Chapter Summaries

Han Su defeated the forces gathered around the black house, claimed the Black Goat girl, and confronted Akbai over his unpaid missions and betrayal. When Akbai's genetic poison threatened him, Han Su deliberately let the Emperor's Book contaminate his divine substance, beginning a dangerous new path to power.

• The Ghost Truck battled the Blood Servants while Han Su evaded them, repelled a blood clan Viscount, and upgraded the truck with Copper Blood.
• Han Su broke into the black house, subdued the Black Goat girl, and made her dispel the fog, exposing the Blood Servants and villagers to sunlight.
• Han Su brought the girl to Akbai, demanded payment for four missions, and refused to hand her over.
• Akbai and the Queen Bee squad attacked Han Su, but he killed the attackers and reflected the snipers' bullets back at them.
• Akbai injected Han Su with Queen Bee poison, but Han Su let the Emperor's Book absorb it and fuse its characters with his divine substance, killing Akbai and embracing contamination for power.

Han Su learned from Wei Lan that the Ancient Aristocrats controlled the world through ancient contracts and immense privileges, then took command of the Queen Bee mercenary squad and planned to exploit the conflict between Giant Horn City and Skinning Villa. He left the village with the goat girl, while Lalai obeyed his orders and contacted both sides.

• Wei Lan explained that the Ancient Aristocrats held power over money, force, law, and politics, and that their ranks granted privileges such as exemption from secular law and the guaranteed survival of a bloodline.
• Han Su asked Wei Lan about their defeat in Azure Harbor, and she said the battle proved they had the courage to face the war; he asked her to contact Lu Neng and find the child he had brought from the Ancient Castle.
• Han Su left the bloodstained village with the goat girl and found Lalai at the Queen Bee mercenary squad's base.
• Han Su claimed the squad's assets and mission, and Lalai submitted to him under the influence of his Worker Bee instincts and the Emperor's Book.
• Han Su ordered Lalai to demand a higher price from Giant Horn City and contact the knight from Skinning Villa, considering a conflict between the two sides the quickest way to learn about them.

Han Su brought Mr. Viya and Count Alvarez together to negotiate over the Black Goat, while investigating how to strengthen his stolen Mysterious Power. The Black Goat girl revealed her ability to summon the Fertile Forest, exposing the secret research at Skinning Villa and drawing the Knights Errant’s attention.

• Han Su examined how the Emperor’s text had increased his divine substance while restricting his use of Pallor’s eyes and Ghost Flame, and he kept Akbai’s syringes for later study.
• Lalai told Han Su that Akbai had gained her Mysterious Power after entering the Romanian Wetland Forest, and reported that Mr. Viya and Count Alvarez both wanted the Black Goat.
• Han Su arranged simultaneous meetings with Mr. Viya and Count Alvarez on a hill, where both men tried to persuade him to hand over the Black Goat.
• Han Su fired a shot to provoke the two groups, but Mr. Viya and Count Alvarez began coordinating against him instead.
• The Black Goat girl held Han Su’s hand, cast a Spell, and caused black trees to grow across the slope as the Fertile Forest spread.
• Count Alvarez recognized the Fertile Forest, and Investigator Via accused him of secretly researching how to make Black Goat young be born.

Han Su and the little goat girl escaped Investigator Via’s attack and Count Albaris’s forces, but Han Su’s attempt to strike the count was thwarted by a powerful Knight bloodline blessing. As Han Su headed for Giant Horn City with the girl, Wei Lan warned him that the city was mobilizing and had hired a one-man mercenary group led by Lu Xiaoba.

• The little goat girl summoned a strange forest, and Han Su realized she was channeling outside Mental Power through herself as a doorway.
• Investigator Via attacked Count Albaris and the little goat girl, while the count prepared to strike and forces surrounded the hills.
• Han Su used the Zero Sequence Cipher Incantations to escape through the chaos and tried to wound Count Albaris with Copper Blood, but the count’s Knight bloodline power forced him to retreat.
• Count Albaris discovered that his investiture blessing had been consumed and ordered his men to open a coffin and give its occupant the Black Goat’s Spirit Coordinates.
• Han Su escaped the blockade with the little goat girl, used Akbai’s pheromone to sow confusion, and turned toward Giant Horn City after realizing Count Albaris was a Knight-blood target.
• Wei Lan told Han Su that Giant Horn City was preparing for war and had hired a one-man mercenary group whose leader was Lu Xiaoba.

