Chapter Summaries

Kurumi and Li Jiayu killed the horned demon wolf pack and freed the nightclub survivors, but Li Jiayu later turned on the club’s people, provoking Kikyo. As the four walked back, Kurumi sensed the ghoul Kikyo had killed revive.

• Kurumi shot down most of the demon wolves with Twilight Morning Star, and Li Jiayu killed the wolf king with Hyōrinmaru.
• Jiang Zhe and the other survivors came downstairs and thanked Li Jiayu after the pack was defeated.
• Kurumi suspected Li Jiayu would eventually kill the survivors alongside Li Jiamin, while trying to view the events as a movie or game.
• Li Jiayu killed the bodyguards and ordered the ghoul to eat Jiang Zhe, so Kikyo stepped forward to oppose him.
• Li Jiayu dealt with two armed officers, and the four began walking back; Kurumi sensed Kikyo’s slain ghoul revive.

Li Jiayu returned to Anning Residential Area with Kurumi and Kikyo after facing threats from humans and insects, then went to visit Xie Wenyuan. Kurumi secretly followed and listened as Xie Wenyuan pieced together Li Jiayu’s situation.

• Li Jiayu sent the Netherworld blue-blooded BMW back to its plane after it eagerly approached Kurumi and refused to let Yan Zisu ride it.
• Li Jiayu, Kurumi, and Kikyo fought their way back through crazed humans and insects, and Li Jiayu’s mummies devoured a group that targeted Kurumi.
• The group returned to Anning Residential Area and found filthy insults written on Yan Zisu’s door and nearby wall.
• Li Jiayu left to visit Xie Wenyuan, while Kurumi slipped away unseen and followed him to Xie Wenyuan’s villa.
• Yan Zisu and Kikyo chatted as Kurumi listened to Li Jiayu and Xie Wenyuan, who inferred a great deal from Li Jiayu’s scattered remarks.

Kurumi killed the Brotherhood Alliance’s leader and vanished after Li Jiayu saw her, while Li Jiayu returned home and awkwardly lowered Kikyo’s favorability by entering her bath to wash her hair. Kurumi waited on a rooftop, sensing that the aura of fractured spacetime was about to arrive.

• Kurumi listened to Xie Wenyuan analyze Li Jiayu, then left after Xie wondered who she was.
• Sun Lu and Sun Rui confronted the Brotherhood Alliance alongside angry civilians, but neither side could break the standoff.
• Kurumi silently killed Blondie with a dagger, prompting the crowd to storm the Brotherhood Alliance’s headquarters.
• Li Jiayu recognized Kurumi on the rooftop before she disappeared, then returned to Yan Zisu’s home and entered Kikyo’s bath to help wash her hair.
• Kurumi sat alone on a rooftop and sensed the aura of fractured spacetime approaching.

As Yin and Yang Soul inheritances spread across Earth, Kurumi discovered that a Lord-class Spirit archer’s Yin Soul had been trapped beneath the divine spark inside her. The archer had once sensed Kurumi and come to her, but now she could neither escape nor pass on her inheritance.

• Tens of millions of Yin Souls and Yang Souls scattered across the world to seek inheritors.
• The residents of Anning Residential Area discussed the skilled killer who had saved them, while Sun Lu sensed an unusual smell around the women who had been assaulted.
• Kurumi noticed a Yin Soul Inheritance had approached her and returned to the bedroom to examine it.
• Kurumi’s spiritual power revealed that her illusory silver divine spark was suppressing the Yin Soul of a Lord-class Spirit archer.
• The Spirit archer’s Yin Soul explained that it had sensed Kurumi but became trapped after encountering her divine spark.

Kurumi's divine spark lured Yin Souls into feeding it, while Xijiang University and the surviving population began recovering after the spatial storms. The next morning, Li Jiayu's group set out for Xijiang University, and Xie Wenyuan found Kurumi's destiny impossible to read consistently.

• Kurumi watched the divine spark trick Yin Souls into surrendering energy, and more arrivals became nourishment for it.
• A Yin Soul chose Li Jiayu instead of Kurumi, while the ongoing energy fluctuations kept Li Jiayu and Kikyo awake.
• Ran Hongxia and the others liberated more teaching buildings, and additional inheritors emerged as the surviving people and the Bug Realm adjusted to the spatial storms.
• The dark clouds and sky crack disappeared, and Kurumi saw the sun return over the land.
• After breakfast, Li Jiayu gathered supplies and led his group toward Xijiang University despite Sun Rui and Sun Lu's attempts to make them stay.
• Xie Wenyuan repeatedly studied Kurumi but saw a different version of her destiny each time.

