Chapter Summaries

Old Tang arrived in East Industry State and went to New Realm City to personally verify the special Cataclysm Creature Qiu Tu had captured. Qiu Tu presented a Soul Shackles altar, but Old Tang’s expert could neither see nor sense anything inside it.

• Old Tang rejected East Industry State’s extravagant welcoming party and ordered the convoy to drive straight to New Realm City, while Huang Shangzong followed in a separate car.
• Committee Member Jiang and Lin Chuan separately suspected Old Tang was going to New Realm City, and Lin Chuan rushed there while investigating Qiu Tu’s recent activity.
• Old Tang’s arrival stunned New Realm City’s officials, and word spread across East Industry State when Qiu Tu joined Old Tang and Huang Shangzong in their car.
• Old Tang told Qiu Tu he had come to inspect the Cataclysm Creature that could not be recorded or transmitted, and Qiu Tu placed a Soul Shackles altar before the gathered experts.
• One of Old Tang’s Pseudo Fourth Order experts examined the altar and said he could neither see nor sense anything inside it.

Xiao Yuan Yao, a Chaos God King, arrived in the Boundless World intending to throw it into chaos, but Qiu Tu lured her toward the City Lord’s Mansion using a Crystal Dice and a claim of serving Majesty the Witch. Yao Qin revealed that the Witch was a powerful Chaos God King who had started the Chaos Era.

• Xiao Yuan Yao received Coordinate Paper, found the Boundless World, and began investigating it before she noticed Qiu Tu’s familiar aura of chaos.
• Qiu Tu showed Xiao Yuan Yao a Crystal Dice, claimed it came from Majesty the Witch, and persuaded her to follow him after a nearby God King aura stopped her from attacking.
• As Qiu Tu led Xiao Yuan Yao toward the City Lord’s Mansion, he asked Yao Qin about the Witch through Mental Power.
• Yao Qin explained that the Chaos Witch was one of the Chaos Path’s strongest High-Level God Kings and had started the Chaos Era of the past century.

Qiu Tu secured the Political Department Deputy Minister position after Yan Chen navigated a series of competing promotion applications and outside pressure. The appointment left the Investigation Department stunned and Zheng Tao anxious about Qiu Tu’s influence.

• The Municipal Committee, Military Department, and Supervisory Committee backed Qiu Tu, prompting Investigation Department officials to speculate about his influence.
• Lai Shun and Tang Feifei concluded that outside support would not sway Yan Chen, who issued a promotion list that again excluded Qiu Tu.
• Committee Member Jiang returned the revised promotion application with “Approved,” leaving the choice between Section Chief Xin and Deputy Director Zheng to Yan Chen.
• Yan Chen issued a third appointment application naming only Qiu Tu, and Committee Member Jiang approved it within minutes.
• Qiu Tu watched Yan Chen leave from the 9th Floor, while the appointment stirred excitement, disbelief, and unease throughout the Investigation Department.
• Zheng Tao swung between satisfaction and panic as Qiu Tu gained backing from the Municipal Committee and Military Department.

After Qiu Tu advanced to the Fifth Order, leaders across the Shelter and New State reacted to his growing power, and he returned to East City to take up the Speaker’s duties. He appointed Guan Xiao to lead the State Council’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and summoned her to discuss the Earth Vein Flower in Enlightenment City.

• Rain Butterfly learned of Qiu Tu’s advancement and sent the news to New State after recalling how she had protected his secret from Old Rao.
• Ye Mingfeng requested a visit with Qiu Tu, while Yan Chen told Yan Yan that they could not oppose him now.
• Leaders in the Shelter and New State reacted to Qiu Tu’s advancement, and Huang Shangzong ordered Secretary Han to begin a war.
• Qiu Tu returned to East City and received the honors due to the Speaker.
• Qiu Tu ordered Tao Yaoyao to appoint Guan Xiao Minister of Internal Affairs and promote Chen Feng to Deputy Director.
• Qiu Tu summoned Guan Xiao, who brought him information on Enlightenment City, where the Earth Vein Flower grew.

Zhao Ji wondered why Qiu Tu had not entered the Boundless Mind Sea - Core Area, while Qiu Tu secured Consort Xi’s loyalty and prepared a gift for her. He then secretly killed Shen Yuzhou with Shen Ling Shuang’s help, framing Li Feng and leaving the Edge Area in uproar.

