Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng brought the dismantled Artificial Saintess equipment to Baili Qing at the Special Operations Bureau, where she explained the Holy Ascetic Society’s beliefs and strength. Investigators entered the fog to search the old city, while the reason for the Society’s presence there remained unknown.

• Huli returned with the Artificial Saintess’s arm dismantled, and Yu Sheng took its pieces and the veil to the Special Operations Bureau.
• Baili Qing said deep divers were investigating the old city through the fog because the Artificial Saintess’s appearance there suggested an important target or asset nearby.
• Yu Sheng handed the arm fragments and veil to the Appraisal Department for examination and pointed out that the veil had an ordinary brand label and washing instructions.
• Baili Qing explained that the Holy Ascetic Society was a tightly organized cult whose Artificial Saintesses could be produced in small numbers.
• Baili Qing described the Society’s belief that the world and its people were defective, and that its mission was to create a Supreme Saint and ultimately repair the world.

Yu Sheng learned that the Holy Ascetic Society’s Artificial Saintess might be connected to the strange fog, then returned home with Huli and Eileen. He successfully brought No. 66 Wutong Road back to the real world, where two Special Operations Bureau agents were waiting outside.

• Baili Qing explained that the Artificial Saintess’s arrival was suspicious because such units supported important Holy Ascetic Society operations, and she agreed the timing might connect to the fog.
• The Appraisal Department identified the unit as a relatively new N-12 Artificial Saintess, and Baili Qing concluded that a mid-level or higher Society Sage had likely authorized its deployment.
• Yu Sheng gave the Special Operations Bureau the Artificial Saintess’s arm for analysis, kept its blades, and left with Huli and Eileen after telling Baili Qing to record the house’s return.
• Yu Sheng brought No. 66 Wutong Road back to the real world, where two Special Operations Bureau agents greeted him and he and Eileen privately judged them to seem foolish.

Yu Sheng woke from a dream about the Artificial Saintess and waited for news from the Special Operations Bureau. He and Huli discovered that White Cut and Salt Baked had transformed into glowing, flying birds, leaving Huli unsure what to do with them.

• Yu Sheng woke to find three sleeping Eileens sprawled around his bed, then washed them and said they were waiting for news about the search for the Artificial Saintess.
• Yu Sheng and the Eileens found Huli awake and sitting motionless, but she said she had been thinking rather than cultivating.
• Huli showed Yu Sheng White Cut and Salt Baked, whose bodies had grown and transformed into glowing, ornate birds.
• White Cut and Salt Baked flew around Huli and landed on her shoulders, while Huli wondered whether chickens could fly.
• Yu Sheng said the transformed birds could no longer be eaten and suggested Huli use them as guardians.

After Eileen lost a fight with Huli’s Wingman Chickens, Yu Sheng celebrated receiving reward money from the Special Operations Bureau. Eileen asked him to build her a stronger, normal-sized body, and Yu Sheng agreed to help make an upgraded version.

• Eileen accused White Cut and Salt Baked of plotting against her, then insulted them and was knocked down and pecked by the chickens.
• Yu Sheng broke up the commotion, and Huli apologized for the chickens’ behavior before the group sat down to eat.
• Yu Sheng said the Special Operations Bureau had paid rewards for discovering Mist City and rescuing citizens, and that Fairy Tale’s resettlement subsidy had been approved.
• After the meal, Eileen asked Yu Sheng to make her a stronger body because she worried they would face more dangerous enemies and she lacked combat ability.
• Yu Sheng agreed to help Eileen build an upgraded body, which she dubbed an advanced spirit-infusing ritual.

Yu Sheng, Huli, and three Eileens performed a ritual to create Eileen a new body using Spirit Fox Profound Iron and materials from the valley. When the new body came to life, it immediately shrank to 66.6 centimeters, leaving Eileen in tears.

• Yu Sheng raised a temporary wall and alchemy platform while Huli laid out rare ritual materials and Eileen's three bodies prepared the array.
• Huli produced Spirit Fox Profound Iron, explained that it would not develop a machine spirit inside Eileen's body, and melted it into a skeleton-shaped mold Yu Sheng dug in the ground.
• Yu Sheng, Huli, and Eileen shaped a new body from the iron skeleton, valley soil, and rocks, and Yu Sheng added his blood to complete the ritual.
• Yu Sheng called Eileen's name, and her soul entered the new body as it took on a lively appearance and wore a black Gothic dress.
• The new Eileen body shrank from 1.67 meters to 66.6 centimeters, and Eileen burst into tears.

