Chapter Summaries

Cleaner Lev and his team contained the Twelve-Winged Angel Statue, but a colossal Pale Body appeared in the sky and killed them. The statue then broke free of its barrier and reacted in shock to the being above.

• Lev led Cleaner D-Class Group 17 into the ruined church to contain the Twelve-Winged Angel Statue, which could mutate anyone who saw it.
• Sogir accidentally shone his flashlight at the statue, began transforming into an angel-like monster, and Lev shot him before the mutation could spread.
• Lev and the two remaining teammates activated a light barrier around the statue and left the church, believing their mission was complete.
• Outside, Lev and his teammates saw a colossal Pale Body coiling across the sky, and its presence killed all three of them.
• The barrier around the statue exploded, and the statue came alive, looked toward the Pale Body, and wondered how it could ignore the world's rules.

Hu Qi entered a strange world, devoured Aldina despite her attempt to bluff him, and discovered that the world's rules prevented him from leaving. After he consumed a minor Heterogeneous Entity, the White Tower detected his appearance and summoned its senior officials to assess the threat.

• Hu Qi appeared in his Cosmic Coiling Serpent form, destroyed the church, and swallowed Aldina after seeing through her false threat to self-destruct.
• Hu Qi absorbed Aldina and gained 196,587 Modification Points, then learned about her Yin-Yang Heaven-Seizing Strategy and paused digesting her Daos to study it.
• Hu Qi discovered that the world's rules trapped him inside, then swallowed and digested a Crying Girl who attacked him.
• The White Tower's Anomaly Radar detected a powerful Heterogeneous Entity above Wutong Town, and Chief Researcher Karoo reported that the Twelve-winged Angel Stone Statue and Crying Girl had vanished.

The White Tower discovered that the World Serpent encircled Kepler Star, and Vien proposed communicating with it before it revealed itself through Karoo and took control of the conference room. Hu Qi used Karoo’s body to explore the White Tower’s containment zone and reached the study of an entity called God.

• Karoo presented the World Serpent’s scale, lethal effects, and appearance around Kepler Star, while the White Tower debated how to respond.
• Vien argued that the World Serpent’s appearance was connected to the missing Twelve-winged Angel Stone Statue and suggested trying to communicate with it.
• The World Serpent revealed itself as Hu Qi, controlled the people in the conference room, and made them address him as Master.
• Hu Qi used Karoo’s memories to learn about the White Tower and entered its central containment zone.
• Hu Qi passed Narcissus and other contained entities before reaching a study where a figure sat at a desk.

Hu Qi confronted GN-000 God and learned that a great Creator had made the Heterogeneous Entities before God died and Hu Qi revived his Karoo identity. Meanwhile, Wu Yang discovered God’s death in his comic and nearly died when he tried to reveal Hu Qi’s image, but a cat-eared girl rescued him.

• Hu Qi entered GN-000 God’s study, challenged him about the origin of Heterogeneous Entities, and fought him inside God’s Domain.
• Hu Qi broke God’s Domain and destroyed Genesis, then forced God to reveal that the great Creator had made the Heterogeneous Entities and that God’s mission was to preserve the world’s balance.
• GN-000 God began to self-destruct after mentioning the Creator, so Hu Qi killed him and gained 100 Modification Points.
• Hu Qi revived Karoo in the White Tower containment chamber and concluded that a Creator was manipulating the balance between humans and Heterogeneous Entities.
• Wu Yang saw God’s death depicted in his comic and tried to make the image of the culprit clearer, but the image harmed him until a black cat shut the book and a cat-eared girl caught him.

Wu Yang learned that the pale World Serpent had injured him through the sketchbook and might know that a Creator existed, then used protective measures to investigate it. Meanwhile, Hu Qi harvested the White Tower’s contained Heterogeneous Entities and considered whether God had been seeking a way to escape its Creator’s control.

