Chapter Summaries

Hela arrived in Russia to search for Tuote, whose location [X] traced to the Star God Group’s Moscow base. Hela decided to stake out the company, but her ride’s motorcycle exploded as they set off for Moscow.

• Hela landed in Russia, where a goth-styled youth seized her with threads and took her away on his ghost-flame motorcycle.
• Hela asked [X] to find Tuote, but [X] could not locate him in the records because he might have altered his identity.
• Hela revealed Tuote’s face by transforming her own, allowing [X] to identify him in surveillance footage near the Star God Group’s Moscow base.
• Hela rejected the idea of storming the company and agreed to stake it out until she encountered Tuote.
• The youth sped toward Moscow, and his motorcycle engine exploded, engulfing them in flames.

Hela and the Ghostfire kid survived the motorcycle explosion, and Hela later staked out the Star God Group headquarters. The [Godslaying] Squad arrived, while the Ghostfire kid noticed someone watching him and ran into the woods after them.

• Ghostfire revived by draining the doctor's life force, then Hela threw him naked out the hospital window and ordered him to stake out the Star God headquarters.
• Hela watched the heavily guarded headquarters through the night and saw a distorted space breach its perimeter, triggering its alarms and defenses.
• Brown called out to the headquarters, and the [Godslaying] Squad entered after the staff lowered their defenses; Hela recognized the members but noticed Lei Yong was absent.
• The Ghostfire kid, who had been staking out the building for over ten hours, spotted an eye watching him from the woods and charged after it.

Will-o'-the-Wisp Boy fought a puppet-like swordsman in the snowy woods, drained one of two identical enemies, and severed the other’s arm. As the wounded swordsman killed himself, another saber-wielding figure appeared and struck Will-o'-the-Wisp Boy.

• Will-o'-the-Wisp Boy chased a figure through the woods and confronted a vacant-eyed man wielding a saber.
• The puppet-like man attacked with sword qi and a close-range thrust, but Will-o'-the-Wisp Boy dodged and countered with a torrent of threads.
• A second identical puppet man stabbed Will-o'-the-Wisp Boy from behind, but Will-o'-the-Wisp Boy held the saber in place and drained him into a husk.
• Will-o'-the-Wisp Boy moved faster after absorbing the man’s power and severed the remaining puppet man’s arm.
• The one-armed puppet man slit his own throat, while another saber-wielding figure rushed through Will-o'-the-Wisp Boy’s threads and struck him.

Hela killed a puppet man who resembled her underling Fulan, then waited for whoever controlled the strange lookalikes. After X warned that the [Godslaying] Squad was nearby, Hela escaped in a car and agreed to return in a week.

• Hela severed the puppet man's head and ate it, concluding that the corpse was not Fulan but had a brain capable of receiving information remotely.
• Hela told the will-o'-the-wisp boy she would wait for the lookalikes' boss, and X warned her that the commotion might attract the [Godslaying] Squad.
• Hela spotted Brown urinating on the prison-like building's roof, and X panicked and ordered them to retreat.
• X commandeered a new energy vehicle, but Hela threw out the Russian driver and climbed in while the will-o'-the-wisp boy clung to the door handle as the car sped away.
• Hela learned from X that the Light God Society had three people with Limit combat power and agreed to return to stake out the building in a week.

Hela went out to buy snacks and discovered that dozens of identical Fulans were secretly following her. After they recognized her and knelt, Tuote arrived and claimed them as his great scientific achievements.

• Shamate told Hela his chosen name, then failed to get money from X for a motorcycle.
• Hela ate all the snacks in her hotel suite, then went out and bought more without checking the price.
• Hela noticed that dozens of beings with the same aura as the group from the previous day were following her.
• Hela led the followers to a deserted area, where dozens of Fulan lookalikes emerged and knelt after confirming her identity.
• Tuote arrived on an electric scooter and told Hela that the Fulans were his great scientific achievements.

Tuote explained how he had used Hela’s cells and his research into Variants to create controllable [Artificial Variants], then took her to his home. He showed her his grandfather’s notebook and began to reveal that something had been hidden about his research.

