Chapter Summaries

After their first field mission, Gu Qing and Xia Shuran agreed to visit his family during the team’s upcoming break, while Gu Qing and the other Awakened Team members evolved rapidly during three days of training. The chapter left Zhao Chuan expecting to become an advanced creature within ten days as spiritual energy revival accelerated everyone’s growth.

• Xia Shuran asked Gu Qing which fruits he liked, then learned that the team would have a three-day break after reviewing its successful mission.
• Gu Qing invited Xia Shuran to his home for a meal during the break, and she happily accepted.
• Over the next three days, Gu Qing farmed martial true intent and mental strength, evolving from advanced third order to advanced fourth order.
• Xia Shuran evolved to fifth-order peak great perfection, Wu Jiahao reached eighth stage, and Liu Yue reached seventh order.
• Zhao Chuan felt close to evolving from ninth-order peak great perfection into an advanced creature and called the spiritual energy revival a blessing.

After the mission debrief, Gu Qing headed home with Xia Shuran and showed how easily he could use telekinesis. While waiting for her, he checked his Character Panel and watched Jiang Wanqiao studying her newly awakened magic superpower, leaving him curious about her research.

• Zhao Chuan said advanced creatures would become more common as the Spiritual Energy Revival intensified, then dismissed the team for three days off.
• Gu Qing used telekinesis to pull Xia Shuran's water bottle to him, startling Liu Yue, who doubted his explanation that he had improved through practice.
• Gu Qing invited Xia Shuran to dinner at his parents' home and turned down Liu Yue when she asked to join them.
• While Xia Shuran went to the restroom, Gu Qing checked his Character Panel, saw that his attributes could be upgraded or fused, and failed to trigger either option.
• Gu Qing watched Jiang Wanqiao's video of her studying the magic superpower she had recently awakened.

Gu Qing tried to arrange meals with Jiang Wanqiao and Yang Yuntong, suspecting that both had awakened Superpowers, then saw He Haikun’s [Traitor] label at Night Court Headquarters. After riding Xia Shuran home, he agreed to take her to a mall so she could buy gifts for his family.

• Gu Qing messaged Jiang Wanqiao and Yang Yuntong to invite them to meals, but Jiang Wanqiao was busy studying her magic Superpower and Yang Yuntong was away from Haicheng.
• Gu Qing suspected Yang Yuntong had awakened a Superpower and wondered whether it could harm people.
• Gu Qing and Xia Shuran left Night Court Headquarters, where He Haikun offered them a ride while concealing his plan to gain Gu Qing’s trust and recruit him as a double agent.
• Gu Qing rode Xia Shuran to his residential community, where she realized she had forgotten to bring gifts for his family.
• Xia Shuran insisted on buying gifts for Gu Qing’s parents and younger sister, so Gu Qing agreed to take her to the nearest mall.

Gu Qing brought Xia Shuran to meet his parents, who welcomed her warmly. He also summoned his sister Gu Yao, teasing her with his Transcendent powers before introducing her to Xia Shuran.

• Gu Qing advised Xia Shuran to bring modest gifts, and she chose fruit, milk, and pastries for his family.
• Xia Shuran nervously entered Gu Qing's home, then relaxed and greeted his parents, Gu Mingbo and Wen Wanyi.
• Wen Wanyi welcomed Xia Shuran and asked Gu Qing to bring his sister out of her room.
• Gu Qing used Qi and Blood Release to pull Gu Yao's earphones out, startling her with his Dominant Blood Bar.
• Gu Yao confronted Gu Qing, learned Xia Shuran was visiting, and went with him to greet her.

Gu Qing’s family shared dinner with Xia Shuran while, elsewhere, a man summoned a fear-feeding Emotion Shadow and linked it to himself. The chapter then shifted to a ride-hailing driver waiting for a demanding passenger in Haicheng.

• Wen Wanyi enthusiastically served Xia Shuran food, while Gu Yao corrected her ideas about nutrition and Gu Qing wondered whether his family’s labels might someday upgrade.
• A man performed a ritual beneath an old banyan tree and summoned a new Emotion Shadow after recalling that Liu Zhiyi’s Fire Crow had destroyed his previous [Rage] Shadow.
• The man bound the new shadow to himself with gray-black threads and was overwhelmed by fear before realizing the shadow fed on fear.
• A ride-hailing driver waited more than ten minutes for a passenger in an Urban Village in Haicheng.
• The passenger came downstairs with a heavy suitcase and ordered the driver to load it, but he refused, saying he only provided driving services.

