Chapter Summaries

Han Su used the Will of Copper to break the Tall, Thin Woman’s restraints and learned she believed he had caused the Seven-Day Divine Descent to fail. After his first shot missed, he activated the Thought-Stealing Pocket Watch to think through his next move, then aimed his gun at his own temple and pulled the trigger.

• The Tall, Thin Woman tried to capture Han Su again, and he confronted her about sending him to the Ancient Castle.
• Han Su used Copper Blood and the Will of Copper to form a Cipher Array that broke her mental chains and freed him from suppression.
• The Tall, Thin Woman recognized the power in Han Su and said he was the reason the Seven-Day Divine Descent had failed.
• Han Su fired a Copper Blood-enhanced shot at the Tall, Thin Woman, grazing her cheek but failing to kill her.
• Han Su poured his recovered Mental Activity into the Thought-Stealing Pocket Watch and stole three minutes of thought.
• After rapidly analyzing the situation, Han Su aimed his gun at his own temple and pulled the trigger.

Han Su tried to trap the Tall, Thin Woman in reality, but she escaped and announced that the Abyss Studio would enter reality in twenty minutes to begin the Twelfth Heir Retrieval Plan. As Red Sea Studio confronted Han Su, he summoned the Bronze Armor Statue and Ghost Truck, then warned Wei Lan that the mastermind behind the Kidnapping Case was coming to Qinggang.

• Han Su shot himself to draw the Tall, Thin Woman through the spatial boundary, grabbed her, and destroyed the machine connecting their spaces, but she returned to the Abyss Laboratory and ordered the Twelfth Heir Retrieval Plan to begin in twenty minutes.
• Han Su tore through the locked laboratory door and confronted Red Sea Studio; an intelligence officer explained that Li Moses had arranged the meeting to investigate the failed Seven-Day Divine Descent and intended to recruit Han Su if he was cleared.
• The Ghost Truck charged through the fog and attacked the armed personnel as Red Sea Studio tried to capture Han Su, who invoked the Cross Copper Scar and summoned the Bronze Armor Statue from Lilac Mansion.
• The Bronze Armor Statue broke through Red Sea Studio's blockade and attacked the guards; Han Su ordered it to kill everyone while it and the Ghost Truck cleared the laboratory.
• Han Su contacted Wei Lan and warned her that the Kidnapping Case mastermind was about to arrive in Qinggang, and Wei Lan told him they might not be alone in facing the coming conflict.

Han Su escaped the Red Sea Studio’s attack and learned from Song Chushi that humanity’s growing use of Mysterious Power was bringing the tide closer, prompting an audacious plan called the Seven-Day Divine Descent. The chapter left the plan’s failure ten years earlier in Qinggang unexplained, as the city’s Council abruptly moved to cancel the Silent Plan and Han Su prepared for the coming conflict.

• At D7 Laboratory, researchers observed that Ripper had retained his emotions through seven surgeries, and he asked to take time off to do something meaningful.
• Rong Qiyue accepted that he had to fight alongside the Big Boss and armed himself for the coming conflict.
• Wei Lan and the Qinggang Council voted to cancel the Silent Plan, after which Mr. Xu ordered changes to the mayor’s duties, the Disaster Management Bureau’s responsibilities, and cooperation with Abyss Studio.
• Han Su woke in the ruined D7 Laboratory, where the Ghost Truck and Bronze Armor Statue had killed or immobilized Red Sea Studio’s elite operatives, and met Song Chushi outside.
• Song Chushi explained that humanity’s use of Mysterious Power awakened ancient wills and intensified the tide, then revealed that the Seven-Day Divine Descent had been attempted in Qinggang ten years earlier and failed.

Han Su and Song Chushi agreed to oppose the Abyss Studio’s Seven-Day Divine Descent, though they pursued different goals. As Zhang Chiguo fought three Independent Investigators in the mirror world, Han Su opened the Emperor’s Book, preparing to use his knowledge of Scarlet to change the battle.

• Song Chushi explained that the Seven-Day Divine Descent had failed ten years ago, revealed his goals of stopping the plan, finding the inheritors’ list, and avenging the children, and asked Han Su to help rescue his sister.
• Han Su said he wanted detailed information about the plan and intended to detain or kill the Tall, Thin Woman, whom Song Chushi identified as his mother.
• Han Su and Song Chushi reached Qinggang’s city center and saw Zhang Chiguo overpowering three Independent Investigators in the Queen’s mirror world.
• Song Chushi explained that the fighters were bound together by their shared source of power and that authority and knowledge determined supernatural confrontations.
• Han Su asked whether Scarlet knowledge could help Song Chushi defeat Zhang Chiguo’s opponents, then opened the Emperor’s Book from his suitcase.

