Chapter Summaries

Fu Qian tested Lady Thirteen and confirmed that she might be infected with the Evil Plague, then realized she was leading him toward Mr. Rick. He walked with her, intending to use the Night Watchers as support, and asked about Mr. Rick’s attacks on animals.

• Fu Qian concluded that Lady Thirteen may have caught the highly contagious Evil Plague and that the Night Watchers’ isolation plan was justified.
• Lady Thirteen fired a strange electric bullet at Fu Qian, who caught and crushed it in a giant frost-covered claw before diagnosing her dream and emotional-control problems.
• Lady Thirteen praised Fu Qian’s power and said she believed he did not intend to threaten Winona and the others.
• Fu Qian and Lady Thirteen admitted they had both been testing each other, and Fu Qian realized she was stalling and guiding him toward Mr. Rick.
• Fu Qian decided to take advantage of Lady Thirteen’s presence and asked why Mr. Rick attacked cats and fish.

Fu Qian discussed Rick’s strange habits with the Thirteenth Chief, speculating that age and his bizarre ecosystem philosophy might explain them. He warned that a crisis was approaching Los and kept walking despite her demand to stop, catching her shot with his frost-covered hand as frost burst from his chest.

• The Thirteenth Chief said Rick’s licking habit had begun after he turned fifty-nine, prompting Fu Qian to wonder whether age also explained the senior doctors’ behavior.
• Fu Qian suggested Rick’s habits came from growing more eager to connect with his ecosystem, while the Thirteenth Chief described Rick’s belief that he was its center.
• The Thirteenth Chief questioned why Fu Qian had come to Los, and he said shadows loomed over the city and fate was about to arrive.
• Fu Qian continued walking after the Thirteenth Chief ordered him to stop, so she fired at him.
• Fu Qian caught the shot with his frost-covered hand, and frost violently burst from his chest.

Fu Qian survived Lady Thirteen’s explosive ambush and revealed that his apparent demigod identity was a deliberate cover. Lady Thirteen accused him of manipulating events to cultivate a change in Mr. Rick, then revealed that she had ordered Mr. Rick executed.

• Fu Qian stopped the ice crystals erupting from his chest and explained that Lady Thirteen had used the gunshot to distract him while detonating his existing wound.
• Fu Qian revealed that he had concealed his true power and adopted a prepared cover identity, while Lady Thirteen admitted her ambush had failed to seriously injure him.
• Lady Thirteen warned Fu Qian that the Night Watchers would target him, while he said he was waiting for fate.
• Lady Thirteen accused Fu Qian of steering Mr. Rick into contact with the Night Watchers to cultivate a special change in him.
• Lady Thirteen revealed that she had ordered Mr. Rick executed on the spot rather than brought back.

Fu Qian learned that the Night Watchers had executed the mutated Mr. Rick, but Lady Thirteen revealed that two demigods were pursuing him. He escaped after removing Leilan’s tracking trace and set out to find the mysterious creature he believed was his real target.

• Lady Thirteen told Fu Qian that the Night Watchers had executed Mr. Rick despite his dangerous mutation.
• Lady Thirteen revealed that a demigod had overseen the execution and warned Fu Qian that another demigod was pursuing him.
• Fu Qian reasoned that Mr. Rick had been spreading corruption through a vow and that the mysterious creature might have been trying to exploit Rick.
• Fu Qian joked that his actions deserved a reward, and Lady Thirteen offered to register him with the Association after he survived the pursuit.
• Lady Thirteen drew her guns as Fu Qian sensed two demigods, but he vanished after erasing Leilan’s tracking trace and headed for the mysterious creature.

Fu Qian used the Night Watchers to eliminate Mr. Rick, then returned to the hospital and made a corrupted old doctor the core of a dream. He discovered that the dream opened onto a place inhabited by other elderly people, suggesting a possible path to the mysterious creature.

• Fu Qian left as Master Gorimshaw vanished and concluded that Mr. Rick had to die to expose the creature hiding through him.
• Fu Qian returned to the hospital and visited the old doctor who had earlier given him directions.
• Fu Qian made the old doctor enter a dream and wander through a strange door into a sunlit square filled with elderly people.
• Fu Qian used False God Incarnation to raise his rank, overcome the corrupted doctor's resistance, and make him the dream's core.
• Fu Qian discovered other old people at the edges of the dream and wondered whether the creature's hiding place was tied to corrupted people over fifty-nine.

