Chapter Summaries

Fifteen-year-old Shen Ye recounted encountering a faceless woman in a hospital room and passing out after she wrapped him in her hair. An official assessment identified him as an innocent student who had come into contact with the supernatural and remained feverish and weak.

• Shen Ye visited his hospitalized friend and waited in the friend's room while studying.
• The room went dark, and an empty hospital bed glided down the corridor as a faceless woman crawled out from underneath it.
• The woman floated toward Shen Ye, grew long black hair, and wrapped him inside it while he could not move.
• Shen Ye heard a terrified scream from the corridor and passed out, missing the high school entrance exam.
• Officials examined Shen Ye and recommended comforting him, noting that he remained feverish and weak.

After waking in Shen Ye’s body, Shen Ye resolved to keep studying despite missing the first high school entrance exam. A mysterious door revealed his new World-Link ability, and he discovered he could consume traits for freely reassigned Attribute Points, leaving him determined to grow stronger and uncover who had tried to kill him.

• Shen Ye accepted Zhao Xiaoshang’s care and promised to take the remaining entrance exams, while she went to seek a Marrow-Replenishing Pill.
• A mysterious door appeared in Shen Ye’s hospital room, revealing a giant skeleton eating a corpse; after Shen Ye slammed the door shut, he gained the damaged gray trait “Polite Person.”
• A voice claiming to be an awakened World-Link ability user explained that the Cursed Sculpture of the King of Myriad-Fallen Evil Ghosts had failed to kill Shen Ye and transferred its power to him.
• The sculpture crumbled to ash, and Shen Ye devoured the Polite Person trait to obtain an Attribute Point.
• Shen Ye tested the point by shifting it between strength and agility, discovering that he could reassign Attribute Points at will.

Shen Ye tried to befriend the injured Big Skeleton through the Gate, but his odd sales pitches only provoked it. After Big Skeleton offered him a Nightmare Contract to help restore its power, Shen Ye signed, and the contract was established.

• Shen Ye opened the Gate to Nightmare World and tried twice to talk to the skeletal monster, but it charged him and he shut the door.
• Shen Ye noticed Big Skeleton’s damaged legs and offered it a wheelchair and a hula hoop, angering it until it smashed the Gate.
• Shen Ye tried to persuade Big Skeleton to let him help restore its strength, and a Nightmare Contract appeared on the door.
• Shen Ye signed the contract, and Big Skeleton revealed the expanded titles attached to their names.
• The Clock of Fate chimed as golden and white runes displayed the signatories’ names, confirming that the contract had been established.

After learning that the hospital would be abandoned and receiving Chief Luo Feichuan’s number, Shen Ye traded with Big Skeleton through the Gate. Big Skeleton offered a silver war medal and a Lesser Nightmare Crystal for Shen Ye’s Marrow-Replenishing Pill, and Shen Ye tested the crystal, learning the elven movement technique “Deer Walk Beneath the Moon.”

• Chief Luo Feichuan told Shen Ye that the hospital would soon be abandoned, then secretly gave him his business card and asked him to call if anything seemed wrong.
• Shen Shi'an gave Shen Ye a costly Marrow-Replenishing Pill, and Shen Ye’s parents left to visit his grandfather’s house.
• Shen Ye opened the Gate and traded calcium tablets to Big Skeleton, whose cracked shinbone improved slightly after eating them.
• Big Skeleton offered a Silver War Medal and a Lesser Nightmare Crystal in exchange for the Marrow-Replenishing Pill, and Shen Ye agreed to consider the trade after testing the crystal.
• Shen Ye crushed the Lesser Nightmare Crystal and learned the white-grade elven battle formation movement technique “Deer Walk Beneath the Moon.”

Shen Ye used the Nightmare Gate to escape an assassin, leaving Big Skeleton to kill the intruder. Big Skeleton rewarded him with a mask that let him disguise himself as an Elf, preparing him to enter Elf Territory with his Silver War Medal.

• Shen Ye traded a Marrow-Replenishing Pill to Big Skeleton and watched it begin restoring its broken leg.
• When an armed assassin entered his bedroom, Shen Ye opened the Nightmare Gate and fled into the dark corridor.
• Shen Ye used Deer Walk Beneath the Moon’s Dodge to evade a bullet, then opened another Gate and returned to his bedroom, trapping the assassin in the Nightmare World.
• The assassin opened a door expecting to find Shen Ye, but encountered Big Skeleton, which killed him and consumed his body.
• Big Skeleton gave Shen Ye the Crown of Pale Shadows, and Shen Ye put it on to disguise himself as an Elf before planning to use his Silver War Medal.

Shen Ye returned to school after recovering from his exhaustion and prepared to take the remaining entrance exams, with his parents and teacher supporting him. During revision, he rejected Zhao Yibing’s public attempt to end their friendship, leaving her embarrassed and his classmates calling him a jerk.

