Vol. 1Shadows Over City A

Ye Jiang discovered the power of her Sewing Box ability and faced escalating contaminant threats across Trial Ground 165, City A, and sealed City S. After exposing Yun Hua’s crimes and befriending the ancient monster Wanderer, she saw City A threatened by falling ability ranks and a new contamination.

  • Ye Jiang left the hospital, entered Trial Ground 165, and discovered her F-rank Sewing Box ability as the trials grew dangerous.
  • Ye Jiang returned to Yu Qingyi and restored her belongings, and Yu Qingyi admitted she had feared losing her.
  • Ye Jiang helped City A survive the outbreak, and Ming Chun regained her sanity and reunited with Ming Xia.
  • Ye Jiang traveled to sealed City S for medicine and approached the Blood Knight after Xiao Pei’s team failed to capture him.
  • Ye Jiang and the survivors faced the Blood Knight and Writer in City S, where Nurse revealed her power and killed Writer.
  • Ye Jiang returned to City A, resumed taking jobs, and drew the Ability Control Bureau’s attention with her strength and healing.
  • Ye Jiang entered the pollutant-hunting competition and rose to first place while befriending Dong Zhen, who revealed he was the ancient monster Wanderer.
  • Yun Hua confessed to abducting and killing contestants to steal their abilities, as sudden rank losses and new contamination threatened City A.
Chapters 1–100 Read from Ch. 1

Arc 1The Trial Grounds

Ye Jiang left the hospital, befriended the Mushroom Man, and entered Trial Ground 165, where students awakened powerful abilities as dangers mounted. After discovering her own F-rank Sewing Box ability, she returned to Yu Qingyi and learned how deeply her disappearance had frightened her friend.

  • Ye Jiang left the hospital with Yu Qingyi, found work, and learned that the city was preparing for the Blood Moon and the trial grounds.
  • Ye Jiang traveled to Trial Ground 165 and brought the Mushroom Man from Trial Room A to her room, where she played Go with it and brushed away its mycelium.
  • Jin Hong became corrupted during the trials, and Yan Pei crushed him while the staff struggled to explain how a human could transform.
  • Ming Xia suspected that the Mushroom Man might be her missing sister, while Ye Jiang played one last Go game with it before the students assembled for the Blood Moon.
  • The Blood Moon awakened twelve B-rank ability users and Ming Xia as an A-rank ability user, while Ye Jiang discovered that her own ability, Sewing Box, was F-rank.
  • Gao Peng transformed into a contaminant, and Yan Pei fled with the Mushroom Man as the Ability Control Bureau ordered his arrest.
  • Ye Jiang discovered that her ability could control a distant person, restore objects, and store items, then returned to the city with the students.
  • Ye Jiang restored Yu Qingyi's belongings and clothes with her ability, and Yu Qingyi admitted she had feared losing Ye Jiang after her disappearance.
Chapters 1–2525 summaries Read

Arc 2City A to City S

Ye Jiang helped City A survive the outbreak, where Ming Chun regained her sanity and returned to Ming Xia. She then traveled to sealed City S with a group seeking medicine, where Xiao Pei's ambush on the Blood Knight failed and Ye Jiang approached him alone.

  • Ye Jiang worked at Xiao Pei's restaurant as contamination spread through City A, and Xiao Pei defeated a drum-headed Class A contaminant.
  • Mushroom Man advanced on City A while Xiao Pei fought Yan Pei, and Ye Jiang helped evacuate citizens before returning to the city gate.
  • Ye Jiang tore a dark lump from Mushroom Man, who transformed into Ming Chun and reunited with Ming Xia before Nurse crushed the remaining flesh.
  • Ye Jiang refused Zhao Yi's offer to join the Ability Control Bureau, heard Ming Chun's account, and took a paid job traveling to City S with Ji Jia.
  • Ye Jiang brought an elderly couple and Nurse Ding Xuan's group along, then discovered that an invisible barrier had sealed City S and that deadly phenomena plagued the city.
  • When the girl's medicine ran out, Ye Jiang went with Wang Zhiqiang to search Henghe Pharmaceutical's factory, while Liu He was injured defending the others.
  • Wang Zhiqiang returned with the medicine after his Blood Moon mark began to fade, and Ye Jiang walked through the sunlight as a woman watched her.
  • Xiao Pei's team failed to capture the Blood Knight, and Ye Jiang approached him while dodging his blood attacks.
Chapters 26–5025 summaries Read