Eileen’s latest attempt to make a full-sized body again produced four tiny dolls, and she and Yu Sheng suspected that the soul trapped in her oil painting was responsible. Eileen gave up on making another shell for now, but testing the new body’s abilities revealed that its thread attack had become a powerful blue beam.

• Eileen cried over the four undersized bodies, then explained that she had carefully supervised the body-making process and found that the problem began after her soul entered the shell.
• Yu Sheng and Eileen concluded that part of her soul might still be sealed inside the oil painting, though Eileen said she could not feel anything missing.
• Eileen decided not to make another body, and Yu Sheng and Huli put away the remaining alchemy materials.
• Yu Sheng asked Eileen to test the new body’s abilities; her punch hurt her fist, but her thread attack fired a blue beam that cut through a thick stone wall.

Eileen discovered that her new Spirit Fox Profound Iron body could fire powerful blue beams, and Yu Sheng wondered whether the material caused the change. After she showed off to the others, the body stiffened, and Huli concluded its spiritual power had run out.

• Eileen accidentally fired a blue beam from her new body, then excitedly shot several more into the sky.
• Yu Sheng suspected the body's Spirit Fox Profound Iron skeleton had changed Eileen's abilities, but Huli said she had never heard of such a thing.
• Yu Sheng removed the temporary walls, and Rapunzel, Snow White, Cinderella, the Mermaid, the King, and the doll-headed children arrived to investigate the beams.
• Eileen boasted about her new combat form and tried to demonstrate its power, but her body stiffened before she could fire another beam.
• Eileen's joints began moving again, and Huli guessed that she had used up the body's spiritual power.

Yu Sheng began building a seven-layer pyramid around the inn’s Hub Platform, planning spaces for teleportation, research, and storage. As the structure rose, he left the upper floors’ purposes undecided and the construction unfinished.

• Huli explained that Pro Eileen’s Black Iron body would recharge by gathering spiritual energy, and Eileen gradually regained basic movement while worrying about how slowly she charged.
• Yu Sheng and the others discussed ways to speed up Eileen’s recharge, but Huli could offer no practical method.
• Snow White told Yu Sheng that Little Red Riding Hood’s birthday was next week, prompting him to consider what present to give her.
• Yu Sheng cleared everyone away from the Hub Platform and raised a stone pillar so he could oversee construction.
• Yu Sheng shaped the Hub’s first layer and began building a seven-layer pyramid, planning a Hub Hall, an alchemy research floor, and a personal Treasure Pavilion.

Yu Sheng completed the main structure of the Inn Hub while his companions ate hot pot in the valley. At the Special Operations Bureau, Baili Qing received updates on searches through Mist City and discussed how its fog resembled the Faded Maze.

• Yu Sheng shaped a seven-tier pyramid into the Inn Hub, and his companions joked that it looked like a grave mound while eating hot pot nearby.
• Yu Sheng joined the group, explained his plans for teleportation gates and elevators, and assured Rapunzel that he had remembered to include stairs.
• The Mermaid sensed something growing inside the Inn Hub, prompting Yu Sheng to realize the structure was still developing.
• Baili Qing received reports that teams had opened an unstable route through the fog, found traces possibly left by the Artificial Saintess, and encountered the Entity 'Balloon' without casualties.
• Baili Qing told the teams to remain vigilant and expand their search, then discussed with the eyes in her window how the fog resembled the Faded Maze.

Yu Sheng woke to find Eileen’s four bodies crowding his bed and felt unsettled despite Eileen’s reassuring fortune-telling. A visitor named Xuan Che arrived at No. 66 Wutong Road, where he and Yu Sheng recognized each other at the door.

• Yu Sheng complained that Eileen’s four bodies were taking over his bed and decided to order storage boxes for them.
• Yu Sheng noticed that Pro Eileen was still sluggish from her earlier overexertion, and she blamed her slow recovery on charging.
• Yu Sheng told Eileen he felt inexplicably unsettled, so she tried to divine his fate with playing cards and predicted a bloody disaster.
• Xuan Che reached the restricted area near No. 66 Wutong Road and was stopped by two Special Operations Bureau agents after using the Earth Shrinking Technique.
• The agents confirmed Xuan Che’s credentials and called ahead before guiding him to the hidden entrance.
• Yu Sheng opened the door to Xuan Che, and both men recognized each other with alarm.

