Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng used the Healing Art to revive a dying old man and learned that the valley’s black mist passively gathered souls before absorbing them at sunset. After three days of observation, he discovered the mist itself was a single Anomaly covering the valley, which he lacked the power to purify directly.

• Wenren Sheng revived the old man, causing the family to lose their chance to take control of his inheritance.
• Wenren Sheng sent Big Cat through Valley Hospital to observe dying patients and confirm that the black mist collected their souls rather than killing them.
• Wenren Sheng watched Big Cat study the mist for three days and discover that it breathed, thickening at sunrise and thinning at sunset.
• Wenren Sheng realized the black mist covering the entire valley was one Anomaly that prevented others from entering its territory.
• Wenren Sheng concluded he would need to wear down the newly established Anomaly before he could purify it.

Wenren Sheng found the Black Mist Anomaly’s breathing point and reported its location to The Association, hoping others would confront the Miken People. When Leide, Helen, and Milia arrived, tensions with local staff and soldiers escalated into violence, and Milia proved immune to their gunfire.

• Wenren Sheng discovered that the Black Mist Anomaly breathed through a grove on the eastern slope and uploaded its location to The Association’s app.
• Two days later, Big Cat spotted Leide, Helen, and Milia approaching the grove alongside two Valley Town staff members.
• Milia insisted that The Association had to confront the growing Anomaly, while the staff members demanded that the group leave.
• Miken soldiers arrived and aimed their rifles at Leide, Helen, and Milia after the staff ordered the group expelled.
• The staff member ordered the soldiers to fire, but Milia stood her ground as the bullets ricocheted off her body.

Wenren Sheng watched Milia fight the valley’s forces and use her light against the darkness in the dead forest. Big Cat resonated with Milia and strengthened her power, cleansing the forest, while Wenren Sheng turned his attention to the valley, where the real trouble remained.

• Milia knocked out the Miken soldiers and killed Director Hawke, while the remaining staff member fled to report his death.
• Milia gathered light on her Giant Hammer as black aura surged from the dead forest, and Wenren Sheng observed their powers clash through Big Cat.
• As Milia’s light began to fade against the black aura, Big Cat approached her and Wenren Sheng used his Seed of Mystery to resonate with her power.
• Milia accepted the additional light, struck the black aura with renewed strength, and restored the dead forest to life.
• Wenren Sheng received a notification that his mysterious event was complete and looked toward the valley, where the unresolved matter awaited.

Milia confronted the Miken forces after destroying their laboratory and accused them of sacrificing civilians to Demons, while Wenren Sheng learned she was a rare Seed of Light. In Valley Town, the commander revealed the truth to a group of residents and asked whether they had encountered strange incidents since moving there.

• Milia completed the Walking Lamb incident, and Wenren Sheng gained Mystery Points and learned that Milia was a Seed of Light.
• Miken soldiers surrounded Milia, Leide, and Helen, while Wenren Sheng watched from a distance with Big Cat.
• Milia refused to surrender and accused the Miken forces of colluding with Demons and sacrificing civilians, while the commander defended the sacrifices as necessary for survival.
• The commander brought Milia and others to a town hall, where Milia told gathered residents that their home was surrounded by Demons and that they had been used as test subjects.
• The commander addressed the uproar by asking the residents whether they had encountered strange incidents since moving to Valley Town.

Milia watched Eagle Fort secure consent from most of the town’s residents to continue its experiments, then admitted she had been wrong to attack them. Wenren Sheng later learned that Eagle Fort had recruited Milia to help screen mysterious lifeforms that could restrain Anomalies.

• The on-site commander explained Eagle Fort’s experiment and offered compensation and informed consent for future rounds, leading more than 600 of the 632 residents to approve.
• Milia questioned her decision to kill the Demon, and Leide urged her to judge good and evil by looking at the full situation; Milia lowered her Giant Hammer and agreed to help screen beneficial bacteria.
• The on-site commander persuaded Milia to stay with Eagle Fort, while Big Cat left the auditorium and Milia sensed that something important had moved away.
• Wenren Sheng called Inspector Liu and described the experiment, and Inspector Liu said their organization was seeking mysterious lifeforms that could restrain Anomalies.
• Wenren Sheng realized Milia’s ability made her useful for screening such lifeforms and concluded that Big Cat and the Third Generation Puppet had gained a new task.

Zhao Han’s mysterious sleepiness made everyone in her classes doze off, and Wenren Sheng discovered that unseen Mystery Points were likely causing it. He had no cure yet, but introduced the household to a new Otherworldly Resonance Method so they could grow stronger together and help ease her condition.

