Chapter Summaries

Yan Chen and Jia Shu traced the cover-up around Fourth Master Qin and Qin Shuman to the Security Department, then decided to use Qiu Tu as a double agent. After Qiu Tu rested, he received a notification that gaining a Calamity Ability had increased his Golden Finger slots and refreshes.

• Jia Shu told Yan Chen that the Security Department had erased evidence surrounding Fourth Master Qin and Qin Shuman's escape.
• Yan Chen and Jia Shu concluded that Qiu Tu's suspicions about Qin Shuman had been right and that the Security Department was behind the operation.
• Yan Chen accepted Jia Shu's proposals to investigate the Security Department and have Qiu Tu act as a double agent.
• Qiu Tu returned to the Interrogation Section, slept in an empty meeting room, and woke at 2 p.m.
• Qiu Tu received a notification that becoming a Calamity User had added one Golden Finger slot and one refresh.

Zhao Ji and Qiu Tu fought Takikawa Ei and her allies as Takikawa revealed her plan to merge with the world and multiply herself through countless clones. With the battle nearing its end and Qiu Tu’s power running out, he found a way to expose Takikawa’s true body, allowing Zhao Ji to kill her.

• North God King and Panda Zhi Yi’s clone helped Zhao Ji by holding off Takikawa Ei, but Takikawa transformed into hundreds of identical true-body clones and killed North God King.
• Qiu Tu used Order Space to boost Zhao Ji’s strength, and Zhao Ji killed West Divine King while Panda Zhi Yi’s clone was destroyed by Takikawa’s clones.
• Takikawa’s clones multiplied whenever Zhao Ji killed them, and Crisis Intuition warned Qiu Tu that he and Zhao Ji would die if he could not end the battle quickly.
• Qiu Tu realized how to identify Takikawa’s true body and told Zhao Ji that the target would be revealed after his countdown.
• When the world went dark, Zhao Ji saw Takikawa’s true body lit up, struck her with Heaven Severing, and killed the East Divine King, causing her remaining clones to collapse.

Qiu Tu received Shu Xia’s soul in Zhao Ji’s Soul Collection Bottle and discovered that Shu Xia had been resurrected without recognizing him or remembering his family. He went to Zhao Ji’s secluded cultivation site to discuss the strange resurrection and boast that he had mastered the Pseudo-Heavenly God Skill, where she suspected he had come to show off.

• Guan Xiao delivered Zhao Ji’s Soul Collection Bottle, and Qiu Tu recognized Shu Xia’s soul inside it.
• Guan Xiao identified the Two Realms Mirror, and Qiu Tu explained how he had used it to lure Shu Xia into his trap and kill him.
• Qiu Tu spent the night with Guan Xiao and Fang Tangtang while Man Huang stayed awake listening next door.
• The next day, Qiu Tu found that the Soul Collection Bottle had restored Shu Xia’s soul, but Shu Xia had lost his memories and did not recognize Qiu Tu or Man Huang.
• Qiu Tu put Shu Xia into his Dimensional Space and traveled to Zhao Ji’s secluded location in the Boundless Mind Sea.
• Zhao Ji, still cultivating, asked whether Qiu Tu had mastered the Pseudo-Heavenly God Skill in ten days and come to show off.

Qiu Tu traveled with Weaving Flame Heavenly King to the Sixth Shelter, where Consort Xi revealed she had obtained a Special Treasure Item from the Heavenly God Trial. Meanwhile, Qing Lan and Zhu Wu learned that Qiu Tu was with the Mist Veil Society and discussed whether to follow his plans or rescue him.

• Qiu Tu told Zhi Yan that Lin Xi remained under his control and asked her about the Second Shelter’s history and alliances during their journey.
• Qing Lan told Zhu Wu that Qiu Tu was with the Mist Veil Society, and Zhu Wu proposed rescuing him before Qing Lan argued that he might be acting deliberately.
• Qing Lan and Zhu Wu contacted Tang Feifei and Guan Xiao to assess Qiu Tu’s situation and decide how to respond.
• Qiu Tu reached the Sixth Shelter’s Reformist Faction camp, where Consort Xi recognized him and invited him to speak privately.
• Consort Xi showed Qiu Tu a Special Treasure Item mirror and suggested he had come because he knew she possessed it.

