Chapter Summaries

Lynn and Lin Ying entered a curse that recreated Lady Blood Cloak’s home in the past, where they witnessed a tender moment between a mother and her daughter. The scene suggested the beginning of Lady Blood Cloak’s suffering, and it ended as her drunken husband struck her down.

• Lynn warned that Lady Blood Cloak’s growing resentment might lead her to advance to Death Omen Rank and lose her reason.
• Lynn and Lin Ying entered the building and found themselves inside a cursed recreation of a home from the early Republican era.
• A girl called Xiao Jin confided that she feared and disliked her father, while her mother urged her to please him and stay with the family.
• A drunken man returned home, and when the woman hurried to help him, he slapped her to the floor and knocked over the candle.

Lin Ying witnessed the memories of a girl whose father abused her mother, then apparently fed the mother to the girl. The haunted house erupted into blood-red flames as the girl's vengeful presence attacked.

• A drunken man beat his wife while their daughter begged him to stop.
• The visions showed the man tormenting his wife and threatening to kill their daughter if she tried to escape.
• Lin Ying watched the scenes as the room rotted and the girl cried out for her mother.
• The man began treating his daughter gently and serving her meat, while she searched the house for her missing mother.
• The girl found her mother's ring among the food, and the man asked, “Did it taste good?”
• A surge in curse fluctuations triggered as the house shifted between cozy and rotten, and the girl's hair and claws lunged from the burning reflections.

Lynn discovered that the girl Lady Blood Cloak had come back to find had been consumed by the house’s curse, leaving no will or spirit to find. Using Remnants of the Past, he witnessed Lady Blood Cloak’s desperate search and heard her cry that she had come back for her daughter.

• The Night Doctors drove back the girl-shaped apparition with holy flames, and the ruined house returned to its decayed state.
• Lynn scanned the house and found a powerful curse intertwined with fragmented will, leading him to suspect the girl had become the curse itself.
• A Night Doctor explained that someone consumed by a curse would have no will left to remain as an evil spirit.
• Lynn used Remnants of the Past to reveal Lady Blood Cloak searching the house and calling for her daughter.
• Lady Blood Cloak tore through the house while the curse attacked her, but she could not find the daughter whose will had already been assimilated.

Lady Blood Cloak found her daughter’s remains beneath the locust tree and became a Death Omen, then walked away to seek revenge. Lynn ordered the Night Doctors to find the Butcher and vowed to save Lady Blood Cloak from madness rather than kill her.

• Lady Blood Cloak dug beneath the locust tree and found her daughter’s skeletal hand.
• Lady Blood Cloak laid her daughter’s remains to rest, became a Death Omen, and walked toward the street.
• The Night Doctor feared Lady Blood Cloak might lose control, and Lynn ordered the Night Doctors to find the Flesh Cultist responsible, whether alive or dead.
• Lin Ying challenged Lynn about whether he would kill Lady Blood Cloak, and Lynn promised he would keep trying to bring her back from madness.
• Lynn entered Psionics Mode and declared that he would search all of history for the daughter he believed still existed.

Lynn used Remnants of the Past to retrace the cursed house’s history while Lin Ying uncovered the girl’s remains. The vision revealed the girl’s happy childhood turning to fear as her father began abusing her mother, and it left her secretly saving money to escape with her mother.

• Lynn shielded Lin Ying from the curse and let its pathways engulf him as he searched for the girl’s soul.
• Lin Ying dug beneath the locust tree and found the girl’s remains while rotting hands surged from the ground.
• Lynn activated Remnants of the Past, restoring a vision of the girl beneath the locust tree in the Republic of China era.
• Lin Ying watched the girl’s early years of dancing, practicing calligraphy, and playing beneath the tree.
• The vision showed the girl praying for her mother’s safety after her father became abusive.
• The girl secretly saved and buried copper coins beneath the locust tree, hoping to take her mother away.

Lin Ying witnessed the girl’s suffering, murder, and transformation into a vengeful ghost beneath the locust tree. Just as the ghost tried to kill her father, members of the Flesh God Cult shattered her soul to create a curse, leaving her revenge unfinished.

