Chapter Summaries

Su Yi persuaded Xu Diandian to enter a futuristic tower and retrieve its treasures, hoping the tower’s technology and cultivation manuals could help humanity resist the mutated beasts. Xu Diandian eagerly went inside to gather the items, while Su Yi waited outside.

• Su Yi showed Xu Diandian a towering ruin and told her it contained valuable things.
• Su Yi gave Xu Diandian a Crimson Flame Vermilion Fruit, which she enjoyed and which filled her with power.
• Su Yi told Xu Diandian to enter the tower and bring back fruit, technological chips, and cultivation books for Mayor Huang and the people.
• Xu Diandian agreed to go inside, and Su Yi warned her that she would have to defeat the powerful monsters there.

Su Yi brought Xu Diandian into the tower to challenge its guardians and formations for treasures that could help humanity. After Wang Xiu survived three days of training, Su Yi sent him inside while staying outside, leaving the challenges to Xu Diandian and Wang Xiu.

• Xu Diandian entered the tower and found the Vermilion Flame Scarlet Fruit Divine Tree guarded by a mechanical dog.
• Xu Diandian defeated the mechanical dog in one move, picked the fruit, and entered the second floor’s sword formation.
• Su Yi prepared formations, weapons, futuristic chips, and cultivation techniques on the tower’s upper floors for people strong enough to claim them.
• Xu Diandian struggled to advance through the intricate sword formation, while Wang Xiu completed his three days of training with the robot.
• Wang Xiu found Su Yi waiting outside the tower and insisted he enter, but Su Yi stayed behind and left Wang Xiu to join Xu Diandian.

Wang Xiu entered the second floor and found Xu Diandian trapped in a sword formation, where she trained against a phantom while the Green Duckweed Sword's sword spirit realized Su Yi had created the test. After three days, Xu Diandian had begun to comprehend sword intent, and Wang Xiu joined the formation and scolded the sword spirit for standing aside.

• Wang Xiu entered the second floor alone and found Xu Diandian trapped in a sword formation.
• Xu Diandian and the Green Duckweed Sword's sword spirit realized the phantom's test had likely been set by Su Duanhun, whom the sword spirit identified as Su Yi.
• The Green Duckweed Sword's sword spirit warned Xu Diandian not to reveal Su Duanhun's identity and praised his overwhelming power.
• After three days of fighting the phantom, Xu Diandian comprehended part of its sword intent and steadied her sword heart.
• Wang Xiu entered the sword formation, saw the sword spirit watching Xu Diandian fight alone, and rebuked him.

Xu Diandian endured a thirteen-day sword trial within Su Yi’s formation, strengthening her soul and sword heart before returning to her body and breaking through. The chapter ended with her discovering that the breakthrough’s sword qi had badly injured Wang Xiu.

• Wang Xiu tried to help Xu Diandian, but an invisible force kept him away while the Green Duckweed Sword’s sword spirit watched.
• Xu Diandian fought the phantom for thirteen days, and the sword spirit observed her growing stronger through the trial.
• The phantom ended the trial with a single strike, sending Xu Diandian flying and returning her soul to her body.
• The Green Duckweed Sword warned Wang Xiu not to approach while Xu Diandian focused on her breakthrough.
• After ten hours, Xu Diandian released a surge of sword intent that shook the tower and wounded Wang Xiu.
• Xu Diandian saw Wang Xiu covered in blood and asked what had happened, and he bitterly thanked her.

Xu Diandian accidentally injured Wang Xiu with her newly awakened strength, then helped him recover with a Crimson Flame Vermilion Fruit. The two opened the defeated demon king’s reward chest and found it packed with powerful formation manuals.

• Xu Diandian’s sword energy wounded Wang Xiu, and he realized she had reached the Ascension Stage without a heavenly tribulation.
• Xu Diandian gave Wang Xiu a Crimson Flame Vermilion Fruit, which greatly improved his constitution and strength.
• Wang Xiu warned Xu Diandian not to give away precious treasures, but she revealed she had dozens more and ate them as snacks.
• Xu Diandian and Wang Xiu opened the demon king’s chest and found a trove of formation manuals, including the Grand Yin Qimen Formation and the Great Sumeru Forward and Reverse Nine Palaces Immortal Formation.

