Chapter Summaries

After Qi Wu suppressed the Buddha Mother's Ruinous Art, he explained his domain and healed his injured teammates. The Intelligence Division arrived at the temple, and Wolf Team led them inside to investigate the Mandala Society's clues.

• Wolf Team asked whether Qi Wu had reached Awakening, and Qi Wu explained that Unlimited Void could delay and dilute rule-based attacks but could not create rules.
• Qi Wu healed Iron Buddha, gave Lilith some of his blood, and treated Jiang Qingyue and Gale.
• Liu Xin arrived with Wang Xiaoyu and the Intelligence Division to examine the battlefield.
• Wolf Team led Qi Wu, Liu Xin, and Wang Xiaoyu deeper into the temple to trace clues about the Mandala Society.

Qi Wu and Wolf Team uncovered the Mandala Society’s plan to create an Artificial Deity through the Sacred Embryo project, then realized the Black-Robed Leader they had fought might still be alive as a clone. They decided to alert headquarters and call in a powerful ally to search for him.

• Wang Xiaoyu traced the Blood Willow Buddha Mother’s origins and revealed that the Mandala Society had modified it to grow a sacred embryo using the vitality of young women.
• The vision showed the Mandala Society’s researchers pursuing the Twenty-One Sequences Project to create an Artificial Deity that commanded reproduction.
• Qi Wu and Wolf Team concluded that the Mandala Society might have at least twenty more projects, while Qi Wu noted that he had destroyed the sacred embryo before it could awaken.
• Qi Wu recognized the monocled researcher’s voice as matching the Black-Robed Leader and suspected the leader they had killed was only a clone.
• Wolf Team decided to report the discovery to headquarters, find the Black-Robed Leader, and summon the “crazy woman” from headquarters.

After returning to the Nanjiang Branch Bureau, Qi Wu worried that the spiritual energy revival and the Mandala Society’s rise would bring disaster sooner than expected, so he trained intensively in the Virtual Battlefield. Several days later, he had strengthened his abilities and developed new Limitless techniques.

• Wolf Team ordered Qi Wu’s squad back to the Branch Bureau and assigned the Intelligence Division to clean up the scene.
• Qi Wu returned to his dorm, reflected on the coming spiritual energy revival, and resolved to grow stronger.
• Qi Wu spent nearly the whole day training against the strongest Demons the Virtual Battlefield could simulate.
• After several days of training, Qi Wu used Blue: Universal Pull and Red: Almighty Push to defeat high-tier Demon simulations.
• Qi Wu considered the two techniques, alongside Blue: Planetary Devastation, his own version of Deva Path’s tactics.

Qi Wu arrived at the Selection Tournament and led the Salvation Team into its first match against Luo Bai’s Fallen Star Team. After both teams were sent to Mirror Lake Forest, Qi Wu planned to gather his opponents together and eliminate them with Almighty Push.

• Jiang Qingyue told Qi Wu that the Selection Tournament would begin that afternoon, and he looked forward to testing his new techniques in real combat.
• Qi Wu arrived at the tournament with Lilith, Jiang Qingyue, and Gale, irritating the A-Rank captains and provoking Luo Bai.
• Bai Xiao announced that the teams would be randomly matched, and the two highest-scoring A-Rank teams would qualify for the Hundred Cities League.
• The random draw matched Qi Wu’s Salvation Team against Luo Bai’s Fallen Star Team, and the teams were sent to Mirror Lake Forest.
• Luo Bai assigned himself to hold off Qi Wu while his teammates attacked the others, and Qi Wu told his team to lure the Fallen Star Team together so he could wipe them out with Almighty Push.

Qi Wu defeated Luo Bai despite the captain’s Dark Tortoise transformation and left him gravely injured. The four remaining Fallen Star members abandoned their tactics and attacked Qi Wu together, who answered with Almighty Push.

• The Fallen Star Team attacked Lilith, Jiang Qingyue, and Gale while Luo Bai transformed into a Dark Tortoise and challenged Qi Wu.
• Luo Bai struck at Qi Wu, but Limitless stopped his paw short, and Qi Wu’s Red repelled him and dented his shell.
• Luo Bai curled into his shell, but Qi Wu pulled him close with Universal Pull and shattered the shell with a Black Flash.
• Luo Bai was forced out of his transformation and fell gravely injured as the four Fallen Star members abandoned their tactics and attacked Qi Wu.
• Qi Wu raised both hands and used Almighty Push against the four attackers.