• The girl burned the money she had saved to escape with her mother, then stopped speaking after the man abused her again.
• The girl survived an explosion that badly burned and maimed her, and later carved a curse against the man into the locust tree.
• The man beat the girl and eventually killed her with a butcher’s blade, while the locust tree was dug up and the girl was buried beneath it.
• The girl became a ghost and haunted the decaying house, eventually remembering her abuse and attacking the man who had tormented her.
• As the girl reached for the man’s heart, a member of the Flesh God Cult pierced her from behind and shattered her soul to form a curse.

Lynn and Lin Ying traced the girl's scattered soul through the history of the curse and recovered the fragments holding her lingering thoughts. Lynn planned to use Colossus flesh to nurture her shattered consciousness and bring her back to life.

• Lin Ying searched the past replay for the girl's soul fragments while Lynn guided her through the curse's history.
• Lin Ying memorized where the fragments were hidden as the curse formed and spread through the house.
• Lynn synchronized with Lin Ying's memories, located the original curse threads, and destroyed the rest of the curse with Curse Removal.
• Lynn revealed that the illuminated threads contained the girl's lingering thoughts, then considered how to restore her consciousness.
• After Lin Ying and Zuo Zuo rejected his requests, Lynn cut flesh from his body and used the Colossus Heart to make it grow, intending to implant the girl's lingering thoughts in it.

Lynn reconstructed the murdered girl’s body from her bones and cursed flesh, then recovered a pure lingering thought from the locust tree that had sheltered her. Before he could search for the final missing fragment, Uncle White Night reported that Lady Blood Cloak had been found in the Demon Capital.

• Lynn fused the girl’s lingering thoughts into cursed flesh, hoping she could gradually be reborn.
• Lynn and Lin Ying pieced together the girl’s bones beneath the withered locust tree, and Lynn rebuilt her body with his flesh domain.
• Lynn drew a pure lingering thought from the locust tree and placed it in the girl’s brow before the tree collapsed.
• Lynn prepared to use Remnants of the Past to search for the girl’s last missing fragment, but Uncle White Night called with urgent news.
• Lynn told Lin Ying that Lady Blood Cloak had been found in the Demon Capital.

Lynn learned that Blood Cloak was approaching Demon Capital and rushed to stop her, while the city’s officers feared her growing Death Omen Rank power and the danger to its millions of residents. White Night warned that Lynn would not fight his first true friend, but Lynn’s Mechanical Body arrived in the city’s airspace.

• Lynn left Lin Ying in charge of the remaining fragment and warped away toward Demon Capital.
• Blood Cloak advanced through the suburbs, leaving dead birds and withered land in her wake as her power continued to rise.
• White Night and the military officers learned that Blood Cloak might have gone mad and feared they could neither evacuate the city nor stop her with conventional weapons.
• White Night told the officers that Lynn would never fight Blood Cloak because she was his first true friend after he fell into Hell.
• The Radar Station reported that Lynn’s Mechanical Body had entered the city’s airspace, and officers brought up footage of his arrival.

Lynn confronted Lady Blood Cloak outside Demon Capital and ordered Blue Star forces to stand down while he tried to bring her back to her senses. He suspected the person responsible for her suffering was in the city and asked White Night to find him, intending to hand him over to her.

• Lynn blocked Lady Blood Cloak's path and told Demon Capital's Command Center that no one would die and no attacks could be launched.
• The supreme commander confirmed Lynn's authority over Blue Star's forces, and Lynn ordered aircraft and warships to withdraw.
• White Night asked whether Lynn could restore Lady Blood Cloak, and Lynn said he would do everything he could to bring her back.
• Lynn reasoned that the Flesh God Cult had likely placed the person responsible in Demon Capital to trigger mass slaughter.
• Lynn used his memories to create images of the suspected culprit at different ages and asked White Night to find him.
• Lynn promised to deliver the man to Lady Blood Cloak if he was still alive.

