Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng continued his training and, after Wenren De asked for more poems, wrote down works absent from this timeline. At Tianxing Club, a woman recited one of his poems and wondered whether it warned her against acting recklessly.

• Wenren Sheng trained his Eagle Eye while Zhao Han recited a comic version of “Wandering Freely” from the balcony.
• Wenren Sheng learned that Wu Liansong had left on a long business trip and suspected Old Zhao was making a move.
• Wenren De asked Wenren Sheng for more poems to help him impress poetry enthusiasts, and Wenren Sheng agreed to write some down.
• Wenren Sheng copied poems and prose from his memories onto Xuan Paper, confirming they did not exist in this timeline.
• At Tianxing Club, a woman recited Wenren Sheng’s poem, interpreted it as a possible warning, and recited it again.

Wenren Sheng returned to work after a week of recovery and taught his new trainees foundational knowledge and difficult mysterious cultivation techniques with unusual clarity. The chapter ended with Wei Yiqing questioning his decision to teach ordinary students and leaving with her ears covered after he recited a passage about water and wind.

• Wenren Sheng returned to the company and reviewed the files of the new trainees sent by Manager Chen.
• Engineer Zheng explained the Patrol Division's rules for Otherworldly Users and Ancestral Seed cultivation before Wenren Sheng took over the class.
• Wenren Sheng taught the trainees foundational cultivation knowledge and difficult techniques, leaving them absorbed and praising his teaching.
• A trainee in an azure robe praised Wenren Sheng's generosity, while Zhao Han, Xu Yunshuang, and Wu Shanshan left together for lunch.
• Wei Yiqing asked Wenren Sheng whether he would use the Teaching Skill on ordinary students, and he recited a passage about water and wind.
• Wenren Sheng noticed that he had gained no Mystery Points, then saw Wei Yiqing leaving with both hands pressed over her ears.

Wenren Sheng learned that Ximaru Country was recruiting a Garrison Commander and received an invitation to join Master Yuan’s team. He decided to accept for the chance to activate a newly born Otherworldly Seed, while preparing Zhao Han and Wu Shanshan for the upcoming test.

• Wenren Sheng read the official recruitment notice, which offered two ownerless Otherworldly Seeds and revealed that three Mystery Masters had already signed up.
• Wu Shanshan explained that the test would assess candidates’ problem-solving skills, connections, and suitability for diplomacy, while Zhao Han became interested in learning about Mystery Masters.
• Madam Su told Wenren Sheng that Master Yuan was forming a team and invited him to join.
• Wenren Sheng explained that team members would receive a recommendation slot to activate a First Generation Seed in three days, and could share a three-hundred-year-old Seed if Master Yuan won the position.
• Wenren Sheng agreed to join the team and reassured Zhao Han that he would only take on what he could handle.

Wenren Sheng arranged for Wenren De to activate his mysterious seed, then traveled to Dingxi City at Madam Su’s invitation to assist the Su-Yuan Family. He arrived at the Yuan Family Estate and found their apparent neglect convenient.

• Wenren Sheng told Wenren De that he would accompany Ouyang Ling to activate his mysterious seed in three days, and Zhao Han’s prediction left Wenren De convinced he would succeed.
• Wenren Sheng contacted Madam Su, got leave from President Zhao, and flew to Dingxi City in the northwest.
• Wenren Sheng saw the Su and Yuan family estates from the air and learned that the families had intermarried for generations.
• Madam Su welcomed Wenren Sheng during the drive to the Yuan Family Estate and explained that the family was supporting its great-grandfather’s bid to become West Circle Garrison Commander.
• The Yuan Family’s servants admitted the convoy through a side gate, and Wenren Sheng was untroubled by their apparent neglect.

Wenren Sheng stayed at the Su family manor and met Yan Ze, a Mystery Expert who invited him to join the Sole Supremacy Society. After learning how its Merit Coupons worked, Wenren Sheng recognized Yan Ze as belonging to the Ancients Faction.

