Chapter Summaries

Fu Qian confronted Teresa, who revealed that she had caused Shang Shiming’s ritual and was trying to stop destruction as part of her own ritual. As Teresa threatened him for disrupting her plan, Fu Qian asked about rituals, and she explained that their essence was divine knowledge.

• Fu Qian met Teresa in the rain and realized she was a high-tier Transcendent who had secretly interfered with events at the stone tower.
• Teresa admitted she had disrupted Shang Shiming’s ritual to fulfill her own ritual of preventing a major act of destruction.
• Teresa revealed that she had given Shang Shiming the revelation that led him to pursue his ritual, as Roland had once influenced Fu Qian.
• Teresa blamed Fu Qian for causing her ritual to fail and threatened to kill him, but allowed him to ask questions.
• Teresa told Fu Qian that a ritual’s essence was divine knowledge, a fragment of an unimaginably vast body of knowledge.

Fu Qian questioned Teresa about the ritual and the Inner Eye before she attacked him in the snow. He revealed overwhelming strength, stopped her escape and transformation, and ended the confrontation with her skull in his hand.

• Teresa explained that rituals granted gifts from higher beings, and Fu Qian asked how revelations worked and whether they were connected to the Inner Eye.
• Teresa reacted to Fu Qian's knowledge of the Inner Eye, realized he was more than a newly made transcendent, and summoned crystalline serpents to attack him.
• Fu Qian casually slapped away Teresa's serpents, then caught her when she tried to flee.
• Teresa escaped his grasp with a liquefied body and a burst of green flame, but Fu Qian dispelled the flame and smashed her back into solid form.
• Teresa tried to transform and consume the area around them, but Fu Qian stopped her with a sharp snap and examined her cracked skull.

Fu Qian killed Teresa and examined the unusual opening in her skull, confirming that her group was connected to the people of Bailuoke but learning that it was not the Inner Eye. He burned Teresa’s body to frame Li Min and escaped a Night Watcher’s attack, while the investigators began identifying the remains and considering retaliation.

• Fu Qian examined Teresa’s skull and concluded that its oval opening was linked to the people of Bailuoke but was not the Inner Eye.
• Fu Qian reasoned that Roland and Teresa’s inner circle knew the most secrets, while Shang Shiming’s group and newcomers like Li Min knew less and were treated as tools.
• Fu Qian burned Teresa’s corpse with the fireball he had stored in the White Ring, intending to make her death appear connected to Li Min and Shang Shiming’s ritual.
• A Night Watcher attacked Fu Qian with a mental assault and an arrow of light, but Fu Qian countered with an Air Bullet and escaped into the night.
• Two investigators found Teresa’s remains, suspected a link to the incident at the tower, and planned to confirm her identity and teach the group a lesson.

Fu Qian tracked down Huang, a survivor of the cruise ship disaster, and witnessed her react to a ritual as Roland arrived. Roland used a cross to calm Huang, then took Fu Qian aside for a conversation about what had happened the previous night.

• Fu Qian watched Huang exercising and noticed blood and a spike-studded cilice on her thighs.
• Huang reached her limit, then became flushed and feverish as a strange force surged within her and she approached two men with desire.
• Roland arrived and found Huang staring at Fu Qian with reddened, desire-filled eyes.
• Huang recognized Fu Qian as Che Shunyong and approached him, while Roland dismissed her as not good enough.
• Roland pressed a small cross to Huang's forehead, calming her and clearing her eyes.
• Roland told Fu Qian to come with him for a talk, and Fu Qian agreed.

After Teresa’s death, Roland gathered the ritual group and warned them that the Night Watchers suspected a connection to the collapsed stone tower. He brought Li Min and the others to Mr. Claudio, who shared the ritual Li Min had been seeking, though its effects left her with a difficult choice.

• Roland questioned the group about Teresa’s death, while Rachel defended Li Min and Shang Shiming noted that Li Min had little apparent motive or ability to kill Teresa.
• Roland warned everyone in Bosi to be cautious and told Li Min he had found someone willing to share a similar ritual.
• Roland received permission for the entire group to come immediately and led them to Mr. Claudio’s courtyard.
• Claudio comforted the group about Teresa’s death, then used a ritual to convey the knowledge Li Min had requested.
• Li Min returned from her brief daze and questioned the ritual’s consequences, while Claudio said she could consider how to minimize its impact.

