Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• After the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, the Red-Blue Twins recover at No. 3 Base. They discuss their defeat by the First of the Seven Sins, Sloth, and wonder why he spared them.
• Elder Song calls with the truth: Sloth is Bai Zhou, a celebrated Savior who went undercover in the Blood Worship Cult to thwart a major threat. His cover is exposed, and the cult is pursuing him as he heads toward Ordinance Hall for protection.
• The blue-haired twin immediately volunteers their unit to help. The Fog City royal also asks to join, bringing two powerful Lifeforgers and Carthaginian forces.
• The reinforcements converge on Bai Zhou. The Fog City team breaks holes in the deadly fog domain, while the Red-Blue Twins confront Lancet and take up positions beside Bai Zhou. Armed helicopters and armored vehicles are also on their way.
• With support arriving, Bai Zhou’s group is no longer isolated. The domain is breached, daylight returns, and the road to safety opens.

Character developments and interactions

• The Red-Blue Twins: Their fear of Sloth’s overwhelming power remains, but learning he is Bai Zhou changes their view of him. The blue-haired sister puts duty above personal resentment; her pink-haired brother follows her resolve and promises to stand with her. They now fight alongside the man they once fought.
• Bai Zhou: Though still under threat, he is moved from isolated fugitive to protected ally as the Authorities recognize his sacrifice and mobilize in his defense.
• The Fog City royal: She treats Bai Zhou as a friend and frames helping him as a knightly obligation, turning the exchange visit into a chance to stand with him.
• The Gem Witch and Fang Xiaoxia: They remain with Bai Zhou’s group, relieved as reinforcements arrive and the immediate danger eases.
• The contrast between former enemies and new allies is central: the Twins and Fog City delegation willingly risk themselves for Bai Zhou.

Significant themes

• Redemption and loyalty: Bai Zhou’s undercover role reframes his apparent villainy, prompting former opponents to support him.
• Duty and solidarity: Characters act because a friend—and a righteous cause—need help, not because they expect reward.
• Changing allegiances: Reputation and understanding transform enemies into allies.
• Hope after danger: The returning sunlight and the song “Here Comes the Sun” reinforce the sense that the crisis is turning and a safer path lies ahead.

Key plot points and events

• Aided by battle horns, drums, and a powerful formation, Fog City’s Beastblood Nobles and War Priests hold off the Blood Worship Cult’s Doctors. A red robot adjusts its power to match the threat and batters Tinghai’s notorious assassin, [Lancet], while other fighters block his escape.
• Bai Zhou and Miss Witch head for Ordinance Hall headquarters, the safest place in Tinghai. Its building and the Ordinance Envoy—a Decayer—can protect them from the Son and the Blood Worship Cult’s five Decayers. The Son’s plan depends on capturing Miss Witch and the [Envy] and [Sloth] Holy Relics.
• The Authorities reveal that they have mobilized across the city: agencies are fighting cult branches and reinforcements, while the Ordinance Envoy, chief inspectors, and an escort force await Bai Zhou. Armed vehicles and helicopters will protect him along the entire route.
• The blue-haired Twin delivers a message from Elder Song, Director Qi, and the Ordinance Envoy: they recognize that they previously left Bai Zhou to bear the burden alone, and promise to support him without reservation.
• Bai Zhou’s convoy departs as the knights, robot, and Twins keep [Lancet] and the Doctors occupied. The cleared, sunlit route is lined with armed Authority personnel who salute him.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Zhou shifts from disbelief at the scale of his escort to accepting the support. The Authorities’ commitment gives him relief and a sense that his ordeal may finally be rewarded.
• Miss Witch explains why Ordinance Hall offers protection, and is both relieved by the Authorities’ intervention and comically distressed when Bai Zhou jokes about the battle’s cost to her wallet.
• The Authorities acknowledge their earlier failure to protect Bai Zhou and pledge full backing, marking a change from leaving him to act alone to treating his mission as a shared responsibility.
• Ya gives voice to Bai Zhou’s unspoken feelings, framing his survival and efforts as the completion of a hard-fought race.
• The red robot, Twins, and battle formation defend the convoy by holding back [Lancet], whose desperation rises as Bai Zhou escapes.

