Chapter Summaries

Li Ming explained why he had risked his reputation to seek permission for Su Bai to use the Formless, then recounted the Grave Keepers’ battle against Thanatos. The story ended with Li Ming describing how he had been gravely wounded while Thanatos escaped.

• Li Ming gave Su Bai an eighteen-page application, and Su Bai signed the request for permission to use the Formless.
• Su Bai asked what the Formless did, and Li Ming began explaining the origins of alchemy and the attack on the Tomb Sweepers’ headquarters.
• Li Ming said Thanatos had killed researchers and two third-rank Grave Keepers before fleeing toward Suzhou, where Li Ming and his squad were ordered to intercept it.
• Li Ming and Old Gu fought Thanatos for three hours, but Old Gu was badly injured and went down first.
• Li Ming continued fighting alone for hours, suffered broken bones and a severe abdominal wound, and failed to stop Thanatos from escaping.

Li Ming explained how he had nearly killed Thanatos and arranged for Su Bai to gain the right to use the S-class mask Formless, which could conceal Su Bai’s Oracle. Su Bai then joined Lin Luo in Sanya for protection and learned that Lin Luo was waiting for a secret mission to defend someone named Carrot.

• Li Ming recounted how he and Gu Jiuge had fought Thanatos, and how Thanatos escaped after Li Ming severed half its head.
• Li Ming explained that the Tomb Sweepers had made the S-class items Boundless and Formless from Thanatos’s remains, and that he planned to use his first-choice right and Su Bai’s reward to obtain Formless for him.
• Su Bai realized Li Ming and Gu Jiuge were protecting Wrath’s identity, thanked Li Ming, and felt he had truly become part of the Grave Keepers.
• While waiting for approval to use Formless, Su Bai traveled with Sister Yan to Sanya and joined Lin Luo at a private villa.
• Lin Luo showed Su Bai a confidential D-class mission to protect Carrot for three days, and Su Bai was startled by the mission description.

Lin Luo and Su Bai agreed to protect Wang Mengluo, a celebrity whose sister hired Section Seven after she received supernatural threats. After seeing the threatening posters, Lin Luo offered to protect her without payment if her account was true.

• Lin Luo explained that Wang Mengluo was Wang Cuishan's sister and objected to being used for a personal protection job, but agreed to take it for the money.
• Lin Luo and Su Bai arranged that Su Bai would protect Wang Mengluo while Lin Luo protected Su Bai, splitting the fee between them.
• Wang Mengluo arrived at her Sanya villa and asked whether Su Bai and Lin Luo were the people her sister had hired.
• Su Bai examined two threatening posters and questioned why Wang Mengluo feared ordinary fan letters.
• Wang Mengluo said the posters had appeared out of thin air in her bathroom, and Lin Luo offered to protect her without charge if her story was true.

Carrot hired Su Bai and Lin Luo as bodyguards while they investigated the strange letters and the possibility that a ghost was targeting her. At her concert, a falling camera sent Su Bai leaping to shield her, and the venue plunged into darkness.

• Carrot hired Su Bai and Lin Luo for three days and gave them her itinerary, while Lin Luo told her to dismiss her usual staff and bodyguards.
• On the way to Carrot's concert, Su Bai and Lin Luo reasoned that the letters might have come from a ghost contaminated by Transcendent power, though they could not explain why it would target Carrot.
• At Mangrove International, Carrot performed while Su Bai and Lin Luo watched from the VIP area, where Lin Luo warned Su Bai not to use his Oracle before reaching the sixth rank.
• The cables supporting a massive camera snapped above the stage, and Su Bai knocked Carrot down and shielded her as the camera fell.
• The camera crashed into the stage, plunging the venue into darkness, and Lin Luo observed that the sky had gone dark.

Su Bai and Lin Luo defeated Soul Binding and Corpse Raising after it attacked Carrot, then discovered that a powerful Transcendent had created the strange tale using Divine Oracle Sequence 39-Adam. The chapter left Lin Luo and Su Bai resolved to confront the creator, even though the creator now knew of them.

• Su Bai injured his arm while saving Carrot from falling camera equipment, then fought off the ghost with alchemical bullets.
• Lin Luo used the burning bone knife to destroy Soul Binding and Corpse Raising inside the darkness of Dark Night.
• At the hospital, Lin Luo explained that the ghost appeared because Carrot had rejected its love letters by not answering them.
• Su Bai revealed that he had reached the eighth tier, and Lin Luo reminded him to trust his teammates.
• Su Bai and Lin Luo concluded that a high-tier Transcendent had created the tale using Adam's Oracle, and Lin Luo vowed they would pursue the culprit.

