Chapter Summaries

Wen Qimo assessed Lin Qiye’s abilities and concluded that the Seraph had given him only an incomplete Divine Domain, then began training him to use his perception and dynamic vision. As Lin Qiye struggled to dodge volleys of rubber bullets, Chen Muye prepared bone broth and made the team wait for him before eating.

• Wen Qimo recorded Lin Qiye’s abilities and judged that his Divine Domain was likely incomplete and only an ordinary danger level.
• Wen Qimo designed a training exercise in which Lin Qiye had to dodge rubber bullets using his perception and dynamic vision.
• Lin Qiye was quickly overwhelmed by the bullets and complained that he was getting beaten up again.
• Chen Muye served bone broth to the team, but stopped Hong Ying from eating until Lin Qiye finished class.

After a grueling day of training, Lin Qiye struggled with shooting practice while learning why Chen Muye pushed his team so hard. He ended the night practicing sword techniques on his own.

• Lin Qiye joined the Night Watchmen for dinner, where Leng Xuan broke up Hong Ying and Wu Xiangnan’s dispute over a piece of meat by drawing his submachine gun.
• Chen Muye told Si Xiaonan to treat Lin Qiye only enough to keep him ready for more training, then Leng Xuan took Lin Qiye for shooting practice.
• Lin Qiye missed a target thirty meters away, leaving Leng Xuan discouraged by his lack of marksmanship talent.
• Hong Ying explained that Chen Muye’s harsh training helped protect the Night Watchmen by making them stronger, and Lin Qiye said he understood.
• After returning to his room, Lin Qiye got up and repeatedly practiced the sword techniques Chen Muye had demonstrated.

After returning to school for his forgotten homework, Li Yifei hid from the Dean of Students and witnessed Liu Xiaoyan devour him. The Dean reappeared unharmed, and the two left together, leaving Li Yifei shaken by another encounter with the supernatural.

• Li Yifei returned to the nearly empty school to retrieve his homework after forgetting it in his desk.
• Li Yifei hid in his classroom when Liu Xiaoyan and the Dean of Students stopped outside.
• Liu Xiaoyan revealed a monstrous mouth, swallowed the Dean of Students, and then spat him out unharmed.
• The Dean of Students rose, smiled at Liu Xiaoyan, and left with her while Li Yifei watched in terror.

Team 136 investigated a suspected Mystery at Cangnan City Second High School after Li Yifei reported seeing a monster there. The team planned to search for the creature’s original body and assigned Hong Ying, Xiao Nan, and Lin Qiye to infiltrate the school.

• Hong Ying brought Lin Qiye to a Team 136 meeting, where Chen Muye revealed that a suspected Mythical Creature had appeared at Lin Qiye’s former school, Second High School.
• Li Yifei described seeing a monster at the school, and Wu Xiangnan judged that the case almost certainly involved a Mystery.
• Wu Xiangnan explained that the creature could disguise itself, communicate without detection, and assimilate those it swallowed, making its original body and the number of infected people unknown.
• Wu Xiangnan warned that the infection could have spread across the school or beyond, but Wen Qimo said the Calamity Raven had not sounded an alarm.
• Wu Xiangnan proposed splitting Team 136 to search outward from the school and infiltrate it to find the creature’s original body.
• Chen Muye assigned Hong Ying, Xiao Nan, and Lin Qiye to enter Second High School without alerting the creature.

Lin Qiye joined a Night Watchmen operation to investigate a Mythical Creature infiltrating Second High School, using his old school and classmate Liu Xiaoyan to approach the threat. He entered his classroom and sensed a troubling number of suspicious people, leaving the team uncertain about the situation.

• Chen Muye assigned Lin Qiye, Hong Ying, Si Xiaonan, and Li Yifei to investigate the creature at Second High School, and Lin Qiye accepted the mission.
• Leng Xuan gave Lin Qiye a loaded handgun before the team set out.
• Lin Qiye, Hong Ying, and Si Xiaonan climbed over the school wall, then split up so Lin Qiye could approach Liu Xiaoyan while the others investigated the Dean of Students.
• Lin Qiye returned to his classroom and used his Forbidden Ruins to detect people around him.
• When Chen Muye asked about the numbers, Lin Qiye replied that the situation was not good.