Han Su used a Zero Sequence Spell to steal Scarlet power from the battle and learned about its nature through the Emperor's Book. His theft disrupted the confrontation, and the Scarlet power he took came from Li Moses.

• Han Su used the Zero Sequence Spell to summon Scarlet power, but its influence nearly overwhelmed him before the Emperor's Book devoured it and restored his divine substance.
• The Emperor's Book revealed knowledge about Scarlet, and Han Su began to understand the principles behind the four fighters' methods of resisting it.
• Song Chushi heard that extraordinary knowledge had appeared upstairs, grew wary of Han Su, and resolved to cooperate with him and give him the Crystal Skull.
• Zhang Chiguo's assault forced Li Moses, Zhao Brahma, and Wang Buddha to work together, while each hoped to prove his method superior.
• Han Su stole a drifting wisp of Scarlet power from the confrontation, and it came from Li Moses, triggering an unexpected chain reaction.

Song Chushi entered the battle between the Four Heavenly Kings and used the Zero Sequence Cipher Incantation, Number 13: All Nothing, to erase Scarlet Power. Han Su recognized that the incantation had revealed a new path, while ceremonial figures appeared across Azure Harbor and announced that the twelfth inheritor had been found.

• Zhang Chiguo struck Li Moses twice, then tore off his arm and pinned him down while searching for his heart.
• Li Moses unleashed a mental sea of the dead to restrain Zhang Chiguo, but Zhang tore through it and overpowered him.
• Han Su passed his Scarlet knowledge to Song Chushi, who strode into the battlefield and shattered the mirror world with his Mental Activity.
• Song Chushi resisted Zhao Brahma and Wang Buddha's Scarlet Power and spoke the incantation All Nothing, erasing the Scarlet around them.
• Han Su realized the Zero Sequence offered a new path as Zhao Brahma, Wang Buddha, and Zhang Chiguo reacted in shock.
• Elderly figures in ceremonial robes appeared at intersections across Azure Harbor and declared that the twelfth inheritor had been found.

Song Chushi suppressed the Scarlet Power, giving Han Su and the others a chance to resist as Abyss Studio prepared to enter Qinggang. The Qinggang Council rejected the Silence Plan, aligning Han Su and Song Chushi’s goals and turning the conflict toward capturing Abyss Studio’s agents and uncovering the kidnapping case.

• Song Chushi used All Nothing to suppress the Scarlet Power affecting Zhao Brahma, Wang Buddha, and Zhang Chiguo, who returned Li Moses’s heart and allowed him to heal.
• Han Su arrived, revealed that he had killed Abyss Studio’s people to escape, and joined Song Chushi as Abyss Studio’s forces approached Qinggang.
• Song Chushi told Han Su to escape amid the chaos, but their plans changed when Qinggang officially rejected Abyss Studio and issued missions to stop its invasion.
• Song Chushi revealed that the Black Rose Organization, formed by families of the Ancient Castle kidnapping victims, had helped bring about the Council’s decision.
• Song Chushi said their goal was now to capture Abyss Studio’s agents and uncover the truth, while the Four Heavenly Kings received new orders canceling their mission against him.
• Zhang Chiguo returned Li Moses’s gun and asked whether he would still follow the canceled secret mission or obey the Qinggang Council’s new commission.

Qinggang’s council rejected the Silent Plan, prompting the Abyss Studio to order an invasion while the Disaster Management Bureau mobilized to defend the city. As Han Su and Song Chushi headed toward the advancing contamination, Qinggang’s forces confronted the Slaughter City Sacrifice at the outskirts.

• Seven council members voted to scrap the Silent Plan, and Mr. Xu defended the decision despite warnings that Qinggang could not defeat the Abyss Studio.
• The Tall, Thin Woman ordered an invasion of Qinggang, including the deployment of Giant Weapons and the Four Great Sacrifices, while demanding that Copper's Heir be captured alive.
• Song Chushi explained Qinggang’s reality defense lines to Han Su as the city’s ordinary residents remained exposed to the invasion.
• Li Moses accepted Zhang Chiguo’s assignment, and Wang Buddha, Zhao Brahma, and Zhang Chiguo also set out to defend Qinggang.
• The Disaster Management Bureau mobilized its agents and broadcast a food-poisoning cover story as Han Su and Song Chushi moved toward the contamination.
• The Slaughter City Sacrifice advanced toward Qinggang, where investigators and other defenders blocked the road; a black shot rang out as the forces faced each other.

