Chapter Summaries

After mastering the Grimoire of the Old Days and reaching the Fifth Awakening Stage, Su Ziyu saw the Monster Editor System awaken. He entered the Creator Space and prepared to use its gifted materials to create his first monster.

• Su Ziyu revealed that he had spent three years pretending to be a fool at Jiangyuan Psychiatric Hospital while mastering the grimoire and hiding from relatives who wanted it.
• The Monster Editor System awakened and explained that Su Ziyu could extract monster materials and create monsters in the System Space.
• Su Ziyu entered the Creator Space and received three materials: a Yellow-Stained Feather of the Ancient Ruins, a Malice-Filled Abyssal Eye, and Boiling Demon Blood.
• Su Ziyu began editing the materials to create his first monster.

Su Ziyu used the Hundred-Eyed Furnace to create the three-star Dread Demon Eye, a winged eyeball monster with four skills. After absorbing part of the monster’s spiritual power and reaching the Awakening Ninth Stage, he chose to solidify All-Seeing True Eye and Crimson Purgatory, then tested the newly acquired eye skill.

• Su Ziyu combined the Abyssal Eye, Yellow-Stained Feather, and Demon Blood in the Hundred-Eyed Furnace to create the Dread Demon Eye.
• The system announced the monster’s four skills, Excellent rating, and Awakening Ninth Stage, and granted Su Ziyu one-tenth of its spiritual power.
• Su Ziyu’s spiritual power rose to the Awakening Ninth Stage, and he chose to solidify All-Seeing True Eye and Crimson Purgatory.
• Su Ziyu absorbed the two skills’ knowledge, left System Space, and awakened a silvery-white gleam in his pupils as All-Seeing True Eye took effect.

Su Ziyu discovered corruption in his Mental Body, removed it with dark magic, and collected the pollution it produced. He planned to escape Jiangyuan Psychiatric Hospital during the evening activity period, but followed Director Li and the other patients to dinner first.

• Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye to find a black trace of corruption in his Mental Body and suspected the Grimoire of the Old Days was responsible.
• Su Ziyu used Spirit Severing to remove the corruption and extracted the wriggling pollution as a new material called Small Amount of Pollution Source.
• Su Ziyu considered how to escape the heavily guarded Jiangyuan Psychiatric Hospital and planned to use Friday's scheduled ball games as his opportunity.
• At six o'clock, Director Li came to Su Ziyu's room and told him to go to Cafeteria No. 2 for dinner.
• Su Ziyu joined the line of patients and followed Director Li toward the cafeteria.

Su Ziyu discovered that the hospital cafeteria’s dinner was a ritual offering of human organs and that the patients and staff were Ghouls from the Ghoul Cult. After trapping the corrupted patients in his Deep Dark Prison, he faced the fully evolved Director Li and demanded to know the cult’s purpose.

• Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye to see that the patients’ steaks were human organs and that the doctors and nurses had become monstrous creatures.
• Director Li demanded that Su Ziyu eat, so Su Ziyu threw his tray and exposed the Ghouls’ true forms.
• Su Ziyu realized the dinner had contaminated the patients and that the real staff might have been served as food.
• The patients and staff transformed into Ghouls, and Su Ziyu used Deep Dark Prison to impale and enclose the corrupted patients.
• Director Li revealed that the cult had wanted Su Ziyu to eat the Holy Communion and become an offering, and Su Ziyu questioned him about the cult’s plan.

Su Ziyu defeated Director Li and the other cultist monsters as the Blood Rite began, then chose to turn Director Li into his first Evil Spirit Marionette. Director Li’s final warning promised the Ghoul God would one day come for Su Ziyu.

• Director Li revealed that the Blood Rite: Two-Track God-Sacrifice Ritual was about to begin and attacked Su Ziyu.
• Su Ziyu burned Director Li with Netherworld Ghostfire and trapped the four doctor and nurse monsters with Dark Wisdom: Touch of Hell.
• Director Li ambushed Su Ziyu, but the Dread Demon Eye seized him with its tentacles.
• Director Li mistook Su Ziyu for a Morning Star Tier powerhouse and begged to serve him, but Su Ziyu began transforming him into his first Evil Spirit Marionette.
• Director Li screamed that the Ghoul God would one day tear Su Ziyu to pieces.

Su Ziyu used the Dread Demon Eye to intensify Director Li’s hatred, then performed the Evil Spirit Marionette ritual with him and his four dead subordinates. The ritual produced a towering monster that knelt before Su Ziyu, awaiting orders.

