Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng dispelled the headless monster after refusing its promise of a long life, completing the village incident. When Luo Cheng arrived with a group of over a hundred people, he angrily blamed Wenren Sheng for destroying the valuable creature, but Jiang Yuanxia explained that Wenren Sheng had saved her.

• Wenren Sheng used the Puppet Man's power of dispelling to destroy the headless monster, which threatened to return and take revenge.
• The incident was marked complete, rewarding Wenren Sheng with Mystery Points and revealing components including Mutated villagers, the convergence of two worlds, and Body Metamorphosis Art (incomplete).
• Wenren Sheng reflected on his gains as more than a hundred people approached the village, including Jiang Yuanxia and her companions.
• Luo Cheng reached Wenren Sheng too late, saw the monster's fading smoke, and berated him for destroying a valuable creature.
• Jiang Yuanxia told Luo Cheng that Wenren Sheng had saved her and likely had not known what was happening, causing Luo Cheng to stop pressing him.

Jiang Yuanxia thanked the Puppet Man for saving her team and gave him money and her research notebook, while Luo Cheng angrily confronted him over the destroyed discovery. After Director Xing declined to blame the rescuer, the Puppet Man left, and a companion warned Luo Cheng that his behavior was worsening tensions between researchers and combat-oriented Mystery Experts.

• Jiang Yuanxia thanked the Puppet Man and gave him a sixty-million check and her research notebook.
• Luo Cheng demanded to know what the Puppet Man had destroyed, and the two exchanged insults.
• Luo Cheng called Director Xing, who said the Puppet Man had saved them and asked Luo Cheng to let the matter go.
• Luo Cheng threatened the Puppet Man, who dismissed him and left.
• Luo Cheng's companion criticized his outburst and tried to catch up with the Puppet Man, but failed.

After returning to Dongshui City, Wenren Sheng began experimenting with mutating his hair so it could host souls, hoping to develop a way to give Human Soul Fragments a home. He successfully transferred mysterious green dots into his transformed hair and reflected on the resilience needed to survive setbacks.

• Wenren Sheng returned to Dongshui City with the Puppet Man and put the conflict he had encountered on his trip out of mind.
• Wenren Sheng considered how body mutation might let humans contain souls and rejected the Sole Supremacy Society’s plan to make the mysterious world descend.
• Wenren Sheng infused Alien Power into his hair, repeatedly altering strands until he achieved a subtle transformation he found acceptable.
• Wenren Sheng used the Soul Manipulation Art to transfer green dots from the Puppet Man onto the tips of his hair.
• Wenren Sheng decided that he needed to cultivate resilience and remain steady through setbacks.

Wenren Sheng completed the initial transformation of his hair into a realm that helped restore the consciousness of Soul Fragments, at the cost of drawing on his own power. He left seclusion and told Wu Shanshan to begin preparing the ritual to restore her mother, leaving resurrection within reach but not yet achieved.

• Wenren Sheng flicked and transformed his hair while a green dot atop his First Hair regained the ability to think and mistook the hair for a heavenly pillar in a new world.
• Wenren Sheng realized his Seed of Mystery strengthened the recovery of Soul Fragments, consuming his power while earning him Mystery Points and growth.
• Director An called Wenren Sheng about the Southwest Intersection Point, and Wenren Sheng explained what had happened.
• After completing the initial transformation, Wenren Sheng emerged from seclusion and asked Wu Shanshan whether she had found her aunt's Soul Fragments.
• Wu Shanshan said she had leads but needed a complicated ritual and further details, so Wenren Sheng told her to begin preparing it.

Wu Liansong traveled to Southern India to offer his life to the Vortex Gate in exchange for his dead wife’s soul, hoping to spare Wu Shanshan the danger of reviving her. Wenren Sheng arranged to bring Wu Liansong back and began gathering materials for a soul-summoning ritual, determined to help despite the risks.

• Wu Liansong asked the Southern India Vortex Gate staff to let him sacrifice himself in exchange for his wife’s soul, leaving Xie Cangyue, Xie Yanjie, and Xie Linghui in awe of his devotion.
• Wenren Sheng learned of Wu Liansong’s plan and told Wu Shanshan to bring her father back.
• Wu Shanshan realized what her father intended, set out for Southern India, and sent Wenren Sheng the ritual preparations.
• Wenren Sheng reviewed the soul-summoning ritual’s requirements and decided to obtain the power and rare materials it needed through the Patrol Division.
• Inspector Liu warned Wenren Sheng about the danger and urged him to reconsider, but Wenren Sheng insisted that he had to help.

Wenren Sheng secured approval to buy forbidden materials and prepared to perform a ritual to resurrect Xiao Bai. Before leaving for East Mountain Summit with Wu Shanshan and Wu Liansong, he heard Wenren De’s prediction and remained resolved to proceed.