• Shen Ye ate breakfast with Shen Shi'an and Zhao Xiaoshang, reassured them about his recovery, and went with his father to Qingzhou No. 2 Middle School.
• Shen Ye told Jiang Hantao he would prepare for the remaining exams, then returned to Class Five and resumed studying.
• Chen Haoyu apologized to Shen Ye, who forgave him and accepted his offer to buy lunch.
• Zhao Yibing asked Shen Ye to stop seeking her out and said their different prospects meant they should end their relationship.
• Shen Ye pointed out that Zhao Yibing had always been the one to visit him, then said he had never wanted their friendship and offered to repay her gifts.
• Zhao Yibing’s friends and other students insulted Shen Ye as he left for his classroom.

Shen Ye left a school mock exam to enter the Nightmare Gate, where he found an assassin’s revolver and received a human scout’s shortsword from a mysterious voice. In Elf Territory, he discovered that Big Skeleton had passed him off as Feren and sent him to join three undead posing as elves on a mission to kill a village chief and seize treasure.

• Shen Ye dodged Sun Ming’s punch with an acrobatic wall-run, then returned to class and took a written test before the class assembled for a practical exam.
• Shen Ye told Chen Haoyu that he had resolved things with Zhao Yibing, then left the sports field and entered an empty classroom to use the Nightmare Gate.
• Shen Ye found the corridor door locked and picked up a black revolver before teleporting with the Silver War Medal.
• A mysterious voice gave Shen Ye a white-grade shortsword called Nightfall, which could be wielded by a human scout whose soul had not fallen.
• Three elves mistook Shen Ye for Feren and described their plan to kill an elven village chief and take the village’s treasure.
• Shen Ye realized the three elves were undead wearing Crowns of Pale Shadows and Silver War Medals, and agreed to join their mission while suspecting that injured Big Skeleton had sent him in its place.

Shen Ye entered an elven village with three supposed companions and learned that he was expected to assassinate its chief, only to discover the chief was an overwhelmingly powerful figure. While waiting in the village dining hall, Shen Ye met Lanny and began preparing a magic trick for her and the watching elves.

• Shen Ye reached the elven village with his three companions and showed the sentries his silver medal to gain entry.
• The sentry led Shen Ye to the chief, whose epithets revealed him to be a powerful Grand Arcane Master and guardian of the Nightmare Magic Realm.
• The chief magically transported Shen Ye to the dining hall, where his three accomplices waited among the celebrating elves.
• An elven girl named Lanny invited Shen Ye to dance, and he accepted while wondering whether his companions would help with the assassination.
• Shen Ye asked Lanny for a reward for a magic trick, accepted her bracelet, and drew the attention of the elves around them.

Shen Ye escaped the Elf Territory after exposing three undead infiltrators, then confronted Big Skeleton over the Crown of Pale Shadows. Big Skeleton offered him a rare inheritance, and Shen Ye began choosing among three powerful undead talents.

• Shen Ye used the Crown of Pale Shadows to reveal himself as human, then escaped through a Gate as the elves captured three undead killers posing as soldiers.
• The elf leader explained that the Human Race had infiltrated the undead mission, and the elves removed the killers’ crowns to identify them as undead.
• Back in the classroom, Shen Ye confronted Big Skeleton, accused him of endangering him, and threatened to destroy their contract.
• Big Skeleton offered Shen Ye an Inheritance Nightmare Crystal, and Shen Ye accepted it in exchange for forgiving him.
• Shen Ye crushed the crystal and encountered three inheritance talents: Dark Whisper, Sacred Bone Body, and Undead Resurrection.

Shen Ye chose an information-gathering talent, learned that the captured undead had been defeated by the Elven High Priest, and gained a useful appraisal tag and bracelet. He returned to school, where he earned a perfect score on the mock agility exam.

• Shen Ye chose the first inheritance talent, which let him gather information about death, and received it from Big Skeleton.
• Shen Ye told Big Skeleton about the Elf Village and learned that the elf who captured the Nightmare Knights was the Elven race’s strongest High Priest.
• Big Skeleton left, and Shen Ye obtained the green appraisal tag “One of Us” and learned that Lanny’s bracelet could slowly increase his mental power.
• Shen Ye returned to the sports field and watched Chen Haoyu score 71 on the mock exam.
• Shen Ye completed the agility course without being hit and earned the morning’s top score of 100.

While the principal and Supervisor Qian watched Shen Ye’s mock test, Shen Ye was confronted by Sun Ming and a group of boys who claimed Zhao Yibing wanted him beaten. After they attacked him, Shen Ye used the Devour trait to raise his strength, defeated them, and broke Sun Ming’s leg; the chapter ended with teachers arriving as Shen Ye said he had been bullied.

