Chapter Summaries

Qin Siyang fought Han Lingye, but Han Lingye’s cloak exploded and left him badly injured and disoriented. Qin Siyang escaped with [Feast Kingdom] while his senses recovered, and Chen Fenghe’s medicine began helping him heal as Han Lingye remained at large.

• Han Lingye’s mind-control skill broke Qin Siyang’s Pure-Brightness Bracelets, but Qin Siyang passed through the multicolored Ice Barrier unharmed.
• Qin Siyang’s attacks shattered Han Lingye’s damaged cloak, but the cloak wrapped around Qin Siyang’s fist as Han Lingye vanished and triggered an explosion.
• The blast overwhelmed Qin Siyang’s senses and damaged his Frostflame Armor, while Choi Chan-hoon urged Duan Chongfang to give up and Duan kept fighting.
• Qin Siyang recovered enough to use [Feast Kingdom] to teleport away from the invisible Han Lingye and evade him repeatedly.
• Qin Siyang’s senses slowly returned, and the Strong Restoration Pharmaceutical Chen Fenghe had given him began to take effect.

Qin Siyang used [Feast Kingdom] to escape Han Lingye’s body-control skill while recovering and learning how it worked. After Han Lingye turned invisible again, Qin Siyang lost control of his body once more.

• Qin Siyang realized Han Lingye could control his body, but escaped with [Feast Kingdom] and weakened the skill’s hold by keeping his distance.
• Han Lingye pursued Qin Siyang and tried to restrain him with artifacts, but Qin Siyang’s teleportation and Frostflame Armor kept him safe as his body recovered.
• Qin Siyang regained enough movement to read the ring’s analysis, but it failed to identify Han Lingye’s Sequence.
• As the battle between Choi Chan-hoon and Duan Chongfang left Qin Siyang less room to teleport, Han Lingye turned invisible again.
• Qin Siyang lost control of his body once more while paused in midair.

Qin Siyang was captured by Han Lingye, who controlled him and stabbed him in the chest while refusing to explain why he had switched his sweetheart’s Gaokao exam paper. As Qin Siyang’s life faded, Zhao Longfei learned from Li Tianming that Qin Siyang was dying and rushed to find him.

• Qin Siyang exhausted [Feast Kingdom] while Han Lingye’s Mental Attack Skill kept him from controlling his body.
• Han Lingye appeared beside Qin Siyang, forced him to remove the Frostflame Armor, and drank medicine to ease his pain.
• Han Lingye refused to explain why he had switched Qin Siyang’s sweetheart’s Gaokao exam paper, then stabbed Qin Siyang in the chest.
• Qin Siyang thought of the instructions he had given Little Zhao before leaving as his vision darkened.
• Li Tianming showed Zhao Longfei a Vine Heart turning grayish-white and warned him that Xiao Qin was dying.
• Zhao Longfei failed to reach Duan Chongfang, learned Qin Siyang was at the Xingtu Hotel, and called Lister, Harrison, and Zhang Kuang to come with him.

As Qin Siyang appeared to be dying, the Sharing Contracts alerted others to his danger, but they could only wait and hope he survived. He swallowed a mysterious point of light, revived, and advanced to Origin Sequence Level Two as his Path to Godhood formed before him.

• Hu Chan and Zhao Sifang saw their Crimson Crystals turn gray and realized Qin Siyang was in grave danger, but neither went to join his rescue.
• Chu Xiaoang told Chu Baxing that Qin Siyang was close to death because the Crimson Crystals were turning to ash, while reassuring him that Qin Siyang was hard to kill.
• Wen Shu checked her unanswered message to Qin Siyang and struggled to focus on reading at the library.
• As his life faded, Qin Siyang pursued a white point of light, caught it, and swallowed it.
• Qin Siyang’s life returned as light formed a path he recognized as his Path to Godhood, and he advanced to Origin Sequence Level Two after refining one Primordial Starshine.

Qin Siyang broke through to origin sequence level two after nearly dying, gained new skills, and revived with Han Lingye’s knife still in his chest. He fought back and used rapid teleportation to evade Han Lingye, but his movement faltered and he began falling from the air.

