Recaps

Fu Qian and Lanaia visited Honma to check his account against Qiao Yanchuan’s, but Honma’s fixation on pleasure through restraint made him difficult to question. Fu Qian ended their talk by forcing Honma’s face into his favorite soup, turning the threat of death and food into the ecstasy Honma claimed to enjoy.

• Lanaia wondered whether Qiao Yanchuan had been truthful, and Fu Qian explained that he planned to question Honma and compare their accounts.
• Fu Qian and Lanaia bypassed Honma’s front door and found him admiring an untouched feast at home.
• Honma described how resisting the desire to eat and suppressing fear of death could bring him pleasure.
• Lanaia grew frustrated when Honma said he could not help them with Jia Yi’s death and invited them to pressure him.
• Fu Qian asked Honma to identify his favorite dish, then plunged Honma’s head into the bowl of soup.

Fu Qian tortured Honma to force him to talk about the masquerade ball, while Lanaia tried to stop him. Honma revealed that Qiao Yanchuan’s new bride was the ball’s most popular woman, and Lanaia connected their marriage to the time Qiao Yanchuan met the Silver Masked Man.

• Fu Qian kept Honma’s head submerged in soup and taunted him about reaching his limit as Lanaia urged him to stop.
• When Lanaia tried to intervene, Fu Qian threatened to snap Honma’s neck, forcing her to back down.
• Fu Qian pulled Honma out and handed him to Lanaia for healing, then gave him thirty seconds to decide what to reveal.
• Honma said he had joined the weekly masquerade ball a month earlier after getting an invitation from Qiao Yanchuan, and that Jia Yi had only been a peripheral attendee.
• Honma revealed that the ball’s most popular woman was Qiao Yanchuan’s new bride, whom he married about four months earlier.
• Lanaia recognized that the marriage took place around the time Qiao Yanchuan met the Silver Masked Man.

Fu Qian questioned Honma about his uncontrollable ecstasy, then confronted Old Master Qiao about the silver-masked man called Ian. Qiao revealed his self-inflicted scars and spoke of pleasure and desire, while Lanaia recognized Ian as a gifted academy mentor.

• Fu Qian questioned Honma about losing control to pleasure and concluded that his living desire had overwhelmed him.
• Fu Qian and Lanaia returned to Old Master Qiao, who admitted that the silver-masked man had arranged his marriage and that Lily had called him Ian.
• Lanaia identified Ian as a talented mentor at the academy's Spirit Ash Institute and promised to report him.
• Qiao Yanchuan admitted that Ian resembled the man in photos he had investigated.
• Fu Qian tore Old Master Qiao's robe with Tyrant's Fist, exposing self-inflicted scars and carved patterns across his body.
• Old Master Qiao described pleasure as a fruit of the human heart and said the mind, not the body, was the source of desire.

Fu Qian and Lanaia tracked Professor Ian to a hidden laboratory beneath Spirit Ash, where a monstrous tree held academy staff and students in a state of frenzied lust. Ian revealed that he had become a demigod, leaving Lanaia and Fu Qian facing the horrifying source of the corruption.

• After seeing Old Master Qiao's corrupted state, Fu Qian decided to visit Professor Ian, and Lanaia followed him to keep him in sight.
• As they traveled, Lanaia explained that Ian was a fourth-rank Spirit Ash instructor once considered a leading candidate to become a demigod.
• When they reached Spirit Ash, Lanaia realized Fu Qian had vanished and pursued a disturbance underground.
• Lanaia found an underground laboratory where a towering pink-white tree held academy staff and students as they writhed in lustful madness.
• Fu Qian stood beneath the tree beside Ian, who claimed he was a new and true demigod.

Ian revealed that he had killed Jia Yi to keep Fu Qian from interfering with his experiments, which he believed had uncovered a new path to demigodhood through the human desire he called Ecstasy. He left Lanaia and Fu Qian facing the disturbing truth that the person transformed in the room was someone he loved.