Qi Wu wiped out the Fallen Star Team with a single repulsive-force attack, then challenged the remaining members of three A-Rank teams to fight him together for a place in the Hundred Cities League. The captains reacted with anger and disbelief as Qi Wu insisted he was serious.

• Qi Wu unleashed repulsive force in every direction, defeating Luo Bai and the rest of the Fallen Star Team in one strike.
• The A-Rank captains watched in shock as Qi Wu’s popularity points increased and his Satoru Gojo template integration reached 78%.
• Bai Xiao praised Qi Wu’s strength and prepared to announce the next matches.
• Qi Wu said the remaining one-on-one matches bored him and challenged Qing Xiaoran, Iron Buddha, Su Yuechen, and their teams to fight him together.
• Qi Wu offered to give up his Hundred Cities League place if he lost, while the three captains bristled at his provocation.

Qi Wu faced all fifteen members of the Qingqiu Team, the Pagoda Team, and the Lunar Eclipse Team alone in the Ruined City battlefield. He eliminated three opponents with his gravitational powers, then used Almighty Push as Iron Buddha and Qing Xiaoran launched a coordinated attack.

• Wolf Team changed the match rules so Qi Wu would fight all fifteen members of the three A-Rank teams alone in a battlefield three times larger, and the selection chose Ruined City.
• Qing Xiaoran, Iron Buddha, Su Yuechen, and their teammates used the ruins for cover and prepared a coordinated ambush against Qi Wu.
• Qi Wu used a gravitational collapse to destroy an office building, eliminating one hidden opponent while three others fled.
• Qi Wu formed another gravitational singularity among wrecked cars and crushed two more opponents hiding there.
• Iron Buddha charged Qi Wu as Qing Xiaoran and the others attacked from multiple directions, but Qi Wu slowed Iron Buddha's punch with Infinity.
• Qing Xiaoran swung her Demon-Breaking Alloy Iron Fan at Qi Wu from behind, and Qi Wu unleashed Almighty Push in every direction.

Qi Wu drove Iron Buddha and Qing Xiaoran back with a devastating burst of repulsive force, while Su Yuechen deduced that his defenses manipulated distance itself. Su Yuechen prepared to exploit a possible weakness with her Purple Fiend Ice Core as Qing Xiaoran and Iron Buddha agreed to pressure Qi Wu again.

• Qi Wu's repulsive force shattered Iron Buddha's arm and sent him crashing into a building.
• The same force hurled Qing Xiaoran toward rubble, but Su Yuechen caught her and softened the impact with ice.
• Su Yuechen concluded that Qi Wu's defense controlled distance and proposed using extreme cold to disrupt his ability.
• Su Yuechen asked Qing Xiaoran and Iron Buddha to provoke another repulsive burst while she charged a powerful ice attack.
• Qing Xiaoran recovered her Alloy Iron Fan, Iron Buddha struggled out of the ruins, and Qi Wu challenged them to show their final struggle.

Qing Xiaoran, Iron Buddha, and their teammates tried to exploit the opening after Qi Wu used Almighty Push, but he shattered Su Yuechen’s Frost Heaven Annihilation with a second blast. Su Yuechen estimated the move had a five-second cooldown, and the group attacked again, unaware that Qi Wu seemed to be mocking them.

• Qing Xiaoran and Iron Buddha coordinated attacks to pressure Qi Wu and make him reveal his defenses.
• Iron Buddha drew out Qi Wu’s Almighty Push, allowing Su Yuechen to fire Frost Heaven Annihilation at him.
• Qi Wu used another repulsive blast to shatter the ice beam, leaving Su Yuechen stunned.
• Su Yuechen estimated that Almighty Push had a cooldown of roughly five seconds and urged everyone to attack again.
• Qing Xiaoran, Iron Buddha, and the other team members launched a reckless assault, while Qi Wu’s indifference shifted to mockery.

Qi Wu shattered the A-Rank teams’ last attack by using Almighty Push a fourth time, revealing that its supposed five-second cooldown had never existed. He left the defeated teams in despair and rose into the air, leaving them wondering what he would do next.

• Su Yuechen fired her Eternal Frozen End at Qi Wu, counting on his supposed five-second cooldown to prevent him from blocking it.
• Qi Wu unleashed a fourth Almighty Push without waiting, shattering Su Yuechen’s attack and leaving her gravely injured.
• Qi Wu told the stunned opponents that Almighty Push had never had a cooldown and declared that he was perfect.
• The A-Rank teams lost their will to fight as Qing Xiaoran, Iron Buddha, and Su Yuechen lay defeated among the ruins.
• Qi Wu rose into the air without delivering a finishing blow, alarming the defeated teams.