• Madam Su brought Wenren Sheng to the Jade Bright Hall and showed him his luxurious accommodations.
• Butler Su introduced Yan Ze, who arrived to meet Wenren Sheng and spoke contemptuously about servants and social rank.
• Yan Ze revealed a Minor Merit Coupon and invited Wenren Sheng to join the Sole Supremacy Society, which issued coupons redeemable for expert help completing recorded Merit Points.
• Wenren Sheng questioned whether the Society's coupons encroached on the Patrol Division's jurisdiction, and Yan Ze dismissed his concerns.
• Wenren Sheng listened to Yan Ze and concluded that he belonged to the Ancients Faction, which valued family traditions, rules, and hierarchy.

Wenren Sheng rejected Yan Ze’s invitation to join the Sole Supremacy Society, which then placed him on its Purple List for observation. After learning more about the society’s rigid hierarchy, he prepared to attend Madam Su’s gathering of experts.

• Wenren Sheng refused Yan Ze’s offer, citing his Tianxing Club employment contract and his satisfaction with its equal atmosphere.
• Yan Ze reported Wenren Sheng to a Sole Supremacy Society leader, who ordered that he be placed on the Purple List for observation.
• Wenren Sheng asked Inspector Liu about the society and learned that it had a strict hierarchy and offered generous benefits to members.
• Madam Su invited Wenren Sheng to an experts’ gathering and told him the society ranked members on the Seven Colors List, including her great-grandfather on the Azure List.

Wenren Sheng attended a week of banquets hosted by the Su-Yuan Family before joining more than thirty Mystery Experts on a mission abroad. The group arrived in Ximaru Country’s capital, Tuotuo, where Wenren Sheng saw how backward the city was and listened to his companions disparage the country.

• At the Yuan Family gathering, Wenren Sheng spoke with Yan Ze after Yan Ze struck a servant girl, and Fan Xing criticized the dancers’ etiquette and training.
• Wenren Sheng attended banquets for seven straight days, getting to know the experts but finding no chance to investigate them or raise his Mystery Points limit.
• After Yuan Shouyi arranged the departure, Wenren Sheng learned from Madam Su about the Su-Yuan Family’s preparations, including exit visas, intelligence, and route scouting.
• The experts flew to Tuotuo, Ximaru Country’s capital, where Wenren Sheng remarked on its poverty and Fan Xing and another expert blamed the country’s people and circumstances.

Wenren Sheng joined Yuan Shouyi and the other Divine Land experts to discuss their recruitment test: pacifying a Disaster Eye in Nishimaru. While the group debated how to deal with it, Wu Liansong learned that Master Ding intended to wait rather than prepare alongside the other candidates.

• Wenren Sheng called Wenren De and learned he had failed to activate his mystic species, then went with Fan Xing to Yuan Shouyi's tent for a briefing.
• Yuan Shouyi explained that four Mystery Masters would each be assigned a Disaster Eye, and only those who pacified one would qualify for an interview.
• Yuan Chifeng proposed sealing the wildfire Disaster Eye with a ritual, mystic power, and inscribed chains, while Lu Hao urged the experts to trigger and destroy its core in one strike.
• The experts threw Lu Hao out of the tent, but Yuan Shouyi endorsed his call to eliminate the Disaster Eye at its root and restore the grassland.
• Wu Liansong asked Master Ding why he was not preparing for the Disaster Eye, and Master Ding quoted a passage before telling him to talk less and sleep more.

A masked Mr. Hai conspired with five Americans to ambush the Divine Land experts at the Longevity River’s fire eye, while Wenren Sheng questioned his team’s reliance on remote observation. He recognized that their confidence in their own strength and in Yuan Shouyi’s technique had become dangerous arrogance.

