Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into Shen Heng's body, Shen Heng recovered on a roadside bench and met Nannan and her mother. When a large dog attacked Nannan's mother, he overcame his fear and went to help, leaving the story with him facing the dog in the alley.

• Shen Heng woke after apparently dying while saving a little girl and realized he had transmigrated into another world.
• Nannan offered Shen Heng her favorite grilled sausage, and he accepted it before resting and heading home.
• Nannan ran back to Shen Heng in tears and told him a large dog had bitten her mother.
• Shen Heng saw Nannan's mother lying motionless beneath the dog, then noticed she was still alive.
• Shen Heng called for help and told Nannan to find several people while he went into the alley to drive the dog away.

Shen Heng entered an alley to rescue a badly wounded woman from a giant talking black dog, despite the police warning being sent after him. The dog overpowered him and bit both his arms, leaving Shen Heng in grave danger.

• Shen Heng called the police to report the dog attacking someone near Shangpu Residential Community, then went into the alley alone.
• Captain Fan learned that Shen Heng had entered the danger zone and ordered nearby officers to respond with authorization to use their guns, while the Supervision Bureau and hospital were contacted.
• Shen Heng found the injured woman and ignored her plea to take Nannan away, instead approaching the black dog to save her.
• The black dog spoke to Shen Heng and refused his offer of other food, insisting that it would eat the woman.
• Shen Heng charged the dog to stop it from attacking the woman, but it knocked him down and bit his arm.
• The dog flung Shen Heng aside and bit his left arm again, overpowering him as he struggled to resist.

Shen Heng fought a huge black calamity beast in an alley and killed it despite suffering severe injuries. Police arrived after he passed out and discovered that the high school student had killed the beast with his bare hands.

• Shen Heng endured the black dog's bites and repeatedly struck its waist until he managed to attack its eye.
• Shen Heng clung to the black dog and drove his fingers into its head while it slammed him against a wall.
• Shen Heng destroyed the black dog's brain, killing it, then collapsed beneath its body as a warm current briefly passed through him.
• Shen Heng lost consciousness when a beam of light appeared in the alley.
• Two police officers found Shen Heng and the dead calamity beast, and one reported the scene to Captain Fan.
• The officer told Captain Fan that Shen Heng, a high school student, had killed the unranked calamity beast without a weapon.

Shen Heng woke in a hospital after killing a Calamity Beast and learned that his injuries had been healed and his body strengthened. The middle-aged man explained that two worlds had been overlapping for ten years, bringing Calamity Beasts and Origin Power into their world, then asked Shen Heng what ability he had awakened.

• Shen Heng woke in a hospital and met Han Ling and a middle-aged man, who explained they had brought him there after he killed the Calamity Beast.
• The middle-aged man said Gu Nan had healed Shen Heng’s injuries and that Origin Power had strengthened his body.
• The middle-aged man explained that two worlds had begun overlapping ten years earlier, causing projections from the other world to appear and sometimes become permanent.
• The middle-aged man identified the black dog Shen Heng fought as a Calamity Beast called a Mutilated Hound.
• The middle-aged man explained that Origin Power could awaken individual abilities in humans and asked Shen Heng what ability he had awakened.

Shen Heng learned that he had awakened an ability after coming into contact with a Calamity Beast’s Origin Power Crystal, and discovered that it was Hearing Enhancement. After Wang Hai tested it as F-rank, Shen Heng worried that his ability would leave him with little chance of defending himself.

• Wang Hai explained that Shen Heng had likely awakened an ability when his hand was inside the Mutilated Hound’s head, since no Origin Power Crystal had been found.
• Shen Heng focused on his body and realized he could hear distant sounds and detect emotional fluctuations in people’s voices.
• Wang Hai identified himself as a director of the Public Security Supervision Bureau, and Shen Heng verified his claim by calling emergency dispatch.
• Shen Heng described his Hearing Enhancement, which could detect sounds from about 500 meters away and pick up emotions such as fear or nervousness.
• Wang Hai tested Shen Heng’s ability with a testing board and identified it as F-rank, leaving Shen Heng worried about his prospects.

Wang Hai explained the Supervision Bureau’s work and invited Shen Heng to join, but Shen Heng chose to take time to consider the offer. After Wang Hai and Han Ling left, Wang Hai warned that the world might grow increasingly dangerous.