Lin Qiye discovered several students had been infected by a Mythical Creature while Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan found shed human skin in the Dean of Students' office. As students gathered for the flag-raising ceremony, Li Yifei revealed that three infected girls were roommates.

• Lin Qiye sensed that Liu Xiaoyan and Han Ruoruo were infected and reported finding about six infected people on their floor to Chen Muye.
• Lin Qiye told Li Yifei he needed a chance to sense everyone at school and planned to use the flag-raising ceremony.
• Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan searched the Dean of Students' office and found a sheet of human skin hidden beneath a tile.
• Lin Qiye identified Tian Li as another infected student, and Li Yifei revealed she shared a room with Liu Xiaoyan and Han Ruoruo.

Lin Qiye suspected the mythical creature had come from the girls' dormitory and sent Hong Ying to investigate while he searched the students gathered for the flag-raising ceremony. After inspecting the crowd disguised as the Flag Bearer, he realized something alarming about the officials and students around him.

• Lin Qiye told Hong Ying his suspicion that the mythical creature had appeared from the girls' dormitory, and she went there with her companions.
• Lin Qiye and Li Yifei slipped through the packed student formation as Lin Qiye used his psychic perception to search the crowd.
• When the ceremony was about to begin, Lin Qiye took the flagpole from the Flag Bearer by pretending Li Yifei was an outstanding student representative.
• Lin Qiye marched past the officials and scanned the students before returning to the flagpole and raising the flag.
• As the national anthem began, Lin Qiye saw the officials and students below and warned his captain to prepare mentally.

Lin Qiye reported that more than sixty people at Second High School had been infected, while Chen Muye and Wu Xiangnan contained the spreading threat elsewhere. Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan searched the girls’ dormitory and discovered four human skins hanging on a clothes rack.

• Lin Qiye escaped the teacher in charge after briefly terrifying him with the golden flames in his eyes.
• Lin Qiye told Chen Muye that at least sixty students, teachers, and administrators at Second High School were infected.
• Chen Muye said infected families were spreading the danger beyond the school and assigned his team to contain it while Lin Qiye and the others searched for the Mythical Creature.
• Chen Muye arranged to isolate Second High School with a Forbidden Artifact and the Boundless Void Domain, then ordered Lin Qiye’s team to find and kill the creature while protecting the students and staff.
• Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan entered the girls’ dormitory and searched the second-to-last room on the north side.
• Hong Ying found four thin sheets of human skin swaying on the dormitory’s clothes rack.

Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan discovered that many students in the dormitory had been infected, and Hong Ying deduced that the monster’s infection had limits and its true body was nearby. When a group of disguised monsters attacked them in the stairwell, Hong Ying unleashed rose-colored flames and drew a spear from her Long Case.

• Hong Ying found human skins hanging from balconies in several neighboring dorm rooms and concluded that the monster could infect only a limited number of people.
• Hong Ying reasoned that the monster was targeting boarders and girls more often, and concluded that its true body was in the dormitory.
• Lin Qiye warned Hong Ying that a large group of girls was approaching the dorm building.
• Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan encountered the girls on the stairs, and Hong Ying pretended they had gone to the wrong floor.
• The girls revealed their monstrous forms as Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan passed, but Hong Ying blasted them back with rose-colored flames.
• Hong Ying summoned a spear from the Long Case on her back and faced the monsters in the burning stairwell.

Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan faced a growing crowd of monsters in the hallway while Lin Qiye intervened in Han Ruoruo and Liu Yuan’s relationship. The chapter ended with Lin Qiye explaining that he had saved Liu Yuan once as a Night Watchman, but would not protect him if he recklessly pursued Han Ruoruo again.

• Hong Ying charged through one monster with her flaming spear, then counted eighteen more gathering around her and Si Xiaonan.
• Han Ruoruo accepted Liu Yuan’s drink and asked him to meet her in the garage after school, but abruptly left for the dorm.
• Lin Qiye confessed to Han Ruoruo in front of the class and asked her to be his girlfriend, and she agreed while Liu Yuan watched in shock.
• Lin Qiye told Li Yifei that he had saved Liu Yuan out of his Night Watchman duty, but would not intervene if Liu Yuan continued risking his life over Han Ruoruo.

