Chapter Summaries

After returning to the outpost, Su Shijie learned how multiple professions and high-level bloodlines could lead to godlike power. He chose Spirit Caller as his first Transformation Tier profession and began wondering whether he had inherited blood from a True God.

• Su Shijie scrubbed off the contamination stink at the outpost bathhouse while Dawn arranged for guards to handle his equipment and follow-up matters.
• Su Shijie declined Dawn’s offer to leave with the sample transport and chose to investigate a suspected Contamination Source near Jiangnan City.
• Dawn recommended Mechanist, Empowerer, and Sword Immortal as possible professions, then explained how Imperial Bloodlines could open multiple professions and advance toward Calamity.
• Dawn described Divine Beings and True God Bloodlines, including how their immense bloodline levels could support multiple professions and powerful fields.
• Su Shijie chose Spirit Caller for his first Transformation Tier profession because it could strengthen his perception and let him contact Evil Gods.
• Su Shijie asked Dawn whether one of his ancestors might have received blood from a passing True God, and Dawn responded with a skeptical expression.

After recovering at 171 Outpost, Su Shijie discovered that someone had stolen his Mustang-VI’s tires and used Dawn Goddess to identify the culprit, Jiang Xingxiu. He headed for Jiangnan Floating City to confront him, but the damaged replacement tires forced his car to slow on the forest highway.

• Su Shijie contacted Su Ren and Bai Xinxin, reassured them about his gains, and told his dad he had become a Federal Heavy Industry weapons calibrator.
• Su Shijie rested overnight at 171 Outpost, then found that someone had swapped all four tires on his Mustang-VI.
• Su Shijie asked Dawn Goddess to investigate, and she identified the thief as Jiang Xingxiu, a Jiangnan Academy graduate staying in Jiangnan Floating City.
• Su Shijie drove toward Jiangnan Floating City and accelerated along its forest highway.
• The car’s alarm sounded and its speed was restricted after the OS detected damage to the replacement tires.

Su Shijie arrived in Jiangnan City, learned about the local Evil God Cultists and Task Force activity, and planned to hunt while improving his strength. He asked Dawn to arrange an academy transfer so he could work as a Spirit Sifter, but learned he needed to qualify as an outstanding student first.

• Su Shijie replaced his battered tires, stored his car and weapons at the checkpoint, and entered Jiangnan City.
• Su Shijie read about Jiangnan City’s academies, trade, and three Evolutionary Tier Bigwigs while reviewing information on a nearby Contamination Source.
• Su Shijie learned that the Task Force had clashed with Evil God Cultists, injuring two members and killing a suspected reserve recruit.
• Su Shijie planned to hunt Evil God Cultists, improve his bloodline, and eventually break through to the Transformation Tier.
• Su Shijie asked Dawn to arrange a Spirit Sifter position and academy enrollment, but Dawn explained that he first needed to qualify for a transfer as an outstanding student.

Su Shijie used Dawn Goddess's help to get hired as a cleaner at Jiangnan Academy so he could study and cultivate there. Assigned to the Special Grade Training Ground, he began cultivating while working and kept his strength secret from the students.

• Su Shijie explained his disrupted studies and obtained a cleaner position at Jiangnan Academy.
• Auntie Wang gave Su Shijie his supplies and uniform, and the system assigned him to the Special Grade Training Ground.
• Su Shijie booked a nearby hotel and began cultivating while cleaning scraps in the training ground.
• A student asked how Su Shijie got the job and suggested making a deal, but backed off when Su Shijie said he also had a special bloodline.
• Su Shijie finished his shift without provoking the students and planned to deal with the tire thief.

Su Shijie tracked down Jiang Xingxiu and brought him to the City Guard Office for stealing his tires, where irrefutable evidence forced Jiang to face the consequences. While there, Su Shijie discovered an Evil God Cultist praying in a back office, leaving him with a chance to investigate the cult.

• Su Shijie found Jiang Xingxiu at his apartment and confronted him about stealing tires at 171 Outpost.
• Jiang Xingxiu denied the theft and threatened to sue, but Su Shijie reported him to the City Guard Office.
• Su Shijie presented conclusive evidence at the station, and Jiang Xingxiu pleaded for leniency while his girlfriend tried to intervene.
• Su Shijie noticed an Evil God Cultist's whispered call and used telekinesis to locate a praying man in a rear office.

Su Shijie followed Hu Zhi, a Transformation Tier city guard official and suspected Evil God Cultist, to learn about his family and deteriorating condition. After returning to Jiangnan Academy, Su Shijie decided to report Evil God Cultists to earn the Shadow Walker formula.

