Chapter Summaries

Shen Yi exposed Wen Ke’er’s shifting seductive and holy personas as mental manipulation after examining her memories and sensing her corruption by the Black Fog. He demanded that Wen Ke’er submit or die.

• Wen Ke’er alternated between a seductive pose and a seemingly pure appearance, unsettling Murong Xue and Karen.
• Wen Ke’er offered Shen Yi a glowing bubble containing memories of her planet’s rifts and the elves’ mutations.
• Shen Yi recognized that the memory scene was a ploy and used mental pressure to break Wen Ke’er’s act.
• Shen Yi concluded that Wen Ke’er had split personalities and had been subtly manipulating everyone’s perceptions since their first meeting.
• Shen Yi recalled that Wen Ke’er’s influence had led Sti to sacrifice Shelter’s survivors and ordered Wen Ke’er to submit or die.

Shen Yi forced Wen Ke'er to choose between signing a self-imposed contract and facing his threat, while promising to help her regain a body. The chapter ended with Wen Ke'er realizing that the contract would bind her to her own conditions and punish her severely if she broke them.

• Shen Yi told Wen Ke'er to sign a contract with him and explained that her growing influence had let her gradually consume Sti and threaten France's survivors.
• Shen Yi set conditions requiring Wen Ke'er to obey him, refrain from using her abilities on others without permission, protect him and his women, and avoid harming his interests, in exchange for help restoring her body.
• Wen Ke'er hesitated, so Shen Yi added that the contract would dissolve once she regained her physical body, alarming Murong Xue and Karen.
• Wen Ke'er agreed and formed a glowing contract mark, but Shen Yi revealed that she would be signing the contract with herself rather than with him.
• Wen Ke'er realized that breaking her self-imposed contract would bring enough backlash to destroy her soul, and Shen Yi ordered her to begin.

Shen Yi had Wen Ke'er bind herself with a covenant that restricted her powers and obedience until she regained a physical form. After she agreed and returned to her true appearance, Murong Xue went with Sti to take over the Shelter, while Wen Ke'er asked Shen Yi whether he could really restore her body.

• Shen Yi proposed a self-covenant that prevented Wen Ke'er from using her abilities on others without his permission, required her obedience, and ended once she regained a physical form.
• Wen Ke'er swore the covenant to the Mother of Creation and Enrothis, and a glowing six-pointed star appeared on her forehead.
• Shen Yi told Wen Ke'er to stay by his side and avoid clashing with the other women, and she agreed.
• At Shen Yi's request, Wen Ke'er changed back to her original appearance, stunning Karen and Murong Xue with her beauty.
• Murong Xue led Sti to take over the Shelter, while Karen felt outmatched by Wen Ke'er.
• Wen Ke'er asked Shen Yi whether he could truly help her regain a physical form.

Shen Yi gave Wen Ke'er Ability Fruits that restored her strength, then questioned her about Succubi and her origins. Wen Ke'er explained how Succubi and an Outer Realm Evil God had corrupted her people before revealing that an Enrothis relic had brought her to this plane.

• Shen Yi gave Wen Ke'er glowing Ability Fruits, and she sensed the Mental Link and felt her strength recovering.
• Wen Ke'er asked how many fruits Shen Yi had, and he showed her a large supply while saying their availability depended on her performance.
• Shen Yi asked about Succubi, and Wen Ke'er blamed them for wars and for the injury that cost her body and brought her to this plane.
• Wen Ke'er described her plane and explained that Succubi had invoked an Outer Realm Evil God, corrupting Night Elves and amplifying their urge to attack.
• Wen Ke'er said a relic of Enrothis had brought her to this plane and showed Shen Yi a dim vine-woven necklace whose gemstones began to glow as he noticed spatial fluctuations.

Shen Yi learned how Wen Ke'er interacted with the Black Fog and tested what the transformed cat and Little White Fox could do. He then asked Wen Ke'er what she had discovered in the land and showed her an Ability Fruit, leaving her to respond.

• Shen Yi restored a thread of power to Wen Ke'er's necklace and learned it carried Lord Enrothis's blessing, which protected it from the Black Fog.
• Wen Ke'er explained that she could draw in the Black Fog but could not truly control it, and described how corruption affected creatures and objects.
• Wen Ke'er demonstrated that Pāpā could release Black Fog in a roughly twenty-meter field that restored stamina and made creatures difficult to detect.
• Wen Ke'er said Little White Fox could interfere with the Black Fog's movements, though she did not know the extent of her abilities.
• Shen Yi asked Wen Ke'er what she had discovered in the land and tossed her an ordinary-grade psychic enhancement Ability Fruit as an example.