Qi Wu unleashed Super Almighty Push across the Ruined City, eliminating all three A-Rank teams and destroying the city. The attack stopped only at the virtual boundary, leaving Qi Wu alone amid a vast crater as Wolf Team and the others watched in shock.

• Qi Wu rose above the Ruined City and warned the challengers to feel pain as he prepared Almighty Push.
• Su Yuechen, Iron Buddha, Qing Xiaoran, and their teams fled from Qi Wu's gathering power.
• Qi Wu unleashed Super Almighty Push, and its expanding force field flattened buildings and swept through the fleeing challengers.
• The force field caught Iron Buddha and shattered his Ming King Golden Body, then killed Qing Xiaoran when she attacked it with her Heavy Iron Fan.
• Su Yuechen used Extreme Cold Eternal Freeze Domain, but the force field crushed her ice and eliminated her.
• The attack erased the Ruined City up to the virtual boundary, leaving Qi Wu alone while Wolf Team and the others stared in shock.

After Qi Wu’s devastating attack stunned the teams and audience, their awe pushed his Satoru Gojo template fusion past 80%, unlocking Hollow Technique: Purple. Qi Wu mastered the annihilating technique and felt his spiritual power surge, bringing his Awakening within reach.

• Bai Xiao admitted that he could not match the scale of Qi Wu’s city-destroying attack, even if he might have an edge in close combat.
• Jiang Qingyue admired Qi Wu, Lilith asked him to teach her the move, and Gale realized how vast the gap between them had become.
• The audience’s awe earned Qi Wu 3,500 popularity points and raised his fusion level to 81%, unlocking Hollow Technique: Purple.
• Qi Wu combined Blue’s attraction and Red’s repulsion into a dark-purple point capable of erasing whatever it struck.
• Qi Wu felt his spiritual power undergo a qualitative leap and sensed that his Awakening was near.

After crushing the four A-Rank teams, Qi Wu reminded Wolf Team of his promise to take him to the Abyssal Grand Prison, but Wolf Team first led him and the others to meet a woman from headquarters. The chapter ended with the woman, Su Li, greeting the group by offering them cigarettes.

• Qi Wu emerged from the ruined Virtual Battlefield and received praise from Wolf Team, Bai Xiao, for his rapidly growing strength.
• Qi Wu reminded Wolf Team of his promise to show him the Abyssal Grand Prison, and Wolf Team agreed to arrange the visit after the paperwork was done.
• Wolf Team said the Nanjiang Branch Bureau needed to address the Mandala Society's threat and ordered Qi Wu, his Salvation Squad, and the four defeated A-Rank captains to meet a visitor from headquarters.
• Qi Wu and the others followed Wolf Team to a conference room, where he complained that Su Li was smoking inside.
• Su Li turned her chair to face the group, glanced at Lilith, and offered everyone a Huazi.

Su Li revealed that she had come to Nanjiang to retrieve Lilith for the Europa Delegation, which claimed she was a missing vampire princess. Qi Wu refused to hand over his teammate, leaving the conference room tense.

• Su Li offered the captains cigarettes until Wolf Team objected, and Iron Buddha told Qi Wu that she was the Empire's fifth princess and had a secret Prophecy ability.
• Su Li addressed Qi Wu and Lilith, then explained that the Holy Blood Council had asked the Empire to find a missing vampire princess believed to be in the Southeastern Province.
• Su Li identified Lilith as the princess and said bringing her to the Imperial Capital for the Europa Delegation was one of her main missions.
• Qi Wu told Su Li that Lilith was an important member of the Salvation Team and refused to hand her over to outsiders.

Qi Wu and Su Li negotiated over Lilith, agreeing that she would remain with the Nanjiang Branch Bureau for now and meet Europa's envoys later. Su Li then turned to the Mandala Society and prepared to use her ability to investigate its likely next move.

• Qi Wu refused to let Su Li take Lilith, and warned that even Xiao Tiance could not take someone under his protection.
• Su Li decided against forcing the issue and proposed that Lilith stay with Qi Wu's squad while the Nanjiang Branch Bureau supervised her, with a meeting with Europa's envoys to come later.
• Qi Wu accepted Su Li's proposal and asked Lilith what she thought; Lilith agreed to follow her captain's arrangements.
• Wolf Team eased tensions after the agreement was settled.
• Su Li asked Wolf Team about a place to use her ability to investigate the Mandala Society, and Wolf Team said the rooftop observation deck was ready.

