Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng sent Big Cat into Doomsday Town, where it discovered that the zombies and a falling meteor were taking shape through people’s beliefs. Big Cat rescued a family of four from an underground shelter and led them out of town in their truck.

• Big Cat explored the mist-shrouded town and identified the walking corpses as Meme Zombies created from human fantasies and Mysterious Power.
• Wenren Sheng found that only a dozen or so survivors remained and reasoned that the meteor and zombies were becoming real as people believed in them.
• Big Cat heard a family of four sheltering underground, where the parents reassured their children and insisted that the boy finish his homework despite the apocalypse.
• Wenren Sheng decided to rescue the family, and Big Cat found the entrance to their underground shelter and brought them out.
• The family drove out of town in their modified truck while nearby zombies ignored them in Big Cat’s presence.

Wenren Sheng used Big Cat to help survivors escape the town and then followed Milia's group as they headed inside. Milia and Professor Mailey discovered that the meteorite illusion had begun to seem real, and Milia's power caused attacking zombies to return to normal corpses.

• Big Cat's aura frightened away zombies as a family and three young survivors climbed aboard the escaping truck.
• Big Cat dispersed the fog at the highway exit, allowing the truck to leave town before vanishing.
• Wenren Sheng spotted Milia's group approaching, followed them with Big Cat, and continued training his extraordinary skills.
• Milia questioned the escaping family and learned that a cat had saved them, while the three survivors urged her group to let them go.
• Professor Mailey and Milia saw that the meteorite, previously an illusion, now appeared real as their car drove into town.
• Milia summoned her hammer to repel attacking zombies, which collapsed and changed back into normal corpses.

Milia, Ronnie, and Professor Mailey investigated a zombie-infested town, where a disguised monster tried to lure them into a bomb trap and giant bugs attacked them. As strange dangers continued to appear, Milia decided to send Ronnie and Professor Mailey out while she investigated alone.

• Milia purified a zombie attacking an elderly man, and he led her, Ronnie, and Professor Mailey to a lumber factory where he claimed survivors were trapped.
• The old man revealed himself as a monster and prepared to trigger a bomb, but Professor Mailey shot him after recognizing that the cries for help were electronic recordings.
• Milia opened the package and found a bomb, realizing that some of the town's inhabitants had already mutated.
• A giant bug attacked Ronnie during their investigation, and Milia rescued her before Ronnie washed herself off and continued onward.
• Ronnie reconsidered her reasons for trying to save people, while Professor Mailey grew alarmed by the town's escalating dangers.
• After Professor Mailey spotted a pale figure in the shadows, Milia agreed to send him and Ronnie out before continuing her investigation alone.

Milia entered Doomsday Town alone, but the fog and crisis suddenly disappeared while she investigated. Wenren Sheng learned that the Patrol Division had destroyed the Disaster Anomaly Lord, completing the incident and earning Mystery Points.

• Milia went into Doomsday Town alone while the others waited outside, and Gary stayed behind hoping to pursue her.
• The fog around the town and the meteorite overhead vanished, and Milia told Professor Mailey that the Screaming Apartments had suddenly returned to normal.
• Milia returned confused, and Professor Mailey took the group away from Doomsday Town after several more survivors escaped.
• Wenren Sheng learned that the Patrol Division had eliminated the Disaster Anomaly Lord and received 400 Mystery Points, raising his total to 512.

Wenren Sheng learned that a top-secret figure had handled the crisis linked to the power outage and Doomsday Town, then compared his growing power with that of the Nation-Protecting Sea Beasts. At Fan Ling’s welcome party, President Zhao announced that Tianxing Club would resume recruiting as Dongshui City’s situation had stabilized.

• Wenren Sheng called Director An and learned that the Nation-Protecting Sea Beasts possessed over three thousand years of Mysterious Power and could wield it freely when unrestricted.
• Wenren Sheng assessed his own rapid progress and continued working through problems, but made no new discoveries.
• President Zhao invited Wenren Sheng to Fan Ling’s welcome party, and Wenren Sheng agreed to attend.
• Wenren Sheng and Wu Liansong arrived at the party, where Otherworldly Experts gathered to talk with Wenren Sheng and seek his guidance.
• President Zhao welcomed Fan Ling and announced that Tianxing Club would resume recruiting and fill its departments as Dongshui City’s situation had stabilized.

At Tianxing Club’s welcome party, three experts joined the company, but President Zhao suddenly fainted. Wenren Sheng examined Zhao Wei’s Seed of Friendship and learned that Wu Liansong could restore him through their friendship; the incident left the new recruits less certain about joining.

