Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Liu Zheng boasts about manipulating local factions during their Great Ruins expedition. His companions praise him, while he reflects on the possibility of becoming a Golden Core Earthly Immortal.
• The group discusses how the Inspection Bureau uses its resources to accelerate Liu Zheng’s advancement, potentially at the expense of the Bureau’s other Tower Climbers.
• Liu Zheng reveals that River City’s leaders once planned to flee if Dusk City and River City merged, leaving ordinary residents to fend for themselves. With the Twilight Witch gone, that threat has apparently passed.
• He also announces a partnership with Deep Space Bank to establish a Tower Trading Spirit Realm. Transactions will be recorded and taxed at a low rate, though the group suspects the network’s convenience will make the fee worthwhile.
• After the group’s uneventful trip, Bai Xiaotian asks Wu Yu about trade goods, but Wu Yu has little to offer. Chen Lingling tries to tease him by asking him to guess her rating; he refuses.
• Wu Yu opens his talent tree and discovers that upgrading to a Silver Token has unlocked new options for several talents. Since he now has a Witch, he can access the Twilight Witch branch of the Forgotten God tree. He begins upgrading its basic enhancements, only to find the costs soar as high as 300,000 Great Ruins Source Points.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Zheng presents himself as a capable leader and reveals growing ambition, while his willingness to sacrifice others for his advancement exposes the ruthless side of his authority.
• Wu Yu quietly assesses Liu Zheng’s strength and focuses on developing his own talents. His surprise at the escalating costs suggests that his growing collection of talents may become a major burden.
• Liu Yu and Bai Xiaotian encourage Liu Zheng to disclose information through calculated flattery and questions.
• Chen Lingling playfully seeks Wu Yu’s attention, but he avoids her teasing.
• The group exchanges views on the trading network, its tax, and the advantages of convenient regulated trade.

Significant themes

• Power and exploitation: Liu Zheng’s advancement depends on resources and sacrifices drawn from those under his command.
• Self-interest among institutions: River City’s leaders prepared to abandon the population to save themselves, while Deep Space Bank’s trading service still serves a commercial purpose.
• The cost of growth: Wu Yu’s talent options expand, but each upgrade demands sharply more resources.
• Ambition and unequal advancement: Cultivation paths and access to resources shape who can rise to immense power.

Plot points and events

• Upgrading to the Silver Token unlocks ultimate enhancements in the Twilight Witch talent tree. Each costs 100,000 Great Ruins Source Points and raises blood qi, magic power, or mental power by 50%. Because the bonuses stack with earlier upgrades, the Witch gains a 110% boost to all three.
• Wu Yu wonders how powerful the Twilight Witch is and what her abilities are. She explains that she is an immortal Witch whose greatest power is unleashing eternal twilight, but that in her original world she relied on the Dusk Lord. She is unsure how much power she can use in Wu Yu’s world.
• Wu Yu tries to find a way to train or upgrade her through the Martial Training Platform, Training Room, and Enlightenment Chamber, but none offers a suitable option.
• He then spends a large number of Source Points unlocking ultimate enhancements for his Sin Immortal and Night Watcher trees, strengthening his sigils and blood qi. He also unlocks all three branches of his Heretic tree, boosting mind, will, and faith perception.

Character development and interactions

• Wu Yu is initially startled by the cost of ultimate enhancements, but reassures himself that future ratings will replenish his Source Points. He is eager to improve his companions as well as himself.
• The Twilight Witch can communicate with Wu Yu from within the godhead. She recognizes the talent-tree upgrades as a powerful, possibly eternal force, but admits she has little knowledge of cultivation systems or her own standing outside Dusk City.
• Chen Lingling offers Wu Yu her Source Points; he declines, saying he will earn more. Liu Yu teases him about girls wanting to give him money. The group shares a lighthearted moment as Wu Yu experiments with upgrades.

Significant themes

• Progress through investment: Expensive enhancements deliver substantial, compounding gains, and Wu Yu is willing to spend heavily to grow stronger.
• Power and uncertainty: The Twilight Witch was supreme in her own setting, but her abilities and rank remain uncertain beyond it.
• Cooperation and camaraderie: The Witch’s communication with Wu Yu and the group’s joking support show growing trust and closeness.

Key plot points

• Wu Yu reflects that the Heretic identity lets him attack the power of faith itself, making him especially effective against creatures sustained by divine blessings. Combined with Night Watcher, he sees himself as a natural enemy of deities.
• The group’s Talent Trees have unlocked upgrades, but even the cheapest options cost 100,000 Great Ruins Source Points. Yu Tiezhu asks Liu Zheng for an advance to improve his [Nine Dragons’ Might] talent, but Liu refuses, saying others have greater need. Wu Yu suspects Bureau benefits depend more on circumstances than on actual resources.
• The Ancient Gate announces that the next descent will be into a silver-tier Great Ruins World. The group can learn its identity for 100,000 points; Liu Zheng pays, presenting it as an Inspection Bureau benefit.
• Their destination is the Spirit Void Ancient Realm, specifically the Immortal-Burial Daoist Temple. The name suggests a cultivation world, prompting the group to discuss its promise and danger.
• After the others leave to prepare, Wu Yu returns home exhausted from his tense days in Dusk City. He tells his mother not to disturb him and falls asleep. The Bronze Tripod releases a soothing chill, while the Twilight Witch emerges and marvels at the beauty of his home.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu is pleased by how his new identities can counter divine power and eagerly anticipates a cultivation world, especially the chance to find spirit stones. For now, exhaustion finally overwhelms his excitement.
• Liu Zheng refuses Yu Tiezhu’s upgrade request but later spends points to reveal the next destination. His generosity is encouraged by the group’s praise, highlighting his authority and the social maneuvering around it.
• Yu Tiezhu is cautious about asking for Bureau support and accepts Liu’s refusal without protest. He is disappointed that learning the destination costs so much.
• Chen Lingling recognizes the practical value of advance knowledge and later asks Wu Yu to connect with her through the trading network.
• Liu Yu says he is still being hunted and asks Bai Xiaotian to watch out for him. Bai Xiaotian agrees, offers to help Wu Yu next time, and accepts that Wu has no suitable equipment to trade.
• The Twilight Witch gets her first glimpse of Wu Yu’s world and is captivated by its surroundings.

