Chapter Summaries

Su Bai, Chu Ning, and Qingxue fought their way through Heavenly River International, where Qingxue’s Angel Wings deflected the security guards’ gunfire. As police surrounded the casino, its staff uncovered evidence linking Su Bai to a recent data breach, and a Chameleon assumed Sister Hong’s appearance to handle the intruders.

• Su Bai fired into the casino corridor as the elevator opened, then took cover while armed guards shot back.
• Qingxue spread her Angel Wings to block the bullets, which rebounded and killed the guards, and Chu Ning criticized Su Bai’s marksmanship.
• Sister Hong ordered staff to summon security, evacuate the casino, and destroy surveillance drives while leaving the three intruders alone.
• A man in a black jacket told Sister Hong that Su Bai had breached the company system and stolen sensitive information, clearing her as a suspected insider.
• Sister Hong theorized that Su Bai worked for a guild seeking to disrupt the company and left through a hidden door.
• The man revealed his Chameleon ability by transforming into a copy of Sister Hong.

Su Bai led Chu Ning and Qingxue through the casino to intercept Sister Hong, but she shot at him and Chu Ning stopped the bullet with her sword. After Sister Hong fled upstairs, Su Bai pursued her, and Chu Ning realized his Oracle, “Wrath,” required anger born from confronting his own helplessness.

• Su Bai reasoned that Sister Hong would avoid the exit exposed to police and led the team toward the hidden passage to the basement parking lot.
• Sister Hong shot at Su Bai, and Chu Ning blocked the bullet with her sword before identifying the target as codename “Red.”
• Sister Hong escaped through the low-voltage equipment room, and Su Bai followed her after warning Chu Ning not to shield him again.
• Chu Ning concluded that Su Bai could not use his Oracle because he was not angry enough and reflected that his growing helplessness had begun awakening “Wrath.”

Su Bai fought Sister Hong in Heavenly River International’s parking garage, but she escaped in a black Phaeton after he failed to stop her. Chu Ning pursued her in a stolen Ferrari, while police officers also raced after both cars after they broke through the checkpoint.

• Sister Hong disarmed Su Bai and attacked him, but he used a grenade and a taekwondo maneuver to fight back.
• Su Bai retrieved his handgun and fired at the grenade, but missed; Sister Hong escaped in a black Phaeton and struck him with the car.
• Chu Ning arrived with Qingxue, stole a red Ferrari, and sped after Sister Hong with Su Bai and Qingxue aboard.
• The black Phaeton and red Ferrari smashed through the parking garage exit checkpoint, prompting the police officers to pursue them toward National Highway 362.

Chu Ning drove Su Bai and Qingxue through a high-speed police chase that ended with their cars plunging into a lake. Two days later, Su Bai was being interrogated when Chu Ning and Qingxue arrived disguised as members of a special investigation team.

• Chu Ning rammed Sister Hong's Phaeton repeatedly as both cars sped toward a police roadblock, while Qingxue and Su Bai were battered by the collisions.
• Chu Ning forced the Ferrari and Phaeton over the tire spikes, and both cars rolled off the bridge into a lake with Su Bai trapped inside.
• Su Bai woke in the hospital under police guard and was taken to an interrogation room two days later, where an officer listed the charges against him.
• Qingxue presented forged authorization claiming she and Chu Ning were from a special investigation team and that Su Bai's case was being transferred.
• Su Bai identified Chu Ning and Qingxue as his accomplices, but the officer dismissed his claims as crazy talk and left.

After Qingxue and Chu Ning explained Jiang Long’s disguise and the fallout at Heavenly River International, Su Bai deduced that Lin Yue likely led the Hunter Guild and that company records could expose its members. He turned down his teammates’ attempt to free him and offered the young officer a secret deal, leaving the officer to consider it.