• Lanaia demanded an explanation from Ian, who called his experiments a major breakthrough and identified Ecstasy as a new resource for reaching demigodhood.
• Ian recognized Fu Qian as a demigod, and Lanaia was stunned to learn Fu Qian had ascended as well.
• Ian admitted he had killed Jia Yi and arranged for Lanaia to keep Fu Qian occupied while his work continued.
• Ian explained that his experiments had made desire into an independent entity called Ecstasy, which could arise in ordinary people as well as extraordinary ones.
• Ian said he had treated people as resources for his demigod ritual, then revealed that the transformed person before them was the one he loved.

Ian explained how he cultivated and transferred ecstasy through Lily to fuel his transformation, while Lanaia attacked him and Fu Qian rejected his plan. Fu Qian shot Ian’s head off, but Ian’s body began swelling and something emerged from his neck.

• Ian explained that ecstasy grew by consuming a person’s cognition and could transfer to another host when its current host died.
• Ian revealed that he had made himself and Lily fall in love, then arranged for her to attract others at the masquerade so the ecstasy would gather inside him.
• Lanaia attacked Ian, but a surge of lewd thoughts disrupted her and let him evade her strike.
• Fu Qian acknowledged the ritual’s significance, then raised his hand and blasted Ian’s head apart with an Air Bullet.
• Fu Qian warned Lanaia that Ian was not dead as his body swelled and a thick, layered length of flesh emerged from his neck.

Fu Qian and Lanaia confronted Ian after he transformed into a Mythical Form that intensified desire and caused nearby people to mutate. Ian claimed his new form was a superior, stable state, and Fu Qian attacked him directly.

• Ian's severed neck extended into a grotesque, human-shaped Mythical Form, triggering violent desire and mutations among the people in the room.
• Fu Qian identified the creature as a Mythical Form and warned Lanaia that prolonged exposure could cause strange growths.
• Lanaia covered herself in dark golden light and pierced Ian's chest, tearing open the layered tissue.
• Fu Qian slapped Lanaia's head aside when she stared at the wound, while Ian declared his transformation a higher form of life and thanked Fu Qian for removing his burden.
• Fu Qian used tentacles to pierce the heads of the people closing in on him, then dismissed Ian's claim that desire would make him eternal.
• Fu Qian rushed to Ian and thrust his hand into the wound Lanaia had made.

Fu Qian destroyed Ian’s Mythical Form, then killed Lanaia after using her to test Unclean Ecstasy. Ian’s lingering consciousness claimed to be immortal, but Fu Qian used Transcendence against him and heard Ian’s voice again when his senses returned.

• Fu Qian and Lanaia pulverized Ian’s remains until nothing could move, after Lanaia killed Lily and Ian claimed Lily would live on in his memories.
• Lanaia approached Fu Qian to discuss reporting the incident, but Fu Qian killed her with a full-force attack after she was affected by Unclean Ecstasy.
• Fu Qian found that Ian’s consciousness still remained and listened as Ian claimed desire made him immortal.
• Fu Qian used Transcendence on Ian, then heard Ian’s voice behind him again when his senses returned.

Fu Qian set out to kill Ian before the demigod could become immortal, escaping the dance and heading toward the academy. On the way, he encountered Ji Liushuang, then continued toward his target.

• Fu Qian revealed that Lily had mistaken him for someone else, then used Law Remnants to daze the guests after she exposed his lack of an invitation.
• Fu Qian defeated two supernatural bodyguards, took a motorcycle, and left its rider and passenger bound together with handcuffs made from rebar.
• Near the academy, Fu Qian abandoned the motorcycle and encountered Ji Liushuang, who said she had come out for a walk.
• Fu Qian told Ji Liushuang he was going to kill someone, then teased her by saying she took after her Mom and disappeared.

Fu Qian broke into the academy laboratory and killed Professor Ian, who had nearly reached demigodhood and wielded a desire-amplifying technique. After the containment task was completed, Fu Qian examined the lingering substance on his hands and reflected that Ian was the second academy demigod-level opponent he had killed.

