Chapter Summaries

After a shooting star struck him, webnovel author Bai Xiaowen awoke in the body of a handsome high school student in the Psychic Energy Era, where humans battled monsters from the Spirit Realm. He discovered a powerful Insight talent linked to the blood-red eyeball, then realized the used bandages he had examined were stained with his own blood.

• Bai Xiaowen was struck in the left eye by a shooting star while heading out for a late-night snack.
• Bai Xiaowen woke in a hospital beside a girl who called him Big Brother and said their Big Sister had gone missing.
• Bai Xiaowen recognized that he had traveled into the future and taken over the body of a high school student with the same name.
• Bai Xiaowen discovered that the blood-red eyeball had given him the Insight talent, greatly increased Spirit, and a superhuman brain.
• Bai Xiaowen used Insight to identify a used hemostatic bandage’s composition and effects, then realized the blood on it was his own.

After recovering from Zhou Yi’s attack, Bai Xiaowen reaffirmed his determination to become an Awakener and search the Spirit Realm for his missing family. Zhou Yi came to the hospital and provoked Bai Xiaowen and Bai Xiaojun, but Bai Xiaowen warned him that attacking there would expose his actions; a girl then called out to Zhou Yi from the corridor.

• Bai Xiaowen remembered that Zhou Yi had struck him during practical combat class, causing his death and allowing the transmigrated Bai Xiaowen to inhabit his body.
• Bai Xiaojun and Teacher Qiao checked on Bai Xiaowen, who learned he had been unconscious for three days and refused to leave the combat class.
• Bai Xiaowen considered his family’s financial hardship and remained determined to enter Jinghai University's Combat Department and search the Spirit Realm for Bai Yuantang and Bai Xiaohua.
• Zhou Yi entered the ward, mocked Bai Xiaowen and Bai Xiaojun, and shoved Bai Xiaojun after she slapped him; Wu Xiaoyan watched and told Zhou Yi not to go too far.
• Bai Xiaowen warned Zhou Yi that attacking him in the hospital would expose his earlier attack and ruin his future, so Zhou Yi backed down and insisted the practical combat incident had been an accident.
• A girl in the corridor called out to Zhou Yi, asking what he was doing there.

While visiting Bai Xiaowen in the hospital, Li Shuyi defended him against Zhou Yi and revealed she was leaving school for early admission to Jinghai University. She arranged for Bai Xiaowen to work at her family’s Alchemist shop, leaving him to consider the opportunity and his growing confidence.

• Li Shuyi confronted Zhou Yi over injuring Bai Xiaowen, and Zhou Yi left with Wu Xiaoyan after Li Shuyi told him not to provoke the patient.
• Xiao Jun told Li Shuyi that she had visited Bai Xiaowen every day while he was unconscious, then left them alone to talk.
• Bai Xiaowen used Insight to discover that Li Shuyi was a Quasi-Awakened with the unactivated Combat Zeal talent, and resolved to conceal Insight’s ability to reveal talents.
• Li Shuyi told Bai Xiaowen she was leaving school and had received early admission to Jinghai University.
• Li Shuyi asked Bai Xiaowen to take her place part-time at her family’s Alchemist shop, and he accepted.
• Xiao Jun said Bai Xiaowen seemed more dependable than before, and Bai Xiaowen decided the change and the job opportunity could be good.

Bai Xiaowen discovered that Supervisor Fan Jianwei had switched the identification certificates for two potions and was setting him up to take the blame for a costly mistake. After secretly recording Fan Jianwei’s refusal to check the bottles, Bai Xiaowen headed to the potion-making area to find the shop manager.

