Chapter Summaries

Fang Cheng and Yuguang Kaori dealt with Yuguang Mirai after she turned evil, then hid what had happened from the others. Yuguang Kaori agreed to take leave and care for Mirai in Machine City, while Mirai woke with no memory of her actions.

• Fang Cheng told Yuguang Kaori that Yuguang Mirai periodically turned evil and said he would seek a solution after returning from his upcoming trip.
• Yuguang Kaori agreed to take leave and stay with Mirai, and Fang Cheng asked her for a kiss; she kissed him before breaking away when he tried to go further.
• Ye Yuqing and the others searched the apartment for the missing Fang Cheng, Yuguang Mirai, and Yuguang Kaori, while Qingxue concealed what she knew.
• Yuguang Kaori returned and claimed she had followed Mirai and Fang Cheng after Mirai entered Fang Cheng's room, then lost track of them.
• Fang Cheng returned with the sleeping Mirai and claimed she had turned evil and run away; Qingxue recognized his story was false but stayed silent.
• Yuguang Kaori said she would look after Mirai in Machine City, and Mirai later woke without remembering what had happened while she was evil.

Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing traveled to San Francisco to investigate the Gate of Heaven and search for Mother's Body, with help from North American investigator Victor Harlan. They arrived at a Homeland Security meeting about the cult, where a roomful of unfamiliar specialists gathered and eyed them suspiciously.

• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing said goodbye to their companions in Machine City and left for North America, evading their tails on the way to the airport.
• During the flight, Fang Cheng learned that a previous operation against the Gate of Heaven had been wiped out and that the cult might have a powerful evil-god Proxy holding Mother's Body.
• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing arrived in San Francisco and met Victor Harlan, a Level Three investigator who agreed to guide them and invite them to a Homeland Security meeting.
• Victor warned Fang Cheng to keep a low profile in North America, then left them at a hotel where they shared a room.
• Victor summoned Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing to the Homeland Security branch, where they waited as unfamiliar specialists arrived and watched them with suspicion.

Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing attended a meeting of the Department of Homeland Security’s San Francisco branch, where Director Will Tony recruited them for a mission to find the Heaven’s Gate Cult’s hidden base. They accepted invitations that would draw evil spirits to them, and Julia reacted with shock to Fang Cheng’s Death God drawing.

• Erica pranked Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing with animated snakes, and Fang Cheng punched her into a wall.
• Oli the Vampire attacked Spider-Man for insulting Isis, but Will Tony arrived and stopped their fight.
• Will Tony explained that the Heaven’s Gate Cult might be planning another mass suicide and assigned the group to locate and infiltrate its relocated base.
• Will Tony revealed that opening an invitation would summon an evil spirit within seven days, and survivors would be taken to the cult’s base as true believers.
• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing opened their envelopes, revealing a Death God and a rag doll, and Julia turned pale when she saw Fang Cheng’s drawing.

After learning that the Death God had targeted him for seven days, Fang Cheng dismissed the danger and left the Department of Homeland Security with Ye Yuqing. A truck meant for Fang Cheng killed Erica instead, leaving everyone convinced the Death God was already at work.

• Julia explained that Fang Cheng’s drawing of the Death God meant deadly misfortune would pursue him for seven days, while his drawing of the Evil Spirit Ragdoll would bring ghosts to Ye Yuqing’s home.
• Victor offered to help Fang Cheng find a safe place to stay, but Fang Cheng joked about the White House and Pentagon and refused to choose somewhere else.
• Outside, Jack offered to stop the Death God if Fang Cheng spent seven days with him, and Fang Cheng kicked Jack through a wall.
• Erica charged at Fang Cheng, using her Medusa bloodline ability, and Ye Yuqing stepped in to fight her.
• A runaway truck struck Erica instead of Fang Cheng, and Little Spider reported that she was dead but not completely dead.
• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing left as the superpowered onlookers watched, while Little Spider escaped with the betting money.

Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing faced the Evil Spirit Ragdoll and a series of deadly accidents as Death’s influence intensified around them. When the ragdoll finally summoned a female ghost, Fang Cheng spotted her and attacked.

• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing found the Evil Spirit Ragdoll in their hotel room after it followed them from the taxi and trash can.
• Fang Cheng cut the ragdoll’s clothes into a bikini and hung it up, while he and Ye Yuqing searched for a long-term rental.
• Fang Cheng survived a fall in the bathroom and discovered a live wire behind the fridge, where the current did not harm him.
• The room grew unnaturally cold and silent, and the ragdoll turned to face Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing as an evil spirit appeared.
• Fang Cheng saw a wounded female ghost in the bedroom and teleported toward her, punching her in the face.

Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing subdued the Evil Spirit Ragdoll’s summoned ghosts and waited to see if it would summon more. After investigating the deaths among the Gate of Heaven operatives, Fang Cheng joked with Victor about dying, while Victor discovered Fang Cheng’s porn collection.

• Fang Cheng beat the female ghost summoned by the Evil Spirit Ragdoll, and Ye Yuqing used Tsukimi Mei’s power and silver gauntlets to help overpower her.
• Fang Cheng restrained the female ghost and hung her beside the Ragdoll, then he and Ye Yuqing waited overnight for another spirit to appear.
• A male ghost appeared before dawn, and Fang Cheng subdued him and hung him beside the female ghost and the Ragdoll.
• The Ragdoll summoned no more ghosts the next morning, so Fang Cheng purified the two spirits, gained the Reality Interference ability, and burned the Ragdoll.
• Victor told Fang Cheng that three operatives had died after opening their envelopes, and Fang Cheng sent Victor a link to his private collection in case he died.
• Victor downloaded Fang Cheng’s collection, locked his office, and began watching a video that played the Calabash Brothers song.

Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing traveled to the suburbs while Death God’s attacks and the ragdoll continued to threaten them. They rented a house beside a church, where a masked figure’s arrival hinted at a new danger.

• Fang Cheng stopped a runaway bus with Vector Control, then learned from Sato Mai’s files that Death God would create two increasingly powerful traps each day, peaking at Ace-level attacks on the seventh day.
• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing found the ragdoll back in the taxi despite having burned it, so Fang Cheng burned it again before they continued to the suburbs.
• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing chose a two-story house near a church, hoping the church might suppress Death God and the ragdoll.
• Ye Yuqing noticed a masked person in black robes stop outside the church, and two priests emerged with a crowd of believers.

Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing survived a bombing, rented an apartment, and dealt with the Evil Spirit Ragdoll’s summoned ghost. The next morning, Victor told Fang Cheng that more invitation holders had died and accused him of betraying his trust.

• Fang Cheng used Instant Transmission to take Ye Yuqing and the landlord away from a car bomb outside a church, then negotiated the apartment rent down to three thousand.
• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing moved into the apartment, where Ye Yuqing burned the Evil Spirit Ragdoll, but it reappeared that night.
• Ye Yuqing caught a female ghost emerging from the television and made her into an obedient minion instead of locking her away.
• Victor called Fang Cheng, reported that three more auxiliary members had died, and said Fang Cheng had betrayed his trust.

Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing spent the third day of the Death God’s attacks picnicking in a remote park, where they discovered the Death God had apparently teamed up with the Evil Spirit Ragdoll. Fang Cheng restrained Jason with his Blood Source ability, and Ye Yuqing stepped in to fight him.

• Victor complained that Fang Cheng had sent him a children’s cartoon instead of his treasured collection, then opened Fang Cheng’s new link and heard an interview video that enraged him.
• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing went to a park for a picnic, while the female ghost stayed behind to watch their apartment.
• Fang Cheng trained his Blood Source ability as Ye Yuqing played games, unaware that the Evil Spirit Ragdoll had hidden in a tree nearby.
• A hockey-masked water ghost emerged from the lake and attacked Fang Cheng, but Fang Cheng restrained him with chains made from Blood Source.
• Fang Cheng spotted the ragdoll in the tree and pulled it down with Reality Interference, then suspected it and the Death God had joined forces.
• Jason broke Fang Cheng’s chains after transforming, but Ye Yuqing kicked him away and prepared to fight him.

Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing survived another Death God attack, but a deadly poison killed more than a hundred police officers near their home and forced them to seek shelter through Victor. As Fang Cheng trained in California on the sixth day of the ordeal, Victor unexpectedly called and said he was outside.

• Ye Yuqing burned Jason to ashes with Tsukimi Mei's black flames and chains after a long fight.
• A fleeing suspect's green poison bottle shattered, and the poison killed the man and more than a hundred police officers; Fang Cheng used Instant Transmission to escape with Ye Yuqing.
• Fang Cheng called Victor for a place to stay, and Victor agreed to arrange a house after Fang Cheng offered thirty thousand dollars for seven nights.
• In Machine City, Kanzaki Rin reassured the others about Fang Cheng, though she privately worried about the danger he faced in North America.
• On the sixth day of the Death God's attacks, Fang Cheng trained while Ye Yuqing played mahjong with the ragdoll's summoned spirits.
• Victor called Fang Cheng and told him to come outside because he was there.

