Chapter Summaries

Ming Xiao Fei fused with Gu Zhe’s Paper Figure and showed off her newfound supernatural abilities, while Gu Zhe concealed how much control he had over the fusion. After she embarrassed herself with grandiose declarations and damaged her father’s tea table, Gu Zhe withdrew the power, and her family brought her back down to earth.

• Ming Xiao Fei used the Paper Figure’s power to dart around the room, startling her family and confusing Liu Zhaodi.
• Gu Zhe explained inwardly that he had allowed the Paper Figure to fuse with Ming Xiao Fei and could end the fusion or control her through it.
• Ming Xiao Fei exalted Gu Zhe, declared herself his loyal subordinate, and proposed conquering the world and flattening her school.
• Ming Xiao Fei sliced a corner off her father’s red sandalwood tea table, prompting him to scold her.
• Gu Zhe withdrew the Paper Figure’s power, and Ming Xiao Fei wilted as her parents and sister gave her a harsh lesson in reality.

Gu Zhe read reports of strange events spreading around the world while Liu Zhaodi begged to learn supernatural abilities. Meanwhile, the Jinyiwei recruited Ming Xuan to serve as an assistant to Gu Zhe and investigate him for the government.

• Liu Zhaodi envied Ming Xiao Fei's abilities, and Gu Zhe suggested she learn the Spirit-Summoning Séance from her.
• Gu Zhe read online reports of supernatural incidents around the world and wondered why the government was no longer suppressing them.
• Ming Xuan met Zhu Qiang and his Jinyiwei colleagues, who offered her a government assignment.
• Zhu Qiang asked Ming Xuan to become Gu Zhe's assistant and report on what was happening with him.

Ming Xuan learned that the Jinyiwei wanted her to make contact with Gu Zhe because of rumors about the Gu Family’s mysterious Underworld business. She agreed to act as a bridge, then blushed after the Jinyiwei revealed that Gu Zhe’s recruitment post and a young girl’s Moments had prompted their interest in her.

• Zhu Qiang explained that the government had created the Third Kind Contact Administration and the Jinyiwei to respond to supernatural changes and maintain stability.
• Zhu Qiang said the Jinyiwei wanted Ming Xuan to contact Gu Zhe because of rumors that the Gu Family operated businesses in the Underworld.
• Director Qin wondered whether the Gu Family’s Underworld assets were subject to bankruptcy, labor, corporate, and tax laws, and Zhu Qiang said the government had no foothold there.
• Zhu Qiang showed Ming Xuan Gu Zhe’s assistant recruitment post beside a young girl’s Moments posts about his interest in a well-endowed woman.
• Ming Xuan agreed to help the Jinyiwei, then wondered whether Gu Zhe had really sneaked peeks at her and protested that she was not an old woman.

Ming Xuan applied to become Gu Zhe’s assistant, explaining that she was willing to work for him and had been sent by the Jinyiwei to pass along occasional messages. Gu Zhe hired her, and the chapter ended with him asking what the Jinyiwei was and whether the Eastern Depot and Western Depot had appeared too.

• Ming Xuan told Gu Zhe she wanted to be his assistant and insisted that nobody was forcing her to apply.
• Ming Xuan admitted that the Jinyiwei had asked her to pass along messages and said they considered Gu Zhe acceptable as long as he was not an antisocial extremist.
• Gu Zhe joked that he was refined, kindhearted, and always thought thrice before acting, while privately describing his approach to dealing with threats.
• Gu Zhe decided Ming Xuan was capable and hired her, joking that he valued her inner qualities and substance.
• Gu Zhe asked Ming Xuan what the Jinyiwei was and whether the Eastern Depot and Western Depot had appeared.

Gu Zhe brought Ming Xuan to Yuzhou University for his thesis defense, where his composed presence and secretary’s striking appearance drew attention. As they left campus, the sky suddenly darkened and displayed impossible visions, leaving everyone alarmed.

