Chapter Summaries

Ye Chenyang, Jiang Mian, and Yun Han investigated the disappearance of Investigating Envoy Gao and the hoarding of [Cataclysm] cores in Number Five Base City. Ye Chenyang went undercover as Investigating Envoy Jiang to question the Gao Family, and Gao Yuanshan began explaining the strange events before Gao Yi vanished.

• Yun Han told Ye Chenyang and Jiang Mian that other investigating envoys seemed to know more about Gao Yi's disappearance but would not share it with him.
• Jiang Mian explained the shortage of [Cataclysm] cores and proposed using her fishing method to identify whoever was hoarding them.
• Ye Chenyang and Yun Han agreed to investigate the Gao Family openly while Jiang Mian pursued her plan alone.
• Ye Chenyang and Yun Han went to the Gao Family estate, where Ye Chenyang posed as Investigating Envoy Jiang.
• Gao Yuanshan confirmed that he expected them to ask about Gao Yi and began recounting the abnormalities before Gao Yi disappeared.

Jiang Mian posed as the rich young lady Ye Chan and offered the authorities an unlimited supply of [Cataclysm] cores at normal prices. After Lin Qing accepted and took the Spatial Equipment to inspect the goods, his demeanor turned cold, leaving his intentions unclear.

• Ye Chenyang left Gao Yuanshan's residence with Yun Han, who questioned the Patriarch's attitude toward Gao Yi's disappearance.
• Jiang Mian arrived at the authorities' resource collection station and used a Spatial Equipment bracelet to secure a meeting with Lin Qing.
• Jiang Mian introduced herself as Ye Chan and claimed she could supply unlimited [Cataclysm] cores, including at least a thousand Fourth-tier and Fifth-tier cores at a time.
• Lin Qing accepted Jiang Mian's offer and signed an order contract, then took the bracelet to inspect its contents.
• Lin Qing's expression turned cold as soon as he left the reception room.

Jiang Mian sold a huge stock of Calamity Cores and used the transaction to draw out the people targeting her. She let herself be lured into an illusion-filled alley, then revealed that she had been baiting them to discover their hideout.

• Lin Qing counted Jiang Mian's Calamity Cores, suspected she belonged to a powerful family, and called someone while plotting to seize her resources.
• Jiang Mian collected her receipt and left the Recovery Office, planning to use the ammunition shortage to gain access to the restricted zone.
• Jiang Mian noticed someone following her and deliberately acted like a vulnerable outsider with limited power.
• A-Feng trapped Jiang Mian in an illusion-filled alley, but she struck him with a bubble and ran toward the other end.
• A-Feng caught up with Jiang Mian in the silent city and tried to grab her, but she dodged and asked where they had all been hiding.

Jiang Mian confronted A-Feng inside the closed domain and revealed her overwhelming strength. After defeating him and destroying his mirror copy, she identified the domain as Sequence 27’s [Mirror Alley] and looked toward the dark city.

• Jiang Mian revealed her hidden aura and told A-Feng he had brought a stranger to his headquarters.
• A-Feng attacked Jiang Mian, but she stopped his first strike with one hand and evaded his enhanced punch.
• Jiang Mian formed a black spear with Water Element and Wind Field, shredding A-Feng as he charged.
• A-Feng’s remains sank into the ground, and a mirror-image copy crawled out beneath the road.
• Jiang Mian turned the copy into purple crystal and shattered it, then looked toward the dark city.

Jiang Mian explored the Mirror Space and suspected a Seventh-tier [Mirror Alley] Calamity was behind the events in Number Five Base City. As Ye Chenyang and Yun Han waited for her return, Jiang Mian entered a nightclub filled with eerie mirror-world figures and challenged them.

• Jiang Mian deduced that [Mirror Alley] had created a Mirror Space replicating all of Number Five Base City and set out to find its main body.
• Yun Han complained that local families were withholding information, while Ye Chenyang explained that some members might be under mental restraints.
• Ye Chenyang reassured Yun Han that Jiang Mian had a powerful bodyguard and said they should wait for her to return.
• Jiang Mian followed the densest gathering of people in the Mirror Space to the Heaven on Earth nightclub.
• The nightclub's figures turned toward Jiang Mian and called her a tasty new friend, but she dismissed them with disdain.

Jiang Mian destroyed the nightclub and its puppets, then fought Gao Yi, the missing High Supervisor turned mirror puppet. After unleashing a powerful lightning attack, she sensed Mirror Alley’s main body trying to strike her mind and prepared to counter it.

