Chapter Summaries

Liu Di traveled through time in search of Gu Fan and arrived at the birth of the universe, where he barely escaped the Cosmic Singularity's expansion. He emerged in the River of Time holding a black teardrop-shaped stone that he recognized as Fluid Metal.

• Liu Di and Magic Child traveled backward through time, and Liu Di briefly saw an ink mark reading No. 02 appear on his wrist.
• Liu Di emerged in a lightless void and saw a phantom of Gu Fan near a tiny green dot.
• Liu Di was pulled toward the dot as it exploded into the Cosmic Singularity, and Magic Child warned that the expansion would destroy him.
• Liu Di's other Time Halberd launched him back into the River of Time, where he found a black teardrop-shaped stone in his hand.
• Liu Di recognized the stone as Fluid Metal.

Liu Di traveled through time to witness Earth’s formation and the first emergence of life, while searching for Gu Fan. He found Gu Fan observing early cellular development on prehistoric Earth and remained beside her.

• Liu Di and Magic Child realized the pendant had vanished into the River of Time, and Liu Di discovered he had lost a Time Halberd.
• Liu Di arrived near the newly formed Earth, saw cosmic debris collide with it, and lost another Time Halberd while escaping through time.
• Liu Di followed Gu Fan’s hazy aura to prehistoric Earth, where water covered the lifeless surface.
• Liu Di used Magic Child’s magnification to watch a phospholipid enclose a replication-bearing atom and divide into Earth’s first cell.
• Liu Di watched Gu Fan observe another cell merge with mitochondria, an event that would lead to chlorophyll and future plant life.

Liu Di followed Gu Fan’s traces through the Dinosaur Era and a prehistoric American tribe, discovering alien interference and accidentally becoming a revered god. He left without realizing his appearance would inspire the origins of Maya beliefs and civilization.

• Liu Di followed Gu Fan’s trace to the Dinosaur Era, where he saw dinosaurs bearing colorful crystals and Gu Fan enter a golden clock.
• Liu Di and Magic Child watched aliens harvest crystals and manipulate the dinosaurs, possibly to reduce Earth’s oxygen, before a patrol ship scanned Liu Di.
• Liu Di traveled through the River of Time to a prehistoric tribe, where his sudden arrival during the old chief’s invocation convinced tens of thousands that he was their god, K'an-chi-k'an-a.
• Liu Di recognized Gu Fan’s figure as only a phantom trace, apologized to the tribe, and departed through a temporal rift.
• The tribe’s faith in the departing figure became the seed of Maya beliefs in the Cosmic Deities and the civilization’s later development.

Liu Di traveled to Wallachia in 1461, where he discovered he was a consciousness entity and had lost access to his abilities. He found Gu Fan portrayed as the Duchess and met Drachid, who revealed himself as a vampire and promised Liu Di power.

• Liu Di and Magic Child realized that Liu Di was a consciousness entity moving through time, while an electronic signal pursued them.
• Liu Di entered Wallachia in 1461, saw Gu Fan depicted as the Duchess, and tried to confront the Voivode's carriage but found his abilities unavailable.
• A blond youth named Drachid rescued Liu Di from the carriage and led him to shelter, where Liu Di identified the ruler as Vlad III, later called Dracula.
• Drachid told Liu Di that he was the Grand Duke's servant, was having an affair with the Duchess, and planned to elope with her.
• Drachid transformed into a winged vampire, called himself the Vampire Progenitor, and offered to grant Liu Di power.

Liu Di discovered that Dra’s vampiric transformation came from a powerful genetic constitution shaped by plague viruses, then persuaded him to lead the way to Duke’s Castle. Dra agreed to bring Liu Di along on his secret full-moon meeting, giving Liu Di a chance to search for Gu Fan.

• Dra transformed and tried to bite Liu Di, but Liu Di exposed him to sunlight and forced him back to normal.
• Liu Di identified Dra’s symptoms as porphyria, while Magic Child explained that Dra carried many plague viruses and was likely a medieval genetic evolver.
• Dra described his secret romance with the Duchess, and Liu Di decided he would accompany him to the castle.
• Liu Di convinced Dra that someone had to keep watch during an affair, and Dra agreed to take him to Duke’s Castle using a foolproof way inside.