• Inspector Liu obtained approval from Director An for Wenren Sheng to purchase forbidden materials and forwarded it to him, though he urged Wenren Sheng to wait.
• Wenren Sheng bought the materials and, after preparations were complete, invited Wu Shanshan and Wu Liansong to perform the ritual at East Mountain Summit so he could use nearby Vortex Gate rewards if it failed.
• Wu Liansong reflected on why he had tried to handle the family matter alone and felt grateful when Wenren Sheng reassured him that they were family.
• Wenren De told Wenren Sheng that his prediction yielded the verse about conditioned things being like dreams and illusions, and warned that reversing life and death could bring mysterious calamities.
• Wenren Sheng accepted his father’s warning, watched him brew Dragon Well Tea, and stayed prepared to attempt the ritual despite the poor odds.

Wenren Sheng performed a Summoning Ritual to find Wu Shanshan’s mother’s Soul Fragment while two Patrol Division masters observed and prepared safeguards. The ritual remained safe but found no matching soul by dawn, and Wenren Sheng insisted on continuing as the masters discussed whether he could inherit the Barrier Secret Technique.

• Wenren Sheng spent the day preparing the Summoning Ritual while a Soul Master and a Barrier Master watched and made preparations of their own.
• The Barrier Master warned Wenren Sheng, Wu Liansong, and Wu Shanshan that controlling greed was the best defense against a ritual going out of control, then set up a protective ritual.
• At midnight, Wenren Sheng activated the ritual, and green specks of dispersed souls entered before being rejected as they failed its screening requirements.
• Wenren Sheng sustained the ritual through the night, but no suitable Soul Fragment appeared, and Wu Shanshan urged him to stop.
• Wenren Sheng said he could continue because the filtering speed was increasing, while the two masters concluded that his power made a dangerous failure unlikely.
• The Soul Master encouraged the Barrier Master to teach Wenren Sheng the Barrier Secret Technique, and they discussed the harmful cost of imitation otherworldly beings.

Wenren Sheng persisted for seven days in a forbidden Summoning Ritual, sustained by his unusually active otherworldly species, but remained trapped between continuing and giving up. News of his attempt spread through a secret research group, where Master Level figures debated its risks and possible consequences while keeping his identity confidential.

• Wenren Sheng continued the ritual for a week as his otherworldly species replenished his strength, leaving him unable to decide whether to persist or stop.
• Wu Shanshan watched Wenren Sheng endure the ritual for her mother and resolved to treat him with utmost sincerity, whether it succeeded or failed.
• Otherworldly experts in a high-end research group discussed Wenren Sheng's seven-day ritual and considered whether he might succeed or attract Evil Objects.
• Master Level figures explained that one person's consistent Alien Power was essential to the Soul Summoning Art, making it impossible to rotate people through the ritual.
• The research group speculated that success could make Wenren Sheng extraordinarily powerful, but members refused to reveal his identity without permission.
• Secret signals carried news of the ritual through invisible network channels.

Wenren Sheng sustained Wu Shanshan’s mother’s Summoning Ritual for two weeks and screened out one soul fragment before choosing to suspend the ritual. As he carefully shut it down, a mass of deceptive green fragments gathered, but he and Wu Shanshan recognized that they were not her mother.

• Wu Shanshan watched the cameras covering the ritual, while Wu Liansong accepted that the Soul Domain experts might learn from it.
• After two weeks of repetitive work, Wenren Sheng screened one green dot through the ritual and into one of his hairs, realizing it was only a fragment of Wu Shanshan’s mother’s soul.
• Wenren Sheng considered the risks of continuing, recalled a Barrier Master’s warning about controlling greed, and began suspending the ritual.
• Wenren Sheng’s actions raised his Mystery Points limit by 20, from 365 to 385, as the onlookers watched the shutdown closely.
• As Wenren Sheng retracted the ritual, huge vortices of green fragments formed and combined into faces resembling Wu Shanshan’s mother.
• Wu Shanshan warned Wenren Sheng that the faces were fake, and Wu Liansong remembered his wife’s generosity and rejected the fragments’ greed and deception.

Wenren Sheng faced a potentially catastrophic eruption of the Soul Fragments gathered by the Summoning Ritual, while the Barrier Master and the Soul Master’s reinforcements struggled to contain them. Wenren Sheng promised the fragments he would give them a home, and they began to retreat, leaving the danger to subside.