Lynn confronted Blood Cloak outside Demon Capital as she approached in a murderous frenzy, trying to keep her from unleashing her vengeance on the city. He urged her to trust him while the authorities searched for the demon who had killed her daughter, and the chapter ended with her wavering between reason and madness.

• Demon Capital’s police and other departments launched a citywide search for the man in the photograph while Lynn’s superiors asked him to keep Blood Cloak away from the city.
• Lynn approached Blood Cloak and reminded her of their first meeting in Wandering Soul Alley, telling her he knew what had happened to her and her daughter.
• Blood Cloak recognized Lynn and demanded to know why he was standing in her way, while struggling to suppress her hatred and madness.
• Lynn told Blood Cloak that he considered her his big sister and refused to let the Flesh God Cult turn her grief into indiscriminate slaughter.
• Lynn promised to find the demon and deliver him to Blood Cloak, asking her to trust him and give him time as her resentment urged her to attack.

Blood Cloak succumbed to hatred and attacked Lynn, who refused to fight back even as she threatened the Demon Capital. When White Night ordered the Night Doctors to subdue her, Lynn stopped them and abandoned his Supreme Frame to face her as his mortal self.

• Blood Cloak's madness overwhelmed her, and she attacked Lynn before racing toward the Demon Capital.
• Lynn intercepted Blood Cloak outside the city and endured her relentless attacks without striking back.
• White Night ordered the Anti-Evil Spirit Night Doctors to deploy and subdue Blood Cloak.
• Lynn raised a wall of flames to block the Night Doctors and told them no one could hurt Blood Cloak.
• Lynn abandoned his Supreme Frame, stood between Blood Cloak and the city in his mortal body, and asked her to kill him if it would bring his sister back.

Lynn stood between Blood Cloak and the metropolis, risking his fragile body to stop her from giving in to hatred. His words and refusal to defend himself broke through her madness, and she returned to her original appearance in despairing tears.

• White Night saw Lynn put his vulnerable flesh-and-blood body in Blood Cloak’s path and feared for his life.
• Blood Cloak charged at Lynn and stopped her nails just short of his neck, unable to bring herself to kill him.
• Lynn stepped toward Blood Cloak and told her that she still cared for him and that he could protect her.
• Lynn grabbed Blood Cloak’s nails, bleeding as he urged her to trust him and give him time.
• Blood Cloak broke down sobbing as the black mist receded and she returned to her original appearance.

Lynn gained Lady Blood Cloak’s complete trust by offering her a home, and she broke down in his arms as her grief and resentment poured out. The Command Center believed the crisis had passed, but White Night received word that they had found the person they were searching for.

• Lynn promised Lady Blood Cloak that she could trust him and would no longer have to face everything alone, and she collapsed into his arms, sobbing.
• The system awarded Lynn the Evil Spirit Home achievement for gaining Lady Blood Cloak’s complete trust and disabled several harmful achievement routes.
• The officers in the Command Center rejoiced that Lynn had calmed Lady Blood Cloak, while White Night insisted Lynn’s success was his own talent rather than a Night Doctor skill.
• Lynn gave the Command Center a thumbs-up while holding Lady Blood Cloak, leaving White Night and the officers unsure whether his comforting words were sincere.
• White Night received a communicator call reporting that they had found the person they were seeking, but the caller hesitated after confirming the information matched.

Lynn calmed Lady Blood Cloak and brought her to the Command Center while the authorities searched for the culprit behind her resentment. White Night had learned of a serious problem, but he kept the news from Lynn for the moment, and Lynn left Blood Cloak briefly to speak with him.

• White Night received an alarming report and told his officers that he did not know how to solve the serious problem.
• Lynn urged Lady Blood Cloak to resist madness and promised to find the culprit, reminding her that her daughter was waiting in Hell.
• Lynn carried Lady Blood Cloak toward the Demon Capital and ordered the Night Doctors to stand down the surrounding security cordons.
• Lynn brought Lady Blood Cloak into the Command Center, where White Night said the investigation was underway and asked Lynn for more time.
• Lynn seated Lady Blood Cloak and soothed her until she released his wrist, then prepared to speak privately with White Night.

