Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze entered the Black Mountain Research Institute, where he and Aries narrowly avoided exposing themselves while each pursued a separate goal. After Qin Ze planted a timed bomb and headed for the test subject area, Aries found Ma Yan imprisoned and freed her.

• Qin Ze arrived at the institute and went alone to the Reverse Alpha Reagent laboratory after learning Lin Siyao’s team had not arrived.
• Qin Ze and Aries unexpectedly met at the lab door, exchanged awkward small talk, and parted without revealing their identities.
• Aries left with a green reagent sample, while Qin Ze planted a timed TNT bomb in the laboratory and headed toward the test subject area to find Ma Yan.
• Aries explored the institute, broke into the test subject holding area, and found Ma Yan weak and locked in a cell.
• Aries used his powers to remove the iron door and told Ma Yan she was free.

Qin Ze rescued Ma Yan from the Black Mountain Research Institute, and the secondary correction mission was completed when she let go of her hatred. As they tried to escape, Qin Ze destroyed the research materials and samples, but the main correction mission remained incomplete.

• Qin Ze found Ram fighting Ma Yan, and Ram stopped her attack before recognizing that she knew Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze revealed his identity, reunited with Ma Yan, and completed the secondary correction mission when she no longer threatened to become the Queen.
• Qin Ze and Ma Yan escaped through the ventilation ducts, but Lin Siyao and armed guards confronted them in the lobby.
• Qin Ze opened the main door and told Ma Yan to escape while he held off the guards.
• An explosion shook the lobby after Qin Ze revealed he had planted bombs that destroyed the institute's research materials and samples.
• Lin Siyao defended her work on the Reverse Alpha Reagent, while Qin Ze questioned its dangers and wondered why the main correction mission had not completed.

Ram escaped the Black Mountain Research Institute with the reagent sample but was confronted by Yao Yuan, while Ma Yan suddenly went berserk and fled. Qin Ze escaped the laboratory pursuit and reached the battle just as Yao Yuan’s giant sword crushed Ram, completing Qin Ze’s primary correction mission.

• Ram escaped the institute with the reagent sample, then fought Yao Yuan outside the gate.
• Yao Yuan summoned a giant sword that overwhelmed Ram’s defenses as Ma Yan went berserk and fled from the institute.
• The Dharma King pursued Ma Yan but quickly lost sight of her, while Qin Ze saw her escape through his eyes.
• Qin Ze shocked the security guards, escaped into the tunnel, and ran toward the exit as Lin Siyao ordered the guards to pursue him.
• Yao Yuan’s greatsword smashed Ram into the ground just as Qin Ze emerged from the tunnel, and Qin Ze received confirmation that the world correction was successful.

After the battle at the Black Mountain Research Institute, Qin Ze and Dharma King returned toward Jiang City, while Yao Yuan let Ma Yan go and ended the Reverse Alpha Reagent project. Ram escaped the fight badly wounded, then found the sleeping Ma Yan and saw a chance to redeem himself.

• Qin Ze met Dharma King after failing to find Ma Yan, and they decided to return to Jiang City while she recovered from the reagent’s side effects.
• Yao Yuan wounded Ram and drove him to escape with a teleportation bracelet, then ordered the enforcers to stop pursuing Ma Yan because she was a victim, not a criminal.
• Yao Yuan told Enforcer Number Three that the world needed a variable to break its deadlock, then went to the institute and informed Lin Siyao that the World Will had terminated her project.
• Lin Siyao learned that Qin Ze was a hunt participant, then accepted Teacher Chen’s offer to join his innate abilities research project in Sea Capital.
• Ram reappeared far from the institute with a broken bracelet and found Ma Yan asleep in a thicket, deciding to capture her and redeem himself.

After Qin Ze completed the first world mission, he set his Hunter title to Beast Tamer and joined a group chat with other Hunters. He learned that Hunters corrected their own worlds and competed to gather the Source of the World, while the Star Gate and ascension to the God Race remained distant mysteries.

• Thousand Faces selected the Number Four clone for Brother Devour to consume, and Qin Ze warned Brother Devour to keep his head down amid rising tensions.
• Qin Ze connected to the key, completed his first world mission, and chose Beast Tamer as his unchangeable Hunter title.
• Qin Ze met other Hunters in the key's group chat and learned that eight Hunters had appeared in their world, including Yao Yuan.
• Fairies Don't Poop and Passerby A explained that Hunters corrected their world's errors and needed to plunder other worlds' Source of the World to open the Star Gate.
• Qin Ze learned that the Star Gate required a god, passage through the Heavenly Ladder, and a key, but the chat had not yet explained what the Source of the World could be used for.

