Chapter Summaries

Summary

• Key events: The speaker is unexpectedly called into a work meeting at 9 p.m. Because of this disruption, they decide they must take another day off.
• Character development: The speaker appears emotionally exhausted and numb, suggesting growing stress or burnout from work demands.
• Themes: Workplace pressure, lack of control, exhaustion, and the difficulty of maintaining personal time and responsibilities.
• Character interactions: The only interaction mentioned is between the speaker and their workplace, which summons them to the late-night meeting.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Qi, Arthur, Master Ma, and the Highest Level Mercenary Group arrive by United Pharmaceutical airship in Miracle City, the hidden headquarters of the Intercontinental Stabilization Trauma Response Company.
• Qiao Xi has arranged official clearance and waits with King Kong to escort them to her office, high in the company’s enormous Hollow Ring Tower.
• Arthur worries that using United Pharmaceutical’s name could expose the company to retaliation. Lin Qi accepts the risk, reasoning that his own involvement would implicate United Pharmaceutical regardless.
• In Qiao Xi’s office, Lin Qi questions whether they can speak safely inside the company headquarters. Qiao Xi explains that the operation is meant as a demonstration, not a direct attack: she intends to prove to her grandfather that she can destroy his lifelong plan.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Qi appears outwardly calm about involving United Pharmaceutical, but internally feels the pressure of an approaching battle. Without Panda Baby, he must rely on his own strength.
• Arthur shows loyalty to United Pharmaceutical and concern for Liu Xuan’s investment in it. He challenges Lin Qi’s casual attitude and is noticeably cold toward Qiao Xi, whom he considers presumptuous.
• Master Ma reluctantly agrees with Arthur’s criticism after being pulled into the exchange.
• Qiao Xi has gained enough influence to secure the group’s entry, but her actions strain relations with Arthur. She is focused on confronting her grandfather and forcing a decision.
• The group’s uneasy exchange gives way to Qiao Xi’s explanation of the stakes: her grandfather must either stop persecuting the family’s priest practitioners or kill her.

Significant themes

• Corporate power and secrecy: Major corporations conceal their headquarters and control information as a matter of survival.
• Responsibility and loyalty: Arthur insists that United Pharmaceutical is not Lin Qi’s alone to risk, invoking Liu Xuan’s commitment to the company.
• Confrontation and sacrifice: Qiao Xi’s strategy deliberately puts her own life at stake to force her grandfather to choose between his plan and the family members he persecutes.

Chapter Summary: “The Power of a Fifth-Rank Priest”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Qiao Xi reveals her plan to challenge the Intercontinental Stabilization Trauma Response Company’s intentions regarding Extraordinary Domains. Her objective is to destroy a Fifth-Rank Extraordinary Item hidden inside an expanded Extraordinary Domain.
• As a Fifth-Rank Priest, Qiao Xi will expand the domain for only two hours. Lin Qi, King Kong, Arthur, and Master Ma must enter, locate the item, and destroy its origin.
• The item stores power resembling Holy Light. Qiao Xi explains that Lin Qi’s Wizard power can cause its origin to collapse instantly because Wizard power, tied to the Blood Moon, is fundamentally incompatible with Earth-origin power.
• Lin Qi realizes the item may be one of the Fifth-Rank artifacts supplied by the Doomsday World General Command. He judges the mission to be relatively safe, though he remains suspicious that Guangleng’s plans are deeper than they appear.
• King Kong confirms his willingness to sacrifice himself. Lin Qi recognizes that King Kong’s life is nearly exhausted, proving how completely he has devoted himself to Qiao Xi’s cause.
• Qiao Xi begins expanding the Extraordinary Domain, causing the surrounding world to darken and transform.
• At the Lunar Base Political Zone, Guangleng coordinates with a Fifth-Rank Wizard in the form of a Crimson-Eyed Tentacle Monster. Their plan is to use the simultaneous expansion of Extraordinary Domains to revive the Blood Moon for five minutes and seize its Origin.
• Guangleng manipulates the European Wizard by presenting himself as powerless and trustworthy, while secretly becoming increasingly excited about stealing the Blood Moon Origin.
• In the Eastern Alliance, Lin Changshou, Huang Long, and Baili Xueyuan monitor the crisis. They worry that any disturbance from the moon could signal catastrophe, especially since access to the moon has been blocked for half a month.
• The Alliance remains divided over whether Lin Qi can be trusted. Lin Changshou believes his grandson should be involved, but the Old Minister refuses because of the many unexplained mysteries surrounding Lin Qi.
• Baili Xueyuan suggests questioning Panda Baby for more information, prompting Huang Long to defensively protect his son’s right to keep secrets. The scene ends with Baili feeling overwhelmed by the political and familial tensions.