After hearing that Hong Ying was in trouble, Lin Qiye rushed to the girls’ dormitory while Leng Xuan activated the Boundless Void Domain, turning the sky green. Lin Qiye slipped into the dormitory during Li Yifei’s public confession, while Hong Ying fought monsters in a dark corridor.

• Lin Qiye heard that something had happened to Hong Ying and ran toward the girls’ dormitory with Li Yifei following him.
• Leng Xuan activated the Boundless Void Domain outside Second High School, and the sky above the school turned green.
• Lin Qiye asked Li Yifei to distract the crowd so he could enter the sealed girls’ dormitory.
• Li Yifei confessed to Wu Shujie in public, but she said she liked Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye slipped into the girls’ dormitory while the crowd focused on Li Yifei and Wu Shujie.
• Hong Ying fought monsters in a dark corridor, killing one with her flaming spear as the others retreated.

Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan defeated the monsters in the dormitory, but Lin Qiye realized the intelligent Snake-tailed Humanoid had escaped and triggered the infected students to go berserk. As Hong Ying chased the creature, Lin Qiye turned to protect the students and forced them to listen by firing his gun into the air.

• Hong Ying killed four monsters with her spear and flames while Si Xiaonan reported that she had killed another.
• Lin Qiye shot the dorm supervisor after she transformed into a monster, then joined Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan in searching for the Snake Demon’s main body.
• Lin Qiye deduced that the intelligent creature had carefully infected people through the girls’ dormitory, and the group spotted it coiled on a balcony.
• The Snake-tailed Humanoid hissed, causing infected students across the school to go berserk, and Hong Ying leaped after it while Lin Qiye went to protect the students.
• Lin Qiye found students fleeing toward the blocked school gates and fired into the sky to make them stop and listen.

Lin Qiye escorted hundreds of students out of the school while identifying and killing monsters hidden among them. After the Boundless Void Domain malfunctioned and the campus fell under a blood-red sky, he searched the school buildings and found another monster disguised as a girl in a restroom stall.

• Lin Qiye beheaded a monster hidden among the students and ordered the others to leave in an orderly fashion.
• Lin Qiye identified students as they reached the gate, allowing around thirteen or fourteen hundred first-year and third-year students to escape through the Boundless Void Domain.
• Lin Qiye told Leng Xuan to close the passage and went back into the school to rescue more people.
• The sky flickered and turned blood-red after Leng Xuan reported a problem with the Boundless Void Domain.
• Lin Qiye found A Lan and two other girls hiding in a restroom stall, then killed the monster disguised among them.

Lin Qiye rescued students from the first- and third-year buildings and headed for the monster-infested second-year building. There, Li Yifei led a rescue team that killed two monsters, but the trapped Class 8 students challenged whether they could safely reach the fifth floor.

• Lin Qiye escorted two rescued girls and the other survivors to a cleared auditorium, then went alone to search the second-year building.
• Li Yifei organized the students on the fifth floor, barricaded the corridors, and led an axe squad down a rope to rescue Class 8 students on the third floor.
• Li Yifei and the boys distracted and killed the two monsters guarding Class 8’s classroom.
• Li Yifei invited the twenty-eight students from Class 8 to evacuate to the fifth floor.
• A Class 8 student pointed out that monsters blocked the route and the fifth-floor stairwells were sealed, leaving Li Yifei unable to answer how they could all get upstairs.

An Qingyu rejected Li Yifei’s evacuation plan, but six monsters surrounded the classroom and cut off the escape rope. Lin Qiye arrived and killed them, then learned how Li Yifei had organized the students; the chapter ended with An Qingyu introducing himself to Lin Qiye.

• An Qingyu told Li Yifei to hold their position and revealed that he was the city’s top-ranked student.
• Six monsters surrounded the classroom and severed the rope, forcing Li Yifei and the students to barricade the entrance.
• An Qingyu studied how the monsters seemed to coordinate while the students struggled to hold the barricade.
• Lin Qiye arrived, killed all six monsters, and asked Li Yifei to explain the situation.
• Li Yifei described the school’s chaos and how he had detained Han Ruoruo and other suspicious students.
• An Qingyu introduced himself to Lin Qiye, who shook his hand.