• Zhao Han repeatedly fell asleep during lectures, and Xu Yunshuang advised her to return home after noticing that classmates and teachers also became drowsy around her.
• Wenren Sheng examined Zhao Han and found ten unseen Mystery Points that were likely connected to her condition.
• Wenren Sheng said he had no cure but could ease Zhao Han’s condition, then shared the Patrol Division’s latest Otherworldly Resonance Method with the household.
• Wenren Sheng insisted that helping his family grow stronger would benefit him too, while Wu Shanshan worried that supporting them could hinder his advancement.

Wenren Sheng’s family tried to teach Zhao Han the Otherworldly Resonance Method, but she fell asleep whenever anyone taught her. After comparing her routes with Patrol Division records, Wenren Sheng discovered that Zhao Han had sleepwalked to a campus lake, where the chapter left her staring at the location.

• Wenren Sheng taught his family the Resonance Method, but Zhao Han’s presence made them sleepy, so she studied alone with Fat Doll.
• After dinner, the family tried teaching Zhao Han individually, but she fell asleep each time, and Ouyang Ling suggested Anomalies might stem from legends and folktales.
• Wenren Sheng asked Zhao Han about unusual events before her drowsiness began, and she recalled staying up late to study and falling asleep to a recorded lecture.
• Wenren Sheng had Zhao Han map her recent routes and obtained her movement records from the Patrol Division, then found that she had sleepwalked on the night she stayed up studying.
• Wang Wenwen recalled Zhao Han sleepwalking before, and Wenren Sheng identified the latest sleepwalking route as leading to a campus lake with an artificial rockery.

Wenren Sheng investigated the sleep-inducing Anomaly affecting Zhao Han and discovered a gray-qi-emitting turtle beneath the lake’s artificial hill. He captured Old Turtle and concluded it was connected to the White Rat Anomaly and a hidden “god,” then took it home to show his family how to handle Anomalies.

• Wenren Sheng sent a puppet eagle to the Aomori campus and searched the lake and campus paths for the source of Zhao Han’s strange sleepwalking.
• After midnight, the eagle spotted Old Turtle crawling out from beneath the artificial hill and spraying Gray Qi across campus, putting students to sleep.
• Wenren Sheng reasoned that Old Turtle infected people to act as its fighters and that Zhao Han’s Otherworldly Species had limited its spread.
• Wenren Sheng connected the turtle Anomaly to the White Rat Anomaly and suspected a “god” was manipulating both.
• Wenren Sheng had the eagle seize Old Turtle and carry it home so his family could learn how to deal with Anomalies.

Wenren Sheng connected his family and companions to his Long-Term Resonance Method, greatly strengthening their Otherworldly Users and giving them hope against the rising Anomalies. After sending everyone to rest, he examined Old Turtle as a possible source of Zhao Han’s problem and reassured Ouyang Ling that his strength and position could protect his secret.

• Wenren Sheng established Long-Term Resonance Method connections between his Otherworldly User and everyone present, including Zhao Han despite her not yet learning the method.
• The group discovered that the connection had greatly enhanced their skills, and Ouyang Ling urged everyone to keep Wenren Sheng’s ability secret.
• Wang Wenwen resolved to prove her value by training Fat Doll, while the group gained confidence that they could grow strong enough to face the Anomalies.
• Wenren Sheng’s eagle returned with Old Turtle, and Wenren Sheng sent everyone home to rest before examining the turtle.
• Ouyang Ling worried that Wenren Sheng had revealed too much, but Wenren Sheng argued that his strength and the Patrol Division would protect him.
• Ouyang Ling and the others resolved to improve their abilities so they could protect Wenren Sheng and avoid becoming a burden.

Wenren Sheng used Old Turtle, the suspected source of Zhao Han’s Anomaly, to teach the family how to identify and avoid Anomalies. During the lesson, the turtle spoke as God’s Messenger and released Gray Qi, leaving the group facing its first direct contact with the entity.

• Wenren Sheng showed the family Old Turtle and confirmed that a faint gray thread connected it to Zhao Han, visible to Wenren De and himself.
• Wenren Sheng explained Anomaly classifications and warned that Zhao Han’s infection could worsen until she heard the entity’s voice or became more like it.
• Zhao Han fell asleep while trying to stay for Wenren Sheng’s lesson, and the others began studying Old Turtle as a live example.
• Wenren Sheng taught the family the Eagle Eye Technique and other methods for observing Anomalies, emphasizing that they should avoid approaching them.
• Old Turtle spoke from within its shell, mocked the group for trying to observe God, and released Gray Qi before claiming to be God’s Messenger.

