Chapter Summaries

Murong Xue traveled to Neon Country with Wen Ke'er, who coached her on reading the people she had confronted and gauging their intentions. Back in Xia Country, Shen Yi explained that he had sent Murong Xue to test Neon Country’s response, leaving her to face the next move there.

• Murong Xue worked with Wen Ke'er in Neon Country, learning from her experience with mental abilities and their sparring sessions.
• Wen Ke'er asked Murong Xue to estimate how many people truly submitted to her and what their leader would do, and Murong Xue guessed that only about thirty percent did.
• Murong Xue recognized that the survivors would remain skeptical until she acted, though footage of her fighting ability might affect their judgment.
• Fu Yunxi asked Shen Yi why he had sent Murong Xue instead of her, and Shen Yi reassured her that he trusted her abilities.
• Shen Yi explained that Murong Xue’s imperfect psychological pressure and strong abilities made her useful for testing Neon Country and exposing hidden problems.

Shimada Kōmitsu realized that Murong Xue, the powerful woman who had appeared inside his Shelter, could easily defeat him and his high-level ability users. He ordered everyone to obey her and prepare the best supplies, while keeping his sister Shimada Yukimi’s survival secret.

• Shimada Kōmitsu rejected a subordinate’s suggestion to attack Murong Xue, recalling her battle against powerful ability users and a Black Mist Mutated Beast.
• Shimada Kōmitsu admitted that Murong Xue was the woman from the video and believed his people had no chance against her.
• Shimada Kōmitsu refused to negotiate over Shimada Yukimi, whose survival depended on enormous daily supplies of nutrient solution.
• Shimada Kōmitsu ordered the Shelter’s survivors not to provoke Murong Xue, commanded the logistics department to provide the best supplies, and withdrew for two hours.
• After Shimada Kōmitsu left, his subordinate watched him go with a sinister glint in his eyes.

Shimada Kōmitsu visited his unconscious sister, Shimada Yukimi, and struggled with Lord Shen’s interest in her as the Neon Shelter faced a change of control. Murong Xue and Wen Ke'er entered the hidden room, were struck by Yukimi’s beauty, and heard Kōmitsu beg them to give him time because Yukimi could not survive long outside her life-support tank.

• Shimada Kōmitsu told the unconscious Shimada Yukimi that Lord Shen might take control of the Neon Shelter and was interested in her.
• Shimada Kōmitsu recalled how his plans had been disrupted by a woman and admitted he had considered making her disappear.
• Murong Xue and Wen Ke'er entered the secret room, and Wen Ke'er helped Murong Xue recover from Yukimi’s overwhelming beauty.
• Shimada Kōmitsu knelt and pleaded with Murong Xue to give him time, explaining that Shimada Yukimi could survive for less than ten minutes outside the tank.
• Wen Ke'er teased Murong Xue about Kōmitsu hiding his beautiful sister, then wondered why Yukimi’s aura seemed so frail.

Murong Xue and Wen Ke'er investigated Yukimi’s near-death state and learned it may have resulted from an extraordinarily powerful soul. The chapter left them without a clear explanation of what happened to Yukimi at the Black Fog rift.

• Murong Xue questioned Wen Ke'er about the woman in the cultivation tank, and Wen Ke'er sensed that her life aura was almost nonexistent.
• Wen Ke'er explained that Yukimi’s state had been paused just after death rather than naturally reaching death.
• Murong Xue asked Shimada Kōmitsu what Yukimi had encountered before collapsing, and he recalled that she had fallen unconscious near a Black Fog rift.
• Wen Ke'er said Yukimi’s condition resembled her own past state, then warned that the soul within Yukimi might be far more powerful than any they had encountered.

Murong Xue learned that the woman in Shimada Kōmitsu’s cultivation tank harbored a dangerously powerful, wounded soul that she could not safely kill. She connected the soul to the Nine-Headed Serpent’s retreat, while Shen Yi remained away, leaving Murong Xue unsure how to handle the tank or keep her husband from coming to Neon Country.

• Wen Ke'er warned Murong Xue that killing the woman in the tank could provoke a devastating attack from the foreign soul within her.
• Murong Xue asked Shimada Kōmitsu whether Neon Country had an exceptionally powerful Black Mist Mutated Beast, and he described the Nine-Headed Serpent, which had killed nearly seventy ability users.
• Shimada Kōmitsu realized the Nine-Headed Serpent had stopped harassing his Shelter after he brought his sister back and placed her in the cultivation tank.
• Wen Ke'er concluded that the soul in the tank had deterred the Nine-Headed Serpent, while Murong Xue remained grim and wondered how to move the tank.
• Shen Yi drank wine in a dim room as a maid continually refilled his glass, and Murong Xue said she did not want her husband to make the trip.

