Chapter Summaries

Shen Yi returned from the Shadow World without losing his power and demonstrated a new ability to connect the women bearing his Shadow Mark through his Mental Link. The women discovered that Shen Yi could empower or kill his dependents, but they responded with excitement rather than fear.

• Jiang Huo told Shen Yi that he needed about a day to determine the difference in time flow, and Shen Yi said they had plenty of time.
• Long Aoshuang reported that Xia Country controlled most countries with Shelters of a certain scale, and Shen Yi praised the women’s efforts.
• Shen Yi released his power, showing Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er that he had retained nearly all of his strength after crossing worlds.
• Shen Yi spread a mysterious power that made the women’s figures distort and left everyone but him without shadows.
• Wen Ke'er explained that the women could sense one another through Shen Yi’s Mental Link and that Shen Yi could empower or kill his marked dependents.
• The women reacted with excitement after learning about their connection to Shen Yi.

Shen Yi marked the women as familiars, giving them a powerful shared boost while warning them not to take on too many abilities. Wen Ke'er entered the Black Fog rift and discovered a deadly realm of dense fog and deathly energy, where her power suddenly increased.

• Lin Tu, Long Aoshuang, Fu Yunxi, and the others felt their strength surge after receiving Familiar Marks from Shen Yi, and Lin Tu noticed she could sense their shared vital energy.
• Long Aoshuang asked whether the boost could coexist with fruit abilities, and Shen Yi and Wen Ke'er warned that the women should focus on one ability because their constitutions might not handle several types of power.
• Wen Ke'er left the Shelter after sensing that the Black Fog had grown stronger, changed her appearance, and stepped into the fog as it gathered around her.
• Shen Yi and Fei Mi watched as Wen Ke'er entered the rift, where her aura remained protected from the Black Fog and then suddenly grew stronger.
• Wen Ke'er continued deeper into the darkness and found dense Black Fog and nearly tangible deathly energy, then murmured in disbelief.

Wen Ke'er discovered that a rift near Mountain City had grown far more dangerous, with intensified Black Fog and stronger Mutated Beasts, and warned Shen Yi to keep the others inside. As communication with Shen Yi failed, a blood-red creature in the rift sent scarlet threads toward her, while Murong Xue investigated a report of monsters that had vanished.

• Wen Ke'er saw stronger Mutated Beasts ambush armed patrolmen near the Mountain City Shelter, and icy attacks stopped them.
• Wen Ke'er told Shen Yi that the rift had mutated and warned him to forbid the other women from going out.
• Shen Yi could no longer perceive Wen Ke'er, but sensed she remained in fairly good condition and stayed behind.
• Wen Ke'er lost contact with Shen Yi as the rift's Black Fog intensified around her.
• A blood-red creature deep in the rift spread tiny scarlet threads through the Black Fog toward Wen Ke'er.
• Murong Xue questioned patrolmen outside the Shelter after finding no monsters where they had reported seeing them.

Murong Xue learned that new Mutated Beasts were hunting together in organized groups and ordered the patrol members to avoid fighting unusual ones. Inside the rift, Wen Ke'er encountered Black Fog that eroded her power and a mutated vine that attacked her, leaving her in danger.

• Murong Xue questioned the patrol members and learned that powerful new Mutated Beasts were entering the Black Fog in groups without attacking one another.
• Murong Xue told the patrol members to report the information to the research department and to retreat rather than exterminate unusual Mutated Beasts.
• After the patrol members left, Murong Xue stayed to observe the area and wondered whether her husband was with another woman.
• Wen Ke'er explored the rift and discovered that the Black Fog contained an unfamiliar force that was rapidly consuming her power.
• Wen Ke'er crushed a tentacle, but its fragments infected her summoned branch and turned it into a writhing, tentacled vine that attacked her.
• Wen Ke'er was knocked flying and unleashed a dense power of darkness.

Wen Ke'er unleashed her full power to destroy a blood-red mass of flesh, but the strange force in the Black Mist Rift had already begun infiltrating her. As she approached its source, Shen Yi warned her to stop and used fire and ice together to protect her.

• Wen Ke'er used two energy crystals to amplify her attack and erased the blood-red mass of flesh, but her power weakened sharply afterward.
• Wen Ke'er sensed a powerful strange aura fading nearby and rushed toward its source despite her injuries.
• Shen Yi warned Wen Ke'er to stop as blood threads infiltrated her body and soul.
• Wen Ke'er realized Shen Yi was using fire and ice simultaneously inside the Black Mist Rift.