Han Su hid inside Giant Horn City with the little goat girl and discovered that her corrupting power came from Abundance, one of the Thirteen Mysterious Sources. When a twelve-hundred-year-old vampire attacked the city while hunting the girl, Han Su saw an opportunity and set out with her toward the source of her power.

• Han Su used the Emperor’s text to slip past Giant Horn City’s Reality Defense Line, then hid with the little goat girl in an unoccupied hotel room.
• Han Su tested the little goat girl’s power, and the Emperor’s Book identified it as Abundance, a Mysterious Source tied to the Fertile Forest and the Black Goat.
• Han Su compared the Emperor’s Book’s thirteen sources with Ms. Shen’s records of twelve altars and wondered whether the missing source had caused the Seven-Day Divine Descent plan to fail.
• The little goat girl pointed toward a distant place dense with Mental Power, but Han Su refused to approach it before Lu Neng and Wei Lan arrived.
• Count Albaris ordered servants to awaken his twelve-hundred-year-old great-great-grandmother, Miss Elian, and sent her the Black Goat’s Spirit Coordinates.
• Miss Elian flew toward Giant Horn City and slammed into its Reality Barrier, shaking the city; Han Su seized the chance and told the little goat girl to go with him.

Han Su and the little goat girl entered Giant Horn City's secret prison, where he discovered it was a mental manifestation filled with dangerous anomalies. Following her into a hidden complex, he found portraits linking Meat Horn Madam to Song Yushi and discovered children being forcibly injected with pollution.

• Han Su followed the little goat girl to Camel Ridge, where she opened a concealed entrance to the secret prison.
• Han Su hid from the prison guards and learned that the prison was a manifested space sustained by the city's power.
• A Lamp Head tried to corrupt Han Su, but he snapped its neck and the Emperor's Book absorbed it.
• Han Su used Zero Sequence Cipher Incantation Number 10 to locate a cluster of black buildings, and the little goat girl ran inside to meet a group of children.
• Han Su recognized Meat Horn Madam and an unfinished portrait of adult Song Yushi, then saw that the children had syringes injecting polluting substance into them.

Han Su learned that Giant Horn City had secretly continued researching inheritor vessels and that the little goat girl had become a nearly perfect vessel for Abundance. As armed forces closed in on the secret prison, Han Su defended the children and unleashed the prison’s supernatural forces, while the little goat girl watched him with concern.

• A fat woman confronted the little goat girl and threatened her, so Han Su killed the woman and summoned her spirit to question her.
• Han Su learned that Giant Horn City had secretly continued its inheritor research and that the Old Count had used the little goat girl in an attempt to summon Abundance.
• As an alarm sounded and armed forces approached, the little goat girl urged Han Su to escape, but he realized the children did not trust adults and chose to protect them.
• Han Su used the Emperor’s Book and his cipher spells to block bullets, draw corruption toward himself, and absorb the black substance from the children’s syringes.
• Han Su summoned the secret prison’s supernatural forces against the attackers, while the little goat girl watched him with worry and gratitude.

Han Su unleashed the Emperor’s Book in the secret prison, causing his divine substance to split and giving him greater control over his Mental Power. He helped the little goat girl bring the Fertile Forest into the prison, then returned to Giant Horn City as the forest’s arrival plunged the city into chaos.

• Han Su’s Mental Power fueled a prison riot, and the Emperor’s Book consumed black substances until his divine substance split and his abilities changed.
• Han Su found the surviving guards trying to activate the secret prison’s power, then invited the little goat girl to escape with him.
• The little goat girl refused and told Han Su she intended to summon the Fertile Forest to make a home for herself and the other children.
• Investigator Via and Count Albaris began to reconcile, but the real Fertile Forest descended over Giant Horn City and forced them to consider joining forces.
• The little goat girl summoned the Fertile Forest through the secret prison, swallowing the prison and sheltering its children and creatures while Han Su returned to the city.
• Han Su rejoined Wei Lan amid the citywide chaos and said he would come over to start the meeting.

Wei Lan and Rong Qiyue gathered with Lu Neng and Han Su in Giant Horn City as the city faced a supernatural crisis. Han Su revealed that the World Council and ancient noble bloodlines had authorized the Seven-Day Divine Descent plan, identifying the forces behind the kidnapping case and setting the group on the path to war.

