Chapter Summaries

Fang Qingyu fought off He Manhe’s attack, and the Divine Management Bureau identified her as a suspected follower of Wu Tong Shen. He returned to training, unlocked Thunder Swift Cloud Steps, helped Qi Hao join the training sessions, and received an invitation from Old Jiao to meet at the chamber of commerce headquarters.

• Fang Qingyu killed He Manhe’s puppet and the Le You Merchant Guild man who attacked him, then burned the puppet’s head when another He Manhe appeared and tried to recruit him.
• Fang Qingyu called Lin Kang, and Duan Ling arrived with Divine Management Bureau personnel to secure the wrecked home and move him to the dormitory.
• Duan Ling told Fang Qingyu that He Manhe was suspected of serving Wu Tong Shen and that the other attacker had been refined into her puppet; she also gave him a special force-field device.
• Fang Qingyu trained Thunder Swift Cloud Steps and activated the advancement skill, leaving hard qigong and Baji Quan as his remaining goals.
• Fang Qingyu brought Qi Hao to the Divine Management Bureau headquarters, where coaches agreed to guide him, then accepted Old Jiao’s invitation to meet at the chamber of commerce headquarters.

Fang Qingyu agreed to take bounty missions through the Zishi Merchant Guild after learning its app allowed anonymous work and offered cultivation resources. He joined Xiao Yunliang, Old Jiao, and Lu Chen to corner wanted Martial Practitioner Zhou Minghuan, but discovered Zhou's three card-playing companions were martial artists too and prepared to face them himself.

• Xiao Yunliang explained that the Zishi Merchant Guild arranged bounty missions and showed Fang Qingyu its anonymous app and reward system.
• Fang Qingyu accepted a mission to hunt Zhou Minghuan, a wanted Transcendent Martial Practitioner with an eighty-million bounty.
• Fang Qingyu reviewed Zhou Minghuan's wanted file, which detailed his crimes, fighting methods, and identifying traits.
• Fang Qingyu met Xiao Yunliang, Old Jiao, and Lu Chen at a rainy dock, where they waited for Zhou Minghuan to leave a warehouse.
• Xiao Yunliang activated a force field around Zhou Minghuan, but Fang Qingyu spotted that Zhou's three companions were martial artists and ordered Old Jiao and Lu Chen to hide while he confronted them.

Fang Qingyu killed four wanted criminals, collected their bounties, and advanced Eternal Night Blazing Armor to Level 2 with Meditation Flowers. When he visited Lin Wanqing, he discovered that she had become an Otherworldly Painter connected to the Assembly of Gods, and their confrontation began.

• Fang Qingyu killed three wanted criminals with one sword strike and beheaded Zhou Minghuan after he tried to surrender.
• Old Jiao altered the recorder, and the group confirmed the four dead men were wanted criminals; Fang Qingyu received 150 million and 63 bounty points.
• Fang Qingyu returned to the Divine Management Bureau and encouraged Old Jiao and Lu Chen to keep pursuing martial arts.
• After three days, Fang Qingyu used a Meditation Flower to raise Eternal Night Blazing Armor to Level 2, then went to visit Lin Wanqing.
• Fang Qingyu found Lin Wanqing's title had changed to Otherworldly Painter and learned she believed the gods were real and wanted him to become a vessel.
• Lin Wanqing's painting attacked Fang Qingyu with tar tentacles, but his flames destroyed them as he drew Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity and prepared to fight.

Fang Qingyu fought the Otherworldly Painter’s Painting Nightmares inside her World within the painting, then unleashed Eternal Night and overwhelmed her powers. He left her alive and demanded that she tell him everything about the Assembly of Gods.

• The Otherworldly Painter trapped Fang Qingyu in her World within the painting, where dozens of Painting Nightmares attacked him.
• Fang Qingyu slaughtered the Painting Nightmares with Dragon Sparrow, Crimson Gold Flowing Fire, and Thunder Swift Cloud Steps.
• The silver-haired woman restored the Painting Nightmares and sent another wave of painted thorn spears at Fang Qingyu.
• Fang Qingyu erased the world’s colors with absolute darkness and transformed through Eternal Night: Blazing Attire.
• The woman’s painted meteors and brush were devoured by darkness, and Fang Qingyu subdued her as she begged to repent.
• Fang Qingyu asked the woman to tell him everything about the Assembly of Gods.