Kurumi’s group returned to Xijiang University as Ran Hongxia’s meeting-room dispute over searching for supplies grew heated. Kurumi arrived just as Ling Shaoping questioned whether she and Li Jiayu were still alive, leaving the room shaken by her threat.

• Xie Wenyuan remained puzzled by Kurumi’s fate as the group traveled with Li Jiayu toward Xijiang University.
• Campus guards recognized Li Jiayu and Kurumi, greeted them, and shared news about the school before the group headed toward the teaching building.
• Ling Shaoping urged Ran Hongxia to send people out for supplies, but Ran Hongxia insisted on waiting for Li Jiayu or Kurumi to return.
• Ling Shaoping suggested the two might have met with an accident, alarming Ran Hongxia and the others.
• Kurumi entered the meeting room and chillingly threatened the people who had cursed her, and Ran Hongxia excitedly recognized her.

Kurumi and Li Jiayu returned to the conference hall, where Ling Shaoping challenged them to a spar. After Kurumi guessed Ran Hongxia had obtained the Female Sword Immortal Inheritance, she offered to fight Ling Shaoping herself.

• Ling Shaoping was stunned to learn that the beautiful Kurumi and Li Jiayu were the famed fighters he had imagined as a tough man and a girl.
• Ran Hongxia reunited with Kurumi and the others, while Li Jiayu congratulated Xiao Wanqing on obtaining the Yin Soul Inheritance.
• Kurumi guessed that Ran Hongxia had obtained the Female Sword Immortal Inheritance, surprising everyone in the hall.
• Ling Shaoping demanded that Kurumi and Li Jiayu answer him and challenged them both to spar.
• Kurumi asked Ling Shaoping whether he was an assassin, then offered to spar with him.

Ling Shaoping challenged Kurumi Tokisaki, but Li Jiayu and Kurumi warned him against treating her lightly or calling her by name. As the spar began, Ling Shaoping vanished with a strange bend of light, leaving Kurumi facing his sudden attack.

• Luo Yanyu warned Ling Shaoping to be careful with the girl he wanted to fight, and he struggled to figure out how to spar without hurting her pride.
• Li Jiayu told Ling Shaoping and the others to come at Kurumi all at once, and Kurumi pretended to be a helpless girl to unsettle them.
• Ling Shaoping lectured Li Jiayu about arrogance, but Li Jiayu snapped at him for casually calling Kurumi by her name.
• Kurumi introduced herself as Kurumi Tokisaki and warned Ling Shaoping not to use her name until they were close; her voice briefly left him unable to think.
• Kurumi refused to use her gun for their exchange of assassin insights, and Ling Shaoping vanished as the pressure around her grew.

Kurumi exposed Ling Shaoping’s reliance on refracted light and outmaneuvered him during their fight. She left him defeated in front of the conference hall, while Li Jiayu watched her with painful memories of his past.

• Kurumi recognized the weaknesses in Ling Shaoping’s stealth, while Li Jiayu watched his position reflected in his eyes.
• Ling Shaoping crept behind Kurumi, became distracted by her scent and appearance, and struck at what turned out to be a Phantom.
• Kurumi appeared beside Ling Shaoping and evaded his attacks, leaving him unable to detect her.
• The conference hall realized Kurumi had taken control of the fight, while Li Jiayu remained unable to sense her and recalled losing her in his previous life.
• Kurumi kicked Ling Shaoping out of the refracted-light concealment and sent him flying.

Kurumi and Li Jiayu humiliated the Yin Soul inheritors in sparring matches, then helped organize Xijiang University’s survivors and search for supplies. While Kurumi was scavenging outside campus, the system issued her a new quest to escape Xijiang City.

• Kurumi defeated Ling Shaoping effortlessly, and he apologized for underestimating her.
• Li Jiayu challenged the Yin Soul inheritors, then defeated them all using his summoned beasts.
• Ling Shaoping and the others accepted Li Jiayu’s superiority and resolved to train harder.
• Xiao Wanqing organized the more than two thousand survivors at Xijiang University as they cleared the campus and managed supplies.
• Kurumi led a squad outside campus to search for supplies and received the quest to escape Xijiang City.