• The principal showed Supervisor Qian Shen Ye’s footwork, and Qian said Shen Ye needed full marks in mental power to qualify for a chance.
• Sun Ming and six or seven boys surrounded Shen Ye in the classroom, and Shen Ye used One of Us to briefly make them see him as a friend.
• Sun Ming called Zhao Yibing, and Shen Ye told her he would never bother her again before the boys attacked him.
• Shen Ye used the Devour trait to gain four strength points, then fought back and overwhelmed the boys, breaking one boy’s arm and injuring the others.
• Shen Ye struck Sun Ming with a mop until his leg broke, and teachers rushed in to find the classroom wrecked.
• Jiang Hantao asked what had happened, and Shen Ye said the boys had bullied him.

Shen Ye used video evidence to show that he had fought back after classmates attacked him, while Zhao Yibing tried to protect her own image by calling the police. After seeing Shen Ye’s strength and movement-technique results, Supervisor Qian offered him a recommendation and asked to speak with him.

• Shen Ye calmly maintained that he had defended himself while teachers dealt with the injured students, and Zhao Yibing called the police after Sun Ming implicated her.
• Jiang Hantao watched Shen Ye’s recording and forwarded it to the principal, who showed it to Supervisor Qian.
• The principal, Jiang Hantao, and police reviewed the footage, which showed Shen Ye’s classmates threatening him and striking first.
• Supervisor Qian praised Shen Ye’s strength and full marks in movement technique, then handed him a business card and offered to talk.

Shen Ye demonstrated his exceptional strength and mental power to Human Martial Arts Group supervisor Qian Rushan, who invited him to join the Hidden Dragon Program. Shen Ye accepted the chance to pursue elite high schools, though he worried about passing their entrance exams.

• Qian Rushan praised Shen Ye's strength and offered to arrange a special retest through the education bureau.
• Shen Ye used his mental power to lift a chair, astonishing Qian Rushan and the others in the office.
• After the others left, Qian Rushan showed Shen Ye spells that could immobilize attackers and stop bullets.
• Qian Rushan invited Shen Ye to the Hidden Dragon Program, which would recommend him to three elite high schools and fund his education if he passed an entrance exam.
• Shen Ye decided his attribute-point ability counted as genius-level talent, but grew anxious about the difficulty of the exams.

Shen Ye accepted Qian Rushan’s invitation to join a major organization, then left school and raised his agility as he worried that his hidden enemy might attack before his protection was secured. At the Police Station, Luo Feichuan showed Shen Ye a rooftop photograph of a man near the hospital, while Shen Ye sensed something strange in the office.

• Shen Ye accepted Qian Rushan’s invitation, signed a contract, and asked him to obtain his parents’ signatures quickly.
• Shen Ye left school after asking the principal and Jiang Hantao to keep the potential contract quiet until it was finalized; Zhao Yibing went to the hospital to pressure Sun Ming and the other students to blame him.
• Shen Ye spent his attribute points on agility, reaching 6.9, and worried that his enemy might attack before his security improved.
• Luo Feichuan summoned Shen Ye to the Police Station and showed him a photograph of a tall, thin man on a rooftop across from the hospital on the day of Shen Ye’s incident.
• Police officers told Luo Feichuan they had caught the bank robbers, while Shen Ye continued to feel an unexplained presence in the office.

Shen Ye sat with Chief Luo as they discussed the suspected murderer, but an attacker calling from outside the police station pulled Luo into a supernatural confrontation. After Luo vanished with the attacker, Shen Ye’s Dark Whisper ability activated and summoned a voice from a corpse hidden in the chief’s office.

• Luo Feichuan questioned Shen Ye about what he had carried on the day of the incident, and Shen Ye concealed the truth about the Cursed Sculpture.
• Shen Ye prepared to escape as Luo Feichuan acted strangely, but a caller warned Luo that he was about to die and threatened revenge for the Church.
• Police officers traced the call to a man in brightly colored pajamas standing across from the Police Station, and Luo Feichuan burst through the window to confront him.
• An anomaly transformed the Police Station into an island surrounded by a black sea, where Luo Feichuan faced the pajama-clad attacker before both vanished and the city returned.
• Shen Ye’s Dark Whisper activated when he wondered whether the office was haunted, and a voice thanked him and spoke from the direction of a cabinet.

Shen Ye discovered that the real Chief Luo Feichuan had been killed by an assassin who impersonated him, and learned about anomalies, Calamities, and the Silent Church. Before his soul departed, Luo gave Shen Ye a password to obtain protection, which Shen Ye wrote down and prepared to use.

