Chapter Summaries

Lin En admitted that he was suspected of being the monster behind the Nine Chimes of the Spirit Bell and condemned Anthony for holding a trial instead of taking immediate precautions. At the Demon Suppression Corps encampment, Ophiel learned that the suspect was Lin Ke and reacted with shock.

• Lin En admitted his suspected connection to the monster and challenged Anthony's forces to attack him.
• Lin En argued that Anthony should have sounded the alarm and assembled the strongest fighters rather than staging a trial that could put the city at risk.
• A clergyman reported to the Demon Suppression Corps' senior officers that the Arcane Academy had detained a suspect connected to the Reality Collapse.
• The clergyman identified the suspect as Lin Ke and said Hana Ye was with him.
• Ophiel sprang to her feet and demanded that the clergyman repeat Lin Ke's name.

Lin En revealed that Shakira had been a spy for the Crimson Secret Cult and challenged the Arcane Academy to decide whether he was human or a Great Demon. As Holy Flame engulfed him, Archbishop Ophiel and two powerful leaders arrived, and the vice president warned that the Academy had arrested someone important.

• Lin En admitted killing Shakira and accused her of gathering intelligence for the Crimson Secret Cult inside the Arcane Academy.
• Anthony read Lin En’s documents and realized they contained confidential information that could point to a wider network of spies.
• A cleric ordered the Church clergy to attack Lin En with Holy Flame, but the fire continued burning around him after they stopped casting.
• Lin En walked forward through the flames and asked Anthony and the others what they thought he was.
• Archbishop Ophiel broke through the barrier between worlds, shattered the formation over the hall, and flew inside as the vice president and Grand Commander of the Demon Suppression Corps arrived.
• The vice president accused his subordinates of arresting someone from up above and said they had landed him in deep trouble.

Lin En endured Anthony’s interrogation and the Holy Flame trial before Archbishop Ophiel entered and revealed his status as the Divine Chosen. Lin En let Ophiel explain his identity to the stunned officials, admitting that the mounting suspicions were even making him doubt himself.

• Lin En walked through the Holy Flame unharmed, but Anthony continued questioning him about the evil spirit, the Nine Chimes, and his whereabouts after Shakira’s death.
• Archbishop Ophiel entered the hall and ordered everyone to withdraw from the trial.
• Ophiel struck the cleric who had ordered the fire, then knelt before Lin En and apologized to him as the Divine Chosen.
• Anthony and the remaining clerics were shocked when Ophiel showed Lin En the Church’s highest obeisance.
• Lin En told Ophiel to explain his identity to the officials, saying that his own explanations only made him seem more suspicious.

Lin En rebuked Anthony and the clerics for their reckless investigation, then revealed himself as the Valkyrie's Divine Chosen and explained his connection to Shakira's death. After Ophiel discovered evidence of the Crimson Secret Cult inside the academy, Anthony begged Lin En not to hold the Church's failures against them.

• Ophiel told Anthony and the clerics that the Divine Chosen's battle with a Weird had caused the Reality Collapse and warned them to stop questioning him.
• Lin En criticized the investigators for alerting a potential Great Demon without preparing to protect the people and Exorcists at risk.
• Lin En revealed that he was not Lin Ke but a soul created by Her Majesty the Valkyrie, and said he had descended to subdue the Great Demon.
• Lin En admitted responsibility for Shakira's death and explained that she had arranged the original owner's murder and later tried to kill him.
• Lin En gave Ophiel documents implicating the Crimson Secret Cult and asked her to report on the cult's agents within the Church.
• After a cleric blurted out that they would not arrest Lin En again, Anthony slapped him and pleaded with Lin En to give them another chance.

Lin En spared Anthony from dismissal after Ophiel revealed her authority over Clockwork City, and Anthony swore to serve him while privately deciding to win his favor. Ophiel then asked Lin En to meet two leaders who wanted his help defeating the Great Demon that descended into the Spirit Realm.

• Ophiel explained that she could dismiss Anthony as dean because she had founded Clockwork City and held authority over its institutions.
• Lin En let Anthony keep his position, urging him to take responsibility for the Human Race, and Anthony thanked him and vowed to serve him.
• Anthony noticed Hana Ye beside Lin En and mistakenly concluded that he had discovered what the Divine Chosen liked.
• Lin En told Ophiel he would help expose corruption in the Church, though he had invented that investigation to bolster his identity.
• Ophiel described the Demon-Resisting Coalition Army's search for the monster behind the Nine Chimes and said the Exorcist Association's Vice President and the Demon Suppression Corps' Grand Commander wanted to meet Lin En and help defeat the Great Demon.

