Recaps

Shen Heng killed the wounded Firmament Breath Beast and collected its Lung Crystal and Origin Crystal before Hu Yang and Tao Man arrived. Tao Man then knelt before Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan, pleading for the Lung Crystal to save five-year-old Yaoyao.

• Hu Yang and Tao Man hurried toward the falling Firmament Breath Beast, fearing they would lose their chance to obtain its Lung Crystal.
• Shen Heng used a sound-wave attack and his vibrating blade to kill the Firmament Breath Beast.
• Shen Heng cut out the Firmament Breath Beast's Lung Crystal and extracted its Origin Crystal as Hu Yang and Tao Man arrived.
• Tao Man approached Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan, knelt, and begged them to give her the Lung Crystal for Yaoyao.

Shen Heng initially refused Tao Man’s plea for the Firmament Breath Beast’s Lung Crystal, but Le Gu Nan proposed extracting material from the beast to make an inferior substitute that could prolong her child’s life. Shen Heng agreed to let her try, and Le Gu Nan began analyzing the crystal and the beast’s corpse.

• Tao Man begged Shen Heng for the Firmament Breath Beast’s Lung Crystal, but he refused and walked away with Le Gu Nan.
• Le Gu Nan stopped Shen Heng and explained that she could try making an inferior Lung Crystal to slow the child’s Weak Breath Disease.
• Shen Heng agreed to return with Le Gu Nan and told Tao Man and Hu Yang that her attempt might extend the patient’s life by only a short time.
• Le Gu Nan analyzed the Lung Crystal for more than ten minutes, then began searching the Firmament Breath Beast’s corpse for usable material.
• Le Gu Nan continued working on the corpse as half an hour, an hour, and then two hours passed.

Le Gu Nan exhausted her ability to purify a Lung Crystal, giving Tao Man three months more time to seek help for her child. Shen Heng carried Le Gu Nan away, while Hu Yang and Tao Man reflected on how they had obtained the crystal.

• Le Gu Nan purified the Firmament Breath Beast's Lung Crystal a second time, exhausting herself but extending its effect by three months.
• Shen Heng gave the crystal to Tao Man and carried the weakened Le Gu Nan away after introducing himself and Le Gu Nan as being from Linhai.
• Le Gu Nan explained that overusing her ability left her unable to move and unable to use it normally for about a dozen days.
• When Shen Heng asked whether her effort had been worth it, Le Gu Nan said it was worth giving Tao Man's child more time and hope.
• In a cave in the Qi Mountains, Hu Yang questioned why Tao Man had begged Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan for the crystal, and Tao Man said the alternative was giving up or fighting them.
• Hu Yang realized he had avoided Tao Man's glance before she knelt to beg, then apologized to her.

Shen Heng camped with Le Gu Nan after hunting a strange Calamity Beast and examined the Firmament Breath Beast's Lung Crystal he planned to use to treat his mother. He considered how to spend his points and settled on looking into Sevenfold Force to improve his close-quarters fighting.

• Shen Heng finished preparing a cave and log bed while Le Gu Nan slept, then cooked meat from an unknown Calamity Beast and planned to report its details to the Supervision Bureau.
• Shen Heng examined the Firmament Breath Beast's Lung Crystal and planned to ask Le Gu Nan to help spread its powder through his mother's respiratory tract.
• Shen Heng considered spending his accumulated points on armor, weapons, items, or combat techniques, but saw little value in armor or a better saber technique.
• Shen Heng decided that Sevenfold Force could amplify his physical strength and help him fight head-on when his ability failed to end a battle.

Shen Heng considered exchanging for Sevenfold Force while cooking a Calamity Beast, as a local Supervision Bureau team failed to catch the wary Golden Rat in a warehouse. The captain decided to request headquarters for help, and Wu Hongxuan reacted to the plan.

• Shen Heng calculated that his points could buy up to the fourth layer of Sevenfold Force and noted the high cost of the remaining layers.
• The Golden Rat emerged from beneath the warehouse floor, blocked the team's spear and arrows, then escaped underground with its target.
• Wu Hongxuan and the others realized the Golden Rat had anticipated their ambush and mocked them as it fled.
• The captain decided to abandon the mission and request suitable support from headquarters.
• Wu Hongxuan froze and turned to look at the captain after hearing the plan.

Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan recovered enough to leave the wilderness and checked into a hotel, planning to return the next day after reporting to the local Supervision Bureau. Wu Hongxuan found Shen Heng there and asked for help dealing with a Golden Rat that could tunnel underground.

• Shen Heng carried the still-weak Le Gu Nan out of the wilderness, and they agreed to share credit for helping the people they had encountered.
• Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan reached a hotel, where they planned to eat at its rooftop restaurant before returning the next day.
• Shen Heng received a knock at his door and found Wu Hongxuan waiting outside.
• Wu Hongxuan told Shen Heng that a Golden Rat had caused trouble and that he hoped Shen Heng's ability could help deal with it.

Shen Heng agreed to help the Longzhou Supervision Bureau briefly restrain the Golden Rat while they carried out their plan. Le Gu Nan joined him, and the group began reviewing the operation at the bureau.

• Wu Hongxuan told Shen Heng that the Longzhou team needed him to hold the Golden Rat in place briefly, and Shen Heng agreed after reporting to his captain.
• Shen Heng told Le Gu Nan he was leaving to help with the Calamity Beast, and she asked to accompany him.
• Wu Hongxuan accepted Le Gu Nan joining as long as she followed the plan, and the three drove to the Longzhou Supervision Bureau.
• Wang Zhi welcomed Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan and called the team to discuss their plan.
• The team displayed an image of the Golden Rat in the conference room.

Shen Heng watched footage of the Longzhou Supervision Bureau’s failed attempts to capture the Golden Rat and learned how they had tracked it. The team planned to use Zhou Le'an’s Induction ability to lure it, but the Golden Rat had repeatedly resisted the bait.

• Wang Zhi showed Shen Heng footage of the Golden Rat’s first appearance in Zhaoyuan Subdistrict, where it stole gold from a van and escaped after being struck by an arrow.
• Wang Zhi explained that the Bureau had tried to encircle the Golden Rat three more times, but each attempt failed as it grew more cautious and escaped underground.
• Shen Heng watched footage of the three attempts, in which the Golden Rat avoided traps at a van, a jewelry store, and a dark warehouse.
• Shen Heng asked how the Bureau kept encountering the Golden Rat, and Wang Zhi said Zhou Le'an used his C-rank Induction ability to draw it toward gold.
• Zhou Le'an explained that he carried gold through the city to attract the Golden Rat, while Shen Heng realized the ability could be used to locate Calamity Beasts.

Wang Zhi outlined a plan to lure the Golden Rat into the Longzhou People's Bank vault, where Shen Heng would immobilize it long enough for the team to attack. The meeting ended with Shen Heng asking whether the Bureau would provide food.

• Wang Zhi explained that the team would move gold into the passage as bait, hide inside the steel-lined vault, and rely on Shen Heng to hold the Golden Rat in place when it emerged.
• Shen Heng estimated that he could control the Third Tier Golden Rat for three to four seconds, and Wang Zhi judged that sufficient.
• Shen Heng explained that he had developed a way to strengthen his sound waves without stacking them, and that his Origin Power control let him conceal his tier from others.
• Shen Heng told the group that he and Le Gu Nan were both Tier 3 and that his city’s Supervision Bureau had six Tier 3 members.
• After Wang Zhi asked whether anyone had more questions, Shen Heng asked if the Bureau provided meals.

Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan ate dinner while waiting for the Longzhou Supervision Bureau’s plan to lure the Golden Rat into a bank vault. Their conversation turned to Shen Heng’s mother and Le Gu Nan’s future role in treating her, before Shen Heng noticed a young man trying to move a coin with Origin Power.

• Le Gu Nan ordered a large truffle-themed meal as she and Shen Heng waited for the bureau’s Golden Rat operation to begin.
• Le Gu Nan worried the clever Golden Rat might avoid the trap, but Shen Heng said they should carry out the plan and adapt if it failed.
• Shen Heng asked Le Gu Nan to pose as a doctor and use Lung Crystal to help his mother once Le Gu Nan’s ability recovered in eleven or twelve days.
• Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan discussed whether Shen Heng’s mother would believe that Le Gu Nan could treat Weak Breath Disease.
• Shen Heng overheard Cheng Mo’s friends challenge him to move a coin with Origin Power and saw a faint wisp of power trying to rock it beneath his hand.