Murong Xue searched for a way to bring Shimada Yukimi back despite the dangerous soul bound to her, while Wen Ke'er warned that separating the soul or contracting with it was impossible. Murong Xue suspected Wen Ke'er had concealed a possible solution and prepared to use powerful Ability Fruits to awaken the soul and force a contract.

• Wen Ke'er warned Murong Xue that transporting Shimada Yukimi's cultivation tank was impractical and that separating the godlike soul inside her would be too dangerous.
• Murong Xue asked whether the soul could be separated or made to sign a contract, but Wen Ke'er rejected both ideas and warned that the soul remained dangerous even at its weakest.
• Murong Xue and Wen Ke'er traded barbs about Shen Yi, Fei Mi, and Wen Ke'er's rivalry with the Succubus.
• Murong Xue proposed restoring Shimada Yukimi with Black Fog and Ability Fruits, and Wen Ke'er froze at the suggestion.
• Murong Xue accused Wen Ke'er of withholding the idea and prepared four powerful Ability Fruits to awaken the soul and try to force it into a contract.
• Wen Ke'er realized Murong Xue's plan and shouted that she was crazy.

Murong Xue refused to risk feeding Shimada Yukimi Ability Fruits and told Shimada Kōmitsu that Shen Yi would cure her in exchange for making her his woman. After Murong Xue and Wen Ke'er vanished, Shimada Kōmitsu faced his subordinates’ challenge to his leadership.

• Wen Ke'er warned Murong Xue that giving Ability Fruits to the unfamiliar soul in Shimada Yukimi could cause an irreversible disaster, and Murong Xue put the fruits away.
• Murong Xue explained that she planned to report Shimada Yukimi’s unusual condition to Shen Yi before deciding what to do with her.
• Murong Xue told Shimada Kōmitsu that Shen Yi would cure Shimada Yukimi and that she would become Shen Yi’s woman; Shimada Kōmitsu agreed without objection.
• Murong Xue revealed that the subordinate who had delivered Shimada Kōmitsu’s messages was dishonest, then raised an ice wall as more than a dozen high-level ability users arrived.
• Murong Xue and Wen Ke'er concealed themselves, leaving Shimada Kōmitsu to face his subordinates, and he challenged the man who questioned his judgment.

Shimada Kōmitsu called on Murong Xue to deal with Shelter members who challenged his decision to trust her. After she froze the rebels and expelled him from the secret chamber, Lin Zhiwei arrived to examine the life-support equipment keeping Shimada Yukimi alive.

• A Shelter member presented a petition and accused Murong Xue of being suspicious, but Shimada Kōmitsu rejected his demands.
• Shimada Kōmitsu asked Murong Xue to purge the rebels, and she emerged from concealment and froze the man and the high-level ability users accompanying him.
• Murong Xue expelled Shimada Kōmitsu from the secret chamber and sealed its iron door in ice, leaving him unable to witness his sister's treatment.
• Lin Zhiwei arrived with instruments, explained that her husband was elsewhere, and told Murong Xue she was not omnipotent.
• Murong Xue revealed Shimada Yukimi's cultivation tank and life-support devices, asking Lin Zhiwei to understand and assess them.

Lin Zhiwei examined Shimada Yukimi, the younger sister of Neon Country’s largest Shelter leader, and found her condition nearly indistinguishable from death. Murong Xue still needed to bring Yukimi back, but the life-sustaining equipment seemed impossible to move or disrupt, until someone announced an idea.

• Lin Zhiwei arrived after Murong Xue summoned her and was stunned by Shimada Yukimi’s beauty in the cultivation tank.
• Murong Xue identified Yukimi as the younger sister of the leader of Neon Country’s largest Shelter and asked Lin Zhiwei to assess her condition.
• Lin Zhiwei’s examination found Yukimi near death and dependent on the tank and its surrounding equipment to stay alive.
• Wen Ke’er appeared and remarked that Lin Zhiwei’s visit had been pointless, while Murong Xue asked whether the equipment could be moved or removed from Neon Country.
• Lin Zhiwei judged that moving or disrupting any part of the setup would likely kill Yukimi, and someone declared that they had an idea.

Murong Xue and Lin Zhiwei feared Shimada Yukimi’s condition was too risky to treat without Shen Yi, while Wen Ke’er urged them to ask him for help. After Long Aoshuang showed Shen Yi a private video of Shimada Yukimi, he teleported to her cultivation tank and received a system assessment that taking her in would unlock a random resource.

• Wen Ke’er suggested Shen Yi might use his abilities to help Shimada Yukimi, but Murong Xue and Lin Zhiwei agreed the situation was too risky to handle themselves.
• Murong Xue decided to tell Shen Yi about Shimada Yukimi while dealing with the local Shelter in the meantime.
• Long Aoshuang told Shen Yi that Neon Country was transferring control and that White Elephant Country and Goryeo Country had also signaled goodwill.
• Shen Yi noticed Shimada Yukimi’s name in the documents and asked whether Murong Xue had found her.
• Long Aoshuang showed Shen Yi Murong Xue’s private video, and Shen Yi teleported with Long Aoshuang to the cultivation tank.
• Shen Yi’s system assessed Shimada Yukimi as being in critical condition and announced that taking her in would unlock a random resource.