Significant themes

• Collective responsibility and solidarity: Bai Zhou is no longer isolated; the city’s institutions and fighters unite around him.
• The cost and meaning of endurance: His long series of dangerous trials has brought him to a moment of safety and recognition.
• Hope after struggle: The sunlit road and “Here Comes the Sun” echo the promise that the worst may be over.
• A coming confrontation: Reaching Ordinance Hall could secure the vital people and relics, but the conflict with the Son remains unresolved.
  Ya’s closing words—“You have fought the good fight” and “a crown of righteousness” awaits Bai Zhou—capture the chapter’s emotional turn from desperate survival toward relief, honor, and the hope of victory.

Plot and key events

• On Tinghai’s outskirts, a newly recruited Bureau team—three independent Transcendents once rescued and inspired by Bai Zhou—fights the Blood Worship Cult. The ponytailed team leader still idolizes “Senior Student Zhou,” while the group longs to see him again.
• Bai Zhou’s orders have turned the cult’s own forces against one another. Troops loyal to him ambush other cultists, convinced they are repelling government infiltrators. Their confusion and heavy losses deepen when a commander wonders whether this is an internal power struggle between the cult’s factions.
• The Holy Son appears in a fog with a monstrous brain exposed beneath his hood. He immobilizes the battlefield, then kills the cultists on both sides, calling them useless fools and declaring that the new world has no place for them.
• Meanwhile, Bai Zhou and the Gem Witch travel with a vast government escort. The Witch marvels at the unprecedented mobilization. Bai Zhou explains that the authorities have been compromised before, but believes they are now trustworthy enough to involve—and that his own standing gives his warning weight.
• Despite the escort’s strength, Bai Zhou senses the journey is going too smoothly. A blood-red moon appears at midday, followed by fog and ghostly attendants resembling those from the Sanatorium. Bai Zhou recognizes the phenomenon as the Holy Son’s Processional Retinue and orders the authorities to summon every available reinforcement, warning that the enemy may be a Decayer.
• The chapter ends as the Holy Son advances directly against the assembled government forces.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Zhou shows both increased confidence in his influence and continuing caution toward the authorities. He has deliberately made the threat public enough to mobilize the government, but recognizes that the Holy Son may still overwhelm even a massive force.
• The Gem Witch serves as a clear-eyed observer of the scale of the operation. She respects Bai Zhou’s ability to bring so many agencies together, while also sharing his dread when the Holy Son finally arrives.
• The former independent team reveals the lasting impact Bai Zhou had on them: they are now bureau employees and remain devoted admirers, though battlefield danger interrupts their nostalgic talk.
• The Holy Son is portrayed as ruthless, arrogant, and immensely powerful, treating even his own followers as expendable.
• The cultists are manipulated by Bai Zhou’s knowledge of their obedience and pent-up desire for violence. They eagerly attack supposed traitors, while their victims struggle to understand why fellow members have turned on them.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and misdirection: Bai Zhou weaponizes the cult’s rigid hierarchy and mistrust, making its own members destroy one another.
• Power and institutional trust: Bai Zhou’s past experience with corruption makes his decision to rely on the authorities cautious rather than naive; the chapter suggests individuals may be compromised even when institutions remain sound.
• The cost of suppressed fanaticism: The cult’s long-contained zeal erupts into indiscriminate violence once given permission.
• Escalation and hubris: The government’s unprecedented strength offers reassurance, but the Holy Son’s direct challenge exposes how inadequate ordinary measures may be against an ancient, higher-order threat.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• As Bai Zhou’s group waits in a Rolls-Royce, a large force of Tinghai officials gathers to protect him: three Lifeforgers wielding temporarily unrestricted E-Class Black Boxes, along with numerous Titled Transcendents and armed units.
• The Holy Son of the Blood Worship Cult arrives beneath an unnatural Blood Moon. He singles out Bai Zhou and tells him to “come home,” prompting Bai Zhou to jokingly frame their history as a disastrous romantic breakup.
• The officials launch a coordinated attack with their Black Boxes, but the Holy Son counters with a black-and-red staff and invokes a technique called [Blood Moonfall].
• A vast, meteorite-like shadow descends from the Blood Moon and strikes the street. Its shock wave demolishes the surrounding buildings, destroys the officials’ attack, scatters the vehicles and troops, and gravely injures the three Lifeforgers.
• A wounded official recognizes [Blood Moonfall] as a lost trump-card Destiny Contract once used by a Blood Worship Cult leader a century earlier. Bai Zhou realizes the Holy Son may have survived for centuries by taking on the identities of successive cult leaders.
• Despite their injuries, officials continue trying to delay the Holy Son so Bai Zhou can escape. The Holy Son warns that another Blood Moonfall could bring down the meteorite itself, and declares that no one will save Bai Zhou.
• Bai Zhou accepts that he must rely on himself. He reaches for the taboo weapon [Shadow of the Deep One], feeling its corrupting influence awaken, and prepares to use every resource he has to fight.

