Chapter Summaries

After Cheng Han killed a Tree Wraith, the Patrol Department made him a Patrol Captain while Fifteen Middle School negotiated to retain his student status and benefits. Wan Tengjiao formed an imprint by recalling Cheng Han’s strike, while Cheng Han prepared to rescue Xie You, whose prison guard suddenly greeted the Eternal Night Walker.

• Cheng Han returned to the outpost after killing a Tree Wraith, and its staff celebrated by welcoming him as a Patrol Captain.
• Yan Shan argued with Yu Xianglong and Zhen Shiping over Cheng Han’s appointment, then agreed that Cheng Han would keep both his student status and Patrol Captain position.
• Liu Yidao offered Cheng Han double benefits, and Cheng Han negotiated his monthly Patrol Department salary up to two Gold Coins.
• Wan Tengjiao copied Cheng Han’s Mountain Moving Hand strike with a Bicycle, formed an imprint, and resolved to catch up to him.
• Cheng Han prepared a Puppet to fulfill his promise to rescue Xie You, while a prison guard bowed and greeted the Eternal Night Walker as Madam.

Cheng Han used the Dark Spirit Secret Puppet to secure Xie You’s release and then arranged a deadly warning for her. Xie You believed the Lord of Eternal Night was a powerful government official and set out to uncover his identity, while Cheng Han prepared to keep her in line.

• Xie You tried to persuade the Lord of Eternal Night to kill the old woman, but Cheng Han saw through her probing and cut off their connection.
• Assistant Miss used Blue Radiance to influence Zou De and a senior clerk into approving Xie You’s release order, which the Arbitration Department officially issued.
• Xie You was released and reasoned that the Lord of Eternal Night must be an experienced government official, though Cheng Han knew her deductions were wrong.
• Cheng Han sent a squirrel puppet to deliver Xie You a note and a map promising a show, then used a Deduction to arrange a series of accidents.
• Xie You watched her former patron’s enemy die beneath a Crystal Energy Car and understood the spectacle as both protection and a warning to obey Cheng Han.

Cheng Han exposed Sha Jinshan for extorting workers, then was summoned to help investigate a deadly Weird Sound at a factory. After identifying Gray Toe Rats as its hosts and helping eliminate the Anomaly, he examined the rat remains and used Deduction to study them.

• Cheng Han ordered Sha Jinshan to return the Silver Coins he had extorted from workers and sent him back to the outpost.
• Liu Yidao brought Cheng Han to a factory where a Weird Sound had killed six people and injured twenty-one.
• Cheng Han deduced that the Weird Sound was attached to a group of Gray Toe Rats and proposed using cats to drive them out.
• A shrill scream and explosion weakened the Weird Sound, and Cheng Han suppressed its lingering murmurs with True Flame Power.
• Cheng Han examined the white, oversized Gray Toe Rat corpses and used Deduction to investigate their Anomaly.

Cheng Han used his growing Spirit Universe Imprint to remotely control the Assistant Miss, earned rewards from the Patrol Department, and learned that Xie You had infiltrated a trading company to draw out a Life Priest. He planned to follow the priest to the Heretical God believers’ hideout and considered acquiring materials to make stronger Supernatural Items.

• Cheng Han plucked a Secret Puppet Thread and used it to disrupt the Assistant Miss and Zou De, then gained proficiency and Spirit Value from his Deduction.
• Yu Xianglong and Liu Yidao promised Cheng Han a commendation and bonuses, while Yu Xianglong tried to introduce him to his niece; Cheng Han escaped to the bathroom.
• A White-Bellied Squirrel delivered Lord of Eternal Night’s orders to Xie You, gave her a Bewilderment Bead, and instructed her to find an influential job so the Life Priest would contact her.
• Xie You became senior Secretary to Moda Trading Company chairman Jieshi Gong and used the Bewilderment Bead to make him lose control, earning a doubled salary while secretly serving Lord of Eternal Night.
• Cheng Han connected the Life Priest’s title to a symbol associated with the Heretical God of life and planned to follow the priest to the believers’ hideout.
• Cheng Han discovered that his completed Spirit Universe Imprint could create temporary Supernatural Items and considered seeking Supernatural Materials to make genuine ones.