Significant themes

• Power and its countermeasures: Wu Yu’s ability to disrupt faith exposes a way to defeat beings otherwise protected by divine immortality.
• Resource allocation and hierarchy: Talent upgrades are costly, and access to shared resources depends on institutional priorities and influence.
• Preparation versus uncertainty: Paying to learn the next destination offers an advantage, though the world itself remains dangerous and unknown.
• Rest and transition: After prolonged strain, Wu Yu’s return home provides a brief refuge before the next descent.

Key plot points and events

• The Twilight Witch enjoys the Dragonblood Lake Complex, which feels warm and beautiful to her compared with the cold, lonely Supreme Castle. She stays by Wu Yu while he sleeps.
• Wu Yu asks how she can remain in the Real World. The Witch explains that Eternal Twilight belongs to the Original World, so she normally must hide in the godhead and can only manifest briefly.
• She reveals that becoming Wu Yu’s Witch gave her Witch’s Siphon, a curse linked to Thirst Syndrome. To survive and use her power in reality, she must absorb his life force—his blood and qi.
• Wu Yu agrees to share his strength, but the pair’s ensuing intimacy turns into a prolonged, comic ordeal. For fifteen days, he repeatedly uses stamina potions to replenish himself while the Witch siphons his energy.
• Wu Yu finally calls a truce so he can attend to other matters, including cards gained from the Tower’s settlement. The Witch obeys, and he leaves the room exhausted and alarmed by the curse.

Character developments

• The Twilight Witch becomes increasingly attached to Wu Yu, describing his home as beautiful because it belongs to him. She is affectionate and devoted, but her need to absorb his energy also reveals a more intense, almost predatory side.
• Wu Yu begins confident that his strength and potions can handle the curse. After days of depletion and repeated failed attempts to stop, he recognizes its danger and asserts a boundary by calling a truce.

Significant themes

• Loneliness and belonging: The Witch’s longing for Wu Yu and her preference for his home over the Supreme Castle show how emotional attachment reshapes her sense of place.
• Power and dependence: Her survival in the Real World depends on Wu Yu’s energy, binding their relationship through the curse.
• Temptation and self-control: Wu Yu’s comic struggle with the Witch and his potions underscores how easily resolve gives way to immediate desire—and the consequences of excess.

Character interactions

• The Witch watches over and embraces Wu Yu, while he awkwardly tries to understand her circumstances.
• Wu Yu offers to share blood and qi, believing the cost will be manageable; the Witch accepts, and their closeness becomes an exhausting cycle.
• When Wu Yu finally commands a pause, the Witch reluctantly but obediently rests, highlighting both her devotion and his authority as her master.

Key plot points and events

• Half a month passes while Wu Yu is caught in the Twilight Witch’s curse, spending most of his time asleep and dreaming of Flawless White Jade. The curse grows stronger until the Witch begins taking the initiative, leaving Wu Yu worried about what will happen if he encounters more witches.
• Wu Yu emerges from seclusion. His parents mistake his absence for a cultivation breakthrough and press him about finding a partner and having children. He tells them he is already seeing someone, prompting a flood of questions.
• Back in his room, Wu Yu finds the Twilight Witch lounging without clothes. He produces a Red-grade Transcendent Aether Construct, the Dusk Long Dress, and summons it from its card.
• The Witch explains that the dress is an exceptionally rare creation, once made by her father’s Arcane Workshop. She also describes the origins and prestige of Aether Constructs, and reveals that her father’s pursuit of the Ancient Gods’ power led him to lose his way.
• Wu Yu comforts her. She declares she will remain with him forever, and they share a quiet, affectionate moment. When he asks her to put on the dress, she refuses because she is too lazy to move.

Character developments

• Wu Yu is shaken by how powerfully the Witch’s curse can affect him, though he decides to face future problems as they come. He also shows tenderness toward her, offering comfort when she grieves over her father.
• The Twilight Witch appears increasingly powerful and self-assured, but remains languid and dependent on Wu Yu’s affection. Her explanation of her family history reveals lingering sadness about her father’s downfall.
• Wu Yu’s parents are eager for him to settle down and have a family, but are surprised to learn he is already in a relationship.

Significant themes

• The danger of growing power: The Witch’s curse intensifies over time, foreshadowing greater challenges.
• Wealth, ambition, and corruption: Dusk City’s riches and outside pressures helped drive the Dusk Duke toward a disastrous pursuit of divine power.
• Affection and reassurance: Wu Yu’s comfort helps the Witch face painful memories, reinforcing their close bond.
• Tradition versus transformation: The Witch’s former Starry Gown has become part of her power, while the new dress represents advanced magical craftsmanship.

