Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Rainy Night Surges, the World Flies in from Above”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Major Luo completes the fusion of the nine crimson spiders’ blood into his body, reducing the incompatibility between the body’s various components and greatly increasing his control.
• After Deputy Director Liu’s black alloy skeleton merges with Luo Tunan’s organs, Major Luo appears to lose all spiritual energy and Extraordinary characteristics. He seems to have become an ordinary human, but this proves to be a disguise or transitional state.
• The yellow-robed Sealed Extraordinary, known as the Unquenchable Flame, attacks Major Luo with the powerful Heavenly Fire Seven Profound Palm. Major Luo counters with a seemingly effortless physical gesture, shattering the man’s arm and killing him without using any spiritual power.
• Major Luo reveals that the body is a newly formed “Sacred Body,” but it remains incomplete and spiritually empty. He intends to use Deputy Director Liu and the Demon known as Qi to complete the ritual and awaken the body.
• Deputy Director Liu transforms into a grotesque Meat Mountain, from which the semi-transparent Demon Qi emerges. Ritual runes across the underground base reactivate and draw her toward the Cross atop the altar.
• Qi is bound upside down to the Cross and impaled through the head by a mithril nail. She sings a twisted hymn while disintegrating into black fragments, concepts, formulas, and spirituality.
• These fragments are absorbed through the [n]-shaped mark on Major Luo’s forehead. The black material turns white during the process, filling and awakening the Sacred Body’s body, heart, qi, essence, intent, and spirit.
• Elder Song realizes that the ritual imitates the Trinity: the Demon represents the future, the Sacred Body the present, and Luo Tunan’s decayed original body the past. Rather than cooperating with the Demon, Major Luo has controlled and sacrificed her to achieve sainthood.
• The authorities and former allies turn against Major Luo and prepare to attack him using powerful Black Boxes and other abilities.
• Major Luo admits that he is still incomplete, but declares that the Saint will be born after six hours. He creates a vast white, school-like world that rises above Tinghai and isolates him from reality.
• A countdown begins at six hours. Elder Song identifies the world as a Saint’s cradle or “Nibelungen”—a protective realm that will conceal and nurture Major Luo until he is either successfully born or destroyed.
• The school-world suddenly disappears into another dimension, but it then races through the sky toward Fang Xiaoxia, Bai Zhou, and the Gem Witch at Soaring Egret Mountain.
• Major Luo locates Fang Xiaoxia and appears determined to seize her. The group’s tricycle is caught in the world’s immense pulling force, prompting the Gem Witch to panic and urge them to flee.

Character Developments

• Major Luo/Luo Tunan: Revealed as a long-planning, fanatical schemer who has engineered an elaborate ritual to transform himself into a Saint. His physical strength is terrifying even before his spirituality awakens. He remains calm, arrogant, and confident despite being surrounded and temporarily incomplete.
• Deputy Director Liu: His true nature is exposed as something monstrous and closely connected to the ritual. His transformation into the Meat Mountain serves as the vessel through which the Demon emerges.
• The Demon Qi: Her apparent earlier death was misleading; she survived through a Cocoon or rebirth within Liu Jia’s body. She is ultimately controlled, crucified, and sacrificed by Major Luo rather than acting as his equal partner.
• Elder Song: Demonstrates keen analytical ability by deciphering the Trinity symbolism and recognizing that Major Luo used the Demon to create himself rather than worship her.
• The authorities: Their uncertainty turns into unified hostility once Major Luo’s ritual and threat become clear. Even former allies abandon him.
• Fang Xiaoxia: Becomes the target of Major Luo’s next move. Her innocent reaction to the flying school provides comic relief amid the apocalyptic events.
• Bai Zhou and the Gem Witch: Their hurried escape on a bizarre high-speed tricycle highlights their growing awareness of the danger. The Gem Witch shifts from skepticism to alarm when the school-world pursues them.

Significant Themes

• Creation and self-deification: Major Luo treats bodies, demons, and people as components of a ritual designed to manufacture sainthood.
• Appearance versus reality: Luo’s seemingly ordinary state conceals overwhelming physical power, while the apparent death of the Demon conceals her survival and later exploitation.
• Sacrifice and control: The Demon, supposedly Luo’s collaborator, is ultimately reduced to fuel for his ascension.
• Faith and blasphemy: Christian imagery—crosses, hymns, sainthood, and the Trinity—is twisted into a grotesque supernatural ritual.
• Birth and incubation: The Sacred Body is portrayed as an unborn being, protected inside a supernatural womb for six hours before its final “birth.”
• Power beyond conventional spirituality: Major Luo’s ability to kill a Sealed Extraordinary through pure physical strength challenges the established belief that spirituality is the foundation of all power.
• Theatricality and absurdity: The chapter combines horror and grand supernatural drama with comic images such as a school flying through the sky and a tricycle traveling at hundreds of kilometers per hour.

Character Interactions

• Major Luo speaks to the nine spiders as children, emphasizing his creator-like relationship with them before sacrificing them.
• The Unquenchable Flame directly challenges Luo and dies after underestimating his physical power.
• Major Luo and Deputy Director Liu discuss the reversed ritual sequence, revealing mutual suspicion and the uncertainty over who will control the completed body.
• Instructor Shi attacks Liu with sixteen flying knives, but Liu’s monstrous transformation repels her and stops the battlefield.
• The authorities debate the Demon’s identity and Luo’s intentions, with Elder Song correcting the initial assumption that Luo merely cooperated with the Demon.
• Major Luo openly acknowledges that he is vulnerable while incomplete, but insists that ordinary people cannot harm a Saint before its birth.
• After completing the initial stage, Major Luo turns his attention to Fang Xiaoxia, while Bai Zhou and the Gem Witch desperately try to escape the approaching school-world.

Chapter Summary: “Desperadoes Have Nowhere to Run”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Zhou, Fang Xiaoxia, and the Gem Witch flee through the mountains on a ritual-enhanced pedal tricycle while Major Luo pursues them inside a gigantic flying white world—the “eggshell” surrounding his incomplete Sainthood Ascension.
• Major Luo attacks by projecting enormous white pillars of light that pull objects into the sky and erase sections of the landscape. Bai Zhou narrowly dodges them, using reckless driving, difficult terrain, and Ya’s warnings to stay alive.
• Bai Zhou repeatedly provokes Major Luo with insults, exposing the personal hostility between them. Major Luo claims Bai Zhou is his destined nemesis and the trial required for his ascension, even making unwanted comments about Bai Zhou’s appearance.
• Ya investigates the situation and explains that Major Luo’s power has surged because his Saint Ascension Ritual has entered a temporary half-completed state. The flying world is an artificial “heaven” or protective shell, similar to a Reflection Ruins Realm but controlled by its owner.
• Major Luo’s displayed countdown reveals that he has only about six hours before his failed ascension collapses. If he cannot obtain Fang Xiaoxia before dawn, the Saint will not be born and the white world will disappear. Bai Zhou realizes that fleeing and exhausting the countdown is safer than confronting Luo directly.
• The chase eventually reaches a highway. Bai Zhou notices that the same billboard and damaged guardrail repeatedly appear, revealing that they have been traveling in a loop rather than progressing.
• The white world that had been pursuing them disappears, but the highway transforms into a horrifying examination-themed domain. Test papers cover the guardrails, black rain pours down, and legless students emerge from the papers.
• A heavily made-up, opera-singing figure appears and is revealed to be Major Luo. He announces that Bai Zhou has fallen into his trap. Two identical white worlds appear at opposite ends of the highway, proving that the road is a closed bridge leading directly to Luo, regardless of which direction Bai Zhou chooses.
• With the escape route eliminated, Bai Zhou draws his Purple Gold Horse Saber and prepares to fight.

Character Developments

• Bai Zhou remains outwardly sarcastic and fearless, constantly mocking Major Luo to maintain control and keep Fang Xiaoxia and the Gem Witch from panicking. Internally, however, he recognizes the extreme danger and carefully evaluates when to attack or retreat.
• Bai Zhou’s understanding of the battle improves significantly. He learns that Major Luo’s apparent pursuit is partly a deception, and he shifts from desperate flight to a deliberate strategy of surviving until Luo’s countdown expires.
• Bai Zhou becomes more cautious about using his powerful spear, intending to reserve it for a decisive, guaranteed strike rather than wasting it prematurely.
• Major Luo is shown to be overwhelmingly powerful but also desperate. His grand, saintly demeanor contrasts with his increasingly irritated reactions to Bai Zhou’s insults. His elaborate trap reveals him as calculating and willing to manipulate the environment rather than simply overpower his enemies.
• Ya acts as the group’s navigator and strategist. Her investigation uncovers the nature of the eggshell world, Luo’s unstable ascension, and the importance of the countdown.
• Fang Xiaoxia and the Gem Witch shift from frightened passengers to more alert participants. The Gem Witch helps assess the danger of the light pillars, while Fang Xiaoxia recognizes the strange romantic intensity of Bai Zhou and Luo’s rivalry.

