Chapter Summaries

Ji Jue and Tong Hua uncovered records describing the Undying Disease, a plague that had turned Hope Hospital’s patients into an immortal calamity. After Director Qian caught Ji Jue in the records room, Ji Jue talked his way out and secured approval to collect supplies, then learned that three other Chosen Ones had been following them with plans to kill them.

• In a recovered account, High Priest Lian Cheng and the hospital dean celebrated using black blades to rot the Undying Disease, even as new flesh grew back.
• Ji Jue and Tong Hua confirmed from the records that the Undying Disease had spread through Quancheng and could only be stopped by erasing it on both physical and Spiritual Substance levels.
• Director Qian arrived at the records room dragging a mutilated corpse and demanded to know why Ji Jue was there.
• Ji Jue claimed he was studying to become a better doctor, and Director Qian sniffed him, decided he was sick too, and praised his compassion.
• Ji Jue asked for hospital supplies, and Director Qian approved his equipment request and told him to collect it from the warehouse.
• Tong Hua warned Ji Jue that three outside Chosen Ones had followed them and wanted to kill them, and Ji Jue remarked that they seemed to share the same plan.

Ji Jue left the hospital with a cart full of supplies, then used his preparations and Tong Hua's help to ambush the three cultists sent after him. The final fleeing attacker collapsed at Ji Jue's countdown, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Ji Jue bribed the Old Ghost with blood and left the hospital pushing a cart piled with bottles and jars.
• An Jiexiu disguised himself as a dying victim and tried to lure Ji Jue into an ambush, but Ji Jue shot him with a crude mercury-bullet gun and protected himself with a hardened lab coat.
• The blades controlled by Wang Ximin lost their power, while a two-headed ghost vessel attacked and killed her.
• Tong Hua poisoned Kong Yebai with a mixture of purified anesthetics and shot him, disabling the cultist before he could use his ability.
• The last cultist abandoned his companions and ran, but he collapsed just as Ji Jue finished counting down.

Ji Jue and Tong Hua defeated the attackers in the Time Ruins, then met the researcher Xie Lan, who recognized Ji Jue and warned them about the contaminated inpatient building and the Evil Transformation Cult. Xie Lan departed to study the living-corpse puppets, leaving Ji Jue and Tong Hua to continue toward the elevator with their plans to capture more material thwarted.

• An Jiexiu mutated and died after the ashes of The Horde and Mercury spread through him in the Time Ruins.
• Ji Jue and Tong Hua dealt with the attackers, and Ji Jue congratulated Tong Hua on her first kill.
• Xie Lan arrived with living-corpse-like puppets, examined the Ghost Fetus, and identified Ji Jue as the genius who rediscovered Fluid Alchemy.
• Xie Lan said he had met Tong Hua before, thanked Ji Jue for dealing with the Holy Spirit recruiters, and exchanged contact information with him.
• Xie Lan warned that the Time Ruins would soon collapse and advised them to be careful near the contaminated inpatient building and the Evil Transformation Cult.
• Xie Lan left to study the puppets, while Ji Jue and Tong Hua reached the elevator lamenting that they had missed a chance to gather more material.

Ji Jue interrogated Kong Yebai, a captured Evil Transformation Cult member, and learned the cult planned to trigger an explosion in the Yacheng Time Ruins. After Kong escaped to warn his companions, Ji Jue and Tong Hua discovered that Ji Jue had set off a bomb inside the ruins.

• Xie Lan admitted he had avoided provoking Ji Jue and the Tong Family, while Ji Jue resolved to report him to the Security Bureau later.
• Ji Jue tortured Kong Yebai and learned that the Evil Transformation Cult had sent nine people into the Time Ruins to obtain an Undying Disease specimen and trigger an explosion in Yacheng.
• Kong Yebai revealed that the High Priest had entered the inpatient building while the rest of the cult team supported the mission, but a seal prevented him from disclosing how they had entered the ruins.
• Director Qian took Ji Jue on rounds, and Kong Yebai escaped by sacrificing part of his arm to distract the Ghost Fetus before rushing to warn his companions.
• Ji Jue returned to the empty office, and Tong Hua realized he had assembled a bomb from its chemicals and materials.
• The bomb detonated, shaking the Time Ruins and filling them with smoke and fire.

