Recaps

Ye Jiang persuaded the gravekeeper to search for the missing townspeople, who were revealed inside invisible snowballs in the pharmaceutical factory warehouse. As the townspeople celebrated their rescue, an A-rank polluted one appeared and attacked them.

• Ye Jiang healed the gravekeeper’s finger and revived flowers on a grave, prompting him to use his search ability.
• The gravekeeper located the missing townspeople in the pharmaceutical factory warehouse, and Ye Jiang passed the news to Hua Ling.
• Hua Ling gathered the townspeople at the warehouse, where Ye Jiang saw the unconscious people sealed in transparent snowballs.
• The snowballs became visible, and the townspeople began waking as the crowd celebrated their survival.
• An eight-tentacled A-rank polluted one appeared on the factory roof, and Hua Ling warned everyone to scatter as it attacked.

Ye Jiang left her playful confrontation with the eight-armed contaminant to search for her mission target, while the townspeople fought the A-rank contaminant without the Guard. Ming Xia joined the battle and brought her gravity-enhanced longsword down toward its head.

• Ye Jiang blocked the contaminant’s first tentacle strike, tested its soft skin, and evaded its relentless attacks before spotting a figure in her mission target’s courtyard and rushing there.
• Ye Jiang found the courtyard empty and searched the small building while the contaminant turned its malice toward the townspeople.
• A dozen unusually silent and determined townspeople attacked the contaminant, and Hua Ling urged the others to stop standing aside and join the fight.
• The townspeople rallied together and coordinated their abilities against the contaminant, while Ming Xia arrived from her fight with Weird Snow.
• Ming Xia used gravity manipulation to rise above the contaminant and swung her broad-bladed longsword toward its head.

Ming Xia and the townspeople killed the snow-contaminant, revealing that it had caused the weeklong snowfall. Ye Jiang then captured Little Pink, who claimed it had been badly injured, though she could see no sign of wounds.

• Ming Xia was struck by the contaminant, and the townspeople overwhelmed it with their abilities until it exploded into snow and the town’s snow melted.
• The townspeople celebrated killing the contaminant while Ming Xia left without revealing her injuries.
• Ye Jiang returned to the factory and found the townspeople mourning the contaminant she had hoped to use as a masseur.
• Little Pink realized Ye Jiang could see it hiding in an alternate space, but she reached in and grabbed it by a tentacle.
• Ye Jiang shook Little Pink until it stopped cursing, and it claimed the townspeople had injured it, though Ye Jiang saw no wounds.

Ye Jiang reunited with Hua Ling after secretly capturing the supposedly defeated polluter, while Shuiling Town celebrated defeating an A-rank threat without knowing the creature was alive in her pocket. The Guard’s arrival dampened the townspeople’s victory, and they warned Ye Jiang to stay away from the Guard as the chapter ended.

• Ye Jiang pocketed the speaking polluter, and Hua Ling found her alive and reported that the townspeople had killed the A-rank polluter.
• The townspeople crowded around Ye Jiang in relief, while a dozen withdrawn residents watched and then left in silence.
• Zou Dongrong and Hao Ping arrived with the Guard, credited Ye Jiang for the victory, and invited her to visit the Guard.
• The polluter secretly watched the townspeople and the departing Guard until Ye Jiang pushed it back into her pocket.
• After the Guard left, the townspeople lost their celebratory mood and repeatedly warned Ye Jiang not to visit the Guard.

Ye Jiang returned to Shuiling Town after the polluter died and investigated new pollution at Mei Ti's house. There, she found a pink, eight-legged creature that claimed to be a human transformed by an ability.

• Ye Jiang returned to town, where the Weird Snow had melted and the townspeople had resumed their routines.
• Ye Jiang hid Little Pink from Rong Yin, who seemed suspicious of the polluter in her pocket.
• Ye Jiang and the polluter fought in her room until they sensed new pollution coming from Mei Ti's house.
• Ye Jiang distracted Hua Ling with an excuse while the polluter concealed itself, then left to investigate Mei Ti's house.
• Ye Jiang found a pink, eight-legged creature in Mei Ti's bedroom, and it insisted that it was human and had been transformed by an ability.

