Chapter Summaries

Gu Qing showed off his enhanced accuracy by killing a giant rat with a pebble, while his roommates joked with him about the feat. In class, he heard girls complain that rats had become unusually common, leaving the strange increase unexplained.

• Chen Zijie chased a giant rat away from a tabby cat, and he and Gao Fei traded annoyed remarks before Gu Qing eased the tension.
• Gu Qing wondered about Bai Ningyu’s [Corpse] label and what it might mean as he walked to class with his roommates.
• Chen Zijie missed a giant rat with a rock, but Gu Qing used his enhanced reflexes and strength to kill it with a precise pebble throw.
• Gu Qing’s roommates discovered the dead rat and teased him about his remarkable shot as they headed to class.
• Gu Qing sat beside Yang Yuntong and overheard girls in class complain that rats had become so common they feared approaching trash cans.

Gu Qing tried to recruit Zhou Yuan for League of Legends so he could get closer to the biochemical researcher, while continuing to farm attributes through studying and exercise. The university’s rat extermination revealed human tissue in the oversized rats, matching the DNA of two missing people.

• Gu Qing read Zhou Yuan’s Moments and invited him to join a five-player League of Legends team, and Zhou Yuan said he might be free on the weekend.
• Yang Yuntong invited Gu Qing to a movie, but he pretended not to hear her so their study sessions could continue.
• Gu Qing trained with Xia Shuran and played basketball with Gao Fei, raising his accumulated learning ability to 38 and physical constitution to 35.
• The university hired a team to exterminate the oversized rats, and Gao Fei later reported that a professor found human tissue in dissected rats that matched two missing people’s DNA.

Gu Qing investigated the giant rats and then went to a secluded park to test the physical strength he had gained. He found that ordinary tools could barely damage his skin, and his tests continued after a steel needle finally pierced it.

• Gu Qing asked Gao Fei whether a professor had discovered why the campus rats had grown so large, and learned their anatomy showed no signs of mutation.
• Gao Fei revealed that his girlfriend was the dean’s daughter and offered to arrange a gathering so Qian Duole and Chen Zijie could meet junior girls.
• Gu Qing left early the next morning to test his strength, buying and eating forty eggs on the way to a secluded park.
• Gu Qing recorded his physique and found that mosquitoes and nail clippers could not break his skin, while a toothpick snapped against his arm.
• Gu Qing repeatedly stabbed the same spot with a sharp steel needle until his skin’s defenses finally gave way.

Gu Qing tested his enhanced durability and strength, then helped Xia Shuran after she sprained her ankle during spear practice. With his friends away for the weekend, he teamed up with Zhou Yuan and two roommates for a game.

• Gu Qing tested his skin's toughness, heat resistance, and resistance to corrosive liquid, then uprooted a tree with one punch and replanted it.
• Gu Qing practiced the Red-Tassel Spear with Xia Shuran until she twisted her ankle, and he fetched ice and treated it.
• Gu Qing and Xia Shuran ate ice cream, talked about their families, and agreed they might visit each other's homes before he escorted her to her dormitory.
• Gu Qing found that Xia Shuran, Gao Fei, and Yang Yuntong were unavailable for the weekend, then accepted Zhou Yuan's invitation to play a game.
• Gu Qing invited Chen Zijie and Qian Duole to join him and Zhou Yuan as a four-player team.

Gu Qing persuaded Zhou Yuan to let him visit the lab, then went home for the weekend and accompanied Gu Yao to a new pet store after seeing a video of its unusually well-trained animals. The siblings entered the Pokémon Pet Store and were greeted by its owner.

• After Zhou Yuan agreed to sneak Gu Qing into the lab when it was empty, he left their gaming session, and Gu Qing decided to go home for the weekend.
• Gu Qing returned to Huaxuan Residence, teased Gu Yao, and ate lunch with her and their parents.
• Gu Yao asked Gu Qing about stopping a cleaver-wielding attacker, and he said he had acted impulsively and been scared afterward.
• Gu Yao showed Gu Qing a video of trained pets at a shop across from their complex and persuaded him to go with her.
• Gu Qing and Gu Yao visited the Pokémon Pet Store, looked over its animals and Pokémon-themed decor, and heard a welcome from inside.

