Chapter Summaries

Fu Qian cooperated when Tan Mingxue took him to Night Watchers headquarters to question him about the Transcendent who died during the attack on Wen Li. After Qi Xue cleared him to leave, Fu Qian asked how many people at headquarters could fight as well as Qi Xue and Tan Mingxue.

• Tan Mingxue accused Fu Qian of killing a Transcendent and insisted he come with her, while Wen Li defended him.
• Fu Qian chose to cooperate and followed Tan Mingxue to Night Watchers headquarters, where he noticed Mr. Ji but not Young Master Ye.
• Tan Mingxue questioned Fu Qian about his unregistered status, strength, and role as a bodyguard, but he brushed off her questions.
• Qi Xue took over the questioning, accepted Fu Qian's explanations, and let him go.
• Fu Qian asked Qi Xue and Tan Mingxue how many people at headquarters were as good at fighting as they were.

Fu Qian learned that the Night Watchers had shifted their attention on Wen Li to “Observe and Wait” because of her unusual psychic abilities, then returned to the Wen Family mansion and asked when she might advance. Wen Xiuxian came home early after things went badly, and Fu Qian noticed Wen Li’s expression change before kicking her flying again.

• Fu Qian questioned Qi Xue and learned that the Night Watchers had few high-level members and that Wen Li’s file had been changed to “Observe and Wait.”
• Qi Xue explained that the Night Watchers had once planned to guide Wen Li because her rare psychic ability showed promise, but now they had been told not to interfere.
• Fu Qian returned to the Wen Family mansion, reassured Wen Li, and asked when she expected to advance to the Sixth Order.
• Wen Li said she felt close to a breakthrough but could not predict when it would happen.
• Wen Xiuxian returned early after things went badly, and Fu Qian noticed Wen Li frown at him before kicking her flying.

Fu Qian protected Wen Li from a disguised assassin, but Wen Li’s mental collapse caused the containment mission to fail. He restarted the scenario in Shura Mode and returned to the Wen Family mansion.

• Fu Qian shielded Wen Li from Wen Xiuxian’s explosive death and tracked the disguised assassin outside.
• Fu Qian killed the assassin, completed one-third of his Thug assimilation, and rapidly healed from his injuries.
• Wen Li found her father’s damaged watch and suffered a mental collapse, causing containment to fail.
• Fu Qian reviewed the failed mission and decided to try again in Shura Mode.
• Fu Qian reappeared at the Wen Family mansion as Captain Gu told him to stop looking around.

Fu Qian rescued Wen Li and forced her into the Wen Family safe room while fighting off Young Master Ye and Mr. Ji. He left her with one day to break through to the sixth rank before he would throw her outside.

• Fu Qian smashed a stone pillar with one punch and ordered Wen Xiuxian to take him to the safe room.
• Fu Qian kicked Wen Li into the safe room and sealed the door, ignoring Young Master Ye’s objections.
• Mr. Ji intercepted Fu Qian and was sent flying, while Fu Qian slapped Young Master Ye and forced him back.
• Mr. Ji told Young Master Ye to summon the Night Watchers as the safe room door closed.
• Fu Qian told Wen Li she had one day to reach the sixth rank or he would throw her outside.

Fu Qian forced Wen Li to cultivate in a secure room while he watched over her, but a Night Watcher soon attacked him. He recognized Team Leader Tan and prepared to fight as Wen Li's training stalled.

• Fu Qian threatened Wen Li into spending the next 24 hours advancing her cultivation, and she reluctantly began meditating.
• Fu Qian detected nearly invisible strands targeting him, broke them, and pulled Tan Mingxue from the ventilation duct.
• Fu Qian taunted Tan Mingxue about her shortened hair and refused to answer her questions or surrender.
• Tan Mingxue turned her hair into razor-sharp filaments and filled the room with them as Fu Qian prepared to fight and urged Wen Li to focus.

Fu Qian fought Tan Mingxue while protecting Wen Li, then exposed the supposed rescuer as the assassin who had targeted her. The assassin identified himself as Shadow Nightmare and warned Fu Qian not to attack rashly.