Character interactions

• Wu Yu’s parents tease and question him about romance, marriage, and children; he escapes only after revealing he is already seeing someone.
• Wu Yu and the Twilight Witch discuss the new dress and her father’s legacy. He comforts her with an embrace, and she responds with an affectionate vow of eternal loyalty.
• Their final exchange is playful: Wu Yu asks her to try on the dress, but she refuses, content to stay curled up in his arms.

Plot points and events

• Wu Yu uses [Heaven’s Return] to suppress his emotions and regain control after spending the past half month with the Twilight Witch. She teases him about helping her dress, revealing she could have changed the gown instantly with [Aether Recomposition].
• The witch has learned the Zhu Xia Federation’s common language through the zero-rank arcane art [Language Comprehension], though she still struggles with some expressions.
• Wu Yu asks about her combat abilities and blood-essence requirements. She can remain in his world for about three months through their life-sustaining bond. Her ordinary powers need no blood essence, but she can consume it to open a World Gate and draw on the power of Eternal Twilight.
• The witch’s normal strength matches Wu Yu’s realm. In an emergency, she can unleash Eternal Twilight at much greater power—potentially enough to destroy a city—but doing so risks damaging the Real World and leaving her permanently absorbed into Eternal Twilight. Wu Yu’s own strength and blood essence determine how much of that power she can release.
• Wu Yu recognizes her as a powerful ally and possible last-resort trump card, then shows her information about his world. He also examines two upgraded red-quality, transcendent Aether Constructs: Mithril armor, which boosts qi-refining efficiency and defense, and an Antimagic helmet, which blocks energy and provides defense.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu shifts from being distracted by the witch to taking a more practical view of their partnership, using [Heaven’s Return] to control his impulses and asking direct questions about her powers and limits.
• The Twilight Witch is playful and teasing, but becomes serious when explaining the danger and cost of unleashing Eternal Twilight. She remains deferential, calling Wu Yu “Master,” while clearly enjoying provoking him.
• Their relationship combines intimacy, humor, and emerging teamwork: Wu Yu considers sparring with her and understands that her strength grows alongside his.

Significant themes

• Power has a price: The witch’s devastating burst ability could save Wu Yu, but might destroy the world around them and cost her life.
• Interdependence and growth: Her combat potential is tied to Wu Yu’s cultivation, blood essence, and resources.
• Self-control and responsibility: Wu Yu recognizes the need to manage his impulses and reserve the witch’s greatest power for genuine emergencies.
• Cross-cultural adaptation: The witch begins learning the language and customs of Wu Yu’s world.

Plot points and events

• Settlement rewards upgraded Wu Yu’s equipment from gold-grade to Transcendent red-grade. Mithril boosts a Cultivator’s Qi Refining progress, while Anti-Magic blocks energy and can reshape itself into forms such as ropes and restraints.
• Wu Yu realizes Anti-Magic could function like high-grade anti-magic stone and tests its transformations. The Twilight Witch briefly misunderstands his intentions, then returns to her studies.
• Wu Yu gives the Witch a Dusk Torrent Staff, a Transcendent red-grade weapon containing twilight power that she can use to cast powerful Arcane Arts.
• When Wu Yu tries to use the red-grade Dusk Soul-Refining Method, the Tower warns that replacing his current method before it reaches perfection would erase its traces and cost him an opportunity for soul metamorphosis. He puts the card away and resolves to perfect his Tiger Roar Soul-Refining Diagram first.
• Wu Yu examines the upgraded Sun Star Core, which can grant him the Transcendent Spirit Body Solar Star. He asks the Twilight Witch to apply its golden liquid over his body, beginning the transformation.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu becomes more cautious about replacing cultivation techniques, recognizing that red-grade methods may carry rare benefits unlocked only through mastery.
• He equips the Twilight Witch with a powerful staff suited to her twilight abilities; she reacts with interest and accepts it.
• Their familiar, playful rapport shows through Wu Yu’s joking address of the Witch as “wifey” and her willingness to help apply the Sun Star Core.

Significant themes

• Mastery over shortcuts: Perfecting an established technique may be more valuable than immediately switching to a stronger one.
• The exceptional nature of red-grade rewards: These items and techniques offer unusual, potentially transformative powers.
• Cooperation and trust: Wu Yu and the Witch share equipment, knowledge, and practical support.

Key plot points and events

• Wu Yu completes the process of using the Sun Star Core, coating himself in sacred golden liquid. After fifteen minutes, it is absorbed, and he endures an excruciating transformation before his skin returns to normal.
• His Status Panel reveals that he has gained a Transcendent, Red-quality postnatal spirit body: Sun Star. Its abilities include healing and dispelling darkness, deterring evil demons, automatically generating spiritual power, and the destructive innate spellcraft Sun Starfire.
• Wu Yu is delighted by the spirit body’s combat and cultivation benefits, though he briefly worries that his newly flawless, unusually fair complexion will draw attention.
• He reflects on the Twilight Witch’s extraordinary, potentially godlike nature and reminds himself that he has gained a remarkable power of his own.
• Wu Yu discovers that he does not know the witch’s true name. She says it is gone and asks him to call her Twilight.
• He then crushes the red Dusk Divine Source card, revealing a jelly-like substance. The chapter ends before its use is shown.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu emerges from a painful transformation with a major new power, growing more confident about his future cultivation and abilities. He jokes with Twilight and briefly scolds her for her earlier mischief.
• Twilight teases Wu Yu but is sincerely pleased by his success. She appears unfamiliar with ordinary cultivation, having spent her life secluded and now possessing the immortal status of Eternal Twilight.
• Their relationship remains affectionate and playful: Wu Yu calls her his wife, and she addresses him as her master.