Character Developments

• Lin Qi demonstrates greater confidence in his powers and strategic judgment. He quickly understands how his Wizard abilities can destroy the target and remains alert to Guangleng’s hidden motives.
• Qiao Xi is shown as determined and burdened by responsibility. She has prepared for the operation since reaching Fifth Rank and fears the consequences of failure.
• King Kong reveals the extent of his loyalty and self-sacrifice. Despite nearing death, he is determined to fulfill his promise to Qiao Xi.
• Guangleng emerges as increasingly manipulative and ambitious. He has deceived the European Wizard and is secretly preparing to seize the Blood Moon Origin.
• Lin Changshou remains protective of Lin Qi and frustrated by the Alliance’s refusal to trust him fully.
• Huang Long acts as a fiercely protective father, resisting attempts to pressure Panda Baby.
• Baili Xueyuan is positioned as the practical mediator, struggling to manage the powerful figures and competing loyalties around him.

Significant Themes

• Trust and deception: Guangleng’s manipulation contrasts with the uncertainty surrounding Lin Qi, whose loyalty is questioned despite his apparent good character.
• Sacrifice and loyalty: King Kong’s declining life and willingness to die for Qiao Xi emphasize the personal cost of the mission.
• Incompatible powers: The conflict between Earth-origin Holy Light and Blood Moon-derived Wizard power reflects the larger struggle between opposing cosmic forces.
• Political distrust and secrecy: The Eastern Alliance’s inability to act decisively is worsened by hidden knowledge, unclear motives, and competing family loyalties.
• Power and manipulation: Guangleng uses partial truths and psychological control to direct others toward his own objective while concealing his true strength.

Character Interactions

• Qiao Xi explains the mission to Lin Qi and answers his concerns about the domain’s time limit and the destruction of the target.
• Lin Qi questions King Kong about his readiness, recognizing the severe physical cost of his commitment.
• Guangleng directs the Crimson-Eyed Tentacle Monster while maintaining the illusion that he is merely a powerless intermediary.
• Lin Changshou, Huang Long, and Baili Xueyuan debate the moon crisis, Lin Qi’s trustworthiness, and whether Panda Baby should reveal what he knows.
• Huang Long and Lin Changshou humorously unite in defending their descendants, leaving Baili Xueyuan to bear the practical burden of managing the situation.

Chapter Summary

Plot points and events

• Qiao Xi begins expanding an Extraordinary Domain around her office. As it forms, ordinary senses and physical laws stop working; the group must communicate through Willpower.
• Lin Qi uses Psychic Vision to perceive the domain before the others. He explains that the group has not yet fully entered it, while King Kong shares Qiao Xi’s guidance and helps steady them.
• Once the Expansion is complete, Lin Qi sees the domain’s vivid colors and recognizes them as reflections of extraordinary power in the real world.
• He spots four physically distinct, powerful figures—an unusual sight in the domain—and warns the group to prepare for a fight. He judges the newcomers to be high-ranking practitioners and considers what abilities will still work in this altered environment.
• The intruders attack as soon as the domain fully forms. They target Lin Qi specifically because he is a Wizard.
• Meanwhile, at the Assassin’s League Tower, Panda Baby delivers a warning from the woman inside the Gate: the Expansion in Miracle City has exceeded its safety threshold, and the Intercontinental Stabilization Trauma Response Company may have crossed a final limit. She urges Lin Changshou to activate the Contingency Plan.
• Baili Xueyuan presses Lin Changshou to act, arguing that the situation threatens both the Eastern Alliance and humanity. Lin Changshou hesitates, believing conditions are not quite as they seem and trusting that Lin Qi would not let events reach this point. The excerpt ends just as Panda Baby begins to reveal that Lin Qi had told it something earlier.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Qi adapts quickly to the Extraordinary Domain, assesses its rules and threats, and calmly plans how to conserve his strongest abilities. His confidence is balanced by caution: he suspects the attack may be part of a larger plan involving Guangleng.
• Arthur is curious and energetic, repeatedly trying to communicate and move through the unfamiliar space. Lin Qi gently warns her not to rush.
• King Kong acts as a source of practical guidance, relaying Qiao Xi’s instructions and offering to use his Willpower to help the group withstand the domain’s pressure.
• Master Ma and Arthur trust Lin Qi’s warning and prepare to fight.
• Lin Changshou struggles between faith in Lin Qi and the need to follow a contingency plan. Baili Xueyuan is more alarmed, especially for Master Ma’s safety, and confronts him with the urgency of the threat.

