Chapter Summaries

Boss explained that Lin Yi would use recovery training to strengthen his ability to withstand Angel Sculptures, whose attacks could not be reliably avoided. She assigned Li Huiyuan to spar with him while he was only allowed to take hits, using controlled injuries to activate his sky-blue aura and absorb contamination and ashes.

• Wei Liang resisted training with Little Zhouzi, while Lin Yi tried to defend him and Wei Liang accidentally spread a rumor about Lin Yi liking men.
• Boss explained that Lin Yi had already begun absorbing ashes during warm-ups and said his strong mental resilience had let him survive his contamination.
• Boss told Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan that strength, endurance, speed, and flexibility training would not solve the danger posed by Angel Sculptures.
• Boss described recovery training as a way to activate Lin Yi's sky-blue aura through controlled injuries, which would convert contamination into healing power and could also absorb ashes.
• Boss assigned Li Huiyuan to spar with Lin Yi and ordered him to take hits without striking back.

Lin Yi discovered that he could instinctively evade attacks through a rare form of advanced perception, which Boss suspected was connected to Art Department powers and possibly to Maozi. Boss then began a new recovery-training exercise, leaving Lin Yi facing a much more frightening incoming strike.

• Boss arranged for Li Huiyuan to attack Lin Yi so he could practice recovering from injuries, while forbidding him to fight back.
• Lin Yi unexpectedly dodged Li Huiyuan’s flying kick and then evaded Boss’s sudden palm strike as sky-blue steam appeared around him.
• Boss explained that Lin Yi had used advanced perception and instinct to predict and evade attacks, a rare Art Department trait he should not possess at his stage.
• Lin Yi suspected the ability came from something that had happened to Maozi, but Boss let him keep his secrets and returned them to training.
• When Li Huiyuan struggled to hit Lin Yi, Boss decided to injure him herself and told him to relax as much as possible.
• Boss struck like lightning, and Lin Yi felt his advanced perception activate again as an overwhelming sense of danger surrounded him.

Lin Yi was struck by Boss and plunged into a disturbing vision of an abandoned Teaching Building, where he discovered the sign for Group C Class 18 and saw Tian Bufan’s face in a mirror. The vision blurred with his surroundings as he heard someone urgently call his name.

• Boss anticipated Lin Yi’s Asura Flash and struck him in the chest with a powerful kick, sending him flying and leaving him gravely hurt.
• Lin Yi’s vision shifted to a ruined classroom filled with broken sculptures, where unseen voices called for him to take them away.
• He ran into a Corridor and saw the room sign identifying the classroom as Group C Class 18, then glimpsed a stopped grandfather clock.
• His vision shifted to a bathroom mirror, where his reflection first appeared faceless and then became Tian Bufan.
• Lin Yi realized he might be seeing through Tian Bufan’s eyes, but the voices still called him Lin Yi as his two perspectives flickered together.
• Amid the overlapping visions and silence, Lin Yi heard someone urgently call his name.

Lin Yi woke after Boss’s kick had shattered his body, while the strange ashes transformed him and Li Huiyuan absorbed their impurities. Boss concluded that Lin Yi’s recovery ability needed to be trained deliberately and ordered Li Huiyuan to spar with him once he had mostly healed.

• Boss’s kick knocked Lin Yi unconscious, and Wei Liang joked about his friend while the other students reacted to the injury.
• Li Huiyuan found Lin Yi covered in cracks as ashes entered his body, and Boss examined him and said they did not need to summon the School Doctor.
• Boss told Li Huiyuan to wake Lin Yi and absorb the impurities released with his steam, explaining that the process could benefit her.
• Li Huiyuan called Lin Yi for several minutes until his wounds began to heal and he woke in severe pain.
• Boss explained that Lin Yi’s recovery ability had been activated by the injury and could not be consciously controlled, then ordered Li Huiyuan to spar with him once he was seventy or eighty percent recovered.

