Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng learned that Chen Jiayu was tied to the unresolved Calamity Eye No. 91 and arranged a new search for Zhao Wei while ordering Ouyang Tian to watch Song Ci. At the hospital, Chen Sixi lured Song Ci toward a hotel by claiming he had something that could save Dean Chen.

• Team Leader Hu reported that Chen Jiayu's mother, Xing Yue'e, had died at Mountain Top Lake and had kept the area isolated before the Mysterious Calamity erupted there.
• Wenren Sheng concluded Chen Jiayu was the key to resolving Calamity Eye No. 91 and understood that she had abducted President Zhao for a reason connected to it.
• Ouyang Tian hired a masked man through an underground commission website to find Zhao Wei, and Wenren Sheng told him to keep Song Ci under surveillance.
• Chen Sixi told Song Ci that he had taken something from Dean Chen's office and left it with his daughter at a nearby hotel.
• When Song Ci refused to go with him, Chen Sixi warned that Teacher Chen would die without the item, and Song Ci stopped to listen.

Ouyang Tian tried to intercept Song Ci and Chen Sixi but was mistaken for a client and abducted by Chen Bale. Meanwhile, Wenren Sheng found two foreign men using a fake supernatural scheme in Chen Jiayu’s abandoned home and demanded to know how they had found it.

• Ouyang Tian followed Song Ci and Chen Sixi toward a secluded part of Nan Mountain Slope and called the investigator he believed was tailing them.
• Chen Bale claimed he was not Tieshan, grabbed Ouyang Tian, and knocked him unconscious with an ether-soaked towel.
• A skinny investigator watched Chen Bale carry Ouyang Tian away and continued following the group on his own.
• Wenren Sheng found signs that someone had entered Chen Jiayu’s abandoned home and heard two foreign men trying to lure him inside with promises of supernatural power.
• Wenren Sheng leaped through a second-floor window, dragged out the two men, and asked how they had found the house.

Wenren Sheng uncovered the secrets of two livestreamers and approached the marked building, while President Zhao, Wu Liansong, and Boss Yang remained trapped in Chen Jiayu’s mountain domain. The three prisoners learned that Chen Jiayu’s masked captives were dead and were forced to eat as they awaited Wenren Sheng’s arrival.

• Wenren Sheng pressured Jerry and Tom to explain why they had entered the Land of Abandonment, and Jerry handed over a map marking the building and the mountaintop.
• Wenren Sheng discovered that Tom’s camera granted him the ability to greatly reduce his own sense of presence, then let the two men go and headed toward the marked building.
• President Zhao, Wu Liansong, and Boss Yang lay trapped in a ritual that drained their strength, and Boss Yang realized Chen Jiayu’s domain covered the entire mountain.
• Chen Jiayu brought the prisoners lunch boxes and told them that the men in black and white masks were dead.
• Mist formed into hands to feed President Zhao, Wu Liansong, and Boss Yang, who understood that they had to eat to survive.

Wenren Sheng uncovered the truth behind the Mysterious Calamity in Tianshan Town by witnessing visions of Xing Yue'e’s sacrifice and Chen Jianlin’s reaction to her death. He identified Chen Jianlin as the man behind the calamity and looked toward the mountaintop, preparing to act.

• Wenren Sheng saw a vision of Xing Yue'e arguing with Chen Jianlin about using an ancient ritual to give their daughter Chen Jiayu Otherworldly power.
• Wenren Sheng realized Xing Yue'e had refused medicine to preserve her remaining Otherworldly power, and connected her sacrifice to Brother De’s behavior.
• Wenren Sheng called Team Leader Hu and ordered everyone withdrawn from Chen Jianlin’s vicinity after learning of his strange fishing habit.
• Wenren Sheng watched Xing Yue'e perform the ritual, sacrificing herself so Chen Jiayu could gain medical-type Otherworldly power.
• Wenren Sheng recognized Chen Jianlin in a vision and concluded that he had caused the Mysterious Calamity seven years earlier; he looked toward the mountaintop.

Wenren Sheng resisted a misty being’s offers on the way to Mountain Top Lake, then discovered Chen Sixi had exposed Song Ci as Chen Jiayu’s daughter. The chapter ended with Chen Jiayu confronting Chen Sixi in Chen Jianlin’s voice.

