Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng agreed to review Xu Rong’s research on combining a targeted drug with Mysterious Power, while Yan Ze arrived seeking a share of a miraculous drug and argued that its benefits should be reserved for potential Otherworldly Users. Yan Ze left after clashing with Xu Rong, and Wenren Sheng told her and Ouyang Tian that Yan Ze had come for him.

• Xu Rong showed Wenren Sheng a vial of her experimental drug and sent him the technical materials after he agreed to study them.
• Yan Ze visited Wenren Sheng and said the Sole Supremacy Society wanted a share of the miraculous drug.
• Xu Rong described her goal of industrializing her drug to benefit Ordinary People, and Yan Ze called her outlook naive.
• Yan Ze argued that valuable drugs should be reserved for Divine Land citizens with the potential to become Otherworldly Users.
• Xu Rong defended her belief that everyone should have the chance to live well, and Yan Ze left after dismissing her ideals.
• Wenren Sheng told Ouyang Tian and Xu Rong that Yan Ze had come for him, not them.

Wenren Sheng bought Xu Rong’s research for two million and approved of her character while cautioning Ouyang Tian about rushing into a relationship. Back home, he began cultivating Mystic Defense Art and headed to South Sea Surging Wave Island to train against the waves, despite Old Wu’s warning to complete the prerequisites first.

• Wenren Sheng offered Xu Rong two million for her samples and research materials, and she asked him to send half the fee to her mentor, Professor Thomson.
• Wenren Sheng transferred one million to Xu Rong and collected Professor Thomson’s private information before leaving the café.
• Ouyang Tian told Wenren Sheng he wanted to have children with Xu Rong, and Wenren Sheng warned him not to rush into marriage or family plans.
• Wenren Sheng chose Mystic Defense Art as his first combat skill to cultivate and decided to begin with Great Wave Impact.
• Wenren Sheng called Wu Liansong, who recommended South Sea Surging Wave Island but warned him to master the prerequisites before facing the waves.
• Wenren Sheng dismissed Wu Liansong’s warning and said he was going to the island to train.

Wenren Sheng gathered his companions and traveled to the Archipelago District to train Defense Art and reach a reef with towering waves. Teacher Qin met them on a tropical island and offered a Big Shark to carry Wenren Sheng to the training site.

• Wenren Sheng arranged leave, and Wang Wenwen and Zhao Han decided to learn Defense Art with him.
• Ouyang Tian found a location near two equatorial islands where waves exceeded ten meters, and Wenren Sheng asked Teacher Qin to receive the group.
• Wenren Sheng and his companions flew to the Archipelago District and met Teacher Qin on a tropical beach, where Wenren Sheng gave him Dongshui Daqu.
• Teacher Qin explained that the reef lay five kilometers away amid dangerous currents and waves, so Wenren Sheng asked to borrow a Big Shark for transport.
• Teacher Qin summoned Big Shark, frightening swimmers from the water, then invited the group to eat seafood while Big White swam nearby.

Wenren Sheng and his companions learned that abnormal creatures had begun appearing in the nearby waters, then traveled with Teacher Qin to Coral Reef to train in its dangerous currents. Wenren Sheng entered the water while Big White stayed in calmer waters nearby.

• Wenren Sheng noticed Teacher Qin's warning that sharks had been sighted, and the group ate at a seafood restaurant where a fried crab clamped onto a tourist's lip.
• Teacher Qin explained that abnormal creatures had appeared in the nearby waters and that the restaurant's food might be affected, though Zhao Han's crab was safe.
• After the meal, Teacher Qin took Big White and Wenren Sheng, Zhao Han, and Wang Wenwen to Coral Reef, observing that Big White was unusually attached to Wenren Sheng.
• At Coral Reef, Wang Wenwen explained how danger could strengthen an Otherworldly User, and the group prepared to train in the currents.
• Wenren Sheng told Big White to work hard, then jumped into the water and swam toward Coral Reef.

Wenren Sheng and his companions trained against the waves while Wang Wenwen noticed that sea creatures nearby seemed to be celebrating an imminent birth of an alien species. Wenren Sheng informed Teacher Qin, giving up the chance to claim the discovery himself so the Patrol Division could secure it for Divine Land.

• Wenren Sheng chose to cultivate in the natural waves, while Zhao Han and Wang Wenwen trained in calmer water nearby.
• Wang Wenwen said her Defense Art was already protecting her, but Zhao Han felt her alien species withdrawing its power; a narration revealed that its apparent contempt was meant to spur Zhao Han to improve.
• Wenren Sheng drove his Seed of Mystery to shield his skin from the waves and considered how to expand its Mystery Points capacity.
• Wang Wenwen sensed that sea creatures gathering to the south were rejoicing over a great opportunity, and Wenren Sheng realized a new alien species might soon be born nearby.
• Wenren Sheng called Teacher Qin and reported the discovery in international waters, explaining that he wanted the alien species to end up in the hands of someone from Divine Land.

