Recaps

Shen Yu managed the expanding Anomaly Containment Association, raised character card completion, and began removing anomalies from Calamity and his companions so they could become Contract Anomalists. He discovered that Calamity’s body had been assimilated too deeply to recover, leaving extraction likely to kill him or turn him completely into an anomaly.

• Fu Zhang entered seclusion in the Tree God World, while headquarters gained a new god-level Contract Anomalist who was still adapting to their abilities.
• Shen Yu handled the Association’s pending decisions and checked character cards, most of which had reached 60% to 70% completion.
• Shen Yu resolved lingering dangers in previous worlds and arranged to extract the anomalies from Calamity and the other members of the Calamity Organization.
• Shen Yu extracted the anomalies from the group, causing them severe pain; Calamity’s body was already nearly 80% to 90% assimilated.
• Shen Yu realized that extracting Calamity’s deeply fused anomaly would likely kill him, while leaving it would eventually turn him completely into an anomaly.

Shen Yu discovered that the divine artifacts of infinity and time could open a world passage, and he entered it after taking technological weapons and a Time Rewind device. He arrived in another world, where He Yi was walking home after a day of misfortune.

• Shen Yu considered using the two divine artifacts to rewind Disaster's body to before its severe assimilation.
• The artifacts resonated, and the artifact of infinity split into twelve cubes inside the Hourglass of Time.
• A ripple of spacetime formed a world passage, which Shen Yu recognized as a switch triggered by studying the artifacts together.
• Shen Yu took the Time Rewind device and technological weapons, sealed most of his power, and entered the passage.
• He Yi walked beneath dim streetlights after his car broke down, he was delayed on his commute, his attendance bonus was deducted, and he missed the last bus home.

Exhausted He Yi boarded a late-night bus and got off at the unfamiliar Ancient Creek Town. He entered a foggy, old-fashioned street with no phone signal, unaware of the boundary marker behind him.

• He Yi boarded a bus that arrived after the route was supposed to have ended and sat down among several passengers.
• The bus announced Ancient Creek Town as the next stop, and an icy voice told He Yi to get off.
• He Yi stepped into a chill and thick fog, then watched the bus drive away.
• He Yi walked into the unfamiliar town, where the fog thinned and lights and lively voices came from ahead.
• He Yi took pictures of the old shops and discovered his phone had no signal.

He Yi encountered a stall selling cultivation artifacts for spirit beads, which he did not recognize. A Taoist priest and a newly awakened student bought a storage ring and a Qi-Gathering Pearl, respectively.

• He Yi searched for phone signal and wandered up to a shabby stall.
• The stall owner offered He Yi a Qi-Gathering Pearl, a Defense Insignia, a sword, and a storage ring, all priced in spirit beads.
• A Taoist priest bought the one-cubic-meter storage ring for one hundred thousand spirit beads.
• A bespectacled student said he had recently awakened as an ability user and struggled with cultivation.
• The student paid a hundred spirit beads, and the stall owner gave him a Qi-Gathering Pearl.

He Yi grew increasingly afraid after realizing Ancient Creek Town was a real supernatural place and that he had no spiritual energy. He asked Silver Willow how to leave, and Silver Willow told him it would cost one spirit pearl.

• The stall owner noticed He Yi had no spiritual energy, so He Yi hurried away before he could be questioned further.
• He Yi wandered through the strange market, saw corpses of magical beasts, and feared what might happen if anyone discovered he was an ordinary person.
• He Yi spotted Silver Willow, the student from the bus, and hurried after him to ask how to leave Ancient Creek Town.
• Silver Willow, holding a red Demon Mask he had bought for two spirit pearls, told He Yi that leaving required paying one spirit pearl.

He Yi learned that spirit pearls cost far more than he could afford and found himself unable to leave Ancient Creek Town. Silver Willow pointed out that He Yi’s family heirloom was a valuable spiritual artifact, tempting him to sell it for spirit pearls.

• Silver Willow told He Yi that spirit pearls cost one hundred thousand each, so He Yi gave up on buying one with money.
• He Yi tried to leave Ancient Creek Town, but the fog kept returning him to the town.
• He Yi found Silver Willow again, and Silver Willow suggested he sell the spiritual artifact he carried.
• He Yi discovered that his grandmother’s black jade peace pendant was a defensive spiritual artifact worth around ten thousand spirit pearls.
• He Yi was tempted to sell the pendant after learning it might fetch around fifty thousand spirit pearls at auction.

