Chapter Summaries

As the ten-year deadline arrived, Aaron sent admission notices to a new class of Luofu students, who faced immediate enrollment, steep tuition, and dangerous dormitory surprises. After the freshmen settled in, Aaron and Nine Nether Blood Demon discussed the spies among them and the monsters and experiments unfolding across the world.

• Sinan learned that no students had received Luofu admission notices, then sent Bai Qiudao to support Yuan Shiyan against a newly appeared spectral energy monster.
• Aaron activated the academy’s golems and sent admission notices across the void, giving Xu Xing only one hour to reach Luofu.
• Xu Xing arrived at Luofu, paid his tuition through a student loan, and followed Nine Nether Blood Demon’s instructions to the dormitories.
• Xu Xing claimed a bed and found a notebook belonging to Yuan Shiyan, while freshmen in other dormitories fought over leftover belongings.
• Aaron and Nine Nether Blood Demon observed the freshmen and discussed how spies from different factions had infiltrated the new class.
• Aaron inspected the Nine Sons Mother Ghost Buddha, Qi Miaoyi’s insects, and the River of Death, then said the students would take part in his global experiment.

Xu Xing chose alchemy and spent a year learning from Edward while students prepared to take supplies from the academy before their graduation exam. Santos used his compulsory toilet-cleaning duty to explore the academy at night, and he finally set out for the forbidden zone as the exam approached.

• Xu Xing chose alchemy, while Tao Bai explained that Santos had been punished with three months of compulsory toilet cleaning after trying to imitate Zhang Yexin.
• Santos used his cleaning duty to gain permission to travel at night and began searching locations identified by South Continent experts as possible sources of fortuitous opportunities.
• Nine Nether Blood Demon and Aaron watched Santos’s movements and discussed using him to open a laboratory, while Aaron also hoped to arrange a chance to travel and feast.
• Over the following year, Xu Xing learned alchemy from Edward and saw students stockpiling goods from the convenience store before graduation.
• Tao Bai told Xu Xing that the dean and director of studies had left to prepare the final exam venue, and Santos later sneaked out toward the forbidden zone.

As ancient Evil Things emerged in the academy’s restricted zone, a supernatural omen spread across Luofu and forced the graduation exam to begin early. Santos and Daniel accidentally opened a containment chamber, leaving them transformed as the academy faced a fight to survive until morning.

• Xu Xing and the dormitory students saw Ghosts become pregnant beneath a phantom River of Death, while an occult studies apprentice identified three omens of ancient Evil Things.
• The academy announced that the graduation exam would begin ahead of schedule and ordered students to survive until six the next morning.
• Santos entered the laboratory, copied the Experiment Logs, and refused to press the button that would release the Nine Sons Mother Ghost Buddha.
• Daniel followed Santos using Spirit Realm Walking, and their clash sent vines into the chamber’s activation switch.
• The glass door opened, Santos’s belly began to swell, and Daniel vomited worms.

Xu Xing and the students endured a deadly graduation exam as three Ancient Evil Things awakened across Luofu Academy. Director Nine Nether defeated them, but Aaron revealed that the monsters had been driven into the outside world as the graduates prepared to leave.

• Xu Xing warned Tao Bai not to leave the dormitory after Shen Jingfei and other students died under the River of Death's light.
• The Ghost Infants and decay-worms forced Xu Xing, Tao Bai, and the other students out of their rooms as the three Ancient Evil Things intensified their attacks.
• At six o'clock, Director Nine Nether arrived and defeated the Ghost Buddha, the River of Death, and the insect aberration, healing the surviving students.
• Director Nine Nether ended the exam and ordered the survivors to attend the graduation ceremony.
• At the ceremony, Aaron explained that Santos and Daniel had damaged the seal and revealed that the Ancient Evil Things had been driven into the outside world.

