Chapter Summaries

After a snowplow driver died in a cold wave, Wenren Sheng identified the Sea Eye’s surviving power as the likely culprit and suspected it had help from someone inside the Patrol Division’s reach. He persuaded the Dongshui Patrol Division to prepare a major response, then urged Division Chief An to report the threat to higher-ups immediately.

• Wenren Sheng told Zhao Han that the Sea Eye had escaped the earlier operation and that its revenge had caused the fatal cold wave.
• Wenren Sheng suspected a powerful ally had helped the Sea Eye evade the Patrol Division and vowed to catch the murderer.
• Inspector Liu said the Division Chief had summoned them to report the situation at the division.
• Wenren Sheng told Division Chief An that the Sea Eye’s remnant power was behind the accident and rejected a team of only ten Black Shirts.
• Division Chief An arranged two hundred Black Shirts, three Mystery Experts, three fighter jets, and a transport plane for reconnaissance.
• Wenren Sheng urged Division Chief An to report the threat to higher-ups at once, and An made the call.

Wenren Sheng flew north to join a Patrol Division hunter team investigating the escaped Sea Eye’s remaining power, which had received secret American support. On the way, he spotted a cursed mountain range and grew wary of Brother Bu’s disregard for human life before the team reached a massive iceberg.

• Director An sent Wenren Sheng north and worried that he would face hostility and trials, while Inspector Liu teased him before hurrying off to patrol.
• Wenren Sheng arrived at Senhai Port and met Wang Binyuan and the hunter team led by Brother Bu, who said the Sea Eye had escaped with secret American assistance.
• Brother Bu disparaged the Black Shirts and their frontline forces, while Wang Binyuan explained that Brother Bu had an Ancestral Seed and an early Master Level evaluation.
• During the flight, Wenren Sheng sensed resentment in the fog-shrouded Husband-Burying Ridge on Qi Ya Mountain and recognized it from Meng Lin’s invitation letter.
• Brother Bu dismissed the danger of cursed places and the lives of people who might approach them, and Wenren Sheng guided the plane to a massive iceberg over a hundred meters tall.

Wenren Sheng joined the Hunter Team at an iceberg hiding a fragment of the Sea Eye, then opposed their plan to use Black Shirts as expendable bait. He stayed to fight alongside the official personnel, leaving the hunters baffled and raising his Mystery Points limit to 255.

• Wenren Sheng led the team to the iceberg, where the hunters confirmed that a fragment of the Sea Eye was hidden beneath it.
• Bu Fan called for reinforcements, and Wang Binyuan warned Wenren Sheng that the hunters intended to use Black Shirts to wear down the enemy before striking.
• The Black Shirts began drilling into the ice, and Wenren Sheng sensed the fragment was disturbed and warned the front line to be careful.
• Bu Fan told Wenren Sheng to leave, but Wenren Sheng asserted his right as a Patrol Division consultant to fight alongside the official personnel and walked toward the iceberg.
• Wenren Sheng's actions puzzled the hunters and Wang Binyuan, increasing his Mystery Points limit by 13 to 255.

SEP officers debated how to use the weakened Sea Eye remnant against the Divine Land team, and Tucker proposed using Schrödinger's Cat to foil their Prophecy Arts. Beneath the iceberg, Wenren Sheng insisted on joining the Black Shirts’ emergency operation and offered to strengthen them through resonance.

• Tucker and Major George argued over whether to abandon the Sea Eye remnant, while Steve urged them to avoid internal division and provoking the Divine Land.
• Tucker proposed creating a false target and using SEP’s Schrödinger’s Cat technique to prevent the Divine Land experts from identifying the real Sea Eye remnant.
• Steve praised Tucker’s solution, and the other officers celebrated its potential to protect SEP’s technology; George resented Tucker’s acclaim.
• Wenren Sheng approached the Black Shirts beneath the iceberg and offered to use the Seven Emotions Resonance Method to improve their strength and efficiency.
• The Black Shirt captain told Wenren Sheng that Mystery Experts should stay back, but Wenren Sheng insisted he could make the Black Shirts more valuable.

