Chapter Summaries

Baili Pangpang returned to the dormitory after rescuing the recruits and told Shen Qingzhu where the spider was hiding. Lin Qiye and his group entered Building Three through a spatial barrier, then rushed upstairs after hearing a girl scream.

• Baili Pangpang told Shen Qingzhu that the spider was in the second warehouse on the east side and lent him the Soul Severing Blade before leaving to save Molly in Building Three.
• Shen Qingzhu warned Baili Pangpang that the spider had killed people and planned to minimize casualties while gathering the awakened recruits.
• Lin Qiye found that Building Three was cut off from ordinary space, and Li Shaoguang used his cleaver to open a temporary entrance.
• Lin Qiye and the others entered the building, watched the outside world vanish into deep blue, and ran upstairs after hearing a girl's scream.

Lin Qiye and the recruits found that Building Three’s interior had been scrambled by a spatial Mystery, with rooms, corridors, and stairs joined in impossible arrangements. After the layout shifted and separated them from the others, Lin Qiye, Cao Yuan, and Li Shaoguang stayed together and continued exploring, stopping at a door.

• Lin Qiye recognized that the dorm room at the top of the stairs and the misaligned corridors were evidence of a spatial Mystery scrambling Building Three’s layout.
• Lin Qiye sensed nearby routes and pointed out that breaking through a wall could lead to stairs going up, while warning the group not to damage the building’s structure.
• A recruit used a gray glow to corrode a passage through the wall, but the rooms and stairs shifted while the group was crossing it, separating Lin Qiye, Cao Yuan, and Li Shaoguang from the others.
• Lin Qiye concluded that the Mystery seemed suited to trapping people rather than attacking them, but wondered what had caused the scream they had heard.
• Lin Qiye, Cao Yuan, and Li Shaoguang walked through the rearranged rooms together and stopped before a door.

Lin Qiye, Cao Yuan, and Li Shaoguang found a female recruit cut in half and suspected another powerful Mystery was inside the building. A headless man carrying an enormous Executioner's Blade appeared and killed Li Shaoguang in a single strike, leaving Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan facing the threat.

• Lin Qiye examined the severed body of a female recruit and concluded that a sharp weapon had cut her in half.
• Lin Qiye suggested that a second Mystery might be in the building, and the three heard something heavy being dragged through the corridor.
• Lin Qiye decided they should test the approaching Mystery's abilities and fight if they had an opening.
• A headless, burly man emerged while dragging a massive Executioner's Blade.
• The Headless Man rushed forward and killed Li Shaoguang with one slash, while Lin Qiye grabbed Cao Yuan's wrist and signaled him to stay quiet.

Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan escaped the Headless Man and reasoned that it attacked in response to sound, while Baili Pangpang entered Building Three and got lost in its shifting rooms. The chapter ended with Molly finding Baili Pangpang and pulling him along, warning him not to speak.

• Lin Qiye used Absolute Darkness to hide their heartbeats from the Headless Man, which moved away before the corridor shifted into a dorm room.
• Lin Qiye explained that instructors had replaced Li Shaoguang with a realistic duplicate, then theorized that the Headless Man’s speed increased in response to nearby sound.
• Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan continued searching for the second River-realm Mystery.
• Baili Pangpang used chalk to open the glass door and entered Building Three, where shifting rooms left him lost.
• Baili Pangpang shouted for Molly, Lin Qiye, and Cao Yuan, then heard a dragging sound approaching.
• Molly emerged through a wall, covered Baili Pangpang’s mouth, and told him to come with her without speaking.

Molly rescued Baili Pangpang from the Sound Hunter and explained how it had killed more than a dozen female recruits. At the hot-water room, Azi and the other soldiers mapped the buildings’ shifting layout, and Azi announced that she had found the pattern behind the spatial distortions.

• Molly and another female soldier took Baili Pangpang through a wall and hid as the Sound Hunter searched for them.
• Molly explained that the Sound Hunter tracked sounds, grew stronger amid louder noise, and had killed more than a dozen recruits before the survivors understood its weakness.
• Molly brought Baili Pangpang to the hot-water room, where Zhang Xiaoxiao used her Forbidden Ruins to let the soldiers communicate silently through mental links.
• Molly explained that she and Xiaoling scouted the rooms while the other soldiers mapped the buildings to find the pattern behind the spatial distortions.
• Azi compared the layout maps, realized she had found the pattern, and announced her discovery.

Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan tried to understand the shifting space and ambushed the Headless Man in a corridor. Their attack failed to kill it, and the chapter ended with Lin Qiye narrowly evading its counterattack.

• Lin Qiye analyzed the spatial distortions and concluded that they came from unpredictable rotations along horizontal or vertical cross-sections, though he had not found their pattern.
• When they heard the Headless Man approaching, Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan prepared to lure it out of the cramped dormitory and fight in the corridor.
• The Headless Man smashed through the dormitory door, then walked past Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan without noticing them.
• Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan launched a surprise attack, but the Headless Man struck Cao Yuan through a wall and hardened its muscles before Lin Qiye could pierce its heart.
• Lin Qiye released his swords and dodged the Headless Man's second slash, whose blade narrowly missed his forehead.

Lin Qiye discovered that the second mysterious creature was a living Rubik’s Cube controlling the shifting rooms, while Cao Yuan fought the Headless Man. Azi separately deciphered the room changes and located the creature, leaving the group ready to act on her discovery.

• Lin Qiye watched Cao Yuan repeatedly clash with the Headless Man, waiting for a chance to strike.
• A mysterious force shifted the rooms and separated Lin Qiye from the fighters, so he searched through the building with his Mental Power.
• Lin Qiye sensed a floating silver Rubik’s Cube at the center of the spatial maze and realized it was the second mysterious creature.
• Azi told Baili Pangpang that the buildings formed a Rubik’s Cube whose rotations caused the spatial disturbances, and said she could predict the next changes.
• Azi revealed that she already knew where the mysterious creature was hiding.

Lin Qiye outmaneuvered the Rubik’s Cube controlling Building Three by baiting it into disrupting space twice, then reached its void and prepared to attack. At the same time, Molly and the female soldiers began their hunt for the Sound Hunter.

• Azi and the female soldiers chose to kill the Sound Hunter first and prepared a plan for the next spatial distortion.
• Lin Qiye studied the rotating rooms and concluded that the Rubik’s Cube tested intelligence and could not disrupt space twice in a row.
• Lin Qiye tore through three walls, then retreated when the Rubik’s Cube triggered a spatial distortion.
• After the rooms shifted, Lin Qiye broke through the wall beside him and found the Rubik’s Cube in its void.
• Lin Qiye declared checkmate and leaped toward the Rubik’s Cube as Molly and the female soldiers began hunting the Sound Hunter.

The female soldiers and Baili Pangpang tracked the Sound Hunter through Building Three and found Cao Yuan fighting the Headless Man. As the group launched a coordinated attack, the building returned to normal, overturning Azi’s prediction and leaving the fight’s outcome uncertain.

• Molly explained why the female soldiers split into three groups, and Azi ordered them to prepare when they heard fighting approaching.
• Baili Pangpang’s group saw Cao Yuan battling the Headless Man, which ignored them and focused on him.
• Azi had Zhang Xiaoxiao reconnect everyone through the mental network and organized more than seventy people for a coordinated attack.
• As Cao Yuan fell and the Headless Man approached, the soldiers used their Forbidden Ruins to lift its blade and slow it down.
• The surrounding rooms shifted into a new pattern, and Building Three returned to its original appearance, proving Azi’s prediction wrong.

Lin Qiye killed the space-distorting cube Mystery on Building Three’s rooftop, while Azi’s team launched its attack on the Headless Man. At the training camp, Shen Qingzhu entered a warehouse alone to confront the spider Mystery and found a little boy lying in its web.

• Lin Qiye endured the cube’s spatial distortions, used darkness to weaken it, and hacked it into fragments before collecting them for possible summoning materials.
• Azi realized someone had killed the Mystery controlling space and ordered her team to attack the immobilized Headless Man.
• Shen Qingzhu’s team surrounded the warehouse and planted bombs along its walls while Shen prepared to check whether the spider Mystery was inside.
• Shen entered the warehouse alone and found a sleepy little boy lying on a silk bed amid dense webs, then screamed for help.

