Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiao searched an old room in the Malevolent Ghost Building and found documents revealing that Fude Boy had been created from the Green Lotus Holy Mother’s blood and that the lab’s director had secretly helped it escape. The final document revealed the director had repeatedly sealed his own memories to hide his sabotage, while opposing both the Holy Mother’s descent and the Other Shore Plan.

• Jiang Qiao examined the room and inferred from its books and style that it dated back roughly fifteen hundred years and might be in a Core Area of the Malevolent Ghost Building.
• Jiang Qiao searched the computer and found a hidden folder containing three documents.
• Jiang Qiao read that Fude Boy had been cultivated from the Green Lotus Holy Mother’s blood, escaped with an insider’s help, and remained dangerous despite being injured.
• Jiang Qiao learned that the researchers had opened a route from Wangxiang Terrace toward the River of History as part of the Other Shore Plan, risking the homeland’s forces discovering Blue Star.
• Jiang Qiao discovered that the lab’s director was the insider who helped Fude Boy escape and had sealed his memories after sabotaging the project and the Other Shore Plan.

Jiang Qiao read documents left by the Green Lotus Sect’s powerful insider, who had repeatedly sabotaged the Other Shore Plan after sealing away his memories. The records revealed secrets about Yellow Springs Road, the Red Moon, and the possible existence of a True God, then ended with the insider noting that the sect had discovered his betrayal.

• Jiang Qiao learned that the Green Lotus Sect laboratory’s owner had created Fude Boy, helped him escape, and secretly sabotaged the Other Shore Plan while repeatedly sealing away his memories.
• Jiang Qiao inferred that the owner had hidden his records in the Malevolent Ghost Building for someone powerful enough to reach the room.
• Jiang Qiao read that Yellow Springs Road’s dangers had prevented the homeland’s mass relocation and that the Three Lives Stone might be part of an object brought back from the Other Shore.
• Jiang Qiao learned that another part of the object had become the Red Moon and that the whole object might be related to the legendary True God.
• Jiang Qiao read that the owner had tampered with the passage at Wangxiang Terrace to make travelers lost in the River of History and obstruct the Other Shore Plan.
• Jiang Qiao reached the owner’s final note: the Green Lotus Sect had discovered the sabotage.

Jiang Qiao studied documents about the Three Lives Stone and the Yellow Springs Road before meeting Yin Demon, the Malevolent Ghost Building’s owner. When Yin Demon refused to answer his questions and tried to leave, Jiang Qiao attacked him with the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal.

• Jiang Qiao considered whether the Three Lives Stone and the Yellow Springs Road were connected to becoming a Half-God, but questioned the theory’s logic and risks.
• Yin Demon appeared in Jiang Qiao’s bedroom and confirmed that he owned the building and had been hunted by the Green Lotus Sect.
• Yin Demon said the Wood Door pursued everyone who saw it and warned Jiang Qiao that Fated People often died unnatural deaths.
• When Yin Demon began to disappear, Jiang Qiao used the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal to force him to manifest again.
• Jiang Qiao declared that he would fight Yin Demon and struck at him with the seal, causing space and time to twist and collapse.

Jiang Qiao confronted Yin Demon after surviving the Malevolent Ghost Building’s Time Rollback, accusing him of being the building’s owner’s severed Negative Personality and exposing the supposed mission as a scheme to find him a body. Yin Demon admitted most of Jiang Qiao’s suspicions were correct, and Jiang Qiao attacked him with the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal.

• Yin Demon shifted across the room as Time Rollback restored the collapsing bedroom to its earlier state.
• Jiang Qiao considered how the rollback’s hidden save point might be exploited, but recognized that its Demigod-Class power made that difficult.
• Jiang Qiao accused Yin Demon of working with the Green Lotus Sect to find a body and escape Malevolent Ghost Building.
• Yin Demon admitted most of Jiang Qiao’s guesses were correct and asked how he had reached them.
• Jiang Qiao said he had simply guessed, then struck Yin Demon with the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal, twisting spacetime into a collapsing vortex.

Jiang Qiao battled a two-dimensional world created by the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal’s Singularity while Liu Kun navigated a corridor of operating appliances on Floor -99. After Liu Kun left a television showing a still pool, its screen changed to a tunnel where a silent procession of bloodied figures headed toward Miao Yi’s parking garage.