• Tuote told Hela that her cells had helped him create [Artificial Variants], which he had modeled on Fulan.
• Hela asked Tuote to return with her, but he said he could not leave because he still had unfinished work and took her to his home instead.
• Tuote explained that he had used Fulan as a template for the [Artificial Variants] and brought Hela to the villa where Weier lived.
• Weier recognized Hela after Tuote explained who she was and hurried to prepare a meal for her.
• Tuote showed Hela his grandfather’s notebook, explained his grandfather’s dream of creating controllable human weapons, and said he had joined the Star God Group to pursue that work.
• Tuote turned to a page in the notebook and told Hela that some things seemed to have been hidden.

Tuote told Hela that his grandfather had worked on a secret research project at the Star God Group and refused to leave until he learned the truth. He brought Weier and Hela to the group’s welcome party, where Hela’s antics drew a crowd just as the ceremony began.

• Tuote explained that his grandfather’s research and death might be connected to the Star God Group, and Hela agreed to help him investigate.
• Tuote revealed that the group was hosting a welcome ceremony for the [Godslaying] Squad and said he had a plan.
• Tuote and Weier dressed formally and drove to the Star God Building, where the guards let them enter without inspection.
• Tuote explained that the building’s mental power detectors had been switched off because the [Godslaying] Squad members were all at the Starlight realm.
• At the welcome party, Hela jumped onto a table and ate a roast suckling pig as guests gathered around her.
• A speaker began welcoming the [Godslaying] Squad to the Star God Group.

At the company’s reception for the [Godslaying] Squad, Hela used her new ability to control life to take over chairman Telake. After Gu Gongming threatened her, she discovered that opening the safe required both the chairman and vice chairman and returned with Telake to approach the vice chairman.

• Telake welcomed the [Godslaying] Squad, and Tuote explained to Weier that the company was divided between international oversight and private management.
• Yixue stole a rack of lamb for the wolf in the [Room], then tried to pet Hela and got swatted away.
• Telake praised Gu Gongming and invited him to meet again, but Hela interrupted their conversation by meowing.
• When Gu Gongming reached for Hela, she scratched his hand, and he ordered Telake to remove her.
• Outside the reception, Hela controlled Telake with her new ability and learned that both the chairman and vice chairman were needed to open the safe.
• Telake regained his usual manner, carried Hela back inside, and headed toward the vice chairman.

Hela encountered the Meng Yuan sisters as they used their magic wand to hypnotize Yifan and Telake and lead them toward the secret basement. The group passed through five security doors, revealing a hidden space beyond them.

• Telake asked Yifan to leave the venue for an important conversation, but Hela's gaze left Yifan and Telake vacant.
• Meng Yuan appeared with her sister, examined Telake with mind magic, and discovered that both men needed to be controlled together.
• Meng Yuan hypnotized Yifan and Telake, then made herself, her sister, and Hela invisible as they followed the men toward the basement.
• The group reached a disguised, dilapidated basement, where Yifan and Telake opened a rusty door and entered a series of password-protected rooms.
• After the fifth security door opened, the space beyond it suddenly came into view.

Meng Yuan and her sister searched an underground laboratory for clues about whether Meng Yuan was created by an ability. Hela, disguised as a Ragdoll cat, discovered a hidden room containing a grotesque creature in a cultivation chamber.

• Meng Yuan and her sister examined ability records, including entries for Bones and Soul Snatcher, but found no answer about Meng Yuan's origins.
• Hela searched the laboratory in cat form and found a concealed switch beneath an old table.
• Meng Yuan detected that the hidden door was made of material that blocked mental power, then protected everyone with magic before opening it.
• A blast of cold air revealed a secret room filled with tangled equipment, photographs, and strange specimens.
• Meng Yuan saw a skinless-looking silver-white monster in a cultivation chamber as metal bamboo grew from its back and a laser cut it away.

Meng Yuan uncovered recordings of brutal human experiments on Variants and the researchers’ attempts to control the power behind their abilities. The final tape revealed thousands of tortured souls sealed beneath specially made glass.