Fang Cheng survived a lightning strike that also hit Victor, then faced the Death God's seventh-day attacks while several survivors watched him. After Fang Cheng confronted the onlookers, a giant spacecraft tracked his teleportation and crashed directly onto him, engulfing the area in an explosion.

• Victor warned Fang Cheng that a traitor might be among the survivors, but lightning struck them both before Victor could leave; they survived, and Fang Cheng learned Victor was tougher than he appeared.
• On the seventh day, Fang Cheng stayed apart from Ye Yuqing while Little Spider, the Magician, Jack, and Erica watched him from a nearby house and bet on whether he would die.
• Fang Cheng teleported behind the four watchers, caught Little Spider, and ordered them to stay near him so they could witness the attacks.
• Heart Sense warned Fang Cheng of danger from above, and he teleported away as a giant spacecraft plunged toward him.
• The spacecraft changed course to follow Fang Cheng's teleportation and crashed onto him, causing an explosion that also caught the four watchers in the blast.

Fang Cheng survived the space fighter crash and the Death God's projection, then attended a meeting for the invitation trial survivors. When the twenty-hour deadline passed, the invitations showed no addresses and the villa plunged into chaos.

• The explosion destroyed nearby houses, but Jack, Erica, the Magician, and Little Spider survived; Ye Yuqing flew toward the blast site to find Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng survived the space fighter impact, and Tsukimi Mei's arrival drove off the Death God's projection.
• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing left the blast site, and Victor called to confirm Fang Cheng had survived the attack and tell him about a meeting the next evening.
• Bald Director Tony summoned the twelve remaining invited survivors to a villa, where they waited for secret addresses to appear on their invitations.
• At eight o'clock, the invitations remained blank, the villa's lights went out, and a scream rang through the shaking darkness.

After Bald Director Tony was murdered in a sealed, sinking villa, Fang Cheng and the survivors searched its underground maze for an exit. They encountered a metal-skinned attacker and discovered a horde of identical young men closing in on them.

• A blackout trapped the survivors in a steel-sealed villa, where they found Bald Director Tony dead and suspected that someone among them had killed him.
• Oli failed to break through the steel walls, and Victor led the remaining survivors into the villa to search for an exit while Fang Cheng secretly tracked them with his blood.
• The villa's hidden passages formed a maze, and a scream revealed that another survivor had died from a danger other than the suspected mole.
• Victor, Fang Cheng, Ye Yuqing, Julia, Little Spider, and Jack encountered a metal-skinned young man marked with the number 3, whom Ye Yuqing subdued and Julia identified as driven by a command to kill enemies.
• At least twenty identical young men charged toward the group from the passage and surrounded them.

Fang Cheng’s group fought through Gate of Heaven’s clones and found several unaffiliated members murdered, while Fang Cheng harvested lives and abilities from the dead. They reached a domed chamber where the Magician was fighting clones, and Erica arrived as the surviving members gathered, leaving the killer among them.

• Ye Yuqing, Jack, and Little Spider defeated the clones while Fang Cheng killed them and gained lives and Steel Skin abilities.
• Victor suspected Gate of Heaven had lured them into a trap, though Fang Cheng questioned whether the Security Bureau was involved.
• The group found the Wizard dead, and Fang Cheng absorbed his life and gained Straw Substitute and Crystal Ball Magic.
• Fang Cheng led the group past several more dead unaffiliated members and killed the clones they encountered.
• The group found the Magician fighting clones in a domed chamber, and Jack and Little Spider helped him defeat them.
• Erica arrived in the chamber, bringing the surviving members together and leaving the killer among them.

Fang Cheng exposed Bald Director Will Tony as a Gate of Heaven mole, only to discover that nearly everyone in the room was working for a different faction. The Bald Director’s allies subdued the other investigators and used poison to set Oli the Vampire against Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing.

• Fang Cheng recognized that the Bald Director had faked his death, and Will Tony revealed himself on the screen as a Gate of Heaven mole.
• Will Tony exposed Victor, Little Spider, and the Magician as investigators for the FBI, CAI, and IRS, then explained why Gate of Heaven had targeted Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng claimed he had come to meet Gate of Heaven’s leader, but Will Tony released a poisonous gas and Erica, Jack, and Julia attacked the weakened investigators.
• Erica, Jack, and Julia subdued Victor, Little Spider, and the Magician, while Fang Cheng protected himself and Ye Yuqing with Vector Control.
• Will Tony revealed that the gas was a slow-acting poison and ordered Oli the Vampire to avenge his Queen by attacking Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng confronted Oli, who sought revenge for Isis, and revealed his overwhelming power when Oli and Gate of Heaven's agents attacked. Ye Yuqing fought the transformed Erica and Jack while Baldy watched from hiding and received a call from Mr. Tony.

