Recaps

Xu Kai and Tian Xingwen began work at the police station amid fears about the Calamity Beast, while Shen Heng watched Le Gu Nan comfort a distressed child. When Shen Heng noticed Lin Xiaoyu acting strangely and called out to her, she turned with a gun aimed at him.

• Xu Kai and Tian Xingwen discussed their slim chances of joining the Supervision Bureau as they headed to their new assignments.
• Xu Kai tried to reassure worried officers by telling them the Supervision Bureau had someone who could detect disturbances caused by the Calamity Beast.
• Lin Xiaoyu abruptly left Ding Xiao, saying she had remembered something she needed to do downstairs.
• At the police station, Shen Heng watched Le Gu Nan comfort Xiao Nuo after the girl’s parents argued over who had failed to pick her up.
• Shen Heng noticed Lin Xiaoyu moving suspiciously and called out to stop her.
• Lin Xiaoyu turned toward Shen Heng with a gun, and he suddenly dropped to the side.

Shen Heng stopped Lin Xiaoyu from shooting civilians and realized a Calamity Beast was parasitizing her body. He used the Realm-Suppressing Stake to halt her escape, then ran outside to confront the beast.

• Lin Xiaoyu shot at Shen Heng, who deflected her bullets with a steel stool and chased after her.
• Lin Xiaoyu aimed at Zhou Mingyuan and his family, but Shen Heng knocked Zhou Mingyuan out of the bullet's path.
• Shen Heng realized the Calamity Beast was parasitizing Lin Xiaoyu and that she was trying to escape outside.
• Le Gu Nan handed Xiao Nuo back to her parents and joined Shen Heng, who decided not to chase Lin Xiaoyu directly.
• Shen Heng activated the Realm-Suppressing Stake, stopped the fleeing footsteps outside, and ran out with his saber as someone asked through his earpiece whether he had activated it.

Shen Heng identified the Calamity Beast as a parasite that could move between human hosts, while Le Gu Nan tried to evacuate civilians and keep it from escaping the Haiguang Public Security Sub-Bureau. The chapter ended with Wu Yongfeng encountering a figure in the corridor as he hurried toward the entrance.

• Shen Heng told Wei Leyang that the Calamity Beast parasitized people and could switch hosts, but he could not identify which person it controlled.
• Le Gu Nan left the other inspectors to warn and evacuate people in the reception hall, then told officers to hide and distrust anyone they saw from then on.
• Le Gu Nan stopped two officers from running down the corridor together and used a silver-gray construct to make them halt.
• Wu Yongfeng ran toward the entrance instead of hiding, then stopped when a figure appeared around the corridor corner.

Wu Yongfeng realized Wu Zhenyu might have known he was not the Calamity Beast, while Shen Heng investigated the chaos and subdued an officer who appeared to be under its control. Shen Heng left the officer unconscious and wondered whether he could still be saved.

• Wu Zhenyu told Wu Yongfeng he wanted to escape, and the two headed for the stairs after Wu Yongfeng accepted his identity check.
• Wu Yongfeng realized Wu Zhenyu had not asked him to prove his identity, suggesting Wu Zhenyu knew he was not the Calamity Beast.
• Shen Heng heard cries and commotion from several places and suspected the Calamity Beast was causing widespread disorder to hide itself.
• Shen Heng ordered Di Hong into a room, then confronted the pursuing officer, who charged at him with a meaningless roar.
• Shen Heng knocked the officer down and used Origin Power on the back of his head, leaving him limp.

Shen Heng warned the police officers about the Calamity Beast’s mind-control ability and continued searching the area. After stopping an apparent attack, he realized the rescued man might be the beast in disguise.

• Shen Heng explained that Origin Power could erase the Calamity Beast’s influence and cautioned the officers to protect themselves when making contact.
• Di Hong described seeing a red, segmented worm emerge from a woman’s head, then followed Shen Heng’s instructions to hide in a room.
• Shen Heng ran toward a gunshot and intercepted a shot aimed at a plump man, deflecting the bullet with his saber.
• Shen Heng wounded and subdued the armed figure, then used Origin Power to make it go still.
• When Shen Heng asked to check the plump man, the man objected, making Shen Heng suspect that the Calamity Beast had lured him into a trap.

