Chapter Summaries

Lu Su chose Donglai City for his Spirit Summoning Society internship and learned that Mo Yu would accompany him, then returned to Shanghai City to meet President Jin Ping. Jin Ping gave him materials, a communication card, and orders to protect his identity; after Jin Ping left, Lu Su remained wary and continued meditating.

• Lu Su chose Donglai City because it offered greater autonomy and was closer to Nandu, but Miaoxuan told him to return to Shanghai City to meet Jin Ping.
• Miaoxuan arranged for Mo Yu to accompany Lu Su, and Lu Su told Mo Yu to wait for him in Donglai City while privately deciding he would eventually get rid of him.
• Lu Su returned to Shanghai City with Misaka Mikoto and prepared for his meeting with Jin Ping, keeping sensitive information hidden in Nandu.
• Jin Ping met Lu Su at his apartment, gave him an envelope of materials, and said Donglai's Spirit Summoning Society members would be under Lu Su's control.
• Jin Ping instructed Lu Su to conceal his identity above all else, even if he had to use the Donglai branch as bait, then left him a communication card.
• Lu Su examined the card but postponed checking it for safeguards, while Jin Ping and Gu Wu watched his darkened room from outside and then departed.

Lu Su arrived in Donglai, where the Card Master Association arranged a welcome and local leaders secretly tried to recruit him through a staged encounter with Xie Ziying. After settling into a villa, Lu Su questioned Mo Yu about his past and ordered him to gather the city's Silver-grade-or-higher Spirit Summoning Society members.

• Lu Su had Misaka Mikoto inspect the Spirit Summoning Society phone, and she blocked its monitoring by feeding altered information to the Mainframe.
• Lu Su said goodbye to Kurumi and took a train to Donglai, where he met Xie Ziying and the association leaders who had come to welcome him.
• Sima Huai and Lu Yan revealed that they had arranged Xie Ziying's encounter with Lu Su to persuade him to join their side.
• Lu Su moved into a secluded villa and summoned Mo Yu, who explained under the contract why he had followed Lu Su to Donglai.
• Lu Su ordered Mo Yu to gather the city's Silver-grade-or-higher Spirit Summoning Society members, then examined the materials Jin Ping had given him.

Lu Su used the identity of Spirit Summoning Society Sixth Master Lu Xi to take command of the society’s Donglai Card Masters and learn about the city’s troubles. He left after discovering the Guiyi Cult was active nearby and might be connected to the Goryeo Li Clan, then turned his attention to Zeng Bo.

• Lu Su examined three Red Quality materials from the Spirit Summoning Society and planned to use them for a Flesh-eating Spider Demon and a Curseheart Magic Academy Great Magic User.
• Lu Su and Mo Yu arrived at an abandoned coastal factory, where Mo Yu silenced a Card Master who mocked Lu Su’s mysterious appearance.
• Lu Su identified himself as Sixth Master Lu Xi, took command of the gathered Card Masters, and heard that Lu Su had come to Donglai as Vice President of the Card Master Association.
• A Card Master reported that the Guiyi Cult had been active in Donglai and nearby cities, and Lu Su told the group to report further clashes to the Association.
• The Card Master who had been restrained revealed that the Guiyi Cult’s Donglai leader was surnamed Li, leading Lu Su to suspect the Goryeo Li Clan.
• Lu Su left with Mo Yu and, back home, focused on Zeng Bo, the Public Security Office director at the Donglai Card Master Association.

Lu Su began his work as Donglai Card Master Association Vice President and was assigned to investigate a reported Guiyi Cult hideout alongside Lu Yan and Zeng Bo. He used Misaka Mikoto’s immense power to destroy the target from afar, leaving Lu Yan and Zeng Bo to handle the aftermath and raising questions about Lu Yan’s motives.

• Lu Su arrived at the Donglai headquarters, had Xue take over his paperwork, and read a report about escalating conflicts between the Guiyi Cult and the Spirit Summoning Society.
• Sima Huai gathered the Gold Grade Card Masters and assigned Lu Su, Lu Yan, and Zeng Bo to investigate a reported Guiyi Cult hideout after an unregistered Card Master supplied its location.
• Lu Yan challenged Lu Su over how they would reach the hideout, but Lu Su summoned Misaka Mikoto, who formed a giant of iron sand and electricity and fired a devastating projectile toward the target.
• The other Card Masters realized Lu Su and Misaka Mikoto’s power and left to clean up, while Lu Su departed with his Ghost Shadow Soldiers.
• Zeng Bo accused Lu Yan of gambling by using his son as bait, then vanished and left Lu Yan behind.