• Bai Xiaowen applied labels based on the certificates Fan Jianwei gave him, then used his Insight to discover the two potions and their labels were mismatched.
• Bai Xiaowen realized Fan Jianwei had likely arranged to sell the 1.28-million-yuan Gargoyle's Might Potion as a 98,000-yuan Stone Skin Potion and frame him for the loss.
• Bai Xiaowen secretly activated his phone’s recording function and warned Fan Jianwei that the potions might have been mixed up.
• Fan Jianwei dismissed the warning and told Bai Xiaowen there could not be a problem because the labels matched the certificates.
• Bai Xiaowen left Fan Jianwei’s office and went to the potion-making area, where he told two guards that he needed to speak with the shop manager about a problem with the potions.

Bai Xiaowen exposed Supervisor Fan Jianwei’s potion-label fraud to Elder Zhang, helping uncover a broader scheme and earning a 100,000-yuan bonus. He chose a part-time job in the Alchemy Department and began his first shift as a low-ranking apprentice.

• Bai Xiaowen showed Elder Zhang switched potion labels and played a recording that proved Fan Jianwei had supervised the labeling.
• Elder Zhang suspended Fan Jianwei and ordered an investigation, which uncovered seven falsely labeled discarded potions and implicated Li Qing in the fraud.
• Elder Zhang arranged for Fan Jianwei to be sent to the Guild Enforcement Department and Li Qing to the judicial authorities, then awarded Bai Xiaowen 100,000 yuan.
• Bai Xiaowen asked for part-time work, chose the Alchemy Department over the sales hall, and agreed to work four hours after school each day.
• Bai Xiaowen spent his first shift doing chores in the Alchemy Department’s main hall and quietly completed work that senior apprentices pushed onto him.

At Chihuo No. 1 High School, Bai Xiaowen improved his Meditation score while preparing for the college entrance exam and learned that his class would train in the dangerous Buffer Zone. After Zhou Yi urged him to withdraw, Bai Xiaowen refused, prompting Zhou Yi to threaten retaliation if he joined the training.

• Homeroom teacher Xiao Jinsheng warned Class 17 that the National College Entrance Examination was 123 days away and announced a field combat training session in the Buffer Zone, with withdrawing students removed from the combat class.
• Bai Xiaowen completed Meditation, raised Basic Meditation to Level 4, and assessed how his improved Spirit and Super Brain contrasted with his weak physical fitness and combat scores.
• Zhou Yi confronted Bai Xiaowen outside and advised him to withdraw from the Buffer Zone training because it was dangerous.
• Bai Xiaowen dismissed Zhou Yi and walked away, angering him.
• Wu Xiaoyan urged Zhou Yi to ignore Bai Xiaowen and remember their goal, but Zhou Yi decided he would make Bai Xiaowen pay if he joined the training.

Bai Xiaowen used his Insight Talent to study medicinal ingredients while preparing to compete for an alchemy assistant position, despite Fan Renjie’s efforts to intimidate him. Sun Hecheng began the written test and announced that only one assistant opening remained, leaving Bai Xiaowen and the other apprentices to compete for a place in the interviews.

• Bai Xiaowen reviewed the properties of medicinal ingredients and learned that two assistant positions had opened in the Alchemy Department.
• Fan Renjie claimed Zheng Sen would take Zheng Li’s assistant position and declared that he expected to become Sun Hecheng’s assistant.
• Fan Renjie’s clique ordered Bai Xiaowen to clean the medicine cabinets, but Bai Xiaowen refused and said he would take the test.
• Bai Xiaowen mocked Fan Renjie and the fat apprentice, provoking their anger before the test began.
• Sun Hecheng announced that Zheng Li had chosen his assistant and that the written test would select three candidates for an interview for the single remaining opening.

Bai Xiaowen finished the herb-processing exam early, while Fan Renjie struggled with the difficult specimens but scored 76 points. Fan Renjie bet that Bai Xiaowen would fail to reach the interview, and Sun Hecheng began announcing the results.

