Recaps

Gu Qing learned from the Magic Mirror that the Source of Plague wanted to find and kill the World-Destroying Demon, but the mirror refused to explain further. At the Wu Family, news of Gu Qing’s strength jogged Wu Chuchu’s memory, and she began to reveal what happened before she and Wu Mingjue went berserk.

• Gu Qing asked the Magic Mirror why the Source of Plague was building power on Earth, and it said the monster sought the World-Destroying Demon to eliminate him.
• The Magic Mirror called Gu Qing “Daddy” when he demanded the second reason, leaving him speechless.
• Wu Zhenhai questioned Wu Mingjue and Wu Chuchu about the night they lost control, but neither could initially remember anything.
• A senior Wu family member reported that Gu Qing had been named for the Night Court deputy captain selection and described his victories against powerful monsters.
• Hearing Gu Qing’s name, Wu Chuchu and Wu Mingjue recalled fragments involving a jewelry store, bait, the Thousand-Faced Mask, and Liu Zhiyi.
• Wu Chuchu told Wu Zhenhai that she had encountered Gu Qing on the night she went berserk.

Wu Zhenhai secretly ordered an investigation into Gu Qing, suspecting he might be connected to Court Master Lu Chenye, while Wu Mingjue planned to have Chen Yun cripple Gu Qing during the deputy captain selection. Gu Qing left his dorm to visit Liu Zhiyi and farm her attributes, unaware that the Nation-Destroying Witch remained trapped in his Magic Mirror with the Deity Girl occupying her home.

• Wu Zhenhai dismissed Wu Qixiu’s theory that Court Master Lu Chenye was targeting the Wu Family, then privately ordered an investigation into whether Gu Qing was connected to Lu Chenye and warned Wu Qixiu to keep it secret.
• Wu Mingjue and Wu Chuchu discussed Gu Qing’s entry in the deputy captain selection, and Wu Mingjue agreed to have Chen Yun face him and cripple him to test how Lu Chenye and Liu Zhiyi would react.
• Gu Qing put away the Magic Mirror, decided to visit Liu Zhiyi to farm her Beast Taming King attributes, and rode his motorcycle home.
• Inside the Magic Mirror, the Nation-Destroying Witch complained that the Deity Girl had taken over her lair and forced her to acknowledge Gu Qing as her father.

Deity Girl confronted the female soul remnant inside the Mirror World, while the Magic Mirror revealed to Gu Qing that Deity Girl was forcing the remnant to submit. After leaving the garage, Gu Qing ran into Zhou Yuan and heard that the Universal Antitoxin Vaccine had reached clinical trials.

• Deity Girl teleported the female soul remnant before her and examined her, while the remnant begged for her life and secretly resented her.
• Gu Qing found the Magic Mirror trembling in fear and read messages showing the female soul remnant pleading with Deity Girl and promising to become her believer.
• Gu Qing decided to let Deity Girl use the Magic Mirror as a second master and rode out to find Liu Zhiyi to train for Blood Essence Enslavement.
• Gu Qing encountered Zhou Yuan, who said the Universal Antitoxin Vaccine had made rapid progress and was undergoing clinical trials.
• Zhou Yuan told Gu Qing that Night Court colleagues considered him its strongest Paranormal Contact and expected him to become a steward if he awakened a superpower.

Gu Qing visited Zhou Yuan’s lab to build Biochemical Resistance and learned that Zhou Yuan had become a Paranormal Contact. The visit ended with Gu Qing spotting a Rat God Cult Follower among the lab staff.

• Gu Qing persuaded Zhou Yuan to take him to the Night Court’s R&D lab, hoping to farm the [Biochemical Maniac] tag.
• Gu Qing and Zhou Yuan conducted experiments for five hours, raising Gu Qing’s Biochemical Resistance to 10 points.
• Zhou Yuan told Gu Qing that he had become a Paranormal Contact after the R&D Department’s Steward let him encounter a Transcendent Item.
• A balding senior called Brother Sheng arrived and praised Gu Qing, who noticed the [Rat God Cult Follower] tag above his head.

Gu Qing discovered that a laboratory worker at Night Court Headquarters was a Rat God Cult Follower and forced him to confess that he had sabotaged the Universal Antitoxin Vaccine project. After Deacon Tian rewarded him, Gu Qing considered investigating Deputy Captain He Haikun for a potentially greater reward.