Gu Qing reunited with his former teacher Liu Zhiyi, learned about her financial troubles, and asked her to teach him how to train cats so he could pursue her Beast Taming King attribute. While Liu Zhiyi taught him, Gu Yao filmed them together and accused Gu Qing of flirting with his former teacher in the family chat.

• Gu Qing recognized Liu Zhiyi as his former high school English teacher and introduced her to his younger sister, Gu Yao.
• Liu Zhiyi explained that she had left teaching, lost her first pet shop after her parents' company collapsed, and opened a small shop to help cover household expenses.
• Gu Qing asked Liu Zhiyi to teach him cat-training techniques, and she agreed to teach him for free.
• Liu Zhiyi demonstrated how to communicate with a kitten while Gu Qing watched and practiced.
• Gu Yao secretly recorded Gu Qing and Liu Zhiyi sitting together and sent the video to their family chat, joking that Gu Qing was making a move on his former teacher.

Gu Qing discovered that his Beast Language Ability let him understand animals, while training with Liu Zhiyi raised his skills and brought him closer to Blood Essence Enslavement. At dinner, his family teased him about Liu Zhiyi before Wen Wanyi brought up the knife-wielding drunk from their residential complex.

• After training with Liu Zhiyi for an hour, Gu Qing gained one point each in Beast Language Ability and Beast Taming Skill.
• Gu Qing understood the calls of several animals and confirmed he could communicate with them, astonishing Liu Zhiyi.
• A second hour of training increased Gu Qing's abilities again, and he and Gu Yao exchanged WeChat contacts with Liu Zhiyi before leaving her shop.
• At dinner, Wen Wanyi and Gu Mingbo disagreed over whether Gu Qing and Liu Zhiyi would make a good match, while Gu Qing denied being interested and threatened Gu Yao into silence.
• Wen Wanyi asked Gu Qing and Gu Yao whether they remembered the drunk who attacked someone with a knife at their residential complex's entrance.

Gu Qing learned that the drunk’s family had become violently insane after emotional pollution, while black-clad agents searched for the missing monster. Back at Haicheng University, he discovered a rat that had eaten human flesh and killed it, then formed an idea about the many rats around him.

• Wen Wanyi warned Gu Qing and Gu Yao to avoid fights after telling them the drunk’s wife and children had gone mad and been taken away.
• Two black-clad agents judged the family’s emotional pollution incurable and discussed the missing monster and a talented new female university student.
• Gu Qing found Liu Zhiyi’s pet shop closed for Sunday and returned home disappointed.
• Gu Qing traveled back to Haicheng University to meet Xia Shuran and saw an unusually large rat near the entrance.
• Gu Qing used his Beast Language Ability to learn the rat had eaten human flesh, then killed it with a stone and began forming an idea about the rats.

Gu Qing met Xia Shuran at the sports field, practiced spear martial arts with her, and heard about a powerful ancestor who had emerged from centuries of seclusion. Xia Shuran claimed the ancestor had defeated dozens of strong fighters at her family’s martial arts school, leaving Gu Qing stunned.

• Gu Qing met Xia Shuran at the sports field, and they practiced with the Red-Tassel Spear for three hours.
• Xia Shuran shared homemade cookies with Gu Qing, and they exchanged praise.
• Xia Shuran told Gu Qing that martial arts masters capable of fighting many opponents really existed.
• Xia Shuran explained that an ancestor who had supposedly lived for centuries in seclusion had emerged and found his descendants.
• Xia Shuran said the ancestor had defeated dozens of strong people at her family’s martial arts school, and Gu Qing wondered at the claim.

Gu Qing questioned Xia Shuran’s story about her martial arts school’s centuries-old ancestor, but her powerful Mountain-Crushing Palm convinced him that supernatural abilities might exist. He agreed to train with her, then returned to the dorm, where mosquitoes failed to pierce his unusually tough skin.

• Gu Qing suggested Xia Shuran’s family had staged the ancestor’s feats, so she offered to prove the martial arts were real.
• Xia Shuran struck Gu Qing with the Mountain-Crushing Palm, but he stood firm while her arm went numb.
• Xia Shuran tried again, and Gu Qing pretended to stagger; he recognized the force behind her strikes and began to suspect the world contained supernatural abilities.
• Gu Qing agreed to learn the ancestor’s skills, and he and Xia Shuran arranged to practice together the next afternoon.
• Gu Qing returned to his dorm, found no rats on the way, and went to bed without his mosquito net.
• Mosquitoes landed on Gu Qing and tried to bite him, but their mouthparts could not pierce his skin.

