Arc 15Chapters 351–375

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Ch. 351A steady source of legendary equipment

Mu You led a summoned army through the first floor of the Dungeon and found the Flame Lord, whose strength scaled with the number of nearby enemies. He returned alone to defeat it, opened the second-floor entrance, and obtained an Evolution Gem that could upgrade Epic equipment to legendary quality.

  • Mu You recruited Flowers in the Mist and led the party along Summer Insects Speak of Ice's route until they reached the Flame Temple.
  • The Flame Lord's Flame Mark amplified its attacks against the party's many summons, nearly wiping them out and forcing Mu You to retreat when the Dungeon timer expired.
  • Mu You led the group back to the temple, then entered alone because fewer nearby enemies weakened the Flame Lord.
  • Mu You defeated the Flame Lord, and Dawn City's players received notice that the entrance to the Dungeon's second floor had opened.
  • Mu You collected an Evolution Gems-Flame, Sky Gloves, experience, and permanent Fire resistance, discovering that the gem could upgrade Epic equipment to legendary quality.

Ch. 352Sunset and twilight

Mu You cleared the Dungeon’s first floor, shared a guide that helped players reach the second floor, and watched as Sunset City and Twilight City were activated on the same day. In K City, Kusanagi Tetsuya investigated several disappearances and suspected they might be connected.

  • Mu You learned that evolution gems were scarce, led his party to the second floor, and found its route blocked by a crystal deposit before their Dungeon attempts ran out.
  • Mu You gave Blue-Eyes White Dragon details about the first-floor clear and boss rewards, and Blue-Eyes White Dragon published a guide that helped players reach and explore the second floor.
  • Sunset City was activated with Bluebeard as its first City Lord, followed hours later by Twilight City with Nine Nether as its first City Lord, sparking fierce arguments over the Celestial Empire’s share of the Sky Cities.
  • Kusanagi Tetsuya arrived in K City and questioned his subordinates about the disappearance of Gao Ziming, Number 14, and others connected to them.
  • Kusanagi Tetsuya ordered the records reviewed personally and vowed to find whoever had orchestrated the disappearances if they were not a coincidence.

Ch. 353Daily life at the pet shop

Mu You brewed a Mute Potion to help Mermaid recover her voice and watched a Chimera hatchling emerge and bond with him after eating the Dragon-Taming Stone. In K City, a young man from the Wind and Thunder Sect investigating Number 14 noticed Mu You’s pet shop and decided to visit it himself.

  • Mu You gave Mermaid a Mute Potion and told her to return weekly for a course of treatment to strengthen her vocal cords.
  • Mu You accepted the Dark Elves’ quest to find materials for repairing their temple after his other available elf quests were postponed or remained out of reach.
  • One of Mu You’s Chimera eggs hatched under Xiao Ya’s care, and the newly born Two-Headed Dragon fought Little Spider before Mu You tamed it with the Dragon-Taming Stone.
  • Two days later, a young man from the Wind and Thunder Sect questioned his associate about Number 14 while reviewing surveillance footage in K City.
  • The young man noticed that people he was tracking had entered Mu You’s pet shop and decided to visit the shop in person.

Ch. 354Chocobo racing

The Pet Shop held its first Chocobo race, which ended with an amateur spectator beating the professionals after their magic-filled final sprint descended into chaos. Afterwards, Mu You uncovered a suspicious probe by two visitors connected to Jin Yuan and Yu Yi Nian, and both he and the bespectacled young man arranged to investigate the other.

  • The Merchant Alliance organized an invitational Chocobo race, and Trench Coat Guy took an early lead in the obstacle race with an acceleration spell.
  • On the final lap, two racers coordinated to slow Trench Coat Guy, while the contestants' control spells tangled the leading pack in a magical mire.
  • The lucky spectator won by using three Dispels to clear the control spells and cross the finish line first.
  • Two visitors asked Mu You to invest in the shop and claimed Jin Yuan and Yu Yi Nian had recommended them, prompting Mu You to suspect they were probing his connection to the pair.
  • Mu You checked the visitors with the Omniscient Crystal, concealed his recognition of the names, and asked Lu Yao to investigate them.
  • After leaving, the bespectacled young man told the middle-aged man to investigate Mu You, saying his overly correct responses had seemed suspicious.