• Gu Qing spotted the [Rat God Cult Follower] label over a laboratory worker and struck him, exposing his transformation into a Ratman.
• Gu Qing used Martial True Intent to stop the Ratman from killing himself and tortured him until he confessed he had infiltrated the Night Court two years earlier.
• The Ratman admitted he had falsified data and tampered with Rat Poison tests, making the supposedly successful Universal Antitoxin Vaccine ineffective.
• Gu Qing summoned Deacon Tian and the R&D Department head; Deacon Tian praised Gu Qing for uncovering the infiltrator and promised him a B-Rank Reward.
• Gu Qing privately considered gathering evidence against He Haikun, whom he suspected of being a traitor connected to powerful Fox Women and their Saintess.

Gu Qing went to the Storehouse to redeem his B-rank reward and discovered that the Magic Mirror was obsessed with a pair of Mutated Embroidered Shoes it identified as an ancient divine artifact worn by the Divine Maiden. He chose to redeem the shoes, whose description warned that wearing them revealed a distorted world.

• Gu Qing trained with Xia Shuran, Liu Yue, and Wu Jiahao, then checked their biological levels and noted Xia Shuran's rapid growth.
• After eating with the others, Gu Qing went alone to the Storehouse to redeem his B-rank reward and planned to spend the night researching with Zhou Yuan.
• A Storehouse staff member was astonished by Gu Qing's B-rank voucher, and Gu Qing explained that he had exposed a Rat God Cult Follower at the R&D Department.
• The Magic Mirror urged Gu Qing to take a pair of Mutated Embroidered Shoes, claiming they were worn by the Divine Maiden and were full of divine power.
• Gu Qing inspected the shoes and their warning about a distorted world, then decided to redeem them.

Gu Qing offered the Mutated Embroidered Shoes to the Divine Maiden and received a surge of evil god origin that transformed his body. He discovered that he had awakened as a Supernatural Awakened and wondered what unique power he had gained.

• Gu Qing redeemed the Mutated Embroidered Shoes and returned to his dorm with them and the Magic Mirror.
• Gu Qing tried on the shoes and saw the world warp and revert before removing them and recovering from the dizziness.
• Gu Qing pushed the shoes through the mirror, and the Divine Maiden's hand poured evil god origin into his body.
• Gu Qing's Source Devouring absorbed the contamination, his biological level rose to advanced sixth order, and his Knotted Muscles attribute became Evil God Body.
• Gu Qing read that his cells could absorb spiritual energy and produce supernatural origin, then realized he had awakened and wondered what power he had gained.

After awakening, Gu Qing learned that his divine talent let him perceive and copy other creatures’ talents, and he tested the combined force of his powers by destroying a lake with one punch. The lakebed then collapsed into an opening emitting rat-poison-like gas, and Gu Qing fled after suspecting it led to a Rat God Cult lair.

• Gu Qing asked the Magic Mirror about awakening and learned that awakening let people absorb and refine spiritual energy, while his divine talent copied other creatures’ talents beyond their original strength.
• Gu Qing inspected his Evil God Body and decided to test his combined powers in a remote mountain forest.
• Gu Qing unleashed a punch infused with qi and blood power, supernatural origin, and evil god origin, evaporating the lake and blasting a crater into its bed.
• The lakebed collapsed beneath Gu Qing, revealing a dark opening that released foul yellow-green gas.
• Gu Qing recognized the gas as resembling rat poison, suspected a Rat God Cult lair, and fled at top speed.

Gu Qing discovered that the opening beneath the lake led to a Rat God Cult lair and summoned Deacon Tian to investigate it. They fought through the underground tunnels and found a passage being dug toward Night Court Headquarters, leaving Deacon Tian furious and Gu Qing alarmed by the cult’s plans.

• Gu Qing fled the lake after the opening appeared, then learned from the Magic Mirror that it was a Rat God Cult lair.
• Gu Qing contacted Deacon Tian, who opened a spatial rift and brought them back to the lake bed.
• Deacon Tian and Gu Qing entered the lair, where Gu Qing sensed the rats’ murderous intent and prepared to attack.
• Deacon Tian used spatial vortices to destroy the charging Mutant Giant Rats, and the pair continued deeper into the tunnels.
• Deacon Tian discovered that the main passage was being dug toward Night Court Headquarters and vowed to slaughter the Rat God Cult followers.

After returning to Night Court Headquarters, Gu Qing worried that Deacon Tian would pursue the supernatural treasure he wrongly believed Gu Qing possessed. Gu Qing spent the next four days farming supernatural attributes and prepared to train through the night with Xia Shuran to obtain Martial Soul Dharma Form.