Wenren Sheng questioned the captured Old Turtle, a God's Messenger, about the spread of Anomalies and refused its offer of protection. He had the eagle kill it and captured the green point that emerged, leaving the others unaware of what he had taken.

• Wenren Sheng explained how God's Messengers differed from the Evil Objects the group had faced before.
• Old Turtle claimed people across cities, villages, towns, and harbors were kneeling to Anomalies, and Wenren Sheng believed the threat was real.
• Wenren Sheng revealed he had encountered another messenger and rejected Old Turtle's threats and offer to protect his family.
• Old Turtle tried to persuade Wenren De to worship it, but Wenren De refused and said his son would protect him.
• Wenren Sheng ordered the eagle to pierce Old Turtle's shell, then captured the fleeing green point with his Soul Manipulation Art.

After killing Old Turtle, Wenren Sheng handed its shell to the Patrol Division and learned that some Otherworldly Users had long colluded with Anomalies. He then listened to Old Turtle and White Rat discuss their imprisonment, their plan to escape, and the repeated harvesting of Earth spacetime.

• Wenren Sheng gave Old Turtle's shell to two Patrol Officers, who said it would be studied and revealed that some Otherworldly Users secretly colluded with Anomalies.
• Wenren Sheng returned to his study and overheard Old Turtle and White Rat discuss their assignments and the difficulty of escaping Abyss Prison.
• Old Turtle and White Rat discussed how powerful groups intended to harvest Earth spacetime, while White Rat argued they should develop new places instead of fighting over existing resources.
• After Wenren Sheng withdrew his attention, White Rat proposed that they work together and explained how they might escape by changing their essence to match the rules of reality.
• Old Turtle and White Rat concluded that humans were trapped in repeated cycles of harvesting, which humans called leeks.

Wenren Sheng investigated the Great Cataclysms and suspected the mysterious world was a civilization whose schools trained people to invade and harvest other worlds. He met Leide through Big Cat and exchanged intelligence, but kept the two captured Sources of Disaster Anomaly.

• Wenren Sheng researched the Four Hundred Years Old Event and concluded that the Outer Domain had borne most of the deaths in the Great Cataclysms.
• Wenren Sheng suspected the mysterious world was organized around schools that taught people to invade other worlds using Mysterious Power.
• Wenren Sheng contacted The Association through Big Cat and arranged to meet Leide in Miken.
• Wenren Sheng showed Leide an illusion of two Sources of Disaster Anomaly talking, and Leide revealed that the mysterious world seemed to have teachers, students, and schools.
• Wenren Sheng showed Leide more footage but did not give him the captured Sources of Disaster Anomaly.

Leide told Big Cat about a fog-bound agricultural state in Central McKen, where people could enter but not leave, and Big Cat recognized it as a thinking Anomaly carving out territory. The chapter left Leide considering whether humanity should surrender, while Big Cat warned that resistance might offer a better chance of survival.

• Leide thanked Big Cat for his intelligence and offered to raise his access privileges, and Big Cat gave him contact information.
• Leide described the fog surrounding an agricultural state in Central McKen and explained that ordinary people could enter but not leave.
• Big Cat compared the situation to Happiness Town and argued that the Anomaly was claiming territory to harvest people more efficiently.
• Leide explained that outside goods could enter the state, while Wenren Sheng likened the arrangement to the Vortex Gate model becoming direct occupation.
• Big Cat distinguished thinking Anomalies from grotesque ones and suggested that thinking Anomalies were entering the human world to operate directly.
• Leide argued that surrender was the only way to survive, but Big Cat warned that those who resisted might outlive those who submitted.

Wenren Sheng confirmed that Waorda State had been sealed by a fog barrier and learned that women who gave birth to five children could leave. He sent Big Cat through the fog to investigate, while people outside wondered whether the peaceful state might eventually become a refuge.

• Wenren Sheng verified that a dense fog had isolated Waorda State and took Big Cat to its border.
• Big Cat watched Solde and Buck’s crews exchange fuel, machinery, and tools for grain across conveyor belts extending through the fog.
• Fantine tried to escape on a conveyor belt and died in the fog, and Laura revealed that only women who had given birth to five children could leave.
• Wenren Sheng considered the rule’s effect on the population and had Big Cat enter Waorda through the fog.
• People outside discussed Waorda’s food supplies and recent peace, with one suggesting they might someday be desperate to escape into it.

