Chapter Summaries

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.

Gu Qing escaped after realizing Song Anni and her teammates had likely been poisoned, and he resolved to pursue Zhou Yuan’s tag to gain immunity to all poisons. Meanwhile, the Rat God Cult strengthened its poison and its leader received a powerful blessing, while Wu Mingjue arranged for Chen Yun to target Gu Qing in the deputy captain selection.

• Gu Qing flew back to his motorcycle and left, suspecting the Ratman’s poison had weakened Song Anni and her teammates.
• The Rat God Cult learned that Sixth Brother’s poison experiment had harmed a Night Court chief captain, and Second Sister offered to bring his daughter to receive the Rat God’s blessing.
• The white-suited cult leader received the Rat God’s blessing, endured a painful transformation, and emerged dozens of times stronger.
• Wu Mingjue asked Chen Yun to cripple Gu Qing during the deputy captain selection, and Chen Yun agreed.

As the Deputy Captain selection approached, Gu Qing went to the Laboratory to increase his biochemical resistance and met Song Anni checking on the Universal Antitoxin Vaccine. The chapter left him preparing to work with Zhou Yuan, still confident he would win the selection.

• Wu Mingjue warned Chen Yun that his girlfriend had been adding men on WeChat, but Chen Yun learned she had given them his WeChat ID because she used to be a man.
• Nine days after signing up for the Deputy Captain selection, Gu Qing remained confident he would win and decided to visit Zhou Yuan to gain the final biochemical resistance he needed for Immune to All Poisons.
• On his way to the Laboratory, Gu Qing read forum posts favoring Li Zhan and Zhang Zhibei while other contestants, including him, were dismissed as unlikely winners.
• Gu Qing arrived at the Laboratory and found Song Anni asking Zhou Yuan about the Universal Antitoxin Vaccine's progress.
• Zhou Yuan told Song Anni that Gu Qing had long helped him with research, and praised Gu Qing's exceptional laboratory techniques.

Song Anni urged Zhou Yuan to develop a vaccine against the Rat God Cult’s mutating poison while searching for more samples, and she vowed to find the mysterious man who had copied her outfit. After gaining Immune to All Poisons, Gu Qing planned to test it on the most potent rat poison in the laboratory, but Zhou Yuan left for the bathroom before Gu Qing could get a sample.

• Song Anni asked Zhou Yuan to develop a universal antitoxin vaccine, and he explained that he needed more rat poison samples to study its changing toxicity.
• Song Anni recalled the mysterious man who had copied her outfit and convinced herself that her poisoned state had made her perform worse than him.
• Zhou Yuan suggested the mysterious man might admire Song Anni, and she accepted the explanation while Gu Qing privately denied being her admirer.
• Gu Qing spent three hours conducting experiments with Zhou Yuan and gained the Immune to All Poisons attribute.
• Gu Qing asked Zhou Yuan for the nearly black rat poison to test on himself, but Zhou Yuan warned him against it, and Gu Qing pretended to abandon the idea.
• Gu Qing stayed in the laboratory looking for a chance to obtain the poison, but Zhou Yuan went to the bathroom.

Gu Qing tested his immunity to the purple-black Rat Poison and decided not to offer Zhou Yuan his blood unless he became much safer. As he headed to meet Liu Zhiyi to grind Beast Taming Skill, the Magic Mirror revealed that it had fully absorbed the Demon Seed and gained control of the Mirror World.

• Gu Qing secretly inhaled the purple-black Rat Poison, confirmed that Immune to All Poisons prevented harmful effects, and rejected the idea of giving Zhou Yuan his blood for research for now.
• Zhou Yuan returned from the restroom, and Gu Qing left the Laboratory to pursue his goal of obtaining Blood Essence Enslavement within six days.
• Gu Qing messaged Liu Zhiyi, learned she was still at the Pokémon Pet Store, and rode his motorcycle toward her shop.
• The Magic Mirror began twitching as Gu Qing prepared to fly, and it announced that it had refined the Demon Seed and gained complete control over the Mirror World.
• Gu Qing learned that the Mirror World could provide boundless storage and allow people to be sent inside, then asked the Magic Mirror how to use those abilities.

Gu Qing tested the Mirror World’s storage limits and learned that its dense vitality could keep living creatures alive, while larger and more complex contents burdened his Divine Soul. He began to suspect the Divine Maiden was a guardian rather than an Evil God, then explored the gray, empty Mirror World and found he could not sense its vitality.

• Gu Qing put a motorcycle and a hundred-meter tree into the Mirror World, discovering that storing large objects weighed down his Divine Soul.
• Gu Qing tested his capacity with towering trees and concluded he could store at most twenty-eight before his Divine Soul reached its limit.
• Gu Qing placed several animals in the Mirror World and found they survived there, including a fish without water.
• The Magic Mirror explained that dense vitality kept living creatures alive but could not grant immortality, and said the Divine Maiden supplied that vitality.
• Gu Qing compared the strain caused by different objects and found animals burdened his Divine Soul more than plants, while rocks burdened it least.
• Gu Qing entered the Mirror World with a wisp of his Divine Soul, found only dense gray mist, and felt neither texture nor vitality from it.