Shen Yi learned that Wen Ke'er had uprooted a rare fruit-bearing plant, then helped Murong Xue abandon her plan to force the Paris Shelter and other Shelters into submission. He supplied Sti with enough provisions to win over the Paris survivors, while Murong Xue pointed out a target in Normandy.

• Wen Ke'er confessed that she had uprooted a plant bearing silver-gray fruits before she formed a contract with Sti, and Shen Yi realized she had wasted a chance to gain an ability.
• Murong Xue ordered Sti to contact the leaders of other Shelters and demand their answers within a day, with those who resisted Lord Shen's management to be killed.
• Murong Xue asked Shen Yi to take her to a location in Normandy, intending to kill those who opposed them there.
• Shen Yi told Sti to let Paris Shelter residents leave if they refused to become his subordinates, and produced dozens of tons of supplies for those who stayed and contributed.
• Sti concluded that the provisions would persuade the survivors to remain, while Wen Ke'er remarked that Shen Yi still called her wasteful.

Lin Zhiwei tested a tissue specimen that proved highly aggressive, while Shen Yi took control of the Paris Shelter and ordered Sti to unite the other Shelters. After returning, Shen Yi urged Wen Ke'er to improve her relationship with Murong Xue, and Wen Ke'er reacted with embarrassment to his affection with Karen.

• Lin Zhiwei observed a tissue specimen come alive, attack the electric field, and recorded its aggressiveness as high before falling asleep.
• Shen Yi gave Sti a scented seed that would let the mutated vine recognize the Paris Shelter survivors and ordered Sti to recruit new survivors and merge other Shelters.
• Murong Xue returned with Shen Yi, while Sti commanded the survivors to prove themselves useful to Lord Shen.
• Murong Xue left in a dark mood after the group returned, and Shen Yi told Wen Ke'er to improve her relationship with her.
• Wen Ke'er accused Shen Yi of behaving like a Succubus and left the room, embarrassed by the intimacy she had witnessed.

Fei Mi reacted with instinctive hostility to Wen Ke'er, and Shen Yi comforted her before Fu Yunxi reported that MacArthur had turned several countries against them. Shen Yi left Long Aoshuang free to decide how to handle resistance in Goryeo Country and Neon Country, then received a video from Fu Yunxi.

• Fei Mi recognized Wen Ke'er as a Night Elf and nearly attacked her, so Shen Yi sent Wen Ke'er away and told Fei Mi not to fight the women around him.
• Fei Mi worried Shen Yi might favor Wen Ke'er, and Shen Yi held and reassured her.
• Fu Yunxi reported that MacArthur had contacted France, Goryeo Country, Neon Country, and White Elephant Country, making cooperation with their Shelter leaders more difficult.
• Fu Yunxi said Long Aoshuang was considering eliminating those who resisted in Goryeo Country and Neon Country, and Shen Yi told her to let Long Aoshuang do as she wished.
• Fu Yunxi offered Shen Yi a video, though she was unsure whether she should show it to him.

Shen Yi learned that a man in White Elephant Country could command Black Fog monsters and ordered Long Aoshuang to focus their forces there. After comforting an insecure Fei Mi, he asked Wen Ke'er about the Shadow Realm, but she had never heard of it.

• Shen Yi ordered Long Aoshuang to concentrate their forces and wipe out White Elephant Country before the day ended.
• Fu Yunxi approached Shen Yi, and he told her she could take care of the mutated black cat.
• Fei Mi offered to kill the people in White Elephant Country, and Shen Yi learned that she feared being left behind.
• Shen Yi reassured Fei Mi and put her to sleep before going outside the Shelter to meet Wen Ke'er.
• Shen Yi asked Wen Ke'er about the Shadow Realm, but she said she had never heard of it.

Wen Ke'er examined Shen Yi's many abilities and advised him to focus on developing a few of them. Shen Yi arranged for Murong Xue to train with Wen Ke'er and prioritize strengthening her mental abilities, hoping to see whether they could evolve.

• Wen Ke'er sensed Shen Yi's many abilities and explained that mastering too many at once could slow their development.
• Wen Ke'er advised Shen Yi to specialize in individual abilities and push them to their limits.
• Shen Yi tested his time-stopping ability against the Little White Fox and found that stronger mental strength took precedence between identical abilities.
• Shen Yi assigned Wen Ke'er to serve as Murong Xue's sparring partner and gave Murong Xue mental-type fruits.
• Murong Xue agreed to focus on developing her mental abilities with Wen Ke'er's help.