Li Min asked Fu Qian to help with a secret ritual and offered him a powerful supernatural glove as payment. Fu Qian agreed despite not knowing what the ritual required, while Li Min promised to protect his secrets and keep him safe.

• Claudio praised Li Min and Fu Qian, then arranged for the group to leave without revealing what he knew about the Inner Eye.
• Shang Shiming and Roland offered to help Li Min with her ritual, but Li Min asked Fu Qian to speak with her privately.
• Li Min showed Fu Qian a high-grade supernatural glove that had belonged to her teacher and offered it as payment for his help.
• Li Min told Fu Qian she was certain he was not a newly ascended Transcendent and promised that she and Rachel would keep his secrets.
• Li Min refused to explain the ritual's unusual nature but promised Fu Qian would not be endangered or attract the Night Watchers' attention, and Fu Qian agreed to help.

Fu Qian guarded Li Min’s ritual as a strange circular rainbow appeared over the city and drew the Night Watchers’ attention. He lured one pursuer away from the ritual and refused to accompany him, preparing to fight.

• Fu Qian watched a circular rainbow form above the city while Li Min carried out her ritual in the nearby buildings.
• Fu Qian sensed a Night Watcher approaching and left the area to draw him away from Li Min.
• The Night Watcher chased Fu Qian and confronted him with a silvery-white spear.
• Fu Qian told the Night Watcher that they meant no harm, but refused to return with him and threatened to leave him with his whole corpse.

Fu Qian fought Andrew, a Night Watcher, and revealed that he had helped orchestrate events that accelerated Transcendents’ progress in Bosi. Andrew escaped using a transformation item, while Fu Qian returned to Che Shunyong’s appearance and anticipated the Night Watchers’ response to the information he had planted.

• Fu Qian transformed his right arm into a huge claw and intimidated Andrew before asking his name.
• Andrew formed a silver greatsword and confronted Fu Qian, who said his actions were meant to let more people witness the Transcendent.
• Fu Qian told Andrew that Transcendents in Bosi had been making rapid progress and admitted involvement in the clock tower’s destruction.
• Andrew let Fu Qian seize him, then used an item to burst into a swarm of bats and escape despite Fu Qian killing many of them.
• Fu Qian returned to Che Shunyong’s appearance and reasoned that people caught up in rituals could receive Revelations, then looked forward to the Night Watchers acting on Andrew’s report.

Fu Qian discovered that the Li Min he found at the ritual site was an illusion created by Rachel, while the real Li Min was hiding in another tower. He reached her hiding place and found Roland there beside a glowing crystal as the ritual continued.

• Fu Qian returned to the buildings and found what appeared to be Li Min in a tower.
• Fu Qian revealed that he knew the figure was an illusion and exposed Rachel, who had been hiding nearby.
• Rachel explained that the real Li Min was hiding in another tower and warned Fu Qian not to attack her.
• Fu Qian went to the other tower, where he found Roland beside a glowing crystal resonating with the strange sky.

Fu Qian realized Li Min had concealed her real location and used different illusions to mislead Roland and Rachel. He persuaded Roland that the Night Watchers were closing in, but Roland refused to leave first, so Fu Qian departed alone.

• Fu Qian suspected Li Min had called off the ritual and gone elsewhere while leaving Roland and Rachel with separate illusions.
• Fu Qian told Roland that the Night Watchers would soon search the area and that Li Min had ordered him to withdraw first.
• Roland noticed the illusion of Li Min by Rachel's tower and questioned whether Li Min had really told him to leave.
• Fu Qian claimed Li Min would stay behind to draw attention, making Roland suspect he was being used as a decoy.
• Roland chose to remain because he believed his strength would help him escape if danger arrived.
• Fu Qian shamelessly accepted Roland's choice and walked away alone.

