Chapter Summaries

Fu Qian explained to Su Gao his theory that divine authorities had been extracted from gods, altering the nature of supernatural power, and warned her to keep it secret. The next day, they visited the Forbidden Zone, where Su Gao saw Grandpa Ailei’s remains and then declared that her vacation was over.

• Fu Qian suggested that Kanna Kisaragi’s talent had helped the Miracle Potion work and explained how cultivation paths might relate to divine authorities.
• Su Gao understood Fu Qian’s theory about divine authorities being extracted from gods and agreed to keep it secret.
• Fu Qian wondered who could have altered the gods’ powers and what kind of being had done it.
• The next day, Su Gao registered with Fu Qian and led him into the Forbidden Zone, where the corruption had vanished and tourists visited the remains.
• Su Gao identified Grandpa Ailei’s remains, went inside his building alone, and returned to tell Fu Qian her vacation was over.

Su Gao left the Corrupt Forest to fulfill her responsibilities, while Fu Qian explored the Foolish Tree and uncovered signs that the Holy Grail Cult had contained the Abyssal Fog. After deciding to return to Shangjing for information about his path to godhood, Fu Qian received a new breach assignment that he could handle before midnight.

• Su Gao thanked Fu Qian and departed from her old home, while Fu Qian stayed behind for his own purpose.
• Fu Qian entered the lighthouse and examined the Foolish Tree, then descended into the underground passage.
• Fu Qian recognized that the passages had been deliberately arranged to contain the Abyssal Fog and suspected the Holy Grail Cult had created them while preparing a Golden Cup.
• Fu Qian decided to return to Shangjing and ask Chief Yuan for information about the Holy Grail Cult and his path to godhood.
• Fu Qian's work system assigned him a breach incident and let him choose when to handle it before midnight.

Fu Qian returned from the Warehouse to his home, ignored Tan Ying’s calls until after cooking, and then met Qin Mingze, who told him Tan Ying’s behavior seemed unusual. The chapter left Fu Qian suspecting that both Tan Ying and Qin Mingze were acting strangely.

• Fu Qian refused the updated assignment to enter the Containment Scene of 1-039 and returned home by activating the mark on his wrist.
• Fu Qian checked his phone, confirmed his pay had arrived, and found messages from Qin Mingze and the others.
• Tan Ying called Fu Qian repeatedly, then asked where he was and hung up after he said he had just returned home.
• Fu Qian went outside and met Qin Mingze, who teased him about accompanying a rich woman on vacation.
• Qin Mingze told Fu Qian that Tan Ying had refused to meet him and had seemed unusually distant.

Fu Qian discovered that divine distortion from An Jing Shizhi had affected Qin Mingze and Tan Ying during his five seconds of reverse Za Warudo, leaving them vulnerable to an obsessive paradox. He used Clear Dream to help Qin Mingze break free by choosing between two glasses of cola.

• Qin Mingze asked Fu Qian whether he was doing something dangerous, and Fu Qian jokingly told him to keep his secret world-saving work quiet.
• Fu Qian used Clear Dream to examine Qin Mingze and found a higher-level paradox twisting his will, which he suspected had also affected Tan Ying.
• Fu Qian connected the paradox to a choice between two cola glasses and made choosing one the condition for ending Qin Mingze's dream.
• Qin Mingze struggled to choose, then picked a glass and awoke when the dream shattered.
• Fu Qian handed Qin Mingze the sugary cola, and Qin Mingze drank with relief.

Fu Qian reunited with Qin Mingze, then visited Tan Ying at her art studio and offered to model for her as a way to help her overcome her restlessness. He left Tan Ying choosing whether he would pose clothed or nude, though the session would take place in her dream.

• Qin Mingze regretted giving in to his craving for cola, but Fu Qian encouraged him to enjoy it and Qin Mingze relaxed.
• Qin Mingze welcomed Fu Qian back, defended Tan Ying, and left with his cola to return to work.
• Fu Qian arrived at Tan Ying's art studio and learned that she had been restless since the previous day.
• Fu Qian offered to fulfill Tan Ying's earlier request to use him as a model, and she blushed at the choice between a clothed or nude session.
• Fu Qian planned to treat Tan Ying's restlessness through her dream, where she would make that choice.