Significant Themes

• Survival versus confrontation: Bai Zhou realizes that victory does not always require defeating the enemy directly; delaying Luo until his temporary power ends may be the strongest counterattack.
• Time and mortality: The six-hour countdown turns the chase into a battle of endurance. Major Luo’s immense power is revealed to be the final flash before his probable death.
• Illusion and deception: The false pursuit, looping highway, repeated billboard, and duplicate worlds demonstrate how appearances can conceal a carefully controlled trap.
• The grotesque transformation of familiar institutions: Ordinary roads, traffic officers, billboards, schools, and examinations are transformed into supernatural horror, linking everyday social pressure with death and entrapment.
• Nemesis and destiny: Major Luo views Bai Zhou as an inevitable enemy chosen by fate, while Bai Zhou rejects this grand framing through mockery and defiance.
• The limits of escape: After crossing mountains, forests, highways, and half the city, Bai Zhou discovers that relentless movement cannot guarantee freedom when the enemy controls the world itself.

Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou and Major Luo engage in a hostile verbal duel throughout the chase. Bai Zhou’s crude insults repeatedly puncture Luo’s divine composure, while Luo frames their conflict as a destined rivalry connected to his Sainthood Ascension.
• Ya provides Bai Zhou with real-time navigation and strategic analysis, and Bai Zhou trusts her instructions without hesitation.
• Ya explains the nature of Major Luo’s protective world and clarifies that Bai Zhou’s previous attacks, the Gem Witch’s involvement, and the Authorities’ pressure have already weakened Luo’s plan.
• Fang Xiaoxia and the Gem Witch react to the increasingly absurd and dangerous conflict, silently recognizing that Bai Zhou and Luo are so focused on one another that they seem to overlook everyone else.
• The traffic officers serve as comic witnesses to the supernatural chase, mistaking the battered tricycle traveling at impossible speed for a ghostly phenomenon.
• The chapter ends with Bai Zhou, Fang Xiaoxia, the Gem Witch, and Ya trapped between two manifestations of Major Luo’s world, surrounded by exam papers and undead students, with no escape remaining.

Chapter Summary: “Kill Him, Divine Gun!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Major Luo confronts Bai Zhou, Fang Xiaoxia, and the Gem Witch on an ink-drenched highway. Though Fang Xiaoxia is clearly his target, Luo focuses on Bai Zhou and offers to spare him and the Gem Witch if they surrender her.
• Bai Zhou rejects the offer, mocking Luo’s arrogance and refusing to betray Fang Xiaoxia or abandon his allies. Their verbal exchange reveals that neither side ever intended to negotiate sincerely.
• Luo unleashes his domain: the “examination hall.” The highway transforms into a white world filled with Test Paper chains, endless half-bodied school-uniformed monsters, and divine laws forbidding escape.
• Bai Zhou protects Fang Xiaoxia while fighting the overwhelming monster army. The monsters repeatedly regenerate and increasingly target Fang Xiaoxia, forcing Bai Zhou and the Gem Witch to divide their attention.
• The Gem Witch activates her Fourth Gem Trick, Amethyst Rainbow Barrier, creating a protective zone around herself and Fang Xiaoxia. This allows Bai Zhou to abandon defense and charge directly toward Major Luo.
• Bai Zhou initially fights through the horde using Moon Ember Sacred Oath Slash, but exhaustion and injuries slow him down. He then activates the Cursed Colossus, transforming into a powerful Azure Rock Giant.
• The transformation allows him to partially use the Thunder Sky Bow, revealing that Bai Zhou is the mysterious “Senior Student Zhou.” He openly admits that several of Luo’s past enemies—including the Fugitive, Senior Student Zhou, and the person behind the Ghost Market schemes—were all his identities.
• Major Luo recognizes Bai Zhou as a genuine threat but remains confident because they are inside his world, where Bai Zhou supposedly cannot properly use the Thunder Sky Bow.
• Luo approaches and explains his ideology: humanity requires an absolute ruler who can force everyone to contribute their maximum value, eliminate conflict, and guide civilization toward the stars.
• He attempts to justify Liu Zhen’s death by claiming Liu Zhen was destined to become part of the Demon vessel and had willingly sacrificed himself for the greater future.
• Bai Zhou rejects Luo’s worldview and refuses to debate him. While appearing trapped by Luo’s overwhelming pressure, he reveals that he has secretly prepared two Rituals using scattered Ancient Relics, Test Papers, and monster blood.
• Little Amber Sealing Domain Ritual cancels Luo’s suppressive authority, while Hundred-Paper Corridor Ritual allows Bai Zhou to calculate hundreds of possible futures and determine the ideal moment to strike.
• Luo responds with Holy Judgment, unleashing hundreds of destructive pillars of light.
• At the last moment, Bai Zhou summons the blood-red spear, draws upon his calculated future, and throws it at Luo while issuing the command: “Shoot him. Divine Spear!”

Character Developments

• Bai Zhou: Fully commits to opposing Luo, not because of abstract heroism but because refusing to act would make his life meaningless. He demonstrates loyalty to Fang Xiaoxia and the Gem Witch, strategic patience, hidden preparation, and an uncompromising rejection of Luo’s attempt to define human worth. His many concealed identities are exposed, establishing him as the source of several major blows against Luo.
• Major Luo/Luo Tunan: Revealed as increasingly authoritarian and self-righteous. He believes only he is capable of judging human value and directing civilization. His calm confidence cracks when Bai Zhou reveals his identities and escapes Luo’s suppression, showing that Luo genuinely fears Bai Zhou’s abilities.
• Fang Xiaoxia: Struggles with fear and guilt over being a burden, but gains reassurance from Bai Zhou’s protection. His words encourage her to survive and grow stronger, while her admiration for his hidden identities and power deepens.
• Gem Witch: Shows courage and trust by taking responsibility for protecting Fang Xiaoxia and enabling Bai Zhou’s attack. Her barrier is crucial to the group’s survival, and her banter with Bai Zhou preserves their familiar, humorous relationship despite the crisis.
• Liu Zhen: Though dead, his memory remains central. Luo uses his death to defend his ideology, while Bai Zhou treats it as an unforgivable debt, emphasizing the emotional force behind the confrontation.

Significant Themes

• Individual dignity versus utilitarian authoritarianism: Luo treats people as resources whose value can be calculated and exploited, while Bai Zhou insists that no ruler has the right to define another person’s worth or sacrifice lives for an ideal.
• Loyalty and personal morality: Bai Zhou’s refusal to surrender Fang Xiaoxia reflects his belief that ordinary bonds and promises matter more than grand political visions.
• Youthful defiance: Bai Zhou embodies the courage to challenge powerful “Big Shots” and Saints, even without certainty of survival.
• Preparation versus overwhelming power: Luo possesses a superior domain and army, but Bai Zhou counters through observation, hidden planning, Rituals, and creative use of his abilities.
• Identity and legend: Bai Zhou’s aliases reveal how one individual can become an unseen force behind multiple events, turning his personal resistance into a growing myth.
• The limits of grand ideals: Luo’s dream of peace and progress is presented as potentially attractive but corrupted by coercion, dehumanization, and absolute control.

Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou and Luo exchange increasingly hostile ideological and personal challenges, with Luo offering recruitment and Bai Zhou responding with mockery and rejection.
• Bai Zhou shields Fang Xiaoxia physically and emotionally, telling her to stay behind him and promising that she can one day become strong.
• The Gem Witch recognizes Bai Zhou’s intention to attack Luo, protects Fang Xiaoxia with her barrier, and encourages him not to let Luo look down on him.
• Fang Xiaoxia and the Gem Witch react with astonishment to Bai Zhou’s identities and transformation, revealing how little they understood about the extent of his past actions.
• Luo attempts to manipulate Bai Zhou through Liu Zhen’s history, but Bai Zhou refuses to accept his justification and answers with direct defiance.
• The chapter ends with Bai Zhou and Luo finally entering the decisive phase of their conflict: Bai Zhou launches the Divine Spear through Luo’s supposedly invincible domain.

Chapter Summary: Major Luo’s Death and the Inverted World

Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Zhou executes a carefully prepared plan to kill Major Luo. He reveals Senior Student Zhou’s identity and displays the Thunder Sky Bow to make Luo underestimate him, then uses Luo’s pride and the Sainthood Ascension Demon’s attack to create an opening.
• Bai Zhou unleashes the Thorn Spear, an ancient weapon with Demon-suppressing power. It pierces Major Luo’s defenses, strikes his heart, and fatally destroys his body.
• Major Luo’s death ends the catastrophic attack threatening Tinghai. The monsters under his control collapse, the destructive pillars of light vanish, and the released spirituality falls like luminous rain, restoring Bai Zhou, Ya, and the Gem Witch while strengthening Fang Xiaoxia.
• As Major Luo dies, he explains his entire scheme:
  • He manipulated Liu Zhen and Liu Jia as vessels for the Demon.
  • He planned to invert the weakened Demon through an ancient Ritual.
  • By combining the Old Self, New Self, and inverted Demon, he intended to become a natural-born Saint.
  • Fang Xiaoxia’s fusion was the final step needed to complete the Demon core.
• Luo asks why his years of planning failed. Bai Zhou rejects the idea that “good always triumphs over evil,” arguing that survival, effort, and the willingness to sacrifice everything—not moral destiny—determined his victory.
• Major Luo dies completely, leaving behind a Last Will: to control Tinghai and eventually journey to the stars and sea. Bai Zhou stores the Last Will in his backpack rather than fulfilling it.
• Although the battle appears to have ended, Bai Zhou notices that the examination countdown continues and the world remains intact. The Last Wills in his backpack also remain strangely inactive.
• Bai Zhou discovers that a Demon’s Meat Cocoon has been hidden inside his body. A demonic consciousness begins taking control of him, but the half of the Forbidden Ancient Script within him awakens and repels it. Bai Zhou vomits out and destroys the cocoon, releasing the Demon’s true form.
• The Demon is revealed to be Chi, the School Demon from the Reflection Ruins Realm. She admits that she manipulated Luo’s subconscious, encouraged his underestimation of Bai Zhou, and helped Bai Zhou bring about his downfall.
• Chi inverts the Saint-birthing world into a blood-red Demon realm filled with upside-down mountains, volcanoes, magma, and sulfur. She suggests that reversing a Saint’s inversion restores the Demon.
• Chi kicks Major Luo’s severed head away and confronts Bai Zhou, taunting him about whether he can still use the Thorn Spear. She then recognizes Fang Xiaoxia and says, “Long time no see, Xiaoxia.”