• The room transformed into a two-dimensional plane that used the Singularity’s gravitational pull to spread and assimilate Jiang Qiao.
• Jiang Qiao unleashed a vast Sea of Thunder, and it clashed silently with the two-dimensional world in a battle of rules.
• Liu Kun recalled surviving a radio’s strange voice and suspected Jiang Qiao had killed the Vicious Ghost that attacked them.
• Liu Kun left the television and continued through the corridor after worrying that something might emerge from its image.
• The television changed to show bloodied, bandaged figures crossing the tunnel toward the parking garage where Miao Yi was located.

Miao Yi heard chains approaching the parking lot on Floor [-99] and fled as chained Vicious Ghosts flooded the garage. Meanwhile, Jiang Qiao’s Divine Firmament Thunder Seal clashed with the two-dimensional space controlled by a powerful Negative Personality, which he realized was trapped in its room and seeking a suitable vessel.

• Miao Yi waited in hiding for Jiang Qiao and Liu Kun, believing Liu Kun was unlikely to survive alone on Floor [-99].
• Miao Yi heard chains dragging through the tunnel and hurried away from the parking lot, shutting the iron door behind him.
• Chained Vicious Ghosts emerged from filthy water, filled the parking lot, and smashed through the iron door into the corridor.
• Jiang Qiao watched the Sea of Thunder clash with the two-dimensional space and recognized that its controller was a Half-God-level Negative Personality.
• Jiang Qiao concluded that the Negative Personality could not leave its room, so it used the Wood Door to seek a suitable body.

Jiang Qiao suspected the Malevolent Ghost Building’s damaged ninth floor and the Yin Demon were connected to the Green Lotus Sect, while he fought the Yin Demon using the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal. When the Yin Demon offered him a safe trip to the first floor, Jiang Qiao refused to trust it and chose to stay.

• Jiang Qiao reasoned that a Half-God, possibly the Yin Demon’s main body from the Green Lotus Sect, had destroyed the Malevolent Ghost Building’s ninth floor and wondered why the sect had not repaired it.
• During Jiang Qiao’s battle with the Yin Demon, something rose beneath the Sea of Thunder, strengthening the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal and producing a bubbling sound in his consciousness.
• The Yin Demon asked Jiang Qiao to stop fighting and offered to send him directly to the first floor.
• Jiang Qiao questioned the Yin Demon about the destroyed ninth floor and the Green Lotus Sect, then doubted the promised route out would be safe.
• Jiang Qiao decided not to leave because he suspected the Malevolent Ghost Building concealed a major secret and that danger awaited him on the way out.

The Yin Demon trapped Jiang Qiao and severed his connection to the Sea of Thunder, then discovered he carried a Red Moon Shard and tried to capture him. As the Yin Demon celebrated its apparent victory, the Sea of Thunder erupted with a terrifying surge of power.

• The Yin Demon expanded its two-dimensional world into a boundless sphere and suppressed the Sea of Thunder, cutting Jiang Qiao off from it.
• The Yin Demon recognized Jiang Qiao’s Red Moon power and revealed that it wanted the Red Moon Shard for the Holy Mother.
• Jiang Qiao struck the sphere with Red Moon power, but its tiny eyes swallowed the attack and the sphere spread toward him.
• The Yin Demon mocked Jiang Qiao, celebrated taking his Taboo Weapon, and identified it as a relic of the Daoist Sect.
• The Sea of Thunder suddenly released a heaven-shaking tsunami that made the Yin Demon’s heart tremble.

The Yin Demon attacked the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal with Dimensional Reduction, but the Seal used the power of Half-Gods it had slain to hold it off. Jiang Qiao learned that the Yin Demon’s technique could be steadily destroying it, while the battle of attrition continued.

• The Yin Demon unleashed Dimensional Reduction, threatening to drag the surrounding world and Jiang Qiao into the Abyss.
• The Divine Firmament Thunder Seal shielded itself and Jiang Qiao inside a sphere of the Sea of Thunder, where the Yin Demon’s power met the collected strength of slain Half-Gods.
• The Seal warned that the Yin Demon’s Dimensional Reduction was a desperate, costly method that would eventually destroy it, but the Yin Demon dismissed the warning and continued attacking.
• Jiang Qiao marveled at the Seal’s accumulated Half-God power, and the Seal told him he would need to become a Half-God before he could learn the truth from Moon Laurel.
• Jiang Qiao considered how Dimensional Reduction exceeded what a Half-God could truly accomplish, while the Yin Demon remained focused on killing him and suppressing the Seal.

Lost in a distorted corridor lined with mysterious rooms, Liu Kun decided to risk opening one rather than wait for help. The door unlocked under his supernatural rule, but what he saw inside shocked him.