Significant themes

• Pain and transformation: Wu Yu’s new power comes through intense suffering.
• Power and potential: The spirit body greatly enhances Wu Yu, while Twilight’s innate, seemingly divine potential highlights the difference between acquired strength and exceptional birth.
• Sun and dusk: Wu Yu gains sun-aligned abilities as he prepares to handle a source of dusk-corruption, setting up a contrast between their powers.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Wu Yu examines a jelly-like Dusk Divine Source, a divine treasure with no obvious aura. The Twilight Witch confirms it contains pure twilight divine power and explains its many potential uses: strengthening equipment, mutating organs, or cultivating magical plants.
• The Witch says the best known match for the Source’s unusually high quality is Wu Yu’s Flesh Mountain God and Fasting God godheads. Wu Yu gives her both godheads and the Source to study for an ideal application.
• Wu Yu crushes a card containing the Supreme Clarity Grotto-Heaven Method. He discovers that it resembles his existing method but completes some of its missing sections. He concludes that the Jade Purity Grotto-Heaven Method is the missing piece; combining all three may reveal the more powerful Three Pure Ones technique. He keeps his current method rather than switching to an equivalent one.
• He then drinks a Secret Sea Mana Potion. Its energy is absorbed by his spirit veins and qi sea, rapidly increasing his spirit-power capacity from roughly 6,000 to 8,250 strands—over two thousand more, bringing him closer to the 10,000-strand threshold for the Fifth Heaven of Qi Refining.
• During the potion’s effect, Wu Yu briefly experiences the terrifying sensation of falling into the Secret Sea. The Twilight Witch explains that it is an ancient mythological forbidden land beyond the Real World and the source of all Aether, including the Aether Falls used by Arcane Mages.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu shows increasing confidence in interpreting his cultivation techniques and rewards. He reasons that the three related scriptures form a larger, superior method, and is cautious about making an unnecessary switch before finding the missing text.
• The Twilight Witch serves as both adviser and researcher. She explains the Divine Source’s uses, accepts the godheads and Source for study, and shares what she knows about the Secret Sea.
• Wu Yu’s playful aside about making his spleen psionic to cope with the Witch’s treatment hints at their ongoing, physically taxing relationship: her treatments have strengthened her considerably, while leaving him badly depleted.

Significant themes

• Hidden value and incomplete knowledge: Treasures and techniques can conceal their true worth, which becomes clear only through study and combination.
• Patient cultivation: Wu Yu avoids changing methods for no real gain, focusing instead on completing the full scripture.
• Cosmic mystery and power: The potion’s dramatic effects connect personal advancement to the vast, dangerous Secret Sea—the fundamental source of Aether.

Plot and key events

• Wu Yu learns that the potion’s connection to the mysterious Secret Sea helped greatly increase his maximum spirit power. His [Sun Star] may also be improving his absorption of spirit qi, and he looks forward to reaching the fifth heaven of qi refining and exploring the Cultivation World.
• He invites the Twilight Witch to meet his parents. She explains that Eternal Twilight erased the memories of Tower Climbers who encountered it, so they are unlikely to recognize either of them.
• Using her [Aether Construct], the Twilight Witch changes from her Dusk Long Dress into modern clothes. Wu Yu changes his own outfit to match.
• Wu Yu introduces her to his parents as his foreign girlfriend, “Huang Hun,” from the Ocean Federation. His parents enthusiastically welcome her and chat with her for half an hour, leaving Wu Yu largely sidelined.
• Wu Yu takes her to the Training Ground for a spar. Her Dusk Torrent Staff counters his Lunar Yin Talisman, while her many defensive spells barely stop his Bi Fang Talisman. He then charges with a knife, but his Soul Projection attack is repelled by the Dusk Long Dress’s automatic protection. The chapter ends as Wu prepares another technique, summoning stars and a storm.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu is optimistic about his growing power and eager to test how far it can take him. He also shows consideration by asking the Twilight Witch whether she wants to meet his parents and helping her choose appropriate clothing.
• The Twilight Witch shifts smoothly from her predatory, witchlike persona to a noble and polite guest. Though surprised by Wu Yu’s parents’ warmth, she handles their questions calmly and even adopts Wu Yu’s familiar way of addressing them.
• Wu Yu’s parents are welcoming and excited to meet their son’s beautiful girlfriend, quickly drawing her into conversation.
• The spar shows that the Twilight Witch is a formidable opponent, especially with her red-grade staff and protective clothing, but also reveals limits: without Eternal Twilight, defending against repeated Bi Fang Talismans would be difficult.

Significant themes

• Power and progression: Wu Yu’s increased spirit capacity, resources, and new abilities point toward further cultivation and exploration.
• Trust and belonging: The Twilight Witch is introduced into Wu Yu’s family life, suggesting a closer bond beyond their master-and-servant dynamic.
• Testing strength: Their friendly spar lets both characters probe each other’s abilities and exposes the strengths and limitations of their equipment and techniques.

