Chapter Summaries

Qi Wu and his team went to a crepe shop before a music festival, where a mysterious winged girl crashed through the roof and demanded food. Qi Wu bought her a crepe in exchange for answers, and she sat down to eat.

• Jiang Qingyue and Gale enjoyed crepes with Qi Wu and asked to visit the summer music festival at Riverside Park.
• A girl in a Gothic Lolita dress fell through the crepe shop’s roof, and Qi Wu protected the group from the falling debris.
• The girl demanded Jiang Qingyue’s crepe, but Qi Wu asked who she was and why she had fallen.
• Qi Wu recognized that the girl’s unusual energy might mark her as a member of a secluded race and offered her his crepe to persuade her to answer.
• The girl agreed to Qi Wu’s terms, and he ordered her a crepe, charging the damage to the 749 Bureau.

Qi Wu met Lilith Ventrue, a runaway vampire princess, and agreed to take her to the bureau for temporary supervision. Before they headed to the music festival, he sensed a faint trace of a Demon's spiritual power and suspected trouble.

• Lilith Ventrue introduced herself as a princess of the Sacred Blood Clan who had flown east from her home and gotten lost.
• Lilith refused to return to her family and asked Qi Wu to keep her safe and feed her.
• Qi Wu agreed to take Lilith to the bureau for registration and temporary supervision, with rules against causing trouble or revealing her identity.
• Lilith, Jiang Qingyue, and Gale persuaded Qi Wu to take them to the music festival, and he told them to stay close.
• Qi Wu sensed a faint trace of a Demon's spiritual power near the festival and grew wary.

Qi Wu protected Lilith, Jiang Qingyue, Gale, and nearby festivalgoers when the Flame Demon attacked the music festival, then erased the demon with Unlimited Void. A group wearing Dark Red Rose Emblems revealed that they had summoned the demon to capture Lilith and planned to report Qi Wu as a threat.

• Qi Wu sensed Demon spiritual power onstage as the lights converged, and a Flame Demon appeared and targeted Lilith with a destructive sonic attack.
• Qi Wu used Limitless to shield the three girls and nearby audience members from the attack.
• The Flame Demon hurled black-flamed meteors at Qi Wu, who reflected them back onto the stage with Red.
• Qi Wu used Unlimited Void to stop and erase the Flame Demon before its final attack could unfold.
• A group bearing Dark Red Rose Emblems discussed their failed plan to seize Lilith's bloodline and decided to report Qi Wu to their president.

After a Demon attack targeted Lilith, Qi Wu agreed to take her back to the bureau for protection. Su Yuechen and the A-Rank Lunar Eclipse squad arrived and demanded that Lilith be isolated, but Qi Wu refused to hand her over.

• Lilith told Qi Wu that the Demon’s aura had felt strange, cold, and deeply unpleasant, and Qi Wu suspected the attack had targeted her Holy Bloodline.
• Qi Wu told Lilith she was in danger and persuaded her to return to the bureau with him; she agreed and asked for another sweet pastry.
• Su Yuechen arrived with the A-Rank Lunar Eclipse squad, took control of the incident, and thanked Qi Wu for subduing the Demon.
• Su Yuechen identified Lilith as the vampire princess and called for Lunar Eclipse to isolate and screen her.
• Qi Wu refused to hand Lilith over, and Su Yuechen’s expression hardened as the temperature around them dropped.

Su Yuechen confronted Qi Wu over his protection of Lilith, and their fight escalated until Iron Buddha intervened with the director’s order to stop. Su Yuechen withdrew, and Qi Wu and Iron Buddha headed to Conference Room One to discuss how to handle the incident.

• Su Yuechen accused Qi Wu of protecting a potential threat and attacked him with her Purple Fiend Ice Core.
• Qi Wu trapped Su Yuechen’s purple ice needles in Blue’s Gravity Sphere, but her ice froze and shattered it.
• Qi Wu prepared to unleash Red as Su Yuechen summoned an array of purple ice spears.
• Iron Buddha used Immovable Wisdom King Bell to separate them and ordered them to report to Conference Room One.
• Su Yuechen withdrew with the Lunar Eclipse squad, and Iron Buddha took Qi Wu to the meeting.

At a 749 Bureau meeting, Qi Wu opposed Su Yuechen’s proposal to confine Lilith in the Abyss and argued that he could protect her himself. The bureau voted to place Lilith under Qi Wu’s supervision, leaving him with greater pressure ahead of the Selection Tournament.