• Jiang Mian erased the nightclub and its puppets with [Heaven and Earth Annihilation], but Mirror Alley’s main body did not appear.
• Gao Yi, the missing High Supervisor, attacked Jiang Mian from underground and used [Seven Wounds] to strengthen himself.
• Jiang Mian traded blows with Gao Yi, then rose into the sky and hurled [Heaven's Punishment] into the district, creating a Thunder Prison.
• A sinister spiritual force tried to pierce Jiang Mian’s consciousness, and she activated [Abyssal Sea Eye] as a black dragon appeared behind her and targeted empty space.

Jiang Mian defeated Mirror Alley with the Torrent clone, gathered the Calamity cores hidden beneath the false city, and escaped as Mirror Space collapsed. She searched for Ye Chenyang but was interrupted by police ordering her to land for inspection.

• The Torrent clone broke through Mirror Space and seized Mirror Alley, while Jiang Mian told it to collect the underground Calamity Core before killing its true form.
• Jiang Mian found Gao Yi mortally wounded; he apologized, tore off his own head, and died as his body shattered into glass.
• Jiang Mian burned Gao Yi’s remains, then used Storm Feast and her Wind Field to sweep the Calamity cores into [World].
• Mirror Space collapsed, and Jiang Mian emerged above a bustling city before flying off to search for Ye Chenyang.
• Police sounded a siren and ordered Jiang Mian to land for violating the Airspace Management Act.

Jiang Mian let Number Five Base City’s Security Officers detain her after she flew through the city, using the registration process to expose the Public Security Bureau’s failure to investigate the trafficking of [Cataclysm] cores. At the bureau, Ye Chenyang confronted Director Zhou Bingkun and warned him that the matter could cost lives.

• Captain Wang stopped Jiang Mian for unauthorized nighttime flight, and she revealed that she was an eighteen-year-old Fifth-tier Awakened.
• Jiang Mian claimed to be Naturally Awakened with [Eye of the Storm] and accompanied Captain Wang to the Public Security Bureau for registration.
• After registering, Jiang Mian refused to leave and waited for her family to pick her up.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang agreed through the Save Point to address the Public Security Bureau’s failure to investigate the trafficking of [Cataclysm] cores.
• In the director’s office, Ye Chenyang warned Zhou Bingkun to think carefully before answering because the matter could cost heads.

Ye Chenyang questioned Zhou Bingkun about his failure to act against the clans working with Calamity, then ordered Base City locked down after Jiang Mian arrived. Back at the hotel, Ye Chenyang revealed that Sequence 12, [Erosion Desire Witch], had influenced the clans.

• Zhou Bingkun explained that he had avoided investigating Inspector Gao's disappearance because the danger could wipe out his Public Security Bureau, and Ye Chenyang told him the warehouse had already been destroyed.
• Jiang Mian entered Zhou Bingkun's office with Captain Wang, sat beside Ye Chenyang, and left with him after their meeting.
• Zhou Bingkun ordered Wang Rui to call in the Monitoring Brigade and Public Security Brigade and seal every passage into and out of Base City, citing a high-tier Calamity infiltration.
• Jiang Mian told Ye Chenyang about her experience at the bureau, and he praised her before explaining that the clans' price gouging had been coordinated with Calamity.
• Ye Chenyang told Jiang Mian that Sequence 12, [Erosion Desire Witch], had influenced the clans.

Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang uncovered how the Erosion Desire Witch had corrupted Number Five Base City's families and learned that the Zhao Family had aided Calamities in hoarding supplies. The next morning, Jiang Mian went to confront Lin Qing at the resource recycling center as the city emptied.

• Ye Chenyang explained that the Erosion Desire Witch's seeds fed on people's desires and could spread through a chain reaction.
• Zhao Heling ordered his family to search for the investigators and contact the other families, then resolved to kill whoever was acting against them.
• Zhao Heling admitted to himself that the Calamity's influence had trapped him in a craving for profit and wealth.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang noticed Number Five Base City had become unusually deserted and went to the resource recycling center with Yun Han.
• Jiang Mian asked Lin Qing to come out and challenged him as he turned pale at the sight of her.

Jiang Mian confronted Lin Qing at the recycling center, killed him when he took a clerk hostage, and drew out the Liu Family’s attackers. As A-Shan and two others attacked, Jiang Mian discovered they had deployed a Black Hole Bomb over the city, while Ye Chenyang ordered an evacuation.

