Chapter Summaries

Xu Le set a trap to make Painted Skin and the Shadow Demon reveal themselves, relying on Gu Beichen’s flame spell while the team watched. The chapter ended as Painted Skin vanished and Gu Beichen’s Flame Explosion detonated in the sealed room with Xu Le inside.

• Painted Skin attacked the gathered Night Watchers as Niu Yuan, then fled after Bai Jing and Zhou Jie struck it, while a cowboy-hatted attacker shot and wounded the real Niu Yuan and another Team Five member.
• Bai Jing organized the teams, and Xu Le secretly sent Fate's Scarecrow downstairs before drawing Painted Skin into a sealed room with himself.
• Xu Le prompted Gu Beichen with clues about his dream of becoming a Calamity Sorcerer, but the Shadow Demon recognized his scheme and began suffocating him.
• Gu Beichen understood Xu Le's signal and cast Flame Explosion as Xu Le activated the Death Knell and entered his elemental electricity state.
• Painted Skin vanished inside the sealed room, and Gu Beichen's Flame Explosion detonated as Xu Le cursed at it.

Xu Le’s team killed the Shadow Demon and Painted Skin, recovered Bai Kui’s note and a cure potion, then fought their way onto the third floor. The Hunter transformed into a Werewolf, and Gan’s spell gave Bai Jing and Zhou Jie an opening to sever its arm.

• Xu Le burned the Shadow Demon to death, recovered the Shadow Orb, and learned that Bai Kui had been connected to the Oddity.
• Zhou Jie proposed rigging rooms with tripwire bombs, and the team trapped Painted Skin before Xu Le finished it with his electrified blade and shotgun.
• Xu Le found Bai Kui’s note and a Type III White-Hair Disease Cure Potion hidden in a pillow; the note directed the team to destroy Lightforging contamination in toothbrushes on the third floor.
• Bai Jing, Zhou Jie, and the Calamity Sorcerers charged the third floor, where they fought the Hunter and packs of wolfhounds.
• The Hunter transformed into a Werewolf and grabbed Bai Jing, but Gan confused it long enough for Bai Jing and Zhou Jie to sever its arm; Gu Jianuo warned Bai Jing about contamination.

The Night Watchers defeated the werewolf after Wang Shu broke through to Master Level, then rested and found a Guyinduo Offspring and a cryptic note in a toothbrush. When they entered the fourth floor, they saw a woman kneeling near the stairs.

• The werewolf rampaged through the team, and Xu Le used an Anger bullet and his electrical abilities to help the others wear it down.
• After Zhou Jie failed to behead the werewolf, Wang Shu broke through to level 3 and, with Xu Le's help, cut off its head.
• Xu Le found a Peacemaker-Lightforging barrel and later drew the [Black Card-Sun] while the team rested.
• Gu Beichen found a capsule hidden inside a purple toothbrush, along with a note saying that a woman held the hat and all the truths they sought.
• After two hours of rest and treatment, the team entered the fourth floor and saw a woman kneeling near the stairs.

Xu Le escaped a repeating trap on the fourth floor and heard the Delusional Maid’s account of White Haze Town, which revealed that Bai Kui had taken Wu Wuanquan’s identity. The Delusional Maid vanished and left behind a top hat and a bone, while Xu Le warned Bai Jing that the fifth floor could hold a dangerous Oddity and proposed destroying the building instead of going up.

• Xu Le realized the fourth-floor scene was repeating, stopped the team, and spoke with the Delusional Maid alone after she reset the loop.
• The Delusional Maid identified Xu Le as a Night Fiend and told him that Bai Kui had become Wu Wuanquan after killing the original doctor and taking his face.
• The Delusional Maid recounted how Bai Kui developed treatments for White Hair Disease, exposed the Imperial Warlocks’ experiments, and then disappeared with the town’s history left unfinished.
• The Delusional Maid vanished, leaving Xu Le a Lightforging top hat and a Lightforging Bone of Retribution.
• Xu Le told Bai Jing that Bai Kui might still be in the building and suggested using bombs to destroy it rather than entering the fifth floor.

Xu Le discovered the last of the building’s five important items, a Warlock’s cane, and brought it to the Gundo Mother Tree, which transformed it into the living relic Night Fiend’s Approval. After the weapon’s memories surfaced, Xu Le feared its awakening had doomed them.

