Chapter Summaries

Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou successfully created Kormir's Statue, which connected Qin Xiaoxia to the Truth Order and accelerated his thoughts. The connection overwhelmed him, and Doudou summoned the Shadow of the Red Banshee to help restrain it.

• Qin Xiaoxia sensed that his magic-polymer statue had developed a circulation aligned with the laws of Order Truth, and he and Doudou celebrated creating a Statue of Order.
• Qin Xiaoxia reasoned that Earth's unusual nature had allowed the laws of order to surge through the opening created by the statue, making Kormir's Statue exceptionally powerful.
• Qin Xiaoxia used a piece of mother crystal raw ore to connect with Kormir's Statue and learned that it amplified thought and drew information from the Truth Order.
• Qin Xiaoxia began trembling and bleeding from the strain as Doudou shouted encouragement from behind a pillar.
• Doudou activated the Mystic Realm spell formula, summoning the Shadow of the Red Banshee, whose magical words pressed against Qin Xiaoxia's overwhelming thoughts.

After surviving the ordeal of the Side of Truth, Qin Xiaoxia learned how to cultivate the corrupted mother crystal into a magic crystal vein. He buried the ore in the mystic realm’s fields and left it to grow into a mine.

• Qin Xiaoxia recovered from the mental shock and blood loss caused by using Kormir’s Statue, with help from Doudou and the Shadow of the Red Banshee.
• Qin Xiaoxia told Doudou the method had worked and promised him two magic crystals as a reward once the mine produced them.
• Qin Xiaoxia paid Nan Feng, Gu Hao, and Zhang Ruliang their wages and bonuses, then accepted them as candidates for the Association’s evaluation.
• Nan Feng, Gu Hao, and Zhang Ruliang returned to De Town while Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou went to the mystic realm’s fields.
• Qin Xiaoxia hurled the mother crystal raw ore into the ground, beginning its cultivation into a magic crystal vein.

Tao Xingzhi traveled to Jia City to inspect a heavily guarded construction site connected to the river incident investigation. There, he and Xiao Liu arrived as central government special representatives while Huang Jiutian discussed the project’s plans with the design team.

• Tao Xingzhi left Yue City without visiting its municipal government and headed to Jia City with Xiao Liu.
• Doudou recognized an unusual odor on Tao Xingzhi but chose not to approach him or offer a warning.
• Tao Xingzhi and Xiao Liu showed their credentials to the armed police and entered the guarded construction site.
• Huang Jiutian debated construction methods with the project manager and other designers while working as a resident designer.
• A senior site manager announced the special representatives’ arrival, and the designers realized Tao Xingzhi and Xiao Liu held central government standing.

Tao Xingzhi inspected the Jia City civil defense project and ordered research equipment added to Structure One. Huang Jiutian spotted disguised Demons outside the office and tried to get everyone to leave for lunch, but the creatures moved as Tao Xingzhi headed out.

• Tao Xingzhi introduced himself to the site designers and urged them to maintain quality while speeding up construction.
• Tao Xingzhi presented new equipment plans for Structure One and asked about the project's difficulties and schedule.
• Huang Jiutian noticed a diagram suggesting an underground tunnel connection and began to suspect the building's purpose.
• Huang Jiutian sensed danger, spotted translucent gecko-like Demons outside, and feared they had targeted him and the people in the office.
• Huang Jiutian shouted that it was lunchtime, and Tao Xingzhi sent everyone to eat before inspecting the site.
• Huang Jiutian saw the Demons move and reveal terrifying mouthparts as Tao Xingzhi headed out.

Jiu Tian helped Tao Xingzhi and Xiao Liu fight invisible insect monsters, then guided armed police to attack them. The survivors pursued the last fleeing creature toward the excavation and prepared to expose it with water hoses.

• Jiu Tian hurled an office chair at an invisible creature, interrupting its attack and revealing its position when it struck the doorway.
• Tao Xingzhi and Xiao Liu fired at the creature while the official surnamed Li threw the wounded engineer’s blood toward it; the creature retreated after its feeding tube was severed.
• Jiu Tian realized the insects were escaping and led Tao Xingzhi outside, where he pointed out monsters on the prefab roof and a dump truck.
• The armed police saturated the roof with gunfire, killing the insects there, while Jiu Tian warned that another had jumped beyond the cordon toward the excavation.
• The official surnamed Li ordered the armed police to spray the excavation and surrounding area with water hoses to stop the last creature from escaping.

Huang Jiutian helped armed police track and kill an invisible insect monster at the construction site, then was questioned about his ability to see the creatures. Tao Xingzhi concluded that they had discovered a suspected new human, while Huang Jiutian remained under guarded observation.