• Qingxue removed the surveillance camera, and Chu Ning showed Su Bai a photograph identifying Jiang Long as the Hunter Guild’s A-rank member Dragon, who had disguised himself as Sister Hong and escaped as a fish.
• Chu Ning and Qingxue told Su Bai that Lin Yue had avoided consequences after the gambling scandal, while police had withdrawn from Heavenly River International and the Hunter Guild’s members had stayed out of sight.
• Su Bai inferred that Lin Yue was likely the Hunter Guild’s leader and that personnel transfers and financial records at Heavenly River International could reveal the Guild’s members and illicit trades.
• Su Bai told Qingxue and Chu Ning not to free him, then asked whether Gu Jiuge had cleared level 130 of Defend the Carrot before they left.
• Su Bai told the young officer that Lin Yue would likely try to replace his interrogator and kill him, then tore apart his handcuffs and proposed secretly trading the Guild’s membership list for cash and resources.
• The young officer said he would consider Su Bai’s proposal, and Su Bai asked him for his phone so a friend could pick him up.

After reuniting with Shen Fei, Su Bai discussed his troubles with the Grave Keepers and Hunter Guild and learned about the class reunion. He went with Shen Fei to Lin Xue’s family’s villa, only to discover it belonged to Heavenly River International, whose property he had just smashed up.

• Shen Fei brought Su Bai clothes and took him to dinner after finding him outside the police station in a pink dress.
• Su Bai told Shen Fei that a supernatural incident had involved him with the Grave Keepers and Hunter Guild, and Shen Fei offered him money and warned him not to do anything illegal.
• Shen Fei told Su Bai about the class reunion at Fanghua Holiday Hotel and said Lin Xue might leave for Harvard Institute of Technology.
• Su Bai and Shen Fei arrived at the villa and showed their invitation to Lin Xue’s armed family bodyguards.
• The bodyguards welcomed them to Heavenly River International, and Su Bai realized he had just smashed up the company’s property.

At the class seventeen farewell dinner, Shen Fei publicly confessed Su Bai’s feelings to Lin Xue and presented her with a ring, which she accepted. Su Bai then met Lin Xue’s housekeeper, Sister Hong, and their tense exchange suggested they recognized each other from a recent incident.

• Su Bai hesitated to enter the reunion without an invitation, but Shen Fei brought him inside.
• Su Bai mocked the paid speaker’s melodramatic graduation speech as classmates cried over it.
• Shen Fei revealed his surprise by announcing Su Bai’s feelings for Lin Xue and presenting her with a diamond ring.
• Lin Xue accepted the ring, while Shen Fei left Su Bai to face the crowd.
• Lin Xue introduced Su Bai to Sister Hong, and the two exchanged pointed remarks while pretending they had never met.

Su Bai ended his romantic hopes with Lin Xue and confronted her father, Lin Yue, over the Lin family’s attempt to use her and secure the data he had stolen. They negotiated a deal, but Su Bai still had to verify the promised bloodline resources before clearing Heavenly River International in his report.

• Su Bai told Lin Xue that he had never treated his feelings for her as a joke, then left after she apologized.
• A man in sunglasses brought Su Bai to meet Lin Yue, who praised his abilities and suggested he become Lin Xue’s husband and the Lin family’s successor.
• Su Bai accused Lin Yue of allowing the banquet’s events to pressure him into joining the Lin family and trading away the stolen records.
• Su Bai threatened to send the data to Grave Keepers headquarters if Lin Yue prevented him from leaving, and Lin Yue handed him a bank card containing fifty million.
• Su Bai gave Lin Yue the location of the stolen data, and they agreed that Lin Yue would destroy it and deliver bloodline resources before Su Bai wrote a report clearing Heavenly River International of ties to the Hunter Guild.

Su Bai exposed Jiang Long’s disguise as Shen Fei and revealed that the Grave Keepers had used him as bait to trap the Hunters’ Guild. The chapter ended with Lin Luo confronting and arresting A Cheng at the hotel.