Arc 3The Writer’s Ending

Ye Jiang and the survivors faced the Blood Knight and Writer’s attacks in City S, while Nurse revealed her true power and defeated Writer. After returning to City A, Ye Jiang resumed taking jobs as the Ability Control Bureau investigated her unusual strength and healing ability.

  • Ye Jiang took the Blood Knight’s sword, then led her group to New City, where she forced Peaceful Village’s healer to treat the injured and escaped the Blood Knight’s fiery assault with Xiao Pei’s help.
  • Ye Jiang fought the Blood Knight at City S intersection, and the cracked helmet revealed Chen Zhuozhuo, whose memories returned and who destroyed her own head after realizing Writer had manipulated her.
  • Ye Jiang repaired Chen Zhuozhuo’s body, while Xiao Pei and the survivors remained trapped in the city and faced a new assault by Bandage Man, whom Ye Jiang subdued.
  • The survivors repeatedly attacked the broadcasting center’s tower, then Xiaotong recognized Writer among them and the monster revealed itself after the attacks failed.
  • Nurse transformed and fought Writer in the sky, killing him, while Ye Jiang healed Xiaotong and Nurse submitted to the supreme being behind Ye Jiang before vanishing with the released fear.
  • Xiao Pei identified Nurse as Ding Xuan and suspected Writer had been the skeleton, while the Ability Control Bureau investigated City S and Chen Zhuozhuo awoke after Writer’s bottles released pieces of her soul.
  • Back in City A, Ye Jiang took jobs, treated injured people, and revealed her D-rank Sewing Box ability as Shi Tao investigated the unusual awakenings at Trial Ground 165.
  • Shi Tao concluded Ye Jiang had not caused the trial students’ awakenings and told his Operations Team leader that a Turbot had been found, while a water contaminator encountered a boy asking about romance.
Chapters 51–7525 summaries Read

Arc 4The Missing Contestants

Ye Jiang rose to first place in the pollutant-hunting competition while befriending Dong Zhen, who was revealed as the long-missing monster Wanderer. After Yun Hua confessed to abducting and killing contestants to steal their abilities, sudden rank losses and a new contamination left City A facing another threat.

  • Ye Jiang entered Xingyi Technology’s competition under the nickname A Turbot, but her early haul of F-rank samples left her near the bottom of the rankings.
  • Ye Jiang befriended Dong Zhen, hired him to identify pollutants, and rode a tamed eagleman as they hunted together, and their unconventional approach eventually pushed her into first place.
  • Dong Zhen left during the competition, and more than a hundred contestants were reported missing, and the Ability Control Bureau questioned Ye Jiang about him and his connection to Part-Time Cat’s missing chief steward.
  • Xiao Pei recognized Dong Zhen as the long-missing monster Wanderer, but Ye Jiang trusted him, and Dong Zhen told her he was an over-thousand-year-old monster inhabiting a wandering artist’s body.
  • Xiao Pei confronted Yun Hua, who admitted killing Part-Time Cat’s manager and the missing contestants and trying to frame Dong Zhen, and she defeated him and took him into custody.
  • Ability users across City A began suffering sudden drops in rank, including Miao Qiao and Wu Jiangshui, while Ye Jiang noticed shadows detaching from people.
  • Dong Zhen returned to Ye Jiang and gave her a shadow as a pet, and Yun Hua’s stolen shadow escaped his isolation room, and he confessed to Qin Daichuan that he had absorbed others’ abilities and killed the missing users.
  • Yun Hua became contaminated in the isolation chamber as a drill-headed contaminated being emerged from a café and sent pedestrians fleeing.
Chapters 76–10025 summaries Read
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