Chapter Summaries

After learning that Ma Yan was accused of murdering her mother in a fire, Qin Ze joined Enforcer Number Three to investigate and clear her name. A neighbor’s account suggested the fire began after Ma Yan confronted people outside, and Qin Ze and Number Three set out for the police department as a filthy boy beckoned them over.

• Qin Ze saw a news report accusing Ma Yan of killing her mother and hurried to the burned ruins of her home.
• Qin Ze met Enforcer Number Three, revealed he was a Level One Martial Artist, and persuaded him to let him assist with the investigation.
• Qin Ze told Number Three what he knew about Ma Yan, and they questioned a neighbor who described hearing a woman cry for help before Ma Yan confronted someone outside and the fire began.
• The neighbor denied that Ma Yan could have murdered her mother, and Qin Ze concluded that the police had fabricated the accusation without investigating.
• Qin Ze and Number Three decided to search for the police case file, but a filthy little boy appeared and beckoned them over.

Qin Ze and Number Three learned that the Black Tiger Gang had abducted Ma Yan after she tried to stop them from beating a young woman. Qin Ze stormed the gang’s casino, discovered dozens of captive women, and demanded to know where Ma Yan was.

• A homeless boy told Qin Ze and Number Three that the Black Tiger Gang had taken Ma Yan and revealed the gang’s casino headquarters.
• Number Three contacted the police department, but it refused to authorize an arrest for lack of evidence; a deputy chief then ordered a squad to raid the gang and told He Guang to clean up his work.
• Qin Ze went to the casino ahead of Number Three, kicked his way inside, and disabled thirteen enforcers before forcing one to reveal where the captives were held.
• Qin Ze and Number Three found women locked in cages in the warehouse, but Ma Yan was not among them.
• A scar-faced man arrived with more than fifty enforcers, and Qin Ze unleashed lightning that killed over a dozen and brought the rest down.
• Qin Ze seized the scar-faced man and demanded to know where the Black Tiger Gang had taken Ma Yan.

Qin Ze rescued the trafficked women but failed to learn who was behind the ring, then followed a lead to a new exchange at the Rubik's Cube Building. He arranged an alibi by agreeing to attend the class monitor's birthday party, and the chapter ended as a masked man revealed himself among the supposed victims.

• Qin Ze interrogated Scarface about the girl he had framed, but a bespectacled man killed Scarface before he could identify their contact.
• The bespectacled man oversaw the raid and rescued the women, while Number Three questioned Qin Ze about his lightning ability before being called away.
• Qin Ze found a black card on Scarface, called the number on it, and learned that another exchange would take place at the Rubik's Cube Building at seven.
• Qin Ze invited Fatty to the class monitor's birthday party to give himself an alibi, then went to the exchange alone.
• At the Rubik's Cube Building, a hooded man delivered fourteen women, and one of them revealed himself as a masked man after striking an inspector.

Qin Ze rescued Ma Yan from the training room at Phoenix Tower and found her transformed after killing three people. As He Guang and his men attacked, Qin Ze fought back and prepared to kill He Guang.

• Qin Ze and the clones subdued the guards, searched Phoenix Tower, and learned from a waiter that the missing women were in a hidden training room.
• Qin Ze opened the secret door behind a Venus de Milo statue and found Ma Yan eating flesh beside three corpses.
• Ma Yan recognized Qin Ze, wept over her mother's death and her actions, and agreed to go home with him.
• He Guang arrived with security guards and a Level Two Martial Artist, and Qin Ze sent Dharma King and Brother Devour to fight them.
• Qin Ze used lightning and the clones' gathered attributes to overpower He Guang, who pleaded for his life and warned that others would retaliate.
• Qin Ze gathered lightning in his raised hand as he prepared to deliver judgment on He Guang.

Qin Ze and his clones killed He Guang and the Level Two Martial Artist, rescued the captives at Phoenix Tower, and found a ledger naming the people who profited from the trafficking ring. Enforcer Number Three later told Qin Ze that Ma Yan had been cleared and was safe in the hospital, while an executive officer led arrests across Jiang City.