Fang Qingyu killed Zeng Jing, a Pilgrimage Agent of the Assembly of Gods, and learned that hunting the cult’s believers could earn him skill points. After strengthening his Nine Heavens Primordial Contemplation Method, he went out at night to hunt the Assembly and captured Wang Defa, who offered information in exchange for his life.

• Fang Qingyu confirmed that Zeng Jing was dead, while Duan Ling and Qu Zhe arrived and learned he had killed a Pilgrimage Agent without injury.
• Duan Ling ordered Fang Qingyu to rest at the Divine Management Bureau and announced plans for a major operation; Fang Qingyu agreed, then discovered that killing Zeng Jing had earned him two skill points.
• Fang Qingyu spent the skill points on the Nine Heavens Primordial Contemplation Method, raising it to Lv. 2 and strengthening his Azure Dragon and White Tiger powers.
• Fang Qingyu left the Bureau at three in the morning and confronted Wang Defa in a presidential suite, where Wang offered money and information about the Assembly of Gods to survive.
• Fang Qingyu crushed Wang’s satellite phone, killed him, and left the building amid black flames to continue hunting the Assembly of Gods.

Fang Qingyu entered the Innate Martial Demonstration Wall and mastered Thunder Strike Eight Slashes, then learned that the wall had been created by humanity’s thirteenth Martial God, Jiang Shang. Lin Kang prepared him to begin duty with Qu Zhe the next day.

• Duan Ling told the Divine Management Bureau team to investigate whether the burned Heretical Cultists belonged to the Assembly of Gods and to protect Fang Qingyu more closely.
• Qu Zhe accompanied Fang Qingyu to train until Lin Kang arrived and summoned him.
• Lin Kang asked Fang Qingyu about killing a Pilgrimage Agent, then told him to start duty with Qu Zhe and practice Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity’s techniques.
• Lin Kang brought Fang Qingyu to the military camp’s Innate Martial Demonstration Wall and told him to focus on Thunder Strike Eight Slashes.
• The wall’s ancient martial intent guided Fang Qingyu through the technique, raising it to Lv.3 and bringing it to mastery.
• Fang Qingyu signed a confidentiality agreement, and Lin Kang revealed that Jiang Shang, humanity’s thirteenth Martial God, had made the wall.

Fang Qingyu advanced his Crimson Bright Nine Revolutions Tribulation Jade Scripture and joined Third Squad of Dragon Ridge Camp. He and Qu Zhe responded to a Fetal Fiend Grade Life Spirit at a maternity hospital, where the creature appeared as the Navel of the Pus Abyss.

• Fang Qingyu reviewed his ways to earn rewards, spent two skill points on his scripture, and reached Crimson Bright First Revolution: Blood Burning, minor mastery.
• Duan Ling welcomed Fang Qingyu to Third Squad, where he met its members and learned he would temporarily be assigned to Qu Zhe's squad.
• Qu Zhe and Fang Qingyu received an emergency alert about a Fetal Fiend Grade Life Spirit at the Maternity and Child Health Hospital and rushed to the scene.
• Qu Zhe warned Fang Qingyu about the creature's tenacity, spread his ghostly field, and attacked as a cyst emerged from the air.
• The Life Spirit transformed the ground into a corrosive mire and revealed a grotesque body with a huge umbilical cord and three tumor-headed appendages named Navel of the Pus Abyss.

Fang Qingyu and Qu Zhe defeated the composite life spirit Navel of the Pus Abyss, and Fang Qingyu recorded it and received its life orb. After the mission, Qu Zhe explained how official combat personnel profited from life ghost corpses and warned Fang Qingyu about the dangerous practice of implanting life ghost materials.

• Qu Zhe warned Fang Qingyu that Navel of the Pus Abyss was a composite life spirit, and the creature attacked them with its umbilical cords and bone defenses.
• Fang Qingyu used Purple Annihilation to wound the life spirit and help Qu Zhe recover from being thrown aside.
• Fang Qingyu and Qu Zhe destroyed two of the creature’s heads, then Fang Qingyu killed the last head and recorded Navel of the Pus Abyss.
• Qu Zhe gave Fang Qingyu the life orb and introduced him to the reserve personnel as the team’s newest official member.
• Qu Zhe explained that official combat personnel could claim half of a life ghost’s corpse and that its materials could be used to modify martial practitioners.
• Qu Zhe warned Fang Qingyu that modified martial practitioners faced great risks and often died young, and Fang Qingyu said he understood.