Character developments

• Bai Zhou remains irreverent under pressure, but the catastrophe forces him to confront the Holy Son’s overwhelming strength and the possibility that his enemy has lived for centuries. He rejects the idea that he alone is being protected: to him, the officials are fighting to save Tinghai itself. Ultimately, he resolves to face the threat himself.
• The Holy Son reveals both immense power and a personal fixation on Bai Zhou. His calm, controlled manner persists even after unleashing city-level destruction, and he appears confident that no one can stop him.
• The Gem Witch and Fang Xiaoxia move from suspicion and nervous humor to alarm as the Holy Son’s power becomes clear. They look to Bai Zhou for their next move.
• Old Yu and his wife are bewildered by the officials’ willingness to risk their lives for Bai Zhou. Their confusion highlights how extraordinary the defenders’ motives seem from an ordinary person’s perspective.
• The officials are badly wounded but show resolve, continuing to fight and hold the line despite knowing they are outmatched.

Significant themes

• Self-reliance and salvation: The Holy Son claims no one will save Bai Zhou, and Bai Zhou agrees that he must ultimately save himself.
• Collective responsibility and courage: Bai Zhou recognizes that the officials are defending not just him, but the city and its people; in that sense, each defender is a savior.
• Power and sacrifice: The officials’ courage is set against the Holy Son’s overwhelming force, making their willingness to sacrifice themselves especially stark.
• Corruption and dangerous power: Bai Zhou’s use of the Deep One’s taboo weapon may give him a chance to fight, but it awakens “mad and evil” emotions within him.

Character interactions

• The Holy Son addresses Bai Zhou as someone he wants to reclaim, while Bai Zhou’s joking response unsettles the dramatic confrontation and irritates him.
• The Gem Witch and Fang Xiaoxia exchange wary looks after the Holy Son’s “come home” remark, briefly suspecting a hidden relationship between the two men.
• Officials urge Bai Zhou to flee and sacrifice themselves to buy him time; Bai Zhou interprets their actions as a defense of Tinghai, not merely a personal rescue.
• Old Yu and his wife question why strangers would risk everything for Bai Zhou. The Gem Witch identifies him as Tinghai’s Savior, but Bai Zhou broadens that idea to include everyone fighting that day.
• With no one able to defeat the Holy Son or guarantee his escape, Bai Zhou turns inward and prepares for a desperate fight.

• Key events: The author’s computer suddenly stops working, flashing its lights and fan briefly but refusing to boot. A repair service cannot come until the next day, and writing on a phone is too difficult to finish the chapter by midnight, so the author announces a day off and plans to post an update the following day.
• Character developments: The author is frustrated and disappointed, especially because this was meant to be their last day off of the month and they hoped to save it for the Mid-Autumn Festival. They accept that they may have to work through the holiday instead.
• Themes: Unexpected setbacks, the pressures of a writing schedule, and the small comforts of holiday traditions.
• Interactions: The author pleads with the repair service and offers extra pay, but they refuse to come after hours. The author also invites readers to become Alliance Leaders, joking that they hope to receive free food and drink—and promising current Alliance Leaders mooncakes worth over 200 yuan.