• Su Yuechen recommended confining Lilith in the Abyss because she might be connected to the fire Demon attack.
• Qi Wu argued that Lilith was a victim and proposed supervising her through his Salvation team, using his strength and Six Eyes to protect her and investigate her attackers.
• Wolf Team put Qi Wu’s proposal to a vote, and the meeting approved placing Lilith under his supervision.
• Su Yuechen left the conference room angrily, and Wolf Team privately warned Qi Wu that he had made an enemy and would face more pressure in the Selection Tournament.

After Lilith joined the Salvation team, Qi Wu tested her abilities in the Virtual Battlefield. She demonstrated exceptional shadow-based stealth and assassination skills, while her blood powers remained unseen.

• Qi Wu led the frightened Lilith out of the conference room and introduced her as the Salvation team's new teammate to Jiang Qingyue and Gale.
• Qi Wu told Lilith that teammates had to contribute and asked her to demonstrate her abilities in the Virtual Battlefield.
• Lilith entered a shadowy city scenario and used Shadow Garment to conceal her presence from the enemy scouts.
• Lilith used Shadow Step to appear behind a scout and silently eliminate it with a shadow blade and blood mist.
• Jiang Qingyue and Gale praised Lilith's assassination technique, and Qi Wu looked forward to seeing her blood abilities.

Lilith completed the stealth test and destroyed a Heavy Armored Gargoyle using Blood Magic, earning S ratings in both phases. Qi Wu recognized the power of her coexisting Shadow and Blood Magic as the Ventrue's holy blood.

• Lilith lured two coordinated Shadow Scouts away from their positions with Blood Bat Illusion, then pinned and killed them without triggering an alarm.
• Qi Wu ordered a frontal assault test, and a Heavy Armored Gargoyle appeared in the arena.
• Lilith blocked the gargoyle's attack with Blood River Barrier, then used Pain Drain to corrode its arm and siphon its core energy.
• Lilith formed Crimson Judgment into a blood greatsword and destroyed the gargoyle's exposed energy core, earning an S rating.
• Jiang Qingyue and Gale reacted with alarm to Blood Magic's destructive power, while Qi Wu praised Lilith's mastery of Shadow and Blood Magic.

After Lilith joined the Salvation Team, Qi Wu organized the members' roles and set out to train their teamwork before the Selection Tournament. At the Mission Hall, he chose a special A-Rank mission called [Child-Giving Monastery].

• Lilith demonstrated her blood and shadow abilities, and Qi Wu welcomed her to the Salvation Team.
• Qi Wu outlined the team's roles and told Lilith, Jiang Qingyue, and Gale how to coordinate in combat.
• Qi Wu led the team to the Mission Hall, where he defended Lilith from people who mistook her for a child.
• Qi Wu searched the mission terminal for a challenging assignment and selected the special A-Rank mission [Child-Giving Monastery].

Qi Wu led the Salvation Team to investigate the Child-Giving Monastery, where a fat monk tried to hypnotize them and seize Jiang Qingyue. After his spores failed against Qi Wu’s Limitless, Qi Wu unlocked Black Flash and prepared to strike the charging monk.

• Qi Wu selected a special A-Rank mission to investigate disappearances at an ancient monastery in Great Black Mountain.
• Qi Wu, Lilith, Jiang Qingyue, and Gale entered the monastery and encountered a fat monk who fixated on Jiang Qingyue.
• The monk’s hallucinogenic pollen failed to affect the team because Qi Wu had extended Limitless around them.
• The monk charged at the team with his Meatball Impact, and Qi Wu explained Black Flash before preparing to use it.

Qi Wu and his team fought the fat monk in the eerie temple, only for him to recover with the help of a living willow branch and summon a horde of living corpses. Lilith sensed the corpses’ suffering souls and led the team in putting them to rest while Qi Wu watched.

• Qi Wu punched through the fat monk’s belly with Black Flash, impressing Jiang Qingyue, Gale, and Lilith.
• A fleshy pink willow branch healed the fat monk, who summoned crowds of corpse-like men from the shadows.
• Lilith sensed that the men’s souls were suffering and said they were asking to be killed.
• Qi Wu agreed to put the corpses out of their misery, and Lilith attacked them with her soul-damaging Blood Greatsword.
• Gale burned the corpses with her blade while Jiang Qingyue blasted them with explosive clay birds.

