Chapter Summaries

Chen Xi and Lin Yue told Zhu Li about their plans to join the Countermeasure Bureau and wait for Qianqi Weiming in Tianhai City, then encountered Wu Xin at the coffee shop. Wu Xin became frightened by Lin Yue, while Chen Xi warned her that they would settle things that night.

• Chen Xi explained the battle with Qianqi Weiming and her awakened Succubus ability to Zhu Li, withholding information about Wu Xin.
• Chen Xi asked Zhu Li to recommend her and Lin Yue for the Countermeasure Bureau's Eighth Squad so they could confront Qianqi Weiming and access the Storage Vault.
• Zhu Li said the deputy bureau chief would likely accept them and confirmed that bureau chief Li Changkong would appear if they warned him about Qianqi Weiming.
• Wu Xin arrived at the coffee shop and introduced herself to Zhu Li, who sensed that Wu Xin was acting and found her unusually cold.
• After Zhu Li left, Wu Xin noticed Lin Yue and wondered why she found her more interesting than Zhu Li.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue left, with Chen Xi warning Wu Xin not to run from their confrontation that night; Wu Xin stayed behind, sweating and experiencing fear for the first time.

Lin Yue revealed that she still had the Chainsaw Cleaver, and Chen Xi decided they would pretend to claim the Butcher before dealing with Wu Xin. When they reached the school rooftop, Wu Xin had vanished and the threads binding them were gone, leaving Chen Xi suspicious about Lin Yue’s true Legend Degree; their argument ended with Chen Xi jumping off the rooftop to accept Lin Yue’s challenge.

• Lin Yue summoned the Chainsaw Cleaver, and Chen Xi realized she had not claimed the Butcher yet; they agreed to pretend to claim it and make a plan after dealing with Wu Xin.
• Lin Yue and Chen Xi found Wu Xin missing from the rooftop, and discovered that the threads connecting them to her had disappeared.
• Chen Xi suspected Wu Xin had surrendered because she feared defeat, while Lin Yue claimed her Shadow Dweller Legend Degree was thirty-four percent.
• Lin Yue teased Chen Xi by leaping down the stairwell, so Chen Xi challenged her to a jumping contest with a request as the prize.
• Lin Yue accepted the contest, and Chen Xi leaped off the rooftop first.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue ran into Qiu Ye and Chen Shuo at a hot pot restaurant, where they discussed the Countermeasure Bureau and the Spark Federation's Evil Flower. The restaurant was struck by a sound-suppressing domain that vanished briefly before an immense blast of noise erupted.

• Chen Xi beat Lin Yue in a rain-powered race, and Lin Yue wrote down her promise to honor the wager.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue joined Qiu Ye and Chen Shuo at a hot pot restaurant after posing for a couples' discount promotion.
• Chen Xi told Qiu Ye about the planned Eighth Squad and asked about the Tianhai City Countermeasure Bureau's conflict with Evil Flower.
• Qiu Ye warned them that joining the Countermeasure Bureau was dangerous, while Chen Shuo said the bureau could withdraw to the Fifteen Cities after the fighting.
• The restaurant's environmental sounds disappeared, and Chen Shuo summoned his Tang Blade when he recognized a domain.
• The sounds returned after twenty seconds, then a deafening blast erupted inside the restaurant.

Chen Xi and her allies defeated a group of Evil Flower members who had attacked the hot pot restaurant and recovered the Legend Evolution Theory. Qiu Ye invited them to join the Countermeasure Bureau interrogation of the captured Lina, leaving them a chance to question her themselves.

• Lina sent mechanical monkey dolls to search the restaurant ruins while Monkey and the masked brute watched from a rooftop.
• Chen Xi emerged from the shadows and killed Monkey with a Water Blade, then fought the adaptive brute as Qiu Ye captured Lina and Chen Shuo attacked.
• Chen Xi used a powerful Water Blade to destroy the brute and collected his Legend Husk, which displayed Evolution Theory as an available Legend.
• Qiu Ye let Chen Xi and Chen Shuo take credit for defeating the Priest and suggested they could skip the assessment to form the Eighth Squad.
• Chen Xi asked to attend Lina's interrogation, and Qiu Ye agreed despite the usual rules.

Chen Xi interrogated Lina about the other High Priest and the organization’s temporary base, then left the abandoned factory with Lin Yue. Qiu Ye’s team discussed Chen Xi’s methods and went to get a meal, while Chen Xi drove Lin Yue home in a Bureau car.