Shen Yi rescued Wen Ke'er from a highly corrosive new form of Black Fog power in the rift and destroyed the strange source at its bottom. After the rift collapsed, he prepared to return to the Shadow World to investigate whether the Black Fog's traits were connected to the True Demons.

• Shen Yi destroyed the blood threads corroding Wen Ke'er and warned her that the new Black Fog power could attack even powerful ability users.
• Wen Ke'er told Shen Yi that the Black Fog had grown stronger, and he explained that Murong Xue had encountered a Mutated Beast with a more dangerous kind of Black Fog power.
• Shen Yi froze and reduced a pale lump of flesh at the bottom of the rift to dust, then told Wen Ke'er not to dwell on it.
• Wen Ke'er left the rift as its Black Fog dissipated and the rift rapidly collapsed.
• Shen Yi discussed returning to the Shadow World to investigate the True Demons, then assured Fei Mi that he had burned away the corrosive power from Wen Ke'er.

Shen Yi and the others examined the strange blood threads that had infiltrated Wen Ke'er’s soul and learned they could adapt to powers used against them. Wen Ke'er was shocked to discover Shen Yi could wield ice and fire simultaneously, leaving the group to consider how his opposing abilities could coexist.

• Long Aoshuang asked how the creatures from the rifts could be handled, and Shen Yi gave her a luminous bead to distribute to the patrols.
• Wen Ke'er returned exhausted and used her memories to show the others the blood threads she had encountered inside the rift.
• Wen Ke'er explained that the blood threads had silently infiltrated the edge of her soul without showing hostility, and Shen Yi said they could adapt to attacks.
• Wen Ke'er asked how Shen Yi had used opposing powers in the rift, and Shen Yi demonstrated fire and ice in his hands.
• Fei Mi explained that ice and fire represented incompatible water and fire elements, which should normally suppress one another.

Shen Yi learned that he could eliminate some Black Mist Rifts, but warned that revealing this uncertain discovery could destabilize the Shelters. In the Shadow World, Shimada Yukimi and Winnie found a rare Seven-Petaled Polo Sha, whose appearance stunned Winnie.

• Wen Ke'er told Shen Yi and Long Aoshuang that the Black Mist Rift she had escaped from had almost completely disappeared after Shen Yi destroyed the strange blood threads inside it.
• Long Aoshuang excitedly imagined the rifts being cleared, but Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er cautioned her, and Shen Yi explained that the danger and conditions inside the rifts remained unknown.
• Shen Yi told Long Aoshuang to prepare reliable people who could establish a foothold in the Shadow World, then vanished.
• Shimada Yukimi tried to leave the altar when Winnie said her soul power was too weak to sense the Polo Sha, but a golden light overtook her pupils and she cut through a hidden restriction.
• Shimada Yukimi and Winnie discovered a Seven-Petaled Polo Sha, a rare flower that Winnie said she had never seen before.

Shimada Yukimi and Winnie discovered a Seven-Petaled Polo Sha, but its immense power and deadly effects made it too dangerous to approach. As they left it behind, Shimada Yukimi suspected the flower—and the abandoned city—might be a trap designed to lure and consume soul beings, a possibility Winnie could not dismiss.

• Winnie explained that Polo Sha grew from the energy of countless departed souls and warned Shimada Yukimi not to stare at the flower for too long.
• Winnie estimated that the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha required at least three million deaths to form and could destroy both Shimada Yukimi's body and Winnie's damaged soul.
• Winnie decided they should leave the flower alone, and Shimada Yukimi questioned why it had no apparent protections or restrictions.
• Shimada Yukimi suggested that the flower might be deliberately luring soul beings such as Winnie and Wen Ke'er so it could devour them.
• Winnie remained silent as the flower vanished from view, realizing that the underground labyrinth and abandoned city might be part of the same trap.

Winnie concluded that the underground city and labyrinth were a trap that fed the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha, and warned Shimada Yukimi that anyone seeking it might die. Shimada Yukimi chose not to alert anyone yet and watched the blue-skinned humans examine Shen Yi’s portal.

• Winnie reasoned that the underground labyrinth had trapped creatures and turned their deaths into nourishment for the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha.
• Shimada Yukimi questioned whether they should leave, but Winnie pointed out that Fei Mi had found no memories of the labyrinth in the Succubus’s mind.
• Winnie challenged Shimada Yukimi over the circumstances that had brought her to Shen Yi, and Shimada Yukimi said their current lives existed because of him.
• Shimada Yukimi offered bread to a blue-skinned child while Winnie announced she would go dormant and warned her not to let Shen Yi take the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha.
• Winnie warned that anyone who tried to obtain the Polo Sha would die if it was a trap, then concealed herself within Shimada Yukimi.
• Shimada Yukimi decided not to mention the warning unless Wen Ke'er did, and watched several blue-skinned humans inspect Shen Yi’s portal from a distance.