Kurumi led her team through Xijiang to gather supplies, protecting them from insects and killing the first corpse-poisoned people they encountered. The team continued toward the hospital as Chu Xiang carried a child’s pocket watch and fought the zombies with brutal force.

• Kurumi’s marksmanship kept her team and nearby groups safe from Poisonous Spiders as they cleared a street and split up to collect supplies.
• Kurumi’s team headed for the hospital and found a corpse-poisoned woman eating a child’s brain, whom Kurumi shot dead.
• Chu Xiang found a pocket watch with a family photograph and an engraved wish for the child to grow up healthy and carefree, then placed it on the child’s chest.
• The team encountered more corpse-poisoned people, and Chu Xiang fought them violently with his iron barrel while the others feared infection.
• Kurumi’s team continued toward the hospital after clearing the zombies they encountered.

Kurumi and Chu Xiang’s group fought off a massive swarm of larvae in the hospital while trying to reach the medicine. When Twilight Morning Star stopped working, Kurumi released a powerful spiritual pressure that crushed the nearby larvae and drove the rest away, leaving the group to recover before returning to school with the medicine.

• Kurumi, Chu Xiang, and the students reached the medicine storage room as larvae poured from the corpses and attacked them.
• Kurumi used Twilight Morning Star’s flames while Chu Xiang and the students fought the swarm with their weapons.
• As the larvae overwhelmed them and the gun’s energy ran low, Kurumi tried to channel her spiritual power into Twilight Morning Star but could not.
• Kurumi’s spiritual power burst outward, pinning the students down and crushing the larvae around them.
• The remaining larvae retreated, and Chu Xiang told the exhausted group to rest before packing the medicine and heading back to school.

After returning from the insect-infested hospital, Li Jiayu’s group reported their ordeal and helped distribute supplies while Kurumi washed Black Cat and changed clothes. When Li Jiayu asked Xiao Wanqing where Kurumi was, she said she thought Kurumi had already returned.

• Chu Xiang’s group returned to Xijiang University covered in green insect blood, and Li Jiayu asked what had happened.
• Chu Xiang realized Kurumi was missing, while Ran Hongxia took Li Jiayu away to help Xiao Wanqing count and distribute supplies.
• Chu Xiang led the other men to wash at the river, while Kurumi bathed Black Cat in the laboratory and changed into a more practical outfit.
• Kurumi returned to find the survivors still gathered on the thirteenth floor as Xiao Wanqing and Li Jiayu worked among the supplies.
• Xiao Wanqing told Li Jiayu that someone else had obtained the Summoner inheritance, then said she thought Kurumi had already returned when he asked where she was.

Li Jiayu warned the gathered survivors that Xijiang City would soon fall and urged them to prepare to escape to Yong City. The crowd struggled to accept his prediction, especially after he revealed that Lord-class insects might arrive within ten days.

• Li Jiayu reunited with Kurumi and exchanged teasing remarks with her about spending the afternoon beside Xiao Wanqing.
• Kurumi asked Li Jiayu whether the group should wait for rescue, retreat, or stay, and he considered his responsibility to the thousands following him.
• Li Jiayu explained that Xijiang City's military was overwhelmed by the corpse race and that the group needed to gather supplies before escaping.
• Li Jiayu announced that they should migrate to Yong City, alarming the crowd with the distance and dangers of the journey.
• When an old professor asked whether they could stay in Xijiang, Li Jiayu said that anyone who stayed must not hold everyone else back.
• Li Jiayu warned that insects would descend in force within ten days and that Lord-class insects might appear.

The survivors at Xijiang University struggled with fear and uncertainty after Li Jiayu warned them about the powerful lords they might face on the journey to Yong City. As the city descended further into violence and the zombie horde surged again, Ran Hongxia prepared a training plan for the university survivors.

• The crowd grew frightened as it considered the danger of fleeing Xijiang for Yong City and the strength of the lords Li Jiayu had described.
• The zombie horde erupted in southern Xijiang while rioters continued rampaging through the west and east districts.
• Survivors at the university wondered whether to leave with the main force or remain in Xijiang, unable to contact their families because of the magnetic disturbances.
• Girls envied Sun Weiwei for having Li Jiayu as her master, while they were wary of Kurumi after recalling the short man who had died following his harassment of her.
• Ran Hongxia finished handing out breakfast and, while Li Jiayu remained asleep, prepared a training plan for the survivors.