• Oli explained that Isis had saved him from a miserable life, and he refused to accept Fang Cheng as the Blood Emperor.
• Fang Cheng unleashed his aura and struck Oli, Erica, and Jack from within as they tried to inject themselves with drugs.
• Oli transformed into a batlike monster, while Erica and Jack became Medusa and a Black Giant.
• Fang Cheng shattered Oli's blood blades as Ye Yuqing fought Jack and Erica, resisting Erica's petrifying gaze and burning her snakes with Black Flame.
• Baldy watched the battle from a secret hideout and answered a call from Mr. Tony.

Fang Cheng defeated Oli and absorbed his abilities while Ye Yuqing killed Jack and cornered Erica. Erica took Little Spider hostage, but Fang Cheng suddenly shot a steel needle into his forehead, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• Baldy reported that Oli and the others had been injected with the Celestial God serum, and Fang Cheng tested Oli’s enhanced strength with Vector Control.
• Fang Cheng overwhelmed Oli’s Bat swarm, blood control, and shadow attack, then killed him with Dojigiri Yasutsuna and absorbed his energy and abilities.
• Ye Yuqing defeated Jack, the Black Giant, while Erica struggled to evade her Black Flame greatsword.
• Erica grabbed Little Spider and threatened to kill him, while Victor abandoned his chance to shoot her after Little Spider insulted him.
• Fang Cheng approached Erica and shot a steel needle into Little Spider’s forehead, causing him to collapse.

Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing defeated the Gate of Heaven warriors, and Fang Cheng saved Victor and Magician from poison. Julia revealed she was an undercover agent, but Fang Cheng questioned her loyalty and gave her a chance, which she interpreted as an invitation to seduce him.

• Julia shot Erica, and Ye Yuqing cut Erica in half as Baldy watched before retreating with a recording of the fight.
• Little Spider revived after Fang Cheng had shot him, and Fang Cheng gained abilities and lives from Jack and Erica's bodies.
• Fang Cheng cleared the toxin from Victor and Magician, then explained that saving them would help keep the North American Government from interfering.
• Julia claimed she belonged to S.H.I.E.L.D. and had infiltrated the Gate of Heaven, but Fang Cheng challenged her willingness to sacrifice Magician to maintain her cover.
• Fang Cheng spared Julia and told her to make the most of her chance, and she responded by flirting with him as Ye Yuqing glared from behind.

Fang Cheng uncovered Julia’s memories and learned that Gate of Heaven was tied to Doctor X and a large number of Clones. He restrained the others and left with Ye Yuqing to pursue the Bald Director, whose location he tracked through his blood, hoping to find Gate of Heaven’s new base.

• Fang Cheng forced Julia to trade him her mind-reading ability for an extra life, then raised the ability to Level 3 and read her memories.
• Fang Cheng learned that Julia had served as an undercover agent for multiple organizations and that Doctor X’s creations and many Clones were connected to Gate of Heaven.
• Fang Cheng discovered that Victor, Little Spider, and Magician had joined the Security Bureau for separate investigations, then knocked Victor unconscious when he threatened to report him.
• Fang Cheng sealed Victor, Little Spider, Magician, and Julia inside blood coffins and left the Villa with Ye Yuqing.
• Fang Cheng tracked the Bald Director through his blood, formed a blood-powered fighter jet, and flew after him with Ye Yuqing.

Fang Cheng followed Baldy to Gate of Heaven’s hidden base beneath a mountain in Yosemite, where he discovered the group’s enormous underground facility and completed Ark. Baldy was summoned to meet Tony Kent, leaving Fang Cheng hidden nearby as he began investigating the organization.

• Baldy fled San Francisco by private plane while Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing secretly pursued him in a stealth fighter.
• Baldy traveled through California to Tony Kent’s estate in Yosemite, and Fang Cheng followed him there.
• Fang Cheng upgraded Shadow Leap and used Baldy’s blood to teleport into his shadow, then watched through a tiny flea.
• Baldy passed multiple security checks and descended by elevator into Gate of Heaven’s vast underground base, where Fang Cheng saw its military equipment and the giant Ark spaceship.
• Baldy waited at the base’s main building while Tony Kent entertained eleven women, then entered Tony’s office when he was called in.