Chapter Summaries

Lynn revealed himself to Blood Doll and punished her for spreading rumors and causing trouble across worlds. After questioning her about the summoning, he caught her trying to escape, and she claimed she would visit his shop the next day to wish him a happy New Year.

• Lynn removed his mask, and Blood Doll recognized him as the doctor from the Bloodsaw Apothecary.
• Lynn beat Blood Doll for wreaking havoc in other worlds and spreading rumors about him, while Kless and the others watched in shock.
• Lynn questioned Blood Doll, who said she had secretly borrowed a circle meant to summon Mother and was visiting this world for only the second time.
• Blood Doll tried to flee through the magic circle, but Lynn caught her by the ankles and pulled her back.
• Lynn demanded to know what she had said, and Blood Doll claimed she would visit his shop the next day to wish him a happy New Year.

Lynn subdued the cultists and pursued their fleeing leader, Kless, while Yin Qin and the others rushed to stop him from entering the city. Kless hijacked a car on the highway, transformed his appearance, and disappeared into traffic with a family trapped inside.

• Kless tried to flee after Lynn hurled Blood Doll into the building, but Lynn’s tentacles captured the cultists and pinned them in place.
• Lynn enchanted the cultists with holy power, picked up the unconscious Blood Doll, and set off after Kless.
• Yin Qin ordered Taoist Wang and Yang Ke to follow Lynn and prevent him from causing panic in the city.
• Kless was struck by a car on the highway, then used his power to control the driver and take the vehicle.
• Kless sealed the mother and daughter’s lips, changed his face and clothes, and drove into the city traffic.

Lynn captured the cultist Kless at the city entrance and rescued the mother and daughter he had been holding captive. He reassured the special police and watched the city with nostalgia, saying it had been half a hometown to him.

• Kless waited in the traffic queue, but white mist engulfed the tollbooths and a tentacle dragged cars into the fog.
• Kless tried to use Cursecraft to escape, but Lynn found him and pulled him from the car.
• Lynn freed the mother and daughter, returned their unconscious husband and father, and left them money before making them forget the encounter.
• Yin Qin, Wang Chaobei, and the others arrived and saw Lynn holding the battered, unconscious Kless.
• Lynn asked whether they had feared he would cause panic in the city, then said it had been half a hometown to him.

After the Supernatural General Administration survived the invasion, Yin Qin warned officials against trying to control Lynn. While waiting at headquarters, Lynn used a household registration database and satellite positioning to find his mother.

• Yin Qin briefed officials on the invasion’s casualties and called for the Supernatural General Administration to receive more resources.
• Yin Qin warned a senior official that trying to control Lynn would bring disaster.
• Lynn watched television, ate ordinary food, and kept Blood Doll from eating two clerks.
• Lynn used his computer skills to search a household registration database and pinpoint a location on a satellite map.
• Lynn recognized a middle-aged woman in the search results and told Blood Doll she was his mother.

Lynn reminisced about his mother, then searched Blue Star’s household registration database and discovered that another version of himself had lived there with his parents. He left with Blood Doll, intending to see his counterpart from a distance.

• Blood Doll tried to comfort Lynn about missing his mother, but her words upset him until they both ended up crying in each other’s arms.
• Lynn searched the household registration database and found no ordinary records for himself, then uncovered encrypted information confirming that his counterpart existed.
• Lynn decided to look at his counterpart and his parents from a distance, then took Blood Doll and left.
• As they vanished through the wall, Lynn thanked the two young women at the door, told them they could pray to him for help, and kissed their cheeks.

Lynn escaped the Supernatural General Administration with Bai Yi and Blood Doll, then headed toward the Demon Capital to prepare for a trip north to visit his parents in this world. After finding an early flight to the Northeast, Lynn agreed to stop at Bai Yi’s home first for clothes and other preparations.

• Lynn broke out of Bai Yi’s room with Bai Yi and Blood Doll, and the officials discovered they had escaped.
• Yin Qin warned the officials not to provoke Lynn as they searched surveillance footage and wondered where he was going.
• Lynn told Bai Yi he was heading north to visit his home in this world.
• Bai Yi found a five-a.m. flight to the Northeast and suggested they stop at his home for clothes and preparations.
• Lynn carried Bai Yi and Blood Doll across the city toward Bai Yi’s home while Bai Yi reveled in the adventure.

Lynn and Bai Yi reached Bai Yi’s villa so Lynn could change clothes and prepare to travel, but Bai Yi’s little sister opened the bedroom door while Lynn was changing. The chapter ended as Lynn turned to face her.

• Lynn briefly appeared on a family’s balcony, leading a little girl to believe she had seen Superman.
• Lynn questioned Bai Yi about his wealthy family after arriving at Bai Yi’s villa near the city center.
• Bai Yi brought Lynn into his anime-filled bedroom and went to retrieve cash while Lynn changed clothes.
• Lynn told Blood Doll to stay in ghost form and face the wall while he changed.
• Bai Yi’s little sister woke up, entered the bedroom, and asked whether her big brother was back.
• Lynn turned around while naked and changing, and his little sister saw him.