Lu Su and the Association investigated the Guiyi Cult’s ruined hideout in Donglai, where Misaka Mikoto killed a Grafted Demon before he could reveal the cult’s plans. Li Xie confronted Lu Su, but fled after Misaka Mikoto’s Railgun struck his cheek, leaving Lu Su wondering how many members of the Li Clan were in Donglai.

• The Card Masters recovered thirty-seven charred bodies and an unconscious Grafted Demon from the ruins, and Little Liu received a reprimand after a careless move let the survivor wake.
• Lu Su questioned the Crab Claw Monster about the Guiyi Cult’s plans, but Misaka Mikoto killed him when he tried to attack.
• Misaka Mikoto and Zeng Bo attacked a newcomer at the end of the street, and Lu Su recognized him as Li Xie of the Li Clan.
• Li Xie mocked Lu Su’s attack, but Xue reduced the air resistance around a coin so Misaka Mikoto’s Railgun cracked the barrier protecting his card.
• Misaka Mikoto grazed Li Xie’s cheek with another shot, and he escaped with his card before her next Railgun could hit him.
• Lu Su wondered whether the Li Clan had more than one person in Donglai.

After Lu Su helped deal with a Guiyi Cult stronghold, he suspected Zeng Bo had linked him to the Spirit Summoning Society’s Sixth Master while Sima Huai pressed Lu Yan to continue conspiring against him. After a quiet week in Donglai, Lu Su returned to Nandu and found a suitable secret realm in Shanghai City for obtaining materials.

• Lu Su, Zeng Bo, and Lu Yan suspected Li Xie had either been acting or had not controlled the card that rescued him, and Zeng Bo raised rumors linking Li Xie to the House of Yi of Goryeo and the Guiyi Cult.
• Lu Su worried that Zeng Bo had guessed he was the Spirit Summoning Society’s Sixth Master, while Lu Yan and Sima Huai agreed to continue their plan against him.
• Lu Su received five thousand Association points, considered using a welfare secret realm to obtain materials, and spent several quiet days in Donglai while Xue handled his official duties.
• Lu Su decided to return to Nandu, refused to meet Xie Ziying, and left Donglai after telling Sima Huai he wanted to visit Kurumi.
• After visiting Kurumi, Lu Su searched the Nandu Card Master Association’s secret realm listings and found the Wilderness of Mutual Consumption in Shanghai City, which produced Gold Grade Gluttonous Beast.

Lu Su entered the Wilderness of Mutual Consumption and watched the Gluttonous Beast and Hollow Demon Bat weaken each other before defeating them with Misaka Mikoto and Sasuke. He collected both Gold Grade Demons as materials and left to obtain one more material before making his alter ego’s first Gold Grade card.

• Lu Su and Misaka Mikoto followed a black pillar of light and found the Gluttonous Beast and Hollow Demon Bat fighting over territory.
• The Gluttonous Beast ignored the Hollow Demon Bat’s attacks to keep eating, then survived its powerful blast while both beasts became weakened.
• Lu Su, Misaka Mikoto, and Sasuke struck the two Demons with lightning, defeating them as Xiao Wang hurried to investigate.
• Xiao Wang arrived to find Lu Su unharmed and left after realizing the young Card Master had no need of his help.
• Lu Su collected the Gluttonous Beast and Hollow Demon Bat as red materials, then flew off to exchange points for one more material.

Lu Su created the Gold Grade card Shadow of the Reaper · Spider-girl, whose immense strength and unusual quality suggested a connection to Hall of Fame Grade. After returning to Donglai and summoning Spider-girl, he met Zeng Bo and asked about a base raided by the Guiyi Cult.

