Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze, Dharma King, and Giant Overlord fought the manager for the box of Sources of the World after the manager's mercenaries were routed. The manager burned his life force to regain peak strength, but Qin Ze transformed and pressed the fight, ending with his blue flames rising after the manager shattered his bone sword and attacked him with fire.

• The Circus ambushed the armed men on Steamed Bun Island, and the clones scattered them while the manager watched in alarm.
• The manager pulled the Tetanus Blade from his kidney, weakening himself, and Dharma King and Giant Overlord attacked with lightning and a bone club.
• Qin Ze demanded the box of Sources of the World, but the manager refused, so the three allies launched a combined assault.
• The manager used Soul Burning to restore his strength to peak level six at the cost of rapidly aging.
• Qin Ze activated Beast Transformation, but the manager shattered his bone sword, forced him to sever his damaged arm, and struck him with a ball of flame.
• Qin Ze patted out the flames and erupted in surging blue fire.

Qin Ze and his companions fought the manager, and Qin Ze unleashed his powerful Blue Flame · Thunder Burial attack. When the manager survived and threatened them again, Fairy arrived and bound him with vines.

• The manager mistook Qin Ze’s blue flames for the Maka Race and attacked him, shattering his Black Tortoise Shield.
• Qin Ze charged Blue Flame · Thunder Burial while Giant Overlord and Dharma King held off the manager, then struck the battlefield with lightning and blue fire.
• The manager survived the attack, rejected Qin Ze’s offer to split the spoils, and caught shells fired from Brother Devour’s ship.
• Fairy arrived at Steamed Bun Island, and Qin Ze blamed Dharma King and Giant Overlord for the earlier commotion.
• Fairy restrained the manager with vines before he could finish introducing himself.

Fairy arrived after Qin Ze and his allies defeated the manager, then claimed half the Source of the World in the box for herself and the Circus leader. After teasing Qin Ze and killing the manager, she helped the survivors gather the sea beasts’ remains and prepare to leave.

• Fairy took the box containing two blue beads from the manager and explained that she would keep half the Source of the World and send Qin Ze’s uncle his share after having it professionally extracted.
• Qin Ze realized Fairy knew his uncle and revealed that his uncle had sent him to investigate the Dragon King legend, prompting Fairy to identify him as the Circus leader.
• Fairy teased Qin Ze until he grabbed a nearby rock by mistake, then killed the manager with a snap of her fingers.
• Fairy’s clones retrieved the surviving runaways, and the company’s security personnel and Scarface’s group boarded the ship to return home.
• Fairy told the crew to take the level-nine sea beast’s bones and carcass, while Qin Ze retreated to the captain’s cabin and wondered whether Fairy had a key.

Qin Ze realized his key revealed information that other Hunters’ keys could not, while Fairy explained the origins of sea-beast Source and the level-nine sea beasts’ struggle to absorb it. After the ships left Steamed Bun Island with their captured cargo, Little White watched them go and disappeared into the sea.

• Qin Ze confirmed that his key worked differently from the others and briefly suspected Fairy was Xia Huai'an, but his clone found Xia Huai'an asleep at the hotel.
• Qin Yu called Qin Ze to ask if he was safe and suggested a meal with Xia Huai'an, but Qin Ze hung up on her.
• Fairy revealed that sea beasts were likely contaminated by Source, explained how level-nine sea beasts could absorb one another’s Source, and said law enforcement would take over the captured personnel because Source was prohibited.
• Qin Ze’s clones loaded twelve and a half sea beasts onto the two ships, and Captain Hook led the fleet away from Steamed Bun Island.
• Little White surfaced to watch the ships depart, cleared the island’s clouds with a spout of water, and vanished into the sea.

Qin Ze and Fairy returned from Thousand Streams Island with a sea beast’s Source of the World, while the Circus sold their other spoils and the professional team completed its mission. As the group prepared to take on more work, they discovered Sea Capital was under martial law.

• Qin Ze returned to his room late at night, checked on Xia Huai'an after hearing a thud next door, and later saw Fairy announce in the key chat group that she and Qin Ze had obtained a Source of the World.
• Fairy told the group she would arrange extraction of the Source of the World and split the fee with Qin Ze, while keeping Beast Tamer’s identity as the ringmaster secret.
• After the weather cleared, Xia Huai'an led Qin Ze and the others back to Sea Capital, where Fairy had arranged for law enforcement to take the shipping company’s crew into custody.
• The Circus sold the sea beast carcasses, kept the dragon bones and lightbulb fish bones, and Captain Hook’s plan to build a fleet was rejected by Qin Ze.
• The professional team handed in Professor Xu’s belongings, received ten merit points each, and learned that Sea Capital was under martial law.