• Three Otherworldly Experts or above agreed to join Tianxing Club, raising its total from five to nine.
• Wenren Sheng hoped to investigate President Zhao after he fainted, then used his Healing Art to examine him and discovered Zhao Wei’s Seed of Friendship and powerful abilities.
• Wenren Sheng suspected Zhao had suffered a mental attack, and Fan Ling blamed the Backstage Black Hand.
• Wu Liansong used the Otherworldly Resonance Method on President Zhao, who soon awoke and thanked him.
• The welcome party ended, while the three prospective recruits began to reconsider joining after seeing President Zhao’s collapse.

Wenren Sheng arranged for Wei Yiqing and the Immortal to establish a safe zone around Tianxing Club, then prepared to train his Mystic Olfaction skill through the Ruyi Puppet. Ruyi headed for the northwestern frontier, where Wenren Sheng planned to practice alongside Security Dogs.

• Wenren Sheng reflected on Old Zhao’s public humiliation and suspected that an Anomaly had struck at the perfect moment.
• Wei Yiqing told Wenren Sheng to notify the Patrol Division that she was establishing a safe zone because she did not want Anomalies disrupting her games.
• Wenren Sheng filed the paperwork, and the Immortal’s power made Tianxing Club and nearby areas grow dark and chilly as the safe zone took shape.
• Wenren Sheng told Li Shuangyue to ask his mother to buy houses on two nearby streets, then planned to train his nearly completed sensory skills.
• Wenren Sheng linked with the Ruyi Puppet, had it transform into a middle-aged man, and sent it toward the northwestern frontier to practice Mystic Olfaction with Security Dogs.

Blackhide, a former human reborn as a dog, helped a border patrol team track illegal entrants while the team received a group of trainee patrol dogs for field training. As Blackhide enjoyed hot pot with the newcomers, a white Border Collie reminded it that dogs had short lifespans.

• Blackhide sniffed out nine illegal entrants who had crossed the border, and the patrol captain reported their location for tracking and apprehension.
• The patrol captain received notice that trainee patrol dogs would join his team for a month of field training.
• Captain Lu and Captain Kong discussed the rising number of border crossings and Captain Lu said the Security Dogs were part of a classified experiment.
• Blackhide befriended the trainee dogs and reflected that life as a pampered dog was easier than life as a human.
• A white Border Collie told Blackhide that dogs lived only about a dozen years, startling it as it ate hot pot.

Wenren Sheng befriended Blackhide, a dog possessed by Zhang Xiangshu, and taught him a method of body mutation that might extend his life. After leaving the grasslands, Wenren Sheng returned to investigate a pack of man-eating wolves and train his Mystic Hearing.

• Wenren Sheng used soul transmission to speak with Blackhide and learned that the dog was possessed by Zhang Xiangshu, a young man who had lost consciousness during a storm.
• Wenren Sheng examined Blackhide and discovered that he had a Mutated Dog physique and Mystic Olfaction.
• Wenren Sheng promised to teach Blackhide a mutation method to improve his lifespan, while Blackhide shared what he knew about his sense of smell.
• Wenren Sheng learned Mystic Olfaction, and Blackhide learned the mutation method before the two exchanged Weixin accounts and parted.
• Wenren Sheng returned to the grasslands a day later to investigate a pack of man-eating wolves in the Outer Domain and train Mystic Hearing.

Wenren Sheng recruited Blackhide to help investigate the Man-Eating Wolves across the border and showed him how people were offering vulnerable travelers to the wolves in exchange for safe passage. As the wolves prepared to eat the captives, Wenren Sheng challenged Blackhide to consider whether he would still rescue them if they repaid his kindness with cruelty.

• Blackhide volunteered to follow Wenren Sheng on a dangerous mission, and Wenren Sheng decided to cultivate him as a future Club recruit.
• Captain Lu and Captain Kong led their forces across the border to investigate and establish order, while Wenren Sheng took Blackhide to observe the Man-Eating Wolves.
• Wenren Sheng explained that the wolves showed signs of intelligence, and Blackhide learned that other animals could possess self-awareness and make deals with humans.
• A Tall Guy brought elderly and disabled people to the wolves as an offering in exchange for help crossing the border the following month.
• As the wolves closed in on the captives, Blackhide asked Wenren Sheng whether they should save them, and Wenren Sheng warned that people might respond to kindness with ingratitude.