• Wang Hai and Han Ling described the limitations of weather-predicting and plant-speaking abilities, helping Shen Heng feel better about his own ability to gather intelligence.
• Wang Hai explained that the Supervision Bureau recruited awakened people to fight Calamity Beasts, offering pay, supplies, and training while requiring registration from those who declined to join.
• Wang Hai formally invited Shen Heng to join the Linhai City Public Security Supervision Bureau and gave him up to a week to decide.
• Shen Heng asked about the person bitten by the Calamity Beast, and Wang Hai said she had been treated and was fine.
• Wang Hai warned Shen Heng that the world might become more dangerous before leaving with Han Ling, and Shen Heng reflected on the warning.

Wang Hai explained to Han Ling why Shen Heng’s hearing ability could help the team, while Shen Heng struggled with its constant noise and considered whether to join the Supervision Bureau. He suspected the world’s overlap with another world was still in its early stages, but his fear that his support ability would leave him dangerously exposed kept him undecided, and he chose to go home first.

• Wang Hai persuaded Han Ling that Shen Heng’s ability could provide valuable intelligence support, citing the team’s failure to find a Shadow Cat.
• Wang Hai and Han Ling discussed Shen Heng’s unexpectedly mature behavior and Wang Hai predicted that Shen Heng would eventually join the team.
• Shen Heng discovered that his Hearing Enhancement constantly picked up sounds within forty or fifty meters, and he could not suppress it by exhausting his Origin Power.
• Shen Heng searched online for information about Calamity Beasts and suspected that the government was concealing a slowly progressing invasion and that the Supervision Bureau was still in its early days.
• Shen Heng weighed joining the Supervision Bureau against the danger of fighting with a limited-range support ability, then decided to go home first.

Shen Heng returned to his apartment, cleaned the neglected home, and encountered his sister Shen Shuning with Huang Shaohua, who came to collect a debt. Huang showed Shen Heng a contract stating that he owed 60,000 yuan for a study-abroad service, with the balance due on May 5.

• Shen Heng rode the bus back to Emerald Garden Residential Complex and found his mother and sister away from home.
• Shen Heng cleaned the apartment, including his filthy bedroom, while leaving the two closed bedrooms untouched.
• Shen Heng met Shen Shuning and Huang Shaohua on the stairs; Shen Shuning rejected Huang's attempts to flirt and went inside.
• Huang Shaohua told Shen Heng to remember the money he owed and Shen Heng asked how much it was.
• Huang Shaohua showed Shen Heng a contract for a 63,000-yuan study-abroad service, with 60,000 yuan unpaid and the full balance due on May 5.

Shen Heng confronted Huang Shaohua over a gambling debt that had doubled to sixty thousand, then stopped him from threatening Shen Heng's sister with marriage. After Huang Shaohua stormed off, he vowed to investigate her and take revenge on Shen Heng.

• Shen Heng recognized the contract for his original body's thirty-thousand gambling loan, which had grown to sixty thousand, and agreed to repay it.
• Huang Shaohua offered to ease the debt if Shen Heng's sister married him, but Shen Heng warned him to keep away from her.
• Huang Shaohua tried to slap Shen Heng, who caught his wrist and forced him to promise to watch his mouth.
• Shen Heng released Huang Shaohua and went inside, while Huang Shaohua cursed him and threatened revenge if he failed to repay the debt.
• Huang Shaohua decided to ask Yellow Hair to investigate Shen Heng's sister.

Shen Heng tried to rebuild trust with Shen Shuning by cleaning the home and cooking dinner, but she remained wary that he wanted to borrow money. After discovering he owed 482,000 yuan through online loans and 60,000 yuan to Huang Shaohua, he considered ways to earn money and settled on becoming a private detective.

• Shen Shuning suspected Shen Heng had cleaned the home to persuade her to borrow money, while Shen Heng calmly denied it.
• Shen Heng cooked dinner and persuaded Shen Shuning to eat by saying he would throw away her portion if she refused.
• Shen Shuning warned Shen Heng that she would not borrow money for him, and he said he would handle his own affairs.
• Shen Heng checked his phone and found that he owed 482,000 yuan to online lending platforms and 60,000 yuan to Huang Shaohua's casino.
• Shen Heng considered several ways to earn money, including joining the Supervision Bureau, and concluded that becoming a private detective was his only viable option.

Shen Heng noticed Xu Yuqin taking what might have been medicine after another long shift, then surprised her by making chicken soup and showing concern. When Xu Yuqin explained she had to save money for his older sister’s university tuition, Shen Heng accepted it calmly, while Shen Shuning accused him of gambling again after he stayed out overnight.