During Sea Capital’s lockdown, Qin Ze learned that Law Enforcement had invented a spatial-rift threat to conceal a campaign against Virgo’s people. Later, he found the amnesiac Nangong Qianrou wandering barefoot on campus, just as an arrest squad approached.

• Qin Ze met Number Three for a late-night meal, and Number Three revealed that Sea Capital was locked down because Virgo’s subordinates were suspected of planning a terrorist attack.
• Number Three said Law Enforcement had arrested twenty-seven of the sixty people identified by a detailed tip, then hurried off to join an urgent operation.
• Qin Ze found Nangong Qianrou barefoot and confused beneath a tree; she did not recognize him and said she had forgotten her past.
• Nangong Qianrou begged Qin Ze not to leave her, and a clone warned him that a law enforcement squad was heading their way.
• Qin Ze looked at Nangong Qianrou in disbelief and wondered whether she was involved in the arrests.

Qin Ze escaped the law enforcement team with Nangong Qianrou and encountered Number Three, who let them go after Qin Ze knocked him down. Meanwhile, Virgo learned that Sea Capital Law Enforcement was arresting supposed subordinates of his and sent Aries to investigate; Qin Ze brought Nangong Qianrou to a Circus safe house to talk.

• Qin Ze led Nangong Qianrou away from Haidu Academy before the law enforcement team could catch them.
• Number Three blocked Qin Ze and Nangong Qianrou, but let them escape after Qin Ze struck him and he sent officers in the wrong direction.
• Virgo questioned Ram and the others about Sea Capital Law Enforcement's arrests, then assigned Aries to investigate where the supposed subordinates had come from.
• Qin Ze took Nangong Qianrou to a Circus safe house, gave her clean clothes, and prepared to talk with her.

Qin Ze fled Sea Capital Law Enforcement with the amnesiac Nangong Qianrou and discovered a tracking chip hidden beneath her skin. After removing it, he suspected he had uncovered the secret behind the operation targeting people like her.

• Qin Ze questioned Nangong Qianrou, concluded that Sea Capital's higher-ups were hiding a secret arrest operation, and asked Thousand Faces to investigate the Law Enforcement Department's records.
• Number Three texted Qin Ze a warning to run, so Qin Ze woke Nangong Qianrou and carried her out of the safe house.
• Qin Ze evaded the pursuing law enforcement officers and escaped to an abandoned amusement park with Nangong Qianrou.
• Number Three told Qin Ze that a tracker was on one of them, and Qin Ze found and removed a chip hidden beneath Nangong Qianrou's skin.

Qin Ze learned that a secret arrest operation targeting Nangong Qianrou had failed after officers tracked a cat instead. Thousand Faces uncovered that the operation was tied to a classified project described as a great plan for humanity’s future, leaving Qin Ze wary of what was being planned.

• More than thirty officers surrounded an abandoned amusement park carousel, but a tabby cat escaped and the executor ordered the team to withdraw.
• Qin Ze received Number Three’s message that law enforcement had withdrawn and suspected the chip beneath Nangong Qianrou’s skin was part of a project to develop humanoid combat weapons.
• Thousand Faces reported that the arrest operation was highly classified and that most Law Enforcement Department officers had been sent out of the city to guard a nonexistent spatial rift.
• Thousand Faces secretly entered an executor’s office and heard that the failed tracker had followed a cat and that the operation concerned a great plan for humanity’s future.
• Qin Ze grew concerned that the mysterious plan could bring trouble.

Qin Ze prepared to confront the Law Enforcement Department’s latest arrest target, whom he believed could help break the deadlock. Before he left, he suspected Nangong Qianrou had regained her memories, while the target, Huanhuan, arrived at her father’s restaurant with amnesia.

• Number Three told Qin Ze that only two arrest targets remained, including the woman he mistook for Qin Ze’s girlfriend, and Qin Ze urged him to check the holding cells.
• Thousand Faces infiltrated the arrest squad and reported that the Law Enforcement Department was heading to Sunshine Street to arrest its final target.
• Qin Ze ordered his clones to gather at Sunshine Street and arranged for two of them to watch the safe house while he went to the arrest site.
• Nangong Qianrou acted unusually subdued at breakfast, prompting Qin Ze to suspect she had regained her memories; she asked him to bring her ice cream.
• Huanhuan entered Joy Restaurant, where her father recognized her, but she did not remember him or herself and erupted with the pressure of a Level Three Martial Artist.

