Chapter Summaries

Gu Qing reassured Gu Yao after a mysterious powerhouse possessed her, then praised the Deity Girl while trying to avoid a question about who was more beautiful. Xia Wuyuan interrupted, and Gu Qing began recounting the strange incident in the woods while withholding details about the Deity Girl.

• Gu Qing questioned the Magic Mirror about Gu Yao’s possession, but it stayed silent, and Gu Yao said she felt only a little sleepy.
• Gu Qing described the possessing woman as extraordinarily beautiful and powerful, and Gu Yao wondered whether she was a supernatural guide like one from a novel.
• Xia Shuran asked about the woman’s beauty, and Gu Qing praised her while indirectly calling Xia Shuran a fairy.
• Gu Yao asked Gu Qing to choose whether Xia Shuran or the powerful woman was prettier, but Xia Wuyuan appeared and interrupted him.
• Gu Qing told Xia Wuyuan about the strange incident in the woods, leaving out most details about the Deity Girl.

The Deity Girl erased Xia Wuyuan, Xia Shuran, and Gu Yao’s memories of her appearance, while Gu Qing made sure his sister was unharmed. At home, the Magic Mirror reassured him that the Night Court Master would not pursue him, but described the master as both righteous and wicked.

• The Deity Girl appeared behind Gu Qing and erased Xia Wuyuan, Xia Shuran, and Gu Yao’s memories of leaving the Martial Arts School.
• Gu Qing asked Xia Wuyuan to examine Gu Yao again, and Xia Wuyuan confirmed that she was healthy and her Divine Soul was stable.
• Gu Qing, Gu Yao, and Xia Shuran left the Martial Arts School, ate dinner, and walked around the shopping street before Gu Qing escorted Xia Shuran home.
• Gu Qing asked the Magic Mirror about Gu Yao’s health, the Night Court Master, and the Ten Thousand Souls Banner; it said Gu Yao was fine, the Night Court Master had forgotten Gu Qing, and the master was both righteous and wicked.
• Relieved that the Night Court Master would not come after him, Gu Qing wondered what the Magic Mirror meant and asked another question.

Gu Qing learned that Bai Ningyu had created the spatial rift and suspected she was in the Origin Land with extraordinary potential. After discovering the Deity Girl could not see him, he spent the rest of his break grinding attributes with Xia Shuran and Liu Zhiyi, leaving his two skill progressions nearly complete.

• Gu Qing learned from the Magic Mirror that Bai Ningyu had made the spatial rift, then reasoned that she might be in the Origin Land and have unusually high Supernatural Origin concentration.
• Gu Qing found the Deity Girl beside him, but she did not respond to him or react when he waved in front of her eyes, and she soon vanished.
• Gu Qing planned to grind Xia Shuran's Martial Saint tag during the day and Liu Zhiyi's Beast Taming King tag at night.
• Gu Qing spent two days at the Extreme Summer Martial Arts School and gained 12 Martial True Intent, bringing Martial Soul Dharma Form progress to 55/100.
• Gu Qing spent three nights at the Pokémon Pet Store and gained 25 Beast Taming Skill, bringing Blood Essence Enslavement progress to 52/100.

Gu Qing returned to Night Court Headquarters and sparred with Xia Shuran, Wu Jiahao, and Liu Yue, gaining progress toward awakening new abilities. After persuading Liu Yue to practice Telekinesis with him, he headed to the dining hall with the others, where Wu Jiahao began another odd remark.

• Gu Qing returned to Night Court Headquarters with Xia Shuran and learned that instructor Zhao Chuan had gone into seclusion to attempt an evolution breakthrough.
• Gu Qing, Xia Shuran, Wu Jiahao, and Liu Yue sparred with their biological levels suppressed to sixth order, and Gu Qing raised his Martial true intent progress to 57 points.
• Gu Qing persuaded the exhausted Liu Yue to practice Telekinesis with him for an hour, bringing his mental strength progress toward Psychic Control to 21 points.
• The four left the Training Ground for the dining hall, where Wu Jiahao asked whether they had heard the saying, “One day in heaven is one year on earth?”

Gu Qing visited Deacon Tian to register for the Night Court deputy captain selection and asked about his ex-girlfriend Bai Ningyu, whose file was classified as top secret. Deacon Tian refused to reveal her dangerous superpower, then discovered that Gu Qing had reached advanced fifth order and demanded to know how he had advanced so quickly.

• Gu Qing noticed Bai Ningyu's top-secret file in Deacon Tian's office and admitted that she was his ex-girlfriend from Haida.
• Gu Qing explained that Bai Ningyu had broken up with him after warning that they belonged to different worlds and that staying together would endanger his life.
• Deacon Tian said Bai Ningyu herself was dangerous because of her superpower, but refused to disclose details classified at the Night Court's highest level.
• Deacon Tian asked Gu Qing's biological level, and Gu Qing revealed that he had reached advanced fifth order.
• Gu Qing released advanced fifth-order biological pressure, astonishing Deacon Tian, who examined him and demanded to know how he had advanced so rapidly.

Gu Qing discussed his unusual evolution and deputy captain selection with Deacon Tian, who suspected he had an unknown body-related superpower. The next day, Gu Qing trained with his team and stayed behind with Xia Shuran’s packed lunch while Liu Yue and Wu Jiahao headed to the Cafeteria.