Ch. 355Villains, every last one

Mu You explored the Cook Islands to find the Undead Society and learned how locals preyed on outsiders by implanting gu insects and charging for their removal. After enduring and rewinding through several traps, he found a beggar whose information menu revealed that nobody in the village had a shadow.

  • Mu You reached level 17 after clearing the Dungeon's second-floor boss, then traveled to the Cook Islands to investigate the Undead Society and search for answers about Ye Rumeng's sister and the Shadow Fiend.
  • Mu You was implanted with a Heart-Devouring Gu, learned that the gu remover charged five years of lifespan, and paid to have the insect removed after asking about the Undead Society.
  • Mu You encountered several local scams, including traps involving a treasure chest, a pastry, a robbery, and a dry well, and used his Pocket Watch to rewind while gathering information for other players.
  • Mu You found a beggar who offered information at a steep lifespan cost and learned that the village's residents had no shadows.

Ch. 356An ill-fitting shadow

Mu You learned that Granny Tang had ties to the Undead Society and controlled a deadly shadow fiend, then accepted a quest from an old woman seeking news of her missing granddaughter, Louise. After obtaining the Society’s hidden entrance in Grayrock Village, he watched the papermaking workshop and spotted robot wrecks that might offer a way inside.

  • Mu You learned from a beggar that the islanders’ shadows had been taken, children were being collected by Granny Tang, and Golden Silkworms could consume gu worms.
  • Mu You visited Granny Tang in Zhenyu Village, discovered her mismatched shadow concealed a shadow fiend, and retreated after the fiend killed him in a reversed attempt.
  • An old woman offered to reveal the Undead Society’s location if Mu You investigated her missing granddaughter, Louise, and Mu You accepted the hidden quest.
  • The old woman gave Mu You the Society’s entrance location beneath paper cabinets in Old Man Luke’s papermaking workshop in Grayrock Village.
  • Mu You watched Luke’s guarded property and noticed piles of Worker Robot and Cleaning Robot wrecks outside its gate, suggesting robots worked inside.

Ch. 357Louise's diary

Mu You infiltrated an underground complex disguised as a cleaning robot and found a fragment of Louise’s diary describing a planned uprising at the hospital. Elsewhere, a young man used Louise’s shadow to resurrect a man as a giant Shadow Fiend, while Mu You followed the pleas of his own Shadow Fiend toward an unknown destination.

  • Mu You disguised himself as a cleaning robot during a delivery to Luke’s paper mill and was taken into the underground complex, where a beanpole man warned the robots to stay out of the western zone.
  • Mu You explored the abandoned northern zone and found a diary fragment hidden inside a rag doll, describing Louise and other children planning to resist their treatment with help from Mianmian, who refused to join them.
  • Mu You looked for Ye Rumeng to ask about Mianmian but found her missing, then discovered that his Shadow Fiend was pleading and directing him somewhere.
  • On a rooftop, a bespectacled young man ordered his middle-aged associate to find Number Fourteen and kicked a bound man off the building as part of a plan to summon it.
  • Louise’s shadow possessed the fallen man and transformed into a towering Shadow Fiend, while Mu You set out to follow the directions of his own Shadow Fiend.

Ch. 358Three kinds of Shadow Fiends

Mu You rescued Ye Rumeng from a rampaging Shadow Fiend and fled the city with two different pursuers on his heels. After unleashing the Shadow Fiend from his box to fight the giant creature, he and Lin Xue cornered the muscular pursuer, whose shadowless corpse suggested he had escaped.