Fang Qingyu learned corpse-dissection techniques from Yun Jiaojiao and began activating the Life Spirit Executioner profession while his Divine Management Bureau profession also advanced. After reading about a dangerous Life Spirit Nest in Songdu and arranging missions with Qin Hui and Qi Hao, he became the target of a mysterious figure who ordered that he be brought in.

• Qu Zhe advised Fang Qingyu to recruit someone skilled at dismembering Life Spirits, so Fang Qingyu watched Yun Jiaojiao dissect the Navel of the Pus Abyss and began activating the Life Spirit Executioner profession.
• Fang Qingyu studied Life Spirit anatomy at the bureau, gaining profession experience and advancing his Divine Management Bureau Reserve Member progress.
• Fang Qingyu read a forum report about a suspected Molting Grade Life Spirit Nest in Songdu, where three Transcendent Grade combat teams had gone missing, and learned which Life Spirit materials were valuable for trading.
• Fang Qingyu contacted Qin Hui and Qi Hao and arranged to start going on missions with them the next day.
• At the Rui Residence, a mysterious five-headed figure learned that Fang Qingyu had killed a pilgrim without undergoing divine descent and ordered a kneeling man to bring him in.

Fang Qingyu and the team cleared a nightclub of two Fetal Fiend Grade Life Spirits, and his Divine Management Bureau Reserve Member advancement completed. After True Sight Eye leveled up, it revealed Qu Zhe’s long-standing unrequited love for teammate Duan Ling.

• Qin Hui and Qi Hao distracted and evacuated the nightclub crowd while Fang Qingyu activated a force field and prepared to hunt the Life Spirits.
• Fang Qingyu fought and killed a close-combat Life Spirit, then hurried to assist Qu Zhe, who was battling a second one.
• Fang Qingyu finished off Qu Zhe’s Life Spirit, and Qu Zhe demonstrated how the Blood Reversal Scripture healed his severe wounds.
• Fang Qingyu and the others searched the nightclub, confirmed there were only two Life Spirits, and collected their remains before reinforcements arrived.
• Fang Qingyu’s Divine Management Bureau job advanced to Official Member Lv.1, and True Sight Eye reached Lv.2.
• Fang Qingyu used True Sight Eye on Qu Zhe and discovered that Qu Zhe had secretly loved Duan Ling for seven years and eight days.

Fang Qingyu advanced Thunder Strike Eight Slashes and strengthened his Golden Body before his team responded to a reported Life Spirit at a construction site. The alert proved to be a trap, and Fang Qingyu and Qu Zhe faced a god’s incarnation that demanded the god inside Fang Qingyu’s body reveal itself.

• Fang Qingyu spent four skill points to advance Thunder Strike Eight Slashes to Lv.4 and used an Attribute Point to enhance his Golden Body.
• Qu Zhe led Fang Qingyu and the team to investigate a reported Fetal Fiend Grade Life Spirit at the Old City Huai'an Road Third Middle School site.
• Fang Qingyu sensed that something was wrong, and he and Qu Zhe searched the unfinished building before returning to find an unfamiliar figure at the site.
• The figure revealed itself as a god’s incarnation with five grotesque heads, and its horse head tore free and slammed Qu Zhe into the construction building.
• Fang Qingyu prepared to fight as the incarnation’s rat head asked which god was inside his body.

Fang Qingyu fought the Wu Tong Shen’s Rat Head and its other heads, discovering that the severed heads could be reborn on Rat Head’s body. Though Rat Head’s full strength repeatedly battered him, Fang Qingyu endured and intercepted the deity when it tried to leave, ending the chapter with his challenge.