Character Developments

• Bai Zhou proves himself as a strategist and survivor. His victory over Major Luo is not luck but the result of long preparation, calculated deception, powerful allies, and a willingness to endure repeated life-threatening trials.
• After Luo’s death, Bai Zhou briefly feels directionless because his long-standing enemy had also been the force driving his growth. Ya reminds him that Luo was only a milestone, not the final enemy, and that the wider Mystic World presents greater challenges.
• Bai Zhou’s principles become clearer: he does not believe justice automatically prevails, but he does believe that those who fight desperately to survive can overcome those who merely possess privilege, resources, and grand ambitions.
• Major Luo is exposed as a brilliant but arrogant and obsessive schemer. Despite deceiving nearly everyone and coming close to Sainthood Ascension, he cannot accept that his carefully controlled plan was defeated by Bai Zhou’s desperate struggle.
• Ya acts as Bai Zhou’s emotional guide, helping him interpret the victory as a beginning rather than an ending and warning him not to become complacent.
• Fang Xiaoxia survives and gains significant spiritual nourishment, though her connection to Chi suggests that her past and destiny remain central to the unfolding conflict.
• Chi is revealed to have been manipulating events from the shadows. She is both an enemy and a temporary collaborator, having aided Bai Zhou only to further her own interests.

Significant Themes

• Survival versus privilege: Bai Zhou argues that survival-driven effort can defeat the elaborate plans of someone like Major Luo, whose advantages came from birth and institutional power.
• Justice is not automatic: The chapter rejects the simplistic belief that evil naturally loses. Justice may arrive eventually, but people can suffer and die before it appears.
• Victory as a new beginning: Killing the major antagonist does not conclude Bai Zhou’s journey. It removes one obstacle and exposes a larger world of dangers.
• Cunning and manipulation: Luo believes he has mastered deception, but Chi—whose nature is demonic—outmaneuvers him. Human intelligence and ambition are shown to be vulnerable to supernatural manipulation.
• Inversion and transformation: The same world that nurtured a Saint can be reversed into a Demon’s womb, suggesting that holiness and monstrosity are not opposites but states that can transform into one another.
• The illusion of a happy ending: The scene resembles a heroic conclusion, with Bai Zhou victorious and his companions running safely toward him. Yet the continued countdown, hidden Meat Cocoon, and emergence of Chi reveal that the apparent ending is only another transition.
• Legacy and historical significance: Bai Zhou recognizes that defeating Luo may become a legendary event, increasing his Legend Rank, while Luo’s Last Will preserves his ambition even after death.

Important Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou and Major Luo: Their final exchange contrasts Luo’s ambition and entitlement with Bai Zhou’s survival-driven determination. Bai Zhou refuses to let Luo frame the victory as a matter of moral destiny.
• Bai Zhou and Ya: Ya comforts Bai Zhou after the victory and reframes Luo’s death as the opening of a larger journey. Later, Bai Zhou alerts her to the abnormal continuation of the world, prompting her realization that the crisis is not over.
• Bai Zhou, Fang Xiaoxia, and the Gem Witch: The two women approach Bai Zhou believing the battle has ended, but stop when they realize he is being possessed. Their relief at surviving changes immediately into fear and concern.
• Bai Zhou and Chi: Chi reveals that she secretly assisted him against Luo, but her support was manipulative and self-serving. She now returns as the true immediate threat and challenges Bai Zhou directly.
• Chi and Fang Xiaoxia: Chi’s hostility toward Bai Zhou contrasts with her strangely nostalgic reaction to Fang Xiaoxia, implying a prior relationship and deeper connection between Xiaoxia and the Demon.

• The demon woman, Chi, reveals that she and Fang Xiaoxia are both vessels for the School Demon, with Chi being the dominant consciousness and Fang Xiaoxia the unconscious power.
• Chi wants to merge with Fang Xiaoxia to complete herself and rule the world.
• Bai Zhou tries to protect Fang Xiaoxia but is overwhelmed by the demon's power and the endless horde of monsters she controls.
• Bai Zhou attempts to reach Chi in the sky but is struck down and severely injured.
• Fang Xiaoxia, desperate and grieving, suddenly gains a surge of power and orders Bai Zhou to come back, reversing time and healing his injuries.
• Bai Zhou is reborn once more, ready to face the demon and protect Fang Xiaoxia.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Zhou appears to die after exhausting his strength, but Fang Xiaoxia calls him back through a mysterious power. Ya’s intervention and the Three-Legged Crow’s reaction imply that this resurrection is connected to supernatural authority rather than Bai Zhou’s usual abilities.
• Fang Xiaoxia reveals that she has made a bargain with the Demon power inside her. Using that power, she restores Bai Zhou and grants him the authority of the scarlet world.
• She casts an ancient spell, giving Bai Zhou the power to “enact Heaven’s Will” and “preside over all punishment.” Bai Zhou realizes that this is not ordinary strength but world-level authority, allowing him to control the rules of the realm.
• Fang Xiaoxia refuses to become a complete Demon or merge with her other half. Instead, she cleverly tricks the Demon into lending her power, transfers that authority to Bai Zhou, and returns to being an ordinary person.
• Bai Zhou immediately uses his new authority to nullify a destructive attack from the Demon woman, then confronts her in the sky.
• The Demon woman reveals that she does not need a physical body. Using the [Bottle of Regret] to gather and amplify the negative emotions stored in Yuanmeng Middle School, she forms the School Demon’s true body: an enormous, translucent jellyfish-like monster made from corpses, school objects, memories, and resentment.
• The Demon explains that the monster consists of 1,001 separate resentments, each functioning as one of her lives. Bai Zhou would need to destroy all of them to kill her.
• She traps Bai Zhou in a psychological “campus hell,” forcing him to experience the exhaustion, anxiety, shame, competition, and regret associated with school life.
• Bai Zhou breaks free by recognizing that the fabricated memories are not his own story. He acknowledges the students’ pain but refuses to remain trapped in the past.
• He realizes that the Last Wills left by Major and others possess the exact obsession and connection necessary to destroy the Demon’s resentments, since those resentments originated from them.
• The [59 Point Paper Airplane], symbolizing freedom, hope, and the future beyond school, responds to Bai Zhou and becomes a vehicle capable of carrying the Last Wills.
• The chapter ends as the Last Wills pour from the Dragon Cat Backpack onto the expanding Paper Airplane, creating a massive dawn-lit craft prepared to attack the School Demon.

2. Character Developments

• Bai Zhou: Revived from near death and elevated to the position of the realm’s executioner. He gains confidence in wielding world authority but remains aware that authority alone may not be enough to defeat the Demon. His resistance to the campus illusion shows emotional maturity: he can understand others’ suffering without allowing it to define or imprison him.
• Fang Xiaoxia: Demonstrates intelligence, emotional devotion, and independence. Although the Demon urges her to devour Li Manman and become complete, Fang Xiaoxia chooses to preserve her identity. Her decision to sacrifice her borrowed authority for Bai Zhou confirms her trust in him and her refusal to become what the Demon wants.
• The Demon Woman/School Demon: Reveals her true nature as an embodiment of accumulated human negativity rather than a being dependent on one body. Her confidence grows after transforming into the School Demon, but Bai Zhou’s ability to see a weakness—through the Last Wills—begins to undermine her advantage.
• The Last Wills: Shift from passive remnants of the dead into an active force seeking release and revenge. Their connection to the Demon’s resentments gives them a unique ability to oppose her.
• Ya and the Three-Legged Crow: Ya quietly helps restore Bai Zhou, while the Crow reacts to the transfer of power, reinforcing the impression that the event has cosmic or demonic significance.