Ye Jiang caught Hao Ping’s ambush, asked him to transform her arms into pink tentacles, then punished him for attacking her. Back at Hua Ling’s house, she tested her new tentacles and traded an energy willow leaf for apples with the young man next door.

• Ye Jiang recognized Hao Ping as the Guard member who transformed people and asked him to turn her arms into pink, retractable tentacles.
• After transforming her arms, Hao Ping tried to leave, but Ye Jiang dragged him into the courtyard wall and demanded to know why he had ambushed her.
• Hao Ping fled after wiping his bloody spit from the wall, while Ye Jiang kept the strange sheet he had sent toward her neck.
• Ye Jiang returned to Hua Ling’s house, found Little Pink gone, and practiced using her new tentacles around her room.
• When the young man next door offered her apples, Ye Jiang used a tentacle to take the bag and offered him an energy willow leaf in return.

Ye Jiang learned that the Guard’s “hunt” was not a trip into the wilderness but a forced selection of townspeople to hunt corrupted expected to appear in Shuiling Town. As Zou Dongrong prepared to announce the hunting party, Ye Jiang watched from outside the crowd, connecting the previous hunt to her missing mission target.

• Ye Jiang noticed the Guard patrolling Shuiling Town, then overheard townspeople angrily discussing how soon another hunt had come after the last one.
• Ye Jiang followed a townsman home and learned that the Guard’s patrols signaled an imminent hunt, but he refused to explain its details.
• Ye Jiang suspected her mission target had disappeared during the hunt held ten days earlier and tried to ask about the previous hunting party and its location.
• Ye Jiang could not find Hua Ling, who had vanished, and waited at home until the Guard summoned every townsperson to an assembly.
• Zou Dongrong announced that the hunt would begin and claimed a prophet had foreseen corrupted approaching Shuiling Town.
• Ye Jiang watched from outside the crowd as Zou Dongrong prepared to announce the selected hunting party, realizing the townspeople would be made to hunt corrupted in town.

Ming Xia confronted the Guard after discovering that Shuiling Town’s hunts targeted people for entertainment, while Ye Jiang had been framed as a corrupted one. Zou Dongrong admitted the truth and blamed Ye Jiang for disrupting his plan, as Little Pink watched unseen above him.

• Ming Xia demanded to know what the Guard had been hunting, and the townspeople’s shame made her realize they knew the truth.
• Zou Dongrong learned that Ye Jiang and Ming Xia knew each other and that Ye Jiang had not transformed, then moved onto a raised platform to face them.
• Zou Dongrong admitted that the Guard hunted humans for entertainment and explained how they created mutants and contamination to stage the hunts.
• Ye Jiang watched Little Pink appear unseen above Zou Dongrong, while he accused her of failing to follow local customs by not becoming the hunt’s target.
• Zou Dongrong revealed that the hunt had originally been planned for the townspeople, but he had added Ye Jiang because she displeased him.

Hua Ling revealed that the Willow Mother Tree had been a human mother hunted down by townspeople, while Zou Dongrong used willow leaves to become an S-rank ability user. Before he could attack, an unseen force killed him, and Hua Ling urged the townspeople to attack Hao Ping as he fled.

• Hua Ling told Ye Jiang that the Willow Mother Tree had been a mother who disguised herself as a contaminated creature to protect her baby and was hunted down by the townspeople.
• Hua Ling fired a flare and called the townspeople to action, while Zou Dongrong crushed energy-infused willow leaves and rose from A-rank to S-rank.
• Zou Dongrong shattered Ming Xia's saber and challenged the townspeople, who hesitated before Hua Ling ordered them to attack.
• An unseen force severed Zou Dongrong's head, and Hua Ling urged the townspeople to kill Hao Ping.
• Hao Ping panicked at Zou Dongrong's death and fled rather than fight the townspeople.