Liu Di and Dra approached Dracula's Castle, where Dra challenged Liu Di's beliefs about the Voivode and revealed the horrors surrounding the fortress. At the guarded rear gate, Dra proposed disguises to sneak inside so they could see the Duchess, leaving Liu Di appalled by both options.

• Liu Di saw warning signs about a bloodthirsty monster, and Dra admitted he had only been attacking livestock because the virus controlled him.
• Dra told Liu Di that the Voivode had repeatedly sold children to the Ottoman Empire and did not care about civilians, contradicting Liu Di's account of Dracula as a resistance hero.
• Liu Di and Dra crossed the corpse forest surrounding Dracula's Castle, while Dra searched for fresh bodies and struggled to resist his hunger for blood.
• Dra dug up a noblewoman's dress and suggested Liu Di hide beneath it, but Liu Di rejected the plan.
• Dra proposed that Liu Di dress as a woman while he hid between Liu Di's legs, explaining that servants were forbidden to enter or leave the castle and that they needed to sneak in to see the Duchess.

Liu Di and Dra entered Dracula's Castle by passing Liu Di off as Sir Cummings, the inventor of the toilet. After Liu Di saw the nobles drinking blood at a banquet, the Voivode of Wallachia approached him, and Liu Di boldly introduced himself as Sir Cummings.

• Dra disguised himself in women's clothing and helped Liu Di bluff past the castle guards by claiming Liu Di was Sir Cummings.
• Liu Di and Dra entered Dracula's Castle and saw noblewomen drinking red liquid from an Iron Maiden.
• Dra recognized the Voivode of Wallachia as his fated enemy and hid, fearing the Voivode would learn he had slept with his wife.
• The Voivode approached Liu Di and asked whether they had met before.
• Liu Di clasped his hands behind his back and declared himself Sir Cummings, leaving Dra dumbfounded.

Liu Di was imprisoned after Dracula mistook his identity, then met a woman who resembled Gu Fan and listened as Dra explained why he planned to enlist against the Ottoman Empire. The chapter left Dra awaiting the Duchess’s response while Liu Di toasted his resolve from the dungeon.

• Dracula ordered Liu Di imprisoned until the full moon, and Dra visited him through the dungeon window.
• A cloaked Duchess brought Liu Di wine, and he briefly mistook her for Gu Fan before noticing their differences.
• Magic Child explained that people from different times could share nearly identical appearances, and Liu Di realized Gu Fan was observing the encounter.
• Dra told the Duchess he planned to enlist and fight the Ottoman Empire despite the danger, then asked whether she supported him.
• Liu Di drank the Duchess’s wine and raised the wineskin toward the moon in a toast to Dra’s spirit.

Dra confronted Voivode Dracula after discovering the Duchess’s many scars and learned how brutally Dracula had abused her. Dra transformed into a demon and challenged Dracula, who revealed his beastlike face and began transforming under the full moon.

• Voivode Dracula appeared and accused Dra of having an affair with the Duchess, then described how he had tortured her.
• Dra saw the Duchess’s scars, understood what she had endured, and vowed to kill Dracula.
• The Duchess begged Dracula to spare Dra, but Dra transformed, revealing bat wings, fangs, and slit pupils.
• Liu Di watched from the dungeon and tried to intervene but could not reach out.
• Dracula recognized Dra as the rumored dark demon, removed his mask, and transformed into a three-meter-tall beast under the full moon.

Liu Di guided Dra through his fight against the transformed Voivode, but Dra could not keep up with the werewolf’s second transformation. As the Voivode prepared to kill Dra, the Duchess intervened and claimed she was carrying the Voivode’s child.

• The Voivode transformed into a werewolf and charged Dra, who was quickly knocked through a stone house.
• Liu Di used his predictive vision to direct Dra’s movements, helping him dodge and strike the Voivode.
• The Voivode transformed again, becoming faster and stronger than Dra could handle despite Liu Di’s warnings.
• The werewolf pinned Dra and raised his claws to kill him, but the Duchess shielded Dra and claimed she was carrying the Voivode’s child.
• The Duchess told Dra she would rather die by his mouth than bear the Voivode’s child, then offered him her neck.

