Chapter Summaries

Qin Yan used her Purification ability to lower Fu Wenli’s Pollution Value, but the Anomaly trapped inside him kept the pollution from being fully cleared. Fu Wenzi decided to ask their masters for a way to remove the Anomaly.

• Fu Wenzi took Fu Wenli, Fu Nanshan, Qin Yan, and the animals for a walk and chatted with the townspeople.
• Qin Yan used her Purification ability on Fu Wenli, forcing foul black pollution out of his body.
• Fu Wenli washed and changed, but his scales remained dark and his Pollution Value was still 800.
• Meimei explained that Fu Wenli’s trapped Anomaly would make his Pollution Value rise again unless they removed it.
• Fu Wenzi remembered their masters and planned to ask them for help that night.

Fu Wenli learned that a Puppet Master might be able to restore his dead teammates, while Meimei warned that the process required their souls to remain and would put their bodies under his control. The Anomaly Clown offered to help, but Fu Wenli rejected it, and Qin Yan learned that talismans might help remove the Anomaly from him.

• Fu Wenzi told Fu Wenli about Meimei’s origins and the inheritances, and Meimei explained the Puppet Master profession and its risks.
• Fu Wenli asked how to find his teammates’ souls, and Meimei said a Soul-Summoning Technique could do it, though Fu Wenzi had never learned one.
• The remaining inheritances did not choose Fu Wenli, and that night the Anomaly Clown offered to make puppets if Fu Wenli gave it power; Fu Wenli ignored it.
• Qin Yan asked Lingshu how to remove the Anomaly from Fu Wenli, and Lingshu said Talisman Masters were best suited to deal with beings like Ghost Cultivators.
• The next morning, Qin Yan accidentally cut her finger on Fu Wenli’s scales, and he woke and hurried to treat her wound.

Qin Yan learned that Lingti could summon souls and decided to ask it to bring back Fu Wenli’s former teammates as a birthday gift. Lingti began the summoning in Fu Wenli’s bedroom, leaving the result unknown.

• Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan discussed ways to help Fu Wenli, learning that a talisman master or formation master might be able to summon souls.
• The family planned Fu Wenli’s birthday and talked about his interests and what gift to give him.
• Qin Yan planted flower seeds in Fu Wenli’s yard while chatting with Lingti and her other companions.
• Lingti told Qin Yan that it could summon souls, and Qin Yan chose Fu Wenli’s former teammates as the ones to call back.
• Qin Yan brought Lingti to Fu Wenli’s bedroom, where Lingti examined a photo of his teammates and opened an eerie black hole to begin the summoning.

Qin Yan set out with Lingti and her companions to find souls trapped in the domain around a spatial rift, leaving her uncles a note and seeing the ocean along the way. Their arrival triggered alarms at the Domain Keepers’ warships, where the crew identified several Super A-Class Anomalies and watched them on surveillance.

• Lingti confirmed the missing people’s souls were trapped in a domain, and Qin Yan decided to go find them without telling Fu Wenli.
• Qin Yan wrote her uncles a note, packed Tuantuan and her companions, and rode Jixiang toward the domain.
• Meimei explained that the spatial rift’s Weird Qi contaminated living creatures and that Lingti had sensed the souls inside its domain.
• The Domain Keepers’ detection systems sounded alarms when Qin Yan’s group appeared, reporting multiple Super A-Class Anomalies.
• The warship crew recalled Fu Wenli’s role in the battle three years earlier and feared what would happen if the Anomaly inside him took control.
• Surveillance showed Jixiang and the others approaching from outside the domain, and the Domain Keepers recognized Jixiang as a striking, high-level Anomaly.

Qin Yan entered the domain with Jixiang and explored its contaminated waters, encountering Anomalies and two ghost ships. On one ship, Lingti claimed a contaminated skeleton as a spirit soldier, and Qin Yan eagerly approved.

• Surveillance officers spotted Qin Yan riding Jixiang into the domain and ordered their team to keep watch.
• Jixiang defeated a flock of contaminated seabirds, and Lingti directed the group toward ships where the missing sailors’ souls seemed to be.
• Jixiang landed on one of two derelict ships, and Qin Yan entered with her companions to search for her fourth uncle’s teammates’ souls.
• A contaminated skeleton in an East Flame Navy uniform lunged at the group, but Jinbao pinned it down and Lingti stopped it with a meow.
• Lingti marked the skeleton with dark red energy and claimed it as a spirit soldier, while Qin Yan celebrated the plan to nurture it.