Wenren Sheng helped the Black Shirts track the Disaster Eye, but its signals split and began shifting unpredictably. Bu Fan’s team tried to use the Great Prophecy Art to locate it, only for the ritual to be disrupted, and Bu Fan ordered them to find whoever was interfering.

• The Black Shirts captain accepted Wenren Sheng’s help and assigned him to monitor the Disaster Eye alongside the reconnaissance team.
• Wenren Sheng sensed the Disaster Eye’s Soul Fragments split into two groups, then watched their signals merge and become unstable as he used Alien Power to steady them.
• Bu Fan saw that the Black Shirts could no longer track the Disaster Eye and ordered his team to perform the Great Prophecy Art.
• Three White Robes completed the triangular ritual, but its colored mists separated before the prophecy could reveal the target.
• A masked woman blamed the interference on the Americans, and Bu Fan ordered his team to find and kill whoever was opposing him.

Wenren Sheng used Master Level Soul Manipulation Art to find the Americans behind the lost Sea Eye remnant and attack their crew’s souls, allowing the Black Shirts to detect and target their submarine. As the submarine came under attack, its privileged Otherworldly Users fled while Lieutenant Colonel Steve remained aboard.

• After the Great Prophecy Art and Soul Manipulation Art failed to track the Sea Eye remnant, Wenren Sheng sensed the living souls nearby and identified the Americans by elimination.
• Wenren Sheng used his Alien Power to crush the exposed Spirit Bodies of the Americans’ ordinary subordinates without directly attacking their protected leaders.
• A Black Shirt detected a Deep Sea Submarine, and the Black Shirts’ Captain ordered an immediate attack to sink it.
• The submarine’s crew reported that a mysterious attack had incapacitated nearly all of its departments and that anti-submarine missiles were incoming.
• Major George fled through the Torpedo Escape Device, and Lieutenant Colonel Steve urged Lieutenant Tucker to escape before secretly sneering as Tucker left him behind.

Steve escaped the submarine in a concealed deep-sea submersible while Wenren Sheng and the Black Shirts pursued the fleeing Otherworldly Users. After the Sea Eye Remnant was sealed and the survivors captured, the incident ended, but one enemy escaped and the captors began arguing over their interrogation.

• Steve detached the captain’s cabin from the submarine and used the transformed submersible to crawl across the seabed toward a broken mast.
• Wenren Sheng tracked the fleeing Spirit Bodies, but one vanished after transferring the concealment method from the Sea Eye Remnant onto himself.
• The Black Shirts and hunters sealed the Sea Eye Remnant and captured five surviving Americans beneath an iceberg.
• Major George blamed Tucker for the Sea Eye Remnant’s survival techniques, and Bu Fan tried to bargain for information about Schrödinger’s Cat.
• The Black Shirts Captain insisted on identifying the escaped enemy before the captives were taken away for interrogation.
• Wenren Sheng received the incident-completion notification and privately considered ways to gain Mystery Points through his Healing Art.

Wenren Sheng returned from the Land of the Far North, declined Inspector Liu’s suggestion to join the Ancestral Seed project, and attended a peaceful tea party at the Zhao Family Villa. The gathering ended without incident, though talk of unrest elsewhere hinted that calm might not last.

• Wenren Sheng returned home and told Inspector Liu he would not join the Ancestral Seed project, though he accepted an invitation to teach new Otherworldly Users in exchange for studying a secret skill.
• Zhao Han took Little Phoenix and Wenwen to the tea party, while Wenren Sheng considered training them as scout and tank teammates.
• Wenren Sheng joined his family and guests at the Zhao Family Villa, where Inoue Shizuko served him tea and President Zhao chatted with Inoue Hiroshi about Heita’s future.
• President Zhao raised a toast to everyone safely making it through winter, and Wang Wenwen enjoyed Inoue Shizuko’s pastries.
• Inoue Hiroshi reported that a General was near death and his sons were competing for his position, while the gathering passed peacefully and everyone went home.

