Chapter Summaries

Hela devoured [Autumn] and gained the Power of the Source, then attacked the remaining members of the group. The battle left [Spring] dead and [Winter] skewered, while [Summer] struck at Hela with the Eye of Fire as Aidan charged after him.

• [Autumn] saw a photograph of a young woman and used black insects to stitch his ruined body together, then charged Hela despite [Winter]'s warning that he was burning his lifespan.
• Hela overpowered [Autumn], swallowed part of him, and gained the Power of the Source, while an explosion nearby sent a fire-wreathed figure into the seawater.
• Aidan pinned [Summer] beneath the seawater as Hela attacked [Spring]; [Winter] pulled [Spring] away and helped her heal her chest wound.
• Hela's planted barbs pierced [Winter]'s foot, and Hela shattered her ice shield, skewered both women, and bit off [Spring]'s head.
• [Summer] rose behind Hela with the Eye of Fire and swung it at her as Aidan charged toward him.

Ground stopped the Four Seasons from fighting, killed Summer and Winter, and sealed Hela in a stone prison at the bottom of the sea. He revealed to Aidan that he was Fuluolan reborn, then left Aidan to decide whether to return to humanity or continue following Hela.

• Ground separated Summer and Hela, then declared that the Four Seasons’ bodies would be confiscated for their crimes.
• Ground killed Summer and Winter, spared the newly sprouted sunflower, and sensed Life hiding in the ocean.
• Ground found Hela clinging to a boulder and sealed her in a rune-marked stone cube at the bottom of the sea.
• Ground stopped Aidan from rescuing Hela and revealed that he was Fuluolan, whose special symbiosis was reincarnation.
• Ground told Aidan that Hela would be free after five years and left him to choose whether to return to humanity, asking him to arrange care for Xiaojie and the others.

As [Autumn] struggled to keep his ruined body alive, a photograph of Ruini brought back memories of their life together and her death. [Autumn] died in the rain, and Aidan returned the photograph to his arms before leaving.

• [Autumn] tried to repair his body with black threads and insects, but his strength failed and the photograph of Ruini fell from his flesh.
• [Autumn] remembered how Ruini had cared for him, named him Ruiqiu, and taught him to live alongside humans.
• [Autumn] recalled infecting villagers to bring patients to Ruini's clinic, then helping her after he saw her distress.
• [Autumn] remembered Ruini's illness, their trip to the city, and the photograph they took together before she died that night.
• [Autumn] recalled killing people after Ruini's death and stitching their body parts onto himself while keeping the photograph close to his heart.
• Aidan picked up the photograph, placed it in [Autumn]'s arms, and left as [Autumn]'s Source died.

Hela escaped [Ground] by splitting off a smaller body, but he caught her and prepared to sentence her to five years of imprisonment. Bai Yu intervened and offered Hela membership in the Light God Society, including a future gift and any one wish; after [Ground] killed Hela’s body, he confronted Bai Yu over the Society’s plan to gather the [Five Calamities].

• Hela left a hotel after devouring its last person, but [Ground] pinned her down with gravity and said her power was less than thirty percent of what it had been in her previous life.
• Bai Yu attacked [Ground] with a snow-white spear and carried Hela away, then admitted he was a former Night Star captain and an unofficial member of the Light God Society.
• [Ground] allowed Bai Yu to speak privately with Hela, and Bai Yu offered her membership in exchange for a future gift and any one wish, including the power to bring people back to life.
• Hela pondered the meaning of her survival as Bai Yu told her she could seek the Light God Society in Nihon Nation after regaining her freedom in five years.
• [Ground] crushed Hela’s body after Bai Yu left, then accused him of helping the Light God Society gather the [Five Calamities] for a plan he called sinful.

After the Godslaying Technology Company was destroyed, Aidan rescued Xiaojie, Shasha, and Beibei, then returned them to the warehouse and prepared to leave. The chapter ended with Aidan flying away and a handcuffed man arriving at a prison on a remote island.