Cheng Han visited Lin Xuebin to ask about the Middle Ancient Era and investigate a pattern associated with Heretical Gods. Lin Xuebin showed him a manuscript sketch of a Stone Coffin tied to the Zhen Ting Small Spirit Realm, and Cheng Han left suspecting the realm concealed a passage to a Land Fragment.

• Cheng Han frightened Lin Xuebin's young son, then demonstrated his strength and warned the boy against bullying others.
• Cheng Han questioned Lin Xuebin about Middle Ancient Era history while considering the possible connection between the Life Priest and the Three Heretical Gods.
• Lin Xuebin showed Cheng Han a manuscript sketch of a Stone Coffin bearing a pattern similar to one Cheng Han had seen.
• Lin Xuebin explained that the Stone Coffin had been seized from a Heretical God Organization in the Zhen Ting Small Spirit Realm.
• Cheng Han suspected the Stone Coffin came from a Land Fragment and that the Zhen Ting Small Spirit Realm might contain a secret passage to one.
• Cheng Han asked to borrow Lin Xuebin's manuscript, and Lin Xuebin agreed.

Cheng Han used the Stone Coffin manuscript and the Stone of Divine Soul to uncover clues about the God of Life, A Mei Li Ya, and a hidden Alien God. The Alien God sensed his deduction and struck his spirit, but Cheng Han survived and his Eye of Omniscience advanced to Level 5.

• Cheng Han deduced that the Black Cat was gathering Rock Pine Nuts with its feline and rodent underlings after hearing him praise them.
• Cheng Han reviewed the manuscript about the Anglote Divine Dynasty and decided to investigate that period further.
• Cheng Han used the manuscript and Stone of Divine Soul to deduce a funeral for Duke Maike Mulaman and a continent fragment taken away by A Mei Li Ya.
• Cheng Han learned that the fragment was in the Extinction Ruins and heard the Nether Soil Alien God curse A Mei Li Ya before an Alien God sensed his prying and declared, "Thou art guilty!"
• Cheng Han confirmed that the Alien God remained suppressed and posed no immediate danger, then gained enough proficiency to raise the Eye of Omniscience to Level 5.

Cheng Han used Netherlight to secretly etch a message about the God Court into the Parliament Building while leading a night patrol and arranging witnesses to establish his alibi. He returned to his patrol group, then used Deduction to confirm that his act had succeeded.

• Cheng Han decided to enlist the authorities against the Alien God A Mei Li Ya and praised the improved deduction abilities of his Level 5 Eye of Omniscience.
• Sheriff led ten other cats home with a large stockpile of Rock Pine Nuts, and Cheng Han rewarded them with Rabbit Meat before leaving for his night patrol.
• Cheng Han coached rookies Zhan Bajing and Fang Yifeng during patrol, then sent his team to investigate a supposed low-risk disturbance.
• Cheng Han used Netherlight Leap, a Secret Puppet Wood Doll, and the Weird Shadow to send charcoal to the Parliament Building from 8,300 meters away.
• The Wooden Bead exploded in the Parliament Building, leaving a huge Etching and the words God Court on the floor, prompting the Black Armor Army to seal off the scene.
• Cheng Han reunited with his patrol team, claimed his perception had been inaccurate, and used Deduction to confirm that the Etching had appeared.

Yu Wei and Qinglin City officials discovered that the Etching about God Dwelling had drawn an urgent response from the Profound Pavilion, while Cheng Han seized a fugitive and used his Eye of Omniscience to learn more about the inscription. He realized that A Mei Li Ya was the Second Alien God, the Lord of Dark Deceit, and suspected that the relationship between this deity and the God of Life involved deceit.

• Yu Wei dismissed the Etching as a provocation, but the Profound Pavilion urgently requested a projection and sent a Mystic Master to investigate, ordering the Hall of Councillors sealed and witnesses isolated.
• Cheng Han sensed a fast-moving object approaching the Hall of Councillors and recognized it as likely transportation from the Profound Pavilion.
• Cheng Han led his Patrol Officers to the jurisdictional boundary, where they captured a fugitive before the Seventh Outpost and drove off its protesting officers by challenging them to withstand his Air Cutting Stance.
• Cheng Han used Deduction on the Etching and saw Mystic Adepts identify Extinction Ruins as the shattered Ancient Continent and recognize part of the mountain’s inscription as the divine name A Mei Li.
• Cheng Han concluded that A Mei Li Ya was the Second Alien God, the Lord of Dark Deceit, and suspected that deceit linked the deity to the God of Life.