Shen Qingzhu and the recruits ambushed Spider Child, but the powerful Mystery kept fleeing and using its abilities to evade them. After escaping several attacks, Spider Child encountered a boy meditating on a rooftop.

• Spider Child transformed from a boy into a spider and fled through a warehouse vent, so Shen Qingzhu ordered the bombs detonated.
• The explosion wounded Spider Child, but it used Spider Silk to swing away while the recruits chased and attacked it.
• Spider Child struck three recruits with a mental attack and trapped others in a soul web, which Shen Qingzhu severed with his Soul Severing Blade.
• Shen Qingzhu blasted Spider Child with explosions, but it survived and continued fleeing through the Training Camp.
• Spider Child froze in midair after seeing a boy open his eyes on a nearby rooftop.

Lin Qiye killed the Spider Child during the Carnival Day drill, while Molly and the other female recruits defeated the remaining creature in Building Three. Yuan Gang ended the drill and revealed that the apparent deaths were not life-threatening, then stopped Lin Qiye from keeping the Spider Child’s corpse and asked him about the missing Cube.

• Lin Qiye used divine powers to stun the Spider Child, then killed it with his twin blades.
• Shen Qingzhu and the others found the Spider Child’s corpse, and Lin Qiye said another creature remained in Building Three.
• Molly emerged with the last creature reduced to a severed hand, explaining that she had shattered the rest with her vibration ability.
• Yuan Gang arrived with the instructors and announced that the Carnival Day drill had ended, assuring the recruits that the apparent deaths were not life-threatening.
• Yuan Gang ordered Lin Qiye to surrender the Spider Child’s corpse and questioned him about the Cube, but Lin Qiye claimed it had left no remains.

After the training exercise, Yuan Gang awarded Lin Qiye 19 points, withholding a perfect score partly to keep him from becoming arrogant. At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Lin Qiye discovered that the Soul Weaving Spider he had killed had become a frightened little boy and could be recruited as a hospital attendant.

• The instructors argued over the recruits' scores, while Yuan Gang listened to their assessment of Lin Qiye's performance.
• Instructor Hong described Lin Qiye's achievements and said he deserved at least 19 points, possibly a perfect score.
• Yuan Gang gave Lin Qiye 19 points and privately noted that he had to pay a price for taking the Cube's corpse.
• Lin Qiye visited the quiet Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and found the Soul Weaving Spider imprisoned as a little boy.
• Lin Qiye read the boy's attendant decision panel and saw that his Fear Value toward Lin Qiye was 359.
• The frightened boy offered Lin Qiye one or two of his legs if Lin Qiye would spare him.

Lin Qiye recruited A Zhu and the Chaos Cube as orderlies for his Psychiatric Hospital. He brought them back to find Li Yifei overwhelmed with work, and the cube demonstrated its usefulness as a fully automatic appliance.

• Lin Qiye persuaded A Zhu to sign a labor contract by offering him a job as an orderly, and A Zhu became orderly number 002.
• Lin Qiye examined the Chaos Cube’s employment panel and hired it after hearing what it could offer.
• Lin Qiye brought A Zhu and the cube into the hospital and introduced them to Li Yifei.
• Li Yifei reacted with relief at the new help, and the cube demonstrated that it could wash and dry laundry, wash dishes, and play mahjong.

Lin Qiye prepared to summon a creature using the power in the Cube’s remains and chose a hidden weapons warehouse as the ritual site. After drawing the summoning array and adding the Cube fragments and his blood, he was ready to begin.

• Li Yifei discovered that the Cube could wash clothes and dishes, while A Zhu said his only skill was sleeping.
• Lin Qiye told Li Yifei to supervise A Zhu, Nyx, and Merlin as head orderly before leaving the Psychiatric Hospital.
• Baili Pangpang told Lin Qiye that he had scored first in the drill and that Baili Pangpang had tied for second.
• Lin Qiye searched the Training Camp for a place to summon a creature before the Cube’s power dissipated, then chose an unmonitored weapons warehouse.
• Lin Qiye sneaked into the warehouse at night, drew a summoning array, and placed the Cube fragments and his blood on it.

Lin Qiye completed his first Dimensional Summoning and formed a contract with a small mummy from the Mutated Wasteland World. He summoned the War Mummy into the warehouse and was stunned when it swallowed an AK47.

