Chapter Summaries

Feng Li told Li Yao that the Full Sky Star Society, founded by people who revered his Sierra Leone identity Cao Tao, had been infiltrated and was becoming chaotic, but Li Yao showed little interest. Feng Li later discussed his gloomy mood with Madam Qian before trading insults with Wang Meiling at the bar.

• Feng Li asked Li Yao whether he knew the Full Sky Star Society and explained that its members followed Cao Tao, the identity he had used in Sierra Leone.
• Feng Li told Li Yao that the society had grown through financial operations but had been infiltrated by another organization, causing factions and disorder.
• Li Yao showed little concern about the society, and Feng Li left the tavern.
• Feng Li called Madam Qian and said Li Yao seemed depressed; Madam Qian advised her to give him time.
• Wang Meiling and Feng Li teased each other about love, appearance, and boyfriends at Midnight Bar.

Li Yao learned that the Full Sky Star Society had split into three factions competing for power, and Ginawell asked him to help address the crisis. After reviewing her report, he understood that the Old Guard Faction risked losing control to the Pro-American Faction or the Aristocratic Faction.

• After Feng Li left, Li Yao called Ginawell and asked whether the Full Sky Star Society had run into trouble.
• Ginawell told Li Yao that the society had formed an Upper Chamber and a Lower Chamber, and that regional members were pushing to limit the Upper Chamber's authority.
• Ginawell explained that the senior leadership planned to meet with regional representatives in Romania, and Li Yao asked her to email him a report.
• Li Yao read the report and learned that the society had split into the Old Guard Faction, the Pro-American Faction, and the Aristocratic Faction.
• Li Yao learned that the Pro-American and Aristocratic factions each held about thirty percent of the Lower Chamber, putting the Old Guard's control at risk.

After learning that the Full Sky Star Society conflict involved rival American and European supernatural factions, Li Yao discussed the situation with Big Sis Feng Li and considered traveling to Romania. He returned to the tavern with Cao Rui and Chen Tao, where Chen Tao asked whether he knew about Baby's Breath.

• Li Yao reviewed intelligence about the American Federation and considered why Big Sis Feng Li had shared it with him.
• Li Yao summoned Cao Rui and Chen Tao to the tavern and told them he had tasks for them.
• Li Yao told Big Sis Feng Li he planned to travel to Romania, and she explained that the Wallfacers had little capacity to influence the Full Sky Star Society.
• Big Sis Feng Li described Europe's major supernatural organizations and said Li Yao could use the Illuminati's and Secret Office's hostility toward American factions.
• Li Yao returned to the tavern with Cao Rui and Chen Tao, and Chen Tao asked whether he knew about Baby's Breath.

Li Yao learned that Cao Rui and Chen Tao were considering a partnership with Baby's Breath, an unfamiliar venture capital firm, and gave them five million to support their business. He asked them to look after his tavern while he took a long trip and warned them to limit contact with Baby's Breath.

• Chen Tao and Cao Rui told Li Yao that Baby's Breath had offered to cooperate with their training business, and they asked him about the firm's unclear background.
• Cao Rui explained that he and Chen Tao needed money, and Li Yao offered them five million without hesitation.
• Cao Rui teased Li Yao about Senior Sister, and Li Yao kicked him after Cao Rui made an inappropriate comment about a missing woman.
• Li Yao asked Chen Tao and Cao Rui to watch his tavern while he went on a long trip, and he warned them to have less contact with Baby's Breath.
• Chen Tao and Cao Rui left in Chen Tao's Toyota Camry, and Li Yao joked that he had no need for a car.

Li Yao left for Romania after arranging for others to run his tavern, while Feng Li suspected the Wallfacers had a larger plan for his trip. In Bucharest, he reached the contact’s restaurant and asked for Jiang Da Jin.

• Li Yao handed the tavern keys to Cao Rui and Chen Tao, then asked Feng Li about his trip to Romania.
• Feng Li gave Li Yao Jiang Da Jin’s contact details and offered to arrange a new identity; Madam Qian reassured Feng Li that Li Yao would be safe.
• Feng Li speculated that the organization might be using Li Yao as bait or as a distraction, then forwarded his identity information to Old He.
• Li Yao used the Shapeshifter Mask to take the appearance of Cao Tao and flew to Bucharest via Frankfurt.
• Li Yao arrived at Jinling Restaurant on Ana Ipătescu Street and asked the receptionist for Jiang Da Jin.