Plot points and events

• The Holy Son corners Bai Zhou and his companions beneath the Blood Moon, demonstrating overwhelming power and claiming he can appear anywhere its light reaches. He threatens that no one will escape.
• Bai Zhou silently weighs his weapons and resources, including dangerous explosives and hallucinogenic Marsh Spirit’s Tear, but recognizes that using them would be risky and difficult.
• He orders Fang Xiaoxia to take the Rolls-Royce and drive the others to Ordinance Hall, then steps out alone to hold the Holy Son back. He seals the car doors to prevent the Gem Witch from joining him.
• Bai Zhou tries to summon the Sunlight Legion using the Holy Relic Seal, but the Blood Moon disrupts occult communication. Miss Ya explains that the moon interferes with connections carrying occult information.
• As the car escapes, Bai Zhou drinks a cache of powerful healing potions, recovering strength and some use of his injured right arm. He activates his Destiny Domain, Forgery, Battleflame, and other abilities, while the Blood Moon’s energy replenishes him.
• Realizing he has more spirit energy than he can use, Bai Zhou calls on the Red-White Horse Saber by its secret name, “Wait.” The chapter ends as the weapon unleashes its full power for the first time.

Character developments

• Bai Zhou moves from calculating desperation to decisive self-sacrifice, choosing to protect his companions despite his severe injuries. He then reveals both his hidden wealth of resources and his willingness to fight the Holy Son directly.
• Fang Xiaoxia is entrusted with the escape and pushed to take charge behind the wheel, transforming her usual passenger role into a crucial responsibility.
• The Gem Witch shows concern and loyalty, wanting to stay and fight, but accepts that Bai Zhou’s priority is getting her and the others away.
• The Holy Son remains composed and contemptuous, but Bai Zhou’s ability to draw on the Blood Moon and the unexpected power of his saber finally catch his attention.

Themes

• Sacrifice and responsibility: Bai Zhou accepts that someone must stay behind so the others can escape.
• Preparation and ingenuity: His survival depends on resources gathered during earlier adventures, quick analysis, and exploiting the Blood Moon’s effects.
• Courage despite weakness: Though badly injured and outmatched, Bai Zhou refuses to yield and insists he will reach Ordinance Hall alive.
• Power’s double edge: The Blood Moon both blocks Bai Zhou’s attempt to summon help and supplies him with energy for a powerful attack.

Character interactions

• Bai Zhou gives Fang Xiaoxia driving instructions and urges her to flee with the others.
• He shuts the Gem Witch inside the car, preventing her from risking herself beside him; she protests but recognizes the danger.
• Bai Zhou and the Holy Son trade taunts: the Holy Son mocks Bai Zhou’s weakness, while Bai Zhou calmly challenges him as his opponent.
• Miss Ya explains the Blood Moon’s interference, helping clarify why Bai Zhou’s attempt to contact the Sunlight Legion fails.

Key plot points and events

• Bai Zhou unleashes his Spirit-Name Secret Treasure, the red-and-white Demon Blade, by shouting its spirit-name, “Wait.” The command slows the Holy Son’s thoughts and movements, leaving him trapped in a devastating storm of blades.
• The Holy Son tries to exploit a hidden control backdoor he planted in the Sloth Cell, expecting to reclaim the Demon Blade. It fails because Bai Zhou bonded the cell to the treasure. The blade completes its killing move, Dragon-Rising Slash, stripping the Holy Son down to his bones.
• The Authorities’ reinforcements think the Holy Son is dead and approach. Bai Zhou senses danger, but the Holy Son’s jaw begins clacking, releasing blood mist that infects nearby agents with Blood Thirst Syndrome.
• The infected agents’ flesh withers and gathers into a mass that rebuilds the Holy Son. He returns stronger, seated on a throne assembled from the victims’ bones.
• The Holy Son questions Bai Zhou about how he knows the disease and his past as its original patient. Suspecting Bai Zhou is backed by a mysterious power, he attacks.
• Bai Zhou reveals his second-tier Ritual, Winter’s Aria, and fights back with five ice dragons, a sword, and a saber. The two begin a direct, high-stakes second round of combat.
• Their close-range clash reveals a profound connection: they share the same Destiny, Chen, but follow opposing paths—the Radiant Adventurer Path and the Blasphemous Monster Path. Each feels an urge to devour the other. Destiny reveals that they are natural rivals, and the victor may seize the loser’s Destiny and undergo a transformative change.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Zhou demonstrates cunning and preparation, turning the Holy Son’s own Sloth Cell against him. He also shows strong battlefield instincts by recognizing the apparent victory is a trap, warning the Authorities, and revealing the strength of his newly completed Ritual.
• The Holy Son is exposed as both calculating and adaptable. He survives what appears to be a fatal attack through his long-standing symbiosis with Blood Thirst Syndrome, then returns more powerful. His surprise at Bai Zhou’s knowledge turns into suspicion and predatory interest.
• The Authorities’ reinforcements move from jubilation to horror as the Holy Son’s infection takes hold. Their approach to the apparent corpse nearly makes them victims, while Bai Zhou’s warning helps the uninfected escape exposure.
• Bai Zhou and the Holy Son shift from adversaries exchanging attacks to destiny-linked counterparts: their powers are incompatible yet connected, and both recognize the other as a potential source of completion.