Lingti summoned skeletal horses while Qin Yan and her anomalies subdued the skeleton soldiers aboard a ship. Meanwhile, Fu Nanshan, Fu Wenzi, and Fu Wenli joined the response to super A-class anomalies heading into the domain, where they learned the threat was moving inward.

• Lingti summoned two skeletal horses and explained that they could become stronger if they and the skeleton soldier upgraded together.
• Qin Yan, Meimei, Jinbao, and Jixiang tied up the skeleton soldiers aboard the ship with spider-silk rope.
• Fu Nanshan and Fu Wenzi found Qin Yan’s note, then joined Fu Wenli after the Special Administration Bureau called him to support a response near the domain.
• The three brothers rode Fu Wenli’s bone Mosasaurus to the Domain Keepers’ warship, where they met Commander Si Long.
• Si Long told the brothers that several super A-class anomalies had appeared nearby and were heading into the domain.

Fu Wenzi revealed that the Super A-Class Anomalies detected by the Bureau were Qin Yan’s pets, shocking Si Long and prompting him to keep her existence secret. While the Fu Family waited outside the domain, Qin Yan and the Anomalies found eight powerful skeletons inside and learned that their souls had been contaminated.

• Fu Wenzi showed Si Long photos identifying the fish and griffin-like Anomalies as Fubao and Jixiang, then explained that Qin Yan had raised them alongside Lingti and Jinbao.
• Si Long learned that Qin Yan had entered the domain and agreed to keep her and her Anomalies secret while he verified the Fu Family’s claims with Director Nangong.
• The Fu Family and the domain guards waited outside, unable to enter without risking contamination.
• Inside the domain, Lingti subdued skeleton soldiers aboard another ship and collected their bone figurines.
• Qin Yan and the Anomalies found eight B-Rank skeletons, and Lingti explained that their souls remained attached to their bones but had been contaminated and confused.

Qin Yan and the Anomalies left the domain, bringing two ships with them, while Fu Wenzi and Si Long’s group waited outside. Jixiang emerged with the ships and told them Qin Yan was asleep, leaving Fu Wenli stunned to recognize one of the vessels from his memories.

• Lingti marked the skeletons, and the group prepared to leave after Qin Yan drank milk and fell asleep in Meimei’s beanbag chair.
• Jixiang hooked chains to two ships and flew them out of the domain as the Fu brothers and Si Long’s team monitored the perimeter.
• After energy fluctuations were detected to the northeast, Si Long and the Fu brothers rushed there on Fu Wenli’s Mosasaurus.
• Jixiang emerged from the fog in its enormous Griffin form, alarming the armed group, and Fu Wenzi called out to it through a megaphone.
• Jixiang told Fu Wenzi that Qin Yan was asleep and presented the ships, prompting Fu Wenli to recognize one from his memories.

Jixiang brought the warship lost in the domain back, and Fu Wenli reunited with the eight Anomaly skeletons of his fallen teammates. Lingti revealed that many more of the ship’s crew had become mindless Anomalies under its control, leaving Fu Wenli and Si Long to face the task of taking them home.

• Si Long recognized the recovered warship as the one lost three years earlier and ordered everyone to salute as Jixiang brought it out.
• Fu Wenli leaped into the sea and boarded the ship, but memories of killing Wei Lou overwhelmed him until Lingti fed him tea leaves.
• Lingti showed Fu Wenli the eight skeletons of his former teammates, including Wei Lou, and explained that their souls were contaminated and their reason would need to be restored.
• Qin Yan woke and tried to comfort Fu Wenli, who thanked her and declared that he would take his fallen teammates home.
• Si Long and the others boarded, and Lingti summoned more skeletons in naval uniforms, explaining that they too had become mindless Anomalies.

After returning from the domain, Fu Wenli celebrated his birthday with his family and cared for the rescued skeletons. The chapter ended with Fu Wenli preparing to cook at home while his brothers reacted to his unusual way of cleaning and reassembling the bones.

• Si Long thanked Lingti and the others, classified information about Qin Yan and the Anomalies, and arranged for the warships to be recovered.
• Fu Wenli and his brothers returned home with Qin Yan and Fubao, then found a flasher who fainted after mistaking Fubao for a ghost.
• Fu Wenzi used a Paper Effigy Puppet to tie the flasher to a tree, label him, and keep him asleep until dawn.
• Qin Yan woke in Fu Wenli's arms, told him she had entered the domain to give him a birthday present, and reassured him that they were family.
• Fu Wenzi braided Qin Yan's hair, and Fu Wenli washed and reassembled the eight skeletons while promising to make them night gear.
• Fu Wenzi urged his brothers to go grocery shopping so they could cook at home and celebrate Fu Wenli's birthday together.

