Chapter Summaries

Qiu Tu finalized an investigation plan with Tang Feifei and Liu Fuping, then left Tang Feifei newly fascinated by him. He met Qin Shuman at the Milan Hotel, and after they were intimate, he asked what she had wanted to discuss.

• Qiu Tu persuaded Tang Feifei to abandon her attempt to seduce him, and Liu Fuping interrupted them after eavesdropping outside the door.
• Qiu Tu, Tang Feifei, and Liu Fuping agreed that the Security Department would investigate Vice President Tian and his support network, while Tang Feifei would seek to restrict Jia Shu and Qiu Tu would pursue the culprit.
• After Qiu Tu left, Tang Feifei realized he had deliberately turned her down and grew eager to pursue him, while Liu Fuping felt left out.
• Qiu Tu called Qin Shuman, drove to Room 401 at the Milan Hotel, and rushed her inside when she opened the door.
• After they were intimate, Qiu Tu asked Qin Shuman what she had wanted to discuss with him.

Qiu Tu tested No Pain, All Gain, found it could engrave Calamity Ability Equation Sets efficiently without exhausting him, and set it to work on two tasks. After Consort Xi returned to the Sixth Shelter and challenged Kou Xuan and Kou Yu, Qiu Tu and Tang Feifei questioned her motives, leaving Qiu Tu considering how to enter the brewing conflict.

• Qiu Tu activated No Pain, All Gain and confirmed it could engrave Ever-Changing Invisibility faster than he could while transferring the experience without tiring him.
• Qiu Tu opened a second task to engrave the Sealing Jade ability, then ran both tasks in the background using the Golden Finger's two task slots.
• Consort Xi called Qiu Tu about the upheaval in the Sixth Shelter, and he agreed that their previous agreement still stood.
• Consort Xi returned to the Sixth Shelter, rallied the Royalist Faction, accused Kou Xuan and Kou Yu of murdering King Kang and forging his will, and called for a purge of the emperor's entourage.
• Qiu Tu told Tang Feifei that Consort Xi wanted real power for her son, but Tang Feifei argued that her actions suggested she sought power for herself.
• Qiu Tu grew suspicious of Consort Xi's motives and began considering how to involve himself in the conflict.

Qiu Tu advised Consort Xi on how to counter the Kou Family, while La Riluo entered Consort Xi’s dream and discovered Yasha hiding there. The chapter ended with Consort Xi recognizing Yasha but sensing that someone else had intruded into the dream.

• Qiu Tu explained the stages of a powerful minister’s rise and told Consort Xi that the Kou Family was still at the stage of seizing power.
• Qiu Tu urged Consort Xi to use force against the Kou Family, but Consort Xi rejected his plan because of its consequences.
• La Riluo found Qiu Tu asleep in the Real World, discovered his Dream Invitation, and entered Consort Xi’s dream.
• Consort Xi sensed an intruder and interrupted Qiu Tu and herself; Yasha then appeared and praised her sharpness.
• Qiu Tu recognized Yasha as the Evil God who had been hiding in Consort Xi’s Dream Space.
• Consort Xi recognized Yasha but realized the presence she had sensed did not seem to be the little girl.

Kou Xuan suspected Qiu Tu had turned Dusk Night and warned Kou Tianyou to avoid the Mist Veil Society until its missing Great Evil Gods arrived. The next day, Tao Yaoyao told Qiu Tu that their envoy delegation had been massacred in Sixth Shelter territory, leaving the cause and consequences unresolved.

• Kou Xuan told the family leaders that Qiu Tu had once requested records about the Third Shelter’s Speaker and that the Kou Family was preparing contingencies in case he refused to cooperate.
• After the meeting, Kou Xuan secretly met Kou Tianyou and told him not to attend another Mist Veil Society gathering because Dusk Night might now be working for Qiu Tu.
• Kou Xuan and Kou Tianyou reasoned that Nine-Headed Lion and Jackal Dog had vanished while investigating Qiu Tu, and Kou Xuan instructed Kou Tianyou to wait before contacting the Mist Veil Society.
• Kou Xuan reviewed a report listing Mist Veil Society members’ identities, including four traitors in the 7th Shelter, then spent the night worried.
• The next morning, Tao Yaoyao told Qiu Tu that bandits had killed the envoy delegation sent to the Sixth Shelter.

