Chapter Summaries

Xiao Wanqing examined the gravely ill Xixi and discovered horsehair worms had filled the girl’s stomach and spread into her intestines. She warned that removing or killing the parasite could kill Xixi, leaving the young woman to decide how to proceed.

• Chu Xiang brought Xixi and the others to Xiao Wanqing for treatment.
• Xiao Wanqing restored some of Xixi’s energy, then examined her body with spiritual power.
• Xiao Wanqing’s spiritual power was severed when it reached Xixi’s abdomen, and she found writhing black threads inside the girl.
• Xiao Wanqing recognized the threads as horsehair worms and explained that they had filled Xixi’s stomach and spread into her intestines.
• Xiao Wanqing warned that spiritual attacks would not work and that Xixi might not survive extraction or other treatment, then asked the young woman to choose whether to lure out or kill the worms.

Xiao Wanqing, Doctor Zhang, and Chu Xiang tried to remove the ironworm from Xixi, but it revived during the operation and invaded Doctor Zhang before Chu Xiang pulled it free. The worm rampaged through the tent as Kurumi sensed the commotion and the camp’s inheritors began to gather.

• Xixi's Mom agreed to kill the ironworm before removing it, and Xiao Wanqing asked Doctor Zhang to operate while she used healing magic to protect Xixi.
• Xiao Wanqing knocked Xixi unconscious, and Doctor Zhang began cutting into her stomach as Xiao Wanqing controlled the bleeding.
• Chu Xiang spotted the ironworm twitching as Doctor Zhang reached for it, but it pierced his glove and burrowed into his body.
• Chu Xiang grabbed the ironworm and dragged it out of Doctor Zhang, who screamed in agony as his sensation returned.
• The ironworm thrashed through the tent while Xiao Wanqing carried Xixi away and the young woman supported Doctor Zhang; Kurumi sensed the commotion and the inheritors gathered.

A mutated horsehair worm attacked the camp, and Chu Xiang and Li Jiayu struggled to restrain and cut it apart. The ghoul’s explosion broke it into wriggling pieces that began moving toward the other camps.

• The horsehair worm injured Doctor Zhang and attacked Chu Xiang, who held it back with his strength and scales.
• Li Jiayu arrived and used Hyōrinmaru to freeze and slash the worm while Chu Xiang pulled it taut.
• The worm continued thrashing after it was split, and Li Jiayu hesitated to grab it directly while Chu Xiang was entangled with it.
• Kurumi arrived with Black Cat as Li Jiayu sent a ghoul to seize the worm.
• The worm burrowed into the ghoul, which ran to an empty dirt mound and exploded, scattering short worm segments toward the other camps.

Li Jiayu and Kurumi destroyed the horsehair worms that had escaped from the ghoul before they could infect anyone else. The military’s exhausted inheritors demanded an explanation for the night’s explosions, while Li Jiayu learned that the crowd surrounded by inheritors had been parasitized.

• Kurumi asked Li Jiayu to kill the fleeing horsehair worms, and he summoned fire elements and used Twilight Morning Star to incinerate them.
• Li Jiayu and Kurumi joked about his emotional intelligence as the fire elements hunted down the remaining worms.
• Ran Hongxia and Kikyo watched as the escaped worms were destroyed before they could reach another camp.
• The military’s inheritors woke in alarm and grew angry that they had been disturbed after a grueling day, while Commander Li looked exhausted.
• Li Jiayu learned that the crowd surrounded by inheritors had all been parasitized by horsehair worms.

Li Jiayu, Kurumi, and Ran Hongxia argued over whether to save a group of people parasitized by ironworms, with Kurumi challenging Ran Hongxia to consider the camp’s limited time and medical resources. Their discussion was interrupted by news that someone from the military had arrived.

• Li Jiayu asked Xiao Wanqing what to do about the parasitized people, and Ran Hongxia insisted they should save them.
• Kurumi refused to help and warned that the group lacked the time and strength to treat every victim during the migration.
• Kurumi told Ran Hongxia that she had been acting anxious and reminded her that she could not carry every burden alone.
• Kurumi questioned whether Ran Hongxia had a practical way to save the victims without endangering the four thousand people from Xijiang University.
• Someone announced that a military representative had arrived to see Principal Xiao.