• Aidan reunited with Xiaojie, Shasha, and Beibei in the company’s ruins and reassured them that they were safe.
• Police arrived, mistook Aidan for a victim, and took him and the children to a temporary aid station before allowing them to leave.
• Aidan told the children that their big brother had gone to protect the world’s peace, then brought them back to the warehouse.
• Aidan gave the children phones and access to money, explained that he had hired a nanny, and said he had to leave.
• Aidan hugged the children goodbye and flew into the sky as they called after him.
• Two armed men escorted a handcuffed, dust-covered man into a massive prison on a remote island.

Tuote was taken to Vortex Prison, where he encountered the severely tortured Ye Yiqing. In a special cell, a blonde woman treated Ye Yiqing and urged him to reveal what he knew, but he remained silent.

• Special police arrested Tuote and Weier after Hela threw them into a car that crashed into a police vehicle, then sent them to separate prisons.
• Tuote was taken to Vortex Prison, where guards suppressed his abilities and placed him in a cell.
• Tuote saw Ye Yiqing escorted through the prison under heavy guard, bound and badly injured.
• Two interrogators told a blonde woman that Ye Yiqing had revealed only a little information despite their methods.
• The blonde woman anesthetized and stitched Ye Yiqing's wounds, then fed him and asked him to tell the interrogators what he knew.
• Ye Yiqing ate without answering the blonde woman's question.

Ye Yiqing endured an interrogation about his family and received a concealed knife from a cleaner before the scene shifted to the warden’s office. Aidan overwhelmed the warden and deputy warden, trapped them in cages, and fled without killing them.

• The blonde woman questioned Ye Yiqing about his younger brother and revealed that they shared a mother but not the same father.
• The blonde woman left when Ye Yiqing’s anger index passed the threshold, and a cleaner slipped a small knife into the gap in his chair while whispering that the Light God Society would save the world.
• Aidan entered the warden’s office after knocking the guards unconscious, and the deputy warden tried to seize him with an invisible hand.
• The warden activated his Domain, but Aidan suppressed both wardens with overwhelming force.
• Aidan trapped the warden and deputy warden in pixel bone cages and left without killing them.

Aidan rescued Tuote from prison, but their escape coincided with Ye Yiqing’s breakout and a massacre of the prison forces. At Night Star headquarters, Zhou Fan ordered special squads to capture Ye Yiqing and warned Jian Luo that he was no ordinary King Master.

• Aidan freed Tuote from his cell, and Tuote asked about Weier, whom Aidan said he had already rescued and taken to a port in Russia.
• An alarm sounded when Ye Yiqing escaped, and Aidan flew Tuote away as the prison guards charged past them to confront Ye Yiqing.
• Ye Yiqing stopped the guards’ bullets with his killing intent and killed the prison forces with a sword strike before heading toward the sea.
• Zhou Fan reviewed Wang Canxin’s records and wondered why he repeatedly scored zero in history.
• After learning Ye Yiqing had escaped, Zhou Fan ordered the Special Extermination Squad and Special Capture Squad to pursue him and told Jian Luo that Ye Yiqing had killed his own father at age twelve.

Zhou Fan explained how Ye Yiqing mastered the Saber Gate of Five Gates Mountain by killing thousands, then learned that Ye had overwhelmed the prison guards. Meanwhile, Aidan set off to find Boss, and Yixue agreed to sacrifice fifty years of her life to revive Jixue.

• Zhou Fan told Jian Luo that Ye Yiqing had masterminded two massacres and personally killed nearly ten thousand people to master the ninth form of the Saber Gate of Five Gates Mountain.
• Zhou Fan received a call from prison guards screaming as sword qi crushed them, despite Ye Yiqing having no weapon.
• In Russia, Tuote and Weier reunited at the dock, and Aidan said he would find Boss even though Boss's cells were no longer in him.
• Aidan flew away with Xiao Huan after parting from Tuote and Weier.
• Yixue begged Gu Gongming to revive Jixue, and she accepted the cost of fifty years of her lifespan.

Gu Gongming saved Jixue by sacrificing years of his own life, and Lei Yong and Brown later used the same ability to give Gu Gongming three years each. After Xiunuosi woke and reunited with the squad, Brown led a discussion about the powerful Variants they had encountered and the Five Calamities.