• Fu Qian entered the academy laboratory at night and struck down the guard blocking the way.
• Fu Qian wounded Ian with Air Bullets, but Ian regenerated his arm with yellow-green filaments.
• Ian attacked Fu Qian and revealed that his Mythical Form technique amplified desire, but Fu Qian pierced his torso and resisted the effect.
• Fu Qian crushed Ian with tendrils, killing him despite Ian's offer to share useful information.
• The system reported the containment of No. 2-095 as unsuccessful, and Fu Qian examined the desire-stirring substance left on his hands.

After completing the mission and receiving the Carnival of Evil Desire, Fu Qian crushed it in the Warehouse to glimpse the god behind the Seeds of Ecstasy. The Warehouse filtered the vision’s effects, and the experience enhanced his Internal Organ Critical Hit before the chapter ended with the author’s posting note.

• Fu Qian killed another Academy genius and returned to the Warehouse after sensing people approaching the ruined room.
• Fu Qian received the Carnival of Evil Desire as a mission reward and learned it could let him gaze upon a god if crushed.
• Fu Qian crushed the skull in the Warehouse and connected his consciousness to a vast being covered in evolved Seeds of Ecstasy.
• Fu Qian severed the connection after the chaotic emotions surged into his consciousness, then coughed up bloody flesh.
• Fu Qian received a notification that Internal Organ Critical Hit could now damage a target’s interior and conceptual categories.

Fu Qian gained a powerful upgrade to Internal Organ Critical Hit after his latest mission, then met Jiang Yuanliang to reject a renewed offer to join his game development team. He ran into Tan Ying at the café, where she asked him for help with a newly opened haunted house.

• Fu Qian realized Internal Organ Critical Hit could now harm any form of existence, though he could not test the ability yet.
• Fu Qian met Jiang Yuanliang and firmly turned down his invitation to join the game development team.
• Jiang Yuanliang accepted Fu Qian's refusal and said Fu Qian could contact him if he changed his mind.
• Tan Ying and her companion arrived at the café and asked Fu Qian, as a professional safety consultant, for help with a nearby haunted house.

Fu Qian reluctantly joined Tan Ying and their companions at a renowned haunted house after nudging events to assemble a group of six. The group entered while Fu Qian stayed behind to chat with the owner, until Tan Ying's scream interrupted them.

• Fu Qian refused Tan Ying's invitation, but she coaxed him into going to the haunted house with her classmates.
• Qin Mingze accepted Fu Qian's invitation and joined the group at the venue.
• Pei Yanqing and He Xian arrived, and Tan Ying's group grew to six after Jiang Yuanliang agreed to enter.
• Fu Qian revealed that he had subtly influenced events to gather the group and learned from the owner that only some props had been blessed.
• Tan Ying screamed from inside the haunted house while Fu Qian was talking with the owner.

Fu Qian investigated after Tan Ying and the others saw their faces appear as monstrous students in an old photograph reflected in a mirror. He arrived to find the image normal for him, but Tan Ying noticed that Fu Qian himself had no reflection.

• Tan Ying saw her face appear on a student in the mirror's reflection and told the others.
• Qin Mingze, Pei Yanqing, He Xian, and the others saw their own faces among the monstrous students in the photograph.
• Jiang Yuanliang wondered if it was too much of a coincidence that they had all come there together, and Pei Yanqing confirmed that the mirror reflected the covered photograph.
• Qin Mingze tried the exit, but the door would not open until Fu Qian pulled it open from outside.
• Fu Qian entered and saw a normal reflection, while the others felt relieved and urged everyone to leave.
• Tan Ying noticed that Fu Qian had no face in the mirror, and he answered her with a sinister chuckle.

Fu Qian explained that the old photograph was showing an illusion, but Tan Ying tested his theory and found that he still did not appear in it. Fu Qian then frightened the group by suggesting Qin Mingze had become like him, leaving them screaming in the room.