A girl’s chaotic awakening sparked a clash between law enforcement, the Circus, and Aries on Sunshine Street. Aries was briefly disoriented by the executive officer’s law tablet, confessed to a long list of misdeeds, then recovered and prepared to strike back.

• The girl awakened in the restaurant, unleashed blasts of air, and resisted the men in black who tried to abduct her.
• Dharma King and Brother Devour arrived, but Qin Ze told them to wait as law enforcement sealed off the block.
• Aries appeared and held off the executive officer while his men fought law enforcement, giving Qin Ze and Mist Lord a chance to reach the scene.
• The executive officer bound the girl with golden hoops and used a law tablet to make Aries confess to numerous petty crimes.
• Aries knocked the executive officer back, grew furious, and formed azure arms behind himself before preparing four punches.

Qin Ze, Dharma King, and Brother Devour rescued the girl amid the street battle and escaped after Qin Ze revealed he was the Circus’s ringmaster. The Grand Consul arrived as Aries and the enforcement team were left behind.

• Aries and the executive fought while Mist Lord’s fog disoriented both sides and Dharma King seized the chance to grab the girl.
• Dharma King fought off the enforcement team and the men in black as Brother Devour caught the girl and passed her to Qin Ze, who handed her to Mist Lord.
• Qin Ze joined Dharma King and Brother Devour, and the three retreated into the fog while Aries stayed occupied with the executive.
• Aries blew away the fog with a gale, exposing Qin Ze and his companions, so Qin Ze revealed he was the Circus’s ringmaster.
• Twenty self-destruct squad clones exploded, creating enough smoke and confusion for Qin Ze, Dharma King, and Brother Devour to escape.
• The Grand Consul arrived as Aries lamented letting the group get away.

Aries revealed the power of a demigod, defeated the Grand Consul’s attack, and escaped Sea Capital with the black-clad figures. Meanwhile, the Mist Lord handed the amnesiac girl over to Ma Yan after she failed to provide any useful clues.

• Aries summoned the President’s power, broke the Grand Consul’s silver dragon, and teleported away with the black-clad figures.
• The Grand Consul ordered Sea Capital’s lockdown lifted and warned the executive officer to serve the law rather than the council.
• The Mist Lord questioned the amnesiac girl while carrying her through alleys, but she could not remember her identity or occupation.
• Ma Yan confronted the Mist Lord and demanded that he give her the girl.
• The Mist Lord handed the girl to Ma Yan, told the girl that Ma Yan was her mother, and ran off.

Ma Yan brought an amnesiac girl to the villa, where Pisces and Virgo agreed to keep her because she might know what Law Enforcement and the Alliance Council were hiding. Back at the safe house, Qin Ze realized Nangong Qianrou was pretending to have forgotten her memories, but he let her leave when she slipped away and joined a Law Enforcement patrol.

• Aries claimed his mission had succeeded after Ma Yan returned with a girl who had amnesia, and Virgo first ordered her killed.
• Ma Yan argued that the girl might recover her memories and was their only lead on Law Enforcement and the Alliance Council, while Pisces revealed that even his Level Four Adjudicator contact knew nothing about their plans.
• Qin Ze returned to the safe house and tested Nangong Qianrou by pretending to jog her memory, then concluded she was acting despite her denials.
• Nangong Qianrou grew flustered during dinner and later left through her bedroom window, leaving Qin Ze a letter.
• Qin Ze chose not to stop Nangong Qianrou, who met a Law Enforcement patrol and left with the officers.

Qin Ze learned that Nangong Qianrou had been taken away by the Military Department and prepared his team for the Hundred Schools Competition. Meanwhile, Virgo’s group recovered a girl from a Law Enforcement raid and planned an operation at the competition.

• Qin Ze read Nangong Qianrou’s letter and had a clone follow her, but Thousand Faces failed to infiltrate her military escort before she was taken away by plane.
• Qin Ze trained the professional team for the Hundred Schools Competition while Thousand Faces repeatedly failed to learn anything useful about the military base.
• Number Three told Qin Ze that the Military Department had taken the girls, and that a raid on Virgo’s headquarters had left their capture team badly injured.
• Virgo berated her allies over the raid, while Ma Yan held the injured girl and examined her broken tracking chip.
• Virgo told the group to focus on their operation at the Hundred Schools Competition, and Pisces confirmed that the battery was ready.