• Chen Xi tortured Lina until she revealed that the other High Priest was a Third Rank, middle tier, who could control air currents, and Luo Li exposed Lina’s lie.
• Lina revealed that the organization’s temporary base was Junlan Hotel, and Chen Xi gave her a quick death, but no Legend dropped.
• Qiu Ye’s team discussed Chen Xi’s strength, combat judgment, and interrogation methods before Qiu Ye suggested taking them out for a meal.
• Qiu Ye gave Chen Xi and Lin Yue a special-issue car, and Chen Xi drove Lin Yue home despite not having a driver’s license.

After realizing that ordinary people might be absorbed into a world-spanning domain, Chen Xi and Lin Yue decided to take the initiative against the Evil Flower organization. They prepared to ambush Wu Qiu at Junlan Hotel, hoping to kill him and seize his Evil Pills.

• Chen Xi wondered whether the world's domain was refreshing people's existence and memories, then set aside the question as beyond her current rank.
• Lin Yue lamented that the Countermeasure Bureau staff who died would be forgotten by their families, and Chen Xi promised she would not die.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue planned to attack the Evil Flower organization that night, with Wu Qiu as their target.
• From a rooftop near Junlan Hotel, Lin Yue questioned whether their ambush plan could work while Chen Xi watched the target room through night-vision binoculars.
• Chen Xi explained that Wu Qiu's Evil Pills could help her grow stronger, but his sensitivity to moisture made a Water Blade attack risky.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue killed Wu Qiu, found his Evil Pills, and raided the hotel rooms of the Evil Flower’s High Priests. They discovered the rooms had been abandoned, realizing the Countermeasure Bureau’s plans had already alerted the group.

• Chen Xi killed Wu Qiu and searched his phone while Lin Yue found a safe containing four Evil Pills.
• Chen Xi swallowed three Evil Pills, gaining Heavy Water and Tiger Eyes but reaching only 98% Legend Degree.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue decided to target the remaining High Priests after learning about the Evil Flower members’ arrangements from Wu Qiu’s messages.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue searched the Evil Flower’s rooms but found them empty, and Chen Xi realized the group had been warned.
• Chen Xi recalled that Qiu Ye and the others had told other squads about the hideout and that the Countermeasure Bureau was preparing a surprise attack.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue were trapped by Evil Flower members who activated their Domains, but Chen Xi killed one priest with a surprise Water Blade and drove the rest to flee. They escaped the fight with Chen Xi low on magic power and wary of Qianqi Weiming.

• Lin Yue and Chen Xi were halted midair when the enemy’s gravity Domain snapped Lin Yue’s shadow ropes.
• The Evil Flower priests and their allies surrounded the area, and Chen Xi expanded her Rain Disaster Domain.
• Chen Xi’s Water Blade cut down the buzz-cut man and struck the others, prompting the surviving priests and Evil Flower members to flee.
• Chen Xi dispelled her Domain rather than pursue the retreating enemies, while Lin Yue emerged from hiding.
• Lin Yue asked Chen Xi to carry her like a princess as they prepared to leave.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue reported their attack on Junlan Hotel to the Countermeasure Bureau and secured places in its Eighth Squad. Back home, Lin Yue asked to share Chen Xi’s bed and promised they would be together after dealing with Qianqi Weiming.

• Chen Xi told Qiu Ye and Lu Shaojun how she and Lin Yue killed Wu Qiu and a priest during the siege at Junlan Hotel.
• Lu Shaojun said their Countermeasure Bureau positions would be settled by the next day and that the Federation would reward them with Spark points.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue took a cab home, where Chen Xi planned her remaining preparations before Qianqi Weiming arrived in three days.
• Lin Yue joined Chen Xi in bed, asked if they could be intimate, and accepted Chen Xi’s promise to wait until after they dealt with Qianqi Weiming.
• Chen Xi fell asleep after wishing Lin Yue good night, while Lin Yue watched her.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue waited out a rain ritual when a young Rain Lord entered the domain, forcing them to fight it. Chen Xi claimed the slain Legend and evolved her Pure Water Body, then the ritual granted her Sovereign's Wrath.

• Chen Xi intensified the rain and shielded Lin Yue while they waited for the ritual to finish.
• A young Rain Lord entered the domain, and Chen Xi recognized its aura as a fellow Legend.
• Chen Xi wounded and cut Rain Lord in half, and Lin Yue crushed its heart with shadows.
• Chen Xi claimed Rain Lord and evolved her existing Pure Water Body ability.
• Seven minutes later, the ritual ended and Chen Xi received the unique ability Sovereign's Wrath.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue briefed Lu Shaojun on Qianqi Weiming’s planned attack and discussed preparations to ambush her. On the way home, Lin Yue revealed that she was close to reaching Second Rank and claimed her Future Foresight let her inherit Legend Degree from the future.