Hao Ping fought Shuiling Town’s townspeople and Hua Ling, then battled Ming Xia after she ambushed him. As the townspeople gained ground, Ye Jiang healed the gravely wounded Hua Ling.

• Hao Ping attacked the townspeople with a stone giant, while Ye Jiang chose not to join their fight.
• Ye Jiang accidentally kicked the Guard captain’s headless corpse off the platform and repeatedly tugged at the airborne polluter’s tentacles.
• A blast collapsed part of the town wall, and Hua Ling emerged to fight Hao Ping with air bombs.
• Hao Ping wounded Hua Ling, but Ming Xia struck him from behind with her gravity-enhanced saber, and they became locked in combat.
• Hua Ling lay gravely injured among the rubble as the townspeople held their own against the Guard.
• Ye Jiang reached Hua Ling and began healing her, while Hua Ling protested that she was not worth the effort.

Ye Jiang learned that Mei Ti had been hunted and killed by Hua Ling and the other townspeople after she secretly made medicine for them. Hua Ling ended the quest, told Ye Jiang where to collect the medicine, and urged her to leave Shuiling Town.

• Ye Jiang revealed that she had known Hua Ling was Townsperson A and asked what had happened to Mei Ti.
• Hua Ling confessed that she and the hunting party had hunted Mei Ti, whom they had mistaken for a contaminated being.
• Hua Ling recounted how the Guard had let the supposed contaminated being settle in the factory before ordering the hunt, and how the party found medicine boxes bearing townspeople’s names after killing it.
• Hua Ling explained that Mei Ti had secretly been making medicine and that Shuiling Town had long hunted its own people while townspeople pretended not to know.
• Hua Ling refused Ye Jiang’s healing, declared the quest complete, and directed Ye Jiang to the hundred boxes of medicine in her storage room before telling her to leave town.

After the townspeople overthrew the Guard, Hua Ling explained why they rebuilt Shuiling Town’s walls instead of celebrating: they believed oppression awaited modified humans outside the town as well. Ye Jiang learned that the walls were both a cage and their refuge, leaving her and Ming Xia silent as Hua Ling described the townspeople’s rejection beyond them.

• Ye Jiang asked Hua Ling why Shuiling Town’s residents offered medicine as a mission reward, and Hua Ling admitted they hoped outsiders would notice their suffering and save them.
• The stone giant struck down the town’s wall during the battle, and the townspeople defeated the Guard, but then silently began rebuilding the wall.
• Hua Ling told Ye Jiang that the Guard was the second regime the townspeople had overthrown, and that they expected new oppression to arise as long as they remained isolated.
• Ming Xia told Ye Jiang that the government had created Shuiling Town as a relief effort and did not prevent its residents from leaving.
• Hua Ling recounted how Yuan De returned after people outside recoiled from him despite his saving them, explaining that the walls had originally protected modified humans from discrimination.
• Hua Ling told Ye Jiang and Ming Xia that outsiders feared and rejected modified humans, making Shuiling Town their only refuge.

After the Moon Tree erased the black markings from Shuiling Town’s residents, it departed, leaving the town joyful and changed. Ming Xia prepared to return to the Ability Control Bureau with the surviving Guards, while the young man watched Ye Jiang but said nothing.

• The Moon Tree’s crescents went dark one by one, and the tree shattered as the darkness lifted.
• The townspeople stopped repairing the wall and celebrated the change the Moon Tree had brought them.
• The young man appeared beside Ye Jiang and watched her intently, but did not speak.
• Ming Xia left to take the surviving Guards back to the Ability Control Bureau and report the truth about Shuiling Town.
• Ming Xia visited Ye Jiang at Hua Ling’s house to say goodbye and calmly told her about her plans.