• The Night Watchers explored the moonstone-covered fifth floor and found Bai Kui’s apparently lifeless body in an office.
• Gu Jianuo confirmed Bai Kui was dead, and Bai Jing allowed the team to collect moonstone while Xu Le searched the office for the missing cane.
• Xu Le found the cane and entered the Mother Tree Realm, where the Gundo Mother Tree transformed it using the other items he had gathered.
• The transformed cane became Night Fiend’s Approval, a living Lightforging relic that could open a gate to the Lightforging World.
• When Xu Le took hold of the cane, the Shadow Demon’s lingering soul and the Delusional Maid’s memories surged into him, leaving him afraid they were all going to die.

Xu Le warned Bai Jing that Bai Kui was still alive and explained how the five corrupted Doll guards had formed a seal that the Night Watchers had inadvertently dismantled while mining Moonstone. The team prepared to flee and bomb Bai Kui, but his awakening remained imminent.

• Xu Le realized Bai Kui was not dead and rushed to warn Bai Jing, while Gu Jianuo found a Sun Church ring and noticed a soul stench on him.
• Bai Jing ordered the Night Watchers to withdraw, and Xu Le warned that Moonstone was maintaining Bai Kui’s seal; the team prepared explosives and sent the Warlocks ahead.
• As he waited downstairs, Xu Le examined his newly acquired cane and wondered whether killing Guyinduo Offspring such as Gu Beichen would strengthen it.
• Xu Le explained to the team that the five Oddities were Doll guards whose deaths had undone Bai Kui’s seal, and that mining Moonstone had further weakened it.
• Xu Le reconstructed Bai Kui’s revenge against White Haze Town and described how Bai Kui had corrupted the five guards over centuries, leaving his awakening only a matter of time.

Gu Beichen awakened Bai Kui with the Alchemical Bombs, but the wounded monster turned on the group and nearly killed him. As Gu Jianuo fought Bai Kui in her Demon Form, Xu Le’s cane transformed into a double-barreled gun, and he fired twice.

• Gu Beichen activated the Alchemical Bombs on Bai Kui, who awoke and injected him with Ancient Yin Duo Energy before the explosives detonated and destroyed the Town Administration Building.
• Bai Kui survived the explosion, severed the rope pulling Gu Beichen, and attacked him as the group debated whether to flee or stand and fight.
• Xu Le warned that Bai Kui could outrun and kill them, and Bai Jing persuaded Gu Jianuo to help the group face him.
• Bai Kui wounded Gu Beichen and battled Xu Le, Zhou Jie, Bai Jing, and Gu Jianuo, who transformed into her Demon Form and struck him with black light.
• Bai Kui unleashed a rain of light swords that battered Gu Jianuo, while Xu Le’s cane transformed into a double-barreled gun and he fired two shots.

Xu Le and the Night Watchers defeated Bai Kui at the cost of Bai Jing’s life, then completed their exploration of Block 53 and returned to Lighthouse. Wang Shu took command of Team 6, while Xu Le carried the grief of the battle home with him.

• Xu Le, Gu Jianuo, and the other Night Watchers fought Bai Kui, but Bai Kui wounded Wang Shu and Zhou Jie and began summoning ghosts to recover his strength.
• Bai Jing surpassed the limits of a Level 4 Warrior and struck Bai Kui with her Undying Slash, leaving him severely weakened before collapsing herself.
• Xu Le used Little Sun and Death Knell against the summoned ghosts, then rode Golden Toad toward Bai Kui and drove the Black Sword into his forehead.
• The ghosts entered the Black Sword, draining Bai Kui until his body turned to dust; Bai Jing appointed Gan to look after the others and named Wang Shu the new captain before she dissipated.
• Xu Le carried the injured Gu Jianuo while Wang Shu led the team through the rest of the First District and declared the Block 53 mission complete.
• The Night Watchers returned to Lighthouse, where the Guards saluted them as Xu Le looked out toward the wilderness.

After returning from the Block 53 mission, Xu Le discovered his distinct LV2 Fate Jester advancement path and began recovering from his injuries. He honored Bai Jing at the Night Watchers Memorial, then joined Gu Beichen and Wang Shu to recruit replacements for Team 6 at Lighthouse University.