Dra avenged the Duchess, killed the cowardly Voivode of Wallachia, and took his identity as Dracula. Liu Di realized the historical Dracula had been Dra, who chose to defend the city from the Ottoman invasion.

• Dra transformed after the Duchess died and grievously wounded the werewolf Voivode of Wallachia.
• The Voivode learned that the Ottoman Empire had surrounded the city with fifty thousand troops and ordered his soldiers to flee through the back gate.
• Dra crushed the Voivode's neck, took his cast-iron mask, and declared that he would defend the people as Dracula.
• The soldiers pledged themselves to Dra, while Liu Di recognized him as the Dracula recorded in history.

Liu Di witnessed Dra’s rise and learned that Gu Fan’s imprint was watching the coming battle, so he agreed to fight alongside Dra. As the Ottoman army advanced on Wallachia, Dra rose above Dracula’s Castle and roared at the invaders.

• Liu Di saw Gu Fan’s sorrowful imprint watching from the castle walls and wondered what future she had foreseen.
• Dra broke into Liu Di’s dungeon and asked him to fight alongside him, and Liu Di agreed despite lacking combat ability.
• Dra and Liu Di emerged as the Ottoman Empire’s fifty-thousand-man army prepared to attack Wallachia.
• An Ottoman arrow pierced the eye of a Wallachian commander, frightening the defenders as the enemy advanced.
• Dra rose into the air before the defenders and angrily challenged the invaders.

Dra led Wallachia’s defenders against the Ottoman army, revealing his monstrous power as he attacked their ranks. As the battle raged, Elira rescued him from a master archer’s deadly arrow, and a gigantic pig charged out of the city to join the fight.

• Dra called on Wallachia’s soldiers and residents to follow him, then swept aside the Ottoman arrows and drained their commander’s blood.
• Wallachian soldiers and civilians charged into battle beside Dra, while Liu Di watched from the city wall and spotted the enemy master archer.
• The archer fired a black arrow at Dra, but Elira caught and broke it before embracing him on the battlefield.
• A gigantic pig charged out of Wallachia and knocked several Ottoman soldiers into the air, leaving Liu Di to wonder whether it was Saar from Yulia Village.

Liu Di regained an ability through Witch DNA as the Ottoman army’s asphalt attack crippled Wallachia and left Dra helpless. Liu Di walked out of Dracula’s Castle radiating extreme heat, and his arrival sent the Ottoman soldiers into retreat.

• The Ottoman army launched boulders and burning asphalt at Wallachia, killing soldiers and trapping many in hardened tar.
• Liu Di recognized the asphalt and realized its fumes were worsening Dra, the Countess, and Saar’s condition.
• Dra collapsed as the silver-armored archer confronted him, while Magic Child told Liu Di that code had arrived and restored one ability.
• Liu Di awakened the heat-producing power of Witch DNA and walked out of Dracula’s Castle toward the battlefield.
• Liu Di’s heated footprints split the ground and unleashed flames, hurling an Ottoman soldier away and frightening the army.

Liu Di used the natural gas beneath the battlefield to ignite the ground and destroy the Ottoman army’s command, helping Dra secure victory. He then departed through a portal, leaving Dra to preserve his story as the mysterious figure Bafo, later remembered as Baphomet.

• Liu Di stopped the silver-armored archer’s hidden dagger with intense heat, and Dra killed the archer with a claw strike.
• Liu Di ignited natural gas beneath the battlefield, while Dra attacked the Ottoman commanders and shattered their command structure.
• Liu Di told Dra to guard the people and maintain peace, then left through a twisted passage after suggesting they might meet again if the super-fat pig lived for six hundred years.
• Dra became famous for defeating the Ottoman invasion and ordered a statue of Liu Di, whose name was recorded as Bafo.
• Later legends identified Bafo as Baphomet, while Dracula family records preserved Dra’s account of Liu Di.