A ride-hailing driver and an abusive passenger were enveloped by a Fear Shadow, which made the driver appear to lose control and terrify the woman to death. The driver then pulled over to revive her, revealing that he was alive and the apparent supernatural events had not killed him.

• The female passenger threatened to complain unless the male driver loaded her suitcase and hurried to the airport.
• The male driver took a shortcut, but the female passenger yelled at him and later berated him while they waited at a red light.
• A Fear Shadow enveloped the car as the female passenger screamed, and she demanded that the driver speed up once the light turned green.
• The male driver accelerated toward a river, then detached his head and frightened the female passenger into a fatal heart attack.
• The Fear Shadow fed on the passenger's fear, while the male driver pulled over and tried to wake her, revealing he was alive.

Gu Qing recognized the shadow flying over his residential community as resembling the eerie shadow he had encountered in an old banyan tree and tried to learn more from the Magic Mirror. The mirror refused to answer, leaving him without an explanation as Gu Yao questioned his behavior.

• Gu Qing recalled that an eerie shadow in the community's old banyan tree had caused people to become angry and aggressive.
• Gu Qing suspected the shadow he saw in the sky was related and decided to ask Sister Zhiyi, who had investigated the eerie shadow.
• Gu Qing took out the Magic Mirror and asked what the shadow was and why eerie things kept appearing near his home.
• The Magic Mirror stayed silent, and Gu Qing threatened to blast it with a fart.
• Gu Yao asked Gu Qing why he was hissing at a mirror.

Gu Qing let Gu Yao try the Magic Mirror, which praised her but insulted him before changing its answer under threat. After putting the mirror away and agreeing to show Gu Yao his storage item at home, Gu Qing took Gu Yao and Xia Shuran to Liu Zhiyi's pet shop, where Liu Zhiyi examined Xia Shuran.

• Gu Qing handed the Magic Mirror to Gu Yao, who asked it who was the fairest woman and received a flattering answer.
• Gu Qing asked who was the most handsome man, and the Magic Mirror mocked him until he threatened to fart on it.
• Gu Qing tried to learn what the mirror meant by meaningless questions and payment, but it fell silent, so he put it into his Storage Bag.
• Gu Yao asked to see Gu Qing's storage item, and he agreed to show her at home while warning her to keep the Magic Mirror secret.
• Gu Qing, Gu Yao, and Xia Shuran visited Liu Zhiyi's Pet Shop, where Liu Zhiyi greeted them and studied Xia Shuran.

At Liu Zhiyi’s pet shop, Gu Qing, Xia Shuran, and Gu Yao learned that the shadow creature they had sensed came from the Origin Land, where the Source of Plague also resided. As they talked and trained squirrels, Gu Qing concealed his extraordinary animal-training talent, while Liu Zhiyi said she had missed the Night Court meeting because she was busy.

• Gu Qing introduced Xia Shuran to Liu Zhiyi, who had helped rescue her from the Magic Mirror’s Mirror World.
• Gu Qing told Liu Zhiyi that he had seen a dark shadow over the residential community, and Liu Zhiyi confirmed she had sensed it and sent a spirit pet to search for it.
• Liu Zhiyi revealed that the entities behind the shadows and the Source of Plague were in the Origin Land.
• Liu Zhiyi explained that her superpower was beast taming, while Gu Qing claimed his squirrel-training skill came from practice, surprising both her and Xia Shuran.
• Gu Qing asked why Liu Zhiyi had missed the Spiritual Energy Revival meeting, and she said she had been busy with something important.

Gu Qing took Xia Shuran and Gu Yao to a new haunted house, where the three began a candlelit maze challenge. As they entered, black mist seeped into the attraction and sent threads toward the visitors’ heads.

• Gu Qing left Liu Zhiyi’s pet shop with Xia Shuran and Gu Yao after Xia Shuran added Liu Zhiyi on WeChat.
• A raven delivered an urgent message to Liu Zhiyi, who immediately closed the shop for the night.
• Gu Yao suggested visiting a new haunted house at South Lake Plaza, and Xia Shuran agreed despite her fear of ghosts.
• Gu Qing bought three tickets, and the three entered the haunted house and picked up candles for the maze.
• Xia Shuran and Gu Yao clung to Gu Qing when frightening sounds began, while Xia Shuran secretly used the moment to get close to him.
• Black mist entered through the haunted house’s ceiling and sent fine threads toward the visitors’ heads.

Gu Yao was caught in a terrifying illusion inside the haunted house, where the birthday celebration she thought she had returned to was only another part of the deception. Gu Qing discovered a psychic thread linking her to a vast black mist and burst through the ceiling to confront it.