Shen Heng exposed and wounded a Tier 2 parasitic Calamity Beast, which escaped through the ventilation ducts. It found a new host at the police station, and Wei Leyang prepared to intercept it as Shen Heng hurried there.

• Shen Heng distracted the plump figure, then stabbed him and revealed a short, injured parasitic worm emerging from his mouth.
• The Calamity Beast crawled into a ventilation duct, and Shen Heng chased it and slashed through the duct, injuring it again as it escaped upward.
• Shen Heng told Wei Leyang the beast’s location and sent him to the fifth floor while he ran toward the stairs.
• Shen Heng explained over the earpiece that the Tier 2 parasite was relatively weak because its human host had been an ordinary person.
• The Calamity Beast found someone being held at the police station and parasitized them, while Wei Leyang insisted he could fight it and went to intercept it.

Shen Heng and the Linhai Supervision Bureau squad discovered that the Calamity Beast had survived and burrowed into Wei Leyang. The team gathered in the holding cell, but every proposed way to extract it risked letting it reach Wei Leyang’s brain.

• Wei Leyang reported that he had killed the Calamity Beast, but a short red worm burst from the corpse and bit his ankle.
• Shen Heng reached the holding cell and found Wei Leyang holding the worm back with Origin Power as it moved beneath his chest toward his head.
• Shen Heng recognized the corpse as Huang Shaohua but focused on finding a way to save Wei Leyang.
• Han Ling, Le Gu Nan, Wang Hai, and Wu Cheng arrived, and Wu Cheng suggested cutting Wei Leyang open or using their Origin Power to force the worm out.
• Wang Hai explained why each proposed method could let the Calamity Beast burrow deeper, leaving Wu Cheng frustrated that they could do nothing.

As the Calamity Beast moved through Wei Leyang’s body, Wu Cheng proposed that Wei Leyang try evolving his ability to bind it. The others prepared to consider the risky attempt, while Shen Heng learned for the first time that abilities could evolve.

• Wei Leyang said the Calamity Beast had burrowed into his body and that only he could affect it, then joked that it might help him like a creature inside an anime protagonist.
• Shen Heng considered negotiating with the Calamity Beast but remained unwilling to trust it, and the team admitted their earlier rescue plans had failed.
• Wu Cheng suggested that Wei Leyang evolve his ability so he might generate threads inside his body and restrain the Calamity Beast.
• Wu Cheng pointed to the third-tier Origin Crystal on Le Gu Nan’s Realm-Suppressing Stake, and Wang Hai considered approving the risky attempt.
• Shen Heng asked what ability evolution meant, and Han Ling explained that abilities could rise to a higher rank before asking Wang Hai whether he had told Shen Heng about it.

Wang Hai explained that abilities could evolve after body and ability Synchronization, and Shen Heng realized his passive Hearing Enhancement had already synchronized. After Wang Hai agreed to request Origin Crystals for Shen Heng to attempt evolution, Shen Heng suggested his evolved ability might help with Wei Leyang and reminded the group of the Maimed-Tail Disaster Beast.

• Wang Hai explained that extensive ability use built Synchronization, which allowed an ability to evolve when stimulated with Origin Power.
• Shen Heng connected his past weariness and smoother Hearing Enhancement to completing Synchronization, then told Wang Hai his ability was ready to evolve.
• Shen Heng explained that Hearing Enhancement consumed little Origin Power and ran passively, leaving Wang Hai surprised but willing to request Origin Crystals from headquarters.
• As the group turned back to the ashen Wei Leyang, Shen Heng asked them to wait and recalled the Maimed-Tail Disaster Beast they had encountered.

Shen Heng evolved his ability and discovered he could see and emit sound waves. He used his new power against the Calamity Beast inside Wei Leyang, but the outcome remained unknown.

• Han Ling and Le Gu Nan recognized that Shen Heng might use sonic attacks to fight the Calamity Beast inside Wei Leyang.
• Wang Hai ordered Le Gu Nan to remove the Origin Crystal from the Realm-Suppressing Stake so Shen Heng could evolve.
• Shen Heng absorbed the Origin Power, endured severe pain, and gained the ability to see sound waves.
• Shen Heng emitted a sonic pulse, briefly clouding the minds of everyone nearby, and confirmed his attack worked.
• Shen Heng approached Wei Leyang, focused on the ripples around the Calamity Beast, and said, “Silence.”

