Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng reunited Mu Chengen with Xu Mei, whose betrayal and attachment to Huang Feng left Mu Chengen heartbroken. Wenren Sheng took Mu Chengen away to teach him about true feelings, while Huang Feng wondered whether the scenario's NPCs were based on real people.

• Wenren Sheng, the Tiger-skin Parrot, and Mu Chengen met Xu Mei and Huang Feng in a luxury hotel lobby.
• Xu Mei rejected Mu Chengen and admitted she was now with Huang Feng, while Mu Chengen acted as if he could not understand their breakup.
• The Tiger-skin Parrot used its power to make Xu Mei jump into the hotel fountain, then confronted her over the danger Mu Chengen had endured.
• Wenren Sheng told Mu Chengen that fawning could not earn true feelings, and Mu Chengen left with Wenren Sheng and the Tiger-skin Parrot.
• Huang Feng recognized the Armor Puppet's build and wondered whether the scenario's NPCs were simulated from real people.

Wenren Sheng completed the “Simps Must Die” event after Xu Mei died from using the graveyard’s Beauty Water, then left Mu Chengen and the parrot. In Dongshui City, Wang Wenwen pretended to be a single mother and considered inventing a miraculous origin for her puppet doll.

• Wenren Sheng used Illusion Art to teach Mu Chengen a grim lesson, and Mu Chengen decided to make a clean break with Xu Mei.
• Mu Chengen gave Xu Mei the Beauty Water, which she diluted in her bathtub and used, dying in the mist.
• Wenren Sheng received confirmation that “Simps Must Die” was complete and concluded that objects from the graveyard were traps for ordinary people.
• Wenren Sheng told Mu Chengen and the parrot he was leaving, though he offered to return for events with high rewards.
• Wang Wenwen shopped for baby supplies with her puppet doll and pretended to another mother that she had a child with an unreliable ex.
• Wang Wenwen decided she could claim the doll had fallen from the sky and invent a mysterious origin for it.

Wenren Sheng attended a Patrol Division seminar on the mysterious Great Ocean Graveyard and examined Teacher Qin, who believed he was severely dehydrated after an unsettling assignment. The investigators concluded that the graveyard’s powers and artifacts were ancient, but they could not explain why it had appeared only recently.

• Wenren Sheng gave Inspector Liu the Petrification Potion and discussed the Great Ocean Graveyard’s possible connection to a powerful Sea Monster.
• Teacher Qin arrived looking haggard and thirsty; Wenren Sheng examined him and concluded his symptoms were likely psychological after being trapped in a desert illusion.
• The Vice Division Chief opened a seminar where Teacher Qin and others estimated that the graveyard’s powers exceeded those of Grandmaster Level figures.
• A laboratory worker presented metal transformed by Mysterious Power and said tests dated it to at least seven thousand years ago.
• The Vice Division Chief asked why the ancient graveyard had never appeared in history before, and the attendees had no answer.

Wenren Sheng and the Patrol Division discussed the graveyard’s possible controller, its traits, and ways to investigate it safely. The meeting ended with plans to issue recommendations and a reminder of the graveyard’s dangers and the high cost of Puppet Art.

• Wenren Sheng considered whether someone was secretly controlling the graveyard, while the group debated whether the Sole Supremacy Society could be involved.
• Researcher Mo listed five traits of the graveyard, including that death inside was real and survivors could gain benefits.
• Researcher Mo explained which kinds of scenes enhanced different abilities, and Teacher Qin left the meeting after showing signs of distress.
• Researcher Mo recommended using Puppet Art specialists to investigate, barring Ordinary Persons from entry, and requesting more staff, funding, and Illusion Art talent.
• The Vice Division Chief agreed to circulate the recommendations, while the experts discussed the prohibitive cost of learning Puppet Art and Wenren Sheng reflected on the value of his Seed of Mystery.

After the graveyard expedition, the Patrol Division discussed retraining its Otherworldly Experts and the dangerous items recovered from the Great Ocean Graveyard. Wenren Sheng offered to teach Puppet Art, and the chapter ended with Mystery Experts asking how soon they could learn it.

• The Vice Division Chief persuaded the experts to resume learning skills and promised to arrange group instruction.
• Wenren Sheng promoted his Puppet Art lessons, offering to teach the experts and refund their tuition if they failed to learn.
• A researcher displayed graveyard items, including a medal with a permanent mysterious skill and a wooden nail that could turn someone into an Evil Object.
• The researcher warned that the Great Ocean Graveyard rewarded deaths and might prompt people to send Ordinary People to their deaths for better rewards.
• The Vice Division Chief said Divine Land would strengthen its management, while the experts discussed the danger elsewhere and the meeting continued.
• After the seminar, Mystery Experts asked Wenren Sheng how quickly he could teach them Puppet Manipulation, and he promised instruction within two weeks to one month.