• Tao Xingzhi, Xiao Liu, and Li Donglai armed themselves as Huang Jiutian guided the police toward the insect monster in the excavation pit.
• The armed police used sprinklers and high-pressure hoses to reveal the monster, and snipers shot it after it emerged from beneath an excavator.
• Huang Jiutian confirmed the monster was dead, and the research and chemical defense reinforcement team later collected its body while the site stayed locked down.
• Tao Xingzhi and Li Donglai questioned Huang Jiutian about when he gained his ability and why he had pretended to be sick; Huang Jiutian explained that he feared the monsters were targeting him.
• After nearly two hours of questioning, the officials kept Huang Jiutian under guarded observation and arranged for him to rest and eat.
• Tao Xingzhi told Xiao Liu to prepare a briefing report, saying they had discovered a suspected new human.

Huang Jiutian worried that his exposure might keep him from returning to work or telling Qin Xiaoxia, while government officials assessed his unusual perception as a strategic asset. After helping Tao Xingzhi search the area for more insect monsters, Huang Jiutian boarded a plane with the team, uncertain what awaited him.

• Xiao Du told Huang Jiutian that workers believed he was a government agent or member of the Dragon Group, leaving Huang worried about returning to his company and explaining things to Xiaoxia.
• An elderly official in Kyoto reviewed Huang Jiutian’s background and agreed with Tao Xingzhi’s assessment that his perception and vision could be strategically important.
• Huang Jiutian said farewell to Li Donglai and traveled with Tao Xingzhi and Xiao Liu, using his perception as their vehicles searched around Jia City for more insect monsters.
• After sensing nothing during the search, Huang Jiutian saw crates likely containing insect-monster corpses being loaded onto a plane at the airport.
• Tao Xingzhi promised Huang Jiutian that he would not lose his freedom, and Huang boarded the other plane with the team.

Qin Xiaoxia noticed Huang Jiutian had left Jia City without telling him and suspected something was wrong, though the phone call revealed little. As he waited for news, the magic crystal beneath the mystic realm began to sprout crystalline tendrils.

• Qin Xiaoxia checked his projected crops while Doudou tested whether the rice seedlings could feed a rabbit and admitted he still planned to cook it.
• Qin Xiaoxia sensed the magic power on Huang Jiutian’s arm had left Jia City and called him to find out what had happened.
• Tao Xingzhi handed Huang Jiutian the phone and warned him not to mention the incident or his trip to Kyoto.
• Doudou chatted with Huang Jiutian about barbecue, and Huang Jiutian ended the call without revealing where he was going.
• Qin Xiaoxia concluded Huang Jiutian was in trouble, then saw the raw magic crystal tremble and extend crystalline tendrils.

Qin Xiaoxia expanded the underground crystal roots with magic but found the deposit needed a different fertilizer. At The Oriole's Pursuit, Cui Ying realized that the repeated pleas from Scarecrow might be genuine, while Scarecrow remained trapped and turning into a plant at a greenhouse farm.

• The Jia City Construction Site resumed work less than half a day after the insect monsters attacked, with security forces equipped with heavier weapons and new detection gear.
• Qin Xiaoxia fed magic power to the mother crystal raw ore, causing its roots to spread underground before his power scorched some tendrils and the deposit stopped absorbing it.
• Cui Ying and Count discussed Scarecrow's repeated, garbled help requests, which arrived around dusk and included no way to contact him.
• Cui Ying wondered whether Scarecrow could not call the police, and Count questioned how that could be possible if he had internet access.
• At a greenhouse farm, a vine-covered person used a phone with intermittent Wi-Fi to send a plea for help before becoming rigid and sinking underground as the sunset faded.

The Oriole's Pursuit staff traced Scarecrow's account to Chao Xianjun and alerted the police after they could not reach him. Four officers investigated his remote greenhouses, where vines attacked Zhang Xinyuan as soon as he shone a flashlight through the house window.

• Count checked Scarecrow's registration details and called the listed number, but it was unavailable.
• A staff member suggested calling the police, and The Oriole's Pursuit's report prompted authorities to check the number's owner, Chao Xianjun.
• The R County Police Bureau found that Chao Xianjun and his wife could not be reached and sent four officers to his leased greenhouses that night.
• Jin Shunfu and the other officers found the dark greenhouse grounds covered with vines wrapped around lamp posts and sprawled across the paths.
• When Zhang Xinyuan shone his flashlight through the house window, the glass burst outward and vines engulfed him, forcing Jin Shunfu to drag the other officers back.

Jin Shunfu and two officers escaped the aggressive mutant vines at Chao Xianjun's greenhouse, leaving Zhang Xinyuan behind and Huang Yulong badly injured. After Jin reported the threat, officials ordered an emergency response and declared a Category One incident.