• Sun Hecheng gave the apprentices one hour to identify twenty herbs and describe their preliminary processing methods.
• Bai Xiaowen used his knowledge of the Pharmacopoeia Compendium to complete the exam and submit his paper with half the time remaining.
• Fan Renjie struggled with the obscure herbs, filled in his answers, and scored 76 points, the highest result graded so far.
• Fan Renjie mocked Bai Xiaowen and wagered that he would quit his job if Bai Xiaowen made the interview; Bai Xiaowen accepted, and several apprentices agreed to witness the bet.
• At nine thirty, Sun Hecheng stood up with the graded papers and began announcing the results.

Bai Xiaowen scored a perfect 100 on the Alchemy Department exam and earned a trial position processing ingredients for Sun Hecheng. After humiliating Fan Renjie over their bet, Bai Xiaowen left the hall while Sun Hecheng reported his success to Miss and urged her to prepare carefully for her Spirit Realm trial.

• Sun Hecheng announced that Bai Xiaowen had earned the exam’s only interview spot with a perfect score, far surpassing Fan Renjie’s 76.
• Bai Xiaowen followed Sun Hecheng to the alchemy room, where he explained his background and accepted a trial arrangement that fit around his school schedule.
• Sun Hecheng told Bai Xiaowen to begin processing potion ingredients after school the next day and to assist with complicated potions in the evening.
• Bai Xiaowen ordered Fan Renjie to clean the medicine cabinets, and Fan Renjie obeyed because he had lost their bet.
• Sun Hecheng called Miss, told her Bai Xiaowen had topped the exam and joined as his assistant, and warned her to prepare carefully for her Spirit Realm trial.

Bai Xiaowen used his Insight and alchemy knowledge to recover discarded ingredients and replicate Sun Hecheng’s potion-making process, unlocking the Alchemist profession. He drank the resulting Ruby’s Might potion and left the workshop with greatly increased Strength, determined to raise his other attributes and become an Awakened.

• Bai Xiaowen finished preparing the next day’s ingredients after Sun Hecheng praised his skill and left the workshop.
• Bai Xiaowen separated discarded ingredient scraps with his Insight and used them to prepare a Level 8 Ruby’s Might Enhancement Potion.
• Bai Xiaowen unlocked Alchemist Level 1 and gained 3 points of Spirit after successfully making the potion.
• Bai Xiaowen drank Ruby’s Might and endured intense pain as his base Strength increased by 2.7 points to 4.5.
• Bai Xiaowen struggled to control his newfound Strength and planned to make Agility- and Constitution-type potions so he could reach the Awakened threshold.

Bai Xiaowen brought his sister Xiao Jun a B-Rank Enhancement Recipe meal and urged her to exercise so she could absorb its Psionic Particles. On his way back to the high school division, he rejected Wu Xiaoyan's advice to withdraw from the upcoming wilderness combat training.

• Bai Xiaowen met Xiao Jun at the cafeteria and brought her an expensive B-Rank Enhancement Recipe meal.
• Xiao Jun worried that the meal would quickly consume Bai Xiaowen's prize money, but he reassured her that he could earn plenty more.
• After Xiao Jun finished eating, Bai Xiaowen explained that exercise would help her absorb the recipe's Psionic Particles and improve her attributes.
• Bai Xiaowen escorted Xiao Jun to class, then encountered Wu Xiaoyan, who urged him to withdraw from wilderness combat training and stop opposing Zhou Yi.
• Bai Xiaowen walked past Wu Xiaoyan after thanking her for the reminder.

Bai Xiaowen trained to improve his Basic Combat before his class’s week-long field exercise and asked Sun Hecheng for leave from the potion shop. Sun Hecheng agreed and taught him how to brew Savage Bull’s Might, which Bai Xiaowen prepared to try himself.

• Bai Xiaowen practiced Basic Combat and raised the specialty to Level 2, while recognizing that his low Constitution and Agility limited his training.
• Bai Xiaowen decided he needed to balance permanent Enhancement Potions with combat potions before the field exercise.
• Bai Xiaowen asked Sun Hecheng for a week off, and Sun Hecheng agreed to have Zheng Li cover for him until he returned.
• Sun Hecheng rewarded Bai Xiaowen by explaining the principles behind brewing simple potions and successfully made a bottle of Savage Bull’s Might.
• Bai Xiaowen asked to practice brewing the potion, and Sun Hecheng allowed him to use one set of materials.