After learning that a village storyteller had spread the dangerous tale of Soul Binding and Corpse Raising to Carrot, Su Bai and Lin Luo rushed to Star Anise Village to investigate. They sought help from the local Grave Keepers, where Su Bai discovered that his reputation had made him a highly prized target.

• Carrot told Su Bai and Lin Luo that an old man in Star Anise Village had told her the story of Soul Binding and Corpse Raising while she filmed a variety show.
• Lin Luo and Su Bai realized the story could contaminate anyone who heard it and feared the footage might have spread the tale widely if it had aired.
• Carrot returned with the village's address, and Su Bai and Lin Luo ended her security contract and left the hospital to contact the local Grave Keepers.
• At the Softshell Turtle Detective Agency, Liu Feng recognized Su Bai from the Grave Keepers' website, took photos with him, and posted about capturing the ten-million-dollar bounty target.

Su Bai and Lin Luo learned that the Sanya Grave Keepers Squad had uncovered the Monster Association’s plot in Star Anise Village and joined its operation after the mission failed. With Grave Keepers trapped and the fourth-rank supernatural creature “Whitebeard” heading for downtown Sanya, the squad prepared to intercept him.

• Su Bai and Lin Luo met Liu Feng, Baldy, and Monkey, who explained that supernatural deaths in Sanya were linked to Star Anise Village and its “Whitebeard” tale.
• The squad revealed that the Monster Association had used a reality-show broadcast to spread the strange tale, and that Gu Jiuge had joined the operation against the village.
• Su Bai and Lin Luo went to the agency, where the three Sanya Grave Keepers invited them to play cards while their operation was underway.
• Baldy received word that the operation had failed, many Grave Keepers were trapped, and seven high-rank supernatural creatures had fled.
• Headquarters ordered the squad to stop “Whitebeard” from harming civilians, and Liu Feng, Monkey, Lin Luo, and Su Bai readied themselves to fight.

Monkey, Lin Luo, and Liu Feng attacked the wounded Whitebeard near Sanya, forcing him to defend himself with his creation-based Oracle. The chapter ended as Liu Feng trapped Whitebeard in a net of Spirit Snakes.

• Whitebeard created a forest with his cane as Monkey approached and began firing from several hundred meters away.
• Monkey struck Whitebeard with successive shots, alternating between Oracle-enhanced bullets and an ordinary bullet that pierced Whitebeard’s air wall.
• Lin Luo plunged the forest into darkness and attacked Whitebeard, but Whitebeard dispelled the darkness and transformed Lin Luo’s dagger into molten iron that wounded him.
• Liu Feng charged Whitebeard with his saber and used Spirit Snakes to bind him in a massive net.

Whitebeard used his creation authority to turn Liu Feng’s spirit snakes against him, then killed him. Su Bai and the bald man attacked Whitebeard, but Whitebeard killed the bald man as well, leaving Su Bai badly injured.

• Whitebeard gave life to Liu Feng’s spirit snakes, which turned on their creator and let Whitebeard tear out Liu Feng’s heart.
• Liu Feng died, remembering his promise with Su Bai to eat seafood together.
• The bald man transformed with Divine Oracle Sequence 129 and struck Whitebeard, but Su Bai emerged from hiding and stabbed Whitebeard with a flaming bone knife.
• Whitebeard pulled out the bone knife and struck Su Bai, shattering his sternum and sending him crashing into a tree.
• The bald man battered Whitebeard with a barrage of punches, but Whitebeard cut his throat with a fruit knife, and the bald man died still fighting.

Su Bai and the others fought Whitebeard in the Adam Domain, and Baldy, Liu Feng, and Monkey died trying to stop him. Su Bai used the stolen power of Time Freeze to hack Whitebeard apart, breaking the domain before collapsing, but Whitebeard’s severed head blinked, showing he was still alive.

• Monkey fired all eighteen rounds from his heavy sniper rifle at Whitebeard, then attacked with the rifle and was pierced and torn apart by a vine.
• Su Bai charged Whitebeard with his bone blade as Wrath awakened, but used Time Freeze to strike Whitebeard twenty-seven times and sever his head.
• Whitebeard realized that Wrath’s Annihilation devoured the supernatural powers and Oracles of those it killed, which explained Su Bai’s rapid advancement.
• Lin Luo rushed from hiding to protect Su Bai from Whitebeard’s vines and urged him not to lose control of Wrath.
• Su Bai stabbed himself and Whitebeard with the bone blade, then used Time Freeze to hack Whitebeard’s body apart until the Adam Domain collapsed and Su Bai lost consciousness.
• Lin Luo saw Whitebeard’s severed head blink with a mocking smile.