Chapter Summaries

Yu Ziwen provoked Qin Yushi over an incident involving Qin Yushi’s team and Su Ze, while Su University’s Awakened gathered outside the Police Bureau to demand answers about Xiang Xinyun’s death. Xiang Xinyu entered the bureau to cooperate with the investigation, and Li Miaor told Yuan Gang that something had happened.

• Yu Ziwen taunted Qin Yushi about a team member’s trouble and suggested Qin Yushi was merely a toy to Su Ze, but Qin Yushi refused to be provoked.
• Tang Xinnuo gathered Su University’s Awakened outside the Police Bureau to demand the truth about Xiang Xinyun’s reported death.
• Xiang Xinyu questioned the report that her brother had raped someone and resisted arrest, while Tang Xinnuo said something had definitely happened to him.
• Team Leader Yin called for Xiang Xinyun’s sister, and Xiang Xinyu followed an investigator into the bureau to learn the truth.
• Li Miaor entered Yuan Gang’s office and told him something had happened, and Yuan Gang said he had already heard.

Li Miaor, Yuan Gang, and Sun Heyu considered how to respond to the case involving Qin Yushi while keeping to their established rules. At the Old Days Museum, Su Ze inspected two Contained Objects with Qi Xiaoye and threatened to take back her Word Spirit Technique, prompting her to apologize.

• Yuan Gang told Li Miaor to investigate the case and clear the victims' names within the established rules rather than give Qin Yushi special treatment.
• Sun Heyu recalled Sun Xiangkong's warning that the rules must be followed and decided to call people to help maintain order outside the police headquarters.
• Su Ze and Qi Xiaoye examined Beak Doctor and the Contained Statue, and Qi Xiaoye sensed that both were less dangerous than before.
• Su Ze told Qi Xiaoye he planned to execute the two Transcendent Grade Contained Objects and might give her Word Spirit Technique to Tao Yaoyao instead.
• Qi Xiaoye apologized by kneeling and offering to give up her demand for holidays, and Su Ze teased her about showing more sincerity.

Su Ze refused to give Qi Xiaoye two Word Spirit Techniques, then went to help Chen Keqing cook while Qin Yushi dealt with trouble at the police building. There, investigators tricked Xiang Xinyu into giving testimony and detained her, while Yu Ziwen and the Goddess Detective discussed their leverage against Qin Yushi and Su Ze.

• Qi Xiaoye apologized after Su Ze threatened to withhold another Transcendent Grade Word Spirit Technique, but he refused to give her both techniques.
• Chen Keqing told Su Ze that Qin Yushi sounded busy, and Su Ze said Qin Yushi would ask for help if she could not handle the matter.
• Tang Xinnuo realized that the group had fallen for a trap as Xiang Xinyu answered a middle-aged investigator's questions in the little black room.
• The investigator accused Xiang Xinyu of possibly aiding the case and left her handcuffed in the room.
• The Goddess Detective told Yu Ziwen that Xiang Xinyu's testimony and the recorded law-enforcement footage were favorable to them.
• Yu Ziwen said Qin Yushi had not yet asked her backer for help and wondered whether Su Ze could do anything about the situation.

Li Miaor and Qin Yushi reviewed the evidence against Xiang Xinyun and decided to investigate cautiously rather than force the issue. Outside police headquarters, Tang Xinnuo rallied the students to support Qin Yushi as the authorities presented the enforcement footage, which Yu Ziwen showed to Xiang Xinyu.

• Li Miaor and Qin Yushi watched surveillance footage showing Xiang Xinyun sneaking out, fleeing into the Contamination Zone, and being killed by monsters.
• Qin Yushi decided to handle the case herself for now and avoid rushing to overturn the verdict.
• Tang Xinnuo asked the Su University students to choose whether to support the Goddess Detective or Qin Yushi, and none of them left.
• Team Leader Yin and the officers presented the enforcement footage outside police headquarters as armed reinforcements took position nearby.
• Yu Ziwen gave Xiang Xinyu a tablet showing the enforcement record, and the footage brought Xiang Xinyu’s fear rushing back.