• Liu Kun found himself trapped in a corridor where rooms had replaced the appliances, and he could not find his way back.
• Liu Kun noticed strange funeral offerings and incense outside the rooms as the corridor grew increasingly unsettling.
• Liu Kun weighed waiting for Jiang Qiao against investigating a room and chose to take the risk.
• Liu Kun selected a silent room, used his supernatural rule to unlock its stiff door, and saw something unbelievable.

Liu Kun encountered supernatural phenomena that took the form of his dead family and began corrupting his memories. After looking into the room again, he saw a ghostly version of himself, and the encounter ended with his consciousness being attacked.

• Liu Kun saw his dead parents and daughter in a warm family scene, then heard his dead wife call to him and realized the room was creating an illusion.
• He rejected the room's false memories, but the corridor darkened and heavy knocking blocked his path while his wife's voice called from behind.
• Liu Kun decided to retreat without using his Ghost Domain, but he glanced into the room as he passed it.
• He saw his dead family as decayed figures around a table, including his daughter's bloodstained dress and conflicting memories of her death.
• Liu Kun met the gaze of a version of himself seated at the table, felt something flow from his head, and heard his wife welcome him home.

Miao Yi escaped the chained Vicious Ghosts and hurried toward the elevator lobby, hoping to leave Floor [-99] alive. He then encountered a new ghost emerging from a spreading patch of black fog and prepared to fight.

• Miao Yi fled the chained Vicious Ghosts and decided he needed to survive Floor [-99] rather than focus on escaping Malevolent Ghost Building.
• Miao Yi followed a route he remembered, avoiding the Ghost Domain after it had sent him somewhere dangerous in the cinema.
• Miao Yi noticed the corridor lights dimming and clean puddles appearing, but continued forward.
• Miao Yi stopped when black Thick Fog blocked the corridor and heard dripping water approaching from within it.
• Miao Yi saw a human figure emerge from the fog, made his body grow indistinct, and prepared to fight.

Miao Yi used Dream Walking to hide from a procession of Vicious Ghosts, but their supernatural influence transformed his clothes into a Prisoner's Garment. He risked entering a Vicious Ghost's consciousness to escape and vanished, while a figure resembling him joined the procession.

• Miao Yi transformed into a dreamlike state and discovered a large procession of Vicious Ghosts emerging from the Black Mist.
• He hid against the wall as the Vicious Ghosts passed without noticing him, but their influence began changing his clothes.
• Miao Yi decided to run forward, hoping to get past the procession and escape the force sealing the Endless Corridor.
• His clothes became a Prisoner's Garment, so Miao Yi grabbed a Vicious Ghost and attempted to leap through its consciousness.
• Miao Yi vanished into the Vicious Ghost, and a figure resembling him appeared at the end of the procession.

Jiang Qiao endured the Yin Demon’s taunts inside the iceberg, then provoked it with a string of insults as the Dream Bubble weakened. The Yin Demon began to unravel when Dimensional Reduction rebounded against its rules, and the iceberg announced it was time to finish it off.

• The Yin Demon mocked Jiang Qiao and the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal while the Dream Bubble eroded the Sea of Thunder.
• Jiang Qiao and the iceberg remained silent until the iceberg warned that the Yin Demon was running out of time.
• Jiang Qiao insulted the Yin Demon, calling it a beast and taunting it about its isolation and impending death.
• The Dream Bubble froze and began to dissipate as Dimensional Reduction started eroding the Yin Demon’s rules from within.
• The iceberg explained that the Yin Demon’s accumulated negative aura had rebounded against it and said they would finish it off.

Yin Demon fought the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal while the uncontrolled power of Dimensional Reduction eroded his rules. He weakened into a mindless attacker and ultimately perished.

• Yin Demon tried to cut away the rules contaminated by Dimensional Reduction, but the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal bound the affected space with a black streak of lightning.
• The Divine Firmament Thunder Seal contracted the space around Yin Demon, forcing Dimensional Reduction to spread and flatten the battlefield.
• Yin Demon broke free and clashed with the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal as both unleashed their Half-God-level powers.
• Jiang Qiao noticed strange teeth gnawing at the void and wondered whether they were the true source of the Thunder Art.
• Yin Demon weakened as Dimensional Reduction continued eroding his rules, lost his rationality, and perished.

A Half-God’s avatar was killed in the Malevolent Ghost Building, sending shockwaves across Blue Star and drawing the attention of powerful figures. The Paper Figure Maker recognized the killer’s aura as belonging to a young acquaintance and prepared to investigate later.