Significant themes

• Cunning versus raw power: Bai Zhou wins the first exchange through deception and preparation, but the Holy Son’s resilience turns victory into a renewed struggle.
• Survival through adaptation: The Holy Son has transformed a disease that once afflicted him into a weapon and means of regeneration.
• The cost of power: The Demon Blade consumes Bai Zhou’s spiritual reserves rapidly, while the Holy Son’s survival relies on horrifying bodily sacrifice.
• Destiny, duality, and predation: The Radiant and Blasphemous Paths are opposing but symbiotic. Their practitioners are destined to fight, and victory may mean absorbing or claiming the other’s Destiny.

Plot points and events

• Fang Xiaoxia drives the Rolls-Royce at extreme speed toward the Authorities’ headquarters, carrying the Gem Witch and her family to safety. The Holy Son has not caught up, suggesting Bai Zhou is still holding him back.
• The Gem Witch is tormented by guilt for leaving her ally behind, but Bai Zhou’s warning—that she is the Holy Son’s primary target—keeps her from turning back. The Envy Cell tries to tempt her with power; the Destiny enshrined within her suppresses it.
• Fang Xiaoxia stays focused on completing the escape, then plans to return to Bai Zhou whether he is alive or dead. She privately begs for supernatural power, but receives no answer.
• Meanwhile, Bai Zhou struggles against the Holy Son, who is formidable in both magic and close combat and seems to draw on the Bone Throne’s seemingly endless supply of spirituality.
• Bai Zhou invokes the Decayer’s nature through the armament Shadow of the Deep One, then unleashes his powerful Blade-Flipping, Sword-Overturning Cosmos Form. The Holy Son acknowledges its strength but blocks the attack with a defensive version of Blood Moonfall.
• Seemingly beaten and badly injured, Bai Zhou stays close to the Holy Son rather than retreating. As the Blood Moon shield fades, he grapples the Holy Son and triggers a hidden trap: a bomb, a mysterious piece of ore, and a spring-loaded weapon. He whispers, “Surprise, Your Highness,” just before the explosion.

Character developments and interactions

• The Gem Witch confronts her helplessness and the guilt of relying on Bai Zhou. Her near-temptation by the Envy Cell reveals how desperation can make forbidden power appealing, though her inner Destiny protects her.
• Fang Xiaoxia shows unusual composure and resolve. She accepts responsibility for the escape but intends to return for Bai Zhou, determined to make her own choice about the danger.
• Old Yu and his wife silently recognize Bai Zhou’s sacrifice and admire his courage; Old Yu privately imagines that having him as a son-in-law would be an immense honor.
• Bai Zhou shifts from a direct contest of strength to a desperate, calculated gamble. His apparent recklessness conceals a plan to get close enough to strike.
• The Holy Son displays overwhelming ability and composure, but Bai Zhou’s unprecedented attack earns his respect—and his final ambush catches him off guard.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and its emotional cost: The escape saves others, but leaves them wrestling with guilt over the person who stayed behind.
• Agency amid helplessness: Fang Xiaoxia chooses to return, while the Gem Witch must accept that turning back would undermine Bai Zhou’s sacrifice.
• Temptation versus restraint: Desperation makes forbidden power seem attractive, but it offers no easy miracle.
• Courage through ingenuity: Bai Zhou cannot overpower the Holy Son outright, so he turns apparent defeat into an opening for a risky trap.

