Chapter Summaries

Han Su questioned Ms. Shen about the Divine Descent Plan and demanded access to her memories, while chaos spread through Linyuan City after the Pallor Factory’s puppet dolls invaded. Ms. Shen revealed that the Shen and Xu families had lured her and Han Su to draw out his father, and asked Han Su to help her break their trap.

• Han Su freed Ms. Shen from her handcuffs and questioned her about the Ancient Castle and the Divine Descent Plan, while puppet dolls rampaged through Linyuan City.
• At Jinshui Manor, the old man demanded the World Guardians explain the missing Knight Errants, then tried to persuade Xu Ji to cooperate with the ceremony and recite a Golden Cell Spell.
• Ms. Shen told Han Su that she had only handled the Void Palace and other preparations for the Divine Descent Plan, and Han Su asked to take all her memories.
• Shen Qinghui accused Han Su of using Ms. Shen’s authority over the Pallor Factory to attack Linyuan City, but Ms. Shen admitted that she had betrayed the Shen Family to escape its bloodline plans.
• Ms. Shen told Han Su that the Shen and Xu families had brought them both to Linyuan City to trap his father, and asked Han Su to help her break the trap.

Han Su agreed to work with Ms. Shen against Grotesque Doctor and asked her about the Emperor Sequence and the ancient throne sacrifice. When the Golden Cell’s Consciousness God Country engulfed Linyuan City, Ms. Shen explained how to undermine it, and Han Su began destroying its foundations.

• Han Su accepted Ms. Shen’s invitation to work together and asked about activating the Emperor Sequence through the bloodlines of twelve nobles; Ms. Shen said the rite was an ancient throne sacrifice linked to the Three Great World Contracts.
• The Golden Cell’s Consciousness God Country descended over Linyuan City, freezing bodies and turning the city’s activity into a chaotic mental field.
• Ms. Shen suspected Xu Ji had summoned the God Country and explained that she could find its foundations by merging her mind with it through Voodoo’s corpse.
• Han Su declared that he would temporarily lead Linyuan City’s Knight Order and set off on the Nightmare Horse to destroy the God Country’s foundations.
• Han Su shattered the first god pillar with his Flintlock Gun, and Ms. Shen gave him the coordinates for the next foundation point.

Xu Ji activated the Golden Cell’s Consciousness God Country, then secretly redirected its attacks to clear a path for Han Su as he destroyed its foundations across Linyuan City. The old man realized Xu Ji was undermining the Golden Cell, while the candidates at Jinshui Manor grew convinced they had to commit fully to him.

• Xu Ji’s Spell activated the Consciousness God Country, proving to the Jinshui Manor elder that Xu Ji was qualified to inherit the sacred relic, though the elder decided to devour him rather than surrender his own position.
• Xu Ji refused to withdraw his consciousness because he saw the God Country directing attacks at Han Su, and he tried to steer those attacks away from him.
• Han Su followed Ms. Shen’s coordinates and destroyed pillars and secret Golden Cell facilities while Xu Ji’s influence opened a path and Miss Ai advanced her network intrusion.
• The elder realized Xu Ji was deliberately helping Han Su destroy the Golden Cell’s foundations, but Xu Ji ignored his commands and kept guiding Han Su toward more targets.
• The candidates watching from Jinshui Manor concluded that Xu Ji was powerful enough to challenge the Linyuan Xu Family and decided they needed to give him their full loyalty.

Han Su’s assault on Jinshui Manor seemed to succeed until the Morgan Family seized control of his Living Copper Puppets. Three Hundred Floors arrived with Knight Errants and announced they would take the Golden Knight’s holy relics.

• The Old Marquis aimed a revolver at Xu Ji, but an invading horde of puppet dolls reached the study and greeted Xu Ji’s protective doll as an old friend.
• Han Su sent puppet dolls and twenty-two Living Copper Puppets to attack Jinshui Manor, while the candidates inside warned their families to stay back and prepare to claim the Xu Family’s assets.
• Ms. Shen sensed that something was wrong, and Shen Qinghui warned Han Su that he had been tricked and that the truth was not in her brain.
• The Morgan Family appeared and took control of the Living Copper Puppets, leaving Han Su unable to command them.
• Three Hundred Floors arrived with three Knight Errant squads and ordered them to take the Golden Knight’s holy relics to safety.

Han Su learned that the World Guardians and the Morgan Family were moving against him while pursuing the Golden Race’s Sacred Artifact, a steel pen tied to the Divine Descent Plan. As Captain of Three Hundred Floors seized control of the Blood Clan relic and the Morgan Family attacked Han Su with the Copper Script, the citywide trap began to close around him.