Wenren Sheng taught his family mysterious skills while preparing to train new Otherworldly Users, and Wang Wenwen’s mother arrived to take her to visit her grandfather. Wang Wenwen’s newly obedient attitude surprised Wang Cuiyan as they prepared to leave for two days.

• Wenren Sheng taught Zhao Han, Wang Wenwen, and Ouyang Ling at home, while Wang Wenwen advanced quickly in Mystic Soul Summoning.
• Wang Wenwen and Zhao Han pampered Wenren Sheng, but Wu Shanshan reminded him about New Year visits and he decided to visit his master himself.
• Wenren Sheng told Zhao Han that Director Li wanted trained students to help handle frequent incidents, prompting her to vow she would master the skill within a week.
• Wang Cuiyan arrived with a gift and invited Wang Wenwen to visit her grandfather for two days.
• Wang Cuiyan was surprised when Wang Wenwen obediently agreed to go with her.

Wenren Sheng went to the Patrol Division to study and teach at a public training course for new Otherworldly Users. After hearing the students dismiss the lessons and discuss fleeing abroad with their Otherworldly Species, he judged some of them to be scum.

• Inspector Liu drove Wenren Sheng to the Patrol Division and warned him to show Divine Land’s bearing to foreign observers.
• Wenren Sheng received five training books and chose to study the restricted Mysterious Stealth Art because it had the highest learning threshold.
• After studying the materials for a day, Wenren Sheng began teaching two afternoon classes at the public training course.
• Wenren Sheng listened as new Otherworldly Users complained about the lessons and discussed escapees who took their Otherworldly Species abroad.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that some students resented Divine Land’s strength despite benefiting from it.

Wenren Sheng taught the new Otherworldly Users and learned that many of them wanted to flee Divine Land for the freedoms and privileges offered abroad. Inspector Liu urged him to join the Patrol Division and revealed that Divine Land’s leaders needed to know he was trustworthy before placing greater power in his hands, while Wenren Sheng returned home resolved to protect the peaceful life there.

• Wenren Sheng taught the new Otherworldly Users, impressing his students and foreign auditors with his clear explanations and apparent potential to reach Nation-Protecting Level.
• Wenren Sheng overheard foreign auditors discuss Divine Land’s strength and warn that their countries could not afford to provoke it.
• Inspector Liu drove Wenren Sheng home and explained that many newly awakened Otherworldly Users were fleeing abroad, drawn by private ownership of Otherworldly Species.
• Wenren Sheng rejected Inspector Liu’s offer to join the Patrol Division, and Inspector Liu said core power had to be entrusted to people who were trustworthy and grateful.
• Wenren Sheng realized that Divine Land’s leaders were testing his loyalty before allowing him closer to the center of power, then returned home to his peaceful household.

Wenren Sheng accepted Inspector Liu's request to help recover two thirty-four-year-old Otherworldly Users who had fled with an auditing student. As their destroyer headed northeast, Wenren Sheng learned the group had vanished and that the tracking system could be evaded, possibly with the help of an unusual Otherworldly User.

• Ouyang Ling asked Wenren Sheng for help improving her painting, and he promised to give her extra tutoring in a month or two.
• Wenren Sheng learned that Zhao Han and Wang Wenwen planned to intern at the East Tomb County Public Security Bureau.
• Inspector Liu told Wenren Sheng that two Otherworldly Users and an auditing student had fled, and Wenren Sheng agreed to assist in the search.
• Wenren Sheng and Inspector Liu boarded a destroyer and learned the fugitives had disappeared after leaving their fishing vessel.
• Wenren Sheng realized the two domestic fugitives had evaded the tracking system and learned that the auditing student's unusual Otherworldly User might be responsible.
• Inspector Liu admitted the tracking system had flaws but said he would deny them publicly.

Wenren Sheng and Inspector Liu stopped an American merchant ship for inspection while pursuing three fugitives headed for East Island. After reviewing a bar recording, Wenren Sheng recognized Chu Tong’s resentment over losing his Otherworldly User and planned to use it to lure the fugitives out.

