Chapter Summaries

Qiu Tu learned that Tang Feifei and the Fengtian Faction had arranged Yan Chen’s transfer, but he kept pursuing his own plan to undermine Yan Chen. After planting suspicion in Yu Zhengyi’s mind, Qiu Tu met with Guan Xiao, who arrived with a request concerning an agent inside the Alliance United Front Special Operations Team.

• Qiu Tu concluded that Tang Feifei had helped arrange Yan Chen’s transfer to avoid a future clash with the Academic Faction, while he continued preparing another trap for Yan Chen.
• Qiu Tu called Yu Zhengyi and claimed Yan Chen had known in advance about the Alliance United Front Special Operations Team’s attack on Lai Shun.
• Yu Zhengyi questioned Director Zhao about Qiu Tu’s reports, found the report concerning the Alliance strongholds, and learned that Yan Chen had read it.
• Qiu Tu took a break at a teahouse, where Guan Xiao arrived, prompting him to ask whether she wanted him to release an agent she had placed in the Alliance United Front Special Operations Team.

Qiu Tu used details about Zhao Ji to convince La Riluo that her sister had betrayed her, leaving La Riluo furious and grief-stricken. When Tan Huimin came to fetch Qiu Tu, La Riluo stopped him with a pleading request to talk.

• La Riluo mocked Qiu Tu’s claim that Zhao Ji liked him, but he insisted he only wanted La Riluo and cited her having eaten his banana as proof they belonged together.
• Qiu Tu described Zhao Ji’s disdain for La Riluo and her refusal to rescue her, then shared information about the cores of the Boundless Mind Sea.
• Qiu Tu brought up Zhao Ji’s story about La Riluo hunting a Wood Dragon, and La Riluo took this as proof that Zhao Ji had betrayed her.
• La Riluo questioned how Qiu Tu had introduced himself, and he said he had claimed to be her man; she concluded that this could have provoked Zhao Ji.
• Tan Huimin came from her bath and asked Qiu Tu to wash up, while La Riluo silently fumed about his plans for the night.
• As Qiu Tu prepared to leave La Riluo alone, she called him back and pleaded that she wanted to talk.

Qiu Tu left Qin Shuman after giving her a potion, then drove to his new villa on Dragon Mountain Road. He learned Huang Shangzong and a City Hall council member were conspiring against him, but his arrival ended with a sudden attack by a strange little white dog.

• Qiu Tu asked Qin Shuman about Secretary Bai and learned he was a First Order Calamity Descendant, then gave her a Nightmare Crystal Bottle potion before leaving.
• Qiu Tu planned to train Tan Huimin, contact Yan Yan, and speak with Secretary Bai about his suspected ties to an Evil God.
• Qiu Tu passed Dragon Mountain Road's security checkpoints and reached the villa prepared for him by the Security Department.
• Qiu Tu received a warning that Huang Shangzong had sent Wu Zhi to New Realm City and joined forces with a City Hall council member against him, giving him only 32 hours to prepare.
• Qiu Tu entered the villa and grabbed a little white dog, whose head suddenly swelled as it lunged to bite him.

Qiu Tu tested Guan Xiao’s competence, accepted her as Espionage Section chief, and promised to recommend her for a deputy minister position. Meanwhile, the attempt to frame Eagle for Wu Zhi’s murder collapsed when investigators found that the blood evidence did not match and Eagle was not a Calamity Descendant.

• Guan Xiao challenged Qiu Tu’s claim that he had recorded their encounter, but Qiu Tu praised her ability to assess the situation and welcomed her report as Espionage Section chief.
• Guan Xiao explained her background and the spies she had trained, and Qiu Tu assured her that he would preserve the section’s work and prioritize recommending her for a future deputy minister position.
• Qiu Tu revealed that he had recorded their conversation and handed Guan Xiao the videotape, warning her to ensure her bluffs were backed by real preparation.
• Investigators told the interrogation team leader that Eagle’s blood matched the murder-scene sample, but a later test showed Eagle was not a Calamity Descendant and had no gunshot wounds.
• The team leader questioned why the evidence against Eagle had failed, despite relying on information from Zheng Tao and Ji Chen about the Wu Zhi case.

Qiu Tu questioned Consort Xi’s loyalty and learned that Kou Yu had placed her under semi-house arrest while King Kang was ill. Consort Xi asked Qiu Tu to help obtain the Three Revolutions Snow Lotus from the Eighth Shelter, leaving him weighing the reward against the risk of drawing his Shelter into the Sixth Shelter’s power struggle.