Chapter Summary

• Bai Zhou’s trap kills the Holy Son. The old Sloth’s bomb, enhanced with layers of Explosion Rituals, detonates alongside the Marsh Spirit’s Tear, corpse-venom honey, and the final Cursed Iron Wire Mesh Trap. The combined blast devastates a three-li area, leaving a poisonous crater lethal to nearly any living creature. Bai Zhou survives the point-blank explosion only because his Sloth Cell ability keeps him “too lazy to die” for ten seconds.
• Bai Zhou uses the Life-Stealing Spirit Cat to survive. During that brief reprieve, he transforms into the gravely wounded spirit cat. Its Night Wanderer ability lets it jump through space when its bells ring, carrying Bai Zhou out of the crater. Then Life Stealing transfers his “state of death” to a tiny ant, restoring his life—though not healing his injuries. The Authorities’ personnel realize that Bai Zhou had also used his earlier attack to push them out of danger, and are moved by his sacrifice.
• The Holy Son’s remnant becomes a new threat. Although the Holy Son is dead, the Brain in a Vat attached to him survives, grows into a giant, poison-filled octopus, and pursues Bai Zhou. The creature appears driven both by its desire to parasitize Bai Zhou and by a lingering thought of the Holy Son seeking revenge.
• Bai Zhou leads the creature to the Ordinance Hall. Too injured to fight, he has the Authorities transport him toward headquarters, knowing the octopus is focused on him. At the Ordinance Hall, its Ordinance Envoy—a powerful guardian empowered by the Hall and the flame of civilization—freezes the monster and crushes it, bringing the pursuit to an end.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Bai Zhou demonstrates extreme resolve and tactical foresight: he accepts the risk of being caught in his own lethal trap, protects his allies, and saves his final escape ability for the critical moment. He also uses his injuries and the octopus’s fixation on him to draw it to a place capable of defeating it.
• The Authorities’ personnel move from believing Bai Zhou has died to recognizing that he deliberately saved them. Their respect and gratitude deepen as they witness both his survival and his self-sacrifice.
• The Holy Son is defeated, but his lingering influence persists through the Brain in a Vat, turning his death into one last danger for Bai Zhou.
• The Ordinance Envoy arrives as a formidable protector, immediately neutralizing a threat that Bai Zhou and the local forces could not safely handle.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and protection: Bai Zhou’s apparent willingness to die is partly an effort to spare those around him.
• Cunning and resourcefulness: Victory depends on layering traps, anticipating contingencies, and making use of limited abilities rather than relying on strength alone.
• Survival at the edge of death: Bai Zhou’s unusual powers let him exploit the narrow gap between dying and death, but only through painful, temporary measures.
• The burden of victory: Even after killing the Holy Son, Bai Zhou must endure the consequences of the battle and manage a final enemy before he can rest. The chapter ends with his relief—and uncertainty over whether the ordeal is truly over.