• Zhao Ji decided to investigate the northwest region after failing to sense Qiu Tu in the Core Area, with five days remaining before the Heavenly God Trial.
• Qiu Tu ended his discussion with Consort Xi, who pledged to reach the Seventh Order by their next meeting, and teased her with a promised gift.
• Qiu Tu told Consort Xi he would not pursue her unless she wanted him, leaving her unsettled and eager to challenge his refusal.
• Qiu Tu infiltrated Shen Yuzhou’s camp and killed him while Shen Ling Shuang watched, then transformed into Li Feng and set fire to the command tent.
• Shen Yuzhou’s subordinates blamed Li Feng for his death, and news of the alleged assassination spread across the Human Faction and major Shelters.

Qiu Tu persuaded Mo Li to escort La Riluo’s group, while Zhao Ji ignored Mo Li’s attempt to provoke her about spending the night with Qiu Tu. As Mo Li brought the group together, Han Hai God King and Star Founder God King began plotting against Qiu Tu, and a strangely familiar girl arrived with Qing Lan.

• Qiu Tu asked Mo Li to watch over Zhao Ji’s twin sister, La Riluo, and discussed La Riluo with her throughout the night while Zhao Ji listened outside.
• Star Founder God King urged Han Hai God King to plant a spy among Qiu Tu’s vassal Heavenly Gods, and Han Hai God King agreed to look for a way.
• Mo Li told Zhao Ji she had spent the night in Qiu Tu’s room and claimed she had gained a lot, but Zhao Ji said she did not care.
• Mo Li left to collect La Riluo’s group as Qiu Tu went to see Ilena, Han Hai God King summoned gifted Heavenly Gods, and Star Founder God King called in two God Kings.
• La Riluo, Guan Xiao, Heavenly King Zhi Yan, Li Feng, and several hundred soldiers waited in a mountain range until Qing Lan arrived with a girl who seemed strangely familiar to them.

Qiu Tu and Qin Shuman connected La Riluo’s ability to the bodies and souls of Qiu Tu and Qin Shuman, and reconsidered Old Master Qin’s long-running effort to revive Yan Chen’s wife. Qiu Tu concluded that La Riluo’s manifested avatar was Yan Chen’s daughter, Yan Yan, and Qin Shuman asked how he had reached that conclusion.

• Qiu Tu reasoned that La Riluo’s ability involved relations between men and women and might have affected the original Qiu Tu and Qin Shuman.
• Qiu Tu and Qin Shuman connected La Riluo’s targeting of them to Yan Chen’s high rank and considered why she might be unable to affect him directly.
• Qiu Tu explained that Qin Shuman’s body had been genetically derived from Yan Chen’s wife, prompting them to question why Old Master Qin had revived her without openly joining Yan Chen’s faction.
• Qiu Tu and Qin Shuman concluded that Old Master Qin’s apparent bid for a position was likely a pretext for getting close to Yan Chen and helping revive his wife.
• Qiu Tu revealed that he suspected La Riluo’s manifested avatar was Yan Yan, and Qin Shuman asked how he had deduced it.

Qiu Tu learned that Yan Chen’s increased satisfaction likely came from his staying out of the investigation into Vice President Tian’s mistress, while Jia Shu’s leaked news had been a loyalty test. Realizing Secretary Bai might have failed it, Qiu Tu began planning to protect him and then encountered Qin ZhengGuang at the Investigation Department.

• Jia Shu persuaded Yan Chen to close the case of Vice President Tian’s mistress and recommended that Qiu Tu review and punish the Political Department squad held in detention.
• Qiu Tu had breakfast with Shen Ling Shuang, instructed her to stay safe and stop displaying his funeral portrait, and received notifications showing Yan Chen’s suspicion decreased and satisfaction increased.
• While driving to work, Qiu Tu reasoned that Jia Shu had leaked news of the woman’s death to test people’s loyalties and that his own decision not to act had pleased Yan Chen.
• Qiu Tu realized Secretary Bai might have been exposed by the test and resolved to find a way to protect him.
• At the Investigation Department, Qiu Tu met Qin ZhengGuang and thought about inventorying the property belonging to Fourth Master Qin’s wife and child.

