Chapter Summaries

Fu Qian confronted a disguised attacker who claimed the surname Lu, humiliated him with two slaps, and rejected Ji Xun’s attempt to question him. The attacker then launched a violent assault, and Fu Qian recognized the bloodied-fingernail technique from a Native Council member in Dunis.

• Fu Qian walked toward the disguised man, who revealed a face resembling Old Master Lu’s and claimed his surname was Lu.
• Fu Qian vanished and slapped the man twice, angrily insisting that he did not deserve to be named Lu.
• Ji Xun and his group arrived, and Fu Qian dismissed them and the attacker as clowns.
• The attacker lashed out with stretched arms and bloodied fingernails, while Fu Qian dodged the strikes with Blood Conquest.
• Fu Qian recognized the attack as resembling a technique used by Marco, a Native Council member he had encountered in Dunis.

Fu Qian, fighting as Old Master Lu, battled Agui while Old Master Ji and his squad watched. Their destructive clash forced Old Master Ji to unleash the demigod-level Gray Descent, and the chapter ended with Fu Qian activating the Glorious Tyrant as Agui tried to tear into him.

• Fu Qian formed a bone-armored war hammer and challenged Agui, while Old Master Ji told his squad to wait and watch.
• Old Master Lu struck Agui into a red-roofed house, but Agui returned as a massive ball of flesh and demolished the building.
• Old Master Ji activated the demigod-level Gray Descent to contain the destruction.
• Agui charged Old Master Lu again, trapped his hammer in folds of flesh, and drove several claws into his chest.
• As Agui began tearing at him, Fu Qian activated the Glorious Tyrant and declared that Old Master Lu was the will of Heaven.

Fu Qian and Old Master Lu battered the Gray Descent and its scattered flesh, while Ji Tong stabilized the realm. A winged, insect-bodied man resembling Marco emerged, and Fu Qian prepared to fight him in the air.

• Fu Qian used his Tyrant transformation to smash Agui with a giant hammer of serpents, and Agui was reduced to a shattered mass of flesh.
• The scattered pieces of the Gray Descent gathered and tried to burrow away, but Old Master Lu struck the ground and sent giant serpents bursting up to destroy them.
• The Gray Descent began to crack under the assault until Ji Tong steadied it and repaired the space.
• A winged man with an insect-like lower body emerged from the pit, and Fu Qian recognized his resemblance to Marco.
• Fu Qian laughed at the newcomer’s claim that he had impersonated him, tore membranes from his back, and prepared to attack.

Fu Qian, posing as Professor Andir, fought the Rebirth Club demigod Agui and helped the Ji Clan team test their Gray Descent, then stopped when Ji Liushuang told him to. The team left before the Night Watchers arrived, while Fu Qian concluded his target was not among the Ji Clan members and hinted that the fight had only been an appetizer.

• Fu Qian battered Agui with his monstrous form, but Agui escaped when Gray Descent shattered.
• Fu Qian began swelling beneath his crimson wings until Ji Liushuang told him to stop, and he immediately returned to normal.
• Fu Qian concluded the team’s Gray Descent test had found no parasite and that his target was likely not among the Ji Clan elites.
• Ji Liushuang urged the group to leave, and Ji Xun agreed to depart before the Night Watchers arrived.
• Fu Qian said they should take their time and wait for the feast, leaving Ji Xun wondering what he meant.

Fu Qian and Ji Liushuang reasoned that Ji Ping, a former Ji Clan member connected to the Rebirth Club, was likely behind the attack on Liushuang’s mother. When they returned to Silver Mist Manor, Ji Xun told them someone was waiting to meet them.

• Fu Qian asked Ji Liushuang whether she knew of an ancestor named Ji Feng, but she did not recognize the name.
• Fu Qian explained that the person who frightened Liushuang’s mother was likely a Ji Clan member trying to open a dialogue, and he identified Ji Ping as a possible suspect.
• Ji Liushuang recalled that Ji Ping had left the family years ago, and Fu Qian said he had met him in the Archipelagoes and that his whereabouts became unclear after an incident.
• Fu Qian predicted the Ji Clan would seek a civilized conversation rather than provoke another chase, and he and Ji Liushuang took their time returning to Silver Mist Manor.
• Ji Xun greeted Fu Qian and Ji Liushuang at the manor and told them someone was waiting to meet them; Ji Liushuang agreed to go.

