Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi found the badly wounded Chu Ran in a dark alley and discovered that she was a superpowered individual when his system finally activated. He carried her to his apartment to keep her alive and fulfill the system’s two-hour contact mission, but he could not stitch her deep abdominal wound himself.

• Ling Yi followed the smell of blood to an alley and found Chu Ran, the school belle, badly injured and close to death.
• A system activated when Ling Yi was near Chu Ran and assigned him to stay in contact with a superpowered individual alone for at least two hours.
• Ling Yi realized Chu Ran was the superpowered individual and treated her wounds with strips of his uniform jacket.
• Ling Yi decided not to call his uncle or an ambulance because others would interrupt the required contact, and carried Chu Ran to his newly purchased apartment.
• Ling Yi cleaned Chu Ran and checked her deep abdominal wound, but he lacked the tools and skill to stitch it.

Ling Yi waited for the activation mission to finish while caring for the wounded superpowered student Chu Ran, who asked him to hide her. When the countdown ended, the Summon System activated and welcomed him back, hinting that it recognized him from other worlds.

• Ling Yi treated Chu Ran’s claw-mark wound, brought her home, and waited for the system countdown to end.
• Chu Ran woke and questioned Ling Yi, who revealed he had deduced she was a superpowered person and explained why he had avoided calling the police or an ambulance.
• Chu Ran accepted water from Ling Yi, asked him to hide her, and passed out again.
• Ling Yi considered what Chu Ran’s injuries and pleas suggested about superpowered people and the danger chasing her.
• The mission countdown reached zero, and the Summon System officially activated, welcoming Ling Yi back.

Ling Yi studied the Summon System and used his free summon ticket to summon White Bone Demon from the 1986 Journey to the West television series. She appeared in his living room and greeted him as her master.

• Ling Yi read the system instructions and learned how summoning, energy, the Summoning Space, and sharing abilities worked.
• He claimed his newbie gift pack, receiving a small energy crystal, a free summon ticket, and Basic Perception Skill.
• Ling Yi studied the system’s functions and chose White Bone Demon for her intelligence, transformation abilities, and tactical usefulness.
• He used the free summon ticket to summon White Bone Demon, whose strength was assessed as Fifth Tier.
• White Bone Demon appeared in Ling Yi’s living room and bowed, greeting him as Master.

Ling Yi shared the White Bone Demon's Fifth Tier power and abilities, then left her to protect the injured Chu Ran while he rested. When Chu Ran woke, she faced White Bone with a shadow ready to attack and accused her of being connected to the Kami Church.

• Ling Yi shared the White Bone Demon's strength and abilities, gaining Fifth Tier power and sensing that Chu Ran was Fourth Tier and had been wounded by a Fifth Tier opponent.
• Ling Yi told White Bone to pose as his older cousin and care for Chu Ran, while White Bone said she needed to examine the wound's residual dark energy to identify it.
• Ling Yi reviewed the system requirement to kill ten superhumans or invading monsters to reach Lv.1 and noted the approaching college entrance exam and his family agreement's deadline.
• At seven in the morning, Chu Ran woke and gathered a mass of black shadow in her palm as White Bone offered her porridge.
• Chu Ran demanded to know who White Bone was and asked whether the Kami Church had sent her.

Ling Yi and White Bone cared for the injured Chu Ran, while White Bone introduced herself as Ling Yi’s cousin, Bai Susu. After leaving for school, Ling Yi experienced another fragmented vision of a spatial rift unleashing monsters over the city, adding to his growing suspicion that his scattered memories foretold major events.

• Ling Yi confirmed he had saved Chu Ran, and she thanked him while probing White Bone’s presence and sensing something terrifying.
• White Bone introduced herself as Bai Susu, Ling Yi’s older cousin, and gave Chu Ran a bowl of warm porridge.
• Ling Yi asked Bai Susu to look after Chu Ran, then changed into his school uniform and left for school.
• At the school gate, Ling Yi saw a vision of a spatial rift opening over the city as black monsters poured out and people fled through ruined streets.
• Ling Yi connected the vision to other fragmented memories that had warned him about Ability User detection and an impending event during the college entrance examination.

Ling Yi attended school as usual while investigating his strange memories and the signs of increased superpower surveillance. After returning home, he offered the injured Chu Ran a choice between leaving after recovering or telling him what happened in exchange for his help, reframing it as a deal.