After sleeping with Qin Shuman, Qiu Tu suspected she was hiding her true identity and warned her that Yan Chen knew about their affair. He staged an interrogation to prepare her to appear like a suspected Military Department mole, then handed her a Police Dagger as she feared Yan Chen would discover them.

• Qiu Tu slept with Qin Shuman and told her that Yan Chen already knew about their relationship.
• Qiu Tu watched Qin Shuman for signs of deception but remained suspicious that she was too innocent for the dangerous To-be-Planned Zone.
• After Qin Shuman washed and dressed, Qiu Tu pointed a handgun at her and demanded to know whose person she was.
• Qiu Tu explained that he had told Yan Chen she might be a Military Department mole and said they had to cooperate to survive.
• When Qin Shuman said she was afraid, Qiu Tu placed a Police Dagger in her hand.

After the Yin Caimei Case, Qiu Tu was promoted to Deputy Director of the Action Division and put in charge of the 8.16 Pharmacy Robbery Case. As his team celebrated, Wang Xi’s fear drew the attention of the Evil God La Riluo, and Liu Fuping received Tang Feifei’s request to arrange dinner with Qiu Tu.

• Minister Shi’s Organization Department appointed Qiu Tu Deputy Director of the Action Division, with authority over Qin ZhengGuang’s former jurisdiction.
• Qiu Tu returned to the temporary office, where his team celebrated his promotion and learned he would lead the 8.16 Pharmacy Robbery Case investigation.
• Qiu Tu invited his colleagues to join the new investigation, and Wang Xi reluctantly agreed despite fearing Qiu Tu would uncover his role in the robbery.
• Wang Xi’s anxiety triggered Qiu Tu’s Crisis Intuition, which warned that the Evil God La Riluo had noticed him and displayed an hourglass marked with infinity.
• Liu Fuping received a message from Tang Feifei asking her to arrange dinner with Qiu Tu at Tang Feifei’s villa that night.

Qiu Tu entered Consort Xi’s dream palace, used an aggressive boundary-testing tactic to force their relationship forward, and then offered to help the Sixth Shelter treat King Kang. He claimed his captured Evil God Dusk Night could use Life Currency to restore King Kang, but asked Consort Xi what had caused the king’s condition.

• Qiu Tu woke Consort Xi by slapping her backside, then invoked Eagle Fly’s defeat to make her suppress her anger and answer his questions.
• Consort Xi covered for Qiu Tu’s actions by saying she had dreamed the slap, and Qiu Tu helped her to her feet before they went to the meeting hall.
• Qiu Tu told Consort Xi he had decided to help the Sixth Shelter, while explaining that the Eighth Shelter would likely avoid intervening in its civil war.
• Qiu Tu offered Dusk Night’s Life Currency ability as a way to treat King Kang without the Three Revolutions Snow Lotus.
• Consort Xi asked what conditions Qiu Tu wanted, but he said his main concern was learning what had happened to King Kang.

Qiu Tu reported that the criminals behind the 8.16 Pharmacy Robbery Case worshipped La Riluo and that Minister Jia might be involved in the attacks on officials' families. After Qiu Tu warned that Jia might assassinate him, Yan Chen summoned Lin Ting, leaving his suspicions unresolved.

• Ji Chen told Yan Chen that Calamity Descendants had attacked officials' families and worshipped the Evil God enshrined by the Qin Family, prompting Yan Chen to summon Qiu Tu.
• Qiu Tu comforted Yan Yan by using a trick to make her withered flowers bloom again, then left her with a favorable first impression.
• Qiu Tu told Yan Chen that the arrested criminals followed La Riluo, whose Calamity Path was Reproduction, and had committed abuses to advance their deity's path.
• Qiu Tu said La Riluo had identified Minister Jia as her follower and ordered him to kill Qiu Tu, with an assassination possibly planned for the following night.
• Yan Chen ordered Qiu Tu to keep the case secret, then summoned Lin Ting; Ji Chen asked whether Yan Chen truly suspected Minister Jia.

Qiu Tu learned how to contact Zhao Ji from La Riluo and traveled to East City to perform the ritual. He reached Zhao Ji, who asked who he was, and Qiu Tu introduced himself as her brother-in-law.

