Chapter Summaries

Xu Le encountered a Living Corpse while trying to escape and fled with a girl who recognized him, but her fear drew the monster’s attention. After he kicked her out of its path and became its target, Xu Le faced the Living Corpse with his sword and called on the Guyinduo Soul Tree for help.

• Xu Le ran downstairs to escape an Oddity and was stopped by a girl who recognized him as Xu Le.
• A muscular Living Corpse appeared, and Xu Le grabbed the frightened girl and ran with her as it gave chase.
• Xu Le and the girl leapt through obstacles, but the Living Corpse smashed through them and caught up.
• The Living Corpse lunged for the fear-stricken girl, and Xu Le kicked her aside to keep its claws from hitting her.
• The Living Corpse turned on Xu Le, who gripped his sword and called on the Guyinduo Soul Tree for help.

Xu Le used a sword, phosphorus fire, and the Living Corpse’s momentum to kill the level 1 Oddity despite his injured arm and lack of supernatural powers. After the students praised him, the girl he had rescued crouched in front of him.

• Xu Le severed the Living Corpse’s hand with a sword strike, but the impact numbed his right arm.
• The students urged Xu Le on, and he threw phosphorus fire that blinded the Living Corpse.
• Xu Le shouted for the girl to run, then used the ripened fear fruit and Zhou Ke’s military swordsmanship to anticipate the Living Corpse’s attack.
• Xu Le charged the Living Corpse and drove his iron sword through its skull, killing it as the collision sent him flying.
• The students praised Xu Le for killing an Oddity, and the rescued girl crouched beside him.

After defeating the Living Corpse, Xu Le reunited with his childhood friend Wang Man and headed toward a classroom, reflecting on his lack of effective weapons. Near the teaching building, he spotted a Five Heads bowing to a powerful Witch Cicada, a level 3 Oddity.

• Xu Le learned that the girl he had rescued was Wang Man, his childhood friend and a trainee from the Zion Arts Institute.
• Wang Man and nearby students checked on Xu Le, and he collected his bent iron sword before heading to a classroom with Wang Man.
• Xu Le reviewed his fight with the Living Corpse and realized he needed a stronger way to attack Oddities.
• Xu Le stopped Wang Man near a corner and saw a Five Heads acting reverently toward a white-clad figure descending from the teaching building.
• Xu Le identified the figure as Witch Cicada, a level 3 Oddity, Patrol-Class Polluter, Guyinduo.

Xu Le and Wang Man reached the A7 Classroom after seeing the White Witch Cicada carrying a teacher’s corpse, but Zhang Zhe kept Xu Le outside because of his injuries and Guyinduo aura. Zhang Zhe explained that the Black and White Witch Cicadas were powerful twin Oddities, while the Red Moon Calamity made the night more dangerous than an ordinary Black Tide.

• Xu Le watched the White Witch Cicada and Five Heads fly toward distant explosions, then led Wang Man to the A7 Classroom.
• Zhang Zhe let Wang Man enter but kept Xu Le outside, fearing he might mutate from Guyinduo pollution.
• Xu Le told Zhang Zhe that a White Witch Cicada had been carrying half a teacher’s corpse, and Zhang Zhe sent a blood-marked message to report it.
• Zhang Zhe warned Xu Le that the night’s Black Tide had changed and would be more dangerous than usual.
• Zhang Zhe explained that the Black and White Witch Cicadas were twin polluter-class Oddities, with White Cicada using witchcraft and Black Cicada possessing a powerful body.

Xu Le waited with the students at Lighthouse as the Red Moon Calamity approached, then realized that his manual contained the requirements for advancing as a Flame Secret Sorcerer. The Sacrificial Method offered only a fifty-percent success rate, leaving him wary of attempting it.

• Xu Le asked Zhang Zhe about the red-and-white oddity ashes and used the conversation to learn that the powder revealed ghost-type oddities.
• Xu Le told Zhang Zhe and the students that he had killed an oddity, and Zhang Zhe praised him for staying calm on his second encounter.
• Xu Le spent the day digging up earthworms to summon a toad, while Wang Man became upset and walked away.
• As the red moon rose, Zhang Zhe explained that the Black Tide came when the moon was full, prompting Xu Le to check the last page of his manual.
• Xu Le read the newly revealed Sacrificial Method requirements, including bathing in fire and consuming the Guyinduo Fruit of Anger for a maximum fifty-percent chance of success.

Xu Le discovered the ritual requirements for advancing to a Red Moon Warlock-Medium, but as the Red Moon Calamity began, students mutated inside the classroom. Zhang Zhe fought the Oddities while panicked students fled into danger, leaving Xu Le to wonder what counted as a correct prediction.