• Ling Yi told White Bone to stay home and protect Chu Ran while he went to school.
• Ling Yi overheard teachers discussing new college entrance exam detection equipment and suspected the Superpower Bureau was tightening its screening.
• Ling Yi revisited the alley and saw a memory fragment of a dead man in a black robe lying where Chu Ran had fallen.
• Ling Yi returned home and learned from White Bone that Chu Ran had woken briefly and was healing quickly.
• Ling Yi offered Chu Ran the choice to leave after recovering or explain what happened so he could help her, and called the offer a deal.

Ling Yi learned that Chu Ran belonged to the Kami Church and had joined to find her captured parents, who were being forced to develop a short-lived superpower drug. Chu Ran revealed her shadow-manipulating abilities, while Ling Yi recognized the Kami Church from a fragment of memory.

• Ling Yi told Chu Ran that he also had unusual abilities and let her choose what to reveal.
• Chu Ran explained that the Kami Church hunted superpowered people, believing their powers would help Kami descend.
• Chu Ran revealed she had joined the Kami Church after it captured her researcher parents and promised to disclose their location.
• Chu Ran said her parents' research could produce a drug that granted temporary superpowers at the cost of the user's lifespan.
• Chu Ran demonstrated her power by summoning a humanoid shadow, a shadow wolf, and a shadow shield, and explained that she could travel between shadows.

Ling Yi negotiated with Chu Ran for intelligence on the Kami Church and learned about its bases, a dangerous temporary-power drug, and a looming operation meant to cause chaos. A fragment of memory suggested the Church might target a school, while Chu Ran remained uncertain about Ling Yi’s reasons for helping her.

• Ling Yi offered to help Chu Ran rescue her parents if she shared everything she knew, obeyed his instructions, and did not lie to him, and Chu Ran agreed.
• Ling Yi, Chu Ran, and White Bone compiled intelligence identifying two Kami Church bases in Dafeng City and their known personnel.
• Chu Ran explained that the Church’s experimental drug granted temporary superpowers but cost users five to ten years of life per dose.
• Chu Ran revealed that the Church planned to attack an important location in Dafeng City to create chaos and conceal a larger operation.
• Ling Yi recalled a vision of students exposed to mutating gas and suspected the Church might target a school, though Chu Ran could not confirm it.
• Chu Ran asked Ling Yi why he was helping her, and Ling Yi said it was a transaction before leaving for his bedroom.

Ling Yi and White Bone raided a Kami Church factory, killed its members, and gathered enough energy to upgrade the system to Lv.1. After discovering a list that marked Chu Ran as S Grade, Ling Yi followed White Bone toward a basement containing more important items.

• White Bone sensed twelve Kami Church members at the factory, and Ling Yi began the attack while she took out the gate sentry.
• White Bone infiltrated the factory and drew the members out, allowing Ling Yi to defeat them and absorb their energy.
• Ling Yi’s energy reached 2,152 points, and the system upgraded to Lv.1, unlocking an expanded Summoning Space, Energy Detection, and Daily Check-In.
• Ling Yi found a Kami Church list that identified Chu Ran as Second Tier, S Grade, and pocketed it.
• White Bone told Ling Yi about a basement behind the factory, and he followed her to investigate.

Ling Yi and White Bone uncovered the Kami Church’s potion and its plan to use it at three Dafeng City college entrance exam sites. Chu Ran revealed how the Church had coerced her parents into developing the potion, while Ling Yi found the Heavenly Descent Plan’s target, scale, and exact time.

• Ling Yi and White Bone found maps marking three exam sites and test tubes of pale green Kami Potion in a basement.
• Ling Yi showed Chu Ran the potion, and she revealed that the Kami Church had kidnapped her parents and forced them to develop it.
• Chu Ran explained that the potion used Divine Blood from a Spatial Rift, consumed lifespan, and could cause genetic collapse that turned victims into monsters.
• Chu Ran gave Ling Yi a USB drive containing stolen Kami Church documents, including the Heavenly Descent Plan.
• Ling Yi discovered that the Church planned to deploy the potion at all three exam sites at 9:00 a.m. on the first exam day, affecting more than three thousand people.

Ling Yi learned that the Kami Church planned to turn three thousand students into monsters on the day of the college entrance exam, and began secretly hunting its members while preparing for the coming disaster. After two weeks, his teacher Zhou Yun noticed that his grades and demeanor had changed and asked him to explain himself.

• Ling Yi recalled the coming attack on Dafeng City and told Chu Ran he would stop it, asking her for help.
• Over two weeks, Ling Yi destroyed three Kami Church hideouts and killed twenty-seven members, gaining energy and strengthening his body through the system.
• Ling Yi detected three students with faint supernatural powers and noticed supernatural detection gates installed at the school entrance.
• Ling Yi concealed his powers by suppressing their fluctuations, while keeping Chu Ran away from the detection devices.
• After Ling Yi scored 132 on a Chinese exam with an unusually strong essay, Zhou Yun called him to her office and asked about the changes in his grades and demeanor.