• Mr. Hai explained how the Americans could ambush the experts during their attempt to suppress the fire eye, and demanded that they kill the youngest man without harming any Otherworldly Users.
• The Americans discussed Mr. Hai’s motives and accepted Hose’s explanation that jealousy and a desire for self-fulfillment had driven him to cooperate.
• For three days, the experts in the Golden Tent refined their plan using Yuan Shouyi’s Remote Observation Technique, while Wenren Sheng withheld his opinions.
• Wenren Sheng asked Fan Xing why they had not inspected the site, warning that mysterious techniques could be interfered with or disrupted.
• Fan Xing dismissed the possibility of interference from their allies or the Americans, and Wenren Sheng realized the team’s pride had made them arrogant and careless.

Wenren Sheng left Yuan Shouyi’s planning meeting and enlisted Ding Chengshan to watch over the group and inspect the Riverside Fire Eye with him. Three days later, he returned with the experts to carry out their plan to locate and suppress the Fire Eye.

• Wenren Sheng left the Golden Tent after Fan Xing dismissed his concerns, while Yan Ze mocked his lack of confidence.
• Wenren Sheng met the genuine Ding Chengshan, asked him to watch Yuan Shouyi’s people and accompany him to the Riverside Fire Eye, and then drove him and Wu Liansong there.
• After three days, Yuan Shouyi and the experts completed their suppression plan and led a convoy back to the fire-scorched grassland.
• Yuan Shouyi explained that the Fire Eye had arisen from the resentment of a tribe that was slaughtered, burned, and plundered.
• Yuan Shouyi led the experts into the flames to find the Fire Eye, and Wenren Sheng followed as the group began the operation.

Wenren Sheng joined the experts working to contain the Fire Eye and learned why Yuan Shouyi was so eager to complete the task perfectly. The chapter ended with Wenren Sheng realizing Yuan Shouyi wanted to win people’s support for ambitions beyond becoming Garrison Commander.

• Yuan Shouyi led the experts through the flames and assigned four teams to surround the Fire Eye while Wenren Sheng observed from the reserve team.
• The experts used inscribed iron pillars and chains to absorb the Fire Eye’s Mysterious Power and turn it into a seal, working in shifts for four days.
• Wenren Sheng joined Fan Xing’s group, quickly mastered driving the pillars, and earned the other experts’ respect for his strength and coordination.
• Fan Xing explained that Yuan Shouyi had carefully raised and selected five Otherworldly Users, whom he named Wind, Fire, Thunder, Lightning, and Water.
• Wenren Sheng inferred that Yuan Shouyi sought more than the Garrison Commander position and was trying to win people’s support.

Wenren Sheng and the experts completed an iron-chain blockade around the fireground and began a ritual to suppress and destroy the Disaster Eye. As the four perimeter rituals weakened it, Wenren Sheng suspected the operation could succeed unless an outside enemy interfered.

• Wenren Sheng discussed the Sima Family’s success with Fan Xing, then returned to work.
• The experts joined the final iron chain, trapping the fireground and cutting off the source of the flames and resentment.
• Yuan Shouyi shielded the experts from the Disaster Eye’s wails, while the others praised Wenren Sheng’s strength and Yuan Shouyi commended him.
• The next morning, Yuan Shouyi ordered the experts to perform their ritual; they completed four perimeter rituals and poured Alien Power into them.
• Yuan Chifeng and the other three leaders activated the rituals, sending four streams of mist into the bonfire to weaken the Disaster Eye.

Wenren Sheng watched Yuan Shouyi complete a ritual to suppress the Fire Eye, but Ding Chengshan exposed a hidden threat and helped reveal his twin brother Ding Chenghai’s scheme. Ding Chengshan took his brother away and gave Wenren Sheng a book inviting its future master to inherit his Xenomorph at Cloud Mountain in six months.