• Qiu Tu accused Consort Xi of joining the Mist Veil Society to counter the Kou Family’s growing power, and she denied his charge.
• Qiu Tu challenged Consort Xi’s authority in the dream and demanded she correct her attitude before asking for his help.
• Consort Xi revealed that Kou Yu had silenced her attendants and surrounded her with Kou Family maids after her delegation was attacked.
• Consort Xi disclosed that King Kang was ill and asked Qiu Tu to help secure the Three Revolutions Snow Lotus to restore him.
• Consort Xi offered Qiu Tu a Super Grade post and the Sixth Shelter’s treasury in exchange for his help, while Qiu Tu considered the risks of opposing the Kou Family.

Qiu Tu questioned Little Yaksa about the Boundless Mind Sea’s expansion and the Core Area’s powers, learning that humanity was a major faction in the West Kingdom. After preparing for his impending trip to the Core Area and the challenges ahead, he summoned Shen Yuzhou to discuss a deal.

• Qiu Tu gave Little Yaksa a Boundless God Crystal and confirmed that her information about the Third Shelter’s control of the Heavenly God Reincarnation had been correct.
• Little Yaksa explained how the Boundless Mind Sea would merge with the Material World, how the Isolation Mountain Range marked the boundary, and that the Northwest Area might join the Core Area in about half a year.
• Little Yaksa described the Core Area’s four God Kings, the Elector Marquis system, and the Mist Veil Society’s standing among the West Kingdom’s powers.
• Little Yaksa told Qiu Tu that humans were considered one of the West Kingdom’s four superpowers, prompting him to reassess humanity’s position in the Core Area.
• After speaking with Little Yaksa until dawn, Qiu Tu reviewed his preparations for the next month and a half and asked Tao Yaoyao to arrange a meeting with Shen Yuzhou.
• Shen Yuzhou arrived at Qiu Tu’s villa with Zhu Wu and greeted him, ready to discuss the proposed deal.

Qiu Tu subdued the Emerald Shadow Dragon, Yi Yi, and searched La Riluo’s hidden sites for the Area Center but found nothing. As hostile forces learned of the dragon and began planning to follow its trail, Qiu Tu returned to the Real World and found a tiny figure asleep outside his door.

• Tang Feifei shielded Rain Butterfly from the Emerald Shadow Dragon’s pressure as staff at the Pioneering Base discussed reporting its appearance.
• Qiu Tu gained Yi Yi’s trust by calling her by her preferred name, but she accidentally flew him to the human base when he grabbed her vulnerable horn.
• Qiu Tu rode Yi Yi through the Primeval Forest, searched La Riluo’s temple and other suspicious locations, and failed to find the Area Center.
• Qiu Tu stopped searching at three in the morning, returned to the Real World, and deactivated the Charm Skull while Yi Yi became a tree again.
• Security and Investigation Department staff reported the dragon’s appearance, while shadowy figures in an underground chamber discussed tracking it to seize the Area Center.
• Qiu Tu opened his door after returning and found a tiny figure asleep outside, hugging her knees.

Qiu Tu learned how the Boundless Mind Sea's Outer and Core Areas differed while waiting for Captain to finish advancing, as New Realm City was thrown into crisis by the New Democratic Army's scheme. After Jiang Zhenpeng exposed the plot and stabilized the city, unrest spread to other cities; on the fourth day, Qiu Tu successfully advanced to the Fourth Order.

• Qiu Tu questioned An Yun about the Boundless Mind Sea, learned that most Outer Area Calamity Creatures and Evil Gods originated there, and gave Sui Sui a piece of Boundless God Crystal.
• A New Democratic Army lieutenant general ordered an attack on Dragon Mountain Road and the Five Elders' businesses to inflame unrest in New Realm City.
• After the attacks and rumors sparked public anger, Jiang Zhenpeng revealed the grain he had secretly arranged to transport, disproving the rumors and restoring calm in New Realm City.
• The New Democratic Army spread its scheme to other cities, where weak leadership and infiltrated agents helped push several into chaos.
• On the fourth day, Qiu Tu's black umbrella burst into Radiance, and Shi Youxin announced that Qiu Tu had become a Fourth-Order Calamity Descendant.