• Fu Qian shattered Tan Mingxue's hair with a metal tabletop and wounded her with an Air Bullet.
• Qi Xue rushed toward Wen Li, but Fu Qian stopped him and warned Wen Li to look closely.
• Wen Li realized that Qi Xue was an impostor, and the disguised man revealed his true appearance.
• Fu Qian recognized the assassin as the man who had controlled Wen Xiuxian and asked his name.
• The assassin called himself Shadow Nightmare, admitted he took paid jobs, and tore off his shirt as he warned Fu Qian not to act rashly.

Fu Qian confronted Shadow Nightmare after the assassin revealed that he had infected himself with highly contagious Scarlet Fever. Shadow Nightmare threatened to kill Wen Li or spread the disease, but Fu Qian seized him anyway and challenged Wen Li to face what she felt about death.

• Shadow Nightmare revealed the red vein-like marks of Scarlet Fever, and Tan Mingxue warned that killing him could infect everyone in the room.
• Tan Mingxue explained that Scarlet Fever increased combat ability but would eventually erupt, while Shadow Nightmare claimed Wen Li would die regardless of Fu Qian's choice.
• Fu Qian asked Wen Li how it felt to await death, and she admitted she was afraid and somewhat relieved.
• Fu Qian vanished, grabbed Shadow Nightmare by the throat, and told Tan Mingxue that no outside help could arrive because the room blocked communication.
• Fu Qian said Shadow Nightmare's threats showed he feared dying, then asked Wen Li if she understood; she felt an unexpected calm and said she thought she did.

Wen Li’s breakthrough unleashed an emotional storm and a rapidly growing blood mass, which Fu Qian swallowed to keep it from killing her. Though Wen Li appeared to reach rank six, the mission ended in failure, and Fu Qian’s replay suggested the woman who stood up afterward was not truly Wen Li.

• Wen Li’s transformation triggered a storm that drove the Shadow Nightmare and Tan Mingxue into violent panic and filled Fu Qian with murderous urges.
• The Shadow Nightmare died as the crimson threads covering its body tore free, while Fu Qian repeatedly broke his own hand to restrain himself.
• A mass of crimson veins grew toward the motionless Wen Li, so Fu Qian opened a mouth in his chest and swallowed it, containing the Scarlet Fever.
• Wen Li awoke and appeared to have reached rank six, but Fu Qian received a notification that Wen Li had died and containment had failed.
• Fu Qian reviewed the replay and noticed a wicked glint in Wen Li’s eyes, suspecting that the woman who rose after the breakthrough was not Wen Li.

Fu Qian obtained the Tyrant's Fist and returned to the Wen Family mansion to get Wen Li to advance to Tier Six. He exposed Eve as a separate supernatural being born from Wen Li's suffering, and Eve asked for five hours to reach the required bottleneck.

• Fu Qian tested the Tyrant's Fist's Scarlet Whip on himself, then entered the containment scene with 32 Sanity Value.
• Fu Qian entered the Wen Family safe room with Wen Li and demanded that she reach Tier Six within an hour.
• Fu Qian blocked the ventilation duct and forced the being inside Wen Li to reveal herself as someone other than Wen Li.
• Eve explained that she had been born from Wen Li's unresolved pain and would awaken fully at Tier Six, causing Wen Li to disappear.
• Eve asked Fu Qian for five hours to reach the bottleneck and offered to let him make use of the extra time.

Fu Qian used Tyrant's Fist and his own amplified emotions to break the entity inside Wen Li and force her transformation to recede. Wen Li regained consciousness, and Fu Qian's containment mission was completed.

• Fu Qian lashed Eve with the Scarlet Whip, triggering her transformation into a crystal-scaled creature and costing him a point of Sanity Value.
• Eve fought back after her scales began to resist the whip, but Fu Qian dodged her attack and kicked her away without killing her, knowing Wen Li was still alive inside.
• When Eve claimed the weapon could not make her lose control, Fu Qian whipped himself to intensify his emotions, which caused Eve to collapse and her crystal scales to shatter.
• Fu Qian threatened to strip Wen Li and throw her out, amplifying Eve's emotional response until the distortions receded and Wen Li woke up.
• Fu Qian received the notification that containment was complete.