• Huang Shangzong ordered his secretary to confirm that La Riluo was under control and seek her transfer to the State Council, then vented his anger over Qiu Tu’s scheme.
• Ye Mingfeng and Dai Yukang discussed Qiu Tu’s clever maneuver against Huang Shangzong and warned that La Riluo was crucial to the Great Expansion Plan.
• Qiu Tu persuaded La Riluo to explain how to contact Zhao Ji, including their private childhood name, “Sister Yueyue.”
• Qiu Tu and Tan Huimin traveled to East City and checked into the Sky Dome Hotel without alerting anyone.
• Qiu Tu performed La Riluo’s ritual, entered an illusory space, and answered Zhao Ji’s question by calling himself her brother-in-law.

Qiu Tu bribed Cao Dabiao to bind the Political Department squad to him, arranged for Eagle and others to join the department, and received an invitation from Fourth Master Qin to witness Director Qin’s confidant meet an anti-government organization. Just as Qiu Tu received the meeting details, another message arrived from an unfamiliar number.

• Qiu Tu gave Cao Dabiao 80 Silver Coins, and Cao accepted the money and pledged to serve him.
• Qiu Tu arranged for Eagle, A Kun, and others to buy medicinal ingredients, then told Eagle to transfer to the Political Department and list Cao Dabiao as his recommender.
• Eagle told Qiu Tu that Tai Ge had begun his Special Operations Department assessment and had earned Grade A in everything except shooting.
• Fourth Master Qin invited Qiu Tu to watch Director Qin’s confidant meet an anti-government organization and explained that he wanted to protect the family business.
• Qiu Tu accepted the invitation, and Fourth Master Qin sent him the time and address: Supreme Truth Restaurant, Private Room 108, at 8 p.m.
• Qiu Tu received another message from an unfamiliar number.

Qiu Tu recruited Dai Yukang’s support and planned to exploit the chaos after six Fifth-Order Evil Gods died to expand the Shelter’s territory. Meanwhile, Zhao Ji discovered traces of Qiu Tu’s Calamity Path, and Tang Feifei agreed to discuss the campaign after bargaining with him over how many times they would sleep together.

• Dai Yukang reported that his agents would return with the Hundred Eyes Vision, and Qiu Tu saw that Dai Yukang’s loyalty stood at 43 despite his enthusiastic performance.
• Qiu Tu told Dai Yukang that the Cataclysm Zone would fall into chaos and asked him to leak news that Qiu Tu had captured Eagle Fly.
• Qiu Tu redirected his convoy to Tang Feifei’s home and sent Ling Shuang back with Guan Xiao.
• Zhao Ji and La Riluo inspected the battlefield where Qiu Tu fought Eagle Fly, and Zhao Ji found traces of Order and recognized politics as Qiu Tu’s Calamity Path.
• Qiu Tu proposed that Tang Feifei help mobilize both states’ armies to expand their territory, and she negotiated with him over eight times together before they continued discussing business.

Pang Hai Chen confirmed that the Mist Veil Society had summoned him and attended Consort Xi and Kou Yu’s farewell banquet, while Qiu Tu discussed the Society’s power with Zhao Ji after taking the Four States Land. At the chapter’s end, Pang Hai Chen entered the Society’s meeting hall and waited to see who would preside.

• Pang Hai Chen accepted the Mist Veil Society’s summons, then left to attend Consort Xi and Kou Yu’s farewell banquet.
• Qiu Tu asked Zhao Ji whether the Mist Veil Society’s upper echelon posed a threat, and Zhao Ji dismissed them as mere rabble.
• Zhao Ji warned Qiu Tu to take care of himself and threatened to tell La Riluo he did not want to see her.
• Consort Xi received a message that Lady Ji would help rescue her at three-thirty, and she resolved to regain her freedom before speaking with Tang Wanfeng and Rao Shou.
• At 2:50 a.m., Pang Hai Chen used the Phantom Mirror Array to enter the Mist Veil Society’s meeting hall and took his seat.

Qiu Tu deduced that the Kou Family might have secretly allied with the Mist Veil Society and decided to delay their request for peace while investigating them. He discovered that Tang Feifei had gained Absolute Perception, while Consort Xi received an authorization letter giving Su Wanqing access to the Kou Family’s resources across the Dongye Four States.