• Xu Le read the manual’s requirements for becoming a level 1 Medium and suspected Gan might have arranged the circumstances around him.
• The Red Moon Calamity began, and Xu Le heard a scream from the sky as Zhang Zhe prepared for the Black Tide.
• Xu Le spotted warnings that students would mutate and alerted Zhang Zhe, who pinned one mutated student to the wall with his battle sword.
• Xu Le warned Wang Man and tried to hinder another mutant, while terrified students fled the classroom despite Zhang Zhe’s warning that it was safer inside.
• Xu Le questioned whether his warnings and actions counted as correct predictions as notifications revealed that fear and the students’ blood were attracting Oddities.

Xu Le recognized that students returning from outside had been polluted and warned Zhang Zhe, but Zhang Zhe hesitated as the crowd approached. After a student died before him, Zhang Zhe transformed his greatsword into dual blades and charged into the Oddities, while Xu Le prepared for the polluted students inside the classroom to mutate.

• Xu Le saw fleeing students die to Oddities and received repeated alerts that people inside the safe area would mutate from Guyinduo Pollution.
• Xu Le warned Zhang Zhe not to let the returning students into the classroom, but Zhang Zhe hesitated and proposed gathering them in a corner.
• Wang Man gave Xu Le her concealed revolver, and Xu Le watched students move the barricades aside and rush toward the classroom.
• Zhang Zhe killed a student who tried to enter, then watched Five Heads kill another student and lost his restraint.
• Zhang Zhe drank liquid, split his greatsword into two sabers, and attacked the Oddities with flaming blades.
• Xu Le pulled Wang Man behind him and watched the polluted students crowd inside, anticipating that they would mutate.

Xu Le entered the classroom to stop the fear and contamination from spiraling out of control, killing two students and recruiting others to help. He exposed Zhang Qiang as contaminated, and a student stabbed her as she struggled beneath them.

• Xu Le left Zhang Zhe to fight the Oddities and went into the classroom after Zhang Zhe asked for help.
• Xu Le shot Xu Miaomiao and the boy she had bitten, then threatened the students into helping him contain the danger.
• Li Wei and more than a dozen students joined Xu Le after he explained that they needed to act to survive.
• Xu Le attacked Zhang Qiang when her self-defense response revealed she was contaminated, and several students helped pin her down.
• After Xu Le said he was low on bullets, a thin student rushed forward and stabbed Zhang Qiang repeatedly with a dagger.

Xu Le forced the students to execute people he identified as polluted before they could mutate, then turned to managing the survivors’ grief and heart energy. He asked Wang Man to sing for the classroom, leaving her bewildered as she faced the crowd.

• After the skinny man killed Zhang Qiang, Xu Le shot a woman who resisted his orders and used his apparent supply of bullets to discourage challenges.
• Xu Le ordered Li Wei and the skinny man to drag three people to him, then explained that severe injuries could trigger their Guyinduo contaminants to mutate early.
• Xu Le made the students take turns killing the people he identified as polluted and gave them two minutes to finish before the first Mutants appeared.
• Several students fled the classroom, and Xu Le shot four more people before declaring the remaining students clear of pollution.
• As the students grieved and their heart energy rose, Xu Le told Wang Man to help calm them and directed her to sing.

Xu Le urged Wang Man to calm the students with her singing while Zhang Zhe fought the oddities outside until the Night Watchers arrived. As Zhang Zhe died from pollution, Xu Le hurried to complete his advancement ritual and swallowed exactly 169 grams of oddity ashes before beginning a blood summoning array.

• Xu Le convinced Wang Man to sing for the frightened students, and her song helped lower their heart energy.
• Xu Le found Zhang Zhe near collapse after fighting the oddities, but Gu Beichen and Wang Shu arrived and cleared the area with fireballs.
• Wang Shu confirmed Zhang Zhe had been polluted, and Zhang Zhe entrusted Xu Le with his bank password and asked him to donate most of his savings to the school before dying.
• Xu Le gathered and measured oddity ashes, swallowed exactly 169 grams, then cut his hand and began drawing a Summoning Array Formula in blood.
• A black cat meowed as Xu Le, weakened by blood loss, neared the end of the ritual's fourth step.

Xu Le performed a ritual to become a Red Moon Warlock, but instead summoned the level 3 Oddity White Cicada, leaving the others unsure whether he had been bewitched or had become a Medium. As an explosion struck another classroom, Gu Beichen went to investigate while Wang Shu stayed with Xu Le and asked whether he could still be trusted.

