Chapter Summaries

After the team escaped the Southwest, they celebrated Sheng An’s newly awakened time superpower and the allies and gains they had brought back. Old Qin warned that M’s true identity and location remained unknown, leaving the group uncertain whether defeating the Time Otherkind had harmed M at all.

• Jiang Yu argued with the Mutant Fish Mint, which made leaves sprout from her head before Academician Zhou took it away.
• Sheng An’s convoy left the Southwest by a newly cleared route so Old Chu could use his Yin-Yang Eyes to screen the regions along the way.
• Jia Guangliang tried to take Mountain Blossom’s watermelon, and Long Tianyu mocked him about his past.
• Hao Jingye congratulated Sheng An on awakening a time superpower, and the group celebrated the strength she and their new allies brought to humanity.
• Old Qin pointed out that they still did not know who or where M was, and Old Chu hesitantly began to speak.

After leaving the Southwest, Sheng An and the convoy continued toward Capital City, carrying new questions about the Time Otherkind and the mysteries of Doomsday. Jia Guangliang joined the Special Affairs Office, and the group neared Stone City with acid rain approaching.

• Old Chu admitted he could not tell that the shifting shadow Sheng An fought was an Otherkind, and Sheng An suspected it might not be a person.
• Sheng An postponed discussing the mystery until the group returned to Capital City and had more information.
• At F19 Shelter, Miao Yuan told Sheng An that the residents were moving to F3 before heading to Southwest Base, and Jia Guangliang decided to join Group B of the Special Affairs Office.
• The convoy traveled for fifteen days and reached the vicinity of Stone City, with Capital City only a day away and acid rain approaching.
• Hao Jingye showed Long Tianyu real-time images of construction in Capital City, prompting Li Wanyun to remark that he knew too much.

Sheng An's team rushed to Stone City after receiving a report that Qiu Yu was gravely injured, only to learn the crisis there had already been resolved. Qiu Yu realized the false report had lured Sheng An and Jia Guangliang away, leaving their convoy exposed to an attack.

• Hao Jingye received an urgent report that Qiu Yu was gravely injured at the Meteorite Research Institute, so Sheng An took Qi Lingwu, Wu Buyu, and Jia Guangliang to Stone City.
• Hao Jingye learned that Lou Mingwei was also gravely injured and that an unusually powerful Otherkind had attacked the Institute alongside others.
• Sheng An's group reached the Institute and found Lou Mingwei bloodied but recovering after Jia Guangliang healed him.
• Qiu Yu came out unharmed and explained that she, Lou Mingwei, Xiang Hanshuang, and Qu Yi had already defeated the Otherkind and were repairing communications.
• Qiu Yu recognized that someone in the Capital City's leadership had sent a false report to lure away Yin-Yang Eyes, and Wu Buyu warned that Old Chu was in danger.

Sheng An realized Old Chu was in danger and rewound her own time to return to the convoy, while the others raced after her. They arrived after a shadow-wielding assassin had killed Old Chu, and Sheng An reappeared beside his body.

• Sheng An rewound her own time and returned to the convoy, while Wu Buyu, Qi Lingwu, Qiu Yu, Qu Yi, and Lou Mingwei hurried after her.
• A teenage assassin emerged from the shadows inside the vehicle and slashed Old Chu’s neck with a poisoned filament.
• The convoy members attacked and captured the assassin, but Hao Jingye confirmed Old Chu was dead despite Jiang Yu and Song Linwei trying to save him.
• Doctor Yan recognized the attack as a conspiracy that had drawn away the time and healing users and Qi Lingwu.
• Sheng An reappeared in her seat beside Old Chu’s body.

Sheng An reversed time to save Old Chu from an assassination, then discovered the attacker had been using the Puppet Ability to imitate Cheng Bairuo. She ordered everyone to return to Capital City while Qi Lingwu carried her into the vehicle.

• Sheng An used Time Reversal to restore Old Chu and Long Tianyu to before the assassination, then captured the attacker despite the severe cost to her body.
• Qi Lingwu returned with the others and supported Sheng An as she revealed the attacker's face, which looked identical to Cheng Bairuo's.
• Qi Lingwu killed the attacker, whose face changed into that of an ordinary Otherkind without a Superpower.
• Sheng An identified the attacker’s power as Puppet, and Qiu Yu agreed to analyze whether her Puppets could borrow another Superpower.
• Sheng An ordered everyone back to Capital City, and Qi Lingwu carried her into the vehicle.

Group B returned to Capital City Base and received an enthusiastic public welcome, while Sheng An and Qi Lingwu quietly met the base officials. Sheng An ended the chapter by asking Old Chu who had been responsible.