Qiu Tu learned that La Riluo’s wood dragon, Blockhead, could be summoned and might help him secure the New World Area. Guan Xiao then revealed evidence that Vice Minister Zhang arranged Secretary Bai’s apparent suicide and framed Qiu Tu, before teasing him in his office.

• Qiu Tu experienced La Riluo’s memory of riding Blockhead, a Third Order wood dragon whose breath revived the forest and whose body could transform into a tree.
• A small Memory Fragment revealed that Zhao Ji had helped La Riluo create Blockhead from the original wood dragon’s body and that an incantation could summon it.
• Qiu Tu realized that controlling Blockhead could protect him and help him compete for control of the New World Area.
• Guan Xiao entered Qiu Tu’s office and reported that Vice Minister Zhang had visited Secretary Bai before his death, hidden Bai’s real final letter, and arranged the false letter framing Qiu Tu under the former director’s orders.
• Guan Xiao admitted she had gone without a bra to tempt Qiu Tu and asked whether he liked what he saw.

Qiu Tu prepared to eliminate Scarface while awaiting Old Wang’s inspection of Whale Shark’s remains. After confirming Qiu Tu had killed the Fourth Order Evil God, Old Wang announced his promotion to Deputy Speaker of the East Industry State Council.

• Senior officials across East Industry State connected Old Wang’s visit to Qiu Tu’s pending promotion and learned that the Shelter had convened a Speaker Meeting over Qiu Tu’s application.
• Qiu Tu’s agents traced Scarface’s communicator to a villa compound near Dragon Mountain Road, and Chen Feng began covert surveillance of the eight-person group.
• Old Wang arrived in New Realm City and examined Whale Shark’s Boundless God Crystal; Shelter experts confirmed that Qiu Tu alone had left the fatal wound and aura.
• Old Wang announced that the Shelter had approved Qiu Tu’s promotion to Deputy Speaker, leaving Huang Shangzong and Liu Xiongyuan anticipating the news’s impact.

After Zhao Ji’s threat forced the factions to withdraw, Qiu Tu took control of the Four States Land and began strengthening his followers. Pang Hai Chen, alarmed by Qiu Tu’s rapid expansion, prepared to seek help from the Mist Veil Society and received its summons.

• Qiu Tu assigned regions to his trusted followers and used Order Space to guarantee Shen Ling Shuang’s successful Cataclysm Awakening.
• Qiu Tu demonstrated Ever-Changing Invisibility to La Riluo, who gave him a black-and-gold card containing the Equation Set for another universal Calamity Ability.
• Shen Ling Shuang awakened successfully, turning her eyes azure blue.
• After the Evil Gods, Anti-Government Armed Forces, and Extremist Religions withdrew, Qiu Tu’s forces took over the cities in the Heaven and Earth States, bringing the Four States Land under his command.
• Pang Hai Chen decided that the Mist Veil Society needed to restrain Zhao Ji and sensed a summons calling him to a society meeting.

Jia Shu and Yan Chen began investigating the Qin Family estate fire while Qiu Tu stayed in the Investigation Department and prepared to interrogate suspected spy Yin Caimei. When Lin Zuo called, Qiu Tu realized he had likely discovered the deception involving Fourth Master Qin and prepared to make his final move.

• Jia Shu doubted Qiu Tu's explanation for Fourth Master Qin's repeated calls and agreed with Yan Chen to investigate what Qiu Tu was planning.
• Jia Shu assembled veteran investigators to investigate the Qin Family fire, then assigned an officer to watch Qiu Tu in the surveillance room.
• Qiu Tu reviewed the case against Yin Caimei, whose spying had been uncovered through eavesdropping chips hidden in communicators.
• Qiu Tu told the task force to bring Yin Caimei in for interrogation while he remained inside the Investigation Department as Jia Shu had instructed.
• Qiu Tu declined Lin Zuo's call and inferred that Lin Zuo had realized Fourth Master Qin had no evidence against Yan Chen.

Qiu Tu learned how the Boundless Mind Sea, World Passages, and Heavenly God Battlefield were connected, while Zhao Ji recounted how the Four Divine Kings drove away rival God Kings and sealed their world off. As Qiu Tu and Zhao Ji considered how to face the true God Kings, the World Origin announced that seven days remained until the Heavenly God Trial deadline.