Blackhide drove off a pack of wolves that had been threatening a group of old people, but the people attacked him for interrupting their planned sacrifice. Wenren Sheng urged him to report them to the Patrol Team, then followed the wolves with him and discovered that their hearing could detect them from over a thousand meters away.

• Blackhide used purple mist from his nose to frighten the wolves away from the old people.
• The old people cursed Blackhide and threw stones at him, injuring his hind leg.
• Wenren Sheng explained that the old people were part of a deal involving their descendants and told Blackhide to contact the Patrol Team.
• Blackhide signaled Lao Kong and the others with his collar, while Wenren Sheng tracked the fleeing wolves by scent.
• The wolves detected the two dogs from over a thousand meters away using their mutated hearing and began fleeing again.

Wenren Sheng tracked a wolf pack into a ruined city and captured its giant wolf king to study its sensory skills. After hearing nearby people speculate that the wolves ate human brains to gain wisdom, he considered whether the idea might work in the Mysterious Realm.

• Wenren Sheng observed the wolf pack’s mutated ears and learned how they controlled Mysterious Power to enhance their hearing.
• Wenren Sheng and Blackhide followed the wolves west to a ruined city, where Wenren Sheng entered alone in the Border Collie’s body.
• Wenren Sheng found the wolves gathered around a tiger-sized wolf king and concluded it had mastered several sensory and hunting skills.
• Wenren Sheng used Stealth Art to approach and subdue the wolf king, while the rest of its pack fled.
• Several people nearby discussed the wolves’ preference for eating human brains, prompting Wenren Sheng to consider whether eating what one lacked could have an effect in the Mysterious Realm.

Wenren Sheng interrogated the Wolf King and reported that the Wolf Pack was developing humanlike intelligence. Meanwhile, Count Conchita and his Western Continent allies discussed a technology that could suppress fear and other emotions, while weighing its effects on future Otherworldly Users.

• Wenren Sheng had Blackhide help move the Wolf King and questioned it, learning that it ate human brains to gain wisdom and memories.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that the Wolf Pack could develop into a wolfman society and decided to report it to the Patrol Division.
• Wenren Sheng submitted his report and gave the Ruyi Puppet’s border investigator identity an official explanation.
• Count Conchita told Jon and the others that the Miken People were developing Brain-Plugged technology that could keep people in Absolute Calmness and reduce Anomaly incidents.
• Jon warned that the technology could reduce the number of people able to activate as Otherworldly Users, while the others discussed ways to preserve their supply of activators.

After learning five sensory skills and Mystic Intuition from the captured giant wolf, Wenren Sheng returned to Dongshui City with Blackhide ahead of the triennial Otherworldly Species progress test. There, he overheard his trainees discussing the upcoming evaluation and expected changes to its standards.

• Wenren Sheng learned Mystic Hearing, Mystic Touch, and Mystic Taste from the giant wolf, gaining Mystic Intuition and increasing his Mystery Points by 562.
• Wenren Sheng decided to return to Dongshui City before the progress test and told Blackhide that the Patrol Division should handle the captured wolf.
• The Border Collie completed the necessary procedures with Captain Lu and Captain Kong, and Wenren Sheng returned to Dongshui City with Blackhide.
• Blackhide toured the bustling city from a taxi and lamented that it could not buy a home there as a dog.
• Wenren Sheng overheard Wang Xia and others discussing the progress evaluation, the likely revision of expert standards, and the unchanged elimination rules for this round.

Wenren Sheng learned that he would serve as a Chief Judge for the upcoming Otherworldly Species Host Qualification Review, with authority to conduct final assessments and call candidates for a second review. He also discussed Blackhide’s future and the company’s plans for its trained students, then returned to studying skills while he waited for the assessment.

• Wenren Sheng explained Otherworldly Species to Blackhide and arranged for the Ruyi Puppet to take him to Tianxing Club for care and identification.
• Inspector Liu told Wenren Sheng that he would be recommended as a Chief Judge, able to conduct final assessments and select candidates for a second review.
• Wenren Sheng recalled that Hu Qingyang and Xu Huijuan had been overlooked in the previous assessment and said he wanted to identify more promising candidates.
• Wenren Sheng and President Zhao agreed to place trained students into the company’s rebuilt departments and restart its key training plan.
• Wenren Sheng declined President Zhao’s advice to focus only on his own growth and said preventing promising newcomers from being overlooked was worth his time.

With four days left before the Otherworldly Qualification Exam, Wenren Sheng was asked to help track down Chu Yanming, a Master Level Otherworldly User who had fled the Sole Supremacy Society to Miken. After learning that Chu Yanming had been seen in Miros City, Wenren Sheng sent Big Cat there and enlisted Zhao Han to help locate him.