Key plot points and events

• Wu Yu spars with the Twilight Witch. She begins badly outmatched but quickly learns to counter him; neither uses their core abilities. Exhausted, she gives up, then clings affectionately to Wu Yu.
• Wu Yu uses his newly acquired Sun Star spirit body to instantly clean himself. This makes him suspect that the mysterious Chen Lingling may also possess an innate spirit body—and may have known him before they met for some hidden reason.
• At the Higher Academy, Wu Yu encounters an angry crowd of wealthy families confronting the school over a deadly plague incident. Several students lie dead, including members of a small club he once met in Dusk City. Li Qingqing is visibly grieving. The teachers say the plague was too dangerous, while the Witch interprets the incident as the school sending students ahead without delivering promised rewards.
• Wu Yu attends a Spirit Cultivation Association lecture. The Twilight Witch is impressed by how even ordinary teachers in his world study foundational knowledge, contrasting it with the lost Arcane Empire of her world.
• A notification announces that Deep Space Bank and the city government have launched the Tower Trading Spirit Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu gains a promising sparring partner and becomes more wary of Chen Lingling. He remains detached from the academy dispute, observing it but choosing not to intervene.
• The Twilight Witch shows rapid combat growth, discipline, and a strong desire for Wu Yu’s approval. She also explores the modern world through the Godhead and bargains playfully over how often Wu Yu must replenish her blood.
• Li Qingqing appears furious and heartbroken over the dead students.
• Chen Feng is seen comforting an unfamiliar woman, prompting Wu Yu to privately remark on his friend’s pattern of changing girlfriends.
• Wu Yu and the Witch communicate mentally, mixing practical observations with teasing banter.

Significant themes

• Growth through practice and knowledge: Sparring and the lecture show different paths to developing ability.
• Unequal power and institutional responsibility: Wealthy parents challenge the academy, while the students’ deaths raise questions about how they were used and rewarded.
• Worlds in contrast: The Witch marvels at the Real World’s accessible foundational knowledge compared with her destroyed magical civilization.
• Hidden nature and suspicion: Wu Yu’s spirit body leads him to reconsider Chen Lingling’s mysterious traits and motives.

Chapter Summary

Plot and events

River City’s official platforms announce the launch of a new Spirit Realm. Wu Yu confirms that the Twilight Witch knows about the realm and can conceal the Godhead inside it from anyone short of a true god. He enters using his Life Circlet and Soul Projection.
The new realm resembles River City’s public Spirit Realm: a vast plaza centered on a towering, radiant white tree, with shopping, food, and vendor streets. It is still sparsely populated, though students, teachers, and Tower Climbers are beginning to arrive.
Wu Yu explores the stall street and finds a vendor selling Cards from the cultivation-themed Spirit Void Ancient Realm, including a book containing the transcendent “Godspeed Step.” The vendor explains that the world is rich in cultivation resources but plagued by relentless disasters. Wu Yu recognizes its potential and buys nearly all the vendor’s displayed stock—except for a dozen Cards he deliberately leaves behind. The vendor honors the deal despite realizing he could have made more. He then offers Wu Yu a set of black-quality Cards, while keeping his purple-quality Cards for himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu shows caution and curiosity in entering the new realm, then uses his business acumen to learn about the Spirit Void Ancient Realm and secure a large collection of its Cards.
• The Twilight Witch reveals an apparent new ability to conceal the Godhead, which she says developed after receiving Dusk Divine Source. She is also fascinated by the cultivation Cards.
• The Black-Robed Man is an enthusiastic but exaggerated salesman. Though regretful after Wu Yu buys most of his goods, he keeps his word, suggesting he is fundamentally honest. He recognizes Wu Yu as a fellow cultivator and offers him more valuable items.

Significant themes

• Opportunity amid hardship: The Spirit Void Ancient Realm’s constant disasters make it dangerous, but its abundance of resources may make it worthwhile.
• Trust and trade: Wu Yu bargains strategically, while the vendor’s decision to honor the sale establishes a measure of integrity between them.
• Worlds opening and connecting: The new Spirit Realm creates a fresh meeting place where people, goods, and knowledge from different worlds can circulate.

Plot points and events

• Wu Yu discovers black-glowing cards, which carry curses in addition to their normal effects. He examines two: a purple-quality pill that boosts Qi Refining but causes bloodlust, and a blue-quality pill that strengthens the spirit while sharply reducing blood qi.
• A black-robed seller explains that black cards come primarily from the Spirit Void Ancient Realm. Unlike the more predictable costs of demonic-path items, their curses can be bizarre—for example, a pill that improves foundation-establishment chances but causes a life-dependent flower to grow on the user’s head.
• Wu Yu negotiates for information about the realm. In return for revealing how the Silver Token works, he receives the seller’s and his teammates’ collected notes, though the seller warns that they are incomplete and based on limited experience.
• Wu Yu buys the cursed cards, then shops extensively in the newly opened Trading Spirit Realm, purchasing purple cards and many blue cards along with medicines, spirit-beast meat, herbs, and other cultivation supplies.
• As Tower Climbers crowd the marketplace and prices rise sharply, Wu Yu stops buying and leaves before prices climb further.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu uses surprise as a tactic to learn about black cards, then bargains carefully for intelligence. His interest in the Spirit Void Ancient Realm grows because its abundant spirit qi could help his slow Qi Refining progress. Wealth from his corporation lets him shop aggressively without the caution he previously needed.
• The black-robed seller is initially eager to sell the cursed cards but concedes that modern corporate injections can be similarly potent. He becomes enthusiastic once he learns about the Silver Token and responds by sharing his notes.
• The Twilight Witch notices Wu Yu’s excitement and offers to help him pursue his cultivation goals. Wu Yu says he is advancing quickly in essence and spirit refinement but wants to improve Qi Refining and aims for a Myth rating in his next visit to the Spirit Void Ancient Realm, or at least Legend.