• The Dread Demon Eye trapped Director Li in [Crimson Purgatory] and used [Mental Hypnosis] to fill him with hatred for Su Ziyu.
• Su Ziyu pulled Director Li’s spirit body from his collapsing body and cut it into twisted fragments with Spirit Scissors.
• Su Ziyu pulled the spirit bodies from Director Li’s four dead subordinates and combined them with their flesh and blood.
• Su Ziyu bound the assembled flesh and spirit fragments in a scarlet robe, forming a beating cocoon.
• A nearly two-meter-tall Evil Spirit Marionette emerged from the cocoon and knelt before Su Ziyu.

Su Ziyu harvested materials from the Ghoul and contaminated patients, then sent his Evil Spirit Marionette toward the fighting as the Ghoul Cult’s ritual began. He headed to the S-Rank Special Containment Facility, where the guards had disappeared and two dangerous monsters might have awakened, hoping to tame them.

• Su Ziyu extracted materials from the Ghoul’s corpse and gathered the contaminated matter into a three-star Pollution Source.
• After finding the cafeteria empty and recalling Director Li’s warning, Su Ziyu realized the Ghoul Cult’s Blood-Rail Ritual had begun.
• Su Ziyu sent the Evil Spirit Marionette toward the distant fighting to clear out monsters while he went another way to visit his relatives.
• Su Ziyu reached the S-Rank Special Containment Facility and found that its armed guards were missing.
• Su Ziyu suspected the two imprisoned monsters had awakened and decided to enter the facility, anticipating that he could tame them.

Su Ziyu entered the S-Rank Containment Facility and caught a stitched monster that had been attacking him. After the Dread Demon Eye battered the creature to pieces, an angry girl appeared to avenge her toy and attacked Su Ziyu from the third floor.

• Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye to glimpse the massacre at the facility entrance, then climbed the stairs after finding the elevator destroyed.
• A shadow ambushed Su Ziyu, but the Dread Demon Eye tore open a ceiling vent and dragged out a creature stitched together from human skin.
• Su Ziyu used Crimson Purgatory to stop the creature's attack, and the Dread Demon Eye pinned it down.
• The stitched monster struggled until the Dread Demon Eye battered it into a ruined heap, and Su Ziyu realized its maker was nearby.
• An angry girl demanded that Su Ziyu pay for her toy, then shattered the third-floor ceiling and shot toward him through the dust.

Su Ziyu trapped Ruan Xiaoqi, an S-class Spider-Type patient, inside the Special Containment Facility as her attack triggered a deadly response against the arriving agents. He discovered that contamination had already turned more than half of her Mental Body black, leaving her close to losing her reason.

• Su Ziyu used Dark Wisdom: Deep Dark Prison and Bound Dungeon to restrain Ruan Xiaoqi and seal off the building.
• A Beyonder squad approached the facility, but Twisting Lines dragged agents into the black mass as their gunfire failed to damage it.
• Su Ziyu suspended Ruan Xiaoqi in the prison and recognized her as a Spider-Type patient he had met before.
• Ruan Xiaoqi repeatedly demanded that Su Ziyu return her toy and attacked the cage without recognizing him.
• Su Ziyu examined Ruan Xiaoqi with the All-Seeing True Eye and found that more than half of her Mental Body had turned black from contamination.

Su Ziyu removed Ruan Xiaoqi’s mental contamination and uncovered her connection to the Spider God, Atlach-Nacha, before using the system to destroy the curse protecting her past. He hypnotized Ruan Xiaoqi into becoming loyal to him, then left with her as she crawled after him like a spider.

• Su Ziyu used Touch of Hell and Spirit Scissors to remove the black contamination from Ruan Xiaoqi’s Mental Body, restoring her awareness.
• Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye to glimpse Ruan Xiaoqi’s past, including a ritual involving an old woman, spiders, and the Spider God Atlach-Nacha.
• When Atlach-Nacha’s reflection threatened to contaminate Su Ziyu, he used Extract Material to destroy the curse and took a tiny ball of light.
• Su Ziyu ordered the Dread Demon Eye to hypnotize Ruan Xiaoqi into believing he was her master and that she should remain loyal to him.
• Ruan Xiaoqi called Su Ziyu “Master” and followed him by crawling along the wall like a spider.

Su Ziyu collected valuable materials, freed the agents, and led Ruan Xiaoqi toward the hospital’s administrative building, where the Evil Spirit Marionette was fighting. He found Old Huang suspended on the rooftop, apparently mutated into a mass of cyan worms.