Qin Yushi accepted the evidence against Xiang Xinyun but demanded that Xiang Xinyu be released, only for Team Leader Yin to refuse. Su Ze then appeared and killed Team Leader Yin and her officers with a single attack, leaving Yu Ziwen staring in terror.

• Yan Jiaojiao and the other women watched the confrontation and discussed Yu Ziwen’s evidence against Qin Yushi.
• Qin Yushi acknowledged that the evidence implicated Xiang Xinyun and asked Team Leader Yin to release Xiang Xinyu.
• Team Leader Yin refused, saying Xiang Xinyu’s testimony had made her a suspect in the case.
• Su Ze entered the dark room and told Xiang Xinyu he would take her out.
• Su Ze appeared beside Qin Yushi, then killed Team Leader Yin and the officers with a blast that also tore open the building.

Su Ze rescued Xiang Xinyu by effortlessly killing the Goddess Detective and her squad, then left Qin Yushi and the Su University team in Li Miaor’s care. In North City, Tao Yaoyao reviewed her research and entered Avalon, where Qi Xiaoye offered her homemade desserts; Su Ze and Qin Yushi then arrived.

• Su Ze cut down the Goddess Detective and her squad, stunning Qin Yushi, Li Miaor, and the gathered reinforcements.
• Xu Pingfeng ordered the reinforcements to lower their weapons, and Su Ze confirmed he had brought Xiang Xinyu out.
• Su Ze asked Li Miaor to take the Su University team to their rest area, then vanished with Qin Yushi.
• In North City, Tao Yaoyao organized her Contained Object research reports and put away a letter from Suzhou City.
• Tao Yaoyao entered Avalon, tasted one of Qi Xiaoye’s pastries, and bluntly said it was not very tasty.
• Su Ze returned to Avalon with Qin Yushi.

At dinner, Su Ze’s household discussed Qin Yushi’s reasons for handling the Safe Zone conflict herself, while Tao Yaoyao and Qi Xiaoye privately pursued their own concerns. The next day, Su University’s Awakened team returned safely, and Tang Xinnuo’s account of Su Ze’s intervention spread through the school before Qin Yushi’s summons sent her hurrying away.

• Qin Yushi told Su Ze and the others that she had wanted to handle the Safe Zone conflict herself to reclaim her pride, while Tao Yaoyao suspected she was hiding deeper insecurity.
• Qi Xiaoye secretly plotted to persuade Tao Yaoyao to trade away the Coward's Blade Word Spirit Technique, and Su Ze recognized that several people at dinner had hidden agendas.
• Su University's Awakened team returned safely with enough supplies to ease the school's shortage.
• Tang Xinnuo exaggerated the danger of the Safe Zone confrontation and praised Su Ze's intervention as she recounted the incident to students outside the Public Security Department office.
• After Qin Yushi summoned her, Tang Xinnuo abruptly left the crowd in fear, while students debated whether the authorities would investigate the conflict further.
• Zhang Ran regretted not joining the supply team so he could have witnessed Su Ze's display, and a teammate mocked his boast.

Zhang Ran tried to approach Xiang Xinyu after hearing that her brother had died, but she rejected him after he asked about her loss. At Firefly Tavern, people discussed Su Ze’s destructive power and wondered why Yu Ziwen had survived, then turned to how the officials would handle the aftermath.

• Zhang Ran grew jealous of Su Ze’s fame and decided to approach Xiang Xinyu, hoping to gain her loyalty after her brother’s death.
• Zhang Ran found Xiang Xinyu excitedly recounting how Su Ze had rescued her, and she called Su Ze the god of her dreams.
• Zhang Ran asked Xiang Xinyu whether her brother had really died, and she called him disgusting before leaving.
• Zhang Ran’s teammates and nearby students looked down on him as he collapsed in anguish.
• At Firefly Tavern, Yan Jiaojiao and the patrons discussed Su Ze’s attack, speculated that he had spared Yu Ziwen to toy with her, and wondered how the officials would respond.