Ji Jue and Xie Lan scavenged the aftermath of an explosive clash with Security Bureau Chosen Ones, then concealed their involvement from Director Qian. As Tong Hua worried about Ji Jue pushing himself too hard, he revealed that his fight against the Evil Transformation Cult was driven by personal grudges and vowed to destroy them.

• Kong Yebai’s hidden bomb exploded, devastating the office and badly injuring the Chosen Ones, while the Ghost Fetus attacked the survivors.
• Xie Lan turned two survivors into Living Corpses, and he and Ji Jue divided the remains and spirit essence between them.
• Ji Jue and Xie Lan denied responsibility when Director Qian arrived, while Ji Jue quietly pocketed a Blessed Creation.
• Ji Jue returned with Alchemy Creations from the Ghost Fetus, filling Deus Ex Machina’s dial further and considering how to expand his Spirit Essence Cage.
• Tong Hua told Ji Jue he did not have to bear the crisis alone, and Ji Jue thanked her before admitting that he pursued the Evil Transformation Cult out of personal grudge.
• Ji Jue thought of the people and peaceful lives he wanted to protect, then vowed to tear apart everyone who threatened them.

After Ji Jue arrived at the hospital, he confronted Lian Cheng’s fraudulent treatment plan and proposed a clinical trial that would expose the High Priest. Lian Cheng ended the chapter trapped by the offer, as the mutated physicians applauded Ji Jue’s supposed sacrifice.

• After learning that one outsider had killed his subordinates, Lian Cheng ordered his backup unit to release the disaster beasts on the second floor.
• The Dean brought Ji Jue and other mutated figures to meet Lian Cheng, and Ji Jue warmly warned him that he was next.
• At the meeting, Ji Jue questioned whether Lian Cheng’s treatment worked, while Director Qian tried to silence him and then challenged him to suggest an alternative.
• Ji Jue proposed testing the treatment on a mild case, then argued that Lian Cheng should verify his own plan when Lian Cheng objected.
• Ji Jue offered to be inoculated with Undying Disease alongside Lian Cheng as a placebo control, and the moved physicians applauded while Lian Cheng stood speechless with rage.

Lian Cheng was forced to undergo the implantation of Undying Disease, and a black blade from a flesh tumor suppressed his mutation enough to keep him barely alive. Ji Jue then submitted to the same procedure, but as the chapter ended, he showed no symptoms and only asked whether the patient had skipped a meal.

• Ji Jue forced Lian Cheng to accept the implantation of Undying Disease, and Lian Cheng sat in the electric chair amid the doctors’ chants and cheers.
• The dean and the doctors implanted Undying Disease into Lian Cheng, whose body mutated violently as two fiendish influences clashed within him.
• The dean drove a black blade into Lian Cheng’s mouth, suppressing the mutation; Ji Jue recognized the process as resembling Lawrence’s Vortex Planting Method.
• Lian Cheng warned Ji Jue that it was his turn, and Ji Jue calmly let the doctors shackle him and implant Undying Disease.
• A tiny Spiritual Substance spider carrying a record book slipped away from Ji Jue’s discarded belongings while he showed no obvious symptoms.
• Ji Jue burped and asked the dean whether the patient had skipped a meal, while Lian Cheng watched in disbelief.

Ji Jue’s Feigong Matrix sealed off the Undying Disease infection, leaving him unharmed while the physicians of the Time Ruins celebrated. He turned Lian Cheng into the test subject for Mad Slaughter Poison, and the chapter ended with the injection triggering a chorus of screams.

• Lian Cheng watched in disbelief as the Undying Disease failed to affect Ji Jue, whose Feigong Matrix armored his body and sealed away the infection.
• Ji Jue questioned why the mutated physicians showed no signs of erosion, then praised Lian Cheng’s treatment before proposing a new method.
• Ji Jue revealed a syringe of Mad Slaughter Poison, and the physicians eagerly supported testing it as a way to free patients through death.
• Ji Jue declared Lian Cheng an ideal clinical test subject, and the physicians restrained him in the electric chair despite his protests.
• Ji Jue injected Lian Cheng with the Mad Slaughter Poison, and the Time Ruins filled with agonized wailing.