Significant themes

• Power and cost: Cursed cards offer unusually strong benefits, but their side effects may be severe or absurd. The chapter also compares them with illicit cybernetic enhancements, which carry their own dangers.
• Information as an advantage: Wu Yu trades knowledge about the Silver Token for intelligence that may prepare him for a dangerous realm.
• Wealth and opportunity: The newly opened marketplace rewards those with resources, but rising demand quickly drives prices upward.
• Ambition and preparation: Wu Yu’s plans for the Spirit Void Ancient Realm reflect his drive to overcome a weakness in his cultivation and reach a high rating.

Plot points and events

• After using Soul Return, Wu Yu returns to the Real World. The Twilight Witch senses that the Spirit Realms people know are only the surface of a much larger, hidden world, and wonders whether humanity’s rapid technological progress is connected to it.
• Wu Yu catches up with his friend Chen Feng, who is exhausted after a romantic disappointment but pleased that his parents have loosened his spending restrictions. Chen invites Wu Yu to visit Spirit Mountain Technology’s “Holy Maiden Convents.”
• Wu Yu declines. He understands that the “holy maidens” are luxury sex dolls marketed to wealthy customers, despite the title’s misleading religious connotations. The Twilight Witch also disapproves, and Wu Yu reassures her that he has no interest in them.
• Back home, Wu Yu receives a delivery of Cards purchased through the Tower Trading Spirit Realm. A courier employed by Deep Space Bank verifies the transaction, explains the delivery system, and hands over the purchases for inspection. Wu Yu confirms they are correct.
• Wu Yu says he bought the Cards in case they prove useful in his next Great Ruins World, the Spirit Void Ancient Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu shows curiosity about the deeper structure of the Spirit Realms and their possible connection to technology. He remains uninterested in Chen Feng’s proposed visit and thinks practically about preparing for his next expedition.
• The Twilight Witch continues learning about the Real World through Wu Yu’s explanations. She is intrigued by the Spirit Realms and reacts protectively when she misunderstands what “holy maidens” are.
• Chen Feng is impulsive and carefree about romance, but now has more money and is eager to spend it on luxury entertainment.
• The courier’s brief, professional exchange with Wu Yu illustrates how Tower Climber commerce is formalized, monitored, and supported by Deep Space Bank.

Significant themes

• Hidden worlds and technological progress: The Spirit Realms may have a far deeper structure than ordinary people realize, possibly linked to humanity’s technological advances.
• Commercialization and appearances: “Holy maidens” are presented under a sacred-sounding name but are actually expensive manufactured companions.
• Growing access to power and preparation: Wu Yu’s status lets him participate in the Tower marketplace and acquire resources for dangerous future journeys.

Plot and key events

• Wu Yu learns that the Twilight Witch’s Wizard system is linked to his cultivation realm: Qi Refining corresponds to the nine-ring formal Wizard stage, Foundation Establishment to Morning Star, and Golden Core to Silver Moon.
• He spends half a day cultivating with high-grade medicines, making substantial progress toward opening his fifth grotto-heaven, though his supply of the best cards is limited.
• After being reminded, Wu Yu switches his title from [Godslayer] to [I Want to Live off Women]. Because he owns the Twilight Witch, the title grants him a second reserve of blood qi, spirit power, and mental power, each equal to half his normal maximum.
• The title also strengthens the Witch’s [eternal twilight], giving it a weakness-inducing effect. She demonstrates it on Wu Yu, who becomes limp and dazed; she then playfully offers to “cure” him.
• Over the following month, Wu Yu continues cultivating and has the Witch build up a reserve of life essence as a precaution.

Character development and interactions

• Wu Yu remains ambitious and resourceful, eagerly embracing the title’s powerful combat benefits and thinking about how its extra reserves will let him cast more techniques and draw talismans faster.
• The Twilight Witch is affectionate and attentive: she watches over Wu Yu while he cultivates, reminds him about the title, and willingly tests her enhanced ability at his request.
• Their master-servant relationship is warm and flirtatious. Wu Yu compliments her appearance, while she responds boldly and teasingly, presenting herself as his support and “cure.”

Significant themes

• Power through cultivation and preparation: Medicines, titles, and stored reserves all help Wu Yu improve and prepare for future danger.
• Complementary powers: Wu Yu’s title strengthens both his own resources and the Witch’s ability to weaken opponents.
• Intimacy and humor: Their affectionate, suggestive banter lightens the story’s focus on training and power growth.