• Inspector Liu ordered the destroyer to stop and inspect the merchant ship, explaining that the loss of an Otherworldly User required the highest level of response.
• Inspectors searched the merchant ship for over two hours, then allowed it to continue on its way.
• Wenren Sheng reviewed the investigation and learned that Prophecy Art had placed the three fugitives on a route toward East Island, though their destination remained unknown.
• Wenren Sheng watched a recording in which Chu Tong envied Tianbian Ji’s inherited Otherworldly User and resented that his own would soon be lost.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that Chu Tong’s greed and resentment could be exploited to lure the fugitives out.

Wenren Sheng proposed using whatever the fugitives sought on East Island to lure them into a trap, and Inspector Liu agreed to investigate. Meanwhile, Kong Baiyu, Zhu Tong, and Tianbian Ji hid aboard an American merchant ship, where Tianbian Ji revealed his political motives as they continued their escape.

• Wenren Sheng explained to Inspector Liu that the fugitives’ interest in East Island could reveal what to use as bait, and Inspector Liu agreed to coordinate an investigation there.
• Wenren Sheng returned to practicing his mysterious skills while the Patrol Division pursued the leads he had proposed.
• Kong Baiyu, Zhu Tong, and Tianbian Ji crawled aboard the merchant ship through a sea valve after it had been inspected on the high seas.
• Kong Baiyu regretted fleeing Divine Land, while Zhu Tong asked why Tianbian Ji had joined them despite having little to lose.
• Tianbian Ji said he wanted East Island to change masters and rise, while privately judging Kong Baiyu and Zhu Tong as selfish and vulnerable once they left Divine Land.

Wenren Sheng realized that Tianbian Ji and the two Otherworldly Users had escaped aboard an American merchant ship using advanced concealment technology, and he ordered an interception. The fugitives learned that an American submarine would pick them up, but Zhu Tong heard a warship approaching as Tianbian Ji mysteriously vanished.

• Wenren Sheng read that Tianbian Ji had joined Heaven's Mandate Society to pursue modernization and suspected the American merchant ship they had inspected was involved.
• Wenren Sheng told Inspector Liu that the fugitives were heading to America and that Schrödinger's Cat concealment technology had defeated their tracking and prophecy abilities.
• Inspector Liu decided to mobilize an interception at sea and ask America to help stop the ship.
• Aboard the merchant ship, Tianbian Ji explained that they would transfer to an American submarine, while keeping the true purpose of their voyage from Zhu Tong and Kong Baiyu.
• Zhu Tong heard a warship approaching from ahead, and Tianbian Ji vanished while he and Kong Baiyu discussed the danger.

Wenren Sheng advised Tokugawa Ieyuki to prevent future Otherworldly User rebellions by concealing class divisions, centering society on inherited Otherworldly Users, and opening limited paths for commoners. After the banquet, Wenren Sheng and Inspector Liu interrogated the captured fugitives, and Zhu Tong revealed that Tianbian Ji had promised them American concealment technology.

• Tokugawa Ieyuki thanked Wenren Sheng and vowed to destroy the Heaven's Mandate Society and the Tianbian Clan, but Wenren Sheng warned that mass punishment would only fuel resentment.
• Wenren Sheng presented his three-part strategy of concealing class differences, making Otherworldly Users the social core, and recruiting exceptional commoners through limited advancement.
• Tokugawa Ieyuki and his attendants applauded Wenren Sheng's proposal, then hosted him and Inspector Liu at a banquet aboard the ship.
• Wenren Sheng and Inspector Liu worked through the night, captured Zhu Tong, Kong Baiyu, and Tianbian Ji, and began broadcasting their interrogations.
• Zhu Tong told Inspector Liu that Tianbian Ji had lured the fugitives with American concealment technology, and Inspector Liu ordered Kong Baiyu brought in next.

Kong Baiyu confessed that Tianbian Ji had lured him into fleeing by promising American technology could evade mysterious tracking. After reflecting on why people resisted losing their Otherworldly Abilities, Wenren Sheng affirmed the stripping ordinance as essential to Divine Land’s system, and he and Inspector Liu prepared to interrogate Tianbian Ji.