After reaching Sixth Order Peak, Qiu Tu decided to establish his reputation as Seventh Shelter’s new leader by cleansing the Northwest Area of Evil Gods before leaving for the Core Area. Meanwhile, Shelter leaders speculated about his motives and sent formal congratulations, while Qiu Tu began his purge with Chai Gou and Dusk Night.

• Kou Xuan and Su Wanqing discussed Consort Xi’s calm response to Qiu Tu’s rise and speculated that their apparent falling-out might involve a hidden agreement or mediation.
• Kou Xuan decided to send Qiu Tu a congratulatory letter, while Rao Shou and Tang Wanli also arranged congratulations and considered revealing the Eighth Shelter’s contact within the Second Shelter.
• Qiu Tu stabilized his breakthrough and reached Sixth Order Peak, then recognized that the World Barrier and the Northwest Area were constraining him and resolved to leave after completing one major task.
• Qiu Tu summoned Dusk Night and Chai Gou, confirmed the Mist Veil Society roster, and learned that the Sixth Order Peak Evil God Dong Liu was a dangerous member of the Sun Pavilion.
• Qiu Tu ordered Dusk Night and Chai Gou to help kill the Evil Gods in the Northwest Area, and the three killed eight Mist Veil Society members in two days.

Qiu Tu tested Secretary Bai about La Riluo, Zhao Ji, and the Shelter’s plans, then advanced his faction’s influence in the Investigation Department. He returned to Fang Tangtang’s villa and found her happily cooking, but she became flustered when he asked what had made her so happy.

• Qiu Tu questioned Secretary Bai about La Riluo’s abilities and learned that Zhao Ji was an exceptionally powerful evil god who could threaten his soul.
• Secretary Bai hinted that Shelter leaders had political ideals and philosophical systems, leaving Qiu Tu wondering about the connection between philosophy, the mental Calamity Path, and the Boundless Mind Sea.
• Tang Feifei and Qiu Tu secured promotions for their allies by negotiating a list of more than two hundred personnel changes with Yu Zhengyi and Shi Youxin.
• The giant tree phantom above New Realm City shook and then sprouted new branches and leaves, signaling that something had changed between Yan Chen and La Riluo.
• Qiu Tu returned to Fang Tangtang’s villa instead of moving into his new official residence and found her cooking happily in an apron.
• Fang Tangtang blushed and denied that anything good had happened when Qiu Tu asked why she seemed so happy.

Song Qing helped Qiu Tu’s team catch Wang Xi and arrest Suit Man, but the raid found none of the missing family members. The chapter leaves Yan Chen learning that Qiu Tu’s solution to the 8.16 Pharmacy Robbery Case involved more complicated matters.

• Song Qing secretly warned Liu Fuping that Wang Xi suspected a trap and might tip someone off.
• Qiu Tu ordered the operation to begin, and agents surrounded Suit Man’s villa while Eagle, A Kun, and A Tai confronted Wang Xi.
• Suit Man dismissed Wang Xi’s warning, then surrendered without resistance when Security Department specialists and Political Department agents entered the villa.
• Liu Fuping’s team searched the villa but found no missing family members, only the young married woman Suit Man had been holding.
• Ji Chen interrupted Yan Chen’s walk with Yan Yan and reported that Qiu Tu had solved the 8.16 Pharmacy Robbery Case, which involved more complicated matters.

Qiu Tu captured Yasha, accepted Dusk Night’s pledge of allegiance, and learned he had half a month to prepare for the Mist Veil Society’s response. He then watched Zhao Ji begin advancing to Sixth Order, and after three days her Nine Stars started merging.

• La Riluo and Scarface brought in Yasha, and Qiu Tu imprisoned her in an enhanced Soul Shackles altar and punished her.
• Dusk Night asked to torture Yasha, proved his loyalty to Qiu Tu, and explained how the Mist Veil Society contacted the Northwest Area.
• Qiu Tu learned the Mist Veil Society had last contacted the area half a month earlier and returned some of Dusk Night’s Boundless God Crystals to strengthen him.
• La Riluo invited Qiu Tu to witness her sister Zhao Ji’s advancement, and they traveled to the Enlightenment Area the following night.
• Zhao Ji began her advancement amid a surge of Calamity Power, and after three days the Nine Stars on her forehead began merging.

Jia Shu exposed Liu Fuping as a suspected spy and took her to his office, where he bound her to a dissection table and explained how her interest in the department director had aroused his suspicions. Meanwhile, Qiu Tu secured Bai Ru’s release and headed out to meet Tang Feifei, but a black shadow suddenly flew toward him.