• Wenren Sheng asked Team Leader Hu to investigate Song Ci’s true identity after noticing her resemblance to a woman in an oil painting.
• Tieshan followed Chen Sixi and the others toward Mountain Top Lake, where a misty face tempted him with promises of power.
• Wenren Sheng rejected the misty being’s offers, gained Mystery Points, and continued to Mountain Top Lake.
• Chen Sixi revealed that Song Ci was the person he had mentioned at the hospital and showed a photograph linking her to Chen Jiayu.
• Chen Jiayu emerged from the courtyard and asked Chen Sixi what he wanted, speaking in Chen Jianlin’s voice.

Chen Sixi tried to force Chen Jiayu to perform a ritual that would make him an Otherworldly User, but Chen Jiayu turned against him and the lake devoured him. Wenren Sheng encountered Wu Shanshan and the injured Wu Liansong at the courtyard, while the truth behind the events remained uncertain.

• Chen Sixi electrocuted Chen Bale and threatened Song Ci, demanding that Chen Jiayu perform a ritual using his son or Ouyang Tian as a sacrifice.
• Chen Jiayu recalled her parents’ sacrifice and hurled Chen Sixi into the lake, where the water and duckweed dragged him under and destroyed his body.
• Chen Jiayu warned Song Ci to run, and Ouyang Tian pulled her toward the mountain gap, where they met Wenren Sheng.
• Wenren Sheng told Ouyang Tian and Song Ci to leave after Wu Shanshan arrived, then learned that she had tracked the events with a surveillance device planted on him.
• Wu Shanshan reached the courtyard, where the injured Wu Liansong urged her to leave, while Wenren Sheng questioned how much of the truth he really understood.

Chen Jiayu revealed the history of the evil spirit and her plan to end the ritual, while Wenren Sheng willingly took the final place in the courtyard’s sacrifice formation. As Chen Jiayu prepared to act, Zhao Wei questioned whether she had truly confirmed that two backup candidates existed.

• Chen Jiayu said the courtyard ritual needed one more person, and Wenren Sheng entered the empty depression and sat down as the final sacrifice.
• Boss Yang panicked and cursed at Wenren Sheng, while Chen Jiayu took the raised place at the center of the circle.
• Wenren Sheng calmly declared that some matters had to be brought to an end, earning Mystery Points from the experts present.
• Chen Jiayu explained that her father’s failed ritual had turned Mountain Top Lake into a disaster eye and that she had been sealing its evil spirit in her own body.
• Chen Jiayu said the evil spirit had spread the ritual through Chen Sixi and vowed to end it, including the ritual itself.
• Zhao Wei asked Chen Jiayu whether she had personally confirmed that two backup candidates existed.

Zhao Wei revealed that he had deceived Chen Jiayu to learn her true activation condition and used his own Alien Power to keep the ceremony from killing everyone. Chen Jiayu’s sinister male presence took control again, but Wenren Sheng resisted it and restored her, bringing the confrontation to its true ending.

• Zhao Wei admitted he had fabricated the backup-list updates to make Chen Jiayu reveal her activation condition, and explained that he needed the information before his child was born.
• Zhao Wei unleashed enough Alien Power to replace the output of the others and reassured Boss Yang that he had no intention of sacrificing the Mystery Experts.
• Zhao Wei confronted Chen Jiayu over killing the two masked captives, and the sinister male voice controlling her revealed that the ceremony was meant to erase him and his birthplace.
• Wu Shanshan realized she did not know how to summon the person who might save them, while Wenren Sheng explained that his former master Wei Yiqing would only intervene if she could not handle the crisis.
• Wenren Sheng activated Master Level Mystery Resistance and used his Seed of Mystery to suppress the male presence and restore Chen Jiayu.

Chen Jiayu performed the ritual and destroyed the No. 91 Mystery Calamity Eye, though she regretted that she had not removed its source completely. Ouyang Tian awoke in a mountain ravine and, seeing Black Shirts heading toward the summit, recognized them as the real force waiting behind the scenes.

