Chapter Summaries

Fu Qian realized Wen Li had fired the Calamity bullet as a warning because she faced a grave threat, which he suspected came from the Night Watchers’ hidden interest in her and him. He returned to Shangjing and found a note from Yuan Shan saying she was back.

• Fu Qian inferred that Wen Li had deliberately fired the Calamity bullet into a steel target to alert him that she was in danger.
• Fu Qian recalled Qi Xue’s order to watch Wen Li without interfering and suspected the Night Watchers’ superior was behind the threat.
• Fu Qian reasoned that Wen Li had sensed the danger early and acted before she might lose the chance to send him a warning.
• Fu Qian gathered his equipment, changed clothes, and returned to Shangjing wearing the Messenger.
• Fu Qian found a note from Yuan Shan inviting him to come by for tea.

Fu Qian met Yuan Shan at Night Watcher headquarters and revealed that Wen Li needed the Night Watchers’ help because her trouble came from one of their own. Wen Li arrived to meet Yuan Shan, while Fu Qian hinted that Yuan Shan could identify the Night Watcher involved.

• Fu Qian visited Yuan Shan, and they discussed Old Man Henry’s apology and his thanks for Fu Qian’s help.
• Yuan Shan’s secretary, Xiao Mingyue, announced that Wen Li had come to visit.
• Fu Qian told Yuan Shan that Wen Li needed the Night Watchers’ help because the trouble came from a Night Watcher.
• Fu Qian hinted that Yuan Shan should recognize the colleague whose attitude toward Wen Li’s special talent had seemed odd.
• Wen Li entered, greeted Yuan Shan, and relaxed when she saw Fu Qian.

Wen Li told Yuan Shan that an undetectable force had disturbed and suppressed her deeper emotions, and Fu Qian judged that a powerful being was likely responsible. Yuan Shan agreed to investigate the threat through the Night Watchers, while Fu Qian disclosed that Wen Li may have been caught in the crossfire as someone tried to flush out a snake.

• Fu Qian offered Wen Li tea, and Yuan Shan asked why she had come to see her.
• Wen Li described a subtle disturbance that had affected her emotions and left her ability powerless to stop it.
• Fu Qian reasoned that Wen Li had come to the Night Watchers for protection and that Yuan Shan could help identify everyone involved.
• Yuan Shan asked Fu Qian whether a malicious high-tier being had caused the abnormality.
• Fu Qian trusted Wen Li's judgment and said the Night Watchers' records could help rule out powerful suspects.
• Fu Qian told Yuan Shan that the attack was meant to flush out a snake and that Wen Li was probably caught in the crossfire.

Fu Qian told Yuan Shan that the Night Watchers were targeting Wen Li because they suspected his connection to her and feared a dangerous secret. Yuan Shan identified their likely pursuer as Kelin, the Needle Witch, and Fu Qian hinted that the secret involved Blood Lion’s visit to the Western Plains.

• Fu Qian explained that his unknown enemies were harassing Wen Li because they suspected she was close to him and feared he knew a secret that could harm them.
• Fu Qian described the suspected enemy as a vicious, poorly made ragdoll with a talent for hiding, and Yuan Shan recognized the description as Kelin, the Needle Witch.
• Yuan Shan sent Wen Li away with Xiao Mingyue before explaining that Kelin was a Second Order Extraordinary in the Night Watchers’ conservative faction.
• Yuan Shan described Kelin’s expertise in remote control, curses, puppets, possession, and crossing space, then pressed Fu Qian to reveal the secret.
• Fu Qian joked that Yuan Shan was not afraid of dying and said Blood Lion had recently visited family in the Western Plains.

Fu Qian explained to Yuan Shan how he could disguise himself from Lady Kelin and told her what had happened during Blood Lion’s expedition in Xiyuan. After hearing that a Ragdoll had possessed Lady Miranda, Yuan Shan agreed to go with him to Wen Li’s place.

• Fu Qian told Yuan Shan he was confident Lady Kelin would mistake Gorimshaw’s frost powers for someone else’s, and revealed he had come to see whether Yuan Shan wanted to hear the secret.
• Yuan Shan agreed to hear Fu Qian’s account, curious about the Xiyuan Huang Clan and Huang Zhixun’s return.
• Fu Qian said Blood Lion and two companions had investigated an anomaly in the mountains behind the Huang Clan estate while a team led by Kelin’s former subordinate watched the area with a Ragdoll.
• Yuan Shan broke her cup when Fu Qian described the anomaly spreading chaos through the city, killing and injuring ordinary citizens and causing heavy losses for Blood Lion and the Huang Clan.
• Fu Qian added that the Ragdoll had possessed Lady Miranda, and Yuan Shan agreed to go with him to Wen Li’s place.