• Lu Su used rare materials to create Shadow of the Reaper · Spider-girl, but the Mysterious Space stopped him before he could write her story through Earth Dragon Araba's death.
• Lu Su examined Spider-girl's powerful skills and traits, including Observer's Gaze and the Goddess System, and suspected her unusual quality came from her potential to reach Hall of Fame Grade.
• Lu Su returned to Donglai and summoned Spider-girl in an abandoned factory.
• Spider-girl complained that Lu Su was living better than she was, then eagerly ate the human food he provided.
• Zeng Bo arrived, was alarmed by Spider-girl's presence, and heard Lu Su ask whether a base had been raided by the Guiyi Cult.

Lu Su used Spider-girl to gather intelligence from Zeng Bo, then learned that the Guiyi Cult and Spirit Summoning Society had erupted into open conflict near Donglai’s coast. As Lu Yan and Zeng Bo watched the fighting, Lu Su arrived with Spider-girl to confront Li Shuo and the Guiyi Cult.

• Lu Su questioned Zeng Bo, who praised Lu Su while revealing that Sima Huai and Lu Yan seemed to be plotting against him and that Sima Huai and Lu Yan were allies within the Donglai Association.
• Spider-girl used Dominator: Wisdom to inspect Zeng Bo and Lu Su’s phone, and Lu Su planned to return to Donglai after a short absence while preparing a disguise involving Mo Yu and a future card.
• Li Xie met with Li Shuo, who reprimanded him for risking his life against Lu Su and ordered him to remain confined until their plan was complete; Li Shuo then learned that Spirit Summoning Society hideouts had been exposed.
• Sima Huai sent Lu Yan and Zeng Bo to contain fighting between the Guiyi Cult and Spirit Summoning Society near the coastline, while Yu Hengrui left rather than join the response.
• Lu Yan and Zeng Bo reached the battle and recognized the red-robed man as an ally of the Guiyi Cult; as they waited for both sides to weaken, Lu Su appeared with White Spider and challenged Li Shuo and the Guiyi Cult.

Lu Su, using Lu Xi’s identity, intervened when Li Shuo and the Guiyi Cult attacked the Spirit Summoning Society in Donglai. Spider-girl overwhelmed the battlefield with her abilities, and Li Shuo withdrew; Lu Su then vanished, leaving Lu Yan and Zeng Bo to report the encounter and seek reinforcements.

• Lu Su returned to Donglai through Spider-girl and confronted Li Shuo, mocking his belief in Dangun and provoking him into attacking.
• Spider-girl used Conviction to injure Li Shuo, but Dangun transferred the damage and summoned an army of kings and generals.
• Spider-girl opened Hell Gate, which swallowed the summoned figures, terrain, and most of the Guiyi Cult members, leaving a giant crater.
• Li Shuo revealed three more cards but chose to leave after Lu Su called him a stray dog.
• Lu Su sent the Spirit Summoning Society members away and disappeared with Spider-girl while Lu Yan and Zeng Bo held back.
• Lu Yan and Zeng Bo decided to report the battle to Chairman Sima and request reinforcements if needed.

After the battle in Donglai, Lu Su reported to Gu Wu, learned that the Spirit Summoning Society had been monitoring his communications, and gathered information about Li Shuo, Zeng Bo, and Lu Yan. The city remained quiet for several days, until Unohana Retsu gave Lu Su a risk assessment document about a newly appeared secret realm in Laiyang County.

• Lu Su contacted Gu Wu, who promised to send contracts and materials and told Lu Su to recruit new members.
• Misaka Mikoto revealed that the Sub-machine had recorded footage and accessed Lu Su's recent communications, while Spider-girl shared appraisals of Li Shuo, Zeng Bo, and Lu Yan.
• Lu Yan and Zeng Bo briefed Sima Huai on the night's events, and Lu Su returned to the Association before resting while Xue handled his official work.
• Lu Su signed documents, kissed Xue, and spent several peaceful days in Donglai as the Guiyi Cult and Spirit Summoning Society made no moves.
• Unohana Retsu handed Lu Su a risk assessment document concerning a newly appeared secret realm in Laiyang County, Donglai.

Lu Su investigated a secret realm forming inside a residential complex in Laiyang County, where demons emerged and he joined the battle. As the fight devastated the area, Lu Su’s Black Sand Giant rescued Duan Lin and delivered his identification papers to safety.