Ji Liushuang and Fu Qian met Ji Ping at the Ji Clan residence, where he revealed that the Rebirth Club had crippled An Jing Company’s position in its conflict with Siren. Fu Qian confirmed the club’s involvement and left the Ji Clan wondering how powerful it was.

• Ji Liushuang changed into a white gown and went with Fu Qian to meet Ji Xun and Ji Ping.
• Ji Ping introduced himself to Ji Liushuang as her mother’s uncle and described his return to the Ji Clan and his valuable discovery.
• Ji Ping told the gathered Ji Clan members that the Rebirth Club had struck Emperor An Jing and caused a demigod to turn against An Jing Company.
• Fu Qian acknowledged the Rebirth Club’s role and said An Jing Shizhi would not appear for the next three months.

Fu Qian pressed Ji Ping to explain how he gained the ability to control true Gray Descent, uncovering his connection to a mysterious woman from the Native Council. Ji Ping demonstrated the power for Fu Qian and the Ji Clan.

• Fu Qian questioned Ji Ping about the benefit he had brought the Ji Clan and raised the possibility that it came from the Native Council.
• Ji Ping revealed that a woman whose face he could not remember had offered him a transplant: he removed the eyeball from his palm and attached a withered hand in exchange for control over true Gray Descent.
• Ji Ping said he had accepted because the power was irresistible, and Fu Qian recognized the woman as Nepheli, the former head of the Institute of Curses.
• Ji Xun confirmed that Ji Ping had demonstrated true Gray Descent and said the discovery was worth more to the Ji Clan than a demigod.
• Ji Ping admitted that his Gray Descent demonstration had caused Ji Xue to faint, then spread its black, white, and gray power through the room at Fu Qian's request.

Fu Qian used the pressure of his tyrant form to expose a hidden parasite during Ji Ping’s Gray Descent. Agui escaped inside a cocoon, while Ji Ping’s attempted sneak attack revealed that he had been concealing Agui within his body.

• Ji Ping displayed a genuine Gray Descent, and Ji Xun asked Fu Qian to assess it.
• Fu Qian transformed into a tyrant, nearly overwhelming Ji Ping’s Gray Descent as he searched for an anomaly.
• Fu Qian exposed a golden-flamed cocoon in the void and identified it as a likely parasite.
• Ji Ping appeared shocked, but Agui burst from his mouth and attacked Fu Qian.
• Fu Qian slapped Agui away, and Agui fled into the cocoon, which vanished into the void.

Ji Xun confronted Ji Ping after his failed ambush exposed his ties to the Native Council and the presence of another demigod. Ji Liushuang took charge of the aftermath, while the Ji elders proposed that she lead the Gospel Group.

• Ji Xun ended Gray Descent and demanded an explanation from Ji Ping after his attempted attack on Lu Ming failed.
• Ji Ping admitted that the Native Council had forced him to act and revealed that it had another demigod besides the one they had seen.
• Ji Xun asked Fu Qian to decide Ji Ping’s fate, but Fu Qian exchanged a glance with Ji Liushuang, who sent Old Master Lu after the two demigods.
• Ji Liushuang said she would handle Ji Ping and the other minor matters herself.
• Ji Tong asked Ji Liushuang how to deal with the Gospel Group and proposed that she take charge of it with academy staff assisting her.

Ji Liushuang challenged Ji Ping and the Ji Clan about the source of his altered hand while considering Ji Tong’s offer to hand the Gospel Group to the Rebirth Club. Meanwhile, Fu Qian tracked down the council’s demigods Malka and Malfo, only to learn they had prepared a god to confront him.

• Ji Tong offered Ji Liushuang control of the Gospel Group in exchange for the Rebirth Club’s cooperation, and Ji Liushuang questioned Ji Ping about his dead Clan member’s hand.
• Fu Qian followed the Thread of Concern through Silver Mist Manor and fought off hidden bone-like spikes as he pursued his target.
• Fu Qian reached a lake and found Malka inside a burning cocoon, then drew out Malfo, who resembled Marco.
• Malfo explained that the council had used the Rebirth Club’s name to influence the Gospel Group and planned to make the Club enemies of the Ji Clan and the Night Watcher if exposed.
• Malka revealed that they had prepared a god to fight Fu Qian.