The second-generation heirs debated Su Ze’s growing power while Sun Xiangkong learned that the investigation into the deaths tied to him had produced no evidence and reviewed intelligence about Su Ze’s abilities. Meanwhile, Tao Yaoyao and Qi Xiaoye screened applicants for an assistant, with Qi Xiaoye rejecting every male candidate; the chapter ended as she explained why she thought men would be distracted by Tao Yaoyao.

• Yan Jiaojiao and the second-generation heirs argued over whether Su Ze’s actions could be punished and whether he might claim power for himself.
• Sun Heyu hinted to the tavern’s patrons that Suzhou City’s chief commander position would soon change hands and Representative Yuan would be replaced.
• Xu Pingfeng reported to Sun Xiangkong that Miss Yu and Team Leader Yin had plotted against the student Awakened of Su University, but he had found no evidence.
• Sun Xiangkong showed Xu Pingfeng intelligence about Su Ze’s activities in Cloud City and Wan City, and Xu concluded that Su Ze could travel vast distances instantaneously.
• After Xu Pingfeng left, Sun Xiangkong retrieved a report about an anomalous creature unlike ordinary Contamination Zone monsters.
• Qi Xiaoye rejected all male applicants while helping Tao Yaoyao screen assistant résumés, explaining that they would be distracted by Tao Yaoyao’s beauty.

Qi Xiaoye reviewed assistant résumés for Tao Yaoyao’s Contained Objects research project and tried to appoint herself using a theory about past-life memories. Su Ze traveled to Russia, contained the Spring of Immortality, and then killed Little Peanut and the Beak Doctor in the Museum.

• Qi Xiaoye rejected applicants for Tao Yaoyao’s assistant position, proposed herself as a partner of justice, and defended her qualifications with a theory about memories forming again through entropy.
• Tao Yaoyao considered Qi Xiaoye’s theory plausible, and Qi Xiaoye picked out Qiu Yi’s résumé before Su Ze left to handle a Contained Object.
• Su Ze arrived near an abandoned chemical plant in Russia, where monsters emerged from the air around the Spring of Immortality.
• Su Ze contained the Transcendent Grade Spring of Immortality with the Museum’s power and destroyed it.
• Su Ze executed Little Peanut, then entered the Beak Doctor’s room and burned the doctor alive after hearing his research was nearly complete.

Su Ze gained divinity from executing the Beak Doctor and analyzed three Transcendent Grade Word Spirit Techniques, planning to give the statue’s technique to Qi Xiaoye. At Su University, Li Miaor sought Qin Yushi’s view on the consequences of Su Ze’s actions and began to realize how confident he was in his strength.

• After executing the Beak Doctor, Su Ze sensed that he had seized divinity but could only store it away for now.
• Su Ze used the Museum to analyze the destroyed Contained Objects and obtained three Transcendent Grade Word Spirit Techniques: Blessing of the Spring of Immortality, Sin Judgment, and an unnamed statue-based technique.
• Su Ze decided to keep the first two techniques and give the third to Qi Xiaoye so she could handle Awakened Grade incidents.
• Li Miaor found Qin Yushi and Tang Xinnuo leaving the conference room looking refreshed, despite signs that Tang Xinnuo had been tied up and whipped.
• Li Miaor asked Qin Yushi how Su Ze planned to handle the fallout from his actions and mentioned that her father might temporarily step down from his position.
• Qin Yushi told Li Miaor that Su Ze’s decisive actions showed his confidence, leaving Li Miaor wondering why Qin Yushi had hesitated the previous day.

Li Miaor concluded that Su Ze’s side had little to fear from the authorities and resolved to invest fully in him. In North City, Qi Xiaoye told Tao Yaoyao what she had learned about demigods, while Tao Yaoyao continued worrying about an approaching danger and whether Su Ze would protect her; the chapter ended with her interview assistant arriving.