Cheng Mo discovered that he could manipulate Origin Power by spinning a coin, while Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan waited in the Longzhou People's Bank vault for the gold escort. The first vehicle carrying gold arrived.

• After his attempts to move a coin failed, Cheng Mo balanced it upright and made it spin with Origin Power.
• Zhou Yang and the others celebrated Cheng Mo's ability and questioned him about sensing Origin Power, but he struggled to explain it.
• Zhou Feng briefly watched two passing figures, then lost focus on the group's conversation.
• Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan entered the bank and joined Wei Yongrui, the Longzhou Supervision Bureau's only First Tier, in the underground vault.
• Shen Heng listened for sounds while gently circulating Origin Power through his body, and the first gold-escort vehicle arrived.

Shen Heng and the inspectors waited in the underground vault as successive gold vehicles arrived, confirming that the Golden Rat had not followed the first two. When the third vehicle approached, Shen Heng detected the Golden Rat underground and warned the team to prepare.

• Wu Hongxuan brought gold from the first vehicle to the vault, and the team confirmed the Golden Rat had not followed it.
• Shen Heng used sound waves to verify that the Golden Rat had not followed the second vehicle, whose gold was delivered by Zhou Le'an and three other inspectors.
• While waiting, Zhou Le'an studied the vault and watched Shen Heng remain motionless and alert.
• Shen Heng detected an unidentified creature moving underground as the third vehicle approached and struck the wall with his saber to map its position.
• Shen Heng warned everyone that the Golden Rat had followed the third vehicle and told them to get ready.

Shen Heng and the Longzhou Supervision Bureau waited in the underground vault while the Golden Rat investigated a decoy delivery of gold. After the rat returned and searched the underground structure, it reached the vault, where a clang sounded from the ceiling.

• Fan Yuqiao and the accompanying officers unloaded the gold at the Longzhou People's Bank, then drove away as the Golden Rat watched from underground.
• Shen Heng sensed that the Golden Rat had followed the van, and he and Le Gu Nan reasoned that it might be checking for an ambush or seeking a larger haul.
• Wu Hongxuan instructed Fan Yuqiao to continue to a resting place and stay in the van while the group waited for the Golden Rat to return.
• Shen Heng sensed the Golden Rat coming back and told Fan Yuqiao that she no longer needed to hide in the van.
• The Golden Rat reached the underground structure, inspected the gold, then searched the passages until a clang rang out from the vault's ceiling.

Shen Heng and the Longzhou Supervision Bureau waited inside a steel-plated vault for the Golden Rat to emerge, but the cautious Calamity Beast eventually left without entering. The team abandoned the failed plan and prepared to report to their captain.

• Shen Heng tracked the Golden Rat as it searched around the vault and struck the steel plating, then watched it ram the floor from underground.
• Shen Heng told the team to follow the plan if the Golden Rat broke in, but the beast stopped its attack and remained underground.
• Shen Heng and the Longzhou Supervision Bureau waited for hours as the Golden Rat inspected the gold bars and circled the vault without emerging.
• Shen Heng sensed the Golden Rat leaving and told Wu Hongxuan and the others that their plan had failed.
• Wu Hongxuan calmed the irritated team and began reporting the failed operation to their captain.

Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan tracked the wary Golden Rat through Longzhou until it returned to its nest beneath Dream Wonderland. With the rat settled underground and the amusement park full of people, Shen Heng set aside the idea of using heavy weapons and asked Le Gu Nan if she wanted to go inside.

• Wang Zhi said the failed plan had made the Golden Rat too wary, and Shen Heng offered to watch it until headquarters sent help.
• Shen Heng drove after the Golden Rat through the night while Le Gu Nan rode with him, carrying a piece of concrete wrapped in silvery-gray threads.
• The Golden Rat revisited the vault, found the gold had been moved, and fled before growing even more cautious.
• Shen Heng used sound waves to locate the Golden Rat resting in its nest beneath Dream Wonderland.
• Seeing Le Gu Nan gaze at the amusement park, Shen Heng asked whether she wanted to go inside.

Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan spent the day exploring an amusement park while monitoring the sleeping Golden Rat. After riding several attractions, they encountered a haunted-house employee who tried to persuade them to enter an abandoned hospital.

• Shen Heng reassured Le Gu Nan that visiting the amusement park would not affect their mission, and they went inside together.
• Le Gu Nan told Shen Heng that her mother had read her Tales from Moominvalley when she was young.
• Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan rode the pirate ship, and Le Gu Nan gradually began to enjoy the ride.
• The two tried several more attractions and ate grilled sausages as Le Gu Nan became more relaxed.
• A haunted-house employee invited them to investigate an abandoned hospital, but Shen Heng noticed Le Gu Nan was frightened and started to leave.
• The employee claimed the haunted house had learned from one that made it into Guinness World Records, prompting Shen Heng to pause.

Shen Heng accompanied Le Gu Nan through the Baihe Psychiatric Hospital haunted house after she chose to face her fear of ghosts. When chainsaw-wielding doctors charged at them in the final operating room, Le Gu Nan flung herself into Shen Heng’s arms.

• Le Gu Nan asked to enter the haunted house to try to overcome her fear, and Shen Heng agreed to accompany her.
• After the staff member’s introduction, Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan took a flashlight and entered the dark hospital attraction.
• They encountered a crawling nurse, staged corpses, and other scares as they made their way through the corridors and laboratory, with Le Gu Nan gripping Shen Heng’s arm in fear.
• In the final operating room, chainsaw-wielding doctors charged at Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan, and Le Gu Nan flung herself into his arms.

After Le Gu Nan recovered from the haunted house, she and Shen Heng discussed ghosts and how they had awakened their abilities. Their conversation left Shen Heng wondering what purpose or meaning guided his actions.

• Shen Heng comforted Le Gu Nan in the haunted house, and she stayed close to him until they left.
• Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan returned to the car, shared dinner, and discussed whether ghosts existed and how God Invocation worked.
• Le Gu Nan told Shen Heng that she awakened her ability after touching a forming Origin Crystal from a Calamity Beast that attacked her home.
• Le Gu Nan said she hoped fewer people would die because of Calamity Beasts, then asked Shen Heng why he had joined the Supervision Bureau.
• Shen Heng recalled joining to help his sick mother but found that neither resisting the Ruins Realm nor becoming stronger felt like his purpose.

Shen Heng lured the Golden Rat into an ambush and battled it beneath the moon. After a passing Porsche threw him his saber, he struck the airborne Calamity Beast with Vibrating Blade · Triple.

• Shen Heng decided he needed to better protect the people around him and waited with Le Gu Nan for the Golden Rat to emerge.
• The Golden Rat left its cavern, avoided searching for treasure, and spotted a young man walking alone near the amusement park.
• The Golden Rat attacked the young man, but Shen Heng revealed himself and repeatedly knocked it into the air to keep it from reaching the ground.
• A Porsche sped past and threw Shen Heng his saber, which he caught as the Golden Rat fell toward him.
• Shen Heng wrapped Origin Power and sound waves around his blade and slashed the Golden Rat with Vibrating Blade · Triple.

After Shen Heng killed the Golden Rat, Le Gu Nan treated his injured hands and drove him toward the Longzhou Supervision Bureau. Shen Heng heard signs of a nearby mission and redirected them so Le Gu Nan could see another bureau in action, where a team had lost track of a Third Tier Black Concealment Wolf.

• Shen Heng killed the Golden Rat, and Le Gu Nan cleaned and bandaged the wounds on his hands.
• Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan decided to take the Golden Rat's corpse to the Longzhou Supervision Bureau and leave for Linhai the next day.
• While Le Gu Nan drove, Shen Heng heard a sound and told her to turn left so they could observe a Supervision Bureau mission.
• Chen Rui, Zhou Le'an, and their teammates tracked a Third Tier Black Concealment Wolf after their group split up to pursue four wolves.
• The team lost the wolf's footprints, and Chen Rui asked Zhou Le'an whether his ability had taken effect.

Zhou Le'an, Chen Rui, Wu Lan, and their teammates fought the Third Tier Black Concealment Wolf, but the beast overpowered them and forced them to flee. As the wolf pursued them toward the distant gate, a faint glimmer appeared in a crack in it.