• The Dharma King and Brother Devour distracted the Level Two Martial Artist while Qin Ze killed He Guang, who begged for mercy.
• The Dharma King and Brother Devour mutated after absorbing unpurified Soul Orbs and defeated the Level Two Martial Artist.
• Qin Ze comforted Ma Yan, sent her and the other girls to safety, and led his clones in rescuing captives and tying up the traffickers.
• Qin Ze found a ledger in Phoenix Tower's office that recorded its expenses and the recipients of its dividends.
• The Law Enforcement Department investigated the rescued girls, identified them as missing persons, and worked through the night.
• Enforcer Number Three told Qin Ze that Ma Yan was safe in the hospital, her verdict had been overturned, and an executive officer was arresting people connected to the trafficking ring.

A new executor led a sweeping crackdown in Jiang City after the rescued girls delivered a ledger linking people to Phoenix Tower. As dawn came, Qin Ze visited Ma Yan in the hospital.

• Number Three told Qin Ze that the executor had taken over the human trafficking and arson investigation and began arresting people named in the ledger.
• Qin Ze’s classmates left the KTV, and he wished the class monitor a happy birthday before walking home.
• The executor’s forces arrested people connected to Phoenix Tower and uprooted more than a dozen gangs across Jiang City.
• The executor ordered the execution of forty-eight martial artists and one hundred and twenty-six ordinary people, and directed an investigation into the Hater Circus.
• Qin Ze brought a fruit basket to the hospital and found Ma Yan lying vacant and unresponsive.

Qin Ze visited the recovering Ma Yan, whose blindness and grief persisted despite the news clearing her name and punishing the Black Tiger Gang. After Ma Yan’s coworkers conducted a strange medical check, Qin Ze left for school, while a black-robed figure attacked the Blood Hand Gang and demanded to know where Wang Biao was.

• Qin Ze watched the news with Ma Yan as it reported the executions of the human traffickers and Black Tiger Gang, cleared Ma Yan of the arson accusation, and awarded her for bravery.
• Qin Ze learned from a nurse that Ma Yan was temporarily blind from grief, and he tried to comfort her before unsuccessfully calling Qin Yu.
• Sister Wang and four coworkers arrived with a testing machine, gave Ma Yan a blood test and a large-needle procedure, and told her the company would keep paying her wages and had sent her a bonus.
• Qin Ze left Ma Yan at the hospital and headed to school.
• A black-robed figure slaughtered the Blood Hand Gang, lifted its bloodied leader, and demanded to know where Wang Biao was.

A masked man searched the Blood Hand Gang for Wang Biao and learned that the Hater Circus had taken him. At school, Qin Ze watched an Advanced Martial Artist discover and destroy a hidden camera, then learned the man would inspect his school before one of his clones was killed.

• The black-robed man tortured the Blood Hand Gang leader for information about Wang Biao, learned the Hater Circus had taken him, and killed the leader.
• Qin Ze watched an Advanced Martial Artist examine the poisonous gas blocking two passages into the Otherworld and destroy a hidden camera after sensing someone watching.
• The executive officer sealed the Otherworld and ordered that no one enter without Law Enforcement Department documentation.
• Qin Ze urged his clones to cultivate, then heard that the executive officer would inspect his school the next afternoon.
• Qin Ze absorbed his saved blood crystals, raised his cultivation by 0.01, and resumed the Lotus Visualization Method before learning that a little hater had been killed.

Pisces searched North City for the Hater Circus and uncovered a small outpost run by Qin Ze’s beggar clones. After killing the clones and learning they knew neither the headquarters nor Wang Biao’s location, Pisces disguised himself as one of them and resumed begging.

• Pisces questioned a beggar about the Hater Circus, then tricked him into revealing that he could walk and followed him to an abandoned warehouse.
• The beggar told three other clones that a budget Pisces Saint had asked about the Circus, and the four realized the stranger had followed him.
• Pisces entered the warehouse and killed the three clones when they charged him.
• The remaining beggar said he did not know the headquarters or Wang Biao’s whereabouts, so Pisces killed him with a shattered mirror.
• Pisces took the beggar’s appearance and returned to a North City street to beg beside a trash can.

Qin Ze learned that an impostor had killed one of his clones and was searching for the key, so he kept a low profile while preparing to flee. At a school visit, the executive officer examined Qin Ze’s Fate Reversal Technique and then asked about the item on his wrist.

• Qin Ze’s clones discussed the impostor’s disguise and search for the key, while Qin Ze recalled them and decided to stay cautious.
• Qin Ze told his clones to keep cultivating while he went to sleep.
• The executive officer visited Jiang City’s school and watched students demonstrate their abilities, including Lin Zhiyuan’s short-range teleportation.
• The executive officer asked Qin Ze to demonstrate the first layer of the Fate Reversal Technique, and Qin Ze opened eighty acupoints while concealing his true qi and blood value.
• The executive officer praised Qin Ze and called him back to ask what he was wearing on his wrist.