• Deacon Tian brought Gu Qing back to Night Court Headquarters, awarded him a B-Rank Reward, and urged him to hand over a supposed treasure that could locate supernatural items.
• Gu Qing denied possessing such a treasure, then asked the Magic Mirror whether Her Ladyship the Divine Maiden could erase Deacon Tian's memories; the mirror refused to pass along the request.
• Gu Qing decided to continue farming attributes and spent four days training with Xia Shuran and Liu Yue by day and conducting experiments with Zhou Yuan at night.
• Gu Qing's Martial Soul Dharma Form progress reached 95/100, and he resolved to train with Xia Shuran for five more hours that night to obtain it.
• Gu Qing offered to loosen Xia Shuran's muscles and began massaging her while Wu Jiahao and Liu Yue watched and privately wished they could receive the same attention.

Gu Qing treated Xia Shuran, Wu Jiahao, and Liu Yue to dinner in exchange for extra training that night so he could attempt a breakthrough. He then went to redeem his B-Rank reward and, after the Magic Mirror recommended the sealed Book of Curses, considered choosing it.

• Gu Qing said he felt close to a breakthrough and arranged extra training with Wu Jiahao and Liu Yue for eleven that night, offering to buy dinner.
• Wu Jiahao recovered from his shock at Gu Qing’s progress and declared that he would surpass him within three years, while Liu Yue mocked him.
• Gu Qing took Wu Jiahao, Liu Yue, and Xia Shuran to the Cafeteria and paid for their dinner.
• Gu Qing went alone to the Storehouse to redeem the B-Rank reward he had earned for discovering a Rat God Cult lair.
• After inspecting the available Transcendent Items, Gu Qing saw the Magic Mirror recommend the sealed Book of Curses and claim it could unseal it.

Gu Qing learned how to unseal the Book of Curses and decided to wait for misfortune flowers to grow on Earth rather than risk entering the Origin Land. He checked in with his family as spiritual energy spread, and learned that Gu Yao’s strength had doubled, though he could not tell whether it came from martial arts, spiritual energy, or both.

• Gu Qing exchanged his reward for the damaged Book of Curses and learned from the Magic Mirror that he needed misfortune to undo its seal.
• The Magic Mirror explained that Gu Qing could gather misfortune from curse-type items or misfortune flowers, and Gu Qing chose to wait for the flowers to appear on Earth.
• Gu Qing saw that spiritual energy was spreading rapidly across the Nine Provinces and contacted his family to ask how they were changing.
• Gu Qing discovered that Gu Yao had added Xia Shuran to the family chat, then started a voice call with his family.
• Gu Mingbo and Wen Wanyi reported feeling younger but not stronger, while Gu Yao said her strength had doubled and her body felt hot.
• Gu Qing told Gu Yao that her change might come from Ancient Martial Arts, spiritual energy, or both, and said they would need to observe her further.

Gu Yao decided to quit school and train for the Transcendent path, while Gu Qing encouraged his family to improve their fitness. Later, Gu Qing trained with Xia Shuran, Wu Jiahao, and Liu Yue, broke through to Advanced Seventh Order, and kept his new biological level secret.

• Gu Yao announced she would give up the college entrance exam and practice martial arts, and Gu Qing supported her decision.
• Gu Qing urged Wen Wanyi and Gu Mingbo to exercise more to improve their chances of becoming Transcendents.
• Gu Qing called Xia Shuran, Wu Jiahao, and Liu Yue to the Training Ground for extra practice, where Xia Shuran brought cookies.
• After an hour of training with Xia Shuran, Gu Qing gained martial true intent and evolved from Advanced Sixth Order to Advanced Seventh Order.
• Gu Qing used his mental power to steady Xia Shuran, Wu Jiahao, and Liu Yue after his biological pressure sent them flying.
• Wu Jiahao tried to guess Gu Qing's new level, but Gu Qing refused to reveal it, while Liu Yue was glad to return to her dorm.

After reaching 100 points of martial true intent, Gu Qing obtained the Martial Soul Dharma Form and suppressed its first manifestation to keep his new ability secret. He left Night Court Headquarters in disguise and traveled to the outskirts of Guancheng, where he unleashed the colossal crimson phantom.

• Gu Qing trained for hours with Xia Shuran, Wu Jiahao, and Liu Yue until he reached 100 points of martial true intent and obtained the Martial Soul Dharma Form.
• Gu Qing stopped the ability from fully manifesting at Night Court Headquarters, then left alone to test it elsewhere.
• Liu Yue suspected she had glimpsed a huge phantom, and Xia Shuran wondered whether Gu Qing had become a Supernatural Awakened but chose not to tell anyone.
• Gu Qing disguised himself with the Thousand Transformations Garment and Thousand-Faced Mask and rode from Haicheng to the outskirts of Guancheng.
• Gu Qing activated the Martial Soul Dharma Form in a wasteland, summoning a colossal crimson phantom that illuminated the surroundings and pressed down on nearby living creatures.