Lynn was mistaken for a pervert when he encountered Bai Yi’s little sister and hid with her on the ceiling while servants searched the room. After she screamed again and kicked him, he caught her before she hit the floor, but her pajamas slipped off.

• Lynn surprised Bai Yi’s little sister, who screamed and alerted the servants, so he pulled her close and covered her mouth.
• The butler and servants searched the girl’s room while Lynn used tentacles to cling to the ceiling with her.
• After the servants left, Lynn learned the girl was Bai Yi’s sister and tried to explain who he was.
• The girl screamed as soon as Lynn uncovered her mouth, kicked him, and began falling from the ceiling.
• Lynn caught the girl by her ankle before she hit the floor, but her pajamas slipped off.

Lynn hid beneath the bed with the young mistress after servants searched her room, while she began to feel confused by her attraction to him. The chapter ended with her growing increasingly flustered as their lips remained touching.

• Lynn pulled the struggling girl up to the ceiling, and their lips met just as the door opened.
• The butler and servants searched the room, found the girl’s nightgown, and suspected Lynn had escaped through the window.
• Lynn and the girl hid beneath the bed while the servants searched and guarded the room.
• Lynn noticed the Blood Doll laughing at him and planned to knock out the servants before Bai Yi returned.
• The girl studied Lynn’s appearance and physique, grew increasingly flustered, and wondered why she did not feel disgusted by their closeness.

Bai Yi returned home to find Xiao Ling missing and discovered Lynn hiding under his bed with her. After the household search was called off, Bai Yi introduced Lynn to Xiao Ling as his powerful big brother from the Otherworld.

• Bai Yi came home and learned that Xiao Ling had disappeared from his room, prompting the servants and butler to search for her.
• Lynn poked Bai Yi with a tentacle, and Bai Yi realized he was hiding under the bed and sent the servants out.
• Bai Yi locked the room and brought Xiao Ling to Lynn, explaining that Lynn was his big brother from the Otherworld.
• Bai Yi saw off the guards and household staff, then returned to his room as Xiao Ling served tea to him and Lynn.

Lynn used Mimicry to copy Xiao Ling’s appearance so he and Bai Yi could travel using her identity, then they flew north to the Black Dragon Region. Yin Qin discovered they had left and suspected Lynn was heading home.

• Bai Yi gave Lynn the money he had saved and worried that Lynn had no identification for their trip north.
• Lynn used Mimicry to transform into a perfect copy of Xiao Ling, and Bai Yi asked his sister to lend him her ID card.
• Yin Qin and the special police arrived at Bai Yi’s villa, but Xiao Ling claimed Bai Yi and his friend had gone out.
• Yin Qin learned that Bai Yi had boarded a flight north with a girl resembling Xiao Ling and realized Lynn had likely used an illusion.
• Yin Qin recalled that Lynn came from a world similar to Blue Star and wondered if he was returning home.

Lynn returned to his northern hometown with Bai Yi, hoping to see his parents before his summoning ended. While they waited to travel onward, he used his Mimicry ability to make Bai Yi a stainless steel mechanical construct.

• Lynn and Bai Yi flew to the Black Dragon Region, and Lynn reflected on returning to his old home and hoping to see his parents.
• After landing in the provincial capital, Lynn changed back into his original body and hurried with Bai Yi toward his home county.
• Lynn bought several dozen stainless steel basins and told Bai Yi he would use them to make the construct Bai Yi had wanted.
• Lynn used Mimicry to shape the basins into components, then assembled his first mechanical construct, the Shoddy+ Handcrafted Stainless Steel XX.

Lynn built and attached a heavily armed mechanical construct to Bai Yi, who had wanted an ordinary replacement. They hurried to the train station, where the security scanner exposed the device and shocked the staff member.

• Lynn completed the mechanical construct, unlocked an achievement, and reached level 24.
• Lynn welded the construct onto Bai Yi and demonstrated its controls, including automatic movement and spikes.
• Lynn showed that button 5 fired bullets in single-shot, burst, and full-auto modes, then deployed a flexible sword.
• Lynn gave Bai Yi a power strip and explained the construct’s charging options and maker’s mark.
• Lynn and Bai Yi entered the train station, where the security detector blared and a staff member sprayed coffee at the scanner screen.

Lynn traveled toward home with Bai Yi, but his summoning time ran short before they reached their stop. Determined to see his parents, he broke the train window and prepared to leave ahead of Bai Yi.

• Bai Yi was mistaken for carrying a restricted item at security, and Lynn explained that it was a prosthesis so they could board the train.
• On the train, Lynn remembered his late father’s sacrifices and the many moments that had shown his love.
• Bai Yi noticed Lynn flickering and warned him that his summoning time might be ending.
• Lynn checked his system and saw that only eleven minutes remained; Blood Doll told him the summoning time could not be extended.
• Realizing the train would not reach their stop in time, Lynn smashed a window, said goodbye to Bai Yi, and prepared to go see his parents.