Sinan accepted Parliament’s decision to have a new group contact the Luofu students, while Aaron visited Catgirl Café and gave Sister Hong a talisman to protect the shop. At a funeral home, a dead man rose from his coffin as an [Evil Omen] formed from the River of Death.

• A minister arrived with a second group of students, and Sinan obeyed Parliament’s decision to put them in charge of contacting the returning Luofu students.
• Sinan told Zhang Yexin that he trusted the dean and director of studies to turn Parliament’s attempt to take their influence into a trap.
• Aaron visited Catgirl Café, chatted with Zhang Cunye and Sister Hong, and gave Sister Hong a talisman to hang in the shop.
• Two funeral-home employees heard knocking from a coffin, and an elderly corpse in a purple burial robe emerged when one tried to flee.
• The corpse opened its amber eyes as bluish-black mist enveloped the funeral home, marking the arrival of an [Evil Omen] transformed from the River of Death.

Zhang Yexin joined Sinan and Bai Qiudao at a funeral home where a spreading ghost domain threatened to engulf a city, and learned that an Ancient Evil Thing might be behind the catastrophe. Sinan described a plan for self-sufficient floating cities; five years later, four major cities were nearly complete while Poluo Kingdom had fallen to the strange entities.

• Zhang Yexin left the Catgirl Café after learning that the Nether Energy Department had suffered heavy casualties and went to the mutated funeral home.
• Zhang Yexin's sword could barely disturb the bluish-black mist, which Sinan said could engulf the city within seven days.
• Sinan told Zhang Yexin and Bai Qiudao that students had released an Ancient Evil Thing and that he suspected it was connected to the mutation.
• Sinan explained that Parliament's megacity plan could create defensive, self-sufficient cities, potentially capable of flight and space travel.
• Five years later, Aaron watched news report that renovations of four major cities were nearly complete and their household registrations were oversubscribed.
• Aaron saw reports of Poluo Kingdom's fall as a spiritual-energy-enhanced warship evacuated refugees, watched by Ghost Infants at the harbor.

As the ancient Evil Things devastated the world, Aaron began Luofu Academy’s third intake and watched Zhang Fengwei graduate as an outstanding student. Three hundred years later, humanity sealed the last Evil Thing, but the United Government located Luofu Island and sent an armed force to confront the academy.

• Zhang Yexin urged Aaron, Xiao Rou, and Red Sister to move to a floating city, then discovered that his sister Zhang Fengwei had taken a summer job at the bar.
• More than four years later, Aaron summoned students for Luofu Academy’s third intake, rejected demands to help the outside world, and charged each student five hundred kilograms of gold in tuition.
• Aaron named Zhang Fengwei the class’s outstanding graduate, and she later helped develop Nether Energy Well technology that enabled humanity to seal the last ancient Evil Thing by United Government Year 300.
• Zhang Yexin and Zhang Fengwei died after living three hundred years, while Aaron reflected on humanity’s achievements and learned that his true body had defeated the Nine Luminaries Profound Secret Emperor.
• The United Government found Luofu Island, teleported in armed floating cities, and sent golden-core-level fighters to confront the academy.

Claire tried to survive with her son Jamie in a ruined city, where scavengers and Strange Objects threatened ordinary people. After a Strange Object killed Claire and the scavengers, Jamie witnessed the floating cities fall and explode, while the disaster spread into space.

• Claire searched a garbage heap with Jamie and found a can of luncheon meat, but scavengers surrounded them and demanded her supplies.
• A Strange Object made several scavengers vanish, leaving their shadows behind, and Claire fled with Jamie.
• Claire stopped in an unfinished building and discovered that the child beside her was the Strange Object; she screamed in despair.
• Jamie wandered alone toward the city's edge and saw a floating city fall from the sky, with its inhabitants unable to escape.
• The falling city exploded beyond the horizon, and a shockwave swept across the planet.
• In space, technicians reported that the psychic energy cores were nearing explosion, and the captain watched the floating cities break apart.

