Chapter Summaries

Su Shijie helped expose how the serial killers had manipulated hovercars, then returned to his hotel and completed Bloodline Transformation. He discovered his new Spacetime Affinity trait could greatly increase his speed and let him pass through obstacles, but using it strained his body.

• City guards recognized Su Shijie as the victim after he killed three attackers, returned his sword, and offered to apply for a reward.
• Chuan Feng arrived with the Task Force, and Su Shijie explained how the attackers had targeted him before leaving after giving his statement.
• Su Shijie read that the City Guard Office had announced the serial murder case was solved, though he suspected the three attackers had accomplices and the announcement was meant to reassure the public before a Cloud Tribe tour group arrived.
• Su Shijie entered the Thoughtless State and underwent Bloodline Transformation at dawn, gaining a twenty-percent boost and a new trait.
• Su Shijie invested Evil Spirits to raise Spacetime Affinity to level five and learned it let him accelerate dramatically and pass through obstacles, though returning to normal spacetime caused severe strain.

Su Shijie detected a possible Evil God Cultist inside the City Lord's Mansion and suspected Countess Chuan Yayii, who had just advanced to Transformation Tier. He went with her to visit Su Rou, where the three prepared to spar.

• Su Shijie reviewed his strengthened traits and cultivation progress, then sensed a believer murmuring about the Evil God Cult inside the City Lord's Mansion.
• Chuan Yayii announced that her profession engraving had succeeded and that she had reached Transformation Tier.
• Su Shijie rode with Chuan Yayii to Su Rou's private training ground and secretly investigated whether she was the believer he had sensed.
• Su Rou invited Su Shijie to spar, and Chuan Yayii joined them to test her new strength and Earth Empowerment.

Su Shijie sparred with Chuan Yayii and impressed her with his skill, then secretly tested whether the women’s uniforms carried the scent he associated with Evil God Cultists. He returned to the City Lord’s Mansion to cultivate with Johnson and learned that Cloud Tribe visitors would arrive in Prosperous City the next day.

• Chuan Yayii defeated Su Shijie in their spar only after her attacks destroyed his wooden sword, and she realized how exceptional his talent was.
• Su Shijie secretly sniffed the training uniforms after Chuan Yayii and the others went to shower, but found that all three smelled fragrant and left embarrassed.
• Su Shijie returned to the Spirit Screening Hut and cultivated with Johnson while screening a Transformation Tier Spirit Beast for two hours.
• Johnson told Su Shijie that a Cloud Tribe painter and his friend would arrive in Prosperous City the next day, and Su Shijie decided to keep working his shift instead of going to watch.

Su Shijie learned that his coworker and friend Johnson had been murdered by Evil God Cultists, who had also killed Johnson’s family during a coordinated attack in Prosperous Sky City. The authorities planned to conceal the case until the visiting Cloud Tribe guests had departed.

• Three Cloud Tribe travelers arrived above the Floating City, and Su Shijie listened to their song before returning his attention to cultivating.
• Su Shijie worked an extra shift and wondered why Johnson had not returned, assuming he had gone to see the Cloud Tribe.
• Manager Liu told Su Shijie that Johnson had died, and Su Shijie recognized from Liu’s emotional fluctuations that Evil God Cultists were responsible.
• Su Shijie contacted Chuan Feng, who explained that attackers had killed Johnson and his parents and sister at home in under five minutes.
• Chuan Feng told Su Shijie that cameras in the area had been disabled for ten minutes and that the authorities would postpone handling the murders until the Cloud Tribe guests left.

Su Shijie was caught using telekinesis by Chuan Chenghua, the Evolutionary Tier Level 7 powerhouse, who had already identified him through his weapons and spending records. Chuan Chenghua recruited him into the Chuan Family and explained that he had come to examine a maid, leaving Su Shijie with a narrower lead in his search for Evil God Cultists.