• Lu Su and Lu Yan inspected the unstable secret realm in Laiyang Village 3, and Lu Su sent a Ghost Shadow Soldier to retrieve resident Duan Lin’s identification papers.
• The Space Rift stabilized and opened into a deep blue vortex, so Lu Su ordered an evacuation and called for reinforcements as demons began invading.
• Lu Su and Lu Yan prepared to fight while Duan Lin struggled to escape the shaking residential area and witnessed Card Masters battling the demons.
• Falling buildings nearly crushed Duan Lin, but Lu Su’s Black Sand Giant shielded him, and a Man in Black carried him away and returned his identification papers.
• Duan Lin recognized Lu Su in the distance as two lightning strikes crashed down over the battlefield.

Lu Su and Lu Yan repelled the first Demon assault on Laiyang Village 3, then coordinated preparations to defend against the organized forces inside the Secret Realm. After returning home, Lu Su met Mo Yu at their usual place to collect the Spirit Summoning Society’s contracts and supplies, finding a Red-quality Gold Grade material among them.

• Lu Su and Lu Yan confirmed that the Demons had retreated, while Lu Su warned they would likely return with stronger forces.
• Lu Su ordered the area locked down, the Demon materials collected, and defensive fortifications prepared before an assault on the Secret Realm entrance.
• Zeng Bo arrived, and Lu Su and Lu Yan told him the Secret Realm’s Demons appeared organized and trained.
• Lu Ze and Xie Ziying arrived with food; Lu Yan angrily confronted his son, while Lu Su suspected Xie Ziying wanted another chance to approach him.
• Lu Su returned home, contacted Mo Yu, and met him at the abandoned factory to inspect the Spirit Summoning Society’s supplies.
• Lu Su found a Gold Grade Ruthless Deceiver (Red) among the materials.

Lu Su used a Blank Contract to force Xie Ziying, a Silver Grade Card Master sent by the Sun Family to manipulate him, to reveal her identity and schemes. After learning how her cards had ensnared Lu Ze, Lu Su revealed himself as her target and ordered her to kill herself.

• Lu Su collected the Society's materials, let Mo Yu choose some, and summoned Spider-girl to visit Xie Ziying.
• Lu Su confronted Xie Ziying at home and forced her to sign a contract under threat from Spider-girl.
• The contract made Xie Ziying reveal that she was sixty-seven, secretly a Silver Grade Card Master, and had come to Donglai on the Sun Family's mission to charm Lu Su.
• Xie Ziying showed Lu Su her Soul Capturing Demonic Mirror and Desire Stove, which she had used to manipulate Lu Ze and others.
• Lu Su revealed his identity to Xie Ziying and ordered her to kill herself.

Lu Su killed Xie Ziying and prepared for the demons gathering inside the Secret Realm to invade the real world. When Lu Yan's Flying Zombie was badly wounded scouting the entrance, Lu Su decided to wait behind the fortifications and consider asking his teacher's help.

• Xie Ziying cut her wrist under Lu Su's watch and died, after which Lu Su and Spider-girl left the townhouse.
• Lu Su reflected on his plans to create Aizen using materials from the Spirit Summoning Society and the Secret Realm.
• The Grand Speaker led a vote, and the Curse Speakers approved an attack on the outside world.
• Lu Yan sent his Flying Zombie, A'da, into the Secret Realm, where a gathered force of Demons overwhelmed it and forced it back out.
• Lu Yan reported that the demons were likely preparing to invade, so Lu Su ordered the Card Masters to wait inside the defensive fortifications and said he might ask his teacher for help.

Lu Su and the Donglai Card Masters repelled an invasion by three Curse Speaker Legions, but the secret realm remained a threat. He called for help from Kurumi and began preparing materials to strengthen Aizen before the Grand Speaker planned a larger assault.

• The Grand Speaker sent Piro, Saville, and Klaus with three legions through the Secret Realm Entrance to attack Donglai.
• Lu Su, Lu Yan, and Zeng Bo led the Card Masters in breaking Piro's barrier, then Mikoto and Sasuke's lightning strikes wiped out the invading force.
• Lu Su found only one Gold Grade material among the spoils and decided to make one final attempt to turn the battle around before requesting support.
• Lu Su messaged Kurumi, who immediately agreed to come to Donglai.
• Piro and Klaus returned wounded to the secret realm, where the Grand Speaker announced he would lead the entire army out the next day.
• Lu Su spent his points on Soul of Full Spirit (Red), completing the materials he needed to create a Gold Grade Sosuke Aizen card.