Lin Qiye rested with Li Yifei, An Qingyu, and the Axe Squad before heading upstairs to rescue more students. He learned the monsters were offspring of a Nanda Snake Demon whose main body remained at large, while An Qingyu revealed his intense interest in studying them.

• Lin Qiye recruited Li Yifei and the Axe Squad, along with An Qingyu, to help rescue students upstairs.
• Lin Qiye sent the classroom's students toward the auditorium and rested before tackling the monsters on the fourth floor.
• Hong Ying told Lin Qiye that the fleeing monster had disappeared into the woods, and relayed Wu Xiangnan's identification of it as a Nanda Snake Demon that created controlled offspring by planting snake seeds in living creatures.
• An Qingyu asked why monsters existed without disrupting ordinary life, and Lin Qiye explained that people stood watch over the darkness for humanity.
• An Qingyu revealed his advanced biology studies and desire to dissect the monsters, then Lin Qiye led the group out to save people.

Liu Yuan tried to prove himself by freeing Han Ruoruo, but Lin Qiye returned after clearing the building of monsters. Lin Qiye let the couple leave and wished them happiness.

• Han Ruoruo told Liu Yuan she wanted to break up with Lin Qiye and asked him to get her out of the classroom.
• Liu Yuan argued with Li Qiang and demanded that the students guarding the classroom let them out.
• A crash announced Lin Qiye's arrival, and Li Yifei reported that Lin Qiye had killed all the monsters on the fourth floor.
• Lin Qiye approached Liu Yuan, who declared that Han Ruoruo was now his girlfriend and that he would take her away.
• Lin Qiye stepped aside, let Liu Yuan and Han Ruoruo leave, and wished them happiness.

Lin Qiye searched the campus for the Nanda Snake Demon's main body after sending the surviving students toward the assembly hall. He found Han Ruoruo revealed as a monster with Liu Yuan trapped in her grasp, then shut and locked the music-room door instead of rescuing him.

• Lin Qiye let Liu Yuan leave with Han Ruoruo, then sent the surviving students to the assembly hall while he continued searching for the Nanda Snake Demon's main body.
• An Qingyu shared a suspicion with Lin Qiye and took his pistol, while Lin Qiye left Li Yifei to escort the students.
• Lin Qiye learned the Nanda Snake Demon had gone north and headed to the arts building to search.
• Han Ruoruo revealed a monstrous mouth and trapped Liu Yuan in the music room as he begged for help.
• Lin Qiye entered, apologized for interrupting, and locked the music-room door from the outside.

Lin Qiye confronted Han Ruoruo about why the Nanda Snake Demon had begun creating snake spawn on a large scale, but the demon used their conversation to buy time and attack him. As Lin Qiye faced the demon’s true body in the music room, Hong Ying rushed to help.

• Lin Qiye killed the snake spawn Liu Yuan and urged Han Ruoruo to return to her human appearance so they could talk.
• Lin Qiye questioned why the Nanda Snake Demon had started raising snake spawn throughout the school, and Han Ruoruo challenged him with a plan to plant a snake seed in him.
• The Nanda Snake Demon burst through a wall and attacked Lin Qiye, who called Hong Ying for help.
• Lin Qiye dodged the demon’s claws and blocked its tail with his sword, then judged that its strength and defense might be manageable.

Lin Qiye fought the Nanda Snake Demon outside the arts building until Hong Ying arrived and killed it with a spear. Lin Qiye then noticed something was wrong as he examined the demon’s corpse.

• Lin Qiye drew the Nanda Snake Demon out of the cramped music room and wounded it, but the demon threw him from the second floor.
• Lin Qiye avoided the demon’s attack outside and used his golden divine might to stun it and slash its chest.
• Hong Ying arrived, and the Nanda Snake Demon fled into the arts building as Lin Qiye told her where it was.
• Hong Ying hurled her flaming spear through the building, pinning the Nanda Snake Demon and killing it.
• Hong Ying checked that the demon was dead and invited Lin Qiye to dinner, but Lin Qiye remained by the corpse and said something was wrong.