Qi Wu’s team defeated the temple’s defenders, and Qi Wu found a Rose Crest whose aura resembled the Flame Demon’s. After Lilith drank Qi Wu’s blood, her body began a startling transformation.

• Lilith slaughtered the parasitized corpses and Flesh Willows, while the fat monk escaped into the main hall.
• Qi Wu stopped Lilith from chasing the monk and picked up a Rose Crest that might connect the temple to the Flame Demon’s organization.
• Qi Wu scolded Lilith and the other girls for failing to practice Black Flash, then offered his wrist to the blood-thirsty Lilith.
• Lilith drank heavily from Qi Wu, whose wrist regenerated instantly, and warned that other vampires would covet his ability.
• A surge of holy white light transformed Lilith’s childlike form into the silhouette of a mature woman, and Qi Wu prepared to intervene if needed.

Qi Wu and his team discovered that the Child-Giving Monastery concealed a Demon stronger than the Eighth Rank and called for backup after finding a Rose Crest. Beneath the temple, they uncovered a grotesque flesh-and-blood willow feeding on captive women, where the fat monk awaited the birth of the Sacred Embryo.

• Lilith suppressed a dangerous inherited power that briefly transformed her, and Qi Wu led the team toward the temple’s main hall.
• Qi Wu sensed a Demon above the Eighth Rank beneath the monastery and told Wolf Team the mission was more dangerous than its A-Rank classification.
• Qi Wu showed Wolf Team the Rose Crest dropped by a defeated enemy, prompting them to dispatch the Intelligence Division and Assault Team to Great Black Mountain.
• Blood-red willow branches attacked the team in the hidden passage, and Qi Wu blasted them apart with Cursed Technique Reversal-Red.
• Qi Wu, Jiang Qingyue, Gale, and Lilith entered an underground chamber filled with flesh-and-blood willows and cocoons holding captive women.
• The team found the fat monk kneeling before a mass of human faces as he declared that the Sacred Embryo was about to be born.

Qi Wu overwhelmed the Blood Willow Buddha Mother and incapacitated the fat monk, but the Demon revived by draining the women trapped in cocoons. Qi Wu identified the Sacred Embryo as its likely weakness and appeared before it to attack.

• The Blood Willow Buddha Mother attacked Gale, Jiang Qingyue, and Qi Wu with enormous fists of flesh.
• Qi Wu crushed the Buddha Mother's tendrils and punched a hole through its trunk, leaving the Three Girls and the fat monk stunned.
• Qi Wu revealed his identity to the fat monk, displayed the Rose Crest, and used Unlimited Void to knock him unconscious.
• Qi Wu told Jiang Qingyue and Gale to restrain the monk, but the wounded Buddha Mother drained the women in its cocoons and began to recover.
• Qi Wu recognized the Sacred Embryo in the Buddha Mother's abdomen as its likely weakness and appeared in front of it.

Qi Wu destroyed the sacred embryo, but the Blood Willow Buddha Mother absorbed its remains and transformed into a giant second form. After escaping the collapsing underground chamber, Qi Wu faced the Buddha Mother while Lilith, Jiang Qingyue, and Gale prepared to fight the fat monk, and he sensed a presence like that of a god.

• Qi Wu blasted the sacred embryo apart, sending the Buddha Mother into a frenzy as the fat monk escaped through green mist.
• The Buddha Mother gathered and devoured the embryo’s remains, then grew so powerful that it collapsed the underground chamber.
• Qi Wu teleported himself, Lilith, Jiang Qingyue, and Gale out of the collapsing chamber and into the monastery courtyard.
• The Buddha Mother emerged aboveground in a monstrous second form, while the fat monk transformed into the Blood Monk Butcher.
• Qi Wu assigned Lilith, Jiang Qingyue, and Gale to fight the fat monk and confronted the Buddha Mother alone.
• Qi Wu sensed a presence akin to a god emanating from the Buddha Mother.

Qi Wu destroyed the Thousand-Hand Buddha Mother after recognizing it as a pseudo-Awakened created from the Sacred Embryo, and realized Rose was pursuing artificial gods. As the battle ended, three Rose-robed figures appeared atop the bell tower.