Fu Qian entered a shared dreamland to find the corrupted being behind Mr. Rick’s death, but instead of searching its vast expanse, he used the Glorious Tyrant to tear the dream apart. He destroyed the entity’s hiding place and left the force driving him out replaced by its anguished howl.

• Fu Qian explored the plaza and concluded that the dream was a convergence of many people’s dreams, making it difficult to locate his hidden target.
• Fu Qian reasoned that the target’s corruption had restricted its range and that its effort to expel him showed it could not simply escape elsewhere.
• Fu Qian transformed into the Glorious Tyrant and began unraveling the dream rather than searching through it.
• Fu Qian reached through a fissure at an aged sculpture and used Internal Organ Critical Hit to destroy the target as a single whole.
• The force rejecting Fu Qian vanished, and the corrupted being let out a soul-piercing howl.

Fu Qian confronted the mysterious creature inhabiting the old man after destroying its sanctuary, and it transformed into a giant body while keeping its host unharmed. Fu Qian rang the Eternal Clarity of Thought, stopping the creature’s raised claw midair.

• Fu Qian returned to the Reappearance Office and found the old man transformed, with growth-covered eyes and giant claws emerging beneath his ribs.
• The creature threatened to kill Fu Qian and explained that destroying its sanctuary had freed it from its restraints.
• Fu Qian told the creature that he would kill both it and the old man if it tried to escape, and the creature began pulling its full body out of its host.
• The creature transformed into a gigantic, tissue-covered dragon while carefully restoring the old man’s body.
• Fu Qian rang the Eternal Clarity of Thought, freezing the giant claw raised to strike the old man.

Fu Qian used Eternal Clarity of Thought to wound the source of the evil plague, then pursued it as it tried to escape. After its body burst apart, he attacked it again in the void, bringing its massive form back into view.

• Fu Qian used Eternal Clarity of Thought to freeze the dragon and tore into its chest and abdomen, but the source of the evil plague soon recovered and accused him of using the hostage as bait.
• Fu Qian explained to himself how he had timed the attack, then activated Blood Conquest and adopted a higher-rank perspective.
• The wounded source of the evil plague fled through a wall and into the sky, but Fu Qian followed and trapped its wings with Thread of Concern.
• Fu Qian struck it again with Internal Organ Critical Hit, causing its body to burst into strands.
• Fu Qian used Extreme Hunger Infection to cross the sky, unleashed Frostburn Myriad Tentacles in the void, and brought the source of the evil plague's massive body back into view.

Fu Qian defeated Delusion, the corrupted being behind Mr. Rick’s worsening condition, and heard its final explanation before it crumbled. Delusion revealed a vision of Fu Qian’s higher form and the King of Prison Break, but Fu Qian’s attempt to clarify the image only made it blur as the mission ended.

• Fu Qian explained how he had tracked and destroyed Delusion’s concealed core using the Wriggling Seed and Extreme Hunger Infection.
• Delusion identified itself as fear made flesh and explained that a filthy authority had corrupted it, leaving it able to control only a sliver of its will.
• Delusion thanked Fu Qian as its body crumbled and showed him a vision of a vast river, the King of Prison Break, and Fu Qian’s higher form.
• The mission notification announced that containment of 2-020 had succeeded.
• Fu Qian used Gospel Blast on Delusion’s fading will, but the vision became even blurrier before disappearing.

Fu Qian suspected that the Blasphemy Monarch had corrupted Huo and shaped the events around Mr. Rick, then finished the task by killing Huo and granting it repose. The Warehouse’s evaluation confirmed that Fu Qian had thwarted another chance for the Blasphemy Monarch to escape, while awarding him a special reward.

• Fu Qian reasoned that the Blasphemy Monarch may have corrupted Huo and manipulated its thoughts and apparent gratitude.
• Fu Qian suspected that Huo’s offer to show him an advancement ritual had been another part of the deception.
• The Warehouse evaluated Fu Qian’s task, explaining that Mr. Rick’s corruption had spread through concepts and that Fu Qian had given Huo complete repose.
• The Warehouse recorded Huo’s death and awarded Fu Qian 25 Sanity Value and the special reward Typhoid Fear.