• Meng Yuan investigated the hidden laboratory and played its first recording, which described Variants’ unusual physical structures and lack of reproductive functions.
• Meng Yuan watched the second recording, where a researcher announced plans for live-subject experiments.
• Meng Yuan learned that 390 experimental personnel had died and saw evidence of failed attempts to breed, transplant, and pair Variants with humans; she vomited and used Mind Magic to calm herself.
• Meng Yuan played the final tape, which revealed that tortured people produced a resentful power after death and that researchers had sealed thousands of their souls beneath specially made glass.

Meng Yuan discovered that the research facility had tortured a child into becoming the source of its Variant Artifacts, and confronted Telake and Yifan over the experiments. As resentment from the glass room surged toward the culture vessel, the ragdoll cat attacked Meng Yuan.

• Meng Yuan watched footage showing researchers implanting a Breath Bamboo seed in a little girl and later injecting her with Steel Ant Emperor cells, turning her into the monster in the culture vessel.
• The footage revealed that the young researcher had killed himself after learning that ability users had emerged naturally and the experiments had been pointless.
• Meng Yuan restored Telake and Yifan to their senses, restrained them with magic blades, and demanded to know whether they had known about the experiments.
• Telake admitted he knew and argued that the girl’s bamboo and the resulting Variant Artifacts reduced the death rate and had to be preserved to protect humanity.
• A ragdoll cat thanked everyone, shattered the glass room, and unleashed its century-old resentment toward the culture vessel.
• The cat’s scarlet, python-like tail pierced Meng Yuan’s chest before she could cast protection magic.

Hela unleashed the monster known as [Silver Ghost], and Telake died trying to hold it back while Yifan escaped. The monster burst through the building during a party, where Brown confronted it after cutting off its attack.

• Hela fled after her destruction awakened the monster, while the wounded Meng Yuan and her sister tried to escape and warned that its power had reached 'Immortal.'
• The culture tank shattered, and [Silver Ghost] emerged as Yifan tried to flee with the injured Telake.
• Telake told Yifan to evacuate the researchers, then provoked [Silver Ghost] with a remark about her mother and was killed; Yifan escaped and shut the secret-chamber door.
• [Silver Ghost] recovered memories of her mother, tore apart Telake's body, and struck the floor as her resentment intensified.
• At the party, Yixue noticed the highest-level alarm as Brown used a door to inspect the building and saw its floors fly away.
• [Silver Ghost] burst through the foundation and attacked Brown's floor with an iron-bamboo drill, but Brown appeared behind her after severing it.

Hela helped Tuote and Weier escape with a recorder, then learned the Light God Society wanted Meng Yuan captured alive after Hela had gravely wounded her. As a sniper attacked the researchers and the Lord arrived, Hela returned to the building and encountered a monster emerging from the ground.

• Yixue and Xiunuosi watched Hela flee the banquet with Tuote and Weier trapped inside her tumor, while Gu Gongming pursued her and Yixue stayed to protect the guests.
• Hela gave Tuote a miniature recorder and learned from [X] that the Light God Society wanted Meng Yuan captured alive, but she had already damaged Meng Yuan's heart and lungs.
• A sniper shot Gu Gongming and killed researchers in the building, forcing Xiunuosi and Gu Gongming to protect them as Hela released Tuote, Weier, and Shamate and headed back.
• told Hela that the Lord had arrived, and Hela found Brown and [Silver Ghost] no longer fighting as she approached the building.
• A monster with bamboo growing from its back burst from the ground and charged at Hela, crying, "Mommy-!"

Brown trapped Nan Tian in the [Room] and attacked him with [Winter]'s stored power. Hela fought [Silver Ghost], who resisted her flesh and blood attacks, and the chapter left their battle unresolved.

• Brown confronted Nan Tian and kicked him into the [Room], where he claimed he was invincible.
• Brown unleashed [Winter]'s stored cold, but Nan Tian compressed it into an ice ball and fired it at him.
• The [Room] split apart at the waist, and Brown faced Nan Tian in the surrounding void.
• [Silver Ghost] attacked Hela with iron bamboo, but Hela's flesh swallowed the weapons and eventually engulfed [Silver Ghost].
• [Silver Ghost] tore free and continued attacking Hela, rejecting her attempt to redirect her toward the humans in a nearby building.
• Hela cut [Silver Ghost] with blades of blood, striking her as she fell through the air.