• Threads appeared above Gu Qing, Gu Yao, and Xia Shuran, but Gu Qing and Xia Shuran burned theirs away with their Qi and Blood Power while Gu Yao's remained attached.
• A ghost prop frightened Gu Yao so badly that Gu Qing took her out of the haunted house, and she believed she had returned home to celebrate her lunar birthday with her family.
• After Gu Yao blew out the candles, the house and her family turned into the haunted house's ghosts, revealing that she had never left it.
• Gu Qing noticed a fine psychic thread on Gu Yao's head and saw thick black mist spread across the haunted house's ceiling.
• Gu Qing activated Lightning-Fast Reflexes Mode and Knotted Muscles Mode, smashed through the ceiling, and burned away the black mist with his Qi and Blood Power.

Gu Qing fought an Evil God Hound who had rescued the dying black shadow he had attacked near the Haunted House. Their powers collided in a fierce clash, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Gu Qing burned away the Haunted House's black mist with his qi and blood power, then shot down a fleeing black shadow.
• Gu Qing chased the wounded shadow and prepared to destroy it, but a muscular young man appeared and snatched it away.
• The young man evaded Gu Qing's bolts by turning into mist, then revealed the label [Evil God Hound] as the shadow recovered on his back.
• The Evil God Hound attacked Gu Qing with a giant skeletal claw, while Gu Qing formed a Qi and Blood Spear and struck back.
• Gu Qing's spear and the skeletal claw collided with a deafening blast that uprooted the plants and trees nearby.

Gu Qing destroyed the skeletal attacks and nearly killed the man empowered by the Evil God, but the man mutated into a monster and broke free. Liu Zhiyi arrived with supernatural beasts, froze the monster, and set it ablaze, but he began sacrificing himself for a final burst of divine power.

• Gu Qing shattered the man’s skeletal claws with his Qi and Blood Spear, then trapped him in a furnace of Qi and Blood Power that burned away his black shadow.
• The Evil God’s power erupted, transforming the man into a grotesque monster that shattered Gu Qing’s furnace and attacked him with tentacles.
• A blue giant wolf froze the monster before its tentacles could strike Gu Qing, and Liu Zhiyi emerged from the woods.
• The monster begged Liu Zhiyi to spare him and offered a Supernatural Item, but she summoned a Fire Crow and ordered it to leave him breathing.
• The Fire Crow engulfed the monster in flames, and he chose to sacrifice his body to the Great Being for one final trace of divine power.

After the mutated man’s explosion infected Gu Qing with mutating energy, he returned to South Lake Plaza and discovered a strange girl carrying a [Deity] tag. He realized the tag might offer him a path to godhood, then began explaining the black-shadow monster to Gu Yao and Xia Shuran.

• The mutated man detonated his body, spreading mutating energy that struck Liu Zhiyi and Gu Qing, then fled as a remnant soul.
• Liu Zhiyi sent a black insect after the fleeing soul and rode her ice-blue wolf in pursuit, while Gu Qing headed back to the Haunted House.
• Gu Qing’s dizziness and blurred vision worsened as he left the grove, but he decided to wait for Liu Zhiyi to return and explain what was happening.
• At South Lake Plaza, Gu Qing saw a strange gray-mist-shrouded girl beside Gu Yao and Xia Shuran and noticed her [Deity] tag.
• Gu Yao and Xia Shuran greeted Gu Qing, and he told them that a black-shadow monster could detonate people’s negative emotions.

Gu Qing learned that the monster in the Haunted House had triggered fear and then investigated the mysterious [Deity] girl, discovering he could neither touch nor communicate with her. After Liu Zhiyi returned and explained that aberration force caused his sensory distortions, Gu Qing tried to tell her about the girl but was suddenly overwhelmed by dizziness and unable to speak.

• Gu Yao told Gu Qing that the monster had made her hallucinate a frightening scene of her family turning into monsters, and Gu Qing connected it to different shadows triggering different negative emotions.
• Gu Qing said he had destroyed the Fear Shadow but failed to defeat the human traitor controlling it, who had escaped after Sister Zhiyi forced him to blow up his body.
• Gu Qing sent Gu Yao and Xia Shuran home, then approached the [Deity] girl beneath the tree and found that he could not get a response or touch her or the surrounding mist.
• Liu Zhiyi returned and told Gu Qing that the traitor's released aberration force had caused his sensory distortions, which should fade after he rested.
• Gu Qing tried to tell Liu Zhiyi about the deity girl, but a sudden wave of dizziness left him weak and unable to speak.

Gu Qing discovered that an unknown force prevented him from revealing the Deity Girl, then saw her face after Liu Zhiyi left. He failed to capture or describe her to others, and the Magic Mirror could not see her before he asked it about the Aberration Force affecting him.