Li Yao met Jiang Da Jin, whose foreign appearance and enthusiastic Tianjin-accented Chinese surprised him. After sharing a meal, Li Yao asked about the Gifted in the area, and Jiang Da Jin promised to introduce him to an expert the next day.

• Li Yao arrived at Jiang Da Jin's establishment and was led to a private room.
• Jiang Da Jin greeted Li Yao in English before revealing that he was Chinese and speaking with a Tianjin accent.
• Jiang Da Jin ordered a meal, and he and Li Yao joked about how different regional dialects might mix.
• Li Yao asked Jiang Da Jin about the local Gifted, and Jiang Da Jin offered to introduce him to an expert the next day.
• Jiang Da Jin invited Li Yao to stay overnight and offered to arrange a woman for him.

Li Yao traveled with Jiang Da Jin to meet Selma, a Romanian contact with ties to the Wallfacers, and asked her to show him around while claiming he was conducting a secret investigation. Selma accepted that his story might be plausible but warned that her help would not be free.

• Li Yao ate breakfast with Jiang Da Jin, who advised him to avoid speaking Chinese in public and drove him through Bucharest.
• Jiang Da Jin brought Li Yao to meet Selma, nicknamed Witch, at her villa, which was filled with unusual plants.
• Selma ordered Jiang Da Jin to leave, and he obeyed while Li Yao laughed at their familiarity.
• Li Yao told Selma he had come to investigate instability in Romania and claimed the Wallfacers had assigned him to a secret investigation.
• Selma questioned why Li Yao had not visited the Wallfacers' local base and warned him that her help was not free.

Li Yao paid Selma to introduce him to Bucharest's influential gifted people, and she took him to the Fire Shark Bar. He passed the bar's psychic screening, but Jiang Da Jin was barred from the underground venue because he was an ordinary person.

• Li Yao transferred Selma two hundred thousand euros to guide him into the local circle of gifted people.
• Selma changed into punk clothes and took Li Yao and Jiang Da Jin to the Fire Shark Bar near Union Square.
• At the bar, Selma revealed a hidden underground entrance and identified herself with a card as a rabbit.
• Li Yao sensed the psychic energy in the guard's card and passed the entrance test by identifying its gray wolf.
• The guard refused to let Jiang Da Jin inside because only gifted people could enter, and Selma agreed that it was discrimination.

Li Yao entered Selma’s secret-room bar while Jiang Da Jin was left outside, and learned that the hallucinogenic venue welcomed Espers and stranger beings alike. Selma explained the bar’s chaotic inhabitants and rules as Li Yao explored.

• The entrance guard kept Jiang Da Jin out, and Selma led Li Yao through the inner door into the bar.
• Selma warned Li Yao that the mist contained hallucinogens, and he focused to stay clear-headed.
• Li Yao surveyed the bar’s chaotic layout and learned that its anarchist owner allowed anything short of causing trouble.
• Li Yao saw disturbing displays, including a volunteer being dismembered, and Selma explained that he had agreed to it.
• Selma identified the Qiao Qiao People as aberrants born from humans and aberrants, then called them mongrels.
• Selma explained that a vampire’s human companion was his blood slave, and Li Yao joked about bringing provisions into the bar.

Li Yao accompanied Selma through an underground bar where she planned to sell potions, and his jokes about recent news left her baffled. Selma warned him that the German Federation faction celebrating the attack on Notre Dame Cathedral belonged to the dangerous Schutzstaffel.

• Selma took Li Yao downstairs and told him to stay close while she sold potions.
• Li Yao saw men celebrating the attack on Notre Dame Cathedral and joked that Germany had done it to distract people from a Chinese Mercedes scandal.
• Selma mentioned that Al-Aqsa Mosque had also recently been burned, and Li Yao expressed surprise before agreeing with her rebuke about discrimination.
• Selma asked why Li Yao seemed to clap back at her, and he boasted that he had also clapped back at Feng Liyan, Guo Changshi, and Lu Xingshen.
• Selma changed the subject and warned Li Yao that the men were members affiliated with the Schutzstaffel, a radical German Federation supernatural faction.

Li Yao and Selma visited Fire Shark Bar, where Selma sold her potions and explained the rival German Esper factions and the bar’s protection. On the road back, Li Yao severed a mental attack aimed at Jiang Da Jin, then got out of the car and challenged the unseen attacker to show itself.