Shen Heng used his newly evolved Sound Wave Manipulation to kill the Calamity Beast inside Wei Leyang, then tested the ability’s attack, defense, and sound imitation functions. As Le Gu Nan came to call him for dinner, she caught him making a pig’s oink and stared at him in surprise.

• Shen Heng manipulated sound waves to stop the Calamity Beast inside Wei Leyang, and the others thanked him after confirming it was dead.
• Shen Heng assessed Sound Wave Manipulation’s limited attack and defensive strength in his training room.
• Shen Heng discovered he could imitate other people’s voices and sounds, including the voices of Wang Hai and Han Ling.
• Li Jianguo told Le Gu Nan that it was time to eat, so she and Dahuang went to fetch Shen Heng.
• Le Gu Nan opened the training-room door and heard Shen Heng making a pig’s oink, leaving him to turn toward her stiffly.

Shen Heng asked Le Gu Nan to keep secret that he had been testing his upgraded ability by imitating pig noises, and she agreed while finding it cute. Over dinner, the group discussed his abilities and passive state, and Le Gu Nan began explaining how unusual that state was.

• Shen Heng explained his new sound-imitation ability to Le Gu Nan and asked her to keep his pig noises secret; she agreed and teased him affectionately.
• Dahuang mimicked Shen Heng's oinks in the dining room, and Shen Heng told everyone he had stepped on the dog's tail.
• Wang Hai asked Shen Heng to join him after dinner for an ability-grade assessment and registration.
• Wei Leyang thanked Shen Heng and Le Gu Nan for saving his life, while Han Ling and Wei Leyang remarked on Shen Heng's rapid progress.
• Wu Cheng pointed out that Shen Heng's ability was passive, and Le Gu Nan began explaining that passive states required very special abilities.

Le Gu Nan explained why most abilities would be harmful if passive, and Shen Heng described the burden of hearing sounds around him constantly. Shen Heng then sparred with Wei Leyang, ending the match instantly with his newly evolved Silence ability, and Wei Leyang demanded a rematch.

• Le Gu Nan explained that passive abilities could interfere with daily life and said Shen Heng's constant distant hearing could be overwhelming.
• Shen Heng told the group his hearing reached two hundred meters normally and five kilometers at its limit, and that he had endured it for six months.
• Han Ling suggested Shen Heng spar with someone to test his ability, and the group gathered in the training room as he faced Wei Leyang.
• Wang Hai started the match, and Shen Heng rushed Wei Leyang before using Silence to knock him unconscious.
• Shen Heng stopped his wooden saber beside Wei Leyang's neck, and Wei Leyang woke up, realized he had forgotten to defend himself with Origin Power, and asked for one more try.

Shen Heng fought Wei Leyang again, using his Flow technique and sound attacks to hold him off before Wei Leyang won by trapping him with threads. Wang Hai then tested Shen Heng’s evolved ability, which still ranked D, and Shen Heng asked whether ability ranks rose gradually or depended on luck.

• Shen Heng agreed to fight Wei Leyang again and charged when Wang Hai called the start.
• Wei Leyang protected his head with Origin Power, resisted Shen Heng’s sound attacks, and eventually trapped him with threads to win.
• Wang Hai and Han Ling remarked on Shen Heng’s unusual physical fitness, and Shen Heng explained that he had developed the Flow technique.
• Wu Cheng found that Flow was a B-rank technique costing 3,500 points on Martial World Easy Exchange, though Shen Heng said it required Fourth Tier to practice.
• Wang Hai tested Shen Heng’s evolved Sound Wave Manipulation, which registered as D-rank, and Shen Heng asked how ability ranks advanced.

Wang Hai explained the risks and possible outcomes of Ability Evolution to Shen Heng. In November, Shen Heng completed his saber instruction with Yu Jingming, who said further practice would help him approach the instructor’s skill.

• Wang Hai told Shen Heng that an ability user who attempted evolution before Synchronization and failed would lose control and mutate into a monster of Origin Power.
• Wang Hai explained that each evolution could raise an ability by up to three grades and might produce enhancement, derivative, or mutation abilities.
• Shen Heng and Yu Jingming clashed with wooden sabers in the training room on the last day of instruction.
• Yu Jingming told Shen Heng he had taught him all he could and that daily practice could bring Shen Heng close to his skill within six months to a year.
• Shen Heng thanked Instructor Yu and bowed to him.