Bai Xiaowen successfully prepared his first Savage Bull's Might potion under Sun Hecheng's guidance, then chose to remain a part-time assistant rather than become a full-time Alchemist. After improving his attributes and combat skill, he boarded the bus for wilderness combat training while wary of Zhou Yi.

• Bai Xiaowen prepared Savage Bull's Might successfully on his first attempt, astonishing Sun Hecheng, who urged him to become a full-time Alchemist.
• Bai Xiaowen declined the offer and accepted a copy of Alchemist Basics from Sun Hecheng so he could continue learning as a part-time assistant.
• Over the next three days, Bai Xiaowen learned two Enhancement Potion formulas, drank Ravager Beast's Speed, raised his Agility to 4.2, and advanced Basic Combat to level 3.
• Xiao Jinsheng called Class 17 to board the buses for wilderness combat training, and Zhou Yi made a threatening gesture at Bai Xiaowen.
• Bai Xiaowen assessed Zhou Yi as a dangerous opponent, texted Xiao Jun, and boarded the coach.

Bai Xiaowen joined Zhou Yi, Wu Xiaoyan, and Jiang Wen under Xiao Jinsheng’s leadership for wilderness combat training in the Buffer Zone. After helping Jiang Wen kill a Mutant Cockroach and improving his sword proficiency, the group reached the Plague Rat Burrow before nightfall.

• Xiao Jinsheng assigned the remaining students—Zhou Yi, Wu Xiaoyan, Jiang Wen, and Bai Xiaowen—to his team and sent them toward Area 8, the Plague Rat Burrow.
• Jiang Wen panicked while fighting a Mutant Cockroach, and Bai Xiaowen killed it with two machete strikes.
• Bai Xiaowen received a Good battle rating and raised his Basic Weaponry (One-Handed Sword) proficiency to level 3.
• The team encountered several kinds of monsters on the way, and Jiang Wen improved with practice under Xiao Jinsheng’s supervision.
• The group reached the Plague Rat Burrow before nightfall.

Xiao Jinsheng led Bai Xiaowen, Zhou Yi, Wu Xiaoyan, and Jiang Wen into the Plague Rat Burrow, where they encountered a far more dangerous Zombie Rat. After Bai Xiaowen exposed its weaknesses and knocked it down, Xiao Jinsheng killed it, leaving the group facing an unknown threat deeper in the burrow.

• The group rested outside the sealed Plague Rat Burrow, then cleared the rocks blocking its entrance and went inside.
• A Plague Rat ambushed Wu Xiaoyan, but Zhou Yi’s greatsword failed to stop it from wounding him.
• Bai Xiaowen used Insight to identify the rat as a Zombie Rat with enhanced physical attributes and resistance to pain and bleeding.
• Xiao Jinsheng’s flying knives wounded the Zombie Rat without slowing it, and it turned from Zhou Yi toward Jiang Wen.
• Bai Xiaowen smashed the leaping Zombie Rat to the ground with a blunt strike, allowing Xiao Jinsheng to cut it in two.

After a mutated Plague Rat forced Xiao Jinsheng's group to retreat, they discovered a barrier sealing the cave entrance and suspected an Awakened had come to investigate the rats' transformation. The group hid in a secluded chamber, where Bai Xiaowen noticed something alarming and urged everyone to leave.

• Xiao Jinsheng examined the Zombie Rat and concluded its unusual strength and aggression suggested a secondary mutation, so he decided to report the cave to the school.
• The group found a barrier spell blocking the entrance, and Xiao Jinsheng sent a distress signal before leading the students deeper into the burrow to hide.
• Bai Xiaowen reasoned that the Awakened who sealed the entrance was likely investigating the Plague Rats' transformation and searching for a treasure, rather than targeting the students.
• Xiao Jinsheng led the group into a narrow passage and an underground chamber, where Bai Xiaowen inspected the wall and urgently told them to get out.