Wenren Sheng taught Mystery Experts Puppet Manipulation and arranged for them to overcome their resistance to his lessons. Meanwhile, Xie Yanjie sought a faster way to recruit Southern Indians as Water Workers and planned to bargain with King Sperdo for access to prisoners.

• Wenren Sheng asked Wu Shanshan to buy cheap puppet materials and found that his teaching skill worked on older students after they suppressed their Otherworldly Users.
• Xie Linghui and Xie Yanjie inspected a recruitment site in Southern India, where the Jinling Xie Family struggled to recruit enough Water Workers.
• Xie Yanjie proposed using local figures to gain access to prisons and recruit prisoners, while Xie Linghui questioned whether the recruits were truly honest.
• Uncle Wang suggested approaching King Sperdo, who wanted an Otherworldly User, and Xie Yanjie told him to arrange a meeting and promise to fulfill that wish.

Xie Yanjie persuaded Earth King Sper to temporarily approve the exile of criminals in exchange for a tailor-made Otherworldly User opportunity. A month later, Wenren Sheng joined Yan Ze and the Tiger-skin Parrot in planning to intercept the Xie Family’s transport, while Mu Chengen was brought along to become the host of a specially generated otherworldly species.

• Xie Yanjie offered Earth King Sper a tailor-made Otherworldly User in exchange for a temporary decree exiling criminals to a distant sea.
• Earth King Sper agreed to issue a temporary decree and consider making it permanent if Xie Yanjie met his demands.
• Wenren Sheng continued raising his Mystery Points, which reached an upper limit of 318 in April.
• Yan Ze told Wenren Sheng that his share from selling the seized Electronic Reconnaissance Ship was 600 million Divine Yuan.
• The Tiger-skin Parrot brought Mu Chengen along because an Ordinary Person’s blood was needed to determine ownership of the otherworldly species they planned to seize.
• Yan Ze revealed that the target was the Jinling Xie Family’s transport, which they planned to intercept at its final checkpoint in two days.

Wenren Sheng returned to the Great Ocean Graveyard with the Tiger-skin Parrot and waited for an anomalous sign. When a blood mist appeared, the parrot revealed it had been caused by a mass sacrifice, and Wenren Sheng resolved to thwart the scheme and seize the Otherworldly Species first.

• Wenren Sheng sailed toward the Great Ocean Graveyard with the Tiger-skin Parrot and the Golden Haired Dog while Yan Ze remained hidden.
• The Tiger-skin Parrot urged Wenren Sheng to explore the graveyard, but Wenren Sheng refused to stray from their plan.
• Two days later, a vast blood mist spread over the sea, and the Tiger-skin Parrot identified it as a phenomenon that followed a million deaths.
• The Tiger-skin Parrot explained that a mysterious typhoon had killed nearly half a city during an overseas mission, after which an Otherworldly Species appeared.
• Wenren Sheng condemned sacrificing innocent people for power and decided to make the scheme fail by claiming the Otherworldly Species first.

Wenren Sheng used the Armor Puppet to seize a blood-red seed from a blood mist, defeating six rival puppets and demonstrating that the mist destroyed physical weapons. The Tiger-skin Parrot realized the mist might let Otherworldly Users reclaim the battlefield, while Wenren Sheng withdrew to recover from the strain of fighting at full strength.

• The Tiger-skin Parrot spotted rival submarines, and Wenren Sheng infused the Armor Puppet with Alien Power before charging toward a flash inside the blood mist.
• The Armor Puppet outran two speedboats and defeated the rival puppets as their controllers pleaded for mercy.
• The submarines fired missiles and torpedoes at the blood mist, but the weapons disintegrated when they entered it.
• The Tiger-skin Parrot recognized that the blood mist could repel physical weapons and potentially restore Otherworldly Users' dominance.
• Wenren Sheng emerged with a blood-red seed, gave it to the Tiger-skin Parrot, and retreated to rest after exhausting his mental energy.

Wenren Sheng and the Tiger-skin Parrot returned with the Otherworldly Relic after escaping an aircraft sent to recover it. Mu Chengen activated the relic, and the parrot explained that the million deaths had only triggered a process that stirred the mysterious world and created a relic suited to the final person’s blood.

• Wenren Sheng inspected the valuables salvaged from the puppets while the Tiger-skin Parrot promised to pay his dividends.
• A fighter jet threatened the ship over the stolen relic, and the Tiger-skin Parrot flew off to draw its pursuit away.
• Wenren Sheng and the others reached the secret harbor, where the Tiger-skin Parrot reunited with Mu Chengen.
• Mu Chengen activated the crimson Otherworldly Relic, which merged into his chest.
• The Tiger-skin Parrot told Wenren Sheng that the million lives were only a trigger for stirring the mysterious world and producing a relic suited to the final person’s blood.