• Shen Ye found light brown aviator sunglasses in Chief Luo's desk drawer and discovered Luo Feichuan's bound corpse inside a cabinet.
• Luo Feichuan told Shen Ye that an assassin had killed him and impersonated him to learn why the Cursed Sculpture had failed against Shen Ye.
• Luo explained that the colorful-pajama-clad man was the Silent Church's Chief Arbiter, and that he had taken the assassin into an anomaly.
• Luo warned Shen Ye that the assassin might return and gave him a long password to enter at the Third-Floor Weapons Storage Room to seek protection.
• Shen Ye called Luo's soul back to repeat the password, wrote it down, and realized his Dark Whisper ability could compel the dead to answer.

Shen Ye evaded Captain Wang inside the Police Station and raced to the third-floor Weapon Storage Room, where he began copying passcodes from a silver wall. Captain Wang’s dagger attack was blocked by Shen Ye’s conjured iron door, leaving Shen Ye still writing the codes as the confrontation continued.

• Shen Ye hid in the Nightmare World while Captain Wang searched the chief’s office and found that the corpse had been moved.
• Captain Wang accused Shen Ye of being connected to the incident, ordered officers to hunt him, and learned the Central Intelligent Brain expected the crisis to last 20 minutes.
• Shen Ye spent all four attribute points on Agility, climbed to the third floor, and reached the Weapon Storage Room as Captain Wang caught up with him.
• Shen Ye opened a secret passage by creating a matching iron door and copied passcodes while Captain Wang attacked.
• Shen Ye dodged Captain Wang through the corridor, fired three shots to buy time, and used another conjured iron door to block a thrown dagger.

Shen Ye used Luo Feichuan’s password to summon Kunlun, and Qian Rushan killed the impostor Captain Wang Xuemu before he could reach him. Afterward, the investigation revealed that Luo Feichuan’s Steel Prosthetic had been sabotaged, leaving Shen Ye with a warning to beware of people with ill intentions.

• Shen Ye finished entering Luo Feichuan’s password, prompting Kunlun to identify Captain Wang Xuemu as an impostor and dispatch Qian Rushan.
• Shen Ye escaped into the Weapon Storage Room as Captain Wang pursued him, and Qian Rushan arrived and killed the impostor with his Straight-Backed Long Saber.
• Shen Ye told Qian Rushan that Luo Feichuan had given him the password and that his innate ability let him sense corpses.
• Qian Rushan told Shen Ye that Kunlun had traced the killer to the Assassin Alliance, which accepted jobs online from unknown clients.
• Qian Rushan and Shen Ye learned that Luo Feichuan’s Steel Prosthetic had been infected with a virus and disabled, and investigators began looking into who had sabotaged it.
• Qian Rushan welcomed Shen Ye into his group and warned him to stay alert for people with ill intentions.

After Qian Rushan escorted Shen Ye away from the Police Station, Shen Ye learned about his family’s ties to the Three Jin Shen Family and chose to join the Human Martial Arts Group rather than return to his ancestral family. His parents signed the contract, and Shen Ye prepared to take the Three Prestigious Schools’ entrance exams on his own.

• Qian Rushan explained the dangers of Church anomalies to Shen Ye and took him to meet his parents at a teahouse.
• Zhao Xiaoshang revealed that Shen Shi'an came from the Three Jin Shen Family, had lost his cultivation after a deviation, and left the family after refusing an arranged marriage.
• Shen Shi'an and Zhao Xiaoshang offered to ask Shen Ye's grandfather to let him return, but Shen Ye refused and chose the Human Martial Arts Group.
• Shen Ye told Qian Rushan he would work under him, and Shen Shi'an and Zhao Xiaoshang signed the contract.
• Zhao Xiaoshang and Shen Shi'an learned Shen Ye would take the Three Prestigious Schools' entrance exams, and Shen Ye insisted he would do so without relying on the Shen Family.

Shen Ye moved into the Human Martial Arts Group’s tower after Qian Rushan helped his family finalize the arrangements, and he told Qian that someone had tried to kill him. Meanwhile, Zhao Yibing tried to turn the incident into an online scandal against Shen Ye, but her posts were blocked after the police and the high school released information.

• Qian Rushan arranged for Shen Ye to stay at the Human Martial Arts Group’s tower, and Shen Ye’s mother signed the contract after reading it.
• Qian Rushan told Shen Ye that the police-station battle had left several people dead and one captured, while Shen Ye received notice that the government had sent him a reward.
• Shen Ye toured the tower’s facilities, saw his parents off, and told Qian Rushan that someone had made several attempts to kill him.
• Qian Rushan ordered his assistants to investigate Shen Ye’s enemies and social connections before leaving the tower.
• Zhao Yibing posted videos and claims accusing Shen Ye of bullying classmates, then told Sun Ming she would help him while keeping him useful for her online campaign.
• The platform blocked Zhao Yibing’s posts after the police and the high school issued notices, and warned her to stop spreading rumors.