• Gu Gongming's scales enveloped Jixue in golden light and restored him, and Yixue embraced him as Lei Yong gained a point of favorability with Jixue.
• Brown questioned how Gu Gongming had saved Jixue, and Gu Gongming admitted he had used his ability despite the cost to his lifespan.
• Lei Yong revealed he had drawn Gu Gongming's ability in the lottery, and Brown and Lei Yong forced Gu Gongming to accept three years of their lifespans each.
• Xiunuosi woke in Brown's [Room], became angry that he was unclothed, and insisted that he was a woman at heart.
• Brown gathered the Godslaying squad to discuss their defeat and concluded that the powerful Variants included the Five Calamities, possibly including the white-haired girl.

Lin Wushuang found the badly wounded Ye Yiqing at sea and brought him back to the Shimizu Residence, where Ye Linwan and Ye Ciqing reunited with him before taking him to the hospital. After hearing what had happened, Ye Yiqing vowed to find Hela.

• Brown ordered his squad to report the white-haired girl and search for her, then find a way to kill the stone man.
• Lin Wushuang found Ye Yiqing adrift in a small boat, bleeding after cutting a tracker out of his body.
• Ye Yiqing ate and drank from the lunch box, then reinserted his demonic eye while Lin Wushuang prepared to teleport them home.
• Lin Wushuang transported Ye Yiqing and his boat to the Shimizu Residence, where Ye Linwan and Ye Ciqing welcomed him back.
• Ye Linwan took Ye Yiqing to the hospital, where he asked about recent events and vowed to find Hela.

A class of young sea-dwellers visited the Surface Museum, where a mysterious rune-covered rock broke open and released a girl. She survived underwater with newly formed gills and wondered whether she had died.

• A teacher led her students through the Surface Museum and showed them a tree and a fossil from the land.
• The teacher brought the students to a strange rock that had fallen from the surface five years earlier.
• A little fish questioned whether the surface and its creatures really existed, then noticed the rock glowing.
• The rock split apart and released a pale girl, causing the teacher to flee with the students to find the guardian.
• The girl struggled to breathe underwater, then discovered that gills had appeared on her neck.

A girl woke up with gills on the seabed and fled from a giant shark that transformed into a merman. Her right arm suddenly overpowered him, then returned to normal, leaving both of them wary as she backed against a wall.

• The girl awoke underwater, discovered she had gills, and saw a huge shark enter with the merman teacher pointing her out as the target.
• The shark chased her through the exhibits, but she escaped into a narrow tunnel while it avoided damaging the fossils.
• The shark transformed into a muscular merman, who pursued her into the tunnel and attacked with a spear made of seawater.
• The girl's right hand stopped the spear, crushed it, and blasted the merman backward as scarlet eyes and a mouth appeared on her arm.
• The eyes and mouth vanished and the girl regained control of her hand, while the shaken merman watched her warily and she backed into a wall.

After her father’s burial, Hela returned to Great Xia with her mother and tried to resume ordinary life. Her mother collapsed at school and was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, leaving Hela alone at home as she struggled to process the news.

• After the burial, Hela’s mother took her back to Great Xia, where Hela remembered her father and began living with her mother again.
• Hela offered to help her mother grade papers, then went to school and attended class beside Zhao Rui.
• A teacher called Hela out of class after her mother fainted at school, and Hela rode with her to the hospital.
• A doctor told Hela that her mother had a malignant brain tumor and needed chemotherapy to stabilize her condition.
• Hela returned home with other teachers and sat in silence before making noodles for herself.

After her mother was hospitalized, Hela found comfort in her classmate Zhao Rui, who brought her meals and helped her visit the hospital. Their bond grew closer, and the chapter left Hela painting while shyly thinking about her feelings for Zhao Rui.