• Li Miaor explained to Tang Xinnuo that powerful people might still try to punish Su Ze for the sake of power, then decided to go all in on him.
• Qi Xiaoye told Tao Yaoyao that the Purple-haired Lady had called people with amnesia and special abilities demigods, but neither knew what Su Ze was.
• Qi Xiaoye reassured Tao Yaoyao that Su Ze was powerful enough to protect her, while Tao Yaoyao privately doubted whether she mattered enough to him and feared that the coming danger would be hard to avoid.
• Tao Yaoyao heard from the residence’s security personnel that the assistant for her interview had arrived.

Qi Xiaoye accompanied Tao Yaoyao during an interview with Qing Shuang, a gifted young researcher who challenged Tao Yaoyao’s qualifications and control of resources. Qing Shuang questioned Tao Yaoyao’s role in a new project, and Tao Yaoyao clarified that she led only its research portion.

• Qi Xiaoye wondered whether Su Ze would risk everything to save her and admitted she had once considered creating a mother-son relationship with him.
• Qing Shuang arrived for the interview and criticized Tao Yaoyao for monopolizing resources despite having no research results.
• Tao Yaoyao told Qing Shuang to leave, but Qing Shuang sat down and claimed she had surpassed Tao Yaoyao’s record at the Cowherd Genius Class.
• Qing Shuang revealed she was a Tier 2 Awakened with a Word Spirit Technique and said Tao Yaoyao was unfit to lead the new project.
• Tao Yaoyao explained that she was responsible only for the research portion and that someone else was the project’s true leader.

Su Ze observed the effects of the Cthulhu Statue, empowered an old man in Britain through a God Summoning ritual, and watched Big Baldy investigate the Firefly Club. He returned to Suzhou City and saw Big Baldy carrying out his assigned task in the Safe Zone.

• A suspicious Big Baldy entered the Firefly Tavern, silently observed its members while taking notes, then vanished, prompting them to report him as a dangerous unknown.
• Su Ze revisited a coastal church and concluded that the Cthulhu Statue had caused no lasting effects beyond physiological mutations among some residents.
• Su Ze answered an old white man's God Summoning ritual in Britain by lending him power, allowing him to counterattack the Awakened who were hunting him.
• Su Ze returned to Suzhou City, saw Big Baldy using the power of Sin Judgment to perform his assigned task, and remarked on the workload.

Qing Shuang complained that Tao Yaoyao had denied her access to the laboratory, then learned that Tao and Qi Xiaoye were keeping secrets from her. Tao and Qi Xiaoye traveled to a mountain campsite, where their group gathered for an overnight trip and Su Ze arrived.

• Qing Shuang complained to Qi Xiaoye that Tao Yaoyao had refused to let her enter the laboratory, and Qi Xiaoye argued that Tao had never promised access.
• Qing Shuang speculated that Tao Yaoyao's craving for sweets might mean she had negative emotions, but Qi Xiaoye said Tao was simply working normally.
• Tao Yaoyao gave Qing Shuang printed data about a Contained Object, and Qi Xiaoye hinted that Tao and she had secrets Qing Shuang did not know.
• Qi Xiaoye and Tao Yaoyao used the Museum's cross-realm ability to reach the mountain campsite, where Chen Keqing, Qin Yushi, and Tang Xinnuo had prepared tents and a campfire.
• Su Ze arrived at the campsite using the Museum's transfer ability after saying he had something to inspect.

Su Ze guided Lu Jing through touching a Pollution Source and explained the dangers of the Nightmare Trial, while she decided to face the risk. Meanwhile, Luo Qiushui’s family prepared to move to a neighboring Safe Zone, and Boss Bian invited them to a farewell dinner.

• Su Ze brought Yun Meng, Lu Jing, and Chen Keqing into a classroom Contamination Zone and pointed out the Pollution Source.
• Su Ze relieved Lu Jing’s breathing difficulties and warned her that the Nightmare Trial could expose her to dangers like those of the Contamination Zone.
• Lu Jing chose to proceed, touched the Pollution Source, and listened as Su Ze explained what he knew about the trial.
• Lu Jing thanked Su Ze by offering to kowtow, and Su Ze returned the group to the Safe Zone before leaving with Chen Keqing.
• Luo Qiushui returned Boss Bian’s thermos and told him that her family planned to move to a neighboring Safe Zone.
• Boss Bian invited Luo Qiushui and her parents to a farewell dinner.