Lynn raced through the county town, desperate to reach his parents before darkness dragged him back. After a school bus struck him, he rose from the blood and kept running, while Lin Ying recognized a startling resemblance between him and herself.

• Lynn leaped from the speeding train and used his tentacles and gear to race ahead toward his hometown.
• Lynn rushed through traffic and into the town, resisting the call of darkness as he tried to reach his parents.
• A school bus struck Lynn and sent him flying, leaving him badly bloodied on the road.
• Lin Ying approached Lynn to help and experienced a flood of unfamiliar images when she touched his face.
• Lynn caught Lin Ying's wrist, rose from the blood, and ran on toward her street as she remarked that he looked like her.

Lynn struggled to reach his mother before the Abyss recalled him to Hell, and she heard his desperate cry but found the street empty. At the airport, Yin Qin learned that videos exposing Lynn’s monstrous powers had gone viral and ordered officials to suppress them.

• Lynn ran toward his mother, but the Abyss tore open a fissure and dragged him back toward Hell.
• Lynn cried out “Mom” as he was pulled away, and his mother turned toward the empty street, feeling inexplicably bereft.
• Lynn’s mother told her husband she had heard a boy call her Mom, and he suggested she had misheard.
• Yin Qin received word that videos of Lynn moving with tentacles had spread across social media.
• Yin Qin ordered the relevant departments to block the videos and discredit them as fabricated footage.

After returning to the Dark World, Lynn resolved to keep surviving in hopes of eventually reaching his own world again. The Bound Angel explained that the Flesh Dominator was an Origin whose cult had spread through both worlds, and described the Mechanical Church as its equally extreme enemy.

• Blood Doll teased the terrified Bai Yi in a hired car after Lynn left him behind.
• Lynn returned to Dark Night City, reflected on his visit to a parallel world and his parents, and vowed to keep working toward going home.
• Lynn met the Bound Angel and told her that the Flesh God Cult had attacked his brother's group on Blue Star.
• The Bound Angel said the Flesh Dominator was an Origin and that White Night had spent decades investigating him and his followers.
• The Bound Angel described the Mechanical Church's machine-supremacist beliefs and its goal of exterminating flesh-and-blood beings.
• The Bound Angel warned that the Mechanical Church and the Flesh God Cult were mortal enemies, so the machines would likely delay attacking other living beings until the cult was destroyed.

Lynn learned about the dangerous rivalry between the Mechanical Church and the Flesh God Cult, then arranged to join the Night Doctors when the factions fought. After the Bound Angel renewed his blessing, Lynn remembered his mother and admitted he felt sad after visiting home.

• Lynn asked the Bound Angel about the Flesh God Cult and learned that it was divided into factions devoted to flesh and opposed to the Mechanical Church.
• The Bound Angel explained that the Flesh Dominator could not be easily located or killed, and that the balance between the two powers kept the Dark World from falling into chaos.
• The Bound Angel told Lynn that another war between the Mechanical Church and the Flesh God Cult was likely within months, and offered to let him accompany the Night Doctors if he studied medicine diligently.
• Lynn agreed to learn from the Bound Angel and asked her to renew his blessing, so she kissed his forehead and refreshed Angel's Kiss for 24 hours.
• The blessing reminded Lynn of his mother, and he told the Bound Angel that visiting home had left him feeling sad.

Lynn told the Bound Angel about his grief over losing the mother he found in another world, and she comforted him until he called her his godmother. The chapter ended with Lynn crying in her embrace and earning achievements and a new relationship with her.

• The Bound Angel read Lynn's memories and learned that he grieved because he had never truly seen the mother he found in another world.
• Lynn admitted that the woman had felt like his mother despite not being his real mother.
• The Bound Angel embraced Lynn, encouraged him to cry, and offered to be his godmother.
• Lynn accepted and called the Bound Angel his godmother, then cried harder as she comforted him.
• Lynn gained two achievements, permanent bonuses, and a new godmother relationship with the Bound Angel.

Lynn left the great hall after saying goodbye to the Matriarch, then discussed preparing for their next stage of combat training with Zuo Zuo. On Blue Star, Bai Yi fed Blood Doll dozens of pigs to keep her from eating him, then set off with her to find Lynn’s family.

• Zuo Zuo accused Lynn of using his sadness to win the Matriarch’s affection, and Lynn denied it before jokingly suggesting Zuo Zuo mattered more to him.
• Lynn told Zuo Zuo they needed to improve their combat strength to protect Blue Star from the Flesh Dominator’s followers.
• Bai Yi spent over a hundred thousand on pigs for Blood Doll, who ate them and agreed not to eat him for now.
• Blood Doll told Bai Yi that Lynn had returned to his own world and could no longer remain on Blue Star.
• Bai Yi watched videos of Lynn’s final moments on Blue Star and decided to visit Lynn’s family, heading north with Blood Doll.