Chapter Summaries

Jack was possessed by Lu Sheng as he climbed toward the murder apartment, where the supernatural killer Luo Lin ambushed him. Lu Sheng fought her with a pistol and an improvised iron spike, but she kept teleporting and healing as the battle continued.

• Jack left Professor Andrew and headed home, unaware that dark clouds and black mist were gathering over London.
• Luo Lin reappeared in the murder apartment as Jack climbed the stairs, but Lu Sheng took control of Jack's body after a sudden blow to the head.
• Lu Sheng sensed a powerful supernatural presence, found his apartment door locked, and armed himself with a broken dustpan handle.
• Lu Sheng saw a duplicate Jack enter his apartment, then used a copied key to enter the murder apartment and investigate.
• Luo Lin attacked Lu Sheng with a kitchen knife, but he kicked her away, shot her, and stabbed her with the iron spike when her wounds healed.
• Luo Sheng struck Luo Lin's neck and seized her shoulder as she appeared behind him again.

Lu Sheng escaped Luo Lin’s apartment after their fight, found a troubling message in her recipe booklet, and discovered that someone—or something—was resisting him behind Jack’s door. Unable to return home or use his powers, he headed to the London Police Station, where he intervened when patrolman Badi grabbed a newsboy.

• Luo Lin vanished after healing her wounds with black qi, and Lu Sheng found no further sign of her in the apartment.
• Lu Sheng discovered Luo Lin’s recipe booklet and a photograph of her with Jayne, then found the question “Have you ever felt loneliness?” among the recipes.
• Lu Sheng found Jack’s door locked from inside and felt someone resisting him from the other side, so he abandoned the apartment building.
• Lu Sheng took a carriage to 73 Dow Jones Road, planning to stay in the Police Station dormitory because he could not return home or access his stored resources.
• Patrolman Badi grabbed a newsboy who had bumped into him, and Lu Sheng stepped in to stop him.

Lu Sheng settled into the Police Station dormitory and used Deep Blue to create and cultivate a basic qi-and-blood art. Its first level painfully strengthened his body and, unexpectedly, slightly nourished his divine soul, leaving him ravenous and needing several days to recover before another enhancement.

• Lu Sheng entered the Police Station dormitory after receiving permission to stay there, then tried thirteen blood-drawn power symbols but failed to activate any of them.
• Harsen told Lu Sheng about a meeting at two o'clock and a new lead in the murder upstairs from his former apartment, with Madona leading a team the next afternoon.
• Lu Sheng created the Qi Blood Art in Deep Blue, using his cultivation knowledge to combine physical training, defense, speed, recovery, and endurance.
• Lu Sheng raised the Qi Blood Art to its first level, enduring hours of intense pain as his body strengthened and his divine soul grew slightly.
• After cleaning off the impurities, Lu Sheng inspected his improved physique, estimated he needed three days to adapt before advancing again, and bought more food while preparing to remain on duty.

Lu Sheng stayed out of the task force investigating the Duke’s murdered family and focused on training, but the entire ten-person team went missing. As the police prepared a second search, Lu Sheng returned to his room to attempt another enhancement of the Qi Blood Art.

• Chief Ge Gen announced the Duke and his family had been murdered and formed a ten-person task force, which Lu Sheng declined to join.
• Lu Sheng trained with Jason and An Xi while the task force investigated the case.
• Ge Gen revealed that all ten task force members had gone missing after leaving the crime scene.
• When Ge Gen called for a second task force, only two officers volunteered, even after he raised the reward to three hundred thousand pounds.
• Lu Sheng returned to his dormitory with over 3.6 million God-Entrusting Power and prepared to push the Qi Blood Art to its limit.

Lu Sheng prepared to strengthen Jack’s body, but discovered that the Heavenly Devil World beacon had vanished and he could neither return nor leave the space. He began raising his Qi Blood Art with Deep Blue, while Kelly King continued trying to draw Jack closer to her family in Berlin.

• Lu Sheng received letters from Old Jack and Kelly King, then wrote replies while considering Jack’s reluctance to join his mother’s new family.
• In Berlin, Kelly King discussed Jack with her assistant and arranged support for Bolan and plans for her children to spend the year-end holiday together.
• Lu Sheng tried to contact the Heavenly Devil World beacon and found it missing, leaving him unable to return or escape the space.
• Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to raise his Qi Blood Art from the First Layer through successive levels, nourishing and strengthening his body with Earth Qi.