• A Half-God’s death sent a terrifying wave of rule power across Blue Star, alarming Awakened and Half-Gods in several regions.
• At Fishbone Temple, Granny Huang and the other Half-Gods identified the dead figure as an avatar and sensed traces of the Lightning Rule and chaotic Half-God auras.
• A middle-aged man speculated that Jiang Qiao might have found the Square Seal and said his strange fate could be connected to the Red Moon and the Fated Person.
• In the connecting passage, Liu Ping urged the Paper Figure Maker to investigate the death, fearing an Evil Spirit from beyond the domain could escape.
• The Paper Figure Maker said the fluctuations carried the aura of a young acquaintance and decided to visit the scene later.

Awakened fled Yue City after a terrifying phenomenon, while rumors about the Supernatural World revealed how little they knew of its factions and their hidden plans for Blue Star. On Floor -99 of the Malevolent Ghost Building, Jiang Qiao saw that countless Vicious Ghosts had been released and watched darkness advance down the corridor.

• Awakened fled Yue City and debated whether the Supernatural World was safer than Blue Star, praising the Guangming Society without knowing its plans to exploit Blue Star.
• The narration revealed that the Guangming Society had planned to use Blue Star as a colony and had considered sacrificing its inhabitants, while the Prayer Association had restrained it.
• After the phenomenon passed without destroying Yue City, Jiang Qiao returned to the corridor on Floor -99 of the Malevolent Ghost Building and saw that the Wood Door had been destroyed.
• Jiang Qiao checked surveillance feeds showing hordes of Vicious Ghosts in tunnels, corridors, and staircases, then heard their footsteps approaching.
• A mass of darkness spread down the corridor toward Jiang Qiao, extinguishing the lights one by one.

Jiang Qiao burned away the vicious ghosts filling Floor -99’s corridor, which briefly revealed a strange Dark Space before the corridor returned to normal. He then encountered Liu Jun, who explained how he and He Qingqing had become trapped on Floor -99 after an elevator trip went wrong.

• Jiang Qiao used the Stove Fire to burn the mass of corpses that formed a vicious ghost.
• After the flames vanished, the corridor became a chaotic Dark Space, then returned to normal three minutes later.
• Liu Jun ran up to Jiang Qiao and said he had suddenly ended up on Floor -99.
• Liu Jun explained that he and He Qingqing had taken a mission to Floor -27, but after their elevator failed to reach it, they returned to Floor -8 and stepped out onto Floor -99 instead.

Liu Jun recounted how a failed mission had stranded him and He Qingqing on Floor -99, where they were separated in the Infinite Corridor. Jiang Qiao discovered that an Evil Spirit had already invaded Liu Jun and watched the Malevolent Ghost Building consume him, then burned the flesh that encased him.

• Liu Jun told Jiang Qiao that a mandatory mission to Floor -27 had trapped him and He Qingqing in an unfamiliar Hidden Layer, eventually forcing them to flee into the Infinite Corridor on Floor -99.
• Liu Jun explained that he and He Qingqing had become separated, and that after passing burned Incense Ash, a shadow-only Evil Spirit had attacked him and damaged his shadow.
• Jiang Qiao saw thin flesh covering Liu Jun's shadow and body, and warned him that the Evil Spirit had invaded him and was eroding his ability and consciousness.
• Liu Jun tried to resist and beg Jiang Qiao for help, but the flesh took control of him and wrapped him in a membrane.
• Jiang Qiao burned the membrane to ash and concluded that the Malevolent Ghost Building had resumed cultivating False Humans after the Yin Demon's death.

After discovering that the Green Lotus Sect had created False Humans, Jiang Qiao wondered how they were being used. He then forced his way through Floor [-99], burning every ghost in his path before reaching the apartment building corridor.

• Jiang Qiao realized Liu Jun’s transformation had revealed the building’s purpose: cultivating False Humans that could replace people while retaining their Main Bodies.
• Jiang Qiao recalled Yang Ling’s warning that False Humans were Evil Spirits nearly impossible to detect without tracing their origins through the River of History.
• Jiang Qiao concluded that the Green Lotus Sect had created the False Humans and wondered what purpose they served beyond infiltration.
• Jiang Qiao charged through Floor [-99], using thunder and fire to crush its rooms, corridors, and wandering Vicious Ghosts.
• Jiang Qiao burned a powerful eight-armed Vicious Ghost in the tunnel and reached the apartment building corridor.