Recaps

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.

Hu Qi used overwhelming flame control to defeat a band of raiders and burned them after forcing their confession, completing an advancement ritual. He checked his panel and ordered Crimson to upgrade his Sequence Nine Arsonist.

• Old Butte led the caravan into a cave to shelter from the rain and suppressed his men’s plans to rob Hu Qi.
• Hu Qi trained alone in the cave until more than thirty bandits surrounded the caravan and demanded money and severed arms.
• Hu Qi used hair-thin lines of fire to cut down the bandits and ordered the caravan to bring the survivors inside.
• Hu Qi split the bandit leader in two after he refused to admit his crimes, then burned the remaining thirty-three bandits alive.
• Hu Qi sensed that his advancement ritual was complete, checked his panel, and told Crimson to upgrade his Sequence Nine Arsonist.

Hu Qi advanced to Sequence Eight Fire Executioner, discovered that he could perceive and ignite people’s Sin Fire, and arrived at Night Raven Port after a slow journey. He killed the convoy members after leaving, altered his appearance, and entered a tavern where Ophelia recognized his crimson eyes and invited him into a back room.

• Hu Qi used the Scarlet Panel to advance to Sequence Eight Fire Executioner, gaining the ability to see Sin Fire and learning the names Spirit Burner and Flame Envoy for Sequence Seven.
• Hu Qi ignited the coachman who had shown him the greatest malice, then warned Old Butte and the others to keep quiet.
• Hu Qi reached Night Raven Port on the fourteenth day, left the convoy, and caused its members to burn to death as he walked away.
• Hu Qi subtly changed his appearance while entering the city and went into a tavern, where he ordered Blood's Delight from Ophelia.
• Ophelia and Hu Qi exchanged a few words, and she led him through a curtain into a back room.

Hu Qi visited Ophelia to learn about occupational paths and buy books on professional knowledge and the Gublimum Language. After mastering the language through his panel, he triggered a terrifying vision of a hostile presence in his mind, which he dispelled with his serpent-shaped soul.

• Hu Qi claimed Ired had sent him, proved he was an Arsonist by controlling fire, and told Ophelia that Ired had died during an advancement accident.
• Ophelia explained that occupational practitioners could follow multiple compatible paths and offered to share deeper knowledge through fair trade.
• After Hu Qi left, Ophelia and a hidden gunslinger discussed doubting his story and decided to observe him before considering an invitation to the Round Bell Society.
• Hu Qi noticed a warning about Tidal Church followers but ignored it, then paid Ophelia ten Dragon Crowns for books on the Gublimum Language and professionals.
• Hu Qi used his panel to perfect the Gublimum Language, but the knowledge summoned a hostile shadow and warped his surroundings until his serpent-shaped soul shattered the vision.

Hu Qi survived a dangerous encounter with the source of the Gublimum Language and used the Scarlet Panel to block its influence. He captured the cowboy who had followed him, forced him into submission, and ordered him to record what he knew about the Shadower pathway before Hu Qi finished reading a book and frowned.

• Hu Qi realized that mastering the Gublimum Language had exposed him to its creator, and the Scarlet Panel blocked the influence for 10,000 Modification Points.
• Hu Qi discovered the cowboy hiding in his room and overwhelmed him with a burst of green flame.
• The cowboy guessed Hu Qi was a Sequence Eight Fire Executioner, drew a pistol, and was knocked down and threatened.
• Hu Qi planted a Sin Fire seed in the cowboy, whose burning pain forced him to submit and identify himself as Dick, a Sequence Eight Shadow Assassin.
• Hu Qi dismissed the innkeeper, then ordered Dick to write down everything about the Shadower pathway while he read a book and frowned.

Hu Qi learned about the Sealed Origin Realm’s Adept sequences and the Seven Gods, then realized that killing a Sequence One god for his quest would require a path beyond the existing divine systems. He decided to gather complete Adept advancement records and use his own powers, with Crimson’s help, to devise an independent path.

• Hu Qi studied an encyclopedia of Adepts and learned about the Sealed Origin Realm, its dangers, and the ranks from Sequence Nine to Sequence Four.
• Hu Qi asked Dick about higher sequences, and Dick explained that Sequence Three was called Demigod, Sequence Two Heavenly God, and Sequence One Main God.
• Dick told Hu Qi that advancing into divine realms involved competing for authority and that only a legendary founder might have reached Sequence Three.
• Hu Qi dismissed Dick after obtaining information about the Shadower path, then burned the two books he had bought.
• Hu Qi concluded that he needed to create a profession holder path beyond the gods and decided to seek detailed records of existing advancement systems.

Hu Qi hunted occupational users in Night Raven Port, killed Alons to learn the Rain Master pathway, and escaped a Federation Agent who attacked him. More than a month later, wealthy and living in a seaside estate, he received a mysterious, edge-less longsword.