• Ten Knight Errants set Jinshui Manor and Linyuan City’s defenses ablaze while the Living Copper Puppets betrayed the puppet dolls and spread Copper Rust through the city.
• Three metal pillars rose outside Linyuan City and linked together, sealing the city inside a triangle.
• Shen Qinghui told Han Su that the Morgan Family and World Guardians controlled the Sacred Artifacts, and revealed that the Golden Race’s supposed Golden Spear was a steel pen that could erase the logic of existence and had written the Divine Descent Plan’s original blueprint.
• Captain of Three Hundred Floors and the Morgan Family’s black-robed old man revealed that they had lured the Grotesque Doctor toward the Golden Spear, then the Knight Errants uncovered the Golden Spear and the hidden steel pen at Jinshui Manor.
• Captain of Three Hundred Floors used a Blood Clan relic to drain the candidates’ blood and pursue the power to wield the Golden Race’s Sacred Artifact, while the Morgan Family ordered Han Su captured alive.
• Two Morgan Family men invoked the Copper Script, and the three pillars sent a mental shockwave across Linyuan City that stirred White Corpse’s blood in Han Su’s Black Suitcase and made it turn against him.

Han Su resisted the Morgan Family’s attempt to restrain him, uncovered how their control over Mechanical Factor worked, and turned the Living Copper Puppets against them. As the Morgan Family’s control faltered, Ms. Shen revealed that she had rebuilt a temporary Consciousness God Country and taken command of Linyuan City.

• The golden-haired Morgan Family youth tried to control Han Su through his blood, but Han Su used Hellfire to weaken him and question him.
• A Morgan Family elder attacked with Mechanical Factor, and Han Su discovered that the family could activate and control the substance embedded in human bodies.
• Han Su used a mental shockwave to halt the Mechanical Factor, then charged toward Jinshui Manor and the Golden Spear.
• Han Su recited his cipher, causing the Living Copper Puppets to stop attacking and turn against the Morgan Family as the city’s metal pillars briefly lost power.
• Ms. Shen activated a temporary Consciousness God Country she had secretly reconstructed and took control of Linyuan City.

Han Su used the Twenty-Seven Lives incantation to seize control of the Living Copper Puppets and help fight for the Golden Pen against the Captain of Three Hundred Floors. After Han Su broke free from the Captain’s forbidden incantation and stunned him, the pen fell into Xu Ji’s arms.

• The Morgan Family elder attacked Han Su with the city’s cables, but Han Su sent the Living Copper Puppets after him and rushed into Jinshui Manor for the Golden Pen.
• Ms. Shen used her temporary Consciousness God Country to scatter the Knight Errants and help Han Su challenge the Captain of Three Hundred Floors for the pen.
• The Captain of Three Hundred Floors trapped Han Su inside an Infinite Magic Box, but Han Su’s Twenty-Seven Lives incantation summoned power from the city’s three metal pillars.
• The Captain redirected the pillars’ devastating attack into folded space, leaving both him and Han Su exhausted as the Golden Pen remained suspended between them.
• Han Su used an investigator stun baton to stop the Captain from grabbing the pen, then struck it toward Xu Qiao, who stepped aside and let it land in Xu Ji’s arms.

Xu Ji took the Golden Pen into the Xu Family’s secret room, apparently thwarting the attack on Linyuan City, while the Captain of Three Hundred Floors revealed that the World Guardian Organization had used the city and its people as bait to lure the Grotesque Doctor. The Doctor arrived to reunite with his wife and child, triggering the God Recovery Plan and a disturbance in the abyss.

• The Old Marquis opened the Xu Family’s secret room and urged Xu Ji to take the Golden Pen inside, while Knight Errants rushed after him.
• The wooden dolls protected Xu Ji from the Knight Errants, allowing him to reach the hidden door and vanish into the secret room with the pen.
• The Captain of Three Hundred Floors accused the Grotesque Doctor of using a Throne fragment to alter reality and expose himself, then revealed that the World Guardian Organization had made Linyuan City and its people bait to capture him.
• The Grotesque Doctor appeared and said he had come because his wife and child were in Linyuan City, while Shen Qinghui approached him.
• Someone in Zhendan City confirmed the Grotesque Doctor’s appearance and triggered an upheaval in the depths of the abyss.

