Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng safely landed a passenger plane using his Alien Power, then learned that a possessed passenger may have caused the disaster. Director An invited him to join a cleanup operation and asked him to report the people chosen for advancement opportunities.

• Wenren Sheng brought the plane down safely, and rescue workers reached the passengers.
• Wenren Sheng told Inspector Liu that the bird strike seemed suspicious and that the accident needed investigation.
• After reviewing the cabin recording in his memory, Wenren Sheng identified a woman whose strange expression suggested she was possessed by an Anomaly.
• Wenren Sheng considered how Brain-Plugged devices might affect Demons and Disaster Anomaly Lords, then returned to studying Lou Nan's knowledge and skills.
• Director An invited Wenren Sheng to join a comprehensive cleanup operation and asked him to name the people receiving advancement opportunities.
• Wenren Sheng named his chosen people and said that bonds made life more interesting.

After surviving the plane crisis, Wenren Sheng checked in with Wu Shanshan and planned roles for a future team of Otherworldly Users. He then taught a class on avoiding disaster and introduced Soul Contact, seeking volunteers to test the risky method.

• Director An asked Wenren Sheng why he had wrapped the plane and landed it himself, and confirmed that Wenren Sheng preferred not to entrust his safety to others.
• Wu Shanshan called Wenren Sheng, discussed her Puppet Art progress and Xu Yunshuang's, and asked about her mother's situation.
• Wenren Sheng planned a future team, assigning roles to Wu Shanshan, Xu Yunshuang, Old Wu, Ouyang Tian, Li Shuangyue, his parents, and Zhao Han.
• Wenren Sheng announced his new Soul Contact teaching method and invited volunteers to test it after class, warning that it could cause nightmares.
• Wenren Sheng taught his students to avoid flying unless necessary and recommended private jets or Patrol Division flights for those who lacked the ability to handle aerial dangers.

Wenren Sheng used his Soul Contact Teaching Method to teach a trainee Defense Art, then reviewed a mysterious incident involving serial killers multiplying across Miken. He discovered that their numbers doubled each week, but the cause of the phenomenon remained unknown.

• Wenren Sheng explained that automation would reduce the need for people to travel, then taught his class about the future.
• After class, trainees signed up for Wenren Sheng's Soul Contact Teaching Method, and he began teaching a male trainee Defense Art through a soul connection.
• The trainee said he had learned far more than he could have in a month, while an Otherworldly Expert reminded the others to appreciate Wenren Sheng's generosity.
• At home, Wenren Sheng reviewed reports and received a mysterious prompt about serial killers appearing across several Miken cities.
• Wenren Sheng learned that the killers' numbers doubled each week, with eight already appearing in the four weeks since the first killer emerged.

Wenren Sheng investigated the rapidly multiplying serial-killer cases in Miken and searched for the hidden cause behind them. As Milia and Professor Mailey debated how ordinary people could resist the spreading darkness, Mailey condemned forced surgery that suppressed people’s emotions.

• Wenren Sheng asked Milia for the Disaster Anomaly Elimination Association’s investigation files and agreed to examine the serial-killer case.
• Wenren Sheng studied the killers’ histories and found that experts had identified childhood abuse and control, but the number of killers still doubled exponentially each week.
• Milia told Ronnie and Professor Mailey that Big Cat had taken the case, while Mailey argued that powerful beings should not be expected to solve local problems for others.
• Professor Mailey proposed giving everyone supernatural power to restore balance, and Milia agreed that ordinary people needed a way to resist the darkness.
• Ronnie mentioned tube-insertion surgery in the slums, and Professor Mailey warned that it was being forced on people and stripped away their emotions.

After resolving the mystery behind the serial killings, Wenren Sheng learned that an Otherworldly User with the Seed of Slaughter was spreading killing intent. Unable to identify the culprit through Giant Stone or his father, he asked Milia to help find a way to exploit the culprit’s psychological weakness and draw them out.

• Wenren Sheng concluded that the killers’ apparent shared backgrounds were false commonalities and that mysterious influences had made Ordinary Persons act against their instincts.
• The mysterious prompt awarded Wenren Sheng 100 Mystery Points and raised his Mystery Points limit to 804, but he recognized that the real-world threat remained unsolved.
• Wenren Sheng learned that the culprit was an Otherworldly User with the Seed of Slaughter, and ruled out the monitored female student he had encountered during the Qualification Exam.
• Giant Stone and Wenren De both said they could not identify the culprit’s Otherworldly User attributes, so Wenren Sheng decided he would need another way to find them.
• Wenren Sheng sent his analysis to Milia and asked her to help devise a plan to exploit the culprit’s psychological weakness and lure them out for Big Cat to verify.

