Chapter Summaries

Ye Kong and Xuena joined a large Church expedition and boarded the Holy See’s gold battleship at the southern port. As more important Church figures arrived, Ye Kong suspected that a Holy Spirit Rank powerhouse was aboard.

• Ye Kong and Xuena woke after sharing a bed, and Xuena said her insomnia seemed cured.
• Sister Helen told Ye Kong and Xuena that they would travel with Zhiyi'er and twenty Knights to join the Fog Gray City diocese’s expedition.
• Ye Kong and Xuena traveled by carriage to a port city, where they saw four Church ships and the soldiers and Holy Knights gathered to see them off.
• A Knight escorted Ye Kong aboard the gold battleship, and she recognized its cannons as parts of a Transcendent artifact.
• The escort explained that an Archbishop and a Templar Knights Legion Commander likely to reach Holy Spirit Rank were traveling with them.
• More nuns, Knights, Priests, and Bishops boarded, and Ye Kong recognized a captain-level Holy Knight from her previous assessment.

Aboard a Holy See ship bound for the Tawo region, Ye Kong secretly observed the powerful passengers and learned that heretics had infiltrated the fleet. She passed a Knight’s hypnotic interrogation, then began investigating the incident through her Mystic Thread while hiding her connection to anything she discovered.

• Ye Kong estimated that the ship carried many Hidden Ones and Black Iron Rank individuals, identified three Mithril Rank experts, and planned to develop five hundred members in the Tawo region.
• On the third day, Ye Kong learned that heretics had infiltrated the ship and returned to her room with Xuena to avoid getting involved.
• Two Holy Knights searched Ye Kong and Xuena’s room and questioned them under hypnosis.
• Ye Kong recognized a trap in the Knights’ questioning and stayed silent at the crucial moment, so she and Xuena passed the interrogation.
• Ye Kong began secretly observing the investigation and had her other-world counterparts record what they found before she erased her own memories to guard against divination.

Ye Kong discovered that two Holy Knights investigating heretics had planted a Golden Card carrying Pollution on the ship, then used a possessed Guard soldier to expose them. She learned the men were infiltrators from the Tawo region, though their wider plan remained unknown.

• Ye Kong overheard a Deacon speaking secretly with two Knights, who dismissed a coded message and later planted a Golden Card on equipment below deck.
• Ye Kong suspected the card posed a threat and used the Mystic Thread and Miss C10 to control a Guard soldier and investigate it.
• The card scorched the soldier’s hand, and he alerted Templar Knights, who brought the Legion Commander and others to inspect the site.
• Ye Kong identified the two Knights who had planted the card, and the crew shackled them for investigation.
• Ye Kong learned from the men’s memories that they were members of another faith who had infiltrated the Kingdom of Order from the Tawo region.

D10 concealed the soldier’s true consciousness in a deeper dream, erased part of his memories, and escaped detection before the Holy See convicted the two Knights of releasing the Golden Card. As the Archbishop investigated a possible threat from Polluted object 3-05-0100, he stopped outside Ye Kong’s room and unleashed a pressure that made her collapse in pain.

• D10 hid the soldier’s consciousness in a deep dream and made him wake with rehearsed memories, then withdrew to the Kalu World.
• Ye Qian reflected on how using disposable clones had made her increasingly indifferent to death and resolved not to lose herself.
• A Black Iron Rank Diviner confirmed that the first Knight had lied, and the Holy See determined that both Knights had released the Golden Card.
• A Deacon warned the White-Robed Archbishop that Polluted object 3-05-0100 might threaten the ship, so he sent the Templar Knight Captain to retrieve a suppressing item.
• The Archbishop stopped outside Ye Kong’s room and released a wave of pressure and Pollution that made Ye Kong curl up in pain.

After the Archbishop tested Ye Kong’s faith, he arranged to transfer her to Fog Gray City, while the Holy See completed its investigation and arrived in Tawo. Ye Kong chose Lin, a poor young wanderer caught in a violent turf conflict, as Dusk’s first local recruit and sent her an invitation.

• The Archbishop tested Ye Kong and, believing her devout, offered to transfer her to Fog Gray City in exchange for three nuns.
• The Holy See finished investigating the ship, uncovered more traitorous Knights, and arrived at Tawo on the fifth day.
• Ye Kong and Xuena went ashore and settled with the other nuns in a nearby palace.
• Ye Kong selected Lin as a potential local representative and watched her return home with her wages.
• Lin and her companions decided to flee after rival gang members killed two of them and threatened Lin.
• As Lin hurried to collect her hidden money, Dusk’s invitation appeared before her.

Lin joined Dusk, gained strength through a newcomer mission, and used her recruitment reward to summon five operators who eliminated the gang threatening her block. The operators left her with a gun, and Lin believed she and her brother could remain in their home.