• Mei Qiu explained that Wu Yang had suffered backlash from indirectly seeing an existence too powerful to observe, and Wu Yang discovered that fifteen of his Black Prayer Beads had shattered to save him.
• Mei Qiu read the sketchbook and identified the entity as the T5-class World Serpent, which had killed God after God violated Wu Yang’s rules and revealed that a Creator existed.
• Wu Yang put on a Forbidden Helmet and made the sketchbook simplify the World Serpent’s image, allowing him to inspect it and learn that its known abilities included eternal life, bodily parasitism, mental pressure, atomic manipulation, and spatial displacement.
• The sketchbook began erasing pages, and Wu Yang realized the World Serpent was killing Heterogeneous Entities through complete erasure from the material plane.
• Hu Qi watched as White Tower Cleaners sent contained Heterogeneous Entities through a vortex into his true body, while Costu reported that nearly all the White Tower’s entities had been gathered.
• Hu Qi suspected the Creator was human and wondered whether God had studied human society in hopes of escaping the Creator’s control.

Hu Qi used the Heavenly Mandate System to provoke the hidden Creator and grant it to intelligent beings across Kepler Star, giving them a way to capture Heterogeneous Entities. After people began gaining supernatural abilities and sharing them online, the planet erupted in a hunt for the entities.

• Hu Qi concluded that the Creator was evading his investigations and decided to draw it out by activating the Heavenly Mandate System across Kepler Star.
• Wang Wu and the women aboard his private jet saw the sky turn blood-red, received the Heaven's Mandate System, and learned that they had all been bound to it.
• Intelligent beings across Kepler Star received the system, which rewarded anyone who captured a Heterogeneous Entity, though the entities were dangerous.
• Authorities and experts dismissed the system as a mass hallucination linked to cosmic radiation, and many people temporarily accepted their explanation.
• An internet celebrity demonstrated Flame Manipulation after capturing a Heterogeneous Entity, then flew through the air and accidentally exposed himself on the livestream.
• As more people revealed their abilities, the system and its rewards trended across the planet, prompting people to search for Heterogeneous Entities despite the risks.

Wu Yang watched the Heaven's Mandate System erase the Heterogeneous Entities he had created and decided to fight the World Serpent with Mei Qiu's help. As he began designing new creatures to strengthen her, the serpent sensed something on Kepler Star and opened its eyes.

• A bald Ability User captured the rabbit-form Heterogeneous Entity rd-199 and advertised Storm Brand before the footage ended.
• Wu Yang learned that the sketchbook's Heterogeneous Entities were disappearing as Ability Users contained them through the Heaven's Mandate System.
• Mei Qiu urged Wu Yang to fight the World Serpent by stacking other Heterogeneous Entities' abilities onto her, and Wu Yang agreed to create creatures for that purpose.
• The Black Cat privately doubted they could defeat the World Serpent but supported Wu Yang so he would not give up.
• Several days later, the World Serpent opened its eyes and sensed someone on Kepler Star was finally coming out.

Black Cat fought the World Serpent’s forces in Kari City, but Hu Qi took control of her and found Wu Yang hidden in her pocket dimension. Hu Qi discovered a black sketchbook inside Wu Yang, revealed and devoured the white worm concealed within it, and gained 213847 Modification Points.

• Mind Demon attacked the figure emerging from the smoke with rebars, but they reversed course and killed him.
• Black Cat appeared and killed four Ability Users with her presence, then sliced the fleeing survivor in half with a blade of air.
• Hu Qi took control of Black Cat and asked where Wu Yang was, and she revealed him from her pocket dimension.
• Hu Qi melted Wu Yang’s body and found a black sketchbook floating above the blood, then burned it until a crack revealed a white cocoon.
• The cocoon burst open and revealed a many-eyed white worm, which Hu Qi swallowed and devoured.
• Hu Qi gained 213847 Modification Points.

Hu Qi digested the white worm Gel Muleta’s inherited memories and learned that Void Creatures came from beyond the Sea of Sumeru and parasitized worlds to consume their origins. With the Heterogeneous Entities gone, the Heaven’s Mandate System disconnected from Kepler Star, while Hu Qi remained in space contemplating the greater reality beyond his world.