• The vines attacked the officers, trapping Huang Yulong and leaving Zhang Xinyuan behind as Jin Shunfu and another officer dragged Huang to safety.
• Jin Shunfu realized the vines were drawn to light, and the officers escaped in their patrol car without turning on its lights.
• Jin Shunfu contacted the R County Police Bureau and warned them that the greenhouse plants attacked light sources, requesting immediate backup and specialized equipment.
• Lu Guodong ordered an emergency recall, evacuation within one kilometer, a power cutoff, and a response from the fire brigade and local police.
• Tao Xingzhi declared a Category One incident and ordered Huang Jiutian recalled from the research institute before the team departed.

Authorities sealed off the greenhouse area in R County, evacuated nearby residents, and prepared forces to contain the dangerous plants while waiting for daylight. Meanwhile, Huang Jiutian was examined and sent back into the field, and Cui Ying’s editorial team drove toward Flower Tree Village before a checkpoint stopped them.

• Reinforcements arrived in R County, treated the injured officers, and began evacuating residents and establishing roadblocks around the greenhouse area.
• Authorities sent a night-vision drone to observe the motionless vines and prepared incendiary weapons and aircraft in case containment failed after daybreak.
• Researchers examined Huang Jiutian, while Tao Xingzhi and the Special Security Team prepared to travel again; Huang Jiutian slept aboard their departing chartered aircraft.
• Cui Ying and her colleagues linked the police investigation into The Oriole's Pursuit to a reported chemical leak in R County and drove toward Flower Tree Village.
• A traffic officer stopped Cui Ying’s car at a checkpoint, warned that Flower Tree Village had been evacuated, and asked for the name of their supposed relative.

Cui Ying and her companions were detained after their attempt to reach Flower Tree Village failed, while Tao Xingzhi’s forces prepared to attack a magic-wielding entity beneath the cordon. A bunker-buster missile crippled the Dark Realm Tree Shepherd, which fled underground in terror as troops moved in to collect the vine fragments.

• Cui Ying and her companions were caught bluffing at a checkpoint, identified as reporters, and sent to a detention center in Shencheng for three days.
• Huang Jiutian sensed one intelligent, magic-wielding entity underground and told Tao Xingzhi it was distinct from the vines.
• Qin Xiaoxia sensed Huang Jiutian’s danger through their magic connection and hurried toward Su Province with Doudou.
• Tao Xingzhi ordered an attack at dawn, and a Bunker-Buster Missile struck the underground entity, severely crippling it.
• Tao Xingzhi sent armed police and researchers to collect the scattered vine fragments and treat the area with plant-killing agents.
• The Dark Realm Tree Shepherd fled deeper underground, suppressed its magic power, and abandoned its Vine Seedlings.

Armed forces encountered dangerous, toxin-bearing vines while securing the shantytown, as the wounded Tree Shepherd fled underground. Lost on the roads near Zhencheng, Qin Xiaoxia sensed an ominous presence approaching him and Doudou.

• Soldiers collected writhing branches and observed a huge, barbed plant damaged by a bunker-buster missile near the shantytown.
• Vines attacked a soldier, and rescuers burned and cut them free; sap poisoned seven soldiers, prompting their evacuation to a hospital.
• Huang Jiutian was placed in a heavy protective suit as forces became more cautious.
• The wounded Tree Shepherd fled underground for more than ten kilometers, struggling to keep its injuries stable as it sought a less populated area.
• Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou got lost on a rural road near Zhencheng after their phone battery ran out and the car navigation led them astray.
• Qin Xiaoxia sensed a powerful premonition and wondered whether an ominous 'gift package' was coming toward them.

After sensing an approaching threat, Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou hurriedly built a concealed Spell Formation on the road and prepared an ambush. The Tree Shepherd emerged from underground and was caught in their attack, ending the chapter trapped in Doudou’s Weaving Mystic Realm with its magic power in chaos.

• Qin Xiaoxia felt a premonition of danger, moved Gou Junbao's car, and enlisted Doudou to help inscribe a concealed Spell Formation.
• Doudou made shaping substance from uprooted crops while Qin Xiaoxia carved the formation into the concrete road.
• The Tree Shepherd surfaced from the farmland, and Qin Xiaoxia attacked it with a fiery spell that charred its thorny body.
• The Tree Shepherd gathered magic power to fight back, but Qin Xiaoxia called on Doudou to act.
• Doudou cast the Weaving Mystic Realm, trapping the Tree Shepherd and throwing its magic power into chaos.

The Tree Shepherd, a Thorn Child who had fled a missile attack, realized he had been trapped inside a mystic realm. Doudou identified his rare abilities and explained to Qin Xiaoxia the value of capturing him, while the Tree Shepherd feared being kept alive for his sap.