• Tan Ying noticed Fu Qian’s face was missing from the photograph, and the group questioned whether he was human or a ghost.
• Fu Qian argued that the photograph was an illusion and suggested it could only show six people at a time.
• Jiang Yuanliang proposed that everyone leave, but Tan Ying asked Qin Mingze to hide and brought Fu Qian to the mirror to test the theory.
• Qin Mingze’s face vanished from the photograph, but Fu Qian still did not appear, and the group noticed there was one fewer person in the picture.
• Fu Qian claimed Qin Mingze had become just like him and made a sinister face, prompting Tan Ying to scream.

Fu Qian took a haunted mirror from a shop after frightening Tan Ying and convincing the owner he had dispelled the evil inside. Back home, he examined the mirror and considered who had made it, while suspecting that the people invited to the job before him could reveal more about the supernatural objects.

• Fu Qian startled Tan Ying and the others by claiming his manly constitution made him immune to the mirror's yin energy, then picked up the mirror and said he would free its spirit.
• Fu Qian told the bald shop owner he had vanquished the evil in the shop, and the owner thanked him before Fu Qian carried the mirror away.
• Qin Mingze asked Fu Qian how he knew the shop owner, while Tan Ying remained furious and Jiang Yuanliang vowed not to return to Lin City.
• Fu Qian returned home, studied the mirror and a photo, and wondered who had deliberately made the supernatural objects.
• Fu Qian recalled the job offer and reasoned that learning what had happened to earlier invitees could help him understand the dangers.

Fu Qian entered the containment scene for Artificial Eye and was arrested by police investigating an abnormal death, where he met the mysterious Li Min. After their police car stopped and the officers collapsed, a heavily made-up face appeared at the open door.

• Fu Qian brought the mirror and photograph from the haunted house into the Warehouse, where they were cleansed and stored.
• Fu Qian received the assignment to recontain Artificial Eye and entered its containment scene as a business traveler in an unfamiliar city.
• Two police officers questioned Fu Qian about his identification and an abnormal death, then arrested him after he agreed to go with them.
• In the police car, Fu Qian met Li Min, who had also been arrested as a suspect, and suspected she was a Transcendent.
• The car lurched to a stop, both officers slumped forward, and a heavily made-up face appeared at the open rear door.

Fu Qian endured Rachel’s psychic attack, frightened her in return, and let her and Li Min leave after Li Min apologized. His mission then updated, telling him to deliver documents to Xinji Freight Company before midnight, leaving him wondering whether he would have to act like a genuine business traveler.

• Rachel arrived to rescue Li Min, then grew suspicious of Fu Qian when she learned he had survived the incident.
• Rachel struck Fu Qian with a focused psychic shock, but it had no effect on him.
• Fu Qian locked his presence onto Rachel and filled her with fear, prompting Li Min to step between them and apologize.
• Fu Qian accepted that he and Rachel were even, then let her and Li Min go.
• Fu Qian’s mission updated with an order to deliver documents to Xinji Freight Company before midnight.

Fu Qian left the police car and rode a bus toward Xinji Freight Company to complete his mission. When a couple’s violent ritual escalated and the driver joined in, Fu Qian stomped through the bus, splitting it in two.

• Rachel asked Li Min about the dangerous man, and Li Min warned her not to provoke him before inviting her to stay for about a month.
• Fu Qian took back his bag, found a sealed dossier addressed to Xinji Freight Company, and used a map to locate his destination.
• Fu Qian boarded a quiet night bus and watched a man repeatedly slap his girlfriend while the passengers panicked.
• After the man counted to one hundred, the driver picked up a fire extinguisher and attacked the couple, and Fu Qian stomped down, splitting the bus in two.

Fu Qian survived a bus disaster caused by supernatural forces and reached the hidden office where he was supposed to deliver a file. He discovered the workers were acting strangely and confronted their leader, who claimed they had no company name, leaving Fu Qian with only minutes to complete his task.

• Fu Qian watched the bus split apart and a lightning bolt destroy its front half, then slipped away before the police arrived.
• Fu Qian followed the address to a hidden office, where a vacant receptionist ignored him and displayed a NO SOLICITING sign.
• Fu Qian entered the office and offered a file to a middle-aged man, but the man refused to accept it and warned him to leave.
• The middle-aged man used a thin disc to unleash a powerful force against Fu Qian, but Fu Qian remained unaffected as the other workers ignored the confrontation.
• Fu Qian grabbed the fleeing man with an enormous claw and demanded that he accept the file; the man said they were not Xinji Freight Company and had no names.
• With only minutes remaining, Fu Qian decided to give them a company name and pressed the man to accept the file.