Lian Cheng unleashed the Supreme Lord’s authority, freed himself, and sent the Outpatient Building’s patients and monsters into a rampage. Ji Jue detonated the hospital, leaving Lian Cheng staring in shock amid the destruction.

• Lian Cheng broke his final seal and used the Emerald Eye’s authority to suppress the Time Ruins’ interference and unleash the Undying Disease.
• The Bone Wheel freed Lian Cheng and expelled the Mad Slaughter Poison, but his attempted transformation into a calamity vessel remained incomplete.
• Lian Cheng awakened the patients and monsters in the Outpatient Building and ordered them to attack Ji Jue.
• Ji Jue activated his modified air-conditioner remote, setting off explosions throughout the hospital.
• The blast engulfed the buildings in flames, and Ji Jue turned to the stunned Lian Cheng and asked what he had been saying.

Tong Hua and Xie Lan helped Ji Jue escape the hospital ruins, where he faced Lian Cheng and the Bone Wheel. After using the Soul Calling Bell to gather the lingering spirits, Ji Jue created a Sage Remnant that seized control of the Time Ruins.

• Tong Hua revealed that Ji Jue had made her bomb the hospital and pressured Xie Lan into helping fight the disaster beast by threatening his research materials and medical license.
• Xie Lan used dreamlike insects and his puppets to distract the disaster beast, while the destroyed outpatient building left Lian Cheng stunned.
• Ji Jue taunted Lian Cheng and used the Stitched Ghost Fetus to absorb the Bone Wheel's soul attacks through Non-Aggression.
• Ji Jue rang the Soul Calling Bell three times, draining the Ghost Fetus and awakening a vast multitude of lingering spirits across the Time Ruins.
• Ji Jue used the bell's power to create the Sage Remnant, which froze the Time Ruins and restrained the Bone Wheel.

Ji Jue summoned a remnant of Sage Mercury to battle the Abomination while it enhanced him, allowing him to overwhelm Lian Cheng. When Lian Cheng tried to corrupt him with the Supreme Lord’s power, Ji Jue activated his ability to extract Spiritual Substance and began draining Lian Cheng and the Supreme Lord through their connection.

• Ji Jue used the Soul Calling Bell and Feigong to summon Sage Mercury’s remnant, which attacked the Abomination infecting the Bone Wheel.
• Sage Mercury’s remnant enhanced Ji Jue as he battered Lian Cheng with overwhelming speed and strength.
• Lian Cheng unleashed the Supreme Lord’s corruption into Ji Jue, believing he would infect him.
• Ji Jue revealed that he had left his Matrix’s restraints inactive and used its extraction ability to absorb the corruption.
• Ji Jue drained Lian Cheng and followed their connection toward the Supreme Lord, while Lian Cheng desperately strengthened the link.

Ji Jue watched Lian Cheng seize the Marrow of Evil Folly, but the Time Ruins’ dead patients and doctors confronted Lian Cheng and finally killed him. When Ji Jue hesitated to destroy the doctor who embodied the ruins’ central conflict, Director Qian forced his hand and drove the remnant bone into the doctor’s chest.

• The Sage Remnant destroyed the Bone Wheel, and Lian Cheng survived its explosion by stealing the Higher Fiend’s essence and taking the Marrow of Evil Folly.
• Ji Jue warned Lian Cheng that he had forgotten the core conflict between the Time Ruins and the present world, as the patients’ faces emerged and called him a liar.
• Tong Hua was overwhelmed by memories of the ruined hospital, where a doctor had promised to save patients but failed to prevent their deaths.
• The doctors’ afterimages confronted Lian Cheng and consumed his eyes, mouth, hands, spine, brain, and heart, killing him as the patients continued to accuse them of lying.
• Ji Jue picked up the remnant bone and aimed it at the grieving doctor, but hesitated when he saw the doctor’s tears.
• Director Qian seized Ji Jue’s arm and forced him to drive the remnant bone into the doctor’s chest, rebuking him for hesitating in the face of calamity and disease.