Malfo used a powerful talisman to sever the cocoon’s tether and burn the creature inside, but a dark-flame cage formed around the group and revealed a dimensional attack aimed at Fu Qian. As Malfo and Malka taunted him, Fu Qian raised his lantern and unleashed the Rebirth Club’s power.

• Malka’s face worm leaped from the cocoon and fused with Malfo’s chest.
• Malfo shattered a blade-shaped talisman, sending golden flames along the severed tether to consume the creature emerging from the cocoon.
• Fu Qian scolded Malfo over Auntie Wu’s fate as her burning corpse faded and a dark flame rose in its place.
• The dark flame formed a cage and a giant claw that struck at Fu Qian across dimensions, injuring him despite his use of Blood Conquest.
• Malfo and Malka taunted Fu Qian, who raised his lantern, tapped it three times, and unleashed brilliant, bizarre colors.

Fu Qian tested the Lantern amid a battle at the manor, where a burst of divine power created an unmasked double of him. In the conference room, Ji Liushuang accepted leadership of the Gospel Group but declared Ji Ping’s death inevitable and attacked him.

• Fu Qian’s Lantern and the Native Council’s similar power produced a dazzling phenomenon that condensed into an unmasked version of Fu Qian.
• Ji Liushuang told the manor’s assembled guests that Demigod Lu would handle the distinguished visitors and advised them to stay away from the disturbance.
• Ji Liushuang challenged the Ji Clan’s plan to use a dead person’s hand for Gray Descent, warning that they had not established the risks or causes behind the process.
• Ji Liushuang accepted the Gospel Group, while Ji Ping offered to apologize and submit to confinement until the danger was investigated.
• Ji Liushuang drew her silver sword and struck at Ji Ping, declaring that his earlier joke had made death his only fate.

Ji Liushuang killed Ji Ping with a single strike and accepted the crowd’s decision about the Gospel Group. Inside the Darkfire Cage, Fu Qian confronted another version of himself, glimpsed his origin, and rejected the idea that he was a reincarnated deity.

• Ji Liushuang killed Ji Ping with a sword strike, injuring her shoulder from the strain.
• Ji Liushuang told the crowd she would accept their decision about the Gospel Group and said she had no direct connection to the Rebirth Club.
• Fu Qian studied another version of himself inside the Darkfire Cage as it urged him to remember.
• Fu Qian saw a being destroyed in a sea of ash and a thread of information imprinting itself on dividing cells.
• The other Fu Qian urged Fu Qian to speak his true name, and Fu Qian called it “Blasphemy.”
• Fu Qian rejected the notion that he was a reincarnated deity, saying a real man did not need that story.

Fu Qian identified the Blasphemy Monarch’s corruption and watched it affect the Mal Brothers while a powerful enemy remained wary of him. Ji Liushuang’s Sword Heart Clarity let her perceive the battlefield, and she vanished after setting out to check on Old Lu.

• Fu Qian revealed that his False God Incarnation had protected him from the Blasphemy Monarch’s corruption and deduced that it could not see his thoughts.
• Malka accused Malfo of stealing his fate, and Malfo retorted as they argued over becoming one complete Blasphemy Monarch.
• Fu Qian recognized the dark-flame creature from Unseen Hill and concluded that the Blasphemy Monarch was focusing its power on that enemy.
• The Blasphemy Monarch noticed Ji Liushuang, whose Sword Heart Clarity had advanced after she killed Ji Ping and allowed her to perceive the battlefield.
• Ji Liushuang said she was going to check on Old Lu, invited the others to come, then stepped forward and vanished.

Fu Qian used Clear Dream to shield Ji Liushuang from the two evil gods by drawing her into a familiar, comforting scene. He left Blasphemy Monarch facing the limits of his ability to resist the gods' erosion.

• Ji Liushuang crossed into the dark-flame cage, and Fu Qian expanded Clear Dream to protect her.
• Ji Liushuang entered a familiar living room and saw monstrous figures beyond the window, but someone on the sofa scolded her and kept her from approaching them.
• The person on the sofa had Ji Liushuang take medicine and lie down, and her fear and the monsters' call faded as she grew drowsy.
• Blasphemy Monarch acknowledged Fu Qian's ability, and Fu Qian explained that he had recreated a familiar place to reduce Ji Liushuang's resistance to the dream.

