Chapter Summaries

Trapped in a newly formed Layered Nightmare, Wei Fan stayed in his room and watched a Red-dressed Woman approach Fang Xi’s home through his phone camera. After the monster noticed him and attacked his door, Wei Fan used the Dream Eye to stop the assault, only to discover a third nightmare presence and a mirror image of himself facing him.

• Wei Fan decided to remain inside and observe the unknown nightmare rather than risk going into the corridor.
• A Red-dressed Woman appeared in the corridor and headed toward Fang Xi’s home, and Wei Fan suspected Fang Xi had been marked by the nightmare.
• The Red-dressed Woman abruptly turned toward Wei Fan and battered his door after fixing her gaze on him.
• Wei Fan released the Dream Eye’s power to halt the attack, but the woman remained outside his door.
• Wei Fan sensed a third nightmare presence in the room and saw a figure resembling himself facing him in the balcony glass.

Wei Fan used the Lifespan-consuming power of his Dream Eye to destroy the Mirror Person figures in his room and weaken the Red-dressed Woman. Hu Qi, watching from outside, realized Wei Fan was a Reincarnator, then sensed another Mirror Person appearing in a woman's bedroom as it approached her and her infant.

• A Mirror Person with Wei Fan's face stepped out of a mirror, and Wei Fan recognized the nightmare and its growing ability to create clones.
• Wei Fan fully activated his Dream Eye, spending Lifespan to shatter the mirror figures and make the Red-dressed Woman more transparent.
• Hu Qi watched from outside Wei Fan's home, inferred that Wei Fan was a Reincarnator, and sensed a new apparition downstairs.
• In Room 2207, a Mirror Person copied a young woman and crawled from her vanity mirror as she shielded her infant.
• A broad palm burst through the bedroom wall and clamped around the Mirror Person's neck.

Hu Qi devoured the Mirror Person’s Dream Eye, gained Modification Points, and used its power to survey the apartment building and free those trapped in the Mirror World. He spotted a bloodied figure in a raincoat that destroyed the mirror observing it, then sensed a familiar nightmare presence approaching and left to meet it.

• Hu Qi burned the Mirror Person’s true body and its Dream Eye, absorbing the resulting black vapor and gaining 89 Modification Points.
• The Mirror Person figures throughout the apartment building burst apart, and Hu Qi’s panel gained a Mirror Person Dream Eye entry.
• Hu Qi checked the unconscious young woman and crying infant, confirmed they were safe, and used blood and qi to improve their condition.
• Hu Qi used the Dream Eye to survey the building, locate Wei Fan, and release people trapped in the Mirror World.
• Hu Qi saw a bloodied figure in a black raincoat watching through a mirror; it smashed the mirror and briefly froze the Dream Eye’s power.
• Hu Qi sensed a familiar nightmare aura approaching from below and left the room with a ferocious smile.

Zhou Ze entered Happiness Garden Residential Community Building 18 to investigate a nightmare whose intensity exceeded the Granny Cat incident, using his Dream Eye cane at the cost of worsening the corpse spots on his neck. On the rooftop, Hu Qi waited as the Butcher emerged from the stairwell with a bloodied hammer.

• Zhou Ze arrived at Building 18 and learned that the nightmare was growing stronger and no one had managed to enter or leave.
• Zhou Ze ordered the personnel outside to keep people away and evacuate the area if he failed to return within half an hour.
• Zhou Ze used Dream Eye to part the fog, worsening the livor mortis on his neck, and entered the building.
• Hu Qi appeared on the rooftop and waited by the stairwell door.
• The Butcher smashed through the iron door and emerged, its red eyes fixed on Hu Qi.

Hu Qi defeated the Rain Butcher, absorbed the Bone Shattering Hammer Dream Eye, and vanished before Wei Fan arrived. He then knocked Wei Fan unconscious and noticed that using his Dream Eye seemed to have aged him.

• The Rain Butcher used his hammer to dispel Hu Qi's Mirror Person attack, then charged and swung at him.
• Hu Qi dodged the Rain Butcher's hammer and severed his head and limbs with a crimson attack.
• Hu Qi crushed the iron hammer with Yang Fire, absorbed its power, and gained the Bone Shattering Hammer Dream Eye.
• Hu Qi disappeared as Wei Fan arrived and found the Rain Butcher and Mirror Person nightmare gone.
• Hu Qi struck Wei Fan unconscious with stones and noticed silver strands in his hair and a more mature appearance.