Liu Shang faced a reprimand from Xing Yang, a former leader of the Time Group, for failing to uphold its rules and for protecting Liu Di. Xing Yang took the Time Halberd and entered a tunnel through time to pursue Gu Fan, leaving the Time Group’s leadership in turmoil.

• Liu Shang and four cloaked figures paid tribute to the Time Halberd as three former leaders emerged from the ice cave.
• Xing Yang scolded Liu Shang for letting his Golden Clock stop during his fight with Liu Di and for refusing to execute Mo Yu and Whitebrow.
• Liu Shang argued that the Time Group’s rules needed improvement and asked to enter the River of History to find Liu Di.
• Xing Yang ordered the four cloaked figures to execute Mo Yu, Whitebrow, and Liu Di, then declared he would pursue Gu Fan himself.
• Xing Yang used the Time Halberd to open a passage through time and stepped inside toward a white figure beside a river.

After correcting history, Liu Di learned that Magic Child had evolved and gained stronger time-travel abilities. He followed Gu Fan’s mark to a mountain river, where an old man named Xing Yang appeared and threatened to destroy her true body.

• Magic Child announced its upgrade to the second sequence, with faster Time Halberds, greater time precision, and the ability to throw two at once.
• Magic Child explained that correcting history helped it grow and described the abilities it might eventually gain.
• Liu Di sent two Time Halberds toward a point marked by Gu Fan and traveled through the River of Time.
• Liu Di found Gu Fan by a mountain river, sifting sand in a wicker basket, and wondered what she wanted him to correct.
• A white-robed old man named Xing Yang emerged from a void vortex, recognized Gu Fan as a four-dimensional being, and threatened to use his Time Long Halberd to destroy her true body.

Liu Di watched elder Xing Yang’s Time Halberd erase the scenery around Gu Fan, but she remained unharmed. When Xing Yang attacked Liu Di, Liu Di escaped by using his second Time Halberd to jump ten minutes forward, leaving Xing Yang’s weapon drained.

• Xing Yang struck at Gu Fan with the Time Halberd, but the erased scenery returned and Gu Fan remained unharmed.
• Xing Yang recognized Liu Di as a time criminal and attacked him after Gu Fan left.
• Liu Di was pulled away by the second Time Halberd just as Xing Yang’s strike reached him.
• Liu Di reappeared ten minutes later, while Xing Yang’s Time Halberd had run out of energy.
• Liu Di threw both Time Halberds toward nearby points in time and told Xing Yang he was there.

Liu Di escaped Xing Yang by jumping through time, then was transported to a Western setting where a young cowboy rescued him from an armed attacker. He realized his burned and ragged clothes made him look like a refugee.

• Liu Di dodged Xing Yang's attacks by blinking through time until the Time Halberd ran out of energy and Xing Yang disappeared.
• Xing Yang threatened to return with two other group leaders, and Liu Di and Magic Child considered the golden halberd's connection to the Time Halberd.
• A second Time Halberd transported Liu Di to a different place and time, where a cowboy threatened him with a revolver and whip.
• A young cowboy intervened and accidentally shot three crows while missing the attacker, then used his display of marksmanship to frighten the man away.
• The young cowboy mistook Liu Di for a refugee from the East, and Liu Di saw that his burned, tattered clothes made him look like a beggar.

Liu Di traveled back to the Klondike Gold Rush and discovered that Friedrich Leip, the future leader Leip’s grandfather, was beginning his fortune there. After Friedrich quickly abandoned his gold-panning effort to rest, Liu Di suspected that correcting his laziness was the task he had been given.

• Liu Di arrived at the Klondike River Basin during the Gold Rush and watched thousands of prospectors search for gold.
• Friedrich Leip told Liu Di he planned to strike it rich, and Liu Di realized Friedrich was Leip’s grandfather.
• Liu Di joined Friedrich at the riverbank, believing he owed him for once saving his life.
• Friedrich panned for gold for only two minutes before lying down to rest and asking for iced whiskey.
• Liu Di suspected Friedrich’s laziness was what he needed to correct.