Shen Yi discovered that a critically endangered spiritual remnant was bound to Shimada Yukimi and questioned Wen Ke'er about its condition. The group learned that recovery might be possible through the Black Fog, but the cultivation tank and Ability Fruit offered no clear way to restore it.

• Shen Yi detected Winnie, a damaged spiritual remnant possessing Shimada Yukimi, and demanded that Wen Ke'er explain her condition.
• Wen Ke'er explained that she and the remnant could use the Black Fog as an external tool, though she could not guarantee it would be safe for the remnant.
• Long Aoshuang worried that the Black Fog might corrupt the remnant, and Wen Ke'er agreed that trying it was risky.
• Shen Yi realized Murong Xue had brought Lin Zhiwei because of her expertise, but Lin Zhiwei said the cultivation equipment could only maintain Shimada Yukimi's current state.
• Lin Zhiwei and Wen Ke'er advised against using Ability Fruit, since the equipment could not convert its power.

Shen Yi moved Shimada Yukimi and the spirit inside her cultivation tank to Lin Zhiwei's laboratory so they could recover under observation. He revealed that the spirit, Winnie, was more than six hundred thousand years old and resolved to claim her for himself.

• Wen Ke'er warned that accelerating the spirit's recovery with Ability Fruits was uncertain, while Lin Zhiwei suggested that more resources might improve the recovery rate.
• Long Aoshuang proposed adjusting the resource supply and observing the results, and Shen Yi decided to move Shimada Yukimi and the spirit to his laboratory.
• Shen Yi used his power to remove the cultivation tank's room from the Neon Country facility, taking everyone there except Wen Ke'er and Murong Xue.
• Murong Xue suspected Wen Ke'er had maneuvered events to make Shen Yi reveal a new ability, but Wen Ke'er said she would not harm him and returned to Murong Xue's body.
• In Mountain City, Shen Yi told Long Aoshuang that the spirit was named Winnie and was over six hundred thousand years old, then resolved to get her.

Shen Yi and Lin Zhiwei began testing whether increased nutrients could help Shimada Yukimi recover, but her vital signs showed no change. The chapter ended with Shen Yi seeing an estimated recovery period of years.

• Shen Yi told Long Aoshuang to give Lin Zhiwei the highest authority and keep people away from the cultivation tank.
• Shen Yi joined Lin Zhiwei in the laboratory and told her to maintain a normal schedule before they began the experiment.
• Lin Zhiwei increased the nutrient supply to Shimada Yukimi's cultivation tank tenfold on Shen Yi's orders.
• Shen Yi and Lin Zhiwei saw no change in Shimada Yukimi's vital signs and considered whether she needed more time or resources.
• Shen Yi saw an estimated recovery period of years when he looked at Shimada Yukimi.

Shen Yi tested whether a nutrient-rich cultivation tank could accelerate Shimada Yukimi/Winnie’s recovery, but even at the maximum concentration the process would take nearly a century. Uneasy about Wen Ke’er’s behavior, he asked Fei Mi whether mental interference could have been planted before a contract was signed, and learned it was possible if the caster greatly surpassed the target in mental power.

• Shen Yi increased the cultivation tank’s nutrient concentration to fifty times its usual level, shortening Shimada Yukimi/Winnie’s recovery period only to years.
• Shen Yi told Lin Zhiwei to keep supplying nutrients for the time being and set aside testing the Ability Fruit.
• Shen Yi took Fei Mi through a spatial vortex to Murong Xue and Wen Ke’er, then ordered both women to stay silent unless he questioned them.
• Wen Ke’er spoke out of turn, so Shen Yi used his mental power to nearly crush her soul body before turning to Fei Mi for an answer.
• Fei Mi said mental suggestions planted before a contract could affect its terms, but required the caster’s mental power to far exceed the target’s.

Shen Yi questioned Wen Ke'er about her suspicions and whether she could fight a recovered soul, then asked Murong Xue about the transfer of control in Neon Country. Murong Xue reported that Shimada Kōmitsu would finish handing it over within two days and offered to show Shen Yi three women who might meet his requirements.

• Shen Yi asked Wen Ke'er to explain herself, and she complained that his earlier attack had left her unable to move freely for fifteen days.
• Wen Ke'er absorbed a physique-strengthening fruit from Murong Xue and explained that Ability Fruits only partly restored her soul.
• Shen Yi revealed that he suspected Wen Ke'er might be concealing information about Winnie, and Wen Ke'er said she could not judge Winnie's power but could assess Shen Yi's.
• Shen Yi asked Murong Xue about Neon Country, and she said Shimada Kōmitsu expected to transfer control within two days.
• Murong Xue credited Shen Yi's reputation for the smooth progress and asked whether three local women met his requirements.