After learning that Xia Shuran’s family knew supernatural martial arts, Gu Qing wondered whether his abilities could let him master such skills with ease. He discovered he could already sense and move his qi and blood, but kept practicing with Xia Shuran to improve his attributes.

• Gu Qing thought about Xia Shuran’s ancestor and the possibility that supernatural beings and supernatural tags existed in the world.
• Gu Qing studied with Yang Yuntong through the morning and gained focus and learning ability.
• Gu Qing searched campus for rats but found only three and learned nothing useful about the hidden cannibal.
• Xia Shuran explained that the Mountain-Crushing Palm required sensing and concentrating qi and blood.
• Gu Qing instinctively gathered qi and blood in his fist, then pretended to learn the technique while practicing with Xia Shuran and gaining martial arts technique and physical constitution.

Gu Qing checked his progress toward Knotted Muscles and went to Tianqi Internet Café to play games with Zhou Yuan, hoping to get closer to his [Biochemical Maniac] tag. At the café, he spotted a man tagged [Killer] and kept him under watch before Zhou Yuan invited him to visit the lab the next afternoon.

• Gu Qing saw that he had earned 74 points toward Knotted Muscles and messaged Xia Shuran about practicing martial arts, but she did not reply.
• Zhou Yuan invited Gu Qing to play games, and they arranged to meet at Tianqi Internet Café.
• Gu Qing noticed a burly middle-aged man with the [Killer] tag and monitored him while playing with Zhou Yuan.
• Gu Qing and Zhou Yuan won all six of their matches, and Zhou Yuan invited Gu Qing to visit the lab the next afternoon.

Gu Qing followed a killer who pursued Zhou Yuan and helped subdue him in Zhou Yuan’s rental. As Gu Qing called the authorities, the bound man began transforming into a ferocious, hairy creature.

• Gu Qing confirmed that the [Killer] was following Zhou Yuan into an alley and secretly followed them.
• When the killer grabbed Zhou Yuan at his rental, Gu Qing intervened and helped Zhou Yuan lock the door.
• Gu Qing bound the killer with twisted clothes hangers, and Zhou Yuan gave him Biotoxin to make him limp.
• Gu Qing and Zhou Yuan tried to question the killer by tickling his feet, but he refused to reveal who he was or why he attacked Zhou Yuan.
• Gu Qing called the public security department, and the bound killer’s muscles swelled as dark hair spread across his body.

Gu Qing subdued a mutated attacker who had ambushed Zhou Yuan and learned that the attack might be connected to Zhou Yuan’s biochemical research. After giving his account to the police, Gu Qing saw members of the Night Court arrive to question Zhou Yuan, leaving him curious about their role.

• The attacker broke free of his restraints, struck Zhou Yuan, and lunged at Gu Qing, who dodged and overpowered him.
• Gu Qing spotted a strange rat tattoo on the attacker and suspected that he and the oversized campus rats had been biologically modified.
• Gu Qing questioned Zhou Yuan, who said his research sought to develop a universal antitoxin vaccine but had produced only limited results with significant side effects.
• Gu Qing told the police that poison had helped him subdue the attacker, concealing his own supernatural strength.
• Two men with [Night Court member] tags arrived and kept Zhou Yuan for questioning, while the police allowed Gu Qing to leave.

Gu Qing spent the day practicing martial arts with Xia Shuran, then checked his Physical Constitution gains and received a message from Zhou Yuan inviting him to the lab. He arrived to meet Zhou Yuan, who had come downstairs to greet him.

• Gu Qing met Xia Shuran at the field, ate the sandwiches and soy milk she brought, and practiced martial arts with her through the day.
• After Xia Shuran became exhausted during their evening session, Gu Qing massaged her sore muscles and walked her back to her dorm.
• Gu Qing checked his Physical Constitution and saw that he had gained seven points, bringing his total to 81.
• Zhou Yuan messaged Gu Qing to invite him to look around the lab, and Gu Qing agreed and headed over.
• Gu Qing arrived at Zhou Yuan's laboratory and asked why Zhou Yuan had come downstairs to meet him.

Gu Qing joined Zhou Yuan’s dangerous research into the Universal Antitoxin Vaccine and gained a point of Biochemical Resistance. On his way back to the dorm, he followed a group of unusually large rats after sensing that they were searching for meat, suspecting a cannibal was nearby.