Fu Qian finished his portrait session with Tan Ying, then discovered that Xu Meng had come to confront him over his son. Xu Meng chose to pursue both the truth about his son and his plan against Fu Qian, revealing that Fu Qian's choice had been a dream.

• Tan Ying chose to draw a simple portrait of Fu Qian, then asked why he had stayed at the school; Fu Qian said it was close to home.
• Fu Qian concluded that Young Master Qin and Tan Ying had been the victims of the earlier incident, while Pei Yanqing was unharmed, possibly because of the first batch of Law Remnants.
• Xu Meng approached Fu Qian on the street, apologized for his earlier rudeness, and had two people flank him while his photographer prepared to take nude photos.
• Fu Qian told Xu Meng that special circumstances had caused what happened to his son and offered him a choice between learning the truth and carrying out his plan.
• Xu Meng chose “all of the above,” and Fu Qian realized he had been dreaming because no rule had limited him to one option.

Fu Qian caused Xu Meng to strip and run through the streets, then learned that Xu Meng might never recover from the mental blow. After a quiet evening at home, Fu Qian was pulled into the Warehouse at midnight and sent to Containment Scene 1-039: Unseen Hill.

• Fu Qian made Xu Meng strip in public, and the bodyguards chased him through the streets before catching him.
• Qin Mingze called Fu Qian about Xu Meng's streaking and warned that Xu Meng might seek revenge once he recovered.
• Fu Qian revealed that he had caused Xu Meng's urge to streak and believed Xu Meng's mental state might keep him from recovering.
• Fu Qian cooked dinner, watched television, and waited without activating his mark.
• At midnight, Fu Qian was forcibly pulled into the Warehouse and assigned to Containment Scene 1-039: Unseen Hill.

Fu Qian entered an unrestricted level-one containment scene in a bizarre city, where a rooftop terrorist tried to crush him with falling billboards and then leaped from a building. After the man walked away, Fu Qian noticed a demigod watching him from the street corner.

• Fu Qian selected all his skills and convenient equipment before the containment scene loaded.
• Fu Qian found himself in a luxurious carriage and survived when a terrorist dropped a billboard onto its rear half.
• The terrorist dropped a second billboard, then jumped from a rooftop and survived his impact with the ground.
• Fu Qian apologized for spoiling the terrorist’s landing, and the man walked away after recovering from his injuries.
• Fu Qian checked on the coachman and examined the strange carriage before spotting an emotionless watcher he recognized as a demigod.

Fu Qian was cornered by two demigods who seemed to be outsiders hunting him, but he used a bluff to make them hesitate. As a carriage arrived carrying a scarlet-eyed divine envoy, the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Fu Qian noticed a trench-coated demigod watching him, then found a baby-faced Lady approaching from the other direction as the coachman and horses fell asleep.
• Fu Qian pretended to complain about falling debris, but the Lady played along without abandoning her attempt to kill him.
• Fu Qian spotted orange-yellow marks on the Lady's cloak and received a mission prompt to extinguish a flame.
• Fu Qian called the demigods outsiders, making the Lady pause, then dodged the trench-coated demigod's surprise attack.
• The Lady confirmed that killing Fu Qian mattered, and a carriage carrying a scarlet-eyed divine envoy arrived behind her.

Fu Qian encountered a Night Watcher hunting party led by Stos and Aiko, who attacked him after he revealed he knew they were outsiders. He escaped to Unseen Hill and realized they had come to find help for Logan, while the party continued its search.

• Fu Qian introduced himself to Stos and Aiko as Andir and asked why the Night Watchers had come.
• Stos and Aiko trapped Fu Qian as the divine envoy in their carriage attacked him with a molten whip, but Fu Qian escaped using Blood Conquest.
• The middle-aged divine envoy said the group had learned from Fu Qian and urged them to continue exploring because Logan needed help.
• Fu Qian identified Logan as a Night Watcher council member recovering from his collapse and suspected the man in the carriage controlled the wooden, unmarked hunter.
• Fu Qian considered the strength of the attack and the high cost of using Blood Conquest before reappearing on Unseen Hill.