3. Significant Themes

• Love as selfless release: Fang Xiaoxia loves Bai Zhou without trying to possess him. Like the moon in her story, she accepts that something precious may not belong to her, yet still wants it to continue shining.
• Identity versus corruption: Fang Xiaoxia rejects the Demon’s demand that she merge with it, choosing to remain herself rather than gain unlimited power.
• Authority versus strength: Bai Zhou’s new power is presented as the authority to command the world, not merely physical force. However, true victory requires understanding the Demon’s structure and finding the correct means of execution.
• The psychological damage of education: The School Demon embodies pressure from parents, teachers, grades, social comparison, shame, and the demand to suppress personal desires for success. School becomes a symbolic hell built from accumulated regret.
• Moving beyond regret: Bai Zhou accepts that people may have failed, suffered, or retained unresolved pain, but insists that obsessing over the past can destroy the future. The chapter argues for acknowledging suffering without remaining trapped by it.
• Freedom and the future: The Paper Airplane represents students’ longing to escape confinement and pursue possibilities beyond grades, classrooms, and imposed expectations.
• Death and unfinished resentment: The Last Wills and the Demon’s tentacles are both remnants of the dead, but the Last Wills seek closure while the Demon preserves resentment. Their conflict becomes a struggle between release and eternal fixation.

4. Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou and Fang Xiaoxia: Their central interaction is built on trust. Fang Xiaoxia saves Bai Zhou and entrusts him with her fate, while Bai Zhou accepts the responsibility and promises to defeat the Demon for her.
• Bai Zhou and the Demon woman: Their confrontation evolves from a contest of world authority into a battle of understanding. The Demon relies on overwhelming resentment and psychological manipulation, while Bai Zhou counters by refusing to accept her constructed narrative.
• Fang Xiaoxia and her inner Demon: Fang Xiaoxia outmaneuvers the other half of herself. Rather than obeying its command to devour the Demon woman, she uses its power to save Bai Zhou and then abandons the path toward becoming a complete Demon.
• Bai Zhou and the Last Wills: Bai Zhou recognizes that the dead remnants are not merely burdens but potential allies. He listens to their desire for revenge and finds a way to give them physical form and direction through the Paper Airplane.
• Bai Zhou and the trapped students: In the illusion, the students seek help from him as a psychological teacher. He responds compassionately, assuring them that they have worked hard, but ultimately refuses to claim their experiences as his own or remain imprisoned with them.

• Bai Zhou successfully purifies the School Demon, Chi, using a massive paper airplane (Last Will) that the students had unconsciously created. Chi's thousand and one lives are extinguished, and she is finally at peace.
• The demon woman, enraged by her defeat, attempts to destroy the world, but Bai Zhou uses his authority to counter her, ultimately leading to her demise.
• Bai Zhou receives a new Mysterious Character, [Peace], as a gift from the students' Last Wills. This character allows him to create a temporary Safe House, immune to harm from the outside world.
• The Blood Moon, the other half of the School Demon, leaves Bai Zhou's body and joins the paper airplane, symbolizing the students' acceptance of their past selves.
• As the countdown reaches its final minute, the world begins to collapse. A broadcast announces the end of the exam, and Bai Zhou, along with Fang Xiaoxia and the Gem Witch, returns to Tinghai through a rift in the world, leaving behind the collapsing school world.
• Bai Zhou steps into the new world, facing the wary gazes of Extraordinary individuals and the blockade of Authorities institutions. The paper airplane, carrying hope and dawnlight, flies away toward an unknown destination.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Zhou, the Gem Witch, and Fang Xiaoxia emerge from Luo Tunan’s collapsed small world near Tinghai, only to find the area surrounded by the city’s major official forces. Armed helicopters, enchanted rifles, Rituals, and nearly twenty Level 6+ Extraordinary figures prepare to attack them.
• The authorities regard the trio with suspicion, especially because Bai Zhou and the Gem Witch are covered in blood while Fang Xiaoxia appears unnervingly ordinary.
• Elder Song confronts them and demands an explanation. Bai Zhou calmly claims that Luo Tunan was close to Sainthood Ascension, that Bai Zhou killed him, and that a resurrected Demon was subsequently defeated by the children within the small world.
• The Gem Witch publicly vouches for Bai Zhou, revealing that he was the misunderstood investigator who exposed the danger at Longluo Private Middle School and ultimately saved Tinghai. In an excessively dramatic speech, she lists Bai Zhou’s achievements: destroying Luo Tunan’s schemes, surviving the Reflection Ruins Realm, slaying a Saint, killing the Demon, and saving the city.
• The authorities remain wary, but the Three Sealed Extraordinary—Rust Silver Knight, Emerald Flame, and Winter Sword—recognize Bai Zhou as “Senior Student Zhou,” the person who once saved their lives. They lower their weapons and argue that he deserves a proper investigation rather than immediate punishment.
• Official readings confirm that the small world has collapsed and that the Saintly and Demonic fluctuations have vanished. Elder Song orders the forces to stand down and promises Bai Zhou that, if his story is verified, the authorities will apologize for his wrongful persecution and hold a banquet in his honor.
• The chapter recounts the night’s extraordinary events: Luo Tunan’s attempted ascension, the Demon’s resurrection and death, the destruction of FZDC headquarters, the authorities’ massive emergency response, and Bai Zhou’s bizarre escape across Tinghai.
• Bai Zhou’s name becomes known throughout the Extraordinary World. Officials investigate him intensely, with some even considering using a powerful Black Box on him to determine whether he is secretly the Demon.
• Doubt finally ends when the historian of the Ashen Remains Archive records Bai Zhou’s deeds, and Tinghai’s own City History recognizes him as the Savior who prevented the city’s destruction. This officially confirms that Luo Tunan and the Demon truly died and that Bai Zhou was responsible.
• The city reacts mystically to the historical recognition. The archivist senses Tinghai “awakening,” while the Bureau of Anomalous Investigation detects a brief doubling of the city’s spiritual activity, as though Tinghai itself has become conscious.
• While Bai Zhou is transported in a luxurious but heavily guarded vehicle with Elder Song, Director Qi, and Commander-in-Chief Qin, his body suddenly begins emitting sacred light. The light displays scenes from his adventures, including his escape, his battle against the Saint, and his defeat of the Demon.
• The officials recognize the visions as images from Tinghai’s City History. Bai Zhou realizes that the city and its accumulated civilization are acknowledging and thanking him, permanently recording him as the outsider who saved Tinghai.

Character Developments

• Bai Zhou: Remains outwardly calm and dignified while secretly panicking about being attacked, embarrassed by the Gem Witch’s theatrical praise, and worrying that the authorities still consider him dangerous. He begins thinking seriously about his future: cooperating with the authorities, resolving the secrets surrounding Major Luo and Branch 36 Base, helping Evening City, and advancing his Extraordinary pathway.
• Gem Witch: Demonstrates strong loyalty and trust toward Bai Zhou by openly defending him before Tinghai’s highest-ranking officials. Her flamboyant, shameless introduction contrasts sharply with Bai Zhou’s desire for a dignified vindication, but her testimony successfully changes the atmosphere.
• Fang Xiaoxia: Remains frightened and confused by the repeated confrontations, appearing completely ordinary despite being present at the center of a supernatural crisis. Her innocence and normal appearance paradoxically make her seem more suspicious to the officials.
• Elder Song: Initially treats Bai Zhou as a potential threat but gradually becomes impressed by his composure and possible achievements. He takes responsibility for the authorities’ mistakes and promises an apology if Bai Zhou’s account is confirmed.
• Rust Silver Knight, Emerald Flame, and Winter Sword: Their recognition of Bai Zhou as the former “Senior Student Zhou” leads them to lower their weapons. Their decision reflects gratitude, personal honor, and willingness to question official accusations.
• The Archivist: Records Bai Zhou’s deeds in the Archive and witnesses the mystical response of Tinghai’s City History, revealing that historical records possess supernatural significance.
• Tinghai itself: Becomes almost a living character, awakening and acknowledging Bai Zhou as its savior.

Significant Themes

• Truth overcoming false accusations: Bai Zhou’s long persecution and fugitive status begin to be overturned when his deeds are independently confirmed and officially recorded.
• Public reputation versus personal reality: Bai Zhou dreams of a majestic vindication but instead receives an absurdly theatrical introduction, highlighting the gap between how he imagines himself and how others perceive him.
• History as a supernatural force: Being recorded in the City History is more than recognition; it is a mystical acknowledgment by the city and its civilization, granting Bai Zhou an enduring place in collective memory.
• Trust and institutional accountability: The officials must balance suspicion with evidence and past failures. Elder Song’s willingness to apologize represents the authorities beginning to accept responsibility.
• Civilization and gratitude: Tinghai’s awakening suggests that a city’s history, people, and spiritual foundation can respond to acts of sacrifice and salvation.
• Appearance versus reality: Bai Zhou looks like a blood-soaked killer, Fang Xiaoxia looks unnaturally ordinary, and the Gem Witch appears like a battle-worn legend. Their appearances mislead the authorities, just as Bai Zhou’s official record had previously misrepresented him.