Ji Jue accepted the old doctor's badge and began operating on the patients of the collapsing Time Ruins, using a Bone Blade to separate their souls from the Undying Disease. He cured the first patient, a baby, as White Hall's projection weakened and vast forces began to stir above the ruins.

• The old doctor gave Ji Jue his ID badge, urged him to become a good doctor, and faded away.
• Ji Jue told Tong Hua to prepare isolation and protection, then set up an operation amid the ruins.
• Ji Jue crafted a Bone Blade from the doctor's remains and began cutting into the tumor to separate the fused souls from the diseased flesh.
• Guided by the doctors' knowledge and experience, Ji Jue extracted a baby from the tumor and freed its Spiritual Substance from White Hall's pollution.
• Ji Jue declared Patient No. 1 cured as cracks spread through the heavens and the surgery continued.

Tong Hua asked Ye Zhi to assess her troubled friend, and Ye Zhi warned that his need for control and painful past could make him dangerous to anyone who disrupted his plans. When they saw that the friend was Ji Jue, playing happily with his family at the beach, Tong Hua and Ye Zhi watched the lively water fight together.

• Tong Hua described her friend to Ye Zhi and asked whether his behavior suggested a problem with his mental state.
• Ye Zhi listed possible conditions and warned that the man valued control over his life, might avoid Tong Hua, and could ruthlessly remove anything that disrupted his plans.
• Ye Zhi speculated that guilt over a profound loss drove the man's relentless need to make every day count.
• A mischievous child jumped into the sea, and Lu Ling, her siblings, and their mother joined the ensuing beachside water fight.
• Ye Zhi recognized the scarred man with a modified water cannon as the friend Tong Hua had described, and Tong Hua confirmed that it was Ji Jue.
• Ji Jue played with his family through water fights, games, and ice cream as the sun set over the beach.

Ji Jue learned that Hope Hospital had invited him to its training program, but Professor Ye had already refused on his behalf and gave him a diamond VIP card instead. She identified his Bone Blade as a one-of-a-kind work of nature, explained its powerful healing and spiritual abilities, and revealed that it could not harm or kill living beings.

• Ji Jue panicked when he found Hope Hospital’s invitation, while Professor Ye and Ye Chun teased him about being recruited away from Tide Sound Workshop.
• Ji Jue presented Ye Chun with his paper, and Professor Ye praised his conduct in the Time Ruins and dismissed his concerns about the Evil Transformation Cult.
• Professor Ye said she had declined Hope Hospital’s offer for Ji Jue and warned him to be blunt with the hospital, then gave him its diamond VIP card.
• Professor Ye examined Ji Jue’s Bone Blade and judged it a one-of-a-kind work of nature formed through the forces that had converged in the Time Ruins.
• Professor Ye explained that the Bone Blade could destroy matter and Spiritual Substance and grant Ji Jue surgical expertise, but it could not harm or kill living beings.
• Ji Jue asked what shortcoming Professor Ye meant, since he saw the Bone Blade’s limitations as advantages.

Ji Jue demonstrated his improved spirit essence techniques and used Fluid Alchemy to create a mercury creature and truck to challenge Professor Ye. The chapter ended with him resisting her powerful punch in a crude mercury armor modeled after Lou Da Shao’s Spirit Essence Shaping technique.

• Ji Jue named the Bone Blade Mercy and showed Professor Ye that he could repeatedly extract and transplant spiritual intelligence.
• Ji Jue used his blood and Spiritual Substance to animate mercury, then shaped it into a creature that Professor Ye effortlessly shattered with compressed air.
• Ji Jue formed the mercury into a truck and attacked Professor Ye, who destroyed it and then blocked his follow-up strikes with hardened air.
• Professor Ye punched through Ji Jue’s attacks, but Ji Jue endured the blow inside a rough mercury armor inspired by Lou Da Shao’s technique.

Ji Jue tested his improvised armor against Ye Xian in class, using hidden techniques to surprise her despite losing the fight. Ye Xian recognized his newly manifested Spirit Essence Hand and the rapid growth of his Blessings, while Ji Jue revealed that Mercury's Sage Remnant seemed to possess its own spirit.