• Lu Shaojun introduced Chen Xi and Lin Yue to the Countermeasure Bureau, then presented intelligence on the Evil Flower High Priests, including Mist Man and Qianqi Weiming.
• Chen Xi privately told Lu Shaojun that Qianqi Weiming would attack during the Exchange Meeting on the twentieth and urged him to bring in a Transcendent who could seal space.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue reviewed their new Bureau access and learned that the storage vault required authorization from the Bureau Chief or Deputy Bureau Chief.
• Chen Xi discovered that Qiu Ye would be on duty at the vault the next day and thought she would support their plan to steal from it.
• Lin Yue told Chen Xi she was about to reach Second Rank and said her Future Foresight let her inherit Legend Degree from the future.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue bought information about their Ascension Rituals, then Lin Yue completed her ritual by having her Shadow Dweller imitate a cat for an hour. She awakened a new domain ability, Land of Dim Light.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue decided to spend Spark points on information about their Ascension Rituals.
• Lin Yue learned that an ordinary Shadow Dweller needed to imitate an animal for one minute to advance, while her ritual required an hour; Chen Xi learned Rain Lord's ritual required maintaining light rain for half an hour within a hundred-meter range.
• Chen Xi suggested a tortoise, but Lin Yue chose to imitate a stray cat.
• At Chen Xi's home, Lin Yue's Shadow Dweller imitated a lazy orange cat while the two ate and teased each other until the hour passed.
• Lin Yue's magic roiled as she advanced, and she revealed her new domain, Land of Dim Light.

Lin Yue showed Chen Xi her new domain, Land of Dim Light, before the two teased and kissed each other while discussing their plans. Lin Yue suggested celebrating their birthdays together tomorrow, revealing she feared she might not live until November.

• Lin Yue used Land of Dim Light to plunge the room into darkness, then explained that she could see through it and summon tentacles, but the domain drained her magic quickly.
• Chen Xi realized that the only task left was their infiltration plan after the Countermeasure Bureau meeting the following night.
• Chen Xi kissed Lin Yue, and the two playfully tussled until Lin Yue ran out of energy and vowed to raise the Butcher's Legend Degree.
• Chen Xi suggested they shower and sleep before their planned theft, but Lin Yue asked about their birthdays and proposed celebrating them together tomorrow.
• Lin Yue said she wanted to celebrate tomorrow because she feared she would not live until her birthday in November.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue celebrated Lin Yue’s birthday before attending a Countermeasure Bureau meeting about confronting Qianqi Weiming. Chen Xi then asked Qiu Ye to let her take every Legend from the Bureau’s Legend Repository, and Qiu Ye agreed.

• Chen Xi ordered a strawberry birthday cake for Lin Yue, and the two celebrated together before midnight, triggering a CG that failed and leaving Chen Xi’s Wish Power charge at 52%.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue attended a meeting where Lu Shaojun relayed Bureau Chief Li’s plan to confront their enemies, without telling the captains that Qianqi Weiming would appear at the Exchange Meeting.
• After the meeting, Chen Xi told Qiu Ye she wanted to take every Legend from the Countermeasure Bureau’s Legend Repository and explained her plan.
• Qiu Ye agreed to help Chen Xi and Lin Yue, and Chen Xi promised to look out for the Seventh Squad during their retreat.

With Qiu Ye’s help, Chen Xi bypassed the vault’s identity checks and plundered its Legend Husks, replacing dangerous or useless abilities until she gained Butterfly Metamorphosis. She continued opening the remaining safes and ended the chapter with the newly acquired Lamentation ability from the Seven Kill Blade.

• Qiu Ye helped Chen Xi enter the vault, where Chen Xi plundered So-Called Love from a strand of hair and quickly replaced it with Power of Longing.
• Chen Xi plundered several more Legend Husks, rejecting abilities with negative effects or little practical use.
• Chen Xi plundered Butterfly Metamorphosis from the Insect Body and kept the ability despite its dormant-state drawback.
• Chen Xi plundered the remaining Legends and dismissed their abilities as useless, including Muscle Supremacy.
• Qiu Ye opened a safe containing the Seven Kill Blade, and Chen Xi plundered its Lamentation ability.

Chen Xi obtained the Seven Kill Blade’s Lamentation ability, and she and Lin Yue left the Bureau after Qiu Ye erased their surveillance footage. Lu Shaojun then sent Chen Xi the ambush plan for Qianqi Weiming’s attack and warned her to watch Xie Wuyi, leaving Chen Xi and Lin Yue ready to face the enemy head-on.