• Capital City Base residents welcomed Group B as the convoy arrived, cheering for its members and their abilities.
• Long Tianyu flashed into the base to attract attention, then realized he had left the admiring crowd behind.
• Li Wanyun, Jiang Yu, and the rest of Group B walked through the gate while Wu Buyu flew overhead, and the crowd asked where Sheng An and Qi Lingwu were.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu entered the administrative building with Old Chu, Qiu Yu, and Qu Yi to meet the waiting senior officials.
• Sheng An quietly asked Old Chu, "Who was it?"

Sheng An exposed Elder Zhang as the Otherkind, mourned the mentor whose identity it had stolen, and called for the Capital City leadership to share intelligence. At a briefing, Academician He explained what they had learned about Sheng An’s time reversal and the prophecy, then prepared to reveal a third discovery concerning everyone in the Special Affairs Office.

• Old Chu identified Elder Zhang as the Otherkind, and Sheng An tested the accusation by aiming an unloaded gun at him.
• Elder Zhang dodged the gun and attacked the Chief Base Director, so Qi Lingwu killed him before he could strike.
• Sheng An saluted Elder Zhang’s body, then urged the leadership to consolidate and share their intelligence.
• At the conference, Academician He explained that Sheng An had restarted the world and that Qin Xuan’s prophecy depicted a scene from around the first month of Doomsday’s fifth year.
• Academician He announced that the Institute had decoded a third piece of information concerning everyone present from the Special Affairs Office.

The Special Affairs Office pieced together that its members had likely survived until the fifth year of Doomsday in their previous lives, fought alongside Sheng An and the government, and had their memories cut off by M during the rewind. The discussion ended with Lou Mingwei asking why Jiang Yu and Wu Zhi had even shorter memories.

• Academician He proposed that the Special Affairs Office members had lived beyond the second year of Doomsday and regained the power levels they had reached by the fifth year.
• Li Wanyun realized she might have survived her supposed fight to the death with Lou Mingwei and later learned from Sheng An and Qi Lingwu.
• Doctor Yan and Gu Qiansheng reasoned that the government had remained active behind the scenes, with Wu Buyu helping guide and restrain Superpower People.
• Doctor Yan and Song Linwei concluded that Sheng An and Qi Lingwu had gathered their former teammates and tried to preserve their memories and powers, but M had cut off most memories at the end of the second year.
• Lou Mingwei asked Sheng An why Jiang Yu's memories ended in the first year of Doomsday and Wu Zhi's stopped on the day it began.

Sheng An and the others examined why the Reborn’s memories and awakenings differed, concluding that M may have targeted Jiang Yu and granted powers to puppets. Sheng An then connected M’s memory and timeline manipulations to Qi Lingwu’s King’s Anchor.

• Academician He said Wu Zhi and Jiang Yu might be loopholes caused by Time Reversal, while Li Wanyun, Long Tianyu, and Yang Chuan were outcomes of the contest involving Sheng An, Qi Lingwu, and M.
• Sheng An argued that M may have deliberately erased Jiang Yu’s memories because she had learned something important, and the group theorized that Jiang Yu had awakened a weaker plant-type superpower later in her previous life.
• Jiang Yu protested that she could have uncovered an important secret, while the Mutant Fish Mint secretly plucked the leaves from her head and stuck them on its own.
• Academician He summarized the remaining questions about the previous life and Sheng An’s past, and Doctor Yan warned that M’s power was even more terrifying than they had thought.
• Sheng An explained that the Time Otherkind in the Southwest had shifted between her face and Zhang Jialiang’s, suggesting that its time, undying, and shadow powers had been granted by M to a puppet.
• Sheng An asked whether M’s memory and timeline manipulations resembled a familiar power, and Qi Lingwu identified it as the psychic superpower King’s Anchor.

Sheng An and the others considered M’s powers, motives, and methods, concluding that the Otherkind Master remained their enemy and still had secrets. As the meeting ended, Sheng An proposed that humanity stop waiting for M’s next attack and seek It out.

• Academician He and Doctor Yan discussed whether M possessed multiple superpowers or a unique ability, and proposed that M might see humans as nourishment or fear Sheng An’s time power.
• Qi Lingwu argued that the Kindling had not yet mastered their abilities because they lacked five years of Doomsday memories, while Doctor Yan suggested the Otherkind may have stolen powers from humans.
• Hao Jingye reviewed M’s four known attacks, and Sheng An questioned whether the assault on Old Chu had been meant to mislead them about Elder Zhang.
• Gu Cheng proposed that M might leave day-to-day leadership to Otherkind such as Elder Zhang, and Sheng An concluded that M still had secrets either way.
• Sheng An warned that M would attack again and asked whether it was time for humanity to take the initiative and search for M.