He Yi learned that the black jade could conceal spiritual energy, making it worth over a hundred thousand spirit beads, and decided to sell it through Silver Willow for safety. Silver Willow agreed to help sell it as part of his mission to gather intelligence on the spiritual-energy world.

• Silver Willow told He Yi that the black jade's concealment ability made it even more valuable.
• He Yi worried that selling the jade alone in unfamiliar Ancient Creek Town would put him in danger.
• He Yi offered to sell the jade to Silver Willow for one hundred thousand spirit beads, but Silver Willow said he did not have enough.
• Silver Willow offered to help He Yi sell the jade, and He Yi handed it over.

He Yi entrusted Silver Willow with selling his black jade and went with him to an auction house in Ancient Creek Town. They entered a private room, where He Yi chose a mask to conceal his identity.

• He Yi introduced himself to Silver Willow and asked him to handle selling the black jade for one hundred thousand spirit pearls, with the excess proceeds going to Silver Willow.
• Silver Willow asked He Yi to come along, and He Yi agreed to see the supernatural world for himself.
• Silver Willow led He Yi to an auction house and a servant escorted them to a private room.
• Silver Willow asked whether He Yi wanted a mask, and He Yi picked an ordinary black one to hide his face.

Silver Willow brought the black jade to an auction house, where the manager tested it and discovered that it was an A-rank spiritual artifact. The test revealed that it had defense and concealment functions.

• Silver Willow put on the Demon Mask and followed an attendant to a private room with He Yi.
• Silver Willow presented the black jade to the auction house manager for appraisal.
• The manager could not sense spiritual energy from the jade and suspected that it concealed its fluctuations.
• The manager tested the black jade with the auction house's instrument, which identified it as an A-rank spiritual artifact with defense and concealment functions.

He Yi learned that the black jade could fetch one million spirit pearls, but he feared the risks of keeping something so valuable. He entrusted the sale to Silver Willow and asked for only one hundred thousand, leaving the black jade in Silver Willow’s care.

• The auction house manager valued the black jade at one million spirit pearls after identifying it as an A-grade spiritual artifact with detection-blocking and defensive abilities.
• The manager suggested delaying the auction for a week to promote the black jade and secure a better price.
• He Yi worried that the black jade’s increased value would put him in danger.
• He Yi asked Silver Willow to sell the black jade and keep whatever it brought beyond one hundred thousand spirit pearls.
• The manager overheard them and concluded that He Yi had made a good choice in trusting Silver Willow.

Silver Willow left his black jade with the auction house to sell at the next auction, then used his contracted Weird to help He Yi make a phone call from Ancient Creek Town. The call connected to He Yi’s landlord, but Silver Willow’s ability hung up before the landlord could say more.

• Silver Willow chose to consign the black jade to the auction house, which granted him access to Private Room No. 3 for the auction a week later.
• Silver Willow and He Yi left the auction house and entered an empty alley to find a way out of Ancient Creek Town.
• Silver Willow summoned his contracted Weird, frightening He Yi, who wondered if Silver Willow’s ability was summoning evil ghosts.
• Silver Willow used the Weird’s hair to activate He Yi’s phone and dial his landlord despite the lack of signal.
• He Yi’s landlord answered, and Silver Willow’s ability immediately hung up the call.

Silver Willow used the Blood Robe-level Weird, Ghost Call, to bring He Yi through a phone and back to his landlord’s building. They returned to He Yi’s apartment, where he offered Silver Willow a place to stay for the night.

• Silver Willow warned He Yi that things might get thrilling, then wrapped them both in the white-clad evil ghost’s hair.
• The ghost’s hair dragged Silver Willow and He Yi through the phone screen and into a dark passage.
• He Yi emerged in the first-floor corridor of the building where he rented his apartment and wondered how they had returned so quickly.
• Silver Willow explained that Ghost Call could open a passage to anyone who answered the call, though he had controlled the ability so it did not claim the landlord’s life.
• He Yi invited Silver Willow to stay the night, and they went into the rental apartment.