  • A young man controlled the giant Shadow Fiend long enough to order his companion to capture Ye Rumeng, but Mu You pulled her into the darkness and escaped with her.
  • The young man transformed into a muscular Shadow Fiend host and attacked Mu You, who used the Pocket Watch to evade him while leading both pursuers out of the city.
  • Mu You released the Shadow Fiend from his box, and it knocked down the muscular man before the giant Shadow Fiend arrived and fought it.
  • Lin Xue joined Mu You and trapped the muscular man between them, but the Reaper's Scythe failed to hook out his soul before he died.
  • Mu You used a Light Illumination Spell and found that the muscular man's corpse cast no shadow, leading him to conclude that the man had escaped.

Ch. 359The aftermath

Mu You helped stop a Shadow Fiend attack, suspected its mastermind was a being from the Star Spirit World, and learned the culprit was tied to Japan’s Wind and Thunder Sect. He agreed to join an official delegation traveling to Japan, where he could investigate the incident and Little Girl’s background.

  • Mu You watched the box’s Shadow Fiend defeat its opponent, then saw it return to the box when Ye Rumeng cried out; Ye Rumeng wondered whether her sister was still alive.
  • Lin Xue failed to find the fleeing mastermind, while Mu You stayed behind and told Zhang Yang that the Ghost Ship Captain and Red Sickle Girl had handled the Shadow Fiend.
  • Mu You told Nine Nether that the mastermind might be a being from the Star Spirit World disguised as a human, then learned from Lu Yao that the glasses-wearing man belonged to Japan’s Wind and Thunder Sect and had abruptly changed five years earlier.
  • Zhang Yang identified the two dead men as Japanese and said Kusanagi Tetsuya, the Wind and Thunder Sect’s leader, had likely fled K City; he also reported five deaths and more than two hundred injuries.
  • Zhang Yang asked Mu You to represent K City on a delegation investigating the incident in Japan, and Mu You agreed.

Ch. 360No matter how far, they would be slain

Mu You joined a Celestial Empire delegation traveling to Japan to investigate the Wind and Thunder Sect and shared clues that could expose shadow people. After the Wind and Thunder Sect’s base was found empty, the Blood Emperor and the Dragon Group director pressured Japan’s Defense Society to cooperate in tracking them down.

  • Mu You boarded a plane with twenty-one elite combatants and reviewed intelligence identifying Kusanagi Tetsuya as a likely Otherworld creature in disguise.
  • Mu You found two more pages from Louise’s diary, which described a suspicious shadow and a monster beast, and inferred that shadow people might be distinguished by the direction of their shadows.
  • Mu You sent his shadow theory to Nine Nether, who relayed it to the delegation; the Dragon Group director quietly checked the travelers’ shadows and warned them to stay alert.
  • The delegation landed in Tokyo, where Makiyama Hayata welcomed them and admitted that the Wind and Thunder Sect’s base had been empty when Japan searched it.
  • The Blood Emperor and the director challenged Makiyama Hayata over the failed search and demanded that Japan investigate the Wind and Thunder Sect’s connections, threatening to pursue them without cooperation.

Ch. 361Walking into the trap

The exchange delegation exposed and killed Uchimura, a Shadow Person posing as a Japanese Defense Society vice president, then captured the shadow he left behind. The shadow disappeared moments later, leading Director Wang to suspect its real body in the Star Spirit World had been killed to silence it.

  • After receiving Mu You's warning, the delegation watched Uchimura's shadow as he led them to the guesthouse.
  • The Blood Emperor attacked Uchimura, and the delegation restrained the Japanese guests while Director Wang said they were catching a spy.
  • The delegation killed Uchimura and used intense light to reveal and capture his fleeing shadow.
  • Makiyama Hayata returned, denied knowing Uchimura was a spy, and agreed to summon everyone in the Defense Society for screening.
  • Director Wang praised Mu You for identifying Uchimura, and Mu You said he had noticed something suspicious.
  • The captured shadow disintegrated and vanished, and Director Wang concluded that someone had killed its real body in the Star Spirit World.