Hu Qi devoured the Red-dressed Woman’s Dream Eye but withdrew from Wei Fan after sensing danger from his Clock Dream Eye and the surrounding heavens. Wei Fan awoke in the hospital, discovered the golden box was gone, and met Zhou Ze, who questioned him about the disaster at Happiness Garden Residential Area Building 18.

• Hu Qi opened Wei Fan’s backpack, found the red cord that belonged to the Red-dressed Woman, and devoured it with Yang Fire.
• Hu Qi suppressed disturbing hallucinations caused by devouring three Dream Eyes, then tried to take Wei Fan’s Clock Dream Eye.
• Wei Fan’s Clock Dream Eye opened on its own, and Hu Qi sensed a dangerous premonition as clouds began gathering, so he withdrew and vanished.
• Wei Fan awoke in Qishan City First People’s Hospital and found that the golden box had disappeared from his backpack.
• Zhou Ze introduced himself as the person in charge of Qishan City and began questioning Wei Fan about the incident at Happiness Garden Residential Area Building 18.

Wei Fan told Zhou Ze about the three nightmares in Apartment 18 and the unknown person who attacked him, then accepted Zhou Ze’s invitation to join the Sword Bearers. As Wei Fan considered who the attacker could have been, a nurse entered his room and his gaze froze on her chest.

• Zhou Ze challenged Wei Fan’s claim of amnesia, and Wei Fan admitted he was a Dream Controller and recounted the events in Apartment 18 while concealing his Reincarnator status and Dream Eye.
• Wei Fan told Zhou Ze that three nightmares had appeared and suspected another Dream Controller had dealt with two of them before attacking him.
• Wei Fan named Fang Xi as a possible suspect, but Zhou Ze said Fang Xi had not been in the building during the incident and promised to investigate further.
• Zhou Ze invited Wei Fan to join the Sword Bearers, and Wei Fan accepted because he wanted the organization’s information and support.
• Wei Fan wondered who had attacked him, then froze when the nurse entered to change his IV and he noticed her chest.

Wei Fan offered to pay for Gao Qian’s brother’s kidney transplant, while a mysterious figure abducted Zhou Ze and questioned him about Dream Controllers. Zhou Ze later woke in his car with no memory of what had happened.

• Wei Fan recognized Gao Qian and offered to fund her brother Gao Wen’s kidney transplant in exchange for something.
• A vague figure appeared in a nearby window, then vanished when Wei Fan looked toward it.
• Zhou Ze left the hospital, pleased about recruiting a new Dream Controller and gaining enough reward points to pursue a second Dream Eye.
• Arms reached through the car window and abducted Zhou Ze, taking him to a gray realm of shattered mirrors.
• A towering figure grabbed Zhou Ze and used a strange voice to make him reveal what he knew about Dream Controllers.
• Zhou Ze woke in the moving car five minutes later, unable to remember the encounter.

Hu Qi secretly used the Mirror Person to question Zhou Ze about Nightmares and the Dream Controllers who fought them. After learning about the dangers, ranks, resources, and Dream Eyes, Hu Qi considered how he might gain more power in this world.

• Hu Qi knocked out Xiao Wu and pulled Zhou Ze into the Mirror Person’s world to question him.
• Hu Qi learned that Dream Controllers used their lifespans to nourish Dream Eyes, while Sword Bearers faced even faster erosion as they resolved Nightmare incidents.
• Zhou Ze explained that gold could impede Nightmare power and described Spirit Candles and other Sword Bearer tools for surviving Nightmares.
• Hu Qi learned that Nightmares ranged from Level One to Level Nine, while Dream Controllers were classified as Awakened, Dream Walkers, or Dream Masters.
• Zhou Ze explained the item-type and aberrant-limb-type Dream Eyes and said compatible combinations could let a Controller safely manage multiple Dream Eyes.

Hu Qi used money from selling the golden box to prepare to deal with the hidden danger within him, then encountered Wu Xiaobao, whose actions stirred Fang Xi’s lingering obsession. That night, Hu Qi killed Wu Xiaobao by dropping him from a window and disappeared.

• Hu Qi finished a lavish meal, reflecting that he needed to address the danger within him and some smaller troubles first.
• Disguised as a middle-aged man, Hu Qi entered Lakeside Residential Area and saw Wu Xiaobao’s family denying that the boy had pushed an injured woman from her wheelchair.
• Hu Qi learned that Wu Xiaobao had killed Fang Xi’s mother, suppressed Fang Xi’s lingering obsession, and promised internally to keep his word.
• That night, Hu Qi seized Wu Xiaobao, dropped him from a window, and vanished.