• Su Ziyu gathered a five-star material from the Spider God’s silk and a four-star Pollution Source, then freed the agents he had bound and left with Ruan Xiaoqi.
• Su Ziyu realized the second patient had escaped and headed toward the administrative building, where the Evil Spirit Marionette was still fighting.
• Ruan Xiaoqi killed the Ghouls that attacked them along the way, and Su Ziyu praised her.
• Su Ziyu shielded himself and Ruan Xiaoqi from corrosive drops falling from the rooftop and saw that the dark-green mass was made of cyan worms.
• Su Ziyu recognized the human trapped in the worm mass as Old Huang and wondered whether he had completely mutated.

Su Ziyu and Ruan Xiaoqi defeated an armed squad that mistook her for an escaped containment subject, then entered the heavily contaminated courtyard. There, the Evil Spirit Marionette brought Su Ziyu the Ghoul Cult’s priest, who attacked him with flying teeth.

• An armed squad recognized Ruan Xiaoqi as escaped Subject 021 and opened fire, but Su Ziyu shielded them while Ruan Xiaoqi disabled the squad without killing anyone.
• Su Ziyu assessed that Ruan Xiaoqi’s mental condition had improved after the contamination was removed, then walked with her into the courtyard.
• The rooftop mass erupted again as jelly-like creatures spread contamination through the courtyard, turning it into a living hell.
• The Evil Spirit Marionette arrived with the Ghoul Cult’s priest bound in its Hellfire Whip, and Su Ziyu praised it for capturing him.
• The priest opened its mouth and fired its jagged teeth at Su Ziyu.

Su Ziyu left Ruan Xiaoqi with the Evil Spirit Marionette and climbed to the rooftop to confront the mutated S-rank patient. He reached the monster within five minutes and recognized Old Huang’s face in its mass of flesh.

• The Evil Spirit Marionette beat the Ghoul Cult priest until he begged Su Ziyu not to kill him.
• Su Ziyu asked Ruan Xiaoqi to wait with the Evil Spirit Marionette, promising to return in five minutes, and the Marionette enclosed them in a ring of fire.
• Su Ziyu and the Dread Demon Eye cleared their way through the worm-covered administrative building, absorbing the creatures’ dark blood.
• Su Ziyu broke through the rooftop door and found the enormous creature reproducing by spitting out jelly-like creatures.
• Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye to examine the monster and saw Old Huang’s face emerge from its body.

Su Ziyu recognized that Old Huang had become a monster after gazing upon an evil god and fought him on the hospital rooftop. As the Dread Demon Eye appeared above the city, the Special Affairs Department identified it as a likely Forbidden Entity and realized Ghost Hand’s team was in danger.

• Su Ziyu recalled that Old Huang had once seen an unknowable mass of lights in the stars and realized he had witnessed an evil god.
• Old Huang attacked Su Ziyu with spears of viscous flesh, and Su Ziyu defended himself with his tentacles.
• The Dread Demon Eye appeared above the hospital, frightening the Ghoul Cult priest and the armed squad.
• People across River City mistook the glowing eye for a second moon, while the Special Affairs Department received reports about it.
• Professor Bai and Wei Kang identified the object on their screen as a likely Forbidden Entity and worried that Ghost Hand’s team had gone to the site.

Su Ziyu and the Dread Demon Eye defeated Old Huang in a destructive battle that illuminated the city. Su Ziyu killed Old Huang and extracted materials from his remains.

• The Dread Demon Eye absorbed blood and spiritual energy, evolved to Morning Star Tier power, and shattered Old Huang's attacks.
• Old Huang split his cyan worms across the administrative building and launched a final assault while Su Ziyu watched from beneath the Dread Demon Eye.
• Su Ziyu commanded the Dread Demon Eye to fire beams and tentacles, destroying Old Huang's worms and reducing the building to rubble.
• The Evil Spirit Marionette shielded the priest from the light, and Ruan Xiaoqi reinforced its barrier with spiritual energy.
• Su Ziyu reached Old Huang's ruined body, told him he was free, and killed him with two dark spears.
• Su Ziyu raised his arm and called, "Extract materials!"

Su Ziyu extracted a five-star phantom aura from Old Huang’s memory and stopped the Ghoul Cult’s sacrificial ritual. He prepared to turn the dead cultists’ spirits into materials for more Evil Spirit Marionettes.