Cheng Han outmaneuvered Yong He in a confrontation at the Sixth Outpost, then received compensation through Liu Yidao’s efforts. A day later, Cheng Han sensed an approaching catastrophe and realized that a mighty being had made a move.

• Cheng Han lured Yong He into attacking from below the watchtower and struck him with the Air Cutting Stance, forcing him to retreat.
• Liu Yidao praised Cheng Han, went to block the Seventh Outpost’s gate, and later brought him three Gold Coins and eighty Silver Coins in compensation.
• Cheng Han began sensing growing oppression that he suspected came from the Eye of Omniscience warning him of a drastic change.
• Cheng Han grew increasingly restless, and after Black Cat tried to comfort him, he felt a suffocating pressure and realized a mighty being had made a move.

Cheng Han endured a brief glimpse of a Divine War, used the knowledge to greatly improve his imprints and spiritual strength, then collapsed into sleep. Through the White-Bellied Squirrel, he contacted Xie You, warned her about the cost of her Life Spirit Prayer Ritual, and sensed a Transcendent arriving to find her.

• Cheng Han used the Stone of Divine Soul and Substitute Secret Puppets to spy on the Lord of Dark Deceit's battle against Divine Generals led by a female Divine Lord, gaining a record amount of proficiency before the puppets broke.
• Cheng Han used his new knowledge to complete the Fragmented Imprint of True Flame, advance the Spirit Universe Imprint and transform the Fragmented Imprint of Spirit Control into a Profound Imprint, then fell asleep with only 0.8 Spirit Value remaining.
• Xie You received the White-Bellied Squirrel, accepted a Bewitching God Pearl, and told it that she had taken part in a Life Spirit Prayer Ritual.
• Cheng Han spoke to Xie You through the Secret Puppet Thread and warned that the ritual's lingering trait would make her age faster in twenty years, while promising to remove the aftereffects if she served him.
• Cheng Han sensed a Transcendent beneath Xie You's apartment building and told her that someone was coming to find her.

Cheng Han used the Eye of Omniscience to observe Xie You meeting with the Life Priest, then protected her when the Praying Life Society’s medicine influenced her. After tracing the medicine to influential recipients, he planned to provoke a crisis and exploit the Society’s response.

• Cheng Han used Deduction to observe the Life Priest recruit Xie You as a senior believer and promise her medicine to influence the president of Moda Trading Company.
• Xie You told the Lord of Eternal Night that the Praying Life Society was acting in haste and might be preparing a mass blood sacrifice, and Cheng Han promised to keep her safe.
• The Life Priest delivered medicine, and Xie You secretly mixed it into Jieshi Gong’s tea; the Bewitching God Pearl and Radiant Leap removed a small amount, while Cheng Han broke the influence over her.
• Cheng Han failed to trace the medicine’s source because a Supernatural Item interfered with Deduction, but he traced the destinations of the other bottles to influential people.
• Cheng Han decided to kill a group of targets and blame the deaths on the Praying Life Society, hoping to force it into action while he took advantage of the turmoil.

Cheng Han used venomous Wolf Fang Spiders to stage a series of killings that would expose the Praying Life Society, then arranged to encounter one during a date with Qian Qingqing so he could earn merit by stopping it. He left the scene having destroyed a Spider in public with a thrown baton.

• Cheng Han sent the Sheriff to find venomous spiders and used his imprints to make Wolf Fang Spiders fight, evolve, and become his puppets.
• Cheng Han took half a day off from patrol, using a date with Qian Qingqing as cover for his plan to cause trouble outside his jurisdiction.
• While riding with Qian Qingqing, Cheng Han sent giant Spiders to kill six prominent people, including Du Wenhao, and carry their heads into the streets.
• Cheng Han and Qian Qingqing came across one of the Spiders, and Cheng Han pretended to be surprised before throwing his baton and destroying it.