Important Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou and the Gem Witch exchange sarcastic remarks about the armed “welcome,” establishing their familiar but contrasting personalities.
• Elder Song questions Bai Zhou directly, while the Gem Witch intervenes to explain his true role and defend him.
• The Gem Witch’s public declaration forces the officials to reconsider Bai Zhou’s identity and achievements.
• The Three Sealed Extraordinary’s recognition of Bai Zhou influences FZDC to lower its weapons and avoid an immediate confrontation.
• Elder Song promises Bai Zhou an apology and celebratory banquet, symbolically beginning the process of clearing his name.
• During the vehicle ride, Bai Zhou carefully probes the attitudes of the officials while remaining wary of their Black Boxes. The officials likewise remain guarded, showing that trust has begun but is not yet complete.
• The chapter concludes with Bai Zhou, the authorities, the archivist, and the city itself converging on the same truth: Bai Zhou is no longer merely an accused fugitive, but the officially recognized savior of Tinghai.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Zhou's fate talent height breaks through six feet, causing a significant increase in his Legend Rating and mystical enhancement.
• Tinghai City records Bai Zhou's deeds in its annals, further boosting his Legend and Fate.
• Bai Zhou, Gem Witch, and Fang Xiaoxia are invited to a grand banquet hosted by the city's high-ranking figures and elites.

Character Developments

• Bai Zhou: His Fate White Sun rises to six feet seven inches, granting him enhanced abilities and a clearer mind. He also gains a better understanding of his Basic Sixth Slash.
• Gem Witch: She helps Fang Xiaoxia prepare for the banquet and shows concern for Bai Zhou's attire.
• Fang Xiaoxia: She appears nervous but beautiful in her new dress.
• Ya: She provides insights about the significance of Bai Zhou's Fate talent height and the upcoming banquet.

Significant Themes

• The power of Fate and Legend in the Extraordinary world.
• The transformation and growth of Bai Zhou as he advances on his Path.
• The importance of the banquet as a gathering of influential figures and an opportunity for Bai Zhou to negotiate terms.

Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou, Gem Witch, and Fang Xiaoxia: They arrive at the banquet together, supporting each other as they face the city's elite.
• Bai Zhou and the Principal: They exchange a distant greeting, hinting at their shared history and the Principal's true identity as the King of Lustful Evils.

Key Plot Points and Events

+ Bai Zhou attends a banquet in his honor, attracting the attention of influential figures and young ladies from prominent families.
+ The Ordinance Envoy gives Bai Zhou Elder Wu's notebook, encrypted with Ritual locks, which Bai Zhou deciphers using [Celestial Pivot].
+ The Holy Son and his followers perform a ritual in the forest, involving Luo Tunan's brain, and discuss their Plan B.

Character Developments

+ Bai Zhou is uncomfortable with the sudden attention and admiration he receives at the banquet.
+ The Ordinance Envoy shows gratitude and respect toward Bai Zhou, offering his help.
+ The Holy Son successfully merges with Luo Tunan's brain, advancing his Plan B.

Significant Themes

+ Recognition and fame: Bai Zhou struggles to adapt to his newfound celebrity status.
+ Power dynamics: The Ordinance Envoy acknowledges Bai Zhou's importance, while the Holy Son consolidates his power.
+ Manipulation and control: The Holy Son manipulates events and people to further his plans.

Character Interactions

+ Bai Zhou interacts with influential figures and young ladies at the banquet, feeling overwhelmed.
+ The Ordinance Envoy and Bai Zhou discuss the notebook and its contents.
+ The Holy Son interacts with his followers, revealing his plans and manipulating them.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Zhou attends a banquet with high-ranking Authorities officials, who question him about his background and skills.
• Bai Zhou spins a tale about his mysterious teacher to satisfy their curiosity and suspicion.
• The Law Enforcer offers Bai Zhou a position as a Designated Cooperation Unit for Special Affairs of Tinghai City, which would grant him generous compensation, resources, and protection.
• Bai Zhou is given an Extraordinary Brush by the Principal, along with a note hinting at future conflict.
• Bai Zhou has a dream about Irina's memories, which leads him to a mysterious, desolate land with a woman resembling Ya lying in a pit.

Character Developments

• Bai Zhou: He becomes more cautious and guarded around the Authorities, but also considers their offer. He grows more determined to become stronger after reading the Principal's note. His dream about Irina's memories hints at a deeper connection with her and the mysterious woman.
• Ya: She remains mysterious and aloof, but shows concern for Bai Zhou's well-being. She speculates about the compatibility between [Chen] Destiny and the [Moon God's Tear]. Her appearance in Bai Zhou's dream suggests a hidden connection between them.

Significant Themes

• Mystery and Suspicion: The Authorities officials are curious and suspicious about Bai Zhou's background, while Bai Zhou remains wary of their true intentions. The Principal's actions and the mysterious woman in Bai Zhou's dream add to the overall sense of mystery.
• Power and Ambition: The Law Enforcer's offer to Bai Zhou highlights the allure of power and resources, while the Principal's note hints at a desire for conflict and growth. Bai Zhou's determination to become stronger also reflects his growing ambition.
• Destiny and Fate: The theme of Destiny and fate is reinforced by the [Chen] Destiny and the [Moon God's Tear], as well as the mysterious woman in Bai Zhou's dream. The connection between Bai Zhou and Ya, and between Bai Zhou and Irina, also adds depth to this theme.

Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou interacts with the high-ranking Authorities officials, who question him about his background and offer him a position. He also receives an Extraordinary Brush from the Principal, along with a note hinting at future conflict.
• Ya interacts with Bai Zhou, offering him comfort and speculation about the [Moon God's Tear]. She also keeps watch over him as he sleeps.
• The mysterious woman in Bai Zhou's dream interacts with him indirectly, as her appearance hints at a deeper connection between them.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Zhou has a nightmare about Ya dying, which alarms her and prompts her to warn him about potential dangers.
• Bai Zhou decides to focus on becoming stronger to protect Ya and faces the challenge of advancing to Level 6 in Basic Nine Slashes.
• At the Special Management Department headquarters, Bai Zhou tours the base with new trainees and encounters a mysterious, respected figure in pajamas.
• The Gem Witch informs Bai Zhou about an exchange delegation from Fog City in the Western Federation, led by a young lord who claims to be the legitimate Successor of ancient Rome. The Gem Witch also mentions that the young lord is offering a fragmentary secret from the [Adventurer] pathway as a prize for the exchange sparring session.

Character Developments

• Bai Zhou: Struggles with the sixth slash of Basic Nine Slashes and decides to prioritize becoming stronger to protect Ya. He also encounters a mysterious figure at the Special Management Department headquarters, who turns out to be himself from the future.
• Ya: Warns Bai Zhou about potential dangers and encourages him to grow stronger. She also reveals that she might not be as invulnerable as she initially thought.
• The mysterious figure in pajamas: Revealed to be a future version of Bai Zhou, respected and feared by the Special Management Department personnel.

Significant Themes

• The pursuit of strength and power: Bai Zhou's primary goal is to become stronger to protect Ya and face the challenges that lie ahead. The Special Management Department also emphasizes the importance of strength and power in its training and operations.
• The mystery of Ya's past: Ya's true origins and the circumstances surrounding her current state remain unclear, adding an element of intrigue and danger to the story.
• The legacy of ancient civilizations: The young lord from Fog City claims to be the legitimate Successor of ancient Rome, and the prize for the exchange sparring session is a fragmentary secret from the [Adventurer] pathway excavated from Rome's ancient civilization. This hints at the enduring influence of ancient civilizations on the present world.

Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou and Ya: Their relationship deepens as Ya warns Bai Zhou about potential dangers and encourages him to grow stronger. Bai Zhou, in turn, becomes more determined to protect Ya and face the challenges that lie ahead.
• Bai Zhou and the mysterious figure in pajamas: Although they do not interact directly in this chapter, the mysterious figure is revealed to be a future version of Bai Zhou, hinting at the possibility of Bai Zhou's growth and transformation over time.
• Bai Zhou and the Gem Witch: The Gem Witch informs Bai Zhou about the exchange delegation from Fog City and the prize for the exchange sparring session, which piques Bai Zhou's interest and sets the stage for future events.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Special Management Department hosts a supposedly “friendly exchange” with a powerful delegation from Fog City in the Western Federation. The visitors are led by senior representatives of the Ordinance Hall and more than a dozen young Extraordinary elites.
• The Fog City representative openly declares that his people may challenge the Special Management Department repeatedly, making their contempt clear. Their arrogant attitude enrages the local Commissioners.
• Wolfric, an eighth-ranking subordinate of the delegation’s mysterious female leader, volunteers first. He follows the Beastblood Noble Path, a powerful vassal Path related to the ancient Destiny Path.
• Qi Tianming, a Level 5 High-level Extraordinary and captain of the Sword Bearer elite squad, accepts the challenge. Using advanced mechanized armor and twin energy blades, he initially overwhelms Wolfric in speed and lands several attacks.
• Wolfric reveals his superior combat ability by awakening the “true meaning of beast.” His transformation grants him overwhelming physical power and beastlike combat instincts. He destroys Qi Tianming’s energy core and nearly kills him before being stopped by the Fog City representative.
• Elder Song angrily confronts the delegation for nearly killing one of his subordinates. The Fog City representative argues that true combat training requires risking death and explains Wolfric’s extraordinary background and potential.
• The delegation reveals that Wolfric, despite his strength, is merely the eighth-ranked subordinate of their leader and cannot even rank among the top three hundred youths in Fog City. This revelation shocks and humiliates the Special Management Department.
• Further matches are held simultaneously across Levels 4, 5, and 6:
  • Fog City wins the Level 4 battle decisively.
  • A Level 5 match is closer, but the Fog City Knight’s armor and strength ultimately secure victory.
  • The Fog City Level 6 fighter defeats his opponent after more than a hundred exchanges.
• All ten matches end in a crushing defeat for the Special Management Department. The Fog City fighters mock Tinghai’s talent and challenge its absent branch heads, who are considered the department’s true elites.
• At this moment, Bai Zhou and the masked Gem Witch arrive late, having been delayed by Bai Zhou’s insistence on finishing Hu-La Soup. Bai Zhou is dressed in pajamas, wearing slippers, and eating a fried dough stick, completely contrasting with the solemn battlefield.
• Wolfric suddenly senses an unusual reaction from his Beastblood Noble Path when he sees Bai Zhou. He identifies Bai Zhou as powerful and directly challenges him to fight.
• Bai Zhou, confused and seemingly unprepared, begins to realize that his own Adventurer Path is reacting to Wolfric’s aura. The chapter ends with him asking whether Wolfric is actually pointing at him.