Fu Qian pieced together how Mr. Rick's contamination worked and confirmed that the Blasphemy Monarch had manipulated Rick and targeted Jian. He received the Typhoid Fear statue as his reward, clocked out of the Warehouse, and prepared to check on Young Master Qin and the others.

• Fu Qian realized that Mr. Rick's contamination could reach unseen targets and that approaching Rick while concealed would have been fatal.
• Fu Qian concluded that the Blasphemy Monarch had made Mr. Rick its oathbound and had tried to claim Jian, while Jian had understood the truth before she died.
• Fu Qian examined his reward, the Typhoid Fear statue, which could make a target sense an unavoidable death threat for fifty-nine minutes.
• Fu Qian received notice that his work was complete and his weekly progress was 2/4.
• Fu Qian activated the mark on his wrist to check on Young Master Qin and the others.

Fu Qian opened the bookstore and arranged a lunch break so he could use Wen Li’s emotional power to influence the Greedy Worms, who were arguing over whether the King of Prison Break’s blessing was a trap. The chapter ended as Fu Qian unleashed a wave of fear and attempted to activate a dragon-shaped figurine against the group’s most skeptical member.

• Fu Qian finished his morning inspection, returned to the bookstore, and found Wen Li serving a busy crowd of customers.
• Fu Qian interrupted a customer’s inquiry by declaring a lunch break and sent everyone out of the bookstore.
• Wen Li asked Fu Qian what he needed, and he requested another emotional ripple, this time one of fear.
• Fu Qian listened as the Greedy Worms debated whether the King of Prison Break’s blessing was genuine or a trap.
• Wen Li sent a wave of fear toward the arguing Greedy Worms, while Fu Qian tried to activate a dragon-shaped figurine against the old man who doubted the blessing.

Fu Qian used the statue he had received as a mission reward to inflict a shadow of death on Greedy Worm, turning their doubts into fear of the Death Master’s wrath. He left the group struggling to understand what was happening and sent Wen Li to visit Jiang En.

• Fu Qian decided to test how faith affected Greedy Worm by punishing the group for doubting the Death Master.
• Fu Qian used the statue to target Greedy Worm through their connection, and Wen Li watched as its effect took hold.
• The Old Man felt an overwhelming premonition of death after voicing his doubts and covered himself in golden spikes.
• Master Tooth Choker and the other members of Greedy Worm also felt groundless fear, and the Old Man warned them that something was above them.
• Fu Qian withdrew his attention, thanked Wen Li for helping, and sent her to visit Jiang En.

Fu Qian gave Wen Li a Deception Ritual Elixir for Jiang En, hoping he could use it to advance through a different ritual and inspire the Greedy Worms. Wen Li led Fu Qian to Jiang En’s home, where they found him shut away and wearing the painful Tooth Choker, and Fu Qian activated Clear Dream.

• Fu Qian explained that the Deception Ritual Elixir could let a transcendent use a ritual not meant for them, and asked Wen Li to deliver it to Jiang En as a thank-you gift.
• Fu Qian and Wen Li walked to Jiang En’s home during their lunch break, and Wen Li slipped past its security measures.
• Wen Li told Fu Qian that Jiang En had shut himself away, though an unusual item seemed to be keeping his body active.
• Fu Qian identified the item clamped to Jiang En’s arm as the Tooth Choker and found Jiang En lying motionless beyond the closed door.
• Fu Qian decided to shape Jiang En’s comeback story and activated Clear Dream.

Fu Qian and Wen Li chose the Death Wish ritual to help Jiang En break through the Intermediate Tier bottleneck. After Jiang En woke from the Clear Dream, the Tooth Choker triggered its ancient seal and revealed a secret advancement ritual to him.

• Fu Qian asked Wen Li to choose a ritual for Jiang En, and she proposed the Death Wish ritual she had learned from Chief Yuan.
• Wen Li explained that the ritual required sitting in darkness, bleeding, and ignoring the approach of death while a Divine creature attacked the focus of one's will.
• Fu Qian approved the ritual and told Wen Li that Jiang En had already received it through the Supernatural Item on his arm.
• Jiang En woke and reached for the Tooth Choker, which had grown hot and pierced his arm.
• The Tooth Choker released translucent liquid and voices in Jiang En's mind as its ancient seal activated, revealing a secret advancement ritual.