• Wei Lan met Queen Fati, learned that the Queen organization would stay out of Giant Horn City's political chaos, and slipped out to investigate the tense city without alerting Han Su.
• Rong Qiyue left the closed airport, sent Miss Sisi to impersonate him, and contacted Wei Lan, asking why the world had changed and Han Su had never existed in this reality.
• Rong Qiyue and Wei Lan met Lu Neng at the hotel, where Rong Qiyue confronted him about stealing his family's property in Haiti City before the three shared wine.
• Han Su arrived and gave Lu Neng a pair of glasses that revealed logical connections and a Pocket Watch that expanded thinking time at the cost of Mental Power.
• Han Su named Count Albaris of Skinning Villa as their target and revealed that the Seven-Day Divine Descent plan was authorized by the World Council and ancient noble bloodlines, with Abyss Studio as executor and the Knight Order overseeing it.

Han Su and his companions discussed how to prepare for the coming war on the new Life Path, discovering that their knowledge from other Life Paths could give them an advantage. Han Su set four priorities for their remaining two or three months, and Lu Neng questioned what would happen if they stopped the nobles’ plan to hold back the Tides.

• Wei Lan explained that the group had returned to Qinggang two days earlier on the new Life Path, where people and events had changed but their mental models still showed traces of the previous path.
• Lu Neng revealed that Slaughter City Sacrifice belonged to the Dawn Redemption Society and might have undergone three or more divisions of divine material through the God Path.
• Wei Lan said she could gather intelligence from Giant Horn City and retain it when she returned to her original Life Path, while Rong Qiyue considered using the same opportunity to obtain research.
• Han Su warned that the intervals between his returns from the Ancient Castle were shrinking and that they had at most two or three months before the interval reached zero.
• Han Su set four priorities: strengthen themselves, learn about enemies and find allies, seek clues about the Emperor, and hunt to test a theory that could lead to investigating the Knight bloodline.
• Lu Neng asked what would happen to civilization if they thwarted the nobles’ plan to stop the Tides, and Han Su replied that it had nothing to do with him.

Investigator Via negotiated Skinning Villa’s resources and the city council’s authority to use Giant Horn City’s Reality Hotbed against the Fertile Forest, while concealing the crisis from the Knight Errants. As Giant Horn City began its lockdown, Han Su’s group considered helping the children in the forest, and the blade wielder sent an empty plane toward the city.

• Investigator Via persuaded Count Albaris to sacrifice the Old Vampire and merge Skinning Villa into Giant Horn City in exchange for a plan to destroy the secret prison and contain the Fertile Forest.
• Investigator Via secured the council’s approval, supreme command of the Bureau of Abnormal Disaster Assessment, the reality cradle’s root password, a share of Skinning Villa’s property, and a recommendation for the Knight Order.
• Investigator Via ordered the city to prepare for lockdown, suspended the ghost plane investigation, dismissed the mercenaries, and activated Giant Horn City’s Third Reality Defense Line.
• Han Su and Wei Lan recognized the citywide suppression of Mysterious Power, and Han Su said they should help the children in the Fertile Forest if they could.
• The blade wielder revealed that he had borrowed the plane from Azure Harbor and used a hidden device to send it swooping toward Giant Horn City.

Investigator Via took control of Giant Horn City to divert the Old Vampire toward the Fertile Forest, but a falling airplane forced him to protect the Council Hall and disrupted his control. As Han Su's group prepared to exploit the chaos, Han Su set out under the Queen Bee mercenary squad's name, while a young mercenary confronted a city investigator at a hidden airport.

• Investigator Via seized control of Giant Horn City's reality bed and opened a path for the Old Vampire to fly toward the Fertile Forest.
• A huge airplane plunged toward the Council Hall, and Via used the city's Mental Power to bounce it away, losing his grip on the city and allowing residents to see the Old Vampire.
• The Old Vampire abandoned her pursuit and attacked the people who had spotted her, while Wei Lan explained that she was likely an ancient, mindless vampire being used by someone.
• Han Su gave Lu Neng Queen Bee Akbai's potions and asked him to disrupt the city and seek information about the previous Abundance inheritor.
• Han Su assigned tasks to Wei Lan and Rong Qiyue, contacted Lalai, and leaped from the hotel, declaring that they would enter the conflict as the Queen Bee mercenary squad.
• At a hidden airport, a young mercenary demanded full payment after Giant Horn City canceled the job, then challenged an investigator who drew a gun on him.