• Jiang Mian told Lin Qing that the people he had sent to her warehouse had made it fuller, and Lin Qing realized she had uncovered his plot.
• Lin Qing grabbed a clerk and threatened to kill her, but Jiang Mian killed him with a blast; the clerk escaped after kicking his corpse.
• A-Shan burst through the meeting-room wall and attacked Jiang Mian, accusing her of killing his little brother A-Feng, while two more attackers waited behind him.
• Jiang Mian sensed a Black Hole Bomb gathering in the sky and cursed as she realized the attackers had targeted the busy district.
• Ye Chenyang identified the weapon and ordered Yun Han to evacuate civilians before teleporting toward the hall.

Jiang Mian fought off three Sixth-tier Awakened attackers at the resource recycling center, while a Black Hole Bomb threatened to destroy much of Base City. Zhao Heling revealed that he had arranged the attack to force Jiang Mian to sacrifice herself, and Zhao Yingming questioned what would happen if she survived.

• A-Shan boosted his strength with a Type-I Vitality Potion and charged Jiang Mian while his two companions attacked with an arrow and earth-element ability.
• Jiang Mian turned the earth element against the two attackers, trapping them in a crystalline shell as golden flames engulfed them.
• Ye Chenyang used a spatial slash to cut A-Shan in half, and he and Jiang Mian prepared to respond as the building began to collapse.
• Outside the recycling center, Yun Han organized fleeing pedestrians while the authorities' weapons failed to stop the descending Black Hole Bomb.
• At the Zhao Family Manor, Zhao Heling admitted to Zhao Yingming that he expected Jiang Mian to die protecting the city and said the Zhao family's old master would intervene if she sought revenge.

Zhao Heling used a Black Hole Bomb against Jiang Mian, but the World-Overturning Torrent destroyed it before it could harm Base City. Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang left to deal with the Zhao Family, while a masked woman observed them and vanished.

• Zhao Yingming realized Zhao Heling was determined to risk innocent lives, and Zhao Heling ordered him to stay quiet as they waited to see what Jiang Mian would do.
• Zhou Bingkun saw an interceptor missile launched toward the Black Hole Bomb and tried to contact Ye Chenyang as a black dragon rose into the sky.
• The World-Overturning Torrent struck the interceptor missile with lightning, carried the Black Hole Bomb high above the city, and swallowed it in a black shockwave.
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang decided to deal with the remaining culprits and vanished from the ruins in a flash of Golden Light.
• A woman wearing three jade masks watched Jiang Mian and the Torrent, concluded she had been exposed, and disappeared from the rooftop.

After the Zhao Family’s Black Hole Bomb was thwarted, Zhao Heling realized that the hidden figure was likely [Doom] and convinced himself the family had been manipulated. Security forces surrounded the manor, and Jiang Mian ordered every Sixth-tier member of the Zhao Family killed on the spot.

• Zhao Heling concluded that [Doom] had dragged away the bomb and blamed the calamity for the Zhao Family’s downfall.
• Zhou Bingkun led Security Officers and fifth-tier fighters in sealing off the Zhao Family Manor.
• Zhao Heling led the family’s core members outside and accused Jiang Mian of being a Calamity infiltrator.
• Jiang Mian ignored Zhao Heling’s attempt to turn the Security Officers against her, and Ye Chenyang dismissed his accusations.
• Zhou Bingkun ordered the Zhao Family taken down, but Jiang Mian stopped the forces and commanded them to kill every Sixth-tier member on the spot.

Jiang Mian moved to execute the Zhao Family’s Sixth-tiers for their crimes, but Zhao Niugao returned and confronted her after learning what they had done. The chapter ended with Jiang Mian and Zhao Niugao facing off in a tense standoff.

• Zhou Bingkun ordered the Zhao Family members to cooperate, while Ye Chenyang prepared for resistance and Yun Han tried to provoke them.
• Zhao Heling charged at Yun Han as the other three Zhao Family Sixth-tiers attacked Jiang Mian, but Ye Chenyang immobilized them and Jiang Mian turned them into violet crystal statues.
• Zhao Niugao returned and demanded to know why Jiang Mian and the others were targeting his family.
• Ye Chenyang listed the Zhao Family’s crimes, and Zhao Yingming confirmed the accusations to Zhao Niugao.
• Jiang Mian invoked the Temporary Security Act and ordered the four Sixth-tiers killed, then confronted Zhao Niugao as he began to challenge her decision.