• Chen Jiayu began the ritual, and Wenren Sheng realized that the illusions had omitted the incantations needed to perform it correctly.
• Song Ci interrupted the ritual, but Wu Shanshan carried her away; Chen Jiayu then changed her prayer and expelled the evil spirit from her body into the lake.
• The ritual's Alien Power destroyed the tangled lines in Mountain Top Lake, and the lake dried up as the mountain mist vanished.
• President Zhao told Chen Jiayu that nothing in heaven and earth was perfect, after she regretted failing to remove the illness's source completely.
• Ouyang Tian woke in a ravine, confirmed Tieshan's identity using a recording, and learned that Song Ci had injected him and left him unconscious.
• Ouyang Tian saw Black Shirts streaming toward the mountain and concluded that they were the real orioles waiting behind.

On the train back to Dongshui City, Wenren Sheng, Wu Shanshan, and Wu Liansong discussed Old Zhao’s plot, the merit Wenren Sheng earned, and the scarcity of Seeds. At Wenren Sheng’s home, Zhao Han used her Seed of Narration on Wu Shanshan and received a dire warning about repeating others’ mistakes.

• Wu Shanshan asked whether Old Zhao could gain what he wanted, and Wu Liansong explained that Old Zhao sought merit for resolving Calamity Eye No. 91 and had targeted Chen Jiayu’s medical Seed.
• Wu Shanshan accused Wenren Sheng of waiting for Old Zhao to slip, while Wu Liansong warned her not to rush into becoming a Mystery Expert.
• Wenren Sheng asked whether his new merit could earn another protection opportunity, and Wu Liansong said a suitable Seed would still have to be found for Wenren De.
• Wu Shanshan inferred that Old Zhao planned to meet the medical Seed’s activation conditions for his own child, while Wenren Sheng said Chen Jiayu would not trust others after her uncle’s betrayal.
• At Wenren Sheng’s home, Zhao Han fretted over everyone’s safety until Wenren De urged her to think through the situation herself.
• Zhao Han activated the Seed of Narration on Wu Shanshan and was shocked by its warning that a wall would not yield a different outcome to a different person; Wenren De fell off the sofa in alarm.

After returning from the mysterious incident, Zhao Han felt guilty about her role in the danger and learned from Wenren De to separate her responsibilities from others’ and judge deeds rather than motives. Ouyang Ling then returned with news that Wenren De might be recommended for another Otherworldly User, while the Seed of Narration warned Zhao Han that muddleheads could lose theirs.

• Wenren De secretly worried that his remaining power might not let him make another prediction, while Zhao Han received Wenren Sheng’s message that the group was returning safely.
• Wenren Sheng and the others arrived at the villa, and Zhao Han returned feeling dejected and guilty after learning what had happened.
• Wenren De explained that Old Zhao had acted within the Patrol Division’s permitted scope and helped Zhao Han recognize that her guilt came from blaming herself for others’ choices and dangers.
• Wenren De told Zhao Han to judge deeds rather than motives and joked about his own past thoughts of becoming a foreign emperor.
• Ouyang Ling returned and revealed that her son planned to recommend Wenren De for another Otherworldly User, then warned Zhao Han to keep Wenren De from drinking.
• The Seed of Narration prompted Zhao Han that Ouyang Ling’s remark about Otherworldly Users disliking muddleheads meant muddleheads could not hold on to their Otherworldly Users.

Wenren Sheng accompanied Zhao Han to visit her uncle, President Zhao, after the family discussed Otherworldly Users and Zhao Han decided to reconcile with him. At the Zhao villa, Wenren Sheng recognized Inoue Shizuko as an incubator of another soul, and a prompt revealed that the missing Otherworldly User had been hidden somewhere no one would think to search.

• Wenren Sheng read that Ximaru Country was recruiting for a new Garrison Commander and considered obtaining an Otherworldly User to help Wenren De acquire one legally.
• At dinner, Zhao Han questioned parents restricting their children’s choices, and Wenren Sheng received a call from President Zhao inviting him to a belated judges’ celebration.
• Zhao Han decided to visit her uncle, and Wenren Sheng joined her to discuss matters with President Zhao.
• Wenren Sheng and Zhao Han walked to the Zhao villa, where President Zhao greeted them and welcomed Zhao Han to stay the night.
• Wenren Sheng identified Inoue Shizuko as an incubator of another soul, then received a prompt confirming the missing Otherworldly User had been concealed in an unexpected place.