Fu Qian destroyed the Mal Brothers after uncovering their role as the surviving parasite, then dispelled Clear Dream and left Ji Liushuang unharmed. Back in reality, Ji Liushuang reunited with her family and reassured her mother while the Ji Clan prepared to investigate the Gospel Group.

• Fu Qian forced the blasphemer and Dark Fire Deity to withdraw, then destroyed the Mal Brothers and burned the creatures emerging from them to ash.
• Fu Qian received confirmation that mission No. 3-1041 was complete and dispelled Clear Dream after concluding he had thwarted the being’s plans again.
• Ji Liushuang woke beside the lake as Ji Xun and Ji Tong arrived, and she told them Professor Andir had sent his farewell.
• Ji Xun promised to confirm information about the Gospel Group by the next day and said Ji Ping’s body had been secured after undergoing a strange change.
• Ji Liushuang visited her mother, Ji Xue, and reassured her that the frightening incident was over.

After the mission evaluation gave Fu Qian no kill credit, he reviewed its recap, examined his new Gospel Blast ability, and pieced together a possible connection between the Ji Clan, the Native Council, the Mother of Gospel, and Unseen Hill. He decided that a trip to the Sea of Ashes might reveal more about his mysterious connection to the Blasphemy Monarch.

• Fu Qian learned that the mission credited him with no kills and awarded him 20 Sanity Value and the special reward Gospel Blast.
• He suspected the Mal Brothers might have survived because they were demigods and considered publicizing the Rebirth Club after returning.
• Fu Qian replayed the mission recap and theorized that the ashes' connection and the Blasphemy Monarch might relate to his nonexistent divine trait.
• He read that Gospel Blast violently imparted revelations and could cause madness, uncontrolled mutations, and changes to a target's identity.
• Fu Qian inferred that the Native Council had revived a corrupted blessing through Ji Ping's hand and that the Mother of Gospel's schemes might connect the Ji Clan's golden generation to Unseen Hill.
• Fu Qian concluded that he should seek his fortune at the Sea of Ashes and wondered whether humans were protected by a barrier.

Fu Qian returned from the Warehouse and learned that his actions had cost Linghui dearly while benefiting the Academy of Revelation. President Cas took him to inspect the Forbidden Zone transferred from Linghui to the academy, leaving them celebrating their shared victory.

• Fu Qian returned to his bedroom, slept, and later ate breakfast at Lanaia's home while she came back from a successful night of work.
• Lanaia told Fu Qian that Ni Huayuan valued his life, Weilong had overcome his obsession, and Linghui had suffered a major loss.
• Lanaia told Fu Qian that his new rank meant he could leave the Department of Punishment, but he chose to remain and continue his work.
• President Cas arrived to take Fu Qian to inspect his new residence, which turned out to be the Forbidden Zone Linghui had surrendered to the Academy of Revelation.
• Fu Qian and Cas congratulated each other on the Academy of Revelation's gain.

Cas led Fu Qian and Lisha into the Spirit Ash Institute for a field study, despite the institute’s apparent reluctance to host them. They reached Professor En’s lab, where his hostile reception left the study about to begin under strained circumstances.

• Cas told Fu Qian that the Academy of Revelation was borrowing the Spirit Ash Institute’s facilities for a field study, then led him to the institute.
• Cas introduced Instructor Lisha, who complained that he had arrived without warning and left her to face the institute’s scrutiny.
• Fu Qian crossed the institute’s barrier and followed Cas and Lisha through its solemn halls, where Lisha described the lower levels as increasingly unpleasant.
• Cas brought Fu Qian and Lisha to a lab, where Professor En opened the door before they could knock and greeted them coldly.
• Cas cheerfully told Professor En they would need only a few hours, while Lisha felt less awkward about their earlier insults.

Professor En led Cas, Fu Qian, and Lisha to the bronze beast that guarded the entrance to the Forbidden Zone. Cas forced it to open its mouth, and the group entered the emerald vortex to begin their expedition.

• En explained that the beast needed a mental connection and its approval before it would open its mouth.
• Cas ignored En's warning, plunged his flaming arm into the beast, and forced it to obey him.
• Cas opened the beast's mouth and rejected En's request to join the expedition.
• En left, while Cas said the Spirit Ashes needed to face reality to avoid another tragedy like Ian's.
• Lisha entered the beast's mouth first, followed by Fu Qian, and they passed through the vortex into the Forbidden Zone.