Chapter Summaries

Jiang Siming faced questions about his identity from Xue Yalin and then two Superpower Inspection Bureau agents. After demonstrating that he could control and remove fire elements, he warned the agents not to provoke him.

• Jiang Siming tried to convince Xue Yalin that he was her former classmate by recalling private details from their university days.
• A chief summoned Xue Yalin away, and Xu Zhiwei and Zeng Rou arrived to question Jiang Siming about his identity and the ten years he had been missing.
• Zeng Rou attacked Jiang Siming with flames, but he extinguished them and stripped her of her ability to sense elemental power.
• Jiang Siming refused to cooperate with the Superpower Inspection Bureau and warned Xu Zhiwei and Zeng Rou to leave him alone.

Jiang Siming overpowered Xu Zhiwei and Zeng Rou, warned them not to use the Superpower Inspection Bureau to threaten him, and disappeared. At Jiangbei Hotel, Senior Ghost arrived to punish Bai Tianxing and killed the women in his suite, leaving Bai Tianxing begging for mercy.

• Zeng Rou and Xu Zhiwei threatened Jiang Siming with the Superpower Inspection Bureau, but Jiang Siming pressed them down with his power until Xu Zhiwei apologized.
• Jiang Siming released the pressure, warned the pair not to come looking for trouble, and vanished from the interrogation room.
• Xu Zhiwei said they would raise Jiang Siming’s strength assessment and report the matter, while Zeng Rou vowed to surpass him and avenge her humiliation.
• Senior Ghost appeared beside Bai Tianxing in the Jiangbei Hotel presidential suite, frightening him and the women with him.
• Senior Ghost turned the women into bones with black mist, and Bai Tianxing crawled before him and begged for mercy.

Bai Tianxing begged the old man called Senior Ghost for another chance after failing to deal with Guang Jun, while Jiang Siming promised to protect Guang Jun from the Bai Family. A sniper and then the old man attacked them on the rooftop of Guangyu Building, where the old man revealed that he cultivated immortality.

• Senior Ghost absorbed the flesh and blood of several women and a child, then threatened Bai Tianxing with death if he failed again.
• Jiang Siming asked Guang Jun why he refused to sell to the Bai Family, and Guang Jun hinted that the family was involved in Taozi's and Brother Long's deaths.
• Guang Jun urged Jiang Siming to stay out of the danger, but Jiang Siming vowed to protect him, and the two reaffirmed their brotherhood.
• Jiang Siming caught a sniper's bullet and sent it back, killing the sniper on a distant rooftop.
• The old man arrived carrying Bai Tianxing's severed head, drained it to ash, and revealed that he cultivated immortality as blood aura enveloped the rooftop.

Jiang Siming faced a cultivator who attacked him and Guang Jun with a Devouring Blood Array, but easily broke the formation and sent the old man fleeing. The chapter ended with Jiang Siming stopping the old man from escaping, then shifted to an author’s note offering college entrance exam advice.

• Jiang Siming dismissed the old man’s threat and refused his offer to become a disciple.
• The old man trapped Jiang Siming and Guang Jun in a Devouring Blood Array, but Jiang Siming blocked its corrosive force.
• Jiang Siming released his aura, shattered the formation, and caused the old man to suffer a backlash.
• The old man fled into the darkness and threatened Jiang Siming with endless pursuit.
• Jiang Siming stopped the old man from leaving.
• Ya Ling advised exam-takers to relax through moderate exercise, avoid unfamiliar foods, and face the college entrance exam without fear.

Jiang Siming defeated and interrogated a Yellow Springs elder, who died after revealing a cryptic warning about a coming blood calamity. Back at home, Jiang Siming received a system mission to delay it, with a Douluo Plane Teleportation Gate as the reward.

• Jiang Siming crushed the old man and demanded to know whether Yellow Springs had participated in the assassination of Jiang Huanyuan and his wife ten years earlier.
• The old man reacted in terror, screamed about a blood calamity and prosperity ending, then died before Jiang Siming could learn more.
• Jiang Siming left Guang Jun to handle the bodies and returned to Jingtai Mansion, where he considered whether the past assassination had been a test.
• The system gave Jiang Siming a mission to delay the blood calamity and promised a Douluo Plane Teleportation Gate as the reward.

Jiang Siming learned that the world had been restarted countless times and that his past mistake lay behind the burden placed on him, but he rejected the idea that his fate was already decided. He shared his memories with the Snow Empress and their playful exchange ended with her knocking him to the floor.