Fu Qian manipulated Jiang En into believing Tooth Choker and a dream-revealed ritual offered him a chance to overcome his bottleneck, while the actual ritual was meant to test his fear of death. As Jiang En carried out the ritual and lost life force, Fu Qian watched through the Greedy Worms’ connection, noting Jiang En’s will was fixed on one of his teeth.

• Fu Qian sent Jiang En a dream that made him believe Tooth Choker held a hidden secret and that a ritual could help him advance.
• Jiang En found the bottle of spiritual medicine, took Tooth Choker off, and went to his underground training room to prepare the ritual.
• Fu Qian explained to Wen Li that he had changed Jiang En’s understanding of the ritual, turning it into a trial of his fear of death.
• Jiang En applied the scorching spiritual medicine to his eyes and began the ritual, following its instructions as his life force ebbed away.
• Fu Qian observed through the Greedy Worms’ connection that Jiang En focused his will on one of his teeth.

Fu Qian explained that Jiang En's bloodletting ritual could provoke a higher being into helping him break through his limits, while the Greedy Worms shared the harm Jiang En suffered. The Greedy Worms debated what to do but realized they could not reach him in time, as Laurie remained gravely ill from Typhoid Fear.

• Fu Qian and Wen Li discussed how Jiang En's sacrifice and will could help the ritual succeed.
• Jiang En lay bleeding as he demonstrated his determination, unaware that his actions were meant to provoke a higher being's disgust.
• The Greedy Worms felt Jiang En's loss of life through their shared connection, and the Tooth Choker Adept argued with the others about his behavior.
• The Tooth Choker Adept asked Laurie for advice, and he noted that Jiang En's unusual bottle and actions made it unclear whether he truly meant to kill himself.
• The Tooth Choker Adept asked whether they should wait or return, and Laurie said they could not reach Shangjing in time.

Fu Qian secretly completed the ritual that shattered Jiang En’s will and helped him ascend. As Fu Qian and Wen Li left, the King of Prison Break connection filled with excited voices.

• Fu Qian concluded that the Greedy Worms could withdraw only by executing Jiang En and noted that Jiang En’s mysterious talent let him endure longer than expected.
• Fu Qian gave Jiang En another minute, sensing that his will was nearing its limit.
• Fu Qian used the Calamity Authority to detonate two teeth bound to Jiang En’s will, shattering it as the ritual required.
• Wen Li sensed Jiang En’s aura changing, and Jiang En howled with grief and relief as he ascended.
• Fu Qian and Wen Li left without revealing their role, and Wen Li remarked that the Jiang Clan had lost its chance to control Jiang En.
• Excited voices sounded through the connection to the King of Prison Break.

The Greedy Worms discovered that Jiang En’s ritual had stopped their losses and improved their condition, while Laurie revealed that the threat of death had also vanished. Fu Qian withdrew from watching them and told Wen Li she was on leave as he took her home.

• Tooth Choker observed that Jiang En’s ritual had worked, and the Greedy Worms celebrated their improved condition.
• Tooth Choker described Jiang En carefully putting away the empty bottle that had held the ritual’s liquid.
• Laurie told the group that the threat of death had disappeared shortly after he grew stronger, though he had done nothing to cause it.
• A teammate suggested Laurie’s argument with Tooth Choker about the King of Prison Break had brought on the fear, and the group considered returning to Shangjing.
• Fu Qian stopped observing the Greedy Worms and told Wen Li that he was taking her home and that she was on leave.

Fu Qian returned to the Academy of Revelation to prepare for his expedition to Xiyuan City and obtain samples from Kalaodola. At his laboratory, Ji Liushuang mistook him for an impostor and attacked.

• Wen Li celebrated her time off, asked whether she had passed her trial period, and whether she would be paid.
• Fu Qian told Wen Li she could tell Chief Yuan about his changes but should keep his lunch-break activities and gun quiet for now.
• Fu Qian wondered whether the Death Master had changed after the Rotten Flesh sharing, but found no new clues.
• Fu Qian returned to his laboratory at the Academy of Revelation and thanked Ji Liushuang for maintaining it.
• Ji Liushuang examined Fu Qian, realized he was not who he appeared to be, and attacked him with sword aura.