• Lin accepted Dusk's invitation, completed a zombie survival mission, and reached Level 3 with Basic Fighting Mastery.
• Lin spent Points to reach LV4, bought Water of Purification, and recruited five temporary Level 3 operators to help protect her block.
• The operators arrived at Lin's shack, and V1 armed himself before leading the group to confront their enemies.
• The five operators defeated fourteen opponents, including gunmen, and V1 gave Lin a gun in exchange for 200 Points.
• The operators disappeared after completing the mission, and Lin told her stunned brother that they might be able to stay.

Ye Kong accompanied the Light Prayer Church’s delegation while the Chief Inquisitor repeatedly tried to have her interrogated as a suspected heretic. She realized his divinations were distorting her cognition, though her Mystic Thread could still observe him.

• Lin agreed to stay with Ye Kong’s organization and told her teammates to listen to Lin.
• Ye Kong joined the nuns as the church prepared to preach to local leaders in the northern part of the city.
• The Chief Inquisitor accused Ye Kong of colluding with heretics and demanded her for interrogation, but Archbishop Cory refused without evidence.
• After talks with the local leaders, the Chief Inquisitor made a second attempt to take Ye Kong, and Archbishop Cory again rejected his demand.
• Ye Kong recognized that the Chief Inquisitor was divining through Dream Entry and that his anti-divination ability was twisting her cognition.

Ye Kong strengthened her protection against divination by expanding her group of World Casters, but the Chief Inquisitor used the Number 2 Black Box to search for her. The Supreme Inquisitor then told the Archbishop that the evidence against Ye Kong was conclusive.

• Ye Qian advanced twenty Cannon Fodder Misses into World Casters, bringing the anti-divination group to forty-five members who began shielding Ye Kong.
• The Chief Inquisitor ordered the Number 2 Black Box opened, and Ye Kong observed the Inquisitors prepare its sealed chamber.
• Ye Kong saw a red gemstone resembling a vertical eye, which sensed her observation, so she withdrew her consciousness.
• The Chief Inquisitor touched the gemstone, sending red light across the surroundings and locking an unknown will onto Ye Kong.
• The Supreme Inquisitor returned to the Archbishop and declared, “2-50-0816. The evidence is conclusive.”

Ye Kong realized that the Holy See had manipulated her thoughts into accepting arrest, then was taken to the Heretic Tribunal’s black ship. Locked in a cell, she began considering how to protect herself and make the most of the situation.

• The Chief Inquisitor showed Archbishop Cory the divination record, and they ordered Ye Kong controlled while mobilizing the Holy See’s forces.
• Ye Kong used dozens of Mystic Threads to piece together distorted perceptions and discovered that the Inquisitor Knights and Holy See forces were coming for her.
• Ye Kong realized an unseen influence had prevented her from escaping and might have been guiding her since the heretic investigation aboard the ship.
• The Inquisitors arrested Ye Kong, fastened heavy shackles on her, and escorted her through the cleared port to the Heretic Tribunal’s black ship.
• The Chief Inquisitor locked Ye Kong in a cell to gather direct evidence, and she calmly considered what she could still do.

Ye Qian learned that The Holy See was preparing a major operation against the hidden force behind Ye Kong and took steps to conceal Dusk while strengthening her forces. The chapter ended with her spending 600,000 Life Energy to create a powerful clone with Sacrificial Gestation and Spirit Eye.

• Ye Qian erased Ye Kong's memories of her and Dusk, destroyed memories linking Ye Kong to important clones, and tried to make Ye Kong teleport to safety.
• The Holy See's leaders ordered a coordinated operation against the faction behind Ye Kong and planned to use item 2-03-0012.
• Ye Qian learned that Dusk was The Holy See's likely target and concluded that its real-world bases could be attacked.
• Ye Qian began removing weakly connected people such as Ye Yan, Luo Ying, and Luo Yu from the coming conflict, and prepared to create stronger clones.
• Ye Qian spent 600,000 Life Energy to create a Purple-quality clone with Sacrificial Gestation and Spirit Eye.

Ye Qian awakened Ye An, whose Sacrificial Gestation ability could create Transcendent tools by guiding Pollution through sacrifices. Ye An and Ye Qian used hundreds of Cannon Fodder Misses and polluted items to build a mass of flesh inside a furnace, leaving Ye Qian to decide what kind of item it would become.

• Ye Qian named the frail, vampire-like girl Ye An and learned that her Sacrificial Gestation talent could turn objects or living beings into polluted items, while Spirit Eye could reveal Pollution.
• Ye Qian decided to use Cannon Fodder Misses as materials and had 450 clones teleported to her villa after keeping fifty.
• Ye An began refining the clones in a furnace, combining their flesh, final thoughts, and polluted items while Pollution drove them toward collapse.
• Ye An recognized that the clones' contradictory status as both Ye Qian's offspring and her own mother could create a logical collapse that strengthened the gestation process.
• After 300 Cannon Fodder Misses had been fed into the furnace, the fused flesh began moving as if alive, and Ye Qian faced the choice of what item to create.