• Su Ziyu extracted the Unifier of All Things' Phantom Aura from Old Huang’s memory and gained a five-star material.
• The building began collapsing after Old Huang’s power disappeared, and the Dread Demon Eye carried Su Ziyu down to Ruan Xiaoqi.
• The Ghoul Cult priest begged Su Ziyu for mercy and offered his family, but Su Ziyu demanded his life instead.
• The priest tried to detonate himself with a Ghoul Detonation Seal, but Su Ziyu pierced his eyes with dark-matter spears and stopped the spell.
• Su Ziyu gathered the spirits of the dead cultists with Dark Wisdom: Spirit Severing to use them as materials for more Evil Spirit Marionettes.

Su Ziyu destroyed the ghoul priest and the cultists, then watched their flesh and spiritual energy transform his Evil Spirit Marionettes. After naming the evolved Evil Spirit Knight Rage and placing the marionettes under its command, Su Ziyu teleported away, resolved to return and rise to the pinnacle of the world.

• Su Ziyu used the Spirit Scissors to sever and destroy the spirits of the ghoul priest and his cultists.
• The cultists’ flesh and spiritual energy formed cocoons, and Dr. Li’s Evil Spirit Marionette emerged as a half-step Morning Star Evil Spirit Knight.
• Su Ziyu extracted materials from the ruined Buddhist shrine but found that the Ghoul God’s power had vanished.
• Su Ziyu named the Evil Spirit Knight Rage and ordered it to command the thirty-six other Evil Spirit Marionettes.
• Rage led the thirty-seven marionettes in disguising themselves as humans, and Su Ziyu teleported away with them.
• Su Ziyu vowed to return, seize authority over the laws, and become Burial Venerable.

Zhou Jian and his team were overwhelmed by a terrifying apparition at the psychiatric hospital and reported the name “Burial Venerable” to headquarters. Su Ziyu revealed that he had staged the encounter as a diversion, then sent the Rage Knight to destroy the Ghoul Cult’s strongholds in River City while the Special Affairs Department examined an image of the mysterious entity.

• Zhou Jian’s team entered the psychiatric hospital and were attacked by a blood-red curtain filled with eyeless eyeballs, which caused his subordinates to mutilate their faces.
• After the apparition vanished, Zhou Jian saw mangled corpses, a malicious red eye, and the words “Burial Venerable,” then called headquarters to cancel the mission and fainted.
• Su Ziyu explained that he had triggered the apparition with a ritual as a prank on the Special Affairs Department and chose to target the Ghoul Cult’s remaining strongholds before seeking revenge on his relatives.
• Su Ziyu ordered the Rage Knight to wipe out every Ghoul Cult stronghold in River City, and the Rage Knight led thirty-six Evil Spirit Marionettes toward the cult’s headquarters.
• Professor Bai showed Special Affairs Department specialists a blurry image of a gigantic eyeball surrounded by blood fog and a black figure beneath it.

Professor Bai classified the Jiangyuan Psychiatric Hospital incident as an S-class record and ordered the Special Affairs Department to stop investigating the Burial Venerable. Meanwhile, Rage led an attack on a Ghoul Cult hideout in southern River City.

• Wei Kang showed the specialists photographs of the Blood Moon, the Dread Demon Eye, Old Huang's mutation, and the ruined hospital.
• Professor Bai warned that the Burial Venerable might be a Forbidden Entity, forbade further investigation, and ordered the incident sealed as an S-class record.
• Hong Ying silently struggled with Professor Bai's decision to let the matter end.
• Rage, disguised as Li Kangming, confronted a group of Ghoul Cultists at an abandoned factory with thirty-six Evil Spirit Marionettes.
• Rage ordered his forces to attack, and the Evil Spirit Marionettes broke through the Ghouls' formation.

After Rage destroyed the last Ghoul Cult stronghold in River City, Su Ziyu began editing a new monster in the System Space. The monster emerged from the Hundred-Eyed Furnace, but its form was still hidden beneath a cracking flesh shell.

• Rage killed the bald man and reported the victory to Su Ziyu.
• Su Ziyu ordered Rage to guard the factory, recruit new followers, and rest.
• Su Ziyu used the Twisted Spider God's Silk as the core for a new monster.
• Su Ziyu added the Eye That Must Not Be Looked At, Ghoul parts, and a Pollution Source to the Hundred-Eyed Furnace.
• A small flesh shell emerged from the furnace, cracked open, and released a mass of pitch-black matter.