• Su Shijie sensed a prayer inside the pavilion and used telekinesis to investigate, but Chuan Chenghua burst into his room and caught him.
• Su Shijie tried to explain himself by mentioning his connection to Chuan Yayii, while realizing the prayer meant Chuan Chenghua was not the one praying.
• Chuan Chenghua revealed that he had identified Su Shijie through his stored Gauss Sniper Rifles and spending records, and had concealed the investigation using his authority.
• Chuan Chenghua introduced himself as the Blade of Earth and told Su Shijie that Su Ren had once worked under him.
• Chuan Chenghua said he had come to examine a maid, giving Su Shijie a more specific direction for investigating the people in the building.
• Chuan Chenghua justified his interest in having descendants, saying Chuan Yayii would wait until she reached Marquis Bloodline before considering children.

Su Shijie reflected on the cultist threat and his family’s new life in Binhai City while benefiting from powerful cultivators’ spirit beast sessions. The chapter ended when he recognized the newly assigned night-shift Spirit Sifter, Yi Zhiqiang, as a fully corrupted Evil God fanatic who asked whether Su Shijie believed in the Dark Light.

• Su Shijie considered whether to alert Chuan Yayii about an Evil God Cultist among the City Lord’s Mansion servants.
• Su Shijie learned from Yang Xiu that the Cloud Tribe guests were adapting to Prosperous City and heard from his father that his family had settled safely in Binhai City.
• Su Shijie reflected on the spirit energy he had gained from the cultivations of an unknown Bigwig and Chuan Yayii, and noted that Transformation Tier Spirit Beasts were becoming scarce.
• Steward Liu introduced Yi Zhiqiang as the new night-shift Spirit Sifter and asked Su Shijie to guide him.
• Su Shijie recognized Yi Zhiqiang as a fully corrupted Evil God fanatic and suspected Steward Liu was a hidden cultist.
• Yi Zhiqiang asked Su Shijie whether he believed in the Dark Light.

Su Shijie lured a fanatical Wicked Anomaly into the Spirit Beast breeding facility and drained its Soul Power before it could cause further destruction. After Chuan Chenghua and another Evolutionary Tier expert found him, Su Shijie was ordered to stay for observation, and he learned that Manager Liu had died by suicide.

• Yi Zhiqiang’s failed breakthrough turned him into a sludge-like Wicked Anomaly that attacked Su Shijie in the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Su Shijie escaped into the Spirit Beast breeding facility, where the anomaly devoured and polluted the restrained beasts.
• As two Evolutionary Tier auras appeared, Su Shijie pierced the anomaly with Soul Tendrils and absorbed its Soul Power along with the Spirit Beasts it had assimilated.
• Chuan Chenghua and another Evolutionary Tier expert pulled Su Shijie from the facility, tested him with a Rubik’s Cube, and told him to remain for observation.
• Chuan Chenghua showed Su Shijie an image of Manager Liu dead in a pool of blood, and Su Shijie confirmed his identity.

After the attack at the City Lord’s Mansion, Su Shijie was placed under observation while he dealt with a huge surge in soul power. Chuan Yayii warned him that the First Earl of Prosperous had died and that powerful interests might be moving against the estate, leaving Su Shijie confined but armed and uneasy.

• Chuan Chenghua and another Evolutionary Tier expert neutralized the contamination, and the Task Force took Su Shijie to the city guard station for three days of observation.
• Su Shijie used the Thoughtless State to spend nearly nine hundred units of soul power strengthening his traits and concealed the remaining surge.
• Chuan Yayii and Su Rou visited Su Shijie, and Chuan Yayii warned him that enemies might have set their sights on him.
• Chuan Yayii revealed that the First Earl of Prosperous had died among the stars and suggested that someone might have used the Evil God Cultists to serve their own aims.
• Chuan Yayii gave Su Shijie a psionic metal sword for protection, while Su Rou told him she had reached the Transformation Tier and would look after the dojo.