Karen asked Shen Yi for an ability like Murong Xue’s and received Ice Frost Manipulation, which she successfully absorbed. The story left off as Fu Yunxi urgently contacted Shen Yi through the Mental Link.

• Shen Yi told Murong Xue to find Wen Ke’er through the Mental Link while keeping her own presence hidden.
• Karen, hoping to gain an ability, entered Shen Yi’s bath wearing a black bikini and asked for Ice Frost Manipulation.
• Shen Yi gave Karen an Ability Fruit and instructed her to absorb it in the bath.
• Karen successfully gained Ice Frost Manipulation and excitedly made ice crystals and goblets.
• Fu Yunxi urgently called Shen Yi through the Mental Link, and Karen told him to handle the matter.

In White Elephant Country, Jaid tried to convince the Venerable One that the Xia Country man who defeated the Emperor Vine had used psychic control, but the Venerable One feared the man's strength and the collapse of their alliances. After learning that Neon Country might abandon them, Jaid wondered whether it had betrayed them.

• The Venerable One confronted Jaid with a video of the Xia Country man casually defeating the Emperor Vine and demanded an explanation.
• Jaid suggested that the man had a psychic ability that controlled creatures and had influenced the person in charge of the Paris Shelter.
• The Venerable One told Jaid that the United States Shelters had been wiped out overnight and that the Paris Shelter's leadership had changed sides.
• Jaid learned that Neon Country and Goryeo Country knew about the crises, while Neon Country was expected to defect toward Xia Country.
• Jaid suspected that Neon Country had sold out White Elephant Country and its allies.

Aljoun and Jaid discussed how to approach Xia Country after learning that its people rallied around Lord Shen. In Mountain City, Lin Zhiwei's experiments remained unsuccessful, and Long Aoshuang tried to make her stop working and pay more attention to Shen Yi.

• Aljoun rejected Jaid's suggestion that Xia Country's fighters were motivated by Lord Shen, but Jaid insisted the intelligence was true.
• Jaid suggested using a gesture of goodwill to test Xia Country's strength and attitude, and Aljoun dismissed him without answering.
• Lin Zhiwei continued her experiments after three days without a breakthrough, despite Long Aoshuang and Lin Tu urging her to rest.
• Long Aoshuang slapped Lin Zhiwei, criticized her for focusing only on research, and told her that Shen Yi's assignment had not depended on her making a breakthrough.
• Long Aoshuang left with Lin Tu and then asked Shen Yi whether he thought she had done anything wrong.

Shen Yi learned that White Elephant Country’s superpowered leader posed little threat and met Hayakawa Yoko, a woman sent from Neon Country whose unusual tastes intrigued him. The chapter ended with Hayakawa Yoko kneeling before Shen Yi, visibly excited by his harsh treatment.

• Long Aoshuang told Shen Yi that several countries were seeking favor and that White Elephant Country’s Aljoun could control Black Mist Mutated Beasts but was not a serious threat.
• Long Aoshuang confirmed she had deployed Shen Yi’s ship-mounted laser cannons and said Neon Country had found a suitable woman for him.
• Hayakawa Yoko arrived, and Shen Yi’s system rated her highly while noting her unusual hobbies.
• Shen Yi ordered Hayakawa Yoko to kneel and hold up a fruit platter for thirty minutes, then realized she enjoyed the ordeal.
• Shen Yi told Hayakawa Yoko to come closer, and she remained excited as she knelt before him.

Shen Yi unlocked Micro Energy Crystals after taking in Hayakawa Yoko, then discussed Neon Country’s offer to surrender its Shelter and recognize him as leader. He considered whether its people were worth accepting and left the decision on further talks unresolved.

• Shen Yi treated Hayakawa Yoko roughly, and she responded with eager obedience while Fei Mi watched.
• The system announced that Shen Yi had taken in a goddess and unlocked Micro Energy Crystals, which began accumulating in System Space.
• Long Aoshuang entered and told Shen Yi that Neon Country’s leader wanted to negotiate, offering control of its Shelter and recognition of Shen Yi as leader.
• Shen Yi weighed the offer against his view that Neon Country’s Shelter would add little value, though its women might make taking it worthwhile.
• Long Aoshuang asked whether Fu Yunxi should delay responding, noting that Fu Yunxi was still handling other work and might not manage the negotiations.

Shen Yi explained that refusing Neon Country’s goodwill overture would reveal more than accepting Hayakawa Yoko, while Yoko realized she had been sent as a test. She then told him about a woman in her Shelter who was said to be the most beautiful in Neon Country and whom its leader feared.