• Zhou Le'an explained that his Induction ability had little effect on the Black Concealment Wolf, which had disappeared from sight during their pursuit.
• The Black Concealment Wolf ambushed the group, injured a teammate, and repeatedly attacked Chen Rui as Wu Lan tried to restrain it with her grappling hook.
• Zhou Le'an and Wu Lan helped entangle the wolf, allowing Chen Rui to strike it, but the beast recovered and knocked them all down.
• The Black Concealment Wolf approached the fallen Chen Rui, but Wu Lan used her grappling hook to pull him away, and the group fled toward the gate.
• The injured group ran as the wolf pursued them, and a faint glimmer appeared in a crack in the distant gate.

Shen Heng arrived in time to kill the Black Concealment Wolf with one slash, saving Wu Lan and her injured teammates. The next day, he and Le Gu Nan left Longzhou by private plane after receiving thanks from Wu Hongxuan.

• Wu Lan asked Shen Heng to hold off the Third Tier Black Concealment Wolf while her captain and teammates dealt with the other beasts.
• Shen Heng killed the Black Concealment Wolf with a single saber slash, leaving Wu Lan and the others stunned by his strength.
• The next day, Wu Hongxuan thanked Shen Heng and said the Golden Rat and Black Concealment Wolf incidents would be reported for points to be credited to him.
• Shen Heng accepted Wu Hongxuan's personal thanks for saving her teammates, then reflected on the dangers faced by local Supervision Bureau members.
• Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan exchanged messages aboard her family's private plane before it took off and Longzhou faded beneath the clouds.

Tao Man learned that Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan had already returned to Longzhou and helped the Supervision Bureau with two missions, while Shen Heng returned to Linhai and redeemed the second layer of Sevenfold Force. The chapter ended as Shen Heng watched holographic instruction demonstrate how to layer two waves of force into a punch.

• Hu Yang and Tao Man registered their departure from Longzhou and learned from Chen Zhixuan that Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan had returned two days earlier.
• Chen Zhixuan said Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan had helped with two missions, preventing someone from the Longzhou Supervision Bureau from dying.
• Shen Heng returned to the Linhai City Supervision Bureau after visiting Xu Yuqin and considering how to spend his points.
• Shen Heng redeemed Sevenfold Force · Second Layer for 300 points and entered a room with holographic instruction equipment.
• The holographic instructor demonstrated how to add a second wave of force within 0.1 seconds to produce Sevenfold Force · Second Layer.

Shen Heng trained to master the first two layers of Sevenfold Force, a human-body-based combat technique that did not use Origin Power during practice. Wang Hai explained the technique’s challenges and recommended a salve to help Shen Heng recover from training injuries.

• Shen Heng studied the virtual figure’s instructions and repeatedly practiced producing and linking two surges of force without using Origin Power.
• Shen Heng struggled to make the second surge fuse perfectly with the first as his training continued through the night.
• At breakfast, Wang Hai recognized that Shen Heng was practicing Sevenfold Force and said close-combat martial artists needed the technique.
• Shen Heng told Wang Hai he could barely link the two surges, and Wang Hai explained that precise timing and repeated practice were needed to master it.
• Wang Hai recommended that Shen Heng redeem Azure Marrow Jade Salve to heal training injuries and speed up his progress.

Le Gu Nan used the Firmament Breath Beast's Lung Crystal to cure Xu Yuqin, who woke and left the hospital with Shen Heng. At Dragon Spine Mountain Base, Shen Shuning received a Tier 2 Origin Crystal and prepared to attempt awakening her ability.

• Le Gu Nan treated Xu Yuqin with the Firmament Breath Beast's Lung Crystal and told Shen Heng the procedure was complete.
• Xu Yuqin woke, spoke with Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan, and was discharged from Linhai City People's Hospital.
• Shen Heng reassured Xu Yuqin that her Weak Breath Disease was cured, though she would need time to recover her strength.
• Xu Jingshan gave Shen Shuning a Tier 2 Origin Crystal and explained how to attempt awakening her ability.
• Shen Shuning waited for Xiao Bai'er, and the two returned to their dormitory discussing their chances of awakening.
• A figure stood on a balcony beneath the moonlight as silvery-white radiance swirled in her palm.