Milia, Ronnie, and Professor Mailey investigated the owner of the rare Seed of Slaughter and devised a tournament to lure him into the open. A week later, Wenren Sheng arrived at the gathering in Lawrence Wilderness, where thousands of Otherworldly Users had assembled.

• Milia explained that Otherworldly Users were rare and that their seeds could disappear when they died in dangerous places and could not be recovered.
• Professor Mailey proposed learning what the Seed of Slaughter's owner wanted and devised a plan to draw him out.
• Professor Mailey's plan called for a public fighting tournament with rankings and rare rewards, which would also help Milia establish a new organization and gain control of the Anomaly Association.
• Wenren Sheng approved the plan and memorized its location and date at Lawrence Wilderness in Xige State.
• A week later, Big Cat arrived at the riverside tournament site, where more than six thousand Otherworldly Users had gathered for the event and its prizes.

Big Cat observed the crowd at the Otherworldly User Fighting Tournament as Milia von Russell Cavendish Ji called on Supernatural Beings to unite and fight Anomalies. Her speech strengthened her Seed of Light and stirred the attendees, while Wenren Sheng remained wary of its effects.

• Big Cat listened as attendees discussed the tournament’s prizes, the dangers of the era, and the value of gaining powerful connections.
• The tournament began with a martial march, and Big Cat surveyed the crowd for potential Seeds of Slaughter.
• The hosts introduced Milia von Russell Cavendish Ji, who appeared in a nun’s habit to address the gathering.
• Milia urged everyone to unite and fight until Anomalies were eliminated, and her Seed of Light visibly grew stronger.
• The crowd shouted for battle, while Wenren Sheng kept his doubts about Milia and her followers to himself.

Wenren Sheng and Big Cat attended a Miken convention that brought Otherworldly Users together, and Big Cat identified the killer hiding in the crowd. After the pale man’s Seed of Slaughter was exposed, the enraged attendees demanded punishment.

• After the speaker and host left, two Otherworldly Experts fought onstage while the crowd cheered.
• Black Guy defeated the fat white man, but the fat man faked a handshake and struck him with a lethal punch.
• Wenren Sheng recognized the fat man’s betrayal as the work of the killer, while Big Cat spotted the pale man activating his otherworldly seed.
• Big Cat alerted Milia, and the pale man was swiftly identified through Scene Retrospection.
• Professor Mailey realized Big Cat had uncovered the serial killer, and the furious crowd called for the pale man to be punished.

Wenren Sheng dreamed of his Crimson Fierce Tiger statue and discovered that strangers had entered his dreamscape through Dream Entry Art. His dream self answered one intruder’s question, and the Puppet Man statue demanded tribute, leaving Lao Xia in danger.

• Wenren Sheng severed his spiritual connection with Big Cat and went to sleep, then dreamed of a Crimson Fierce Tiger statue surrounded by devoted worshippers.
• Wenren Sheng realized that five Eastern Continent People had entered his dreamscape through Netherworld Communion or Dream Entry Art.
• Lao Xia approached the tiger statue and asked where he could find his wife, and the statue revealed that she was meeting her lover in a cave when she fell ill and was abandoned.
• The Puppet Man statue confronted Lao Xia and demanded tribute for the enlightenment he had received.

Wenren Sheng watched Lao Xia and three companions accept a month of manual labor in a dream after Yang Xu tried to escape. The next morning, Wenren Sheng investigated the Fierce Tiger Colossus and discovered that workers were digging the riverbed in reality, revealing that the dream had served as a blueprint for construction.

• Yang Xu refused to work for a month, tried to wake himself by slamming his head into the ground, and disappeared after the Fierce Tiger Colossus struck him with Tiger Light.
• The Puppet Man statue ordered Lao Xia and the other three outsiders to work for a month and seven and a half days, and they agreed to dig a stream by hand.
• Wenren Sheng watched the four men begin digging the stream in his dream, then fell asleep when nothing else happened.
• Wenren Sheng traveled with Big Cat to the rural estate in Waorda State and found a newly dug riverbed beside the Fierce Tiger Colossus.
• Wenren Sheng learned that construction workers had been hired to dig the riverbed by hand, then sent Big Cat back and began his morning routine.

Yang Xu struggled to stay awake after being cursed with a month without sleep for his behavior in a dream, and he sought help from supernatural investigators. An investigator warned him that his tantrum had offended a powerful figure, leaving Yang Xu terrified of the consequences.