Yu Jingming said goodbye to Shen Heng after finishing his teaching, while his sister Yu Chunhe thanked Shen Heng with homemade tea cakes. In the capital, Li Daoyi reviewed a list of training camp candidates and questioned whether it included everyone who had applied.

• Shen Heng walked Yu Jingming to the Supervision Bureau lobby, where they found Yu Chunhe waiting for her brother.
• Yu Chunhe gave Shen Heng tea cakes to thank him for looking after Yu Jingming and hinted that another saber practitioner had once badly beaten her brother.
• Yu Jingming and Yu Chunhe left together, discussing his possible awakening and where the Supervision Bureau might assign him.
• In the capital, Lü Mingzhe brought Li Daoyi a tablet listing thirty candidates for a training camp.
• After reviewing the list, Li Daoyi asked whether those thirty were everyone who had applied, and Lü Mingzhe explained that they had been selected from more than two hundred applicants.

Li Daoyi discovered that Shen Heng had reached Tier 2 and evolved his ability in under a year, then added him to the training camp’s first session. Meanwhile, a one-horned rat-type Calamity Beast came ashore near Linhai City and entered a pipe where other creatures chittered in response.

• Li Daoyi searched the applicants’ list for Shen Heng and learned that people who had not applied could still be considered for the training camp.
• Lü Mingzhe pulled up Shen Heng’s records, which showed his Tier 2 rank, evolved Sound Wave Manipulation ability, and nearly three thousand points.
• Li Daoyi and Lü Mingzhe realized Shen Heng had reached Tier 2 in half a year and that his ability was passive.
• Li Daoyi told Lü Mingzhe to add Shen Heng to the training camp’s first session.
• A one-horned rat-type Calamity Beast carried a large fish ashore near Linhai City and crawled into a hidden pipe as other creatures chittered inside.

Nearly a year after arriving in this world, Shen Heng noticed that Calamity Beast incidents in Linhai City were becoming more frequent, while Xu Yuqin’s health seemed to be worsening. On New Year’s Eve, he left his family to visit the Supervision Bureau, where the chapter ended as he stopped at the entrance.

• While putting up Spring Festival couplets, Shen Heng reflected on the year and the rise in Linhai City’s Calamity Beast incidents.
• At New Year’s Eve dinner, Xu Yuqin suffered a coughing fit, and Shen Heng suspected her medicine was no longer helping much.
• Shen Heng saw in the group chat that the captain was on duty at the Supervision Bureau and considered visiting.
• Shen Shuning expressed concern when Shen Heng said he was heading to the office late on New Year’s Eve.
• Shen Heng drove to the Supervision Bureau and stopped just before entering its main entrance.

Shen Heng visited Wang Hai at the Linhai City Supervision Bureau and spent time with Wang Hai’s daughter, Little Bell, while Han Ling brought them food. After Han Ling took Little Bell home, Wang Hai told Shen Heng that Headquarters had ordered him to attend the first training camp.

• Shen Heng found Wang Hai with his daughter, Little Bell, and suggested taking over the shift so Wang Hai could bring her home.
• Wang Hai declined to leave his post but asked Shen Heng to take Little Bell home later.
• Han Ling arrived with braised goose, shared it with Shen Heng, Wang Hai, and Little Bell, then agreed to take Little Bell home.
• Han Ling left with Little Bell, and Wang Hai told Shen Heng that Headquarters required him to attend the first training camp.

Shen Heng learned that Daoist Master Li had arranged for him to attend the three-month training camp in the Capital, and Wang Hai promised to help him obtain a needed Lung Crystal. As Shen Heng traveled to the remote military base hosting the camp, his colleagues in Linhai discussed his unexpected connection to Li Daoyi.

• Wang Hai told Shen Heng that the Capital had added him to the training camp, and Shen Heng realized Daoist Master Li had arranged it.
• Wang Hai encouraged Shen Heng to attend and promised to exchange for a Firmament Breath Beast's Lung Crystal if one appeared on Martial World Easy Exchange.
• At the Supervision Bureau cafeteria, Wang Hai explained to Han Ling and the others that Li Daoyi had specifically requested Shen Heng for the camp.
• Le Gu Nan privately resolved to try staying alone in the training room while Shen Heng was away.
• Shen Heng rode in an army-green jeep through the mountain forest toward the military base where the training camp would be held.