• Ming Xuan explained that Dragon Country had established the Jinyiwei and the Third Kind Contact Administration to respond to the world’s changes.
• Gu Zhe told Ming Xuan to prepare for work as his secretary and handle the new Gu Group’s administrative duties.
• Gu Zhe decided to complete his thesis defense after his academic adviser sent him the schedule.
• Gu Zhe arrived at Yuzhou University with Ming Xuan, whose appearance drew the attention of students and professors.
• After the defense, Gu Zhe and Ming Xuan discussed his thesis and prepared to begin their real business.
• The sky darkened over campus as visions of multiple suns and moons, upside-down land, and other realms appeared.

Gu Zhe and Ming Xuan witnessed an eerie worldwide transformation of the sky and learned that firearms had stopped working, while supernatural professions and abilities surfaced in online reports. As Ming Xuan tried to verify the news, a mind-shaking collision sounded from somewhere beyond physical reality, leaving them uncertain about what was happening.

• People across the world saw a dark crimson sky filled with ten suns, three moons, stars, and visions of strange realms.
• Gu Zhe sensed that his Paper Figures had grown stronger and easier to control, then discovered online that the same sky appeared worldwide.
• Gu Zhe read reports that firearms and advanced equipment had failed, while people revealed supernatural professions and changing rules.
• Gu Zhe told Ming Xuan that firearms had stopped working, and she was stunned because she believed their effectiveness had only decreased.
• A tremendous collision-like sound erupted in their minds, and Ming Xuan prepared to use her still-working phone to confirm the news.

After firearms stopped working, Gu Zhe considered the government’s warning and reaffirmed his principles while Ming Xuan worried about the Gu Family’s intentions. He then turned his attention to the Netherworld, where violent changes revealed that its realms were expanding and ancient powers were stirring.

• Ming Xuan told Gu Zhe that firearms no longer worked and relayed a Jinyiwei message about changing rules and the government’s preparations.
• Gu Zhe dismissed the warnings as no threat to his principles, while Ming Xuan worried that the Gu Family might act against the government.
• Gu Zhe reassured Ming Xuan that the Gu Family would develop within the rules, then divided his consciousness and entered the Netherworld.
• Gu Zhe saw the Du Xiao World expand beneath three phantom red moons, grow richer in yin energy, and strengthen his lord paper figure subordinate.
• Gu Zhe witnessed violent tremors in the Netherworld, intensifying yin winds, rising yin energy, newly formed mountains and abysses, and signs of terrifying beings stirring.
• A vast mirage appeared across the Netherworld sky, showing the human world, cosmic realms, sacred mountains, strange halls, dark seas, and shadowy gods and demons.

Gu Zhe considered the Netherworld’s growing dangers, reviewed his plans to gain strength and investigate Spirit Nature in the real world, and resolved to demonstrate his abilities to the government. The chapter ended when Ming Xuan told him that Xiao Fei’s school had vanished into a mist-covered zone where people could enter but not leave.

• Gu Zhe observed that changes in the Netherworld were making the land more dangerous and resolved to strengthen his businesses, paper-cutting skills, and cultivation.
• Gu Zhe reviewed his Spirit Points and considered whether he could find Spirit Nature and trade opportunities in the real world.
• Gu Zhe decided to demonstrate his supernatural abilities and seek information from the Jinyiwei and the Third Bureau.
• Ming Xuan told Gu Zhe that contact with Xiao Fei’s school had been lost after mist surrounded the area, trapping people inside and blocking electronic signals.
• Gu Zhe concluded that the school had likely become a zone where two realms overlapped.

Gu Zhe saw through his paper figure that the merged territory around Ming Xiao Fei’s school had become a slaughter ground where a pig demon hunted humans, and learned that the creatures had a king and sought spiritual treasures. He realized the strange world might let his eerie paper figures enter, then arrived with Ming Xuan at the fog-covered block and began acting through his power beside Ming Xiao Fei.

• Gu Zhe learned through his paper figure that Ming Xiao Fei was safe for now, though others in the merged territory had been killed.
• Gu Zhe surveyed the wreckage where a modern city block had collided with forests, hills, and primitive settlements, finding bodies and hearing cries for help.
• Gu Zhe watched Pig Seven eat humans and heard him describe the king, the creatures’ leaders, spiritual treasures, and the rules preventing powerful beings from entering.
• Gu Zhe realized the spirit-filled territory could support supernatural beings and might allow his paper figures to cross into the Du Xiao World.
• Gu Zhe and Ming Xuan reached the fog-shrouded block, where SWAT officers and other officials waited outside.
• Gu Zhe stirred his consciousness beside Ming Xiao Fei in the spirit realm, prompting startled cries.