Wenren Sheng headed toward a newly discovered Otherworldly Seed after reporting it to the Patrol Division, while a group of Kande natives approached the same waters hoping to claim it. The chapter ended with Kandang pleading for help and Wenren Sheng considering the natives’ apparent hardship.

• Wenren Sheng told Teacher Qin about the Otherworldly Seed, then rode a great white shark south with Zhao Han and Wang Wenwen while Teacher Qin went to request naval support.
• Wang Wenwen admired Wenren Sheng for reporting the Seed instead of claiming it, unaware that he valued the trust and future opportunities the report could bring more than immediate ownership.
• Master Kandang and Dewei led two fishing boats toward the Seed, discussing their desire for Kande independence and planning to persuade any Divine Land mystery seed user to leave it to them.
• Wenren Sheng met Kandang at the gathering of sea creatures, and Kandang greeted him humbly while concealing his group’s plans.
• Kandang lamented the natives’ lack of protection from sea disasters, prompting Zhao Han to sympathize and Wenren Sheng to fall silent in thought.

Wenren Sheng rejected Kandang’s attempt to claim the Newborn Otherworldly Species and warned him to submit it for centralized allocation. Afterward, Kandang and Dewei plotted to stir up resentment and use commoners to pressure Divine Land into abandoning control of the frontier, while Deli recognized that Kandang’s real ambition was personal rule.

• Wenren Sheng offered to relocate the natives inland, but Kandang insisted that they be given the mystic seed instead.
• Wenren Sheng rebuked Kandang and ordered him to submit the Otherworldly Species for centralized allocation, causing Kandang to back down.
• In the cabin, Kandang blamed Dewei for his failed appeal, and Dewei proposed using lowborn commoners to provoke unrest while they stayed out of sight.
• Dewei suggested manufacturing incidents to exhaust Divine Land, and Kandang approved the plan despite Deli’s warning that their own people would suffer.
• Kandang defended independence by citing a past disaster and delayed rescue, while Deli concluded that Kandang sought power for himself rather than freedom for his people.

Wenren Sheng and Teacher Qin oversaw a naval blockade around an Alien Power expected to emerge at sea, while local leaders plotted to bring Nikan into the dispute. Three days later, Wang Wenwen fished aboard the Command Ship as the group waited for the Alien Power to appear.

• Wenren Sheng met Teacher Qin, discussed the need for stronger governance and technological surveillance, and watched destroyers blockade the waters around the gathering fish.
• Dewei persuaded Master Kandang to contact Nikan, then called Colonel Steve and urged him to send Nikan forces to seize the opportunity.
• The natives expected Nikan and Divine Land to clash over the Alien Power and planned to profit from their conflict.
• Three days later, Wang Wenwen caught enormous deep-sea fish from the Command Ship, while Zhao Han reminded her that the group had come to absorb the Alien Power's radiated energy.

After Deli warned Wenren Sheng and Teacher Qin that Kandang and Dewei were conspiring with Da Luo Country and America over the Otherworldly Emergence, Teacher Qin mobilized the fleet and sought reinforcements. Wenren Sheng refused evacuation as the American fleet approached, while Wang Wenwen and Zhao Han were sent to safety.

• Wang Wenwen reeled Deli out of the sea, and he told Wenren Sheng and Teacher Qin that Kandang and Dewei planned to rebel with foreign support and that an American fleet was coming.
• Teacher Qin ordered Captain He to scout for the American fleet and contacted the Archipelago District Patrol Division for support.
• Wenren Sheng refused Teacher Qin's offer to send him back, but arranged for Wang Wenwen and Zhao Han to evacuate to the rear base.
• Wang Wenwen and Zhao Han departed by seaplane, worried that Wenren Sheng would face danger in the coming battle.

Wenren Sheng was ordered back from the front under rules restricting Mystery Experts, but he sought a way to rejoin the battle by learning Puppet Manipulation within a week. After reading an introductory book, he realized that mastering the technique alone would not qualify him to operate modern warships.

• Wenren De sent Wenren Sheng a poem urging vigilance and dedication to national peace, and Wenren Sheng reassured him that he was safe.
• The Supreme Patrol Division ordered Wenren Sheng to return to the rear base because Mystery Experts could not enter frontline battlefields except in critical emergencies.
• Teacher Qin told Wenren Sheng he might still join the battle if he learned Mystic Horsemanship and Puppet Manipulation within a week.
• Wenren Sheng asked for a teacher, and a Black Shirts Captain he knew gave him an introductory book on combining Mysterious Puppets with remote-control technology.
• Wenren Sheng quickly read and understood the book, then realized that learning Puppet Manipulation alone would not give him the operational knowledge needed to take the field.