Han Su and Ms. Shen watched Grotesque Doctor die beneath Zhendan City's Annihilation Light Cannon, which began erasing everyone connected to him. As the weapon targeted Han Su and the Fifth Machinery Fragment, Han Su invoked a Spell and all the Mechanical Fragments began operating.

• Han Su prepared to attack Grotesque Doctor while Ms. Shen approached with a gun, but a beam from Zhendan City’s Annihilation Light Cannon destroyed Grotesque Doctor’s head.
• The Captain of Three Hundred Floors explained that the cannon was erasing everyone in range and that no one present could escape.
• The cannon killed fleeing people and began analyzing Grotesque Doctor’s data, while Miss Ai told Han Su that the weapon had detected her intrusion and locked onto him.
• Han Su tried to use Machinery Fragment No. 01 to return to the Ancient Castle, but Miss Ai warned that he would bring the annihilating force with him.
• Miss Ai sensed the Fifth Machinery Fragment nearby and said someone was controlling it remotely; the Captain explained that the cannon could retrieve information about Grotesque Doctor and his Throne fragment.
• Han Su spoke the Spell, “Twenty-Seven Lives, All need to pay with blood,” and all the Mechanical Fragments began operating.

Han Su activated the Mechanical Fragments and combined their powers to freeze time, rewind events, and bring the Grotesque Doctor back after Ms. Shen shot him. The Grotesque Doctor began explaining his plan, revealing that he had wanted to write Han Su into the Three Great Contracts of the world.

• Han Su activated the Mechanical Fragments, froze the beam of light threatening him, and confronted the headless Grotesque Doctor.
• In Zhendan City, World Guardian operators discovered that their attack had not hit its target and speculated that the Grotesque Doctor had altered reality or never existed in this reality.
• Han Su combined Machinery Fragments No. 02 and No. 05 to rewind the Grotesque Doctor's death repeatedly, then brought Ms. Shen into the frozen space-time.
• The Grotesque Doctor said the World Guardians had forced him to meet Han Su this way, and Ms. Shen shot him before asking Han Su to bring him back.
• Han Su rewound the shooting, and the Grotesque Doctor said Han Su's control of the Mechanical Fragments meant his underlying alteration had taken effect.
• The Grotesque Doctor told Han Su that he had wanted to write him into the Three Great Contracts of the world.

Grotesque Doctor explained how the Three Great Contracts preserve nobles’ privileges and argued that those privileges may serve a hidden purpose. He raised the possibility that the Twelve Dukes had repeatedly restarted civilization, leaving Han Su and Ms. Shen uncertain which generation they inhabited.

• Grotesque Doctor described the privileges granted to Barons, Viscounts, Counts, Marquises, and Dukes through the Three Great Contracts.
• Grotesque Doctor compared noble privilege to domesticated animals surviving alongside humans and suggested nobles might be preserved for a purpose.
• Grotesque Doctor argued that Contract No. 02’s record of noble titles was suspicious because the nobles could carry their status across civilization’s resets.
• Han Su said the Twelve Dukes had taken from Miss Ai the power to choose human stock, and Grotesque Doctor explained that the machine had been too badly damaged to stop them.
• Grotesque Doctor suggested civilization might already have been restarted, and Ms. Shen recalled relics and ancient records that did not fit the accepted history.

Grotesque Doctor explained that he had uncovered the nobles’ secret sacrifices and designed the Divine Descent Plan to awaken the imprisoned Emperor, whom he believed the nobles were raising. He wanted the Emperor to shatter the existing order, leaving Han Su and Ms. Shen facing the danger behind his true goal.

• Grotesque Doctor said he had pursued the truth because he believed civilization was confined by a hidden ranch and its history was being suppressed.
• He explained that he had loved Ms. Shen while also using her Whale Clan status to gain access to restricted information and rise within the Tide Research Institute.
• Grotesque Doctor revealed his theory that the nobles had sacrificed their bloodlines for two thousand years to feed the Emperor, who might still be alive and imprisoned.
• He said the nobles supported the Divine Descent Plan because it promised to redirect the Emperor’s appetite away from them and onto ordinary people.
• Ms. Shen recognized that the plan would transfer the nobles’ curse to ordinary people, while Grotesque Doctor admitted he truly wanted to awaken the Emperor and bring him into reality.
• Grotesque Doctor said he wanted the Emperor to destroy the Twelve Races’ control and force change through a great disaster.

Han Su confronted Grotesque Doctor and learned that his parents had repeatedly used his escapes and Blink to refine the Divine Descent Plan. Grotesque Doctor revealed that the Golden Pen could alter Contract No. 02 and that Han Su’s friend would use it to write Ms. Shen’s name, before the conversation’s final flicker.