The Old Count planned to escape Giant Horn City with his research data while Han Su prepared to target him and secure a new teammate. As the city’s defenses faltered and Miss Sisi spread through the streets, a battle erupted at the airport, where Han Su faced an attacker whose punch struck his Briefcase.

• The Old Count told William that he would destroy the research traces at Skinning Villa, use a secret passage arranged with Miss Fati, and return to Salem City with proof of his successful research.
• Han Su decided to force the Old Count out of Giant Horn City, then head north to find Lu Xiaoba and break through the airport’s defenses.
• Wei Lan offered Miss Fati help, and Fati asked her to handle a private matter in exchange for ancient gold coins and information about the previous inheritor of Abundance.
• Rong Qiyue ordered Miss Sisi to monitor the city, and she split into many disguised copies that entered Giant Horn City.
• Investigator Via raised his synchronization rate to restore the city’s defenses as the Old Vampire circled overhead and a man in an alley lured her toward him.
• An explosion breached the airport base, and Han Su entered after an injured investigator blamed the mercenaries; an attacker struck Han Su’s Briefcase, triggering a mechanical sound.

Han Su turned Giant Horn City's attempt to silence the mercenaries into a battle, while Lu Xiaoba's fury helped wreck the city's defenses. As Peeling Skin Manor launched an invasion, Viya discovered that the vampire had vanished.

• Han Su fought Lu Xiaoba, then manipulated a senior investigator into ordering a blockade against the mercenaries, provoking them to attack Giant Horn City's forces.
• Lu Xiaoba realized Han Su had saved him at the Ancient Castle, but charged after the investigator who had accused him and broke through the city's defensive line.
• The mercenaries followed Lu Xiaoba into Giant Horn City as armed forces from Peeling Skin Manor launched a surprise assault.
• Giant Horn City's board canceled Viya's authority and ordered its forces to capture the old viscount, while the cat-masked woman helped Old Uncle Kaijue and his nephew leave.
• Viya sensed that the vampire had disappeared without a trace.

Han Su and his companions helped the Fertile Forest take root in Giant Horn City by keeping the city’s defenses occupied, while Lu Neng drugged the Old Vampire and Lu Xiaoba rampaged through the city. As the team regrouped to pursue their next target, Rong Qiyue claimed he was about to earn the most credit.

• Lu Neng lured the Old Vampire into biting him and injected a drug into his own neck so it would enter her body as she drank his blood.
• Han Su saw Rong Qiyue direct Miss Sisi to steal data from Giant Horn City, while Lu Xiaoba drew the city’s forces across half the city in pursuit of an Investigator.
• Lu Xiaoba cornered the Investigator, punched him lightly, demanded an apology, and left a USB drive documenting the confrontation.
• Han Su and Lu Xiaoba left Giant Horn City after the Fertile Forest’s shadow had taken root in the residents’ minds.
• Wei Lan told the team that their target would reach the ideal hunting position in eleven minutes, and Rong Qiyue said he expected to claim the top credit.

Wei Lan lured Count Albaris toward Skinning Villa, where he revealed that he suspected her assassination plot and unleashed his man-eating forest. Han Su and Lu Xiaoba broke through the forest to help her, and the three attacked the Count as his Golden Cells began to transform.

• Count Albaris confronted Wei Lan about the suspicious setbacks during their escape and explained that exile from Salem City had not stripped him of noble protections.
• The Count summoned a vast forest of man-eating treants and attacked Wei Lan, while Lu Xiaoba and Han Su entered the forest to reach her.
• Han Su discovered that Lu Xiaoba possessed the anomalous Superbody power and wondered whether the half doctor from the Ancient Castle was connected to it.
• Han Su and Lu Xiaoba emerged as the Count thrust his sword at Wei Lan, and Han Su blocked the attack while Lu Xiaoba charged the Count.
• The Count healed his injured arm with strange runes, rejected the group’s challenge to his authority, and began transforming as his Golden Cells divided.
• Han Su and Lu Xiaoba attacked the transformed Count, with Han Su declaring that they had come to hunt him rather than duel.