After Ming Xiao Fei killed a Pig Demon with power from a divine general, she and her classmates faced the monster slaughtering people outside the school. A scroll opened a dark vortex, and Ming Xiao Fei announced that Brother Gu had come to save them as his guardian divine generals emerged.

• The sky changed, the ground split open, and Pig Demons began attacking people around the school.
• A Pig Demon entered Ming Xiao Fei's classroom and tried to seize a student, but she summoned a divine general and decapitated it with one strike.
• Ming Xiao Fei's classmates praised her and begged for protection as a towering Pig Demon continued killing people outside.
• The teacher asked Ming Xiao Fei whether she could rescue the students, but she feared she could not defeat the larger monster.
• A scroll floated from Ming Xiao Fei's desk, and the divine general sent energy into it, opening a dark vortex.
• Ming Xiao Fei told the class that Brother Gu had come to save them as his guardian divine generals emerged from the vortex.

Gu Zhe and Ming Xuan reached the mist surrounding the haunted domain, where officials were preparing a rescue while waiting for reinforcements. After learning that pig demons inside were dangerous, Gu Zhe offered to lead the rescue himself and asked the others only to assist.

• Eerie beings summoned by Ming Xiao Fei charged out to fight the pig demons, and Ming Xiao Fei followed them outside to slay monsters.
• Zhu Qiang escorted Gu Zhe and Ming Xuan through the crowd gathered at the mist, explaining that the Jinyiwei and military were waiting for the Yuzhou Guardian and Oracle before beginning a rescue.
• Gu Zhe urged the officials to act, then revealed that people could survive inside and that ordinary pig demons were roughly as strong as Evil Ghosts, while their leader seemed stronger than a Fierce Ghost.
• Zhou Cheng and the others grew more cautious after hearing the pig demons' strength, but Gu Zhe decided he could reveal more of his power and told them to assist while he handled the rescue.

Gu Zhe revealed his uncanny paper figures to convince Zhou Cheng and the others that he could lead an assault into the haunted domain. After learning Pig Demons could be eaten, he declared that his Netherworld forces were already attacking and set out with the volunteers to find the passage.

• Gu Zhe summoned swift, blade-wielding paper figures, demonstrating his hidden powers to the skeptical Jinyiwei and military personnel.
• Zhou Cheng warned that the haunted domain might contain a sixth-rank monster and urged Gu Zhe to wait for reinforcements.
• Gu Zhe asked whether Pig Demons could be eaten and resolved to hunt them in response to their slaughter of humans.
• Gu Zhe claimed that his Netherworld warriors had opened a passage and were already fighting the monsters.
• Zhou Cheng and the others agreed to accompany Gu Zhe, who asked where the passage into the haunted domain was.

Gu Zhe and the Jinyiwei crossed a region where two realms overlapped while Zhou Cheng explained the government's understanding of the supernatural worlds. The group suspected the region connected to the Spirit World and discussed its potential and danger, leaving Gu Zhe asking about classifications of merged areas.

• Gu Zhe walked through the haunted domain guarded by paper figures as the Jinyiwei admired his caution and speculated about the Gu Family's influence in the Underworld.
• Zhou Cheng explained that overlapping realms twisted space and could form passages between worlds.
• Zhou Cheng described the material world, the Underworld, grotto heavens, secret realms, and the Spirit World, suggesting a corner of the Spirit World had merged with reality.
• The Jinyiwei discussed how a potentially habitable merged region could become a resource, but a Sixth Sequence demon might turn it into a forbidden zone.
• Gu Zhe asked whether merged regions had different classifications, including dead zones and forbidden zones.

Gu Zhe learned the government’s classifications for haunted domains before entering one with Zhou Cheng and the others. They discovered a battlefield where pig demons fought eerie, thin humanoid beings, and a giant pig demon began sweeping the area with its club.