Lu Yan pursued a long-haired murderer through the woods and used her giant form to overpower him, but his body transformed into venomous purple vines that trapped and weakened her. He taunted her as she struggled helplessly in his grasp.

• A short-haired woman named Lu Yan rammed the long-haired man's car off the road and chased him into the woods.
• The long-haired man used mental power to control trees, but Lu Yan enlarged herself and smashed them apart with her strength.
• Lu Yan stomped on the man's head, apparently killing him, but thorn-covered purple vines burst from beneath her foot and bound her.
• The vines pierced Lu Yan and injected venom, draining her power as the long-haired man's head emerged from his transformed body and mocked her.

Gu Qing manifested a towering Martial Soul Dharma Form and encountered Lu Yan, a Celestial Being Pavilion member captured by a Divine Plant Cult follower. He seized both of them and held them aloft, leaving their fate unresolved.

• A long-haired Divine Plant Cult follower bound Lu Yan with vines and prepared to stab her after she refused to join the cult.
• Gu Qing's Martial Soul Dharma Form erupted in the nearby forest, flooding the area with heat and startling the captives.
• Gu Qing noticed the man's Divine Plant Cult Follower tag and Lu Yan's Giant tag, then approached them.
• Lu Yan identified herself as a Celestial Being Pavilion member who had come to arrest the human traitor.
• Gu Qing used his Martial Soul Dharma Form to seize the long-haired man and lift him, along with Lu Yan, dozens of meters into the air.

Gu Qing interrogated a Divine Plant Cult follower about Human Traitor organizations, but the man was killed before he could reveal their purpose. The killer’s roots grew into Tree Elder, who recognized several presences in Gu Qing, and Gu Qing fled his Martial Soul Dharma Form as the tree and the short-haired woman fell.

• Gu Qing questioned the long-haired man, who confirmed the Divine Plant Cult worshipped Tree Elder and cooperated with the Rat God Cult and the Fox Woman Clan.
• The long-haired man began explaining why Human Traitor organizations were growing on Earth, but black roots burst from his head and killed him.
• The roots revived, absorbed Gu Qing’s qi and blood, and grew into a towering tree that survived his combined attack.
• A human face appeared on the tree and identified itself as Tree Elder, remarking that Gu Qing carried three familiar presences.
• Gu Qing realized Tree Elder was too powerful to fight and dismissed his Martial Soul Dharma Form, leaving Tree Elder and the short-haired woman falling from the air.

The Divine Maiden rescued Gu Qing from the Man-Faced Tree, and the Tree Elder's Divine Soul fled rather than fight her. She returned with a Demon Seed for Gu Qing, who learned it could grant demonic power while parasitizing whoever swallowed it.

• The Divine Maiden warped the vines pursuing Gu Qing, prompting the Man-Faced Tree to recognize her and flee as Tree Elder's Divine Soul.
• Gu Qing carried the injured short-haired woman away from the battlefield while the Divine Maiden pursued Tree Elder into the void.
• The Divine Maiden returned and gave Gu Qing a purple seed before vanishing again.
• Gu Qing read the seed's notification and learned that swallowing the Demon Seed granted demonic power at the cost of being parasitized.

Gu Qing gave the Demon Seed to the Magic Mirror in exchange for its promise of a vast storage space and the ability to pull people into the Mirror World. After learning about Guancheng’s factions and the short-haired woman’s Giant power, he kept his identity private and took her phone number instead of adding her on WeChat.

• The Magic Mirror begged Gu Qing for the Demon Seed, promising to expand its powers and turn the Mirror World into his storage space.
• Gu Qing decided the offer was worth more than consuming the Demon Seed himself and gave it to the Magic Mirror, which began refining it.
• Gu Qing woke the short-haired woman and let her believe he had cured her poisoning; she thanked him and explained that the Celestial Being Pavilion and Divine Plant Cult dominated Guancheng.
• The short-haired woman described her Giant power, which increased her vital energy alongside her size, and asked to add Gu Qing on WeChat.
• Gu Qing declined to share WeChat to protect his identity and Martial Soul Dharma Form, but accepted her phone number.

Gu Qing returned to Night Court Headquarters after meeting Lu Yan and watched the sunrise with Xia Shuran before planning how to raise his attributes. The chapter ended with him setting out a schedule to train with Liu Yue and Zhou Yuan, then later visit Sister Zhiyi.