• Selma explained how Far North Land split after Germany’s defeat, leaving the Schutzstaffel as a radical Esper organization.
• Selma set up her potion stall at Fire Shark Bar and warned off a vampire who tried to buy her stock.
• Selma told Li Yao that Reso Kan'ersen, a Tier 6 Esper linked to the Golden Dawn Society, kept trouble away from the bar.
• Selma sold out her potions for nearly six hundred thousand euros, then she and Li Yao picked up Jiang Da Jin and headed back.
• Li Yao and Selma sensed a mental tendril trying to control Jiang Da Jin, so they stopped the car after Li Yao severed it.
• Li Yao got out and called for the unseen attacker to reveal itself while Selma followed him.

Li Yao and Selma faced Xisen and the Bloodhand Brotherhood on a dark road after their ambush was exposed. Selma prepared for battle while mistaking Li Yao’s casual provocations and advance for a brilliant tactical plan, and the chapter ended as he approached Xisen’s group.

• Li Yao taunted the hidden attackers while Selma explained that she needed three minutes to establish a combat stronghold.
• Xisen nearly charged at Li Yao, but his ally held him back while Moria checked for an ambush through several forms of divination.
• Xisen and seven others emerged from the woods, and Selma identified Xisen as a peak Tier 3 vampire and Garrett as a werewolf.
• Li Yao greeted Xisen and then walked toward the group, while Selma believed his actions were intimidating them and buying her time to prepare.
• Xisen and Garrett convinced themselves that Li Yao did not know the Bloodhand Brotherhood’s reputation, then Xisen threatened to kill him.

Li Yao questioned Xisen about vampires while Selma and the European metahumans prepared to fight. As Xisen’s group overwhelmed Selma, Li Yao released Sauron from the Life Core, and the demon king appeared ready to battle them.

• Li Yao asked Xisen about vampire traits, provoking him to order his companions to attack.
• Garrett, Moria, and the moon demon transformed and charged, while Selma fought them with thorny vines and pollen.
• Xisen threatened Selma with the First Embrace and promised to tear Li Yao apart, prompting Li Yao to draw his staff.
• Li Yao released Sauron from the Life Core and ordered him to fight, despite Sauron’s angry protests.
• When Xisen’s group dismissed Sauron as a magic cat, Sauron transformed into a crowned demon king and challenged Xisen to repeat his threat.

Li Yao and Sauron subdued Xisen and the European superhumans, with Sauron beating them even after they surrendered. Li Yao questioned Xisen about vampire abilities and left him protesting that he could do neither of the things Li Yao asked about.

• Xisen and the other European superhumans surrendered, but Sauron refused to accept and beat them with his greatsword and Dark Flame Shadow Guard.
• Li Yao stopped Sauron, who accidentally—or deliberately—hit Xisen once more before turning into a black cat and jumping onto Selma's shoulder.
• Sauron persuaded Li Yao not to send a photo of him to Xiao Zhao by pointing out that he had brought twelve European superhumans for Li Yao.
• Li Yao questioned the injured Xisen about turning into a giant bat, growing giant bat wings, and shining in the sun, and Xisen denied being able to do any of them.

Li Yao stayed at Selma's villa after helping capture Xisen and his companions, then discussed the differences between Earth's vampires and the Main World's Blood Clan with Lin Xiaowei. He agreed to collect vampire blood for her research and asked Jiang Da Jin to buy the biggest syringes he could find.

• Li Yao and Jiang Da Jin brought twelve captives, including Xisen, to Selma's villa and tied them up in the basement under a Dark Flame Shadow Guard's watch.
• Selma offered Li Yao and Jiang Da Jin guest rooms, and Li Yao spent the night practicing alchemy, studying spell models, and meditating.
• Selma sat by the fireplace after showering and wondered whether she should ask Li Yao for help.
• Li Yao ate breakfast, sent Lin Xiaowei photos of the vampires, and explained that Earth's vampires differed from the undead Blood Clan of the Main World.
• Lin Xiaowei asked Li Yao to collect vampire blood samples to research daylight resistance, and he asked Jiang Da Jin to buy him large syringes.

Li Yao interrogated Xisen and the captured members of the Bloodhand Brotherhood, then bound them to him with a Slavery Contract. The group agreed to follow him, but Li Yao picked up the enormous syringe again and Xisen screamed.