• Zhou Cheng explained how the government classified converged haunted domains as dead zones, death traps, battle zones, or territories.
• Gu Zhe organized the new information with what he had learned about the Yin-Yang Realms and their connected branches.
• The fog cleared, and Gu Zhe, Zhou Cheng, and the others emerged into a haunted domain with broken buildings, hills, and trees.
• The group climbed a hill and watched pig demons battle strange, thin humanoid beings; the beings showed no concern when one of their own died, then killed a pig demon.
• A towering pig demon roared and swept its club through trees and concrete, sending debris flying toward the battlefield.

Gu Zhe’s Eerie Paper Figures fought Pig Seven, a powerful demon, while he and Zhou Cheng’s group watched. Gu Zhe refused to wait for reinforcements, choosing to protect the civilians and prepare to reveal more of his Gu Family’s forces.

• Pig Seven smashed trees and concrete with its club, killing and injuring many of Gu Zhe’s Eerie Paper Figures while their attacks barely wounded it.
• Gu Zhe summoned the Divine General back from Ming Xiao Fei’s anchor-point vortex to join the battle.
• Zhou Cheng asked Gu Zhe about the fighters, and Gu Zhe identified them as Netherworld battle generals under the Gu Family’s command.
• Gu Zhe told Zhou Cheng and the others to spread out and keep watch rather than fight immediately.
• Gu Zhe explained that he would not wait for reinforcements because civilians remained at risk, and he prepared to show what else his Gu Family could do.

Gu Zhe awakened small, powerful Paper Figures and sent them to hunt the Pig Demons while the Jinyiwei watched. After the figures slaughtered Pig Seven’s kin, the surviving paper warriors surrounded him and silently fixed their blank eyes on him.

• Gu Zhe told the others to keep watch and prepared to fight the demons with the Gu Family’s forces.
• Gu Zhe used his blood to awaken Real-World Paper Figures, then commanded them to attack.
• Gu Zhe’s Paper Figures ambushed and killed the ordinary Pig Demons with their speed and sharp blades.
• Pig Seven stopped pursuing his enemies and realized that Paper Figures had killed his kin.
• Pig Seven found himself surrounded by eerie warriors and tiny Paper Figures watching him in silence.

Pig Seven used the inherited Heaven and Earth Manifestation ability to grow larger and stronger, then rampaged through the battlefield and crushed the Eerie Paper Figures. As he grabbed another Paper Figure, a colder-looking enemy caught him off guard with a wave of sinister, freezing breath.

• Pig Seven transformed through Heaven and Earth Manifestation, growing from four meters to more than six and intensifying his aura.
• Gu Zhe judged that the Secret Realm and its Eerie Paper Figure lord were still growing during the Heavenly Calamity, giving his side a chance to fight.
• Pig Seven attacked the Eerie Paper Figures with his club, leaps, and thrown earth and stone, destroying several and damaging the surrounding buildings and terrain.
• Pig Seven boasted of his lineage, ate a human, and continued attacking the Eerie Paper Figures with his bare hands.
• As Pig Seven seized another Paper Figure and the floor slab beneath it, a colder-looking enemy released sinister, freezing breath that began spreading over his body.

Gu Zhe used his Paper Figures and their icy breath to wear down Pig Seven, sacrificing a Seventh Sequence lord to break the demon’s defenses. As the lord crumbled, another Paper Figure inherited its position and entered the battle, leaving Pig Seven battered and facing yet another source of icy breath.

• The lord Paper Figure slowed Pig Seven with its icy breath while the other Paper Figures slashed through his weakened defenses.
• Pig Seven recovered from the breath’s effects and lunged at the lord, but it hid among the other Paper Figures and continued attacking him.
• Gu Zhe repeatedly used the lord’s breath to weaken Pig Seven, accepting the cost to the lord’s source power as the demon’s wounds accumulated.
• The lord Paper Figure unleashed a final, exceptionally dense blast and crumbled to ash, while Pig Seven lost his colossal form and kept fighting.
• Another Paper Figure inherited lordship in the Du Xiao Secret Realm, entered the battle, and attacked the already injured Pig Seven with icy breath.