• Hu Qi devoured the white worm, and the Heterogeneous Entities across Kepler Star began to vanish as their source of power disappeared.
• The cat-eared girl regained her consciousness, mourned Wu Yang, and died in her Black Cat form as memories revealed how Wu Yang had once rescued her.
• The Heaven’s Mandate System announced its disconnection, leaving Kepler Star’s existing Ability Users with their powers but ending the chance for others to gain abilities through it.
• Hu Qi awakened in space after digesting the worm’s memories and learned that the worm was Gel Muleta, a Void Creature from beyond the Sea of Sumeru.
• Hu Qi learned that Gel Muleta had used Wu Yang to create Heterogeneous Entities and erode the world, while Wu Yang unknowingly acted as a pawn in its conflict with the World Will.

Hu Qi learned how Void Creatures grew and why the creature he swallowed had trapped its world, then looked down at Kepler Star as authorities began capturing Ability Users after the Heaven’s Mandate System vanished. Long Yi awakened in a research facility, tried to resist his captors, and was subdued by a shock collar and anesthetic.

• Hu Qi recalled the Void Creature’s life stages, short lifespan, dependence on a world’s origin, and role in trapping Aldina before swallowing it and resolving the crisis.
• Long Yi rose from factory worker to Ability User after containing a Heterogeneous Entity and gaining the Dragon Transformation ability through the Heaven’s Mandate System.
• After the system vanished and the Heterogeneous Entities disappeared, Long Yi considered joining other Ability Users to seize control of the world, but he was captured and taken for experiments.
• Long Yi awoke in a sterile chamber, discovered researchers had been studying him, and attacked them until a collar shocked and anesthetized him.
• The lead researcher recorded Long Yi as Dragon Person Subject No. 0012 while Operation Pure Land detained civilian Ability Users around the world.

Hu Qi used his position as Karoo to complete a Gene Ability Potion project, then killed Lier and his two Ability User guards before disappearing. Twenty years later, as innate Ability Users emerged, Hu Qi devoured Kepler Star’s origin, provoking the World Will to attack him.

• Hu Qi examined the latest Gene Ability Potion, which gave ordinary people a seventy percent chance of awakening an ability, and reflected on why Kepler Star’s powerful figures wanted it.
• Lier confronted Hu Qi about the potion, and Hu Qi killed Lier’s two Ability User guards before forcing the unstable potion down Lier’s throat.
• Lier transformed into a black bear but died from rejection between his mutating body and transplanted organs; Hu Qi gained Modification Points and vanished.
• Kepler Star’s upper echelon distributed the potion and reshaped society around Ability Users, and twenty years later, a baby born with awakened abilities marked a new stage of human evolution.
• Hu Qi, now in outer space, received authority from Kepler Star and used his Gluttony Domain to drain its origin into his Cave Heaven World.
• Kepler Star’s World Will manifested in fury and struck at Hu Qi with a massive palm formed from starlight.

Hu Qi defeated the weakened World Will, absorbed the Kepler Star world into his Cave Heaven World, and learned to evade the Abyssal Domain’s Angler phenomenon. Back in the Reincarnation Book House, he received a mandatory mission to a ten-star novel world and resolved to deal with the other three Administrators who would join him.

• Hu Qi used the Yin-Yang Heaven-Seizing Strategy to keep the World Will from reclaiming his authority, then destroyed its manifestation and devoured much of the world’s origin.
• Hu Qi compressed the Kepler Star world into a sphere and absorbed it into his Cave Heaven World, triggering the Cave Heaven World’s further transformation.
• Hu Qi used Twisted Light to disguise his aura from the Angler phenomenon and left the Abyssal Domain to study the Yin-Yang Heaven-Seizing Strategy.
• Kepler Star’s monitoring systems registered the World Serpent’s disappearance, though humanity did not know that Hu Qi had absorbed the entire Kepler System.
• Hu Qi received a mandatory mission to the ten-star novel world Sealed Origin Realm, with three other Administrators assigned to join him.
• Hu Qi suspected the other Administrators wanted his authority and decided to deal with them during the mission.