• Su Bai rejected the sunglasses-wearing man’s offer, then took Shen Fei to an abandoned park and recalled their shared past.
• Su Bai revealed that the supposed Shen Fei was Jiang Long and explained how he had spotted the disguise through inconsistencies and clues from the Grave Keepers.
• Su Bai told Jiang Long that the Grave Keepers had been watching him and had set up the meeting to capture the guild members.
• Jiang Long realized that the hotel address and hidden information were part of the trap, and Su Bai explained that the computer had an owner.
• A Cheng went to the hotel to retrieve the laptop, where Lin Luo identified him as a Hunters’ Guild member and Grave Keeper.
• A Cheng tried to flee, but Lin Luo plunged the area into darkness, trapped him, and declared his arrest.

Su Bai revealed that he had trapped the Hunter Guild to draw out Lin Yue, while Gu Jiuge intercepted Lin Yue’s escape and sealed the road with fire. Lin Yue chose to stop running and face the Grave Keeper.

• Su Bai explained to Jiang Long that he had anticipated the Hunter Guild’s attempt to kill him and had waited to expose Lin Yue’s whereabouts; Gu Jiuge confirmed that the call had lasted nearly eighty minutes.
• Lin Yue tried to flee by car toward Yangshan Port and ordered his driver to suspend the company’s foreign trade while he escaped.
• Gu Jiuge confronted Lin Yue and his driver on Three Dragons Road, identified them as Hunter Guild members, and declared the road closed.
• Gu Jiuge surrounded the car with flames, stopping its engine and blocking the escape route.
• The driver took two sabers and offered to hold Gu Jiuge off, but Lin Yue refused to flee and stood beside him.

Chu Ning killed Chen Ziyan at Fanghua Hotel as Lin Xue watched, while Su Bai revealed that he had lured Jiang Long into a trap and had him shot by the hidden sniper Qingxue. Su Bai executed Jiang Long, leaving the Hunter Guild defeated and Heavenly River International set to be shut down.

• Sister Hong hurried Lin Xue away from Fanghua Hotel, but Chu Ning confronted her and identified her as Chen Ziyan, a Hunter Guild member codenamed Red.
• Chu Ning stabbed Sister Hong, disabled the guards with lightning, and killed Sister Hong to claim her Bloodline Mark while protecting Lin Xue from seeing the violence.
• Su Bai confronted Jiang Long about underestimating him and pretending to be Shen Fei, then admitted he could not bring himself to shoot someone who looked like his brother.
• Jiang Long attacked Su Bai with a dagger, but Qingxue shot him with a Barrett sniper rifle from an ambush.
• Su Bai revealed that Qingxue had been waiting there for over an hour, then shot Jiang Long repeatedly and killed him.

The Grave Keepers received headquarters' evaluations for the operation that destroyed the Hunter Guild, and Su Bai's performance earned him a rare S-rank evaluation. His reward made him a reserve member of the Special Operations Squad and gave him the right to make a request of headquarters.

• Section Seven's crackdown on Heavenly River International was reported as the Grave Keepers gathered to review their evaluations.
• Lin Luo distributed the evaluation documents after recounting how Section Seven had rescued Shen Fei and Lu Ping and dismantled the Hunter Guild.
• Qingxue received a C+, Gu Jiuge an A-, and Chu Ning and Lin Luo each received an A.
• Su Bai's evaluation showed S+ ratings in judgment, coordination, adaptability, systematic ability, creative thinking, and execution, earning him an overall S.
• Headquarters' S-rank rewards included public recognition, one request within the rules, and reserve membership in the Special Operations Squad.

Su Bai questioned his S rating, then learned the Grave Keepers had raised it to protect him from the bounty on his life. He left work newly aware that a billion-dollar prize made him a target, while his teammates treated him as if he might not survive long.