Lu Sheng pushed his qi and blood to the limit and discovered a mysterious Harpys Eye symbol hidden in both his body and divine soul. By tracing his memories backward, he learned the symbol came from the original body's resistance when his soul first entered it, while his own soul had grown powerful in a space-time vortex before reaching Yellow Springs Star.

• A woman in a red dress listened to a dark voice command her to kill obstacles to the Lord of Water's ritual, then dissolved into black hair.
• Lu Sheng raised his Qi Blood Art to the forty-eighth level, but his body began to rupture under the strain.
• Lu Sheng noticed an eagle-shaped, one-eyed symbol on his chest and found the same mark in Giant Crane Thousand Gods' cerebral core.
• Lu Sheng rewound his memories and discovered the Harpys Eye symbol had emerged from the original body's flesh when his divine soul first entered it.
• Lu Sheng traced his soul's journey through the Seven-Colored Space-Time Vortex, where it absorbed shattered souls before entering a crack and descending into the young man's body on Yellow Springs Star.

After uncovering clues that his arrival might be tied to an evil god symbol, Lu Sheng reached the apparent human limit of physical strength and joined officers investigating Luo Lin’s murder case. At the hunter’s cabin, a symbol appeared in the woods, and a supernatural black bear attacked and killed several officers.

• Lu Sheng traced his memories to a mysterious symbol and suspected that someone might have arranged his arrival in this world.
• He strengthened his Qi Blood Art to the forty-eighth level, bent a metal barbell, and concluded that his physical strength had reached the human limit.
• Lu Sheng joined Jason and the officers heading to a hunter’s cabin to resume investigating Luo Lin’s murder case.
• The officers found the cabin empty and split into teams to search the surrounding forest.
• Ge Zuo and a policewoman discovered a dark red symbol carved into a tree before a black bear attacked and killed them.
• The bear healed from gunfire and hunted down more officers as their screams and gunshots rang through the woods.

Lu Sheng and Jason encountered a gigantic black bear in the woods, and Lu Sheng hid his true strength while trying to keep Jason safe. After luring the bear to a secluded pool, Lu Sheng transformed and overwhelmed it, but the bear exploded after hinting that a forbidden name was connected to water, leaving a serpent-and-eye symbol on its corpse.

• Jason heard a faint noise, and a gigantic black bear ambushed him and Lu Sheng in the woods.
• Lu Sheng and Jason fled as the bear pursued them, while Jason repeatedly returned to protect Lu Sheng and refused to escape alone.
• Lu Sheng led the bear to a secluded pool, unleashed his transformed strength, and battered it while demanding that it speak.
• The bear finally spoke in terror, saying that it could not reveal the name and that it was water, then exploded in a burst of blood.
• Lu Sheng sensed a threat and saw a symbol of a serpent coiled around a bizarre eye emerge on the bear's corpse.

After surviving the forest massacre, Lu Sheng returned to London and received public credit for killing the mutated bear, then discovered a Serpent Eye symbol in a report about a Berlin labyrinth. He decided to investigate Berlin and arrived at Kelly King's gathering, where he watched his half-siblings Serena and Bolan.

• Lu Sheng and Jason returned from the forest, reported the deaths—including Ge Zuo's—and were questioned by Metropolitan Police officials.
• Headquarters credited Lu Sheng with killing the mutated black bear, and Lu Sheng and Jason received bonuses and two months of leave.
• While recovering, Lu Sheng read a newspaper report about an underground labyrinth in Berlin and recognized the Serpent Eye symbol carved there.
• Lu Sheng decided to travel to Berlin to investigate the symbol and seek clues about the Harpys Eye within his body.
• Three days later, Lu Sheng attended Kelly King's gathering and saw Serena swimming and Bolan chatting by the pool.

Lu Sheng attended Kelly King’s family gathering, where she urged him to abandon police work and ordered Serena to take him out. Serena drove him toward Berlin, but Lu Sheng got out when he spotted bandaged men waiting for him, and they demanded he come with them.

• Lu Sheng watched the King family mingle at their annual gathering before joining them for lunch.
• Kelly King asked Lu Sheng to quit police work, but he said he would only do his best to protect himself.
• Kelly King ordered Serena to take Lu Sheng along, and Serena drove him toward the city after he asked to be dropped off in the Van der Saar District.
• Lu Sheng left Serena’s car and approached the bandaged men, who said he had killed Black Bear and ruined their ritual.
• The bandaged leader demanded that Lu Sheng come with them, claiming he could not fight them all without a gun.