Xie Yanjie and Xie Linghui failed to secure the sacrifices after the Sole Supremacy Society intervened, and Xie Yanjie planned to demand more while bringing Cang Yue to guard them. Back in Eastwater, Wenren Sheng helped his parents with Puppet Art, but Wenren De revealed a troubling connection between prophecy and his rapid progress.

• Xie Yanjie blamed the Sole Supremacy Society for intercepting the sacrifices and decided to demand another two million people, with Cang Yue holding the line next time.
• Wenren Sheng received puppet materials from the Armor Puppet and realized Wang Wenwen and Zhao Han were practicing illusions in the backyard.
• Ouyang Ling told Wenren Sheng she had reached Expert Level and struggled with Puppet Art’s perspective switching, so he suggested pilot training to help with her dizziness.
• Wenren De asked Wenren Sheng for sponsorship money and said Prophecy Art had made his Puppet Art practice more than ten times as efficient.
• Wenren Sheng suspected Wenren De had integrated another version of himself into Puppet Art and worried that it could be dangerous.

Wenren Sheng dissuaded Wenren De from creating conscious puppets from other versions of himself. Meanwhile, the crew of the submarine that had attacked Wenren Sheng's Armor Puppet recruited members into the Heaven's Mandate Society and debated how to fight Otherworldly Users.

• Wenren De considered merging another version of himself into a puppet, but Wenren Sheng warned that it could endanger their family, so Wenren De abandoned the idea.
• The submarine crew held secret meetings near the Great Ocean Graveyard and blamed Otherworldly Users for threatening Ordinary People.
• The First Mate led more than a hundred crewmen in signing up for the Heaven's Mandate Society.
• The First Mate, Chief Engineer, and Captain discussed the society's losses, its plans to exploit conflicts among Otherworldly Users, and the destruction of the East Island Branch.
• The Captain questioned whether the society should destroy all Otherworldly species, while the Chief Engineer argued that technology could replace them.

Wenren Sheng taught Puppet Art at the Club as Director An visited to seek help after the East Island General was assassinated by Heaven's Mandate Society. Wenren Sheng proposed moving East Island closer to America, and Director An began considering the extraordinary plan.

• The Captain agreed that Heaven's Mandate Society would report the mobilization's results and pursue retaliation against East Islanders, while privately believing the Society's leaders were too old to guide its future.
• Wenren Sheng taught the Club trainees Puppet Art and warned them to use their puppets righteously.
• Director An and President Zhao praised the Club's teaching, then Director An told Wenren Sheng that the East Island General had been assassinated by Heaven's Mandate Society.
• Director An said Heaven's Mandate Society had American backing and was contesting Divine Land's influence over East Island.
• Wenren Sheng proposed using an extraordinary method to move East Island closer to America, and Director An considered the possibility.

Wenren Sheng proposed using East Islanders to trouble America, but Director An postponed the plan and assigned him to investigate East Island. Wenren Sheng arrived with two Patrol Officers and was welcomed by Tokugawa Ieyuki as the investigation began.

• Wenren Sheng explained that East Islanders could be sent to America to cause trouble, but Director An said the proposal needed further preparation and asked Wenren Sheng to investigate East Island using Puppet Art.
• Director An promised to provide high-grade materials, and Wenren Sheng agreed to take part in the mission.
• A week later, Wenren Sheng traveled to East Island with Wu-jie and Patrol Officer Chen aboard a fighter jet.
• At Kyoto Airport, Tokugawa Ieyuki welcomed the delegation with a grand ceremony and showed particular attentiveness to Wenren Sheng.
• Wenren Sheng suspected that Tokugawa Ieyuki was competing for the East Island general's position, which would be decided by the Heavenly Dynasty after its investigation.

Wenren Sheng and the other envoys accepted Tokugawa Ieyuki’s hospitality while remaining wary of East Island’s political games. In secret, Tokugawa Iefuku blamed his eldest brother for the General’s death, but after Boris left, Iefuku revealed that he was the real General, hidden behind a puppet persona.

• Tokugawa Ieyuki thanked the envoys for assisting with the investigation and promised to give them the case files.
• Tokugawa Iefuku questioned Boris about whether his people had killed the General, and Boris blamed the Heaven's Mandate Society for obtaining their concealment technology.
• Boris appealed to Tokugawa Iefuku’s ambition by reminding him that the General might have ruled for another hundred years.
• Tokugawa Iefuku claimed that his eldest brother had secretly cursed their father, and Boris agreed to help uncover the truth.
• After Boris and his subordinate left, Tokugawa Iefuku changed his face and revealed that he was the real General, controlling the puppet who had represented him in public.