Hela subdued Silver Ghost, then joined Nan Tian in escaping Brown and went to find the badly injured Meng Yuan. She arrived just as Yifan was about to use a rare resurrection bead, swallowed it, and left Meng Yuan’s fate unresolved.

• Hela briefly controlled Silver Ghost, restrained her with crimson tentacles, and then released her to fight Brown.
• Nan Tian escaped the Room through a hole he made with a wish and told Hela that Brown controlled its space and time.
• Hela and Nan Tian headed for Meng Yuan, but Brown intercepted them and was thrown into a fight with Silver Ghost.
• Nan Tian and Hela vanished, leaving Silver Ghost to attack Brown with iron bamboo.
• Yifan prepared to use a rare blue glass bead to heal the wounded Meng Yuan, but Hela swallowed it before he could act.

Hela and Nan Tian defeated Meng Yuan and Yifan, and Nan Tian revealed that Meng Yuan’s little sister was a product of her ability. After the sister disappeared, Nan Tian explained that Meng Yuan’s power was Thought, shaped by her fantasies and wishes.

• Hela extinguished Meng Yuan’s fireball and trapped Meng Yuan and Yifan with her tentacles.
• Yifan swallowed a Body-Exploding Agent, but Hela killed him and caught the pill before he could finish swallowing it.
• Nan Tian healed Meng Yuan and explained that her life was tied to the other Meng Yuan’s.
• Nan Tian split the other Meng Yuan in two, and she vanished as Meng Yuan tried to reach her.
• Nan Tian told Meng Yuan about her childhood, then revealed that her ability was Thought and that her imagined little sister had emerged from her wish for protection.

Nan Tian revived Meng Yuan and took her with Hela, who recovered a USB drive containing humanity’s Variant research. They arrived at a battlefield where the Light God Society’s dragon appeared, and Hela attacked the [Godslaying] Squad before Brown and [Silver Ghost] struck back.

• Nan Tian explained that Meng Yuan was a dependent life-form created by Meng Yuan’s fantasy, then revived her and said he needed her help with his plan.
• Hela retrieved a USB drive containing research on Variants and Variant Artifacts, refused to give it to Nan Tian, and swallowed it.
• Nan Tian brought Hela and the unconscious Meng Yuan to the battlefield, where a fire dragon appeared above the fighting.
• Hela attacked the flying floor holding Yixue and the others, but Brown and [Silver Ghost] countered her and sent her crashing into another floor.
• Brown opened a gigantic door and teleported away, leaving [Silver Ghost] to face Hela.

Hela explored a room of Variant Artifacts, fought Silver Ghost, and tested a handgun that fired invisible bullets using mental power. After Hela infused it with the Power of the Source, Silver Ghost transformed into a towering iron-bamboo monster and attacked her.

• Hela found the Mouth of the Void and used it to store the objects filling her body.
• Silver Ghost attacked Hela, but Hela swallowed her hand, used embedded iron bamboo against her, and tore off both her arms.
• Hela slammed Silver Ghost into a thruster, causing the suspended floor to crash, then tested a handgun that pierced Silver Ghost's thigh with an invisible bullet.
• Hela infused the handgun with the Power of the Source as Silver Ghost transformed into a nearly ten-meter iron-bamboo monster.
• Silver Ghost vanished and reappeared before Hela, reaching for her with a massive hand.

Hela killed [Silver Ghost], and Nan Tian comforted the dying creature before confronting Brown over Meng Yuan. Brown received orders to retreat and led the [Godslaying] Squad away, while Nan Tian and his companions prepared to leave on the fire dragon.

• Hela destroyed half of [Silver Ghost]'s body with a shot, and [Silver Ghost] died after Nan Tian held her hand and offered her comfort.
• Nan Tian faced Brown, who demanded that he return Meng Yuan, and warned him that fighting would be irrational.
• [Satellite] relayed Commander Wang Canxin's order for Brown to protect the remaining squad members and research personnel and retreat.
• Brown reluctantly ordered everyone to retreat, and the [Godslaying] Squad and research personnel escaped through doors and by flight.
• Nan Tian stopped the fire dragon from pursuing them, then left with Hela and the other two companions.