• Kong Baiyu admitted he had trusted Tianbian Ji’s claim that Schrödinger’s Cat could defeat mysterious tracking and explained how Tianbian Ji had gradually persuaded him to flee.
• Inspector Liu promised Kong Baiyu a fair disposition and said he would survive, though he would face severe punishment; Kong Baiyu expressed regret and was taken away.
• Wenren Sheng and Inspector Liu discussed how losing an Otherworldly Ability drove people to desperation and agreed that the problem could produce more fugitives.
• Wenren Sheng reasoned that the ordinance stripping abilities from those who failed to become experts by thirty-five was fundamental to Divine Land’s talent-selection system.
• Inspector Liu called for Tianbian Ji’s interrogation, and Wenren Sheng said he wanted to learn how the Americans had persuaded him.

Wenren Sheng challenged Tianbian Ji’s defense of America’s money-based system, arguing that Divine Land’s broader opportunities had helped him rise. Tianbian Ji revealed that he had joined Heaven’s Mandate Society after his father’s men killed Inoue Yoko, and Wenren Sheng grew suspicious of a possible connection to Inoue Shizuko.

• Wenren Sheng questioned Tianbian Ji about America’s society and its response to a Mysterious Disaster, using a tragic evacuation story to challenge his belief that money determined who deserved to survive.
• Wenren Sheng argued that Divine Land’s system of giving people opportunities had enabled him to emerge, leaving Tianbian Ji silent.
• Inspector Liu asked Tianbian Ji why he had abandoned his comfortable life and Otherworldly User to join Heaven’s Mandate Society, but Tianbian Ji refused to reveal the society’s purpose.
• Tianbian Ji explained that he had loved his classmate Inoue Yoko, whom his father’s men pushed into a well and whose death they made look like suicide.
• Wenren Sheng noticed that Inoue Yoko’s name reminded him of Inoue Shizuko and suspected the resemblance might not be a coincidence.

Tianbian Ji was drawn into madness when Inoue Yoko emerged from a screen, but Wenren Sheng discovered that the ghost was a constructed mysterious lifeform and used Soul Manipulation Art to question him. Tianbian Ji revealed the American concealment technology behind the scheme, leaving Inspector Liu with the information he needed.

• Tianbian Ji explained that he had joined Heaven's Mandate Society to destroy the world he blamed for Yezi's death.
• Inoue Yoko appeared through the screen, convinced Tianbian Ji that the Otherworldly User had deceived them, and drew him toward her before a Mystery Expert intervened.
• Wenren Sheng identified Inoue Yoko as a Calamity Eye Remnant Spirit and learned that a new chain mystery event had begun.
• Wenren Sheng and Inspector Liu flew to the aircraft carrier, where Wenren Sheng used Soul Manipulation Art to restore Tianbian Ji's ability to answer questions.
• Tianbian Ji revealed that his plot helped the Americans test Schrödinger's Cat, a concealment technology that countered mysterious investigative methods.
• Inspector Liu finished questioning Tianbian Ji and thanked Wenren Sheng for his help.

Wenren Sheng received two activation recommendation slots and decided to use one to help Ouyang Tian, while making sure he chose an Otherworldly Species without severe side effects. After joking about Ouyang Tian studying with a beautiful companion, Wenren Sheng teased Wu Shanshan and named his father as someone suited to the arrangement.

• Inspector Liu told Wenren Sheng that Tianbian Ji and his son had lost their Otherworldly Species and that Wenren Sheng had earned two activation recommendation slots.
• Wenren Sheng considered Ouyang Tian's need for protection and called to offer him one of the two opportunities.
• Ouyang Tian said he was studying Otherworldly Species basics with a female companion, and Wenren Sheng promised to check which species were available.
• Wenren Sheng warned Ouyang Tian about species with harmful side effects, and Ouyang Tian named the Seed of Joy and the Love Seed as preferable choices.
• Wu Shanshan appeared and asked whether Wenren Sheng wanted a woman to attend him while he studied; he refused her offer and suggested his father instead.
• Wenren De sneezed while reading in the Front Yard and wondered if someone was plotting against him.