Chapter Summaries

Qi Wu challenged the Black Ape King to a hand-to-hand fight while Wolf Team and the others engaged the remaining king-class Synthetic Beasts. Qi Wu blocked the ape’s strongest punch and began outmaneuvering it, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Five king-class Synthetic Beasts emerged from the gray mist, led by the Black Ape King.
• Wolf Team assigned Su Li to the Vulture King, Su Yuechen and Qing Xiaoran to the Iron Crocodile King, Iron Buddha and Luo Bai to the White Bear King, and took on the Golden Lion King himself.
• Qi Wu stepped forward to face the Black Ape King, and it charged after he taunted it.
• Qi Wu dispelled his [Limitless] barrier and stopped the Black Ape King’s punch with his own fist.
• Qi Wu knocked the ape off balance and dodged its furious barrage, countering with precise punches and kicks as the others watched in astonishment.

Qi Wu struck the Black Ape King with a Black Flash that sent it crashing into a hillside, but the beast survived and entered a stronger, berserk phase. After their renewed close-quarters fight showed that ordinary attacks could not overcome its defenses and regeneration, Qi Wu launched a Black Flash barrage.

• Qi Wu slipped past the Black Ape King's sweeping arms and landed a Black Flash on its abdomen, hurling it through rock formations into a distant hillside.
• The Black Ape King burst out of the hillside stronger and more enraged, then charged Qi Wu again.
• Qi Wu advanced to meet the Black Ape King, and they fought at close range as it tanked his attacks and retaliated with powerful blows.
• Qi Wu realized that ordinary strikes could not break through the Black Ape King's defenses and regeneration, then moved around its side.
• Qi Wu thrust both palms forward and unleashed Black Flash: Barrage at the Black Ape King.

Qi Wu killed the Black Ape King with five consecutive Black Flashes, stunning everyone on the battlefield and raising his Satoru Gojo template integration to 85%. He then moved to help Iron Buddha and Luo Bai against the White Bear King, striking the bear with a Black Flash elbow.

• Qi Wu landed five consecutive Black Flashes and blasted the Black Ape King into a mist of blood.
• Wolf Team, Jiang Qingyue, the A-Rank captains, and Su Li reacted to Qi Wu's overwhelming strength as his template integration rose to 85%.
• Qi Wu teased his teammates for still fighting and promised to help them.
• Qi Wu appeared beside Iron Buddha and Luo Bai as they struggled against the White Bear King.
• Qi Wu struck the White Bear King's head with a Black Flash elbow.

Qi Wu helped defeat the White Bear King, Iron Crocodile King, and Vulture King while Su Li, Su Yuechen, Qing Xiaoran, Iron Buddha, and others fought them. Bai Xiao killed the Golden Lion King, leaving all five king-class Synthetic Beasts dead and the battle over.

• Qi Wu killed the White Bear King with an elbow strike enhanced by Black Flash, astonishing Iron Buddha.
• Qi Wu pierced the Iron Crocodile King's neck with a Hand Blade and killed it, after Su Yuechen and Qing Xiaoran had struggled to damage it.
• Qi Wu used Universal Pull to hold the Vulture King in place, allowing Su Li to shoot through its eyes and kill it.
• Qi Wu found Bai Xiao beside the Golden Lion King's corpse and learned Wolf Team had killed it.
• The five king-class Synthetic Beasts lay dead, and Iron Buddha declared the battle over.

After Qi Wu helped defeat the Synthetic Beasts, he warned that the battle was not over and confronted a double of the Mandala Society’s Black-Robed Leader. The leader revealed that the beast attack had been an ambush targeting Qi Wu, then began to unveil the ultimate achievement of the [Beast King] Sequence Project.

• Jiang Qingyue, Gale, Lilith, and the others caught their breath as the ordinary Synthetic Beasts retreated, and Wolf Team suggested resting before withdrawing.
• Qi Wu sensed that the battle was not over and warned that the mastermind had yet to appear.
• A black-robed man attacked Qi Wu, then revealed himself as the Black-Robed Leader of the Child-Giving Monastery and the Mandala Society.
• Qi Wu recognized that the Black-Robed Leader was only a double, and the leader admitted that his true body was hiding while he used the battle as an encirclement aimed at Qi Wu.
• The Black-Robed Leader revealed that the king-class Synthetic Beasts had been intended for an assault on Nanjiang City and declared that sacrificing them to capture Qi Wu was worthwhile.
• The Black-Robed Leader raised his hand and began presenting the Mandala Society’s ultimate achievement in the [Beast King] Sequence Project as the earth trembled.