Qin Ze received a Soul Orb from Big Handsome Guy and learned that the executive had noticed his hidden martial arts progress. After a clone absorbed the orb and gained the Thousand Faces ability, Qin Ze thought of a way to deal with the beggar.

• Big Handsome Guy gave Qin Ze a purified Soul Orb as an advance payment for making him an electronic watch, then told him that placing first in the martial exam could open up a broader world.
• In his Lincoln, Big Handsome Guy told his sister that Qin Ze had reached Level One Martial Artist while concealing his qi and blood value, and learned that Qin Ze had completed his first bone tempering in less than a month.
• Big Handsome Guy decided Qin Ze would need to place in the top three to meet his standards, while his sister headed to a mission area for her upcoming adjudicator assessment.
• At home, Qin Ze had a clone swallow the Soul Orb, and the clone gained the ability to change his face into that of anyone he had seen.
• Qin Ze tested the ability and realized it could not change a person's bearing, then came up with an idea for dealing with the beggar.

Qin Ze learned that Ma Yan had recovered enough to leave the hospital with people from the mysterious company, and her note said she planned to start a new life. The chapter ended with Qin Yu calling Qin Ze after a long period of silence and announcing his return.

• Qin Ze met Fatty for food, where Enforcer Number Three warned them that an Advanced Martial Artist from a terrorist organization was in the city and that the Maka Race delegation would arrive in ten days.
• Qin Ze saw the delegation’s visit as an opportunity while he and the cobblers finalized their performance.
• Qin Ze continued visiting Ma Yan in the hospital as her body improved, though her spirits remained low and she still could not see.
• Qin Ze found Ma Yan’s hospital room empty and learned she had been discharged that morning by three men and two women from the company’s medical examination team.
• Qin Ze read Ma Yan’s note, which said she had left willingly, wanted to embrace a new life, and would find him after he became a martial artist.
• Qin Yu called Qin Ze and announced that he had returned.

Qin Ze welcomed his sister Qin Yu home, told her about Ma Yan, and revealed that he had become a Level One Martial Artist. After Qin Ze left for the evening, an invitation from the Hater Circus reached Big Handsome Guy at the Law Enforcement Department.

• Qin Yu arrived late after exotic beasts appeared outside the city, and Qin Ze took her luggage home.
• Qin Yu noticed the smell of blood, and Qin Ze told her about the arson case and Ma Yan leaving the hospital without saying goodbye.
• Qin Ze revealed that he was a Level One Martial Artist, impressing Qin Yu, who then cooked fish for them.
• Qin Ze watched news about the Maka Race delegation and told Qin Yu he had plans that evening.
• A child delivered an invitation signed by the Hater Circus to Big Handsome Guy at the Law Enforcement Department.

Big Handsome Guy received a taunting invitation from the Hater Circus and decided to attend the Maka Race welcome banquet. The Circus prepared to make its move, while Pisces infiltrated the group and followed Lion to the banquet, where the hall suddenly went dark.

• Big Handsome Guy read the Circus's invitation to meet at the Jiang City Grand Hotel and, after considering its purpose, decided to attend the banquet.
• Qin Ze learned that Dharma King had delivered the invitation and sent Brother Devour to invite the night's second main character while the clones prepared to perform.
• Lion found Pisces disguised as a beggar, praised his loyalty, and invited him to the banquet to confront Wang Biao.
• Pisces realized Wang Biao had escaped and followed Lion, hoping to reach the venue and recover the key.
• Big Handsome Guy sat beside the city lord of Jiang City at the welcome banquet, and the lights suddenly went out.

During the blackout at a banquet for the Maka Race, Big Handsome Guy clashed with the alien leader before masked attackers turned their stage performance into a violent assault. As guards reeled from the first explosions, another group of masked figures rushed out in the smoke.

• Big Handsome Guy and the Maka Race leader exchanged threats about Big Handsome Guy’s sister, then clashed with their auras until the leader’s chair shattered.
• The host announced a performance by the Hater Circus, and Big Handsome Guy ordered his team to follow their plan when the targets appeared.
• Thirteen animal-masked figures descended onto the stage and blew themselves up, blasting the guards who charged in to seize them.
• The Maka Race representatives applauded the explosions as art while the city lord struggled to understand the attack.
• Another group of animal-masked figures charged out from backstage, shouting slogans and calling for Wang Debiao.