Qin Yan found an injured jellyfish at the market and decided she wanted to keep it. Her uncles and animal companions learned it was an Anomaly and followed as she brought it to them.

• Fu Wenzi joined a crowd discussing how a pervert had been tied to a tree and displayed, and he secretly took pride in having dealt with him.
• Fu Wenzi and his brothers took Qin Yan to buy groceries at the market.
• Qin Yan found Jinbao and the others bullying a small, pink jellyfish and learned it was still alive.
• Qin Yan carefully scooped up the injured jellyfish and told her uncles she wanted to keep it.
• Fu Wenzi and the others saw the jellyfish, and Qin Yan pointed out where she had found it.

Qin Yan tried to save an injured jellyfish with her tears, and Si Long visited Fu Wenli with gifts. After tasting Qin Yan’s Spirit Tea, Si Long learned it could restore clarity to people affected by Contamination.

• Qin Yan tried to give the injured jellyfish her blood, but Meimei and the Fu brothers stopped her and suggested using tears instead.
• Qin Yan used an onion to make herself cry, and Meimei collected her tears and poured them into the jellyfish’s tank.
• Meimei reflected that Qin Yan had nearly fused with the Life Tree Crystal Core in less than a year, an unusually swift process.
• Si Long arrived with gifts and liquor, met Qin Yan, and asked Fu Wenli about the Spirit Tea she had given him.
• Fu Wenli said the Spirit Tea could restore clarity to people who had lost their minds to Contamination, and Si Long eagerly got to his feet.

Si Long visited Fu Wenli’s home, received tea leaves to test, and met Qin Yan’s many unusual animal companions. During the meal, Qin Yan and the Anomalies secretly drank baijiu, leaving the adults to discover the empty bottle and the companions fighting drunkenly.

• Fu Wenli gave Si Long a jar of tea leaves to test, and Si Long met Qin Yan and her companions.
• Si Long tested the unnamed jellyfish but could not detect it or the other companions when they concealed their identities.
• Fu Wenli served a lavish meal with Skeleton, and Si Long reacted with surprise while Fu Wenzi explained the family’s casual treatment of the skeletons.
• Lingti stole a bottle of baijiu, and Qin Yan and the Anomalies secretly drank beneath the table.
• Fu Nanshan discovered Qin Yan holding a liquor cup beside the drunken Anomalies, and Fu Wenli gave her milk after she said the liquor tasted bad.
• The Anomalies became drunk and began tumbling around and fighting beneath the table.

Jixiang and Jinbao’s fight escalated into a massive brawl before Jixiang carried Qin Yan and Fu Wenli into the sky to celebrate Fu Wenli’s birthday. Jixiang accidentally flung them into the sea, where Fu Wenli took Qin Yan exploring underwater, while Jixiang eventually realized she was gone.

• Jixiang and Jinbao fought outside, grew enormous, and dragged the other animals into their brawl until Qin Yan calmed them.
• Jixiang carried Qin Yan and Fu Wenli into the air, while Fubao followed and the others stayed behind.
• Jixiang flew recklessly over the sea and accidentally threw Qin Yan and Fu Wenli off its back.
• Fu Wenli surfaced with Qin Yan, who showed him the Water-Repelling Pearl, and he took her exploring underwater.
• Jixiang finally looked back and realized Qin Yan was missing.

Jixiang searched the fleet for Qin Yan, then returned home and accused Fu Wenli of stealing her before learning she had simply been left behind. After Qin Yan slept through the night, Fu Wenli took her to Fu Wenzi to learn how to style her hair.

• Jixiang rampaged across the warships looking for her cub, and Si Long told the soldiers to say Qin Yan had gone home.
• Jixiang flew home, where Fu Wenli explained that she had left him and Qin Yan behind; Fubao confirmed his story.
• Si Long complained that Jixiang had damaged two warships, and Fu Wenli gave him tea leaves and spirit honey.
• Fu Wenli took sleeping Qin Yan upstairs, then reflected that his clown had behaved itself and that his heart felt lighter now his teammates had returned.
• Fu Wenli washed Qin Yan's face the next morning and brought her to Fu Wenzi, who showed him how to do her hair.

Qin Yan watched Fubao produce thirteen valuable pearls and received them as a gift. When Fu Wenli was asked to make Paper Effigies by a man showing signs of turning into an Anomaly, Qin Yan persuaded her uncles to let her accompany them to investigate that night.