• Su Shijie completed the case registration and learned that the ruling and compensation would be sent to his account.
• Su Shijie followed Hu Zhi from the city guard station to a residential district and confirmed that Hu Zhi lived with an unaware wife and son.
• Su Shijie concluded that Hu Zhi was a shallow believer nearing the point of failing the internal inspection and noted that he seemed likely to resign.
• Su Shijie returned to Jiangnan Academy and found the Special Grade Training Ground crowded with students.
• Su Shijie decided to report Evil God Cultists and exchange his contributions for Jiangnan Academy's Shadow Walker formula.

Su Shijie disguised himself and approached Hu Zhi under the pretense of returning to the Evil God Cult. Hu Zhi gave him a task to investigate a suspected traitor, leaving Su Shijie with a way to gather more information on the cult.

• Dawn Goddess gave Su Shijie the location and password for a Storage Box containing a disguise mask, and warned him to avoid Evil Gods.
• Su Shijie used a new disguise and a cloud-shaped badge bearing Gries’s name to approach Hu Zhi and arrange a meeting.
• Hu Zhi recognized Su Shijie’s prayer as sincere and believed his claim that he wanted to return to the organization and undergo the baptism assessment.
• Hu Zhi told Su Shijie that a traitor had caused losses among their ranks and asked him to watch a list of suspects and report any clues.
• Su Shijie agreed to investigate the suspects and asked Hu Zhi for detailed information.

Su Shijie investigated five suspected new Evil God Cultists and identified Yan Yongkang as an undercover operative. He recruited Yan Yongkang to work under his command and uncover the cult’s Contamination Source and strongest member.

• Su Shijie received detailed information on five suspicious recruits and found one behaving strangely while surveilling them.
• Su Shijie reported Hu Zhi to the Dawn Goddess but asked her not to alert the enemy yet.
• The Dawn Goddess identified the suspicious recruit as Yan Yongkang, Yan Fen’s younger brother and an undercover operative still within his validity period.
• Su Shijie visited Yan Yongkang at home and told him the cult had begun to suspect him.
• Su Shijie arranged to shift suspicion onto another recruit and tasked Yan Yongkang with locating the cult’s Contamination Source and strongest member.

Su Shijie and Yan Yongkang manipulated Hu Zhi’s investigation to make Gu Ying appear to be the traitor, earning Su Shijie an invitation to the cult’s gathering. At midnight, Su Shijie joined Hu Zhi and other Transformation Tier members at the meeting place, wary of the boss who would oversee the baptism and ready to act if he found an opportunity.

• Yan Yongkang framed Gu Ying and helped clear his own name while Su Shijie disguised himself and captured Gu Ying for Hu Zhi.
• Hu Zhi found suspicious encrypted messages on Gu Ying’s terminal, drugged him, and confined him in a life-support box.
• Hu Zhi invited Su Shijie to the upcoming gathering, while Su Shijie warned him to remain cautious about additional undercover agents.
• Su Shijie and Yan Yongkang received different meeting addresses, and Su Shijie recognized the locations as another test of their trustworthiness.
• At midnight, Su Shijie arrived at the market gathering and saw Hu Zhi with numerous Transformation Tier members and four other newcomers awaiting baptism.
• Su Shijie kept Hummingbird 740 and Bee X monitoring the area and prepared to act, though he remained wary of the cult’s boss and any powerful experts.

Su Shijie infiltrated Jiangnan City's Evil God Cultists, stole Soul Power from their Contamination Source, and learned that Lord Ya Zi would arrive to make up for a destroyed stronghold. He left the gathering more trusted by the cultists but alarmed by the threat of an Evolutionary Tier figure.

• Su Shijie followed Hu Zhi and the cultists through concealed passages into their jungle hideout.
• Hu Zhi told Su Shijie that the cultists had moved locations after an undercover agent exposed them and that their boss stayed behind to guard the group.
• Su Shijie touched the Contamination Source during a baptism and secretly stole about five hundred portions of Soul Power.
• The cultists welcomed Yan Yongkang and other Awakened Rank recruits, while Su Shijie sensed their masked leader was a powerful late Transformation Tier fighter.
• The leader said Lord Ya Zi would personally arrive to compensate for a stronghold destroyed by the Task Force, leaving Su Shijie fearful of the Evolutionary Tier threat.

Su Shijie used Hummingbird 740 and enhanced sniper rifles to ambush the Evil God Cultists, then escaped underground with Hu Zhi and the survivors while pretending to be loyal. Head Rat trusted him enough to make him join a Blood Sacrifice around the Sacred Source, which Su Shijie observed would deepen the cultists’ contamination and connection to it.