After becoming a Calamity Descendant, Qiu Tu unlocked a second Golden Finger, Loyalty Game, and learned how it could help him monitor loyalty and influence subordinates. Jia Shu recruited him as a double agent to contact Qin Shuman, but a prompt showing no change in Jia Shu’s suspicion left Qiu Tu uncertain whether the minister trusted him or was testing him.

• Qiu Tu gained a second Golden Finger slot and refreshed it into Loyalty Game, while locking Crisis Intuition.
• Qiu Tu discovered that Jia Shu had covered him with his division chief uniform and went to thank him at the 9th Floor office.
• Qiu Tu saw Liu Fuping’s loyalty increase after he complimented her, then entered Jia Shu’s office.
• Jia Shu explained that the Investigation Department suspected Qin Shuman was a Security Department operative and asked Qiu Tu to act as a guided double agent.
• Qiu Tu agreed to contact Qin Shuman and pass approved intelligence, then wondered whether Jia Shu was testing him.
• Qiu Tu saw a prompt showing Jia Shu’s suspicion and satisfaction had both changed by zero.

Qiu Tu concluded that Yan Yan was likely La Riluo’s avatar and that Secretary Bai might be helping her, then learned from Old Master Qin’s files about the Evil Gods’ territories and infiltration of human institutions. He left with Qin Shuman’s support to investigate Yan Chen’s family and Secretary Bai.

• Qiu Tu explained why he suspected Yan Yan was La Riluo’s avatar and why Secretary Bai might be her accomplice.
• Qin Shuman gave Qiu Tu Old Master Qin’s interrogation records, which revealed La Riluo’s influence near New Realm City and Zhao Ji’s territory around East City.
• Qiu Tu learned that Evil Gods infiltrated human institutions through believers and that inter-institutional spies served as mutual oversight against corruption.
• Qin Shuman burned the records and assigned Qiu Tu an operations team to support his investigation of Yan Chen’s family and Secretary Bai.
• Qiu Tu flirted with Qin Shuman, accepted her dismissal for the night, and asked how far he would need to go to help her.

Qiu Tu drew the Evil Gods into uniting under Dong Liu, then killed Dong Liu and the gathered Fifth-Order Evil Gods with overwhelming force. His battle before the watching factions ended with the Isolation Mountain Range breached and Calamity Power flooding into the Northwest Area.

• Qiu Tu’s purge of eight Evil Gods stunned the Shelters, while Rao Shou, Tang Wanfeng, and Kou Xuan suspected he was preparing the Northwest Area for his eventual return.
• Dong Liu agreed to lead the gathered Evil Gods against Qiu Tu, revealing that he had reached the Sixth-Order Peak.
• Qiu Tu refined six more regions, reached the quasi-Seventh Order, and flew to the Isolation Mountain Range to confront Dong Liu.
• Qiu Tu’s Heaven-Opening sword strike overwhelmed Dong Liu’s axe, killed him, severed the waterfall, and shattered part of the Isolation Mountain Range.
• Qiu Tu slaughtered the remaining Fifth-Order Evil Gods and declared that he would hold up humanity’s collapsing heavens as Calamity Power poured into the Northwest Area.

Qiu Tu overheard Zhi Yan and Jin Ni discussing their alliance, then learned through Crisis Intuition that they were waiting to ambush him. He chose to deceive them instead of fighting or fleeing, and ended the chapter steering their conversation with a bold claim and shameless flattery.

• Qiu Tu hid nearby and overheard Zhi Yan and Jin Ni discuss the Second Shelter’s cooperation with the Mist Veil Society to help President Tian Qi obtain the Heavenly God Level.
• Crisis Intuition warned Qiu Tu that Jin Ni and Zhi Yan had staged their departure and would search the area if he remained hidden, so he decided to deceive them.
• Qiu Tu unleashed his aura, called out to Jin Ni and Zhi Yan, and flew past them before abruptly turning back to approach them.
• Qiu Tu claimed that something was wrong with the Heavenly God Trial but refused to explain, then swore he had never killed Nine-Headed Lion.
• Qiu Tu confirmed that he knew Jin Ni’s identity and complimented Zhi Yan by saying she looked like Li Feng’s younger sister, leaving Jin Ni suspicious as the conversation shifted in Qiu Tu’s favor.