Wenren Sheng mastered Puppet Manipulation and completed his combat training, then volunteered for duty as Divine Land prepared to confront America’s approaching Ocean Fleet. He joined a four-person team at the base to prepare for the battlefield.

• The Black Shirts Captain explained how a few Mystic Cores could control many puppet robots by dividing their attention among tasks.
• Wenren Sheng grasped how Otherworldly Users could enhance weak AI and spent the week studying Puppet Manipulation and warship operations.
• Wenren Sheng’s Extraordinary Memory improved to Intermediate Level on the third day, and he spent his Mystery Points to strengthen it further.
• After Wenren Sheng mastered Puppet Manipulation, the Black Shirts Captain certified him for combat duty, and Teacher Qin arranged his deployment against America’s Ocean Fleet.
• Wenren Sheng reported to a combat room, where he met four teammates and began preparing for the battlefield.

An American carrier group tested Divine Land’s defenses while Colonel Steve urged caution, and Wenren Sheng monitored a destroyer during the confrontation. After Divine Land lost track of the enemy through electronic and mysterious interference, Sea Beast No. 1 located the carriers and forced them to retreat.

• Colonel Steve warned the rear admiral commander that Divine Land would fight rather than yield, and the commander halted the fleet to negotiate after receiving a warning to stay outside the defense perimeter.
• Steve explained that he had provided intelligence to enable a technical confrontation, not to support a reckless attack.
• Wenren Sheng watched over a destroyer from the combat room as the Mystic Core’s puppet robots performed shipboard duties.
• The enemy’s electronic and mysterious interference defeated the destroyer’s countermeasures, causing it to lose track of the American fleet.
• Divine Land deployed Sea Beast No. 1, which locked onto the American aircraft carriers and prompted the enemy fleet to retreat.

After the battle, Wenren Sheng learned that the Divine Land's hidden trump card was a Nation-Protecting Beast raised over thousands of years, then returned to practicing Defense Art. The departing American commanders discussed the beast's power and the costly bond required to control it.

• Wenren Sheng attended the post-battle ceremony, spoke with Teacher Qin, and learned that the sea beast was a Nation-Protecting Beast raised by generations of Grandmasters.
• Wenren Sheng gained Merit Points, a Maritime Defense Medal, Intermediate Level Extraordinary Memory, and incomplete Puppet Manipulation before returning to Defense Art practice with Zhao Han and Wang Wenwen.
• Zhao Han proposed using Prophecy Art to make money for the country's military, and Wenren Sheng advised her to invest for the long term instead of speculating.
• The Major General Commander and Colonel Steve discussed the Nation-Protecting Beast's strength and learned that Grandmasters used Combination Spirit to keep such creatures aligned with their keepers.

After the Divine Land forces destroyed Master Kandang and his independence plot collapsed, Wenren Sheng received confirmation that Inoue Yoko had been hidden inside Inoue Shizuko’s fetus as part of the Heaven’s Mandate Society’s intelligence scheme. The chapter ended with Wenren Sheng urging stronger action against the threat, while Inspector Liu said the government planned to address it through negotiations and eliminating the Society.

• Master Kandang and Dewei learned that the Americans had withdrawn and discussed seeking Roman support for their independence cause.
• A fighter jet attacked Master Kandang as he fled into the sea, killing him, while Dewei realized the Divine Land forces had uncovered their plot.
• Wenren Sheng received notice that the Dragon-Eagle Conflict had ended and continued cultivating Defense Art for seven days, reaching its threshold.
• Inspector Liu told Wenren Sheng that Inoue Yoko was Zhizi, President Zhao’s wife, younger sister, and had been hidden inside Inoue Shizuko’s womb.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that the Heaven’s Mandate Society had arranged Inoue Yoko’s birth in the Divine Land to gather intelligence, and Inspector Liu said authorities would address the Society through negotiations and its elimination.

Wenren Sheng discussed President Zhao’s plan to remove the evil spirit from his unborn child, then agreed to return and help resolve the danger. He left for the Dongshui Patrol Division that night, hoping to inspect President Zhao’s collection in exchange.

• Inspector Liu told Wenren Sheng that President Zhao planned to have the evil spirit possessing his fetus erased under supervision, preserving its power as nourishment.
• Wenren Sheng learned that the Nation-Protecting Beast was a classified national treasure and a special Spirit Body of the sea.
• President Zhao called Wenren Sheng and asked him to handle the hidden danger facing his child, offering access to his collection in return.
• Wenren Sheng agreed to return to the Dongshui Patrol Division that night and declined President Zhao’s offer to pay Zhao Han’s living expenses.
• President Zhao joked that Wenren Sheng could educate his child, and Wenren Sheng warned that parents could not simply leave a child’s education to someone else.