• Director An told Wenren Sheng that Chu Yanming had escaped to Miken and warned him that Chu might have an ability to trigger most of an Otherworldly User's power.
• Wenren Sheng recognized Chu Yanming from a past encounter and agreed to search for him using Big Cat.
• Big Cat contacted Milia, who said she had seen Chu Yanming in a Miros City plaza a few days earlier.
• Wenren Sheng determined that Miros City's abandoned mines could make a good hiding place and sent Big Cat there.
• Big Cat reached the mining area, and Wenren Sheng called Zhao Han to ask her to use Prophecy Art to help find Chu Yanming.

Wenren Sheng overheard radical members of Heaven's Mandate Society debating shared ownership of Otherworldly Users as a way to fight Anomalies, then followed Zhao Han’s divination to find Chu Yanming. Big Cat confronted Chu Yanming at an open-pit mine, where he defended keeping his Otherworldly User and argued that Eastern Continent should adopt Miken’s approach.

• Wenren Sheng used Big Cat and Mystic Hearing to overhear Heaven's Mandate Society members, including Maple Father and Birch, advocate shared ownership of Otherworldly Users and resistance to Anomalies.
• Zhao Han located Chu Yanming through divination, and Wenren Sheng praised her before sending Big Cat to the open-pit mine.
• Big Cat found Chu Yanming in a tent and asked why he had run instead of fighting the Anomalies.
• Chu Yanming argued that Otherworldly Users should be retained permanently and that ordinary people could be replaced, while Big Cat challenged his hypocrisy and reminded him of the regulations.

Wenren Sheng used Big Cat and Otherworldly Resonance to capture the disguised Chu Yanming, who had fled rather than submit to the rules. After notifying Director An, Wenren Sheng realized Milia’s Seed of Light may have revealed Chu Yanming’s true appearance.

• Wenren Sheng decided Chu Yanming had to be captured for breaking wartime rules and sent Big Cat into his tent.
• Chu Yanming defended his fear of death and tried to overpower Big Cat with defensive halos and an explosive surge of strength.
• Wenren Sheng drew on his connection to Wei Yiqing, empowering Big Cat until it broke through Chu Yanming’s defenses and seized him.
• Chu Yanming begged to be released, but Big Cat rejected his offer and knocked him unconscious.
• Wenren Sheng scanned Chu Yanming, then notified Director An that he had captured him.
• Wenren Sheng recalled that Milia had recognized Chu Yanming from his photograph and suspected her Seed of Light could pierce disguises.

Wenren Sheng used Big Cat to wake Chu Yanming and make him cooperate with the Heaven's Mandate Society, whose members sought ways to gather mass anger and accelerate an Otherworldly User's growth. After Maple Father and Birch completed their exchange with Chu Yanming, the Patrol Division's overseas personnel arrived and took him away.

• Wenren Sheng overheard Maple Father and Birch discussing their planned trade with Chu Yanming and realized Chu Yanming was working with the Heaven's Mandate Society.
• Wenren Sheng had Big Cat wake Chu Yanming and instructed him to extract information from Maple Father and Birch without revealing confidential details.
• Maple Father and Birch entered the tent, exchanged Secret Bird Bone Powder for Chu Yanming's advice, and asked how to gather anger from tens of millions of people.
• Chu Yanming explained that the internet could serve as a medium for collecting widespread anger, then ended the transaction and sent Maple Father and Birch away.
• The Patrol Division's overseas personnel arrived, restrained Chu Yanming, and took him away while Big Cat remained hidden.

Wenren Sheng dismissed the Heaven's Mandate Society's plan to create a Grandmaster Level Otherworldly User and agreed to stay out of Miken's affairs. Director An rewarded him with three chances to draw power during Otherworldly Emergence, which Wenren Sheng offered to his family and companions.

• Wenren Sheng judged that the Heaven's Mandate Society's plan was unreliable and decided not to interfere in Miken, following the Patrol Division's strategy.
• Director An called Wenren Sheng, offered him three chances to draw power during Otherworldly Emergence, and warned him not to get deeply involved in Miken.
• Wenren Sheng accepted the reward and received three times and locations for Otherworldly Emergence.
• Wenren Sheng invited his family and companions in the "Happy Family" group to use the opportunities, while he chose not to draw power himself.
• Zhao Han praised Wenren Sheng, Li Shuangyue called him mighty, and Wang Wenwen joked that the world judged by faces.