Cheng Han brought Qian Qingqing to the outpost, where the city’s spider killings prompted a major security response and he was assigned to guard Chen Tiannan’s family. After amusing the family with his strength and fending off their attempts to court him, he launched the next phase of his plan by setting off explosives in West City to pressure the Life Priest.

• Cheng Han apologized to Qian Qingqing for canceling their outing, then took her to the outpost, where Liu Yidao welcomed her.
• After four more prominent people were killed by the giant spider, Headquarters suspected the Heretical God Believer Netherworld and ordered Patrol Officers to guard influential families.
• Cheng Han and Zhang Haofang were assigned to protect Chen Tiannan’s family for three days, and Cheng Han used the Yin Dan Style to convince them he could keep them safe.
• Chen Xiuzhi and other members of Chen Tiannan’s family showed interest in Cheng Han, who found their attention distracting from his bodyguard work.
• Cheng Han began the second phase of his plan and detonated Remote Controlled High Explosive Bombs in West City to pressure the Life Priest.

Cheng Han used Deduction to draw the authorities and the Life Priest into a confrontation, then remotely entered the battle through a puppet to intervene. The Life Priest’s apparent death revealed that Giovanni had escaped by transferring his soul, and Cheng Han concluded the Bridge of Myriad Souls was likely a divine artifact.

• Cheng Han deduced the Life Priest’s location and lured two Mystic Adepts to the burning building, where they began pursuing him.
• Cheng Han discovered the Life Priest’s power was linked to the Bridge of Myriad Souls and sent a remote-controlled puppet to the battlefield.
• Cheng Han confronted the Life Priest, who mistook him for a Council of Fallen World councilor and admitted he could not escape.
• The Life Priest collapsed and appeared to die, but Cheng Han deduced that She Luo was dead while Giovanni remained alive and had escaped.
• The Weird Shadow swallowed Cheng Han’s puppet, and the Mystic Adepts concluded that the Netherworld could travel to and from the Otherworld.
• Cheng Han reasoned that Giovanni had occupied She Luo’s body and that the Bridge of Myriad Souls was likely a divine artifact created by the Lord of Dark Deceit.

Cheng Han displayed his martial skill while staying with the Chen Family, then sensed danger in the backyard and ordered everyone away. He summoned Hao Fang to alert Sentry Chief Liu and bring men to the mansion.

• Cheng Han used a pastry to stop a maid from falling, then demonstrated Essence Manifestation by making rain veer away from him.
• In a Minor Spirit Realm, two pursuers killed Gray Shadow, who claimed the Council of Fallen World had not acted in the Tai'an Minor Spirit Realm.
• As snow returned, Cheng Han accepted the twins’ invitation to go sledding and impressed the Chen Family guests by sending a sled smoothly around the track.
• After a child rudely demanded that Cheng Han push the sled twice for him, Cheng Han sensed something wrong and ordered everyone to leave the backyard.
• Cheng Han called to Hao Fang, ordering him to return to the Patrol Station and bring Sentry Chief Liu and his men.

Cheng Han used the Eye of Omniscience to foresee the Devouring Abyss appearing in the Chen Family's backyard and stayed inside its domain while the Patrol Department fed it live animals. After the Anomaly devoured a Patrol Officer, Cheng Han warned the others that approaching it was dangerous as they prepared to continue the sacrifices.

• Cheng Han foresaw a servant being erased by an Anomaly, ordered the Chen Family to lock themselves inside, and used the Fragmented Imprint of True Flame to repel the Devouring Abyss when it appeared.
• Liu Yidao sealed off the surrounding area, and Cheng Han identified the Anomaly as the Devouring Abyss while explaining that it would likely leave once fed living sacrifices.
• A Black Armor Army squad questioned Cheng Han, who insisted that moving within the Anomaly's domain would mean certain death, earning the soldiers' respect.
• Liu Yidao brought goats to the snow pine, and the Devouring Abyss erased them before consuming more animals sent as sacrifices.
• Cheng Han warned an Eighth Outpost Patrol Officer to retreat, but the Devouring Abyss swallowed him; Yu Xianglong and the Black Armor Army Captain then volunteered to carry the next sacrifices.