Key plot points

• After Bai Zhou’s exhausting battle, the Ordinance Envoy destroys the giant octopus and apparently kills the Holy Son. Bai Zhou collapses, and his allies catch him.
• The Authorities launch a sweeping crackdown on the Blood Worship Cult. Its bases and branches are hit, while Director Qi and Chief Instructor Shi kill seven Lifeforging Cardinals. The cult faces possible destruction.
• Bai Zhou lies unconscious for seven days while his body heals. Doctors find that residual Mystic Medicine is accelerating his recovery.
• When he wakes in the hospital, officials explain that the Holy Son’s Underground Labyrinth was destroyed, the Holy Son’s true body was supposedly eliminated, and the B-Class Black Box is under guard pending transfer to Tianjing.
• The Ordinance Envoy says the cult’s mass exposure of the Mystic World and its threat to Tinghai violated fundamental rules, allowing the Authorities to request a super strike against the cult—including its Five Elders.
• Bai Zhou is celebrated as Tinghai’s Savior, but he grows uneasy that the mission’s outcome seems almost too smooth.
• He notices that his seven-day sleep and two-day observation period would keep him away until just after the Holy Son’s plot was due to reach its decisive moment. He wonders whether the timing was deliberately arranged.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Zhou has pushed himself to the brink and now rests while others handle the aftermath. Though grateful that the city is safe, he remains suspicious and begins questioning the apparent completeness of the victory.
• Fang Xiaoxia and the Gem Witch stay by his bedside, help rouse him, and celebrate his recovery. Their concern contrasts with the officials’ focus on the operation and its consequences.
• The Ordinance Envoy and Elder Song praise Bai Zhou, brief him on the operation, and assure him that the Holy Son and cult are being dealt with. Their explanations initially reassure him but also expose how powerful the Authorities’ higher-level support can be.
• The Authorities’ leaders move from viewing Bai Zhou as a fugitive, possible recruit, or ally to recognizing him as a figure of extraordinary stature.
• Ya is present at the hospital, keeping watch and dozing on the windowsill.

Significant themes

• Recognition and transformation: Bai Zhou’s deeds force powerful figures to acknowledge how dramatically he has risen.
• Institutions, rules, and power: The Authorities’ rules both constrain them and give them grounds to call on greater forces when those rules are broken.
• Victory shadowed by suspicion: The cult’s defeat appears decisive, but Bai Zhou’s unease suggests that a smooth resolution may conceal another scheme.
• Rest and sacrifice: Bai Zhou has exhausted himself for the city and must leave the next steps to others.

Key plot points and events

• While recovering in hospital, Bai Zhou questions the Nowhere Medical Group’s long-standing influence over Tinghai. Though he suspects it might have hidden motives, he recognizes its century-long record of treating people and supporting the Authorities.
• The Gem Witch recounts the group’s origins: traveling doctors founded it during a devastating plague more than a hundred years ago. Its service later earned it semi-official status, and the plague’s consequences helped prompt the creation of the Disaster Investigation Bureau.
• Bai Zhou asks the Gem Witch to secretly obtain historical records about the group, the Medical Bureau, and especially the plague. He admits his suspicion is only tentative, but she agrees to investigate.
• Bai Zhou assesses his recovery and the rewards of defeating the Holy Son. Seven days of potion digestion have made his body about fifty percent stronger; his Fate and Fate Space have grown, and his Destiny Path has advanced to the peak of First Fate, leaving him close to mastering Sun Fist and reaching 2-Life Lifeforging.
• He is puzzled that these gains feel less dramatic than the transformations he experienced after previous major victories. He initially wonders whether his doubts about the Nowhere Medical Group are simply paranoia.
• Fang Xiaoxia asks whether Bai Zhou thinks the Holy Son might still be alive. Bai Zhou recalls the Holy Son’s earlier ability to explode and revive through another body—even when the Brain in a Vat was involved.
• Bai Zhou realizes a more urgent inconsistency: the Authorities’ leaders supposedly knew nothing about the Holy Son, yet the Ordinance Envoy knew about his true body, doubles, and revival. Bai Zhou concludes that the Envoy may know far more than he should.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Zhou grows stronger after the battle but remains wary and self-questioning. His suspicion shifts from the medical institution to the Ordinance Envoy when he spots a contradiction in what the leadership knew.
• The Gem Witch explains the medical group’s respected history, then accepts Bai Zhou’s request to investigate it covertly. She is initially shocked by the suggestion that she should steal records.
• Fang Xiaoxia raises the possibility that the Holy Son survived, prompting Bai Zhou to reconsider the evidence surrounding the battle.

Significant themes

• Trust versus suspicion: The Nowhere Medical Group’s long service makes suspicion difficult, but its influence also makes unanswered questions consequential.
• Hidden knowledge and institutional power: Bai Zhou’s discovery suggests that someone may possess information concealed from the Authorities’ leadership.
• Victory and its costs: Bai Zhou gains substantial strength, yet the battle’s aftermath brings fresh uncertainty rather than simple relief.