The four Administrators prepared for a mandatory mission in a ten-star novel world, while Hu Qi used the Scarlet Panel to transform the Yin-Yang Heaven-Seizing Strategy into the Heaven Seizing Technique. After absorbing Aldina’s Dao and strengthening his Infinite Dao Seed and Cave Heaven World, Hu Qi learned how the Spirit Realm classified worlds.

• Suta and Han Yuan discussed the ten-star mission and agreed they would need to cooperate if they encountered the Puppet Master.
• The Puppet Master learned about the ten-star world and resolved to succeed in his plans.
• Hu Qi used the Scarlet Panel to modify the Yin-Yang Heaven-Seizing Strategy into the Heaven Seizing Technique, spending roughly two hundred thousand Modification Points.
• Hu Qi used the Heaven Seizing Technique to absorb Aldina’s Light Dao and Destruction Dao into his Infinite Dao Seed, strengthening his Cave Heaven World.
• Hu Qi received information describing the Spirit Realm’s Lesser Thousand, Middle Thousand, and Greater Thousand Worlds.

Hu Qi learned that his Cave Heaven World had evolved into a Middle Thousand World, giving him power to suppress True Gods, and strengthened his cultivation techniques. As the ten-star novel world began, the administrators were sent into it through soul-possession rebirth, leaving Hu Qi’s main body outside.

• Hu Qi realized his Cave Heaven World had become a Middle Thousand World and could let him contend with True Gods.
• Hu Qi used Crimson to raise the Divine Limit Heart Art to its seventh level and perfect the Heaven Seizing Technique, gaining the Heavenly Theft trait.
• Hu Qi decided not to enter the Reincarnation Book House in his true body and used their shared Mind Realm to contact his clone.
• Fifteen days later, a purple sphere appeared above the administrators, revealing a book identified as the Reincarnation Book House’s true body.
• The Book House announced that the administrators would enter the ten-star novel world, Sealed Origin Realm, through soul-possession rebirth, then transported them away.

Hu Qi awakened in the body of Elu Goth, a youth falsely accused of theft and sentenced to burn, then revealed a power that let him kill and drain the life from others. After freeing the two men condemned alongside him, he fled into the forest.

• Hu Qi regained consciousness in Elu Goth's body, bound to a stake while villagers prepared to burn him with Potter and Hawk.
• Rock, the village chief's guard, demanded that Elu confess to stealing livestock and valuables, but Hu Qi asked to speak to him privately.
• Hu Qi bit Rock's neck and drained him into a corpse, then broke his bonds as the villagers fled in terror.
• Hu Qi killed the four militiamen who attacked him, using their life force to heal his wounds after one shot him.
• Hu Qi freed Potter and Hawk from their stakes and slipped into the forest, leaving the villagers to find the bloody scene.

Hu Qi escaped execution in Grayleaf Village, discovered the Reincarnation Book House’s quests to kill a Chief God and confront a source of transcendence, and found himself cut off from his main body. After recovering with the Heaven Seizing Technique, he headed toward White Bear Village to seek information from Ired, while Ired learned of the events in Grayleaf Village.

• Hu Qi killed a snake while hiding in a tree and received two Main Quests from the Reincarnation Book House: kill a Chief God and face a source of transcendence for at least one minute.
• Hu Qi discovered he could not contact his main body or borrow the Tattered Black Banner, but his completed Heaven Seizing Technique remained available.
• Hu Qi explained how he had used the technique to drain Rock’s vitality, escape the militiamen, and restore some strength to his weakened body.
• Hu Qi identified Ired, the chief and sheriff who had authorized his execution, as his best source of information and watched White Bear Village from the forest.
• After searching for Hu Qi and finding nothing, Grayleaf villagers returned to the village; Hu Qi washed himself at a stream and then slipped into the forest toward White Bear Village.
• Chatt told Ired that something had happened in Grayleaf Village, and Ired listened in silence.