• Su Bai compared his assessment categories and concluded that his actual overall rating should be B+.
• Li Ming and Gu Jiuge showed Su Bai headquarters' genuine B+ assessment and explained that they had raised his rating to S to deter anyone targeting him.
• Li Ming revealed that Lin Yue had placed Su Bai on Quark's Assassins' Association bounty list, offering a billion-dollar fund to whoever killed him.
• Gu Jiuge and Li Ming warned Su Bai about possible assassins and sent him home with a few days off, while offering little reassurance about their response time.
• Su Bai found Qingxue, Chu Ning, and Lin Luo eavesdropping, and they reacted as though he were in grave danger.

Su Bai received Bloodline Marks to advance his bloodline, then watched Lin Xue leave for New York as the remnants of her family’s Hunter Guild sent her abroad. Chu Ning was assigned to protect Su Bai and gave him a dangerous alchemical sword, leaving him injured when he tried to catch it.

• Lin Luo gave Su Bai and the others Bloodline Marks and explained that they could carry them to absorb their power gradually; Su Bai and Qingxue had already eaten one apiece after his misunderstanding.
• Lin Xue left Pingliu Airport for New York, where Quark Company would help her take over her father’s remaining overseas business and preserve the hope of rebuilding the Hunter Guild.
• Su Bai watched Lin Xue’s plane depart and told Chu Ning that he had briefly wanted to stop her, but accepted that their feelings had ended in regret.
• Chu Ning brought Su Bai to her villa and explained that Captain Li had assigned her to protect him because he was in danger.
• Chu Ning lent Su Bai a fourth-rank creature-bone sword with a burning attribute, and Su Bai burned his palm when he tried to catch its blade.

Su Bai recalled the fiery figure that had appeared during his childhood surgery, then dreamed that the bronze palace’s table killed him and revealed itself to be a coffin containing a great being. After three days of training with Chu Ning, he set out with her to investigate a suspected transcendent-creature incident at Suzhou University.

• Su Bai remembered how a fiery humanoid figure had appeared to him during his near-fatal bone marrow transplant, then fell asleep.
• In his recurring dream, Su Bai explored the bronze palace, touched its table, and was sliced apart before realizing a great being lay inside it.
• Chu Ning explained that Su Bai’s poor physical condition limited the bloodline rank he could safely bear and said she would train him to improve it.
• Over the next three days, Chu Ning taught Su Bai weapon skills by beating him with an array of weapons, and she witnessed his extraordinary ability to learn and repeat movements.
• Chu Ning told Su Bai that a student at Suzhou University had spontaneously combusted and fallen from a building, and that Sister Yan suspected a transcendent creature was involved.
• As they drove to the university, Chu Ning explained that Gu Jiuge had gone after a fourth-rank Calamity and praised the records of Gu Jiuge and Li Ming.

Su Bai and Chu Ning investigated Zhang Tao’s apparent spontaneous combustion at Suzhou University and identified signs that a supernatural creature had altered microscopic particles. As Section Seven sealed off the campus, another burning figure fell near Su Bai.

• Su Bai and Chu Ning met Qingxue and officers Chen and Wang, who explained that Zhang Tao had fallen from the seventh floor and burned to ash.
• Su Bai examined surveillance footage and concluded that white phosphorus had caused the burning, despite there being no ordinary way to coat Zhang Tao’s body in it.
• Su Bai connected the phosphorus to Oracle Sequence 107’s ability to distort the properties of microscopic particles.
• Chu Ning reclassified the case as a suspected supernatural incident, and Section Seven sent reinforcements to seal off the dormitory area and cut communications.
• Su Bai examined Zhang Tao’s remains, then saw another figure engulfed in crimson flames fall and smash into the ground beside him.

Su Bai discovered that a spiderling with Divine Oracle Sequence 107 had caused the victims’ deaths and concluded that a powerful mother spider was laying hundreds or thousands of eggs on the dormitory rooftop. With a disaster threatening Suzhou University and the surrounding city, Su Bai, Chu Ning, and Qingxue chose to confront the spider while Section Seven sent a fighter jet as backup.