Fu Qian helped Wen Li advance to the sixth tier while secretly eliminating Eve, the Immature Form growing inside her. He returned to the real world with a dark red ring, and just as he sat down to eat, someone knocked at his door.

• Wen Li woke up, discovered she had become a sixth-tier transcendent, and told Fu Qian she could not remember what had happened.
• Fu Qian asked whether Wen Li's inability to hide alone was connected to her emotion-sensing ability, then vanished before she could answer.
• Fu Qian received an evaluation confirming that he had eliminated Eve and allowed Wen Li's Supernatural Power to advance without anyone noticing.
• Fu Qian concluded that Eve had been growing inside Wen Li and would have replaced her when she reached the sixth tier.
• Fu Qian returned home at the same moment he had left, noticed the dark red ring on his finger, and made himself noodles.
• Someone knocked on Fu Qian's door just as he was about to eat.

Qin Mingze and Wu Qingyu visited Fu Qian to check on his health after noticing his sudden improvement in fitness, then learned he had taken a well-paying part-time job. The visit ended with Qin borrowing Fu Qian’s muscles for a set of photos so he could photoshop himself into them.

• Qin Mingze and Wu Qingyu came to Fu Qian’s home to hang out, bringing food while Fu Qian was about to eat noodles.
• The three friends played video games, and Fu Qian easily beat Qin Mingze and Wu Qingyu.
• Qin Mingze asked about Fu Qian’s career plans and admitted that he had brought Wu Qingyu to check on Fu Qian’s health.
• Fu Qian explained that he had taken a well-paying part-time job that involved physical work and repeated tasks.
• Qin Mingze had Fu Qian wear his clothes and took photos, planning to replace Fu Qian’s head with his own in the pictures.

Fu Qian entered Containment Scene 1-003, where an Academy exploration team had become lost among ancient, mist-shrouded ruins. After the team asked him to identify a strange material growing on the stones, he recognized it as hair.

• Fu Qian received the assignment to re-contain the Angel of Peace and entered the scene with the requirement to escape the Furnace.
• Fu Qian found himself among an armed Academy exploration team in a maze of ancient ruins, where Yuan Xin and Ji Liushuang decided the group should rest.
• Fu Qian learned that the team consisted of elite students led by the vice dean and that they had ventured far from the other exploration teams.
• A student showed the group tough, hair-thin material growing on the stones and asked Fu Qian to identify it.
• Fu Qian examined the material and said it was hair.

Fu Qian discovered that a lock of strange hair was part of a dangerous attack spreading through the ruins, then left the group to search for an exit. At the ruins’ edge, he found an invisible barrier that let things enter but not leave, and confronted a middle-aged man hiding nearby.

• Fu Qian identified the treasured item as a peculiar lock of hair and realized its trail could reveal the way through the ruins.
• Ji Liushuang cut off a wave of black strands before they reached the group, but several strands pierced the young man’s hand before she burned them away.
• As screams sounded and black strands surged from several directions, Fu Qian slipped away to pursue the mission and headed toward the ruins’ edge.
• Fu Qian found an invisible barrier that stopped his punch, Air Bullets, and a thrown stone, concluding that it allowed entry but prevented escape.
• Fu Qian sensed someone hiding behind a broken stone stele and called him out; a middle-aged man emerged and praised Fu Qian for detecting him.

Fu Qian confronted a middle-aged assassin who had followed him from Li Weixuan’s group and deduced that the man planned to kill Ji Liushuang. The assassin attacked Fu Qian near an invisible barrier, but Fu Qian used it to trap him and killed him with his whip.

• A middle-aged man revealed himself and threatened Fu Qian, but Fu Qian said he had left the group to go home.
• Fu Qian deduced that the man was using him to draw Li Weixuan away from his real target, Ji Liushuang.
• The middle-aged man attacked Fu Qian, missed, and struck an invisible barrier.
• Fu Qian lashed the assassin with his whip, then closed in and killed him when its threads pierced his organs.

Fu Qian returned to the squad after killing the extraordinary being who guarded the invisible barrier, then reported that the group was trapped inside the ruins. Li Weixuan and the others confirmed the barrier was real, and Li Weixuan prepared to test it with his divine weapon.