• The green specks joined into a powerful image that threatened to turn the East Peak Region into a Mysterious Disaster, so the Barrier Master enclosed the mountaintop in layers of black curtains.
• The image’s roar killed the remaining vegetation and insects and overwhelmed the observers, prompting the Soul Master to summon reinforcements.
• The reinforcements tried to contain the surging Soul Fragments, but some feared they could not stop the disaster and urged everyone to retreat.
• Wu Shanshan realized how dangerous the ritual had become, while Wu Liansong comforted her and resolved to help the others escape.
• Wenren Sheng activated the Great Teaching Skill and promised the Soul Fragments that he would return and give them a home.
• The Soul Fragments began to withdraw from the vortex, and the danger of the Mysterious Disaster rapidly diminished.

After completing the forbidden ritual, Wenren Sheng and the others left East Peak for Eastwater by train. A passenger who could see lifespans warned Wu Shanshan that everyone else aboard was about to die, and she went to find the conductor to stop the train while Wenren Sheng slept.

• Wenren Sheng said the ritual had recovered a little of the green dots’ ability to think, and the Soul Master and Barrier Master let him go home before writing the report.
• Wenren Sheng, Wu Shanshan, and Wu Liansong boarded a train to Eastwater, where Wenren Sheng soon fell asleep.
• A middle-aged man questioned passengers about their ages and discovered that their remaining lifespans matched their current ages.
• The man told Wu Liansong and Wu Shanshan that he could see lifespans and believed the train would suffer a major accident before the passengers’ birthdays.
• Wu Shanshan agreed to investigate and went with Wu Liansong to find the conductor, while Wenren Sheng continued sleeping.

Wenren Sheng realized that the train evacuation had driven its passengers into a supernatural hunting ground connected to his recent Summoning Ritual. He identified the approaching spirits and prepared to stay and deal with the aftermath.

• Wenren Sheng suspected the train’s sudden stop was connected to the ritual he had performed on the mountaintop and called the local Patrol Division for help.
• Wenren Sheng asked the middle-aged man who could see lifespans to check passengers who had left the train.
• The middle-aged man found that the passengers’ lifespans had not changed, and Wenren Sheng explained that they had been led into danger by the evacuation.
• The middle-aged man begged Wenren Sheng to save them, and Wenren Sheng agreed to resolve the aftermath.
• Wenren Sheng used the Soul Manipulation Art and saw green specks swarming toward the train, identifying them as spirits he had failed to bluff.

After returning to Dongshui City, Wenren Sheng found that the Mutated Hair had advanced after the Summoning Ritual and begun generating Mystery Points on its own. He explored the village forming inside it and discovered its inhabitants were farming and developing, leaving him eager to secure the Paradise Project before others copied it.

• The middle-aged man joined the Patrol Division, and Wenren Sheng and Wu Shanshan discussed the danger and comfort of knowing about the mysterious world.
• After waiting a week to confirm the area was safe, Wenren Sheng returned to Dongshui City and resumed work on the Paradise Project.
• Wenren Sheng discovered that the Mutated Hair had evolved and gained him one Mystery Point automatically, prompting him to worry about how his body might change.
• Wenren Sheng examined the village inside the Mutated Hair and saw green-dot inhabitants farming with power drawn from the mysterious world.
• Wenren Sheng realized that the village might become self-sustaining, feared rivals could develop similar technology, and noticed Wu Shanshan's mother had become an honored guest and some inhabitants could speak.

Wenren Sheng observed green-dot beings rebuilding society and reassured Wu Shanshan that her mother was stable. At the Xie Family Manor, Xie Cangyue discussed how the Summoning Ritual and the promise of a future life might change relations between Ordinary Persons and Otherworldly Users, while he remained committed to his own immortality plan.

• Green-dot villagers discussed creating a guard force by combining soldiers and civilians, and one warned that taking a new name might erase their memories of the past.
• Wenren Sheng watched the green dots' village life and considered whether the beings would remain obedient.
• Wu Shanshan brought Wenren Sheng watermelon and asked about her mother, and he told her the condition was stable and she might soon speak with her.
• Xie Yanjie told Xie Cangyue that a Summoning Ritual had achieved preliminary success, and he said a future life might help Ordinary Persons and Otherworldly Users coexist.
• Xie Cangyue cautioned that the future life was uncertain and difficult, and he refused to abandon his own immortality plan.
• Xie Yanjie reported that someone had traded a painting for four Otherworldly Users, and Xie Cangyue realized the painting could greatly empower its owner.

Xie Cangyue ordered operations in Southern India paused while he pursued his plans involving an Immortal. Meanwhile, Wenren Sheng accepted a teaching job with the Sole Supremacy Society and learned how it planned to counter modern military systems in its conflict with the Miken People.