Qin Ze entered the individual competition at the Hundred Schools Competition and rapidly defeated every opponent he faced with his Fire Movement Technique. The Maka Race ambassador noticed Qin Ze’s technique and became convinced it resembled one used by his own race.

• Qin Ze and his teammates gathered at Haidu Academy for the opening ceremony, where the General Education Bureau director and the Maka Race ambassador attended.
• Qin Ze entered the Mystic Dream Otherworld and was matched against a student from Haiya Academy.
• Qin Ze defeated his first opponent with a White Tiger Fire Movement Fist, drawing the ambassador’s attention.
• Qin Ze continued winning each round with a single punch until he had no remaining opponents and had to wait for the other contestants.
• The ambassador wondered why humans knew the Fire Movement Technique and who had taught it to them.

Qin Ze revealed himself as an eighteen-year-old Level Three Martial Artist and won the Hundred Schools Competition individual championship. After celebrating with his team, he returned for the team competition the next day, where Huai Xu spotted five oddly dressed people.

• The Maka Race ambassador recognized similarities between Qin Ze’s breathing technique and the Maka Race’s Fire Movement Technique and decided to report him.
• Qin Ze defeated Han Feng in the solo final with a Fire Movement Technique-powered Iron Mountain Lean, revealing that he had reached Level Three.
• The host declared Qin Ze the individual champion, and his victory as the youngest Level Three Martial Artist drew worldwide attention.
• Qin Ze pushed through a crowd of excited fans, while his clones envied his attention and he boasted about his achievements in their chat.
• Qin Ze and the professional team celebrated that evening before returning the next day for the team competition.
• Huai Xu pointed out five people in black night-traveling outfits to Qin Ze.

During the Hundred Schools Competition’s team arena match, a black-clad opponent used a bell to shatter the dream and leave Qin Ze awake inside the Mystic Dream Otherworld. As the live broadcasts failed, Virgo of the Fairness Society hijacked the screens and announced a public campaign to cleanse the world, prompting the director to call for the Grand Consul.

• Qin Ze and his teammates entered the Mystic Dream Otherworld and faced five opponents dressed in black night clothes.
• Huai Xu shot the leading opponent twice, but the man revealed a bronze bell and rang it to wake everyone from the dream.
• Qin Ze escaped the collapsing dream only to find himself floating in darkness inside the Otherworld.
• The competition’s broadcasts went static, and the director of the Education Bureau learned that officials had lost control of the Otherworld.
• Virgo introduced himself as a member of the Fairness Society’s Twelve Zodiac Signs and announced a public display of the group’s mission.
• The director ordered nearby law enforcement officers to find the Grand Consul.

Virgo trapped the competitors in a deadly Otherworld that forced them to confront their deepest fears, while Qin Ze encountered a monstrous anomaly and continued toward his teammates. The Education Bureau lost control of the event as members of Qin Ze’s professional team faced mortal danger.

• Virgo revealed that the competitors were trapped in their fears and urged viewers to see them as undeserving of their resources, while contestants began dying in the Otherworld.
• The Education Bureau head ordered the livestream cut and the students evacuated, but his assistant reported that the technical department was unreachable and the Otherworld entrance was closed.
• Qin Ze recognized the giant before him as a fear imposed by Virgo, watched it deform and explode, then continued onward to find his team and the exit.
• Lu Tongtong faced a dead little girl who blamed her for dying, while Huai Xu encountered Xiao Ke as a rotting, enormous zombie cat.
• The fatty relived his mother’s death, and Wen Jing faced a man who called him trash and struck him down, leaving him convinced he did not deserve to live.
• Qin Ze reached the beach of a beautiful floating island, unaware that his professional team was close to being wiped out.

Qin Ze learned that the Fairness Society was trying to destroy the Mystic Dream Otherworld's core and gathered the Circus to stop them. While the clones prepared to attack, he pulled the professional team out of their illusions and discovered Virgo overseeing a mysterious operation on the island.

• The Otherworld's voice told Qin Ze that the Fairness Society had seized the core and that the Otherworld and everyone inside would die unless he reclaimed it.
• Qin Ze learned the island held 146 enemies, including Virgo, and agreed to lead the Circus in an assault while the Otherworld's voice restrained Virgo.
• Qin Ze watched Lu Tongtong, Huai Xu, Fatty, and Wen Jing struggle in illusions, then used harsh words to help each of them overcome their fears.
• Qin Ze advanced through the forest under the protection of his Shelter Space and found the Fairness Society's control room, where Virgo ordered workers to hurry their operation and warned that the Archon might return to Sea Capital.