Significant themes

• Reality and perception: The Extraordinary Domain overturns ordinary physical rules, making perception and Willpower essential.
• Power and vulnerability: Even formidable practitioners must adapt when their abilities lose effectiveness in an unfamiliar environment.
• Trust under uncertainty: Lin Qi’s team relies on his judgment, while Lin Changshou’s trust in his grandson conflicts with warnings of a civilization-level crisis.
• Hidden agendas and escalation: The targeted attack and the alarming reports from Miracle City suggest that a much larger confrontation may be underway.

Key plot points

• Panda Baby reveals that Lin Qi has a plan, though he withholds that it may have involved him. He urges Baili Xueyuan and Huang Long to trust Lin Qi rather than invoke their last resort.
• The Old Minister inside the Gate asks Lin Changshou what he thinks of Lin Qi. Lin Changshou says he trusts his grandson and refuses to enter the Extraordinary Domain, admitting he wants to live and remain close to his family. The Old Minister agrees to keep watching for now, but may still ask him to go if the battle stalls.
• In the Extraordinary Domain, the team endures overwhelming pressure. King Kong shields the others with his greatly amplified Willpower; Master Ma survives by turning suffering into strength, while Arthur endures through sheer resolve.
• The team’s four opponents die within seconds, apparently killed by Lin Qi using only Mental Power Siphon and Anxious Knife. Lin Qi says his teammates might have beaten most of them, but the group must prioritize Qiao Xi’s mission.
• King Kong explains that the team’s location shifts unpredictably in the Domain and that only Qiao Xi can control their coordinates. He is bearing the Domain’s pressure, leaving Lin Qi hoping she can finish the task within two hours.
• On the moon, Guangleng reveals more of his scheme to the tentacled monster. He claims that even if his initial plan fails, he can help it claim the remaining half of Blood Moon’s Origin and become the first Sixth Rank being. His true stated goal is to obtain the Eastern Alliance’s half of Earth’s Origin, then divide the three remaining portions among himself and his allies.
• Lin Qi realizes that the space he is approaching is not merely a Fifth Rank item’s unfolding. He suspects Qiao Xi has been lured toward a true portion of Earth-Moon Origin and fears Guangleng intends to use it against him.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Changshou openly chooses trust in Lin Qi and family life over risking his life for the Alliance. His sincerity shows how strongly his family anchors his humanity.
• Panda Baby acts as a mediator between the Alliance leaders and the Old Minister, encouraging trust while carefully hiding what Lin Qi told him.
• King Kong takes the burden of defending the team and, unusually, agrees with Lin Qi rather than automatically backing Qiao Xi.
• Lin Qi demonstrates overwhelming power but remains focused on the mission and increasingly alert to the possibility that the team has been manipulated.
• Guangleng stays composed under the monster’s threats and uses partial truths to win its cooperation, presenting himself as a partner while concealing the full scope of his intentions.

Significant themes

• Trust and loyalty: Lin Changshou’s faith in Lin Qi contrasts with the Alliance’s uncertainty and Guangleng’s calculated deception.
• Family and humanity: Lin Changshou’s attachment to his family helps him preserve his humanity.
• Power and sacrifice: The Domain magnifies Willpower, but survival demands endurance—especially from King Kong, who bears the pressure for everyone.
• Manipulation and hidden motives: Guangleng’s plan depends on deception, and Lin Qi’s discovery suggests the mission itself may have been engineered as a trap.
• Urgency and uncertainty: The team is racing against time while navigating a realm where their position—and the true nature of their objective—remains unstable.