Ired investigated Elu’s killings and suspected that Elu was a professional, while secretly displaying power over fire. As fires engulfed White Bear Village, Hu Qi attacked Ired while disguised as Chatt and overwhelmed him.

• Ired examined the bodies of Rock and four militiamen, ordered the dead buried, and offered their families compensation.
• Ired ordered Chatt to search for Elu and privately considered killing him if found, then showed signs of controlling fire.
• Chatt returned home and discovered his mistress on the floor before a dagger was pressed to his throat.
• Several fires broke out across White Bear Village, waking the villagers and drawing Ired outside.
• A disguised Hu Qi severed Ired’s arm with a poisoned dagger, then dodged Ired’s fire and struck him down.
• Hu Qi smashed Ired’s head against the floor three times, breaking the boards and extinguishing the flames around him.

Hu Qi tortured Ired for information, learned how the professional Sequences and their advancement rituals worked, then used the Heaven Seizing Technique to drain Ired’s life force and Arsonist trait. After his burns healed, Hu Qi demonstrated his newly acquired ability to control fire.

• Hu Qi crippled Ired, burned out his left eye, and tortured him until he begged for mercy.
• Ired explained that he had framed Elu and two others because his Fire Executioner advancement ritual required him to burn thirty confessed sinners before witnesses.
• Ired described professional Sequences, potions, meditation, advancement rituals, and the dangers of failing to advance from Arsonist.
• Hu Qi questioned Ired about other matters, then drained his life force and Sequence Nine Arsonist trait with the Heaven Seizing Technique.
• Hu Qi’s burns healed, and he summoned a fireball from the fireplace, testing his new Arsonist power.

Hu Qi explored his new Arsonist abilities, learned that the Scarlet Panel still required an advancement ritual, and searched Ired’s room for money and mystical materials. After punishing the family who had abused the body’s original owner, he left Grayleaf Village for Oak Town, while a separate scene showed a young girl confronting the last surviving cultist in a bloodied sewer.

• Hu Qi discovered that his controlled flames consumed spirituality and that the world around him contained an immense amount of it.
• Hu Qi checked the Scarlet Panel and learned he would need to complete the ritual of burning thirty sinners before modifying his Sequence.
• Hu Qi used Ired’s voice to reassure a militiaman and ordered compensation for villagers whose houses had burned.
• Hu Qi found Ired’s money and a piece of Secret Spirit Silver, then left to seek more knowledge and settle matters tied to the body’s past.
• Hu Qi burned down his elder brother’s family home, leaving three charred corpses, and departed Grayleaf Village for Oak Town.
• In a blood-filled sewer, a young girl held the last surviving black-robed man aloft as he invoked the Tide God.

Suta survived a cult ritual by killing the Tidal Church members who had captured her, then concealed her identity and was taken in by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. Meanwhile, Hu Qi reached Oak Town and paid to join a timber caravan bound for Night Raven Port, where he planned to investigate supernatural profession paths.

• Suta killed the black-robed cult leader, learned that she needed to follow this world's supernatural system, and discovered that using her power had cost her body decades of Lifespan.
• Suta found a strange parchment among the cultists, hid it when agents arrived, and pretended to be Chloe, a frightened survivor of the ritual.
• The Federal Bureau of Investigation agents recognized Suta as Chloe of the Leo Family and took her out of the sewer for questioning and care.
• Hu Qi arrived at the Rusty Sword and Oak Barrel tavern in Oak Town and asked about traveling to Night Raven Port.
• Hu Qi explained that he sought information about profession users and did not intend to rely solely on the Pyremancer path.
• Hu Qi paid Old Butte for a place in the oak-timber caravan bound for Night Raven Port, and Old Butte provided him with a horse.