• Gu Qing concealed the Deity Girl's existence from Liu Zhiyi and learned that she had captured the Human Traitor who controlled the Black Shadow.
• Liu Zhiyi praised Gu Qing's Qi and Blood Release and urged him to apply for a Night Court Deputy Captain position before flying away on a Fire Crow.
• The mist cleared from the Deity Girl's face, and Gu Qing saw her youthful, seemingly divine appearance; his phone could not photograph her.
• Gu Qing tried to tell Liu Zhiyi about the Deity Girl through text, voice, and handwriting, but each attempt brought on severe dizziness and stopped him.
• The Magic Mirror said it could not see the Deity Girl and ignored Gu Qing's request to divine her identity, so he asked what it thought of his Aberration Force symptoms.

After the Magic Mirror warned Gu Qing that he had been lightly contaminated by an Outer Evil God, he failed to find the Deity Girl and returned home suffering hallucinations. The girl reappeared in his house, and the Magic Mirror suggested he use his Devouring Attribute to absorb the Evil God’s remaining power.

• The Magic Mirror warned Gu Qing that he had slight Outer Evil God contamination and would recover after resting, unless he sacrificed flesh and blood or approached the power’s source.
• Gu Qing received a call from Wen Wanyi, assured her he was safe, and continued watching the Deity Girl as she vanished into the crowd.
• Gu Qing searched the plaza for nearly ten minutes, then headed home while hallucinations of a blood-red moon, laughing plants, and enticing trash followed him.
• Gu Qing returned home, and Gu Yao asked Xia Shuran to stay overnight because the Haunted House had frightened her; Chen Shulan agreed.
• After showering, Gu Qing saw the Deity Girl standing beside the sofa in his house, and the Magic Mirror advised him to absorb the Evil God’s remaining power with his Devouring Attribute.

Gu Qing absorbed the trace of Evil God's essence inside him, upgrading his devouring attribute to source devouring, and the Deity Girl vanished. When he tried to tell Liu Zhiyi about her, dizziness stopped him, so he asked the Magic Mirror what other mysterious power was affecting him.

• Gu Qing used his devouring attribute on the Evil God's essence in his mind, prompting the Deity Girl to approach him and reach into his head.
• Gu Qing absorbed the essence and upgraded his devouring attribute to source devouring; the Deity Girl disappeared.
• Gu Qing searched the house for the Deity Girl, found no trace of her, and wondered whether he could bring her back by exposing himself to Evil God's power again.
• Gu Qing tried to message Liu Zhiyi about the Deity Girl, but dizziness struck as he typed her name, suggesting another force still prevented him from revealing her existence.
• Gu Qing took out the Magic Mirror and asked why a mysterious power remained inside him after the Evil God's essence was gone.

Gu Qing tested his new source-devouring attribute and discovered that it let him absorb energy from fire, electricity, wind, and moonlight, mainly to restore his strength. When he brought Xia Shuran to his room to recharge the Magic Mirror, the mirror displayed a plea for help before revealing the missing Deity Girl’s face.

• The Magic Mirror explained that Gu Qing’s source-devouring attribute could absorb energy from sources such as fire, electricity, water, and sunlight or moonlight, but warned that he could still be killed by attacks beyond his limits.
• Gu Qing tested the attribute on a gas flame, electrical current, and moonlight, finding that the energy helped restore him but did little to strengthen his fourth-order body.
• Gu Qing decided to have Xia Shuran recharge the Magic Mirror instead of asking Liu Zhiyi, and took Xia Shuran into his room while Gu Yao tried and failed to eavesdrop.
• The Magic Mirror began twitching violently when Gu Qing took it from his Storage Bag, displayed the words “[Save me!],” and then showed the face of the missing Deity Girl.

Gu Qing realized that only he could see the Deity Girl in the Magic Mirror, and suspected she had erased both the mirror’s and some of his memories. Unable to investigate her further, he had Xia Shuran recharge the Magic Mirror, which woke and asked for him.

• Gu Qing saw the Deity Girl appear in the Magic Mirror, while Xia Shuran saw only their reflections.
• The Deity Girl vanished, and the Magic Mirror displayed that it had lost consciousness and could not remember what happened.
• Gu Qing questioned the Magic Mirror and suspected the Deity Girl had erased its memories and possibly some of his own.
• The Magic Mirror ran out of supernatural power, so Gu Qing asked Xia Shuran to recharge it while he stopped investigating the Deity Girl.
• After the Magic Mirror woke, it asked Xia Shuran to call Gu Qing over.