Plot points and events

• After a month of intensive cultivation and potion use, Wu Yu has substantially improved his essence, qi, and spirit refinement. His innate qi sea holds 9,400 strands of Spirit Power, and his combat capacity rises to 14,100 with his second qi sea.
• His rapid progress has cost hundreds of thousands of Source Points and left him noticeably thin. He worries that the Twilight Witch’s curse is draining him and decides he needs Blood Qi potions to reach the divine strength realm.
• Wu Yu receives a work assignment from the Star River Group and brings the Twilight Witch along. She enters his Godhead, while his mother calls them to eat; Wu Yu leaves without sitting down, prompting lighthearted teasing between his parents.
• At the company, Wu learns that a cyber-disease patient, Huang Jiuliu, has fled into the Commoner District after killing three people and injuring dozens. Wu is tasked with finding and dealing with him within a month; capture or death are both acceptable.
• Wu accepts the assignment and asks about extra compensation. He may keep Huang’s cybernetic components, with a possible bonus for other gains.

Character developments

• Wu Yu is stronger and more confident after a month of training, but privately anxious about his health and the strain of the Witch’s curse. He remains practical, seeking both potions and financial rewards.
• The Twilight Witch continues to accompany Wu Yu and readily joins his assignment, while maintaining her mysterious, powerful presence.
• Wu’s parents provide a brief domestic contrast: his mother is caring and mildly exasperated, while his father jokes about Wu Yu’s hurried departure and his own work habits.

Significant themes

• Power and its cost: Wu Yu’s cultivation brings rapid gains but consumes money and seems to wear down his body.
• Transcendence and vulnerability: Despite his strength, Wu Yu recognizes how far he is beneath the immortal Witch and worries about the curse.
• Work, risk, and reward: The company treats dangerous cases as routine assignments, while Wu Yu weighs the risks against possible compensation.
• Ordinary life beside the extraordinary: Family meals and parental banter sit alongside supernatural cultivation and a lethal cyber-disease case.

Character interactions

• Wu Yu invites the Twilight Witch to join the assignment, and she agrees immediately.
• His mother tries to get him to eat before leaving; his father defends him, and she chides her husband in return.
• At the Star River Group, Wu Yu greets Lu Yiguan and negotiates details with HR representative Zhao Long, especially the rewards attached to the dangerous assignment.

Key plot points and events

• Wu Yu reviews documents about cyber-superpower disease, which can result from failing cybernetics, data viruses, or electronic interference with memories.
• Zhao Long refuses a colleague’s suggestion to give Wu Yu special support, insisting he is an employee who must follow normal procedures.
• Lu Yiguan explains that the suspect, Huang Jiuliu, has a unique black-market cybernetic called the Blast Gorilla, built from a human arm, gorilla cybernetics, and materials from the Tower. Its powerful modifications have serious side effects and caused Huang’s cyber disease.
• Huang is a seventh-tier Divine Strength martial artist, but the greater danger is his equipment, including an imitation Psionic Core Cannon. Wu Yu accepts the assignment and travels to the Commoner District.
• At the last place Huang was seen, Wu Yu learns he killed a woman living alone. Her body has already been cremated, and the complex has no surveillance cameras. Wu Yu decides to use the Twilight Witch’s magic to investigate and sends the two local officials outside so he can cast undisturbed.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu approaches the case calmly and confidently, looking for practical ways around the lack of evidence. He discusses cybernetics with the Twilight Witch and relies on her specialized knowledge.
• The Twilight Witch shows curiosity about cybernetics, recalling her interest in aether constructs, and reveals she knows arcane arts despite never having used them before.
• Lu Yiguan supports Wu Yu by providing a route, background on Huang, and intelligence about the dangerous black-market weaponry.
• Zhao Long remains strict and procedural, rejecting the idea that Wu Yu’s top-tier contract merits special protection. His colleague is uneasy about leaving Wu Yu unsupported.
• The two officials at the apartment initially react nervously to Wu Yu, then cooperate once he identifies himself and agrees to wait outside during the spell.

Significant themes

• Power and risk: Black-market cybernetics can grant tremendous strength but bring severe physical and technological consequences.
• Institutional duty versus personal support: Zhao Long prioritizes company rules over special treatment for Wu Yu.
• Technology and magic: Wu Yu’s investigation combines knowledge of cybernetic threats with the Twilight Witch’s arcane abilities.
• Unequal security: The Commoner District lacks surveillance, leaving investigators with few conventional ways to trace the suspect.

Key plot points and events

• After company employees leave the victim’s room, Wu Yu has the Twilight Witch use an arcane spell to reveal traces of a man passing through an intact wall. The spell leads him to Huang Jiuliu’s home.
• Wu Yu discovers the building’s surveillance has been tampered with. Lu Yiguan confirms that two property-management employees were assigned to watch the apartment, but they stop answering their calls. Wu Yu had seen them just before they began mutating under the influence of the Cyber Disease.
• Wu Yu finds Huang Jiuliu in apartment 501, a wrecked room where he mutters “Home” and bears extensive cybernetic modifications. His powerful blood qi marks him as a formidable opponent.
• Wu Yu and the Twilight Witch attack together: moonlight restrains Huang, spells and a Starlight Storm weaken him, and Wu Yu’s Soul Projection briefly stuns him. Wu Yu severs his black cybernetic arm, while the Twilight Witch’s Dusk Torrent destroys his charging port. Huang collapses unconscious, leaving Wu Yu surprised by how quickly the fight ends.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu stays cautious and methodical: he investigates before entering, alerts Lu Yiguan, and prepares with the Twilight Witch rather than rushing into the apartment.
• The Twilight Witch demonstrates a new tracking spell, admits she has not mastered it, and supports Wu Yu in battle with coordinated magic.
• Lu Yiguan shifts from disbelief to alarm when he realizes the surveillance has failed and the employees may be in danger.
• The two employees’ apparent normality gives way to violent cybernetic mutation, suggesting the disease can take hold suddenly.