Qiu Tu interrogated Shen Ling Shuang about her past and her ability to make Cataclysm Potions, but her bizarre claims and teasing revealed she had been pretending to be frightened. Unable to punish her harshly because of her mysterious identity, he instead spanked her over the table.

• Qiu Tu recognized Shen Ling Shuang’s denials as suspicious and used gruesome photographs to frighten her into answering.
• Shen Ling Shuang said she had fled Seventh City in Third Shelter after disaster struck her family and had learned pharmacy from her family.
• Qiu Tu questioned her about the Cataclysm Potion, and Shen Ling Shuang claimed she could make only low-quality batches with strange effects.
• Shen Ling Shuang teased Qiu Tu by asking whether he had been born unable to smile, revealing that she had been acting throughout the interrogation.
• Qiu Tu restrained Shen Ling Shuang and considered punishing her with his dagger, but held back because her identity was mysterious and spanked her instead.

Qiu Tu realized Yan Chen and Jia Shu were in conflict over Jia Shu assigning him the Yin Caimei Case behind Yan Chen’s back, and that his report could determine his standing with both men. He presented evidence that Yin Caimei was killed with a Cataclysmic Treasure and left Yan Chen asking who he suspected.

• Qiu Tu assigned Cao Dabiao, Liu Fuping, and Chen Feng to organize copies of the case documents while he went to Jia Shu’s office.
• Qiu Tu found Yan Chen waiting in Jia Shu’s office and learned through Crisis Intuition that the two superiors distrusted each other over the case.
• Yan Chen questioned Qiu Tu about his investigation, and Qiu Tu said the team was nearly ready to close the case.
• Qiu Tu explained that Yin Caimei had died of sudden cardiac death, but the autopsy and circumstances led him to suspect murder.
• Qiu Tu revealed that the Mist Index Book identified a calamity curse and that Yin Caimei’s book, “Brave New World,” was the murder weapon and a Cataclysmic Treasure.
• Yan Chen asked Qiu Tu whom he suspected.

After surviving Yan Chen’s scrutiny, Qiu Tu reunited with A Tai and Eagle and learned Yan Chen still suspected him but chose to use him against the Qin Family. The next morning, Qiu Tu received a Political Department uniform and First-level Investigator insignia, while Yan Chen’s promised delivery was still to come.

• Qiu Tu left Yan Chen’s villa and was warmly greeted by A Tai and Eagle outside the guard post.
• Yan Chen and Jia Shu concluded Qiu Tu had major secrets, but Yan Chen refused to torture him because City Hall was watching.
• Yan Chen decided to let Qiu Tu and the Qin Family clash, ordering Jia Shu to deliver an arrested alchemist and the Aurora Stone, gold bars, and Silver Coins to him.
• Qiu Tu drank late into the night with A Tai and Eagle, and the three slept at his home.
• Li Ke arrived the next morning with Qiu Tu’s black Political Department uniform and First-level Investigator insignia, astonishing A Tai and Eagle.

Qiu Tu learned Zhao Ji’s Heaven Imprisoning Seal while investigating the Puppet Ants, discovering that Shu Xia was behind them and preparing to invade the Northwest Region. With the swarm nearing one hundred thousand, Qiu Tu ordered the border areas evacuated as the Puppet Ant Queen faced pressure to attack.

• Qiu Tu demonstrated Heaven Splitting for Zhao Ji, who explained that it carried a World Rule and taught him the Heaven Imprisoning Seal.
• Qiu Tu realized Zhao Ji favored both praise and talent, and resolved to learn the new technique quickly while staying wary of the Puppet Ants.
• Qiu Tu and Guan Xiao identified Shu Xia, an Eighth Order Great Evil God and master of Siyuan Pavilion, as the person supplying the Puppet Ants; Guan Xiao estimated her infection would take five more days to control the swarm.
• Qiu Tu ordered civilians and military forces withdrawn from the areas bordering the Cataclysm Zone and assigned captured private-army members to defend the cities.
• Shu Xia demanded that the Puppet Ant Queen begin invading Northwest Shelter the next day, while the Queen’s swarm had grown toward one hundred thousand Pseudo-Humans.