Ch. 362The Association's New Objective

Mu You revealed that he possessed Gemini's and Scorpio's Crystals, made the Black Magic Enthusiasts' Club the Mystic Arts Association's primary target, and traded for a powerful spatial spell. While exploring the Underground Factory's Southern District, he found Louise's fifth diary fragment, which described a failed escape and a horrific punishment in the Western District, prompting him to explore it next.

  • Makiyama Hayata checked the Defense Society's members for Shadow People, while the Japan Government ordered overnight investigations and suspected Shadow People fled.
  • Mu You attended the Secret Art Meeting, disclosed that he held Gemini's and Scorpio's Crystals, and assigned the members to investigate the Black Magic Enthusiasts' Club.
  • Mu You traded his black magic Position Swap card with Libra for the Spatial Convergence scroll.
  • Mu You explored the Southern District, escaped children who mistook his character for a robot, and found Louise's fifth diary fragment in a library.
  • Mu You learned that Louise and other children had been punished in a Gu Insect pool in the Western District and decided to explore that district next.

Ch. 363The Undead Society's Behind-the-Scenes Boss

Mu You infiltrated the Western District’s Gu Pool through a sewage pipe, found a Golden Silkworm pupa, and overheard the Undead Society’s leader discussing a coming Spatial Rift and the plan to use Shadow Messengers as bait. He tried to attack the leader but was overwhelmed by a terrifying presence and died.

  • Mu You disguised himself as a Cleaning Robot and entered the Gu Pool through a sewage pipe, repeatedly logging out to clear insects that jammed his mechanical body.
  • Mu You sent Sand Spiders to explore the pool, and one found a page from Louise’s diary warning her not to enter the Western District because of a monster.
  • A Sand Spider discovered a Golden Silkworm pupa that could eat Gu Insects and restore Mu You’s mana and action points.
  • Mu You overheard the Stalk Man speak with the Undead Society’s leader, who planned to escape through a Spatial Rift in 43 hours and use other Shadow Messengers as bait.
  • Mu You ordered his character to attack the leader, but a terrifying presence immobilized him and killed him.

Ch. 364Identity exposed

Mu You investigated the underground factory, uncovered a diary page about Mianmian’s dream ability, and killed the Green-Clothed Old Woman to recover a clue from Louise’s music box. The other Shadow Fiends then tore him apart.

  • Mu You failed to approach the central platform because a terrifying presence killed him whenever he revealed himself, and he overheard the President order Stalk Man to guard the Gu Pool against intruders.
  • Mu You learned that Japan was searching for Shadow Fiends by investigating people who had disappeared for over a month, and he noticed Ye Rumeng and Mianmian’s home lay near the suspected Spatial Rift.
  • Mu You found a torn page from Louise’s diary describing how Mianmian entered a dream world while asleep, but someone had already taken the item hidden in a music box.
  • Mu You suspected the Green-Clothed Old Woman had taken the music-box clue and found administrators destroying robots in the central district.
  • Mu You tricked the Green-Clothed Old Woman, killed her after she transformed into an Elderly Shadow Fiend, and obtained the clue from the music box before the other Shadow Fiends killed him.

Ch. 365Tampered memories

Mu You investigated Louise’s diary and Ye Rumeng’s past, discovering evidence that Ye Rumeng’s memories of a sister named Mianmian did not match her family home. The chapter left Ye Rumeng asleep after her memories seemed to cause her pain, while Mu You suspected she had been abducted and her memories altered.