Bai Xiaowen and the others discovered a corpse in the Plague Rat Burrow, then encountered a powerful female knight who pursued them. Recognizing her language and equipment as coming from a medieval-style Spirit Realm plane, Bai Xiaowen fled with the parchment he had found.

• Bai Xiaowen realized the recently dug basement might attract the Awakened searching for the source of the Plague Rats' mutations, so Xiao Jinsheng agreed that the group should leave.
• Bai Xiaowen sensed someone approaching and found a corpse wearing obsolete linen clothes, along with a rolled parchment.
• The group heard armored footsteps, fled the basement, and were pursued by a female knight who hurled a sword into the rock wall ahead of them.
• Xiao Jinsheng urged everyone to split up and run as the knight shouted at them in an unfamiliar language.
• Bai Xiaowen recognized the knight's words as Old Latin and concluded that she and the dead man came from the same medieval-style Spirit Realm plane.

Bai Xiaowen escaped the female knight’s pursuit, killed a Zombie Rat, and read Malgao’s diary to uncover the history of Farga and the Evil Soulstone. The diary revealed that Farga and Malgao fled through a Spatial Rift while being pursued by royal knights, but Bai Xiaowen still faced danger in the Plague Rat Burrow.

• Bai Xiaowen hid in a Plague Rat tunnel and killed a Zombie Rat by crushing it against a wall.
• Bai Xiaowen examined a parchment and discovered that it was the diary of Malgao, servant to the royal alchemist Farga.
• Malgao recorded that Farga planned to steal the Evil Soulstone from North County Monastery and later obtained it.
• Malgao wrote that Farga and he fled the Lionheart Empire as royal knights pursued them, and that Farga grew paler and stronger under the Soulstone’s influence.
• Malgao recorded that a Spatial Rift appeared while the royal knights cornered them, allowing Farga and him to escape.

Bai Xiaowen read Malgao’s journal about how he and Farga struggled after arriving on Earth, evaded a patrol officer, and hid in a cave while preparing a forbidden ritual. The journal revealed Malgao’s growing resentment and ambition before its entries became sparse, and Bai Xiaowen reached its final page.

• Malgao wrote that he and Farga wandered for days before reaching an Earth city, where they failed to exchange gold coins or understand local customs.
• Farga planned to rob a bank, but an argument attracted a patrol officer, forcing the pair to use Lesser Invisibility Potion and flee.
• Malgao recorded that he and Farga traveled through the wilderness while trying to learn the human language, then learned that Goliya had followed them to Earth.
• Farga decided to perform a forbidden ritual to absorb the Soul Stone’s power, and he and Malgao hid in a cave after capturing a Plague Rat Boss Tier.
• Malgao resented being forced to dig and secretly wrote about his growing ambition; Bai Xiaowen continued reading until he reached the journal’s final page.

Bai Xiaowen used Malgao’s diary to identify Golia and negotiated with her, offering to help find Farga and the Soul Stone in exchange for freeing his teachers and classmates. He left with Golia to search for Farga, while Zhou Yi and Wu Xiaoyan watched them disappear.

• Bai Xiaowen inferred that the female knight pursuing him was Golia and decided to break the stalemate by negotiating with her.
• Bai Xiaowen revealed what he had learned from Malgao’s diary, and Golia lowered her suspicion when he identified her mission to recover the Soul Stone.
• Bai Xiaowen agreed to help Golia find Farga if she opened the cave barrier and let his teachers and classmates go, and Golia accepted.
• Bai Xiaowen told Xiao Jinsheng and Jiang Wen they were safe, borrowed Xiao Jinsheng’s rusty iron sword, and followed Golia into the cave.
• Golia demonstrated her strength by pinning a Zombie Rat to the wall with her rapier, while Zhou Yi and Wu Xiaoyan watched Bai Xiaowen leave.