Boss explained Lin Yi’s near-death self-recovery range and how primal contamination could repair the body while risking sculpturization. She discovered that Lin Yi already absorbed and used contamination instinctively, leaving him unsure whether he had undergone training he could no longer remember.

• Boss explained that Lin Yi’s recovery ability could bring him back from near death, and that his kick had tested the lower limit of his self-recovery range.
• Boss described recovery training as learning to use contamination while controlling its regenerative effects so they did not cause sculpturization.
• Boss explained that supernatural power was primal contamination in altered forms, and that it could activate in a crisis to repair injuries or transform excess cells into powder.
• Boss observed that Lin Yi’s body seemed unusually open to primal contamination and used an appropriate amount of it instinctively, even without deliberate training.
• Boss suggested Lin Yi’s memories might be unreliable and pointed to his bodily instincts as evidence of possible prior training, leaving Lin Yi uncertain.

Lin Yi trained with Boss to sense and control Primal Contamination as it repaired his injuries, while vague, unfamiliar memories surfaced. At ninety percent recovery, he unexpectedly dodged Li Huiyuan’s kick, then developed cracks across his skin and bones as Boss realized something about his condition.

• Wei Liang checked on Lin Yi, then returned to training after asking him to find him if he went swimming.
• Boss explained that Primal Contamination produced both green and sky-blue energy, and taught Lin Yi to control it during recovery training.
• Lin Yi experienced a hazy vision of an unfamiliar place while lying on the floor, and Boss declared him ninety percent recovered.
• Li Huiyuan kicked Lin Yi, but sky-blue steam erupted from him and he dodged her attack, sending her into a pile of cloth bags.
• Cracks spread across Lin Yi’s skin and bones as destruction surged through him, and Boss recognized what was happening.

Lin Yi continued Boss’s injury-based training with Li Huiyuan and discovered how primal contamination changed into sky-blue energy as he dodged. After Li Huiyuan finally struck him, he lay injured but began sensing and slightly controlling the photons that repaired his body.

• Boss explained that Lin Yi’s subconscious had drawn on primal contamination to dodge Huihuizi’s attack, but the strain had worsened his injuries, and she told Li Huiyuan to kick him whenever his cracks healed.
• Lin Yi planned to use each of Li Huiyuan’s attacks to study primal contamination, then dodged her axe kick as contamination gathered from the air and became sky-blue steam inside him.
• Li Huiyuan shattered her foot against the floor, then tricked Lin Yi into dropping his guard and landed an uppercut that sent him flying and worsened his injuries.
• As he recovered beside Li Huiyuan, Lin Yi sensed that primal contamination became white particles and then sky-blue photons before his body released steam, and he theorized that he might learn to use powers from both the Physical Education Department and the Art Department.
• Lin Yi traced the sky-blue energy through his body and slightly rippled the photons repairing his muscle fibers.

Lin Yi observed his subconscious repairing his body and discovered that his injuries healed more easily as he studied the sky-blue energy and Ashes. After Boss struck him, he entered a detached Minecraft-like state, and Boss sensed the Grinning Angel's presence in his shadow.

• Lin Yi watched his subconscious repair his injuries and suspected the Ashes had fueled his recovery.
• Li Huiyuan's third kick barely affected Lin Yi, so she asked Boss to test him with a stronger attack.
• Boss feinted and then struck Lin Yi, revealing how Primal Contamination became sky-blue energy and how his body resisted destruction.
• Lin Yi observed his body from outside himself as the energy repaired it, then returned to his body when Boss lifted him.
• Boss told Li Huiyuan she had sensed the Grinning Angel in Lin Yi's shadow and said they would finish training before deciding whether to proceed to actual combat.

Lin Yi sparred with Li Huiyuan as Boss tested his abilities and explained that his Advanced Sensing only activated when an attack posed a real threat. After the training, Boss ended the sparring and planned to take Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan to Swimming Class, while Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan began talking during their recovery.