• Qin Yan fed the jellyfish strawberries while Fu Wenzi and the others wondered whether it might be an S-Rank Anomaly.
• Fubao spat out thirteen colorful pearls and gave them to Qin Yan, who thanked it and shared snacks with the others.
• A haggard middle-aged man asked Fu Wenli to make four Paper Effigies, and Meimei and Fu Nanshan sensed that he had been in contact with an Anomaly and might be turning into one.
• Fu Wenli and Fu Nanshan planned to investigate the man that night, while Qin Yan insisted on coming along; Fu Wenzi supported her and handed out protective talismans.
• That evening, Fu Wenli prepared to leave in a combat uniform and gave Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan masks borrowed from Wei Lou and Little Fifth, while Qin Yan asked for one too.

Qin Yan accompanied Fu Wenli, Fu Wenzi, and Fu Nanshan to investigate a remote island village, where buried villagers had returned as fishlike Anomalies. With help from Lingti, Jixiang, and the Yin Soldiers, the group defeated the attackers, though the reason for the mutations remained unknown.

• Qin Yan left Tuantuan and Jelly at home, then rode Jixiang to the island ahead of Fu Wenli and his companions.
• Fu Wenli, Fu Wenzi, and Fu Nanshan found the village unnaturally quiet and smelled burning spirit money before screams revealed a mutated villager attacking people.
• The uncles fought the Anomalies as Fu Nanshan protected the villagers with a golden barrier, while Fu Wenli sent puppets into battle.
• Qin Yan asked Lingti to help Fu Wenzi, and Lingti summoned Yin Soldiers who joined the fight alongside Wei Lou and Fu Wenli.
• Jixiang kept an Anomaly from reaching Qin Yan, who photographed her uncles as they and the Yin Soldiers defeated the village's attackers over two hours.

The village chief revealed that the Tiesheng Family’s wedding banquet had infected the village after people ate a strange fish, and the Special Administration Bureau took the survivors away. After the ordeal, Qin Yan woke before her uncles and set out to wash the skeletons, leaving Wei Lou’s arm bones in her hands.

• The village chief explained that many villagers had eaten a strange fish served at the Tiesheng Family’s wedding and later mutated, while the villagers had hidden the outbreak and killed those who became monsters.
• Fu Wenli told Qin Yan to stay out of treating the contaminated villagers, and she fell asleep in his arms as the Special Administration Bureau arrived.
• Si Long heard Fu Wenzi’s account, and the Bureau took away the villagers who remained sane while the monsters’ bodies were cremated.
• After returning home near dawn, Qin Yan woke before her uncles, dressed and ate breakfast, then decided the skeletons were dirty.
• Qin Yan prepared tea-infused warm water and soap to clean the skeletons, and Wei Lou detached his arm bones and handed them to her.

Qin Yan’s spirit tea was found to help people transformed into Anomalies retain their reason, and she revealed that she could grow spirit plants. Si Long celebrated the discovery and came to see the soldiers who had emerged from the Domain, but Fu Wenli took him to wash bones instead.

• Qin Yan failed to reassemble the bones she had washed, so the skeletons put themselves back together.
• Si Long announced that regular consumption of Qin Yan’s tea could let people transformed into Anomalies control themselves and retain their reason.
• Qin Yan said she could grow the tea plants, and Fu Wenzi confirmed that plants she grew could become spirit plants.
• Fu Wenzi explained that the family had decided to reveal Qin Yan’s growing ability while keeping her power to purify Contamination secret.
• Si Long asked to see the soldiers from the Domain, and Fu Wenli took him to wash bones.

Si Long and Qin Yan’s family cleaned and honored the Anomaly skeletons, then Fu Wenli gave Qin Yan a protective puppet doll that resembled him. As the family prepared to leave Hai City for home, Qin Yan called Fubao and Jelly from the sea, and Fubao emerged.

• Lingti released the Anomaly skeletons, and Fu Wenli, Fu Wenzi, Si Long, and a visitor scrubbed their bones while Fu Wenli carved their names into their skulls.
• Si Long saluted the cleaned skeletons, which returned his salute, and entrusted the fallen heroes to Lingti before leaving.
• Fu Wenli gave Qin Yan a small puppet doll made with a section of an A-Rank Anomaly’s bone, and she kissed his cheek to thank him.
• Fu Wenli argued with the Puppet Clown in his mind, and Qin Yan comforted him by insisting that many people loved him.
• Fu Wenzi and Fu Nanshan prepared to return home with Qin Yan as the weather turned colder; Qin Yan called for Fubao and Jelly, and Fubao leaped out of the sea.