Lu Sheng defeated the Serpent Eye bandits in Berlin and continued toward the address Serena had given him. Far beneath the city, a huge monster learned that the man who had ruined the ritual had arrived and prepared to confront him.

• Lu Sheng survived the bandaged leader’s poisoned Wind Slash, killed him, and swiftly killed the remaining attackers when they charged.
• Lu Sheng searched the bodies before they dissolved into black smoke, then rented a horse and traveled into Berlin.
• Lu Sheng took an ox cart toward the address on his map while Serpent Eye agents watched him from the crowd.
• Red-eyed rats carried word through the underground tunnels that Lu Sheng, the man who had killed Black Bear and ruined the ritual, had arrived.
• A huge, long monster awakened in the cavern and decided to entertain Lu Sheng as its ritual neared completion.

Lu Sheng investigated a mysterious symbol in Berlin and traced it to a missing painter, Paul, whose final painting depicted a serpent over the city. He learned Paul had pursued admission to Miskatonic University and left with an application form to investigate the university further.

• Lu Sheng visited the Hall of Curiosities and found that a symbol resembling the Serpent Eye had been left at the scene of Paul's disappearance.
• William Clark told Lu Sheng that Paul had been his friend and showed him the painting Paul had completed before vanishing.
• Lu Sheng learned that Paul had repeatedly mentioned Miskatonic University and had passed its initial written examination before a second interview.
• Lu Sheng went to Berlin Heller Middle School and asked the university-recommendation office about Miskatonic University.
• An elderly administrator explained the university's unusual admissions process and gave Lu Sheng an application form.

Lu Sheng discussed his plans to return to school with Kelly King, then left the villa the next morning to go into the city. After finding Evangeline distraught over Bolan, he forced her to drive him.

• Lu Sheng told Kelly King he planned to study for adult entrance examinations, and she promised to support him.
• Lu Sheng heard a threatening rustle in the garden, but the presence soon vanished.
• The next morning, Lu Sheng declined Bolan's invitation and found Evangeline crying in her vintage car over a gift and note from Bolan.
• Evangeline angrily berated Lu Sheng for neglecting Kelly King and failing to claim the family inheritance, then broke down over Bolan rejecting her.
• Lu Sheng punched Evangeline twice, ordered her to drive him into the city, and rode away with her.

Lu Sheng investigated the sinkhole and discovered an underground cave covered in symbols that revealed clues about the Eye of Yuan Xun Eagle and his past identity. The chapter ended with an Evil God’s Grudge Mark appearing on his chest, counting down thirty-two years until the being inside him revived.

• Lu Sheng drove Evangeline to the sinkhole and entered a nearby sewer despite her warning about the deadly chill.
• Lu Sheng found a cave filled with red-eyed rats and writings in E Language, including passages about the Sublimation Codex and higher forms of cognition.
• A monster identified Lu Sheng’s rune as a mark of the Eye of Yuan Xun Eagle and explained that the area belonged to the sleeping Lord of Water.
• Hearing Angis Xia’s name unlocked Lu Sheng’s memories of being the last leader of the Eye of Yuan Xun Eagle, reincarnated into his current body.
• Purplish-red crystals spread over Lu Sheng, and a Grudge Mark displaying thirty-two appeared on his chest.
• The monster recognized Lu Sheng as a vessel for the Eye of Yuan Xun Eagle’s Evil God, which would revive through him in thirty-two years.

After uncovering memories tied to Angis Xia and the evil god destined to awaken inside him, Lu Sheng resolved to keep his body and seek answers through Miskatonic University. As he and Evangeline went to withdraw money before his entrance examination, bank robbers seized their car, and Lu Sheng confronted one of them.

• Lu Sheng emerged from the underground cavern with Angis Xia’s memories and worried about the evil god’s future resurrection, then decided to investigate Miskatonic University.
• Lu Sheng studied for the adult entrance examination, and Kelly King paid a large sum to secure his chance to take Miskatonic University’s written test and interview.
• Three days later, Lu Sheng received the university’s reply and went with Evangeline to withdraw cash before traveling there.
• Armed robbers raided a Berlin bank, escaped in a car that soon broke down, and threatened Lu Sheng and Evangeline to take their vehicle.
• Lu Sheng calmly asked one of the robbers to look into his eyes and challenged him for threatening an unarmed person.