• Su Shijie assembled sniper rifles from Hummingbird 740 and attacked Head Rat and the scattered Transformation Tier teams, killing several cultists and wounding Head Rat.
• Su Shijie warned the cultists to protect the Sacred Source, helped Hu Zhi evade a shot, and led their group into a tunnel with one dead and one gravely injured.
• Su Shijie and Hu Zhi reached Head Rat, who carried the Sacred Source and led them through underground passages to an evacuation point.
• Head Rat asked Su Shijie, Hu Zhi, and the injured cultist to perform a Blood Sacrifice so they could rise again with the Sacred Source.
• Su Shijie volunteered first, and as the others followed, he observed that the sacrifice increased their contamination and strengthened their connection to the Sacred Source.

Su Shijie learned that Lord Ya Zi planned to sacrifice the nearby shelters and used his illusion techniques to secure a role guiding Ya Zi. After Head Rat was ambushed by the Mechanist, Su Shijie killed him and drained his transformed evil spirit.

• Head Rat told Su Shijie, Hu Zhi, and Fat Corpse to gather intelligence on the shelters for Lord Ya Zi’s Blood Sacrifice and breakthrough.
• Su Shijie subtly influenced Head Rat to pass their contact codes to Lord Ya Zi and trust them with guiding him.
• Head Rat spoke with Lord Ya Zi, who ordered him to spread seeds into every shelter and criticized his ranking of the three cultists.
• The Mechanist attacked Head Rat with Psionic Metal bullets as he left, forcing him to defend himself with his weapon.
• Su Shijie appeared before Head Rat, struck him with his Psionic Energy Longsword, and drained his body after five streams of air tore him apart.

Su Shijie killed the Evil God Cultists’ leader in Jiangnan City, recovered his hidden potions, and worked with Dawn to plan how to deal with the cult’s Blood Sacrifice plot. After returning to Jiangnan Academy, he sent Yan Yongkang coded news and went to the bathhouse, where he startled a girl who recognized him.

• Su Shijie dug up the Head Rat’s hidden box and recovered a Gene Repair Potion, four other potions, and a dismantled Personal Terminal.
• Su Shijie told Dawn that he had killed the Evil God Cultists’ chief in Jiangnan City and explained their plan to Blood Sacrifice the shelters to help an Evolutionary Tier break through to the Transcendent Tier.
• Su Shijie chose to help lure out the cultists, and Dawn arranged for him to cooperate as a Special Commissioner while she handled the preparations.
• After returning to Jiangnan City, Su Shijie stored the potions and sent Yan Yongkang coded news about the successful attack and crucial intelligence.
• At the academy bathhouse, a girl leaving the women’s bathhouse accused Su Shijie of lacking propriety, then recognized him and quieted down as he entered the men’s bathhouse.

Su Shijie consolidated his control over the Jiangnan Evil God Cultists and prepared them for a collective Blood Sacrifice while continuing to cultivate at the Special Grade Training Ground. He also became the target of a campus rumor about molesting Major General Ma’s Flower, and the chapter ended with Yan Yongkang reporting that he had gained the trust of Jiangnan’s most important cultist—Su Shijie himself.

• Su Shijie planned to keep Head Rat’s death secret, work with Hu Zhi to organize the believers, and eventually arrange a collective Blood Sacrifice that included Yan Yongkang.
• Su Shijie reviewed the encrypted cultist lists and decided to bring Yan Yongkang and several scapegoats into the network while leaving Hu Zhi to handle the other believers.
• Students at the Special Grade Training Ground discussed a trending accusation that Su Shijie had followed Major General Ma’s Flower into the women’s bathhouse, and Su Shijie checked the forum before returning to cultivation.
• Hu Zhi reconnected with most of the city’s believers and agreed with Su Shijie’s proposal that everyone undergo a collective Blood Sacrifice.
• Su Shijie added Yan Yongkang and three new believers to the communication network, while Yan Yongkang reported that he had gained the trust of Jiangnan City’s most important Evil God Cultist and asked whether to lure the person out for arrest.

Su Shijie studied ways to improve his weapons while the rumors about Ma Yiyi continued to spread. He met with Hu Zhi, who planned to move the Sacred Source into Jiangnan City for a Blood Sacrifice, and left to check on the believers as the operation neared.

• Su Shijie studied weapon designs and considered modifying his Gauss rifles with connected barrels or a particle-accelerator arrangement.
• Su Shijie saw that rumors about Ma Yiyi had grown into claims that her stalker had succeeded, then decided to return to the hotel and check on Hu Zhi.
• Hu Zhi told Su Shijie that he and Fat Corpse planned to move the Sacred Source into the city and hold the Blood Sacrifice there.
• Hu Zhi planned to gather the believers under the pretense of an ordinary outer-member meeting, believing any undercover agent would not report the gathering in time.
• Hu Zhi and Su Shijie noted that their boss had not contacted them, but Hu Zhi decided to proceed with purifying the group.