• Qiu Tu reasoned that the Boundless Mind Sea formed a spiritual network across the Great World and that its World Passages had been redirected to the Heavenly God Battlefield.
• Zhao Ji explained that the World Passages had once linked different worlds, but the World Will began funneling Heavenly Gods into the battlefield seven or eight hundred years earlier.
• Zhao Ji recounted how she fought two God Kings invading her world, while the East Divine King and the others merged with the Small World to drive them away.
• Zhao Ji said the Four Divine Kings later expelled the other Heavenly Gods and destroyed the World Passages, leaving her to reincarnate without undoing their actions.
• Qiu Tu concluded that the Four Divine Kings feared true God Kings would find their world and warned that he and Zhao Ji needed a plan before advancing to Heavenly Gods.
• Qiu Tu and Zhao Ji received a message from the World Origin stating that seven days remained until the Heavenly God Trial deadline.

Tian Qi recalled his brief association with Zhao Ji during the Heavenly God Cataclysm, then explained why the Mist Veil Society had retreated and how it planned to benefit from the ensuing conflict. Qiu Tu countered by deciding to embrace the rumors about his faction’s strength, while Shu Xia set events in motion to keep him occupied.

• Tian Qi told Jin Ni and Shu Xia that a World Restriction prevented survivors of the Heavenly God Cataclysm from revealing what had happened, and recalled how he had served under a formidable woman he believed was Zhao Ji.
• Tian Qi explained that the Mist Veil Society had withdrawn to avoid the Parasitic Creatures and bait Qiu Tu’s faction into becoming a target, then hinted that Shu Xia’s sister-in-law was likely in Qiu Tu’s hands.
• After the Mist Veil Society’s retreat raised Qiu Tu and Zhao Ji’s standing, Qiu Tu told Zhao Ji, Qing Lan, and Zhu Wu to accept the rumors and boast about their power to buy time.
• Zhu Wu began publicly exaggerating Qiu Tu and Zhao Ji’s strength as the Human Faction consolidated the northwestern region.
• Shu Xia brought Parasitic Creatures from the northeastern region and released them into the northwestern Cataclysm Zone to keep Qiu Tu busy, while Qiu Tu began contacting Man Huang.

Qiu Tu’s bet with Zheng Tao ended after nine hours, when Zheng Tao failed to make Jia Wei confess and publicly admitted defeat. As Zheng Tao tried to leave, Qiu Tu stopped him with a bloodthirsty smile, suggesting his humiliation was not over.

• Shi Youxin and Lin Ting expected Zheng Tao to win, while Yan Chen suspected Qiu Tu had planned the bet and warned Ji Chen not to underestimate him.
• As the hours passed without an interrogation result, Investigation Department agents began shifting their support from Zheng Tao to Qiu Tu, and senior officials recognized the wager as a trap.
• Qiu Tu arrived at the Interrogation Room with his subordinates as the six o’clock deadline approached, drawing a crowd of agents.
• Zheng Tao emerged at the deadline covered in blood and admitted he had lost; Jia Wei remained alive but had been badly tortured and still refused to talk.
• Qiu Tu mocked Zheng Tao for disgracing the Political Department, and Zheng Tao surrendered the prisoner and promised not to interfere with the case.
• When Zheng Tao turned to leave, Qiu Tu stopped him and smiled ominously.

Qiu Tu established the Human Alliance Highest Council and became its first Speaker, then traveled to the Crimson Territory to meet Doris and seek protection from the East Divine King. Meanwhile, the East Divine King recognized Zhao Ji from a reconstruction of her battle, and Doris waited to greet Qiu Tu with her officials.

• Qiu Tu persuaded Heavenly King Zhi Yan to introduce him to Doris, explaining that the East Divine King might target him after Kabaneri’s death.
• After the second Great Migration, Qiu Tu formed the Human Alliance Highest Council, became its first Speaker, and reached mid-Eighth Order.
• Doris agreed to meet Qiu Tu in the Crimson Territory, and Qiu Tu accepted because he hoped the North God King's territory would shield him from the East Divine King.
• The East Divine King examined a reconstruction of the battle at the Isolation Mountain Range and recognized Zhao Ji's use of a Heavenly God Skill.
• Qiu Tu traveled to the Crimson Territory, where Doris and its high-ranking officials were waiting on the road to meet him.