Fei Mi returned to the Shadow World with Shen Yi’s women and told Shimada Yukimi that the Black Fog rifts on Blue Star had mutated. While they waited for Shen Yi, Fei Mi revealed how powerful his evolved Shadow Puppets had become.

• Fei Mi and the women emerged from the teleportation gate and reunited with Shimada Yukimi.
• Fei Mi reported that the Black Fog rifts on Blue Star had mutated and shared her unease about the True Demons and the Shadow World.
• Fei Mi explained that Shen Yi had sent the women to teach the blue-skinned natives their language and help them adapt, while the natives welcomed them as gods.
• Shimada Yukimi said she and Fei Mi could not leave before Shen Yi arrived, and Fei Mi told her that Shen Yi’s Shadow Puppets could act as independent, powerful clones.

Shimada Yukimi shared her memories of the underground maze with Shen Yi, leading him to reveal the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha hidden there. Fei Mi recognized the flower’s danger and tried to flee with everyone, but something emerged from space in the maze, and she slapped Yukimi after they escaped.

• Shimada Yukimi conveyed her memories, including Winnie’s warning that everyone who sought the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha would die, to Shen Yi.
• Shen Yi took Shimada Yukimi, Fei Mi, and Wen Ke'er into the underground maze, where Wen Ke'er sensed a heavy aura of dead souls.
• Shen Yi revealed the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha, and Fei Mi recognized it and urgently warned everyone not to touch it.
• Fei Mi demanded that Shen Yi take everyone away, and a space-shattering sound erupted in the maze.
• Shen Yi teleported the group to the desert and paused time across much of the maze; Fei Mi then slapped Shimada Yukimi.
• A twisted creature with hard, inverted scaly fins emerged from space in the underground maze.

Fei Mi revealed that Polo Sha could greatly heal souls and enhance Psionic Energy, but required vast numbers of dead souls and could never form naturally. The group left the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha and its unknown cultivator as unresolved threats while Shen Yi asked about Twilight Abyss.

• Fei Mi rebuked Shimada Yukimi for revealing Polo Sha’s existence and explained that the plant could rapidly heal souls and dramatically strengthen Psionic Energy.
• Fei Mi said each Polo Sha petal required increasing numbers of dead souls, and that Winnie had concealed important details from Shimada Yukimi.
• Fei Mi stated that the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha had been nourished with three million souls and could never form naturally.
• Wen Ke’er asked about the Polo Sha because one petal could restore her, but Fei Mi questioned whether they knew who had cultivated it.
• Shen Yi asked whether Twilight Abyss could be located, and Fei Mi warned that a powerful aura had locked onto the area before they left.

Shen Yi and his companions arrived at Twilight Abyss, where Fei Mi explained its dangers and warned them to avoid the Abyss of Nothingness. She urged Shen Yi to disguise his human aura, since humans entering Twilight Abyss could attract the attention of powerful True Demons.

• Fei Mi warned Shen Yi not to pursue the Seven-Petaled Polo Sha recklessly and said it could restore at least seventy percent of Winnie.
• Fei Mi explained that Twilight Abyss had unusual spatial and temporal laws as the group arrived above its vast ravine.
• Fei Mi described Twilight Abyss as a gathering place for powerful creatures and warned the group that its lower regions held powerful True Demons.
• Fei Mi told the group that no one returned from the Abyss of Nothingness, even those protected by divine relics, and urged Shimada Yukimi not to approach it.
• Fei Mi asked Shen Yi to disguise his aura because humans in Twilight Abyss could draw unwanted attention from True Demons, and Shen Yi realized his weakness itself could cause trouble.

Shen Yi and Shimada Yukimi changed their appearances to pass as Elves before entering the Twilight Abyss. Fei Mi explained the Abyss’s dangers and its rules for settling disputes, leaving the group wary of the Void Cage.

• Wen Ke'er offered Shen Yi a memory of an ice-affiliated Elf, and Shen Yi altered his appearance to match the Elf’s features and aloof aura.
• Shen Yi gave Shimada Yukimi pointed ears, altered her eyes, and added a simulated Elven aura.
• Fei Mi warned the group not to investigate unusual auras or fight openly in the Twilight Abyss, where attacks could collapse space and time.
• Fei Mi explained that disputes had to be settled outside the Twilight Abyss or in the Void Cage, a stable space that severely sealed those who entered.
• Wen Ke'er questioned the danger of entering the Void Cage, and Fei Mi said no one had ever been willing to settle a conflict there.