• Yang Xu argued with his father, who criticized his laziness and threatened to give the company shares to his sons-in-law.
• Yang Xu regretted throwing a tantrum at a statue in a dream and realized he would be unable to sleep for a month.
• Yang Xu called Lao Xia for help, and Lao Xia gave him contacts for the Patrol Division and paid agencies.
• The Patrol Division told Yang Xu to submit his account online, so he hired a novice Otherworldly User investigator instead.
• The investigator explained that Yang Xu had insulted a powerful dreamer associated with the Crimson Fierce Tiger, and Yang Xu deeply regretted his actions.

Yang Xu’s father sought help for his son’s insomnia after Yang Xu caused trouble in Wenren Sheng’s dream, while Wenren Sheng judged the consequences and declined to intervene. A new team prepared to enter the dream again with Lao Xia, but the chapter ended before they began.

• Yang Xu contacted investigation agencies after an investigator warned that his dream encounter might be untreatable, and Boss Yang secretly read his son’s chats before asking President Xu for advice.
• President Xu recommended observing Yang Xu and sent Boss Yang the name Tianxing Club, whose Wenren Sheng recognized the case as involving his own dream.
• Wenren Sheng explained that Yang Xu’s disrespect had triggered insomnia and possibly worse effects, then told Team Leader Hu, “Oh ho, that skull needs cracking open.”
• Boss Yang rejected Tianxing Club’s reply and hired another group, which arranged for Lao Xia and the others to enter the dream again.
• Lao Xia set up his dream-entry ritual with five household plants, incense, and his jade pendant as Investigator Jia and Investigator Yi questioned him.

Investigator Jia and Investigator Yi entered Lao Xia’s dream with the others and found Yang Xu trapped by the Fierce Tiger Colossus after he refused to repent. The investigators earned cultivation advice from the dream’s followers, while Yang Xu remained unconscious in the waking world.

• Lao Xia used his jade pendant to draw the group into a dream of a Miken-style farm, where the Puppet Man ordered him and the others to work.
• Investigator Jia and Investigator Yi sensed the Fierce Tiger Colossus’s power and asked the Puppet Man how Yang Xu could earn forgiveness; it demanded a complete gold statue.
• Yang Xu angrily rejected their help and struck his head against the ground, so the Puppet Man imprisoned him in a cage beneath the colossus.
• Investigator Jia and Investigator Yi helped prepare food as an offering and each received advice about a cultivation difficulty before dawn.
• Lao Xia told the others that Yang Xu could not wake because his consciousness was trapped in the dream, and the investigators warned everyone to stop courting supernatural dangers.

Wenren Sheng prepared Wu Liansong for a full-scale cleanup operation by teaching him five-senses skills through his Soul Teaching Method. They then arrived at the Dongshui Patrol Division’s District Headquarters, where Teacher Qin briefed them on the operation’s vast scope and cautious approach.

• Wenren Sheng learned that intimidating two Otherworldly Users had increased his Mystery Points limit from 804 to 805, then received Director An’s call about the cleanup operation beginning in two days.
• Wenren Sheng decided to bring Wu Liansong and spent a day teaching him five-senses skills through the Soul Teaching Method.
• Wenren Sheng told Wu Liansong about the cleanup mission, and Wu agreed to join despite teasing Wenren Sheng for involving his father-in-law.
• Wenren Sheng and Wu Liansong arrived at the Dongshui Patrol Division’s District Headquarters, where Teacher Qin began their pre-operation training.
• Teacher Qin explained that the cleanup would survey Great East Continent’s territory and waters, divide them into sixty-four sectors, and use reconnaissance and modern weapons to limit casualties.

Under Teacher Qin’s training, Wenren Sheng and Wu Liansong learned the cleanup operation’s plan as they watched the Patrol Division prepare its machines, Puppets, and personnel for battle. Teacher Qin explained how the forces would locate and weaken Anomalies, lure them out, and evacuate civilians before the operation began.

• Teacher Qin trained Wenren Sheng and Wu Liansong on the cleanup operation’s targets and overall plan.
• Wenren Sheng and Wu Liansong watched Black Shirts, Mechanical Spiders, Drones, and Puppets practice combat formations while Teacher Qin explained their roles and coordination.
• Teacher Qin explained that drones would carry bait that provoked territorial Anomalies, allowing the Patrol Division to draw them out selectively.
• Wenren Sheng asked whether civilians would be evacuated before the bait was deployed, and Teacher Qin stressed the need for comprehensive preparations to prevent chaos.
• Teacher Qin said Prophecy Art had foretold a terrifying future for the Miken People because of their Brain-Plugged method, and Wenren Sheng connected the cleanup operation to that issue.

Cut off by a dense fog for seven days, Red Pine City faced dwindling food supplies as Mayor Wang Hailu organized preparations to preserve order. Meanwhile, Old Wang and a gang of logging camp workers planned to exploit what they believed was the beginning of an apocalypse.