Xu Diandian fought Su Yi’s powerful robot on the third floor while Wang Xiu searched for a way to help her defeat it. The battle continued as Su Yi watched, amused by Wang Xiu’s plan to attack the robot’s weak points.

• Wang Xiu ordered Little Black to test the three-meter robot, but Little Black refused to fight and warned that it could not win.
• Xu Diandian charged the robot with the Green Duckweed Sword while Wang Xiu stayed back and watched.
• Xu Diandian exchanged hundreds of blows with the robot, which gradually forced her to dodge and block while its axe took damage.
• Wang Xiu spotted the robot’s vulnerable joints and told Xu Diandian to strike its right arm joint while he attacked its eyes.
• Su Yi heard Wang Xiu’s plan and wondered whether he was using it as a feint, since the robot could understand human speech.

Xu Diandian and Wang Xiu fought Su Yi’s robot challenge while Su Yi returned to Spirit Wood Town and spoke with Huang Changyu. Huang Changyu grew increasingly suspicious that Su Yi was a disguised mutant beast and decided to keep him calm while seeking reinforcements.

• Wang Xiu threw a knife at the robot, and Xu Diandian severed its left arm before confusing its left and right sides when Wang urged her to attack again.
• Xu Diandian and Wang Xiu found openings in the robot’s defenses and continued fighting, while Su Yi judged the challenge within his calculations.
• Su Yi returned to Spirit Wood Town and told Huang Changyu that Xu Diandian and Wang Xiu were still inside the Gate of Evolution and should emerge in about half a month.
• Huang Changyu worried that Su Yi might have killed the two fighters and could be a mutant beast plotting against the base.
• Huang Changyu took Su Yi to inspect the new school and resolved to keep him calm while calling in powerful reinforcements.

Su Yi joined the school as its newly appointed beast language teacher while Huang Changyu grew increasingly suspicious of him. Huang Changyu sought Wen Yue’s advice and decided to send experts into the Gate of Evolution before choosing whether Su Yi had to be eliminated.

• Su Yi noticed Huang Changyu acting strangely, and Huang Changyu left Teacher Li to show Su Yi around the school.
• Huang Changyu gave Su Yi a communication app and hurried to the research institute while Su Yi went to the office with Teacher Li.
• Huang Changyu told Wen Yue that he suspected Su Yi was a transformed mutated beast and that Wang Xiu and Xu Diandian might have been killed.
• Wen Yue admitted he had no way to deal with Su Yi if Su Yi had killed Wang Xiu and Xu Diandian.
• Huang Changyu proposed sending experts into the Gate of Evolution to look for them and said Su Yi must be eliminated if they could not be found.

Huang Changyu quietly mobilized powerful people to investigate his suspicions about Su Yi and protect Spirit Wood Town, while Su Yi arrived at the school as its beast language teacher. The teachers dismissed Su Yi as an unqualified connection hire until Principal Han, the seventh-ranked human powerhouse, greeted him with striking deference.

• Huang Changyu warned the Imperial Capital about Su Yi and arranged to confirm whether Wang Xiu and Xu Diandian were alive, summon the Witch God if possible, and send the Human Ranking's top ten powerhouses to Spirit Wood Town.
• Teacher Li mistook Su Yi's beast language lessons for a cushy job arranged through Huang Changyu and treated his knowledge with skepticism.
• Su Yi joined the school staff and took an empty desk after the other teachers greeted him lukewarmly.
• Han Zhen rushed into the office and warmly welcomed Su Yi, leaving the teachers stunned by the seventh-ranked powerhouse's deference.

Su Yi began teaching at the school in Spirit Wood Town, while Han Zhen arranged his classes and the teachers misread their relationship. Meanwhile, the top ten powerhouses on the Human Ranking gathered at the base and learned that the suspected mutant beast was Su Yi, leaving them wary of confronting him.

• Su Yi asked Han Zhen to arrange his teaching schedule, and Han Zhen promised to handle the arrangements respectfully.
• The teachers speculated that Su Yi and Han Zhen were lovers after watching Han Zhen bow to him.
• Su Yi toured the school and observed that its students and facilities still maintained a semblance of normal life.
• The top ten powerhouses on the Human Ranking gathered around the base to search for the powerful mutant beast in disguise.
• Huang Changyu informed the powerhouses that the suspected mutant beast was Su Yi, and Ji Zeyang doubted that even all ten could defeat him.
• Lin Yiyun, ranked tenth, learned Su Yi was the suspected mutant beast and reacted with a complicated expression.