• Yuan Shouyi carved a ritual around the bonfire as Wenren Sheng noticed what seemed to be a flaw in his work, though the other experts dismissed his concern.
• Ding Chengshan arrived with Wu Liansong and exposed five white men hiding beyond the smoke, prompting Yuan Shouyi and the other experts to pursue them.
• Wenren Sheng and Ding Chengshan cornered a falcon-masked observer, whom Wenren Sheng recognized as Ding Chenghai, Ding Chengshan’s identical twin.
• Ding Chenghai admitted he had used his borrowed ability to interfere with someone’s fate, while Ding Chengshan said he would take responsibility for his brother.
• Ding Chengshan gave Wenren Sheng the book Life and Death, Prophecy and the Soul, whose fresh inscription invited its master to inherit his Xenomorph at Cloud Mountain in six months.

Wenren Sheng and Wu Liansong returned to the experts after Master Ding’s death and learned that the attackers had used short-lived technological replicas of Otherworldly Seeds to test them. Yuan Shouyi returned with the escaped guide dead, and the experts tried to reassure themselves that the near defeat had happened only because they were overseas and unprepared.

• Wenren Sheng read messages saying four attackers had been captured and Master Yuan was pursuing the escaped guide, then returned to Fire Eye with Wu Liansong.
• Wenren Sheng recalled that Ding Chenghai’s long life came from Otherworldly Sharing, while experts gathered outside a tent where the captives were being questioned.
• Old Mr. Zheng reported that the four captives had used experimental Otherworldly Seed replicas lasting three months and had been sent to test them against the strongest Otherworldly Users.
• Yan Ze warned that a small number of Mystery Experts had nearly been worn down by expendable Ordinary People using replicas.
• Yuan Shouyi returned with the white-haired guide dead and proposed forming a Yellow Shirts unit, prompting the experts to blame their near defeat on being overseas and without Black Shirt support.
• Wenren Sheng judged that the experts needed to acknowledge the loss and learn from it instead of making excuses.

Zhao Han investigated Wang Xin’s missing bag with Li Shuangyue, then discovered Wang Xin and Chen Dong had lured them out to steal her alien seed. When Zhao Han began to surrender it to protect Li, Li announced that the recording was complete and gave someone the signal to act.

• Wenren De learned Zhao Han had gone out with Li Shuangyue and hoped she would return in time to cook dinner.
• Zhao Han and Li Shuangyue accompanied Wang Xin and Chen Dong to investigate the disappearance of Wang Xin’s bag.
• Zhao Han secretly used the Seed of Narration on Wang Xin and sensed that a deadly crisis was approaching.
• Wang Xin and Chen Dong revealed their plan to kill Zhao Han and take her alien seed, which they valued at one hundred million.
• Zhao Han agreed to hand over her alien seed to protect herself and Li Shuangyue, but Li said the video recording was complete and they could make their move.

Li Shuangyue helped Zhao Han stop Wang Xin and Chen Dong from robbing them, and the Patrol Division arrested the pair. Shaken by the danger, Zhao Han decided to train harder, while a hidden group reported her resolve to Boss and President Zhao reflected on greed and the recent chaos at the gathering.

• Li Shuangyue drew real pistols on Wang Xin and Chen Dong, then had Zhao Han cuff them and call the Patrol Division.
• Inspector Liu arrived by Helicopter with three Black Shirts and took Wang Xin and Chen Dong away.
• On the drive home, Li Shuangyue explained that danger was part of an Otherworldly User's life, and Zhao Han resolved to study, strengthen her defenses, and learn to fight.
• Wenren De told Zhao Han to cook while he studied, but Li Shuangyue took over the cooking so she could focus on improving herself.
• Two men in a black sedan reported to Boss that Zhao Han was unharmed and determined to get stronger, then continued their shifts watching over her.
• President Zhao reflected on the black cat skeleton beneath the Cherry Blossom Tree and agreed with Jia Yu that greed had to be rooted out.

After Yuan Shouyi extinguished the Riverside Fire Eye and received Ximaru Country’s rewards, Wenren Sheng returned home with Wu Liansong and reunited with his family. Zhao Han learned she would attend Dongshui No. 1 High School, while Wu Shanshan took her aside to discuss her doubts about school and training.