Fu Qian tracked Li Min to Claudio’s home and found her confronting him over her teacher Clarins’s death. As Li Min broke free of Claudio’s trap with another gift from Clarins, Fu Qian jumped into their fight.

• Fu Qian reasoned that Li Min had sought Claudio, then slipped into Claudio’s courtyard and sensed a disturbance.
• Li Min confronted Claudio, identified herself as Clarins’s student, and used a keepsake to infect him with living blue markings.
• Claudio claimed he had never harmed Clarins, but Li Min accused him of betrayal and revealed that she had used the ritual to mislead him.
• Claudio swallowed his own finger and trapped Li Min in amber-like space, but she escaped using another power Clarins had left her.
• Fu Qian watched the confrontation, formed a strange idea, and jumped down to interrupt them.

Fu Qian arrived during Li Min’s confrontation with Claudio and suspected the scene was part of a ritual that could let Claudio escape death. He stopped Li Min from striking, revealed himself as Dean Collins of Bailuoke, and declared that he would kill Claudio himself.

• Fu Qian reassured Li Min that Rachel was safe and observed that Li Min had used a dangerous technique to reach the Intermediate Tier.
• Claudio warned Li Min that the flames consuming her body would soon burn her to ashes, then offered Fu Qian supernatural insight if he helped him.
• Fu Qian suspected Claudio was orchestrating rituals and that killing him might trigger a ritual capable of transcending death and jeopardizing the mission.
• Li Min prepared to continue her attack, but Fu Qian said he was stopping her because he intended to kill Claudio himself.
• Fu Qian changed his face to resemble Dean Collins of Bailuoke and declared, “Heretics must die!”

Fu Qian confronted Claudio and disrupted the ritual that was meant to make him a demigod. After revealing that he was already a demigod, Fu Qian destroyed Claudio and completed the mission.

• Fu Qian revealed himself to Claudio and argued with him about their opposing beliefs and Claudio's murder of his older sister.
• Li Min, badly wounded, prepared to take revenge, but Fu Qian told her to stay calm and struck Claudio with Internal Organ Critical Hit.
• Claudio tried to repair his injuries with Supernatural Items and offered to share the ritual that would make Fu Qian a demigod.
• Fu Qian rejected the offer, revealed that he was already a demigod, and struck Claudio again as he charged at Li Min.
• Fu Qian annihilated Claudio, and the mission was marked complete.

Fu Qian killed Claudio, learned that Claudio had supplied most of the supernatural revelations in Port City, and received the Starry Sky Prism as a special reward. Back in the Warehouse, Fu Qian tested the artifact by preparing to feed it a pale green bracelet.

• Fu Qian removed Claudio's brain and saw the strange, eye-filled Inner Eye within it.
• Li Min lost control of the flames consuming her, and Fu Qian activated the Law Remnants in an attempt to help her.
• Fu Qian returned to the Warehouse and learned from the mission evaluation that Claudio had orchestrated the rituals and supplied most of the revelations in Port City.
• Fu Qian received the Starry Sky Prism, an artificial eye that could reveal knowledge about Supernatural Items when fed one.
• Fu Qian chose his pale green bracelet as the first item to test and held it beside the Prism's entrance.

Fu Qian used the giant eyeball to investigate the mirror and saw a starless stretch of ocean beneath an unfamiliar night sky. He brought his star chart to Yuan Shan at Night Watcher headquarters and asked her to identify the location, but she had a favor to request from him first.

• Fu Qian fed the bracelet to the giant eyeball, but it showed no apparent effect.
• Fu Qian fed the full-length mirror to the eyeball and saw an endless black sea beneath a starry sky.
• Fu Qian drew the unfamiliar stars from memory and returned to the Warehouse to use the Emissary Mask for another attempt.
• Fu Qian brought his star chart to Yuan Shan and asked her to identify the stretch of ocean within a week.
• Yuan Shan asked Fu Qian for help with something of her own.

Yuan Shan asked Fu Qian to discreetly check whether municipal official Gan Zuoxun was under supernatural influence, and Fu Qian agreed after receiving a special access permit. He arrived at East Suburb Hospital at three o’clock to observe Gan Zuoxun, whose event was due to take place there.