• Han Su condemned Grotesque Doctor and Ms. Shen for ruining his life and others’, cut ties with them, and demanded to know how to destroy the Divine Descent Plan.
• Grotesque Doctor explained that the Twelve Races planned to turn humanity’s mental power into a Civilization Bomb to kill the Emperor, but his sabotaged plan had been repeatedly optimized by Ms. Shen.
• Grotesque Doctor revealed that he had triggered Han Su’s Blink and used his repeated escapes as a variable in attempts to draw the Emperor out of the Void Palace.
• Grotesque Doctor said Contract No. 02 had been missing from his calculations and that he had arranged for Han Su to become a Knight Errant and have his name written into the contract.
• Grotesque Doctor revealed that the Golden Pen could alter Contract No. 02 and predicted that Han Su’s friend would write Ms. Shen’s name on it, making this their last flicker.

Han Su learned that Ms. Shen had secretly introduced a variable into the Divine Descent Plan to help him escape the Ancient Castle, and she used the Crystal Skull to find a way to thwart Grotesque Doctor. As the Annihilation Light Cannon failed against the frozen moment, a World Contract was altered.

• Grotesque Doctor told Han Su to choose whether to watch him die to the Annihilation Light Cannon or shoot him again, while Han Su struggled under the pressure of his plan.
• Ms. Shen revealed that she had changed parameters in the Divine Descent Plan to create a chance for Han Su to escape, and said Black Cat Duke had been her gift to him.
• Ms. Shen recognized that the Throne fragments could reveal the future, asked Han Su for the Crystal Skull, and used it to see through Grotesque Doctor's plan.
• Han Su returned the Crystal Skull to Ms. Shen, who declared that she would take revenge on Grotesque Doctor and wanted Han Su to survive.
• In Zhendan City, the old man in the Chinese tunic suit ordered a check of the World Contracts after the Annihilation Light Cannon failed, and an aide reported that World Contract No. 02 had been altered.

At Jinshui Manor, the Old Marquis killed Xu Qiao and himself before an Annihilation Light Cannon could destroy them, then explained the Golden Cell’s bloodline history and entrusted Xu Ji with the clan’s legacy. Miss Ai’s voice then spoke from Xu Ji’s phone, revealing that she had heard the secret explanation.

• The Old Marquis secretly left a message naming Xu Ji as heir to the Golden Cell’s resources and authority, then shot Xu Qiao and killed himself.
• A clone of the Old Marquis awakened in a tank in the secret room and explained that the supposed sinner’s bloodline of Xu Ji’s branch was actually a divine bloodline shared by the Twelve Races.
• The Old Marquis revealed that the Twelve Knights had divided a new God’s flesh among their descendants, turning the inheritance into a bloodline competition and a pretext for sacrificing people.
• The Old Marquis told Xu Ji that the World Guardians were targeting the Golden Cell to obtain the Golden Pen and change Contract No. 02, and urged him to use the pen and claim the clan’s authority.
• Miss Ai spoke through Xu Ji’s phone, surprising the Old Marquis and saying that the lie he had kept hidden could finally be answered.

Xu Ji followed Miss Ai’s instructions as she took control of the Golden Cell’s data, while Ms. Shen used Mechanical Fragment No. 02 to trap the Annihilation Light Cannon in a cycle of killing and restoring her. Her actions spread the Crystal Skull’s radiance through Linyuan City, weakened the weapon, and revealed that Han Su had been secretly entered into Contract No. 02 at birth; the chapter ended with a report that the contract had been erased with the Golden Pen.

• The Old Marquis urged Xu Ji to destroy the phone, but Xu Ji ignored him and asked Miss Ai how to help Han Su.
• Ms. Shen ended the time freeze, and the Annihilation Light Cannon repeatedly destroyed and restored her through Mechanical Fragment No. 02.
• Ms. Shen spread the Crystal Skull’s radiance across Linyuan City, disrupting the Annihilation Light Cannon and its operators.
• Ms. Shen told Han Su that he was already listed in Contract No. 02 because she had arranged it when he was born.
• An old man in Zhendan City learned that someone had used the Golden Pen to erase Contract No. 02 entirely.

Han Su stopped the Knight Errants’ attack with the power of Linyuan City’s Reality Defense Line and the Crystal Matrix, then used the Ghost Truck and its Tiger Wraiths to defeat them. He pursued two figures resembling Grotesque Doctor, but they vanished, and Miss Ai said she had realized what kind of Life form Grotesque Doctor was.