  • Mu You fused with the elderly Shadow Fiend’s remains, gaining 56 Health and the ability to control and briefly detach his shadow.
  • Mu You read Louise’s sixth diary page, which described her separation from Mianmian and her friendship with the young Sayaka, but found no matching child in Japan’s missing persons database.
  • Dusk City was activated under Holy Light Nana, who was Libra’s Doppelganger Card, and Mu You shared his Sky City construction advice with Libra and Capricorn.
  • Mu You visited Ye Rumeng’s family home and learned from a neighbor that Ye Rumeng’s family had consisted only of her parents and herself, all of whom died in a car accident.
  • Mu You searched the house and found no evidence that Mianmian had lived there, then brought Ye Rumeng inside and questioned her about her sister.
  • Ye Rumeng could not identify any belongings of her supposed sister and fell asleep in pain, leading Mu You to suspect that her memories had been tampered with.

Ch. 366The spatial rift opens

Mu You realized that Sayaka, a missing child with no official report, might be a Shadow Person and had Lu Yao search Tokyo’s school records for her. As Tokyo descended into chaos from a mass Shadow Fiend attack, Sayaka reached the newly opened spatial rift underground, but someone appeared and blocked her path.

  • Mu You suspected that the person hiding near Ye Rumeng’s home might be disguised as a child, then connected Sayaka from Louise’s diary to the Shadow People.
  • Mu You asked Lu Yao to find eight-year-old Sayaka in Tokyo’s elementary school enrollment records, offering her Blue Gear to produce results before afternoon.
  • The Japanese Defense Society and the Exchange Delegation captured Wind and Thunder Sect peripheral members, but the true core members died before they could be questioned.
  • Director Wang predicted a larger attack, and sixteen Shadow Fiends appeared across Tokyo at midnight, throwing the city into chaos.
  • Sayaka killed the woman caring for her, uncovered a dry well in a nearby park, and followed its underground passage to the spatial rift.
  • As Sayaka approached the open rift, she dodged a scythe and found an unidentified figure blocking the entrance.

Ch. 367God of Shadows

Mu You and Lin Xue captured the Shadow Person hiding as Sayaka, but it revealed that its weakened shadow could no longer suppress a monster beneath the underground factory before vanishing. The monster emerged as the God of Shadows and attacked Dawn City, where a giant octopus began trying to pull it off Sky City.

  • Mu You and Lin Xue trapped Sayaka’s Shadow Person, which explained that it had been suppressing a monster and then abandoned its shadow, warning that the Fools would pay.
  • Xiao Ya alerted Mu You and Lin Xue that Dawn City was under attack, and the two used a Spatial Rift to reach the Cook Islands.
  • The God of Shadows burst from beneath a village, destroyed it, and flew toward Sky City.
  • Mu You and Lin Xue returned to Sky City as the God of Shadows landed and began attacking the city, killing players in its path.
  • A giant octopus leaped onto Sky City and wrapped its tentacles around the God of Shadows, trying to drag it away.

Ch. 368Above Level 30, the Realm of Gods!

Mu You and Lin Xue discovered that the Shadow God's Shadow had taken over its human host and was a level-35 creature with billions of Health. By combining the Evil-Subduing Death Knell, sunlight, and the Octopus King's restraint, they pinned it down temporarily, leaving Mu You to mobilize Dawn City's citizens before it broke free.

  • Mu You attacked the Shadow God and died from its God's Devour ability, then used the Omniscient Crystal to learn about its divine backlash and God's Defense.
  • The Shadow God tore through the Octopus King's tentacles and began overpowering him, but Lin Xue struck its back with the God of Death's shell and saw a living person inside.
  • Lin Xue revealed that the host's sin value was over a hundred times higher than Z Worldwalker's and used the Evil-Subduing Death Knell to bind the Shadow God, revealing its level as 35.
  • Mu You crushed a Sunlight Stone, causing the Shadow God's Shadow to howl and struggle in the sunlight, while Lin Xue rang the Death Knell a second time and reduced its level to 33.
  • The Octopus King restrained the weakened Shadow God, and Mu You returned to the City Lord's Castle to use the Citywide Quest system to mobilize Dawn City's citizens before the restraints wore off.

Ch. 369Defend our city!