After Nether Energy vanished, Aaron sealed three ancient Evil Things on the moons and fell asleep, while civilization repeatedly rose and collapsed over several thousand years. The story then followed Xu Yuan, a martial artist serving as security on an expedition ship sailing into the Misty Ocean.

• Aaron explained that Nether Energy’s disappearance had caused the floating cities to collapse and the half-step Primordial Spirit old man to age to death.
• Aaron drew three talismans and sealed the ancient Evil Things within the three moons for at least ten thousand years.
• Aaron sealed Luofu Island and went into a deep slumber, while civilizations rose and fell across the shattered world over several thousand years.
• Great Wu developed into a modernized society after archaeological discoveries, though technology remained uneven across some regions.
• Xu Yuan sailed aboard the Waterbird as an expedition’s security guard, hoping to encounter the mysterious and advance his martial arts.

Xu Yuan joined an expedition to Luofu Island, where he learned that its discovery was tied to the awakening of demons and monsters. After the team unearthed ancient documents, Liu Qing betrayed the expedition, and Xu Yuan killed him, but Professor Qi was shot and the attackers may have triggered a curse.

• Su Bingbing told Xu Yuan that the Mist Sea was once called the Luofu Sea and warned him that demons and monsters were beginning to awaken.
• Xu Yuan sailed with Su Bingbing, Professor Qi, Liu Qing, and Qiu Butong to Luofu Island, where Professor Qi began excavating its ruins.
• Professor Qi's team discovered a complete set of Luofu documents, and Xu Yuan grew wary of the hired security guards.
• Liu Qing tried to assassinate Professor Qi, but Xu Yuan intercepted him and killed him in a fight.
• Xu Yuan found Professor Qi shot dead, and a student claimed she had smashed a clay jar containing a curse that killed the attackers.

Xu Yuan escaped the camp’s disorienting fog and encountered Su Bingbing and Qiu Butong fighting a supernatural woman in a bloodstained dress. Qiu Butong’s attempt to bind the ghost failed, and Xu Yuan fled with the unconscious Su Bingbing as the woman attacked.

• Xu Yuan realized the fog had trapped him in a distorted camp, followed his intuition through a rock wall, and found Su Bingbing confronting a headless female corpse.
• Su Bingbing severed the corpse’s head, and Qiu Butong tried to absorb it so he could reach the Living Dead realm and become a ghost wielder.
• The ghost overcame Qiu Butong, reclaimed its head, and caused Xu Yuan to lose consciousness; Su Bingbing used a supernatural item to survive its killing blow, then fainted.
• Xu Yuan carried Su Bingbing and took the red-tasseled spear as he fled, using Formless Thunder Slash to break through the ghost’s strands of hair.

Xu Yuan learned from Su Bingbing that the fog-bound monster could only be fought with another strange entity and that becoming a Strange Wielder required an extremely risky imprisonment. As the monster broke its killing pattern, Su Bingbing tried to separate part of it, but her spear struck the possessed student instead, leaving the true entity revealed.

• Su Bingbing explained that she worked for Sky Net and described the dangers and requirements of becoming a Strange Wielder.
• Xu Yuan learned about the Ghost-Suppressing Pattern and Su Bingbing's supernatural spear, which could suppress the strange entity at the cost of her life force.
• Fog seeped into the tent, and the monster blew the tent away as the screaming female student vanished.
• Su Bingbing told Xu Yuan she would try to split off part of the entity so he could imprison it and help them escape.
• A woman approached through the fog, and Su Bingbing struck off her arm with the spear.
• Xu Yuan realized the woman was the female student; she collapsed, revealing the true strange entity behind her.

Xu Yuan survived the female ghost by swallowing her blood and comprehending the Formless Trance State, then escaped Luofu Island with Su Bingbing. He returned to White Cloud Mountain to tell his master Aaron about ghost-wielding martial arts, while Su Bingbing identified the ghost as the Ghost Mother, also called the Hell Girl.