Wenren Sheng secretly investigated the East Island General’s reported assassination by gathering rumors in a Kyoto izakaya and questioning Matsudaira Tadaharu. He learned that the General might be a stand-in and that Divine Land’s greatest danger lay in internal unrest stirred by the Heaven's Mandate Society.

• Wenren Sheng used the Puppet Man to leave the reception hotel in disguise and investigate Kyoto on his own.
• At an izakaya, Wenren Sheng heard patrons discuss the General’s disappearance and an alleged rumor that the current General was an idiot.
• Wenren Sheng rescued the drunk Matsudaira Tadaharu after others threw him into a river, then took him to a geisha house to talk.
• Matsudaira Tadaharu claimed that the General was likely a stand-in and criticized Divine Land’s reliance on powerful Otherworldly Users.
• Matsudaira Tadaharu said Mushroom had fixed the borders against foreign threats, and Wenren Sheng considered how the Heaven's Mandate Society could still divide Divine Land from within.

Wenren Sheng uncovered a scheme to exploit the general’s assassination and urged Divine Land to punish East Island’s upper class rather than grant it concessions. Patrol Officer Chen and Patrol Officer Wu refused to risk further trouble, leaving Wenren Sheng to recognize the signs of a dynasty’s decline.

• Xie Cangyue agreed to limit the fleet’s sacrifices to two more occasions and said he would ask the entity to choose a more acceptable form.
• Wenren Sheng traced the assassination’s aftermath to a plan to channel anger toward the Heaven's Mandate Society and win East Island better trade terms and reforms.
• Wenren Sheng told Patrol Officer Chen and Patrol Officer Wu that Divine Land should raise tariffs and force East Island’s upper class to bear the cost.
• Patrol Officer Chen and Patrol Officer Wu rejected his proposal and chose to submit East Island’s requests to their superiors.
• Wenren Sheng saw their reluctance to act as a sign that the dynasty’s spirit was declining.

Wenren Sheng rejected demands for concessions from East Island and devised a plan to stabilize it while investigating the general’s unusual succession will. The Patrol Division approved his East Island Stability Strategy, though its implementation still depended on arranging protection and funding.

• Wenren Sheng persuaded Patrol Officer Chen and Patrol Officer Wu to reject the Heaven's Mandate Society’s demands and let East Island handle its own problems under their supervision.
• Wenren Sheng and the patrol officers learned that the late general had named Third Brother as his successor, so they delayed submitting the will while Wenren Sheng investigated the tradition.
• Wenren Sheng wrote the East Island Stability Strategy, drawing on methods from his previous life, and wondered why Tokugawa Ieyuki had shown no interest in becoming general.
• Director An and other high-ranking officials reviewed Wenren Sheng’s strategy and approved its measures, including having East Island fund those stationed there for protection.

Wenren Sheng exposed the Tokugawa family’s deception and arranged for Heavenly Dynasty Otherworldly Experts to oversee the shogunate. After the officials left, the brothers discussed their plans to endure and wait for Divine Land to weaken, while Wenren Sheng watched their secret conversation through Illusion Art.

• Patrol Officer Chen announced that the Heavenly Dynasty would station Otherworldly Experts to guide the shogunate, and the three Tokugawa sons bowed and accepted.
• Wenren Sheng recognized Tokugawa Iefuku as the real Tokugawa Ieyasu and realized the shogun on the dais had been a puppet.
• Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Ieyuki, and Tokugawa Iekazu discussed their weakness, the rise of Divine Land, and the need to wait for an opportunity.
• Tokugawa Iekazu warned that mushrooms could not make Great East Land independent and said corruption could eventually weaken Divine Land.
• Patrol Officers Chen and Wu apologized to Wenren Sheng after watching the brothers’ private conversation through his Illusion Art.

Wenren Sheng advised Zhao Han as she prepared for the college entrance exam, then turned his attention to improving his Mystery Points gains by deepening his involvement with the Sole Supremacy Society. He joined Tiger-skin Parrot’s lesson for Mu Chengen and cautioned the parrot against exaggerating what Otherworldly Users could do.

• Wenren Sheng watched Wang Wenwen and Beibei, then gave Zhao Han advice for preparing for the college entrance exam.
• Wang Wenwen brought Beibei into the study and asked Wenren Sheng not to reveal the child to her mother; he told her to take care of herself and avoid harming anyone.
• Wenren Sheng decided to seek more mysterious events through the Sole Supremacy Society to increase his Mystery Points faster.
• Wenren Sheng connected to the Armor Puppet at the seaside villa while Tiger-skin Parrot taught Mu Chengen about Otherworldly Users.
• Wenren Sheng corrected Tiger-skin Parrot for overstating Otherworldly Users’ abilities and reminded it that Ordinary People also had many elites and geniuses.