Shen Yi and his companions entered the Twilight Abyss after learning that its Void Cage could greatly accelerate time, and he hid the maids in his own domain for safety. They reached the first level, the Harmony Realm, where they encountered blue-skinned humans mining ore and learned that the elves had a history of killing them.

• Fei Mi explained that the Void Cage could create a time difference of up to one hundred times, which could stack with differences between worlds.
• Shen Yi moved the women traveling with him into his domain and left them there with supplies.
• Shen Yi, Fei Mi, Wen Ke'er, and Shimada Yukimi descended into the Twilight Abyss and passed through a membrane into its first level.
• Fei Mi identified the first level as the Harmony Realm and pointed out Slodak worms and humans mining ore.
• Shimada Yukimi questioned why the miners feared the group, and Fei Mi said the elves had hunted them for no reason.

Shen Yi asked about the strange lotus Fei Mi had seen in the Twilight Abyss, and Fei Mi showed them a memory of it growing across a True Demon’s skeleton and feeding on its blood. As the group considered where to go next, they overheard creatures discussing the newcomers and learned that the Elves had a terrible reputation in the Twilight Abyss.

• Shen Yi asked which layer held the item the Succubus had found, and Fei Mi explained that the Twilight Abyss had three middle layers and four lower layers.
• Fei Mi shared a memory of a strange lotus growing through a giant True Demon skeleton, and Wen Ke'er suspected it had been nourished by the demon’s blood.
• Wen Ke'er asked Shen Yi which layer they would visit, while nearby creatures watched the newcomers and whispered about the Elves.
• A scarlet-feathered chicken-like creature scolded the gossips for discussing powerful figures behind their backs.
• Wen Ke'er offered to capture the creatures and read their memories, but Fei Mi said the Elves' reputation was worse than she could imagine.

Fei Mi explained that the elves’ isolation and seizure of the Shadow World’s best territory had alienated the other races, but Shen Yi dismissed the dispute as a matter of strength and asked about their power. As the group traveled through Twilight Abyss, Shimada Yukimi sensed a force suppressing them, and Winnie explained that the god Lilith’s creation was rejecting her incomplete soul and Shen Yi.

• Fei Mi told Wen Ke'er that the elves’ isolation and control of fertile territory had driven other races against them.
• Shen Yi asked how strong the elves were, and Fei Mi described their Clan Leader, Xilos, who had fought three Orcs at once and forced back the Dragon race.
• Shen Yi told Fei Mi to lead the group to the middle layer so they could check on the other True Demons.
• As the group crossed Twilight Abyss’s spatial barriers, Shimada Yukimi sensed that a suppressive force had weakened her by twenty percent.
• Winnie told Shimada Yukimi that Lilith’s divine creation was rejecting her incomplete soul and Shen Yi as well.

Shen Yi told Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er that the Twilight Abyss suppressed his strength, but he and Shimada Yukimi reassured them that they could endure it, and the group continued toward the third level. On the second level, a gathering of powerful creatures watched the lower teleportation gate as a phoenix-headed woman confronted a Dragonman.

• Shimada Yukimi revealed that Shen Yi had been suppressed by the Twilight Abyss, and Shen Yi estimated that it had reduced his strength by about ten percent.
• Fei Mi and Wen Ke'er urged Shen Yi and Shimada Yukimi to turn back, but Shen Yi said he could withstand further suppression and Shimada Yukimi relayed Winnie's reassurance.
• Fei Mi led Shen Yi, Shimada Yukimi, and Wen Ke'er deeper into the third level.
• In the central area of the second level, Dragonmen and creatures of several other races gathered around the teleportation gate and discussed the Elf woman who had gone below.
• A phoenix-headed woman approached a Dragonman and distorted the air around him with a twisted, heated finger.

Three Succubi imposed a new restriction on entry to the Twilight Abyss, threatening the gathered races when they protested. An Elf carrying Kolun’s consciousness warned that the Shadow World would perish if Xilos disappeared, then left as the Succubi and Dragonmen reacted with alarm.

• A Dragonman was engulfed in flames, and his companions failed to extinguish them.
• Three Succubi ordered every race to report to them before entering the Twilight Abyss below the third level, then threatened the crowd when it objected.
• An Elf carrying a sliver of Kolun’s consciousness arrived and said he had come to deliver a message.
• Kolun warned that the Shadow World would perish if Xilos disappeared and threatened mutual destruction if one of his people died there.
• After Kolun’s power vanished from the Elf, a Succubus allowed him to leave, and the gathered races discussed the warning as an immense force enveloped the distant portal.