Key plot points and events

• In Miracle City, Qiao Xi uses the last of her life and power as a Fifth-Rank Priest to pull her team out of the extraordinary domain. She spots King Kong, Master Ma, and Arthur—but Lin Qi is missing.
• The survivors emerge badly injured, with their cybernetics damaged. Arthur urgently asks Qiao Xi to search for Lin Qi, but she has exhausted her ability to expand the domain. Only her grandfather, Qiao Ning, can do it now.
• Qiao Xi suspects her grandfather manipulated events, possibly hoping Lin Qi would destroy the origin power. She decides to confront him and seek his help rescuing Lin Qi.
• Meanwhile, in the Eastern Alliance, Panda Baby reports that the origin power has been disturbed and relays a demand for immediate action. Before Lin Changshou can decide how to respond, the Moon turns blood-red and draws closer; a vast fissure on its far side begins opening like an eye.
• With no residents yet turning into monsters, Lin Changshou nevertheless authorizes the Alliance’s plan. Darkness starts spreading from the sealed great gate, and Panda Baby warns that Ghost’s true form has arrived to attack it.

Character developments and interactions

• Qiao Xi shifts from shock and guilt to determined action. She admits her plan may have led to the disaster and takes responsibility, promising Arthur an explanation.
• Arthur is distraught over Lin Qi’s disappearance and insists on returning to the domain, even offering to risk his life. He warns Qiao Xi that he will never forgive her if Lin Qi is truly gone.
• Lin Changshou faces a choice between risking himself and acting to protect the Eastern Alliance. Though reluctant and worried about Lin Qi, he ultimately gives the order.
• Guangleng, in a parallel scene, reveals his calculated strategy: provoke several factions into competing over origin power, take two origins to become a true god, and leave one as bait. He regards Lin Qi as a useful but manageable pawn.

Significant themes

• Manipulation and competing agendas: Guangleng and, apparently, Qiao Ning maneuver others toward their own goals.
• Sacrifice and responsibility: Qiao Xi’s power costs her life force, while Lin Changshou must accept personal and political risk.
• Uncertainty and loyalty: Arthur’s devotion to Lin Qi persists despite the lack of answers, and Lin Changshou struggles to trust that Lin Qi is safe.
• Escalating cosmic danger: The Moon’s transformation and the arrival of Ghost suggest the crisis is far larger than the team’s local mission.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Lin Changshou realizes that Guangleng is targeting the Extraordinary Domain and orders the Extraordinary Domain Expansion operation stopped. But Guangleng, moving through the Eastern Alliance’s network, reaches the darkness first. Baili Xueyuan follows, then Lin Changshou; he sends Huang Long to Miracle City to warn Lin Qi.
• At the Intercontinental Stabilization Trauma Response Company, Qiao Xi and her team break into her grandfather Qiao Ning’s sealed room. They discover that he has been dead since six that morning, despite someone apparently using his ability and communicating with Qiao Xi afterward. Qiao Xi suspects Guangleng impersonated or manipulated him.
• Qiao Xi believes a Fifth-Rank Priest may still be nearby and could help bring Wizard back from the Extraordinary Domain. She opens Qiao Ning’s life-support pod, determined to act.
• In Hongguo City, Liu Xuan panics when her lifelong bond with Lin Qi suddenly disappears. As she tries to sense him, she undergoes a dramatic transformation, awakening numerous abilities and reaching the Fifth-Rank limit. She then feels Lin Qi return.

Character developments

• Lin Changshou acts decisively on his deduction, risks entering the darkness himself, and places his trust in Lin Qi as a possible solution.
• Huang Long is left helpless when Panda Baby goes silent and is forced to rely on Lin Changshou’s judgment.
• Qiao Xi shifts from confusion and grief over her grandfather’s death to determinedly searching for another Priest who might save Wizard.
• Liu Xuan transforms from a frightened, apparently ordinary person into an immensely powerful Wizard, seemingly through her bond with Lin Qi.
• King Kong demonstrates absolute loyalty to Qiao Xi, even when ordered to destroy company property.