• Jiang Da Jin gave Li Yao an enormous syringe from a veterinary clinic, and Li Yao carried it to the basement.
• Xisen panicked at the sight of the syringe and confessed that he had formed the Bloodhand Brotherhood with young members of several ancient European powers.
• Xisen told Li Yao that the twelve-member brotherhood had carried out bloody incidents in Europe and recently received a test mission invitation from the Schutzstaffel.
• Li Yao questioned Xisen and the others about European organizations, then made them press their fingerprints onto a compulsory Slavery Contract.
• After Li Yao burned the contract, Xisen and the others felt compelled to obey him and pledged to follow him.
• Li Yao told Xisen to wait and picked up the syringe again, prompting Xisen to scream in terror.

Li Yao and Selma headed to the Dacians Club to seek Balder’s Mistletoe, but they arrived as a battle erupted at the manor. Four holy-power fighters detonated themselves to escape capture, and Li Yao recorded the blast while Selma protected them both.

• Li Yao drew blood from Xisen and the other captives, exchanged the samples with Lin Xiaowei, and secured the rest for Maeve.
• Selma paid Li Yao four million and asked him to help obtain Balder’s Mistletoe from the Schutzstaffel’s Romania Division.
• Li Yao called Xisen and the others upstairs, and they pledged to support Selma’s mission while Jiang Da Jin stayed to watch them.
• Li Yao and Selma drove toward the Dacians Club, but an explosion shook the manor and woodland before they arrived.
• At the manor, four fighters wielding holy white power were overwhelmed by a larger group, then stabbed themselves with silver crosses and detonated.
• Selma shielded herself with vines while Li Yao calmly filmed the explosion on his phone.

After a violent Esper self-destruction at the Dacians Club estate, Selma was astonished when Li Yao remained protected from the spiritual radiation. Li Yao sent the footage to Feng Li, who gave him command of the Wallfacers’ covert European special operations group and told him to come home safely.

• The Esper explosion tore craters into the Dacians Club estate and sent dangerous spiritual radiation across the area.
• Selma sensed that Li Yao’s protections weakened the radiation around him, leaving him and her plants nearly untouched.
• Li Yao recorded the explosion and sent the video to Feng Li, joking that he deserved an award and bonus for providing intelligence.
• Feng Li rebuked Li Yao when he tried to negotiate prices for goods supplied to the Wallfacers.
• Feng Li told Li Yao that his temporary command of the Wallfacer Euro Division Special Operations Group had been approved and urged him to come home early.

Li Yao met with Ginawell and Lothar to learn about the attack on their organization and Ginawell’s plan to purge its European and American dissenters. The story left him receiving a mission from Xisen to attack a Pro-American Faction stronghold in Romania and being asked whether they should go.

• Li Yao left the Dacians Club with Selma and invited Ginawell and Lothar to meet him at Union Square.
• Ginawell and Lothar told Li Yao that Baby’s Breath had grown wealthy and powerful since their time in the Sierra Leone subspace.
• Ginawell explained that Church Knights Templar members had attacked them at the Dacians Club amid a growing divide within the organization.
• Ginawell said she intended to use the Upper Chamber’s authority to expel dissenters, while Lothar warned that outside forces were also involved.
• Xisen called Li Yao with a Schutzstaffel mission to attack a Pro-American Faction stronghold in Romania and asked whether they should go.

Li Yao learned that Xisen and his group had been assigned by the Schutzstaffel to attack the Pro-American Faction in Bucharest, and he planned to use the clash to weaken both sides. After enchanting their weapons and renaming their group the Red Gloves, he sent them off for the operation with one demand: they had to return alive.

• Li Yao connected the Schutzstaffel's planned attack in Romania to its hostility toward the American Federation and decided to turn the coming conflict against both the Schutzstaffel and the Pro-American Faction.
• Xisen told Li Yao that the Schutzstaffel had ordered the group to strike tomorrow, and Li Yao arranged for Ginawell to make a strong statement once Bucharest grew chaotic.
• Li Yao offered to improve Xisen and the others' weapons, then enchanted their twelve custom-made weapons overnight with durability, sharpness, and spellbreaking effects.
• After testing the upgraded weapons, Xisen and the others refused to stand while Li Yao spoke, so he told them to sit and ordered them to come back alive.
• Li Yao renamed Xisen's group the Red Gloves, and Xisen and the others left for their operation in Bucharest.