• Jia Shu confronted Liu Fuping, and she secretly dropped her ring in the corridor as a possible signal to Qiu Tu, but a shadow retrieved it and delivered it to Jia Shu.
• Qiu Tu exchanged friendly greetings with Zheng Tao, then recruited Wang Dawei’s goodwill while visiting Bai Ru in detention.
• Qiu Tu told Bai Ru that her father had been sentenced to death and her husband to life imprisonment, comforted her, and escorted her out of the Investigation Department.
• Qiu Tu gave Bai Ru his communicator number, treating her as bait connected to La Riluo’s secrets, then left to meet Tang Feifei.
• Jia Shu bound Liu Fuping to a dissection table and described how her connections and investigations had convinced him that she was suspicious.
• A black shadow flew toward Qiu Tu as he left the Investigation Department.

Qiu Tu and Guan Xiao forced Xue Er to greet him at gunpoint, which only made her more fascinated with them, and he inspected Yan Chen’s Court of Judgment. After the Cataclysm Zone declared war and revealed it was seeking a living Calamity Material hidden beside an East Industry State leader, Qiu Tu faced a new threat.

• Guan Xiao pointed her pistol at Xue Er and demanded she greet Speaker Qiu, and Qiu Tu backed Guan Xiao when Xue Er challenged her.
• Xue Er apologized and fled to an office, where she told Ai Li she was excited by Qiu Tu and Guan Xiao’s willingness to kill her; she then agreed to visit the Court of Judgment with Yan Yan.
• Qiu Tu inspected the Court of Judgment as Yan Chen explained its recruitment and plans to establish a judicial system, then Qiu Tu left without making changes.
• Xue Er told Ai Li that Qiu Tu and Yan Chen’s polite exchange hid thrilling hostility, while Yan Yan watched with amusement.
• Qiu Tu learned that the Cataclysm Zone had declared war and demanded a living Calamity Material it claimed was beside one of the Speakers or councilors of East Industry State.

Qiu Tu and his confidants went to arrest Qin Cheng, whom Qiu Tu suspected was Old Master Qin’s insurance policy and the vessel or path of the god Old Master Qin believed in. On the way, Liu Fuping worried that Tang Feifei was cheating on her, while Qiu Tu concealed where he had spent the previous day.

• Song Qing regretted missing the weekend operation, while Wang Xi suggested Qiu Tu had not trusted ordinary subordinates enough to bring them along.
• Song Qing argued that Qiu Tu should have trusted Liu Fuping, and Wang Xi agreed before asking Song Qing where she met her friends for afternoon tea.
• Qiu Tu drove with Liu Fuping to an arrest, and she told him she suspected Tang Feifei was seeing someone else after being unable to reach her.
• Qiu Tu joked that Liu Fuping should get revenge by cheating with him, then gave her a truthful but misleading account of his previous day.
• Qiu Tu and his confidants arrived at Qin Cheng’s villa, where Qiu Tu considered how the young man’s dissolute life might connect to Old Master Qin’s god.

Qiu Tu learned Zhao Ji’s Heaven Imprisoning Seal far faster than she expected, obtained Man Huang’s Heavenly Seal, and planned to use Shu Xia and Man Huang to gain influence over the Northern Kingdom. Meanwhile, Tang Feifei and Guan Xiao’s forces swept through the Cataclysm Zone around Eighth Shelter and began eyeing the Sixth and 7th Shelters, drawing the attention of factions in the Heavenly God Trial.

• Qiu Tu told Zhao Ji that Shu Xia’s soul and memories had been permanently damaged because Zhao Ji had shattered part of his soul, and he realized Shu Xia could be used to gain control over Siyuan Pavilion and the Tree Demon Race.
• Zhao Ji caught Qiu Tu imagining her as a married woman in bed, warned him against letting his thoughts run wild, and dismissed him so she could cultivate.
• Qiu Tu revealed that he had already learned the Heaven Imprisoning Seal, and Zhao Ji gave him Man Huang’s Heavenly Seal.
• After Qiu Tu left, Zhao Ji calculated that he may have mastered the Pseudo God Skill in only three days of cultivation and intensified her own training.
• Qiu Tu returned to East City and spent two days supporting Tang Feifei and Guan Xiao as they crushed Anti-Government Armed Forces and Extremist Religion groups around Eighth Shelter.
• Tang Feifei and Guan Xiao’s Pseudo-Human army grew beyond 100,000, and the two women considered expanding into the Cataclysm Zones around the Sixth and 7th Shelters.