• Gu Qing returned to Night Court Headquarters before dawn and watched the sunrise in the corridor.
• Xia Shuran joined Gu Qing, shared breakfast plans, and invited him to eat in her room.
• Gu Qing checked his Character Panel and reviewed his attributes and acquisition progress.
• Gu Qing planned to practice Telekinesis with Liu Yue, conduct experiments with Zhou Yuan, and later grind Sister Zhiyi's tag.

Gu Qing trained with Liu Yue, pushing her to use telekinesis throughout their fight, while Xia Shuran and Wu Jiahao charged them. Xia Shuran overwhelmed Liu Yue’s weapon barrage with her martial soul, leaving Liu Yue stunned by her power.

• After breakfast, Gu Qing went to the Training Ground and teamed up with Liu Yue against Xia Shuran and Wu Jiahao so he could develop a new tag.
• Gu Qing urged Liu Yue to use telekinesis throughout the match and demonstrated his own control by levitating more than a dozen alloy weapons.
• Wu Jiahao transformed using mutated-creature genes and charged Gu Qing, while Xia Shuran summoned her Dragon Spear and martial soul before attacking Liu Yue.
• Liu Yue launched her alloy weapons at Xia Shuran, but Xia Shuran used her martial soul and qi-and-blood power to melt them all before Liu Yue’s eyes.

Gu Qing balanced the spar between Liu Yue, Xia Shuran, and Wu Jiahao to gain attributes, bringing his progress toward psychic control to 61 points. Afterward, he spent the night conducting biochemical research with Zhou Yuan and gained more biochemical resistance.

• Gu Qing took control of Xia Shuran’s Dragon Spear to save Liu Yue, then swept Wu Jiahao away with it.
• Gu Qing kept the three fighters competing seriously while balancing their spar, and after ten hours gained ten points of mental strength and object manipulation proficiency.
• Liu Yue, Xia Shuran, and Wu Jiahao were left exhausted or injured, but Gu Qing freed Wu Jiahao from the weapons pinning him to the wall.
• Gu Qing went to the research and development building after dinner and joined Zhou Yuan for an all-night biochemical experiment.
• Gu Qing gained eight points each in research skill and biochemical resistance, moving closer to earning immunity to all poisons.

Gu Qing obtained psychic control, tested his new ability by flying and firing destructive beams of qi and blood, then sensed Song Anni fighting nearby and flew to investigate. Song Anni was pursuing a poisonous Rat God Cult follower with three teammates when Gu Qing headed toward the battle.

• Gu Qing maxed out Liu Yue's [Psychic] tag and gained psychic control.
• Gu Qing left the Training Ground, flew to the mountains, and tested his ability while disguised as Homelander, firing beams of qi and blood that devastated the terrain.
• Gu Qing sensed a battle and recognized Song Anni's supernatural power among the forces clashing in the forest.
• Song Anni and three deputy-captain-level teammates pursued a highly poisonous Rat God Cult follower and tried to capture him alive.
• Gu Qing flew toward the battle to investigate as Song Anni chased the ratman through the forest.

Song Anni and three Deputy Captains cornered the Ratman, but he sacrificed his body to the Source of Plague and gained immense power. As they fought the transformed Ratman, he released deadly purplish-black mist, which A Gu gathered up before it could spread through the forest.

• Song Anni lasered the Ratman's knees, forcing him to kneel, and he burned his blood essence to sacrifice his body to the Rat God.
• The Source of Plague appeared as a terrifying phantom, then dissolved into energy particles that struck the Ratman's location and transformed him.
• Song Anni realized the Source of Plague could not cross between worlds and ordered her team to attack the transformed Ratman.
• Song Anni and the three Deputy Captains attacked together, but the Ratman endured their blows and released toxic purplish-black mist.
• Song Anni told A Gu to gather the poisonous mist with his airflow ability, and he cleared it from the area.

Gu Qing killed the ratman that Song Anni had weakened and then faced her questions while keeping silent. He flew away before she could learn who he was, and Song Anni pursued him.

• Song Anni's teammates succumbed to the ratman's poison as she attacked it with her Laser Eyes.
• The ratman escaped into the sky, but the poison weakened Song Anni and prevented her from catching it.
• Gu Qing struck the ratman with Qi and Blood Heat Rays, killing it and astonishing Song Anni.
• Gu Qing wondered whether his strength rivaled that of Night Court Chief Captains and considered how other Transcendents might awaken multiple times.
• Song Anni questioned Gu Qing about his matching appearance and attacks, but he stayed silent and flew away.
• Song Anni chased after Gu Qing as he sped off with a sonic boom.