• Xie Yanjie suggested suspending operations in Southern India, and Xie Cangyue agreed to pause them for several months.
• Xie Yanjie privately planned to profit from the pause and flee before Xie Cangyue could kill her.
• Wenren Sheng sensed activity through Big Cat and heard the Tiger-skin Parrot offer him a job training Puppet Manipulation users.
• Wenren Sheng accepted the teaching position and followed the Tiger-skin Parrot to a lecture on modern warfare.
• An elderly instructor explained that the Society needed to disrupt the Miken People’s military systems and force them to fight on less favorable terms.

Wenren Sheng watched the Sole Supremacy Society demonstrate its Mind Transmission Device, which could target and persuade people inside the Miken People's combat system. He then taught practical combat techniques to the puppet animals, leaving them better prepared for battle.

• The old gentleman introduced the Mind Transmission Device and explained how it could locate and influence enemy operators to undermine their combat system.
• The old gentleman demonstrated the device by finding a sleeping operator and singing until the man accepted his message.
• Wenren Sheng recognized that the device could weaken the enemy and leave individual fighters like Snipers more important on a small battlefield.
• Wenren Sheng taught the puppet animals practical techniques for infiltration, ambushes, retreat, and concealment.
• The puppet animals praised the training and said the techniques would help them fight more effectively against their enemies.

Wenren Sheng used Tang Hu’s identity to join a puppet-fighting group, learned about research into making Otherworldly Species imitate computers, and continued developing his hair-based abilities. As the Sole Supremacy Society prepared for war against the Miken People, he joined First Team’s mission to destroy an enemy command ship.

• Wenren Sheng joined a puppet-fighting group as Tang Hu and advised its members that Otherworldly Species could counter the growing power of AI.
• A group member revealed that researchers were working on making Otherworldly Species imitate computers, and Wenren Sheng decided to pursue the project for Big Cat.
• Wenren Sheng continued mutating, absorbing, and analyzing strands of hair to build his strength.
• Ten days after his lecture, Wenren Sheng joined three hundred puppet animals as the Sole Supremacy Society prepared for a major conflict with the Miken People.
• The Gray Wolf assigned Wenren Sheng to First Team, whose mission was to destroy an advanced Miken command ship.
• First Team set out by submarine and approached the enemy fleet undetected after the Society had compromised its combat system.

Wenren Sheng joined a puppet-animal raid on an enemy command ship, which was destroyed at the cost of the attackers’ lives and the enemy crew. After the submarine came under fire, Gray Wolf argued that the Sole Supremacy Society should develop forbidden remote attacks to reduce future casualties.

• Wenren Sheng controlled Big Cat as ten puppet animals boarded the enemy command ship from an underwater craft.
• The enemy crew raised the alarm and two sailors fled into the water, but a porcupine killed them under the operation’s kill-on-sight order.
• The puppet animals slaughtered the command ship’s crew, and an escort ship destroyed the burning vessel with missiles.
• The submarine was struck by retaliatory fire but survived and began diving, while Wenren Sheng criticized the Society’s reliance on close combat.
• At a rear-base meeting, Gray Wolf recommended using forbidden remote attack techniques, and the others said the Society Master should decide.

Wenren Sheng returned to camp after the Sole Supremacy Society’s raid and learned from Inspector Liu that overseas fighting was escalating. At a Miken command post, officers debated retaliation and admitted they lacked the resources and Puppet Technology to match the Easterners, leaving them to seek other ways to fight.

• Wenren Sheng returned to the Sole Supremacy Society’s campsite and heard members boast about the bases and recruits they had destroyed.
• Wenren Sheng called Inspector Liu, who warned him to avoid the Southeast Lands overseas because fighting was underway.
• Miken officers argued over the losses and demanded retaliation, while a major general ruled out using Mushrooms for now.
• An Operations Staff Officer explained that Miken could not effectively send Otherworldly Users to fight and lacked the materials to develop Puppet Technology.
• The major general rejected the suggestion to hire others with money and insisted Miken find a way to win using its own combat system.

Wenren Sheng left his Mutated Hair to investigate a mysterious murder scene where two men accused each other of killing a woman. He arrived at the apartment as the suspects faced off beside the woman’s body and a strange ritual.

• Wenren Sheng connected five strands of Mutated Hair and created different terrains to test how geography shaped civilization.
• Zhao Han asked Wenren Sheng to help investigate two suspects whose Prophecy Power could not identify the murderer.
• Wenren Sheng learned that the two men and a woman had been drinking together, and the men had armed themselves after the woman was found dead.
• Wenren Sheng went to Apartment 901, where Hong Renqiang and Wang Luobin each accused the other of murdering Fang Yi.
• Wenren Sheng saw Fang Yi’s body at the center of a bizarre ritual, with a Fruit Knife embedded in her chest.