• Fang Qingyu crushed his recorder and attacked Rat Head, then battled the Snake, Pig, and Monkey Heads as they detached from the Wu Tong Shen’s body.
• Fang Qingyu killed the Pig, Snake, and Monkey Heads, but they and the Horse Head reappeared on Rat Head’s body after Qu Zhe also defeated Horse Head.
• Rat Head unleashed its full strength, striking Fang Qingyu through buildings, but Fang Qingyu repeatedly recovered without serious injury.
• Fang Qingyu realized the Wu Tong Shen was heading back toward the place where they had entered and rushed to block its path.
• Fang Qingyu pointed the Dragon Sparrow upward and challenged Rat Head as it halted before him.

Fang Qingyu used the Dragon Sparrow to destroy Wu Tong Shen's Incarnation and helped end the attack at the construction site. After the Divine Management Bureau arrived, he insisted on joining a mission against an Assembly of Gods hideout, and Lin Kang agreed to go with him.

• Fang Qingyu drew heavenly lightning into the Dragon Sparrow and struck Wu Tong Shen's Incarnation, destroying its four evil bodies.
• The rat-headed Incarnation tried to flee, but Fang Qingyu used Blood Burst Open and Thunder Swift Cloud Steps to catch and kill it.
• Lin Kang and the injured Qu Zhe revealed they had watched Fang Qingyu's battle, and Lin Kang advised him to practice with the Dragon Sparrow.
• Duan Ling confirmed that the other attackers had been captured and that Qin and Qi Hao had survived, then told Fang Qingyu to rest.
• Fang Qingyu asked to join a mission targeting an Assembly of Gods hideout, and Lin Kang said he would go with him.

Lin Kang and Dragon Spine Camp investigated an Assembly of Gods stronghold, only to discover the building was a trap filled with Heretical Cultists. Fang Qingyu stayed behind to defend one stairway as the team split under attack.

• Lin Kang accompanied the Third Squad to investigate an office building believed to be an Assembly of Gods hideout.
• The team searched the empty, brightly lit floors while reserve personnel checked the parking garage, where many cars remained.
• Li Hu realized the cultists had deliberately waited for the team, and explosions shook the building.
• Heretical Cultists attacked from both stairways, killing two people near Fang Qingyu and forcing the team to retreat.
• Fang Qingyu sent most of the survivors to defend the other stairway and drew Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity to hold his position.

Fang Qingyu slaughtered the Heretical Cultists below and reached the rooftop, where Lin Kang had been taken away and Li Hu was being prepared for a ritual. As Fang Qingyu faced two God Incarnations alone, Duan Ling arrived by helicopter and leapt into the fight.

• Fang Qingyu blasted open the stairwell entrance, rallied his teammates, and cut down the Heretical Cultists while strengthening his Contemplation Method and Blood Qi Method.
• Lin Kang taunted three God Incarnations on the rooftop and fought them while the old man brought the captured Li Hu to them.
• Lin Kang unleashed his Immovable Wisdom King Technique, but the middle-aged God Incarnation defeated him and carried him off the rooftop.
• The remaining two God Incarnations began a Divine Sacrifice ritual using Li Hu as Fang Qingyu arrived and found himself facing them alone.
• Duan Ling flew in by helicopter and leapt down, furiously announcing her arrival.

Duan Ling led a force from Dragon Spine Camp to surround and defeat the two gods at the Assembly of Gods' headquarters, while Fang Qingyu and the others dealt with the mission's casualties. Back in his dormitory, Fang Qingyu repeatedly tried to advance his job using God Origin, but Candle Dragon rejected each offering and threatened him over the last one.

• Duan Ling revealed her Mystic Comprehension strength and surrounded the two gods with Dragon Spine Camp reinforcements, then ordered them arrested.
• The two gods tried to surrender, but the assembled fighters attacked and killed them, with Fang Qingyu landing the final strikes on both.
• Duan Ling and Fang Qingyu learned that Lin Kang had killed a same-tier God Incarnation, then found him badly injured; they also mourned two dead members of Third Squad.
• Fang Qingyu returned to his dormitory with three strands of God Origin and tried to use them for job advancement, but Candle Dragon rejected the Wu Tong Shen Origin and the next offering.
• When Fang Qingyu tried the final strand, Candle Dragon rose from the river of time, seized the blood-colored Origin, and threatened to stuff the garbage into his mouth if he brought it again.