Silver Willow stayed up learning about the recent spiritual energy resurgence and the superhumans appearing online while He Yi slept. The next morning, He Yi asked his supervisor for a week of leave so he could sell the black jade and stop needing his job.

• He Yi offered Silver Willow a Coke, then went to bed alone because his rental had only one bedroom.
• Silver Willow searched online and found reports of newly awakened superhumans, many of whose powers were dismissed as fake or suppressed by the authorities.
• Silver Willow watched videos of superhumans showing off their abilities and read the amused comments.
• At nine the next morning, He Yi messaged his supervisor to request a week of leave, saying he was unwell and needed hospitalization.
• He Yi decided that selling the black jade was his most urgent task so he could quit his job.

He Yi realized the supposed gas inspectors were likely after the black jade he had sold, and Silver Willow let them into the apartment. The three intruders barged in and told He Yi he had been hard to find.

• He Yi found Silver Willow eating takeout in the living room and heard someone knock, claiming to be there for a gas inspection.
• He Yi suspected the visitors were trained fighters seeking the black jade, while Silver Willow summoned the female ghost in white to block the door.
• He Yi noticed the inspection was suspicious and asked Silver Willow who was outside, but Silver Willow told him to eat.
• The female ghost opened the door, and the three visitors rushed inside and shut it behind them.
• Two of the men grinned at He Yi and said he had been hard to find.

He Yi and Silver Willow subdued three intruders who attacked He Yi in his apartment, but He Yi worried that the trouble would not end with them. Silver Willow proposed a permanent solution to deal with the people behind the attack.

• One intruder fainted when he saw the mass of black hair behind He Yi’s door, while the other two attacked it with flames and lightning.
• The female evil ghost revealed her pale face and strangled the two supernaturals with her hair, leaving them alive but unconscious.
• He Yi checked that all three intruders were breathing and worried about the legal consequences if anyone died in his home.
• Silver Willow reassured He Yi that he had held back, then rejected handing the intruders over to the inspectors.
• Silver Willow said dealing with the intruders one by one would be too troublesome and proposed a permanent solution.

Silver Willow used He Yi’s phone to make the three men who had broken into his home suffer relentless calls from a terrifying presence. Back at their headquarters, the men realized the haunting had followed them and warned a companion not to answer his ringing phone.

• Silver Willow bound the three men with her hair, dragged them into the hallway, and later borrowed He Yi’s phone.
• The three men woke up, fled down the stairs, and left He Yi wondering about their motives and the money.
• Silver Willow’s female ghost used He Yi’s phone to call the men, and eerie sounds from the calls terrified them.
• The men smashed their phones, but the ringing began on a companion’s phone at their headquarters.
• The three men tackled their companion and warned him that the female ghost had latched onto them.

Benevolence Pavilion members mocked the failed mission against He Yi and Silver Willow, but the spreading ringing and anomalous marks drove the organization into panic. The chapter ended with the exhausted founder and higher-ups summoning the three people who first brought the curse back.

• Benevolence Pavilion members ridiculed the three mission returnees and dismissed their claims about a female ghost.
• The two supernaturals who had answered the strange call became unable to tolerate any ringing or music.
• Silver Willow marked people throughout Benevolence Pavilion, and black contamination and anomalous aura spread among them.
• The marked members found that the ringing followed them everywhere, even into their dreams, and could not escape the anomalies.
• Benevolence Pavilion’s leader and higher-ups summoned the three people who had first caused the panic, and the frightened trio stood silently before them.

The organization’s leader questioned three tortured men about the ringing that had terrorized them, and learned that He Yi’s supernatural protector had summoned a female ghost untouched by their attacks. The leader reconsidered whether to pursue the black jade, fearing the newly emerged supernatural being might be far stronger than expected.

• The three men described how the ringing had left them battered and near collapse.
• The higher-ups suspected the ringing was an ability belonging to He Yi or his supernatural protector.
• One supernatural being explained that his lightning and his companion’s fire had dealt the female ghost not a single point of damage.
• The leader wondered whether the protector was a powerful newcomer and weighed the risks of continuing to pursue the spirit artifact.

The leader and his organization debated whether to back down after offending a seemingly young genius. Their meeting was interrupted by an eerie phone call, and the men who had seen the female ghost panicked as they sensed her approach.