• Xu Yuan used the red-tasseled spear to suppress the female ghost briefly, then bit her neck and swallowed her ghostly blood.
• Xu Yuan endured the blood’s corruption by entering the Formless Trance State, while the female ghost remained suppressed and he escaped with Su Bingbing.
• Aboard the research vessel, Xu Yuan discovered he had gained great strength and the ability to manipulate mist, but his body and temperament were changing.
• Su Bingbing urged Xu Yuan to join the Skyweb Bureau and explained that anomalous martial arts could help him control the ghost blood; she also named the female ghost the Ghost Mother, or Hell Girl.
• Xu Yuan went to White Cloud Mountain and told his master Aaron about the mission and ghost-wielding martial arts.
• Aaron explained that ghost martial arts had become humanity’s path to fighting the uncanny, and Xu Yuan wondered whether his master was still a match for him.

Xu Yuan reaffirmed his loyalty to the White Bird Sect after Aaron warned him that Liu Bai, a grandmaster, would seek revenge for Liu Qing’s death. As Xu Yuan descended White Cloud Mountain, the Skynet Bureau watched the Liu Family, and Liu Bai attacked one of its agents before setting out.

• Aaron explained that Ghost-Wielders could survive for decades by mastering a true inheritance of eerie martial arts, and Xu Yuan declared he would never betray the White Bird Sect.
• Aaron warned Xu Yuan that Liu Qing’s uncle, Liu Bai, was a grandmaster who would come after him, but Xu Yuan welcomed the chance to fight one.
• Xu Yuan spent half a month recovering on White Cloud Mountain, then descended and was quickly detected by communications and surveillance systems.
• Su Bingbing and the Skynet Bureau team monitored the Liu Family estate, where they learned their file on Xu Yuan had leaked.
• Liu Bai emerged from the estate and used a bluish-black third hand to seize Little Zhang by the throat after the agent mocked him.
• The team leader asked Liu Bai to spare Little Zhang, and Liu Bai released the agent before vanishing.

Xu Yuan returned to Yuan Yi Security Company and defeated Li Wentong, who had come seeking revenge for his injured master. As Xu Yuan confronted Li Wentong’s junior sister, Liu Bai appeared and declared that Xu Yuan could die now.

• Xu Yuan told Xue Hongyi he planned to resign, then learned that Li Wentong had been challenging the company and injured Supervisor Long.
• Xu Yuan recognized Li Wentong as a gifted martial artist nearing Awakening and accepted his challenge in the training room.
• Li Wentong attacked Xu Yuan with punches and a Baji Elbow, but Xu Yuan took every blow without injury and shattered Li Wentong’s confidence.
• Xu Yuan broke Li Wentong’s limbs and grabbed his junior sister by the neck before setting her down.
• A cold, terrifying atmosphere spread through the training floor, and Liu Bai emerged from the stairwell and threatened Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan fought Liu Bai, a grandmaster of Back-Through Fist who had subdued two ghost hands, and revealed that he had learned the Ghost-Taming Fist. When the Ghost Mother appeared and killed Liu Bai, Xu Yuan suppressed his ghost blood and made her vanish too, leaving only Liu Bai’s eerie arms behind.

• Xu Yuan and Liu Bai began a fight to the death, and Liu Bai grew two ghost hands to strike Xu Yuan down.
• Xue Hongyi ordered the guards to shoot Liu Bai, but ghost hands emerged from his wounds and snapped the shooters’ necks.
• Xu Yuan stood back up and used Ghostly Vanishing to appear behind Liu Bai and blast apart his spine.
• Xu Yuan used Ghosts and Gods Cry at Night as Liu Bai expanded his six-armed ghost domain, but the Ghost Mother appeared and bound Liu Bai in her hair.
• Xu Yuan suppressed his ghost blood, causing the Ghost Mother and her hair to vanish and leaving Liu Bai’s two ghost arms behind.