Li Jiayu noticed Kurumi’s worsening condition and confronted her after days of intense fighting against the corpse plague. Kurumi began to explain what had happened, while Ran Hongxia and Kikyo set out to find her.

• Li Jiayu’s training methods energized the school as its members trained and produced insect armor, while Kurumi continued leaving to hunt.
• On the fourth night, Li Jiayu saw that Kurumi was pale and exhausted, then took her outside to talk.
• Ran Hongxia and Kikyo discussed Kurumi’s injuries and her unexplained fighting, and Ran Hongxia decided to find her with Kikyo.
• Li Jiayu asked Kurumi what had happened to her, and Kurumi began to answer.

Kurumi concealed the details of her injury from Li Jiayu, who urged her to rely on her companions, while she reflected on a dangerous encounter with a third-order monster and the newly appearing spatial rifts. Ran Hongxia and Kikyo confronted her and took her away to demand an explanation.

• Kurumi told Li Jiayu only that she had encountered a third-order monster while investigating the corpse outbreak, and he asked her to share future dangers with him as a companion.
• Kurumi recalled searching Xijiang City for Devil Fruits and being badly injured when a hybrid monster detected and pursued her despite her stealth.
• Kurumi sensed spatial rifts opening and feared that the ten-day deadline would arrive sooner as powerful beings gathered beyond them.
• Ran Hongxia and Kikyo found Kurumi, and Ran Hongxia dragged her away to make her explain what had happened.

Kurumi questioned the strange failure of her spiritual power and the forces manipulating her, then Ran Hongxia forced her to drink Insect Brain Soup. Li Jiayu learned that Kurumi had fought a third-tier monster and, after hearing she was with Ran Hongxia, walked in on them kissing.

• Kurumi suspected the Main God and World Consciousness were secretly clashing and wondered how she could escape being used as a chess piece.
• Ran Hongxia took Kurumi to the storage room and tried to make her drink Insect Brain Soup while Kikyo held her down.
• Ran Hongxia tickled Kurumi until she laughed, then slipped a spoonful of soup into her mouth.
• Xiao Wanqing asked Li Jiayu about Kurumi, and he told her Kurumi had been injured fighting a third-tier monster.
• Xiao Wanqing explained that Kurumi had gone searching for family in Xijiang and that Ran Hongxia had taken her away.
• Li Jiayu went to the storage room and saw Kurumi and Ran Hongxia kissing.

Li Jiayu walked in on Ran Hongxia and Kikyo restraining Kurumi and mistook their attempt to feed her soup for a romantic encounter. Xiao Wanqing examined Kurumi and discovered something astonishing about her injuries.

• Li Jiayu entered and saw Ran Hongxia pinning Kurumi down while Kikyo held her arms, and he assumed they had been kissing.
• Xiao Wanqing and Li Jiayu reacted with shock, while Ran Hongxia explained that she had been trying to feed Kurumi Insect Brain Soup.
• Li Jiayu challenged Ran Hongxia's explanation, but Xiao Wanqing stopped him before he could finish accusing her of mouth-to-mouth feeding.
• Xiao Wanqing examined Kurumi with her spiritual power and widened her eyes at what she found.

Xiao Wanqing failed to heal Kurumi’s severely damaged meridians, and the group feared she would not recover before the city’s evacuation in ten days. Kikyo was assigned to protect Kurumi while Xiao Wanqing searched for another treatment.

• Xiao Wanqing’s healing magic was swallowed by the energy vortex inside Kurumi, and she could not repair Kurumi’s damaged meridians.
• Xiao Wanqing suspected that Kurumi might be a Lord or a quasi-Legendary, while Kurumi explained that her Spirit Body and spiritual power differed from human healing methods.
• Xiao Wanqing told Li Jiayu and Ran Hongxia that Kurumi might not recover before the evacuation and would need someone to protect her.
• Ran Hongxia and Kikyo both volunteered to guard Kurumi, but Xiao Wanqing chose Kikyo because Ran Hongxia would have duties as student council president.
• Li Jiayu stayed silent rather than objecting, choosing Kurumi’s safety over stopping his continued feminization.