The Abyss Studio’s attack on Qinggang began with contagious Werebeast and Zombie viruses, but Wang Buddha turned the infected against the invaders and held the Slaughter City Sacrifice back. Meanwhile, Han Su and Song Chushi prepared to force the Abyss Studio to descend at a location where Qinggang could trap it, and Song Chushi began activating his citywide Cipher Arrays.

• Mysterious Followers charged into Qinggang as investigators formed barriers, but Werebeast attackers broke through and rooftop followers released Zombie Virus bullets into the crowd.
• Night Lamp, Red Trench Coat, and Green Hat attacked the Slaughter City Sacrifice together, but he repelled them and nearly killed them.
• Wang Buddha arrived, drove back the Slaughter City Sacrifice, and used his Scarlet Power to redirect the infected toward the invaders.
• Han Su and Song Chushi planned to make the Abyss Studio descend at the Abandoned D7 Experimental Base so they could imprison it inside Qinggang.
• Han Su asked Song Chushi about the incantation “I am god, bestow your oracle,” and he identified it as a Civilization History Record linked to the Forgotten Emperor.
• Song Chushi activated the Cipher Arrays he had planted across the city and declared that he would expose someone’s lies and greed.

Song Chushi confronted the Tall, Thin Woman at the Abyss Laboratory while battles raged across Azure Harbor. After the Scalpel Team shattered his Cipher Arrays, he and Han Su activated a hidden plan to draw on the Mental Power of all thirty million people in Qinggang City, leaving the Tall, Thin Woman facing an overwhelming wave.

• Song Chushi pulled the Abyss Laboratory into Azure Harbor and demanded that the Tall, Thin Woman reveal the list of inheritors and his Younger Sister’s whereabouts.
• The Tall, Thin Woman rejected Song Chushi’s resistance, and her Scalpel Team cut through his Cipher Array chains before surrounding Han Su and pressuring Song Chushi.
• Slaughter City Sacrifices forced their way toward Azure Harbor’s Reality Anchors as investigators and Executors fought them; Zhang Chiguo protected Black Tiger, and Miss Crow rescued Zhao Brahma.
• Song Chushi revealed his plan to activate Qinggang City’s collective Mental Power, while Han Su used the Cross Copper Scar and fog to help set it in motion.
• The hidden Cipher Arrays spread through Qinggang’s shadows, and a tremendous wave of power surged toward the Tall, Thin Woman and the Abyss Laboratory.

Han Su and Song Chushi used Qinggang’s civilian Mental Power to suppress the Tall, Thin Woman and attack the Abyss Studio, while allies held off the other Slaughter City Sacrifices. The Tall, Thin Woman dismantled the Bronze Armor Statue and summoned the Pallor Factory’s flesh army, leaving Han Su and Song Chushi surrounded.

• Han Su summoned the Ghost Truck, but the Scalpel Team sent it crashing away before Song Chushi froze the assistants with the Sand of Time and shot them dead.
• Song Chushi used a loophole he had planted four years earlier to draw on Qinggang’s Third Reality Defense Line, binding the Tall, Thin Woman with chains formed from civilians’ Mental Power.
• Han Su attacked the bound woman with Copper Blood, the Bronze Armor Statue, and a stun baton, while Qinggang’s council realized Song Chushi had forcibly extracted the city’s civilian Mental Power.
• Rong Qiyue joined Zhang Chiguo’s fight against the Crystal Sacrifice, and his family’s bloodline power helped them wound it; Wei Lan and the former Queens protected another front, while a prisoner-clad figure rushed to aid Li Moses.
• The Tall, Thin Woman dismantled the Bronze Armor Statue, traced a Cipher Array, and summoned the Pallor Factory, whose falling flesh restored the dead assistants and formed an expanding army.
• The Tall, Thin Woman told Han Su that she had brought enough flesh to withstand Qinggang’s civilian Mental Power and said it was too late for him to run.