Su Shijie survived a truck bombing at the city guard station and realized the Evil God Cultists were relentlessly targeting him. As Prosperous Sky City faced public scandal over the attack and the First Earl’s death, Su Shijie went into hiding and decided to hunt cultists himself.

• At a secret meeting, Evil God Cultists discussed their failed attempts to kill Su Shijie and planned another attack at the place where he was detained.
• Su Shijie sensed danger in his cell, but the city guard dismissed his warning until a cargo truck crashed toward the station.
• Su Shijie used his Thoughtless State and Spacetime Affinity to survive the explosion, then fled three kilometers away.
• Su Shijie removed his positioning system and authentication chip, disguised himself, and resolved to disappear into the shadows and strike the cultists first.
• News of the bombing and the First Earl of Prosperous’s death spread online, while Su Shijie recognized that a powerful figure was exploiting the turmoil.
• Frustrated by his inability to act online, Su Shijie decided to kill some Evil God Cultists to vent his anger.

Su Shijie strengthened his bloodlines, then searched the city for Evil God Cultists using his seven-hundred-meter telekinesis. After a Cloud Tribe traveler pointed him toward a place that blocked telekinesis, Su Shijie found the cultists celebrating the chaos and confronted them.

• Su Shijie raised nearly all his traits to Level 10 and began sweeping the city for signs of Evil God Cultists.
• Su Shijie encountered a curious Cloud Tribe traveler with telekinesis, who told him about material blocking telekinesis three streets away.
• The Cloud Tribe traveler asked Su Shijie to tell him the cultists' story, but Su Shijie refused and continued investigating.
• Several Evil God Cultists celebrated the explosion and planned to intensify the chaos to hasten Lord Gries's descent.
• Su Shijie appeared in the cultists' room with a metallic-colored jelly and offered a blessing from their lord to those who answered his questions.

Su Shijie captured a group of Evil God Cultists and learned that the Runan Marquisate had ordered them to target the Chuan Family. After consuming a cultist’s evil spirit and killing the rest, he left the scene and emerged in a restroom, where a stranger asked if he had gotten something in his mouth.

• Su Shijie used Earth Empowerment and the Metal Slime to trap the armed cultists, then questioned them about who had sent them.
• A cultist named the Runan Marquisate as their sponsor, and Su Shijie suspected it wanted Prosperous Sky City's shares in Federal Heavy Industry.
• A cultist transformed into an evil spirit, which Su Shijie's Soul Tendrils pierced and devoured.
• The remaining cultists tried to pledge loyalty to Su Shijie, but he killed them and consumed their souls.
• Su Shijie carved "Salvation" into the wall, distorted his way to a first-floor restroom, and encountered a man who asked if it had splashed into his mouth.

While searching Prosperous Sky City, Su Shijie learned that a Cloud Tribe guest had been murdered and discovered that Zhou He, an elder of the Runan Marquisate, was implicated in the security failure. The death intensified his resolve to bring down the Runan Marquisate, while Zhou He confronted Chuan Mingde over the attack and threatened a federal investigation.

• Su Shijie suspected the Runan Marquisate had manipulated Evil God Cultists for selfish gain and vowed to make them pay for the harm they had caused.
• Su Shijie saw reports that a Cloud Tribe tourist had been murdered and learned that Zhou He, an elder of the Runan Marquisate, had been assigned to protect the guests.
• Su Shijie headed toward the scene as Zhou He apologized to Yun Jing for the failure to protect Yun Qing, whom the Earl of Prosperous Manor had been asked to watch over.
• Chuan Mingde erupted in anger at Zhou He, who overpowered him and accused the Earl of Prosperous Manor of shifting blame and possibly having ties to the Evil God Cultists.

Su Shijie followed a city guard suspected of being an Evil God Cultist and joined forces with Yun Jing, a Cloud Tribe member investigating the murder. They discovered the guard meeting with cultists to trick Chuan Ziliu into undergoing a ritual, while Su Shijie sensed the obvious lead might conceal a trap.