• Qin Siyang’s lungs and heart restarted as he broke through to level two and gained the Profane Feast skill.
• Qin Siyang pulled Han Lingye’s knife from his chest and attacked him with triple Origin Violence, but Han Lingye vanished before the blow landed.
• Qin Siyang ate God Remains, restored his injuries, and began teleporting rapidly to evade Han Lingye’s mental attack.
• Duan Chongfang and Choi Chan-hoon continued fighting as they watched Qin Siyang’s afterimages flicker around the Hotel.
• Several minutes later, Qin Siyang appeared in midair, lost control of his movement, and plummeted downward.

Qin Siyang figured out that Han Lingye’s Mental Attack could target shadows and used the opening to kill him with a punch. He confirmed Han Lingye was dead and turned his attention to what came next in the battle.

• Qin Siyang kept dodging Han Lingye’s attacks while Duan Chongfang refused Choi Chan-hoon’s demand to surrender and continued firing at him.
• Han Lingye believed Qin Siyang’s Teleportation would soon expire and approached to kill him, noticing the golden glow beneath Qin Siyang’s damaged armor.
• Qin Siyang appeared behind Han Lingye and struck his head with a punch, killing him despite an invisible shield absorbing some of the blow.
• Qin Siyang used [Feast Kingdom] to appear beside Han Lingye and confirmed that his heart had stopped.
• Qin Siyang recalled Professor Wu Yu’s ring identifying Shadow Dancer as a possible sequence and realized Han Lingye’s Mental Attack could target shadows.

Qin Siyang defeated Han Lingye by baiting his shadow-targeting Mental Attack with a false shadow and striking once Han Lingye appeared. He then saw Duan Chongfang turn the tide against Choi Chan-hoon after Qin Siyang reset Duan Chongfang’s item-stealing skill cooldown.

• Qin Siyang reasoned that Han Lingye’s Mental Attack controlled anyone in contact with the object casting the targeted shadow, and that Han Lingye became physically untouchable while invisible.
• Qin Siyang used [Taste of Deification] to illuminate himself and erase his shadow, then created a separate stone-armored decoy to give Han Lingye a false target.
• At the five-and-a-half-minute mark, Qin Siyang stopped teleporting and fell, prompting Han Lingye to reveal himself after his control skill failed.
• Qin Siyang activated [Feast Kingdom] and killed Han Lingye, then turned to watch Choi Chan-hoon fight Duan Chongfang.
• Duan Chongfang used his item-stealing skill again, taking Choi Chan-hoon’s items and overwhelming him; Qin Siyang realized [Profane Feast] had reset Duan Chongfang’s cooldown.

Qin Siyang killed Han Lingye but remained trapped in the Spatial Artifact, which belonged to Choi Chan-hoon. As Duan Chongfang struggled against Choi Chan-hoon’s newly activated Divine Gift, Qin Siyang continued testing Professor Lu’s artifacts.

• Qin Siyang realized Han Lingye’s death had not ended the Spatial Artifact and concluded that Choi Chan-hoon must own it.
• Qin Siyang put Han Lingye’s corpse into his Storage Box and searched through Professor Lu’s artifacts while Duan Chongfang fought Choi Chan-hoon.
• Choi Chan-hoon injected himself with a deep-blue syringe and called on the God of Reincarnation for strength.
• Choi Chan-hoon unleashed an Ice Dragon Tornado that overwhelmed Duan Chongfang’s Tier Four Artifact and drove him to call for Qin Siyang’s help.

After injecting blue pharmaceuticals, Choi Chan-hoon overwhelmed Duan Chongfang with an empowered Ice Dragon Tornado, but Qin Siyang and Duan Chongfang used artifacts to counter it. Choi Chan-hoon then summoned a giant ice dove with his skill Call of Reincarnation, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Choi Chan-hoon injected himself with blue pharmaceuticals, dramatically increasing his strength and unleashing an Ice Dragon Tornado against Duan Chongfang.
• Qin Siyang used a [Teleportation Circle] to redirect the tornado's ice crystals, but the artifact shattered under the strain.
• Duan Chongfang activated a Protective Light Shield and used a match artifact to ignite the Ice Dragon Tornado.
• Duan Chongfang rushed toward Choi Chan-hoon as fire and ice clashed, but Choi Chan-hoon gathered the ice crystals around him.
• Choi Chan-hoon shouted "Call of Reincarnation!" and summoned a giant white dove made of ice crystals.