Xiao Wanqing explained the horsehair worm outbreak to Commander Li, who came to assess the danger and Xijiang University's strength. Kurumi warned the military not to underestimate her, while Xiao Wanqing kept Commander Li from recruiting the university's inheritance holders.

• Ran Hongxia suggested turning the parasitized people over to the military, and Kurumi left the choice to her while doubting the military would treat them.
• Xiao Wanqing briefed Commander Li on the horsehair worms, their effects on hosts, and their threat to body-refinement inheritance holders.
• The 'Tyrannosaurus Rex' dismissed the worms as a threat, and Kurumi cautioned him that their restraint could be overcome by sufficient strength.
• The Sky Eye Master identified Kurumi to Commander Li, who acknowledged her power and withdrew his offer to bring her under military protection.
• Commander Li surveyed Xijiang University's many inheritance holders, but Xiao Wanqing prevented him from approaching them to recruit.

Xiao Wanqing warned Commander Li that the mutated hairworms had split into many independently moving fragments and could only be killed by powerful attacks. She pressed the military to treat the parasitized civilians, and Kurumi suggested treatment might no longer be necessary.

• Ran Hongxia whispered to Xiao Wanqing, who then warned Commander Li that the hairworms had fragmented and could each parasitize a person.
• Xiao Wanqing explained that only attacks with Second Order Intermediate-level energy could kill the mutated hairworms.
• Xiao Wanqing asked Commander Li to take responsibility for healing the parasitized civilians, while he tried to make the university share the burden.
• Xiao Wanqing said the university could treat only three people before their condition worsened, and Commander Li asked what they should do.
• Kurumi glanced at the parasitized people and said they might not need treatment anymore.

Kurumi warned Commander Li and the others that the eighteen parasitized people were still alive and growing stronger, despite the Sky Eye Master insisting the bugs inside them had starved. The parasitized people revived and began transforming, and one suddenly attacked an inheritor.

• Kurumi sensed that the parasitized people’s life signs were growing stronger and told Xiao Wanqing and the others to prepare for battle.
• The Sky Eye Master dismissed Kurumi’s warning, claiming the people were dead and the horsehair worms inside them had starved.
• The parasitized people sprang back to life, and a man cried for help, disproving the Sky Eye Master’s claim.
• Black lines spread across the eighteen people as their movements grew more disturbing, though they still seemed to retain consciousness.
• One black-lined parasitized person suddenly launched himself at the nearest inheritor.

Kikyo and the military fighters confronted eighteen people parasitized by mutated horsehair worms, whose bodies grew stronger and regenerated rapidly. Kurumi watched as one apparently dead parasitized person recovered and rose behind the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

• Kikyo shot a lunging parasitized person with two green arrows, but it rapidly healed and its black threads multiplied.
• Commander Li recognized Kikyo as another powerful inheritor and watched the Vajra Gorilla and Tyrannosaurus Rex approach the encirclement.
• Kurumi sensed that the horsehair worms were suppressing their hosts' consciousness while boosting their strength, and noted that five had reached Second Order Intermediate.
• The Tyrannosaurus Rex snapped a parasitized person's neck without waiting for Commander Li's order and discarded its body.
• Kurumi watched as the parasitized person's bones repaired, its eyes opened, and it silently rose to face the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Kurumi realized that the parasite hosts were growing more dangerous and that a mutated hairworm had escaped detection. She blasted the enormous worm out of the ground, leaving its fate unresolved.

• The parasite host bit the "Tyrannosaurus Rex," but he slammed the host into the ground and killed him while a tiny black thread slipped into his flesh.
• The mutated hairworm emerged from the dead host and burrowed into the earth, fleeing toward Kurumi without anyone noticing.
• The parasite hosts fought seventeen against more than twenty inheritors, while Commander Li saw their strength as a chance to regain control of the army.
• Kurumi noticed that the dead host's black threads had vanished and realized something was interfering with her perception.
• Kurumi sensed danger, stomped beside herself, and blasted a seven-meter mutated hairworm into the air as a Magic Imprint lit on her hand.