• Zhou Yuan told Gu Qing that two men had taken his vaccine research and warned him to stop, but he planned to continue in secret.
• Gu Qing persuaded Zhou Yuan to let him join the research as a bodyguard, and Zhou Yuan brought him into the laboratory.
• Gu Qing and Zhou Yuan experimented on mice until Gu Qing gained one point of Biochemical Resistance and learned that 100 points would grant immunity to all poisons.
• Gu Qing left the laboratory after midnight and headed back to his dorm, thinking about the vaccine, the criminal organization, and the rat tattoo.
• Gu Qing saw unusually large rats racing across campus and followed them, suspecting they might lead him to a cannibal.

Gu Qing followed the rats to the administration building, where he found two security guards feeding them chemically treated meat and alerted the public security department. After knocking both guards unconscious, he waited for officers to arrive and was taken to the station to assist with the investigation.

• Gu Qing followed the rats to a grove behind the administration building and saw them eating unnaturally vivid raw meat.
• A security guard brought more meat to feed the rats, so Gu Qing called the public security department and secretly watched him.
• Gu Qing heard someone sneaking up behind him and knocked out the ambushing security guard, then knocked out the guard feeding the rats.
• Gu Qing found the surveillance room empty, drove the rats away from the meat, and waited beside the unconscious guards.
• Gu Qing tested his resistance to electric shocks while he waited, and the shocks caused him no discomfort.
• Public security officers arrived, took the two guards into custody, and brought Gu Qing to the station to assist with the investigation.

Gu Qing questioned the public security captain about the rat incidents and learned that the attacks involved supernatural beings, though the captain warned him to stay out of it. Back at the dorm, Gu Qing wondered whether Bai Ningyu had also encountered the supernatural and worried about how she was doing.

• The public security captain questioned Gu Qing about the two rat-related incidents, and Gu Qing explained how he had subdued an attacker and followed rats to a security guard feeding them.
• Gu Qing demonstrated his one-finger planche, stunning the captain and two officers who witnessed it.
• The captain warned Gu Qing that the attacker and the school disappearances involved abnormal people or supernatural powers, and told him to stop investigating the rats.
• Gu Qing returned to his dorm after two in the morning and joked with Chen Zijie and Qian Duole about being taken to the station.
• While showering, Gu Qing thought Bai Ningyu might have encountered the supernatural and wondered how she was doing.

Gu Qing put off his martial-arts training with Xia Shuran and continued investigating the campus rat cases, but Zhou Yuan called him to help move lab equipment. Gu Qing then joined Zhou Yuan in research, showing remarkable skill and reflecting that grinding attributes could make him capable of anything.

• Xia Shuran told Gu Qing she was too sore from the previous day's training to practice, so he agreed they would resume the next day.
• Gu Qing searched campus for rats despite the public security team captain's warning, believing he needed to understand the supernatural threats to protect himself.
• Zhou Yuan asked Gu Qing to help move his lab equipment, and Gu Qing found Zhou Yuan's new rental after switching map apps.
• Gu Qing helped Zhou Yuan finish moving, then declined a nap and joined him in the laboratory to do research.
• Zhou Yuan was astonished by Gu Qing's polished technique, and Gu Qing thought that with enough time to grind attributes, he could become capable of anything.

Gu Qing drank a series of experimental solutions with no ill effects while Zhou Yuan suffered a severe reaction, and Gu Qing gained biochemical resistance through their research. Back at the dorm, Gao Fei announced a mixer arranged for Gu Qing after junior girls became interested in his photo, and his roommates pleaded with him to attend.

• Zhou Yuan drank a pale green solution, vomited, and rushed to the bathroom.
• Gu Qing drank several solutions, including a highly toxic black one, without feeling unwell; Zhou Yuan collapsed after tasting residue from the black solution and later recovered.
• Gu Qing and Zhou Yuan spent the afternoon mixing and testing solutions, raising Gu Qing’s research skill and biochemical resistance.
• Gu Qing returned to the dorm and found Chen Zijie and Qian Duole there, while Gao Fei was still out with his girlfriend.
• Gao Fei returned with hickeys and announced that his girlfriend had organized a mixer after junior girls in her department saw Gu Qing’s photo.
• Gu Qing said he did not plan to date and did not want to attend, but Gao Fei, Chen Zijie, and Qian Duole urged him to go.