Fu Qian used a skill from Red Moon to secretly mark the trench-coat man and explored the city, where chaotic violence blended into everyday life. He chose a quiet restaurant as the site of a disruption meant to expose the Hunting Squad, and watched Catherine slap a customer as he waited for his order.

• Fu Qian sensed that Thread of Concern had connected him to the half-demigod in the trench coat after he slipped the skill onto the man.
• Fu Qian walked through the strange city and observed how its monsters, violence, and ordinary routines seemed to fit together smoothly.
• Fu Qian decided to provoke a major disturbance so the city would recognize the outsiders as organized killers and force the Hunting Squad out of hiding.
• Fu Qian entered a quiet restaurant, ordered every dish that could be prepared in five minutes or less, and waited while watching the diners.
• Catherine slapped a balding customer so hard that one of his false teeth flew out.

Fu Qian watched Catherine transform into a monster and kill several people, then destroyed her with a single armored punch. He waited for the Mirror Knight, a demigod, to arrive, and the chapter ended with Fu Qian catching the knight’s concealed blade as their tense questioning began.

• Catherine slapped a customer who groped her, then transformed and swallowed his head when he threatened her with a weapon.
• Catherine’s monstrous form attacked the restaurant guests, and Fu Qian dodged its claw and shattered it with a punch.
• Fu Qian revealed that he had come to the restaurant because he believed Catherine’s unstable power could provide the gear he sought.
• After waiting amid the wreckage, Fu Qian met the Mirror Knight, who demanded his name and reason for being there.
• Fu Qian said he had been guided by the flames, then caught a transparent blade the Mirror Knight had sent down from the chandelier.

Fu Qian exposed Green Ballard’s ambush in the shop and revealed himself as an outsider watching the events unfold. When the Broken Claw Queen attacked him from above, Fu Qian stopped her strike and severed part of her claw, leaving her confronting him and Ballard.

• Fu Qian stopped Ballard’s hidden blade and mocked him for believing his act had fooled anyone.
• Ballard revealed his face, introduced himself as Green Ballard, and asked Fu Qian why he was there.
• Fu Qian said he was an outsider watching the show, then caught the Broken Claw Queen’s talon as she attacked from above.
• The Broken Claw Queen split her talon to attack Fu Qian again, but he countered until she severed the damaged limb to escape.
• The Broken Claw Queen descended and complained about her injury, then accused Ballard of failing to help her; Ballard said he had kept her from getting herself killed.

Ballard demanded that Fu Qian accompany him to the base to answer for disrupting order, and forced Akasha to come along because she had let Catherine escape. As Ballard prepared his Greed Heart Chariot, Fu Qian flirted with Akasha and casually ordered Ballard to fetch the car, leaving the moment awkward.

• Ballard warned Akasha that fighting Fu Qian would likely get her killed and insisted Fu Qian come with him to maintain order.
• Akasha challenged Ballard’s claim to uphold order, arguing that he had also delayed intervening and that the prison’s rules were meaningless.
• Fu Qian asked Ballard about other outsiders, then cryptically suggested Ballard would soon learn something without using divination.
• Ballard ordered Akasha to come to the base as punishment for her mistake and threatened to disperse her blood bags if she refused.
• Akasha linked arms with Fu Qian and agreed to ride in Ballard’s Greed Heart Chariot, while Fu Qian told Ballard to fetch the car.

Fu Qian ambushed Ballard and Akasha after using a banknote to distract them, then escaped when Greed Heart Warhorse intervened. Ballard regenerated and realized Fu Qian had deliberately targeted them, but he fell silent after hearing something.

• Ballard invited Fu Qian to ride in his flashy carriage, and Fu Qian handed him a banknote.
• When Ballard reached for the note, Fu Qian vanished and crushed Ballard’s head through his mirror defenses.
• Akasha tried to restrain Fu Qian, but Greed Heart Warhorse charged in and Fu Qian escaped, leaving a bloodstained banknote behind.
• Ballard regenerated his head using the mirror shards on Greed Heart Warhorse and told Akasha he believed Fu Qian had targeted them deliberately.
• Ballard and Akasha discussed warning others about Fu Qian, but Ballard stopped speaking and looked strangely at Akasha.