Kurumi annihilated the mutant wireworm and impressed Commander Li, while the remaining parasitized humans began to flee. The chapter ended with Commander Li ordering his troops to stop the fifteen escapees.

• Kurumi trapped the mutant wireworm in formations, cut it into 350 living pieces, and burned them all away.
• Commander Li reconsidered Kurumi’s strength and grew suspicious of the Sky Eye Master after the old man admitted he could not see anything about her.
• Kurumi checked her interface and delighted in gaining 350 kills, then wondered whether smaller wireworm fragments would yield even more.
• Injured inheritors unknowingly carried tiny black threads in their bodies while Xiao Wanqing lacked the mental power to inspect them closely.
• After one parasitized human was blasted away, fifteen others fled west, and Commander Li shouted for his troops to stop them.

Commander Li suspected the western river was contaminated by the Abyss corpse race and rushed to contain the people parasitized by mutated horsehair worms. Kurumi raced to the riverbank, where the fifteen infected were surrounded with the river just beyond them.

• Commander Li connected the mutated horsehair worms to the poison corpses and suspected the western river carried a dangerous virus.
• Commander Li ordered Vajra Gorilla and Tyrannosaurus Rex to pursue the parasitized people before they could reach ordinary survivors.
• Ran Hongxia, Kikyo, and the others stayed with the exhausted Xiao Wanqing while Kurumi searched the area and found no other threats.
• Kurumi sped west toward the river, while Li Jiayu chose to remain behind rather than follow her.
• Kurumi reached the riverbank and saw the fifteen parasitized people surrounded by inheritors, with the river on the other side.

Tyrannosaurus Rex attacked the parasitized humans while the inheritors held their semicircle around them. Kurumi stopped one of the humans in midair by stretching its time, but the effort ended when her azure array shattered.

• Tyrannosaurus Rex charged the parasitized humans, ignoring Vajra Gorilla's attempt to stop him.
• Three parasitized humans attacked Tyrannosaurus Rex's vulnerable areas, but he struck them back and slammed one into the ground.
• The inheritors widened their encirclement as the parasitized humans drew closer together around Tyrannosaurus Rex.
• A parasitized human flew toward Kurumi, and she halted it in midair by stretching its time with an azure Magic Array Diagram.
• Kurumi's array shattered after she felt a sharp pain in her mind.

Kurumi used her control over time and space to bring the Parasite Man crashing face-first into the ground, though the effort left her with a stabbing headache. She reflected on the future power she might gain through Zadkiel and the dangers of the worlds beyond End Black, while accepting that she remained subject to the Main God's arrangements.

• Kurumi's deep-blue array faded, and the Parasite Man lost its support and slammed face-first into the riverbank.
• Kurumi sensed that the motionless Parasite Man was still alive and approached it despite the Inheritors' concern.
• Kurumi recognized that using wind to extend her time control had succeeded but cost too much mental power.
• Kurumi believed she could eventually summon Zadkiel through her own strength and reach the Legendary rank.
• Kurumi considered powerful beings and dangerous worlds beyond End Black, then resolved to keep following the Main God's arrangements until she escaped or fell.

Kurumi confronted a parasitized human and used her strength and martial skill to overpower him, then protected herself from the black threads trying to infect her. The parasitized human remained alive and dangerous, while Kurumi sought a way to force the mutated horsehair worms out of his body.

• The parasitized human lunged at Kurumi, but she stopped his head with her gloved hand and twisted him violently into the ground.
• The inheritors watched Kurumi’s effortless attack and wondered what inheritance or training explained her martial skill.
• The badly injured parasitized human rose again as black threads repaired his damaged body, and Kurumi approached him.
• Kurumi dodged his next pounce and grabbed his neck, but he twisted around and swung his long, thread-covered arm at her face.
• A small Magic Array Diagram formed an invisible barrier that stopped the black threads from reaching Kurumi’s skin.