Character interactions

• Lin Changshou directs Huang Long to find Lin Qi and warns him to trust Lin Changshou’s grandson.
• Baili Xueyuan immediately acts on Lin Changshou’s warning, while Lin Changshou and Guangleng race toward the darkness.
• Qiao Xi commands King Kong to breach the sealed door; Arthur questions whether their efforts were pointless, and Master Ma restrains him from taking his frustration out on her.
• Liu Xingyuan and Liu Li try to comfort Liu Xuan. Liu Li encourages her to focus on her bond with Lin Qi, prompting the sequence in which her powers awaken.

Significant themes

• Trust amid uncertainty: Characters must act on incomplete information, relying on trusted allies such as Lin Qi.
• Deception and hidden identities: Qiao Ning’s apparent posthumous actions suggest that Guangleng may be impersonating or manipulating people.
• Loyalty and connection: King Kong’s obedience and Liu Xuan’s bond with Lin Qi shape their choices and abilities.
• Transformation and sacrifice: Liu Xuan’s sudden ascent contrasts with the hidden costs and sacrifices surrounding the Qiao family’s search for the Extraordinary Domain’s origin.

Key plot points and events

• Liu Xuan suddenly manifests power at the fifth-rank limit, astonishing her father, Liu Xingyuan, and sister, Liu Li. She believes the power came from her soul connection with Lin Qi, whom she senses has grown immensely stronger.
• In the extraordinary domain, Lin Qi is trapped by Guangleng’s weapon: the earth origin, a power that counters wizard practitioners. Qiao Xi tries to pull the group to safety, but the origin’s attraction keeps Lin Qi pinned. Lin Qi concludes he cannot survive unless he reaches the fifth-rank limit.
• Lin Qi and Liu Xuan’s souls connect. When Liu Xuan tries to return the soul power sustaining her, Lin Qi resists, fearing she would die. Their deeper-than-before “Soul Communion” produces a new human origin power, elevating Lin Qi to the fifth-rank limit.
• Before Lin Qi can analyze the earth origin, the [Gate] draws him inside. He finds himself in the familiar room associated with the Doomsday World and appears to become an ordinary college student again, focused on finishing robot-combat designs.
• A blood moon rises outside, unnoticed by Lin Qi. Xia Chu arrives carrying a bloodstained hammer and embraces him, relieved that he is alive and has not become a zombie.

Character developments

• Lin Qi moves from apparent helplessness and acceptance of possible death to renewed strength, then faces a strange shift in identity and setting through the [Gate].
• Liu Xuan discovers a powerful new connection to Lin Qi and reaches the fifth-rank limit herself, though she cannot locate him.
• Xia Chu appears in a dangerous, zombie-filled world; her relief at finding Lin Qi suggests they share a close relationship there.
• Guangleng is revealed to have planned Lin Qi’s entrapment carefully, using the earth origin to counter him and advance his own plan.

Significant themes

• Connection and sacrifice: Lin Qi and Liu Xuan’s bond both saves them and creates new power, while Lin Qi refuses to preserve himself at the cost of her life.
• Power through transformation: Their union unlocks a new human origin power that lets Lin Qi cross a critical threshold.
• Identity and reality: The [Gate] shifts Lin Qi into a familiar room and apparent ordinary life, raising questions about the relationship between his worlds and selves.
• Hope amid catastrophe: Just as Lin Qi seems doomed, an unexpected breakthrough offers survival—though the blood moon and Xia Chu’s warning reveal danger remains.

Character interactions

• Liu Xingyuan and Liu Li question Liu Xuan about her sudden power; Liu Li asks her to contain it.
• Qiao Xi attempts to rescue Lin Qi, but cannot overcome the earth origin’s pull.
• Lin Qi and Liu Xuan reach toward each other through their soul connection, resisting one another’s attempts to return or reclaim power before their souls unite.
• Xia Chu embraces Lin Qi and explains her relief, while Lin Qi—confused by her references to zombies—asks what has happened.

The chapter is a brief author’s note rather than a story installment. The author announces a day off to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and says it will be their final break before finishing the novel.

• Plot and events: No novel events take place.
• Character development: No fictional characters appear or develop.
• Themes: The note emphasizes celebration, rest, and the author’s commitment to completing the novel.
• Character interactions: None.