• The Tree Shepherd recalled arriving in the unfamiliar world and mistaking its apparently powerless inhabitants for harmless creatures.
• The natives attacked with missiles, and the Tree Shepherd escaped into a prepared mystic realm after abandoning most of his body.
• The Tree Shepherd recognized the Shadow of the Red Banshee as a mystic realm guardian and gave up hope of escape.
• Doudou told Qin Xiaoxia that their captive was a rare Thorn Child whose magic could cultivate valuable plants and whose sap was prized.
• The Tree Shepherd feared that his captors would keep him alive and repeatedly extract his sap.

Qin Xiaoxia confronted the gravely wounded Tree Shepherd in the Mystic Realm and used a terrifying display of magic to make him believe he would be killed. Doudou intervened just in time, leaving the Tree Shepherd alive and regarding Doudou as a fellow Elf.

• Qin Xiaoxia revealed himself to the Tree Shepherd and demanded to know how he had reached this world and why.
• The Tree Shepherd explained that a storm had swept him from the Gloomy Realm into the World Barrier, where he had lost most of his life force.
• Qin Xiaoxia accused the Tree Shepherd of killing his people and used the Mystic Realm's magic to immobilize and burn him.
• The Tree Shepherd struggled to resist and regretted not surrendering, while Qin Xiaoxia's attack strained his limited magic.
• Doudou ran in, begged Qin Xiaoxia to stop, and checked the Tree Shepherd, who recognized him as a Saroba Sprite.

Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou faced the Tree Shepherd in the mystic realm, where the Tree Shepherd surrendered part of his Heart of Nature and survived. They returned to the human world, while Tao Xingzhi and Huang Jiutian investigated the supernatural traces left behind.

• Qin Xiaoxia refused Doudou’s plea to spare the Tree Shepherd, but the Tree Shepherd begged for mercy and exposed his Heart of Nature.
• The Tree Shepherd cracked his Emerald heart and offered Qin Xiaoxia a piece, causing many of his thorn branches to crumble; Qin Xiaoxia accepted the larger half and suspected the Tree Shepherd was still alive.
• Qin Xiaoxia shrank the mystic realm, had the Shadow of the Red Banshee carry Gou Junbao's Audi, and returned with Doudou and the Tree Shepherd in the trunk.
• Tao Xingzhi and Huang Jiutian investigated the scorched farmland and discovered signs that something had escaped underground, along with an intricate pattern etched into the road.
• Huang Jiutian sensed a powerful force and suspected Qin Xiaoxia had appeared again to deal with the mutated monster.

Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou returned Gou Junbao’s battered Audi and tried to explain the damage, leaving Gou Junbao more concerned about Doudou’s welfare than the car. Gou Junbao paid for the repairs and began wondering what Qin Xiaoxia had been doing the night before.

• Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou returned to the Association’s mystic realm in Gou Junbao’s Audi, which had been scraped and dented during their trip.
• Doudou brought breakfast and the car keys to Gou Junbao, then claimed he wanted to become a racing driver and had acquired driving skills.
• Gou Junbao inspected the Audi, reassured Doudou, and became angry when he thought Qin Xiaoxia had made the child use tears to excuse the damage.
• Qin Xiaoxia explained himself over the phone and transferred Gou Junbao 3,000 yuan for a new paint job.
• Gou Junbao wondered about Qin Xiaoxia’s mysterious activities, the damaged car, and Nan Feng’s puzzling remarks about his love life.

Qin Xiaoxia and Doudou tried to revive the Tree Shepherd while the Crystal Mine rapidly expanded after receiving its remains and a piece of Emerald. Qin Xiaoxia harvested a glowing, energy-filled crystal from the new Crystal Forest, discovering that the mine could produce magic crystals.

• Qin Xiaoxia buried the Tree Shepherd's thorn vines, added fertilizer and soil, and let sunlight into the Mystic Realm, but the vines showed no change.
• Doudou suggested using natural fertilizer and activating Kormir's Statue, but Qin Xiaoxia dismissed both ideas while the Shadow of the Red Banshee watched over them.
• The Tree Shepherd's remains nourished the Crystal Mine, whose underground veins spread and began to crystallize as Qin Xiaoxia supplied magic power.
• When the Crystal Mine slowed, Qin Xiaoxia fed it a piece of Emerald, and its growth accelerated enough that he and Doudou moved their chairs and relocated the Tree Shepherd.
• The Crystal Mine expanded into a Crystal Forest, and Qin Xiaoxia sensed its energy, toppled a crystal pillar, and removed a glowing diamond-shaped crystal.