Wenren Sheng hinted to President Zhao that Inoue Shizuko’s fetus might contain a remnant of the evil spirit, then used a dark joke to warn him about hidden consequences. After Wenren Sheng left, President Zhao explained his ruthless view of trust and revealed that he had schemed to obtain Chen Jiayu’s ability for someone loyal to him.

• Wenren Sheng decided to alert President Zhao and the Patrol Division that a fragment of the evil spirit had fused with Inoue Shizuko’s fetus.
• Wenren Sheng praised Zhao Han’s prophetic talent, then told a joke whose final twist implied that President Zhao’s death might be imminent.
• President Zhao questioned a servant about Inoue Shizuko’s private meetings, then hid his concern when Zhao Han returned.
• Zhao Han apologized for the grievances she had voiced against her uncle, and President Zhao told her to doubt others in the Treachery Domain.
• President Zhao admitted that he had sought Chen Jiayu’s Otherworldly User ability so he could give it to someone he trusted.

Wenren Sheng reviewed the rewards from his Mystery event, failed to find Wu Shanshan’s monitor, and began learning the Eagle Eye reconnaissance skill. Before the celebration at the Zhao Family Villa, he spent days training and then arrived in ornate robes with a mysterious glow and background music.

• Wenren Sheng gained 20 Mystic Cognition points and expanded his Mystery Points limit, then gained five more points after glimpsing the mysteries of the Soul Domain.
• Wenren Sheng searched for Wu Shanshan’s monitor but found nothing, so he chose to learn Eagle Eye from the Patrol Division’s classified skill database.
• Wenren Sheng spent five days studying Eagle Eye and hired expert instructors with favors as payment.
• President Zhao told Wenren Sheng that the celebration would begin at two in the afternoon at the Zhao Family Villa’s backyard.
• Wenren Sheng kept everyone waiting while he prepared, then emerged in white ancient-style robes with a golden glow and distant background music.
• Zhao Han asked Wenren Sheng where the music came from, but he refused to tell her as Li Shuangyue followed the group carrying a speaker.

Wenren Sheng attended a gathering at Zhao Family Villa, where guests admired his appearance and discussed his Ancient Lost Seed. As the gathering turned toward matchmaking, a foul stench spread through the backyard, accompanied by a dejected old man’s verses and a demand for aged wine.

• Wenren Sheng and his companions arrived at Zhao Family Villa and entered the shaded backyard gathering.
• Guests admired Wenren Sheng and discussed his Ancient Lost Seed, along with rumors of ownerless seeds offered by Ximaru Country.
• Su Yuanshi introduced herself to Wenren Sheng, and Wu Shanshan asked about her family’s Master Level lineage.
• Madam Lu offered to introduce Wenren Sheng to eligible women, but Wenren De said his son already had a female companion.
• A rancid stench spread through the gathering as a dejected old man recited verses in the Front Yard and asked Little Zhao for six-hundred-year-old Daughter Red.

At a celebration honoring Wenren Sheng, guests discussed the legendary Ding Chengshan, whom they believed to be a powerful Mystery Master with prophetic abilities. Wenren Sheng recognized that Ding Chengshan was only a beginner and suspected the real master was someone else, before the wine-digging ceremony uncovered a black cat’s bones beneath a tree.

• Wenren De and Butler Su told the guests that Ding Chengshan could foresee deaths and had once been detained before the Palace Government determined his power was prophecy.
• President Zhao introduced Ding Chengshan as a Mystery Master invited to guide Wenren Sheng at the celebration.
• Ding Chengshan asked President Zhao to serve him the six-hundred-year-old Daughter Red buried beneath the largest Cherry Blossom Tree.
• Wenren Sheng examined Ding Chengshan’s data and concluded that he was only an Otherworldly beginner, likely the real master’s next-door brother.
• A Zhao Family servant digging up the wine found bones beneath the tree, then clarified that they belonged to a black cat.

Wenren Sheng identified Ding Chengshan as a fake and helped expose the theft of the wine, while Zhao Han’s prediction revealed the real master’s disciple had switched the jar. The gathering’s commotion continued when Wu Liansong caught a ragged young man on the courtyard wall, and President Zhao questioned him.