The Mandala Society's black-robed man unleashed the Chimera Beast, a gigantic false Awakener that could devastate Nanjiang City. After the 749 Bureau's attacks failed to penetrate its rule-based defenses, Qi Wu prepared to use a powerful move against it.

• The black-robed man revealed the Chimera Beast and ordered it to kill Qi Wu and the others before heading south to attack Nanjiang City.
• Wolf Team attacked first, but the Chimera Beast's hide stopped his claws and its sweeping foreleg sent him flying.
• Iron Buddha, Su Yuechen, Qing Xiaoran, Gale, Lilith, Jiang Qingyue, and Su Li attacked in turn, but none of their efforts harmed the beast.
• Su Li recognized that the Chimera Beast's defense was a rule-based ability, and the 749 Bureau members realized they could not injure it.
• Qi Wu calmly identified the beast as the black-robed man's trump card and manifested [Blue] and [Red] to prepare [that move].

Qi Wu used Hollow Technique: Hollow Purple to annihilate the Chimera Beast and clear a corridor through the gray mist. The black-robed man vanished, leaving Qi Wu and the 749 Bureau members at the battlefield.

• Qi Wu ordered Wolf Team, Iron Buddha, Su Li, Jiang Qingyue, and the others to retreat as the Chimera Beast prepared to attack him.
• Qi Wu chanted the Nine Principles and combined [Blue] and [Red] into a purple sphere.
• Qi Wu fired Hollow Technique: Hollow Purple, erasing the Chimera Beast and blasting away the gray mist across a corridor over a thousand meters wide.
• Qi Wu asked the black-robed man where his real body was hiding, but the man vanished and left behind an empty robe.
• The 749 Bureau members stood in stunned silence as Qi Wu's Satoru Gojo template fusion reached 87%.

Qi Wu destroyed the Mandala Society’s Beast King project and persuaded Wolf Team to take him to the Abyssal Grand Prison. After the Intelligence Division investigated the wildlife park, Wolf Team prepared to return to the Imperial Capital, but a subordinate reported that Qi Wu had tied up Advisor Su Li.

• Qi Wu killed the enormous Demon and erased the gray mist, then asked Wolf Team to take him to the Abyssal Grand Prison as a reward.
• Wolf Team agreed to take Qi Wu to the Imperial Capital after the Intelligence Division finished investigating the wildlife park.
• The Intelligence Division identified the Mandala Society’s Beast King project as an effort to create Synthetic Beasts and found that the black-robed figure had been a Bishop.
• Wolf Team prepared to return to the Imperial Capital, but a subordinate rushed in to report that Qi Wu had tied up Advisor Su Li.

Qi Wu fought Su Li in the Virtual Battlefield and learned that her new spiritual-power coating could penetrate his [Limitless] slightly. After naming the technique [Cursed Technique Extension], he launched an attack and outmaneuvered her, leaving their fight ongoing.

• Qi Wu agreed to fight Su Li in the Virtual Battlefield and met her in a simulated Jiangnan canal town.
• Su Li fired coated bullets that pierced [Limitless] by an inch, revealing her new spiritual-power technique.
• Qi Wu named the technique [Cursed Technique Extension], and Su Li accepted the name before resuming the fight.
• Qi Wu attacked at high speed, evaded Su Li's gunfire, and appeared crouched on a bridge railing five meters away.

Su Li fought Qi Wu in the Virtual Battlefield, using her Gun-Fu and cursed technique extensions against his Limitless before he defeated her with Red. Afterward, Qi Wu asked whether she knew about the [Abyssal Grand Prison], leaving the conversation poised to turn to headquarters secrets.