Shen Yi learned that Little White Fox’s unusual sleepiness and appetite might signal evolution, and Wen Ke'er explained how accumulated power and familiarity could unlock new uses for an ability. Murong Xue demonstrated that her mental ability had developed into mental intimidation, though it seemed less effective against ability users.

• Wen Ke'er explained that Little White Fox might be evolving after Fei Mi reported her chaotic aura, increased sleep, and greater appetite.
• Wen Ke'er described ability evolution as discovering new ways to use an ability after power accumulates and the user becomes familiar with it.
• Murong Xue admitted she had experienced new effects from her mental-type ability, and Shen Yi asked her to demonstrate them on him.
• Murong Xue used mental intimidation on Shen Yi, who sensed the pressure alongside her cognition-altering power.
• Murong Xue said mental intimidation seemed effective mainly against ordinary survivors and had little effect on supernatural ability users.

Murong Xue tested her developing mental ability, while Wen Ke'er demonstrated her recovering mental power by making Fei Mi lose control of her desires. Shen Yi stopped Fei Mi from attacking and then answered Wen Ke'er's boast with a display of overwhelming ice power.

• Murong Xue used her mental intimidation on Fei Mi, but the effect was weak, and she said experimenting with it had helped her use her Ice Frost-type Ability faster.
• Wen Ke'er studied Shen Yi's many abilities and teased him when he asked how her recovery was going.
• Wen Ke'er used her mental power to stir Fei Mi's desires, enraging and humiliating the Succubus after Shen Yi cleared her head with an ice crystal.
• Wen Ke'er said she had regained about one-tenth of her peak strength and claimed Shen Yi might not be her match once she restored her physical body.
• Shen Yi formed a deep-blue ice crystal that plunged the room into freezing cold, making Murong Xue visibly tremble.

Shen Yi warned Wen Ke'er that he could take back her life as easily as the resources he gave her, and demanded she eventually explain her origins. He gave Murong Xue miniature energy crystals and directed her toward using them against stubborn Shelter organizations in Neon Country.

• Shen Yi used an azure ice crystal to threaten Wen Ke'er and warned her that her life and resources depended on his judgment.
• Wen Ke'er acknowledged Shen Yi's warning, and he told her to explain her origins and original world when she was ready.
• Shen Yi gave Murong Xue several miniature energy crystals, each capable of powering a large city for over a month.
• Shen Yi explained that Murong Xue could remove the crystals' restrictions and use them as weapons, warning her to stay more than fifty kilometers away.
• Murong Xue eagerly prepared to use the crystals against stubborn Shelter organizations in Neon Country, while Shen Yi asked Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er how they would act against a race their people hated.

Shen Yi sent Murong Xue and Wen Ke'er away with powerful energy crystals and wondered about the danger surrounding Shimada Yukimi and Winnie. He also learned that Fei Mi could not clearly remember whether stronger beings existed in her world, and waited to see what would happen in the distance.

• Fei Mi admitted that she felt killing intent toward Wen Ke'er, but Wen Ke'er said she no longer considered Fei Mi an enemy.
• Wen Ke'er offered to accompany Murong Xue, and Shen Yi gave her a faintly glowing blue crystal.
• Fei Mi became jealous when Shen Yi gave Wen Ke'er a crystal, so Shen Yi comforted her.
• Shen Yi asked Long Aoshuang about Lin Zhiwei, but she had received no news from her.
• Shen Yi worried about Shimada Yukimi and Winnie, then asked Fei Mi whether powerful beings existed in her world; Fei Mi could not remember clearly.
• Shen Yi pointed toward the direction Murong Xue and Wen Ke'er had gone and told Fei Mi there would be fireworks to watch.

Shimada Kōmitsu tried to force Neon Country's Shelter leaders to submit to Xia Country, but they turned on him and arranged a sniper ambush. Murong Xue and Wen Ke'er intervened, leaving Shimada alive and his attackers frozen or dead.

• Several Shelter leaders confronted Shimada Kōmitsu over his plan to surrender Neon Country to Xia Country, and he warned that those who refused might die.
• Murong Xue and Wen Ke'er watched as Shimada Kōmitsu fought the Shelter leaders, while Wen Ke'er spotted snipers waiting two kilometers away.
• The snipers fired four rounds at Shimada Kōmitsu when he was driven back, and he prepared to take the shots.
• Murong Xue appeared before Shimada Kōmitsu and froze all four bullets, then froze the Shelter leaders who had attacked him.
• Wen Ke'er used her mental power to guide four ice spikes through the air, killing the four snipers.