Chapter Summaries

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.

Fu Qian agreed to help Shang Shiming with a ritual in exchange for a reward, while Li Min asked to observe it and hoped to learn about rituals tied to the Manipulation System. The group planned to destroy a remote ancient structure after daybreak.

• Shang Shiming offered Fu Qian a reward to help with a simple ritual, and Roland vouched for him.
• Li Min asked whether the gathering knew of a ritual related to the Manipulation System, but Roland said none was currently available.
• Li Min asked to observe Shang Shiming's ritual, and Fu Qian agreed to include her and Rachel.
• After the gathering ended, Shang Shiming explained that the ritual required destroying a structure over five hundred years old and that he needed Fu Qian's strength.
• Shang Shiming, Fu Qian, Li Min, and Rachel agreed to begin the ritual after daybreak.

Fu Qian questioned Shang Shiming about how people discovered supernatural rituals, then joined the group at an old bell tower that Shang Shiming planned to destroy for Li Min’s ritual. They prepared to sneak inside and wait for a thunderstorm, but the tower’s stability and the plan’s risks remained in question.

• Fu Qian asked how the others learned about rituals, and Shang Shiming explained that revelations usually appeared in people’s minds and were difficult to interpret.
• Shang Shiming suggested Roland had planted Fu Qian’s ritual revelation, while Fu Qian suspected the newcomers had been set up at the gathering.
• Shang Shiming led Fu Qian, Li Min, and Rachel to a fifty-meter bell tower he had chosen as the target for their plan.
• Shang Shiming explained that the tower had been closed to visitors and that a coming thunderstorm would help mask the noise of its collapse.
• Li Min offered to help bring down the tower, but Shang Shiming said the group only needed to damage a critical point in its stable structure.

Fu Qian and Shang Shiming attempted to bring down the stone tower during a storm, but a strange mist disrupted their movements and Shang Shiming’s ability. The tower seemed to have come alive, and Li Min urged everyone to run.

• Fu Qian, Li Min, Rachel, and Shang Shiming waited inside the church’s stone tower for a storm to begin.
• After thunder sounded, Shang Shiming used his ability to weaken the tower while Fu Qian and the others waited.
• Shang Shiming signaled Fu Qian to prepare to break a cracked load-bearing wall on the ground floor.
• A strange mist made movement feel sluggish, and Fu Qian’s punch struck the wall without force.
• Shang Shiming realized the tower was canceling his ability, and Li Min shouted for everyone to run.

A sudden frost attack trapped Li Min, Rachel, Shang Shiming, and Fu Qian inside the stone tower, forcing the first three to escape while Fu Qian remained behind. After the tower collapsed and Fu Qian emerged, Shang Shiming received a strange red-and-black nail from his body and pressed it into his hand.

• Li Min sensed danger as mist rapidly froze the tower, and she used scorching beams to melt a path through the crystalline spikes blocking the exit.
• Shang Shiming, Rachel, and the exhausted Li Min escaped the tower but realized Fu Qian had not come out.
• Li Min said the frost did not seem to come from the tower, while Shang Shiming noted that no other transcendent beings had been nearby.
• As Shang Shiming prepared to attempt a rescue, the stone tower collapsed, forcing the three of them to scatter.
• Fu Qian emerged from the ruins enlarged and covered in fur and bone spurs, while Shang Shiming's wrist opened and produced a red-and-black nail.
• Shang Shiming picked up the nail and pressed it into the back of his hand.

Shang Shiming used the ritual’s spike to gain a burst of physical strength, and he explained to Fu Qian how true revelation determined who could complete a ritual and receive its reward. After Fu Qian and Li Min declined his invitation, Li Min wondered why Fu Qian seemed familiar, while Fu Qian headed into the rain to meet a cloaked figure he had known was nearby.

• Shang Shiming drove the spike through his palm and used his transformed body to smash stone slabs before Li Min urged the group to flee the noise.
• After they escaped, Shang Shiming thanked Fu Qian and Li Min, and Fu Qian demanded the promised payment.
• Shang Shiming explained that only someone who possessed the ritual’s true revelation could complete it and receive its reward, and that Roland had conveyed the revelation to Fu Qian.
• Fu Qian and Li Min declined Shang Shiming’s invitation to rest at his home, and Li Min told Rachel that Fu Qian seemed familiar.
• Fu Qian walked through the rain to meet a cloaked figure, knowing the figure had been hiding nearby during the incident with the white frost.