Xuan Che, a disciple of True Spirit Yuanling, arrived at Yu Sheng’s home and cautiously greeted the beings he found there. Despite sensing the overwhelming and incomprehensible nature of the household, he concluded that its occupants were friendly and stood on humanity’s side.

• Yu Sheng opened the door to find Xuan Che, and both men recoiled as they remembered their past encounter involving the Alchemy Furnace.
• Xuan Che formally paid his respects to Yu Sheng, who invited him inside after the Special Operations Bureau agents declined to stay.
• Xuan Che sensed that Yu Sheng’s home was an independent domain filled with strange, powerful presences, and he remembered his master’s warning to be cautious.
• Yu Sheng offered Xuan Che cola, and the two eased the awkwardness by discussing the alchemy-related reason cultivators avoided drinking it before refining pills.
• Yu Sheng introduced Xuan Che to Eileen and her clones, then to Huli, whom Xuan Che greeted as an immortal from the Otherworld.
• Xuan Che sensed that no one in the room was ordinary, but decided the household was friendly and on humanity’s side.

Yu Sheng received a box of grape-flavored pills from Xuan Che, then helped him investigate a strange scrap of cloth and the eerie room in his house. Xuan Che sensed that the mirror and room were caught between two worlds, but the chapter ended before he could explain further.

• Xuan Che gave Yu Sheng grape-flavored export pills made by his master, and Yu Sheng shared one with Huli.
• Eileen suggested that Yu Sheng could safely eat genuine immortal pills, leaving Xuan Che stunned.
• Xuan Che showed Yu Sheng a scrap of cloth from his master's Treasure Pavilion, and Yu Sheng compared its matching edge patterns with his own torn piece.
• Yu Sheng led Xuan Che, Huli, and Eileen to the strange second-floor room so Xuan Che could examine it.
• Xuan Che sensed that the mirror was strange, and Yu Sheng described its visions and the room's overlap with an invisible other side.
• Xuan Che asked whether the room was stuck between two worlds.

Yu Sheng learned from Xuan Che about a planet that existed in two worlds at once, then wondered whether the strange room overlapped with even more places. He realized Eileen might need cultivation to replenish her energy and asked Xuan Che about teaching her to absorb spiritual energy.

• Xuan Che recounted his Grand Uncle-Master’s discovery of a planet whose skies alternated between two worlds and two suns.
• Xuan Che explained that the planet later vanished, leaving only cold dust clouds at its recorded coordinates.
• Yu Sheng considered whether the room’s mirror showed multiple overlapping locations, while Xuan Che searched the sealed room for clues.
• Yu Sheng asked Xuan Che whether outsiders could learn to absorb spiritual energy, and Xuan Che said basic cultivation was taught through registered schools.
• Yu Sheng pointed out that Eileen might need the technique to replenish her energy.

Yu Sheng asked Xuan Che to find a way to help Eileen’s Pro body use spiritual power, and Xuan Che tested whether the doll could practice the Great Void Spiritual Pivot’s cultivation techniques. The tests failed because Eileen had no organs or sensation, leaving Xuan Che at a loss.

• Yu Sheng explained Pro Eileen’s need for spiritual power and described how Huli’s Spirit Fox Profound Iron had been used to make her body.
• Xuan Che examined a piece of Spirit Fox Profound Iron and found it compatible with the Great Void Spiritual Pivot’s cultivation methods.
• Xuan Che gave Eileen a jade tablet to sense spiritual energy, but she felt nothing, and Yu Sheng and Huli could not sense it either.
• Xuan Che tried suggesting a talisman, a Spirit Nourishing Pill, and a golden hairpin, but Eileen explained she had no blood, digestive system, brain, or internal organs.

Yu Sheng hosted Xuan Che for lunch, where Huli’s bizarre fox stew proved to be an unusually potent medicinal dish. A power strip then exploded and shocked Eileen, leaving her mysteriously charged up.

• Xuan Che admitted he could not think of a way to help and said he would consult his master and sect seniors.
• Yu Sheng invited Xuan Che to lunch, where Huli served her unsettling fox stew and Xuan Che found it more effective than what he refined.
• Xuan Che ate the stew and reflected on his master’s past punishments while White Cut and Salt Baked pecked at the food.
• The household’s power failed, and Yu Sheng found a smoke-blackened Eileen beside an exploded power strip.
• Eileen explained that she had been shocked while trying to unplug the faulty strip, then announced that she was charged up.