Kurumi used a controlled punch to wreck a parasitized person’s body, forcing the mutated hairworm to abandon its host and flee through the soil. The worm targeted Ling Shaoping next, and Kurumi spotted it as he realized she was watching him.

• Kurumi struck a parasitized person with a powerful, carefully controlled punch, impressing the Vajra Gorilla.
• The force of the blow destroyed the host’s insides, making the mutated hairworm withdraw its black threads and emerge from the damaged body.
• The roughly seven-and-a-half-meter-long hairworm burrowed through the soil and chose a hidden human male as its next target.
• Kurumi tracked the hairworm with her mental power and saw that it was moving toward the inheritors.
• The hairworm headed for Ling Shaoping, who sensed danger, turned, and saw Kurumi smiling at him.

Ling Shaoping tried to evade a mutated horsehair worm, but Kurumi destroyed it before it could attack him. Commander Li ordered Vajra Gorilla and Tyrannosaurus Rex to capture the parasitized humans alive, and the two discussed whether Kurumi's help would make the task possible.

• Ling Shaoping spotted the mutated horsehair worm approaching through the grass and prepared to defend himself.
• Ling Shaoping threw his dagger at the worm, then ran toward Kurumi for safety.
• Kurumi sliced the worm into tiny pieces, which turned to ash before they could regenerate.
• Commander Li ordered Vajra Gorilla to capture the parasitized humans alive for study.
• Vajra Gorilla asked Tyrannosaurus Rex whether Kurumi's help would give them a chance, and Tyrannosaurus Rex estimated their odds at seventy percent.

Vajra Gorilla and Tyrannosaurus Rex attacked the fourteen parasitized humans while Ling Shaoping stayed beside Kurumi and tried to resist her charm. Kurumi guessed that Ling Shaoping liked Li Jiayu, who watched them from a distance with a dark expression.

• Vajra Gorilla and Tyrannosaurus Rex charged the parasitized humans and fought them with powerful blows, while Commander Li watched in confidence.
• Ling Shaoping stayed beside Kurumi as she teased him for not joining the fight and mocked his chances against a mutated hairworm.
• Ling Shaoping slapped himself to resist Kurumi’s charm, then pushed her away when she leaned close.
• Ling Shaoping admitted he already liked someone and asked Kurumi to stop teasing him.
• Kurumi guessed that Ling Shaoping liked Li Jiayu, while Li Jiayu watched the pair from a distance with a dark expression.

Li Jiayu mistook Ling Shaoping’s closeness with Kurumi for romantic interest and dislocated his arm when he tried to embrace her. Meanwhile, the “Tyrannosaurus Rex” subdued the parasitized humans, and Commander Li examined one after its black threads disappeared.

• Li Jiayu approached Ling Shaoping and Kurumi, then teased Ling about wanting to hold Kurumi in his arms.
• Ling Shaoping took Li Jiayu’s words as encouragement and reached to embrace Kurumi, so Li Jiayu dislocated his joint.
• The “Tyrannosaurus Rex” battered the parasitized humans until their black threads faded, killing one and crushing another.
• Commander Li examined a limp parasitized human while officers aimed their pistols at it.
• Kurumi helped Ling Shaoping reset his joints, and Ling noticed the body Commander Li was examining.

The Vajra Gorilla saved Commander Li and his officers from a mutated wireworm while the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the inheritance users fought the parasite hosts. As Kurumi prepared for an imminent reversal, the parasite hosts suddenly broke free and plunged into the river.

• Ling Shaoping warned Commander Li about the mutated wireworm, but it killed three officers before the Vajra Gorilla arrived and seized it.
• The inheritance users joined the Tyrannosaurus Rex in fighting the parasite hosts, easing the pressure on him.
• Ling Shaoping asked Kurumi why she had not saved the officers, and she said she needed to take care of him.
• Kurumi sensed the battle was about to change and brought out a black sniper rifle as Li Jiayu watched the parasite hosts.
• The parasite hosts erupted with strength, knocked their attackers back, and leaped into the river.