• Boss told Li Huiyuan to keep kicking Lin Yi so she could assess whether he had forgotten skills or was learning unusually quickly.
• Li Huiyuan feinted with one kick and struck Lin Yi with the next, prompting him to use the sky-blue energy to dodge and withstand her attacks.
• Li Huiyuan faked a leg cramp and launched a sneak attack, but Lin Yi blocked it with the leg he was holding, breaking both her legs.
• Boss explained that Lin Yi's Advanced Sensing stopped activating because Li Huiyuan's attacks no longer threatened him, then demonstrated how a sufficiently threatening attack triggered it.
• Boss ended the sparring, said Lin Yi had absorbed about a third of his ashes, and scheduled rest, showers, and Swimming Class.
• Lin Yi checked on Li Huiyuan as she recovered, and she told him to call her either Huihuizi or Li Huiyuan, not Li Huihuizi.

Li Huiyuan recounted how the head teacher sent her with the security guard through a hidden route to the Gymnasium after she suffered severe contamination. Her account ended as she described the terrifying Gym Office, before explaining what happened with the school doctor.

• Li Huiyuan told Lin Yi that the head teacher had said she could no longer leave the Campus normally and arranged for the security guard to take her to the Gymnasium.
• Li Huiyuan explained that the security guard commanded her to hold his chain and led her with a procession of chefs through the Teaching Building and a hidden passage to the Library.
• Li Huiyuan described the Library as a castle-like building full of students, books, staircases, and rules warning visitors not to return by the way they came.
• Li Huiyuan said the security guard led the group back onto the Campus, where the gym teacher took the chain and brought her into the Gymnasium.
• Li Huiyuan recalled regaining control of her body after the gym teacher removed her from the chain and took her to the Gym Office.
• Li Huiyuan described the blood-red Gym Office, where several chained gym teachers in sacks over their heads emitted blood-red steam.

Li Huiyuan recounted how a Gym Teacher took her through the Infirmary and into the Basement, where she endured strange sounds and a supernatural trial before Boss found her. Lin Yi pieced together clues about the Basement’s timing, and Boss agreed to give him the Athlete Student Rules before sending him to shower and Swimming Class.

• Li Huiyuan described how the Gym Teacher registered her, took her to the School Doctor, and brought her to a chain-filled Basement room to survive the night by repeating her name.
• Li Huiyuan recalled strange cries, a possible summons from Forerunners, and a fluctuation that made the teacher’s spherical stone glow before she lost consciousness.
• Boss helped Li Huiyuan recover her name by calling her Huihuizi, and she explained how she later became an Athlete Student and received her rules.
• Lin Yi recognized the spherical stone as a Light Bulb and guessed Li Huiyuan’s perceived 22:30 had actually been midnight, estimating the Security Guard’s route to the Gymnasium took an hour and a half.
• Boss agreed to give Lin Yi the Athlete Student Rules, advised him to take conservative approaches outside the Gymnasium, and told him to shower and attend Swimming Class.
• Lin Yi told Boss that Wei Liang also wanted to join Swimming Class.

Lin Yi discovered that the Li Kai watching him shower was an impostor and found Lao Yan’s final message on a shower curtain. The message suggested that Yan Bujiao had died fighting the Green Apron Chef and warned Lin Yi to beware of Li Kai, leaving him to work out which shower rule had led to the deaths.

• Boss assigned Little Zhouzi to take Wei Liang to Swimming Class, while Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan headed toward the Changing Room.
• Boss summoned Xu Shunkang and Yi Hang, and the two Athlete Students followed her toward the Changing Room.
• Lin Yi sensed something wrong in the Men's Locker Room and realized that the supposed Li Kai was an impostor, though Boss had deliberately sent him to keep watch.
• Lin Yi entered the shower stall and discovered Lao Yan’s sky-blue message warning that a Green Skin had revived and that Li Kai was dangerous.
• Lin Yi inferred that Yan Bujiao had died confronting the Green Apron Chef and that Li Kai had also been killed, then began reviewing the shower rules to determine what had happened.