• Wang Hailu and city officials discussed the city's isolation and food shortage, and Zhong Boshuang urged them to introduce a wartime economy.
• Boss Yu proposed growing mushrooms, while Shi Longyu warned that rumors of the apocalypse could spark riots among the civilians.
• Wang Hailu ordered Shi Longyu to mobilize Security Guards and reserve militia, ration food, and help Boss Yu search for mushrooms to cultivate.
• Old Wang told a group of logging camp workers that the fog marked the start of an apocalypse and urged them to seize food and prepare to take what they wanted.
• The workers began organizing under Old Wang as order and disorder took shape in Red Pine City.

In Red Pine City, Old Wang gained immense strength and steel-like limbs amid the chaos and led his followers toward a jewelry mall. Meanwhile, Wenren Sheng and a team aboard seven airships sent puppets and drones into the mist, where they discovered frightened residents discussing shortages and a local mutation.

• Old Wang and his followers escaped the security team after looting, then mist flowing into his limbs gave him extraordinary strength and steel-like legs.
• Old Wang knocked an errand boy unconscious with a slap, dented a concrete wall with a kick, and declared himself Great King before leading his followers toward a gold and jewelry mall.
• Wenren Sheng joined Operations Staff Officers and Black Shirts Captains aboard an airship as they prepared to investigate Red Pine City, whose lost contact was attributed to an Anomaly that distorted perceptions of time.
• The airships deployed puppets, drones, and Mechanical Spiders into the mist, where electronic communications failed and the operators switched to Mysterious Realm communication.
• The operators observed residents sheltering in a mall as they discussed dwindling food, rumors of a powerful mutation, and whether order would be rebuilt.

Wenren Sheng observed the evacuation of Red Pine City as the Anomaly’s influence spread from the streets into the War Room. After Staff Officer A mutated and regained his senses, he realized he had publicly attacked Liu Zhengwei.

• Wenren Sheng monitored the Patrol Division’s operation and watched them identify a mutated man as the Anomaly’s possessed target.
• Liang Ergou shot and killed Old Wang to steal the chance to mutate, then transformed as the others watched.
• Staff Officer A and Staff Officer B argued and began fighting in the War Room while Wenren Sheng let the encounter continue to gauge the Anomaly’s influence.
• Staff Officer B tripped Staff Officer A, whose humiliation triggered a mutation that let him pin Liu Zhengwei by the throat.
• A force entered Staff Officer A, returned his arms to normal, and cleared his mind, leaving him horrified at his fight with Liu Zhengwei.

Wenren Sheng investigated Liang Ergou, who had been deceived by an Anomaly into believing the apocalypse had begun and had joined a looting spree. After returning to his quarters, Wenren Sheng entered a dream that began receiving voices from Red Pine City, where his God's Chosen Puppet Man offered salvation through God.

• Wenren Sheng sent the two Operations Staff Officers to rest after the Anomaly exposed their hostility, and the five Puppet Men captured the mutated Liang Ergou alive.
• Liang Ergou claimed he had killed a villain, but Wenren Sheng removed his mutation and learned that a week of perceived apocalypse had lasted only one day.
• Liang Ergou confessed that he and the others had ignored doubts and looted because they wanted to believe the apocalypse had arrived; the Patrol Division planned to sentence him to hard labor.
• Wenren Sheng concluded that the Anomaly spread through images and preyed on people willing to believe its deception, then left the investigation to the Patrol Division and went to sleep.
• In his dream, Wenren Sheng heard people from Red Pine City calling for rescue, and his God's Chosen Puppet Man responded by urging them to offer everything to God.
• Wenren Sheng realized that the Puppet Man had connected his dreams and the Fierce Tiger Colossus to the Seed of Mystery, producing new mysterious abilities.

Wenren Sheng’s dream revealed how the Fierce Tiger Colossus and the Puppet Man responded to people’s wishes and fears. After waking, he learned the Anomaly had been contained, then worried that evacuating remote towns would leave Eastern Continent’s land open to Anomalies.

• A young man begged the Fierce Tiger Colossus for power, wealth, youth, and immortality, provoking it to demand that requirements be fixed and carved in stone.
• The Puppet Man made the young man apologize using a page of the Ode Dictionary, and the tiger calmed as the residents gathered before it.
• Wenren Sheng woke to War Room messages identifying an old logging yard as the Anomaly’s location and reporting that the Skilled Level operation was underway.
• Two Puppets presented the mutated hallucinogenic Mushroom that had caused the Doomsday Mist, and the Chief of Staff ordered it contained and civilians moved to central cities.
• As the airship headed north, Wenren Sheng worried that abandoned towns and their surrounding land would be claimed by Anomalies, and considered whether the Fierce Tiger Colossus could deter them.