• Yuan Shouyi used five captured American saboteurs as test material, then completed the ritual and extinguished the Riverside Fire Eye.
• Ximaru Country’s administrators watched the test video, and the Ximaru King presented Yuan Shouyi with the Garrison Commander’s crown, seal, and contract documents.
• Wenren Sheng received a notification that he and Zhao Han had completed the Prejudgment of Life and Death event, raising his Mystic Cognition and Mystery Points cap.
• Wenren Sheng and Wu Liansong returned home, where Wenren Sheng explained his rewards and Wu Liansong distributed local gifts to the family.
• Wu Shanshan reminded Zhao Han that school was starting, and Zhao Han learned she would transfer to Dongshui No. 1 High School on September 5.
• Wu Shanshan took Zhao Han to the balcony after Zhao Han wondered whether school was worthwhile compared with training for the Club.

Wenren Sheng received a warning about a new alien species at the Eastwater River’s source, then joined a meeting about the Club’s expanded case quota and plans to recruit or train more Mystery Experts. The Club prepared to develop promising trainees, while Wenren Sheng kept the alien species’ information from Wenren De so he would stay focused on his studies.

• Wu Shanshan returned with Zhao Han, who declared her plans to enter Aomori University, and Wu Shanshan took her off to study.
• Wenren Sheng found a note warning that a new alien species would appear at the source of the Eastwater River in four days and decided to secure it without telling Wenren De.
• President Zhao praised Wenren Sheng for helping Master Yuan become Garrison Commander of Ximaru Country, and Wenren Sheng joined in their playful celebration.
• President Zhao told the Club that its fourth-quarter cooperation quota had risen to seventy-five cases, and Wenren Sheng calculated the pace needed to meet it.
• President Zhao proposed recruiting outsiders and intensively training promising trainees, and Wenren Sheng agreed to prepare a list of reliable candidates with potential.

Wenren Sheng selected five students for cultivation and discussed President Zhao’s plan to compete for the Mysterious Power released by a new Otherworldly Species. He warned that someone might be controlling when the species emerged, leaving the group cautious about the coming opportunity.

• Wenren Sheng listed Hu Qingyang, Xu Yunshuang, Wu Shanshan, Zhao Han, and Liu Jian as candidates, noting that Liu Jian needed careful correction.
• President Zhao revealed that a new Otherworldly Species would emerge in four days and explained that he wanted to obtain its Mysterious Power rather than claim its lifelong usage rights.
• Wu Liansong worried that competing could damage the company, but President Zhao explained that the masters would be occupied by annual inspections.
• Wenren Sheng warned that the timing of the new Otherworldly Species might be deliberately controlled, prompting Wu Liansong to recall the events at Mountain Top Lake.
• Wei Yiqing mocked Wenren Sheng about going bald, and Wu Liansong teased President Zhao about his thinning hair.

Two former Otherworldly Users plotted to seize a new seed and vowed to kill anyone who competed with them. At breakfast, Wenren Sheng warned Zhao Han away from online claims about bonding with seeds, leaving Wu Shanshan troubled by his comparison to Liu Bo.

• In the East Water Province mountains, a Tall Man and a Short Fat Man discussed a new otherworldly seed and the Tall Man threatened to kill anyone who competed with him.
• Wenren Sheng checked that Wenren De was awake, prompting Wenren De to misunderstand the visit and begin studying diligently.
• Zhao Han recalled Narration Mister’s unusually normal warning and asked Wenren Sheng whether otherworldly seeds had consciousness.
• Wenren Sheng rejected an online post about winning a seed’s approval and said people who followed such ideas often ended up like Liu Bo.
• Wu Shanshan’s expression darkened at the mention of Liu Bo, while Wu Liansong told the group to ignore private sources and follow their textbooks.