• Wang Shu and Xu Le returned to the Lighthouse Wall with Gu Jianuo, who offered them a place at Lighthouse University if Team 6 disbanded.
• While recovering in the hospital, Xu Le divined his fate, learned the Forbidden Warlock LV2 Fate Jester advancement conditions, and manifested a Guyinduo Branch of Reality.
• The Night Watchers Branch Office granted Teams 5 and 6 special leave after their Block 53 mission, and Xu Le spent his recovery studying how to unlock Guyinduo Fate Cards.
• On the tenth day, Xu Le left the hospital with Gu Beichen and Wang Shu to visit the Night Watchers Memorial, where they paid their respects to Bai Jing.
• Gu Beichen proposed recruiting new members through Lighthouse University's Transcendent Society, and Xu Le agreed to go with him and Wang Shu.

Xu Le and Gu Beichen investigated Li Shunliu’s dorm room, where they found a tampered final letter and signs that someone had recently cleaned the room. After the dorm supervisor suddenly died, they discovered suspicious pills and continued toward the Transcendent Society to recruit for Team 6.

• Xu Le and Gu Beichen visited Li Shunliu’s dormitory, where Xu Le noticed the room had recently been disinfected and found that her letter to Gu Beichen had been opened and carelessly resealed.
• Gu Beichen read Li Shunliu’s letter, in which she said she had acted willingly, warned him not to investigate, and confessed that she liked him.
• Xu Le found the dorm supervisor dead, and he and Gu Beichen noticed that her smell resembled the odor they had sensed on Bai Jing.
• Xu Le used a Guyinduo card to confirm that something in Li Shunliu’s room was related to the supervisor’s death, and Gu Beichen found suspicious pills disguised as blood pressure medication.
• Xu Le and Gu Beichen discussed Team 6’s need for recruits and high-level fighters, then turned down several applicants who lacked the required abilities.

Xu Le and Gu Beichen visited Lighthouse University's Transcendent Society to recruit Night Watcher reserves. Xu Le recruited Zheng Wen after testing his combat instincts, and just as they prepared to leave with several Level 1 candidates, a bandaged Level 2 female student approached them, radiating hatred and the faint smell of decay.

• Xu Le and Gu Beichen entered the Transcendent Society to recruit reservists and split up to assess the students.
• After a female student challenged Xu Le's criticism of Li Wei, Zheng Wen fought Li Wei and defeated him, but Xu Le judged his fighting too soft and predictable.
• Xu Le sparred with Zheng Wen, used an empty handgun to demonstrate the danger of battlefield deception, then paralyzed and struck him with his Warlock Staff to teach him to attack without hesitation.
• Xu Le accepted Zheng Wen as a reserve, and Zheng Wen left to pack while Xu Le confirmed his Night Watcher identity to the gathered students.
• Xu Le and Gu Beichen regrouped with Level 1 candidates Li Wenwen and Yang Mingjie, then prepared to leave with Zheng Wen as their other recruit.
• A bandaged female student who claimed to be a Level 2 Warrior nearing Level 3 approached them, and Xu Le noticed her hatred-filled Heart Energy and faint smell of decay.

Xu Le brought four potential recruits back to Team 6 and took Wu Shana under observation because her scent resembled the captain’s. After Wu Shana challenged him and was quickly defeated, Xu Le left her conscious and afraid of him, while Gu Jianuo’s strange plant experiment suggested she was concealing truths connected to several deaths.

• Xu Le recruited Wu Shana after noticing that her scent resembled the captain’s, and Xiong Zemo and Luo Juya discussed Team 6’s staffing and the danger posed by Luo Juya’s brother.
• Gu Jianuo used apple seeds labeled Niu Yuan, Li Shunliu, and Bai Jing to create plants bearing strange objects, then wondered how much Xu Le could divine.
• Xu Le returned to the Branch Office with Zheng Wen, Li Wenwen, Yang Mingjie, and Wu Shana, and Wang Shu submitted the suspicious pills for testing.
• Zheng Wen told Xu Le that Wu Shana had been Level 1 when they last met, despite her claiming to be close to Level 3.
• Wu Shana challenged Xu Le because she doubted his strength, but he incapacitated her with Electricity and struck her with his staff.
• After Wu Shana regained consciousness, she apologized to Xu Le for acting impulsively.