Fu Qian’s actions convinced Ballard that another group of outsiders had killed two demigods, prompting him and Akasha to head for the base. Fu Qian followed Akasha’s trail and encountered the dejected clown in a carriage, wondering what had changed him.

• Ballard told Akasha that Joan and the Lord had lost contact and concluded that another group of outsiders had likely killed them.
• Ballard and Akasha left for the base in the Greed Heart Chariot as Fu Qian watched from nearby.
• Fu Qian reflected that Aiko and the Hunting Squad had apparently killed two demigods, and wondered whether the dead could be reborn.
• Fu Qian used Thread of Concern to track Akasha, then rode in a carriage through the increasingly active city.
• Fu Qian recognized the clown in his carriage and wondered why the destructive man seemed so disillusioned.

Fu Qian used his disguise to steer Clown toward Aiko and the others, who had objected to his convertible carriage. Clown recognized Fu Qian’s connection to the carriage, but the two were still heading toward the outsiders.

• Clown criticized Fu Qian for wearing a mask, and Fu Qian challenged him to test whether removing and replacing his face made him a coward or a hero.
• Clown peeled off his facial skin with a dagger, then put it back on and said the experience felt great.
• Fu Qian pointed Clown toward the place where Aiko and the others had been, and Clown asked him to drive the carriage after the driver was gone.
• As they rode, Fu Qian and Clown discussed outsiders, and Fu Qian said he had a grudge against the group because they had taken issue with his convertible carriage.
• Clown realized Fu Qian had been the person in the carriage and asked why he hated carriages.

Fu Qian questioned the Clown about fire and learned that the prison held only ashes, with death followed by rebirth. After dropping the Clown at a bar, Fu Qian watched him cause a bloody disturbance until a Lady intervened.

• The Clown told Fu Qian he hated carriages because they represented a predetermined, tedious world, then explained that fire did not exist in the prison, only eternal ashes.
• The Clown said that everyone who died would be reborn, including outsiders, who would no longer be outsiders afterward.
• Fu Qian dropped the Clown near a street where two demigods had died, and the Clown was disappointed to hear Ballard had survived.
• The Clown entered a crowded bar and pulled a woman back after she recoiled from his Human Skin Mask, then pressed his own face onto hers.
• A Lady took the woman from the Clown, removed the skin mask, and returned it while telling him to wash it more thoroughly.

Fu Qian found Aiko and Stos disguised in a bar, where they were waiting for him after suspecting his Thread of Concern had been detected. He concealed his identity by posing as another masked stranger while Aiko interrogated the Clown, whose mask had been inspired by Fu Qian.

• Fu Qian recognized Aiko and Stos hiding in the bar near where the Thread of Concern had snapped.
• Aiko invited the Clown to sit and questioned him about his mask and the friend who inspired it.
• Fu Qian stayed disguised in plain sight, expecting Aiko and the others to mistake him for an ordinary masked man.
• Aiko threatened to turn the Clown's whole body into a conscious, immortal mask.
• The Clown asked Aiko if she meant to wear him on her face.

Fu Qian watched the clown provoke Aiko and withstand Stos's Madness Fire, while Aiko and Stos discussed his possible connection to Andir. Xiumeng arrived and learned that their target had not appeared, but he questioned whether they could be sure.

• The clown taunted Aiko, drank the blood offered to him, and said he wanted to leave before the tavern became dull.
• Stos revealed golden flames in his eyes and used Madness Fire on the clown, who trembled but welcomed the experience.
• Aiko and Stos wondered whether Andir had sent the clown or whether he had been drawn by the fire, and decided to wait for Xiumeng.
• Xiumeng entered with the demigod brother and assured Stos that Logan was safe.
• Aiko told Xiumeng that the clown had been close to their target and seemed to be seeking fire, and Xiumeng asked whether they were sure the target had not come.