Ming Xia left to train in City M, while Ye Jiang stayed in Shuiling Town for a month before deciding to leave. At the town’s broken wall, Ye Jiang learned from the pink corrupted creature that Mei Ti had become a corrupted creature and mutated more than two months earlier.

• Ming Xia told Ye Jiang she was going to City M for training and promised to give Xiao Pei Ye Jiang’s energy willow leaf; someone secretly replaced the leaf in Ming Xia’s pocket with an A-rank item.
• A month later, Ye Jiang learned that Rong Yin had left town after giving her a box containing twenty-six moons from the Moon Tree.
• Ye Jiang told Hua Ling she was leaving, and Hua Ling found a route map carved into her courtyard flagstones linking Shuiling Town to City A.
• Ye Jiang visited the Willow Mother Tree, received a falling leaf, and then sat beside the pink corrupted creature on the town wall.
• The corrupted creature denied being Mei Ti but admitted it had known her, then revealed that Mei Ti had become a corrupted creature long ago and mutated more than two months earlier.

Ye Jiang learned how the monster had shared Mei Ti’s body and helped fulfill the girl’s wish before giving the monster the name Shi Li. As Shi Li accepted the name, a Blood Moon formed on her tentacle and a new light appeared in Ye Jiang’s Domination storage, linking them.

• The monster recalled Mei Ti’s mutation and death, then explained that she had tried to help the townspeople leave so the girl’s wish could come true.
• Ye Jiang recognized that the corruptee was a monster who had descended using Mei Ti’s body.
• When the monster asked for a name, Ye Jiang called her Shi Li, and the newly named monster decided to treat that day as her birthday.
• A Blood Moon began forming on Shi Li’s tentacle while Ye Jiang watched.
• The Blood Moon fully emerged as a dark red point of light appeared in Ye Jiang’s third Domination storage slot, linking Ye Jiang and Shi Li.

Ye Jiang left Shuiling Town with the eagle-man and headed back toward City A, while wondering about the Blood Moon marks and the monsters stored in her system. After learning in Z City that people believed the Moon Tree had cured all of Shuiling Town’s residents, she hurried home to Yu Qingyi, who was still working and agreed to let Ye Jiang pick her up later.

• Ye Jiang guessed that the three red lights in her system represented monsters with Blood Moon marks, including Dong Zhen, Shi Li, and a figure she could no longer remember.
• The polluted eagle-man appeared at Shuiling Town, but Ye Jiang calmed it with a touch and rode it away, leaving Shi Li alone on the wall.
• Ye Jiang stopped in Z City to buy calming sachets for Yu Qingyi and overheard people say the Moon Tree had cured every resident of Shuiling Town.
• After the conversation increased her urgency to return, Ye Jiang left Z City and reached City A before dark.
• Ye Jiang found Yu Qingyi absent, messaged her, and learned she would be working until the early morning; Yu Qingyi agreed that Ye Jiang could pick her up.

Ye Jiang remembered the dying wish of the girl whose body she had inhabited and healed Yu Qingyi after a polluter struck her. She left Yu Qingyi to fight the creature, whose body began rotting after Ye Jiang tore out a chunk of it.

• Ye Jiang watched Yu Qingyi leave work, but a colossal spiderlike polluter descended and a piece of rebar pierced Yu Qingyi.
• As Ye Jiang caught Yu Qingyi, her memories returned: four years earlier, her dying host had wished for someone to wish Yu Qingyi a happy birthday and tell her to keep living well.
• Ye Jiang healed Yu Qingyi, apologized for forgetting her birthday, and promised to return after dealing with the polluter.
• Ye Jiang appeared on another street and tore a chunk from the polluter’s chest.
• The polluter howled as its skin and flesh began falling away.

Ye Jiang returned to Yu Qingyi after saving civilians and healing a family, then celebrated Yu Qingyi’s birthday amid the ruins. Yu Qingyi recognized that Ye Jiang was not Tang Su, learned that Tang Su had died, and her ability surged to S rank as something immense descended upon the city.