• Yuan Shan explained that the Night Watchers had received a report claiming Gan Zuoxun might be controlled by a conglomerate, though he was known for balancing Shangjing’s competing factions.
• Yuan Shan chose Fu Qian for the discreet check because of his ability to identify mental pollution, especially after seeing Ariel’s capabilities.
• Fu Qian joked about being given a dirty job, and Yuan Shan gave him a special access permit he could keep afterward.
• Yuan Shan told Fu Qian that Gan Zuoxun would attend an event at East Suburb Hospital at three in the afternoon and warned him not to go overboard.
• Fu Qian arrived at East Suburb Hospital at three o’clock to observe Gan Zuoxun.

Fu Qian tried to attend a hospital event to observe city official Gan Zuoxun, but his appearance prompted an unusually cautious response and Gan canceled his visit. Fu Qian then used a stolen security ID to enter City Hall, where he found Gan apparently normal and considered testing him with the Law Remnants.

• Fu Qian was questioned by security at the hospital auditorium and showed them the card Yuan Shan had made for him.
• Daria identified Fu Qian as Fang Xun and asked whether he was a Night Watcher, but he said he ran a bookstore and was there to hear the work report.
• The hospital announced that Gan Zuoxun had fallen ill and returned to City Hall, so Fu Qian left for City Hall instead.
• Fu Qian used a stolen security ID to slip into City Hall and found Gan resting calmly in his seat.
• Fu Qian considered using the Law Remnants on Gan and following up with a psychological test.

Fu Qian questioned Gan Zuoxun in a dream about his strange daily craving for sunlight, then used Blasphemous Embrace to test whether the sun was causing the symptoms. The chapter ended as the sun was shrouded in rust-colored haze and an unexpected voice sounded in Fu Qian’s ear.

• Fu Qian waited until Gan Zuoxun went to the restroom, then used Clear Dream to question him privately.
• Gan Zuoxun recognized Fu Qian as an extraordinary person and explained that he felt imprisoned by darkness at the same time each day and craved sunlight.
• Fu Qian watched Gan Zuoxun bask in the sun and suspected that Ariel’s influence might be behind his symptoms.
• Fu Qian retrieved Blasphemous Embrace from the Warehouse and fired an arrow that covered the sun in rust-colored haze.
• As Fu Qian prepared to observe Gan Zuoxun’s reaction, an unknown voice sounded in his ear.

Fu Qian encountered the Witch through the colorless state caused by Blasphemous Embrace, then returned to the Warehouse and confirmed their connection depended on that state and place. The Witch recognized him as the Dark Moon Knight and gave him a second mask before their contact faded.

• As the dusky blue moon appeared, Fu Qian heard the Witch’s voice and was confronted by Daria and her group, who accused him of disguising himself as a guard and harming Gan Zuoxun.
• Fu Qian dodged Daria’s attack and fled, focusing on the Witch’s voice and realizing it belonged to the cosmic beauty he had met in the World Within the Painting.
• After returning to the Warehouse, Fu Qian found that his colorless state had vanished and inferred that the Witch could sense him only in that other world while he was colorless.
• Fu Qian used his wrist mark to return to the Warehouse, where the Witch called him the Dark Moon Knight and sent dusky blue moonlight into him.
• The Witch gave Fu Qian a delicate second mask, then said their connection was weakening and bid him farewell.

Fu Qian received a mask that concealed his supernatural presence, then told Yuan Shan what he had learned about Gan Zuoxun. After Yuan Shan left, Wen Li visited Fu Qian and said she had come for another reason.

• Fu Qian tested the mask the Witch had given him and found that it concealed his supernatural presence.
• Yuan Shan confronted Fu Qian about the commotion in Shangjing and the threat to Gan Zuoxun, and Fu Qian explained what had happened at the hospital.
• Fu Qian told Yuan Shan about Gan Zuoxun’s strange claims and suggested he might be trying to expose hidden opposition; Yuan Shan said the Night Watchers were investigating the place Fu Qian had asked about.
• Wen Li arrived after Yuan Shan left, asked whether Fu Qian’s visit was related to the strange event in the sky, and said she had come about something else.