Character Developments

• Elder Song demonstrates political composure before the matches, accepting the delegation’s challenge as a chance to humble his department’s arrogant members. However, seeing Qi Tianming nearly killed exposes his genuine protectiveness and fury.
• Director Qi remains wary of the Fog City delegation and understands from the beginning that their “exchange” is really an attempt to dominate the Special Management Department.
• Qi Tianming is established as one of Tinghai’s strongest Level 5 fighters, equipped with an advanced Mecha Walker suit. Despite his skill and speed, he is decisively outmatched by Wolfric, revealing the difference between modern standardized Paths and ancient combat-oriented Paths.
• Wolfric appears simple and beastlike but possesses terrifying instincts, physical strength, and battle experience. His mastery of the true meaning of “beast” makes him comparable to a Destined One despite his subordinate status.
• The Fog City fighters display extreme confidence and a harsh combat philosophy. They are willing to risk death in training and view the Special Management Department’s elites as weak by comparison.
• Bai Zhou is introduced as apparently sleepy, casual, and oblivious, but his Adventurer Path reacts instinctively to Wolfric. This suggests that Bai Zhou may possess hidden strength or a connection to the same ancient combat traditions that empower Wolfric.
• The Gem Witch acts as Bai Zhou’s companion and handler, dragging him into the scene while lightly blaming him for their late arrival.

Significant Themes

• Strength and humiliation: The chapter emphasizes that strength determines who is entitled to speak and command respect. The Special Management Department’s defeat strips away its pride.
• The gap between foundations: The disparity between Tinghai and Fog City is presented as deeper than individual effort. It reflects differences in history, resources, inherited Paths, and combat environments.
• Battlefield realism versus controlled training: Fog City believes that sparring must resemble real combat, where hesitation and mercy lead to death. Elder Song’s outrage reflects the more protective approach of the Special Management Department.
• Ancient versus modern power systems: Qi Tianming’s technologically advanced Mecha Walker Path is impressive, but Wolfric’s ancient Beastblood Noble Path proves more dangerous in direct combat.
• Pride and resilience: Although Tinghai is crushed, its members still volunteer to fight despite knowing they may lose or die. Their military discipline prevents total surrender.
• Hidden potential: Bai Zhou’s unexpected arrival hints that the humiliating exchange may lead to a reversal. His Adventurer Path’s reaction to Wolfric suggests that he may be far stronger or more significant than his appearance indicates.

Character Interactions

• Elder Song and Director Qi privately discuss the danger of the exchange, with Director Qi urging caution and Elder Song accepting the humiliation as a possible lesson for their arrogant subordinates.
• The Ordinance Envoy reprimands them for speaking too openly in front of the foreign guests.
• The Fog City youths compete with one another for the chance to fight, treating the Special Management Department elites like prey.
• Qi Tianming and Wolfric engage in the opening battle, with Qi relying on speed, technology, and precision while Wolfric relies on endurance, instinct, and overwhelming physical power.
• Elder Song confronts the Fog City representative after Qi Tianming is nearly killed, but the representative defends Wolfric’s actions by invoking Fog City’s brutal training culture.
• The Fog City fighters collectively mock the department after defeating all ten opponents.
• Bai Zhou and the Gem Witch’s casual, comedic entrance breaks the oppressive atmosphere. Wolfric’s instinctive interest in Bai Zhou immediately shifts the focus of the entire plaza toward him, setting up the next confrontation.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• The Western Federation’s Red-haired Man, Wolfric, challenges Bai Zhou after mocking the Eastern Federation’s Special Management Department. Bai Zhou, exhausted and still wearing pajamas and slippers, steps forward because Wolfric rudely points at him.
• Wolfric reveals himself as the eighth-ranked member beneath the Western Federation’s leader and charges Bai Zhou with overwhelming force.
• Bai Zhou uses an instinctive Path-based suppression technique: with a seemingly ordinary palm strike, he forces Wolfric to fall onto his backside and dispels his berserk state. Bai Zhou treats him like a misbehaving child, humiliating him before the crowd.
• A blue-haired War Priest from the Western Federation empowers Wolfric, combining her abilities with his Beastblood Noble Path. Wolfric transforms into a massive, bloodthirsty beast and attacks again.
• Bai Zhou’s suppression remains effective. He casually slaps Wolfric a second time, sending him flying, breaking his protective red aura, reverting him to human form, and knocking him unconscious.
• The Western Federation’s handsome young representative accuses Bai Zhou of disguising himself and lacking manners. Bai Zhou responds by kicking him into a tree, mocking his crude speech and repeatedly criticizing the Federation’s habit of pointing at people.
• Furious Western Federation fighters attack Bai Zhou in groups. Four Level 5 Extraordinaries use powerful secret arts against him, but Bai Zhou draws the Purple Gold Horse Saber and destroys their techniques with a single sweeping slash.
• Bai Zhou then defeats all four attackers using his saber and the Basic Nine Slashes, leaving them bloodied and unable to continue. He jokingly demands that they clean his mud- and blood-covered slippers.
• A Level 6 black-haired youth steps forward to challenge Bai Zhou in what he considers a fair duel, recognizing Bai Zhou as a Level 5 Destined One who can overpower opponents of the same level.
• Before the duel begins, the Western Federation’s purple-haired armored leader, addressed as “Your Highness,” intervenes. She rebukes her people for allowing a Level 6 fighter to challenge a Level 5 opponent and accepts their defeat as reasonable.
• Rather than continuing the fight, she gives Bai Zhou an ancient silver cube from a two-thousand-year-old ruin. When he channels spirituality into it, the cube activates and transmits a fragmentary Adventurer Path inheritance into his mind: the secret technique Thousand-Blade Vortex Slash.

2. Character Developments

• Bai Zhou demonstrates overwhelming combat ability despite his exhausted appearance, casual attitude, and apparent Level 5 rank. His abilities include instinctive Path suppression against Beastblood-related powers and highly refined saber techniques.
• His personality remains irreverent and humorous. He interprets pointing as a deeply unlucky and insulting gesture, responds to arrogance with childish mockery, and remains more concerned about his ruined slippers than his spectacular victories.
• Bai Zhou’s reputation changes publicly. The Special Management Department and the spectators begin to view him not merely as someone who defeated powerful enemies through luck, but as a genuine miracle-maker with extraordinary natural strength.
• Wolfric changes from an arrogant, uncontrollable warrior into a helpless and humiliated victim. Bai Zhou’s palm technique suppresses both his body and his bloodlust, creating an instinctive sense of submission.
• The blue-haired War Priest is initially confident in her ability to empower Wolfric, but Bai Zhou’s second slap completely shatters her confidence. She recognizes him as an overwhelming threat.
• The black-haired Level 6 youth, previously arrogant and dismissive, develops serious respect and caution toward Bai Zhou, though he remains willing to fight him.
• The purple-haired armored princess/leader is revealed as dignified, perceptive, and strict. She values fairness and knightly honor, disciplines her followers, and recognizes Bai Zhou’s heroic status.

3. Significant Themes

• Natural suppression and hierarchy: Bai Zhou’s power operates like an ancient food-chain instinct, making Beastblood-related opponents feel compelled to submit before him.
• Humility versus arrogance: The Western Federation arrives with confidence and contempt, but their arrogance is repeatedly punished by Bai Zhou’s effortless victories.
• Appearance versus true strength: Bai Zhou’s pajamas, slippers, dark circles, and relaxed behavior make him look unimpressive, yet he defeats supposedly invincible opponents with minimal effort.
• Honor and fair combat: The Western Federation’s group attempts to overwhelm Bai Zhou through numbers and by having a Level 6 fight a Level 5. Their leader condemns this behavior as dishonorable.
• Ancient inheritance and historical continuity: The silver cube connects the present conflict to ancient Rome and the lost extraordinary civilization of the Adventurer Path.
• Humor amid overwhelming violence: Bai Zhou’s casual insults, concern for his slippers, and comparison of powerful warriors to obedient pets create comic contrast with the dangerous battle.

4. Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou and Wolfric clash immediately over manners, with Bai Zhou interpreting Wolfric’s pointing as an ominous and insulting act. Their fight becomes less a contest of equals than an act of instinctive domination.
• The War Priest attempts to support Wolfric and restore his bloodlust, but her empowerment only gives Bai Zhou another opportunity to demonstrate his superiority.
• The Western Federation’s youths defend their dignity by attacking Bai Zhou together, but their group assault fails. Bai Zhou accuses them of refusing to honor the promised reward—the Thousand-Blade Vortex Slash.
• The Special Management Department initially worries about Bai Zhou but becomes enthusiastic after witnessing his victories, eventually cheering for him and accepting him as an exceptional hero.
• The Western Federation’s leader rebukes her own people, acknowledges Bai Zhou’s achievements, and personally delivers the ancient cube that grants him the desired technique.
• The chapter ends with Bai Zhou receiving the Thousand-Blade Vortex Slash, turning his humiliating victory over the Federation into both a public triumph and a major gain in power.

Chapter Summary: “The Journey of Suffering, Toward the Stars”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Zhou receives a deep-blue, Magic Pattern-covered ancient Rubik’s Cube containing the incomplete secret technique Thousand-Blade Vortex Slash. Its unusual form and preservation method inspire him as a Ritualist and aspiring Pattern Master.
• The purple-haired Your Highness from Fog City formally apologizes for her delegation’s earlier arrogance and compensates Tinghai for the injuries caused during the exchange:
  • Full medical expenses for the injured.
  • Five years of advancement resources for those hurt.
  • Fog City investment and cooperation in Tinghai’s development of the Reflection Ruins Realm, laboratories, and Extraordinary Equipment industries.
  • The injured participants will help manage these projects.
• Bai Zhou is recognized as the true reason Tinghai earned Fog City’s respect. Your Highness offers him an additional reward if he can defeat her.
• Rather than fight her directly, Your Highness summons Tin Can, a red, barrel-shaped mechanical construct that she claims is her incarnation and can reproduce all her Level 5 abilities.
• Bai Zhou accepts the duel despite expecting a major disadvantage. He sees the battle as a valuable test of his strength against a globally significant opponent and as fitting the ideals of his future Trialist Path.
• The battle begins evenly:
  • Bai Zhou uses overwhelming saber attacks and Blood Moon techniques.
  • Tin Can counters with immense strength, exceptional mobility, extending limbs, and a rare movement-type secret art.
  • Bai Zhou realizes that his incomplete movement techniques leave him at a disadvantage.
• Concealing his more dangerous Trump Cards, Bai Zhou uses his Ritualist ability Celestial Pivot to prepare an Explosion Ritual at Tin Can’s waist.
• The explosion exposes an opening, allowing Bai Zhou to strike with a Blood Moon attack and finally kick Tin Can out of the dueling area with a plastic slipper.
• Tin Can goes berserk, revealing terrifying power beyond Level 6. Your Highness restrains it and confirms that Bai Zhou has won, though the robot is enraged by the humiliation of being blasted and kicked.
• Bai Zhou receives several rewards:
  • A Fog City Ancient Ruins Invitation.
  • A Knight’s Proof.
  • Two Thousand-Blade Magicstones.
• The Knight’s Proof bears the Latin curse “Per aspera ad astra,” which translates to “Through hardships, to the stars.”

Character Developments

• Bai Zhou demonstrates increasing confidence, tactical creativity, and composure. Though he acts modest and reluctant before the duel, he fights with overwhelming aggression once combat begins.
• He recognizes his weaknesses, particularly his lack of advanced movement techniques, while also identifying the potential of completing Thousand-Blade Vortex Slash.
• Bai Zhou’s status grows from local Savior to a figure respected by powerful international forces. He also begins viewing himself as someone who must measure his strength against the world’s true elites.
• Your Highness is revealed as powerful, politically influential, and unusually interested in Bai Zhou. She possesses an ancient Rome inheritance, is a Lifeforger, and appears capable of power beyond Level 6 despite claiming to be Level 5.
• Her dignified, knightly public persona contrasts humorously with her private familiarity with Tin Can and her subtle amusement at Bai Zhou’s reactions.
• Tin Can develops a comical yet frightening personality. It acts arrogantly, becomes deeply offended by Bai Zhou’s attacks, and exposes a volatile emotional connection to Your Highness.

Significant Themes

• Strength as the basis of respect: Your Highness emphasizes that true powerhouses are proven in real battles and crises, not merely formal sparring. Bai Zhou earns respect because he can stand against powerful opponents.
• Suffering and growth: The chapter’s title reflects Bai Zhou’s path—enduring hardship, confronting stronger enemies, and turning suffering into advancement.
• Hidden knowledge and inheritance: The Cube, Thousand-Blade Vortex Slash, the Knight’s Proof, and the Thousand-Blade Magicstones all emphasize how rare, valuable, and fragmented supernatural knowledge is.
• Humility versus true pride: Bai Zhou presents himself as uncertain and modest, but his combat style reveals immense confidence and dominance. Your Highness similarly maintains a composed exterior while hiding her amusement and emotional investment.
• Political and economic power: Fog City’s compensation and investment demonstrate that battles in the Mystic World have consequences beyond personal victory, potentially reshaping Tinghai’s future.
• Fate and destiny: Bai Zhou and Your Highness both appear to be exceptional, possibly destined figures. Their meeting is framed as fate, though Bai Zhou remains skeptical of whether fate truly exists.

Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou and Your Highness develop a relationship based on mutual curiosity and respect. She admires his achievement as a young Savior, while he remains wary of her overwhelming strength and mysterious background.
• Your Highness publicly defends Tinghai and acknowledges its fighters, reversing the Western Federation delegation’s earlier arrogance.
• The Law Enforcer protects Bai Zhou’s interests, insisting that Fog City must not recruit him away from Tinghai.
• The Special Management Department becomes grateful to Bai Zhou for defending its honor and plans to secure additional rewards for him.
• During the duel, Bai Zhou and Tin Can engage in a fast, technically demanding exchange. Their battle highlights the contrast between Bai Zhou’s saber power and Ritualist tactics and Tin Can’s strength, durability, and evasive movement.
• Your Highness’s frantic effort to restrain Tin Can after its defeat reveals the unusual intimacy of their connection and adds comic tension to the otherwise dangerous confrontation.

• Bai Zhou receives a Knight's Proof and a Fog City Ancient Ruins Invitation from the Western Federation's prince, which grant him special privileges and access to Fog City's ruins.
• The Law Enforcer is shocked and offers Bai Zhou a deal to keep him in Tinghai, as the Authorities in the Reflection Ruins Realm behind Tinghai have no ruin relics to offer.
• Bai Zhou decides to go to Tianjing first, but is open to negotiating with the Authorities in the Reflection Ruins Realm behind Tinghai.
• The purple-haired Maiden from Fog City invites Bai Zhou to meet her there next September, hinting that there are people in Fog City who need him.
• Bai Zhou inspires the Special Management Department's elites by telling them they don't need to be like him, as everyone has their own stage and story.
• Bai Zhou discovers that the Thousand-Blade Magicstone can repair and advance his Purple Gold Horse Saber, potentially turning it into a spirit-name Secret Treasure.

Key Plot Points and Events

1. Bai Zhou receives the Knight's Proof and Fog City Ancient Ruins Invitation.
2. The Law Enforcer offers Bai Zhou a deal to keep him in Tinghai.
3. Bai Zhou decides to go to Tianjing first.
4. The purple-haired Maiden invites Bai Zhou to Fog City next September.
5. Bai Zhou inspires the Special Management Department's elites.
6. Bai Zhou discovers the Thousand-Blade Magicstone's purpose.

Character Developments

• Bai Zhou:
  • Shows interest in Fog City but decides to go to Tianjing first.
  • Inspires the Special Management Department's elites.
  • Discovers the Thousand-Blade Magicstone's purpose and its potential to advance his Purple Gold Horse Saber.
• The Law Enforcer:
  • Offers Bai Zhou a deal to keep him in Tinghai.
• The purple-haired Maiden:
  • Invites Bai Zhou to Fog City next September.
  • Hints that there are people in Fog City who need him.

Significant Themes

1. Ambition and growth: Bai Zhou's desire to reach the summit of the world and his belief that he will meet the purple-haired Maiden again in the future.
2. Identity and belonging: Bai Zhou's reflection on the meaning of life and his connection to Tinghai and its people.
3. Opportunity and sacrifice: The trade-offs and compromises Bai Zhou must make in pursuing his goals.

Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou and the Law Enforcer: They negotiate a deal, with Bai Zhou showing interest in Fog City but deciding to go to Tianjing first.
• Bai Zhou and the purple-haired Maiden: They exchange invitations, with the Maiden hinting that there are people in Fog City who need Bai Zhou.
• Bai Zhou and the Special Management Department's elites: Bai Zhou inspires them by telling them they don't need to be like him, as everyone has their own stage and story.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Zhou successfully reforges his Purple Gold Horse Saber using the Thousand-Blade Magicstone and his own blood, creating a quasi Spirit-Name Secret Treasure called the Red-and-White Saber.
• The Gem Witch visits Bai Zhou to demand repayment of the 8.27 yuan and asks him to repair her damaged Magic Staff.
• Bai Zhou begins repairing the Magic Staff using his [Celestial Pivot] and the Extraordinary Brush, but the staff suddenly awakens and responds to Bai Zhou's voice, acknowledging him as its master.

Character Developments

• Bai Zhou gains a powerful new weapon, the Red-and-White Saber, which enhances his confidence in facing the dark-haired young man from the Western Federation delegation.
• The Gem Witch shows concern for Bai Zhou's mental state and reveals that she might have become a psychologist if she hadn't become a Gem Witch.
• Bai Zhou demonstrates his skill and dedication as a Pattern Master, using his abilities to attempt repairing the Gem Witch's Magic Staff.

Significant Themes

• The power of will and determination, as seen in Bai Zhou's successful reforging of his saber and his commitment to repairing the Gem Witch's Magic Staff.
• The theme of trust and acknowledgment, as the Magic Staff responds to Bai Zhou's voice and acknowledges him as its master.

Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou and the Gem Witch have a friendly exchange, with the Gem Witch showing concern for Bai Zhou's well-being and Bai Zhou demonstrating his expertise in repairing the Magic Staff.
• Bai Zhou's interaction with the Magic Staff hints at a deeper connection between him and the Roman Empire, as the staff responds to his voice and acknowledges him as its master.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Zhou uses the command “Return” on the Gem Witch’s damaged magic staff. The staff responds as if awakening, causing previously erased Magic Patterns to reappear and restoring the repaired portion from one-tenth to two-tenths.
• The restored section transforms dramatically: its rotten black exterior falls away, revealing brown wood covered in glowing red and golden patterns. The staff appears to have entered a partial true form, despite the Gem Witch not actively empowering it.
• The staff begins vibrating and emitting golden sparks. Bai Zhou recognizes the warning signs from previous incidents and realizes it is about to explode.
• He grabs the Gem Witch and escapes the dormitory just before the staff detonates. The explosion destroys the room, damages the building, triggers emergency alarms, and causes widespread panic, though Bai Zhou contains much of the blast with Rituals and no one is seriously injured.
• After explaining the incident, Bai Zhou and the Gem Witch investigate the staff in a new dormitory. Bai Zhou uses Appraisal, taught to him by Ya, to reveal its nature.
• The appraisal identifies the weapon as a fire-themed Magic Staff whose purpose is destruction. Regardless of the spell or technique used through it, the staff converts the result into an explosion. Greater spiritual power produces a stronger blast. The staff effectively functions as an “Explosion Wand” or magical rocket launcher.
• The Gem Witch is horrified that repairing her staff has made it more dangerous and wonders whether she can return it. Bai Zhou concludes that his “Edict” as Rome’s heir may have influenced and strengthened the staff, particularly producing the mysterious golden patterns.
• That evening, the princess from the Western Federation visits Bai Zhou at the artificial lake. She promises to help him complete the movement technique portion of Thousand-Blade Vortex Slash.
• She also delivers a letter from Elder Song. The letter is from Uncle Xiang, the convenience-store owner from Bai Zhou’s childhood in Evening City, who was present when the city fell during the apocalypse.
• The letter contains a cryptic invitation: “Will you come join our Daydream?”

Character Developments

• Bai Zhou demonstrates growing skill with ancient treasures, using his Edict to awaken and partially restore the staff and then successfully performing Appraisal for the first time. His power appears capable of affecting Roman relics in unusual ways.
• His relationship with the magic staff becomes strangely intimate or compatible. The staff seems eager to respond to him and even appears reluctant to leave him, suggesting that Bai Zhou’s influence may have altered its nature.
• Bai Zhou continues to show a relaxed, irreverent personality despite his heroic status and dangerous circumstances. However, news of Uncle Xiang visibly shakes him, revealing deep emotional ties to his childhood and Evening City.
• The Gem Witch becomes increasingly alarmed by the consequences of Bai Zhou’s repairs. She trusts him enough to let him investigate the staff, but she also blames him humorously for turning it into an uncontrollable weapon.
• The Western Federation princess becomes more interested in Bai Zhou’s character. She expected a Savior to be ambitious, calculating, or driven by status, but finds his desire for personal freedom and lack of interest in power unusual and admirable.
• Uncle Xiang, though absent in person, is reintroduced as a surviving or reachable figure from Bai Zhou’s past, creating a major emotional and mysterious connection to the destroyed Evening City.

Significant Themes

• Restoration and transformation: Repairing the staff does not return it to its former state; instead, it awakens a more dangerous and altered version. This suggests that restoration may involve change rather than simple recovery.
• Power and unintended consequences: Bai Zhou’s abilities can strengthen ancient treasures, but he does not fully understand the results. His good intentions repeatedly create destructive outcomes.
• Identity and freedom: Bai Zhou rejects the idea that success means gaining wealth, status, or control over others. He defines “turning his life around” as becoming independent and refusing to let others control him.
• Destruction as a form of creation: The staff’s identity is built around fire, which both enables civilization and destroys it. Its explosions embody the dual nature of progress and catastrophe.
• Memory, loss, and reconnection: Uncle Xiang’s letter links Bai Zhou’s present life to the people and memories of Evening City, suggesting that the past may not be entirely gone.
• The unknown legacy of Rome: The golden patterns and the staff’s altered state imply that Bai Zhou’s Roman inheritance may allow him to awaken or reshape Ancient Relics.

Character Interactions

• Bai Zhou and the Gem Witch share a comedic but increasingly trusting partnership. She is shocked by the staff’s revival, dragged to safety during the explosion, and later forced to accept that her weapon can now do nothing but detonate.
• Their banter balances the danger of the situation: the Gem Witch calls Bai Zhou an explosion criminal, while he jokingly compares her staff to a rocket launcher.
• Bai Zhou and the Western Federation princess have a contrasting but engaging conversation. Her mystical entrance across the lake is undercut by his practical questions about why she walks on water and whether her feet are clean.
• The princess analyzes Bai Zhou’s values and challenges his apparent indifference to fame and power. Bai Zhou explains that he seeks autonomy rather than dominance, earning her respect.
• The princess acts as a bridge between Bai Zhou’s present and his past by delivering Uncle Xiang’s letter, shifting the chapter from comic magical chaos to emotional suspense.
• The chapter ends with Bai Zhou emotionally overwhelmed and confused by Uncle Xiang’s invitation to “join our Daydream,” establishing a new mystery and likely connection to the surviving remnants of Evening City.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

+ Bai Zhou receives a letter from Late City residents, expressing their well-being and inviting him to visit.
+ He learns about Daydream, a Black Box at No. 27 Humanitarian Care Sanatorium, and decides to visit them soon.
+ He studies phone usage with the purple-haired girl's help.

Character Developments

+ Bai Zhou becomes more integrated into Blue Star society, learning to use a phone.
+ The purple-haired girl shows interest in Bai Zhou's potential and offers to teach him Three Thousand Vortices.
+ Ya feels replaced and becomes quieter, but eventually decides to teach Bai Zhou a new secret technique, Three Thousand Three Hundred Vortexes.

Significant Themes

+ Integration into a new society (Bai Zhou learning phones, Ya teaching him new techniques).
+ Competition and jealousy (Ya feeling replaced, Bai Zhou learning from the purple-haired girl).
+ The power of determination and hard work (Ya deducing a new secret technique in half a night).

Character Interactions

+ Bai Zhou interacts with the purple-haired girl, learning Three Thousand Vortices.
+ Bai Zhou and Ya have a heart-to-heart conversation, with Ya teaching Bai Zhou a new secret technique.
+ Bai Zhou receives a letter from Late City residents, expressing their well-being and inviting him to visit.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The author celebrates their birthday and expresses gratitude for the book's success and reader support.
• A bounty is ongoing, and the author encourages votes.
• The author promises to add more chapters and continues the story's progress.

Character Developments

• The author (Yu Lu) shows appreciation and humility, expressing their wish for the book's continued success and their desire to keep readers company.
• The author's dedication and perseverance are evident in their commitment to writing despite challenging circumstances.

Significant Themes

• Gratitude and appreciation for reader support.
• Perseverance and dedication to one's craft.
• The power of companionship and encouragement in overcoming hardships.

Character Interactions

• The author interacts with readers, expressing their thanks and inviting them to continue supporting the story.
• The author mentions other Alliance Leaders (Aomr, S Redemption, Bai Zhou) who have supported the book, fostering a sense of community.

Detailed Reference

• The author celebrates their birthday and acknowledges the book's recent success, including its position on bestseller lists and the ongoing bounty.
• They express their wish for the book's continued success and their desire to keep readers company, emphasizing the importance of companionship and encouragement.
• The author demonstrates their dedication to the story by promising to add more chapters and continues the narrative's progress, comparing it to a train bound for fairy tales.
• They grant a deer to travel alongside the reader (Nanshan Yu Lu), symbolizing the bond between the author and their readers.