• After burning herself while making noodles, Hela broke down crying until Zhao Rui arrived with hot meals and helped clean her kitchen.
• Zhao Rui began visiting Hela almost every day, bringing food and pedaling her to the hospital to see her mother.
• Hela delivered a meal to her mother, then left the hospital with Zhao Rui on his bicycle while Xiaohei chased them.
• When Hela hugged Zhao Rui to steady herself, both blushed, and later she asked whether he helped her because he liked her looks.
• Zhao Rui denied that was why he helped, then called after Hela that he would buy groceries for her as she went to paint.
• Hela painted beneath a tree, thinking of her recovering mother and Zhao Rui, while Xiaohei approached her.

Hela asked Spirit Shark how she could return to the surface and learned that only [Ocean] could permit her to leave. Spirit Shark suggested becoming a guardian as a way to reach [Ocean], then explained the paths to gaining guardian status.

• Spirit Shark agreed to stay with Hela and Tang Tang to watch over them.
• Hela asked Spirit Shark whether she could return to the surface to see her mother and the boy waiting for her.
• Spirit Shark explained that the undersea world lived on [Ocean]'s back and that Hela would need permission from [Ocean] to leave.
• Spirit Shark told Hela that she could try becoming a guardian to contact [Ocean].
• Spirit Shark explained that a creature could become a guardian by earning [Ocean]'s acknowledgment or the acknowledgment of more than three guardians, including by surviving the Ten Thousand Sharks Strait or Whirlpool Bay.

Hela awoke in an undersea world and was nearly killed by a shark-man before a female shark-person stopped him and questioned her. The female shark-person decided Hela could stay for now and arranged for the mermaid teacher to observe her for a few days.

• A female shark-person stopped the shark-man from attacking Hela and scolded him for trying to kill her before learning who she was.
• Hela introduced herself as human and explained that she remembered drawing under a tree before waking in the ocean world.
• The female shark-person told Hela she had emerged from a museum rock kept in the ocean world for five years, so she would not drive her away.
• The mermaid teacher arrived, and the female shark-person told her Hela did not seem dangerous and should be observed for a few days.
• The female shark-person asked the mermaid teacher to take Hela along and teach her students about the surface, while Hela worried they might dissect her for research.

Hela learned she could not return to the surface and was entrusted to Tang Tang, who took her through the underwater city. As they explored, Hela learned about the Sea Herring and Sea Shark Dragons and saw a bustling ocean world.

• Hela asked Spirit Shark how she could return to the surface, but Spirit Shark said outsiders could not leave.
• Spirit Shark left Hela in Tang Tang's care before she and the shark-man swam away.
• Tang Tang led Hela through the Surface Museum, where Hela identified a giraffe fossil and admired an elephant fossil.
• Tang Tang took Hela outside and explained that Sea Shark Dragons guarded the ocean world while Sea Herring handled other work and lived as citizens.
• Tang Tang offered to hold Hela's hand so they would not get separated on the way to her home.

Hela explored the underwater world with Tang Tang, discovered that she could eat a sea urchin shell without harm, and followed Tang Tang home. Tang Tang showed her how to use a net bag as a bed.

• Hela pulled away when Tang Tang reached for her hand, admitting she was still afraid Tang Tang might crush it.
• Hela tried sea urchin roe and unknowingly ate the shell too, leaving both her and Tang Tang horrified.
• Tang Tang gave Hela a piece of kelp to hold as they rode a current of fish back to Tang Tang's home.
• Tang Tang showed Hela the rope-filled underwater house and demonstrated how to sleep in a net bag.

Hela rested in a net beside Tang Tang and tried to understand her clear mind, unusual strength, and missing memories. After Hela and Tang Tang bonded over their love of children, Spirit Shark visited them with an eel and found them getting along.

• Hela noticed she felt unusually alert and energetic underwater and wondered how her missing memories connected to her strange body.
• Hela introduced herself to Tang Tang, and they discovered that they both loved children and hoped to care for them.
• Tang Tang transformed into a small Sea Herring and explained that anyone who could turn into a human could return to fish form.
• Spirit Shark entered with an eel, joked that she had come to check whether Tang Tang had been eaten, and offered them food.
• Hela refused the eel, while Tang Tang eagerly took it and began eating.