• Su Shijie watched the Cloud Tribe group leave the murder scene and identified a city guard in the crowd as a senior Evil God Cultist.
• Su Shijie followed the guard after work and discovered that a psychokinetic user was following him too.
• Su Shijie met Yun Jing, who said he was pursuing clues left by the murdered Cloud Tribe member and did not trust the Evolutionary Tier lords.
• Su Shijie and Yun Jing followed the guard to an evacuated building near the blast site, where three Evil God Cultists had gathered for a ritual.
• Su Shijie recognized Chuan Ziliu as the frightened man being persuaded to undergo the ritual in exchange for an Imperial Bloodline and help for his family.

Yun Jing and Su Shijie uncovered a ritual that had twisted Chuan Ziliu by grafting a dead Cloud Tribe member’s traits onto him, and Yun Jing swiftly destroyed the cultists conducting it. Yun Jing agreed to let Su Shijie investigate the larger conspiracy before deciding how his group would handle Chuan Ziliu, then ended their discussion with an unexpected hand-kissing gesture.

• Yun Jing waited for evidence while Chuan Ziliu underwent a ritual that forcibly joined the dead Cloud Tribe member’s soul fragments to his human-nature layer.
• After confirming the ritual and gathering evidence, Yun Jing used miniature laser weapons to kill the city guard and black-robed figure, while a shockwave knocked Chuan Ziliu unconscious.
• Su Shijie and Yun Jing discovered that the black-robed figure was a humanoid robot with its manufacturing clues erased, and Yun Jing took a recording of the scene.
• Su Shijie explained his suspicions about an internal human power struggle and shared testimony from the Evil God Cultists he had interrogated; Yun Jing searched online and considered the account plausible.
• Yun Jing said he would take Chuan Ziliu but wait for Su Shijie’s final investigation before deciding how his group would handle him.
• Yun Jing accepted Su Shijie’s agreement to investigate and kissed the back of his hand in a human-style gesture.

Yun Jing gave Su Shijie a multifunctional sphere before leaving with Chuan Ziliu, whose death exposed the Earl of Prosperous Manor’s connection to an Evil God Cult plot. As Prosperous City’s elite moved to contain the scandal, Su Shijie learned that Chuan Chenghua and Su Rou both wanted him to leave the city, and Su Rou expelled him from her dojo.

• Yun Jing apologized to Su Shijie, gave him a Multi-functional Autonomous Sphere, and left carrying the unconscious Chuan Ziliu.
• Chuan Ziliu demanded to see the Dawn Goddess and claimed to have Imperial Bloodline, but Chuan Chenghua killed him while Zhou He watched triumphantly.
• News of Chuan Ziliu’s Evil God Cult ties and his attempt to elevate his bloodline sparked public outrage, and the Earl of Prosperous Manor agreed to an equity transfer and engagement with the Runan Marquisate.
• Su Shijie used the sphere to contact his family and anonymously sent a recording to the Earl of Prosperous Manor, then found that Yun Jing and Yun Lan had returned to Venus with Yun Qing’s body.
• Su Shijie contacted Chuan Chenghua, who urged him to take Su Rou away from Prosperous City and offered him two Gene Formulas.
• Su Rou told Su Shijie to leave Prosperous City, offered him two Gene Formulas, and expelled him from her dojo.

Su Shijie infiltrated a new Evil God Cultist gathering in Prosperous Market, hoping to uncover their plans after the cultists vanished from the Floating City. He waited underground for more believers to arrive, prepared to decide whether to strike or investigate further.

• Su Shijie learned that the Count planned to hold an engagement ceremony with the young master of the Runan Marquisate and suspected something would happen at the banquet.
• Su Shijie left the Floating City and searched Prosperous Market with his telekinesis, locating a stall connected to the Evil God Cultists.
• Su Shijie asked the stall owner about Dark Light, and she led him through hidden passages to an underground chamber.
• Su Shijie watched several black-robed believers praying over a pattern made from blood and internal organs without showing signs of distress.
• Su Shijie claimed to be an important liaison and waited in the chamber, intending to judge whether to attack the cultists or pursue a larger target.