Ye Qian and Little An refined a mass of resentful clone remains into a highly polluted Transcendent item while Ye Qian prepared defenses and a plan to hide Dusk. The Holy See launched its first attack on a Fog Gray City base, where F1250 narrowly dodged a Holy Knight’s surprise strike.

• Ye Qian and Little An shaped the gestating Flesh Object, which could form fleshly figures and developed an urge to devour living things.
• Ye Qian arranged for Cannon Fodder Misses to buy pollutants and used Amia’s blood to supply more material for the refinement.
• Ye Qian planned to prepare more Transcendent items, strengthen her clones and bases, and disguise Dusk’s exposed parts as a separate organization.
• The Holy See attacked a base in Fog Gray City, and F1250 sensed danger as two disguised Holy Knights approached.
• A silver-armored Holy Knight appeared before F1250 and swung his greatsword, but she dodged with an improvised Earth Spike, surprising him.

Ye Qian’s Cannon Fodder Misses fought The Holy See across multiple locations, inflicting unexpected casualties before their strongholds were destroyed. The Holy See then mobilized in Lianwen, where Ye Qian’s forces faced a late Mithril Rank battalion commander and detonated a massive cache of explosives and fire scrolls.

• A Holy Knight killed Miss F1250 after she attacked him with fire scrolls and cursed The Holy See in the name of the Lord of Blood.
• Ye Qian’s Cannon Fodder Misses used ambushes, shared combat knowledge, and explosive bodies to drag down Holy See forces, while a squad captain killed the last surviving girl and was wounded by Spirit Ammunition hidden in her corpse.
• The Holy See eliminated targets at ten of twelve locations and destroyed two Dusk strongholds by sending a Mithril Rank battalion commander to collapse their basements.
• Ye Qian learned that 95 Group F and 14 Group E Cannon Fodder Misses had died as the attacks spread to Dusk strongholds in other cities.
• The Holy See mobilized in Lianwen, where Ye Qian’s nine Black Iron Rank fighters and forty Hidden Ones battled a late Mithril Rank battalion commander and detonated two thousand Explosion Rings and three hundred Fire Element Scrolls.

Ye Qian’s cannon fodder bodies turned a Mithril Rank Holy Knight captain into a rampaging monster and prepared to flee toward the Blood Cherry Society. Meanwhile, The Holy See activated an ancient device to trace the organization’s world coordinates, leaving Ye Qian to ask whether her true body was in mortal danger.

• Ye Qian’s purple-haired Cannon Fodder Misses forced a Qi Convergence Pill into the Mithril Rank captain, causing Pollution to drive him mad and attack allies and enemies.
• Ye Qian ordered the surviving bodies to run toward the Blood Cherry Society’s stronghold and die there, hoping to draw The Holy See’s firepower onto the rival organization.
• At Lianwen Cathedral, Rafia passed another internal investigation while Ye Qian observed through a different Cannon Fodder Misses avatar.
• Archbishop Cory and the Chief Inquisitor activated a Grade 2 instrument that used old world coordinates to locate the organization behind Ye Kong, confirming two possible coordinates.
• Ye Qian had Velier perform Pendulum Divination to find out whether the main body faced mortal danger.

Ye Qian prepared defenses in a mountain range after the Holy See opened a passage to her world and sent an overwhelming force through it. The chapter left two Demon Misses fighting the first scouts while the rest of the Holy See’s army waited to cross.

• Vier used a pendulum to assess the danger to her main body and found a 0.1% chance of death, then recognized that the Holy See could strike across worlds.
• The Holy See used the Energy Pillar to open a fissure to Ye Qian’s world, and she sensed qi and evacuated Dusk members from the area.
• Ye Qian mobilized farmers and bandits to build Blood Altars, while she used the Dream Realm and Life Energy to guide the Holy See’s arrival toward a mountain range.
• The Holy See assembled its main force, including nine Mithril Ranks, and sent ten scouts through the fissure.
• Ye Qian’s forces ambushed the scouts with contaminated artillery and Spirit Bullets, but two Black Iron Rank warriors fought back and badly injured E301 and E302.

Ye Qian wiped out the Holy See’s first advance squad, then altered the Crystal Ball’s world coordinates to lure the Church toward the Main World. The Holy See sent a stronger force through the rift, where Ye Qian’s artillery and Cannon Fodder Misses inflicted heavy losses but were overwhelmed by Mithril Rank fighters.