Jiang Mian finished the crackdown on the Zhao Family and other conspirators, then returned with Ye Chenyang to rest. She brought him into [World] and revealed a seaside home she had created for them, ending as she playfully asked for a reward.

• Zhao Niugao withdrew rather than interfere, and Jiang Mian left the Zhao Family to be interrogated and arrested.
• Jiang Mian left Zhou Bingkun and Yun Han to handle the cleanup while the other implicated families surrendered; Ye Chenyang provided a meditation technique to wear away the [Desire Seed].
• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang heard ordinary people call the dragon that carried off the Black Hole Bomb an auspicious omen as they returned from the Public Security Bureau.
• Ye Chenyang told Jiang Mian the mission had entered settlement, and she invited him to see something she had prepared in [World].
• Jiang Mian revealed a warmly lit seaside home modeled on their villa, and Ye Chenyang praised her as she asked him for a reward.

After wrapping up the investigation, Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang headed for the Western Front with the confiscated [Cataclysm] cores. There, Qin Xiao demonstrated a devastating attack and worried about how much [Doom] had grown.

• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang spent three days together in [World] before meeting Yun Han outside the hotel.
• Jiang Mian signed the final investigation document, which named Gao Yi a martyr and recorded that roughly a thousand people were implicated in core trafficking and related crimes.
• Jiang Mian told Yun Han that she and Ye Chenyang were going to the Western Front, carrying the confiscated [Cataclysm] cores themselves.
• Yun Han received a message ordering him to pick someone up after the two Investigating Envoys left.
• At the western defensive line, Qin Xiao unleashed a massive attack that destroyed countless Calamities, then emerged with Xiao Shuang and worried that he might not be able to handle [Doom].

Jiang Mian arrived at the western defensive line disguised as Ye Chan and delivered a vast supply of Cataclysm Cores to the First Defense Zone. Meanwhile, Ye Chenyang reached Qin Xiao and Xiao Shuang’s dormitory and heard a strange commotion inside.

• Jiang Mian and Ye Chenyang split up after entering the camp so she could keep her cover from Qin Xiao and the others.
• Colonel Zhao Mangshan escorted Jiang Mian to the plaza, where she introduced herself to the troops as an Investigating Envoy.
• Jiang Mian produced a huge pile of Cataclysm Cores, and Zhao Mangshan ordered the soldiers to inventory them within three hours.
• Ye Chenyang found Qin Xiao and Xiao Shuang’s dormitory and froze when he heard them shouting and a loud smack from inside.

Ye Chenyang reunited with Qin Xiao and Xiao Shuang and pretended that Jiang Mian’s distance from him was a problem caused by his Apex status. Qin Xiao offered to help Jiang Mian grow stronger, and Ye Chenyang led them to meet her, though he planned to let them discover her character for themselves.

• Ye Chenyang visited Qin Xiao and Xiao Shuang, remembering that Xiao Shuang had disappeared during a battle in his previous life and resolving to prevent that outcome this time.
• Qin Xiao and Xiao Shuang introduced themselves to Ye Chenyang, and he said he was escorting something to the Western Front.
• When Qin Xiao asked about Jiang Mian, Ye Chenyang sighed and claimed she had grown withdrawn after learning he was an Apex Sequence.
• Qin Xiao sympathized with Ye Chenyang and offered to use his [Element Decree] to help Jiang Mian exceed her talent limits.
• Ye Chenyang accepted Qin Xiao’s offer and led him and Xiao Shuang to Jiang Mian, intending to let them judge her for themselves.

Jiang Mian pretended to be shy and timid when she met Ye Chenyang’s brothers, then accepted Qin Xiao’s [Element Decree] to break her talent’s upper limit. She lost consciousness and awoke in a void before a black-and-white mass of gas shaped like a Taiji diagram that seemed to be watching her.

• Jiang Mian returned the seized cores to the First Defense Zone and learned that contributions could be exchanged for special-grade Mutant Remains.
• Jiang Mian changed clothes and waited for Ye Chenyang to bring Qin Xiao and Xiao Shuang to meet her.
• Jiang Mian acted reserved around the two men, convincing them of Ye Chenyang’s story about her temperament.
• Ye Chenyang coaxed Jiang Mian into accepting help from Qin Xiao, who used his [Element Decree] to break her talent’s upper limit.
• Jiang Mian collapsed after the decree entered her palm and awoke in a void before a black-and-white Taiji-shaped mass of gas.