Su Shijie met Gries, a powerful Evil God Cultist, and avoided revealing his face by claiming ties to believers from the Cloud Tribe. Gries accepted his story and brought him into the operation against the Runan Marquisate.

• Gries arrived, and Su Shijie sensed that the seemingly ordinary man was exceptionally dangerous.
• Su Shijie greeted Gries and used Yun Jing's Multi-functional Autonomous Sphere to explain why he could not reveal his face.
• Su Shijie claimed that a Cloud Tribe believer had contacted him and sent the sphere, then suggested that believer had helped expose the Earl of Prosperous Manor.
• Gries believed the story and gave Su Shijie a communication number and a coded-language translation chip.
• Su Shijie said the Cloud Tribe believer opposed the Runan Marquisate for its selfishness and lack of devotion, and Gries accepted the explanation.

Su Shijie persuaded Gres and the Evil God Cultists to openly support the Runan Marquisate and use the coming engagement ceremony to sacrifice two cities. He discovered their powerful Contamination Source and volunteered to escort it, while concealing his desire to seize its vast supply of Evil Spirit Quotas.

• Gres told Su Shijie that the Earl of Prosperous Manor had borrowed the Lord's power and that the cultists hoped to carry out a Blood Sacrifice of Prosperous City.
• Su Shijie proposed openly helping the Runan Marquisate so the Federation would become involved, and Gres agreed with his plan to attempt a sacrifice involving two cities.
• Su Shijie saw the cultists' fifty-year-old Holy Source and sensed that it held nearly ten thousand Evil Spirit Quotas.
• Gres told Su Shijie that Runan Floating City would arrive in five days and that they could begin transporting the Holy Source in two days.
• Su Shijie offered to escort the Holy Source to the engagement ceremony, and Gres accepted.

Su Shijie helped the Evil God Cultists move the Contamination Source into a hidden basement beneath the marketplace while learning more about the Spirit Wind Knights and their Spirit Caller profession. Gries left him to guard the source alongside Yan Fen and Yang Yuanjia as the cult prepared its Blood Sacrifice.

• Gries learned that Yan Fen had captured a young reserve member of the Spirit Wind Knights and brought him into the cave.
• Gries revealed that he had once belonged to the Spirit Wind Knights, while Su Shijie learned their profession was called Spirit Caller and that its Gene Formula was being kept secret.
• Su Shijie persuaded Gries to save the captive for the final sacrifice instead of dealing with him immediately.
• Su Shijie carried the captive as the cultists moved the Contamination Source to a basement beneath the marketplace.
• Gries ordered Su Shijie, Yan Fen, and Yang Yuanjia to guard the Contamination Source while he handled matters outside.

Su Shijie watched Fang Ren resist the Evil God Cultists as the Runan Marquisate arrived in Prosperous Sky City and its forces prepared to exploit the city’s conflict. After learning the attack had begun, Su Shijie appeared to agree to help Yang Yuanjia torture Fang Ren, then struck at Yang Yuanjia with liquid blades.

• Su Shijie watched Yan Fen beat Fang Ren, who vowed to become a Spirit Caller and escape.
• Runan Floating City docked with Prosperous Sky City, and Su Rou went to see Chuan Yayii off.
• Zhou He led Runan Marquisate representatives into Prosperous Sky City and challenged Chuan Chenghua about the engagement banquet.
• Gres entered Runan Floating City with the cultists and planned to use the coming conflict to turn the Earl of Prosperous Manor against the Runan Marquisate.
• Su Shijie learned the feast was beginning, knocked Fang Ren unconscious, and then launched three liquid blades at Yang Yuanjia.