Su Li revealed that Xiao Tiance might be nearing Awakening and explained that her apparent prophecy came from invoking a Guardian Deity. The group reached the rooftop altar, where Su Li prepared to demonstrate her ability.

• Wolf Team asked Su Li how Xiao Tiance was doing, and she said he showed signs of approaching Awakening.
• Su Li said Xiao Tiance had secluded himself while deputy directors handled headquarters’ affairs, and she linked his breakthrough signs to possible Spiritual Energy Revival.
• Su Li’s recognition of Qi Wu earned him a system notification, while Wolf Team considered his importance amid the coming upheaval.
• Wolf Team led the group to the rooftop altar, where Su Li explained that her ability was Deity Invocation rather than true prophecy.

Su Li invoked her guardian deity, True Lord, using a cigarette as incense and received an omen of a newborn sun in the east. Wolf Team interpreted “newborn” as a homophone for “beast,” and Su Li confirmed his guess, leaving the team to learn that True Lord was a young, unconventional deity created during a village god parade.

• Bai Xiao explained that Su Li had contracted with the guardian deity True Lord and gained her prophetic abilities through that contract.
• Su Li used her cigarette as incense and invited True Lord to descend, producing an omen of a newborn sun leaning east.
• Gale, Iron Buddha, Su Yuechen, and Jiang Qingyue offered possible interpretations of the omen, while Su Li watched them guess.
• Wolf Team suggested that “newborn” sounded like “beast,” and Su Li nodded to confirm his interpretation.
• Wolf Team told the captains that True Lord had been created by young men during a village god parade and favored cigarettes, QQ gummies, and unconventional puns.

After Qi Wu identified the Nanjiang Ecological Reserve and Wildlife Park as a likely Mandala Society target, the team investigated and detected a faint Demon aura that seemed to come from underground. As Qi Wu began to use Planetary Devastation to expose the hidden threat, a strange black shadow raced toward them from the southeast.

• Su Li accepted Wolf Team's explanation that guardian deities usually shared their ability users' personalities.
• Qi Wu identified the Nanjiang Ecological Reserve and Wildlife Park as a likely target because of its animals, research facilities, and secluded terrain.
• Wolf Team sent orders to check the reserve, but learned the security post could not be reached and dispatched the team to investigate.
• At the reserve, Qi Wu sensed a faint Demon aura that seemed to be underground or concealed beneath multiple layers, while scouts found only brief camera malfunctions.
• Qi Wu began gathering force for Planetary Devastation despite Wolf Team's warning about the reserve's rare animals.
• A black shadow tore across the southeastern sky toward the team.

Qi Wu and Wolf Team fought a Harpy that the Mandala Society had sent to lure them into a trap. The creature’s self-destruction released mist that drove Demons into a frenzy, and the group found themselves surrounded.

• Su Li fired her Extinguish Silence and Evil-Breaker pistols at the Harpy, but it dodged both shots and charged at her.
• Qi Wu stopped the Harpy with Blue’s gravity and approached it, intending to capture it alive.
• The Harpy activated a self-destruct device, and Qi Wu used Limitless to protect Wolf Team, Su Li, and their companions from the blast.
• The Harpy’s explosion released gray mist that Wolf Team recognized as the ability of the black-robed man from the Child-Giving Monastery, which could enrage Demons.
• Qi Wu warned that it might be too late to escape as frenzied Demons surrounded the group in the reserve.

Qi Wu and Wolf Team fought off a horde of Mandala Society Synthetic Beasts in the gray fog. Qi Wu used Unlimited Void to slaughter dozens at once, but sensed several far more powerful presences approaching as the fog closed in again.

• Wolf Team identified the charging creatures as Synthetic Beasts and ordered the team to engage.
• Iron Buddha, Su Li, Wolf Team, and the other fighters attacked the beasts while Qi Wu studied the fog with his Six Eyes.
• Qi Wu used Red: Almighty Push to clear the fog, but it flowed back and seemed to grow slightly stronger.
• Qi Wu expanded Unlimited Void, freezing the Synthetic Beasts within its range and killing dozens with Spiritual Power hand blades.
• Qi Wu sensed several powerful, kingly presences approaching through the fog and prepared for the main fight.