Fu Qian and Yuan Shan agreed to stay at Wen Li’s house and wait for Needle Witch Kelin to make a move. Before leaving, Fu Qian used Dazzling Face and the Messenger to conceal his identity, then joined Yuan Shan and Wen Li.

• Yuan Shan decided to pursue a cautious but proactive plan by staying with Wen Li and waiting for the enemy.
• Fu Qian asked to use Yuan Shan’s private washroom, then activated Dazzling Face and put on the Messenger to disguise himself as Fang Xun.
• Fu Qian confirmed that the Messenger concealed his supernatural aura and fixed his appearance, then returned to Yuan Shan’s office.
• Yuan Shan asked Fu Qian how he had changed his face, and he told her it was a trick to help him keep a low profile.
• Yuan Shan led Fu Qian out to meet Wen Li and asked whether her chef could prepare the fish she had enjoyed before.

Fu Qian brought Yuan Shan to Wen Li’s mansion and used the visit to explain how he had anticipated danger without revealing their secrets about the King of Prison Break and the Needle Witch. After the three shared a meal, Yuan Shan eagerly ate fish and revealed she had eaten seventeen in total.

• Fu Qian took Yuan Shan to Wen Li’s shooting range, where Wen Li explained she wanted more ways to attack.
• Fu Qian praised Wen Li for keeping the gun and evidence from the earlier incident out of Yuan Shan’s sight.
• Fu Qian fired three unusual bullets that destroyed the targets, prompting Yuan Shan to accuse him of wasting Night Watchers’ ammunition.
• Yuan Shan inferred that the gunfire had been a signal Wen Li could use to alert Fu Qian if she was in danger.
• Wen Li served Yuan Shan fish, and Yuan Shan said she had eaten seventeen fish in all.

Fu Qian, Yuan Shan, and Wen Li discussed an imperceptible power that had made the experience of eating fish repeat, strengthening their suspicion that Needle Witch was behind the attack. Yuan Shan took charge of the counterintelligence effort and revealed a bloodstained high-grade whip, warning Wen Li not to look at it.

• Fu Qian explained that Yuan Shan had perceived the fish-eating experience repeat seventeen times, while his own count was twenty-nine and Wen Li had detected nothing.
• Wen Li reported that her emotions and perception seemed normal, while Yuan Shan confirmed the repetition had brought no other effects or added enjoyment.
• Yuan Shan concluded that the enemy was formidable, and the strange ability further increased the likelihood that Needle Witch was responsible.
• Fu Qian suspected the attacker used a concealment method related to spacetime and said the event was probably only an initial greeting.
• Yuan Shan produced a bloodstained, petal-linked metal whip, and warned Wen Li not to look at it.

Yuan Shan used the Divine Punishment Whip to strike at an unseen Transcendent connected to the fish-eating incidents, capturing a white feather before the enemy escaped. Fu Qian recognized the feather from the Angel Dungeon and discovered that touching it reduced his Sanity, leaving him to wonder whether other remnants of the angel faith remained.

• Yuan Shan brought out a whip given to her by her teacher, Henry, and used her black threads to control it.
• The whip sensed the hidden Transcendent and attacked, revealing that the unseen being had been behind the fish-eating incidents.
• Yuan Shan retrieved a white feather from the whip, but the feather dissolved when Fu Qian caught it.
• Fu Qian concealed that touching the feather reduced his Sanity by one and recognized it from the Angel Dungeon.
• Fu Qian wondered whether there were other remnants of the angel faith besides Elina's team.

Fu Qian, Yuan Shan, and Wen Li realized an unseen angel was trapping them in a repeating process that steadily erased their emotions. The chapter left them testing whether Wen Li's anger could disrupt the effect, while the hidden force remained out of sight.

• Fu Qian recalled that angelic purification had once drained his Sanity Value and suspected the power behind it had grown stronger.
• Wen Li reported that her emotions were fading, and Yuan Shan counted repeated loops while noticing that the loss of humanity accumulated each time.
• Fu Qian and Yuan Shan considered whether the trap had been set to lure them in, though its purpose remained unclear.
• Fu Qian asked Wen Li to summon negative emotions to test the effect, and Yuan Shan announced that the loop had repeated again.
• Wen Li gathered anger and pain and directed them at Fu Qian, but the emotions stirred only briefly before fading.