• Jiang Siming argued with the Ancient King, saying he wanted a simple life rather than becoming a hero.
• The Ancient King revealed that the world had restarted countless times and that Jiang Siming's choices had repeatedly led him to become the cowardly Old Daoist Priest.
• The Ancient King said the crisis came from a mistake he and Jiang Siming had made, and Jiang Siming demanded to know what he was supposed to do.
• The Snow Empress joined Jiang Siming, and he told her he had found a way back before giving her a smartphone and sharing his memories with her.
• The Snow Empress teased Jiang Siming about his ordinary past and asked whether she had become prettier; after he stared at her chest and agreed that it was big, she slammed him onto the floor.

In Yanjing, Li Changsheng and Hu Wei discussed the return of a mysterious person and the people seeking to control his grandson. Meanwhile, Jiang Siming welcomed Yin Yiyi, the nanny Guang Jun had hired, while Snow Empress and Yaya kept busy with their phones.

• Hu Wei told Li Changsheng that a person had appeared again, and Li destroyed the black Go stone in his hand.
• Two figures told Li Changsheng that distinguished guests had arrived, and he angrily declared that no one could treat his grandson as they pleased.
• Snow Empress and Yaya spent the morning using smartphones, and Jiang Siming agreed to take Yaya out to eat.
• Yin Yiyi arrived with groceries and introduced herself as the nanny Guang Jun had hired for Jiang Siming.
• Snow Empress questioned Yin Yiyi after she called her Madam, and Jiang Siming sent Yin Yiyi to prepare lunch to ease the awkwardness.

Jiang Siming welcomed Yin Yiyi to share lunch, then arranged Yaya’s enrollment at Tianhai Elementary School while noticing a strange fluctuation in Lin Hui. Outside the school, the man who had frightened Yaya before confronted them again with several thugs, and Jiang Siming faced down their threats.

• Jiang Siming invited Yin Yiyi to eat with him, Yaya, and the Snow Empress, and the Snow Empress also urged her to join them.
• Yin Yiyi returned to school after lunch, while Jiang Siming handled Yaya’s identification and guardian information and left the Snow Empress at home watching short videos.
• Jiang Siming and Yaya went to Tianhai Elementary School, where Lin Hui confirmed Yaya’s enrollment in fourth grade; Jiang Siming sensed a growing strange fluctuation inside Lin Hui.
• Yaya rejoiced at the prospect of starting school the next day as Jiang Siming comforted her.
• The vicious-looking man from before approached Jiang Siming and Yaya outside the school with four or five tattooed thugs, frightening Yaya again.
• Jiang Siming ordered the group to leave, but the man threatened to beat him and told his thugs to stop him from calling the police.

Jiang Siming rescued Yaya from human traffickers and was taken to the police station to give a statement, where he faced his old classmate Xue Yalin. Their questioning about his disappearance was interrupted when the chief entered the room.

• Jiang Siming slapped the trafficker boss away, and the thugs tried to flee before police cars surrounded and arrested them.
• Jiang Siming comforted Yaya and went home with her, accompanied by a police officer, before returning to the station to give a statement.
• Xue Yalin questioned Jiang Siming about his connection to the traffickers, but he pointed out that the bureau had already cleared him.
• Xue Yalin asked whether he was really her old classmate and pressed him to explain his disappearance ten years earlier.
• Jiang Siming told Xue Yalin to ask the chief eavesdropping outside, and the chief entered and asked her to step out.

Jiang Siming learned from Liu Yuanshan that a massacre ten years earlier had killed his teammates and that the tragedy was connected to Jiang Siming’s disappearance. After confronting his sorrow and resistance to the Ancient King’s mission, Jiang Siming accepted his responsibility and resolved to stop running away.

• Xue Yalin left the interrogation room, and Liu Yuanshan warned Jiang Siming not to involve her in the extraordinary world.
• Jiang Siming asked Liu Yuanshan what he knew about him and about the incident ten years earlier.
• Liu Yuanshan confessed that men in black had killed his teammates, the case had been suppressed, and his daughter had died after he tried to investigate.
• Liu Yuanshan explained that Jiang Siming’s disappearance had occurred the day before the tragedy and that he believed the events were connected.
• Jiang Siming left the interrogation room and, after hearing the Ancient King’s words, accepted the responsibility he had been avoiding.