Fu Qian forced Che Shunyong to accept the documents, triggering a mission to find and eliminate the Inner Eye, then questioned him about the people he controlled. At midnight, Che Shunyong transformed into a beast and attacked; Fu Qian killed him and then disguised himself as Che Shunyong.

• Fu Qian handed Che Shunyong the documents, and his mission changed to finding and eliminating the Inner Eye.
• Fu Qian learned that Che Shunyong had used a thin sheet to control the office workers and make them act like empty puppets.
• At midnight, Che Shunyong began sprouting black fur and transformed into a huge beast, claiming he had planned to crush Fu Qian.
• Che Shunyong charged at Fu Qian, who killed him with an Air Bullet.
• Fu Qian considered the ritual and its possible connection to the Inner Eye, then changed his appearance to look like Che Shunyong.

Fu Qian disguised himself as Che Shunyong and waited for the person behind the strange rituals to make contact. Roland found him at a midnight restaurant, demonstrated his control over gravity, and revealed that Che’s visions and newfound power had come from Roland’s memories.

• Fu Qian searched Che Shunyong’s office for clues, found only meaningless props, and left disguised as Che.
• At a midnight restaurant, an unseen force increased gravity around Fu Qian and pinned him down while water formed the pattern of the thin sheet.
• A tall man named Roland entered, released the pressure with a ring, and invited Fu Qian to talk.
• Fu Qian introduced himself as Che Shunyong and asked whether Roland had been watching him.
• Roland described Che’s strange visions and new gift, prompting Fu Qian to accuse him of reading other people’s memories.
• Roland laughed and said the memories had originally belonged to him.

Fu Qian learned that Roland had secretly influenced Che Shunyong and invited him to meet a group of unusual people. After Roland arranged for the old office building case to be covered up, Fu Qian prepared to attend the gathering and search for the Inner Eye.

• Fu Qian confirmed Roland had guided Che Shunyong through psychological suggestions and learned that Roland considered him an unusually successful test subject.
• Roland invited Fu Qian to meet his friends at a gathering that night and left him a card with the time and place.
• Fu Qian pretended to consider the invitation before accepting it, and concluded that the gathering might help him find the Inner Eye.
• Fu Qian read a report blaming the old office building deaths on the landlord, who had died by suicide, and realized Roland had quietly resolved the case.
• After reviewing local paranormal reports, Fu Qian recognized that the Transcendent community in the historic district was unusually active.

Fu Qian attended an extraordinary gathering that Roland described as an academic exchange, where he met Li Min and Rachel and watched members trade unusual items. After the trading ended, Roland announced that he had discovered a ritual that might work.

• Fu Qian arrived at the hillside courtyard and was respectfully admitted after showing his invitation.
• Roland explained that the gathering let extraordinary beings trade items and share knowledge about cultivation.
• Li Min arrived with Rachel, and Roland introduced both her and Fu Qian to the attendees as new members.
• Fu Qian assessed the assembled extraordinary beings and found nothing among their traded goods that interested him.
• Roland ended the trading session and announced that he had discovered a ritual that might work.

Fu Qian revealed that his ritual had granted him a powerful transformation that enhanced his physical strength, surprising the group. As the gathering fell quiet, someone invited him to help with another ritual.

• Roland explained that Che Shunyong’s ritual involved draining and later transfusing more than half his blood in freezing conditions, which could boost vitality and allow healing by eating fresh flesh.
• The group discussed other rituals and their risks while Fu Qian listened and learned about their unusual effects.
• When a young man asked about his boon, Fu Qian said he had removed his own kidney.
• Fu Qian transformed into a towering, fur-covered beast and demonstrated his strength by crushing the floor and stopping a punch just short of the young man’s face.
• A group member invited Fu Qian to help with a ritual.