After the Church recognized Lin En as a major figure, Archbishop Ophiel and the academy dean escorted him out with extravagant deference, stunning the gathered Exorcists. Lin En’s calculated reversal triggered a flood of emotional fragments, filling his satiety and letting him obtain origin substances.

• The Exorcists outside the assembly hall speculated that Lin En was not a Great Demon suspect but a major figure within the Church.
• The dean rushed out to roll a red carpet while two priests placed candles along it.
• Archbishop Ophiel escorted Lin En from the hall as the dean and teachers attended him, leaving the assembled Exorcists in shock.
• Lin En collected emotional fragments from the crowd until his satiety reached its cap of 30,000.
• Lin En spent satiety to obtain first-order origin substances with single and dual Sequences while Hana Ye and the teachers slowly followed him.

Lin En met with Morgans, Nero, and Ophiel, who asked him to lead the Demon-Resisting Coalition Army against the demon behind the Nine Chimes of the Spirit Bell. He refused and revealed that the Valkyrie had been fighting the Outer Gods beyond the great Rift for ten years, leaving them shaken as he warned that the demon might help trigger an uprising from within the Spirit Realm.

• Morgans and Nero formally saluted Lin En and asked him to command their forces against the unknown great demon.
• Lin En refused, explaining that the enemy was a demon from beyond their world that had entered through the Warp.
• Lin En told the group that the Outer Gods had been resurging for ten years and that the Valkyrie had fought them beyond the great Rift throughout that time.
• Ophiel broke down in tears upon learning that the Valkyrie had been defending their world without the Divine Attendants knowing.
• Lin En explained that he had descended to stop the demon from joining forces with Weirds in the Spirit Realm and launching a large-scale uprising.

Lin En warned Ophiel, Morgans, and Nero that Warp Weird had infiltrated the Church and could join forces with hidden agents among humanity. He established the Tribunal Office to investigate corruption across human organizations, leaving Morgans and Nero eager to help and secure nomination quotas.

• Ophiel prepared to alert Holy City Headquarters, but Lin En reminded her that Warp Weird might already have infiltrated the Church, and she realized the danger.
• Lin En told Ophiel, Morgans, and Nero to keep the secret, gather intelligence on threatening Spirit Realm forces, and begin an internal investigation.
• Morgans and Nero asked Lin En to extend the Tribunal Office's oversight to the Exorcist Association and the Clockwork City Demon Suppression Corps.
• Ophiel, Morgans, and Nero pledged their support, and Lin En officially established the Tribunal Office and promised each of them a quota to recommend members.
• Morgans and Nero left the meeting room excited about helping build the new organization and its influence.

Lin En asked Ophiel to investigate the Crimson Secret Cult and its spies in Clockwork City, then learned that the cult had once pursued a plan to create Evil Spirit Vessels. The chapter left Ophiel uncertain whether Hana Ye was connected to the cult’s plans as she hinted at another possibility.

• Lin En told Ophiel that the Crimson Secret Cult had infiltrated Clockwork City and ordered her to investigate.
• Lin En showed Ophiel the Blood-Character Bounty Writ targeting Hana Ye and explained that the Headless Knight had died after mentioning a Vessel.
• Ophiel revealed that more than a decade earlier, cultists had abducted children and experimented on them to create Evil Spirit Vessels under a plan called Eternal Night Returns.
• Ophiel said the Church and other urban districts had purged the cult’s experimental sites, but most of the research had failed because suitable Vessels were difficult to create.
• Ophiel said she could not determine whether Hana Ye was connected, then began to mention another possibility.

Lin En learned that ancient outer gods created hidden vessel bloodlines and suspected his own body belonged to one, prompting him to investigate Lin Ke’s home. With his satiety full, he activated Filth Power Returns to the Source to seek powerful origin substances.