• Shen Heng posted an advertisement for his private detective services and overheard Xu Yuqin saying she would work again the next day.
• Shen Heng saw Xu Yuqin take something from her bag and swallow it, then wondered whether she was ill.
• Shen Heng welcomed Xu Yuqin home and served her chicken soup, which left her astonished and pleased.
• Shen Shuning joined them, and Xu Yuqin gave her twelve hundred in living expenses while explaining she needed to save for her older sister’s tuition.
• Shen Shuning said Shen Heng had probably gone gambling again, and Xu Yuqin began to make him a suggestion.

Shen Heng reassured Xu Yuqin that he would stop gambling, though she did not believe him, then discovered a medicine box in her takeout bag and searched for the illness it might treat. He learned that Xu Yuqin might have Weak Breath Disease, a rare progressive respiratory illness with no available treatment.

• Xu Yuqin tearfully pleaded with Shen Heng to stop gambling, and Shen Shuning comforted her.
• Shen Heng promised Xu Yuqin that he would not gamble again, but she doubted his words.
• Shen Heng washed the dishes and later searched through Xu Yuqin's takeout bag, finding a medicine box with only a few legible label characters.
• Shen Heng searched online for the medicine label and found information about Weak Breath Disease, a progressive respiratory illness with no known treatment.

Shen Heng learned that Xu Yuqin’s late-stage Weak Breath Disease was caused by her body’s incompatibility with Origin Power and that a Firmament Breath Beast Lung Crystal could treat it. With no crystals available and no time to wait for a cure, he decided to join the Supervision Bureau and was told to report the next morning; he then woke to the overwhelming sounds his ability picked up.

• Shen Heng asked Wang Hai about Weak Breath Disease and learned that Xu Yuqin could not be treated by the person who healed his arm.
• Shen Heng discovered that Weak Breath Disease resulted from prolonged exposure to Origin Power in people who could not adapt to it.
• Wang Hai explained that a Firmament Breath Beast Lung Crystal could absorb the harmful Origin Power, but none were available, and he gave Shen Heng three possible paths to a cure.
• Shen Heng chose to join the Supervision Bureau to seek a Lung Crystal for Xu Yuqin, and Wang Hai told him to report to Building 9, No. 3 Dongxing Road, before ten the next day.
• The next morning, Shen Heng woke to unwanted sounds from around him and checked the time: 7:02 a.m.

Shen Heng prepared to join the Public Security Supervision Bureau and met Wei Leyang and his dog, Dahuang, at the bureau. He learned that Dahuang was an ordinary dog belonging to Old Li, not an invading Calamity Beast.

• Shen Heng offered Shen Shuning breakfast and told her he might be away, then left her to figure out how much water to use when cooking rice.
• Shen Heng arrived at the Public Security Comprehensive Services Park and found the Supervision Bureau in Building 9.
• Shen Heng met Wei Leyang, who introduced himself as a Tier 2 B-rank Thread Control ability user.
• Wei Leyang introduced Dahuang as a fellow comrade-in-arms after the dog barked at Shen Heng.
• Wei Leyang reassured Shen Heng that Dahuang was Old Li's dog and had been around longer than the otherworld invasion.

Shen Heng joined the Supervision Bureau and learned that Calamity Beast incursions were becoming more frequent as the two worlds overlapped. Wang Hai explained the tier system and warned that a tier-six beast could appear at any time, then handed Shen Heng a contract to review.

• Wei Leyang told Shen Heng that Old Li’s wife died fighting a Calamity Beast and that Dahuang now came to the bureau during Old Li’s shifts.
• Wang Hai called Shen Heng over and explained that Calamity Beast encounters in Linhai City had risen to seven already that March.
• Shen Heng explained how he had deduced that the two worlds were overlapping, and Wang Hai praised his reasoning.
• Wang Hai described tiers zero through nine, saying that the strongest humans and the strongest known Calamity Beast were both tier five.
• Wang Hai warned that a tier-six Calamity Beast could appear as the overlap deepened, then gave Shen Heng a contract to read.

Shen Heng officially joined the Linhai City Supervision Bureau and learned about its pay, ranks, and cultivation requirements. Wang Hai began teaching him the bureau’s cultivation methods, but after demonstrating the Five Animal Fist, he moved on to explain how to absorb Origin Power before Shen Heng had practiced the forms.