Pisces infiltrated the Circus to capture Wang Biao and obtain his key, but he discovered that the alien leader also carried one. As Pisces revealed his Advanced Martial Artist strength, law enforcement officers burst into the venue and surrounded everyone.

• Pisces went onstage during the Circus attack to find Wang Biao and report his location to Brother Devour.
• Qin Ze ordered Thousand Faces to begin the next act, prompting Big Handsome Guy to realize the Circus was targeting Wang Biao.
• A little black figure struck the alien leader with a bat, and City Lord Zhao fought back while attendees and security guards crowded the venue entrance.
• Pisces spotted Wang Biao, who demanded the keys from the alien delegation and declared that he had come for fairness.
• Pisces realized the alien leader carried a key too and unleashed his Advanced Martial Artist aura as law enforcement officers entered through the second-floor windows.

Qin Ze’s plan plunged the venue into darkness and threw the enforcers into chaos, while Pisces revealed himself as a Fairness Society zodiac and fought Big Handsome Guy and the Maka delegation leader. As Pisces called in another ally, a woman in a fox mask appeared, and Qin Ze recognized her as Qin Yu.

• Qin Ze used a night vision device to guide the little haters as they attacked the enforcers in the darkened venue.
• The Maka delegation leader accused Big Handsome Guy of plotting to steal their key and tried to force his way out, but Big Handsome Guy stopped him.
• Pisces stepped through a mirror in his Fairness Society robes and demanded the key from the Maka delegation.
• The Maka delegation leader and Big Handsome Guy fought Pisces, who used mirror doubles until Big Handsome Guy destroyed them with Parting Clouds.
• Pisces revealed he was not alone when a woman in a red dress and white fox mask emerged from a giant rose, and Qin Ze recognized her as Qin Yu.

Thousand Faces escaped the banquet hall by using a clone to draw the law enforcers away, while the woman in the red dress and Pisces subdued Big Handsome Guy and the foreign-race leader. As the woman prepared to leave, powerful sword qi surged from one of the vine balls.

• The woman in the red dress revealed herself as an ally of Pisces, and black-robed figures emerged from pea pods she had grown.
• Qin Ze realized the woman was not Qin Yu and left the director's room after ordering a withdrawal.
• Thousand Faces fled through a window, prompting law enforcers and Fairness Society members to chase him and fight among themselves.
• Thousand Faces shed his clothes, slipped into tall grass, and sent a mouse-masked clone in the opposite direction to draw the pursuers away.
• At a cliff, the clone claimed to be Wang Biao and self-destructed, leaving the seven law enforcers confused as they returned to report.
• The woman in the red dress and Pisces subdued Big Handsome Guy and the foreign-race leader, but sword qi began surging from one of the vine balls.

Qin Ze’s plan to conceal the key succeeded after Big Handsome Guy drove off the attackers, but a sudden beast outbreak in the Otherworld created a new crisis. Big Handsome Guy was left wondering who had orchestrated the night’s events as his Judicator reported heavy casualties.

• Big Handsome Guy broke free of the poison vines with a sword strike that destroyed the hotel’s upper floors, while Pisces and the red-dressed woman escaped.
• Big Handsome Guy told the Maka Race delegation leader that the Fairness Society’s involvement had been unpredictable, then left the hall after the vines released the leader.
• Qin Ze decided to strengthen his clones and investigate the Otherworld soon, then checked that Qin Yu was not the red-dressed woman.
• Big Handsome Guy reviewed the night’s events and wondered whether the Fairness Society, the Circus, or someone else had secretly manipulated them.
• A Judicator told Big Handsome Guy that a huge swarm of S-rank exotic beasts had emerged in the Otherworld, causing heavy casualties and forcing everyone to withdraw.

In Snow City, Wang Biao learned that people believed he had died, while Qin Ze watched advanced aberrants overrun the Otherworld. The City Defense Bureau's call for independent martial artists gave Qin Ze a chance to enter it.

• Wang Biao heard a merchant claim that he had blown himself up and died, then wondered who was spreading the story.
• Qin Ze found that the Otherworld was sealed to anyone without a Law Enforcement Department permit.
• Qin Ze observed advanced aberrants searching the shelter and driving the deployed martial artists out of the Otherworld.
• Qin Ze saw the City Defense Bureau announce that independent martial artists could enter the Otherworld to exterminate exotic beasts for compensation.