Su Yi learned that Huang Changyu suspected he had killed Xu Diandian and Wang Xiu, so Ji Zeyang came to explain the misunderstanding. Su Yi sent Ji Zeyang to help bring the two back from the Gate of Evolution, while Huang Changyu watched their meeting and mistook their sudden disappearance for the start of a fight.

• Su Yi watched the students practice martial arts at the school before Ji Zeyang arrived on his sword.
• Ji Zeyang told Su Yi that Huang Changyu suspected he had killed Xu Diandian and Wang Xiu and might be a mutant beast in disguise.
• Ji Zeyang denied suspecting Su Yi and promised to explain the situation to Huang Changyu.
• Su Yi told Ji Zeyang not to explain and suggested that he help rescue Xu Diandian and Wang Xiu from the Gate of Evolution.
• Huang Changyu watched Ji Zeyang bow to Su Yi and then saw them vanish, concluding they might have gone elsewhere to fight.

Ji Zeyang left Su Yi after warning Lin Yiyun not to challenge him, and Lin Yiyun met Su Yi for a walk. She admitted she still might like him but wanted to settle their past, while Su Yi refused her offer of friendship to avoid upsetting Ye Xiaxuan.

• Ji Zeyang left Su Yi and warned Lin Yiyun to show him respect.
• Lin Yiyun approached Su Yi, and the two walked through the school while discussing their past and her former desire to kill him.
• Lin Yiyun said she had come to bring things to a close, admitted she might still like Su Yi, and suggested they could be friends.
• Su Yi said they could no longer be friends because Ye Xiaxuan might be unhappy, and told Lin Yiyun not to seek him out again.

Su Yi ended his relationship with Lin Yiyun, while Ji Zeyang told Huang Changyu that Su Yi was not a mutant beast and warned him not to let anyone harm him. Tang Yu attacked Su Yi, but Su Yi evaded every strike without fighting back.

• Lin Yiyun accepted Su Yi's decision to cut ties, thanked him, and said they would not meet again.
• Ji Zeyang told Huang Changyu that Su Yi was not a mutant beast and urged him to warn the others not to offend Su Yi.
• Huang Changyu spotted Tang Yu attacking Su Yi on the screen and begged Ji Zeyang to intervene.
• Tang Yu used his time-and-space ability to launch a surprise slash, but Su Yi dodged it with a small step back.
• Tang Yu continued attacking, and Su Yi effortlessly dodged all seventeen strikes without retaliating.

Su Yi effortlessly defeated Tang Yu, who had attacked him to prove his strength, and spared his life. Huang Changyu learned from Ji Zeyang that Su Yi was far beyond their reach and warned the other fighters not to provoke him.

• Su Yi dodged Tang Yu's attacks with ease, then seized his wrist, slammed him into the ground, and took Leave None Alive.
• Su Yi left Tang Yu alive, humiliating him as he walked away from the defeated assassin.
• Huang Changyu asked Ji Zeyang about Su Yi, and Ji Zeyang warned him not to pressure or expose the powerful senior.
• Huang Changyu sent a group message telling the fighters not to attack Su Yi, without explaining why.
• Tang Yu received the warning after getting up and cursed that Huang Changyu had not sent it sooner.

Su Yi questioned Han Zhen’s sparse teaching schedule and proposed salary, mistaking the arrangements for a deliberate slight. After Han Zhen explained himself, Su Yi asked to teach every day and receive the same pay as the other teachers, and Han Zhen agreed to adjust the arrangements.

• Han Zhen arranged one noncompulsory lesson per week for Su Yi and asked whether the schedule suited him.
• Su Yi asked Han Zhen how his salary would be calculated, then took offense when Han Zhen offered ten thousand spirit stones per lesson.
• Han Zhen explained that he had not meant to slight Su Yi and offered to increase the pay.
• Su Yi accepted that Han Zhen had meant no insult and asked for daily classes and equal pay with the other teachers.
• Han Zhen realized Su Yi wanted the ordinary teaching experience and said he knew what to do.