Xu Le questioned Wu Shana about her drive to avenge her parents and learned she had been taking mysterious pills that rapidly increased her strength. After investigating the pills and encountering Gu Jianuo at the library, he realized her ability had been spying on him and suspected the pills had caused his divination to go wrong.

• Xu Le challenged Wu Shana's blind pursuit of revenge, and she admitted she had taken pills left with a note on her desk after her parents died; she had consumed twenty-four of the thirty pills and reached Level 2.
• Wu Shana left with a second bottle resembling the blood pressure medicine Xu Le had found, while Xu Le kept the unmarked pill bottle and wondered whether its scent of decay was connected to Bai Jing.
• Xu Le divined that the pills had no connection to Bai Jing's death, but an eye briefly opened behind him and another appeared in Gu Jianuo's laboratory on a leaf labeled "Bai Jing."
• Xu Le went to the Night Watchers Headquarters library with Ding Ke and studied Warrior limits and training, while Ding Ke noticed an eye opening among the bookshelves.
• Gu Jianuo invited Xu Le to join her teacher, but he refused because he wanted to save Team 6; afterward, he concluded that she had been spying on his actions.
• Xu Le suspected the pills had triggered a faulty divination and let the Alchemist spy on him.

Xu Le decided to stay with the Night Watchers and uncover the truth behind Bai Jing’s death, while building a cautious connection with Wu Shana. He then tried to unlock the Black Sheep Girl card and was pulled into its tangible, dark world, where a distant yellow light awaited him.

• Xu Le and Wang Shu concluded that the pill’s ordinary test result was suspicious, and Xu Le urged Wang Shu to remain calm while investigating.
• Xu Le invited Wu Shana to dinner, questioned her indirectly about the pills, and warned her that future Black Tides could grow more dangerous.
• Xu Le told Wu Shana he would stay with the Night Watchers and seek the truth about Bai Jing’s death, including avenging her if she had been murdered.
• Xu Le attempted to unlock the Black Sheep Girl card by extending his Guyinduo Branch of Reality into it, but the branch consumed all his Spirit Energy and dragged him inside.
• Xu Le found himself in a tangible world of darkness and began walking toward a distant point of yellow light.

Xu Le was drawn into the Lightless Realm, where he met Night Fiend and persuaded her to let him leave by telling her the story of Spirited Away. Back in his room, he found the Black Sheep Girl card unlocked and considered using another Divination to turn Gu Jianuo’s surveillance into an opportunity.

• Surrounded by Night Demons, Xu Le used the Warlock Staff bearing Night Fiend's Approval to reach a campfire in the Lightless Realm.
• Xu Le met Night Fiend and learned that he was a Guyinduo Offspring-Night Fiend, while other Warlocks who had reached her realm had been eaten.
• When Xu Le asked to leave, Night Fiend requested a story, so he told her Spirited Away and described his interpretation of its message as courage.
• Night Fiend thanked Xu Le, offered to remove a mark left by Puppet, and told him to prepare another story for their next meeting before sending him back.
• Xu Le returned to his bed and discovered that the Black Sheep Girl card had unlocked its Disaster Strike and Hope abilities.
• Noticing that Gu Jianuo was still watching him, Xu Le considered using another erroneous Divination to plant a suggestion in her and meet his final advancement condition.

Xu Le tested Gu Jianuo’s surveillance Spell Formula by using Divination, deceived her into altering his results, and learned that her spell had advanced enough to harm him from a distance. After training until he collapsed and finding a strange Secret Art note from Ding Ke, he went to the Branch Office and took two newcomers to investigate an unusual homicide.

• Xu Le used Divination to test Gu Jianuo’s surveillance and learned that she had marked Bai Jing and could alter his results, while Gu Jianuo mistook his feigned grief and doubts about Team 6 for genuine wavering.
• Gu Jianuo changed Xu Le’s Divination result, suffered a severe backlash, and watched him consider contacting her before ending her surveillance and falling asleep.
• Ding Ke warned Xu Le that Gu Jianuo’s Spell Formula could now harm him, and Xu Le trained with Elementalization until he completed a hundred push-ups and passed out.
• Ding Ke left Xu Le a note describing the Secret Art-Red Moon Bathing Method, which he decided to try.
• At the Branch Office, Wang Shu assigned Xu Le to investigate an unusual homicide with two newcomers while Gu Beichen took Li Wenwen and Yang Mingjie to the Black Alley.