Lin Yi tested the Impersonator Li Kai while pretending to wash his hair, then discovered that the shower water harmed it and revealed a new red aura of Contamination. He connected the red aura to the Gym Teacher and the Wrathful Angel, but its significance remained unknown.

• Lin Yi pretended to wash his hair and realized the Impersonator Li Kai was trying to coax him into opening his eyes.
• The Impersonator Li Kai twisted its body and squeezed a rubbery section beneath the Waterproof Shower Curtain to startle Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi shoved the showerhead into the creature’s slit, pinned the intruding section underfoot, and refused to let it enter the Bathroom.
• Lin Yi observed that the water caused the Impersonator Li Kai to harden and leak a green aura and dark-red substance.
• Lin Yi saw a new red aura of Contamination and remembered the red steam around the Gym Teacher and the Wrathful Angel.

Lin Yi fought Impersonator Li Kai in the Gymnasium’s Shower Area, discovering that water damaged its exposed flesh and using showerheads and a soaked towel to injure it. When Impersonator Li Kai trapped him and began to swallow him, Lin Yi entered a perception state that made time seem almost stopped, and he realized a desperate option might free him.

• Lin Yi severed the part of Impersonator Li Kai’s body that had entered the Bathroom by channeling sky-blue energy into his foot, then dodged its attack and stopped it from retrieving the severed flesh.
• Lin Yi used showerheads to spray Impersonator Li Kai, discovering that water burned its vulnerable inner flesh, then stuffed his soaked towel into its body to prevent it from closing.
• Impersonator Li Kai trapped Lin Yi with a flesh strip and opened its body to swallow him, while Lin Yi’s heightened perception made the surroundings appear nearly motionless.
• Lin Yi noticed that the flesh strip was drawing contamination and sky-blue energy from his arm, and he concluded that an absurd, terrifying action might be his only way to escape.

Lin Yi escaped Impersonator Li Kai’s flesh trap by crushing and tearing free his own left arm, then used the showerheads and his advanced perception to find an opening for an attack. He crushed the creature’s heart with a blazing strike, but Impersonator Li Kai remained alive and seized him, leaving Lin Yi to search for another way to kill it.

• Lin Yi crushed his entangled left hand and arm to escape Impersonator Li Kai’s closing flesh strips, but collapsed from pain and exhaustion.
• Lin Yi noticed that the showerheads’ water droplets frightened Impersonator Li Kai’s exposed inner flesh and realized Boss had set the encounter as recovery training.
• Lin Yi gathered his sky blue aura into his right arm and let Impersonator Li Kai reel him toward its exposed chest so he could attack its heart.
• Lin Yi ignited a blue-and-gold flame, shattered Impersonator Li Kai’s breastbone, and crushed its heart.
• Impersonator Li Kai survived, seized Lin Yi’s right arm, and stabbed his back with flesh strips, while primal contamination protected his heart.

Lin Yi survived Impersonator Li Kai’s self-destruction but found his perspective drawn into a strange forest filled with gray fog and a mysterious portal. After hearing the Occult Scriptures Choir’s cadence and sensing an enormous creature, his vision passed through the portal and arrived at a desolate coastline, where he heard something behind him and felt he must not look back.

• Lin Yi’s recovery let him keep fighting Impersonator Li Kai, who detonated all his supernatural power with Lin Yi at the center of the blast.
• Lin Yi survived the explosion and realized his moving perspective was showing a dense, fog-shrouded forest rather than the Gymnasium.
• Lin Yi saw gray fog, cracked earth, and a luminous portal, and suspected the forest connected to the Art Building layer.
• Lin Yi heard the Occult Scriptures Choir’s cadence and sensed an enormous, snake-like shadow moving through the forest.
• Lin Yi’s perspective rushed through the portal and reached a desolate coastline, where he heard a sound behind him and thought, “Don’t look back.”