After defeating the Assembly of Gods’ forces, Fang Qingyu spent his skill points improving his movement and Bloodrage, exchanged merit for the Heaven Drum Thunder Sound Body, and began learning to process life spirit corpses. The chapter left him watching Zou Lingzhu work as his Life Spirit Executioner experience rapidly increased.

• Fang Qingyu upgraded Thunder Swift Cloud Steps to Lv.3 and Bloodrage to Lv.4, then saved his remaining skill points for hard-body training and Baji Quan.
• Fang Qingyu exchanged 800 merit points for the Heaven Drum Thunder Sound Body and ordered the materials required to begin its first stage.
• Fang Qingyu joined Duan Ling and the Third Squad in visiting the families of two fallen colleagues, then saw Team Leader Lin and Li Hu recovering in the hospital.
• Duan Ling granted Fang Qingyu independent law-enforcement authority and introduced him to Zou Lingzhu so he could study life spirit dissection.
• Zou Lingzhu told Fang Qingyu to watch her work, and his Life Spirit Executioner's experience began to rise rapidly.

Fang Qingyu went to help Old Jiao after the Le You Merchant Guild attacked him and his friends, then fought back against the guild members and killed Le Kang after he threatened Fang Qingyu’s life. Xiao Si revealed that the attack was meant to seize territory and recruit Fang Qingyu, leaving Fang Qingyu prepared for the Le You Merchant Guild’s retaliation.

• Old Jiao called Fang Qingyu for help, saying he was being watched and that Xiao Si had been beaten.
• Fang Qingyu arrived at the bar and found Le Kang and his people holding Old Jiao, Xiao Si, Lu Chen, and former colleagues captive.
• After confirming Xiao Si was not a member of the Zishi Merchant Guild, Fang Qingyu announced Le Kang was under arrest and attacked the group.
• Fang Qingyu defeated the two Crimson Name martial artists and subdued the other attackers, then questioned Le Kang.
• Le Kang threatened to kill Fang Qingyu and everyone he knew, so Fang Qingyu recorded the threat and killed him in self-defense.
• Xiao Si told Fang Qingyu that Le Kang had attacked the group to seize territory and make Fang Qingyu join the Le You Merchant Guild.

Fang Qingyu and his team evacuated an orphanage ahead of a Life Spirit’s arrival, only to find Three-Eyed Saliva Ghosts inside. When Fang Qingyu rushed to rescue the Old Dean and Xiao Jiang, he discovered the girl wielding a blazing barrier had a golden-legend reincarnated body.

• Duan Ling confirmed Fang Qingyu had acted in self-defense, and Fang Qingyu took the injured Old Jiao and Lu Chen to the hospital.
• Old Jiao and Lu Chen decided to join Fang Qingyu, and he agreed to have them report for duty the next day.
• Fang Qingyu, Qin Hui, and Qi Hao used a staged fire to evacuate the orphanage before its force field activated.
• Qin Hui learned that the Old Dean and Xiao Jiang were still inside and went back to retrieve them.
• Fang Qingyu found seven Three-Eyed Saliva Ghosts on the third floor and attacked them while Qin Hui entered the room to rescue the pair.
• Fang Qingyu found more ghosts inside and saw Xiao Jiang protecting the Old Dean with a blazing barrier; her status displayed as a golden-legend Nuwa reincarnated body.

Fang Qingyu rescued a mysterious little girl called Nüxi and fought off the Three-Eyed Ghosts drawn to her Drought Qi. He brought her to the Divine Management Bureau, where examiners classified her as a believer of a benevolent fire-element god, leaving her identity unresolved.

• Fang Qingyu killed the Three-Eyed Ghosts inside the building and discovered the little girl claimed Zhu Jiuyin was her elder sister and the Yellow Emperor was her father.
• The girl revealed that her Drought Qi attracted fate ghosts, so Fang Qingyu agreed to protect her in exchange for her help with Zhu Long and carried her outside.
• Fang Qingyu fought waves of Three-Eyed Ghosts while Qin Hui watched, then cleared the restrooms to stop more from appearing.
• Fang Qingyu told Qin Hui he wanted to adopt the girl but agreed she should first be examined by the Divine Management Bureau.
• Duan Ling discussed possible arrangements for the girl, and examiners identified her as a believer of a benevolent fire-element god without naming the god.