Qiu Tu single-handedly suppressed an Alliance assault on the villa, helping the agents defeat and capture the attackers. After killing an invisible Calamity Descendant inside his Order Space, he returned to find Old Master Qin reacting with astonishment to the dead man’s rifle.

• Qiu Tu used his exceptional marksmanship to kill Alliance fighters and suppress the attackers until Jiao Ming led the agents in a counterattack.
• The agents forced the Alliance members down, leaving two of their own dead or wounded and capturing the remaining attackers.
• Qiu Tu spotted an invisible Calamity Descendant inside his Order Space and shot him before inspecting his belongings.
• Qiu Tu realized the defeated attackers had ended the danger tracked by his Crisis Countdown and returned to the living room as his subordinates’ loyalty increased.
• Old Master Qin stared at the rifle Qiu Tu had taken from the Calamity Descendant, rattling his handcuffs against the stair railing.

Qiu Tu convinced Zhao Ji that Shen Ling Shuang was not Mountain Root, explaining that Dusk Night had used the rumors to distract everyone while pursuing the real Mountain Root. Zhao Ji agreed with his reasoning but revealed that Shen Ling Shuang was still unusual: she was an incomplete person and a fragment of someone else’s lost soul.

• Qiu Tu met privately with Zhao Ji, who challenged his plan to use her against Dusk Night and questioned his claim that Dusk Night had found Mountain Root.
• Zhao Ji suspected Mountain Root might be in Qiu Tu’s hands and asked him to let her inspect the people around him; Qiu Tu summoned them while Zhao Ji remained invisible.
• After inspecting Shen Ling Shuang, Zhao Ji showed surprise, and Qiu Tu admitted he had already suspected she was not Mountain Root.
• Qiu Tu reasoned that Dusk Night had spread rumors about Shen Ling Shuang to divert attention while secretly searching for the real Mountain Root, and Zhao Ji agreed.
• Zhao Ji told Qiu Tu that Shen Ling Shuang was incomplete and was a fragment of someone else’s lost soul.

Qiu Tu received Guan Xiao’s intelligence about an Alliance special team in New Realm City and planned to use the team for his own benefit. He went to meet Yan Chen to discuss the matter, where he encountered a familiar young woman leaving Yan Chen’s office.

• Qiu Tu invited Guan Xiao to his office, where she reported that an Alliance team led by a God Envoy had arrived in New Realm City and was connected to the Boundless Mind Sea Expansion Plan.
• Qiu Tu accepted Guan Xiao’s report and noticed that her loyalty increased as she tried to draw closer to him.
• Guan Xiao wrote up the intelligence, and Qiu Tu decided to report it to Yan Chen while considering how to exploit the Alliance team before sacrificing it.
• Qiu Tu went to Yan Chen’s office and entered after Zhao Ruiquan admitted him.
• Qiu Tu met a familiar young woman face-to-face as she left Yan Chen’s office.

Qiu Tu warned allies that the Heavenly God Trial would bring a catastrophe, while Qing Lan explained the Core Area’s layered God Domains and the history between Second Shelter and the Mist Veil Society. Learning how factions gained territory and independence, Qiu Tu devised a path to establish his own kingdom, but first he had to win the trial and obtain the Heavenly God Level.

• Qiu Tu sent warnings and instructions to Consort Xi and Tang Feifei about the imminent Heavenly God Trial, and Tang Feifei promised to stay safe and wait for him.
• A death warrior told Li Feng that Second Shelter had partnered with the Mist Veil Society for the trial, prompting Li Feng to angrily object to the alliance.
• Qing Lan explained to Qiu Tu how the West Kingdom’s territory was divided through nested God Domains and how Second Shelter had broken away from the Mist Veil Society.
• Qiu Tu realized that securing territory and gaining recognition could lead to independence, and he considered using the same strategy to establish a new kingdom.
• Two days passed, and the Heavenly God Trial’s start arrived as Qiu Tu prepared to return to the Edge Area.