Eileen recovered after absorbing electricity, and Yu Sheng began planning a safer way to charge her. As Xuan Che prepared to leave, dense fog appeared outside Yu Sheng’s house, and Xuan Che asked to enter it.

• Eileen showed that she could absorb electrical energy, and Huli jokingly called her a Lightning-Struck Immortal.
• Yu Sheng restored the power, cleaned Eileen up, and discussed making her a safer charging setup.
• Xuan Che declined Yu Sheng’s offer to stay and exchanged Border Communication contact information with him.
• Xuan Che noticed dense fog outside, and Yu Sheng explained that it was connected to the dangerous Mist City Otherworld.
• Xuan Che asked to go into the fog.

Yu Sheng brought Xuan Che and Huli into Mist City to investigate the fog and search for the escaped Artificial Saintess. Xuan Che revealed that the Holy Ascetic Society had also appeared in the Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain's territory, where its agents seemed to be smuggling something.

• Xuan Che insisted on joining Yu Sheng's investigation, and Yu Sheng moved No. 66 Wutong Road into Mist City.
• Yu Sheng set out into the fog with Xuan Che, Huli, Pro Eileen, and Steel Eileen while the other Eileens stayed behind to keep watch.
• Xuan Che questioned the bloodshed and deathly energy surrounding Yu Sheng's Tetanus Staff, and Yu Sheng explained that he had coated it with his own blood and used it against entities.
• Yu Sheng said the escaped Artificial Saintess had appeared nearby, prompting Huli and the Eileens to suspect something was hidden near the old city.
• Xuan Che explained that the Holy Ascetic Society had appeared on frontier planets in his region within the past year or two, and that its agents had apparently been smuggling something.

Yu Sheng and his companions fought invisible Brass Knights in the mist, then Xuan Che’s powerful strike cleared the fog and exposed the attackers. The Artificial Saintess ambushed Xuan Che, but Eileen’s beam pierced her armor.

• Yu Sheng spotted invisible Brass Knights approaching through the mist and shattered the first one, revealing sludge inside its armor.
• The sludge reformed into a humanoid creature, and Fox Carrot burned it to ashes with foxfire.
• The Brass Knights launched a coordinated attack, but Eileen’s webbing disrupted their charges while Yu Sheng and Huli dismantled and destroyed them.
• Xuan Che used his sword, talismans, and pills before striking a bound Brass Knight with a punch that dispelled the fog and erased several knights and a distant building.
• The Artificial Saintess appeared and attacked Xuan Che from behind, but he dodged and Eileen fired at her.
• The Artificial Saintess avoided most of Eileen’s beams, but one pierced her armored flank.

Yu Sheng, Eileen, Huli, and Xuan Che fought the Artificial Saintess and the Brass Knights, gradually damaging the Iron Doll and breaking through her defenses. Just as Xuan Che seemed ready to finish her, the Artificial Saintess vanished, leaving the group unsure where she had gone.

• Eileen pierced the Artificial Saintess's armor with an Eileen Ray, but the Iron Doll quickly resumed her attack.
• Yu Sheng fought the Artificial Saintess while Eileen's web restrained the Brass Knights and her rays wounded the Iron Doll.
• Huli struck the Artificial Saintess with a Fox-Carrot Headbutt and pinned her down, then dodged a counterattack aimed at her tail.
• Xuan Che broke the Artificial Saintess's Spell-Breaking Secret Art with a punch, shattering her arm and bringing down nearby Brass Knights.
• The Artificial Saintess flickered out of sight before Xuan Che could strike again, and he and Yu Sheng stared at each other in confusion.

After the Artificial Saintess escaped using a hidden emergency return technique, Yu Sheng followed the blood mark and tore open the veil concealing a giant tower. Xuan Che recognized it as a structure linked to the Holy Ascetic Society, and Yu Sheng reported it to the authorities before deciding to wait for their response.

• The Artificial Saintess vanished after the battle, and Xuan Che explained that she had likely returned to a nearby holy coffin for emergency repairs.
• Yu Sheng sensed the blood mark and pulled open a hidden rift, collapsing a vast dark-red veil that concealed an enormous tower and a field of strange crystals.
• Huli and Eileen wondered whether they should investigate the tower, while Xuan Che recognized it from footage of a Holy Ascetic Society lair.
• Yu Sheng opened a door to No. 66 Wutong Road and used its connection to send a report to Border Communication despite the lack of signal.
• Yu Sheng told the others to find a safe place and wait for the Special Operations Bureau, surprising Eileen, who expected him to investigate.