Qiu Tu helped Shao Hua realize that South Divine King had likely adopted her as a tool to guard the South Kingdom while pursuing Zhao Ji, then the two fought over control of the kingdom. Their sparring match ended when Qiu Tu accidentally touched Shao Hua’s chest, prompting her to attack him with her hidden axe.

• Qiu Tu questioned Shao Hua’s memories and concluded that she was likely an orphan adopted by South Divine King, who had raised her to control his avatar and guard the South Kingdom while he pursued Zhao Ji.
• Qiu Tu told Shao Hua that White Robe had likely watched Zhao Ji’s growth and speculated that the Chaos Witch might have arranged it, though he remained uncertain of White Robe’s motives.
• Shao Hua refused to hand the South Kingdom over easily and attacked Qiu Tu with her sword.
• Qiu Tu used Absolute Perception to learn from Shao Hua’s techniques during their half-hour fight, gradually putting her under increasing pressure.
• Shao Hua called the sparring match off, but Qiu Tu accidentally slapped her chest, and she responded by drawing her axe and swinging at him.

Consort Xi asked Qiu Tu for elite troops to help her resist the Kou Family’s Calamity Descendants, and he revealed 1,800 Dark Soldiers surrounding the Royal Palace. After frightening her into reaffirming their alliance, Qiu Tu prepared to enter the Sixth Shelter’s war openly and turned his attention to taking control of the Mist Veil Society’s northwest region.

• Consort Xi told Qiu Tu that the Kou Family’s Calamity Descendant squads were threatening her forces and requested elite troops.
• Consort Xi explained that Yan Yan had urged her to trust Qiu Tu, and Qiu Tu directed her to look from the Royal Palace’s third floor toward the rear garden.
• Qiu Tu revealed 1,800 Dark Soldiers positioned around the palace and surrounding streets, including five Fourth Order fighters and a Fourth Order Peak leader.
• Qiu Tu told Consort Xi that their partnership had no peaceful exit, and she agreed to keep cooperating until they won or she died in battle.
• Qiu Tu explained that he had used La Riluo’s Area Channel method to move the Dark Soldiers into the Sixth Shelter and planned to enter the war openly.
• Qiu Tu set his sights on taking control of the Mist Veil Society’s northwest region and blew a conch-shaped Cataclysmic Treasure.

Qiu Tu agreed to help Old Tang surveil Pang Hai Chen while considering Yan Chen’s analysis of his political future and possible paths to greater power. He began interrogating Little Yaksa, trading questions with her and asking about her father’s position in the Mist Veil Society.

• Qiu Tu agreed with Old Tang to watch Pang Hai Chen until their allies were ready to move against his faction.
• Qiu Tu considered Yan Chen’s advice that he could leave the Eighth Shelter’s power structure, pursue influence in the Sixth Shelter, or establish a Ninth Shelter.
• Qiu Tu reflected that he wanted to explore the changes to his Calamity Path beyond the Sixth Order and decided to question the imprisoned Little Yaksa.
• Qiu Tu took Little Yaksa from the Soul Shackles Altar and proposed that they take turns asking questions.
• Little Yaksa questioned Qiu Tu about his relationships with women, and he answered with shameless jokes about enjoying their company and holding Zhao Ji’s thigh.
• Qiu Tu asked Little Yaksa to explain her father’s identity and position among the Mist Veil Society’s upper ranks.

Tang Feifei, Rain Butterfly, and their allies fought Consort Xi and the Royalist Faction while Qiu Tu explained the origins of Consort Xi’s dual Calamity Paths. Rain Butterfly’s Butterfly Transformation ability awakened Consort Xi’s Vengeance path, leaving her transformed and far more powerful as the chapter ended with Qiu Tu recounting the Lin Family’s abuse of her.

• Tang Feifei rejected Li Hanxiang’s accusations and challenged Ji Yuan, while their allies engaged the other Royalist Faction fighters.
• Rain Butterfly faced Consort Xi, whose Reshape Order ability erased Calamity Abilities and overwhelmed her in combat.
• After Consort Xi repeatedly knocked her down, Rain Butterfly’s black flames appeared, triggering Consort Xi’s own transformation and raising her to late Fifth Order.
• Consort Xi’s Calamity Path changed from Order - Reconstruction to Destruction - Vengeance.
• Qiu Tu told Zhao Ji that Consort Xi was Lin Xi, whose family had forced her into experiments to extract her powers and create the Butterfly Transformation talent.
• Qiu Tu explained that the Lin Family’s abuse planted hatred in Lin Xi and led toward the Zhegu Terrace Incident thirteen years earlier.