Lin Yi recovered after killing Impersonator Li Kai and left the Changing Room, where Boss and Li Huiyuan had been waiting for him. Boss took him to the Swimming Hall and ordered Athlete Students to clean up, while the cleanup team found only a small remnant of the Impersonator.

• Lin Yi glimpsed the Art Building in his vision, heard warnings about the broken world and the gray fog, then recovered in the shower and changed into his school uniform.
• Boss and Li Huiyuan waited outside the Men's Changing Room, and Boss suspected Lin Yi might be fighting Impersonator Li Kai to the death.
• Lin Yi emerged and told Boss that he had completed the mission, while Boss privately realized that he had killed Impersonator Li Kai.
• Boss ordered an Athlete Student to tell Little Xuzi and Little Yizi to stand down and clean up, then invited Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan to the Swimming Hall.
• Xu Shunkang, Yi Hang, and Tian Hengyu searched the Shower Area, found a plaster-like remnant on a showerhead, and ground it into powder.
• Xu Shunkang concluded that the origin had not been hiding in the remnant.

Lin Yi told Boss how he survived Impersonator Li Kai’s self-destruction, then learned from Li Huiyuan that several strange academic majors really existed. Boss warned that tonight would be the hardest night yet, while Lin Yi remained uneasy about the strange people in his class.

• Yi Hang, Tian Hengyu, and Xu Shunkang found Lao Yan’s last words and sent Tian Hengyu to report the Shower Area incident to Boss.
• Lin Yi told Boss and Li Huiyuan that he had crushed Impersonator Li Kai’s heart, survived its self-destruction, and recovered quickly.
• Li Huiyuan explained Dream Boundary Studies, Star Revelation, and Arcane Pattern and Totem Studies, leaving Lin Yi wondering whether his ordinary Architectural Design major was real.
• Tian Hengyu reported that only a hardened piece of Impersonator Li Kai remained, and Boss told him to dispose of it and prepare for the hardest night.
• Lin Yi told Boss that two strange people had appeared in his class, but she said there was no need to worry about them.

Lin Yi experienced another view interaction in the Swimming Hall, then saw a faceless version of himself and chained sculptures calling to him in the pool’s reflection. He mistook Li Huiyuan for the apparition and dragged her from the water, leaving him shaken and unsure what he had seen.

• Lin Yi entered the Swimming Hall and briefly saw Maozi’s perspective in a cellar before Wei Liang pulled him out of the vision.
• Little Zhouzi opened a Wardrobe by touching its card reader, and Lin Yi and Wei Liang changed for swimming.
• Boss assigned Xia Lian to train Wei Liang and prepared Lin Yi to swim in the shallow end with Li Huiyuan nearby.
• Lin Yi heard a voice calling his name and saw a faceless reflection and chained sculptures in the water.
• Lin Yi grabbed Li Huiyuan and hauled her out of the pool, then realized she was real after Boss questioned him.

Lin Yi told Boss about his increasingly confusing hallucinations and the strange places and figures he had seen. As he described a trench-coated person carrying an old copper lamp, Boss reacted sharply, and Lin Yi revealed that he had seen the figure twice, including on a cliff above a sea of crawling Night-Walking Species.

• Lin Yi realized that his reflection seemed to mirror his movements before he consciously knew he had made them, deepening his confusion about reality and illusion.
• Boss learned that Lin Yi had seen a faceless version of himself and an abandoned classroom called Group C Class 18, and warned that his changes might be linked to contamination and the Ashes.
• After Lin Yi entered the pool, a cold green aura stirred inside him, and Boss asked when his hallucinations had begun.
• Lin Yi recounted visions of hidden paths, blocked stairs, a black sky, and a huge presence and distant light in the Wooded Belt.
• Lin Yi described a castle by a sea and a trench-coated figure holding an old copper lamp, prompting Boss to react sharply.
• Lin Yi said he had first seen the figure beside the pool on May 7 and later saw him on a cliff as strange Night-Walking Species crawled up from the seawater.