After learning the truth about M, Sheng An urged the team to stop waiting passively and prepare to attack, then rested after returning to the base. Lou Mingwei discovered that Sheng An could rewind time when she sent him back to before dinner, and he ended by praising her.

• Sheng An argued that the team should take the initiative against M after surviving its previous attacks, and the Chief Base Director gave instructions for disaster preparations and research on the mutant plant.
• Xiang Hanshuang arrived after the meeting and angrily confronted the team for forgetting her at the Meteorite Research Institute in Stone City and leaving her out of the meeting.
• Sheng An and the others returned to the villa and slept for twelve hours to recover from their exhausting journey.
• Xiang Hanshuang encouraged Lou Mingwei to visit Sheng An, but he vanished after entering Group B's villa and reappeared at the Cafeteria before he had eaten.
• Lou Mingwei realized Sheng An had rewound him to before dinner and shouted that she was badass.

After Sheng An recovered from rewinding time, she explained the limits and dangers of her power while Team 0 settled into a lively evening at the villa. The hot pot dinner was delayed until Jiang Yu returned from the Agricultural Research Institute, where Mutant Fish Mint had begun planning to spread fish mint across the planet.

• Sheng An told Qi Lingwu that rewinding Lou Mingwei's time had used little power, but reversing the time of someone who had died was far more costly and painful.
• Qi Lingwu reminded Sheng An to rely on him and her teammates, and she explained that rewinds involving stronger powers required more energy.
• Jia Guangliang chose hot pot for dinner and learned about Team 0's comfortable benefits, Li Wanyun's loan, and Li Xin's expired contract.
• Sheng An told the team that Jiang Yu had gone to the Agricultural Research Institute to help Mutant Fish Mint, which wanted to plant fish mint across the planet.
• Jiang Yu returned pale and dizzy with tissue stuffed into her nostrils, just as everyone was waiting to eat.

Jiang Yu described the Mutant Fish Mint’s useful roots and their unbearable smell, while Sheng An and Li Wanyun delivered meteorite fragments to the Meteorite Research Institute. Sheng An then went to learn about Doctor Yan’s research progress, leaving Li Wanyun hopeful that he had found a way to help people awaken superpowers.

• Jiang Yu explained that the Mutant Fish Mint willingly severed its roots, which researchers could plant to cultivate fish mint across the scorched earth.
• Jiang Yu brought the foul-smelling roots to the hot-pot gathering, and everyone recoiled except Jia Guangliang, who enjoyed the smell.
• Sheng An and Li Wanyun delivered collected meteorite fragments to Academician He, who promised to try piecing them together within ten days.
• Academician He warned Sheng An that gathering fragments in Capital City worsened the soil and caused more Otherkind to appear.
• Academician He told Sheng An that Doctor Yan had made progress researching superpower people, so Sheng An took Li Wanyun to the Superpower Biology Research Institute.

Sheng An examined the limits of her nine-star power while Doctor Yan proposed using fragment-infused water to create Superpower People and Sheng An's time reversal to save anyone who became an Otherkind. The chapter ended with Doctor Yan revealing that he had already drunk the water and offering to be the first test subject.

• Sheng An told Doctor Yan that, despite reaching nine stars, she still needed food while recovering, though she could go without eating without dying.
• Doctor Yan reported that researchers had found no reliable biological differences between Superpower People and superpowered Otherkind, making mass production of Superpower People impossible by conventional means.
• Doctor Yan proposed a protected form of Divine Descent using clean water infused with meteorite fragments, with Sheng An reversing time if a subject became an Otherkind.
• Sheng An warned that a failed attempt could kill its subject, and Doctor Yan revealed that he had already drunk fragment-infused water and volunteered to be the first test subject.

The group tested whether water soaked with Fragments could awaken superpowers, while Sheng An prepared to use Time Reversal if someone became Otherkind. Doctor Yan awakened a superpower, but Academician Zhou became Otherkind and was reversed at great cost to Sheng An, leaving the group to set strict limits on further trials.

• Doctor Yan drank more Fragment-soaked water and awakened a superpower, prompting the group to agree that the method should only be used in limited cases.
• Hao Jingye and Academician He argued over who should undergo the next test, while Academician Zhou revealed that he had already drunk the water and asked for another cup.
• Academician Zhou became Otherkind, and Sheng An immediately used Time Reversal to restore him, leaving her pale and exhausted.
• Academician Zhou warned Jiang Yu to stay safe, then left to organize his research and hand over important projects.
• Sheng An explained that reversing Otherkind required immense energy and that future tests had to be kept within a short interval; Hao Jingye volunteered to try next.

Hao Jingye underwent an awakening attempt but developed no fever, and Sheng An revealed he might be an exception who would become neither a Superpower Person nor Otherkind. Over the following days, tests identified several officials who would become Otherkind, prompting a dispute over whether they should leave their positions.