• Fu Qian killed the middle-aged extraordinary being with Internal Organ Critical Hit, failed to damage the barrier, and cleaned up the scene.
• Fu Qian found Ji Liushuang, Yuan Xin, and the rest of the injured squad with Li Weixuan, then told them an invisible barrier blocked their way out.
• Li Weixuan recognized that Fu Qian had reached sixth order and ordered him to lead them to the barrier.
• Yuan Xin and the squad members confirmed the barrier existed, and Ji Liushuang's sword strike failed to pierce it.
• Li Weixuan told everyone to move aside as Fu Qian waited for him to attack the barrier with his divine weapon.

Li Weixuan failed to break the ruins’ invisible barrier, then led the trapped students toward an Arrow Bell and fought a monster that killed two people. Fu Qian identified the monster as an Arm Collective after examining one of its severed limbs.

• Li Weixuan struck the barrier with his sword, but it remained intact and his weapon shattered.
• An archer tried shooting arrows overhead, and the arrows hit a domed barrier that sealed the ruins.
• Li Weixuan led the students toward an Arrow Bell and found another team under attack by a gigantic hand, which he wounded before it escaped.
• Li Weixuan ordered everyone to regroup after learning that two students had been killed.
• Fu Qian examined a severed limb and identified the monster as an Arm Collective, revealing that each apparent finger had five smaller fingers at its tip.

Fu Qian and Ji Liushuang suspected the monsters in the ruins were made from people trapped there, while a new team arrived and learned the ruins were enclosed by a barrier. Li Weixuan canceled the operation and split the trainees into two teams to survey the barrier, leaving Yuan Xin and Huang Zhaoyan under a warning not to fight.

• Fu Qian and Ji Liushuang discussed whether the hair and finger-hand monsters came from people who had entered the ruins and been trapped there.
• Yuan Xin watched Fu Qian and Ji Liushuang with displeasure, and the third team arrived led by Huang Zhaoyan, who appeared surprised to see Ji Liushuang alive.
• Li Weixuan announced that two trainees had died, explained the barrier, and canceled the operation.
• Li Weixuan split the trainees into two teams to follow opposite sides of the barrier and check for gaps.
• Yuan Xin and Huang Zhaoyan traded insults, and Li Weixuan warned them that he would punish anyone who caused conflict.

Fu Qian investigated the corpse of the assassin he had killed and discovered that the Furnace Ruins decomposed the dead into parts used to form monsters. After the group failed to find a way out, a long-haired man arrived announcing that his group had found something.

• Fu Qian left the resting group and went to inspect the assassin's buried corpse, while Huang Zhaoyan followed him.
• Fu Qian uncovered the body and found it had dried out and twisted unnaturally, confirming that the ruins decomposed the dead.
• Huang Zhaoyan examined the corpse after Fu Qian left, but Fu Qian saw no clear sign that he would reveal his involvement.
• Fu Qian rejoined Li Weixuan and the others, who had found no way in or out of the ruins.
• A group arrived, and the long-haired man called to Li Weixuan that they had found something.

Fu Qian revealed that he had killed the strange corpse found in the ruins, while Li Weixuan suspected the attack had been a diversion aimed at someone else. Ji Liushuang theorized that the ruins transformed dead visitors into monsters, and Fu Qian urged the group to head deeper inside to find where the missing body parts went.

• Huang Zhaoyan led Li Weixuan and the others to a corpse whose arms were nearly torn off, and Li Weixuan asked Fu Qian why he had not mentioned seeing it.
• Fu Qian admitted that he had killed the man in self-defense after the man attacked him and told him to run and call for backup.
• Li Weixuan ordered the group to search the corpse's belongings and promised Fu Qian an explanation once they escaped, while suspecting the killer had really been targeting someone else.
• Fu Qian said he and Ji Liushuang had discussed theories about the corpse, prompting Ji Liushuang to suggest that the ruins gathered dead visitors' remains into monsters.
• Fu Qian pointed out that the corpse was missing parts matching the monsters they had encountered and proposed that the group explore deeper into the ruins to find their destination.