Lynn learned that the culprit who murdered Lady Blood Cloak and her daughter was alive but had lost his mind to Alzheimer’s disease. Lady Blood Cloak confronted him at a nursing home, where he failed to remember her or his crimes.

• White Night told Lynn that investigators had found the murderer, then showed him records revealing the man had advanced Alzheimer’s disease.
• Lynn vowed to restore the culprit’s mind so he could answer for his crimes, but Lady Blood Cloak overheard them and disappeared.
• Lynn and White Night followed Lady Blood Cloak’s ghostly aura to a nursing home in the northern outskirts of the Demon Capital.
• Lady Blood Cloak entered the room and asked the confused old man whether he remembered her.
• Lady Blood Cloak told him she had been his wife and that he had killed her and their daughter, but he replied that he could not remember anything.

Blood Cloak spared the amnesiac old man who had abused her, then collapsed after telling Lynn she had kept her promise not to kill anyone. Lynn refused to accept that the man had forgotten his crimes, repaired his brain and soul, and began searching his memories.

• Blood Cloak found the old man unable to recognize her or remember his crimes, and she chose not to kill him.
• Blood Cloak collapsed, and Lynn caught her as White Night and the Night Doctors arrived.
• Lynn seized the old man and began repairing his brain despite White Night warning that his lost memories could not be restored.
• Lynn cured the old man's Alzheimer's disease and repaired parts of his soul, then used psionics to search his memories.

Lynn suspected that the old man’s soul had been replaced and used Remnants of the Past to uncover the Flesh God Cult’s deception. The recovered scene revealed how the young man arranged the swap, leaving White Night and the Night Doctors shaken by the truth.

• Lynn failed to find memories of Lady Blood Cloak in the old man’s soul, and White Night urged him to accept that time had erased them.
• Lynn argued that the missing memories and the absence of any trace of the Flesh God Cult suggested the old man’s soul had been replaced.
• Lynn used Remnants of the Past to rewind the Nursing Home to the day the old man was brought there.
• Lynn and White Night saw a Flesh Cultist tell a young man that Lady Blood Cloak was a powerful Evil Spirit cultivated by the cult.
• The young man revealed that the cult had extracted his soul and replaced it with his younger brother’s, allowing him to live in his brother’s body for a hundred years.

After uncovering the Flesh God Cult’s decades-old deception, Lynn and White Night vowed to destroy the cult and launched a worldwide search for its remaining members. Lynn used global databases and surveillance footage to identify Charles, a wealthy, secretive tycoon he recognized as the demon behind the conspiracy.

• Lynn explained that the images from Remnants of the Past revealed how the Flesh God Cult had deceived Lady Blood Cloak and other test subjects for decades.
• White Night urged Lynn to honor their promise to declare war on the Flesh God Cult, and Lynn agreed to fight it across Hell and Blue Star.
• The Global Supernatural Operations Center ordered governments worldwide to grant Lynn access to citizen databases and internet terminals so he could search for the cult’s remnants.
• Lynn used his Machine Intelligence System to scan global records and surveillance footage, tracing a face from the past to an old news photograph in Country M.
• Lynn identified the demon as Charles, a wealthy investor and the hidden controller of MBO, and declared, “Found him.”

Lynn confronted Charles, whom he identified as Yan Weiming, a cultist who had escaped the roundup and built a powerful life abroad. He accused Yan Weiming of abandoning his wife and daughter, leaving him stunned and unable to deny his past.

• Charles learned that seventy-one scattered cultists had gathered at his manor and ordered the butler to dispose of them quietly.
• Charles reflected on his lost contact with his teacher and his fear that the Night Doctors might uncover the substitution he had arranged decades earlier.
• Lynn entered the manor, killed the butler, and sent the women away before revealing himself to Charles.
• Charles recognized Lynn, who asked whether he should call him by his current name or the one he had used a century earlier.
• Lynn described the mysterious tycoon’s rise and cruelty, then identified him as Yan Weiming.