Cheng Han helped the Patrol Department complete the Devouring Abyss sacrifices, then used what he learned from the anomaly to strengthen his Spirit Universe Imprint. After the Abyss departed, the story shifted to Xie You, whose squirrel contact drew an attack from a man in black seeking the Lord of Eternal Night.

• Cheng Han kept approaching the cedar with each sacrifice, and the Black Armor Army Captain joined him in carrying offerings.
• At the eighty-sixth sacrifice, Cheng Han analyzed Eternal Hunger and increased his Spirit Universe Imprint’s completeness, Spirit Value limit, and Soul Extinguishing Divine Dark Spear’s power and range.
• After Eternal Hunger left, Cheng Han destroyed the cedar, received praise from the Black Armor Army, and heard Yu Xianglong promise a reward.
• Xie You learned she had lost her job at Moda Trading Company after Jieshi Gong was taken by the Patrol Department.
• A man in black confronted Xie You and questioned her squirrel contact about the Lord of Eternal Night, but the squirrel attacked him with four exploding stone spheres.
• The man in black escaped as blue smoke, only to find four spear-like attacks pursuing him.

Cheng Han killed Giovanni’s new body with the Soul Extinguishing Divine Dark Spear, then used its connection to prepare a cat-led search for the Life Priest. He helped Xie You erase her tracking emblem and leave Qinglin City, while the cat pack began searching nearby neighborhoods.

• Cheng Han explained how he had lured Giovanni into revealing himself through Xie You and used the upgraded Soul Extinguishing Divine Dark Spear to kill him again.
• Cheng Han failed to deduce Giovanni’s location directly, but realized the spear’s tracking range and drained mental power could serve as detection tools.
• Cheng Han ordered Sheriff to gather the cat pack and gave the cats Spirit Spear Pearls to search Qinglin City and its surroundings.
• Lord of Eternal Night used the White-Bellied Squirrel to erase the Praying Life Society’s tracking emblem from Xie You and advised her to move to Beiting City.
• A Yellow Cat entered a residential complex in Baiyan Neighborhood and tested a Spirit Spear Pearl, beginning the search for Giovanni.

Cheng Han stopped a forced price hike at the Vegetable Market, then sent the Black Cat to turn gang leader Cai Ren into a hidden puppet. A Spirit Spear Pearl led him toward the Life Priest’s hiding place, where he deduced that a powerful artifact node was shielding the target and reflected on the Divine Banyan’s protection.

• Cheng Han recognized that the Vegetable Bullies were exploiting the spider beheading panic and confronted a vendor forcing a woman to buy five pounds of Rong Mushrooms.
• Cheng Han detained the vendor, ordered the Managers to send him to shovel snow for half a year, and made another stall sell the woman one pound at the usual price.
• Cheng Han used Deduction to identify Cai Ren as the gang leader behind the price manipulation, then sent the Black Cat to make him a puppet with the Secrecy trait.
• Cheng Han’s Deduction showed a Flower Cat finding a target with the Spirit Spear Pearl, and he concluded that the Life Priest was hiding in a wealthy residential area.
• Cheng Han inferred that a concealed divine artifact node was interfering with the Spirit Spear Pearl and concluded that the Divine Banyan prevented far more Anomalies from reaching the world.

Cheng Han set a scheme in motion to destroy Cai Ren's gang by steering them into cutting down a suspected Tree Wraith, while the Sixth Outpost presented him with a rare enhancement secret medicine. After Cheng Han took it, a flame ignited at the heart of his Furnace of Life and stunned the witnesses.

• Cheng Han planned the Vegetable Tyrant Group Raid Incident and sent Sheriff to lead the cats in distributing roasted meat before assigning them a mission.
• A Nightwalker Bird used a Wooden Bead to make a tree branch appear likely to become a Tree Wraith, prompting authorities to order the grove cut down.
• The cats planted Cai Style Logging Company's registration card in an Urban Management Department file, and Cai Ren's gang was directed to cut down the trees.
• Yu Xianglong awarded Cheng Han the Gathering Radiance Secret Medicine at the Sixth Outpost, and Liu Yidao explained its rare chance of awakening a Profound Method Trait.
• Cheng Han drank the medicine and practiced the Embracing Furnace Stance, causing a blazing flame to ignite in his Furnace of Life and shocking everyone present.