• Su Li asked why Qi Wu had not taken her down instantly, then resumed the spar with greater speed and focus.
• Su Li combined twin-pistol fire and close combat to attack Qi Wu's Limitless, while he calmly deflected her strikes.
• Qi Wu used Blue to pull Su Li close and eliminated her with Cursed Technique Reversal [Red].
• Su Li emerged from the Virtual Battlefield shaken by the realistic experience of dying and argued with Qi Wu about his finishing blow.
• Qi Wu asked Su Li whether she knew about the [Abyssal Grand Prison].

Qi Wu learned about the powerful inmates in the Abyssal Grand Prison and decided to get himself locked up there to find worthy sparring partners. He knocked out Consultant Su Li and carried her away, intending to use her authority to secure his imprisonment.

• Su Li told Qi Wu that the Abyssal Grand Prison held dangerous Psychics and Demons, including False Awakening-level inmates.
• Qi Wu revealed that he wanted to be imprisoned there so he could fight the inmates and test a new template.
• Su Li warned Qi Wu that the prison was dangerous and that getting out required extensive procedures, but he remained determined.
• Qi Wu proposed kidnapping Su Li, a special envoy from headquarters, to force the Bureau to lock him up.
• Qi Wu knocked Su Li unconscious with a hand blade and walked toward the exit with her over his shoulder.

Qi Wu explained that he had kidnapped Su Li to provoke headquarters into sending him to the Abyssal Grand Prison, where he could fight stronger opponents. Wolf Team agreed to take him there in three days, and Su Li asked to go along to watch him get himself killed.

• Qi Wu admitted to Wolf Team and Su Li that he kidnapped Su Li to get himself imprisoned in the Abyssal Grand Prison.
• Qi Wu told Wolf Team he wanted to fight the prison’s powerful inmates and keep pushing beyond his limits.
• Wolf Team agreed to contact the warden and take Qi Wu to the prison in three days, making him promise not to get himself killed.
• Su Li asked Wolf Team to take her too so she could watch Qi Wu get himself killed as payback for knocking her out.

Qi Wu arrived at the Abyssal Grand Prison with Wolf Team and Su Li, eager to challenge its prisoners and discover new templates. The warden welcomed him and led the group farther inside.

• Qi Wu, Wolf Team, and Su Li flew to the prison and saw the enormous fortress built into the mountainside.
• Qi Wu reached the prison’s main gate, joked about taking apart a guardian statue, and entered with Wolf Team and Su Li.
• The prison warden recognized Qi Wu from Bai Xiao’s report and questioned his decision to challenge the prisoners.
• Qi Wu joked with the warden, who laughed and led him and the others deeper into the prison.

Qi Wu entered the Abyssal Grand Prison with the old man to fight its dangerous inmates and provide research data. As the group descended, the old man explained the prison’s levels and introduced rehabilitating prisoner Zhou Zhen; on level eight, Qi Wu received a prompt to check in for a new template.

• The old man explained that he had admitted Qi Wu because he was bored and needed fresh data from fights with the inmates.
• The old man warned Qi Wu that the prisoners could kill him, then opened the entrance to the Abyssal Grand Prison.
• As they descended, the old man described the prison’s eighteen levels and said only one person was held on level eighteen.
• Qi Wu met Zhou Zhen, an Eighth Rank Psychic prisoner being assessed for rehabilitation, but dismissed him as too weak to fight.
• When the group reached level eight, Qi Wu’s system offered him a chance to check in for a new template.

Qi Wu unlocked a 50% Ryomen Sukuna template fusion and felt its battle hunger merge with his Satoru Gojo powers. On the Abyssal Grand Prison’s thirteenth floor, he demanded a challenge against its strongest inmate, Chen Tu, the Blood Asura.

• Qi Wu checked in and gained the Ryomen Sukuna template, unlocking Slashing Cursed Technique and Domain Expansion · Malevolent Shrine.
• As Wolf Team continued down the prison, Qi Wu’s battle intent grew and he sensed powerful False Awakeners on the thirteenth floor.
• The Warden Elder explained that the floor divided the Forbidden Prison for human Psychics from the Taboo Prison for Demons, and warned Qi Wu that a challenge could kill him.
• Qi Wu insisted on challenging the strongest prisoner, and the Warden Elder named Chen Tu, the Blood Asura, who had killed his family and massacred three Psychic Academies after touching the Rule of Slaughter.