• The leader considered abandoning the plan to sell the black jade but struggled to accept the idea of apologizing or paying compensation.
• A phone appeared in the leader's pocket and rang despite the spirit-sealing array.
• The call answered itself, and a hoarse female voice whispered, "Found you."
• Every phone began ringing as a scraping sound drew closer.
• The three men who had seen the female ghost recognized the signs and collapsed, shouting that she was there.

Silver Willow captured the organization’s leaders despite their spiritual energy suppression formation and confronted them about targeting him. The leader begged for mercy, leaving Silver Willow in control of the situation.

• Silver Willow used black hair to bind the leader and the other higher-ups, then brought them together in front of him and He Yi.
• The leader asked how Silver Willow could use his abilities inside a spiritual energy suppression zone.
• Silver Willow claimed he had used special methods and refused to explain further.
• The leader admitted they had offended Silver Willow and begged him to spare them, offering to pay any price.

Silver Willow forced the organization that had targeted him and He Yi to pay two million spirit pearls, giving them one day to gather the payment. Back in his room, He Yi praised Silver Willow and reflected on the superhumans’ contempt for ordinary people.

• Silver Willow demanded two million spirit pearls from the organization as compensation.
• The organization said it could not pay the full amount in spirit pearls and offered spirit artifacts instead, which Silver Willow accepted.
• Silver Willow left the strange marks on the organization members and gave them one day to gather the payment.
• Silver Willow vanished with He Yi and returned to his room.
• He Yi praised Silver Willow and thought angrily about how superhumans looked down on ordinary people.

Silver Willow reassured He Yi that Benevolence Pavilion would not bother him again, but another group attacked He Yi’s rented home that same day. The chapter ended with He Yi watching the intruders blast a huge hole through his door.

• He Yi watched the superhumans submit to Silver Willow and wondered whether superhumans generally looked down on ordinary people.
• Silver Willow reflected that Contract Anomalists could be more unruly and destructive than superhumans, despite his own compassion and cheerfulness.
• Silver Willow told He Yi he had left something behind to discourage Benevolence Pavilion from targeting him again.
• Several young people in trendy clothes burst into He Yi’s home after blasting a huge hole through the door.
• He Yi stared at the damage and cried, "My door!"

Silver Willow pulled He Yi away from an attack by a group of Extraordinary people who demanded that the two come with them. As Silver Willow prepared to refuse, he reminded himself that the attackers did not represent all Extraordinary people.

• Silver Willow pulled He Yi away just before another blast damaged He Yi’s rented furniture.
• The intruders identified He Yi and Silver Willow and demanded that they either cooperate or be beaten and dragged away.
• He Yi recognized the intruders’ arrogant attitude and feared that they might kill him over his connection to Black Jade.
• Silver Willow judged the intruders to be ruthless troublemakers but reminded himself not to condemn all Extraordinary people.
• Silver Willow asked what the intruders would do if he refused.

Silver Willow restrained the supernaturals who had broken into He Yi’s home, then said he needed to leave after considering the strange way powerful organizations treated supernaturals. He Yi panicked at the prospect of being left alone with the intruders.

• Silver Willow wondered why the world’s powers tolerated supernaturals’ crimes instead of suppressing or recruiting them.
• He Yi’s black jade had become a valuable spirit artifact, but supernatural organizations had targeted him to seize it rather than offer a fair trade.
• When the intruders threatened force, Silver Willow summoned Ghost Call, whose black hair bound them.
• Silver Willow told He Yi he needed to go back for a while, and He Yi begged him not to leave him alone.

Silver Willow contacted Headquarters after two organizations sent people to attack him, but he chose to keep observing the world rather than return. He Yi joined him in disguise as they prepared to visit several places.

• Silver Willow used the Smart Brain to contact Headquarters' logistics staff and mentioned his concerns about the world's superhumans.
• Silver Willow told the logistics staff he had found no signs of anomalous activity and could handle the situation without help.
• The logistics staff worried Silver Willow's remarks about the Humanity Code meant he might face a dangerous situation.
• Silver Willow had Ghost Call knock the people nearby unconscious, changed into a black robe and disguise, and gave He Yi an identical outfit.
• Silver Willow and He Yi prepared to visit several places in disguise.