• Ophiel explained that ancient outer gods created vessels whose bloodlines could conceal their nature, and said only their masters could identify them.
• Lin En ordered Ophiel to investigate the Crimson Secret Cult after he established himself publicly as a Divine Chosen.
• Hana Ye questioned Lin En about his identity, and he admitted he had used a deception to build a trusted public persona.
• Lin En connected his body’s Vessel Family status to his transmigration and planned to investigate Lin Ke’s home for clues.
• Lin En saw that his satiety had reached 30000/30000 and activated Filth Power Returns to the Source for a ten-pull.

Lin En spent his satiety to forge origin substances, then used Origin Energy Echo to synthesize dozens more. After discovering that damaged substances looked normal to others, he realized he might be able to sell them to unsuspecting buyers.

• Lin En used ten pulls and obtained origin substances, including two [Flesh] sequences in a triple-sequence substance.
• Lin En spent his remaining satiety forging a large supply of origin substances while Hana Ye watched in astonishment.
• Lin En synthesized his single-sequence substances, producing 30 double-sequence substances from 48 attempts.
• Lin En examined a damaged origin substance and realized other people might not be able to tell it was unusable.
• Lin En considered selling damaged or negative-sequence origin substances to buyers who hoped to get lucky.

Lin En gambled with his Flesh origin substances, combining them in pursuit of a triple-Flesh result and stronger sequences. His final fusion produced a five-sequence origin substance with four Flesh sequences and [Stunningly Beautiful Feminization].

• Lin En synthesized 22 three-sequence origin substances and found that many contained negative sequences, while none had triple Flesh.
• Lin En fused two Flesh substances and obtained [Flesh] x2, [Strength], and [Loss of Limb Control].
• Lin En successfully fused two more substances, retaining double Flesh alongside [Hemorrhage] and [Stunning Beauty] in one, and [Flight] and [Feminization] in the other.
• Lin En combined two four-sequence substances, but the failed upgrade left him with [Flesh], [Flesh], [Stunning Beauty], and [Feminization].
• Lin En tried another fusion and obtained a five-sequence substance with four [Flesh] sequences and [Stunningly Beautiful Feminization].

Lin En decided to keep the feminizing Origin Substance for now and took Hana Ye to investigate the original owner of his body. As they reached 156 Gear Street, he noticed that several people had followed them, while members of the Crimson Secret Cult discussed their urgent plan to capture a girl before the next Red Moon.

• Lin En resolved to keep the Origin Substance with the four Flesh traits despite its [Feminization] effect, planning to replace it when he made another top-grade substance.
• Lin En and Hana Ye left the Arcane Academy for Gear Street, where the Exorcists let Lin En pass after learning he was a Divine Chosen.
• Lin En noticed that multiple people had followed them from the academy and suspected they were from the [Crimson Secret Cult] or other Spirit Realm factions.
• Lin En continued to 156 Gear Street with Hana Ye, intending to use the pursuit as a chance to draw out those targeting her.
• A Crimson Secret Cult agent reported Lin En's location to an unseen contact, who warned that Lin En must not disrupt their plans and that they had to secure the girl before the next Red Moon.

Lin En investigated Lin Ke’s home and discovered that his family had preserved an Outer God bloodline through generations of close-kin marriages. When Lin En released a trace of his aura, the family’s hidden legacy appeared, welcoming him home.

• Lin En told Hana Ye that Lin Ke was likely descended from his former Vessel Family and searched the abandoned home for clues.
• Lin En and Hana Ye examined a family portrait and photo album, noticing that relatives across generations looked strikingly alike.
• Lin En inferred that the family had preserved its bloodline through generations of sibling marriages and wondered why the photos had been kept.
• Lin En released a controlled trace of his aura, causing the photographs to glow, gather his blood mist, and form an ancient book.
• Lin En opened the book and read its otherwise invisible message: “Welcome home in glory, my lord.”

Lin En read the history of his family’s service to the Lord of Crawling and uncovered the horrifying methods they used to preserve their bloodline. He found the ancestor’s remains beneath 156 Gear Street and discovered a drop of Outer God’s Blood that recognized him as its original body.

• Lin En told Hana Ye that his family descended from vessels serving the Lord of Crawling, one of seven Outer Gods that invaded the world.
• Lin En learned that the King of the Red Moon’s lone surviving descendant had gone into the Spirit Realm seeking a way to resurrect her master.
• Lin En read that his ancestors preserved their bloodline through forced inbreeding and by consuming their original ancestor’s flesh.
• Lin En sent his tentacles beneath 156 Gear Street and retrieved the black box containing the ancestor’s remains.
• The flesh shriveled into a drop of Outer God's Blood that recognized Lin En, and its description warned that implanting it would draw the Outer God’s gaze.