Wenren Sheng prepared to treat the fiendish spirit threatening President Zhao’s unborn child, while Zhao Han realized her xenogene was manipulating her for its own growth. After leaving President Zhao’s home, Wenren Sheng suspected the Heaven’s Mandate Society had another plan involving a second child and arranged for Wei Yiqing to use her Power of Bad Luck against the spirit in three days.

• On the flight back, Wenren Sheng asked Zhao Han to calculate whether he could save President Zhao’s unborn child, but she could not predict the outcome.
• The Seed of Narration tried to turn Zhao Han against the unborn child for the sake of her future inheritance, and Wenren Sheng helped her recognize that her xenogene was manipulating her.
• Wenren Sheng asked President Zhao about the danger of the treatment, learned that grandmasters were rare and unlikely to help, and prepared to proceed with the operation.
• Wenren Sheng suspected the Heaven’s Mandate Society had arranged for another child to be born alongside President Zhao’s, and went to seek his master’s help.
• Wenren Sheng persuaded Wei Yiqing to use her Power of Bad Luck against the fiendish spirit in three days.

Wenren Sheng and Wei Yiqing worked to separate the vengeful spirit Inoue Yoko from the soul in Inoue Shizuko’s fetus. Old Zhao revealed the truth behind Inoue Yoko’s death, shifting her hatred and helping the separation succeed.

• At President Zhao’s residence, A, B, and C explained the danger of removing an evil spirit fused with a fetus, while the Patrol Division kept everyone inside for protection.
• Wenren Sheng used the Soul Manipulation Art to perceive the evil spirit, the fetus’s soul, and Inoue Shizuko’s connection to them.
• Wenren Sheng began strengthening the fetus’s soul as Wei Yiqing directly affected the evil spirit, causing disturbances throughout the villa.
• Old Zhao confronted the spirit in the form of a woman in white and told Inoue Yoko that the Heaven’s Mandate Society, not Tianbian Ji’s father, had caused her death.
• Inoue Yoko’s hatred shifted, and Wenren Sheng sensed the vengeful spirit voluntarily separating from the fetus’s soul.

Wenren Sheng subdued Inoue Yoko and sealed her in a Soul Suppression Box instead of destroying her consciousness. The Patrol Division took charge of the case, while Inoue Shizuko remained under observation and Old Zhao accepted responsibility for her care.

• Wenren Sheng used the Soul Manipulation Art to control Inoue Yoko after she left Inoue Shizuko's body.
• Old Zhao chose to seal Inoue Yoko in a jade Soul Suppression Box and leave her eventual fate to the Patrol Division.
• Three experts examined Inoue Shizuko and found no current problems, advising Old Zhao to keep her somewhere safe and stay by her side.
• Inspector Liu arrived with several people, and the Patrol Division discussed a wider investigation and arranged to monitor Inoue Shizuko while leaving her care to Old Zhao.
• Wenren Sheng realized Old Zhao had likely delayed acting out of greed and had spared Inoue Yoko to prevent her from making a final attack on his unborn son.

After the vicious spirit was removed from Inoue Yoko, Wenren Sheng accepted President Zhao’s offer of rare curios, hoping to use them to strengthen himself. As he began examining the objects, he asked for records of their origins, while Wenren De remained uneasy about his upcoming xenograft.

• Wenren Sheng told Zhao Han and the others that Inoue Yoko’s treatment had gone perfectly, then sent everyone home so she could rest.
• President Zhao promised to send Wenren Sheng rare pieces from his collection, and Wenren Sheng wondered why he had not been invited to browse the collection room as agreed.
• President Zhao explained to his butler Zhao Si that he was giving Wenren Sheng the curios to repay a favor and secure help in the future.
• The Zhao Residence Butler delivered a chest of curios to Wenren Sheng’s home, where Wenren Sheng began inspecting them with purple aura.
• Wenren De told Wenren Sheng that Master Ding had arranged his xenograft at the Far North Patrol Grand Division in a week, though he felt uneasy about it.
• Wenren Sheng found that the black monkey wood carving contained the blood of five people and called President Zhao to request records of the curios’ origins.

Wenren Sheng studied the stories behind President Zhao’s collectibles and turned their investigation into practical assignments for his students. He arranged for the students to investigate the remaining items in teams, with local Patrol Division members providing protection.

• Wenren Sheng learned that the black monkey carving came from Wang Family Village, which had been destroyed by heavenly fire, and decided to send students to investigate it.
• Wenren Sheng assigned Liu Jian to investigate the carving’s origins and sent him the item and its materials.
• Wang Wenwen offered to bring collectibles from her mother’s collection for Wenren Sheng to admire in exchange for an admission fee.
• Wenren Sheng assigned the other collectibles to experienced students in small teams, then explained to Wu Liansong that he would arrange protection through local Patrol Divisions.
• Wu Liansong offered to fly to help if the students encountered danger, and Wenren Sheng reassured him.