Bai Zhou and his companions debated whether the Ordinance Envoy could be compromised, then investigated the Nowhere Medical Group’s history and found a possible link to Fantasyland. The group realized the Holy Son’s countdown had less than twenty-five hours remaining and prepared to act again.

• Bai Zhou, the Gem Witch, and Fang Xiaoxia concluded they had no evidence against the Ordinance Envoy, though they agreed to stay cautious and investigate the Nowhere Medical Group.
• The Gem Witch brought Bai Zhou a copied history of the Nowhere Medical Group, and he read about its founding during the 1928 blood thirst syndrome outbreak.
• Bai Zhou connected Nowhere’s ideal of a peaceful, long-lived world to Evening City and wondered whether Nowhere was the Fantasyland the Holy Son had mentioned.
• Bai Zhou got out of his hospital bed and told the Gem Witch and Fang Xiaoxia that the Holy Son’s countdown had less than twenty-five hours left, urging them to move again.

Bai Zhou realized that the Nowhere Medical Group might be continuing the Holy Son’s Fantasyland Project by housing rescued, brainwashed victims, giving him a possible way to investigate the hospital. Before they could act, two groups arrived at the ward, and Ya warned that they had to survive what was coming.

• The Gem Witch explained that the Nowhere Medical Group’s Lifeforgers held immense power and influence, making it dangerous to oppose them without evidence.
• Bai Zhou connected the Fantasyland Project’s plan to imprison people in a supposedly normal environment with the rescued victims being housed at Nowhere and allowed to keep their old habits.
• Bai Zhou proposed investigating the victims to determine whether Nowhere and the Holy Son’s Fantasyland were the same place.
• Ya warned that the hospital might expose itself if it believed its secret had been discovered, and mist seeped into the ward from the window and corridor.
• A mechanical voice announced that the Dean and Professor Cai would begin morning rounds, and Ya told Bai Zhou that the evidence had come to them and that they first had to survive.

Bai Zhou was cornered in the hospital by the Nowhere Medical Group and the Five-Colored Pupils, who joined forces against him. At midnight, he used [Peace] and a Golden Pass to travel to the Jurassic era, hoping to claim rewards and gain enough power for the coming decisive battle.

• The Gem Witch explained the hospital hierarchy as the Dean arrived with a procession of medical staff, including several powerful Lifeforgers.
• The Dean confronted Bai Zhou over his investigation of the hospital archives and ordered him to remain hospitalized as doctors surrounded him.
• The Five-Colored Pupils Envoys broke through the ward windows and joined the doctors in trapping Bai Zhou and his companions.
• As midnight struck, Bai Zhou activated [Peace] and vanished, confusing his enemies into suspecting he was preparing an assassination.
• Bai Zhou used the ["Old Days: Zhuluo Era" Pass] to travel to the Jurassic era, intending to claim rewards and advance to Two-Life Lifeforger before returning.

Bai Zhou nearly lost himself in the rainbow passage after activating the Golden Pass from Peace, but he used the Adventurer’s Compass as a coordinate to reach Jurassic. The Compass merged with his palm and its Cross Emblem revealed that he could enter the Ancient Holy City to pursue one of the era’s seven ultimate secrets.

• Bai Zhou’s Golden Pass began to fail in the rainbow passage after he activated it from Peace, and the pass sent him the message “Coordinates.”
• Bai Zhou linked the pass to the Adventurer’s Compass, which guided him through the passage and gave him a glimpse of the black-and-red ruins, the Golden Giant Tree, and nine Blood Moons.
• Bai Zhou arrived back in the snowy mountains of Jurassic and realized that his previous journeys through the passage had also risked losing him in the rainbow sea.
• Bai Zhou recognized the ruins from the Compass’s former owner’s Last Will, and the Cross Emblem appeared as the Compass fused with his palm.
• The Cross Emblem informed Bai Zhou that he could teleport to the Ancient Holy City and unlock one of the Civilization Graveyard’s seven ultimate secrets, prompting him to wonder whether he had triggered the main quest.