After dining with Xue Yalin, Jiang Siming resolved to uncover the truth behind the deaths of Brother Long and Taozi and draw the hidden forces out. He told Guang Jun to stop investigating the old case, and Guang Jun accepted that Jiang Siming would pursue it while urging him to stay alive.

• Xue Yalin treated Jiang Siming to a meal, asked about the police director, and arranged to contact him about their class reunion.
• Jiang Siming decided to investigate the truth from ten years earlier and avenge Brother Long and Taozi, suspecting Yellow Springs knew more than he did.
• Jiang Siming visited Guang Jun and learned the Bai Family and Tenglong Group had made no recent moves.
• Jiang Siming warned Guang Jun that the old case involved more than the Bai Family and Yellow Springs, and told him to stop investigating it.
• Guang Jun admitted he could not uncover the truth himself and urged Jiang Siming not to get killed; Jiang Siming invited him to visit that night.

Jiang Siming caught Snow Maiden, a spatial superpower user who had been following him, and demanded to know which force she belonged to. Xu Zhiwei and Zeng Rou arrived to save her, but Jiang Siming seized Zeng Rou as well, leaving both women at his mercy.

• Jiang Siming drove to an abandoned factory and forced the hidden Snow Maiden out of space.
• Snow Maiden attacked Jiang Siming and tried to escape, but he crushed her attack, imprisoned her in place, and grabbed her by the neck.
• Snow Maiden refused to answer Jiang Siming's questions, so he began choking her.
• Xu Zhiwei and Zeng Rou rushed in and asked Jiang Siming to spare Snow Maiden, but his spatial barrier stopped them.
• Jiang Siming slammed Snow Maiden to the ground and then seized Zeng Rou by the neck.

Jiang Siming killed Xu Zhiwei and the Snow Maiden after they refused to reveal who had targeted his parents, while Zeng Rou survived with her powers destroyed. At Villa No. 9, Li Changsheng revealed that he was Jiang Siming’s grandfather.

• Jiang Siming drained Zeng Rou’s fire ability and demanded answers from Xu Zhiwei, who refused to talk.
• Jiang Siming crushed the Snow Maiden after Xu Zhiwei threatened him, then killed Xu Zhiwei when he still refused to reveal who had assassinated Jiang Siming’s parents.
• Zeng Rou was left paralyzed and screamed as Jiang Siming departed.
• At Villa No. 9, the Snow Empress guarded the unconscious Yaya while Li Changsheng asked to hold her.
• Jiang Siming appeared beside the Snow Empress and confronted Li Changsheng, who said he was Jiang Siming’s grandfather.

Li Changsheng revealed that Jiang Siming was the infant he had rescued from the Forbidden Zone and sent to the Mortal World to protect him from a prophecy of the Blood Calamity. Jiang Siming learned that Yellow Springs and the Underworld were behind the deaths of his family, and he accepted Li Changsheng’s invitation to his birthday banquet.

• Li Changsheng told Jiang Siming how he had been framed, lost his wife and son, and found Jiang Siming as a baby in the Forbidden Zone.
• Li Changsheng explained that the Cultivation World had sent Jiang Siming to the Mortal World because they feared he would bring about the Blood Calamity.
• Jiang Siming asked who had arranged his parents’ assassination and his brothers’ deaths, and Li Changsheng said Yellow Springs and the Underworld had acted too quickly for him to stop them.
• Li Changsheng promised to stand by Jiang Siming, while Jiang Siming said he would handle the matter himself and acknowledged that Li Changsheng had given him twenty-five peaceful years.
• Li Changsheng invited Jiang Siming, his wife, and his daughter to his birthday banquet, and Jiang Siming asked him for an invitation.

Jiang Siming accepted Li Changsheng’s birthday banquet invitation and prepared for the dangers gathering around him. Before the coming storm, he secretly protected his parents’ home with a sword formation while remaining unable to face them.

• Li Changsheng invited Jiang Siming to his birthday banquet, and Jiang Siming accepted.
• Jiang Siming destroyed a hidden listening device and sent the frozen intruders through a spatial crack.
• Jiang Siming told the Snow Empress that he would handle his affairs alone, and she carried Yaya upstairs without explaining her cryptic remark.
• Jiang Siming returned to his parents’ village at night and placed 101 strands of sword qi around their home to protect them.
• An old man at Superpower Inspection Bureau headquarters smashed a granite table and called Jiang Siming a demon.