• Lin Qiye explored several planes with his consciousness, glimpsed powerful summoned creatures, and found a wasteland plane he could enter.
• Lin Qiye encountered a small mummy and, trusting his Extreme Affinity for Summoning Magic, offered to make it king of its plane in exchange for a contract.
• The mummy accepted Lin Qiye’s summoning contract, and the Magic Array brought him back to the warehouse.
• Lin Qiye summoned the War Mummy and learned it came from the Mutated Wasteland World.
• The War Mummy ran to a corner, picked up an AK47, and swallowed the gun.

Lin Qiye let the little mummy consume the Training Camp’s entire weapons supply and discovered that it could turn the weapons into its own arsenal and change size. The next morning, Instructor Hong found the warehouse empty, and Yuan Gang suspected Baili Tumming had hidden the weapons in his Freedom Space.

• Lin Qiye watched the little mummy transform into a weapon-covered war fortress and realized its power came from consuming weapons.
• Lin Qiye told the little mummy to eat everything in the warehouse, and it consumed the entire stock before shrinking back to its original size.
• Instructor Hong discovered the weapons warehouse was empty and called Yuan Gang to investigate.
• Instructor Hong and Yuan Gang found no sign that the weapons had been taken out or hidden around the Training Camp.
• Yuan Gang suspected Baili Tumming had stored the weapons in his Freedom Space and ordered him to come see him.

As graduation approached, Lin Qiye learned that he had ranked first in the Training Camp and reflected on leaving the place where he had trained for a year. At the Great Xia border, the captain of Phoenix Squad decided she had to recruit him, even considering a scheme to fake the personnel losses required by the rules.

• Baili Pangpang returned from an inspection of his Freedom Space with his suspicions cleared, while Lin Qiye concealed his role in the armory theft.
• In August, Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan reflected on leaving the Training Camp, and Cao Yuan explained that the recruits would take an oath, receive their gear, and depart for their posts.
• The recruits received the total Score Ranking: Lin Qiye ranked first with ninety-five points, Cao Yuan ranked third with ninety-one, and Baili Pangpang ranked one hundred and eighty-fourth with seventy-four.
• Cao Yuan predicted that the Special Squads would want Lin Qiye, while Lin Qiye remained a likely candidate for the Capital Squad.
• At the Great Xia border, the Phoenix Squad captain resolved to recruit Lin Qiye and proposed crippling her teammate so she could report a personnel loss.

King Mask and Balance discussed Lin Qiye’s first-place Training Camp result and predicted he would eventually lead a new Special Squad. At the transfer announcement, Lin Qiye was assigned to Cangnan City, prompting Shen Qingzhu to protest before the recruits were dismissed into a downpour.

• Balance told King Mask that Lin Qiye had scored 95 points, placed first, and earned a Star Medal, despite scoring only 6 points in shooting.
• King Mask said the higher-ups would likely prepare Lin Qiye to form a new Special Squad rather than transfer him into an existing one.
• Instructor Hong announced the recruits’ transfer orders, including Cao Yuan to Squad 007, Shen Qingzhu to Squad 006, and Lin Qiye to Squad 136 in Cangnan City.
• Shen Qingzhu protested Lin Qiye’s assignment, arguing that if Lin Qiye had to return to Cangnan, Shen Qingzhu had no reason to go to Shangjing.
• Instructor Hong said the higher-ups had issued the orders and dismissed the recruits as rain began pouring down.

As Lin Qiye and the others accepted their assignments, a strong earthquake triggered a devastating mudslide near Jinnan Mountain, swallowing six villages. Yuan Gang mobilized the Training Camp to rescue the victims, and Lin Qiye and the recruits headed to the disaster zone.

• Shen Qingzhu left for Shangjing City while Lin Qiye said he was content to stay in Cangnan with Team 136.
• Lin Qiye, Baili Pangpang, and Cao Yuan felt the ground tremble as heavy rain fell.
• A mudslide swept through villages near Jinnan Mountain, and Yaya warned her grandparents as the disaster struck.
• Yuan Gang announced that an earthquake-triggered mudslide had hit six villages and estimated nearly two hundred deaths.
• Yuan Gang ordered the Training Camp recruits and instructors onto military trucks to join the rescue effort.