• Chen Xi realized Lamentation could trigger an instant-death check after seven slashes and told Lin Yue they had the advantage over Qianqi Weiming.
• Qiu Ye erased the surveillance footage of their visit to the underground vault, and Chen Xi and Lin Yue prepared to go home.
• Lin Yue attacked a hidden figure in Qiu Ye’s office, but the intruder revealed himself as Chen Shuo, who had brought Qiu Ye roses and wanted to warn them about Evil Flower’s coming attack.
• Qiu Ye accepted Chen Shuo’s roses, while Chen Xi and Lin Yue left the Bureau and received Lu Shaojun’s plan for ambushing Qianqi Weiming.
• Lu Shaojun told Chen Xi to join Bureau Chief Li’s attack when he threw a punch, explained that a Transcendent would seal teleportation abilities, and warned her to watch Xie Wuyi.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue discussed Xie Wuyi and decided they had no reason to lose.

At the Tianhai City Exchange Meeting, Chen Xi and Li Changkong ambushed Qianqi Weiming while Lin Yue helped the uninvolved Transcendents escape. Chen Xi and Qianqi Weiming entered a standoff after expanding their domains, and Li Changkong launched his own domain to break it.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue met Zhu Li at the Countermeasure Bureau and sent her into the side hall as planned.
• Qianqi Weiming appeared in the lobby, but Li Changkong dropped from the ceiling and struck her before she could attack.
• Chen Xi used Sovereign's Wrath to keep Qianqi Weiming occupied while Li Changkong battered her Armored Skeleton and the Transcendents fled.
• Chen Xi watched the side hall for delayed backup and secretly stacked Lamentation on Qianqi Weiming with sword auras.
• Qianqi Weiming's Armored Skeleton shattered, and she expanded Ghost-Human Love Song; Chen Xi countered with Rain Disaster.
• Chen Xi and Qianqi Weiming entered a silent standoff as the petals slowly affected Chen Xi, while Li Changkong activated Fighting Game.

Chen Xi and Li Changkong cornered Qianqi Weiming in the Countermeasure Bureau lobby, using their domains and attacks to wear down her defenses. Out of magic and unable to reach Mist Man, Qianqi Weiming surrendered and vanished with the Armored Skeleton in a shower of rose petals.

• Chen Xi noticed Health Bars above Qianqi Weiming and Li Changkong, realized Li Changkong's domain did not affect her, and attacked Qianqi Weiming with water and sword energy.
• Li Changkong used the waves to close in and batter Qianqi Weiming, while his domain slowed her petals' transformation and Chen Xi secretly cut her again.
• As Li Changkong's Health Bar fell to two-thirds, Qianqi Weiming unleashed invisible petal blades, but Li Changkong dodged after Chen Xi warned him.
• With the attack spent and Mist Man still absent, Qianqi Weiming surrendered and lowered her knife as her petals drifted away.
• Qianqi Weiming dispelled her domain, then vanished with the Armored Skeleton in a swirl of rose petals.

Chen Xi and her allies defeated Qianqi Weiming, confirmed Xie Wuyi was the mole, and prepared to evacuate Tianhai City. As Chen Xi comforted Lin Yue about Zhu Li’s fate during the fireworks, Lin Yue suddenly stabbed Chen Xi through the heart.

• Chen Xi and Li Changkong defeated Qianqi Weiming, who took her own life, and found that she left no drop.
• Lu Shaojun confirmed Xie Wuyi was the mole, while Lin Yue and Zhu Li reported that most of Evil Flower’s priests had fled the fight.
• Zhu Li left after telling Lin Yue she would see her tomorrow afternoon, and Lu Shaojun announced that the evacuation would begin the morning after tomorrow.
• At Lake Heart Park, Chen Xi and Lin Yue agreed to follow Lu Shaojun’s evacuation plan and talked about whether Zhu Li could be saved.
• Chen Xi kissed Lin Yue during the fireworks, but Lin Yue plunged a shadow dagger into Chen Xi’s heart.

Lin Yue killed Chen Xi, forcing her to resurrect inside Lin Yue's domain and explain why she had left Lin Yue to drown. Lin Yue revealed she was a more rational version of herself created to handle her negative curse, and accused Chen Xi of approaching her with ulterior motives.

• Lin Yue tore open Chen Xi's chest, then bound her corpse and demanded that Chen Xi stop pretending to be dead.
• Chen Xi used her ten-second omniscient perspective to choose a resurrection point at the edge of Lin Yue's domain, then summoned her own domain to confront Lin Yue.
• Lin Yue asked why Chen Xi had tried to drown her, and Chen Xi realized Lin Yue knew she could regress time.
• Chen Xi recognized that the Lin Yue before her was not the person she knew and summoned the Sovereign's Wrath.
• Lin Yue claimed to be a more rational version of herself, born to deal with her negative curse, and accused Chen Xi of engineering encounters while pretending to love her.