• Hu Qi learned that completing the Shadower pathway would require more high-level mystical knowledge.
• Hu Qi ambushed Alons in an alley, overcame the Sequence Eight Mist Walker’s water abilities, and drained him of life, learning the Rain Master pathway up to Sequence Six.
• A Federation Agent attacked Hu Qi with an unusual pistol, but Hu Qi escaped by filling the street with mist.
• More than a month later, Hu Qi enjoyed breakfast at his estate, which he had bought with money looted from hunted professionals.
• Hu Qi received a dark, heavy, edge-less longsword and turned his attention to the translucent panel before him.

Hu Qi forged the Godslayer pathway’s first weapon, Dusk, and completed the Sequence Nine advancement to Sword Polisher. He learned that reaching Sequence Eight required ten million full-force sword swings, then tested his vastly increased speed by swinging nine times in a burst.

• Hu Qi reviewed the dozens of Practitioner pathways he had seized and examined the incomplete Godslayer pathway, which currently extended only to Sequence Six.
• Hu Qi refined a mundane longsword with mystical materials, named the resulting supernatural weapon Dusk, and prepared to sharpen it.
• Hu Qi spent a day polishing Dusk until the blade transformed, fulfilling Sword Polisher’s advancement requirement.
• Hu Qi used Crimson to advance to Sequence Nine Sword Polisher, consolidating his other supernatural powers while retaining the ability to draw on them.
• Hu Qi gained a threefold physical boost and three sword-related traits, including Blade Tempering Eye, and discovered the Sequence Eight ritual required ten million full-force sword swings.
• Hu Qi tested his speed by delivering nine sword swings so quickly that they sounded like one.

Hu Qi completed his ten million sword swings and used the Scarlet Panel to advance toward Sequence Eight, while Suta entered the supernatural world and pursued a lead on the Mermaid King's Treasure. The chapter ended as Hu Qi's advancement strengthened him and his sword, Dusk, began absorbing spirituality.

• Hu Qi tested his sword speed and began the full-force swings required to advance to Sequence Eight, Disciple of Ten Thousand Slashes.
• Suta reached Sequence Nine as a Wave Rider, demonstrated her water-control ability, and sought higher-sequence information to prepare for the Mermaid King's Treasure.
• Suta learned that the Mermaid King's Treasure might reveal a pathway reaching Sequence Five and planned to strengthen herself before it opened.
• As Tide Cultists kidnapped civilians for sacrifices and authorities responded weakly, seven days passed and Night Raven Port was buried in snow.
• Hu Qi completed ten million sword swings and used the Scarlet Panel to advance from Sequence Nine Sword Sharpener to Sequence Eight Disciple of Ten Thousand Slashes.
• Hu Qi felt his strength and Blade Tempering Eye improve as Dusk began absorbing the surrounding spirituality.

Hu Qi advanced to Sequence Eight, strengthened his bond with Dusk, and demonstrated his new sword power. As Night Raven Port’s sea retreated and profession bearers rushed to find the Mermaid King’s treasure, a secretive shadow headed for the Sea God Church.

• Hu Qi advanced to Sequence Eight, Disciple of Ten Thousand Slashes, and Dusk gained the ability to grow stronger alongside him.
• Hu Qi tested his new Slash trait by cutting through a thick tree with a crescent of Sword Qi.
• Dick told Hu Qi that Round Bell had invited him to seek the Mermaid King’s treasure during Night Raven Port’s once-in-five-years sea retreat, but Hu Qi declined.
• The sea withdrew from Night Raven Port, exposing the seabed and drawing profession bearers toward the rumored Sequence Five treasure.
• A priest at the Sea God Church received a vision from the statue of Taizhuolus, while an Old Woman vowed to destroy the Mermaid King and Tidal Church.
• A man left the Governor’s Mansion for the coast as a secretive shadow moved toward the Sea God Church.

Hu Qi infiltrated the Sea God Church, killed its guards and cultists, and seized the memories of the priest’s successor while searching for higher-Sequence information. As he left for the Governor's Mansion, Tide Cultists summoned the Tide God, and a colossal tsunami surged toward Night Raven Port.

• Hu Qi reached the Sea God Church in shadow form, saw resentful spirits bound around it, and killed two Sequence Nine guards at the entrance.
• The church’s statues attacked Hu Qi with a petrifying illusion and an axe, but he shattered the effect with a sword strike and entered the church.
• Hu Qi killed the cultists he encountered and used the Heaven Seizing Technique to seize their memories, then found the priest’s Sequence Seven successor and defeated her water tornadoes.
• Hu Qi seized the woman’s memories without taking her pathway power, killed her, and hurried away toward the Governor's Mansion.
• Tide Cultists across Night Raven Port cut their wrists and performed a blood ritual in response to the Tide God’s call.
• A tsunami hundreds of meters tall surged toward Night Raven Port, destroying ships and buildings as an enormous black silhouette stood within the wave.