Choi Chan-hoon’s Ice Crystal White Dove overwhelmed Duan Chongfang and drove Qin Siyang into a corner. Qin Siyang used his tier six item to destroy the dove, though the weapon only grew into a short rod.

• Choi Chan-hoon praised the God of Reincarnation as the Ice Crystal White Dove blocked Duan Chongfang’s attack and damaged his Armor with its cold.
• Qin Siyang charged the dove, deflected its freezing hurricane, and then suffered a heavy blow from its wing.
• The dove repeatedly pursued Qin Siyang, who used [Feast Kingdom] to dodge until ice crystals left him with nowhere safe to teleport.
• Qin Siyang spat out the silver needle and transformed it into a short rod, then swung it at the dove’s enormous wing.
• The rod sent out a streak of light that shattered the dove’s wing and cut its body in half, dissolving it into fragments of ice.

Qin Siyang saw a mysterious being beyond the Spatial Artifact’s rift, but a strange force restored the memory as it was being erased. He rescued Duan Chongfang from the ice, and the pair escaped the collapsing Hotel into a warehouse.

• Qin Siyang saw a mirror-faced being wearing the Robe of Ten Thousand Doors and Corridors through the Spatial Artifact’s rift before the rift closed.
• A ripple tried to remove Qin Siyang’s memories of the being, but an unknown force restored them as an enormous bird’s eye opened above the Safe Zone.
• Qin Siyang realized Duan Chongfang was trapped behind the Ice Crystal White Dove’s ice and freed him with his Heaven-Splitting Halberd.
• Qin Siyang melted the ice around Duan Chongfang and revived him with Chen Fenghe’s special medicine, while Choi Chan-hoon remained dead.
• The Hotel collapsed, and Qin Siyang and Duan Chongfang appeared in a warehouse piled with ore waste.

After escaping the collapsed Spatial Artifact, Qin Siyang and Duan Chongfang found themselves in a Zone 5 ore warehouse and planned how to explain the deaths of Choi Chan-hoon and Han Lingye. Qin Siyang arranged the evidence to portray Choi Chan-hoon as the sole attacker, while Zhao Longfei rallied the authorities to search for Qin Siyang, unaware he was safe.

• Qin Siyang and Duan Chongfang confirmed they had escaped the Spatial Artifact and suspected someone in Zone 5 had helped Choi Chan-hoon and Han Lingye ambush them.
• Qin Siyang ignored Zhao Longfei's call, explaining to Duan Chongfang that they needed to coordinate their account of killing a Minister of Justice.
• Zhao Longfei learned the Crimson Crystal had returned to normal and decided to pressure Zone 5's authorities to keep searching for Qin Siyang, believing Qin Siyang had deliberately gone out to confront someone.
• Qin Siyang asked Duan Chongfang to edit the camera footage, removing evidence of their Sequence Level Seven strength and Han Lingye's appearance while retaining Choi Chan-hoon's threat and confession about colluding with Xiao Zhigang.
• Qin Siyang told Duan Chongfang to claim they had lured and killed Choi Chan-hoon in his Spatial Artifact, and to say nothing beyond establishing that Choi Chan-hoon was a Reincarnation Church member who had tried to harm him.

Qin Siyang and Duan Chongfang called Zhao Longfei for rescue after killing Choi Chan-hoon, while Xiao Zhigang, Jiang Hao, and Guo Jiuxiao discussed the failed plot and their next move. Zhao Longfei and the others arrived to find the pair apparently gravely wounded, and Duan Chongfang pretended to pass out.