Han Su confronted the Tall, Thin Woman as Abyss Studio began the Seven-Day Divine Descent and Qinggang fell into chaos. When she discovered Han Su’s blood was red, her certainty that he was Copper’s Heir collapsed, and the chapter ended with someone revealing they had found a Crystal Skull.

• Song Chushi offered to give Han Su stolen information and help him escape, explaining that Han Su might still save his younger sister.
• The Tall, Thin Woman revealed the Eleven Altars and their bound inheritors, then used Chao Xiaobei to unleash Scarlet’s power against Qinggang’s defenders.
• The Tall, Thin Woman explained the Seven-Day Divine Descent and tried to awaken the Will of Copper inside Han Su, but his wound bled red.
• Han Su revealed that he had never been Copper’s Heir, causing the Tall, Thin Woman to realize that Abyss Studio’s assumptions and plans had gone wrong.
• Song Chushi detonated his explosives to break through the flesh army, but his search of the Abyss Laboratory yielded no files or other evidence.
• As both sides faced devastating losses, someone emerged from behind an abandoned vehicle and displayed a Crystal Skull.

Han Su confronted Shen Yunyi after the Crystal Skull restored her buried maternal feelings, and she revealed the truth about his parents and the World Guardians’ Divine Descent Plan. As Azure Harbor fell under attack, Han Su demanded the information he needed and prepared to use Shimmering Descent, while Shen Yunyi offered him a gift.

• Lu Neng tossed the Crystal Skull to Han Su, who seized it and brought Shen Yunyi close enough to regain her emotions.
• Shen Yunyi embraced Han Su, admitted she was his mother, and revealed that she had put her maternal feelings into the Crystal Skull.
• Shen Yunyi identified the World Guardians as the Twelve Knights’ descendants and named Han Changming as Han Su’s father.
• Shen Yunyi warned that the exposed Divine Descent Plan had collapsed and that the World Guardians were destroying Azure Harbor as the Slaughter City Sacrifices approached Abyss Studio.
• Han Su aimed his gun at Shen Yunyi, then chose to seek information instead and considered using Shimmering Descent to return to the Ancient Castle.
• Shen Yunyi said the Crystal Skull contained everything she knew, including Han Su’s memories from ten years ago, and offered him a gift.

Ms. Shen gave Han Su a Mechanical Fragment and the knowledge stored in the Crystal Skull before holding off the forces attacking Qinggang, but distant gunmen killed her as Shimmering Descent began. Han Su returned to the Ancient Castle at the start of his Life Path with his memories and powers intact, determined to use what he had learned about the children and Seven-Day Divine Descent.

• Ms. Shen gave Han Su a fragment of the Sole Throne, explained its importance, and urged him to run while the Slaughter City Sacrifices closed in.
• Ms. Shen revealed that she had taken back the feelings stored in the Crystal Skull, and Han Su packed it with the Mechanical Fragment before she fought the invaders.
• Ms. Shen and the Scalpel Squad resisted the attackers, but distant figures on the northern hills shot Ms. Shen with Mental Power bullets and sent her falling.
• The Mechanical Fragment activated Shimmering Descent, and Han Su watched Qinggang’s destruction rewind before returning to the beginning at the Ancient Castle.
• Han Su entered the cellar with the other children and quietly reconsidered the castle, realizing the children were key to the failed Seven-Day Divine Descent.

An unidentified speaker announced that the monster had moved, and an unidentified character reacted with alarm. Most of the chapter was unintelligible, leaving the subsequent events unclear.

• An unidentified speaker announced that the monster had moved.
• An unidentified character's heart skipped a beat.
• The unidentified character looked toward someone as another voice rang out.

After escaping the Ancient Castle without the key, Han Su awoke on a drastically different Life Path, where a private investigator had abandoned him overseas and he had become a mercenary. He realized his consciousness and mental powers carried across Life Paths while his body did not, but the unfamiliar date raised a new question about why he had arrived two days earlier.

• Han Su recovered memories of Life Path 02, where a private investigator had thrown him off a sea cliff, a cargo ship had rescued him, and he had eventually joined Akbai’s mercenary squad as Butcher.
• Han Su stopped Akbai from attacking him and asked about Qinggang City, then went to use Lalai’s computer to search for news.
• Han Su found no sign of Qinggang’s disaster or Abyss Studio and concluded that the city had remained peaceful because he had no connection to it on this Life Path.
• Han Su realized his mental abilities had carried over from another Life Path, while the divine substance in his body remained dormant, and began thinking of the different lives as numbered branches.
• Han Su noticed that the computer showed September 11, 2724, two days earlier than his return to the Ancient Castle, and wondered what had changed.
• Akbai warned Lalai to focus on the mission, explaining that their employer wanted them ready to seize the totem codes if negotiations between the Independent Investigator from Giant Horn City and Skinning Farm failed.