Lin En discovered that he was connected to the Lord of Crawling and found the god’s blood and remains of its first-generation Vessel, but the blood contaminated his body and the Vessel was unusable. As he set out with Hana Ye to investigate Mirror and seek a way to make a new Vessel, a Spirit Realm Overlay began swallowing their surroundings.

• Lin En recognized the black blood as his own and learned that it could serve as a beacon, but expelling it after it began corrupting his body.
• Lin En examined the Body of All Spirits and learned it had been made from a million living beings, though its remaining flesh could no longer form a Vessel.
• Lin En concluded that his current body’s compatibility was falling too quickly and decided to seek materials for a new Vessel through Mirror and the Spirit Realm.
• Lin En took Hana Ye toward the Spirit Realm to inspect its Vessel production and question Mirror about the old case.
• An icy wind swept through the doorway as a Spirit Realm Overlay spread into reality, and Lin En wondered whether it had formed naturally or been caused by someone.

Lin En fought Black Widow and Phase Demon after Black Butler tried to seize Hana Ye for the Crimson Secret Cult. He defeated both Weirds and challenged Black Butler to join the battle.

• Lin En led Hana Ye outside and confronted Black Butler, who demanded that he hand her over.
• Black Butler revealed that Black Widow and Phase Demon were waiting to ambush Lin En, then refused to back down when Lin En rejected his demand.
• Black Widow attacked Lin En while he protected Hana Ye, and Phase Demon stabbed him from behind, but Lin En healed with Holy Flame.
• Lin En counterattacked, severely damaging Black Widow and melting Phase Demon with Holy Flame.
• Lin En turned to Black Butler and asked why he was only watching instead of attacking.

Lin En faced Black Butler, who revealed himself as a full-Sequence powerhouse wielding a sword empowered by Cursed Fire. After Black Butler buried Lin En beneath a rain of swords, Lin En emerged in a transformed female-looking form and revealed he had withheld an Origin Substance.

• Black Butler revealed four Origin Substances and thirty-six Sequences, making him a full-Sequence powerhouse, and Hana Ye recognized the danger he posed to Lin En.
• Black Butler wounded Lin En with his Cursed Fire sword, which suppressed Lin En's Holy Flame, then multiplied his blades into a rain that struck Lin En and trapped Hana Ye.
• Believing Lin En had been killed, Hana Ye broke down in tears and angrily confronted Black Butler.
• A red moonlight appeared as Lin En's voice came from beneath the swords, and he tore his way out in a long-haired, feminine form.
• Lin En told Black Butler he had not been killed because he had simply not wanted to use that Origin Substance.

Lin En emerged from Black Butler’s swords transformed into a beautiful girl after using an Origin Substance, and his fury over the humiliating change drove him to attack. He punched Black Butler down the street, leaving Giant Spider and Phase Demon shocked and afraid.

• Lin En crawled out of the sword pile unharmed, though the Origin Substance had changed his body and voice.
• Black Butler mistook Lin En’s altered appearance for his true form, while Hana Ye reacted with shock and called him big sister.
• Lin En freed Hana Ye, threatened her for commenting on his body, and covered his tattered clothes with a Yellow Robe.
• Black Butler taunted Lin En by calling him a lady and gathered the swords into his black sword.
• Lin En activated the Origin Substance’s markings, charged Black Butler, and sent him flying with a punch.
• Giant Spider and Phase Demon recoiled in terror after witnessing Lin En’s speed and strength.

Lin En used his transformed body's overwhelming strength to kill Black Widow and the Phase Demon, then faced Black Butler after surviving his colossal sword attack. He declared he would kill Black Butler and take his [Armament].

• Lin En killed Black Widow with one punch and collected her three origin substances.
• Lin En pursued the fleeing Phase Demon, pierced his skull with a tentacle, and devoured his soul.
• Black Butler attacked Lin En with a colossal sword, which plunged into the block where he stood.
• Lin En emerged from the ruins and told Black Butler he would kill him, take his [Armament], and cosplay a Sword Immortal.