• Ye Jiang crushed a lump of flesh, killed a spiderlike contaminated creature attacking civilians, and healed the injured owner of a cake shop.
• Ye Jiang brought a small cake back to Yu Qingyi and awkwardly sang the birthday song while Yu Qingyi made a wish that they would stay together forever.
• Yu Qingyi recognized Ye Jiang’s blood-red eyes and asked who she was; Ye Jiang admitted she was an outsider and confirmed that Tang Su had died.
• Ye Jiang told Yu Qingyi that Tang Su wanted her to live well, and Yu Qingyi accepted her friend’s message through tears.
• Yu Qingyi’s words triggered a distortion across the city, and Ye Jiang’s ability panel revealed an unknown S-rank ability as something immense descended.

Ye Jiang accepted that she was a monster and learned that she could not simply return her host’s body to Tang Su. After revealing her identity to Dong Zhen and Shi Li, she asked whether a monster could survive without a human shell, and Shi Li began explaining the rules that bound them.

• Yu Qingyi received an emergency overtime call from the Ability Control Bureau, and Ye Jiang took her to another work site.
• Ye Jiang found Dong Zhen fighting Shi Li and revealed that she was a monster after her eyes briefly turned bloodred.
• Dong Zhen happily accepted Ye Jiang as a fellow monster, while Shi Li realized that Ye Jiang’s strength made sense for one of their kind.
• Ye Jiang asked Dong Zhen whether a monster could leave its host’s body and exist independently, hoping she could return the body to Tang Su.
• Dong Zhen said a monster could survive outside its human shell for only an hour, and Shi Li warned Ye Jiang that the rules made abandoning the shell impossible.

Ye Jiang accepted the Ability Control Bureau’s commendation for destroying an S-rank pollutant and asked to consult its Monster Archives to investigate whether monsters could leave their hosts. She was approved to visit the archives, where she learned that Zhao Yi’s parents had forgotten him and built a happy family with their daughter.

• Shi Li introduced herself as Ye Jiang’s new neighbor, while the noise from next door continued to disrupt the apartment.
• Qin Daichuan delivered a commendation banner and told Ye Jiang the bureau had applied for a cash reward because she had stopped an S-rank pollutant from causing a disaster.
• Ye Jiang asked to exchange the reward for access to the Ability Control Bureau’s Monster Archives, and Qin Daichuan sought approval from headquarters.
• The next day, Qin Daichuan escorted Ye Jiang to the bureau, where she passed Zhao Yi leaving for a mission and noticed he seemed unlike himself.
• Qin Daichuan told Ye Jiang that Zhao Yi had recently found his parents, but they had forgotten him and were living happily with their daughter.

Ye Jiang learned that Rong Yin, the young man she met in Shuiling Town, was monster number 0, then hurried to investigate a mysterious door that swallowed Ability Control Bureau workers. After confirming her friend Yu Qingyi had not been taken, she returned to her apartment and encountered Dong Zhen, her new neighbor.

• Qin Daichuan showed Ye Jiang the Monster Archives, where she found Rong Yin’s file and learned he was monster number 0.
• Qin Daichuan told Ye Jiang that a strange door had appeared in the south of the city and swallowed members of the Logistics Team.
• Ye Jiang went to the scene and tried to approach the door, but Qin Daichuan pulled her back before she crossed its capture range.
• An Ability Control Bureau member confirmed that Yu Qingyi had gone off duty before the incident, so Ye Jiang decided to check on her at home.
• Ye Jiang returned to her apartment and ran into Dong Zhen, who told her he had just moved in next door.

Ye Jiang and Yu Qingyi agreed to keep living together after Ye Jiang invented a reason to stay, while the Ability Control Bureau began investigating a mysterious door that awakened ordinary people. Ye Jiang then met a new monster neighbor and reunited with Invisible Man, who complained that his apartment had been taken over.