Lu Su created a Gold Grade Sosuke Aizen card, whose abilities included perfect hypnosis, immense Spirit Pressure, and the potential to produce useful Item Cards. He brought Aizen and Kurumi to the newly appeared Secret Realm in Donglai, where he planned to test his new card before Kurumi intervened.

• Lu Su bought the Soul of Full Spirit (Red), then welcomed Kurumi, who had come to help with the troublesome Gold Grade Secret Realm.
• Lu Su wrote Aizen's story, describing his rise in the Fifth Division, his experiments with the Hogyoku and Hollowfication, and his schemes against Kisuke Urahara and others.
• Lu Su inspected Aizen's Gold Grade card, summoned him, and set off with Kurumi for the Secret Realm.
• Lu Su introduced Kurumi as a Diamond Grade Card Master to Lu Yan and Zeng Bo, then insisted on testing Aizen before Kurumi acted.
• Lu Su summoned Aizen in the defensive camp as Lu Yan and Zeng Bo watched.

Lu Su used Aizen’s Mirror Flower, Water Moon to fool the Grand Speaker into thinking he had killed the intruder, allowing Donglai’s forces to enter the Secret Realm and ambush the Demons. With the entrance seized and the Demons weakened, Lu Su ordered his troops to drive them back and fortify their position.

• Aizen entered the Secret Realm alone and used Dankū to withstand the Curse Speaker Legion’s attacks.
• Aizen activated Mirror Flower, Water Moon, making the Grand Speaker believe he had killed him and prompting the Grand Speaker to move up the planned offensive.
• Lu Su, Kurumi, Lu Yan, Zeng Bo, and the Card Master troops entered through the undefended entrance; Aizen explained his ability as manipulating reflections in mist and water.
• Lu Su ordered the troops to attack the Demons near the entrance, inflicting heavy casualties before the Grand Speaker realized he had been deceived.
• Lu Yan, Zeng Bo, and their cards fought the weakened Gold Grade Demons while Aizen watched; Lu Su ordered the forces to drive the Demons back and build defensive fortifications.

Lu Su and his allies crushed the demon forces in the Secret Realm, then he returned to Donglai and began arranging recruitment for the Spirit Summoning Society. Zeng Bo later reported that Xie Ziying had died by suicide and that Guiyi Cult members might be mingling with demons.

• The Grand Speaker ordered the demons to retreat, but Lu Su, Lu Yan, and Zeng Bo pursued them and later defeated the Grand Speaker, leaving Lu Yan to finish clearing the Secret Realm.
• Duan Lin investigated a foul smell in Unit 114 and discovered a swollen female corpse.
• Kurumi warned Lu Su to be careful before leaving, and Lu Su discovered that the Gold Grade Law Breaker he had favorited had been removed from the Point Platform.
• Lu Su recruited Zeng Bo to oversee the Spirit Summoning Society's summer recruitment and asked him for updates on Donglai.
• Zeng Bo told Lu Su that Xie Ziying had committed suicide, her bone age was older than her appearance suggested, and the Association was unlikely to pursue the matter.
• Zeng Bo reported that his subordinates had apparently seen members of the Guiyi Cult mingling with demons.

Lu Su and Zeng Bo followed a desperate debtor to Myriad Flower Tower and discovered that Brother Pang was using the youth’s debt to lure him into the Holy Guiyi Cult. They confronted Brother Pang and the youth in a slaughterhouse-like room, with a Spider Demon at their side.

• Lu Su and Zeng Bo discussed Northern Territory Demon Army sightings near Donglai and the Guiyi Cult’s recent silence before turning to recruitment.
• A young man admitted owing Brother Pang three hundred thousand, and his parents argued with him over the debt before he left their home.
• Brother Pang cornered the young man and took him to Myriad Flower Tower, where Lu Su and Zeng Bo followed in disguise.
• Lu Su and Zeng Bo entered the tower and discovered that Brother Pang had brought the young man to a hidden slaughterhouse room.
• Brother Pang revealed that he belonged to the Holy Guiyi Cult and offered the young man demonic power in exchange for waiting for a Holy Spirit.
• Lu Su and Zeng Bo confronted Brother Pang and the young man, with a Spider Demon beside them.