• Wenren Sheng found a dead cat buried beneath the Cherry Blossom Tree instead of President Zhao’s wine jar, and Ding Chengshan dismissed the incident before drinking from his gourd.
• Wenren Sheng told President Zhao that the missing wine was in Ding Chengshan’s gourd, then asked Zhao Han to predict whether Ding Chengshan was the thief.
• Zhao Han’s Seed of Narration revealed that Ding Chengshan was a fake who had taken his introverted brother’s place, and that his brother’s disciple had switched the wine jar.
• Wenren Sheng explained that he had linked Ding Chengshan to the black cat through their similar scents, and President Zhao praised Zhao Han’s ability.
• Wu Liansong brought a ragged young man he had caught on the courtyard wall, and the young man angrily condemned the gathering for ignoring hardship beyond Divine Land.

President Zhao confronted a ragged youth who had trespassed and revealed he was a Mystery Master's disciple, then explained to Zhao Han why his accusations were hypocritical. Wenren Sheng exposed the youth’s empty posturing with a story, and the Zhao Family’s male servant revealed that President Zhao’s extravagant wine bid had raised charity funds for people affected by Mysterious Calamities.

• Wenren Sheng called the Patrol Division after the ragged youth refused to answer for trespassing and suspected theft, prompting the youth to reveal he was a Mystery Master's disciple.
• President Zhao called the youth a traitor for relying on Otherworldly Users while disrupting their gathering, and told Zhao Han to avoid people like him.
• Wenren Sheng told a story mocking people who demanded that powerful Otherworldly Users suppress disasters but would not volunteer when they themselves had only a Skilled Level assessment.
• The guests laughed at the story, and Zhao Han realized it was aimed at the youth, who could not defend himself.
• The Zhao Family's male servant explained that President Zhao and another Otherworldly Expert had deliberately raised the wine auction price to fund charity work for people affected by Mysterious Calamities.
• The youth lowered his head in shame, while Zhao Han realized her uncle quietly helped others despite his calculating nature.

Wenren Sheng and Zhao Han refused to let Ding Chengshan interfere with the ragged youth’s punishment, so Ding pronounced that they had only three years to live. Wenren De then recited Zhuangzi’s “Wandering Freely,” leaving Wenren Sheng wondering what his father was trying to tell him.

• Ding Chengshan tried to take the ragged youth away, but Zhao Han argued against letting him escape punishment, and Wenren Sheng backed her up while saying he had notified Inspector Liu.
• President Zhao ordered Wu Liansong to keep the youth under guard and hand him over to the Patrol Division, and Ding Chengshan left after pronouncing that Wenren Sheng and Zhao Han had three years left to live.
• Wenren Sheng received a mysterious prompt about Ding Chengshan’s judgment, while he reassured Zhao Han that she had done nothing wrong.
• The gathering resumed, though some guests distanced themselves from Wenren Sheng, and Wu Shanshan privately spoke with him as Zhao Han listened.
• Wenren De recited Zhuangzi’s “Wandering Freely” before the guests, and Wenren Sheng wondered what his father meant to hint at.

After Wenren De recited “Wandering Freely” at the gathering, guests praised him, unaware that Wenren Sheng had written it from memories of his past life. The gathering ended with new arrangements for Tianxing Club and President Zhao reassuring Wenren Sheng, while Wenren De’s attempt to promise Zhao Han more writing in exchange for wine was cut short by Ouyang Ling.

• Wenren De recited “Wandering Freely,” and the guests praised its grand spirit and took the work to be his own.
• Wenren Sheng realized the fu was something he had copied from his past-life memories, while Wu Shanshan guessed he had written it and admired his insight.
• President Zhao promoted Tianxing Club, and Hu Yuanxiang and Hu Qingyang arranged for the club to train their two young disciples.
• Su Yuanshi gave Wenren Sheng her card and praised the Wenren family before leaving the gathering.
• President Zhao assured Wenren Sheng that he would handle the matter, and Wenren Sheng understood that Zhao had grasped the truth and would not report it to the Patrol Division.
• Wenren De offered to compose more works for Zhao Han if she provided good wine, but Ouyang Ling scolded him for drinking after she had told him not to.