Han Su joined Queen Bee’s operation as a disguised investigator and entered Black Valley Village to scout its defenses and locate the altar of a possible Black Goat. After using his shadow-controlling Spell to survey the village and discovering that Akbai’s ink carried a hive virus, he secured his room and prepared to use the Crystal Skull.

• Han Su realized that a Mechanical Fragment had sent him two days into the past, then recognized the Black Suitcase among Queen Bee’s equipment and found his belongings inside it.
• Akbai ordered Han Su to enter Black Valley Village as an investigator, map its terrain and defenses, and locate the hidden altar, explaining that Giant Horn City and Skinning Villa were vying for the village and its possible Black Goat.
• Han Su learned from Akbai that Knight Errants monitored the world and helped maintain order between regions, then set off for Black Valley Village before dawn.
• Han Su entered the wary village as a tourist, checked into an inn, and used his shadow-controlling Spell to survey its residents and roads.
• Han Su identified the ink Akbai had given him as carrying a hive virus, neutralized its contamination through the Emperor’s Book, and used Copper Blood to secure his room.
• Han Su opened his Briefcase and pressed Ms. Shen’s Crystal Skull against his forehead.

Han Su absorbed Ms. Shen’s memories and learned that his parents were involved in the Seven-Day Divine Descent Plan, which had stalled after he escaped as a child. Ms. Shen’s final message revealed that his only chance might be to find the Emperor and use Knight Descendant blood to activate a Throne fragment, leaving Han Su thinking of the Count at Skinning Villa.

• Han Su used the Crystal Skull to learn that the Tides were inevitable and that Han Changming had designed the Seven-Day Divine Descent Plan to stop them.
• Han Su discovered that Ms. Shen had fled while pregnant after learning their child was chosen as an inheritor, but later agreed to carry out the plan when the Ancient Aristocrats threatened her family.
• The Divine Descent stalled after Han Su escaped, and Ms. Shen investigated the failure while battling guilt, fear, and grief.
• Han Su learned that Ms. Shen believed the Emperor could oppose the Knights and that reassembling the Sole Throne might give him a chance to survive.
• Ms. Shen’s memories said Knight Descendant blood could activate the Throne, and Han Su connected this to the Count who owned Skinning Villa.

Han Su examined Ms. Shen’s memories and the Mechanical Fragments before a Black Goat cultist attacked him at the inn. Akbai rescued him and led him toward the village shrine, but a mysterious force stretched the distance; Wei Lan appeared beside Han Su, leaving their mission unresolved.

• Han Su suspected that the Mechanical Fragments could distort memories, questioned the reliability of Ms. Shen’s memories, and considered his options on the Life Path.
• A scarf-wrapped boy entered Han Su’s room, revealed black goat horns, and attacked him with a chant, but Akbai shot him dead.
• Akbai told Han Su that negotiations had ended and ordered him to help find the Black Goat for the Independent Investigator from Giant Horn City.
• Akbai and Han Su fought their way through the Black Goat’s fog and villagers, using her pheromone link to coordinate with the mercenaries outside.
• As they approached the shrine, Han Su and Akbai realized the distance was mysteriously stretching, and Wei Lan appeared beside Han Su.

Han Su reunited with Wei Lan in the village and learned that people who remembered the reset had retained memories of the battle in Azure Harbor. As Han Su charged toward the Black House, he summoned the battered Ghost Truck to help him fight the Blood Servants.

• Wei Lan found Han Su and explained that she and the others remembered the world resetting two days, including their past defeat in Azure Harbor.
• Han Su decided to confront the aristocrats connected to the Black Goat, while Wei Lan agreed to cover him.
• Akbai sent mercenaries toward the Black House, where a vampire's Blood Servants trapped them and surrounded the village.
• Akbai told Han Su to charge the Blood Servants as an entry test, but he rushed ahead before she could inject him with a stimulant.
• Han Su dodged the Blood Servants at high speed and approached the Black House as the Viscount directed the horde to attack him.
• Han Su summoned the Ghost Truck with the Cross Copper Scar, and it charged into the Blood Servants.