Wenren Sheng overheard a group of Miken People discussing whether to join the Worship Society and learned how an intelligent anomaly was exploiting their distrust of outsiders and Otherworldly Users. The conversation ended with Uncle Zena urging the others to join the society, while Walter remained unsettled.

• Wenren Sheng rode Big Cat across the Agricultural State and noticed a lively gathering at a farmstead.
• Wenren Sheng listened as Uncle Zena urged Walter to join the Worship Society, while Walter and another young man argued that they should wait for help from outside.
• Uncle Zena claimed that powerful people would abandon ordinary Miken People and that Otherworldly Users were allied with the monsters.
• Wenren Sheng realized that an intelligent anomaly was using Miken divisions to conquer the region and reward human collaborators.
• Uncle Zena dismissed the idea of fighting back and urged the group to join the Worship Society for protection and possible advancement.

Wenren Sheng listened as two Miken Otherworldly Users discussed abandoning the capital and transferring its Anomaly to Black Continent. He left them to their plans, believing they would soon sacrifice another region to save themselves.

• Wenren Sheng learned that the young people had joined Zena’s Worship Society and decided their fate was none of his concern.
• Big Cat entered the state capital and saw residents protesting as the city’s shops stayed shut.
• Wenren Sheng spotted a Red-haired Woman and a Black-haired Man, who discussed headquarters’ refusal to commit powerful fighters against the Master Level Anomaly.
• The Black-haired Man proposed ceding a more populous region to the Anomaly, and the Red-haired Woman agreed.
• The pair chose Black Continent as their likely target, describing it as isolated and suitable for the Anomaly to settle in.

Miken and the Eastern Continent negotiated over Miken’s plan to relocate a disaster to X Continent, with the Eastern side demanding the extradition of escaped Otherworldly Users. Meanwhile, Wenren Sheng’s Big Cat followed two agents to seek contact with the Anomaly and learned that the Worship Society had helped anchor it in the real world.

• A Miken negotiator told an Eastern Continent representative that Miken intended to relocate a disaster to X Continent, and the Eastern representative demanded the extradition of escaped Otherworldly Users.
• The Miken Old Man and the Eastern Continent man haggled over how many Otherworldly Users Miken would extradite, eventually agreeing to continue negotiations over a list.
• Wenren Sheng’s Big Cat watched the Red-haired Woman and Black-haired Man discuss approaching the Anomaly and decided to follow them.
• The Red-haired Woman and Black-haired Man entered a bar and asked its waiter to contact the Worship Society’s upper ranks.
• The waiter said the Worship Society had a long history and was difficult to reach, and that it had likely given the Anomaly an anchor in the real world.

Wenren Sheng used Big Cat to spy as the Black-haired Man and Red-haired Woman worked their way toward the Worship Society’s leadership and a way to contact the Source of Disaster Anomaly. They reached High Priest Uncle Zena, but after No. 13 forced him to deliver their request, Big Cat revealed its power and No. 13 admitted it was twice as strong as he was.

• The Black-haired Man and Red-haired Woman obtained contact details for Worship Society members, and Wenren Sheng noticed the waiter’s growing hatred as Big Cat watched him leave.
• Over several days, the pair made contact with Worship Society members and learned its hierarchy while Wenren Sheng waited for a chance to exploit the growing conflict around Miken.
• The pair met No. 13, a Master Level Super Warrior, who agreed to pursue contact with the Source of Disaster Anomaly after they warned that it was growing stronger.
• The pair brought No. 13 to High Priest Uncle Zena, who agreed to report their request after No. 13 smashed a five-meter-deep pit into the floor.
• Big Cat sent a jet of water through the solid floor, soaking the group, and No. 13 said the power it had displayed was twice his own.

No. 13 confronted God's Chosen over the Anomaly's claim to the land and the Miken People’s possessions, but her overwhelming attack exposed the danger of negotiating with her. After regenerating from a devastating wound, No. 13 struck back, only for her misty shield to block him.

• No. 13 told God's Chosen that the Miken People would not accept outsiders taking their land and argued that their crops, machinery, and goods belonged to them.
• God's Chosen rejected No. 13's claims, struck the Red-haired Woman with a black energy column, and severed her tongue.
• God's Chosen sent No. 13 flying with a stronger black energy attack that opened a hole in his chest.
• No. 13 rapidly regenerated his chest and punched at God's Chosen from behind, but a misty shield appeared and blocked the blow.