• The old man ordered Three Hundred Floors to capture Han Su alive after the plan changed and the Annihilation Light Cannon failed to eliminate him.
• Miss Ai took control of Linyuan City’s Third Reality Defense Line and declared Three Hundred Floors and his Knight Errants traitors, prompting Han Su to attack them.
• Three Hundred Floors held off Han Su while the Knight Errants fired, but Han Su used the Crystal Matrix to crush the captain and summoned the Ghost Truck to run down the others.
• Han Su spotted two figures with Grotesque Doctor’s face outside the city and rode after them, but they vanished after leaving behind a Mechanical Fragment.
• Miss Ai told Han Su to handle the aftermath and said she thought she knew what kind of Life form Grotesque Doctor was.

Han Su learned that Doctor Grotesque’s consciousness had infiltrated the World Model Center while Miss Ai explained how Xu Ji had sealed Contract No. 02. As the World Guardians fell silent and Miss Ai uncovered the powerful factions’ shared aim of creating gods, Han Su decided to pursue the same power to defeat Doctor Grotesque.

• Han Su found Mechanical Fragment No. 05 and questioned the nature of the two Doctor Grotesques who had left it behind.
• Miss Ai told Han Su that Lu Xiaoba had failed to find human remains after bombing a laboratory, raising questions about which Doctor Grotesque he had targeted.
• In Zhendan City, the World Guardians discovered that Doctor Grotesque’s recovered consciousness was alive and invading the foundational database through the Annihilation Light Cannon.
• Miss Ai explained that Xu Ji had sealed Contract No. 02 with unintelligible logic, and warned Han Su not to return to the Ancient Castle until they understood Doctor Grotesque’s plan.
• Han Su stabilized Linyuan City, had Miss Ai take Doctor Grotesque’s body for analysis, and said he would care for Ms. Shen himself.
• Miss Ai revealed that Doctor Grotesque and the Twelve Races sought to become gods, and Han Su resolved to pursue that goal to bring Doctor Grotesque down.

Han Su and Miss Ai uncovered the Scorpion Tail Temple’s secrets and obtained the Abyss Tier 2 Equation while securing Xu Ji’s rise to Grand Duke. Han Su decided to publish the Temple’s knowledge worldwide to strengthen his allies and disrupt the Grotesque Doctor’s plans.

• Miss Ai told Han Su she had secured Linyuan City’s defensive line, taken control of its Disaster Management Bureau, and prepared Xu Ji’s ascension, pending a witness.
• Han Su learned that the Golden Cell families had agreed to obey Xu Ji in exchange for the Linyuan Xu Family’s assets and protection against outside threats.
• Shen Qinghui led Han Su to the Scorpion Tail Temple and explained that Knight Errants underwent its Baptism to resist mysterious influence through the Abyss Tier 2 Equation.
• Miss Ai explained that the equation analyzed God genes derived from the Emperor’s substance, then used the Ghost Truck to break into the Temple’s hidden archives and obtain it.
• Han Su chose to share the Temple’s knowledge with the whole world, arguing that widespread access would help his allies and force the Grotesque Doctor to contend with humanity’s full potential.

Han Su discovered that Machinery Fragment No. 05 could steal the perceptions and information of every living being in a city, and he and Miss Ai deduced how Grotesque Doctor might use it to manipulate reality. With Miss Ai proposing to combine the fragment’s power with Ms. Shen’s Crystal Matrix during the Golden Cell succession and Contract No. 02’s void state, Han Su decided to act against the nobles and Grotesque Doctor.

• Han Su used his increased mental power to control Machinery Fragment No. 01 more easily, then cautiously activated Machinery Fragment No. 05.
• Machinery Fragment No. 05 flooded Han Su with the city’s living beings’ information, nearly overwhelming him, so he entered the abyss and channeled the torrent into it.
• Han Su told Miss Ai what he had seen, and she revealed that the fragment had invaded the city’s reality defense and could steal information from every living being within it.
• Miss Ai deduced that Grotesque Doctor could use the information to subtly distort people’s thoughts and steer events, and she suggested that Ms. Shen’s Crystal Matrix might process the vast data needed to imitate his method.
• Miss Ai proposed compressing reality defenses she controlled and using the Crystal Matrix to release selected information during the Golden Cell Grand Duke’s succession, while Contract No. 02 was in a void state.
• Han Su agreed to use the opportunity to demand justice from the nobles and declared that he would let none of them or Grotesque Doctor go.