• Gu Qing told Deacon Tian that he regularly evolved through training ancient martial arts, and Deacon Tian suspected he was an unconventional supernatural awakened.
• Deacon Tian approved Gu Qing’s application for the deputy captain selection in ten days and suggested he gain experience in the Origin Land, but Gu Qing declined.
• After Gu Qing left, Deacon Tian wondered whether Gu Qing might become a Night Court top-secret file and worried about Kexi and a female university student in the Origin Land.
• Gu Qing questioned the Magic Mirror about Bai Ningyu, but it stayed silent until he asked what it had looked like with a physical body; the mirror described itself in extravagant terms.
• The next morning, Gu Qing trained with Liu Yue, Wu Jiahao, and the team, gaining three points of martial true intent and two points of mental strength.
• Liu Yue invited the others to the Cafeteria, but Gu Qing stayed behind to eat the lunch Xia Shuran had made him while Wu Jiahao boasted to Liu Yue.

While Xia Shuran shared lunch with Gu Qing, he read Night Court Forum assessments of the deputy captain candidates and found that commenters dismissed his chances while praising Zhang Zhibei and Li Zhan. The discussion of Li Zhan’s year in the dangerous Origin Land left Gu Qing worried about Ningyu, and Xia Shuran urged him to prove the critics wrong.

• Xia Shuran served Gu Qing eight freshly preserved lunch boxes, and he praised her cooking as they ate together.
• Gu Qing browsed a Night Court Forum thread rating deputy captain candidates and discovered that commenters called him a weak contender despite his victories over Wu Chuchu and a Rat God Cult Follower.
• Gu Qing read that Zhang Zhibei had defeated nine advanced Tengu without injury and that Li Zhan had survived a year of training in the Origin Land.
• Gu Qing worried that Ningyu might be in danger in the Origin Land, then explained the candidate thread to Xia Shuran.
• Xia Shuran leaned close to Gu Qing to read the thread and insisted that he would prove the commenters wrong in the deputy captain selection.

Gu Qing trained with Xia Shuran, Wu Jiahao, and Liu Yue while Haicheng’s local videos showed the growing dangers of spiritual energy revival. Zhao Chuan returned after evolving into an advanced creature and challenged Gu Qing to a spar, which began with Zhao Chuan charging at him.

• Gu Qing and Xia Shuran reviewed the remaining deputy captain candidates and identified Tengu Hunter Zhang Zhibei and Li Zhan as his main competition.
• Nine Rat God Cult powerhouses met underground and discussed retaliation against Night Court, including attacking the Monster Assault Team and digging beneath Night Court Headquarters.
• Gu Qing and Xia Shuran watched reports about supernatural incidents in Haicheng, including fox women, mutated rats, and patients losing emotional control.
• Gu Qing trained for more than six hours with Xia Shuran, Wu Jiahao, and Liu Yue, gaining martial true intent and mental strength as he neared advanced sixth order.
• Zhao Chuan returned after evolving into an advanced creature and asked Gu Qing to spar so he could regain his dignity.
• Gu Qing accepted without activating any abilities, and Zhao Chuan charged at him with a fist wreathed in qi and blood.

Gu Qing defeated Zhao Chuan in one move, leaving the newcomers astonished by his strength and deputy captain candidacy. He Haikun praised Gu Qing and tried to draw him closer, then treated the group to dinner while Gu Qing recognized his likely scheme.

• Gu Qing caught Zhao Chuan's punch and slammed him into the ground, defeating him despite Zhao Chuan's recent evolution into an advanced creature.
• Wu Jiahao and Liu Yue questioned Gu Qing's strength, while Gu Qing said his biological level was simply higher than Zhao Chuan's.
• He Haikun arrived, praised Gu Qing's deputy captain candidacy and potential, and privately intended to lure him into becoming a double agent.
• Wu Jiahao suggested Gu Qing might be a supernatural awakened whom Night Court's tests had failed to identify, and He Haikun agreed.
• He Haikun used shadows to lift Zhao Chuan and gave him a Rapid Healing Pill that repaired his injuries.
• He Haikun invited the newcomers to a hot pot dinner featuring variant beast meat and variant plant produce, which he described as natural foods nourished by spiritual energy.

Gu Qing joined He Haikun and the others for an extravagant hot pot dinner, while He Haikun privately tried to manipulate him into seeking supernatural awakening. After returning to his dorm, Gu Qing learned more about the growing threat of monsters and human traitors in Haicheng, including the Rat God Cult.

• Zhao Chuan suspected He Haikun was courting Gu Qing to benefit from his future success, while Xia Shuran offered to buy Gu Qing expensive food.
• He Haikun treated the group to variant beast meat hot pot, and Gu Qing deliberately ordered the most expensive dishes despite the others' surprise.
• As they parted, He Haikun encouraged Gu Qing about the deputy captain selection while hoping a defeat would make him desperate to awaken; Gu Qing said he aimed to reach the finals.
• Gu Qing returned to his dorm, showered, and browsed TikTok for news about the Spiritual Energy Revival in Haicheng.
• Gu Qing saw numerous reports of human traitors and monsters, especially mutated rats linked to the Rat God Cult, and suspected its Source of Plague was in the Origin Land.

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.