An old man told Qi Wu how Chen Tu slaughtered his family to awaken the Rule of Slaughter, then killed 1,372 people before surrendering to Abyssal Grand Prison. Qi Wu chose to face Chen Tu, and the old man opened the sealed cell’s one-way passage for him.

• The old man recounted how Chen Tu killed his wife, children, and parents to awaken the Rule of Slaughter.
• Chen Tu spent seven days in his family’s blood, then killed 1,372 people across three schools before turning himself in.
• Qi Wu said Chen Tu was worth cutting down himself, while Wolf Team stayed behind and Su Li warned Qi Wu that Chen Tu’s blade was fast.
• Qi Wu assured Su Li that his own blade was fast, then followed the old man to Chen Tu’s high-security cell.
• The old man activated the sealing talismans and told Qi Wu that the passage inside was one-way and no one else could enter.

Qi Wu entered Chen Tu’s cell and tested the slaughter rule that let Chen Tu’s blade breach Limitless. Qi Wu then revealed his own slashing power, cutting Chen Tu from thirty meters away and leaving him bleeding.

• Qi Wu entered the dark cell and faced Chen Tu while the Prison Warden, Wolf Team, and Su Li watched through surveillance feeds.
• Chen Tu attacked with a rule-infused cleaver, cutting Qi Wu’s clothes despite Limitless, while Reverse Cursed Technique healed him.
• Chen Tu launched seven slashes, but Limitless stopped them and Qi Wu remained unharmed.
• Chen Tu claimed he could eventually overwhelm Qi Wu’s defense with enough attacks.
• Qi Wu revealed his Slashing Technique and used Dismantle to cut Chen Tu across the chest from thirty meters away.

Qi Wu defeated Chen Tu in a battle of blade techniques and killed him with a single slash before slicing his remains into pieces. Qi Wu then calmly walked out of the prison cell.

• Chen Tu realized Qi Wu's earlier strike had been a test after seeing the smooth fissure it had cut in the wall.
• Qi Wu dismissed Chen Tu's slaughter slashes, then stopped his attack and broke his cleaver with two fingers.
• Chen Tu summoned thirty-six blood blades, but Qi Wu shattered them with a glance.
• Chen Tu formed a massive blood saber and attacked, but Qi Wu passed him and cut him in half with one slash.
• Qi Wu's Slashing Technique: Eight sliced Chen Tu's remains into uniform pieces as Qi Wu left the cell.

After killing Chen Tu, Qi Wu unlocked the Ten Shadows Technique and descended to the sixteenth floor, where he sensed the Demon Hopelessness. He resisted its despair and prepared to open its cell.

• Qi Wu emerged after killing Chen Tu, and the Warden Elder, Wolf Team, and Su Li stared at the gruesome scene in shock.
• The Warden Elder led Qi Wu deeper into the prison, warning him that the prisoners below were more terrifying than Chen Tu.
• On the sixteenth floor, Qi Wu sensed a powerful aura and learned that the seventh cell held Hopelessness, a Demon whose rule of despair had driven most of a Federation force to suicide.
• Qi Wu asked the Warden Elder to open Hopelessness's cell, but the elder warned that slashes might not overcome despair.
• When Qi Wu touched the sealed door, Hopelessness flooded his mind with visions of destruction and loss, but he dismissed the despair and was left with battle intent.

Qi Wu challenged Hopelessness, the rule of despair, and used his abilities to resist its attacks and strike it across space. Though his World-Cutting Slash hurt Hopelessness only briefly, Qi Wu called on Mr. Mahoraga for help.

• Qi Wu entered Hopelessness's gray-white domain and dismissed its first wave of despair with slashes.
• Qi Wu summoned the Divine Dogs, Great Serpent, and Nue to attack Hopelessness's hands, but they repeatedly reformed.
• Qi Wu used Limitless to keep the hands away and struck Hopelessness with a slash that cut through space.
• Hopelessness healed the wound and said Qi Wu was the first creature in over a hundred years to make it feel pain.
• Qi Wu summoned Mr. Mahoraga for help.