Lu Sheng defeated a group of armed thugs, withdrew money, and parted ways with Evangeline before traveling to Miskatonic University to apply. Meanwhile, an underground monster resumed its ritual after a mysterious voice urged it to spread the Lord of Water’s power, and Lu Sheng noticed a strange change in the university’s sculpture.

• Lu Sheng beat and injured the armed thugs who tried to rob him, then left with Evangeline after asking a bystander to get them medical help.
• Lu Sheng withdrew about ten thousand marks at Jiatong Bank, gave Evangeline his address, and asked her to contact him if anything happened to his mother.
• In the underground cavern, a monster feared it had nearly attacked an Evil God’s parasite, but a mysterious voice persuaded it to continue the Lord of Water’s ritual.
• Lu Sheng arrived at Miskatonic University and met applicants Mike, Jerry, and Hissley at the entrance.
• As Lu Sheng followed the others through the university archway, he saw blood briefly flow from the eyes of the black sculpture.

Lu Sheng entered Miskatonic University’s mysterious admissions test as the other candidates faced an Anomaly inside. Meanwhile, the sects gathered to discuss his presumed disappearance and divide his legacy, until an attack on Instant Shadow Star was reported.

• Mike passed the admissions test, while Jerry fled after objecting to its Anomaly test and Hissley passed despite being terrified.
• Lu Sheng entered the test room at Miskatonic University.
• Yuan Qing Li and representatives of the Three Sacred Spirit Gate and Wind Transformation Sect concluded that Lu Sheng was likely lost in a turbulent current and began discussing how to divide his legacy.
• The sect representatives argued over Lu Sheng’s Star Palace, bases, research group, and Instant Shadow Star.
• A report announced that unknown hostile forces, including numerous Bewilderment Realm and Void Nether experts, had attacked Instant Shadow Star.

Golden- and lightning-cloaked outsiders invaded Instant Shadow Star, searching for Lu Sheng’s secret treasure while the Weird Entity Research Association tried to protect the beacon that could guide his return. Elsewhere, Lu Sheng passed a preliminary examination at a university whose elders sought recruits to resist evil gods, and the story left him facing a written test.

• A golden-robed expert and a lightning-covered expert arrived above Instant Shadow Star and cut off the planet from the outside world with black mist.
• Yuan Qing Li sensed the black mist but chose not to intervene, while the Research Association gathered underground and discussed protecting Lu Sheng’s Descent Array core.
• Li Shunxi warned the group of an attack, and they fled as insect warriors broke into their cavern to hunt them down.
• Snake people and insect people ravaged Instant Shadow Star as the experts’ forces crushed resistance and gathered the dead’s resentful souls.
• Lu Sheng sensed danger from afar, then met an elderly examiner disguised as a young woman and passed her preliminary test by identifying her age.
• After Lu Sheng left, the examiner and a talking mask discussed recruiting him and other prospects to wield Gula Force against evil gods.

Lu Sheng completed Miskatonic University’s adult entrance assessment, earned near-perfect interview scores, and enrolled as a student. After two days of basic classes, the university’s unusual side began to emerge when an instructor distributed forms for choosing specialized fields.

• Lu Sheng left Hissley and Mike to explore the Sun Emblems and completed the difficult written assessment in forty minutes.
• Lu Sheng passed the interview after recognizing that the shotgun pointed at him had no bullets and evading the staged attack.
• Lu Sheng passed the assessment, paid the enrollment fee, received his student ID, and began attending classes at Miskatonic University.
• After teaching himself the basic course material, Lu Sheng attended three days of classes before his physics instructor handed out forms for selecting specialized fields.

At Miskatonic University, Lu Sheng chose Cosmic Perception Studies after Professor Gerben revealed the school’s supernatural power and warned that students who failed to graduate would have their memories erased. Lu Sheng learned that the next trial involved an organ transplant with a dangerous failure rate, and he was left facing the prospect of gaining power at a cost.

• Professor Gerben silenced the protesting students, demonstrated that he could bring on night with a gesture, and explained that students who left or failed to graduate would have their memories wiped.
• Lu Sheng chose Cosmic Perception Studies, and the remaining students discovered that those who had left the lecture hall had vanished.
• Dorm supervisor Mendelssohn gave the students silver ornaments and announced a second trial at the Third Experimental Building, warning that failure could drive them mad.
• Lu Sheng asked what the students would gain from the trial, and Mendelssohn said they would gain hope of breaking free from everything.
• Andy told Lu Sheng that the trial involved an organ transplant, while the black-haired woman warned that its success rate was at most seventy percent and depended on using Gula Force to control the Sixth Organ.