Qiu Tu learned that Cao Songqing was possessed by Dusk Night, a Fifth-Order Evil God whose Immortal Path powers traded vitality and lifespan. As the team prepared for its operation that night, Qiu Tu glimpsed an unexplained yellow mist that triggered his Crisis Perception, but he hid the incident from the others.

• Guan Xiao told Qiu Tu that Cao Songqing, a former confidant of Elder Fang, was suspected of being possessed by Dusk Night after his caretaker lost vitality.
• Guan Xiao explained that Dusk Night traded vitality and lifespan with believers and might be working with the Life Path Evil Gods Whale Shark and Evil Moon.
• Qiu Tu and Guan Xiao judged that Dusk Night's possession would not threaten their operation, but Qiu Tu ordered Calamity Descendants to watch him while the team finalized its plan.
• As Qiu Tu stood to see the women out, he saw a flash of yellow mist, sensed danger, and rapidly retreated, but Spirit Vision and Mental Power revealed nothing.
• Qiu Tu told Guan Xiao, Shen Ling Shuang, and Miao Xiaoxiao that he was tired and urged them to prepare for the operation; Guan Xiao then persuaded Shen Ling Shuang not to distract him with questions.
• After sunset, New Realm City grew dark and filled with a grim, murderous atmosphere as the night operation approached.

La Riluo used the chance to break Zhao Ji’s seal and advance with Qiu Tu, while the Destruction Tyrant headed west after learning his daughter and God King Wu Tian had been killed. As rival factions converged on the west, Heavy Stone God King asked whether Qiu Tu had begun acting.

• La Riluo persuaded Qiu Tu to help her advance, and the two spent the night together after she broke Zhao Ji’s seal.
• The Destruction Tyrant learned that his daughter and the Chaos West Capital investigation team had been killed, then set out for the west and killed a God King who urged caution.
• The Immortal Three Giants discussed Order’s search for them and agreed to activate their pieces while preparations neared completion.
• Han Hai God King told Heavy Stone God King that the Destruction Tyrant was moving west, and Heavy Stone warned that the region was becoming a powder keg.
• Heavy Stone God King asked Han Hai God King whether Qiu Tu had begun acting.

Qiu Tu received command of an Alliance Special Operations Team from Zhao Ji and learned that many factions were competing for La Riluo’s vacant Boundless Mind Sea area. After returning to New Realm City, he told La Riluo that Zhao Ji had taken a liking to him, leaving her stunned.

• Qiu Tu used Zhao Ji’s coin to contact Alliance Colonel Wu Yun, who reported that his team had infiltrated New Realm City and was spying on the Shelter’s development plans.
• Wu Yun warned Qiu Tu’s masked identity to beware of Qiu Tu, unaware that the God Envoy he was addressing was Qiu Tu himself.
• Qiu Tu ended the call, considered the competing factions and his conflicting roles, and received a Crisis Intuition warning that multiple Shelters and other powers were pursuing La Riluo’s vacant area.
• Qiu Tu and Tan Huimin returned to New Realm City, where an unidentified young man recognized Qiu Tu at the hotel and hurried upstairs after they left.
• Qiu Tu kept La Riluo hidden in his office safe and told her that Zhao Ji had taken a liking to him when she asked whether he had seen her sister.

Qing E mistook Ilena’s renewed vitality for proof that Qiu Tu’s massage could improve a God King’s strength, and asked him for one herself. Qiu Tu then gave Ilena a list of suspected moles in the Execution Department and requested authorization to investigate, but Ilena asked how he would repay her.

• Qing E noticed Ilena seemed more lively and youthful, and Ilena attributed the change to Qiu Tu’s massages.
• Qing E asked Qiu Tu for a massage like the one he had given Ilena, leaving him bewildered.
• Qiu Tu met Ilena and reported that he had identified several suspicious God Kings and Heavenly Gods.
• Qiu Tu gave Ilena the list and requested authorization to investigate the suspects.
• Ilena understood that Qiu Tu needed permission to investigate and use Calamity Ability, but asked how he would repay her.