Lin Qi relived a version of the apocalypse in which he and Xia Chu built the Magic University Camp, grew powerful, and joined the General Headquarters’ plan to destroy the Blood Moon. As the Final Plan began, Lin Qi realized that Guangleng intended to seize the origin and that the discreet Doomsday World Lin Qi might be strong enough to stop him.

• Xia Chu told Lin Qi that the apocalypse had begun, and the two collected crystal cores before traveling to Magic University and gathering survivors into a camp.
• Lin Qi researched Xia Chu’s Water Control ability while his own brain-enhancing power grew, and the two reached the first-rank limit together.
• The Magic University Camp became an official survivor camp through contact with Hongshan Camp, and Lin Qi later revealed his genius by building Xia Chu advanced Exoskeleton equipment.
• Lin Qi and Xia Chu joined the General Headquarters, where Lin Qi suspected its leaders had secret knowledge of the apocalypse and Xia Chu became one of its strongest fighters.
• After Lin Qi’s awareness returned, he watched Xia Chu prepare for the Final Plan and recognized that Guangleng’s Rocket mission was a plot to seize the origin.
• Lin Qi realized the quiet Doomsday World version of himself had secretly reached the fifth-rank limit, though no one knew how powerful he was.

Lin Qi watched Doomsday Lin Qi lead an assault on the Blood Moon, but the Server’s influence transformed the battle into a confrontation between Doomsday Lin Qi and Guangleng. The [Gate] then revealed portions of the Blood Moon’s and Earth’s Origin powers, with Lin Qi glimpsing the world he had experienced.

• Doomsday Lin Qi and the elite fighters traveled to the Blood Moon and prepared to use their Potential-Stimulating Serums for a final attack.
• The fighters injected the serums, drawing on Origin power to manipulate gravity, space, time, and heat as Xia Chu directed seawater toward the Blood Moon.
• Doomsday Lin Qi realized the Server was affecting the Blood Moon, then asked Song to send him to the lunar surface.
• Lin Qi saw two Blood Moon-like monsters facing each other and recognized them as Doomsday Lin Qi and Guangleng.
• The [Gate] showed Lin Qi crimson Blood Moon Origin power and a larger portion of Earth’s Origin power, through which he glimpsed the Magic University Camp and General Headquarters.

Lin Qi reclaimed the origin power in [Gate] and prepared to confront Guangleng, while Liu Xuan awakened as a fifth-rank powerhouse and defended United Pharmaceutical. Lin Changshou survived his clash with the Eastern Alliance priest, and Guangleng remained confident that he held the advantage as the struggle over the world's origin power approached its end.

• Lin Qi realized the Doomsday World was a projection of his past and entered [Gate] to reclaim his origin power, believing he could reach the sixth-rank limit and kill Guangleng.
• As rival conglomerates targeted United Pharmaceutical, Yagyu Yinghao demanded its phase-equipment technology and threatened to force his way inside.
• Liu Weicai exposed the fifth-rank powerhouses hiding nearby, then Liu Xuan used her newly awakened fifth-rank power to kill Yagyu Yinghao.
• Lin Changshou emerged gravely injured from the darkness-filled room after the priest practitioner at the fifth-rank limit died, and he resolved to stay alive in case Lin Qi could turn the situation around.
• Guangleng declared that he had plundered two of the world's four portions of origin power and believed the advantage was his.

Lin Qi returned from the extraordinary domain after mastering origin power and reaching the sixth rank, then rescued Lin Changshou and confronted Guangleng. He crushed Guangleng before he could complete his merger with the Origin.

• Huang Long arrived in Miracle City and learned from Arthur and Qiao Xi that Lin Qi had vanished inside an extraordinary domain after encountering origin power.
• A powerful fluctuation appeared at the Intercontinental Stabilization Trauma Response Company headquarters, and Lin Qi emerged, revealing that he had reached the sixth rank.
• Lin Qi identified and transported the Fifth-Rank Priest who had helped Guangleng to Qiao Xi, then used his expanded power to travel to Lin Changshou.
• Lin Qi healed Lin Changshou and entered the extraordinary domain, where Guangleng was trying to merge with a portion of origin power.
• Lin Qi shook Guangleng off the Origin, dismissed his offer of secrets, and crushed him to death.