Han Su and Wei Lan fought the Old Count after he transformed into a Hell Cultivator, while Lu Xiaoba resisted corruption and kept attacking him. Han Su severed the Old Count’s bond with the forest and then shattered the ancient pact that let nobles command it, leaving the Old Count terrified and asking whether Han Su served the Emperor.

• The Old Count unleashed his Mental Power, then transformed into a demon spider and used the forest to attack Han Su, Wei Lan, and Lu Xiaoba.
• Wei Lan explained that the Old Count’s noble bloodline let him briefly divide his Golden Cells and wield a Hell Cultivator form beyond his normal level.
• Lu Xiaoba repeatedly charged the Old Count despite being corrupted, eventually tearing off one of his spider legs while his anger preserved his will.
• Han Su used the Emperor’s Book to identify the Hell Cultivator Legion’s power and realized the Old Count planned to escape through the forest.
• Han Su summoned the surrounding Mysterious Power and seized control of the forest’s 109 treants, disrupting the Old Count’s escape route.
• The Old Count invoked the Second Creation Pact to reclaim the treants, but Han Su’s decree broke the pact’s power, making the Old Count ask if Han Su was one of the Emperor’s people.

Han Su and his companions fought Count Albaris after the Fishing Horn severed his control over the Treefolk Anchors, and Count Albaris recognized Han Su as one of the Emperor's Followers. Count Albaris's escape attempts failed, and the chapter ended with Elian kneeling before Han Su and paying respects to the Emperor.

• Han Su recited the Fishing Horn, which suppressed Count Albaris's Spell and severed his control over the Treefolk Anchors.
• Count Albaris triggered a destructive escape mechanism in the cannibal forest, but Han Su and his companions pursued him as he fled into the sky.
• Han Su trapped Count Albaris with a mental barrier marked by the Emperor's text, but Count Albaris dissolved into a wisp of Mental Power and tried to escape to the nightmare world.
• Lu Neng destroyed the device at Skinning Villa that was drawing Count Albaris's Mental Power, leaving him stranded and forcing him to return to a chunk of flesh Lu Xiaoba had torn away.
• Count Albaris's great-great-grandmother Elian arrived, ignored his plea to kill Han Su, and bowed to Han Su as the great Emperor.

Han Su gathered his companions to exchange information and prepare to face the Knight Errant, who swept through Giant Horn City without stopping and converged on the man-eating forest. As the Knight Errant closed in, Han Su sacrificed the Old Count to activate Mechanical Fragment #2, leaving everyone braced for the confrontation.

• The Old Vampire briefly knelt under the lingering power of the Fishing Horn before returning to her silent state, and Han Su realized she had reacted to the power rather than to him.
• Han Su received the decrypted records from Wei Lan, learned Rong Qiyue was monitoring the Knight Errant from Giant Horn City, and agreed with his companions to confront the approaching forces.
• The Knight Errant charged through Giant Horn City, killing the officials and investigators who had gathered to face them, then continued toward the man-eating forest.
• Han Su's group set up defenses as the Knight Errant approached, but their pressure shattered Wei Lan's mirror barriers and left Lu Xiaoba realizing they could not defeat the newcomers.
• Han Su cut the Old Count's throat and let his blood flow into the Briefcase, causing Mechanical Fragment #2 to begin moving as his companions prepared for the Knight Errant.

Han Su used the Old Count’s blood to activate Machinery Fragment No. 02, causing the seven Mechanical Fragments to resonate and briefly challenge reality before the world suppressed them. As Knight Errants attacked Han Su’s companions and closed in, he activated Machinery Fragment No. 01 and vanished with the case as the surrounding world melted and collapsed.

• The Old Count’s blood activated Machinery Fragment No. 02, which resonated with the other fragments and revealed that seven Mechanical Fragments were hidden around the world.
• The Knight Errants confirmed an Emperor Sacrifice, first prepared to eliminate all life nearby, then changed their orders to capture the suspects and recover the sacrifice objects.
• Wei Lan confronted a Knight Errant, but its mount’s tendrils shattered her mirrors, while Lu Xiaoba charged another Knight Errant and was pierced by its spear.
• Miss Elian fought a Knight Errant as Lu Neng was attacked by its Retainers, and Han Su watched his companions’ defenses fail.
• Han Su nudged Machinery Fragment No. 01, and the Knight Errants advanced toward him as the space around the case began to distort.
• The Old Knight rushed to seize Han Su, but Han Su disappeared as the world began melting and collapsing around the Knight Errants.