• Qiu Tu reasoned that the Kou Family may have proactively supported the Mist Veil Society to preserve a way out, and he planned to cooperate cautiously while probing their strength.
• Qiu Tu visited Tang Feifei to discuss the military and saw strange spiritual light around her before learning she had gained Absolute Perception.
• Tang Feifei explained that Absolute Perception let her clearly perceive Calamity Power, abilities, creatures, and flaws in her martial arts, and she said she was nearing the Fifth Order.
• Qiu Tu offered to introduce Tang Feifei to a friend who could protect her while she advanced, and Tang Feifei appeared to guess who he meant.
• Shadows recovered sealed intelligence outside Immortal Fate City and delivered it to Consort Xi, who found an authorization letter granting Su Wanqing the Kou Family’s resources and personnel across the Dongye Four States.

Qiu Tu became Director of the New Realm City Investigation Department and planned to use his strength and intelligence about the Boundless Mind Sea to earn further promotions. After a busy day, he headed to the New World Area at midnight to meet La Riluo and see what she had for him.

• La Riluo overheard Qiu Tu call Guan Xiao by a name she thought was hers, became more convinced that Qiu Tu was her believer, sent him a message, and vanished as black butterflies.
• Qiu Tu reassured Guan Xiao that he had called her Xiao Xiao, and she accepted his explanation before the night continued.
• Liu Xiongyuan announced Qiu Tu's appointment as Director and introduced the reshuffled leadership of the New Realm City Investigation Department.
• Qiu Tu assessed the new officials and resolved to pursue greater merit by capturing special species, developing the New World Area, and confronting the Evil God Whale Shark.
• Ai Li resented Qiu Tu over Yan Yan, while Committee Member Jiang arranged for Tao Yaoyao to serve Qiu Tu dinner and joked that they made a good match.
• Qiu Tu returned home late, shifted to the Boundless Mind Sea–New World Area, and went to meet La Riluo.

Qiu Tu negotiated with Shen Yuzhou to hand the Sixth and 7th Shelters to the Third Shelter in exchange for its support and recognition as Shelter No. 1, while secretly planning to reclaim the region after the coming merger. La Riluo returned with Dragon Vein Seeds to help Qiu Tu refine his territory, revealing that she had secretly spent Zhao Ji’s money to buy them.

• Qiu Tu explained to Shen Yuzhou that he could maintain his Order-Politics strength through World Official Positions and asked to become Shelter No. 1 as part of their deal.
• Shen Yuzhou said he would seek Speaker Xing’s approval, while Zhu Wu unexpectedly asked whether she was getting a new dad.
• Qiu Tu reflected that he was giving up the Sixth and 7th Shelters because his forces were too weak to hold them, the coming regional merger threatened war, and he wanted to protect Shen Ling Shuang.
• Tao Yaoyao told Qiu Tu that La Riluo was waiting in his study, and La Riluo revealed she had finished building the Area Channels two days earlier.
• La Riluo gave Qiu Tu Dragon Vein Seeds to help him build and refine his region, then admitted she had bought them with Zhao Ji’s money without her sister’s knowledge.

After Qiu Tu covered up Old Master Qin’s death, he spoke with Qin Shuman, who began investigating a red-haired man in a Clown Mask. Reinforcements arrived after the battle, and Cui Daren explained that Qiu Tu had been appointed to lead the 8.16 Pharmacy Robbery Case investigation, a case Qiu Tu knew was more complicated than it appeared.

• Chen Feng and Cao Dabiao arranged the villa crime scene according to Qiu Tu’s plan and swore the detectives to secrecy.
• Qin Shuman discussed Qiu Tu’s public use of his Calamity Ability, promised to share Qin Heng’s interrogation findings, and flirted with him over the communicator.
• Lin Zuo overheard Qin Shuman’s teasing about poisonous wine, then received her order to investigate a red-haired man who wore a Clown Mask.
• Qiu Tu strengthened the detectives’ loyalty while the reinforcements he had requested arrived after the enemies had been killed.
• Cui Daren introduced himself to Qiu Tu and explained that Qiu Tu had been appointed leader of the 8.16 Pharmacy Robbery Case investigation team.
• Qiu Tu recalled information from Old Master Qin and realized the Pharmacy Robbery Case was far from simple.