• Xu Le petted the black cat for luck, then began the summoning ritual and named his cornerstone as the Guyinduo Tree.
• A mysterious voice questioned Xu Le, and he declared that he wanted to become a Medium and a Red Moon Warlock.
• The Guyinduo Soul Tree dropped seven lust fruits, whose energy formed White Cicada in the sky as the gathered survivors watched.
• Xu Le realized his ritual had summoned White Cicada, and the others grew wary of him while another classroom erupted in flames and smoke.
• Gu Beichen went to investigate the explosion, while Wang Shu stayed beside Xu Le and asked if he could still trust him.
• Xu Le replied that Wang Shu probably would not find anyone else he could rely on, and Wang Shu said the captain had been right about him.

Black Cicada attacked the Night Watchers and students while Gu Beichen and Wang Shu struggled to hold it back. Xu Le summoned Golden Toad to help, but after the toad was badly wounded and vanished, Black Cicada targeted Xu Le—until White Cicada awakened and greeted him.

• Wang Shu abandoned Xu Le to join Gu Beichen, who fought Black Cicada after it arrived and revealed that Gu Beichen was a level 2 Flame Walker.
• Gu Beichen and Wang Shu fought Black Cicada together, but Wang Shu was injured and his Night Watchers War Blade was broken.
• Xu Le summoned Golden Toad, which battled Black Cicada alongside Gu Beichen, but their attacks also wounded the toad and it vanished after promising to return.
• Black Cicada declared that its lord wanted newly awakened Mediums killed and rushed at Xu Le, while Gu Beichen and Wang Shu could not stop it.
• White Cicada awakened, surrounded Xu Le with white shadows, and greeted him as an honored Medium.

Xu Le completed his ritual and became a Forbidden Warlock LV1-Spirit Medium, summoning White Cicada to fight Black Cicada. After dawn broke, Xu Le and the others helped White Cicada destroy Black Cicada, and the surviving students celebrated their escape.

• Xu Le's Guyinduo Soul Tree absorbed the Red Moon's power, clarifying his abilities and revealing that he had become a Forbidden Warlock LV1-Spirit Medium.
• Xu Le summoned White Cicada and asked her to defeat Black Cicada, while the students realized Xu Le had become a Warlock.
• As dawn weakened Black Cicada's bloodlust, Xu Le, Wang Shu, and Gu Beichen joined White Cicada in attacking him.
• White Cicada used White Stupa to devour Black Cicada with white maggots, then vanished when her time was up.
• The surviving students cheered and wept, while Xu Le pushed away Wang Man's attempted hug and regretted where his hand had landed.

After the Black Tide, Xu Le and Wang Man underwent Night Watcher testing, and Xu Le learned that the Children of Guyinduo were linked to a distinct kind of mutation. Wang Shu invited Xu Le to meet Captain Bai Jing and gave him Zhang Zhe’s sealed twin-bladed sword; as Xu Le set out to fulfill Zhang Zhe’s last wish, an unexplained command urged him to sleep.

• Wang Shu explained that Lighthouse’s upcoming briefings concerned the Children of Guyinduo, whom Xu Le connected to the students’ unusual mutations.
• Xu Le persuaded Wang Shu and Gu Beichen to take him and Wang Man through the Night Watchers’ testing entrance, where they completed the checks quickly.
• Xu Le noticed that the promotion information in his manual had vanished and that the black cat following him was missing.
• Xu Le returned Wang Man’s pistol, and Wang Shu invited him to meet Captain Bai Jing and handed him a black-cloth-wrapped object.
• Xu Le unwrapped Zhang Zhe’s sealed twin-bladed sword and resolved to withdraw Zhang Zhe’s bank savings and donate them to the school.
• As Xu Le headed toward the bank, repeated messages commanded him to sleep, and he wondered whether they came from Guyinduo Secret Language or Guyinduo Fate.

After surviving the Guyinduo Black Tide, Xu Le returned to his dorm and followed his instinct to sleep. He awoke in a dark realm beneath the Guyinduo Soul Tree, where a newcomer learned that the place was called the Gundo Mother Tree Realm.

• Xu Le saw Night Watchers and Guards dispose of the polluted and dead, including the bodies of four hundred people, before returning to the dormitory.
• Xu Le showed his clearance to a Guard, concealed that he had become a Warlock, and went to sleep alone in his room.
• Xu Le awoke in the dark world and encountered a terrifying bald man who remarked that another person had died before vanishing into the darkness.
• Xu Le approached the enormous tree and met several other people gathered beneath it; a short man told him he was number seven and would move up if someone else died.
• A plump middle-aged man explained that the group had named the place the Gundo Mother Tree Realm.

Xu Le entered the Gundo Mother Tree Realm, learned that its visitors had eaten Guyinduo Fate Fruits, and claimed a reward from the Mother Tree. After Old Four tried to pressure him over his chosen Ice fruit, a one-eyed woman in red drove Old Four away and challenged Xu Le for calling her “ma’am.”

