
• Black Cat summoned Zhang Chuan, who arrived and discovered his uncle and the residents of their complex waiting there.
• Doctor Zhang explained that an unknown illness had spread through the complex and asked Zhang Chuan to help them get treatment.
• Zhang Chuan reassured his uncle that Kurumi was a powerful frontline combatant and said Principal Xiao could also be asked for help.
• The group waited in silence until footsteps approached from the darkness.

Kurumi arrived after Chu Xiang brought Doctor Zhang’s group to see Black Cat, and recognized that the people suffering from ravenous hunger were not sick but affected by insects. She refused to treat them, saying she did not know what was inside them and could do nothing, then prepared to leave before someone stopped her.

• Black Cat leaped into Kurumi’s arms, and her active Charm left Doctor Zhang and the young men dazed until Chu Xiang snapped them out of it.
• Kurumi said the people were not sick and asked what was inside their stomachs, sensing a disgusting stench from insects.
• Zhang Chuan asked Kurumi to save the afflicted people, especially five-year-old Xixi.
• Kurumi said the people had not been parasitized by the larvae she knew and that she could not help them, leaving Xixi’s Mom devastated.
• Kurumi decided the insects posed no threat and turned to leave with Black Cat, but someone called out, “Wait!”

Kurumi refused to treat the people suffering from unknown parasites and told them to seek a doctor, but her warning and suggestion led Chu Xiang to offer to take them to Principal Xiao. The group set out to find her, though whether she could help remained uncertain.

• Doctor Zhang pleaded with Kurumi to save the afflicted people, but she said she had nothing to gain and advised him to find a doctor.
• A young man insulted Kurumi as she left, and she cut his neck and warned him that she could kill everyone there.
• Kurumi told the group to seek Principal Xiao, and Doctor Zhang went to Xixi's Mom with relief.
• Chu Xiang offered to take them to Principal Xiao but warned that he could not guarantee a cure.
• Chu Xiang explained that powerful inheritors could kill the afflicted and burn their bodies to contain the unknown disease, then led the group to find Principal Xiao.