Jia Wei offered Yan Chen a deal: support for becoming a Deputy Speaker in exchange for half of Moonlight Lake’s Moonlight Tears, while their conversation was interrupted by news of the attack on Qiu Tu. Qiu Tu survived, learned that several attackers had been captured, and received calls from influential figures seeking to meet him.

• Jia Wei revealed that he represented a group seeking to help Yan Chen become a Deputy Speaker of the planned East Industry State in exchange for half of Moonlight Lake’s output.
• Jia Wei blamed Yan Chen for his wrongful conviction and rejected Yan Chen’s appeal to humanity as Ji Chen arrived with news that four Second Order Calamity Descendants had tried to assassinate Qiu Tu.
• Ji Chen reported that Tang Feifei and the Supervisory Committee had intervened, Minister Jia had been taken away, and Qiu Tu appeared to have been killed; Yan Chen called Qiu Tu but reached a busy line.
• Qiu Tu told Qin Shuman he was safe, and she reported that Tang Feifei’s intervention had helped the authorities capture three Masked Suit Men.
• Tao Yaoyao invited Qiu Tu to meet Committee Member Jiang, while Secretary Bai, Liu Fuping, and Fang Ming also contacted him after the attack.

Huang Shangzong told Ai Li, Xue Er, and Yan Yan that he would become New State’s Speaker and assigned them to host Consort Xi’s delegation from the Sixth Shelter. After Qiu Tu finished refining the Azure Water Area, news spread that he would become East Industry State’s Acting Speaker, leaving the state stunned as the Shelter began making further changes.

• Huang Shangzong announced his transfer to New State and ordered Ai Li, Xue Er, and Yan Yan to prepare to accompany Consort Xi’s delegation in twenty days.
• Huang Shangzong said Old Pang would oversee the reception and promised Ai Li a path into the State Council if she performed well, but he withheld the identity of East Industry State’s next Speaker.
• Xue Er guessed that Qiu Tu might become East Industry State’s Speaker, while she and Ai Li privately recalled their feelings and past encounters with him.
• Qiu Tu watched Scarface finish refining the Azure Water Area’s thirty-six Earth Vein Nodes, bringing the number of areas he controlled directly or indirectly to six.
• Qiu Tu returned to East City and contacted Old Tang, after which news spread that Huang Shangzong would lead the Cataclysm Zone Pioneering Plan and later become New State’s Speaker.
• The Shelter appointed Qiu Tu Acting Speaker of the East Industry State Council, shocking the state before further personnel changes were announced.

Qiu Tu arranged Qin Shuman’s return to the Qin Family and accompanied his group to a banquet there, where he observed divisions within the family. Afterward, he went to question the detained Girl Pharmacist alone.

• Qin Shuman called Yan Chen and secured his approval to return to the Qin Family.
• Secretary Bai told Qiu Tu that he would guard Qin Shuman and that Fang Ming’s Seventh Squad and Cui Lan would accompany them.
• Qiu Tu spotted Cui Lan outside Qin Shuman’s room, apparently eavesdropping, but left without confronting her.
• At the Qin Family banquet, Qiu Tu observed that the family branches were competing for influence under the frail Qin Heng.
• Qiu Tu declined an invitation from the Third Branch and went to the Girl Pharmacist’s room, ordering the agent on guard to leave so he could interrogate her alone.

Qiu Tu awakened as an Order-Politics practitioner, gained the ability Reshape Order, and discovered how dramatically his strength had increased. After securing Fourth Master Qin’s cooperation, he prepared to watch the Qin Family as night fell.

• Qiu Tu decided to begin his political climb by taking Yan Chen’s position and tested his newly enhanced body, accidentally breaking his door.
• Qiu Tu sparred with Eagle and revealed that his first Calamity Ability, Reshape Order, let him impose one rule daily within a small space.
• Qiu Tu put Shen Ling Shuang to rest and waited for Fourth Master Qin’s call.
• Fourth Master Qin agreed to Qiu Tu’s terms, and Qiu Tu instructed him to cooperate with Director Qin until further notice.
• At seven, Qiu Tu used Spirit Vision to look toward the Qin Family and prepared for the next stage of his plan.