Fu Qian, Yuan Shan, and Wen Li remained trapped in a repeating stretch of time that drained away their emotions. Wen Li’s repeated efforts eventually restored their dark emotions, and Fu Qian suspected that remnants of the Angel’s faith were behind the will-cage.

• Yuan Shan proposed leaving the area, but Fu Qian judged that changing location would not help unless they found the source of the phenomenon.
• Fu Qian chose to wait calmly, and Yuan Shan and Wen Li trusted his judgment.
• Fu Qian asked Wen Li to repeat her technique and described the repeated experience as a cage of the will rather than a true time loop.
• After Wen Li’s repeated efforts, Yuan Shan and Wen Li’s suppressed negative emotions suddenly returned and overwhelmed them.
• Fu Qian concluded that their dark selves had been separated rather than erased, then connected the phenomenon to the remnants of the Angel’s faith he had encountered in the dungeon.

Fu Qian suspected a powerful being connected to the darkness awaiting purification, and an angelic figure suddenly attacked Yuan Shan and Wen Li. As Fu Qian joined the fight, he evaded the angel’s slashes and wondered whether its purification power threatened him as a Warehouse administrator.

• Fu Qian recalled the Angel Dungeon and suspected that the hidden figure was connected to the darkness awaiting purification.
• Wen Li’s efforts shifted Chief Yuan and Fu Qian toward opposite emotional extremes, confirming Fu Qian’s suspicion that their states could be manipulated.
• A pale hand emerged from a rift and launched crescent-shaped slashes at Yuan Shan, who defended herself and Wen Li with a woven black barrier.
• Fu Qian saw a winged, angelic being resembling the Angel Corpse and shouted at it while Yuan Shan continued to protect Wen Li.
• The angel unleashed more slashes, and Fu Qian vanished from his position to evade them as he considered the danger of purification to Warehouse administrators.

Fu Qian faced the Archangel’s attacks alongside Yuan Shan and Wen Li, using Blood Conquest to evade beams that could not track across dimensions. He realized the Time Cage multiplied damage received within its repeated moments, and revealed that he had inflicted Calamity on the Archangel in return.

• Fu Qian used Blood Conquest to reappear behind Yuan Shan as the Archangel’s slashes battered her barrier.
• Yuan Shan tried to rally the others, but the Archangel charged a volley of beams and the Bookstore Owner kicked her and Wen Li out of its path.
• Fu Qian evaded the beams with Blood Conquest, while Yuan Shan raised a thicker barrier and warned that damage accumulated inside the Time Cage.
• Yuan Shan revealed that a beam graze had cost her most of her right arm after the repeated moments magnified the injury.
• Fu Qian showed his grotesquely enlarged, spiked left arm and inflicted Calamity on the Archangel.

Fu Qian unleashed a devastating attack against the Angel Lord, which vanished rather than trade blows. He and Yuan Shan deduced that the Time Cage affected the Angel Lord too, while Fu Qian continued to suspect Kelin had arranged the encounter to test him.

• Fu Qian concentrated his flesh into a massive tentacle attack and activated False God Incarnation, but the Angel Lord vanished before the strike could hit, leaving Wen Li's furniture destroyed.
• Fu Qian apologized to Wen Li, then asked Yuan Shan how many times the Time Cage cycle had repeated; she answered that it had repeated nine times.
• Yuan Shan realized the Time Cage affected the Angel Lord as well and had been activated in advance, so it could not cancel the cycle after the Angel Lord chose to retreat.
• Fu Qian explained that the Angel Lord had avoided his attack because it judged that taking the hit would cause serious consequences.
• Fu Qian considered that Kelin might have sent the Angel Lord to test him while concealing her identity, and he sought a way through the strength gap without exceeding the costs he could afford.

Fu Qian reasoned out that the Angel Lord’s Time Cage had to be set in advance and that its accumulated damage also affected its user. After surviving their exchange, he hid with Yuan Shan and tried to draw the Angel Lord into revealing how it tracked him.

• Fu Qian concluded that the Time Cage’s repetitions had to be chosen beforehand and that accumulated damage affected the Angel Lord as well.
• Fu Qian ordered Yuan Shan to keep her defensive stance at maximum and activated Blood Conquest to hide from the Angel Lord.
• Fu Qian waited in the blood domain while the Angel Lord stayed hidden, noting that it might still be able to detect him.
• Fu Qian took down the Messenger, returned to the Warehouse, and activated the mark on his wrist again to test the Angel Lord’s ability to detect him.