Xu Yuan learned that the White Bird Sect’s Southern Dipper White Bird Diagram could balance fragments of different uncanny entities, and chose to follow that dangerous path. At Liu Bai’s death site, he absorbed the two uncanny hands and began using the diagram to contain them.

• Aaron revealed that the White Bird Sect’s founder had survived for decades by balancing fragments from different uncanny entities.
• Xu Yuan studied the Southern Dipper White Bird Diagram and understood that it served as the core for integrating uncanny fragments.
• Aaron warned Xu Yuan about the dangers of the Way of Balance and taught him the incomplete Uncanny-Taming Fist.
• Xu Yuan found Liu Bai’s twitching uncanny hands and wrapped them in uncanny blood.
• Xu Yuan pulled the uncanny hands into his body and entered the Colorless Trance, using the Southern Dipper White Bird Diagram to try to balance them.

Xu Yuan emerged from Yuanyi Building after killing Liu Bai and dealing with his ghosts, while Sky Net Bureau leader Zhuge Shan covered up the supernatural battle. As Xu Yuan warned Xue Hongyi about the strange, she remembered a friend who might have encountered one.

• The Sky Net Bureau team watched Yuanyi Building as Xu Yuan and Liu Bai fought, and Little Zhang’s compass exploded when Ghost Mother briefly descended.
• Ghost Mother left, and Xu Yuan walked out of the building, telling Zhuge Shan that Liu Bai was dead and the ghosts had been dealt with.
• Zhuge Shan used his ghost domain and memory-altering ability to clear witnesses from the building, while Xu Yuan persuaded him to spare Xue Hongyi.
• Xu Yuan explained the strange to Xue Hongyi and warned her that supernatural threats would grow more dangerous.
• Xue Hongyi remembered a friend who had recently encountered strange things and realized that her friend might have met the strange.

Xu Yuan and Xue Hongyi traveled to Zhan Prefecture, where Skyweb Bureau official Yan Wuxu tried to broker peace between Xu Yuan and the Liu family. Yan Wuxu secretly fed human blood to the zombie head sealed within him, and after it drove him to kill again, he hid the corpse from the Bureau.

• Xu Yuan agreed to investigate Ye Xingqing’s supernatural trouble, and she described seeing words on people’s foreheads before they died.
• Xu Yuan warned Xue Hongyi about the dangers of containing supernatural beings as they flew to Zhan Prefecture.
• At the airport, Yan Wuxu asked Xu Yuan to accept the Liu family’s offer to end their conflict, but Xu Yuan rejected his guarantee and warned Xue Hongyi that Yan was dangerous.
• Ye Xingqing met Xu Yuan and Xue Hongyi at the airport and said a maid had recently died of food poisoning.
• The next morning, Yan Wuxu’s zombie head made him bite and kill the flight attendant, after which he practiced his fist art and concealed her corpse.

Xu Yuan investigated Ye Xingqing’s visions and watched Heavenly Dragon Group for signs of a ghost. He encountered his master Aaron in Zhan Prefecture, then witnessed Director Dong’s fatal fall and sensed that the anomaly was extremely dangerous.

• Xu Yuan confirmed Ye Xingqing was neither a ghost nor possessed, learned she had seen ominous words on President Dong of Heavenly Dragon Group, and agreed to investigate with Xue Hongyi.
• After Ye Xingqing left, Xu Yuan told Xue Hongyi he might withdraw because the case seemed difficult, then decided to monitor Heavenly Dragon Group before making plans.
• Xu Yuan watched Heavenly Dragon Group from a tea restaurant and encountered Aaron, who explained that he was passing through Zhan Prefecture on his way to Zen Master Sacred Heart’s funeral.
• Aaron told Xu Yuan that Zen Master Sacred Heart had imprisoned a powerful anomaly within his body and that martial arts experts were gathering to prevent trouble after his death.
• Xu Yuan sensed a vicious chill and saw Director Dong jump from Heavenly Dragon Group’s rooftop, then recognized that the anomaly was extremely terrifying.