Kira advanced to Sequence Four and transformed Night Raven Port into a vast field of death and mutation, while Hu Qi escaped the corruption and hurried toward Dick and the others. Suta killed Viscount Leo to claim a Sequence Five advancement path, then clashed with an unseen attacker as the chapter ended with a tall figure emerging through fire and steam.

• Kira broke through the Sea God Church’s divine light and resumed the tsunami’s assault on Night Raven Port.
• Hu Qi saw Kira’s Sequence Four transformation kill Rayne and Amos and corrupt living creatures across the port, then used Modification Points to reverse his own mutation.
• Hu Qi sensed Dick and the others nearby and sped toward them.
• Suta killed the professionals who had followed her and Viscount Leo, then murdered Viscount Leo and took the black scale containing a Sequence Five advancement path.
• An attacker struck Suta with a sword, but she dispersed into water mist and ice before fire consumed the frost and revealed a tall figure.

Hu Qi fought Suta, who had temporarily drawn on her true-god power, and advanced to Sequence Seven Blood Swordsman during their battle. After killing her, he absorbed Administrator No. 3’s authority, and the Book Spirit announced that it was fusing with him.

• Hu Qi recognized Suta as Administrator No. 3 and fought her after she refused his demand to accept a restriction.
• Suta unleashed her true-god power, but Hu Qi summoned his panel and advanced from Sequence Eight Disciple of Ten Thousand Slashes to Sequence Seven Blood Swordsman.
• Hu Qi evaded Suta’s attacks with duplicates and then cut her in half with a sword strike that stopped her supernatural traits.
• Suta died, and Hu Qi received a notification that he had obtained Administrator No. 3’s authority and that fusion was beginning.

After killing Suta, Hu Qi triggered a quest that forced the Administrators to hunt one another, then fled as a Sea God Church figure arrived to battle Kira at Night Raven Port. Seven days later, Hu Qi read the Federation’s account of the port’s destruction in Cold Rain City, while the other Administrators and the Puppet Master reacted to the quest in different places.

• Hu Qi received the Supreme Hidden Quest ordering him to kill the remaining Administrators and seize their Authority.
• Hu Qi saw a powerful figure descend over Night Raven Port, judged that he could not face the newcomer, and escaped in the opposite direction.
• A blue-robed Sea God Church figure fought Kira, blasted him with lightning, and left after Kira survived in a tiny, injured form.
• Han Yun received notice of an Administrator’s death and assumed the newcomer had been killed, while the Puppet Master began trying to control Modis.
• Seven days later in Cold Rain City, Hu Qi read a newspaper report about Night Raven Port’s destruction and doubted its claims about survivors.

Hu Qi examined his Godslayer path and sought a pure-blooded giant dragon to advance to Sequence Six, following an ancient dragon legend tied to Cold Rain City. He acquired Sub-dragon Blood from Lilia, but kept his purpose secret.

• Hu Qi reasoned that the Federation’s disaster cover-up hid the supernatural truth and that the Seven Gods had not intervened in Night Raven Port’s destruction.
• Hu Qi inspected his Scarlet Panel, which showed his Sequence Seven Blood Swordsman abilities and the requirement to slay a legendary pure-blooded giant dragon to reach Sequence Six, Dragon Slayer.
• Hu Qi recalled Cold Rain City’s ancient legend of a sleeping dragon whose breath had transformed the surrounding desert, and decided to search for dragons there.
• A blonde woman named Lilia met Hu Qi and exchanged a glass bottle of Sub-dragon Blood for a parchment describing a supernatural pathway.
• Lilia asked why Hu Qi wanted the Sub-dragon Blood, but Hu Qi refused to share his secret.

Lilia and her younger brother investigated Hu Qi, hoping to uncover whether he knew the location of a giant dragon, but Hu Qi killed them before they could act. Using the Sub-dragon Blood to trace its source, Hu Qi followed the trail beyond Cold Rain City to a village, where he noticed something unexpected.

• Lilia paid the restaurant bill after Hu Qi left, then met her younger brother Kaibu and gave him the parchment recording the Mermaid Path.
• Lilia and Kaibu speculated that Hu Qi might know how to find a giant dragon and decided to follow him using a tracking mark Lilia had placed on an item.
• A shadowy Hu Qi killed Kaibu and Lilia, took the parchment, and burned it with their bodies before leaving.
• Hu Qi used his Blood Swordsman ability to trace the Sub-dragon Blood toward its source and raced out of Cold Rain City.
• Hu Qi stopped near a misty village and spotted something that surprised him.