Dawn City’s residents learned that attacking the immobilized God of Shadows granted generous rewards, including True Experience that bypassed level bottlenecks. Thousands rushed to defend the city, and the Shadow God’s health fell rapidly, leaving Mu You expecting the fight to end well before the two-hour deadline.

  • The City Lord announced a two-hour citywide quest to defeat the God of Shadows and explained the boss’s abilities, weaknesses, and attack strategies.
  • Players debated whether defending Dawn City was worth the risks until Mu You’s attack revealed rewards including permanent Health, Fool Reputation, and the Proof of Courage title.
  • Mu You, Xiao Ya, and Lin Hai began attacking the Shadow God, while players learned that True Experience could automatically break bottlenecks below level twenty.
  • Reports of the rewards spread across the forum, prompting Dawn City residents to join the fight and outsiders to flood the city with applications.
  • Dawn City players rapidly removed 370 million Health from the Shadow God in half a minute, and Mu You realized the boss might fall in under an hour.

Ch. 370Players in Despair

Blue-Eyes White Dragon’s guide persuaded Dawn City players to farm the Shadow God, but its passive God's Hammer repeatedly wiped out the attackers and restored its Health. Mu You organized a log-off strategy to limit its healing; when the Shadow God reached 10% Health, it split into a miniature form and over a hundred thousand Shadow Fiends that attacked the players.

  • Blue-Eyes White Dragon advised players that attacks dealing more than 1.65 damage made the quest worthwhile, and Dawn City residents began farming the Shadow God.
  • The Shadow God broke free of the Octopus King and used God's Hammer, killing millions of players and restoring the Health they had removed.
  • Mu You ordered players to clear Zone 2-0854 so Water Element mages and Support Staff could restore the Octopus King, then explained that God's Hammer triggered every time the Shadow God lost another 10% Health.
  • Mu You instructed players below level 13 to log off before each trigger, limiting the Shadow God’s healing while the remaining players continued attacking.
  • After Dawn City repeated the strategy and reduced the Shadow God to 10% Health, it burst into over a hundred thousand Shadow Fiends that attacked nearby players.

Ch. 371A Ball of Fluff

Mu You discovered the Shadow God’s final attack could kill everyone nearby and delay their revival, so he escaped it with Lin Xue and killed the weakened god afterward. The Shadow God’s mastermind fled, while a newly formed Shadow Fluffball chose Mu You as its host.

  • Mu You explained that the Shadow Army had lost the Shadow God’s most dangerous abilities, and the players killed more than half of the Shadow Fiends until they merged back into the boss.
  • As the Shadow God’s Health neared zero, Mu You teleported away and saw it unleash Shadow’s Swan Song, killing the Octopus King and everyone nearby while delaying their revival by a day.
  • Mu You rewound time, retreated to the City Lord’s Castle with Lin Xue, and watched the expelled shadows return to their original owners across the Cook Islands.
  • After the Shadow God weakened itself and its enemies vanished, an elderly mastermind escaped from Sky City, and Mu You killed the Shadow God with his Cannon.
  • Mu You received Divine Power, the Godslayer title, and a Divine Soul Crystal, then watched the Shadow Fluffball join his shadow after the God of Death rejected it from Lin Xue.

Ch. 372Shadow Passage

After defeating the Shadow God's Shadow, Mu You tested the Shadow Fluffball's abilities and decided to save the Energy Book for a later level. He and Lin Xue then went to Old Luke's Papermaking Workshop to break into the Undead Society, while Dawn City players learned the crisis was over.

  • Mu You explored the Shadow Fluffball's Shadow Passage and Shadow Bind, discovering he could travel unseen through shadows and immobilize a target by controlling its shadow.
  • Mu You gained one point of Divine Power, 5,000 Health, 5,000 Reputation, and over 640,000 experience, reaching level 19; he chose to save the Energy Book for level 29.
  • Mu You and Lin Xue set out to confront the person behind the events, as Dawn City players feared the Shadow God had won after they were wiped out and the Octopus King fell.
  • Dawn City players received confirmation that the Shadow God's Shadow had been slain by the Ghost Ship Captain and that the city's crisis was over.
  • Mu You and Lin Xue arrived at Old Luke's Papermaking Workshop, found the hidden entrance to the Undead Society sealed, and Mu You fired his Cannon at the floor beneath it.