Sun Heyu learned that Representative Sun planned to use a deadly humanoid creature as leverage to warn Su Ze, despite the risks. Meanwhile, Yun Meng arrived at Safe Zone SC-35 and found Luo Qiushui visibly anxious.

• Yu Ziwen left Sun Heyu’s living room, where his Firefly Club associates questioned why he dared to get close to her while Su Ze was around.
• Representative Sun summoned Sun Heyu, criticized the Firefly Club’s effort to seize official positions, and urged him to consider who deserved power in the new order.
• Representative Sun showed Sun Heyu intelligence about a humanoid creature that killed anyone who saw its face and said they should use the threat to restrain Su Ze.
• Sun Heyu proposed going all in, but Representative Sun rejected the idea and insisted they follow his plan.
• Yun Meng entered the territory of Safe Zone SC-35 and approached Luo Qiushui, whose anxious expression suggested something had gone wrong.

Yun Meng helped Luo Qiushui search for her missing parents, but Su Ze revealed that Boss Bian had abducted them and was targeting the family. Yun Meng’s presence kept Boss Bian from acting again, and Su Ze left to handle the situation after Qin Yushi arrived.

• Luo Qiushui told Yun Meng that her parents had vanished overnight, and Yun Meng promised to help search for them.
• After two hours without clues, the searchers began giving up, and Boss Bian warned Luo Qiushui that her parents were likely taken by an Awakened person.
• Yun Meng suggested asking a powerful person for help rather than abandoning the search.
• Su Ze told Chen Keqing that Boss Bian had abducted Luo Qiushui’s parents and had waited for a chance to take Luo Qiushui too.
• Qin Yushi arrived at the library, and Su Ze went to deal with Luo Qiushui’s situation.

Su Ze exposed Boss Bian as a cannibal and rescued Luo Qiushui’s parents, while Luo Qiushui and her friends learned that Su Ze had subdued him. At Su University, Qin Yushi wondered why Su Ze had intervened, and Chen Keqing reassured her that Su Ze still liked her.

• Su Ze found Luo Qiushui’s parents bound in a hidden compartment at Boss Bian’s home and freed them.
• Boss Bian returned, revealed his plans to kill and butcher the couple, and heard Su Ze expose him as a cannibal.
• Luo Jiaxin failed to find Su Ze, Xiao Chen, or Xiao Ye, but an Awakened soon reported that Luo Qiushui’s parents had been found and Boss Bian was the kidnapper.
• Luo Qiushui reunited with her parents, and the crowd learned that Su Ze had subdued Boss Bian.
• At Su University, Qin Yushi questioned why Su Ze had helped Luo Qiushui, and Chen Keqing told her that Su Ze still liked her.

Su Ze learned that the authorities planned to summon him and restrict his movements, and he began considering a counterattack that would leave them no regrets. Meanwhile, Lu Jing became a Tier 1 Awakened in SC-35 Safe Zone, and Yun Meng reported that Luo Qiushui’s parents were safe.

• Chen Keqing and Qin Yushi chatted warmly in the library about Chen Keqing’s reading and Qin Yushi’s upcoming work for Su Ze.
• Su Ze told Chen Keqing and Qin Yushi about the ogre and recalled Big Baldy, the missionary he had met in Wan City.
• Li Miaor warned Su Ze that the authorities planned to summon him and temporarily restrict his freedom of movement.
• Su Ze said he knew about the plan and was considering how to make the people involved die without regrets.
• Tong Yihua learned that Lu Jing had become a Tier 1 Awakened and asked her how she had done it.
• Yun Meng told Lu Jing that Luo Qiushui’s parents were safe and sound.