• Ye Jiang told Yu Qingyi that Tang Su had asked her to fulfill one of Yu Qingyi's wishes, and used the excuse to remain by her side.
• Yu Qingyi accepted Ye Jiang's offer, and they continued sharing the apartment in a comfortable, undefined relationship.
• The mysterious door returned several Ability Control Bureau logistics workers, who had awakened as ability users despite the absence of a Blood Moon.
• Branch director Shi Tao confirmed the awakenings, but the workers could not describe what had happened inside the door.
• The Ability Control Bureau convened an emergency meeting to discuss whether the door was a third miracle alongside the Blood Moon and Moon Tree.
• Ye Jiang encountered an eight-armed monster claiming to be her new neighbor, then met Invisible Man in the elevator as he complained that others had taken his apartment.

Ye Jiang went to the Ability Control Bureau and was asked to join an exploration mission inside the southern district gate, which might contain the same mysterious origin power as the Blood Moon and Moon Tree. She accepted because she hoped the power could help her leave Yu Qingyi’s body, while the Bureau’s leaders remained troubled about risking her on the mission.

• The Invisible Man failed to reclaim his room from the two bandits and moved into an empty room downstairs, while Ye Jiang left them behind in the elevator.
• Ye Jiang traveled to the Ability Control Bureau, where Qin Daichuan ushered her inside to meet Director Shi Tao, headquarters director Zhu Yi, and other senior staff.
• Zhu Yi passed on Xiao Pei’s regards and said she had put the A-rank item Ye Jiang gave her to use, leaving Ye Jiang puzzled because she did not remember giving Xiao Pei one.
• The Bureau offered Ye Jiang a paid job exploring the southern district gate, and Qin Daichuan explained that it might contain attributeless origin power like the Blood Moon and Moon Tree.
• Ye Jiang accepted the mission, hoping the gate’s power could help her return Yu Qingyi’s body, while Zhu Yi worried that the exploration could put the Bureau’s powerful healer at risk.

Ye Jiang joined an Ability Control Bureau team to explore the mysterious stone door in City A, but she passed through it before the others and disappeared. The team followed her into a vast, empty shopping mall filled with giant cats and windup toys, where Yu Hai searched for his missing colleagues and the healer.

• The Ability Control Bureau recruited Ye Jiang for the door expedition after a precognitive warning said she could turn disaster into good fortune.
• Ye Jiang visited the door, met Shi Li, and reunited with the young man from Shuiling Town, exchanging fruit for an energy willow leaf.
• The bureau assembled an eight-person exploration team led by A-rank ability user Yu Hai and entered the cordon at night.
• The team approached the door without disappearing, but Ye Jiang walked through it and vanished, prompting the others to follow.
• Yu Hai awoke in a huge, brightly lit shopping mall filled with giant gilded cats and windup toys, with Ye Jiang and the other explorers nowhere in sight.

Ye Jiang entered a vast cloud-filled room inside the doors and discovered that she could see City A’s southern district and the people outside, though they could not see her. She settled into a cloud chair, delighted by the room, while Yu Hai encountered the mall’s strange toys and learned that its trapped residents could not escape.

• Yu Hai recognized the mall’s dense energy as similar to the Blood Moon’s source energy and began searching for his colleagues and the healer.
• Yu Hai tried to help a fallen pigeon toy, accidentally broke it, and found it clinging to his shoulder.
• A man revealed that he had been trapped in the mall for ten years and warned Yu Hai that its toys could eat people and were faster and stronger than A-rank ability users.
• Other trapped residents appeared and welcomed Yu Hai as a newcomer who might become the toys’ toy.
• Ye Jiang entered a huge room whose cloud-covered floor and view showed City A’s southern district at the same time as the outside world.
• Ye Jiang discovered that she could see the people outside the doors, but they could not see her, and she created a cloud chair to sit in.