Su Shijie tried to avoid trouble on his way to a reserved laboratory, but Ma Yiyi confronted him over the online scandal. After he stopped her suitor’s surprise attack and forced Ma Yiyi to explain what had happened, he entered the laboratory building.

• Su Shijie considered sparing Hu Zhi and Fat Corpse and planned for the midnight gathering at the sealed bar.
• After intensive cultivation, Su Shijie left the training ground and headed to the laboratory building for his reservation.
• Ma Yiyi recognized Su Shijie and confronted him in front of the students gathered outside.
• Su Shijie threatened Ma Yiyi and knocked out a suitor who attacked him from behind.
• Ma Yiyi explained how the scandal had started, and the onlookers realized Su Shijie had been the target of cyberbullying.
• Su Shijie walked through the crowd into the laboratory building.

Su Shijie demonstrated remarkable precision while using a psionic machine tool to produce components for upgrading his Gauss Rifles. When an elder invited him to join the operational manufacturing field, Su Shijie refused and questioned the elder’s claim that peace, rather than combat, defined the world.

• Su Shijie used the lab’s psionic machine tool to engrave a tiny human face and manufacture components for his rifle modifications, astonishing the instructor.
• After six hours of work, Su Shijie finished most of the small components and noticed several people watching him through the glass.
• A white-haired elder praised Su Shijie’s manufacturing talent and asked him to join their field, but Su Shijie said he was not interested.
• The elder argued that combat was uncommon and that development and expansion mattered more, prompting Su Shijie to reflect on Shelter P-314, Prosperous City, and the Evil God Cultists.
• Su Shijie concluded that the elder’s peaceful world felt distant from the violence he had faced and believed he would have to keep hunting Evil God Cultists to survive.

Su Shijie reflected on the fragility of peaceful life, then prepared to infiltrate an Evil God Cultist gathering with Hu Zhi and the others. At the shuttered bar, more than a hundred cultists assembled, and Hu Zhi announced that they would all be forced to take part in the Blood Sacrifice.

• Su Shijie told Ma Yong that he had been a Spirit Sifter in Prosperous City and explained why he could not rely on a fragile peace.
• Ma Yong revealed that Ma Yiyi was his granddaughter, apologized for her behavior, and offered Su Shijie free access to his laboratory.
• Su Shijie returned to the hotel, ordered specialized alloy, and received temporary authorization from Dawn to carry weapons.
• Su Shijie went to the shuttered bar disguised as Rising Sun, where Hu Zhi, Fat Corpse, and other cultists gathered with the Contamination Source hidden beneath the counter.
• More than a hundred Evil God Cultists arrived, including Yan Yongkang, and Hu Zhi announced that the Blood Sacrifice was mandatory to purify their ranks.

Su Shijie secretly harvested power during the believers’ Blood Sacrifice, then revealed that he had arranged the attack that killed them. He escaped the arriving authorities after Yan Yongkang took his own life to avoid complete corruption.

• Yan Yongkang volunteered for the Blood Sacrifice, endured the contamination, and persuaded the other believers to follow his example.
• Su Shijie secretly siphoned power from the stars and the Contamination Source as more than a hundred believers performed the ritual.
• Armed attackers burst into the bar and killed the believers, while Hu Zhi and Fat Corpse escaped through a prepared sewer route.
• Su Shijie revealed his identity to Yan Yongkang and explained that his sister Yan Fen had worked with him in Prosperous City.
• Yan Yongkang solved a Rubik’s Cube, praised Su Shijie, and shot himself before he could fall further into corruption.
• Su Shijie marked the wall with “Redemption,” placed a flower on Yan Yongkang’s chest, and escaped as the sirens arrived.

Su Shijie and the surviving cultists interpreted the Contamination Source’s faint message, “Dawn,” as a new name and oracle from Lord Dark Light. After Hu Zhi and Fat Corpse left for the Coastal Diocese with the source, Su Shijie returned to Jiangnan City and began making components for a weapon while waiting for a powerful contact.

• Hu Zhi, Fat Corpse, and Su Shijie noticed that the Contamination Source had changed and heard the word “Dawn” from it.
• Su Shijie persuaded Hu Zhi that Dawn was Lord Dark Light’s new honored name, and Hu Zhi agreed to protect the specially marked source.
• Hu Zhi and Fat Corpse departed for the Coastal Diocese with the Contamination Source, leaving Su Shijie to handle the boss and the mysterious lord.
• Su Shijie returned to Jiangnan City, saw public panic over the deadly bar raid, and relied on his Dawn Goddess Special Commissioner identity to avoid a record of his actions.
• Su Shijie used his Level 16 Metal Empowerment ability to shape delivered metal blocks into weapon components while waiting for the lord to contact him.