Hu Qi killed Wu Xiaobao, fulfilling Fang Xi’s lingering obsession, then checked into a hotel and enhanced the Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art. The breakthrough replaced his heart with a pale-golden Essence, Vitality, and Spirit Treasury and subdued the three Dream Eyes’ power, leaving him alive with a new golden flame.

• Hu Qi left Lakeside Residential Area after Wu Xiaobao’s death and checked into a hotel rather than returning to his cordoned-off home.
• Hu Qi realized Fang Xi’s lingering obsession had disappeared after Wu Xiaobao died and reflected on Fang Xi’s history and his own punishment of Wu Xiaobao’s family.
• Hu Qi summoned the Scarlet Panel and used his modification points to enhance the Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art.
• Hu Qi’s expanding Essence, Vitality, and Spirit Treasury absorbed his heart, leaving him pale and near death as the three Dream Eyes’ powers began to revive.
• Hu Qi’s Treasury contracted into a pale-golden heart, extinguished the Nightmare power, and ignited a pale-golden flame over his body before he awoke.

Hu Qi completed the first level of the Elephant Heart Chapter, transforming his body and gaining the strength to challenge a newly advanced Qi Dao Grandmaster. After deciding to seek more Dream Eyes and Modification Points, he met Ouyang Shuokong at a café and learned she had taken on a new identity to establish herself in the world.

• Hu Qi discovered that advancing the Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art had made him grow to roughly three and a half meters tall, then used Twisted Light to return to his usual height.
• Hu Qi reviewed his new Elephant Heart Chapter and traits, realizing his body could absorb World's Vital Energy and had begun transforming toward a Demonic Elephant.
• Hu Qi concluded that he needed more Dream Eyes and Modification Points to strengthen his art and decided to leave the area after handling several matters.
• Hu Qi met Ouyang Shuokong at a café opposite Qishan City First People's Hospital, where two armed men sat nearby.
• Ouyang Shuokong explained that she had taken a new body's identity to gain a firmer foothold, and Hu Qi approved of her pragmatic approach.

Hu Qi learned more about the Dream Eye system and gave Ouyang Shuokong insights for advancing beyond this world's limits. He tasked Ouyang Shuokong with monitoring Wei Fan, a suspected Reincarnator and Heavenly Mandate Person, and Ouyang Shuokong agreed after asking for time to settle personal matters.

• Ouyang Shuokong explained the Dream Controller ranks, their powers and weaknesses, and how Dream Eyes could erode their wielders.
• Hu Qi learned that Ouyang Shuokong occupied Zhou Qing's body, a member of one of Yu Country's ten great aristocratic families, and asked about the rare Controller level.
• Hu Qi confirmed that he had controlled a Dream Eye and gave Ouyang Shuokong a notebook of insights into a new path beyond this world's limits.
• Hu Qi asked Ouyang Shuokong to monitor Wei Fan, whom he identified as a suspected Reincarnator with a powerful Dream Eye and the world's Heavenly Mandate Person.
• Ouyang Shuokong agreed to watch Wei Fan, requested time to handle personal affairs, and then left the café in a luxury car with two bodyguards.

Hu Qi traveled toward Morning Light City to obtain Dream Eyes and learn more about the world, while Ouyang Shuokong prepared to settle matters with the Zhou Family. On the train, Hu Qi’s cultivation stalled until he acquired another Dream Eye, and he froze when a little girl offered him a biscuit.

• Ouyang Shuokong set aside his suspicions about Hu Qi and planned to investigate Wei Fan, while vowing to settle the original owner’s affairs with the Zhou Family patriarch.
• A week later, Hu Qi left Qishan City for Morning Light City, where the Sword Bearers’ headquarters stored Dream Eyes and conducted research.
• Hu Qi reviewed his Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art and realized it needed Dream Eyes to advance beyond Level 3.
• A little girl offered Hu Qi a bear-shaped biscuit on the train, and he froze as soon as he touched it.

Hu Qi encountered and destroyed a ghost girl during a nightmare on the train, then returned to the ordinary carriage and ate a meal. Elsewhere, Nila warned her brother Ruigen to stay put until their Blood Sacrifice was completed, while her powers briefly slipped out of control.