Qiu Tu learned that Shen Ling Shuang was a fragment of a soul rather than Mountain Root, then persuaded Zhao Ji that Dusk Night’s potential rise to Sixth Order threatened them both. Zhao Ji took Qiu Tu with her to confront Dusk Night, who suspected she had returned to claim his Mountain Root.

• Qiu Tu explained that he had traced the rumor about Mountain Root to a clerk corrupted by Dusk Night, confirming that Dusk Night was framing him.
• Zhao Ji revealed that Shen Ling Shuang had only part of a soul and described several possible causes of soul splitting.
• Qiu Tu told Zhao Ji that he and La Riluo had no use for Mountain Root and warned that Dusk Night could become the only Sixth Order Evil God in the Edge Area.
• Zhao Ji decided to meet Dusk Night and used forced world reversal to take Qiu Tu across the East City Area toward the Area Mist.
• At Raven Nest City, Dusk Night heard that Zhao Ji had returned and worried that she intended to take his Mountain Root after her advancement failed.

Qiu Tu maintained his disguise as Tang Lang and persuaded Yao Qin to let him repair the World Passage while she protected him. After Yao Qin took him to an unfamiliar location, Qiu Tu learned from Tang Lang that the Boundless Mind Sea had a second World Passage, information that the West Divine King had kept secret.

• Qiu Tu used Tang Lang’s knowledge and answers to pass Yao Qin’s tests and provoke her into agreeing that revenge could wait until after the World Passage was repaired.
• Yao Qin decided Qiu Tu would repair the passage while she drew away or fought any Heavenly Gods who found them.
• Qiu Tu pretended to have recovered enough, and Yao Qin carried him away from the nearby Heavenly Gods toward the World Passage.
• Yao Qin brought Qiu Tu to an unfamiliar canyon, where he learned from Tang Lang that the Boundless Mind Sea had another World Passage.
• Qiu Tu realized the West Divine King’s hidden information could have left him and Zhao Ji vulnerable if he had not infiltrated Yao Qin’s faction.

Qiu Tu escaped Little Yaksa’s suspicions in the Trade Market Zone, then returned to East City and discovered Xue Er had been drugged and placed in his bed to provoke a conflict with Huang Shangzong. He suspected Pang Hai Chen was behind the trap, but the next day rumors spread that he had slept with his political enemy’s daughter.

• Little Yaksa suspected Qiu Tu was impersonating Dusk Night but let him leave so he could alert Zhao Ji, while Pang Hai Chen ordered his people to activate a plan against Qiu Tu and Huang Shangzong.
• Qiu Tu returned to East City and found Xue Er in his bed; when she tried to attack him, he knocked her unconscious and called Yan Yan to check whether Xue Er had disappeared from her room.
• Qiu Tu recognized that someone had drugged Xue Er to frame him and Huang Shangzong, then removed the poison and suspected Pang Hai Chen had arranged the scheme.
• Yan Yan collected Xue Er and took her home, then flirted with Qiu Tu by asking him to inspect her Military Academy diploma.
• The next day, gossip spread through East City that Qiu Tu had slept with his political enemy’s daughter.

Qiu Tu and Lin Zuo exchanged intelligence about the Qin Family and agreed to investigate it together. Qiu Tu suspected that Qin Shuman had revealed his real purpose to the Security Department and recognized that Lin Zuo’s superior had personally assigned him to the meeting.

• Qiu Tu pressed Lin Zuo to explain what intelligence the Security Department could share, and Lin Zuo offered leads about the Qin Family’s collusion with the Alliance and City Hall members.
• Qiu Tu and Lin Zuo exchanged evidence, comparing Qiu Tu’s leads about Qin ZhengGuang’s Second Branch with Lin Zuo’s information implicating the wider Qin Family.
• Lin Zuo argued that all four branches may have been involved in the Qin Family’s dealings because they had cooperated before Old Master Qin died.
• Qiu Tu and Lin Zuo agreed to investigate jointly, with Qiu Tu working openly and the Security Department operating in the shadows, and to split the credit if they brought down the Qin Family.
• As Qiu Tu left, he asked Lin Zuo to give his regards to Lin Zuo’s superior, having inferred that the superior had personally assigned Lin Zuo to contact him.