• Su Bai found a spiderling among the remains, identified its strand of silk as a Bloodline Mark, and shot the spiderling dead.
• Su Bai told Chu Ning that spiderlings had eaten the victims and used Sequence 107-Dustless to coat their bodies in white phosphorus and ignite them.
• Su Bai estimated that the mother spider had produced up to 2,000 powerful spiderlings and was at least fourth-tier, while Chu Ning warned that waiting for a missile could let them hatch and spread.
• Su Bai proposed contacting Section Seven for a fighter jet while the three of them climbed to kill the mother spider, estimating their chances at thirty percent.
• Chu Ning, Su Bai, and Qingxue chose to head for the rooftop together.

Su Bai, Chu Ning, and Qingxue confronted a weakened third-tier red-backed spider on Dormitory Building B2’s rooftop, where it had built a nest and bred swarms of spiders. After the spider overwhelmed them and trapped Su Bai, he began to sense the authority it had mentioned, leaving his power on the verge of awakening.

• Chu Ning broke through the welded rooftop door by smashing a hole through the surrounding cement wall, revealing the spider’s nest, dead victims, and newly hatched spiders.
• The red-backed spider recognized Su Bai as Satan and suppressed him with its higher bloodline, while Chu Ning attacked with lightning and her sword.
• Su Bai joined the fight with his burning bone sword, and Qingxue transformed with Angel Wings and struck the spider with blood arrows.
• The spider broke free of Chu Ning’s lightning chains, severely injured her, dispersed Su Bai’s bullets with its Oracle, and trapped him in a web.
• Hundreds of spiders surrounded the injured Chu Ning and Qingxue as Su Bai felt a scorching change in his body, and the red-backed spider asked whether he had sensed his authority.

Su Bai realized that Satan had bestowed the authority of Wrath upon him, and the authority began to awaken as Chu Ning and Qingxue faced the spider swarm. Li Ming arrived and used Throne to wipe out the spiders, leaving Su Bai injured and the survivors safe.

• Su Bai connected Satan, Wrath, and the miracle surrounding his childhood operation, realizing Satan had chosen him as its wielder.
• Qingxue shielded herself and Chu Ning from the spiders with her wings while Chu Ning fought into the swarm with lightning daggers, suffering severe wounds.
• As Su Bai watched Chu Ning and Qingxue near death, a voice urged him to reclaim his authority, and Wrath began to awaken in him.
• A voice said "Throne," crushing Su Bai and instantly killing the spiders and destroying their unhatched eggs; Qingxue fainted, while Chu Ning survived.
• Li Ming, Captain of the Suzhou Squad and Grave Keeper number 007, revealed himself and scolded the others for nearly using nuclear missiles on the university.

Li Ming arrived at Suzhou University and used the Throne’s emperor attribute to suppress the Redback Spider’s Oracle, then defeated the third-rank Calamity and saved Su Bai, Chu Ning, and Qingxue. The next day, Su Bai learned that the Hunter Guild’s bounty on him had taken effect, and he suggested disguising himself to avoid the guilds searching for him.

• Li Ming arrived in a rage and used the Throne’s emperor attribute to prevent the Redback Spider from invoking its Oracle.
• Li Ming fought the Redback Spider with its severed leg and Su Bai’s bone knife, destroying its legs and eyes before hurling it back onto the rooftop.
• Chu Ning dragged the unconscious Qingxue and injured Su Bai away from the fight as dawn broke and the J-15 bomber flew beyond Suzhou University.
• The next day, Sister Yan berated Li Ming over the destruction, then celebrated after learning that Section Seven had eliminated a third-rank Calamity.
• Li Ming told Su Bai that the Hunter Guild’s bounty had taken effect and illegal Transcendent guilds were searching for him.
• Su Bai suggested using makeup, a disguise, or women’s clothing to avoid being recognized.