• Qin Siyang called Zhao Longfei for backup, and Zhao told him and Duan Chongfang to stay put until help arrived.
• Xiao Zhigang told Jiang Hao that Choi Chan-hoon was dead, and they confirmed that Choi and the other attackers had been at least sequence level seven.
• Xiao Zhigang berated Guo Jiuxiao for misjudging Duan Chongfang's strength, while Jiang Hao urged them to focus on staying alive and silencing Qin Siyang and the Zhao Family.
• Zhao Longfei, Li Tianming, Harrison, and United Government officials arrived at the warehouse and found Qin Siyang and Duan Chongfang covered in blood.
• Qin Siyang played the part of a badly wounded victim, and Duan Chongfang secretly wounded himself further before pretending to lose consciousness.

Qin Siyang framed Choi Chan-hoon’s death as the result of a battle against a Reincarnation Church plot and pushed District Chief Guo to investigate the Yu Family warehouse. After Qin and Duan Chongfang left, Yu Yongyou concluded Qin had warned the family to eliminate evidence and ordered Yu Bianhou to kill everyone connected to the warehouse.

• Qin Siyang helped Duan Chongfang maintain his feigned unconsciousness and told the gathered officials that Choi Chan-hoon had conspired with Xiao Zhigang and attacked them as a senior Guardian of the Reincarnation Church.
• Qin Siyang said he had video evidence and Choi Chan-hoon’s body in his Storage Box, and Guo Tianlai said he would report the matter to Secretary-General Gu.
• Qin Siyang identified the Yu Family as the warehouse’s owners and urged Guo Tianlai to secure justice and arrange a safe place for him and Duan Chongfang to recover.
• After Qin Siyang and Duan Chongfang left with United Government personnel, Yu Yongyou used Conversation Shielding and ordered Yu Bianhou to kill everyone connected to the warehouse.
• Yu Yongyou told Yu Bianhou that Qin Siyang had warned the family to deal with evidence and planned to find out what Qin wanted.

After recovering at the United Government Guesthouse, Qin Siyang discussed his plans with Zhao Longfei, Li Tianming, and Qian Wendao. He offered to help Li obtain the remaining yellow-silver star ore, while Qian revealed he would become minister of a newly formed Coordination Department.

• Qin Siyang reunited with his friends, handed Choi Chan-hoon's body to the investigators, and explained that he had helped the Yu Family because he saw them as a possible mining partner.
• Zhao Longfei warned Qin Siyang not to take such risks again and left to prepare for the redistribution of Zone 5's mining interests.
• Qin Siyang told Li Tianming that Han Lingye's body and their memories could help secure the remaining yellow-silver star ore from Han Huizhi.
• Li Tianming agreed to meet Han Huizhi with Qin Siyang and Zhang, while Qin refused to expose his friend to danger by examining Han Lingye's brain.
• Qian Wendao told Qin Siyang that he would leave his bureau chief post and become minister of the new Coordination Department.

Qian Wendao explained his transfer to the Coordination Department and asked Qin Siyang to look after Shen Shisong. Gu Weiyang visited Qin Siyang to discuss the accusations against Choi Chan-hoon and asked whether Xiao Zhigang was involved, leaving Qin to decide how far to pursue the matter.

• Qian Wendao told Qin Siyang that the Coordination Department would help preserve the United Government's influence as the Safe Zone descended toward chaos.
• Qian Wendao said Chen Zhongming would succeed him as Bureau Chief in Area No. 7 and asked Qin to let Shen Shisong stay in his old house.
• Gu Weiyang visited Qin Siyang, expressed sympathy for his injury, and said Qin and Duan Chongfang could earn the [Five Good Student] award if they had helped expose Choi Chan-hoon as a Reincarnation Church member.
• Gu Weiyang described the damage caused by the deaths of Jiang Yuanrui and Choi Chan-hoon and said he had heard Xiao Zhigang might also be involved.
• Gu Weiyang asked Qin Siyang whether Xiao Zhigang had taken part, and Qin recalled his message to Zhao Longteng and the others: “Enough is enough.”

Qin Siyang agreed to keep Xiao Zhigang out of the case over Choi Chan-hoon’s assassination attempt after Gu Weiyang explained the political and practical reasons for his decision. Gu promised Qin could deal with Xiao Zhigang without further interference if he tried to harm him again, and announced that the Five Good Student award ceremony would be held in Zone 5.