Ram failed to retrieve the reagent but brought Ma Yan to Lion, who ordered him to make her loyal to the Fairness Society. Qin Ze discovered he could use the source of the world to hide and let his many clones cultivate at once, then learned that an executive wanted to meet him at the Law Enforcement Department.

• Ram told Lion that Yao Yuan had destroyed the reagent and presented the unconscious Ma Yan as a powerful potential recruit.
• Lion assigned Ram two months to make Ma Yan utterly loyal to the Fairness Society.
• Qin Ze activated the source of the world, tested its shelter space, and found that all his clones could cultivate inside it at the cost of space for one person.
• Qin Ze stayed in the Circus to cultivate, then met Fatty at their usual food stall and advised him to train his qi and blood as well as his mental power.
• Enforcer Number Three told Qin Ze that an executive was taking him to headquarters and that he had qualified for the adjudicator assessment.
• Number Three told Qin Ze that the executive wanted to see him at the Law Enforcement Department the next day.

Qin Ze visited Yao Yuan at the Law Enforcement Department and accepted the Four Symbols Technique as an investment from an unnamed benefactor. Yao Yuan said he would invest more if Qin Ze placed first in the martial arts exam, then recognized the modified terminal as belonging to the leader of the Circus.

• Number Three told Qin Ze that Yao Yuan wanted to see him and speculated that Yao Yuan hoped to nurture his talent.
• Qin Ze took the modified administrator terminal to the Law Enforcement Department and met Yao Yuan in his office.
• Yao Yuan gave Qin Ze the Four Symbols Technique, explaining that someone had invested in him and that Qin Ze could refuse the offer.
• Yao Yuan said he would leave Jiang City and make another investment if Qin Ze placed first in the martial arts exam.
• Qin Ze returned the modified terminal, and Yao Yuan identified its owner as the leader of the Circus.

Qin Ze studied the Four Symbols Technique, began cultivating it through his clones, and asked the Hunter chat group how to repair Fatty's qi sea. As Slacking on the Sidelines fled a Moon Clan advanced martial artist, Deer Cry Yo-Yo offered a possible solution.

• Qin Ze examined the Four Symbols Technique and learned it covered combat, spiritual cultivation, movement, and body tempering.
• Qin Ze used the Source of the World to create a large clone group to cultivate the Four Symbols Technique and continued practicing the Fate Reversal Technique.
• Qin Ze chatted with the Hunters and learned that the World Will chose key holders based on their potential to become gods.
• Slacking on the Sidelines appeared in the chat and said a Moon Clan advanced martial artist was chasing him.
• Qin Ze asked the group how to fix Fatty's qi sea, which quickly lost force qi and could not convert it into qi and blood.
• Deer Cry Yo-Yo said they thought they had an idea for repairing the qi sea.

Qin Ze found a way for Fatty to use martial techniques by storing force qi in a Martial Artifact, and Slacking on the Sidelines offered him a golden staff in two months. Ma Yan woke at Ram’s residence and agreed to join the Fairness Society so he would teach her to use qi.

• Deer Cry Yo-Yo suggested that Fatty store force qi in a Martial Artifact and use it to activate martial techniques.
• Slacking on the Sidelines offered Qin Ze a golden staff he had stolen from the Moon Clan’s treasury, asking him to meet in the Northern Territory in two months.
• Slacking on the Sidelines reported that the Moon Clan had caught up with him, and Qin Ze left the chat group.
• Ma Yan woke at Ram’s residence and learned that he had rescued her twice.
• Ram invited Ma Yan to join the Fairness Society and promised to teach her how to use her power, and she accepted.
• Ram began Ma Yan’s first lesson on how to use qi.

After cultivating to the peak of level one, Qin Ze registered under the name Lin Zhiyuan to hunt exotic beasts outside the city and joined a four-person team. As an Abyss Tide approached, he left the city with his new teammates to begin his first real adventure.

• Qin Ze completed a month of cultivation, advancing the Fate Reversal Technique and Four Symbols Technique while reaching the peak of level one.
• After learning from the news and chat group about an approaching Abyss Tide, Qin Ze decided to hunt exotic beasts for combat experience and Qi-Gathering Pills.
• Qin Ze registered at the City Defense Bureau under the name Lin Zhiyuan and received a temporary defense force card.
• At the city gate, Qin Ze joined Niu Zhida's team, which included a baby-faced girl, Skinny, and a bald swordsman.
• Qin Ze and his teammates gathered their equipment and left the city to hunt exotic beasts.