• E302 and the artillery crews killed the remaining members of the Holy See’s first squad, while E301 and E302 survived the fight.
• Ye Qian replaced the Crystal Ball’s unused world information with coordinates for the Main World and began evacuating its people, weapons, and supplies to Kalu World.
• A Mithril Rank battalion commander led two squads through the rift and used white arcs of light to repel the artillery and devastate the Cannon Fodder Misses’ defenses.
• Ye Qian’s forces bombarded the Holy See troops, and Ye Ling injured a Mithril Rank captain with a Spirit Bullet.
• More Holy See soldiers arrived and formed a landing zone after suffering heavy casualties; their Mithril Rank fighters continued advancing against the scattered defenders.

The Holy See’s campaign against the Blood Cherry Society continued as Ye Qian’s arrangements convinced its forces that the society planned to summon the Lord of Blood and destroy Fog Gray City. In Lianwen, Deacon Fari attacked the society’s hidden base, while Ye Qian’s clone confused the society’s leader and helped him escape.

• The Chief Executor’s forces overwhelmed the Cannon Fodder Misses’ defenses, and Ye Qian copied a pill formula before burning the original record.
• A masked Blood Cherry Society leader in Lianwen watched a building collapse and confronted the blue-haired Deacon Fari.
• A masked girl posing as a Blood Cherry believer claimed the society planned to destroy Fog Gray City and summon the Lord of Blood, leaving Fari bewildered.
• The girl called the masked leader Lord Fari and urged him to flee, while Fari’s accusations persuaded Deacon Fari that the society’s plans involved an Evil God and another world.
• Deacon Fari unleashed eight pillars that destroyed the underground base, and Ye Qian’s clone survived behind Fari’s Blood Shield.
• Fari carried the girl away as Deacon Fari shattered the Blood Shield from a distance, leaving Fari injured but escaping with her.

Ye Qian used E322 to infiltrate the Blood Cherry Society, gain Fari’s trust, and obtain the Blood Warrior Mithril Rank breakthrough method. As the Holy See’s crackdown spread, Ye An sensed danger from the growing Mystic Thread network and faced the eerie Transcendent artifact containing fragments of sixteen thousand consciousnesses.

• E322 convinced Fari that she was a Blood Cherry Society believer carrying news about the failed Second Avatar plan, then endured an injection of blood power to strengthen his trust.
• Ye Qian led Fari toward another stronghold, where a Holy See battalion killed E322 and Fari after Fari wounded its commander.
• Ye Qian used Fari’s breakthrough method to advance Ye Lan to Mithril Rank by combining a dangerous potion with the Water of Purification.
• The Holy See’s campaign spread through Lianwen and Fog Gray City, frightening hidden organizations and prompting many of them to lie low.
• Ye Qian detected the approaching danger through her Mystic Thread network and saw that sixteen thousand consciousness fragments remained inside the Transcendent artifact before Little An.

Ye Qian refined the Core of the Resentful Maiden from 16,000 clones and prepared Ye Lan to wield it against the Holy See. As Dusk fought the Holy See across the region, Ye Qian located the Blood Cherry Society leader and learned the Holy See had found him but had not yet launched its attack.

• Ye Qian completed the purple-quality Core of the Resentful Maiden and gave it to Ye Lan as a weapon.
• Ye Qian marshaled Life Energy and medicine to help Ye Lan break through to the mid-stage of the Mithril Rank, with Ye Qian No. 4 supporting her through the dangerous cultivation.
• After Ye Lan recovered, she took the Core of the Resentful Maiden and joined Vier in preparing to locate the Blood Cherry Society leader.
• Ye Qian’s clones divined the leader’s location and confirmed that the Holy See had discovered him in Fog Gray City.
• Ye Qian learned the Holy See had not yet begun its encirclement operation because it was weighing the risks of fighting in the city and deploying a Holy Spirit Rank member.

Ye Qian’s divination helped the Holy See locate the fleeing Blood Cherry Society leader, and twelve Mithril Rank fighters intercepted him and his three core subordinates. The ensuing battle left the Holy See badly depleted, while the leader faced the Legion Commander and four surviving fighters as they prepared to attack together.

• Ye Qian’s divination coincided with the Holy See’s search and revealed that the Blood Cherry Society leader had fled to Fog Gray City’s outskirts.
• Archbishop Cory sent Mithril Rank fighters from across the province, and the Holy See intercepted the leader and his three subordinates.
• The Blood Cherry Society fighters charged through a giant robot deployed by three Holy See fighters, and the leader destroyed it with a single punch.
• The two sides fought for ten minutes, leaving the Blood Cherry Society leader alone against five Holy See fighters.
• The Legion Commander gathered light into a scythe and prepared to attack with his subordinates as the leader raised blood-colored shields.