Fu Qian returned to Miss Wen’s mansion and faced Angel Lord, which had attacked Chief Yuan to force him back. He wounded Angel Lord with Mercy and prepared to challenge it at close range, while Chief Yuan warned that she could not sense any damage to it.

• Fu Qian left during Blood Conquest, and Angel Lord responded by intensifying its assault on Chief Yuan’s defenses.
• Fu Qian returned, dodged Angel Lord’s greatsword strike, and feigned a sword technique while secretly firing Mercy into its chest.
• Chief Yuan congratulated Fu Qian on the hit, then warned that she could not sense Angel Lord taking any damage.
• Fu Qian put away Mercy, transformed his hands into claws, and stood ready to face Angel Lord’s two swords.

Fu Qian and Yuan Shan survived Lord Laotian’s attack and returned to the Night Watcher base with Wen Li. There, Yuan Shan questioned Fu Qian about the attacker and the inconclusive investigation into Kelin.

• Lord Laotian unleashed a crossing sword slash, but Fu Qian charged through the attack and used Typhoid Fear to pursue its fading aura.
• After the radiance vanished, Yuan Shan lowered her defense, checked on Fu Qian and Wen Li, and agreed to return to the base.
• Fu Qian showed Yuan Shan the Meteor Launcher, which he thought might now launch a meteor shower.
• At the Night Watcher base, Yuan Shan asked Fu Qian who the attacker was and said she would investigate the unknown Second Order Transcendent.
• Yuan Shan noted that their probe had not produced concrete evidence against Kelin, and Fu Qian questioned whether she had expected proof enough to condemn a former council member.

Fu Qian and Yuan Shan assessed the gains and losses from their probe, concluding that they had learned about an unusual Second Order but gained no proof that Kelin was involved. They decided to report the encounter as a lead, watch Xiyuan and other developments, and protect Wen Li.

• Yuan Shan questioned Fu Qian about why he had not told her his plan, and he said she was more likely to keep control if events unfolded naturally.
• Fu Qian and Yuan Shan agreed that their encounter with an unusual Second Order gave them a useful lead to take to the higher-ups.
• They recognized that the probe had produced no evidence against Kelin, giving Yuan Shan time to watch Xiyuan and other areas discreetly.
• Yuan Shan worried that Fu Qian had revealed too many of his abilities, but he insisted that he had used them to avoid being recognized.
• Fu Qian counted the exposure of his abilities as a loss and pointed out that they had also gained a witness, Wen Li, who needed protection.

Fu Qian advised Yuan Shan on protecting Wen Li and using Typhoid Fear to watch for the angel’s movements. Yuan Shan offered him a reward, and his request for ammunition led her to propose a dangerous, painful alternative.

• Yuan Shan agreed to keep Wen Li at her home for a few days, while Fu Qian explained that Wen Li might qualify for the Death Mark.
• Fu Qian told Yuan Shan to watch for unusual astronomical phenomena over the next three days and described how Typhoid Fear could expose powerful targets who tried to resist it.
• Yuan Shan asked Fu Qian what reward he wanted, and he requested information about the Larrea Royal Family and Ermu Mansion Palace.
• Fu Qian also asked to restock his ammunition, but Yuan Shan hesitated and offered him a dangerous, painful process instead.

Yuan Shan explained that the Meria Flower Ball could awaken a target’s latent potential if they endured its brutal torment for fifteen minutes. Fu Qian immediately agreed to try it, and as Yuan Shan whipped him, his body began trying to transform into the King of Prison Break.

• Yuan Shan explained that the Meria Flower Ball became a dangerous predator around divine targets and turned on its handler if it went fifteen minutes without damaging one.
• Yuan Shan said that anyone who endured its torment for fifteen minutes might awaken latent potential and gain unpredictable benefits, though she could offer no examples.
• Fu Qian asked whether Yuan Shan was seeking revenge and who Meria was; Yuan Shan said her teacher had told her not to ask about the name.
• Fu Qian decided to use the flower ball at once, and Yuan Shan enclosed them in a black curtain before beginning the trial.
• Yuan Shan struck Fu Qian with the flower ball, tearing open his flesh, and his body began to transform into the King of Prison Break.