• Shen Heng asked Wang Hai about his pay and learned that inspectors received rank-based salaries and performance points exchangeable for supplies.
• Shen Heng learned that a Firmament Breath Beast’s Lung Crystal had previously cost 3,000 points and that reaching third rank through normal cultivation could take two or three years.
• Wang Hai advised Shen Heng to focus on cultivating, and Shen Heng resolved to reach third rank while saving points and to find a way to repay Huang Shaohua’s debt.
• Shen Heng signed the contract, officially joined the Linhai City Supervision Bureau, and agreed to attend school by day and cultivate at night until he reached first rank.
• Wang Hai brought Shen Heng to the training room, measured his punching power at 123.2 kg, and demonstrated the Five Animal Fist.
• When Wang Hai moved on to teach a method for absorbing Origin Power, Shen Heng pointed out that he had only watched the Five Animal Fist and had not yet learned to perform it.

Wang Hai taught Shen Heng the Heavenly Cycle Breathing Technique, and Shen Heng eventually sensed and guided Origin Power into his body. He continued cultivating in the training room, recognizing when distractions pulled his attention away and returning to his breathing.

• Wang Hai directed Shen Heng to a tablet for learning the Five Animal Fist and began teaching him the Heavenly Cycle Breathing Technique.
• Shen Heng followed Wang Hai’s breathing instructions and listened to the technique’s formula while struggling to ignore the surrounding noise.
• After many failed attempts, Shen Heng guided a wisp of Origin Power between his brows, activating his dormant meridians and successfully learning the technique.
• Wang Hai noticed the fluctuation in Origin Power, watched Shen Heng briefly, then moved away to train on his own.
• As Shen Heng continued cultivating, sounds distracted him, but he recognized his wandering thoughts and readjusted his breathing.

Shen Heng joined the Linhai City Supervision Bureau squad and met its members over dinner. After learning about the squad’s work and introducing their abilities, everyone welcomed him as a new member.

• Shen Heng ate dinner with the squad and met Han Ling, Wu Cheng, Zheng Anlin, and Li Jianguo, while Dahuang barked beneath the table.
• Han Ling teased Shen Heng for calling the police to verify Wang Hai’s credentials, and Wu Cheng defended the choice as a way to respect life.
• Wang Hai explained that the squad was small because Calamity Beast incidents were uncommon and Origin Power Crystals were limited, and Han Ling said Le Gu Nan had helped treat Shen Heng’s injuries.
• Wang Hai led the squad in introducing their abilities and roles, and Shen Heng introduced himself as a tier-zero member with F-rank Hearing Enhancement.
• Wang Hai and the others raised their glasses to welcome Shen Heng to the Linhai City Supervision Bureau squad.

Shen Heng’s unusually sustained breathing practice astonished Han Ling, Wu Cheng, and Wei Leyang, who abandoned their plans to play cards and began cultivating themselves. Later, Shen Heng practiced the Five Animal Fist and found that his ability to perceive tranquility returned only when his Origin Power ran out, then quickly resumed as his body absorbed more.

• Wu Cheng invited Shen Heng to play mahjong, but Shen Heng chose to cultivate, and Han Ling led the group to watch him practice breathing.
• Wu Cheng, Wei Leyang, and Han Ling wagered on how long Shen Heng could keep practicing; he continued for more than two and a half hours without stopping.
• Impressed by Shen Heng’s effort, Wei Leyang went to cultivate, and Han Ling and Wu Cheng decided to do the same instead of playing cards.
• Shen Heng practiced the Five Animal Fist as Origin Power tempered his body, then paused and briefly experienced tranquility.
• Shen Heng realized his ability stopped when his Origin Power ran out, but returned as his body naturally absorbed more.

Shen Heng practiced his breathing and Five Animal Fist, told Xu Yuqin he had taken a night-shift job, and returned to school the next day. There, he faced Kong Haochen’s mockery about his poor grades and answered with a pointed retort.

• Shen Heng practiced the Heavenly Cycle Breathing Technique on the bus and later trained with Five Animal Fist at home.
• Shen Heng told Xu Yuqin he had found a night-shift job, and she worried about his health and schooling.
• Shen Heng urged Xu Yuqin to quit one of her jobs, but she refused before accepting his reassurance that he could manage.
• Shen Heng returned to Senior Year Class 4, where Yan Sheng asked why he had missed school.
• Kong Haochen mocked Shen Heng’s grades and said he would end up working in a factory, and Shen Heng stopped Yan Sheng from arguing before replying that Kong lacked self-awareness.