Ling Yi pre-summoned Bai Suzhen to strengthen his team, then tracked a Kami Church stronghold in Dafeng City. The chapter left him preparing to attack its underground club with White Bone.

• Zhou Yun urged Ling Yi to focus on the college entrance exam, while noticing that his outlook had changed.
• Ling Yi used Pre-Summon to lock in Bai Suzhen, a Fifth Tier Great Perfection fighter and healer, and committed to paying the remaining 13320 energy within seven days.
• On June 3, Ling Yi detected seven First Tiers and one Third Tier behind a hidden wall at the southern underground mall stronghold.
• Ling Yi sent White Bone ahead to deal with the stronghold's members, assuring her that he had experience fighting far stronger opponents.

Ling Yi raided a Kami Church club, absorbed a Third Tier deacon’s energy, and discovered the church’s citywide backup plan. He sent White Bone to hunt another base while he worked to gather enough energy to pre-summon Bai Suzhen.

• Ling Yi disguised himself as the Third Tier deacon, and White Bone killed the seven Ability Users inside the club.
• Ling Yi defeated the deacon, absorbed 5,200 energy, and let White Bone absorb the energy from the other seven victims.
• Ling Yi used the deacon’s biometrics to open an encrypted folder and found orders for the Kami Church to spread concentrated Kami Potion through Dafeng City’s groundwater if its primary plan failed.
• Ling Yi copied the files, left the club with White Bone, and saw that he still needed 6,440 energy to complete Bai Suzhen’s pre-summoning.
• White Bone reported finding a small Kami Church base in the eastern industrial district, and Ling Yi ordered her to clear it out.

After clearing several Kami Church bases, Ling Yi learned that reinforcements were coming to Dafeng City and planned to summon Bai Suzhen by gathering more energy. Chu Ran identified three remaining bases, and Ling Yi and White Bone set out to attack two of them while leaving the school base for later.

• The White Bone Demon returned with 1,840 energy points, and Ling Yi received 320 more from his daily check-in, leaving him 4,600 short of summoning Bai Suzhen.
• Ling Yi discovered that fifteen Kami Church reinforcements, including a Fourth Tier, were expected to arrive on June 8.
• Chu Ran decrypted a roster showing nineteen Kami Church members still remained across bases at a train station hotel, an office building, and beneath Dafeng City No. 3 Middle School.
• Ling Yi decided to leave the school base untouched and sent White Bone to attack the hotel while he targeted the office building.
• Ling Yi detected eight Ability Users at the Binjiang Road office building and climbed down its exterior wall to reach the twenty-third floor.

Ling Yi defeated a third-tier Kami Church member and learned more details about the Heavenly Descent Plan and its backup. After absorbing enough energy, he completed Bai Suzhen’s summon, and she appeared in his study and greeted him as her master.

• Ling Yi surprised a third-tier fire Ability User while he meditated, overpowered him, and forced him to reveal the Heavenly Descent Plan’s details.
• The man said the Kami Church would release potion at three exam sites on exam day, with a fourth-tier Ability User named Lin Feng leading the team, and that the backup required holy envoy Bai Ye’s authorization.
• Ling Yi learned the potion was hidden in an eastern cold-chain warehouse, absorbed the man’s energy, and received White Bone’s message that five targets had been dealt with.
• Ling Yi returned to his apartment with enough energy to complete Bai Suzhen’s preliminary summon, spending 13,320 energy points.
• Bai Suzhen appeared in Ling Yi’s study, bowed, and greeted him as her master.

Ling Yi brought Bai Suzhen into his team, where she discovered seals protecting or restraining his hidden power and began treating Chu Ran’s wound. As Chu Ran recovered, Ling Yi planned his next move against the Heavenly Descent Plan and resolved to find Holy Envoy Bai Ye.

• Bai Suzhen sensed multiple high-level seals in Ling Yi, which she believed served as protection or restraints, and agreed to help him.
• Ling Yi introduced Bai Suzhen to White Bone, then brought her to examine Chu Ran’s abdominal wound.
• Bai Suzhen found corrosive energy from outside the world suppressing Chu Ran’s healing and began daily treatments to remove it.
• Ling Yi remembered a white-robed figure he associated with Bai Ye and felt an anger rooted in his body’s past.
• Over the next three days, Bai Suzhen’s treatments mostly healed Chu Ran’s wound, and Ling Yi spread out a map to plan his next move.