Qin Ze joined Niu Zhida’s mercenary team to guard an Abyss rift outside Jiang City, where he learned that three rifts had appeared as the Abyss Tide approached. After a quiet morning, an F-rank lizard-like exotic beast emerged and charged their team.

• Niu Zhida explained that his mercenary team had recruited Qin Ze because two members were injured and the City Defense Bureau required teams of five to guard rifts.
• Qin Ze learned that three rifts had appeared outside Jiang City, despite news reports concealing part of the situation.
• The City Defense Bureau assigned Qin Ze’s team to the position directly facing the rift, prompting Niu Zhida and the saber man to complain.
• The team waited through the morning without incident while Niu Zhida guessed Qin Ze came from a martial arts family and Skinny Dog warned him to stay back.
• The rift began to fluctuate, and a black-scaled, single-horned lizard-like exotic beast emerged and charged at Qin Ze’s team.
• Niu Zhida identified the beast as F-rank and ordered Skinny Dog and the others to attack.

Qin Ze joined Niu Zhida's squad as they fought waves of exotic beasts, then saved Skinny Dog from an E-rank goshawk. After blocking the goshawk and knocking it back with a single punch, Qin Ze revealed that he could fly too.

• Babyface, Blade Man, and Skinny Dog killed an F-rank exotic beast while Niu Zhida held the line, and Skinny Dog warned Qin Ze to stay out of the fighting.
• Niu Zhida called for help when two E-rank beasts and several F-rank beasts emerged, and the squads split up to fight them.
• Skinny Dog rushed to help an inexperienced squad and killed a black gorilla, but an E-rank goshawk suddenly dived at him.
• Qin Ze shot the goshawk to divert its attack, then used a Black Tortoise defense and a White Tiger Fist to send it flying.
• Skinny Dog offered to hold off the goshawk with Qin Ze, but Qin Ze said he could fly and floated into the air.

Qin Ze killed an E-rank hawk beast during a rift defense and won the respect of his teammates. As they headed back toward the city, a massive beast tide appeared behind them.

• Qin Ze used mental attacks and the White Tiger Fist to kill the hawk beast, then extracted its Soul Orb.
• Qin Ze and Skinny Dog helped Babyface and Blade Man kill another beast, while Niu Zhida and the others finished their fights.
• The captains praised Qin Ze's combat skills, and Niu Zhida and Skinny Dog apologized for underestimating him.
• Qin Ze played cards with Babyface, Blade Man, and Skinny Dog while Niu Zhida guarded the rift.
• The ground trembled as a beast tide advanced, and Niu Zhida ordered everyone to flee toward the city.

A beast horde approached Jiang City, prompting an evacuation and the conscription of martial artists to defend the walls. Qin Ze and Niu Zhida took their positions as the city’s cannons opened fire on the horde.

• Niu Zhida drove Qin Ze back to Jiang City, where the gates closed and martial artists were ordered to defend the walls.
• Enforcers directed residents toward shelters and executed two bank robbers who tried to exploit the emergency.
• An enforcer executed a Level One martial artist who refused an order to fight on the city wall.
• Qin Ze, Niu Zhida, and other martial artists took positions as the approaching horde shook the earth.
• The city defense commander ordered the cannons to fire, and explosions struck the beast horde.

Qin Ze and his companions fought off the beast tide atop the city wall, where Qin Ze concealed his strength while killing several exotic beasts. As the tide seemed nearly over, a Void Beast appeared, bringing more than a dozen beasts through rippling space.

• The city defense cannons bombarded the advancing beast tide, but the exotic beasts reached the wall and tried to climb it by forming ladders from their bodies.
• Qin Ze, Niu Zhida, Skinny Dog, Babyface, and Blade Man defended their section of the wall, killing several F-rank beasts while Qin Ze conserved his strength to avoid exposing his abilities.
• Qin Ze asked why so few flying beasts appeared, and Niu Zhida explained that Penglai City prioritized killing them because they threatened ground forces.
• An E-rank beast charged onto the wall, and Qin Ze used Little Azure Dragon to stun it before killing it with one stroke.
• When only a few dozen beasts remained outside the city, Qin Ze spotted ripples in space; Niu Zhida recognized a Void Beast, and more than a dozen exotic beasts leaped out of the ripples.