• Qi Wu identified the Buddha Mother's divine aura and suspected Rose was trying to create an artificial god.
• Qi Wu concluded the Buddha Mother had gained pseudo-infinite regeneration by consuming the Sacred Embryo's remains.
• Qi Wu overwhelmed the Buddha Mother's regeneration with rapid Blue and Red attacks until its divinity faded.
• Qi Wu destroyed the Buddha Mother's head with a maximum-output Red, causing its body to collapse.
• Lilith, Jiang Qingyue, and Gale restrained the Blood Monk Butcher while Qi Wu sensed danger at the bell tower.
• Three figures wearing Rose Crests emerged from the bell tower's shadows and applauded.

Qi Wu rejected the black-robed leader’s invitation to join the Mandala Society and easily repelled its attacks, but the leader resurrected the Buddha Mother and the fat monk, turning the fight against Qi Wu and the three women. Iron Buddha arrived just as the bone monster attacked them, and Wolf Team appeared on the temple wall.

• The black-robed leader invited Qi Wu to join the Mandala Society, but Qi Wu mocked its beliefs and refused.
• The bone monster attacked Qi Wu while the leader spread white mist, but Qi Wu’s force field stopped both assaults.
• The leader used a blood sacrifice to revive the Buddha Mother and the fat monk, leaving the defenders outnumbered five to three.
• The bone monster targeted Jiang Qingyue, and Lilith, Jiang Qingyue, and Gale prepared to defend themselves as Qi Wu gathered his domain power.
• Iron Buddha struck the bone monster and revealed that the A-rank captain of the Nanjiang Branch Bureau had arrived.
• A silver-white werewolf appeared atop the ruined wall, and Gale recognized him as a member of Wolf Team.

Wolf Team Bai Xiao and the captains joined the fight at the ruined temple, turning the battle against the Mandala Society. Bai Xiao nearly killed the black-robed leader, who retreated and acknowledged Bai Xiao’s legendary [Demon Wolf Devouring] ability.

• Wolf Team Bai Xiao arrived with the captains, and the black-robed leader unleashed [Soul Devouring · Chaotic Tide] to drive the Demons into a frenzy.
• Iron Buddha fought the skeletal monster while Lilith and Jiang Qingyue engaged the fat monk corpse puppet, and Qi Wu faced the mist and the Buddha Mother.
• A black-robed woman attacked Qi Wu, but Gale intercepted her and recognized her opponent’s swordsmanship as resembling her family’s style.
• Bai Xiao rushed to the bell tower and broke the black-robed leader’s wrist before striking at his throat.
• The black-robed leader escaped Bai Xiao’s attack by forming a mist shield and praised him as the wielder of [Demon Wolf Devouring].

Qi Wu used Blue: Planetary Devastation to seal the Buddha Mother inside a massive stone sphere, turning the battle in his side’s favor. The black-robed leader then triggered a catastrophic transformation: the sphere shattered, releasing an expanding dark-red domain of chaos.

• The black-robed leader fed his blood essence into the Buddha Mother, making it more powerful and declaring that everyone would die.
• Qi Wu used Blue: Planetary Devastation to lift the Buddha Mother and surrounding debris into the sky, sealing it inside a huge stone sphere.
• Iron Buddha, Jiang Qingyue, Lilith, Gale, and Wolf Team reacted to Qi Wu’s feat as the skeletal monster and blade-wielding shadow fled.
• Qi Wu sensed the Buddha Mother growing more frenzied inside the seal while the black-robed leader announced that it would become kindling for a new world.
• The stone sphere cracked and exploded, releasing an expanding dark-red domain of chaos instead of the Buddha Mother.

Qi Wu countered the Buddha Mother's flesh-and-blood domain with Unlimited Void, allowing Bai Xiao to destroy its core and end the battle. After Bai Xiao killed the Black-Robed Leader, the team prepared to leave, and Bai Xiao asked Qi Wu about his ability.

• The Buddha Mother unleashed Ruinous Art: Womb Treasury Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, threatening to engulf the Zenin ruins and disrupt the group’s spiritual power.
• Qi Wu expanded Unlimited Void and stopped the flesh-and-blood domain from advancing, while Bai Xiao recognized that Qi Wu’s power rejected the interference of rules.
• Qi Wu pushed the boundary of Unlimited Void forward, creating an opening for Bai Xiao to strike the crystalline core with Wolf Devouring: Point Bite.
• The Buddha Mother’s domain collapsed, and Bai Xiao killed the weakened Black-Robed Leader, whose body dissolved into black mist.
• Qi Wu dispelled his domain and told the others to tidy up and go home, while Bai Xiao asked what ability he had used.