• Hao Jingye tried to awaken a superpower while his friends teased him and worried he might become Otherkind.
• After half an hour passed without any change, Doctor Yan and Academician He suggested Hao Jingye might have no superpower and would not become Otherkind; Sheng An confirmed she and Qi Lingwu had considered that possibility.
• Hao Jingye learned he had been frightened unnecessarily, then crouched in embarrassment while Jia Guangliang and Wu Buyu tried to comfort him.
• Over the next few days, Academician He, Director Wang, and two senior officials were found certain to become Otherkind, while the Chief Base Director and Elder Li awakened superpowers.
• Elder Li and Qiu Yu proposed replacing those who would become Otherkind in important positions, but Sheng An argued against removing them before they transformed.

Sheng An argued that Academician He and Academician Zhou should remain in their important roles despite the risk of becoming Otherkind, and Elder Li reluctantly accepted her decision. At the Agricultural Research Institute, Sheng An plucked the Mutant Fish Mint’s only leaf for Academician Zhou’s research, leaving the plant shocked and completely bald.

• Sheng An persuaded Qi Lingwu, Hao Jingye, and Special Affairs Office Group B to support keeping Academician He and Academician Zhou at their posts, while Elder Li and Qiu Yu left after Elder Li reluctantly gave way.
• Academician He promised Sheng An that he would piece together the meteorite fragments within five days, and Jiang Yu told her that Academician Zhou needed her help with the uncooperative Mutant Fish Mint.
• Academician Zhou explained that he wanted to study the Mutant Fish Mint’s leaf because its roots could not produce viable plants for long-term cultivation.
• Sheng An plucked the Mutant Fish Mint’s only leaf and handed it to Academician Zhou, leaving the plant bewildered as it realized it was completely bald.

Sheng An used her time-reversal ability to harvest leaves from the mutant fish mint and secured its cooperation with Academician Zhou’s wasteland cultivation project. As acid rain began falling, the base activated its protective barrier, and Long Tianyu appeared on the observation tower before vanishing with two people recording the rain.

• Sheng An repeatedly rewound the mutant fish mint’s time to harvest five leaves, then promised it more if it helped Academician Zhou complete the wasteland cultivation project.
• Sheng An and her team left the Agricultural Research Institute, but a base-wide alarm and thunder warned them that the acid rain was coming.
• Sheng An issued emergency orders, warned everyone to stay inside and avoid the rain, and coordinated preparations with Qi Lingwu, Wan Yuan, Wu Buyu, and Li Xin.
• Sheng An ordered the base’s protective barrier activated and waited as the countdown reached zero.
• Acid rain poured down, and Long Tianyu appeared on the observation tower before vanishing with the two people who had recorded its first images.

As acid rain battered the world, Capital City Base’s shield held while residents and workers carried on with orderly meals, repairs, and preparations. Sheng An and her team set out to protect the life and hope their efforts had preserved.

• Sheng An activated the base’s two-layer shield just before blood-red acid rain arrived, and surveillance feeds showed the rain corroding cameras, buildings, and a surviving rat.
• Capital City Base residents gathered to watch the destruction, then returned to orderly meals and discussed volunteering and continuing their work.
• Teams of metal-, earth-, and water-type ability users reinforced the shield, compacted soil, checked for leaks, and secured the base’s water supply.
• Jia Guangliang told Wu Buyu that the Southwest had fallen into chaos during acid rain, unlike the lively and orderly Capital City Base.
• Hao Jingye reminded Jia Guangliang of the dangers facing the Special Affairs Office, and Jia insisted that this time was different.
• Sheng An stood and led the team to set out for the sake of that difference.

When an Otherkind tore through B11 Base’s dome during the acid rain, Deng Lan and the others struggled to contain the damage as their communications failed. Sheng An and her team arrived in time to repair the dome, leaving Jiang Yu to scold B11’s workers for building it too thin.

• Deng Lan and Liu Zhao warned B11’s Superpower Persons to stay careful as acid rain injured a worker, and Deng Lan kept them focused on their duties.
• On the fifth day of the acid rain, a Metal-Type Ability User transformed into an Otherkind and tore a hole in the dome, injuring nearby workers and letting rainwater into the base.
• Deng Lan sent a distress signal, but the acid rain soon knocked out communications while the damaged dome continued to leak and its repair crews neared exhaustion.
• Sheng An, Qi Lingwu, Li Wanyun, Li Xin, Mountain Blossom, and the others arrived on a huge bird, and Li Xin used metal plates to quickly repair the dome.
• Jiang Yu criticized Deng Lan and the others for slacking off and letting the dome remain too thin.