Significant themes

• Surveillance and hidden threats: Even a closely monitored target can evade detection when systems are compromised.
• Technology versus magic: Electronic surveillance fails, while the Twilight Witch’s arcane tracking succeeds; magic and technology also combine in the fight.
• Cybernetic corruption and loss of control: Huang’s mutations and the employees’ sudden transformation suggest that cybernetic disease can distort both bodies and behavior.
• Unexpected ease and uncertainty: Huang appears immensely powerful, yet Wu Yu subdues him quickly—raising the question of whether the encounter is truly over.

Key plot points and events

• Wu Yu and the Twilight Witch check for hidden threats after defeating Huang Jiuliu. Finding none, they reflect on how quickly the ambush succeeded.
• The Twilight Witch points out that Huang’s burst of blood energy briefly broke through her moonlight restraints. She attributes the unusual strength of modern martial cultivation to psionic organs, which give even low-grade techniques a powerful underlying quality.
• She advises Wu Yu not to abandon his distinctive cultivation methods, including One Qi Becomes Three Pure Ones. Wu Yu accepts her warning.
• Wu Yu contacts Lu Yiguan and reports that Huang is captured alive. Lu is surprised the fight ended so quickly and warns that Huang’s Brain Chip might still control his Psionic Core Cannon even while he is unconscious.
• Wu Yu connects to Huang’s Brain-Computer Interface. Lu’s team successfully accesses his data and confirms that Huang was infected with a virus—identified as the dusk plague.
• Lu then learns that two property-management employees have also contracted the plague. He warns Wu Yu to return to the company, as the threat is spreading.

Character developments

• Wu Yu shows confidence in his combat methods, but remains cautious after the fight. He also trusts the Twilight Witch’s insights about cultivation.
• The Twilight Witch demonstrates her growing understanding of the modern world, drawing on her observations to identify the importance of psionic organs and the danger of combining technology with supernatural forces.
• Lu Yiguan shifts from concern about Wu Yu’s mission to urgency as he investigates Huang and learns the infection has spread.

Significant themes

• The fusion of technology and the supernatural: The dusk plague combines a cyber virus with dusk contamination, showing that digital systems can carry transcendent forces.
• The hidden foundations of power: Psionic organs may explain why modern cultivation produces fundamentally potent blood energy, regardless of a technique’s grade.
• Combat and preparation: Wu Yu’s ambush succeeds because he combines several abilities and disables Huang before he can use his weapon.
• Escalating danger: Capturing Huang reveals a wider outbreak rather than resolving the threat.

Character interactions

• Wu Yu and the Twilight Witch discuss Huang’s strength and what it reveals about modern cultivation; she advises him to preserve his unusual techniques.
• Wu Yu reports the capture to Lu Yiguan, who reacts with disbelief, then helps verify Huang’s identity and extract his memories.
• Lu warns Wu Yu about Huang’s weapon and later urges him to return when the plague’s spread becomes clear.
• The Twilight Witch asks Wu Yu whether the dusk plague relates to her, prompting him to explain its technological and supernatural origins.

Key events

• The Twilight Witch asks to study the Cybernetic Body research files, suspecting Cyber Disease is linked to psionic organs and prosthetics. Wu Yu agrees.
• Two infected property-management employees break into Wu Yu’s room. The Twilight Witch separates the Dusk pollution from the Black Rat Plague, restoring them while leaving only treatable viral symptoms.
• Security guards arrive and confirm the employees’ equipment was undamaged; they suspect a hacker compromised the surveillance system. Wu Yu identifies Huang Jiuliu as the Cyber Disease patient he was pursuing.
• At Star River Group, Wu Yu hands Huang over to Lu Yiguan. He asks for permission to take the Innate Spirit Aperture and requests a stronger blood-qi injection. Lu Yiguan offers to find the expensive, slow-absorbing Three-Taste Hundred-Herb Injection.
• Manager Lin approves the request, and Lu Yixia delivers the injection in a black box. Wu Yu leaves quickly, while Lu Yiguan grows suspicious about who may be manipulating events around the spreading Dusk Plague.
• Meanwhile, Zhao Xiaoming meets a bald man from the Laboratory, who promises a specific treatment for the plague and says it will spread across the city within a week. Zhao is more interested in the Black Rat Gang’s leader, whom the two agree is their shared enemy.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yu remains focused and pragmatic, delegating research and cleanup while securing resources for his own advancement.
• The Twilight Witch shows strong curiosity about Cyber Disease and demonstrates her ability to cleanly separate Dusk pollution from infection.
• Lu Yiguan helps Wu Yu but becomes uneasy about the unusually controlled spread of the plague. Lu Yixia delivers the requested injection and questions why Wu Yu is leaving.
• Zhao Xiaoming appears indifferent to the plague’s wider consequences and is pursuing a personal feud through an alliance with the Laboratory.

Significant themes

• Science, supernatural contamination, and disease overlap: the plague may be more than an ordinary infection, while pollution can be separated from the underlying virus.
• Hidden manipulation and competing agendas emerge as the plague spreads with surprisingly few casualties, and groups prepare to exploit the crisis.
• Power and advancement come at a cost: Wu Yu’s sought-after injection is effective but expensive and slow to absorb.