• Gu Weiyang activated Conversation Shielding and made clear that Choi Chan-hoon would take the blame, while Xiao Zhigang would be spared unless evidence linked him to heretical cults.
• Qin Siyang warned that Xiao Zhigang might try to kill him again, but Gu Weiyang said he would make Xiao rein himself in.
• Qin Siyang considered exposing Han Lingye’s matter to force Gu Weiyang to punish Xiao, but decided against revealing his and Duan Chongfang’s strength or risking his plans.
• Qin Siyang called Gu Weiyang’s decision unfair, and Gu explained that he had kept capable officials in office despite their loyalties to Qin and the Zhao Family because they served the Safe Zone’s interests.
• Qin Siyang accepted Gu Weiyang’s assurance that he would not intervene if Xiao Zhigang caused trouble again, and the two shook hands on the agreement.
• Gu Weiyang said he would remain in Zone 5 to handle Choi Chan-hoon and other matters, so the Five Good Student award ceremony would be held there.

After reaching origin sequence level two, Qin Siyang inspected the transformed Path to Godhood but found that he could not advance by simply walking. A late-night call from Li Pengfei made him realize Wen Shu was angry because he had not replied to her message.

• Qin Siyang entered his Ant Spatial Artifact and discovered that the Path to Godhood had stretched into infinity beneath a new silvery star.
• Qin Siyang tried walking along the path but realized he was moving in place, with his old Path of the Believer now extending downward into darkness.
• Qin Siyang returned to reality and considered eating more God Remains to test whether he could advance on the new path.
• Li Pengfei called Qin Siyang and said Wen Shu had seemed distracted and later angry at the Library.
• Qin Siyang remembered that he had left Wen Shu's message unanswered while dealing with Choi Chan-hoon, then promised Li Pengfei he would buy him a book before ending the call.

Qin Siyang and Wen Shu exchanged messages while Wen Shu rejected a fellow chosen one’s request to investigate the Apocalypse Fragment in the Sigma District. After the United Government investigated Choi Chan-hoon’s death, Qin Siyang was named a [Five Good Student], and the case was publicly closed.

• Qin Siyang struggled to message Wen Shu, then apologized for making her worry, and Wen Shu replied that he should tell her sooner next time.
• Wen Shu met a man chosen by the [Eye of the Divine Crow], rejected his invitation to travel to the Sigma District, and left after he urged them to unite.
• Wen Shu privately admitted that she wanted to kill the man but could not spend one of her uses on him, then smiled at Qin Siyang’s message before worrying that their happy moment might not last.
• Qin Siyang and Duan Chongfang were questioned separately about Choi Chan-hoon’s death, and their matching testimony and video evidence supported their account.
• Gu Weiyang announced Qin Siyang, Duan Chongfang, and three other students as this year’s [Five Good Student] recipients.
• The investigation team closed Choi Chan-hoon’s case and announced that he had been a Senior Steward of the Reincarnation Church who tried to murder Qin Siyang and Duan Chongfang.

Qin Siyang received the Five Good Student award, using his crutches to keep the Safe Zone focused on Choi Chan-hoon’s crimes. While waiting for a private conversation with Gu Weiyang, he met the other honorees and learned about their achievements and backgrounds.

• Nanrong University celebrated Qin Siyang’s Five Good Student award and its growing success, much of it connected to him.
• Qin Siyang deliberately appeared at the ceremony on crutches to link his award to killing Choi Chan-hoon and condemn the traitor publicly.
• Qin Siyang received his award and posed for a photo with the four other honorees before waiting in the lounge.
• Duan Chongfang introduced Qin Siyang to Meng Yu, Man Gongxue, and Rui Xi Fan, and Qin Siyang spoke with the fourth-year students.
• Qin Siyang learned that Meng Yu excelled at god hunting, Man Gongxue had uncovered cult bases through research, and Rui Xi Fan was a powerful fighter and the inventor of the Lie Detector.