A Void Beast opened spatial passages and flooded Jiang City with exotic beasts, forcing the defenders to launch an assault. Qin Ze approached it while hidden in the Source of the World, and the key detected a Star Gate Fragment near its crystal core.

• Spatial ripples released more than a dozen exotic beasts at a time, and Niu Zhida explained that the rankless Void Beast could summon beasts endlessly from the Abyss.
• The lord of Jiang City led the Intermediate Martial Artists in a charge against the Void Beast while the city defense cannons fired into the beast horde.
• Qin Ze heard the Void Beast repeatedly ask for help and jumped from the city wall, prompting Niu Zhida to praise his courage.
• Qin Ze activated the Source of the World to hide from the beasts and approached the Void Beast, which appeared as a translucent crystal core guarded by four C-rank exotic beasts.
• The key detected a Star Gate Fragment near the Void Beast and asked Qin Ze whether to retrieve it.

Qin Ze retrieved a Star Gate Fragment while a Void Beast unleashed a growing tide in Jiang City, and an S-rank giant emerged from the spatial ripples. The giant blasted through the city wall as Qin Ze’s retrieval finished, leaving the city on the brink of collapse.

• Qin Ze spent fifteen units of Source of the World to retrieve the Star Gate Fragment and waited in his shelter space.
• The beast tide grew to nearly ten thousand, and the city lord ordered the martial artists to retreat to Jiang City’s walls while reinforcements were still half an hour away.
• Niu Zhida, Blade Man, Skinny Dog, and Babyface feared the city would fall and wondered whether Qin Ze had survived.
• An S-rank exotic beast emerged from the ripples and fired a red beam that erased part of the city wall and the martial artists standing there.
• Qin Ze watched the giant emerge as the retrieval countdown ended and the Star Gate Fragment was retrieved.

Qin Ze reclaimed the Void Beast, and the spatial rules cut apart the trapped peak S-rank beast, leaving behind a Soul Orb. The spatial vortex then swallowed the beast tide, and Jiang City celebrated its survival as Qin Ze returned to the city wall.

• Qin Ze absorbed the Void Beast into the Shelter Space, and the frozen spatial ripples cut the black giant into pieces.
• A Soul Orb fell from the giant, and Qin Ze pocketed it while the exotic beasts fought over it.
• A huge spatial vortex appeared and sucked in the deployed exotic beasts, ending the attack on Jiang City.
• Qin Ze returned to the city wall, where Niu Zhida, Skinny Dog, Niuniu, and Babyface were astonished to see him alive.
• The city lord ordered the casualties counted and the shelter opened as Jiang City celebrated its victory.

After Jiang City repelled the beast tide, two Advanced Martial Artists investigated the vanished Void Beast and confirmed the city lord’s account. Back home, Qin Ze discovered that the key had fused with the fragment and could now open a spatial gate to the Abyss for fifty units of Source of the World.

• Qin Ze accepted Niu Zhida’s offer to exchange contact information so he could collect his purified Soul Orbs later.
• Zither Woman and the muscular man arrived after the battle, questioned the city lord, and confirmed that a Void Beast had appeared before suddenly vanishing.
• Zither Woman and the muscular man decided to notify Boss Yao about the strange Void Beast and left Jiang City.
• The city lord told the Level Four Adjudicator to leave the Void Beast investigation to the powerful and focus on their own duties.
• Qin Ze returned home, found the key’s roots had turned transparent after it absorbed the fragment, and discovered that it could open a spatial gate to the Abyss for fifty units of Source of the World.

Qin Ze learned that the Star Gate fragment could open a controlled spatial gate to the Abyss, then discussed Void Beasts and the Star Gate’s history in the chat group. The chapter ended with Ma Yan calling to confirm he was safe after the beast tide in Jiang City and Qin Ze asking where she was.

• Qin Ze discovered that opening a spatial gate to the Abyss would cost fifty units of Source of the World and decided not to use it yet.
• In the chat group, Qin Ze learned that a Void Beast had appeared near Jiang City, and Yao Yuan said he had killed one eight years earlier in Falling Cloud City.
• Qin Ze concluded that Void Beasts could bypass Penglai City and that he might be the only person in the group who had obtained a Star Gate fragment.
• Fairies Don't Poop shared that a book claimed the Star Gate once opened roughly every ten thousand years, but had not opened for a hundred thousand years.
• Slacking on the Sidelines said he was returning to Penglai City while still being pursued by someone from the Moon Clan.
• Ma Yan called Qin Ze, worried because she had been unable to reach him during the Jiang City beast tide, and Qin Ze asked where she was.