Xu Le led Zheng Wen and Wu Shana on their first Night Watchers mission, quickly solving a string of murders at a villa and teaching the rookies from the experience. Gu Jianuo watched his performance and, after seeing him consider taking a pill, decided to visit him the next day.

• Xu Le reviewed the villa murders with Zheng Wen and Wu Shana, then noticed that the maid seemed unusually calm and that the homeowners' behavior raised suspicions.
• Xu Le found Heart Energy Neutralizer in the wife's room and rushed downstairs when he realized someone was about to die.
• Xu Le destroyed a level 1 Ghost-Type Oddity attacking the maid, then shot the wife when she tried to kill him.
• Xu Le explained his deductions to Zheng Wen and Wu Shana, while privately admitting that he had detected the Oddity earlier and had used the case to teach them and impress Gu Jianuo.
• At home, Xu Le exercised under Gu Jianuo's surveillance and staged hesitation over taking a pill, prompting her to decide to visit him the next day.

Xu Le used the Red Moon Bathing Method to strengthen his body and confronted Gu Jianuo about the secret pills, learning that a Warlock’s life was their greatest source of power. He then continued testing Gu Jianuo’s ability to interfere with his Divinations, and prepared for a dangerous sixth reading that he believed might leave him under her control.

• Xu Le performed the Red Moon Bathing Method, gained a small increase in strength, and watched Ding Ke secretly eat the chicken offerings.
• At the Headquarters library, Gu Jianuo urged Xu Le to abandon Warrior training and warned him that a Warlock’s life was their most precious possession.
• Xu Le told Gu Jianuo he would give her an answer by the next day, then returned to the Branch Office to wait for her and prepare another Divination.
• Xu Le Divined whether Bai Jing’s final battle form had been that of a Level 5 Warrior, then asked whether Bai Jing’s death was connected to the life-overdrawing potion Gu Jianuo had mentioned.
• Gu Jianuo interfered with Xu Le’s fifth Divination and suffered a severe backlash, while Xu Le sensed that her Spell Formula had gained another effect on him.
• Xu Le drew the Black Card - Puppet on Strings, suspected his sixth Divination could make him controllable, and decided to proceed while relying on his defenses.

Xu Le used a staged farewell to leave the Night Watchers and join Gu Jianuo’s alchemy research lab, while concealing a plan to pursue the Lone Minister advancement requirement. After Gu Jianuo introduced him to his new colleagues, Xu Le met their hostility with blunt retorts.

• Xu Le’s sixth divination showed a dragon and a warrior absorbing a Dragon Soul, while Gu Jianuo’s Doll Technique made his arm move against his will.
• Xu Le pretended to resign, said goodbye to Wang Shu, Gu Beichen, and Gan, and left a hidden note and medicine bottles at Lighthouse University’s gatehouse.
• Xu Le moved into a dormitory at Gu Jianuo’s research facility and resolved to complete his remaining advancement requirements before the Red Moon Calamity.
• Gu Jianuo introduced Xu Le to the research lab staff and told Wang Li to show him their research, but his new colleagues largely ignored him.
• Wang Li assigned Xu Le extra work, and Xu Le rejected a proposed team-building event before mocking a coworker who asked him to use divination.

Gu Jianuo revealed to Xu Le that Bai Jing had taken a life-enhancing potion for ten years and explained how the Lighthouse’s research aimed to create large numbers of powerful Warriors. The chapter ended with Xu Le silently recoiling from the plan to strengthen the potion and use it on the Lower City.

• Xu Le’s poor social skills kept him isolated at the laboratory until Gu Jianuo called him upstairs.
• Gu Jianuo took Xu Le through guarded laboratory prisons and explained that the institute researched Life Potential Development and Warrior Limit Research.
• Gu Jianuo confirmed Bai Jing had taken the Life Inducement Potion for ten years and had been an early test subject under her teacher, Xiong Zemo.
• Gu Jianuo linked Warrior life-potential research to the White Hair Disease Xu Le encountered in Block 53 and explained that Lighthouse sought to create Universal Warriors.
• Gu Jianuo said the first-generation potion was designed to keep Warriors at their peak until forty-five, but the new potion would accelerate strength at the cost of life force.
• Gu Jianuo revealed that Lightforging, ancient alchemy, and Human Puppet Technology would soon enable a stronger potion, while Xu Le privately judged the scheme disastrous.