Ling Yi and his allies planned to dismantle the Kami Church’s remaining hideouts, locate its drug supply, and prevent the Purification Protocol, while preparing for reinforcements led by Lin Feng. After tracking the arriving team to a west-side building, Ling Yi postponed an attack until Chu Ran recovered enough to join the fight.

• Ling Yi, Chu Ran, and White Bone reviewed the Kami Church hideouts and decided to clear the train station hotel before the school hideout.
• Ling Yi explained that the Heavenly Descent Plan depended on three doses of concentrated drugs and that the Kami Church could release them into the groundwater through the Purification Protocol.
• Chu Ran warned that Holy Envoy Bai Ye was at least Seventh Tier, making a direct confrontation too dangerous, so the group resolved to learn more about him.
• On June 8, Ling Yi received word that Lin Feng and five Second Tier Ability Users had arrived and were heading west through Dafeng City.
• White Bone’s scouts traced the six reinforcements to a sealed third floor in an old residential building, and Ling Yi chose to wait rather than attack without Bai Suzhen.
• In the early hours of June 9, Bai Suzhen completed Chu Ran’s treatment, restoring her strength so she could join the fight.

Ling Yi recalled that the world had been reset before and concluded this was his third time living through it, then led White Bone and Bai Suzhen in an attack on Lin Feng and other Kami Church members. The fight began in Lin Feng’s apartment, where the two demons blocked his escape.

• Ling Yi remembered dying in an earlier life and hearing a white-robed figure say the world had been reset, then resolved not to fail again.
• Ling Yi detected six supernatural presences in an apartment and assigned White Bone to block escape routes while Bai Suzhen targeted the Fourth Tier ability user.
• Ling Yi broke into the apartment and blocked Lin Feng’s opening fire attack with a Bone Shield.
• White Bone attacked Lin Feng from behind, while Bai Suzhen sealed a window with a curtain of water as Lin Feng tried to escape.
• Lin Feng’s eruption knocked the five Second Tier members unconscious, leaving their condition unclear.

Ling Yi defeated Lin Feng, learned that the potions were stored at cold-chain warehouse C-17, and discovered that Bai Ye had activated the backup Purification Protocol. He went to the warehouse with White Bone and Bai Suzhen, leaving Bai Suzhen outside as they approached the guarded entrance.

• Bai Suzhen restrained Lin Feng while Ling Yi blocked his fireball and knocked him through a wall with a single punch.
• Ling Yi tortured Lin Feng until he revealed that the potions were at Eastern cold-chain warehouse C-17 and that he was responsible for releasing them, but Lin Feng did not know where Bai Ye was.
• Ling Yi absorbed Lin Feng's energy, then learned that the five captured Ability Users had been forced into the Kami Church by the potion; Bai Suzhen suppressed their symptoms.
• Ling Yi recalled Bai Ye activating the Purification Protocol and realized he had to find or kill Bai Ye to stop it.
• At four in the morning, Ling Yi reached the eastern warehouse district with White Bone and Bai Suzhen, then sent White Bone to knock out the two guards at warehouse C-17.

Ling Yi destroyed the Kami Potion stock meant for the Heavenly Descent Plan, but visions of a vast production operation revealed the Kami Church’s ambitions reached far beyond Dafeng City. During six quiet days, he continued attending school while monitoring a Kami Church stronghold beneath campus and evading upgraded detection devices, leaving him worried that the Superpower Bureau would expose him and Chu Ran.

• Ling Yi used Lin Feng's appearance to enter a cold storage warehouse and found thirty-six tubes of concentrated Kami Potion reserved for the Heavenly Descent Plan.
• Ling Yi saw fragmented memories of a factory producing a thousand tubes of Kami Potion a day and realized the Kami Church's plans extended beyond Dafeng City.
• Ling Yi burned all thirty-six tubes and the toxic mist, then left with White Bone after she dealt with the security guards' corpses.
• Ling Yi spent six peaceful days attending school, aware that the Heavenly Descent Plan's primary operation had failed but that the Purification Protocol, Bai Ye, and more reinforcements remained threats.
• Ling Yi detected eight Kami Church members hiding in an underground stronghold beneath his school but held back from attacking because of the students and the risk of alerting the Superpower Bureau.
• Ling Yi noticed the Bureau had upgraded campus scanners to identify superpower tiers, suppressed his own fluctuations to pass them, and worried Chu Ran could not conceal hers.