Shen Heng arrived at 07 Military Base, learned its rules, and explored the grounds before meeting Yang Xu and reuniting with Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran at the cafeteria. He settled in ahead of the training camp, which was due to begin the following day.

• Shen Heng checked in at 07 Military Base, received room 503 and a map, and memorized the base’s rules.
• Shen Heng explored the base the next day, then went to the cafeteria at dusk.
• Yang Xu confronted Shen Heng, but walked away when Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran approached.
• Cao Mingyu told Shen Heng that he had challenged Yang Xu to a rematch and beaten him.
• Shen Heng ate with Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran, learning Cao Mingyu had arrived three days before the training camp.

Shen Heng told Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran that his Sound Wave Manipulation ability was D-rank and that headquarters had specifically selected him for the training camp. Meanwhile, Zhang Chenguang revealed that the final participant, Zhou Xuan, had also been specifically added by headquarters, leaving Cao Zhenghao curious about how he compared with Wu Hongxuan and Xiao Xiangtong.

• Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran said their abilities were A-rank, and Shen Heng disclosed that his Sound Wave Manipulation was D-rank.
• Cao Mingyu questioned how Shen Heng had entered the camp, and Shen Heng said headquarters had specifically called him.
• Shen Heng asked about the training, then sensed a sound from above while he and the others continued talking.
• Zhang Chenguang told Cao Zhenghao and Chang Lei that Zhou Xuan had just arrived and had been specifically added by headquarters.
• Chang Lei said Zhou Xuan had outstanding aptitude, and Cao Zhenghao asked how he compared with Wu Hongxuan and Xiao Xiangtong.

Shen Heng learned that the training camp planned a surprise midnight assembly and warned Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran to review the base rules without giving them the answer outright. After Cao Mingyu began memorizing the rules, Shen Heng reached his dorm and found his roommate making an unusual offering to the Lord of the Land.

• Chang Lei explained that he would start the training by correcting the recruits’ attitudes and making clear they were at the camp for intensive training, not leisure.
• Shen Heng reminded Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran to review 07 Military Base’s rules, then reflected on the planned midnight assembly and decided not to tell them exactly what to expect.
• Cao Mingyu recalled Shen Heng’s warning, studied the map, and began memorizing the base rules.
• Shen Heng entered room 503 and saw his roommate offer Kunlun Ice Spring and walnut cookies to the Lord of the Land.
• After his roommate placed the incense, Shen Heng asked whether making offerings like that was all right.

Shen Heng met Zhou Xuan, his new roommate, and learned that Zhou Xuan's A-rank God Invocation ability drew power from humanity's collective beliefs. The conversation ended with Shen Heng asking whether Zhou Xuan believed in the light.

• Shen Heng found Zhou Xuan making offerings to the Earth God and the City God, then introduced himself as Zhou Xuan's roommate for three months.
• Zhou Xuan explained that his God Invocation ability connected him to images formed by humanity's collective beliefs and let him borrow their powers.
• Zhou Xuan told Shen Heng that failed invocations could erase divine slots, and that he had lost his Tier 0 slot trying to invoke powerful gods.
• Zhou Xuan explained that the Earth God granted earth-related abilities and the City God could release oppressive might and summon ghost soldiers.
• Shen Heng asked whether Zhou Xuan could invoke gods from other cultures, and Zhou Xuan said he had not tried but thought it was possible.
• Shen Heng asked Zhou Xuan whether he believed in the light.

Shen Heng and Zhou Xuan discussed Zhou Xuan’s plan to invoke Ultraman, then rushed to the training grounds after a surprise assembly siren. Chang Lei confronted the camp participants after only nine of thirty arrived within the five-minute deadline.

• Zhou Xuan eagerly agreed with Shen Heng’s suggestion that he might invoke Ultraman once he reached the third tier.
• Shen Heng reminded Zhou Xuan that the map required participants to reach the training grounds within five minutes of an emergency assembly signal, and they ran there together.
• Shen Heng and Zhou Xuan arrived two minutes after the siren, and Chang Lei waited as other participants trickled in.
• Only nine of the thirty participants arrived within five minutes, so Chang Lei ordered an announcement calling the rest to assemble.
• After the remaining participants arrived late, Chang Lei criticized them for treating the training camp like an outing or vacation.