• Old Four told Xu Le that the seven visitors were from Deep Blue and had all eaten a Guyinduo Fate Fruit.
• Xu Le approached the Gundo Mother Tree and heard the familiar voice offer him a reward of three Guyinduo Fruits.
• Xu Le used the Guyinduo Secret Language to identify the fruits and chose Lesser Element - Ice.
• Old Four tried to persuade Xu Le to let him identify the fruit, but the woman in red called him foolish and made him flee.
• Xu Le thanked the woman in red, saw that she had one eye, and heard her question why he had called her “ma’am.”

Xu Le met the woman in red, who named him Number Seven and tested whether he would give her his Ice Fruit. After seeing her extraordinary rewards from the Gundo Mother Tree, Xu Le tried to stop her from choosing the weakest one and considered how his ability could help him gain influence in the Mother Tree Realm.

• Xu Le placated the woman in red with a compliment, noticed her mechanical fingers, and heard her declare that he was Number Seven.
• The woman in red threatened to kill Xu Le if he refused to hand over his Ice Fruit, but she praised his willingness and left the fruit with him.
• The woman in red knelt before the Gundo Mother Tree and received five rewards, including Longevity, Corrosion, Azure Dragon, and Metal fruits.
• The woman in red reached for the lower-tier Iron fruit, and Xu Le called out to stop her.
• Xu Le told the woman in red not to choose the first fruit, then considered using his ability to build influence and gain knowledge and resources in the Mother Tree Realm.

Xu Le identified five Guyinduo Fruits for Chi Xiao, who began to believe his unusual ability and explained the fruits’ origins and powers. After Xu Le revealed that he was a Forbidden Warlock-Spirit Medium from Zion, Chi Xiao reacted with alarm and asked whether he had recently encountered anything strange.

• Xu Le identified the five fruits as iron, longevity, corrosion, Azure Dragon, and metal, and Chi Xiao chose the upper-tier elemental metal fruit.
• The Gundo Mother Tree offered Chi Xiao the fourth and fifth fruits after sensing her feelings, and she apologized to it for crushing her mirror.
• Chi Xiao explained how Guyinduo Fruits descended from Seeds of Gundo and described the Azure Dragon and metal fruits’ abilities.
• Xu Le said he had only become a warlock the previous night and revealed his profession as a Forbidden Warlock-Spirit Medium.
• Chi Xiao introduced herself as being from Tianrui Lifeng, asked Xu Le about his origins and recent strange encounters, and Xu Le asked what she meant.

Xu Le told Chi Xiao about the black cat, and she explained the methods for eating multiple Guyinduo Fruits before consuming a Metal Fruit herself. He returned from the Gundo Mother Tree's realm with the Ice Element Fruit, leaving him to decide whether to eat it.

• Chi Xiao questioned Xu Le about everyone he had met, and he told her about the black cat that had brought him luck and helped him become a Warlock.
• Chi Xiao offered Xu Le information about eating multiple fruits in exchange for his help and the information he had provided.
• Chi Xiao explained three methods: eating Heart Energy Fruits, eating Homologous Fruits, and using Guyinduo Fate, which could allow additional fruits if the soul was strong enough.
• Chi Xiao ate the Metal Fruit, and metallic particles transformed her wooden mechanical hand into a smoother, more human-looking hand.
• Chi Xiao told Xu Le to walk into the darkness to return, and he woke up a little over four hours later with the Ice Element Fruit against his chest.
• Xu Le took out the Ice Element Fruit and wondered whether he should eat it.

Xu Le chose not to eat the Ice Element Fruit yet, then learned that Zheng Wen had lost two roommates during the Black Tide. He collected Zhang Zhe’s 1,150-yuan inheritance and set out to honor Zhang Zhe’s wishes and obtain a Gundo Relic, with the black cat accompanying him.

• Xu Le wrapped up the Ice Element Fruit instead of eating it and decided to withdraw Zhang Zhe’s inheritance.
• Zheng Wen returned to the dormitory and broke down after telling Xu Le that Lu Zhengyu and Zhang De had died during the Black Tide.
• Xu Le encountered the black cat again and promised to buy it dried fish after collecting the inheritance.
• Xu Le saw signs that Oddities had attacked parts of the Upper City and wondered how far the fighting had reached.
• Xu Le withdrew Zhang Zhe’s 1,150 yuan from Lighthouse Bank using documents from the Night Watchers.
• Xu Le planned to distribute the inheritance according to Zhang Zhe’s last wishes so he could obtain a Gundo Relic.