After the Supernatural Investigation Bureau lost nearly twenty ability users to Jiang Siming, Zhang Renli ordered his agents to stop surveilling Jiang Siming and watch the Yellow Springs Underworld and Five Great Families instead. Guang Jun then brought Jiang Siming to a clubhouse to discuss the Bai Family’s new Martial Arts Tournament, which targeted major forces and groups across Dongjiang Province.

• Zhang Renli ordered the Bureau to remove its surveillance on Jiang Siming, monitor the Yellow Springs Underworld and Five Great Families, and assist Jiang Siming when appropriate.
• Jiang Siming returned home and found Guang Jun waiting awkwardly beside the Snow Empress.
• Guang Jun took Jiang Siming to the Tianhai Clubhouse, where they received massages before discussing business.
• Guang Jun told Jiang Siming that the Bai Family had organized a Martial Arts Tournament aimed at sizable forces and groups throughout Dongjiang Province.
• Jiang Siming asked Guang Jun about the Five Great Families, admitting that he barely remembered hearing about them.

Jiang Siming learned that the five great families planned to use the Martial Arts Tournament to consolidate power across Dongjiang Province and suspected Guang Jun was their real target. Guang Jun refused to reveal his troubles, while Jiang Siming resolved to uncover the truth and use the tournament to build his own influence; as he walked back through Jiang City, a woman asked to add him on WeChat.

• Guang Jun told Jiang Siming that the five great families were forcing Dongjiang Province’s powers and corporations to attach themselves to one of them, silencing anyone who resisted.
• Jiang Siming reasoned that the families were targeting Guang Jun personally, and Guang Jun admitted that Jiang Siming had guessed correctly but refused to explain further.
• Jiang Siming promised to protect Guang Jun and confirmed that he would attend the Martial Arts Tournament in five days.
• After leaving Tianhai Clubhouse, Jiang Siming decided he needed his own eyes and ears and saw the tournament as a chance to consolidate Dongjiang Province.
• Jiang Siming walked through Jiang City toward Jingtai Mansion, attracting attention until a woman asked to add him on WeChat.

Jiang Siming saw through Qin Yueru’s staged attempt to lure him into trouble and confronted her after she revealed herself as the Third Miss of the Qin Family in Yanjing. He subdued her thugs and cornered Qin Yueru, demanding to know why she had come after him.

• Jiang Siming refused the wavy-haired beauty’s advances and continued toward home.
• Jiang Siming found the woman surrounded by knife-wielding thugs in an alley and recognized the scene as a setup.
• The woman dropped her frightened act, and Jiang Siming called out her plan and the surveillance camera nearby.
• The woman cursed Jiang Siming and tried to leave, but he released his aura and demanded to know who she was and why she had targeted him.
• Jiang Siming knocked out the scar-faced man and the other thugs, then learned the woman was Qin Yueru, the Third Miss of the Qin Family in Yanjing.
• Jiang Siming grabbed Qin Yueru’s wrist and demanded to know who had given her the confidence to approach him with only a few ordinary people.

Jiang Siming used a technique on Qin Yueru after she insulted him and threatened him over an arranged marriage to Zhu Zhuqing. He left her in a dreamlike state, and the chapter ended with her guards panicking as she acted like she had lost her mind.

• Qin Yueru threatened Jiang Siming and revealed she had come to defend Zhu Zhuqing and sabotage his engagement.
• Jiang Siming realized Li Changsheng had arranged a marriage for him and rejected the match, then used South Ke Dream on Qin Yueru.
• Two Soul Elder-level men arrived to protect Qin Yueru, but Jiang Siming bound them and warned them not to cross him again.
• Jiang Siming left the alley and returned home to sleep, reflecting that the Qin Family and other forces might have been testing him.
• At a manor outside Jiang City, Qin Yueru remained in a frightening, disoriented state, while her two guards feared the consequences.

Jiang Siming enjoyed a quiet morning with Yaya and took her to school by bus. At the Qin Family manor, Qin Yueru recovered and stopped Qin Bei from punishing her elders or seeking revenge on Jiang Siming, then questioned whether she had any worth apart from being a Qin Family young lady.

• Jiang Siming woke refreshed, ate breakfast with Snow Empress and Yaya, and took Yaya to school by bus.
• Qin Bei beat two elderly men at the Qin Family manor for failing to protect Qin Yueru.
• Qin Yueru stopped Qin Bei and asked him to spare the two elders and leave Jiang Siming alone.
• Qin Yueru told Qin Bei she had caused trouble for Jiang Siming first and asked whether she would be worth less without her Qin Family identity.