• Ye Xian assessed Ji Jue's cobbled-together armor as crude but unexpectedly functional as he charged her with four mechanical arms.
• Ye Xian quickly dismantled Ji Jue's armor and mechanical limbs, overpowering his attacks and sending him crashing to the edge of the field.
• Ji Jue revealed a concealed Spirit Essence Hand that struck at Ye Xian, startling her and earning her acknowledgment of his surprise.
• Ye Xian examined Ji Jue's transformed Blessings and realized he had developed a powerful new application of Non-Aggression through spirit essence manipulation.
• Ji Jue told Ye Xian that Mercury's Sage Remnant seemed to possess a spirit of its own, and she replied, “Why wouldn't it?”

Ye Xian warned Ji Jue not to waste Mercury’s lingering favor or give Fluid Alchemy away to the Taiyi Ring, then began training him with his Spirit Essence Refinement. The lesson ended with Ye Xian using Mercury to capture Ji Jue’s tool spirit inside a bead, leaving him stunned by the possibility that this was Fluid Alchemy.

• Ye Xian explained how Chosen Ones, Celestial Beings, and Sages were connected to Supreme Goodness, and warned Ji Jue not to squander Mercury’s remaining spirituality.
• Ye Xian told Ji Jue to pursue Modern Alchemy, avoid registering as an Artisan through Fluid Alchemy, and use the technique to build his own influence within the association.
• Ye Xian returned Ji Jue’s repaired Soul Calling Bell and asked him to demonstrate his Spirit Essence Refinement.
• Ji Jue summoned the mutated physician spirit and sent it to attack Ye Xian, but it could not break through her defenses.
• Ye Xian used a drop of Mercury to draw in and seal the physician spirit, and Ji Jue exclaimed that the bead looked like a Poké Ball and asked whether it was Fluid Alchemy.

Ye Xian taught Ji Jue how to use hardened mercury to contain spirit essence, then gave him a nominal post at Coast Automobile Factory that granted access to military equipment and blueprints. She also assigned him to a dangerous expedition to Quancheng, while a call from Yan Xueqian revealed that Ji Jue's actions had caused another small shift from Evil Folly toward Superior Virtue.

• Ye Xian showed Ji Jue how to harden mercury into a vessel for containing spirit essence and told him to study the technique.
• Ye Xian gave Ji Jue identification and employee documents naming him deputy director at Coast Automobile Factory, whose military qualification allowed him to carry weapon prototypes and access lower-class military blueprints.
• Ye Xian told Ji Jue that he would accompany her to Quancheng in seven days to help rebuild fortifications and reinforce the seal around Evil Folly.
• Ji Jue called Lu Feng to recruit him and Laila for a job, then set off with Little Cow and Horse to upgrade the vehicle's armor and equipment.
• Yan Xueqian told Ye Xian that tests showed a fourth Virtuous Karma Transformation, with Superior Virtue strengthening slightly and Evil Folly weakening after the Time Ruins incident.
• Ye Xian refused to tell Ji Jue about his role in the change and ended the call, privately wondering whether being his teacher had always been this exhausting.

Ji Jue joined the military convoy heading into the wilderness with his teacher, Ye Xian, and his heavily modified, unusually sentient vehicle, Little Cow and Horse. After the convoy set out, an explosion, gunfire, and a terrible scream signaled that disaster had struck.

• Ji Jue arrived at Yacheng Garrison Base and reunited with Little An, Tong Hua, Wen Wen, and Lao Zhang, who wished him a safe trip.
• Ji Jue showed off Little Cow and Horse, an armored vehicle he had modified from a small scooter, and Wen Wen and Tong Hua reacted with disbelief.
• Ji Jue met Ye Xian at the assembly point, where she questioned the explosive supplies and dubious equipment packed into his vehicle.
• Ye Xian left in a luxurious RV, while Ji Jue followed the convoy in Little Cow and Horse and soothed its jealousy of the RV.
• A disaster warning sounded as the convoy traveled through the wilderness, and Ji Jue saw smoke rise from the mountains as gunfire and a piercing scream followed.