• A nightmare transformed Hu Qi's carriage into a ruined, deserted space where a ghost girl named Lingling confronted him.
• Hu Qi exploded Lingling's head with a single blow, and the nightmare vanished a few seconds later.
• Hu Qi bought and ate a boxed meal before heading toward the restroom.
• In a private sleeper compartment, Ruigen asked Nila about going out to watch the upcoming event, and she ordered him to wait for the Blood Sacrifice to finish.
• Nila's hair and nails changed as an icy presence filled the compartment, frightening Ruigen into apologizing before she regained control and apologized to him.

Hu Qi uncovered and stopped Nila and Ruigen’s plan to sacrifice the passengers on a train, then devoured their Dream Eyes. After arriving in Morning Light City, he ate breakfast and watched a building across the street.

• Hu Qi revealed himself to Nila and Ruigen, seized Ruigen, and incapacitated Nila with Yang Fire.
• Nila and Ruigen told Hu Qi they belonged to the Truth Society and planned to sacrifice nearly a thousand passengers to control more Dream Eyes.
• Hu Qi killed Nila and Ruigen and collected the Dream Eyes they left behind.
• Hu Qi found the little girl’s pink pig-shaped hairclip Dream Eye and devoured all four Dream Eyes, unlocking an upgrade for his Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art.
• Hu Qi arrived in Morning Light City and, while eating breakfast, looked toward a building across the street.

Hu Qi investigated the Morning Light Security Agency, which he identified as the Sword Bearers’ headquarters from the Nightmare aura inside. After learning that the agency had existed since shortly after Yu Country’s founding, he watched its visitors and noticed the regular patron Old Feng, then turned into a nearby alley.

• Hu Qi sensed Nightmare aura coming from the Morning Light Security Agency and confirmed it was the Sword Bearers’ headquarters.
• Hu Qi used hypnosis to get the breakfast stall owner to explain the agency’s history and rumors about it.
• Hu Qi connected the agency’s long history to evidence that Nightmares had appeared before the recent outbreak.
• Old Feng arrived for his usual breakfast, and Hu Qi deduced that he was a leader at the agency.
• After finishing his meal, Hu Qi saw Old Feng leave, paid the bill, and turned into an alley beside the stall.

Hu Qi hypnotized Feng Lin and used him to enter the Morning Light Security Agency, where he searched its archives for information about Dream Eyes and Nightmares. He learned that a mysterious Dream Controller had sealed all Nightmares eighty years earlier, but they began returning three years ago.

• Hu Qi hypnotized Feng Lin, the leader of the Dream Eye Phenomena Analysis Group, and questioned him about the Security Agency.
• Hu Qi followed Feng Lin through the Agency’s identity checks and into its archive room.
• Hu Qi searched the archives and learned that Nightmare incidents had appeared throughout Yu Country’s history, including some that caused no harm.
• Hu Qi read that a nameless Dream Controller had once defeated invading armies, cleared Yu Country of Nightmares, and sealed every Nightmare at the cost of his life.
• Hu Qi learned that Nightmares began returning three years ago as the ancient sealing power weakened.

Hu Qi investigated the history and possible origins of Dream Eyes, then used hypnosis to make Feng Lin lead him toward the sealed Dream Eyes beneath the Security Agency. He reached the hidden passage to the fourth underground level and discovered that its floors were made of gold.

• Hu Qi learned that an unnamed figure had sealed the world's nightmares for nearly eighty years and considered research linking Dream Eyes to neutrinos and living beings' resentment.
• Hu Qi sensed someone approaching the archive room and concealed himself as Feng Lin and another researcher entered.
• After the researcher left, Hu Qi hypnotized Feng Lin and ordered him to take him to the sealed Dream Eyes.
• Hu Qi had Feng Lin return to the surface with false memories, then left the elevator under cover of Twisted Light.
• Hu Qi examined the empty passage on the third underground level, found gold beneath its silver coating, and followed the spiraling route toward the fourth level.

Hu Qi entered the sealed vault beneath the old wooden door and began devouring the stored Dream Eyes to strengthen his flames. After consuming the Blood Glove, he moved on to the next room, while someone at the Security Agency suddenly awakened.

• Hu Qi struck down the Old Woman guarding the wooden door, took her red key, and opened the entrance to the vault.
• Hu Qi descended into a chamber where a giant bronze bell suppressed the powers of Dream Eyes, and he found numbered rooms holding them.
• Hu Qi opened the room containing the Blood Glove and resisted its attempt to drain his blood with golden flames.
• Hu Qi devoured the Blood Glove, gained 150 Modification Points, and then opened the next room.
• At the Security Agency, a figure sitting in a dim office suddenly opened his eyes.