Ch. 373Controllable Shadow Fiend experiment records

Mu You and Lin Xue fought through the Underground Factory, where Mu You’s shadow puffball and the released Shadow Fiend helped defeat the administrators’ Shadow Fiends. In the hidden study, they found records revealing how Controllable Shadow Fiends were made and discovered that Ye Rumeng and Mianmian were paired in an experiment whose outcome was left blank.

  • Mu You and Lin Xue entered the Underground Factory, where Mu You killed Granny Tang’s Shadow Fiend and watched Granny Tang die repeatedly as its negative emotions overwhelmed her.
  • Mu You and Lin Xue defeated the five administrators’ Shadow Fiends with the shadow puffball and the Shadow Fiend from the box, while the administrators died from the transferred negative emotions.
  • The boxed Shadow Fiend charged into a Gu Pool and attacked its insects, while Mu You retrieved a golden silkworm pupa from the pool’s edge.
  • Mu You found Louise’s final diary fragment, which described the Shadow Passage as a place of extreme mental torment that could create Shadow Fiends.
  • Lin Xue found the Controllable Shadow Fiend experiment records, and Mu You learned that Louise had died to save Sayaka, who became a Controllable Shadow Fiend.
  • Mu You found Ye Rumeng and Mianmian listed together on page fourteen, but their experiment results were blank.

Ch. 374The Shadow God's Pawn

Ye Rumeng returned to the hospital where she remembered being held with her sister, but found only ruins and learned that the experimenter had used her and her sister to create a self-aware Shadow Fiend. Mu You told her there was no one left to save and called her Mianmian, leaving her staring at a shadow that belonged to a taller girl.

  • Ye Rumeng emerged from Mu You's backpack, remembered the hospital, and led Mu You and Lin Xue toward the room she had shared with her sister.
  • Ye Rumeng found the room abandoned, and a Box Shadow Fiend protected her by tearing apart an attacking Shadow Fiend.
  • Mu You and Lin Xue confronted the experimenter, who explained that Lin Xue's Death Knell curse had reduced him to level one and trapped him in the cylinder.
  • The experimenter revealed that he had raised the Shadow Fluffball to pursue godlike power, then tried to suppress it by creating a self-aware Shadow Fiend through Soul Synchronization.
  • The experimenter identified Ye Rumeng as Number 14 and explained that her sister Mengmeng had been the unusual child who chose to endure the suffering in her place.
  • Mu You called Ye Rumeng Mianmian and urged her to remember; she looked down and saw that her shadow belonged to a taller girl with long hair and a ribbon.

Ch. 375Slumber and Dreams

Mianmian planned to escape the Underground Factory with Ye Rumeng, but when the girls were subjected to the Final Experiment, Ye Rumeng took Mianmian’s pain and memories so Mianmian could survive. As Mianmian fell asleep, the person behind the experiment watched the two girls’ shadows merge and anticipated the birth of the Church’s finest creation.

  • Mianmian learned that the Underground Factory would soon give her a Final Experiment, and she asked Ye Rumeng to take her in if she escaped into her world.
  • Mianmian discovered that Ye Rumeng had been brought to her as the other test subject and gave her the escape plan and a Map Fragment meant for the Dragon Group.
  • Mianmian and Ye Rumeng were taken above the Gu Pool and plunged into the Shadow Passage for the experiment.
  • Mianmian tried to absorb Ye Rumeng’s pain, but Ye Rumeng instead took Mianmian’s painful memories and urged her to escape through a dream.
  • The person behind it all watched the girls’ shadows connect and told Stalk Man that their pairing might produce the Church’s finest creation.
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