• Shen Yi confirmed that he had told Murong Xue and Fu Yunxi not to respond to Neon Country yet, and Long Aoshuang praised his judgment.
• Hayakawa Yoko asked whether Shen Yi intended to accept Neon Country’s goodwill, and Shen Yi questioned why her Shelter had let her leave so readily.
• Shen Yi told Hayakawa Yoko that she had been sent as a decoy to test his intentions, and explained that rejecting her would signal his attitude toward Neon Country.
• Hayakawa Yoko said few women in her Shelter were as attractive as those around Shen Yi, but one woman was far more beautiful than she was.
• Hayakawa Yoko described the woman as the most beautiful in Neon Country and said the Shelter’s leader was wary of her because she seemed to have an unusual illness.

Shen Yi questioned Hayakawa Yoko about the hidden woman in the Neon Country Shelter, then discussed the dangerous energy crystal and Wen Ke'er with Fei Mi. Fei Mi explained that Succubi existed in many worlds and varied according to where they were born, while Shen Yi wondered whether Elves could change in the same way.

• Hayakawa Yoko told Shen Yi that the Neon Country Shelter's leader concealed a supposedly ill woman and punished anyone who tried to see her.
• Shen Yi suspected the leader was hiding the woman's true condition and examined a miniature energy crystal powerful enough to cause catastrophic destruction if mishandled.
• Fei Mi complained that Shen Yi neglected her and asked whether she could kill Wen Ke'er, but Shen Yi refused.
• Shen Yi asked Fei Mi about other Succubus groups, and she explained that Succubi existed in different worlds and varied according to their birthplace.
• Shen Yi asked whether Elves could become like Succubi after recalling Wen Ke'er's unusual state.

Shen Yi asked Fei Mi whether an Elf could change her behavior and whether Wen Ke'er could escape the self-contract he had bound her to. Fei Mi said breaking the contract would require Wen Ke'er to abandon her power and die, though Shen Yi questioned her certainty that two souls in one body were impossible.

• Shen Yi asked Fei Mi whether an Elf could change her mindset and whether oaths could be circumvented.
• Shen Yi explained that he had made Wen Ke'er contract with herself to obey his commands, and Fei Mi reacted with shock at the cruel self-contract.
• Fei Mi said an innate creature could escape a self-contract only by abandoning her power, which would cause her death.
• Fei Mi clarified that ordinary contracts might have loopholes, but self-contracts could not be violated unless the contractor had two souls.
• Fei Mi dismissed the possibility of an Elf having two souls, and Shen Yi challenged her claim and asked which soul would die if the contract were broken.

Shen Yi asked Fei Mi what would happen if one of two souls sharing a body violated a self-contract, and Fei Mi said both souls would weaken and die. Meanwhile, Shimada Kōmitsu weighed how to respond to Xia Country’s growing strength and the silence from foreign powers, then wondered whether his comatose sister Yukimi would support his decision.

• Shen Yi admitted he was worried Wen Ke'er might have two souls, and Fei Mi explained that breaking a self-contract would kill both souls.
• Shen Yi said he had spared Wen Ke'er because she was still useful.
• Shimada Kōmitsu learned Xia Country had accepted Yoko and discussed the stalled communications with Goryeo Country and White Elephant Country.
• Shimada Kōmitsu ordered his aide to share his concerns about Xia Country with both countries and ask for their opinions.
• After his aide left, Shimada Kōmitsu touched Yukimi’s cultivation tank and wondered whether she would support his decision.

Shimada Kōmitsu tried to buy time by offering Hayakawa Yoko, but Murong Xue arrived at his Shelter and demanded its control and Shimada Yukimi. She gave Neon Country seven days to submit to Lord Shen, leaving Shimada Kōmitsu under threat of mass killings.

• Shimada Kōmitsu used Hayakawa Yoko to test Xia Country's intentions and gain time to prepare.
• A subordinate told Shimada Kōmitsu that a woman had appeared inside the Shelter, and he went to meet her.
• Murong Xue identified herself and demanded control of the Shelter and Shimada Yukimi, threatening Neon Country if Shimada Kōmitsu refused.
• Shimada Kōmitsu asked for more time to merge Neon Country's Shelters, and Murong Xue gave him seven days to bring every survivor under Lord Shen's authority.
• Wen Ke'er teased Murong Xue about imitating Shen Yi, and Murong Xue snapped back by asking whether this was the cognitive impairment Wen Ke'er had described.