Su Yi updated the research institute’s information and cooking methods for mutated beasts, explaining to Wen Yue that their rapid growth would eventually slow as the ecosystem balanced. He left Wen Yue considering how humans could survive and hunt the beasts for food.

• Su Yi agreed with Han Zhen on his teaching schedule and pay, then left to revise his teaching materials.
• Su Yi went to the research institute, where Wen Yue provided him with a computer to update the mutated-beast information.
• Wen Yue was alarmed by how much stronger the beasts had become in half a month, and Su Yi explained that their growth would eventually stabilize except among top predators.
• Su Yi told Wen Yue that mutated beasts would attack humans if humans remained weak, so people needed to grow stronger.
• Su Yi revised the beasts’ cooking methods as well as their attributes, and told Wen Yue that humans could use hunted beasts as food.

Su Yi sampled poison from a giant Blue Rain Devil Octopus and took some of its meat back to Qingzhou City. There, he invited Li Youyou to eat with him and asked whether she would try the poisonous fish, which she eagerly agreed to do.

• Su Yi found an adult Blue Rain Devil Octopus in the deep sea and ordered it to release its poison.
• Su Yi tasted the poison, then cut a piece of flesh from the octopus and left, terrifying it.
• Su Yi returned to the courtyard in Qingzhou City and found Li Youyou waiting for Xu Diandian.
• Su Yi thanked Li Youyou for looking after Xu Diandian and invited her to share a meal.
• Su Yi told Li Youyou the fish was poisonous, and she confidently agreed to eat it.

Li Youyou spoke with Su Yi over a meal and learned that she could attend his classes at Spirit Wood Town. After trying the poisonous Blue Rain Devil Octopus meat, she collapsed, but Su Yi realized she was refining the toxin.

• Su Yi told Li Youyou that he had stayed in the human world to teach and that Xu Diandian would return in half a month.
• Li Youyou decided to pick up Xu Diandian, bring her to see her mother, and then go with her to Spirit Wood Town.
• Li Youyou asked to try Su Yi's poisonous octopus meat, trusting that her Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Vine body could withstand the poison.
• Li Youyou collapsed after eating the meat, and her skin turned blue as she began refining the toxin.
• Su Yi recognized that Li Youyou's plant body could potentially let her refine other mutant beasts' poisons and use them to strengthen herself.

Li Youyou woke after being left in the courtyard and flew to the Spirit Wood Town base while Su Yi went to work. On the way to the school, Su Yi told Huang Changyu that mutant beasts usually attacked human cities because their habitats and territories had become inadequate, leaving their future conflict with humans framed as a struggle over land.

• Li Youyou woke in the courtyard, wondered if Su Yi had let her attend his classes so she could wash dishes, and asked whether he needed sleep.
• Su Yi told Li Youyou to travel to the Spirit Wood Town base by herself, then teleported away to get to work.
• Huang Changyu met Su Yi outside his room and, regretting his earlier suspicions, walked with him toward the school.
• Huang Changyu asked Su Yi about learning mutant beasts' habits and humanity's fight against them.
• Su Yi explained that mutant beasts had their own food chains and usually avoided cities when their habitats were comfortable and food was plentiful.
• Su Yi said beast tides often resulted from battles between powerful beasts or from beasts outgrowing their territories, and that humans and mutant beasts clashed over living space.

Su Yi began teaching at the Spirit Wood Town base while Huang Changyu considered the growing threat mutant beasts posed to humanity. Han Zhen received Su Yi’s permission to bring the entire Extreme Earth Immortal Sect to the base and flew off to move them there.

• Su Yi told Huang Changyu that humanity could fight mutant beasts if it became strong enough, while Huang Changyu worried that the beasts were growing stronger and more numerous.
• Su Yi and Huang Changyu arrived at the school, where Han Zhen gave Su Yi his class schedule and offered him ten C-rank mutant beast crystals per class.
• Han Zhen asked Su Yi if the Extreme Earth Immortal Sect’s disciples could attend his lessons, and Su Yi told him there was no need to ask permission for that.
• Han Zhen flew away on his sword to move the entire Extreme Earth Immortal Sect to the base.